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CM given 10 days to act on Nagaland’s appalling roads

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indians of the ethnic group Kuikuro perform a traditional dance during the cultural festival of the World indigenous Games in Palmas, Brazil. The “indigenous olympics” is from october 22 to 31. (AP Photo)

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“just being painted black for the sake of a festival and season and struggle/suffer for the rest of the year. No more of our prime roads being filled with pebbles, mud and dusts.” “Give us all season roads,” the AYO demanded or “leave them as they (roads) are now and let the rest of the world community come and experience what it takes to be in the Land of Festivals.”

of mud filled roads, seen enough of the Capital Town being splashed full with stain of muds and dirts, had enough of dust and filths being choked to our brim,” it said. The AYO said that it has exercised “utmost patience and endurance on the matter, conciliating our distress to the facts of the monsoon playing the havocking role, the time and financial implications the resurfacing

‘Give us all season roads or leave them as they are now and let the world know what it takes to be in the Land of Festivals’ It also urged the CM to immediately bring the BRO/BRTF into account for its “debacle in manning and providing all season roads to the people of Nagaland.” “We have had enough of their justifications. Initiate befitting legal actions against the BRO/BRTF or the public will be compelled to react,” it cautioned. The public, it stated has silently bore the brunt of all the ill managements of the prime roads in the state capital by the concerned authorities. “We have had enough of drives - negotiating though the puddles

works will entail and that the general public also needs to be sensitized that everyone directly/indirectly accounts for the condition we are in. “ However, it lamented that “our tolerance, silence and submission to the concerned authorities with the expectation of getting prompt remedial measures however has proved to be a ‘total flout’ from the authorities.” It further expressed frustration that the despite deteriorating road conditions, there has been “no visible signs or indications to lighten the

plights of the citizens.” It also expressed anger that when the citizens are being deprived of their basic facilities, the “concerned government and people at the helm of affairs presume all is well, initiates and spends public money to the tune and volume of hundred crores of rupees on foreign trips, on hosting extravagant national and international festivals / programmes, in purchasing high profile and world class SUVs etc.” The AYO demanded that the Chief Minister and the state government immediately activate all resources available in addressing/ providing all season roads to the people of the state in general and to the capital town in particular. It also asked the government to stop funding/ undertaking all new and relative projects for a time gap. “We believe and know that the government has substantial/adequate institutions and infrastructures sufficient enough to conveniently run and manage the affairs of the state. It will be more prudent for the government to rather reorient and invest the available/sanctioned budgets on improving and strengthening the existing infrastructures,” it advised.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER “any Indian Nagas or West- sustainable force to be the keepers of such sensitive 23 (MExN): The Naga Vigil ern Nagas.” archives and the only future The documents, Ward Human Rights Group toIs the recent police warning for the Nagas as a whole is informed, have been reday informed that Naga Naagainst drunk driving an tional documents spanning cently removed from Ire- from the Eastern Nagaland indicator that Prohibition is failing in Nagaland? And Why? from 1947 to the present day land and are being collated and as such the archives will “will only be returned to for onward handover. The be handed over to them at the Eastern Nagas,” i.e. the Naga Vigil Human Rights their earliest convenience,” Yes no others ENPO, TMPO, FGN Shin- Group has held these docu- Ward said. He further ingnya, and the NSCN (K). A ments for 21 years, since the formed Brigadier Shinpress statement from David demise of AZ Phizo in 1994. gnya of the FGN, Chairman Ward, international co-co- “Given the recent capitula- Khaplang of the NSCN (K), ordinator of Naga Vigil said tion of the western Naga ex the ENPO, and the TMPO to DIMAPUR, OCTOBER that the ‘Naga National Ar- national workers, they are “arrange for their safe pas23 (MExN): Personnel of chives’ will not be handed to not deemed a suitable or sage as soon as possible.” the 5 Assam Rifles nabbed one NSCN (K) cadre with one pistol from Longkhim Town, Tuensang. A press note from the PRO, Assam Rifles identified the cadre as one Sergeant Major Chotsamong Sangtam, aged 22 our Correspondent Political solution, there will be a is disturbed, it automatically years, resident of Longkhim DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 23 between Government of India sively participate and involve in the Naga Peace Talk.” new dawn of hope to start a new disturbs even the minds of the Town, Tuensang. The team (MExN): The Sumi Hoho today (GoI) and the NSCN (IM).” Kohima | October 23 In the Sumi Baghi Hoho (GenIt also reiterated that on islife which will enable us to race students thereby; they tend to also recovered one point 22 reiterated its stand that the Sumi pistol, 624 Spasorid Prox- people are “neither in favour nor eralPublicMeeting)datedSeptem- sues pertaining to the Sumi peo- Nagaland Home Minister, Y with the rest of the world,” he neglect their studies, he said ivon tablets and “incrimi- against” the Framework Agree- ber3,2015,theSumiBaghiresolved ple as a whole, “except the Sumi Patton on Thursday appealed to said and urged upon the young and further appealed to the stunating documents,” The ment signed between the NSCN torevoketheabrogationofrelation- Hoho, no other organization or all sections of the Naga society generation to remember that dent community to remain vigiapprehended has been (IM) and the Governindividual shall issue whether over ground or under- “you are the leaders of tomorrow lant so as to prevent anti-social ground to come together as one and the future is yours, hence, elements, and thereby provide handed over to Police Sta- ment of India, until press statements.” Says it is “neither in favour nor tion, Longkhim, the AR fur- the contents of the These resolutions family irrespective of differenc- you have to speak out your mind a conducive atmosphere to the ther informed. agreement are made against” the Framework Agreement adopted by the Sumi es for a united common cause in right perspective without any citizens. Patton further stated that explore a solution to the hesitation on issues that is diknown to the public. until the contents of the agreement Baghi Hoho are effec- and rectly related to your future. ” since the government cannot protracted Naga political issue. tive and in place in all The Sumi Hoho “For successful progress of provide jobs to all educated unAddressing the 17th bienniare made known to the public Sumi inhabited areas stated this in a press any society peace is a must. We employed youth of the state, irrespective of geo- al general conference of All Na- need peaceful environment for the present government under statement today in galand College Students Union order to “clear confusions aris- shipimposedupontheNSCN(IM), graphical locations, it stated. As here at Indira Gandhi all round development.” In this, the leadership of TR Zeliang such, the Sumi Hoho declared (ANCSU) ing due to the press statements the Sumi Hoho informed. Stadium under the theme “Ex- he urged upon the youth, es- has launched various welfare It further affirmed that revo- that “statements issued by the cel beyond boundary,” he said pecially ANCSU, to extend co- schemes for upliftment and LONDON, OCTOBER 23 issued by self vested interest in(IANs): Bacon, ham and dividuals, minor organizations cation of abrogation of relation- individuals, minor organiza- the protracted Naga political operation to the government employability of the youth in sausages have the same and local based organizations ship “did not necessarily mean tions and local based organiza- issue should be resolved once machinery in whatever man- private sectors. In this, he encancer risk as cigarettes, ac- expressing their endorsement to to support the Accord until and tions are not the opinion of the and for all which should be ner they can to curb anti-social couraged the youth to avail those opportunities instead of cording to a report by the the August 3, 2015 Peace Accord unless all the Nagaland Political Sumi people and has nothing to honourable and accepted to all. activities in society. When peaceful atmosphere seeking only government jobs. “Once we achieve our Naga World Health Organisation (Framework Agreement) signed Groups and stakeholders inclu- do with the Sumi people.” (WHO), set to be published on Monday, a media report said. WHO is expected to list processed meat as a carcinogenic substance, while fresh red meat is also MANILA, OCTOBER 23 no dedicated treatment a spike in the number of during the day, unlike the expected to join the aency- (ThOMsON REUTERs for the virus, and sufferers dengue cases, already up malaria mosquito,” said clopaedia of carcinogens’ 32 percent year on year to Hibberd. The dengue mosare generally asked to rest, FOUNDATION): Thouand is likely to be regarded 108,263 so far this year, ac- quito usually lives inside as bad for health, the Daily sands of people in Asia drink plenty of fluids and cording to the WHO. houses or in courtyards take medication to bring have been struck by denMail reported on Friday citIn Myanmar, much of and typically lays its eggs in ing “a well-placed source”. gue fever in recent months, down fever and reduce which was flooded in July flower pots or other places The classifications, by the putting medical services joint pains. and August, authorities re- with a water source. “Outbreaks like the WHO’s International Agen- under strain and highlightcorded almost 36,000 cases Health experts said cy for Research on Cancer, ing the need for a long- current dengue cases can from January to Septem- that while much attention are believed to regard pro- term strategy to fight the have significant impacts ber, 200 percent more than had focused on eradicating cessed meat as “carcino- potentially lethal disease. on health systems,” said in the same period last year malaria, which has higher The Philippines, Myan- Martin Hibberd, professor genic to humans”, the highand the highest figure since mortality rates, the fight est of five possible rankings, mar, Malaysia, Taiwan, of emerging infectious disshared with alcohol, asbes- Thailand and Vietnam are eases at the London School counting began in 1965, the against dengue lacked a tos, arsenic and cigarettes, among countries that have of Hygiene and Tropical Myanmar Times reported. long-term plan and fothe daily added. Studies seen significant spikes in Medicine. “These patients More than 96,000 cas- cused on controlling outhave shown that people who the mosquito-borne dis- are acutely ill with severe es have been registered so breaks instead. eat a lot of red meat tend to ease, while India’s capital symptoms and need to be far this year in Malaysia, “It requires a shift in eat fewer plant-based foods New Delhi is in the grip of treated fast to avoid comup more than 19 percent, approach from respondthat protect against cancer. its worst dengue outbreak plications.” The size of the A patient awaits routine check-up as he lies under a mosquito net inside a dengue ward according to the WHO. ing to isolated outbreaks The WHO report follows a in almost 20 years. Hos- outbreak has forced some of a government hospital in new Delhi, india. (REUTERS FILE PHOTO) Health experts say this ex- to investment in strategies meeting of scientists from pitals are overwhelmed hospitals to make tough followed of other families 1950s but is now present in due to underreporting. In plosion in dengue cases is that cover effective vector 10 countries who reviewed choices. with acutely ill children more than 125 - more than the Asia-Pacific region the closely linked to a rise in control, access to health all available evidence. Pro- as thousands of people In Delhi, a couple and elderly relatives be- malaria, historically the hot and humid climate and urban living as well as in- services and early clinical with symptoms such as cessed meat is made by smoking, curing, salting, or high fever, vomiting and jumped to their deaths ing turned away from one most notorious mosquito- frequent flooding linked to creased movement of peo- management,” said Xavier Castellanos, Asia Pacific reclimate change create ide- ple and goods. adding chemicals. Exam- joint pains seek treatment, when their 7-year-old son hospital after another due borne disease. “For dengue to occur gional director of the Interdied of dengue after be- to a lack of beds or other The WHO estimates al breeding conditions for ples include ham, bacon, health experts said. you need concentrated national Federation of the that about 50 million new dengue mosquitoes. Dengue is the world’s ing refused treatment at a facilities. pastrami and salami, as well cases of dengue fever ocIn the Philippines con- areas of people - it’s a city- Red Cross. as hot dogs and some sau- fastest-spreading tropi- number of city hospitals There is no vaccine for cur each year, but a recent cern is growing that flood- based disease and a tricky sages. Burgers are also ex- cal disease, according to which said all their beds EXPLOSIVE GROWTH Dengue affected only a study said the number ing caused by Typhoon one to eradicate because dengue yet, but some are pected to be included in the the World Health Orga- were filled with dengue nization (WHO). There is patients. News reports handful of countries in the could be four times as high Koppu this week will cause the dengue mosquito bites undergoing clinical trials. WHO list of carcinogens. Vote on www.morungexpress.com SMS your anSwer to 9862574165

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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 23 (MExN): The Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) has written to the Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang calling for immediate action on the appalling road conditions in the state. The AYO served an ultimatum of ten days for the CM to initiate action regarding the issue in order to avoid “public reactions.” A letter addressed to the CM from the AYO President, Medo Yhokha and General Secretary, Rokoketou Sechu specifically referred to the National Highway 29 managed and manned by the BRO/BRTF and the state; and other connecting highways/ roads manned by State Government under the department of NH and R&B, having two independent Cabinet Ministers. The status of these roads, the AYO stated, have been a perpetual subject for public discontentment, irritation, and vehemence against the authorities. “We can well comprehend the intentions of the authority to convince and to fool the public again with approaching festive season and the Hornbill Festival,” the AYO stated. It cautioned that the organization would no more tolerate the prime public roads

NSCN (K) cadre Apprehended

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Sumi Hoho reaffirms stand Naga issue should be resolved on Framework Agreement once and for all: Patton urges

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Tetso College launches SASRD urged to work closely with government second ebook anthology

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Department of English, Tetso College formally released its second ebook during their Department Fest ‘Renaissance Clique’, held on October 20. Titled ‘The Phoenix: A Tetso College Anthology of Literature and Art’,the ebook contains poems, short stories, one act plays, paintings and artistic photographs contributed by the faculty and students of the College. The editors are PatomiYe p t h o m i , Ve d u v o luKhusoh, Kahor Raleng,

Anjan Behera, and Pakinzinliu Chawang, Assistant Professors in the Department of English. The ebook can be downloaded from www.tetsocollege. org/downloads. ‘Renaissance Clique’ is the annual fest of the English Department, which celebrates all literary activities including drama, art, and challenges the creativity and explores the talents of the students through competitions as the classes vie for the Overall Championship title of the Renaissance Clique 2015.

For this year’s fest, English Honours students of the 3rd Semester staged an adaptation of a Sumi folktale about the pathos of star crossed lovers- Nisapa and Nisala who face separation owing to class differences. A stark depiction of the social evils that prevail in society, the actors gave a moving and convincing performance, which had the audience close to tears. The Fest also comprised of an Essay Writing competition where students analysed the impact of beauty pageants on the identity and development of women. Other competitions included caption writing, poetry writing, and an entertaining show called 12 Minutes to Fame, which consisted of a medley of performances of song, dance, art, clap-dance and so on. The B.A. 3rd Semester students won the 12 Minutes to Fame competition, while the coveted Overall Championship title was won by the B.A. 1st Semester students.

meDziphema, OctOber 23 (mexN): The 38th Foundation Day of SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema was celebrated with Alemtemshi Jamir (IAS), former Chief secretary of Nagaland as chief guest and N. Duolo, CEO & Coordinator of Entrepreneurs Associates Nagaland, who delivered the Foundation Day Lecture on October 20. Alemtemshi in his speech said that as the Planning Commission has been done away with, the State has the sole authority to prioritize the developmental plans. He emphasized that as agriculture is a vital sector for the economy, priority must be accorded to this sector in the planning stage and expressed that SASRD needs to interface actively with the State government in formulating policies and long-term plans for this sector in Nagaland. He reiterated that there is also a felt need to have closer working relationship between the state departments and SASRD with regard to research and technology refinement. He suggested

Alemtemshi Jamir (IAS), N. Duolo, CEO & Coordinator of EA with the faculty and students during the 38th Foundation Day of SASRD, Nagaland University, Medziphema.

that SASRD could focus on global climate change and to work sincerely towards food security to achieve the desired target. N. Duolo delivered the Foundation Day lecture on Entrepreneurship development and the need to make specific niche products that will put Nagaland on the commercial markets. He opined that Nagaland is not a land locked area, rather it has channels to reach the mainland as well as foreign mar-

kets in the east and thereby serious attention needs to be given to entrepreneurial activities, especially for the agricultural graduates. He also challenged the agricultural graduates that by 2030 he would like to see 100 CEOs of successful agricultural enterprises. Prof. M. Aleminla Ao, Dean, chaired the morning programme and Prof. N S Jamir, Pro Vice Chancellor, gave the welcome address while Mhonbemo Ngullie,

Asst. Librarian, delivered the vote of thanks. A press note informed that SASRD has a strong A l u m n i A s s o c i at i o n formed on June 15, 2000 with more than 2000 members from the country and abroad. The association gives away the coveted “Alumni Award” annually on the Foundation Day to the graduate with the highest OGPA. This year Lipa Deb from Tripura received the award of Rs. 20,000/-

and citation for achieving an OGPA of 9.18 out of 10. Since 2011 the Foundation day feast and Alumni Night is sponsored by the various Alumni batches. This year the 1981 batch sponsored the feast and evening programme. The evening show had a special appearance by Senti Longchar aka Desert King, also an Alumni, who sang the songs Potato and the famous “King Chilly” song accompanied by his daughter and son.

Students exchange prog (Kohima to Kausali) underway Our Correspondent Kohima | October 23

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Chief Guest E. E. Pangteang Konyak, Parliamentary Secretary Home Guard & Sericulture Government of Nagaland released Konyak Students Union Kohima (KSUK) constitution on the occasion of Fresher's meet-cum-change of guard on October 22.

‘Consume only iodised salt’

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mOKOKchuNg, OctOber 23 (mexN): Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Prevention Day was observed at CMO office, Mokokchung on October 21. Dr Kibangkumba Deputy CMO and District Nodal Officer NIDDCP Mokokchung in his address encouraged the participants to be aware about the intake of iodised salt. He also gave a short demonstration of salt testing and said that the ASHAs should visit places like shops and homes for testing the content of iodine in salt with a simple salt testing kid. Significance of the day was delivered by Dr. SS Akaba Longchar, CMO, Mokokchung. He explained that iodine salt is nothing, but a common salt where a small quantity of iodine compound is added and is used to prevent iodine deficiency. He also said that the average daily requirement of iodine in an adult is 150 micro grams and it is important that the body gets this quantity regularly every day. He urged the participants to be responsible persons in passing the message to the people in remote areas to consume only iodised salt to prevent iodine deficiency disorder. Earlier, the programme started with an invocation prayer by Watisenla Jamir DCM, CMO office, Mokokchung. The programme was attended by medical officers, CMO staffs and DPMU staffs.

Jyotsna Jaswal, president, Assam Rifles Wives Welfare Association on Thursday flagged off the students exchange programme (Kohima to Kausali) after a function held at Capt Kenguruse Memorial Hall, 19 Assam Rifles, Kohima. It was organized by HQ IGAR (North) and graced by Maj Gen M S Jaswal, YSM, SM, IGAR (North). Headquarters Inspectorate General Assam Rifles (North) in collaboration with the Pine Groove School Kasauli has taken an initiative wherein a Student Exchange Programme between the students of Kohima (Nagaland) and Kasauli (Himachal Pradesh) has been organized.

