October 7th 2014 by The Morung Express

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Yaruiwo appeals DImApur, october 6 (mexN): The Yaruiwo (President) of the Government of the People’s Republic of Nagalim, Isak Chishi Swu in a statement released to the media today requested all the churches in ‘Nagalim’ to organize a “special prayer program on October 19 for the IndoNaga Peace talks.”

New drug may cure diabetes at source

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New York, october 6 (IANS): A modified form of the drug niclosamide now used to eliminate intestinal parasites - may hold the key to battling Type 2 diabetes at its source, says a study. The drug used in the study is a modified form of a medication that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the US has already approved for human use. In Type 2 diabetes, the body either does not produce enough insulin or the body’s ability to use that insulin is degraded. A major cause of insulin resistance is the accumulation of excess fat in the cells of the liver, as well as in muscle tissue. “Our goal in this study was to find a safe and practical way of diminishing fat content in the liver. We used mice to perform proof-of-principle experiments in our laboratory,” said lead researcher Victor Shengkan Jin, an associate professor of pharmacology at the Rutgers University in the US. “We succeeded in removing fat, and that in turn improved the animals’ ability to use insulin correctly and reduce blood sugar,” Jin added. The modified medication - whose full name is niclosamide ethanolamine salt (NEN) - burned the excess fat in liver cells through a process known as mitochondrial uncoupling. “We went to the literature and found an approved drug that does in parasitic worms what we wanted to do in liver cells,” Jin noted. At present, the only way now known to cure Type 2 diabetes involves major gastric bypass surgery. “The surgery can only be performed on highly obese people, and carries significant risks that include death, so it is not a realistic solution for most patients,” Jin pointed out. The study appeared in the journal Nature Medicine.

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‘Inner Line Permit’ system not very successful: Nagaland CM

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In its 141st year of operation, there seems to be a common consensus that the Inner Line Permit (ILP), designed to give special protection to the indigenous identity, has not been effective enough to counter the influx of migrants to Nagaland. Even the Nagaland Chief Minister has admitted that it has neither tackled “influx of migrants” nor “check[ed] illegal migration”. In 2009, in an Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses study, M Amarjeet Singh observed that while there has been steady flow of migration to Nagaland since the early 1970s, it picked up exponentially since 1980s and a perception of “threat to tribal identity” has been created among some section of the society. “Better economic prospects and aversion of Nagas towards manual labour are the key factors which attract immigrants to the state coupled with ineffective laws and regulations,” Singh added. His study found out that the total number of non-Naga workforce earning their livelihood in three sample districts (Mokokchung, Kohima and Dimapur) was 45,815, with an annual income of Rs 450.60 crore in 2009. According to T Limamochet Jamir, Asst. Professor, Kohima Law College, the non-effectiveness of ILP is an “administrative failure”.

People are seen leisurely walking through the nagaland Gate in Dimapur on October 6. The Chief Minister of nagaland TR Zeliang has admitted that the Inner Line Permit has not been successful in tackling the influx of migrants and illegal immigrants into nagaland state. (Morung Photo)

“The existing law (ILP) is ample enough to check any influx, but the administrative structure has failed to implement it in a proper manner. If we make more stringent law or by-laws, it is bound to fail if the administrative mechanism is lax,” he argued. A member of the Survival Nagaland asserted that the issue has been neglected over the years by respective governments leading to a “monumental problem” in recent years. “How can the law be effective if the main corridor of the migration, Dimapur, is left completely unchecked,” he reasoned. Commenting in her personal capacity, the general secretary of Naga Students’ Federation (NSF), Esther Rhakho attributed the failure to the absence of concrete or proper policies with the government to check the misuse of ILP.

Nationally, experts have attributed the influx of migrants to several factors, such as, inadequate policing in border, corruption, and Communal politics. The same syndrome seems to have affected Nagaland in effectively implementing the ILP. While the failure is apparent, some argued for an overhaul of the existing law while other reasoned that the administrative mechanism needs to be streamlined. “The excuse given by law-enforcement agencies that it is difficult to identify immigrants due to possession of fraudulent voter identity cards, driving licences and ration cards from other state is lame,” argued Jamir. He maintained that the Deputy Commissioner and Sub-divisional officer have “strong discretionary power” either to check or refuse any application. “But its

Passport to Naga rebels worries MHA

g u wA H At I , october 6 (DeccAN cHroNIcLe): The ministry of home affairs is extremely worried about the alleged nexus of Naga rebels in the Regional Passport Office, Guwahati that is alleged to have issued Indian passports to more than 50 NSCN cadres with proper verification of their antecedents. Informing that passports were virtually sold to Naga rebels, authoritative security sources revealed that the authorities responsible for issuing passport have already been warned and asked to re-

frain from compromising the set procedure for issuing passports. Informing that security agencies in its investigation found that NSCN cadres bought Indian passport from regional passport office Guwahati by paying a hefty amount through conduits. Clarifying that giving passport to the residents of Nagaland can’t be a crime, security sources said that these passports may be misused by the NSCN cadres. Referring field reports, security sources said that a large number of NSCN cadres have been recruited in the passport office for its

security through a private security agency. Alleging that they are acting as middlemen for securing Indian passport, security sources admitted that the ministry of home affairs was worried about its misuse. It is significant that CBI arrested Anjali Das Thakuria, red-handed while accepting Rs 2,000 as bribe at the Regional Passport Office in Guwahati. Security sources said that regional passport offices have been given guidelines for issuing passports to the members of the insurgent groups but it was ignored deliberately.

Man arrested for beheading step-daughter SHILLoNg, october 6 (IANS): A tribal Garo girl was found beheaded and burnt inside a reserve forest in Meghalaya’s East Garo Hills district Sunday. The girl’s stepfather, the prime suspect, was arrested, police said Monday. Meanwhile, Home Minister Roshan Warjri has directed police to fast-track the case and ensure justice to the girl’s family. The girl was missing for over a week. “The beheaded body of Richina N. Sangma, 15, was found Sunday from Rongrenggre reserve

forest. She went missing September 28,” said Davies Marak, police chief of East Garo Hills. He said: “The head and an arm were found at a distance. The head did not have any flesh. We suspect wild animals to have eaten the flesh.” The police officer said the post-mortem examination was conducted at the spot in view of the highly decomposed body. Marak said: “We have arrested Rashu N. Marak, the stepfather of the girl, following an FIR lodged by her mother Grichina. We

are interrogating him.” Rashu Marak filed a missing person case after his wife persisted. In the FIR, he claimed to have taken the girl to a doctor in Williamnagar, the district headquarters of East Garo Hills, and then sent her home in an auto. Warjri condemned the killing, saying: “This gruesome incident should be condemned by all right-thinking citizens in strongest terms. Such elements have no place in a civilised society and the police are already on their job to nab the killers.”

office is either inefficient or corrupted, so the problem,” he added. The onus ultimately lies with the district administration. Rhakho opined for a separate cell or commission to monitor the movements and influx of migrants and a review of existing ILP Act of 1873. “The government, civil societies and general public should also support NSF directive to all tribal students union to check influx in their respective jurisdiction,” she stated. Echoing her, the Survival Nagaland member also batted for adoption of monitoring cells by the administration, including the law enforcing agencies, to check the issue of both “new and renewal” of ILP in order to curb the entry of illegal migrants. At present, Dimapur does not fall under the purview of the Inner Line Per-

mit. However, the member informed that Survival Nagaland is in consultation with the district administration and police to explore the feasibility of creating ILP zone in Dimapur, especially at all the Check gates and railway station. Asked whether the ILP Act is implementable in Dimapur district, Limanochet asserted that such a measure is possible. “If we give two-three weeks grace periods for the “new arrival” to avail the required documents, it is possible.” A reader of The Morung Express, wrote on the newspaper’s website advocating for partial application of ILP in Dimapur by “categorizing the areas according to the feasibility of things so as not to hamper the economic growth of the city and strengthening the provision of ILP while bearing in mind the interest of permanent non-Nagas.”

koHImA, october 6 (IANS): The Inner Line Permit (ILP) required by outsiders to enter Nagaland and some other northeastern states has not been successful in tackling the influx of migrants or illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, says Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang. And Assam also bears responsibility for the problem, he adds. “We cannot say it (ILP) is successful in implementation because the validity of the ILP is purely meant for tourists and those who come and visit Nagaland for a short period,” Zeliang told IANS in an interview. “What about those migrant labourers engaged in building or road construction in remote areas? They (labourers) cannot come back for renewal after a gap of 15 days. So they remain there for months and years together. Therefore, as far as the implementation part of ILP... we cannot say that it is successful,” he contended. Zeliang’s stand assumes significance in the wake of the growing demands of civil society groups in neighbouring Manipur and even in Meghalaya by Hynniewtrep Youth Council, a splinter group of influential student body Khasi Student’s Union demanding implementation of the British-era law to tackle the burgeoning influx and illegal migrants in these frontier states. The permit system, which is still in force in Nagaland as well as Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh, derives from the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulations, 1873, and entails issuance of official travel documents issued by the central government to al-

low inward travel of an Indian citizen into a protected/restricted area for a limited period. The ILP, a British era regulation designed to preserve ethnicity and culture of the northeastern tribals, required all Indian citizens not usually residents of the area to secure a special permit for entering the border states and regions of the northeast. Zeliang blamed the neighbouring state of Assam for the flow of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants into other northeastern states. “We have to blame Assam for the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. They come through Assam only,” said the Nagaland chief minister. “In all the disputed areas with its (Assam’s) neighbouring states (Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram), adivasis (tribals) and Bangladeshi people are pumped in; there is no Assamese, no real Ahom people living in those disputed areas. Only Adivasis and Bangladeshis are there and that means it is through these places these illegal immigrants used to come to Nagaland as well,” he contended. “If Assam is strict (in tackling the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants issue), then the gateway is closed. Therefore, the Assam government should be more serious in this,” Zeliang asserted. Moreover, he said that the Naga People’s Frontled Democratic Alliance of Nagaland government, is also toying with an idea to formulate stringent laws to tackle the burgeoning illegal Bangladeshi immigrants issue which will safeguard the interest of the indigenous people of Nagaland.

Nobel in Medicine for discovering brain’s GPS

StockHoLm, october 6 (Ap): U.S.-British scientist John O’Keefe and Norwegian scientists MayBritt Moser and Edvard Moser won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering the “inner GPS” in the brain that helps us navigate through the world. Their findings in rats — and research suggests that humans have the same system in their brains — represented a “paradigm shift” in the knowledge of how cells work together to perform cognitive functions, the Nobel Assembly said, adding that knowing about the brain’s positioning system may “help us understand the mechanism underpinning the devastating spatial memory loss” that affects people with Alzheimer’s disease. “This year’s Nobel Laureates have discovered a positioning system, an ‘inner GPS’ in the brain, that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space,” the assembly said. O’Keefe, 75, of University College London, discovered the first component of this system in 1971 when he found that a certain type of nerve cell was always activated when a rat was at a certain place in a room. He demonstrat-

This is a three photo combination image of an undated photo issued by University College London (UCL) of John O’Keefe, left, a Sept. 5, 2014 file photo of May-Britt Moser, centre, and a 2008 file photo of Edvard Moser. It was announced in Stockholm on Monday Oct. 6, 2014 that the three are the joint winners of the 2014 nobel Prize for Medicine. (AP Photo)

ed that these “place cells” were building up a map of the environment, not just registering visual input. Thirty-four years later, in 2005, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, a married couple at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, identified another type of nerve cell — the “grid cell” — that generates a coordinate system for precise positioning and path-finding, the assembly said. “This is crazy,” an excited May-Britt Moser, 51, told The Associated Press by telephone from Trondheim. She said her 52-yearold husband didn’t immediately find out about the prize because he was flying Monday morning to the Max Planck Institute in

Munich, Germany, to demonstrate their research. “This is such a great honor for all of us and all the people who have worked with us and supported us,” she said, adding they had been together for 30 years. “We are going to continue and hopefully do even more groundbreaking work in the future.” Hege Tunstad, a spokeswoman at the university in Trondheim, said May-Britt Moser “needed a minute to cry and speak with her team” when she first heard the news. Edvard Moser told the Norwegian news agency NTB that he discovered he was a Nobel Prize winner when he landed in Munich, turned on his cellphone and saw a flood of emails,

text messages and missed calls. The Nobel discoveries have also opened new avenues for understanding cognitive functions such as memory, thinking and planning, the assembly said. All three Nobel laureates will split the Nobel prize money of 8 million Swedish kronor (about $1.1 million). The Nobel awards in physics, chemistry, literature and peace will be announced later this week. The economics prize will be announced next Monday. Created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the Nobel Prizes were first awarded in 1901. The winners always collect their awards on Dec. 10, the anniversary of Nobel’s death in 1896.

