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By Sandemo Ngullie

Acharya announces Governor’s Award for Chumu Town

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computerized water billing time to say ‘Get lost’ to people 1st system in Nagaland launched looting public money: Governor Water bill payments through banks soon Our Correspondent Kohima | October 14

A computerized water billing system for Kohima town water supply, the first of its kind in Nagaland was launched here today. As of now, the PHED has a total of 6072 domestic consumers and 12 commercial consumers in Kohima.

Launching the new system, Er Kevisekho Kruse, Chief Engineer, PHED said that with the launching of this new technology for improving revenue management, “we hope that the same software will be adopted in all major towns in all districts soon, thereby bringing much improvement in the revenue sector.”

He said that Kohima Urban Division is now the best performing division in terms of

Morung Express News Dimapur | October 14

DNSU cautions students against inappropriate use of social media DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 14 (MExN): The Dimapur Naga Students ‘Union (DNSU) today cautioned students to refrain from “inappropriate use of social networking.”. It asked students in uniform to be vigilant, stating: “students loitering in uniforms during school hours and also indulging in notorious activities will not be tolerated.” The DNSU, in a press note reminded hostels/PGs within its jurisdiction to strictly follow the “moral code of conduct,” warning that “defaulters will be dealt strictly even to the extent of shutting down the hostel. The DNSU also said it would conduct surprise visits to all the hostel/PG within its jurisdiction.

NU without Vice Chancellor since Sept 7 DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 14 (MExN): The Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) has asked the Governor of Nagaland, who is also Chief Rector of Nagaland University (NU), to initiate for appointment of a Vice Chancellor for NU at the earliest.

In a letter to the Governor, the NSF reminded that NU has been functioning without a Vice-Chancellor since September 7 after Professor BK Konwar completed his 5 year tenure. “It is imperative that a Vice Chancellor be appointed for smooth functioning of the University,” the NSF said.

RALH urges vigilance against miscreants DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 14 (MExN): The Ralan Area Lotha Hoho (RALH) today stated that a group of 6 to 7 miscreants “are often found moving around in suspicious manner in the hill section adjoining the foothill under Chandalashung village in Ralan area.” It informed that the same group “are also alleged to have been involved in anti social activities like breaking open farm houses and stealing goods and materials.” A press note from the RALH asked the SDO (C) Ralan to verify this and depute Nagaland Police in the area. It asked that the SSB posted in the area “not allow any non local to enter the hill section without ascertaining their identity/permit from the SDO (C) Ralan.”

It further informed plantation/farm owners to obtain permit letter from the concerned officer “as and when they intend to engage non local labour to work in their farms/plantations.”

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Forty three MSW students graduate from NEISSR

I don’t know how we’re going to survive, Fees, rent, taxes and bills, bills, bills…

Arrgh, and our government is broke!

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Nagaland State Governor PB Acharya on Friday said it was high time that the Naga public say, “Get Lost” to those people who are looting public money.

Stating that the public was being blatantly looted of crores of money meant for their welfare, the Governor, in obvious reference to corrupt politicians and their intermediaries amongst others, which are aplenty, hinted, “These people are respected everywhere, they are honoured. But nobody has the guts to say to them you are a bad man and get lost.”

“Stand up, it is high time, this is democracy, we all have our own votes. Unless we stand up and look at the people who are the most treacherous eye to eye and tell them to get lost, Nagaland will never come up,” Acharya said, while addressing the foundation day cum graduation day of the North East Institute of Social Science & Research (NEISSR), the first Master of Social Work institute under Nagaland University.

Sharing his observation of the present Naga society, Acharya said money has become everything for the Nagas. “We have condemned our self. Money has become everything for the Nagas. Everywhere there is greed for money, even for public purposes.”

Emphasizing that it is not only those highly respected people holding public offices that have a craving for money, Acharya highlighted how a number of central projects, which would have benefitted the public had to be shelved just because landowners (public) demanded compensation beyond the affordability of

MSW students of North East Institute of Social Science & Research (NEISSR), Dimapur toss their graduation caps in the air to celebrate, after receiving their graduation degree on October 14. (Morung Photo)

the centre.

In a similar vein, Acharya said students should also not be “self centered highly educated empowered graduates and earn money, money and money,” which is highly prevalent in the country.

He lamented that despite all the great religions that thrive in India, blessed by many a fathers, brothers, saints, puris (priest) among others, money has become the “real go” for the people. According to the Governor, the knowledge to earn money is not the end of things and that is not taught in universities.”

“Your education, your empowerment is not only for you,” he exhorted the students while adding that students should not enter the university only for the degree, because “degree is not the ultimate goal, it is the beginning your life.”

Exhorting the graduates to fathom into the needs of the society instead of looking at their

qualification as just a means to earn their livelihood, the Governor said even though the subject of social work is considered a professional course, it calls for a mission; a mission towards making life of other humans better.

Merely churning out graduates should not be role of universities

The Governor also voiced his concern on the present trend of commercialization of education by universities and the need to make it more skill oriented.

He said even though Nagaland has five universities, thousands of Naga youths go to Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and other states in mainland India for higher education or better opportunities.

“When we have universities here why can’t it supply the need of the people,” Acharya questioned while pointing out that merely churning out graduates should not be the ultimate role of

the university.

He felt that unless and until Nagaland is good in Nagaland, it won’t benefit anywhere.

“Yes we are proud of that but we are not only dancers and musicians. We have wonderful doctors, wonderful social workers, wonderful literary people, we are second to none but we have condemned our self –economically,” Acharya commented while adding, “we wait for everything from the centre.”

The Governor suggested that creating the natural repository / resources of Nagaland to wealth should be the first and prime responsibility of the university. He said university education should provide knowledge with skills in tune with the present requirement so that the students become employable.

Altogether, 43 students graduated with specializations in Community Development, Peace & Conflict Transformation Studies and Youth Development.

revenue collection out of the 14 divisions of the department.

He informed that the target for the year for this division alone is Rs. 80 lakh, and hoped that the final achievement for the year will exceed this target.

“For a long time until now, the department had been struggling to carry out revenue collection through conventional manual method of billing which involves much volume of work and also subject to many avoidable human errors,” he said, adding that it has been the endeavour of the department to shift over to a computerized system of billing and also to open up more payment counters involving the services of banks.

As of now, only the computerized system of billing is introduced but soon we will be making facilities available to all consumers to make their water bill payments through banks, he added.

BJP becomes part of Arunachal government GUwAhATI/ITANAGAR, OCTOBER 14 (IANS): The BJP became a part of the Arunachal Pradesh government with its senior leader Tamiyo Taga was sworn in as a minister in Chief Minister Pema Khandua’s cabinet on Friday.

Governor V. Shanmuganathan administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new minister in an impressive function at the Darbar Hall of the Raj Bhavan in Itanagar, attended by Chief Minister and his cabinet colleagues.

While Taga was accommodated in the cabinet, state Industry and Textiles Minister Tapang Taloh was dropped from the cabinet.

Khandu, during his recent visit to New Delhi, met BJP national president Amit Shah and

appealed him for BJP’s participation in the government for the sake of development. BJP was only supporting the Peoples’ Party of Arunachal (PPA) government in the state from outside.

Khandu, son of former Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, became the state’s Chief Minister almost dramatically after the Congress chose him as the leader of the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) replacing Nabam Tuki in July this year.

The development took place after a Supreme Court verdict reinstated the Tuki led Congress government in the state. However, the Congress Legislature Party elected Khandu as its leader in place of Tuki just ahead of Tuki’s floor test in the House.

naga Hoho meets cM Need of the hour is peace & unity: Nuklutoshi

Seeks amendment of Municipal Act 2001 and re-examination of Rongmei recognition issue

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 14 (MExN): A nine member delegation comprising of Naga Hoho executives and presidents and colleagues of the Angami Public Organization (APO) and Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) called on Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang seeking re-examination of the Municipal Act of 2001 and the Rongmei recognition issue. During the meeting, the Naga Hoho submitted two representations to the CM.

and building by the municipality as a form of revenue generating source for its duties and functions will only do more harm to our Naga society,” it opined.

Regarding land holding system, the Naga Hoho stated that the “pride of the individual Naga in having the authority to judiciously use and develop his land should not discarded.”

It cautioned that if the government fails to amend the Municipal Act and goes ahead with the ULB elections without proper consultations, “unwanted situation” would arise in the state, “which will widen the division among various sections of society.”

‘Amend Municipal Act 2001’ On the Municipal Act of 2001, the Naga Hoho memorandum pointed out points in contravention with rights guaranteed under Article 371(A): (a) 33% women reservation, (b) Tax and (c) landholding system.

Regarding women’s reservation, the Naga Hoho reiterated the “time immemorial social, customary and traditional usages of the Nagas where no such reservation was practiced by our fore fathers.”

It opined that the Nagaland State Government “should not compare Naga women to Dalit, Adivasi, Sutra, Kaas women etc.”

The reservation policy of the Government of India is meant “for mainstream Indian women who are within the cursed spell of the caste system,” it claimed. “Given the factual status of the Naga women comparing with Indian women in toto, our women folk rather play a vital role in all spheres of the Naga community,” it added.

Meanwhile, the Naga Hoho pointed out that Section 120 of the act provides the power to impose inter alia land and building tax within its limit of municipality or town council. It cautioned that “multiple taxation or the different forms of taxes under Municipal Act will be contested strongly by the Nagas against the traditional and the conventional usage of taxation in our land.”

“Imposition and collection of tax on land

‘Re-examine Rongmei recognition issue’ Regarding the Rongmei recognition issue, the Naga Hoho asked the CM to keep in mind that any such issue should not jeopardize unity of the Naga family.

“We urge your competent authority to reexamine the decision of the state government through the constituted cabinet subcommittee on Rongmei issue in depth and find out the solution in consultation with all stake holders/tribe Hohos at the earliest,” it added.

In a 2008 letter to the government, the Naga Hoho had viewed in favour of granting Indigenous Naga inhabitant status to Rongmei community settled in the state prior to the formation of Nagaland state as enjoyed by Kukis, Garos and Kacharis in accordance with the Government Notification No.AR-8/76 Dated-the 28th April, 1977. It had also opined that the committee should “examine with all seriousness in regard to conduct of enumeration and to include only the eligible Rongmei community so as to avoid communal misgivings in future.”

It lamented that despite repeated clarifications, the letter written to the government in 2008 and the position of the Naga Hoho “is being misconstrued.”

CNTC statement on Rongmei recognition issue on Page 10

Morung Express News Peren | October 14

Nagaland Minister for Election, National Highway & Mechanical Engineering, Nuklutoshi Longkumer today stated that while other societies and civilizations are marching forward, Naga society on the other hand is going “backward.”

The Minister said the main reason why Nagas are going backward is because Naga people tend to divide themselves along tribal lines and they do not want to recognize each other.

Citing the case of the United States, Nuklutoshi claimed the US has emerged as the most powerful nation because American society does not discriminate or distinguish its citizens along class, racial or religious lines. On the other hand, he said though Naga tribes have been living together for centuries, yet they fail to recognize each other.

Addressing the inaugural programme of the general conference of Zeliangrong Baudi Nagaland (ZBN) at Beisumpuikam Village on Friday, the Minister said the need of the hour is “peace and unity” if Nagas are to have a future.

Nuklutoshi also said the only way out to secure the future of the Naga people is for Nagas to unite and seek for political solution at the earliest. Alluding to the ‘Framework Agreement’, he said if Nagas do not grab the opportune moment, then hope of a solution to the Naga problem may not come again even after a hundred years.

The Minister cautioned that once solution eludes the Nagas, then problems created by thousands of educated unemployed Naga youths would dwarf the present problems associated with the Naga political groups.

Calling the Zeliangrong people a blessed tribe among the Nagas,

Minister for National Highway & Mechanical Engineering, Nuklutoshi Longkumer, speaking at the general conference of Zeliangrong Baudi Nagaland (ZBN) at Beisumpuikam Village on Friday. (Morung Photo)

he said the Zelaingrong land is bequeathed with ideal topography, mineral resources and fertile valleys and hills. He called upon the Zeliangrong community to stay united and also be messengers of “peace and unity.”

Resource person of the conference, Idailung Thou, NPSC member, who spoke on the topic “Structuring common political vision” said the nomenclature of the Zeliangrong community is not political or man-made but that the brotherhood of Zeliangrong community is a gift of God. Idailung said whereas Nagas as a whole remained silent when a minority community settled in land bequeathed by the Zeliangrongs in Nagaland was given recognition by the state government, now a section of Naga people are staunchly opposing recognition of Rongmei, who are blood brothers of the Zeliang community in Nagaland.

For equitable progress, Thou said unity should be practiced in letter and spirit and not merely lip service. He said the aim of political activity should be development. Everyone should shoulder equal responsibility, he stated while adding that shifting of re-

sponsibility would kill the Naga cause.

Stating that sustaining economy and development should be the political vision, he said ‘Building together’ (the theme of the conference) should be the political vision particularly for the Zeliangrong community.

President, ZBN, Rangsam N Hau, in his presidential address said the Zeliangrong people are presently confronted with many issues and apart from problems within, there are many external forces and elements trying to sow the seeds of discord among the Zeliangrong people.

Hau also pointed out that the Zeliangrong People Convention movement for Zeliangrong homeland, one of the earliest political movements in the region, was kept in abeyance keeping the larger interest of the Nagas.

“However, forgetting this genuine sacrifice that the Zeliangrong people made, some elements are trying to sideline our legitimate legal rights specially in connection with derecognizing the Rongmeis as an indigenous tribe of Nagaland. The Zeliangrong people cannot and will not accept this as a solution, because it will mean putting the future of our children and generation thereafter at stake”, he said.

The ZBN president further said that if the present trend of “discrimination and deprivation of our basic rights of brotherhood by our own Naga brothers and the government continues, the Zeliangrong people will be left with no other option, but to start the Zeliangrong People Convention movement afresh.”

Naga Hoho Vice President, HK Zhimomi, in his solidarity message said even as the Naga Hoho is trying its best to integrate all Naga inhabited areas, there are some forces bent on sowing the seed of division among Naga brethrens.

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Acharya announces Governor’s Award for Chumu Town

Chumu Town leaders for unity and cultural revival

Morung Express News Dimapur | October 14

In one of the biggest events organized at Chumukedima Town, a Swachh Bharat cum Inter Cultural programme was held today at Chumukedima town local ground. 23 schools and 16 Naga tribes participated in this mega event, initiated by the Tribal Union Chumukedima.

Governor of Nagaland P.B Acharya who was the chief guest for the occasion expressed happiness that the Chumukedima Town has undertaken the Swachh Bharat Mission seriously and also expressed great pleasure to see the participation of students from 23 schools.

He cited that Nagaland is second to none from an educational point of view.

He opined that Dimapur has become an important educational hub. However, he stated, “We have to add skill in our education, and then only we’ll be employable. A graduate from any University should not be a job seeker but a job giver. Nagaland is blessed with many natural

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A student presents a flower bouquet to the Governor on his arrival to attend the Swachh Bharat cum Inter Cultural programme at Chumukedima town local ground on October 14. (Morung Photo)

resources; we can become the golden Nagaland if our Universities open up their minds. To achieve this, he felt that we have to change our mindsets and there needs to be dialogue between the resources, trade, commerce, industry and education. He further highlighted the importance of unity and identity.

Addressing the gathering, he stated, “Unless we are united, we cannot march

(Cleanliness) - 1 Boy and 1 Girl 5. Best School Result to be taken on a 3 day tour to Mumbai sponsored by Indian National Fellowship Centre, Mumbai. -1 Boy and -1 Girl Cultural troupe of various Naga tribes presented traditional dances, folk songs and indigenous games. Special song was presented by children from Galilee Home.

ahead.”

In observance of the Swachh Bharat Mission, he inaugurated new toilets at Government Middle School Chumukedima. He also announced the Governors Award for Chumukedima Town every year for the following: 1. Best Social Worker 2. Best Entrepreneur 3. Best Student Graduate- 1 boy and 1 Girl 4. Best Swacch Bharat

eisalie Losou, president of Tribal Union Chumukedima Town, also made a statement for unity of Nagas and cultural revival. He stated, “It is our hope that Nagas can be brought together though cultural exchange programmes. Through this program of cultural exchange, we want to say that unity is the solution to our major problems and that it is possible to achieve unity.

We talk much about peace and harmony but we practice it too little. Thus, isms, hatred and discrimination are on the increase in our society.”

“We all are aware that of the fact that our culture and traditions are slowly vanishing due to various reasons.

If we lose our culture and traditions, we are losing our cultural identity. So we must make every effort to preserve them. This is our concern and this is what we are here for,” he stated in his welcome address.

Thungbemo Patton, EAC of Chumukedima

A cultural troupe performs during the programme held at Chumukedima town local ground on October 14. (Morung Photo)

Town in his address as guest of honour, also made a clarion call for all Nagas to change their mindsets. In an impassionate speech, he stated, “The time has come, to celebrate and respect our friends, neighbours, public leaders, church leaders, and bureaucrats.”

Citing his personal opinion that Nagas have cultivated a habit to focus only on the negative ills of our society, he instead suggested that people should

understand and admit that everyone has flaws but also possesses good qualities.

He further stated, “Nagas are very good in speaking words and big thoughts but action and implementation of those ideas are less. It is my personal opinion that our dialogues and opinion of one another are very negative.” Addressing the students and Nagas from 16 tribes gathered at the local ground, he urged, “A change will never come

in our society unless we change this mindset, so let’s take the approach in a positive way.”

He further informed that intensive and extensive Swachh Bharat Mission will take place in Chumukedima Town starting from November. To this, he announced that an award would be given to the Best and Cleanest Ward in Chumukedima Town with a cash prize of Rupees 100000 (Rupees One Lakh).

WDLSA organises essay competition on ‘Child Rights in India’

International Day of the Girl Child was observed in all the Anganwadi centres under Bhandari ICDS project with the theme ‘Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: A Global Girl Data Movement’. The day was observed to increase awareness on inequalities faced by girl child below the age of 18 years, like inequality in education, nutrition, legal rights, medical care, protection, honor, early child marriage, gender segregation and to promote overall sustainable development among girl child in the society.

WoKha, october 14 (mexN): The Wokha District Legal Service Authority (WDLSA) organized an essay competition on the topic ‘Child Rights in India’ for the Class 11 and 12 students of Government Higher Secondary School, Wokha at the school premise on October 14.

WDLSA in a press release stated that the students actively participated in the essay competition which was focused mainly on the Child Rights in India taking at the scenario of the importance and the changes occurring in it.

Secretary WDLSA, WV Patton introduced the topic and explained crystal with

WDLSA members with the students of Government Higher Secondary School, Wokha after the essay competition held on October 14.

regard to the Child and its rights, giving due attention to the Indian context. She emphasized that a child has a right like an adult as it is recognized through the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and special reference to United Nation’s

Convention of the Rights of Child (1989) was made. She added by stating that a child should be given special guidance, care and protection as they hold our future.

Panel Lawyer David also spoke on the stated topic and encouraged the

students to identify their various rights and fight for them. Para Legal Volunteers (PLV) along with the School Administrators assisted in conducting the Competition in a smooth and fair manner.

Erenbeni A. Ezung of

Cl-12 bagged the first prize (Rs. 3000 with Certificate), Ajano A. Ovung Cl- 12 got the second prize (Rs. 2000 with Certificate) and Loreni Cl-11 received the third prize (Rs. 1000 with Certificate). Prizes were handed over by the Secretary WDLSA in the presence of the School officials, Panel Lawyers, PLVs, Judges and the participants. Vote of thanks was delivered by Woben (PLV) on behalf of the WDLSA and expressed immense gratitude to the School Officials and Students for all the support, cooperation and participation. Altogether, 45 students participated in the essay competition.

DMA SSA informs on SDCF Churches called to spread message of unity last date of submission Sumi Baptist Convention

Kohima, october 14 (mexN): On the exercise of student wise data collection/student profile in-sync with UDISE 2016-17 for the year 2016, data recorded as on September 30, all government, private and central schools are reminded on the last date of submission of Student Data Capture Format (SDCF): Government schools to Educational Block Resource Centres (EBRCs) –October 15 and EBRCs to DMA SSA Office October 17, Private/Central School to EBRCs October 28 and EBRCs to DMA, SSA Office October 29.

