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‘Christianity is easy to preach, but difficult to live’

We are human, we seek humaneness: Bachchan

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Russia: Navalny vows to fight Putin

Dimapur | October 24

Police personnel are seen investigating the site of an explosion that occurred at the residence of the Farmers Wing president of the Naga People’s Front (NPF) in Mokokchung’s Kichutip Ward on Friday evening. The low intensity improvised explosive device (IED) was suspected to have been hurled at the kitchen, but went off on the rooftop of an adjoining shed. The explosion occurred at around 6:10 pm, Friday. The NPF leader, Lanukaba, and his wife were having dinner when the explosive went off. No injuries or casualty have been reported. Photo by Limalenden Longkumer

‘Leadership is about changing order of things’ Morung Express News Kohima | October 24

“In Nagaland, we need leaders who can lead with a clear vision and goals. And events like this help us to streamline what we need to do, realize our weaknesses and how we need to grow,” said Rev. Dr. Rachülie Vihienuo during the Global Leadership Summit 2014 which was held from October 24 to 25 at the Union Baptist Church (UBC), Kohima. Vihienuo is hopeful that participants will get motivated and inspired to become better leaders.

The Global Leadership Summit is an initiative of the Willow Creek Association which focuses on enhancing effective leadership globally to transform and redeem a broken world via video-casts. Every year, 190,000 leaders around the world participate in the Global Leadership Summit.

Carly Fiorina, Former CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP), Chairman of Good 360 who spoke on Defining Leadership, in the video-cast, stated that a lot of organizations are driven

reflections

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Global Leadership Summit 2014 held in Kohima via video-cast

by structures and processes but not driven by goals and visions. “Structure should always follow strategy.

You have to know why you are doing what you are doing. What gets measured is what gets done,” said Fiorina while highlighting the fundamentals of good leadership such as cultural behavior, setting frameworks, being change warriors and unlocking the potentials of others.

“At some point of time, people will stop listening the talk and start watching the walk,” affirmed the former CEO while highlighting the importance of leaders to set a culture and model behavior.

Setting the frame sets people free and it is when people “figure it out” that progress, innovation and creativity happens. “Everyone has more potential than they realize.

It is a profound human gift and it is available to us all,” asserted Fiorina, who holds that leadership is

Dimapur | October 24

Travelers notified on road diversion

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): The Executive Engineer for NationaI Highway 1, Kohima has informed the public plying between Kohima to Zunheboto via Chakabama to take the road diversion from Zero Point (after Chakhabama) to Pfutsero-Chetheba-Chazouba route and vice versa. This, the EE, informed through a press note, has been necessitated due to road widening works along the 20.300 km which is in progress.

The public have been requested to bear the inconvenience caused from October 25 till the completion of work.

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about changing the order of things and leadership is about unlocking the potential in someone else.

The love of God makes leadership easier, added Fiorina, who opined that faith gives people the gift of humility, empathy and optimism and to have faith in others, faith that people will rise to the occasion when given the opportunity, is the most important part of leadership.

“There is a look in the eyes of people when they unlock their potentials. That look is all the repayment a leader needs. Choose the joy of unlocking the potentials in others,” she further affirmed and concluded that leadership is a choice where resistance is tough and criticism even worse.

Jeffrey Immelt, President and CEO, General Electric, in a conversation with Bill Hybels talked about how hierarchy is not important but working together as a team is. Im-

melt further highlighted that leadership is about being accountable for one’s mistakes, setting high standards and the willingness to stand apart. “We live in a volatile world and people are given the luxury of going backwards. But the best leaders go forward and keep the people safe,” said Immelt who affirmed that a confident society is a competitive society and leadership is about making people self-confident.

“Power is the potential to move reality, to make something happen. There is no such thing as leadership without power,” stated Ivan Satyavrata, Senior Pastor, Assembly of God Church, Kolkata who spoke on the power paradox of leadership. However the knowledge of power often corrupts the instincts and impulses of a person.

Referring to the paradox of leadership of Jesus where he holds the specter in one hand and a towel and basin on the other, Ivan also highlighted that good leaders ought to do the same where they create the ultimate safe place for people to soar to greater heights.

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): Governor for Nagaland state, PB Acharaya and Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today called upon all citizens to participate in the fight against corruption, “because corruption directly or indirectly affects all of us.” The Governor and the CM said this, in two separate statements, in reference to the Vigilance Awareness Week, to be observed from October 27 to November 1 under the theme ‘Combating Corruption – Technology as an enabler.’

The Nagaland State Vigilance Commission will observe the week, along with the rest of the country.

The Nagaland Governor in his message stated that corruption, especially in public sphere, has a “devastating effect” on poor people. He further lamented that corruption costs the government millions every year, “money that could have been spent on delivering services.” It also means that some people get an unfair advantage because they can afford to bribe officials to do them special favors. Where resources are scarce and many people need those resources, corruption can often set in, the Governor said.

He further said that technology has entered every sphere of people’s lives today and “we have even taken it for granted.” “Without question, technology is revolutionizing how, where and when people work, rest and play. For all the hype, progress and associated opportunities and challenges, however, technology remains an enabler for human resources,” he added. The Governor not-

ed that information and communications technology is “increasingly seen by governments as well as activists and social society as important tools to promote transparency and accountability as well as to identify and reduce corruption.”

New technologies in the form of websites, mobile phone applications etc, he stated, have been used to fa-

bat corruption in all spheres of our social and public life.”

While technology can be an effective tool in promoting transparency, the Governor however cautioned that “we also need to be alert to its dark side - the growth in cyber crime.” “Integrity is how you act when no one else is watching. The reality today is with the power of modern technology, we can all watch to varying degrees,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Nagaland CM also urged people to acknowledge that there is “no single quick fix solution for curbing corruption, and this task should not be left to the Vigilance Commission alone.”

“It is the responsibility of all concerned citizens…” he added.

He stated that the Vigilance Awareness Week is being observed every year throughout the country with an objective to “reaffirm our commitment to fight corruption and to bring about integrity and transparency in all spheres of our public life.

Technology, Zeliang stated, is already the driving force of development, vastly improving the reach of critical information and services to its beneficiaries. “And when something goes wrong, technology can make it easier to figure out where and how it has gone wrong, and to fix responsibility for the same,” he said.

The CM further stated that by using the full potentials offered by modern technology, the government “will be in a better position to ensure transparency in all public dealings and transactions, thereby reducing chances of corruption, because transparency is the best antidote to corruption.”

• Governor stresses on the need to promote transparency and accountability • Nagaland CM admits that there is no single quick solution to curb corruption cilitate the reporting of corruption and to have access to official information, to monitor the efficiency and integrity of social services and of a country’s political life, and to make financial information more transparent. Information and communication technologies can also support campaigning efforts and help mobilize people against corruption, he added.

Over the last decade, the Governor informed that governments have launched an increasing number of e-government initiatives like e-procurement, e-taxation, e-judiciary, e-tendering, e-ID cards etc in order to enhance the efficiency and transparency of public administration and improve interaction with citizens.

On the occasion of the Vigilance Awareness Week, the Nagaland Governor called upon all responsible persons to “make use of modern technology to com-

transformation crusade naga Hoho for screening of tourists for a purposeful life Morung Express News

How do I know what is happening in our state. Nobody contacts me anymore.

Impressive NE United stuns Mumbai

citizens encouraged to join the fight against corruption

Morung Express News Four people, including a minor, were injured in an explosion in Dimapur on Friday evening. The explosion occurred at around 7:30 pm at the residence of a GPRN/NSCN functionary, identified as ‘Chaplee Secretary’ Kideon Zhimomi, at 4th Mile. Zhimomi, his 6 year-old son, one of his bodyguards and a civilian were injured. According to the police, an explosive device, suspected to be a grenade, was lobbed over the wall into the compound. At the time, Zhimomi’s family were clearing the compoundafteraprayerservice, other sources informed. All four sustained shrapnel wounds and were admitted to CIHSR. Their condition was said to be “out of danger.” The civilian, a sound technician, was hired to manage the sound system for the prayer service, it was added.

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In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor India never violates ceasefire, says Rajnath

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A week-long devotional and spiritual reawakening campaign aimed at delivering people from ‘evil’ is scheduled to begin in Dimapur from October 29. The campaign, organised by spiritual leaders from various churches and faith-based ministries, is a continuation of the ‘Transformation Crusade’ which began in Kohima in 2013.

“To deliver the youth from satanic worship, to raise young men and women of God for mission, to bring physical healing and to bring revival in all the churches,” will be the main objectives of the crusade, besides inducing a moral revolution amongst the youth of Nagaland. Rev. Zotuo Kiewhuo, Pastor of Koinonia Baptist Church (KBC), Kohima will lead the crusade to be held at the State Stadium. Addressing a press conference in Dimapur on Friday, Rev. Kiewhuo said that the primary objective of the crusade is to deliver the youth from satanic worship and baptise them in the Holy Spirit, while its secondary objective will be to heal the ailing.

The crusade began as a result of a vision had by Khotuo Yaotsu, a member of the KBC, said Rev. Kiewhuo. “God gave Khotuo Yaotsu the burden to deal with the problem of satanic worship in Nagaland.” Claiming that Sa-

tanism is gradually taking root in Nagaland, he said, “Many people are not aware of its existence but it is there,” while adding that it has to be contained.

Responding to a query on whether there is any physical evidence of satanic cults or people into satanic worship in Nagaland, Kiewhuo replied in the negative but said that he has come across people who have testified on the existence of satanic worship here. The testimonies were from people who were ‘transformed’ from satanic worship to Jesus Christ, he added.

Asked of any observable effect as a result of the crusade against Satanism, Kiewhuo said that drastic change has been observed.

Supplementing Rev Kiewhuo’s statement, Pastor Rukuo of Flame of Fire Baptist Church, Kohima, said that as a deliverance movement, it seeks to expose “the work of darkness and bring back people to Jesus Christ.”

Rev. Robert Kikon, publicity and media secretary of the Crusade said that the movement does not aim to create fear and apprehension but rather make people aware, at the same time, bring back dispirited youths to the right path and allow them to lead purposeful lives. Stating that the crusade is expecting not less than 10, 000 people, Rev. Kikon appealed to all the churches, families and youth to partake in the crusade.

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): The Naga Hoho has written to the Nagaland state Chief Minister, TR Zeliang urging “rigorous screening” of tourists during the Hornbill Festival. In a letter to the Nagaland CM, General Secretary for the Naga Hoho, Mutsikhoyo Yhobuh reminded that the “world is threatened with

various ailments and diseases for which issues has been raised in various quarters on the unpreparedness of the state in mitigating such outcomes.”

The Naga Hoho pointed to the recent outbreak of Ebola around the world and recalled that Manipur was recently witness to an Ebola scare when a

Japanese tourist, travelling from Myanmar was suspected to be suffering from Ebola. “It is a happy augury that the test results have been negative for which it is a huge breather,” it added.

The Naga Hoho acknowledged the Nagaland state government’s initiatives for promoting and nurturing

tourism, as a result of which, it stated “we are having incremental flow of tourist in the state.” With the advent of the festive season, and the resultant flow of tourists, the Naga Hoho urged the state government to take precautionary measures by screening the tourists so as to safeguard and protect citizens of the state.

Vinnie Moore sets date with Nagaland

To conduct two-hour long interactive “master class” on December 8 DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): Internationally renowned guitarist Vinnie Moore is scheduled to conduct a “master class” at IMC hall, Dimapur on December 8. A press note informed that that the two hour long interactive session will provide musicians “a once in a life time opportunity to experience Vinnie Moore’s amazing talent as he demonstrates and discusses guitar techniques, music theories, music production and methods on how to discover and unlock an individual’s music identity.”

Each participant will be given a certificate of acknowledge signed by Vinnie Moore. Limited registration cards are available in Dimapur at Hillspraise Music Academy (9612170131), Furtados (03862232447), Encore (9436431564) and Crescendo (9436012590). In Mo-

Vinnie Moore

kokchung the forms are available at M/S Footwear near Supong Shopping Mall (9436006326). The event is being organized by Hillspraise Music Academy and Zip Sound. For event details, interested

persons can 9612612084 or 9612170131.

It was earlier reported that Vinnie Moore will be featuring at the Hornbill International Rock Contest 2014, along with rock band Smokie.

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'Negligence of dental care leads to early loss of teeth'

Students of Hollotoli School attend the oral health and dental awareness campaign on October 24.

DimaPur, october 24 (mexN): The Nagaland State Branch (NSB) of Indian Dental Association (IDA) organized an oral health and dental awareness campaign at Hollotoli School in Dimapur on October 24. Affirming the negligence of oral and dental care in the State and even in the country, Dr. Kaketo Yepthomi stated that many people do not consider mouth as part of one’s body. Citing an example, he narrated how

people would consider going to a doctor if some part of their body bleed, but simply neglects if there is bleeding in the mouth.

“Negligence of dental care leads to early loss of teeth in adulthood,” he stated.

He further stressed that the primary cause of tooth loss in adults is gum disease.

The mouth hosts the most bacteria in a human body with millions of them even within a square millimeter.

Yepthomi advised the students that they start tak-

ing good care of their oral health so as to have healthy teeth even during old age.

He also exclaimed that the month of October and November are declared the months of oral health care and that public can avail free dental checkups in their clinics.

President of IDA (NSB) Dr. Temjennungsang Longchari also spoke during the awareness campaign and taught the students how to avoid bad habits and maintain good

oral health. He divulged that IDA (NSB) issues certificate of tobacco-free school to schools that successfully implement policy which restricts the usage of tobacco in any form. This step is initiated so as to protect the students, staffs and visitors from both primary and secondhand smoke and to ensure healthy behavior for all students.

Longchari lamented the claims of companies producing gutkhas, pan masalas etc that are declared tobacco-free which in actuality is not. He affirmed that such claims are false and discouraged the students from consuming the same. He also shared his vision and expressed hope that “we will have a society free of tobacco one day”.

“Consuming tobacco in any form will be a thing of the past.”

The awareness campaign was also attended by dentists Dr. Shanben Lotha, Dr. Hainlumbe Ipuing and Dr. Jami along with the high school students and teachers of Hollotoli School.

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About 7000 students attended the first day of Students’ Spiritual Conference being held at Agri Expo, Dimapur on October 24. The conference will end on October 26.

Morung Express News Spiritual Conference being good catalyst for change.

Students’ Spiritual ConDimapur | October 24

“Christianity is easy to preach, but difficult to live,” Ahoto Andrew, Co-convener, Organising Committee of the Students’ Spiritual Conference said and called for a change in society. He was speaking at the inaugural session of the Students’

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A crafts session underway during the Christian Educators Training organized by NBCC.

Chanda Sahi, Proprietor JOYANCE & Member ENABLE; Susan, CBL, Hongkong; Kathrin, CBL, Hongkong and U-LINK! G-g Convenors. Topics covered during the sessions were “Understanding Naga Chil-

held at Agri Expo, Dimapur today.

Andrew, quoting from the parable of the blind man leading another blind, warned that Naga society is headed for a fall if there is no seriousness. Also, quoting from the parable of the sower, he called for the students to be seeds and be a

tueNsaNg, october 24 (mexN): The Western Yimchunger Students' Union (WYSU) has condemned the October 21 incident in Tuensang district, where six unidentified armed men halted a vehicle belonging to Christian High School and looted the occupant of his cash and other belongings. The incident happened around 6:30 pm between Tsundang and C/Saddle when the victim was returning from Tuensang town after dropping a patient, informed a press statement from WYSU president, Amos and general secretary, Dr. Tsukhumong.

The Union has stated that this kind of “extorting and lowly activities” should be strongly condemned by the “good minded civil society.” Further, asserting that these kinds of “illegal activities” have no place in “our cultured society,” it urged the authority concerned to book the culprits at the earliest and also requested the village councils and elders of the area to check such kinds of activities in their jurisdiction and bring a sense of security to the commuters.

Meanwhile, the Yimchunger Union Dimapur (YUD) has also denounced the incident.

Stating that this kind of extorting activity has no place in the Naga society, YUD declared that these “illegal activities” should be strongly condemned by the “good minded civil societies.” A release issued by YUD president and press information secretary further urged the authorities concerned to book the culprits at the earliest and bring a sense of security to the travellers.

dren 1 and 2,” “Creativity in using Multi-Media & Movies as Ministry aid,” “Kids/Children Worship” and “Children with special needs.”

There was also a curriculum orientation session on Resource Centre by Rev. Dr.

Coppe Mero and Dr. Adela Mero; Splash! CEEFI by Alice Walling, Director, Christian Education, KABA; Life Changers, CBM by Veküthonu Lohe, Associate Pastor (Children) CBCK; Creative Bible Lessons by Sun Focus, Hongkong and ULINK! by the U-LINK! Team.

Another feature of the training was the Pyjama Night where Akhriebu Mor and Dr. Kezevituo Metha dealt on puberty and how to wisely teach children as to how and why their body is changing rapidly at that stage in their life.

The training covered both theoretical aspect of Christian Education as well as the practical aspects, such as, arts and crafts, brainteaser, using bible materials for effective teaching and group discussion.

Swachh Bharat launched at Sabalie Colony

WYSU and YUD condemn

DimaPur, october 24 (mexN): The Sabalie Colony Youth Association of Ward-8 Chumukedima town launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan or Clean India Mission on October 23 with support from Sabalie Colony Council. As part of the Mission, a community social work to clean the clogged drains along the road and fill all the pot holes on the road was organized.

A press release from the youth association president, Shikato and general secretary, Benjamin stated that an important road passes through the colony connecting the NH 29 to NIT. Moreover, it is the only road to commute for the public, it added. Sabalie colony, being located on the foothill of the Patkai hill range, the release added, every year there is accumulation of huge volume of top soil washed down from the mountain tops causing sanitation and cleanliness in the colony a major problem.

The “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan” was launched by Toshitsungba Aier, IGP, PHQ, Nagaland Police. He encouraged the public to support the Mission by adopting such social works every year. He also emphasized on how public can keep the locality clean by adopting “Community Garbage Disposal” and enforcing Closed Latrines in the colony. The programme was chaired by Shikato, President, Sabalie Colony A massive fire broke out at Tuensang daily market and razed down several shops and office of Youth Association, while Pastor Chuta of Christian Revival the Chang Students’ Union Tuensang Town on October 22 night. According to Police report, almost 90% of the market was burnt down, but no casualties were reported. The cause of the Church said the invocation prayer and vote of thanks was delivered by Khashiho Futhena, Chairman, Sabalie colony. fire is yet to be ascertained, and the value of loss is also not confirmed yet. (DIPR Photo)

Sainik School Punglwa celebrates Diwali DimaPur, october 24 (mexN): Sainik School Punglwa celebrated Diwali, one of the most important festivals of India, with great pomp and show.

“The whole school bore a majestic look as the campus was lit up with numerous lights of varied colours, sizes and shapes,” stated a press release received here. The celebration began at 2:30 pm and concluded at 8:00 pm. The day’s extravaganza began with the inauguration of Diwali Mela by the Chief Guest, Capt( IN) Kanchan Mukherjee, the Principal.

There were number of stalls with variety of entertaining games which offered prospect of winning handsome prizes. Ring toss game, pillow fight, magical chair and breaking the castle were some of the attractions, the release said, adding Tambola, Lucky draws, and fireworks display followed.

Sangeeta Mukherjee, “the first lady”, won the first prize of the lucky draw christened ‘SSPN Queen’, while the girl cadets walked away with the Best Stall Award.

Seminar held for faculty of Kohima College

Kohima, october 24 (mexN): The Research Cell of Kohima College organized a one-day seminar on Research Process for faculty members at the EDUSAT room in Kohima College on October 22. The resource persons for the seminar were Dr. Visakhonü Hibo, Principal of Japfü Christian College and Dr. Mimi Kevichüsa, Assistant Professor, Department of Tenyidie, Nagaland University.

In her session on Basics of Research Writing and API Scores, Dr. Hibo encouraged the faculty members to venture into original research work and publication, informed a press release from Theyiesinuo Keditsu, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Kohima College. She gave a lecture on the fundamentals of research writing and explained the Academic Performance Index (API).

In the second session on Citations, Dr. Kevichüsa warned against plagiarism and stressed the importance of citations as a

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Students’ Spiritual Conference underway in Dimapur

NBCC trains Christian Educators

Kohima, october 24 (mexN): The Education & Communication Department of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) organized the Christian Educators Training from October 21 – 24 at NBCC Headquarters. The programme was held with a purpose of equipping the Sunday School teachers and those who are involved in Children ministry, a press release stated.

