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One AR JCO killed in Ukhrul ambush Our Correspondent Imphal | October 26

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A Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the 44 Assam Rifles was killed in an ambush in Phukai Kuki village along Indo-Myanmar border under Kamjong subdivision of Ukhrul district on Monday at around 9:00am. The ambush was reportedly carried out by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). PLA is the armed wing of the proscribed Revolutionary People’s Front (RPF). A group of heavily armed militants first exploded three powerful IEDs targetting a convoy of the 44 Assam Rifles and then they opened fire on them, critically wounding the JCO who later succumbed on the spot. Reports informed that the AR personnel and the militants engaged in a fire fight for nearly an hour.

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Deadly quake strikes south asia IMTN allege discrimination against

‘minority tribes’ in Nagaland state

• Death toll mounts to 180, expected to rise • Tremors felt in India, Modi offers help to Afghanistan, Pakistan

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kABUL/PEShAWAR (AgENCIES): A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan on Monday, shaking the capital Kabul and killing 180 people — 147 in Pakistan and 33 in Afghanistan — and injuring 1,000 others, officials said. The death toll could climb in coming days because communications were down in much of the rugged Hindu Kush mountain range area where the quake was centred. In one of the worst incidents, 12 girls were killed in a stampede to get out of their school in the northeastern Afghan province of Takhar. “They fell under the feet of other students,” said Abdul Razaq Zinda, provincial head of the Afghan National Disaster Management Agency, who reported heavy damage in Takhar. Shockwaves were felt in northern India and in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, where hundreds of people ran out of buildings as the ground rolled beneath them. All Indians in Kabul are safe and there are no reports of damage to Indian owned property in the city in the wake of the devastating earthquake, an Indian embassy official said. “As of now, there are no reports of casualties or injuries among Indians,” the official said, adding that Indian ambassador Amar Sinha was going around the city to assess the situation. The quake was 213km

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): The Indigenous Minority Tribes of Nagaland (IMTN), a conglomeration of the four minority recognized tribes of Nagaland - Kuki, Kachari, Garo & Mikir/Karbi, has submitted a memorandum to the Nagaland state Chief Minister urging the latter to look into the grievances and take corrective measures regarding the issue of Indigenous Certificates issued by the government. A press note from the IMTN said that “discriminatory and deliberate mischief” is being created by “certain officials under Dimapur district administration to violate and deny their fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution.” The IMTN, in its memo, alleged that an attempt was made to classify the indigenous minority tribes, who are recognized equally with other fellow tribes in Nagaland by the Constitution Order of 1970, “as nonentity and compare them with the non-recognized tribes/community or recent recognized tribe (subjudice).” This move, the IMTN said is an attempt to trample their rights. It accused the district administration of Dimapur of “creating mischief of fear and insecurity” and thereby “directly violating our rights to equality and discrimination on the basis of caste/tribe, which itself is a violation of fundamental rights guaranteed by our constitution and the viola-

tion of Government Notification order of 1977 issued by the Government of Nagaland.” The IMTN lamented that the status of indigenous tribes in their own motherland is that of a second class citizen, “where even for simple documentation they are made to face various humiliations by many unwanted questions and scrutiny.” For instance, it said that “when one goes for entry into electoral roll or request for ST/Indigenous certificate –they are insisted upon 1963 Elec-

tribes,” it stated. The indigenous certificate is to be issued only to the constitutionally recognized tribes of Nagaland. However the IMTN said that the administrations has been “issuing such certificate even to non-recognized tribes/community in violation of 1977 Notification order of the government, thereby creating problem and violating the various government orders.” It informed that nonrecognized tribes/community who have settled prior to 1963, can be issued a domicile or permanent residency certificate but not indigenous certificate. It asked the state government to be more sensitive in its approach towards indigenous recognized tribes “who are already marginalized in their own land,” whether it be in terms of educations, job opportunity or any other field when compared to other tribes. It further urged the government and the people of Nagaland to realize that minority tribes are the “backbone of our economy where all the famous and bulk productions in our state are grown and supplied by this group.” Minority tribes, it stated, “can be the solutions to the problem of illegal immigrants, who have been controlling our daily need of foods and its product supply.” It added that minority tribes can also act as a diplomatic link to neighboring states, where they are not the minority.

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Urges the Chief Minister to look into the grievances and take corrective measures

Rescue workers carry a girl who was injured after an earthquake, at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, October 26. (REUTERS)

(132 miles) deep and centred 254km (158 miles) northeast of Kabul in a remote area of Afghanistan in the Hindu Kush mountain range. The US Geological Survey initially measured the quake’s intensity at 7.7 then revised it down to 7.5. Aftershocks continue to hit the affected areas. Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah tweeted that the earthquake was the strongest felt in recent decades. Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, assures him of all possible help. Injured people were pouring into Peshawar’s

Lady Reading Hospital, an official said. International aid agencies working in the northern areas of Afghanistan reported that cellphone coverage in the affected areas remained down in the hour after the initial quake. Jammu & Kashmir experienced intense and prolonged tremors that caused panic in areas that suffered severe flooding last year. Power supplies and most mobile networks were knocked out, and there was structural damage to roads and buildings. However, no casualties were reported in the state. The earthquake struck

NSCN (R) cadres apprehended for threatening More than Seventy percent of newspaper public in Phek hawkers in Mokokchung town are women

almost exactly six months after Nepal suffered its worst quake on record, on April 25. Including the toll from a major aftershock in May, 9,000 people lost their lives and 900,000 homes were damaged or destroyed. The mountainous region is seismically active, with earthquakes the result of the Indian subcontinent driving into and under the Eurasian landmass. Sudden tectonic shifts can cause enormous and destructive releases of energy. A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck northern Pakistan just over a decade ago, on October 8, 2005, killing about 75,000 people.

toral roll.” This is despite the fact that as per a 1977 notification of the government, fulfillment of anyone of three conditions is enough to avail certificate for the constitutionally recognized tribes of Nagaland, it informed. The IMTN said that insistence on the 1963 e-roll is a “clear violation of Government order.” “The insistence of 1963 e-roll itself is self-defeating because in 1963 the Naga National movements was still at its peak and many indigenous recognized people of Nagaland refused to get themselves registered in the electoral roll, likewise due to this factor and lack of communications and awareness, our people also missed out like many of our brother and sister in Nagaland from different

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Dignity of labour MTLT urges UDD to complete improvement of circular roads

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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): Phek Town Youth Society (PTYS) stated on Monday that it has apprehended two NSCN (R) cadres for threatening innocent civilians at the town’s market place. According to a press statement received from the youth society, the two culprits were apprehended by PTYS executives along with 250-300 youths representing all eleven colonies from the residence of a NSCN (R) kilonser. The two were identified as Kuzhoyi Khesoh, reportedly a 2nd lieutenant and Kishore Singh, a driver of one kilo kilonser of NSCN (R). The youth society alleged that one of the apprehended cadre, Kishore Singh, even pointed a gun at the head of one of its member. The action of the youth society was in tandem to the standing resolution to denounce and initiate actions against any Naga political groups harassing and threatening the lives of the public, the press statement informed. Further, the youth society stated that following the incident, it has banished Kishor Singh from Phek Town while NSCN (R) authorities was asked to accept the resignation earlier tendered by Kuzhoyi Khesoh before the incident. It further resolved that if Khesoh joined any other NPGs, further action would be initiated against him and non cooperation imposed on the group.

Women newspaper hawkers in Mokokchung town sorting out pages of a daily newspaper before distribution. (Morung Photo)

Limasenla Jamir Mokokchung | October 26

It is four in the morning in Mokokchung. A cluster of women, numbering more than 20, are chatting away outside the office of Ao Milen, an Ao vernacular newspaper printed at the Mokokchung printing press. These women are waiting for the dealer to hand over newspapers that they will then distribute. The women hawkers of Mokokchung distribute more than three thousand copies of Ao milen everyday, making it accessible to people in and around Mokokchung town. A similar scene unfurls in the afternoon—a different group of women wait for all the English dailies to arrive from Dimapur to Mokokchung town. They will then take care of their distribution. More than 70 percent of newspaper hawkers in Mokokchung town are women. Akumla (27) is a single mother with a six year old child. She has been a news-

paper hawker for four years now. “Every morning I distribute Ao Milen to more than a hundred households. I look after my son with the little earnings from selling the papers,” she adds. A class 10 drop out, for Aka, newspaper hawking began as ‘time-pass’ till she could find another job. Aka now distributes newspapers every afternoon to more than 150 households. She has been distributing newspapers for more than seven years now. For Aka, being a newspaper hawker is an easy, as well as hard, task. “Sun or rain, sick or well, I make sure that every subscriber receives their paper every day,” she says. Konyu (30) is also a newspaper hawker. Her husband is a daily wage earner and they have two children. Konyu contributes to the family income and helps her husband in running the family by being a newspaper hawker. Every morning she wakes up at 4:00am and reaches the printing press. In about an hour or so she distributes the papers to more than a 100 houses and rushes home to send her kids to school. “Newspaper hawking is a healthy job,” the women joke. Climbing up and down staircases, walking for hours every day, sweating it out—all of these benefits our health, they believe. Ali, a student at a Government Middle School in Mokokchung town, says that no job is a small job. From Eastern Nagaland, she also works in a house in Mokokchung. She earns her ‘pocket money’ by helping her local guardian who is a distributor of Ao Milen. Every morning, before going to class, she goes around distributing her share of newspapers to around a 100 households and only then attends school. The sight of women being newspaper hawkers may not be a very common sight in other towns in Nagaland. But financial necessities—husband a nonearner, inability to get a government job, to augment livelihood and the survival chances of their family—have motivated these women to venture out as newspaper hawkers.

MOkOkChUNg, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): The Mokokchung Town Lanur Telongjem (MTLT) has urged the Urban Development Department (UDD) to complete the improvement of circular roads in Mokokchung. A press release from the MTLT informed that the Works & Housing Department, Government of Nagaland handed over the construction of ten circular roads in Mokokchung Town to the Urban Development Department vide government order No WH/URD1/2008/600 Dated Kohima, June 10, 2014. Through that government order, 23.3 Kilometres of circular roads under Mokokchung town has been allocat-

ed to the Urban Development Department (UDD) for ‘improvement of circular roads in Mokokchung town for an initial period of two years’. The UDD has been entrusted with the responsibility of maintenance and upkeep of the circular roads till the completion of the project. The UDD has also been entrusted to maintain the roads for a period of one year after completion of the project before handing back to the PWD (R&B) department, it was informed. The MTLT observed that the UDD has been undertaking the project in the town to some extent and, the circular roads in some sectors in the town have good roads. “The public of these

sectors are also quite happy with the government for improving the roads,” it acknowledged. However, the MTLT also observed that some circular roads in the work order are yet to be repaired or improved. It urged that the roads must be repaired or improved at the earliest keeping in view that it is the Quasquicentennial year of Mokokchung town. It must be pointed out here that the project was sanctioned in 2014 and one year has already elapsed, the MTLT reminded. The MTLT appealed to the government, especially the Urban Development Department to seriously implement the project and improve the remaining circular roads in Mokokchung town

at the earliest in the interest of public welfare. The circular roads to be improved, developed and maintained by the Urban Development Department (UDD) include Tongdentsuyong via Power house area; Mongsenbai circular road; Majakong circular road and sector connectivity; circular road from Sewak junction via Civil Hospital to Police Point; Kumlong circular road starting from Arkong ward to State Highway; Public ground to Kumlong road; Arkong junction to Public ground; IOC junction to Mariani road; Police Point to Tongdentsuyong via Estate office; and district jail (Mariani road) to DIET Yimyu.

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Processed meat can lead to bowel cancer: WHO

PARIS, OCTOBER 26 (REUTERS): Eating processed meats like hot dogs, sausages or bacon can lead to bowel cancer in humans and red meat is a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organisation (WHO) experts said. The review by the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), released on Monday, put processed meat in its group 1 list, which also includes tobacco and asbestos, for which there is “sufficient evidence” of cancer links. Red meat was classified as probably carcinogenic in IARC’s group 2A list, to which it has also added this year glyphosate, the active ingredient in many weedkillers. Meat industry groups rejected the findings as simplistic, although some scientists said they may not add much to existing health recommendations to limit consumption of such meat. The IARC was carrying out a formal review of meat for the first time and examined some 800 studies during a meeting of 22 health experts in France earlier this month. “For an individual,

the risk of developing colorectal (bowel) cancer because of their consumption of processed meat remains small, but this risk increases with the amount of meat consumed,” Dr Kurt Straif of the IARC said in a statement. Each 50 gram portion of processed meat eaten daily increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 18 percent, the agency estimated. The classification for red meat - defined as all types of mammalian meat, including beef, lamb and pork - reflected “limited evidence” that it causes cancer. The IARC found links mainly with bowel cancer, but it also observed associations with pancreatic and prostate cancer. Inconclusive evidence of a link between processed meat and stomach cancer was also observed, it said. The IARC does not compare the level of cancer risk associated with different substances in a given category, so does not suggest eating meat is as dangerous as smoking, for example. But the bracketing of processed meat with products such as tobacco or arsenic irked industry groups, with the

NorthAmericanMeatInstitutesayingthe IARC report “defies common sense”.Suppliers argue that meat provides essential protein, vitamins and minerals as part of a balanced diet. “We’ve known for some time about the probable link between red and processed meat, and bowel cancer,” Professor Tim Key of Oxford University said in a statement from charity Cancer Research UK. “Eating a bacon bap every once in a while isn’t going to do much harm - having a healthy diet is all about moderation.” The IARC, however, said such dietary advice often focused on heart disease and obesity. It cited an estimate from the Global Burden of Disease Project - an international consortium of more than 1,000 researchers - that 34,000 cancer deaths per year worldwide are attributable to diets high in processed meat. This compares with about 1 million cancer deaths per year globally due to tobacco smoking and 600,000 a year due to alcohol consumption, it said.

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Nagaland to launch Pentavalent vaccines on Oct 28

Kohima, october 26 (mexN): munization Programme (UIP). The training and orientation on The Government of India has decided to introduce Pentavalent vaccine in the Pentavalent vaccine for the health care national immunization programme providers at the State and Districts levthroughout the Indian states. As part of el are completed. The participants inscale-up, Nagaland will be launching cludes Medical Officers, Data Handlers, District Program Manager, Vaccine the vaccine on October 28. All children born will receive this and Cold Chain Handlers, IEC/ Media vaccine under Routine Immuniza- Handling focal person and NHM action programme at 6, 10 and 14 weeks count managers are all trained. At the Block level, we of age. Pentavalent vaccine provides Pentavalent vaccine provides have trained all protection to a protection to a child against the ANMs, Vaccinators/LHV, child against 5 life5 life-threatening diseases ASHA and all threatening disthe other health eases – Diphtheria, – Diphtheria, Pertussis workers. Pertussis (WhoopThe heath ing cough), Teta- (Whooping cough), Tetanus, nus, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis B and Hemophilus care providers are techniHemophilus InfluInfluenza type b (Hib) cally sound and enza type b (Hib). ready to immuThe vaccine will be available free of cost at all the levels of nize Children with Pentavalent vaccine’, Government health institutions and in said Dr. Kobunuo Kire, State Immunization Officer of Nagaland. She further the out-reach sessions. DPT (Diptheria+Pertussis+Tetanus) said ‘the introduction of Hib containing and Hepatitis B are already part of rou- pentavalent vaccine in the UIP will pretine immunization in India; Hib com- vent the morbidity and mortality associponent is a new addition to the vaccine. ated with Hib disease,( Pneumonia and Together, the combination is called pen- Meningitis) and will help bring down tavalent vaccine.The newly added Hib the infant and under 5 mortality rate’. Giving / injecting pentavalent vaccomponent of the Pentavalent vaccine will save Children against diseases like cine reduces the number of pricks to pneumonia and meningitis. Pentava- a child, and provides protection from lent vaccine was introduced in the states all five diseases. The number of pricks of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in December to the child will be reduced from six to 2011. The vaccine was then subsequently three after introduction of Pentavalent introduced in late 2012 and early 2013 in vaccine, which is believed to increase a phased manner in six other states and demand and also enforce acceptance union territories- Goa, Gujarat, Hary- of immunization in the community, ana, J&K, Karnataka and Pondicherry. thereby, increasing the full immunizaBy October 2015, all the remaining states tion coverage of the state. Pentavalent in India including Nagaland will be using vaccine has not been associated with pentavalent vaccine under Universal Im- any serious side effects.

Participants with the resource person during the Christ the Victor Men’s Camp’ held at Koinonia Prayer Centre Tsiesema. Koinonia Baptist Church organised ‘Christ the Victor Men’s Camp’ at Koinonia Prayer Centre Tsiesema from October 20 to 24 with the theme – “Seek the LORD and His strength.” Rev. ZotuoKiewhuo, Medotseilieii, Neibalie and RokopraMekro were the main speakers who dwelled on various topics on the values of Christian life, father as leader and role model in the family. The Men’s Camp was attended by 109 campers, of which 7 participants – two from Uttarkhand and five from Nagaland took baptism. Many participants were delivered, healed, received immense blessings and accepted the fathers’ challenges as a leader and role model in the family.

Changtongya observes Global Iodine Deficiency Day

chaNgtoNgya, october 26 (Dipr): In observance of Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Procession Day- October 21, an awareness programme cum slogan writing competition was organized at CHC Changtongya at Christian Standard Higher Secondary School Changtongya on

October 26. The programme was chaired by Principal CSHSS, Lipokpenla Pongen during which she expressed her gratitude to the SMO for the awareness programme at the school. Speaking on the occasion SMO CHC, Changtongya, Dr. Imtijungshi explained to the students on the

CS caution against contract appointments & e-tendering system Kohima, october 26 (Dipr): In the wake of the Vigilance Awareness week, the Chief Secretary of Nagaland, Pankaj Kumar, IAS, impressed upon two important basic areas such as contract appointments and e-tendering system. He cautioned all the Administrative Heads of Departments to follow the standing rules of state government while giving contract appointments, rather he said, it should be discouraged and said that e-tendering system should be followed. He stated that these are the two important areas where proper norms and rules should be strictly followed and transparency and accountability should be maintained in the process of implementation for efficiency. The Chief Secretary stated these today, the October 26 while delivering his introductory speech in an official function at the Secretariat Conference Hall in observance of the Vigilance Awareness week. The ‘Vigilance Awareness’ pledge was administered by the Chief Secretary who was also the chairman of the function.

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The Pochury Gazetted Officers Forum team at the peak of Mt Mol Len

pheK, october 26 (mexN): To explore and present “factual information” about Mol Len Peak, a team of Pochury Gazetted Officers Forum (PGOF)

undertook an expedition to Mol Len. The expedition team led by Siechutho Katiry, Forest Ranger and 8 others started from Meluri Town on October 19.

