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State level review deliberates to make agriculture a means of economic goals, alleviation of poverty and self-reliance Morung Express news Kohima | October 19

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ENCSU begins 3rd phase agitation tUENSANG, OctObEr 19 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland College Students Union’s (ENCSU) third phase agitation began today at around 6:00am in Tuensang. The first day of the agitation curtailed the movement of government vehicles, informed the ENCSU in a press note, while maintaining that the agitation was “successful and peaceful.” It informed that the agitation was supported by the federating units of the ENSF and volunteered by the Confederation of Chang Students’ Union, Chang Students’ Union Tuensang Town, Khiamniungan Students’ Union and United Sangtam Students’ Conference in Tuensang. Demanding accountability in the government’s policy on the education system, the volunteers closed down all government offices. The ENCSU reported that one government vehicle was confiscated by the union. The agitation is set to proceed as intended till the demands of the union are met.

Total bandh in Mkg from Nov 1 Morung Express news Mokokchung | October 19

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Commercial vehicles owners in Mokokchung have called a ‘total bandh’ in Mokokchung from November 1 onwards for an indefinite period to protest against the apathy of the Nagaland state government in repairing the Mokokchung-Mariani Road (NH 702D). This was endorsed at a meeting here this evening held under the aegis of the Mokokchung District Truck Owners Association (MDTOA).

The meeting was attended by representatives of the All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA) Mokokchung Unit, the Mokokchung District Pick Up Truck Owners Association and the Mokokchung District Bus Owners Association, all of whom endorsed the decision to impose the bandh.

The MDTOA had on October 17 at its emergency general meeting resolved to impose the bandh. The bandh proposes to impose “total restriction of all vehicular movements” in Mokokchung from November 1 onward if the government does not respond positively.

A mother and daughter returning from the paddy fields in Khonoma. Photo by Imti Longchar

ment System in the foodgrain production program. The need to sensitize production patterns to changing conditions of demands with careful production plan on marketing aspects was also pointed out.

The issues and challenges to address in agriculture productivity and sustainability were pointed out by the Parliamentary Secretary, such as land fragmentation and landholding system, which threatens the sustainability, low farm power availability, low farm mechanization, lack of good governance and insurgency problems etc.

To address the challenges, rain fed agriculture, high value crops, develop location specific farming system models and sustainability for long terms gains need to be promoted.

“The monsoon and the market are two major determinants of a framer’s wellbeing and efficient insurance mechanism for

small farmers against the failure of their crops due to drought, excessive rains or floods, pest incidence is required,” he stated.

Dr Aier also urged the need to focus on social and gender equity, which he maintained needs considerable attention, since “the average size of farm holding is decreasing and feminization of agriculture is increasing due to the fact that men folk are engaged in many other activities.”

Strengthening of Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee (APMC), encouraging educated youth to practice farming, and recognizing the interactions and climate change in agriculture as a key part of sustainable development and achieving food security were also cited.

In conclusion, Dr. Aier urged for a holistic approach to agricultural developments in order to resolve problems in the state for better development and selfsufficiency in the near future.

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Nagaland deficit in foodgrain & pulses

The Department of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland began its State level review of activities in Kohima today. The inaugural function was graced by Dr. N Benjongliba Aier, Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture as the chief guest.

Outlining the significance of the review meeting in terms of framing strategy and reviewing of the program implemented by the Department, Dr. N. Benjongliba stated that the deliberation on the current status in sustainable development of agriculture will lead to improved farm income, along with a vision to achieve food security.

“Agriculture has to be seen as means of employment-led economic goals, alleviation of poverty and self reliance through its linkages and multiplier effect, which has opened a new opportunity and challenge of stiffer competitions,” said Dr. Aier.

Despite its noteworthy performances in the productions of foodgrains in the recent years, Nagaland continues to be deficit in foodgrain production and major commodities like rice and pulses are still imported from other states. In order to have impressive growth rate in foodgrain production, Dr. Aier maintained that there should be improvement in productivity rather than increase in the area with a special focus on practice of the Integrated Nutrient and Pest Manage-

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In his keynote address, T. Imkonglemba Ao, IAS, Commissioner and Secretary and APC informed the gathering on the need to increase Nagaland’s GDP in the agricultural sector. Nagaland’s GDP growth rate under Agri and allied sector stands at 29 per cent which is very less when compared to other states or countries, where agriculture is the dominant sector. Increasing the GDP can be achieved with the integration of rain fed farming and permanent cultivation, enhancing the income of the farmer and introduction of new crops.

Further stressing on the need to sustain farming, Ao stated, “Farmers are never dreaming to becoming rich but farmer’s mentality is: Can I sustain with my production this year for the next harvest?” Therefore Ao suggested value addition to enhance the farmer’s their cash revenue, in addition to marketing business.

India and Myanmar decide to coordinate on border security

NEw DElhI, OctObEr 19 (IANS): India and Myanmar on Wednesday agreed to coordinate with each other on border security as Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirmed New Delhi’s commitment to help develop Myanmar.

“As close and friendly neighbours, the security interests of India and Myanmar are closely aligned,” Modi said in the presence of Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi after delegation-level talks between the two sides.

“We have agreed that a close coordination to ensure security in the areas along our border, and sensitivity to each other’s strategic interests, will serve the interests of both our countries,” Modi said.

India shares a 1,600-km border with Myanmar. Security has been an issue with insurgent groups from the northeast taking refuge in Myanmar territory.

Stating that India had a robust development cooperation programme with Myanmar, Modi mentioned the Kaladan multi-modal transport project linking Sittwe port in Myanmar with Mizoram and the trilateral highway connecting India, Myanmar and Thailand among others.

“From the mega connectivity projects like Kaladan and trilateral highway, to projects in the fields of human resource development, healthcare, training and capacity building, we are sharing our resources and expertise with Myanmar. India’s nearly $1.75 billion of development assistance is centered on people and is in line with the priorities of Myanmar government and its people.”

The Prime Minister said that in Wednesday’s talks, both sides

agreed to enhance engagement in several areas including agriculture, power, renewable energy and power sector.

India and Myanmar signed three MoUs following the talks - one on cooperation in power sector, another on banking supervision and a third on designing an academic and professional building programme for the insurance industry of Myanmar.

“India will develop a varietal development and seed production centre in Yezin in Myanmar to enhance the quality of seeds,” Modi said.

Modi said India had offered to scale up power supply from Moreh in Manipur to Tamu in Myanmar and also partner in a pilot LED electrification project at a site designated by Myanmar.

“The MoU on ... power sector ... will help create the framework for advancing our linkages in this important sector,” he said.

According to the Prime Minister, the Archaeological Survey of India will soon begin work on restoring two old temples and inscriptions of King Mindon and King Baygyidaw at Bodh Gaya in Bihar.

Commending Suu Kyi for her leadership and commitment to take Myanmar forward, he said: “As a reliable partner and friend, India stands shoulder to shoulder with you.”

On her part, Suu Kyi said Myanmar wanted to work with India not just for friendship “but for peace and stability in the region and beyond”. She said Myanmar wanted a rule of just laws “and for this we look forward to the experiences of the Lok Sabha and other legislative bodies. “We believe India with its experience can help us in our endeavours.”

Anti-dengue control ANDMSA issues ultimatum to Nagaland State govt measures for Dimapur

DIMAPUr, OctObEr 19 (MExN): With reports of dengue cases emerging from Dimapur town because of the increasing densities of mosquitoes breeding places in many localities, the Urban Vector Borne Disease Control Scheme (UVBDCS) Dimapur have suggested anti-dengue control measures.

Assistant Director, UVBDCS, Kikolul Khieya in a press release has requested the public and colo-

ny councils to observe a dry day social work once in a week by draining all the water containers in order to control the densities of mosquitoes, which it stated, would bring down the cases of dengue.

It also said the departmental staff has been giving its best efforts in controlling the vectors with all the integrated vector controls measures like seeding of larvivorous fish, larvicidical operation and fogging of technical malathion.

ANGPTA urges DoSE to release pending salaries of SSA and Hindi teachers DIMAPUr, OctObEr 19 (MExN): Pitching in support, the All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA) on Wednesday appealed the Nagaland Government to release the pending salaries and arrears to the SSA and the aggrieved Hindi teachers at the earliest.

“The SSA and the aggrieved Hindi teachers have been deprived of their salaries for the past six months causing them mental agony, financial constraints and adversity so much so that they are neck deep in debt. The said teachers have been discharging their duties diligently and with dedication even in this situation but as we all know, it is humanly impossible to work and perform in an empty stomach. Moreover, our salary is the only source and means of sustenance for the whole family irrespective of numbers of members in the family,” ANGPTA in an appeal addressed to the Additional Director (HoD), School Education stated.

The Association also lamented that all the woes and pleas of the aggrieved teachers have often been left unattended or ignored

for too long - far beyond the point of toleration, forcing them to resort to agitation time-and-again.

It maintained that this desperate measure by these teachers in the form of agitations puts the whole department, which is considered as the department of “the noblest profession”, in a very bad light before the whole world.

Above all, the Association pointed out, “The department should also realize that this kind of failure on its part to bring about a permanent solution of paying timely salary to all the teachers appointed under different centrally sponsored schemes after so many years of facing the same issue is adversely affecting in the delivery of quality education in the state.”

It said this non-release of salary is the reason for the de-motivating factor to work without pay for months and months altogether.

The Association has therefore appealed the Department of School Education to release their pending salaries and arrears at the earliest to avoid further escalation of the already adversely affected school situations.

DIMAPUr, OctObEr 19 (MExN): The All Nagaland District Ministerial Service Association (ANDMSA) today served an ultimatum to the Government of Nagaland calling for a “clearcut policy” on the expiry of the reminder on the 3 charters of demands of the association.

A press note from the ANDMSA informed that the demands include amalgamation of Directorate Cadre and the

District Ministerial Cadre into Common Ministerial Cadre; creation of HA/Sr. HA in all the independent DDOs of Districts and SDHA/Accountant in the Sub-Divisions; and re-designation & elevation of DHA & Sr. HA Post to that of District Superintendent Class-I Gazette and SDHA/Accountant to that of Asst. Superintendent Class-II. The association further strongly demanded for amalga-

mationinto CommonMinisterial Cadre as the recruitment policy and criteria of both the cadre are same.Itobservedthatmanyindependent DDOs of District departments are functioning without Sr.HA/HA and SDHA/Accountant in the Sub-Divisions.

The ANDMSA further questioned as to why the District Ministerial Service retires from Grade-III comparing with the directorate counterpart who

retires from Class-I (A) Gazette when the recruitment policy and criteria of the entry point is same.

The association, while reiterating its earlier demands, urged the government to come up with a clear-cut policy intoto within 30 days from the date of receipt of the letter submitted. It cautioned that failure to address their demands would compel the association to take its own course of action.

Heart attack, lung disease, stroke: India’s top 3 killers

NEw DElhI, OctObEr 19 (tNN): Heart attacks, lung obstruction and strokes are the three top causes of death in India, accounting for over one-third of deaths. Along with diabetes and chronic kidney diseases, they make five non-communicable diseases that are part of the top ten causes of death.

Communicable diseases in the top 10 include lower respiratory tract diseases like bronchitis and pneumonia, diarrhea, TB and diseases occurring to prematurely born babies. Road injuries are the tenth most prevalent cause of death.

Together, these 10 make up 60% of the 10.3 million deaths in India every year.

The even mix of communicable diseases and non-communicable ones caused by organs failing due to age or lifestyle choices puts India in the middle of a disease transition seen across the world.

These results are from the Global Burden of Diseases 2015, an estimation of 249 causes of death in 195 countries by an international team of researchers led by the Seattlebased Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation, and published recently in Lancet.

Source: TNN

“With improvement in treatment by antibiotics and better understanding, deaths by infectious diseases have declined while sedentary lives, longer life spans and other lifestyle habits have pushed up the proportion of non-communicable diseases in India,” said Dr Amit Sengupta, an expert affiliated to the Peoples’ Health Movement.

The persistence of three eminently treatable infectious diseases and the lack of care in eliminating preterm baby deaths points to the still lagging healthcare system, as also lack

of safe drinking water and sanitation,” he added.

India’s position in the middle of the transition from a poor, healthcare-deficient country to an advanced country is brought out starkly when compared with examples from such countries. In Niger, one of the poorest countries in the world, with a per capita gross domestic product less than one-fifth of India’s, eight of the top ten causes of death are communicable diseases. At the other extreme, Norway, with per capita gross domestic product over ten times that of India, has just

one communicable disease — lower respiratory tract infections — among its top ten, with the other nine being non-communicable diseases.

China, which started off from conditions similar to India, has moved much further towards the advanced end of the transition. It too has only one infectious diseases among its top ten causes of death.

Both India and China have road injuries as one of the major causes of death due to large populations and a rapidly growing number of vehicles on the roads. The large number of types of vehicles (from cycles and bullock carts to fast moving cars) also contributes to high number of road injuries.

A striking feature of India’s death-causing diseases profile is that all the non-communicable diseases are increasing while all the infectious diseases are declining compared with a decade ago. Diabetes as a cause of death has grown at a chilling 35% between 2005 and 2015, chronic kidney disease by 21% and heart attacks by 17% even as communicable disease deaths have dropped by 20 to 30% while preterm baby deaths dropped by 40%.

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CECS launches textbook for non-formal edu

Dimapur, OctOber 19 (mexN): With the aim to ensure equal opportunity of access to education and establishment of strategies that are compatible with reality and enhance experiential learning activities that foster the development of skills and knowledge, Community Educational Centre Society has launched ‘A Comprehensive Textbook for NonFormal Education.’

CECS Director Subonenba Longkumer in a press release stated that the textbooks are divided into two categories for lower class and higher class respectively according to the age.

The textbooks are a compilation of the subjects Eng-

CECS Director Subonenba Longkumer (left) and Tozung, Coordinator launches ‘A Comprehensive Textbook for NonFormal Education.’

lish, Mathematics and Science.

The Community Educational Centre Society

(CECS) founded in 2005 is an organization working to bring lasting positive changes with its vision of

complete transformation of lives and the Community as a whole in all aspects.

CECS has been implementing non-formal education since 2008 with the aim to identify vulnerable and marginalized children involved in child labour and the risks involved of being street children and enroll these children for non-formal education and mainstreaming them into formal schools. CECS believes that every child has the right to education and a safe and happy childhood with access to Protection, Education, Nutrition and Health Care and to actively participate in their development and to take charge of their lives.

Training on office procedures and service matters

pereN, OctOber 19 (Dipr): A two day intensive training programme on office procedures and service matters was successfully conducted by Renchamo Lotha, Retd Addl Secretary in Peren district on October 18 and 19.

The training was organised by the District Administration with support from all Government Departments under Peren district, as decided by DPDB Peren.

The training was conducted under the personal guidance and supervision of DC Peren, Zarenthung Ezung who envisages improving the effectiveness of Government offices in Peren district through capacity building of office staff.

In the inaugural ad-

Renchamo Lotha, Retd Addl Secretary and Shivam Verma IAS SDO (Civil) Peren along with the trainees during the training on office procedures and service matters held at Peren. (DIPR Photo)

dress, Shivam Verma IAS SDO (Civil) Peren, who is also the programme coordinator, emphasized on the importance of having sound knowledge of Office Procedures and Service Matters. He said that these

rules are quintessential for government servants not only in their day to day working but also in their individual service matters.

The resource person delivered a comprehensive training and covered

a variety of topics like – filling system, service book, basic fundamentals on FR & SR, RTI, GPF etc. After every session the trainees interacted with the resource person and cleared their doubts.

‘Essence of education is not mere collection of facts’ SD Jain Higher Secondary School celebrates 69th annual day Morung Express News Dimapur | October 19

Nagaland Home Minister, Y Patton, today said the concept of education is that it should help in formation of character, expansion of the intellect and development of a positive view of life.

“The very essence of education is the concentration of mind and not mere collection of facts, As Swami Vivekananda said, ‘Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man’...It is the man-making character which is the basic object of all education,” the minister said.

Patton was speaking as chief guest at the 69th annual day celebration of SD Jain Higher Secondary School, the oldest private school in Dimapur district established in 1947.

Stating that education is not just the amount of information that is put into a child’s brain undigested, unrelated, and unassimilated, Patton said a model school be a mirror of the child’s personality wherein education should constitute the inner beauty. The minister noted that SD Jain HSS is one of the most popular institutions in Di-

Home Minister, Y Patton, felicitating class toppers at the 69th annual day celebration of SD Jain Higher Secondary School held on October 19. (Morung Photo)

mapur, which gives more emphasis in imparting extra-curricular activities, skill development, character, discipline formation and all round development of the student’s personality.

“It is commendable that the school has so far produced 82 State rank holders including 6 times State toppers in HSLC examinations and 4 times State toppers in the Higher Secondary School Leaving Examinations”, Patton said.

He said it is learnt that the school is equipped with modern facilities backed by dedicated teaching faculties to impart not only quality education but also understand the need for effective skills development, discipline, character build-

ing and also teaches the students to co-habit with one another in society as one.

Advising the students to be focused in their approach to strive for excellence, the Home minister also exhorted the students that in the present highly competitive world where mediocrity has no place, “there is no substitute to hard work and no short cut to success.”

He further advised the students to uphold the integrity and good image of the school through their hard work and performance.

On the occasion, the minister also gave away awards to meritorious students of the school. He also announced incentives for

the HSLC and HSSLC toppers.

Meanwhile, on reported encroachment on the new site for SD Jain School

by Indian security forces, the minister assured to take the matter at the government level.

Earlier, SD Jain HSS principal, Reji Abraham, delivered the school report and secretary, school managing committee, Ajay Sethi, and president, Jain Samaj, Omprakash Sethi, also spoke on the occasion.

The Home minister was accompanied by advisor, DUDA, Thongwang Konyak; parliamentary secretary for Fisheries, Shetoyi, and chairman, DAN and NBRM, Dr. Longriniken.

Opus 2016 Dimapur forest div goes digital to promote ecotourism Spiritual awakening crusade at Meluri Magnum on Oct 24 and 25 Dimapur, OctOber 19 (mexN): The Act of Kindness in collaboration with North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) is organizing Magnum Opus 2016 on October 24 and 25 at the Stone Garden, NEZCC. It is an event to ‘encourage’ the entire local artiste wherein, demonstrations and workshops covering all types of art will be conducted.

Some of the highlights of the event will include poetry writing contest, fine arts/ photography/ craft exhibition and sale, basic photography by photography club, Dimapur, dance session, Cosplay Show, Art Demonstration (Bring your materials), Bamboo Craft Demonstration etc.