Maj Gen M S Jaswal, YSM, SM, IGAR (North), Jyotsna Jaswal, president, Assam Rifles Wives Welfare Association and others with the students during the flagging off ceremony of students exchange programme Kohima to Kausali on October 22. (Morung Photo)

16 students from Don Bosco by three teachers and two offi- Shimla, Amritsar from October School, Little Flower School and cers from the Assam Rifles will 22 to November 12 while a similar Mt Sinai School accompanied visit Delhi, Kasauli, Chandigarh, number of students and Teachers

from Kasauli will visit Kohima in the second half of the Exchange Programme. The idea behind this programme is to give an exposure to the students of the diversity of India and to foster an understanding of each other’s traditions and culture. This programme envisages students staying at each other’s school to gain firsthand knowledge of local customs, cuisines and other facets of day-to-day life. The students would also be participating in wide range of activities including visits to historical monuments, educational institutions, adventure activities and would also be interacting with important dignitaries from all walks of life.

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AGBCN Pastor’s Fellowship Sechüma village 50th anniv on Nov 3 annual conference held KOhima, OctOber 23 (mexN): Sechüma village will celebrate its 50th anniversary of village formation on November 3 with Kiyanilie Peseyie, Minister of Social Welfare and Parliamentary Affairs as the chief guest. In this regard, the organizing committee has invited all its members, near and far, married sisters and well wishers to attend the celebration which will commence at 10:00 am.

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Before the programme, the chief guest will also unveil the 50th anniversary monolith. The dedicatory prayer for the monolith will be pronounced by Toulie Nipu, former pastor, Sechüma Baptist Church. Highlights of the programme include invocation by Kevingulie Rhatsu, pastor, Sechüma Baptist Church, welcome address by Pelevisie Rhatsu, chairman, Sechüma Village Council, greetings by

Satuo Sechü, president, Sechü clan and Ekhulung, blessings by Cacha Meyatsu, special numbers by Neiphretuonuo, Sechüma Women Society, and Sechüma Women Organisation. The programme would be chaired by Teiso Teiu, convenor, organizing committee, while the vote of thanks would be tendered by Keneilezo Rhatsu, coconvenor, organizing committee.

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Members of the Association of the Gorkha Baptist Churches Nagaland during the Pastor’s Fellowship 6th Annual Conference held at Mokokchung Town Gorkha Baptist Church.

mOKOKchuNg, OctOber 23 (mexN): Association of the Gorkha Baptist Churches Nagaland Pastor’s Fellowship 6th Annual Conference was held at Mokokchung Town Gorkha Baptist Church. AGBCN Chairman, Pastor’s Fellowship Shy24th August 1995 – 18th October 2015

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Through this column, we the family members would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the individuals & organizations for the invaluable contributions physically, financially and spiritually, during the tragic demise and conveyance of the body of our son Lt. Yatiba Aier from Delhi to his final resting place in Dimapur. We would like to extend our special thanks to the following:1. Delhi Ao Baptist Church 2. Delhi Ao Senso Telongjem 3. Delhi Ao Kaketshir Telongjem 4. Naga Students Union Delhi 5. Eastern Nagaland Students Union Delhi 6. C. Among Imsong & Family, Delhi 7. DRC & Staff Nagaland House, Delhi 8. Staff of Police Guest House, Delhi 9. Naga United Ao Baptist Church 10. Dimapur Mopungchuket Senso Telongjem Though we are unable to thank each and every individual, it is our heartfelt prayer that God will bless you abundantly for your care and support during our grievous moment. Loving, Aba, Oja, Odi & family members.

am Gurung in a press release stated that Association of The Gorkha Baptist Churches Nagaland Pastor’s Fellowship 6th Annual Conference was held from October 16 to 18 at Mokokchung Town Gorkha Baptist Church, Mokokchung on the theme “Keep His Flock as Good Shepherd”.

The 36 Pastors from Gorkha Baptist Churches under AGBCN had attended the Conference. The speakers were Rev Daniel Subba, Pastor Itahari Baptist Church Nepal and Rev Ponen Longchar, Pastor Mokokchung Town Baptist Church.

With a part of 125th anniversary of Mokokchung town celebration, the players along with team manager and technical committee members of Shitilong SA conducted a cleanliness programme on October 23 at their ‘camp’ Secret House, Mokokchung. Shitilong SA defeated NU Lumami at ongoing XXI MDFA Trophy, 1st semifinal and will face defending champion Fusion SC at their final match on October 24.

Combined annual training for NCC cadets underway Chaga Gadi Festival in Kohima on Oct 30-31

350 cadets from 25 Nagaland Independent Company NCC pose for group photo on the 2ndday of annual training camp at Mokokchung on 22nd October 2015.

mOKOKchuNg, OctOber 23 (mexN): 25 Nagaland Independent Company National Cadet Corps 25 NL (i) Coy NCC Mokokchung is conducting combined annual training for the NCC cadets from October 21 to 30 at CRPF Camp near DEF camp at Mokokchung. A total of 350 cadets from various schools and colleges under the 25 NL (i) coy NCC from Mokokchung, Long-

leng, Mon, Tuensang, Zunheboto districts are taking part in the camp. The training started from October 22 with the opening address by Brig MS Nikam, Group Commander NCC Nagaland state who came from Kohima on October 21 to oversee the conduct of training. The training activities involved in the annual training are, yoga, physical training, drill, small arms firing, tree planta-

tion, Swach Bharat, Disaster management, Blood donation camp and traffic control. The 31 AR, state administration and 78 CRPF Battallion have rendered valuable services towards smooth conduct of the training. Officials who are conducting the training hoped that the cadets would be able to get a meaningful training at the end of which it will ultimately result in nation building.

KOhima, OctOber 23 (Dipr): Liangmai Welfare Society Kohima will be celebrating the most important annual festival Chaga Gadi on October 30 and 31 at Highland Park near Indira Gandhi stadium Kohima with Nagaland People Front (NPF) Vice President, Narrigangbi Chawang as the Guest of Honour. He will also deliver the significant of the Chaga Gadi Festival. President Liangmai Welfare society Kohima Kairinpibo and General Secretary Rutmakbo Newmai have invited all the Liangmai in laws to come and join at the festival, stated in a press release. During the festival, Zeliang tradition will be showcased and the competitions like traditional folk songs, solo and group, Cultural Dances, Best traditional Dress attire Couple show, Tug of war both men and women will be held. Tapikaubo (catching pig head) and other entertainment item will be played. The organizing Committee also informed all the Liangmai citizens living in an around Kohima to attend the festival. All the participants will be registered and their family annual membership fee of Rs 10/- per head will be collected on the spot itself. The first Bus will pick the delegates at 9.30 a.m. from BOC to Highland Park and the second bus from High School Junction from 11.00 am onwards.

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Mary Kom seeks smooth roads before Modi inaugurates her academy in Manipur IMPHAL, OCTOBER 23 (PTI): Her dream academy almost ready, star Indian woman boxer M C Mary Komcannot wait to roll out the red carpet for Prime Minister Narendra Modi for its inauguration -- the only glitch being that the road leading upto the facility in Manipur is in shambles. The 32-year-old had met Modi in New Delhi in April and had invited him to inaugurate her dream project as and when it was to be ready in Langol village near Imphal. The Prime Minister, on his part, had agreed to do the honours if his schedule permitted. The land for this project -- a total of 3.33 acre -- was provided to her by the Manipur government after her London Olympic bronze medal and the work on the

outdoor boxing hall and the gymnasium is set to be completed by the last week of this month. However, the road leading upto the academy is in such a bad shape that the boxer sought intervention of Chief Minister O Ibobi

Singh for an early repair so that she can work out the date for inauguration, to be intimated to the Prime Minister's Office. "I want the road leading upto the academy to be repaired before the inauguration as I am hoping that

the Prime Minister will be coming to cut the ribbon. It is not for my personal gain, it is for all the youngsters who are looking to make a future in boxing through this academy," Mary Kom, who is training in Liverpool these days, told PTI. The five-time world champion is eyeing a November-end or December first week inauguration of the academy. "...as we are planning to inaugurate the newlyconstructed gymnasium and Outdoor boxing hall in the presence of the Hon'ble Prime Minister, I request you to kindly consider the matter and take it forward," Mary has said in a letter, dated October 20, to the Chief Minister. The letter requesting for the repair of the road has been written by Mary Kom Regional Boxing

Foundation's Secretary Jimmy Leivon and is also addressed to the state Chief Secretary. "Hon'ble PM has assured his presence though there has been no confirmation on specific dates. Several inquiries have been made from the PMO on the status of the construction work," reads the letter to the CM and Chief Secretary. "In this regard, I would like to fervently request hon'ble sir, on the behalf of the foundation and the local people here to kindly repair the road that connects the academy located at the National Games Village Langol from the capital city at the earliest before the commencement of the inauguration as the road is getting worse and is not in good condition for vehicles to ply," it adds.

Manipal University launches Durga idols immersed in M'laya OCTOBER 23 (IANS): Four days of revCentre dedicated to study of NE SHILLONg, elry and merriment in Meghalaya came to an end on FriMANIPAL, OCTOBER 23 (TNN): Manipal University is now all set to focus on the north-eastern states. On Wednesday, MU launched North East (NE) Studies Centre with a mandate to conduct research studies on pertinent and important themes impacting north-eastern society, economy, polity, culture, dialects and inherent internal contradictions. "The Centre will provide a platform for scholars to exchange views on challenges being confronted by the north-east in a free and frank manner. The Centre will organise special lectures and conduct workshops on north-east affairs at frequent intervals," Arvind Kumar, professor and

head, department of geopolitics and international relations told TOI. Speaking about the new NE study centre, Arvind said misconceptions exist and studies conducted on these states are often biased. The Centre will make a modest attempt to build a critical mass of young researchers on the north-east region. The Centre is also planning to rope in students and others who want to pursue knowledge on NE. Arvind said the Centre will provide an opportunity to visit Manipal University and do internship on the areas of their interests and learn from each other's cultures. "The significance of the north-east is also seen in its

rich cultural values, traditions and cultural heritage. The Centre will conduct short-term courses on a number of issues reflecting the cultural aspect, which in turn will help bring the strengths of the region to the mainstream." The north-east consists of eight states: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland Tripura and Sikkim. The Centre will work under the auspices of the department of geopolitics and international relations. Monish Tourangbam ,a native of Manipur and currently part of the faculty at the department of geopolitics and international relations has been appointed as the coordinator of the centre.

UNC total bandh hits life in hilly districts of Manipur state Our Correspondent Imphal, October 23

Several vehicles have remained stranded along National Highways connecting Manipur due to the 48-hour total bandh in the hill districts called by United Naga Council (UNC) denouncing the 'anti-tribal' policies adopted by the Manipur Government. The strike that kicked-off from midnight of October 22 paralysed normal life in the five hill districts on Thursday. Vehicles did not ply on the road, all business activities were disrupted and all Government and private establishments remained shut for the day. UNC is registering a strong protest against the anti-tribal policies of the Manipur Government including the controversial three Bills passed by the state assembly on august 31 this year. The three Bills were passed by the assembly with an aim to safeguard the interests of all communities in Manipur.

The tribal groups in the state have dubbed the three Bills as 'anti-tribal' insisting that these pose a great threat to thier rights demanding thier immediate withdrawal. Nine protesters were killed in violent standoff with security forces in Churachandpur District hours after the passing of the Bills. The UNC sponsored strike and backed by all tribe Hohos, civil societies, Naga People's Orgainsation (NPO), Senapati District Student's Association (SDSA), different organisations of Mao, Maram, Poumai, people from Zeliangrong communities and Thadou Inpi effectively enforced the bandh in different parts of Senapati district. Reports informed that hundreds of loaded trucks have remained stranded along the National Highways since the total bandh began. Meanwhile, the state transporters’ union has appealed to the UNC to call off the strike in view of different upcoming festivals in the state.

India’s 1st Indigenous Terra Madre Tribes from 52 countries will meet at Shillong to celebrate slow food SHILLONg, OCTOBER 23 (THE HINDU): Right now, the world is en route to Meghalaya. Indigenous tribes from 52 countries are preparing to travel to Shillong, where they will be hosted by 41 villages. The event is being reviewed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest gathering of indigenous peoples in the world. But that’s not why it is so special. It’s because this is India’s first Indigenous Terra Madre, creating a network of tribes centred around food, Slow Food in particular. It is being held in tandem with the annual Mei-Ramew (which translates to Mother Earth in Khasi) festival. Introduced in Meghalaya five years ago by the North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity

Society (NESFAS), Mei-Ramew celebrates local food communities. Supported by the Government of Meghalaya and organised by the Indigenous Partnership (Rome) and NESFAS in collaboration with Slow Food International, this year's event aims to bring together indigenous peoples from around the world, presenting them with opportunities to share their knowledge about food, nutrition and bio-cultural diversity. Slow Food, an ecogastronomic organisation started by the now legendary Carlo Petrini in Rome in the 1980s, was originally a reaction to low-quality, mass-produced fast food. Over the past few decades, however, it has grown into a revolution. With tens of thousands of members, the movement aspires to encourage people to demand food that is “good, clean, fair.” Promoting biodiversity and upholding tradition, Slow Food works

at a grass-root level, with indigenous farmers, pastoralists, hunter-gatherers, and fisherfolk, connecting them with scientists, chefs and policy makers. Admittedly, it all sounds fairly prosaic. However, the meetings are anything but, thanks to Petrini’s clever, and undeniably alluring, vision of a “revolution of joy.” Shillong's five-day gathering will highlight exotic meals, ingredients and produce, showcasing recipes that have been cradled through centuries by tribes, from Amazonian Indians to Native Americans. In a bid to appeal to contemporary diners, these flavours will also be teased and tweaked into modern dishes by hip celebrity chefs. International Mei-Ramew 2015 will be held in Shillong from November 3 to 7. While the conclave can be attended only by invited delegates, the MeiRamew festival is open to the public.

day as idols of goddess Durga and her four children were immersed by devotees in rivers across the state on Bijoya Dashami. The banks of the Umkhrah river and other rivers wore a festive look as puja organisers came in colourful processions reverberating with the sounds of drums. Hundreds of devotees, including the young, came together to gently lower the idols into the river and bid them farewell with moist eyes. "The immersion ceremony symbolises the end of the goddess' annual sojourn to her paternal home and she returns to her husband Lord Shiva at their heavenly abode in Mount Kailash," said J.L. Das, a devotee. Tight security arrangements were made at the river banks and launches were kept ready to rescue people in case of accidents, police said.

The Zeme Baptist Association 1st Mission Conference was held at Old Ngaulong Baptist Church from October 16 to 18. The conference was attended 44 churches, missionaries; evangelists mission teachers, pastors and delegates from different churches. The conference focused on mission strategy and effective ministry to reach unreached people. Altogether 107 participants attended the program.

'Lushai an unifying instrument of Mizos' AIZAWL, OCTOBER 23 (PTI): Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla said that though different ethnic Mizos had their respective dialects, everyone understood and spoke the Lushai language, the lingua franca of the Mizos, which he described as an "unifying instrument" of the Mizos. He was speaking at the general conference of the Young Mizo Association (YMA). Defending his recent letter asking the Centre not to accept the three legislations passed by the Manipur Assembly, he said that the tribals living in the hill areas of Manipur adjoin-

ing Mizoram were ethnic Mizos. The Manipur Assembly in August, this year passed by voice vote three bills to protect the indigenous people of the state. They are: the Manipur Assembly passed three bills by voice vote - the Protection of Manipur People Bill, 2015, the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (7th amendment) Bill, 2015 and the Manipur Shops and Establishments (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015. "Blood is thicker than water and the Mizos in Mizoram should stand behind their brothers in the neighbouring state," Lal

Thahawala said. On the issue of repatriation of Brus from the six relief camps in Tripura, the CM said that the Brus had migrated to neighbouring Tripura on their own will and refused to return despite several attempts to repatriate them.

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Don’t restrict us in defence manufacturing space: Pvt players New Delhi, OctOber 23 (iANS): The Indian government has identified six areas that private companies can bid for in the defence manufacturing space under the Make in India drive -- which means replacement of the usual system of tenders and lowest bids -- but stakeholders are upset that they can’t participate in more than one sector Punj Lloyd spokesperson for defence Ashok Wadhawan, President Manufacturing, echoed the general feeling in the industry when he said: “Our recommendation to the task force (constituted to identify the private players) is that instead of identifying a few companies

per sector, the government should form consortiums and award them orders.” The six sectors identified are aircraft and their major systems; warships of stated displacements, submarines and their major systems; armoured fighting vehicles and their major systems: complex weapons that rely on guidance systems; Command and Control System and critical materials (special alloys and composites). D efence Minister Manohar Parrikar had said in early September that a task force had been constituted under former Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief V.K. Aatre to identify the private players

to be permitted into the defence sector. He said it was expected to give its report by month-end. Parrikar also said there would not be any repetition of players in the six areas. “There won’t be repetition. If X group has been taken in as a strategic partner in one segment, it will not be considered for another segment. It can participate in partnership for other products,” Parrikar had said. The deadline for submitting the report has passed and enquiries reveal that it is nowhere near completion. And, it is on the basis of this report that the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP), which will detail the nuts and bolts of the methodology

to be adopted for involving the private sector, was to be drawn up. “This is not likely to happen before the first quarter of 2016, which means the earliest the private sector can get involved is mid-to-late 2016,” a defence ministry source told IANS, speaking on condition of anonymity, given the sensitive nature of the subject. Even so, all does not appear to be lost as the coming together of 60 of the best-known defence companies operating in India, both domestic and foreign, could signal the end in its present form of the DRDO, whose roots go back nearly six decades but which has little of sub-

stance to show by way of original products. With defence offsets obligations of Rs. 25,000 crore ($4 billion) expected to accrue over the next seven to eight years, the formation of the Association of Defence Companies in India will see a broad-basing of the country’s manufacturing base, a process that is already underway in the small and medium industries sector The alliance includes Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopter, Punj Llyod, AgustaWestland, Reliance Defence, the Tatas, Rolls Royce, Saab, Northrop Gruman, Rolta, BAE Systems, Dassault, Honeywell, Thales, Finmeccanica, Hindustan

Aerosystems and Merlinkhawk Aerospace. At a meeting earlier this month, the stakeholders felt the alliance would serve as a representative platform, with a unified voice, on policy matters pertaining to the government, armed forces and state-run enterprises that affect their operations. This apart, the forum could also promote collaborations, support improved understanding among the members, pursue India’s strategic needs and deal appropriately with the interests of all the stakeholders. This also means there would be greater interaction between the armed forces and defence manu-

facturers, something that is sorely lacking now. This lack of interaction is because the DRDO, defence manufacturers like Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and the armed forces (barring the Indian Navy) are functioning in silos, each charting their own course. Just two instances would suffice here: The Arjun main battle tank (MBT) and the Tejas light combat aircraft (LCA) are still not fully operational after more than four decades of development as their specifications continue to change due to the designers, manufacturers and the users not being on the same page. The Indian Navy man-

aged to buck the trend because it established its own design organisaiton more than five decades ago and today has under construction not only a 45,000-tonne aircraft carrier - the largest vessel to be built in the country - but also two more nuclear-powered submarines in addition to one that is undergoing sea trials. Thus, in a situation where the DRDO was established to reduce dependence on imports, India still imports 70 percent of its military hardware. With the entry of private players, competitiveness will be the new mantra and the DRDO will have to quickly play catch-up or totally lose its relevance.