The uphill ascend to the Mol Len peak was supported by villagers of New Thewati who provided volunteers to guide the team through the dense forest

and vegetation and the team finally reached the summit on October 21. The height (elevation) of the peak was measured using GPS device and re-

corded a height of 3066 metres above sea level located at N 25.29’38.9’’ , E 094.45’05.3’’ . This data indicates that Mol Len peak is 18 metres higher than Japfü Peak which has a height of 3048 Metres. A press release stated that Mol Len is a peak rising above the surrounding peaks at the mountainous border of Nagaland state, India and Mynmar (Burma). It is located under Meluri Sub-Division in Phek District. Geographically, to the east of Mol Len Peak is the Mol Len Post (abandoned Indian Army post), to the North is New Thewati village, west is Reguri village and to the south is Mol Len Post (Abandoned Indian Army post) and Myanmar. Till date very less has been written or known about Mol Len peak to the outside world, largely due to its geographical remoteness.

importance of iodine in our body, its effects, problems and causes due to the lack of iodine and also its preventive measures and how iodised salt cause deficiency disorder. He further encouraged the students on the need to disseminate the information of iodine. The slogan writing competition

winners are as follows : 1st Imdener Class 9, 2nd Sentimeren Imchen Class 9, consolation prizes Imrichiba Class 7, Imnaakum Class 9 and Aotola Class 11. The prize was distributed by T. Yanger, Pastor Changtongya Town Baptist Arogo. Altogether 140 students from Class 6 to 11 attended the awareness programme.

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SDO (Civil) of Dhansiripar Block, Mhalo Humstoe speaking on Village Governance system in Nagaland.

Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): The SDO (Civil) of Dhansiripar Block, Mhalo Humtsoe, capacitated the Rural Development Wing’s staff and community mobilisers of Prodigals’ Home on the unique Village Governance System prevalent in Nagaland today at the latter’s Conference hall in Dimapur. Humtsoe stressed that the Village Governance System in Nagaland gives much power to the community but the same is not being utilized to the optimum. Stressing on the importance of RTI on the sidelines, Humtsoe discussed and interacted on the pertinent points of The Village

Council Act of 1978, Village Development Board Rules, Roles and functions of GB, Village Court and Dobashi Court, and the communitization of various sectors such as Education, Water & Sanitation, Electricity, Forest and Health in the village. The orientation program was organized by Prodigals’ Home with the objective of capacitating its Rural Development wing’s staff on the issue of Local/Village level Governance system particularly in the context of the organization implementing various Rural Development Projects and an effort towards improving the village governance in Dhansiripar Block, Dimapur.

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NSMDC Ltd website launched

Kohima, october 26 (mexN): The official website of Nagaland State Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (NSMDC Ltd) was launched on October 23. The site, www.nsmdcltd. com, launched by Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu, MLA & Chairman, NSMDC Ltd will provide visitors an easier way to learn about the Corporation’s services and solutions and allow the visitor to browse information based on their own choice. Officially launching the website, Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu stressed on the importance of electronic media and hoped that the public would benefit through Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu, MLA & Chairman, NSMDC Ltd launches the website on October 23. this website.

Nagamese Youth attend music training camps

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Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): Nagamese Christian Revival Church Youth Association, which is a fledgling body formed in 2014 under the aegis of Nagamese Christian Revival Church Association recently held two music training camps in Kohima and Dimapur. “The training was necessitated as the Nagamese Youth had never been exposed to choir singing due to the lack of a vibrant association where they could come together and meet and interact with one another,” Garden Mission Church, Sovima Associate Pastor, Nini Sekhose said in a press release. Sekhose also added that the formation of this Youth Association has enabled the Youth of the Nagamese Churches to come together for the first time in the 53 years of

Participants with the resource person and others during the music training camps of Nagamese Christian Revival Church Youth Association.

the history of NCRC by the grace of God. The programme was held in Garden Mission Church, Rio Colony, Sovima from October 21 to 24.

Total 57 Nagamese Church Youth Leaders from different Nagamese Churches of Dimapur attended this residential programme. Various musicians like

Vikuonyii Belho and Noune Kuotsu, of Kohima Village CRC, Ado Kezo and John Rainamai of Beautiful Feet Ministry, Sovima, facilitated the music training. Bible

teaching and Gospel messages were brought by Pastor Khrieniu Metha, Pastor Nini Sekhose, Er. Vipulhou Lhoungu, Pastor Avilie Puro and Pastor Sezo Yhome.

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India is spending billions to populate Arunachal Natalie Obiko Pearson

in terms of securing our own territory."

Bloomberg India plans to invest billions of dollars to populate a remote northeastern state it has neglected since fighting a war with neighboring China more than five decades ago. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is finalizing blueprints for a $6 billion highway in Arunachal Pradesh, which is also claimed by China. Construction on the 2,000-kilometer (1,243-mile) road will start as early as 2018, Kiren Rijiju, minister of state for home affairs, said in an interview. "If China is developing on their side of the territory, we should develop on our side," Rijiju, a native of Arunachal Pradesh, said at his New Delhi residence on Saturday. "India has failed the people living along that border. We’re now taking very concrete steps in that direction." Modi has taken a more assertive stance toward China as he seeks to constrain its territorial ambitions while still attracting investment to strengthen India’s economy. In addition to developing the northeast, Modi has sided with the U.S. in calling for stability in the South China Sea and bolstered ties with Sri Lanka after it voted out a pro-China government. Arunachal Pradesh -which means "Land of the Dawn-Lit Mountains" -- is an area in the Himalayas the size of Austria tucked

Soldier guards military installation in Tawang. This Indian town with its historic monastery is in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

between China, Myanmar and Bhutan. It has 1.4 million people, less than 1 percent of India’s 1.2 billion population, and a third of them live below the poverty line as hydropower, coal and mineral resources sit undeveloped. In 1962, India and China fought a four-week war over their Himalayan border. Chinese troops operating in extremely cold weather at high altitudes advanced into Arunachal Pradesh and another disputed area to the west. It ended when China declared a cease-fire and withdrew to a boundary known as the McMahon Line formed by Britain and Tibet in 1914, which serves as the de facto border today. Since then, China has developed nearby areas. The Tibet autonomous region today boasts more than 7,000

kilometers of highways, allweather road and rail links to China’s heartland, five airfields and a fiber optic network that connects nearly all towns, according to Delhi Policy Group. Forgotten State Arunachal Pradesh, by contrast, has been forgotten. The state was only connected to the national railway network last year, the nearest commercial airport is in another state and large swathes of the territory don’t have power or telecommunications. While the state has more hydropower potential than what is currently installed in all of India, less than 1 percent has been developed. Only 29 percent of the region has paved roads compared with a national average of 62 percent, according to figures from the Central Electricity Author-

Gogoi slams centre over Fulbright issue Guwahati, OctOber 26 (iaNS): The removal of former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's name from the IndiaUS Fulbright scholarship programme was "unfortunate" and exposed the "vindictive attitude and narrow mindset" of the central government, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi said on Monday. "Is the present dispensation trying to relegate Nehru's contribution in laying the foundation of modern India and his rich domestic and foreign policy legacy to the back burner

and replace them with its own? Is the Centre trying to rewrite history by removing the icons of our freedom struggle," Gogoi asked. "The Centre earlier took a retrogressive step to discontinue postage stamps on former prime ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi and belittled their contributions to the making of modern India. All these decisions expose the vindictive attitude and narrow mindset of the present BJP-led government," the chief minister said.

Couple held over abducting five children from Tripura into Bangladesh Dhaka, OctOber 26 (Pti): An Indian woman along with her Bangladeshi husband have been arrested in southeastern Bangladesh on charges of abducting five Indian children, officials said today. "The woman, who hails from Tripura and married to a Bangladeshi, trafficked five Indian children ...We tracked them two days ago and then arrested them overnight," police chief of the southwestern Noakhali district Elias Sharif told PTI. The children, from Tripura, aged between 3 to 12 years were sent to a facility of the government's social welfare department. The couple, Bahar Ullah and Rehana Begum, was kept in police custody. The children, he said, belonged to different families in the neighbourhood in Tripura and they told police that the 45-year-old woman lured them to travel to Bangladesh with her for witnessing the Durga Puja and other festivals. The authorities in Noakhali district contacted Indian officials following the arrest of the couple while Tripura's Radhakrishna Police Station confirmed the abduction of five children from the area, an official said. "We also called the father of one of the abducted boy by phone confirming that his son and other children were in safe custody in Bangladesh," he added.

DECLARATION Regd. No. : 635

Dated: 26/10/2015

I Shri. Bharat Kumar S/o. Santo Kumar Limbu aged about 19 years resident at New Market, Kohima, Nagaland do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as under. 1. That I am bonafide citizen of India. 2. That my present official name as per 10th Pass Certificate is Shri. Bharat Kumar and I hereby change my names from Shri. Bharat Kumar to Shri. Bharat Limbu. 3. That from today onwards my name shall be known as Shri. Bharat Limbu for all my official/legal purposes and hereby undertake to give wide publicity through newspaper to let everyone know about the change of my name from Shri. Bharat Kumar to Shri. Bharat Limbu. Deponent

Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent on this 26th day October, 2015 at Kohima

Notary Public

Regd. No: 1011/15

AFFIDAVIT

Dated: 26/10/2015

By this deed I, the undersigned Ms. Merenla Longchar (New Name) previously called Ms. Imsumerenla (old name), doing School Administrator in Shalom Public School, Resident of H/No.80, Kikhruzha Colony, Naga Cemetery Rd, Chumukedima Village, Dimapur-797103, Nagaland solemnly affirm and declare :1. That for and on behalf of myself and remitter issue wholly renounce/ relinquish and abandon the use of my former name/surname of Imsumerenla and in place thereof I do hereby assume from this date the name/surname Merenla Longchar. 2. That for the purpose of evidencing such determination declare that I shall at all times hereafter in all records, deed and writings and in all proceedings and transactions, private as well as upon all occasions whatsoever use and sign the name of Merenla Longchar as my name/surname in place and in substitution of my former name/ surname. Deponent

Solemnly sworn before me by the deponent on this 26th day of October, 2015.

Notary Public

ity and a report by PwC. "We have reversed that policy because it’s a huge geographical tract and very strategic," Rijiju said of the failure to develop Arunachal Pradesh. Modi has allocated more resources to build schools, clinics and small bridges in the state, and is planning to boost telecommunication and transport networks, Rijiju said. "The people along the border have migrated down where amenities are available," he said. People native to the region "should not have to move out for want of basic amenities." Rijiju stressed that India’s moves shouldn’t be interpreted as a challenge to China. "I don’t want to link it to China," he said. "We’re not doing anything to disturb relations. It’s not in terms of challenging or competing with China, but

No Recognition China may not see it that way. "The Chinese government has never recognized the so-called ’Arunachal Pradesh’ unilaterally established by India," Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said in a February statement. China calls the area South Tibet and has repeatedly asked India to "refrain from actions that complicate the boundary issue." Modi has sought to settle the boundary dispute, which continues to flare up from time to time. A two-week standoff ensued in September 2014 when Chinese troops advanced several kilometers into northern Ladakh, an area of strategic importance nestled between Tibet and Pakistan. During a visit to Beijing in May, Modi called for China to "reconsider its approach" and settle the border issues once and for all. It may yet happen: President Xi Jinping said last year that the Chinese side is determined to resolve the boundary question at an early date. The highway project should strengthen economic ties between India and China instead of dividing the nations, Rijiju said. China was India’s largest trading partner last year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. "It should not be seen as a confrontation but as complementary," he said. "These ancient linkages are a reality."

Former minister Lal Thanzara is Cong candidate in Mizoram bypoll aizawl, OctOber 26 (Pti): Former Mizoram health minister and Chief minister Lal Thanhawla’s younger brother, Lal Thanzara has been selected as the Congress candidate in the bypoll to Aizawl North — 111 Assembly seat, scheduled to be held on November 21. Incidentally, the seat fell vacant after Lal Thanzara had resigned on August 18 last in the wake of an alleged ‘conflict of interests’ for his holding more than 21 per cent shares in a construction company which had bagged road construction work under the state government. His selection was announced by MPCC Vice President R Lalzirliana on Monday. Lal Thanzara’s HP Food Products company was also alleged to have supplied nutrition items to the state Social Welfare department when he was the Parliamentary Secretary and later a minister of state. Lal Thanzara had said that allegations against him, though baseless and

MNF to go it alone in AMC, LADC polls aizawl, OctOber 26 (Pti): Opposition Mizo National Front (MNF) today announced that the party would go it alone in the coming Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Lai Autonomous District Council (LADC) polls likely to be held in November. MNF president Zoramthanga told party workers at a meeting MNF office that contesting the coming polls alone would ensure formation of stable self-governments in AMC and LADC. The party, he said, would nominate untainted candidates having excellent track records. Meanwhile, ruling Congress has said that it would form alliance with Mizoram People's Conference(MPC) in the coming by-poll in Aizawl North III assembly seat and the elections to AMC. Mizoram PCC Vice-president and state home minister R Lalzirliana told PTI that Congress has already announced its intention to forge electoral alliance with MPC, founded by the late former chief minister Brig Thenphunga Sailo in the coming AMC elections. MPCC and MPC had formed a coalition in AMC after Zoram Nationalist Party (ZNP) withdrew support to the Congress-led AMC executive body and formed alliance with MNF. false, caused embarrassment to the government and the Congress party. He had denied the allegations by opposition parties that he received pecuniary benefits from Sunshine Overseas Company, the construction company. He had, however, admitted that the company

gave him shares, but without his knowledge. He had claimed that he resigned as a minister and a legislator to prove his innocence so that he could be investigated freely by the investigating agencies. Other political parties were yet to announce their candidates for the bypolls.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Organizing Committee of the Bicentenary Celebrations of the Birth of Don Bosco held from 23 – 25 October, 2015 at Don Bosco Hr. Sec. School, Dimapur expresses profound gratitude to the following: Shri. H. Atokhe Aye -Administrator, Dimapur Municipal Council, Chief Guest during the INAUGURAL FUNCTION at 6.00 pm on 23rd October, 2015. Dr. Stephen Kamson(Senior Medical Officer - NFR Imphal & Provincial President of Don Bosco Alumni), Chief Guest during GOSPEL CHOREOGRAPHY at 7.00 pm on 23rd October, 2015. Rev. Nestor Guria Sdb (Provincial of Salesian Province of Dimapur), Main Celebrant of the Eucharist at 6.30 am on 24th October, 2015. SHRI. PIUS LOTHA (Former Additional Advocate General, Nagaland & DB Alumnus),Chief Guest during SPEECH COMPETITION at 8.45 am on 24th October, 2015. Mrs. Azenuo Concepta Pienyii (Project Director, DRDA, Kipheri), Chief Guest during Bosco Skit Competition at 10.30 AM on 24th October, 2015. Shri. Francis Pelevituo Solo (Com. & Sec., School Edu., Nagaland & Former Provincial President of DBA),Chief Guest during Inauguration of the Alumni Office in DBHSS (Dmp) at 12.30 pm and DON BOSCO’S BIRTH BICENTENARY QUIZ at 1.00 pm on 24th October, 2015. Mrs. Mezivolu Therieh (Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kohima& President – FMA, Past Pupils’ Association), Chief Guest during Choir Competition at 6.00 pm on 24th October, 2015. Shri. A. Taku Longkumer (General Secretary, Nagaland GB Federation & Convenor People for Peace), Chief Guest during Thematic Danceat 8.00 pm on 24th October, 2015. Most. Rev. George Palliparambil DD, Bishop of Miao, East Arunachal Pradesh, Main Celebrant of the Eucharist at 6.30 am on 25th October, 2015. Shri. Kesonyü Yhome (DC, Dimapur) for granting the permission to hold the Youth rally on the theme: YOUTH FOR PEACE. Shri. Liremo Lotha (Police Commissioner) and the Traffic Police, Dimapur for the assistance provided to organise the rally. Brig. Brijesh Dhiman, Commandant, 6th Sector Assam Rifles for the assistance provided to organise the YOUTH FEST – 2015. Christian Higher Secondary School, Dimapur for the help rendered to organize the Youth Rally. Mrs. Bursenla Ao, SDO, PHE, Dimapur for the help rendered in providing water. Dr. Mhabeni Ezung, Dr. Dzüvichü Rose Mary, Dr. Fr. C.P. Anto & Shri. PF Zeliang who were the panellists on the theme: “Quality Education and Determination are the key to success”. Organizing Committee, Bicentenary Celebrations - 2015

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND DIRECTORATE OF WOMEN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT NAGALAND::KOHIMA

NO.DWRD/PWIEP-2/2015

NOTICE

Dated Kohima the 26th October 2015.

The following applicants of the Scheme “Promotion of Women in Innovative Enterprises Programme have been selected to appear for Interview on the 3rd Nov. 2015 at the Directorate of Women Resource Development from 10 AM Onwards. Sl. N 1. 4. 7. 10. 13. 16. 19. 22. 25. 28. 31. 34. 37. 40. 43. 46. 49. 52. 55. 58. 61. 64. 67. 70. 73. 76. 79. 82. 85. 88. 91. 94. 97. 100

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Name Keneisele Yepthomi Arhoni Lhinghoingah Hangsing Mezhuhouvou Bichano Vezolenuo Tungoe Akolie Kopele Vikhor Tepa Aluile Y. Irene Mozhui Tekatenla Imchen Purchila Imtinaro Sangtam Keny Magh Alole Epao Avani Yanthan Yangthsala O.Mary Yimphong N. Nangmug Atsinuo Soliezuo Kedope-u Ghisheli Moamenla Tracy Kikon Sentila Jamir Asenla Meren Ruchusinle Khing Mehaile Wanth Nourhetuonuo Chobasenla Nokdir Enali Wokhami Kevisezonuo Metsieo Alemla Chang Gwanile Medeone Kent

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Name Sunepjungla Ao Ruokuobei Keditsu H. Pauchen Phom Vesupalu Letro Usha B. Achumi Annie M. Lotha Ajungla Ao Y Alepla Chang Rosemary Kikon Erenpeni Kikon Atoli Shohe Illika T. Yeptho Temsuienla Ozukum Kalito Zhimo Yanbeni Humtsoe Adhila Longkumer T. Angel Konyak Kekriengunuo Rose Nillo Christina Nakhro Neikesenuo Seletsu Rosy Lotha Akhrope-o Koza Imnasenla Ashen Kath Nozole Angami Avika Swu Khriezobenuo Nihu Zuchobeni Patton Velatalu Tetseo Lochambeni Temsurenla Mary Magh E. Loyani Jungio

Sd/- T. Haralu, Director

EXAMINATION, NOTICE FOR GRADE-I OF NAGALAND JUDICIAL SERVICE THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT AT GUWAHATI

(The High Court of Assam, Nagaland, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh) Preliminary Examination (Objective type multiple choices) on OMR answer sheets, in connection with direct recruitment to Grade-I of Nagaland Judicial Service, will be held on 15-11-2015 (Sunday) from 11.00 AM to 1.00 PM at Kohima, Nagaland. Other details of the examination like provisional list of candidates, Admit cards, etc can be seen in the relevant notification published in the official websites (www.ghconline.gov.in & www.kohimahighcourt.gov.in) and Notice boards of Gauhati High Court at Guwahati as well as Kohima Bench of Gauhati High Court at Kohima, Nagaland. Sd/Registrar (Vigilance)-cum-In charge Recruitment Cell Gauhati High Court

NAGALAND MEDICAL COUNCIL

Kohima – 797001: Nagaland The Nagaland Medical Council Act of 2014 Under Section -33 (J) of Indian Medical Council Act 1956

Ref. No. NMC/01/misc/2015-16/110

NOTIFICATION

Dated: 26/10/15.

