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PhD student from NE found dead in JNU NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 26 (IANS): A Manipuri student was found dead in his hostel room in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) here, police confirmed on Wednesday.

The deceased identified as J.R Philemon, 31, who was pursuing his Ph.D in West Asian studies, was found dead by students and security guards on Tuesday evening when some students noticed a foul smell coming from his room.

“Philemon was residing in Room No-171 of Brahmaputra Hostel and was not seen from last three days. Police was informed by security control room about his death,” a senior police official told IANS on Wednesday.

“There seems no foul play done, prima facie, and it seems like a natural death,” another police official added. The case is being investigating and postmortem report awaited, the officer added.

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F&CS Dept Kiphire recovers BPL and AAY rice to beneficiaries

Lotha Hoho seeks intervention of Nagaland Governor for justice into the October 23 firing incident

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The public peace rally called by the Lotha Hoho and frontal organizations to protest against the ‘unprovoked violation’ of the peaceful atmosphere in Wokha district by the 28 Assam Rifles on October 23, 2016 was held on Wednesday.

Thousands of public in traditional attires and students in uniform gathered at Police point, Wokha town with placards and banners to decry the action of the 28 Assam Rifles who had allegedly attacked the Naga Army of the GPRN/NSCN killing one cadre and injuring another.

The paramilitary troops had walked 40 kilometers from its outpost to attack the party of the GRPN/NSCN at Pvurhikyo near Chubi River under Okotso village, Wokha, the Lotha Hoho reported.

The Hoho said it had also ascertained through various sources and local witness that there was no spot provocation by the GPRN/ NSCN, as indicated by the “foodfilled mouth of the deceased cadre, testifying that the assaulted were totally caught unaware.”

Representatives from a number of organizations including

Citizens of Wokha town at the peace rally held on Wednesday to protest against the ‘unprovoked violation’ of the peaceful atmosphere by the 28 Assam Rifles. (Photo credit: Shanthungo Ezung)

Lotha Hoho, Lotha Students’ Union, Lotha Eloe Hoho, Lotha Youth Hoho and individuals spoke during the rally after which the protesters marched to the office of the Deputy Commissioner to hand over a memorandum addressed to the Governor of Nagaland.

In the memorandum, a copy of which was made available to the media, the Lotha Hoho on behalf of the public of Wokha district sought the intervention of the Governor for delivery of justice by setting up of an ‘Enquiry Commission’ for detailed verification on the incident.

It said the Ceasefire Monitoring Group must ensure that cadres of Naga Political Groups

(NPGs) do not stray from their designated camps, so that they do not provoke and do not disrupt the prevailing peaceful atmosphere. It also demanded that the culprits be awarded befitting punishment.

Maintain utmost restraint: NMA to security forces Upset over the action of the 28 Assam Rifles for killing a cadre of the GPRN/NSCN and causing injury to another on October 23 at Okotso village under Wokha district, the Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA) has appealed to the security forces to maintain peace and adhere to the ceasefire ground rules.

NMA in a press statement

NSCN (IM) resents ‘false allegations’ DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today said it has taken serious note of the “false allegation” made by the Manipur Chief Minister and the Manipur Deputy Minister “that NSCN ambushed the Chief Minister’s Chopper on October 24 at Ukhrul.”

A press note from the MIP of the NSCN (IM) stated that the Manipur CM was scheduled to inaugurate the “incomplete development projects” in Ukhrul on October 15. This, it stated was “aimed at boosting his dwindling government image as election is round the corner.” It further informed that security was beefed up “prior to October 15” expecting the CM’s arrival.

Heeding to a call made by the Tanghkul Naga Long, the people of Ukhrul district had extended non co-operation to the Manipur CM, the NSCN (IM)

stated. It informed that the “entire area of the hospital to be inaugurated had been cordoned off thoroughly and sanitized prior to 15th October till the day of his arrival with tiers of security forces such as the Manipur Rifles, IRB, Manipur Commandoes, CRPF, Manipur Police and Assam Rifles...”

The NSCN (IM) claimed that “there is no chance for other external force” to be responsible for the explosion “except within themselves resulting in injury to one IRB personnel.”

It further stated that the Manipur CM, did not even “set foot” after his chopper landed at Bakshi ground, “and took off again after a few minutes.” “Right after he took off, the security commander shouted urgently to all the security forces positioned around the ground to immediately go inside the hall. The hall

was occupied by security personnel and no single civilian was inside,” the NSCN (IM) said.

It further informed that then 6 shots were fired resulting in injury to one Manipur Rifles jawan. The NSCN (IM) alleged that the Manipur CM “instructed to fire some shots so that he may cover up his humiliation...and he conveniently blamed that his helicopter was ambushed.”

The NSCN (IM) advised the Manipur CM to go through the video “showing his chopper taking off and how the shooting took place inside the hall.” It stated that the Manipur CM “should take responsibility for his failure and not blame the NSCN for all his failures.” It further affirmed that the “NSCN is completely clean in this issue and has nothing to do with Ibobi’s stage managed ambush.”

formed Domestic Workers’ Union in Nagaland to strengthen their fight for recognition, justice and empowerment. Presently, the union has 946 members belonging to 60 groups from different colonies in Dimapur district.

She also put forward the plight of domestic workers in and around Dimapur district and stated that since the Nagaland Domestic Workers Union is not yet registered, it is difficult to avail different schemes for the domestic workers.

Grace Pamei, Programme Coordinator said there is a need to fix minimum wages within Nagaland and to include domestic workers under

the employment schedule. She further revealed that many domestic workers are often treated rudely, their wages withheld, working without holidays, and with false accusations levelled against them.

Nsungbeni Ezung, President of the Nagaland Domestic Workers Union and Vice President, Muni Devi expressed their grievances and their working experience. They also submitted a memorandum for the Governor to act upon.

The memo demanded inclusion of domestic workers in the state under the scheduled and fixed minimum wages under the Minimum Wages Act 1948, and under the Welfare and Social Security Act 2010.

It called for protection of the rights of domestic workers through a Comprehensive National Legislation for Domestic Workers. It also asked that the Government of India ratify the ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers.

After hearing the grievances of the domestic workers, the Governor reportedly said he would pressurize the Parliamentary Secretary for Labour & Employment to put forward the issue in the assembly session.

The Governor also informed that he would sponsor ten girl children under the Beti Padhao Beti Bachao scheme from among the domestic workers.

pointed out that when the Government of India (GoI) is in ceasefire with the concerned Naga Political Group, the security forces are expected to maintain utmost restraint in order to pave way for smooth talks for early settlement of conflict.

“However, the security forces under the patronage of the AFSPA have time and again committed excessive use of power thereby causing loss of human lives, injuries, mistrust and fear not only to the NPG but to the common people too,” it lamented.

The NMA meanwhile urged the GoI to set up an Inquiry Commission to see the lapses and award befitting punishment as per law.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): Nagaland Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today discussed possibilities of tie-ups with the Government of the United Kingdom in the fields of education, language development, music, culture and tourism.

He was interacting with Alan Gemmel, OBE, Head of British Council in India who called on him this morning at his residence, informed a press note from the CMO. According to the CMO, Gemmel revealed that the British Council sponsors more than 200 scholarships every year from all over the country to pursue higher studies in Universities in the UK. He however lamented that not many are from the North Eastern region and expressed his desire to see more students from the region availing these scholarships.

The Chief Minister suggested creating more awareness about this scholarship scheme among the student community of the region.

The British Council also proposed training of teachers to impart further training to other teachers. The Council is involved in Teacher Development Programmes in 13 States in India and has shown interest in tying up with the Government of Nagaland.

The Chief Minister suggested incorporating Skill Development in the curricula of schools so that by the time students matriculate, they would have some selected skills to rely on to earn their livelihoods.

The Chief Minister also as-

sured the visiting delegates that he would find out ways and means with the NEC to sponsor such a programme in the State and expressed his desire to work towards Human Capital Development.

The Head of the British Council informed the Chief Minister that it is also into programmes such as imparting basic and proper English for tourist guides, adding that English is the universal language.

In consonance with the joint declaration of the Prime Ministers of the two countries to observe 2017 as Year of Euro Culture, the British Council expressed its keen desire to incorporate the Hornbill Festival of Nagaland into the scheme of things.

It was also confirmed this morning that Alan Gemmel would grace the 3rd day of Hornbill Festival this year as the Chief Guest. Gemmel expressed his desire to promote the culture of the Nagas with the aim of promoting tourism in the State and called for proper networking amongst the stakeholders.

The Chief Minister meanwhile proposed setting up a Music Academy in the State where the local youth can be trained.

G Sema, Project Director of Music Task Force suggested training for local musicians to fine tune their talents and also to market them properly. Sema said Nagas, being Christians, are familiar with most of the hymns and also with the staff notations but that music literacy needs to be enhanced and made more professional.

Maneka Gandhi writes to DoNER Minister on dog meat trade in NE

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 26 (PTI): Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi has written to DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh, requesting him to end illegal trade and consumption of dog meat in the north-east region and also sought the intervention of NIA in tracing traders indulging in drugs and arms trafficking.

The letter cites Food Safety and Standards Regulation, 2011 which doesn’t allow dogs, cats and other animals to be slaughtered for food. The letter adds that dog meat consumption, therefore, is “illegal” and “cruel”.

“I am writing to request you to please look into the

blatantly illegal dog meat trade in Nagaland and Mizoram,” starts the letter which was written earlier this month.

The letter also describes the brutal treatment meted out to the dogs while they are being smuggled.

“In Nagaland alone, more than 30,000 dogs are illegally smuggled from neighbouring states in jute sacks where they have their mouth either tied our stitched shut. These animals are starved with no food or water and brutally beaten to death before they are torched and sold as meat to consumers,” the letter said.

The letter then talks about how the same set of smugglers also indulge in

drugs and arms trafficking.

“There is not only illegal smuggling and slaughter of dogs but also smuggling of arms and ammunition along with narcotic drugs, blatantly carried out by the same gangs.”

“This is a serious cause for concern for the security of the region and I suggest that agencies such as the NIA (National Investigation Agency) must be asked to establish the persons involved in this thoroughly organised racket,” Maneka wrote.

Attached with the letter is a survey in Nagaland carried out by Humane Society International (HSI) which estimates that at least 40 dogs per day and 15,000 dogs per year are

sold each in Kohima and Dimapur.

One kg of dog meat costs Rs 200 here and the consumption peaks during Christmas, according to HSI. No such estimates are cited for Mizoram. However, the letter mentions how Mizoram government had issued orders in 2007 to stop illegal trade of dogs but that has not been implemented.

According to Section 428 and 429 of IPC killing or maiming of any animal is punishable with a fine or imprisonment of up to 5 years and under Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960 killing an animal or offering it for sale can invite a jail term of 3 months.

Gov urged to work towards welfare of domestic workers Women lawmakers face sexism, violence on job

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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 26 (MExN): The Assisi Centre for Integrated Development (ACID) and the Nagaland State Coordinator of the National Domestic Workers Movement (NDWM) – Nagaland Region, along with the staff and leaders of the Nagaland Domestic Workers Union met the Nagaland State Governor, PB Acharya today at Chumukedima.

A press note from the ACID and NDWM informed that during the meeting, the Governor was urged to initiate action towards the welfare of domestic workers in the state.

Director of ACID, Sister Pramila Lobo informed that members of NDWM

GENEVA, OCTOBER 26 (REUTERS): Women members of parliament (MPs) in all regions face sexism, harassment and violence from male lawmakers and are increasingly targeted by online humiliation campaigns, a report said on Wednesday.

The first study on the issue by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) follows scandals in France and other countries where women have denounced abuse in the corridors of power.

Sexist violence and harassment against women lawmakers is “real and widespread”, the report said. The findings suggested “that the phenomenon knows no boundaries and exists to different degrees in every country, affecting a significant number of women parliamentarians”.

The results were based on data provided by 55 women parliamentarians of all ages who were selected from 39 countries in five regions.

Four out of five of the women reported having been subjected to hostile behaviour causing psychological harm or fear. Some 44.4 percent said they had received threats of death, rape, beatings or abduction during their terms.

“The respondents said that most of these acts were committed by their male colleagues - from opposing or their own parties,” it said.

Being under 40, or belonging to the opposition or a minority group, are “aggravating factors” that put women at risk, according to the study by the Geneva-based body that links 171 national parliaments.

The IPU called for male and female MPs to denounce such behaviour and for codes of conduct and complaint procedures to be put in place. Females account for 22.8 percent of some 46,000 parliamentarians worldwide.

“The report ... is an eye-opener, it’s the first of its kind. We have gone

out to interview members of parliament, to have their own personal perspectives, from their own experience,” Martin Chungong, IPU secretary-general, told a news briefing.

“We are looking at how we can help resolve some of these issues, because they are actually a stumbling block to political participation of women,” he said.

Women lawmakers endure hostile behaviour and sexist violence in parliamentary offices and political meetings, as well as the newer arenas created by social media, the report said.

Women MPs from sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East “described photomontages showing them nude, photos of them accompanied by disparaging comments, obscene drawings of their person or information published in the social media suggesting that they had had marital problems and failed private lives,” the report said.

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borne Dimapur Police subsidiary F&CS Dept Kiphire recovers BPL Vector disease prog held in Mkg dist canteen inaugurated and AAY rice to beneficiaries

Wabang Jamir, IPS, IGP (Range), Nagaland along with other officers during the inauguration of the Dimapur Police subsidiary canteen held on October 26.

DiMapur, OctOber 26 (MexN): The Dimapur Police subsidiary canteen under Central Police Canteen, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India was inaugurated on October 26 by Wabang Jamir, IPS, IGP (Range), Nagaland.

Other present during the inauguration are Liremo T. Lotha, IPS, Commissioner of Police, Vilhousie Peseyie, DCP Zone I, Dr. KPA Ilyas, IPS, DCP Zone II and host of other Police Officers.

Wabang Jamir, IPS shared his thoughts with the police personnel about the need to live within one’s means and the importance of saving for the future. He spoke of developing a virtuous cycle of saving money which would result in not only monetary benefit but also the reduction of bad habits. He encouraged police officers and all personnel to develop the attitude

of deferred gratification through financial discipline and proper planning for saving money for tomorrow.

Wabang Jamir, IPS congratulated the Dimapur Police Commissionerate for taking the initiative in opening a canteen and expressed his hope that it would help in improving the overall quality of life of the police personnel.

Liremo T. Lotha, IPS talked about the Canteen being taken up as welfare measure for the Police Commissionerate personnel and expressed his appreciation to all ranks who contributed to the establishment of the canteen. He stated that the Canteen would be fully automated with Smart Cards issued to the Unit personnel.

This was stated in a press release issued by Addl. Dy Commissioner of Police/PRO, Dimapur.

Kiphire, OctOber 26 (MexN): As per the representation submitted by the Citizen Welfare Society Kiphire (CWSK) addressed to the Assistant Director Food & Civil Supplies Department Kiphire, in regard to anomaly of Public Distribution system (PDS) at Kiphire Hq, the joint co-ordination meeting between CWSK and F&CS Kiphire along with 11 ward union Chairman was held on October 4 at DC Conference Hall Kiphire.

During the meeting, several issues pertaining to PDS was discussed and after a thorough deliberation the meeting came to a conclusion that “F&CS Department Kiphire will recover 2057 bags of BPL and AAY rice to the beneficiaries as other items like Sugar, APL were not received as mention in the UC.” “Further, it was assured that from now on the Department will deliver the PDS judiciously in the District,” stated a press release issued

CWS members along with some ward chairman at the F&CS Department, Kiphire godown.

by Media Cell CWS, Kiphire.

As an outcome of the meeting, AAY and BPL was issued to beneficiaries on October 6 and 24 in pres-

ence of CWS members at Kiphire. The CWS while appreciating the department further caution that CWS will keep vigil in the interest

of the general public and hope that the F&CS Dept Kiphire will implement the PDS judiciously even in the future.

t u l i , O ct O b e r 2 6 (MexN): A team of Information Education and Communication (IEC) personnel under Chief Medical office had a week long programme on Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and infotainment on vector borne disease in different blocks of Mokokchung District.

The programme was held keeping in focus that Malaria is a life-threatening blood disease caused by parasites transmitted to humans through the bite of the Anopheles mosquitoes A press release said that the topic for the programme included residual insecticide spraying, active and passive surveillance, medical treatment, contact and mass blood smear, LLIN etc. Concluding the programme the IEC personnel led by DMEIO Mokokchung visited Tuli block on October 24 where they had FGD and infotainment on different wards.

The participants were taught how to keep clean environment, awareness and importance of malaria, knowledge about DDT etc. The programme was attended by Village councils, woman leaders, surveillance workers, ASHAs, housewife etc.

Golden Campaign on centrally sponsored schemes at Tronger 5th Edition of Young Leaders NSBS&G Jubilee itinerary Connect from October 28-29 released

KOhiMa, OctOber 26 (MexN): Young Leaders Connect (YLC), an initiative of Nagaland based organisationYouth Net will have its fifth edition at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh from October 28-29, 2016 to be held under the theme “Start-Up North-East, Stand-Up North East.” The two day conclave will deliberate on issues such as “Challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurship and skill building in the North East”, “Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Education” and “Entrepreneurship, Funding and Credit Linkages” apart from other round table discussions and workshops for entrepreneurs.

The first session will focus on the challenges and opportunities to foster an entrepreneurial eco-system in the North East and how they can build on the government’s vision of ‘Skilling on a large scale at Speed with high standards and to promote a culture of innovation based entrepreneurship to ensure sustainable livelihoods for all citizens.

The second session will explore how educational institutions can promote innovative thinking and research into the local context and also incorporating entrepreneurial education into the curriculum. The third session will deliberate on the various opportunities available to entrepreneurs in the region to access finance and credit linkages across different verticals and business levels and why funding to entrepreneurs is very minimal in the North-East vis-à-vis rest of India and what can be done to bridge the gap.

The inaugural session on October 28 will be graced by Union Minister of State (Ind), Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Rajiv Pratap

Rudy while Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Pema Khandu will be the chief host. Prominent YLC members include Union Minister of State (Home Affairs), Kiren Rijiju, MPs like Mary Kom, Gaurav Gogoi, Sushmita Dev, Conrad Sangma, Nagaland State Parliamentary Secretary for Skills Development & Entrepreneurship, Mmhonlumo Kikon, Bhaichung Bhutia, Founder of Youth Net, Hekani Jakhalu apart from MP Rajiv Chandrasekhar, who will be delivering the keynote address during the inaugural.

A host of speakers including Naveen Verma (IAS), Secretary DONER, Paul Muktieh, CMD NEDFI, Karma Paljor, Jyotsna Sitling, Larsing Ming, Dr. Sriparna Baruah, Arindam Hazarika, Bhairavi Jani, Ben Imchen, CEO Elysium Tech, Rahul Mirchandani, Natalie West Kharkongor, Associate Professor, IIM Shillong, Dr. S.R.M Prasanna, IIT Guwahati, Mark Laitflang Stone, MD, Group Avenues, Meghanath Singh, CEO & Co-founder www.giskaa.com, Mehernosh Shapoorjee, Co-Founder, IEF Foundation, Alay Barah, Executive Director, ICCO, and Dr. Syed Kayi, Founder NEDF will be part of the two day conclave.

The 5th YLC edition will see the convergence of entrepreneurs from all the 8 states of North East India including a 40-member delegation from Nagaland.