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Neiphrezo assures to serve and work for welfare of the society

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Bye-election: BJP appeals for vote to strengthen tie with centre My victory is your victory- BJP candidate Visasolie Lhoungu Our Correspondent Chiephobozou | October 6

Dr Neiphrezo Keditsu, the NPF candidate for the bye-election to the 11th Northern Angami II A/C addressing during the election campaign at Meriema on October 5.

Rio and Kiyanilie campaign for NPF candidate Our Correspondent Meriema | October 6

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Lone Lok Sabha MP from Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio on Sunday made a fervent appeal to the villagers of Meriema to cast their invaluable vote in favour of NPF candidate Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu in the forthcoming bye-election to the 11th Northern Angami II A/C scheduled for October 15. Speaking at the election campaign programme here, he also sought the support of the people to enable the NPF candidate to emerge victorious with a record winning margin to strengthen the regional party. Stating that a lot of development has taken place in the constituency, yet still many more needs to be done, Rio requested the people to help Dr. Nei-

phrezo the same way they helped him in the earlier elections so as to carry forward the developmental activities. Minister for social welfare Kiyanilie Peseyie also called upon the villagers to help Dr. Neiphrezo to win the elections and strengthen the present ruling government. Peseyie acknowledged that he sees enormous capability in Dr. Neiphrezo to work for the welfare and uplift of the society. Meanwhile, Dr. Neiphrezo assured that, if elected, he would do his best to serve and work towards the welfare and development of the society and at the same time uplift the weaker section of the society, the youth, the aged people and the farmers. He appealed to the villagers to cast their vote in his favour and enable him to win the election and represent them in the ruling government. INC ex-candidate Kevise and NPF leader Vibeilietuo also addressed the gathering.

BJP candidate for the forthcoming bye-election to 11th Northern Angami II A/C Visasolie Lhoungu today said “My victory is your victory,” adding that if elected, he will ensure that the various public welfare funds are made accessible to the rural masses and deserving youth get the opportunity for gainful employment. “I pledge to support the youth in availing various flagship programs meant for the youth and to promote entrepreneurship; setting up of training centres for rural based youths,” he stated, and appealed to the people to give BJP a chance to develop the constituency into an exemplary constituency. Speaking at the public rally here in the presence of Rameshwar Chourasia, National BJP Spokesperson, Ex-MP Tapir Gao, Nagaland and Manipur state incharge, Nagaland State BJP president Dr. M. Chuba Ao, several top BJP leaders, legislators and huge gathering, Lhoungu said BJP as a party has a clear cut agenda for the rural people especially with programs exclusively aimed at uplifting rural areas through prioritized and integrated development plans and provision of “urban amenities for rural areas, while retaining the soul of the village.” “This falls in line with

Visasolie Lhoungu, BJP candidate for forthcoming bye-election to 11th Northern Angami II A/C and others during a public rally at Chiephobozou on October 6. (Morung Photo)

my personal vision of working for the welfare of the people in bringing development to the community and progress that has to take place from the grassroots level,” he said. Lhoungu revealed that the decision to contest the upcoming bye-elections was made out of his desire to work for the welfare of the downtrodden and weaker sections of the constituency. Further, he stated that having worked many years in various capacities under the State government, “I had been to most villages in our constituency and, seeing the neglect and plight of the villages; the disparity and great divide between the haves and have nots have weighted heavy on my mind.” However, he contin-

ued, “there are constraints in the extent one can do as we all know, and therefore, the need to be in a position to better serve the people especially the rural masses inclusive of the men, women and youth alike has been the major contributing factor in my decision to join the political fray.” He highlighted that the constituency faces lack of infrastructure, mass unemployment and lack of basic training centers to facilitate entrepreneurship. “Our constituency is suffering from poverty and corruption has hampered the progress of the constituency and therefore, the remedy and need of the hour is to bringing about transformation by electing the BJP into power. Only then can our constituency come at

par with the others.” Meanwhile, Rameshwar Chourasia, BJP National Spokesperson requested the people to elect BJP candidate Visasolie Lhoungu for socio economic uplift and infrastructural development of the constituency. Highlighting the BJP policy and vision under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he called upon the people to vote for the BJP candidate to develop the State at par with other states of the country and at the same time to ensure better statecentral relations. Ex-MP Tapir Gao, Nagaland and Manipur state incharge opined the gap between Delhi and Nagaland will be bridged and 11th Northern Angami II A/C can link with Delhi by elect-

ing BJP candidate Visasolie Lhoungu. Dr. M. Chuba Ao, president Nagaland State BJP in his address was optimistic that BJP will win the election, which, he said, would in return strengthen the DAN government in Nagaland and NDA at the centre. Parliamentary secretary for transport & civil aviation Paiwang Konyak while appealing to the people to vote for the BJP candidate said Nagaland will not be able to survive without the help of the national party as the State solely depends on central funds. Later, Nagaland state BJP president released an album of BJP Band. Vote of thanks was proposed by Dr. K. Hoshi, spokesman and State executive member BJP.

DRFCB continues effort to protect Dhansiri River

DimaPur, october 6 (mexN): A joint meeting of Dhansiri River Flood Control Board (DRFCB) and sand, sand gravel, and boulder Mahal owners was held on October 4 at the office of DRFCB with an objective to “protect and preserve the Dhansiri river and its tributaries.” A press release from DRFCB Chairman, Hokheto Kiba and Secretary, Mukibur Rahman stated that some representatives of the Sand Mahal owners, who attended the joint meeting, assured the board they will co-operate and support DRFCB in every possible way to achieve the common goal in protecting and preserving the Dhansiri River and its tributaries. According to the press note, the chairman of Darogajan Village, Vitokhu Achumi, expressed his appreciation to the board for working voluntarily since 2005 and advised the board to take initiative on shifting the DMC garbage dumping site from the present site as it is causing air and water pollution to the entire surrounding villages and colonies. He also assured his full support if any move is initiated by DRFCB to shift the dumping site. A Sand Mahal owner Akashe Chophy, also mentioned that the distillery (Alcoholic) industry waste of Khatkati, Assam is polluting the Dhansiri River and is highly harmful for both the human as well as aquatic life.

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HUDCO top official meets CM Young Christian Students hold first convention

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Nagaland CM TR Zeliang (4th right) with Parliamentary Secretaries, Secretary Finance, Dr. M. Ravi Kanth, CMD HUDCO and other HUDCO officials at his residence in Kohima on October 6.

Kohima, october 6 (mexN): The chairman and managing director (CMD), HUDCO, New Delhi, Dr. M. Ravi Kanth today met with the chief minister of Nagaland, TR Zeliang and discussed various issues, including business generation and development of the State. According to a press release, the CMD highlighted various schemes and programmes which can be funded by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO) and also discussed CSR programme of HUDCO. The chief minister expressed interest, the release said, especially for

revenue generation projects and also informed that Mega Smart City project either in Dimapur or Kohima would be taken up shortly, for which, he sought HUDCO partnership in funding the projects. Dr. M. Ravi Kanth is on a visit to North East states from October 2 to 7. He and L.M. Yanthan, Regional Chief, HUDCO and other officials from Regional Office, Kohima visited Aizawl from October 2 to 3 and Manipur from October 3 to 4. They had meeting with various government officials, including Chief Minister, Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and other officials and discussed var-

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ious schemes and programmes of HUDCO for development of North East States. The CMD arrived in Kohima on October 5 and met Thomas Ngullie, Parliamentary Secretary for Women Resource Development. The release informed that HUDCO has already granted assistance to Health & Family Welfare Department for Construction of Short Home Stay for HIV patients at Kohima, and for purchase of Cesspool Vehicles for Kohima and Dimapur Municipal Councils. The HUDCO CMD also met Governor, P.B. Acharya in the evening on October 6.

Kohima, october 6 (mexN): The Young Christian Students (YCS), Diocese of Kohima had its first convention at St. John Bosco School Khonoma from October 3-6. Altogether, 163 students and 13 animators from 16 schools all over Nagaland participated in the convention. The highlights of the convention included World Café (interactive session), Cultural Night, Variety Show, debate competition and Walk to Khonoma, Green Village. Young Christian Students is a movement that empowers the students to be more concerned and responsive to certain needs they find in their everyday life, according to a press release. With the methodology, ‘See, Judge & Act’, the movement helps young students to be responsible person and contributors of positive change to the society. On day one, Fr. Sojan Puthankudy, Youth Director & Vice Chancellor, Diocese of Kohima spoke on ‘Building Confidence’, while Manoj Mathew, International YCS spoke on ‘Review of Life, YCS Spirituality’, Sr. Agnes Sanihe MSMHC, Regional YCS Coordinator & National ICYM Council member gave introduction on YCS, Sr Lucy

Gangmei FMA, Animator, Kohima Diocese spoke on ‘Attack on Christian Beliefs and values’, Neisevonuo Anna, Coordinator, YCS Nagaland took a session on Cell meeting and Teisovi Gerard Meyase spoke on ‘ Young and Beautiful’. On the last day, Most Rev. James Thoppil, Bishop of Nagaland celebrated Holy Eucharist for the participants. In the debate competition held during the convention, Vinivi Achumi (Carmel HS School, Dimapur) bagged the 1st prize, while Chütonü B (St John School, Kohima) and Roshan (St Xavier’s HS School, Meluri) came second and third. In the Cultural Competition, the 1st was bagged by St Joseph HS School, Chumukedima, 2nd by Christ King HS School, Kohima and 3rd by Nazareth School, Pfütsero. According to the note, YCS, in just a period of one year, has reached to over 500 young people from over 24 schools in Nagaland with Neisevonuo Anna as Coordinator, YCS Nagaland. Some of the activities of YCS are Cell meeting, Cleanliness Drive, Sales Day, Observation of World Environment day, Social Work, Observation of Charity Day, Summer Camp etc.

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Thousands of people following the faith of Islam gathered in Dimapur to celebrate Id-ul-Zuha (Bakr Id in India) on October 6. The festival, also called the “Feast of the Sacrifice,” is celebrated by sacrificing a goat to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham in the Old Testament) to sacrifice his son Ishmael (Ismail) to God. Photos by Imojen I Jamir and Caisii Mao.

Free entry to Rangapahar zoo on Oct 7

DimaPur, october 6 (mexN): Nagaland Zoological Park, Rangapahar is celebrating Wildlife Week 2014 with the theme "Compassion for Wildlife" on October 7. As part of the celebration, there will be free entry for all visitors to the zoo on October 7, informed Officer-incharge of Nagaland Zoological Park Obed Bohovi Swu in a press release. There will be an exhibition in the zoo for wildlife conservation awareness. According to the note, Director, Nagaland Zoological Park Sentichuba Aier has conveyed his warm regards to all the people of the State, especially those directly or indirectly involved in conservation of wildlife and urged upon everyone to have comDimapur Changtongya students with the resource person, Rev. C Teyong Kichu, counselors, worship team and others dur- passion for wildlife. The Director has also invited indiing the three-day “Youth Camp” held at AIDA Training Centre, Dimapur from October 3 to 5. Sponsored by Changtongya viduals, families, schools, colleges, organizations, offices fellowship Dimapur, more than 37 students attended the camp held under the theme “Let Us Reason together”. and all wildlife lovers to come and visit the zoo on the auspicious occasion and be part of the celebration.