Another major event will be Live Performance Contest (Only Original) with audio/video recording contract and Governor Sponsor for Maharashtra Tour.

There will be also live concert and gala dinner buffet with live music, which is a ticketed event.

Section of the gathering attending the spiritual awakening crusade and missions seminar at Meluri Town.

meluri, OctOber 19 (mexN): The Nagaland Missions Movement (NMM), Missions Department of Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) in coordination with the Meluri Town Baptist Churches Fellowship conducted a three day spiritual awakening crusade and missions seminar at Meluri Town from October 14 to 16 with Rev. Dr. Kethozelhou Keyho,

General Secretary, NBCC and Rev. Andrew Semp, Director, NMM as the speakers.

Rev. Dr. Kethozelhou Keyho spokes on the topic ‘Are you prepared?’ and ‘Abundant Life.’ He encouraged the congregation to be prepared for the Lord. He also shared that there is fullness of life in Christ and He alone is our present and future. Rev. Andrew Semp challenged

the gathering to seek God with a broken spirit in urgency and in holiness.

Greetings were conveyed by Rümatho Nyusou, Executive Secretary, Pochury Baptist Church Council. Special songs were presented by different churches in Meluri.

NMM office in a press release stated that thousands of people were blessed through this programme.

Dimapur, OctOber 19 (mexN): Dimapur forest division launched its website (www. dimapurforest.in) and facebook page (www.facebook.com/dimapurforest) to promote ecotourism on Amur falcon bird watching.

While stating that ecotourism presence in Nagaland is very minimal compared to its potential while ecotourism can bring more jobs to the locals, the division in a press release said, in order to overcome this drawback, Dimapur forest division has started promotion of ecotourism through an innovative digital campaign through their Project 3D (Digitizing Dimapur division) which was initiated recently by Rajkumar M, IFS under the guidance of Ihevi Aomi, IFS. Under Project 3D, Dimapur division has signed MoU with

various Universities and software start-ups who help the division in getting their digital needs done. It provides chance for young software professionals to work for the government as well.

This website is launched part of the Project 3D which developed by students of SJIT, an engineering college from Chennai.

Speaking on the occasion, Rajkumar, IFS said that the only hurdle stopping promotion of ecotourism in Nagaland is the lack of information to the tourists. Digital promotion will be the long term solution for this. He is also happy that more youngsters are joining this initiative voluntarily from various parts of the country and expecting a ‘paper free’ government office within a decade.

DFO Dimapur Ihevi Aomi,

IFS who launched the website in his speech invited bird watchers around the world to witness this Great migration event in Dimapur. He also mentioned about the Dimapur’s potential of developing into a ecotourism hub because of its excellent connectivity with nearby cities.

Finally, he congratulated project 3D team which comprised of Rajkumar, IFS, Vivika Sema, Forest Ranger and other officers and staffs of Dimapur who worked hard for this initiative.

“With the Amur falcons already started arriving in various parts of Nagaland. We can hope that this promotion campaign will help promote ecotourism in this part of country and create more livelihood options for the villagers,” added the division press release.

‘Energy Efficient Nagaland’ launch on Oct 21

KOhima, OctOber 19 (Dipr): The launching ceremony of ‘Energy Efficient Nagaland’ under Ujala Scheme will be held on October 21 at the conference hall, Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Kohima. Minister for Forest, Environment & Climate change, Dr. Neikesalie Nicky Kire will grace the occasion as the chief guest.

The chairperson will be ADC Kohima, Lithrongla Tongpi who will also deliver the welcome address while keynote address will be delivered

by DC Kohima Rovilatuo Mor, IAS. A brief report on the District initiative towards “Energy Efficient Kohima” will be given by Assistant Commissioner, Reny Wilfred, IAS (P) and

technical demonstration and speech will be given

by EESL representatives.

The inaugural switching on of LED bulb and fan will be inaugurated by the chief guest and vote of thanks will be proposed by SDO (C) Sadar, Kohima, Kethosituo Sekhose.

In this connection, the Deputy Commissioner Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor

IAS has invited all the DPDB members, Kohima town ward representatives, Kohima Village Council and all the applicants of LED to attend the launching ceremony.

Ward representative and khel representatives of Kohima village have been asked to bring their requirements and all the applicants of LED.

NEISSR with NTCP initiates ‘Smoke free Dimapur Campaign’

Dimapur, OctOber 19 (mexN): NEISSR in collaboration with National Tobacco Control Programme (NTCP) launched Smoke Free Dimapur Campaign at NEISSR on October 19. Dr C Tetseo, DNO NTCP Dimapur oriented the students on the importance of creating awareness about the ill effects of tobacco consumption. He expressed apprehension that an epidemic is looming large over Nagaland because of the high consumption rate of tobacco.

“The Smoke Free Dimapur Campaign is not a campaign to ban smoking and use of tobacoo products in Dimapur per se. But it is an initiative to create awareness among the smokers and the non smokers, the ill effects of first hand smoke and second hand smoke by requesting smokers not to smoke in public areas. Incidentally, Nagaland ranks second in the incidence of non smok-

Volunteers for Smoke Free Dimapur taking the oath during the launching of the campaign held on October 19.

ers being exposed to second hand smoke (SHS). As future social worker, the trainees have an added responsibility towards spreading awareness on the impacts of tobacco consumption and the health issues associated with it,” he said.

While highlighting the provisions under the Cigarettes and other Tobacco Product Act (COTPA 2003), he also expressed his gratitude to the management

of NEISSR for declaring the institute as a tobacco free campus. He exuded confidence that students from other colleges in and around Dimapur will follow the footstep of NEISSR and volunteer in making Dimapur a Smoke Free Zone.

Welcoming the officials of NTCP, Dr. C.P. Anto, Principal, NEISSR expressed the continued cooperation and collaboration of the institute in making Dimapur, a smoke

free zone. He also expressed his gratitude to the officials of the NTCP for coming forward with the proposal to collaborate in the noble initiative of Smoke Free Dimapur Campaign.

A press release from the NEISSR stated that altogether 25 MSW trainees from NEISSR opted as volunteers in creating awareness about smoking in public places and curbing the effects of tobacco.

Consultation on ‘Christian response to corruption in public life’

Dimapur, OctOber 19 (mexN): The Dimapur Christian Forum (DCF) is organizing a consultation on the theme ‘Christian response to corruption in public life’ on October 22 at Lotha Assembly of God Church, Sewak Road, Dimapur from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon.

DCF Joint Secretary Rev. Yecto Chophy in a press release has said that the goal of the consultation is "to make the church leaders aware of the importance of combating corruption at all levels and develop a realistic action plan to combat corruption."

Niketu Iralu and Rev. Dr. Z. Rev Dr Zelhou Keyho, General Secretary NBCC will be the resource persons.

There will be a panel discussion to understand the deeper issues involved in dealing with corruption in public life, which includes the Church.

The panelists are Baptist Churches-Pastor Yanbemo Lotha; Theological College-Rev. Dr. Wati Aier; Christian Revival ChurchRev. Dr. Shiwoto Assumi; Assemblies of God ChurchRev. Dr. Thungdemo Ngullie; and Catholic ChurchRev. Dr. Solomon Vizo.

DCF has extended invitation to the fulltime church workers, leaders of the church, etc from churches to participate in the programme.

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Framework Agreement is preamble to final solution: TR

Senapati, october 19 (Mexn): Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today stated that the Framework Agreement between the Government of India and the NSCN (IM) is a preamble to the final Naga political solution.

The Chief Minister was speaking at a gathering of Southern Naga villagers on the occasion of the 1st Conference of Naga Village Authority of South Nagalim at the Local Ground of Tagaramphung in Senapati (Tahamzam), a press release from the Media Cell, Chief Minister’s Office, Nagaland stated.

Though the contents of the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement have not been made known officially, the Interlocutor RN Ravi had explained in detail about the same to various tribal organisations, and opined that it was the preamble, containing directions and guidelines as to how the final solution should be worked out, Zeliang stated.

“As per my understanding, it is basically like a preamble only, containing the intention and commitment of both the parties to the talk to settle the Naga political issue amicably, without the use of force or violence, on the basis of shared sovereignty, and understanding of each other's situations and viewpoints, including the recognition of the unique history and situation of the Nagas,” he viewed.

“The details of the final agreement are to be finalised later, after having wide ranging consultations with the stake-holders,” he said and stressed that the Naga political problem should not be allowed to linger on indefinitely. Considering the “positive approach” of the Central Government under the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, this is the opportune time to bring the Naga peace talk to its logical conclusion, Zeliang reasoned.

Nagaland police officer among Indian delegation going to UK

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To train using IT in addressing human trafficking in NE Shillong, oc tober 19 (Mexn): A police officer from Nagaland is among a 13-member high level Indian delegation which will be in the UK from October 23-29 to attend a programme on ‘capacity building of high level officials from law enforcement, lawyers and media in using Information Technology platform in addressing human trafficking in North-East India’.

S Kakheto, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police, Nagaland (law enforcement) will be participating in the British High Commission-supported initiative being organised by Impulse NGO Network, a 23-year-old organisation working to combat human trafficking in North East India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal. It aims to facilitate transfer of knowledge and skills to help develop appropriate strategies.

A press release from Hasina Kharbhih, Chair of Board, Impulse NGO Network informed that the delegates will meet a cross section of government agencies, NGOs, UK businesses, policy experts and an IT agency to understand support systems at legislative level, fair trade practices and help build capacity on the ground.

The delegation comprises law enforcement officials, lawyers and media persons.

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iMphal, october 19 (nnn): Nagaland Chief Minister's Manipur visit to attend a conference has been termed as an attempt to "fuel hatred" among communities of the state. The "First Conference of the Naga Village Authorities of South Nagalim" was organised by United Naga Council (UNC) at Yaikhongpao village of Kangpokpi subdivision under Senapati district.

"The Nagaland CM's visit was aimed at twisting the Manipur territorial integrity out of shape," United Committee Manipur (UCM) president Johnson Elangbam told media at its office here today.

He further expressed dismay over the Ibobi Singh headed Congress government for allowing the meeting with the main agenda, the Framework Agreement, which he dubbed as "a grave threat to the boundary of Manipur."

The UCM president Elanbam also accused the UNC of taking up activities to "disrupt the Manipur territorial integrity at the behest" of NSCN (IM).

He said the ceasefire signed between the Centre and NSCN (IM) is within the bounds of Nagaland state but a number of camps belonging to the outfit have been found running in Manipur.

"This activity is well known to the state government's machineries and security forces," he insisted. Elangbam condemned the Ibobi government for allegedly keeping tight-lipped about the issue for a long time.

AMUCO president Ph Deban also told media that the primary objective of TR Zeliang's Manipur visit on Wednesday was to lay a ground to strike a deal with the chiefs of Naga villages in Manipur to claim and take away the mineral resources of the state. He claimed that the NSCN (IM), the Government of India and some major companies are working together to find practical ways to extract Manipur's resources under a secret deal.

Warning against any move to disturb the integrity of the hills and plain, Deban maintained that such move would never be tolerated.

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Regd. No 553/2016 I, Miss. Libo Lotha, daughter of Mr. T. Abel Lotha, permanent resident of Pyangsa Village, District- Wokha and presently residing at Merhulietsa Colony, District-Kohima, Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and state as follows; 1. That I am a bonafide citizen of India. 2. That my official name is Libo Lotha. 3. That however in some of my official documents, my name has been recorded as Libo Achumi. 4.

That the names Libo Lotha and Libo Achumi refer to the same and one person. 5. That henceforth for all official records, my name shall be referred to and recorded a Libo Lotha.

Deponent Solemnly declared before me by the deponent Notary Public, Nagaland

Regd.No: 278/16 Date: 18/10/16 1. I, P. Rajesh Kannan solemnly affirm and state on oath that my name is P. Rajesh Kannan, son of V. Perumal, resident of Vill. & P.O – Aniyur, Dist.- Madurai (Tamil Nadu) and presently residing at Unit- 5003 ASC Bn (MT), Rangapahar Military Cantonment, Dimapur(Nagaland).

2. I, solemnly affirmed and stated on oath that my name was wrongly recorded as P. Rajes Kannan in my service record.

3. I, solemnly affirmed and stated on oath that my real name recorded in my Aadhar Card bearing No. 6749 8472 2910 and other documents is P. Rajesh Kannan is true and correct.

4. Henceforth, my real name P. Rajesh Kannan shall be used by me in all the correspondence in lieu of P. Rajes Kannan.

5. That the contents of this affidavit is true to the best of my knowledge and belief, nothing false has been concealed therein.

Deponent Approved before me and signed.

Magistrate, Dimapur:Nagaland

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Name of Unit & Address M/s Kashini Handloom Unit, Dimapur M/s. Artistic Craft, Dimapur M/s. Viholi Jimo Handloom Unit, Dimapur M/s. V. K. Lohe & Sons, Dimapur M/s. Hovili Chishi Handloom Unit, Dimapur M/s. Hukali Chophy Handloom Unit, Dimapur M/s. Visheli Jimomi Handloom Unit, Dimapur M/s. Dolie Krotho, Dimapur M/S Songmao Naga Traditional & Handicraft, Dmp M/S Classic Wood Craft & Furniture, Dimapur M/S Khrielasanuo, Dimapur M/S Aienla Awomi Handloom Unit, Dimapur M/S Kirap MPSC Ltd., Dimapur M/S Pongener Craft, Dimapur M/S Lem Decorative Handicraft, Dimapur M/S Ronglong Hand Painting, Dimapur M/S Chuba Wooden Craft, Dimapur M/S Nagato Wooden Craft, Dimapur M/S Local Decorative, Dimapur M/S Nagaroots, Dimapur M/S Techinutsu, Dimapur M/S Trio MPCS Ltd., Dimapur M/S Heritage Publishing House, Dimapur M/S Emergence NSSWB, Dimapur M/S Tarensen Self Help Group, Dimapur M/S Onia Handloom Weaving Tailoring Unit, Dmp M/s. Alon MPCS, Dimapur M/s. Tinu Jamir Naga Indigenous, Dimapur M/s. Asune Pochury Dry Flowers Unit, Dimapur M/s. Nobi Talie Dry Flowers Unit, Dimapur M/S Pristine Processed Food, Dimapur M/S Putsui Khiamniungan, Dimapur M/s. C. Khrongben Pochury, Dimapur M/S Ceramic Unit, Dimapur M/S Tepenjem MPCS Ltd., Dimapur M/S Runway Nagaland, Dimapur M/S Nokden MPCS Ltd., Dimapur M/s.Charity Society, Kohima M/S Chietsu (Pekruzetuonuo), Kohima M/S BE. (Dr. Ayu John Pusa), Kohima M/s. Khriezobeinuo Nihu Kera, Kohima Megokedo, Kohima M/S Craft & More, Kohima M/S UNIQRAFT IIDC Kiruphema

Eden Medical Centre Dimapur will be organizing the 11th Annual Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India, North East Zonal Chapter on the 21st & 22nd of October 2016. Doctors from Nagaland who want to participate may REGISTER FOR FREE on the 21st October 2016 between 9:00 – 9:30 AM at the conference venue (Eden Medical Centre Conference Hall). Registration fees will be Rs. 2000/- for doctors from outside Nagaland and can be paid in cash on the first day of the conference. Non-medical professionals may also attend this conference for which no registration fees will be charged. 4 CME CREDIT HOURS have been awarded by Nagaland Medical Council for this conference.

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The Radiation Oncology OPD will remain closed on the 21st and 22nd of October 2016 on account of the Annual Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India NE Zonal Chapter.

However patients undergoing Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy will continue with their treatment.

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Dated, Kohima the 18th Oct'2016

The following under mentioned Societies/Individuals/Departments are hereby allotted stalls at Bamboo Pavilion, Naga Heritage Village, Kohima for Exhibition cum sale of Local Indigenous produce during the Hornbill Festival from 1st to 10th December 2016. All the selected entrepreneurs will strictly follow to display Indigenous Products only.

The selected Societies/Individuals/Departments are directed to pay the rent fee from 24th Oct. 2016 to 10th Nov. 2016 at Room No.: 73-A, Directorate of Industries & Commerce, Kohima. Allotment will be cancelled for those who fail to pay the rent fee within the stipulated time.

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I, Mr. Y Zuben Ezung, have lost a dark grey trolley on 8/10/16 between Dimapur to Wokha. The trolley contains original academic and personal stuff. Finder may kindly contact 7085686992/ 8974076885.

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“Let us not leave this problem behind, and bequeath it to the future Naga generations. Let us be positive in our approach, and let us have faith in the wisdom and good intentions of our leaders, who are negotiating the final agreement,” the Chief Minister urged.

Emphasising on the need for the Nagas to remain united wherever they may be, Zeliang said if the Nagas are united, and stand firm to protect our land and our way of life, “no Governmental authority, or any other community will be able to divide us, to dominate us, and take away our land and our birth right.”

With Manipur assembly polls nearing, Zeliang sought to campaign for the Naga People’s Front, stating that the party stands not only for the cause and the unity of the Nagas, but also “for the cause and the unity of the tribals of the North East.”

“Let the Nagas unite under the banner of the NPF, and also make understandings with other tribal bodies, so that together, we can defeat the anti-tribal forces, and the anti-tribal measures, including the recently passed anti-tribal legislations in Manipur,” Zeliang said drawing happy cheers and applause from the crowd.

Further seeking to allay fears in the valley, Zeliang maintained that “the Naga political and peace dialogues will not infringe on political rights of the Meiteis.”

He further informed that his Government is “persistently asking the NSCN (K) to have peace talks with the Government of India and to have Ceasefire with the Government of Myanmar so that permanent peace can be ushered in for the people of Myanmar.”

The Chief Minister was accompanied by his Cabinet colleagues Ministers Tokheho Yepthomi and Yitachu and Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) KG Kenye.