With the constitution of Nagaland Medical Council, under section 16(6) of the NMC act 2014 “Any person serving or practicing modern scientific system of medicine in Nagaland shall be registered with the council under this act”. Even those who have registered under MCI/ other State Councils are now required to register in the State Medical Council where they want to practice. Earlier, MCI registered doctors could practice anywhere in India with intimation to MCI. But now the regulation has been amended and they are to take Temporary registration of the State Medical Council to practice in that particular State. Allopathic Doctors coming to Nursing Homes/Clinics in Nagaland are now required to take temporary Registration without which they cannot practise in Nagaland. Anybody violating this provision will attract disciplinary action. You are therefore requested to get Temporary Registration of the Allopathic doctors visiting your Nursing Homes/clinic etc. The details and The form for temporary registration is available in the Office of Nagaland Medical Council. Office Address: Nagaland Medical Council PMTI Complex, Merhülietsa Colony Kohima Nagaland. Contact : 0370-224254.

S/d Dr. Kevilhulie. Meyase Deputy Registrar, Nagaland Medical Council.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND STATE COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH &TRAINING NAGALAND: KOHIMA No SCERT/SBTE/PSTE/Notice /6/2010 – 11 /527

Dated Kohima the 26th Oct 2015

Information

2 Year / Diploma in Elementary Teacher Education (D.EL.ED).- Pre –Service Applications are invited from intending candidates for undergoing the 2-Year Diploma in Elementary Teacher Education (D.EL.ED), Pre-Service under the SCERT Nagaland, Kohima for the Session 2016 – 2017. Requirements:1. Minimum Required Qualification: - P.U / 10 + 2 / Hr. Secondary Passed in any discipline with at least 45%. 2. Maximum age Limit: - 28 years. 3. Admission Forms will be issued w.e.f. 30th October at SCERT and in all the DIET Institute, i.e DIETs, Chiechama, Mokokchung, Mon, Tuensang, Pfutsero, Dimapur, Wokha & Zunheboto, St. Paul Institute of Teacher Education, Phesama and Salt Christian College of Teacher Education, Dimapur, on payment of Rs 200/4. Last date for submission of the Application Form Dully filled: - 20th Nov 2015. 5. Interview for selection will be conducted at SCERT, Kohima for DIET Chiechama and also at DIETs Mokokchung, Tuensang, Mon, Dimapur, Pfutsero, Wokha Zunheboto, St. Paul Institute of Teacher Education, Phesama and Salt Christian College of Teacher Education, Dimapur. 6. The date & time for Interview will be on 26th-27th Nov 2015, from 10:00. A.M 7. A selected candidate may be deputed to any of the Institute mentioned above at the discretion of the department. 8. All original documents must be produced during the interview. 9. No. T.A/D.A. will be paid for attending the Interview. (VIPRALHOU KESIEZIE) Director, SCERT, Nagaland, Kohima.

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BUSINESS

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

A Chinese Twist: why are malls closing if consumption is rising? SHANGHAI/HONG KONG, OctOber 26 (reuterS): The Di Mei shopping centre in downtown Shanghai is a surprisingly depressing place to shop. The underground mall is located in one of the most shopping-mad cities in China, and yet it is run down and starved of customers. “Sometimes I cannot sell even one dress in a day,” said dress shop owner Ms Xu, who rents a space in Di Mei. Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official data showing a sharp rebound in retail sales that helped the world’s second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter. The answer to that apparent contradiction lies in the rising competition from online shopping and gov-

it’s unclear whether it will pay off, and others are just closing down. The Sunlight Store in Beijing, for example, is located in another prime pedestrian hub, but it closed its blinds this month, with manager Ni Guifang telling Reuters they are seeking greener pastures online. “The sales were just OK, but the overall sales were on the downward trend,” Ni said.

A woman rides an escalator at a shopping mall in Beijing, China. (Reuters Photo)

ernment purchases possibly boosting retail statistics. Add poorly managed properties into the equation and the empty malls aren’t much of a surprise. More importantly, the struggles of Chinese brick-and-mortar retailers

amplify a policy conundrum; these malls, built to reap gains from rising consumption, are instead adding to China’s corporate debt problem, currently at 160 percent of GDP - twice as high as the United States.

Less foot traffic means cash flow of mall owners and developers are getting squeezed - a potential hazard for an economy growing at its slowest pace in decades. Di Mei’s owners are trying to refurbish, but

TRIMMING DOWN Major listed mall operators are also feeling the pain. Dalian Wanda, a big property developer, said in January it would close or restructure 30 of its retail venues and in August said more adjustments were underway. Malaysia-based Parkson, which operates more than 70 department stores in China, closed several of its stores in northern China last year following a 58

percent drop in China net profit in 2013. “As growth in retail sales slows because of the country’s lower GDP growth, and in cities where mall space is abundant, vacancy rates have risen substantially,” said Moody’s analyst Marie Lam in a research note. In its latest efforts to re-energise the economy, China’s central bank on Friday cut interest rates for the sixth time in less than a year. Tim Condon, an economist at ING in Singapore warned that investors should not read China’s official retail figures as exclusively reflective of rising household consumption, noting that the data also capture some government purchases. On the other hand, e-commerce sites continue to post double-digit growth rates, even as some moderation is evident. E-commerce leader Ali-

baba is expected to report that sales growth slowed sharply in the second quarter - albeit to around 27 percent on-year, still a ripping pace. And as more Chinese graduate to the ranks of the middle class, places offering entertainment are thriving. Movie ticket sales hit a new record of nearly $300 million during a single holiday week in October, up 60 percent year-on-year. But this is little consolation for the likes of Di Mei. And the risk is that the frenetic pace of mall construction cascades into a bad-debt problem for banks if shoppers fail to match the zeal of property developers. SHOPPING OVERCAPACITY China is currently the site of more than half the world’s shopping mall construction, according to CBRE, a real estate firm,

even though it appears that many of these malls will not produce good returns for their investors. A joint report by the China Chain Store Association and Deloitte showed that by the end of this year, the total number of China’s new malls is projected to reach 4,000, a jump of over 40 percent from 2011. Real estate analysts note that much of the surge in retail space construction came at the behest of local governments, who were rushing to push real estate development as part of attempts to stimulate the economy. The result has been malls built in haste and managed poorly. Not surprisingly, shoppers are voting with their feet. “If you build it and they’re not coming, that’s a non-performing loan,” said Condon of ING. “That’s the banks’ problem.”

Tintin comic strip fetches record $1.7 million at auction Maruti Baleno Premium Hatchback launched in India bruSSelS, OctOber 26 (IANS): A double-page Tintin comic strip by the renowned Belgian cartoonist Herge has fetched a record 1.56 million euros ($1.72 million) at an auction, a media report said. The sale on October 24 by auction house Sotheby’s in Paris saw 65 original items from the biggest names in European and American car-

toons go under the hammer, Xinhua reported on Sunday. The items belonged to Belgium’s biggest comic strip collector Jean-Arnold Schoofs The auction raised a total of 2.7 million euros ($2.97 million), with five lots breaking world records. The double-page from Herge’s Tintin and the Spectre of Ottokar, published in Le Petit Vingtieme in 1939, had a guide price of up to 800,000 euros ($881,400) but was sold for almost double that amount after a bidding war between four potential buyers. An Andre Franquin “Spirou et Fantasio” comic strip from the album “Les Pirates du Silence” sold for 243,000 euros. Two items by Edgar P. Jacobs fetched 62,500 and 147,000 euros.

“India moving to centre stage of energy system” SINGApOre, OctOber 26 (ptI): India is moving to the centre stage of international energy system but needs investments to move forward, a global inter-governmental organisation today said, welcoming the country as a “special guest” to the grouping’s meet next month. International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director Fatih Birol said the organisation would like to see India and China join the grouping during its meet in Paris on November 17-18. “We are hoping to see both Chinese and Indian ministers in that meeting as our special guests, which will hopefully strengthen the ties we have with those countries,” he said. India and China are associate partner countries of IEA and are “very close” to the grouping, he said.

Birol applauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiatives on energy and ‘Make in India,’ but acknowledged the challenges in raising investments. “India is moving to the centre stage of global energy system in terms of electricity, coal, renewables and oil,” he said. “What India needs is three things in order to realise what Modi has in mind investment, investment and investment,” he told reporters after a speech at the Singapore International Energy Week, which opened today. He said India would need these “three things” for power sector, gas and coal and that private sector investment was crucial to support projects. The IEA will release a special report on Indian energy sector in New Delhi on November 27.

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Birol said the report on India was part of IEA’s annual country study for this year. The report covers India’s current and future energy scenarios. “We have looked at India very closely this year,” he said. Touching on oil subsidies cuts, he said, “I would commend three countries, mainly India, Indonesia and Malaysia. To cut subsidies is not an easy business.” But Birol said the timing was excellent to cut subsidies. “We have now low oil prices. Therefore, it gives a very good opportunity to cut the subsidy gradually,” he said. The world oil subsidies are averaging at USD 500 billion a year, four times of those for the development of renewables, according to Birol who urged governments to lend strong support in setting up renewable energies.

New DelHI, OctOber 26 (NDtV AutO): Maruti Suzuki Baleno, India’s biggest carmaker’s first premium hatchback, was launched today at a starting price of 4.99 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). With the Maruti Suzuki name aiding the Baleno and a host of well-rounded features, the hatchback steps into an intensely cut-throat segment with cars like the Hyundai i20, Honda Jazz, and Volkswagen Polo. Maruti is offering its newest hatchback in a total of 4 trim levels: Sigma, Delta, Zeta, and Alpha. Colour options on the car will span a total of 7 choices, namely, Ray Blue, Fire Red, Premium Silver, Autumn Orange, Premium Urban Blue, Pearl Arctic White, and Granite Gray. One must note, the Maruti Suzuki Baleno will be sold only via Nexa - the carmaker’s premium dealership network in India. Engine options offered on the Maruti Suzuki Baleno include a 1.2-litre VVT petrol and a 1.3-litre DDiS diesel. The petrol engine is the retuned version of the same engine as the one that does duty on the Swift. Transmission options for the Baleno hatchback will include a 5-speed manual (petrol and diesel) and a CVT (only petrol). Talking about features, the range of standard provisions includes rear combination lamps with LED, body-coloured door handles, ORVMs, and bumpers, etc. Inside, the carmaker has provided the bare minimum one the Maruti Suzuki Baleno’s base variant - Sigma; it misses any provisions for entertainment, and gets central locking, front

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DIMAPUR Civil Hospital:

P O S T E R I Z E W F A P S D Z I R P O

STD CODE: 03862 232224; Emergency229529, 229474

Metro Hospital: Faith Hospital:

227930, 231081 228846

Shamrock Hospital

228254

Zion Hospital:

231864, 224117, 227337

Police Control Room

228400

Police Traffic Control

232106

East Police Station West Police Station

227607 232181

CIHSR (Referral Hospital)

242555/ 242533

Dimapur hospital

224041, 248011

Apollo Hospital Info Centre:

230695/ 9402435652

Railway:

131/228404

Indian Airlines

229366

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KOHIMA: 0370 2222952/ 101 (O) 9402003086 (OC) DIMAPUR: 03862 232201/ 101 (O) 9436017479 (OC)

CHUMUKEDIMA: 03862 282777/101 (O) 9856158740 (OC) WOKHA: 03860 242215/101 (O) 9862039399 (OC)

MOKOKCHUNG: 0369 2226225/ 101 (O) 9436012949 (OC)

Nagaland Multispe- 248302, cialty Health & 09856006026 Research Centre

PHEK: 8414853765 (O) 9862130954(OC)

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ZUNHEBOTO: 03867 280304/ 101 (O) 9856156876 (OC)

STD CODE: 0370 100/2244279 2222222 2222111 2222952 2222916 2243339 2224202 08974997923

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power windows, tilt steering, accessory socket, etc. in the name of comfort and convenience. With that being said, the remaining variants are amply loaded with comfort and convenience features. In addition to the features mentioned above, the remaining variants also get remote keyless entry, rear power windows, electrically foldable ORVMs, automatic AC, and reverse parking sensors. Nonetheless, the multi information speedometer display (with colour TFT) is available only on Zeta and Alpha. However, there are some highlights reserved only for the top-end variant, Alpha, including DRLs with LED, alloy wheels, navigation system, voice command, Apple CarPlay, and reverse parking camera among others. Moving on to safety provisions, Maruti Suzuki Baleno gets anti-theft security system, ABS with EBD, dual airbags, and front seat belt pre-tensioners and force limiters as standard safety features across the entire line-up. The list of safety-related equipment exclusive to only the top-end trims (Zeta and Alpha) is rather short and comprises front fog-lamps, auto headl a m p s, a n d auto dimming IRVM.

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Hotel Metsüpen (Tourist Lodge):

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Nagaland observes vigilance week Our Correspondent Kohima | October 26

As part of an anti-corruption campaign, Vigilance Awareness Week is being observed throughout Nagaland under the directives of Central Vigilance Commission. A state level observance was held at the State Academy Hall today with the theme “Preventive Vigilance as a tool of Good Governance” under the aegis of State Vigilance Commission. The Director and DIGP, Vigilance, I. Meyionen in his welcome address highlighted the activities of State Vigilance as well as its efforts in eradicating cor-

ruption from the State. He stated that the Vigilance as the apex integrity institution in the State has been advocating transparency, and encouraging fairness in all areas of functioning of the Government and its organizations. State Vigilance Commissioner KT Sukhalu in his inaugural address expressed that the activities of State Vigilance in combating corruption are praiseworthy. Maintaining that corruption is not a new phenomenon, he termed it a social cancer in public life. Sukhalu emphasized that proactive participation and involvement of citizens is needed to eradicate corruption and provide clean and efficient governance.

He asserted that lack of transparency, morality, accountability, consistency and institutional weakness provide fertile ground for growth of corruption. Good governance ensures that the public leaders, bureaucrats and officials are answerable to the ordinary citizen, he stated, adding government functions must be transparent with every file and official record open for public scrutiny, except matters regarding national security. He further added that for greater transparency, accountability, efficiency and good governance, all departments should seriously utilize IT&C tools. While appreciating the efforts

of Vigilance officers in achieving a record of conviction in Vigilance cases, the commissioner disclosed that the Commission has finalized twenty four cases, where four employees were terminated, thirteen officials given administrative censures or warnings, and seven penalized. He further added that the total number of cases, both preliminary as well as regular cases under investigation by the Commission from October 2014 to October 2015 is sixty six. The Commissioner later administered oath to all present, a pledge “to work unstintingly for eradication of corruption in all spheres of life”.

As a special feature of the awareness week, a debate competition was held for students from different colleges in Kohima on the theme, “Preventive Vigilance as a tool of Good Governance.” The participants presented a lively display of their oratory skills while debating on the topic. The winners of the competition were given cash prizes and citations. In the programme, speeches of the Governor and Chief Minister were read out by Additional SP Oponlumi Humtsoe and Dy. SP Vikono Peseyie respectively. The function concluded with vote of thanks proposed by Vigilance Commission secretary Sehjang Doungel.

NPF offers sympathy to fire victims kOhiMa, OcTOber 26 (Mexn): In the wake of the major fire incident in Dimapur on October 25, which left hundreds homeless, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) today stated, “It is more than high time we work out and contribute preventive tips and create awareness amongst all to be conscious about the safety measures to ward off every avoidable fire hazards, especially dur-

ing the dry seasons where such unfortunate events are more common.” A press release from NPF Press Bureau maintained that buildings of different nature, residential quarters, colonies, houses under congested areas or slum types consumed by fire is not a new experience in Dimapur, and the casualties and loss effects are very dear, which often in-

are carrying?” she questioned. The speaker further encouraged the congregation to do their part in bringing peace to their family, community and society so they may be looked upon as women cross bearers thus being the agents of change in the true sense. During the programme, Joint Director, DRDA Kohima, J. Thungjamo Khuvung exhorted the gathering while women leader of Shaki Baptist Church Yirenbeni Tsanglao read the scripture. In the evening service, Abeni Ezung from Dimapur was the main speaker, who spoke on the topic, “The cross is the secret of success

clude human and livestock. The party acknowledged the service provided by the Nagaland Fire Service, Assam Rifles, BSF, Airport Authority, Army from Rangapahar Cantonment, and volunteers from different colonies and organizations to douse the fire. It further extended sincere sympathy and prayers to all the people affected by the fire.

Tsütuonuomia Khel Day celebrated Our Correspondent Kohima | October 26

The Tsütuonuomia Khel of Kohima village on Sunday celebrated its day with gaiety and fervor. The 25th of October carries a significant meaning for the Tsütuonuomia Khel as they observe T. Khel Day to commemorate the 1879 battle and subsequent peace treaty of the Tsütuonuomia and the British. The T. Khel Day is also a commemoration of bravery and resilience, brotherhood and peace. Parliamentary Secretary for Youth Resources and Sports, Music Task Force and State Lotteries, Khriehu Liezietsu gracing the occasion as the chief guest urged upon the gath-

ering to extend support and cooperation towards carrying out developmental and welfare activities for Kohima village in general. He said that Naga youth should turn to avenues like music and sports for job, employment and profession. Stating that many of the world’s richest people are from the fields of sports and music, Liezietsu encouraged the Naga youth to be serious in their approach to music and sports. He said, government job may be saturated but other avenues with greater opportunities still lie in wait for the youth if they can hone their skills. The Parliamentary Secretary also highlighted development activities he is taking up in his constitu-

ency and asked the people for co-operation. T Khel Council Chairman Viliethie Solo in his speech dwelt on the history of T Khel and the significance of observing October 25 as their Khel day. Kohima Village Council chairman Neivor Rutsa exhorted the gathering. The new team of T Khel Council office bearers for the tenure 2015-18 headed by Thepfuvilie Suohu as chairman was also declared on the occasion. The function was chaired by organizing committee convenor K. Neibou Sekhose. Vote of thanks was proposed by T. Khel Council general secretary Kelhousinyii Solo. In the evening, there was also a ‘T. Khel Nite’.

Another online store launched DiMapur, OcTOber 26 (Mexn): An online shopping and information site – www.dimapurbazar. com – was launched today in Dimapur. A press release from the proprietor, Nagali Chishi, informed that the website provides a platform to its users to buy and sell anything as well as get information about various local

services like medical, catering, ambulance, computer repairs, events, tours and travels, etc. Placement of all product ads and listing of services are absolutely free of cost to any individual or company, the release stated. One can also promote their business in their own special way through premium advertisements.