1st Math and Science Talent Hunt in Jalukie

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With the Grace of God, I have enjoyed and satisfied working as a government employee under Forest Department with the care guidance from my sincere and dedicated seniors till my naturally retirement day. Also I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to all my former as well as the present senior officials, colleagues and staffs in the Department. Moreover I extend my gratitude to the Department and all the well-wishers for the kind deeds shown towards me on my parting day. HAUNEU ZELIANG Retd. Forest Ranger

JaluKie, october 6 (mexN): The Math & Science Department of Baptist School Jalukie ‘B organized the first Math and Science Talent Hunt Jalukie on September 20. The event held under the slogan “Trust in hardwork” at Barail Valley School was open for all schools in Jalukie valley. The competition saw participation of 9 High Schools, both government and private, with 158 students. The organizing school, through its headmaster Pehiato Hingleu in a press release informed that the motive of the

programme was to “nurture the young minds into the ethics of mathematics and science which otherwise had long been perceived as uncharismatic by majority of the students in schools.” Therefore, it has urged that the event be organized annually by interested schools in the valley or even district level, so that in the long run, positive attitude is inculcated amongst the students towards the subjects, and talents encouraged on a larger scale. In the Class- X category of the 1st Math & Science Talent Hunt Jalukie

2014, Soihiam of Govt. Higher Secondary School Jalukie won the first position, Charingambou of Baptist School Jalukie’B came second, and Menaibam Chawang of Barail Valley School Jalukie and Izaile Lungalang of Ibaung Thou Memorial School Jalukie both secured the third place. Meanwhile, in the Class IX category, Leuheuyile of Barail Valley School Jalukie won the first position and Ilungchube Mpom of Baptist school Jalukie’B and Kiepoile Mbung of Barail Valley School Jalukie won second and third respectively.

NPF Mimi unit condemns killing DimaPur, october 6 (mexN): The Naga Peoples’ Front (NPF) Molongmika (Mimi) range has condemned the killing of Athrennu, Leacy “speaker” of FGN Yimchunger Region at Longya Ward, Kiphire on September 29. In a press note, the party unit president C Sangmuh argued that the killing was done without “any rhyme and reason”, stating Kiphire District has been declared as "Peace Zone” and any shedding of blood is against the peace process. The party further appealed to all civil societies, GBs, Tribal Hohos, CBO's, and right thinking citizens to condemn such act and requested the District Administration and Police Department, Kiphire, to book the culprits and take necessary steps without any further delay.

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Hooked on a feeling: The king of Naga folk blues Tripura reels adam halliday The Indian Express

ewben Mashangva leaned back on the meadow with his long hair flowing down his nape. The “king of the Naga folk blues” was listening to other folk musicians perform on stage and chatting with a bunch of people sipping apong, the local rice beer, from bamboo mugs. Arguably the most decorated performer among the 32 solo acts and bands at the Ziro Festival of Music in Arunachal Pradesh this year, Mashangva, 53, is affable, his presence shorn of any air of celebrity. Set in a vast meadow surrounded by green paddy fields, numerous villages with houses still built as they were hundreds of years ago and forested mountains looming in all directions beyond that, the festival is a perfect setting for folk music performances, although the hours after sunset are dedicated to modern genres. Mashangva mingles with the crowd, sharing rice beer and cigarettes, calling out to new friends with his

Police probing fake Facebook account of Tripura CM AgArtAlA, OctOber 6 (IANS): Tripura Police have launched a probe into the opening of a fake Facebook account in the name of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, a top police official said here Monday. "Police have taken suo motu a case after it has learnt that a fake Facebook account was opened recently in the name of Chief Minister Manik Sarkar. Probe is now on in this regard," Director General of Police K. Nagraj told IANS. He said: "Tripura Police has a full-fledged wing of cyber crime. We believe that we would soon get a breakthrough into the offence." Police have also initiated the process to file an FIR (first information report) at the West Kotowali police station in Agartala against unknown persons and the cyber crime wing was also investigating into the case. Police found that many postings were made in the bogus Facebook account. When contacted, Sarkar told reporters that he has no mail ID or Facebook account nor has given permission to anyone to open mail ID or Facebook account.

signature thumbs up in the air. He is at home here. His good cheer belies the nostalgia and sense of loss that prompted this carpenter’s son to pioneer an ongoing if dispersed effort to preserve and revive the musical traditions of hundreds of tribal communities in the Northeast. “One day, I hope — I dream — that the Northeast will come together. I want an end to our people aping the West,” says Mashangva. Born and raised in a small hamlet in Manipur’s troubled Ukhrul district, Mashangva spent his formative years listening to his father — a carpenter who made him his first guitar — sing the songs of the Tangkhul tribe as they worked together. “My friends from Aizawl make their own guitars as well. We make them from whatever wood we get, so sometimes, the sound is off,” he says with a laugh. In his mid-20s, Mashangva embarked on a journey to collect the songs of his forefathers on audio cassettes. He began by travelling to hundreds of distant villages in Manipur. “I felt that

he’s got the blues: Rewben Mashangva performed at the Ziro Festival of Music in arunachal Pradesh.

music would be lost forever. Western music, including church music, was, and continues to make inroads in the region,” he says. During his travels, he recorded traditional folk songs sung by elderly men and women. “Some of them were very old, I was almost too late,” he says. Mashangva learned to play several of the traditional instruments including stringed instruments and fashioned bison horns. His carpentry skills came in handy as he fashioned a few changes to the instruments to allow a wider range of scales. To give them a modern twist,

he arranged the songs with western folk, blues and jazz sounds (which he picked up on the radio). And while he wanted to preserve the music of his land, fusing these different styles with traditional tunes has never been an issue for Mashangva — he says that it is the only way to keep folk music alive and attractive. “All around the world, folk talks about the same feelings. The only difference is language. I listen to a lot of music from southeast Asia. Theirs and ours, it’s all the same. We need to keep folk alive, and it has to be modern and fashionable.

We need to understand our youngsters,” he says. As Mashangva speaks, the conversation veers rather naturally from cultural loss to more tangible issues such as peace in the Northeast. “Among the youth, few of their minds are changing. People will change slowly. They might go ‘underground’, but there too, they want to live with family. We only have one life. And we’re killing, not for food, we’re just killing people,” he says. For long, Mashangva has been the sole custodian of the repository of Naga folk songs. “For the past 15 years, I have been working and performing alone. Only now there are other musicians coming up,” he says. His journey wasn’t easy, the early beginnings made possible only with support from his schoolteacher wife. He has come a long way since. A decade ago, the Ministry of Culture conferred the title “Guru” on Mashangva for preserving and reviving the Tangkhul Naga tribe’s disappearing traditions, known as Hao, of folk songs, music and instruments. He was

also given the National Tribal Award 2011-2012 along with boxer MC Mary Kom. At Ziro, before his performance, Mashangva looks cheerful, not cowed that only one other musician, bassist Ringo Golmei, was around to accompany him. He simply asks some of the other artistes who are playing at the festival to accompany him on guitar and drums. An impromptu collaboration follows, one that frequently involves a guitarist asking him which chords to play for the next song. On stage, Mashangva is electric — he dances near the drummer as he taps his heels hard on the stage floor. In a flash, his performance combined the poetry of his hero, Bob Dylan, the frenetic energy and stage presence of Bruce Springsteen and the ever-present smile of Stevie Wonder. While he writes in English and although most of his songs are in Tangkhul, Mashangva’s lyrics invoke the landscape and the old, simpler ways of living in the hills and forests of the Northeast and a longing for an end to their current troubles.

‘People's suggestions to be taken for New Education Policy’ gUWAHAtI, OctOber 6 (PtI): The Centre would invite suggestions from students, teachers and parents for the proposed New Education Policy, the process of which will begin from next year, Union Human

Resource Development Minister Smriti Zubin Irani said today. "For the New Education Policy, we will go to all the states. We will invite suggestions from students, teachers and parents for it and will dis-

cuss with them how this policy should be," Irani said at a function here. The government would use all the media -- print, electronic and Internet -for engaging the society in the process, she added. Stating that all the

past education policies were framed by educationists and academicians, she said for whom such a policy mattered most were never associated. Irani, however, added: "I am not here to blame the past. I am here

to frame the course for the future." The minister said the process for the New Education Policy for the country will begin from next year. India had last formulated the National Education Policy in 1986.

Indigenous beverages a hit FELICITATION among tourists in Meghalaya SHIllONg, OctOber 6 (PtI): The picturesque hill state of Meghalaya, boasting of forests and meadows, also takes pride in its indigenous culture running for centuries with cuisine being an integral part. Two typical Meghalaya beverages — Cha khoo and Sha shiahkrot — are a big hit among visitors and their acceptance level has risen many fold since they were re-discovered by women self-help groups and marketed. Cha khoo (cha is tea and khoo is rice in the Jaintia dialect) is traditional rice concoction that yields a beverage similar to tea but leaves a bland coffee taste.

Sha shiahkrot, on the other hand, is an unconventional tea that is derived when a root of Shiahkrot (a creeper) is boiled. Cha khoo is a refreshing hot drink that tastes partly like tea and partly like coffee while Sha shiahkrot is believed to have some medicinal properties. Available in a small pocket in the state’s Jaintia Hills district, the preparation of Cha khoo challenge the conventional tea as there is no tea leave or coffee bean in it but roasted rice only. The popularity of this beverages was because of an all women self—help group (SHG) in the village and the erstwhile

Meghalaya Rural Development Society—LIFCOM which re—discovered and relaunched it and made it a rage among tourists. Abundant in Mynksan village under Laskein block, the beverage has lately been on a very high demand in local market and there are visitors who have developed a taste bud for this. In fact, Cha Khoo had been the only hot drink available and popular among a group of villagers in Laskein block, about 90 km from here, until the British introduced tea, N Lapasam who is the secretary of Chirupdeilang SHG in the village told.

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The Jalukie Hekuina Gütdi (JHG) would like to extend heartiest congratulations to our beloved members Mr. hauneu Zeliang and Mr. irai Zeliang on being promoted to the post of Forest Ranger, which is indeed another milestone for Jalukie people in particular and the whole Zeliang community in general. The union wishes them and their families a blessed life and success in all future endeavors. Jalukie Hekuina Gütdi also conveys profound gratitude to Govt. of Nagaland and Forest Department in particular for effecting timely promotion of the committed officers. sd/(RaMPaukai MPoM) secretary

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AgArtAlA, OctOber 6 (IANS): Tripura was reeling under severe fuel crisis following a road blockade in Meghalaya and disruptions in supplies of Indian Oil Corporation, an official said here Monday. "Road blockade in Meghalaya, delivery problem in Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and workers problem led to the crisis of petrol and diesel," said an official of the food, civil supplies and consumer affairs department. "We expect that the situation would be normalised within the next twothree days," said the official. The state government has asked the petrol pump owners and operators to sell a maximum of two to five litres of fuel per vehicle. However, most of the petrol pumps in Tripura remained closed. The northeastern states of Tripura, Mizoram, parts of Manipur and southern Assam remained cut off from the rest of India for around a week following a blockade of the National Highway (NH)

No.6 in Meghalaya. The NH-6 (formerly known as NH 44) serves as the lifeline for Tripura, Mizoram, southern Assam (known as Barak Valley) and western Manipur. For carrying goods, food grain, essentials and other materials from other parts of the country, the NH-6 is very vital for southern Assam's four districts, landlocked Tripura, Mizoram and parts of Manipur. The highway starts from Guwahatiandpassesthrough Meghalaya's East Jaintia Hills district. The official said there were also workers' problems in the IOC due to the Durga Puja festivity. "The Tripura government officials have taken up the matter with the IOC authorities to resolve the problems related to the fuel crisis," he added. Due to the fuel crisis, fewer numbers of public and private vehicles are plying on the roads making it a tough time for the commuters in the northeastern state. Agitated vehicle owners have damaged a petrol pump at Santir Bazar in southern Tripura Sunday.