The inaugural speaker for the program, Dr. Buno Iralu, President, NBCC E&C dwelled on the topic “The Empowered Teacher (1 John 2:27).” The resource persons for the program were Rev. Dr. Coppe Mero, Executive Director, Resource Centre; Children play with sparklers on the evening of Diwali in Dimapur Dr. Adela Mero, Associate on October 23. Dimapur also had its share of fireworks, crack- Director, Resource Centre; ers, and lights on Diwali, the festival of lights. Photo by Caisii Mao Vikiyeto Noel Jimo, JAA;

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Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education, speaking on the occasion, stated that although manmade laws exist in all societies, fearing God is supreme. He called for cultivating the fear of the Lord reasoning, “Nothing will go wrong then.”

The inaugural day of

ference saw about 7000 students from different schools and colleges in and around Dimapur. Rev. K. Luruo-o, State Chaplain, NBCC, hoisted the flag and said the invocation while W.Y. Kithan gave the welcome address. The conference will culminate on October 26.

MEx File NBCC’s U-LINK SPARKS today

Kohima, october 24 (mexN): U-LINK SPARKS, a winding up program of the ongoing U-LINK program of the Education and Communication Department of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), will be held on October 25 at Peraciezie Baptist Church Kohima at 11:00 am. Highlights of the program will be sharing from Sun Focus, Hongkong, and special presentations by the Nepali Baptist Church, Kohima and the different Growth-groups of U-LINK. All the super couples of the U-LINK, well wishers and the children who have been a part of the U-LINK program and Teensgame have been invited along with their parents to the closing ceremony program.

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DC demands election expenditure accounts

Kohima, october 24 (DiPr): Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer, Kohima, W. Honje Konyak has directed the candidates to lodge their election expenditure accounts within 30 days of declaration of result, that is, before November 19, 2014. The direction was issued on completion of Bye- Election of the 11th Northern Angami-II under Kohima district.

The submission of such expenditure are mandatory as per the Election Expenditure Monitoring instruction (January 2014) under Clause 17.6.

Dimapur Police informs

DimaPur, october 24 (mexN): The Special Branch of Dimapur Police has “recovered and seized” one Maruti Alto VXI (white colour). Therefore, Deputy Superintendent of Police (SB), Dimapur has asked the right owner to claim the vehicle from Special Branch office on all working days by producing all relevant vehicle documents in original.

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Induction Meet at IGNOU centre-2002

DimaPur, october 24 (mexN): Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) students, who have taken admission for July 2014 session for Post Graduate, Under-Graduate, Diploma, Certificate and BPP courses at Study Centre-2002, Dimapur Government College have been informed to attend an Induction Meet on October 26, 11:00 am at Dimapur Government College. Students would be familiarized with the open learning system and also how to proceed with their studies. Study materials, IGNOU student identity card and counseling schedules will be given to the students after the programme. A press release from coordinator of the centre, Khrieo Rutsa has asked the new entrants to bring along with them one passport photograph with name, enrolment number and programme code clearly written on the reverse of the photograph. Candidates re-registered for 2nd and 3rd year for July 2014 session in various programme at IGNOU study centre-2002 can come and collect their study materials on the same day, the release added.

Lotha Ekhung Kiphire condoles

KiPhire, october 24 (mexN): The Lotha Ekhung Kiphire has expressed deep grief over the sudden demise of Nzanbemo Kikon, Head Master, Government High School, Pungro under the establishment of DEO Kiphire. A condolence message from Mhathung Ezung, Secretary, Lotha Ekhung Kiphire acknowledged that the deceased was a dedicated person and "A Man of Principles" with strong determination. “He was efficient and sincere to his selfless service for the society,” it stated. The Ekhung further conveyed deepest condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for their peace and solace.

National seminar at NU; research papers invited

Dr. Mimi Kevichüsa, one of the resource persons, speak during the seminar held at Kohima College on October 22.

means to produce original and credible work. She followed with a meticulous lecture on the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Modern Lan-

guage Association (MLA) styles of referencing. The programme was chaired by Ase Yalie, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Kohima College.

Lumami, october 24 (mexN): Nagaland University Teachers Association (NUTA) is organizing a national seminar on "Globalization, Development and Environment with Special Reference to NorthFast Region" at Nagaland University, Lumami from November 20-21. Research papers from academicians, faculty members, research scholars, and policy makers have been invited for the same. Last date of submission of abstract is October 30, 2014. Papers selected for presentation in the seminar will be published in the seminar proceedings. For further details, contact Organizing Secretary at 9436439881, President NUTA (L) at 9436006808, and Organizing Committee Convenor at 9436006435, or visit Nagaland University website www.nagauniv.org.in.

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175 cr allocated for projects School, PO share roof in Arunachal along Arunachal border new Delhi, OcTOber 24 (PTi): Unfazed by China's objections to development of border areas, Government on Friday announced setting up of 54 new border outposts and a Rs 175 crore package for beefing up the infrastructure along the border in Arunachal Pradesh. The announcement was made by Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh even as he made it clear that India wanted to solve the border dispute with China through dialogue.

"Today when I talk about the border, be it with Pakistan or China, I feel pained and anguished over reports of ceasefire violations by Pakistan or incursions by Chinese troops," he said at the 53rd raising day function of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) here, which guards the 3,488 km long border from Ladakh to Arunachal Pradesh.

On development of areas bordering China, the Home Minister said the Government has started working on a plan for setting up of 54 border outposts(BoPs) for ITBP and also a Rs 175 crore package for

building infrastructure along the border in Arunachal Pradesh. All these posts will be set up in Arunachal Pradesh where there were large gaps at the Line of Actual Control.

China has been objecting to any development of infrastructure along the LAC and setting up of border outposts leading to instances of stand-offs with India including during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to this country in September this year. Singh also referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi making it clear that India wants to maintain peaceful relations with all its neighbouring countries.

"India wants to keep friendly relations with our neighbours whether it is China or Pakistan. We believe in the philosophy of 'Vasudaiva Kutumbakam' which means the world is one family and India has told the world about it," he added. Singh also said the Government was looking into the demand for a dedicated air support for the ITBP personnel.

DU to offer certificate courses in NE languages new Delhi, OcTOber 24 (PTi): Delhi University is planning to offer short term certificate courses in eight northeast Indian languages in run up to its preparation for the heritage tour to that region in December.

"There is a proposal to offer short term courses in eight different languages of the northeast which will include tutorials on basic working knowledge of the languages and not the detailed scripts," DU vice chancellor Dinesh Singh said.

As many as 900 students will be given the opportunity to travel on "Dharodhar-Gyanodaya Express" from December 20 to 30 which is all set to travel to northeast region to enrich students about the culture and heritage of the region.

The certificate courses which will run for a dura-

tion of one month will be open to all students whether they are selected for the train journey or not. "The languages for the proposed courses include Assamese, Nagamese, Manipuri,

Arunachali and Tripuri.

There will be foundation courses in Nepali and Bengali...," said Dr Santacruz, Deputy Dean Students' Welfare and Coordinator for the northeast students.

7TH MILE MODEL VILLAGE DIMAPUR : NAGALAND

NOTICE This is to notify all the general public that the 7th Mile Model Village has banned any kind of partying and drinking at the river side under its jurisdiction. The village council shall initiate surprise checking specially after 5 PM and if anybody found carrying out illegal activities and violating this notification, the Village Council shall take stern action as per the council resolution.

SUNDAy BRUNCh AT NIAThU RESORT Sunday Brunch at Niathu Resort Date : 26th October, 2014 Time : 12pm to 4pm Special Rate : Rs. 650 (Non Veg) / Rs. 550 (Veg) For Table Reservation call @ 03862 241489 / 08415921118 Niathu Resort, 7th Mile, Chumukedima, Dimapur www.niathugroup.com

STUDENTS’ SPIRITUAL CONFERENCE 24-26 Oct.2014 At Agri Expo, 4th Mile, Dimapur

Day-3 SUNDAY (26th Oct. 2014) 8:30 AM : ARRIVAL AT THE VENUE 9:00 – 11:00 AM : Musical Extravaganza Compere : i. Ms. P. Aienla ii. Mr. Kvulo Lorin Featuring : Mr. Alo Wanth Mr. Atsen Murry Miss. Medophrenuo Yiese Bethesda HSS (Choral & Choreography) Mr. Tali Angh Cross Kids (Choreography) Offertory and Prayer for Students and Institutions : Led by Impalong Lkr. (with Teachers & Parents.)

Hymnal : He Leaded me ! Oh Blessed Tho’t!

Message : Rev. Moa Longchari Benediction : Pastor Zechariah Chang (President, Chumu B. Pastor’s Fellowship) 11: 00 – 12:00 PM : Lunch Break 12: 00 – 12: 30 PM : Formal Program Host : Er. Howoto Chishi Invocation : Pastor Lipok Jamir, Pres. Pastor’s Fell. Diphupar Guest Addressee : Shri. Deo Nukhu (Parliamentary Secretary) Higher & Technical Edu., Nagaland Choral Presentations : i. Greenwood HSS ii. Holotoli HSS 12: 00 – 1:30 : Formal Program For Parents Moderator : Pastor Yambemo Lotha Baptist Church Dimapur Exhortation : Mr. Kolezo Chase (Former Principal, Patkai Christian College) Resource Person : Rev. Pastor Dirang Lungalang Founder Pastor, Christ Community Church 12:30-1:30 PM Students’ Seminar Moderator : Mrs. Mhasino Kuotsu Resource Person : Ms. Asha Sanchu Topic : ‘Building Career With God’ Choral Presentations : 1. Logos Bible College 2. Holy Cross HSS 1:30-2:00 PM : Break 2:00 -3:30 PM : Worship Service Service Leader : Pastor S.N. Lotha Hymn : ‘Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine’ Thank you Note : Mr. Asa Khate (Co-Convenor, Finance Comm.)

Praise & Worship : ‘Praise Exalters’ Message : Pastor Ketou Theunuo Flag Down and Benediction : Rev. Dr. N. Paphino

iTanagar, OcTOber 24 (Tnn): At a time when the state education department, with the help of experts, is planning to streamline the education sector, the state of the Government Primary School Geri at Boleng under East Siang district narrates a completely different story.

Established in 2006, the school has four teachers for 500 students, defying the teacher-student

ratio of 1:30 set by the RTE. That is not where the story ends. Ironically, the school shares its building with a post office.

When enquired about the situation, a teacher, who refused to be named, said the government has set up a primary school for villagers of Boleng, but the school has no infrastructure.

The school is functioning in an unorganized

manner with the help of a local self-help group which had provided a building where the classes can be held.

The Boleng post office also has a similar story to narate. The post office has no building of its own and it shares the building with the school.

The building is now in a shambles making things even more difficult for the school and post office.

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Women branded witches confined, tortured

Tinsukia, OcTOber 24 (PTi): Within a week after a national-level athlete was tortured as 'witch', three other women were beaten up by villagers for allegedly practising black magic and held responsible for outbreak of an unknown disease in Tinsukia district. Additional Superintendent of Police Lamhao Dongol said the three women were rescued this morning after being confined illegally since last night and beaten up at a Kumsang tea garden, under Kakopathar police station area.

Elaborating the incident, Dongol said a 14-year-old boy, Suraj Gowala, was suf-

fering from some unknown disease, most likely some liver infection, since last one month. The villagers, under the influence of a 'tantrik', blamed the three ladies of practicing black-magic and held responsible for the unknown disease.

Last night, nearly 300 villagers illegally confined the women in a house, beaten them and threatened to set trio ablaze if the boy is not cured. "The boy needed immediate medical attention and we sent him to Assam Medical College and Hospital in Dibrugarh. The three ladies are with the police at this moment for their safety," Dongol said.

CHIEF GUEST

Shri. Temsüwati, Additional Development Commissioner Govt. of Nagaland Compere : LimasenLa Jamir • Invocation : Sakorepba, Pastor Ngati B/C • Special No. : Tuden (Youth Ministry SKM B/C) • Address by the Hon’ble Chief Guest • Vote of thanks : Shri.Moasangba Jamir, President MDFA

Introduction of players & Kick off Prize Distribution

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF DEFENCE DIRECT RECRUITMENT OF ONE LDC (OBC) IN GROUP 'C' AT 1072 'B' DSC PL ATTACHED WITH 3 CORPS OMC, DIMAPUR 1. Applications are invited from the eligible Indian citizens for filling up vacancies for the following Category Designation of post Pay Scale & Grade Pay Category Total Nos of vacancy LDC Group 'C' (OBC) 5200 - 20200 + Grade Pay 1900/OBC 01 2. Eligibility:(a) Education Qualification:(i) 12th Class Pass or equivalent from a recognized Board or University. (ii) Typewriting speed of minimum either 35 words per minute in English or 30 words per minute in Hindi on Computer. (b) Age limit:S. No Category Age limit Remarks 1.

OBC 18 Yrs to 28 Yrs The crucial date for determining the age limit shall be the 2.

ESM Service rendered in Army/Navy/Air Force plus three year be deducted from actual age and closing date for receipt of application i.e. 21 days from the date of publication of the advertisement resultant age should not exceed the maximum age limit i.e. OBC-28 Yrs. 3. Place of work :- 1072 'B' DSC PI att with 3 Corps OMC Unit location with all Indict Service liability including field service.

4. LOC of Test Centre : Dimapur, Nagaland 5. Written Examination:- A written examination will be conducted for the above post: The Standard of question paper will be commensurate to duties/Job of LDC. The written examination will consists of the following tests :Subject Maximum Marks Remarks General Intelligence and Clerical Aptitude English Language 20 The standard of question will be of Class 12th.

English Language 20 Numerical Aptitude 20 General Awareness 20 Note :- The questions in all the four tests will be "Objective-Multiple/Choice-Type ". Candidates will be required to qualify in each of the four tests separately. The Question-CumAnswer paper will be bilingual (both in Hindi and English version).

6. Typewriting test:- The typewriting test (on a computer Keyboard) will consist of one paper on running matter of 10 minutes duration. Only those candidates who qualify in all the four tests of the written examinations will be eligible to take the typewriting test. The typewriting test will be a qualifying test only.

7. Interview:- Personal Interview will also be conducted. Those of such candidates who qualify in the typing test will only be called for the Interview.

8. Date and time for Test :- Date and time for written exam/interview will be intimated later on to candidates through Call Letter, whose application and particulars are found to be correct and in order.

9. Eligible candidates can apply for above post. Application as per format given under (Typed in English) duly supported with documents be forwarded to " 1072 'B' DSC PL att with 3 Corps OMC, Pin-909803, c/o 99 APO, Dimapur. Last date of receipt of application will be "CLEAR 21 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE".

Application received later than this would be rejected. DON'T SEND ORIGINAL CERTIFICATES WITH APPLICATION. Photocopy of the following Documents/Certificates to be attached along with application duly attested by a Gazetted Officer. (a) Attested photocopy of date of birth certificate or matriculate or equivalent pass certificate. (b) Attested copy of Academic qualification. (c) Attested copy of typewriting qualification. (d) Attested copy of Non-creamy layer certificate alongwith the OBC certificate. (e) Application form duly typed in English with recent photographs and Admit Card duly attested by Gazetted Officer (f) Self addressed (Correspondence address) envelope affixed with Rs. 25/- postal stamp. (g) Photocopy of discharge certificate (for Ex-servicemen only). (h) Any other document as required.

(J) Character certificate duly attested and domicile/Residential certificate.

Note :- All copies of documents being submitted to be duly attested-by a Class-I Gazetted Officer. a No Application will be accepted in person by hand or through any representative.

10. Incomplete / ineligible application will be deemed invalid and rejected without intimation to the candidate. Only the eligible candidates will be called for the Written examination.

Candidates not in receipt of call letter should presume that their application were incomplete/not Meeting qualitative requirements or not found eligible and no correspondence in this regard will be entertained.

11. It is made clear that merely fulfilling the basics essential qualification requirements dogs not automatically entitle a person to be called for test/interviews. The selection will be made strictly on the merit basis. The decision of appointing authority regarding selection / rejection will be final. It is also made clear that the numbers of posts/vacancies are tentative and recruitment process can be cancelled/ suspended / terminated by the appointing authority at any stage, due to administrative reasons.

12. Original Documents- Candidates are required to bring original documents/certificate at the time of test/interview failing which they shall not be permitted to appear in the test/interview.

13. Canvassing in any form shall disqualify the candidates. No enquiry or correspondence will be entertained. Any dispute with regard to the recruitment will be subject to the courts having jurisdiction in Nagaland only.

14. Accommodation & Travel- No TA/DA will be paid to the candidates for recruitment tests. They have to make their own arrangement for boarding/lodging.

15. No extra weightage will be given for addition/higher qualification for recruitment: 16. WARNING: All candidates are warned to be careful from the self styled agents/touts and also requested to report to Officer Commanding 3 Corps OMC against any malpractice seen/observed by them.

Annexure- I To Affix recent Passport 1072 'B' DSC PI att to size photograph duly 3 Corps OMC attested by a Gazetted PIN — 909803 officer c/o 99 APO

APPLICATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POST OF LDC (OBC)

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(Attach photocopy of supporting documents duly attested) 8. Permanent Address: ______________________________________________________________ 9. Present Postal Address: ___________________________________________________________ 10. Experience (In relevant Field): _____________________________________________________ 11. Details of present Occupation: _____________________________________________________ 12. Details of extracurricular activities: ___________________________________________________ DECLARATION I hereby declare that all the statements made in this application are true complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. In the event of any information being found false / incorrect or inegible being detected at any stage, my candidature / appointment will stand automatically cancelled.

Dated : Place :

(Signature of Candidate) Annexure - II

ADMIT CARD

Full Name & Address ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ ______________________________ 1. Your application for the post of LDC (OBC) is hereby accepted / not accepted 2. You are directed to report for the test / interview on the date and place given below 3. (a) Roll No : ___________________________________________________________ 4. (b) Date of Test : _______________________________________________________ 5. (c) Time of Test : _______________________________________________________ 6. (d) Place of Test : _______________________________________________________ 1072 13' DSC PL att with 3 Corps OMC, Pin — 909803, c/o 99 APO, Dimapur, Nagaland.

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The Morung Express

India picks up pace on economic overhaul

NEW DELHI, OctOBEr 24 (AP): After months of criticism for not moving aggressively enough on promises of an economic overhaul, India’s new prime minister has announced a string of policies designed to kick-start Asia’s third-largest economy.

Over the past week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled an overhaul of India’s archaic labor laws, freed diesel prices from state control and signed an executive order promising to open India’s coal industry to private companies.

He also appointed Arvind Subramanian, a respected Washington, DC-based economist, as the country’s top economic adviser.

Modi, who led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a landslide election win in May on promises that he would re-energize India’s stumbling economy, faced a flurry of criticism after his July budget failed to provide new direction.

But that appears to be changing, reigniting optimism that India can lift its economic game.

Though India’s economic growth was not far behind China’s last decade, it slumped over the past few years, hurt by policy

An Indian woman carries cow dung cakes used popularly as fuel in rural India, on the outskirts of Allahabad on Thursday, October 23. After months of criticism for not moving aggressively enough on promises of an economic overhaul, India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a string of policies designed to kick-start Asia’s third-largest economy. Modi, who has promised to make India a global center for cheap manufacturing, announced a major overhaul of labor laws last week, hoping to attract investors. (AP Photo)

gridlock, weak investment, high inflation and epic corruption.

Lack of progress over decades is highlighted by slow poverty reduction. In 1978 some 99 percent of the population lived on less than $5 a day, according to World Bank figures. By 2011, that poverty rate was barely

changed at 95 percent.

Experts say that the BJP’s recent successes in two state elections have given Modi greater political power to implement his agenda. It has increased his party’s representation in the upper house, which can delay legislation, and also puts two

more states closer in step with the federal government.

The government now has the freedom “to take stronger, bolder steps,” said D.K. Joshi, chief economist at the financial research firm Crisil.

Modi, who has promised to make India a global center

for cheap manufacturing, announced a major overhaul of labor laws last week, hoping to attract investors.

India’s onerous labor laws, many written when the country was a British colony, require reams of paperwork and strictly regulate all hiring and firing of employees, often deterring companies from bringing in new staff.

That, Modi said in a New Delhi speech, needs to change.

“Ease of business is the first and foremost requirement” to increase India’s manufacturing strength, he said.

Creating more jobs is a high priority in India, where some 13 million young people join the workforce each year.

Modi’s announcements came as the economy showed some signs of revival, with inflation plummeting to five-year lows because of falling global oil prices.

Taking advantage of that dip in crude prices, the Indian Cabinet freed diesel prices from government control over the weekend, targeting one of India’s costliest subsidies.

The subsidy, along with high international oil prices and a dependency on petroleum-based fuels, has caused India’s trade deficit to balloon

in recent years, reaching $14.3 billion in September.

Joshi said that highly subsidized diesel prices had encouraged consumers to guzzle the fuel, adding greatly to the government’s subsidy bill.

“It’ll send a signal to consumers to conserve fuel” while easing the government’s subsidy burden, Joshi said.

The appointment of development economist Arvind Subramanian as the country’s chief economic adviser was also welcomed by industry.

