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Now ... it is possible to look back and take a wider view and see the Nagas as a people rather than an assortment of tribes or even of villages Colombia in unchartered territory with defeat of peace agreement PAGe 09
reflections
By Sandemo Ngullie
Chakhesang Students’ Union observes ‘Black Day’
India clinch NZ series, ensure No.1 ranking in Tests
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Without electricity: irate ‘Time for Nagas consumers blockade road to build bridges’
Phone, phone. Ayaaa, hobbies develop kurhbi na... why? Because hobbies are jobs in disguise.
Govt declares Oct 10 and 11 as general holiday KOHIMA, OCTOBER 3 (DIPR): The Government of Nagaland has declared October 10 and 11 as General Holiday on account of Dussehra (Durga Puja) instead of October 9 and 10. Also October 9 (Sunday) is declared as restricted holiday on account of Dussehra (Durga Puja).
— JH Hutton (1965)
Agitated consumers blockade an intersection of the Dhobinalla-Firing, Dimapur stretch in protest against a prolonged power outage caused by a defunct transformer in Dimapur on October 3. (Morung Photo)
Morung Express News Dimapur | October 3
Without electricity for five complete days, exasperated consumers of three localities in Dimapur on the sixth day took to the streets today. Venting frustration, the consumers blockaded a busy road intersection near the West Police Station. The blockade, which started at around 11:00 am, created a massive traffic jam Newmai News Network as commuters taking the Dhobinalla-Firing stretch Imphal | October 3 were caught unawares. The Naga organisations in Ma- police, administration and nipur reaffirmed to defend and protect their ancestral homeland including land and natural resources, history, identity, tradition, KOHIMA, OCTOBER 3 culture and time honoured (MExN): Nagaland State institution “at all cost”. Governor, PB Acharya has This stand was taken in a expressed concern at the joint emergency meeting recent move by three tribe of the United Naga Coun- Hohos to disassociate from cil (UNC), Naga Women the Naga Hoho. Union(NWU) and the All A press note from the Naga Students’ Associa- Raj Bhavan said the Govtion, Manipur(ANSAM) ernor is “very much conheld in Imphal. The meet- cerned about the unity of ing also reiterated that the Tribal Hohos so as to the Naga people will op- carry forward the ongoing pose any attempt that will peace talks of NSCN(IM) dislodge its traditional with Government of India.” position on the pretext “Peace talks should not of development and ad- be derailed by the disassoministrative convenience, ciation of three main Hohos Acts, Bills, Orders etc that from Naga Hoho. To make will affect the Naga people peace talks successful, unidirectly or indirectly. Fur- ty among the Nagas are the ther, the meeting resolved prime necessity,” he said. that the Naga people will The Governor exnot accept any bill which pressed his concern that is detrimental to the rights the Ao Senden, Lotha and interest of the “indig- Hoho and Sumi Hoho enous tribal people” under have moved out from the any circumstances. apex body, Naga Hoho.
South Naga orgs reaffirm to protect ancestral homeland
Power department officials intervened as the consumers stuck to their demand for restoration of power supply at the earliest. “Either you (Power department) arrange a replacement or the blockade will continue,” was the consumers’ demand. The blockade was eventually called off in the afternoon after the department assured to replace the stand-in 250kVA transformer. A 500kVA transformer had broken down on September 28 cutting off supply to parts of Duncan Basti, Supply colony and
Landmark colony (formerly PWD). As a temporary measure, it was replaced with a 250kVA transformer, which according to the consumers was not of much help. After the blockade, the smaller transformer was removed and a 500kVA capacity was put in place by evening. The Executive Engineer (EE), Dimapur Electrical Division, informed that it was a different transformer as the one which broke down was still under repair. According to the EE, the department was able to arrange a replacement earli-
er in the morning and was on set to install it when the agitation occurred unexpected. One of the consumers said that they were told that supply should resume by 8:00 pm this evening but the power was still to come on well after the assured time. On this, the EE explained the transformer was put into circuit but there was an unforeseen problem with a power line emanating from the said transformer. Supply would be resumed as soon as the problem was rectified, the EE added.
DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 3 (MExN): NSCN (IM) Kilo Kilonser, Rh Raising today stated that the “era of the Nagas has begun,” and claimed that “no power however big and strong can stop the Nagas from reaching their destination.” “The era of the British has gone never to come back. The era of occupation of Nagalim by India and Burma has to be ended to give way to the era of the Nagas,” he stated while addressing an interactive meeting with civil society organizations at Diphupar Village council hall on September 3. The Nagas, he said, “will be blessed in the east, in the west, in the north and south and everywhere. They will be successful in all fields and in whatever they do.” He urged the Naga people to “start building the nation, building the damaged psychology of our people, broken relations with our neighboring people and nations through dialogue is a social necessity,” and asserted that building the war-torn relation between India and the Nagas is “indispensable.” On top of that building our relation with God is imperative and paramount, he added. He stated the time has come for reconciliation, not
fighting. “This is the time of building bridge, not wall; this is the time of negotiation, not confrontation; this is the time of cooperation, not opposition; this is the time of reunion, not separation; this is the time of building relations, not destruction of relations and this is the time of embracing, not parting,” he said. Raising said that to develop the land of the Nagas and move forward would require building up human resources. “And that we need to establish science and technological and other schools, colleges and universities, medical colleges and universities, sports universities, religious universities, cultural institutions so that we grow physically, mentally and spiritually to become a creative people and community,” he added. “To become a creative people, we must learn to live by the principle of selfreliance so that we produce our own bread and honey. We will be identified with what we create. What we have invented or created is our identity. We will rebuild everything destroyed by war. We do not have an identity until and unless we produce something made in Nagalim,” the NSCN (IM) Kilo Kilonser said.
He further stated that the Framework Agreement is based on the uniqueness of Naga history, “which means Nagas have never been a party to the Union of India or that of Burma.” The Government of India has, for the first time, recognized the sovereignty of the Nagas. The Naga people are now a recognized entity, he stated, however adding that “for the sake of security, social and commercial interests, the two people will share sovereign power and coexist as two entities.” Raising then pointed out that the Government of India has also recognized that land and its resources including minerals belong to the Nagas. “Nagas are the owner of their land and everything in it. The Nagas and India are entering into a new relationship based on the ‘Framework Agreement,’” he revealed Raising had earlier stated that to build a sovereign state, “we need millions of people, thousands of villages, tribes and communities. We need land and ocean, hills and valleys, rivers and forests, stones and irons, gas and oil and animals and birds. We need academic institutions and churches, swords and pens, organizations and governments.”
Governor concerned for unity of tribe Hohos Nagaland to implement eHospital concept
Nagaland state has 70422 educated unemployed youth Morung Express News Dimapur | October 3
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There are 70422 educated unemployed youth registered in the Life Register of the Department of Labour & Employment in the state. Parliamentary Secretary for Labour, Employment, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Border Affairs, Mmhonlumo Kikon revealed this data on Monday during the 7th Foundation cum Parents’ Day at Cornerstone School and College, Dimapur. He said the huge number of educated unemployed youth was a result of lack of government jobs and not because there was no avenue in the private sector. He said the increasing number of educated unemployed was a huge concern for the govern-
ment and appealed private institutions to share the burden in providing skill development courses to students so that they become employable after studies. Mmholumo said that the employability of graduates in the state was found wanting since many of the vocational courses imparted in the state had encountered problem of placements and urged upon such institutions to look in the issue. He disclosed that the central government under the Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana would initially be training 60 lakh youth in the country and encouraged the youth to avail such opportunities. He also encouraged youth to start looking for opportunities around them.
“These tribal bodies may have genuine and logical reasons for their disassociation with Naga Hoho. But whatever may be the reasons for their disassociation from the main body, Governor feels that civil societies, NGOs, student bodies, mother’s association, etc should stand united to make the peace talks successful,” he said. The Governor reminded that after a long 17 years, the Central Government under the leadership of Narendra Modi is trying to address the long protracted Naga issue to arrive a respectful solution. “NSCN(IM) has already signed framework agreement with Government of India on 3rd August 2015,” the Governor stated, while appealing to all other groups to initiate
talks with Central Government to come to a respectful solution. “Naga people have been going through many turmoil all these years. Now it is right time to solve the problem and make Nagaland march with jet speed for peace and development,” he added. The Nagaland Governor further stated that “our empowered educated youth, women and men are eagerly waiting for peace and development in the State. The division and disunity among the hohos for any cause may sacrifice peace and development in the State.” It asked all the tribe bodies, Hohos, NGOs, civil societies, student bodies, mother’s association, etc. to stand united for early and respectful solution.
LONDON, OCTOBER 3 (PTI): British scientists are on the verge of confirming a treatment for HIV, an incurable virus that leads to deadly AIDS disease, if a new treatment trial proves successful, a media report claimed on Sunday. A British man with HIV hopes to become the first in the world to be cured of the disease by using the pioneering new therapy designed to eradicate the virus, ‘The Sunday Times’ reported. The 44-year-old is the first of 50 people to complete a trial of the ambitious treatment, designed by scientists and doctors from five of Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, University College London and King’s College London. It is the first therapy created to track down and destroy HIV in every part of the body — including in the dormant cells that evade current
treatments. If successful, it offers hope of an irreversible cure for HIV. Early tests show the virus is undetectable in the man’s blood. But he will have to wait some months before confirmation on whether the treatment has permanently cleared the disease. It is possible that the absence of the virus could be down to the conventional drugs that he has also been taking which can temporarily clear the body of the disease. Mark Samuels, managing director of the National Institute for Health Research Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure, which set up the medical consortium, told the newspaper: “This is one of the first serious attempts at a full cure for HIV. We are exploring the real possibility of curing HIV. This is a huge challenge and it’s still early days but the progress has been remarkable.”
KOHIMA, OCTOBER 3 (IANS): The Nagaland government has proposed to implement the eHospital concept in two of its major hospitals in order to ease their data and services management. Under the initiative, state-owned Kohima-based Naga Hospital and Dimapur-based Civil Hospital -- that attract 40 per cent of patients in the state -- will be the first to adopt the concept. eHospital is an open source health information managementsystem(HMIS) which is configurable and easily customisable with multi-tenancy support. It is designed to deploy in cloud
infrastructure to manage multiple hospitals seamlessly. It will include eBloodBank and Online Registration System (ORS), as well, said a statement. Besides, there will be “online appointments with various departments of different hospitals -- using eKYC data of Aadhaar number, if patient’s mobile number is registered with UIDAI. In case not it will use patient’s name”, the statement said. It also said: “The new patients will get appointment, as well as Unique Health Identification (UHID) number. If Aadhaar number is already
linked with UHID number, then appointment number will be given and UHID will remain same.” The eHospital concept confirms to HL7 Standards -- a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers -- for managing health care service delivery in government hospitals in India. Under it ORS, eBloodBank solution is available to government hospitals over cloud for accelerated infusion/adoption of ICT tools and healthcare standards as a part of the initiative.
To promote the initiative, the National Informatic Centre(NIC) is providing eHospital software and cloud infrastructure free of cost as of now. “eHospital is powerful, flexible, and easy to use; and is designed and developed to deliver real benefits in terms of ITeS from outdoor clinics, IPD, Laboratories, Blood Bank and Hospital as a whole,” the statement said. “eHospital runs on Linux and MS Windows platforms and can be easily customized to suit the requirements and reflect priorities of hospital management team,” it said.
Naga consumers more aware of their rights
Now, Air India pays British scientists on the compensation for verge of HiV cure: report luggage loss Morung Express News Dimapur | October 3
A few of years back, receiving a consumer complaint was a thing of rarity at the courts of the district consumer forum, with hardly a single case a year. Of late, the tide appears to have changed with Nagaland citizens more aware of their rights as a consumer and seeking justice under the court of law. Just as consumer protection is possible only if people know their rights, Naga consumers, better than never, are making sure that their rights are not violated. An advocate revealed how from a single case of consumer complaint in a year, of recent, the district consumer forum is handling more than a dozen a year. On September 30, 2016, the District Consumer Forum, Dimapur had held a courier firm-Blue Dart Express responsible for non-delivery and inordinate delay in delivery of four consignments to one of its customer and directed it to pay compensation after
a complaint was filed by the customer at the consumer court. In yet another report, though belated, reaching here, Air India Ltd. was asked by the District Consumer Forum, Dimapur (DCFD) to pay compensation to an aggrieved traveler from Nagaland who lost her luggage due to “deficiency of service by the airline.” The complaint for the same was filed at the district consumer court on July 24, 2013; however, the judgment order was passed only on August 26, 2016. According to the Judgment/Order, a copy of which was made available to the media, the complainant, Akipi Swu boarded an Air India flight with her luggage on May 26, 2011, but on reaching her destination at Dimapur, could not get the luggage. Since no recovery was made, a complaint letter dated July 26, 2011 was submitted to the General Manager Sales and Marketing who offered to pay Rs 4,950 cost for the lost baggage. The complainant preferred the instant application u/s 12 of the Consumer Protection Act 1986 r/w Section 2 (i) (g) of the same act and sought compensation amounting to Rs 1, 75,000 under various heads. At the court hearing, which was presided by GH Ramila, president
DCFD, the Forum observed that when the luggage was given to Air India…it is duty bound to take good care of the passengers baggage’s’ and should have reached safely to the destination. “However, since the luggage of the complainant was lost and the opposite party (Air India) never recovered the same there is deficiency in rendering service on the part of the opposite party in present given facts of the case,” the Forum pointed out. Air India also deposed before the court that it did not deny but admitted to have received the complaint but luggage could not be recovered despite efforts being made. In view of such findings, the Forum in its judgment asked the airline to pay the complainant Rs 54,950 as compensation which included Rs 4,950 for the lost baggage, Rs 30,000 for deficiency of service, Rs 10,000 for mental agony and Rs 10,000 for the cost of litigation. The amount should be deposited within 30 days from the date of filing of complaint failing which the interest rate of 9% per annum would be added to the awarded amount, the Order stated. As per report received by The Morung Express, Air India has already paid the compensation to the complainant.
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Chakhesang Students' Nagas in Cambodia gather for 10th annual fellowship Union observes ‘Black Day’
DiMaPur, OctOber 3 (MexN): Naga missionaries serving in Cambodia converged in the coastal town of Shinoukville province to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its annual fellowship. In total, including children 23 members representing seven distinctive tribes from Nagaland and Manipur participated in the momentous occasion. “The occasion was richly blessed and the membership significantly accrued by virtue of the enthusiastic participation of fellow missionaries from Manipur,” stated a press release. Speaking to revitalize and strengthen in one of the fellowships, Relilel Tsukru of ABCC missionary Chakhesang Students' Union officials and others with students during the CSU Black dwelled on the vital imporDay observed on October 3 at Government Higher Secondary School Phek along with tance of being still and units affiliated units. ruffled in the absolute truth Phek, OctOber 3 President Dode Nakro Assembly unanimously de- of Gods sovereign existence (MexN): The Chakhesang in a press release stated clared Non-cooperation to Students' Union (CSU) ob- that CSU observes ‘Black both the Government inserved ‘Black Day’ on Octo- Day’ every year on Octo- volved i.e. FGN (NA) and ber 3 at Government High- ber 3, in memory of Late NSCN (K). “The Union also takes DiMaPur, OctOber er Secondary School Phek Achikho Puro, the former along with its affiliated Games & Sports Secretary this day to remember all 3 (MexN): The Dimapur units. The programme was CSU (2006-2008) who was those innocent victims Government College (erstchaired by Thuputo Venuh, killed in a joint operation whose life has been taken while Dimapur College) is President Phek Town of FGN (NA) and NSCN in factional clashes after gearing up to celebrate the Chakhesang Students’ (K) on October 3, 2007 at clash,” the release added. Golden Jubilee in a befitMeanwhile, the union ting manner on NovemUnion and invocation was AG colony Kohima. Folpronounced by Nusakhoyi lowing the killing incident, extended its condolence to ber 3 with Chief Minister of Assistant Teacher (GT) De- the Chakhesang Students' the family of Late Achikho Nagaland TR Zeliang as the partment of Tenyidie GHSS Union demanded the cul- Puro and acknowledged chief guest. Phek. Keynote address and prits involved to be booked the family of his services The Dimapur College, brief speech on the black and be rewarded with a be- rendered to the Chakhe- the only College in the town day was delivered by Nu- fitting punishment as per sang Students' Union in started as a private College kuto Shizoh, Social and the law of the land. Failing particular and the commu- with the initiative of a few to adhere with the demand nity which will be always prominent citizens in 1966. Cultural Secretary CSU. While highlighting of the Union, the house cherished and remem- The College was taken overby the state government in 1989, about the ‘Black Day’ CSU subsequently in the Union bered.
Naga missionaries serving in Cambodia during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of its annual fellowship held in the coastal town of Shinoukville province.
and Lordship regardless of shifting circumstances and situations that inevitably confront all lives, more palpably so in the Mission field.
NACAM an acronym for Nagas in Cambodia was officially forged in 2007 with its Motto ‘Connected for His Purpose’ under the
then leadership of Rev. Wati Longkumer and comrades, the first few Nagas who set their feet in Cambodian soil as missionaries.
DGC prepares to celebrate Golden Jubilee
KCCI, NTUK supports AYO campaign kOhiMa, OctOber 3 (MexN): Kohima Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) pledges its support to Angami Youth Organization (AYO) in its noble initiative to be exercised on October 5 from 6:00 am – 6:00 pm (Wednesday) impressing upon the present generation for an attitudinal and behavioural change towards our nature and environment, for a world that enable decent and convenient living and without being dependent on fossil fuel energy. KCCI therefore request all the business community in Kohima to arrive at their establishment Green, abstain from usage of high power driven machineries and equipments and adhere to the exercises initiated by AYO. Meanwhile, Naga Timbers Union Kohima (NTUK) assured its full support and cooperation to Angami Youth Organization (AYO), in call for 'A moment of Solidarity to enable our environment' on October 5. In a press statement NTUK President Thepfuriiya Kesiyie and General Secretary Seyiekhrietuo Sekhose has directed all the members of their Saw Mill to remain close on that particular day. NTUK also said that everybody should join hands to protect our environment from all forms hazards that is affecting our mother earth.
and got accredited by NAAC in 2015, informed a press release issued by the publicity and media cell, DGC. The College has created a conducive environment to accelerate quality reforms and fully committed to impart quality education to the succeeding generations of learners in keeping with the mission statement 'Impact through quality education', so as to empower them with knowledge and skills and equip them for creative leadership in an ever chang-
ing world. The College caters to nearly one thousand students in Arts and Commerce streams with fairly commendable results. The College also offers one year diploma course in Hospitality Industry Management and 6 months certificate course on Floriculture sponsored by UGC and RUSA under the Ministry of Human Resources Department (MHRD) respectively. The College invites the past students, teachers, staff and stakeholders scat-
tered around the world to converge in your alma mater and celebrate with the big family on November 3 at 11:00 am. The College also appeals to the retired teachers, staff and first graduates of the Dimapur Government College to contact the College by way of SMS/ WhatsApp with the College to help us in our continuous effort for documentation of the pioneer of the College to the following Mob: 9436063166/9436004268.