According to Nagali, the main focus was to create a site for people of Dimapur to have a global presence, which is simple and easy to use. Dimapurbazar also has a physical store located at Nagarjan junction, opposite Symbios, where anyone can visit and buy products as well as interact with the service representatives.

the latest Acts, Laws, Rules and Amendments. She said that the project was a process to train the lawyers, orient them about the Acts. The project consisted of two units; the first dealt with the Women Rights Initiatives and the second with the HIV/AIDS units. The project was to improve the standard of quality of legal system at the district level. She added that even the judges and magistrates need to be sensitised in or-

Regional seminar on Gaidinliu

Kohima Police make arrests kOhiMa, OcTOber 26 (Mexn): Kohima Police manning Peducha beat post arrested two persons in connection with anomaly in vehicle document on October 24, 9:00 pm. The Police had intercepted one truck (Shaktiman) bearing registration number MN07C-4328 on suspicion and the vehicles was thoroughly checked and documents verified, according to a press release from PRO, Kohima Police. In the process of verification, the engine number of the vehicle did not tally with the engine number provided in the registration certificate. The two persons identified as Laishram Mani Singh (62) and Sanasam Biren Singh (50) were taken into police custody and a regu-

Special guests and participants at the training programme on POSCO Act in Kohima on October 26. (Morung Photo)

also applauded the Lawyers Collective for being instrumental in bringing about the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, the Protection of Women from Sexual Harassment at work place Act and POSCO guidelines Kiran Sharma, Director Operation, LCWRI informed that LCWRI was started with an aim to train young lawyers and panel lawyers of the country so they get well versed with

MOkOkchung, OcTOber 26 (Mexn): 31 Assam Rifles is conducting firing practice from October 26 to November 14 at firing range, Mokokchung – from 7:30 am to 4:00 pm during the day and from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at night. The practice will be held on the following days: October 26 – 31, November 2 –7, November 12 – 14. Therefore, the public of the neighbouring villages have been asked not to enter/ move near the firing range during the firing practice.

kOhiMa, OcTOber 26 (Mexn): The Women Studies Center, Nagaland University in collaboration with the Human Rights Law Network is organizing a regional seminar on the Life and Times of Gaidinliu: Historical and Gender Perspectives, on October 28 at the National Institute of Electronics and IT Auditorium, Meriema from 10:00 am. The seminar will deliberate on the life of Gaidinliu through various perspectives of history, culture, religion, politics, identity, gender and feminism through rational, academic presentations. The seminar will also bring personal reminiscence and perspectives from those who have personally known her or have connections to her life. The participants will consist of university professors, students, research scholars, gender studies scholars, women leaders, media, social workers, theologians and peace activists. Taking cognizance of the debate surrounding the life of Rani Gaidinliu in the centennial celebration, this seminar will bring together NL-06-2685 and recov- a serious deliberation on her life and her times in the ered 536 bottles of assort- context of various perspectives in a peaceful academic ed IMFL. The liquor com- environment, stated a press release from the organisers. prised of 248 bottles of MC Rum (750 ml), 96 bottles of PYO seize liquor OC Blue Whisky (180 ml) and 192 canned foster beer DiMapur, OcTOber 26 (Mexn): Piphema Youth (500 ml). Three persons Organisation (PYO) caught three persons selling IMFL identified as Vinato Awomi within Piphema jurisdiction on October 18. The three (22), Kiheka Zhimomi have been identified as Pinter Kachari, Amit Bahadur (19) and Atobo Achumi and Vilaseto Keyho. A press release from PYO president (20) were arrested in this informed that 29 bottles of liquor was seized from them. regard, the PRO, Kohima Police said. Accordingly, DC Kohima informs the vehicle along with the kOhiMa, OcTOber 26 (Dipr): Deputy Commisconsignment and arrested sioner, Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor has informed that the persons were produced at National Highway-2 bye-pass connecting Ruunomia Chiephobozou PS for fur- Shieki (Box Cutting) in the intersecting Ladies Mile ther necessary action. In road to Serü Vochie, Kohima has been allotted to Kohithis connection, a regular ma Chamber of Commerce & Industries (KCCI) for the case vide Chiephobozou purpose of upkeep and beautification only for a period PS case No. 15/15 U/S 44 of one year with effect from the date of issue of this order. (a)(e) NLTP Act was regis- Henceforth, all development activities/ renovation/ retered against the accused pairing works by any agency in the said area should be and investigation taken up, done in consultation with the KCCI. This order is not a land allotment order, the DC added. it added.

lar case vide Sechü (Zubza) PS case No. 0036/2015 U/S 379/471/34 IPC was registered against them for conducting further investigation, the release said. Meanwhile, youths of Rachü Khel, Viswema village apprehended four habitual thieves, including a juvenile, for stealing properties of the villagers. All the four thieves were handed over to the police, the press release informed. A regular case vide Khuzama P.S case No. 0044/2015 U/S 379 IPC has been registered against them for further investigation. In another incident on October 23, personnel of 9th Assam Rifles while conducting frisking and checking intercepted one Mahindra Bolero B/R No.

Panel lawyers trained on POSCO Act in Kohima

kOhiMa, OcTOber 26 (Mexn): Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) in collaboration with Lawyers Collective Women Rights Initiatives (LCWRI) organized training on Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act for panel lawyers/ lawyers today at State Legal Service Authority’s conference hall. The programme was chaired by Mezivolu T. Therieh, NJS, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kohima & Secretary KDLSA. Therieh appreciated the Lawyers Collective for appointing two lawyers for Nagaland State to assist the lawyers in carrying forward the issues of women and children in Nagaland. She emphasised on the role of the panel lawyers/lawyers who act as extended arms of the justice delivery system and stated that confidence and capacity building measures are gained through continuous trainings. She

NSCN (R) Chang Region not to impose tax

AR firing practice in Mkg; public asked to stay away from firing range

A workshop on Nagaland University Examination Process was held at Cornerstone College on October 26. It was attended by all the college principals of Dimapur and Peren in Women Ministry.” She districts. The workshop mainly focussed on the semester guidelines and the emerging appealed to the congrega- trends in examination process which were presented by Controller of Examination, Nation to take the strength galand University, Dr. Abemo and pro-vice chancellor Prof. P Lal. Sentisangla Imsong, of Cornerstone College, delivered the welcome address. Orientation on exam from the cross and be the Principal software was also presented by the Deputy Registrar, Nagaland University.

agent of change for the betterment of the society. Lotha Baptist Church Diphupar choir enthralled the gathering with Halleluyah chorus, besides special numbers presented by singing groups representing different churches. The 65th general conference of KBES women department hosted by Lotha Baptist Church Diphupar started on October 23. The next general conference (66th conference) to be held in the year 2018 would be hosted by Kohima Lotha Baptist Church.

MEx FILE Tuensang, OcTOber 26 (Mexn): The NSCN (Reformation), Chang Region has decided not to impose any kind of tax or seek donation from Chamber of Commerce (CoC), Tuensang. The decision was made during the meeting of the NSCN (R), Chang Region workers, including Dy, Kilonsers, CCMs and Naga Army officers on October 24. Therefore, chairman, NSCN (R), Chang Region, Imlongnukshi Chang has requested the CoC to inform all business establishment/ firms under it within the jurisdiction of NSCN (R), Chang Region not to entertain any kind of taxes/ donations if approached by any members. At the same time, the chairman requested all business establishments/ firms to execute business properly and abstain from illegal business which may indirectly hamper the economy of poor general public.

KBES women dept general conference ends DiMapur, OcTOber 26 (Dipr): The three-day general conference of Lotha Baptist Churches Association (KBES), women department concluded on October 25. Former general secretary of KBES women department Lichilo Lotha was the main speaker during the devotional service of the concluding day. Speaking on the topic “Women cross bearers are agents of Peace,” she reminded the congregation that the Cross carried by Jesus Christ was accompanied by sacrifice, pains, sufferings, forgiveness, humility, patience and many more. “Are such qualities present in the cross that you

Fire department personnel, police and volunteers rendering help to douse a fire which broke out on October 26 at Alahuto Colony, Zunheboto. The fire, which broke out at around 6:00pm, gutted several houses, affecting around seven families. It was brought under control with help from the Fire Brigade, Assam Rifles and volunteers at around 8:30 pm. No casualty was reported. DIPR Photo

der to change the face of the legal services because they have to give their best to the society. She stressed on the importance of values of human rights lawyering and shared that the information that a lawyer submits before the Court is of utmost importance. Ishani Cordeiro, Legal Officer, LCWRI, the resource person, spoke on the POSCO Act, 2012 and stated that the Act was enacted keeping in mind the

best interest of a child. With a child friendly approach, the Act has come about based on the provisions of positive discrimination for women and children as embodied in Article 15 (3) of the Constitution of India and UN Convention on the Rights of Child which has prescribed a set of standards to be followed by all State parties in securing the best interests of the child. She also spoke on the general principles and definition of the Act and Offences. She emphasised on the responsibility of the stakeholders like the police, CWC, support persons, doctors, special courts, legal aid lawyers and prosecutors whose primary aim should be the welfare of the child. Further, she suggested how a legal aid lawyer should assist the Court in providing a friendly atmosphere and also not to allow direct contact between the victim child and the accused.

She also touched upon the provision for interim compensation under Section 357A of the CrPC which is to be provided to the victim through the District Legal Services Authorities and the Special Court. She emphasised on the role of the Legal Aid lawyers and Special Public Prosecutors and requested the lawyers to assist the prosecution as laid down in Section 40 of the Act. Nino Iralu, Member Secretary, NLSA & Special Judge, TDP in her short speech expressed gratitude to the resource persons for their initiatives. She asserted that lawyers should not wait for opportunity, but take the responsibility of going forward in imparting the knowledge they have acquired. She also stated that lawyers should be exposed to the various welfare legislations and be a role model to the stakeholders and a mentor to the poor and needy.

ZTC to conduct social work ZunehebOTO, OcTOber 26 (Dipr): Administrator, Zunheboto Town Council (ZTC), Nungsangmenla Imchen has informed that ZTC will be conducting a social work on October 29 from 6:00 am - 9:00 am in connection with Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. All the colony GBs and Zunheboto Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ZCCI) have been requested to take part in the said cleanliness drive.

Special DPDB meet in Mon MOn, OcTOber 26 (Dipr): ADC Planning, Mon has informed all the DPDB members of Mon district that special DPDB meeting for approval of LADP schemes will be held on October 27 in the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner, Mon at 11:00 am. Therefore, all the members of the DPDB, Mon have been requested to attend the meeting without fail.

The 25 Nagaland (I) Coy NCC is undergoing a combined annual training camp since October 21 at CRPF camp, Mokokchung. The cadets carried out a Swachh Bharat Abhiyan at Imkongmeren Sports Complex. The NCC officers and cadets also donated blood and were also trained by the Civil Defence Home Guard team, Mokokchung on disaster management.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express X issue 292X issue 185 Thursday 9volume July 2015 volume

Truth and Dilemmas

uman beings are constantly invited to engage in redefining their history and discovering new pathways to the future. Perhaps, Nagas have reached another critical juncture in our history where our value system needs to be examined and our aspirations critically sharpened. Like other societies engaging with a conflicted history that is constantly in transition, Nagas are deeply entrenched in the dilemmas of truth and the truth about dilemmas. Today, all Nagas are increasingly challenged by an environment in which values are rapidly changing, at best compromised, where the most basic principles of respecting human dignity and the natural environment are threatened. In the present context the real borders are not between divided states, they are between human hearts and human values. They are between the powerful and the powerless, the free and the bonded, the privileged and the underprivileged, the rich and the poor, the haves and have nots. We pay a high cost for this divide that perpetuates inequalities and fragments Naga society through the loss of human dignity, fundamental freedoms, security, food, shelter and education, etc. This contradicts the Naga traditional practice of embracing the natural world and human beings which is an artifact of the time in which we live. The manner in which our values and our culture collectively address this divide of inequalities will eventually redefine and reshape the future of our collective destiny. Can Nagas identify the values we are pursuing and nurture them? Are Nagas feeding and nurturing the forces that will unify and complement a harmonious existence with respect, dignity, justice, freedom and equality? Or, are Nagas only fueling the forces of prejudice, hatred, oppression and the ‘isms’ that can destroy our dreams and hopes? When and how did we become entrapped in this place where have we ceased to learn that one cannot begin building a future in an divided environment founded on ‘fear,’ ‘hate’ and ‘exclusivity?’ History has shown that genocide begins with the killing of one person, not for what he or she has done, but because of who he or she is, or that poverty begins when even one child is denied his or her fundamental right to education, food and shelter. What begins with the failure to uphold the value and dignity of one life, can all too often end with a calamity for entire nations. The last century was perhaps the most violent in human history, devastated by countless conflicts, untold suffering, and unimaginable crimes. Time after time, a group or a nation inflicted extreme violence on another, often driven by irrational hatred, racially motivated chauvinism and suspicion, or exercising the unbounded arrogance of power and monopoly over resources; only to realize that after the bloodbath, the only way to resolve differences was for them to face each other by sitting around the table and engaging in dialogue. If only the unnecessary devastation had been avoided! Can the young Nagas of today consolidate values that will empower us to realize the futility of engaging in violent conflict, and, instead acknowledge that humanity is indivisible and interdependent in order to live harmoniously? Do we have the courage to go forward in unity, as we decisively and resolutely embrace the pathway towards a shared future?

lEfT WING |

Dr. Anne Bradley Christianity Today

A Biblical Answer to Poverty

e live in the richest time in human history. We are eradicating poverty at faster rates than any economist would have predicted 30 years ago. Global poverty rates have been halved since 1990 and are on pace to be halved again! This has been made possible by embracing the biblical principles of freedom and flourishing that encourage and reward our God-given creativity and talents. Even with these monumental strides, we still have a lot of work to do. People around the world lack necessities of clean water, food, and shelter. As we seek to help the most vulnerable, we must first go to scripture to understand what to do and how to do it. The Bible gives us everything we need. Biblical principles create more flourishing for more people while simultaneously helping individuals experience personal fulfillment. The best way we can help the poor is by doing our job well. When we live into who God created us to be, we experience joy, reinforce dignity, and serve other people. Income inequality is hotly debated in the first world. This discussion forces Christians to wrestle with it. Unfortunately, it pits the rich against the poor. In some cases, it’s true – the rich benefit at the expense and exploitation of the poor. However, coupling sound economic thinking with the metanarrative of scripture points us to the proper biblical perspective of income inequality. God created us in his image. He created something out of nothing. As sub-creators living on his earth, we can create something out of something. God created us equally, but not the same. If we were all the same with the same talents and skills, there would be no cause for trade and we would all suffer. Instead, we are uniquely gifted with different strengths. Unique gifting results in some income inequality, but it’s not inherently a bad thing. Instead, it’s God’s created order. When people can freely choose who they want to be and pursue what God has called them to do, there is flourishing. We have to help the vulnerable by helping them be who God created them to be. The question is, how do we do that? The gospel is the only tool that has the power to transform heart, mind, and soul. Caring about the poor is not only about adding to their income. It certainly is about money, but it is about so much more. When we engage in efforts to help the vulnerable, the gospel has to be at the heart of our efforts. At the core of poverty alleviation is igniting God-given dignity into the hearts of the poor by empowering them to be who God created them to be. In that, there is abundant joy. Our efforts can’t just be monetary. Poverty alleviation is all about relationships. Jesus loved and cared for the poor, and he calls us to model his example. If someone has an immediate need and we can help them, we should. However, that’s only the first step. While addressing immediate, dire needs, we must maintain the long-term vision of flourishing and self-sustenance. We need to help turn survival into thriving. Here are some practical takeaways: Poverty alleviation is the church’s responsibility. It is the job of the church, the body of Christ, to care passionately and genuinely for the poor. The church must step up to their responsibility and be the first line of offense in addressing poverty. When we do what God has created us to do, we help others. The impact of our work extends to God’s kingdom in ways we will never understand. Embrace volunteer opportunities. Serve your church. Work hard at your job every day. Love your family, friends, and neighbors well. The fight to end poverty starts in your community. It starts with building long-term relationships, getting your hands dirty, and addressing real needs.

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Christine Petré Waging Nonviolence

In Tripoli, young Lebanese defy city’s violent reputation

black-and-white mural with the text “Salam,” peace in Arabic, with a hand wrapped in barbed wire making the peace sign, covers a wall in one of Tripoli’s more troubled areas. Its artist, Hayat Chaaban, who has lived in Lebanon’s second largest city her whole life wants to put art to the battered facades of Tripoli and defy the violence. By doing so she is not only challenging the city’s rough reputation, but also the perception that graffiti is a male-oriented activity. Despite the risks, she isn’t afraid. Dressed in a hoodie and baggy jeans, she is one of the few female graffiti artists in Tripoli and most likely in all of Lebanon. The 19-year-old artist was also involved in the recent demonstrations against the government’s garbage management. In one of her pieces, she portrayed a garbage bag in the shape of Lebanon and underneath it she wrote “Enough!” The photo quickly became well-known and used by those in the movement. But her focus is Arabic calligraphy with social messages. “I don’t pick any side,” explained the street artist, “whether it be about politics or religion.” Chaaban’s work is instead about critical thinking and co-existence. But in a city like Tripoli, that is not always easy. Tripoli has increasingly become known as a conflict-ridden place. Foreigners are advised against visiting and many Lebanese have never stepped foot in the northern coastal city. The reason behind the city’s violent reputation is closely related to a sectarian conflict between two neighborhoods, the Sunni quarter of Bab al-Tabbaneh and the Alawite area Jabel Mohsen. The old schism between the areas has intensified as a result of the continuing war in neighboring Syria. Most people in Bab al-Tabbaneh praise the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, while the majority of the residents in Jabel Mohsen support the Syrian president. The city is also known as “Tripoli of Syria” due to its connection to the country’s war-torn neighbor. What happens in Syria is believed to have a direct effect on the Lebanese city. “It could even be argued that Tripoli has become an integral part of the Syrian conflict,” argued researcher and author Raphael Lefèvre in a recent report for the Carnegie Middle East Center. In the area where Chaaban lives, Abu Samra, situated on a hilltop overlooking the city, hang posters of young men who died while fighting in Syria. Many are portrayed as martyrs for the Islamic State, which has a number of supporters in Tripoli. Several Islamic State affiliates have been arrested in the city. “They exist,” admitted Chaaban, “but it’s a very small group.” Yet, these individuals have contributed to Tripoli’s bad reputation. Strolling through downtown Tripoli, Chaaban shows her murals across the city center. The young artist points out that the city’s reputation is not representative of the city at large. It’s mostly isolated to certain areas and perpetuated by a small group of people. Chaaban hopes that her art will not only reinforce the city’s beauty, but also that its citizens will reflect on the murals’ social messages. Nevertheless, a number of events have continued to taint the city’s reputation. In 2013, two mosques were targeted in an attack, which killed 47 people — making it the deadliest since the country’s 15-yearlong civil war in the 1980s. Human Rights Watch called on the Lebanese authorities to protect Tripoli’s 500,000 inhabitants by confiscating weapons and arresting gunmen. “The Lebanese government can’t afford to sit on its hands,” stated the watchdog. During one of the peaks of fighting in 2012 another of the city’s young women found her escape not in calligraphy, but in music. While the fighting escalated on a spring morning in May on the other side of the city, a piano tune would make peace advocate

ignity is a misunderstood concept. It can be considered intrinsic to the self-worth of humans, or a virtue or merit that we attempt to gain. Claiming that dignity is to be earned—as Pope Francis has done repeatedly since his papacy began in March 2013, and especially during in his recent visit to the United States— goes against the claim that dignity is intrinsic. This recurring theme of dignity through work implies that people may not have dignity until they get a job. So are they worthless without one? Elevating dignity to the status of what makes us human beings, and yet maintaining that it is dependent on external factors, triggers contradictory mechanisms. When it is dependent on work, for instance, a job is provided as a guarantee to satisfy so-called dignity, while the working conditions on the job and treatment of the workers may belie this. Another example is the combination of dignity with nationalism, which was particularly used in the Arab Spring uprisings as I argue in my work; but chanting the dignity of a nation can come at the price of individual liberties. If these liberties are not aligned with the nation’s demands, they are not deemed worthy. This prioritisation of national dignity over individual dignity contributes to the identity crises in the Arab Spring societies and reveals a confused understanding of dignity. In the case of Egypt, for instance, the centrality of modernist and Arabist discourse put forward the need for progress by means of challenging the traditional and religious settings of society. In this scenario, religious discourse became associated with ‘backwardness’ and the Muslim Brotherhood, as a re-

Heba Rachrach known. As she sat at home, the then21-year-old started recording her song before she was disrupted by an explosion. But instead of stopping, Rachrach decided to stay resilient and continued to play, drowning out the noise with the sound of the piano. At the end of the day, she uploaded the clip “Stop the violence in Tripoli” on YouTube and it quickly went viral. “The bombings fulfilled people’s stereotypes about Tripoli because the city has a reputation of being unsafe,” explained Rachrach, “and home to terrorists and extremists.” Despite being safer than before, she argues, it is difficult for the city to break free from the negative connotations many have of it. But youth initiatives across the city are trying to change the city’s reputation. Rachrach is involved in perhaps the most well-known initiative, We Love Tripoli, which is trying to change not only people’s perception of the city, but also give voice to the youth through cultural and social activism by arranging events where they can come together and discuss their social grievances. Nobody is doing this type of work here, explained Rachrach. Perhaps that is why it has been so successful. Created in 2007 as a youthled online community on Facebook, We Love Tripoli has almost 60,000 likes today. “They do lots of social activities to make Tripoli a

better place,” explained one of its supporters, 25-yearold Bassem Alameddine, who has been involved for two years. He was introduced to the initiative through a friend when he realized that many of his acquaintances were already involved. “I hope we can deliver a message to outsiders that the city is not as dangerous as they think,” he said. The city’s youth are keen to do social work to improve Tripoli, he explained. We Love Tripoli helps young people to appreciate their city and thereby protect and care for it. The organization’s frequent activities include photography excursions, called “Shoot as you walk,” which aims to photograph new sides of the city and document its hidden beauty. This is Alameddine’s favorite activity, discovering his city’s gems. There are also regular movie screenings and workshops on topics such as recycling. The aim is to bring the youth together and promote a volunteer spirit to, for example, strengthen young people’s connection to their city and protect its cultural heritage. Many of the city’s young are keen to establish an alternative narrative to the mainstream about Tripoli. According to Rachrach the media is playing an essential role in presenting the city as conflict-ridden. However, there is more to Tripoli than the mainstream media headlines and its residents’ are working hard to prove it to the outside world.