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Participants with resource persons and others during the training.

MeDziPheMA, OctOber 23 (MexN): The Central Institute of Horticulture (CIH) organised one day farmers’ training on ‘Advances in production technologies of major spice crops (Ginger, Turmeric and Naga Chilli) of NER’ on October 21 at CIH, Medziphema, which was funded by the Department of Biotechnology twining project for NER, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi. The inaugural program was graced by Dr. Lallan Ram, Director of CIH, Principal Investigator of DBT Twinning Project for NER who encouraged the farmer participants to get the utmost benefit by interacting with the resource persons. He emphasised on the importance of these three spice crops in NER and deliberated on enhancing farmers’ knowledge about crop techniques and thereby improve their productivity. He also stated that the objective of the training would only be fulfilled if participants implement the technologies learnt after the training programme. The first training session was conducted by Dr. C.S.Maiti, Assoc. Professor, Department of Horticulture, SASRD: NU. He meticulously explained on the packages and practices of Ginger, Turmeric & Naga

Chilli. He stressed on the importance of quality planting material, plant health by proper field practices and optimal nutrition to maintain a healthy crop for quality yield. Mr.J. Akato Chishi, STA, Department of Entomology, SASRD: NU then sensitized the farmers on Insect-Pest management of Ginger, Turmeric & Naga Chilli through participatory lecture and demonstration. The training was further continued by Prof. L.Dahio, H.O.D of Department of Plant Pathology, SASRD: NU. He delivered lecture on the Integerated Disease management of Ginger, Turmeric & Naga Chilli and stressed on organic cultivation for safe environment and healthy crop. The final session was conducted by Md. Manzar Hossain, Post Harvest Technologist, CIH who appraised on the post harvest management of Ginger, Turmeric & Naga Chilli. Director CIH Dr. Lallan Ram in his valedictory address exhorted the trainees and awarded certificates along with farm inputs like Trichoderma, Tricho cards and Pseudomonas to the participants. The program was concluded with word of appreciation by Sentirenla Jamir, JRF, DBT project. Altogether 23 participants from 6 villages under Dimapur and Peren District attended the training programme.

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lion, compared to five times that amount for universal banks), it said. The payments banks would have simplified Know-Your-Customer (KYC)/Anti Money Laundering (AML)/ Countering Financing of Terrorism (CFT) norms commensurate with the small accounts and bottom of the pyramid customers they are expected to handle (RBI 2014, Deloitte 2014). The payments banks are permitted to provide remittance services, including through mobile telephones, and many of the approved entities are mobile operators, the Bank said. The Reserve Bank on 19th August granted ‘in-principle’ approval to 11 entities, including Reliance Industries, Aditya Birla Nuvo, Vodafone and Airtel, to set up payments banks and proposed such licences ‘on tap’ in future. More than half of India’s population lack formal bank accounts, and the vast majority of villages lack last mile banking services, the Bank said.

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New Delhi, OctOber 23 (Pti): Tech giant Apple will finally launch its smartwatch ‘Apple Watch’ in India on November 6. The smartwatch was launched in few countries including the US, France, Japan, and the UK in April this year and has been rolled out to other geographies in a phased manner. Without disclosing the pricing, Apple on its website said the smartwatch will be available in India starting November 6. Launched in three variants (Apple Watch Sport, Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition) and two sizes (38 mm and 42 mm), the Apple Watch is priced between USD 349 (over Rs 23,000) to a whopping USD 17,000 (about Rs 11 lakh) for the gold model.

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wAShiNgtON, OctOber 23 (Pti): India’s move to set up 11 new payments banks is expected to expand penetration of the banking sector in vast rural areas of the country, the World Bank has said. “The decision by the Reserve Bank of India to grant ‘in principle’ approval for 11 entities to set up payments banks, which would be directed at small savers in underserved (largely rural) markets, could help transform the rural remittances market,” the World Bank said in a report on remittances released here yesterday. These banks would be subject to regulatory requirements that limit credit risk, (75% of deposit balances are to be in eligible government securities or treasury bills, while loans, credit card issuance, and acceptance of non-resident Indian deposits are prohibited) but would be subject to lighter prudential norms (minimum paid up capital of about USD 15 mil-

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EXCEL BEYOND BOUNDARY: ANCSU ANCSU president calls for improving overall performance of colleges Our Correspondent Kohima | October 23

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Minister for home Y. Patton on Thursday said All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) is a platform for the college students’ communities, which represents the young minds of the society. He said the Union also bears big responsibilities to play a positive role in shaping our future society. Addressing the inaugural function of the 17th biennial general conference of ANCSU held under the theme “Excel beyond boundary” at Indira Gandhi Stadium here, he said that over the years ANCSU has been striving on so many issues relating to the problems faced by the college students. He said it is worth noting that the union has achieved on many fronts in its endeavours for the welfare of the college students in the State. The home minister regretted that the Naga society is becoming a sick society. “We have lost many traits of life which our forefathers and ancestors have inherited during their period of time. Our ancestors were hard working, sincere and honest and were serious in their pursuit despite of lack of modern facilities that we have today. Instead of making best use of the availability of the modern technological facilities and amenities, the present day generation is abusing all these opportunities and

taking life more casually. Our work culture which we have inherited from our ancestors is fast diminishing and we are adopting an alien culture of going easy way of life thus resulting in corruption.” In this, Patton urged the youngsters to rise up to the occasion and look for a better change in the existing system of our society. “Lest our society will be totally ruined sooner or later and we all will be equally responsible.” He also stated that the Naga society now is in the grip of serious unemployment crisis. “The state as we all know is unproductive and the survival of our society solely depends on salary,” he pointed out. He maintained that Naga society depends for everything on the Central government. Most of the Naga students after obtaining higher degrees in education from outside the state come back home to hunt for white collar job, he said. However, he added, the state government is no longer in a position to provide job to all the educated Naga students as the employment opportunities in the government sector has reached saturation. The minister said it is the bounden duty of the younger generations to venture out and compete with the rest of the country. “You have to take a bold step and aim higher to go beyond the boundary and bring home new and

MEx FILE AAASHSSP central executive meeting today PereN, october 23 (mexN): The Alumni Association of All Saints Higher Secondary School, Peren (AAASHSSP) has convened its Central Executive Meeting, comprising the executive, advisors, regional coordinators, auditors, convenor and members of both the finance and construction committee, on October 24, 12.30 pm at the School staff room to discuss important matters relating to the Association and the ongoing Alumni Project on account of School Golden Jubilee. Therefore, the Association’s president has requested all the concerned members to attend the important meeting positively.

Landowners Pattadars’ meeting DimaPur, october 23 (mexN): The general secretary of Forum of the Landowners Pattadars of land under army occupation in Dimapur has informed all the members to attend the emergency meeting for submission of memorandum on October 24, 10:00 am at Neyas Café, Joyce Complex, NH, 2nd Gate, Chumukedima, Dimapur and Hotel The Hut, below head P.O, Kohima.

NFHRCC meeting DimaPur, october 23 (mexN): There will be a meeting of the Nagaland Foothill Road Coordination Committee (NFHRCC) on October 26, 3:00 pm at the Committee treasurer’s residence. Therefore, all the Committee members have been requested to attend the meeting positively. The meeting will deliberate and take decision on important issues confronting the Nagaland Foot Hill road construction, according to a press release from NFHRCC convenor, Supu Jamir and general secretary, WY Kithan.

Vehicle stolen from Delhi, recovered in Kohima Kohima, october 23 (mexN): One silver colour Maruti Alto bearing registration number WB02W-1250, which was stolen from Delhi in the year 2006, has been found in Kohima on October 23 by the District Intelligence Branch (DIB), DEF Kohima. The vehicle is wanted in connection with Shalimar Bagh P.S case no. 0693/2006, North West Delhi, Delhi, according to a press release from PRO, Kohima Police. The officer-in-charge of Shalimar Bagh P.S has been intimated through inter-state wireless transmission to claim the vehicle from Kohima Police with all relevant vehicle documents and court orders, the release added. The original registration number of the said stolen vehicle is ascertained as DL8CD9335 according to the official records, the PRO said.

Nagaland both government and private, which need the attention of the government, particularly in matters of infrastructure.” He urged the state government to give importance and attention for improving the overall performance of those colleges. He also highlighted the drawback of late declaration of degree results by Nagaland University. He stated that many brilliant Naga students have missed good opportunities of studying in reputed colleges outside the state owing to delay in declaration of results. “Another important issue is marking system presently practiced by the

Nagaland University/NBSE. Many deserving students have been victimized due to the poor marking system. This is a serious matter and needs to be seriously viewed and addressed by the University/ Board as well as colleges,” Longkumer said. Touching on scholarship issue, he said except Nagaland, other northeastern states are getting the refund of entire college expenses. He cited that Arunachal Pradesh students are getting nearly Rs. one lakh, whereas Naga students are getting less than ten thousand. This, he said, is another notable issue where along with ANCSU,

other apex student organizations should give due importance on the disparity of scholarship sanctioned by the state and the central government. Stating that our society desperately needs transformation, he said, “And to transform our society, we need a paradigm shift from the grass root level.” He further stated that the future of a society depends on the mindset and attitude of the youth and urged upon the gathering to realize that “without our active involvement and participation, without our contribution, our Naga society will never progress.”

All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) president Tsukjem Longkumer has urged the state government to give importance and attention for improving overall performance of the colleges in the State. In his presidential address during the 17th biennial general conference of ANCSU here Thursday, he said during 2013-2014, ANCSU toured all the districts. “In fact, we were deeply saddened seeing the pathetic conditions of the colleges dynamic ideas capable of across the state, found during our transforming the mind- visit. There are many colleges in set of our present society which thinks that the government is the sole provider of jobs,” Patton said. He urged the students to put head and hands together to Our Correspondent tribe in the corner of the vast coun- the sake of graduating, not for the the programme, Nukhu said over venture into a new horizon try India, we are still recognized sake of degree but make themselves the years, ANCSU has been takKohima | October 23 where the future generaand appreciated by many people employed. “We need Nagaland to ing many initiatives for bringing tion will be productive, self- Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu, chairman, because we have taken the oppor- grow, to become vibrant, to prosper the students’ community together supportive having capabil- NSMDC Ltd today stressed on the tunity to keep on practicing our and to develop,” he said and urged from various colleges. “The greatest ity of even creating jobs for need to protect and promote Naga traditional values and customs.” upon the gathering to ponder over it. assets of human resources are from the less educated people. cultural and traditional values. AdStating that the state governthe educated youth while you are “This will in turn build dressing the cultural session as part ment is encouraging and protect- Deo urges ANCSU to preparing for the future benefits of economical balances in of the 17th biennial conference ing the cultural and traditional val- work as agent of peace humanity,” he stated. Nukhu also the society so that the so- of All Nagaland College Students’ ues in the form of holding Hornbill Parliamentary secretary for stated that Nagaland has the maciety co-exists together in Union (ANCSU) here at Indira Gan- festival, he stressed on the need to higher & technical education Deo jor structure of population in the harmony to herald a new dhi Stadium, he said culture defines gear up a little more and put more Nukhu on Thursday appealed age group of 15-30 years, “and you era of hope,” he said. the identity of a lot of nation and in emphasis to be able to protect, pre- ANCSU to work as an agent of as college students are the future As a college student, particular Naga as tribal people. serve and uphold our cultural and peace and prosperity of the state. In leaders of the society.” The future he said, it is the prime time Dr. Keditsu said God has been traditional practices. his message read out at the 17th bi- progress and advancement of Naga in their life to decide or to very kind to Naga people and even He also called upon the students ennial general conference of ANC- society largely depends on your choose their dreams and through “we are just a minority to take their study seriously not for SU here as he could not make it to generations, he added. pursue it with determination “so that you will have a bright future.” greetings while ANCSU “It is the best opportune president Tsukjem Longtime in your life to culti- kumer delivered presidenvate leadership quality as tial address. Our Correspondent tion as the guest of honour, we view student leaders as Organizing committee Lalthara, advisor and seKohima | October 23 important partners in pro- convenor Kelhouneizo nior principal secretary to viding solutions to the im- Yhome gave conference The 17th biennial general Chief Minister, urged the President – Zhoku Thüluo mense social challenges remarks. The function conference of All Nagaland students to excel in every Vice President – Temjennungsang Jamir being faced by our society,” was chaired by ANCSU College Students’ Union field they do. He said a for- General Secretary – Benjongakum Longchar he said. former speaker Kezhazer (ANCSU) concluded here mula of “No Pain No Gain” Asst General Secretary – N. Avungo Jami He hoped that the stu- Angami. this evening at Indira Gan- be adopted to excel and Finance Secretary – Rhontsuthung R. Jungio dent leaders understand The programme was dhi Stadium. asked the students to de- Education Secretary – Viranu Ltu the contradictions of our followed by academic sesGracing the valedictory velop work culture. He also Publicity & Information Secretary – Imnameren changing society and to ad- sion 1- sponsored by Na- function as the chief guest, urged the students to be an Social & Culture Secretary – Tsukdirenla Longchar dress those contradictions galand Contractors’ & SupGames & Sports Secretary – Inato Y. Chisho minister for rural develop- agent of change. with broad mind. Referring pliers Union (NCSU) and Magazine Secretary – Katoka Awomi ment and REPA CL John Election commissioner to the advent of modern essay writing competition. Women Coordinators – Tonika Yeptho, Li-ina H. Later, academic session challenged the students to Zheito Chophy announced technologies, he said the Chopi & Janshoni Patton adopt healthy lifestyle and the newly elected office advancement will not wait II on the conference theme Auditor General – Kitovi Achumi move forward. bearers headed by Zhoku for us but it is our respon- took place with AlemtemReferring to the theme Thiiluo as president. (See Union Assembly Speaker – Johny Ngullie sibility to catch up with the shi Jamir, IAS (Retd), forU/A Dy Speaker – Mughato V. Yepthomi mer chief secretary as re- “Excel beyond boundary,” he box-newly elected team). changing world. U/A Secretary – Obed Zhimo The valedictory funcNaga Students’ Federa- source person and Kesosul said to excel we need practition was chaired by Medo Ngullie proposed vote of followed by collegiate tion (NSF) president Sub- Christopher Ltu as mod- cal not only theoretical. Also gracing the func- Chirhah while Ejanthung thanks. The function was night. enthung Kithan shared erator.

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Tsütuonuomia Khel Day on October 25 Kohima, october 23 (mexN): Tsütuonuomia Khel (T Khel) in Kohima Village (Bara Basti) will celebrate its T Khel Day on October 25. A press release from Publicity Committee, T Khel Day, Vincent Belho stated that October 25 each year carries a significant meaning to the Tsütuonuomia Khel - the Khel organises the T Khel Day to commemorate the 1879 battle and subsequent peace treaty of the Tsütuonuomia and the British.

The T Khel Day is also a commemoration of bravery and resilience, brotherhood and peace, the release added. Today, the day is observed with much gaiety and merriment in a spirit of cultural extravaganza, music and celebration. The T Khel has extended invitation to all to come and join the celebration, particularly the “sisters” married outside the Khel and also all the “brotherin-laws”. Parliamentary Secretary Khriehu Liezi-

etsu will grace the T Khel Day at 1:30 pm as the chief guest, while Viu Belho will be guest of honour for the T Khel Nite at 4:30 pm at the same venue, Mission Compound, Kohima. The release further informed that Bara Basti primarily consists of 4 khels which have been assigned a specific colour each: Lhisema (L Khel) - Red colour, Pfuchatsuma (P Khel) - Yellow colour, Dapfütsuma (D Khel) - Blue colour and Tsütuonuoma (T Khel) - Green colour. Hindu devotees immerse the idol of goddess Durga in the river upon conclusion of Durga Puja celebration on October 23 in Dimapur.

Atokhe Aye lauds initiatives of Salesians SFS to organize mass social work today Morung Express News Dimapur | October 23

Administrator of Dimapur Municipal Council, H. Atokhe Aye appreciated the contributions of Salesian family towards the growth of education in Nagaland and added that the wide presence of Don Bosco schools in the state stands proof to it. He also spoke about the trust and faith that people have on Don Bosco schools towards the delivery of education. Atokhe was speaking as the chief guest during the Grand Finale of the Youth Fest commemorating the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco at Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Dimapur. He pointed out the various vocational and technical courses being freely imparted by the Salesians to the economically marginalized sections of the society. He said this initiative has helped many people to become skilled and a useful human resource contributing to nation building. By providing such ser-

Kohima, october 23 have died and praying for ous different tribes, has (mexN): In preparation for the souls of the departed, a openly invited everyone concerned to share in the the observance of All Souls’ press release informed. The common cemetery charitable undertaking. Day, the St Francis de Sales Parish, Kohima Town will is a resting place for hun- Conveyance will be prohave a mass social work on dreds of departed, people vided at 9:00 am at Kezieke October 24 at the common of various denominations bus stand on Saturday to graveyard near BSF Camp, and tribes, which naturally proceed to the cemetery. On the occasion of All Kohima. All Souls’ Day is is increasing and in need of observed across the world regular maintenance, the Souls’ Day, the Church will celebrate holy mass at the DMC Administrator, H. Atokhe Aye (2nd left) with other on 2nd November every release said. dignitaries during the bicentenary celebration of Don year and is a day commemThe SFS Parish, a com- graveyard at 2:00 pm and Bosco in Dimapur on Friday. (Morung Photo) orating the faithful who munity comprising vari- will also bless the tombs. vices to the people, the “There is no ceiling set Salesians are truly striving or any limitation for a parto uphold the dreams of the ticular gender to achieve Saint John Bosco by work- things in life. As long as you ing for the marginalized commit yourself to work youth and the poor, Atokhe hard with total sincersaid. ity and dedication, you can Highlighting various scale greater heights,” he developmental activities encouraged the students. of the DMC, he encourDuring the programme, aged the gathered students Fr. CT Varghese SDB, Recto take the lead beginning tor, DBHSS Dimapur and from their homes, friend Chief Organizer; Fr. Nestor circles, colonies and to ed- Guria, Provincial - Presiucate people about incul- dent and Fr. Joshua SDB cating civic sense. Principal DBHSS Dimapur Atokhe reminded the delivered brief speeches. students that their primary Students of St. Mary’s duty was to excel in studies Higher Secondary School, and that there was no bar Padumpukhuri and Don Chief Guest Imolemba Jamir (president, Ao Senden) and others releasing the souvenir between boys and girls to Bosco Higher Secondary book of the 7th Aoli Pongen Mungdang (Ao Pongen clan conference) at Aliba village achieve academic excel- School, Dimapur also pre- on October 23. The Aoli Pongen Mungdang held its 7th conference at Aliba where luminaries from different walks of life took part. (Morung Photo) lence. sented special numbers.

