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The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people

India’s apex court seeks names of all foreign account holders [ PAGE 08]

‘Promote culture to preserves identity’

Christian Bale accused of ‘ignorant bigotry’

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Marines leave Afghanistan after tough war years [ PAGE 09]

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Mendoza sizzles as Chennaiyin thrash Mumbai [ PAGE 12]

Corruption destabilizes society, niDc rues poor infrastructure & laments Vigilance Commissioner lack of ‘entrepreneurial culture’ Morung Express News Dimapur | October 28

With a mandate to “promote, develop establish and assist industries in the State,” the Nagaland Industrial Development Bank (NIDC) was incorporated in March 1970. As the leading developmental agency of Nagaland State, the NIDC admit that its overall operational performance over the past few years has been short of expectation in many areas, though in certain sectors, it has streamlined the developmental process with favourable outcome.

One of its initial major initiatives was the establishment of the Sugar Mill Project and its ancillary Distillery Project in Dimapur during 1973-75, which was subsequently handed to the Nagaland Sugar Mills Company Limited, under the State Government and the rest as the saying goes is “history”. Literally!

Again, in 1976, the NIDC took over two Industrial Estates at Dimapur from the State Government covering a total area of 40 acres with 25 ready Standard Factory Sheds, which were to meant be “rented out” to Industrial Units at concessional rates.

However, NIDC maintain that their well-intended projects are often met with poor responses due to lack of “entrepreneurial culture” and other infrastructural bottlenecks such as inadequate power and water supply, roads and other amenities. The NIDC Annual Administrative Report 201314 admits that the revenues earned from these sheds and other incomes are barely “sufficient” to meet administrative overheads.

So far, NIDC’s thrust into the transport sector has been its most successful.

It created a genre of “private transport operators” thus augmenting and alleviating the transportation and com-

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By Sandemo Ngullie

A Bird’s-eye view of the Agro & Food Processing Special Economic Zone (AFSEZ) notified in 2009 at Ganeshnagar, under Dhansiripar sub-division, Dimapur.

NIDC officials say that due to “non-completion” of some “crucial common facilities,” the AFSEZ remains inoperative so far.

munication bottlenecks, even in remote areas of the State. This was mainly achieved through its ‘Term lending’ (i.e. loan that is repaid in regular payments over a set period of time), a main area of NIDC’s operation till date with bulk of assistance directed towards Tiny and small sectors including Small Transport Operators (SRTOs).

According to the Annual Report, the cumulative disbursement as of March 31, 2014 stands at Rs. 158.76 Crore, generating both direct and indirect employment to nearly 15513 people. Nevertheless, poor rate of recovery is the most crucial problem faced by the corporation. The NIDC attributes the problem to erratic power supply, security factors, dearth of skilled labour etc, leading to many “viable” projects becoming “sick” and forcing its closure. Out of a total outstanding amount of Rs. 37.05 Crore as of March 31, 2014 the overdue amount was nearly work out to Rs. 28.91 Crore, according to the NIDC Report.

“There are also numbers of wilful defaults by borrower and opting for legal recourses for recovery of loans is often complicated,” added the report.

The report also maintained that its developmental activities in recent years has been “limited” to a great extent due to unanticipated withdrawal of equity support from IDBI, withdrawal of refinance support from IDBI and SIDBI, and curtailment of State Government’s Equity support.

The development of Export Promotion Industrial Park (EPIP) in Ganeshnagar, under Dhansiripar subdivision, Dimapur had been NIDC’s most ambitious project yet, covering an area of 125 acres and aimed at providing readymade infrastructure for the exporting unit. The Project on completion was however taken up for conversation to a Agro & Food Processing Special Economic Zone (AFSEZ) citing lack of appropriate investor; high export obligations under the EPIP scheme; and existence of similar parks in Assam and Meghalaya which were not doing well.

Consequently, the NIDC sought clearance from the Ministry of Commerce for conversion of the EPIP into Special Economic Zone (SEZ), which was cleared and notified by the Ministry in July 9, 2009 as an Agro Processing and Special Economic Zone

(AFSEZ). The first SEZ in the entire region, the primary focus of the project was to “process and export” agricultural products.

However, the project remains a non-starter, inviting the CAG’s remarks (Report No. 1 of 2014) that, “It was indicative unrealistic assessment of users requirement and potential number of interested entrepreneurs.”

Confronted with those charges, NIDC officials admit that though, there is some “lag” in its completion, they assure that they are trying their “best” to make the AFSEZ “fully operational” by 2015-16. They attribute the current situation to the non-completion of some crucial common facilities such as an effluent treatment plant, cold storage, quality control lab, water treatment plant, fire fighting infrastructure and telecommunication network. “Specific consultants are needed for specific infrastructure and the relevant specialists are making the Detail Project Report (DPR),” the NIDC informed.

Regarding the lack of investor for the said project, the NIDC informed the Morung Express that it has been receiving queries for the said project, where a few units have been issued with a “Earmarking letter” or “reserved plot” and has been forwarded to the Development Commissioner of FALTA SEZ, Kolkata, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, where the final approval needs to be accorded for setting up manufacturing.

“M/s Naga Indigienous foods, Kohima has already been accorded approval for setting up its unit for manufacturing and export of Naga King Chili and King Tomato”, it stated.

Given the precedence of State projects, the NIDC however offers “cautious optimism” that the project will function in full in a couple of years.

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Corruption destabilizes society by creating social tension and indirectly increases crime rate and violence, said Nagaland state Vigilance Commissioner, Besesayo Kezo. He stated this to mark the Vigilance Awareness Week, which is being held from October 27 to November 1 under the theme ‘Combating Corruption – Technology as an enabler.” Kezo stated that corruption in government, especially relating to government jobs, “is prominent” and has “misled many young people to join terrorist outfits.”

On types of corruption and factors contributing to corruption, Kezo said that corruption in India can be classified as petty bureaucratic corruption at lower levels, administrative corruption involving senior public servants and political corruption.

Administrative corruption, he said, involves delaying service till a bribe is paid. He then added that collusion is a process where both parties gain at the expenses of government and includes favours, lower valuable of taxes, waiving penalties and tampering government records. Corrupt practices include kickbacks, bribes, nepotism, misuse of office, abuse of public funds, unfair decision in public procurement, unethical and unfair award of contracts for personal gains, he added.

The Vigilance Commissioner added that factors contributing to corruption are political patronage, politician-bureaucrat nexus, politician – police- criminal nexus, lack of transparency in government and bureaucratic functioning, lack of accountability, complex administrative procedure, discretionary powers of executive and administrative authorities, absence of effective corruption reporting mechanism, lack of deterrent punishment, poor con-

viction rates of the corrupt, corrupt judiciary, poor economic policies, black money and inadequate training of officials.

“Unfortunately the collective psyche of the Indian society has started accepting corruption as a way of life and the cost of being corrupt in India is much less than the cost of being not corrupt,” he added.

Kezo further pointed out that defining a security policy to create an easy-to-access system and transparent governance so as to combat the corruption can be a complicated task, as each government must decide beforehand which aspect of protection care is most important, thereby compromising between security and ease of use. He said that corruption can be combated once we achieve transparency in our system. Some of the works initiated for achieving total transparency are e-procurement, e-transaction Aggregation and Analysis layer (eTaal) and Biometric Attendance System (BAS).

E-Governance projects, he stated, has made the governing process transparent, took away arbitrary and discretionary powers of government servants, and made them accountable. Innovative use of Information Communication Technology, he maintained, can not only enhance the citizen’s services but also reduce corruption in a number of ways. It further improves the revenue of the government, which could be used in areas like health, education, eradication of poverty and uplifting the down trodden. He concluded that proper E-Governance can facilitate the elimination of corruption, thereby enabling good governance. A formal programme was held at the Vigilance Commission Conference Hall, Kohima on Monday to kick off the observance of the Vigilance Awareness Week from October 27 to November 1 in Nagaland state.

‘Corruption can be combated once we achieve transparency in our system’

fire renders 39 families homeless Morung Express News Dimapur | October 28

He ditched his designer clothes and chose to attend the meet in secondhand clothes. Why? To avoid tax collector’s attention. Silly!

1000 hr KA Bandh Police Escort timings: Morning: 8:00am • 11:00am Afternoon: 2:00pm • 4:00pm

A fire incident on Tuesday destroyed a block of thatch dwellings at United North Block ‘A’, Burma Camp, rendering 39 families homeless. The fire started around 8:30 am. No casualty was reported but property damage was estimated at around 6.5 lakhs. The tenement, sandwiched between a twostoried RCC building and an underconstruction church, was occupied mostly by daily wage earners as tenants.

According to the Fire & Emergency Services, it requisitioned six fire trucks and 20 firemen to bring the fire under control. The flames were finally doused around 10:00 am. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained but it was susA woman sits among the charred debris left by a fire which broke out at Bur- pected that it spread from an unattendma Camp, Dimapur on October 28. (Morung Photo) ed fireplace at one of the kitchens.

AncsU urges HPc to provide justice for students

Students holding placards during the ANCSU agitation in Kohima on October 28. (Morung Photo)

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Our Correspondent Kohima | October 28

The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) today staged an agitation against alleged “irregularities and loopholes” in functioning of the Directorate of Technical Educa-

tion (DTE).

Speaking in front of DTE office, Convener of the ANCSU constituted Fact Finding Committee, O Wati Jamir said “We have found larger issues which confront our students community.”

He informed that the DTE, in 2013, had stated

that there would not be any multiple exams. Students were to be selected for allied courses and for engineering courses, MBBS and BDS on the basis of AIPMT exams and JEE mains.

“Taking the confidence of that they have conducted the exam for which students

were made to sit for AIPMT, unfortunately except for one, none of the Naga students qualified in the AIPMT,” Jamir said adding that cut off mark for ST was 288.

“They came out with an alternative to conduct another exam for MBBS and BDS, NSPMT which was taken into a formula of 60 by 40. 60% of the mark will be taken out from the AIPMT and 40% of the marks which will be from the NSPMT. They have calculated these two and students were being sent to study further for MBBS and BDS, which we feel is not on merit,” he said.

“How far it has been manipulated if students have to go by the formula of 60 by 40, students need to have two mark sheets for both NSPMT

and AIPMT.” he added.

“The directorate has stated that none of the students except one have qualified, for which NSPMT exam has been needed… On what merit the students for allied course has been selected if none of the students have passed AIPMT,” he questioned.

Jamir along with ANCSU President, Tsukjem Longkumer acknowledged the constitution of the High Power Committee and expressed hope that it would “seriously take up the issues and do justice” and adhere to its deadline.

“Unless we take it out to the street, our grievances are never being addressed,” said NSF general secretary Esther Rhakho while also extending support to the cause.

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Higher Education institutes directed to observe ‘Rastriya Ekta Diwas’

Kohima, october 28 (mexN): As per the directives received from the Secretary, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education, all the institutes under Higher Education, are requested to observe Sardar Patel’s Birth Anniversary on October 31 as ‘Rastriya Ekta Diwas’ (National Unity Day).

Higher Education Director C. Khalong Ao in a press release stated that this occasion provides us an oppor-

tunity to re-affirm the inherent strength and resilience of our nation to withstand the actual and potential threats to the unity, integrity and security of our country. All the Colleges are requested to observe “Rastriya Ekta Diwas” (National Unity Day) to motivate our students to maintain and disseminate the message of unity and integrity of our country.

To observe this day, each College may organize an activity like – Panel Discussion on the contribu-

tion of Sardar Patel, Debate competition on National Security and Unity, organize pictorial exhibition on the contribution of Sardar Patel, march past of NCC & NSS on the occasion and a short speech on Sardar Patel’s contribution towards nation security and unity.

A report on this may be sent to the Director, Higher Education, Nagaland, Kohima for future transmission to Government/ MHRD, the Director informed further.

Chaga Gadi Festival on October 30-31

Kohima, october 28 (DiPr): The Liangmai Community will be celebrating the most important and popular Festival Chaga Gadi in their traditional costume with great enthusiasm. Whereas the Kohima Liangmai Organisations President Kairinpibo & General Secretary Rutmakbo in a press released has said that, as per the Executive body resolution this year the Kohima Liangmai in general would

not able to organised the Chaga Gadi Festival Celebration. However, it is informing that, individual, Colony wise with friends will be celebrated on October 30 and 31.

Chaga Gadi is an important and popular festival of the Zeliang people, Chaga Gadi festival marks the peoples belief that this day the Almighty showers His blessings and bring good harvest and good health, on the first day at

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‘Promote culture to preserves identity’

Kohima, october 28 (DiPr): The Baptist College, Kohima-Sechu held its biennial 7th cultural day under the theme “Progressing with tradition” with pomp and gaiety at Ura Academy Hall on October 28 with Parliamentary Secretary Art and Culture, Printing and Stationary, Er. Kropol Vitsu as the chief guest.

Speaking at the function, the chief guest expressed that he was impressed by the collection of various items displayed in commemoration of its cultural day. He asked the students to know what type of garments/attires they are wearing for the occasion and urged them to promote culture as it preserves identity. With the advent of Christianity, our rich culture and traditions practiced by our forefathers have been deteriorating with the passage of time, he added.

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midnight people wait anxiously to see the new moon which is believed to be a boon and bring blessing of God. After the appearance of the new moon the village Chief (singkupiu) will make an announcement so that people will begin necessary preparation such as attirement, food, drink and dresses. The Liangmai Community celebrates this festival every year usually in the last part of the (Cha- JaKhama, october gahiu) that is October.

28 (mexN): Eastern Naga Students’ Union St. Josephs College Jakhama held a fresher’s day programme on October 25 at Ura Academy Kohima with a theme, “Come few Go more.” The function was grace by M. Sangtam, Director Employment and craftsmen Training, Government of Nagaland that was attended by more than 500 members.

The programme started with opening prayer by president AMSU SJC Jakhama followed by presidential addressed by Ngamba Konyak, president ENSU SJC Jakhama. The freshers were formally welcome into the ENSU family.

M. Sangtam while addressing the gathering urged the students to be more responsible than Winners of the first Business Plan Competition on campus organised by St. Joseph’s Col- other students as the college, BBA Department, in collaboration with Young Indians, Nagaland on October 27. lege is one among few best JaKhama, october ship and Innovation) and lization of opportunities” colleges in Nagaland. While 28 (mexN): St. Joseph’s Among Anjo (Co-founder for those who take risks College, BBA Department, and owner of Touch or- to implement ideas, and in collaboration with Young ganization, and Chair of should not be delved into Indians, Nagaland orga- Young Indians, Nagaland), with only an idea or only nized the first Business Plan and voiced his pride at the for the money involved, PereN, october 28 One day Youth Competition on campus on presence of enterprising but with an understanding (mexN): Peace and Cultural Festiof the prospects; it is to realOctober 27 which was open students at the College. val was organized by Peace The various participat- ize the value of becoming a Channel, Jalukie, powered to students of all streams.

Tabrej, Director of the ing groups for the event creator.

by Nehru Yuva Kendra In the end, The Sand- (NYK) and USSC at St. XaviBBA Department in his were namely: Naro’s Secret welcome address stressed (Small-scale clothing mar- wich Factory, by PijamoN- er’s Church Auditorium on the need to “create fu- keting), MushBites (Mush- gullie and Njulo Kent, (3rd on October 25. The event ture entrepreneurs of Na- room Farming Centre), The Year BBA Department) was participated by Peace galand” so as to partake in Sandwich Factory (A hy- emerged as the winners, Club members from eight works set towards the bet- gienic Lunch-Break alter- followed by MushBites, schools in Peren district.

Alemyapang Longchar, terment of the society by native), Identinaga (Mod- a joint venture by Ms. creating job avenues for ern Ethnic Fashion), Pro.T.F Sunetra Bose, Ramyao- EAC Athibung, Peren was (Tyre Factory Plans for Na- pam Kapai, Aron Tsopoe, the chief guest and Ngaugia others.

The Principal, Father galand), and JEL Lenses Lemtsingla Sangtam and Iheilung, President Women Atsituo Pfukha (Science Welfare Organization JaAbraham Lotha welcomed (Ethnic Photography).

Amongba Anjo warned and Commerce Depart- lukie Town was the special popular role models in guest was for the inaugural against joining entrepre- ment students). Both win- program. The chief guest, the entrepreneur world, Ben Imchen (Director of neurship as a means of es- ning teams received cer- in his speech appreciated Elysium Enterprise, and capism from failure in oth- tificates and cash prizes of Peace Channel for organizMember of the National er fields. Entrepreneurship Rs. 12,000 and Rs. 8,000 re- ing such a noble program Group on entrepreneur- is “the discovery and uti- spectively. and impressed by the initia-

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Parliamentary Secretary, Er. Kropol Vitsu and others attend the Baptist College, Kohima-Sechu biennial 7th cultural day held at Ura Academy Hall on October 28. (DIPR Photo)

tance of Hornbill Festival vis-à-vis to our culture, it is a place where all the tribes could showcase their cultural items thereby bringing unity in diversity. The chief guest also asked the students to have sincerity and dedication in studies as these are the only determinants to determine one’s future.

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lege N. Delhu Khate in his keynote address said that preservation, promotion and respect the rich cultural heritage of far and near was one of the purposes of the college. The College has been a Cultural Centre for the last 10 years and its Cultural Day is held after every 2 years, he said.

Earlier, traditional wel-

come in honour of chief guest was performed by Sumi students while opening song “we are one in the spirit” was presented in the form of Double Quartet. Folk songs and dances were presented during the programme while traditional story was well depicted by Sangtam students. Cultural attires both

in traditional and modern were presented by different tribes.

Vizo and Thsidilong compere the programme.

E.D. ABCC Dr. Atsi Dolie invoked God’s blessing while Chakhesang students presented special song. Vote of thanks was proposed

by Convenor, Organising Committee Narola Chuba.

ENSU SJC Jakhama Voluntary Blood Donation fresher’s day prog held held in Wangkhao College

SJC Jakhama holds first Business Plan Competition

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adding, “We are living in the fast changing world” he said that only the best among the best can survive. He expressed pain to see that only few eastern are there in the field of civil service and in directorates in our state. He challenged the students to be more aware of it.

Meanwhile, the freshers briefed about themselves and after which Akai Konyak and Shamlen Phom were crowned as Mr and Miss fresher ENSU SJC Jakhama. The programme ended with a words of gratitude by Atoy M. Phom general secretary ENSU SJC and finally with a mass benediction. The fresher including the seniors entertained the show and the celebration. The fresher were overwhelmed by the courtesy and affection of the senior for hosting rich and grant programme that they would cherished life long

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A large number of people participate in the one-day awareness programme on voluntary blood donation at Wangkhao College, Mon held on October 27.

moN, october 28 (mexN): The District AIDS Prevention & Control Unit (DAPCU) in collaboration with key PARTNERS conducted one-day awareness programme on voluntary blood donation at Wangkhao College, Mon on October 27 with support from NSACS. Longyim Tzudir, District Programme Officer, DAPCU, Mon in a press

release stated that the programme began with a keynote address by Tenoseno Natso, Nodal Officer, RRC, Wangkhao College. Dr. Yanang K, MO i/c of Blood Bank and Dr. Ngampa (PMR), District Hospital Mon, shared on the basics of Voluntary Blood Donation. Tongmeth K, Pongkhe K and Sanjay, members of Voluntary Blood Donors

while sharing their experience, mentioned that there is no harm in donating blood and encouraged the students’ community to be a hero of humanitarian act.