DMA, SSA Kohima DC & Chairman Rovilatuo Mor IAS has informed in a press release that the rationalization of schools shall be adhered as per Order NO.ES/ STATE/ 32/ Rationalization /2016: Dated Kohima 26th March 2016 i.e Composite/Merge and Downgraded.

The following point shall be strictly adhered if not otherwise.

• Ensure that the Student Data Capture Format must not be provided to parents/students, as they are to be solely filled up only by the school authorities who are the respondent.

This format should not be sent to the students/parents/guardian under no circumstances for filling up.

• Ensure all concerned that information so collected is for internal use and will not be shared with anybody • Bank Account details, Contact Number and e-mail Id of students and religion “Are Not Mandatory” • Information of students those who are detained/promoted in a class would only require updating in the provided printed sheet and the new students admitted can use blank format. However, any student transferred away this academic year, their format may be submitted to EBRC/ DMA office with transferred/pass out remarks. The updated sheets prepared by each Class Teacher through School Principal/HM/ Head Teacher & Teacher-in-charge shall be submitted to EBRCs. • Teacher Profile Format (to be submitted along with Student Data Capture Format) For any queries contact 9612821867 or 8794311180 (DMA, SSA Kohima) and Help Desk (Toll Free) 1800116200.

Silver Jubilee celebrations underway Morung Express News Dimapur | October 14

A three-day Silver Jubilee celebrations of the Sumi Baptist Convention (SBC), which is a conglomeration of three Sumi Baptist Churches associations, namely; Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu (SBAK), Sumi Aphuyemi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu (SABAK) and Western Sumi Baptist Akukuhou Kuqhakulu (WSBAK) got underway on October 14 at Trinity Theological College, Thahekhu.

Exhorting a galaxy of Church leaders from the three associations, MLA & Chairman NIDC Ltd, Tovihoto Ayemi made a clarion call for working in unity among the leaders and different Church associations as they were all working in the Lord’s vineyard.

“All the three Sumi churches associations use the same Bible, hymn

MLA & Chairman NIDC Ltd, Tovihoto Ayemi exhorting a congregation at TTC, Thahekhu on Friday. (Morung Photo)

book and Pastors’ Handbook and so it would be an advantage if we could all work together as one for the extension of God’s kingdom,” he said.

Tracing back the history of Sumi Christianity to more than 100 years, he also called for looking within oneself whether one has matured spiritually in tandem with the coming of Christianity.

Tovihoto challenged the leaders to go back to their respective Churches and areas and spread the message of unity. He also urged them to work towards achieving 100% Christianity among the Sumi community.

Tovihoto said that jubilee was an opportune time for reconciliation of any misunderstandings and also a time to forgive one another. He also

said it was time to look back in gratitude to the pioneers.

He noted that TTC Thahekhu was about to host the convocation of the Senate of Serampore College (University) and said it was an achievement for the College to host a prestigious occasion.

In his sermon, Executive Secretary of WSBAK, Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi spoke about sharing of blessings from God and advocated assistance and support to smaller Churches by the bigger Churches. He talked about positive unity among different sections of the people and urged pastors to take the lead in speaking the truth.

“Many pastors do not speak the truth anymore; then how do we expect social and spiritual transformation?” he queried. He quoted Ephesians 4:13 and Romans 13:8 from the Bible and emphasized on serving together and loving one another.

Earlier, Rev. Dr. Hevukhu also unveiled the jubilee monolith.

During the programme, Sr. Pastor, Thilixu Baptist Church, Rev. Dr. Yehevi Zhimo released the jubilee souvenir. The Convention will culminate on Sunday afternoon.

Water supply from Zarii anticipated to be commissioned this year Seminar on entrepreneurship Our Correspondent Kohima | October 14

With the introduction of computerized water billing system in Kohima, PHED Nagaland Chief Engineer Kevisekho Kruse today made an appeal to the consumers to continue to extend their cooperation by way of making timely payment of water tax and by not tampering the water supply assets for better public service.

“I know, we do have constraints for adequate water supply now in Kohima but let me tell you that we are making preparations to significantly improve the water supply level even as the ongoing water supply from Zarii by pumping is anticipated to be commissioned this financial year and we have other measures of im-

PHED Nagaland Chief Engineer Kevisekho Kruse and others during the launching programme of computerized water billing system for Kohima town water supply on October 14. (Morung Photo)

provement being taken up so that soon we make available to dwellers of Kohima town with atleast 50 litres per capita per day even during lean period, which will be considered quite good for a place like Kohima,” he said while launching the first computerized water billing system for

Kohima town water supply here at EE PHED Kohima Urban office.

He also encouraged the consumers to feel free to share with the SDO or the EE in case they have some genuine complaints about the performance of certain staff/officers so that the authority will be able to re-

dress the grievances or do remedy.

He urged the consumers to approach the PHED authority, instead of directly publishing a shortcoming through newspapers and social media.

Er. Kruse also encouraged the PHED officers/staff that now with the launching

of this new system, it would require that the officers/ staff who are to be directly involved with meter reading data collections, those junior engineers who are to supervise and counter check the correctness of work done and the staff who will regularly do data entries to be more vigilant, active and efficient in their work.

“Let me remind you that all of this exercise is not just for a good show but to improve efficiencies in the water billing and revenue management system so that we serve the people more effectively in the work of providing safe adequate drinking water to the people,” Er. Kruse said.

Meanwhile, he acknowledged the EE PHED Urban Division Kohima Er. Vikeduolie, the SDO Er. Nirie Nisa and all the officials and staff and the firm

namely, Elysium Enterprise, New Delhi for their hard work and committed service in making the computerized water billing system a reality.

Further, Er. Kruse thanked EE Kohima Urban Division, all his officers and staff for taking the lead in improving revenue collection for the department.

Earlier, the function was chaired by Er. Y. Tep, superintending engineer PHED, Kohima Circle. Rev. Keviyiekielie Linyii, pastor Ebenezer Baptist Church, Sepfiizou Kohima pronounced prayer while vote of thanks was proposed by Er. Vikeduolie Mepfhuo, executive engineer, PHED Kohima urban.

Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) administrator Kovi Meyase and several other dignitaries also present on the occasion.

at Patkai Christian College

Dimapur, october 14 (mexN): A seminar on entrepreneurship was organised by The Retail Management and IT Diploma Course unit of Patkai Christian College (Autonomous), Chumukedima, Dimapur, on October 13 at the college Conference Hall.

The programme was graced by Neichute Doulo, CEO and Coordinator of Entrepreneurs Associate (EA), Kohima and Neingulie Nakhro as resource persons. The resource persons shared their rich experiences of how they climbed up the ladder of leadership in business from a very humble beginning. They urged the participants to change the attitude from seeking government job to that of venturing into business. They emphasised that business is the only way out to bring about economic development through self-dependency in the State. They are of the view that Nagaland is a ‘Land of Honey, Milk and Butter’ where opportunities await every willing heart.

The Principal of the college, Hüsazü Epao gave a brief introduction on the resource persons which was followed by words of welcome from the chairman of the programme, Dr. Timothy Langwangbe. The programme was attended by the faculty and students from the Departments of Commerce, Economics and Computer Science along with the Retail Management students. The seminar concluded with words of appreciation proposed by Husatolu, Assistant Professor, Department of Commerce.

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North East sees deficient rainfall Shutdown today to mark ‘Black Day’ for second consecutive monsoon

AgArtAlA, OctOber 14 (IANS): The mountainous northeast of India, comprising eight states, has recorded deficient rainfall for the second consecutive monsoon season, and experts have red-flagged rapid urbanisation and deforestation as reasons for the fall in precipitation in the region.

According to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the northeast recorded 89 per cent of the long period average (LPA) rainfall this year -well short of the 96-104 per cent of LPA needed for the monsoon to be declared normal. Last year, it had recorded 91 per cent of LPA, making this the second year of deficient rainfall.

The all-India average for this year is 97 per cent of LPA, marking it as a normal monsoon year.

The region this year recorded 1,281.5 mm of ac-

tual rainfall against normal rainfall of 1,437.8, the IMD said, while noting: "The lowest rainfall (89 per cent of LPA) this year was received by northeast India among all regions of the country."

The states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura and Sikkim comprise the northeast region that, despite the fall in precipitation in recent years, still boasts of some of the wettest places in the world.

"In the northeast, the normal monsoon period is June to September and sometimes it continues until October 10. However, this year delayed withdrawal of monsoon is likely around October 20," IMD Director Dilip Saha told IANS. "The rainfall varies from state to state in the northeastern region. Tripura state recorded high-

est rainfall deficiency of 33 per cent. Last year, Tripura recorded normal rainfall," the IMD official said.

The IMD's AssamMeghalaya Subdivision -the biggest in the northeast -- recorded a 30 per cent rainfall deficiency, the second-steepest in India, next only to the Kerala Subdivision which recorded a huge 34 per cent shortfall.

The IMD said that out of the total 36 meteorological subdivisions, the seasonal rainfall was normal in 23 sub-divisions (72 per cent of the total area of the country) and excess in four subdivisions (13 per cent of the total area of the country).

"Except for some parts of north India, southwest peninsula, west India and northeast India, most parts of the country received well distributed rainfall," the IMD added.

"Out of the 10 deficient sub-divisions, five were

from northeast India, three from Central India, and two from northwest India. All the six excess sub-divisions were from South Peninsula."

An expert of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) said deficient rains would not affect crops in Northeast India as there was good pre-monsoon rainfall recorded in most parts of the region.

"We expect a good and normal rainfall in the post monsoon period too," he added.

Environmental experts felt that growing urbanisation, climate change and a general lack of planning were responsible for less rainfall in the northeastern region, home to 45.58 million people (2011 census) and consisting eight per cent of the country's geographical area.

"Until a few years back, the region witnessed heavy rainfall and Cherrapunji

and Mawsynram in Meghalaya have the distinction being rainiest places in the world. Now climatic conditions are changing in the region," environment and eco-tourism expert Subhash Das said.

He blamed lack of serious planning on afforestation, unscientific urbanisation and deforestation for having caused the "changing environment of the mountainous region".

"Earlier there were huge lakes, ponds and water-bodies in each of the northeastern states; now their numbers have gone down heavily with the authorities remaining mute spectators," said Das. Das and other environmental experts of the region have been urging the governments and policymakers to make serious efforts to check the deteriorating environment of the ecologically-rich northeast.

Bureaucrat from Manipur attacked, Will oppose National wife and daughter molested in Delhi Sports University site: BJP New DelHI, OctOber 14 (Ht): A senior bureaucrat from Manipur and his family members, became the latest victims of road rage menace in the national capital on Tuesday night.

The bureaucrat, in his mid-fifties, was physically and verbally abused, and his wife and daughter molested, allegedly by a man over a minor collision between their cars at Rao Tula Ram road towards Moti Bagh flyover in south Delhi.

The man allegedly misbehaved with the bureaucrat’s wife and daughter, grabbed their hair and pulled them out of their car.

They touched the motherdaughter inappropriately and outraged their modesty, said police.

The crime occurred on a busy south Delhi stretch but nobody came forward to help the family and stop the man from sexually harassing the women.

This happened even as the women started crying and pleaded before the attacker to spare them. After

attacking the family, he fled the crime scene as none of the onlookers dared to stop him, said a police officer.

The family members called the police control room and informed the police about the incident.

The only help one of the onlookers did to the police was that he provided them the registration number of the attackers’ car. The passerby had clicked a photo of the car’s registration number on his mobile phone.

Police said the car bore the registration number of Punjab and it was a private vehicle. Around 11.30 PM, the family reached the Moti Bagh flyover when suddenly an Alto car grazed past their four-wheeler while overtaking. The man abruptly stopped his car in front of the family’s car, blocking their way and forcing them to stop their vehicle.

Eyewitnesses told police that an argument broke out between them during which the two rained kicks and punches on the bureaucrat.

HCC-VCCL bag Rs 367.72 cr project in Manipur

Pachuau hailed as oldest working journalist of India

New DelHI, OctOber 14 (et): Hindustan Construction Company’s joint venture has bagged an order worth Rs 367.72 crore from the Northeast Frontier Railway to construct a safety tunnel between Tupul and Imphal in Manipur state, the Mumbaiheadquartered company said on Friday. The project would be completed by HCC and its partner VCCL in four years. The order entails construction of 9.5 km long safety tunnel between Tupul and Imphal, which will run parallel to the main broad gauge single line tunnel which is also being constructed by the HCC– VCCL joint venture.

AIzAwl, OctOber 14 (PtI): The Mizoram government's Information and Public Relations department and the Mizoram Journalists' Association (MJA) today declared Lalbiakthanga Pachuau, the editor of 'Zoram Tlangau', a Mizo language daily, as the "oldest working journalist in the country".

The declaration was made by state Minister for Information and Public Relations Lal Thanzara at a simple function.

The 90-year-old soldierturned-journalist started editing his own newspaper in 1970 and was elected the president of MJA for three terms.

As his wife and daughter tried to intervene, the two pulled them out by their hair, molested and misbehaved with them.

The attackers stopped only when the family members apologized.

A police team arrived at the crime scene after the attackers left. The family members were taken to Safdarjung Hospital for medical attention and discharged after treatment.

The family filed a complaint and their statements were also recorded.

“A case under the sections of 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint), 354A (molestation/sexual harassment) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), was registered at the South Campus police station against the unknown men. We are in the process of identifying the suspects and bring them to book at the earliest,” said Ishwar Singh, deputy commissioner of police (south).

He co-founded the Association for Voluntary Blood Donation in Mizoram as its general secretary and was later elected its president for a number of times from 2001 onwards.

Under his leadership, the blood donation collection in the state rose from 22.47 per cent to 94 per cent.

Pachuau's contribution in this field has earned him three special awards of State Blood Transfusion Council, not to mention the numerous state awards.

He has also held the post of President, World War-II Veteran Association, on numerous occasions.

5 Tripura militants escape from Bangladesh camp, surrender AgArtAlA, OctOber 14 (IANS): Five militants of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) after escaping from their hideout in Bangladesh, have surrendered to the Tripura Police, officials said here on Friday.

The guerrillas, led by their self-styled corporal Bisurai Debbarma, 33, surrendered on Thursday night, Tripura Police spokesman Uttam Kumar Bhowmik said.

"The tribal extremists fled from their clandestine camp at Thangnang (under Rangamati district of Chittagong Hill Tract of southeast Bangladesh) and crossed over to India on Wednesday night," said Superintendent of police

(Special Branch) Arindam Nath, to whom the rebels surrendered.

They also deposited some electronic gadgets and incriminating documents with the police.

Aged between 27 and 33, the militants told the police that they fled from the NLFT camp in Bangladesh out of frustration and miserable conditions.

According to them, more NLFT cadres from Bangladesh are likely to surrender.

Over the past six months, 33 NLFT rebels with a huge quantity of arms and ammunition have surrendered to the Tripura Police after escaping from their hideouts in Bangladesh. NLFT cadres

and All Tripura Tiger Force (ATTF) militants undergo arms training in hideouts in Bangladesh, which shares an 856-km border with Tripura.

Banned in 1997 by the Union Home Ministry, the two outfits have sought secession of Tripura from India. ATTF has become almost defunct due to the surrender of most of its cadres.

A senior police official, citing intelligence reports, said that the Bangladesh Army and security forces in separate operations have recently busted two camps of the NLFT and National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah faction) in mountainous Chittagong Hill Tracts.

IMPHAl, OctOber 14 (NNN): Manipur unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today said it would block the state government’s plans to set up the National Sports University at Yaithibi Loukol of Thoubal district which has remained a “bone of contention.”

“Establishment of the sports varsity in the arable land area is totally illogical.

Spending huge amount of money by the cashstrapped Congress government in acquiring this land for the purpose is unjustifiable,” state BJP election management committee convenor Thounaojam Chaoba Singh said at a political conference here.

The Manipur government acquired land measuring 336 acre at Yaithibi Loukol which has been provided to the Centre for the purpose.

But 34 acre of land is currently under litigation, preventing the Centre from going ahead with the plan. As per the Centre’s instruction, there shall not be any disturbance at the allocated land.

But the Manipur government has already re-

quested the Centre to enable commencement of session of the yet to be established National Sports University at the temporary centre in Khuman Lampak Spots Complex. For which, steps are yet to be initiated by the Centre till date.

The process of handing over and taking over of the acquired land was done in August 2015. Most importantly, the Parliament is yet to pass the bill concerning the proposed sports varsity to become it an Act. “The state government will not be allowed to violate human rights and international agreements aimed at protecting agricultural land,” Chaoba said at the event held at Langthabal Phuramakhong of Naoriya Pakhanglakpa constituency in Imphal West. He said that unlike Yaithibi Loukol, people of Koutruk village have offered free of cost the required land for setting up of the National Sports University. The event was organised by Naoriya Pakhanglakpa BJP Mandal where several leaders of BJP Manipur Pradesh were present.

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IMPHAl, OctOber 14 (NNN): Manipur insurgent umbrella organisation Co-ordination Committee (CorCom) has called an 18-hour state wide general strike tomorrow, October 15, to mark “Amamba Numit” (Black Day) beginning Friday midnight.

Former kingdom Manipur became part of India on October 15, 1949 after a merger agreement which CorCom says was signed under state of duress.

The group observes this day as Black Day every year to protest the “forceful merger agreement.”

All normal activities in business institutes, both government and private establishments, and movement of people on road, sports and entertainment activities will come to halt during the total shutdown call from Friday midnight to 6 pm tomorrow, Saturday, CorCom publicity committee said in a press statement.

CorCom is a conglomerate of six active insurgent organisations—Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP), People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK), its Progressive faction (PREPAK-Pro),

Revolutionary People's Front (RPF – the political wing of the People’s Liberation Army – PLA) and United National Liberation Front (UNLF).

The outfit appealed to people of Manipur to stay away from all activities on this day and stand united and hope for heralding a new beginning.

It said the “forceful merger of Kangleipak (Manipur) by India” after the former kingdom got freedom from the British will ever remain as a feeling of bitterness and anger among people of Manipur.

The Manipur Merger Agreement was signed between His Highness Maharaja Bodhachandra of Manipur and representatives of Government of India in Shillong on September 21, 1949. After this, the sovereignty of Manipur was ceded to dominion of India.

The then Chief Minister of Manipur, MK Priyobrata convened a session of Manipur Legislative Assembly on September 28, 1949 and passed a resolution to condemn the Merger Agreement and it clearly highlighted “not to abide by the agreement and Manipur will have no relation with India.”

Mizoram: Rs 563cr addl expenditure if Pay Commission implemented

AIzAwl, OctOber 14 (PtI): Mizoram would incur an additional expenditure of Rs 563.22 crore annually if it implements the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission, state government officials said today.

Officials of the state finance department informed that the calculation

was made after the Federation of Mizoram Government Employees and Workers (FMGE and W), an umbrella organisation of all the state government employees association, asked the department to undertake the estimate.

However, the proposal had already been denied by state chief minister Lal

Thanhawla.

The state government would not implement the seventh pay commission recommendations due to fiscal crunch, the CM had earlier said.

Lal Thanhawla said that the financial burden would be too heavy unless the Centre comes forward to help the state government.

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NEW DELHI, OctObEr 14 (rEutErs): India's retail inflation cooled to a 13-month low in September, helped by moderating food prices, giving room for the central bank to cut interest rates again if needed.

The consumer price index (CPI) rose 4.31 percent last month from a year earlier, its slowest pace since August 2015, government data showed on Thursday.

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the CPI to rise 4.80 percent, after a 5.05 percent gain in August.

In a surprise move earlier this month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), under new Governor Urjit

Patel, cut interest rates by 25 basis points to 6.25 percent on expectations that food inflation would ease in the months ahead.

The latest prices data backed that assessment as annual food inflation sharply slowed to 3.88 percent in September from 5.91 percent a month ago.

With strong crop sowing on the back of good summer rains widely expected to keep a lid on food prices, and a benign outlook for global commodity prices, inflation is expected to remain in check.