Subramanian, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C. has worked at the International Monetary Fund and taught at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The widely published economist is seen by many in business as well equipped to guide India’s economic makeover.

“For an economy struggling to claw out of its deepest slump in 25 years, it’s a pleasant sight to spot a flurry of reformist intent,” the Hindustan Times said in a recent editorial.

Meanwhile, this week’s executive order that will eventually allow any Indian company to mine and sell coal, opens up an industry nationalized more

than four decades ago. It also sends a strong signal about a shift away from highly restrictive industrial regulations.

Current laws allow only certain private companies to mine coal, and then only for their own use, with state-owned Coal India Ltd. dominating commercial mining.

Most of India’s power plants are coal-fired and the new regulations are expected to boost the country’s inadequate power supply, a big obstacle to manufacturing in India, by encouraging investment in new generation capacity. Officials have not said when the executive order will go into effect.

Joshi said the flurry of economic announcements are incremental steps but “they all add up significantly” to make the country attractive to investors.

But he said one major issue has yet to be addressed: India’s poor infrastructure, from its highways to its electricity grid.

India cannot become a manufacturing power until those problems are faced.

“Inviting someone to do business isn’t sufficient,” he said. Without good roads, reliable power and better ports, “you cannot become a manufacturing power.”

China, 21 other countries initiate new Asian bank ‘No plan to curtail supply of BEIJING, OctOBEr 24 (AP): China and 21 other Asian nations signed on Friday to a new Beijing-backed international bank for Asia that Washington opposes as an unnecessary rival to established institutions such as the World Bank.

Representatives of the 22 nations signed a memorandum of understanding at the Great Hall of the People in the heart of Beijing to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The new bank reflects both China’s desire to push investment in the region and its frustration with U.S., Japanese and European dominance of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Asian Development Bank.

The new lender would fund the construction of roads, railways, power plants and telecommunications networks in Asia that global finance officials say are needed to keep the region’s economies humming along.

Those taking part include regional economic power such as India along with smaller but economically vibrant nations such as Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines and Mongolia. Absent are U.S. allies Japan, South Korea and Australia, whose

membership was sought by China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed the bank a year ago at a gathering of Asia-Pacific nations, and China has said it will provide most if not all of the initial $50 billion in capital.

Overseeing the signing ceremony, Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said the move marked a new stage in preparations for the bank’s formal establishment, the date for which hasn’t been given.

“We hope that through our joint efforts we can build the AIIB into a professional and efficient financing platform for infrastructure,” Lou said.

He described the future bank as a “multi-national financial institution which is fair, just, open ... with a good governance structure.”

In a nod to concerns the bank could undercut existing institutions, Lou said it would complement the existing multi-national financial institutions and “is committed to regional infrastructure and sustainable development.”

China also is backing another $50 billion-lending institution, the New Development Bank, sponsored by the so-called BRICS countries that also include Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa.

The planned capital of the Chinese-backed development banks is relatively small compared with existing institutions. The World Bank’s capital is about $220 billion and the Asian Development Bank has $175 billion capital.

U.S. objections dwell mainly on worries the new infrastructure bank could lower international lending standards and work against existing multination lenders by offering laxer environmental, labor and other safeguards for loans that are intended to prevent abuses and protect vulnerable populations.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew expressed some of those concerns publicly at a conference in Washington earlier this month, although U.S. officials have mostly been pushing back against the bank’s establishment quietly, including with off-therecord briefings to media.

Behind Washington’s concerns is also its long-standing mistrust of Beijing’s efforts to use its economic heft to bring countries into its political orbit and draw them away from the U.S. Also signing on to the bank are Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sri

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China is already a major financier of roads, railways and other infrastructure projects carried out by large state-run Chinese companies and paid for with loans provided by policy banks such as the China Development Bank or the Export-Import Bank of China.

China expects private financial institutions and other players will provide another $50 billion capital for the AIIB, though the total would still well below that of the ADB. Officially, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has welcomed the new institution, saying the developing world’s massive need for about $1 trillion per year in infrastructure financing far outstrips the ability of private finance to fund it.

ADB President Takehiko Nakao also has welcomed the new bank, saying it would substantially boost the amount of funding available while forcing his red tape-laden institution to reform.

The ADB estimates developing Asian countries will need to invest $8 trillion in infrastructure from 2010 to 2020 just to keep their economies moving forward, only a tiny fraction of which can be provided by the ADB.

subsidised LPG cylinders’

In August, the Narendra Modiled govt gave consumers the freedom to avail their quota of 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg weight at subsidised rate during anytime of the year

NEW DELHI, OctOBEr 24 (PtI): The government has no plans to curtail supply of subsidised cooking gas (LPG) from current 12 cylinders per household in a year even as it looks to give cash subsidy to consumers across the country by June.

“There is absolutely no proposal to reduce subsidised LPG quota (per household),” Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan told PTI in an interview here.

In August, the Narendra Modi-led government gave consumers the freedom to avail their quota of 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg weight at subsidised rate during anytime of the year against the previous restriction of one per month.

Pradhan said the Cabinet had on Saturday modified the Direct Benefit Transfer Scheme for LPG to provide for cash subsidy equivalent to the difference between the current rate and the market price, in bank accounts of

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But unlike the scheme launched during the previous UPA government, having an Aadhaar card for getting the cash subsidy is not mandatory, he said. Currently, the modified DBTL is being launched in 54 districts and from January 1 it will be rolled out in all the remaining districts of the country, he said.

“We hope to extend the coverage to all the districts in three months and enroll majority of the consumers in another three months. So you can say

by June, majority of the LPG consumers will be covered,” he said.

LPG consumers who have opened accounts under the Jan Dhan Yojana too would benefit from the revised scheme. Over 6 crore such accounts have been opened so far and 4 crore more are being targetted by the year end to provide for at least one bank account per household.

Currently, bank accounts of LPG consumers are being seeded with their cooking gas numbers. Once that is done, cash subsidy will be transfered into the bank accounts so that the consumers can buy the LPG refills at market rates.

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The Morung Express

Saturday 25 October 2014

Do not forget history, asserts Shurhozelie

MOKOKCHUNG, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): The annual general meeting of the Naga People’s Front Mokokchung Division was held today at its Division Office premises with NPF president and Chairman of Democratic Alliance of Nagaland, Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu as the chief guest.

Addressing the meeting, the NPF president claimed that the Naga People’s Front is a disciplined party and that many regional political parties have come and gone but the party has survived as the oldest regional party in the NE region of India.

He also reminded that the party workers should not forget the history of the party and the “good deeds done by your parents for the Naga people,” adding that they are today the proud heirs of the party. He also

appreciated the leaders of the two groups within the NPF Mokokchung Division for resolving the ‘domestic dispute’ amicably and said that they should learn their lessons, forgive and forget, and move ahead together.

After showering praises on the Ao community as ‘pioneers’ in various fields, Dr Shurhozelie said “whatever the other Naga communities might say, in the heart of hearts, they respect you” and exhorted that the present generation of leaders “not to forget history.”

He also explained that the NPF thrives on “discipline based on conscious acceptance of the constitution of NPF” and said that all members of the party are bound by the constitution.

The president also administered the oath taking of NPF Mokokchung Division president elect.

Kuda Village expels one DiMapUR, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): The Kuda village has unanimously decided to expel one Zaheer Islam, a permanent resident of Pattarkati Karimganj, Assam, from its village jurisdiction with immediate effect.

A press release from the Kuda Village Council Chairman Alhoulie Belho and Secretary Vikie Nagi stated that the village council after deliberating on the issue where Zaheer was caught red handed attempting to assault and molest a minor girl (aged about 9) on October 23, has taken the decision to extricate him including his family members.

The council urged the

appropriate authority to extricate him from the state too as a person with this kind of mentality has no place in a decent society, and also appeal both the Muslim Council Dimapur and Dimapur Muslim Public Forum not to harbor such person.

While condemning the evil act, the council stated that these kind of incidents where the modesty of a woman/girl is violated occurs time and again, the village council requested the authorities to set an example and give exemplary punishment so that such kind of incident do not occur in future and that our mothers, sisters and daughters does not feel insecure.

Delegates at the Naga People’s Front Mokokchung Division annual general meeting.

Minister in-charge of NPF Mokokchung Division, Noklutoshi said the day being a “day of reunion” was a red letter day for Mokokchung district as the two groups within the

party after the “little misunderstanding” had come together by forgetting all differences for the love of the party and the Ao people.

He also appreciated Merentoshi and Dr Longri for

initiating the reconciliation and challenged the party to win all 10 assembly constituency seats in the 2018 elections.

Imkong L Imchen also spoke at the meeting where

he said that all party workers of the NPF must trust each other, open their minds and work together. “We have had tough times but it is not unnatural. Challenges do crop up which we have to overcome,” he said. He also mentioned that the five NPF legislators from the district have resolved to support Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu in the ensuing NPF presidential election, due to be held in Kohima November next.

Secretary General of the NPF, KG Kenye also addressed the meeting. The president elect of NPF Mokokchung Division, Moasangba Jamir also delivered his acceptance speech while ex-MLA L.Temjen Jamir pronounced the vote of thanks.

The meeting also adopted a set of resolutions which included support for reinstating Dr.Shurhozelie Liezietsu as the NPF President.

Our Correspondent Kohima | October 24

A new market called Central Market located near Box cutting road was formally inaugurated by Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) chief executive officer Lithrongla Tongpi this morning.

The market was constructed at Serii, Kohima

by Neiriihu Sekhose clan of T.Khel Kohima. The market has 62 markets shed.

Tongpi congratulated the proprietors for setting up the multi-purpose market convenience for the customers. She stressed on the importance of sanitation, where she urged upon

KMC Chief Executive Officer, Lithrongla Tongpi inaugurating the Central Market in Kohima on October 24.

all the businessmen to maintain a clean environment within the market.

She requested the traders to take care of waste disposal by segregating the

waste safely.

In this, she asked the traders to dispose the rotten vegetables into separate bins and other waste materials like paper, car-

KOHiMa, OCTOBER 24 (NEpS): Parliamentary Secretary for Sericulture, Pukhayi said he wanted to open “Cocoon Auction Centers” in all the districts of Nagaland to facilitate selling and buying of local silk cocoons.

Talking to NEPS here, the Parliamentary Secretary said his department was also preparing a DPR under the North East Region Textile Promotion Scheme (NERTPS) for the development of “Silk City” in Nagaland. “It (DPR) will be sent to Delhi soon,” he added.

Stating that there was a scope for the growth of economy if they could go for large scale farming on sericulture production in the state, Pukhayi disclosed that the kind of silk available in Nagaland was called the “Golden Silk” which was considered one of the best ones in the world. And in fact many Asian countries are said to have expressed their interests in investing in the silk production sectors in Nagaland.

The Parliamentary Secretary, who had already visited the Textile Head-

quarters at Bangalore some time back, said that “What others do not have are available in Nagaland and what we do not have are also available sometimes in other places.” But the kinds of plants for feeding silkworms are growing in the wilds of Nagaland, whereas others have been planting them with fertilizers, he added.

“All these are God gifted natural climatic condition for the sericulture in the State,” said the Parliamentary Secretary. “Such conditions are not there in many

countries in the world not even in China, which is the largest silk producing country in the world.”

Stating that sericulture had the potential for the economic growth in the state, Pukhayi said the farmers could even harvest 4 to 5 times over a season unlike rice harvesting which they could do once in a year. “In fact, those farmers doing rice cultivation could even do part time on pupa caring. Their jobs are only to pluck leaves and feed silkworms them,” he explained.

SPORTS MOTiVaTiONS FOR liFe “Y

our life is more than your winning of sports. Life is more precious than silver or gold. Always have a game plan – plan for life!” Let’s not over-emphasize the bad aspects of sport but let’s focus on the positive side of good sports as well as success life in Christ. Some people think God’s work is finding people who are having a good time than telling them they are not allowed to do it.

The truth is God’s way is the most fun when we live by His rules.

Looking at some of the problems of sports, it is no wonder that the leaders of our churches not so long ago discouraged sporting activity as ‘ungodly’ and in some cases prohibited sports.

Sports can teach us great lessons that will develop our Christian character. Sport has many virtues that can help a young person develop in mind, body and soul. We certainly have to be aware of the pitfalls, but enjoy the benefits God had provided us.

A winner always plays by the rules of the games. When someone is cheating against us, fair play is very important. But the quality of fairness comes in the measures that we are fair to others. Being truthful, keeping our

MEx FILE AYO to rally against corruption & unabated taxation on Oct 31 KOHiMa, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): The Angami Youth Organization (AYO) is scheduled to initiate a public rally against corruption and unabated taxation on October 31 at Old MLA Hostel Junction, Kohima. The rally will be held along with the Angami Students' Union (ASU) and the Kohima Chamber of Commerce and Industries (KCCI).

A press note issued by Tsoto Sale, Press Secretary, has requested all village youth organizations and colony youth organizations to attend the rally along with members of their respective unit.

TBC Retreat for Young Adults DiMapUR, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): A One Day Retreat for Young Adults (between 25-35 years) will be held in Town Baptist Church Conference Hall, October 25 under the theme: "How to be a Salt in every Season of our Lives". Registrations will began at 9:30 am with a fee of Rs 100, and participants will be provided with tea and lunch.

The retreat is intended for young adults who are either working or educated unemployed, single ,dating or married. Sessions will be led by Alobo Naga, Nise Meruno ,Zayieno Kera, Tali Angh, Ameto Peseyie and Kelhu Savino. The event is organized by the TBC Youth Department.

PWD Govt. School Kohima to celebrate Ethnic Day

Central market inaugurated in Kohima

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“If anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules” 2Tim.2:5.

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KOHiMa, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): The Government High School Kohima, PWD Colony will be organizing its second Ethnic day on October 25 at 10 a.m. in the school campus. The objective of the event is to revive the dying culton, plastic into another bin tures of the rich Naga traditions. Ruovihulie Angami, District in order to avoid smell.

Education officer Kohima and Joint Director, School EducaShe also requested tion will grace the occasion as the Chief Guest. the traders to stick to timing and dispose the waste NTPA emergency meeting morning before 5:30am KOHiMa, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): The Nagaland Tea and evening after 6:00pm.

Planters Association (NTPA) will be holding an emergenThe Central Market cy meeting on October 29 at the residence of the President shed will benefit the Naga in Upper Chandmari, below Bethel Hospital, Kohima at Hospital, TCP gate, New- 10 a.m. A press note issued by Bejoy Pfithu, General Secmarket, Officers Hill and retary, has requested all the District Presidents, General Midland colony in par- Secretaries of NTPA to attend the meeting without fail. ticular and the public in general as the market Midland Youth for is located in the centric point where everybody removal of auto parking can easily access, said Dr. DiMapUR, OCTOBER 24 (MExN): The Youth OrAhu Sekhose who chaired ganization, Midland Colony Dimapur has called on the Dimapur District Auto Driver Union (DDADU) to respect the function.

Earlier, Neivizolie the resolution made between Midland Council Dimapur Chielie, Pastor, Khedi (MCD) and DDADU on September 23, and to remove the Baptist Church invoked auto parking from Dhobhinala traffic point to Sewak Main Gate-I, Midland within seven days of the notice served by God blessing.

Midland Council. A statement from the youth organization cautioned that DDADU shall be held solely responsible for any eventuality arising out due to non compliance.

'Cocoon Auction Centers soon in all districts'

A glimpse of the ongoing Christian Book Festival at LCS Building, Kohima. The five-day long book fair is being organized by Beautiful Books, Chennai and will go on till October 25, 2014 from 9 am to 5 pm every day. Apart from books, several other items such as frames, key chains, Bible covers, VCDs and DVDs etc. are available. Beautiful Books is the literature wing of the Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship International (LEFI).

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promises, being empathetic, reporting cheats, and playing but the rules are marks of a winner.

Competing as hard as you can is totally fair, as long as you play within the confines of the rules. You may win or lose by hundred points, but don’t scream ‘It’s not fair!’ if both team agreed to play under the same rules. What is unfair is when you try to win or lose outside of the rules. You may choose to keep the score under control that may be wise. When you commit a foul, you must be honest. In the long run it will pay off. ‘The LORD detests the use of dishonest scales, but He delights in accurate weights’ Pro.11:1.

A decade’s ago we hear about Julius Erving, a man who made history in the National Basketball Association in America. Once Julius was interviewed on numerous occasions, and on one of those he stated, “Above all play clean”.

And he continued, “What you do physically or technically is not as important as what is in your heart.” These are very wise words for any athletes and also those who serve the LORD. We all want to win the prize, come what may; many times it could even be at the cost of cheating a little bit. We would like to be better than we really are, but without making the extra effort. We would also like to be mature men and women, who believe in a spiritual man-

ner, bearing fruits in abundance and knowing how to triumph in every difficult situation. However, when we consider how to achieve this, there are basic rules that are not so appealing to us.

Perhaps it is because we think that reading the Bible, praying, evangelizing, and serving and helping others etc. All seems rather boring. But we cannot take the prize if we do not compete according to the rules.

In the entire Bible you will not find that tells about real winner or real losers in the Christian perspectives of competition. God has nothing to do with your win, lost or draw, because your “Identity in Christ” is more valuable than the mere games and sports. In the first letter, Apostle Paul encouraged to young Timothy that, “Sports has some values on physical but godliness has values for our present life and including our Eternal values of life” 1Tim.4:8.

The scripture is very clear for the Christian competitors, to always guard your personal identity in Christ first and foremost - in everything you do or say! It doesn’t say to win or to lost, but “do well at your best for the benefits and multiplication.”

The believers of Jesus should dream for the prize for Eternal Life through our Faith and Hope in Christ!

We cannot compete according to the rules if our heart is not in it. What is the motivation of our life? Why do we do what we do? Why do we study, work or practice? What is our reason for reading the Bible, for serving others or working in the church? There exists a serious danger of doing things, even the spiritual things, for self-centered reasons (Matt.

5-7). Many times we pray witness or assist in the church only to be seen and admired by others. When people speak well of us, and all goes well, we are content and gained confidence; but when difficult times come, and we receive criticism instead of admiration… the preacher does not want to preach any more, and the singers or the praise and worship teams does not want to continue in their leadings! The cry goes out; ‘No-one appreciates for all my contributions toward the LORD’S ministry!’ And so then, do you do things only in order to receive praise?

Worship is much more than The dream of every athlete is just music. Worship is a lifestyle. to win the prize.

“The heart of worship is giving The dream of every mother you yourself completely to God. is to give birth Offering yourself to God is what The dream of every student worship is all about” Rom.6:13. is to pass the exams Why are you doing what you

are doing? Are you doing only for the salary, are you doing because you worry to lose your work, or for department? As believers, if you begin to do anything unto the LORD, whether big or small, work at it and turn it into worship. It doesn’t matter’ any work can become an act of worship if you do it enthusiastically for the love of God! “Work hard and cheerfully at whatever you do, as though you were working for the LORD rather than for people” Col.3:17, 23.

We all run the serious risk of falling into self-centered motivation. We want people to admire us; we appreciate it when people look up to us!

And God says that this attitude is of the world and the Devil.

Our only motivation should be to seek to give God the glory and honor. He is the only One who deserves it. So then we should not have the problem of whether others appreciate us or not. If we don’t seek to glorify God as our main priority in life, it’s because our hearts are not pure, and what is there will end up destroying us instead of saving us. The Word of God says in Matt.5:8, “Blessed are pure in heart for they shall see God”.

“One of the most important things in life is what we have within our hearts’ that matter most to God not by the people” DR. THAMSING LAMKANG Sports Resource Center, Dmp

ADC Kohima informs 11 Northern Angami-II on inclusion of name KOHiMa, OCTOBER 24 (DipR): Additional Deputy Commissioner & Electoral Registration Officer (ADC &ERO), Kohima, Asangla Imti has informed the electorates of 11-Northern Angami-II Assembly Constituency that the electoral roll has been prepared in accordance with the Registration of Electoral Rules, 1960, and a copy thereof is available for inspection at the office during office hours and at polling station. The qualifying date for the preparation of electoral roll is 01.01.2015. The ADC also apprised that if, with reference to the above said qualifying date, there be any claim for the inclusion of a name in the roll or any objection to the inclusion of name or any objection to particulars in any entry, it should be lodged on or before November 10 in Form 6, 7 or 8 as may be appropriate. Every such claim or objection should either be presented in the office of the ADC or to the Booth Level Officer or sent by post to the address ADC & ERO, Kohima, so as to reach the ADC not later than the aforesaid date.

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ho ask change? Everyone ask for it.

But, we see people contributing least towards change. Down to a Bus conductor, change ‘coins’ are no more sought, but ‘notes’ of ten.