A team from District Hospital (Lab. Technicians) conducted Blood Typing at the end of the session, where twelve students came forward for Voluntary Blood Donors.

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Young people called to stop violence & conflict

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KCCI request traders

Kohima, october 28 (mexN): In view of the forthcoming public rally slated for October 31 in Kohima, the Kohima Chambers of Commerce & Industries (KCCI) requested all the traders to attend the rally and down their shutter beginning from 10:00 AM till the rally is over. KCCI also sought the cooperation of the general public to bear with the inconvenience.

tive taken by the students and encouraged all the young youth to be a peace promoter. Voicing the present scenario Alemyapang Longchar, called the young people to stop violence and conflict and take up active role in bringing Peace.

For the Valedictory Program, T.R. John, President of Peren District Christian Forum and Mongzeung, Licensed Pastor Local Baptist Church, Jalukie were the chief guest and special guest respectively. There were all together 150 participants who participated the event. The theme for the event was “Inspiring change towards a violence free world”.

Highlights of the events

15TH STATE LEVEL YOUTH FESTIVAL 2014

They converge, they compete and they integrate

Lower jail colony panchayat new team

Kohima, october 28 (mexN): The Lower Jail Colony Panchayat held its general meeting recently and elected new team of office bearers for the tenure 201417. Chairman- Chayazo Kehie, vice chairman- Zapokiil Visa, general secretary- Adi Sothou, joint secretary- Tepulal Kin, publicity secretary- Pusazo Sale and Videho Luho as treasurer.

National Press Day on Nov 16

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Kohima, october 28 (DiPr): The National Press Day preparation meeting was held on November 28, at the office Chamber of the Director IPR, Kohima. The meeting attended by Kohima Press club, President and colleagues along with IPR officials, finalized the programme for observation of the National Press day, on November 16. The theme of the year 2014, is “Transparency in Public affairs: Role of the Press”, in keeping with the National theme decided by the Press Council of India. The theme speaker will be the editor of Tir Yimyim and President of Nagaland Press Association, K. Temjen Jamir.

Our Correspondent Kohima | October 28

Scores of youth from all over the state today joined the 15th State Level Youth Festival 2014 here at the Indira Gandhi Stadium and vied for coveted title in various events with a feeling of oneness. The main objective of the youth festival is to strengthen integration of our country, said Youth Resources & Sports director Kelei Zeliang at the inaugural function. “ When there is integration there is peace, when there is peace there is development and when there is development there is progress,” said Kelei. Kelei said the National Youth Festival is an annual feature of the Government of India, which usually takes

place in the second week of January to commemorate the birthday of youth icon Swami Vivekananda.

He was hopeful that Nagaland would also be in position to host National Youth Festival event in the coming days. The Director was also hopeful that the department will get more funds under the leadership of parliamentary secretary for youth resources & sports Khriehu Liezietsu to hold youth festival at the district and block levels in near future.

The festival was marked by guitar recital, folk dance, folk song and elocution.

Chairing the inaugural function, youth resources and sports PIO K. Libemo Jami said the youth festival enable the youth to revisit our culture and refine our

society. Youth resources & sports joint director Neilalhoulie graced closing function and gave away prizes to the winners. The youth festival was organized by youth resources & sports department.

Youth Festival Winners Folk Dance Ist: Wokha 2nd: Mon 3rd: Peren Folk Song Ist: Mon 2nd: Longleng 3rd: Dimapur Elocution Ist: Kohima 2nd: Mon 3rd: Wokha Guitar Recital Ist: Dimapur 2nd: Kohima 3rd: Peren

were Inaugural Program, Religious Conclave on “In Harmony with Truth”, Talent Exhibition, Valedictory Function and Cultural Fiesta. The program also witnessed a religious conclave session where three representatives from different religious communities spoke on the topic, ‘In Harmony with Truth’.

The programme commenced with a prayer from Pastor CH. Akimbo while Anishe Yepthi Project Coordinator, Peace Channel delivered the keynote address, and Amua Francis, Coordinator- Peren District, pronounced the vote of thanks.

The moderators for the event were Kikim, Kungthu, Ken- Students of GPS 'A' Chingmelen village participates in social dakiele and Inreubambe. work as part of the Swacch Bharat Abhayan.

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Bishop dedicates new church building at secretariat Kohima, october 28 (DiPr): Bishop of Kohima Rev. Dr. James Thoppil dedicated St. Luke Church at Yasogei, New Secretariat (Near NPSC office) Kohima on October 25.

Delivering his dedicatory message Bishop encouraged the gathering to praise God for his blessings particularly in providing new church. He also emphasized in the Old Testament, particularly in the book of Genesis, how the Patriarchs-Abraham, Isaac and Jacob spontaneously erected stones as a sign of gratitude for God’s revelation or intervention in their lives and added that memorial stones were reminder of God’s providence. He said “the greatest of their endeavour was to show

gratitude to God was the building the temple in Jerusalem”.

Bishop also stressed on the unveiling of monolith and dedication of church as a sign and symbol of God’s unfailing love and fidelity. And urged the church members to recall with gratitude the blessings received from God through generosity and magnanimity of so many people.

He also thanked Ruokuo Paul who donated the land, the Parish members of Christ King Church Kohima village who were so generous and coming forward to put in their share both by way of labour and financial assistance to make the church.

Mengukhrietuo Marcus who delivered welcome address said that the members had dream of

having the church since 10 years but due to lack of financial and material could not start in time but by the grace of God and the Christ King church has come forward to make their dream come true. He also gave gratitude to Viselie Victor Vizo for donating land measuring 3200 sq. ft through legalized and also becoming the first Catechist of the Church and Ruokuo Paul Vizo for co-ordinated the members for specific task and managed the same. Earlier Suosalie Philip unveiled the monolith introductory speech was delivered by Fr. Jerome Mashary SDB parish priest, Christ King church Kohima village, special song presented by Keneizezo Samuel and the programme was chaired by Keneingu Albert.

Nagaland ex-servicemen and widows informed on pensions

Kohima, october 28 (DiPr): It has been intimated by the Secretary Rajya Sainik Board and Director Sainik Welfare and Resettlement Brigadier K.K. Roy Choudhury, SM, VSM (Retd) that Centralized Pension Processing Cell has agreed to resolve all pending pension anomalies/grievances of Ex-servicemen and family pension in respect of widows of

Nagaland at the request of the Directorate.

In view of which all Ex-servicemen and widows who are in receipt of pension/family pension or have any queries or non receipt of dues as per authorization are requested to approach respective Zila Sainik Welfare Offices by November 5.

Affected Ex-servicemen and widows are requested to bring

copy of PPO (Pension Payment Order) and Bank Pass Book and other necessary documents to substantiate their grievances/ claims. These will be compiled at the Directorate of Sainik Welfare and Resettlement at Kohima for onward submission and resolution of the same with Centralized Pension Processing Cell for the benefit of the Ex-servicemen fraternity.

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3 Arunachal will see repeat 1,000-hour bandh hits life in Karbi Anglong

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of Kargil, warns minister

New Delhi, Oc tOber 28 (Pti): An Arunachal Pradesh minister today warned of a "Kargil-like" situation in the border state as he spoke of a lack of development forcing locals to migrate away from far-flung areas and giving China an opportunity to venture deeper inside Indian territory.

Kalikho Pul, the state's minister of health and tribal affairs, painted a grim picture of the state's territory bordering China and claimed that the Centre's population-based funding was to blame for the lack of development in the thinly -populated state. "What happened in Kargil will happen in Arunachal," he said, referring to the intrusion by Pakistani forces into the Ladakh region in 1999.

"People living in border areas are migrating to urban places as they have no facilities. These places are getting empty, due to which China is coming inside," Pul said here at a conference of tribal ministers from the various states and Union Territories. China disputes Indian sovereignty over large parts of the state.

Finding fault with the Union government's funding based on a state's population, he said that the states are told by the Centre to control their birth rate, but funding is more for states with bigger population. "It cannot go on like this. What we are supposed to do... You speak here about seven, eight-lane roads, metro trains and what not, but our people do not even have tracks for

walking. There is no drinking water, nothing," he told an audience comprising, among others, the Union minister for Tribal Affairs, Jual Oram.

The Centre, he said, should give special preference to the northeastern states. Oram assured the participants of the Centre's full support in the development of tribal regions and tribals, adding that they should send proposals to the Centre and it would lend them its full support.

Oram also gave the gathering an overview of the various developmental projects undertaken by the Union government.

The ministry will launch a body catering to tribals who have moved to urban centres in search of livelihood, a ministry official said.

Rijiju denies incursion

by PLA in Arunachal itaNagar, OctOber 28 (Pti): Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju on Tuesday denied any incursion by China's People's Liberation Army in Taksing area of Arunachal Pradesh in recent times.

"It is a natural phenomenon as troops from both the sides usually trespass into each other's territory by mistake as there is no definite demarcation of the border. "Even Chinese Army sometime claim incursion

by Indian Army," Rijiju told media persons at Raj Bhawan helipad here before his departure to New Delhi.

When his attention was drawn to the alleged incursion at Taksing area in Upper Subansiri district about three months ago, Rijiju said that troops from both the countries accidentally trespass into each other's terri-

tories during routine patrolling. "Patrolling teams from both the countries trespass into each other territories and sometime confrontations are reported ...Incursion along the border takes place only where there is no permanent structure.

Since there is no boundary demarcation, such type of ingress will continue. "Our troupes are being instructed to be more vigilant and not to allow Chinese to cross our periphery," he said.

Rijiju, however, conceded that Arunachal Pradesh had lost a portion of land to China earlier because of less patrolling but hastened to claim "We have not conceded any inch of our territory to China after NDA came to power at the Centre."

He said ITBP had recently arrested three persons of Tibetan origin from Lemeking area of Upper Subansiri

district. Their interrogation was on to unearth the truth but language barrier had become an impediment. "I had a meeting with the DG and IG of ITBP this morning and directed them to get the identity and motive of the three persons," he added.

Asked to comment Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki told newsmen that the incursion

by PLA was not officially reported to him. "Since the issue is a subject of the External Affairs ministry the state government has no say over it," he quipped.

guwahati, OctOber 28 (iaNS): Normal life was disrupted in Assam's Karbi Anglong district Tuesday, in the wake of the 1,000-hour bandh called by a group of organisations demanding autonomous state status jointly for Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts.

There was no report of any violence owing to the bandh which started at 5

a.m. Monday.

The bandh did not affect Dima Hasao and other parts of the state. Most educational institutions and commercial establishments in Karbi Anglong's district headquarters Diphu remained closed. The bandh had no impact on national highway 39 that connects the neighbouring states of Nagaland and Manipur. Po-

NE Helpline launched in Gurgaon gurgaON, OctOber 28 (iaNS): Haryana Police Tuesday launched a special helpline to assist people from the northeastern states residing here. The helpline - 0124-2301559 was launched by Gurgaon Police Commissioner Alok Mittal. The manually-operated number will work around the clock all seven days of the week. "We will

make available another number if needed. It will depend upon the frequency and number of calls received," Mittal said.

Following an assault on two youths from Nagaland here on the night of Oct 15, Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju had met a group of students from the northeast and assured them all possible help.

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Dated: 27.10.2014

NOTIFICATION This is for information of all candidates of UGC-NET Exam to be held on December 28, 2014, who have opted for Nagaland University as their Centre that henceforth, a copy of Application form addressed to NET Coordinator, Nagaland University with all necessary documents be submitted to the Revenue Counter, Administrative Office of Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema, Pin Code 797 004, Kohima, Nagaland either in Person or by Registered Post. Last date for receiving the printout of online application form is 25.11.2014. Candidates are requested to visit the Nagaland University website at www. nagauniv.org.in for detailed information.

Candidates shall be notified at a later date in Local Newspapers and Nagaland University Website regarding all other necessary details related to the test.

Sd/Dr Lungsang Zeliang UGC NET Coordinator Nagaland University

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lice arranged escorts for vehicles on the highway.

The Joint Action Committee for Autonomous State (JACAS) - a conglomeration of many organisations - had called the bandh, demanding the central and state governments resume tripartite talks for granting autonomous state status to the two districts. The bandh is

supposed to continue till Dec 7. Stalin Engty, a leader of the group, told IANS that the state government Tuesday verbally assured that the next round of talks will be held during the second week of December. He said the government asked the groups to call off the bandh.

"As of today, the bandh continues. We are going to discuss the matter with all our

partner organisations and take a decision," he said.

Last month, JACAS started an indefinite hunger strike in Diphu, demanding that the government restart the tripartite dialogue but withdrew the strike after about a week following assurances that the Centre would take steps. However, nothing was done, the group leaders said.

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CALLING THE ATTENTION OF ALL TRIBAL HOHOs. As in other years, all Tribal Hohos having Morungs at Kisama are kindly requested to come for a meeting to discuss about the ensuing hornbill festival 2014 on 3rd Nov’2014 at 11:00 am at the Directorate of Tourism, Conference Hall opposite Indoor Stadium Raj Bhavan Road, Kohima.

The Tribal Hohos are, therefore, requested to kindly send their Kohima based representatives.

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by World Bank are further covered as given below: DISTRIBUTION SCHEMES Sl. No Name of the Scheme Sub-Station (Contd. from Sl. No-15) 16 Padampukhuri (New) S/S- 2x10 MVA 17 Augmentation at Industrial Estate Existing S/S- Addition 1x10 MVA 18 Augmentation at Referral Hospital Existing S/S- Addition 1x10 MVA 19 Tizit (New) S/S- 2x5 MVA 20 Lalmati (New) S/S- 2x5 MVA 21 Augmentation at ITI Kohima Existing S/S- Addition 2x10 MVA 22 Zhadima (New) S/S – 2x2.5 MVA 23 Augmentation at Botsa Existing S/S- Addition 1x5 MVA 24 Pfutsero (New) S/S – 2x5 MVA 25 Augmentation at Chakhabama Existing S/S- Addition 1x5 MVA

(Er. K. MIACHIEO) Chief Engineer (T&G) Department of Power Nagaland: Kohima

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o begin with, nations and nationalism are interconnected. In this interconnection, it is nations that give inspiration to nationalism. Therefore, without nations, there can be no nationalism.

On the other hand, Race and Racism are two different things. Race is the existential reality of a people living together with a common physical, historical and cultural entity. Racism on the other hand, is a thought or assertion on the part of certain races who thinks that their own race is superior to other races physically, historically and culturally. Racism is influenced by religious beliefs or philosophical worldviews.

Presently, with the racist attacks on North East citizens in Delhi and other Indian states, some Nagas seems to be worried about a Hindu nationalism attacking Nagas in Indian cities. This fear is however totally misunderstood.There does not exist such a thing as a Hindu nationalism because only the presence of a nation (and not a religion) can inspire nationalism.

As for Hinduism, it is a religion and not a nation. In the same vein there also cannot exist such a thing as a Christian nationalism that can incorporate all Christian races into a common Christian nationalism.

Here again, this is because Christianity is also a religion and not a nation.

As for the existence of a very real Hindu cultural racism, the present ruling BJP party which is inspired by the RSS religious ideology upholds this Hindu cultural ideology. In their terminology, they call this Hindu cultural ideology as “Hindutva” or Hinduness. It is also a fact that they are trying to impose this Hindu cultural ideology on the rest of all the citizens of India.

On the one hand, Hinduism is a religion that tries to swallow everything into itself. As such, Hindutva also advocates Hindu cultural nationalism. According to Hindutva writers like Savarkar and Golwalkar, other minority groups like Christians and Muslims are all foreigners in India’s Hindustan. Golwalkar in his book “We, or Our Nationhood Defined”, wrote: (quote)“The foreign races in Hindustan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no ideas but those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture… or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment- not even citizen rights.”(unquote) (Source: “India: The Grand Experiment” by Vishal Mangalwadi p.285) Here, their goal is cultural imposition of Hindu culture on the rest of the Indian citizens. If it is to be defined in clear sociological terms, it is not Hindu nationalism but Hindu cultural imposition. Their political ambition is more of a religious Hindu imperialism than Indian nationalism. But whatever their politico- religious ambition may be, India can never have a common Hindu culture that can embrace all

the various races and cultures of India into one family. This is because India is a subcontinent inhabited by many races and not a country inhabited by a single race. As such, there also cannot exist such a thing as an “Indian Nationalism.” The only valid and real nationalism that can exist in India are for example, Punjabi nationalism that is fighting for a country of their own called Khalistan. Or the Tamilian nationalism that is fighting for a Dravidisthan of their own. In actual fact, at its best, what is called Indian nationalism can only be described as “Indian enthusiasm over the undefinable concept of a Bharat or Hindustan that has never existed in anthropological secular history.” This 19th century idea of an India was conceived and made in England through British trained Barristers like Gandhi and Nehru and grandiosely set up by the British on their departure from their South Asian Empire in August 1947.

But as for factual anthropological and historical records, there has never existed such a thing as a common Hindu race that has inhabited India in a so called “Ram Rajya.” Belief in the existence of such a fantastic Hindu past civilization is mere fictitious mythology.

On the factual side, it is a fact that different races that have inhabited the Indian sub Continent had adopted the Hindu religion and created their own racial cultures over the centuries. Examples of these racial cultures influenced by the Hindu religion are the Tamilian Hindu culture or the Kashmiri Hindu culture. But as to race, these two races are totally different races and Tamilian Hindu culture is different from Kashmiri Hindu culture.

Coming back to the recent attacks of Nagas and North Easterners in Indian cities, the attacks are all Indian racial attacks motivated by Indian racism.

Now, as stated earlier, Race and Racism are two different things. Indian racism- especially Hinduism influenced racism- is very much influenced by Hindu religious beliefs of casts ism. In this Hindu religious belief, some castes are born to rule others while the other castes are born to serve those who are born to rule.

There are of course many good Hindu Indians. But the typical Hindu Indian, influenced by his religion of caste ism thinks that because of his caste status, he is a superior being born to dominate or rule what he believes is the lesser born tribal of other races.On the other hand, the Naga tribal for example, being born an equal to anybody else and never ruled by any political or religious order (in the form of castes) can never take a racial insult without retaliating. The result is a cultural clash. This is a clash that these two species of human races will always have, when they come into social contact! Their future too as one nation is unthinkable.

This is precisely the reason why Nagas have been fighting for their independence from India right from 1929 to the present.

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Don’ts Avoid contact with patients who have symptoms or have died of the virus.

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How is it diagnosed?

Ebola can be diagnosed definitively in the laboratory. Presently test for diagnosis is done at the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune and National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi.

What you should do if you get similar symptoms?