12 villages in Dimapur declared ‘Open Defecation Free’
DiMaPur, OctOber 3 (MexN): In commemoration of the 2nd anniversary of Swachh Bharat Mission, a programme to declare 12 villages as Open Defecation Free (ODF) namely Bade, Disagaphu, Hazadisa, Murise, Razaphe, Sangtamtila, Shikavi, Shoxuvi, Sinrijan, Urra, Vidima and Zutovi village under Dhansiripar Block, Dimapur Rural Division was held on October 2 with Mhalo Humtsoe, SDO (C) Dhansiripar as chief guest and Er KG Sumi Director WSSO PHED as special invitee. The programme was chaired by Er Hebo Zhimomi, SDO PHED Dhansiripar at SDO (C) Dhansiripar Conference Hall Dimapur began with invocation by Pastor Ao
SDO (C) Dhansiripar, Director WSSO, PHED, Nagaland EE, PHED (Rural) Dimapur along with PHED officials and participants at the ODF declaration programme held at Dimapur.
Baptist Church Dhansiripar. Welcome address was delivered by Er. Narisen Jami, SDO (PHED) Niuland. Speaking on the occasion, Mhalo Humtsoe SDO (C) Dhansiripar stressed on the importance and need of
toilet in every household. She also exhorted the gathering to bring about change towards cleanliness in the society. Executive Engineer PHED, Dimapur (Rural) Er L. Tongpang Longkumer gave the keynote address
where he highlighted the SBM activities of the District and encouraged the villages declared ODF under Dhansiripar to bring forth the good work initiated by them in achieving the ODF status. He also em-
Free dental camp at Khezhakeno Village
The medical team, organizers and others during the one day free dental camp at Zhipfhemi Community Building, Khezhakeno Village held on October 1.
kOhiMa, OctOber 3 (MexN): The Chüketshe Society (CKS), Khezhakeno in collaboration with Advanced Dental Aesthetic & Implant Clinic, Kohima organized a one day free dental camp at Zhipfhemi Community Building, Khezhakeno Village on October 1. A total of 152 patients registered in the dental camp and availed free dental treatment, free
medicines, toothbrush, toothpastes and mouthwash from the visiting dental team. Earlier, the camp began with an invocation by Khupo Koza, Pastor, Khezhakeno Baptist Church (KBC) which was followed by short speeches by the president, Chüketshe Society (CKS) Medovelo Koza and Dr. Pfokrolo Koza, who shared on various is-
sues related to dental health. A press release said that the dental team was led by Dr.Pfokrolo Koza (Periodentist & Oral Implantologist), President, Indian Dental Association, Nagaland State Branch (IDANSB); Dr. Nungotso Vero (Prothodentist), Dr. Venyiteü Nuh (Dental Surgeon) and support staff nurses vis-à-vis N. Moie Phom and Tsenbeni Lotha.
Elias T. Lotha
(President, Catholic Association of Nagaland)
Dr. Eyingbeni Hümtsoe-Nienu (Senior Lecturer, Clark Theological College)
Rev. Dr. Zelhou Keyho
(General Secretary, Nagaland Baptist Church Council)
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Puliebadze Club gives to differently-abled and aged people
kOhiMa, OctOber 3 (MexN): In an effort to make Jotsoma village easily accessible and friendlier for the differently-abled and aged people, the Puliebadze Club has distributed an amount of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) only each to eight churches in Jotsoma village and the Village Council under its programme ‘Development and Beautification Initiative.’ PBCJ, general secretary Kepelhuto Nakhro in a press release stated that this is to enable to construct special passage ways and ramps for differently-abled and aged people in all public places like churches and village council hall. Another major contribution of the club is the installation of
a ‘Vertical Flower Pot Garden’ wherein more than 200 flower pots have been raised and displayed. Some other important activities of the club under this programme are – installation of Road Safety Convex Mirror, Roadside Plantation, etc. Following this initiation by the Puliebadze Club, several other Jotsoma village based organizations have also voluntarily taken up various developmental works in the villages. As such, now there are several Road Safety Convex Mirrors installed in the village, several kms of roadside plantations, etc. The president of the Club also stated that it is overwhelmed by the support and contribution from various quarters, including individuals towards this programme.
Nagaland Pensioners’ Association on registration
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Role of Religion in Promoting Inter-Tribe Harmony among Nagas
phasized on safe sanitary practices in keeping the village and environment clean, for healthy and conducive living. Special Invitee, Er KG Sumi, Director, Water and Sanitation Support Or-
ganization (WSSO), Nagaland administered the sanitation pledge and gave a short presentation on the progress of the SBM (G) in Nagaland. He encouraged the gathering and the officers of PHED to continue the noble mission to achieve ODF and Swachh Dimapur by 2017. He also laid stress on the need of toilet, its health implications and other issue related to toilet, practice of hand washing with soap and inculcating the habit of safe sanitary practice. Vote of thanks was delivered by Er Imtisowa SDO, PHED Kuhuboto. This was stated in a press release issued by Er Hebo Zhimomi, SDO, PHED, Dhansiripar.
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DiMaPur, OctOber 3 (MexN): All pensioners and family pensioners of the State Government of Nagaland are informed that many pensioners and family pensioners are reportedly drawing their pension without registering with the concerned District Pensioners’ Association or Sub-Unit Pensioners’ Association. “Many pensioners and family pensioners who had once registered are also reportedly drawing their pension or family pension without renewing their identity card or drawing card,” stated a press release issued by Nagaland Pensioners Association (NPA), General Secretary, Lecho Krocha. The Association stated that introduction of identity card and drawing card is authorized by Government of Nagaland and these are to be renewed every year. This is for the specific purpose of helping Government in keeping reasonably accurate information of the pensioners. Further, upon issue of Revision of Pension of Pre-2016 pensioners and family pensioners by Government of India on the
recommendation of the 7th Central Pay Commission, extra efforts have to be made by Nagaland Pensioners’ Association for timely release of pension at the rates recommended by 7th Central Pay Commission and notified by Government of India in August 2016. For this purpose accurate record of pensioners and family pensioners is urgently required, NPA added. Therefore, all the pensioners and family pensioners who have not yet registered with the Nagaland Pensioners’ Association are urged upon to register themselves with the concerned District pensioners’ Association or Sub-Unit Pensioners’ Association. Those pensioners and family pensioners who have not yet renewed their Identity Card and Drawing card are also urged upon to renew at the earliest. Any pensioners and family pensioners who are not registered with Nagaland pensioners ‘Association shall not be treated as bonafide member of Nagaland Pensioners’ Association for all purposes with regard to pension matters.
The aims and objectives of its formation was to encourage, assist and admonish one another wherever one is placed to serve in Cambodia. Over the years, numbers of Nagas serving full time as missionaries across Cambodia have exponentially multiplied to 32 members actively involved in various fields of ministries and capacities. The next NACAM meet is now tentatively scheduled in the month of April 2017. If there is anyone interested to come for ministry purposes and wants to ask any general question about Cambodia, you can contact the following: President: Hajanthung Lotha Ph. +855963288763 or email @ hlothangullie@gmail.com and General Secretary: Vedukholu Dawhuo Ph +855963423173.
5th Nagaland Spelling Bee Championship on October 7-8 kOhiMa, OctOber 3 (MexN): The 5th Nagaland Spelling Bee Championship is scheduled to be held on October 7 and 8 at Capital Convention Centre, opposite to Nagaland Civil Secretariat Kohima. FP Solo, IPoS, Commissioner & Secretary School Education & SCERT Nagaland and Timikha Koza, president, Tenyimi Peoples’ Organisation will be gracing the Championship as chief guest and special guest on inaugural function and closing ceremony respectively. The winner of the championship will walk away with a cash prize of Rs. 60,000. The second, third and fourth winner will win Rs. 40,000, Rs. 20,000 and Rs. 15,000 respectively. The 4 quarter finalist will also get Rs. 5000 each. The inaugural function will start at 9:30 am with invocation by Rev Fr. Alex Vizo, Parish Priest, St Francis De Sales Church, Kohima; welcome note by Vilekho Bio, Convenor, Oragnising Committee; special number by Dzesekhrienuo Keretsü, key note by Khrietuo Mezhür, Director SECRT followed by the speech of the chief guest. The closing ceremony will be held at 4:00 pm with special number by Kekhrieseno Ringa, speech by special guest followed by winners award and acknowledgement by Seyieviso Tsükrü, advisor, Fountain Club.
DDTOA supports CCoFA demand DiMaPur, OctOber 3 (MexN): As discussed and resolved in the meeting organised by ACAUT Nagaland on September 28 under the banner of Coordination Committee on Fuel Adulteration (CCoFA), the Dimapur District Truck Owners' Association (DDTOA) will also observe October 4 as an ‘Off Road Day’ for the truckers within the district of Dimapur. DDTOA President Hokheto Kiba in an advisory and precautionary information requested truck owners to observe the ‘Off Road Day’ on the day to show support and solidarity to the demand of CCoFA which has been served 15th days ultimatum to State Government to institute the CBI inquiry into the Fuel Adulteration Racket exposed by ACAUT. The DDTOA also asserted that the fuel adulteration being the major subject of corruption to common people for personal profit and also main route of uncountable damages to vehicles and appreciated the ACAUT in taking bold step in busting Fuel Adulteration Racket for the good cause of the common man.
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blast rocks village One in every four men in Assam 2030: Zero poverty, Bomb near Myanmar border Aizawl facing cancer threat no hunger, full literacy AizAwl, OctOber 3 (iANS): Men in Mizoram's capital Aizawl have much higher probability of developing cancer than their counterparts in any other part of the country, an official said here on Monday. According to the Population Based Cancer Registries (PBCR), the probability of contracting any type of cancer in a lifetime (up to 74 years of age) is one in four males in Aizawl against one in seven to eight men in important cities in India. "Probability of contracting cancer among females in Aizawl is one in
five persons, whereas it is one in eight in Mumbai, one in seven in Delhi," Eric Zomawia, Mizoram nodal officer of cancer and principal investigator for PBCR, told reporters. As Mizoram tops all other states in India in tobacco consumption, the PBCR found that the major source of cancer in this north-eastern state is tobacco use. Zomawia, quoting the PBCR, said cancer killed on an average 725 persons every year in Mizoram, which has a population of around 11 lakh. There were 4,656 new
cases of cancer, including 2,089 among females, reported between 2012 and 2014, confirming that, on an average, there were 1,552 new cancer cases per year in the state, bordering Myanmar and Bangladesh. According to Aizawl PBCR, as many as 2,176 people died of various types of cancers in three years till 2014. Of the 2,176 cancer victims in three years (2012-2014), 830 were females and 1,346 males. There are 29 PBCRs in the country with 11 of them in the northeast region, comprising eight states.
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Dated Kohima, the 29th Sept, 2016
PRESS RELEASE
With the enhancement of the Ex-Members and family pension. The Commissioner & Secretary of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly request all the Ex-Members and surviving family pensioners to collect the revised pension form in the Assembly Secretariat. i.e. Members Amenities Branch during office hour. The following documents have to be produced as per table given below. Table —I, for Ex-Members. 1 Six copies of latest passport photograph (4.5 cm x 3.5 cm) 2 Three copies of Identity Card 3 Three copies of last Payment Certificate from concern Treasury Office/Bank 4 Three copies of PPO Book (i.e. Disburser portion and pension portion) Table —II, for family pensioners. 1 Six copies of latest passport photograph (4.5 cm x 3.5 cm) 2 Three copies of Identity Card 3 Three copies of Life Certificate 4 Three copies of Death Certificate 5 Three copies of Succession Certificate 6 Three copies of Last Payment Certificate from concern Treasury Office /Bank 7 Three copies of PPO Book (i.e. Disburser portion and pension portion) 8 Three copies of No Objection Certificate 9 Three copies of Birth Certificate for dependent along with Affidavit dully attested by Class-I Magistrate Sd/- (N. BENJAMIN NEWMAI) COMMISSIONER & SECRETARY NAGALAND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SECRETARIAT
INVITATION
The big family of Dimapur Government College invites all past students to the Golden Jubilee Celebration of your alma mater on Thursday, 3rd November 2016 at 11 AM in the College premises.
“Come and celebrate the memories while building new one”
Shri.T.R. Zeliang, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland will grace the occasion as the Chief Guest. Khrieo Rutsa Convener Planning Committee
Akok Walling Principal Dimapur Government College
Notice for Annual Rate Contract of Stationeries and Miscellaneous items. Director, ICAR - NRC on Mithun, invites sealed tenders from the registered suppliers/dealers for entering into Annual Rate Contract 2016-17 for the supply of Stationeries and Miscellaneous items with complete specifications in the prescribed format (Annexure-A) on or before 3rd November 2016. The details such as specifications, Annexure, terms and conditions, can be downloaded from the website: www.nrcmithun.res.in Administrative Officer For and behalf of Director
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NO.M-814/16/8278-79/ Notice is hereby given that Smti. Avonuo Solo-Vrs- Late. MGK Angami resident of Darogapathar village, Dimapur, Nagaland under Rule 50 & 51 of Assam Land Revenue Regulation 1886 have applied for Mutation of land described in the schedule below :The undersigned under Rule 52 of the said Rules do hereby invites claims/objections concerning to the said land, if any & should be submitted to this court in writing on or before 23/10/16. Schedule of land & boundary Name of Patta Holder: Late. MGK Angami Village: Ekarani Gaon Patta No: 34, Dag No: 16/56 Area: 00B-03K-13 Ls
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This is to inform the public in general and to whom so ever it may concern that any one dealing financial matters or property with Shri. W. Akum S/o Late Wongto of Shamator Town shall be doing so at his/her own risk. Therefore, the family of Late Wongto would not be held responsible for any of his actions and debts incurred by him. Family members of Lt. Wongto.
TENDER Director, ICAR - NRC on Mithun, invites sealed quotations for supply of GI Sheets, Barbed Wire and Fire Extinguishers with complete specifications in the prescribed format (Annexure-A) on or before 24th October 2016. The details such as specifications, Annexure, terms and conditions, can be downloaded from the website: www.nrcmithun.res.in Administrative Officer For and behalf of Director
GuwAhAti, OctOber 3 (Pti): The Assam government today announced an ambitious target of eliminating poverty and hunger from the state along with achieving full literacy by 2030. Releasing the document 'Assam 2030: Our Dream, Our Commitment', Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal appealed to all stakeholders to work sincerely for achieving the targets. "The Government of Assam plans to reduce the poverty ratio from 27.3 per cent in 2015 to zero per cent by 2030. The goal lays down targets for eradication of extreme poverty for all people everywhere," the report said.
The document also laid the target of ending hunger by 2030 and malnutrition by 2025. "It also targets to double agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers like farmers, fishermen, milk producers etc," it said. On education sector, the document said the government will target to achieve full literacy in the next 1415 years in the state. "The targets laid down include elimination of gender disparities in education and ensuring access to all levels of education and vocational training for vulnerable, including disabled and underprivileged sections of society by 2030,"
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the report said. It also set to achieve maternal mortality ratio to below 70 per 1,00,000 live births, neo-natal mortality to 12 per 1,000 births and under 5-year mortality to 25 per 1,000 births by 2030. On the economic front, Assam aims to have at least 7 per cent GDP growth every year, besides having "full and productive employment" along with decent works for all by 2030, the document said. "The goal targets to promote inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and proposes to double industry's share of employment and GDP by 2030," it said. The document has set a total of 17 sustainable development goals and 169 targets in the next 14-15 years. "With the 15 years vision and strategic architecture in place, the detailed planning will actually be done in terms of 3-year segments," the government added in the document.
imPhAl, OctOber 3 (iANS): A powerful bomb was detonated along the Manipur-Myanmar boundary, near a Muslim village, officials said on Monday. Official sources said the blast took place near boundary pillar No.79 at 8 p.m. on Sunday, hardly 40 metres from a Muslim village. Soon after the blast, the police and Assam Rifles troopers rushed to make investigation. No arrest was made. There has been no claim from any underground organisation either. The police said the motive behind the blast is yet unclear.
Gogoi writes to Modi over dam in Brahmaputra's upper reaches GuwAhAti, OctOber 3 (iANS): Expressing apprehension over China's decision to block a tributary of the Brahmaputra, former Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi raised the matter with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the development is a matter of concern for his state as well as other parts of the region, including neighbouring Bhutan and Bangladesh. In a letter to Modi, he urged him to take up the matter with China as such a dam would cause irreparable damage and cripple the economy of Assam. He said that he had also taken up the matter with the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Union Water Resources Minister in 2004 when China constructed a dam over river Brahmaputra in its upper reaches. The Brahmaputra River is known as Yarlung Tsangpo in Tibet where it originates. "It will be great injustice to the people of Assam from a country with whom the government of India claims to have cordial and friendly relations. We want good relations with neighbours. The matter must be taken up urgently and seriously," Gogoi said.
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‘Government will ensure Indian telecom products are best in the world’ New Delhi, OctOber 3 (iaNS): The government will do everything to ensure that Indian telecom products and services become the first choice in the world, Communications Minister Manoj Sinha said on Monday. “If one is looking for secure ICT (information and communications technology) products, they should rely on Indian products and our industry is eager to share ‘know how’ and ‘know why’,” the minister said at the inaugural session of the 8th Telecom Export Promotion Council’s buyer-seller meet. He said Indian manufacturers have already made significant strides in exports of IT and telecom products to several countries and established that the products are of world-class quality and globally competitive on technology and price. “India has all the ingredients of a globally competitive telecom industry like a large domestic market, world class talent, focus on research and development and IPR (intellectual property rights) creation beside a robust framework for electronic manufacturing,” the statement said. Sinha told the representatives from 28 participating countries from South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa that India also holds the distinction of being the fastest growing telecom network, especially with the advent of increased broadband penetration. “This large telecom network requires equipment and technology that is second to none in the world, yet India offers the lowest telephony tariffs in the world,” the minister added. Sinha said the Indian telecom sector has been growing at a phenomenal pace and is considered the fastest growing market in the world with the second largest subscriber base with more than 1.06 billion connectivity, 160 million broadband connections and 350 million plus internet users. He said the rapid growth of the sector has fuelled the demand for telecom equipment including mobile phones, which is about $20 billion in 2015-16 and is estimated to exceed $30 billion by 2020.