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M/S Theja Creation, Kohima M/S K.D Products, Kohima M/S Woodland Craft Unit, Kohima M/s UROK, Kohima North East Network, Kohima M/S Handloom Centre, Kohima M/S Kenny Society, Kohima M/S Handloom Centre, Kohima M/s Kelhouzienguu, Kohima M/s. Theja Sekhose, Kohima P. Nginjai Konyak Handloom & Handicraft Mon M/S Noklen Woodcraft Unit, Mon M/S Manli Handloom, Mon North East Network, Phek Suthai, Phek M/S Asenla Handloom Unit, Mkg M/S Hope SHG, Mokokchung M/S Decorative Items, Wokha Grace Ovung, Wokha M/S Sea Shell Craft, Wokha North East Rural Livelihood Project, Peren M/S Creative Hills Craft Society, Jalukie M/s. Alongdi Women Society, Tuensang M/s Swu Traditional Jewelleries, Pughoboto OUTsIDE NAGALAND Milijuli S.H.G, Jorhat, Assam Padmanath Ayurved Aushadhalay Rajamaidum New, Jorhat, Assam N. K. Enterprise Product, Jorhat, Assam Richana Khunanthem, Imphal T. Tuisem, Ukhruk, Manipur M/S M. D. Botique, Mizoram M/S Magic Thread Enterprise, Mizoram M/S Black Stone Pottery, Imphal, Manipur Machihan Saga, Ukhrul, Manipur Y. Ibempishak Devi, Imphal, Manipur Th. Sunibala Devi, Imphal, Manipur DEPARTMENTs TRIFED Ltd., Guwahati Department of Tourism, Kohima Department of Posts: India, Kohima Nagaland State Social Welfare Board (Financed by NMDFC), Kohima Department of Art & Culture Nagaland Khadi & Village Industries Board (NKVIB), Nagaland, Kohima Office of the Registrar of Co-operative Societies, Nagaland, Kohima.

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(I.Bendangliba) Director of Industries & Commerce Issued by: DIPR

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Vihuli S. Zhimo President Western Sumi Totimi Hoho

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Contestants may also use this newspaper advertisement as an alternative form and submit it to any of the organizing committee members or type it in the same format and mail it to misssumi016@gmail.com The last date for submission of forms either in hard copy or in email has been extended to October 25, 2016. Miss Sumi 2016 will be held on November 8, 2016 at NER Agri Expo Site, 4th Mile, Dimapur at 4 pm.

For more information, interested contestants may contact; 9436063317 and 9856281887.

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GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF INDUSTRIES & COMMERCE

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Dated Kohima, the th Oct. 2016

The following under mentioned Societies/Individuals are hereby allotted stalls at Nagaland Pavilion, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi during the India International Trade Fair from 14th to 27th November 2016. All the selected entrepreneurs will strictly follow to display Indigenous Products only.

The selected Societies/Individuals are directed to report to the Directorate of Industries & Commerce (Room No-73), Kohima along with 2(two) passport size photo of the participants from 24th Oct. 2016 to 5th Nov. 2016 without fail.

Sl. No Name of the Unit & Address No. of Stalls allotted 1 M/s Manli Handloom & Traditional Jewelleries Unit, Mon 1 2 M/s K.Kemp, Dimapur 1 3 M/s Zekheyie Weavers Co-operative Society Ltd.,Dimapur 1 4 M/s Rema, Kiphire 1 5 M/s Lila Weaving Society, Dimapur 1 6 M/s Benny Lorin, Kohima 1 7 M/s Yhunyele Tep, Tseminyu 1 8 M/s Pithungo Lotha, Dimapur 1 9 M/s Grace, Dimapur 1 10 M/s Achano, Dimapur 1 11 M/s Anakali, Dimapur 1 12 M/s Achung, Dimapur 1 13 M/s Zele Chaya Weaving Industrial Centre, Kohima 1 14 M/s Sano Chaya Society, Kohima 1 15 M/s Naga Roots, Dimapur 1 16 M/s Aomulong SHG, Mokokchung 1 17 M/s Moasangba Aier, Dimapur 1 18 M/s Asenla Longchar, Dimapur 1 19 M/s Techinutsu, Dimapur 1 20 M/s Neihulu Yoho, New Delhi 1 21 M/s Arenla Jamir, New Delhi 1 22 M/s Handicraft Unit, Dimapur 1 23 M/s Neihunuo Sorhie, Kohima 1 24 M/s Theja Sekhose, Kohima 1 25 M/s Gugu Kuotsu, Kohima 1 26 M/s Runway Nagaland, Dimapur 1 27 M/s Naga Crafts, Dimapur 1 Total 27 (I.Bendangliba) Director of Industries & Commerce Issued by:DIPR

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NIT to Gangtok concludes RTI week observed in Wokha

DIMaPur, october 19 (Mexn): The 9 Assam Rifles under the aegis of 5 Sector Assam Rifles sponsored National Integration Tour (NIT) to Gangtok, Sikkim from October 9 to 13. The tour was undertaken under the leadership of Major Manoj Mahtholia from 9 Assam Rifles, Cheiswema.

Major Manoj and his wife Divya Mahtholia, JCO Harish, Havilder Ibocha, Sergeants Verato, Vinyi Zholia, Peter and Pretsole Duolo, Huzuyialong with 22 students from CMHSS, Pfutsero, St. John school, Razeba, DBS Chiephobozou, Govern-

Participants of the national Integration tour to Gangtok from october 9 to 13.

ment High School, Phesachodu and Assam Rifles Public School of Kohima and Dimapur participated in the tour.

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formed that Major Manoj gave a brief introduction about the tour and Gangtok. He exhorted students to be sincere and honest in life.

Wokha, october 19 (DIPr): The Right to Information Week was observed in Wokha on October 15 at the District Planning Office Conference Hall with ADC K. Thavaseelan, IAS as chairperson. Luchui Fithu, EAC (Probationer) and Abeinuo, EAC (Probationer) were the resource persons. The function was attended with representatives from Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) including Lotha Hoho, Lotha Students Union and NGOs including Team Metamorphosis and Change Initiative Wokha. A number of participants from Wokha District Entrepreneurs’ Association (WDEA), Wokha

section of students attending the right to Information week observed in wokha on october 15 at the District Planning Office Conference Hall. (DIPR Photo)

District Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WDCCI) and students from Don Bosco also attended the function.

Abeinuo gave a comprehensive overview of the RTI Act and explained the role of various stakeholders in regards to the RTI

process. She explained as to how RTI has been used in the State to check the functioning of the various departments. Luchui

in her speech highlighted on the role the CSOs and NGOs can play in the RTI ecosystem and dealt in detail about how effective a weapon RTI can be in the hands of the right set of people.

A documentary in Nagamese dialect, produced by the Nagaland Information Commission was also screened. Vote of thanks was delivered by the Chairperson, Thavaseelan K, IAS, ADC Wokha where he also urged the participants to be torch bearers of the district and enlighten the people, especially those in the villages, about RTI so that their rights are protected and upheld.

Financial literacy camp at Changki village Literacy campaign and legal Air India Limited Recruitment 2016 awareness prog in Wokha Air India Engineering Services Limited has released a notification for the recruitment of 300 Trainee Cabin Crew. Interested candidates may check the eligibility criteria and apply on or before 08-11-2016.

More details about Air India Recruitment 2016 including vacancy details, eligibility criteria, selection procedure, how to apply and important dates are mentioned below: Air India Vacancy details: Post name no. of Vacancies Pay scale Trainee Cabin Crew 300 Posts Rs. 15,000

Wokha, october 19 (Mexn): Wokha District Legal Services Authority (WDLSA) organised literacy campaign and legal awareness programme on October 18 with Longsa village community and Wokha District Auto Union respectively.

At the literacy campaign held at Community Hall, Longsa village, Lichani M. Tungoe, Retainer Lawyer, Wokha, introduced the topics and the resource persons. WV Patton, Secretary, WDLSA gave the opening remarks and stated that the campaign is carried out in order to reach out to the unreached and common people with the intention to make the people get acquainted with the legal schemes and basic legal literacy.

Resource persons Limhathung Ezung, Legal Aid

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Mokokchung, oc- the villagers to inculcate the habad Bank, Changki Viltober 19 (DIPr): To pro- habit of saving and explained lage, Mokokchung, Katitmote the cause of Financial in detail the importance of sungba also gave a briefing Literacy/inclusion, a one having a savings account. on the importance of bankday Financial Literacy Camp He also advised them to cut ing, savings and financial (FLC) was conducted at down unnecessary expendi- planning and highlighted Changki Village on October ture and further stressed on various financial services 18. The camp was supported the Farmers Club, SHG, KCC, offered by the banks for the under FIF and managed by WCC & JLG programmes. general public. He further NABARD and organized by He further highlighted how emphasized on PMJDY, Care and Support Society, NABARD is supporting the PMSBY, PMJJBY and APY. The programme was Mokokchung in collabora- State Government in creattionwithAllahabad,Changki ing infrastructures at rural ar- chaired by Imchawati Kieas through RIDF from NA- chu, Managing Director, Village Mokokchung.

DDM, NABARD, S. Ama- BARD. S. Amarjit Mangang Care and Support Society.

Members of wdLsA and wokha district Auto Union after rjit Mangang shared on the also appraised on PMMY Welcome address was given the legal awareness programme held on october 18. role played by NABARD in fi- and Standup India Schemes. by Lendi, Chairman ChangBranch Manager Alla- ki Village Council.

Counsel-Cum-Trainer followed after the presen- nancialinclusion.Headvised (NSLSA) spoke on ‘Rights tations of resource perand privileges of accused/ sons. Questions related to FIR/ bail/ role of defense Mid Day Meal, MGNREcounsel’, Esther K. Aye, GA, scholarships and rice Legal Aid Counsel-Cum- allocation under National Trainer (NSLSA) spoke on Food Security Act etc were ‘Consumer awareness & raised by the participants Food Security Act’, and Li- and the resource persons masenla Longkumer, Legal clarified, a press release inAid Counsel-Cum-Trainer formed.

(NSLSA) spoke on ‘Welfare Altogether, 55 people schemes for women/ peo- from Longsa village comple living with disability.’ munity participated in the Heningkunglwa Village women department had a social work on september 23 at 'Family An interaction session programme.

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3. Smell 4. Former Italian currency 5. Rich soils 6. Making flat 7. An ardent early supporter 8. Sandwich shop 9. Benni 10. Disavowal 11. Foreword 12. Horse 13. Cozy 21. Unsophisticated 25. French for “State” 26. Use a beeper 27. Quiet time 28. Diva’s solo 29. In an elegant manner 34. Forests 36. Expunge 37. Convenience 38. Toboggan 40. French for “Head” 42. Expect 45. A place for books 48. Concrete 51. Pace 52. Sea 53. Physically weak 55. Surveys 58. Margarine 59. Part of a plant 60. Hawkeye State 61. Utilized 62. No more than Answer to Crossword 3747

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Chumkedima orgs condemn police violence on Oct 18 protest volunteers Dimapur, october 19 (mexN): A number of organizations from Chumukedima have taken strong exception to the physical harassment inflicted to volunteers during the Coordination Committee on Fuel Adulteration (CCoFA) peaceful protest staged at Chumukedima on October 18, 2016.

Chumukedima Town Youth Organisation, Chumukedima Town Student Union, Chumukedima

Town Mothers Association and Chumukedima Town Head Gaon Bura in a joint condemnation note on Wednesday said the police personnel arrested some public leaders and attacked and injured the public/ youth with lathi charge for no reason during the peaceful protest.

The organizations also alleged the police of trespassing inside private residences, shelling tear gas even in front of the Chumukedima Head

GB, pelting stone blindly at the public which also entered classroom creating fear among school children, forcing public to enter school compound for shelter and disturbing and creating confusion in school, harassing and insulting minors.

Some police personnel in full uniform were on duty under the influence of alcohol and crossing beyond limit, they further alleged.

“If the police action was to disburse the crowd

NSCN (IM) welcomes seven ‘home comers’ Dimapur, october 19 (mexN): The Joint Council of the Steering Committee Executive and the Cabinet of NSCN (IM) have welcomed seven “home comers” who joined the NSCN (IM) from different political groups.

According to a press release from MIP, NSCN (IM), the seven new members took a

firm decision to follow the path taken by the veteran leaders who had joined the NSCN (IM) and “expressed regret of their past mistakes for working under different organizations without vision and hope.” They also expressed their commitment to strive together with the NSCN (IM) leadership

to genuinely work for the interest of all Nagas and to bring about final solution.

The “homer comers” are A. Khampei Konyak, Hetovi Chishi, Akito Yeptho, Wangtson Konyak from GPRN/NSCN, Vareiyo Jajo from MNPF, Ngulminthang Mangte, and Thanyjapao Mate from KNF.

to avoid the situation from escalation, then does it necessitate seven, eight policemen to surround a volunteer and thrash him with lathi and kick him continuously 3-4 minutes,” questioned Chumoukedima Chambers of Commerce and Trade Association (CCCTA), in a separate press statement. It also questioned if this act was not “inhuman, barbaric, total brutality and an attempt to murder.”

The Association also condemned the action of the officer-in-charge who allegedly not only failed to control his jawans from going beyond limitation but also led them loose to fire teargas even into a school, which created havoc and nearly led to a stampeding incident and injury to a class-5 student.

While censuring the act, the Association through its president Avi Chase and general sec-

retary James Kin, has demanded that the irresponsible officer is terminated from service before “he commit more blunders and inflict chaos, painting sour colour to the Dimapur Police Department.”

It also stated that if the nine CCoFA leaders detained and the volunteers beaten up and hospitalized were done as “pre-cautionary measures,” then the bond (PR) signed should automatically be nullified.

Sericulture officials visit South East Asian countries

CPO condemns rape, murder Kohima, october 19 (mexN): The Chakhesang Public Organization (CPO) has strongly condemned the “shameful act” of Surhoseyi (Kuvethi) Keyho, who allegedly raped a minor girl in Phek Town in August 2016. A press statement from CPO president, Kekhwengulo Lea and general secretary, Mutsivoyi Kotso further condemned the brutal murder of a woman at Tenyiphe Village-1 on the night of October 8, 2016. The organisation maintained that the acts of the perpetrators were “senseless and barbaric and is beyond human tolerance.” The CPO also conveyed its sympathy to the rape victim and condolences to the family members of the murder victim.

GHSS Zunheboto informs ZuNheboto, october 19 (mexN): The students of Government Hr Sec School Zunheboto have been informed that the filling up of form for the HSLC and HSSLC Examination 2017 will be done from October 21 to 28 for regular repeaters and centre repeaters and for the regular students from November 3 to 5. GHSS Zunheboto principal, Sunil Thakur in a press release has advised the students to refer to the school notification board for further details.

LJP Nagaland unit demands punishment for fuel adulterators Dimapur, october 19 (mexN): The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), Nagaland unit has appealed to the Nagaland State government to pursue the matter of fuel adulteration seriously and award befitting punishment to all the culprits so that such “unwanted corruption” will not take place in the future. A press release from the party chief general secretary, Manthungo Odyuo and president, RL Nelson further appealed to all the stakeholders to remain calm and pursue an amicable logical solution. Meanwhile, the party condemned such unethical practices which affect the general welfare of the masses, while reiterating its “principle of honesty and clean governance.”

Rs. 5 lakh worth ganja seized Kohima, october 19 (mexN): District Intelligence Branch (DIB) of DEF Kohima seized 100 kg of ganja worth Rs. 5 lakh in the national market on October 19 around 12:30 pm near Khuzama village. The contraband was recovered from a Maruti car bearing registration number AS-23D-0755 while conducting surveillance duty.

In this connection, one accused identified as Dapunü (25) of Senapati, Manipur along with the seized contraband was taken into police custody and a regular case vide Khuzama P.S Case No. 0034/2016 U/S 20 (b) (ii) (C) NDPS Act was registered against him. This was informed in a press release issued by Atu Zumvü, NPS, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (South) & PRO, Kohima Police.

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NSCN (R) terminates one

Department of Sericulture team with officials of Vietnam Sericulture Research Centre at Hanoi. The team visited Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam from October 6 to 18.

The accused Dapunü in police custody.

welcomes Meetings & AppointMents NSCW exclusive police station for women Workshop on RMNCH+A today Directorate of Field Publicity (DFP), Ministry of I&B, Government of India is organizing a one day orientation workshop on RMNCH+A on October 20 at the conference hall of Circuit House, Kohima. The workshop will focus on Mission Indradhanush, Population Stabilization, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, and Anaemia among adolescent girls. The main objective of the workshop is to update knowledge and to equip field officers of the Nagaland & Manipur region and health workers. The event will also mark the launch of a five-month long awareness campaign in the states of Nagaland and Manipur.

MITE Kohima Alumni Day Modern Institute of Teacher Education (MITE), Kohima is celebrating its 1st Alumni Day on October 22, 10:00 am at the MITE auditorium. Therefore, the principal of the institute has requested all the alumni to attend the programme without fail.

TTUD general meeting All the Tikhirs residing in Dimapur have been informed that the Tikhir Tribal Union Dimapur’s (TTUD) general meeting has been scheduled to be held on October 22 at its treasurer’s residence at Naharbari, Dimapur. A press release from TTUD executive secretary, S James has directed all the members to arrive at the venue by 6:30 am.

Kohima, october 19 (mexN): Nagaland State Commission for Women (NSCW) today acknowledged that the inauguration of the first exclusive police station for women in Kohima on October 18 is a “very significant and historic development for all Naga women”. In a press release issued by its chairperson, Dr. Temsula Ao, the commission welcomed the pro-active move by the state government, and congratulated the state administration, especially the Police Department, for setting up the long-awaited institution for providing security, justice and welfare to all Naga women. It further hoped that such stations will soon be set up in all the other districts too.

Kohima, october 19 (mexN): The Department of Sericulture went on an exposure visit to Asian countries of Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam to get an in depth knowledge of various sericulture developmental processes from October 6 to 18.

In Bangkok, the team visited the Jim Thompson House, a silk museum established by an American who revived the long neglected silk weaving cottage industry in Thailand, and Silk Village engaged in silk weaving and processing, informed a press release from the department.

The team visited Angkor Silk Farm at Puok District, Cambodia, a traditional silk area which supports vulnerable women to make a living for their families, and Silk Island which is famed as an important silk weaving centre.

In Vietnam, the team had a fruitful interaction with the officials of the Vietnam Sericulture Research Centre at Hanoi, the release added. During the meeting, Deputy Director of the Research Centre presented PowerPoint highlighting the history of sericulture and various research work of the centre. The last leg

of the visit was at Phou Silk Village renowned for its traditional quilt making and silk products. The village produces the best silk in Vietnam.

The team was led by E.E. Pangteang, Parliamentary Secretary, Sericulture, Home Guard and Civil Defence and Chandan Basera, Director of Sericulture.

The team members have thanked the Chief Minister, TR Zeliang and Chief Secretary, Pankaj Kumar, Govt. of Nagaland for the opportunity given to the departmental officers and making the visit a fruitful and meaningful one.