An exhibition football match will also be played between YLC XI and CM XI on October 29, 2016. Bhaichung Bhutia will be the captain for YLC XI team while Kiren Rijiju will be the vice captain. For the CM XI Team, Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Pema Khandu will be the captain and Nabam Tuki, Ex Chief Minister will be the vice captain.

KOhiMa, OctOber 26 (MexN): In commemoration of its 50 years of existence, the Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides (NSBS&G) Golden Jubilee Organizing Committee has released the itinerary of the jubilee from October 2016 to April 2017.

During a meeting held on September 15 under the chairmanship of NBS&G President, Khriehu Liezietsu, the house deliberated upon several agendas including documentation of the celebration, constituting the 12 sub-committees, jubilee logo, construction of jubilee building, itinerary of jubilee and fund for the jubilee celebration.

The itinerary include construction of Jubilee building SHQ in the month of October, jubilee tour to 11 districts during October- November 2016, tour to New Delhi and Panchmari (MP) and National Jamboree, International Youth Meet at Arapuri (Haryana) in December 2016-January 2017. Among other events, a State level seminar on importance of Scouts & Guides, SHQ will be conducted in the month of February 2017 followed by inauguration of Jubilee building in the month of March 2017.

According to a press release issued by Secretary, Golden Jubilee Organizing Committee, K. Neibou Sekhose, the celebration will culminate with a Grand finale in the month of April 2017 at State Training Centre (STC) Nerhema where 1200 Scouts and Guides from all the 11 districts and National Headquarters New Delhi are expected to participate.

tueNsaNg, OctOber 26 (Dipr): Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Directorate of Field Publicity Tuensang organised a special awareness campaign on centrally sponsored schemes at community hall Tronger Village, Tuensang.

The meeting was attended by the Field Publicity Officer, EAC Chari, Village Councils Members and denizens of the village.

The programme was organised on RMNCH+A with special focus on Mission Indradhanush, population stabilisation, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and anaemia among adolescent girls. Dr. Asangla, SMO Longkhim

was the resource person of the programme.

The Field Publicity Officer in his introductory speech gave a briefing on the objective of the Field Publicity Office. The FP works in giving information on Centrally Sponsored Programmes and schemes.

The main objective is to give information, educate and communicate which will give awareness of the programmes and its implementations, he added.

The Village council Chairman welcomed the gathering and appreciated the Ministry for giving such awareness. The EAC Chari also encouraged the citizens

of the village to learn more of the Centrally Sponsored so that the proper implementation can be achieved with the awareness.

The resources person of the function discussed on RMNCH+A, its concepts and components. She also deliberated on the mother and child safety during the pre-natal to post nadal and its routine immunization. She also deliberated on healthy adolescents and healthy society, mother and child safety and the diseases in details and its consequences, how to avail maximum advantage of the medical assistance from the health centers and hospitals

and also how community can play an important role to help avail its benefits. She also highlighted on the government programmes on different diseases, availing safety measures and medicines. She further advised the villagers to learn about the Government's schemes and use it to their maximum advantage for the welfare of the village and the villagers.

A healthy baby contest was also organized where out of 21 babies where six babies in the age group of 0-1 and 1- 2 years categories were awarded the healthy babies award of the day. Another highlight was a rally on the theme of the programme.

Nagaland participates at National Tribal Carnival

The cultural troupe from Nagaland predicates at the National Tribal Carnival 2016 in New Delhi. They presented the cultural item on October 26 at Handhswani Theatre.

DiMapur, OctOber 26 (MexN): The BJP Nagaland team is participating in the four day National Tribal Carnival 2016, at New Delhi on the invitation by the Union Minister of Tribal Affairs, Jual Oram.

The carnival spanning from October 25 to 28, organized by the Union Tribal Affairs Ministry was inaugurated by the Prime Minister Modiji and is being participated by tribal from all over the nation. A 60 member BJP Nagaland team led by Imsu Yaden, State Vice President, comprising of 40 cul-

tural dancers and 20 local products entrepreneurs including 10 from the State BJP Mahila is also representing the state.

Jaangsillung Gonmei, General Secretary (Media), BJP Nagaland in a press release stated that Imsu Yaden has communicated that the cultural troupes presented their item on October 26 at Handhswani Theatre and was well received.

Simultaneously, the local entrepreneurs have been showcasing the locally produced items such

as clothing, ornaments, fruit wine, pickles, dried food items, etc. The National Tribal Carnival has been acclaimed as the appropriate platform to bring together the tribes of the nation and showcase their kaleidoscopic uniqueness to create awareness, understanding and harmony and take the nation forward.

About 2300 member delegates from various tribes across the country are showcasing their cultures and rich traditions from a common platform at Pragati Maidan.

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KOhiMa, OctOber 26 (MexN): A day long programme on technology demonstration cum field day was organized by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) Kohima on October 25 at the office complex.

The Technical topic for the training programmes were Information Management with emphasis on Kisan Mobile Advisory Services (KMAS), Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) where application of biofertilizers and agricultural lime was highlighted, Stored grain pest management in reference to cereal s and the advantages and benefits of adopting System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in paddy were sensitized

by Longma yanger SMS (Agri Ext), Zhiete SMS (soil conservation), Michael K pienyu SMS (plant protection) and Imtisenla SMS (agronomy) from KVK, Kohima.

The participants also had first-hand information by spot visiting the SRI demonstration Participants with resource person during visits the SRI demonstration plot at the office plot at the office demo unit. demo unit.

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Rajkhowa seeks CBI inquiry into Kalikho Pul's death

Guwahati, OctOber 26 (Pti): Claiming that Kalikho Pul, who allegedly committed suicide, left "explosive secret notes", Arunachal Pradesh ex-Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa today sought a CBI inquiry into the former chief minister's death.

"Many eminent people have informed me that Pul has left behind explosive secret notes that can shake Indian politics," Rajkhowa told PTI here. Pul's body

was found hanging at his Itanagar chief minister's bunglow on August 9.

Asked if he had seen the notes, Rajkhowa, who had demitted office last month, said, "I am not privy to the notes. I have been apprised of some of the things written there, but I wouldn't like to reveal them at this point of time."

"No question of me as the Governor then interfering in the administration and calling for the notes,"

Quake hits Mizoram and adjoining areas

Manipur likely to get chopper service soon Centre should not iMPhaL, OctOber 26 (NNN): Under during the Manipur visit had assured to dictate Mizoram on the UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik) find out the feasibility on introduction of scheme, Manipur is likely to have a com- helicopter service in the state.

Meanwhile, Civil Aviation Minister Bru rehab: Minister mercial helicopter service soon between the

aiZawL, OctOber 26 (iaNS): A 4.8-magnitude earthquake hit the mountainous northeastern state of Mizoram and adjoining areas on Wednesday.

There was no report of any damage due to the tremor yet, officials said.

"The 4.8-magnitude quake struck Mizoram and adjoining areas of Bangladesh and northeast India at 11.59 a.m. on Wednesday," a meteorological department official said here.

"There is no report of major damage in Mizoram and adjoining areas of the northeast yet," an official of the disaster management control centre in Aizawl said, citing reports from District Magistrates across the state. A quake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale, hit some areas of Mizoram on October 18. The depths of the two tremors were measured at 45 km and 147 km respectively. Seismologists consider India's mountainous northeast region as the sixth major earthquakeprone belt in the world. The northeast has seen some of the biggest quakes in history. In 1897, a Shillong-epicentred quake measured 8.2 on the Richter scale, while in 1950, an earthquake in Assam measuring 8.7 on the Richter Scale forced the mighty Brahmaputra river to change its course. In September 2011, Sikkim suffered heavy damage after a quake hit the Himalayan state.

Rajkhowa said.

"Many people have seen the notes. Pul's family read them. The contents have been mentioned in the social media, in the local news papers of Arunachal Pradesh and many renowned people have told me about the contents," he said.

"That is why I had written to Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu to ask for an independent CBI inquiry. Khandu

capital and Jiribam, near the Manipur-Assam border. Taking into account the inaccessibility due to hilly terrain and topography of the region, DoNER Minister Dr Jitendra Singh during his Manipur visit on October 24 had said the ministry was working towards that end.

Singh also informed the media "the ministry has had discussions with the Manipur government to introduce 'mobile dispensary' to facilitate availability of medical facilities in remote areas which are most vulnerable in this area."

Introduction of the proposed mobile dispensary would enable medical staff to carry out OPDs in these remote villages.

The DoNER Minister Dr Jitendra Singh

was very positive. But after I gave up my Governor's post, there is no response to that," he pointed out.

"A CBI enquiry can of course be ordered by the Prime Minister or Home Minister," Rajkhowa said, adding that Pul was a fivetime MLA and a very popular leader and he fought against corruption.

Pul died under mysterious circumstances.

"It was unthinkable that the investigation was hand-

Ashok Gajapathi Raju is likely to visit Manipur on November 3 to have discussion with the state government to introduce helicopter service to help improve regional connectivity, a media report said.

The state government is likely to put up the feasibility of the commercial copter service proposal with the Civil Aviation Minister during the visit, the report added.

The Manipur government is expected to ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Civil Aviation Minister under UDAN scheme during the visit.

The Centre recently launched the regional connectivity scheme UDAN (Ude Desh Ka Aam Naagrik) which seeks to get more people to fly in smaller towns of the country.

Assam parties urge low-key Diwali celebrations Guwahati, OctOber 26 (iaNS): Several organisations in Assam on Wednesday appealed to the people to celebrate the October 30 Diwali festival on a low key to commemorate 88 civilians who died in serial blasts in the state eight years ago.

The anti-talk faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) had triggered nine blasts across Assam, leaving 88 persons dead, in 2008.

"The state's people should remember how the worst-ever terrorist attack tore Assam apart on October 30, 2008. We must respect those who lost their

lives due to terrorists," said All Assam Students Union Adviser Samujjal Bhattacharyya.

He said the celebrations should be in tune with the solemnity of the commemoration. All Assam Tribal Sangha also appealed to the people to avoid bursting of crackers to honour the terror victims.

"Everyone can celebrate Diwali, but it should be restrained. We can pay tribute to the serial blasts victims by avoiding extravaganza like bursting of crackers," said Sangha

General Secretary Aditya Khakhlary.

Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) spokesman Apurba Kumar Bhattacharyya expressed sorrow over the deaths in the 2008 serial blasts and said everyone should take a pledge on the day to fight terrorism.

"One should not restrain people from celebrating the festival. However, it should also be an occasion to take a pledge to fight against all kinds of terrorism and violence," Bhattacharyya said.

ed over to a sub-inspector of police and not to the CBI," the former Governor regretted.

"Only a court has to decide whether he committed suicide and not the police," Rajkhowa said, adding "I have been informed that IGP N Payeng, now investigating the case, has said the notes were sealed and handed over to a magistrate.

I don't know whether to a judicial or executive magistrate," he said. He pointed

aiZawL, OctOber 26 (tNN): The much-delayed repatriation process of Bru refugees from Tripura to Mizoram hit another hurdle with the latter state's home minister, R Lalzirliana, voicing opposition against what he called the Centre's strong-arm tactics.

Lalzirliana protested against the Centre's order to the Mizoram government to allow representatives of Mizoram Bru Displaced People's Forum (MBDPF) - the apex body of Bru refugees living in six relief camps in Tripura - to inspect the villages in which the families will be resettled.

"Mizoram is a fullfledged state and the Centre should not try to impose its will on us as far as repatriation of Bru refugees is concerned," the minister said, adding that the Centre should respect the federal structure of the country and refrain from dictating the state government on this issue.

He, however, added, "The Mizoram government does not object to MBDPF leaders visiting the villages

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Dated Kohima, the 26th October,2016

CORRIGENDUM In continuation to the Nagaland Public Service Commission Corrigendum / Addendum dt. 24.10.2016 1 (one) post of PGT- Economics at Item No-30 under School Education, Department is reserved for BT.Chang.

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Water, being the basic necessity of life, the people of Aghunato Town are blessed to enjoy abundance since September 2016.

And this was made possible through the leadership of Mr. Tokheho Yepthomi, Minister, PHED, Nagaland, who have vision and thought for the welfare of Aghunato people as a whole. It is hoped that, though his efficient leadership, people of Aghunato will gain much in the years ahead.

Zhimomi Clan of Keltomi Village, who have freely contributed the water source for the benefit of Aghunato public is highly appreciated. It is also through the efficient and tireless works by the concerned Department that the work could be completed in time. Therefore, sincere gratitude to Kitoshe, Executive Engineer, Zunheboto Division, Mughaku Achumi, S.D.O Aghunato, Hokato Yeptho, J.E Aghunato and Howoto Chishi, J.E. Aghunato.

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out that Kalikho Pul's caretaker also had committed suicide two moths later in the same building.

Pul had led a group of dissident Congress MLAs against then chief minister Nabam Tuki before taking over the reins of the state on February 19. He had to give up his CM's post in July following the Supreme Court's reinstating the government of Nabam Tuki who made way for Pema Khandu as the 10th CM of the state.

selected for the Bru repatriation process. They can inspect the arrangements to be made by the deputy commissioners of the chosen districts."

The minister said MBDPF's demand for the allotment of five hectare for each repatriated Bru family could not be met as the state government did not have so much land. "Annual allotment of land for jhum cultivation is in the hands of village councils. The resettled families should take up their demand for land with the respective village councils," he added.

A meeting of the State Core Committee on Bru Repatriation held on Tuesday finalized the repatriation process according to the Road Map-V for Bru Repatriation. The process of sending back the families from Tripura will begin from November.

The meeting decided that the district-level core committees of Mamit, Kolasib and Lunglei would hold a joint meeting on October 31 in Mamit town to make the final arrangements.

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1. Unity Runs in concerned city or town with the message of a unified Bharat.

2. Inter-School elocution and essay competitions in the area of unity.

3. Dramas, Songs and Plays on the theme of unity and personality of Sardar Patel with an award for most creative theme.

4. Plays by children on the life of Sardar Patel depicting specific events - award for student who portrays Patel's character the best.

5. Essay writing and elocution on the theme "Relevance & Importance of Sardar Patel in today's India".

6. Most creative slogan/ painting contest on the Unity theme.

7. Competition for writing/composing/singing original songs on the unity theme.

8. Lecturers and Competition between school teachers of s school on Sardar Patel's life.

9. Mobilisation and felicitation of former freedom fighters in the region by students recording of their stories/ recollection of Sardar Patel and views for the benefit and motivation of children.

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Nothing can be free forever: Airtel

GuRGaON, OctObER 26 (iaNs): Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal on Wednesday took exception to free voice calls offered by Reliance Jio, saying nothing could be free forever.

Speaking on the sidelines of an event here organised by GSMA, Mittal urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to look into the issue. “TRAI needs to settle the issue of Reliance Jio free tariffs. Nothing can be free for a lifetime,” Mittal said.

Recently, the regulator had said that it had found no faults with Jio’s tariff

plans.

Mittal said his company would respond to the government and the regulator regarding the penalties slapped on it, along with two other service providers, for denying sufficient points of interconnections (PoI) to Reliance Jio. “TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) must have some confusion regarding the PoIs offered to Reliance Jio,” Mittal said.

The TRAI on Oct 21 slapped heavy penalties on three telecom players -- Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular

-- amounting to Rs 3,050 crore for not providing sufficient PoIs to Reliance Jio. It also said the action of the three operators showed “ulterior motive to stifle competition”.

In similar letters to the three players, the watchdog said it has recommended a penal action of Rs 50 crore per licence service area (LSA) (except Jammu & Kashmir) where PoI congestion exceeded the allowable limit of 0.5 per cent as reported by Airtel/Vodafone/Idea Cellular through emails on September 23 this year.

In the case of Airtel and Vodafone, the fines imposed were for 21 LSAs, amounting to Rs 1,050 crore each while in the case of Idea, the fine was Rs 950 crore for 19 LSAs. The regulator had received a letter from Reliance Jio on July 14, stating that the incumbent players were not providing it with sufficient E1s (interconnect points, with technical parameters).

‘Women and men won’t reach economic equality until 2186’ NEW YORK, OctObER 26 (thOmsON REutERs FOuNdatiON): Efforts to close gender gaps in pay and workforce participation slowed so dramatically in the past year that men and women may not reach economic equality for another 170 years, the World Economic Forum said on Tuesday.

Statistics just a year ago predicted the economic gap between genders could close in 118 years, but progress has decelerated, stalled or reversed in nations around the world, the Swiss non-profit WEF said in its annual gender gap index.

“These forecasts are not foregone conclusions. Instead, they reflect the current state of progress and serve as a call to action,” Saadia Zahidi, a member of the WEF executive committee, said in a statement.

Overall, Iceland and Finland ranked highest among 144 nations measured on progress in equality in education, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment.

Next were Norway and Sweden, followed by Rwanda, which has improved economic participation and income equality and has the highest share of female parliamentarians in the world, the WEF said.

At the bottom was Yemen, then Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran, with a wide array of progress in between, it said.

The gap in political empowerment, it said, was particularly pronounced in the United States, which may soon elect its first female president. In most polls, Democrat Hillary Clinton leads Republican Donald Trump ahead of the Nov. 8 election.

The United States ranked 73rd in political empowerment, which measured the ratio of men to women in the highest levels of political decision-making, the WEF said. It ranked 45th in the global list overall.

Nations with significant political gender gaps stand to lose out, the WEF said in a 391-page report accompanying the index.

“In the political sphere, women’s engagement in public life has a positive impact on inequality across society at large,” it said. “In addition, there is a range of evidence to suggest that women’s political leadership and wider economic participation are correlated.”

EARNINGS Globally, the political gender gap is slowly but steadily improving, it said.

On the other hand, the economic gap this past

80% Indians faced tech support India disappointed at low rank in WB’s Doing Business Meanwhile, the Confederation of NEW dElhi, OctObER 26 courts may not have gone into the scam, 22% lost money: Report (iaNs): Reacting to India’s rank World Bank’s systems as these hap- Indian Industry (CII) said in a stateNEW dElhi, OctObER 26 (iaNs): Eighty per cent of people in India have experienced a tech support scam, 32 per cent continued with the scam and 22 per cent of them lost money, a new survey revealed on Wednesday.

The survey by Microsoft and marketing consultant Ipsos Public Affairs found that globally, two out of three people surveyed have experienced a tech support scam.

“One out of five was tricked into continued engagement with scammers, often leading to victims losing hundreds of dollars to the fraudsters,” noted the survey which was conducted as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month in 12 countries with nearly 1,000 people from each country.

“Traditionally, scammers made unsolicited phone calls to potential victims but today, they are increasingly moving online, using emails, websites and pop-up windows to scare people into engaging,” the results highlighted.

With new tactics, scammers are not only reaching a larger portion of the population but also targeting new consumers.

The survey highlighted that adults older than 55 are no longer the most vulnerable and millennials (between ages 18-34) are outpacing them because of their inherent trust in, and use of, technology.

“Since millennials are generally less suspicious of technology intrusions, they are more likely to accept and engage in the scam, not realising their mistake until it is too late and the cybercriminals have access to their devices and personal information,” the study pointed out.

Recently, after a successful year-long pilot, Microsoft India launched a full-scale Cybersecurity Engagement Centre (CSEC) in India.

The centre is India’s first and Microsoft’s seventh cybersecurity Centre globally.

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remaining unchanged in the latest World Bank Doing Business report, the Indian government said on Wednesday that reforms undertaken by it and the states have not been adequately captured in the rankings released.

“I am a bit disappointed. Not only the Government of India, but every state is so actively engaged and wants to ease the situation. But for whatever reason, it has not been adequately captured in the ranking,” Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters here.