"Until February we are going to see A woman buys vegetables at a food superstore in Ahmedabad, October benign prints in CPI, which will open 13, 2016. (REUTERS)

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n a world of many options organic agriculture is a serious option for many farmers, enterprises and consumers. Supporting that option with credible science can be very important for improving the overall productivity, food security, food sovereignty and environmental impact of agriculture in the country. The challenge lies in creating an environment in which organic is treated as complimentary approach and efforts are focussed on harvesting benefit. Organic agriculture has been embraced by the mainstream and shows great promise commercially, socially and environmentally. While there is variety of thought from the earliest days to the present. It now has environmental sustainability that concerns healthy soil, healthy food and healthy people.

For conversion of a conventional field to organic, first step is to build up the lost fertility of the soil. This can be achieved by complete ban on use of synthetic inputs and increased use of organic and biological inputs. For nutrient management and soil fertility build up crop residue, animal dung, forest leaf litter, bone meal and green manures are important organic sources. All such organic material needs to be composted properly for appropriate impact as the nutrient value of the raw material and composting methodology determines the quality of produce. Biological resources such as biofertilizers and other microbiological inputs have also attracted lot of attention and are being promoted on large scale.

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Nuclear Suppliers Group used to feed the crop and far, traders body CAIT said "There has been a de- (NSG). protect the crop by direct today. bate in social media on Khandelwal said CAIT action, in organic farming Confederation of All boycotting Chinese prod- will go with the mood of the inputs are used to feed the India Traders (CAIT) Sec- uct. These products are al- people and honour their soil and to create an envi- retary General Praveen ready with the wholesalers calls for ban on Chinese ronment which can collec- Khandelwal said that Chi- but there has been a 20 per products. tively keep the pests below nese lighting and decora- cent decline in demand "We expect that the economical threshold limit tive products are widely from the retail traders as goods which are in stock (ETL). In this endeavour al- used during Diwali and they are worried whether with the wholesalers will though quantity may not such materials start flood- people will actually buy it get sold over time, otherbe an important issue, but ing the Indian markets or not," he said. wise a lot of cash of traders quality of input is of prime three months prior to the There has been a so- will get stuck," he said. importance. In the recent years efforts have been made to promote appropriate production methodologies among farmers ACROSS for effective conversion of CROSSWORD # 3742 1. Praise 5. Collection of maps organic waste into nutrient 10. Picnic insects rich compost and for pre14. Data paring botanical extracts 15. offensively bold for pest management.

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A labourer works at the installation site of a new railway track on the outskirts of Agartala, India, October 13, 2016. India may seek parliamentary approval to spend about $7.5 billion more on roads, railways and other public programmes over the next five months, two government sources said, as Prime minister Narendra modi looks to spur growth and create jobs. (REUTERS)

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After this month's surprise rate cut, many economists revised their interest rate outlook and are now expecting the central bank to cut its key repo rate further by as much as 50 bps.

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NSSATA Mon unit affirms decision to boycott classes mON, OctOber 14 (mexN): The Mon unit of Nagaland Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) has reaffirmed the Central NSSATA’s decision to boycott the classes once the deadline of the association’s ultimatum to the government expires. A press statement from NSSATA Mon unit general secretary, Joseph Yomet expressed sadness for teachers to boycott classes, however, it pointed

out the teachers’ inability to manage their daily affairs and needs without being paid for five months. The NSSATA Mon unit urged the department concerned to take serious note of the problems faced by the teachers. Expressing support to the Central NSSATA, the unit also appealed to different NGOs to support and address the genuine demands considering the plight of the teachers and the students.

NSSATA Tuensang demands release of pending salaries tueNsaNg, OctOber 14 (mexN): Nagaland Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers’ Association (NSSATA), Tuensang unit has urged the State Government and Department of School Education to release their five months pending salaries before October 22, 2016. The Association in a press release issued by President C. Tochi Chang stated that “SSA teachers also need

salaries for survival like all other employees do. Due to non- payment of salaries teachers are facing long duration of miseries.”

The Association also requested all the VEC, WEC, NSF, ENSF, CANSSEA and tribal students' unions to support in fighting for the rights of SSA Teachers. It further assured that it fully support the NSSATA meeting that took place on October 10, 2016.

NAGALAND

‘Will not entertain personal requests for transfers’: HM Morung Express News Dimapur | October 14

Nagaland state Home Minister, Y. Patton at a speech on October 14 asserted that he will not entertain any personal request for transfers to places of choice. Speaking at the customary ceremonial attestation parade of the 53rd batch of NAP/ IR recruit havildars and constables at the Nagaland Armed Police Training Centre (NAPTC), Chumukedima, Patton discouraged the practice of government employees approaching high government officials, Ministers and politicians with requests for postings/ transfers.

Maintaining that he will not entertain any “requests for postings/transfers to places of choice,” he said that many do not want to serve in remote areas, which is rather discouraging. While wishing that he would not see any such requests at his table, he asserted that it is the prerogative of the department and the government to place its em-

Home Minister of Nagaland, Y. Patton taking salute during the ceremonial attestation parade at NAPTC, Chumukedima on October 14. (DIPR Photo)

ployees in places deemed necessary. “Respect your job, place of posting and serve with commitment,” he told the recruits.

A total of 443 recruits (32 havildars and 411 constables) took the oath of allegiance today at the ceremony. Urging the recruits to live up to the motto of the Nagaland Police – Security, Service and Sacrifice, he reminded that there is more than earning a living in the

police service and challenged the recruits to become an asset to the state by discharging the pledged responsibility with honesty and commitment. “Today you are entering into a new chapter of life to serve the people and the nation. I would like to remind you that only few people get the opportunity to render such services to the people.”

While acknowledging the services of the state po-

lice, Patton brought to attention instances of police personnel “taking law into their own hands.” Taking a hardline stance, he added that the department would not hesitate to deal strictly with cases of indiscipline.

Stating he is aware of the many recruits with university degrees, who have joined as constables and havildars yet he expressed confidence that they joined with a commitment to serve a cause.

KOhima, OctOber 14 (mexN): Nagaland Police Senior Officers’ Conference was held on October 12 at the PHQ conference hall here. Chaired by Rupin Sharma, IPS, ADG (L&O), the conference started with a short speech

by LL Doungel, IPS, DGP Nagaland.

Doungel outlined the challenges that lie ahead for Nagaland Police.

Pointing out the uncertainties owing to the dynamic nature of socio-political situations and various other developments in the State, the DGP encouraged the officers to “keep their antennas raised” so that the police is able to anticipate and deal with any eventualities in the future. He expounded on the importance of physical fitness of officers and the personnel and how it has a bearing on the pub-

lic perception of police in general.

The DGP also stressed on the necessity for Nagaland Police to embrace and adopt modern policing techniques, encouraged the officers to be sensitive

ters relating to general administration of the department were made by G. Akheto, IPS, ADG (Admn) and PF Zeliang, IPS, IG (Hq).

Presentations on administrative problems and issues of Police Commissionerate /DEFs and NAP/IR units were made by Wapang Jamir, IPS, IG (Range) and Bendang Lemtur, IPS, IG (NAP) respectively. There were also presentations on good practices by Joseph Hesso, IPS, SP(Kohima), James Kinghen, NPS, CO 9NAP (IR) and Rothihu Tetseo, NPS, CO10 NAP(IR).

A detailed presentation on practices and pitfalls in Nagaland Police and remedies was made by ADG (L&O), which was followed by feedback and discussions on the issues raised and suggestions put forward.

DGP encourages officers to “keep their antennas raised” to the issues and problems of men and also to look after their welfare. He also espoused for adoption of scientific men management emphasising on the importance and benefit of police leadership to be innovative, resourceful and enterprising, informed a press release from M. Tungoe, IPS, SP (Crime) & PRO, Nagaland Police.

Presentations on mat-

‘Centre of Excellence for Cong to contest municipal election from all wards in Kohima Khriedi Theüno, PCC hard for the welfare of the such is the present condiOctOber Entrepreneurship’ launch KOhima, 14 (mexN): Congress has member briefed on the le- people, stated the release tion under NPF led DAN KOhima, OctOber 14 (mexN): As part of the Impact 5000 by 18, ‘Centre of Excellence for Entrepreneurship’ housed at the YouthNet main office, near Kohima College, Billy Graham Road, Kohima will be launched on October 17 by Chief Minister TR Zeliang.

“There is an urgent need to promote entrepreneurship in the state and we wish to create a vibrant ecosystem for our entrepreneurs through this Centre,” YouthNet stated in a press release. “Apart from

various interventions like entrepreneurship development programmes, training, networking avenues, financial linkages and exposure opportunities, we believe it is imperative that a formal centre for entrepreneurship is created,” the release said. It was added that the centre will act as a ‘one stop centre’ for the entrepreneurs’ needs offering various services like auditing, legal advice, financial linkages, partnership, peer learning, information on government schemes, etc.

decided to contest the municipal election from all the 19 wards under Kohima Municipal Council and 9 wards under Tseminyu Town Committee. The decision was made during a joint meeting of Kohima District PCC members and Kohima District Congress Committee (KDCC) Vice Presidents on October 14.

All the Vice Presidents, who are also in-charge of the constituencies, submitted their reports, a press release informed, adding they were really encouraging.

gal procedure of the elections. Medokul Sophie, PCC member urged the party workers to keep their focus positive and take the party forward. Meanwhile, Seyiekuolie, PCC member asked the party workers to meet and interact with people regularly and make known the programme and policies of the Congress party stating such exercise will ultimately bring positive result in the municipal as well as the general elections. He also challenged the party workers to work

issued by KDCC president, Kevi Vizo and general secretary (admin), Abalie Medoze.

As directed by NPCC, the house also decided to set up Urban Local Body Committee for the district at the earliest.

The house further deliberated on the NPF led DAN government “for its complete mis-governance, putting on hold all the state developmental work, poor road condition where our road look like more of river bed.” It pointed out that

government that citizens are compelled to take up road repairing and other works, “which shows the present government is not bothered about its citizens rather they are busy pocketing for their own welfare.”

In light of this, the Kohima District Congress Committee appealed to the citizens to “judiciously use their precious vote to vote for the Congress which promises and is committed for the welfare of the people in the coming municipal election.”

DPDB meeting held in Zunheboto, Wokha ‘Discipline is the core of success’

ZuNhebOtO, Oc tOber 14 (Dipr): The monthly District Planning and Development Board (DPDB) meetings of Zunheboto and Wokha were held on October 13 in the Deputy Commissioner’s conference halls of the respective districts.

In Zunheboto, Assistant Planning Officer (APO), David Achumi informed the board that bifurcation of Aghunato/ Tokiye Block and creation of Town Council/ Urban Station Committee at Satakha is under process.

Meanwhile, DPO, DAPCU highlighted the present scenario of HIV/AIDS status in the district. DPO also requested various departments like Industries and Commerce, Social Welfare, Animal Husbandry and Food and Civil Supplies to help people living with HIV/AIDS as most of the victims are from below poverty line.

The meeting also approved construction of waiting shed at Zunheboto Government College (ZGC).

Deputy Commissioner, T. Roy, who chaired the meeting, also welcomed EAC Probationers, Sakuchingmak and Wiridin Zeliang and asked all HoDs to cooperate with two NCS officers in their administrative duties.

District Agricultural Officer (DAO), Kivikhu Achumi deliberated on poor BSNL network in the district and the telecom officials were asked to report in the next meeting. With regard to Aadhaar enrolment problem being faced by students for various purposes, the DC stated that Census department will be opening Aadhaar Centres in all administrative centres within the district.

The meeting in Wokha discussed the landslide/ road blockage at Pangtong/

Serika area of the district. The ADC, Thavaseelan (IAS), who chaired the meeting, informed that since August the road has been cut off due to flood and landslides. He told the board that a meeting with the line department will be held to discuss the issue.

With regard to registration of Von-Jen School of Music, Wokha, the board endorsed the same to the department concerned for examination to be discussed in the next DPDB meeting. Proposal for introduction of new subjects, namely Geography, Science and Commerce stream presented by Principal of Mt. Tiyi College was recommended to higher authority for approval.

PowerPoint was presented

by Department of Art and Culture. The chairperson informed all departments to submit the vehicle registration numbers along with the names of the drivers attached to them at the earliest.

Dimapur, OctOber 14 (mexN): The Nagaland Contractors & Supplier Union (NCSU), Dimapur unit has expressed support to its head office for opposing Maytas & Gayatri to execute the 4-lane road project of Dimapur-Kohima N/H 29 “without completing the previous SARDP project and abandoned in the half way.”

NCSU Dimapur unit in a press statement affirmed to support the head office in any move against the Maytas & Gayatri on the 4-lane project. The unit president, W. Khape and general secretary, I. Wati maintained that the company left the previous project under SARDP Phase-1 incomplete creating inconveniences to many citizens in the state. Therefore, it urged the company to first complete the SARDP Phase-1 project. The union also called NGOs and all the responsible citizens to support the NCSU stand.

ANGPTA Dimapur unit informs to submit documents

Nagaland Police Senior Officers’ Conference

ATMA Tseminyu Block organised training on package and practices of cabbage and broccoli and demonstration on nursery raising of cole crops with Kevineituo, ATM, ATMA Tseminyu Block as resource person on October 14 at Tseminyu Town. Ten farmers attended the programme and seeds were distributed to them.

NCSU Dimapur unit extends support

Dimapur, OctOber 14 (mexN): All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA), Dimapur unit (Dimapur/Niuland) has informed all Head Teachers/Teacher-in-charge to submit the membership and documents of all Primary Teachers of their respective schools. Meanwhile, the Primary Teachers under DEO were also requested to submit their documents. Informing that the collection has been extended till October 17 and 18, the unit requested all to co-operate for the welfare of all. For further details, contact: 8974517526/ 9862263522/ 9862927267.

AR apprehend NSCN (K) cadre in Zbto ZuNhebOtO, OctOber 14 (mexN): Troops of 5 Assam Rifles along with police representatives apprehended an NSCN (K) cadre during a search operation carried out at New Colony, Zunheboto on October 5 based on an input about extortion activity in the area

by NSCN (K) cadres. According to a press release from Assam Rifles, the cadre identified as Tomakum Yimchunger was apprehended along with one .22 pistol.

Meanwhile, based on his information, one .22 pistol with magazine, arms and manufacturing tools were recovered from one Keiseikham Yimchunger, the release added. “The individuals were involved in extortion along with manufacturing and supply of illegal weapons to various underground factions,” Assam Rifles alleged. The two were handed over to the Zunheboto Police Station on October 5.

Naga Kuotsu Union mourns KOhima, OctOber 14 (mexN): Naga Kuotsu Union (NKU) has expressed shock at the demise of Batou Kuotsu on October 14 morning. In a condolence note, the union informed that the deceased served as the joint secretary of NKU from 2008-2013 and as vice president from 2013-2016. It remembered Batou as a person who loved his people with all his heart. “He was a very hospitable person and a guiding force of Naga Kuotsu Union,” it added. Regretting that in his death, the union has lost a very dynamic leader, NKU conveyed condolences to the bereaved family and prayed that God grant them strength and solace. “We, the whole Naga Kuotsu community share with you the pain and sorrow at this moment of grief and want to say that we are with you in our thoughts and prayers.”

Notice on mortgaging lands at Phekerkrie Basa KOhima, OctOber 14 (mexN): The Co-founders Union of Phekerkrie Basa village has issued a warning to all those villagers and village leaders selling and mortgaging lands at Phekerkrie Basa, stating that it will not allow anybody to sell their forefather's land to others. “It is learnt that some vested village leaders are looting the properties, lands of our forefathers and selling, mortgaging at Khekerkrie Basa, so we will not by any means give an iota of these lands to anyone,” stated a press note issued by Neiphre-u, Chairman, Phekerkrie Basa Co-founders Union. It further stated that it will not allow any unqualified persons to “appoint among themselves to be village leaders to loot the present properties in all movable or non-movable assets, and government funds etc.”

Jakhama Students Union meeting KOhima, OctOber 14 (mexN): In preparation of the Golden Jubilee celebration of Jakhama Students’ Union scheduled for December 27 and 28, 2016, a meeting of all the various committees constituted for the jubilee has been convened on October 16, 1:00 pm at Panchayat Hall, Jakhama. Therefore, all convenors and members of the committees have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

International Day of the Girl Child observed

Section of students attending the career guidance programme held at St Paul Higher Secondary School, Dimapur on October 14.

Dimapur, OctOber 14 (mexN): One day career guidance programme was held at St Paul Higher Secondary School (SPHSS), Dimapur with Research Associate from Nagaland University as resource person on October 14.

The resource person spoke on higher education, preparation for competitive examinations,

conference building and personality development, according to a press release from P. Tepekrovi Kiso. He stated that discipline is the core of success. Quoting Late APJ Kalam, former President of India, that “It is a crime to dream small”, the resource person appealed to students to be sincere and resourceful for the society. Referring to the Bible,

he further maintained that the love of money does not give lasting happiness.

The keynote address was delivered by Dr Sr Ranit, Principal. Vote of thanks was proposed by Kisungla Changkiri, school leader.

Lectures on skills development, interaction and answering questions were the highlights of the programme.

NOKseN, OctOber 14 (mexN): International Day of the Girl Child was observed in all Anganwadi centres under Noksen block on October 11.

At Noksen headquarters, the day was observed at the Town Hall with all the Anganwadi centres. Public leaders, elders, women group, besides the Anganwadi children, attended the celebration.

In his keynote address on the theme ‘Girls’ Progress = Goals’ Progress: A Global Girl Data Movement’, Kenyuyhunlo, Supervisor, stressed on the challenges girl children face and the existing gaps in data and knowledge about the specific needs and issues faced by them,

informed a press release.

In spite of their creativity and talents, they are often thwarted by discrimination, violence and lack of equal opportunities, it was highlighted. Therefore, the speaker stated, there is a need for increased investment in collecting and analyzing girl-focused, girl-relevant data so as to address the challenges and issues of a girl child, which also bring closer the fulfillment of Sustainable Development Goals.

The programme, which was chaired by Diethozo, Supervisor, also had short speech by Kekatemba, Advisor, Noksen Village Citizen Forum and vote of thanks by Anganwadi worker, Noksenkumla.

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Asgardia, the first nation in space, wants you!

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lans to create the first "nation in space" were unveiled in Paris on Wednesday. They are nothing if not ambitious.

The new nation will launch its own satellite in 2017 and dedicate itself to opening up access to space. The goal is to foster world peace, as well as protect earth from rogue asteroids and space debris.

The new space country will be called "Asgardia," named for the city in the skies ruled by Norse god Odin.

We aren't talking about an actual orbiting city or space station where humans will live.

Instead, it's more a scientific, legal and technological experiment being led by Russian nanoscientist Dr. Igor Ashurbeyli, founder of the Aerospace International Research Center and newly appointed chairman of UNESCO's Science of Space committee.

"Asgardia is also unique from a philosophical aspect -- to serve entire humanity and each and everyone, regardless of his or her personal welfare and the prosperity of the country where

they happened to be born," Ashurbeyli said in a release.

A rather simple website for Asgardia launched after a press conference Wednesday to kick off crowd sourcing the new country's flag, insignia and anthem. It will also allow wannabe Asgardians to register their interest for citizenship.

The idea is that once Asgardia has 100,000 people applying for citizenship, it is then eligible to apply to the United Nations for official nation status, according to Ashurbeyli.

Supposedly all Asgardians would remain physically in their current resident nations, but also be citizens of this other country with its sole territory in the galaxy being a satellite circling the Earth. It's the access to space the satellite represents that is really the point of the whole thing.

"The mission of Asgardia (is) to create opportunities for broader access to space, enabling non-traditional space nations to realize their scientific aspirations is exciting," said Professor David Alexander, director of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University.

The way space works now is that there's something called

the Outer Space Treaty that most (but not all) nations have signed. It essentially says that whatever country sends a mission to space is then responsible for that mission. So if NASA or an American company like SpaceX sent up a satellite that

crashed into and destroyed a Russian satellite, Russia can hold the United States Government accountable.

In turn, this means the US Government has to regulate American companies working in space to avoid such interna-

tional incidents.

So it's easy to see Asgardia as simply a way to either sidestep the Outer Space Treaty or perhaps do an end-run around government regulations that are a key part of making the treaty work by forming a new

government accountable to nobody but the space enthusiasts that formed it.