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New kings of the road: Big bikes makers rev up in Southeast Asia

KUALA LUMPUR, OctObeR 6 (ReUteRs): Roads in Southeast Asia have been getting a little louder lately as motorcycle makers, an aspiring middle class and easy bank credit come together to breed a new genus of motorcyclists – the big-bike rider. Traffic in urban centres such as Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City has long been characterised by swarms of small motorbikes and scooters. Honda Motor and Yamaha Motor, the world's biggest motorbike makers, have dominated this sprawling regional market. The landscape is slowly shifting as the Southeast Asian market, the world's third-largest after China and India, undergoes a structural change. In Malaysia and Vietnam, motorbikes with bigger engine capacities are outselling their smaller cousins. Italy's Ducati Motor Holding, Japan's Kawasaki and Austria's KTM are among motorbike makers looking to build a new axis of growth in this market of 600 million people as orders for larger bikes in firstworld countries slow. They are wooing not just small-bike owners graduating to larger models. They are also chasing riders who already own a four-door subcompact sedan but have no qualms about taking on an additional financial commitment. Harley-Davidson plans to roll out a new entry-level motorcycle, the Street 750, in Southeast Asia early next year. The 749cc model has been a hit in India, with sales accounting for 60 percent of the company's local revenue two months after its launch in February. The bike costs 410,000 rupees ($6,663). "We are optimistic about the Southeast Asian premium leisure motorcycle market," Marc McAllister, vice president and managing director of Harley-Davidson Asia-Pacific, told Reuters. "The motorcycle is perfectly suited to the

region's infrastructure and fast-growing urban cities filled with a younger generation of riders who want an accessible premium ride." The demand for premium bikes is in step with rising gross national income (GNI) in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines - vast countries held together by miles and miles of highspeed motorways, urban roads and rural byways. In Vietnam, GNI per capita is approaching the key $2,000 level, data from the World Bank shows. Crossing that threshold marks the first phase of a shift in a population's spending from subsistence to moderate consumption, U.S.-based private equity and investment consulting firm TorreyCove Capital Partners said in a report in 2013. Indonesia and the Philippines both breached the $3,000 level in 2012, while in Malaysia and Thailand, GNI per capita stood at $10,400 and $5,370, respectively, last year, according to the World Bank data. In Vietnam, sales of larger models are outpacing the broader market, according to Harley-Da-

vidson and Ducati. In Malaysia, sales of bikes with capacities of 250cc and above surged 49 percent last year, while the overall market was almost flat, local industry association data shows. In Indonesia, the region's largest motorcycle market, bikes with similarly bigger capacities comprised 13 percent of total sales in 2013, up from 11 percent in 2012. "We also see that not only bigger and heavier bikes will have a better volume, but also cross-touring motorcycles like BMW and Triumph will have a better opportunity here," said Tony Tardjo, head of consumer lending of Indonesia's Bank CIMB Niaga. "This kind of motorcycle offers the ability for on and off-road, which is suitable for Indonesian road infrastructure," he said. EXTRA COMMITMENTS With a monthly salary of 4,000 ringgit ($1,229), Hor Chee Fung, 28, is one of the region's new middle class earners, working hard to pay off monthly commitments from phone bills to car loans. But that didn't

stop him from taking another loan to buy a larger and more powerful motorcycle. "I don't mind taking that extra commitment to join my fellow riding friends," said Hor, a Kuala Lumpur-based financial analyst with International Business Machines Corp. Hor is moving from a moped to a 250cc sports motorbike – the Kawasaki Ninja 250R. He plans to eventually upgrade to a Harley-Davidson or Ducati entry-level model when he gets a pay rise and promotion. An entry-level Ducati, such as the Monster 795 assembled in Thailand, costs 59,900 ringgit in Malaysia, 18 percent cheaper than an entry-level Toyota Vios car. A Kawasaki Ninja 250R costs less, at 22,590 ringgit. "These superbikes are highly affordable from 60,000 ringgit to the dream machines costing 500,000 ringgit and above," said Khairul Kamarudin, business development director at Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd, a unit of BIMB Holdings Bhd. "As there are presently not many financial institutions providing superbike financing, we view this un-

der-served community as an exciting prospect," he said. "We are in this superbike financing for the long haul." A consumer banking manager from a Kuala Lumpur-based bank was more cautious. He said the superbike market is still small compared with car financing, though he agreed it is growing. "I would say a lot of it is impulse buying," he said, adding that interest rates are high, as much as 10 percent if the client chooses zero downpayment. Market research firm Nielsen estimates that middle class earners in Southeast Asia, or those with disposal incomes of as much as $3,000 a month, will more than double to 400 million by 2020. CLOSE TO YOU To be closer to this new growth segment, KTM, Europe's second-largest motorcycle maker, last year opened its first assembly plant outside Austria in the northern Malaysian state of Kedah. That came two years after Ducati, a unit of Audi AG, set up a factory in Thailand. "We notice in Southeast

Asia a clear demand for bigger engine capacities. Even premium high-end models like our 1290 Super Duke R show potential. But clearly the main business is done with products between 200 and 400cc," Thomas Kuttruf, PR manager at KTM Sportmotorcycle GmbH, told Reuters. Apart from being closer to their customers, it also makes more economic sense for manufacturers to produce in Southeast Asia. A regional free trade pact has meant lower import tariffs in the single digits. Bikes and components imported from outside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are slapped with duties of up to 30 percent, making them more expensive. "The choice of the factory in Thailand, the first for us outside of Italy, was an important step... We are able to deliver Ducati motorcycles throughout Asia taking advantage of the ASEAN duty agreement," Pierfrancesco Scalzo, general manager of sales and marketing at Ducati Asia, told Reuters. For now, market leaders Honda and Yamaha remain unfazed by the entry of other motorbike makers. Like Ducati, KTM and Kawasaki, a unit of Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd, Honda is starting to offer bigger bikes, producing the CB500 and CB650 series in Thailand. "We are not competing with the other manufacturers," Yuka Abe, a Tokyobased Honda spokeswoman told Reuters. "But we do this because in Asia, demand for bigger models is increasing while in developed countries, the demand for the same is decreasing." Yamaha is not about to be left behind. The world's second-largest motorcycle maker has recently started producing a new 250cc sports motorcycle in Indonesia – the R25 - and is looking to launch the model worldwide soon.

Airtel, Vodafone, Idea hike 2G tariff by up to 100% NeW DeLHI, OctObeR 6 (PtI): Telecom operators have raised mobile internet rates up to 100% in June-September period across country. Airtel is latest to increase mobile rates by up to 33%, while Vodafone and Idea have started gradually implementing the increased mobile internet rates from June. The three companies jointly hold around 57% mobile services market share. While no comments were received from Airtel and Idea Cellular, Vodafone India spokesperson said "Around 2 months ago, we changed the base tariff of 2G for 1GB pack from Rs 155 to Rs 175. This has been carried out in a phased manner across circles." Airtel and Idea too have increased the

rate of 1GB 2G mobile internet pack to around Rs 175 from about Rs 155 GB. Telecom operators generally don't make public announcement about increase in mobile tariff. The change is noticed on their website after the new rates are implemented. They generally inform their postpaid customer through SMS about change in rates of services before their next billing cycle starts. Telecom operators are required to report change in tariff to telecom regulator Trai. Vodafone and Idea Cellular increased rack rate, charged without any offer or scheme, by up to 100% from 2 paise per 10kb of data usage to 4 paise per 10kb.

Maruti launches sedan Ciaz

NeW DeLHI, OctObeR 6 (et): Maruti Suzuki India, country’s largest car maker on Monday launched the Ciaz sedan between Rs 6.99 lakh and Rs 9.8 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). Maruti Ciaz will take on the likes of Honda City and Hyundai Verna. Developed with an investment of Rs 620 crore, the most on a product by Maruti yet, Ciaz is aimed at the Indian and Chinese markets. With the past experiment, with the Baleno and SX4 mid-sized sedans not yielding the desired result, Maruti Suzuki is aiming to be thirdtime lucky. With Ciaz, it is completely changing the approach of branding, marketing and selling the car. The company claims that Ciaz offers 10-12% more room than other mid-sized sedans. According to Maruti, the diesel version of the car runs 26.2 km on each litre of fuel and the petrol variant 20.7 kmpl on the lighter fuel.

The petrol-powered car has a 1.4-litre engine, while the diesel plant is of 1.3 litre. The car will be available in four variants, with both manual and automatic transmission, the automatic transmission is only available in petrol. In a review, Zigwheels. com said, “The interiors are a bit of mixed bag. It doesn’t feel as premium as the exterior would suggest, but quality of materials, fit and finish and space inside the cabin are all remarkable.” “On the features front, Maruti has studied their competition well to equip the Ciaz with all the bells and whistles that a car of this class should have. The touchscreen system is a bit slow, especially while relaying feed from the rearview camera, the rear seats could have come with adjustable headrests and a reach adjustable steering could have done it some good, but overall, the Ciaz is a well rounded package,” it added.

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KCSU 53rd general session KOhima, OctOber 6 (mexN): The Kohima Chakhesang Students’ Union (KCSU) will be holding its 53rd general session and fresher’s day on October 11, 10:00 am at the State Academy Hall, Kohima under the theme “Prioritizing in competition.” M.K. Mero, commissioner and secretary for industries and commerce and Zaveyi Nyekha, director of school education will grace the occasion as the chief guest and guest of honour re-

spectively. Theja Therieh, secretary I&P and chairman Media Cell, NTC will also exhort the gathering. All the freshers are asked to compulsorily attend the session. Also, all units have been informed to send not less than 30 delegates. Meanwhile, KCSU has extended invitation to all the Chakhesang students, seniors, frontal bodies and well wishers to grace the occasion. For any queries, contact 9612713250/ 9862217744.

17th convocation of Indian Institute of Missiology Dimapur, OctOber 6 (mexN): The 17th convocation of Indian Institute of Missiology (IIM) was held on September 26 at Thilixu Baptist Church. In all, 108 students from all over India personally received their certificates for various programs. A press release informed that Rev. Dr. Jayakumar, Director of IIM, gave the keynote address while Rev. Dr. P. Dozo gave the welcome address. The convocation address was given by Rev. P. Bonny Resu, General Secretary of Asia Pacific Baptist Federation, where he exhorted the graduates to be fully

committed and dedicated to the service of God and man. Withee Bible College Choir presented a special song, while Dr. K. Rajendran, Associate director of WEA-Mission Commission, presented the “value of your degrees” and a special commissioning prayer for the graduates was offered by Dr. Girish Khatri. Rev. Dr. Hevukhu Achumi, Senior Pastor of Thilixu Baptist Church, offered the benediction. The 17th IIM convocation was hosted by the IIM affiliated colleges in Nagaland and Manipur.