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Darknet: the Wild West of the Internet David Kushner

n July 15th in Pittsburgh, David J. Hickton, a gray-haired U.S. attorney in a crisp dark suit, stepped out before an American flag to announce the feds' latest victory against online crime. "We have dismantled a cyber-hornet's nest of criminal hackers, which

at the same time, the Darknet, which Tor enables, has become the primary cove for criminals like Ross Ulbricht, imprisoned founder of Silk Road; the hackers behind the recent Ashley Madison attacks; and the international crew busted by the feds in July. As an instrument for both activists and criminals, Tor presents an increasingly difficult problem for law enforce-

As dark as the name suggests In the past year, some of those scarier elements have been surfacing. In May, the feds sentenced Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road — the online black market that generated roughly $200 million in sales — to life in prison. In August, hackers dumped the personal information of 36 million users of Ashley Madison, the

down to see pictures and descriptions of bestsellers: 1 g 90 percent-purity coke, x10 methylphenidate XL 18 mg (Concerta/Ritalin), and so on. Vendors are verified and rated by the community, just as on eBay and other shopping sites. But while navigating the Darknet seems easy enough, law enforcement has a much more difficult time busting the bad guys

was essentially how Syverson and his team designed the solution. Instead of a spy in Paris directly accessing a computer in Berlin, he would be routed through a random series of computers along the way, hiding where he was based. They called the network the Onion Routing, evoking this layered means of online access. If only military people

Inside the Web's secret space for drug dealers, arms traffickers, hackers and political dissidents was believed by many to be impenetrable," he said. "We are in the process of rounding up and charging the hornets." By the next morning, more than 70 people across the world had been charged, arrested or searched in what the Department of Justice called "the largest coordinated international law-enforcement effort ever directed at an online cybercriminal forum." After an 18-month international investigation led by the FBI, known as Operation Shrouded Horizon, hackers on a site called Darkode were accused of wire fraud, money laundering and conspiring to commit computer fraud. The trail of crimes was massive, with one member compromising companies including Microsoft and Sony and another swiping data from more than 20 million victims. Hickton said Darkode posed "one of the gravest threats to the integrity of data on computers in the United States and around the world." Its computers were considered "bulletproof" from the law by running on offshore servers — including one traced to Seychelles, the remote island nation in the Indian Ocean. "Cybercriminals should not have a safe haven to shop for the tools of their trade," said FBI Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano, "and Operation Shrouded Horizon shows we will do all we can to disrupt their unlawful activities." At least for a bit. Two weeks later, "Sp3cial1st," the main administrator of Darkode, posted a retaliatory statement on a new website — underscoring the feds' struggle to police the Internet. "Most of the staff is intact, along with senior members," Sp3cial1st wrote. "It appears the raids focused on newly added individuals or people that have been retired from the scene for years. The forum will be back." He vowed the organization would regroup on the Web's deepest, most impenetrable region, the Darknet — a space where anyone, including criminals, can remain virtually anonymous. And the Darknet could never be shut down — thanks, conveniently, to the feds, who created it and are still financing its growth. The TOR network The Darknet (sometimes called the Dark Web) works on the Tor browser, free software that masks your location and activity. Originally designed by the Naval Research Lab, Tor receives 60 percent of its backing from the State Department and the Department of Defense to act as a secure network for government agencies as well as dissidents fighting oppressive regimes. It is a privacy tool that has been used for both good and evil. Over the past decade, Tor has empowered activists to spread news during the Arab Spring; it has helped domestic-violence victims hide from online stalkers; and it has allowed ordinary citizens to surf without advertisers tracking them. But

ment to solve — exacerbating the hapless game of whack-a-mole facing those who try to bring law to the most lawless part of the Net. And the battle over the Darknet's future could decide the fate of online privacy in the U.S. and abroad. As Hickton tells Rolling Stone, "It's the Wild West of the Internet." The Iceberg Analogy Think of the Web as an iceberg. Most people only see the so-called Surface Web above the water: all the news and gossip and porn that's just a Google search away. But dive below and you'll see the vast expanse of the Deep Web: all the data that search engines can't find, which is much larger than the Surface Web. This includes anything behind a paywall (like Netflix), a password-protected site (like your e-mail) or a Web page that requires you to do your searching there (like when you're trying to find court records). The Darknet lurks in the Deep Web, because the sites there can't be found by search engines

either. But here's the big difference: The Darknet is composed of people and sites that want to remain anonymous and, unless you're using the Tor browser, are nearly impossible to find. Tor lets you peruse the Surface Web, just as you do with Firefox or Safari, but it also allows you to surf Amazon and Silk Road. Using a regular browser like Firefox, you can be identified by your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the numerical code that can be traced to your unique device. But on the Darknet, your location — and the locations of the people overseeing the sites you search — remain hidden. Most people use Tor for law-abiding privacy purposes. In fact, according to the Tor Project — the government-funded nonprofit that maintains the browser — Darknet surfing accounts for only three percent of Tor usage. (And criminal activities are just a fraction of that.) But because the Darknet is so seemingly shadowy and mysterious, it has become ominous in the popular imagination, a creepy catchall that includes everything scary lurking online: terrorists, pedophiles, dope dealers, hackers-forhire.

cheaters' website, on the Darknet. After ISIS claimed responsibility for a shooting outside a Prophet Mohammed cartoon contest in Texas in May, the Darknet was singled out for blame. Michael B. Steinbach, assistant director of the FBI's counter-terrorism division, told the House Homeland Security Committee that encryption tools have given such terrorists "a free zone by which to recruit, radicalize, plot and plan." Without the ability to adequately monitor the terrorists online, Steinbach went on, "we're past going dark in certain instances. We are dark." Despite the high-profile busts of Darkode and Silk Road, the Darknet is thriving. According to an August study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, criminals earn an estimated $100 million a year by selling drugs and other contraband on hidden websites using the virtual currency bitcoin, the digital cash that doesn't require a credit card or bank to process the transactions.

The feds aren't just battling bad guys adept at hiding online, they're also facing a massive rush of ordinary people looking to score anonymously. "Given the high demand for the products being sold," the CMU researchers conclude, "it is not clear that takedowns will be effective." Though a lot of people think you have to be some kind of hacker to navigate the Darknet, it's surprisingly easy to sell or buy illegal goods and services. Click on Tor, and it looks like any other browser — complete with its own cartoonish onion logo — though it moves more slowly because of complex routing behind the scenes. Instead of ending in a .com or .org Web address, Darknet sites end in .onion and are often called onion sites. Since Google doesn't crawl onion sites, you need to use rudimentary Darknet search engines and listings such as the Hidden Wiki or Onion Link. Black-market Darknet sites look a lot like any other retailer, except there are categories for, say, benzos, psychedelics and used AK-47s instead of woks and lawn ornaments. On Silk Road 3, a site unaffiliated with the original one, you can search by category, or scroll

for one simple reason: The same tools that keep government agents and dissidents anonymous keep criminals virtually invisible too. "This is the crime scene of the 21st century, and these traffickers are finding all kinds of ways to cover their tracks," says Karen Friedman Agnifilo, Manhattan's chief assistant district attorney, who's among those leading the fight against criminals online. "Law enforcement has to play catch-up." Paul Syverson, a 57-year-old mathematician at the U.S. Naval Research Lab, created Tor as a means for people to communicate securely online. "We certainly were aware that bad people could use it," says Syverson, wearing an M.C. Escher T-shirt in his cluttered office in Washington, D.C., "but our goal was to have something for the honest people who need to protect themselves." Since its inception in 1923, the NRL has been the military's most esteemed research and development lab, inventing everything from radar to GPS. In 1995,

Syverson and his colleagues conceived a way to make online communications as secure as possible. The idea was to provide a means for anyone — including government employees and agents — to share intelligence without revealing their identities or locations. With funding from the Department of Defense, Syverson brought on two scruffy graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson, to help bring his vision to life. Like Syverson, Dingledine — a ponytailed privacy activist from Chapel Hill, North Carolina — saw the project as a way to empower everyone in the age of online surveillance. "How can we build a system that gives you privacy in the face of the large governments who are surveilling the Internet as much as they can?" Dingledine asks. "That's a really hard research problem." To understand how the problem was solved, imagine a spy taking a train from Paris to Berlin. If the spy travels directly, he can easily be followed. But if he takes a series of trains between several cities — Paris to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to Madrid, Madrid to Berlin — he's harder to trace. This

used Tor, though, it'd be obvious that the traffic was government-related. "We wanted to have a network that would carry traffic for a variety of users," Syverson says, "so you don't necessarily know if this is a cancer survivor looking up information or somebody from the Navy." In order to do that, Syverson and his team made a decision he calls "central to the security of the system": They designed Tor to be freely available online and open-sourced, which meant it could be assessed and improved by anyone around the world. The Tor network wasn't just designed to hide who is accessing websites, it was created to give websites the ability to mask the locations of the servers hosting them. One of the ideas was to provide a kind of secret bunker for government websites, so that if they were under attack, agents could visit a hidden version of the site online without hackers tracing them. These were the sites that ended with .onion. The Tor creators call them "hidden services" sites — today, it's more sensationally known as the Darknet. In 2003, Tor software was publicly released. Word about the browser spread on forums among privacy advocates and researchers, and it soon became the most resilient and important tool for anyone seeking to preserve their anonymity online. Geeks, agents and activists formed a volunteer network of nodes that routed Tor traffic anonymously across the world. Before long, people could reliably surf the Internet without being traced — out of sight of anyone who wanted to know who they were, where they were traveling or what they intended. A space for the oppressed Tor's early adopters weren't criminals — they were dissidents. One of them is Nima Fatemi, a black-clad 27-year-old Iranian who serves as a key Tor evangelist — helping others around the world use the software to fight oppressive regimes. "We needed something different to connect to the Internet safely," he tells me. "I found Tor and thought, 'This is the tool.' It was peace of mind." In the summer of 2009 in Tehran, Fatemi was running for his life from riot police after shooting photos of a protest. "I felt it a duty because so many people outside of Iran had no idea that we were protesting," he says. "The state TV was just showing photos of flowers and stuff." As soldiers chased him, Fatemi tore through the streets, leaping over a fallen woman, and turned into a courtyard where a sympathetic family gave him cover. "The police would attack me as if I had an RPG on my shoulder," Fatemi says. It's dangerous to be a social-media activist in certain parts of the world. Recently, a blogger in Brazil was beheaded, and another in Bangladesh was killed with machetes. In Iran, blogger Soheil Arabi was sentenced by the Su-

preme Court to be hanged for "insulting the Prophet Mohammed" in Facebook posts. (His sentence was later commuted to two years of mandatory theology study, but he is serving a seven-and-a-half-year jail sentence for insulting the Supreme Leader.) This year, four secular bloggers were murdered in Bangladesh alone. At the time of his near capture, Fatemi had been uploading photos that were used on Facebook and Twitter to spread breaking news of the Iranian government's crackdown on dissidents. Under increased scrutiny, he'd turned to Tor to continue working anonymously — and to help himself and his fellow activists stay out of jail. Fatemi held private workshops in Iran, teaching friends and family how to use the software and thus strengthening the network, as more users meant more nodes with which to relay and hide the online traffic. "We spread the tool everywhere," he says. In the decade since the Tor software has been released, it has spread virally beyond the U.S. government and into the activist community. This is fueled in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the digital-rights group which used to fund and still champions Tor as a powerful pro-democracy tool. Jacob Appelbaum, the noted activist who has worked closely with Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, calls it "surveillance resistance." By using Tor in place of another browser, protesters and journalists can log on to Twitter or surf dissident chat rooms with far less risk of being tracked by a government that might imprison them or worse. "There are countries where browsing a political website about democracy can get you thrown in jail," says Jeremy Gillula, a staff technologist at the EFF. "That's the most life-and-death reason why Tor needs to exist." During the Arab Spring, Tor helped facilitate protests throughout the Middle East. Nasser Weddady, a 39-year-old Mauritanian-American activist, was living in the States and began promoting the underground browser — becoming one of the most influential social-media dissidents during the uprising. "There would be no access to Twitter or Facebook in some of these places if you didn't have Tor," he says. "All of the sudden, you had all these dissidents exploding under their noses, and then down the road you had a revolution."

With the Tor Project still largely being financed by the DOD, Mathewson and Dingledine have kept the software and community evolving. For Mathewson, a bushy-bearded 38-yearold sci-fi fan, its continuing spread among activists throughout the world exceeded his dreams. "I'd be getting e-mails from people saying, 'I'm pretty sure your software saved my life,' " he recalls. "I'd say, 'I'm very glad you're alive, but I'm just this person who's been writing software — I hope I don't screw anything up!'" On January 27th, 2011, Ross Ulbricht, operating under the pseudonym Altoid, announced the launch of the first blackmarket site to exploit the cloaking powers of the Darknet. "I came across this website called Silk Road," he posted on a drug forum called Shroomery. org, posing as a customer. "It's a Tor hidden service that claims to allow you to buy and sell anything online anonymously." Ulbricht, who ran the site as Dread Pirate Roberts, was the first to fully exploit Tor's potential for fostering a new kind of criminal enterprise. It was more of a novel idea than a technical feat. Ulbricht, or anyone running an illegal Web page, could simply create it on the Tor hidden network. This made it difficult not only to find who was hosting the address, but also who was visiting it. But Ulbricht went further by using bitcoin to make the subsequent transactions just as hard to track. By the summer of 2011, word of the Darknet hit the press and the pols. In a July news conference about Silk Road, Sen. Chuck Schumer, of New York, demonized drug sellers and buyers who were "hiding their identities through a program that makes them virtually untraceable," and called on the Drug Enforcement Agency to crack down. Time magazine called the Darknet "a haven for criminals....where drugs, porn and murder live online." The Daily Mail warned that "hiring a hitman has never been easier." Many activists in the Tor community, however, wince when they hear the word "Darknet." Criminal sites, they say, represent a tiny fraction of .onion traffic. For them, the focus on criminality obscures Tor's greater intent. "I don't think very much of the term 'Darknet,'" Mathewson says with a groan. "I think it's pretty much a media creation."

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Tor Stinks for the authorities Whatever it's called, powerful agencies are still taking the Darknet seriously. According to an Edward Snowden leak in October 2013, the NSA, during a topsecret presentation in 2012, considered Tor a threat. "Tor stinks," reads the title of one NSA slide. "We will never be able to de-anonymize all Tor users [but] we can de-anonymize a very small fraction. "(When contacted by Rolling Stone, the NSA declined to comment.) In another of Snowden's revelations, Britain's intelligence agency, the Government Communications Headquarters, dismissed the democratic potential of Tor as "pseudo-legitimate uses" that paled next to the "bad people" who ruled the Darknet. As a result, law-enforcement agencies began seeking new ways to infiltrate the Darknet. In July, Interpol held its first-ever training on "identifying the methods and strategies used by organized crime networks and individuals to avoid detection on the Darknet." That same month, FBI Director James Comey explained to a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee the agency's plight in tracking encrypted communications. "The tools we are asked to use are increasingly ineffective," he said. As the battle continues over the Darknet, Tor's popularity only becomes more mainstream. Facebook now offers a .onion version of its site on Tor for those wanting to feel less watched. In June, speaking at an event for EPIC, a privacy and civil liberties nonprofit, Apple CEO Tim Cook railed against government efforts to crack consumer devices. "Removing encryption tools from our products altogether, as some in Washington would like us to do, would only hurt law-abiding citizens who rely on us to protect their data," he said. "The bad guys will still encrypt; it's easy to do and readily available." Mathewson predicts that other Web browsers like Firefox will build Tor into their functionality, and he hopes that privacy will become "a default mode of communication on the Internet" within five years. But the circuitous chase will surely continue. For all the activists using these tools to better the world, there will be criminals employing the same tools to exploit it — and law enforcers hunting them down. "I'm as concerned about privacy rights as anybody," says U.S. Attorney Hickton, "but would you have us do nothing?"

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What Is Social Anxiety? Olga Khazan The Atlantic

eople today might not actually be avoiding social interaction any more than they did in past decades, but they’re certainly more vocal about it. The rise of digital communication seems to be spawning a nation of indoor cats, all humble-bragging about how introverted they are and ordering their rides and groceries without ever talking to a human. Sometimes reclusiveness can be a sign of something more serious, though. Social anxiety is one of the most common mental illnesses, but it’s still poorly understood outside of scientific circles. The good news is that it’s highly treatable, according to Stefan G. Hofmann, the director of the Social Anxiety Program at Boston University. I recently talked with Hofmann about how social anxiety works and what people who feel socially anxious can do about it. An edited transcript of our conversation follows. Olga Khazan: Why do people feel socially anxious when they go to parties, networking events, things like that? Stefan Hofmann: People are social animals, and we have a strong desire to be part of a group and to be accepted by the group. Social anxiety is a result of the fear of a possibility that we will not be accepted by our peers. It's the fear of negative evaluation by others, and that is [part of] a very fundamental, biological need to be liked.