Dimapur, october 19 (mexN): The NSCN (Reformation) has terminated Maj. Kakiho (Kaki) from the national service with immediate effect. The NSCN (R) through it MIP stated that Kaki was found indulging in some “anti-social activities”, which is against the “Azha” of the government. It further informed the general public not to entertain him in any way relating to the matter of government.

UT-1 NSCN (IM) recovers vehicle Dimapur, october 19 (mexN): Union Territory-1, NSCN (IM) has recovered a Maruti Alto bearing chassis number 1288167 and engine number 1269771.

Therefore, CAO, UT-1, NSCN (IM) has directed the rightful owner to claim the vehicle by producing the original documents of the vehicle within seven days of this publication. For further details, contact the CAO at 8731906020.

Peren Police arrest one

October 18 shooting incident condemned

Dimapur, october 19 (mexN): National People's Government of Nagaland/ NNC (Non Accord) has expressed shock and condemned the “attempt to assassinate” a “prominent patriot” of Naga political movement, Kiumukam Yimchunger, President, NNC (N/A). Kiumukam was shot and wounded on October 18 by unidentified person(s) in Dimapur. The group through its MIP Kilonser, N Mar Ao condemned that the incident happened when “the entire Nagas strive for the peace and unity and for the amicable settlement

of the long protracted Naga political issue by collectively joining both national workers and the civil society stakeholders under one banner.” Stating that every peace loving citizen should stand against such “anti-national act”, the NPGN/NNC (N/A) also appealed to the authority concerned to take stern action upon the culprit(s). Further, it shared deep sorrow with the family members and prayed to God for the victim’s speedy recovery.

In a separate press statement, Member, DAN Coordination Committee & Spokesperson JD(U),

Nagaland, L. Thronghokiu condemned the incident and stated, “I would like to state that at this very crucial juncture where Nagas are yearning for peace and harmony in the society, such blatant shooting is a cause of serious concern and is totally incongruous for which the state law enforcing agencies is requested to immediately investigate and apprehend the perpetrators responsible and book the culprit as per the law for victim’s justice to ensure the safety of leader in near future.” He further conveyed solidarity to the victim and prayed for his speedy recovery.

Peren Police team with the arrested person and seized contraband on October 18.

pereN, october 19 (mexN): Peren Police arrested one person for possession of around 200 kg of “suspected” ganja on October 18 around 7:00 am at the Police Check Post on Peren-Maram road. The arrested person identified as Jeet Bahadur (30) was pro-

ceeding to Dimapur from Senapati (Manipur) on a Bolero pick-up truck bearing registration number NLO7A-6701. A case has been registered and investigation is in progress, informed a press release from Superintendent of Police, Peren.

Satakhami Kuqhakulu Dimapur The Satakhami Kuqhakulu Dimapur will have an executive meeting on October 22, 9:00 am at Bookmarc near Super Market, Dimapur. All the unit presidents and general secretaries have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

HCCYAD former officials & youth informed All the former office bearers and youth of Holy Cross Catholic Youth Association Dimapur (HCCYAD) have been requested to attend the meeting on October 23 at the Parish Hall after the second mass. It will be followed by a photo session, informed a press release received here.

Rashtriya Sankalp Diwas Nagaland, along with the rest of the country, will observe October 31 as Rashtriya Sankalp Diwas in the State capital, Kohima. At Nagaland Civil Secretariat, the function will be held in the conference hall. All the Government employees, including those of the Central Government, in Kohima have been requested to attend the function positively. All Heads of Department as well as Central Government offices have been directed to observe the same in their respective offices at 12:00 noon as per a memorandum issued by the Home Commissioner, Nagaland, Abhijit Sinha, IAS. Images of road repair work initiated by Dimapur Ao Baptist Arogo (DABA) Youth Ministry and Teintet Lanur (Crusader's Club) along the Duncan Bosti Road, Dimapur.

(Photo courtesy: Tiya Jamir 3D Photography)

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 288

By Aheli moitra

Where the self is liberated

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ix year old Arep is a bright child. She is up to date with her English letters, vowels and even small words. Her sentences, grammar, conjugation and colouring are slowly falling in line. She is a socially engaged child who enjoys her playtime, and sometimes even her study time!

Very quickly, she has learned to engage with the world outside the womb—television, books, newspapers, utensils, toys, school, friends, KinderJoy etc.

But it is at home where Arep engages with her Naga self.

Her mother often cooks meat in Anishi or Axone, and the smell wafting through the house makes her roots grow by instilling that tingling sensation of being home where the self is liberated. She speaks to her parents and relatives in her local Naga dialect—she is clever enough to switch between languages while sharing secrets with her little sister, depending on whose company she is in. But, mostly, she is an honest and transparent child who shares her thoughts and space.

So, when her mother insisted that she go to Sunday school, and she persistently refused, the family was dismayed. The local church was the only place of organised learning where the medium of instruction was her mother tongue; through this, the church already had a program in place to instill values of a community in her every Sunday morning.

Arep felt trapped. Having completed almost three years of pre-school, her community was one that communicated in English, and played hide-and-seek on weekends. At the tender age of six, she understood little of her ‘self’ as a Naga and chose liberty for the time being.

But as she grows up, are there other avenues where she can build her sense of belonging and shared community in a Naga nation? At school, in a shop, at music or dance class?

At a Dialogue with Dr. John Thomas on his new book ‘Evangelising the Nation: Religion and the formation of Naga political identity’ held on October 18, the author suggested that the Naga struggle for self determination had come to be narrowed down to a political struggle greatly influenced by Christian theology promoted by White missionaries that had sought to reduce traditional Naga culture (and, in effect, belonging) to the realms of ‘darkness’ and ‘savagery.’ A parallel revival to kinder the rich cultural spirit of the Naga (nation) had not yet taken place, particularly because the Church had tempered down the wholesome spirit of nationalism.

In effect, we find ourselves surrounded by the reality of a globalised world where television, books, toys, schools, shops and sweets tell us more about foreign material culture than Naga (exceptionally, this is changing with entrepreneurs, or even musicians, turning the cultural tide). Globalisation would have gone down amicably had the Naga people not been oppressed on every other essential count—exploitation of land and resources, a dysfunctional government, rising rural poverty, continued miliratisation, tribalisation etc.

The discussion around Dr. Thomas’ work also brought out the flip side. The Naga church has been on a journey of change and decolonisation for a while now— As Dr. Wati Aier said, religion has not been so much about withdrawal (an opiate) as about intentional engagement for the Nagas; taking control rather than giving up. Naga theology, mindful of the weight on its shoulders, has been pluralising and broadening the discourse in ways that we are only slowly learning about.

In the time that the progressing religious paradigm seeps to the grassroots, the Dialogue seemed to suggest that there is a dire need to reform and broaden the ‘nationalist’ agenda— rooting itself in the religious, or even tribal, agenda has only narrowed what it means to be a Naga, a nation and a sovereign Naga nation. As the new Naga generation figures out its liberties, their leaders need to be mindful that being Naga should become as much about osmotic dialogue, shared humanity and finding liberty together (to borrow words from Dr. Aküm Longchari) as it has been about smelling the first morning fire in the hearth, learning stories in a mother tongue at Sunday school or perfectly fermented bamboo shoot.

Questions & comments may be sent to moitramail@yahoo.com

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Paola Totaro Thomson Reuters Foundation

‘Planning cities is critical challenge in 21st century’

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rban planning has failed to keep up with mass urbanization around the world, placing cities at the epicenter of the 21st century's most pressing challenges, a top United Nations official said on October 17.

The vulnerability of urban habitats, amid the accelerating pace of climate change and population growth, points to an unsustainable future if urgent action is not taken, Peter Thomson, president of the U.N General Assembly, said in Quito, Ecuador at the U.N Habitat III conference.

"Mass urbanization is underway around the globe and, along with the effects of climate change and the lack of peace in so many parts of the world, the movement of people is the great challenge of the 21st century," Thomson told the conference on housing and sustainable urban development.

One billion people live in urban slums where they lack access to basic services such as water, sanitation and energy, he said.

"Seventy-five percent of our cities have higher levels of income inequality today than in 1996, and 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, and global waste, originate from cities," he said. Thomson's remarks on the first official day of the conference were echoed by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who said increasing numbers of poor and vulnerable people were living in precarious conditions in cities and informal settlements.

He said urban areas are expanding rapidly, especially in developing countries, but are "frequently unplanned."

Access to basic services and adequate living space, isolation from jobs, vulnerability to crime, forced evictions and homelessness highlight an urgent need for better planning, he said.

"Transforming our world for the better means transforming our towns and cities. That means better urban governance, planning and design, investment in affordable housing and infrastructure and basic services," he said.

More than 45,000 people, including academics, planning specialists, government officials and U.N. leaders, have converged on the Andean city of Quito to discuss the future of the world's cities. Held once every 20 years, the Habitat conference comes at a point when for the first time in history more people live in cities than in rural areas.

An estimated 140 of the U.N's 193 member states registered for the conference and are expected to adopt a new nonbinding agreement to guide city growth.

Known as the New Urban Agenda (NUA), the 23-page document aims to steer the growth of cities, towns and informal settlements so that they are sustainable, do not destroy the environment and protect the rights of the vulnerable.

Thomson said implementation of the NUA would be monitored and he would convene a formal review next year, interpreted to be a response to some experts who criticized the proposed policy for not containing targets or deadlines for action.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Gram Matenga

Cash for Votes: political legitimacy in Nigeria

Corruption runs deep in Nigeria - among parties, candidates and voters. What can be done to develop a democracy free of bribery?

The problem Nearly 80% of voters from 36 African countries believe voters are bribed – either sometimes, often or always. In Morocco and Nigeria alone, only 5% and 6% of citizens believe bribing for votes never happens. This is a particularly chronic problem in Nigeria, where in 2007 seven out of ten voters believed that vote buying happens either ‘all of the time’ or ‘most of the time’; nearly a decade later, nine out of ten believe so. Furthermore, 16% of voters in African countries reported being offered money or goods in exchange for their vote during the last election.

Money has become a dominant, determinant factor in Nigeria’s politics. The poor are likely to be victimized by vote buying because their limited means makes them susceptible to material inducements, including offers of basic commodities or modest amounts of money. Vote buying, in its literal sense, is a simple economic exchange – candidates ‘buy’ and electorates ‘sell’ votes, as they buy and sell goods and services.

In vote buying transactions in Nigeria, voters are usually offered money, commodities such as food or clothing, and jobs. In countries such as Malawi, Zimbabwe and Uganda, cash-for-vote transactions are quite limited and exchange of votes for goods and services are most common. For example, in Malawi, the government’s farm input subsidy initiative has widely been observed as susceptible to political manipulation where issuing of coupons for inputs ‘indirectly’ translate to vote buying. The practice rests upon payoffs that are not directly and explicitly tied to reciprocity in the polling booth.

According to Nigeria Electoral Act, 2010, Article 130: “A person who— (a) corruptly by himself or by any other person at any time after the date of an election has been announced, directly or indirectly gives or provides or pays money to or for any person for the purpose of corruptly influencing that person or any other person to vote or refrain from voting at such election, or on account of such person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting at such election; or (b) being a voter, corruptly accepts or takes money or any other inducement during any of the period stated in paragraph (a) of this section, commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of N100,000 or 12 months imprisonment or both.” While vote buying is subject to punishment, the attainment of compliance to this legal provision remains a challenge.

Multiple Entry Points for Vote Buying Unlike in other African countries such as Kenya, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Malawi, where vote buying takes place prominently during campaign period, in Nigeria it takes place at multiple stages of the electoral cycle and has been observed eminently during voter registration, nomination period, campaign and election day. It also occurs at various institutional levels in the polity – for example, in the legislature, where votes are bought to illegally enact laws that would favour particular individuals or groups.

Voter Registration Period Political parties in Nigeria understand the importance of voter registration and pay potential voters to register to vote at elections. In this process, many people are mobilized in preparation for the elections. The voter will be paid as much as 500 naira in exchange for the voter card; once bought, the card can be used by someone else to cast the ballot on election day. In previous registration exercises, registration officers sold empty or completed voter cards

to politicians of opposing camps and this resulted in accusations of insufficient registration materials. The introduction of biometric chip-based permanent voter cards and Smart Card Readers in 2015 elections are likely to reduce drastically incidents of voter card buying in future elections. While the electronic card readers performed well in reading PVCs and confirming their validity, they were less successful in reading voters’ fingerprints and matching them against the voter registry.

Candidates Nomination and Campaign Vote buying is also evident during the candidates’ nomination process by political parties. During the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential primary in Lagos State before the 2015 elections, over 8,000 delegates who participated allegedly made US$5,000 each from the candidates. Delegates were supposed to have received US$2,000 each from the Atiku Abubakar group and also US$3,000 each from the Buhari group. Given that more than 8,000 delegates were reported to have attended the primaries, the competing camps could have spent more than US$16 million and US$24 million respectively on vote buying at the primary stage. The 2015 general election followed the pattern of the previous year during the governorship election in Ekiti State, which was won by a candidate (Mr. Ayo Fawose) who was not widely favoured according to opinion polls conducted before the vote. It was a case of the ‘highest bidder’ emerges the winner.

The 2007 median price of a payment for the actual vote in Nigeria was 2,250 naira, largely because the proportion of large payments the same figures recorded during the period leading to the 2011 general elections. Most importantly, according to the Afro Barometer, many who enter vote buying agreements in Nigeria said they would ultimately defect, that is, by taking the money but voting as they please given the secrecy of the ballot. It is feasible for voters to take the money and not to vote at all. This outcome is especially likely if voters accept inducements from more than one party – facing pressures from competing vote buyers.

Election Day In the context of Nigerian ballot secrecy, political parties often develop clever ways to monitor vote buying agreements. Realising the challenge of defection by voters on election day and in an effort to ensure value for money, some political parties have devised countering mechanisms. For example, politicians in connivance with electoral officers influence the creation of congested polling centers that

will allow for monitoring of how people vote. In this regard political ‘party agents’ are hired and placed at strategic locations very close to the ballot boxes to see which party a voter has voted before payment.

The ‘agent’ will give a signal to another party agent to pay at the back, and if the voter fails to vote for the party, there is also a signal. This system was widely noted in 2011 by politicians to prevent defections by voters having paid for their votes.

Stopping vote buying Nigeria has made significant gains in enhancing the legal framework to guide against vote buying through the Electoral Act 2002, 2006 and 2010.

However, there is need to address some of the notable inconsistences and potential loopholes in the Electoral Act. For instance, while section 91(9) of the Electoral Act states that “no individual or other entity shall donate more than one million naira to any candidate, section 93(2)(b) in contraction gives political parties leverage to receive unlimited amounts above the threshold. Furthermore, there is need to enhance oversight and enforcement mechanisms of the law. The proposed establishment of the Electoral Offences Commission which will have authority to investigate and prosecute breaches of relevant electoral provisions including vote buying will be a critical milestone in addressing electoral malpractices.

The Commission should be effectively capacitated to enable it to execute its mandate.

Secret ballot is essential for electoral integrity and one of the main devices used to restrict vote buying.

There have been efforts by INEC to decongest polling stations as attested by the reduction of such cases in 2015 elections. The principle of ballot secrecy however requires election legislation to ensure that secret voting is not only a right on the part of the voter but an absolute obligation. The provisions in the legal framework regulating control and security of the ballot, as well as the provisions governing the casting of a ballot at the polling station, should ensure ballot security.

Vote buying drives up the costs of elections for parties and candidates, and may prevent credible candidates from running for political office. Most importantly, it breeds cynicism among voters, who feel disenfranchised by a corrupted system that fails to adhere to democratic ideals. While Nigeria has improved electoral laws and invested in biometric technology amongst other milestones, there is a need to enhance the legal framework, the integrity of ballot secrecy, and develop a democratic civic political culture.

Gram Matenga is Programme Coordinator at the United Nations Development Programme in Zimbabwe.

Indigenous Land Rights bring Economic, not just Environmental Benefits lyndal Rowlands

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ecure indigenous land rights not only bring environmental benefits, they can also foster economic development, according to a new report released by the World Resources Institute.

The report, Climate Benefits, Tenure Costs: The Economic Case for Securing Indigenous Land Rights, describes how local communities can sustainably manage forests and generate economic growth when given tenure rights to their land.

In Guatemala, Indigenous communities have successfully created sustainable income from the forest, while treating it as a renewable resource, Juan Carlos Jintiach, Advisor of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA) told IPS. Indigenous communities in Guatemala export forest products including highly nutritious berries which are popular in Korea and Japan, said Jintiach.

Their careful management of the forests has also made their wood products popular with guitar manufactures such as Gibson and Fender, he added.

“In Guatemala the communitybased industry is very well organized.”

They have a land rotation system for their timber activities and they monitor the timber products up to the point they reach the consumer.

“They have a sophisticated way of managing their forests – you can almost trace a product from the tree it came from on a particular patch of land.”

“They use this revenue to improve local development, healthcare and education in their communities and that’s where the economic impact comes into the picture,” said Jintiach.

The world’s 370 million Indigenous people have only limited land rights and are much more likely to live in extreme poverty than non-Indigenous peoples.

Although they make up just five percent of the world’s population, Indigenous peoples make up 15 percent of the world’s extreme poor, according the World Bank.

Therefore, inclusive economic growth which benefits indigenous peoples is one of the ways that countries can tackle extreme poverty, and achieve the first Sustainable Development Goal of ending extreme poverty.

However, economic benefits are

not the only reason why Indigenous Land Rights are important, the report argues.

“The role of forests in climate mitigation is vastly under-appreciated, even by most climate experts,” Dan Zarin, Director of Programs, Climate and Land Use Alliance said at the launch of the report.

“Other than the oceans there are no other carbon capture and storage technologies that are nearly as cost effective as forests and are proven on a large scale,” said Zarin.

“Deforestation rates on legally recognised Indigenous lands are two to three times lower registered to Indigenous peoples,” the report found.

Yet far too often government overlook local communities and allocate the rights to exploit a forest and other natural resources to multinational corporations with few if any links to the land.

“Indigenous Peoples and other communities hold and manage 50 to 65 percent of the world’s land, yet governments recognise only 10 percent as legally belonging to these groups, with another 8 percent designated by governments for communities,” the report found.

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The report argues that allocating land rights to indigenous groups is relatively inexpensive for governments especially considering the measurable benefits.

“Secure indigenous forestlands provide significant global carbon and other ecosystem service benefits in Bolivia, Brazil, and Colombia, estimated at between $679 and $1,530 billion for the next 20 years,” said the report.