In every public platform speakers, resource persons and VIPs talk on the need for change. A big ’YOU’ is being expressed on the upcoming generation: “you—students-- are the future leaders…,” “you— youth-- are the backbone…”

How unlucky for the present generation? It is often heard that our State government suffers from poor revenue earnings and pace of development is slow. Some say it is also because there are no big industry, company or export products which can bring high earnings to manage the State affairs. Some blame the Central government for not funding sufficient to develop our State. There can be many more reasons. However, we see a very different picture from the living standard of our State managers (???) and public leaders (???). Let us assume that many of them had moneymaking machines. The speed of creating their wealth and assets were just opposite to the so-called poor financial position of the State Government.

Yes not forgetting the public.

In every level of our society, one has his/her own share of

the problem existing today.

Whatever, whatever, let us put to an end that “the past is closed but the future is open”.

Marching forward, we can.

Yes, let us everyone revitalize our mind and enter into the civilized world. The public drive its leaders safely. The public leaders and public servant serve its people selflessly, honesty and with fairness. The civil societies—the watchdog, shoulder its responsibilities faithfully. When the people become honest and faithful in his/her own life, environment of every affair will turn better. The people will begin to sense the value of caring and protecting public properties. Revenue will crop up from every agency and make the government rich and prosperous. Seeing the proper utilization of funds/schemes in the State, the Central government will surely pour huge fund to see the development taking place faster than how we imagine. In the meantime, people will voluntarily come and say “what can I do for my country”.

Here begins a new era with every individual to come forward to give change, not ask for, to bring change. Giving is the need of the hour in our Naga society, to live towards the sunny side.

Rajuselie Lhousa Mission Compound, Kohima

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Saturday | 25 october, 2014

Mexico and its missing people Maria Verza and Christopher Sherman

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o n g b e f o re 4 3 teachers college students disappeared in an attack by police, Maria Guadalupe Orozco's son went missing in the same southern Mexico city of Iguala.

Orozco says Mexican soldiers took Francis Garcia Orozco as he was ferrying equipment between a nightclub and the fairgrounds for a festival, an assertion based on witnesses and grainy security camera footage that day in March 2010. The military denied it. Now she wonders if he's among the 28 bodies found in five burial pits at a clandestine mass grave uncovered during the all-out search mounted by authorities for the missing students. Officials say none of college students was among the remains recovered, so rather than solve an extraordinary crime that has captured international attention, a mass forced disappearance by the state, the discovery of the bodies has added layers of horror to a situation already difficult to fathom.

Instead of finding the 43, authorities are asking "Who are the 28?" Guerrero has long been a stronghold for both leftist guerrillas and drug traffickers, so the dead could be both. Or neither. Given Mexico's record on identifying the missing, Orozco may never know if her son is among them.

"It's like reliving those days of anxiety, desperation, of wishing and asking God for the telephone to ring," Orozco said of the grisly find. "If anyone knocks on the door at any minute, you think, 'He's here now.'" The government of President Enrique Pena Nieto took office two years ago saying it would make a verifiable list of the missing in Mexico, and re-

Hunt for 43 students highlights problem

A woman marches with leaflets with the images of missing students attached to her body, during a protest against the disappearance of 43 students from the Isidro Burgos rural teachers college, in Mexico City, Wednesday, October. 22, 2014. Tens of thousands marched in Mexico City's main avenue demanding the return of the missing students. The Mexican government says it still does not know what happened to the young people after they were rounded up by local police in Iguala, a town in southern Mexico, and allegedly handed over to gunmen from a drug cartel September. 26, even though authorities have arrested 50 people allegedly involved. They include police officers and alleged members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel. (AP Photo)

leased a searchable database of 22,322 people in August. Government officials, who say at every turn that violence has dropped dramatically on their watch, put little attention on the fact that 9,790 of those people — more than 40 percent — have gone missing since Pena Nieto took office.

The rest were from the previous six years under former President Felipe Calderon, when disappearances began to spike with his attack on organized crime.

The list does not include the 43 students of the radical Rural Normal School of Ayotzinapa. The government says it still does not know what happened to the young people after they were rounded up by local police in Iguala and allegedly handed

over to gunmen from a drug cartel Sept. 26, even though authorities have arrested 50 people allegedly involved. They include police officers and alleged members of the Guerreros Unidos cartel.

In an analysis of the database numbers by the newspaper Reforma, Guerrero is not even on of the top six states with the most disappeared. Tamaulipas, where 72 migrants were slaughtered in 2010 and hundreds more found in mass graves the following year, was No. 1. Jalisco, home to Guadalajara and warring drug cartels was No. 2. Some 67 people were found in mass graves there just last Christmas.

Mass graves are regularly found around the country — 11 bodies in August in Michoacan state, 19 others in Iguala just last May.

Figuring out who they are is the government's challenge, and progress is slow despite the creation of a special unit of the Attorney General's Office in May 2013 to find the missing. Mexico has had no national database to match characteristics of missing to unidentified dead, and is in the process of building one from scratch. Although the government finally has a list of the missing, there is no official number of unidentified bodies, according to the Attorney General's Office.

The Attorney General's Office won't release results of the team's work so far. But a Human Rights Watch statement earlier this month gave a scathing evaluation of the government's handling of the missing, saying the team has reviewed only

450 cases and located 86 people, of which 57 were alive and 29 dead.

The rights group also criticized the federal government for cutting its proposed 2015 allocation to the unit by more than 60 percent.

"What I always say is that nothing we could do is enough," said the federal assistant prosecutor for human rights, Eliana Garcia, adding that she expects the missing database to be accessible nationwide by 2016. "They're right to be angry; they're right to be frustrated. I'm frustrated."

Only six of 32 states so far have the International Red Cross software designed to match missing persons with unidentified bodies, a program that asks not only DNA and fingerprints but characteristic and habits of the person who disappeared.

In Mexico City, where there are more workers available to build a database, officials of the Institute for Forensic Science have 13,000 unidentified bodies going back to 1980, and it took a month to upload 20 of them into the database.

The institute only started collecting DNA samples on all unidentified corpses this year. The data searches are still done by hand.

"We get a thousand requests a year from all over the country asking us to look in our archives," said Maria Antonieta Castillo, head of identification services. "We've only given about three positive identifications."

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam announced the formation of his agency's identification unit three weeks after relatives of young people who had gone missing staged a hunger strike in May 2013.

Erika Montes de Oca, one of those protesters, said the case of her nephew was one of the first solved by the attorney general's team. Sergio Guillen Eduardo Montes de Oca, 27, disappeared from a bar where he worked in the center of Mexico City in November 2012.

"It says one thing: When you seek, you find. He had been in a mass grave for eight months," Montes de Oca said. Now she works for the team helping other families. "In one year, I've found two girls, one dead and one alive. For me that's success," she said. "We're trying."

But it doesn't seem so in Iguala, where Felix Pita's 17-year-old son, Lenin Vladimir, disappeared with Garcia more than four years ago, and where 43 more desperate families are now demanding to know what happened to their missing.

"We're going to keep protesting until there are positive results," said Pita.

"If we don't, they will disappear all of us."

Breastfeeding - A Gift and a Joy Lalthanzami, Assistant Professor, college of Nursing, christian Institute of Health Science and research (cIHSr)

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s our Hospital, CIHSR observed Breastfeeding week this year; 1st to 7th of August, it instilled in me a great interest to share my experiences and my concern regarding this precious and unique gift to all the mothers-BREASTFEEDING!! I do hope that these experiences will give some more perspective on all the young couples and those who support them.

My HUSBAND BREASTFED my daughter!

Right now, you might be thinking, “Wow! How can that be possible!?! Let me tell you, “That’s the truth.” I t was a long working day and I was literally flat that night.

In the middle of the night, I heard a voice, “Honey, Please, turn yourself to the left a bit, baby wants milk”.

I turned; my husband positioned my baby; fed her my breast milk and waited till she was done with it. But, thanks to my husband, my baby had her fill, even when I slept off peacefully and back to my dream land.

Dear husbands of the breastfeeding mothers, please, don’t leave breastfeeding to your wives alone. Your support means a lot to them. It is simple! Take turn to get up at night, BURPING the baby after every feeding, cooking and feeding extra food for the woman you love! Yes, COW MILK for your loving wives; it works great!

A second HOME for my BABY in my WORKPLACE Last year, I met one lady, a teacher, who stopped breastfeeding her baby at three months because she had to go for work. When I think of this, I realise how fortunate I am to be working in this hospital. To ensure that I exclusively breastfeed my baby for the first six months, my colleagues adjusted their schedules to accommodate my convenience. That’s not all, the hospital provided a crèche, which is a place where little babies can stay and wait for their mothers to feed them.

This crèche makes it possible for me to feed my baby whenever she is hungry and at the same time allow me to work in peace. And I can proudly say that I am more productive in my work knowing that my baby is just nearby and safe.

Here the learning point is; “What if, all the offices; schools and places where women are employed, provide this kind of crèche!?” Our babies will be healthier and the women will be more productive!

My kitchen was full I was surprised by the amount of support especially in the form of cooked and uncooked food from my friends, neighbours and my family. I hope this culture will continue to linger by in our state so that all the fudyed or embroidered. ture breastfeeding mothers will also enjoy the same atA man's under-kimono tention when they are breastfeeding. from the 1930s features cameras and train tickets, ADVICES “Eat this, don’t eat that; do this and don’t do that.” and is displayed alongside During my breastfeeding period, I got many advices; a woman's kimonos decorated with images of piano especially when it comes to food. Some of these were keys and libretti from two excellent; some confusing because two advices are of songs. One kimono even contradicting directions. So, here is my little concern.

Let’s not give advices unless we got a proof. You features Mickey Mouse. might be thinking that you are doing well to the mothInexpensive, ready-towear kimonos woven from er and the baby, but, in fact, you might even harm pre-dyed yarn were so them. Don’t just follow any advice blindly; try to reaeasily mass-produced that son out before you do. Remember what works well on customers began to expect your friend, might not work well on you. My experinew designs every year. At ences reminded me of the Breastfeeding support cirthe same time, improved cle posted by Middlesex-London Health Unit on Sepdyeing techniques meant tember 30, 2013. more sharply delineated Workplaces

Kimono's evolution reflects changing Japan Katherine Roth

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role as samurai, farmer, craftsman or merchant. In addition to the grand textiles embroidered in gold that one might expect, there are thick, quilted firefighters' robes decorated with bright designs depicting heroes and mythical beasts. Farmers' robes, meanwhile, were mostly of recycled fabric scraps woven together, or patchwork jackets.

At this time, the kimono was an everyday garment. But its design and function were to change.

In the Meiji period

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t's difficult to imagine a more eloquent symbol of Japan than the deceptively simple, T-shaped kimono. Traditional yet ever changing, the kimono ("thing to wear," in Japanese) has evolved dramatically over the past 150 years.

Its story encompasses the evolution of weaving, dyeing and embroidery techniques, as well as Japan's aesthetic, social and even political history.

"Kimono: A Modern History," on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Jan. 19, 2015, is a tour de force in textiles.

As you enter the galleries, you see an elegant red kimono that a wealthy woman donated to a temple, where it was recycled and patched together to make a kimono for an aging priest.

"There's a wonderful paradox there, and it's a sort of introduction to the story of the kimono," said John Carpenter, curator of Japanese art, who organized the exhibit with Monika Bincsik, also of the museum's Asian Art department.

Based on the book of the same name by Japanese textile expert Terry Satsuki Milhaupt, who died in 2012, the show is dedicated to Milhaupt's memory and coincides with the posthumous publication of her book (Reaktion Books) earlier this year.

The exhibit consists of over 50 kimonos, half on loan and half from the museum's own collection, as well as almost 200 fabric

mono decorated with a pattern of wisteria flowers and trellises was acquired

by Wright on a visit to Japan in around 1905. Its modernity is striking, and it likely inspired some of the architect's subsequent works.

"It almost looks architectural, and you can see how it inspired him," Carpenter said.

To preserve traditional crafts in the face of such rapid modernization, the Japanese government began designating some experts as Imperial House-

A story that encompasses the evolution of embroidery techniques, as well as Japan's aesthetic, social and political history

This photo provided by courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows Over Robe (Uchikake) with Scenes from The Tales of Ise Japan, Meiji period, second half of the 19th century, made of silk plain-weave crepe (kabe chirimen), paste-resist dyed (yuzen), hand-painted with ink, embroidered with silk, and couched with gold-wrapped thread.

The kimono is included in the exhibition, "Kimono: A Modern History," on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through Jan. 19, 2015. (AP Photo)

samples, screens, scrolls, lacquer works, ceramics, illustrated books and other objects.

It includes glittering, gold-embroidered, 18th century Noh robes; cartoon-like, monster-faced, firefighter kimonos done with free-hand resist dyes in reds and yellows on indigo; political propaganda kimonos printed with startling symbols of war; children's kimonos — including one cherished

by Frank Lloyd Wright;

and, finally, contemporary pieces featuring the futuristic shibori pleats of Issey Miyaki, and the rips and angular shaping of Yohji Yamamoto. Highlights also include three breathtaking kimonos made by designers designated as National Living Treasures by the government of Japan.

The exhibit begins in the Edo period (1615 to 1868), when the design, material and style of garments reflected a person's

(1868 to 1912), when Japan looked to Western countries in a quest for rapid modernization, the textile industry — and the kimono — were transformed. Japanese began using Western woolen and velvet materials, while Japanese silks became popular in the West. Japanese also began using Western chemical dyes and new weaving technologies, combining them with traditional stencil-dyeing techniques to create katayuzen, a sophisticated, stencil paste-resist dyeing technique.

As Western design concepts increasingly influenced Japanese kimonos, they became bolder and brighter, while Japanese design began inspiring 19th century Western artists and designers.

A young girl's silk ki-

hold Artists and, later, Living National Treasures.

Featured in the exhibit are works by stencil-dyer Keisuke Serizawa, yuzendyer Kako Moriguchi and his son, Kunihiko Moriguchi. These were precious kimonos to be hung as art and not worn.

In the Taisho period (1912 to 1926), kimonos became brighter and bolder still as department stores promoted new looks to appeal to the masses. Traditional Japanese motifs were combined with new Western design concepts to make some dazzling kimonos, many inspired by the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements.

Designs became more graphic in following decades, especially in unlined summer kimonos, which were often resist-

designs and color gradations.

During World War II, the kimono's symbolism as a national costume made it a perfect vehicle for war propaganda, particularly for boys' kimonos and mens' under-kimonos. Battleships and bomber planes took hold as motifs.

Although kimonos are now worn mainly only for formal occasions, the show ends with works by leading fashion designers, and make the case that designers, both Japanese and Western, continue to create clothing inspired by kimonos, pushing the art form further still. The kimono seems not so much a disappearing traditional garment but an evolving form that adapts to changing lifestyles and textile techniques.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

25 OCtOber, 2014

Morung Youth Express

Interview with Vice Chancellor, NU S

tudents of St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama interviewed Prof. BK Konwar, Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University during the Annual National Seminar on Biodiversity Conservation held in the college from October 3-4, 2014.

What would you comment on the promotion of conservation of diversity in Nagaland, especially in consideration of the State Government?

The State Government is giving its best efforts and I know it as a fact.

An example being, one of our College Professors working with the Department of Forestry and Environment for a project covering all the districts of Nagaland and coming up with a very strong and handy book which will certainly give the message to each and every one the importance given by the State Government on the force they’re making at this moment.

This means they are doing their best with whatever possible and are also coming up with a document for it. This is something that I appreciate and is something that I like to tell people. It means they are trying their best with the resources available at hand, for the best of the State.

In consideration to the fact that this year’s National Seminar at St. Joseph’s College is being held by the Science Department, what are your views on the growth of Science and Technology in the State?

Yes, that is a nice question. As I had said (during my keynote address), out of sixty-four affiliated colleges in Nagaland, we only have seven colleges for Science. And one of the best things about your (St. Joseph’s) College is that since 2011 onwards it has started its Science Stream.

I see there is a gradual change.

Even the Government of Nagaland is putting a lot of effort to being in Science Education more, but that there is a shortage of teachers of Science. So, to cover that up, Nagaland University is starting its Science Department now for the Master Degree. Now, we have the departments for Botany, Zoology and in addition, we are now bringing in Physics and Mathematics. This year, the admissions are almost as good for both the new departments in comparison to last year. In addition to this, we are also having Anthropology, which is also a Science. So there are attendance and admission, both very good.

Also, we are starting this year, and continuing most probably to next year are well because we already got all the permissions, a Forest Science Department as well as an Environmental Studies Department. These two are in addition to Chemistry, Botany, Zoology which are already in existence.

So we think Nagaland will be in a better position in the next few years, most probably in the coming five years. And also, the number of colleges are more because the Government is so keenly trying to create the

facility. So we’re also looking at and trying through UGC and other assistance for more funding. So these are some of the good developments but it will take a little bit of time and we have to put more effort, and we must join together to create these facilities.

Suppose in the colleges now with B.A., B.Sc, B.Com. One scheme UGC has taken up is the Undergraduate Students’ Fellowship (USF). They’ll be giving for Commerce, Arts and Humanities a sum of Rs.3,500 per month, which is almost finalized.

Then this, all the professional subjects will get Rs. 5,000, those who have the income of less than Rs.6 lakhs per year. And these schemes are for those attending Arts, Commerce, and also suppose MBBS, Science and Veterinary will also be getting funding. Of course, the funding for professional subjects will be more. So what we are really trying to do now is that Humanity in comparison to Science, Science needs more funding. So we are now trying to give a little more funding to them.

Suppose Arts subjects and humanities receive Rs.3,000, can Science get Rs.4,500 so that we can encourage more students to take up Science?

This is also coming up as we have taken it up with UGC and it is being accepted. This objectivity helped a lot. Hopefully in one or two years, this will be implemented in the entire North-East. Ten thousand fellowships for all eight North-Eastern States of India and coming down to one hundred units and this is something very good and is happening.

What are the greatest accomplishments or improvements that Nagaland University has come under in your tenure?

I don’t know that, but lots of research projects that are coming up.

Our Faculty Members are doing a lot of very good work and I see the NU Kohima Campus coming up very strongly. Like recently in Kohima, Science College, Jotsoma became autonomous and I want this type of colleges to come up. Even your (St. Joseph’s) College should become autonomous so that they can have more facilities. So these are some of the good things happening.

During my tenure, don’t say my tenure. People are doing good things and that is why things are happening. This means basically the Faculty Members, students, Ph.D scholars and all the staff and officers. They all have faith and are trying to do things by themselves. This unifying concept is coming up and it has nothing to do with my tenure or somebody’s tenure. This is happening because of their best knowledge and hard knowledge. I have nothing in that.

Do you have any aspirations for the near future?

I have only one year and ten months to go (for my tenure) and I’d like to see all the four (NU) Campuses and also all the colleges to develop equally without having a feeling of partition. We are all together and as a whole ‘Naga’, and Nagaland

University is for all Nagas. By law, the Nagaland University as a central university, is responsible to the entire Nagaland. We must work for our people; every individual and every piece of land belong to the Nagas. So we should not have a feeling that a campus is only for that specific locality. All campuses are entirely open for every Naga, so that, I think in about ten years, I see the possibility of great positive changes to happen in Nagaland – lot of good equipment, good resources lot of good teachings, etc.

Would you say that the progress of the NU Kohima Campus is going smoothly?

Yes, very smoothly because whatever facility is possible to attain within the dynamics and framework of funds, as everything depends on funds nowadays. Whatever is available, we are trying to utilize and hopefully we can have more facilities in the next step. Whatever money is available is certainly justified with, and lots of facilities are changing.

What I see is that previously, people said that Nagaland was a state they were not interested to visit. Now, that belief has changes.

There is also something we see of a change that is happening. It is because of all the people and all the positive works that is causing this to happen. So I give credit to each and everyone who are all joining hands.

And I think, in the next ten years, there will be a sea of change. This is my expectation and hope. And also, I have faith and confidence that it will happen, and also you-all the youngsters who will be contributing to this. Tomorrow, you all will be the faculty members at the University.

So you can do a lot of things. I have a lot of faith in you.

With so much importance given to the Look-East Policy now, what would be some courses of study which would prove vital for students?

One thing we have done recently, we have proposed for a centerpost house for Asian Studies. We approached the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who have given the permission. Then now, in the Twelfth Plan we got a center for that. One office has given us the permission and we have the center now. That center will be establishes immediately to have a sort of Look-East Policy effectively, looking at the South-East Asia and entire dimension.

But what is really important for us is not simply looking North-East but the facilities of trade and commerce and industry in the NorthEast India, to produce products in the North-Eastern States. We cannot bring products from other states, like say, Maharashtra and Kolkata who produce and sell here. No, this will not help us. WE must produce products here itself. We must have industrial houses here-store houses, produce products, store and then sell. Then, lots of job inputs can come up for students and for the people. Then, lots of funds can come

out from there. That should happen in the Look-East Policy. Just merely ‘Look-East Policy’ will not help the North-East unless the industry, the production houses, the stores and, market centers come to the NorthEast nothing will happen. So this is my hope and faith also that visually, these things will happen because not all the state governments are trying to do this. And if all the facilities are coming in their way, everything will benefit.