“Collectively, Team India has been doing quite a lot of work,” she said.

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With last year’s ranking, however, being revised to 131, India has, effectively, improved its place by one spot for 2017.

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“Some of the steps do take time, so the trickle-down effect of certain reforms have taken their due time because India is a large country,” she said.

“While I am not really discouraged, it is disappointing. This is at a time when you want everything to reflect the various measures that the Centre and states are taking should impact the ranking system,” she added.

India, thus, continues to rank 130th, recording little or no improvement in dealing with construction permits, getting credit, among other parameters.

To a question on whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of achieving an ease of doing business rank of less than 50 is attainable in the next one year, Sitharaman said: “That is a goal that we will be working to achieve.”

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ment here that the World Bank rankings are “incompletely reflective” of the changes in India’s business environment.

“The World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business rankings are incompletely reflective of the significant transformation in the overall business environment in key areas such as openness to FDI, online procedures, MSME facilitation and so on,” said Director General Chandrajit Banerjee.

“CII has been closely working with the World Bank on Ease of Doing Business, and we have noted significant progress across most state governments,” the statement said.

Industry body Assocham said though the government has made several path breaking changes in legal framework and policy prescriptions, the impact on the ground is generally visible after a lag.

“Maybe, that could be the reason for India not being moved up dramatically on the World Bank’s ease of doing business,” Assocham said in a statement here.

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The gap between men and women in terms of education - literacy and school enrolment - is so small that they could be at equal levels within the next 10 years, it said.

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A nation’s score reflected how much it has closed the gaps between men and women, using data from organizations such as the International Labour Organization, United Nations Development Programme and World Health Organization, it said.

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year reverted back to where it was in 2008. It measures how many men and women participate in the labor force, their earned incomes and their job advancement.

It stands at 59 percent, meaning women’s economic participation and opportunity is a little more than half of what men have, Zahidi said.

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Thursday 27•10•2016

NAGALAND

Naga businessman dies in England

Kohima, october 26 (mexN): Hukato Naga, Chairman & Managing Director of HN Company, Dimapur and Executive Member of NRC1CU passed away following a heart failure in Nottingham, England on October 25. Hukato, who was also Chairman of New Life Bible College and Advisor of Business Association of Nagaland, is survived by his wife, one son and one daughter.

Several organisations and individuals have expressed sadness and grief over the death.

CM: Chief Minister TR Zeliang said Hukato was one of the most prominent businessmen and entrepreneurs among the Nagas who struggled very hard to become successful at a crucial period. “He was also a committed social worker…A self-made businessman, his was a rags-toriches story which has inspired many young entrepreneurs of the State making his name almost a household name,” he stated. “I have often been amazed at his

business ventures and used to comment whether he was not taking too much risks to which he would comment that life itself is a risk! A jovial person, he never failed to make those around him laugh and enjoy his company.”

The CM further reminisced that Hukato was warm-hearted with a deep sense of trust and loyalty.

He also dearly cared for the overall transformation of the society and would often express concern for development of our state whenever we met, Zeliang said, adding Nagas have lost one of the finest personalities in the business profession in his death.

NRC1CU: “Late Hukato Naga was a dedicated member who had concern for the welfare of the Union and had contributed a lot towards its betterment.

He was also a great human being and was respected by everyone,” stated a note from NRC1CU president, Seyiekuolie. The union further said that Hukato was a successful contractor and his demise is a loss not only for the union but

also for the Nagas.

NPCC: In a separate message, NPCC president, K Therie recollected that Hukato, who is also the brother of Hukiye Tissica, Member, PCC, Aughanato Constituency, was “a very hard working entrepreneur who was able to achieve such a level of success only because of his hard work and dedication.” In his demise, we have lost a talented personality and successful businessman and contractor, it added.

MLA Tovihoto: Meanwhile, MLA Tovihoto Ayemi remembered late Hukato Naga as a Godfearing and humble person who gave a global image to the Naga contractors and businessmen.

“His admirable simplicity and efforts to work for peace and reconciliation among the Nagas can be visibly reflected when he hosted the meeting among the different Naga political groups under the aegis of Forum for Naga Reconciliation on September 18, 2010 at his residence in Dimapur. He was a true lover of peace, unity and

reconciliation,” Tovihoto said.

The MLA further acknowledged that in his demise, Nagas have lost an iconic entrepreneur who rose to high level of success with sheer hard work and dedication.

Er. Picto: Parliamentary Secretary Er. Picto Shohe described Hukato as a very energetic young man with a zeal for social works and church activities. His professionalism in business made him not only a national figure but an international figure as well, Picto said in a condolence note. “What drew people’s admiration for him was his humble and God-fearing personality. He was a very determined and hardworking businessman who rose to success and became an inspiration for many upcoming entrepreneurs.” In his demise, the Naga people have lost a tall figure and it is a loss not only to his family but entire Sumis in particular and Naga community in general, he added.

BAN: Business Association of Nagas (BAN) also stated that Hukato was known for being a self-

made man and a first generation successful business man among the Nagas. “A dynamic man and an inspirational figure to Naga business community, words seem inadequate to express the sadness and the vacuum he has created due to his demise and his departure will be deeply missed,” BAN said.

AAUD: Aghunato Areami Union Dimapur (AAUD) attested that Hukato was “a righteous and compassionate man, and indeed a pioneer to our community.”

Describing him as a self-made man and a father figure to many, the union said his vision to “uplift our society to work towards a common goal will not go in vain.”

His invaluable contribution towards the development of AAUD is a renaissance which can never be forgotten, it added.

All the organisations and individuals offered condolences to the family of the deceased and prayed that God will give them strength and solace to overcome the grief.

ANGPTA Mkg asks DoSE to resolve teachers' salary crisis moKoKchuNG, october 26 (mexN): The All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers Association (ANGPTA), Mokokchung District has written a letter to the Director for School Education drawing attention to the ongoing agitation in the form of boycotting of classes by the Nagaland SSA Teachers Association and the All Nagaland Aggrieved Hindi Teachers Association.

The ANGPTA, Mokokchung pointed out that the agitation has been going on for nearly two weeks now due to non-payment of salaries for the past five to seven months.

“We are all aware of the fact that salary is the only source of income particularly for the teachers. However, the monthly salary due for the teachers is not paid for months and is made to work emp-

ty stomach. This has thus caused untold hardships and is now virtually impossible to carry out their duties diligently. The teachers are working under different conditions, some of them even posted in the remotest region making it difficult even to manage their daily needs,” it said.

The ANGPTA, Mokokchung Unit further informed that some of the schools are badly affected due to the ongoing agitation. This is a crucial time in the academic calendar when the student community has reached a point to give their best and appear their final examinations, it said. It informed that while teachers and students were all trying to cover the syllabus and prepare for the term end examinations, “everything has come to a halt.” “The

careers of the students are thus hampered for which the teachers will not be responsible,” it added.

The ANGPTA, Mokokchung urged the department to look into the ongoing crisis with highest priority and solve the matter at the earliest so that normal duty of the teachers resumes for the greater interest of the student community in particular.

“The non-payment of salary on time to teachers has greatly disappointed and de-motivated the teachers to work diligently, which has in turn in a great way affected the quality of education especially in the Government Schools,” it lamented.

The unit appealed to the department concerned to bring a permanent solution to this problem so that the lives of innocent students are not put at risk.

Former ENPO president’s demise mourned Kohima, october 26 (mexN): The Naga Hoho and ENPO today mourned the demise of Y Mankgo Phom, former president of the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO).

In a condolence message, Naga Hoho described Mangko as a social activist and recalled the “wonderful and cohesive relationship” shared with the ENPO with him as its chief. “A person who always contributed the best idea and approaches in all the common issues faced by the Nagas,” the Hoho said of Mankgo. Stating

that in his demise, the Nagas have lost a leader, it further expressed condolence to the bereaved family members and near ones at this time of grief and sorrow. “We pray to the Almighty God to give the family members strength, comfort, solace and wisdom from above.”

Meanwhile, ENPO acknowledged that Mangko was “an enduring and a dedicated leader, whose work shall be particularly remembered when the memorandum of ENPO Statehood demand was submitted to the Govt. of

India during his presidentship.” A condolence note from ENPO president, Khoiwang Konyak and general secretary, Manlang Phom added, “We find no words to express our deep anguish and sorrow on his demise and shall always be remembered as a dear friend, companion and a fellow colleague President, who was also fondly called Papa Mangko.” The organization conveyed condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for the departed soul to rest in eternal peace with the Lord.

to the unity, integrity and security of our country,” the Governor stated. “Today we not only pay our tribute to the Iron Man of India but also pledge ourselves to successfully eradicate naxalism and insurgency which is weakening our Unity.”

Acharya further appealed to all the NGOs, youth organizations, higher education institutions and colleges to observe the Rashtriya Ekta Saptah from October 31 to November 6 by organizing activities like pledge-taking ceremony, unity runs, march past, plays, slogan writing contests, felicitation of freedom fighters and recording of their stories, etc. This year, a nationwide campaign under the theme ‘Nation salutes Sardar Vallabhai Patel on Rashtriya Ekta Saptah’ is being organized to honour the memory of Sardar Patel by conducting programmes and events reflecting his efforts in unifying the country.

EDSSU demands cancellation of ‘backdoor’ appointments in LR&S dept Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): East Dimapur Sumi Students’ Union (EDSSU) has asked the Department of Land Records & Survey to cancel the appointments of four LRSO and eight Surveyor Grade-I within ten days. In a press statement, EDSSU general secretary, Tovi Achumi and president, Kanato S Awomi stated that the mentioned posts fall under the preview of NPSC, but the recruitments were done through “backdoor”. Failing to cancel the appointments will invite locking of the Department’s directorate office and training centre located at Purana Bazaar, Dimapur with agitation, EDSSU cautioned.

Sainik School prospectus issued Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): The District Education Officer (DEO), Dimapur has informed that the Sainik School prospectus is being issued from the DEO office. Interested persons can collect the form during office hours.

WCYO condemns killing of minor Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): The Western Chakhesang Youth Organisation (WCYO) has expressed shock at the murder of a minor and condemned the same. One person identified as Wede Thele has been arrested on charges of killing the minor, informed a press release from Shelepa Rhakho, president and Lhikhro Kreo, secretary of WCYO. Asserting that no one has the right to take life, WCYO said such violent act cannot exist in a civilised society and need condemnation by all.

It further urged the law enforcing agency to expedite the investigation and deliver justice as per the law of the land. Meanwhile, it expressed condolences to the victim’s family and prayed that God grant solace.

Special revision of DMC electoral roll

Khyomo Lotha, former MP & State Chief Commissioner, Nagaland Bharat Scouts & Guides (NBS&G) speaking with the officials of Wokha District BS&G during the NBS&G ‘Jubilee Tour’ to Wokha on October 25 at DC conference hall. (Courtesy: Wokha BS&G)

Pholami council ‘ex-communicates’ NSCN (IM) Tatar

pheK, october 26 (mexN): Pholami Village Council has “ex-communicated” Sahicu Vezhu, Tatar of NSCN (IM) from all Pholami village “functions and benefits” for his “false allegation and insults towards the Pholami Village Council.” This was done during a meeting on October 13 at the Pholami village community hall.

The Pholami Village Council (PVC) stated it is “appalled” by the magnitude of Sahicu’s “lies and misuse of his office” in claiming that the PVC failed to mobilise people to attend the NSCN (IM) meeting called at Sakraba Town on September 22, 2016.

A press statement from Vecuso Medeo, Head GB and Vesopa Nakro, Village Council Chairman (VCC) of Pholami maintained that PVC members were “very much present in this meeting where the VCC spoke, strongly affirming the inherent rights of the

Nagas as a Sovereign Nation pledging unwavering commitment to the 1956 plebiscite of the Naga people, which the Tatar of NSCN(IM) Sahicu Vezhu said is wrong and demanded the resignation of the Village Council Chairman threatening with dire consequences to the kin and relatives of the chairman if his dictate is not complied to.”

Further, it claimed that Tatar Sahicu directed the tax in-charge of NSCN (IM) on October 10, 2016 to send Naga Army personnel to arrest the Village Council Chairman, “misinforming the tax collector of NSCN (IM) that Pholami had not paid the annual tax for 2016-2017 to the NSCN (IM), which in reality, he had already drawn an amount of Rs. 5000 from the treasurer in the presence of VCM Mudosu Kezo and Kuhuzhoyi Vezhu on June 29, 2016, the receipt which he had withheld for reasons best

known to him.”

“The Pholami Village is issuing this press statement upholding the true spirit of social harmony amongst Naga brethrens and for the true realisation of the Nagas aspiration for self determination,” the statement added, while condemning the “dictates and dishonesty” of Tatar Sahicu Vezhu.

At this crucial juncture when the Nagas are striving for peace and unity, PVC stated, “we cannot allow such a person…to negate the aspiration of the Nagas.”

It further requested the NSCN (IM) authority and all right thinking citizens to understand and strengthen the resolution of the Pholami people that good sense and social harmony may prevail all over Naga country. “The Pholami Village henceforth will not extend its co-operation to any Government or organisation that Sahicu Vezhu is part and partial of,” PVC asserted.

Governor’s message Eurokids School observes 5th Health is Wealth Day for National Unity Day

Kohima, october 26 (mexN): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya in his Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) message today remembered “our” great freedom fighter, Rani Gaidinliu and her soldiers.

“I value very much the contributions of Naga leaders who fought the British for freedom from the slavery.

Today we remember our soldiers who sacrificed their life for independence movement of our country,” he stated in the message released to the media from Raj Bhavan.

Introduced by the Government of India in 2014, Rashtriya Ekta Diwas is celebrated on October 31 to pay tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his birth anniversary. Acharya pointed out that Vallabhbhai Patel was instrumental in strengthening India.

“This occasion will provide an opportunity to re-affirm the inherent strength and resilience of our nation to withstand the actual and potential threats

MEx FILE

Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): ADC & ERO, Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), Elizabeth Ngully has notified the schedule for special revision of DMC electoral roll with reference to January 1, 2017 as the qualifying date as follows: Draft publication of electoral roll – October 31, 2016; Period for lodging claims & objections – November 1 to 10, 2016; Period for disposal of claims & objections – November 11 to 17, 2016; Period for filing appeal to the respective appellate authority – November 18 to 22, 2016; Disposal of claims & objections by the appellate authority – November 23 to 25, 2016; Preparation of list of amendment after the decision of appellate authority – November 26 to 28, 2016; Final publication of electoral roll – November 29, 2016. Any person can check the draft roll at the notice board of the office of the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur and office of the Dimapur Municipal Council from October 31, 2016.

BJP Kiphire resolves Kiphire, october 26 (mexN): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Kiphire district has resolved that no individual/member shall take up any issue/matter with the higher authority without the knowledge or prior consent of the district party office. The resolution, which was made on October 25 at the party district executive meeting here, stated that failing to comply with the directive, disciplinary action will be initiated as enshrined in the (Article xxv) of the party constitution and rules without bias. This was informed in a press release issued by Hobbs S. Thonger, president and Likhumba Y. Sangtam, general secretary of BJP Kiphire.

Deepawali greetings Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): The president and members of Dimapur Bengali Samaj have wished each and every citizen of Nagaland a bright and prosperous future on the occasion of Deepawali. The Samaj wished that the Lord will bless everybody with peace and progress.

Special outreach camp held at Tsiepfutsiepfhe Colony Kohima, october 26 (mexN): A special outreach camp was conducted at Tsiepfutsiepfhe (AG) Colony Ward No 15, Kohima by the medical staffs of Urban Primary Health Centre Seikhazou Kohima on October 22. Around 150 people were examined and treated for free and given free medicines, informed a press release from Tsiepfutsiepfhe (AG) Colony chairman, Akhreo-o Sorhie and secretary, Zenohol Kikhi.

On behalf of the colony, they thanked the medical officers and staff of Urban PHC Seikhazou Kohima for their humanitarian work and hoped they continue to extend their charitable works in the future too.

Meetings & AppointMents CSU meeting today There will be an emergency official meeting of the Chakhesang Students' Union (CSU) on October 27, 4:00 pm at its general secretary’s residence in Kitsubozou, Kohima. All the officials of the union have been asked to attend the meeting.

ANDMSA Kohima unit meeting All Nagaland District Ministerial Service Association (ANDMSA), Kohima unit has informed its members that a general meeting has been convened on November 10, 10:00 am at the LCS building in Kohima. The unit has requested each office to send two representatives to attend the meeting without fail.

Lower Jail Colony silver jubilee

Students participate in the 5th Health is Wealth Day of Eurokids International School, Dimapur on October 25.

Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): The 5th Health is Wealth Day (Sports Day) of Eurokids International School, Dimapur was declared open on October 25

by Lieutenant Colonel Akhilesh Kumar, Officer Commanding, Assam Rifles.

Colonel Akhilesh talk-

ed about the importance of healthy mind and healthy body which will in turn develop healthy thoughts to become good sportspersons and also good in academics. He also lauded the effort of Eurokids School for bringing education to the next level through their

unique teaching methodology which is very beneficial for the children in building their future.

A press release stated that the programme began with march-past by the small children who won the hearts of the audience as they swayed to the beat of the music. It

was an exciting day in which each child had the opportunity to participate in various fields and track events and fun games, the release added. The parents also participated sportingly in the fun races organized specially for them. The winners were given medals and cups.

Lower Jail Colony, Kohima will celebrate its silver jubilee on November 12, 11:00 am under the theme ‘For a better & prosperous tomorrow’ at the colony panchayat hall. Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Dr. Neikiesalie Nicky Kire will grace the occasion as the chief guest. In this regard, the colony is organizing a social work on October 28 from 7:00 am to 9:00 am with an aim of keeping the colony clean and also to create awareness among the well wishers.

NLA session In exercise of the power conferred by Clause (1) of the Article 174 of the Constitution of India, PB Acharya, Governor of Nagaland has summoned the Fourteenth Session of the 12th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) on November 22, 9:30 am in the Assembly Hall, Kohima.

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Thursday 27•10•2016

IN FOCUS

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 295

By Aheli moitra

Learning from lilies

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here is little joy in writing about Manipur anymore unless you are writing about the delicate Shirui Lily.

But even writing on the latter could border on the bizarre these days.

The Shirui Lily blooms between May and June each year, bringing spring with it. Custodians of the land, the people of Shirui village, who have seen this flower bloom each year, host the Shirui Lily week every year to promote preservation of the ecosystem in which the flower thrives.

This slight pink Lily was “discovered” by a botanist in 1948 and declared the ‘state flower’ of Manipur state in 1989—the flower is endemic, or native, to the hills north east of Imphal valley. Not very far from the hills that host the Shirui Lily, lie the hills that host its cousin, the Dzukou Lily. Each lives undisturbed by the other, sharing geographical lineage.

In these hills, it is hard to demarcate where Manipur ends and where Nagaland begins. Borders in this part of the world are seldom marked by what the centre of each of these states believes but by how the people residing in these areas do.

As a result, the elected head of government of the state into which the Shirui Lily was co-opted is denied entry into the lands while the elected head of government of another state that finds itself sharing nativity of the Dzukou Lily is welcomed time and again.

This is an intentional choice made by the people living in Manipur State, not just north of the valley but also south of it.

Manipur’s elected representatives have long been unwelcome in Lamka, or Churachandpur, for instance.