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Plight Of Unemployed Mechanical Engineer

by departmental pro- only requesting our govt to The reasons for which motion. But according implement the rules and we have being provoked to to RTI which we have regulation in letter and in stand up against injustice obtained it is worked spirit. and fight for our rights are: Is it a crime to ask out that 90% is filled 1) For the selection of Asthrough promotion and something which is rightsistant Mechanical En10% through NPSC from fully ours or is it foolishgineer (AME) as per the above we can see ness in our part to ask the the provision of ESR is that the ESR is totally by- governmental agencies 60% shall be direct repassed or ignored while who are entrusted to imcruitment i.e through appointing J.E. We the plement and enforce the N.P.S.C and 40% association demand rule and regulation which though departmental that if ESR can not be is already in place. not only promotion , but as per implemented the ESR this we have reports and information we have should first be abolished evidence in other departobtained through RTI it ment that post meant for once for all. orruption affects is clear that almost 80% human rights in a is through promotion 3) If the present system we technical personnel continues then there are filled by non technivariety of ways. For and only 20% through is no avenue for me- cal which is totally objecexample, the right to food, NPSC. A person with chanical degree engi- tionable.( name of the dewater, education, health, limited mathematical neer. Not only this me- partments and post will be employment, and the abilskills can see the differchanical department is disclosed in due time but ity to seek justice can be vience. The promotion of a department in which rest assured you will be olated if a bribe or political 80% AME are in total vimore then 70% are di- surprised by the number). power is required to gain olation of ESR which we ploma holders and the As we are compelled to, we access to this basic right. the association highly remaining 30% degree have decided few course of For instance we the Asobject. Not only that holders are about to action to be taken in future sociation of Mechanical those 80% employed be retired. There may which may not be pleasEngineers have unearth AME are mostly diplocome a time when me- ant for everyone. It is our through right to informama holders. chanical department hope and prayer that the tion (RTI) that the basic 2) For the selection of Juwill be controlled by govt will look into the matrights and privilege given nior Engineer (J.E) as non mechanical engi- ter before we proceed with to us by the Engineering per the provision of ESR neers because diploma what we have planned for.

Service Rule (ESR) for Govis 90 % should be done Lastly if there is anyone holders have limitation ernment of Nagaland have through NPSC and 10% Kaka D. Iralu to be promoted to surd- who have being deprived of their rights or anyone en level.

So we the Association out there who believe that of Mechanical Engineers there is still hope in this have submitted a memo- world that truth and jusrandum to our government tice are the ultimate winSimple Rules - There is just one simple rule: “Fill CROSSWORD # 3046 to look into few of these is- ner. Then, come and let’s in the grid so that every row, every column, and join our hand and make it sues: every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9.”

1) Strictly maintain the our collective problem and Answer Number # 3038 work together for a better provision of ESR. 2) Requisition be for- and corruption free sociward to NPSC for 2 vacant ety, now it may sound too impossible task to be unAME post.

3) All the contract ap- dertaken. But, as it’s being pointment till date be said “little drops of water cancelled and the resul- makes an ocean” the small tant post be filled through step we take now will make an open and competitive a difference. Our associaexam as per the provision tion may be insignificant or too small to fight the of ESR Few months have mighty govt. But, we with passed since we have sub- a firm believe that with this mitted our memorandum small step we have underto our government but still taken, will inspire many there is no reply till date. more to fight for justice.

It is our prayer and hope Alemtoshi Imsong that our government will President one day full fill our deE A R C H Association of mand. As, our demands Mechanical Engineers are reasonable and we are Corruption undermines democracy and the rule of law. It leads to violations of human rights. It erodes public trust in government.

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being violated and thus deprived of our basic human right. Corruption by highlevel governmental officials can not only destroy the future of educated and qualified engineers but also deny which is rightfully his/hers, which in turn handicaps the government from fulfilling its duty to protect, ensure, and respect the rights guaranteed to its people.

We the unemployed mechanical engineers, after years and years of being deprived of the opportunity to be selected fairly and honestly which is reserved for us by the provision of Engineering Service Rule (ESR), We as an association, after a long deliberation and detail discussion about the privileges and rights which has being denied to us, we have came to a conclusions that time has brought us to a juncture where we are left with no option but to fight for our rights and find a way out of this mis governance.

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New Delhi, OctOber 28 (Pti): Country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) today launched refreshed version of its popular hatchback Swift with 10 per cent enhanced fuel efficiency, priced between Rs 4.42 lakh and Rs 6.95 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). The model, which was first launched in the country in May 2005, has been re-introduced in both petrol and diesel variants.

“The Swift now comes with improved fuel efficiency of 10% and a rich equipment list like push start button, a 60:40 split rear seat, electric retractable outside mirrors, reverse parking sensor and others,” MSI Executive Director Marketing & Sales, R S Kalsi said in a statement. With this change, the company retains the DNA of the Swift and yet add features to make the product more exciting, he added.

“The reborn Swift is a tribute to the bestseller of the industry and in line with Maruti Suzuki’s commitment to the customers to keep refining our models and win their hearts,” Kalsi said. The introductory prices of the petrol variants of the car range between Rs 4.42 lakh and Rs 5.9 lakh, while the diesel versions of the car are priced between Rs 5.56 and Rs 6.95 lakh.

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Wednesday 29 October 2014

Rape of 80-year-old condemned; ‘severest punishment’ sought

Sack state legal advisor, demands Nagaland BJP DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Nagaland state unit of the BJP today demanded that the Nagaland government “immediately sack” the state’s Legal Advisor, R Kothandaraman. Kothandaraman had reportedly been fined Rs 50,000 by the Delhi High Court for “…concealing material facts and generating unwarranted and dishonest litigation…”

Referring to the incident, a press note from the Nagaland BJP Media Cell stated that “it brings an awful image to the state and it also reflects the state of affair in the state…” The BJP further questioned the NPF government “for taking his advice in running the government.”

It added that the “legal adviser as a senior officer was fully aware of the requirement of the law but deliberately went against by concealing the fact forcing the court to impose a hefty fine on him.”

The Nagaland BJP while demanding “immediate dismissal” of the state legal adviser; stated that the “credibility of the government advised by such a person is questionable…” It further alleged that the state legal advisor had “assisted the government in the disqualification of the three BJP MLAs against the norms set in the 10th Scheduled of the Anti Deflection law and further assisted the government for framing the rules and guidelines in the state government’s attempts to exploit the oil and natural gas resource in the state.” The BJP added that the “decisions and modalities made by the state government have run into serious controversy with various sections of the society.”

It further cautioned that “unless the state government amends its ways of running the coalition government in the state, the BJP would not have other option but to walk out of the present DAN III government.”

JOTsOMA, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Expressing shock at the rape of an 80-year-old woman allegedly by Vezhohu Resuh and Adu Nakro in Phezhu area on October 25, the Chakhesang Welfare Society, Phezhu, Jotsoma (CWSPJ) has stated, “Such a perverted and unconscionable crime deserves the strongest condemnation as it is beyond insulting the modesty of a grand old woman or her life, but is an attack on the very foundation of human society.”

A condemnation note from CWSPJ chairperson, Vengota Nakro and secretary, Wenyitso Kapfo further stated, “It is also an attack on Naga tradition in that the shameful act of the culprits would appear as an insulting repayment to the hospitality of the Jotsoma people.” It underlined that it is imperative for the authority concerned to award the “severest punishment” as per the provision of law to the culprits, and “spare no effort to secure justice for the victim.”

The CWSPJ also lauded

the “maturity and restraint” of the Jotsoma people in dealing with the case, while assuring to stand by the decision and resolution of Phezhu Community Authority with respect to the case. Further, the Society conveyed its deepest sympathy to the victim and her family. It also prayed that “the victim, her family and Jotsoma people will find the strength within them to forgive the wrong done to them.”

WAYO: The Western Angami Youth Organisation (WAYO) has condemned the rape of an 80-year-old woman in Jotsoma village by two youth - Vezhohu Resuh (27) and Adu Nakro (21). WAYO “equally” condemned “the act of the daughter-in-law of the victim, Viliebeino (Cükano), who was also involved in the act on the fateful night.” The organization in a press release issued by its vice president Seyielhoukho Sechü and general secretary, Kepelhoubei Rino further appealed to the law enforcing agencies to award the “highest degree of punish-

Minister Kiyanile condemns KOhIMA, OCTOBER 28 (NEPs): Minister for Social Welfare Kiyanile Peseyie has strongly condemned the rape of an 80-year-old woman in Jotsoma by two youth, Adu Nakro and Vezhohu Resuh, on October 25.

Talking to NEPS here Tuesday, the Minister termed as “most despicable and barbaric” the manner in which the two youth committed such monstrous acts to such an old woman. Stating that this dastardly act has shocked the conscience of all citizens of the State, Peseyie urged the law enforcement agencies to award befitting punishment to the two accused as per the law of the land. He also conveyed heartfelt sympathy to the aggrieved family members of the victim. ment” to the culprits under appropriate section of IPC and not grant them bail under any circumstances. “An act such as this committed by outsiders within our jurisdiction (Western Angami) is a direct insult to the people of our region,” it added. It also urged all right thinking citizens and organizations to condemn the crime.

CYF: The Chakhesang Youth Front (CYF) has also condemned the rape by Vezhohu Resuh and Adu Nakro “in connivance with

the daughter-in-law of the victim, Viliebino (Cukano).”

While extending its solidarity with the victim, CYF prayed for her speedy recovery. “CYF stands by the resolution of the Jotsoma Women Organisation and urge the authorities to award severest punishment to the culprits,” stated CYF president Zhopayi Nakro in a release received here. Further, CYF urged all concerned not to bail the accused out and also condemn such crimes perpetrated on women.

Crime report from the Directorate of Vigilance & Organizations endorse ACAUT rally in Kohima OCTOBER Drivers’ Union (KDTODU) government departments, Anti Corruption Police (March 2011-October 2014) 28KOhIMA, (MExN): The Nagaland has extended “full support” such as, Police, Excise, ForTribes Council (NTC) has wished a grand success to the ACAUT Nagaland rally slated for October 31 in Kohima and appealed to all sections of the society to participate and exert their voice in unison; “loud and clear to determine our own 44 destiny.”

35 The NTC through its NAME OF THE Number Media Cell commended DEPARTMENT of cases ACAUT Nagaland for “carSchool Education 1 Recommendations made to Government rying forward the moveUrban Development 1 Departments for framing of guidelines and rec- Medical Department 1 ment…and thus far achievRural Development 3 ommendations accepted. ing several milestones in Police 3 addressing the issues of DUDA 1 unabated taxation and TOTAL 10 Cases corruption at all levels in No. of cases where Prosecution Sanction unthe State of Nagaland.” The der Sec 197 1(b) and Sec 19 of P.C. Act’1988 was 6 NTC also expressed hapsought, but was not forthcoming piness at the “overwhelmCourtesy: Sr Superintendent of Police, Vigilance & Anti Corruption ing support” extended by the people at all levels.

Further, NTC stated that it continues its endeavor to “propagate the supremacy of peoples’ interest and had committed to achieve peace and tranquility in our land through correct interpretation of peoples interest and state policy definitions.”

KDTODU: The Kohima District Truck Owners’ & Number of persons penalised or convicted Number of persons arrested/on bail Amount/material involved in the allegation Amount/Material recovered Number of Cases investigated Cases under investigation No. of cases under trial at the Court of Special Judge & TDP Number of cases dropped after enquiry Number of cases charge-sheeted/action taken

493 40 12,38,67,668+ 2 Scorpios 21,89,934 + 2 Scorpios 159 59 21

Shetoyi for promotion of angling in Nagaland

AAN team with Shetoyi Sema, Parliamentary Secretary for Soil & Water Conservation and Fisheries in Kohima on October 26.

KOhIMA, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): A team of office bearers and executive members of Anglers’ Association Nagaland (AAN) called on Parliamentary Secretary for Soil & Water Conservation and Fisheries Shetoyi Sema at his official residence in Kohima on Sunday.

The team led by AAN president, Issac Zhimomi and general secretary,

Phukato Sumi apprised the parliamentary secretary on the motive behind the formation of AAN, a press release informed.

Shetoyi, according to the release, viewed that AAN could play a pivotal role to promote angling in the form of sports, tourism and adventure in the State and also educate the people against the usage of chemi-

cals and explosives in the rivers thereby conserving indigenous fish population.

He said there is a wide scope on angling in the State.

The association approached Shetoyi to be the chairman of Anglers’ Association Nagaland and the latter consented to the request and assured AAN all possible support for the development of angling in Nagaland.

to the public rally against corruption and unabated taxation scheduled for October 31 in Kohima under the initiative of Angami Public Organization (APO), Angami Youth Organization (AYO), and Angami Students’ Union (ASU).

A press statement from KDTODU president, Khriesalie Üsou and general secretary, Küvethi Puro underlined that the transporters, especially trucks, have been victimized by numerous taxes collected by different organizations.

The transporters, it stated, run in huge loss and therefore “having no alternative”, they raise the fare which subsequently results in the rise of price of commodity in the market thus adversely affecting the consumers, which includes every citizen of Nagaland.

The statement also mentioned that the government of Nagaland had issued an order dated Kohima, June 22, 2009, that no collection of taxes shall be made by any organization or individual, including

est, and Taxes. However, despite such order, there are still collection of numerous taxes “resulting in harassment and huge loss,” it alleged.

KDTODU will march from Tata Parking to the place of rally on October 31, the release informed, and requested all the members of KDTODU not to ply their vehicles, but take part in the rally.

KDSCOU: The Kohima District Stone Crusher Owners Union (KDSCOU) has also extended support to the October 31 ACAUT rally in Kohima and also lauded AYO and ASU for initiating the rally. Asserting that it stands for ‘One Government, One Tax’, KDSCOU has directed all its members to abstain from paying tax to any government or social organization without the consent of the Union. In a press release, KDSCOU president, Vizovotuo Nagi and secretary, Peter Zashümo further informed all the members to “compulsorily” attend the rally in Kohima Town.

Aghuyito Village Council condemns DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Aghuyito Village Council has condemned the grenade attack at the house of Kideon Zhimomi (of Aghuyito village) in Dimapur on October 24. “It was such an act of heartless and inhuman action that shocked the family members, relatives, and well wishers,” a statement from the council stated, adding “blindly attempting the lives of his (Kideon) fam-

ily without remorse by a miscreant was barbaric.”

The press statement issued by Aghuyito Village Council chairman, Vihoi K. Zhimomi and secretary, James Zhimo further termed the incident of “attacking the lives of innocent family members, torturing and hurting the very sentiments and putting their life insecure/at risk and made the little ones (children) to

experience mental trauma of their life at dawn” as “unfortunate and unjustified.”

Furthermore, it requested whoever or whatever Naga political group is responsible for the incident to “refrain and must totally stop from this kind of atrocities particularly of attacking families of one another in a civilized society and must maintain peace and harmony among the NPGs...”

Minister Nuklutoshi urges Naga Participatory Rural Appraisal exercise held youth to know the reality KOhIMA, OCTOBER 28 (NEPs): Minister for National Highways, Nuklutoshi has expressed serious concern over the prevailing situation in the State, where the educated youth seem not fully aware of what is going on. He further called upon them to go deeper into each and every development to know the reality.

Talking to NEPS here Tuesday, the Minister said Nagas still have the “slave mentality,” though they might think they are very advanced. “Only negligible sections of the Naga people may have progressed in some fields,” he explained.

“But large sections of the Naga people are still having slave mentality.”

Nuklutoshi pointed out that many educated Naga youth, even after getting degrees and other certificates, would be just waiting for Government jobs,

whereas jobs in public sectors have already reached saturation point.

He further disclosed that the State has more than sixty thousand educated unemployed youth and their numbers keep increasing every year.

“This is not everything if you add up the number of other so-called uneducated unemployed youth in the state,” he said.

“In fact the amount of unemployed youth – educated and uneducated – in a population of about two millions, where over one lakh are government servants, the situation simply spells danger for our future,” Nuklutoshi said and warned that these unemployed youth were prone to do anything out of frustration. “This does not auger well for the future of the Nagas,” he said.

The Minister urged the

younger generations to be more serious and deeply study from the realistic point of view and be in a position to come forward for self-employment. For which, necessary support needs to be provided to young people to help them succeed and set an example to others who are still reluctant, he added, and further stressed on the importance of developing “work culture” in them.

Nuklutoshi also stated the civil societies and NGOs should not criticize the Government all the time without giving an alternative means for them (Government) to perform and act better for the larger interest of the people. “I think our civil societies and NGOs should be in a position to provide credible guidance to the Government while criticizing the policies and programs of it.”

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The PHED (Rural) division of Dimapur carried out Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) exercise aimed at data collection and analysis in Seithekema Old, Seithekema ‘C’ and Seithekema Basa under Kuhuboto block. The exercise was headed by Er. L Tongpang Longkumer, Executive Engineer, PHED (Rural) Dimapur and sponsored by Water and Sanitation Support Organization (WSSO), Nagaland, Kohima. Er. Imtisowa, SDO Kuhuboto, and JE Er. Hukali were also present.

A press note stated that the visit and interaction with the villagers were done to identify resources and generation of sustainable systems, suggestion of remedial measures and to facilitate community visioning and action planning.

The main features were discussions on present status of water and sanitation, creating an enabling

Participants and officials during the Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) exercise held at Hekeshe village under Medziphema block.

environment, drawing of a social map and a transect walk through the village, to get first hand information for future reference. In the process of the discussion, awareness on plastic burning, solid and liquid waste management, criteria for ‘Clean Village Award’ and the ongoing sanitation works as part of Swachh Bharat (Clean India) Campaign were discussed.

Apart from that, six villages, namely Toshiho, Viyito and Hovishe under Niuland

block and Maova, Tsuuma and Hekeshe in Medziphema blocks were also covered in the weeklong exercise from October 21 to 25.

The participants were the village council members, VDB members, WATSAN committee members, teachers, ASHA and health workers, students union, women union, youth organization etc. Imojungla, Sanitation and Hygiene Consultant and Vibou, IEC Consultant, PHED (Rural) Dimapur represented the team.

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MEx FILE IVR Village Council informs DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The inclusion, correction and deletion of electoral roll for 2 Dimapur II A/C Polling Stations 11 & 12, Industrial Village Razhüphe (IVR) will be held on Saturday, November 1. In this connection, the Council Chairman of IVR, T L Angami and Council Secretary in a press note informed all the villagers in IVR to come and do the needful with the Booth Level Officers (BLOs) concerned.

Assam Rifles apprehends one TUENsANg, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): 23 Assam Rifles along with two representatives of Tuensang Police Station executed an operation at Police Station Colony in Tuensang and apprehended one person on October 25.

The apprehended person has been identified as Lieutenant Nganapa Phom of GPRN/NSCN. According to a press release from Assam Rifles, he was apprehended with one Point 22 Pistol and one 9mm Pistol along with “incriminating documents and other accessories of the outfit.” “Seized documents from the apprehended cadre revealed important information of the NSCN faction,” the release added. He was handed over to Tuensang police station. The operation was launched based on an “intelligence input” regarding presence of an armed GPRN/ NSCN cadre in the colony, AR informed.

NPF Minority Cell extends Chhath Puja greetings DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Minority Cell of Naga People’s Front (NPF) has extended Chhath Puja greetings and best wishes to the Hindus of Nagaland. The Minority Cell, on behalf of its members, wished for the ‘The Sun God’ to shower blessings upon each person and strengthen tranquility, brotherhood and harmony amongst different communities of Nagaland on the occasion.

Sumi Baptist Convention biennial session held PUghOBOTO, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Sumi Baptist Convention held its 13th biennial session at Mudutsugho Baptist Church under SABAK Pughoboto on October 25 and 26 with the theme ‘Together We Serve’.

Rev Yevito Sumi, Executive Secretary SBAK, Rev S Vitoshe Swu, Executive Secretary WSBAK and Dr Botoholi Achumi, Secretary Education & Communication NBCC were the speakers. Vikheho Swu, Parliamentary Secretary for Flood Control, Irrigation and Election and Himato Jimo (IFS), President, Sumi Gazetted Officers Union Nagaland exhorted the congregation. The next biennial session will be hosted by the WSBAK Akuvuto in 2016.

GPK principal informs KOhIMA, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): All the students who have successfully completed three months free training course at Government Polytechnic, Kohima (GPK) under Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan's Gandhi Institute of Computer Education & Information Technology and are yet to collect their certificates have been informed to collect the same from the principal of Government Polytechnic, Kohima during office hours after clearing necessary dues. This was informed in a press release issued by GPK Principal Vipulhou Lhoungu.

