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nagaland HiV status: Prevalence Give us quality roads, CM tells contractors highest among 25-34 year olds Age wise sero positive of general clients. >=50 Yrs (5%)

Morung Express News Kohima | October 28

You keep demanding for roads, school, transformers. Aree, in this day and age of technology, don’t you ever want to progress?

Look I’m giving you all ‘Jio 4G’ sim cards. That’s it!

CM removes Mmhonlumo from post of Parly Secy DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Nagaland State Chief Minister, TR Zeliang today ordered the removal of Mmhonlumo Kikon from the post of Parliamentary Secretary with immediate effect.

This was informed in a notification issued by the Cabinet Secretary, RB Thong. Kikon is an MLA from Bhandari under Wokha District and was Parliamentary Secretary for Labour, Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Border Affairs.

Crackers banned in Mokokchung M O KO KC H U N g, OCTOBER 28 (DIPR): In accordance with the standing order on the ban on sale and using fire crackers in the vicinity of Mokokchung Municipality, the District Administration Mokokchung has issued an order banning the sale and use of fire crackers with immediate effect till further order. It mentioned that certain sections of the public are not adhering to the total ban order which not only pollutes the environment but also creates public nuisance and unwanted situation. It cautioned that defaulters would be punished in accordance with the law.

<14 Yrs (5%)

Age wise sero positive of general clients.

HSS ANC Prevellance rate in Nagaland (1.29%)

Age wise sero of general clients >=50 Yrs (5%)positivity <14 Yrs (5%) 15-24 Yrs (16%)

<14 Yrs 15-24 Yrs 25-34 Yrs 35-49 Yrs >=50 Yrs

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1.04 A one day sensitization & 35-49 Yrs (31%) TUENSANG 1.27 training for DPROs and PHEK media officials was held 2.27 on October 28 at the DIPR PEREN 1.54 15-24 Yrs (16%) <14 Yrs 25-34 Yrs (43%) conference hall. The proMON 0.56 15-24 Yrs gram was organised by Na35-49 Yrs (31%) MOKOKCHUNG 0.77 galand State AIDS Control 25-34 Yrs LONGLENG 0.00 Society (NSACS).

35-49 KOHIMA Yrs According to data col1.63 lected (April-Sept 2016) 25-34 Yrs (43%) KIPHIRE 2.56 >=50 Yrs

by NSACS, the age group DIMAPUR 1.72 25-34 years stands highest in terms of testing positive, 0.00 0.50 1.00 1.50 2.00 2.50 3.00 with 43% testing “sero posiHSS-ANC (HIV Sentinel Surveillance Data from Antenatal Clinics) tive of general clients.”

It was informed that the sitive and accurate reports workers, etc.”

(BTS) Care Support & Treatcumulative record since need for ART. Regarding district wise through scientific and staAlipoker, Assistant Di- ment and other facilities.

1999 to September 2016 Deputy Director (IEC), shows that 899158 persons prevalence rate, Kiphire re- tistical information. The- rector (VBD) who shared corded the highest at 2.56% jangunuo also appealed on the basics of HIV & NSACS, Thejangunuo said undertook the testing for HIV, out of which 20601 per- while Longleng recorded the media officials to be AIDS; stigma and discrim- that the media plays a very 0%. (See Table) sensitive, balanced and re- ination affirmed on the important role in the sosons were tested positive.

Meanwhile, the data sponsible while reporting need to spread awareness. ciety and needs to be in91% of transmission “HIV is very much among formed when it comes to of HIV was through the also revealed that the esti- on HIV & AIDS mated annual new infecShe made reference us. And we must join hands reporting on HIV and AIDS. sexual route while 6% She said HIV& AIDS is a was from parent to child. tions and the estimated an- to guidelines of the Press to fight it,” Alipoker said.

Addressing the pro- story of critical importance, The percentage of infec- nual AIDS related deaths Council of India under the mandate of section 13(2) b gramme, Director IPR, Li- and all readers/audiences/ tions caused through have also decreased.

“HIV & AIDS is a story of the Press Council Act of mawati Ao said that media viewers deserve full, clear blood transfusion was at zero, and 2% was caused of critical importance, and 1978, to facilitate the func- personnel should play a and intelligent coverage through “specified/un- all readers, audiences and tioning of the media. She key role in creating aware- and advised that media to viewers deserve full, clear informed that some of the ness and educating the equip themselves with the known causes.” right kind of knowledge Nagaland stands first in and intelligent coverage,” incorrect usages of terms people of the state.

Speaking on the topic about HIV&AIDS. the country when it comes said Thejagunuo, Deputy were: “HIV/AIDS, AIDS She further advised the to the general prevalence Director (IEC), NSACS, Victims, HIV Virus, dead- of ‘HIV Scenario and Serrate and third in the adult who spoke on media eth- ly disease, AIDS patients, vices available in Nagaland’, media to make photographs, prevalence rate at 0.78%. ics and role of media in HIV prostitute or commercial Deputy Director (M&E), illustrations & cartoons posNSACS, Dr. Vezokholu itively and to debunk myths Since 2004, the total number response. The first step is to sex workers.“ Instead the correct terms Theyo informed that vari- related to prevention of HIV of people registered for An- equip oneself with the right tiretroviral Treatment (ART) kind of knowledge about to be used are, she stated are ous facilities are available and miracle cures.

She also informed that is 14553 and the number of HIV&AIDS because the “HIV and AIDS (Since HIV under NSACS including media has the special role is not synonymous with 54 Integrated Counseling the national AIDS toll free patients who started on ART is 8909. It was also seen that of being the watchdog, of- AIDS, ‘HIV/AIDS’ as a term & Testing Center (ICTC), helpline number: 1097 can while the estimated number fering public service and is no longer considered ac- 4 Prevention of Parent be reached at from any land curate), People Living with to Child Transmission line number or any mobile of HIV positive persons has educating them.

She urged the media to HIV & AIDS (PLHA), man- (PPTCT), 10 Mobile ICTC, 8 number for information redeclined, there has been an increase in the estimated give objective, factual, sen- ageable chronic illness, sex Blood Transfusion Services lated to HIV and AIDS. WOKHA

Minor found dead, rape & murder suspected Morung Express News Dimapur | October 28

Protestors gathered in Zunheboto to condemn the alleged rape and murder of an 11 year old girl on October 28.

Zunheboto was shaken on Friday after a minor was found dead in a suspected case of rape and murder. As per the police, the victim, an eleven year-old girl, went missing on October 26 and her dead body was found two days later on October 28.

Subsequently, police detained one youth on suspicion on October 27, who according to the police confessed to have committed the crime. The suspect identified by the police as one Hoshepu, in his early 20s, was reported to have been last seen with the girl. The police said that he disclosed the loca-

tionwherethevictim’sbodywas foundontheoutskirtsofZunheboto around noon today.

With the news of the discovery, security was beefed up in Zunheboto as a shocked civil society assembled at the town centre in the afternoon. The public assembly was organised by the Sumi Women Hoho, Zunheboto (STH-Z) with leaders of the STH and the Sumi Hoho, including gaonbura addressing the gathering. The gatheringreportedtobearound 5000 in number demanded the sternest of punishment to the accused, whom the police said wasplacedinremand.TheSTHZ further submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner, Zunheboto.

October 23 incident elicits more protests

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KOHIMA, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today asked the contractors and departmental officials to provide good quality roads to the people.

Holding a review meeting on the progress of the 4-laning of Dimapur-Kohima National Highway with the contractors, NHIDCL, Border Roads Organisation and officials of the departments of National Highways and Roads & Bridges this afternoon, he said the people not only want the project to be completed on time but also that the work should be of high quality.

“This is the first 4-lane project in the State and all eyes are on you,” he told the representatives of the contractors, the ECI and the Gayatri-Maytas firms, according to a press note from the CMO. The firms meanwhile said their priority is to complete the works before the stipulated time and at the same time, not to adversely affect the smooth flow of the traffic while the works are in progress. However, they expressed apprehension that in the process of executing the works there may come a time when only one-lane road can be made available for traffic and sought cooperation from the government in regulating the flow of traffic.

Also in rocky portions where blasting has to be carried out with dynamite, the firms said traffic might have to be stopped completely for more than thirty minutes or more at a time for safety reasons. The CM

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): More organizations have come forward condemning the October 23 firing incident in Wokha where one GPRN/NSCN cadre was killed and the alleged occupation of the Mekokla Baptist Church by the 28 Assam Rifles.

The Nagaland State Unit of the BJP condemned the alleged occupation and asked the higher authority to look into this matter with seriousness “as the sanctity of a worship place of any religion, be it a Temple, a Mosque or a Church needs to be respected by all.”

“Moreover, the action of the 28 Assam Rifles under whose command it strayed cannot afford to tarnish the good image of armed forces in general,” it added.

The party in a press note appealed to the armed forces to maintain utmost restraint while performing their duties and also appealed to all Naga political groups to adhere to the cease fire ground rules in the interest of the public.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) member, KV Pusa meanwhile said that such acts would create communal tension and create more fear among the public. He said India being a secular state, all religions should be treated equally. The congress leader also asked security forces and the Naga political groups to show restraint so as not to derail the ongoing peace process.

He reminded that people want peace and early solution, adding that when efforts are being made to take the peace process forward, all should maintain maximum restrain from action which would create abnormal situation. He asked all parties to work towards confidence building measures so as to give tempo to the peace process.

The AICC Member also asked the centre to be sincere to the ongoing peace process rather than delivering only a lip service. The former PCC President also asked the centre to revoke the Disturb Areas Act (DAA) from the state as

there is a peace process.

The Central Nagaland Students’ Association (CNSA) termed the October 23 firing as “violation of Ceasefire Agreement.” It further urged the Government of India to revoke the Armed Forces Special Power Acts (AFSPA).

In a press note, the CNSA viewed that “if the Indian Army time and again plays their hypocritical attitude to maintain their military muscle in the name of AFSPA and Ceasefire Agreement as tools for maintaining security in the region, then it is high time for the NPGs to retrospect and introspect ...”

It also stated that the alleged occupation of the Mekokla Baptist Church has “deeply hurt the religious sentiment of the Naga people.” The CNSA asked the state government to take the matter seriously with the Indian Army and the Ceasefire Monitoring Board to ensure that such actions do not occur in the future.

The Eastern Nagaland Peoples’

Organisation (ENPO) meanwhile termed the incident as “extremely unfortunate and regrettable.” It asked both the security forces and cadres of the Naga political groups to maintain peace. “Such needless assault by the security forces must be avoided at all cost and adhere to the norms of ground rules and realities in future,” it added.

A press note from the ENPO said it was appalled by the alleged occupation of the church and termed this action as “unconstitutional.” “It is an assault on the democratic and secular fabric of the country, and those responsible must be made answerable before the law,” it added.

It further condemned the assassination attempt on the life of a senior FGN functionary and stated that intolerance and violence will only lead the Naga family in the further chaos, misunderstanding and crises. All forms of violence and especially political violence must be honestly and prayerfully uprooted, it urged.

The Sumi Totimi Hoho, in a statement, termed the crime as “uncivilized and barbaric which has no place in our society.” It appealed the law enforcing agencies to penalize the culprit with the stringent of punishment as per the law and stated that the culprit should not be bailed under any circumstances.

The Sumi Hoho, in a separate statement, while condemning the act as inhuman and heinous urged upon the law enforcing agencies to book the offender under “non bailable offence and bring justice at the earliest and reward him with the highest possible punishment as per the provision of the law.”

assured full cooperation so that the works are not hindered or delayed.

The CM also enquired from the NHIDCL about the condition of the National Highway 129 between Maram (Manipur) and Peren and suggested that if Manipur-bound vehicles can take the diversion from Jharnapani to Peren and then on to Maram, the number of vehicles between Dimapur and Kohima would be reduced. He also directed officials of the R&B and National Highways to check the condition of the Dimapur-Niuland- Zhadima Highway and carry out necessary improvements so that an alternative route can be provided to vehicles.

The CM further asked the BRO to expedite completion of the Botsa- Bokajan Highway.

He meanwhile lamented the poor condition of roads in Kohima and Dimapur and directed the departments of R&B and National Highways, as well as the BRO to immediately repair and improve the stretches falling in their jurisdictions.

“I want that repairs, filling up of potholes and blacktopping wherever necessary should be carried out without any delay,” the CM directed.

The firms undertaking the 4-laning works informed that jungle clearing along the route has already started and that by the second week of November the required machineries would reach the work sites and work would start and continue almost 24/7.

Pay electricity bills online DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Executive Engineer of the Dimapur Electrical Division today informed that the online Electricity bill payment system can be availed through the website www. dopn.gov.in. The system was inaugurated by Minister for Power Kipili Sangtam on October 21. A press note from the EE informed all consumers under SDO I and SDO III of Dimapur Electrical Division to make use of the online payment facility to pay their electricity bill. Through this website, a consumer can access/enquire other features about the departmental functioning system. In case of any clarification about the online facility, the consumers are to enquire from their respective Sub-Division Office.

JNV Mon students protest lack of teacher

Protesting students of the JNV Mon agitating against the lack of PGT Chemistry teacher in the institute.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Students of the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) Mon are on strike, protesting the non-availability of PGT-Chemistry teacher whose post is lying vacant since August 4, 2016.

The JNV Mon students launched an agitation today whereby the whole school was locked down and classes did not take place.

“Teachers and students were not allowed to enter inside the academic block and we will continue this strike until the problem is solved,” informed a press statement on behalf of the JNV students, Mon.

They lamented that the authorities are “not paying attention to our demand…At this tip point we are forced to launch agitation which has led to strike.”

“The students here have been told to expect the teacher to be arriving every now and then but, at the end of the day everything remains the same and still no teacher was posted. All the higher authorities are silent on this matter. But their silence is not going to cover the wound, instead we are requesting them to take all the necessary steps and action to avail us our teacher,” the statement demanded.

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Tening upgraded ‘Nagas are uniquely blessed’ The only woman Reverend of NCRC, Beilieü Shüya felicitated to Town Council

Parliamentary Secretary R. Tohanba, Naiba Konyak, EE Pangteang, Namri Nchang, DC, SP Peren and HoD of Municipal Affairs during the inaugural of Tening Town Council on October 28. (DIPR Photo)

Tening, OcTOber 28 (DiPr): Parliamentary Secretary for Municipal Affairs, Economics & Statistics, R. Tohanba formally inaugurated the Tening Town Council from Ad Hoc Town Committee under Peren district on October 28.

Addressing the gathering Tohanba highlighted the various central schemes for Town Council like affordable housing, beneficiaries and loans system etc. He called upon the people to live smartly and be civilised while maintaining hygienic living. He also hoped that a lot of developments would come in the years ahead.

MLA Namri Nchang thanked the government for upgrading Tening to Town Council. He said that we should know the responsibilities instead of depending on the government for everything and

suggested the Town Council elections to elect right leader through peaceful means. He informed that Tening Town was established during the time of British administration in the 19th century.

Advisor of Bamboo Development Agency, Naiba Konyak said that the Chief Minister being from their area was a great blessing for the people and urged the people to be broad minded and do proper planning for Tening Town development.

Parliamentary Secretary for Home Guards & Civil Defence and Sericulture, EE Pangteang gave a briefing on the meaning for Town Council and called upon the people to work hard with proper planning.

Deputy Commissioner, Peren Zarenthung Ezung in his address said that the launching of the Town Council was for progress

and modernity with modern governance system with linkages to grassroots levels. DC said that the vibrancy of Town Council would give self- sufficiency and would generate its own resources to uplift the standard of living. He appealed for full cooperation to the government for fair and justice during the conduct of elections.

Reverend Kitanwi Chewang, Executive Secretary of LBA blessed the foundation stone. Welcome address was delivered by Kerang Domtta.

Special song was presented by BYE Tening village.

Cultural dance was performed by Tening Town Women Welfare Organisation. Vote of thanks was proposed by Lungchui. The programme was chaired by Thsuvisie Phoji, NCS, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Tening.

DimaPur, OcTOber 28 (mexn): The Nagaland Christian Revival Church (NCRC) Women Elders Group initiated a programme to felicitate the only woman Reverend of the NCRC, Beilieü Shüya, on October 26 at Angami Christian Revival Church, Dimapur.

Rev. Beilieü Shüya shared about her experiences in religion as well as politics. She said that Nagas are uniquely blessed by God and though we are a small nation we are standing up to the mighty nation of India. She spoke about the importance of wearing our own traditional costumes and speaking in our mother tongues. She encouraged the gathering from 2 Timothy 1:7.

A press release stated that about 200 NCRC elders and believers attended the service. Nini Sekhose, President, Chakhroma Christian Revival Church Women’s Association and

Rev Beilieü Shüya with the members of NCRC Women Elders Group and others during the felicitation programme held on October 26.

Associate Pastor, Garden Mission Church chaired the meeting. She informed that Rev. Beilieü Shüya joined the NCRC during the mid 1970s after receiving the “Holy Spirit baptism” from Chathe Prayer Centre, Dimapur.

The welcome speech was given by Rev. Dr. N. Paphino, President NCRC and Pastor of Angami CRC Dimapur. He stated that by the grace of God, the NCRC has been able to grow and expand in the last few years to encompass not only In-

dia but eight other foreign countries thus making the NCRC an international organization.

Special numbers were presented by Angami CRC, Ao CRC and Leshelemi of Sumi NCRC Purana Bazar, and the Presidents of

Special awareness campaign on RMNCH+A at Mon

mOn, OcTOber 28 (DiPr): Directorate of Field Publicity, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Government of India Mon unit organised a special awareness campaign on reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent health (RMNCH+A) with special focus on Mission Indradhanush, Population Stabilization, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao and Anaemia among adolescent girls on October 27 at Longkei village with Dr. Thungdeno Murry, SHPO, Dr. Elizabeth Konyak, SHPO and Hingkai Konyak, BPM, NHM, Mon Sadar as the speakers.

Dr. Thungdeno Murry

spoke on mission indradhanush, vaccination and its significance for children below 5 years. She also dwelt on population stabilization on family planning to have a gap of two or more years between children for healthy mother and child. She also spoke on Beti Bachao Beti Padhao which states that there should be no discrimination for a girl child and to give equal rights.

Dr. Elizabeth Konyak spoke on Anemia on how a girl child becomes anemic due to lack of red blood.

Therefore she said that a girl child should be given red meat, green leafy vegetable and iron rich fruit. She

Participants during the special awareness campaign on reproductive maternal newborn child and adolescent health held on October 27 at Longkei village. (DIPR Photo)

also spoke on albendazoledeworming medicine to be given to school going children after every six months.

Hingkai Konyak dwelt on the importance of the

health of children and called upon the villagers to attend such seminars with unity for the benefit for all.

The program was led by Tingkai Konyak. Mathew

CRBC seminar for Rengma leaders on clean election

Tseminyu, OcTOber 28 (mexn): The Council of Rengma Baptist Churches (CRBC) conducted seminar for the Rengma leaders on clean election on October 22 at Bethel Baptist Church, Tseminyu Town. During this seminar, all the Rengma leaders from the churches, Rengma Hoho, Rengma Mothers’ Association, Rengma GB Association and other frontal organization participated.

“The seminar is a response to the call made by the NBCC on clean election in the state of Nagaland,” CRBC Executive Secretary Haiwalo Apon said in a press note.