How would you suggest us, students to orient ourselves towards its coming?

Our students should be going into various dimensions like engineering technology and also the agricultural sector, development of farming, last is Pascal Farming, commercial enterprises, etc. We need lots of experts to produce inhouse infrastructure here, and then work for our people. So that is why I say I have faith in your generation. All of you must harbor in those new ventures, develop the expertise and then serve. Then you can create opportunities here (in the state).

Also, see the marketing, suppose you want to produce something, to sell them, there are lots of interventions that can help in that exercise.

There will be lots of job opportunities there. So, marketing expertise is a must, and thus have to be developed. So, I think in the near future, I see these interventions are being exercised in the country-level such as marketing interventions.

Students are not being trained because there are other complexes such as bank financing. Deliberation in the North-East is one of the lowest in the country. Until and unless the banking sector helps our industries, our farming sector here, to bring more loans and other facilities, it will be difficult to work. But gradually, we also have to try to do that. If the banking facilities and its ration become more in our case, then our farming industry will automatically come up; finished products will come up; industries will come up.

So these are some of the areas that should be looked into. And also, I think the entire country with the government should some into asking the banking sector to help out.

What are your comments on the existence of such seminars, such as this, on the overall effect?

This type of seminars give us, a sort of ‘look-back’ and also too look at the future. We are accessing ourselves into whatever we have done in the last so many years. Is it right?

If it is not right, then something is wrong. What can we do in the future? That is why this type of seminars are very essential for all of us, to see into the future and garner help and support for the future. Basically, the future depends on this type of seminars. WE can plan them.

The interview was conducted

by Arenpongla Jamir, Dzüvinguno Dorothy Chasie, and Vikithe Chophi

In India, call centre work is breeding a new colonialism Mehdi Boussebaa |

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The Conversation

he outsourcing of call-centre work to developing countries

by Western companies has become a huge business.

For many, it represents a positive force of globalisation, bringing not only cost benefits to the West but also employment and career opportunities to the developing world.

There is, however, a darker side to this. Call-centre work is generally exploitative and puts employees through long and unsocial hours under constant surveillance, not to mention the abuse and racism that employees often experience on the phone.

Employees also suffer from losing – at last in part – their identity in an attempt to pass for Westerners.

The study that colleagues and I recently carried out revealed an ever darker side to offshore call centres. We conducted research in two such organisations in Noida, where we investigated how employees were affected by their work environments and, in particular, the English speaking expected of them. Published in the Journal of International Business Studies, our study found

that call-centre work creates quasi-colonial relations between the West and the rest.

The English language plays a key role in this because it helps to turn a segment of the local workforce into “comprador” supervisors, like the compradors of old who acted as intermediaries between the colonisers and the colonised. And this creates the kind of language-based hierarchies of power and privilege that existed in colonial times.

Comprador managers The ways in which employees are trained in English and then evaluated, rewarded and promoted based on their language performance helps to produce a new class of indigenous corporate supervisors who very much resemble those they serve – in their language, attitudes and practises. The sad irony is that these local managers maintain the exploitative, oppressive and talent-wasting conditions of call centres without direct input from Western clients.

In this sense, they resemble the local administrative elites who climbed up the ranks in colonial times by working for the colonists. In other words, they have become compradors, acting as local middlemen between

Western clients and a cheap Generating resistance But this kind of domiworkforce in the developing nation also generates some world. resistance. While clients ask Hierarchy of power and for “pure” English they put in very little effort to make privilege Along with the impor- this actually happen. In the tance of learning “pure” end, their need for cheap English comes a subtle hier- labour is much higher than archy of power and privilege the luxury of being served in similar to that which existed “pure” English.

In turn, call-centre workin colonial times. AngloAmerican clients reside at ers also resist the client dethe top – they basically dic- mand for “pure” English. Altate the terms of engage- though they see English as a ment and impose “pure” ticket to a more comfortable life, they also feel oppressed English as the norm.

Below them are the com- by it. Speaking English ofpradors who earn their place ten feels unnatural and confirst by going through Eng- straining to them – a bit like a lish-medium schools and straitjacket. In fact, as a way of then by meeting the expec- resistance, they often switch tations of their clients. As to Hindi or a hybrid form of dictated by their superiors, English whenever possible. they maintain cheap labour The fact that their Engconditions inside the call lish remains “tainted” centres and arduously work by mother tongue influto deliver the “pure” English ences sends an important experience. and strong signal that they At the bottom of the hier- won’t be fully dominated, archy are those whose English that they will always deviremains “tainted” by mother- ate from the norm of “pure” tongue influences. They end English no matter how up doing the donkey work much time and effort is put under conditions of extreme into it. Western companies surveillance and with little (and their customers) can hope for career advancement. complain to the compraThus, as in colonial times, dors and bark at the callthe English language helps centre workers as much as to separate the West from the they like, but pure English rest and to subordinate the will remain an ideal, not a reality, because it is ullatter to the former.

timately not a native language.

Unequal relations And, ultimately, this system serves to maintain unequal relations between the West and the rest, to recreate a relationship that has a lot in common with colonial relations between European empires and their colonies in the past. In the short-term, the least that could be done is to scrap the idea of “pure” English and the related notion of “tainted” English. If English is to be the globallingua franca, then, it’s time to accept the fact that it comes in many varieties and sounds.

So there is more to offshore call centres than simply economic growth or exploitation, nasty working conditions and the demise of local culture. These businesses and their clients are playing a role in dividing the West from the rest – through the subtle dictation of “pure” English, all the while shooting themselves in the foot.

And, with the rise of emerging economies including India, as well as China, it will be interesting to see if this remains the case in the future. Could the resurgence of India even turn the tables on the West, making “tainted” English the superior form?

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ChakshangSiro: Very sad there's not a single Naga footballer in the Indian Super League even as a substitute.

Seems like we are good only in babbling accusation against one another. Such nonsense tribalistic chauvinism and scepticism should be disregarded by one and all.

I feel like we are lazy and emotion-over-reason. We are famous in owning "Lets kill them,lets serve quit notice, lets rock the concert, don't make friendship with this tribe and so on.."

We are fighting here among ourselves while the neighboring tribes have started achieving far beyond us in every field.

Its high time to work harder !

AlangSakangWanghim There are many good Naga players but non to sponsore, I wsxpctingKmaKomets but Its Sad. Even our Sports or Youth resource ministers never encourage us. The Big question is Why are the Cabinet on their Chair ??? Do they have any Work ??

Akum Jamir I do genuinely belive that we nagas do not lack the talent but we lack descipline to make us professional! Why do we win at juniors n subjuniors level but never gratuate to the seniors level ?Thats a question to ponder upon!its not only about lack of infracture but also lack of discipline on the players part! Jeetelemotukabo and haarele be motukabolaka attitude will not take us far.

Richard Belho: At the rate Elections are fought in Nagaland, The Common public will never deserve any Candidate who has a vision but no money. Regardless of the capacity of the Candidate, We the common public shamelessly loot the Candidates during election and expect the elected members to work for the welfare of the society.

I think from next election, we should only auction constituency seat to the candidate who will offer maximum money and set up a body who will utilise that money for development of the Constituency and stop bothering the candidates for developmental work.

Think about it.

Tonnito Suu: Can't say to be honest..Election comes only once in 5 years. During next 5years, thousands of Student/Women/Church,etc...

Bodies/Hohos/Orgs/Societies/Charities will invite a Minister as Guest of Honour for some function for which they expect a minimum few lakhs of Rupees as Gift or Donation. None of these Groups are ever involved in Infrastructure Building. In FIVE years that will amount to an astounding sum. Church Building projects are a different ballgame altogether. We the public including the Churches are forcing Ministers to steal in order to enable them to donate huge sums of money.

H AkatoSema: There won't be election without crores of money poured out in Nagaland because Nagas are addicted to easy money but not the common welfare development.!!!

Renchamo P Kikon: With all the constraints of vehicular traffic enforcement and regulations, the unplanned infrastructural developments, poor road conditions, the ever increasing numbers of vehicles on the over congested narrow roads especially in Kohima and Dimapur, lack of parking space, lack or absence of traffic sense amongst vehicle users ....can we come up with practical suggestions and solutions to ease the nightmarish traffic congestion that each one of us experience day in and day out? With the festive seasons round the corner, we can only expect the frustrating traffic snarls to increase! How can we go about reducing the amount of time we spend on traffic jams? Kindly share logical and meaningful traffic related suggestions, both immediate and long term, and please refrain from hurling accusations on who should be doing what and how they are not doing what they should be doing!

YanpvuoYanfoKikon: Sir, it is an honour to have you in the blog. Even I strongly believe that if the citizens come up with IDEAS and SOLUTIONS, we can collectively solve our problems.

1. Alternative means of Transport - Cycling. TRIED AND TESTED!! On a good day, if I cycle to office from Officers Hill to New Secretariat, it takes me hardly 30 mins. Plus it is damn good for the mental and physical health, and also for the environment! Whereas by car with all the traffic jams it even takes me one and half hours to reach office!!! Traffic or Govt can even START PAYING INCENTIVES TO THOSE WHO GO TO OFFICE BY CYCLE!!!! Even Rs.1000/month extra salary to those people will be a good start...And this will never be a waste of money!!!! A project can be drafted to national or even international funding agencies to support this subsidized transport charges Green Initiative.

2. Identify Bottle Necks and improving flow a. One Bottle neck is the TCP gate(Near Ser's Bazaar). If you observe the traffic just from that section to MLA hostel point, cars are moving at their own leisure time.... If this section can be cleared at a faster pace then this can improve the flow to an extend. b. 2nd Bottle neck is the BOC junction(Market above the pond) - If you notice, majority of the jams are caused due to disorganized buses and taxis, thereby causing majority of the jam.

3. PARKING IN NARROW ROADS - If designated NO PARKING slots can be identified in these SPOTS which cause TRAFFIC JAMS and start imposing FINES, this will hinder these khushikhushi style people from causing so much havoc to the entire town.

MhonlumoKikon I have no Civil Engineering knowledge, however I think the only way to solve the Traffic problem in Kohima is to construct Flyovers on top of the existing roads to bypass the Bottle Neck Points. Unlike the usual " T " type support structures, simple supported beam construction may be adopted, where the support columns can be erected on both sides of the road. For example, Flyovers can be Constructed with: 1. A takeoff near Classic Island (where the Road is wider to construct such takeoff) up to P.R.Hill Police point and from there the flyover may be bifurcated into two - one leading towards Jail Colony landing near District Library Office or Ferra Hotel and another leading along NH - 29 landing near South Point Market.

2. A takeoff point just after the Box cutting Road (before War Cemetery), again the road is much wider at this point for takeoff, and running on top of the main road up to Old Tata Parking (Below North PS) with a Branch Landing towards Dimapur at TCP gate and another branch landing at the Minibus Stop, below Old MLA Hostel Gate. This will bypass three traffic points - TCP Gate, Old MLA Hostel and Razhu Points.

This thought has been shared during casual talks to a few Civil Engineer Friends, but they say that in Kohima the Land / Soil is not Stable enough for Heavy Structures like Flyovers. I would still argue (without any knowledge in structural engineering) that comparatively Lighter Single Lane Flyovers can be constructed Only for Light Vehicles to ease the ever increasing Traffic Jam. After all, if other people in the Middle East can regain the sea by constructing artificial islands such as the Palm island in Dubai, UAE; it may not be impossible to construct something on solid ground with proper design to overcome the soil stability problem

(The Naga Blog was created in 2008 by Yanpvuo Kikon. This column in The Morung Express will be a weekly feature every Saturday) Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Naga Blog!

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NATIONAL

Saturday 25 October 2014

We want peace with China, but not at cost of honour, India says nahi ho sakti (We want peace with honour. Peace cannot come at the cost of honour,” hesaid,referringtotherecent border row with China.

“Pride is the ultimate accomplishment of a human being, of mine and yours,” he said, addressing the 53rd raising day function of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) here, which guards the China-Indian border.

Singh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it clear that New Delhi wants to maintain peaceful relations with all its neighbouring countries and wanted to resolve border issues peacefully. “ O u r Prime Minister has told the Chinese president and requested him that if there is a dispute we should talk,” he said.

The home minister said China often raises question over the border and even had raised objections when India wanted to improve border infrastruc-

Rajnath Singh GREATER NOIDA, OcTObER 24 (PTI): Home minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said that India wants peace with China, but that cannot come at the cost of honour. “Humlog shanti chahte hai samman ki saath.

Asamman ke saath shanti

ture within its own territory. Referring to Pakistan, the home minister said the neighbouring country should stop firing on border posts and civilian areas.

He said Pakistan had

Deepawali festival and they did not even spare our festival. Pakistan should be wary of this. I want to tell Pakistan to stop this continuous violation of ceasefire,” he said.

body’s intervention, saying all issues can be resolved through bilateral talks.

He said the government will ensure India’s territorial integrity and will not compromise with the country’s

tion of ceasefire and it always believes in peace. “Firing has happened (along the Pakistan border) in the last two days as well and ceasefire violation is always from their (Pakistan) side,” he said.

India never violates ceasefire, says Rajnath GREATER NOIDA, OcTObER 24 (IANS): India has never violated the 2003 ceasefire with Pakistan on the Jammu and Kashmir border, Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Friday.

“India never violates the ceasefire. It is a country which believes in peace,” the minister said in response to Pakistani allegations. “In the last two days, it is Pakistan which has violated the ceasefire. They did not even spare a day like Diwali,” he added.

The latest ceasefire violation by Pakistani forces occurred Thursday, the day of Diwali, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi

was visiting Kashmir. Rajnath Singh was speaking at an event to mark the 53rd Raising Day of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) at Soorajpur here.

The home minister also warned Pakistan and said “India is capable of issuing befitting replies”. He said: “I want to tell Pakistan to stop this continuous violation of ceasefire.”

Referring to the recent border row with China, he said: “We should resolve the border disputes with China through talks. We also want peace but with respect. Peace cannot come at the cost of honour.”

He said: “When we get

to know about ceasefire violations done by Pakistan or there is some dispute in the context of India-China border, we feel hurt and we feel angered.”

Rajnath Singh said Modi has made it clear that New Delhi wants to maintain peaceful relations with all its neighbouring countries and resolve border issues peacefully.

He said: “Our prime minister has told the Chinese president and requested him that if there is a dispute, we should talk.”

The home minister said China often raises question over the border and even raised objec-

tions when India wanted to improve border infrastructure within its own territory.

China objected to India building a road along the border and said Oct 15 that India should not take any action that may complicate the situation in disputed border areas.

The remarks came after comments by Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju Oct 14 that India is planning a 2,000-kmlong road along the international border between Mago-Thingbu in Tawang district and Vijaynagar in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

fired upon the civilian areas along the border in Jammu & Kashmir just a day before Deepawali. “When we get to know about ceasefire violations done by Pakistan or there is some dispute in the context of India-China border, we feel hurt and we feel angered.

“Pakistan fired on civilians even on the eve of

The home minister said Pakistan should know that Indian border guarding and armed forces possess the “capability to give a befitting reply” during any misadventure.

Singh disapproved of Pakistan’s recent move of approaching the UN to internationalize the Kashmir issue and seeking the world

pride. “India wants to keep friendly relations with our neighbours whether it is China or Pakistan. We believe in the philosophy of ‘vasudaiva kutumbakam’ which means the world is one family and India has told the world about it,” he said.

Later talking to reporters, the home minister said India never indulges in the viola-

Singh said if people of the country march together beyond the barriers of caste, religion and sect, no one can dare to look towards it. Lauding the role of ITBP in guarding the country’s border in high altitude areas, Singh said the government will provide all help for the welfare of the force and its personnel.

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French filmmakers make secret documentary on Andaman’s Jarawa tribe, FIR filed PORT bLAIR, OcTObER 24 (PTI): Two French filmmakers have been booked on the charge of trespassing into the protected Jarawa tribal reserve in the Andaman islands and filming a documentary on the threatened aboriginal tribe. “We have filed an FIR against French director Alexandre Dereims and producer Claire Beilvert for violating the law of the land. Entering the Jarawa area is banned and so are making any contact with them or shooting any photo or video,” the Union territory’s tribal welfare secretary Theva Neethi Dhas told PTI on Friday.

“The police are investigating the matter and gathering evidences against them. If the charges are proved, it could lead to three years of imprisonment, besides a fine,” the secretary said. He said two local inhabitants have been arrested for allegedly helping the filmmakers to enter the Jarawa area. The case was registered on October 19 while the incident is said to have happened during March-April.

The matter came to light only when the Andaman Adim Janjati Vikas Samiti (AAJVS) reported the matter to the administration. Dhas said they had already sent notices to the filmmakers, who have returned to their homeland, asking them to restrain from releasing any visual related to the Jarawas. The administration will also ask the ministry of external affairs to take up the matter with the French government, he said.

Charges against the two French filmakers include violation of Protection of the Aboriginal Tribes (Amendment) Act 2012, Foreigners Amendment Act 2004, and Information Technology Act. Under post-production stage now, the film “Organic Jarawa” is about Utchu, a two-year-old Jarawa boy, his family and friends.

In a Facebook post, the filmmakers defended their action, saying they took the permission of the Jarawa tribe and will show people their reality, beauty, smartness, kindness, happiness to be free and happy in spite of poachers, despite of police and tourists.

“We did not meet the Jarawas to take some pictures on the fly, we made a documentary where the Jarawa speak for the first time,” they wrote. Declining in number, the 400-strong Jarawa tribe is extremely vulnerable to diseases. Till 1998, the nomadic hunter-gatherers had hardly any contact with the outside world.

Dhas said the filmmakers gave the tribals rice, cooking oil and biscuits to make them cooperate during the shooting. “We have spoken with the Jarawas who have confirmed all this. They are very vulnerable to infections from the outside world and this can be dangerous for their health,” he said. Jarawas, among the four major tribes including Great Andamanese, Onge and Sentinelese, are believed to have lived in their Indian Ocean home for up to 55,000 years.

Three Union ministers’ assets increase in five months

NEW DELhI, OcTObER 24 (IANS): The assets of at least three union ministers have increased by more than Rs.1 crore since assuming office, the National Election Watch and Association of Democratic Reforms said in a joint statement Friday.

“Among the ministers who contested the 2014 Lok Sabha election, the highest increase in assets in five months has been shown

by Minister of Railways D.V. Sadananda Gowda. His assets have shown an increase of Rs.10.46 crore (from Rs. 9.88 crore as declared in Lok Sabha 2014 election to Rs.20.35 crore in the 2014 declarations of the Union Council of Ministers to the

PMO),” the statement said.

It further said that Gowda is followed by Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises Radhakrishnan P who has shown an increase of Rs.2.98 crore and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley who showed an increase of Rs.1.01 crore. Further, 41 ministers or 91 percent of the council of ministers, are crorepatis based on their declarations to the Prime Minister’s Office.

The highest assets have been declared by Jaitley at Rs. 114.03 crore, followed

by Harsimrat Kaur Badal (Rs.108.31 crore) and Piyush Goyal (Rs. 94.66 crore).

The average assets of ministers according to their

declarations on the PMO website is Rs.14.32 crore.

ADR and NEW had in their analysis considered the election affidavits of union ministers for the 2014 Lok Sabha election and compared it with their asset declarations on the PMO’s website Oct 10, for the comparison in terms of increase or decrease in wealth. The statement said that 16 ministers have shown a decrease in assets.

“The highest decrease has been shown by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who showed a decrease of Rs.3.89 crore (from Rs.17.55 crore declared in the 2014 Lok Sabha election). She is followed by Minister of State

for Development of North Eastern Region V.K. Singh who declared a decrease of Rs.3.13 crore (from 4.11 crore declared in the 2014 Lok Sabha election). He is followed by Health Minister Harsh Vardhan who declared a decrease of Rs.1.28 crore,” the statement said.

The statement added that upon analysis it was found that the cause of changes in assets for many ministers is largely due to the lack of any standardised format for ministers’ asset declarations.

“Many ministers have not given the value for many assets declared. Not declaring the value of assets in the ministers’ declaration is akin to not making a

disclosure at all,” the statement said.

It recommended that asset declarations should be made in a standard format, preferably in the format of the election affidavit. It further observed that even though the election code of conduct stated clearly that the asset disclosures should also be accompanied by the business interests, none of the ministers have declared any financial/pecuniary interest in their declarations.

“The format for declarations should make it mandatory for the ministers to also disclose their business interests along with the asset details,” ADR and NEW said.

India asks UNSC to enforce resolutions on countering terrorism UNITED NATIONS, OcTObER 24 (IANS): India’s UN Ambassador Asoke Kumar Mukerji has asked the UN Security Council (UNSC) to enforce without exception its resolutions on countering terrorism in order to stave off “an ever-widening spiral of violence and destruction”.