I contacted space lawyer (yes, that's a thing) Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz, who is editor-in-chief Emerita of the Journal of Space Law, and she told me that Asgardia is likely to have trouble in its quest to be recognized as a country.

"Under international law, there are specific criteria for an entity to be recognized as a nation. It must have territory and a population, and be recognized as a nation by other nations, among other things. Just declaring that a nation exists is not enough," she told me via e-mail. "There are (a) number of entities on Earth whose status as an independent nation have been a matter of dispute for a long time. It is reasonable to expect that the status an unpopulated object that is not on Earth will be disputed."

There's also at least one other independent nation in space that's already been declared and disputed.

In 1949, American James Mangan filed paperwork with Cook County, Illinois laying claim to all of space beyond Earth, declaring it the "Nation of Celestial Space" (also known

as "Celestia") with himself as founder and representative.

Mangan had similar designs on securing peace in space and quickly set about defending his claim by notifying the US, Soviet Union and a few other nations that his country had banned atmospheric nuclear tests. In the early days of the space race he would also send letters to the Americans and Soviets protesting their encroachment on his territory.

The world, including the United Nations, politely ignored Mangan's persistent requests for acknowledgment for decades. He passed away in 1970 and little has been heard from Celestia since.

Asgardia has the benefit of the internet to organize its claim to existence and perhaps raise funds for the satellite that would give it a physical territory in the universe and some basic utility for its "citizens" to rally around.

It still remains to be seen if the United Nations and the rest of humanity will see Asgardia as any more legit than Celestia, but that hasn't stopped over 4,000 potential Asgardians from registering their interest in under 12 hours.

How to Send a Password Why parents are stressed out by their own smartphones Through Your Body Lisa Rapaport

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A group of engineers found a way to use everyday devices to transfer small amounts of data through skin Kaveh Waddel

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man with one hand in his pocket approaches a locked door and places his other hand on the doorknob. A second later, the deadbolt clicks open, as if by magic, and he lets himself in. A would-be burglar casing the house watches this sequence of events unfold.

The next day, after the man has left for work, the burglar approaches the door and places his hand on it, expecting it to pop open. Instead, it stays stubbornly locked. It’s not outfitted with a typical “smart lock,” which uses Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to open when a paired phone or watch is nearby. It’s not reading his fingerprint, either. So what’s going on?

A similar scenario recently unfolded in the University of Washington’s Networks and Mobile Systems Lab, where researches are experimenting with a new technology that sends passcodes through the human body. The technology uses touchpads and fingerprint readers to create signals that travel through skin—and, unlike wireless broadcasts, the “on-body” transmissions can’t be intercepted over the air.

Using their method, a person just needs to be touching a transmitter—the fingerprint reader on an iPhone, for example—when he or she comes in contact with a receiver. In the doorknob example, the metal handle is hooked up to a reader that listens for electromagnetic pulses. A code sent from the iPhone’s fingerprint reader travels across a layer of particularly conductive tissue right beneath the outer layer of human skin. It quickly propagates to every part of the body, so that your entire epidermis glows, invisibly, with data. (The researchers were able to detect signals sent from one arm to the opposite leg, and could accurately read them whether the person was standing, sitting, or lying down.) When the signal arrives at the doorknob, the reader makes sure it’s the right passcode and, if it is, it opens.

This same approach could also be used to securely pair wearable devices— everything from calorie counters to insulin pumps—with their owners and each other. The technique takes advantage of the fact that most devices give off faint electromagnetic signals when they’re used normally. Some gadgets, like fingerprint readers and trackpads, produce particularly reliable signals, said Vikram Iyer, one of the two lead authors on the

paper that presented the findings.

Iyer and his colleagues jury-rigged those electronic devices into transmitters. For the fingerprint scanners, they rapidly activated and deactivated them to send a signal pattern through the skin; for the touchpads, they created patterns simply by power cycling them—that is, quickly turning them off and on over and over again.

The improvised transmitters get the job done, but not terribly efficiently. The maximum transfer rate the researchers were able to attain was 50 bits per second. At that speed, it would take nearly two days to download a three-megabyte photo—but it’s enough bandwidth to send a four-digit code in well under a second.

(The trackpad on an IBM Thinkpad had the fastest transfer rate, said Mehrdad Hessar, the paper’s other co-author, but the fingerprint reader on an iPhone 6S sent the most powerful signal.)

If the researchers used custom hardware, they could’ve gotten speeds that were orders of magnitude faster. So why didn’t they?

“Our focus here was trying to find a way we could reuse an existing device,” said Iyer. “One of the main problems with adopting this kind of technology into a commercial applications is that there’s already so much included in a phone.

Any device manufacturer wouldn’t add another radio, because that would take up power, or space that they could use to make the battery a little bigger.”

Better to find a way to use a technology that’s already found its way into most phones—the fingerprint reader—rather than reinvent the wheel. But if device manufacturers like Apple gave developers more access to the fingerprint readers, beyond the capability to activate and deactivate them, it would make using them as transmitters much easier.

Avoiding a custom setup also means that on-body transmission doesn’t pose any health hazard beyond simply using a phone or a computer, Hessar said.

It’s just using the electromagnetic noise that’s already being produced by everyday devices in a clever way.

While security is one the main benefits of on-body transmission—there’s no airborne signal for a hacker to intercept—there is one way to hijack a signal as it’s traveling across someone’s skin: Just come in contact with it. Multiple devices touching a body that’s conducting a charge can all read the signal, raising the possibility that malware on a smartwatch could be used to eavesdrop on a passcode as it moves from limb to limb. But absent a compromised smartwatch or fitness band, coming touching an object during transmission would be “fairly conspicuous,” Iyer said, so it’s not much of a worry.

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arents searching for elusive work-life balance may see smartphones and tablets as a way to escape the office in time to be home for dinner each night, but these gadgets can also be a huge distraction and source of stress, a recent study suggests.

When researchers asked a group of parents to slow down and answer detailed questions about how and when they use mobile technology, people revealed a lot of internal conflict about how the devices are changing their lives.

“Every time a new technology is introduced, it disrupts things a little, so in many ways this is no different from the anxieties that families and our culture felt with the introduction of the TV or tele-

phone,” said lead study author Dr. Jenny Radesky, a pediatrics researcher at the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor.

“What is different is the rate of adoption and saturation of our households with mobile technology compared to these older technologies (e.g., it took the iPad 80 days to reach 50 million global users, compared to 14 years for televisions) -- so we have less time to reach a new homeostasis with each of them,” Radesky said by email.

As smartphones and tablets blur the lines between work, home and social lives, parents are struggling to balance it all and this may be causing internal tension, conflicts and negative interactions with kids, Radesky and her coauthors note in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.

To explore how parents feel about these gadgets, researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 35 caregivers, including mothers, fathers and grandmothers.

On the one hand, many of the participants credited the devices with allowing them to spend more hours at home with their young children. But on the flipside, they felt pressure to stay constantly plugged in and responsive to emails from work even during playtime with kids or risk being perceived as “bad employees.”

“It’s the fear of being irrelevant within your professional career,” one father in the survey said.

The more work popped up on those tiny screens, the more parents paid attention to devices instead of their children, many participants said. Then, the more kids acted up to get their parent’s attention, the more parents tended to snap at them.

Sometimes, though, these devices can also provide a muchneeded break, whether it’s a little time for video games or catching up with friends on social media.

“It is my escape, but I’m not sure it’s the healthiest escape, so I have conflict around that,” one mother in the study said.

The trouble is that parents can’t focus well on work or children when they’re trying to do both at once, said Larry Rosen, professor emeritus at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

“Younger generations believe that they can multitask with anything and that is simply not true,” Rosen, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email.

“What they rapidly discover is that they cannot do two tasks together as well as each separately, and, in fact, it adds another layer of stress to their already stressed lives raising children,” Rosen added.

Know Your (Essential) Documents

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card along with copies of your voter ID and PAN card.

DigiLocker: This allows a dedicated 10 MB cloud storage space linked to the Aadhaar number of an individual. You can store important documents such as mark sheets and PAN card in a digital locker (digilocker. gov.in). If all your information is linked, you can request government organizations or other entities registered with DigiLocker to send you electronic copies of documents and certificates (such as driving licence, voter ID or school certificates), directly into your account. You can even upload documents and sign them digitally using the e-sign facility.

You also get secure access to documents issued by the government through a web portal and mobile application for residents.

Digital life certificate or JeevanPramaan scheme for pensioners: A digital certificate eases the verification process for pensioners.

It is generated through Aadhaar-based bioHere is the low-down on essential docu- metric authentication, which gets stored in the life certificate repository. ments and their uses.

Scholarships: A student seeking a scholAADHAAR CARD Issued by: Unique Identification Author- arship or fellowship from state governments ity of India (UIDAI) Purpose: The main purpose is to create a unique, universal identity for Indian citizens that would negate the need for different documents to avail of various services. It is, therefore, a document that can be used to prove one's identity and address anywhere in India.

What is it? It is a random 12-digit number used to establish your identity on the basis of demographic and biometric information. It is equivalent to the social security number in the US. Translated to mean 'foundation' or 'support', the Aadhaar number assigned is valid for life.

Usages: While Aadhaar ensures that the or the University Grants Commission must direct benefit transfer (DBT) schemes offered possess an Aadhaar number. by the government help those who are eligible DRIVING LICENCE Issued by: Regional Transport Office to gain from them, even if you are not a benPurpose: It certifies that a person is qualieficiary, it is worth getting a number. You can fied to drive a vehicle. It also serves as identity use it for: e-KYC: Aadhaar-based e-KYC is a paper- and address proof. Driving without a licence less process that allows you to fulfil the KYC is a crime and you could be penalized for it. It formalities for online investment in mutual needs to be renewed periodically.

What is it? A driving licence is issued by funds. You would need your Aadhaar number, PAN, Aadhaar-registered mobile number and individual states through their regional transemail ID. Also, SEBI permits investment of port offices. For gearless motorcycles, the only Rs.50,000 in a financial year per mutual minimum age for getting a licence is 16 years. fund through Aadhaar-based e-KYC, using a It is 18 years for other types of vehicles.

Usage: The insurance company can reject one-time password verification.

Online income tax return (ITR) submis- your claim in case of driving without a valid sion: E-verify your ITR form provided your licence. mobile number is registered in the Aadhaar PAN CARD Issued by: Income Tax Department database.

Purpose: Enables the income tax departPassport: Get a fresh passport in three days by submitting a copy of your Aadhaar ment to identify and link all transactions of one are the days when you needed an identity proof only on a few occasions. Today, you might be asked for your PAN when you pay Rs.50,000 or more in cash for your hotel bills, expensive watches or air tickets. In a move to curb black money, the government has now made it mandatory to quote your PAN for all transactions over Rs.2 lakh.

Then there is the Unique Identification Authority of India's (UIDAI) Aadhaar. Despite the Supreme Court's ruling that Aadhaar is purely voluntary, the Gujarat government passed a resolution this July, making it compulsory for students appearing for their secondary and higher secondary examinations.

In Andhra Pradesh, too, it is a must for road transport authority transactions such as vehicle registration certificates, learner's licence, permanent driving licence and a change of ownership.

the PAN holder with the department, so as to prevent tax evasion and widen the tax base.

What is it?Permanent account number, or PAN, is a 10-digit alphanumeric number used to track your financial transactions (income, investments, borrowing, big spending and tax payments).

Usage: Transactions where PAN is required include: TDS: Banks can deduct tax at a higher rate of 20 per cent if you do not provide your PAN. Only 10 per cent is deducted if the bank has your PAN details.

Buying property: PAN is mandatory for buying and selling immovable property in India. NRIs can also easily buy property or engage in business in India with the help of a PAN without filing tax returns.

Mandatory quoting of PAN: • For buying goods or services over Rs.2 lakh, including gold • During purchase/sale of immovable property exceeding Rs.10 lakh • For mobile wallet transactions of more than Rs.50,000 • For opening a bank account, except Jan Dhan account • For cash payment of hotel/restaurant bill above Rs.50,000 • For cash deposit in bank exceeding Rs.50,000 in a single day • To purchase foreign currency or make cash payment while travelling abroad exceeding Rs.50,000 • For investments over Rs.50,000 in mutual funds/debentures/RBI bonds/ life insurance policy • To open a demat account • For businesses or professions where total sales, turnover or gross receipts exceed or are likely to exceed Rs.5 lakh • For buying or selling motor vehicles (other than two-wheelers) • The Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority has started using PAN apart from Aadhaar for online registration under the National Pension System.

PASSPORT Issued by: Ministry of External Affairs Purpose: A passport is needed to travel abroad. It also serves as identity and residence proof. It needs to be renewed periodically.

What is it? It is a proof of identity, has your birth date, as well as residential address. It takes care of most of your requirements.

Visa-free travel: Many countries allow visa-on-arrival such as Thailand or visa-free travel such as Nepal if you have a valid passport.

VOTING CARD Issued by: Election Commission of India Purpose: It makes you eligible to vote.

What is it? Apart from allowing you to vote, it is also used as identity and residence proof.

Readers may please note that the contents of the articles, letters and opinions published do not reflect the outlook of this paper nor of the Editor in any form.

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The curious history of the Nobel Peace Prize Richard Gunderman

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he news that Juan Manuel Santos of Columbia has received the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end his nation’s decadesold civil war is notable in part because the number of contenders for this year’s award set a new record. There were total of 376 nominees, 228 individuals and 148 organizations.

It also serves as an opportunity to reflect on the prize’s remarkable and sometimes controversial history, starting with its founding by Swedish inventor and industrialist Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite Alfred Nobel was an extraordinary person. He was born into poverty, the third of eight children, yet became one of the preeminent inventors and industrialists of his day. His father Immanuel, an engineer, later lifted the family’s fortunes by helping to develop the first naval mines successfully deployed in warfare.

As a young man Alfred studied the natural sciences and met Ascanio Sobrero, the man who developed nitroglycerin. He began to devise ways to harness the new compound’s explosive power in a less hazardous form, eventually inventing dynamite. Later he also invented far more powerful explosives, as well as the blasting cap. He amassed over 300 patents and established numerous armament factories.

When he died in 1896, his personal fortune was estimated, in today’s dollars, at nearly US$300 million.

Why did Nobel start the prizes?

An oft-repeated tale attributes Nobel’s creation of the Prizes to a mistaken obituary.

As the story goes, in 1888 Nobel’s brother Ludvig, who had been dubbed the “Russian Rockefeller” for his role in establishing that country’s oil industry, died.

The European press mistook Ludvig for Alfred.

Some speculate that reading these reports motivated Nobel to use the fortune he had amassed from manufacturing arms to establish prizes that would recognize mankind’s benefactors. However, there are some suggestions other elements of the tale may not be true.

In 1895, Nobel wrote his third and last will, establishing the five prizes: chemistry, literature, physiology or medicine, physics, and peace. He died the following year, and the first prizes were given out in 1901.

While awarding prizes for chemistry and physics was an obvious choice for the inventor and engineer Nobel, the rationale for a peace prize is less obvious.

It is possible that Nobel wished to compensate for dynamite and other inventions that could be used for destructive purposes, as well as his many business interests in the armaments industry. His will was also shaped by the fact that, though he had several relationships with women, he never married and died without an heir to whom he could leave his fortune.

One of these women was an Austrian named Bertha von Suttner, who answered an ad that Nobel had placed in the newspaper: “Wealthy, highly educated, elderly gentleman (he was in fact only 43 at the time) seeks lady of mature age, versed in languages, as secretary and supervisor of household.” Though she worked for Nobel only two years before marrying an Austrian count, von Suttner became a fierce proponent of disarmament and eventually received the 1905 Nobel Prize for Peace herself. It is possible that her advocacy helped spur Nobel to establish the peace prize.

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1. History Honours a. Journalism and Mass Communication Journalism and Mass Communication is one stream which is not restricted to just History. People from any course and any stream can take it up and do well - even though a background in History does give you an edge. As a journalism student you further have several streams to explore - documentary making, reporting, lifestyle journalism. b. Museum Curator If you are studying history as your undergrad, you are familiar with all the class trips to museums around your city. Well, if you love the ambience and amazing artefacts of a museum, you can actually become a museum curator yourself. Your historical knowledge is a huge plus while taking up this path. As a museum curator you will be dealing directly with the collection of artefacts, their display, research on various different artefacts and objects and provide information to the general public. Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai and National Museum Institute in Delhi offer Post Graduate Diploma and Master’s degree for the same! c. Art Restorer Remember Deepika Padukone from Love Aaj Kal? What she did for a living is what an art restorer/conservationist does. The basic job is to restore and preserve already existing works of art like painting, sculptures and monuments which have been damaged or deteriorated. But as basic as it sounds, the job requires ut-

The Naga Blog is a forum on Facebook where Naga’s from Nagaland and around the world network, share ideas and discuss a wide range of topics from politics and philosophy to music and current events in Nagaland and beyond. The blog is not owned by any individual, nor is it affiliated to or associated with any political party or religion. The only movement it hopes to stir is the one raised by the voices of the Naga’s every step of the way, amassing perhaps to mass consciousness one day. www.facebook.com/groups/thenagablog

To err is human, to forgive is divine

A bust of Alfred Nobel outside the Norwegian Nobel Institute. Tobias Schwarz/Reuters

An often controversial award The Nobel Prizes have occasioned considerable controversy, on some occasions overlooking worthy candidates and on others recognizing individuals who in retrospect appear poor choices.

One egregious choice was Egas Moniz, who received the prize in physiology or medicine in 1949 for developing the now-discredited frontal lobotomy.

Among the most notable omissions were chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev, who developed the periodic table, and the great novelists Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain.

The peace prize has been perhaps the most controversial of all the Nobels. The controversy surrounding the peace prize stems in part from the ambiguity of the concept of peace. For example, the 1953 laureate was George C. Marshall, president of the Red Cross and founder of the Marshall Plan, for rebuilding Europe after World War II. However, Marshall had also been commander of U.S. military forces during the war and U.S. secretary of defense, a tacit admission that the use of force can be an important instrument of peace.

A similarly controversial choice was the 1973 prize that went to U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho, North Vietnam’s chief negotiator, for negotiating an armistice in the Vietnam War. This prompted satirist and songwriter Tom Lehrer to quip that “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.” Tho became one of very few people ever to decline a Nobel Prize, doing so on the grounds that peace had not yet been established in Vietnam.

By contrast, the 1979 laureate, Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was not directly involved in brokering peace agreements between nations, instead having founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation that now boasts 5,800 members in over 100 countries.

Upon receiving the prize, she was asked, “What can I do to promote world peace?” to which she responded, “Go home and love your family.”

Two particularly notable American recipients of the peace prize were Jane Addams and Martin Luther King Jr. Addams, a colaureate in 1931 and the first American woman to be awarded the prize, founded Chicago’s Hull House, which was the first settlement house – designed to assist immigrants living in crowded conditions – in the United States. She also worked tirelessly to focus the country on issues of concern to mothers.

In 1964 King became the then-youngest recipient of the prize at age 35, described in the committee’s citation as “the first person in the Western world to have shown that a struggle can be waged without violence.”

And despite Nobel’s instructions that the prize should go to individuals, in 2012 the Nobel Committee recognized the European Union for advancing peace and reconciliation, one of the latest examples of the committee’s increasing predilection to award the prize to organizations.

And, of course, here too there have been surprising omissions. Perhaps the most notable was Mohandas Gandhi, whom Nobel laureate Albert Einstein called, “a role model for the generations.”

We should explore the meaning of peace One of the greatest benefits of the Nobel Peace Prize is the fact that, once a year, it promotes a lively discussion about peace throughout the world. Does peace, for example, mean a mere absence of violence or a positive state of justice and good will?

While it is unlikely that everyone can agree on its precise meaning, and controversy will no doubt continue to swirl around particular awardees, the recognition of peace as a universal human good constitutes perhaps Nobel’s greatest bequest.

12 career options if you have done History, Sociology, or Pol Science

ndia has had a very diverse view on humanities as a subject. While for a long time it was looked down upon, it has now gained prevalence and in fact, a large number of students prefer to opt for it right from school days. What follows studying arts at primary level is a B.A (Hons) degree. But then what?