The resource persons Ruokuovituo Khezie, Asst Chief Electoral Officer and Rev Andrew Semp Director, NMM, stressed upon the need to change the prevailing social corruption and strive for a just society as Christians.

Rev. Andrew Semp spoke

on the topic, “The Church and the State Election.” He urged the Rengma Christians to correctly understand what the church is.

He emphasized and affirmed that Christian church is not the building but people called out by God. He lamented that Christians have failed to understand what it means to be a Christian because of which many forms of injustice is evident in our society.

Ruokuovituo addressed the leaders on the topic, “Election Malpractices and its Effects.” He enlightened the participants on the various provisions which are considered a crime in election processes and also the penalty for such crimes from the IPC. He stated that many of the existing practices of the Nagas during elections are serious offence which can be booked under the Indian Penal Code.

Urging the village councils to

the various NCRC Women organizations gave greetings. Krosano from Angami Women organization gave a detailed history of the formation of the NCRC Women Organisations and Nagaland and said that the Angami Christian Revival Women Association was 53 years old starting from 1963. Late. Khrieviü Sekhose was the founder President of the Association alongwith Neikienuo, Vice Chairman, Asa Secretary and Dzobvunuo (Treasurer). She spoke about the contribution of Rev. Beilieü towards evangelism efforts of the ACRWA. Asangla Jamir, spoke on behalf of the Mokokchung Division Women’s Association. Tokheli Assumi for Sumi NCRC Women Association, Jotano for Lotha Women, Azieü Sekhose for Nagamese CRC Women Association. Rev. Yagwelie Shüya spoke on behalf of family as well as Angami Council Advisory Board.

Adopt resolutions in response to the call made by NBCC on clean election: • Common effort towards clean electoral roll • Condemn any form of bribery, violence and underage voting • Not to hinder any individual but encourage every citizen to exercise their franchise be the guardian and custodian of the laws to bring justice in society, he stated that village council chairman are elected by the villagers but are appointed by the government.

As such village councils should be the agent to bring change in

our society as they are next to the state government. Village councils should not openly endorse any candidate in the media which is a serious offence. Besides, the village councils Mothers Association should also be a driving force to bring change in the society.

The church can also play an important role since one of the best platforms to address any issue in the society. He further asserted that due to corrupt malpractice during election enmity is created in the family, clan, villages etc.

Malpractices during election are a breeding ground for many forms of corruption. There is also an urgent need to clean up our electoral roll to check corruption.

He lamented that Nagas are too good that we do not raise our voice against evil. If we do not act on time then the future of our coming generation is bleak, if we love our chil-

dren then we should not pass on to them a gloomy future. Therefore, he urged the good people to act together and overcome that which hinders us to progress and prosper.

After the seminar the following resolutions were adopted: Common effort towards clean electoral roll; Condemn any form of bribery, violence and underage voting; and Not to hinder any individual but encourage every citizen to exercise their franchise Earlier, the Executive Secretary, CRBC Haiwalo Apon led the participants into a solemn prayer of confession, sins committed during elections and gave an introductory speech on why should the church proactively involve in clean election campaign. The seminar concluded with a prayer of commitment led by Rev. Isaac Kesen Secretary, Mission and Evangelism CRBC.

SK Bengam, FPO, DFP, Mon gave a brief introduction on the seminar and Tokwang Angh, Longkei village delivered the welcome address.

GVC notifies on ‘fake govt registered societies’

Peren, OcTOber 28 (mexn): The Gaili Village Council (GVC) has notified that many “fake government registered societies” in the name of Gaili village are functioning without the “legal authority.” The council, therefore, appeal to all such societies to appear before the Gaili Village Council from the date of issue of this notice till December 31, 2016 “to avoid further action.”

GVC chairman Hegapungbe Haikube in a press release said that the council during its executive meeting passed the resolution regarding the “fake government registered societies” and request all HoDs not to entertain anyone without proper scrutiny of the societies concerned.

Moreover, the council appeals to the HoDs that any project of contract should not be issued to any society/organisatio/individual in the jurisdiction of Gaili Village without the proper recommendation of the village authority. “Many fake government registered societies in the name of Gaili village are functioning without the knowledge of the authority concerned,” added the GVC chairman Hegapungbe Haikube.

Parliamentary quiz and youth competition held Our Correspondent Kohima | October 28

1st Death Anniversary of Late Kumrila T. Quinker

15-09-2003 to 29-10-2015

It broke our heart to lose you, but you did not go alone, a part of us went with you the day God took you home.

If tears could build a stairway and heartaches make a lane, we could walk our way to heaven and bring you back again.

In life we loved you dearly, in death we love you still in our hearts you hold a place no one could ever fill.

Deeply miss you in silent tears and prayer

Loving dear ones

Acknowledgement

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he competent authority of Academy of Global Peace, Bangalore, takes pride and honour to acknowledge our senior leader Dr. Luhevi K. Achumi, S/o Lt. Khuzhexu Achumi, Retd., District & Session Judge, who has been conferred Ph. D (Doctor of Social Works) and awarded 'Best SoDr. Luhevi K. Achumi cial Worker' award by international acclaimed We invoke God's Inter Governmental Or- blessings to sustain his ganization; World Peace talented potential to Organization UN & USA, serve humankind. and American University (AU) USA, in the month S/dof July 2016.

Dr. Hesheto Y. Chishi

A state level parliamentary quiz and youth parliament competition took place here today at ATI Imagine Hall with Minister for Social Welfare & Parliamentary Affairs Kiyanilie Peseyie as the chief guest.

Addressing the inaugural function, Peseyie expressed happiness to the Education Department, other co-ordinating departments and the Department of Parliamentary Affairs for making this event a regular feature for the benefit of the youth in the state.

Stating that India is parliamentary democracy and derives its strength from the constitution of the country and it depends very much for its further growth and development on the education of the youth in the process and values of democracy, he said “it is very important for the young people to learn the basic values of democracy as part of school education to acquire a proper perspective on the democratic functioning and processes through which our country is governed.”

He said in 1962, 4th All India Whips conference held in Bombay recommended that in the educational institutions the development of youth parliament as learning experience should be encouraged.

In pursuance of this objective, the department of parliamentary affairs,

Kiyanilie Peseyie addressing state level parliamentary quiz and youth parliament competition in Kohima on October 28: (DIPR Photo)

Government of India had drawn up a scheme of youth parliament competition in 1965. Since then youth parliament competition for the schools of union territory of Delhi are being held and now the scheme has been extended to other parts of India as well, including Nagaland.

“Democracy is not a new concept to India: It has a long tradition of tolerance of differing views and creeds, which is the hall-mark of any true democracy. There is also considerable evidence of widespread of existence of democratic institutions in ancient

India. It can be said with confidence that the Nagas too practiced democracy,” the Minister said.

Peseyie mentioned that Youth Parliament Competition is a programme in which group discussion and role-playing techniques can effectively be used to promote democracy. He assured the students that the government would give support to them in their endeavor to inculcate ‘good habits’ of democracy.

Parliamentary Affairs Secretary O.T. Chingmak Chang, IAS in his welcome address said the role of youth Parliament is to teach children democracy, equip them with debating skills, stimulate them to present their own thoughts and listen to those of others. He also said that the department, through the event, aims to channelize the energies of young students towards creativity rather than destruction and to help inculcate a sense of leadership.

Students from all the eleven districts participated in the competitions. Vote of thanks was proposed by parliamentary affairs joint secretary Bendangnaro.

The winners of the Parliamentary quiz competition are 1st: Zunheboto district; 2nd: Kohima district; and 3rd: Dimapur district. Winners of Youth parliament competition are 1st: Sunjemyanger of Dimapur district; 2nd: Yanchibeni N. Kithan of Wokha district; 3rd: Pito K. Aye of Dimapur district.

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TNL reaffirms boycott on Ibobi Newmai News Network Imphal | October 28

The Tangkhul Naga Long (TNL), the apex body of the Tangkhuls, launched a tirade against Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh reaffirming its stand to boycott the latter in visiting Ukhrul district. TNL has been criticised and condemned by the state government, political parties, legislators and civil societies in the valley over the October 24 incident in Ukhrul. TNL president Weapon Zimik said, "The Ibobi government has chosen to remain a major hurdle to the Naga peace process and a mute spectator to the issue of nine "tribal martyrs.""

He mentioned the incident wherein NSCN (IM) General Secretary Thuingaleng Muivah was barred by the state government from visiting his native village in Ukhrul and reiterated the declaration of "severance of ties" with the Manipur government by Naga social organisations.

"The boycott on Ibobi will remain in force. He'll not be allowed to inaugurate any project in the district," Zimik maintained.

The TNL President added that only concerned government officials would be allowed to attend the inauguration function, but not Ibobi. However, Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam has said that the CM would visit Ukhrul again to inaugurate projects.

The newly constructed Ukhrul District Hospital, one of the projects, was found lacking adequate infrastructure as claimed by Zimik during an "inspection visit." He was visiting the hospital building accompanied by a media team on Thursday. The government was trying to mislead the people by organising the function to inaugurate the "yet to be finished" hospital, according to the TNL president. He said the 50-bedded hospital was having only 30 beds, besides proper infrastructure was not there. CM Ibobi contradicted the Naga social organisation's claim.

As per his statement, all government projects scheduled to be inaugurated in Ukhrul were already completed.

People's Democratic Council of Karbilongri formed

Rongbin AklAm, oc- on empirical socialism Karbi and Dimasa country tobeR 28 (mexn): A to bring about a genuine became victims of political new armed “revolutionary egalitarian society, to pro- and military hegemony of organization” of the Karbi mote real liberty, equality India, under which our peopeople calling itself the Peo- and fraternity and to es- ples are suffering unending ple's Democratic Council of tablish respect for every and untold sorrow today,” Karbilongri (PDCK) was sociocultural ethnicity and the Council maintained. the religions of our land,” it Further citing the recent formed on October 27.

Assam Human DevelopA press release from the added.

Giving a brief of its his- ment Report which listed PDCK stated that the Karbi “had enjoyed sovereignty tory, the PDCK stated that the Karbi people with the and independence since the Dimasa and Karbi highest Human Poverty time immemorial in their kingdoms “were annexed Index (HPI) value at 33.52, own land without inter- by the British to their In- the PDCK held the Governference from alien rulers,” dian Empire with a foul ment of India as being “solebut “have now become justification derived from ly responsible for the lowest enslaved under Indian co- the doctrine of lapse on 14 literacy rate and abject hulonial exploitation, oppres- August, 1832, but the rulers man poverty” prevailing didn't interfere in the inter- among Karbi people. sion and suppression.”

Stating that the Karbi The statement in- nal affairs of the two kingformed that the “First Pre- doms till 1854 and 1886 re- and Dimasa peoples have been “fighting to revive paratory Congress” was spectively.”

On the recommenda- their national pride and held on October 17 and 18 during which a five- tion of Simon Commission restore their lost freedom member Central Commit- (1929) the British Empire and glory” through varitee was formed to lead the later administered the two ous democratic organisaorganization under the territories by the Governor tions and armed outfits, the leadership of Jeksai Kang- General directly as exclud- Council insisted that their tang Lijang as Chairman, ed and partially excluded movements “were never Nongme Tungjang as Gen- area under The Govern- understood and respected eral Secretary and Captain ment of India Act, 1935, it by the colonial regime”.

“Instead, the occuDavid Mukrang as Chief of pointed out.

Mentioning that it was pation forces ruthlessArmy Staff.

Stating its objectives, the British and not India ly crushed them down the PDCK statement main- which invaded and con- through military means tained that it has been quered them, the PDCK and with evil design,” it laformed “to free our people asserted that the Karbi and mented and insisted that from Indian occupation, co- Dimasa peoples were “au- “the endeavour of a series lonialism, exploitation, op- tomatically entitled to the of movements withered pression, and suppression.” right to become free in their away, and thereafter, the “We shall establish a own land” after the British fate of our peoples have become very precarious and political system of demo- had left.

“But it is a historical ac- uncertain.” beijing, octobeR 28 (iAnS): China on Friday said cratic republicanism with Arguing that the Karbi an economic system built cident and mistake that the Dalai Lama's scheduled visit to Arunachal Pradesh will damage ties with India. "India will only damage peace and stability of the border areas as well as the bilateral relationship between China and India," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said. The reaction Kohima, Nagaland came a day after India said the Dalai Lama was free to travel to any part of the country and Arunachal Pradesh Between DUDA Guest House & Directorate of Industries & Commerce was no exception. The Tibetan spiritual leader is likely to P.O Box 26, High School Area, Kohima, Nagaland visit the northeastern state bordering China early next year. China has accused the Dalai Lama of secessionist Recognized & Registered under Department of Higher Education, activities in Tibet. He has been living in self-imposed exGovernment of Nagaland. Associate Member of ATA (India) ile in India since 1959. Arunachal Pradesh is claimed by China, which calls it South Tibet. Earlier this week, China ADMISSION GOING ON FOR SPRING SEMESTER 2016-2017 reacted angrily after the US ambassador to India, RichEquipping chosen Christian Men and Women to impact eternity! ard Verma, visited Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh. Beijing warned Washington not to meddle in the border dispute Course Offered: Regular & Extension. Class begins 1st Nov. between India and China.

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Manipur’s ‘Father of Social Work’ no more imphAl, octobeR 28 (nnn): Renowned social worker and centenarian Thounaojam Iboyaima passed away at his Singjamei Thongam Leikai residence here today morning. Iboyaima, referred to as the Father of Social Work in Manipur, is survived by five sons and four daughters. He was also a follower of pioneer and eminent freedom fighter Hijam Irabot of Manipur. Iboyaima, one of the eminent figures of Manipur, spent his life for decades working for the Manipur society. Till he breathed his last, Iboyaima was the president of Irabot Foundation Manipur and also one of the important advisors of All Manipur United Clubs' Organisation (AMUCO). The last rites performed at his residence was attended by relatives, friends and hundreds of representatives from various civil societies.

Pregnant mother, five children electrocuted in Meghalaya Shillong, octobeR 28 (iAnS): A pregnant woman and her five children died of electrocution in Meghalaya's East Khasi Hills district on Thursday, an official said. Trisdolin Shangpliang, 35, and her children were electrocuted when electricity suspected to be leaking from a nearby transformer passed through their house in Nongthymmai Neng village in Mawphlang block, said the official who did not want to be named. The children killed were Kamulstar, 9, Sngewbhalang, 8, Bedingstar, 5, Shishalin, 2, and a seven-month-old baby. District Magistrate Peter S. Dkhar, however, said the cause of the deaths is yet to be ascertained. "I have ordered an inquiry by the Block Development Officer to ascertain the exact cause of the deaths," he said.

Railway to introduce more trains for north-east links AgARtAlA, octobeR 28 (iAnS): Three new trains will be introduced from November 12 to link important cities in the mountainous north-eastern region, a Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) official said on Friday. Three weekly trains will run between Guwahati and Silchar (383 km), Guwahati and Agartala (577 km) and Dibrugarh and Agartala (721 km) in view of huge public demand," NFR Chief Public Relations Officer Pranav Jyoti Sharma said. The new trains will initially run for four months, and thereafter their frequency would depend on public response. Currently, train services are available in more than 25 cities in north-eastern region, including Guwahati, Silchar, Dibrugarh, Tezpur, Jorhat, Dhubri, Tinsukia, Shibsagar, New Bongaigaon, Hojai, Lumding, Maibang, New Haflong, Diphu, Badarpur, Karimganj (all in Assam), Agartala and Dharmanagar (Tripura), Itanagar (Arunachal Pradesh), Mendipathar (Meghalaya), Dimapur (Nagaland), Jiribam (Manipur) and Bhairabi (Mizoram). The NFR is now working to connect the remaining capital cities of the north-eastern states by 2020.

Another NFR spokesman said a proposal to roll out 'Kaziranga Express' in Assam is also under consideration.

Minister of State for Railways Rajen Gohain, a member of Lok Sabha from Assam's Nowgong, mooted the train proposal on the lines of 'Tiger Express' launched in June for Bandhavgarh and Kanha National Parks in Madhya Pradesh. The Kaziranga National Park is a World Heritage Site known to host 70 per cent of the world's onehorned rhinos, apart from a large number of tigers, elephants, wild water buffaloes and swamp deer.

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People of Karbilongri have the “natural right to oppose the forcible annexation” through both democratic and armed struggle, the newly formed Council laid bare its resolutions: “to fight for the inalienable right of self-determination and sovereign independence”; “to free our people from political, economic, social and cultural exploitation”; and to “fight against the inhuman acts perpetrated by Indian Army”.

The new armed revolutionary organization, the statement maintained, “shall operate with advanced theory of revolution and with principles, ideology and policy based on solid and concrete foundation.”

It further expressed “full faith” in the United National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia (UNLFW) and stated that it will be “always ready” to abide by the rules and regulations of the Front.

“We have come closer with several like-minded armed revolutionary parties, having similar principles and ideology, of our region like KCP, KLO, KYKL, NDFB, NLFT, NSCN, PREPAK, PREPAK (Pro), RPF and UNLF,” it added.

The Karbi, an indigenous people of Sino-Tibetan origin of Mongoloid stock, speaking a TibetoBurman language, inhabit the Karbilongri, Dima Hasao (erstwhile United Mikir hills and North Cachar hills), some parts of Meghalaya, Nagaland, Arunachal, Assam and Sylhet division of Bangladesh, the PDCK statement claimed.

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The main agenda of the meeting is to have interactive discussions with the Office Bearers of the Societies to draw up plans for taking up new livelihood activities in the various districts during the Financial Year 2017-18. Possibilities for strengthening the Societies further will also be a major part of the discussions.

The President and the Gen. Secretary of each Divisional Society are requested to make it convenient to attend the Meeting positively. In the event of inability of the Gen. Secretary to attend the Meeting, the Treasurer is to attend without fail.

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‘Changing Paradigm’ in Civil Engg Chandigarh, OCtOber 28 (Mexn): A National level seminar on civil engineering on the topic “Changing Paradigm in Civil Engineering: Challenges & Opportunities” was held on October 24 at Aryans Group of Colleges, Chandigarh.

A press release stated that Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy who was the chief guest on the occasion failed to attend because of ill health but interacted with the students, professionals, academicians and others through video conferencing.

Dr. M.P. Poonia while sharing his views said that Civil engineering being the oldest branch plays a significant role in developing the infrastructure of villages and cities of India. The dream of building a modern India can be actualized with a team of Civil Engineers who really know their job and utilize their skill to bring modernity to a country on the whole. And these dreams of a country can be fulfilled by the academics only who prepare skilled civil Engineers.

Prof. (Dr.) MPS Ishar appreciated the fact that the trend of Civil engineering has gone up among the students of India in last 2-3

section of students attending the national level seminar on civil engineering on the topic “Changing Paradigm in Civil engineering: Challenges & opportunities” held on october 24 at Aryans Group of Colleges, Chandigarh.

years as and is expected to go up even further as India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world and the Government has plans to spend billions of dollars on infrastructural development, be it highways, airports, ports and power plants.

Dr. Anshu Kataria, Chairman, Aryans Group while speaking on the occasion said that Civil engineering requires a lot of infrastructure in the form of laboratories equipments and experienced faculty. He added that the interest and further innovations of Aryans JK students in Civil engineering has done wonders in last 8-9 years.

S.Har Amrit Singh Sandhu,

Faculty, Civil Engineering, PEC University, Chandigarh while sharing his views said that the civil engineering profession recognizes the reality of limited natural resources, the desire for sustainable practices & the need for social equity in the consumption of resources. Engineers with their skills make the things simpler by implementing cost-effective, ecofriendly, energy intensive and innovative technology.