SSC Junior Engineer Recruitment 2016 Staff Selection Commission (SSC) has released a notification for the recruitment of Junior Engineers (Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Quantity Surveying and Contract). Interested candidates may check the eligibility criteria and apply online from 01-10-2016 to 28-10-2016. More details about SSC Junior Engineer Examination 2016, including vacancy details, eligibility criteria, selection procedure, how to apply and important dates, are mentioned below: Vacancy Details: Post Name
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Reliance Group in India’s largest offsets deal with Dassault
MuMbai, OctOber 3 (iaNS): In one of the largest offsets deals in India’s defence space, potentially valued at some Rs 30,000 crore ($4.5 billion), Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group on Monday announced a new venture with Dassault Aviation of France, the makers of Rafale fighters and Falcon business jets. The Dassault Reliance Aerospace joint venture will be the key player in executing the offsets obligations, as a part of India’s purchase agreement for 36 Rafale fighter jets valued at 7.87 billion euros (nearly $9 billion or Rs 59,000 crore), signed with France last month, a company statement said. “This is a transformational moment for Indian Aerospace sector and for Reliance Infrastructure’s subsidiary Reliance Aerospace,” said Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani. Eric Trappier, Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO, said the new venture illustrated his company’s commitment towards developing strategic industrial partnerships under the “Make in India” policy of
Anil Ambani, chairman of the Reliance Anil dhirubhai Ambani group. (REUTERS File Photo)
the Indian government. The 50 per cent offsets obligation of the Indo-French deal is touted as the largest ever for India. The contract comes during the centennial year of Dassault. According to the company statement, Dassault Reliance Aerospace, besides promoting Prime Minister Modi’s ‘Make in India’ and ‘Skill India’ policies, will also develop major Indian programmes with high
levels of technology-transfer to benefit the entire aerospace sector in the country. The partnership will also focus on promoting research and development projects under the Indigenously Designed, Developed and Manufactured programme -- a new initiative of India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. Dassault, till date, has delivered more than 8,000 military and civil aircraft to more
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New Delhi, OctOber 3 (aNi): The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the plea of Nestle to destroy 550 tonnes of Maggi which were expired and contained the permissible limit of lead content. A division bench of the apex court, headed by Justice Dipak Misra said this after hearing from Nestle. On April 5, a Mysore-based government laboratory had given its test report on Maggi noodles in a sealed cover to the apex court. On January 13, the top court had asked the Mysore lab to clarify whether test reports relating to lead and glutamic acid in Maggi noodles were within permissible parameters under the law. The Consumer Commission had on December 10 last year sent 16 more samples of Maggi noodles for testing in the Chennai lab to ascertain the quantity of lead and MSG in them in connection with the government’s Rs. 640 crore suit against the company for alleged unfair trade practices. The court had on December 16 last year ordered testing of samples of Maggi noodles in the Mysore laboratory after the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) had directed that it be done in Chennai. The apex court had stayed the proceedings before the NCDRC and directed that the test reports, including the earlier one, be placed before it.
than 90 countries over the past 60 years, with nearly 28 million flight hours. It reported revenues of 4.20 billion euros last year. After much negotiations and deliberations, India and France last week signed the agreement for 36 Rafales, the Medium Multi-role Combat Aircraft. The original tender was for 126 fighters. Defence Minister Parrikar and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian signed the pact. The first fighter plane agreement in about two decades was inked almost 16 months after Prime Minister Modi announced India’s decision to buy the jets during his visit to France in April last year. Dassault first established itself in India after the sale of Mirage 2000. Its Rafale was chosen by India in 2012, following a competitive bidding process that was initiated in 2007. It was inducted by the French Navy in 2004 and then in 2006 by the French Air Force. As on 30 June 2016, 152 Rafale aircraft had been delivered.
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International Day of Older Persons Kohima, october 3 (mexN): District Legal Services Authorities (DLSAs) organized various programmes for older persons (senior citizens) in their respective district headquarters in commemoration of the International Day of Older Persons on October 1. The Tuensang District Legal Services Authority organized a programme with the theme ‘Take a stand against ageism’ at CKS Hall, Tuensang Town. Deputy Commissioner, Tuensang spoke on the importance of the day and informed about the several benefits provided by the governments through various schemes, informed a press release from Nungsang Jamir, Nodal Officer, Nagaland State Legal Services Authority (NSLSA). N. Kano, Civil Judge and Secretary of Tuensang DLSA spoke on the ‘Maintenance and Welfare of Par-
ents and Senior Citizens Act’. He also highlighted the various provisions of the Act such as providing adequate healthcare for aged persons, social care, and protection. “Senior citizens are a treasure to the society and it is the obligations of the society and Government institutions to take responsibilities for their lives,” Kano added. In Peren, the Peren District Legal Services Authority led by its Secretary Somet Chang, who is also the Civil Judge (Jr.) along with Panel Lawyers organised special programme for the older people of Peren Town at Town Hall, Peren. Chang spoke on the ‘Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act’ and the provisions for providing care and protection for parents and elderly people. Later, the oldest man and woman were selected among the hundred older people
Meetings & Appointments BLOs training for 9-Kohima Town and 10-Northern Angami-I The Additional Deputy Commissioner & Electoral Registration Officer, Kohima, Lithrongla Tongpi has informed the Booth Level Officers of 9-Kohima Town and 10-Northern Angami-I Assembly Constituencies that training in connection with Special Summary Revision of Photo Electoral Roll will be held on October 6 and not on October 5 as published earlier. The training will be held at DC’s conference hall, Kohima at 11:00 am with SDO (C) Kohima (Sadar) and SDO (C) Kohima (Judicial) as resource persons.
USGOU meeting All members of United Sangtam Gazetted Officer’s Union (USGOU) stationed in Kohima and Dimapur and all the Correspondence Secretaries of all units have been informed that an emergency meeting has been fixed at 10:00 am on October 8 (Saturday) at DUDA Guest House, Kohima in connection with United Sangtam Likhum Pumji’s (USLP) general conference. A press release from USGOU General Secretary, L. Serichem Sangtam has requested all the members concerned to attend the meeting without fail.
‘Respect & value blessings of older persons’
chizami, october 3 (mexN): Chizami Village Council (CVC) celebrated the International Day of Older Persons on October 1 with the theme ‘Old is Gold’. It was attended by 171 people. Addressing the gathering, Village Council Chairman, Kewepelo Tsuhah, expressed happiness over the good turn up of the elderly people and reminded the gathering to respect and value the blessings of the older persons. He stressed on the importance of giving helping hand to elderly persons. He exhorted the gathering, especially the leaders, to respect the elderly persons and pray for their health and long life so they will contribute their wisdom and skills to the society. CVC Secretary Keduwe Tsuhah in a participating in the programme and presented gifts. In Longleng, the day was marked by a special programme for the senior citizens organised by the Longleng District Legal Services Authority at the DC conference hall to ensure the welfare and rights
press release stated that the elderly persons had a mass prayer and blessed the village council leaders and the various departments under the council. Former VCCs and other elderly persons, who spoke on the occasion, focused on the transformative aspect of the village at different levels through retrospection and admitted especially of not being truthful to oneself and having failed to fall in line with the motto of the village which is ‘Seso Are Boju’ (Truth is the foundation of my village), stated the press release. The Chizami Women Society chairperson also spoke at the event. The gathering also resolved to observe the International Day of Older Persons every year.
of elder and older persons. Victo Sema, Chief Judicial Magistrate and Secretary of Longleng DLSA along with the Panel Lawyers spoke on the various protection and welfare schemes of senior citizens. Victo also assured that the Legal Services Authorities were convicted to provide more effective
provision and legal assistance for issues relating to maintenance and welfare of parents and senior citizens. Awareness on health care and social care such as separate queues for senior citizens so they don’t have to wait long in queues were highlighted by the Panel Lawyers of Longleng DLSA.
Kohima Police rescue kidnapped person Kohima, october 3 (mexN): Kohima North Police Station personnel rescued a kidnapped truck driver near Thizama on October 2. In this connection, one person was arrested while two other accused escaped, said a press release from Joseph Hesso, Senior Superintendent of Police, Kohima. The press release informed that on October 2 around 2:00 pm, specific input was received from reliable source that one Manipur bound truck driver had been kidnapped by some miscreants and was kept somewhere in New Secretariat area, Kohima. The kidnappers were demanding a ransom of Rs. 10 lakh for his safe release, it was stated. On receipt of the information, North P.S personnel launched a search and rescue operation engaging plain clothes personnel. During the search operation, location of the kidnappers was traced to a place near Thizama. Ac-
PRN urges Naga political orgs to reaffirm for freedom and indentity
Dimapur, october 3 (mexN): The Peoples’ Republic of Nagaland (PRN) today asked Naga political organizations to reaffirm themselves for “Freedom, Self determination and Identity” based on Naga history. A press note from the Ministry of Information and Publicity (MIP) of the
PRN further asked the Government of India to be more concerned, if it is serious about solving Naga issue. “The Nagas have suffered and sacrifice too long for Self-determination, the Naga Club submitted memorandum to Simon commission in 1929, the Naga declared
Naga Independence on 14th August'1947, which has reaffirmed by the Naga plebiscite on may 16th 1951, and on 22nd March'1956, Naga Republic Day, the journey of Naga struggles has lost many lives and the sufferings and untold pain awarded by Indian army in Nagas territory was beyond
A press release from Sentichuba Aier, Director, NZP acknowledged that the zoo received over-
as well as groups continue to support the zoo in our conservation efforts,” he said. The management and staff of NZP, Rangapahar thanked individuals, groups, communities, organizations and many other wildlife lovers “whose diverse contributions make it possible to give wildlife a
Free entry to the zoo for all visitors today whelming support during the launching of Animal Adoption Program last year. “Many individuals
second chance.” As part of the Wildlife Week celebration, the zoo will allow Free Entry to all visitors today (October 4). The NZP Director cordially invited everyone to visit the zoo as a mark of respect to all wildlife and support to those who are involved directly or indirectly in helping to give wildlife a second chance.
Churches attend consultation workshop on TB
A team of IAS Probationers visited Dimapur Government College (DGC) on September 27 and interacted with senior teachers of the college in the DGC Library Hall. Posted in various parts of North East India, the IAS Probationers, numbering 23, are taking part in a Bharat Darshan programme visiting various parts of India. The interaction covered a number of subjects like tourism, indigenous food, customary practices, political issues in Nagaland, education, land and forests etc.
Physical attack condemned zuNheboto, october 3 (mexN): Head GB of Izheto village, Huska Sema has condemned the attack on one Vitokhu Awomi by a group of people “armed with sharp weapons” on September 30 at Mukhami village under V.K area in Zunheboto district. In a condemnation note, Huska alleged that the group went to the house of the victim at about 7:30 pm and attacked him with machete. “However, the victim miraculously escaped death but not beforebeingseriouslyinjured with one of his hands com-
pletely severed. To my utter surprise, the armed group who apparently intended to kill Vitokhu pursued the victim to another house in the neighbourhood, where the victim ran into to hide from the attackers,” it stated. “I am not aware of what led to occurrence of this incident and therefore I am not taking sides of anyone whosoever but as a concerned citizen I feel that any misunderstanding that may have existed between the two parties of the village could have been amicably settled within the village it-
self and not resort to such act of violence, which will destroy the fabric of the society,” the Head GB said. Stating that Nagas are living in a civilized society and such acts have no place in the society, he urged every right thinking citizen to denounce such act. He also appealed to both the parties not to escalate the situation further and let law take its own course of action. “Whatever action taken by the law enforcing agency should be made known to the public,” the note added.
2016 and an international case before the International Criminal Court at the Haque. Each student has to take part in all the three moot problems. In view of the Angami Youth Organisation (AYO) calling for “a moment of solidarity to enable our environment” on October 5 from 6:00 am-6:00 pm in Kohima, the Professor-incharge further requested his students to come on foot to the ‘Moot Court’ without any complaint. “Every Citizen has a moral duty towards environment protection, for without environment, life itself is not
Tuberculosis Officer, Kohima briefed the participants on the basics of TB, pulmonary and extra pulmonary, MDRTB, XDRTB, latent TB infection, HIV and TB coinfection and the various diagnostics available and required for TB testing. Emphasis was given on IPT and the different regimens used, which can also make the treatment complicated in case treatment adherence is not maintained, and the vari-
ous side effects of the treatment drugs. Renbonthung, Advocacy Officer, NUN shared a brief highlight about NUN, its objectives, its activities and why NUN exists as a network for the people who use drugs in the state. Ketholelie, member of NUN facilitated the consultation of how the church can be involved and what major role it can play in bringing about quality in the existing government programs.
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Sumi Council, Dimapur who knew him,” it added. Nagaland State Branch, it Sumi Council, Dima- While praying for the de- added. The MCD prayed pur (SCD) has expressed parted soul to rest in peace, to “Allah” to grant him a condolences at the death the SCD also prayed to the place in heaven and conof Zakelieliu (Zakie) Kire Almighty to give strength to veyed condolences to the on September 29. “Late the bereaved family mem- bereaved family. Zakie was a very active so- bers to overcome the grief. cial worker and held many IRCS Dimapur important positions in Muslim Council Dimapur The Indian Red Cross Sodifferent organizations,” The Muslim Coun- ciety (IRCS), Dimapur disstated a condolence mes- cil Dimapur has also ex- trict branch also expressed sage from SCD Chairman, pressed pain at the demise shock over the demise of Kuhoi Zhimo. Zakie Kire of Zakie Kire. A note from Zakie Kire. Late Zakie Kire was a member of erstwhile MCD Working President, served the Nagaland state Dimapur Town Commit- Ahidur Rehman said Za- branch of Indian Red Cross tee and also served as the kie Kire was a social worker Society for two terms and General Secretary of the and a prominent citizen of immensely contributed for Indian Red Cross Society, Dimapur who served the the uplift of the IRCN and the Nagaland Chapter, the people of Dimapur as a district branches, said IRCS message informed. “He member of Dimapur Town Dimapur Honorary Secrepossible,” he stated. was gentleman to the core Committee. He also served tary, KK Paul. The IRCS DiFurther, he reminded and had excellent relations humanity as the Honor- mapur condoled the demise that one of the fundamen- with everybody. He will be ary General Secretary of and prayed that the departtal duties under Article deeply missed by all those Indian Red Cross Society, ed soul rest in eternal peace. 51(g) of the Constitution of India provides “it shall at the time when Nagaland was engulfed be the duty of every citi- MLA Dr Longrineken MLA and Chairman, DAN & NBRM, with political crises and people living with zen of India to protect and improve the natural envi- Dr Longrineken has expressed shock and miseries,” he added. The note informed ronment including forest, sadness over the death of Ruth on Sep- that Ruth served the government in varilakes, rivers and wild life, tember 29. In a condolence note, the MLA ous capacities and eventually retired as and to have compassion stated that the death of Ruth, “who had Headmistress of Ongpangkong Governshown exemplary and dedicated service ment High School. “However, her retirefor living creatures.” Kezhokhoto Savi, who to the state government and the people ment from service did not deter her to is also the President of till she attained superannuation in 1996, serve the people. Rather she involved in Nagaland Voluntary Con- is a great loss.” He maintained that the various social activities.” Expressing regret sumers’ Organization, said deceased was not only one of the early for his inability to attend her funeral, Dr due to the pressure of pop- graduates but also one of the well trained Longrineken offered condolences to the ulation and technology, staff nurses from Jangpetkong range. “I bereaved family and prayed to God to give the biophysical environ- sometimes wonder her determination to them courage to bear the pain of losing a pursue education during 1950s and 60s “great mother”. ment is being degraded.
Moot Court at Kohima Law College on Oct 5 Kohima, october 3 (mexN): As per the Practical & Training syllabus of the Bar Council of India (BCI), Kohima Law College is conducting ‘Moot Court’ on October 5, 9:00 am onwards at its own Moot Court Room. The Professor-incharge of BCI Practical & Training, Kezhokhoto Savi in a press release has asked the students of LL.B IVth Semester to come prepared with three different moot problems consisting of criminal and civil cases based on rarest of rare case and National Moot Court Competition
Kohima, october 3 (mexN): Nagaland Users’ Network in partnership with Kripa Foundation supported by Treatment Action Group conducted a consultation workshop with some churches of Kohima at LCS building on September 30. A brief overview of the State tuberculosis prevalence was highlighted by Dr. Apichetla, Assistant Program Officer, Nagaland State RNTCP. Dr. Asuno, District
cordingly, the police team swung into action and apprehended one of the three kidnappers while the other two managed to escape and secured the release of the victim, the release stated. The arrested kidnapper was later identified as Lieut. Kewepe Wetsah (30)
of FGN. A criminal case vide Kohima North P.S Case No. 0072/2016 U/S 343/364 A/34 IPC R/W 7 NSR’62 has been registered for conducting further investigation and apprehending the escaped accomplices, it added.
AEO Zunheboto informs
zuNheboto, october 3 (Dipr): Assistant Election Officer (AEO), Zunheboto, Chisho K. Swu has informed all electors of 31 A/C to 36 A/C under Zunheboto district that draft electoral roll has been prepared and is available for inspection at the office of ERO, AEROs and imaginable, witness by the BLOs. Therefore, any claims and objections, if any, should world,” the PRN said. be lodged on or before October 31, 2016. It further stated that “the treaty of Yandabo, which is known to Nagas in ANGPTA, Dimapur unit informs 1826, Nagas were majorly Dimapur, october 3 (mexN): The All Nagaland divided in two countries, Government Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA), British-India and Burma Dimapur unit has informed that all the teachers who are (Myanmar).” The PRN also yet to submit their documents and membership fees are meanwhile condemned required to do so through their Head Teacher/ Teachersthe Shillong Accord of 1975. in-charge as the association has sent the requisite form through the concerned office.
Nagaland Zoological Park celebrates Wildlife Week Dimapur, october 3 (mexN): The Nagaland Zoological Park (NZP), Rangapahar is celebrating Wildlife Week 2016 with the theme ‘Wildlife Saviours’ to acknowledge the contribution and support of donors, animal adopters and rescuers in helping to save the ever threatened wildlife community.
The accused who was arrested for kidnapping a truck driver on October 2.
CCN supports CBI enquiry demand Dimapur, october 3 (mexN): The Concerned Citizens of Nagaland (CCN) has expressed support to the demand of a CBI inquiry into the fuel adulteration racket by the Coordination Committee on Fuel Adulteration. “CCN renders full support and states that the demand of the Coordination Committee is the demand of every right thinking citizens of Nagaland,” stated a press release from Media Cell, CCN. It asserted that CBI is required in the case to deliver free and fair justice. Meanwhile, the forum appealed to the Government to respect the citizens’ joint demand “without having the need to let its subject suffer for justice as justice sought by heavy demand is first sign of injustice.” CCN also stated that it stands “aghast at how justice and end to this open racket still needs citizens’ begging when it should be Citizen's Right without having to appeal, if it was a State where good governance, law and order prevail in tune.”
Seminar on women health at Mon moN, october 3 (Dipr): A seminar on women health was held at Police Baptist Church Mon organised by Women Department PBCM on September 30 with Dr. Supong, MBBS MD, OBS & Gynae and Dr. Chenjei Konyak, MBBS, MO as the resource persons. Dr. Supong talked on the health problems and symptoms which women come across in times of pregnancy. He also highlighted the reasons behind common fever, headache or stomach pain. Dr. Chenjei Konyaks spoke on Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), how STI spreads etc. He also dwelt on HIV/AIDS and its mode of transmission. Free medical checkup was also provided to women during the programme.
Sericulture officials carry out field-to-field inspection moKoKchuNg, october 3 (mexN): Deputy Director of Sericulture, T. Yanger along with Tianochet, Extension Officer, Mokokchung and technical staff carried out a field-to-field inspection at Khar and Akhoya villages under Mokokchung district on September 26-27 under RKVY 2015-16. During the visit, the Deputy Director held a meeting with the farmers of the villages, wherein he encouraged the farmers to take up sericulture activities for income generation and self employment. This was stated in a press release issued by Alemkumzuk, District Sericulture Officer, Mokokchung.