What do you do after? Humanities itself is further divided into different subjects and while you see many going for Economics, three subjects that are often left behind are - History, Political Science and Sociology. The good and bad thing about a career in these subjects is that you don’t have one specific or obvious option like you do with engineering, medical, B.Com or even economics but you have wide variety of things you can do after the degree in the social sciences. Here are a few options that you can explore if you are pursuing your degree in History, Political Science or Sociology!

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most amount of historical knowledge and precision. tunity to work in either a government job or even an The National Museum Institute in Delhi offers a full international job with organisations like United Nations. However, IR is an extremely broad stream and time Master’s degree in art conservation. requires great amount of research and general knowledge. Master’s in IR is offered across India at various d. Library and Information Scientist Why should the engineering students have all the universities like Jadavpur University, Jawaharlal Nescience? If you love both history, science and reading hru University, Christ University, Symbiosis School Of then this job is for you! The job of a librarian (in lay- International Studies and South Asian University. man’s terms) is now further divided as well. You have designations like Documentation Officer, Information 3. Sociology Honours Officer, Director of Library Services, Information Ana- a. Paralegal Paralegals are different from lawyers in the sense lyst among others. There is a full-fledged department of library and informations science under Delhi uni- that they work under the supervision of a lawyer as versity, offering both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. his administrative and advisory body. So you organise and document all the important events, interview 2. Political Science Honours clients. This is perfect for all those people who want to be part of the judicial system but don’t wish to become a. Public Affairs Research Analyst The job of a Public Affairs Research Analyst is to lawyers. This profession, however, is not as developed aid the economic decision makers at both public and in India as it is abroad. Indira Gandhi National Open private firms in deciding where to put their money by University provides a Diploma in Paralegal Practices providing them information on the socio-economic for a year in India. and political environment of the company and abroad!

The analyst also tries to keep sustainable development b. PR Workers Public Relations is a wide growing strata. From as his or her prime focus.

Non-Profit organisations to large scale advertising agencies, everyone seeks a great PR worker and there b. Budget Analysts If you are also great with numbers then why stop are special PR agencies to provide them with just that! at just research? Political science students make great As someone with a greater knowledge of human socibudget analysts because they draw their budget relat- ety, this is something you might really excel at. ed advice on not just economic factors but also based on the social and political factors of any company and c. Public Welfare Social Worker its target audience.

Always wanted to give back to the society? Now you can! As a Public Welfare Social Worker you will have to curate benefits for those in need in the public secc. Political Scientists Political scientists have been known, all through his- tor and create an air of self-sufficiency in the client in tory, to develop theories for the general public. Your job order to reduce the cost of these benefits. It will do you as a political scientist is to be well versed in political theo- well to do a Master’s in Social Work in order to gain ries of the past and present in order to create better ones practical knowledge through field work. In India, you for the future. You collect data from public surveys and have Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Jamia Millia discussion results to create and forecast political and Islamia which are among the best for social work. social trends for your company. Political scientists are a very important part of any great business today making it d. Therapists While a degree in psychology might be the tradieasier for the company to develop their strategy. tional route to becoming a therapist, counsellors and therapists come from various different backgrounds. If d. International Relations International Relations (IR) has actually become you feel you have great interpersonal, critical thinking quite a trend among students of Political Science. Af- and communication skills then this just might be the ter your B.A you can do a Master’s degree in Interna- right path for you!

Source: POPxo tional Relations which in turn gives you the oppor-

Moali Pongen: Perhaps, it might not be worth mentioning, incidences that are personal but there's this restless pesky feeling in me which won't stop unless I pour out my miserable pain in words. Not little was I aware that such a monstrous incident awaits on that fateful morning of 26th September, which would leave me battling for my life, because of an indecent citizen who cared less to drive his car on the proper given road.

Yes! There exist many uncivilized drivers and unbounded useless beings in Nagaland who drive their vehicles in every possible road to its extremity. Even to the extent of nearby footpaths, ending up hitting innocent pedestrians and not once bothering to even stop and look at what wrong he has done, rather run away for their own life after keeping a life at stack.

On that unfortunate morning as I was coming back from Mezhür Higher Sec. School after dropping my niece, a black Alto running on the wrong side of the road approached out of nowhere so near by the footpath that it hit me on a filmy scene, throwing me up in the air and down the muddy street and crushing my right foot as it passed by hurriedly to a safe haven. I don't remember what exactly happened on that particular moment due to a possible concussion caused by the trauma, but I also suffered slight astigmatism as I failed to see anything and anyone. The only thing still fresh in my mind along with my raw scars is that impeccable fear of dying on a brutal hit and run-bloody accident, the indecent loud crush of the vehicle that sounded like thunder to my ear, and the feeling of never seeing my love ones again as I was only a second away to be swallowed by a hungry car.

Yet, lucky was I that a man came to my rescue and immediately took me to the hospital and informed my parents. It was only after reaching the hospital, I found out that the big toe on my right foot had been totally smashed, with no nails left, a minor bone fracture, dislocate right arm, and my left buttock was hit so hard as the car threw me on the merciless road, that my condition demanded down to four injections on a single day in my particular wounds, multiple painkillers, and several treatments unknown to a common 'outof-medical' field person like me. Though I discharged shortly after that, I still am on a regular visit to dress my wounds, which the Doctors says will take months to recover even if not fully. Forget about walking it took me ages to climb down from my bed on the first week of the accident, and the way to the kitchen from my bedroom is still a million miles away. To the least, I still cannot bend properly, because of the excruciating pain in so many parts of my little body that would hit hard every time I protest to do something.

The next day we got information that it did not only hit me but also hit another car that was parked on the other end of the road which is but a clear sign of misdriving.

The driver has been a lucky chap because even after noting the vehicle number, we chose not to lodge FIR, because of my God-fearing parents who are so deeply rooted in their Christian belief of 'To err is to human' and 'To forgive is divine'. We chose to forgive that person and end the matter on a humanitarian term, though it did not only dismantle my body but also affected my life in so many ways.

However, the one thing that my family still rejoices is the fact that I am still alive, which is nothing short of miracle. It has taught me this undeniable lesson that life is like a thin glass, dangerously fragile, which if not taken intimate care with prayers may crack in just a flicking tick.

I do not know whom to concern this terrible article to, or what little social change it might bring about but on my personal note it is my humble request to whomever authority it is concern, to lay down strict regulations on illegal driving and impose heavy penalty on lawbreakers and megalomaniacs.

And also to all those people, who own vehicles, to either learn themselves or teach their drivers the art of proper driving and the act of stopping by and coming forward to help if incase by rare chance if it happens to hit any pedestrian on the road, showing that basic sense of civilizeness as a citizen of humanity. And also the act of forgiveness in any given situation, even to the core of crime and dead. After all that wise quote always reminds that 'while to err is human, to forgive is divine'.

Glory be to God in highest for His never ending grace.

Saved by His grace, healed by His stripes.

Yanfo Kikon: Oh man... This is one of the most powerful blog I've read in my 8 years of running this group.

This is utterly painful, yet unimaginable or beyond what most of us can ever comprehend how you and your family has dealt with this situation to be able to forgive the person.

You are alive for a reason and this reason is to be able to share this story to us and the thousands who will be able to read and strike our conscience this hard, re-evaluate our thoughts, values and principles but most importantly the question will always linger what it takes to manifest this spirit to live again like a true Christian. You are a miracle and I'm certain that you will live to inspire many people not only to be responsible but also bring out a STRONG LAW TO PROTECT RECKLESS DRUNK DRIVERS who are not only a danger to themselves but to innocent people on the streets like this very survivor Moali.

Do take care and continue to be strong...You have this special gift of writing, make good use of it..It is one of the most powerful tools to inspire others, like your testimony which will leave a strong lasting impact on all of us.

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INDIA

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

India wants to contain Pak tensions, focus on economy

NEW DELHI, OCTO BER 14 (REUTERS): India wants to limit tensions with Pakistan after what it said was a successful crossborder strike on militants sheltered there, according to two top officials, who sought to allay fears of a broader conflict between the nuclear-armed nations.

One of the officials, who are both part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government shaping a new, more robust strategy towards Pakistan, said India remained focused on rapid economic growth, and any conflict would deflect it from that path.

"War is not in India's interest at this point," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because relations with Pakistan remained tense after India announced the Sept. 29 strike inside the part of Kashmir controlled

by Pakistan.

"We want to build comprehensive national power - economic, military and diplomatic. We need time, but if we stay on this path, the power differential with Pakistan will become so high by 2025 that you don't have to fight a war," the official said. Modi's government, breaking with a traditional policy of military restraint, said last month it sent special forces across the militarised frontier in Kashmir to kill an unspecified number of militants in retaliation for an attack on an Indian army base.

Pakistan said it had nothing to do with the at-

tack on the base and has denied any Indian strike took place across the Line of Control, the de facto border in Kashmir. It said it would repel any aggressive action from India.

On Friday, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria said New Delhi was trying to divert attention from a crackdown on violent protests this summer against Indian rule in its part of Muslimmajority Kashmir.

"Pakistan has already rejected the baseless claims of surgical strikes. As we emphasized earlier, India is desperate to divert attention of the international community from grave human rights violations," Zakaria told a news briefing.

More than 80 civilians have been killed and thousands wounded in the worst unrest in the disputed Himalayan region for six years.

At least two police officers have died and more than 5,000 security force members have been wounded.

India has not offered any evidence for the crossborder raid in Kashmir, although military officials have said there is footage from helmet-mounted cameras on the raiding party as well as from drones.

U.S. diplomats and an intelligence official in New Delhi and Washington have confirmed there was an Indian action across the Line of Control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan, but details were not available.

Pakistan's military de-

No back-door diplomacy with India: Pakistan

An Indian army soldier keeps guard from a bunker near the border with Pakistan in Jammu. (REUTERS/Files)

clined to comment for this India will decide; the issue article. is whether Pakistan can act on the basis of rationality."

FEARS OF NEW WAR India has long demandSoon after the army ed that Pakistan act against base attack which killed militant groups operating 19 Indian soldiers, some from its soil, including by officials in New Delhi said going after the leaders of the government would act Lashkar-e-Taiba, which it with restraint towards Paki- holds responsible for the stan, with which India has 2008 attack on Mumbai fought three wars, two of that killed 166 people. them over Kashmir.

Pakistan denies giving The subsequent an- material support to fighters nouncement of a cross- in Kashmir, and says India border strike reignited fears has not provided evidence of an escalation in tensions linking it to militant viobetween the countries, but lence in India. the second Indian official The first Indian official said they were overblown. said the government would "There is no concern, respond to cross-border the chapter is over," the of- terrorism more forcefully ficial said referring to the than previous Indian adraid India says it carried ministrations, and not be out. "The issue is not what cowed by fear.

"It has been a low-cost option for Pakistan; keep sending these fighters into Kashmir and pin down our army. We are going to raise the costs for them."

India has been on the back foot in Muslim-majority Kashmir for several months, after tens of thousands of people staged protests demanding freedom from Indian rule when soldiers killed a popular young militant commander in July.

Insurgents have stepped up attacks in recent weeks, although the level of violence is a fraction of its peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, when hundreds of people were killed each year. The first government official and an army officer in Kashmir

said there were an estimated 250 militants inside the Kashmir Valley, the highest number in six years, and that they expected more attacks in the coming weeks. Reuters was not able to verify the figure, which the official and officer said was based on radio intercepts and intelligence information.

According to the officer, numbers had risen because 72 militants had infiltrated from Pakistan in the first seven months of 2016, compared with 35 for the whole of 2015.

But local Kashmiris, especially in the south where the slain insurgent commander had his base, were also taking up arms in greater numbers, the first government official said.

ISLamaBaD, OCTOBER 14 (IaNS): There is no back-door diplomacy between Pakistan and India and contacts between the two countries were based on the desire of the two neighbours, Pakistan Prime Minister's Advisor on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz has said.

According to Radio Pakistan, Aziz said in an interview: "There is no back-door or track-II diplomacy between Pakistan and India...." Aziz said Islamabad enjoys good bilateral ties with the US, Britain, the European Union, the Middle East and other regions of the world and that Islamabad has been pursuing various connectivity projects in the South Asia region such as CASA-1000 and the Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) gas pipeline. Aziz's remarks come as relations between India and Pakistan have soured after the September 18 attack on an Army camp in Uri town of Kashmir Valley in which 19 security personnel were killed. The relations further dipped after Indian security forces on September 29 carried out surgical strikes at terror "launch pads" across the Line of Control in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

4 troopers injured in Kashmir attack SRINaGaR, OCTOBER 14 (aGENCIES): Four personnel of paramilitary force SSB were injured on Friday evening when terrorists attacked their convoy in Zakura area on the outskirts of Srinagar. Terrorists fired at the vehicles of Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) which were ferrying the personnel to their camp after performing law and order duties in the city, a security force official said. He said four SSB personnel sustained injuries in the attack. The injured have been admitted to a hospital for treatment. Security forces immediately cordoned off the area and launched search operations to track down the terrorists. This is the first militant attack in the city since the encounter at Nowhatta on August 15 in which a CRPF commandant was killed and nine other personnel were injured.

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Disqualify MLA-parliamentary 14 killed as MP bus plunges into a ditch Control infighting first, Shah tells Samajwadi Party secretaries in states: Sisodia to Prez

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14 (IaNS): Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday urged President Pranab Mukherjee to disqualify the MLAs in various states appointed as parliamentary secretaries and holding "office of profit". Sisodia led a delegation of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders including Gopal Rai and Ashutosh to Rashtrapati Bhavan on Friday evening.

He complained to the President about the "illegally appointed" parliamentary secretaries in some states, including Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.

After meeting the President, Sisodia told reporters that Chief Ministers in Haryana, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and Himachal Pradesh have administered oath to MLAs as chief parliamentary secretaries/ parliamentary secretaries and provided them "pecuniary benefits", which is in violation of the spirit of the Constitution.

He said that crores of rupees are being spent on these parliamentary secretaries, which is against the Constitution.

"These parliamentary secretaries are getting salaries, allotted VIP vehicles and other perks, for which

ministers in these states are entitled. These parliamentary secretaries are given the rank of Deputy Minister, which implies that these MLAs hold an office of profit," Sisodia argued.

"We have complained about these illegally-appointed parliamentary secretaries in these four states. We requested the President to immediately disqualify them," Sisodia told reporters.

He further clarified that the AAP government has not provided any kind of "pecuniary benefit" to the 21 MLAs who were appointed parliamentary secretaries in Delhi.

RaTLam, OCTOBER 14 (IaNS): At least 14 persons were killed and over a dozen others injured when a private bus carrying passengers fell into a water-filled ditch near here on Friday morning, the police said. The accident took place at 11 a.m. on Friday near Mewasa village when the bus was on its way to Jawra from Ratlam.

Ratlam Superintendent of Police Abhilash Sharma said that 16 passengers have been safely taken out of the bus, and relief and rescue operations are on. Many passengers are still said to be trapped inside the ill-fated bus lying submerged in water. "The injured are undergoing treatment at a Ratlam hospital," he said. Although the cause of the accident is yet to be established, Sharma said the driver apparently lost control over the bus due to speeding near the open-cast mine pit, which caused the accident. The survivors, however, maintain that the accident took place as one of the tyres of the bus burst.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condoled the loss of innocent lives in the accident. In a tweet, he said: "Extremely distressed by the loss of lives caused by the bus accident in Ratlam, MP. My thoughts are with the bereaved families." "I wish those injured in the bus accident in Ratlam a quick recovery," Modi wrote in his next tweet.

KaNpUR, OCTOBER 14 (IaNS): BJP President Amit Shah on Friday took a dig at the ruling Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh for the "deteriorating law and order" situation in the state, and said the party should first try to control the "infighting" within it.

Shah also attacked Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati for not doing anything good for the Dalits and the downtrodden."The government has failed to control law and order in the state. How will those who cannot control law and order in their own family control the state," Shah asked at a rally here.

Slamming Uttar

Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for the poor law and order situation, the Bharatiya Janata Party chief said: "UP is very big Akhilesh bhaiya (brother)... first of all, control your family... only then will a bit of peace return to the state."

The BJP President's remarks came amid souring relations between the Chief Minister and his uncle and senior Minister Shivpal Yadav. Attacking the BSP chief, the BJP President said, "Mayawati claims to get rid of the misgovernance under the SP regime, but will she and her brother reveal the actual property which they had after the death of Kanshi Ram ji and now?" "The day she reveals

her property details, Dalits of Uttar Pradesh will understand," the BJP leader added.

He accused the BSP and the SP of doing injustice to the Dalits and the poor.

Lashing out at Mayawati for supporting the Congress, Shah said, "Mayawati supported Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) for 10 years. And in return Congress kept on insulting Baba Bhim Rao Ambedkar." "It's BJP, which under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi preserved all the monuments and buildings related to Baba B.R. Ambedkar," he added. He also said that only the BJP can do good for the Dalits.

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orld leaders are gathering in Kigali, Rwanda to reach an agreement on the biggest single step they can take this year to reduce hydrofluorocarbons, the ultra-potent greenhouse gases common in airconditioners and refrigerators.

Hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, were once crucial replacements for ozone-depleting coolants, but these one-time environmental saviours have become the fastest-growing heat-trapping pollutants. Kilo for kilo, the global-warming effect of hydrofluorocarbons is thousands of times more devastating than carbon dioxide. Action on energy-efficient and climate-friendly cooling is critical given record-breaking heat waves around the world and skyrocketing demand for air conditioning in developing markets.

It is time to freeze the growth of HFCs and start replacing them with safer, climate-friendlier and energysmart alternatives. Many countries can make this happen, perhaps none more important than India. We need India's strong leadership again, just as it exhibited in the Paris Climate Agreement.

Phasing down super-pollutant HFCs would be the first and most consequential global action following the Paris Agreement, which will come into force next month now that a majority of countries, including India and the United States, have become parties.

It was no coincidence that India ratified the Paris accord on Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. For as Gandhiji himself once declared: "We have to hand over the earth, the air, the land and the water to the children at least as it was handed over to us."

Central to the Paris Agreement is keeping the rise in global temperatures

to below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, and if possible below 1.5 degrees. At issue in Kigali is an amendment to freeze and phase down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol, the treaty that healed the ozone layer.

An ambitious HFC phase-down agreement in Kigali could avoid adding another 0.5 degree of warming and make a big contribution to meet the Paris goals. This would be a huge victory against the warming of the planet.

Markets around the world, such as the European Union, Japan and United States, are moving beyond HFCs. In the US, the Environmental Protection Agency has set deadlines to ban certain uses of HFCs, from automobile and commercial building air-conditioning to retail and home refrigeration. Those actions would have the same anti-warming punch as pulling three million cars off the road.

In India, technological innovations are leading the way towards cleaner coolants. Natural refrigerants are being used as coolants in room air-conditioners. The gas is climate-friendly, energy-efficient and protects the ozone layer, and makes air-conditioning more affordable to operate. The Indian market has responded positively. This puts

the country at the leading edge of a transition that not only benefits the environment but is also good for business and consumers with India's overloaded energy grid.

All countries represented in Kigali say they support an HFC phasedown. As the week's negotiations began, however, there was still a yawning gap in the speed of action countries are backing. The US, the European Union, and more than 100 other developed and developing countries back a freeze on HFCs from 2021, with decline thereafter. India, the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, proposed a freeze beginning in 2031.

Differences are narrowing, but the outcome is still in doubt. Will we have an ambitious agreement that helps the world avoid climate catastrophe, or one that allows HFCs to dig our climate into an even deeper hole?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi can make India a leader in Kigali, just as it was in Paris. He can seize the moment by agreeing to freeze and start cutting HFCs in the early 2020s. Many countries are already moving in the right direction, movement that could be accelerated with a strong and quick-acting Montreal Protocol.

KIGaLI (RWaNDa), OCTOBER 14 (IaNS): The world is close to striking a deal to phase out super greenhouse gases used in refrigeration and air-conditioning, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Erik Solheim said on Friday.

"I am confident that we are very close to make amendments to the Montreal Protocol for a timely phase out of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and replacing them with climate-friendly alternatives," Solheim told reporters in the Rwandan capital where negotiations are on since October 10 to reach a global agreement on an ambitious amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase down HFCs globally. He admitted that there was difference of opinion among the signatories to the Montreal Protocol but it had been sorted out through negotiations.