For 400 days, nine people who were shot and killed by the Manipur police have been left unburied by their families, pending justice to them and the communities they belong to. Despite being known for seeking human rights accountability, neither state nor non state actors of Imphal have approached the issue. This has led to a natural, and inevitable, coalition of peoples under the geographical banner of ‘Outer Manipur’ where justice has been pending for much longer than 400 days.

The reservation (wrongful allocation) issue at Manipur University has only fed the angst and heightened tension.

Local and national press coverage of ‘Outer Manipur’ related issues have almost died down over the 400 days after its initial violent attraction has subsided. Non violent forms of protest are just not good enough for attracting readership.

Thus, with elections in Manipur approaching in 2017, it is time for politicians to warm themselves by the fire they have fueled.

This has been the approach of the ruling dispensation in Manipur for more than a decade now. It has encouraged inter communal disharmony by fueling injustice and used one peoples against the other. On the other hand, it has quelled all pockets of friendship and solidarity that has been expressed through peoples’ initiatives of both ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ Manipur thereby creating renewed terms of division.

Entrapped in each of their combs that make up the honeycomb called Manipur, people now look to use their votes to bring a new government to power. But a few more imaginative steps may be necessary to transform the situation in a way that Manipur may proceed from its borderlines driven approach of mutual suspicion to a peoples centric approach of mutual coexistence to transform the stagnant status quo of political thought—learning more from its lilies than its lines.

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

lEfT wiNg |

Kathryn Doyle Reuters

Climate change is shifting areas of skin disease concern

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limate change is bringing certain skin diseases and other illnesses to regions where they were rarely seen before, according to a recent research review.

Dermatologists should keep these changing patterns of skin diseases in mind when making diagnoses, say the authors, who analyzed specific disease shifts in North America.

As the planet warms, many bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites can survive in areas where they haven’t been found before, the review team writes.

In the U.S., for example, the incidence of the tick-borne Lyme disease increased from an estimated 10,000 cases in 1995 to 30,000 in 2013, and the area where it occurs keeps expanding from New England north into Canada as the ticks find their preferred habitat expanding.

“In places like Canada, now there are ticks that carry Lyme disease farther north than doctors would ever expect to see that,” Dr. Misha Rosenbach of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia told Reuters Health said in a phone interview.

The range of Valley Fever in the southwest U.S. is spreading in a similar way, he said.

Viruses like dengue, chikungunya and Zika are transmitted by mosquitoes originally from Africa and Asia, which have now spread widely throughout North America as the mosquitoes can survive further and further north.

“We are seeing a much wider spread northward for some of these formerly tropical diseases that are now in Texas and Florida,” Rosenbach said.

Seventeen of the warmest years on record occurred within the last 18 years, largely due to combustion of fossil fuels and destruction of rainforests, the authors write in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

Water warming and flooding can also give rise to skin threats not previously typical of certain areas, the authors note. Ocean warming increases jellyfish populations, and Portuguese man-of-war now swim along the southeast U.S. coastline where they once did not, for example.

Parts of North America, particularly the Great Lakes, should expect substantially greater rainfall and therefore more outbreaks of waterborne disease as well.

Increasing temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico contribute to the increased cases of illness from consuming raw oysters.

Another skin-related consequence of climate change is skin cancer: as ozone is depleted, the risk of skin cancer goes up. A two-degree temperature increase could raise skin cancer incidences by 10 percent each year, the authors write.

The dermatologic consequences of climate change may not all be negative – you could argue that if temperatures keep rising, some mosquito habitat will be dried out due to drought and some disease ranges may shrink, Rosenbach said.

When doctors see patients with a fever and a rash, he added, "what you suspect" as the diagnosis "depends on where you are.”

“It’s important to remember that what people learned 20 years ago or 10 years ago in medical school can be subject to rapid change,” he said. “The bottom line is it’s important to keep an open mind about possible diagnoses.”

C O M M E N T A R Y

Laura Carlsen CommonDreams

Plan Colombia, Permanent War, and the NO Vote

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he Colombian people voted NO to peace.

Or to be exact, 50.2% of 37% of the eligible population voted no. In the referendum held Oct. 2, the majority of voters decided to scuttle four years of peace talks dedicated to ending 52 years of bloodshed.

The vote came just days after the celebratory signing of the agreement, considered exemplary for achieving a bridge between historic enemies and dealing broadly with the root causes of the conflict.

The rest of the world was stunned.

Most pundits have begun the post-mortem analysis of the referendum saying something like “Colombians did not vote against peace.” They go on to discuss factors including people’s ignorance of the accords, or their mistaken belief that after four years it could simply be renegotiated.

But the fact of the matter is that the NO voters voted clearly and unambiguously to continue the war. The words on the ballot read: “Do you accept the final agreement to terminate the conflict and build a stable and lasting peace?” It’s almost inconceivable that any population would vote no on this proposition, but they did.

So why?

Although even former president Alvaro Uribe, the nation’s lead warmonger, now makes the politically correct statement that the ultimate goal is peace, the macho sentiments of total domination and punishment (of one side), along with a strong dose of Cold War hysteria (yes, in the 21st century) won the day.

The NO promoters knew what they were doing.

They were not promoting an alternative peace. As a 32-year old NO voter quoted in the New York Times put it, “If ‘no’ wins, we won’t have peace, but at least we won’t give the country away to the guerrillas.”

His statement reflects the patriarchal logic that has started and perpetuated wars since time immemorial–the only good enemy is a dead enemy, and if I don’t win, nobody wins.

At least some NO voters and many of the leaders are betting on continuing war until they gain by force their entire military and political agenda–a prospect that, given the war’s longevity to date could easily be another half century. Or never.

The PeRKS of PeRmanenT waR For many NO promoters, including Uribe himself, “never” could be the best-case scenario. Basking in the limelight of a political career rebuilt on the ruins of one of the most complex and progressive peace agreements in history, Uribe released proposals for revamping the peace agreement designed to throw a monkey wrench into any process to salvage peace in Colombia.

Analysts stated that Uribe’s wish list is aimed at “torpedoing the peace accords”. No one expects the FARC to accept Uribe’s terms, which include being banned from politics; serving 5-8 year sentences in confinement for crimes, including drug trafficking; pardoning Colombia’s security forces for serious crimes, and eliminating the meticulously negotiated Tribunal for Transitional Justice.

Huge sectors of the population reject them as well, since the proposals also would wipe out the parts of the Peace Accord that regulate the return of stolen lands to peasant and indigenous communities and seriously hamper if not strike plans for reparations to victims.

To pretend that everyone wants peace and the only issue is, how is to ignore the fact that the war benefits many powerful interests. Those interests will fight to keep fighting.

On the political front, war assures military control over a population and justifies authoritarianism and repression through fear. In general, the most militarized parts of the country are areas where peasant, Afro-Colombian and indigenous peoples are defending their lands and resources from the incursions of transnational corporations and mega development projects. Fear and murder are powerful repressive tools.

War is also a huge business. Thanks to U.S. Plan Colombia and policies that fanned the conflict, Colombia became the third largest recipient of US aid in the world during the war, behind Israel and Egypt.

The budget for security forces skyrocketed; between 2001 and 2005, it grew more than 30% and by 2006 it was double 1990—some $4.48 billion for military and police.

US InTeReSTS The U.S. government also has a vested interest in continuing the war. The conflict justified Plan Colombia, the $10 billion dollar counterinsurgency, counternarcotics plan that allowed the Pentagon to establish military presence in Colombia, both physically and by proxy. With the pretext of the internal conflict, the U.S. government built up a platform not only for control in Colombia, but also with regional strike capacity, as leaked in theproposed agreement to establish seven US military bases.

Plan Colombia and its later incarnations kept U.S. contracts for weapons, espionage and intelligence equipment and military and police training flowing to the most powerful lobbying industries in the nation. Billions of dollars have been poured into Plan Colombia and national security investment that ended up in the pockets of political elite and defense companies. In the 2010-2017 budgets, the United States has allocated $2.13 billion in military and police aid–most of that during the peace talks.

The country was converted into a testing ground for the latest in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare techniques and equipment from the United States. The blood spilled on its soil feeds the global war machine, to such an extent that Colombia has been groomed as an exporter of counterinsurgency and “security” training, despite its reputation as a gross violator of human rights and the disastrous humanitarian impact of its prolonged war. So very powerful interests saw the peace agreement as

a threat. In addition to Uribe followers who viewed it as soft on the FARC, the war economy of the nation and its ally, the United States, was at stake.

In this context, the US government reacted tepidly when peace was voted down. Bernard Aronson, the special envoy to the peace talks, expressed no regret in a press interview after the vote, stating, “We believe Colombians want peace, but clearly they are divided about terms of settlement…” The State Department limited its statement to support for Colombian democracy and further dialogue. After four years of ostensibly supporting the peace talks, neither mentioned the vote as a setback.

An analysis published by the US Army War College, although it is not an official document, openly expresses relief at the continuation of indefinite war in Colombia. Through a mixture of hawkish arguments and lies, the analysis recognizes that the country now enters into a “period of uncertainty”, but notes that this “presents a strategic situation less grave and more manageable, than had the accords been approved.”

It goes on to predict that the FARC will likely break the ceasefire, despite its explicit and public commitment to respect it even in the absence of the guarantees provided in the peace agreement. This position, coming from sources close to the US military, which has in many senses called the shots in Colombia’s war since Plan Colombia began in 2000, indicates that there is a dangerous possibility of a provocation to further undermine the peace process that has now been thrown into crisis by the NO vote.

The writers also advise President Santos to retract his commitment to the ceasefire following the vote.

They note that Santos promised to “not authorize military operations in the areas where FARC units are located in order to avoid an incident which breaks the fragile truce. Yet, not doing so will allow FARC dissidents to operate with almost complete impunity in these areas. Indeed, within the new background of uncertainty, such impunity will increase incentives for FARC units to continue illicit activity, such as drug trafficking, since doing so will pose relatively low risks.” waR engenDeRS moRe waR, noT Peace Before the NO vote, the U.S. press hailed Plan Colombia for making peace possible. President Obama, in his self-congratulatory last speech to the UN stated we “helped Colombia end Latin America’s longest war.” The logic of this bizarre argument went that were it not for the military debilitation of the guerrilla thanks to the US-Colombian military alliance, the FARC could never have been brought to the negotiating table.

The NO vote is the classic example of the fallacy of that logic. The war fomented by Plan Colombia built up a mentality that made peace an unacceptable solution for many. It revealed the fundamental clash of perspectives between diplomacy and annihilation.

The lesson couldn’t be clearer: War is a terrible preparation for peace. Peace depends on much more than a favorable correlation of forces. Peace, at its core, is a rejection of force as the way to confront differences, and a search for non-violent solutions to conflict and conflict prevention.

With U.S. military theorists openly calling for reopening hostilities, it is a dangerous myth to assume that at this juncture everyone wants peace and the only open question is how to do it. Plan Colombia, the U.S.-sponsored war on drugs and Uribe’s Democratic Security posit continued militarization.

Those who promote peace and reconciliation in the country must deal with that mentality head on. To second-guess or justify NO voters with “they-knownot-what-they-do” arguments reflects the kind of complacency and misreading of the public that created this dangerous debacle in the first place.

There is no doubt that a massive campaign of misinformation and scaremongering played a role.

Voters were bombarded with alarmist messages that spun out wild scenarios, from a legislative takeover by the former FARC to a “Chavez-Castro style dictatorship”. CNN’s footage of the NO celebration showed the crowd chanting “The NO won, now we won’t have a Cuban dictatorship”. It didn’t seem to matter that there was no logical relationship between voting for the peace agreement and the nation becoming a dictatorship. For followers of Uribe, who led the massive campaign against the negotiations and the acceptance of the agreement, the vote was ideological and personal. It represented the right against the left, and Uribe against Santos. For many people stuck in bitter partisan politics, to vote for peace was to vote in favor of the latter.

It is also likely that many people did not have a clear understanding of the accords or their implications, which is a failing of the negotiators and SI (yes) promoters that left a fatal opening for NO propaganda. Some voters also apparently believed that four years of arduous negotiations with the technical support of scores of international experts and mediators could simply be reopened and “fixed” to their liking, despite that the president made it clear there was “no Plan B”. Some NO voters quoted in the press even expressed dismay that they had won, believing they were merely casting a protest vote.

Despite these factors, the NO vote reveals a major obstacle: Society has been trained over years of conflict—one of the longest-running internal conflicts in the world–to acquiesce to war as the only response, to dehumanize the enemy and overlook the obvious fact that it takes two sides to sustain hostilities. A society that believes that the only solution is to drive the enemy into the ground–even when they are men and women from your own country and a reflection of serious social problems, into the ground.

This is the patriarchal mentality that the war industry thrives on. Plan Colombia has fomented this mentality since it began. It conflated a war on drugs with a counterinsurgency war to justify foreign intervention and broaden the war. The U.S. government knew that military funding was going directly to paramilitary groups. A 2010 empirical study demonstrated a measurable relationship between increases in US security funding and paramilitary homicides.

War propaganda presented the FARC as the sole culprit, when terrible atrocities were being committed on both sides.

With the exceptions of Arauca and Norte de Santander, the departments on Colombia’s borders that have suffered most in the war voted to end it.

They know what it’s like to feel their houses shaken by bombs, to risk life and limb walking through minefields, to lose their loved ones in crossfire. They know that to stop the violence in their day-to-day lives is far more important than the political games of how punishment and power are dished out.

War as a policy is almost always favored by those farthest from the battlefields.

The RoaD To Peace Understanding the very real and perilous obstacles is not the same as being pessimistic or defeatist at this point in the Colombian peace—it’s a process.

It’s important not to minimize the enormity of this setback–President Santos’ Nobel Peace Prize may be deserved but it’s a sorry consolation prize for having gotten so close only to be slapped down. But it’s also important to acknowledge that there is still room to move forward.

The peace accords opened up a dialogue and allowed the nation to envision peace. Grassroots organizations are mobilizing in defense of this vision and the possibility of a new reality.

This is the hope on the horizon. Since the NO vote, thousands have marched to support the peace process in Bogota and also in Cali and cities across the country. The marches have awakened and united groups of indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombians, victims, students, human rights defenders, peasants, women and the LGBT community in defense of peace.

The international community should openly and actively support the call for a broad grassroots dialogue for peace. It must continue to be firm and vigilant, because there will bea serious attempt to force a return to the model of military annihilation of the left-wing guerrillas while leaving in tact rightwing paramilitaries and other militarist structures.

International organizations committed millions of dollars to support peace implementation and it must be clear that those funds will only be released when the process is back on track. Part of creating adequate conditions is to deny any new funding to militarism– including the war on drugs, which acts as a thinly veiled excuse for militarization.

The NO vote unexpectedly flipped the political situation back in favor of the rightwing hawks. This uprising could not only flip it back in favor of peace, but also create a social movement capable of going beyond the accords in terms of establishing social justice and human rights and addressing the enormous backlog of demands from below.

Laura Carlsen (lcarlsen(at)ciponline.org) is director of the Americas Policy Program (www.americaspolicy.org) in Mexico City, where she has been an analyst and writer for two decades. She is also a Foreign Policy In Focus columnist.

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Colombia’s peace requires the disarmament of gender-fear Leonardo Goi

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y October 5, it was a truth publicly acknowledged that Colombia’s opposition had purposely distorted reality to sink the referendum on the peace treaty President Juan Manuel Santos had reached the leftist FARC guerrilla.

Speaking to newspaper La Republica, former senator Juan Carlos Vélez admitted that the NO campaign he had managed deliberately avoided discussing the contents of the peace treaty, and forged a panoply of scaremongering narratives specifically tailored to foment indignation among distinct sectors of the electorate.

The strategy crafted a poisonous discourse which posited the implementation of the peace deal as a threat to the integrity of Colombia’s society. A crucial element of the propaganda was the myth that the peace deal would have implied the imposition of a “gender ideology” that could have shattered the traditional heterosexual family unit.

Earlier this August, several thousands Colombians took to the streets to protest against a handbook that Minister of Education Gina Parody was to issue to school teachers to help fighting discrimination against kids with non-heterosexual gender identities. Rumours had circulated that the booklet had an overly explicit sexual content, and social media began to share the images of a male couple enjoying some intimate moments which would have allegedly formed part of the publication. Of course, this was not the case. The pictures were taken from 2006 adult comic book In Bed with David & Jonathan, and Parody eventually clarified that the official guidebook the Ministry had commissioned only aimed at raising awareness on different sexual orientations inside schools, so to improve their acceptance amongst students and teachers.

Nonetheless, the mass outcry did not stop after Parody’s clarification. A number of catholic and evangelic groups kept warning against the threat that the question of gender would represent for the traditional Christian principles underpinning Colombia’s society, and a member of President Santos’ own party went as far as to claim the Education Minister, herself openly gay, was guilty of promoting a homosexual colonisation of the country’s schools. That thousands of Co-

lombians genuinely thought a teaching handbook could be filled with pornographic images is – however baffling – besides the point. The indignation highlights the unresolved tensions of a fundamentally heteronormative society, in which the question of gender is still a taboo that is yet to find a proper place in public debate.

During the weeks leading up to the referendum, the NO campaign skilfully exploited the latent anger against Parody claiming that the peace treaty would have jeopardised the traditional family unit in the same way the Minister’s handbook did. This time, NO supporters pointed their fingers at the way the question of gender seemingly ran through the deal’s six points, and fabricated an apocalyptic narrative whereby the ratification of the treaty would have entailed the imposition of a “gender ideology” at odds with Colombia’s traditional value system.

To be sure, the issue of gender did feature throughout the points agreed by Santos’ government and the FARC guerrilla. But this was neither an ideology nor something that was going to be forced in a top-down fashion in order to dismantle the norms and conducts of the majority. Instead, gender had been carefully cashed out as a framework that sought to acknowledge the violence that women and members of the LGBTI community had suffered during five decades of armed conflict, and promote the conditions that would have ensured all victims,

including those who had been targeted for their gender and sexual orientation, could enjoy a more humane existence.

Colombia’s 52-year-old conflict did not quite simply claim an estimated 250,000 lives – it also produced certain modes of being which were necessary for it to last. The armed groups who took part in the past five decades of violence contributed to generate a model of manhood and womanhood which turned personal prestige, physical prowess and violence into three dangerously

the collapse of Colombia’s society. It is difficult to understand just how much of the NO victory owed to the gender conspiracy the opposition had fabricated.

But the way former president and staunch opponent of the peace deal Alvaro Uribe heralded the referendum’s defeat as evidence that families “had been respected” is telling.

Parody resigned on October 5. A few days later, President Santos reassured Colombians that the treaty with the FARC did not contain a gender “ideology”, and sim-

A vote cast to purposely reject the gender framework of the peace treaty with the FARC is a vote premised on ignorance and fear interconnected notions. Those who did not fit with the hegemonic subjectivities were either subject to conversion or social cleansing.

That the inclusion of a framework seeking to pay justice to the victims of systematic violence should be perceived as a threat by many is a sad testament of the embedded heteronormativity which has saturated Colombia’s public debate before and after the referendum.

The question of gender was never an attack on the rights of the majority: it was and remains a question of human dignity.

The NO campaign purposely glossed over the above and decided to cash out the treaty’s mention of gender as a Trojan horse that would have initiated

ply sought to acknowledge the multiple ways in which women have suffered during the conflict. Not only does the argument problematically reduce the question of gender to the plight of women alone: it also shows the difficulty of forging an all-encompassing discourse which does not posit gender as a threat, but a struggle for equal opportunities everyone should take part in.