Dr. Sachin, Rajdeep Kaur, Gurmeet Singh, Saurav, Sulekha, Rayees Ahmad etc also presented their papers on various aspects including the critical roles of civil engineering in addressing the

large-scale challenges faced by the society including access to affordable health care; tackling the coupled issues of energy, transportation and climate change; providing more equitable access to information for our populations; clean drinking water; natural and man-made disaster mitigation, environmental protection and natural resource management etc.

Dr. Parveen Kataria, Director General; Dr. Manjula Kataria, Principal, Aryans Group; Prof. B.S Sidhu, Registrar; Prof. A.P. Jain, Director; Sukhaman Bath, Coordinator etc were also present on the occasion.

ICAR organizes Model Training Course MedzipheMa, OCtOber 18 (Mexn): ICAR-Research complex for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre, Medziphema conducted 8 days Model training course (October 18 to 25) on “Sustainable crop production, protection and Value addition of citrus in NEH Region” sponsored

by DAC & Farmers’ welfare, Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers’ welfare, GOI for state govt. officials.

The training course was mainly focused on scientific production techniques of citrus production, management of present burning issues persist in the farmer’s field and to explore the great opportunities present towards the processing sector of citrus in NE Region. The training includes theory and hands-on sessions on different aspects of citrus were covered

by subject experts from ICAR Research Complex Umiam Meghalaya, Nagaland Centre, Manipur Centre, SASRD and CIH Medziphema.

Further, the Director Dr. S. V. Ngachan, ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Meghalaya addressed the participants on various issues of production of quality planting materials, conservation of different species of Citrus and opportunities present in the NE Region to uplift the livelihood of Citrus farmers in NE Region.

Participants were shared their learning experience about the training programme.

Altogether, 20 participants from different parts of the Northeastern Region are attended the course, comprising of officials from various state developmental department, SAU’s and KVKs.

St. John School DEF Kohima Jawans urged to “Say No to Tobacco” OCtOber 28 ma attended the sensitization economy of the State. RecognizRazeba literary kOhiMa, (Mexn): A sensitization pro- programme. The sensitization ing that tobacco kills millions for police jawans of programme was focused on of people across the globe, the competition held gramme DEF Kohima on harmful effects the harmful effects of tobacco participants pledged to abstain Exposure visit for livestock farmers of tobacco and COPTA 2003 both on humans and the en- from the use of tobacco and

Preparation is underway for silver jubilee celebration of Konyak Union and Konyak nyupuh sheko Khong, Chen unit scheduled to be held at Chen HQ on november 3 and 4. A traditional morung is being constructed to be used as a conference hall during the celebration.

razeba, OCtOber 28 (Mexn): St. John School Razeba literary competition was conducted from October 26 to 28 with the theme, “Beyond the Books…” On the Inaugural day, Dr. Zavese Rume, Associate Professor, SCERT, Kohima graced the occasion as the chief guest.

At the outset of the programme John Krocha, Zhavame Catechist invoked God’s blessing which was followed by Class 7 students who presented a melodious welcome song.

The Chief Guest speaking on the theme told to the students that, “Learning is not confined to the class room or text book knowledge rather it should go beyond and discover the hidden talents”. He encouraged the teachers and parents to create a cordial and healthy relationship between them for the growth of the children. He emphasized that one need not be well-educated to guide their children’s daily studies. He added the students should excel in their academic performance to arise and shine.

The Literary competition includes group song, Choreography, Declamation, Poem recitation, Traditional show, Essay writing, Solo, Rhymes and drawing.

Vipurhu Movi expressed the words of gratitude on behalf of the students to the Management and Teachers for giving them an ample opportunity to realized their hidden talents.

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participate in the battle against it. They also pledged to spread awareness about hazards of tobacco and to live a healthy tobacco free life. On her final note, Dr. Arenla Walling urged the jawans to “Say No to Tobacco”.

This was stated in a press release issued by Atu Zumvü NPS, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (South) & PRO, Kohima.

A three day refreshers training Programme for Anganwadi workers under ongpangkong (n) Project, Integrated Child development services (ICds) was conducted from october 25 to 27 at P. shilu Ao, Park.

Altogether 75 Anganwadi workers attended from 11 Villages and 16 wards. resource person were Child Development Project Officer (CDPO), Talisangla Nokdir, Supervisors, Meyangangla Pongener, Atsole Khalo and Yanger Pongen. (DIPR Photo)

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Dr. Arenla stated that consumption of tobacco in various forms not only affects ones health but also is a burden on the

wOkha, OCtOber 28 (Mexn): Chief Veterinary & AH Officer Wokha organized a block level exposure visit of livestock farmers to Guwahati from October 24 to 28 under the aegis of National Livestock Mission 2015-16. The group led by Dr. Mhonchan Shitiri visited All India Coordinated Research Project on Pig and Mega seed Farm Khanapara and interacted with Dr. D. Kalita principle scientist. They also visited Livestock production technology department of the college of Veterinary science and had firsthand information from Dr. Santosh, scientist on the various

value additions on pork and chicken and the equipments used for the processing.

The group then visited National Research Center on Pig, Rani and get to know the various breeds of Pigs reared by the center that are suitable and adaptable to North East region including Nagaland. After the farm visit the group attended a class room lecture on pig management practices and nutrition with special emphasis on non-conventional feeds by Dr. Keshab Barman principle scientist. As a pleasure trip the group visited Guwahati Zoo and botanical garden.

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and provided free medicine and issued Disability certificate according to the severity of their disability. This Certification camp was carried out so that Peoples With Disabilities (PWDs) in the area would be able to get medical facilities and avail their entitlements under various Government Schemes.

The medical authority and the CBR Team of Grace Society thanked the stakeholders and general public of the area for coming forward and helping them in making the health camp a successful one and further encouraged them to help them in future for the cause of the PWDs.

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ChuChu tOwn, OCtOber 28 (Mexn): A medical camp was held at Chuchu Town Council Hall on October 28 for MR (Mental Retardation) and II (Intellectual Impairment). The camp was organized by District Mental Health Programme, Mokokchung in collaboration with Grace Society CBR Forum (Community Based Rehabilitation Forum).

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Saturday 29•10•2016

NAGALAND

‘Don’t forget our brothers in Myanmar and Arunachal’

No field patrol vehicle for the Excise in decades ‘Wrong to have assumed role of Excise would decline with NLTP’ Morung Express News Dimapur | October 28

Nagaland State Governor, PB Acharya and Nagaland MP to the Lok Sabha, Neiphiu Rio inaugurating the Angh’s house in Longwa village on October 28.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Nagaland Governor, PB Acharya today inaugurated the Longwa Chief Angh's residence and Tourism Guest House at Longwa village with MP to the Lok Sabha Neiphiu Rio as the guest of honour.

According to a press note from the PRO to the Governor, Acharya stated, “We should not forget our fellow Naga brothers from Myanmar and Arunachal Pradesh, but should stay in unity and peace.” He called for peaceful coexistence and harmony with neighbors as most of the North East share an international border and if the states are in peace then India is in peace. He also

urged the people to respect the diversity of India and to be proud. In this regard, he requested the people to respect one's own native tongue.

The Governor meanwhile stated that the central government has provided many schemes but lamented that these schemes are not reaching the beneficiaries. Such corruption should be stopped, he stated, and urged leaders to change their mindset.

MP Neiphiu Rio, who has adopted Longwa village, stated that “even if Nagas stay in Myanmar or Arunachal Pradesh or Nagaland, Nagas are one family and its symbol lies in Longwa village, which is

The department of Excise & Prohibition as an enforcement agency has been functioning without field patrol vehicles for decades now. This was pointed out as an immediate and “pressing concern” of the department at the annual conference of the Nagaland State Excise Field Staff Association (NSEFSA) held at the Excise Directorate in Dimapur on October 28.

In a memorandum to the Parliamentary Secretary for Excise, BS Nganlang Phom, who was the chief guest of the conference, the NSEFSA stated the situation is such that vehicles assigned to the Superintendents of Excise have to double-up as “mobile pool/patrol vehicles.”

While stating that the Excise department would like to depart from the “past paralysing antecedents and move to a new trajectory by creating an enabling

historically laid inside the middle of the Angh's residence, with Myanmar to its left and India to its right.”

He informed that it took 9 months to complete the house, which was the result of unity between the village council and other departments. We need to promote our culture and tradition while working towards making Longwa a model village for development and progress, he stated.

Tonyei Phawang, Chief Angh, Longwa village was the chief host, Pohwang, MLA was the co-host and MLAs from Myanmar and Arunachal Pradesh were KOhIMA, OCTOBER 28 special guests during the (MExN): Nagaland Chief event.

Minister TR Zeliang today lauded the National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited (NHIDCL) for its proposal to impart skills in various disciplines of highservice rule, and urged the way construction sector to state government to resolve 300 Naga youths within a the issue by framing a clear year.

Informing the NHIDcut policy and rules in-toto within the stipulated period CL officials that coincias demanded by the AND- dentally, the Government MSA. It further informed of Nagaland has declared that district ministerial em- 2016 as the Year of Conployees have been suffering struction Workers with for the last two consecutive an aim of imparting skills to the local youth in conROP's (i.e. 1999 & 2008).

Meanwhile, the unit has struction works, the Chief convened a general meet- Minister expressed gratiing on October 31 at 1:00 tude to the Corporation pm at Hotel Acacia confer- and extended the Government’s full cooperaence hall.

Ministerial Cadre; creation of HA/ Sr. HA in all the independent DDOs of districts and SDHA/Accountant in the sub-divisions; and re-designation & elevation of DHA & Sr. HA Post to that of District Superintendent Class-I Gazette and SDHA/Accountant to that of Assistant Superintendent Class II. A press note from the ANDMSA, Dimapur said that district ministerial employees do not have a well defined or common

infrastructural environment,” the memorandum added that the lack of field vehicles is only aggravating the problem for an already depleted field strength.

In this regard, the NSEFSA requisitioned for obtaining field vehicles phase-wise and also separate vehicles for the district Excise chiefs, including the heads of the Mobile Squad and the Narcotic Cell and

also for subordinate officers in the rank of deputy superintendent and Inspectors.

Parliamentary Secretary, Nganlang, in his response to the memorandum stated that the government is taking up the matter. “It maybe not upto your expectation but it’ll be done gradually,” he said, while admitting that vehicles, communication sets

CM lauds NHIDCL proposal to skill youth

ANDMSA Dmp asks govt to form clear policy for district ministerial employees

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): While extending its support to the 30-day ultimatum served by the All Nagaland District Ministerial Service Association (ANDMSA), the Dimapur district unit of ANDMSA also urged the Nagaland State Government to take up the “three points Charter of Demand.”

These demands include amalgamation of Directorate Cadre and the District Ministerial Cadre into Common

Parliamentary Secretary for Excise, BS Nganlang Phom speaks at the annual conference of the NSEFSA in Dimapur on October 28. Also in the picture are the Secretary, Excise & Fisheries, Nikhashe Sema and Commissioner of Excise, Tarep Imchen.

tion to make its proposal successful, according to a press release from Chief Minister’s Office.

The Chief Minister directed officials to liaise with the department of Skills Development and ensure that sufficient number of local youths participate in the programme and benefit from it.

He said this programme will be much more beneficial since selected candidates will be given practical training at the worksites in the ongoing 4-laning project between Kohima and Dimapur, and since machineries would be made available to them.

The Corporation, as part of its pilot project in Skill Development/ Up-

gradation of Workmen in Highway Construction Sector, is planning to recruit Naga youths with minimum age of 18 years and educational qualification of 10th standard to undergo training (for freshers) of a 30-days module of 208 hours to operate JCB, Excavator, Hot Mix Plant, Kerb Paving, WMM Plant, Paver Operation, Grader Operation, Batching Plant, Mechanic and Compressor, the release added.

Under the category of RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning), a five-day module for workers at the project site on operation of various machineries would be imparted free of cost with basic amenities and a stipend.

AYO press conference on October 30 LBPS Father’s Camp from November 2

KOhIMA, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Hectic preparations are on for the silver jubilee celebration of the Angami Youth Organisation (AYO), which is scheduled to be held on November 4 and 5 at Kigwema village.

The Organising Committee of the AYO silver jubilee had a meeting with all its sub-committees on October 27 at Kigwema village

to check on the progress of preparations of the celebration. The various committees presented the status of their progress. AYO president Medo Yhokha announced that more than 10,000 delegates will be participating in the jubilee celebration.

On November 4, the jubilee monolith will be inaugurated by Chief Guest

Diwali greetings DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): MLA & Chairman, NIDC Ltd., Tovihoto Ayemi has extended greetings to the Hindu community of Dimapur on the occasion of Deepawali (Diwali). Giving expression to happiness by lighting lamps should also illuminate the minds and hearts of the people leading to peace and harmony among different communities in Dimapur, Tovihoto stated in a message.

“In the midst of all lighting extravaganza, let this festival also be an occasion for reaching out to the poor and needy and homeless and enlighten their life,” he added.

BJP Nagaland also greeted everyone a joyous Diwali festival. Like the festival “which bears the essence of welcoming new and good things in place of the old and nega-

tive,” the BJP Nagaland wished everyone the best that the festival and the year ahead would bring.

As the people celebrate Diwali, State BJP president, Visasolie Lhoungu stated, the goodwill of such a festival should bring about the eagerness of the people to dwell, live and work together harmoniously to create an ever better cosmopolitan place to be in.

The BJP Nagaland also requested the people to cautiously use the fireworks and avoid any unfavorable hazardous situation.

NPF Minority Wing also extended hearty greetings and best wishes to the people of Nagaland and neighbouring area on the occasion of Diwali.

This kind of festival is to share happiness amongst all and strengthen brotherhood relationship in the State, it added.

CorreCtion With regard to the news item ‘Pholami Council excommunicates NSCN (IM) Tatar’ published on October 27 issue, in the third paragraph it should be read as “1951 plebiscite” and not as published.

Neiphiu Rio, MP, Lok Sabha at 10:30 am at Shürho view point above Kisama Heritage Village.

In view of the celebration, the AYO is hosting a press conference on October 30 at 2:00 pm at Kigwema village ground. AYO Silver Jubilee Media Committee convenor, Xavier Rutsa has requested all media personnel to attend the press meet.

PEREN, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Liangmai Baptist Phumling Samziuram (LBPS) in Peren is organizing Father’s Camp from November 2 to 6 under the theme ‘Blessed Man’ with Rev. Dr. Rabi Pame, Principal, United College of Theology and Missions, Dimapur and Rev. Chabonjinang Thiumai, Registrar, Chil Chil Baptist College and Semi-

nary, Kanglatongbi, Manipur as resource persons.

LBPS Pastor Asanbo Newmai in a press release said that the sessions will deal on the role and responsibilities of a father to his wife and children, and sound Biblical teaching will be given on the value and purpose of life and the blessedness of being a father. Also, there will be activities such as sports

and various competitions like singing, extempore speech, debates, etc and talent hunt will be staged on Sunday after the devotional service. There will be revival worship service every night for the members in which a special healing hour will be conducted. All the members, especially fathers, have been requested to participate.

KDLSA to conduct door to door campaign

KOhIMA, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) in compliance with the directives of the National Legal Services Authority will conduct two-day mass door to door campaign in and around Kohima district on November 2 and 3 in commemoration of National Legal Services Day which

falls on November 9.

The purpose of organising the campaign is to make known the various functioning of the Legal Services Authority such as availability of the legal services institutions and services that can be availed by the people in the district and how people can get their entitlements under the laws and welfare

schemes meant for different sections of people, informed Mezivolu T. Therieh, Chief Judicial Magistrate & Secretary, KDLSA in a press release. In addition, booklets, pamphlets and flyers will also be distributed during the nationwide campaign.

The release mentioned that Legal Services Authority exists to provide free and

competent legal services to the poor and marginalised sections of the people so that no person is denied access to justice due to economic factor. All the denizens of Kohima district have been informed to avail the free services as and when the Panel Lawyers and Para Legal Volunteers approach their homes.

More mourn Hukato Naga’s demise

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya and other organizations today expressed shock and sadness over the demise of Hukato Naga, Chairman and Managing Director of HN Company, Dimapur in Nottingham, England on October 25.

In a condolence message Acharya acknowledged that Hukato was a prominent businessman, social worker and a great human being. Hukato was an enterprising personality, a self made businessman and his life story inspired many young budding entrepreneurs of the State, he said. “Late Hukato was my friend and I had close interactions with

him.” His contributions for the development of the State will be remembered by all, Acharya added.

Sumi Hoho in a condolence note stated that in Hukato’s demise, Nagas in general and Sumis in particular have lost a prominent figure.

“He was a religious, hard working and efficient entrepreneur who was an icon to all the Naga youth,” added Sumi Hoho president, Toniho Yepthomi and general secretary, Vihuto Asumi.

In a separate message, Dr. Nihoto P. Chishi, National Peace Prayer Centre (NPPC) chairman and Head GB of Nihoto village remembered Hukato as a man of fervent prayer. “He was a remarkable man for those of us who

had the privilege of calling him ‘prayer friend’. Even in his busy hour he was active in social work, and used to mingle with all, in simplicity.

We (NPPC) were humbled by his kindness and compassion to everyone around him,” Dr. Nihoto recollected.

“To us Hukato Naga was a wonderful leader, generous, peace advocate, father, partner and friend... He was a highly valuable and respected Christian who understood the meaning of life.

He was always more focused on the good of the society and church. He made many great contributions to the needy and helped it move forward in numerous ways,” he added.

The Central Nagaland

Tribes Council (CNTC) described Hukato Naga as one iconic figure among the Nagas who rose from a humble background to such a stature just by sheer din of his hard work, perseverance and persistence.

“Nagas have lost one very big hearted visionary social worker who always wanted to uplift the society.

His cheerful nature and the jovial atmosphere he created wherever he happens to be was one of his main features,” stated a message from Media Cell, CNTC. They all conveyed heartfelt condolences to the wife, children and bereaved family of late Hukato Naga and prayed that the Lord grant them solace.

and weapons are prerequisites which an enforcement agency cannot do without.

Commenting on the arms the Excise personnel are equipped with at present, Nganlang held that the conditions of the weapons are far from satisfactory. According to him, it was mistaken to assume that the responsibility of the Excise would decrease with the imposition of the NLTP Act.

On the proposal to change the department’s nomenclature from Excise & Prohibition to Excise & Narcotics, he said that work is on at the governmental level. Currently, narcotics is under the state police jurisdiction. On transfers and postings, he said that it is practically impossible to entertain each and every request to be posted in Dimapur or Kohima. He further discouraged the culture of bringing “VIP notes” for transfer bids.

While stating that the personnel should work in such a way that builds the image of the department, he added that as a revenue earning department, its personnel should be honest and sincere.

Commissioner of Excise, Tarep Imchen, held that discipline is paramount in an enforcement agency. Modernising the department further calls for equipping the personnel with the requisite knowledge and skills, he added.

MEx FILE Graduate Teachers in Dimapur informed DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): Deputy District Education Officer (DDEO), Dimapur, R. Amongla Jamir has informed all the Graduate Teachers (G/T) under Dimapur district who have not submitted their first appointment and regularization order yet to submit the same on or before November 2, 2016. The DDEO stated that teachers without complete documents will be excluded from the seniority list.