That’s why we have social anxiety. Khazan: Does everyone get socially anxious, or just certain people? Hofmann: Well, it would be very abnormal not to be socially anxious. Social anxiety is a very normal stage that children go through, [along with] separation anxiety and stranger anxiety. These are actually very normal stages, and children who do not go through these stages, doctors do worry about those kids. Later on, we obviously will still be uncomfortable in novel social situations, it’s quite normal. It becomes, obviously, a problem if we are too distressed. If it interferes with our lives and bothers us too much, then it becomes a problem, and then we would call it social anxiety disorder. Khazan: How is so-

cial anxiety different from generalized anxiety? Is it more common than regular anxiety, or less severe? Where would you place social anxiety on the anxiety map? Hofmann: In psychiatry we have a group of what we call anxiety disorders, and that includes social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobias, and the like. Social anxiety disorder is the most common form among all the anxiety disorders. It actually is also ranked, in comparison to all the other mental disorders, as one of the most common disorders, next only to depression and substance use disorder. Thirteen out of 100 people meet criteria for social anxiety disorder [at some point in life]. Khazan: Is there any overlap between people who are generally anxious

Book review:

The Power to Forgive

Avinuo Kire, Zubaan 2015, Rs 395, 139 pp. vinuo Kire’s first volume of short stories was released in August. The collection is twelve short stories on different themes. The title story, The Power to Forgive is a powerful account of reconciliation coming through a daughter’s forgiveness of a father’s ill thought out action. A young girl is raped by a close relative. After negotiations, her father makes the decision to forgive the offender. It is an action taken without consulting her wishes and lauded as ‘a supreme act

of Christian forgiveness.’ But the title story shows that forgiveness does not come easy. The girl carries both the stigma of being a rape victim in a highly conservative society where she is now considered damaged goods, and her father’s betrayal by his choice to publicly forgive the uncle who raped her. Her life is marred ever after by the deed; she subconsciously nurtures a deep resentment against her father, and when the proposal of her marriage goes through, she decides that it will be her brother and not her father who will give her away. Inadvertently she witnesses how much that decision hurts her father. Through a door left ajar she finds a spectacle of an ageing father weeping, a most unusual sight for her normally emotionless father. That sight shows her that he has not been unaffected by her pain; they close the distance between them by mutually moving toward each other in unspoken forgiveness. There is much left unsaid in this little story that makes the reader stop and reflect on what the writer has brought out; deep recesses of the human soul where wounds are made by our closest ones, scars that stay on and create chasms in relationships. Avinuo Kire has courageously dealt with the treacherous world of emotions in this story and in the companion stories offered in her first volume of short stories. Each story has something different to tell and the writer pulls the reader into her world so that

the characters remain with you long after the book has been closed. The lives of ordinary people are interesting to her and she encourages us to muse, hmm, I wonder what kind of secret life this person has lived as in the case of Solie the peoncum-sweeper who was once a soldier in the Naga army. Solie lives out the rest of his life as a lowly office assistant and no one would know that in his prime he had risen to the rank of Brigadier and walked on foot to Pakistan and China numerous times for the Naga cause. “I always imagined Solie as a faraway hero from a bygone era. So it is with a poignant sadness that this story continues in such a mundane, unheroic manner,” the writer adds. The undercover lives of ordinary people are what she uncovers in tales like ‘Promise of Camellias,’ ‘That long ago summer’ and ‘Remembering Uncle Peter.’ They deal with the twists and turns that love can take. ‘That long ago summer’ is bittersweet and is a story that many can identify with; a lost love and lost opportunity which will leave the lover filled with regret throughout life at what might have been. At the same time, ‘Promise of Camellias’ is a hopeful story that ends in taking strong decisions that propel the protagonist towards happiness. Love is complicated and life even more so and the reader finds that out in ‘Remembering Uncle Peter.’ ‘Bayienuo’ is one story that combines cultural superstition with fantasy and the result is a tale of evocative and delicate beauty. The manner in which Avinuo brings both together and weaves them into a dream tale is admirable. These are tales with a strong Naga base. The men and women are Naga and the society is modern and yet steeped in tradition. The writer is very good at mastering the skill of the short story: sustaining the interest created in the first sentences by introducing suspense and using it to keep the reader mesmerised by her story. “The Power to Forgive” is a beautiful first volume with stories that are at once powerful and yet sensitive and unmistakably feminine.

and people who have social anxiety? Hofmann: Yeah, all the anxiety disorders are highly comorbid. Comorbidity means the coexistence of two or more problems in one individual. The most common problem for people with social anxiety disorder is actually depression. Then other forms of anxiety disorder, in particular generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder. But this is true for almost all disorders—they are highly overlapping with each other. Which, by the way, causes problem for the psychiatric diagnosis, because we wouldn’t assume that there’s such a high overlap, but it does exist. Khazan: How do you know if your level of social anxiety is considered disordered? Hofmann: The definition of a mental disorder is that it causes either sig-

nificant distress, and/or significant interference in one's life. So you might be able to perform normally during daily life, but you're terribly distressed around these social situations, such as meeting people, giving speeches, or doing things in front of people. It causes you such a level of distress that causes you to want to get help. Or, there are people who kind of find their way around these problems, and they live lives that are fairly isolated. They might not marry, they might have very few friends, they might not go out for parties. In other words, they might not feel much distress because they’re living isolated lives, but at the same time they would like to be social. So they feel still an urgency to do something about it because they're not loners, but they just can't be around

people because it's so distressing. Some people use substances like alcohol to medicate themselves. Khazan: When you say they feel lots of distress, what kinds of things might they be feeling? Hofmann: Often people will report panic attacks, anxiety attacks. They’ll report being struck by anxiety when they have to stand up in front of a group, that they show such strong anxiety that they can’t speak. Or they might escape out of the situation, run away, don’t go into interview situations, and the like. Again, they might be missing out on many opportunities in life. They might not get married because not only are they scared of dating someone, but also going to their own wedding, etcetera. These are not just shy people— social anxiety disorder is not the same as shyness. People with social anxiety disorder have a real, significant problem that interferes with their lives. Khazan: Has there been a rise in social anxiety, with social media and people interacting more through their computers? Hofmann: It’s impossible to tell, because the definition of social anxiety disorder changes, and depending on how you define it, you'll get different rates of prevalence. We do know, however, that there are interesting differences between cultures, which tells you a little bit about how society also shapes and influences that. We know that [some] Asian cultures, such as Japan and China, report social anxiety disorder less often. In more collectivist cultures, where

the individual is not in the center, social anxiety disorder is less of a problem. In individualistic cultures, where it’s important that you are your own, unique person, in those cases social anxiety becomes more of a problem. So Western cultures report the higher prevalence rates of social anxiety disorder. Even within the U.S., Asians report lower rates, whites report the highest rates, and Hispanics and African Americans are in between. So that has to do with the setting, the cultural background, family relationships, and the like. Khazan: What are some strategies that help alleviate symptoms or combat social anxiety when it starts creeping in? Hofmann: What needs to happen is that people should face their anxiety. What we do is called cognitive behavioral therapy, a non-medication option which is more effective in the long term than medication treatment. You try to identify what kinds of thoughts people have in these situations, what sort of drives the anxiety. Then you gradually challenge these maladaptive thinking patterns by asking people to engage in what we would call exposure practices, where they expose themselves to these situations repeatedly and for a long period of time so that they can realize that nothing bad is happing. It is very effective. We have a response rate of at least 75 percent. Alternative treatments to CBT are medication—primarily with SSRIs. Khazan: So what are some of the situations that you might send some-

one into? Like, “go give a speech?” Hofmann: Initially, we use speaking in front of the rest of the group. In the seventh or eighth session, we go on to do more individualized exposure treatments, constructing something that we would call a “social mishap” exercise. We expose them to their worstcase scenario. For example, if someone is not engaging in any dating behaviors because they are concerned about being rejected, we would ask them to go to a restaurant and ask every woman at the table for her number. And obviously, he would get rejected a lot, and that's the purpose of it. Khazan: That’s crazy! That sounds so intense. What do they say to the women? Hofmann: We script it very clearly. We say, you’re going to go in there now, and say the following: “Hi, I like your face. Would you like to go out with me? Would you like to give me your number?” And she would obviously say, “No, go away, you freak,” or something, and that would be desirable. That would be perfect. Or other examples might be, inconveniencing people, so let’s say go to a coffee shop and you spill your coffee and you say, “I'd like to have a new one.” Or you go to a book store and ask for a book on the joy of sex. You do something that is over the top that nobody likes to do, that violates their personal social norms and engages them in re-evaluating their maladaptive beliefs. And it’s very effective. It’s very successful. People speak to this treatment, they love it.

Why it is important to value each other’s work in a relationship The Indian Express

imes have changed a lot today in terms of working couples. More and more partners today are professionally qualified and sharing roles and responsibilities. Society, too, is changing fast and so are marital equations. But does the changing professional aspirations and responsibilities impact relationships today? The answer is yes. As long as both couples approach their respective work in a similar manner, there is no

problem. But when a partner undermines or devalues the profession of the other, problems are sure to crop up. Take the case of Anya and Mohit. When Anya started working in a magazine, things were fine — initially. But when the print deadline neared and Anya had to work long hours, Mohit started resenting it. “He would not resent my salary but he grumbled when I had to stay back at work and that he would be inconvenienced. He also had to work overtime

sometimes but I knew it was important. But when I had to do the same he would crib and undermine the work I did, saying it was just a magazine and a hobby and I should not be compromising our family time for it,” said Anya. Experts say that a person belittling his/her partner’s profession can be deemed a sign of emotional abuse in a relationship. To be constantly made to feel that your work or professional goals are not important can be highly detrimental to the relationship.

It is not just the kind of work that is belittled, but sometimes also the salary bracket that can emerge as an issue of berating the partner. Take the case of Mahesh and Sakshi. Though both had started out together, Sakshi had some good breaks in her profession, because of which she was in a much higher salary bracket than Mahesh. But because of the income difference, every time they had a fight, Sakshi would use that as a tool to show Mahesh down. Experts say that belit-

tling each other’s profession only ends up in one partner alienating the other. Since what we do usually plays a major role in defining what we are and who we are, it is imperative that couples show a certain amount of respect and value to that as well. Appreciating the goals, profession and aspirations of our partner are integral to any relationship; and if we fail to show that in our attitude, then we may end up being professionally successful but the relationship may end up taking a beating.

Coming up blank: the science of writer’s block Maya Sapiurka

The Conversation

ne of the most interesting and entertaining parts of following my favourite authors on Twitter is witnessing a little bit of the writing process. Getting a peek into how my favourite books are written is like watching a real-time behind-the-scenes DVD featurette. But not every update is a positive one. There’s something that haunts all writers, be they professional or amateur: writer’s block. Writer’s block can be difficult to define, because no two people share the same experience of it. Probably the simplest and most straightforward definition comes from Dr. Patricia Huston: a distinctly uncomfortable inability to write. But what could be the cause of this vaguely described problem? Has a writer’s Muse simply deserted them, or can we find an explanation hidden somewhere in the brain? The location of language While there haven’t been any published scientific studies on people with writer’s block, we can take a few different avenues to try and determine what parts of the brain may be affected. One of those is looking at where words come from in the first place. Language has traditionally been thought to be one of the few skills found in a very specific location in the brain: on the left side of the front part of the brain, fittingly

called the frontal lobe. This is called Broca’s area, named after the scientist who first reported that damage to this area led to the inability to form words, called aphasia. Since writer’s block is, fundamentally, an inability to write down words, this makes the frontal lobe an excellent place to start in researching the underpinnings of writer’s block. We can also look at writer’s block as an inability to come up with a story, be it fiction, non-fiction, or the story of how to program your remote. Most who experience writer’s block aren’t having trouble producing words – they simply can’t figure out what should happen next. A small number of studies have looked at the concept of “story creation” and what areas of the brain might be involved. In one study from 2005, participants were presented with a set of three words and asked to create a story based around them. On some trials, they were asked to “be creative” and on others to “be uncreative”. When this task was done in an fMRI scanner, which measures blood flow to different regions of the brain as an indicator of increased or decreased activity, there was a significant increase in activity in the prefrontal cortex. This increased activity was seen not just on the left side, where Broca’s area is located, but also in the right prefrontal cortex. Some of these areas, such as the anterior cingulate cortex, that are associ-

ated with making associations between unrelated concepts – a critical skill for a great writer. In another study, from 2013, participants were asked to actually write a story while in the fMRI scanner. They were given the first 30 words of a familiar text, asked to brainstorm a continuation of that text, and then given two minutes to physically write out their story. These stories were then scored based on creativity and measured against the brain activity data generated while in the scanner. Both the “brainstorming” and “creative writing” portions of the experiment showed strong increases in brain activity in the frontal lobe, particularly in the language areas. In the “brainstorming” condition, the subregions involved included those associated with planning and control, whereas many of those regions involved in the “creative writing” condition were involved with memory and the motor areas related to the physical act of writing. So when we speak of writer’s block, we may actually be talking about a “creation block” – the inability to make the connections and the plans that allow creative writing to occur. So we’ve got an idea of where writer’s block is happening – but what can you do to fight against it? There’s no pill you can take to make it go away, but there are some simple things that you can try to loosen up your frontal lobe, all recommended by Dr. Huston in 1998:

1. Read someone else’s writing. Studies have shown that people are more creative when they’re exposed to the creative ideas of others. Just make sure you’re only inspired by their writing and not copying from it. 2. Break the work down into pieces. If you can’t get the introduction to flow the way you want it to, try something in the middle. Check off each part as you finish so you can get an accurate sense of how much you’ve completed. 3. Write without stopping. Try writing a whole draft without going back and re-reading what you’ve written. Some of it may not be great, but I bet a lot of it will be usable. At the very least, it will give you a place to start. 4. Plan breaks into your writing schedule. Many swear by the pomodoro technique, but find a rhythm that works for you. Go for a walk or grab a meal with friends or watch that video of the puppy that can’t roll over (a personal favorite). Relaxing will make it easier to get back into the writing spirit. 5. Don’t procrastinate. The more you put off what you have to write, the more anxiety you’ll feel. This is always my stumbling block (and why I’ve watched half of the second season of Fringe while writing this). Ultimately, be kind to yourself. You’re not the first to go through this and you’re not the last. Being stuck doesn’t make you a bad writer or a bad person. It makes you a human being with a flawed (but marvellous) brain.

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Pakistan to act against LeT; no nuke-deal, or US role in Kashmir washington, october 23 (ians): Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to the US with a litany of complaints against India with the hope of getting an India type nuclear deal and involving Washington in the Kashmir issue. He got neither. Instead Sharif ended up giving President Barack Obama an assurance that Islamabad would take effective action against Pakistan based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) and its affiliates responsible for the Nov 2008 Mumbai terror attack. Apparently concerned over Pakistan's assertion that it has made low-yield nuclear weapons to bridge the gap for war that India had created through its cold-start doctrine, Obama also cautioned Sharif against raising nuclear tensions with new weapons. "Regarding Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, the President stressed the importance of avoiding any developments that might invite increased risk to nuclear safety, security, or strategic stability," a joint statement said. However, Pakistan did manage to get a call for an India-Pakistan dialogue to resolve all issues including Kashmir included in a joint statement issued after Sharif met Obama Thursday in his Oval office in the White House. But in line with Washington's hands off Kashmir policy, the joint statement

India our foremost nemesis: Pakistan daily islamabad, october 23 (ians): India will always be our foremost nemesis, said a Pakistani daily and added that "civilian institutional development and agencies must not be allowed to become victims to the security dilemma". An editorial "Security State" in The Nation on Friday said that the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) has highlighted the danger of Indian involvement hampering the implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. Briefing diplomats in Islamabad, FWO's Director General Maj. Gen. Muhammad Afzal said that a special security division has been raised by the army to "protect the project from Indian aggression". He added that another division will be raised to ensure foolproof security to Chinese and local engineers engaged in expressing "concern over violence along the Line of Control (in Kashmir)" noted "their support for confidence-building measures and effective mechanisms that are acceptable to both parties." "The leaders emphasised the importance of a sustained and resilient dialogue process between the two neighbours aimed at resolving all outstanding territorial and other disputes, including Kashmir, through peaceful means and working together to address mutual concerns of India and Pakistan regarding terrorism," it said. "In this context, the Prime Minister apprised

execution of the project. "When the divide between the civilian leadership and the army is discussed, it is clear that the army functions effectively and fills the gaps in all arenas where the civilian leadership fails time and time again," said the editorial. The FWO is an activeduty, major science and technology command of the Pakistan Army, the daily said. Commissioned and established in 1966, the FWO is an administrative branch of the Pakistan Army that includes active duty officers and civilian scientists and engineers. The daily said that although "we appreciate the proactive role that the army is playing to ensure the smooth running of all CPEC related activities, it is saddening that state institutions are not strengthened, improved upon or empowered to do their job". "Additionally, we are also bound to believe what-

the President about Pakistan's resolve to take effective action against United Nations-designated terrorist individuals and entities, including Lashkar-e-Taeba (LeT) and its affiliates, as per its international commitments and obligations under UN Security Council resolutions and the Financial Action Task Force," the statement added. Obama and Sharif, it said "stressed that improvement in PakistanIndia bilateral relations would greatly enhance prospects for lasting peace, stability, and prosperity in the region." Sharif also "reaffirmed that Pakistan's territory

ever the military mechanism says, because after all, we are a security state." "We can neither question the threat of the enemy, nor question the motives of the FWO in keeping development and construction in its own hands." The editorial asked if the army is responsible for all construction, protection and developing far-reaching areas, "then what is the point of having provincial assemblies and a hundred committees who have no authority or the capacity to function in their areas?" It added: "India will always be our foremost nemesis, always at our door, but civilian institutional development and agencies must not be allowed to become victims to the security dilemma." "In sixty-eight years, we should have found a solution, yet we continue to be held hostage by our situation."

will not be used against any other country and noted that this is an obligation of all countries in the region." The Prime Minister, it said, "outlined the actions that Pakistan is taking under the National Action Plan to ensure that the Taliban - including the Haqqani Network - are unable to operate from the soil of Pakistan." Asked later to compare India and Pakistan's respe ctive concerns about terrorism, Obama's spokesman Eric Schultz parried saying, "I think it's clear that Pakistan's relationship with India is critical to Pakistan's future." "The normalisation of relations between those

two countries is vital both to them and to the stability in the region," he said stressing "economic linkages and a broader view of the US-Pakistan relationship beyond just counterterrorism." "And I think it's discussions like the one the President had today that helps unlock opportunities for millions of people and leads to a more prosperous region, which no doubt will go a long way towards counterterrorism efforts," Schultz said. Asked if the US was satisfied with counterterrorism actions that Pakistan is taking, including against the Haqqani Network and LeT,

he said: "Pakistan has embarked on significant military operations that have had a significant impact." "They've targeted terrorist sanctuaries and restored government-controlled parts of Pakistan that had previously been safe havens to terrorists for years," Schultz said. "So we understand that the people of Pakistan have suffered greatly at the hands of terrorists and violent extremists, and we welcome Pakistan's commitment as part of its national action plan to not discriminate amongst terrorist groups," he said. Without confirming or denying a New York Times report that US was planning to sell eight new F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, Shultz said Obama did discuss with Sharif how the US and Pakistan can best continue their robust counterterrorism cooperation. Meanwhile, a senior Administration official "categorically" ruled out any kind of negotiations with Pakistan on an Indiatype civil nuclear deal, terming the reports in American media as "completely false". "Let me state categorically, we have not entered into negotiations on 123 Agreement with Pakistan nor are we seeking an exception for Pakistan within the nuclear supplier group in order to facilitate civil nuclear exports," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Writers protest against increasing intolerance new delhi, october 23 (ians): Nearly 100 writers took out a peaceful march here on Friday to protest against increasing intolerance in the country. Writers from across the country gathered at Shri Ram Centre near Mandi House and marched towards Sahitya Akademi in the capital, wearing black ribbons on their heads as a sign of protest. The writers said that the protest was to express their anger against the government for letting anti-social incidents happen and also to attract attention of the academy towards the increasing attacks on litterateurs. The protest was organised just before Sahitya Akademi's emergency meeting to discuss various issues. "Freedom of expression and speech is currently being suppressed in the country. Whatever is happening in the country nowadays, people belonging to minorities and schedule caste feel insecure," a writer said in the protest. "The government must take some concrete steps to stop such incidents which shatter nation's secular fabric. Sahitya Akademi should also pressurize the government and pass some resolution against increasing attacks on the writers," the protester added. Earlier this month several writers had returned their awards to register their protest against increasing intolerance in the country.