The peace treaty with the FARC guerrilla was never quite simply a deal to put an end to an armed conflict. It was an opportunity for Colombians to open a new chapter of their country’s history, and embrace nonviolent modes of being among others. Even if all illegal armed groups currently operating in-

side the country will be eventually disarmed, how exactly will Colombia disarm the deepseated homophobia which the debate on gender has so shamelessly brought to light?

Leading up to the referendum, the NO campaign argued at great length that a vote against the peace treaty was not a vote in favour of war. This much is correct. The referendum was never meant to be a fight between friends and enemies of peace. A huge number of NO voters expressed some legitimate fears on the fairness of the treaty to the conflict’s victims which the government did not convincingly answer.

But it is one thing to respect the vote of those who rejected the peace treaty on the grounds that it might have granted excessive legal, economic or political benefits to former members of a terrorist organisation.

It is quite another – and a much more difficult one – to respect the vote of those who rejected the peace deal fearing that the recognition of the rights of others would amount to a threat to their own.

A vote cast to purposely reject the gender framework of the peace treaty with the FARC is a vote premised on ignorance and fear. If Colombia is to achieve a long-lasting peace, the future demobilisation of guerrilla fighters should go hand in hand with efforts to promote tolerance and acceptance, irrespectively of gender and sexual orientations. Sadly, overcoming a heteronormative value system might take much longer than ending a war.

What will happen when China’s future is today?

Kerry Brown

The bright national vision promoted by China's ruling party has a dramatic twist

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isions of a great future have played a huge role in China’s past, particularly since the rise of the communists and their victory in 1949.

Mao Zedong's thinking had a utopian strand from the very start, married as it was to progressive ideas about human, political and social perfectibility. Society was marching towards a future that was bold, bright, and wonderful. This was a fundamental article of faith in the early ideology and propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and saturated the party's art and messaging.

This luminous future was at least mitigation against the often challenging present. In the 1950s, with a world to rebuild after international and domestic war, it fired the prevailing optimism. China was finally, in the words of its constitution, master of its own house. The country was able to rebuild its decimated infrastructure.

Human-development indexes rose. Mortality rates increased from a horrifying 32 in 1949 to

the mid-50s fifteen years later.

For Mao, at least in his poetry, the future was ten thousand years hence. But in the prosaic world of policy, it was a little nearer – if still decades away, up to a century. One of the popular stories his propagandists widely circulated told of the old man and the mountain. Sons, grandsons, greatgrandsons would all labour away trying to move a mountain. Their achievement would take generations. That didn’t matter. They were all working to invest in a happy time and place that they and their most immediate offspring would never see, but their forebears one day world. That made it worth doing.

The future grew a little closer under Deng Xiaoping. His project – "reform and opening up" – after all did not posit some abstract, highly ideal, almost philosophical paradise awaiting the Chinese, as Mao Zedong's had. It was about pragmatically undertaking projects of enrichment and modernisation, whose results would come more clearly and nearly into view. Deng himself said that China would achieve moderate levels of wealth by the turn of the twenty-first century, and predicted full Chinese modernity by 2049.

He was too pessimistic. Even by the early 1990s, the good times were falling due not in a century or more as under Mao, but in a few decades.

Appealing to this better,

often idealised, future has remained one of the key political resources and mobilisers for Chinese leaders. Unlike in developed countries, where the good times have to happen soon, and preferably today, China's version posited the need for present hard work and sacrifice, material and political investment, in order to secure still relatively distant benefits.

There was another difference too. With its legacy of socialist modernity, the CCP has never let go of a vision of human perfectibility and idealised social outcomes based on its fundamental belief in scientific modes of development. That is not the case in multiparty democracies, where politics and social evolution are seldom, if ever, regarded as operating under strict, predictable rules that can lead to perfect outcomes.

China’s leaders today, however, have partially become the victims of their own success. Reforms have created a society which is prosperous for many, though a fall in raw GDP growth in recent years has made for a less compelling economic narrative. This is the context for Xi Jinping's effort to mobilise people with a new grand tale, a different kind of vision, embodied in the notion of a "China dream". His talk is less littered with endless economic statistics and technocratic utterances. He speaks instead of the new future being imminent, within grasp, just a few years down the line after

a tough transition to middleincome country status. In that sense, Xi is a politician not of promise but of delivery.

China’s good future has never been closer. This is the time – a time no longer a century or several decades away – when it finally achieves a dream held throughout the often tragic history of its engagement with modernity in the last century and a half: of being a rich, strong country, and one able to look after its own people well. We can even put a date to it. 2021 is when the Communist Party celebrates its hundredth year in existence. It is also when the first of the centennial goals that Xi Jinping has talked about in the last couple of years occurs.

This is the moment the future becomes now. That at least is the suggestion of much party messaging and elite discourse.

There is a massive challenge here, however. The problem about fulfilling the hopes of the future dreamed about in the past is whether it will feel as worthwhile and satisfying as people expect when at last it becomes real. There is no evidence that Chinese are any less willing to be satisfied than other people. If the future when it happens proves disappointing, solemn lectures by political leaders on the need for even more sacrifice will no longer pay off. The wonderful resource the future once supplied to Chinese leaders will weaken, even disappear. Then

they will only be able to defend themselves on the basis of what is happening today. That will make them little different to their western counterparts – constantly ducking, diving and fleeing the current demands of restive populations.

And for the party there is an even larger issue. Achieving successful modernisation, completing the grand project of a great future, raises questions about the very reason for the party's existence. Successful modernity surely means the party itself, according to Marxist theory, has to suddenly vanish – as Marx said, wither away. Chinese people are then able to look for a different sort of political future.

Maybe Chinese leaders already carry in their heads this awareness of the transience of the entity they belong to. In that context, China's brutal presentday domestic politics can be interpreted in a new context – a tactical measure, to hasten the future that the party promised so often, of prosperity, idealism, strength. All the bitterness, struggle and hardship would then have been vindicated, all would be forgiven, and the party could then dissolve, morphing into something different.

For if Xi Jinping specifically refers to a "China dream" as a vision for people and society, he has never said it is the party’s one. The party is the servant – and like all good servants, once the task is done, surely it too should wither away?

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Govts and Social Movements Disagree on Future of Cities Emilio Godoy

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Inter Press Service

he Third United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development and the alternative forums held by social organisations ended in the Ecuadorean capital with opposing visions regarding the future of cities and the fulfillment of rights in urban areas.

On October 20, the representatives of 195 countries taking part in the Habitat III conference adopted the Quito Declaration on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements for All, after four days of deliberations.

The basis of the declaration, also known as the New Urban Agenda, is the promotion of sustainable urban development, inclusive prosperity, and spatial development planning.

In the 23-page declaration, the states commit themselves to fighting poverty, inequality and discrimination; improving urban planning; and building cities with resilience to climate change.

At the same time, academics and social movements laid out their visions of social development of cities in two alternative social forums held parallel to the Oct. 17-20 summit, criticising Habitat III’s approach to urbanisation and questioning how effectively it can be applied.

“If you see the New Urban Agenda as building international cooperation, agreed on by the countries and implemented by municipal governments, which did not take part in drawing it up, it’s heading for a crisis, because there will be clashes,” Fernando Carrión, the Ecuadorean activist who headed the Towards an Alternative Habitat 3 social forum, told IPS. During this parallel forum, held at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), some 140 speakers from 32 nations and 40 organisations from around the region discussed urban rights; the dialogue with local governments and social movements; housing and spatial justice, a term similar to the right to the city.

Habitat III, the cities summit organised by U.N.-Habitat, drew around 35,000 delegates of governments, non-governmental organisations, international bodies, universities, and companies, and gave rise to the New Urban Agenda, which is to chart the course of political action aimed at sustainable urban development over the next 20 years.

After the United States and Europe, Latin America is the most urbanised part of the planet, as 80 percent of the region’s total population of 641 million people live in urban areas.

At least 104 million Latin Americans live in slums; worldwide the number of slum dwellers amounts to 2.5 billion, according to U.N.-Habitat.

This phenomenon poses the challenges of land title regularisation and the provision of basic services, while aggravating problems facing cities like pollution, increasing traffic, urban sprawl and inequality.

“We need to rethink how to organise cities. We have to organise and mobilise ourselves. We’re going to assess compliance by national and local governments, which are key, because many things will depend on their compliance,” Alison Brown, a professor at the University of Cardiff in the UK, told IPS. The Quito Declaration drew criticism on some points. One of the main concerns that arose in the debates was about the “post-Quito” implementation of the commitments assumed by the states and social organisations.

The Habitat III accords “cannot generate the urban reforms that we need, such as integral access to land with services. That can only be achieved through struggle. It is local political participation that makes it possible to press for urban reform,” Isabella Goncalves, an activist with the Brazilian NGO Brigadas Populares, told IPS. She attended the Oct. 14-20 Resistance to Habitat III social forum, which brought together delegates from about 100 social organisations from 35 nations to address issues such as opposition to evictions, the promotion of social housing, and defending the right to the city.

In its final declaration, the social forum called for strengthening the movements defending the right to land and territory and respect for the universal right to housing, and questioned Habitat III for pushing for urbanisation to the detriment of rural areas and their inhabitants.

The Habitat International Coalition criticised the New Urban Agenda’s “narrow vision”, and lamented that Habitat III had forgotten about protecting people from forced eviction and about the need to fight the shortage of housing and to achieve the right to universal housing.

It also urged countries to “regulate global financial transactions; end or limit opaque speculative financial instruments; steeply tax real-estate speculation; regulate rents; enhance the social tenure, production and financing of housing and habitat; and prevent privatisation of the commons, which is subject to attack under the neoliberal development model.”

Academics and social movements want to avoid a repeat of what happened post-Habitat II, which was held in 1996 in Istanbul, and whose implementation lacked follow-up and evaluation.

For that reason, the organisers of Towards an Alternative Habitat 3 agreed on the creation of an observatory for monitoring the decisions reached, biannual meetings, wide publication of the results of research and follow-up on the progress made by cities.

The Quito Declaration mentions periodic reviews, and urges the U.N. secretary general to assess the progress made and challenges faced in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda, in his quadrennial report in 2026.

The decade between the summit in Istanbul and the one held this week in Quito serves as a demonstration of what could happen with the New Urban Agenda.

The Global Urban Futures Project’s Habitat Commitment Index, presented during Habitat III, shows how little has been achieved since 1996.

Between Habitat I, held in 1976 in Vancouver, and Habitat II, the global average score in terms of fulfillment of the commitments assumed was 68.68, according to the Project, a network of academics and activists based at the New School University in New York City, which created the Index based on infrastructure, poverty, employment, sustainability, institutional capacity, and gender indicators.

But since the 1996 conference, the global average only increased by 1.49 points. Latin America and Southeast Asia increased their scores, while North and sub-Saharan Africa showed extremes in both directions, with large increases and decreases in HCI scores.” India made no progress, and China saw a “significant decline” in its score.

With respect to the different dimensions taken into account by the Index, the greatest progress was seen in gender, modest progress was seen in poverty and sustainability, and minimal progress was seen in infrastructure.

“We didn’t manage to get a citizen monitoring mechanism or advisory committee included in the New Urban Agenda,” Luis Bonilla of El Salvador, who is the chief operating officer for TECHO International, told IPS. “For that reason, we will create a follow-up mechanism. Concrete commitments are needed” within the agenda, he added.

Carrión, a professor at FLACSO and a coordinator of working groups in the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLASCO), said “the attention of many organisations was drawn, and now we will see what can be done from here on out.” For social movements, then, Quito marked the start of a long road ahead.

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INDIA

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

How Centre informally curtailed work under MGNREGA Centre's WhatsApp messages had chilling effect on MGNREGA, reports Business Standard Morung Express News

from Tamil Nadu made similar request on August 22 saying it was in “urgent needs of funds, as our wage liability is around 750 crore so far….”

At least five more states had made similar pleas to the Union government and some of them did so repeatedly, the report stated.

Dimapur | October 26

In a shocking revelation, a news agency reported that noticing a steep rise in demand for work under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA), the Rural Development Ministry used an off-record WhatsApp chat group to tell states not to generate more work under the programme.

The “mad race” for generating work under MGNREGA should not continue, the Ministry reportedly instructed state officials in an encrypted WhatApp chat group called ‘ENCORE’ (Enabling Communication on Rural Employment).

ENCORE has the membership of all senior ministry officials and state-level MGNREGA officials, besides others.

According to the expose by Business Standard published on October 24, the instructions were in “violation of the provisions of the MNREG Act” which makes it mandatory for the government to provide as much funds as required and government cannot decrease work opportunities to fit its budgetary plans.

The Union government passed the instructions though the informal channels keeping

Unofficially, the rural development ministry asked states to desist from generating more work under MGNREGA. (ReuteRs File Photo)

the law in mind, it added.

According to the Business Standard, on August 14, the rural development ministry’s joint secretary in-charge of MGNREGA told the states: “We ought to desist from campaigns for enlisting demand and indulging in the mad race of more and more personday generation (generating of wages)… [w]e have to “intelligently” communicate to the

district/block/GP authorities to learn to target.”

On August 28, the rural development ministry official again told the states that: “There has to be a pragmatic handling of funds.”

“It warned that more funds would not be made available soon and that states should ‘plan’ more ‘judiciously’ with the money they had already received,” the report claimed.

Faced with this informally imposed moratorium on funds, many states repeatedly pleaded with ministry on the WhatsApp group for immediate release of funds to pay hundreds of crores of arrears to the poor for the work that had been completed, it added.

On August 19, Karnataka officials said that “wages of 288 crore pending needs urgent clearance” while official

‘Chilling effeCt’ on work allotment In a follow-up story on October 25, the national daily reported that the “off-record” instructions to states had a “chilling effect” on the work given under MNREGA after the roaring demand growth in the first few months.

Explaining the chain of event it said that while a labour budget - the persondays of labour work estimated to be generated in a financial year- is prepared in consultation with the states at the beginning of the year, the Union government has the final say.

It helps estimate the budgetary support required for the scheme in a particular year, but it is only an estimate and the Centre is required to provide additional funds, if demand for work exceeds projections, it added.

In 2016, the government approved a labour budget of 2.17

billion person days -- 980 million person days less than what the states had asked for. It told states not to exceed the limit set without prior approval.

After being criticised by the Supreme Court for not providing funds due to drought situation in the early part of the year, the Centre encouraged states to register demand from the poor and assured them of funding support, the report said adding that the government also announced an extra 50 days of work in drought-hit districts above the normal 100 days guarantee when it evident that the drought was widespread.

As states took up the registration of demand in right earnest, the work provided to the rural poor surged, exceeding the central government projections and approved labour budget for April-July by a whopping 277.94 million persondays, it said.

By July, the rural development ministry had consumed 76% of its original budgetary allocation of Rs 38,500 crore.

Thus, the rural development ministry’s changed tone in August and the off-the-record instruction had an “immediate impact,” the report maintained.

While states had generated

30.5 million persondays and 7.47 million days more than what was planned in July and August respectively, by September, the trend reversed dramatically.

“The work provided was 54.8 million days less than what had been planned to be given to the people in rural India,” it said.

Data also showed that in all previous years, of which data is available publicly, the actual work provided has always been less than what was approved by the Union government as labour budget at the beginning of the year, it added.

In response to Business Standard’s queries, the rural development ministry said: “The ministry of rural development has not made any changes in its approach in the month of August, as is borne out by all formal communications to the states.”

The rural development ministry explained the dip as part of the usual trend when the monsoon is normal in the country.

Adding that it is committed to implementing MGNREGA in letter and spirit, the Ministry told the paper that ENCORE was “never intended as a substitute to official communication.”

“All substantive issues are addressed through formal letters of the ministry and not through WhatsApp messages.”

Union Budget to be presented New Zealand to back India's Yeddyurappa, kin acquitted in bribery case granting mining leases to the JSW and its one month in advance: PM NSG, UNSC membership bids subsidiary South West Mining Ltd.

New DelhI, october 26 (IaNS):Acknowledging the importance of India joining the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG), New Zealand on Wednesday affirmed its constructive contribution towards New Delhi's quest for the membership of the elite club.

Addressing a joint press conference here with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key also assured of his country's continued support to India's bid to become a member of the reformed UN Security Council.

"I and Prime Minister Modi had a conversation about India's application to become a member of the Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG). I acknowledged the importance of India joining the NSG. "I also stated that New Zealand will continue to contribute constructively to the process currently underway in the NSG to consider India's membership. New Zealand is committed to working with the NSG members to reach a decision and as PatNa, october 26 (IaNS): Authorities at Bihar's soon as possible," said Key. "I reiterated to Prime Minister Modi Patna Railway Station have blocked access to porn sites in its free Wi-Fi service at the station, officials said on Wednesday."We have acted after it was found that free Wi-Fi service was used for opening porn sites at Patna railway station and also in view of reports of last week," Arvind Razak, the Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO) of East Central Railway (ECR), told IANS on Wednesday. New DelhI, october 26 (IaNS): The The development comes 10 days after IANS first re- Supreme Court on Wednesday was told that ported that Patna Railway Station tops in terms of in- a provision of the electoral law, prohibiting ternet search, using the free Wi-Fi service, but mostly the use of religion by a candidate for mobilisto view porn. Razak said use of the free Wi-Fi service to ing votes during elections should be seen in watch porn at the railway station was taken seriously by the contest of enduring constitutional ethos the concerned top railway officials, and it was decided to and the changing times. Referring to 19 provisions of the constitution dealing with block the sites. different aspects of society, senior counsel When IANS reported that more than any other rail- Kapil Sibal told a constitution bench of Chief way station in the country, where free Wi-Fi service was Justice T.S. Thakur, Justice Madan B. Lokur, launched, Patna goes for most internet search, particu- Justice S.A. Bobde, Justice Adarsh Kumar larly for porn, public sector undertaking RailTel had de- Goel, Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, Justice D.Y. nied the report.w Chandrachud and Justice L. Nageswara Rao According to officials, people in Patna station use free that "these elements of constitutional ethos Wi-Fi to search Youtube followed by Wikipedia. "More have to be respected" while interpreting the than anything, porn sites have been watched and down- Section 123(3) of the Representation of Peoloaded at the station," an official had said earlier. ples Act, 1951.

At present, RailTel is providing 1 gigabyte Wi-Fi at the The provisions that Sibal cited included Patna station but plans are to increase it to 10 gigabytes. prohibition of discrimination on grounds New DelhI, october 26 (IaNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the Union Budget will be presented about a month in advance to ensure speedier implementation of the projects and asked the states to align their plans accordingly. Modi made the remarks during the 16th interaction through PRAGATI -- the ICTbased multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation.

"The Prime Minister mentioned that the Union Budget presentation is being advanced by about a month to ensure speedier implementation of projects and schemes. He urged all states to align their plans with this advancement, so that they could take maximum advantage of this move," a Prime Minister's Office release said.

Generally, the Union Budget is presented at the end of February every year.

Adult site access blocked on free Wi-Fi at Patna Rly Station

about New Zealand's consistence support for India to become a member of the reformed UN Security Council, including if this means expansion of the UNSC," said Key, adding that both leaders underlined their strong interest in advancing nuclear disarmament and nuclear nonproliferation.

Key said both countries agreed on working closely in areas such as "food safety, cyber security, education and customs"."We also agreed for close coordination on a range of issues, including international terrorism," said Key. Observing that there is potential for the bilateral trade to grow, Key said both leaders are committed towards creating business environment in the respective countries conducive to creating jobs and prosperity for the people. "High quality trade agreements will encourage that and Prime Minister Modi and I agreed to work towards that goal thorough our bilateral free trade agreement negotiations and regional comprehensive economic partnership talks," added Key.