Regarding India, he said it has shown flexibility for the phase out of HFCs. "The US, India and the European Union, please be flexible," urged Solheim, while talking to IANS. He also said that both India and Pakistan had shown willingness to move on the matter.

"This is the fastest action we can have to reduce biggest impact on climate change in a very short time," he said. "I am confident that there is sufficient leadership in this conference," said Solheim, adding "it's like a marathon, for a long time it seemed very difficult. Last few metres remain".

"Though difference of opinion exists, there is no difference in the end goal. We all agree the need to phase out HFCs. That signal is sent to the markets."

Solheim said all discussions on deadlines is well taken. "We need to compromise, flexible, but we maybe see change happening much more early."

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday reached Kigali to attend the meeting's last day on October 14.

In a major development to phase down HFCs, Indian Minister for Environment Anil Dave on Thursday announced measures to control the emissions of trifluoromethane (HFC-23), a super greenhouse gas.

Declaring that India has taken the lead on climate issues, Dave told IANS: "We are going ahead for releasing the order for incinerating the HFC-23, by-product of HCFC-22 gas."

Released as a by-product during the manufacturing of a commonly used refrigerant gas, chlorodifluoromethane (HCFC-22), HFC-23's global warming potential is 14,800 times more than that of CO2, making it an extremely potent greenhouse gas.

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 14 (IaNS): Delhi's Lt Governor Najeeb Jung was on Friday urged by the AAP government to axe a panel he set up to probe some of its decisions, but Jung summarily rejected the appeal. Calling the Committee headed by former Comptroller and Auditor General V.K. Shunglu "unconstitutional", Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said there was no provision in the Constitution for such a committee.

The Delhi Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, advised Jung to dissolve the three-member committee set up to review over 400 files of the Aam Aadmi Party government, Sisodia said. Jung set up the panel to study alleged irregularities of the AAP government following an August 4 Delhi High Court ruling giving primacy to the Lt Governor in Delhi's administration.

"The Cabinet noted that there is no provision in the Constitution, or in any statute or rule, whatsoever, which empowers setting up of an external committee to enquire into the ongoing projects of public welfare, question officers and threaten to recommend criminal and administrative action against them," said an official statement. Jung hit back, saying the Delhi cabinet's appeal was an attempt to divert attention from grave misdemeanours. "Some misdemeanours are of the

gravity that these matters are already in the process of being referred to the CBI for investigation," Jung's office said.

The Lt Governor's statement added: "It is evidently an attempt to mislead the public and take attention away from grave misdemeanours that are evident in some of the files.

"If everything, as claimed, is as per rules, then why is the elected government afraid of the truth coming out?" The committee will submit its report in the next six weeks. "The truth must come out and it must be put in public domain." Jung added that the Delhi government's work was not impacted by the probe. "Current files that involve immediate action are dealt with and sent back. The committee is examining only those files where illegalities have been committed. "The LG office has not issued any instructions to stop any work," it added. It said that officers called by the committee so far have only been called for clarifications.

"It is strange that ministers who have misbehaved consistently with officers for past 18 months should now attempt to hide behind the same officers," the statement from Jung said. The other members of the panel are former Chief Election Commissioner N. Gopalaswami and former Chief Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar.

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King Bhumibol takes final journey past subjects

BANGKOK, OctOBer 14 (reuters): A royal convoy on Friday carried the body of Thailand’s King Bhumibol past thousands of weeping Thais to his riverside Grand Palace in Bangkok ahead of a funeral and a traditional royal cremation that will need months to prepare.

The world’s longestreigning monarch, who was worshipped as a father figure during his 70-year reign, died in a Bangkok hospital on Thursday after a long illness. He was 88.

The convoy, which included heir apparent Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, moved slowly through Bangkok’s ancient quarter past mourners dressed in black, many of them holding aloft portraits of the king.

According to tradition, the bodies of Thai royals are placed in a golden urn. But palace officials said the tradition was no longer upheld and the king’s body would be placed in a coffin with a symbolic royal urn near it.

Later on Friday at the Grand Palace, Prince Vahold Thai baht notes as they wait on the roadside while the body of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej is moved from the Bangkok hosjiralongkorn will preside People pital where he died to the Grand Palace, in Bangkok, Thailand, October 14. (REUTERS) as Buddhist monks chant over the remains. extra troops deployed development projects and age of the king playing jazz Prayuth warned against of mourning for their king, around the country. leased out great swathes of on the saxophone has re- anyone taking advantage parties and celebrations DRESSED IN BLACK land in around Bangkok, placed regular transmis- of the situation to cause will be toned down, particThe king had been in ORDERLY SUCCESSION often at below market rates. sions on television chan- trouble. Politicians from all ularly over the next month, poor health the past sevThe stock market’s The monarchy is argu- nels since shortly after sides will be in mourning. temporarily crimping coneral years but his death still benchmark index closed ably one of Thailand’s most the king’s death was anPrayuth said on Thurs- sumer and tourist spendshocked the Southeast Asian on Friday 4.6 percent high- powerful institutions. Part nounced. day Prince Vajiralongkorn ing in an economy that has nation of 67 million people er on hopes of an orderly of that institution is the Until his later years, he wanted to grieve with the been struggling for traction and plunged it into grief. succession.

19-member Privy Council, was featured on television people and leave the formal in recent years.

Most people in the capiPrince Vajiralongkorn which advises the sovereign. almost every evening, of- succession until later, when With the government tal and in towns across the is expected to be the new ten trudging through rain, the parliament will invite asking for people to “recountry dressed in black but king but he does not enjoy ‘LOSING A FATHER’ map in hand and camera him to ascend the throne. frain from festivities” for shops opened for business. the same adoration his faSuthad Kongyeam, 53, around his neck, visiting a “Long live His Majesty 30 days, and embassies The king stepped in to ther earned over a lifetime among the many mourners rural development project. the new king,” Prayuth said. advising tourists to show calm crises on several oc- on the throne. at the Grand Palace waiting His wife, Queen Sirikit, Thailand’s strict lese- restraint after the death of casions during his reign The prince has married for the king’s remains to ar- 84, has also been in poor majeste laws have left little the king, even Bangkok’s and many Thais worry and divorced three times, rive, said it felt like losing a health in recent years room for public discussion bustling bars and the counabout a future without and has spent much of his father. about the succession. try’s famous holiday resorts him. The military, which life outside Thailand, often “He was the heart of SIMMERING POLITICAL The junta has promised could go unusually quiet. took power in a 2014 coup, in Germany. the whole country,” said RIVALRIES an election next year and Foreign embassies in has for decades invoked its King Bhumibol was Suthad. “Everything is Thailand has endured pushed through a constitu- Thailand advised tourists duty to defend the monar- sometimes called the shaken. There is nothing to bomb attacks and econom- tion to ensure its oversight to respect the feelings of the chy to justify its interven- world’s richest monarch hold on to anymore.” ic worries recently while ri- of civilian governments. It Thai people at their time of tion in politics. with a net worth of around Most Thais have known valry simmers between the looks firmly in control for a grief.

Military government $40 billion. But much of no other monarch and King military-led establishment royal transition.

Tropical Thailand, with leader Prime Minister Pra- the wealth was held by the Bhumibol’s picture is hung and populist political forcits beaches, Buddhist temyuth Chan-ocha said on Crown Property Bureau, in almost every house, es after a decade of turmoil TOURISTS ASKED TO ples and infamous night Thursday security was his which under the late king school and office. including two coups and RESPECT THAIS life, had expected a record top priority and he ordered invested mainly in royal Black-and-white foot- deadly protests.

As Thais begin a year 33 million tourists this year.

Sleep-deprived kids eat more NeW YOrK, OctOBer 14 (IANs): Young kids who miss daytime nap and also stay up late at night are likely to consume more calories, suggests new research.

These findings may shed light on how sleep loss can increase weight gain and why a number of studies show that preschoolers who do not get enough sleep are more likely to be obese as a child and later in life.

“To our knowledge, this is the first published study to experimentally measure the effects of sleep loss on food consumption in preschool children,” said study first author Elsa Mullins from University of Colorado Boulder in the US. “Our results are consistent with those from other studies of adults and adolescents, showing increased caloric intake on days that subjects were sleep deprived,” she said.

In this small study, preschoolers were deprived of roughly three hours of sleep on one day - they had no afternoon nap

and were kept up for about two hours past their normal bedtime - before being awakened at their regularly scheduled times the next morning.

During the day of lost sleep, the threeand four-year-olds consumed about 20 per cent more calories than usual, 25 per cent more sugar and 26 per cent more carbohydrates, lead study author Monique LeBourgeois, Assistant Professor at CU Boulder.

The following day, the kids were allowed to sleep as much as they needed.

On this “recovery day,” they returned to normal baseline levels of sugar and carbohydrate consumption, but still consumed 14 per cent more calories and 23 per cent more fat than normal.

“We found that sleep loss increased the dietary intake of preschoolers on both the day of and the day after restricted sleep,” LeBourgeois said.

The study was published in the Journal of Sleep Research.w

Universe has ten times more galaxies than previously thought

WAsHINGtON, OctOBer 14 (IANs): There are at least 10 times more galaxies in the observable universe than previously thought, said astronomers.

One of the most fundamental questions in astronomy is that of just how many galaxies the universe contains, and astronomers earlier estimated that the observable universe contained about 200 billion galaxies.

The new research - to be published in The Astrophysical Journal -- shows that this estimate is at least 10 times too low.

The researchers led by Christopher Conselice of University of Nottingham in Britain reached this conclusion using deep-space images from NASA’s Hubble space telescope and the already published data from other teams.

They converted the images into 3-D, in order to make accurate measurements of the number of galaxies at different epochs in the universe’s history.

In addition, they used new mathematical models, which allowed them to infer the existence of galaxies that the current generation of telescopes cannot observe.

This led to the surprising conclusion that in order for the numbers of galaxies we now see and their masses to add up, there must be a further 90 per cent of galaxies in the observable universe that are too faint and too far away to be seen with present-day telescopes.

These myriad small faint galaxies from the early universe merged over time into the larger galaxies we can now observe.

“It boggles the mind that over 90 per cent of the galaxies in the universe have yet to be studied. Who knows what interesting properties we will find when we discover these galaxies with future generations of telescopes? In the near future, the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to study these ultra-faint galaxies,” Conselice said.

“These results are powerful evidence that a significant galaxy evolution has taken place throughout the universe’s history, which dramatically reduced the number of galaxies through mergers between them - thus reducing their total number,” Conselice explained.

The decreasing number of galaxies as time progresses also contributes to the solution for Olbers’ paradox (first formulated in the early 1800s by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers): Why is the sky dark at night if the universe contains an infinity of stars?

The team came to the conclusion that indeed there actually is such an abundance of galaxies that, in principle, every patch in the sky contains part of a galaxy.

However, starlight from the galaxies is invisible to the human eye and most modern telescopes due to other known factors that reduce visible and ultraviolet light in the universe. Those factors are the reddening of light due to the expansion of space, the universe’s dynamic nature, and the absorption of light by intergalactic dust and gas. All combined, this keeps the night sky dark to our vision, the researchers said

King’s death adds to uncertainty about Obama’s faltering Asia pivot

WAsHINGtON, OctOBer 14 (reuters): The death of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej on Thursday adds a new layer of uncertainty to U.S. President Barack Obama’s faltering “pivot” to Asia less than a month before the Nov. 8 U.S. presidential elections.

The king was important in cementing the long-standing alliance between the United States and Thailand after World War Two, in a reign that spanned the Vietnam War and development of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which Washington still considers vital to maintaining its influence in the region.

King Bhumibol’s death coincides with faltering momentum in Obama’s signature policy of rebalancing the U.S. diplomatic and security focus to the Asia-Pacific region in the face of China’s rapid rise.

The main economic pillar of the rebalance, the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, is languishing in the U.S. Congress with no guarantee that Obama will be able to push it through before leaving the presidency to Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, both of whom say they oppose the deal.

Clinton, as secretary of state under fellow-Democrat Obama from 2009-13, was one of the architects of the policy but Republican Trump has questioned the extent to which he would maintain the U.S. security commitment to East Asia. Obama’s efforts to boost security ties with Southeast Asia have come in response to China’s pursuit of territorial claims in the South China Sea, a vital strategic waterway.

However, a torrent of anti-American rhetoric from new Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has cast doubt on the U.S. military relationship with Manila just months after Washington reached an agreement on rotating access to bases in the country. Other Southeast Asian countries, such as Indonesia and Malaysia, are focused on internal political issues and are avoiding playing any leadership role in ASEAN, while even traditionally reliable regional ally Australia is treading carefully to avoid jeopardizing its economic ties with Beijing.

Thailand was already occupying a back seat in regional affairs following a 2014 military coup seen as a means to maintain stability during the king’s long illness.

Thailand is expected to turn further inward during a prolonged mourning period and potentially politically fragile royal succession.

King Bhumibol’s son, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, who is expected to become Thailand’s new king, lacks the strong connection to the United States of his father, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Obama offered condolences to the Thai people and the King’s family, calling King Bhumibol “a tireless champion of his country’s development.” Obama’s former top Asia adviser, Evan Medeiros, now at the Eurasia Group, said the mourning process would likely slow a return to democratic government and Prince Vajiralongkorn was a source of “profound uncertainty.” “He’s such an unknown, unpredictable figure,” he said.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States and Thailand had been close friends for two centuries.

“Our friendship and our partnership have weathered many challenges … we expect it to continue to grow stronger,” Toner told a regular news briefing.

While the United States backed a return to democracy, Toner said it would be “premature... to lay our expectations for the near term” as Thailand mourned.

Japan’s little prince could be last emperor on unreformed Chrysanthemum Throne

tOKYO, OctOBer 14 (reuters): When Prince Hisahito was born in 2006, ending a 41-year drought in imperial male heirs, Japan’s government gladly dropped proposals that women might head the world’s oldest monarchy, but a decade later the little prince remains the last hope for an unreformed Chrysanthemum Throne.

The issue is back in focus after Emperor Akihito, 82, hinted two months ago at abdication, with only five heirs in the line of succession, including Hisahito, his sole grandson.

The four older heirs are Akihito’s centenarian uncle, an 80-year-old brother, and two middle-aged sons whose wives are in their early 50s.

In a rare televised address, Akihito said in August he worried age might make it hard to fulfil his duties. The remarks were interpreted as a desire to abdicate, a step unprecedented in modern Japan and not possible under current law.

The succession quandary has long weighed on Akihito’s mind, Japanese media and royal watchers say.

“As the head of the imperial family, the emperor has a great sense of crisis that the royals will disappear,” said a veteran Japanese journalist and longtime royal watcher, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the issue.

In a country where the population is rapidly aging and projected to shrink about 30 percent by 2060, the dwindling royal family exemplifies a much larger trend that is also hitting succession planning at Japanese family firms.

Japan’s Emperor Akihito waves to well-wishers who gathered at the Imperial Palace to mark his 82nd birthday in Tokyo, Japan. (REUTERS/File Photo)

Next week a panel appointed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will start considering the topic of abdication. Domestic media and academics say the government appears to be leaning towards one-off legislation that would let Akihito step down in favour of eldest son Crown Prince Naruhito, Hisahito’s uncle.

Hidehiko Kasahara, an expert in imperial law at Keio University, does not expect Abe’s panel to broach the topic of maleonly succession, which conservatives see as central to an imperial tradition stretching back 2,600 years.

“The government’s stance is to avoid tackling issues like female succession that divide the public,” he said.

Though surveys have shown a majority of Japa-

nese favour letting women take the throne and pass it on to their children, conservatives are key to Abe’s political support.

Historically, Japan’s imperial line was preserved by a combination of concubines and cadet royal families called “miyake”, who could supply a male heir in a pinch.

Very occasionally, female place-holders might rule until a male heir was found, but such empresses were either widows or unmarried and did not pass the throne to any children.

But times have changed; Emperor Meiji, who died in 1912, was the last to have concubines, and cadet families were stripped of royal status by the Allied Occupation after Japan’s World War Two defeat.

A 1947 law limits succession to male descendants of an emperor.

“MAJOR SURGERY” In 2005, as hopes faded that Naruhito or his younger brother Prince Akishino and their wives would produce a boy, then-prime minister Junichiro Koizumi prepared to challenge that tradition.

A panel of experts recommended the first-born child of an emperor or empress should succeed regardless of gender, and Koizumi promised to submit legislation.

Hisahito’s birth to Akishino and Princess Kiko torpedoed the plan, but the problem has just been kicked down the road.

With Hisahito’s two sisters in their twenties and Naruhito’s daughter and

only child Aiko turning 15 this year, the young prince may end up not only the last imperial heir but also the only member of the royal family, as its women become commoners upon marriage under current law.

“At some point, major surgery will be needed,” said Kanto Gakuin University professor Naotaka Kimizuka. “We have reached the point where this cannot be fixed with a band-aid.”

Conservatives favour restoring miyake families to royal status as a solution.

“We consider the tradition handed down by our ancestors to have great weight,” said Akira Momochi, a professor at Nihon University, referring to the male-only succession practice.

But restoring miyake could prove a hard sell for Abe, who has otherwise made a policy of promoting female participation in society. His No. 2 in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Toshihiro Nikai, has also suggested the imperial succession rules look dated.

“In an age of female empowerment, it is strange the emperor is an exception,” Nikai said in August.

Nikai’s counterpart in the main opposition Democratic Party, former prime minister Yoshihiko Noda, also told the Nikkei business daily recently that parliament should discuss the problem of the shrinking number of royals as well as abdication.

“Abe is a realist,” the veteran journalist said. “It is clear if nothing is done, the imperial family will die out, so it’s hard to think he will do nothing.”

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Central Nagaland Tribes Council clarifies Rongmei Issue

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he CNTC feels that it is indeed disappointing and disheartening to be writing on this issue yet again, but when facts become totally distorted, it is morally wrong, both socially and politically incorrect to remain silent as this may create more rooms for further misgivings or otherwise. The CNTC, therefore, feels that it is high time Nagas learn to differentiate and draw a clear line between facts and propagandas. The CNTC clarifies its stand that it is not against the Naga Unity or any endeavor towards the much needed and yearned peaceful solution on the Naga Cause yet it is an undeniable fact that every particular tribe resides in a particular geographical area as a tribe which are further divided into different territories such as districts, states or even sovereign nations. But this can never be summed up to justify any member or group of Naga tribes living outside Nagaland to claim to be an indigenous tribe of Nagaland state just because they happen to be a Naga.

The CNTC never objected the Rongmeis being accorded the Indigenous Inhabitants of Nagaland state to those qualifying the norms of the Govt. notification dated the 28th of April 1977, No.AR-8/876 .However, the CNTC also makes the stand of the three tribes of CNTC clear to whomever concerned, that the recognition of Rongmeis with a tribal status of Nagaland state will be opposed and objected together with all the other Naga tribes of Nagaland till it is revoked.

On the ongoing tussle involving the Rongmei recognition as an Indigenous Tribe of Nagaland, the CNTC takes this step in opposing the recognition of the mentioned tribe in the larger interest of the people of Nagaland and for the sake of our future generations. When the state government is not in a position and struggling hard to look after the welfare of the original indigenous tribes of Nagaland, what is their motive to include more tribes from Manipur state to create more socio-economic problems in our already beleaguered state of Nagaland? The move by the three apex hohos under the aegis of Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) on the de-recognition of the Rongmei in the state of Nagaland is a socioeconomic issue and not of political one and is never detrimental to the Naga unity whatsoever in any manner, and thus the stand of the CNTC on Rongmei issue should not be misconceived or misunderstood in any manner by anyone.

Though it is not due to hatred against the Rongmeis brothers, yet the CNTC opposes the recognition of the Rongmeis as one of the indigenous tribe of Nagaland state because the CNTC feels that every tribe are recognized within their own present respective states and should remain so.

On the various allegations leveled on the CNTC by the Naga Hoho, the CNTC wants to makes this clear for all and sundry. Terming that it was the Naga Hoho only who was the one playing the ‘hide-and-seek game’ by twisting the facts and the details. The Naga Hoho claiming that it still represents the Naga people when majority of the recognized tribes of Nagaland has all walked out sensing its one-sided, biased and partiality in all affairs within and without, is a story in itself.