DDGWTU general meeting DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Dimapur District Garage Welfare Trade Union (DDGWTU) has convened a general meeting on October 30 at its registered office in Purana Bazaar, Dimapur at 10 am. A press note from the union general secretary, Piketo Zhimo has informed all the registered garage owners in Dimapur to attend the meeting positively.

National Seminar at NU Lumami LUMAMI, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Nagaland University Teachers Association (NUTA) is organizing a national seminar on "Globalization, Development and Environment with Special Reference to North-Fast Region" at Nagaland University, Lumami from November 2021. Research papers from academicians, faculty members, research scholars, and policy makers have been invited for the same. Last date of submission of abstract is October 30, 2014. Papers selected for presentation in the seminar will be published in the seminar proceedings. For further details, contact Organizing Secretary at 9436439881, President NUTA (L) at 9436006808, and Organizing Committee Convenor at 9436006435, or visit Nagaland University website www.nagauniv.org.in.

NBPU silver jubilee from Nov 4 to 6 DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Nagaland Baptist Pastors’ Union (NBPU) will be celebrating silver jubilee from November 4 to 6, 2014 at Dimapur Rengma Baptist Church with the theme “Christ our Liberator.” The speakers during the worship service include Rev Dr L Anjo Keikung, general secretary, NBCC; Rev P Bonny Resu, general secretary, Asia Pacific Baptist Federation; Rev O Alem, principal, DBC Dimapur. Dr kavito Zhimo, principal, TTC Thahekhu will conduct the Bible Study. The resource persons for the workshop include Rev Dr N Chiero, pastor, Pfütsero Town Baptist Church; Rev Dr Ezamo Murry, former principal, ETC Jorhat; Zhanuo Asha Sanchu, director, Miqlat Ministry, NBCCWD; Joel Nillo Kath, social activist.

Regional Camp for Scouts & Guides underway DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Bharat Scouts and Guides Regional Level Rashtrapati Testing Camp for North Eastern Region has started at Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides, State Training Camp, Nerhema. Berendra, Regional Organizing Commissioner(S), North Eastern Region is the leader of the course. Altogether 50 participants from all over North East are in the camp. Scouts will be tested/examined in written, oral and in practical. On qualifying the test, scouts will receive the Rashtrapati Award (President Award) from President of India. Rashtrapati Award is the highest national award a Scout can earn. This was stated in a press release issued by Nagaland State Bharat Scouts and Guides State Secretary John Tochimong.

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t this juncture of Naga history, where the present generation is confronted by internal and external crisis – challenges and opportunities – courageous, dynamic and discerning leadership is required. There is a need for a leadership that is willing to understand, listen, communicate and appreciate the people. This means leaders that are rooted in ‘people politics’ and not ‘power politics’ with the will to reduce the ‘status gap’ between the leaders and the people.

Nagas are in dire need of leaders with a discerning heart who have goodwill for their fellow human beings and a perceptiveness that enables them to respond flexibly and appropriately depending on what the situation requires. We need leaders who are open and willing to publically acknowledge wrong doings and apologize to the people. We need leaders who can sincerely recognize their own limitations, as well as, have the courage to humble themselves and seek people’s opinion and involve the people in the process of policy formation. We need leaders who have an all encompassing vision that revolves around improving the lives of all people, not just their kin, clan or their village. We need leaders who have the generosity to forgive and embrace those who have hurt them.

We need leaders with a vision for the common good and one that has the conviction to lead the people out of the present condition of indifference and apathy, and inspire new imagination that rekindles the spirit of life once again. In reality the majority of the people are caught up in the cycle of day to day survival, so leaders are needed that can inspire and catalyze the people to transcend the cycle of despair. At the end of the day in a multi-cultural and diverse society such as the Nagas, the question of legitimacy in the people’s eyes cannot be undermined.

Hence, Nagas are in need of leaders who can break out of the prevailing ‘isms’ and demonstrate their relevancy to the people and the conditions of our time.

Nagas cannot afford to further ignore the crisis of our times. The more we choose to turn a blind eye; the sound of despair gets louder. It is time to wake from our slumber and recognize the reality that has become us. The present generation is living in conditions that are revolutionary and such times demand discerning leaders that will lead the Nagas through this critical and yet opportune moment in history.

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Winds of change at Frankfurt Book Fair

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ill you believe me if I said that nothing has changed in the last ten years? It is still about storytelling; we still need to trust each other and look into each other's eyes. We, in publishing though, like to be scared of the future."

The setting seemed perfect - the Frankfurt Book Fair; the Business Club, a paid-for series of workshops at the fair; the speaker, Juergen Boos, the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair; and the man who asked him about the changes he had witnessed at the fair over the last decade: the most translated living author of our times, Paulo Coelho.

Coelho was quick to respond: "I don't buy your theory. Booksellers are dying. Whether we like it or not, we are walking fast to the digital world."

"Yes, I agree. But Frankfurt Book Fair is now 66 years old and growing every year," Boos countered.

'If we don't adapt, The real experience, though, was somewe die and the only where else. The fair way we can survive didn't feel the same. It in publishing is to was quieter and leaner but definitely not follow the golden meaner. Many regulars, rule: Don't be greedy' not just from India but from across the world, were missing - some of them hadn't missed the fair in three decades, not even post 9/11. There was a shift in the profile as well.

India, for one, seemed to have much more representation from technology professionals and book packagers for children than publishers. Both, in a way, are an extension of the business process outsourcing culture and represent a shift down the value chain.

Presentations on how you could convert your native files into 30 different kinds of e-versions like epub and mobi, that too, at a speed of thousands of pages per hour, were attracting not just eyeballs but gray cells too.

Most of the people, though in awe, couldn't decipher what to do with that information. That, in a sense, sums up the current state of publishing - how and when to take that giant leap into the unknown digital world and secretly hoping we would be rather sucked in than be forced to jump.

Representing continuity was the German Book Office, Delhi, which carried forward the book fair's tradition of adding value for its clients by organising two guided tours enabling business networking for visitors from South Asia.

Also, its director, Prashasti Rastogi, was a part of the Expert Table programme to guide visitors from across the globe on the Indian publishing scenario.

Starting 2015, the famed Hall 8 of the fair, which houses the English speaking world, would be merged with the rest.

A case of necessity leading to innovation! Greater proximity would hopefully lead to greater interaction and increased business, not to forget less tired legs!

Expectedly, it also throws new challenges.

The reorganisation would mean that Indian printers will be placed next to the Chinese, a proposition that they found unwelcoming. Apparently, some stiff, if not unreasonable stance by CAPEXIL and NBT, the bodies that facilitate Indian overseas representation, has meant that unlike in 2012-13, publishers registered in India will not share space with the rest of the English-speaking world. Because of the same reason, the state of Indian hall in 2014 was depressing, to say the least. In the interest of Indian publishing specifically, and the publishing world in the larger context, one hopes better negotiations happen for 2015 and beyond. We need to be fighting the challenges together, rather than fighting amongst ourselves.

As Coelho, in the enlightening conversation, summed up: "If we don't adapt, we die and the only way we can survive in publishing is to follow the golden rule: Don't be greedy!"

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Popular action against corruption

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orruption occurs in every country. It includes bribery, insider deals, appointments of family and friends, cheating on contracts, stealing from customers and clients, and a host of other techniques. The essence of corruption is a violation of fairness, and often a violation of the law, though some laws are themselves unfair and protect corrupt conduct.

Some of the most serious corruption occurs at high levels, for example when companies fix prices and sell shoddy products and when government leaders give favours to allies and steal billions of dollars to deposit in secret foreign bank accounts.

So what should be done about corruption? The usual approaches are to implement stringent controls, policies and accountability measures. Auditing is a standard tool. Whistleblowers - employees who speak out in the public interest - are important in exposing corruption. There are many government agencies set up to address the problem, for example ombudsmen, auditors-general and anti-corruption bodies.

The usual assumption is that better laws and procedures, plus government watchdog bodies, are the solution. They certainly can make a difference, but some of the biggest corrupt operations are run by governments themselves, and watchdog bodies often are underfunded and lack sufficient power to challenge entrenched problems.

Furthermore, some agencies are captured by the industries they are supposed to regulate.

There is another option: popular action. Consider, for example, the mafia in Sicily, one of the most well known and entrenched systems of corruption in the world. One detail of the mafia’s operation is the pizzo, a payment required by the mafia from commercial operations: if the payment is supplied, then the mafia “protect” the business.

Pizzo is a form of extortion.

On 29 June 2004, residents in the Sicilian city of Palermo discovered stickers pasted everywhere saying “An entire people who pays pizzo is a people without dignity”. Thus began a people’s campaign against a corrupt practice.

The campaign developed momentum as people began talking with each other, overcoming the pervasive fear of mafia reprisals. The youth who had posted the stickers initially remained anonymous and took other actions, such as writing anti-mafia graffiti and displaying banners at sporting events. They started strategising and developed a plan. They collected a list of people who pledged to patronise businesses that refused to pay pizzo, and then, after thousands of people had signed, they went to businesses until 100 agreed not to pay pizzo. Thus began a snowballing process of citizens and businesses joining forces against mafia extortion.

It was not easy or straightforward. The mafia torched a warehouse of a company that had taken the no-pizzo pledge. The campaigners rallied support from the community to provide money for the company’s workers and to obtain compensation from the government under anti-mafia compensation laws. The mafia’s attack backfired: it generated even more support for the movement.

The story of the anti-pizzo movement is just one of many fascinating episodes in a new book

by Shaazka Beyerle entitled Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice. The book is the first major treatment of how popular nonviolent action can be a powerful approach for challenging corruption.

I will refer to the author as Shaazka because I know her. I think her work is incredibly important but I’m very far from a neutral commentator: I provided support and comments while she was researching and writing the book.

Most studies of nonviolent action focus on challenges to repressive governments or oppressive systems. Famous examples include the movement led

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t is a fact that many university students in France are close to the poverty line, even though estimates fluctuate wildly, from 20,000 to 100,000. In 2009 Secours Populaire Français (SPF), a non-profit organisation working to fight poverty and exclusion, opened a special student unit in Lille that has helped to raise awareness of the problem. Laurent Roques, in charge of youth matters at SPF, remembers “disturbingly long queues of students”.

In the past five years, 11 other such units have opened around France.

Each has its own way of operating, to deal with specific local issues. But all of them are rooted in the same observation: student poverty is a reality and may lead to poverty later. It took SPF a while to get to grips with the problem, since the academic and student community is a closed one. “We thought we could talk to students in the same way we talk to everyone else, but in fact we needed a different language,” said Nicolas Raynal, a member of SPF’s national council. “You don’t talk to students the way you talk to mothers, for instance. That explains why we were slow to get off the ground and still have poor penetration. Now we organise events such as a solidarity music festival, which not only raises funds but helps to change people’s perception of SPF.” Since 2012 Marie Bonin has been organising two sessions a week at La Fringale, the SPF student unit in Clermont-Ferrand. She meets students in need of concrete solutions to a range of problems, not least help with food. Bonin deals with 323 students, all accept-

Shaazka Beyerle, Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2014).

Some of the biggest corrupt operations are run by governments themselves, and watchdog bodies often lack sufficient power to challenge entrenched problems. There’s another powerful approach: popular action, as documented in Shaazka Beyerle’s new book Curtailing Corruption

by Gandhi for Indian independence and the US civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King, Jr. More recent examples include the toppling of dictators in countries such as the Philippines, Serbia and Egypt.

The orientation in much of this work is on nonviolent action against arbitrary power that harms freedom and human rights. For some reason, corruption has been overlooked, perhaps because in western countries there are so many official bodies and processes that ostensibly deal with it.

Shaazka is a senior adviser at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, a privately funded body that supports research and training to provide insights and skills for nonviolent struggles. (The ICNC does not become directly involved in any campaigns, nor does it tell activists what they should do.) Most of the ICNC’s efforts are oriented to struggles against repressive governments - but Shaazka took the initiative to look at a different domain, corruption.

She investigated people’s anti-corruption campaigns in 16 countries and in her book reports on 12 of them, including ones in Korea, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Afghanistan and Uganda. Each case

study is presented systematically, including contexts, campaign strategies and tactics, outcomes, analysis of the struggle and lessons learned. In gathering information about these campaigns, Shaazka drew on documents but especially on interviews with key campaigners. The result is a rich compendium of information about popular anticorruption struggles, with ideas worth exploring and developing further: • In Brazil, the Ficha Limpa or clean-record movement pushed for legislation to prevent politicians from running for office if they had been convicted of certain crimes; the campaign also served to promote civic engagement.

• In Afghanistan, where reconstruction efforts were sabotaged by pervasive corruption, the local watchdog body Integrity Watch Afghanistan encouraged and supported community-led initiatives to monitor development projects in villages and build alliances to address problems in the projects.

• In Turkey, the Constant Light campaign took on a crime syndicate using creative methods such as simultaneously turning off lights for a minute as a symbolic protest, thereby overcoming people’s fear in confronting the syndicate, which had links with the government.

• In India, the 5th Pillar movement uses a variety of tactics to counter demands for bribes, including producing a zero-rupee note, a pseudo-currency that can be offered whenever a bribe is solicited.

The zero-rupee note signals the existence of an anti-bribery network as well as providing information about 5th Pillar.

These are just a few titbits out of long and often complex struggles, all of which display the courage and creativity of citizen campaigners, given the right circumstances and opportunities.

The most important message in Curtailing Corruption is that people power - organised collective action by citizens - can be a powerful force against corruption, often far more effective than formal processes run by government agencies and international bodies. This is especially true when governments themselves are deeply corrupt.

One of the keys to success is being well organised. Campaigners need to overcome the fear that is often pervasive in communities. Being organised is not enough on its own, though. Campaigners need to understand what they are up against and develop creative and flexible strategies to oppose corrupt operations. Corruption is often deeply entrenched, so it seems natural and just a matter of habit. Furthermore, corrupt operators are skilled in divide-andrule tactics, and often have allies in high places. So there is no guarantee that citizen action will be successful. Skills need to be developed.

Shaazka searched for cases across the world.

Most of those she discovered were in developing countries, and often involved poor people challenging exploitative practices, for example police intimidation and extortion. Her case studies show that the normal approach to development falls down when there is so much corruption that funds, for example from foreign aid, simply end up in the pockets of officials and stored in foreign bank accounts.

Development assistance might better be targeted at spreading knowledge and skills in how communities can organise against corruption. And who best to spread knowledge and skills than activists with experience in anti-corruption campaigns?

There is also a message for citizens in richer countries, where corruption may not seem so obvious.

Actually, various forms of insider dealing, pay-offs, favours and shoddy practice are present in nearly every country in the world. Official processes may give only the appearance of dealing with these problems.

The lesson from Curtailing Corruption is that citizen action can be a powerful force anywhere. There is much to learn from this pioneering book.

University students in need sébastien Deslandes

In France students are growing poorer. This phenomenon, once underestimated, is now taken into account by associations that, like Secours Populaire, open special units close to university campuses. The Fringale unit in Clermont-Ferrand looks after hundreds of young people ed on the basis of having an income below €8 a day. Whether there should be such a condition is hotly debated at SPF, however. “Some of our federations work like that, but at national level we’re against it. We shouldn’t be deciding who has the right to get help on the basis of numbers or pay scales.

No matter if they’ve got €5 or €7 a day, they’re still in a difficult situation and we need to look into it and see what we can do to help,” said Nicolas Raynal.

According to Bonin, most students do not even have that much.

“At La Fringale, we have students on €5 a day, and sometimes nothing at all.” The students hear about the charity by word of mouth, as well as through the regional centre for university aid (Centre Régional des Œuvres Universitaires et Scolaires; Crous).

That connection also took time to develop. According to Hedi, a young volunteer, “Crous sometimes sees charity organisations as competition. Then, at grassroots level, the social workers re-

alise that the Secours Populaire can be very useful in the fight against poverty, and so ties begin to form.”

The majority of young people who come to La Fringale, as well as to the other SPF units, are foreign students with no grant at all. Shifa, 23, who came from India in 2013 to study chemical engineering, is starting his final year: “I heard about La Fringale from a classmate and I really needed it because my parents can’t help me. I took out a €30,000 loan in India but I’ll only be able to repay it if I get work in France, which is no easy matter, so I’ve hardly touched it.

I first came for help with food because it’s much cheaper than the supermarket, and then I found that I could also buy clothes and use the Internet.”

The range of services provided by these units is growing. Food parcels were followed by clothing, and then stores resembling small supermarkets. In Paris, a network of companies helps to stock these or provide lunch

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vouchers, which are distributed by the charity. The student beneficiaries are asked to pay a token “solidarity fee” of €1.50: SPF believes this is important as it makes the student active participants in the process. “We present this as a little day-to-day assistance. The parcel is worth €15 and the students can pick up one a week,” explained Hedi. Florian, 19, collects his every Wednesday during the academic year. He hesitated at first, then realised that he had no choice. Florian’s case shows another aspect of student hardship: he was unable to get a student grant because his middle-class parents had too high an income. “But my mother doesn’t work and my father pays €150 a month to Crous for my room and gives me €100 a month to live on. I also work in the summer and I’ve managed to save some money for the next year, which should see me though a few months. Fortunately I found La Fringale, otherwise I’m not sure I could have continued.”

La Fringale also acts as a meeting place. Florian first came with a friend from Crous but soon met other students. “About 20 of us were coming here regularly and that created ties between us, and the volunteers ended up becoming our friends. We talk to them about all kinds of things.” Morgane, 21, is also a regular food parcel beneficiary at La Fringale. She has the lowest possible grant, known in France as a zerobis (double zero), which gives her just €1,007 over the 10-month academic year. “My parents do help when they can,” she said “but coming to La Fringale has helped a lot, even though my biggest expense is still the rent on my studio.”

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From job to job to job, A life lived - and lost adam Geller

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he fumes, reeking of gasoline, poured from the white Kia SUV as soon as an emergency medical technician broke one of the rear windows. Inside, the body of a dark-haired young woman with a beauty mark on her left cheek reclined in the driver's seat, keys dangling from the ignition. But who was she? How was it that her life had ended here, in the corner of a convenience store parking lot, less than a mile south of Newark Liberty International Airport's runways?

Waiting for the vapors to clear so they could search her belongings, police noted the most obvious clue: She was wearing a familiar white-and-brown uniform. By that night, co-workers and friends had identified her as Maria Leonor Fernandes, 32 years old and single, who worked minimum wage jobs at three nearby Dunkin' Donuts shops — often grabbing an hour or two of sleep in her car between shifts.

Within days, Fernandes was being mourned as a tragic heroine, a victim of our times. Far beyond the Newark neighborhood where she rented a basement room with bath for $550 a month, her death became fodder for online commentary. People speculated, mistakenly, that she had been living in the U.S. illegally, or had committed suicide. Mostly, they pointed to her as a casualty of modern economics that forced someone to work so hard for so little money. "The death of Maria Fernandes demands a call to action," a leader of the AFSCME labor union wrote in an online editorial, days after her death. By the time friends filed past the open casket in which Fernandes was laid out in a sequined, scarlet dress, some had had enough. There was more to her life, they said, than the way she lost it.