AGBCN Sunday School teachers’ seminar held Dimapur, october 3 (mexN): Association of Gorkha Baptist Churches Nagaland (AGBCN) organized seminar for Sunday School teachers from September 26 – 28 at AGBCN Mission Centre, Singrijan, Dimapur. Alemrenla Jamir, Field Secretary, India Sunday School Union and Lecturer, St. Andrew Center for Human Resource Development and Counselling, Coonoor was the main resource person. Delegates from different districts of Nagaland Gorkha Baptist Churches attended the seminar, informed a press release received here.
47th NSS Foundation Day observed Dimapur, october 3 (mexN): The NSS units of Patkai Christian College (PCC) and Tetseo College, Dimapur jointly observed the 47th NSS Foundation Day on September 24 at Bundrock Chapel Hall, PCC. Bendangnungsang, Programme Officer, NSS Patkai Christian College emphasized on the value of being an NSS volunteer and gave an illustration of NSS as a holistic approach towards education through developing sound personality, the art of co-operation and learning to trounce differences. V. Khusho, Programme Officer, NSS Tetseo College spoke on the importance and objectives of NSS. He said NSS was introduced with an objective of developing students’ personality through community service. To commemorate the Foundation Day, football (boys) and volleyball for both boys and girls were played between the Patkai NSS and Tetseo NSS volunteers.
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IN FOCUS The Power of Truth
The Morung Express volume Xi issue 273
Consumerism!
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t a time when globalism is rapidly being institutionalized through multi-national corporations and local organizations, and the line between local and global blurs into a myriad of conveniences, it is alluring to assume homogeneity, uniformity and sameness is a force for good. This assumption seriously contradicts natural law, and is detrimental to indigenous people’s culture and way of life. Homogeneity supports reducing human cultures ability to multiply and celebrate their diversity while erroneously projecting an exclusive world of monoculture. Naga culture contains a rich treasury of multiplicity and diversity in geography, geology, culture, arts, peoples, languages, bio-diversity, and so forth. Do we want to become homogenous where we are reduced to everyone looking, thinking and acting alike? Advertising and marketing campaigns dominate all forms of the media and public space in the rush to corner the market. This campaigning creates a thirst or wanting for something that is lacking which is bound to become the source of unhappiness and dissatisfaction because of wanting something we don’t have. This makes us feel inadequate, as if we are incomplete or unsuccessful when we don’t have the particular things being marketed. This is particularly dangerous when children become the primary marketing target. When we don’t say ‘no’ to our children we are actually contributing to the next generation feeling inadequate and unhappy, as well as modeling negative behaviors of consumerism and accumulation. The danger of these marketing campaigns grossly oversimplifies issues and problems, condensing them into a quick fix, while simultaneously taking our resources. The question of whether to oversimplify has become acute because people are too busy and have insufficient time to analyze the issues beyond buzz words and headlines. The predicament of oversimplifying is compounded by the interplay of State and corporate behavior. Complicity on the part of individual or a people has strengthened this interplay as ordinary people feel pressed because of having little time and wanting to appear successful, as well as please their loved ones. They think that they are taking the easy way out, when, in fact, they are continuing to support the accumulation model and decreasing their personal and monetary wealth at the same time. It is crucial to recognize that general, uniform standardized response models are being promoted to address varying sets of problems. The inherent fault line existing in such a generalizing approach lies in its basic assumption, that, what has been successful in one situation will prove to be successful in another, one size fits all. This reveals a lack of insight and insensitivity to inherent diversity within indigenous cultures in particular. Dissenting against such approaches and attitudes is necessary because we need to have the freedom to define and address our circumstances in a way that rightly meets our needs in a dignified way. Yes, learning from the experiences of other people is valuable as long as we engage our critical thinking and we remain true to our own core values and identity. Having external experts recommend solutions to local problems may provide immediate or temporary relief. However, in the long run, the solutions offered up may prove to be counterproductive and not address the root causes because the socalled solution did not emerge from within our own knowledge base, wisdom and lived experiences. Without shared ownership of solutions, the people will have no power, no land and no voice. The challenge is not to be seduced by materialism and consumerism, but to rise above corrupt and complicit practices in order to seek locally relevant and contextual solutions that promote the quality of life, well being and dignity for all people.
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Abbas's farewell to Peres stirs controversy at home
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alestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is feeling a backlash at home over his attendance at the funeral of Israeli statesman Shimon Peres, who shared a Nobel prize for interim peace deals with the Palestinians. In Arabic postings on social media, critics of the Western-backed Abbas have focused on a view of Peres's legacy that jars with his world acclaim as an architect of the landmark Oslo accords in the 1990s. Peres, a former prime minister and president, died on Wednesday at the age of 93. He was buried in a state ceremony in Jerusalem on Friday attended by U.S. President Barack Obama and dozens of dignitaries from around the world. But the president of Egypt and king of Jordan, leaders of the only Arab countries to have signed peace treaties with Israel, stayed away, while Abbas's main political rival, the Hamas Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, condemned his participation as having betrayed Palestinian principles. In the Arab world and social media, much mention was made of the 1996 Israeli shelling, when Peres was prime minister, of a U.N. compound in the village of Qana in south Lebanon. More than 100 civilians sheltering there were killed during an Israeli offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas. Israel said its forces had been aiming at militants firing rockets nearby. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a senior Palestinian security officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Osama Mansour, was arrested on Saturday after he criticised Abbas on Facebook. "If that was your decision to take part in the funeral of the killer of our children, you were wrong. And if you made the decision on the recommendation (of your advisers), you were misled," Mansour wrote. Peres built up Israel's powerful military and nuclear might in the 1950s and 1960s and, as defence minister in the 1970s, backed the expansion of settlements in territory that Israel took in a 1967 war and which Palestinians now seek for a state. Israel set up a system of military checkpoints and clampdowns to protect the settlements and prevent attacks inside Israel, and ongoing conflict over the decades since has led to deaths of civilians on both sides as well as militants. At the funeral, Abbas took a front-row seat - Palestinian officials said Peres's family invited him - and shook hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was the president's first visit to Jerusalem since 2010. But with peace talks with Israel frozen since 2014, there was no indication anything would come of the handshake and the few pleasantries Abbas and Netanyahu exchanged in the cemetery. The brief encounter drew largely positive headlines in Israel, but any political impact was muted by the onset at sundown on Friday of the Jewish New Year holiday. Anger continued to echo, however, among Arab critics. "Stay there, don't come back," Palestinian blogger Ali Qaraqea told Abbas in a Facebook video that had 345,000 views and 3,800 shares by Monday. However, commentator Bassim Barhoum, writing in the Palestinian Authority-run daily newspaper Al-Hayat AlJadida, said Abbas had sent a message of peace to the world. Netanyahu and far-right members of his cabinet "would have beat the drums and said he was not a partner for peace", had he not attended, Barhoum said.
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Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy In Focus
US Diplomacy: A Dangerous Proposal Is the United States of America on the verge of enshrining humanitarian intervention as a bedrock principle of foreign policy?
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hile the mainstream media focuses on losers and winners in the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, a largely unreported debate is going on over the future course of U.S. diplomacy. Its outcome will have a profound effect on how Washington projects power—both diplomatic and military—in the coming decade. The issues at stake are hardly abstract. The United States is currently engaged in active wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia. It has deployed troops on the Russian border, played push –and-shove with China in Asia, and greatly extended its military footprint on the African continent. It would not be an exaggeration to say—as former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry has recently done—that the world is a more dangerous place today than it was during darkest times of the Cold War. Tracking the outlines of this argument is not easy, in part because the participants are not always forthcoming about what they are proposing, in part because the media oversimplifies the issues. In its broadest framework, “realists” represented by former National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, Harvard’s Steven Walt, and University of Chicago’s John Mearsheimer have squared off against “humanitarian interventionists” like current UN Ambassador Samantha Power. Given that Power is a key advisor to the Obama administration on foreign policy and is likely to play a similar role if Clinton is elected, her views carry weight. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Power asks, “How is a statesman to advance his nation’s interests?” She begins by hijacking the realist position that U.S. diplomacy must reflect “national interests,” arguing that they are indistinguishable from “moral values.” What happens to people in other countries, she argues, is in our “national security.” Power—along with Clinton and former President Bill Clinton—has long been an advocate for “humanitarian intervention,” behind which the United States intervened in the Yugoslav civil war. Humanitarian intervention has since been formalized into “responsibility to Protect,” or R2P, and was the rationale for overthrowing Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. Hillary Clinton has argued forcibly for applying R2P to Syria by setting up “no-fly zones” to block Syrian and Russian planes from bombing insurgents and the civilians under their control. But Power is proposing something different than humanitarian intervention. She is suggesting that the United States elevate R2P to the level of national security, which sounds uncomfortably like an argument for U.S. intervention in any place that doesn’t emulate the American system. Facing Off against the Kremlin Most telling is her choice of examples: Russia, China, and Venezuela, all currently in Washington’s crosshairs. Of these, she spends the most time on Moscow and the current crisis in Ukraine, where she accuses the Russians of weakening a “core independent norm” by supporting insurgents in Ukraine’s east, “lopping off part of a neighboring country” by seizing Crimea, and suppressing the news of Russian intervention from its own people. Were the Russian media to report on the situation in Ukraine, she writes, “many Russians might well oppose” the conflict. Power presents no evidence for this statement because none exists. Regardless of what one thinks of Moscow’s role in Ukraine, the vast majority of Russians are not only aware of it, but overwhelmingly support President Vladimir Putin on the issue. From the average Russian’s point of view, NATO has been steadily marching eastwards since the end of the Yugoslav war. It is Americans who are deployed in the Baltic and Poland, not Russians gathering on the borders of Canada and Mexico. Russians are a tad sensitive about their borders, given the tens of millions they lost in World War II, something of which Power seems oblivious. What Power seems incapable of doing is seeing how countries like China and Russia view the United
States. That point of view is an essential skill in international diplomacy, because it is how one determines whether or not an opponent poses a serious threat to one’s national security. Is Russia—as President Obama recently told the UN—really “attempting to recover lost glory through force,” or is Moscow reacting to what it perceives as a threat to its own national security? Russia did not intervene in Ukraine until the United States and its NATO allies supported the coup against the President Viktor Yanukovych government and ditched an agreement that had been hammered out among the European Union, Moscow, and the United States to peacefully resolve the crisis. Power argues that there was no coup, but U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt were caught on tape talking about how to “mid-wife” the takeover and choose the person they wanted to put in place. As for “lopping off” Crimea, Power had no problem with the United States and NATO “lopping off” Kosovo from Serbia in the Yugoslav War. In both cases local populations—in Crimea by 96 percent—supported the takeovers. Understanding how other countries see the world does not mean one need agree with them, but there is nothing in Moscow’s actions that suggests that it is trying to re-establish an “empire,” as Obama characterized its behavior in his recent speech to the UN. When Hillary Clinton compared Putin to Hitler, she equated Russia with Nazi Germany, which certainly posed an existential threat to our national security. But does anyone think that comparison is valid? In 1939, Germany was the most powerful country in Europe with a massive military. Russia has the 11th largest economy in the world, trailing even France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, and Brazil. Turkey has a larger army. Power’s view of what is good for the Russian people is a case in point. Although one can hardly admire the oligarchy that dominates Russia—and the last election would seem to indicate considerable voter apathy in the country’s urban centers—the “liberals” Power is so enamored with were the people who instituted the economic “shock therapy” in the 1990s that impoverished tens of millions of people and brought about a calamitous drop in life expectancy. That track record is unlikely to get one elected. In any case, Americans are hardly in a position these days to lecture people about the role oligarchic wealth plays in manipulating elections. The View from China The Chinese are intolerant of internal dissent, but Washington’s argument with Beijing is over sea lanes, not voter rolls. China is acting the bully in the South China Sea, but it was President Bill Clinton who sparked the current tensions in the region when he deployed two aircraft carrier battle groups in the Taiwan Straits in 1995-96 during a tense standoff between Taipei and the mainland. China did not then—and does not now—have the capacity to invade Taiwan, so Beijing’s threats were not real. But the aircraft carriers were very real, and they humiliated—and scared— China in its home waters. That incident directly led to China’s current accelerated military spending and its heavy-handed actions in the South China Sea. Again, there is a long history here. Starting with the Opium Wars of 1839 and 1860, followed by the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 and Tokyo’s invasion of China in World War II, the Chinese have been invaded and humiliated time and again. Beijing believes that the Obama administration designed its “Asia pivot” as to surround China with U.S. allies. While that might be an over simplification—the Pacific has long been America’s largest market— it is a perfectly rational conclusion to draw from the deployment of U.S. Marines to Australia, the positioning of nuclear-capable forces in Guam and Wake, the siting of anti-ballistic missile systems in South Korea and Japan, and the attempt to tighten military ties with India, Indonesia, and Vietnam.
“If you are a strategic thinker in China, you don’t have to be a paranoid conspiracy theorist to think that the U.S. is trying to bandwagon Asia against China,” says Simon Tay, chair of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. Meanwhile in Latin America… As for Venezuela, the U.S. supported the 2002 coup against Hugo Chavez and has led a campaign of hostility against the government ever since. For all its problems, the Chavez government cut poverty rates from 54.5 percent of the population to 32 percent, and extreme poverty from around 20 percent to 8.6 percent. Infant mortality fell from 25 per 1,000 to 13 per 1,000, the same as for Black Americans. And the concern for the democratic rights of Venezuelans apparently doesn’t extend to the people of Honduras. When a military coup overthrew a progressive government in 2009, the United States pressed other Latin American countries to recognize the illegal government that took over in its wake. Although opposition forces in Venezuela get teargassed and a handful jailed, in Honduras they are murdered by death squads. Power’s view that the United States stands for virtue instead of simply pursuing its own interests is a uniquely American delusion. “This is an image that Americans have of themselves,” says Jeremy Shapiro, research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, “but is not shared, even by their allies.” The “division” between “realists” and R2P is an illusion. Both end up in the same place: confronting our supposed competitors and supporting our allies, regardless of how they treat their people. Although she is quick to call the Russians in Syria “barbarous,” she is conspicuously silent on U.S. support for Saudi Arabia’s air war in Yemen, which has targeted hospitals, markets, and civilians. The argument that another country’s internal politics is a national security issue for the United States elevates R2P to a new level, sets the bar for military intervention a good deal lower than it is today, and lays the groundwork for an interventionist foreign policy that will make the Obama administration look positively pacifist. Looking Toward November It is impossible to separate this debate on foreign policy from the current race for the White House. Clinton has been hawkish on most international issues, and she is not shy about military intervention. She has also surrounded herself with some of the same people who designed the Iraq war, including founders of the Project for a New American Century. It is rumored that if she wins she will appoint former Defense Department official Michele Flournoy as secretary of defense. Flournoy has called for bombing Assad’s forces in Syria. On the other hand, Trump has been less than coherent. He has made some reasonable statements about cooperating with the Russians and some distinctly scary ones about China. He says he is opposed to military interventions, although he supported the war in Iraq (and now lies about it). He is alarmingly casual about the use of nuclear weapons. In Foreign Affairs, Stephen Walt, a leading “realist,” says that Trump’s willingness to consider breaking the nuclear taboo makes him someone who “has no business being commander in chief.” Other countries, writes Walt, “are already worried about American power and the ways it gets used. The last thing we need is an American equivalent of the impetuous and bombastic Kaiser Wilhelm II.” The Kaiser was a major force behind World War I, a conflict that inflicted 38 million casualties. Whoever wins in November will face a world in which Washington can’t call all the shots. As Middle East expert Patrick Cockburn points out, “The U.S. remains a superpower, but is no longer as powerful as it once was.” Although it can overthrow regimes it doesn’t like, “it can’t replace what has been destroyed.” Power’s framework for diplomacy is a formula for a never-ending cycle of war and instability.
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n a rainy day with a smoggy sky, academics and students met to celebrate a hundredth year anniversary of Democracy and Education, a seminal work by John Dewey at the Faculty of Education, Chiang Mai University. It was organised by a group of students' activists called “EDUZEN” or “Pola-learn”, which is a short form for Educators and Citizens. To kick off a series of six seminars, this inaugural session began with one of the most celebrated and contested texts in the Philosophy of Education. “We can never educate directly but indirectly by means of the environment”, said Dewey. Therefore, “schools are meant to be the environments, the soil, the water that creates conversation and transmission of the young.” Dewey made constant comparisons of the young as flowers and society as the environment in which we raise and grow our children. These EDUZEN, the Northern flowers so to speak, intended to do just that: create a public environment whereby classic critical thought is read, reflected and analysed – debated in the most critical and collegial way possible. Burning questions propounded in the seminar include – how can Thai
children grown up in an environment like that of Thailand? An environment that is so toxic in every single way: contaminated with abuse of power, limited freedom and patronage system, not to mention, run by a despotic dictatorship. Punnapat Nilchoat, a tenth grade student who travelled all the way from Lampang, a nearby province, to participate in this activity, gave a heartbreaking insight into the history lessons and textbooks he studied in class. “Dewey said we are flowers, but our soil is so polluted. Look at all the textbooks we read, they are nationalistic fictions wherein military men are portrayed as overt heroes and student activists who risked their lives for democracy in the 14 October demonstration are portrayed as despicable outcasts.” He went on to share his experience of education in a Thai classroom. “In school, we are banned from bringing water into the classroom but our teachers are allowed it. When we raised the question, we were given a nasty lecture for an hour. We did not learn anything else in that class except that teachers have more privilege than students.” “Why couldn’t she say that she was thirsty?,” Punnpat added, ending his
presentation and leaving a bitter taste in everyone's mouth. Thai policymakers have been influenced by the thought of Dewey for decades. Concepts such as “child-centred approach” and “learning by doing” are replete in Thai policy papers. They made it into the central philosophy behind the National Education Act of 1999 – which is currently in use. Despite all the rhetoric, top-down, seniority-driven rote learning is the reality in Thai classrooms. Something said, something borrowed. But it is not fair to blame the demise of Thai education on Thai teachers, however. Apisith Bootwong, a fresh off the boat alumni of the Faculty of Education in Chiang Mai University and currently a public school teacher teaching history in Chiang Mai, offered a reflection on his experience as “an employee of the Thai state.” “Everybody here talks as if the teacher is the bad guy. I feel I am the victim of this seminar because I work for the state, reiterate state propaganda and teach those badly written nationalistic textbooks every day. But the reality is much more complex than pointing the finger at teachers”. “I teach 20 hours a week coupled with administrative duties and exten-
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sive paperwork to record every activity for all kinds of state assessment. I do want to give students space, voices and choices in classrooms. But it's hard. The reality is overwhelming and I just don't have the energy nor the time.” Bootwong however gave a glimpse of hope for Thai education. “Everyone blames Thai education, but if we look historically, the system must have done something right. The 1932 revolution was orchestrated by educated commoners, the 14 October was led by Thai university students, this very critical seminar is organised and funded by students. Things are not that bad.” The room was humming with theoretical discussion and political discontent. Educators and students went head to head to question the role of the Thai state with military leadership, extensive propaganda and suppression in every realm. If Nature, Growth and Harmonisation are the key concepts of Dewey, is there room to grow Thai flowers? These youth from the northern part of Thailand, frustrated with the limited horizon in their classrooms and in the state of the nation, show that there is hope: hope for dialogue, for debate and for discussion, even in the light of disagreement and so much discontent. As for the elections? Dream on.