Panel on women safety to come up in Delhi new delhi, october 23 (ians): A committee to look into issue of women's safety and security will be set up soon, Delhi Commission for Women Chief Swati Maliwal said on Friday after meeting Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung. A meeting for this purpose will be held on November 3 or 4, she said, according to an official release. The committee will comprise the lt. governor, DCW chairperson, police commissioner, Delhi home secretary and women development cell secretary and will review the existing women safety measures and meet twice a month, it added. Maliwal also informed Jung that there are 1,500 vacancies in Delhi Police that need to be filled.

Azam Khan holds 'mobile phones' responsible for rapes new delhi, october 23 (ani): In yet another crude remark over rape incidents, senior Samajwadi Party leader on Friday said that rape incidents occur due to mobile phones. Speaking to ANI, Azam blamed the accessibility to mobile phones in both urban and rural areas for rise in rape incidents. “Two and half-year-old girls are getting raped, why? It's because of mobile phones. Even in villages people can download things. The content in these mobile phones is accessible to little kids. There are films made where little kids are used. It is these things that are accessible on mobile phones which are ruining the youth and kids who have not even come of age,” Khan was quoted as saying by ANI. “What is being done about this? What punishment is being given for this. Rape incidents are spoiling our society ,” he further added. Khan's remarks came after a 2.5-year-old girl was allegedly raped in Delhi's Nangloi area last week. Reacting to his remarks, former J&K CM Omar Abdullah took to Twitter and said, "Of course because rape and depravity didn't exist before the arrival of smart phones."

India committed to Palestine cause, also to two-nation solution United nations, october 23 (ians): While supporting a two-nation solution to the burning Israeli-Palestinian conflict, India also maintained its strong commitment to the Palestinian cause, India's delegate Kamlesh Paswan told the Security Council on Thursday. Speaking at a Council debate on the situation in the Middle East, Paswan said: "India supports a negotiated solution resulting in a sovereign, independent, viable and united State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, living within secure and recognized borders, side by side at peace with Israel." "Today's debate is happening at another inopportune time where once again incidents of violence and the military responses, reasons notwithstanding, are taking the toll of lives on both sides." he said. "We welcome efforts to mitigate the situation and urge both sides to exercise restraint to reduce the level of tensions and create a conducive environment for resumption of peace talks." Dialogue is the only way to achieve lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian problem, he said. A Bharatiya Janata Party member of the Lok Sabha representing Bansgaon in Uttar Pradesh, Paswan is among five members of parliament drawn from the ruling and opposition parties who are a part of India's UN delegation. The speech avoided any direct mention of Israel other than the vision of an independent Palestine existing side by side with it. Even as Israel and Palestine traded accusations during the debate, Paswan stayed away from the blame game. When he spoke of President Pranab Mukherjee's visit to Palestine Territory as the current round of conflict intensified, he was silent on the warm embrace of Israel during the same journey. Paswan said Mukherjee's "visit reinforces India's strong commitment to the Palestinian cause and renews our political and diplomatic support to the state of Palestine in its endeavours to realize an independent and sovereign state of Palestine." As evidence of India's support to the Palestinians' nation-building efforts, Paswan mentioned the opening of the India-Palestine Center for Excellence in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) at the Al Quds University in Ramallah by Mukherjee last week and the donation of $5 million to the Palestinian Authority. He also said that India would set up another ICT Center in Gaza, an information technology park in Ramallah and a Palestinian Institute of Diplomacy. "India has always played a pro-active role in garnering support for the Palestinian cause in multilateral fora," he added citing New Delhi's support at the General Assembly for raising the Palestine flag at the UN.

Have SOPs to check corruption: CVC to government departments

Devotees immerse an idol of goddess Durga on the bank of river Ganga in Patna. (PTI Photo)

Over 50,000 tonnes of pulses seized from hoarders so far new delhi, october 23 (Pti): Over 50,000 tonnes of pulses, mostly imported tur dal, have been seized from hoarders in raids across 10 states even as retail prices today showed no signs of abating and continue to rule at Rs 210 per kg. On Friday alone, over 15,000 tonnes were seized. In order to assess the availability of imported pulses, finance minister Arun Jaitley today held two rounds of meetings, first with importers and

later with officials of ministries concerned. The cabinet secretary also reviewed the prices situation and anti-hoarding measures being taken by the state governments. During the meeting with the finance minister, importers offered to supply 1 lakh kg of imported tur dal at Rs 135 per kg on daily basis to government agencies, while demanding exemptions from stock-holding limits imposed on them. "Raids to check hoarding are

continuing in various states. Today, four states reported that they have seized 15,335.95 tonnes of pulses, mostly imported tur dal," a senior consumer affairs ministry official told PTI. About 7,033 tonnes of lentils were seized from Maharashtra, 5,487 tonnes from Karnataka, 2,051 tonnes from Rajasthan and 764 tonnes from Haryana, a statement said. This takes the total seizure of pulses so far to 50,656 tonnes, recovered in 3,149 raids across 10 states.

new delhi, october 23 (Pti): All central government departments have been asked to do away with "outdated" processes and to have Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to check corruption, Central Vigilance Commissioner KV Chowdary said here on Friday. Besides, the anti-corruption watchdog has asked people to send it complaints against central government employees under its jurisdiction with proper details to ensure speedy action. "We have requested the Chief Vigilance Officers of all organisations to identify areas where there is a scope for corruption, where there is scope for delay. Infact delays are occurring where the procedures and processes have become outdated in the current scenario and giving rise to some attitude of bribe seeking," he told reporters here. Chowdary said the CVOs, who act as distant arm of the Commission, have been asked to take appropriate steps to streamline the procedures, may be avoid or delete the provisions relating to the discretion powers available with the officers. "More importantly to bring what we called SOPs how to deal with applications in what sequence and on what criteria. We

'World concerned about Pak support to terrorism' new delhi, october 23 (ians): India on Friday hoped the outcome of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit to US will convey a clear message to Islamabad that the international community was "deeply concerned about its support to and sponsorship of terrorism". Answering queries from media persons here, External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup downplayed mention of Kashmir in the USPakistan joint statement, saying India has always desired resolution of all issues with Pakistan bilaterally through dialogue. He said that terrorism comes naturally to mind when talking about Pakistan and the joint statement, issued by the Pakistan foreign office after Sharif met US President Barack Obama in Washington, devotes

considerable space to that particular issue. Noting that Lashkar-e-Taiba and Haqqani Network have been specifically mentioned in the joint statement for the first time ever, he said: "Both are operating out of Pakistan and even the Pakistanis do not deny it. In fact, this is precisely why it is a subject of discussion between President Obama and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. "President Obama has significantly also raised with Prime Minister Sharif concerns about US nationals being held hostage by terrorist groups in that region." "You have also read the assurances about these two organisations specifically and terrorism generally by Pakistan. We would naturally hope that they deliver on these commitments," he said.

Swarup said that US and India had agreed to joint and concerted efforts to disrupt entities such as Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaishe-Mohammed, D-Company and the Haqqani Network. Noting it is Pakistan "which has chosen to use terrorism as an instrument of state policy", Swarup said: "We hope that this visit conveys a clear message to Pakistan that the international community is deeply concerned about its support to and sponsorship of terrorism." Answering a query about assistance to projects in Pakistani Kashmir, Swarup said India was opposed to any developmental project in an area which belongs to it but which is under illegal and forcible occupation of Pakistan and had made this clear to all countries. Answering a query on sale of advanced fighter jets to Pak-

istan, he said India's reservation to supply of such was well known. "I am told that this matter is still to be discussed in the US Congress where many leading figures who understand Pakistan well have questioned its rationale." Answering another query, he said India has seen statements of Pakistan's foreign secretary talking about tactical battlefield weapons that they have developed. "All that I would say is that given Pakistan's history of clandestine and illegal activity on the nuclear side, obviously the implications of this assertion by Pakistan foreign secretary will have to be carefully considered," he said, noting the US-Pakistan joint statement mentions that the two leaders discussed "nuclear terrorism".

have got a very good feedback from our CVOs and they are in the process of reviving them," he said. Chowdary said that people need to be aware on the ill affect of corruption to check bribe giving. "One thing is to bring into public attention the ill affect of corruption. Corruption is not taking money or giving money but it has a much larger significance of the process being compromised. We must bring awareness among public," he said. The systems and processes should be set in place so as to generate alarm in case of anything happening beyond the prescribed processes. "It is important to bring changes in the system so that we can prevent such misconducts," Chowdary said. The chief of probity watchdog has advised people to send complaints with proper details. "We get complaints related to power and water supply, which is not our jurisdiction, which we forward to concerned departments. So there is a lack of awareness (as to where to send what complaint). We want people to be aware on it. We will request people to send complaint, but with concerned authority. "I will also ask public to please come forward with specific and proper allegations so that action is faster," he said.

When will Lalit Modi be brought back, Congress asks Centre new delhi, october 23 (ians): The Congress on Friday asked the central government to specify a time frame for bringing back former cricket IPL chief Lalit Modi to the country and alleged that he enjoyed the patronage of the ruling NDA dispensation. The Enforcement Directorate has said it wishes to question the former Indian Premier League chief on money laundering charges. "The government should tell us when it will get Lalit Modi back to the country," Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala told reporters here. He said the Congress would raise the issue inside and outside parliament. Former finance minister P. Chidambaram wrote to the British authorities two years ago, calling for the deportation of Lalit Modi over money laundering charges, Surjewala said, adding that the then UPA government wanted Lalit Modi to be brought back to face the law.

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Xi tells UK he hopes to see a united EU LONdON/BeiJiNG, OctOBer 23 (reuters): Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Britain he wants to see a united European Union, making his most direct comments to date on Britain’s relationship with Europe ahead of the country’s in-out EU membership referendum. On the last day of a four-day visit to Britain, Xi told Prime Minister David Cameron of the EU’s importance for China as a strategic partner and its largest trading partner, China’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “China hopes to see a prosperous Europe and a united EU, and hopes Britain, as an important member of the EU, can play an even more positive and constructive role in promoting the deepening development of China-EU ties,” it paraphrased Xi as saying. Xi was due to end his visit to Britain on Friday in Manchester with the announcement of new air links between China and the northern British city. Cameron is seeking to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the EU, which it joined in 1973, before holding a referendum on membership which he says will take place before the end of 2017. China typically does not comment on votes in other countries, viewing it as an interference in an internal affair. But Beijing has been worried about the implications of free tradesupporting Britain leaving the EU, and of any weakening of a grouping which it views as a vital counterbalance to the United States, diplomats say. Opinion polls have showed a narrowing of support among British voters for staying in the EU and one on Thursday showed a sharp slump in backing for its membership amid concerns over an influx of migrants into Europe.

Xi’s comments to Cameron, made late on Thursday during a meeting at the British prime minister’s country residence, echoed those from China’s Foreign Ministry earlier this month. UK SEEKS CHINA INVESTMENT FOR NORTH On the last day of his visit to Britain, Cameron will lead Xi on a tour of Manchester which has been designed to attract Chinese infrastructure investment. The visit has already sealed an estimated 40 billion pounds ($62 billion) of business deals. Britain has laid on its highest level of diplomatic charm for the Chinese delegation, including an audience with Queen Elizabeth. But critics say Cameron is overlooking human rights concerns in his push to make Britain the preeminent Western gateway for investment from China. Britain is courting Chinese involvement in 24 billion pounds of investment projects in the north of the country as part of its plan to regenerate the region, whose development has lagged the more prosperous southeast. Hainan Airlines Co Ltd will announce the first direct flights between Manchester and China, a deal which Britain said could boost the city’s economy by 50 million pounds. Xi, a soccer fan, will visit an academy run by soccer club Manchester City and a tour of the National Football Museum. He will travel to the city’s airport after a meeting with local government representatives and businesses. Partnerships to build and finance the regeneration of parts of the city will also be agreed, plus the finalisation of Hong Kong firm Netdragon Websoft’s 85 million-pound acquisition of educational supplies firm Promethean World Plc.

Cameron takes Xi to the pub for fish, chips

Paying with a tenner: Prime Minister David Cameron gets out money to buy drinks with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

LONdON, OctOBer 23 (AF): Chinese President Xi Jinping headed for a traditional British pub on Thursday, during his state visit, indulging in a beer and a portion of traditional fish and chips with Prime Minister David Cameron. The two world leaders could be seen awkwardly sipping their ales at The Plough, an establishment close to the British prime minister’s residence of Chequers northwest of London. “I dropped into The Plough at Cadsden for a pint of IPA and some fish and chips with China’s President Xi,” Cameron tweeted afterwards, along with a picture of him talking to Xi in which hunting guns could be seen hanging on the bare-brick wall behind them. The pub’s landlord Steve Hollings told AFP that Cameron and Xi had chatted for around three-quarters of an hour and had been “extremely friendly”. They drank “traditional English bitter” and “traditional English fish and chips”, he said proudly, adding: “I was highly delighted”. Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond was quoted by the Daily Telegraph as saying that Xi’s “only problem” was the lack of salt and vinegar for his fish and chips. The Sunday Times earlier reported that the trip to the pub was Xi’s idea and cited a source involved in negotiations over the visit saying: “It’s all part of the president’s view of himself as a man of the people.” The Plough traces its history back to the 16th century when it was a staging post for London coaches. Its website said the pub “is often host to some very famous patrons” and asks visitors to “remember, they are here for the rest and relaxation too”.

Chinese dissidents accuse UK of shameful clampdown LONdON, OctOBer 23 (reuters): Prominent Chinese dissidents accused British police on Friday of being heavy-handed after an exiled Chinese democracy activist and two Tibetan women were arrested at a protest during President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Britain. Shao Jiang, 47, was manhandled and arrested for peacefully protesting by stepping in front of Xi’s motorcade on Wednesday evening ahead of a lavish London reception for the Chinese leader, according to fellow dissidents Wang Dan and Wu’er Kaixi. Shao’s home was raided

and his computer equipment seized, said Wang and Wu’er, who like Shao were part of the student-led democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 which ended in a bloody crackdown by Chinese troops. At the same protest on Wednesday, two Tibetan women Sonam Choden, 30, and Jamphel Lhamo, 33, were taken away by police for attempting to unfurl Tibetan flags as Xi passed by, the dissidents and the women’s lawyer said. London police said they could not confirm the identity of those arrested, but said officers had detained a man

and two women to prevent a breach of the peace and they had been further arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit threatening behaviour. The trio were bailed to return to a police station pending further inquiries. “Reading the papers this morning I was disappointed to see a view by some that the Metropolitan Police Service were working to the bidding of the Chinese to suppress protest,” said Commander Lucy D’Orsi in an unusually forthright police response to allegations demonstrations had been quelled. “At all events this funda-

mental right to freedom of expression ... was available to everyone. In addition to the need to facilitate peaceful protest, there was a need to ensure a tight security operation for not only the Chinese President and First Lady but also our Royal Family and Prime Minister.” Xi’s visit to Britain has helped seal an estimated 40 billion pounds ($60 billion) of business deals, but there have been small protests at events he has attended, with a large police presence to avert any trouble. Bill Nash, the lawyer for the arrested Tibetans, said

police had over-reacted and he had never heard of anyone being detained for the minor offence the women were accused of during his more than 40 years in practice. “My money would be on zero in the past,” he told Reuters. Wang and Wu’er said the British government was putting trade over human rights. “Speaking as victims of Beijing’s systematic repression, we ... maintain that Britain’s actions, both in welcoming Xi Jinping and arresting his opponents can only be described as shameful,” they said in a statement from Taiwan where they live after fleeing China.

At least Forty-three killed in French bus crash South Africa’s ANC risks young voter anger in education fee row PuisseGuiN, OctOBer 23 (reuters): At least 41 people on a bus carrying elderly day-trippers were killed early on Friday when the bus hit a truck head-on and caught fire, in France’s worst road crash in more than 30 years. Two people, including a young boy, died in the truck. A total of eight people were injured. The bus and the truck

collided near a forested bend on a two-lane road cut into a hillside near Puisseguin in the Gironde region, the local prefect’s office said in a statement. TV footage showed two blackened vehicles, with the bus facing the woodtransporter’s trailer, the truck’s cab skewed to one side, and scorched vegetation around the site, which was sealed off by

police. The bus was carrying about 50 seniors south to the Bearn region from their homes in the village of Petit Palais and surrounding hamlets. The crash occurred just a few minutes after the pensioners had boarded the bus. Among the dead were the driver of the articulated lorry and a young boy who was in the cab, according to the local prefect’s office.

News reports said the child was about 3 years old. The driver of the bus was among the survivors, who were able to exit through the front door he opened, according to a source close to an inquiry that was under way within hours. It was the worst road accident in France since 53 people, mostly children, died in a bus crash in Burgundy in July 1982.

Drug from banana may help fight AIDS New YOrK, OctOBer 23 (iANs): A substance originally found in bananas and carefully edited by scientists could lead to drugs that fight off a wide range of viruses, including those that cause AIDS, Hepatitis C and influenza, new research suggests. The new research focused on a protein called banana lectin, or BanLec, that “reads” the sugars on the outside of both viruses and cells. The 26 scientists on the team - from Germany, Ireland, Canada, Belgium and the US - worked together over several years to figure out exactly how BanLec worked against viruses, and then to build a better version. “What we have done is exciting because there is potential for Ban-

Lec to develop into a broad spectrum antiviral agent, something that is not clinically available to physicians and patients right now,” said co-senior author of the study David Markovitz, professor at University of Michigan Medical School in the US. Five years ago, scientists showed that the banana protein could keep the virus that causes AIDS from getting into cells - but it also caused side effects that limited its potential use. This new research has created a novel form of BanLec that still fights viruses in mice, but does not have a property that causes irritation and unwanted inflammation, the scientists said. They succeeded in peeling apart

these two functions by carefully studying the molecule in many ways, and pinpointing the tiny part that triggered side effects. Then, they engineered a new version of BanLec, called H84T, by slightly changing the gene that acts as the instruction manual for building it. This resulted in a form of BanLec that worked against the viruses that cause AIDS, hepatitis C and influenza in tests in tissue and blood samples - without causing inflammation, the study said. The researchers also showed that H84T BanLec protected mice from getting infected by flu virus. The study was published in the journal Cell.