“Meanwhile, the costs of securing indigenous forestlands amount to less than one percent of these benefits.”

However without secure land rights, indigenous communities are often unable to protect the forest, Helen Ding, Environmental Economist and report author World Resources Institute, told IPS. “We have seen that the REDD+ program has been there for more than 10 years now and there is still deforestation happening in Brazil and Indonesia. The reason for that is partly because many of these lands are held by indigenous people are not recognised and they are not protected,” said Ding.

In practical terms, she points out, land tenure rights allow local communities to access credit, which will enable them to generate economic benefits.

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By refusing to recognize that the Earth is alive we implicitly endorse the worldview that enables our destruction of the planet

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oes the concept of a living planet uplift and inspire you, or is it a disturbing example of woo-woo nonsense that distracts us from practical, science-based policies?

The scientifically-oriented nuts-andbolts environmental or social activist will roll her eyes upon hearing phrases like “The planet is a living being.”

From there it is a short step to sentiments like, “Love will heal the world,” “What we need most is a shift in consciousness,” and “Let’s get in touch with our indigenous soul.”

What’s wrong with such ideas? The skeptics make a potent argument. Not only are these ideas delusional, they say, but to voice them is a strategic error that opens environmentalism to accusations of flakiness. By invoking unscientific concepts, by prattling on about the ‘heart’ or spirit or the sacred, we will be dismissed as naive, fuzzy-headed, irrational, hysterical, over-emotional hippies. What we need, they say, is more data, more logic, more numbers, better arguments, and more practical solutions framed in language acceptable to policy-makers and the public.

I think that argument is mistaken. By shying away from the idea of a living planet, we rob environmentalism of its authentic motive force, engender paralysis rather than action, and implicitly endorse the worldview that enables our destruction of the planet.

The psychology of contempt To see that, let’s start by observing that the objection to “Earth is alive” isn’t primarily a scientific objection.

After all, science can easily affirm or deny Earth’s aliveness depending on what definition of life is being used.

No, we are dealing with an emotional perception here, one that goes beyond ‘alive’ to affirm that Earth is sentient, conscious, even sacred. That is what upsets the critics. Furthermore, the derisiveness of the criticism, encoded in words like ‘hippie’ or ‘flake,’ also shows that more than an intellectual difference of opinion is at stake. Usually, derision comes from insecurity or fear.

“Judgment,” says Marshall Rosenberg, “is the tragic expression of an unmet need.”

What are they afraid of? (And I—the voice of the derisive critic lives in me as well.) Could it be that the contempt comes in part from a fear that one is, oneself, ‘naive, irrational and over-emotional?’ Could the target of the derision be the projection of an insecurity lurking within? Is there a part of ourselves that we disown and project, in distorted form, onto others—an innocent, trusting, childlike part? A feminine part? A vulnerable part?

If so, then critics of the infiltration of New Age ideas into the environmental movement may not be serving the movement at all. They may be enacting their own psychological dramas instead. If you are one of those critics, I am not asking you to join hands with me and sing Kumbaya. I ask only that you soberly and honestly consider where your discomfort comes from.

Certainly, much of the discomfort is a healthy revulsion toward the escapism, spiritual bypass, and cultural appropriation that plague so much of the New Age. Certainly, there is a danger that, intoxicated by the idea of cosmic purpose or some-such, we ignore the pain and grief that we must integrate if we are to act effectively and courageously. Certainly, dogma like “It’s all good” or “We’re all one” can blind us to the exigency of the planetary crisis and discourage us from making changes in our lives. Certainly, borrowed rituals and concepts of sacredness can be an insidious form of colonialism, a strip-mining of cultural treasure to compensate for and enable the continuation of our own cultural vacuity.

However, such criticisms address a mere caricature of the thoughtful work of generations of philosophers, scientists and spiritual teachers, who have framed sophisticated alternatives to conventional phenomenological, ontological and causal narratives. Phew, that was a mouthful. What I’m saying is not to hide behind facile criticisms.

The fear of being emotional, irrational, hysterical, etc. is very close to a fear of the inner feminine, and the exclusion of the fuzzy, the ill-defined, and the emotionally-perceived dimensions of our activism in favor of the linear, rational, and evidence-based, mirrors the domination over and marginalization of the feminine from our social choice-making. Part of our resistance to the notion of Earth as a living being could be the patriarchal mind feeling threatened by feminine ways of knowing and choosing. But that’s still pretty theoretical, so let me share a little of my own introspection.

When I apprehend concepts such as “Earth is alive,” or “All things are sacred,” or “The universe and everything in it bears sentience, purpose and life,” there is always an emotion involved; in no case is my rejection or acceptance the result of pure ratiocination. Either I embrace them with a feeling of eager, tender hope, or I reject them with a feeling of wariness, along the lines of “It is too good to be true,” or “I’m nobody’s fool.” Sometimes, beyond wariness, I feel a hot flash of anger, as if I had been violated or betrayed. Why? That wariness is deeply connected to the contempt I’ve described. The derision of the cynic comes from a wound of crushed idealism and betrayed hopes. We received it on a cultural level when the Age of Aquarius morphed into the Age of Ronald Reagan, and on an individual level as well when our childish perception of a living, personal universe in which we are destined to grow into magnificent creators gave way to an adulthood of deferred dreams and lowered expectations. Anything that exposes this wound will trigger our protective instincts. One such protection is cynicism, which rejects and derides as foolish, naive or irrational anything that affirms the magic and idealism of youth.

Our perceived worldview has cut us off, often quite brutally, from intimate connection with the rest of life and with the rest of matter. The child hugs a tree and thinks it feels the hug and imagines the tree is his friend, only to learn that no, I’m sorry, the tree is just a bunch of woody cells with no central nervous system and therefore cannot possibly have the qualities of beingness that humans have.

The child imagines that just as she looks out on the world, the world looks back at her, only to learn that no, I’m sorry, the world consists of a jumble of insensate

intelligence and purpose reside in human beings alone.

Science (as we have known it) renders us alone in an alien universe. At the same time, it crowns us as its lords and masters, for if sentience and purpose inhere in us alone, there is nothing stopping us from engineering the world as we see fit. There is no desire to listen for, no larger process to participate in, no consciousness to respect.

“The Earth isn’t really alive” is part of that ideological cutoff. Isn’t that the same cutoff that enables us to despoil the planet?

The wounded child interjects, “But what if it is true?

What if the universe really is just as science describes?”

What if, as the biologist Jacques Monod put it, we are alone in “an alien world. A world that is deaf to man’s music, just as indifferent to his hopes as to his suffering or his crimes.” Such is the wail of the separate self. It is loneliness and separation disguised as an empirical question.

While no amount of evidence can prove it false, we must acknowledge that the science that militates against an intelligent, purposeful, living universe is ideologically freighted and culturally bound. Witness the hostility of institutional science to any anomalous data or unorthodox theory that suggest purposiveness or intelligence as a property of inanimate matter.

Water memory, adaptive mutation, crop circles, morphic fields, psi phenomena, UFOs, plant communication, precognitive dreams…and a living Earth, a living sun, a living universe, all incite scorn. Anyone who believes in these, or even takes them as a valid topic of investigation, risks the usual epithets of ‘pseudo-scientist,’ ‘flake,’ or ‘woo-woo,’ regardless of the merits of the theory or the strength of the evidence.

Of course, simply by making this assertion I open myself to the very same calumny. You can conveniently dismiss me as irrational, scientifically semi-literate, gullible at best and delusional at worst, perhaps knowingly dishonest, bamboozling my audience with learned allusions to impart an illusion of scientific probity to my ravings. But if you really care about this Earth, you’ll want to be curious about the emotional content of this judgment. What hides behind the contempt? The reactivity?

What moves the environmentalist?

Our discomfort with New Age-sounding concepts like “The planet is alive” is not entirely rational, but comes in large part from a wound of betrayal, cloaked in the pervasive ideology of our culture. Is it true though?

We might play with various definitions of life and come up with logical, evidence-based arguments pro and con, just as we could debate the veracity of anomalous data and unconventional theories, and never come to an agreement. So let us look at the matter through a strategic lens instead. What belief motivates effective action and real change? And what kind of action results from each belief?

Most people reading this probably consider themselves to be environmentalists; certainly most people think it is important to create a society that leaves a livable planet to future generations. What is it, exactly, that makes us into environmentalists? If we answer that, we might know how to turn others into environmentalists as well, and to deepen the commitment of those who already identify as such.

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t become an environmentalist because someone made a rational argument that convinced me that the planet was in danger. I became an environmentalist out of love and pain: love for the world and its beauty and the grief of seeing it destroyed. It was only because I was in touch with these feelings that I had the ears to listen to evidence and reason and the eyes to see what is happening to our world.

I believe that this love and this grief are latent in every human being. When they awaken, that person becomes an environmentalist.

Now, I am not saying that a rational, evidence-based analysis of the situation and possible solutions is unimportant. It’s just that it will be compelling only with the animating spirit of reverence for our planet, born of the felt connection to the beauty and pain around us.

Our present economic and industrial systems can only function to the extent that we insulate ourselves from our love and our pain. We insulate ourselves geographically by pushing the worst degradation onto faraway places. We insulate ourselves economically by using money to avoid the immediate consequences of that degradation, pushing it onto the world’s poor. We insulate ourselves perceptually by learning not to see or recognize the stress of the land and water around us and by forgetting what healthy forests, healthy streams and healthy skies look like. And we insulate ourselves ideologically by our trust in technological fixes and justifications like, “Well, we need fracking for energy independence, and besides it’s not that bad,” or “After all, this forest isn’t in an ecologically critical area.”

The most potent form of ideological insulation though is the belief that the world isn’t really in pain, that nothing worse is happening than the manipulation of matter by machines, and that therefore as long as we can engineer some substitute for ‘ecosystem services,’ there need be no limit to what we do to nature. Absent any inherent purpose or intelligence, the planet is here for us to use.

Just today, the borough was removing trees on our street, and I felt grief and rage as I listened to the chainsaws, even as my mind said, “But after all, those are old trees and the branches could fall onto a person or damage a house. They are unsafe. And what does it matter?

They are only trees.” So here, inhabiting my own mind, was the fundamental ideology of domination (the trees must be removed because they stand in the way of hu-

they are not-self; they do not have the basic qualities of beingness that I do).

Look around this planet. See the results of that ideology writ large.

The love of life The idea that our planet is alive, and further, that every mountain, river, lake and forest is a living being, even a sentient, purposive, sacred being, is therefore not a soppy emotional distraction from the environmental problems at hand; to the contrary, it disposes us to feel more, to care more, and to do more. No longer can we hide from our grief and love behind the ideology that the world is just a pile of stuff to be used instrumentally for our own ends.

True, that ideology is perfectly consistent with cutting carbon emissions, and consistent as well with any environmental argument that invokes our survival as the primary basis for policymaking. A lot of environmental activism depends on appeals to survival anxiety. “We have to change our ways, or else!” Appealing to fear and selfish interest, in general, is a natural tactic for anyone coming from a belief that the planet has no intrinsic value, no value beyond its utility. What other reason to preserve it is there, when it has no intrinsic value?

It should be no surprise that this tactic has failed.

When environmentalists cite the potential economic losses from climate change, they implicitly endorse economic gain and loss as a basis for environmental decision-making. Doubtless they are imagining that they must ‘speak the language’ of the power elite, who supposedly don’t understand anything but money, but this strategy backfires when, as is the norm, financial self-interest and ecological sustainability are opposed.

Similarly, calls to preserve the rainforests because of the value of the medicines that may one day be derived from its species imply that, if only we can invent synthetic alternatives to whatever the forest might bear, we needn’t preserve the rainforest after all. Even appealing to the well-being of one’s grandchildren harbors a similar trap: if that is your first concern, then what about environmental issues that only affect people in far-away lands, or that don’t tangibly harm any human being at all? The clubbing of baby seals, the extinction of the river dolphin, the deafening of whales with sonar… it is hard to construct a compelling argument that any of these threaten the measurable well-being of future generations. Are we then to sacrifice these beings of little utility?

Besides, did anyone ever become a committed environmentalist because of all the money we’ll save? Because of all the benefits we’ll receive? I am willing to bet that even the survival of the species or the well-being of your grandchildren isn’t the real motive for your environmentalism. You are not an environmentalist because you are afraid of what will happen if you don’t act. You are an environmentalist because you love our planet. To call others into environmentalism, we should therefore appeal to the same love in them. It is not only ineffectual but also insulting to offer someone a venal reason to act ecologically when we ourselves are doing it for love.

Nonetheless, environmental campaigning relies heavily on scare tactics. Fear might stimulate a few gestures of activism, but it does not sustain long-term commitment. It strengthens the habits of self-protection, but what we need is to strengthen the habits of service.

Why then do so many of us name “fear that we won’t have a livable planet” as the motive for their activism?

I think it is to make that activism acceptable within the ideological framework I have described that takes an instrumentalist view of the planet. When we embrace what I believe is the true motive—love for this Earth—we veer close to the territory that the cynic derides. What is it to make ‘rational’ choices, after all? Is it ever really rational to choose from love? In particular, is it rational to love something that isn’t even alive? But the truth is, we love the Earth for what it is, not merely for what it provides.

I suspect that even the most hardheaded environmentalist, who derides the Earth-is-alive crowd most vociferously, harbors a secret longing for the very object of his contempt. Deep down, he too believes the planet and everything on it is alive and sacred. He is afraid to touch that knowledge, even as he longs for it. Often, his intellectual reasons are but rationalizations by which he gives himself permission to act on his felt understanding of what is sacred.

This person is all of us. I am no exception: the idea of a living, sentient Earth attracts me and repels me both, mirroring the polarity of opinion I observe at conferences between the nuts-and-bolts and spiritual factions. Accusations of ‘naive!,’ ‘softheaded!’ and ‘gullible’ rattle around in my own brain, expressing a hurting thing within. Maybe if I join the ranks of the critics and turn the criticism outward, accuse others of ignoring science and indulging in fuzzy thinking, I can find some temporary relief. But there is no real healing in that. I want to be whole. I want to feel more and not less. I want to heal these alienated parts of myself, so that I don’t act from them unconsciously and sabotage the beautiful vision that asks my contribution.

Each of us (in an industrial society) wades against the tide of an old ideology as we dare to act from the felt understanding of our intimate connection to life, our interdependency, our interbeing. Critiques of the idea of a living planet make that struggle all the harder.

In the interests of honesty as well as effective strategy, we need to look at the fear and pain that that critique comes from. Then we can get people in touch with their perception of a living sacred planet, so they can feel the grief and love that perception opens, and act upon it.

Charles Eisenstein is a speaker and writer focusing on themes of human culture and identity. He is the author of several books, most recently Sacred Economics and The

Reuters

oth journalism and politics now live in the leak culture, and both professions will be forever changed by it. Both have always benefitted from leaks of some kind, from the officially authorized to the criminally filched.

But today’s ability to download and disseminate vast banks of information constitutes a new chapter in journalistic and political practice. Wikileaks has put U.S. diplomatic cables in the public domain, followed by the much riskier leaking of sensitive files from the National Security Agency and that followed by the leaking of the Panama Papers, which showed how the rich secretly contrive to get richer.

The leak to the Washington Post of a video, made in 2005, of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump claiming, among much else, that “when you’re a star, you can do anything” to women differs in principle from the previous leaks. They were unambiguously about issues of public concern. The Trump leak reaches into his private life. It is, to say the least, an unedifying moment: It shows him as boastful, glorying in his fame because it allows him to assault women with impunity.

It has allowed – indeed, compelled – Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, her allies and supporters everywhere to frame Trump as a lewd, sexist brute, who in bragging about grabbing women “by the p***y” had confessed, if not in prosecutable detail, to a criminal assault.

Yet suppose that someone had leaked details of the argument between President Abraham Lincoln and General John Fremont, commander of the Union Army in St Louis, Missouri, in the summer of 1861. Fremont, an autocratic man who rarely consulted higher authority, proclaimed that all slaves in Missouri were free. Lincoln, concerned that this would turn pro-union slaveholders against him, rescinded the proclamation and fired Fremont.

The leak of a letter, an account of a meeting or of Lincoln’s private frustrations vented to aides or friends could easily have been represented as proslavery sentiments on the part of the president. In fact, it was a matter of calculation aimed at ultimate victory by one whose opposition to slavery had been constant since his youth, though only strengthened into a full emancipation conviction in the course of the Civil War. Publication of the leak could certainly have been justified as a matter of public interest. Yet it would have been wholly deceptive if used as an indication that Lincoln was pro-slavery.

The Trump leak may have been a reasonable illumination of Trump’s character. Though it caused a wave of revulsion in Republican ranks, it didn't seem to cause much surprise. It was the kind of revelation that, when put in the public domain, we feel we know in principle, if not in detail. But it cannot encapsulate the whole person.

A leak of this kind allows no extenuating observation, of the kind Clinton herself proposed at the end of their testy second debate earlier this week.

When asked what she admired about Trump, she said that “his children are incredibly able, and devoted. And I think that says a lot about Donald … I do respect that.” Clinton’s generosity had changed the frame from enclosing a sexist brute glorying in assaulting women to an affectionate and responsible father who also glories in assaulting women. We are all, to use Walt Whitman’s most famed line from Leaves of Grass, large and “contain multitudes.”

Leaking isn’t, and doesn't.

The bragging Trump video, which had lain on a shelf at NBC for more than a decade, was leaked to Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold, presumably by an NBC employee. (Fahrenthold won’t say.) The network was itself about to broadcast the tape, but after the debate, when it would have had less impact of the kind the leaker—presumably a Clinton supporter-- evidently wanted.

Julian Assange, whose Wikileaks organization has released, among other documents, Clinton, John Podesta and Democratic Party emails, has denied that he is dumping the data to help win Trump the White House. Nonetheless, Assange despises the liberal-interventionist record of the former secretary of state and has clearly signaled his preference for the property magnate.

The Clinton campaign has fired back, with spokesman Brian Fallon calling Wikileaks “a propaganda arm of the Russian government, running interference for their pet candidate, Trump."

These leaks are more directly concerned with public matters but are still Clinton’s private communications about strategy and policy to her aides and her daughter, Chelsea. Such internal debates, when revealed, always make participants appear cynical and disrespectful of the electorate, whose opinions the campaign wishes to manipulate. Every political figure has had such conversations for centuries: See Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince for advice on how to please the people and stay in power.