Tuesday 7 October 2014

Dimapur

Kohima Masjid Committee extends Eid greetings KOhima, OctOber 6 (mexN): The Kohima Masjid Committee has extended heartiest greetings to all the citizens and inhabitants of Nagaland on the occasion of Eid-ul-adha namaz. A press release from the committee general secretary, Md. Sayef Uddin, extended gratitude to the Angami Students’ Union, Naga Students’ Federation, Kohima Village Youth Organisation, DC and SP Kohima, and others for facilitating the celebration. Stating that the festival was a celebration of sacrifice, it informed that the festival was celebrated by Muslims around the world to honour the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his first son Ismail as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened and provided a ram for the sacrifice.

SCC holds annual general meeting

Dimapur, OctOber 6 (mexN): The Angami Baptist Church Council (ABCC) Young Fathers’ Brigade was held at Seithekema ‘A’ Baptist Church from October 2 to 6. A press release from the Brigade publicity director informed that the meet was brought to a close with the Brigade Director General Daso Paphino ceremoniously pulling down the Brigade flag “followed with six company flags in full uniform as Christian soldiers with affirmation of the Brigade theme: ‘Build up your strength in union with the Lord and by

means of his mighty power’ Ephesians 6:10.” A number of resolutions were adopted during the meet with every camper resolving to “build their family in union with the Lord and would serve Him.” The Brigade also resolved to support the NBCC’s stand on the NLTP Act. Advocate Kezhokhoto Savi, the Brigade Brigadier, who is also the legal advisor to the NBCC vouched for amending and strengthening the Act, the release stated. Further, every camper was urged to share their experiences at their re-

spective churches. It also recommended for the six companies led by the Commandant, Adjutant and Chaplain to hold retreats, while calling for preserving and protecting God’s given natural resources, the environment and maintaining sanitation. The release stated that the Brigade General Secretary and the ABCC Men’s Department Rev. Neivilieo conveyed gratitude to the speakers, Brigade officials, CBCCTK, Seithekema ‘A’ Baptist Church, and other churches and individuals who has contributed to-

Dimapur, OctOber 6 (mexN): The Supply Colony Council (SCC), Dimapur held its annual general meeting on October 2 at Children’s Park here. A press release from SCC general secretary K Angami informed that the main highlight of the day’s program was tabling of Audit Report for August 2012 to September 2014 and subsequent approval by the house, and election of new team of office wards the success of Young bearers of the council for the tenure 2014 – 2017. Fathers’ Brigade. Earlier, the meet had kick-started on October 2 with Yakieu Khro, Brigadier Kezhokhoto, Director General Daso Paphino, Di- KOhima, OctOber 6 and speaker Neilhouvilie rector Ruungutuo Sechu (mexN): The 5th Union Senotsu. The main agendas lighting the ceremonial Assembly of Western An- of the meeting, according to candle. ABCC Executive gami Students' Union the release, are, forth-comDirector Dr. V. Atsi Dolie (WASU) will be held on Oc- ing 41st Biennial General took salute as the march- tober 11 at T.U. Building, Conference at Khonoma ing contingent carried out Kohima at 10:00 am. All the Village and new executhe march past. JBCCTK executives, unit (village) tives for the tenure 2015 emerged as the group presidents and general sec- to 2017. The presidents / champion basing on dis- retaries, senior leaders are representatives of the units cipline and other co-cur- mandatory to attend the have been requested to ricular activities. JBCCTK assembly, stated a press bring their agendas before was also awarded the high- release issued by WASU the commencement of est point in the march past. president Kedoroko Casavi the assembly.

WASU Assembly on Oct 11

The senior citizens in water-starved villages

Bausha Pauwung Buchem, Nyengching, Longleng

here has been a steady rise in the population of older persons in India and this trend reveals that ageing has become a major challenge and need to give more attention to the care and protection for the older persons. It is our legitimate duty to help older persons to live their last phase of life with dignity and peace. Then, what should be their dignity being an elderly if they themselves fetch water or serve families? With the girl children and women, the fragile grand old parents in his nearing death in rural areas use to fetch water for daily consumption. It compels

for the following reasons: non-availability of his/her children to look after him/ her, who is widow and widower, and whose family members are always in the work heading to field or for fuel wood or for fodder. Some few also go to fetch water because of the negligence of their family members. It is poverty which forced the family members instead to look after older person; letting them do all household chores, fetching water and even little children are looking up by older parents as it becomes a part of grandparents’ duty. How much longer can we live with that small quantity of water they could fetch? Hardly could they carry 5 litres gallon at a time. There are just one

or two public well in the village and that is mostly dry and almost dry during dry season. They have to walk some kilometres to fetch water. I asked four villagers from different village under Longleng district on the status of drinking water and the life of older persons and most of the respondents’ answers were similar as the above statements. There are small water tanks in entire recognised villages which have been constructed under Rural Local Body (RLB) and they say that these are not in a capacity to serve second round bucket of the village populations. In an urban area, a bottle of packaged mineral water is available any-

where from a shopping mall to a corner shop or from a bus stand to a railway station. If you are feeling thirsty, you have to have at least ten rupees in your pocket to solve your problem. But you never know where do get a drinking water in an interior rural areas. You may need to walk mile after mile to get a drop of potable water. Drinking water is perceived as a Social Right and Human Right to Water to be provided free of cost by the government and have been trying to provide safe drinking water to rural population since the First Five Year Plan was launched in 1951. The government of India again introduced the Accelerated Rural Water Supply Programme (ARWSP)

Exhaustive Dialogue On Sovereignty Tax

he ACAUT activist like Khekiye Sema having indebt knowledge about various governmental, economic, social and political aspects can ingest crucial momentum on the ongoing Naga struggle. It would have been highly constructive and enlightening had Khekiye Sema taken an extra step to induce NPGs of intellectual and pragmatic ideas about the wide ranging issues connected to the struggle. He however chose to arrogantly lambast the NPGs through media and public platforms, coining every conceivable idiom derogatory to the struggle. Even though many of the evils of NPGs insinuated by Khekiye Sema are true, it would have been more forthcoming on his part if such issues could have been addressed through mutual dialogues. The opinion is mooted not to deny the responsibilities but to avoid exposing our weaknesses and incur political embarrassment before the world community. The political leverage to be gained on the ongoing struggle must begin by demonstrating our strength and not in sensationalising our weakness over the roof before the world scornful galore. The Naga struggle requires every bits and pieces, from rags to riches and from mere illiterates to highest intellectual calibre of all kinds. When the intellectuals choose to battle NPGs vociferously and NPGs in return throws suspicions on the intellectuals, both must be at guilt and we become a

danger to ourselves. Nothing can be gained from such collision but further fragmentation of the already divided house and further catastrophe. The intellectuals being more superior in reasoning may also take into account the implications of their vocal and open negative comments against NPGs and vice-versa. When our own Naga intellects opts to expose the weakness of NPGs in an Indian platform, imagine the damages it causes to the struggle and the wonderful opportunity it provides to the aggressor to continue its political onslaught against the Naga. Cannot that be treated an act of betrayal either by default or by intention? Cannot they explore far positive means to admonish their own NPGs waywardness instead of headlong and thorough condemnation of NPGs in foreign and domestic platforms as well, and we do not see how far these intellectuals have been instrumental in bringing the much needed changes in the functioning of NPGs. If Naga intellectuals are so much perturbed about taxations, they equally are materialist in their pursuits, being an intellect in itself, they should have been concerned enough to suggest alternate means and ways of sustaining the struggle since the movement cannot survive without proper and stable economic and financial resources besides sacrificing one’s life and family. While the NPGs give their physical resources, the intellectuals and opulent classes

should equally contribute their much needed resources. On the contrary it is the wealthy intellects and not the common masses that prefers to oppose the NPGs. What do we give back to the society that has given us so much? Are the prosperous classes guilty of their nefarious ways of having amassed and hoarded so much illgotten wealth that, instead of giving back to the society they choose to incriminate the NPGs so that they can escape the wrath of the common mass? Are they so greedy that instead of giving voluntary contributions, the NPGs are forced to ask from them at gun point what they had pilfered from the government’s endowment to the wretched common lot. It would therefore be more appropriate to first discuss the origin of corruption rather than diverting the attention to sovereign tax. The ACAUT being guided by intellectuals could have taken the NPGs into confidence and concertedly fight against the common evils snapping the very crucial nerve of progress and development of the Naga society. The radicalised choice of action by ACAUT against NPGs at the moment may appear befitting however in the long run the impact it imprints on the future course of Naga political struggle shall be left to their comprehension. Let us all hope that ACAUT’s battle for justice bring forth the desired results to the benefit of all the Nagas and also reinvigorate the Naga struggle in a positive manner. Isak Sumi

in 1972-73 to cover all rural habitations with the facility of drinking water. It had also been running projects like Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM); yet water supply remains a distant dream for many rural citizens. There is something wrong in the system of governance if the state fails to provide safe drinking water to the citizens when 71 percent of our universe is occupied by water. The principles of the Human Right to water is to be met; it means that in situation of water scarcity, the state must meet peoples’ needs, whether for drinking, cooking, washing and hygiene as a first priority. India water statistics (2014-2015) shows the

physical coverage in Nagaland state that there are 1530 habitations in eleven districts. Of these, 503 habitations have covered by water supply as on 01/04/2014 and 7 habitations from 01/04/2014 up to date, altogether 510 habitations have so far been covered. (Source: www.indiawater.gov.in). One thousand and twenty habitations still have no access to safe drinking water. It has reported that 20 percent populations in urban and 60 percent of rural dwellers are defecating in open area. Many schools and homes are to be accessed to a toilet under Swachh Bharat Mission. I think access to pucca toilet only cannot be a mission-possible when

there is no water to use/ wash it. A cup of water can satisfy a thirst but a litre of water not enough to wash a toilet. If you feel thirsty, anywhere else miles over you may go on foot to collect but it’s seldom conscience in human, to go far for water for the use of latrines. Water problem is our major challenges on the perspective of sanitation campaign. Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month announced that rural villages have to get Rurban, a concept to provide urban amenities to the rural places. Under this project, all rural villages should at least get urban basic facilities with a strategic relevant paradigm to meet peoples’ rights. The state

must recognise the problems—common diseases and sickness caused by unsafe drinking water and deliver a long term sustainable water supply and sanitation facilities. To meet the standard of right, government must use the maximum available resources in a nondiscriminatory manner to realize the right. Unless the rural populace get access to safe source of water, our older parents, grandparents will continue suffer physically when they try to meet the Social and Human Right to Water. We should not let an elderly live unprotected, ignored and marginalized lest the very essence and value of the welfare state will be having lost.

Kyong/Lotha - A Change Not Too Late?

his is not to join the debate on the nomenclature of Kyong/Lotha but to bare out facts from recorded official sources. Firstly, Sir Robert Reid, Governor of Assam from 1937-1942 from his Notes on the History of the Frontier areas bordering on Assam under the heading “Nomenclature in the Naga Hills” said about the Kyong:“Nomenclature in the Naga history presents great difficulties just as it does in that of the Lushai Hills. Both place-names and names of tribes are exceedingly confusing throughout the older writings. To start with, of course, the general name of “Naga” is merely an Assamese appellation, meaning “naked”, and, like the stereotyped tribal names now in common use, is what the people call themselves. This was fully recognised by the early British administrators. Thus Lieutenant G. F.