The Maria Fernandes they wanted to remember was kind, perhaps too generous, and loved to talk — so much so that a family she once lived with nicknamed her "Radio." Her adoration of Michael Jackson was so intense that when the singer died in 2009, she called her boss, sobbing, to tell him she needed time off to fly to California for the funeral — even though she knew he was vacationing in Turkey and the hour was growing late. Fernandes worked hard, she died tragically, but she was no martyr. "Maria did not lose!" a friend, Rochelle Sylvestre, said in her eulogy. "Society has a way of looking down at people who try to make ends meet, who seek above the minimum wage. Maria won that battle! She is still winning!"

Maria Fernandes' working life tracked a carefully choreographed schedule. From 2 to 9 p.m. most days she staffed the counter at a Dunkin' kiosk inside Newark's main train station. Then she headed to a second shop, open around the clock in downtown Linden, where she worked from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. On Saturdays and Sundays, she added an 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. shift at a third shop in Harrison, picking up additional hours when asked.

In Harrison, she usually worked at the sandwich preparation station, chatting with fellow employees, sometimes showing them snapshots. Alaaddin Abuawada, a co-worker who also holds a second job at a thrift shop, said Fernandes often appeared exhausted. When business was slow, she slumped on cartons in the kitchen for 15-minute naps. She slept in her car before heading to her next shift. When co-workers called her name for help, she jokingly answered, "No." Abuawada said he once told her that she was killing herself. "She said, 'I need the money. I have a lot of bills,'" he recalled. Fernandes was not a complainer, but this was not the life she had expected.

More than a decade ago, she told friends she wanted to be an actress, had black-and-white publicity photos taken and took the train to New York to seek auditions. She wrote her sister in Portugal that she wanted to be a police officer. She talked about going to school to be a beautician. And, before Michael Jackson died, she spoke often about her desire to meet him. "She would say she was going to marry him," friend Cristina Ribau Orama said. "And the way she said it, it was like it was going to happen."

Fernandes had come a long way to pursue those dreams. She was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, to Portuguese immigrant parents. Her father, Antonio, worked as a welder and his wife, 28 years his junior, worked in a factory. When Fernandes was 11 her father retired and moved the family to Gafanha da Encarnacao, his hometown of 5,000 on Portugal's Atlantic coast. "She was kind of lost in this small town which was not hers," said Olinda Moreira, a half-sister who lives in the nearby city of Aveiro.

Fernandes' Portuguese was shaky and colored heavily by the dialect of her mother's hometown in the Azores islands. It was hard finding friends in a town where most younger residents had moved away for work. Her father was a stern disciplinarian with little patience for a daughter who spent hours watching "The X-Files" on television; he frowned upon her talk of moving back to the United States, alone, at least until she was 18.

In the summer of 1995, Fernandes was biking through the village when she spotted a Volkswagen Jetta with New Jersey license plates and introduced herself to owner Jose Ribau, visiting his hometown from Newark. That seeded friendships with Ribau's daughters, one the same age as Fernandes and the other four years younger, renewed each July when they returned to Portugal.

Six years later, Fernandes appeared without any notice at the Ribaus' gray-shingled house in north Newark, lugging a suitcase. She was 19.

"She said, 'Oh, I'm here from Portugal. I wanted to come to America," Orama recalled, with a bemused smile. "She always talked about coming to the U.S. It was just a matter of time."

Fernandes went back to Portugal once, for three months, to work at a bakery her father had opened.

But then she returned to New Jersey for good.

Eventually, she found a job behind the counter at Calandra's bakery, where she made conversation with customers in Spanish and French as well as English and Portuguese and bought co-workers birthday and holiday gifts, like a Betty Boop lava lamp for her supervisor.

Fernandes was a dedicated worker, well-liked on

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“Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It’s how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment. All of that is expressed in culture.” Wendell Pierce.

culture and rural and Urban Nagas Heninle, asst. Professor, dept. of Commerce

C This photo provided by Cristina Ribau Orama shows Maria Fernandes in front of a September 11, memorial during a visit to New York not long after she moved to the U.S. from Portugal in late 2001. Fernandes was born in Fall River, Mass., to Portuguese immigrant parents. When Fernandes was 11 her father retired and moved the family to Gafanha da Encarnacao, his hometown of 5,000 on Portugal’s Atlantic coast. Fernandes died while napping in her car between one of her three jobs. (AP Photo/Cristina Ribau Orama)

the afternoon shift. But in 2010 managers noticed when she began talking about needing more money to help support a new boyfriend's children and took on a second job at a Dunkin' Donuts shop.

Soon, "she was coming in late. She wouldn't show up," said Billy Ulkumen, the bakery's manager. Supervisors talked to Fernandes about her lateness. Eventually, she decided to quit, he said. She had met the boyfriend online. Posting a comment on the MySpace page of an actor, Don Henrie — who played a Vampire character on a short-lived reality TV series "Mad Mad House" — Fernandes connected with a fellow fan, Richard Culhane.

When Culhane lost his New York construction job a few months later, Fernandes urged him to move to Newark, though they'd never met. She found him an apartment and paid his first month's rent. Eventually they moved in together, with Fernandes picking up the $600 monthly expense, nearly double her previous rent, he said. Culhane still sounds perplexed by her generosity.

She bought a tent and explained that it was for a homeless man she saw near work. When Culhane's mother died, Fernandes bought him and his three sons suits for the funeral. After they broke up last year, she continued to stop by with videogames for the boys. "Before she left, she was paying almost all of it," Culhane said of the couple's bills. "She was like, 'I'll take care of you,'" he said.

It was not always smooth. Culhane said Fernandes was fond of his boys, but was overwhelmed by the noise they caused. In 2011, the couple's landlord filed eviction papers when Fernandes fell behind, although she was able to work out a restitution plan. A neighbor says the couple fought frequently, sometimes leaving Fernandes in tears.

Culhane's three young sons are from an earlier marriage. He said a state youth protection worker told him that if he wanted custody he needed a bigger apartment. He and Fernandes found a three-bedroom for $1,100 a month and she took on a second job — supplementing pay from the bakery with earnings at a Dunkin' Donuts — to cover bills, he said.

When she quit the bakery, she picked up hours at a second Dunkin' Donuts and then a third. Co-workers said all her jobs paid at or just above the minimum wage — which New Jersey raised by $1 earlier this year to $8.25 an hour. "I told her over and over, 'Quit one. You're working too much," Culhane said.

"But she said, 'No, I'm used to it now.'"

Friends say they never got solid answers from Fernandes about why she worked so much or, given her ability with languages, why she didn't pursue a different job. Some of Fernandes' expenses reflected choices. Friends recount a number of instances when she gave them cash or handed over a debit card to help pay for food or travel. Along with her Chihuahua and three cats — the latter all named for Greek gods — Fernandes bought food for neighborhood strays.

Last year she bought the 2001 Kia for $1,000, replacing the buses and trains she'd used to commute.

Like so much else, she shared it generously. "I probably put more miles on it than she did," said friend and co-worker Armando Gonzalez, who sometimes borrowed the car to visit his family in Connecticut. But the Kia needed repairs. Last December, Fernandes brought it in to Newark's Go Tire for $700 in work, asking owner Richard Fernandez for time to pay the bill because she needed money to buy Christmas gifts. "It took a little longer than expected, but I understood so I wasn't trying to push her too much," the garage owner said. Two months later, Fernandes walked in with the money to settle the bill and retrieved her car from the mechanic's lot. And then there was the money she spent to pursue her enthusiasm for all things Michael Jackson.

She was one of eight or nine women — now in their 20s to 40s and scattered through New York and New Jersey — who met and traveled together to celebrate the singer. They dubbed themselves LOTP, after a Jackson 5 tune, "Life of the Party." On Facebook, the woman who served frozen coffee Coolatas behind the Dunkin' counter called herself "Maria Jackson Fernandes."

After Jackson died, members of LOTP traveled to California each June to visit his burial site at Forest Lawn Cemetery and his Neverland estate. Fernandes saved for months to make the trip. Friends who were not part of the group called it an infatuation. But in a video filmed outside Jackson's mausoleum this past June and posted to YouTube, Fernandes talked about how much the singer meant to her. "You want to break down and cry but you're in public and, you know, this is as close as I'm ever going to get to him, ever," she said in the video. "To me, when you say you're not alone, it literally means Michael is always there."

Fernandes' paychecks made the trips possible.

While it's not clear exactly how much she earned, she worked at least 87 hours each week, and some

friends say even more. That would equate to totally yearly income of $36,000, assuming two weeks off.

But work also increasingly limited the time she had. For the last couple of years, when LOTP met for a Christmas sleepover at friend Shelly Block's house in New Jersey, Fernandes stayed an hour or two before leaving for work. This past June — the fifth anniversary of Jackson's death — she told the other women she wouldn't be able to make it to California, then surprised them by showing up at the cemetery before vanishing at day's end. "Honestly, I can tell you this, Michael is what kept her going," said Dar 'Shay White, one of the members of LOTP. "She told me a lot how she was sad, how she was tired ... But she knew what she was working for — to get to California, to see Michael."

Early this year, Fernandes created a profile on a dating website, Gothscene.com. "Clueless," she called herself. Her self-description as an animal lover interested in the supernatural and nostalgic for the 1980s caught the eye of Glen Carter, a 33-yearold Army veteran working at a Pennsylvania company that builds animal rescue vehicles. "We were on the phone constantly from day one," Carter said. "I wasn't expecting, you know, to have any serious relationship with her. It's just I was talking to her and the more I talked, the more we connected."

As the summer began, they agreed to be a couple.

Carter, in the process of a divorce and having trouble making alimony payments, said he encouraged Fernandes to visit and consider moving to Pennsylvania. But the idea was cemented when Fernandes took three days off from work in early August and they met for the first time, taking Carter's daughter to Hersheypark. On their last day together, a manager from one of the doughnut shops called Fernandes to ask her to come in to work, he said. White said she encouraged Fernandes to move to Pennsylvania, pointing out that there was little keeping her in Newark. But Fernandes was uncertain. If she left, she told her friend, managers at the doughnut shops might be left short-handed.

Back home, Fernandes kept up the schedule, putting off another visit to Carter because she didn't have money for gas. She worked so much that landlady Amelia Resende sometimes went two weeks without seeing Fernandes, who rented a basement room in her house. Five or six times in the past year, Resende said, she came outside to find Fernandes asleep in the driver's seat with the car running, once at 3 a.m. "This is no good, Maria, no good," Resende said she told Fernandes. "I'm sorry, Amelia. I'm so tired," she said Fernandes answered as she helped her out of the car.

Inside, Resende noticed, Fernandes reserved the sofa bed for her cats, spreading blankets for herself on the floor.

Fifteen minutes before sunrise on Monday, Aug. 25, Fernandes finished her overnight shift, punctuating a round-the-clock weekend of work. "I'll see you tomorrow," she told a co-worker on the morning shift. Halfway home, she pulled in to the parking lot of a Wawa convenience store. The store's video surveillance camera recorded the time as 6:27 a.m. "U can call if you like," she texted Carter just as he got to work. The couple talked about the day just completed and the one ahead.

Fernandes said she was planning to go to the gym before going back to work. Then Carter hung up to start his own job. Fernandes tilted back the driver's seat, leaving the engine running, the windows up and the doors locked, to catch up on much-needed sleep.

She never woke up.

The Wawa lot is popular with livery drivers, who stop to nap between airport pickups. It wasn't until 3:51 p.m. that a store employee finishing his shift noticed that a woman he'd seen sleeping in a car that morning was still there. Inside the vehicle, police found the gas can that Fernandes kept behind the back seat, tipped over and leaking. Fernandes' death was caused by inhalation of gas vapors and was accidental, the Union County Medical Examiner would determine. Women from LOTP raised $6,000 to pay for Fernandes' funeral. At the cemetery, less than a mile from the doughnut shop where she worked her final shift, mourners stepped forward to lay roses and sunflowers on her cream-colored casket. "Wait!

Wait! Wait!" White sobbed, stabbing her heels into the ground as workers lowered the coffin.

Then, slowly, mourners drifted away — Culhane and his sons in the funeral suits Fernandes had bought for them, members of LOTP leaning on one another's shoulders. Standing beside the grave, Fernandes' co-worker, Armando Gonzalez, glanced down at his watch. There was just enough time, he said, to run home, change from his slacks and tie into his familiar white-and-brown uniform and report for a 3 p.m. shift.

"We've got to keep living, you know?"

ulture defines who a person was or is, in a society. It resides in the heart and soul of the individual. Without it, and the comparative choice it entails, society is in for a chaotic subsistence. Every society is set apart with a collective quality and diverse set of culture, show casting the history of their ways of life that came into being; the present, which is the reflection of the past with the influence of the progressing world; the future, for which we are living a history today. The basic component of culture in any society lies in its language, customs, and religion etc. The knack to pass on the information across generations by means other than genetic exchange is a unique gift that we human possess, and that gift is the reason human beings are able to record, learn, and know the facts and purpose of our existence.

Every civilization undergoes transformation and progress, a step at the time, but the arrival of the colonial force and the advent of the Christian Missionaries to our Hills transformed us, and hurled us many steps forward at a go In the beginning of the previous century we were head-hunters, hunting napes of person from other villages, to free their soul, as was believed then, but by the end of the century we were a totally new entity, which is providential and, as such, the society that we are now.

When we imagine culture in our land, an image of half-naked men with spears and machete lining up, singing war-cry in unison, dancing in a well-choreographed manner comes to mind. Nagas in general are blessed with assorted groups of people with rich cultural heritage, and culture, as discussed, comprises of all the different components that makes a society what it is. Culture does not imply only the past, but the present days and ways of life. The culture of Nagas would be characterized by the languages and dialects that we speak, customs and traditions we observe and practice, literatures and religious beliefs, and so on. So when we visualize, the beauty of these multitudes of society, it is like a poem and a sight to behold.

Discussing about culture always involves the need of preserving the same, which is the core of continuance of history. The varied life is celebrated throughout the year, by different tribes, and although it is almost an impossibility to live life like the way we celebrate – it is impractical to go to office dressed in our traditional attire-, nonetheless, it is good to know our roots, our present, and the future that we are headed toward. The technological advancement and progress of the society was making us, less aware of our traditional roots, but the generous overtures from Nagaland government, which need to be lauded, for they have brought the hues of the various tribes which is celebrated during the first week of December every year. Through this, the culture of Nagas is known world-wide, making the young Nagas aware of our identity. My wish, if I may, is that, in the years to come, the Nagas from other states and country be invited to the Hornbill Festival so it becomes a complete Naga Affair. The preservation of the past traditions and customs can also be retained by inoculating it into school curriculum so the youngsters can learn it from the early stage of their life.

The present day Nagas are broadly classified into two categories: the Rural Nagas and the Urban Nagas. Every individual belongs to a specific clan, village, area, etc. The rural Nagas encompass the majority of the population, whose main occupations are agriculture and farming and the Urban Nagas are those that reside in towns, holding government jobs or businesses. While it is not the case now, but back then, Nagas were known for our hardworking, bravery, honesty, and hospitality, etc. The current crops of Nagas, like any other society is an assortment of all these personalities and finding a person with all the qualities mentioned would be like finding a needle in the hays. The need of the hour is to go back to our roots, not practically, but psychologically and regain our past integrity.

The present young Nagas are a hybrid of the past and the present, with influence of western countries and neighboring developed Asian countries. The inner political and social conflict has taken its toll, such that, the young Nagas of the present generation are perplexed as to what the future hold. Nevertheless, there are many brave hearted youngsters that are making their presence known to the world, through their achievement. Unemployment, like anywhere is also one cross the Nagas bear, due to lack of proper infrastructural facilities. The lack of productive diversion has also led many youths to the path of self-destruction, in the form of alcohol and drug abuse. The hard working trait of our forefathers need to be revived so that we start pulling up our socks and rely on Government jobs, but to believe in the dignity of labour, and overcome our frustration and helplessness.

To talk about modern society is to talk about the impact of the IT revolution and the impact it has on our society. Ours, not being a productive society, many youths after their studies goes to cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, etc., to earn their livelihood, and return home with both the positive and negative trait, learned there. The point being, the wisdom that is within each of us should try to differentiate the good from the bad for a positive society. With social networking sites, the Nagas of today are no longer afraid of corruption or remain downtrodden, as was the Horticulture fiasco recently. Social networking sites like Facebook are playing a major role in invoking awareness in the youth of Nagaland. Popular blogs like The Naga Blog plays a crucial role in pressuring or exposing corruptions and injustice. The negative point, however, is the mismanagement of time for using such sites, especially from college and school going students, which need to be addressed by their respective guardians or parents.

Paulo Coelho’s words sums it all “Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbor is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.” Let us all play an equal part in the cultural development for a progressive and harmonious society. “degree of Thought is a weekly community column initiated by Tetso College in partnership with The Morung Express. degree of Thought will delve into the social, cultural, political and educational issues around us. The views expressed here do not reflect the opinion of the institution. Tetso College is a naaC accredited UGC recognised Commerce and arts College.

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India slides in gender equality ranking NEW DELHI, OctObEr 28 (AP): Indian women still face some of the world’s worst inequality in access to health care, education and work, despite years of rapid economic growth, according to a survey of 142 nations released Tuesday.

The annual Gender Gap Index by the Genevabased World Economic Forum showed India falling to 114th place, after being ranked 101st out of 136 countries surveyed last year. That puts India below other fast-developing nations including South Africa, ranked 18th, China at 87 and Brazil at 71.

Nordic nations led the world in promoting equality of the sexes, as they have for many years, with Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark occupying the top five spots.

The United States climbed three places to 20th, thanks to a narrowing wage gap and more women occupying political offices.

“Achieving gender equality is obviously necessary for economic reasons.

Only those economies who have full access to all their talent will remain competitive and will prosper,” Klaus Schwab, WEF founder and executive chairman, said in a statement.

Yemen, Pakistan and Chad remained at the bottom of the index, which ranks countries based on data reported by international organizations on four categories: health and survival, access to education, economic opportunity and political participation.

Overall, the report said gender equality was improving worldwide, with 105 countries becoming

Ten best and Ten worst countries for gender equality The Associated Press

A teacher gives the count as Indian schoolchildren run a race at a government school on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. Indian women still face some of the world’s worst inequality in access to health care, education and work, despite years of rapid economic growth, according to the annual Gender Gap Index by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum released Tuesday. India ranked an impressive 15th for female political participation, but it was among the bottom 20 in terms of income, literacy, work force participation and infant survival. (AP Photo

more equal since the forum launched the index in 2006 and health and education access being the most egalitarian across the globe. As a result, most improvements were shown in women’s participation in politics.

“Much of the progress on gender equality over the last 10 years has come from more women entering politics and the workforce,” said the report’s lead author Saadia Zahidi, who heads the forum’s Gender Parity Program.

India ranked an impressive 15th for female political participation, given a large number of women holding public office.

But it was among the bottom 20 in terms of income, literacy, work force participation and infant survival.

China also has a low ratio of girls born to boys born, which contributed to the country falling 18 spots.

The highest-ranking Asian country was the Philippines, in 9th place.

Experts cautioned that the index, pitting countries against one another, may not reflect improvements on the ground. For example, while Ireland improved its overall score slightly, it still fell from 6th to 8th place as Nicaragua, Rwanda and Denmark moved up.

Indian voters fed up with the corruption and inequalities that have come with economic growth gave new Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party an enormous election mandate this year after he campaigned on promises of a fairer society and revived economy. Economic growth had been averaging 8 percent for a decade before slumping to below 5 percent in recent years.

Modi has also spoken publicly against rape and violence against women, giving many people hope for change after decades of political apathy in addressing women’s concerns, including violence such as

rape and physical abuse, high rates of maternal mortality and female infanticide. The Gender Gap Index placed India second to last, ahead of Armenia, in terms of health care and survival.