During the debate, Clinton congratulated herself for following First Lady Michelle Obama’s advice on “going high,” while Trump went low. In fact, both candidates went “low” in using the garishly lit revelations of private behavior for political advantage. Trump’s parading of women who claim to have been sexually assaulted by her husband, Bill Clinton, was an attempt to win a battle on the same ground by claiming that Hillary Clinton threatened the women – a charge that, former editor of the New York Times Jill Abramson claims, is largely empty.

The internet never forgets. It is a dark arsenal of incidents, from embarrassing to mortal, to be used against public figures. The news media have few inhibitions left about using private scenes to humble the famous.

Trump, accustomed to taking the rewards of celebrity, is learning the old maxim that one must pay for everything. Clinton has known it for decades.

Leaking, the brilliant flash catching the guilty moment, is part of our politics, and our journalism.

John Lloyd co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is senior research fellow. Lloyd has written several books, including What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics. He is also a contributing editor at the

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EC to announce poll schedule in five states based on inputs by security forces

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (Pti): The Election Commission will take a call on the dates of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand, due early next year, based on the inputs provided by security forces and state law and order machinery, Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi said on Wednesday.

He said the schedule will be finalised keeping in mind the weather and examination schedule.

"We are trying to assess the requirement of security forces, climate and exam schedule - all these inputs are being taken into consideration. Only then we will be able to say whether they will be staggered or multi-phase," the CEC told reporters on the sidelines of an event.

To another question on the subject, he said, "As far as the schedule is concerned, the Commission has not given a thought as yet."

While the term of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly ends in May next, the terms of assemblies of Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand will end in March,

2017.

Against the backdrop of Ram temple issue hogging the limelight in Uttar Pradesh again, he was asked whether he thinks the Commission should be given powers to prevent political parties from making statements in pollbound states where elections have not yet been announced.

Skirting the issue, Zaidi said once the polls are announced and the model code comes enforce, the EC will ensure its compliance in letter and spirit.

"EC has in the past ensured strict compliance of the model code and will ensure the same in future too," he said.

Terming use of money power a "matter of concern", the CEC said in the last elections, it was a matter of concern and in the coming polls too there is feedback that there is possibility of misuse of money power.

"We have a strategy and we are making it more robust," he said, adding that the poll watchdog has already written to the government to make bribery an electoral offence.

Need political consensus for simultaneous elections: CEC

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (iANS): The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) on Wednesday said that the Election Commission was ready to hold simultaneous Lok Sabha and state legislative polls if "certain conditions are met" and more resources are provided. One of the conditions, according to CEC Nasim Zaidi, was that there should be consensus among all

political parties on the move.

"The Commission can hold simultaneous elections," Zaidi said, adding that there were two things to be noted.

"Firstly, several constitutional amendments will have to be made, and secondly there has to be a consensus among all the political parties," Zaidi told IANS on the sidelines

of an international conference on voter education, here.

"If these two things are done... then we can hold simultaneous elections. Of course, we would need extra resources... more electronic voting machines (EVMS), etc.," he added.

He said that the Commission has already written to the Law Ministry about this.

Can clerics be tried under election law?

SC hearing on "corrupt practices" under electoral law continues

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (Pti): The Supreme Court, scrutinising the two-decade-old 'Hindutva' judgement, today asked whether non-contesting spiritual leaders or clerics can be held accountable for "corrupt practices" under electoral law for asking voters to vote for a particular party or candidate.

"How can a person, who himself has neither contested nor returned as a winning candidate, be tried for allegedly resorting to corrupt practices under the Representation of the People (RP) Act," a seven-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice T S Thakur asked.

The court is examining the

"scope and width" of section 123(3) of the RP Act which deals with electoral malpractices amounting to "corrupt practices", among other things. "The appeal by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent to vote or refrain from voting for any person on the ground of his religion, race, caste, community or language or the use of, or appeal to religious symbols or the use of, or appeal to, national symbols..., for furtherance of the prospects of the election of that candidate or for prejudicially affecting the election of any candidate" would amount to corrupt practices, the provision says.

Senior advocate Arvind Datar, appearing for Abhiram Singh whose election as an MLA in 1990 on BJP ticket from Santacruz assembly seat in Mumbai was set aside by the High

Court, referred to section 123(3) of the Act and said that corrupt practice can only be established if either the "candidate or his agent" seek votes on the name of religion.

If any other person, like late Bal Thackeray and late Pramod Mahajan in the present case, sought votes on these grounds, referred to in the RP Act, then there has to be the "consent" of the candidate, he told the bench, which also comprised justices Madan B Lokur, S A Bobde, A K Goel, U U Lalit, D Y Chandrachud and L Nageswara Rao. During the day-long hearing, the bench asked the counsel as to how the statements of religious leaders or clerics, made much before the commencement of the election process, seeking votes on the objectionable grounds, would fall foul of the RP Act.

SBI blocks over half million debit cards after security risk Review 'no-detention', spent No loss from cyber attack: Axis Bank

MuMbAi, OctOber 19 (iANS): Following a suspected security breach, the State Bank Of India (SBI) has blocked more than 600,000 debit cards of its customers and will issue fresh cards to them, official sources said here on Wednesday.

The malware-related security breach was reportedly detected in the non-SBI ATM network and the move is intended to ensure that customer's confidential personal data is not compromised while swiping. Confirming, a SBI spokesperson said that card network companies NPCI, MasterCard and Visa had informed various banks in India about a potential risk to some cards in India "owing to a data breach".

"Accordingly, SBI has taken precautionary measures and have blocked cards of certain customers identified by the networks," the spokesper-

son said, without revealing the exact number of customers who would be affected. The SBI emphasised that its own systems have absolutely not been compromised and existing cardholders are not at any risk and can continue to use their cards as usual.

Meanwhile, SBI will issue new cards free of cost to the affected customers in the incidents affecting the cards industry.

According to banking circles, several other banks have also experienced similar problems as a few ATMs have been hit by a malware which has a high potential to compromise customers data. Official figures indicate that SBI has over 20 crore active debit cards, besides another 4.75 crore of its associate banks. Some private banks are conducting security review by experts of its ATM networks to pre-empt any type of breaches.

MuMbAi, OctOber 19 (reuterS): Axis Bank Ltd, India's third-biggest private sector lender by assets, said on Wednesday there was no loss to its customers from a recent cyber attack. "Our internal monitoring mechanism identified such a threat recently and all steps have been undertaken to neutralize the same," the bank said in a statement to Reuters. India's Economic Times newspaper, which first reported the news, said the bank filed a preliminary report about the breach to the regulator, Reserve Bank of India, and that it had hired EY to carry out an investigation.

"As a responsible financial institution, we proactively communicate potential threats to the regulator," the bank said in the statement, adding that it had a large team of information technology professionals who monitor its systems and mitigate any threat. In July, state-run Union Bank of India Ltd said one of the bank's offshore accounts was breached in a cyber attack, but the money trail was traced and the movement of funds was blocked. Some $81 million was stolen from the Bangladesh central bank account with the New York Fed this year in one of the biggest-ever cyber heists.

6% GDP on education:CABE

chANDigArh/New Delhi, OctOber 19 (iANS): The Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) sub-committee has recommended to the Union HRD Ministry that a "no-detention" policy for school students till class eight should be reviewed. The sub-committee has also recommended that 6% of the GDP should be spent on education.

The CABE sub-committee chairman, Punjab Education Minister Daljit Singh Cheema, said that the 189page report of the committee was on Wednesday submitted to Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi with recommendations on improving the school education sector.

In a statement after submission of the report Cheema said that the committee has recommended pre-primary classes in primary schools to improve the level of students belonging to government schools. "Besides this, the committee also recommended the reviewing of

'No Detention' till eighth standard, apart from commencing fifth and eighth standard exams independently as was the case earlier," Cheema said.

"While preparing the report, the expenditure by various countries on education was also compared, after which it was recommended that a minimum of six per cent of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) should be spent on education," he added.

"The committee has also recommended spending more on elementary/primary education besides having a head for every school compulsorily," he said.

The committee recommended that a recruitment calendar is needed to be prepared in advance in order to ensure that no post remains vacant in the wake of superannuation. "The committee has also recommended the constitution of a committee of academic experts to review the course syllabus, duration of course and practical training in vogue at present to become a teacher," he pointed out.

Sweet paradox: Drought-stricken farmers plant thirstiest crop

AurANgAbAD, OctOber 19 (reuterS): Despite pleas from the government not to, Indian farmers like Santosh Wagh went right back to planting sugar cane as soon as the first nourishing monsoon rains brought water to his drought-stricken region of central India.

For growers like Wagh, a 35-year old from the Marathwada region in the west of Maharashtra, sugar cane has two attributes that make planting the crop lucrative - hardiness and state policies that ensure higher returns. These farmers sow the cane even as its outsized water demands relative to other crops threaten to plunge this traditionally arid region back into a drought.

"It is the only reliable crop. Earlier this year I cultivated onions and incurred a 50,000 rupees loss as prices crashed," said Wagh, who plants 1.5 acres (0.6 hectares) of sugar cane.

Four months ago Maharashtra, the biggest sugar producing region in India, suffered the worst drought in four decades that ravaged crops, killed livestock, depleted reservoirs and slowed down hydroelectric power output.

ists and the government blamed the rapid expansion of sugar cane growing for creating the water scarcity. Cane consumes about 22.5 million litres of water per hectare during its 14-month long growing cycle compared to just 4 million litres over four months for chickpeas, a pulse, commonly grown in India and called gram locally.

Without government intervention to reset the revenue balance in favour of other crops, experts warn the sustained production of sugar cane will further deplete scarce water resources and leave the region prone to droughts.

This could create social unrest stemming from the widening income gap between cane growers and other farmers.

"The government asks farmers to shift to less water consuming crops, but it does little to support those crops. It failed to solve the problems of oilseed and pulses growers," said Pradeep Purandare, a former professor at Maharashtra Water and Land Management Institute based in Aurangabad.

Erratic prices for vegetables, oilseeds and pulses limit the incentive for farm-

In contrast, the government requires sugar mills to buy cane at a set "fair and remunerative price" (FRP).

The government also buys wheat and rice at what is called the minimum support price (MSP).

"Returns from other crops are unpredictable.

This year I allowed 5 tonnes of onions to rot. Prices were so low that my losses would have increased by transporting onions to the market," said Suresh Kothawale, another Aurangabad farmer.

India's government hopes higher subsidies for pulses and oilseeds will change farming patterns.

"We are creating oilseeds and pulses as an alternative for sugar cane by raising their minimum support prices," said a senior official at India's Agriculture Ministry who declined to be named.

But industry critics said the pulse and oilseed MSP only exists on paper as the government never procures them aggressively like wheat or rice.

"Green gram prices were trading below support prices due to higher production. This makes the support price irrelevant for farmers," said Nitin Kalantri, a pulses miller based at

Month-long Parlaiment session to begin on Nov 16

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (Pti): The winter session of Parliament will commence on November 16 and is likely to end on December 16, it was officially announced on Wednesday.This will be the 10th session of 16th Lok Sabha and 241st session of Rajya Sabha. "The tenth session of sixteenth Lok Sabha will commence on Wednesday, November 16, 2016. Subject to exigencies of government business the Session is likely to conclude on Friday, December 16, 2016," a statement from the Lok Sabha secretariat said. A similar communique was issued by Rajya Sabha secretary general Shamsher K Sheriff. The session dates have been advanced this time since in the past it was normally convened in the third or fourth week of November. An early session may help the Central GST (CGST) and Integrated GST (IGST) legislations, which will pave way for the Goods and Services Tax (GST), to be approved within November or latest by early December. The winter session will be dominated by the surgical strike by the opposition which is getting upset that the government is taking credit for the work it has done. The government is also considering advancing the Budget Session by a month and it expected to start in the end of January next year.

IAF chopper crashes; 15 onboard personnel safe

DehrADuN, OctOber 19 (Pti): Around 15 personnel of Army and Air Force had a narrow escape today when an IAF helicopter, in which they were travelling, crashed after taking off near the Mana village of Chamoli district in Uttarakhand. The Mi-17 V5 helicopter was practising 'inter-valley movement' at Ghastoli helipad between Badrinath and Mana Pass when the mishap took place at around 9:25 AM, the IAF said. However, all occupants including members of the crew and personnel of the Indian Army's 12 Grenadiers were reported safe, the IAF added. A colonel rank officer is looking into the accident to ascertain its cause.

Centre, states put off decision on GST rate to next month

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (Pti): A decision on GST rate was on Wednesday put off to next month, even as the Centre and states converged towards a consensus on levying a cess on luxury and sin goods in addition to the highest rate of tax in the new regime. The cess would be used to compensate states for any loss of revenue they may suffer from implementation of Goods and Service Tax (GST) in first five years beginning April 1, 2017. An informal consensus was reached at the end of the two-day meeting of the GST Council on a four-slab tax structure of 6, 12, 18 and 26%. The lower tariff will be for essential items and the highest bracket for luxury and sin goods like tobacco, cigarettes and alcohol, but a decision was put off to the next meeting.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the GST Council, that includes representatives of all states, will meet again on November 3-4 to decide on the tax rates. “We will finalise the tax structure at the next meeting,” he said.

Clash over gurdwaras leaves 3 dead

chANDigArh, OctOber 19 (iANS): A clash and firing between two groups over control of a gurdwara left three people dead in Punjab's Muktsar district on Wednesday, police said. Six people, who were injured, were admitted to the Muktsar Civil Hospital. The incident took place in Mallan village of Gidderbaha sub-division, about 250 km from here. Village residents told the police that both sides fired a number of rounds. Arms, swords and traditional weapons were used in the clash. The clash took place after a Sikh religious group, led by preacher Balbir Singh, tried to take control of the shrine. Police said tension started between both sides when the Balbir Singh group, through Naib Singh, handed over a letter to present gurdwara in-charge Makhan Singh on Tuesday evening. On Wednesday, both groups, led by Naib Singh and Makhan Singh, came face to face with their armed supporters, leading to the clash.

Government to bring bill to decriminalise beggary

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (Pti): Government will soon bring a bill that seeks decriminalisation of beggary and aims to offer a life of dignity by rehabilitating beggars and homeless people. Social Justice Ministry has prepared a draft on 'The Persons in Destitution (Protection, Care and Rehabilitation) Model Bill, 2016' which aims to offer a life of dignity to the beggars and homeless and others who live in poverty or abandonment. The ministry today organised a pre-legislative consultation meeting with representatives from states and UTs to seek their opinion. "The Bill will provide protection, care, support, shelter, training and other services to all persons in destitution. The approach of the Ministry towards addressing the problem of destitution and beggary is rehabilitative rather than punitive," Social Justice Minister Thawar Chand Gehlot said while chairing the meeting.

HC dismisses Kejriwal's plea to stay defamation case

New Delhi, OctOber 19 (Pti): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today suffered a setback when the Delhi High Court dismissed his plea to stay a trial court proceedings in a criminal defamation case against him and other AAP leaders filed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying, "it is devoid of merit". "The request of the petitioner to adjourn the court proceedings before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) is rejected, being devoid of merit and the same is culminated into dismissal of the present petition," Justice P S Teji said. "Thus, this court is of the view that the order of the CMM, dated May 19, 2016 continuing with the proceedings is free from perversity, impropriety, illegality and non- sustainability which compelled this court to exercise the inherent jurisdiction under Section 482 Cr PC," the court said.

Parubai Govind Pawar, a 55-year-old female worker cuts sugarcane in a field in Degaon village in Solapur, in Maharashtra. (REUTERS/File Photo)

HARDY CROP, POLITICAL CLOUT The sugar mill buildup in Marathwada was initially pushed by politicians in the region trying to replicate the prosperity of mills in other areas of Maharashtra state and was focused on areas with plentiful water, said Jaidev Dole, a political analyst in Aurangabad.

"But later politicians opened mills everywhere, even in areas where drinking water is not available,

rather than making farmers rich," he said. Farmers sell cane directly to sugar mills, effectively getting 100 percent remuneration, but other crops pass through middlemen, ensuring farmers get half the price consumers pay, said Sanjeev Babar, managing director of the Maharashtra State Co-operative Sugar Factories Federation.

Sugar cane's sturdiness also attracts farmers because of limited access

against crop failures.

Mature cane withstands heavy rainfall or dry spells and is also less vulnerable to pest and diseases compared to other crops, said farmer Sharad Mate, who has lost pulse crops due to droughts and un-seasonal rainfall.

"I had taken crop insurance for pulses last year, but didn't get compensation despite losing an entire crop," said Mate, a farmer from Sillod, northeast of

Singur awaits land handover to farmers from Thursday

SiNgur (weSt beNgAl), OctOber 19 (iANS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to kick off the process to hand over physical possession of land to farmers from Thursday.The announcement has led to a second spell of festivities -- after Durga Puja -- in this rural pocket of Hooghly district. Following the Supreme Court order to return to the cultivators within 12 weeks the land that had been acquired for the Tata Motors' Nano project, the state government has been trying to complete the process of giving physical possession within 10 weeks. The court-stipulated time-frame will expire by November-end."The process of giving physical possession of land will start from Gopalnagar," a district official involved with the process told IANS."It is a time-consuming process as there are several legal heirs.

We have to convince the farmers about the specific plots they will now own. It will be done in a phased manner,"

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New crisis looms in Hong Kong HK legislators walk out to shun ‘pro-independence activists’

Protesters hold printouts depicting legislator-elect Yau Wai-ching (R) and Baggio Leung (C) as traitors during a demonstration outside the Legislative Council in Hong Kong, China October 19. (REUTERS)

HONG KONG, OctOber 19 (reuters): Dozens of pro-Beijing lawmakers walked out of the Hong Kong legislature on Wednesday to prevent the swearing-in of two pro-independence activists, setting the scene for a new constitutional crisis in the Chinese-controlled city.

The topic of independence has long been taboo in the former British colony, now governed under the “one country, two systems” principle since its return to Communist Party-ruled China in 1997.

The government failed in an unprecedented legal attempt to halt the swearing-in of the two newly elected legislators, Baggio Leung, 30, and Yau Wai-ching, 25, late on Tuesday evening.

But High Court Judge Thomas Au did approve the government’s request for a judicial review of the case, which will take place early next month.

The pro-China lawmakers on Wednesday marched out of the Legislative Council chamber, leaving Chinese and Hong Kong flags in their place, to deprive it of a quorum.

Senior pro-establishment lawmaker Regina Ip said she generally disapproved of walk-outs, but the legislators had no option after the pair refused to apologise for “insulting our motherland”.

“This is a very exceptional case involving a fundamental principle which involves loyalty to your country and adherence to our oath of upholding the ... law,” she said.