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PERSPECTIVE
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India’s nationalist media is hurting the Nation The media makes it seem as if India has already beaten Pakistan. That is a dangerous falsehood
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ndia’s nationalist media is hurting India. Let’s first put aside the question of whether a country’s media organisations should consider themselves extensions of the state. That is, of course, hugely problematic because it suggests our foremost media outlets might choose not to report on problematic government conduct simply because it is not “in the national interest.” But right or wrong, it has been clear for some time now that India’s major mainstream news organisations already do this. They consider nationalism a key part of their brief – especially when it comes to Pakistan. Our media organisations don’t just think of themselves as the public relations departments of the state and also weapons in the battle against our neighbour, they would like to believe that they are the faces of the Indian republic. Put another way, they like to think of themselves as the Nation. This great power, however, seems to come with very little responsibility. If the Home Ministry or the Ministry of External Affairs put out information that turned out to be blatantly false, India – or at least the Indian government – would face serious consequences. If TimesNow or Zee News make outrageous assertions, however, they don’t really face much accountability. (Sadly, credibility and accuracy are not the primary factors
An Indian army soldier keeps guard from a bunker near the border with Pakistan on September 30 in Abdullian, southwest of Jammu. REUTERS
that determine the success of a news organisation). But the effects are felt, especially by the wider public. Consider the question of Pakistani isolation. In the aftermath of the Uri attacks, when crossborder militants killed 18 Indian soldiers at a military base in Kashmir, the Indian government set out to pinpoint blame on Pakistan. New Delhi added more vigour to its longstanding efforts seeking to label Pakistan as a source of terrorism. The home minister called Pakistan a “terrorist state,” although Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not echo this terminology. Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs attempted to point out how many countries were backing the Indian position. India’s nationalist media immediately declared this a success. India Today said Pakistan “now stands completely isolated on the international stage.” CNN-News18 said “isolated Pak” is unable to get traction with its Kashmir efforts. But TimesNow’s
Arnab Goswami, as you might expect, was most vociferous. “Pakistan is exposed. Pakistan is diplomatically isolated,” Goswami bellowed. “All major powers, Russia, USA, UK and France, all major powers are slamming Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif is being pushed around, didn’t even get a 30-second appointment with Obama. And frankly, he’s looking like a global pariah on his US trip.” A couple of days later, Pakistan’s chief military spokesman Lt Gen Asim Bajwa tweeted pictures of Russian troops arriving in Rawalpindi for the firstever military exercises between the two countries. There was a little bit of confusion, thanks to information put out by the Russians themselves, over whether these exercises were to be held in GilgitBaltistan – disputed territory that India claims. Eventually, the Russians clarified that the exercises would not be held in “socalled Azad Kashmir” (the Pakistani term for parts of Kashmir that India
claims), but that they were nevertheless happening. Remember, this is Russia, not the United States – which India has long accused of funding and enabling Pakistan’s excesses. Russia is an old Indian ally that was a Cold War rival to Pakistan and is heavily dependent on Indian arms purchases. Yet even after the Uri attacks, Moscow nevertheless went ahead with the first-ever military exercise with Pakistan. Clearly Pakistan is, by no means, an international pariah. This is not to say that India didn’t make some efforts to pull back on the Russian position, with MEA saying it had communicated India’s interests and Moscow eventually stating that the exercises were not happening in Gilgit-Baltistan. But that is nuanced, careful posturing from the Indian government that managed to extract some gains. Not a knock-out victory, as the nationalist media hoped to portray. Accurate reporting, including the crucial job
of questioning how New Delhi failed in allowing Uri to happen (months after the Pathankot attacks) and whether Modi has done enough to marshal international support against Pakistan, might have given the viewer a much more rounded view of things. But that is not the case. Think of it from the perspective of the viewer. If you were a nationalist Indian citizen who believed that your government had ISOLATED Pakistan and other nations had SLAMMED them, how do you react to news of a close Indian ally actually working closely with Islamabad? Either you believe India's allies are lying to us. Or that the Indian state is impotent. Or that the nationalist media is spreading falsehood. Which one of those scenarios ends well? This Bharatiya Janata Party should be more attuned than most to the dangers of an Indian public that is disappointed when promises are not met, especially if the media amplifies those promises.
Something similar happened when news reports suggested Indian agencies found arms with Pakistani marks on them, therefore NAILING Pakistan’s involvement in the Uri attacks. The Indian military has itself said these reports are false, yet that correction was not heard much, and so the Indian public may be left asking why New Delhi is unable to prove to the world that the attacks were Pakistan’s fault despite (non-existent) unimpeachable evidence. To assuage this feeling in the wider public that India needs to have had a firmer response, WhatsApp was used to spread rumours that Indian special forces had covertly crossed the border and killed 20-200 Pakistani terrorists. The Army via its officials denied this too, and to their credit, the nationalist media barring a few examples also maintained some distance from what seemed like a thoroughly improbable story. But this too traveled so far and wide that it has helped create an image of an aggressive, trigger-happy Indian state that simply isn’t accurate. And the wider this gap gets – between what is actually happening vs what the nationalist media reports – the bigger the danger to the government from a polity that will be disappointed when the penny drops. Imagine thousands of Indians believing that India has managed to isolate Pakistan internationally, has got unimpeachable proof of Pakistani perfidy and even attacked Pakistan across the border. What happens when Pakistan sends militants over the border yet again, as it has continued to do after 26/11, Pathankot and now Uri? How are Indians to process this dissonance between what the media tells them and what seems to actually be happening?
A timely and critically trenchant study of Naga nationalism Paul Pimomo
Book Review of Abraham Lotha, The Hornbill Spirit: Nagas Living Their Nationalism, Heritage Publishing House, Dimapur, Nagaland, India, 2016, pp. 347, Rs.500/US$15.
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braham Lotha has written widely on Naga history and society. His latest book The Hornbill Spirit: Nagas Living Their Nationalism has two distinctive features that bring freshness to a well-worn subject. It puts Naga nationalism in a broader perspective than any book has done thus far,by framing it in a global context of colonial history, indigenous peoples’ selfdetermination, and theory of the nation-state, while also managing to trace Naga nationalism’s unique and checkered evolution from the 1929 Naga Club’s memorandum to the Simon Commission, often considered the beginning of Naga nationalism, to the 2015 Framework Agreement between the Indian government and NSCN (IM), whose provisions have been the subject of speculation and rumors in the Naga media and socialcircuits for over a decade. The book’s second salient featureis its ethnographic voice and ambience. It doesn’t surprise that an anthropologist author would use Naga folklore as teachable moments for today’s society or include commemorative photographic images and the personal stories of
everyday peoplein a book of history.What surprises is that the historical narrative also turns out to be a timely and critically trenchant study of Naga nationalism. The first and last chapters (there are eight in all) introduce and reinforce the present state of the Nagas as a people. As the title suggests, the Naga predicament is analogous to that of the celebrated native bird, the hornbill: colorful, free-spirited, high-flying, youthful, and determined, but constrained by encroachments on its natural habitat and presently limitedby its slow powers of adaptation to the fast changing environment. Likewise, the challenges facing Nagas are real and weighty and present a test of their powers of resilience, and will require of them a concerted effort to muster the strengthand resolve necessary to construct a new future as a people in an increasingly globalized world. The book is geared by the author’s hope that Nagas can build a society constituted from a combination of two components: the best values in their traditional cultures and the better aspects of an interdependent transnational world of the twenty-first
century. Abraham Lotha finds no contradiction in the two worlds when it comes to the foundational values and practices of any human society, ethnic or global, which applies to Indians and Nagas as distinct yet interconnected peoples as well. Chapter 4 recounts India’s military occupation of the Naga country, chapter 5 the Naga response to the occupation in the context of life and traditions at the time of the occupation and beyond. They are the heart of the book in more than their just being the middle chapters. They lay out the central events of the Indo-Naga conflict so as to allow both Indians and Nagas to grasp anew the fundamental dignity and equality of all peo-
ples. In practical terms, that means each has the right to determine how to govern themselves, an essential part of which is the obligation on the part of both sides to resolve the conflict with mutual respect and to live in harmony with each other for greater good. This is where Abraham Lotha is at his most persuasive. The Naga insistence on “sovereignty” has been a bone of contention in the conflict. So he argues here, as he has done elsewhere including in The Raging Mithun (2013), that sovereignty is not an all or nothing concept, certainly not a zero-sum political game. He recommends that the Naga nationalist groups and the Indian government review the different models of “shared
sovereignty” in operation throughout the world, about which he has written in some detail earlier. The Hornbill Spiritis a well-researched and documented work from start to finish. A book of this quality on the Indo-Naga conflict is hard to find. It forces the reader to revisit the problem, rethink, most of all,of the needless waste of lives and resources on both sides that the long history of domination and resistance has wrought. It led this reviewer to wonder, on the one hand, how so difficult it has beenfor the Indian government, a leading world democracy, to drop the argument of colonial devolution in its claim on the Nagas, among whom a democratic culture existed long before Britain and India
arrived on the scene, andhow logical it would seem for Indiato adopt a principle of freedom from colonial rule, which was the raison d’etre of India’s own postcolonial existence. On the other hand, the book also leads one to relive the fate the Nagas have had to endure: resisting military occupation of their land, lamenting and protesting their lot, and making a habit of painting themselves into the position of a wronged people, and for so long, they seem to have forgotten how to build themselves up as a nation of the proud people they claim to be. After all these decades, the hardest challenge for Nagas ahead will probably be their economic dependency on India and the problems that come with it. Abraham Lotha has written extensively about these problems for many years, especially since the publication of his first book History of Naga Anthropology (1832-1947) in 2007. The best thing a good book can do in a situation like the Indo-Naga relation and its impact on the Naga society is to invite both sides to revisit the problem, not so much to undo the losses, which cannot be undone, but to start the hard work of repairing the damage and, more importantly, helping build each other up for a peaceful and prosperous future together. And this is the governing impulse that runs throughout The Hornbill Spirit: Nagas Living Their Nationalism.
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LISTENING TO THE LIVES OF OTHERS
By:- Rev. Fr. C. Joseph Counsellor St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama
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ounselling is a tale about themselves told by people with help from the universal language of their eyes, their hands, and even their shifting feet. They use all these accent marks as they try to tell us the story that they want to hear and understand themselves. Much of what persons tell counsellors comes in anecdotal form, in a storytelling mode as old as we are. We talk to each other all the time by telling stories, and even our tall tales tell something true about us. Telling stories to communicate our experience is as human and natural as breathing. Stories and illustrations are found in abundance in the garden variety of common, personal problems with which counsellor deal all the time. Telling our own story we bypass logic in order to reach the unconscious level of others in ways that defy superficial rational analysis. That is why stories have always been a part of the civilized person’s resources. Myth and symbol remain potent means of communication, and the art of the novelist consists in telling the truth about us while telling a story at the same time. Counsellors may understand this abstractly, but it is another matter to make ourselves into receiving sets for the storytelling that constitutes so much of what people tell us. Catching the dynamics of these stories – the living reasons they are told, their “point,” so to speak – is an essential part of counselling. Individuals are not trying to entertain us through their stories; they are trying to explain themselves. They sift through their own experience, describing their relationships and the things that have gone wrong and the things that have gone right, pulling something loose, scraping it free of soil and holding it up for our inspection. Is this the root of my troubles? They attempt to trace down the source of their anxiety by describing the circumstances or events in which they face it in their lives. These narratives are, then, an invaluable source of raw material from which we can form an understanding of their authors. This, they say, is my life. Problems arise when counsellors lose themselves in the details of the story, thereby missing both the person and the message in the process. True life stories are interesting and can easily arrest or attention. As helpers, we may get hooked on the story, wanting to know how it comes out rather than the reasons for its being told. Sometimes we may even wish to alter its ending. How to Hear the Story Each anecdote trembles with echoes from less than conscious levels of personality. When we sense and pick up these signals, we begin to hear the real story others are trying to tell us, indeed, the one they are trying to tell themselves. Our response resembles the way a friend answers a friend who is in trouble, the manner in which a husband and wife respond to each other when one of them is in distress. These figures are not distracted by the details because they sense the pulsating core of the distressed person. That is what is important, and it is to this level, from which all the illustrations flow, that they respond. They understand that the illustration is just a way of getting this deeper message across. We must listen to other in the same natural and human way, responding to the underlying tones that give their stories colour and meaning. Conclusion: Counselling is not a tough job to get through, or a routine task to be accomplished but a relationship to be experienced. It is like and, indeed, is a part of life in which we are not solving a puzzle but trying to understand and respond to another person. As we become accustomed to hearing into the narrative, we respond more freely and with more of our genuine selves. Counselling becomes less a stressful and more a satisfying real-life relationship for us and for those with whom we work. It is listening to the lives of others. It is often reported that many counselling clients say that the most important and valued thing that they take from counselling is that they feel listened to and understood. Even if a counsellor has been excellent at helping them to clarify, focus, or to facilitate change within them, good listening might still feel even more significant than that. Perhaps this is partly because there is a current perception that bad listening is endemic in society, and that it seems to be quite rare for people to feel that they are being fully listened to by others. Humanity has expressed this view by creating a variety of sayings such as “home is where you can say anything you like because nobody listens to you anyway.” Throughout the centuries, people have commented how good listening is a valuable though relatively rare aspect of life. The ancient philosopher Epictetus understood the importance of good listening when he wryly said: “we have two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak.” Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people followed that wisdom!
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INDIA
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India, Pak NSAs talk as border tension continues New Delhi, OctO ber 3 (iANS): India and Pakistan troops exchanged fresh border fire on Monday, hours after top security advisors of the two countries spoke with each other in a bid to reduce escalating tension. It was for the first time that the two NSAs spoke to each other after the September 18 deadly terror attack at a military base in Jammu and Kashmir. Defence sources here said Pakistani troops, without provocation, had fired at Indian posts using small arms and mortar shells in Poonch area near the Line of Control (LoC) -- the de facto border that divides Jammu and Kashmir between the two countries. The Pakistan Army made similar allegations against the Indian military. Both sides, however, maintained that no damage was caused in the exchange of fire that continued for several hours, sending villagers near the border into a tizzy. Firing was also reported at the Chakri outpost of the Border Security Force (BSF) along the International Boundary as frontier guards repulsed an intrusion bid by 8-10 people in a counter-offensive. A search operation was
NSA Ajit Doval meets Chinese envoy
An Indian army soldier stands guard on a road on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 3. (REUTERS Photo)
launched in the border belt The heavily armed milof Gurdaspur district of itants managed to escape north Punjab following an even as a massive search unsuccessful infiltration bid. was launched to track them in the border district Search operation called of Baramulla. off after Baramulla attack, Inspector General militants escape (Kashmir) of the BSF ViThe latest in a series of kash Chandra said two milborder skirmishes came a itants were involved in the day after militants attacked attack. He said a GPS set, a the local headquarters of a compass and a wire cutter counter-insurgency military besides some ammunition unit on the banks of the Jhe- were recovered from the lum river in a north Kashmir shootout site. village on Sunday night, kill"My boys from the spot ing a paramilitary trooper. confirmed that there were
at least two terrorists who were firing at them," he said. The attack was similar to last month's strike when militants sneaked into the Uri army base -- also in Baramulla -- and killed 19 soldiers. India blamed Pakistan militant groups for the Uri attack. The Indian Army last week conducted "surgical strikes" at militant camps on the Pakistani side of the LoC in retaliation to the Uri assault, destroying seven terror launch pads and kill-
New Delhi, OctOber 3 (iANS): National Security Advisor Ajit Doval met new Chinese envoy Luo Zhaohui here on Monday, days after China again stalled India's move to get Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar listed as a terrorist by the United Nations. The meeting between the two, held at South Block, comes as China has been openly supportive of its all-weather friend Pakistan on the Kashmir issue. Last week, China again extended its technical "hold" on the Jaish chief for a further three months in the UN Security Council's 1267 committee. India blames the Jaish for the January 2 attack on the Pathankot air base, that left seven security personnel dead, and the September 18 terror attack on an army camp in Uri, that left 19 soldiers dead. In March, China had used its veto to block Indian efforts at the UN Sanctions Committee to list Azhar as a terrorist. The meeting also comes amid reports of
ing an unknown number of militants in Pakistan-held Kashmir. Since then the militaries of the two countries have been shelling each other in violation of the 2003 ceasefire agreement on daily basis, creating fears of a sub-continental war between the nucleararmed neighbours.
two countries sent a feeler of reducing tension when the NSAs from the two countries had a telephonic conversation on Monday morning. Sartaj Aziz, Adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs, said Pakistan's NSA Nasser Janjua and his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval talked to defuse the tension that has gripped First telephonic conver- the border and the LoC. sation since URI attack "Both the officials But for the first time stressed the need to essince the war hysteria, the tablish contact to reduce
China blocking one of the tributaries of the river Brahmaputra in Tibet to construct the country's most expensive hydroelectric project. China said it was blocking the Xiabuqu river, one of the tributaries of the Yarlung Zangbo, (as the Brahmaputra is known in China) to build a dam as part of the Lalho hydroelectric project at Xigase in the Tibet Autonomous Region. The Chinese envoy in Lahore has also been quoted as openly backing Pakistan in case of "any foreign aggression" and also supported Islamabad's stance on the Kashmir dispute. China is also pushing ahead with the $46 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which is proposed to cut through Pakistan-administered Kashmir. China has ignored India's protests, made at the highest level, on the issue. The Doval-Luo meeting comes ahead of the planned bilateral between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Goa.
tensions along the Line of Control," Aziz said, according to The News International. However, there was no official word from the Indian side about the telephonic talk between the two NSAs. In Islamabad, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met the leaders of all Pakistani political parties to discuss the ongoing rift with India. Sharif told the all-party meeting that Pakistan "will leave no stone unturned to
highlight" the Kashmir issue at all international forums. "We stand united on matters of national importance, particularly Kashmir." Pa k i s t a n Fo re i g n Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, who briefed the leaders, was quoted by state-run Radio Pakistan saying that the government was willing to discuss all issues with India. "Pakistan wants peace and Kashmir and other bilateral issues should be discussed with India."