Modi’s government has said it plans to launch a program next month to improve the health of pregnant woman and empower young girls.

“The intent looks good so far from the prime minister, but it’s too soon to say,” said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Delhi-based Center for Social Research, who called for more effort in guaranteeing the nation’s wealth is used to benefit women and the poor. “There is no natu-

The annual Global Gender Gap index by the World Economic Forum, shows marginal improvement in women’s equality worldwide, according to data on access to health care, survival rates, education, income and participation in the work force and in politics.

The best nations in terms of gender equality: 1. Iceland 2. Finland 3. Norway 4. Sweden 5. Denmark 6. Nicaragua 7. Rwanda 8. Ireland 9. Philippines 10. Belgium Nations with the most gender inequality: 133. Morocco 134. Jordan 135. Lebanon 136. Ivory Coast 137. Iran 138. Mali 139. Syria 140. Chad 141. Pakistan 142. Yemen ral trickle down. India needs legislation to make sure that happens.”

India’s female-male sex ratio has fallen to its worst level since the country gained independence in 1947, with 918 girls born for every 1,000 boys. It is illegal for medical workers to reveal the sex of a child before birth, to prevent families from aborting female babies.

Activists in India also said that while they’ve noted some progress in boosting the number of Indian girls in primary school, the overall lack of safety was still preventing many from traveling for higher education or taking jobs far from

home. Others were simply not getting credit for the work they were doing, such as farming on land that is owned by a man.

“The thing that worries me the most is the work situation, because girls are getting fewer skills than boys, and so they have fewer opportunities than boys,” said Renana Jhabwala, national coordinator for the Self-Employed Women’s Association in India. “Women are an important part of the work force, they contribute to GDP, but they really are not regarded as workers and producers. It’s never become a political issue, and that has to change.”

Thieves dig 100-foot tunnel to steal crores from bank cHANDIGArH, OctObEr 28 (tNN): In a Bollywood-style heist, thieves dug a 100-foot tunnel to Punjab National Bank in Sonepat district and broke into several lockers decamping with cash, jewellery and other valuables.

The bank is located in a residential-cum-commercial area, near Old Bus Stand in Gohana city. The daring robbery came to light on Monday morning when bank manager Devender Malik opened the strongroom at 10am. He found the almirahs in the strongroom broken open and Rs 40 lakh cash missing. Apart from this, 88 out of 360 lockers had been prised open and their contents like jewellery and cash missing.

Sources say the loss could run into crores of rupees. The house from where the robbers started digging the tunnel is unoccupied as it is a disputed property. The robbers seem to have been digging for some days as the tunnel was 2.5 feet in circumference. Tools and earth dumped in the vacant house indicate that the burglars knew the exact location of the strongroom and lockers in the bank.

Preliminary investigations also suggest that the culprits chose Sunday to strike since the area would be deserted. Unlike other places where strongrooms and locker rooms have at least one feet of concrete covered with a thick iron sheet, this one had an ordinary floor which was easily punctured by the burglars.

Tribal blocks to get Rs.10 SC seeks names of all foreign account holders crore each for development

NEW DELHI, OctObEr 28 (IANS): The government Tuesday launched a programme under which Rs.10 crore will be provided to each block for the development of various facilities for Scheduled Tribes.

The “Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana” (VKY) was launched

by Tribal Welfare Minister Jual Oram at a meeting of the tribal welfare ministers of

states and union territories.

The scheme was launched on a pilot basis in one block each in Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Under the scheme, the Centre will provide Rs.10 crore to each block for the development of various facilities for tribals. The

blocks have been selected on the recommendations of the concerned states and have very low literacy rate.

“The scheme mainly focuses on bridging infrastructural gaps and gaps in human development indices between Scheduled Tribes and other social groups,” Oram said. The minister said blocks having at least 33% of tribal population will be chosen for the programme.

‘Sensationalism is media’s weakness’

NEW DELHI, OctObEr 28 (IANS): Falling prey to sensationalism is the biggest weakness of media, Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar said Tuesday.

“Media’s biggest strength is that it can shape public opinion and biggest weakness is that it falls prey to sensationalism,” Javadekar said Tuesday.

In a recorded message for the inaugural session of the 8th South Asia Dialogue on ‘The Role of Media in Promoting Regional Understanding in South Asia’, the minister said media should “work in a mission mode to bring about a positive change in the society”.

Delving into the state of journalism in south Asia, Javadekar said: “The biggest challenge before the media in the subcontinent is to understand whether it is in sync with societal thinking and to assume

a proactive role for bringing about a positive change in the society.”

“Journalism is a responsible mission and the role of media in the total renaissance of society is important,” said the minister.

Insisting that it has a definitive role in promoting regional understanding, the minister urged the media to go beyond ad revenues, TRPs and circulations and commit itself towards betterment of the society and be ready to fight for a cause.

The minister urged the media to manage sensibility issues delicately while projecting relations between nations.

“Every country has its own issues, problems, weaknesses and strengths and their sensibilities. The media should be respectful towards these,” he stated. The two-day dialogue has been organised by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) and will conclude Oct 29.

Yoga, India’s ethos of harmony with nature can help environment, UN told

UNItED NAtIONS, OctObEr 28 (IANS): Pressing ahead with the campaign for an International Day of Yoga, India projected yoga and its reflection of “Indian ethos of harmony with nature” as factors that can help the environment in an age of globalisation and rapid development.

“The holistic approach to life that yoga fosters could contribute not only to an improvement in quality of life but also greater harmony between people and between man and nature,” Amit Narang, a counsellor at the Indian mission here, said Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the UNGA last month spoke of what yoga can do

for the environment. “By changing our lifestyle and creating consciousness, it can help us deal with climate change,” Modi had said proposing that June 21 be declared International Yoga Day. Echoing the theme, Narang asserted that that the nation’s wisdom of millennia emphasised a “culture of frugality, of doing more with less, of taking only as much as required from nature and of no wastage. It was particularly relevant for today’s world struggling to manage global commons and achieve sustainable development,” he said during a discussion on globalization and interdependence at a meeting of a UNGA committee.

“The Indian ethos of

harmony with nature, of treating nature’s bounties as sacred, of seeking a dialogue with nature rather than seeking to dominate it has special relevance in today’s day and age,” he said.

Globalisation required a free flow ideas and embracing the good ones from all over, he said, adding that India “as a millennia old civilization and with its multi-ethnic, multi-religious, multi-cultural and multi-lingual social ethos and a pluralistic, democratic polity, has a lot to contribute to enrich the global discourse of ideas.”

On other issues impacting globalisation, Narang called for liberalising movement of temporary workers across nations.

NEW DELHI, OctObEr 28 (IANS): The Indian government was directed Tuesday by the Supreme Court to furnish in a sealed envelop Wednesday the names of all individuals and entities in its possession who have accounts in overseas banks, legitimate or otherwise.

The directive to this effect came a day after the government gave the court the names of seven individuals and one company, alleging they had funds in bank accounts abroad over which proceedings had been initiated for tax evasion.

The apex court bench headed

by Chief Justice H.L. Dattu told Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi that the government needed to just disclose the names in a sealed envelop and the court would decide whether it should be investigated upon and by whom.

“First give us the names. We will get them investigated. Not just one, two, three (names), give us in a sealed cover what you have got from the French, German and Swiss governments,” Chief Justice

Dattu said.

When Rohatgi told the court that tax authorities were probing the accounts, the chief justice said: “Why do you want to take the trouble of investigating? Give it to us.

We’ll direct the CBI or tax authorities to undertake investigation in a month’s time.”

Rohatgi tried to persist further.

“I have the list of 500 names, some of them are sketchy,” he said. But the bench, which included Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai and Justice Madan B. Lokur, did not heed.

Soon after the court’s directive, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said the names as sought by the Supreme Court had already been given to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the government at the behest of the apex court.

“Since the government had already given, on June 27, the entire list to the SIT, it has no difficulty in giving it to the court. The entire list would be placed before it by tomorrow morning,” Jaitley told reporters here.

The primary purpose of this ex-

ercise is to ascertain who among the individuals and the entities named hold such accounts in contravention of Indian laws and what kind of proceedings can be initiated to prosecute them and get back any ill-gotten money.

Even as the so-called list in entirety is due to be submitted Wednesday, it is unclear if the court will make it public. At the same time, sources said, there were also talks of not one but several lists, some allegedly stolen with little veracity.

India has no official estimates of illegal money stashed away in bank accounts overseas. But the unofficial ones range from $466 billion to $1.4 trillion. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has promised to get back such “black money”.

The Supreme Court’s directive on divulging the names also comes against the backdrop of opposition parties crying foul over the naming of just seven people Monday even as some ruling party members commented that the full list will embarrass some political leaders.

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid said cherry-picking names from the list was immoral.

“The government should disclose all the names on the list to the court as per law,” said Khurshid, who was the foreign minister in the previous government.

In a similar vein, Communist Party of India leader D. Raja queried as to why the government was reluctant to part with all the names in its possession, adding this amounted to lack of political will in fulfilling election promises.

Coming to the names, official sources said one list purportedly contains the names of around 700 individuals and entities based on information from French authorities. An employee of HSBC Holdings Plc’s Swiss branches had allegedly stolen this data.

Similarly, Germany had in 2010 furnished the names of some Indians with secret accounts in tax haven Liechtenstein’s LGT Bank.

These names were part of about 1,400 stolen bank account details from there, the sources said.

Fadnavis to head Maharashtra’s first BJP govt MUMbAI, OctObEr 28 (IANS): Devendra Fadnavis will head Maharashtra’s first BJP government after its newly elected legislators set aside their differences to pick the 44-year-old as their house leader. Bharatiya Janata Party activists here and across the sprawling state celebrated after Eknath Khadse, who was a contender for the post, proposed Fadnavis’ name at a meeting overseen by party veterans from Delhi.

Fadnavis’ candidature was seconded by Vinod Tawde, Sudhir Mungantiwar and Pankaja Munde, daughter of the late Gopinath Munde who too was in the race for the chief minister’s post at one point.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh and party leaders Rajiv Pratap Rudy, O.P. Mathur and J.P. Nadda were at the meeting at the Maharashtra Legislature complex.

Fadnavis will be Maharashtra’s youngest chief minister after Sharad Pawar, who was 38 when he took charge in 1978, and the second Brahmin to preside over the state after the Shiv

Sena’s Manohar Joshi.

Fadnavis, who took to politics when he was barely 22 years old, pledged to provide good governance -- a la Narendra Modi.

“I assure the people of Maharashtra that we will make efforts to take Maharashtra forward the way (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi has given good governance and is guiding the country on the path of development,” said Fadnavis, who is married to bank manager Amruta and father of a teenaged daughter, Divija.

Speaking in Marathi and Hindi as supporters burst firecrackers and distributed sweets, Fadnavis credited the BJP’s showing in the assembly polls to Modi, party president Amit Shah and other party colleagues.

Informed sources said the BJP leadership decided after days of internal deliberations that Fadnavis would be the best bet to lead the party in the state after it came on top of a fractured electoral verdict. Fadnavis is likely to be sworn in at a public ceremony at the Wankhede Stadium to be

attended by Modi, Shah, BJP chief ministers and over 30,000 guests.

Hailing from Nagpur, the 1970-born Fadnavis has strong Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) connections that helped him overcome the challenge to his leadership, includ-

ing by mentor and central minister Nitin Gadkari.

This will be for only the second time in the state that a non-Congress government will assume office.

The Shiv Sena and the BJP ran a coalition government led by Manohar Joshi and later Narayan

Rane, both from the Sena, in 1995-99. The BJP is the single largest party in the 288-seat house with 122 legislators, short of the half way mark needed for a legislative majority. One legislator, G.M. Rathod, died of heart attack Monday, reducing its strength to 121.

Indian passengers are seen inside a train coach, crowded with people trying to reach their homes ahead of Hindu festival Chhath Puja at a railway station in New Delhi on Tuesday, October 28. India has one of the world’s largest railways, which transports 23 million passengers a day. (AP Photo)

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Marines leave Afghanistan after tough war years

This handout photo provided Defense Department shows Marines and sailors with Marine Expeditionary Brigade – Afghanistan load onto a KC130 aircraft on the Camp Bastion, Afghanistan flightline on Monday, October 27. The handover of the U.S. Marines’ main base to Afghan control in the hardscrabble Helmand province is more than a signal that America’s longest war is ending. It is a reminder of the enormous loss and sacrifice

by Marines who swept in as part of President Barack Obama’s surge of forces against a resurgent Taliban in 2009. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON, OcTOber 28 (AP): The Marines are putting America’s longest war behind them.

They are pulling up stakes in the patch of Afghan desert known as Helmand province, where 378 Marines were killed and nearly 5,000 wounded in fighting that peaked four years ago.

On Sunday they turned over to Afghan authorities

the keys to Camp Leatherneck, the sprawling base in Helmand from which the Marines surged against the Taliban in 2009.

Helmand was the epicenter of President Barack Obama’s surge against the Taliban. The Marines focused on it so completely that some dubbed it “Marine-istan.”

It was the fight the Ma-

Future-focused women fight climate change better WASHINGTON, OcTOber 28 (IANS): Futureoriented women are more likely to take concrete steps to reduce global warming, says a study.

“They are more politically liberal and liberals are more likely to value the environment which makes them more likely to believe in global warming,” explained lead researcher Jeff Joireman, associate professor of marketing at Washington State University.

The future-oriented women are the voting bloc most strongly motivated to invest money, time and taxes toward reducing global warming, he added. Previous studies have shown that women and those with liberal viewpoints are more likely to act to protect the environment than men and conservatives.

Joireman and his team polled 299 US residents, with an age range from 18 to 75. Forty-eight percent of the respondents were female and 80 percent were Caucasian. Women scored higher than men on liberal political orientation, environmental values, belief in global warming, and willingness to pay to reduce global warming when their concern with future consequences was high.

But, it was not a simple gender difference. Women scored lower than men on liberal political orientation and willingness to pay when their concern with future consequences was low, researchers found.

“Future-oriented women, for example, might be more willing to pay higher prices for fuel-efficient cars, alternative forms of transportation and energy efficient appliances. They might also eat less meat, all to help lower greenhouse gas emissions,” Joireman said.

The findings were published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.

rines itched for after they switched their attention from Iraq’s Anbar province, which by 2008 had grown so quiet that Marines complained of boredom.

“There aren’t a whole heck of a lot of bad guys there left to fight,” the Marine Corps commandant at the time, Gen. James T. Conway, said in August 2008 with an eye on get-

ting a piece of the Afghan action. Now large parts of Anbar have been seized by Islamic State fighters.

After the Marines had turned the tide in Helmand, the man who succeeded Conway, Gen. James Amos, said in 2011 that it was time to begin handing over control to the Afghans, whose ability to handle the Taliban

and unify their fractured country would ultimately decide the outcome of the U.S. chapter of this war.

“We can’t stay in Afghanistan forever,” Amos said.

While there, the Marines took on the Taliban, mentored Afghan soldiers and executed a protect-thepopulation counterinsurgency strategy. They also

suffered at the hands of Afghan allies who periodically turned their weapons on them in “green-on-blue” killings that peaked in 2012 but have since subsided.

The Marines point with pride to their successes in Helmand, where Afghan security forces now are in charge. But some question whether those gains will be sustained after the Marines are gone and the Taliban seek another comeback.

Just two years ago at the British-run Camp Bastion, adjacent to Leatherneck, the Taliban pulled off arguably their most stunning attack on a NATO base of the entire war: Fifteen insurgents breached the camp’s security perimeter and, using grenades, machine guns and other light weapons, killed two Marines and destroyed or heavily damaged nine aircraft.

In all, about 76,000 Marines served in Afghanistan since 2001, mostly in Helmand, according to Marine Corps records.

The Marines are now departing as the U.S. prepares to complete its combat mission in December and transition to a NATO-organized follow-on mission, called Resolute Support, to train and advise Afghan forces. There are still a little over 21,000 American troops in Afghanistan, down from a 2010-11 peak of 100,000.

Hong Kong protesters suggest talks with Beijing HONG KONG, OcTOber 28 (AP): Student democracy activists who have occupied Hong Kong streets for a month suggested Tuesday that direct negotiations with senior Chinese Communist Party officials could be a way to end their standoff with the local government.

The protest leaders said they want the Hong Kong government to convey their demands for greater democracy to Beijing. They issued an open letter to Hong Kong’s No. 2 official after the students and the government held talks last week that were mostly fruitless.

One of the student protest leaders, Alex Chow, said the Hong Kong government should ask Chinese Premier Li Keqiang “to have dialogue with the students and Hong Kong people directly, so that Hong Kong people and students can express their views.”

It’s unclear how the request would be received, given that Beijing officials have called the street pro-

Pro-democracy protesters spread a yellow banner with the words reading: “I want genuine universal suffrage” at a rally in the occupied areas outside government headquarters in Hong Kong’s Admiralty Tuesday, October 28. Pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong stretched into a fourth week, as student leaders pushing for a greater say in choosing the territory’s chief executive met with government officials but agreed on little. (AP Photo)

tests illegal and repeatedly blamed unspecified foreign forces for instigating them.

The student leaders are struggling to maintain momentum after aborting a weekend street referendum intended to shore up support. Organizers said they scrapped the vote because

they hadn’t adequately consulted with the public.

Protesters have been occupying main streets in three neighborhoods across Hong Kong since Sep. 28, when police unleashed tear gas in a failed attempt to disperse thousands of them trying to rally

outside government headquarters.

Beijing has decreed that a committee will screen candidates for inaugural 2017 direct elections to choose the semiautonomous Chinese city’s leader, angering many who call it fake democracy.

The saga of the Marines in southwestern Afghanistan began with the controversial decision to make Helmand the main focus of Obama’s initial surge of American troops in early 2009. Some believed it should instead be the neighboring province of Kandahar, whose far bigger population seemed to make it of greater strategic importance.

In his book, “Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan,” author Rajiv Chandrasekaran wrote that the consequences were profound.

“By devoting so many troops to Helmand instead of Kandahar, the U.S. military squandered more than a year of the war,” he wrote.

“Had the initial contingent of Marines been sent to Kandahar, it could have obviated the need for a full 30,000-troop surge later that year, or it could have granted commanders the flexibility to combat insurgent havens in eastern Afghanistan much sooner, allowing them to meet Obama’s eventual withdrawal deadlines without objection.”

When the Marines took on Helmand they did so with gusto. The scene of some of the hardest fighting was Sangin, a district along the Helmand River that for years was a Taliban stronghold. Dozens

of Marines were killed in battles in 2010 that eventually turned the tide against an adaptive insurgency. In one four-day stretch in October 2010, nine members of 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, California, were killed.

The toll that autumn became so great that thenDefense Secretary Robert Gates recommended pulling the battalion out of Sangin temporarily, though the Marines declined, saying it could break the spirit of that battalion.

In March 2011, Gates visited the battalion at its base near Sangin and applauded the Marines for their “strategic breakthrough.”

“Before you arrived here, the Taliban were dug in deep, and as the British before you can attest, this district was one of the most dangerous — not just in Afghanistan, but maybe in the whole world.” Gates said.

Helmand was not the Marine Corps’ first plunge into Afghanistan. In November 2001, Marine Brig.

Gen. James Mattis led a contingent of Marines and soldiers, dubbed Task Force 58, into southern Afghanistan in an air assault that established the first conventional U.S. military presence in the country.