What price dignity? Zaynab el Bernoussi

Tying dignity to external factors such as work, nationalism, or state policy, impedes efforts towards a universal understanding of dignity for all ligious group, were therefore challenging the dignity implied by the modernist discourse in Egypt; the Brotherhood paid the price of their ‘backwardness’ and became marginalised and even enemies of the state. In this case, we see an example of how the dignity of a nation (and a nation-state) has come at the price of individual liberties, such as the political and religious. In the context of an authoritative national dignity that delineates specific measures to protect the interests of the state, such as abiding by the political agenda of national progress despite its violations of private life and of individual liberties, the Arab Spring uprisings were an expression of discontent with this suffocating stateimposed dignity, which was more for the benefit of the overall economy rather than their daily lives. The protesters demanded mundane survival needs such as bread and ability to marry (since living costs and unemployment have made it harder), as well as self-actualisation needs such as dignity and social justice. These different demands were often put into

one slogan, such as variations of the famous, “bread, freedom, justice, and dignity,” which were chanted in both Tunis and Cairo, among others places during the Arab Spring. Another example of the dynamics of dignity politics is that of the Eurocrisis and the Greek debt issue. The reelected Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, has claimed the need to acknowledge the dignity of the Greek people in the face of economic asphyxia, receiving popular support. Tsipras’s campaign for Greek people to vote against the European austerity package was also supported by his appeals to dignity, which became Syriza’s leitmotif. It may seem hard to reject such calls for dignity; however, it is also important to question the need to present the dignity of the people as interwoven with money and materiality. This association between dignity and money could jeopardise an understanding of dignity that is independent from economic status. The pragmatic uses of language to express demands for dignity also reveal a language-power nexus. For

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instance, the dignity claims used by groups defending same-sex marriage rights in the United States supported the federalisation of same-sex marriage rights across the country, using a language-power nexus by which it was often claimed that opposing same-sex marriage rights was unconstitutional and against the dignity of US citizens, when, in fact, there is no single reference to dignity in the US constitution. Justice Clarence Thomas opposed these claims, triggering greater attention to the subject of same-sex marriage as an expression of dignity. He compared the struggles of same-sex marriage rights’ partisans to that of Civil Rights movement activists and argued that in both struggles dignity was not at stake, because people’s dignity is not dependent on state policies. Different groups may have different and conflicting interests, which trigger a politicisation of dignity in order to justify their rights or serve their own interests. Indeed, the recent claim for samesex marriage rights has, in some way, gained power and legitimacy by being associated with the claim for dignity. So, refusing the right to same-sex marriage becomes a violation of humanity and activates the desire to dignity. Attaching the understanding of dignity to different sorts of gains (civil rights, jobs, or debt renegotiation) can help with campaigning; yet the problem with materialising dignity is that it constrains it to the game of politics and to the dexterity and tactics of interest groups. The materialisation of dignity also impedes the need for a widespread understanding of an unquestionable dignity of people, whatever their status or their gains (or losses).

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Hunting in the Hills of Nagaland Michael Snyder

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t’s strange, in retrospect, that I responded so enthusiastically when my friend Chumei Konyak asked me if I wanted her brother to take me hunting. I’m American, born and raised, but I grew up in a nice liberal part of suburban Baltimore where it was normal for parents to forbid their kids from going near any house that had a gun in it, as my parents did—in part because those houses were few and far between. Guns were machines for killing, we were taught. They were not for fun. I’d been thinking for a while of taking a several-week break from my home in hyperkinetic Mumbai to go traveling around the Indian state of Nagaland, a remote tag of lush tribal hills stitched to the eastern hem of the Himalayas where India dissolves into Myanmar, and had called Chumei to see about finishing the trip at her village near the state’s northeastern corner. At that point, I’d never so much as fired a gun, let alone fired a gun at something, but when she made her suggestion, I thought, What the hell?— of course I wanted to go hunting. She made me promise not to use her name or her family members’ names or the name of her village in the piece I planned to write (which is to say none of these names are real). Outsiders have been welcome in Nagaland for the past decade, she explained, but we are not, by law, welcome as predators of the local fauna. There could be legal complications and neither she nor I wanted any part of that. I gave my word, crossed my heart and hoped not to die. When I arrived in Chumei’s village a month later, a place called Moping (again: not a real place, though a totally plausible name—there are settlements in neighboring districts called Chatting and Kidding), the first person I met was a bootlegger whose nickname translates into English as “A Million,” in honor, he told me, of his wiliness with cash. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon and he’d come from his house in the next village over with a crowd of men, a case of rum, and the aim of purchasing a cow for the Christmas festivities a few months hence. But the rum had gone faster than the negotiations, and when I turned up, any fleeting chance of regaining focus went squarely out the proverbial window. Plopping a felt cowboy hat on his balding head, A Million slurred a string of the usual questions: What was my country? Where did I live? Why was I in Nagaland? I told him I’d come to Nagaland to write about food, and to Moping to hunt. He heaved a toothless laugh and told Chumei’s brother, Chingwang, who was sitting beside me, to take me out boar hunting in the rice paddies one night. Chingwang—tall and handsome with bright eyes and a quick, gasping laugh that rewards even the laziest quip—took a sip of rum, a puff of his cigarette, and smiled: “Let’s see,” he said. The 36 tribal groups that identify as Nagas first came to these hills about two millennia ago from some unknown corner of the east. Until the advent of Christianity in the 19th century, they were notoriously fearsome headhunters living in bamboo-built hilltop villages, each its own independent fiefdom. They used shifting cultivation to grow rice, millet, and maize, but most of their food came from the jungle: wild greens and starches made from the trunks of fish-tail palms, bamboo shoots fermented and dried, fish and crabs from the rivers. And, of course, bushmeat— wild boars and deer, opossums and squirrels, jungle fowl and wild pigeons, and every manner of insect. For their first two millennia in the hills, the Nagas came to the plains almost exclusively to trade for salt and metal, using the latter to fashion the weapons they used on the hunt. The Konyak tribe developed a tradition of gun-craft, still practiced in a few villages. They used coins to make bullets and prepared gunpowder from a combination of tree bark the ammonia from crystallized human urine. According to local lore, when the British showed up in the Konyak areas late in the 19th century, brandishing their guns like the cocksure colonialists they were, one of the Konyak chiefs took the new visitors to his house and showed them his own gunrack, as if to say, “Yes. And?” So the British introduced opium and the Konyak were subdued. Neighboring tribes, like the Ao and the Lotha, came under the influence of Baptist missionaries from America and quickly gave up their more war-like tendencies in favor of Christ’s beneficence. When the Brits made their hasty retreat from the Subcontinent in 1947, they drew a shoddy border, north to south, down a ridge in the Himalayan foothills, dividing the Naga territories between the new nation of India and what would soon be Burma, thereby setting the stage for what is now one of the longest running insurgencies in Asia. Tensions mounted into the early 1950s, and Naga leaders retreated to the jungle, where their political movement became a guerilla one. Violence broke out in 1953 and reached its orgiastic climax with the mass inferno of 1956: by July of that year, the military had burned at least 200 villages to the ground, forcing the villagers to join the militants in the jungle. In the village of Monsengyimti, I stayed for a few days with a man called Dentang (the uncle of a friend’s sisterin-law—hospitality casts a wide net up in the hills) who remembered the dispersion vividly. “When they burned our houses, we scattered out of fear,” he said. “They burned all our rice stores, too, but we collected even the burnt rice and crushed it and we ate that. All we could think of was surviving.” From April until October, they lived in the jungle, surviving on bamboo shoots and jungle vegetables, whatever fish they could gather from the rivers, and whatever meager supply of meat they could catch with slingshots and bamboo traps. They had to cook in the daytime lest fires at night attract the attention of the army. Guns were out of the question. In the last decade, things have calmed down considerably. The villages have all long since been rebuilt, the larger rebel factions have signed ceasefires with the Indians, and as you read this, peace talks (mysterious and controversial and, most Nagas I met seem to think, bogus) are underway between the largest of the insurgent factions and the central government. To outside eyes, Nagaland could hardly seem more pastoral, more peaceful—until, that is, you see a jeep rumbling down a country road with a machine-gun mounted to its roof, or notice the perfunctory weekly visits that armed troops still make in villages like Moping. At night along the mucky, pockmarked tracks that pass for roads in Nagaland, army checkpoints materialize spontaneously out of the fog. In some districts, the Konyak areas among them, insurgent factions still live as jungle nomads, and still launch the occasional attack on army convoys. So while things are probably calmer now than they’ve ever been in Nagaland, most people are fed up. The army presence remains oppressive. Violent flare-ups are hardly unheard of. And the insurgent factions themselves— known collectively as The Underground—aren’t really freedom fighters anymore, they’re succubae, running a parallel government that extracts its own taxes and de-

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Freshly caught fish boiling with banana stem, bamboo shoot, chili, ginger.

Mud crabs and wild ferns from the paddy field.

mands tribute from villagers. A friend living in Mokokchung, one of Nagaland’s bigger towns, told me, “It’s not that the national feeling has died, but there’s a lot of frustration.” And in any case, it’s hard to believe—at this late date, living in a state that still relies almost entirely on central government funding and government jobs for its survival—that a sovereign Naga state would be viable at all. Even Dentang, who’d lived through the depredations of the early war years and the horrors of Indian military aggression, said, “We still believe in the cause, but who wants to fight? And what could come of it when we’re still so poor?” The Nagas are stuck between the rock that is India and the hard, beautiful place that is their home. Over the last century, the Naga have shed cultural traditions like excess skin. They’ve traded animist ritual for Christian sacraments, woven sarongs for Western clothes, and folk songs for classic rock (people here listen to bands like Journey with alarming sincerity). The insurgency itself might be next. But food, remarkably, has remained virtually unchanged, and hunting—legal and conservation issues notwithstanding—doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. Farm-raised beef and pork—sometimes fresh, sometimes smoked—are easier to come by than they’ve ever been before, and I ate both in gut-bursting quantities during my three weeks in Nagaland, cooked with sesame and fermented fish, or with pounded and smoked yam leaves, or with a malodorous fermented soy paste called axone. But the real delicacies are wild: river fish boiled with ferns, wild tortoise with fresh bamboo shoot. On one especially memorable evening in a village called Changki (real name), I ate a stew of deer intestines cooked in blood, shimmering with the pins-and-needles burn of Sichuan peppercorn. The deer had been hunted the day before and, in Naga village tradition, divided up among the local families so every member of the community could share in the forest’s bounty. I was staying at the time with the village youth pastor, an earnest 28-year-old with tidily parted black hair, at the shiny new church dormitory, where the dazzlingly white concrete walls reverberated with Christian pop at all hours of the day. But this dish was warrior food if ever I’ve tasted it: simple and robust, driven by three big flavors—game, iron, that Sichuan dazzle—each distinct and powerful as a gunshot. I couldn’t immediately convince Chingwang and his cousins Anden and Aman to take me hunting, so on my second day in Moping, they took me fishing instead. We drove Chingwang’s turquoise Royal Enfield out to one of the family’s tea gardens, took out the motorcycle’s battery, and fixed it to a wooden panel that Aman carried on his back, attached by wires to a makeshift pitchfork. We hiked down into the valley past rice fields, orange groves, teak forest, and finally into the jungle, profuse with bamboo and banana trees and butterflies, black and blue like bruises on the rocks that lined the streambed. Chingwang turned on the battery and, as we followed the water to the main river, he prodded at the surface, intent and vaguely smiling, like someone scanning the sand for gold. At the river, Anden waded into the water with a more analog tool, a weighted net, and cast it blindly into the heavy tide. For lunch, we cut the stem from a banana tree, crushed its glossy white core to a rough, sticky pulp, and mixed it with salt, ginger, garlic, dry fermented bamboo shoot, king chili (one of the hottest known to man), and wild ferns, all of which we boiled with our modest pull of eels, fish, and one or two tiny red shrimp. The result: a hearty mass of fish

Pork fat smoking over an open fire in a typical Naga kitchen.

and banana stem—hot from the chili, mildly funky from the bamboo, with a texture somewhere between tapioca and celery—and a pretty nigh-flawless fish broth, which we drank from narrow-mouthed cups made of bamboo. We drank rum and smoked and swam in the river, fastrunning and muddy from rain the night before. The sky was bright as a reflection on glass. It was a perfect day. Two mornings later, Chingwang, Anden, and Aman finally agreed to let me tag along on one of their near-daily hunting trips. We walked down to a valley on the other side of Moping, a steep descent on moss-slick rocks past paddy fields and more tea gardens. Fingers of dark-gray cloud gripped the crests of the hills, an impending storm playing hide and seek with the valley. Under the forest’s canopy it was dusk dark and stagnant, the air damp as wet wool. We’d carried three guns among the four of us, and I spent the better part of three hours sitting in a clearing, nibbling on the sweet, white fruit of wild cardamom bushes and waiting. Every now and then I’d hear a rustling overhead and wait for the sound of a shot. None came. We didn’t net a single bird. “Sorry, today was no good,” Chingwang said afterward as we sipped tea in a simple thatched hut at Anden’s tea garden. To make up for it, he handed me his shotgun and showed me how to brace it against my shoulder and direct my aim at a target he’d fashioned from an unripe pomelo and a stick. I fired—and missed, of course. But I was smiling giddily, nonetheless. As it turns out, hunting, like an unwinnable battle, really isn’t much fun—unless, that is, you’re the one holding the gun.

hen you hear the term “life purpose,” you probably envision people who are following a higher calling like priests, nuns, missionaries, doctors and scientists. In other words, people who are doing important work in the world. People like these are certainly living a purpose; however, a life purpose doesn’t have to be so magnanimous either. There are many people who feel intimidated by or resistant to the concept of a life calling. But, a “purpose” can be as simple as an intention or a resolution. For a more scientific definition of purpose, purpose is a central, self-organizing life aim that organizes and stimulates goals, manages behaviours, and provides a sense of meaning. Instead of governing behaviour, purpose offers direction just as a compass offers direction to a navigator; following that compass (i.e., purpose) is optional. Living in accord with one’s purpose offers that person a self-sustaining source of meaning through goal pursuit and goal attainment. There's much more meaning in life once you know your purpose. However, the idea of just how important and powerful having purpose in our lives doesn’t really hit us until it is taken from or lost upon us. As kids, we never really gave it a second thought. By default, purpose was given to us by those around us. Go to school, get good grades, hang out with your friends, watch movies, have fun, repeat. Upon graduation from school, that purpose “expires” and a void is left in its place to be filled. But the problem is that many people don’t know what to fill that void with because it’s been filled by others around them their entire life so it’s no wonder why they (including me) have so much difficulty with it in the first place. The million dollar question then arises. What is your purpose? Well.. one cannot give another, that answer. Having somebody else tell you your purpose is counter intuitive to a certain degree. Sure, anyone can give a person suggestion as to what his purpose can or should be. Some meditate. Some ask other people who’ve found their purpose. Some engage in deep introspection. Purpose will be different for many of us simply because we were raised in different circumstances, different cultures, have different beliefs, etc. In Christian’s perspective, we are created in God's image for relationship with him. Being in that relationship is the only thing that will ultimately satisfy our souls. Until we come to know God, we've had many wonderful experiences, but we haven't hit the right cord. Coming to researches, having a purpose in life may actually have several benefits such as; feeling that you have a sense of purpose in life may help you live longer, no matter what your age, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. In a another study, published in the Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers have found that inflammatory gene expression was low and antiviral and antibody gene expression was high among people who found joy from having a greater purpose in life. Patrick E. McKnight and Todd B. Kashdan in their study, “Purpose in Life as a System That Creates and Sustains Health and WellBeing: An Integrative, Testable Theory” concludes that purpose helps organize several areas of research (e.g., meaning and goals) across many disciplines (e.g., social, behavioural, biological, and cognitive science). In summary, purpose provides a framework for both researchers to understand how people live and individuals to guide how to live. Thus, as you find your purpose, own it and watch as your life slowly sculpts and shape up as it was intended to be.

“I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition. They reach the summit last because they know God isn’t at the top waiting for them. He is down below helping his followers to understand that the view is glorious where ever you stand.”

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Geeta arrives home after thirteen years in Pakistan 'Geeta refuses to recognise family, will conduct DNA test'

Geeta waves as she comes out from an airport after her arrival in New Delhi on October 26. (REUTERS Photo)

KARACHI, OCtObeR 26 (ReuteRs): A deaf-mute Indian girl stranded in Pakistan for 13 years after wandering over one of the world's most militarised borders arrived home on Monday but failed to recognise the family she has identified from photographs. The story of Geeta, a Hindu woman in her early 20s, has captivated people in both countries at a time of heightened tension and border clashes between the nuclear-armed rivals. "It doesn't matter if we find her parents or not, she is a daughter of India and we will take care of her," Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj told a news conference.