SC enhances to 25 yrs jail terms of Nitish Katara killers Supreme Court scrutinises impact of mobile towers New Delhi, OctOber 3 (iANS): The killers of Nitish Katara -- Vikas Yadav, Vishal Yadav and their accomplice Sukhdev Pahalwan -- will undergo enhanced jail term of 25 years as the Supreme Court on Monday held that the courts have the power to impose the punishment of 25 years or even more. While upholding the 2014 Delhi High Court's sentence of 25 years imposed on Vikas Yadav and two others, the bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice C. Nagappan said, "We have powers to impose such special sentences". The apex court ruled thus in a verdict while examining the question whether courts could impose special sentences which are not provided under the statute. The Supreme Court in August 2015
upheld the Delhi High Court's conviction of Vikas Yadav, Vishal Yadav and Sukhdev Pahalwan, and said it would later examine the question of quantum of sentence. Vikas Yadav, his cousin Vishal Yadav and Sukhdev Pahalwan were convicted by the trial court in May 2008 and were awarded life imprisonment. However, the Delhi High Court, while upholding the trial court conviction in April 2014, enhanced the sentence to 25 years with no remission. Vikas Yadav and two others had moved the Supreme Court challenging the Delhi High Court ruling, their conviction and award of special sentence to them. Nitish Katara was done to death as his relationship with Bharti Yadav was not liked by her brother Vikas Yadav. Bharti and Vikas are children of criminal-turned-politician D.P. Yadav
New Delhi, OctO ber 3 (Pti): The Supreme Court today initiated a scrutiny of "deleterious" effects of radiation emanating from mobile towers and sought a report from the Centre on several aspects including steps taken to enforce standards for such emissions. "What are adverse impacts of such mobile towers? Is there any agency to monitor? Have you (Department of Telecom) got a system in place to enforce
KOchi, OctOber 3 (iANS): A National Investigation Agency (NIA) court here on Monday sent six youths -- suspected to be activists of Islamic State -- to the NIA's custody till October 14. These youths - all aged below 30 - were arrested from north Kerala on Sunday. While five were picked from a remote location in Kannur, the sixth was held from Kozhikode. The National Investigating Agency told the court that these young men were part of a 10-member group, which the central agency was tailing for a while. The NIA also told the court that it will probe whether the arrested accused had any role with respect to 21 persons, including women and children, who earlier went missing from Kerala and were now a part of the Islamic State in Afghanistan. One of the arrested men had returned from Qatar 10 days ago. His wife and sis-
ter denied he had anything to do with the IS terror outfit. "I don't think he has got anything to do with any terrorist organisation," said his wife, while his sister asserted her brother was not into such illegal acts. The relatives and friends of the other accused too expressed surprise over the development. Relatives of another accused, employed in a media organisation as a computer graphics expert, said he had left home a week go by saying that he was going on a short trip with his friends. The NIA has charged the accused under law provisions dealing with criminal conspiracy, waging or attempting to wage war against the government etc. and the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. The NIA claims to have seized digital evidences pertaining to chats and messages the arrested had sent or received.
New Delhi, OctOber 3 (iANS): Rebutting fraudulent messages circulating on social media about the issue of a list of region-wise declarations made under the black money scheme, Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) here on Monday said it was committed to strict confidentiality. "CBDT clarifies that no official list of region-wise declarations has been issued. The Income Tax Department is committed to maintaining strict confidentiality of declarations made under the Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) 2016," a statement from the Finance Ministry said.
the standards, if any, for radiation from such towers," a bench comprising Chief Justice T S Thakur and Justices C Nagappan and A M Khanwilkar asked. The bench directed Additional Solicitor General P S Patwalia, appearing for the DoT, to file a report apprising the court about issues including the effects of radiation and steps taken to contain them. During the hearing, the bench asked DoT how it has been enforcing stan-
dards for emission of radiation from these towers. "Are the standards of radiation from cell towers in the country at par with international standards," it asked, adding how many mobile towers have been installed by the service providers in the country so far and whether they have been checked by the DoT. On being pointed out by lawyer Prashant Bhushan, appearing for a Noida resident, that such towers have been installed in residen-
tial areas and near schools, the bench wanted to know from the government whether there were any regulations on the issue and if yes, what are those. "How many violations of regulations have been reported," the bench asked and sought information from DoT about the action taken so far against the violators. The apex court also asked the government to set a time- frame to make all phone service providers
"fully compliant" to radiation standards and norms. "I need some time to respond," Patwalia said. The bench then posted the batch of petitions, including the one filed by Noida resident Naresh Chand Gupta, for further hearing on October 17. Earlier, the court had sought response from the Centre and others on a plea seeking protection of citizens from "deleterious" effects of radiation emanating from mobile towers.
I-T department committed to 'strict K'taka assembly resolves NIA gets custody of 6 suspected IS activists in Kerala confidentiality' under black money scheme to release Cauvery water The government asked people not to pay any heed to such fraudulent messages circulating on social media. While announcing the results of the IDS on October 1 at a press conference in the national capital, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley stressed that no break-up of these declarations on the basis of cities or states shall be released in order to ensure absolute secrecy with respect to the identity of the declarants. Unaccounted wealth worth approximately Rs 65,250 crore was declared by 64,275 people under the Scheme. Given the tax rate, penalty and surcharge of 45%,
this can fetch the government a little under Rs 30,000 crore. "Roughly, the declarations work out to Rs one crore per declarant. Some will be higher, some will be lower," Jaitley said, but ruled out any revelation of the names of the people who have availed of the scheme. "In such large numbers people came to disclose income in eight figures. They have realised that they will benefit by tax compliance. Considering all the steps taken by government cumulatively, these are very significant amounts," the Finance Minister said.
beNgAluru, OctOber 3 (iANS): A joint session of the Karnataka legislature on Monday unanimously passed a resolution to release water for irrigation purposes to farmers in the state, some of which will flow to Tamil Nadu. Though the modified resolution did not mention Tamil Nadu, it is implied that some of the water will go to the neighbouring state. The resolution is for release of water to farmers in the Cauvery basin for crops and for drinking requirement. This comes in the wake of the Supreme Court rapping the Karnataka government for not following its orders on release of water. "Have you released some water? There can be a part compliance of our order. We can understand your difficulty," it said on Monday when senior counsel Shekhar Naphade, appearing for Tamil Nadu, said Karnataka has not released any water as directed by the apex court.
Delhi continues to top world's most polluted megacities list: WHO Alison Saldanha IANS/IndiaSpend
Delhis air is the worst among world megacities, the World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed recently, even as IndiaSpend‘s #breathe network of air-quality sensors reported fine-particulate-matter (PM2.5) levels were almost four times above daily safe levels, on average, for the seven-day period from September 22 to 28, 2016. For long-term exposure, these 24-hour levels are nearly 11 times above the WHO health standards. Over the monsoon, Delhi's air was relatively cleaner because the rain and wind diminished the impact of pollutants. But with the season changing, three of our five sensors in the National Capital Region (NCR) registered "poor" to "very poor" air-quality levels from September 22 to 28, meaning prolonged exposure affects healthy people and "seriously impacts" those with existing disease.
In December 2015, week-long analysis of data from #breathe devices showed Delhi's air pollution was one-and-a-half times worse than in Beijing, IndiaSpend reported. In 2012, with one million deaths, China reported the highest toll from PM2.5 and PM10 pollution. At the time, India followed, reporting 621,138 deaths, nearly 10 per cent of the global toll (6.5 million deaths) associated with outdoor and indoor air pollution. However, between 2011 and 2015, in a comparison of megacities with population above 14 million, Delhi's ambient air-pollution levels were worse than Beijing and Shanghai, an IndiaSpend analysis of the WHO's 2016 data of global ambient air pollution showed. Delhi recorded a PM10 level of 229 µg/m³, followed by Cairo with 179 µg/m³ and Dhaka with 158 µg/ m³ -- the top three megacities with the most polluted
air globally. Beijing and ronmental Data Bank. Shanghai were sixth and PM10, or coarse particuseventh on that list. late matter with diameter between 2.5 and 10 micromChina air-pollution death eters, are primarily made up toll highest in 2012 but of dirt and dust from farmDelhi ambient air worse ing, factories and roads, and India's capital was the caused due to the crushing only megacity to record a of rocks and soil. PM10 level above 200 µg/ Most air-pollution m³, exceeding the WHO air deaths are caused by fine, quality standard of 20 µg/ invisible particles, called m³ by more than 900 per PM2.5, about 30 times fincent. er than a human hair. These Beijing and Shanghai pollutants, if inhaled deep reported ambient air pol- into the lungs, can cause lution levels of 108 and 84 heart attacks, strokes, lung µg/m³ respectively. cancer and respiratory Even Kolkata and diseases, and are known Mumbai -- recording PM10 to pose the greatest risk to levels of 135 µg/m³ and 117 human beings. Their meaµg/m³ respectively -- had surement is considered to air worse than the biggest be the best indicator of the Chinese cities. level of health risks from air The WHO guideline pollution, according to the for annual mean levels for WHO. PM10 is 20 µg/m³ and for PM2.5 is 10 µg/m³. For 24 Gwalior, Allahabad report hours, the levels should worst levels in India not exceed 50 µg/m³ (for Within India, the smaller PM10) and 25 µg/m³ (for cities of Gwalior and AllaPM2.5). The WHO sourced habad measured the worst its data on India's air pollu- levels of ambient air pollution from the Central Pol- tion at PM2.5 levels of 176 lution Control Board, Envi- µg/m³ and 170 µg/m³ re-
A traffic policeman wears a mask to protect himself from dust and air pollution as he signals to drivers in New Delhi on December 23, 2015. (REUTERS File Photo)
spectively. A significant portion of northern India falls in a zone with "critical" air pollution-reporting PM2.5 levels of over 70 µg/m³ in the WHO's mapping of air pollution and population. The WHO's new airquality model, it's most comprehensive yet, is
based on information from satellite measurements, air-transport models and ground-station monitors for more than 3,000 urban and rural areas across the world. It analyses this with population data in a grid pattern area of 10 sq km. It was developed by the
WHO in collaboration with the University of Bath and confirms that 92 per cent of the world's population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits. 11,297 persons per sq km in Delhi at risk Up to 97.5 per cent of
Delhi's 16.8 million people live in urban areas, and the city has a density of 11,297 persons per sq km-making it one of the densest regions in the country -- according to Census 2011 data. "Air pollution continues take a toll on the health of the most vulnerable populations - women, children and the older adults," said Dr Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director General at the WHO. Some three million deaths every year are linked to exposure to outdoor air pollution, according to the WHO. Nearly 90 per cent of air-pollution-related deaths occur in lowand middle-income countries, with nearly two out of three occurring in WHO's Southeast Asia region (of which India is a part) and the Western Pacific region. Inefficient modes of transport, household fuel and waste burning, coalfired power plants, and industrial activities are the major sources of air pollution, WHO said.
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Colombia in unchartered territory with defeat of peace agreement
BOGOTA, OcTOBer 3 (AP): After a stunning referendum defeat for a peace deal with leftist rebels, Colombians are asking what comes next for their wartorn country, which like Britain following the Brexit vote has no Plan B to save an accord that sought to bring an end to a half century of hostilities. The damage from Sunday’s vote is still sinking in. Instead of winning by an almost two-to-one margin as pre-election polls had predicted, those favoring the accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia lost by a razorthin margin, 49.8 percent of the votes to 50.2 percent for those against the deal. Both President Juan Manuel Santos and leaders of the FARC, having come this far after four years of grueling negotiations, vowed to push ahead, giving no hint they want to resume a war that has already killed 220,000 people and displaced 8 million. “I won’t give up. I’ll continue search for peace until the last moment of my mandate,” Santos said in a televised address appealing for calm. But it’s not clear how the already unpopular Santos can save the deal given the stunning political defeat he suffered. For now, he has ordered his negotiators to return to Cuba on Monday to confer with FARC’s top leaders, who watched the results come in with disbelief after earlier ordering drinks and cigars at Club Havana, once Cuba’s most exclusive beach club. “The FARC deeply regret that the destructive
Colombia dropped as Nobel Peace Prize favourite after referendum “No”
A supporter of “Si” vote cries after the nation voted “NO” in a referendum on a peace deal between the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, at Bolivar Square in Bogota, Colombia on October 2. (REUTERS Photo)
power of those who sow hatred and revenge have influenced the Colombian people’s opinion,” the FARC’s top commander, a guerrilla knon as Timochenko, told reporters later. The defeat for the government was even more stunning considering the huge international support for the accord, which Santos signed with Timochenko less than a week ago in a ceremony attended by heads of state, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. With the outlook uncertain, all eyes are on Santos’
former boss and chief rival: Alvaro Uribe, the powerful former president who led the grassroots campaign against the accord. He gave voice to millions of Colombians, many of them victims of the FARC like him, who bristled at the deal providing for rebel leaders to avoid jail time if they confessed their crimes and instead reserved them seats in congress — the two-most controversial provisions of the 297-page accord. Uribe, in prepared remarks from his ranch outside Medellin after the results were in, called for a
“big national pact” and insisted on “correctives” that guarantee respect for the constitution, respect for private enterprise and justice without impunity. But he didn’t specify whether he would join Santos in trying to salvage the deal. “The entire accord was full of impunity,” said Ricardo Bernal, 60, celebrating the victory for the “no” side in a Bogota neighborhood where opponents were gathered. “We all want peace but there has to be adjustments made.” Across town, hundreds of supporters of the peace
OSLO, OcTOBer 3 (reuTerS): Peace researchers dropped Colombia on Monday from a list of favourites for the Nobel Peace Prize after Colombians voted “No” in a referendum to an agreement to end a 52-year war with Marxist rebels. Sunday’s surprise rejection of the accord, after criticism that it was too lenient to the rebels, improved chances for other Nobel candidates such as Russian human rights activists or brokers of Iran’s nuclear deal to take the peace award, they said. “Colombia’s off any credible list,” Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, speaking to reporters about the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize that will be announced in Oslo on Friday at 0900 GMT. President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC’s top commander Rodrigo Londono, better known by his nom de guerre Timochenko, had been widely tipped for the 8.0 million Swedish crown ($936,000) award before the referendum. The prize has often gone to encouraging peace processes, such as in Northern Ireland in 1998, between Israelis and Palestinians in 1994 or even in Vietnam in 1973, but never in defiance of a popular vote. “It’s now out of the question” to give a
deal who had gathered in a hotel ballroom for what they expected would be a victory party with Santos wept in despair. The 7,000 guerrilla fighters are unlikely to return to the battlefield any time soon. For now, a cease-fire remains in place. One option for the government would be to reopen negotiations, something Santos had ruled out previously and his chief negotiator said would be “catastrophic.” The president could also seek to ratify the accord in congress or by calling a constitutional
convention, something both the FARC and Uribe have previously favored. “I’ve always believed in a wise Chinese proverb to look for opportunities in any situation. And here we have an opportunity that’s opening up, with the new political reality that has demonstrated itself in the referendum,” Santos said Sunday night before descending to the steps of the presidential palace to address a small group of supporters, some of waving white flags symbolizing peace. Bringing Santos and Uribe together might be
prize for Colombia, said Asle Sveen, a historian who tracks the prize. He had previously tipped the Colombian agreement to win, for ending a war in which more than 220,000 people died. Sveen said he now thought the award would go to the agreement between Iran and world powers to end sanctions on Tehran in return for shrinking its nuclear programme. Possible candidates included U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif and European Union foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini, he said. Harpviken, who had Colombia second on a list distilled from 376 nominees, reaffirmed his favourite as Svetlana Gannushkina, a Russian human rights campaigner who focuses on refugees and migrants. Thousands of people, including members of all national parliaments, professors of international relations and former winners, can make nominations for the award. Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge Brende, whose country helped broker the Colombian agreement, expressed disappointment at the vote. “We have to try to rescue the peace agreement,” he told independent TV2.
harder than achieving peace with the FARC. Santos served as Uribe’s defense minister, when they worked together to drive the FARC to the edge of the jungles, but the two haven’t spoken for years and frequently trade insults. One of the reasons for the surprise defeat was low turnout, with only 37 percent of the electorate bothering to vote, a further sign to some analysts that Colombians’ enthusiasm for the ambitious accord was lacking. Heavy rains from Hurricane Matthew especially dampened vot-
ing along the Caribbean coast, where the government’s electoral machinery is strongest and the “yes” vote won by a comfortable double-digit margin. The campaign exposed deep rifts in Colombia’s society, dividing many families and making clear the road to reconciliation would have been long and torturous even had the accord passed. Colombians overwhelmingly loathe the FARC, which the U.S. considers a terrorist group, and many considered the accord an insult to victims of the long-running conflict.
Russia suspends plutonium Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi wins Nobel medicine prize ka, Japan, has been a professor at tists around the world with “criticleanup accord with the US STOckHOLM/LONDON, OcTOBer 3 (reuTerS): Ja- the Tokyo Institute of Technology cal tools” to help them understand
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with members of the Central Election Commission at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 23. (REUTERS File Photo)
MOScOw, OcTOBer 3 (reuTerS): Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday suspended an agreement with the United States for disposal of weapons-grade plutonium because of “unfriendly” acts by Washington, the Kremlin said. A Kremlin spokesman said Putin had signed a decree suspending the 2010 agreement under which each side committed to destroy tonnes of weapons-grade material because Washington had not been implementing it and because of current tensions in relations. The two former Cold War adversaries are at loggerheads over a raft of issues including Ukraine, where Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and supports pro-Moscow separatists, and the conflict in Syria. The deal, signed in 2000 but which did not come into force until 2010, was being suspended due to “the emergence of a threat to strategic stability and as a result of unfriendly actions by the United States of America towards the Russian Federation”, the preamble to the decree said. It also said that Washington had failed “to ensure the implementation of its obligations to utilise surplus weapons-grade plutonium”. The 2010 agreement, signed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and then-U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, called on each side to dispose of 34 tonnes of plutonium by burning in nuclear reactors. Clinton said at the time that that was enough material to make almost 17,000 nuclear weapons. Both sides then viewed the deal as a sign of increased cooperation between the two former adversaries towards a joint goal of nuclear non-proliferation. “For quite a long time, Russia had been implementing it (the agreement) unilaterally,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with journalists on Monday. “Now, taking into account this tension (in relations) in general ... the Russian side considers it impossible for the current state of things to last any longer.” Ties between Moscow and Washington plunged to freezing point over Crimea and Russian support for separatists in eastern Ukraine after protests in Kiev toppled pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovich. Washington led a campaign to impose Western economic sanctions on Russia for its role in the Ukraine crisis. Relations soured further last year when Russia deployed its warplanes to an air base in Syria to provide support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s troops fighting rebels. The rift has widened in recent weeks, with Moscow accusing Washington of not delivering on its promise to separate units of moderate Syrian opposition from “terrorists”. Huge cost overruns have also long been another threat to the project originally estimated at a total of $5.7 billion.
pan’s Yoshinori Ohsumi won the 2016 Nobel prize for medicine for ground-breaking experiments with yeast which exposed a key mechanism in the body’s defences where cells degrade and recycle their components. Understanding the science behind the process, called “autophagy” or “self-eating”, has led to a better understanding of diseases such as cancer, Parkinson’s and type 2 diabetes, the prize committee said in its statement on Monday. “Ohsumi’s discoveries led to a new paradigm in our understanding of how the cell recycles its content,” it said. The Physiology or Medicine prize, the first of the Nobel prizes awarded each year, is worth 8 million Swedish crowns ($933,000). Ohsumi, born in 1945 in Fukuo-
since 2009. He told Kyodo News agency he was “extremely honoured” to get the prize. In a separate interview with broadcaster NHK, he said he had “always wanted to do something that other people wouldn’t do”. “I thought the breakdown (of cells) would be interesting, and that was my start,” he said. Ohsumi’s work - carried out in the 1990s and described by commentators as “paradigm-shifting” and “pioneering” - included locating the genes that regulate autophagy. This is important for medicine because it helps show why errors in these genes can contribute to a range of diseases. David Rubinsztein, deputy director of Cambridge University’s Institute for Medical Research, said Ohsumi had provided scien-
how disrupted autophagy can contribute to illnesses including infectious diseases, cancers and neurodegenerative diseases such as Huntington’s and Parkinson’s. Christer Hoog, a professor at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, told Reuters the work helped explain crucial processes in human development, from growing up, to ageing to succumbing to disease. “In the very early stages (of a human’s development) your organs and your whole body is constantly being made over again – you are growing. So you need to get rid of the old stuff and generate new structures,” he said. “When you undergo aging, you have structures that have to be taken away and this – autophagy – is the principle that gets rid of them. “If you affect this system – the genes
Yoshinori Ohsumi, a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology, attends a news conference after he won the Nobel medicine prize at Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo on October 3. (REUTERS Photo)
and proteins involved in autophagy – you no longer can take care of the waste, and once it accumulates you will get some type of disease.” This year, the Karolinska Institute, which awards the Nobel
medicine prize, has been immersed in a scandal over the hiring of a controversial surgeon. The Swedish government dismissed several members of the board in September.