KIN requests to grant leave to Kukis on Chavang Kut DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Kuki Inpi Nagaland (KIN) has extended warmest Chavang Kut greetings to all the Kuki people of Nagaland. Chavang Kut is a festival celebrated all over the world by the Kuki people on November 1 every year. Being an autumn festival, it also marks the harvest of the crops. It is a time to celebrate and give thanks to God for the abundant blessings, stated a press release from Media Cell, Kuki Inpi Nagaland. Thanking the Government of Nagaland under Chief Minister TR Zeliang for declaring Chavang Kut as a restricted holiday for the Kukis of Nagaland, KIN also requested all Government offices, schools and colleges of Nagaland to grant leave to all the Kuki people on November 1 for the Kut celebration.

KMC notifies on banners, hoardings DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 28 (MExN): The Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has notified that displaying of banners, hoardings etc. on the War Cemetery wall and footbridges will be restricted with immediate effect. A press note issued by KMC Administrator Kovi Meyase has requested all to comply and cooperate for the larger interest of the town.

Meetings & AppointMents IGNOU induction programme today IGNOU induction programme for freshly enrolled learners of Diploma, Bachelors and Master Degree programmes for July 2016 session at Study Centre-2001, Modern College will be conducted on October 29, 2:00 pm at Modern College, Kohima. IGNOU Regional Director, Dr. T Iralu has informed all learners registered at the mentioned IGNOU Study Centre to personally attend the induction. For more details, contact IGNOU Study Centre - 2001, Modern College, near IOC Mohonkhola, Kohima.

Govt. employees asked to attend National Unity Day Nagaland will observe October 31 as Rastriya Ekta Diwas (National Unity Day) in the State capital Kohima. All heads of departments and Central Government offices in Kohima are to organize the same in their respective offices. In the Civil Secretariat, the function will be held in the conference hall at 11:00 am. ‘Vigilance Awareness’ and ‘Rashtriya Ekta Diwas’ pledges will be taken. All the Government employees, including those of the Central Government, in Kohima have been requested to attend the function positively.

ANPSA 33rd annual general body meeting The All Nagaland Private Schools Association’s (ANPSA) 33rd Annual General Body meeting will be held on November 1 at De Oriental Grand Bayavü Kohima under the theme ‘Towards Excellent.’ The registration starts at 9:00 am and the conference begins at 9:30 am. The meeting will deliberate on New Education Policy (NEP) highlight; minimum wages/salary; custody of class 9 confidential package; Central grand for minority institution and others. The second session begins at 1:00 pm where Rakshit Tandon, Cyber Crime Expert, Delhi will speak on cyber security. ANPSA joint secretary, Abalie Medoze in a press release has informed that it is compulsory for ANPSA unit presidents and general secretaries to attend the conference. Meanwhile, all the ANPSA members have been requested to attend the conference.

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PeoPle, life, etc...

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Whither Vine? Ending a vibrant web community Robinson Meyer The Atlantic

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witter is shutting down Vine, the mirthful, hilarious, and often bizarre social network composed solely of six-second looping videos.

In the next few months, the company will stop supporting the Vine mobile app, the primary venue of Vine production and consumption. Facing a stubborn lack of profits and a seemingly unending crisis of confidence, Twitter has chosen to shutter its weirdest and most distinctive product.

In a post on Medium, Vine promises that its videos will stay online after the shut-down. “We’ll be keeping the website online because we think it’s important to still be able to watch all the incredible Vines that have been made,” says the release.

“Thank you. To all the creators out there —thank you for taking a chance on this app back in the day. To the many team members over the years who made this what it was — thank you for your contributions.

And of course, thank you to all of those who came to watch and laugh every day,” it continues.

And how many people came. While Vine’s growth had slowed in the past year and a half, it was once one of the most vibrant and creative factories of culture on the internet.

From 2012 to 2015, there was simply nowhere online like Vine. You could get lost in Vine like it was Wikipedia, and you could laugh on Vine like it was YouTube. It welded the old internet’s spontaneity and

“randomness” to the new social web’s scale and diversity.

As the web continues to expand and corporatize, as more companies merge an Apple-like aesthetic with Walmart-like scale, it’s hard to imagine anything like Vine happening again.

Few of the core features we think of as “Twitter” were invented by people employed by Twitter.

None of the founders invented the 140-character message, the constraint that gives the service its verve; instead, they adopted it as a technical aspect of SMS texting. Nor did anyone at Twitter invent the @-reply. Not the hashtag or the retweet, either—all were first created by users, then borrowed by the company as an official feature.

The company didn’t quite invent the six-second looping video. It bought the startup that did—Vine—in October 2012, right before it was to launch. But it can get credit for introducing the world to a form unlike any other online: Vines were too weird a thing for users to generate themselves.

When Vine debuted early in 2013, Twitter boasted that its brief videos were the visual equivalent of a tweet. How the student excelled the master. Twitter is where you joke about sports and whine about politics. It is always wordy—and thus inescapably political.

Vine? Vine is art.

Joyful, astonishing, frenetically blissful art.

Like the 14-line sonnet or the 12-bar blues, the sixsecond loop accepted its

defining constraint and therefore transcended it.

Those six seconds could show you anything—a tiny Japanese owl, two teenagers joking in Tulsa, a water bubble on the International Space Station—but they were always six seconds. The curtain always slammed down, and you were always sent back to the beginning again.

This made every Vine an experiment in form.

Some had a beginning, a middle, and an end. Some rebelled against any clear point: They started by showing you something crazy and the craziness persisted right through to the end. And the best ran along next to you as you tried to figure out what was happening: You began watching, you thought you saw the joke, then the premise of the whole Vine

would shift to reveal a new joke, and then—wham— you were back where you began.

This weird formalism is one reason why Vine—the social network—could have only happened when it did.

Only the flood of venture capital that followed from Facebook’s mass popularity, only the lack of good investment options after the global financial crisis, only the hundreds of investors looking to spot the next Google, could have produced a little app as strange as Vine. (Think about it: For a time, a whole planetary class of bankers and hedge-fund managers invested their money not in better ways to mine a rock or ship a box across the ocean, but in inventing new tools of expression. How worldhistorically weird.) And only a generation of teens and young adults newly empowered with smartphones—a wacko device with a web connection, a video camera, and a link to the whole staggering breadth of global pop culture—could have produced Vine, a medium that requires a willingness to show off to friends and strangers, a freedom to look a little silly or stupid, and hours and hours of waiting-around time to workshop ideas.

No wonder then that, for many teens and some adults too, Vines became a factory of mass culture, an ever-churning storehouse of allusion and one-liners and humor and dance moves. What SNL or MTV or Anchorman or Chapelle’s Show or Gilmore Girls were for older generations, Vine was for a

Failed at dieting? May be you are not wired for it

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ave you ever wondered why some people just cannot stick to a planned diet while others face no such issues? They may just not be wired for that, suggests a new study that found a link between ability to self-regulate a healthy body weight and individual brain structure.

Dieting success may be easier for some people because they have an improved white matter mechanism connecting the ex-

ecutive control and reward systems in their brain, the study, published in the journal Cognitive Neuroscience, said.

The research involved a group of thirty six chronic dieters, with mean body fat of 29.6%.

Pin-Hao Andy Chen from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, US and colleagues asked them to make simple judgements on images in order to divert their attention from the real aim of the task.

The activity carried out was

a food cue reactivity task designed to localise the executive control and reward areas in the brain, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

After localising the executive control and reward areas, the researchers used diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to identify the white matter track connecting these areas in order to quantify the integrity within this tract.

The functional MRI results demonstrated that dieters showed greater reactivity to

food images than control images.

The DTI results further showed that those with lower body fat percentages showed greater white matter integrity between executive control and reward areas of the brain.

“Individuals with reduced integrity may have difficulty in overriding rewarding temptations, leading to a greater chance of becoming obese than those with higher structural integrity,” the researchers said.

How to spend more time, less money during vacations!

Travel at less popular times as the price of flights varies considerably depending on the month, day and time of travel

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ant to spend quality time with your family on a vacation, but by not causing a hole in your pocket?

Travel at less popular times as the price of flights varies considerably depending on the month, day and time of travel and try a private room instead of a hotel, experts say.

In 2015, 49 percent of travellers planning getaways for Dusshera and Diwali favoured international destinations over domestic breaks. Experts from Skyscanner.com, travel search company, have shared secrets to make holiday getaways in 2016 lighter on the pockets of Indian travellers.

Travel at less popular times: The price of flights varies considerably depending on the month, day and even time of travel.

Avoiding the weekends can make a huge impact on the price.

Fly indirect: In case there is more time but less money, try flights with a stop-over.

Indirect routes to the main destination will cost much less and will even give one the

time to explore more than one destination; thus making the most with the least.

Mix and match your flights: Using a combination of airlines can also prove to be an effective cost saving strategy. Different airlines charge differently on similar routes.

Mix and match the airlines to find the best price combination to suit the pocket.

Fly from an alternative airport: Even though there may be an airport at the doorstep, don’t rule out the possibility that it may be cheaper to fly from one slightly further away. It may work out cheaper, even with the cost of a train or bus ticket to reach the alternative airport.

Bring your own food on board: Many low-cost airlines charge for food on board and it is often extremely pricey. Save yourself a small fortune by taking along snacks instead of buying them on the plane or in the airport.

Beat the baggage fees: If you’re worried about excess baggage charges, why not

wear your extra items instead of cramming them into your case? There are some fantastic products on the market that let you take additional belongings on your person ensuring they won’t count as excess baggage.

Weigh your luggage before you leave home: Some of us get to the airport to find we’re over our baggage limit and end up paying inflated charges. Avoid this by weighing your bag before you leave home and take out any unnecessary items if you find you’re over the limit.

Try a private room instead of a hotel: Over the last few years there’s been an explosion in websites that allow locals to rent out their sofas, spare rooms, whole apartments and even gardens! Sites like AirBnB have transformed accommodation options, and for travellers, the experience can be far more rewarding than a stay in a chain hotel, as well as being cheaper.

Eat like a local: Not only is tasting new cuisine part of the joy of travelling but you’re likely to eat far better as well as saving money, when you eat like a local. From $1 bowls of noodles in Vietnam to backstreet French bistros, produce is usually locally sourced and tastier, rather than imported.

Save on foreign currency exchange: Withdrawing money abroad can cost a lot in charges. Although using a debit card can be cheaper than a credit card, be aware that most banks will charge for each cash withdrawal on top of a commission fee.

Best practice is to take out larger sums so you’re charged less frequently, only take care and don’t keep all your money in the same place. Getting your currency before you arrive at the airport is also a way of securing the best rate you can and works out a lot cheaper.

(Source: IANS)

younger class of kids. And doesn’t that make sense?

After all, the atomic unit of teen culture is the movie quote—“tis but a flesh wound” or “if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball”—and a Vine was often nothing more than a free-floating movieless quote, attached to a comment thread and indexed by URL. Take “back at it again at the Krispy Kreme,” above.

That Vine is an instantly memorable quote—but it’s also a complete story, almost. We meet a character.

We see him do something crazy. And then (another formal twist) the climax isn’t even in the Vine. We’re left to imagine the sign shattering and the stunned Krispy Kreme Kustomers, and meanwhile the Vine has spun forward to set up his jump again. Without the smartphone, this is a ridiculous accident; with the smartphone, he’s a hero.

Only a Vine this good could prompt a many-thousands word article at New York magazine about what actually happened at that mall in Matthews, North Carolina. Only a Vine this memorable could seed the tagline of a teen viral video two years later, “Damn Daniel.”

Vine even gave Merriam-Webster its 2015 Word of The Year: On fleek, a phrase which was coined on Vine.

And coined by a black teen girl, in particular. The genius devisers of Vine culture were not just young people, but young people of color, whose ideas dominated the service in a way akin to no other mass tech platform. Black Twitter is a vital vein of the larger social network, for instance, but it’s only one

part of the whole; teens of color, meanwhile, credibly created Vine’s mainstream. Black teens took Vine (and their friends and their fans) into their classrooms, school buses, and bedrooms, which turned Vine into one vanguard of a larger and ongoing shift of mass cultural attention to women and people of color.

In that unresolved revolution, later historians might say Vine played as large a role as Tumblr and even Twitter itself. (But see unresolved: In Vine’s case, all that culture building partly served to enrich Twitter’s board, which remains overwhelmingly white and male.)

Nothing gold can stay.

Vine had been struggling against Instagram and Snapchat, the new kings of teen video. In May of this year, a third-party firm noted that Vine engagement was at an all-time low. And many Vine stars—those young adults who achieved larger notoriety off their stunts and good looks— had already taken Vine links out of their bios as they moved to larger, higher profile, and more lucrative platforms, including YouTube and Facebook.

A different company might have saved Vine— or at least sold it off. But Twitter, no average tech firm, has lately been mired in its own dramas. Since going public in October 2013, it’s limped from one crisis to another, never achieving the Facebook or Google-like profit margins that investors dreamed of—or, for that matter, profit at all. It has tried out one new feature after another, each with the goal of expanding Twitter’s core user base; none have suc-

ceeded. Now, it is laying off 9 percent of its staff— presumably this includes almost all of the Vine employees—as it staggers toward financial health.

Had Twitter chosen to listen to its users a few years ago, Vine might be alive today. As prominent women and people of color have been telling Twitter for at least two years, the service has a mass harassment problem. Twitter has never substantively tried to fix this issue. When it went looking for buyers earlier this month, some familyfriendly bidders—including Disney—wouldn’t touch it because of its reputation for out-of-control racist, misogynist, and anti-Semitic cyberbullying.

Twitter now says it is working on tools to combat that problem and that some of the features targeting it should be released next month. It’s long made promises like this, though, so I’ll believe when I see it. And the change in approach wasn’t enough to save Vine—meaning that one of the most generative communities of people of color online was destroyed in part by Twitter Nazis, on Twitter Inc.’s watch.

And with Vine’s death comes the larger passing of an era of the social internet. Instagram, Vine’s more corporate and more profitable older cousin, has never matched Vine’s ecstatic creativity, but it’s what we’re left with now.

The sprawling and manic and often kind social web has been conquered by Facebook, and what lies immediately in front of us seems duller, more reactionary, and more clearly corporate than what we just passed through.

She is a Superhero!

The protagonists in these comics are singular women without any superpowers, interesting and fierce

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he doesn’t rocket through the sky, or have luscious hair flying behind her, nor does her spandex outfit shape her breasts.

Instead, this superhero has her hair tied in a rather unglamorous bun, with the pallu of her Navvari sari firmly tucked in. And she doesn’t rely on a superpower to fight evil; she terrorizes wrongdoers with her extreme rage and a vocabulary of Marathi swear words. Comic world, make way for Angry Maushi.

She belongs to India’s latest brand of female superheroes — characters that are heroic in a very human way.

Take for instance Widhwa Ma and Andhi Behen, a mother and daughter duo, who flick away their cigarettes in style as they go about solving mysteries. And then there is Priya of Priya’s Shakti, a rape survivor who rides a tiger and urges people to bring a change in the society.

While these characters have been around for a couple of years, their consistent rise in popularity reflects a growing acceptance of female characters, who don’t belong to the spandex-sporting stereotype. It also points to the increase in female readership in an industry where women protagonists are rare.

Abhijeet Kini, the author of Angry Maushi, wanted to create a character that was symbolic of Mumbai.

You don’t argue with Angry Maushi, and heaven help you if you’re in her way on the train back home. She stalks the streets of Mumbai, beating up crooked politicians and other miscreants. Her biggest enemy is Mr Minister, who plans on taking over Mumbai, hell, and then the rest of the world — in that order. “Spandex-clad or mythological characters don’t strike a chord with today’s audience,” says Kini, and that “she’s angry about the same things everyone else is” what makes her relatable.

Priya of Priya’s Shakti,

on the other hand, tries to anger people out of complacency. Producer and cocreator Ram Devineni was in Delhi when the horrific gang rape of 2012 took place.

Propelled by the need to challenge deep-rooted patriarchal views, Devineni, in collaboration with illustrator Dan Goldman, conceived of Priya. After Priya is raped, she turns to goddess Parvati for help. “She gives Priya the strength to conquer her fears, and she goes on to motivate other people to challenge gender-based violence,” says Devineni.

In the story, Priya confronts the tiger that has been stalking her, and turns her fear, the tiger, into her power, or shakti. Like Angry Maushi, Priya doesn’t have any real superpowers. “No bulky, god-like beings can ever solve society’s problems,” says Devineni. “There is nothing spectacular about catching a bullet between your teeth,” says Devineni.

Priya’s strength is that she empowers other rape survivors and counters society’s attempts at victim shaming. Priya’s appeal lies in her universality. The series has had over 5,00,000 downloads, of which a twothird are from the US, the UK and Canada, followed by Brazil and Italy. On October 22, Ram Devineni and Dan Goldman, the comic’s illustrator, will be launching Priya’s Mirror, the latest book in the series, which focuses on acid attack survivors.

In this ladies’ club, Widh-

wa Ma, Andhi Behen is an aberrance, for the series makes no social commentary. “I am obsessed with films from the ’70s, where the hero would do unscrupulous things to support his widhwa ma and andhi behen. I decided to flip things around so that they did the saving,” says creator Jatin Varma.

Widhwa Ma, Andhi Behen is for people who love movies — and irreverence.

What could be more shocking than a white sari-clad widow holding a gun, cruising alongside her blind daughter who loves a good swear word or two, in a bright red convertible? They’re detectives solving crimes for Bollywood and interact with characters like Dharmendra and Big Boss Salman. Their first case is to take down the ghost of AK Hangal, who is, in fact, quite alive. “It’s a fun, easy read,” Varma says.

While these ladies may be gaining popularity among comic lovers, they also are a reminder that the comic industry remains male-centric — these series have all been authored by men. And, as Varma confesses, not many men are comfortable writing female characters. Kini intentionally does not give Angry Maushi a husband or children; he admits he didn’t want to be seen as putting women into one role or another.

“I didn’t want people to say if she’s a superhero, why is she cooking? Once you introduce family and children, you’re in danger of making things stereotypical,” he says.

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Revising foR exams - why cramming the night before rarely works Amy Reichelt

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he date for an important exam is looming. You know you have to study for it. Suddenly, it’s the evening before the dreaded date, and you feel like you haven’t studied enough, if at all. It’s time to cram all the information you can into your brain.

We know that to do well in exams, you have to remember your material to then demonstrate your knowledge during the test. But is an intense night of study an effective way of learning?

Learning information that can then be recalled in an often stressful environment is taxing on the brain.

In the best situations we can forget things like our colleague’s names when trying to introduce them to someone.

Re-reading notes is not enough In a high pressure situation our Re-reading through notes is often brains can easily perform sub-opti- not enough to cement information mally. into your memory.

A way of encoding information How to remember more deeply is to write diagrammatic information in the long term notes. Spider diagrams, mind maps In cognitive psychology, a dis- and concept maps are visual stimucrimination can be drawn between li and are more easily remembered deep and shallow processing of infor- than a list of points or blocks of text. mation. This is known as the Levels Condensing information down of Processing theory which was pro- into single word cues can then efposed by researchers in the 1970’s. ficiently trigger the recall of large They argued that “deep processing” amounts of information. led to better long-term memory than Hand writing revision notes can “shallow processing”. also help you learn information more Shallow processed information deeply and helps you to get into the can be encoded by the brain based practice of writing rapidly in an exam on the simple characteristics of the setting. words, rather than the meaning.