Geeta was about 11 when she crossed from India into Pakistan. Exactly how is not clear but Geeta mimes an explosion and shows how she ducked and ran before being caught by armed men. At first, she was kept at a children's home in Lahore, where she was given the Muslim name Fatima. She would point at maps of India, especially to an area in the south of Jharkhand until she was able to finally communicate she was from India, not Pakistan. Early on Monday, Geeta left the charity bound for the airport in the city of Karachi for a flight to New Delhi. Wearing a traditional red outfit with her head covered by a

New DelHI, OCtObeR 26 (IANs): As Geeta - a hearing and speech impaired young woman who returned to India on Monday from Pakistan after more than a decade - has refused to recognise people who claimed to be her lost family members, a DNA test would be conducted to clear the air. "Geeta has refused to recognise her family after meeting them. The Indian government will still conduct a DNA test," Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj told a press conference on Monday. "Since four families from as many states have claimed Geeta to be their daughter, I have written to the chief ministers of these states to probe the claim. For the time being, we are sending Geeta to an institution in Indore (Madhya Pradesh)," Sushma Swaraj said. Geeta was left stranded in Pakistan after accidentally crossing the border. Geeta, now in her early 20s, was found sitting alone on the Samjhauta Express by the Pakistan Rangers at the Lahore railway station in 2003. She was adopted by Pakistan NGO Edhi Foundation's Bilquees Edhi and lived with her since then in Karachi.

loose scarf, she smiled and waved to television cameras after leaving the airport in New Delhi. "Geeta stayed with us for 13 years. Now it's time for her to go home," said Faisal Edhi, son of the founder of Edhi Foundation, a Pakistani charity that looked after the girl. She headed to meet a family from Bihar whom she says she recognised from photos sent by the Indian High Commission in Pakistan. Swaraj said if a DNA test proves the family is not hers she will be sent to a temporary home run by a charity and the search for her parents would continue.

Hostilities have kept apart many families since majority-Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan became separate countries in 1947. Geeta's arrival came after Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged fire along a 100 km (60 mile) stretch of their frontier overnight, an Indian Border Security Force spokesman said. Her story attracted much attention following the release this year of a film called "Bajrangi Bhaijaan", in which an Indian man finds a mute Pakistani girl and tries to reunite her with her family. The scriptwriters were unaware of Geeta's story but the movie led to a surge in interest.

Mafia don Chhota Rajan arrested in Bali mumbAI/New DelHI, OCt 26 (IANs): Absconding mafia don Rajendra Sadashiv Nikhalje alias Chhota Rajan, a trusted aide turned bitter foe of mob boss Dawood Ibrahim, has been arrested in the Indonesian resort Bali, Indian authorities said on Monday. CBI director Anil Kumar Sinha said Chhota Rajan, who once operated out of Mumbai and was wanted in India for a series of serious crimes, was taken into custody on Sunday when he was travelling under a false identity -- Mohan Kumar. Sinha said the 55-year-old gangster was also involved in the killing of veteran Mumbai journalist J. Dey in Mumbai on June 11, 2011. Home Minister Rajnath Singh thanked Interpol and the Indonesian government for nabbing Chhota Rajan, who began life as a black marketer of movie tickets before embracing murders, extortion, kidnappings and more. It was not clear how and when Chhota Rajan would be brought to India as New Delhi and Jakarta don't have an extradition pact. Some reports said he would be deported to India later this week. "India was active on this case... I want to thank Interpol and the Indonesian government for this. Post-verification, investigation will be taken forward," Rajnath Singh said in New Delhi. This is billed as the biggest victory for Indian security agencies after the arrest of mafia don Abu Salem Ansari in Portugal in September 2002. He was deported to India in November 2005. Chhota Rajan operated from Chembur and surroundings in Mumbai from the mid1970s when he became a trusted henchman of Dawood, now India's most wanted don who reportedly lives in Pakistan. Dawood and Chhota Rajan fell out after the bloody March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts that Dawood ordered to avenge the communal riots in the city two months previously and the earlier Babri mosque razing. Chhota Rajan slipped out of India in

1995 and remained on the run till his arrest on Sunday. According to media reports, the don -- declared a wanted man by Interpol since 1995 -- flew into Bali, home to a large number of Hindus, from Sydney on Sunday afternoon. The arrest is expected to have both immediate and long-term implications for Mumbai's underworld. The Indonesian police acted following a tip from from their Australian counterparts, a Bali police official said. The Australian Federal Police had been tracking Chhota Rajan. Chhota Rajan started life as a black marketer of movie tickets over two decades ago. Slowly, he took to murders, extortion, kidnappings and other serious crimes once he joined the Mumbai underworld. Born in a middle-class Marathi family, Nikhalje earned the nickname Chhota Rajan when he took over the gang of his mentor, Rajan Nair alias Bada Rajan, who was killed in the 1970s. He then joined Dawood's crime syndicate, popularly known as "D Company". Apprehending serious threats to his life after his rift with Dawood, Chhota Rajan reportedly took the help of Indian authorities to escape to Dubai under a fresh identity. It was during the heyday of the Mumbai underworld in the 1980s and 1990s that the two gangs were engaged in bloody street wars, leading to many "encounter killings" by police. The Mumbai Police finally gained an upper hand over the mafia by 2000. In September 2000, Dawood's men led by Chhota Shakeel tracked down Chhota Rajan to a hotel room in Bangkok. Posing as pizza delivery boys, they opened fire at him. A stunned Chhota Rajan jumped out of the hotel's first floor room and escaped but was seriously injured in the fall, breaking his back. But he survived and slipped out of Thailand. His arrest has raised possibilities of the Indian authorities catching up with the infamous Dawood, police sources said.

CVC seeks SC clarification on General as NSA makes talks with India tough: Pakistan daily sharing confidential information IslAmAbAD, OCtObeR 26 any space from the civilian govern- the case of India, that was what formation in 2013 to retain the for- "Even on India, the only forNew DelHI, OCtObeR 26 (IANs): The Supreme Court will hear on November 12 the Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC) application seeking clarification whether it could share, with CBI's former special director M.L. Sharma, the confidential reports on coal block scam that it had submitted to the top court in sealed cover. The coal bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur. Justice Kurian Joseph and Justice A.K. Sikri had appointed the Central Bureau of Investigation official M.L. Sharma to inquire whether the meetings that the then agency chief Ranjit Sinha had with the accused in coal block allocation scam in any way impacted the investigations or their final outcome. The CVC has sought the clarification pointing to the "confidentiality" of the information sought by Sharma and the "nature and scope of the inquiry" to be undertaken by him as ordered by the apex court by its May 14, 2015 order. The apex court by its September 14 order had allowed Sharma to access whatever records he felt necessary for the purposes of undertaking his inquiry. Sharma, in a September 28 communication, asked the CVC to make available to him its comments on the investigation by the CBI in each of the 254 coal blocks. He has also asked the CVC to provide him the correspondence that might have been exchanged between it and the CBI on the subject. The report sought by Sharma from the CVC relates to one that the vigilance watchdog had submitted to the apex court in sealed cover after scrutinising the CBI investigation into each of 254 coal blocks whose allocation was under cloud. It had undertaken the screening of the CBI probe into the coal block allocation cases following the apex court's March 28, 2014 directions.

(IANs): If talks between India and Pakistan take place, "they are now likely to have a very different tone and tenor" due to the appointment of a retired army general as Pakistan's NSA, a leading daily said on Monday. An editorial "NSA appointment" in the influential daily Dawn said that in the appointment of recently retired army general Nasser Khan Janjua as the country’s new national security adviser are two stories. "The first story is the military’s attempt to wrest away seemingly

led to the debacle that was Ufa. "...It is difficult to imagine Janjua being at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s side and an Ufa-type declaration being approved by the Pakistani side." "Moreover, if talks do go ahead between the Indian and Pakistani NSAs, they are now likely to have a very different tone and tenor than if a PML-N appointee were to lead those talks," it added. Giving the other side of the story, the editorial noted the failings of the civilians. "It was Sharif’s decision at the time of the cabinet

eign and defence ministry portfolios for himself that set in motion a chain of events that have led to the present sorry state of affairs." "Compounding that original mistake, Aziz was made both special adviser on foreign affairs and NSA - merging foreign policy with national security to no obvious benefit and allowing both the Foreign Office and the NSA position to suffer," it added. The daily noted that the listless foreign policy performance of the government "created the opportunity for deep military intrusion".

eign policy issue the prime minister has shown sustained interest in, there have been a series of errors, culminating with Ufa, which has virtually eliminated any possibility of civilian initiatives on India," the daily said. "If the military has eagerly grabbed space for itself, it is partly because a three-term prime minister and his veteran advisers have proved utterly inept in the foreign policy and national security domains. "...Worryingly, the government may find itself further squeezed out, even domestically."

Child rapists must be castrated: Madras HC to Centre Australia, India sign MoU CHeNNAI, OCtObeR 26 US, Poland and Russia have al- ists should first exhibit sympathy for joint research, teaching (AgeNCIes): In an interesting ready enforced castration for sex with, and support to, the victims

order, Madras High Court has suggested castration as punishment for child rapists. While passing the order, Justice N Kirubakaran said, "The court cannot be a silent spectator, unmoved and oblivious of the horrible blood curdling gang-rapes of children in various parts of India." While recommending the Central government to make castration a punishment for child sexual abuse, Justice N Kirubakaran said, the court is sure the castration of child rapists will fetch magical results. The HC buXAR/sIwAN, OCtObeR 26 (tNN): Facing allega- pointed out that countries like tion that the Centre was out to scrap the reservation at the RSS' behest, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday tried to turn the tables on the grand alliance, accusing the RJD, JD (U) and Congress of conspiring to deprive the existing quota beneficiaries (SCs, STs and OBCs) of their share by deducting 5% of it to offer to people on the New DelHI, OCtObeR 26 basis of religion. "When discussions were held in the Constituent as- (PtI): Information and Broadsembly under Rajendra Prasad and Bhim Rao Ambedkar, casting Minister Arun Jaitley on it was unanimously decided that reservation would not Monday said the “age of bans” be given on the basis of religion. But the grand alliance on the media is over, observing leaders are conspiring to extend the facility to particu- that it is “literally impossible” to lar religious groups," he said and added any such move implement them. Delivering the Sardar Patel would lead to the curtailment of existing benefits for the socially and economically backward sections as the apex lecture organised by All India Radio (AIR) here, Mr. Jaitley, who is court has ruled that quota cannot exceed 50%. "I will not let such a plot succeed even if it involves also the Finance Minister, noted sacrificing my life," the PM thundered while addressing a that while the right to freedom of rally in favour of NDA candidates in Buxar district, which expression has expanded in India through successive judicial will go to the polls on October 28. Training guns on the alliance for its alleged attempts verdicts and technological adto divide the society on religious lines, Modi called the vances, its misuse continues to tie-up among RJD, Congress and JD (U) an "opportunistic happen. “Many believe, and I am one alliance" for power. He questioned Congress for joining hands with RJD and JD (U) which opposed the Bill on res- of those who do believe, that the ervation for women. "Today Nitish and Lalu are talking of age of bans is now over. It is literreservation. It was the RJD and JD (U) which opposed the ally impossible if not very diffiBill when it was introduced in Parliament by Congress- cult to implement them,” he said. “Should the state step in? As led UPA government," Modi recalled, trying to corner Nitish who has promised 35% reservation to women in far as possible, no,” he said. The minister noted that while government jobs. Attacking Nitish's party for patronising corrupt peo- print media and to a large exple, Modi asked why the government is not acting against tent electronic media adopt discorrupt ministers and MLAs. "A Bihar minister was seen cretions in their content, social taking money a few days back. Now a JD (U) MLA is seen media completely lacks such a in a video not only accepting money and counting it but mechanism. He pointed out that makers of also demanding more to fix a deal," he said.

Will never allow quota on religious lines: PM Modi

ment in the national security and foreign policy domains. In capturing the NSA slot, there are several advantages to the military." "The NSA is an important job and offers direct access to the civilian side of key foreign countries, which only awkwardly have been able to officially liaise with the military thus far. As NSA, Sartaj Aziz played a frontline role in reaching out to Afghanistan and India - and did so in a manner that reflected the civilian government’s priorities," it said. The daily pointed out that in

offences against children. “This court could foresee that the suggestion of ‘castration’ would be surely condemned, censured and criticised as barbaric, punitive, draconian, cruel, etc. Inspite of many penal laws and the recent POCSO Act, 2012, prescribing severe punishment for crimes against children, the number of such cases has increased from 38,172 in 2012 to 58,224 in 2013 and to 89,423 in 2014,” the HC order said. The judge noted that between 2012 and 2014 the number of these crimes had increased from 38,172 to 89,423. “Those activ-

of such crimes by visiting and consoling them at the hour of crisis instead of having misplaced sympathy with the perpetrators under the usual banner of ‘human rights violation’. They must remember that ‘human rights’ is not a term restricted to, and reserved only, for offenders, the order read.” The court passed the order on October 16 while hearing a petition of a youth hailing from Tamil Nadu. The 18-year-old boy alleged that a British national sexually abused him in 2011 after promising his mother that he would take care of his education.

HyDeRAbAD, OCtObeR 26 (IANs): Australia's Deakin University and the Indian School of Business (ISB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for joint research and teaching. They will collaborate in the areas of research, teaching, student exchange programmes, internationalising the curriculum of business programmes offered by ISB and Deakin Business School, and in development of innovative approaches to meeting international accreditation standards. Deakin Business School (DBS) dean Michael Ewing and ISB senior associate dean, Faulty and Research, Sridhar Seshadri signed the MoU. The MoU has been signed for an initial period of three years. "The faculty have visited each other's institutions on a few occasions already and we recently successfully piloted a joint, synchronous case study, whereby ISB and DBS students analysed the same case study in real-time," said Ewing. "This is a great opportunity for us to expand the frontiers of research globally with a likeminded partner," said Sridhar Seshadri.

Age of bans on media is over: Arun Jaitley “National security not higher than secrecy of sources” New DelHI, OCtObeR 26 (PtI): Journalists have the right to conceal and protect their sources in public interest but when it comes to national security, secrecy of sources cannot be of higher importance, information and broadcasting minister Arun Jaitley said on Monday. Delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture here, he said a long-pending dispute or issue of debate is about the right of journalists regarding protecting their sources. “I think the way courts world over have moved, is the correct direction. There is no fundamental right to conceal your sources but there is public interest which enables you to conceal your sources. And that public interest therefore will always have to be balanced with competing public interest,” Jaitley, himself a lawyer of repute, said. He said that if it’s a matter of individual reputhe Constitution rightly held that freedom of speech and expression is not absolute and subject to reasonable restrictions which were specifically defined. “In a society where because of multi-religious, multi-cultural reasons there are sensitivi-

tation, the public interest of secrecy of source will have to be maintained but if it is national security, “national security will be considered much higher than the secrecy of sources itself”. That’s how the trends of decision making world over is moving, he said. In the lecture, Jaitley also referred to various other issues related to media including procedures of defamation. Referring to the demand related to decriminalisation of defamation, he said that it has been seen that countries which have decriminalised it are the ones where the civil proceedings regarding such an offence are expeditious. He also said with the advent of Internet, the situation has changed and any news published in one part of the globe can be read in another and various jurisdictions deal with defamatory content differently.

ties, what do we do if somebody crosses the Lakshman Rekha itself? What would the Indian society have done if instead of the Danish cartoonist, it would have been an Indian cartoonist? “And therefore we have criminal laws in provision but then in

extreme cases, very reluctantly so, some power of restraint in larger interest so that it doesn’t disturb public order, and that is where those 1950s restrictions imposed in Article 19(2) itself will have an important role to play,” he said.

Jaitley said that in a changing media landscape, with the arrival of electronic media, news became more sensational. “News was what Television cameras could capture. What cameras can’t capture won’t be news. A major Africa summit will be some news, but a young girl returning home from Pakistan would be big news because the Television captures it differently,” he added. He said that there is now a difference between actual news and channel driven news. “As the marketeers of news express their right to free speech, the viewer or the reader’s right to information and knowledge itself is also getting impacted,” he said. Speaking about social media, he said while citizens have got a voice, it is an unregulated medium and there is also a large amount of false, defamatory and also damaging content. The minister said that in this situation, we have to rely on a sense of fairness of those who participate on social media.

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No joke: Guatemalan comedian wins presidency

Jimmy Morales, presidential candidate for the National Convergence Front party (FCN) shows his ink-stained finger after casting his vote at a polling station in Guatemala City on October 25. (REUTERS Photo)

GUATEMALA CITY, OCTObEr 26 (rEUTErs): Jimmy Morales, a former TV comedian who has never held office, swept to power in Guatemala’s presidential election on Sunday after milking public anger over a corruption scandal that deepened distrust of the country’s political establishment. The 46-year-old Morales overwhelmingly beat center-left rival and former first lady Sandra Torres in a run-off vote despite his lack of government experience and some policy ideas that strike many as eccentric. The headquarters of Morales’ center-right National Convergence Front (FCN) party erupted in celebration as official returns

showed he had nearly 69 percent support in a landslide victory. Voters pointed to widespread discontent with Guatemala’s political class, compounded by an U.N.-backed investigation into a multi-million dollar customs racket that led last month to the resignation and arrest of former president Otto Perez. “As president I received a mandate, and the mandate of the people of Guatemala is to fight against the corruption that is consuming us,” Morales said on Sunday night. The U.S. government has strongly supported the U.N.backed investigators and their success has helped push against corruption in Central America, where

economic hardship and gang violence spurred an exodus of migrants to the United States. However, the anti-graft fervor has also led to the election of an unknown quantity in Guatemala. It is unclear how Morales will tackle gang violence or try to stem the flow of U.S.-bound migrants. Morales was already a household name following a 14-year stint on a popular TV comedy and the self-proclaimed centrist from a humble background wooed voters with promises to tackle corruption and hand out millions of smartphones to children. “I support Jimmy Morales 100 percent,” said Gustavo Gonzalez, a 21-year old without a job who joined the throng at the victory party. “He is smart, trustworthy and he tells a pretty good joke too.” Last year, Morales quit his TV show, which centered on skits and lewd jokes, to run for the presidency. Back in April, he barely registered in opinion polls but he soon surged as both Perez’s government and a candidate who was then leading the presidential race became mired in corruption probes. VOTER FRUSTRATION Morales further targeted voter frustration with Guatemala’s failing institutions by pledging to tag teachers with GPS devices to ensure they attend class. He has also floated the idea of reviving a historic land dispute with neighboring Belize. Such plans exposed Morales to ridicule from critics, and he

also had to downplay ties between his FCN and the army, which was blamed for atrocities in Guatemala’s 1960-1996 civil war. Morales’ rival Torres warned voters that the country needed experience, not a maverick. “Guatemala is not a comedy,” she said during the campaign. The election is a wake-up call to the impoverished Central American country’s established parties, which have been shaken by investigations led by the Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), the U.N.-backed anticorruption body. “I voted for Jimmy because we do not want corrupt politicians like Sandra Torres,” said computer repairman Hugo Villagran, 28. “He won’t be corrupt because he’s poor like us.” The CICIG’s probe toppled Perez and has prompted calls for similar bodies elsewhere in Central America. Morales, a former theology student with socially conservative leanings, has applauded CICIG’s work and vowed to extend its remit. But he has given little detail on his plans to overcome entrenched corruption besides promising to put more money into justice, make government spending transparent and audit institutions. Morales’ manifesto was just six pages long, giving few clues as to how he might govern, and his FCN party will have just 11 out of 158 seats in the next Congress. He will now face a test of just how honest he can make the government under the watch of the CICIG.