JOhANNesBurG, OctOBer 23 (reuters): As thousands of South African university students protested against tuition fee hikes this week, one banner stood out for its raw summary of post-apartheid disappointment: “Our parents were sold dreams in 1994. We are just here for the refund!” The erstwhile liberation party of Nelson Mandela has comfortably won elections since toppling oppressive white rule 21 years ago, but is now losing favour with black voters who say it has done little to improve their lives. In scenes that, for some, recalled the 1976 massacre of students protesting the use of the Afrikaans language in schools, police this week threw stun grenades at students who stormed the parliament precinct as Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene read a budget speech. They have boycotted classes for a week, angry over university administrators’ plans to raise fees by as much as 11.5 percent and demanding that the government deliver on its postapartheid promise to provide education for all. Today’s crop of post-apartheid students, dubbed “Born Frees”, have no experience of white-minority rule but have borne the brunt of the legacy of the abject poverty that afflicts millions of blacks two decades

later. President Jacob Zuma’s government, anxious to avoid downgrades by credit rating agencies as it nurses a budget deficit of nearly 4 percent of GDP, says it cannot afford to provide blanket free education. But it has found little sympathy as it grapples with accusations of corruption and misuse of public funds, including a $19 million state-funded security upgrade to Zuma’s home. “This protest may appear to be about tuition fees but what lies beneath is poverty, unemployment, tardy and uncaring service delivery, broken promises and the denial of opportunity,” said Gary van Staden, an analyst at NKC African Economics. DIVORCED FROM THE ISSUES Opposition parties have been quick to make political mileage, with an eye to municipal elections due next year. Legislators from the radical leftist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) were ejected from parliament in full view of television cameras after trying to block Nene from making his speech until the university fees fallout was resolved. The EFF won 25 of 400 parliamentary seats in a 2014 national vote, and has portrayed itself as the party representing the interests of millions of poor South Africans sacrificed at the altar of pro-business government policies. It has also led public calls for

Zuma to pay back the money for the upgrades to his Nkandla homestead. The fact that Nene proceeded with his budget statement in parliament while students confronted riot police outside points to the gulf between the government and ordinary citizens, analysts said. “It really gave the impression of a government that’s increasingly divorced from very, very real issues and grievances affecting South Africans,” said Anne Fruhauf, southern Africa analyst at Teneo Intelligence. “There’s certainly a chance that this will come back to haunt the ANC at the municipal elections.” Opposition parties are already making inroads in student representative councils that were previously the domain of the ANC, with the Democratic Alliance staging a shock win at Fort Hare University in Eastern Cape province this year. Compounding the ANC’s woes, its ruling alliance with the Communist party and unions that have traditionally mobilised votes for the ruling party is looking shaky as they accuse the government of pandering to business interests. Labour federation COSATU said Nene’s budget statement showed the government did not “have its antennae on the ground to pick up the edginess of the population and the dying pulse of the country’s economy.”

Myanmar jade mining drives rights abuses, disasters, war-rights group BANGKOK, OctOBer 23 (thOmsON reuters FOuNdAtiON): Myanmar’s secretive jade industry - run by military elites, drug lords and crony companies - is fuelling armed conflict, land grabs, deadly landslides and floods in northern Kachin state, the rights group Global Witness said on Friday. Jade is driving conflict between the government and ethnic Kachin rebels, funding both sides in a war that has killed thousands of people and displaced 100,000 since 2011, the London-based organisation said in a 128-page report. Kachin’s Hpakant township has been stripped of forests, as two-storeytall machines and dynamite take just four days to plough through jadebearing mountains that once took 30 days to mine, leaving a “moonscape” of waste-filled craters prone

Hand-pickers search for jade through rubble dumped by mining companies at a jade mine in Hpakant township, Kachin State July 8, 2013. (REUTERS File Photo)

to collapse, it said. The loss of land, pollution and takeover of the jade industry by government-licensed companies have destroyed traditional sources of income - farming and small-scale mining

- and stoked resentment in a volatile region, it said. “Locals are literally having the ground cut from under their feet. There is a parallel social collapse involving endemic drug addiction amongst min-

ers, prostitution and gambling,” Mike Davis, Asia director for Global Witness, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an email from Yangon. Those who “stand in the way of the guns and

machines” face land grabs, intimidation and violence, the report said, quoting one woman as saying her home was destroyed after she refused to move out in exchange for 1 million kyat ($780) compensation. “The environmental and social collapse of Hpakant, and the plunder of its riches, fuels intense resentment amongst Kachin people,” Davis said. “As some say, ‘The tree is in our garden but we are not allowed to eat the fruit.’ Kachins can do little more than stand by and watch their long-time enemies consume their natural inheritance. This exacerbates locals’ distrust and the determination of some to resist central government control.” Companies named in the report did not immediately respond to requests from the Thomson Reuters Foundation for comment on it. The Global Witness

analysis, which details the military and ruling families, drug lords and companies benefiting from jade, valued Myanmar’s jade production in 2014 at as much as $31 billion equivalent to 48 percent of Myanmar’s GDP - and up to $122 billion over the decade through 2014. Myanmar’s many tariffs include a 20 percent valuebased tax on jade at mine sites and 10 percent on sales at government jade sales, but Global Witness estimates the state received less than $374 million in official jade revenues in 2014 - less than 2 percent of the $31 billion estimated output value. A Mines Ministry official, asked to comment on the report, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation his ministry transferred all tax revenue from the mines to the Finance Ministry. “Then the Ministry of Finance would allocate budgets to the states and regions.”

Over the years, tens of thousands of people across the country have come to Kachin state to mine jade but have had slim pickings, illegally combing through company waste. One jade scavenger who trespassed onto company property was found murdered and dismembered, the report said. The mining - which feeds neighbouring China’s appetite for the “stone of heaven” - has left a deadly wasteland. In April 2015, a “torrent of liquid mud” burst through the edge of a crater, engulfing machines and operators, killing between 30 and 60 people, local residents told Global Witness. The mining company said the death toll was 11, the report said. Mya n ma r, w h i c h emerged from half a century of military rule in 2010, has agreed to ceasefires with several armed ethnic groups, but its conflict with

the Kachin Independence Army and Kachin Independence Organisation is its most intractable. The jade funding both sides in the war creates incentives for military commanders and government hardliners to prolong the conflict and protect assets they could lose if the jade business became more open and fair, the report said. Global Witness said the question of who manages and benefits from Kachin state’s jade must be built into a peace agreement to end the conflict. It urged Myanmar and mining companies to work toward transparency and fairness, publishing data on licences, bidding, concessions, revenues and ownership. It pressed donors to make funding for Myanmar, as well as the lifting of sanctions by the United States, contingent on jade industry reforms.

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chennai hundred among my 2nd southern boogies TT open 2015 more challenging knocks: Kohli Ushakiran emerges champion title

chennAI, october 23 (PtI): Exhausted and elated in equal measure after a match-winning hundred in the fourth ODI against South Africa here, Indian batsman Virat Kohli said the knock is among the most challenging of his career. India rode on Kohli's brilliant 138 to post 299 for eight and then restricted the visitors to 264 for nine, despite a valiant ton by rival skipper AB de Villiers, to win by 35 runs and level the five-match series 2-2. "It is one of my more challenging innings in ODI cricket specially because of the bowling attack they have. South Africa have been bowling pretty well in the series in the right areas. The pitch wasn't that quick for us to get boundaries throughout," Kohli told 'bcci.tv'. "So I had to run a lot and keep pushing the boundary fielders and keep looking for those gaps so that I could keep running through the innings. Probably, that is why in the end I started cramping because the body took a lot of toll. In the afternoon it gets pretty tough in Chennai and the conditions to bat are pretty difficult. But, all in all right now I feel great about it," he said. The innings included 66 singles and nine doubles and Kohli said he knew he would have to push himself more than usual given the conditions he was batting in. "Till about 70 or 75 I only had three boundaries and a couple of sixes. Also, only six boundaries throughout which are not too many. The conscious effort was to keep rotating the strike and keep getting those doubles as well," he explained. "It was a day where you had to push yourself further than your body might

Faf du Plessis fined for showing dissent

DubAI, october 23 (PtI): South Africa's Faf du Plessis has been fined 15 per cent of his match fee for showing dissent at an umpire's decision during the fourth ODI against India in Chennai. The incident happened in the 15th over of South Africa s run-chase when du Plessis showed dissent by raising his right hand after being declared caught behind off Axar Patel. Following the match, which India won by 35 runs, du Plessis admitted the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by Chris Broad of the Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees. As such, there was no need for a formal hearing. The charge was laid by onfield umpires S.Ravi and C.Shamsuddin, and third umpire AK Chaudhary. All Level 1 breaches carry a minimum penalty of an ofIndia's Virat Kohli reacts after scoring his century during ficial reprimand and/or a their fourth one-day international cricket match against maximum penalty of 50 per cent of a player's match fee. South Africa in Chennai October 22. (REUTERS) allow you to. I would have done that for maybe an hour more until I fell on the ground. But we have levelled the series, so it feels brilliant," he said. But in the end, Kohli said the physical exhaustion was worth every bit as it turned out for a winning cause. "It feels really special to get a big hundred especially when we were 2-1 down in the series. The team winning and you getting a hundred is obviously a very special day. It was something that was needed to be done for the team while batting at number three again. I knew that this pitch was probably a 260-270 pitch but I pushed myself after I got my hun-

dred," Kohli said. "I was getting a bit of cramps but I told myself, if I can get 30 or 35 more runs here, the team will probably get to 300. That was the whole point of pushing myself over the limit and it feels absolutely wonderful that we are 2-2 all now. There is everything to play for in Mumbai," he added. The hundred was his first in 13 innings but Kohli said he never doubts himself in tough times. "It is very difficult for people to understand that as a cricketer sometimes you enjoy batting really well and you go through those phases in your career where you know that your

game is evolving and only you as an individual will know that. The outside world will not know that. Statistics and numbers are for people to compare and analyse and criticise and praise," he said. "I always make an effort to score runs for the team in a winning cause. Last game, I was very disappointed that I could not do it for the team, but this time I was very motivated to make sure that I make a match-winning contribution. That is what you play for. You have to motivate yourself in tough times and win tough games of cricket. That is what defines you as a cricketer," he added.

The winners with guest of honour, officials of Southern Boogies and others during Southern Boogies Table Tennis Open Championship 2015. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kohima | October 23

The 2nd Southern Boogies Table Tennis Open Championship 2015 under the aegis of Southern Boogies concluded here Thursday at the Indoor TT Stadium. In men’s category, Ksh Ushakiran Singh from Manipur emerged the champion title and awarded with a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 while the runner-up Dijang Kamson pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 10,000. N.Imocha Singh and

Seyievilie Seyie stood 3rd and 4th position and awarded with Rs. 7000 and Rs. 5000 respectively. Quarter finalists Vitho Neikha, Thineum Inchem, Jay Gurung and Monotsolo Sono awarded with a cash prize of Rs. 2000 each. In women’s category, N. Anna Devi from Manipur clinched champion title and awarded with Rs. 10,000. Runners-up Rupadharti Devi received Rs. 7000. Avitoli Yepthomi and Viphretuonuo Meze stood 3rd and 4th place and

walked away with cash prize of Rs. 5000 and Rs. 3000 respectively. Quarter finalists Monica Devi, Vizosiino Sophie and Thejaninuo Rio also awarded with Rs. 1000 each. Earlier, gracing the closing function as the guest of honour, Zhovi Kire, former Nagaland State Table Tennis champion maintained that healthy mind and healthy body should go together so as to become a good table tennis player. He also stressed on the need to adopt constant

practice to excel in the discipline of table tennis. Kire also encouraged Southern Boogies to make this open championship as an annual feature. Altogether, 40 participants from Nagaland and Manipur joined this open championship. The objective of this open championship is to promote the game of table tennis and to provide a platform for the upcoming TT players to compete and to explore the new talent of the game. Later, vote of thanks was proposed by Avilie Zhotso.

3rd KDV Meet from today at local ground , Kma

kohIMA, october 23 (Mexn): 18 men’s and 8 women’s team will take part in the 3rd open Kohima District Volleyball Tournament, organized by Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA). The Tournament will be played from October 24 to 26 at local ground, Kohima. All the participating teams are asked to reached the venue-local ground, Kohima by 8.00 am on October 24.The inaugural program will start at 9.00 am to be grace by Khriehu Liezietsu, parliamentary secretary, Youth Resources and Sports , State Lotteries , chairman MTF and DPDB Kohima. The fucniton will be compereed by Xavier Rutsa

The inaugural match on October 24 for men’s will be played between defending champion Khonoma Youth Organization, St Joseph College, followed by other matches, in women’s defending champion Naga Bazar Youth Organization taking on Elite Sisters Club, followed by other matches.

Group- C- Striking Tenth Zhadima, Kezo Town Youth Society, Nerhema Sports Assoiciation, Unified Sporting Club Kiruphema, Apex Club Kezo Basa Group- D- Tama Youth Society Mima, BKK Tsiesema, Phetsukiku Club Khonoma, Keziekie Youth Organization, Naga Bazar Youth Organization

Men’s Team Group –A- Khonoma Youth Organization, St Joseph College, Strivers Kigwema , Forever Club Chiechama Group- B- Kiruphema Youth Organization , Prancers Phesama, Jotsoma Youth Organization, Kiruphema Students Union

Women’s Team Group- A- Naga Bazar Youth Organization, Elite Sisters Club, St.Joseph College, Shiirho Mountian Club. Group- B- Keziekie Women Organization, Penky Sporting Club Kidima, Elixer Club Kezoma, Khonoma Youth Organization

TYO to organise badminton, TT tournament VILLAGE SPORTS MEET SEMI RESULTS public discourse DIMAPur, october 23 (Mexn): with Cash Prizes, while at the same time, The Tsütuonuomia Youth Organization (TYO), Kohima Village, will be organizing a Badminton and Table Tennis Tournament (Heat) on the October 31 at Indoor Stadium, Kohima. The Tournament will commence at 9:00AM onwards whereas, registration and games fixtures will be done on the spot. TYO informed that the Tournament Winners shall be awarded

A Reflection of Paradise

they will represent the Khel in the upcoming Kohima Village Sports Meet 2016. Any information or clarification with regard to the terms and conditions, registration, etc, can be reached at 9436001625 (Kethosituo Sekhose, TYO Badminton Coach & Game In-Charge) and 9774001954 (Kevizelhou Solo, TYO Table Tennis Coach & Game In-Charge).

Higher and higher it climbs, Till it shakes hands with the clouds. Broader and broader it grows, Up to the ends of the earth’s poles. Like beads embedded on a wall, Or creepers winded around a vineyard, Are the homes inserted beautifully, Adding colours to the greenery. May or may not, a stream flows in melancholy, Carrying away with it the source of livelihood Or sometimes, the aftermaths of it. Cultivations and farming, not to be missed. “ Ah! What a scenic beauty!” explains some. Others not even bothered of what lies in front, As for me, it is one God’s wonderful creations, I call it ‘ A Reflection of Paradise’................... By Riba Abraham, Raj Bhavan, Kohima

Football Chumukedima ground

Fixture for finals Saturday – October 24 3rd place Football Chekiye vs Chumukedima a 9:00 am

1st semi final result Shozukhu defeated Chekiye 4-3 (through a penalty shootout) Volleyball 2nd semi final result Seluophe vs purana bazar b 11:30am Nahabari defeated Chumukedima a 5-4 (through a penalty shootout) Finals SABCK, Youth Department held two days sports meet on October 21-22 at Siekhazou ground with the theme “Undefeated”. The occasion was inaugurated by Rev G. Kiyeto Sema, Pastor SABCK with prayer & blessings. On the final day Guest of Honour Bohoto Zhimo encouraged the players and youths emphasizing on the value & popularity of sports. The sports meet ended with a vote of thanks by Bovito Kiho and prayer by Aghali. K. Sheqi, Associate Pastor, Youth, SABCK.

Volleyball 1st semi final result Eralibill defeated seluophe 2nd semi final result Khusiabill defeated purana bazar b

Football Shozukhu vs Naharbari 1:00 pm Volleyball Eralibill vs Khusiabill 3:00 pm

Nagaland Badminton Ranking Tournament underway at Mkg

Mokokchung, october 23 (Mexn): The Nagaland Badminton Ranking Tournament organized by the Mokokchung District Badminton Association under the aegis of Nagaland Badminton Association got underway at Mokokchung Badminton Stadium, Mokokchung. Khekaho Assumi, Parliamentary Secretary, Informations and Public Relations, Nagaland was Chief guest of the inaugural programme. Khekaho in his speech said that such ranking tournaments motivate the players and it gives them a determination to perform better as the number one player in Nagaland. He also urged the participants to be con-

Young boys participating at the Nagaland Badminton Ranking Tournament at Mokokchung Badminton Stadium, Mokokchung in the Under 13 Doubles category.

sistent in their game and to be disciplined in all ways. He said that the youngsters in Nagaland are talented

and they have the potential cate leadership quality. but they lack in disciplining The Vice-president, Nathemselves. He further add- galand Badminton Assoed that Nagas need to incul- ciation, Dr. Watizulu also

spoke on behalf of NBA and lauded the MDBA for their efforts in promoting young talents. He also urged the

other districts to take example from the MDBA and to work hard to come up to their level so that there will be healthy competition. He also added that the Nagaland Badminton Association is in an attempt to promote young talents they are in look out for young potential talents to send to badminton academy if they are potential enough. The programme was chaired by Er. N Yanger Pongen and the president MDBA, I. Lipokonen Jamir gave the welcome address. All together a number of 87 players are participating in the event under fourteen different categories. The event will culminate on 24 October.