F. Vincent, “Acting Junior Assistant Commissioner on Special Duty, Angamee Naga Hills”, writing to his Principal Assistant Commissioner at Nowgong, Captain John Butler, on the 10th September 1850, describes how he was surprised to find “the people called by us ‘Angamee Nagas’ were totally ignorant of the signification of the term and how he learnt that this was a term given by the Cacharees to all independent Nagas signifying in their language, “unconquered”. This is repeated in 1873 by that great authority Captain Butler, in the long extract regarding the Naga tribes quoted at page 84 of Mackenzie. Similarly the phrase “Hatiguria” was for long used as a synonym for “Ao” though it was certainly known as early as 1886 that the latter was more correct. Very frequently a tribe applies to itself merely the word meaning “man” in its own language—with the im-

plication that members of that tribe are the only real men in the world. Thus the Lhotas call themselves “Kyou”, the name “Lhota” being apparently that applied to them by the Assamese.” Secondly, a German publication titled “Naga Identities” under the heading “Colonisation: The Tribes are Created”, said thus:“The British officers, who in many cases were responsible for the nomenclature of the Northeast Indian tribes, showed a boisterous lack of concern when naming the societies they encountered on their way to the East in the aftermath of the First Anglo-Burmese war in the 1820’s. The whole of the mountainous country, until within a few miles of the descent into the plains of Assam, is inhabited by the people called by us Cossyas, but who denominate themselves Khyee (Mackenzie 1979:220), Or, the Lhotas who call themselves

Kyong are located to the Northeast of the Angami and Rengma country –( Hutton 1921 a: 362)”. It further said that, “Numerous ethnic groups in Northeast India only succeeded in bringing about the official reinstatement of their original names after the colonial era: the erstwhile Lalung are now known once again as Tiwa, the Mikir as Karbi, the Lakher as Mara, while the Khasi- the aforementioned Cossyas – distinguished according to territory between War, Lynggam, Kharew, Pnar and the actual Khasi – the inhabitants of the central Khasi Hills”. If so, is it not too late for the Lothas to bring in a change (official reinstatement) of the original name Kyong at this stage? As somebody has said already: what’s in a name........... Even Adam means “Man” in Hebrew. R. O. Ovung Dimapur: Nagaland

NTC rejoinder to “Nagas: Are we anti or pro-development”

he NTC is astonished to read the opinion posted in the local dailies on October 5 & 6, 2014 in the person of Moa Longkumer, a concerened youth on the caption “Nagas: Are we anti or pro-development” Our simple answer to your naïve question is “The Nagas including the retired and frustrated leaders and politicians and a youthful Moa Longkumer are all for development.” In regards to your allegation that NTC “been funded by some vested interested groups to meet their whims and fancies” and your serious concerns raise on the individuals and “unscrupulous people writing in print media criticizing every step of the government and other civil societies without realizing that we are the pillars of the government” If you are indeed a pillar of the Government, then

you are equally responsible for all the mess you have collectively created against the will and wishes of the Nagas of Nagaland. The NTC would be obliged to have open and fair discussion with you along with the identity of those vested interested groups or individuals to clear the cloud spread by you, please don’t shy away. The NTC parse is not necessarily trying to position ourselves for the sake of being an entity or recognition from anyone but represents the will and wishes of the Nagas of Nagaland and to protect our inherent rights and privileges. We are equally concern about our slow pace of developmental activities in the State of Nagaland which is contaminated by manipulations, mismanagements and corruptions at all levels paralyzing the whole developmental activities and most of the projects

are either incomplete or hold for an indefinite period of time waiting for conscious citizens to break their silence. However, the developmental activities are in continuous trend, and how suddenly the government discovers that developmental activities cannot proceed without relaxing the protective laws of the land. Mr. Moa may kindly educate the citizens of Nagaland on the importance of crucial protective laws of the land and how important it is to relax those fundamental laws to give permanent settlement to outsiders who will become legitimate citizens of the state with equal political rights and privileges at par with the sons of the soil in the state of Nagaland. While sharing your concern on the need to develop the state, the NTC may like to know what necessitate the state to relax or dilute

our basic and protective laws. Why do we have to voluntarily infringe Article 371(A)? Why relax BEFR (ILP), 1873 Act? Why violate Nagaland Land and Revenue Regulation Act, 1978 which protect the citizens from outsiders’ intrusions. Why the custodian of our laws turn hostile and take position against the interest of the citizens? What is development, if indigenous people are reduced to landless in our own soil? Indigenous people without land have nothing left. Please answer these few questions before attacking the voice of the people. The NTC would be more satisfied to have debate in person with a learned and large hearted mercenary in the person of Moa Longkumer for clarity on the issues which is in public domain.

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Common Ground

ialogue, as a praxis of creating meaning, is culturally rooted in the Naga world-view and practices. Besides placing people at the center of the process, using dialogue as an interactive approach allow for meaning to emerge. It is essential to consensus building, which by implication means an evolving process towards identifying, creating and sustaining the Common Ground. In the present context, the Naga need for sincere and fundamental dialogue is imperative. It is necessary in order to mutually define, address and respond to the underlying issues and challenges confronting the Nagas today. This process will creatively open spaces where the powers that be that define conflict, peace, development and power relations are themselves critically analyzed with the intent to result in conscious positive change where everyone benefits. The recent Diphupar Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) initiative to organize a platform and facilitate a dialogue on the theme ‘Common Ground’ at the Agri Expo, Dimapur, of September 27, 2014, needs to be supported and strengthened. The process of seeking Common Ground needs to be viewed as a relational process of dialogue rather than as an end or a single event. This means enlarging its tent by inviting all interest groups and broadening the scope of interaction focused on finding Common Ground. Through this process, the DNSU has provided an opportunity for Nagas to broaden their perspectives, and not wither away in isolation. Hence, the search for Common Ground as an initiative launched by young Nagas need to involve good faith dialogue toward forming right relationships based on building mutual understanding, respect and trust in what might otherwise be a contentious and even volatile situation. Good faith dialogue makes it possible to identify shared interests and objectives in a sincere, respectful and dignified manner. This, therefore, implies deliberately creating the space for all interest groups to dialogue on their ethos, values, belief systems and aspirations. Opportunities such as this will increase the possibilities to increase interdependency and cooperation among Naga people. The search for Common Ground is imperative in the Naga context and is essential to understanding our situation in a manner that will lead to reflection and action. It calls upon all Nagas to be discerning, to transcend our narrow divisive domestic walls, and to nurture our common belonging through dialogue, understanding and acceptance. The Common Ground being made by young Nagas is an intervention which compels us to start talking to one another so that through dialogue we recognize that our commonalities are far more enriching than our differences!

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'This Changes Everything' tackles global warming "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" (Simon & Schuster), by Naomi Klein

utting the vast amounts of man-made pollution that feed global warming is an enormous challenge for societies that gobble up coal, oil and gas. But in "This Changes Everything," Naomi Klein argues that those fuels aren't the root problem — capitalism is. That message is likely to motivate fans of Klein's earlier books, such as "No Logo" and "The Shock Doctrine," but it also leads to a tough question. Is blaming capitalism for climate change just rhetorical hot air — or a brutal and uncomfortable truth? Whatever side you take, Klein deserves credit for not sugarcoating the problem. She writes that limiting global warming won't be quick, easy or without disruptions, yet holds out hope that the end result will be better for people, the environment and even the economy. But make no mistake: "This Changes Everything" argues that we don't just have to cut carbon pollution. We have to change society, and our own lifestyles. Klein writes: "Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war." And while Klein is predictably hard on big business and conservatives who deny climate change, she doesn't spare environmental groups or liberals. Klein pointedly shows how easy it is to ignore global warming, noting that until recently she "continued to behave as if there was nothing wrong" with the "elite" frequent flier card in her wallet. Klein is dismissive of environmentalists who say better technology can limit climate change, yet she doesn't resolve some of the contradictions in that position. China, Germany and other countries have used capitalism and mass production to turn out vast quantities of better and cheaper solar panels and wind turbines. In the U.S., Texas has become the national leader in wind energy by treating it as another business for people to make money on. Yet worldwide carbon emissions are rising, not falling. And like everyone else, Klein struggles with perhaps the toughest global warming challenge: how to cope with the explosive growth of newly capitalist economies. China is now the world's largest emitter of carbon pollution, but only 30 years ago Beijing was filled with bicycle-riding workers dressed in Chairman Mao tunics. Today there are BMWs and clouds of pollution generated by vast numbers of people who are embracing capitalism, not revolting against it. And after the recent huge climate march in New York City, India's environment minister responded by saying that developed countries such as the U.S. need to cut emissions, not developing ones. He told The New York Times that "India's first task is eradication of poverty" and that "we will grow faster, and our emissions will rise." Klein is calling for a global social revolution to combat global warming, but many countries don't much like it when Westerners who have long benefited from cheap fossil fuels try to tell them what to do. Yet China and India's runaway growth also makes clear that Klein's core point has merit. She writes that "we know where the current system, left unchecked, is headed." The vast majority of climate scientists say global warming is here, caused by humans, and probably already dangerous, and that the world needs to start significantly reducing carbon pollution. If it doesn't, scientists predict that in a few decades, much higher temperatures and more acidic oceans will start to cause "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems." "This Changes Everything" isn't all doom and gloom. Klein notes that an aggressive new movement of climate activists has emerged in the last few years. As a mother, she writes passionately about the need to consider the impact on future generations, and she gives many examples of places where wind and solar energy is dropping in price and becoming a cleaner and more realistic alternative to fossil fuels. "This Changes Everything" may motivate more people to think and act on climate change, and that's good. Yet capitalism isn't the only problem. The old message from a 1970 cartoon on the first Earth Day still hangs in the air: "We have met the enemy, and he is us."

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Pablo Piacentini Inter Press Service

Half a Century of Struggle Against Underdevelopment

In this August 14, 2014 photo, a woman walks along a city canal as office and apartment construction site is seen in the background at a slum in Jakarta, Indonesia. Across the developing world, migration from country to city has long been a potential path out of poverty. Less and less is that true for many in Asia, where the wealth gap is growing in many of the most densely populated cities in human history. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

he idea of creating Inter Press Service (IPS) arose in the early 1960s in response to awareness that a vacuum existed in the world of journalism, which had two basic aspects. Firstly, there was a marked imbalance in international information sources. World news production was concentrated in the largest industrialised countries and dominated by a few powerful agencies and syndicates in the global North. By contrast, there was a lack of information about developing countries in the South and elsewhere; there was hardly any information about their political, economic and social realities, except when natural disasters occurred, and what little was reported was culturally prejudiced against these countries. In other words, not much of an image and a poor image at that. Secondly, there was an overall shortage of analysis and explanation of the processes behind news events and a lack of in-depth journalistic genres such as features, opinion articles and investigative journalism among the agencies. Agencies published mainly ‘spot’ news, that is, brief pieces with the bare news facts and little background. Clearly this type of journalism did not lend itself to covering development-related issues. When reporting an epidemic or a catastrophe in a Third World country, spot news items merely describe the facts and disseminate broadcast striking images. What they generally do not do is make an effort to answer questions such as why diseases that have disappeared or are well under control in the North should cause such terrible regional pandemics in less developed countries, or why a major earthquake in Los Angeles or Japan should cause much less damage and fewer deaths than a smaller earthquake in Haiti. Superficiality and bias still predominate in international journalism. While it is true that contextualised analytical information started to appear in the op-ed (“opposite the editorial page”) section of Anglo-Saxon newspapers, the analysis and commentary they offered concentrated on the countries of the North and their interests. Today the number of op-eds that appear is much