Typing on a computer can also inSo the knowledge is only able to be crease distraction, as the temptation stored in short-term memory stores, to procrastinate can increase. where it is only retained for a short period.

A lack of sleep can To process information deeply, affect your performance the meaning and importance of the Last minute revision is synonyinformation is encoded. Relations mous with a poor night’s sleep, if any between concepts are linked togeth- sleep at all. er in an elaborate manner, so more The dilemma presented is that you understanding of the information is can either stay up and study to comable to be demonstrated. mit as much information to memory Due to the more meaningful as possible, or forfeit a night’s sleep. analysis of the material, stronger and Sleep, however, is essential in more long lasting memories can be forming enduring memories – and a formed. lack of sleep is shown to be self deTaking the time to elaborate and feating in terms of memory recall. assign meaning to information alScientists still do not fully underlows easier recall. However, this pro- stand why sleep is so important for cess takes time, and when an entire brain function, but it is known that subject needs to be crammed into sleep is important in the consolidayour memory in a short period of tion of memory. time, deep processing can’t be perThis is the process of forming an formed. enduring memory from short-term So cramming can work for a short- stores into long-term memory. term recall of the information, but this Your brain goes through different information will rapidly be lost. stages of sleep. The deepest stage of

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sleep is known as Slow Wave Sleep and this period is proposed to be vital in the consolidation of memories.

The hippocampus is essential in the consolidation of memories, in particular in forming episodic memories, which requires linking the features of a memory together.

Studies have revealed in mice that the neurons in the hippocampus activated during learning a maze became active again during Slow Wave Sleep. The reactivation of neurons is proposed to strengthen the new connections.

So a good night’s sleep after learning new information is essential to forming memories. It’s beneficial to get sleep rather than staying awake and going into an exam without rest.

Procrastination can pile on the pressure Despite the deadline of exams to study for, mundane tasks suddenly become more appealing, like rearranging a bookshelf, or cleaning your desk, instead of revising for an exam.

The tasks we can occupy ourselves with when procrastinating are typically immediately rewarding but only have a short-term value.

The more important task of studying can lead to a bigger reward - passing the exam, however this reward is not immediate.

Humans tend to be motivated for small, immediate rewards. The value of passing a test certainly outweighs smaller, immediate rewards like playing video games; when the deadline approaches, the importance shifts.

This usually leads to a long night of study before the exam.

It has been suggested procrastinators may be a certain personal-

ity type, in particular people who are thrill seekers.

Leaving an important task until the last minute increases adrenalin and stress hormones, and you can get a rewarding “rush” once it’s complete. This reinforces the idea that such people work better under pressure.

Familiar environment can prompt memory Even if you arrive at the exam the morning after a long night of study, feeling sleep deprived and as if you haven’t learnt enough, all may not be lost.

Being in the exam hall at school, college or university can help you recall information. The familiar environment can increase performance as the stimuli around you can prompt memory.

For example, a science exam being taken in a science classroom can cue memories, these cues aren’t present in a strange environment such as taking an exam in a race course hall.

This is known as the environmental reinstatement effect, which occurs because the location you are in can act as a prompt for past memories.

Environmental cues can trigger memory recall, so something as simple as having your pencil case on your desk while studying and again during the exam could assist in prompting memories.

Tips for remembering information 1. Hand write out your notes instead of typing 2. Get a good night’s sleep before an exam 3. Write a revision plan and start early

Beauty hacks that’ll make your mornings easier

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veryone wants to look good...but who has the time and energy to put in all that effort primping to look good, every day?! Well, that shouldn’t stop us from looking our best ‘coz there are plenty of easy beauty hacks that can help us keep our beauty game strong even on the laziest of days.

1. Ice it up If you feel your face looks a bit dull, then gently rub an ice cube on your skin before putting on any make up. It will make you feel and look fresher than ever.

This is a simple hack to wake up your skin and it barely takes a minute or two!

2. Be it eyes, be it lips To look your best without making any effort you can choose to focus either on your eyes or your lips. If you’re not a lipstick person then put on some liner and mascara to highlight the eyes and go easy on the lips and vice versa.

3. Go natural with nude eyeliner No matter how tired your eyes look, just glide on a nude eyeliner along your lower lashline/water line to make your peepers look fresher and brighter. Not only does it make the eyes look prettier but it also helps you get that no-eyemakeup look on fleek!

4. Plump up your lips with peppermint Add a few drops of peppermint oil to your regular lip gloss or lip balm and get an instant plumping effect on your pout.

It would add an instant freshness to your face by making your lips appear fuller.

5. Gotta get dry shampoo Invest in a dry shampoo and save yourself from worrying about washing your hair on days when you’re feeling like the laziest bum. Just keep it for emergencies for fresher looking locks instantly but try not to get too dependent on it.

6. Cover the trouble with BB cream If foundations and concealers are not your thing, then you need to invest in a good BB cream and use it to get an even complexion while covering up minor marks and skin imperfections. You can try the Maybelline BB cream as it blends well with Indian skin tones.

7. Under the shadow of sunscreen Never ever step out without applying sunscreen. It’s the most common but the best beauty advice you can ever get. Using sunscreen every day will protect you from harmful sun rays and keep your skin protected all day, which means healthy, youthful-looking skin even as you grow older.

“An Ode to Sir Hukato Naga” This.., the first sonnet in my life, a flow of your energy in me, always...

I learned from you, to pray with my co workers after we called it, ‘a day’.

Sir, all your chivalry at work place, I learned from you, in those short moments...

The glory... you gave to our Creator at every pace of your achievements, big or small. that moment, I learned, your departure, Once I grief, soon I smiled... for sure, your soul with Him Praise the Lord! Sir Hukato Naga.

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y wife says I'm listening to too much rap, but I told her: "Imma not, sista, Imma good mista, where my homeboy at?"

Rap "music" was on my mind when a reader told me about blond Californian rapper Kreayshawn who tweeted that tax authorities had emptied her bank account but it was all her accountant's fault.

No doubt she'll soon tell the story in a rap "song": "It ain't ma fault, I blame da accountant, he took ma moola as I said in ma announcement."

And then actress Heather Dubrow told reporters that her accountant enticed her to invest in a dodgy deal which left her broke. I guess she

can reprise her desperate housewife role with real feeling now.

And then a star from TV's Jersey Shore whose "name" is The Situation (presumably his close friends call him "The") also blamed his accountant for his financial problems.

What gives? Are all entertainment accountants criminals? So it seemed, until your columnist did some factchecking. Kreayshawn later removed all her accusatory tweets about her moneyman. The small print in the desperate housewife case revealed that the advisor was not an accountant: she just thought he was. And the advisor to The Situation turned out to have "once been" an accountant.

Accountants are a bit like police officers and teachers: they get unfairly blamed for everything.

When folk say accountants are boring, I point to Gibby Haynes.

He did an accounting degree, was named Accounting Student of the Year and became an auditor at Peat Marwick. But he was also leader of a successful punk rock band that was so wild radio stations refused to play their songs. They are known as BH Surfers (full name unprintable in polite publications like this one). Not sure if he still does accounting.

A question for any accountants reading this came from a Twitter friend who likes to be known as Weird World: "What if dogs are way smarter than we think and they just play dumb so they don't have to work and pay taxes?"

I told him that that was a ridiculous thing to think about dogs. Cats,

yes.

Anyway, back to the topic of rap singing. I'm going to start a band called Condemned Building Don't Enter so that after the posters go up everywhere, the whole population will be living in the streets, ready for my open-air concert.

I'll make a quick fortune, blow it all on hedonism and then blame my accountant. It's the done thing, right?

If you don't get rap, try translating it into British English. Original: "You ain't clockin' me, mutha, hittin' on my honies, brotha, Imma take you out, uh-huh, uh-huh." Translation: "I would rather you didn't look at me, sir, as I demonstrate affection towards my female companions, my friend, or I may have to bring your life to a premature close, what ho."

Edward Jamir: My mom doesn't usually prefer buying from shops owned by locals; the reason for which I was soon going to witness while on a shopping run with her.

Being a wannabe 'Patriotic Naga' lol and in my bid to contribute towards the problem of illegal migrants taking over our economic market, I took mom to some shops owned by my fellow Nagas.

Shop no 1: (entered a Naga brother’s shop for Tata Sky recharge) Me: 'Dada' recharge kuridibi na Dada: (busy watching TV, not even looking at me) kiman laga?

(I answered what he asked) Dada: (Still watching TV, changing channels and along came his friend, started chatting) Me: (Getting impatient) olob joldi kuribina. Diri hoi ase ho Dada: (Gave me an angry look and rudely told me) kuridibo ho... eman joldi toh apni bi nabolabo ola?

Shop number 2: Took mom to a big shop owned by a Naga sister to buy a cardigan for my sister. This time mom took charge.

Mom: 'Bhuni' etu sweater toh kiman ase?

Bhuni: (Mentioned the price. Mom bargained with her for sometime and finally bhuni agreed to slash off Rs 100) Mom: Aya olob komti kuridibina apni bi Bhuni: Nabaribo aunty etu saman toh etu daam bara komti kote bee nababo de. Aji kali laga fashion ase, lobo manu toh bishi ase.( I didn't want to loiter anywhere anymore in search of just a piece of sweater so I convinced mom to buy it anyway from our not so friendly 'bhuni' ) After walking a few distance my eyes fell upon the same exact sweater in a shop owned by a non local. Went and asked the price and there was around Rs. 900 difference from what we paid. Thus, we do find 'etu bara komti' price after all.

I am not generalising everyone but you may notice that many of our own parents prefer to throng non local stores because some of our Naga shop owners do not have courtesy for their customers and their prices are too farfetched. Majority of the shops in and around towns are owned by non locals and it’s growing. They are taking over our business so let’s not make our ego and pride lose what's even ours.

AsaThong Woch: Our local business men/women really need to change the attitude in dealing with the customers. We all know how the non-locals pull the customers by saying, hai boss, sir, uncle, aunty, dada, which one and what style do you want come and check out. After these many years, I do not come across any local trying to humble down that much. They would only stare with zip mouth with an attitude of "if come then come." I don't mean or demand that they (the local) should do or show the same attitude to me or to the other customers but what I mean is that is how the non local make money while we are busy showing attitude and faces to others. What we need to do is, try to win the heart of your customers by your attitude and we the buyers will always remain proud of you and come searching your shop. Another thing is, one will enter in those shops run by non local and if we don't get the colour or size we are searching they will tell us to wait for a seconds/minute, they will go and bring the one we are searching for from their friend’s shop and I am not sure whether we the Nagas are really doing the same or still fear and worry that if his or her local friends next to him or her sell more than him or her (sorry to say if such things don't happen anymore these day). Anyway still not giving up to go searching for our local business brothers and sisters. Thanks to post master for reminding all of us.

Mughapu Swu: "A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so."-M.K Gandhi. This is a great lesson on entrepreneurship by Gandhi that our local shop owners should know.

I think a disproportionate concern for profit making by our local entrepreneurs and the lack of professionalism could be the reason why we avoid them, as this is reflected in their exorbitant prices and poor customer service!

Sharon Chang: Just for the sake of "eat local" and "buy local" theory none of the customers would like to be exploited economically. Why would anyone pay extra for something when you can get it in lesser price? Entrepreneurs should be encouraged provided the deal is fair. More than half of the customers might fall into poorer section to whom even a difference of a rupee will matter but talking about our present scenario the difference is no where less than hundreds or thousands. Of course I am not generalizing all the local business people here and the view is from the experience.

Colo Mero: SOME FACTS about us as customers and business owners: 1. It is true that we have arrogant Naga Business Owners and Salespersons in our markets/shops. They better learn to respect and treat their customers as the most important people otherwise their businesses will die natural deaths sooner or later. But there are also good ones, and so let us not generalise for our own sake. I'm proud to know some of the most polite and professional business people and salespersons who are very much fellow locals. I trust them more and will buy from them any day.

2. It is also true that there are many arrogant and unreasonable local customers around. They want the best products in the cheapest price and if possible even get them for free. Some will even force the shopkeepers or owners to give away their goods at throw away kind of rates. Some facts as to why locals prefer buying from non-local shops may be as follows: Self imposed price or forceful bargains are possible. Some will even take away goods without payments or take a taxi ride and not pay. Make false bills of all kinds for Government Departments, Clubs or Organizations they belong which they will feel uncomfortable to do with fellow locals. Such customers cannot do likewise with fellow Nagas. This category of customers must change their ways and stop spoiling our collective image.

POINT IS there are good and bad ones in both the groups. Let us choose to nurture and show our true Naga hospitality, integrity and respect to one another and to the world as business owners and customers alike.

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are the views of the individual and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of The Naga Blog.

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

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Struggling Indian savers threaten PM Modi's growth ambition

New Delhi/MUMbAi, OctOber 28 (reUterS): For India's dream of taking the baton of global growth from China, its savings rate is flashing a warning sign.

Gross national savings as a percent of the South Asian nation's gross domestic product will slip this year to 30.2%, the lowest since 2003, and fall further over the next two years, the International Monetary Fund forecasts.

Since companies use domestic savings to fund their capital spending, the fall would increase their vulnerability to external risks - such as uncertainty over the U.S. presidential election or the prospect of monetary tightening there - that could staunch the flow of cheap investment dollars to emerging markets such as India.

It's a worry for Prime Minister Narendra Modi who aspires to achieve economic growth rates of 8-9%t - much higher than the current 7.1% - not only to replicate China's growth miracle but also to create jobs for the one million people who join India's workforce every month.

Nearly two-thirds of India's 1.3 billion people are under 35 years old. But to fully harness the biggest youth bulge the world has

consumption through low interest rates. As inflation has fallen in recent years, the Reserve Bank of India has cut its official rates by 175 basis points - and banks have cut deposit rates accordingly.

"In all, I am saving barely a fourth of what I used to," Lal said. "The way things are, I would be lucky if I just manage to provide a quality education to both the kids."

Government officials say the savings rate should bottom out of its own accord thanks to an expected improvement in rural incomes after a good monsoon, better corporate profits and, most importantly, a sharp moderation Customers wait to deposit their money inside a post office in New Delhi on October 21. in retail inflation.

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ever seen, economists say its saving rate needs to be around 35%.

"Raising the savings rate is one of the main preconditions for India's longterm sustainable growth," said Hanna LuchnikavaSchorsch, senior economist for Asia Pacific at IHS Markit.

The tiger economies of China and East Asia realised their economic potential by keeping their savings rates above 30% for decades.

But India's economic travails stem from flagging investment, which as a proportion of GDP fell by

about 3 percentage points to 29.6% of GDP in the June quarter from a year ago.

Its infrastructure development has failed to keep up with the increasing needs of the economy. The World Bank estimates that Asia's third-largest economy needs up to $1.7 trillion to close its infrastructure gap.

THE SIEGE Households are the main source of savings in India, but years of high inflation, weak job creation, sluggish growth in incomes and two successive droughts have left their fi-

nances under siege.

Take Manohar Lal, a 50-year-old marketing manager at an electric cable company in New Delhi, who is struggling to pay for his kids' education and mother's medical bills on his monthly income of $1,120.

While his salary has grown by an average 8% in the past three years, Lal's spending on tuition fees and medicines have shot up by nearly 40%, leaving him with little to save for his retirement.

Pressing him further is India's bid to stimulate

SAVERS VS BORROWERS The slide also poses a dilemma for the RBI, which is widely expected to respond to a decline in inflation to 4.3%t with further cuts in its 6.25 percent policy rate.

Former RBI chief Raghuram Rajan advocated maintaining a real interest rate of 1.5-2 percentage points to protect savers. Still, Rajan said small savers would send him heart-rending letters, complaining about cuts in retail deposit rates.

Following his recent departure, the central bank

lowered its real interest rate target - or the margin by which its policy rate exceeds inflation - to 1.25%.

With the new regime at the RBI under Governor Urjit Patel sounding dovish, the odds are high the target would come down further. Globally interest rates are on a downward trajectory, with some central banks in the developed world using negative rates to boost consumption.

"If you continue to compress real rates, savings will fall and dependence on capital inflows will rise, which can get risky if oil prices abruptly shoot up," said Sonal Varma, Chief India Economist at Nomura.

A search for higher yields by India's small savers has reduced growth in bank deposits to its lowest level in 53 years. Cash held by households has, meanwhile, surged 40% from last year to $266 billion.

Low returns on bank deposits are also goading some like Madhav Narayan to resort to riskier ways to augment their incomes.

The 45-year-old school teacher in New Delhi lends a part of his $745 monthly salary in unsecured shortterm loans. The return he makes is twice the rates on bank deposits, but he also runs a greater risk of losing money.

Pak spy was trying to get info for a possible terror strike: official New Delhi, OctOber 28 (Pti): Mehmood Akhtar, the Pakistan High Commission official who was caught for espionage, was trying to gather classified information on deployment of Indian security forces along the western coast, possibly to carry out a strike similar to the 2008 Mumbai terror attack.

Akhtar was trying to gather information pertaining to deployment of security forces along the western coast, Sir Creek and Kutch areas and also about military installations in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa, a Home Ministry official said.

"There have been intelligence inputs that Pakistan's ISI was planning to send terrorists through the sea route to carry out a Mumbai-type terror attack in India. Akhtar's activities and his interests to gather information about the western coast buttress the intelligence inputs," the official said.

166 people lost their lives when 10 terrorists, who came through the Arabian sea from Karachi, carried out mayhem for three days in Mumbai in November 2008.

Maulana Ramzan and Subhash Jangir were handing over information to Akhtar about security forces deployment in the Sir Creek area and Kutch region when they were arrested yesterday.

The Pakistani official was to hand over the duo Rs 50,000 for getting information, the official said.

Before being let off because of diplomatic immunity, Akhtar confessed to police about his role in the spy ring.

Delhi Police has also done video-recording of his statement. In his statement to police, Akhtar admitted that he was part of the spy ring for more than a year.

He has named a few officers of the Pakistani High Commission whom he was reporting to with all the information but police were yet to take action against them as there was no direct evidence as of now.

Acting on a tip-off, Delhi Police yesterday nabbed Akhtar, along with Ramzan and Jangir, at Delhi Zoo while a visa agent from Rajasthan, Shoaib, had managed to escape. Shoaib was detained near Jodhpur last evening and after being brought here, he was arrested.

While Akhtar was yesterday declared persona non grata, Subhash and Maulana have been arrested on charges of passing on sensitive information and defence documents and deployment details of BSF along the Indo-Pak border. They were yesterday sent to 12-day police custody.

Supreme Court slams Centre for 2 civilians killed in Pak firing; BSF says it has killed 15 Pak soldiers BSF Additional Director General Arun sitting over judicial appointments JAMMU, OctOber 28 (Pti): As military tricts of Jammu and Kashmir.

"At 1720 hour yesterday, Pakistan Rang- Kumar said as per the ammunition used, it confrontation increased on the border, two

New Delhi, OctOber 28 (iANS): The Supreme Court on Friday slammed the Centre for sitting over the top court collegium's recommendations on the appointment of high court judges, saying the action amounted to paralysing and locking out the judiciary.

Telling the government that no attempt to paralyse the judicial institution will be tolerated, a bench of Chief Justice T.S. Thakur, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice L. Nageswara Rao said all courtrooms on the ground floor of the Karnataka High Court building were locked for want of judges.