Inequality threatens fight against extreme poverty: World Bank New YOrk, OcTOBer 3 (AFP): Extreme poverty has been falling steadily around the world, but eliminating it by 2030 could be stymied by unequal distribution of the gains of economic growth, the World Bank said Sunday. Unless the gains of growth are steered better to those at the bottom of a country’s economy, they could be left behind, warned the inaugural “Poverty and Shared Prosperity” report. The report said gains particularly in China, India and Indonesia have led to a dramatic reduction in global poverty. In 2013 -- the latest year with comprehensive data -- some 767 million people were living below the global poverty threshold of $1.90 per day. While still a high number, that was 10.7 percent of the world’s population, compared to 12.4 percent the year earlier. “The world had almost 1.1 billion fewer poor in 2013 than in 1990, a period in which the world population grew by almost 1.9 billion people,” the report said.
The biggest concentration remains in sub-Saharan Africa, with 41 percent of people mired in utter poverty, many of them rural based with little access to education. In South Asia, the figure is 15.1 percent; Latina America and the Caribbean, 5.4 percent; and East Asia and the Pacific,
3.5 percent. But it warned that gains in the future will be much tougher to achieve, in part because of the unexpectedly slow growth of the global economy, and because extreme poverty is being exacerbated by conflicts in the Middle East and Africa. The report also highlighted inequality as a
key foe of ending poverty. Economic growth cannot do that alone, it stressed. The countries most successful in eliminating extreme poverty are those where policies ensure that the bottom 40 percent of the population enjoys the strongest income gains as economic growth picks up. “The larger the growth
in incomes of the bottom 40, the more quickly prosperity is changing life for poor people in a society. The size of income growth among the bottom 40 defines a country’s level of success in boosting shared prosperity,” the report said. But if the gains of growth stay concentrated in the relatively well-off parts of the population, deep poverty will persist, it said. Francisco Ferreira, who oversees the Bank’s research programs on poverty, inequality and agriculture, said that while inequality has mounted in advanced economies, a number of emerging countries have been able to temper it with efforts to ensure the benefits of growth reach the poorest. The report highlights such achievements in Brazil, Cambodia, Mali, Peru, and Tanzania. Recipe foR success The recipe for success is generally the same: maintaining macroeconomic stability and low inflation; ensuring labor markets function well so
that growth translates into jobs and jobs into wages; economic diversification; building manufacturing and services industries on top of farming; and having proactive social policies like healthcare and education. “Declining inequality is actually possible. It’s not a pipe dream,” he said. “The report has found over 40 such countries where inequality has declined.... It can and has been successfully reduced both in the world as a whole and in individual countries.” At the same time, he warned, even if global economic growth is firm over the next decade, if inequality is not tackled at the same time, the world will be unable to reach the World Bank’s target of bringing extreme poverty down below three percent of the global population by 2030. “Unless growth becomes more pro-poor and leads to faster gains at the bottom of the distribution following inequality, the target may well be out of reach.”
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36th Greenwood school sports Meet commences Morung Express News Dimapur | October 3
The 36th Greenwood School Sports Meet kicked off at the school ground with commandant, 32nd Assam Rifles, Col VS Shikarwar, as the chief guest in the inaugural programme on Monday. The 32nd AR commandant in his address said the bottom line of sports is to inculcate hard work and dedicated training in life to achieve success, which hold true in any stage of life. Shikarwar said sports does not prepare successful people but imbibes sportsman spirit in individuals, which teaches one the importance of bonding and forms the pillars of a successful life. “Success and setbacks are bound to happen in a competition and in real life. It is the
sports which teaches us to accommodate both success and setbacks in a single stride and this is not only the essence of training but it is also the ethics of life”, he said. Stressing on the importance of sports, the army officer reminded the students of the adage “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” and said without a balanced approach towards education, a child will only have a lopsided perspective and will not be able to appreciate the other finer aspects of life if only studies preoccupies his or her mind. Shikarwar said sports should not be taken as just a part of physical education as it is an integral part of holistic development of a child because sports is a link to good health, promotes academic learning, builds self-esteem,
Commandant, 32 AR, Col VS Shikarwar (3th right), principal Greenwood School, Ms Sedeleü Peseyie (3rd left), and board members of the school pose for lens with winners of the boys’ 100 metres race at the ongoing 36th Greenwood School Sports Meet, Monday. (Morung Photo)
develops cooperation, teamwork and sportsman spirit. Shikarwar further exhorted the students that “an athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with a hope in his heart and dreams
in his head.” Earlier, the chief guest also unfurled the sports meet flag and took the salute from the march past contingents. The students are divided into four houses (Red, Blue,
Green and Yellow) with three categories including senior, junior and ‘mini’ comprising of nursery students. Chairman of Greenwood School, Rev. Kenilevi Khate, pronounced invocation.
ANKA to participate in NE State Karate Championship Dimapur, OctOber 3 (mexN): The All Nagaland KarateDo Association (ANKA) will be participating in the forth coming 4th North East State Karate Championship 2016 held at Gangtok, Sikkim from October 14 to 16. The ANKA has selected 13 participants. The state team will be lead by coach Sensei, Tensunungsang Sangtam and team Manager Pougam.
LFHSS Dimapur conducts annual CCA (Outdoor) 2016
A friendly exhibition match was played between 9 Assam Rifles troops and Chizami village youth during closing ceremony of the Chizami Youth Society’s 41st Annual Game Meet 2016 on September 29. A press release from Assam Rifles informed that the 9 AR provided assistance in organizing the Meet held from September 26 to 29 at Chizami ground. Tents, footballs, basketball and other help were extended to the organizers, it added. Dimapur, OctOber 3 (mexN): Livingstone Foundation
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Kigwema SU, Headwinks FC, Meriema YO, WASU win Our Correspondent Kohima | October 3
Kigwema Students’ Union, Headwinks FC, Meriema YO and WASU today registered win on day eight of the ongoing 17th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy here at Kohima Local Ground. In the first match, Kigwema Students’ Union downed Danger FC by 2-0. The winning goals for Kigwema SU came through Zhazota Sale and Shiirhotolie Neihu. In the 2nd match, Headwinks FC beat Govt Polytechnic Kohima by 2-0 to enter the 3rd round of the tourney. Ketsivile Rülho(10) scored in the 3rd minute and Vizose-u Metha(17) added another in the 69th minute. Kekhrieselie Rüpreo(6) of Headwinks FC and Chubameren of Govt Polytechnic were cautioned with Yellow cards. Meriema YO edged out Chüziema Youth FC 5-4 in tie-breaker after 2-2 goal deadlock. Chüziema Youth
FC took the lead in the 29th minute through Seyieneituo and Menguzelie added another in the 31st minute. Meriema YO came back in the second half through Kekhriese Chiesotsu and Vizotuolie Lhousi in the 36th and 66th minutes. Dziesevilie Chüziema Youth FC and Kevingulie of Meriema YO were cautioned with Yellow card. WASU blanked Pfütseromi Youth Club 4-0 in the last match of the day. WASU striker Nouneneilie Medoze scored twice in the 56th and 65th minute while Keviselie Terhüja and Kikrukhrielie Kuotsu added a goal each to the team in the 42nd and 52nd minute. Thejalhou Mero(12) of Pfütseromi YC was cautioned with a yellow card. OCTOBER 4 MATCHES 1st match: NU Kohima Campus vs Dahou United @9:30 AM 2nd match: Ziekezou SC vs Pfosemei FC @ 11:00 AM 3rd match: P. Vizheto FC vs Tsosinyu SU @ 12:30 pm 4th match: Nagaland Police (Blue) vs PK United FC Viswema @ 2:00 PM.
Hr Sec School, Dimapur conducted its annual CCA (Outdoor) 2016 from September 28 to October 1. The four-day event was marked by various outdoor games being played among the four houses of the school. The outdoor games included football, volleyball, basketball and badminton which were played at various levels viz. junior, senior and super-senior. The senior and supersenior events were conducted on September 28 and 29 while the junior events were held on September 30 and October 1. The inaugural function of the four-day event was held at the Livingstone Foundation Junior High Campus on September 28 with Prabhat Mandal, Principal of Academics declaring the CCA (Outdoor) open and Zakir Hussain, Co-Ordinator delivering the welcome speech. After the brief programme the much anticipated outdoor games event commenced with enthusiastic participants from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Houses vouching for a fair title in the individual as well as the group events. Some of the important matches in various categories that were played included the Final Match of the Super Senior Basketball played between John and Mark Houses which was won by Mark House, Super Senior Football Final Match played between John and Mark House in which John House were the winning team. The four day CCA (Outdoor) Competitions came to an exciting close on October 1 with the enthusiastic cooperation of the School Management, the Co-ordinating Committee Members, Referees, Teachers-in-charge of the four Houses and the House Captains.
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REVISITING THE MAHATMA IN PARTS The Quaint Little Village: Stories from Khonoma
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his is for all those who have literally grown up with Hind Swaraj, My Experiments with Truth, Early Life. Mahatma Gandhi was a household charm for some families more than anything else. First honesty, then self-reliance, gradually non-violence and then probably the far-fetched dream of peace became our life goals for some who felt that change was inevitable to be free in India. We idealised the Gandhian spirit which fuelled the actions, thoughts and perspectives of our elders who believed in the Gandhian dream of a free and self-reliant India. Our homes had pictures of Gandhiji with a smile on his face. We were fascinated by the three monkeys which depicted restraint from seeing, speaking, hearing all that was untrue and non-violent. But with time Gandhian context became a subject of scepticism and in due course got obsolete. Gandhiji has become an election gimmick, human development scheme for employment for the poor, textile brand, financial symbol and an icon of peace and non-violence in the world platform. Every 2nd October the country wakes up to some of the more relevant quotations from Gandhiji, children dress up as the naked fakir with spectacles and a stick, Nation gets a holiday and the world remembers the unbelievable fact that a man like Gandhi walked on earth more than a century ago as certified by none other than Albert Einstein. Gandhian ideals are rooted into every sphere of human life in India. His actions, political moves and simple way of life have become normative diktats for most of the population in rural, urban and semi-urban contexts of Indian sub-continent. In fact the Mahatma’s presence can be also felt in the civil rights movements in America, Africa and also in parts of Europe and South East Asia. Gandhiji battled with power most importantly and disapproved any move which concentrated power. Power which resonates from slavery, intolerance, indignity, inhi-
bition, racism, cultural chauvinism, religious differences and colonialism were the most critical adversaries when it came to the self-made Mahatma. His life was a struggle of self-refection, restraint and reconstruction with the every passing moment when he lived. He was a legend whose relevance is contextual in every social, political, economic and legal sphere. In current era of majority politics in the country, Gandhi has become a state mascot for only cleanliness and sanitation which has great importance but that is not enough. While Gandhian values of cleanliness, physical labour and healthy life are relevant to every human being in the world, peace, non-violence and truth are also the most important ideals which the Mahatma propagated. Indian leaders have been always maintaining a peaceful process, dialogue, deliberation and diplomacy when it comes to the discontented neighbourhood which affects India profusely. But in recent years the nationalistic debates are funnelling a climate of offensive action to defend the country’s honour, pride and prestige. Being non-violent is no longer a constitutional right but it has become obsolete with diverse forms of war technology placed at the cost of taxpayer’s money. Middle class tax payers in India thinks that a war is like a weekend cricket match which can be won or lost either at the stroke of a batsman or with the fall of wickets. There are chilling comments across social media, print and electronic media about how Indian soldiers have struck the terrorists or the terrorists have attacked the armed forces to provoke the civilians’ psyche further justifying war. Somehow these days Gandhiji’s non-violence does not seem to knock at the doors of war loving Indians. For the middle class all that matters is the bonus before durga puja, diwali, eid and dusherra which can be supplemented with a few bombshells of warheads destroying the enemies outside the territory of
India. Gandhian ideals of truth and non-violence doesn’t seem to sink deep into the news bites, snapshots or newsroom debates which dominate public opinion these days. It really does not matter how many children, elderly, women, men gets maimed, mutilated, displaced, disrobed and degraded in either sides of the borders. Peace remains a subject of untouchability in the present era of war mongers. Hence Gandhiji is revisited only in parts to wash off the dirt of human annihilation. His ideals of non-violence and peace does not seem to be the flavour of the month for the nation loving, tax-paying middle class Indians who takes pride in forging bloody wars with disgruntled neighbours, excluded communities and socially marginalised sections of a so-called civilised and independent country. Gandhian context cannot be sidelined at this critical juncture of nuclear war threats which is looming large in the entire Indian sub-continent. War brings misery, misogyny and mishaps which penetrate through centuries and politics of hate cripples human society. We have glaring examples in Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Japan and even in India during the past. War will only have devastating impact on people, ecosystems, social fabric, economy and infrastructure. It bleeds much more than it heals. The scars on humanity can never be removed from the trigger happy, nuclear bombing craze of militarised nations. Yet the policy decisions and strategic moves of India seem to be averse to exploring the alternatives to war. If Gandhiji’s non-violence is not revisited now, then when will it be reconsidered for ensuring peace and stability in the South Asian Region? Let us not glorify violence of any form in this century and revisit Gandhiji’s non-violence as the wheel of resilience. Swach Bharat also needs Shant Bharat. Samhita Barooah Researcher
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ovi Chasie’s The Quaint Little Village is a delightful little book that offers many valuable lessons. It contains ten short stories presented through the adventures of the protagonist, a little girl called Tono. Her adventures are based on incidents and interactions with people during her frequent trips to her native village Khonoma with her family. Through Tono’s experiences, the narrator takes us on a tour of Khonoma village, giving us a glimpse of life in the village, its myths, beliefs and way of life. In the process we learn about the characteristic traits and qualities of her village and its people, which give them their unique cultural identity. Each of the stories depicts an important aspect of cultural beliefs, heritage and wisdom. This clearly demonstrates the close link the writer has with her cultural moorings. There are stories of traditional beliefs and sayings; myths and legends; indigenous knowledge system such as that of the pollarded Alder trees and use of medicinal plants; the significance of names, dreams and songs, and myriad anecdotes of folk wisdom. Besides these, there are also many general knowledge lessons to learn from the book. Such as, the fact that the state animal – the Mithun, and the state bird – the Blyth’s Tragopan, are native to Khonoma village; the villagers have been practicing the scientific process of pollarding Alder trees for hundreds of years, which helps in environment conservation; Khonoma is the first green village in the country – a status awarded primarily due to its nature conservation practices; but paradoxically, it is also called ‘quaint’ because though it is only about 20 kms away from the state capital Kohima, the village continues to exist in a semiidyllic state, largely unaffected by so-
called modernization and holding on firmly to its traditional ways. And regretfully, it is at times, taken advantage of as a cultural specimen by the government, with no returns for the villagers, as is depicted in the story “When a Princess came calling.”
Though it is her first attempt at story writing, the author has skillfully interwoven her tales with a perfect blend of fact and fiction. She has moulded stories by taking events and situations from the real world and blending them with creative imagination. It is also significant that the protagonist is a town-bred child who is curious and inquisitive about everything that is strange and unfamiliar to her urban sensibility. These are stories that are not taught in schools, nor are they recounted to children by the new generation parents living in urban towns and cities. But these are the kind of stories that need to be told, and kept alive, for they are our only link to our past, our history and our heritage. The structure of the book, which is built on the travels and visits to the
village, is a metaphor for the need to maintain the link between the past and present. The way in which all the stories are connected by Tono and her family going to and from Khonoma village, illustrates the need to keep the link between our past and our present alive. It is these occasions that provide opportunities for the child to enquire and learn about her cultural heritage, and for the parents and elders to share their traditional knowledge and wisdom. Today, many of us have settled away from the village and due to changing times, we live a semi-urban life that has little relation to the traditional way of life. Hence the cultural values that were upheld by our forefathers are no longer taught or continued, and they are increasingly losing significance. But even in this modern world, we are identified by the place from which our forefathers came, the place which gives us our name and our identity. Therefore, the book can also be read as one that expresses the yearning for cultural identity in the face of rapid modernization, urbanization and globalization. In one of her poems entitled “The Old Story Teller,” Temsula Ao conceives of the art of storytelling as her “racial responsibility.” This sense was instilled by her grandfather who had repeatedly warned her “That forgetting the stories/ would be catastrophic:/We would lose our history, /Territory, and most certainly/ Our intrinsic identity.” Rovi Chasie has certainly ensured that her sense of history and identity is kept alive through her storytelling. It is hoped that she will continue to cook up many more stories. The book is priced Rs. 250/- and is available at all leading bookstores. Dr. Vizovono Elizabeth, Asst. Prof & Head Dept. of English, Baptist College Kohima
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6 singers to compete Alobo Naga performs his 100th show at Hongkong for The New Voice 2016
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he New Voice – Be the Next Big Thing!’ a vocal competition with an objective to discover and nurture the potentials of young aspir-
ing singers through intensive grooming and mentoring for a duration of 9 months. The champion of this competition will receive a prize of rupees 1 lakh and a chance to get
a recording contract with BLAZON RECORDS. Ev e n t Organiser Thomthom Nakhedei, in a press release stated that 40 aspiring singers from across the state and others parts
of the country sent their demo tapes, and after much screening and several elimination rounds 6 singers have made it to the finals and are now left to fight for the glorious title ‘The New Voice 2016.’
Kim Kardashian robbed at gunpoint in Paris hotel room, jewel thieves tied her up in bathroom
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asked men put a gun to reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s temple, left her tied up in the bathroom of her luxury residence in Paris and stole millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery in the early hours of Monday, police and her publicist said. Kardashian, wife of rapper Kanye West, later left France aboard a private jet from Le Bourget airport after having spoken to investigators. Five attackers, wearing ski masks and clothes with police markings, struck around 3 a.m. (0100 GMT) inside the exclusive apartment block where Kardashian was staying while attending Paris Fashion Week, a police source told Reuters. Two of the men entered Kardashian’s apartment after threatening the night guard with a hand gun. Kardashian was not beaten, but the robbers put a handgun against her temple before tying her up, the source said. iTELE television said she had been tied up with packing tape. The robbers stole a box with 5-6 million euros’ ($5.6-$6.7 million) worth of jewels and a ring worth about 4 million euros, the source said.