IVE years ago, the BBC and the British Museum collaborated on a hugely successful radio series and book called “A History of the World in 100 Objects.” Last week, the Smithsonian followed up with its “History of the World in 1,000 Objects.” It’s not that 900 more transformational artifacts suddenly materialized since 2009. Instead, think of the two histories as 3.2-pound bookends flanking a welter of similar collections that showcase the mesmerizing and metamorphic power of artifacts, from a 230,000-year-old female figurine to a jar of dust collected in Lower Manhattan after 9/11. Thanks in part to a recent proliferation of best-selling biographies of major political and military figures, history is hot. And objects seem to be emerging as history’s lingua franca. The “100 Objects” book has been reprinted in 10 languages. Downloads of its companion 15-minute podcasts have topped 35 million. This summer, when the Smithsonian polled the public on the “most iconic” object in its collection, more than 90,000 people weighed in. That success has not gone unnoticed. The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is currently displaying 99 “disobedient objects” representing movements for social change, including a “Silence = Death” poster created in response to the AIDS epidemic. The Israel Museum is curating 12 objects that define humankind for display next spring. “It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space,” T. S. Eliot wrote. Think of the marks that things — the wheel, the crucifix, the credit card or the computer chip —

greater than in the 1960s, but the predominant focus continues to be on the North. This type of top-down, North-centred journalism served the interests of industrialised countries, prolonging and extending their global domination and the subordination of non-industrialised countries that export commodities with little or no added value. This unequal structure of global information affected developing countries negatively. For example, because of the image created by scanty and distorted information, it was unlikely that the owners of expanding businesses in a Northern country would decide to set up a factory in a country of the South. After all, they knew little or nothing about these countries and, given the type of reporting about them that they were accustomed to, assumed that they were uncivilised and dangerous, with unreliable judicial systems, lack of infrastructure, and so on. Obviously, few took the risk, and investments were most frequently North-North, reinforcing development in developed countries and underdevelopment in underdeveloped countries. In the 1960s, those of us who created IPS set ourselves the goal of working to correct the biased, unequal and distorted image of the world projected by international agencies in those days. Political geography and economics were certainly quite different then. Countries like Brazil, which is now an emerging power, used to be offhandedly dismissed with the quip: “It’s the country of the future – and always will be.” At the time, decolonisation was under way in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Latin America was politically independent but economically dependent. The Non-Aligned Movement was created in 1961. IPS never set out to present a “positive” image of the countries of the South by glossing over or turning a blind eye to the very real problems, such as corruption. Instead, we wished to present an objective view, integrating information about the South, its viewpoints and interests, into the global information media. This implied a different approach to looking at the world and doing journalism. It meant looking at

it from the viewpoint of the realities of the South and its social and economic problems. Let me give an example which has a direct link to development. The media tend to dwell on what they present as the negative consequences of commodity price rises: they cause inflation, are costly for consumers and their families, and distort the world economy. Clearly, this is the viewpoint of the industrialised countries that import cheap raw materials and transform them into manufactured goods as the basis for expanding their businesses and competing in the global marketplace. It is true that steep and sudden price increases for some commodities can create problems in the international economy, as well as affect the population of some poor countries that have to import these raw materials. But generalised and constant complaints about commodities price increases fail to take into account the statistically proven secular trend towards a decline in commodity prices (with the exception of oil since 1973) compared with those of manufactured goods. IPS’s editorial policy is to provide news and analyses that show how, in the absence of fair prices and proper remuneration for their commodities, and unless more value is added to agricultural and mineral products, poor countries reliant on commodity exports cannot overcome underdevelopment and poverty. Many communications researchers have recognised IPS’s contribution to developing a more analytical and appropriate journalism for focusing on and understanding economic, social and political processes, as well as contributing to greater knowledge of the problems faced by countries of the South. Journalists addressing development issues need, in the first place, to undertake critical analysis of the content of news circulating in the information arena. Then they must analyse economic and social issues from the “other point of view”, that of marginalised and oppressed people, and of poor countries unable to lift themselves out of underdevelopment because of unfavourable terms of trade, agricultural protectionism, and so on. They must understand how and why some emerging countries are succeeding in overcoming underdevelopment, and what role can be played by international cooperation. They also need to examine whether the countries of the North and the international institutions they control are imposing conditions on bilateral or multilateral agreements that actually perpetuate unequal development. World economic geography and politics may have changed greatly since the 1960s, and new information technologies may have revolutionised the media of today, but these remain some important areas in which imbalanced and discriminatory news treatment is evident. In conclusion, a journalist specialised in development issues must be able to look at and analyse information and reality from the “other side.” In spite of globalisation and the revolution in communications, this “other side” continues to be unknown and disregarded, and occupies a marginal position in the international information universe. An appreciation of the true dimensions of the above issues, the contrast between them and the information and analysis we are fed daily by the predominant media virtually all over the world – not only in the North, but also many by media in the South – leads to the obvious conclusion that there is a crying need for unbiased global journalism to help correct North-South imbalance. To this arduous task and still far-off goal, IPS has devoted its wholehearted efforts over the past half century.

Object Lessons in History sam roberts NYT have made on civilization. “The idea is to show there’s a value in stuff that’s not just monetary,” said Richard Kurin, editor of the Smithsonian’s “History of America in 101 Objects,” published in 2013. “It has a certain kind of worth, and not just because somebody paid a zillion dollars for it.” Navigating history on a chronological timeline suggests an artificial orderliness, he added, like a film unspooled frame by frame: “Looking at objects makes you think stuff wasn’t necessarily obvious and overdetermined — someone had to put it together. It gets at a fundamental aspect: Why did that thing come into being?” To define America, the Smithsonian chose, among other objects, Louis Armstrong’s trumpet, Thomas Edison’s electric bulb and the birth control pill — objects that Dr. Kurin, the museum’s under secretary for art, history and culture, said “provide us with the means to reconsider our past in light of what we value today.” Unlike museum pieces of critical beauty or quantifiable value, “objects” — as distinct from objets d’art — can be anything that can be touched or felt. Fashioning a meaningful narrative from them means more than randomly rummaging through memorabilia and heirlooms from a metaphorical attic. They must also encompass the

broad spectrum of human experience. As Dr. Jeremy D. Hill, the British Museum’s research manager, said, “There’s a limit to the number of stone axes or Buddhas one can include.” Fortunately, as Wislawa Szymborska, the Polish poet, once observed, “You can find the entire cosmos in the least remarkable objects.” Indeed, entire books have been devoted to the dominion of the pencil (Henry Petroski inflated it to “a study of engineering” and revealed why it was typically yellow), the zipper (named by B. F. Goodrich in the 1920s for the rubber boots that bore the new fastener), the toilet and the potato. That reach demonstrates, as Bill Brown, professor of American culture at the University of Chicago, has written, that “history can unabashedly begin with things.” Material culture has become a science among academics, but let’s acknowledge that it’s also a clever way to hook people on history. It allows people to touch the past, but Hannah Rosefield, a cultural critic, identifies a chicken-and-egg question: “There’s a difference between the history of a thing and using a thing to tell the history of something else.” And while our infatuation with lists doesn’t necessarily trivialize history, the objects we validate are limited to those that somehow survived. Consider this

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caveat from Russell Baker, the former New York Times columnist: “Objects,” he once mused, “can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.” Also, appealing to the public for suggestions skews such lists to objects people remember most or have developed nostalgia for. When Americans voted for the object that best defined the Smithsonian, the winner was only a year old: a baby giant panda born in 2013 at the National Zoo (the runnersup included the Star-Spangled Banner that flew over Fort McHenry, Woody Guthrie’s 78 r.p.m. recording of “This Land Is Your Land” and a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington). Still, as James Deetz, a father of historical archaeology, wrote, “the vast universe of objects used by mankind to cope with the physical world, to facilitate social intercourse and to benefit our state of mind” is “useful in emphasizing how profoundly our world is the product of our thoughts.” As the latest books and exhibits attest, those thoughts have manifested themselves in objects ranging from the bloody tunic Archduke Franz Ferdinand was wearing when he was assassinated in 1914 to a humble mechanical cotton picker. “If we can get people interested in history by using intriguing and entrancing objects as the bait, that’s good,” Dr. Kurin said. “And we’ve always been fascinated by lists — the whole spate of reality shows in the last decade, of people selecting, picking winners. In some ways these books have also had the sense of participation. It’s not only Simon Cowell from ‘American Idol.’ We’re all Simons in a way.”

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he university students who organized a seminar in Thailand on the demise of dictatorships knew that one particularly sensitive topic had to stay offlimits: their own country. Since overthrowing an elected government in May, this nation's military rulers have jailed opponents who dared speak out and silenced the rest with the threat of prosecution. They have censored the media, dispersed protesters and forbidden open debate over the nation's fate. So when roughly 150 people attended the latest in a series of talks Thammasat University called "Democracy Classroom," one weary student reminded all those present they should only discuss failed regimes — "please repeat after me, OVERSEAS." A few minutes after the event began, however, it was cut short by police — triggering a rare public uproar from university professors nationwide over the expanding reach of junta censorship. The incident, the first of its kind on a college campus here since the coup, also underscored the fact that the deep societal tensions that have fueled a decade of political upheaval here are not being healed, but suppressed. "The military says they want unity and reconciliation," said economics student Ratthapol Supasopon, who helped organize the Sept. 18 event at Thammasat's Rangsit campus, just outside Bangkok. "But how can that happen if we can't even talk to each other?" Thailand has been beset by major bouts of upheaval since billionaire Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was deposed by the army in 2006. His ouster was part of power struggle that in broad terms pits the rural north against a traditional, military-backed elite based in Bangkok and the south. That struggle helped fuel six months of anti-government street protests and sporadic violence that had paralyzed the administration of Thaksin's sister Yingluck Shinawatra, culminating in the May 22 coup. Calm has been restored since then, and life in Thailand — on the surface at least — is once again utterly normal. Pristine beaches are filled with tourists. Glass shopping malls are filled with shoppers. Small-scale protests have fizzled. Yingluck, who was removed from office in a controversial court ruling just before the coup, has said almost nothing publicly; she was photographed smiling while grocery shopping during one outing. But few believe the nation's troubles have ended. Our "society remains polarized, it's just that these views are being suppressed," said Prajak Kongkirati, a political science lecturer from Thammasat who was supposed to moderate the canceled talk last month. "What we are doing right now is wrong and backward," he said. "When we shut down peaceful channels of communication like those in the media and academia, it will all end with street politics again someday." After the Thammasat seminar was called off, 60 professors from 16 Thai universities declared in an open letter that if the fundamental right to exchange views cannot be respected, there is no hope that Thailand under the current leadership will ever "become a country that respects people's rights." The coup leader, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has been unapologetic. He views criticism of the junta as divisive and unhelpful. He said any group that wants to hold such seminars must get approval first, so the content can be screened — because "if it's about democracy or elections,

ur higher education system can go much higher than the present state of affairs- we only need thinkers who can think big and implementers who can act dedicatedly and selflessly. This is pertaining to the fact that every year thousands of young people flock to other cities and towns foraging for better education. Our State will gain immensely if we could restrain and bring down the number of this steady but incessant outflux of our students to other places. To do so, we need an alternative model that is as good as or better than what the other institutions offer. Presently, our higher education system does not have much grandeur to entice the youngsters from becoming an ‘academic diaspora’. Over the years we persistently hear about how monotonous our system of education is, devoid of any dynamism, but training minds of the students to focus upon “depending on the government and to sit for competitive exams”. Perhaps, we have handful of enterprising young people cropping up, yet, they are overwhelmed from all sides: parents, teachers, and even the students. Is there any way we can change this endemic conception? Consistently, our ‘leaders’ have proven that they cannot formulate agendas, policies, manifestos, or usher in healthy debates- political, social, religious, moral, or scientific, because of which our State and our society is behind time. There is a thirst for intellectuals in our society- from the level of policy formulators to decision makers to implementers. We do not need an epiphany to rationally realize that after more than 50 years of statehood our basic development indices still points south. An overhaul of the state education system is long overdue. In order to do so it is essential to work on the modalities of other institutions and incorporate them in our system. On the other hand, we can also devise our own modal and create a system which could meet the needs and desires of the present generation. Or else, our future will be shrouded to oblivion because of the activities of nonchalant sinecures ever yearning for sub-standard output while white-washing their dysfunctional conduct with sycophancy. In order to draw pupil, to attract and retain the interest of the students administrative system, course syllabus, campus, subjects offered and other technical supports should be intact and alluring. Here, we need to update the syllabus and upgrade the available technological assets of learning and make it easily accessible to the students. The main objective is not only to offer good education, but enable holistic