Deplorable road condition between Chakhabama and Chetheba

oad condition in general in Nagaland at the moment has been pathetic at best. Many have already pointed out the issue in the dailies. With not much sign of improvement or explanation from the government, pointing out the issue again is been done with much hesitation. However, the stretch of road between Chakhabama and Chetheba (which then connects the state capital Kohima) has been so bad that a distress call seems pertinent. The unpliability of the stretch of the road has been highlighted many times already without any solution in sight. The road has become unusable because of the proposed expansion to convert the road from a single-lane to a two-lane highway. That the company given the task to finish the work failed to complete it has already been highlighted many times. The road has become so unusable that small and medium vehicles do not ply anymore. Few heavy vehicles take the risk to manoeuvre the muddy and dusty road (road is muddy during monsoon and dusty during dry season) strewn with landslides; facing the danger that they may not complete the journey due to landslides blocking the road or cutting a part of the road away.The road has even seen dangerous terrains at certain stretches. The panic seen in the eyes of the people when it rains is pitiful. The road has been ignored so much that even tree branches and wild plants have invaded the road sides, touching the vehicles as they pass through. It is very sad that the regular maintenance has not even been carried out since the road expansion started. As one traverse through, one sees excavators lying idle. One wonders why these are not put to any use or why regular maintenance isn’t being done. The road is the lifeline of many villages and towns, and regular travellers have been subjected to much trouble and pain. At the moment, what people are dreaming is not pothole free road (the dream is farfetched) but improvement in the said route so that vehicles can ply through so that they won’t have to take the route which is triple the distance of the route between Chakhabama and Chetheba. VebuKhamo and Chothazo Nienu 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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Adele’s new single ‘Hello’ arrives online

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Louis Tomlinson eager to step up charity work

host oscars 2016 U

S comedian and actor Chris Rock will return to host the Oscars in February for a second time, organizers announced on October 21. "Chris Rock is truly the MVP of the entertainment industry," David Hill and Reginald Hudlin, the producers of the show that will be held February 28 in Los Angeles, said in a statement.

"Comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, documentarian - he's done it all. He's going to be a phenomenal Oscar host," they added. Chris, 50, a veteran of Saturday Night Live and star of several films, confirmed his appearance with a tweet: He last hosted the Oscars in 2005 when Million Dollar Baby won the Best Picture award. He got mixed re-

views, with some panning his performance and others praising his biting humor. (Also Read: Esha Deol's Care Of Footpath 2 in Race for Oscars 2016, Hema Malini 'Proud') Many at the time took offense to his attacks against several actors including Jude Law and Colin Farrell. Chris most recently wrote and starred in romcom Top Five and directed

T Amy Schumer's stand-up comedy special on HBO. Last year's Oscars was hosted by Neil Patrick Harris, who struggled through the show. It was the lowestrated Oscars telecast in six years.

‘Kingsman 2’ to release in 2017

he sequel to "Kingsman: The Secret Service" is set to release on June 16, 2017. Actor Taron Egerton will return for the sequel to Matthew Vaughn's massively popular film, said The Hollywood Reporter. While funnywoman Amy Schumer-starrer comedy "Mother/ Daughter" will be released on May 12, 2017. "Warm Bodies" director Jonathan Levine will direct the movie, which has been written by "The Heat" scribe Katie Dippold and is being produced by Chernin Entertainment and Feigco Entertainment . The 34-year-old comedienne's last film, "Trainwreck", came out this past July and pulled in an impressive USD 138 million in global box-office receipts. "Kingsman: The Secret Service" came out February 2015 and proved massively popular at the box office, earning usd 413 million worldwide.

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fter teasing fans with a surprise 30-second clip of the track during "X Factor", Adele has now premiered the video for her new single "Hello". The six-minute video has been shot by Xavier Dolan and features stunning countryside shots mixed with impressive acting sequences to tell the story, reported Billboard. Speaking of the collaboration, Dolan described working on the video as a "privilege", adding: "When I first heard it, all the images were already running by so clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to create freely. "Being on set with her was wonderful. And the thought of directing her in the 'acting' aspect of the term was exciting. I discovered that she's a very talented actress - no matter what she'll tell you." The video was filmed in mid-October outside of Montreal, which Dolan said was a great experience. "Adele allowed me to dive into this full throttle. I could abandon myself artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud." "Hello" is Adele's first single in three years following 2012's Oscar-winning "Skyfall" and will act as the lead track for the recently announced 25. The singer bared her soul in an open letter to fans earlier this week as she announced her new music, and the singer promised 25 would be "a make up album". "It is about getting to know who I've become without realising. And I'm so sorry it took so long, but you know, life happened," Adele said.

NataLiE PORtmaN, JOaquiN PhOENix top list of World’s hottest Vegetarians

ctress Natalie Portman has been voted the world's hottest vegetarian, according to a poll conducted by a diet company. The Black Swan actress topped a poll to find the sexiest non-meat eating woman, narrowly beating Miley Cyrus, turned vegan only last year, who came in second place, reported Contact music. Insurgent actress Naomi Watts came third, while Clueless star and author of The Kind Diet Alicia Silverstone came in fourth place with Michelle Pfeiffer rounding out the top five. Portman, 34, decided to cut meat from her diet as a child and has stuck to her principles ever since.

"I've been a vegetarian since I was nine and vegan on and off. A good pasta is probably my favourite dish," she said. Joaquin Phoenix was voted the world's hottest male vegetarian. He was followed by Tobey Maguire in second place and Christian Bale at number three. The survey of 1,000 people - by the diet company Forza Supplements also found that 67% of women and 38% of men had given up meat at some point in their lives. Forza Supplements managing director Lee Smith said, "All the celebrity vegetarians on the list look amazing and show you don't need to eat meat to look great and live healthily."

the ring and I just kind of had it stashed away in some old equipment. And I said, 'Will you reach in there and grab something for me?'" Shani followed his instructions, and was stunned to find "the most beautiful diamond ring" before he popped the question. "I said, 'Babe, I can't believe it'," she continues. "He said, 'You've been such a good woman. You're such and amazing person. You're my life partner. You're my best

And Liam isn't the only One Direction star Louis will be keeping in touch with: "I'm sure we'll all see each other over time. No doubt about that." The singer is expecting his first child with his one-time lover, Los Angeles-based stylist Briana Jungwirth, but before he becomes bogged down with daddy duties, he is aiming to enjoy a boys-only vacation with his bandmates. "We're gonna plan to go on a little lads' holiday," he recently told U.K. show Good Morning Britain. However, the band has a lot more work to do before the hiatus. One Direction are due to wrap up their On The Road Again Tour at the end of the month (Oct15), and their new album, Made in the A.M. is due for release on 13 November (15). Meanwhile, Louis is

also p e titioning Simon Cowell to offer him a permanent seat on the judging panel for Britain's The X Factor - the same show the music mogul discovered One Direction on in 2010 - after featuring as a guest mentor during the current season. "I've handed my CV (resume) to Simon for next year's show, so we will see how it goes," he told Britain's The Sun newspaper. "It's definitely something I am thinking about. I am the biggest X Factor fan and I would love to be there week in, week out and really give that level of passion. I think I would be a decent judge."

Prachi Desai to sport a new look in ‘Rock On 2’

fter playing a distressed and neglected wife of Farhan Akhtar in ‘Rock On’, Prachi Desai will have a role revamp in the sequel. Prachi has joined team ‘Rock On 2’ in Shillong and she told Mumbai Mirror about her role, “Shujaat, my stylist Shefali Shetty and I decided to chop off Sakshi's (her character’s name) long tresses and give her a shorter hair cut in the hope that it would portray her strength on screen. It's an important role I'm there from start to finish. It's a much better role than the previous one. I'm not associated with the band but I'm vital for the members.” Prachi will be seen as a working lady on ‘Rock On 2’. Helmed by Shujaat Saudagar, the film stars Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal and Shraddha Kapoor in the lead roles.

Cee Lo Green Engaged

he Crazy singer confirmed the news to People magazine, recalling his low-key proposal during a night at the recording studio. "It was just a typical night at the studio, but then again, not so typical cause I did something extra special, out of the ordinary," Cee Lo explains. "I went and purchased a ring that we had seen together, maybe four or five months or so prior. I went back and purchased

he Story of My Life singers will step away from the spotlight for a year-long break in March (16), and although Louis is set to become a first-time dad in the coming months, he is hoping to also use his free time to help some good causes. "Being my age and being able to be in a position where I can help people out and give opportunities to other people is the most exciting thing to me," he tells America's Entertainment Weekly. "I mean, don't get me wrong, I do aim to have a couple months' downtime to see the family, go home, do all that stuff, but yeah, I do hope to be busy, as well." Louis is also aiming to keep his creative juices flowing by continuing to write songs with his bandmate Liam Payne during their time off. "I enjoy that, with Liam...," the Brit says. "We definitely will (keep writing). I'm sure we will."

friend. I want to share the rest of my life with you.'" The couple reveals the proposal actually happened about a year ago, but they were hesitant to make the news public. "Truth be told, it's not something we wanted to promote," Cee Lo admits. "We're a collective power together because our private life is sacred. But you know what though, maybe it's time. Maybe it is time for the world to know that I have a very secure situation and a loving woman supporting me the entire way." Cee Lo, who says they have yet to begin planning the wedding, was previously married to Christina Johnson, whom he divorced in 2005. They are parents to 15-yearold son Kingston, and the singer was also a stepfather to her two daughters from a previous relationship.

George Clooney: I Don't Want a Politician's Life

ollywood superstar George Clooney has ruled out a run for public office insisting he wouldn't want a politician's life. The Oscar-winning actor has been involved in politics for years and currently fronts a Sudan action campaign. Many fans believe his marriage to top human rights lawyer, Amal Alamuddin, will prompt Mr Clooney to take a more serious interest in global and national affairs, but the movie star has no interest in becoming a state senator, reported People Magazine. "I've been asked about that for almost 20 years now. The answer is just no. I mean who would ever wanna live like that? "I'm friends with a lot of those guys and I just think it's hell. I commend people who go into public service, because it's just such a horrible way to get elected. It's such a horrible time while you're in office. No, I wouldn't want to be in politics; I have no interest in it."

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Colorful Naga Culture Cultural session during the 17th biennial general conference of the All Nagaland College Students Union (ANCSU) at Kohima on October 23. It was marked by cultural dance, folk song and ethnic show. Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu, chairman NSMDC Ltd graced the occasion as the chief guest. (Morung Photos)

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ISL: NE United beat Kolkata

Teams in action at a semi final match of the ongoing MDFA trophy 2015 being held in Mokokchung on Friday, October 23.

Dhoni criticised for meeting Srinivasan in Chennai

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CHENNAI, OCTOBER 23 (PTI): India's ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Friday took time off to meet former BCCI president N Srinivasan at his residence here, a move which invited criticism from some quarters. A top source said that Dhoni met Srinivasan over breakfast and was at the ICC chairman's residence for close to 45 minutes. After he left, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy met Srinivasan. Srinivasan, who was earlier the owner of the IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, had to detach himself from the Dhoni-led side due to conflict of interest. The Tamil Nadu strongman was also removed from the BCCI top job after cases of fixing cropped up against his son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, and he now serves as ICC chairman only. CSK and Rajasthan Royals

(RR) were suspended for two years by The Board of Control for Cricket in India after the Supreme Court appointed Lodha Committee found both the team owner's, Meiyappan and Raj Kundra (RR) guilty of betting. Dhoni, who has been the skipper of CSK for the past eight seasons, has refused to comment on his visit. It is speculated that Dhoni had gone to meet Srinivasan to discuss matter relating to CSK but his

Messi: I don't compete with Cristiano Ronaldo LONdON, OCTOBER 23 (IANS): Argentina and Barcelona football star striker Lionel Messi has said that he is not competing with Real Madrid's Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, and that he only cares for the interests of his club. "These are things that people say. I don't compete with Cristiano and I suppose he would not compete with me. What I want is the very best for my teams and that's what I am working for," Efe quoted Messi as saying on Friday. The four-time 'FIFA World Player of the Year' award winner is currently nursing a knee ligament injury. "I am upbeat, wanting to get on with my recovery. Being injured

is the worst feeling in the world for a sportsman, but right from the start I accepted that I had an injury and that the only thing to do was to recover from it the best way possible," the 28-year-old explained about recovery from his injury which he sustained on September 10 in a La Liga clash against Las Palmas. "The most important thing for me is to be at 100 percent fitness. I am improving every day without setting myself any targets. I have always said that I don't set myself any dates because it isn't up to me," the Argentina captain added. "As much as I would like to play tomorrow, the doctors wouldn't let

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visit has raised many eyebrows with few calling it a "breach of faith". Petitioner in the IPL spot-fixing case, Aditya Verma, who is secretary of the unrecognised Cricket Association of Bihar, said in a letter to Dhoni that the meeting with the tainted boss should have been avoided. Today I am shocked to see a channel showing that you (Dhoni) went to visit Srini's house for breakfast. Legally there's no bar but being a captain

of Team India you can avoid a visit to his home," Verma wrote in his letter to the limited-overs captain. "Earlier you have faced criticism when you gave a statement to Mudgal committee about Guru's role in CSK. Everybody knows that who pressurised you to give your statement regarding Guru's role in CSK. Lastly Lodha committee banned Gurunath for life due to conflict of interest of Srinivasan in BCCI and CSK. "Hon'ble Supreme Court ousted Srinivasan from BCCI in his order dated 22.01.2015. You are the captain of national team at present. When lodha committee report is awaited, your visit to ex-CSK owner's home is a giving wrong message to sports world. Nobody is above the law, so don't repeat such silly things again for the sake of BCCI... " he wrote.

LONdON, OCTOBER 23 (IANS): Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said on Friday that he would "cry" if the English Premier League (EPL) introduced a break during the festive season. While the other domestic leagues in Europe give the players a break during the Christmas period, it is one of the busiest times of the season in the EPL. Domestic leagues in major European football powers like Spain, Italy, France and Germany all have a winter break. This season, Arsenal are supposed to play seven games from December 13 to January 16. Although several managers have complained that the hectic schedule tires out the players, Wenger asserted that it is one of the unique qualities of football in England. "It is part of English tradition and English football. I want to go on with it," Wenger was quoted as saying by the BBC. "The whole of Europe come to watch football on Boxing Day. It is an important part for us to being popular in the world. At Christmas, nobody works in the world and everybody watches the Premier League," he added. "I would cry if you changed that." "I (would) always (be) pleased for a break af-

me. When they tell me that I have recovered completely will be the time that I will make my return onto the pitch." Messi, favourite to win this year's Ballon d'Or for the fifth time in his career after winning the historical treble with Barcelona last season, reiterated that he feels comfortable in the Catalan club, and added, "I don't want to look too far ahead." "I live for the moment and at this moment I am with Barcelona in the Spanish League where I have made my living and where I live very well." Messi stressed that he does not blame the Argentinian media, denying that his relationship with Argentina "could always be one of love-hate".

GUWAHATI, OCTOBER 23 (AGENCIES): Cesar Farias' team managed to win their second game on the trot as a solitary strike from Nicolas Velez sunk the defending champions. NorthEast United FC claimed a 1-0 win over defending champions Atletico de Kolkata in an Indian Super League (ISL) fifth round clash in Guwahati on Friday. Nicolas Velez (77') came off the bench in the second half to secure a second consecutive win for the hosts. The first East Indian derby of the second season of the ISL saw both managers freshen up their lineups owing to player fatigue. The visiting side had made five changes to the team which was beaten by FC Pune City six days ago. NorthEast United, playing their third consecutive home game in the span of nine days made just three changes after gaining their first points on board against Chennaiyin FC. The vocal crowd at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium witnessed a first minute corner in favour of the home team however, Bikey fouled Amrinder Singh from the set-piece. Rehenesh failed to latch on to Javi Lara’s shot from distance and Hume was around to pick up the pieces but the NorthEast custodian recovered to clear in time. Siam Hangal brought in place of the impressive Boithang Haokip, deflected a shot wide after Bruno laid the ball for him from the left. In the 19th minute, Bruno Arias was awarded a free-kick from 23 yards and his curled effort was palmed away by Amrinder. Three minutes later, Bruno was brought down right outside the box by Rino Anto. The first booking of the night was on offer for the on-loan Bengaluru FC full back by referee A Rowan. The custodian once again was at hand to deny Bruno by palming his shot away for a throw-in. Reagan Singh latched onto one of those pushes from Amrinder in the 29th minute and his volleyed effort saw the custodian make a one-handed save to deny the Manipuri. Lara tested Rehenesh just before the end of the first half but the goalkeeper did well to parry it for a corner. Both teams failed to break the deadlock in the first session. Four minutes into the

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second half and Gaivilan eased past a couple of players and found Hume on the left. The Canadian's cross found Javi Lara who shot it into the orbit from inside the box. NorthEast had a couple of chances through Kamara and Bikey but the visitors survived. A combined refereeing and technical blunder saw the arrival of Nicolas Velez delayed by five minutes. The fan favourite replaced Francis Dadzie with Reagan Singh also making way for Sanju Pradhan with just under thirty minutes to go. A minute later the visitors turned aggressors and the box was lit up with a flurry of chances. First, Nato headed it straight onto the crossbar, the rebound was hit by Javi Lara which Carlos Lopez blocked. The 77th minute saw NorthEast break the deadlock. Velez got behind the

Atletico defence and laid it up for the onrushing Pradhan whose shot struck Arnab and fell for the Argentine striker. He shot home into the bottom right corner with Amrinder beaten. Atletico threw bodies forward in the hope of getting the equalizer but to no avail. Iain Hume had a couple of half chances

but his header on the far post missed the target on each occasion. NorthEast wrapped up another win on home soil, their second in four days which sees them move up to sixth on the table. There is much to ponder for the champions as this was their second consecutive loss, albeit away from home.

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VILLAGE SPORT MEET CLOSING CEREMONY PROGRAMME

DATE : 24/10/2015

TIME : 4 : 00 PM.

Venue : Chumukedima Public Ground Dimapur Nagaland Chief Guest: Shri. P.B. Acharya

Governor of Nagaland Guest of Honour : S.I. Jamir Advisor Urban Development ter 1 January but we have to keep this tradition alive." Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal had termed the lack of a break in winter as one of the reasons behind the poor performance of English clubs and the England national team at the international level. Wenger however, begged to differ. "I have a lot of respect for Louis van Gaal, but I don't agree with him on that," said Wenger. "Maybe I have been in England such a long time and had the same ideas as him when I first came but today I would cry if you changed that because it’s part of English tradition and English football." Wenger suggested giving teams a rest after New Year's day as an alternative. "I want to go on with it. I always pleaded for a break after January 1, but we have to keep this tradition alive," he remarked.

1. Due to some unavoidable circumstances venue of the closing ceremony has been shifted from Sovima Cricket Stadium to Chumukedima Public Ground. 2. All the village council members under EAC Chumukedima and players are requested to attend the ceremony in their proper outfit. 3. The council members and players are asked to reach the venue by 3:00 pm. 4. All the matches will be played at Chumukedima Public Ground.

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3rd PLACE FOOTBALL (MEN) DATE: 24TH OCTOBER TIME: - 9:00AM – 11:00AM VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN) DATE: 24TH OCTOBER TIME: - 11:30AM – 12:30PM

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FOOTBALL (MEN) DATE: 24TH OCTOBER TIME: - 1:00PM – 3:00PM FINAL VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN) DATE: 24TH OCTOBER TIME: - 3:00PM – 4:00PM

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