When the Nagas of Nagaland have lost every bit of confidence in it and claiming it still represents the Nagas as a sad joke and a misnomer. It is no secret to anyone that The Naga Hoho clearly does not work for the concern of the people of Nagaland anymore and instead is more interested in the people of Manipur state which can be seen by any sane Nagas. But if the Naga Hoho still wants to absurdly claim that it represents the Naga people, it can take an open referendum to see if the people still have a faith and support for them. The Naga Hoho has become like a deadwood and except working tediously for some particular groups and section only.It has lost all its meaning and significance for which it was formed originally. The Naga Hoho must earnestly have a thorough soul searching why the ENPO walked out of it or the NTC emerged. If our other Naga brothers in Manipur state or elsewhere can form an organization why not we Nagas of Nagaland? If some group of tribes can come together for social cohesiveness or for solidarity, fraternity and unity, then why cannot the CNTC? On the Naga Hoho statement “Our valued federating units who are trying to

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et us candidly open the maiden statement of this discourse in a sincere honest note. In all fairness Nagas must unreservedly concede and applaud NSCN (IM) for being able to accomplish a herculean task of influencing the ever impervious GoI to officially acknowledge the "Unique History of the Nagas" that no other Factions have been able to achieve. The fundamental foundry of Naga future rests on this "unique history" and it is incumbent upon the Nagas to responsibly and collectively endeavour to induce GoI to act honourably in consonance with this "uniqueness" in real terms. The Naga people, with all the best of intention and goodwill would want to hope and believe that the "Framework Agreement" has been structured on fair application of mind based on this factor of uniqueness to establish their rightful place amongst the community of free Nations. This monumental achievement has however been deeply scarred by the lack of transparency that has unnecessarily generated a hyper toxic environment of unabated speculations and extreme suspicion.

The simple logical question that remains unanswered is: "If this framework agreement truly represents

tarnish the image of the Naga Hoho through undemocratic and unethical means shows only their lack of farsightedness” signifies the Naga Hoho undermining the wisdom and sanity of the Aos, Lothas and Sumis. It shows their blatant disregard and an insult on the intelligence and the judgment of the three apex bodies comprising the CNTC. The CNTC being now an apex body of the three tribes,viz. the Aos , Lothas and the Sumis have every right to direct its subordinate units.

When the CNTC deadline which expired on the 31st Aug.2016 was made known public in the local media and also an official copy of the ultimatum was handed over at the residence of the Naga Hoho president by a CNTC executive, denying it never received any official information is totally baseless and a lie. The Naga Hoho trying to salvage its image and calling a federal assembly on Sept.28th after a lapse of nearly one month when the deadline was already over was a total disregard to the sentiments of Nagas of Nagaland. Requesting its federating units, the Ao Senden and the Sumi Hoho to attend the assembly to discuss the Rongmei Issue was like bolting the stable doors only after all the horses has left. The fable of the snake biting the hand of the hands of a man who revived him while dying depicts the story of the Naga Hoho today. Naga Hoho is on the verge of disintegration due to its own folly and immaturity in mishandling the Rongmei issue in the first place. Even before the CNTC took up the Rongmei recognition issue some other tribal organisations of Nagaland such as the APO, CPO,ENPO ,ZPO and NTC were already against it. So how can the Naga Hoho say the CNTC is misleading the Nagas? This clearly shows that the Naga Hoho has been completely unaware of what was happening and sleeping while its own kitchen was burning.

The CNTC would like to refresh the mind of the Naga Hoho by stating the following facts and details on this issue.

1.Concurring with the stand of other Naga tribes of Nagaland, the Angami Public Organisation(APO) on July 3,2013 has urged upon the chief minister Nagaland to issue notification to derecognize the Rongmei community as a recognized indigenous inhabitant Naga tribe of Nagaland and also “to put an end to the move to recognize Mao Community as an Indigenous Inhabitant Tribe of Nagaland State for the sake of justice, Naga unity, integration and simultaneously to protect the welfare of the public of Nagaland.”

In a representation addressed to the chief minister, APO president Keneingunyü Sekhose, informed that in view of the apprehension felt on the issue, the APO at its April 29 executive meeting decided, that opening of the door for recognition of other Naga tribes from other states (or country) would lead to demand by other Naga tribes of similar background such as Maos, Poumais, Tangkhuls, Hemis etc.

APO said if recognition was accorded as an inhabitant tribe of Nagaland, there cannot be stopping of similar demands by Naga tribes outside Nagaland and denying such would “ amount to discrimination.”

APO also pointed to apprehension by Nagas of Nagaland, that they would be “overwhelmed and stampeded” if recognition was granted to others, as in the case with the Rongmeis in the last recruitment of Graduate Teachers of 2012 in Peren district.

Further, APO also cited the case of Withuiliu Newmai, of Tamenglong district of Manipur who obtained indigenous inhabitant Naga tribe/BT certificate of Zeliang tribe of Nagaland state, and was recommended by NPSC against Deputy SP post reserved for BT quota of Zeliang tribe of Nagaland.

APO said the issue of indigenous inhabitant certificates, BT certificates etc. has created a lot of animosity, hatred and ill feelings among the Nagas.

Stating that till date, all Nagas hailing from different states and regions enjoy equal social Naga tribal status without any discrimination or distinction within the state of Nagaland, APO said the question of modification of the notifications of April 28,1977 by granting status to other Naga tribe as indigenous inhabitant Naga tribal status of Nagaland state was matter

the interest of the Nagas what is the need to hide its contents"? The lack of response has caused the barometer on trust between NSCN (IM) and the people to take a sharp dip below zero as a consequence. This serious trust deficit is bolstered by the ruthless, autocratic nature of NSCN (IM), determined to unilaterally steer the course of Naga destiny towards an undisclosed future. Rather than generate an inclusive Naga tsunami against our adversary by taking all the fragmented factions and stakeholders on board an even playing field of shared respect, this unfortunate attitude of exclusive superiority complex on the part of NSCN (IM) is gravely vitiating the prospect of lasting peaceful solution.

This is a time for NSCN (IM) leadership to prayerfully grope into the depth of their hearts and minds and find that true Christian compassionate wisdom and bighearted understanding to uphold due respect for Naga History which cannot but recount that every household in Nagaland without exception has paid a very heavy price for freedom. No matter which faction they now belong to today, many have courageously joined the fray facing bullets in the front line while the remaining common majority have relentlessly shouldered equal

of great concern.

It viewed that an individual member of a particular tribe having immovable property or having resided in the state over a considerable length of time, did not qualify his tribe to be recognized as an indigenous inhabitant Naga tribe of Nagaland.

APO also reminded the disclosure made by Rongmei Council Nagaland while clarifying to the press statement of Western Sumi Hoho “that there is no Rongmeis land in Peren district till date.”

Furthermore, APO also highlighted the Gauhati High Court direction on November 22, 2012 which stated-as members of Rongmei Community did not appear in the Electoral Roll published on May 15, 1963 and also they did not fulfill the other conditions stipulated in the notification dated April 28, 1977 for issue of indigenous inhabitant certificate, indigenous inhabitant certificates are not to be issued to Rongme community.

In light of above submissions, APO has urged for creation of a strong mechanism to check and prevent misuse of indigenous inhabitant certificate while stating that it has created a lot of animosity, hatred and ill feelings among the Nagas.

2. Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organization (ENPO) has resolved to oppose the inclusion/ recognition of Mao and Rongmei tribes in Nagaland.In a statement, ENPO president Pongom Khiam said the decision was taken during the ENPO executive committee meeting held on May 4, 2013.

The meeting also resolved to seek appropriate clarifications from the state government with regard to the recognition of the two tribes in Nagaland.

Pongom Khiam said the meeting was attended by elected members from the ENPO jurisdictions (ENLU), ENPO officials, all frontal organizations (ENSF, ENGOA and ENWO), members of various committees and federating tribal units.

ENPO however said it supported the bills for integration of Naga inhabited areas which have also been passed by the state Assembly which incorporated integration of land along with the people.

The same were passed by both the Congress and DAN governments.

Subsequently close on the heels of the state government’s clarification over the issue of recognition of Rongmei tribe in response to the stand of the Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO) Feb.1 2014, the ENPO vice president Yonglong Konyak and joint secretary Manlang Phom expressed support to all Naga communities/brethren in terms of needs or difficulties regardless of where they are from or where they are domiciled. Putting the record straight, ENPO said it stood absolutely for all possible moral and practical support to Rongmei Naga brethren in difficulties and was willing to go to any extend to defend and uphold their rights for social, political and economic rights in this regard, the signatories said the Central Executive Committee (CEC) of ENPO had on May 4 2013, resolved to facilitate the difficulties and aspirations of fellow Rongmei Nagas in fully supporting them to avail the ‘Indigenous Certificate’ of Nagaland for all practical purposes. However, ENPO said the CEC “equally resolved to oppose and object the recognition of the Rongmei as a tribal status of Nagaland for all practical hurdles and difficulties”. ENPO also made it clear to Rongmei brethren that the eastern Nagas of Nagaland should “not be misunderstood or misconceived” in any manner. ENPO made the stand of the six tribes clear to the government of Nagaland and the department and to put on record, that while it supported the status of fellow Rongmeis in Nagaland whose ancestors were listed in the 1963 E-Roll for status as indigenous inhabitants of Nagaland to avail ‘indigenous certificates’ for practical purposes and privileges, it opposed any proposition to accord recognition of Rongmei Nagas as Scheduled Tribe in Nagaland, as per the May 4 resolution. ENPO said the resolution was adopted under the aegis of CEC and attended by officials of ENPO, members of CEC, federating tribal students, colleagues, president and colleagues of all frontal organisations such as ENSF, ENWO, steering committee members, advisors,

prominent leaders and senior members.

3. In a rejoinder to state home commissioner Temjen Toy’s statement on granting of indigenous tribe status to the Rongmei community in Nagaland, Zeliang People Organisation (ZPO) has stated that the cabinet decision on recognition of Rongmei community was “totally against the wills and welfare” of the Zeliang community.

In a statement, ZPO general secretary Kiesamyi Irangaung and joint secretary Itingau Haihing said many reminders had been submitted to the state government on the issue but the latter had turned down “genuine grievances” of Zeliang community.The organization alleged that the cabinet decision on the recognition was notified without “ascertaining” facts and without “verification and any valid reason” in 2012.

ZPO once again reminded that an emergency meeting held on August 23, 2012 hosted by Heningkunglwa Village Council had resolved to initiate appropriate steps to safeguard the rights/ privileges of the Zeliang people of Peren district in particular and Nagas in general. Stating that even the Gauhati High Court had issued an interim order to the state government, ZPO stated that the move to recognize Rongmei community in Peren district was “totally baseless” and contradicted the state of Nagaland.The organization recalled former chief Secretary L. Lungalang, who in his memorandum dated February 25, 1972 clearly stated that Naga tribes such as “Tangkhul, Mao, Zeliangrong etc. whose home are from place outside the present jurisdiction of the state of Nagaland cannot be treated as Indigenous to Nagaland.” ZPO said former joint secretary A. Shamungam in his notification cited criteria to determine indigenous inhabitants in April 1977 followed by other notifications issued by N.I. Jamir in August 1979, I. Longkumer in April 1983 etc.The organization also took exception to the home commissioner for ignoring and overruling court order passed by the Gauhati High Court after a case was filed by one T.A. Rongmei against the state of Nagaland dated July 10, 2003. ZPO also asked on what ground and basis the home commissioner stated that historical injustice to Rongmei has been rectified. It added that the state election secretariat had also given clarification that there was no particular Rongmei name found in the electoral roll of 1963 in Kohima and Peren districts and that there was “not even an inch of land” belonging to the Rongmei community in Nagaland.

ZPO pointed out the home commissioner Temjen Toy has however correctly pointed out Zeliang tribe was included leaving out Rongmei tribe as Zeliangs had their own ancestral land/ territory in Nagaland whereas Rongmei community members were “invited from Imphal valley during later part” on October 19, 1965 by the then Tribal Council Chairman Namgaheing Iheilung to “cultivate land” which was reclaimable as clearly stated in his appeal.

The organization also alleged that the enumeration report submitted by the committee was “fictitious and baseless” and reiterated that the names of those (223) Rongmei enlisted in the list submitted was not from Peren district prior to the electoral roll of 1963.Alleging that the move to recognize Rongmei was “purely political gimmick and divisive policy of some politicians”, Zeliang People Organisation said it was made to create “disharmony among peaceful citizens in the state and Peren in particular.

It has termed this policy of “dual identity” as discriminatory and was taking advantage of the “patience and meekness” of native Zeliang people of Peren district. ZPO reminded Temjen Toy to note the law of the land and “study the ground reality, fact and circumstances” before issuing clarifications and before becoming a “prey to a political trap.” Questioning the authority of the commissioner, Zeliang People Organisation said that if the government of Nagaland could accord sanction to Rongmei as an indigenous tribe of Nagaland, why not the same yardstick be followed for original Nagas living in Myanmar, Arunachal, Assam, Manipur so that equality and historical justice prevailed to the entire original Nagas.

Zeliang People Organisation added that this statement was issued based on fact and circum-

NAGAS DESERVE A BETTER FUTURE responsibility of mobilising and sustaining the lifeline of the Naga National Movement from behind the scene no matter how daunting the challenge. Both the frontline and the rear were indispensable equal partners in this desperate struggle for selfdetermination. Efforts of one without the other would have driven the wind out of the sails of freedom a long time ago. After weathering inhuman trials for so long, failing to respect the legitimate right of the stakeholders with such arrogant impunity is the ultimate definition of a humiliating insult being poured over the cross bearing majority.

The people of Nagaland being treated like a beast of burden only fit to bear the 'out of control' unregulated greed 'tax'/extortion but being marginalised as 'unfit' in the decision making process is absolutely unjustifiable and unacceptable.

These are critical times that demand harsh truth to be placed on the table and dealt with forthrightly without bias, fear or favour for the greater good of all. The truth is this: We are being faced with a very unfortunate circumstantial reality that the fate of the entire Naga race is singlehandedly being dictated by one solitary human

being in the person of Mr. Th. Muivah, the General Secretary, NSCN (IM). It is a universal knowledge that he is the undisputed dictator behind the facade of an impotent "Collective Leadership" within the NSCN (IM) set up. This already unhealthy imbalance in their system is further being reinforced by the utterly unscrupulous over-ground political leaders of Nagaland who have no vision beyond their immediate selfish political survival for power and money. Each of them has divorced reason as they flock faceless to Hebron to give their worthless mandate just so as to garner the support of NSCN (IM) in the coming election or fish for a future post of Kilonser in the event NSCN (IM) forms the next government by being in their good book.

They do so at the cost of abandoning the honourable path of ensuring common good for all...for all times to come. This miserable caravan is also joined by many Apex NGOs spearheaded by Naga Haha, who have long since sold their souls to the devil and are prepared to toe the line as dictated by the powers that be. The intellectuals along with the common masses have helplessly been silenced by the fear

factor induced by AK-47.

This has necessarily induced 'courage' to take a very long vacation abroad with no intention of coming home. The sense of pride in us as once 'honourable courageous people' is the first casualty causing us to now tamely accept our fate and the fate of our children to be decided by one single uncompromising dictator. With what face can Nagas of Nagaland complacently tolerate this insufferable affront lying down is anybody's guess?

The world has generally moved on from medieval era of 'might is right' to a more vibrant democratic civilisation that acknowledges the rights of individuals. Even China has abandoned Mao Zedong's Red Book philosophy and has since taken giant strides, rapidly becoming a world economic powerhouse because of their liberal open door policy. Without the expressed consent of the people, NSCN (IM) proposes to impose their out of tune communist ideology taken out from the 'red book' to compel the Nagas to stagnate in medieval times by expecting an unquestioning blind faith to this 'one man organisation' on an important subject of such magnitude as our future that hangs in a

balance. Claiming people's mandate on ground that the people pay sovereignty related tax to NSCN (IM) is the height of all moronic daydreaming detached from ground reality. People would pay tax even to a rat if that rat is pointing AK 47 at them... which NSCN (IM) and all the other Factions have been doing ruthlessly thus far. The only historical mandate ever endorsed by the people of Nagaland for freedom was the Plebiscite of 1951 (P-51) which has long since been buried because of factionalism. Obtaining socalled public endorsement and mandate through bogus pre-concluded consultations does not even convince an ant leave aside a thinking person.

Be it NSCN (IM), NNC or any other factions...none can command an honourable claim to P-51. The only way for the Nagas to exhume P-51 is to regroup as a united house that the bloated factional egos still won't allow.

The preferred road to unity is therefore to set aside this cancerous ego and take into serious cognizance that all factions have acquired dark spots of omissions and commissions without exceptions in this long road of self-determination, and also sen-

stances and to let every Naga intellectuals conscious of the pros and cons of Naga’s inherent rights and privileges per the given situation so as to respect the integrity of each and everyone besides giving peace a chance.

4. The CPO on Sept.28, 2016 maintained that any negotiated settlement that differed with this principle would render the outcome futile and so consent of all stakeholders must be taken for the talks to be inclusive so as that the outcome was honourable and acceptable to all people.

They also recalled that the state government notification on August 4,2012 was in pursuance of the cabinet decision on July 23,2012 to recognise Rongmei as one of the Naga tribes.

Chakhesang Public Organisation said such a status did not befit the community since they are already recognised as a tribe in Manipur besides not having any ancestral land in Nagaland.

They however said the CPO was not inimical to accord indigenous inhabitant to the Rongmeis in line with the notification dated April 28,1977 issued by the government of Nagaland.

They urged upon the government to review the anomalies and loopholes in the Act in the greater interest of all Nagas.

A Naga will remain Naga no matter even if he/she settles in Arunachal, Myanmar, Assam, Manipur or anywhere but giving the status of an indigenous tribe is altogether a different matter. When Nagaland today has reached a saturation point in the government employment and scarcity of land and its resources, we cannot remain mute when the status of indigenous inhabitant tribe of the state is given to anyone who demands it.

The guideline notification dated the 28th of April, 1977 No. AR-8/876 had clearly defined the status of the Indigenous Inhabitants of the State of Nagaland. The criteria for determining a person to have had a permanent settlement in the state of Nagaland prior to 1-12-1963, must be a person whose name or parents’ name or legitimate guardian’s name, in case the person was then a minor should have been enlisted in the Electoral Roll published on 5-12-1963; or a person or his/her parents or legitimate guardian should have acquired property and possessed patta prior to 1-12-1963.

The Committee headed by J. Alam, IAS Home Commissioner, Nagaland clearly stated in its report “Such a status while entitling them to avail all the benefits of reservation to pursue employment and education will not make them an indigenous Naga tribe of the State”. Members of Rongmei community who are qualified as per the criteria as laid down by a notification dated 28th of April, 1977 No. AR-8/876 is entitled to be an indigenous inhabitant of the state of Nagaland. Nonetheless, such entitlement will not make them indigenous Naga tribe of the state.

THE STATE CABINET BLATANTLY DISCARDED THE EXPERT COMMITTEE FINDINGS AND HAD TAKEN POLITICAL DECISION TO RECOGNIZE RONGMEI TRIBE AS INDIGENOUS INHABITANT TRIBE OF THE STATE OF NAGALAND ON THE 23/7/2012 AGAINST THE POPULAR WISHES AND INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE.MOREVER, OUT OF THE TWELVE CABINET MINISTERS FOUR OF THEM DID NOT APPENDED THEIR SIGNATURE FOR THE RONGMEI RECOGNITION. On the Naga Hoho claiming, their letter dated September 22, 2008 to the state government contained just the opinion and views of the Naga Hoho and not “endorsement” as alleged ,here the CNTC clarifies that the subject of the letter itself reads as “ GRANTING of status of Indigenous Naga Tribe to Rongmei Community settled in Nagaland.” As a matter of fact and to put the record straight the word “Granting” means yielding, surrendering, giving away, conceding or compromising and is much stronger than the word “ Endorse” which only means support or approval. The very subject of the letter states itself the Naga Hoho’s acknowledging the indigenous Naga tribe status for those Rongmeis of Nagaland on the letter itself. This is the root cause for this entire imbroglio which need to be corrected for once and all keeping the Nagas of Nagaland future intact and preserved.

sitively analysing the changing political realities around us. Mr. Th. Muivah should perhaps tone down his stubborn finger pointing hype on 'National principle' that his own organisation may also not strictly measure up to and find a common platform for all leaders of factions to at least brainstorm together and excavate the possibility of a neutral approach beyond the tireless laudable efforts of FNR if possible.