Yau said it was the pro-establishment camp that needed to apologise as they were “the ones who really betrayed the Hong Kong people”.

New legislative president Andrew Leung, himself a pro-establishment figure, stood by his defiance of government efforts to ban Yau and Leung.

“They are duly elected...and I have a constitutional duty to safeguard their rights to fulfil their duties as Legislative Council members,” he said.

He said he thought Hong Kong was still far from a constitutional crisis and said he had no regrets about his decision.

It is unclear when the swearing-in will now take place.

DEROGATORY JAPANESE SLANG Yau and Leung sparked outrage from Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing establishment when their first oaths were rejected by legislative officials last week.

At the time, they pledged allegiance to the “Hong Kong nation” and displayed a banner declaring that “Hong Kong is not China”, using language some legislators portrayed as derogatory Japanese slang.

Leung and Yau are part of a new generation of Hong Kong activists determined to force issues of self-determination and independence on to the mainstream political agenda.

Street protests calling for full democracy for Hong Kong that blocked key arteries in 2014 presented Com-

munist Party rulers in Beijing with one of their biggest political challenges in decades.

Outside the chamber, hundreds of pro-Beijing protesters thronged the grounds of the legislature, some carrying placards of the pair dressed in Japanese army uniforms that denounced them as “traitors” and “dogs”.

Others chanted that the pair must step down to protect China’s “dignity”.

The judicial review looms as a unprecedented constitutional battle in the free-wheeling global financial hub, testing its rule of law and the separation of powers between the government and legislative branch.

Some senior judges and government officials fear privately the issue could force Beijing to invoke rarely used to powers to re-interpret Hong Kong’s mini-constitution, or push through new laws.

Hong Kong’s Secretary of Justice, Rimsky Yuen, said his government launched its challenge without direction from Beijing and it would not seek any interpretation from the National People’s Congress.

“We have confidence that the issue can be resolved in the Hong Kong system.”

Regina Ip said it was a “high risk” legal action that the government may not completely win.

“The chief executive’s action last night was an...extreme measure to deal with what clearly (he) considers an extreme situation.”

Thailand sees an increase in royal defamation cases after death of king

Mourners pay respects in front of a portrait of Thailand’s late King Bhumibol Adulyadej outside Bangkok City Hall, Thailand, October 19. (REUTERS)

bANGKOK, OctOber 19 (reuters): Thai police are investigating 12 new complaints of royal defamation found on social media lodged since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej last week, a sharp rise amid intensifying scrutiny of anything deemed offensive to the monarchy.

The death last Thursday of the revered king, who was 88, after seven decades on the throne has plunged the Southeast Asian country into mourning and heightened sensitivity about the monarchy.

King Bhumibol was seen as a stabilising figure in a country often racked by political turmoil.

Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has moved quickly to quash any uncertainty around the royal succession, saying Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn would ascend the throne after a period of mourning that

he had requested. Insulting the monarch, the regent or the heir, known by the French-language term “lese-majeste”, is a crime in Thailand that carries a jail sentence of up to 15 years for each case.

Police spokesman Kitsana Pattanacharoen said there had been 12 lesemajeste cases since last Thursday, with arrest warrants issued for eight suspects and four already in police custody.

“Their crime was posting messages or pictures which insulted the monarchy on social media,” he told Reuters. There were 70 cases in the two-and-ahalf years from a May 2014 coup up to last Thursday, said Weerawat Somnuek, a researcher at Thai legal monitoring group iLaw. “Twelve cases in a week is a lot,” Weerawat told Reuters.

deep grief among Thais, who have for decades seen the late king as a unifying father figure.

People are dressing in black around the country, and have been streaming to Bangkok’s gilded Grand Palace to pay their respects to the late king, who is lying there.

No date has been set for a royal cremation but it is expected to take place in about a year.

The Thai stock market, which fell sharply last week as investors worried about stability after King Bhumibol, has been stable this week. But some griefstricken people have been quick to anger.

In some cases, violence has erupted against individuals deemed disrespectful, while similar anger has erupted online against people whose posts have been seen as inapGRIEF, ANGER propriate. Thailand’s main The stepped-up pros- mobile telecoms operators ecutions come at a time of have, at the government’s

request, asked customers to report websites and social media posts deemed inappropriate or insulting.

The government also asked internet service providers to monitor content and inform platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to block offensive content. Failure to do so would be considered a crime, the government said.

The junta has sought to reassure the public that a roadmap to the restoration of democracy, which promises a general election in 2017, remains on course and there is no uncertainty around royal succession.

Prime Minister Prayuth told reporters after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday that the roadmap was unchanged and the succession would happen after a period of mourning.

“There are a lot of preparations needed to be made before succession,” junta spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree told Reuters.

Winthai said an estimate the prime minister gave on Tuesday of seven to 15 days was meant only to convey a passage of time and was not to be taken literally.

“The length of time he mentioned were just a turn of phrase and not exact figures,” Winthai said.

The formal procedure for the prince becoming king involves the cabinet informing the president of the legislature. The assembly then invites the prince to ascend the throne.

Pornpet Vichitcholcha, president of the National Legislative Assembly, told reporters that the legislature was ready to handle the matter at any time.

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Migraine linked to microbes in your mouths

New YOrK, OctOber 19 (IANs): Researchers have found that the mouths of migraine sufferers harbour significantly more microbes with the ability to modify nitrates than people who do not get migraine headaches.

“There is this idea out there that certain foods trigger migraines -- chocolate, wine and especially foods containing nitrates,” said study first author Antonio Gonzalez from University of California San Diego in the US. “We thought that perhaps there are connections between what people are eating, their microbiomes and their experiences with migraines,” Gonzalez noted.

Nitrates, found in foods such as processed meats and green leafy vegetables and in certain medicines, can be reduced to nitrites by bacteria found in the mouth.

When circulating in the blood,

these nitrites can then be converted into nitric oxide under certain conditions. Nitric oxide can aid cardiovascular health by improving blood flow and reducing blood pressure.

However, roughly four in five cardiac patients who take nitratecontaining drugs for chest pain or congestive heart failure report se-

vere headaches as a side effect.

To better understand the link, the researchers sequenced bacteria found in 172 oral samples and 1,996 fecal samples from healthy participants.

The participants had previously filled out surveys indicating whether they suffered from migraines.

The bacterial gene sequencing found that bacterial species were found in different abundances between people who get migraines (migraineurs) and non-migraineurs. In fecal samples, the researchers found a slight but statistically significant increase in the abundance of genes that encode nitrate, nitrite and nitric oxide-related enzymes in migraineurs.

In oral samples, these genes were significantly more abundant in migraine sufferers The study was published in the journal mSystems.

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Mahrez takes Leicester closer to last 16, Madrid win big Paris, OctOber 19 (aFP): Riyad Mahrez secured another Champions League victory for Leicester City on Tuesday while big boys Real Madrid, Juventus and Borussia Dortmund were also in winning form.

Leicester maintained a perfect record in Group G in their first foray in Europe's elite club competition by edging FC Copenhagen 1-0 at the King Power Stadium with Mahrez getting the only goal of the game.

Islam Slimani headed down a Jamie Vardy cross for Mahrez to score with a close-range volley with the outside of his left foot five minutes before half-time.

With Porto winning 2-1 away to Club Brugge in the group's other game, Claudio Ranieri's side now know a win away to Copenhagen in their next match on November 2 will secure a place in the last 16.

"We're in a good position now," said Ranieri.

"We knew it would be tough. Copenhagen tried until the end. It was difficult at the start, but the performance was good."

In Bruges, Jelle Vossen put the home side in front early on but Miguel Layun lashed in the equaliser midway through the second half and Andre Silva scored a stoppage-time winner from the penalty spot.

For Porto goalkeeper Iker Casillas it was a 92nd win in the Champions League, allowing him to

FC Copenhagen in trouble over fans' firework display

ZUricH, OctOber 19 (reUters): FC Copenhagen are facing disciplinary proceedings after their fans lit up a corner of Leicester City's King Power stadium with pyrotechnics during their Champions League match on Tuesday.

European soccer's governing body UEFA said in a statement that the Danish champions had been charged with "setting off of fireworks" during their 1-0 defeat and the case would be dealt with on November 17.

Leicester, the home club, were not charged. UEFA has a strict ban on flares and fireworks in stadiums although many supporters said on social media that they were impressed after Copenhagen supporters put on what amounted to a full-blown pyrotechnics display.

Others wondered how stewards could have allowed so many fireworks into the stadium while confiscating sandwiches and other small items off fans at previous fixtures.

Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez steers the ball home on the volley past Robin Olsen in the FC Copenhagen goal to give his side their third successive win in Group G. (EPA Photo)

surpass Barcelona legend Xavi Hernandez and establish a new record.

Leicester's Premier League rivals Tottenham Hotspur found themselves hanging on for a point as they claimed a 0-0 draw away to Bayer Leverkusen in Germany in Group E. A Vincent Janssen header that came back off the bar was the closest

Spurs came to scoring at the BayArena.

The home side piled on the pressure in the second half but Javier Hernandez was denied by a brilliant save on the line

by Hugo Lloris and Stefan Kiessling missed a great chance late on.

"We can be pleased with the point," said Lloris.

"The game turned in

the second half, Leverkusen pressed high and we struggled a bit. I think the draw is a good result for us."

Just three points separate all four teams in the section, but it is Monaco who are on top after coming from behind to draw 1-1 at CSKA Moscow.

Ivorian striker Lacina Traore, on loan from Monaco, scored against his

parent club in the 34th minute but Bernardo Silva equalised for the visitors late on.

- Trouble mars Madrid win Reigning champions Real Madrid cruised to a 5-1 victory at home to Legia Warsaw in Group F after supporter violence marred the build-up to the game at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Five fans and two police officers were treated for minor injuries following clashes outside the stadium before kick-off.

When the game began, Vadis Odjidja struck the post for the visitors before Gareth Bale fired in the opener and a Marcelo shot went in off Tomasz Jodlowiec.

Miroslav Radovic pulled one back from the

penalty spot but Marco Asensio made it 3-1 before the interval and substitutes Lucas Vazquez and Alvaro Morata added further goals in the second half.

Zinedine Zidane's side are level on seven points at the top of the group with Borussia Dortmund, who were 2-1 winners over Sporting Lisbon in Portugal.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang burst through for an early opener and a superb Julian Weigl strike made it 2-0 but Dortmund were hanging on after Bruno Cesar reduced the deficit midway through the second half.

In Group H Juan Cuadrado came off the bench to score a late winner as 10-man Juventus

beat Lyon 1-0 in France.

Gianluigi Buffon was in fine form for the Italian champions as he saved a first-half Alexandre Lacazette penalty, while Juve had Mario Lemina sent off early in the second period.

But Cuadrado netted the winner 14 minutes from the end as the hosts failed to make their man advantage count.

"I should thank Mario Lemina for his sendingoff because I thought we played better with a man less," said Juve coach Massimiliano Allegri.

They are level at the top of the group with Sevilla, who were 1-0 winners away to Dinamo Zagreb in Croatia, Samir Nasri netting the only goal.

IOC strips Russian weightlifter of London silver Bengaluru FC create history to reach AFC Cup final Paris, OctOber 19 (aFP): The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday stripped Russian weightlifter Apti Aukhadov of the silver medal he won at the 2012 London Games after a retest of samples tested positive for drugs.

The 23-year-old finished second in the men's 85kg weightlifting event.

But re-analysis of Aukhadov’s samples from London resulted in a "positive test for the prohibited substances Dehydrochlor methyltestosterone(turina bol) and Drostanolone".

The ruling is the latest blow to Russia, whose track

and field athletes were barred from the Rio Games and which is at the centre of a unprecedented doping scandal that led the IOC to seek a complete overhaul of global drug testing.

The IOC at the weekend called for all testing and sanctioning powers to be taken away from sports federations.

It wants the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) to set up a new global testing body and the Court of Arbitration for Sport to make all decisions on punishments for those caught cheating.

The IOC added that Ukrainian pole vaulter

Russia's Apti Aukhadov, pictured on the podium of the men's 85kg weightlifting event at the 2012 Olympic Games, was stripped of his silver medal by the IOC after a sample re-test came back positive for drugs (AFP Photo/Yuri Cortez)

Maksym Mazuryk, who qualified after re-analysis ranked 18th in the event came back positive, also for in London, had been dis- turinabol.

Indian Boxing Council inducted in WBO New DelHi, OctO ber 19 (Pti): The Indian Boxing Council, a licensing body for the country's professional boxers, has been inducted into the World Boxing Organisation with voting rights in the WBO's annual convention at Puerto Rico.

IBC President Brig. PKM Raja attended the meet in which the Indian body was welcomed into the fold by WBO founder Chairman Luis Batista Salas.

"I am extremely de-

lighted that Indian Boxing Council has been formally welcomed into the WBO fold. This paves the way for Indian Boxers to participate in WBO Events and be eligible to compete for WBO Asia Pacific as well as WBO World Titles," Brig.

Raja told PTI over phone.

"It was a momentous occasion for me as President of IBC, when many prominent Boxing Promoters from Asia, Europe, America and Africa congratulated me immediately

after the WBO announcement and expressed their keen interest to join hands with Indian Boxing Council for the promotion of Professional Boxing in India," he added.

The convention was also attended by Neerav Tomar, Managing Director and CEO of Infinity Optimal Solutions (IOS), which is the India promoter of star boxer Vijender Singh.

Vijender is the reigning WBO Asia-Pacific super middleweight champion.

MCA writes letter to BCCI on implementing reforms

MUMbai, OctOber 19 (Pti): Spelling out practical problems it had encountered in implementing the Justice Lodha committee's reforms in the BCCI and its affiliates in totality, Mumbai Cricket Association has said it already had in place measures that, by and large, jell well with the reform process.

It has also assured the BCCI that the Rs 18.92 crore subsidy it received from the Board will be kept in FD till clearance for its utilisation is received from the Supreme Court.

The letter, signed by joint secretary P V Shetty and sent to the BCCI a couple of days ago, said changes that were required to be made in its constitution as formulated by the Lodha panel, needed 2/3rds ma-

jority of its general body at its specially convened SGM. "Alteration or amendment or addition to Memorandum of Association or to these rules shall not be made except at a General Meeting by a resolution carried by a majority of two third of the votes of the members present and voting at the meeting," Shetty stated in his letter.

Shetty noted that while the Board was a policy maker its state bodies were the "decision executing" bodies, in preparation of stadium for hosting matches - including ground preparation - that started four months in advance.

He also observed that all the immovable property like stadiums are owned and operated by the asso-

ciations and not BCCI, right through the year.

"This infrastructure, though required to be created at massive cost is not used throughout for cricket, which is required to be maintained at very high cost throughout the year, even when there is no cricket. Also there are taxes levied by local authority, which is never without the dispute and litigations which prolong for years together," the MCA official has stated in its communication to the BCCI. It was also pointed out by Shetty that while the BCCI takes care of the needs of just the cream of players in both seniors and juniors, it's the duty of the associations like MCA to take care of thousands of other players.

beNgalUrU, OctOber 19 (iaNs): Bengaluru FC became the first Indian club to reach the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup final by trouncing holders Malaysia's Johor Darul Ta'zim 3-1 in the semi-final second leg here on Wednesday.

The two-time I-League champions won 4-2 on aggregate and now take on Iraqi club Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in the final on November 5 in Doha, Qatar.

Bengaluru remained indebted to skipper and mercurial forward Sunil Chhetri who scored a brace on either side of halftime with defender Juanan adding

gloss to the scoreline after the visitors had taken the lead through Safiq Bin Rahim early on in the game at the Kanteerava Stadium. Johor scored as early as in the 11th minute, skipper Rahim heading in from close after Bengaluru goalkeeper Amrinder Singh failed to parry away Safee Ali's venomous strike. Despite taking the lead, the hosts looked comfortable in midfield and should have taken the lead when Chhetri was denied by the crossbar after a good touch from the Johor keeper initially saw the ball fall back out to play from where Eugeneson Lyngdoh hammered a low shot at goal

which Izham Mohammed punched away.

The rebound fell to the skipper on the edge of the six-yard box. Trying to power the ball into the top of goal, the veteran forward found the horizontal bar.

Chhetri though found the net minutes later, nodding in a free header off a Lyngdoh corner, which was won by Chhetri himself.

Both sides went into the break at 1-1.

BFC dominated proceedings after the restart with Chhetri and Alwyn George coming close to taking the lead in the tie.

In the 66th minute, the Kanteerava erupted in joy

as Chhetri -- in imperious form -- scored a goal of the highest quality by making space for himself from well outside the box to beat Izham all ends up. Centreback Juanan, filling in the void left by Curtis Osano this season, joined the act nine minutes later turning in Lyngdoh's free kick with aplomb to net his first goal for the southern outfit.

With the tie and the semi-final all but won and separated by a few minutes from history being rewritten in Indian football, the ILeague champions brought on full-back Keegan Pereira replacing Chhetri in a tactical move.

India ready to dominate Kiwis once again

New DelHi, OctO ber 19 (Pti): Limited over captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be eager to regain his golden touch even as Virat Kohli eyes another smashing knock at his home ground when favourites India lock horns with an hapless New Zealand in the second ODI here on Thursday.

It may be just another ODI in a bilateral series, but there is lot at stake for Dhoni, who has been under pressure after Test skipper Virat Kohli led India to the number one ranking following a 3-0 whitewash.

With India up 1-0 in the five-match series, Dhoni and his men would like to reassert themselves at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in order to further consolidate their lead.

It is expected that Dhoni would not tinker much with the playing XI from last game with Suresh Raina, who missed the opening match, being ruled out of the second ODI as well after failing to recover from a bout of viral fever.

At the face of it, there is apparently no danger to Dhoni's captaincy since the team is still winning matches. But if one digs deeper, Virat has slowly and surely been the man everyone is looking forward to as a leader.

A 'Clean Sweep' in Test series with a career-best time and again showed as double hundred, followed to how it is done "leading by an effortless 85 Not from the front."

For Dhoni, it's now out in first ODI, Kohli has

about showing the world that he is far from being dubbed as a spent force in limited overs after earning

gling to stay afloat in the series, India's 'Captain Cool' is fighting a different battle to remain the 'supreme' commander' of 'Men In Blue'.

Dhoni is still supremely fit and agile behind the stumps.

His captaincy acumen cannot be questioned. Testimony to that is Hardik Pandya opening the bowling and Kedar Jadhav filling in the role of a part time offspinner.

But then runs aren't exactly coming from his bat.