The Chief Justice pointed out that the recommendations for appointment of judges to the Allahabad High Court were pending with the government for the past nine months. The Chief Justice said the collegium recommended 18 names, but the central government pruned the list to eight and now the court is being told that two names have been cleared.

He said if the government had any problems with any name, it could send the same back, but it cannot sit over it, pointing out that the high courts were functioning at 50 per cent of their sanctioned strength. "We had a situation when there were judges but

no courtrooms; today, we have courtrooms but no judges. Half of the courtrooms in the Karnataka High Court are locked. You can as well have the whole courts locked and close down justice," the Chief Justice said.

"It is not anybody's ego. It is the institution that suffers," the Chief Justice told Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, reminding him that he was the leader of the Bar and will have to play a constructive role.

"You want to lock out justice," the Chief Justice asked Rohatgi, who said that nonfinalisation of the Memorandum of Procedure was coming in the way of the government in clearing the recommendations. At this, Chief Justice Thakur asked how then had the government cleared other names, pointing out that in the absence of a new Memorandum of Procedure the appointments could be made on the basis of the old MoP. As Rohatgi said that the old MoP was contrary to the Supreme Court judgement that struck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) and that the object of the new MoP was to bring the appointment procedure under light, the Chief Justice said: "If you (government) insist that the MoP must be finalised before the

appointment (of judges) then we will sit in a Constitution Bench and say the government will not be allowed to scuttle judicial appointments till it frames a new MoP." Reminding the Attorney General of the Union Law Minister's statement that non-finalisation of the MoP would not come in the way of appointment of judges, Chief Justice Thakur said: "The MoP is your red herring. The Law Minister and the government has repeatedly told us that the process of finalisation of the MoP will not stall judicial appointments process. Now, are you saying there is a deadlock on the MoP and you want it cleared first before appointing judges?

"We don't want to clash with you. But if you go on like this, we will form a five-judge Bench and say you are scuttling appointments," Chief Justice Thsakur told the Attorney General as the later said that the "idea is not to scuttle the appointments".

"If everything can be done without an MoP, why do you need the MoP in the first place?" The Chief Justice said: "They (appointments) are languishing. When the collegium has cleared, why are you sitting on them?" The court directed further hearing in the matter on November 11.

civilians were killed in Jammu region of India in cross-border shelling and firing overnight even as BSF today claimed to have killed 15 Pakistani soldiers over the last one week.

BSF, which primarily guards the International Border with Pakistan, said it had also foiled two infiltration bids in Samba district two days back. Besides, BAT (Border Action Team) attacks from Pakistani side along the Line of Control have also been thwarted during the past 24 hours.

Firing mortar shells and using automatic weapons, Pakistani troops targeted civilian areas and forward security posts along the International Border and Line of Control in Jammu, Kathua, Poonch and Rajouri dis-

ers started unprovoked heavy firing and shelling in Kathua sector of Jammu which further spread to Hiranagar and Samba. It continued till 0500 hours today in the area of 24 BSF posts," a senior BSF officer said.

"In the Pakistani shelling, one civilian died in Khour belt of Pallanwala sector today," Jammu Deputy Commissioner Simrandeep Singh said, adding another civilian was injured in R S Pura sector.

Similarly, one woman Usma Bi, aged 50 years, was killed in shelling by Pakistan on Gohlad village in Mendhar tehsil of Poonch district today, Defence spokesman said.

Another civilian was injured in area, the reports said.

seems Pakistani Army Army is backing the Rangers and has taken over the posts of paramilitary force, which is further cause of escalation.

Kumar said "they (Pakistani side) are resorting to heavy firing and shelling and we are giving them befitting reply." He said BSF has inflicted heavy damage on Pakistani side.

"As far the number of casualities on other side is concerned, which our men have seen through our eyes and instruments, 15 Pakistani soldiers have been killed after the sniping incident of Constable Gurnam Singh (on October 21)," he said. Gurnam was injured in the sniper firing and then succumbed to the injuries.

Poop falling from skies! NGT orders inspection New Delhi, OctOber 28 (Pti): Imagine human excreta falling on you from airplanes flying above!! A former senior armyman has moved the National Green Tribunal alleging dumping of human waste by aircraft over residential areas near the IGI airport here, which led the green panel to order an inspection of his South Delhi house.

Lt Gen (Retd) Satwant Singh Dahiya has sought criminal proceedings against commercial airlines and levy of hefty fines on them for endangering the health of residents, terming the act as violation of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Noting the submis-

sions of the petitioner, the green panel directed Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) to depute a senior environmental engineer to inspect his house and check the existence of human excreta on the walls.

It also asked CPCB that if excreta was found, samples should be collected for analysis and the report placed before the tribunal.

A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Swatanter Kumar also issued notices to the Ministries of Environment and Forests and Civil Aviation and CPCB, seeking their replies within two weeks.

Plane toilets store human waste in special tanks. These are

normally disposed of by ground crew once the plane lands, but aviation officials acknowledge that lavatory leaks can occur in the air at times. There have been instances, including in India, when people have been injured.

In his petition, Vasant Enclave resident Dahiya has sought creation of a 24-hour helpline for immediate reporting of the incident and a monitoring mechanism to check that no aircraft drops "human soil or excreta" while landing.

"For past more than the week in the early morning, we found that walls and floors of terrace of our house splattered with large

patches of excreta dumped by aircraft flying in front of Palam airport at night. This is the second time this has happened.

Last time it had occurred in early October when we had spent Rs 50,000 to get the entire exterior resurfaced with fresh paint.

"Diwali is only few days away and being the festive season having recently finished fresh coating of the house exterior at considerable experience to clean up the premises. We are again faced with having our walls completed spattered with waste. We are retired people and cannot afford to have this defacement everyday," the plea said.

Birth control pills may increase the risk of stroke: Experts New Delhi, OctOber 28 (iANS): Apart from obesity, birth control pills and additional factors such as smoking, high blood pressure or diabetes may put women at increased risk for the most common type of stroke, health experts suggest.

Oral contraceptives increase the risk of ischemic strokes, caused by a blood clot that blocks or plugs a blood vessel in the brain.

"Women who take birth control pills are slightly at higher risk of stroke as a result of the high estradiol content in these contraceptive pills, which also increases the risk of blood clots," Vipul Gupta, Additional Director, Neurointervention Surgery, and Co-Director, Stroke Unit, Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon, told IANS. "The risk also increases for a woman during pregnancy as the increased blood pressure puts stress on the heart. Also migraine can cause chances of stroke three times up in women," Satnam Singh Chhabra, Head Neuro and Spine Surgeon, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, added.

Women who smoke are also advised against taking birth con-

trol pills as this may increase the risk of a stroke.

Stroke is a serious medical emergency causing premature death and disability. It occurs when blood flow to an area of brain is cut off; brain cells are deprived of oxygen and begin to die.

"A stroke occurs when blood supply to a part of the brain is suddenly cut off. The brain cells in the immediate area begin to die because they stop getting the oxygen and nutrients they need to func-

that area of the brain such as memory and muscle control are lost.

The treatment for stroke may also depend on its type. An ischemic stroke in many cases can be reversed through medicines but only if it is detected within three hours of its occurrence. Treating a hemorrhagic stroke involves finding the cause of bleeding in the brain and controlling it.

"Depending on the damage and overall health of a patient, one can regain the lost abilities to some

October 29 is World Stroke Day tion," Gupta explained.

Apart from the ischemic stroke, there is the hemorrhagic stroke caused by a blood vessel that bursts and bleeds into the brain.

"Rheumatic heart disease and atrial fibrillation in younger females is emerging as major cause of strokes," M.G. Pillai, Head of the Cardiology Department at Nanavati Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai, told IANS. When brain cells die during a stroke, the abilities controlled by

extent through rehabilitation and medicines," Chhabra explained.

Unlike ischemic strokes, hemorrhagic strokes aren't treated with antiplatelet medicines and blood thinners because these medicines can worsen the bleeding.

Advanced scans, such as CT angiography, perfusion imaging and MRI are also done to evaluate the site of blockage and quantify the extent of the brain that can be salvaged.

Gains can happen quickly or

over the time depending on various factors like the area of the affected part, how much is affected and the patient's motivation. The most rapid recovery usually occurs during the first three to four months of a stroke.

"The cure for a stroke depends on the amount of area damaged. If the damage is fatal then it may take months to heal and if the damage is normal, the patient may recover within a week or two," Kishan Raj, Consultant Neurologist at IBS Hospital, Faridabad, explained.

According to experts, 80% of all strokes are preventable. This starts with managing key risk factors, including high blood pressure, smoking, atrial fibrillation and physical inactivity. Strokes are life-changing events that can affect a person both temporarily or permanently.

After a stroke, successful recovery will often involve specific rehabilitative activities such as speech therapy, physical therapy to help a person re-learn movements and coordination along with occupational therapy to help people improve their ability to carry out routine daily activities.

A third of strokes caused by air pollution, lifestyle diseases in India

New Delhi, OctOber 28 (iANS): As India continue to report 16 lakh cases of stroke every year, health experts have said that at least one third of these cases are caused by mere modifiable lifestyle factors and deteriorating air quality.

A study concluded by the city-based Fortis Escorts Heart Institute reveals that lifestyle problems such as depression, chronic anxiety and job stress trigger the brain and heart strokes among people, including youth.

It was found that among the challenges faced by the patients who survive stroke are short-term memory loss, difficulty in thinking and depression.

"Pollution in the air thickens the blood and hardens arteries, known as atherosclerosis. Once this process starts, the plaque is built up in the arteries, narrowing them down and causing strokes," said P.N. Renjen, Senior Consultant Neurologist at Indraprastha Apollo, and added this also raises the blood pressure, boosting the risk of clot formation in the brain.

Renjen said that as conditions in India are severe, job stress, anxiety and depres-

sion and other lifestyle issues trigger the stroke in a much faster way.

World Stroke Day is on October 29.

"The challenge is huge with 26 million stroke survivors living with significant disabilities that impede their ability to carry out daily living tasks. One in six people will have a stroke in their lifetime. The symptoms of stroke occur all of a sudden and patient will benefit if these are recognised and treated early," said Vipul Gupta, Director of neurointervention at Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon.

Stating that the stroke is the third most common cause of death and disability in India, Gupta said: "Every minute if stroke is untreated, the average patient loses 1.9 million neuron. Golden hour of stroke is first six hours, and urgent treatment is the key."

Talking about the new developments in strokes, Gupta said that women who take birth control pills are at a slightly higher risk of stroke. "Risk increases for a woman during pregnancy as the increased blood pressure puts stress on the heart. Also, migraine can cause chances of stroke three times up in women," added Gupta.

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Rohingya women say Myanmar soldiers raped them amid crackdown on militants YANGON, OctOber 28 (reuters): Rohingya Muslims say Myanmar soldiers raped or sexually assaulted dozens of women in a remote village in the northwest of the country during the biggest upsurge in violence against the persecuted minority in four years.

Eight Rohingya women, all from U Shey Kya village in Rakhine State, described in detail how soldiers last week raided their homes, looted property and raped them at gun point.

Reuters interviewed three of the women in person and five by telephone, and spoke to human rights groups and community leaders. Not all the claims could be independently verified, including the total number of women assaulted.

Soldiers have poured into the Maungdaw area since Oct. 9, after an insurgent group of Rohingyas that the government believes has links to Islamists overseas launched coordinated attacks on several border guard posts.

Citing evidence garnered by interrogating suspected militants, the government blamed the attacks on an armed group it says is made up of some 400 Rohingya fighters.

The militants, who have identified themselves as the previously unknown Al-Yakin Mujahidin in videos posted online, are accused of killing nine police officers and five soldiers, and of stealing a cache of weapons.

The crisis in northern Rakhine marks the biggest challenge Myanmar’s six-month-old civilian government has faced and raises questions over de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s ability to maintain control of the country’s military, observers and diplomats say.

Suu Kyi’s relationship with the army remains strained because of the constitution, drafted by the military in 2008, which bars her from the presidency. It also guarantees the army key ministerial posts, including defence, border affairs and home affairs.

Children recycle goods from the ruins of a market which was set on fire at a Rohingya village outside Maugndaw in Rakhine state, Myanmar on October 27. (REUTERS Photo)

Diplomats and United Nations officials say privately that the Oct. 9 attacks and subsequent crackdown have shattered years of work rebuilding trust between the Muslim and Buddhist communities in Rakhine after ethnic and religious violence broke out there in 2012.

“THEY TORE MY CLOTHES” A forty-year-old woman from U Shey Kya told Reuters that four soldiers raped her and assaulted her 15-year-old daughter, while stealing jewelry and cash from the family.

“They took me inside the house. They tore my clothes and they took my head scarf off,” the mother of seven told Reuters in an interview outside her home, a cramped bamboo hut.

“Two men held me, one holding each arm, and another one held me by my hair from the back and they raped me.”

Zaw Htay, the spokesman for Myanmar President Htin Kyaw,

denied the allegations.

“There’s no logical way of committing rape in the middle of a big village of 800 homes, where insurgents are hiding,” Zaw Htay said.

Zaw Htay telephoned a military commander in Maungdaw, whose name he did not disclose, during an interview with Reuters this week. The commander said troops conducted a sweep of U Shey Kya village on Oct. 19, but left without committing abuses.

The military did not respond to an emailed request for comment about the accusations.

Prize laureate has faced international criticism for not doing enough to ease the plight of around 1.1 million Rohingya living in Rakhine, most of whom are denied Myanmar citizenship.

After the first attacks, Suu Kyi urged the army to act in accordance with the law.

The military - which oversaw decades of authoritarian rule and now presents itself as a responsible partner in Myanmar’s transition - has declared an “operation zone” in northern Rakhine.

Residents and activists say civilians are being caught up in the security crackdown, and say scores more have been killed SECURITY CRACKDOWN The escalation of violence than the 33 alleged attackers that threatens to derail Suu Kyi’s goal official reports have acknowlof ending years of ethnic war in edged.

Myanmar, undermining the nation’s surprisingly smooth demo- “MUSLIM PROPAGANDA” cratic transition that started a year U Shey Kya village’s official ago with her historic election win, administrator, Armah Harkim, observers and diplomats say. said he was working to verify the Though feted as a champion latest accounts, adding most resiof democracy, the Nobel Peace dents believed them to be true.

Zaw Htay, the president’s spokesman, accused residents of fabricating the allegations as part of a disinformation campaign led by the insurgents, which he compared to the tactics of Islamist groups Islamic State and al-Qaeda.

Colonel Sein Lwin, the police chief for Rakhine State, dismissed the claims as “propaganda for Muslim groups.”

Reuters reporters traveled to U Shey Kya village on Thursday - passing nearby villages where dozens of houses were recently burned down - and interviewed three women who said they were raped by soldiers.

Five other women from U Shey Kya have also detailed in a series of telephone interviews how Myanmar soldiers raped them. The accounts are backed up by at least three male residents of the village and a Rohingya community leader in Maungdaw who has gathered reports about the incident.

The residents said some 150 soldiers arrived near U Shey Kya on Oct. 19.

Most male residents left the village as they believed they would be suspected as insurgents. The women said they stayed behind in the belief the military would burn down empty homes.

Soldiers dismantled the fences around homes, residents said, removing possible hiding places as part of what authorities called a “clearance operation.”

A 30-year-old woman described being knocked off her feet by soldiers and repeatedly raped.

“They told me, ‘We will kill you. We will not allow you to live in this country,’” she said.

The women said soldiers took gold, money and other property, and spoiled rice stores with sand.

“We can’t move to another village to find medical care,” said a 32-year-old survivor. “I don’t have clothes now or food to eat.

It was all destroyed. I’m feeling ashamed and scared.”

IS using tens of thousands as human shields in Mosul: UN GeNeVA, OctOber 28 (reuters): Islamic State forces in Iraq have abducted “tens of thousands” of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as human shields in the city as Iraqi government troops advance, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.

The ultra-hardline Sunni militants, known as ISIL, killed at least 232 people on Wednesday, including 190 former Iraqi security forces (ISF) and 42 civilians who refused to obey their orders, U.N. human rights spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said.

“Credible reports suggest that ISIL has been forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes in sub-districts around Mosul and have forcibly relocated numbers of civilians inside the city itself since the operation began on the 17th of October to restore Iraqi government control over Mosul,” Shamdasani told a briefing.

Nearly 8,000 families, of roughly six people each, were abducted in sub-districts including Shura, she said.

“ISIL’s depraved cowardly strategy is to attempt to use the presence of civilian hostages to

render certain points, areas or military forces immune from military operations, effectively using tens of thousands of women, men and children as human shields,” Shamdasani said.

“Many of those who refused to comply were shot on the spot,” she said.

The reports, corroborated by the U.N., were “by no means comprehensive but indicative of violations”, she added.

Iranian-backed Iraqi Shi’ite paramilitary groups are about to launch an offensive on Islamic State positions west of Mosul, as-

Jesus Christ’s burial slab uncovered for first time JerusAlem, OctOber 28 (IANs): Researchers have uncovered a stone slab in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre venerated as the resting place of Jesus Christ, a media report said.

The slab, which has been covered by marble cladding since at least 1555 A.D., has been exposed as part of a major restoration project at the church, according to the National Geographic magazine. “The marble covering of the tomb has been pulled back, and we were surprised by the amount of fill material beneath it,” Fredrik Hiebert, archaeologist-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and a partner in the restoration project, told the magazine. “It will be a long scientific analysis, but we will finally be able to see the original rock surface on which, according to tradition, the body of Christ was laid.”

The rock surface, or “burial bed” was hewn from the side of a limestone cave following Christ’s crucifixion, according to Christian tradition.

Christ’s resurrection from the dead is a core tenet of Christian belief - the gospels say that the tomb was found to be empty by those who visited it a few days after the crucifixion, Fox News reported.

The “burial bed” is now part of a small structure called the Edicule in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the National Geographic said.

The Edicule, rebuilt between 1808 and 1810 following its destruction by fire, is being restored by scientists from the National Technical University of Athens. The restoration, which includes the Edicule’s interior tomb, is being overseen by the National Technical University’s Chief Scientific Supervisor Antonia Moropoulu.

“We are at the critical moment for rehabilitating the Edicule,” Moropoulou told National Geographic, adding “The techniques we’re using to document this unique monument will enable the world to study our findings as if they themselves were in the tomb of Christ.”

Yangon women should avoid pregnancy in next six months due to the Zika virus NAYPYItAW/YANGON, OctOber 28 (reuters): Myanmar said on Friday it will advise women in Yangon to avoid getting pregnant in the next six months to protect them from the Zika virus after the first case was confirmed in Myanmar’s largest city.

Zika infections in pregnant women have been shown to cause microcephaly - a severe birth defect in which the head and brain are undersized - as well as other brain abnormalities. The connection be-

tween Zika and microcephaly first came to light in Brazil, which has confirmed more than 1,900 cases of microcephaly.

“The Ministry of Health will issue a statement soon advising married women in Yangon to avoid having pregnancies in six months,” ministry director general Soe Lwin Nyein told reporters in the capital of Naypyitaw.

A pregnant foreign woman was diagnosed with the mosquito-borne virus on Thursday, state media said.

sisting in the military campaign to take back the city, a spokesman said on Friday.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has voiced deep concern at reports that some individuals in the areas south of Mosul have “embarked on revenge killings and have vowed on television that there would be ‘eye-for-eye’ revenge against those who sided with ISIL”, Shamdasani said.