Infants know what your eyes tell NeW YOrK, OcTOber 28 (IANS): The ability to respond to eye cues develops during infancy - at seven or so months, finds research.

“Our study provides developmental evidence for the notion that humans possess specific brain processes that allow them to automatically respond to eye cues,” said study coauthor Tobias Grossmann from University of Virginia.

The eye white, or how much of it is shown and at what angle, plays a role in the social and cooperative interactions among humans. For example, while wide-open eyes exposing a lot of white indicate fear or surprise, a thinner slit of exposed eye such as when smiling expresses happiness or joy.

For the study, the researchers used electroencephalography (EEG) to measure the brain activity of seven-month-old infants while showing images of

eyes wide open, narrowly opened, and with direct or averted gazes. They found that the infants’ brains responded differently depending on the expression suggested by the eyes they viewed.

They viewed the eye images for only 50 milliseconds - which is much less time than needed for an infant of this age to consciously perceive this kind of visual information.

“Like adults, infants are sensitive to eye expressions of fear and direction of focus, and that these responses operate without conscious awareness,” Grossmann pointed out. “The existence of such brain mechanisms in infants likely provides a vital foundation for the development of social interactive skills in humans,” Grossmann added. The study appeared online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recession drives 2.6 mn Pope Francis declares evolution and Japan, NKorea hold talks more children into poverty Big Bang theory are right and God for first time in 10 years isn’t ‘a magician with a magic wand’ in affluent nations: UN LONDON, OcTOber 28 (THOmSON reuTerS FOuNDATION): The global economic crisis has plunged 2.6 million children into poverty in the world’s most affluent countries, with children in Ireland, Latvia and Greece among the hardest hit, a new UNICEF report showed.

Increases in child poverty since the crisis hit in 2008 have brought the estimated number of children living in poverty in the developed world to around 76.5 million, the report said.

“Many affluent countries have suffered a ‘great leap backwards’ in terms of household income, and the impact on children will have long-lasting repercussions for them and their communities,” said Jeffrey O’Malley, UNICEF’s head of global policy and strategy.

Child poverty levels have increased in more than half of the 41 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and European Union analysed by UNICEF. In Greece, which imposed harsh austerity measures to meet the terms of an international bailout, more than 40 percent of children were living in poverty by 2012.

Children’s economic wellbeing improved in 18 countries, including Australia and Finland, highlighting the benefits of having a strong social safety net to protect the young and most vulnerable, the “Children of the Recession” report said.

“UNICEF research shows that the strength of social protection policies was a decisive factor in poverty prevention,” O’Malley said in a statement. “All countries need strong social safety nets to protect children in bad times and in good - and wealthy countries should lead by example.” While early stimulus programmes in some countries helped to protect children, by 2010 a majority of countries had adopted budget cuts, with negative impact on children, particularly in Mediterranean countries, such as Italy, Greece and Portugal.

NeW YOrK, OcTOber 28 (THe INDePeNDeNT): The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand,” Pope Francis has declared.

Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theories” of creationism and intelligent design that some argue were encouraged by his predecessor, Benedict XVI. Francis explained that both scientific theories were not incompatible with the existence of a creator — arguing instead that they “require it”.

“When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so,” Francis said.

He added: “He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfilment.

“The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it.

“Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion

of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.”

The Catholic Church has long had a reputation for being antiscience — most famously when Galileo faced the inquisition and was forced to retract his “heretic” theory that Earth revolved around Sun. But Pope Francis’s comments were more in keeping with the progressive work of Pope Pius XII, who opened the door to the idea of evolution and actively welcomed the Big Bang theory. In 1996, John Paul II went further and suggested evolution was “more than a hypothesis” and “effectively proven fact”.

Yet more recently, Benedict XVI and his close advisers have apparently endorsed the idea that intelligent design underpins evolution — the idea that natural selection on its own is insufficient to explain the complexity of the world.

In 2005, his close associate Cardinal Schoenborn wrote an article saying “evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true, but evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense — an unguided, unplanned process — is not”.

Giovanni Bignami, a profes-

sor and president of Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics, told the Italian news agency Adnkronos: “The pope’s statement is significant. We are the direct descendants from the Big Bang that created the universe.

Evolution came from creation.”

Giulio Giorello, professor of the philosophy of science at Milan’s University degli Studi, told reporters that he believed Francis was “trying to reduce the emotion of dispute or presumed disputes” with science.

Despite the huge gulf in theological stance between his tenure and that of his predecessor, Francis praised Benedict XVI as he unveiled a bronze bust of him at the academy’s headquarters in the Vatican Gardens.

“No one could ever say of him that study and science made him and his love for God and his neighbour wither,” Francis said, according to a translation by Catholic News Service.

“On the contrary, knowledge, wisdom and prayer enlarged his heart and his spirit.

Let us thank God for the gift that he gave the church and the world with the existence and the pontificate of Pope Benedict.”

So Tae Ha, center, chairman of North Korea’s Investigation Committee, center, and Junichi Ihara, right, Japan’s director-general of the Asia and Oceania Affairs Bureau enter a meeting room in Pyongyang, North Korea, Tuesday, October 28. (AP Photo)

PYONGYANG, OcTOber 28 (AP): Japanese and North Korean officials held talks in Pyongyang for the first time in 10 years Tuesday, meeting to assess progress into North Korea’s investigation into the fates of Japanese citizens who were abducted in the 1970s and ‘80s.

The abduction issue has long been a major obstacle in the frosty ties between the two nations, which have no formal diplomatic relations. The Japanese delegation is to stay in North Korea for four days.

After years of denial, North Korea acknowledged in an unprecedented 2002 summit between Kim Jong Il and then-Prime Minister Junichiro Koi-

zumi that its agents had kidnapped 13 Japanese, mainly to train spies in Japanese language and culture. It allowed five of them to return to Japan that year, but said the others had died.

Japan believes hundreds more may have been abducted and some may still be alive. In what was seen as a significant breakthrough after years of stalemate, North Korea agreed in May to launch a new probe into the abductions. In exchange, Japan agreed to ease some unilateral sanctions on North Korea, though it continues to enforce sanctions backed by the United Nations over North Korea’s nuclear and longrange missile programs.

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SAfrica mourns slain soccer team captain JOHANNESBURG, OctOBER 28 (AP): The shooting death of the beloved captain of South Africa's national soccer team during an apparent house robbery stunned a country long accustomed to violent crime, and police launched a manhunt Monday for the intruders.

Charismatic goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was known for his athleticism and easy way with fans, teammates and coaches, and his slaying delivered yet another blow to the national sports scene.

The 27-year-old Meyiwa was killed about 8 p.m.

Sunday after two gunmen entered the house of his girlfriend, Kelly Khumalo, a South African singer and celebrity, authorities said.

He was shot in the upper body, and the gunmen, along with an accomplice who had waited outside the home in Vosloorus township near Johannesburg, fled on foot, according to police. "Words cannot express the nation's shock at this loss," President Jacob Zuma said in a statement, leading the national grief for Meyiwa.

Zuma urged law enforcement authorities to "leave no stone unturned" in finding the killers, and police offered a reward of nearly $23,000 for information leading to their arrest and conviction.

South African sports officials had already expressed sadness at the saga of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Olympic runner who fatally shot girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp last year. Following a tumultuous and emotional trial, Pistorius began serving a five-year prison sentence Oct. 21 after being convicted of culpable homicide, or manslaughter; prosecutors who had sought a murder conviction plan to appeal.

On Friday, former 800-meter world champion and Olympic silver medalist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi died in a car crash.

South Africa hosted the World Cup soccer tournament in 2010 with relatively little incident, dispelling visitors' fears amid a decade-long decline in violent crime. However, police said last month that

In this photo taken Saturday, October 25, 2014, Orlando Pirates goalkeeper and captain of the national South African soccer team, Senzo Meyiwa during a match against Ajax in Soweto, Johannesburg. Meyiwa was shot dead Sunday night at about 8pm at his girlfriend's Vosloorus home, east of Johannesburg. (AP Photo)

there were 17,000 killings in the year ending in March, a 5 percent increase over the previous year in a country of 53 million. Crime affects people of all walks of life in South Africa, which suffers deep economic inequality and has struggled to meet expectations of better opportunities after the end of white racist rule in 1994.

On Oct. 19, Jackson Mthembu, a member of parliament and a former spokesman for the African National Congress, was shot during a robbery at an ATM in the country's east, the party said. He drove himself to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Last year, the home of Desmond Tutu, the retired Anglican archbishop and Nobel peace laureate, was burgled while he and his wife slept. They were not harmed. Meyiwa was shot at Khumalo's home while trying to stop armed intruders who demanded cellphones and money, said friend Tumelo Waka Madlala, who was inside.

"As they were running

away, we tried to stop them and that is when they shot him at point blank range," Madlala told The Associated Press.

Meyiwa was shot as another person struggled with one of the assailants, and as the soccer captain moved toward the door, said police Maj. Gen. Norman Taioe, a top detective working on the case. "We don't have anything that would suggest he was the direct target," Taioe said.

"It was during the struggle that a shot went off."

Two more shots were fired outside the house, which has no gate, he said.

There were seven people in the house before the intruders entered, according to police. No one else was hurt. A cellphone was taken. Gen. Riah Phiyega, the national police commissioner, said Meyiwa's killing was a blow to the "brand" and "image" of South Africa, adding it was important to show the world that authorities were moving aggressively to solve the case. "They will

be keen to know what we are doing as police," Phiyega said at a news conference. Meyiwa's father told TV station eNCA that his son was providing financial help to his family, and he wept and had to be comforted by a journalist.

The goalkeeper was recently made captain of the South African national team, known by its nickname of Bafana Bafana, and led it in four African Cup of Nations qualifiers this year. He hadn't surrendered a goal in the four games, keeping the team on top of its group and on course to qualify for next year's continental championship.

He also played for the Soweto-based Orlando Pirates, one of South Africa's biggest clubs. Meyiwa put in a strong performance in his last game, a 4-1 win over Ajax Cape Town on Saturday that sent the Pirates to the semifinals of the Telkom Knockout cup competition.

In torrential rain, Meyiwa made save after save, diving into puddles and sliding through the mud.

His devastated teammates sobbed when they gathered for training on Monday morning, Pirates chairman Irvin Khoza said.

South Africa's Premier Soccer League postponed this weekend's derby game between the Pirates and another big club, Kaizer Chiefs, out of respect for Meyiwa. "Senzo died when he was starting to realize his cherished dream of leading the national team to dizzy heights," said Ephraim Mashaba, coach of South Africa's national team.

Others remembered his pleasant nature.

"He had an infectious smile, made people around him happy, he was very enthusiastic and a very positive individual," said national teammate Dean Furman.

Meyiwa was the subject of gossip about his personal life. Meyiwa had two children — one with Khumalo and another with his wife Mandisa, according to DRUM magazine and other South African media.

Khumalo was arrested last year for allegedly assaulting Meyiwa's wife, but the case was later dropped, according to reports.

ICC forced to clamp down on chucking: Richardson

SyDNEy, OctOBER 28 (IANS): International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Dave Richardson said Tuesday the game had reached the "straw that broke the camel's back" with suspect bowling actions, forcing the governing body to launch its controversial crackdown on chucking.

Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal, Sri Lanka's Sachitra Senanayake and Zimbabwe's Prosper Utseya are among those who have been banned since the ICC's cricket committee in June recommended sterner procedures to identify suspect actions.

While some have welcomed the move, others have questioned the timing so soon before a World Cup, scheduled to be held in Australia and New Zealand Feb 14-March 29.

Richardson, however, said that chucking had not only become an issue at the elite level but also at under-19 category and the ICC could not afford to wait until after their showpiece event.

"It was virtually nine months before the World Cup. If we decide that there's something wrong with the game, why should we wait until after a World Cup?" Richardson was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday.

"I think we'd reached that straw that broke the camel's back. There were just too many bowlers starting to emerge that people were starting to worry about. I think it was simply that we said 'no, this is far enough'. It's arguable that we should have taken this

LONDON, OctOBER 28 (AP): Charlie Austin scored twice to lift Queens Park Rangers off the bottom of the Premier League with a 2-0 victory over Aston Villa on Monday that eased some of the pressure on manager Harry Redknapp.

Austin slotted in the opener from just outside the area in the 17th minute and then met a cross from Eduardo Vargas in the 69th to fire in the second inside the near post.

It was only QPR's second win of the season and lifted it above Burnley into 19th place with seven points from nine rounds. Villa is three points further ahead in 15th place.

QPR was coming off a demoralizing 3-2 loss to Liverpool when Redknapp's team gave away two late goals in an otherwise strong performance, and looked determined to make amends at Loftus Road. "We knew if we put in half of that performance today we'd get something from the game," Austin said, referring to the Liverpool game.

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gest draft blunders in history. Bryant went No. 13 in that class. Here's the six players taken immediately before Bryant: Lorenzen Wright, Kerry Kittles, Samaki Walker, Erick Dampier, Todd Fuller and Vitaly Potapenko. Combined, they scored 27,871 points in their careers, which is 3,829 and counting less than Bryant.

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pening night in the NBA. The San Antonio Spurs get their rings and show off their fifth championship banner.

The first full season under Commissioner Adam Silver gets underway.

That's enough reason for buzz.

Kobe Bryant's return will only add more.

Bryant's 19th season gets started Tuesday night when the Los Angeles Lakers open at home against the Houston Rockets. What he has left in the tank — after two injury-filled years — might be one of the biggest questions heading into the season, with the Lakers already being widely written off in the loaded Western Conference and Bryant hardly expected to regain the elite form that he displayed for so long.

"The official start of the journey," said Bryant, who played in just six games last season.

There's an easy answer to why is he still out there.

Bryant is already wealthy beyond belief, a five-time champion, a lock to be a Hall of Famer, a lock to be in the Top 50 players ever whenever that list gets updated. But he still feels like there's something for him to prove on the floor; hence, he's going to do what he's done for so long:

HE WINS: If Bryant plays in 24 Laker wins this season, he'll go up to fifth on the NBA's all-time victories-appeared-in list. Bryant is currently eighth in that department with 813, with those within realistic reach being Shaquille O'Neal (819), Gary Payton (823) and Clifford Robinson (836). Bryant has appeared in 432 losses; that's not even in the top 100 in NBA history.

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2013, file photo, Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant goes to the basket in front of Memphis Grizzlies' Zach Randolph (50) during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Memphis, Tenn. Bryant’s 19th season gets started Tuesday, October 28, 2014, when the Lakers open at home against the Houston Rockets. What he has left in the tank after two injury-filled years might be one of the biggest questions heading into the season, with the Lakers already being widely written off in the loaded Western Conference and Bryant hardly BIG APPLE STAR: He's expected to regain the elite form that he displayed for so long. (AP Photo)

try and lead the Lakers to the playoffs. ___ Here's a look at some of the things that set Bryant apart, and what milestones he's on the verge of reaching this season.

will pass John Havlicek for the NBA record in that most ignominious department. Factor in playoff games, and Bryant already has missed more attempts from the floor than anyone in league history.

THE BEST AT MISSING: He takes a lot of shots. And therefore, he misses a lot of shots. Bryant's 99th unsuccessful field-goal attempt this season will be the 13,418th of his regularseason career — which

593 FOR 3: Bryant has 31,700 points in his career.

He's 593 points away from passing Michael Jordan for No. 3 on the league's alltime regular-season list.

At his career average, that would take Bryant about

24 games to reach, so barring any absences he could be flirting with that mark as early as mid-December.

THE CLASS OF '96: The 1996 NBA draft class was simply awesome — Bryant, Allen Iverson, Ray Allen, Steve Nash, Stephon Marbury, Antoine Walker, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Derek Fisher, Jermaine O'Neal, Peja Stojakovic, Zydrunas Ilgauskas and more. It also serves as a reminder of some of the big-

kind of action earlier. That we can take on the chin."

As a result of the ICC's harder stance, umpires have become more confident in reporting suspect actions, who previously had fear of the ramifications on their career if a player was subsequently cleared.

"Over the years, sometimes they felt like they were the ones being victimised for identifying bowlers with suspect actions," Geoff Allardice, ICC's general manager of cricket, said.

"The other thing that they want is a testing process or testing results that match up with what their observations were on the field. They're the two things that go together to giving them the confidence to express their views."

The ICC is now looking to reduce the period for tests to be conducted on bowlers with suspect actions with testing now possible at four centres - Brisbane, Chennai, Cardiff or Loughborough. Players are required to be tested after being reported from 21 days to 14 days. At the World Cup and other ICC events the period is seven days.

"If you were reported in a World Cup for instance, you'd be straight off to the nearest testing facility, which we would have ready to go and the results would be fast-tracked. "I think getting tests arranged at shorter notice is a distinct possibility," Allardice said.

Allardice said the ICC's chief executive committee will next month review the rule which allows players reported at domestic level to continue playing at international level and vice-versa.

South Africa: Female boxer dies following bout PREtORIA, OctOBER 28 (AP): A female boxer in South Africa has died after being in a coma for two weeks following a bout, another sports death in a country already mourning the loss of a former worldchampion runner and the captain of the national football team.

The sports ministry's announcement Tuesday that Phindile Mwelase had died Saturday in the hospital means three South African athletes died in three days.

Former 800-meter world champion and Olympic silver medalist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi was killed in a car crash on Friday. Popular national soccer team captain and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was fatally shot in an apparent house robbery on Sunday, unleashing widespread dismay and anger in South Africa, which struggles with high levels of violent crime. Mwelase died at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in the capital, Pretoria, South Africa's sports ministry said, after she was knocked out in a bout on Oct. 10. It didn't give her age but reports said she was 31.

The ministry said it was "a very difficult week" for South African sport. Boxing South Africa, the national federation, announced Mwelase's funeral would be held on Saturday in her home town of Ladysmith, in the eastern Kwazulu-Natal province. Boxing South Africa said it "grieves at the passing of a wonderful and tremendous individual."

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from Philadelphia and spent his whole career in Los Angeles, but Bryant seemed at his best in New York. His career average at Madison Square Garden is 30.7 points, the highest road-site average of his illustrious career. The Lakers are at New York on Feb. 1.

DRIVE FOR 55: Players currently active have combined to post 16 games with 55 or more points. Bryant has half of them. LeBron James has three, for the second spot on that list.

Queens Park Rangers' Karl Henry, right, and Aston Villa's Ashley Westwood battle for the ball during the English Premier League match at Loftus Road, London on October 27. (AP Photo)

opener when he chested down a long ball up toward the Villa area into the path of Austin, who calmly struck a low shot that crept inside the post.

"Great finish," Zamora said. "The goal was exactly what we needed. It gave us something to hang onto."

QPR has the league's

worst defense, but goalkeeper Robert Green made sure to keep just his second clean sheet of the season and Austin put the game away after a mistake by Villa. Carlos Sanchez clumsily gave the ball away in midfield and Vargas raced down the right flank on a counter attack before pick-

ing out Austin in the area.

Austin, a 25-year-old forward who's playing his first season in the Premier League after years toiling in the lower divisions, flicked the ball into the net with a perfect half-volley.

"Today is a good turning point for us, and a great win," Zamora said.

ANPSA Sports Meet DImAPUR, OctOBER 28 (mExN): The XVII Sports Meet 2014 Dimapur Unit with the theme “Learning through Sports” will be held on October 30 and 31 at Greenwood School. Kelei Zeliang, Director, Youth Resources and Sports will grace the occasion as Chief Guest.