“The Council must seriously and transparently take measures available to it under the Charter to require member states of implement its resolutions on countering terrorism without exception,” he said Thursday. Therefore, the UNSC should incorporate a “mandatory time-bound reporting” to the wider UN membership of how the anti-terrorism resolutions are implemented.

Mukerji suggested that

for a start, UNSC give its assessment of implementation of the provisions for international cooperation in the resolution on countering terrorism it passed last month. One of these provisions called on member states to assist in criminal investigations or proceedings relating to the financing or support of terrorist acts and foreign fighters.

Others were on improving cooperation among nations to take steps to stop the travel of foreign terrorists and to share information to identify them, and on acting on preventing terrorists from using technology to incite support for terrorism. Mukerji warned that “to condone the use of terrorism on account of perceived political purposes is counterproductive,

Haryana paanwala gets Rs.132 crore power bill chANDIGARh, OcTObER 24 (IANS): A paan or betel-leaf seller in Haryana has got a shocker of an electricity bill this Diwali. His bill is a whopping over Rs.132 crore. Rajesh, who runs a shop in Gohana town in Sonipat district, has got the electricity bill of Rs 132.29 crore for the month of October. “I was shocked to read the amount. It is not that the amount was printed wrongly only in numerals. The full amount was written in words too,” Rajesh said.

“I am a simple man with a small shop on rent. I use only a light bulb and a fan. My electricity bill is generally less than Rs.1,000. This bill is an absolute shocker,” he said. He said he will be visiting the electricity department office Friday to get the bill rectified. The bill was issued by the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN).

In the past also, the power department in Haryana has done such goof-ups. A consumer in Haryana’s Narnaul town got another shocker of an electricity bill in April 2007. Murari Lal was slapped with a bill of Rs.234 crore for the electricity used in his two-bedroom house.

and will engulf more and more member states in an ever-widening spiral of violence and destruction”.

Turning to UN peacekeeping operations, he crticised the UNSC saying it was “enforcing the will of a small privileged minority within the Council to look at peacekeepers as instruments to wage war”.

He cited the UNSC’s disregard of the UN Charter requirement for nations contributing troops “to participate in the decisions” of the UNSC on their

deployment.

“India, for example, has not been so consulted,” he said. “This despite the fact that India is the single largest contributor of troops to UN peacekeeping operations, having contributed more than 170,000 troops in 43 of the 69 peacekeeping operations mandated so far by the Council.” Currently, India has 8,108 personnel under the UN’s blue flag, 7,053 of them troops and 999 police.

A consequence of not involving nations contrib-

uting troops in the decision-making process “is an increasing demand for more and more resources, military and financial, and experiments with new technology,” he said.

This has been “at the expense of a politically brokered peaceful settlement of disputes”.

Pakistan’s Ambassador Masood Khan also called for closer consultation by the UNSC with countries contributing troops so that mandates were adapted to actual situations.

An Indian girl rests as others try to salvage their belongings from the debris of shanties destroyed in a fire at a slum in New Delhi, India on October 24. The cause of the fire is unknown. No casualties have been reported so far. (AP Photo)

Sonia, Rahul should ‘speak more’: Chidambaram

NEW DELhI, OcTObER 24 (PTI): Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said that Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi should “speak more” and put in action a timetable that would enable the party to play the role of “true opposition” at a time when the morale of party cadres is “pretty low”.

He also said that the reorganization of the party was due for the larger task of being an “efffective, strong and robust opposition” to the government. Chidambaram said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi was “numero uno” in the organization and that the decision in Jaipur in January 2013 to make Rahul Gandhi vice-president was “perhaps the correct decision”.

Steering clear of questions about clamour with-

in a section of the party for Priyanka Gandhi, he urged the Congress president and the vice-president “to speak more”. “I would urge them to address more rallies, urge them to meet the media ...,” he said “I agree that Congress (cadres’) morale is pretty low. But I don’t agree that the morale cannot be lifted. Direction cannot be given ... I am sure the Congress leadership has a timetable.

“I would urge again that timetable be shortened and we get on with the job of a reorganizing the party and getting on with the job of being true opposition,” he told NDTV, replying to a question about doubts being expressed about Rahul Gandhi’s leadership.

Asked can a non-Gandhi become the Congress president, he said, “I think

so. Someday yes”, but was quick to add, “I do not know” when asked about the timeline for such an eventuality. “I am too old to aspire for anything now,” he, at the same time, said.

His remarks have come at a time when the process of organizational elections has been set in motion, which will culminate into the election of the new party chief by July end next year. Sonia Gandhi is the longest serving party chief being at the helm since March 1998.

To a question as to why the party was over-dependent on one family to lead it, he said, “It so happens that he (Rahul Gandhi) belongs to that family but that does not mean other younger leaders cannot emerge. After all Sachin Pilot has emerged.”

24% of global missed TB cases in India: WHO

LONDON, OcTObER 24 (TNN): One in every four missed cases of tuberculosis (TB) globally is in India.The World Health Organisation has found that India tops the list of the world’s missed TB cases.

Almost 24% of the world’s missed TB cases are from India, according to the Global TB Report 2014 released on Thursday.

Ten countries accounted for 74% (2.4 million) of the estimated “missed” cases globally in 2013.

The number of missed cases is defined as the difference between the estimated number of incident cases and notified (new and relapse) cases in 2013.

Of the nine million incident cases of TB estimated to have occurred in 2013, only 5.7 million were both detected and notified to national TB programmes

(NTPs) or national surveillance systems giving a case detection rate of 64%.

WHO says that this leaves a gap of approximately 3.3 million people with TB who were “missed”, either because they were not diagnosed or because they were diagnosed but not reported. WHO said “Improvements in case detection in India would have a global impact, given the size of the TB burden in the countries and the sizeable gap between notified cases and estimated incidence.

A recent study in India suggests that about 50% of detected cases are not reported to the NTP, a finding confirmed in a recent prevalence survey in Gujarat (unpublished data)”.

Meanwhile, WHO revised its estimate of how many people have TB by almost 5,00,000. In 2013, some

9 million people had developed TB around the world, up from 8.6 million in 2012.

About 1.5 million people had died in 2013 from TB, including 3,60,000 people who had been HIV positive, the WHO said in its global report. In 2012, there had been 1.3 million tuberculosis deaths.

The WHO said its report underlined that a “staggering number of lives are being lost to a curable disease and confirms that TB is the second biggest killer disease from a single infectious agent”.

“One of the biggest issues facing organizations tackling the disease was the number of undiagnosed cases. The fact that three million people are missing out on treatment every year explains why there are still so many avoidable deaths from tuberculosis,” said TB

Alert chief executive Mike Mandelbaum.

Most people who developed TB in 2013 were in South East Asia and the Western Pacific. India accounted for 24% of cases alone while China saw 11% of total cases. An estimated 37 million lives have been saved through effective diagnosis and treatment of TB since 2000.

Dr Mario Raviglione, director of the Global TB Programme, WHO said: “Insufficient funding is hampering efforts to combat the global epidemic.

An estimated $8 billion is needed each year for a full response, but there is currently an annual shortfall of $2 billion, which must be addressed. The multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) crisis continues, with an estimated 4,80,000 new cases in 2013. Worldwide, about

3.5% of all people who developed TB in 2013 had this form of the disease, which is much harder to treat and has significantly poorer cure rates”.

Since 2009, with more laboratories rolling out rapid tests, there has been a tripling of MDR-TB cases being diagnosed.

In 2013, 1,36,000 MDRTB cases were detected and 97,000 people started treatment. Although the number of patients treated has increased three-fold since 2009, at least 39,000 patients, diagnosed with this form of TB, were not being treated last year and globally only 48% of patients were cured.

Another key challenge identified by WHO is the coepidemic of TB and HIV. An estimated 1.1 million (13%) of the 9 million people who developed TB in 2013 were

HIV-positive, with 4 out of 5 cases and deaths occurring in the African Region. While the number of TB deaths among HIV-positive people has been falling for almost a decade, from 5,40,000 in 2004 to 3,60,000 in 2013, antiretroviral treatment, preventive therapy and other key interventions still need to be further scaled-up.

Of the estimated 9 million people who developed TB in 2013, more than half (56%) were in the SouthEast Asia.

About 60% of TB cases and deaths occur among men, but the burden of disease among women is also high. In 2013, an estimated 5,10,000 women died as a result of TB, more than one third of whom were HIVpositive. There were 80,000 deaths from TB among HIV-negative children in the same year.

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‘US must apologize to free detainees’ PYONGYANG, OCtOber 24 (AP): After an American was released from North Korean custody, the attention has now focused on two other U.S. citizens still in its jails, and at least one North Korean legal expert has some unusual advice to offer: let Washington formally apologize to Pyongyang, and the country’s leader will consider pardoning them.

The suggestion on Thursday by Sok Chol Won, a professor of international law, offers a look at North Korean thinking — academics, government officials and ordinary people alike. While the idea of an apology may appear ludicrous to outsiders in democracies, autocratic North Korea assumes that a government is responsible for its citizens’ actions. “In order to return the prisoners to their country, the United States must make an official apology and request their release,” said Sok, who teaches at Pyongyang’s Academy of Social Sciences, in comments to The Associated Press.

There are other examples of North Korea expecting foreign governments to control their society. Earlier this year, it threatened retaliation if Washington didn’t ban an upcoming Hollywood movie featuring Seth Rogen that portrays Kim Jong Un as the villain. It also regularly insists that Seoul keep its media from reporting negatively about the North Korean leadership and block activists from floating anti-North Korea propaganda in balloons across the border.

North Korea closely regulates its academics, media and intellectuals, so Sok’s comments can also be seen as a reflection of how the leadership wants to resolve the cases of Matthew Miller, who is serving a six-year jail term on charges of espionage, and Kenneth Bae, a Korean-American missionary who was sentenced to 15 years in jail for alleged anti-government activities. Sok’s advice also fits into North Korea’s version of international diplomacy and propaganda that aims to get a big power like the United States — seen as an imperialist bully — to bow to a proud nation and say sorry for its perceived faults.

“It’s not a matter of individuals. It’s between countries,” said Ri Kyong Chol, another law professor at the academy. “Between the U.S. and our country there is no political channel ... If there were diplomatic relations between our two countries this kind of problem wouldn’t happen.” At a time when it faces growing outside criticism over its alleged human rights abuses, North Korea would see a U.S. apology as showing the outside world that it was justified in arresting the Americans, said Chang Yong Seok, a senior researcher at Seoul National University’s Institute for Peace and Unification Studies.

Chang said North Korea would also use the apology to bolster what it says is its struggle against U.S. hostility. As expected, the United States pooh-poohed the idea of an apology. “I can assure anyone that I don’t believe there’s an apology forthcoming,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Thursday. “So I don’t think anyone needs to wait on that.” The issue came into prominence after North Korea on Tuesday released Jeffrey Fowle, who unlike Miller and Bae had not yet been tried in court but had been kept in detention for six months.

Fowle was arrested for leaving a Bible in a nightclub in the city of Chongjin, where he was visiting with a foreign tour group. North Korean state media said he was released after Kim granted him a special pardon following “repeated requests” from President Barack Obama.

Psaki declined to comment on whether Obama had personally asked Fowle’s release, either directly or through his appointed diplomats. Miller, who entered the country on April 10 on a tourist visa, allegedly ripped up the document at Pyongyang’s airport and demanded asylum. North Korean authorities say he intended to conduct espionage while in the country.

During his brief trial six weeks ago, North Korean prosecutors said he admitted having the “wild ambition” of experiencing prison life so that he could secretly investigate North Korea’s human rights situation. He is now digging in fields at a labor camp eight hours a day and being kept in isolation. Both Miller and Bae have told the AP they believe their only chance of release is the intervention of a high-ranking government official or a senior U.S. statesman.

HK students seek referendum to decide future of protests HONG KONG, OCtOber 24 (IANS/eFe): Pro-democracy leaders have convened a consultation among protesters to decide if they should accept the government’s proposals to move forward with negotiations on possible electoral reforms in Hong Kong. Alex Chow, secretary of the Hong Kong Federation of Students, and Benny Tai, one of the founders of the Occupy Central protest movement, suggested the consultation late Thursday to a crowd gathered outside the Hong Kong government headquarters.

The decision was made after unsuccessful talks between the students and the administration this week, and protesters continued their almost one-month occupation of city streets. The protest organisers said they would ask the demonstrators to vote on which way to go with the negotiations Sunday. However, the occupation of areas in the city would continue, Chow and Tai said. The protesters argued that it was the government’s duty to offer a solution to the situation, and again demanded fully democratic elections in 2017 for senior municipal posts.

During the first talks between the students and the government Tuesday, Hong Kong Chief Secretary Carrie Lam offered the possibility of sending a report to the central Chinese government reflecting the opinion of the citizens on electoral reforms made by the Popular National Assembly (PNA) for Hong Kong which is restricting the free election of candidates for the 2017 elections.

Lam also considered creating a platform where all citizens could participate in the development of possible long-term constitutional reforms for Hong Kong.

The Hong Kong Federation of Students rejected the government offers in the first instance on grounds that they did not have the binding power to reverse PNA’s decision last August and it also considered that the proposals should address the electoral situation in 2017.

The talks took place three weeks after the start of the largest civil disobedience campaign in favour of greater democratic freedoms in Hong Kong. In Mong Kok district, one of the three occupied districts, groups of protesters spent part Thursday night reinforcing barricades that had been removed by opponents of the movement during clashes that occurred between the parties throughout the day.

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Russia: Navalny vows to fight Putin In this July 20 photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, addresses supporters and journalists after arriving from Kirov at a railway station in Moscow, Russia. Following violent street protests in neighboring Ukraine, Putin launched a fierce attack against the Russian opposition this year, barring key opponents from running in local elections and putting Navalny and several of his allies under investigation or driving them into exile. (AP File Photo)

MOSCOW, OCtOber 24 (AP): Russia’s most prominent opposition leader is in bare feet, dressed in blue jeans and a checkered shirt, as he opens the door to his apartment in a drab Soviet-era block.

Two years ago, Alexei Navalny was the charismatic driving force behind giant anti-government protests in Moscow. Now he wears a monitoring bracelet on his ankle and is not allowed to step over the threshold of his own home — under house arrest in the small apartment he shares with his wife and two children.

Navalny claimed in an interview with The Associated Press that house arrest is a clever Kremlin tactic that keeps him out of public

view — while also preventing him from becoming a political martyr in a harsh Russian prison. “This is a way to derail my activities,” he said, “and it’s unlikely that they want another political prisoner at this stage.”

But Navalny said the tactic will fail, vowing to continue his fight against President Vladimir Putin’s regime. “The opposition has to be a moral one,” Navalny said, “calling the bad things bad.” Following violent street protests in neighboring Ukraine, Putin launched a fierce attack against the Russian opposition this year, barring key opponents from running in local elections and putting Navalny and several of his allies under investigation or driving

them into exile. With Putin’s approval rating at an alltime high, the very survival of the protest movement is at stake. But Navalny views this crackdown as a mere setback in his campaign to advance democracy and the rule of law in Russia.

Still the firebrand orator with magnetic blue eyes has found himself muzzled.

He was forbidden from speaking to the news media when confined to his home in February, a ban that was only lifted in August. And the 38-year-old corporate lawyer is still not allowed to use the telephone or go online. His wife, Yulia, acts as his personal secretary, corresponding on his behalf and briefing him on what is published on the Internet.

Navalny, along with his brother Oleg, is on trial for allegedly defrauding a French cosmetics company in a criminal case in which no injured party has stepped forward. The opposition alleges that the Kremlin has cooked up a slew of dubious cases against Navalny allies: One was charged with stealing a painting even though the painter said it was never stolen; another was charged with defrauding Navalny of campaign funds despite the lack of anybody to complain of such theft.

The opposition leader rose to prominence in 2010 with his investigations of corruption at Russia’s top state-owned companies.

He came in second in Mos-

cow’s mayoral election in September 2013, nearly clinching a runoff with a Kremlin heavyweight. Early this year, Navalny and his allies were busy preparing for Moscow City Council elections, when the Ukraine protests that ousted the president caused Russia to crack down on its own opposition.

Sitting in his small kitchen with a cup of tea on a recent afternoon, Navalny said it’s understandable that the 2011-12 protests in Russia fizzled out after repression was unleashed not only against leaders but also grass-roots activists. He sees little chance that the Kremlin will allow a peaceful handover of power.

“The regime in Russia will not change as a result of an election,” he said. “In a situation where we are barred even from running, I don’t see how it can.” Putin’s popularity soared after Crimea land grab, which was seen by many in Russia as a restoration of historical justice. But Navalny charged that Putin’s muchquoted approval rating of 84 percent is a fiction.

“Eighty-four percent means nothing in an authoritarian state,” he said. If Putin is so confident about the number, he said, “why can’t they allow us to run?”

Navalny said the main obstacle to political change in Russia is neither Putin nor persecution of his opponents but rather a lack of confidence among ordinary Russians. “Many people in Russia simply don’t believe that Russia has a future,” Navalny said.

The opposition leader said that Putin’s intervention in Ukraine is not about restoring the Russian empire. In-

stead, he believes, Putin and his entourage are driven by a more pragmatic motive: staying in power. “The success of Ukraine is death to them,” Navalny said. “It’s critically important for them that Ukraine become a failed state.”

Navalny’s right-hand man, Vladimir Ashurkov, said the opposition leader’s resolve has not been broken despite being cut off from the world for eight months.

“Alexei is rock solid,” Ashurkov, who has asked for political asylum in Britain, said by the telephone from London. “These things don’t affect him.”

Navalny, a relentless campaigner, conceded he does find it tough sit around at home all day. But having done a couple of stints in jail, he is not complaining — and he’s able to joke about his life under house arrest. He said his children are “probably annoyed” with him by now because he’s always at home: “It looks as if I’m monitoring them all the time.”

Navalny spent part of the interview standing — a sign of just how tired he is of sitting — and he credited a treadmill in the living room for keeping him fit. “I would have weighed 130 kilos (286 pounds) by now,” Navalny said, motioning toward the exercise machine. “We bought it immediately after I was put under house arrest. It was clear that this was going to last for quite a while.”

On the bright side, Navalny said he finally found the time to read books and watch movies he had been meaning to get to for years. “When would I have found the time to watch ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly?’” he said. “Never.

Now I have.”

Guantanamo prisoners in protest over women guards Pope wants death, life MIAMI, OCtOber 24 Khalid Sheikh Moham- require an escort. The U.S. Capt. Thomas Gresback, (AP): Some prisoners in med, said his client refused holds a total of 149 prison- wouldn’t discuss the ob- terms to be abolished

the highest-security unit of the Guantanamo Bay detention center have launched a protest against what they consider the religiously offensive use of female guards to move them around the U.S. base in Cuba, lawyers for the men say.

Prisoners designated by the government as “highvalue detainees” because of their allegedly significant involvement in terrorism recently began refusing to meet with defense lawyers appointed by the Pentagon to defend them against war crimes charges unless the military agrees to use only men to escort them to meetings, according to several lawyers involved.

The men are devout Muslims and their religious beliefs include a prohibition against physical contact with women who aren’t related to them.

Marine Corps Maj. Derek Poteet, who represents accused terrorist mastermind

a meeting Thursday because of the use of female guards for escort duty, a practice that was halted in 2007 but recently resumed.

Lawyers for Mohammed, who is charged with orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack and other prisoners have asked the military to agree to use only men for the duty but so far not gotten a response.

“We are not asking for anything new,” he said.

“We are asking to go back to where it was, when they respected and accommodated their religious objection to being touched against their will by a member of the opposite sex.”

The protest is confined to Camp 7, a section of Guantanamo thought to hold about 15 of the socalled high value detainees. It is not publicly known how many are involved or how often they have refused to leave their cells for legal, medical or other appointments that would

ers, a majority of whom live in a communal setting that requires little to no physical contact with troops.

Lawyers for high-value prisoners have been reluctant to speak in detail about the protest, in part because they realize their clients are unlikely to engender much public sympathy. But they also say it’s a serious issue for the detainees.

“It is a religious sensitivity that is well-grounded in religious belief and no detaining power can abuse that,” said Walter Ruiz, who represents Mustafa al-Hawsawi, another of the defendants in the Sept. 11 case.

U.S. officials have long touted the military’s respect for religious belief at Guantanamo, where each cell is adorned with an arrow pointing in the direction of Mecca for daily prayers and special meals are served during the holy period of Ramadan.

A base spokesman, Navy

jection to female escorts in any detail, declining even to confirm whether there has been a protest but said there are no changes planned.

“We have no intentions of changing the assignments of the members of the ... guard force based on gender,” Gresback said.