'Totally prohibit use of religion for votes' of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth, equality of opportunity in matters of public employment, abolition of untouchability, freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion, freedom to manage religious affairs and freedom as to attendance at religious instruction or religious worship in certain educational institutions. Sibal's submission came to the constitution bench which is examining whether Section 123(3) which prohibits seeking votes by a candidate or his election agent on the ground of the candidate's religion, race, caste, community or language could be expanded to exclude the use of religion in any form during electioneering. The 7-judge bench is looking into whether seeking votes in the name of religion amounts to corrupt practice under the act, leading to unseating of a lawmaker.

Former Karnataka CM Yeddyurappa. File Photo

beNgaluru, october 26 (IaNS): A Special CBI court here on Wednesday acquitted former Karnataka Chief Minister and BJP state unit President B.S. Yeddyurappa in a bribery case.

Pronouncing the verdict in a packed courtroom, Judge R.B. Dharamaguder also exonerated Yeddyurappa's two sons B.Y. Raghavendra and B.Y. Vijayendra, his son-in-law R.N. Sohan Kumar and seven others in the Rs 40-crore graft case for lack of evidence.

"Justice is done. I stand vindicated," a relieved Yeddyurappa tweeted after the verdict was pronounced.

The Central Bureau of Investigation registered the case on May 15, 2012, under the Indian Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, regarding alleged grant of leases to mining firms as quid pro quo for donations made to Yeddyurappa's family-run Prerana Education Trust at Shimoga during his tenure from 2008-2011.

The other accused included former Bharatiya Janata Party Minister S.N. Krishnaiah Shetty, South West Mining Company, Jindal Steel Works (JSW)), Real Technical Solutions Ltd. and Industrial Techno Manpower Supply and Services Ltd. The Supreme Court on May 11, 2012, directed the CBI to register the case on the recommendation of a Central Empowered Committee (CEC) appointed by it for investigation into the alleged kickbacks for

The cases pertain to the Rs 10-crore donation by South West Mining to Prerna Trust and the mining firm purchasing 1.12 acres of land that was freed from government control (denotified) from Raghavendra and Vijayendra in 2010 when Yeddyurappa was the Chief Minister.

The CEC also accused Yeddyurappa's kin of receiving Rs 6 crore as bribe from mining baron Praveen Chandra through real estate firms set up by them.

Yeddyurappa, who was the first Chief Minister of the ruling BJP in south India, resigned after the Lokayuktha (ombudsman) Justice N. Santosh Hegde (retd) indicted him and recommended his trial in the mining scam.

Claiming that the verdict had come as a relief to lakhs of party workers, Yeddyurappa said that justice had given him an opportunity to bring the main opposition party in the state back to power in the 2018 assembly elections.

Shocking, says Congress; BJP hails it Meanwhile, the Congress on Wednesday dubbed as "shocking" the acquittal of former Karnataka Chief Minister and state BJP President B.S. Yeddyurapppa by a Special CBI court in Bengaluru in a bribery case.

"We are stunned, surprised and shocked that serious allegations for which mounting evidence was provided to the CBI have been completely overlooked.

This is clear case of political influence," Congress leader Sanjay Jha told IANS. "The CBI under (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi government has become a convenient bureau of investigation, the way in which NIA (National Investigation Agency) has become Namo investigation agency," Jha said. He said Yeddyurappa will face the real test in public court, which will manifest itself in elections.

On the other hand, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hailed the court decision.

BJP National Secretary Shrikant Sharma told IANS: "We are happy that the court has acquitted him of all allegations.""He has said earlier that the case against him was politically motivated," Sharma said.

'Healthy oils & low-heat cooking can reduce heart problems of South Asians' KolKata, october 26 (IaNS): Thinking of ditching the salad bar in favour of pakoras from your favourite snack vendor?

Think again.

Preventing coronary heart disease (CHD) is not just about what you eat but is also linked to the cooking style you adopt, according to a team of international researchers who say urbanised South Asian's susceptibility to the disease is partly due to high-heat cooking methods such as roasting or frying.

High-heat food preparation is responsible for the increased risk of CHD in urbanised South Asians (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan populations in South Asia and overseas), compared to other populations that

employ lower cooking temperatures, such as the Chinese, the experts say in a new study.

Contending their hypothesis is contributory and needs further research, the experts highlight the fact that Chinese cuisine involves mostly braising, steaming and boiling rather than frying.

"The vital message to take home from our hypothesis is that high cooking temperatures lead to the formation of neoformed-contaminants (NFCs) such as trans-fatty acids (TFAs) and advanced glycation-end-products (AGEs). These significantly increase the risk of CHD," the study's lead author Smitha Kakde told IANS in email interaction.

The researchers hy-

pothesise that South Asians' susceptibility to CHD is partly attributable to high-heat treated foods producing high NFCs. "This is further influenced by the re-use of cooking oils which is common practice in India," said Kakde who is affiliated to Edinburgh Migration, Ethnicity and Health Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Since most Indian food is spice-based, cooked in a sauce and has high NFCs, Kakde advocated using lower cooking temperatures (lower than 150 degree Celsius), in addition to switching to healthier options like olive oil.

"There is considerable research to prove that lowering cooking temperatures reduces NFC formation, leading to reduced CHD risk. Some oils do not reach high cooking temperatures, for example, olive oil, and we would recommend using these healthier options," Kakde advised.

In terms of deploying new gadgets such as air fryers, Kakde stressed on keeping temperatures from soaring beyond 150 degree Celsius.

"Newer gadgets such as air fryers may have some positives like lower oil utilisation. However, if these gadgets use temperatures over 150 degree Celsius, NFCs are produced which inevitably increases the CHD risk," she explained.

Published in the journal ‘Nutrition', the study was the brainchild of Raj S. Bhopal from the University of Edinburgh and also involved Swati Bhardwaj and Anoop Misra from National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Diseases Foundation (N-DOC), New Delhi.

The authors reviewed the actions of AGEs and TFAs on health, the relationship between these products and CHD, the effects of preparing food and reheating oils at high temperatures on NFCs, and the foods and mode of preparation in South Asian and Chinese cuisines.

"Most hypotheses are evolutionary and we would have to wait tens of thousands of years for genetic change and even

developmental origins of disease hypothesis would take several generations.

With this hypothesis, albeit with further research, we could turn things round in a generation," Bhopal emphasised.

Some of the commonly available high-heat foods studied were sambhar (thin lentil soup), ghee (clarified butter), roti (Indian bread), pakora (fried snack prepared by coating the vegetable/meat with flour batter and deep frying) and samosa -- a triangular deep-fried pastry containing vegetable or meat.

While traditional Indian cooking may have always been a risk factor for CHD, exposure to fast food (prepared at high temperatures), coupled with seden-

tary lifestyles, exacerbates the problem among urbanised South Asians, including Indians, said Kakde.

Shedding light on the different styles of cooling, Chef Madan Rai of the popular home-style Chinese restaurant chain Buddha Bites, said in Chinese stir fry, only a dash of oil is used along with splashes of water.

"We can't say it's totally healthy. Dark soy sauce is harmful so we mostly use light soy. But in Chinese (cooking), we use very little oil," Rai told IANS, also suggesting less use of spices.

According to Suvro Banerjee, a consultant interventional cardiologist, some of the foods which are healthy, could be harmful if cooked in the wrong way.

"If you take fish, it's

healthier to bake or grill it rather than fry or deep fry it. The awareness is spreading among a section of people but there is need for mass awareness on preparing food in a healthy way," Banerjee, of Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, told IANS. The bottom line, according to Misra, is to follow healthy cooking practices with healthy oils for South Asians, in order to prevent diabetes and coronary heart disease.

"Credible hypothesis presented in this article will stimulate research on this important issue, and may contribute to formulation of preventive strategies," Misra, Chairman, Fortis CDOC Hospital for Diabetes and Allied Sciences, New Delhi, told IANS.

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Duterte wants US troops out of the Philippines in 2 years tOkyO, OctOber 26 (IANs): The Philippines President on Wednesday expressed his desire to put an end to US military presence in the country in the next two years.

Rodrigo Duterte said in order to do so, he will review or repeal existing bilateral agreements, Efe news reported.

“I have declared that I will pursue an independent foreign policy. I want, maybe in the next two years, my country freed of the presence of foreign military troops,” Duterte declared at an economic forum in Tokyo during a three-day visit to Japan.

“I want them out and if I have to revise or abrogate agreements, executive agreements, I will,” added Duterte, in an apparent reference to the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).

In his address to Japanese companies and financial institutions and senior Japanese government officials, Duterte acknowledged US support, saying “it’s a great country, it has helped us in so many ways in the past”, but added that the Philippines “will survive without the assistance of America. Maybe a lesser quality of life ...”

Duterte also said he wanted to be a “friend” to China and “I do not want missiles established in my country” -a reference to the massive US military deployment in the Philippines to counter China’s rise in the region.

The EDCA, signed between Manila and Washington in 2014 and negotiated by his predecessor, Benigno Aquino, allows the US to use Philippine bases for a 10year period and have greater military presence in the region, the scene of a territorial conflict in the South China Sea between China and the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Duterte also met Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after the forum, where the latter urged him to repair relations with the US, according to Japanese government officials. U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Duterte’s remarks were “inexplicably at odds” with the relationship the two countries continued to enjoy and Washington was going to “take the long view” on ties with Manila.

“We’ve seen this rhetoric and then we’ve seen it walked back,” he told a regular news briefing. “We’re not going to react and respond to every bit of rhetoric. We’re going to continue to work at this relationship.”

Kirby said the United States would continue to meet its obligations in its defence treaty with the Philippines and had not seen Duterte’s comments against it translate into policy.

“The long view in our mind is a sustained, healthy, vibrant, bilateral relationship with the people and the government of the Philippines. That’s what we’ve had for 70odd years and that’s what we expect to have for 70-plus more years ... so that’s where our focus is on,” he said.

WHO cancer agency asked experts to withhold weedkiller documents

LONDON, OctOber 26 (reuters): The World Health Organization’s cancer agency - which is facing criticism over how it classifies carcinogens - advised academic experts on one of its review panels not to disclose documents they were asked to release under United States freedom of information laws.

In a letter and an email seen by Reuters, officials from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) cautioned scientists who worked on a review in 2015 of the weedkiller glyphosate against releasing requested material.

The review, published in March 2015, concluded glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic,” putting IARC at odds with regulators around the world. Critics say they want the documents to find out more about how IARC reached its conclusion.

“IARC is the sole owner of such materials,” IARC told the experts. “IARC requests you and your institute not to release any (such) documents.” Asked about its actions, the agency told Reuters on Tuesday it was seeking to protect its work from external interference and defending its panels’ freedom to debate evidence openly and critically.

In recent years IARC, a semi-autonomous unit of the WHO based in Lyon, France, has caused controversy over whether such

David Schnare, General Counsel of E and E Legal, told Reuters his group is now pursuing a legal challenge over whether the documents belong to IARC, or are the property of the U.S. federal and state institutions where the panel experts work.

He said E and E wants access to the documents and emails because it wants to know more about the way IARC reviews the scientific evidence, and about its relationship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller atomizers are displayed for sale at a garden shop at Bonneuil-Sur-Marne near Paris, France, June 16, 2015. (REUTERS File Photo)

things as coffee, mobile phones, red and processed meat, and chemicals like glyphosate cause cancer.

Its critics, including in industry, say the way IARC evaluates whether substances might be carcinogenic can cause unnecessary health scares. IARC assesses the risk of a substance being carcinogenic without taking account of typical human exposure to it.

Glyphosate is a key ingredient of the herbicide Roundup, sold by Monsanto. According to data published by IARC, glyphosate was registered in over 130 countries as of 2010 and is one of the most heavily used weedkillers in the world.

Pressure has been grow-

ing on the experts who worked on IARC’s glyphosate review in part because other regulators, including in the United States, Europe, Canada, Japan and New Zealand, say the weedkiller is unlikely to pose a cancer risk to humans.

The conflicting scientific assessments have delayed a decision on whether glyphosate should be relicensed for sale in Europe, and prompted senior U.S. lawmakers to question whether IARC should receive funding from U.S. taxpayers.

IARC defends its methods as scientifically sound and says its monographs the name it gives to its classifications of carcinogens

Getting North Korea to give up nuclear bomb probably lost cause: US spy chief WAsHINGtON, OctOber 26 (reuters): The U.S. policy of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons “is probably a lost cause” and the best that could be hoped for is a cap on the country’s nuclear capability, the Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper said on Tuesday.

However, underscoring conflicting views in the Obama administration, the State Department said U.S. policy was unchanged and continued to be to seek the “verifiable denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula.

President Barack Obama has repeatedly stated that the United States will never accept North Korean as a nuclear-armed state.

Clapper made clear at an event at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York he did not think that the policy the administration has stuck to, in spite of repeated North Korean nuclear tests, was realistic.

“I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclear-

man John Kirby said he had not seen Clapper’s remarks but told a regular news briefing in Washington that the administration did not believe denuclearization was a lost cause.

“No, nothing’s changed ... that’s not our position. Our policy objective is to seek to obtain a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. That is the policy; that is both the goal and what we want to see and there is a way to do that.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang, asked on Wednesday about Clapper’s remarks, said the best way to resolve the North Korea nuclear issue was still via talks.

China and Russia have pushed for a resumption of sixparty talks on denuclearization in North Korea. The talks, which also involve Japan, South Korea and the United States, have been on hold since 2008.

Clapper also said it bothered CHINA PRESSES NEED TO TALK U.S. State Department spokes- him that the United States was not

ize is probably a lost cause,” Clapper said at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in New York.

“They are not going to do that - that is their ticket to survival.”

Pyongyang has persisted with its missile and nuclear weapons programs, including a Sept. 9 nuclear explosion, despite strong international sanctions.

Clapper said he got a good taste of how the world looks from North Korea’s viewpoint when he went to Pyongyang on a mission in 2014 to secure the release of two Americans.

“They are under siege and they are very paranoid, so the notion of giving up their nuclear capability, whatever it is, is a non-starter with them,” he said.

“The best we could probably hope for is some sort of a cap, but they are not going to do that just because we ask them. There’s going to have to be some significant inducements.”

capitalizing on using information as a weapon against North Korea.

“That’s something they worry about a lot ... That is a great vulnerability I don’t think we have exploited. Right now, we are kind of stuck on our narrative and they are kind of stuck on theirs.”

Clapper was asked if he thought North Korea could mount a nuclear warhead on a missile that could reach the West Coast of the United States and reiterated the intelligence assessment that this had to be a “worst-case assumption.”

He said North Korea had yet to test its KN08 intercontinental ballistic missile, so neither North Korea nor the United States knew whether it worked.

“Nevertheless, we ascribe to them the capability to launch a missile that would have a weapon on it to reach parts of the United States, certainly including Alaska and Hawaii,” he said.

“They could do it. We have to make the worst-case assumption here.”

Clinton policy on Syria would lead to WW III: Trump DOrAL, OctOber 26 (reuters): U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Democrat Hillary Clinton’s plan for Syria would “lead to World War Three,” because of the potential for conflict with military forces from nuclear-armed Russia.

In an interview focussed largely on foreign policy, Trump said defeating Islamic State is a higher priority than persuading Syrian President Bashar alAssad to step down, playing down a long-held goal of U.S. policy.

Trump questioned how Clinton would negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin after demonising him; blamed President Barack Obama for a downturn in U.S. relations with the Philippines under its new president, Rodrigo Duterte; bemoaned a lack of Republican unity behind his candidacy, and said he would easily win the election if the party leaders would support him.

“If we had party unity, we couldn’t lose this elec-

to lay out any plans of his own for defeating ISIS or alleviating humanitarian suffering in Syria,” Clinton spokesman Jesse Lehrich said in a statement.

Trump said Assad is much stronger now than he was three years ago and said getting Assad to leave power was less important than defeating Islamic State.

“Assad is secondary, to me, to ISIS,” he said. tion to Hillary Clinton,” he said.

On Syria’s civil war, Trump said Clinton could drag the United States into a world war with a more aggressive posture towards resolving the conflict.

Clinton has called for the establishment of a nofly zone and “safe zones” on the ground to protect noncombatants. Some analysts fear that protecting those zones could bring the United States into direct conflict with Russian fighter jets.

“What we should do is focus on ISIS. We should not be focussing on Syria,” said Trump as he dined on fried eggs and sausage at his Trump National Doral

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golf resort. “You’re going to end up in World War Three over Syria if we listen to Hillary Clinton.

“You’re not fighting Syria any more, you’re fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right? Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk,” he said.

Clinton’s campaign dismissed the criticism, noting that both Republican and Democratic national security experts have denounced Trump as unfit to be commander-in-chief.

“Once again, he is parroting Putin’s talking points and playing to Americans’ fears, all while refusing

OBAMA FOCUSSED ‘ON HIS GOLF GAME’ On Russia, Trump again knocked Clinton’s handling of U.S.-Russian relations while secretary of state and said her harsh criticism of Putin raised questions about “how she is going to go back and negotiate with this man who she has made to be so evil,” if she wins the presidency.

On the deterioration of ties with the Philippines, Trump aimed his criticism at Obama, saying the president “wants to focus on his golf game” rather than engage with world leaders.

Since assuming office, Duterte has expressed open hostility towards

the United States, rejecting criticism of his violent anti-drug clampdown, using an expletive to describe Obama and telling the United States not to treat his country “like a dog with a leash.”

The Obama administration has expressed optimism that the two countries can remain firm allies.

Trump said Duterte’s latest comments showed “a lack of respect for our country.”

The interview comes two weeks before the Nov. 8 election, with Trump trailing badly in the polls.

He repeated his assertion that the “media is rigging the polls” and said his supporters were upset with Republican Party leadership.

“The people are very angry with the leadership of this party, because this is an election that we will win 100 percent if we had support from the top. I think we’re going to win it anyway.”

He said if he wins he would not consider putting Democrats in his cabinet but would work with them on legislation.

- are “widely respected for their scientific rigor, standardized and transparent process and . . . freedom from conflicts of interest.”

IARC’s advice to experts not to release documents came in April after IARC said it learned that members of the scientific panel that reviewed glyphosate in 2015 had been issued with legal requests for information relating to their work.

Multiple subsequent freedom of information requests by the U.S. conservative advocacy group the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (E and E Legal) have since been turned down by agencies and universities citing IARC’s reasoning that it owns the documents.

“PRIVATE EMAILS” An email dated April 1 was addressed to six members of the working group for monograph 112, which considered glyphosate, including experts at universities in Texas and Mississippi as well as scientists attached to the EPA. Signed and sent by Kathryn (Kate) Guyton, the IARC staffer responsible for the glyphosate review, the email said IARC “does not encourage participants to retain working drafts or documents after the monograph has been published.”

Monsanto’s vice president of strategy, Scott Partridge, told Reuters he considered IARC’s actions “ridiculous.” “The public deserves a process that is guided by sound science, not IARC’s secret agendas,” he said.

Responding to Reuters’ questions about the let-

ter and email, IARC said it had been previously informed by experts on the panel who “had been approached by interested parties, including lawyers representing Monsanto . . . and asked to release private emails as well as draft scientific documents.” It said that as international agencies, both IARC and the WHO “have policies to protect their work, and the contributions of their expert Working Groups, from external interference.”