25th Phek Town Inter-Colony Tourney DAY 3 Results (October 28) feated Hebron II, 2-1 Men volley: Bible Hill deFootball: Hebron II-0 vs feated Bethany I Jerico I-0 (Goalless draw) Women volley: Jerico I deMen Volley: Bethel defeat- feated Bethel ed Jerico II Women volley: Zion de- OCTOBER 29 FIXTURE feated Bethany I Football: Bethany II de- 11th match-1st quarter feated Mission Com- (Football): Bethany II vs pound 1-0 Hebron II Football: Bethel-1 vs Jeri- 7th match-3rd quarter co II-1 (Men volley): New Colony Women volley: Hebron II vs Bethel defeated Hebron I 13th match-3rd quarter Men volley: Hebron I de- (Women Volley): Mission feated Hebron II Compound vs Bethany II Football: New Colony de- 12th match-2nd quarter

(Football): Jerico I vs Hebron I 14th match-4th quarter (Women Volley): Jerico II Vs Zion 13th match-3rd quarter (Football): New Colony vs Bible Hill 15th match-1st semi final (Women volley): 11th Match winner vs 12th Match winner 14th match-4th quarter (Football): Zion vs Bethany I 16th match-2nd semi final (Women Volley): 13th match winner vs 14th match winner

ANKA conducts belt grading exam DImAPUR, OctOBER 28 (mExN): The All Nagaland Karate-Do Association (ANKA) conducted the main branch Dojo of All India Karate-Do Federation (ISKF) belt grading exam on October 25 in Longdrum School, Sangtamtilla, Dimapur. The exam was conducted by Sensei T. Sangtam, President of ISKF India (Black Belt 5th DAN), Sensei Thsatriba Sangtam (4th DAN) and Sensei L. Temsu Sangtam (2nd DAN).

The following are the names of those promoted: Md. Muxidil Ali Md. Samsul Ali Meraj Ali Promoted to Yellow Belt (7th KYU) Akivi Sumi Inovi Yeptho Hollocali Yeptho Pukhuto Chiliba Sangtam Atito Huto Yeptho Carmel Bhola Yangtsali Sanju

Promoted to Orange Belt (6th KYU)

Promoted to Green – I (5th KYU) Promoted to Green – II (4th KYU) Promoted to Purple (3rd KYU)

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he winner of the Funniest Person in the World competition is a brown-haired, slightly rotund stand-up comic from Finland who boasts he has hit on the perfect solution to the planet's international monetary woes.

"Countries don't owe money to each other, countries owe money to banks," says Ismo Leikola. "If the

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hristian Bale, who plays Moses in Exodus: Of Gods and Kings, the forthcoming biblical epic directed by Ridley Scott has upset several Christian writers after he described his character as 'barbaric' and 'schizophrenic'. Speaking at a press conference in Los Angeles last month, Bale said he had undertaken significant research for the role, including also reading the Torah, the Koran and Jonathan Kirsch’s life of Moses.

‘I think the man was likely schizophrenic and was one of the most barbaric individuals that I ever read about in my life,’ he said.

Bale also said he was surprised by the complexity of the Old Testament figure – and his creator. ‘He was a very troubled, tumultuous man and mercurial.

But the biggest surprise was the nature of God. He was equally very mercurial.’ Bale’s controversial comments haven't been well received by Christian writers and bloggers who fear the film is tampering too much with the original Biblical text.

Influential Christian writer, Brian Godawa, who leaked elements of the Noah script online before the movie was finished, weigh in on Bale’s comments at his blog. 'Yes, Moses murdered a man, and he had a character arc that went from being adopted and raised as a pagan Egyptian to a conversion to his troubled and tumultuous faith.

'He had difficulty trusting Yahweh. He didn’t want to be God’s spokesman because he stuttered. And he even had arguments with

'But Schizophrenic? Barbaric? Really?' Godawa said that he hoped Bale's comment was ‘a reflection of the actor’s own ignorant bigotry than of the actual movie.’

Chris Stone, the founder of Faith Driven Consumer, said he was surprised by Bale’s description of Moses, reports The Hollywood Reporter. 'There’s nothing in the biblical history that supports that,' he said. 'It’s an indication that there will be a tremendous disconnect between Bale’s interpretation and the expectations of the market.'

His organization, which previously campaigned for Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson following the show's suspension, conducted a poll about Exodus. The poll found that 74 percent of Americans were likely to see the film if it was biblically accurate but that 68 percent were unlikely to see it if it was inaccurate.

'It’s our sincerest hope that this movie resonates with our community, so we sent them the results of our poll,' said Stone. 'Their response was, "we don’t need to have any further conversation."'

Writing for multi-faith website Patheos.com, film critic Peter Chattaway said Bale's remarks went further than simply commenting on the Bible but rather he 'speculates about what was going on inside Moses’ head at the time.' Many of the same commentators drew similar criticism at Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, which starred Russell Crowe and was released earlier this year. Exodus: Of Gods and Kings, which is due out on December 12.

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Alo Wanth's new music video 'Beautiful You' will be aired in Pepsi MTV Indies on October 29 at 12:00 noon. With Alem Jamir on Electric guitar, Noksang Jamir on Bass and Tulo Longkumer on drum, AW and Trio have worked together in two songs this year. “BEAUTIFUL YOU ” and “WITHOUT WINGS ” which was released on youtube, soundcloud and www.indihut.com.

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of the competition last week at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood it got the biggest laugh of the night.

From there the Finnish comedian bankrolled himself to victory at Friday night's final round, a fivecomic showdown at the Laugh Factory in Las Vegas. The competition was streamed over the Internet.

When the votes were counted Monday, Leikola had 158,945. In second place was Saad Haroon of Pakistan with 59,213.

Mustapha El Atrassi of France was third, Nitin Mirani of United Arab Emirates was fourth and Archie

Bezos of Spain was fifth.

Leikola wins $10,000 and a national comedy tour.

The competition was the brainchild of Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who plans to make it an annual event. He said he hopes it can show the world that if people from different countries laugh together they can set aside other differences.

Dozens of comics from around the world entered.

Online voters narrowed the competition to 10 semifinalists, then five finalists before the final showdown in Las Vegas.

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obbie Williams recently welcomed a baby boy with his wife Ayda and tweeted the entire process along with video messages. The Brit singer asserted that he was never been more in love and announced the happy news in one final video message, the Mirror reported. The 40-year-old singer said in a short video clip that the couple had not slept for 24hours and he had never been more proud of his wife and she was being absolutely astonishing.

Patkai Christian College (Autonomous) celebrated its college literary week on October 27. Seen in picture are the ever first Mr. and Miss. Patkai (Sangthing Khiam and Jenny Kent) accordingly organised by the Students' Union Patkai Christian College (SUPCC). (Photo courtesy: Heutinggumbe)

T h e 'Feel' hitmaker added that the universe just presented itself to the couple again and it was been a very emotional, amazing few hours, and they were really happy and honored that his fans experienced the journey with them. Williams, who married Ayda in 2010, already has two-year-old Theodora 'Teddy' Rose Williams with the actress.

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ctress Mila Kunis has celebrated her new role as a mother by designing a special ring to raise money for good causes. Kunis marked the arrival of her daughter Wyatt by creating the 18-carat yellow gold and emerald band to bring in funds for a maternity centre in Zambia. The Black Swan star is a global ambassador for jewellery company Gemfields and she has been working with the firm and the Marina B brand on her new project.

She tells Vogue.com, "Carrying a child and bringing new life into the world marks the start of

an incredible journey.

Throughout history, every culture has its own way of recognising this extraordinary event, often with a gift for mother or child. Precious green emeralds are traditionally symbols of motherhood, wisdom, and long-lasting love. But they are also a symbol for hope in many cultures, and so the proceeds from this collection of Motherhood Rings will benefit the opening of Gemfields Nkana Health Centre, where four new wards have been built - a major undertaking that will

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Foresthia Band wins Gospel Beat Contest in Tuensang have long-lasting benefits to the local community."

All profits from the ring, which costs $4,800 (£3,000), will go towards upgrading the centre. Kunis welcomed her daughter, her first child with fiance Ashton Kutcher, last month (Sep14).

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eality TV star Sanam Johar has won the first season of talent hunt show 'Dare 2 Dance' by defeating co-contestants Emilie Caillon and Kunwar Amar. The 23-yearold Delhi boy, who is known for his stint in 'Dance India Dance 3', said he is happy to win the reality show.

After impressing the audience and show's host Akshay Kumar with his hard work and dedication, Sanam walked away with prize money of Rs 25 Lakh, a high-end car, bike and one

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year contract with the channel. I am very happy. I have participated in many reality shows in the past but this is the first time I have won any show. I entered the show with a strong feeling of winning it, Sanam told PTI after winning the show.

'Dare 2 Dance' was shot entirely in Cape Town, South Africa and the participating 10 dancers had to prove their mettle in extreme conditions. It was very difficult to perform in extreme conditions of cold, underwater and on the

rooftop. I got bruises while performing many acts. It needed a dare to do that, he said.

Sanam credited show's host Akshay for winning the challenge. Akshay sir is behind my win. Unlike other hosts, he used to perform in such conditions first and then he used to give that dare to us. He helped me in many ways. He was like a father figure to us. He scolded and praised us like our parents, he said. Sanam is now planning to take up acting next.

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ent making ministry of Tuensang organized a gospel beat contest in aid of helping poor families. The president of the ministry E. Yanghori in his speech said that the ministry was formed in 2011 with its main aim to work and help for the welfare of needy people.

The ministry help the needy people like patients in the hospital and their families who are unable to afford themselves in buying medicines and their treatment cost by giving cash and kinds, by helping orphanage home etc.

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beat contest was organized in aid of BPL families, which the ministry is planning to help the poor in the month of Christmas.

In need of finance, the ministry manage through the profit they earn from coffee house and driving school they run. The ministry train the educated unemployed youth in driving skills to be self dependent n self reliant by making driving as their profession for living instead of taking wrong steps by training them.

Altogether, nine bands participated in the contest.

The winner of the Gospel beat contest was won by

Foresthia Band who walk away with certificate n cash prize of Rs.15000, first runners up Divert Reflection and second runners up police church DEF tsg walk away with certificate and Rs10000 and 7000 respectively. There was also an individual award for Best vocal, Bassist, Keyboard, Guitarist n drummer. The judges of for the contest were Toka JEO Shamator, Adekhing (youth director SBCTT) and Throngji (Associate Pastor YBCTT).

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ISL: John Mendoza sizzles as Chennaiyin thrash Mumbai

cHeNNaI, OctOber 28 (ageNcIeS): John Mendoza and Elano were in the mood as they starred for Chennaiyin FC in their 5-1 victory over Mumbai City FC at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai on Tuesday evening. Mendoza and Elano scored a brace each with Jeje Lalpekhlua also adding his name on the score sheet.

Syed Rahim Nabi pulled a consolatory goal at the death for the visitors.

Chennaiyin FC manager Marco Materazzi introduced himself after the 4-1 Delhi drubbing as he made five changes all over the park. Materazzi surprisingly played in a holding midfield in front of Mendy and Silvestre with Gouramangi.

For Mumbai City, the big news was Nicolas Anelka being eligible to play after serving a 5 match ban.

The game’s first real chance fell to Chennaiyin in the seventh minute with Suarez clipping the ball over Mendoza, whose silky first touch took him past Nabi on the left. The Colombian dribbled into the penalty box and laid it up for Elano who fired over.

But the referee pulled play back for Friedrich’s kick on Mendoza, with the resulting penalty culminating in Elano’s fourth goal in as many games.

Mendoza should have

2nd Kohima dist volleyball tourney from today KOHIMa, OctOber 28 (MexN): The 2nd Kohima district volleyball tournament for men and women under the aegis of Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA) with the theme “Transcending through games” will take from October 29 to 31 at Kohima Local Ground.

The inaugural function will take place at 10:00 AM. Nizheto Awomi, assistant director, youth resources & sports will grace the inaugural ceremony as the chief guest. The tournament will witness 17 men teams and 9 women teams. All the teams have been requested to attend the inaugural function. The inaugural match will witness Soyim Club vs Nagabazar YO (Men) and Sendenyu YO vs Elizer Club Kezoma (Women).

John Stiven Mendoza Valencia of Chennaiyin FC celebrates a goal with Elano Blumer of Chennaiyin FC during match 15 of the Hero Indian Super League between Chennaiyin FC and Mumbai City FC held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai on October 28.

added to his assist with a goal on 22 minutes as Shilton Paul’s long punt forward put him through one-onone with Mumbai’s Subrata Paul. The Indian stopper made himself big blocked the attempt on goal. But

the second goal did come on four minutes later, with Elano the creator this time.

The Brazilian’s delightful lob found Jeje clear on the left, with the Mohun Bagan striker lashing the ball home with his left foot, past

the sprawling Paul. Mumbai were in complete shambles at the back as Raju Gaikwad gave away the ball to Jeje who sped forward and drew a terrific save from Paul on 33 minutes. Almost instantly, Mumbai’s Subhash

Singh drew an equally good save out of Chennaiyin’s Paul, latching onto Anelka’s delightful through ball.

Then with five minutes to go to half-time, Chennaiyin FC made it 3-0 with the softest of goals. Elano’s free-kick was made a meal of by Paul as Mendoza pounced from a yard out.

The fourth goal came in no time as Mendoza notched up his brace with a minute of first half play to go. The striker beat the offside trap with consummate easy as he got onto Khabra’s chip, lobbed Paul and finished with aplomb.

Mumbai kicked off the second half with the Portuguese Tiago Ribeiro replacing Ralte. Just five minutes after the restart, Shilton Paul’s long ball again caught the Mumbai back-line out with Letzelter tugging Mendoza back and getting booked. Elano’s resulting free-kick was painstakingly close to the left-upright and a 5-0 scoreline.

Chennaiyin then had a penalty appeal waved away with Mendoza latching onto Djordjic’s cross-field pass. Costa looked to have brought the diminutive forward down in the box, but the referee would have none of it. Mumbai pulled a consolatory goal through Nabi’s near post header from a corner in the 88th minute.

NBA legend Bowen to promote basketball in India

MuMbaI, OctOber 28 (IaNS): National Basketball Association legend Bruce Bowen will be coming to India for a week-long promotional tour starting Oct 31 to support the continued growth of basketball and to connect with fans in the country.

Bowen will travel to Kolkata, Gurgaon, Chandigarh and Ludhiana to conduct basketball clinics for players and coaches and interact and engage with fans at two of the NBA’s premier events in India, NBA Jam and the Reliance Foundation Junior NBA programme. Bowen is a three-time NBA Champion

with the San Antonio Spurs and was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team on five occasions.

Bowen said the popularity of basketball is growing rapidly in India and more and more children are picking up the game.

“I can’t wait to experience this for myself and to help train and interact with the promising young talent the country has to offer,” he said. Bowen's first stop would be Kolkata, Oct 31-Nov 1, where he will engage with students at St. Xavier’s College as part of NBA Jam. From Kolkata, Bowen will travel to Gurgaon Nov

2, where he will participate in a special fan engagement event at Cyber Hub, where fans across the NCR region will have the chance to meet Bowen, win exclusive NBA merchandise and witness NBA-style entertainment. From there, Bowen will visit Chandigarh Nov 4 to participate in the next leg of the NBA Jam at Punjab University. Bowen will make the last and final stop of his tour in Ludhiana, Nov 5-6 at the Guru Nanak Stadium during the Reliance Foundation Jr. NBA City Finals, where he will work with standout young players and coaches from across Punjab.

ODI rankings: SAfrica become No 1 after five years

MuMbaI, OctOber 28 (ageNcIeS): South Africa have moved to the top of the International Cricket Council one-day international rankings for the first time in five years. The Proteas climbed above Australia following their 2-0 series win in New Zealand. The last time South Africa headed the ODI rankings was in September 2009 but they slipped down the ratings after their first round exit from the ICC Champions Trophy at home later that month.

South Africa trailed Australia by one point before the three-match ODI series against New Zealand and though the third and final match in Hamilton was washed out on Monday, the 2-0 result was enough to take them up to the top of the table. The number-one ranking comes as a welcome boost for the side ahead of the 50-over World Cup being held in Australia and New Zealand early next year.

Reigning world champions India are in third spot while 2011 runnerup Sri Lanka are next with

four points separating the top four nations. South Africa captain AB de Villiers also retained top spot in the batting rankings with team mate Hashim Amla overtaking India's Virat Kohli to claim second spot.

But Kohli has a chance to improve on the rankings as India faces Sri Lanka in

a five-match ODI series starting Sunday, November 2. Also, opener Shikhar Dhawan dropped a rung to 9th position.

New Zealand's highest-ranked batsman, Ross Taylor, remains 10th in the current rankings. Skipper Brendon McCullum (26th) dropped one place,

but the biggest mover is 33-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman, Luke Ronchi, who has climbed 52 places to 62nd in the batting rankings after scores of 99 and 79, respectively.

In ODI bowlers rankings, South African paceman Dale Steyn has retained his third place after figures of one wicket for 28 runs and two for 35 runs, respectively. Ryan McLaren has dropped three places to 12th position, though Morne Morkel has moved up two places to 15th after a series which saw him claim three wickets. Leg-spinner Imran Tahir's consistent performances have seen him climb four places to a career-high 22nd place.

Another significant riser is Vernon Philander who rises 15 places to 78th position. New Zealand's top ranked bowler, Kyle Mills, drops four places to 17th in the latest rankings.

Ravindra Jadeja is India's highest-ranked bowler at number six, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar is seventh in the list.

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Hyderabad, OctOber 28 (IaNS): Elated over ending the season with WTA year-end championship after a series of incredible victories, Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has now set the goal to become world number one doubles player next season. Sania, who returned home Tuesday to a warm welcome, believes she is getting closer to becoming number one in the world.

"At the beginning of the year I set the goals of winning a Grand Slam, a gold medal and WTA year-end championship. Now that I have achieved these goals, I will try and be number one.

Hopefully, that will happen next year," she said.

Sania, who bagged Grand Slam and Asian Games gold besides three WTA titles this season, said it has been one of her best years. "Ending the season Sania Mirza celebrate after defeating Taiwain's Hsieh Su-Wei with year-end championand China's Peng Shuai in the doubles final at the WTA tennis ship is like a dream." Playing her last match with finals in Singapore on October 26. (AP Photo)

Zimbabwe's Cara Black, the 27-year-old won the WTA finals in Singapore Sunday. They crushed Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei and China's Peng Shuai 6-1, 6-0 in less than an hour.

On Black, Sania said she respected her decision to end the partnership.

"Maybe she is thinking of another baby. I wish her well. Of course, it is really hard, to win the biggest championship in the year and say that this is going to be our last tournament," Sania added. Hsieh Su-wei will be Sania's new partner, and the Indian is looking forward to this partnership.

"I know her for a long time. She is almost of the same age. She is a great tennis player. She was number one a couple of months ago.

She is ranked just above me now. I am looking forward to that partnership."

The Hyderabadi believes hard work is the secret of her success. "As long as you

keep working, it will come.

It does not happen overnight as people think and hope that it happens."

On how she felt when Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated her on her victory, Sania said it was great. She praised Modi. "He is an extremely dynamic personality. He is a great leader. I met him twice now. He tweeted to me a few times which is very exciting. "Whenever I win, he is extremely encouraging. I think that is amazing for a prime minister to take notice of an athlete and encourage them," she added.

"I don't live in the past.

I am happy with my present," Sania said when asked whether she still feels hurt over a BJP leader questioning her national identity.

"There are few silly people. You got to ignore them," said Sania, who dedicated her victory to India after bagging WTA finals title.

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