Considering the historic distance that has so far been covered, his continued leadership in an amalgamated inclusive platform ought to be a foregone conclusion that he ought not to doubt.

Heart to heart talk amongst the factional leaders with relaxed rigidity seems to be the missing link that should earnestly be given a rethink.

The problem is not only limited to NSCN (IM)'s unwillingness to talk to the other factional leaders but they also seems to be having a serious mind block of really communicating with the neutral intellectual class.

Any negative perception about NSCN (IM) will persist as long as they continue to trumpet their one-sided exclusive supremacy tune in isolation. While it is true that nothing tangible would result from an unregulated mass interaction, it would perhaps be desirable if NSCN (IM) set up some kind

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of a 'National Movement Forum for open discussion' where selective, reasonably smaller groups of wellmeaning intellectual critics gets a space to candidly raise issues of common concern and afford NSCN (IM) the opportunity to interact and also clarify wherever necessary. One believes that this healthy cross ventilation of ideas and inputs will be refreshing and beneficial for all concerned and bridge the gap of mutual distrust.

New directions that were otherwise missed out before could even result from such open-minded discourses for all we know. This necessarily means that the earlier 'consultation' format of onesided lecture followed by a pre-determined endorsement of resolution by 'yes men' in attendance should be abandoned. Fair minded Naga intellectuals being able to see through the fog would then become useful assets to act as a vital catalyst to generate healthy momentum for Naga unity. As the present eldest leading faction amongst the brothers, the onus rests with NSCN (IM) to actively explore every possible option for clarity of vision towards the path of least resistance within the Naga family... because Nagas deserve a better future.

Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd); Upper Forest Colony; Kohima; e-mail: kksema@gmail.com

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Ladies try on a variety of formal blouses from “Charis” boutique with their mekhalas

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he launch of a new boutique store in Dimapur caught our attention, only to discover the amazing spirit of entrepreneurial passion and vision of two young female entrepreneurs. A last minute decision to book tickets and travel to Aizawl was the result of a boutique store named “Charis” by Aten Imchen and Longtisenla Sayer.

Launched on September 26, “Charis” works with

designers from Aizawl in making quality and fashionable formal blouses for women. Noticing that there are so many boutique stores in town which sell apparels for young women, but very few for older women, they decided to seize this gap in the market! After much research, they also realized that there were many takers for blouses which were stitched and sold by local designers in Aizawl. Aten and Longtisenla remark,

“Mizos wear lovely blouses with their Mekhalas (traditional sarongs) to Church and formal occasions. So we decided to bring the same to our clients in Nagaland.”

The two young entrepreneurs admit that the response has been good so far. With plans to expand the store in Dimapur and even branch out to Kohima in the near future, they state, “So far, we are pleased with the response. We hope

Blouses stitched and sold by local designers in Aizawl, which are now available in “Charis”

that the trend continues so we can focus on giving better products and service to our customers.”

Charis owner, Aten Imchen started working at a very young age. She is the franchisee owner of Wonder Chef (Dimapur district) which she joined under the guidance and encouragement of her mother. A hard worker, she is admired for her work ethics and strong values. While, Longtisenla Sayer is a brave first time entrepreneur! In a town obsessed with government jobs, she quit hers to follow her zeal to do something different.

“Charis” they both exclaim and say, “Thinking of names for our store, we were both convinced that it had to contain the meaning grace in it. In our own

10:40 am | 08:00 pm personal lives, we have witnessed the grace of God so we really wanted to incorporate the word grace.”

They also believe that one has to be honest in life and always take the counsel of God because he has given a purpose to each and every one of us. To young aspiring entrepreneurs, they share, “There is no substitute to hard work! And whatever you do-do not procrastinate. Also, unless you are not going into loss, profit will come slowly so patience is required very much in entrepreneurship.”

“Charis” also stocks bridal wear for rent, accessories, evening dresses, trendy apparel, bags and shoes. The store is located at Purana Bazaar, opp Gold Coast, Dimapur.

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Harley-Davidsons roar into Nagaland Henry Threadgill wins

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or the biking aficionados in the state, say hello to Harley-Davidson!

Four Harley-Davidson bikes rumbled into Nagaland on Thursday and were on display today at the Niathu Resort, 7th Mile, Chumukedima. The bikes were also up for test rides with enthusiasts taking the opportunity to get a feel of the legendary roadsters.

The four bikes on display included the Street 750, Sportster 883, Dyna Fat Bob, and the Softail Fat Boy. Prices start from Rs. 4.8 lakhs (ex-showroom Guwahati). Also on display were Harley Davidson merchandises viz., helmets, jackets, t-shirts, trolleys etc.

The Harley-Davidson bikes have been brought to the state by Guwahatibased Brahmaputra Harley-Davidson in collaboration with Smart Auto, located at the CBZZ Building, 4th Mile, Dimapur. Smart Auto will act as an authorised sales agent for Brahmaputra Harley-Davidson in Nagaland. It will also cater as an agent for Harley-Davidson spare parts and accessories.

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Davidson stable designed to dominate the urban landscape. Built for quick moves and tight turns, the Street 750 features the all-new liquid-cooled Revolution X powertrain and upswept exhausts that belt out the iconic Harley rumble. Weighing 222 kgs, this bike is 2225 mm in length and has a ground clearance of 145 mm – the highest among HarleyDavidson bikes.

“Comfort, control and confidence is what oozes out of the rider when on a Harley-Davidson,” was how a bike enthusiast described of the test ride experience today. “Can’t tell how they’ll handle the roads here but for someone used to economy bikes, it without doubt felt different…the throttle, the rumble, the pickup, the brakes… felt strong… swaying easy on the bends, the rubber kissing the road like it was his bride.”

One of the best selling Harley-Davidson bikes, the Iron 883 is powered by a four stroke, air cooled, V-twin, 883cc engine which belts out an impressive peak torque output of 70 Nm. This engine comes coupled with a 5-speed gearbox.

The Fat Bob is a great way to turn heads while having a blast on two wheels. Weighing in at 325 kgs, this cruiser boasts a 1584 cc engine and comes with a 6-speed gearbox enabling one to get ripping down the road with ease.

The Fat Boy with the rear-wheel suspension hidden under the transmission is visually similar to the "hardtail" choppers popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Famous for having appeared in many Hollywood movies, this bike was also used by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator II and John Travolta in Wild Hogs. The Fat Boy weighs 341 kgs and is powered by a 1690cc engine that produces 132Nm of torque.

The Harley-Davidson bikes will be on display on Saturday again from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm before heading back to Guwahati. So don’t miss this golden opportunity. Test ride and book your Harley-Davidson today!

enry Threadgill has been awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for music this year at a ceremony in New York City last evening (Oct 13, 2016).

Threadgill has been known as “a composer and bandleader of intense, unyielding originality, and nobody’s idea of a compromise,” to quote the New York Times.

He is both a composer and multi-instrumentalist who studied composition at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. A highly respected artist, he is one of those rare composers whose work has been celebrated at a festival dedicated to his work while he is still living, at the twoday “Very Very Threadgill” festival in New York City in 2014 where well known musicians from all genres came together to play a retrospective of his work.

It comes as no surprise to many that he has been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for music this year. But in many ways, his award also comes as a breakthrough moment for an original and iconoclastic voice in music, one that has not followed the traditional path to be recognized with a Pulitzer.

Threadgill has had numerous commissions and awards throughout his career. He has composed music for theatre, orchestra, solo instruments, and chamber ensembles. With dozens of albums throughout his career that have won him accolades,

it was his album “In For a Penny, In For A Pound” released in 2015 that won him the Pulitzer. It is a work written in four main movements to be performed in a chamber space for tuba, cello, guitar, saxophone/flute and drums.

Threadgill has a strong connection to Nagaland, as he has been married to Senti Toy from Nagaland for the past twenty-five years.

Senti Toy, herself a singer songwriter started off her musical career in Mumbai as a recording artist whose voice was used for numerous advertisements for TV, radio and films. She went on to release her own album that was received with much critical international acclaim, one that was also picked as one of 2007’s top ten albums by the Wall Street Journal. So far that has been her only album. She went on to get her doctoral degree in Ethnomusicology.

Senti Toy lives with her husband in New York City.

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MOTU PATLU A charming house and its scenery at Dzüleke

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ur happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else” (Lawrence Block) No place has ever touched my soul as much as this quaint little village which is just two hour’s drive from Kohima. For quite some time, I had learnt about Dzüleke and its unique rural approach to eco tourism that made it one of my top places to visit. There are times when

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certain place or people simply get to you good. This experience was one of those times. The laid back environment and the picturesque nature made me and my friends squealed with delight like small children in a park, in our arrival. Maybe, after a grueling and dusty summer in Dimapur, this was the perfect getaway that we all needed to rejuvenate our minds and senses. Nestled among misty mountains, Dzüleke has only 33 households with around 100 inhabitants. It was fascinating for me to learn that there was no mobile connectiv-

One of the cosy Homestay at Dzüleke

ity at Dzüleke because this was a challenge for me to experience whether I can overcome my dependency on modern amenities.

I thought I was the only one who assumes this place to be extremely surreal. As one of my companion said “I could not believe that I am at a place like this.

I wish I could capture everything and what I feel with my camera.”

It is quite appropriate for me to mention that this is one place which naturally brings positivity to one’s state of mind, like it did to me. Standing in the middle of the village was like stand-

Paddy Field at Dzüleke

ing in the middle of happiness.

The morning I woke up at this beautiful ‘home-stay’ cottage run by a lovely female graduate named Kevi, I delightfully exclaimed to my roommate, at the serene silence except for the nature tune – birds chirping and the calm sound of the river flowing. Also, walking along the village road early in the morning was another enlightening experience. The almost empty street with wild flowers growing abundantly, the cool air, the mist erupting from the forest mountains with low murmurs

Picnic Spot at Dzüleke

from few houses and a 80’s hit song playing softly at a house along the slope brings out the charm of this appealing hamlet.

As a foodie, the sumptuous local meals prepared by the villagers are to die for – the organic fresh vegetables, fresh crab chutney and the local chicken curry with their own grown rice. Regrettably, the mountain trout which I was really looking forward to enjoy could not be fulfilled as the fishing season was over.

Though I did not experience the few activities available, Dzüleke is also an ideal destina-

tion for trekkers with three types of basic trekking trails which are operated by trained village guides. Additionally, there are also two picnic spots with clear Fresh River and the beautiful landscape as its background.

My initial intend for this trip was to experience camping with tents which are available at the village. But, the last of the monsoon rain could not make it possible. Hence, I look forward for my next trip to Dzüleke which will be exclusively for camping above the river by the misty mountains.

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MDFA Trophy 2016: Fusion, Telongjem advance to quarters

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defending champions and the first half of the match was equally contested, if not, the Arikodong slightly edging Fusion FC in terms of performance. Arikodong missed some golden opportunities in the first half, and the same was so for Fusion FC in what was one of the most exciting first half matches of the tournament.

The second half saw a rejuvenated Fusion FC,

counter-attacking to book its berth in the quarterfinals. But the Arikodong defense was well prepared for the onslaught and the Arikodong goal-keeper in particular made some crucial saves. The last twenty minutes of the game witnessed some vigorous attack from Fusion FC; there were serious breaches in the Arikodong defense lines, and some spectacu-

lar saves by the Arikodong FC. But with the match ending in a goalless draw at the end of stipulated time, the match headed to a tiebreaker.

In the penalty shootout, Fusion FC goalkeeper Limatoshi emerged a hero as he deflected a shot from Arikidong’s player to help the team win 4-3.

The second and last match of the pre-quarter

match (round of sixteen) between Telongjem FC and Grasshoppers ended 3-0 in favour of the former. The match was totally dominated by Telongjem FC and in what was more or less a one-sided match. The Grasshoppers played defensively while Telongjem FC, the dark horse of the trophy, decimating the Grasshoppers 3-0.

Telongjem FC scored the first goal through Ghunaka (Jersey No 15) who scored the goal in the 30th minute. Barely ten minutes later, Ghunaka breached the weak defense lines of the Grasshoppers again double the lead in the 39th minute.

The second half witnessed the same dominant display from Telongjem FC and a subdued Grasshoppers making no serious attempts on goal.

Telongjem’s defender Kitho Kiho (Jersey No 18) scored the third goal to complete the rout.

Saturday, October 15 will witness the first quarterfinal of the tournament between OCYU Vs Sports Society Suyim (SSS).

ICC, BCCI to discuss usage of DRS during England series: Report london, october 14 (IanS): International Cricket Council (ICC) General Manager Geoff Allardice will reportedly travel to India to persuade the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to adopt the controversial Decision Review System (DRS) in the upcoming five-match Test series against England which starts on November 9.

Tiemakhe, Nagaland Police (Red) enter quarters

October 15 QuARtERFINALs

A defender of Grasshoppers (white jersey) tacking the ball from a Telongjem FC midfielder (red jersey) in the pre-quarter match at the ongoing MDFA Trophy 2016 at Imkongmeren Sports Complex on Friday, October 14. (Photo/MDFA 2016 Trophy publicity)

Mokokchung, october 14 (Mexn): Defending champions Fusion FC struggled with first time entrant Arikodong Club in the last leg of the pre-quarterfinal matches of the ongoing MDFA Trophy 2016 at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex here today. Fusion FC won the match through a tie-breaker 4-3.

Arikodong Club proved a tough contender for the

17th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy

According to a report

by English newspaper The Daily Mail, Allardice will travel to India this week along with a representative from ball-tracking technology company Hawk-Eye to discuss the usage of DRS during the Test series between India and England.

India have refused to use the DRS in a bilateral series since a trip to Sri Lanka in 2008, when they were

unconvinced by the quality of Hawk-Eye's ball-tracking device.

The usage of DRS still remains debatable in India with limited overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni sceptical of its accuracy while Test skipper Virat Kohli and head coach Anil Kumble have been more open to discussions.

Kohli had hinted in a recent interview that the

Indian team may use the technology in future.

"We will certainly look to probably introduce it (the DRS) in the future.

These are things we have had meetings on. Because there were some areas that we felt can be debated. Especially balltracking and Hawk Eye," he had said.

"But, all in all...I personally feel these things can be

discussed and debated on," the Delhi batsman added.

It will be interesting to see if the ICC representative can convince the BCCI top brass to use the controversial system for the series against England.

The English team, currently in Bangladesh for a two-Test series, will start their India tour with the first Test from November 9 at Rajkot.

A match between Tiemakhe and Tragopan Club in progress on Friday. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent

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Tiemakhe will now face tempts.

In the first match of the Barak FC in the Quarters on Bendang Meren and day, Tiemakhe, Kidima October 18.

Saku Temjen, both from overpowered Tragopan In the second match, Nagaland Police were cauClub Viswema 3-0.

Nagaland Police (Red) tioned with yellow cards for Tiemakhe opened the drubbed the spirited Kuki unsporting behaviour. scoring early on with Shi- United 3-0.

Nagaland Police (Red) irhosiil Pucho finding the N a g a l a n d P o l i c e will next take on Asiifii back of the net in the 14th (Red) took an early lead Christian Institute in the minute. Zadutol Phinyo with Kekhrie scoring in quarters on October 17.

3rd WYSU Sports cum Literary Week held dIMapur, october 14 (Mexn): The 3rd Western Yimchungru Students Union (WYSU) Sports cum Literary Week came to an end on October 12 at Loyir village. The sports & literary week witnessed active participation from all federating units under Western Yimchungru, a press release informed.

Er. Toba Angami, Executive Engineer, Municipal Affairs Department, Kohima, Nagaland was the Chief Guest during the closing program.

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Mourinho wants end to Manchester United-Liverpool taunts MancheSter, october 14 (aFp): Jose Mourinho has pleaded with Liverpool and Manchester United supporters not to become embroiled in a vile war of words making a mockery of the respective tragedies involving both clubs.

The two north-west rivals meet at Liverpool's Anfield ground on Monday, the first meeting between the teams since Mourinho took over as United manager in pre-season.

Both clubs have already issued a statement imploring their own supporters to refrain from tasteless chants that make reference to the Hillsborough disaster that left 96 people dead during Liverpool's 1989 FA Cup semi-final against Not-

tingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's ground or the Munich air crash that killed 23 people as United flew back from a European Cup tie in 1958.

Mourinho echoed the call for supporters not to overstep the bounds of common decency during an eloquent news conference on Friday.

"In football we have some football tragedies, if you can speak of them like that, which is the big match we lost, some mistake a player did and you can make fun of that in some way," said Mourinho.

"But the human tragedy is something much more serious, and I think is the last thing somebody should use in a football pitch, be-

cause they were really big tragedies.

"So I would be really sad if in such a big football match that was a negative point," he explained.

The Portuguese boss had a tempestuous relationship with Liverpool in his time as Chelsea manager, taking part in a number of high-profile, often controversial, matches with the Merseyside club.

And while the United manager pointed out that his current side's trip to Liverpool will not decide either club's fate this season, he did not under-estimate the intensity of the rivalry.

"I have to feel it, to play it, and then take my conclusions, but I have been in England for a long time,"

said Mourinho.

"Obviously I have never played this match, but I played many times against Liverpool, many times against Manchester United, I understand the dimension of the clubs and now I understand better the dimensions of two big historical rivals.

"But the season for me is not about the Anfield match and Old Trafford match (against Liverpool) in January, I think, the season is about many matches, many points to win, many points to lose and targets to achieve."

Mourinho added: "I look forward to it, yes, I always like to play at Anfield.

I won many times there, I also lost, I won big matches,

and Kevisekho Thokhwe(17) then scored a goal apiece in the 55th and 67th minute respectively.

Tali Akum of Tragopan Club and Anoto Kweho of Tiemakhe were cautioned with yellow cards.

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State football, taekwondo teams feted Classic Cup from Nov 10 kohIMa, october 14 (Mexn): The 22nd Classic Cup 2016 football tournament will be held from November 10 to 30 at Khuochiezie (Kohima Local Ground). A press release from the Classic

Club stating this has informed interested teams to get the entry form from M/s Sports World, old taxi stand or at M/s Vaude Ville, Mohankhola (Dzüvürü), Kohima from October 18 onwards.

Jadonang Memorial from Oct 27

kohIMa, october 14 (Mexn): A felicitation programme for Taekwondo Boys team and Under 17 Girls Football team was held at Multi Purpose hall A, I.G. Stadium, Kohima on October 14 in the presence of the Director YR&S, Asangla Imti and senior officials of YR&S Department, a

press release informed.

During the 62nd National School Games held at Telangana, the Nagaland Taekwondo team participated in the Under 14 and Under 17 Boys categories and secured the team champion in the Under 17 Boys category for the first time. The

state Taekwondo Team bagged 9 medals during the championship.

The Department of YR&S also felicitated the Under 17 girls football team for securing the Runner-up during the Subroto International Football Tournament held at Delhi.

Asangla Imti congratu-

lated the players and urged them to keep improving.

She promised that the Department will give full cooperation and support in the days to come. She also encouraged the players to maintain discipline, dedication and determination throughout their career as sportsperson.

IMphal, october 14 (Mexn): The Xth Jadonang Memorial Football Tournament 2016 has been preponed to October 27.

A decision in this regard was taken during a meeting of the organisers, the Zeliangrong Football Association (ZFA) on October 8 at its Head Office in Kakhulong, Imphal, a press release informed.

The tournament was previously scheduled to kick off on November 1.

Altogether, 30 Zeliangrong teams/clubs from

different parts of Manipur and Nagaland will participate in this year’s tournament.

For smooth and successful conduct of the tournament, all the participating team/club are informed to attend the Managers’ Meeting by sending at least two representatives each on Sunday, October 16 at 11:30 am at ZFA Head Office, Kakhulong, Imphal.

The team/club group lots and fixture shall be drawn on the day of the meeting, the release informed.

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