Former president says Biden forced him to accept anti-corruption purge GUATEMALA CITY, OCTObEr 26 (rEUTErs): Guatemala’s jailed former president, Otto Perez, says he regrets bowing to U.S. pressure to extend the work of an anti-corruption unit that then toppled him from power and that it was U.S. Vice President Joe Biden who forced his hand. Perez resigned and was arrested last month after Guatemala’s attorney general and the U.N.-backed anti-corruption body accused him of leading a customs racket. In a series of meetings earlier this year, U.S. officials pressured Perez to fire corrupt officials and allow the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) to continue its work, officials with direct knowledge of the talks have told Reuters. Renewing the CICIG´s mandate “was one of the things I must regret,” Perez told Reuters on Saturday at the military prison where he is being held awaiting trial. He maintains he is innocent of the charges against him. Perez said he opposed CICIG’s work because it was trampling on Guatemala’s sovereignty but that Biden demanded he renew its mandate and threatened to halt U.S. aid to Guatemala if he refused. “He told me it was practically a condition” for the aid, Perez said in a small courtyard surrounded by 10 guards, adding that Biden pressured him twice in person and twice on the phone. CICIG spearheaded the probe into the alleged customs racket and was working closely with Attorney General Thelma Aldana. Perez reluctantly agreed in April to allow it to continue its work and its investigation led to the removal of cabinet ministers, the vice-president and finally Perez

himself. Perez said CICIG amounts to “a new form of (U.S.) interference” in Guatemala’s affairs and that his country has surrendered its sovereignty over the justice system by allowing the unit to operate. “It is a commission that reports to noone,” he said, accusing its head, former Colombian state prosecutor Ivan Velasquez, of using the support of the U.S. government and the United Nations to throw his weight around. “With the interests of the U.S. embassy behind him, he felt all-powerful and undoubtedly responds to their interests.” A spokeswoman for Biden said the vice president had “consistently made clear to leaders throughout the Central American region that U.S. assistance was only possible if they continued to make progress on tackling corruption”. She said that Biden, who on Wednesday ruled out a run for president in 2016, emphasized that CICIG’s extension was important in the effort and that “has also made clear that CICIG is a model other countries should emulate.” Perez said on Saturday that U.S. pressure forced him to yield and that he had also not wanted to give the impression he was “hiding something.”

With secret prayers, Jews challenge ‘status quo’ Antibiotics after appendicitis JErUsALEM, OCTObEr 26 (rEUTErs): As the group of Orthodox Jews came near the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City, one began to mumble while staring down at his mobile phone. Another looked up in awe, eyes half shut in concentration. The woman’s lips moved silently. Asked after wards whether they had prayed, a violation of an 800-yearold ban on non-Muslim worship at the holy site, two of the group said they had done so in their hearts, while the woman declared proudly: “I prayed with my mouth moving.” Monday’s visit to the compound known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctu-

ary and to Jews as Temple Mount was low-key by most standards - no fighting broke out, no one was ejected by the police, everyone left calmly and life returned to normal. But in critical ways it cut to the heart of an issue fuelling the worst violence between Palestinians and Israel in years: whether the status quo at the site, also known as the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, is being properly enforced. In a region full of complexity, the Al-Aqsa/Temple Mount status quo occupies a special place. It upholds a rule that has effectively existed since 1187, when Muslim warrior Saladin defeated the Christian crusaders and held on to

Catholic leaders appeal for bold climate change agreement VATICAN CITY, OCTObEr 26 (rEUTErs): Roman Catholic leaders from around the world on Monday made a joint appeal to a forthcoming United Nations conference on climate change to produce a “fair, legally binding and truly transformational” agreement. The Catholic cardinals, patriarchs and bishops from across the globe signed the appeal in the Vatican, saying climate change had to be linked “to social injustice and the social exclusion of the poorest and most vulnerable of our citizens”. Their 10-point document was based on Pope Francis’s major encyclical last June, called “Laudato Si”, which demanded urgent action to save the planet from environmental ruin. “Whether believers or not, we are agreed today that the earth is essentially a shared inheritance, whose fruits are meant to benefit everyone,” said the appeal to the conference, which meets in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11. “For believers, this becomes a question of fidelity to the Creator, since God created the world for everyone. Hence every ecological approach needs to incorporate a social perspective which takes into account the fundamental rights of the poor and the underprivileged,” it said. Disputes over financing for poor nations have hampered negotiations among almost 200 countries, which are racing against the clock to seal an accord on combating global warming at the Paris summit.

Jerusalem: non-Muslims may enter the sacred compound, but only Muslims can pray. Before Muslims built the Dome of the Rock and the Aqsa mosque in the late 7th and early 8th centuries, two Jewish temples, the second destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD, stood at the site, which is both the holiest place in Islam outside Saudi Arabia and the most sacred place in Judaism. After Israel seized the Old City and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war, it agreed to continue the status quo, recognising the risks of igniting a religious war if anything were changed. It gave Jordan special responsibility

for overseeing the Muslim holy sites via the Waqf, an Islamic trust. That agreement was reinforced when Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. There have been many periods of friction over the years, but to all intents and purposes, the status quo has held. Over the last decade or so, since then Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the site in 2000, the Waqf says Israel has been slowly chipping away at the rules, with increasing numbers of religious Jews visiting the area and many of them surreptitiously praying. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected those sug-

gestions, saying repeatedly that the government has not changed the rules and has no intention of doing so. He reiterated that position after meetings with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week, and Kerry said after talks with Jordan’s King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that there was a renewed commitment from all sides to ensure the status quo was respected. Yet despite the verbal efforts to quell the problem, the Muslim authorities at the site remain convinced the status quo is being slowly eroded by steady Jewish encroachment.

Canadian whale-watching boat sinks, killing five 124 injured in Hong Kong ferry accident HONG KONG, OCTObEr 26 (IANs): At least 124 people were injured when a high-speed ferry going from Macao to Hong Kong hit some object under water, the media reported. The ferry with 163 passengers, and 11 crew members on board collided against an unknown underwater object near Lantau Island shortly before 7.00 p.m. (local time) on Sunday, Xinhua news agency reported. The injured were rescued from the vessel and rushed to hospitals. Five of the injured were in a critical condition, eight serious, 41 stable, while the others were discharged as of Monday morning, the agency said. Passengers described chaotic scenes as people stumbled around in the dark, some bleeding and others with injuries on their faces, arms and legs. Hong Kong’s Secretary for Transport and Housing Anthony Cheung and Secretary for Food and Health Ko Wing-man visited the injured people in a Hong Kong hospital. Cheung said the Marine Department is investigating the cause of the accident, and expressed his sorrow over injuries to the passengers. TOFINO, OCTObEr 26 (rEUTErs): A Canadian whalewatching tour boat with 27 passengers on board sank off the coast of British Columbia on Sunday, killing five people with one missing, rescue officials said. Twenty-one people had been rescued when the search was called off late at night, Melissa Kai, a spokeswoman for the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC), said. A military rescue helicopter and plane had been sent to the waters off the coast of Tofino after the vessel sent a distress signal around 5 p.m. local time, according to the JRCC. Several other coast guard vessels were involved in the search off the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island. The case had now been turned over to Canadian police as a missing persons case, Kai said. Eighteen people were taken to Tofino General Hospital, of which three were transferred to

other island health facilities, Island Health spokeswoman Val Wilson told Reuters. All were in a stable condition. Some at the Tofino hospital had already been discharged, she said. Earlier in the evening, military planes and coast guard vessels lit up the area where the vessel remained partially submerged, eight nautical miles northwest of Tofino. The manager of the Shelter Restaurant in Tofino said fishermen and fishing charter companies had joined the rescue effort, with about 15-20 boats leaving the tourist town. “Practically anyone who can go will go,” said Matthew, who did not give his last name. “People here get together to help when things like this happen.” Tofino, a community of roughly 2,000 people on the west coast of Vancouver Island, is a popular tourist destination for surfers, hikers and whale watchers from around the world.

“All our attention now is on our passengers and crew so we’ll be providing information as soon as the time is appropriate,” said a staff member with Jamie’s Whaling Station and Adventure Centres, which operated the vessel, the Leviathan II. In 1998, a boat operated by the same company sank near Tofino, killing the ship’s captain and a German tourist. John Forde, who works at another eco-adventure company, said passengers on a vessel like the Leviathan II, a three-deck 65foot cruiser that can carry up to 46 people, would not have to wear life jackets. The boat, like ferries, would only be required to have life jackets on board. “The sea was three to four metres, a fairly big sea, but not much wind or too unusual for the conditions we deal with on a regular basis out here,” Forde, who took part in the rescue for several hours, told Global television.

surgery prolong hospital stay

NEw YOrK, OCTObEr 26 (IANs): Antibiotic use following surgery for complicated appendicitis may do more harm than good, suggests new research. The researchers found that patients who received antibiotics following complicated appendicitis surgery remained in the hospital up to one day longer than similar patients who had not received antibiotics. “Our study indicates antibiotics may not be necessary following surgery for complicated appendicitis,” said lead researcher Dennis Kim from Los Angeles Biomedical Research Insti-

tute in the US. The researchers studied the outcomes over five years for 410 adults with complicated appendectomies, or those where the appendix was found to be perforated or gangrenous. Post-operative antibiotics were administered to 274 of those patients, or 66.8 percent. The study compared patients who received postoperative antibiotics to those who had not received the medications and found no significant difference in wound complications among the two groups. The 274 patients who received

post-operative antibiotics did have slightly longer hospital stays - an average of about one day longer than the patients who did not receive the medication. “Antibiotics are not without risks, costs or complications. While further study is needed, surgeons and physicians may wish to re-examine or be more selective in deciding which patients may potentially benefit from post-operative antibiotic therapy for complicated appendicitis,” Kim noted. The study was published online in the American Journal of Surgery.

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SPORTS

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3rd opeN KoHiMA disT VolleYbAll TourNAMeNT 2015

Kiruphema YO, Shiirho Mountain Club wins Our Correspondent Kohima | October 26

Kiruphema Youth Organization and Shiirho Mountain Club clinched the champions of Men’s & Women’s category respectively of the 3rd open Kohima District Volleyball Tournament (Men & Women), which concluded here this evening under the aegis of Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA). Winning the coveted champion title, Kiruphema Youth Organization walked away with a cash prize of Rs. 30,000 along with trophy and citation while the run-

Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu and others with the men’s category finalists of the 3rd open Kohima district volleyball tournament at Kohima Local Ground on October 26. (Morung Photo)

ners up Prancers Phesama receive Rs. 20,000 along with trophy and citation. Semi finalists Striking Tenth Zhadima and Kezo Town Youth Society awarded with a cash prize of Rs. 5000 each. Lhouvizolie of Kiruphema Youth Organization and Vikehiezo of Prancers

Phesama were decorated as the best setter and best spiker of men’s category and awarded with Rs. 2000 each. In women’s category, Shiirho Mountain Club emerged champion and pocketed a cash prize of Rs. 20,000 while the runners up Elite Sisters Club

received a cash prize of Rs. 10,000 along with trophy and certificates. Semi finalists Elixer Club Kezoma and Khonoma Youth Organization awarded with a cash prize of Rs.5000 each Mhasivino Kuotsu of Elixer Club Kezoma and Khavili Kive of Elite Sisters

Club were declared as the best setter and best spiker respectively and received Rs. 2000 each. Dr.Neiphrezo Keditsu, chairman, Nagaland State Mineral Development Corporation Ltd graced the closing function as the guest of honour and gave away prize to the winners.

He called upon the sports persons to maintain consistency in order to excel and bring laurel to the state. Appreciating the KDVA for organizing the tournament, he also advised the Association to conduct special coaching camp from time to time to enhance the level and stan-

dard of the game. “We have talent and potential and we can bring laurel to the state,” he said and asked the sports lovers not to be seasonal players but be committed and dedicated to become a professional player. The tournament was held under the “Transcending through sports” and it witnessed the participation of 26 teams. The closing function was compered by Xavier Rutsa while Zhavinuo Pielie performed special number. Several dignitaries including Neise Mich, former director land resources, Roko Angami PS to Dr. Neiphrezo Kedistu, Angami Youth Organization president Medo Yhokha, Kohima DSO Teisobou Sekhose also present at the closing function.

Kuhuboto area sports week 2015 underway

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): The sports week of Khuboto area which coincides with the 32nd session of Kuhuboto Ghakhu Sports Association (KGSA) got underway this morning at Lotovi village with Q. Tuccu, Member, Collective Leader, NSCN/GPRN gracing the inaugural programme as the chief guest. During the weeklong meet, KGSA would conduct Kukami Football Trophy & Kukami Badminton Trophy, Lhosheli Neho Memorial Trophy (women volleyball) and Xekiye Memorial Trophy (men volleyball). Delivering an encouraging Chief Guest Q. Tuccu addressing the gathering during the inaugural function of Kuhuboto area sports week 2015 at Lotovi village on Monday. speech, Q. Tuccu, who belongs

to Kuhubto area, said people of the area could be victorious and prosperous not only in sports but in all aspects of life only through unity and togetherness of the people. And for which, the chief guest said people of the area in general and leaders in particular should continue to strive together for unity. He urged upon the people of Kuhuboto area to have regard and concern with positive intention to support and upbring one another. He also challenged the people to uphold and preserve the unique identity and culture of Naga people. Wishing the weeklong sports meet to be a successful event,

Tuccu also highlighted the importance of games and sports and challenged the participants to compete in sporting spirit. President of Kuhuboto Ghakhu Public Organization, Ghoshito Shohe also exhorted the gathering. Vikuto Rochill, President KGKK, Kavika K. Yeptho, member NYSAL Foundation, Suhoi village and Kawoto Aye, head GB, Xekiye village also spoke on behalf of trophy donor families. Suhoi and Lotovi villagers presented cultural songs and dances on the occasion. Hokito Kinny, president, KGBPF said the invocation prayer for the inaugural func-

tion. L. Honito Swu, head GB Lotovi village welcomed the participating villages and the dignitaries. Alex Yeptho, former president KGSA presented mementos and certificates to the dignitaries. Mughato Aye, president KGSA said the vote of thanks while Tovishe Achumi, games secretary KGSA administered participants’ oath for the meet. Altogether twenty villages under Kuhuboto area are taking part in the meet. Y. Isawoto Zhimomi, president Western Sumi Kukami Kuqhakulu would grace the closing ceremony as guest of honour.

Loyem Memorial Soccer C'ship

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): The first match of the ongoing Loyem Memorial senior Soccer Open Championship was played today between Frontier FC and United Boys FC. Frontier FC won the match 8-0. In the second match, 3rd NAP and Blue Fraternity FC shared the spoils in a one all draw. On October 27, matches are scheduled to be played between Boyhood zippers against Keshang XI; Kojamnyü FC against DEF Tsg.

Van Gaal 'sick' of questions about Rooney's struggles

MANCHESTER, OCTOBER 26 (REUTERS): Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said he was "sick" of answering questions about Wayne Rooney's form after Sunday's Manchester derby ended in a goalless draw. The United captain has scored just two Premier League goals in nine appearances this season and struggled to get into the game against Manchester City, leading journalists to ask his manager why he was sticking with the 30-year-old as the team's attacking focal point. Playing as a lone striker, Rooney managed just one shot during the game, and none on target, while he had to wait until the 70th minute for his first and only touch in the opposition penalty area. But the Dutchman bristled at the first mention of Rooney's name in his postmatch press conference.

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ARTICLE 371A : Catalyst or Inhibitor?

n a milieu where infrastructural development and building of a state of the art is at its peak in the rest of the world, Nagaland on the contrary still need to remove the shadow cast upon us by the so called special provision under article 371A of the Indian Constitution which has persistently fractured many developmental projects as a consequence of inappropriate selfinterpretation of the said provision. Certainly, when the bill pertaining to special protection of the Nagas was mooted and subsequently passed by the parliament back in 1962, I am sure the then Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru and his colleagues didn’t intend to empower the government of Nagaland or any frontal organizations to randomly explore and exploit the people of Nagaland and its natural resources if any, in the name of development for the benefit of few individuals and collaborators. Instead, it was solely meant for safeguarding our distinct culture, tradition and the unique characteristic features from the rest of the countrymen which was to be genuinely acknowledged and maintain strict adherence to its provision. Needless to mention, development in all aspects is essential for a nation or any region because it signifies progress and growth. Besides,

it reflects the broadness and stability of that society in a particular region. However, the recent interim order issued by the Kohima Bench, Guwahati High Court on the PIL against the Nagaland Petroleum and Natural Gas 2012 (Rules and Regulations) and the matter being sub judice has left an indelible fact that article 371A is once again misinterpreted or the proposed project does not comply with the provision of the said article. As a consequence , it has created a state of confusion which in my opinion has deeply negated the long standing cordial relations build on the framework of mutual coordination and trust between the law makers and frontal organizations and between the various Naga civil societies inter-se. While, on the pretext of safeguarding the traditional rights of land use and property and attempting to make article 371A more sacrosanct and valid, several unpleasing group of people have pryingly made themselves a nosey-parker by apparently involving in hanky panky business, alleging the Lotha Hoho and eventually making them the scapegoat in the entire episode, so as to eschew their legitimate and popular representation to the government. This, I personally presumed that the demand of the Lothas is, but to preserve and safeguard the provisions

of the article with appropriate approach and measures thereby, making the protective article which was hitherto explicit in the constitution more implicit. Appending further, the Lotha folks, like the rest of the Nagas elsewhere are profoundly aware of development and growth. Besides, the folks are law abiding with ardour appearance and an ardent advocates of change in this dynamic society. As such, we never intend to cramp on any development projects , however, felt impelled to show our resentments over the government proposals as our rights guaranteed by the constitution has been infringed. Undoubtedly, article 371A does really bestowed and empowers us (Nagas) with enormous rights with regard to land use and property, inter alia, the ownership right. However, to my understanding, this traditional ownership rights does not necessarily imply that our land and natural resources should be left barren and virgin for further fossilization or exploit it at our will randomly either. But, it did certainly provide us the freedom to think rationally so as to materialize it wisely. Thus, it should be viewed in such a way that, these rights of ours must be thoroughly researched and examined in different perspective for a