The legal team that represents another Sept. 11 defendant, Walid bin Attash, has filed a legal challenge to the female escorts, arguing that it violates his constitutionally protected religious freedom. Prosecutors have not responded and no hearing has been scheduled on the issue.

Lawyers say the dispute is likely to add further delay to proceedings that have been stalled repeatedly since the arraignment in May 2012 if they can’t meet with their clients to discuss defense efforts. “I will be down there next week and I hope it’s not a wasted trip,” Poteet said.

VAtICAN CItY, OCtOber 24 (IANS/eFe): Pope Francis issued a call for all the countries to abolish capital punishment and also eliminate sentences for life imprisonment because “a lifetime in prison is a hidden death sentence”. At a Vatican meeting Thursday with representatives from International Association of Criminal Law, the Pope said that he finds it hard to believe that countries should not have any measures other than capital punishment to defend their people.

“All Christians and people of goodwill are called to fight for the abolition of death penalty, be it legal or illegal,” the pontiff said. He mentioned the need to “improve prison conditions with respect to the human dignity of those who have been deprived of freedom. I link this to the death sentence. In the Penal Code of the Vatican, the sanction of a life sentence is no more. A lifetime in prison is a hidden death sentence”.

Pope Francis added that cases where a person is given the death penalty might be subject to judicial error, and could be used by totalitarian and dictatorial regimes against opponents and minorities. “The deplorable conditions of detention in different parts of the world are authentically inhuman and degrading, often caused by deficiencies of the criminal law, or by a lack of infrastructures and good planning.” “In many cases,” he said, “they are the result of an arbitrary and merciless exercise of power over persons deprived of freedom.”

The Pope cited studies by organisations defending human rights which said that the absence of motive, lack of communications and not seeing other people causes mental and physical problems. Minors and the elderly should not serve prison sentences, he added. Pope Francis also brought up the subject of human trafficking.

Islamic State earning $1Million per day in black market oil sales

WASHINGtON, OCtOber 24 (AP): Islamic State militants are amassing wealth at an unprecedented pace, earning about $1 million a day from black market oil sales alone, a U.S. Treasury Department official said.

David Cohen, who leads the department’s effort to undermine the Islamic State’s finances, said the extremists also get several million dollars a month from wealthy donors, extortion rackets and other criminal activities, such as robbing banks. In addition, he said the group has taken in at least $20 million in ransom payments this year from kidnappings.

“With the important exception of some statesponsored terrorist organizations, IS is probably the best-funded terrorist organization we have confronted,” Cohen, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said in a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington. “It

has amassed wealth at an unprecedented pace.”

The group, which extracts oil from territory it has captured across Syria and Iraq, wants to create a caliphate, or Islamic empire, in the Middle East. Led

by Iraqi militant Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State initially tried to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, but other groups, including al-Qaida central command, turned against IS because of its brutality.

Unlike the core al-Qaida terrorist network, IS gets only a small share of funding from deep-pocket donors and therefore does not depend primarily on moving money across international borders. Instead, the Islamic State group obtains the vast majority of its revenues through local criminal and terrorist activities, Cohen said, acknowledging that Treasury’s tool are not particularly well-suited to combating extortion and local crime.

“They rob banks. They lay waste to thousands of

years of civilization in Iraq and Syria by looting and selling antiquities,” he said.

“They steal livestock and crops from farmers. And despicably, they sell abducted girls and women as sex slaves.”

In the Iraqi city of Mosul, Islamic State terrorists are reportedly going doorto-door, business-to-business, demanding cash at gunpoint, he said.

“A grocery store owner who refused to pay was warned with a bomb outside his shop. Others, who have not paid, have seen their relatives kidnapped. ... We’ve also seen reports that when customers make cash withdrawals from local banks where ISIL operates, ISIL has demanded as much as 10 percent of the value.” Cohen said, using an acronym for the group.

Most of the group’s money, however, comes from extracting oil and selling it to smugglers, who, in turn, transport the oil outside territory under Islamic State control.

“It is difficult to get precise revenue estimates ... but we estimate that beginning in mid-June, ISIL has earned approximately $1 million a day from oil sales,” Cohen said. Other estimates have ranged as high as $3 million a day.

Treasury said IS is selling oil at substantially discounted prices to a variety of middlemen, including some from Turkey, who then transport the oil to be resold. “It also appears that some of the oil emanating from territory where ISIL operates has been sold to Kurds in Iraq, and then resold into Turkey,” he said.

Cohen said the Syrian government also has allegedly arranged to buy oil from IS. He noted that U.S-led airstrikes on the group’s oil refineries are threatening the militants’ supply networks and that Turkey and the Kurdistan Regional Government — the official ruling body of the predominantly Kurdish region of northern Iraq —are work-

Captured oil field near Baghdad: ISIS is extracting oil from territory captured across Syria and Iraq, and then selling it to smugglers.

ing to prevent IS oil from crossing their borders.

Cohen acknowledged, however, that IS moves oil in illicit networks outside the formal economy, making it harder to track.

“But at some point, that oil is acquired by someone who operates in the legitimate economy and who makes use of the financial system. He has a bank account. His business may be financed, his trucks may be insured, his facilities may be licensed,” he said.

“We not only can cut

them off from the U.S. financial system and freeze their assets, but we can also make it very difficult for them to find a bank anywhere that will touch their money or process their transactions.”

Treasury also is going after individuals who donate money to IS and is urging officials in Qatar and Kuwait to do more to target terror financiers in their countries. A key, he said, is to restrict the militant group’s access to the international financial system.

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SAfrica continue winning streak against Kiwis

MOUNT MAUNGANUI, OcTOber 24 (AP): Hashim Amla smashed his fourth one-day century of the year as South Africa put its World Cup credentials on display Friday, beating New Zealand by 72 runs in the second one-day cricket international to take a winning 2-0 lead in the threematch series.

Amla scored 119 — his 16th one-day international century — to lead South Africa to 282-9 after losing the toss. South Africa's potent pace attack then wrecked New Zealand's top order, leaving the hosts reeling on 5-69 by the 20th over before eventually bowling the side for 210 in 46.3 overs.

Captain A.B. de Villiers estimated the Proteas played at 65 percent of their potential in winning the first match Tuesday by six wickets and demanded improvement. His batsmen and bowlers delivered it Friday. "Again the batting let us down," McCullum said. "I thought the bowling was OK. "We did OK to restrict them to 280 when they were looking at somewhere around 310 or 320. It was a pretty good effort with the ball but, again, too many soft dismissals and a lack of real craft with the bat."

New Zealand wicketkeeper Luke Ronchi scored 79 and added 76 for the final wicket with Mitchell McClenaghan (34 not South African bowler Imran Tahir celebrates taking the wicket of Blackcaps' Tim Southee during out). New Zealand's ninth their ODI cricket match at Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui, New Zealand on October 24. (AP Photo) wicket fell at 134 in the 33rd

over but Ronchi's defiance forced South Africa to toil a further 13 overs for the win.

"It's difficult in these kinds of conditions," de Villiers said. "The wind was howling out there and I think the boys stiffened up nicely toward the end.

Luckily we had the victory in the bag by then."

Amla faced 135 balls and hit 15 boundaries, linking the South African innings in partnerships of 56 for the first wicket with Quintin de Kock (26), 113 for the second with Faf du Plessis (67) and 66 for the third with de Villiers (37).

Du Plessis came to the crease at 56-1 and shared a partnership with Amla which spanned 21 overs and guaranteed South Africa a formidable score.

De Villiers then dashed 37 from 25 balls with five fours and a six to boost South Africa's scoring rate and further increase its dominance of a New Zealand attack which used seven bowlers.

"When Hashim bats like that it sets up the whole lineup to be aggressive and that's exactly what we did around him," de Villiers said. "He paced his innings amazingly well."

The match produced its only downside for the Proteas when they lost eight wickets for 49 runs in the last eight overs, including four wickets within nine balls at the death. Poised to reach 300, they briefly lost their way and let New Zea-

land back into the match.

Trent Boult and Corey Anderson both claimed wickets with consecutive balls — Anderson in a double-wicket maiden to end the innings — as New Zealand mounted a small fight back. Mitchell McClenaghan also took two wickets to reach 50 wickets in one-day internationals in his 23rd match — the third-fastest to that milestone after Ajantha Mendis and Ajit Agarkar.

New Zealand opener Martin Guptill played out 11 dot balls before driving a half volley from Vernon Philander to Rilee Rossouw at cover. James Neesham proved the failure of the experiment of playing as opener when he was bowled by Morne Morkel for 10 after making 16 in the opening match.

Dean Brownlie was bowled by a straight delivery from Dale Steyn for 20 and Tom Latham gave de Villiers his maiden oneday wicket when he pulled a long hop directly to Amla at short fine leg. Corey Anderson made a golden duck in the opening match and only 1 on Friday before being caught by David Miller off Steyn. Brendon McCullum used the Decision Review System to overturn one lbw decision but failed at his second attempt and was trapped in front by Imran Tahir for 12. Tahir's wrong-un also accounted for Tim Southee who was bowled for 6.

Brazil players told not Never wanted to abandon to wear hats, earrings India tour: Marlon Samuels

SAO PAULO, OcTOber 24 (AP): Brazil players are being told not to wear hats, earrings or flip-flops while serving the national football team under the command of coach Dunga. They also can't use mobile phones or tablets at certain times, and are discouraged from engaging in religious or political discussions.

The internal code of conduct was published Thursday by the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Brazil's largest daily.

The Brazilian football confederation confirmed its existence during a news conference in which Dunga announced the squad for friendlies against Turkey and Austria in November.

"There are rules in any company, and even in our family there are conducts that are needed to maintain good harmony," Dunga said. "We are not prohibiting anything, there were rules already, we are suggesting some things we thought were important. The players are responsible for their own acts and depending on what happens we will decide how we respond." The 16-topic guide published by Folha said players may be punished if they don't follow the guidelines. They could receive a warning, a fine or be release from the squad, according to the daily.

A former defensive midfielder in his second stint in charge of the national

team, Dunga was known for his toughness as a player and continued to cultivate the image of a disciplinarian after becoming a coach following the 2006 World Cup. Last month, veteran right back Maicon was dropped from friendlies in the United States for failing to report to the team's hotel by the time established by coach Dunga and the Brazilian confederation. "I think fans demanded more organization in the national team," he said. "From what we've seen so far, the players liked what was presented to them, now they know what the limits are."

There were no formal restrictions under coach Luiz Felipe Scolari at the World Cup, when the hosts were eliminated with a 7-1 loss to Germany in the semifinals.

Players were regularly seen wearing hats, flip-flops and using mobile phones at the team's training camp. The new guide says players should not use or wear the prohibited items during gatherings such as lunch and dinner, or in changings rooms and team meetings. They are being told to wear socks and tennis shoes. It also says that nobody should leave the table before everyone is finished during meals, and that the captain should be the first one to leave. It notes that players should always report to the national team wearing social attire.

KINGSTON, OcTOber 24 (IANS): West Indies stroke-maker Marlon Samuels said he never wanted to be part of the one-day team’s plan to abandon the tour of India, and revealed he stayed away from most of the players’ meetings during the troubled tour.

Samuels is the first player to speak out about the controversial decision taken by the players. The Jamaican said he was focussed all along on completing the tour and dealing with the contracts and pay issues afterwards, reports CMC. The West Indies players abandoned the tour following a bitter wrangle with both the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the Wavell Hinds-led West Indies Players Association (WIPA) over the new terms of the recently negotiated Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Players were unhappy with the new contracts and have claimed they result in a drastic reduction in their

earnings. “Wavell Hinds cannot negotiate on behalf of me so I know that once I continued (to play) - I just needed to finish this tour and then I would have asked questions,” Samuels said in a radio interview on Power 104 FM. "The main thing first was West Indies cricket; that is why I remained focussed throughout everything.”

Samuels was the only bright spot on the tour, smashing two superb centuries to finish the series with 254 runs from three innings.

In the opening game in Kochi which came under threat of strike action from players, Samuels carved out a brilliant unbeaten 126 as the West Indies took a 1-0 lead in the series with a comprehensive 124-run victory. He returned in the fourth ODI in Dharamsala to hit 112 as the West Indies slipped to a 59-run loss.

Off the field, Samuels said he stayed away from most of the players' meetings. According to the 33-year-old, there were

about eight meetings but he attended only two at which chief selector Clive Lloyd was present. “For most of those meetings ([of the players), I was probably in my room ordering room service.

I don’t go to those meetings,” Samuels explained.

“A lot of meetings were kept but I have no time for those meetings. My focus was just on playing some cricket.” West Indies players walked out on the tour following the fourth ODI, with the scheduled fifth ODI in Kolkata, a Twenty20 in Cuttack and a three-Test series still to be played.

Samuels, who was selected for the tour of India after missing out on Bangladesh’s recent tour of the Caribbean, said he was prepared to play the remaining games. The West Indies Cricket Board is facing a major fall-out from the players’ decision, with the Indian cricket board (BCCI) planning a multi-million lawsuit over losses and also suspending future bilateral tours between the two countries.

ISL probes allegation of assault on Pires MUMbAI, OcTOber 24 (reUTerS): The Indian Super League (ISL) said on Friday it is looking into allegation that former France midfielder Robert Pires was punched in the face by an opposition coach during a halftime altercation in Thursday's match in Goa. Former Brazilian great Zico, the coach of FC Goa, said Pires told him about being hit by Atletico de Kolkata coach Antonio Lopez Habas in the tunnel when the teams left for the half-time break. "Both teams have written to the ISL and the incident has been referred to the regulatory commissioner," an ISL spokesperson told Reuters. Cavin Lobo's second-half brace took the Kolkata franchise, co-owned by La Liga champions Atletico Madrid, to a 2-1 win in the ill-tempered match, during which seven players were shown yellow cards, after Brazilian Andre Santos had given the hosts the lead in the first half.

"The other thing that happened which is more serious is that one of our players said that he was beaten by the coach of the other team," Zico told reporters after the match. "Pires said he was punched on the face by the Atletico coach and it is very shameful.

"I am telling you what my players told me and I didn't see that myself but I don't think that Pires will lie and say something that didn't happen." The Kolkata team lead the table with 10 points, having won three of their four matches in the eight-team competition.

"Look, none of us was present on the spot when the alleged incident took place," Kolkata team co-owner Utsav Parekh told the Telegraph newspaper.

"We are writing to the ISL about it and we expect them to investigate the matter and come out with the truth. "CCTV footage is available and so it will not be very difficult to establish the truth. Whatever the incident, one can find that out from the CCTV footage."

Serbia gets 3-0 win vs Albania but no points NYON, OcTOber 24 (AP): UEFA awarded Serbia a 3-0 win over Albania on Friday but deducted the three points following the violence that broke out during their European Championship qualifier in Belgrade last week. The game was abandoned before halftime after an Albanian nationalist banner was flown into the stadium by a drone, triggering fighting among players and fans. UEFA's disciplinary body ruled that the game be awarded to Serbia as a 3-0 forfeit but also deducted the three points gained by a win.

Serbia was also ordered to play its next two home matches in a closed stadium without fans. Serbia's next home qualifier is against Denmark on Nov. 14.

The Serbian and Albanian federations were each fined 100,000 Swiss Francs ($105,000).

Albanian officials criticized the verdict and said they would appeal. Albanian Football Federation President Armand Duka said they expected the game to be awarded to them as a victory. "I am disillusioned because we were claiming a legal verdict from UEFA," Duka told private TV station Ora-News. "I do not understand what precedent this may set when a squad physically beats the opposing players on the pitch. I do not know if there is a greater scandal than this."

Albania coach Giovanni de Biaisi also was disappointed. "They took away from us what we deserved on the pitch," he said. "What should happen now?" Albanian federation lawyer Artan Hajdari said he would appeal. The Serbian FA said it would meet in an emergency session later Friday. The Albanian anthem was loudly jeered by Serbian fans and derogatory chants were heard throughout. Serbian supporters also threw flares and other objects at Albanian players.

The drone carried a banner showing a so-called map of "greater Albania" including Greece, Macedonia and Serbia. A Serbian player pulled the banner down, while Albanian players tried to protect it. Fans hurled broken seats and other objects, and attacked Albanian players, who fled to the dressing room and refused to return. Serbia and Albania have been at odds for decades, mainly over Kosovo, a former ethnic Albanian-dominated Serbian province that declared independence in 2008. Serbia has never accepted Kosovo's independence.

Stellar Lamela in form as Tottenham hit five Saina, Kashyap in French Open quarters

LONDON, OcTOber 24 (reUTerS): Tottenham Hotspur's Erik Lamela scored a stunning 'rabona' goal to light up Thursday's Europa League ties, wrapping his left boot round the back of his right leg 20 metres out and blasting the ball into the top corner.

That goal, a second Lamela volley and a Harry Kane hat-trick helped secure a 5-1 victory over Greek side Asteras Tripolis but the result seemed almost insignificant in comparison to the sheer technical brilliance of the Argentine's moment of magic. Elsewhere, the goals were liberally spread among the games in Europe's second tier competition with Borussia Moenchengladbach hitting five while Besiktas, VfL Wolfsburg, Salzburg and Villarreal all netted four times.

Rijeka's Andrej Kramaric underlined his status as one of the hottest prospects in European soccer with a hat-trick while trouble flared in eastern Europe again and Napoli lost 2-0 to Young Boys.

Nothing, though, came close to matching Lamela's 30th-minute goal for wow factor, a rare glimpse of the talent that Tottenham fans had heard about but not

seen much of since his club record 30 million pounds ($48.09 million) move from AS Roma last year.

After Kane had given the hosts an early lead, the ball was rolled across the edge of the penalty area and Lamela strode purposefully towards it.

In a flash and almost imperceptible to the naked eye, he performed a gymnastic act of balance and flexibility to put one leg behind the other and arc his shot into the net, leaving the goalkeeper rooted to the spot and the crowd stunned. It was a suitable way to grace the 10th anniversary of the death of former manager Bill Nicholson who led Tottenham to the English league and FA Cup double in 1961. "I have seen Erik do that in training -- he has that in his locker," said Kane whose eventful evening culminated in him going in goal following a red card for Hugo Lloris late in the match and subsequently letting in a howler from a set piece.

"I quite fancied myself in goal but when I saw the free kick wobbling towards me I wasn't too happy," the striker told ITV Sport.

The result breathed life into Tottenham's Europa League campaign, giving them five points from three

games, level at the top of Group C with Besiktas who crushed Partizan Belgrade 4-0, their heaviest home defeat in European competition. Besiktas took an 18th-minute lead through midfielder Veli Kavlak who buried a swerving piledriver from 30 metres past goalkeeper Milan Lukac before Demba Ba doubled the advantage on the stroke of halftime.

Roared on by 1,000 raucous away fans, who lit several flares in the first half, Besiktas continued to dominate and Oguzhan Ozyakup made it 3-0 in the 52nd minute before winger Gokhan Tore scored the fourth two minutes later.

Apart from Tottenham, the only other team to hit five were Moenchengladbach who crushed Cypriot outfit Apollon Limassol 5-0 while Salzburg won 4-2 at home to Dinamo Zagreb and Villarreal beat Zurich 4-1.

Kramaric's three goals helped Croatian side Rijeka to a surprise 3-1 home victory over Feyenoord.

The 23-year-old, who has 20 goals in 14 domestic league, European and international appearances this season, single-handedly dismantled the former European champions with three second-half strikes

in 13 minutes, including a penalty, that moved them into contention in Group G. Rijeka are a point behind holders Sevilla who are top with five points after a 0-0 draw at Standard Liege. The spectre of crowd trouble reared its head again as Slovan Bratislava's home game with Sparta Prague in Group I was halted for several minutes in the first half before the game restarted and the visitors completed a comfortable 3-0 victory.

Fiorentina made it three wins from three games in Group K with a 1-0 triumph at PAOK Salonika but Serie A rivals Napoli fluffed an opportunity to maintain their 100 percent record in Group I after a 2-0 defeat at Swiss side Young Boys.

Everton are top of Group H despite winning only one of their three matches, a 0-0 draw in Lille leaving them unbeaten on five points.

They are a point clear of Wolfsburg who won 4-2 at FK Krasnodar with the Russian team's Andreas Granqvist scoring at both ends and Kevin de Bruyne netting twice for the Germans.

Former European champions Steaua Bucharest beat Portuguese outfit Rio Ave 2-1 in Group J with two goals from Raul Rusescu.

PArIS, OcTOber 24 (IANS): Indian shuttler Parupalli Kashyap continued his giant-killing spree, stunning World No.9 Tian Houwei 21-19, 21-18 in the pre-quarters of the French Open Super Series while Saina Nehwal also advanced to the quarterfinals at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin here.

Kashyap, Commonwealth Games champion, got off to a good start, taking a 5-1 lead before Houwei fought back to equalise at 7-7. However, Kashyap snatched three consecutive points to rattle the Chinese here Thursday night.