In a statement to Reuters, IARC said the letter and email were sanctioned by the agency’s director, Chris Wild. It added: “IARC staff did not instruct anyone not to comply with records requests made under national or local law.” It said it is vital that scientists in its working groups “are able to openly and critically debate the scientific evidence.”

“IARC considers any measures that would discourage scientists from participating in Monographs or would detract from open scientific debate to be contrary to the best interests of international public health,” it added. Ivan Rusyn, one of the recipients of the IARC’s April letter and email and a professor at Texas A and M University who worked on the glyphosate review, said he was glad to have IARC’s advice regarding whether documents should be released.

Air pollution may cause damage in blood vessels NeW yOrk, OctOber 26 (IANs): Increased exposure to air pollution may cause damage and inflammation to blood vessels among young and healthy adults and thus raise the risk of cardiovascular disease and other related deaths, say researchers, including one of Indian-origin. The study revealed how air pollution actually affects the blood vessels to increase the risk of disease, which was previously unknown.

The researchers found that periodic exposure to fine particulate matter was associated with several abnormal changes in the blood that are markers for cardiovascular disease. As air pollution rose, they found small, micro-particles indicating cell injury and death significantly increased in number, levels of proteins that inhibit blood vessel growth increased, and proteins that signify blood-vessel inflam-

mation also showed significant increases.

“Although we have known for some time that air pollution can trigger heart attacks or strokes in susceptible, high-risk individuals, the finding that it could also affect even seemingly healthy individuals suggests that increased levels of air pollution are of concern to all of us, not just the sick or the elderly,” said Aruni Bhatnagar, Professor at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, US. “These findings suggest that living in a polluted environment could promote the development of high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke more pervasively and at an earlier stage than previously thought,” Bhatnagar added. Healthcare providers should consider the cardiovascular effects of air pollution on all patients, not just those who are ill or elderly, the researchers suggested.

NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION KOHIMA

NO.NPSC/ADVT-1/04

Dated Kohima, the 26th October, 2016

CORRIGENDUM / NOTIFICATION With reference to the Commission’s Advertisement No. NPSC-4/2016 dt.

19.10.2016, the following Corrigendum/Notification shall be made as mentioned below:i) 1(one) post of Asstt. Lecturer (Grade-A) (Civil Engg) under Department of Technical Education should be read as 1(one) post of Asstt. Lecturer (Grade-III) Item No.20 (c) and not as mentioned earlier. ii) 1(one) post of Demonstrator (Grade-III) (Chemistry) under the Department of Technical Education should be read as Item No. 20(d) and not as mentioned earlier.

Item No. 20 (c) (d): Pay Band Grade pay 9300-34800 4200

The following post(s) mentioned against each tribe are reserved for Backward Tribes: i) 1(one) post of SDO (Class-I Gazetted) Item No. 3 (a) under Irrigation and Flood Control Department is reserved for B.T. Sangtam. ii) 1(one) post of Asstt. Mechanical Engineer (AME) (Class–I Gazetted) Item No. 6 under Works & Housing Department is reserved for B.T. Yimchunger. iii) 1(one) post of JE (Civil Engg.) (Class–II Gazetted) Item No. 7 (d) under Power Department is reserved for B.T. Khiamniungan. iv) 1 (one) post of Dy.SP (NPTO) (Class-I Gazetted) Item No.10 under Home Department is reserved for B.T. Sangtam. v) 1(one post) of Asstt. Soil Survey Officer (Class-II Gazetted) Item No. 14 (b) under Soil & Water Conservation Department is reserved for B.T. Sumi (Kiphire). vi) 1(one) post of Lecturer (Grade-A) Item No. 20(b) under the Department of Technical Education is reserved for B.T. Chang. vii) 1(one post) of Demonstrator (Grade–III) Item No. 20(d) under the Department of Technical Education is reserved for B.T. Phom. viii) 1(one) post of Electronic Mechanic (Class-III Non-Gazetted) Item No. 23(a) under the Directorate of Employment, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship is reserved for B.T. Sangtam.

In pursuance of the Department of Forest, Ecology, Environment and Wildlife letter No. FOR/ESTT-79/2005/899 Dated 01-10-2016, the syllabus for Forestry subject has been revised. The revised syllabus can be accessed from the Commission’s Website at www.npsc.co.in.

Sd/- KHRUPI SOTHU, Secretary Nagaland Public Service Commission, Kohima.

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Sturridge puts Liverpool Spurs spoil Durant's Warriors debut with blowout through in League Cup

Tottenham Hotspur's Dutch goalkeeper Michel Vorm (R) saves under pressure from Liverpool's English striker Daniel Sturridge during the EFL (English Football League) Cup fourth round match between Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield in Liverpool north west England on October 25.(Getty Images)

London, october 26 (AFP): Daniel Sturridge served a reminder of his worth to Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp with both goals in a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur in England's League Cup on Tuesday.

Sturridge has started three of Liverpool's last four Premier League games on the bench, but he seized his chance at Anfield to send last season's beaten finalists into the quarter-finals.

Arsenal also progressed, Alex OxladeChamberlain scoring twice in a 2-0 win over Reading, while Hull City won 2-1 at second-tier Bristol City.

"Overall summary, it was a deserved win," Liverpool manager Klopp told Sky Sports.

"Big number of chances and a wonderful goalkeeper from Tottenham (Michel Vorm). All good. I think it was entertaining.

"He (Sturridge) did what he has to do and it was brilliant. He could have scored three or maybe four, but it was really good.

That's his big strength and he showed it again."

Klopp and Spurs counterpart Mauricio Pochettino between them made 21 changes to their starting line-ups, with visiting mid-

fielder Eric Dier the only player to keep his place from the weekend fixtures.

Klopp gave a debut to 18-year-old right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold and a full debut to midfielder Ovie Ejaria, 19, while 18-year-old Cameron Carter-Vickers started at centre-back for Tottenham.

Liverpool, who lost on penalties to Manchester City in last season's final, took a ninth-minute lead when Marko Grujic's deflected cross from the right was stabbed in by Sturridge.

Spurs stand-in goalkeeper Vorm repelled long-range efforts from Sturridge and Divock Origi before Georginio Wijnaldum freed the England striker to score his second goal in the 64th minute.

Dutch striker Vincent Janssen reduced the arrears with a 76th-minute penalty after Lucas Leiva took an unnecessary nibble at Tottenham substitute Erik Lamela.

- Newcastle cruise But it was the home side who came closest to scoring again, with Vorm saving spectacularly from Sturridge and substitute Danny Ings.

"I'm pleased with the performance, but not the

result. We fought until the end and created chances," said Spurs manager Pochettino.

"It was a great experience and we can take a lot of positives."

Arsenal joined Klopp's men in the last eight after seeing off second-tier Reading, who are managed by former Manchester United defender Jaap Stam.

Oxlade-Chamberlain struck twice for Arsene Wenger's much-changed team, drilling home in the 33rd minute and netting again with the aid of a deflection with 12 minutes to play. Headers from centre-backs Harry Maguire and Michael Dawson took Hull through at the expense of Bristol City, who replied through Lee Tomlin's 50-yard solo goal in stoppage time.

Aleksandar Mitrovic and Mohamed Diame each scored twice as Championship leaders Newcastle United routed 10-man Preston North End 6-0 at St James' Park. Leeds United twice came from behind and survived playing extra time with 10 men, after making all their substitutions and losing a player to injury, to edge Norwich City 3-2 on penalties following a 2-2 draw.

oAKLAnd, october 26 (AP): Kawhi Leonard and the San Antonio Spurs put on such a basketball show they sent the loyal Golden State fans to a rare early exit. What a strange sight at Oracle Arena for opening night and Kevin Durant's long-awaited Warriors debut.

Leonard scored a career-high 35 points and the Spurs emphatically spoiled KD's first game for Golden State in a 129-100 rout Tuesday that the Warriors could hardly believe had just happened.

Durant had 27 points and 10 rebounds, but little looked in sync for MVP Stephen Curry and the reigning Western Conference champions in a forgettable first game - and quite a different one after the Warriors dominated at home and came out of the blocks last season with a record 24-0 start.

Leonard scored 31 points by the end of the third, LaMarcus Aldridge added 26 points and 14 rebounds and Gregg Popovich thoroughly outdid a couple of his close friends on the opposite bench in reigning NBA Coach of the Year Steve Kerr and top assistant Mike Brown.

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San Antonio Spurs' Kawhi Leonard, left, recovers a loose ball past Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry (30) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo)

from 3-point range. Green had 18 points, 12 rebounds and six assists, while Klay Thompson was limited to 11 points on 5-of-13 shooting.

The star-studded Warriors were sloppy, committing 16 turnovers, and got out-

rebounded 55-35. San Antonio exhibited smooth, crisp ball movement and looked polished in a game that had a playoff feel on Day 1.

Cavaliers 117-88 Knicks LeBron James took time to reflect as the Cleve-

land Cavaliers raised their championship banner.

Then it was business as usual.

James had his 43rd career triple-double, Kyrie Irving scored 29 points and the Cavaliers beat the

New York Knicks 117-88 on Tuesday night in the NBA season opener.

James scored 19 points and added 11 rebounds and 14 assists in front of a raucous home crowd that was on its feet from the pregame ceremony until late in the game, celebrating the city's first championship in 52 years. Carmelo Anthony led New York with 19 points and Derrick Rose had 17.

Blazers 113-104 Jazz Portland's NBA-record streak of home-opening wins provided the inspiration against the Utah Jazz.

The Trail Blazers rallied in the fourth quarter for a 113-104 victory on Tuesday night, extending their record to 16 straight wins in home openers. ''With a streak that long, longest in the NBA, we wanted to keep it going,'' said Damian Lillard, who had 39 points. ''I was proud that we were able to do that tonight.''

CJ McCollum added 25 points for the Blazers, who trailed 83-77 at the start of the fourth quarter. They were still down 102-99 with under 5 minutes left before McCollum made a pull-up jumper and 3-pointer to give Portland a 104-102 lead. Joe Johnson scored 29 points in his debut with the Jazz and Rodney Hood added 26, including a rim-rattling dunk in the third quarter.

UEFA broke no rules in granting $4.4 million Slovenian loan

GeneVA, october 26 (AP): UEFA broke no rules when it sent a multimillion dollar loan for a betting company investment by the Slovenian soccer federation, according to a document seen by The Associated Press.

The 4 million euro ($4.4 million) deal in June 2015 - which a UEFA report says was ''granted in real exception'' - has been scrutinized because it was signed off by then-UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino and then-Slovenian soccer president Aleksander Ceferin. They have since won unexpected elections as presidents of FIFA and UEFA, respectively.

A Norwegian magazine

reported that FIFA ethics prosecutors are investigating Infantino's part in the loan. It said UEFA flouted financial protocol to approve the money, and noted that FIFA's code of ethics prohibits individuals from investing in soccer gambling operators.

The UEFA disciplinary committee then asked its investigations unit to report on claims initially made by Scandinavian media last month.

The inquiry report concluded that UEFA and the Slovenian federation ''respected the relevant provisions and conditions'' of granting loans to members.

The report notes that FIFA's ethical rules on bet-

ting and integrity of matches relate to ''persons,'' not institutions. The code, therefore, does ''neither apply to UEFA, nor to national associations,'' the document concludes.

Despite UEFA's internal report, FIFA ethics prosecutors can independently seek evidence and demand witness statements. However, it is unclear if an early stage probe has begun.

The investigator y chamber of the FIFA ethics committee said it would never confirm an ongoing preliminary inquiry. But that can lead to a formal case being opened, which would typically be announced.

The multimillion dollar loan from UEFA was detailed last month after FIFA built closer links to Slovenia.

In July, FIFA appointed Slovenia state auditor Tomaz Vesel to chair its independent audit and compliance committee and a panel which sets salaries.

Norwegian magazine Josimar reported that Vesel plays on an amateur soccer team with Ceferin, who it claimed was supported

by Infantino's staff in what became a landslide win for the UEFA presidency in September.

Interviewed by the AP last week, Ceferin described reports seeking to implicate him as ''mosqui-

to bites'' helped by an old guard of soccer insiders opposing him. ''They had to try to invent some non-stories,'' Ceferin said at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland, insisting the loan was ''as clean as possible. We asked for a loan, it was a strategic investment.''

The report says Infantino was not directly involved in Slovenia's formal request in December 2014, which had ''one sole known and well-documented aim'' - to buy a 17.3 percent share of the state lottery Sportna loterija. The owners include the Slovenian Olympic committee and national ski federation.

PUBLIC SPACE PUBLIC dISCoUrSE On the desecration of A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GAROS OF NAGALAND churches by the Indian army Biplab K. Sangma, President

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he Garos are the earliest human group that migrated into North East India from the Tibetan Plateau during the pre-historic period; the evidence of this being the Garo villages found across the Brahmaputra Valley, including many in and around the Guwahati metropolitan area and spread far and wide as far as the Chindwin valley in Myanmar. It is often put forward that the famous Kamakhya was a Garo shrine before it was stolen by the patriarchal Aryans during the reign of the Koch kings.

Origin and Sub-Tribes of the Garos The origin of the term ‘Garo’ has been a subject of controversy. Different historians and writers have given diverse opinion about the meaning of this term. The tribe itself is known to outsiders as Garo but the Garos call themselves as ‘A.Chik’ or ‘Mande’. There are twelve sub-tribes of the Garos. They are: 1. The Chisak 2. The Matchi 3. The Matabeng or Matjangchi 4. The Ambeng 5. The Dual or Matchi-Dual 6. The Atong 7. The Gara-Ganching 8. The Chibok 9. The Ruga 10. The Me.gam 11. The A.wes or A.kawes 12. The Koch or Kotchu or Kochus.

According to Major Playfair, the GaraGanching sub-tribe received their appellation of GARA and that the name was extended to all the other sub-tribes and in time it became corrupted from ‘Gara’ to ‘Garo’. Again, he says that ‘the Garos never use the term except in conversation with a foreigner and always refer to themselves as A.chik (hill man), Mande (the man) or A.chik Mande. Yet another explanation is that the term Garo is derived from the Bodo word ‘Gau’ which means to separate and migrate. In Bodo, Gaoro-Gaolang also means to become separated gradually. The Bodos and the Dimasas regard the Garo tribe as being separated

from them as ‘Gao’ or ‘Gaoro’.

Migration and Settlement According to historians like Major Playfair, Rev. C.D. Baldwin, Fr. G. Costa and Dr. V. Venkata Rao, the Garos belong to the Bodo group who are also the members of the great Tibeto-Burman race and are said to have been cradled in the northeastern China between the upper rivers of Hwang-Ho and Yang-tse-Kiang. The history of the migration of the Garos is contained in the ‘Katta aganna’ or epic lore in verse as well as prose which has been handed down from generation to generation. It is quite remarkable that the tradition of their migration from Tibet to their present places of settlement is still current among the Garos. The tenacity of oral tradition amongst the unlettered tribe is interesting and unique.

The place of their migration is known as A.song nonoini, Chiga Nengkuchotni or Timbori (Achik Lake or Inland Lake in Tibet). The Garos believe that they come from A.song Tibetgreni, Chiga A.pil jangsani. According to migrational records, there are eight ancestors who came along with their husbands. They are Himma, Dolma, Bisonma, Sikme, Donse, Ullongga and Ullonggi. The leaders of which are Jappa, Jalimpa, Sukapa, Bonggepa, Toginpa, Damjangpa, Ejingpa, Kusanpa, Dasingpa, Asanpa, Chupanpa, Kumapa, Rejapa, Kukrengpa, Nenggilpa, Nagongpa, Chongdapa, Panangpa, Rekinpa, Dopapa, Gisin Kalsin and Raji Dopa.

The main reason for the Garos’ migration from Tibet was the lack of fertile land and water for irrigation. Thus, the Garos started migrating to their present settlements from Tibet under the leadership of the above mentioned chieftains. The Garos migrated towards the fertile valley of Assam and Burma from the uplands of the Himalayas during the early years of 1000 B.C. Among them the first group of migrating Garos settled down in the Brahmaputra Valley for a long time. They named the mighty river Brahmaputra as ‘Amawari’ or Mother River. Gradually they settled in the present day Garo Hills.

The second group of Garos migrated towards the west from Burma, under the

leadership of Raja Sirampa, Kotta Nangrepa, Basanpa, Dingat Dajepa through the Patkai Hills of present day Nagaland along Disang, Dike (Dikhaw or Dikhu), Zanji, Bokdai (present day Bhogdoi), Desai and Kadang (Kadang Korong River in East Siang District of Arunachal Pradesh) Rivers. This migration from the Arakan and Yoma Valley and Mandalaya (present day Mandalay) in Myanmar (erstwhile Burma) took place during the 11th Century.

The Garos presently settled in Nagaland are part of the second group of Garos who had migrated from Tibet via Myanmar (erstwhile Burma) in Mandalaya. It is believed that the Garos living in Myanmar constantly came under attack by hordes of barbaric enemies. Due to these constant attacks, they were compelled to shift their settlement to safer places. So, after a long journey across mountains and rivers, they came through Manipur to present day Nagaland in Dimapur. The group of Garos who came and settled in the present day Nagaland State like the other Naga Tribes was led by Nokma Muga Dingsepa, Sirampa and Ajimpa to whom the Garos of Nagaland owe their present generation.

This ethnic migration of the Garos from Mandalay to present day Nagaland took place even before the advent of the Mughals in India.

A majority of the Garos who had migrated from Burma settled in and around the foothills of Samaguting (present day Chumukedima) though some groups scattered and settled in some Angami villages like Khonoma, Medziphema and Kohima Village. In those days, there was a village by the name Panbari near Samaguting (present day Chumukedima) where the early Garos initially settled after migrating from Burma. This Panbari village is no more in existence. The Garos shifted their settlements from the foothills of Chumukedima (Samaguting) to the present day Darogapathar in the year 1811. The Garo villages which are still in existence in Dimapur District under Nagaland are Darogapathar (1811), Dubagaon(1910), Ekranipathar(1942), Eralibill(1910) and Samaguri(1951). The

Garos of Nagaland also strictly follow the traditional Garo matrilineal norms and practices of Chras and Maharis.

Though a minority tribe in Nagaland, they have not lost their identity and unique culture along with the Kacharis with whom they have historically maintained a close affinity by virtue of belonging to the same Bodo Race. The Garos of Nagaland also celebrate the Wangala Festival every year during which cultural programmes are conducted by various cultural troupes from within and outside the state of Nagaland. The Nagaland Garo Tribal Council (NGTC), Garo Students’ Union Nagaland Zone (GSUNZ) and the Garo Mothers’ Association Nagaland are some of the organizations that have been spearheading the preservation of the Garo culture, language and identity in the State. Barring a few families, most of the Garos in Nagaland are Christians like their brothers in Garo Hills but they have definitely not lost their touch with the common past of a culturally rich tradition of the Garo Tribe.

Because of all the above mentioned historical facts the Garos of Nagaland are an integral part of the Naga society. This is also to clear the air of doubt for once and for all that the Garos of Nagaland have not migrated from Assam or Meghalaya as is often misconstrued by many. This unique history of the Garos of Nagaland has been recognized since the statehood and therefore they are recognized as an integral indigenous tribe of the state by the Government based on facts rather than myths. ¬Bibiography: 1. The Garos by Major A. Playfair, I.A, Deputy Commissioner, Eastern Bengal and Assam, 1909.