A Naga Response to the Naga Vigil’s Ultimatum

Mr. David Ward, Apropos, your notification dated Oct. 25, 2015 which appeared in our local dailies under the caption “Naga Vigil on Naga National Archives etc,” allow me to respond to your ultimatum. While appreciating all that your organization has sacrificially done for our Naga cause, are you- Mr. David Ward thinking yourself to be the father of the Naga nation that you alone have the right to decide to give the Naga national documents only to your Eastern Naga sons? Is there such a thing in the scientific disciplines of genetics or anthropology where a Caucasian father can beget some Mongolian offspring and decide which of his Mongolian sons would be bequeathed the Mongolian history of the Nagas? Mr. David Ward, who are you thinking yourself to be? Do you think you are still some mighty former Colonial Master whose writ should still be obeyed by your subjects in the now modern Asia of the 21st century? And do you also think we Nagas have so short memories that we have already forgotten how your ancestor’s interference into our national affairs caused us terrible sufferings in the form of the deaths of over 200,000 Naga lives from the 1830’s to the present? These victims were raped, tortured and murdered when your forbears dissected our country into pieces and gave them as

presents to the two giant neighboring countries they created on their departure from our ancient lands. And on top of the still mourning hearts of the survivors of this holocaust, do you now dare to hold us to ransom by withholding our documents and threatening us with dire consequences? We have many copies of the stated documents still in our hands and are therefore not at your mercy for our future victory which will be ours sooner or later. As a third or fourth generation progeny of your last forbears, do not add salt to our already broken lives that have suffered for over half a century, reaping the treachery your forefathers inflicted upon our fathers and grand fathers. In their yesterday’s association, many of our grand fathers and their fathers even gave their lives to safe your wounded soldiers in the battle fields of the 1918 European war theater as well as the decisive 2nd World War Kohima battle of 1944. But your forbears, on their departure, just abandoned our grandparents to a faith they clearly foresaw would befall them and their children. This act of treachery was committed on our people despite the submission of up to six memorandums to the then, Majesty’s Government before the transfer of power took place in August 1947. I am one of the lucky survivors of that doomed generation and therefore, this letter

is being addressed to you on behalf of all the survivors of my generation and our children… As for those Naga National documents, despite the insult you have already inflicted on our wounded hearts, we shall still- in true Naga spirit and culture- thank you for saving them at a time when we nearly lost all of them under unforeseen circumstances. As for the future fate of those documents, we also hope that in the same true spirit of your British virtue of “fair deal,” you too will reciprocate by handing over our leader A.Z Phizo’s personal documents to his still surviving children-some of whom-never even saw their legendary father and grandfather in their lifetime. As for the other documents, the entire official National archives belong to the whole Naga Nation which the British, Indian and Burmese governments treacherously dissected into other territories. But whatever our present plight may be, we hope that you will hand over all these official documents to the only national mandated Naga National Council (NNC) and the only Naga mandated Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN). In this demand for the invaluable archives of our National history, we call upon the entire world community to bear witness to this just request of our nation. Thanking you in anticipation, Nzeu (Your friend), Kaka D. Iralu

greater prospects and wholesomeness of the society. In other words, one must be cautious about the positive and negative aspects of any development at the time of exploration and implementation process in order to fend off the tendency of exploitation. Likewise, the Lothas , in apprehension of the exploration project turning into exploitation of the common people wants nothing less from the government, a comprehensive analysis under the ambit of global normal norms, vis-a-vis, the assessment of environmental impact , resettlement and rehabilitation, proper remuneration, sustainable development and optimum use of resources, durability of that project etc. Besides, the most important aspect of every development in the context of Nagaland is the question of inclusive growth which the government has time and again failed by constantly inclining towards a particular section of society and giving undue weightage to the so called people of reserved categories. To bring about inclusive growth and elimination of cliquish tendencies, it is high time the Government of Nagaland to realize the concept of economic federalism in the state. Federalism here implies the co-ordination of various industries and developmental projects (be it large or small unit), and establish-

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hese days here in this little state of ours, there seems to be a flood of myriad countless organisations, ministries, movements etc. which are all doing their own bit of work genuinely or so as they claim to be. While it is good to appreciate and to be appreciated and to applaud them for their noble services, sometimes what these organisations do to get themselves the recognition and noticing acts also raises some serious questions at the back of our mind. The flashing out of their activities in the social medias such as newspapers, facebook, whatsapp, twitters etc. awakes up many subconscious thoughts of the general public. They click photos and instantly uploads them on various networking sites of themselves in the act or publish them all over the newspapers? Is it to let all the people notice us for what we are doing? Is it for some name, fame or a glory? Is it just for hankering some applauses and claps? Or is it because they have some different motives for those charity works? Are those humanitarian acts done just for some cheap publicity stunts to make roads for our own future benefits or? Yes, there are many individuals and groups who do yeomen service to the society without letting anyone know at all or doesn’t want others to know what they do. They purposely avoid credits or

ing the same even in the backward and remotest part of the state for balanced regional growth instead of concentrating only in few districts which are already saturated. As lamented earlier, the Lothas like any other Naga brethrens are thirsty and yearning to bring about changes in our society and, as such, shall ceaselessly effort to foster the peaceful coexistence with the fellow Nagas for all round development and growth. Notwithstanding the apathy and undermining attitude of the Government towards our demand. To sum up, it should be made clear that, Article 371 (A) of the Indian Constitution does not authorized any individual or group of people to dictate any person, neither has it empowered any Tribal Hoho’s of making incriminatory speeches against another Hoho. Also, there is no provision for any civil societies to be the mouthpiece of the State Government for pressuring the vulnerable section of the society with the intention to succumb to their awful pressure. It is, therefore, my modest appeal to every genuine Naga thinkers to apprehend the provisions of Article 371(A) wisely and to ponder beyond that if and when necessary while considering the agony of the lothas in their struggle to safeguard the rights of the common people. VYE Lotha, Khermahal, Dimapur

praises and simply shuns away from the limelight because they want to carry on their goodwill mission towards people at large which stems out from their genuine feeling of humanity from their heart. Those are the true service to the humanity and the real good works. The Bible says ‘Do not let your left hand know what your right hand gives’ and in even one of the parable Jesus told his disciples about the Pharisee and the tax-collector who were giving their offering in the temple. While the Pharisee prayed boastfully and loudly to make all the bystanders and the passer-by hear about all good things and charity works he does, the tax-collector just shamefully stands at a distance. Jesus saw this and tells his disciples that the true offering and worship was that of the wretched tax-collector and not of the boastful Pharisee. Today are we more like that boastful Pharisee? Of course many individuals and organizations seem to be with their self advertisements. As Christians we ought to know that the Bible clearly says ‘For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted’. Lets continue do noble deeds and kindful acts not because to let everyone notice us and applaud but because it springs out from our hearts genuinely to help people. Vitopu Yeptho, Dimapur

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love it when leaders of the state call upon the mass to be honest and hardworking, to reflect on our past days when Nagas were known for hard work and honesty and to lead a true Christian life. I mean, seriously! Your speeches are most of the time prepared by your P.S without even knowing the ground realities. You guys make us laugh out loud. But hey, we all need a good laugh sometimes. If our leaders can’t give us development and progress, we might as well get used to laughing at them and their jokes. These leaders ask of the people not to be involved in corruption, not to resort to backdoor appointments, to seek quality education and also the fact that we should not forget God. My goodness! The public are so used to lip-service that we know what you guys are going to speak about before even the program commences. Except for a very few, I am of the unchallenged opinion that most leaders are just going where the wind blows without knowing which way is good or bad. The public are fed up of your antics. Look at the condition of the roads, for instance. So distasteful! So, dear leaders, quit your lipsmacking ‘cuz quite frankly, you’re embarrassing us. I Longkumer

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Tuesday 27•10•2015

Kalivi Yeptho is winner of Kids for fame 5

KRAKEN Win New Delhi Leg of Hornbill On Tour

Kalivi Yeptho has won the title of Kids for Fame 5 with the cash amount of 3 lakh with special gift hamper sponsored by Synergy System Computer shop. Lisuka Ayemi and Vivi Rotokha were declared runners up and runners respectively up during the finale held at Town hall, Dimapur. The other finalists for the grand finale were Nokmachiba, Zulutila and Solomi.

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fter two successful shows in Mumbai and Bangaluru, Hornbill On Tour made its last stopover at New Delhi on October 22nd. The competition witnessed five of the city’s most promising bands battling it out to win a spot on the Hornbill International Rock Contest shortlist. The Nagaland festival, which is known for its pan-India as well as international appeal, will be held in December. The contestants at the New Delhi leg were prog rock band October, rockers Kraken, ambient-electronic band TankBund, alt-rockers Chaos In The Capital and prog rockers Udan Tashtri. The close competition saw Kraken — with their energetic set and great musicianship — emerge as winners. The jury of the night were vet-

wins big at MTV EMAs 2015

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anadian popstar Justin Bieber led the pack of winners at the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs) here on Sunday. Bieber dominated the winners' list with the five awards he won in various categories, including Best Male, Best Look and North America's Worldwide Act, reports aceshowbiz.com. "It's been a long couple of years. I just feel like this is pretty awesome to be recognised for my music," Bieber said while accepting his Best Male honour. He also took home the Best Collaboration trophy for his hit "Where are u now?", featuring Skrillex and Diplo. Thanks to his massive following, he additionally bagged the Biggest Fans Award following a tough battle against One Direction, Taylor Swift, 5 Seconds of Summer and Katy Perry. Other big winners at the annual event were Ed Sheeran, Shawn Mendes and Duran Duran. The British singer, who also

co-hosted the show, bagged two awards for Best Live Act and Best World Stage. Mendes won two honours as well -- the Best Push and Best New Act. Meanwhile, Duran Duran was honoured with the first ever MTV Video Visionary Award. "Music lovers around the world, when we started there was us and MTV and we blazed a trail and we were there for each other," said member Simon Le Bon as he took the stage alongside bandmates Nick Rhodes, John Taylor and Roger Taylor. The MTV EMAs aired live from the Mediolanum Forum here with Sheeran and "Orange Is the New Black" actress Ruby Rose as co-hosts. Swift, One Direction, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Coldplay were among global superstars who made it into the winners list with one nod apiece. Despite being nominated for a recordbreaking nine awards, Swift only won Best Song for her Kendrick Lamar-assisted "Bad Blood". Currently on her massive "1989" tour, she wasn't present to collect her prize.

eran musicians Chintan Kalra, Valentine Shipley and Chayan Adhikari [of folk-rock outfit Advaita.] The New Delhi leg of Hornbill On Tour was presented in association with VANS and Rolling Stone India, and organised by MTF, which is the only state government body in the country that promotes music as an industry. With Hornbill On Tour, MTF takes the Hornbill music festival outside of Kohima for the first time. All three winners from the three editions of Hornbill On Tour — Daira from Mumbai, Peepal Tree from Bengaluru and Kraken from New Delhi — will travel to Nagaland to participate in the international rock contest. Hornbill International Music Festival is part of the larger Hornbill Festival organized by Nagaland’s State Directorate of Tour-

ism every year to showcase the state’s rich cultural heritage. The events last year ranged from tribal dances and photo contests to motor cycle rally, night carnival, Naga chili eating contest, literature and cinema festival, theater and various other cultural performances. The music festival also hosts India’s most lucrative band contest that attracts dozens of bands from across the country to participate every year. The winner gets a prize of Rs 10 lakh, and the first and second runners up Rs 5 lakh and Rs 2.5 lakh respectively. Past winners include Bengaluru’s prog-metal band Slain, Delhi rockers Indigo’s Children, glamrock outfit Adam’s Apple from Darjeeling, and Kolkata-based rock bands The Hobos and Underground Authority.

Here is the full list of winners: Best Song: Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar, "Bad Blood" Best Pop: One Direction Best Female: Rihanna Best Male: Justin Bieber Best Live Act: Ed Sheeran Best New Act: Shawn Mendes Best Video: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, "Downtown" Best Rock: Coldplay Best Alternative: Lana Del Rey Best Hip Hop: Nicki Minaj Best Electronic: Martin Garrix Best Push: Shawn Mendes Best Collaboration: Justin Bieber, Skrillex & Diplo, "Where are u now?" Biggest Fans: Justin Bieber Best Look: Justin Bieber Best World Stage: Ed Sheeran Video Visionary Award: Duran Duran Worldwide Act, North America: Canada/Justin Bieber Worldwide Act, Latin America: Brazil/Anitta Worldwide Act, Europe: Italy/Marco Mengoni Worldwide Act, Africa/India: Africa/Diamond Platnumz Worldwide Act, Asia: China/Jane Zhang Worldwide Act, Australia/New Zealand: Australia/5 Seconds of Summer

Voices of Hope with their Director Nise Meruno did a series of concerts in Delhi recently. They performed at the Delhi International Arts Festival and Sanskriti Festival organised by the Sangeet Natak Akademy. They also performed at a number of private shows.

T. Khel choir presents Tsiituonuomia song during Tsiituonuomia Khel Day, Kohima Village on October 25. Morung Photo

Keith Criss Angel’s toddler son diagnosed with leukemia Richards M says Rolling Stones saved him from suicide Schwarzenegger being sued for prisoner's death Hillstar agician Cr iss Angel is going through a tough time. His toddler son Johnny Crisstopher Sarantakos has been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia which is a type of blood cancer. Angel consequently canceled his Las Vegas show "Criss Angel BeLIEve" to travel to Australia and be with his ailing son. He wrote on Twitter on Thursday, October 22, "In light of a family emergency the news I was going to announce this weekend will be postponed. Thank you xc." The 47-year-old magi-

cian never confirmed that he had a child let alone that he married the boy's Australian mother. Part of his

private life was revealed to public on Friday when he posted a photo of him holding his 20-month-old

Luxor have been shelved and will commence on November 4. It was the first time he had missed a date in his nearly 3,000 performances at the hotel. Refunds and exchanges for the canceled shows are available at the original point of purchase. A statement from Cirque du Soleil said, "It has been a passion of Criss' for many years to champion and raise money for various children's charities, but he never thought it would hit this close to son. "Thank you for all of home. This is a very personyour thoughts and prayers. al family crisis." Angel is a supporter of Make-A-Wish Criss," Angel tweeted. All of his shows at the Foundation.

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he veteran singer mentioned that the news made him mad at that very moment and performing on stage was his only way out. Guitarist Keith Richards has credited his Rolling Stones bandmates with saving him from suicide following the death of his baby son. The veteran rocker was on tour with the band in Paris, France, in June 1976 when he was told his 10-week-old son Tara his third child with actress Anita Pallenberg had died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in Geneva, Switzerland, reported Metro online. Richards, 71, said the news sent him

into a downward spiral, but he was brought back from the brink by going on stage with the group just hours after losing his son. "It was such a shock at the time, especially (as) I'm getting a phone call in Paris and this happened in Geneva and I thought, 'I'm going to go mad unless I do this show tonight'," he said. "Maybe it was a sense of self-preservation. It was a rough, rough thing. And I had a feeling, I must go on stage now and I'll worry and grieve and think about all this after the show. Because if didn't go on the stage I'd have probably shot myself."

ormer California Governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger is being sued for causing the death of a man in jail. Sixty-eight-yearold Schwarzenegger is being accused of failing to eliminate a virus from a prison, which eventually led to the death of an inmate identified as Rodney Taylor Sr., TMZ com reports. Taylor was a prisoner at the Avenal State Prison from 2010 to 2014 for a drug-related offence, and his family has now claimed that he contracted

Valley Fever while in custody. They said that Governor Schwarzenegger did not "warn and properly educate" Taylor about Valley Fever. The fungal respiratory disease , which is spread by spores found in the soil, attacks the body's organs and victims may suffer skin lesions, limb amputations and brain damage. Schwarzenegger is reportedly facing a lawsuit from 22 current and former inmates at another California prison for exposure to the disease.

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Halep, Sharapova record wins at Singapore WTA Finals Hamilton takes 3rd F1

SINgAPOre, OcTO ber 26 (IANS/eFe): Romania's Simona Halep and Russia's Maria Sharapova won their matches in the first round of play at the WTA Finals in Singapore. Halep got revenge against Italy's Flavia Pennetta, who beat her in the US Open semi-finals, rolling to a 6-0, 6-3 win in 70 minutes on Sunday. Pennetta had dominated the Romanian 6-1, 6-3 in their semi-final match on September 11 at Flushing Meadows, where the Italian won her first Grand Slam title a day later. Sharapova, for her part, overcame 12 double-faults to beat Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. The Russian, who had played just one match since Wimbledon due to a shoulder injury and appeared rusty at times, will take on Halep next in Red group competition in the eight-

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Maria Sharapova of Russia celebrates a point against Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland during their women's singles tennis match of the WTA Finals at the Singapore Indoor Stadium October 25. (REUTERS)

player, season-ending tournament's next roundrobin matches. The Red group is made up of Sharapova, Halep, Radwanska and Pennetta, who announced after winning the US Open that she

would retire at the end of the season. Spain's Garbiñe Muguruza, the finalist at Wimbledon, will make her debut on Monday in White group action. The Spaniard has been drawn in the White group

along with Czech Petra Kvitova, Germany's Angelique Kerber and Czech Lucie Safarova. Muguruza will play Safarova, the French Open finalist, who beat the rising Spanish star in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros in their only career meeting. The Muguruza-Safarova match will be followed by the match pitting Kvitova against Kerber. Kvitova, a two-time Wimbledon champion, has a 4-2 record against Kerber, winning their last three meetings. American world No. 1 Serena Williams, who won the other three majors of the season and came within two matches of pulling off a rare calendar-year Grand Slam, announced earlier this month that she would not play the WTA Finals because she needed to give her body a chance to recover from the gruelling season.

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AUSTIN, OcTOber 26 (AP): Lewis Hamilton took off his racing helmet and bent low in a moment of quiet reflection after winning a tight race and another Formula One championship. Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg sat nearby, slumped in a feeling of disgust revealed when Hamilton tossed him his secondplace cap and the German flipped it right back, nearly hitting Hamilton in the face. Hamilton ignored the gesture, turned and walked to the victor's podium to celebrate winning the United States Grand Prix to secure his third Formula One season title. "In the final laps I was thinking about my family and my dad standing in the rain watching me race, as a crazy parent thinking someday he might be a good driver," Hamilton said. "It's hard to believe I'm here as a threetime champion." It was Rosberg's mistake that helped make this one happen. The German skidded off a short straight out of the 12th turn with eight laps to go at the Circuit of the Americas, opening the gap Hamilton needed. Hamilton's third U.S. win in four years gave him 21 over two seasons and his 10th this year. The 30-yearold is the first Formula One driver to win 10 or more races in consecutive seasons. For Rosberg, it was yet another race of frustration for a driver who enjoys the dominance of his Mercedes car, but can't get the better of his boyhood friend turned rival. "Not saying something wrong with the car, for now I think it's a mistake I made," Rosberg said. A third season championship earns Hamilton a spot among the great driv-

Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton celebrates winning the United States Grand Prix 2015 and the world championship at the Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas on October 25. Action Images / Hoch Zwei Livepic

ers in the sport's history. Three matches his idol Ayrton Senna and ties Jackie Stewart for most championships by a British driver. Only Michael Schumacher, Juan Manuel Fangio, Alain Prost and current Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel have won more. "For me, it was always to get the three Ayrton had," Hamilton said, calling it "very humbling." Vettel finished third. He could have pushed the championship race to next week in Mexico City if he had been able to pass Rosberg on the final lap for second. "This is Lewis's day." Vettel said. "I've been in this seat before. The nights after you win the championship are pretty special too." Hamilton's first world title in 2008 came down to the final turn in the final race of the season. The second and third have been much more dominant. His switch to Mercedes in 2013 put him in Formula One's dominant car after the engine change from the

screaming V8s to a V6 turbo hybrid. Hamilton and Mercedes have been out front ever since. His closest rival has been Rosberg. Hamilton's title march seemed inevitable entering the weekend until harsh weather pounded the Austin area for three days, forcing drivers and teams to push their cars through difficult conditions of a slick track and low visibility. Constant rain pushed qualifying all the way to Sunday morning, the first time that's happened since 2013 and just the fourth since 2004. When Rosberg took the pole position, Hamilton said he'd be cautious from No. 2 and wouldn't do anything "crazy." No chance. Hamilton roared out of the start and forced Rosberg wide into the first turn at the top of the 130foot incline and their cars touched tires. By the time they were hurtling back down hill, Hamilton had seized the lead. The move

gave Rosberg nowhere to go and he soon found himself in fourth as Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat and Daniel Ricciardo jumped into the gap on Hamilton's rear. "It was extremely aggressive," Rosberg said. "Lewis came into me." The Mercedes and Red Bull cars battled through several lead changes and wheel-towheel racing over the first 20 laps. Vettel, who started 13th because of an engine change grid penalty, crept his way through the field in hopes of keeping his own slim title chances alive. But the race and the season again boiled down to Mercedes duel over the final 10 laps. Rosberg's wobbly drift into the grass opened the door for the world champion. Rosberg set a scorching lap to catch Hamilton but couldn't do it and had to fight off Vettel just to stay in second. "There were so many times I thought I had lost the race," Hamilton said. "But I never for one second thought I couldn't do it."

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