The World No.21 Indian continued the momentum to pile further pressure on Tian and surged to a 15-8. But Tian had his moment of brilliance to take four straight points and reduced the deficit at 17-14. He later managed to equalise at 19-19 before Kashyap stepped up to seal the first game 21-19.

In the second game, Kashayap didn't waste time to race to a 8-1 lead. With his regal cross-court smashes and sharp net-play, he handled the pressure exerted

by Tian to win the game 2118 to enter quarterfinals, where he will meet World No.7 Wang Zhenming Friday.

Kashyap defeated

World No.3 Jan O Jorgensen in the quarter-final of Denmark Open last week and also upset World No.4 Kenichi Tago 21-11, 21-18 in the first round here.

In other match, the World No.6 Saina was made to work hard for a 2119, 21-16 victory over Scotland's World No.21 Kirsty Gilmour. The Scottish girl matched the class and quality of the 2012 Olympic bronze medallist to take a 7-5 lead in the first game

before Saina, finalist here in 2012, remained strong to win the first game 21-19.

In the second game, the 24-year-old India played aggressively to win the game 21-16.

In the quarterfinals, Saina faces an uphill task of going past the Chinese World No.2 Shixian Wang.

However, it was curtains for the women's doubles pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponnappa, who was thrashed 6-21, 8-21 in

23 minutes by the Chinese pair of Wang Xiaoli and Yu Wang.

Also going out were men's doubles team of Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Akshay Dewalkar and men's singles shuttler Kidambi Srikanth.

While the Chopra-Dewalkar pairing lost 15-21, 21-19, 15-21 to the Chinese Taipei pair of Lee Mu Sheng and Tsai Hsin Chia, Srikanth lost 20-22, 14-21 to Hans-Kristian Vittinghus.

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He found fame as a Sixties teenybopper, in the Seventies with glam rock, and as a post-punk rocker in the Eighties — before launching a successful West End career. He was planning another musical renaissance right up to his death yesterday aged 72, from prostate cancer. His first studio album in 30 years, simply called Alvin, is due for release next week. He was still performing on stage last weekend, belting out his beloved Fifties rock standards, as well as his roster of Top Ten hits. But it is as a strutting, smouldering monster of glam rock — half-cowboy, half-vampire — that he will be best remembered. Hits like My Coo Ca Choo, Jealous Mind, Red Dress and You You You were radio favourites in the era of towering quiffs and platform soles . . . and Stardust perfected the look. What his fans never guessed was that his iconic, black leather style was born out of panic and sheer luck.

The singer, born Bernard Jewry in 1942, was a 31-yearold rock journeyman, playing in clubs for beer money, when he answered a newspaper ad placed by record com-

pany boss Michael Levy (later a close friend of Tony Blair and a Labour fundraiser, now Lord Levy). The record company had the rights to a catchy song with a driving boogie riff. Its lyrics were nonsense, just babytalk, but the producer was convinced My Coo Ca Choo could be a chart smash with the right solo artist. And that meant inventing a rock star. Levy wanted to call him Al Starr. His secretary suggested Alvin Stardust, and the newborn pop sensation was sent out to buy himself some

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from a ladies’ outfitters, and created the look that made him famous. But, as he posed on stage and glowered at the camera, it was more than just his facial hair that was fake. No one had guessed it wasn’t even Alvin singing on the actual record, but the songwriter, Peter Shelley — an oddball who went on to have a schmaltzy hit with Love Me, Love My Dog. Shelley had a deeper voice, and could deliver the Elvis-style rumble. Alvin was a much lighter tenor, more in the mould of his idol, Buddy Holly.

And none of the teenage audience in the Top Of The Pops crowd realised that Alvin had already enjoyed chart success more than a decade before, under a different name. As a young boy, his obsession with pop stardom began with a guitar given to him by his parents in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, when he was 12. He took it to a concert in nearby Doncaster where Buddy Holly and the Crickets were performing, hoping to look like a star himself — and his gambit succeeded when he was ushered backstage to meet the band. In the dressing-room, he duetted with Holly on Peggy Sue, before all the Crickets signed his guitar. That moment inspired him to become a singer — and it also put that two-bob plywood guitar on its own path to stardom. Later autographed by The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Chuck Berry and other stars, the instrument was recently valued at £1.25 million.

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My Coo Ca Choo sold so fast that, within days of its release, he was booked for Top Of The Pops. But on the evening before the recording, as he sat in his room at a Paddington bed-and- breakfast, Alvin suffered a crisis of confidence.

He was the man in black — but his hair was mousey brown. Rushing out to Woolworth’s he bought a bottle of dye and coloured his hair in the sink. The result was a disaster — with trickles of midnight blue running down both cheeks and staining his hands like ink. Rather than cancel, he bought a pair of fake sideburns the next morning from a wig-maker, and a pair of black leather gloves

ne is a father-of-four while the other is gearing up to become a father-of-two. Uniting to demonstrate the need to protect children from danger, UNICEF ambassadors David Beckham and Robbie Williams have joined forces for a new campaign. In a set of powerful images, the two fathers can be seen holding up their hand as they step in front of shadows of children who cannot fend for themselves. Speaking about the new campaign, Beckham, who is an Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, said: ‘If you saw a child in danger, any child you would instantly step up and protect that child from whatever threat they were facing.

He added: ‘Millions of children around the world are facing dangers every day - violence, disease and disasters. We need to grab this opportunity to step up and protect them now.’

In the stills, both David, 39, and Robbie, 40, wear dark denim tops as they rock similar hairstyles while maintaining straight faces. Also speaking out about the new initiative, Unicef UK Ambassador, Williams said: ‘I’ve met children around the world who are facing all kinds of dangers – kids in Haiti who lost everything in the earthquake and little children in Mexico at risk of violence and abuse.

Opening up on a personal level, he continued: ‘Since becoming a dad I realise more than ever how much these children need someone to protect them.’ To launch of the campaign, Unicef UK recently released a 90 second film that tells how children are facing an epidemic of violence, in which viewers are asked to imagine what it would be like if there were such thing as a ‘violence vaccine’.. One child dies every five minutes as a result of violence, and three quarters of the deaths happen in countries that are at peace, a UNICEF report has revealed. An estimated 345 children die violent deaths around the world every day, and 75 per cent - or 258 - of those incidents happened in countries that are not at war.

Children ‘experience extreme violence in everyday life, everywhere’, said Susan Bissell, global head of child protection for UNICEF. In some countries, deaths from violence are diminishing gains made in preventing childhood deaths from disease or hunger. Ms Bissell said: ‘What is shocking is that we have for two or three decades focused a lot, and importantly, on child mortality from preventable diseases, and what this report says is that we need to be thinking about child mortality from all causes. ‘And it’s shocking to imagine that we might not achieve our goals in terms of child survival if we don’t address the protection of children. These go hand in hand.’

UNICEF ambassadors David Beckham and Robbie Williams unite in new campaign to protect children from danger

King of the comebacks Alvin Stardust dies at 72 - on the brink of yet ANOTHER relaunch

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aylor Swift denied a request from her label bosses to put two country songs on her new album.

The singer admits she was so insistent on changing her genre from country to pop for the forthcoming record ‘1989’, that she had to go against the wishes of her label chief who’s now “happy as a clown” with the result. Speaking to The Sun she explained: “The decision came dire ctly from me. I had to plead my case with everyone and certain people at the record label. “I had to really campaign and get everyone on my side. “I showed them that I was doing this for all the right reasons and that this was the creative decision and artistically there was no other option than to boldly hone this album for what it is. “I had to convince my Nashville record label president it was right for me. I presented the album to him and he said, ‘It’s great, it’s the best thing you’ve ever done but can you put two country songs on it?’ “But I re-

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“He’s happy as a clown now as we then got our first Hot 100 No.1 with ‘Shake It Off’. “ She went on to say how some of her famous female friends such as Lorde and Hayley Williams helped influence her make the decision to switch things up. “I cut my hair, moved to New York and completely embraced being single. That was a new bold step forward for me. “Surrounding myself with strong and beautiful women in my girlfriends has made it a really good two years.

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Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson were awarded the prize ahead of the official ceremony taking

place in Glasgow, Scotland on November 9.

Other acts nominated who they beat out included Calvin Harris, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Cheryl Fernandez-Versini. Following the win, the group are now eligible to take home the coveted Worldwide Act award, where they’re

competing against 10 international acts. Voting for that category opens from 12pm CET today, and the final list of 10 Worldwide Act nominees is to be revealed next Thursday, October 30 via mtvema.com One Direction are also nominated for Best Pop, Best Live and Biggest Fans.

egastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has they seek is invisible, unknown and cerbeen given the tag of ‘Shahenshah’ of tainly unattainable ... this they must be givBollywood by his fans from across the en in somewhat large doses of capital globe, is humbled by the love and retabulation,” he wrote. spect he received, but says stars are “But the tragedy is that one rejust human, “not some divinity ... we fusal or acceptance gives rise to an seek humaneness”. The 72-year-old extent which is even greater than took to his blog srbachchan.tumblr. before. “Better to accept then that it com Friday to talk about ceis undeserving and not worthy of lebrity deification where any attention .. let them that he also ponders “why this do, figure its irrelevance does occur”. “The love reand misdeed ... I am but a spect and affection that tool that can be used and comes, comes without missed ... used would suit any incursion from othme fine, given my not so er quarters ... I am emattractive credentials barrassed and lulled ... missed because the into thought, why this smell of the fresh flowdoes occur ... and am ers can never be... “And needing to think that so we exist … and so we even if I desired an answer perish … much like most I would never get one ... others ... We are human, “Answer or no ... it is the not some divinity ... we seek deifying that is getting unhumaneness.” (Bollywood comfortable! The worth that Country Report)

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MUMbai, october 24 (agencieS): Goals from Mtonga and Felipe, stunned hosts Mumbai City FC, as the Ranbir Kapoor co-owned side succumbed to a 2-0 loss, its second defeat in three games. Mumbai City FC started with Subhash upfront, Andre Moritz was deployed as a creative midfielder, a position the Brazilian scored a hattrick from, while Cmvos and Friedrich made the defensive center back pairing.

Meanwhile, an underdog NorthEast United side, started in with a 4-2-3-1 formation. Crowd favorite Durga Boro, played upfront, while Issac Chansa and Mtonga, patrolled the Midfield region, sitting as the double pivot. Bboth the sides failed to create clear goal scoring opportunities, even though Mumbai City constantly marshaled the final third of NorthEast United. Complacent infront of Goal, A Mumbai side which thrashed FC Pune City 5-0, looked highly off-color, with ideas to create, constantly eluding the attacking trio of Mumbai.

Meanwhile, NorthEast United, solid and compact, were highly organised and did justice to Ricki Her-

North East United Players celebrate after scoring a goal at the ongoing Indian Super League on October 24.

bert’s comments in the post match press conference. However, the side constantly relied on counter attacks, and chances apart from a Castro curler which flew inches wide of the goal, were rare.

With Koke dropping deep into midfield and pulling strings, NorthEast United were rewarded for this tactical switch, as a beautiful Koke through ball, found Mtonga, who stabbed the ball home, beating Subrata Paul. With the goal, stunning the hosts, the visitors

dropped deep and invited pressure. NorthEast United committed men behind the ball, and were tough to break down, even though Mumbai City enjoyed larger parts of possession in NorthEast’s final third. Minutes later, Freddie Ljungberg’s romantic home debut was cut short, as a heavy tackle from the NorthEast Defense jolted and resurfaced Freddie’s hamstring injury back.

With Freddie off, Mumbai played with 10men, as all three substitutions were

already used, by the Peter Reid managed side. To add to their increasing tally of woes, Cmvos was sent off, after a thumping tackle on James Keene, which saw a second yellow, dropping the hosts to 9 men. With 9 men on the field, NorthEast comfortably enjoyed possession and safeguarded their points, rarely committing men forward. Climax, coming in the form of a Felipe de Castro finish, which cemented three points for the visitors, giving them an easy two goal lead.

15th NSF MMT grand finale today

Xavier Rutsa, president Kohima Press Club is being introduced to the players of night exhibition match led by Tongpang Ozukum, President NSF and Kezhazer Anagami, Convenor 15th NSF MM Trophy2014.

Our Correspondent Kohima | October 24

The grand finale of the 15th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy 2014 under the aegis of the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) will take place on October 25 at 1:30 PM at Kohima Local Ground.

Started on October 1, the 15th edition of the NSF Martyrs Memorial Trophy saw the participation of 61 teams from Nagaland, Manipur & Assam with 1098 players. Naga United Club will clash with Barak FC, Peren in finals at 1:30 PM. Minister for home Y Patton will grace the closing ceremony as the guest of honour.

The champion will walk away with a cash prize of Rs. Rs.1, 60, 0000 while runners-up will pocket Rs. Rs.1, 00000. The semi finalists will also receives Rs.20, 000 each, sponsored by M/S United Brother’s Distillers PVT, LTD and C Khalong, Director Higher Education. While quarter finalist gets Rs10, 000

each, sponsored by Inaka Assumi, Former NSF General Secretary and Tali Jamir, Executive Engineer, PWD, Mon. The sponsors for individual prizes includes- best defender & best midfieldersponsored by AV. Market, High school junction Kohima; Best Keeper- sponsored Anisa Ritse, Best strikersponsored by H Choro Mao, Highest scorer- sponsored

by Kelhou Suohu, Touch Enterprise and Player of the Tournament- sponsored by Roko Angami.

Meanwhile, for the first time in the soccer history of the state, an exhibition match was played at Kohima Local Ground under Neon lights as part of the ongoing 15th NSF Martyrs Memorial Trophy 2014 this evening. Hundreds turn up and witnessed the match.

The Power Department had fixed the halogen lights for the match. The Exhibition was played between the NSF Organizing Committee XI and the Management Committee XI

Highlights NAGA UNITED CLUB 1st Round- Defeated United P.K by 2-0 2nd Round- Defeated Headwinds FC by 8-0 Pre Quarter- Defeated Kicker’s FC by 3-0 Quarter final- Defeated HQ.IGAR (North) by 2-1 Semi final-Defeated Tangkhul Students’ Union by 1-0 Total goals scored- 16 Total goals conceded- 1

Christo Nagas Club Zhavame * Yhungshalo (9) of Rengma Students Union * Mhasil Thol (7) of Tiema-khe Kidima * Abel Sumi (14) of HQ IGAR (North) * Petevizo Kezie-o (17) of Meriema Village Students Union * Neiphrezolie Usou (7) of Meriema Village Students Union * Kezhavilie (6) of Jovial FC Kenuozou * Akavi Ayemi (10) of MT BARAK FC, PEREN Youth Club New Police 1st Round- Defeated Reserve Alianza FC, Kohima by 4-0 * T.Meren(7) of Kickers 2nd Round- Defeated FC Chumukedima Orion FC, Kohima by 2-0 * Vikuotuolie Pre Quarter- Defeated Chakruno(8) of Meriema Village Chedema VSU Students’ Union by 2-1 * Kekhrieletuo Tsira(7) of Quarter final- Defeated Chedema VSU Tiema-Khe, Kidima by 3-0 Semi final-Defeated MT * Demo (10) of HQ IGAR (North) Youth Club by 4-1 * Viho Kin (7) of St.Joseph Total goals scored- 15 College,Jakhama Total goals conceded- 2 Highest goal in a match –10 goals Records so far… *Meriema Village * 59 matches had being Students Union vs FC played in 19 days *Fastest goal was scored Lenlem,Dimapur 9-1 *Chedema Village

by Neiphrezolie Usou Students Union vs LN of Mereima VSU in 0.27 United FC Pughoboto 9-1 seconds * Total Goal scored – 230 Leading goal scorers: * Demo(10)- HQ @ 3.89 goals per match IGAR(N)- 10 goals * Yellow cards- 87 @ 1.47 * T.Meren(7)- Kickers FC , per match Chumukedima – 6 goals * Red Card- 6 Hat-trick- 14 from 13 * Yhungshalo (9) Rengma Students Union players – 6 goals * Salim Peter (10) of

MDFA TourNAMeNT 2014

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MoKoKcHUng, october 24 (Mexn): In yet another one-sided game at the ongoing MDFA tournament, former champions Fusion SC obliterated pre-tournament favorites Arkong SC six goals to nil in the first semi-final match played here today at Imkongmeren Sports Complex. Chuba Imchen (17) found the net three times while Awang (10) scored two goals for Fusion SC with Lanu (9) also joining the goal scoring spree with a goal. The second semi-final match will be played between Sports Society Soyim and Shitilong SA Saturday at 1:00 pm.

Ivanovic Wins, but Serena Williams Goes Through Singapore, october 24 (agencieS): Ana Ivanovic beat Simona Halep 7-6 3-6 6-3 at the WTA Finals on Friday but still bowed out as Serena Williams received a reprieve. Both players had comfortably beaten Eugenie Bouchard in Singapore, but Ivanovic previously lost 6-4 6-4 to Williams, while Halep crushed the American 6-0 6-2.

Those results left the Serbian needing a straight sets victory to progress from the Red Group and send world No 1 Williams crashing out.

Having qualified for this tournament for the first time in six years thanks to wins in Auckland, Monterrey, Birmingham and Tokyo, the 26-year-old was determined to give it a go - but came up agonisingly short. Salep's serve had been rock-solid before this match and she looked in total control when leading the first set 4-1 and 5-2.

However, Ivanovic refused to lie down and there was plenty of fist-pumping and foot-stamping from the Serb as she fought back to edge ahead 6-5. Salep regained her composure to force a tiebreak, but Ivanovic looked the hungrier player as she saved a set-point at 5-6 before prevailing 9-7.

The question now was whether Ivanovic could keep her emotions in check - and if Salep had

Serbia's Ana Ivanovic celebrates after defeating Romania's Simona Halep in their singles match at the WTA tennis finals in Singapore, Friday, October 24. (AP Photo)

the resolve to rally after already clinching top spot in the group by winning six games. In the second set, it was Ivanovic's erratic serving which proved decisive as Salep found some rhythm and upped the tempo to dash her op-

ponent's hopes of making the semi-finals.

Ivanovic was understandably left deflated but earned plenty of plaudits for saving three break points in the third game of the deciding set. In fact, despite giving off the body language of

a beaten foe, Ivanovic had enough left in the tank to forge ahead 5-3 with a late break and close out the win - albeit to no avail. Halep will take on Agnieszka Radwanska in the semi-finals, with Williams meeting Caroline Wozniacki.

Sharapova concedes No. 1 ranking to Serena

Singapore, octo ber 24 (ap): Maria Sharapova failed to advance out of the WTA Finals groups and conceded the year-end No. 1 ranking to Serena Williams despite a three-set victory over Agnieszka Radwanska on Friday. Sharapova needed to win in straight sets to have a chance of progressing in the tournament, and had to win the title 10 years after her first time if she was to topple Williams from the top of the rankings.

Sharapova inexplicably collapsed from a set and 5-1 up, missing three match points and losing the second set in a tiebreak. The Russian ultimately prevailed 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-2 in over three hours but she will go home while Radwanska qualified for the semifinals despite a 1-2 group-stage record.

Radwanska was helped

by Caroline Wozniacki beating Petra Kvitova 6-2, 6-3. Kvitova would have progressed had she won.

Williams takes the yearend top ranking for the fourth time, beside 2002, 2009 and 2013.

Since the rankings began in 1975, only five play-

Maria Sharapova (AP Photo)

ers have held the No. 1 spot at year end four times or more. The others were Steffi Graf (eight times), Martina Navratilova (seven), Chris Evert (five) and Lindsay Davenport (four).

Wozniacki finished top of her group with Radwanska second. Their semifinal opponents would be known late Friday, after Simona Halep faced Ana

Ivanovic.

Halep would finish top of her group and Williams runner-up, unless Ivanovic won in straight sets, in which case the Serb and Halep would advance, with the order to be determined by percentage of games won through the tournament. Sharapova, the 2004 champion and two-time runner-up, was left to rue

an unforeseeable collapse from a dominant position in the second set against Radwanska, who won five straight games.

The Russian converted only two of six break points in that set, against two of three by Radwanska, and said she became too hasty as she tried to close out the match. "A little impatient, her doing a good job of retrieving balls — that is her strength — and going for a little bit more than I should have," Sharapova said in explaining what went wrong in the second set.

"I know I'm not moving forward but I'm proud of that effort, and to finish the year in this way."

For the match, Sharapova had a 61-12 advantage in winners, but committed 63 unforced errors against just 17 by the Pole. Radwanska assumed she was going out in straight sets, so began to play looser tennis and it paid off in that second set.

"In that case you pretty much know that it's over, so you are more relaxed and she got tighter a little bit," Radwanska said. "It was easy for me to play, there are not so many nerves as early in the match."

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Match between Fusion SC (Yellow) and Arkong SC (Red Jersey) in action at the ongoing MDFA trophy 2014 first semifinal match on Friday, October 24

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