2. Gimagimin A’chikrangni A’dokrang (Lost Land of Garos) by Mihir N. Sangma, 1983.

3. Garo Hills Land and The People

by L.S. Gassah, Dept. of Political Science, NEHU Shillong, 1984.

4. Garo Customary Laws and Practices by Dr. Julius L. R. Marak, Ph. D, Curator, State Museum, Meghalaya, 1999.

Nagaland Garo Tribal Council (NGTC)

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hether it is a Church or a Temple or a Mosque, a place of worship is a holy place where people gather together to worship God. To use such a place of worship as a military base for military operations is the height of insult against the believers of any faith. Such an act is an act of premeditated desecration of a people’s faith and the God in whom the people believe. Such acts have indeed provoked wars in human history.

The recent occupation of the Mekokla Baptist Church by the 28 Assam Rifles on October 22, 2016 for military operations is an open challenge to every Naga Christian in particular and the whole of Christendom in general. We Nagas will remember your challenge and insult against our faith, our culture and our God. We also still remember how three of our young girls were raped on the Church pulpit of Yanklei Baptist Church in August 1971. Yes, we also remember how our sister Mayangkokla and our brother Kikamongba were stripped naked and forced to perform the act of intercourse on the floors of the Church at Ungma village on February 24, 1957. Yes, we will remember because- Forever etched into our national memories and consciousness are all these heinous and insulting acts that you have inflicted on our deepest national feelings and psyche.

And after committing all these insulting acts on us, dare you ever call yourselves: “Friends of the hill people?” Do not add salt into injury by calling us your friends.

View on DMC’s initiative to lease out toll tax

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n the spate of objection raised by various NGOs of Dimapur over the initiative of the Municipal Affairs department to lease out collection of DMC toll tax to private individuals, firms etc. in Dimapur from the month of October 2016, I as a concerned citizen would like to share my views on the issue.

Various NGOs have urged the department to reconsider its decision in the interest and welfare of its members as well as general consumers and public. NGOs have even threatened the department to enforce bandh. However, are they (NGOs) aware of how much of the revenue collected by the DMC staff (toll collectors) are being duly submitted to the office? Why do the NGOs not reacting to the unauthorised collection carried out by various unions and associations?

Is it always necessary for the NGOs to raise objection over the decisions made by the government or departments concerned? Are NGOs more important than the popular government elected by the people?

Are the NGOs parallel to the state government?

Whatever decision taken by the Municipal Affairs department must have been arrived in the interest of the department and the general public at large. Therefore, the department should be given an opportunity to prove itself worthy of its decisions.

Midland, Dimapur

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

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Priyanka Chopra downs a tequila shot on Ellen DeGeneres’s show

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The Indian actress gulped it down, and quipped about how Indians love their spirits.

Priyanka, who found international acclaim with her American TV series "Quantico", did not hesitate when DeGeneres asked her to take a tequila shot during her sit-down on the show, which is aired in India on Romedy NOW. Priyanka was asked to do a shot because she took a shot on the red carpet at an awards show recently.

DeGeneres even showed the video. The actress said the shot made her "wonky"

because she hadn't eaten all day.

After the drink, Priyanka said: "Thank you for that, this will be a really smooth interview."

DeGeneres said: "Yeah!

It's good, this will be our tradition now. Whenever you are talking to me or anybody that's connected to the Ellen Show, you do a shot of tequila."

To that, Priyanka said: "I really started believing it was a very American thing, because I was at the Emmy's and it happened again. I was given tequila and I was like 'American Red Carpets have to start with tequila'."

When DeGeneres said "Americans drink a lot",

Priyanka commented: "Oh, so, do Indians. Yeah, Indians drink a lot."

"What's the drink of choice in India?" DeGeneres enquired.

Priyanka said: "Well, mine is...red wine. Because it is elegant and appropriate to say on the show. Because it airs in India, twice a day."

Priyanka, who was seen essaying an FBI agent named Alex Parrish in the first season of the American drama series, is now portraying a CIA agent in its second season, which airs in India on Star World and Star World HD. She is busy shooting for the second season in New York.

‘How I Met Your Mother’ inspired by 9/11 attacks, revealed creators

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He cared a lot about it," the source added. The 28-yearold actor reportedly kept a red-and-blue journal which was filled with comic strips and drawings, and with 'The Joker' emblazoned on the front. He also bizarrely scrawled the words 'bye bye' on the back of one of the pages.

Ledger was found dead in his apartment on January 22, 2008. His career span in Hollywood comprised of nineteen films, including '10 Things I Hate About You' in 1999, 'The Patriot' in 2000,' A Knight's Tale' in 2001, 'Brokeback Mountain' in 2005, 'The Dark Knight' 2008 among many others.

For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in 'Brokeback Mountain', Ledger won the 'New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor' and 'Best International Actor from the Australian Film Institute', and was nominated for the 'BAFTA Award for Best Actor' in a leading role.

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reators of the hit TV show "How I Met Your Mother" (HIMYM) noted that the show has emotional roots inspired by the September 11 attacks.

On September 11, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks took place where the planes crashed into the

North and South towers, respectively, of the World Trade Center complex in New York.

Carter Bays and Craig Thomas discussed the show's roots during a New York Television Festival keynote discussion on Monday. The two New Yorkers had been working

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Smulders, Josh Radnor and Alyson Hannigan -- had nine seasons from 2005 through 2014. The creators says the tragedy informed the tone of the pilot. "We have to write something bigger and with emotion, and (that) talks about twists and turns in life," said Thomas.

Bays added, "It in-

Ilandlo.com successfully attended the Bacardi NH7 Weekender Music Festival at Shillong on October 21 and 22 where products of various entrepreneurs were promoted and sold offline. The stall highlighted the launch of “The Little Naga” dolls from Ikali’s Studio, Nagaland and Anime Merchandises from Otaku Village, Bangalore on its online shopping website ilandlo.com.

formed HIMYM in very subtle ways. For two 29-year-olds to be writing something so nostalgic ...

(Because we learned) Wow, life really is about chapters closing and things coming to an end, and things pivoting on an axis that will never pivot back."

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‘The Simpsons’ writer Kevin Curran dies at 59

evin Curran, a six-time Emmy-winning writer and producer who worked on shows like "Late Night With David Letterman" and "The Simpsons", died at his home here after a long illness. He was 59. Curran died on Tuesday, reports variety.com.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1979, where he served as an editor for the Harvard Lampoon. While at Harvard, Curran met Al Jean, who would go on to become the show runner of "The Simpsons".

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ctress Sonam Kapoor, who is known for voicing her opinion on various issues, has now taken up the cause to fight hunger. "Earlier I spoke about LGBT rights, feminism, health issues and body shaming. These are all generational issues, but basic like food, shelter, or clothing is something normally we don't think about especially when you come from an affluent family," said Sonam, who is a goodwill ambassador for 'Fight Hunger' Foundation, an NGO dedicated to the fight against malnutrition.

Pitching her voice in the fight against malnutritionrelated causes in India, the actress said: "I am trying my very best by supporting

as staff writers on the "Late Show With David Letterman", but wanted to write material with characters and storylines outside of the series' signature Top 10 List format, reports hollywoodreporter.com.

"How I Met Your Mother" -- starring Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Segel, Cobie

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performed at Bacardi NH7 Weekender at Shillong, the biggest music festiSource: IANS val in India, sharing stage with International bands like Steve Wilson, Vertical Horizon, Bollywood indie artiste FarhanAkhtar, Papon, Soul mate from Shillong. ANTB performed their new song “TGIF” for the first time along with songs from their upcoming album & their hit song “Painted dreams”.

ANTB upcoming tour includes Kenya and Tanzania, this November.

ANTB are all set to release their new music video “Come back home” post Africa tour featuring Rewati Chetri, Miss International India 2016, Tetseo Sisters, Famous Nagamese actor Boss Meren & friends.

Heath Ledger's NYC apartment was a shrine to the 'Joker'

ustralian actor Heath Ledger, who was found dead in his property in Manhattan from an accidental intoxication from prescription drugs, was said to be obsessed with his role in the Batman movie 'The Dark Knight'.

Ledger had filled the apartment with research materials including Batman comic books, research on the origin of the Joker and clowns, small clown statues and recordings of Ledger practising his own version of the Joker voice that would haunt a new generation of DC Comics fans.

A source that happened to witness the actor's work before his death said, "He was studying up on the origins of clowns and all of the previous Jokers like Jack Nicholson's character and Cesar Romero's, who was the first Joker on TV." "He was a perfectionist who clearly had a lot of respect for the character. All of that stuff was very tidy.

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this foundation to give back because I've been given so much."

Sonam, daughter of actor Anil Kapoor, also urged people to see beyond their own lives. "We spend a lot of time in lot of controversies. Even I say lot of stupid things many times. There are six million malnourished children and many are dying every day. It's an appalling number in country like India where we waste so much. It's time to give up," she said.

The 'Neerja' actress also wants media to focus on the cause instead on her fashion sense and films.

"Instead of my dresses and my movies, it will be nice if you put this cause with my picture," Sonam said.

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"The Simpsons" since 2001, most recently serving as co-executive producer. "He was one of the funniest guys I ever met.

He also had one of the sweetest, biggest hearts. He really was a terrific guy," Jean said.

In addition, Curran won three consecutive Emmys from 1985-87 as part of the writing team on "Late Night With David Letterman". In the 1990s, he worked on "Married With Children". Curran is survived by a son and a daughter that he had with his former partner, author Helen Fielding.

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CSA executive meeting on Oct 29 Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): The Chakhroma Sports Association has convened an executive meeting on October 29, 10:00 am at the CPO Hall, Chümoukedima. A press release from the CSA stating this requested all office bearers of CSA, CSA representatives to ASA, President of Group -A, B, C and D to attend the meeting.

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DABA Youth Olympic Slammers win Sovima 2016 quarter marathon T20 Cricket Gold Cup ernment Higher Secondary School Ground, Half Nagarjan. It will conclude on October 28. Some of the event highlights are football, volleyball, penalty shootout, athletics, pillow fight and some indigenous games like cockfight, tug of war etc.

The winners of the Quarter Marathon are as follows: Category 1 Male 1st Imtizulu (Town Fellowship) 2nd Rongsen (Lungmen Fellowship) Dimapur, october 3rd Imlisunep (Signal Fel26 (mexN): Nagaland Participants run during the quarter marathon organised by the DABA Youth Ministry. lowship) Sports Climbing Associa- (Photo Courtesy: Tiya Jamir@3D Photography) Female tion (NSCA) representing Morung Express News sented by the World of Titan via Midland and finished 1st Imtinaro (Yinsem FelNagaland won 4 medals – 2 and Co-sponsored by Oppo. at back at the starting point lowship) silver and 2 bronze – at the Dimapur | October 26 With the total participants of in DABA. 2nd Imodangla (Signal Felrecently concluded North 217, the marathon was held The youngest amongst lowship) Announcing the much anEast Zonal Climbing Competition which was held ticipated event of the Di- for DABA members under male runner was Intenzuk- 3rd Merenkala (Signal Felcategories - youth and er (14 years), Female run- lowship) at Kangla Rock Wall, in mapur Ao Baptist Church two 40 years and above. ner -Merenkala (17 years); (DABA) Youth Ministry, Imphal, Manipur.

The marathon race and oldest runner -Rev T Category 2 “Youth Olympic 2016” Open, Twelve climbers rep- a quarter marathon was held started from DABA com- Ariba Imchen 53 years.

1st Sendangmeren (Dunresented the state and on October 26 with much plex and covered Clock The real events for can Fellowship) competed in all catego- fanfare and enthusiastic par- Tower via Notun Bosti DABA Youth Olympics with 2nd Talimeren (Duncan ries. Competing in Men's ticipation from the eight con- Junction, Holy Cross junc- the theme “For the Glory of Fellowship) Open Category, Imnatoshi stituent fellowships. tion, Dhobinallah Junction God” will start on October 3rd Temsu Jamir (LungPongen won bronze in The marathon was pre- and to DC Court Junction 27 from 8:00 am at the Gov- men Fellowship) Lead Climbing and silver in Speed Climbing, while Hengouho Singson, competing in Sub Junior category, won silver in Bouldering and bronze in Speed Climbing. The two will be representing Nagaland at the national level to be held in Bangalore later this year, a press release from the NSCA informed.

In this regard, the NSCA on Wednesday held a programme at the Climbing Institute, Opposite Power House, Full Nagarjan, Dimapur, and felicitated the winners and participants.

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HASSA sports: Host Khushibill held

Dimapur, october 26 (mexN): In the ongoing 3rd Chekiye Memorial Football Trophy organized by the Highway Area Sumi Sports Association (HASSA), host Khushiabill Village were held to a 1-1 draw by Unity Village on Wednesday at the Khushiabill Village Local Ground. Defending champions Chekiye village had little trouble as they defeated Toluvi 3-1 while Thilixu eased past K. Hollohon with a 2-0 win.

Padumpukhri and Diphupar played out an eventful match with six goals being scored between them.

But it was Diphupar who emerged victorious as they beat a spirited Padumpukhri side 2-4.

Oct 27 fixtures Bamunpukhri vs Sughuna Eralibill vs K.Hollohon Ikishe vs Unity Chekiye vs Diphupar Padumpukhri vs Toluvi

‘Games for Disabled’ held in Kohima

Kohima, october 26 (mexN): The Special Olympics Nagaland (SON) conducted the Kohima District Games for Disabled 2016 on October 26 at the Badminton Stadium here. According to a press release from the Special Olympics Nagaland (SON), special athletes from from G. Rio School, Cherry Blossom School, and Spastic Society, enthusiastically took part in Table Tennis, Standing Jumps, Soft ball throw, Bocce and Badminton competitions.

Chief Guest on the occasion, Kenue K. Inakhe, Additional Director of Social Welfare, gave away prizes and certificates to the winners. Meanwhile, SON has informed that it will conduct Games for Disabled in Wokha District on October 28 at Don Bosco Hr. Secondary School. In this regard, SON requested all differently-abled persons with parents and families in Wokha district to reach the venue by 8:30 am on the said day.

Participants wade through tough natural terrains and forest in the recently concluded 3rd edition of the Offroad Maestro 2016. Offroading is slowing catching up as a sport and weeekend thrill for ethusiast of all ages in the NEHR. It is a true test of the machine, the driver and the spotter and most importantly, the coordination between the three. Organizers and participants take safety seriously and leave no stone unturned while preparing to go offroad. Offroading includes navigating through various terrians and obstacles that nature may throw up. (Photo: Abei Mere)

Nagaland Governor PB Acharya, Lok Sabha MP Neiphiu Rio and others with Team Super Slammers after their win on Wednesday.

Morung Express News Dimapur | October 26

Super Slammers overcame Brotherhood Kohima on Wednesday to emerge as champions of the Sovima T20 Gold Cup. Slammers won by 17 runs here at the Nagaland Cricket Stadium, Sovima, Dimapur, as Brotherhood Kohima ran out of overs despite a flying start in the run chase.

Electing to bat, Slammers riding on Hokaito Zhimomi’s 42-ball 45 and M. Ali’s run-a-ball 29 had put up a modest score of 154 runs losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs.

Abhinav Dixit with 4/29 was the pick of the Brotherhood bowlers while Akash Kumar also returned with decent figures of 2/23 from the four overs.

In the run chase, the Kohima-side were off to a fly-

er as Amit Chopra scored a scintillating 36-ball 69 runs and was ably assisted by Abhinav Dixit who scored 43 runs from just 34 balls.

However, Tiwari (2/9 from 4 overs) tightened things up for Super Slammers as they restricted Brotherhood to 137/5 in the 20 overs.

Jogesh Bhumij who picked 2 wickets while giving away 23 runs was awarded the man of the match.

Naga Wrestle Mania 5 kicks off today

Kohima, october 26 (mexN): The Naga Wrestle Mania 5 (King of the Ring Series 2016) will kick off on Thursday at the Kohima Local Ground (Khuochiezie).

Organised by 3E Nagaland under the aegis of NWA, the three day event will have wrestlers competing in three categories – Lightweight (74KG & below), Heavyweight (above 74 KG), and Junior category (14 years & below).

The final series, the “King of the Ring Championship”, on October 29 will witness the “Best 48” wrestlers selected from the Lightweight and Heavyweight categories.

All the categories will carry separate championship belts and cash prizes. A to-

tal of Rs. 4,59,000 is set aside as cash prize for the winners.

The inaugural programme scheduled for October 27, 10:00 am, will be graced

by Visasolie Lhoungu, President BJP Nagaland and Vice Chairman DAN, Govt. of Nagaland as Chief Guest.

In this regard, a press release from the organisers informed wrestlers of all categories to compulsorily report at the Kohima Local Ground on Thursday morning at 9:30 am and attend oath taking.

Tickets are priced as follows: Donors – Rs. 1000 (valid for 3 days), Chair – Rs. 100 (valid for one day), Gallery – Rs. 50 (valid for one day).

Valencia fined for throwing bottles at Barca players

maDriD, october 26 (ap): The Spanish soccer federation has fined Valencia 1,500 euros ($1,600) for water bottles thrown at Barcelona players celebrating a goal in a Spanish league game last weekend.

The federation also warned Valencia that it

may close its Mestalla Stadium if similar incidents happen again.

The federation says it condemned the attitude of the Barcelona players who turned to the stands to celebrate after Lionel Messi's late winner on Saturday, but said ''nothing justifies

a violent reaction by fans.''

It also criticized the ''exaggerated reaction'' of some Barcelona players after a bottle hit Neymar and Luis Suarez.

The federation praised Valencia for quickly identifying the fan who threw the bottle.

New Zealand beat India by 19 runs to square series

raNchi, october 26 (reuterS): New Zealand beat India by 19 runs in the fourth one-day international to level the five-match series at 2-2 as the hosts suffered a midinnings collapse at Ranchi on Wednesday.

Chasing 261 for a series clinching win, India were all out for 241 with eight balls to spare.

Opener Ajinkya Rahane's fluent 57 put India on course for the chase and the right-handed batsman added 79 for the second wicket with the in-form Virat Kohli (45).

India looked firmly in the driver's seat when Rahane and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (11) were batting but then they lost five wickets for just 39 runs which put paid to their hopes of bagging the series with a match to spare.

Earlier, openers Martin Guptill (72) and Tom Latham (39) gave New Zealand a brisk start after the visiting captain Kane Williamson won the toss and opted to bat on a slow surface. The duo added 80 in the first 10 overs of fielding restrictions but Dhoni then brought on his spinners to restrict the flow of runs. The two teams will now travel to Visakhapatnam for the series decider on Saturday.

India, Ashwin retain No.1 ICC Test spots

Dubai, october 26 (iaNS): India retained its numero uno spot in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test team rankings with premier off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin also continuing to top the bowlers' list. The Virat Kohliled side with 115 points clinched the No.1 spot from arch foes Pakistan who are four points behind.

Australia with 108 points occupy the third spot followed by England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and the West Indies with Bangladesh and Zimbabwe completing the list. Meanwhile, Ashwin, who during the

series against New Zealand became the second fastest to grab 200 wickets, maintained his position with 900 points, with South African pace spearhead Dale Steyn (878) and England's James Anderson (861) completing the top three. Ashwin also retained his top spot among the all-rounders with 451 points.

Veteran Pakistan batsman Younis Khan leapfrogged Kiwi captain Kane Williamson, England batsman Joe Root and South Africa's Hashim Amla, to rise three spots to the second position on the batters' list which is headed by Australia skipper Steve Smith.

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