The big hits aren't being executed with perfection that used to be his hallmark a few years ago.

He was run out for 21 in the last game and although that didn't affect the outcome of the match in any way, but the skipper knows only too well that he has to play a few impact innings in coming weeks.

No wonder Dhoni's intensity while batting at Kotla nets during an optional session was there to be seen. For the record, he needs another 61 runs to complete 9000 ODI runs.

But there must be a lingering shadow of Virat standing right behind him.

A 3-0 Test series victory has set a benchmark. Now Dhoni would like to ideally win the series 5-0 against a New Zealand side. A blip here or a hiccup there would invite more critisobriquet of 'Best Finisher" cism as people take it for granted that India will win some years back.

While Kane William- hands down against New son's 'Black Caps' is strug- Zealand.

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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ctress Amanda Seyfried says she has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). While discussing home renovations in Allure magazine's November issue, the actress mentioned she has obsessive compulsive disorder, reports eonline.com. "I bought the house in 2013, and then I had it redone," the 30-year-old said of the house she owns in Stone Ridge, New York.

"I just finished renovating one of the barns for guests. I put in a bathroom and a little kitchenette, but no stove; I want people to eat meals in the house. Also, I always worry about people and how they use stoves. Which is just a controlling thing." That worry, she explained, is related to her OCD. "I'm on Lexapro, and I'll never get off of it," Seyfried said of needing an anti-depressant. "I've been on it since I was 19, so 11 years. I'm on the lowest dose. I don't see the

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BS has given a series order to a TV adaptation of the popular mobile game "Candy Crush Saga". The hour-long series will feature teams of two players competing against giant interactive game boards to defeat obstacles and move through various levels to be crowned "Candy Crush" champion. The show

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eepika Padukone's fans cannot stop raving about her 'Indian accent' since the first trailer of her Hollywood debut with Vin Diesel, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, was aired on Sunday night.

Twitter has been abuzz with mixed response over her ethnic accent as the one-minute long video was revealed at the opening episode of reality show Bigg Boss season 10, hosted

by Salman Khan.

While a few slammed her for speaking in a 'typical south-Indian accent' similar to what was seen in her previous blockbuster hit Chennai Express, while some of her fans were clearly happy for retaining her 'originality'. Deepika's accent was celebrated by the Indian audience, who had earlier slammed Priyanka Chopra for her 'fake American accent' when the trailer of Quantico was aired last year.

Deepika has carefully chosen not speak in an accent, which made her sound different in her first Hollywood outing. In an recent interview to Hindustan Times, Deepika said that her accent in the trailer emerged as a point of debate. The Piku star clarified that she was proud to speak in her “natural Indian accent”, and added that it was a “matter of great pride”.

point of getting off of it. Whether it's placebo or not, I don't want to risk it. And what are you fighting against? Just the stigma of using a tool?

"A mental illness is a thing that people cast in a different category (from other illnesses), but I don't think it is. It should be taken as seriously as anything else." Seyfried, who had previously discussed being in therapy, does what she can to manage her disease. "You don't see the mental illness: It's not a mass; it's not a cyst. But it's there. Why do you need to prove it? If you can treat it, you treat it," she said.

"I had pretty bad health anxiety that came from the OCD and thought I had a tumor in my brain. I had an MRI, and the neurologist referred me to a psychiatrist.

As I get older, the compulsive thoughts and fears have diminished a lot. Knowing that a lot of my fears are not reality-based really helps."

iss Sümi 2016 organised by Sümi Totimi Hoho and Western Sümi Totimi Hoho is scheduled to be held on November 8 at NER Agri Expo site, 4th Mile, Dimapur with Minister of Roads and Bridges, Vikheho Swu as the chief guest.

Young girls aged 18-25 vying for the crown should be Sümi by blood and should at least be 5’5” in height.

They are expected to submit one passport size photo, one postcard size photo and a birth certificate along with the entry form.

Taking in view of the popular request for extension of date of submission of entry forms, the organisers have extended the date till October 25, 2016. Interested candidates can submit the forms by submitting the same at the designated places and also through e-mail.

The contestants will be judged through four rounds i.e. Traditional, Modern Ethnic, Designer and Formal. The judging pattern is also inclusive of discipline, etiquette, punctuality and morality throughout the grooming session till the event night.

Apart from winning 1,00,000 and 75,000 respectively with gift hampers, the winners of Miss Sümi 2016 and the first runners up will also represent the Sümi community in the ensuing Miss Nagaland while the second runners up will walk away with 50,000 with gift hampers.

Subtitle winners of Miss Photogenic, Miss Perfect 10, Miss Congeniality, Miss Flawless Skin, Miss Beautiful Smile, Miss Radiant Hair, Miss Fluent Sümi, Best Traditional Attire and Best Ramp Walk will also win 15,000 each along with gift hampers. The contestants will also be groomed from November 3-8 during which the organisers will bear all the accommodation, food and transportation. Also former Miss Sümi 2013, Atheli Zhimomi has offered to extend help to some aspiring candidates who cannot afford modern/formal apparels.

Miss Sumi 2016 Information & Publicity Committee informed in a press release that STH and WSTH have also invited all former Miss Sümis to the event.

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promises to offer a playalong option for viewers at home, reports variety.com.

Matt Kunitz created the TV format and executive producer for Lionsgate, CBS Television Studios, Pulse Creative and "Candy Crush" distributor King. Peter Levin, Lionsgate's head of interactive and games, Striker Entertainment's

Russell Binder, King's Nicki Sheard and "Candy Crush Saga" creator Sebastian Knutsson are also executive producers.

"We are huge fans of 'Candy Crush' and, like so many others, we know the 'rush' of advancing to the next level of the game," said CBS Entertainment President Glenn Geller. "We are

excited to work with Lionsgate and King to adapt one of the world's most popular and entertaining game franchises for television and make it available to its massive, passionate fan base who can watch and play along at home." There's no word yet from CBS on a target premiere date.

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he Revenant star who has a self-titled foundation which aims to protect the world and endangered species is in talks for the rights to the 1990s cartoon series through his production company, Appian Way Productions. According to The Hollywood Reporter, DiCaprio is keen to add Glen Powell and his writing partner Jono Matt to the project to pen the script. globe who were sent magic The Captain Planet rings, four with the power and the Planeteers TV to control an element of show aired from Septem- nature and one controlling ber 1990 to December heart. They were known as 1992 and told the story of the Planeteers and sought One of Bollywood’s I am and where I come five youths from across the to defend the earth from top heroines, Deepika has from. Why won’t I make said the Indian accent, like most of it?," she said in the any other accent, should same interview. also make a global impact.

Deepika's character Ser“Why not? For years, we ena Unger is Indian, which have accepted the British explains why she did not feel ormer Spider-Man actor and Australian accent, for the need to acquire a distinct Tobey Maguire and his wife example. So it’s high time accent. “I play an Indian girl Jennifer Meyer are splitting we accept an Indian ac- in the film, and for me it’s a up after nine years of marcent,” she said. matter of great pride that I riage, representatives for the couple Deepika further said get to be myself. That is one have confirmed. “After much soul that accents, "will happen of the aspects that drew me searching and consideration we on project-to-project ba- to the script and attracted have made the decision to separate sis or role-to-role basis." me to do this film, the fact “Of course such things that for once, I was allowed as a couple,” the pair said in a state(accents) matter, but this to be myself is fantastic. I was ment to People on Tuesday. “As deone particular film and allowed to flaunt that I am voted parents, our first priority remains raising our children together role gave me an opportu- Indian” she added. with enduring love, respect and nity to be proud of who Source: Mail Online friendship.”

The exes are parents to nine year old daughter Ruby and seven year old son Otis. Maguire, now 41, met jewellery designer Jennifer back in blue-eyed young 'chai 2003, and they tied the knot in 2007 wala' (tea seller) from in an intimate ceremony in Hawaii Pakistan, who became in front of a handful of friends and an internet sensation family. The former couple had never after his photo was posted on Ins- said much about each other during tagram, has got the job of a model. their long relationship, insisting on Retail site fitin.pk has signed on keeping their private life out of the the youngster, Arshad Khan, as a spotlight.

A source close to the exes told model for an undisclosed amount Entertainment Tonight that, deand his first shoot is already out, the Dawn reported on Wednesday. spite their split, they are “very supHis photo was posted by an as- portive of each other and are compiring photographer, Jiah Ali, on mitted to their kids… It’s a very October 14. It was picked up in the amicable situation.”

Maguire, who suffered a trouWest, including the popular US website Buzzfeed. One of 18 sib- bled childhood, said in another inlings, Arshad hails from Kohat and terview with Parade at around the has been making tea at Islamabad's same time that family and stability Sunday Bazaar for three months. were important to him. “Growing He has never been to school. Ac- up the way I did, I had a very sericording to Dawn, Arshad doesn't ous ambition to make some money, know when his photograph was to have some security and comfort taken or who took it. in my life.”

disasters and to educate mankind about the earth.

Captain Planet would appear on each episode to remind viewers that 'the Planet is yours'.

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an ideal fit for environmentalist DiCaprio who, through his foundation which he set up in 1998 has pledged millions to environmental groups over the years. He once said: 'The destruction of our planet continues at a pace we can no longer afford to ignore. 'We have a responsibility to innovate a future where the habitability of our planet does not come at the expense of those who inhabit it. I am proud to support these organisations who are working to solve humankind's greatest challenge.'

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MDFA Trophy 2016

17th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy Nagaland Police (Red) enters final

Fusion SC sails into semis

Fusion SC (yellow jersey) in action while playing against Telongjem FC at the last quarter final match of the MDFA Trophy 2016 at Imkongmeren Sport Complex, Mokokchung on Wednesday, October 19. (Photo/Toshi Aier) Morung Express News Mokokchung | October 19

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Defending champions Fusion Sporting Club defeated Telongjem FC 2-0 in the fourth quarterfinal match of the ongoing MDFA Trophy 2016 at Imkongmeren Sports Complex here on Wednesday.

The match was however marred by unruly scenes late in the second half as a ruckus among the crowd led to the match being stalled for over twenty minutes. But with the active intervention of MDFA officials and the police, the situation was brought under control following which

the match resumed.

In the first half, Telongjem FC displayed a strong defensive game play with tight markings and aided by some superb goalkeeping, largely nullifying the attack of the defending champions.

Telongjem’s midfield made serious attempts at

the Fusion goal but lacked in finishing. Telongjem came closest and lost a golden opportunity when Ngul Goulal (Jersey No 10) failed to convert from a one on one situation with the goalkeeper.

A perfectly-placed cross over the Fusion defense lines had sent Ngul

Goulal through and with only the goalkeeper to beat, Telongjem’s No. 10 could not hold his nerve allowing the Fusion custodian to make a save from what should otherwise have been the lead.

The second half was however one sided. Seemingly on a rampage, the defending champions were purposeful in their outlook as they dominated ball possession and persisted with their efforts on goal.

Their relentless attempts were rewarded in the 70th minute when Nyithang received a cross, made one touch and smashed the ball home.

A rejuvenated Fusion FC continued to attack and was rewarded again eleven minutes. It was Nyithang again rising to the occasion scoring off a cross from a teammate defender.

The defending champions will take on last year’s runners-up Shitilong SA in the semis.

The match was witnessed by DRDA Project Director, Taliyanger as match patron.

Kohima deputy commissioner Rovilatuo Mor and other officials with the players of Nagaland Police (Red) and Nagaland Police (Blue) before the kick-off of the first semifinal on October 19. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Kohima | October 19

scored two quick goals in quick succession – Kekhrie and Aton scoring a goal apiece within a minute’s span to lead the comeback.

The Nagaland Police (Red) added two more

Police (Blue) and Kedithungbo of Nagaland Police (Red) were cautioned with yellow cards.

Earlier, Kohima Deputy Commissioner Rovilatuo Mor acted as the match pa-

Nagaland Police (Red) came from behind to comprehensively beat Nagaland Police (Blue) 4-1 in the first semifinal of the onnd going 17th NSF Martyrs M e m o r i a l Forerunners Fc 4th NAP vs Barak Fc @ 1:00 pm Trophy on Wednesday at the Kohima goals towards the end of tron.

Local Ground.

An exhibition match match – again in quick sucNagaland Police (Blue) cession. Lima Kumzuk net- between Angami Stuhad taken the lead through ting both goals in the 79th dents Union (ASU) seImsumanen in the 26th and 80th minute to com- nior leaders and Kohima minute. plete the drubbing and Bar Association will take Undeterred, the red book a place in the final. place on October 20 at team fought back and Zhavilie of Nagaland 10:00 am.

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Sovima T20 Gold Cup BMS, Victoria win big, Arcane edge Moonlight in super-over Morung Express News Dimapur | October 19

The 3rd Annual Sports of the Post Graduate Students of Patkai Christian College got underway on October 19. Seen here in the picture are officials of the Dimapur Naga Students' Union (DNSU) with Post Graduate Students of the College before an exhibition match during the inaugural programme. The sports meet will conclude on October 21.

Zunheboto to host Games for Disabled

Dimapur, OctOber 19 (mexN): Special Olympics Nagaland (SON), a nodal agent of the Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, GoI, and Special Olympics Bharat, to conduct games & sports competition for the differently-abled persons of Nagaland State, has invited all to Zunheboto District Games for Disabled on October 22 at Indoor Stadium, Zunheboto. Travelling cost/ expenses for partici-

pants from villages/ far off places will be reimbursed

by Social Welfare Department, Government of Nagaland, informed a press release from SON. The event will have the following disciplines: Athletics (races, throw & jumps), bocce, soft ball throw, badminton, and football. Registration and divisioning will be held from 8:00 am to 9:00 am, while competition of games will be held from 9:00

am to 12:30 pm. The closing ceremony will be held at 2:00 pm.

All concerned have been requested to bring the Special Persons (age no bar) to participate. The participants with teachers/ parents/ escorts are to reach the venue latest by 8:00 am with photocopy of Disability Certificate and one passport size photo. All have also been requested to carry drinking water.

The release noted that SON is a charity organization committed for the development of Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) through the medium of Sports & Games competitions. Started in the year 2009, SON has covered all 11 districts of Nagaland, has participated in several sports programmes all over the country and has marked in 4 national games for disabled and 2 international competitions.

BMS Darbar and Victoria CC registered thumping victories while Arcane Warriors had to rely on a superover to see-off Moonlight CC on Wednesday in the ongoing Sovima T20 Gold Cup here at the Nagaland Cricket Association Stadium, Sovima.

The first match of Day 5 saw BMS Darbar trounce Kings Bird Royal by 119 runs in a match reduced to 15-overs due to delay.

BMS put into bat, put on a colossal 166 runs losing 4 wickets. The exceptional Avneet Singh led the scoring smashing 61 runs from just 39 balls, while Nadeem chipped in with a quick-fire 31 runs from 12 balls.

Tohoto (1/18) and Keduolhoulie Metha (1/19) were the most economical as the other bowlers were hit all over the park.

With a required run rate of over 11 per over, the pressure was too much for Kings Bird Royal to take as

they were bundled out for a paltry 47 runs in 13.5 overs.

BMS bowler Prasad Kadale was the pick of the bowlers returned with figures of 3/13 from the allotted 3 overs. Teammate Nadeem who only bowled one over picked a couple of wickets while giving away no runs.

Zuber (17 runs from 32 balls) was the only batsman who offered some sort of resistance.

partnered by a composed Kamruitman (42 runs from 44 balls) helped Victoria CC post 160/7 from the stipulated 20 overs after electing to bat.

For Razzle, Raju Amin returned with figures of 2/23 from the allotted 4 overs.

In the run chase, Razzle United was seemingly dazzled by the huge target as the team could only manage 61 runs while

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Kings Sport tiger vs AP Sports 8:15 am Sovima cc vs Victoria cc 11:30 am Thau Sports Academy vs Super Slammers 2:45 pm Avneet was later awarded the man of the match award for his stellar effort with the bat.

In the second match, Victoria CC hammered Razzle United by 99 runs.

A flamboyant 20-ball 42 run from Mughavi Wotsa

losing 8 wickets from the 20 overs. Rakesh Paul rattled through the Razzle batting order picking 4 wickets from the 4 overs while giving away a meager 4 runs. Even as wickets kept falling, Rojimkiu remained unaffected

scoring a steady 20 runs from 44 balls. Mughav Wotsa also had impressive figures of 2/14 from the 3 overs.

Mughavi Wotsa was awarded the man of the match for his 42 runs with the bat and 2 wickets with the ball.

The last match of the day witnessed a close encounter as Arcane Warriors edged Moonlight CC via a super-over.

Arcane Warriors elected to bat and put up a modest 122/8 wickets in the 20 overs.

Inato scored a composed 35 runs from 42 balls while Kenei chipped in with a brisk 17 runs from 17 balls.

The run-chase was a nervy affair as Sohil (32 runs of 36 balls) and Trinath (31 runs of 22 balls) helped Moonlight reach 122/9 wickets tying the match in the final ball of the 20th over.

A super over ensued in which Arcane Warriors edged the Moonlight CC.

National footballer dies of dengue VaraNasi, OctOber 19 (pti): National woman footballer Poonam Chauhan has died of dengue during her treatment at a private hospital here.

She was 29.

Poonam, who played for the Indian football team in 2010, passed away here last night. She was admitted in the hospital about a week ago.

She was a part of the team that had won a gold medal at the South Asian games. She also played for the UP state football team and was one of its most crucial members.

Poonam was currently working as a football trainer at Varanasi's Sigra stadium.

She was cremated at Manikarnika ghat today.

PDVFA convenes meeting

KOhima, OctOber 19 (mexN): The Phek District Veteran Football Association (PDVFA) has convened an Executive meeting on October 25, 1.30 pm at the residence of its President Salie Khesoh in Phek Town. According to a press statement issued by PDVFA General Secretary Kuveduyi Venuh,

the meeting shall discuss the forthcoming 8th edition of the Nagaland Veteran Football Association (NVFA) scheduled to be held at Phek Town during the first week of February 2017. All the Executive members and various committee members have been asked to attend the meeting without fail.

Kochi approved as WC U-17 venue KOchi, OctOber 19 (iaNs): Three years after identifying a city stadium as a possible football World Cup venue, a high-level FIFA delegation on Wednesday cleared it to be considered for holding 2017 U-17 World Cup. Tournament Director

Javier Ceppi told reporters here that Kochi becomes the first Indian city to be officially declared as one of the venues to host the next year's U-17 World Cup. The deadline fixed for making the venue foolproof for the tournament is March 2017.

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