Kardashian was discovered “badly shaken but physically unharmed”, according to her publicist, Ina Treciokas. As news of the event spread, West abruptly ended a performance in New York less than an hour into his set. “I’m sorry I have a family emergency, I have to stop the show,” West told the audience in video tweeted by fans at the Meadows Festival in Queens. The Paris apartment block is a discreet building behind the city’s Madeleine church, with several secret entrances, often frequented by movie and music stars who pay up to 15,000 euros a night. The source said the attackers fled on bicycles. Police found the night guard in the staircase, his hand and feet bound. Kardashian was in Paris with her mother Kris Jenner and her sisters Kendall Jenner and Kourtney Kardashian to attend the fashion week. The rest of the family stayed in a hotel. The robbery set social media alight, with many users expressing disbelief at the latest headline-grabbing event in the life of a TV star who life is continually documented on screen and the internet.
The semi-final was successfully organised on October 1 at Ukhrul Town Hall produced by Echoes Enterprise and event partners Kahorpam Horam and Bombay Hot Radio. The show was managed by Angaritsing Zimik accompanied by SanzaKashung and hosted by Shanthing Shaiza with our official LIVE band, “FRIDAY”. The panels of judges include Soreichan Nakhedei, a renowned musician; acclaimed singer, Theithei Luithui and a veteran in music H Mayami, a former member of Salt and Light Travelling Band. The shows have often been graced by eulogised and celebrated personalities like Chonchon Varah, Ngachonmi Chamroy and et al. Local band, “FUN PAGE”, also made an appearance. The final round of this show has been fixed for December 20 at Tangkhul Naga Long ground, Ukhrul. Many singers and bands from Manipur and across the nation will be featuring on this mega-event.
First ever Mr Arunachal Mega Model Contest on Nov 19
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“Looking forward to accompanying album and TV show detailing event,” said Twitter user Jay. Most comments, however, were supportive. “Kim Kardashian is a mother, a wife, daughter and sister. Despite the fact that you don’t like her, being held up at gun point is not funny,” said one post by Alieuisha. Paris has seen several armed robberies on highend jewelry stores in recent months. The armed robbery could add to worries about
safety in Paris, hit by a series of attacks by Islamist militants last year. Tourist numbers to what is traditionally the most visited city in the world, fell 6.4 percent in the first half of 2016 as many Asians and Americans stayed away. “We worry about the image of Paris. This will be all over the news channels, imagine the negative publicity,” Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, head of the conservative opposition in Paris, told Europe 1 radio. Source: Reuters
nder the aegis of Aries Corps, Talent Management Itanagar is hosting the 1st ever Mr Arunachal Mega Model contest on November 19 at Itanagar. Grooming session on personality development, soft-skills, communication skills, stage-presentation and etiquettes etc will be conducted from November 8 to 13 from the Grooming Guru Opang Jamir (Naga Supermodel & Lakme Fashion Week Model). The Ultimate winner of this contest is set to walk away with lots of exciting prizes including cash money, free trip and tour of four days and four nights to the land of ‘Smile Bangkok Thailand’ including hotel accommodation, shopping allowance, tour and visit which is officially sponsored by FLYGURU.IN and DRUKAIR (Royal Bhutan Airlines), and various sponsors from local entrepreneurs. This contest winner will be a spokesperson for the youth of today on ‘healthy lifestyles, HIV & AIDS Campaign, Drugs free campaign etc.’
‘Baahubali’ made into animated series
“B
aahubali: The Lost Legends", a new animated series based on blockbuster film "Baahubali", has been launched by internet videoon-demand service Amazon Prime Video in collaboration with filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli, Graphic India and Arka Mediaworks. R aja m o u l i , who directed the film, says what was revealed in the National Award winning film was just the tip of the iceberg. "From the minute I started working on this story, I knew the world of ‘Baahubali' can't be encompassed into a film or two, simply because there's so much more to tell and animation is another way to do that. We are happy to be collaborating with Graphic India and Amazon to bring the lost legends to audiences through Amazon Prime Video," Rajamouli said in a statement. Sharad Devarajan, the co-founder and CEO of Graphic India, says the series will be full of "political in-
trigue, betrayal, war, action and adventure" and "will take audiences on new adventures beyond the film, as we learn for the first time the events that shaped Baa-
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lobo Naga is touring Hongkong with Livejam, performing over 10 shows across Hongkong. He performed his 100th show for this year on October 1, hitting century once again. Besides performing, he also conducted music workshops & shared his testimonies across the churches. Last year he performed over 150 shows across the world, making him one of the highest performing artistes in India. According to him, he could not take shows for two months this year because of his school construction and inauguration, but he is happy that he could reach this feat by October, but he said he is booked till next year February both solo and with his band ANTB.
Project Psaltery is the Winner of KBYF Gospel Beat Contest
W
ith the objective to promote Gospel music amongst the youngster, a Gospel Beat Contest under the theme 'Music to God' was organized by the Kohima Baptist Youth Fellowship (KBYF) on September 30 & October 1 at Heritage, Old DC Bungalow, Kohima. Altogether, 12 bands from all over Nagaland participated where 6 bands were shortlisted for The Grand Finale. Project Psaltery from Chakhesang Baptist Church, Minister Hill, Kohima emerged as the winner and walked away with a cash prize of Rs. 25,000 along with citation and free Music Video recording from Muza Production. The Headlines from SABCK and Radio City from 4th NAP Baptist Church were awarded 1st runners
up and 2nd runners up respectively. All the top 6 selected bands will get free audio recordings for their original songs from Rewire Sound Recording Studio, Kohima. Tali Angh, Mathung Odyuo and James Basnet were the judges. The following individual awards were given as well; Best Vocalist - We-u Akugha Mero from Aftershock, Kuzhami CBC Best Guitarist- Hito Swu from Headlines, SABCK Best Drummer- Dezo Thira from Project Psaltery, CBC (MH), Kohima Best Rhythm and Backup Vocalist- Bejoy Chetri from Arcane Dreams, Town BC Pfutsero Best Keyboardist - Arile Khalo from Project Psaltery, CBC, MH Kohima Best Bassist -Razo Tenunu from Radio City, 4th NAP BC.
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hubali from a young prince into a legendary hero". The teaser trailer of "Baahubali: The Lost Legends" was launched on the Amazon website on Saturday. "Baahubali: The Lost Legends" is set before the Kalakeya invasion depicted in the movie, when Baahubali and Bhallaladeva are still both young princes of Mahishmati. The animated series will feature new stories about the characters from the film,
including Prince Baahubali, Bhallaladeva, Kattapa and Sivagami as well as dozens of new characters that will expand the world of "Baahubali" and reveal hidden secrets for millions of fans. The series will follow the relationship between the two cousins as they journey across the Kingdom of Mahishmati, uncovering hidden mysteries, stopping ancient terrors and defending their people from danger. Source: IANS
All Nagaland karate-Do Association (ANKA) proudly announces the qualification of Sensei. Thsathriba Sangtam as the first Asian Karate Coach from Nagaland. The Asian Karate Coach Examination was conducted by the Referee Commission of Asian Karate-Do Federation (AKF) held at Talkatora Indoor Stadium, New Delhi on 22nd-23rd of September 2016. The examiner were Sensei. Michael Huang (Secy. Referee Commission, AKF), Sensei. Bhaskar (Chairman Referee Commission, South Asian Karate-Do federation ), and Sensei. Alexander (Secy. SAKF). The ANKA wishes him greater success in the years to come. Kavi K. Swu General Secretary All Nagaland Karate-Do Association (ANKA)
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ISL: Mumbai City beat Pune City 1-0
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PUNe, october 3 (aGeNcIeS): Mumbai City FC beat FC Pune City 1-0 in their opening match of the 2016 Hero Indian Super League in front of an 8,189-strong crowd at the Balewadi Stadium in Pune on Monday evening. The solitary goal of the match came in the 69th minute after a brilliant touch by Diego Forlan set up Matias Defederico who applied the finishing touches to bag all three points for his side. After a cagey start to the match that saw both sides cancel each other out in the opening exchanges, FC Pune City registered the first shot of the game on goal in the 10th minute through an Arata Izumi header that Roberto Volpaso collected comfortably in Mumbai’s goal. Pune were denied the game’s opener again five minutes later when a deflected direct free-kick by their skipper Bruno Arias found its way to Jonatan Lucca. The Brazilian midfielder took a first-time shot on goal but Volpaso was placed perfectly in goal to make a save low to his right. The Stallions should have taken the lead in the 38th minute after a defence-splitting pass from deep carved open Mumbai’s defence as Gustavo Oberman found himself one on one with the keeper. Volpaso came to the visitors’ rescue yet again by making a superb save to deny Oberman. The last chance of the half went the away side’s way after Forlan threaded in a delightful ball to Krisztian Vadocz. Gouramangi Singh though read the danger per-
fectly and made a crucial block to deny the Hungarian striker just before the break to make it 0-0 at half-time. Sena Ralte had the first chance of note in the second period as the game approached the hour mark. The buccaneering left-back cut in from the left flank before unleashing a powerful shot on goal that failed to test Edel Bete in FC Pune City’s goal. It was a sign of things to come as Mumbai took the lead just nine minutes later thanks to an exquisite touch by Forlan that found its way to Defederico. The Argentine winger composed himself to finish expertly from just outside the penalty area and make it 1-0 to Mumbai. The hosts responded immediately as Jesus Tato was played through on goal by Lucca with only the keeper to beat. Volpaso stood firm, however, to prevent Pune from equalising, much to disappointment of the home crowd. Tato had another chance to get his name on the scoresheet nine minutes from time. Volpaso though was placed perfectly at his near post to make another save for Mumbai and add to the growing sense of frustration amongst the Pune ranks. Substitute Jackichand Singh could have made it 2-0 in injury time for Mumbai when a pacey run down the left flank caught the Stallions backline napping. The diminutive winger’s shot on goal was just put behind for a corner by Pune’s defence as the match ended 1-0 in favour of the visitors at full-time.
India clinch New Zealand series, ensure No.1 ranking in Tests
KolKata, october 3 (IaNS): Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja spun India to an unassailable 2-0 lead and the No.1 ranking in Tests, pinning New Zealand down in a riveting see-saw four-day affair, to win the second cricket Test by 178 runs here on Monday. Local boy Wriddhiman Saha was adjudged Man of the Match for his unconquered 54 and 58 in the two Indian innings at the Eden Gardens. Besides Saha, contributions with the bat by captain Virat Kohli (45) and Rohit Sharma (82) in the second innings helped India post 263 after a top-order collapse threatened to take the match away from them. But despite the visitors' grit early on in their 376-run chase, they fell to the guile of Indian tweakers once again -- similar to the first Test at Kanpur that they lost by 197 runs -managing a meagre 197 in their seconds outing. The tourists started their run chase well, riding on opener Tom Latham's (74 not out; 144 balls, 8x4) ninth half-century and contributions from Martin Guptill (24) and Henry Nicolls (24) at the top order. But post-lunch, the inform Indian spinners ran through the Kiwi batting. Both Ashwin (3/82) and Jadeja (3/41) made mischief in tandem, joining in the party was the raw pace and swing of Mohammed Shami
India's Mohammed Shami (4th L) is congratulated by his teammates after taking the wicket of New Zealand's Bradley-John Watling. (REUTERS)
(3/46), who shaved off the lower order. Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/28) claimed the remaining wicket. Latham departed soon after tea, starting the slide. Ashwin's mastery over his craft was on show as he floated an inviting delivery which forced the opener to drive away from his body giving a nick to wicketkeeper Saha. Mitchell Santner (9) and B.J. Watling (1) followed suit in quick succession, Shami accounting for both the scalps. Luke Ronchi (32; 60 balls, 4x4) fought briefly before Jadeja accounted for him, castling the 35-year
old. Jeetan Patel (2) failed to replicate his first innings form, when he scored a gutsy 47, failing to comprehend the reverse swing generated from a good length ball by Buvneshwar. Matt Henry (18) and Trent Boult (4) were cleaned up by Jadeja and Shami, respectively. Earlier, India wrested back the second session from New Zealand as Ashwin and Jadeja took three wickets to deny the tourists any hope of a fightback at tea. Latham staged a lone battle as top-order batsmen fell around him. The hosts took 16 overs
in the innings to get the first breakthrough. Ashwin pitched the ball fuller and it turned in from outside the off stump to catch Martin Guptill (24; 49 b, 3x4) off guard. It was an important wicket just when the opening stand had started to look steady, engineering a partnership of 55 runs. The second-wicket stand between Latham and Henry Nicolls (24) was of 49 runs, helping the Kiwis reach 104 when Nicolls fell. With the wicket offering a lot of turn, Jadeja made the most of it. Changing his angle to outfox Nicolls,
who failed to come fully forward to cover the turn, the left-arm tweaker got the outside edge of Nicolls' bat with Rahane taking the catch at first slip. Ross Taylor, who is standing in for indisposed captain Kane Williamson, lasted only 26 minutes in which the right-hander scored just eight runs before falling to Ashwin's guile, dismissed leg before wicket. Taylor played the wrong line leaving umpire Richard Kettleborough with an easy decision to make as the ball hit Taylor's front pad. Earlier, resuming at 227 for eight, India were all out for 263 in their second innings. Wriddhiman Saha, who had run out of partners in the first innings after scoring 54, once again anchored the lower order, remaining not out at 58 (120 balls, 6x4) -- his fourth Test half century. The two overnight batsmen, Saha and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (23; 51 balls, 2x4, 1x6) were involved in a 56run partnership that helped India cross the 250-mark and set New Zealand a target which no team has ever achieved in the fourth innings at the famed ground. The stand was broken in the 10th over of the morning session when Bhuvneshwar misjudged the bounce of Neil Wagner's delivery and offered an easy catch to short leg. It was Wagner's 99th wicket in 25 Tests.
14th Late. Imtitemjen memorial TT tournament held 2nd Kewhimia open wrestling c’ship on Oct 22 The winners of various KohIma, october 3 (mexN): The 2nd season categories are:
Winners at the 14th Late Imtitemjen Memorial Table Tennis tournament with the officials of Mokokchung District Table Tennis Association at Multi-purpose Sports complex, Mokokchung. Morung Express News Mokokchung| October 3
The 14th Late. Imtitemjen Memorial Table Tennis tournament organized by Mokokchung District Table Tennis Association was held today at Multipurpose Sports complex,
Mokokchung. The inaugural programme was graced by Swanrnambika, IPS, SDPO, Mokokchung. In her speech, she stressed on the importance of sports to stay fit, healthy and peaceful, which is the ultimate aim of all human beings. She said that Table tennis
as a sport is in a sorry state in our country and lauded the MDTTA for organising such tournament and promoting the sport. The tournament ended with a brief prize distribution ceremony, where the president, MDTTA, Watitoshi gave away the prizes.
of the Kewhimia open wresUnder 15 Boys’s Single tling championship under Winner: Imtisowa; Runner-up: Nungshichuba 25 years is scheduled to be held October 22 at D. Khel Under 15 Boy’s Doubles ground Kohima village. Winner: Limbor and The wrestling champiNungshichuba; onship is organized under Runner- up: Imtisoba & the aegis of Kewhizou EnLidongchem tertainment Team (KET). “The event is initiated Under 21 Men’s Single and founded by Khriehu Winner: Tzuwatoshi; Liezietsu, Parliamentary Runner-up: Imtisoba Secretary. Youth Resource Under 21 Men’s Double: and Sports, State Lotteries winner: Tzuwatoshi & Sen- and chairman DPDB Kohitinok; ma to promote indigenous Runner-up: Anungdanger wrestling among the youth & Imkongtoshi enthusiasts of Kohima village” stated Ketholhoutuo Men’s Single Belho, Convenor, OrganisWinner: Sentinok; Runner –up : Imkongtoshi ing Committee Kewhimia Entertainment Team (KET) while speaking to Media on Men’s Double Winner: Watitoshi & Send- Monday. The Convenor said that onglemba; Runner –up : Sensonung- the open wrestling championship under 25 years is sang & Yarsen.
organized by KET with the goal to encourage and train the young wrestlers of Kohima village for the ultimate stage in indigenous wrestling event that is the Naga
wrestling championship. Further he said that Naga wrestling is the most popular and prestigious game for the Nagas, loved by one and all, with the
highest cash prize and the most coveted title among all other sports. But in the history Naga wrestling championship and open Naga wrestling championship, Kohima village has produced only one champion inspite of being the biggest village and therefore, the K.E.T has put in order this tournament with the quest for trained and discipline wrestlers to compete in higher arenas. The cash award for this tournament are as 1st Rs. 35,000, 2nd Rs. 20,000 3rd Rs. 15,000 and 4th Rs. 10,000, the Losing Quarter Finalist Rs. 5000/- (each] and Best tactic Rs. 5000. The forms are available at L. Khel-Neisaü Dzüvichü, T. Khel- Mhasizotuo Sekhose, D. Khel-Suosahie Sachü and P. Khel -Ahu-u Rutsa. The Last date of form submission is October 19.
Sports climbing enthuse meeting held
KohIma, october 3 (mexN): A consultative meeting of all Sports Climbing Enthuse was held at Hotel Japfü on October 3. A press note informed that 20 Member of Sports Climbers including North East Level medallist and Trained Route setters, Judges were among the participant. The group decided to have further meeting involving other prominent members and Sports Climbing enthuse in the state who could not attend the meeting today to form a mandate Association under one umbrella for the State. There were also suggestions to have district Level Sports Climbing Committee. More Suggestions and more participation are invited as and when the meeting is scheduled and convened at an appropriate date, the note informed. The Initiative is in line North East Sports Climbing Association (NESCA) and Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF).
Swansea fire coach Guidolin, Villa sack Di Matteo
loNdoN, october 3 (IaNS): English football club Swansea City on Monday announced that Italian coach Francesco Guidolin has been fired and replaced with former United States tactician Bob Bradley. The decision was made after the Swans won only one English Premier League match this season, drew in another, and suffered five losses under the Italian's command, and now find themselves in 17th position with just four points, reports Efe. In a statement posted on its official website, the club said: "Swansea City can confirm that the club has parted company with manager Francesco Guidolin. He will be replaced by former USA national team manager Bob Bradley with the club having agreed his release from French club Le Havre after their fixture with Sochaux tonight." Meanwhile, Aston Villa on Monday sacked Roberto di Matteo as manager after the Italian won just one of 11 league matches. Di Matteo, who was appointed early in June after Villa was relegated from the Premier League, stayed in the position for only 124 days, reports Efe. The 46-year-old, who guilded Chelsea to the European champions four years ago, was also the first manager after Chinese businessman Tony Xia took over Villa. Published, Printed and Edited by Dr. Aküm Longchari from House No. 4, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur at Themba Printers and Morung Publications , Padum Pukhuri Village, Dimapur, Nagaland. RNI No : NAGENG /2005/15430. House No.4, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur 797112, Nagaland. Phone: Dimapur -(03862) 248854, Fax: (03862) 235194, Kohima - (0370) 2291952
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