Some villagers have also been prevented from returning to their villages due to their perceived support of ISIL, she said.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

STATE CHILD PROTECTION SOCIETY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE NAGALAND: KOHIMA

SCPS/ GRH-PT3/2016 Dated Kohima, the 28th of October 2016

In pursuance to the advertisement NO. SCPS/ ADVT-01/2015 Dated Kohima, the 15th of Sept 2016 and the interview conducted from 24 th October to 27th October 2016, the following are the selected candidates for the various posts at Observation Homes under the State Child Protection Society, Nagaland.

SUPERINTENDENT: Roll No. 64 - Aolemla Imsong 1st Roll No. 41 - Kezevinuo Thepa 2nd Roll No. 95 - Pito Samuel Sumi 3rd Roll No. 20 - Meziwang Zeliang 4th Roll No. 123 - Ajabu Tungoe 5th PROBATION OFFICER: Roll No. 7 - Neiteo Koza Roll No. 40 - Aboli G Swu Roll No 63 - Arenlong Longkumer Roll. No 02 - Richard Thong Roll No. 39 - Loziivi

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

COUNSELLOR: Roll No. 15 Roll No. 36 Roll No. 11 Roll No. 19 Roll No. 35 -

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Bokatoli Ikali Wokhami P. Angchai Imsanenla Ao Khreimeno Naprantsu

NURSE: Roll No.17 - Pilu 1st Roll No.38 - Kute Therie 2nd Roll No. 08 - Nubalu Lohe 3rd Roll No. 27 - Thejaseno Ngusanyü 4th Roll No. 07 - N. Libeno Ovung 5th The selected candidates are to report to the SCPS Office on 1st of November 2016 at 11 AM in person positively.

(Z. NYUSIETHO NYUTHE), Society Director State Child Protection Society, Nagaland: Kohima

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Chinese welcome Xi as the “core”

China’s President Xi Jinping speaks at a news conference after the closing of G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on September 5. (REUTERS File Photo)

beIJING, OctOber 28 (reuters): Hailing “mighty Uncle Xi”, Chinese people have taken to social media using an old imperial term to welcome President Xi Jinping’s naming by the Communist Party as its “core”, despite party efforts to limit his cult of personality.

Following a four-day plenum, the party late on Thursday gave Xi the title “core”, putting him on par with past strongmen like Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, though it also signalled his power would not be absolute by underscoring the importance of collective leadership.

While a cult of personality had begun to form around Xi, he has moved to stop practices including adoring songs on the internet and references to him in state media as “Uncle Xi”, sources with ties to the leadership say.

Indeed, the party’s lengthy communique after the plenum said “boasting” about leaders should be banned and all publicity about them based on fact.

That message has seemingly been lost on enthusiastic users of the Weibo social media service, where posts about Xi praising him as “mighty Uncle Xi” - echoing an expression used to greet an emperor - have appeared despite online censorship blocking searches for the expression.

“With Uncle Xi as the party’s core, our Chinese dream will definitely be realised,” wrote one user, referring to a broad, vaguely defined policy of Xi’s to build a strong and prosperous country. The Global Times tabloid, published by the party’s official People’s Daily, said Xi’s role as the core “in fact has long been in the minds of the Chinese people”.

“All Chinese know clearly that the Xi’s leadership has played a critical role in the changes in China in the past four years,” it said in an editorial, pointing to the success of his corruption fight and in tackling issues like terrorism.

“It was beyond anybody’s belief that corruption could be tamed and officialdom would progress toward less corruption a few years ago. But it is happening in China.”

Dozens of senior officials have been jailed in the campaign against graft. Xi has warned the problem is so severe it could affect the party’s grip on power. That has made him immensely popular with ordinary Chinese, even if people who spoke to Reuters on Friday in a traditional hutong alleyway not far from the Zhongnanhai leadership compound were not entirely sure what the term “core” meant.

“He’s done things the other leaders could not do, and that’s really fight corruption,” said deliveryman Wang Hui, 40, who said he had not seen any news about the plenum the night before. For housewife Cui Huiping, Xi is simply a charmer. “He’s so handsome. Such manly charm. It’s very attractive,” she said, before hurrying off to do some laundry.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DEPARTMENT OF POWER

OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER: TRANSMISSION AND GENERATION NAGALAND: KOHIMA

NO.CEL/TB/TRANS-NH-29/2010-11/489

Dated Kohima the 28th Oct’2016

INVITATION OF BID FOR SHIFTING AND RELOCATION OF 132kV S/C TRANSMISSION LINE TOWER ALONG NH-29 TO FACILITATE FOUR LANNING 1.1.0 DEPT OF POWER, GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND with the concurrence of Government of Nagaland invites tender for Shifting and Re-Location of 132kV S/C Transmission Line Tower along NH-29 to facilitate Four Lanning.

1.2.0 The project shall be executed under deposit work.

Estimated Cost in Name of the work Brief Description of Scope of Work Lakhs of Rupees Shifting and Re-Lo- Scope of work covered under the packages cation of 132kV S/C includes design, engineering, manufacture, Transmission Line testing, supply, transportation to site, storTower along NH-29 to age, insurance, handling, survey, erection 1291.36 facilitate Four Lanning. and testing & commissioning as per specification. Complete detail will be covered in the bid document 1.3.0 The aforesaid scope of work is only indicative. The detailed scope is described in the Bidding documents, which are available for inspection & sale, at the address mentioned at para 1.11.0 as per details given below: Inspection From 2nd Nov.2016 – 5th Nov.2016 (between-10:00hrs to & Sale of Bid documents 15:00hrs on all working days) Cost of Bid Documents Rs 10000/1.4.0 Bidding Documents are non-transferable and can be obtained by interested firms or their authorized representatives on submission of a written application and on payment of non-refundable specified amount. Issuance of the Bidding Documents, however, shall not automatically mean that such firm fulfills/meets the Qualifying Requirements.

1.5.0 The bidder must have designed, manufactured, type tested and supplied 132kV and above transmission line materials which are in successful operation for at least two years as on date of bid opening. The detailed Qualifying Requirements (QR) are given in the Bidding Documents.

1.6.0 Bidders should have a Minimum Average Annual Turnover of Rs. 1200.00 Lakhs for the best three years out of the last five financial years.

1.7.0 Bids must be delivered to the Dept. of Power at the address mentioned at Para 1.11.0 below. Bid Documents will consist of 3(Three) parts – Commercial, Technical and Price. Whoever qualifies for Commercial Bid will take part in Technical Bid. Bidders who qualified for both Commercial & Technical Bid can only participate in the Price Bid. Bids will be received and opened in presence of Bidders’ representatives who choose to be present, as per following schedule: Last date & time for submission of bids 17th November 2016 at 1100 hrs Bid opening date & time 17th November 2016 at 1130hrs 1.8.0 All the bids must be accompanied by a Bid Security/Bid Guarantee in the form of Bank Guarantee or FDR issued by any Nationalised Bank amounting to Rs.12.91 lakh in a separate sealed envelope. Bid not accompanied with requisite Bid Guarantee shall not be entertained and shall be returned to the Bidder without being opened.

1.9.0 The successful bidder will be required to furnish a Contract Performance Guarantee for five percent (5%) of the total contract price on award of the Contract.

1.10.0 Dept. of Power will not be responsible for misplacement/delay in receipt of either request for issuance of Bidding Documents or Bids sent by post.

1.11.0 All correspondence/communication including those pertaining to purchase of Bidding Documents and submission of Bids with regard to the above shall be made at the following address of Dept. of Power.

Chief Engineer (T&G), Dept. of Power, Government of Nagaland, Kohima-797001, Nagaland.

Dept. of Power reserves the right to cancel/withdraw the bid without assigning any reason.

Such will not incur any liability whatsoever on the part of Dept. of Power consequently.

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

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public discourse perez out for up to 2 months, ramsey back for arsenal ambulance

London, october 28 (reuters): Striker Lucas Perez faces six to eight weeks on the sidelines with an ankle injury, but midfielder Aaron Ramsey is in contention to make his long-awaited return against Sunderland, manager Arsene Wenger said on Friday.

Spaniard Perez, who has scored twice for Arsenal since joining from Deportivo La Coruna in the summer transfer window, limped off in the second half of Tuesday's 2-0 League Cup victory after a tackle by Reading's Danzell Gravenberch.

Wales international Ramsey, whose only Premier League appearance this season came in the 4-3 defeat by Liverpool during which he suffered a hamstring injury, has been included in the squad for Saturday's trip to the Stadium of Light.

Wenger felt that the tackle on Perez was deliberate, and could have been avoided. "We lost Perez for a while with an ankle injury. Hopefully he will recover but I think it will be sixeight weeks out," Wenger

Bausha Pauwung Buchem,

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Arsenal's Spanish striker Lucas Perez (left) vies with Ludogorets' Brazilian defender Natanael Batista Pimienta during their UEFA Champions League match in London on October 19. (AFP Photo)

told reporters.

"We have (Olivier) Giroud back, Aaron Ramsey will be in the squad.

"Very frustrating - he (Perez) worked very hard to get there. He's absolutely gutted, it's an injury that came from nowhere. A stupid one - a deliberate kick.

"We have a few uncertainties about (Theo) Walcott,

(Nacho) Monreal, (Santi) Cazorla. All tests today."

Along with rivals Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal are unbeaten on their road travels in the league, but Wenger urged caution against bottom-placed Sunderland, whom he believes are better than current form suggests.

"Their main danger is

(Jermain) Defoe, and they are good on set-pieces with (Wahbi) Khazri. They are dangerous on set-pieces," he added. "Overall they are a team who is in a bad position but it's very tight at the top and very tight at the bottom." Arsenal are second in the standings, behind leaders Manchester City on goal difference.

Wada cites near collapse of anti-doping program at rio Games

MontreaL, october 28 (aP): The World Anti-Doping Agency has detailed serious failings of doping control management at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, saying the system was only saved from collapsing by the “enormous resourcefulness and goodwill” of some key staff.

In a 55-page report from its independent observer team led by British lawyer Jonathan Taylor, WADA said the logistical issues which put a strain on the testing process were “foreseeable and entirely avoidable” during the games in August.

The report blamed a lack of coordination, budget cutbacks, tension between the local organizing committee and Brazil's anti-doping agency, and inadequate training for the problems that included days when only half of the out-of-competition samples could be collected in the athletes village.

“Ultimately, many athletes targeted for testing in the athletes village simply could not be found and the mission had to be aborted,” the report said. “On some days, up to 50 per cent of planned target tests were aborted in this way.”

The report, which was released by the Montreal-based agency on Thursday, said the sample collection process in the village was so strained

that it came “close to breaking point.”

“Ultimately, it was only due to the enormous resourcefulness and goodwill of some key doping control personnel working at the games that the process did not break down entirely,” the report said. “Due to their initiative, tenacity and professionalism in the face of great difficulties, the many problems identified above were patched over and sample collection was conducted in a manner that ensured the identity and integrity of the samples.”

In another key failure, the report said no out-of-competition testing was conducted in soccer and “little or no in-competition blood testing” in some high risk-sports, including weightlifting.

Doping was heavily in the spotlight in the months leading up to the Rio Games, with allegations of statesponsored doping in Russia leading to sanctions against some Russian athletes and the retesting of 840 samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics barring dozens of other athletes from competing in Brazil.

WADA said the role of its observer team is to help instill confidence in the quality, effectiveness and reliability of the anti-doping program for the Olympics, and to make recommendations for improvements.

Richard Budgett, the International Olympic Committee's medical director, said the report showed “the integrity of the program was ensured despite some challenges the organizing committee had to overcome. ... such as a lack of resources and trained volunteers and staff.”

He said the report's recommendations would be studied by the IOC and passed on to a new independent testing body that is being set up ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

Many of the recommendations related to training and treatment of volunteers, proper attention to rosters and protocol, more lead-time for doping control officers in the venues and better logistics and equipment to locate athletes for out-of-competition testing.

Poor planning, transport issues and a lack of catering for chaperones resulted in a higher-than-expected rates of absences, adding to the burden on doping control officers and other delegates. A total of 3,237 athletes from 137 countries were tested during the games, representing 28.6 percent of the 11,303 athletes who participated. Of those, 2,611 - or 23.1 percent - were tested once, 527 were tested twice, 81 were tested three times and one was tested six times.

Mourinho will keep faith with struggling Mkhitaryan

Manchester, october 28 (aFP): Jose Mourinho admits Henrikh Mkhitaryan is struggling to adapt to life at Manchester United but insists he has no intention of selling the Armenian just three months after his £26 million ($31 million, 28 million euros) signing.

Mkhitaryan has played just 104 minutes of Premier League football this season since arriving from Borussia Dortmund in the close-season.

After problems with a thigh injury, he has been physically fit for a number of weeks but still unable to force his way into Mourinho's first team plans, even failing to make the bench in the midweek League Cup victory over Manchester City.

Mkhitaryan has not been involved since a harrowing experience in the home league defeat to City when he was substituted at half-time.

But despite the 27-yearold's tough introduction to life in English football, Mourinho still believes he will become an impact player in the Premier League and has no intention of parting company with him in the near future.

"Some players, with their profile they are adapted to come and play, some others they need more time," Mourinho said on Friday. "Time to feel the intensity and the aggression, the game without the ball, the competitiveness.

"Many times players come from different coun-

Armenian midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan (left) joined Manchester United after a £26 million ($31 million, 28 million euros) transfer from Borussia Dortmund. (AFP Photo)

tries. The style of football is different and the reality is different for sure in terms of competitiveness.

"There's no other country where it doesn't matter the team you play against, you have to play at the highest level. "If you don't you have no chance. Mikhi needs time to become the top player he can be."

Mourinho attempted to make a distinction between being physically fit and match fit in explaining why Mkhitaryan is struggling to stake a claim for a place.

- Inspiration But the United manager pointed to two similar examples as way of inspira-

tion for how the midfielder can turn his Old Trafford career around.

"Willian, he arrived at Chelsea and had problems to play," said Mourinho.

"He went through a process then after he became a top player, then the next season he became absolutely phenomenal and still is.

"When (Angel) Di Maria arrived at Real Madrid he also had to learn a lot about his game and a new reality.

"Sometimes it happens –- sometimes with defenders but it's easier for them.

For attacking players sometimes they arrive and go straight to success. Other times it takes a little more

time.

"In Mikhi's case the process was interrupted by an injury that kept him out for about a month.

"To be out for a month in this process and then be fit but not fit to play you have to go through a process of getting match fitness then you need competitive level to do it.

"Of course we believe in him and of course we believe that sooner or later there will be no problem."

Another United midfielder, Michael Carrick, is also battling to earn a regular starting place in Mourinho's first-choice line-up.

Mourinho, who has not handed a league start to the former England international this season, insists that the only problem he has with the veteran is that, at 35, he is coming to the end of his successful career, rather than the start of it.

"It's one thing to be 25, another thing to be 35," Mourinho said.

"That's the logic of things. But the only thing I can say is he's phenomenal.

"I can't expect from Michael what I can expect from (Marcus) Rashford or (Ander) Herrera in terms of playing three, four, five, seven consecutive matches.

But he's phenomenal and when he is on the pitch, he gives us important things.

"He's not just a player, he is somebody who has a big understanding of the game and it's a pity sometimes you can't stop the clock. Of course, I wish he was 25."

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mbulance is written in reverse order in front of ambulance vehicle so that drivers ahead of it on the road read correctly as ambulance in their rear view mirror and yield the right way. If the word was not reversed, the drivers of the car ahead of the vehicle could not recognize a word written in front of ambulance vehicle. With the lights flashing and sirens going, the other vehicles ahead of it would yield to it anyway but this was made not to mistake an ambulance for a police vehicle with similar lights.

Ambulance is typically of speed as times for emergency patients are much more valued than any other to save lives.

Traffic police should act swiftly while public on their part ease traffic movements and make way for ambulance in times of emergency.

Under NHM patient transport ambulances (National Ambulance Service) are operating in the country with the facility people can dial 108 or 102 telephone number for calling an ambulance.

There was report of 76 ambulances that have been provided in the state. In every district for each district hospital one each Mobile Medical Unit (MMU) has been given for easier access to health services for the people of far flung areas with a Toll Free 102 telephone line for all emergency services and to monitor the ambulances.

People have to be sensitized of the services available to them as many people from remote areas are unaware of the ambulance services providing to transport patients to healthcare centre. They remain outside of benefit because of their ignorance.

In one way, having public unaware the services provided—occur minimal public dejections and angers; otherwise, this would have incited more anger when two or more people asked for ambulance at the same time is unavailable. We cannot also expect an ambulance for each district would cover an entire district population.

To meet a growing needy of ambulance in emergency, privates and societies are initiated providing patients transporting vehicles. However, these initiatives are not affordable to some weaker sections. It is like “Get this service who can pay”. For some it is ok although it imposed high charges for being carried sick to hospital or deceased transport back home. At any cost they are ready to pay for cure or in the name of beloved lost. But there are—on the other side with poverty stricken families—cannot pay for the services being provided by private individuals or societies or NGOs at high rate despite of how equally they are loved to save lives.

There were news flashes over social media and prints in last part of august that

happened in Odisha that, a tribal man walked 10 km with his wife’s body on his shoulder, accompanied by his weeping 12 year-old daughter after hospital authorities denied his plea for mortuary van or an ambulance. His wife died of tuberculosis at government hospital. If the hospital authorities refused to offer an ambulance to such a poor man the only option left was to walk. Government must prioritize to address and should have in a position to arrive public expectation and ensure especially poor get free ambulance service.

It has realized that some existing ambulances in India are more like transport vehicles taking any vehicle only suitable to lay patient is used as ambulance without consideration to overall norms laid by transport ministry. Therefore, government has set new norms for ambulances that normal taxis merely fitted with flashers, sirens and hardly equipped with gadgets to carry patients safely to hospitals would not be allowed to operate as ambulances and this will abide by all ambulances to hit Indian roads from April 2018.

The ambulance Code specified that there would be four categories of road ambulances ranging from properly equipped two and three-wheelers as first responders to advanced life support ambulances. First responders would reach out to patients and injured persons and the other three categories of ambulance are patient transport, basic life support and advanced life support—which should have stretchers, traction device, stationary oxygen, cardiac monitor, and diagnostic equipment such as BP monitor and other equipments with life saving medical facilities. If these norms are strictly followed the rate of charge for services would also increase which will be more difficult to poor to access healthcare if they are not availed government supported ambulance.

The government alone may not able to procure/arrange to meet everyone during the times of every emergency, it is privates or NGOs that should bridge with at least having fulfilled minimum norms set for ambulances and offering to poor with affordable and concessional rates. A concept, that, the government may then compensate to those privates and societies for incurring losses due to the rates being charged with concession. Or, the government may pay 50% cash back to those BPL or PHH families who spent on private ambulance in the event of unavailability of government supported ambulance in transporting any critical patients, trauma, accident victims and pregnant women and children to healthcare facilities. There are many unfortunate, deprived rural populaces outside of or hardly get any medical facilities, the government must ensure these people access ambulance in times of need.

Women Reservation Zeneisiile Ate Loucii

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omen Reservation Act was amended and passed by the sixty-member Nagaland Legislative Assembly in the year 2006. Whereby a total of 81 seat have been identified as reserved in all Town Municipal Councils in Nagaland. In 2012 Rio announces Study Committee on Women’s reservation, the Committee informed the house that Nagaland was well protected under Article 371 (A) of the Constitution and no law passed in Parliament could not be applicable in the State until the Assembly endorses the law. Subsequently, Petition (s) for Special Leave to Appeal (C) No. (s), 26794/2012 (Arising out of impugned final judgement and order dated 31/07/2012 in NA No. 116/2012 passed by the High Court of Guwahati).

S L P ( C ) No. 26794/2012 Leave granted Implementation of the impugned judgement shall remain stayed WP (C) No. 242/2014 Rule The principle was accepted in law through the Nagaland Municipal First Amendment, Act in 2006. An abrupt reversal of the policy “the law-makers flip-flop” on the issue was stayed.

Contrary to the belief, the question here is not about feminism but if the natural talents of Woman were tapped for civic duty, our society would gain 50 percent “or civilization”, in the rhetoric of the era.

a rejoinder REPLY TO SILVERSTEIN to robert a. silverstein Kaka D. Iralu

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ccording to the articles of the Robert A. Silverstein, every one of the Nagas who is defending the sovereignty of Nagaland will have no doubt to think A. Silvertsein is bribed by India to write against the Naga nationalism, because he said: “A separate Naga nation will never happen, but fight for only a prosperous state” which appeared in Morung Express on October 28, 2016. In contrary, he also stated that the Nagas under the so-called Indian state are not become prosperous but corrupted. That is true.

When the India was under the bondage of the Colonialists one after another in its history, the Nagas had never fallen into any foreign domination and never part of India. The Nagas have no common history, Culture, Religion, Language, geography and even complexion with Indians. The Nagas are separate people and separate nation from that of India since time immemorial. How then Robert A. Silverstein dare to say that a separate Naga nation will never happen? The Nagas had been a separate nation and will be a separate nation from that of India.

Can he deny that the Nagas never had been a separate nation?

India came into Nagaland only yesterday to colonize the Nagas after she came out of the bondage of the British Colony. That was the only history the Nagas now have with India, if not the Nagas know nothing about India.

Not only the Nagas, but also other six States ofthe mongoloid people in Northeast India were separated nations from India. Some of them had their own Kingdoms before the advent of the British. And one day, these can also be separate nations from that of India. No one, including A. Selverstein, can reject it implicitly.

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Mr. Silverstein

t seems to me that when I am fighting a foreign invasion of my country, where the enemy is using its military and economic power to subjugate me, you are suggesting that I should utilize all the economic prospects that the enemy is offering me and even go to war with my own people who are misusing those economic gifts. I for one will not do such a stupid thing. I am therefore saying that I am not interested in my enemy’s gifts of even the whole state with its entire infrastructure which has lulled most Nagas to sleep for over six decades.

For me, this state is just a farce and a shadow of the real image of a truly independent country.

Now, why do I call it a farce? As a visitor of the Nagaland state of India, you must have seen the conditions of our roads in Nagaland. If you had come at the beginning of the first month of road repairs, or during the Hornbill Festival, you might be fooled. But if you come at the end of the third month after repair works, you will see the real condition of our roads- which are repaired to last for only three months. (The corruption on repair works being mostly pocketed by many Nagas contractors, Indian companies and Indian Central leaders- I am told). Also, don’t be too impressed by the many school buildings and Primary Health Centres –especially in the rural areas- because any Kungfu Master or Boxer can smash them into smithereens in a few hours.

The root cause of all these mess, they say, is because of the corruption in the state. But to fight this gigantic monster that is tearing Nagas apart would be to waste one’s energy in one’s short lifespan. And even if we succeed to some degree in fighting this corruption, we would still be left to fight with even greater monsters like the Disturbed Area Act 1955, the Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958 etc which has been our constant companions

from 1954 to the present. And do you know the powers of the Governor of Nagaland who alone can promulgate these heinous acts? Under Article 371 (A) section 1, (b), it is stated thus: “The Governor of Nagaland shall have special responsibility with respect to law and order in the State of Nagaland… Provided that if any question arises whether any matter is or is not a matter as respects which the Governor is under this sub-clause required to act in the exercise of his individual judgment, the decision of the Governor in his discretion shall be final, and the validity of anything done by the Governor shall not be called in question on the ground that he ought or ought not to have acted in the exercise of his individual judgment.”

You will note that, as far as law and order is concerned for Nagaland, The Governor of Nagaland is even higher than the President of India or even the Constitution of India. (For more details. see “The Naga Saga,” p.345-352) Yes, at the surface level, the Indian Government has given us Billions of Rupees for our development which has been greatly misused.

But please note that this disease has come through the invasion or our country by India. And if a disease is being caused by some other factors, to fight the disease rather than the factors that are causing the disease- would be wastage of time and energy.

Political suppression with economic gifts by India is what is destroying Nagaland today. Here, I will fight the political suppression rather than fight to have a lion’s share of the economic gifts. As far as I am concerned, only a totally unpatriotic man with no sense for the dignity for his national and geographical identity would wallow in the enemy’s gifts of seductions to subjugate him. I will not collaborate with the enemy, when the enemy has nullified my very right to life, freedom and liberty even within the territories of my own country.

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

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ith the aim to motivate strength training amongst the youth, Universal Gym has announced that it is organizing the first ever All Nagaland Fitness & Strength War of Nagaland will be held at Sakus mission College Campus on November 4 (Friday) from 9.00 am onwards.

The organisers have informed that this will be the first of its kind in the state, a tactical strength challenge competition where different types of strength and endurance—as demanded by real life’s challenges are tested and competed amongst the contestants. This distinctive event is the an initiative of Bendang Imchen, Yanger, Meren Jamir and Senti.

This will be a one day event and the winner will receive Rs.20,000; 1st

runners up: Rs.10,000; 2nd Runners up Rs. 5000; A trophy each for the top three; A citation certificate of their participation and their accomplishment in the contest.

The Fitness & Strength war will have four different tests: Bench press; Deadlift; Burpees or Pull ups Squats. The four different events will test a unique trade-off between these abilities. While larger participants may have an advantage in the deadlift, lighter participants have an advantage in pullups/Burpees and likewise.

The rules are simple, the contest can't be said so, but the opportunity to say you faced Fitness & Strength War and survived makes it all worthwhile. The overall competition is scored based on fastest time taken

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‘I don’t classify roles as glamorous and deglamorous’

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atrina Kaif doesn’t believe in popular classification of roles as glamourous or deglamorous.

The actress is of the strong opinion that a role is a role for her irrespective of whether she is dolled up for it or not.

Answering a fan’s question at MAMI about her inclination to take up deglamorous roles, something that she has not often done in her commercially successful career till date, Katrina said, “Sometimes stereotypes or an image which audience sees gets captured in their minds and it sticks with you. For me, there is no glamorous or deglamorous role. It is just a role. I am a woman and I can’t change the way I look.”

Katrina also went on to narrate an incident as to

how one of her deglam avatars till date in Rajneeti was well-etched out sartorially because director Prakash Jha was hands-on in choosing the right costume.

“When Prakash Jha offered me Rajneeti that was a scary moment because up until that point all the other directors who I had worked with had not given attention to costumes.

I am talking about Anees Bazmee and David Dhawan. Ninety percent costumes were brought by me on location during Welcome and Partner because that is what was happening at that time.

When you know you are going to wear something very bad, you would probably go out and buy it yourself and wear it and make sure your character looked nice. In Rajneeti, Jha himself brought cot-

ton sarees because he knew what he wanted. For me, if you have to classify, I think my role in Rajneeti was a completely deglamorous character.”

The Bang Bang actress feels glamour comes from within and has nothing to do with makeup or the clothes worn.

“Glamour comes from who you are. You can look completely deglamorous even while wearing the most amount of makeup and most expensive dress.

It’s who you are.”

Katrina also was candid enough in admitting that many top directors were not quite attentive about the clothes worn by actors.

“For some of the directors who are part of the commercially large entertaining films, what I wore would make no difference to them. Whatever I wore

Warner Bros hires army of writers for

Robert Downey Jr’s third ‘Sherlock Holmes’

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ccording to a report in Variety, Warner Bros, Village Roadshow, and RDJ's team have set up a writers' room. Writers' room is when various writers come together to chisel a story out of a concept.

This writers' room, responsible for reshaping one of the Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, comprises of Nicole Perlman of Guardians of the Galaxy, Justin Malen of Baywatch, Gary Whitta of Rogue One, Geneva Dworet-Robertson

they would be happy. In situations like that when I was not given any direction, I was involved. In other places, I would observe the person I am working with and if they are passionate and they are looking out for their job, then I am hundred percent happy to let go and hand over to them. I need to know someone is watching,” said Katrina.

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Mhasilhusie Nagi is Clippers win hard-fought NBA season opener heavyweight champion

Heavyweight champion Mhasilhusie Nagi with Keduovilie Zumu, Menuosetuo Yiese and Pfusato Tetseo.

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Junior category champion Mhasinyiizo Peseyie with Abizo Nakhro, Pusing H. Lungalam and Kuthovezo Medeo

King of the Ring today Our Correspondent Kohima | October 28

24-year old Mhasilhusie Nagi from Jotsoma village on Friday emerged as champion in the Heavyweight category of the Naga Wrestle Mania 5 (King of the Ring Series 2016) at the Kohima Local Ground.

Nagi, who was the champion in the Angami Sports Association (ASA) Wrestling Meet 2016, defeated 30-year old Keduovilie Zumu from Tuophema village. Nagi was awarded cash prize of Rs. 50,000 while Zumu pocketed Rs. 30,000.

Nagi entered the final after defeating Menuosetuo Yiese of Kohima village in the semifinals while in the other semifinals, Zumu managed to down Pfusato Tetseo of Phuyoba village in Phek District.

The two losing semifinalists received Rs. 10,000 each.

In Junior Category, Mhasinyiizo Peseyie of Jotsoma village emerged as the champion after he defeated Abizo Nakhro, also of Jotsoma, in the final. The winner and runner-up received Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 5000 respectively.

Losing semifinalists Pusing H. Lungalam of New Sanglao, under Tuensang district, and Kuthovezo Medeo, of Yoruba, under Phek district, each received Rs. 2000.

Meanwhile, the grand finale – the King of the Ring Championship – will take place on October 29 from 10: 00 am onwards.

The champion will carry away cash prize of Rs. 1,20,000 while the runner-up will receive Rs. 60,000. Losing semifinalists will receive each Rs. 30,000.

The event is being organised by 3E Nagaland under the aegis of Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA).

Altogether, 45 wrestlers will vie for King of the Ring Championship event.

The names of the 45 are: Mhasilhusie Nagi, Keduovilie Zumu, Menuosetuo Yiese, Pfusato Tetseo, Zasevikho Meyatsu, Nlumrai Hegwang, Kevizhalhu Gwirie, Besühveto Cümu, Vekuzo Vezüh, Keneisevi Meyase, Rovilhulie Pier, Venüzo Dawhuo, Kevizhakho Suokhrie, Mhiesilieto Kuotsu, Vekutho Soho, Seketoukho Nipu, Kehousalie Kiekho, Kuzoto Phesao, Kekhriekuolie Khawakhrie, Khoveto Lala, Seyiejalie Gwirie, Beduhu Khamo, Rokovolie Mejura, Mhaneikholie Kuotsu, Veneto Nakro, Tavesuh Tetseo, Lhouvietsolo Koza, Bisekhoto Gwirie, Veciku Sapu, Kekhrielebi Nisa, Keneiselie Khawakhrie, Mulutso Lohe, Veniezo Cümu, Visedelhou Chüsi, Kezevikho Sakhrie, Vetho Lohe, Megovizo Visienyü, Mesaroko Pier, Kelhusalie Pier, Khrieko Nagi, Lorheshüto Sophie, Khriesanguzo Zuyie, Verizo Vero, Nunelhutuo Meyase, Kuveluyi Rhakho.

Los AngeLes, october 28 (AFP): The Los Angeles Clippers opened the season with 114-106 win over Portland on Thursday, wasting no time getting back into the trenches with the team that knocked them out of the playoffs.

Blake Griffin and Chris Paul each scored 27 points in the Clippers' regular season debut at the Moda Center arena in Portland, Oregon.

Tempers flared often in an emotional and physical battle that included a number of hard fouls. Portland was whistled for 34 fouls and the Clippers attempted 46 free throws.

The game came just 24 weeks after the Trail Blazers eliminated the Clippers in game six of the first round of the NBA playoffs.

"You can let somebody come in and punk you, or you can do something about it. We stood up to it," Blazers Damian Lillard said. Said Portland coach Terry Stotts, "That type of familiarity brings out a rivalry." Griffin, who also grabbed 13 rebounds, was a favorite target of the Trail Blazers' aggression.

The Clippers are on the short list of contenders to make it to the NBA finals this season.

Paul said the Clippers are going to have to watch out for each other out if

KDVA to draw fixtures on Nov 2

KohimA, october 28 (mexn): In view of the forthcoming 4th Open Kohima District Volleyball Tournament 2016, the Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA) has informed that it will hold a “Referee Refreshers Course” for Trained Referees from Kohima District on November 2 at 11:00 am at KPC Conference Hall, Old KMC office. A press release from the association further informed that the fixture for the tournament will also be drawn on the same place and date at 2:00 pm and in this regard has requested team managers/coaches to be present or send representatives for the draw.

Koeman offers Everton escape route for Rooney

London, october 28 (AFP): Everton manager Ronald Koeman says he would love to bring Wayne Rooney back to Goodison Park if the England star can't revive his flagging Manchester United fortunes.

United captain Rooney has been relegated to the bench by boss Jose Mourinho in recent weeks after a dip in form that prompted speculation he could be on the verge of leaving Old Trafford. Koeman was asked on Friday if he would be interested in offering Merseyside-born Rooney a return home to Everton, who he left in 2004 reer," Koeman said. to join United after starting his career "I do not know how his situation with the Toffees. is, and I need to respect that situation.

"First of all, I think it is a great play- That's not my problem. er, and he has still not finished his ca"But even when we get one time

the possibility that Rooney is an option for Everton, I'm very pleased."

Rooney, who scored 17 goals in 77 appearances for Everton, was dropped by England interim manager Gareth Southgate for their last World Cup qualifier, but Koeman remains a big fan of the 31-year-old.

Asked if he was surprised by some of the criticism Rooney has endured this season, Koeman added: "That is part of football.

"He is enough of an experienced person in football that he knows what can happen and everybody gets periods of critics. "It is part of football and of the business, and you need to stay calm -- that is the best thing you can do."

LA Clippers forward Blake Griffin (32) shoots after being fouled by Trail Blazers forward Maurice Harkless in the first half at the Moda Center on Thursday. (Photo: USA Today Sports)

they are going to be successful.

"Everything was all about togetherness. There is not going to be one guy that does it every night," he said.

He said they can't afford to take any nights off in the long season.

"We got to come to play hoops every night no matter who it is."

And that's what they did

in front of a crowd of 19,500 at the Moda Center.

Griffin collected 16 points and six rebounds as the Clippers took a 58-49 lead into the intermission.

Paul had 12 points and Marreese Speights 11 while Portland got 12 each from Lillard and Moe Harkless in the first half.

Lillard finished with 29 points and 10 rebounds.

Harkless tallied a total of 23

points to go with eight rebounds and Mason Plumlee contributed 17 points, eight rebounds and four assists for the Blazers.

- Leonard carries Spurs In Sacramento, Kawhi Leonard scored 30 points as the San Antonio Spurs used a second-half blitz to beat the Kings 102-94.

San Antonio earned a seventh consecutive victory against Sacramento

Wade begins Bulls career in style

chicAgo, october 28 (AFP): Dwyane Wade tallied 22 points in his Chicago homecoming as the Bulls showed off their retooled roster with a 105-99 win over the Boston Celtics at the United Center.

After trading point guard Derrick Rose to the New York Knicks, Chicago overhauled last season's roster with the addition of Wade and Rajon Rondo, who signed with the Bulls in the offseason.

Wade, who finished with 22 points, hit four-ofsix from the three-point line in his first game with the Bulls. Wade had just seven threes during all of the last NBA season for the Miami Heat.

Wade, who grew up in Chicago, sealed the victory Thursday with his final three pointer of the night.

He nailed a long-range shot over guard Avery Bradley with 26 seconds left in the fourth quarter to put Chicago up 104-99.

"It was special," he said of getting a chance to play for his hometown team. "I had an amazing career and 23 years ago I had a dream of playing basketball and a dream of playing with this organization and tonight it became a reality."

Wade has never been known as a three-point shooter but he's been work-

Dwayne Wade (AFP Photo)

ing on getting better at it.

"For a guy who has been in the league that long it says a lot that he is willing to work hard and add a new element to his game," said Bulls coach Fred Hoiberg.

Jimmy Butler led Chicago with 24 points and Rondo added four points and nine assists.

"For some guys who can't shoot, I think we did pretty well tonight," said Butler. Forward Taj Gibson finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds for Chicago as he earned a starting role to begin the season.

Nikola Mirotic had 15 points off the bench for the Bulls, who dominated the glass 55-36.

Guard Isaiah Thomas led Boston with 25 points, while Bradley had 16 points, Jae Crowder added 14 and Al Horford -- a highprofile offseason signee -- finished with 11 points, seven rebounds and five assists. The Celtics played their second game in as many days after defeating the Brooklyn Nets 122-117 on Wednesday at home.

Chicago led the entire first half. That included a

Postiga fires ADK to top of ISL

guwAhAti, october 28 (iAns): Helder Postigainspired Atletico de Kolkata (ADK) zoomed to the top of the Indian Super League (ISL) points table with a come-from-behind win against NorthEast United at the Indira Gandhi Stadium Athletic Stadium here on Friday. Postiga, playing after four matches, came on in the second half to level proceedings in the 63rd minute after Uruguayan Emiliano Alfaro had given the home team a first half lead in the 39th minute.

Juan Belecoso prodded home the winner late in the 82nd minute as ADK head coach Jose Molina -serving a one-match suspension -- watched from the stands as the inaugural champions logged 12

thanks to Leonard, who is coming into his own as a superstar in the league. He stole the ball three times over four Kings possessions, turning one of them into his own layup, another into two free throws, and the third into a layup for teammate Dewayne Dedmon.

D e Ma r c u s C o u s ins scored 37 points and grabbed 16 rebounds for Sacramento, which was denied its first 2-0 start since 2003. Rudy Gay added 17 points for the Kings.

In Atlanta, Paul Millsap scored 28 points to lead the Atlanta Hawks to a 114-99 season-opening victory over the Washington Wizards.

Millsap was 11 for 20 from the field, including three, three-pointers, with seven rebounds and six assists to help Atlanta end a four-year streak of opening-night losses.

Tim Hardaway had 10 points during the streak en route to scoring 21 points off the bench.

Dennis Schroder added 14 points and Thabo Sefolosha had 13 points, seven rebounds and five assists.

Atlanta's biggest offseason signee Dwight Howard finished with 11 points.

Howard, who has bounced around the league after playing his first eight seasons in Orlando, also had a team-high 19 rebounds.

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57-49 lead at halftime, after getting a combined 28 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists from Wade, Butler and Rondo. The Celtics are coming off two straight playoff appearances. This season they added fourtime all-star Horford, who inked a four-year deal worth $113 million.

Wade said he likes the way the Celtics are playing and that teams are going to have trouble stopping them this season.

"You have to be at your best if you are going to beat them," he said.

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Following the loss, NorthEast remained on 10 points from seven matches to be relegated by a place to

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