In this September 18, 2014 photo, three students, Sirawit Serithiwat, left, Ratthapol Supasopon, second left, and Worawut Butrmatr, fourth from the left, negotiate with deputy provincial police chief Col. Surasak Khunnarong, right, to let an academic seminar go on at Rangsit campus of Thammasat University in Pathum Thani, Thailand. Two days earlier, an army regiment asked the university for its cooperation to cancel the event to prevent divisiveness in the country. Since overthrowing an elected government in May, this nation’s military rulers have jailed opponents who dared speak out and silenced the rest with the threat of prosecution. They have censored the media, dispersed protesters and forbidden open debate over the nation’s fate. (AP Photo/Thanyarat Doksone)

or how the government is today, this they can't discuss." Ratthapol, the student, insists there was no plan to debate Thailand's own government and moderators would have cut off anyone who tried. But the junta clearly thought it would be tough to avoid discussing the elephant in the room — themselves. "They wouldn't say it outright, but they thought we were going to talk about them," Ratthapol said of the soldiers who interrogated him for several hours at a nearby police station along with two other students and four professors, including one of Thailand's most respected historians, Nidhi Eoseewong. The Hong Kong-based Asian Human Rights Commission condemned the incident and said it was "part of a broader pattern of intervention by the junta in public events organized by students, academics and human rights activists." A few days after the seminar was shut down, another one, titled "Happiness and Reconciliation under 2014 Provisional Charter," was canceled on similar grounds at a university in the northern city of Chiang Mai. Also last month, the junta pressured an organization called Thai Lawyers for Human Rights to call off a presentation summarizing rights abuses in the country since the coup. Authorities at Thammasat University, considered as a bastion of liberalism and progressive thought, have even censored themselves — banning the annual commemoration of the massacre of dozens of students during an Oct. 6,

1976, protest against the return of the nation's former military ruler, because it was deemed to be a political activity. Prayuth has said academic leaders asked the junta how they are supposed to work with such prohibitions. He said there was plenty else to teach — like "the correct idea of democracy" or morality and the "12 core values of the Thai people" — a list he introduced as part of a junta campaign to "return happiness to the people." Despite overthrowing an elected, democratic government, Thailand's junta promises to eventually restore "true democracy" — an official message repeated on billboards across the capital. So far, though, Prayuth has become prime minister, a rubber-stamp legislature has been installed, and the armed forces have put in place a temporary constitution that gives them sweeping powers. Prayuth has said he hopes elections can be held in about a year. For now, the junta has asked the electoral commission and other agencies to give recommendations on how to eradicate populist policies from electoral politics. Analysts say that move is aimed at curbing the power of Thaksin, whose parties have dominated elections for more than a decade, even though he has lived abroad since 2008 to avoid a corruption sentence he says was politically motivated. "Thailand is clearly not on a path toward democracy when free speech is censored, criticism is prosecuted, and political activity is prohibited," said Brad Adams, Human Rights Watch's Asia director. "The path that such repressive action leads to is dictatorship."

Basic Higher education: A Thought Toshi Longkumer New Delhi development of the student. Another possibility of such a “changed environment” is that our State University will be considered a centre of academic excellence triggering inflow of students from our neighboring states and other parts of the country, and not just fulfilling the deal of retaining students from our State. We need at least a decent state university-level library, which holds physical as well as online books and other study materials. One of the most disheartening moments for a serious student is unavailability of reliable study materials on time. This significantly limits the scope of learning and restricts the growth of knowledge. Physical books library and online library should be maintained efficiently with adequate books, journals, newspapers, magazines, government documents and other sources, and all the materials should be constantly updated. This can also inadvertently embed the desire to read and study upon some students. It should be a matter of “crime against students” to restrict their access to a ‘decent library’- a place to sit, read, study, and is convenient to retrieve books, if one is running a college or an educational institution. One of the noblest professions in the world is that of a teacher. The impact of a teacher upon a student’s life lasts for lifetime. We all have, at one time or the other participated on teacher’s day cavalcades holding placards and shouting slogans “no teachers, no progress” “teachers are the builder of the country”. The great philosopher Aristotle said “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.” For nurturing the young to become good citizens, a society requires teachers who are passionate, responsible, dedicated, and are hard working. Ideas, intelligence, wisdom and other essentials of life, like fluid, can flow from those who teaches to those who learn. The relation of teacher-student should be like that of Godhuman; as human respect and honor God, not out of fear but out of sheer love and utmost reverence so should be the relation between teachers and students. There are many Nagas who are now well educated,

well qualified, and are endowed with the necessary skills needed to galvanize the students and impart good education. It is time to utilize these treasures- many are already teaching in other reputed universities and colleges because of the lack of prospects in our State, sadly. If this is not drain of intellectual property, what is? A glaring drawback of our education system is that we are involuntarily forced to be intellectual retards. From text to note to rote, we are being spoon-fed with bookish lessons and prepared notes that are dictated and written down. This is reproduced in verbatim during examination. In the process, it stops our mind from probing and analyzing the queries further for any deeper understanding and logical explanation. As a consequence, on many occasions our students fail to make impression while competing with students from other universities- a mad rush hunting for colleges and universities outside the State right after 10th and 12th results is a prove. Discussions, presentations, debates, and similar engaging activities should be made mandatory classroom conducts. It is better to score lesser albeit presenting properly analysed answers than reproducing the text in word-for-word for the answers and scoring 90. It is the teacher and the classroom environment that could train and raise rational thinking citizens. Updating the syllabus according to the need of time enlivens the existing situation. History cannot be wiped out because we need to base our studies and to locate the origin through the lens of history, nonetheless, the present and the future is vitally important. It should be taken into account that subject matters must incorporate the developments of recent history and make it relevant while studying about past. This will enhance knowledge building and create greater awareness. We live in a world where different subject matters have become insistently interdisciplinary- political science does not begin and end with the semantics of ‘politics’ and ‘science’- issues like cloning and artificial insemination are moral issues which both natural science and social science needs to delve deeper into and formulate a logical conclusion; an economic

failure can trigger social and political unrest; a religious fundamentalist can disrupt international peace, et al. A wider perspective is what is imperatively required while devising the course themes. For ages, our education system has remained stagnant in a sense that courses offered are constructed through an exclusive spectrum and the scope of inter-disciplinary learning is left out-of-bound. We require a mode of imparting wholesome education (atleast to some extent) if we are to teach and learn at all, so as to broaden the thinking and intellectual horizon. Keeping in mind that there are loads of other ways to improve our education environment that could end the ‘academic diaspora’ there is a need for rigorous reformation in the administration. The first and foremost step is to establish a stringent monitoring, assessment and accountability structure within the administration. This is to check that allocated budgets, funds, and other materials for education and academic purposes are not misappropriated; implementation of programmes and policies are kept within the purview of the administration which will immediately work out on redressal; lapses in areas of progress can be fastidiously addressed and corrected; any other deficiency would be handled in the best and fastest possible way. Regardless of all these ‘to do and not to do’, there should be set of rules or standard level of administration for operating colleges that are affiliated to the university. An important requirement will be that every college should open and maintain a standard library. Another will be to have a strict student-teacher ratio without which (along with other requirements) the license to run a college should be revoked. Along decent library should be complemented with cheap and easy access to facilities such as photo-copy, printouts, internet etc. In the light of the above issues, what we desperately need is the role of educationists. With the drain of intellectual property, we have drain of wealth where thousands of students spent lakh(s) and crore(s) of rupees outside our motherland every year. It might only be a whimsical desire that our education system be revamped and made into an institution that captivates the interests of our youth and students from outside our state seeking for better education. Nevertheless, worth the dream. (Since I am from humanities background I might have written from my perspective, yet, technical and other institutions can follow suit too, in their respective areas)

he Chancellor of Germany (Angela Merkel), the President of Brazil (Dilma Rousseff), the Managing Director of the IMF (Christine Lagarde), Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (Janet Yellen) are women. General Motors, IBM are run by women. More than twenty countries currently have a women holding office as the head of a national government. In India four women are holding the post of the Chief Minister of states- Anandiben Patil (Gujarat), Jayalalitha (Tamil Nadu), Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal) and Vasundhara Raje (Rajasthan). Although progress has been made in terms of the number of women elected and appointed to office around the world, women are still largely absent from relevant decisionmaking bodies from the local to the global level. Women are still under-represented in government, business, civil society and key positions of influence. This occurs despite their proven abilities as leaders and agents of change and their right to participate equally in democratic governance. “If ever the world sees a time when women shall come together purely and simply for the benefit and good of mankind, it will be a power such as the world has never known”Matthew Arnold. Web thinking, mental flexibility, the ability to embrace ambiguity, intuition, imagination, a penchant for longterm planning, verbal acuity, executive social skills, the capacity to collaborate, and empathy are all essential leadership traits in the new global economy which women possess. Men and women are like two feet-they need each other to get ahead. Nevertheless, the world is changing in ways that can profit from women’s skills as well as those of men. Today, the business services and health care industries, the media, the law, not-for-profit organizations and service professions are all burgeoning. All can benefit from women’s natural talents. As the 2011 UN General Assembly resolution on women’s political participation notes, “Women in every part of the world continue to be largely marginalized from the political sphere, often as a result of discriminatory laws, practices, attitudes and gender stereotypes, low levels of education, lack of access to heath care and the disproportionate effect of poverty of women.”Comprising half of world’s population, democracy cannot truly deliver for all its citizens if women remain under-represented in the political arena. For democratic governments to deliver to their constituents, women must be equal partners in the process of democratic development. As activists, elected officials and constituents, their contributions are crucial to building a strong and vibrant society. Women politicians more often bring attention to such issues as gender-based violence, familyfriendly policies and responsiveness to citizen needs. Increasing women’s representation in government is necessary to achieve gender parity. Women, as the conventional primary caretakers of children, often have a more prominent role than men in advocating for children, resulting in a “double dividend” in terms of the benefits of women’s representation. Female representatives not only advance women’s rights, but also advance the rights of children. Empowering women changes lives and societies for the better. Women possess half of the population’s talents, half of its knowledge and half of its skills. The chance of finding the most competent person is twice as big when women are recruited as well. An evenly participation of women and men may lead to a diversity of ideas, values and patterns of behavior that can only result in an enrichment. “Every country deserves to have the best possible leader and that means that women have to be given a chance to compete. If they’re never allowed to compete in the electoral process then the countries are really robbing themselves of a great deal of talent”- Madeleine K. Albright, NDI Chairman. Women’s presence in political leadership plays a vital role in economic development. Giving more power to women is described as the “engine of development” because it not only combines women’s tremendous force with the force for progress, but sweeps away barriers and obstacles to such progress, namely the male-dominated culture. Women can be extremely resourceful, connect the dots of opportunities and become expert in developing the relationships they need to get the job done. Many smart leaders have understood that gender balance deliver better and more sustainable performance. In March 2010 at the UN Commission on the Status of Women Hillary Clinton said, “The status of the world’s women is not only a matter of morality and justice. It is also a political, economic and social imperative. Put simply, the world cannot make lasting progress if women and girls in the 21st century are denied their rights and left behind”. Empowering women and fully leveraging their skills and leadership in the global politics, economy, and in society are essential to maximizing a nation’s competitiveness, since diverse leadership is more likely to find innovative solutions to foster inclusive growth. Ms. Nzano Kikon. Asst. Prof. Dept. of History, St. Joseph’s College, Jakhama.

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‘Armed forces ready to respond to Pakistan’s provocations’ New DelhI, OctObeR 6 (AGeNcIeS): Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today deplored the ceasefire violations by Pakistan and said the Indian armed forces were “fully ready” and are responding to each of these provocations from across the border. He told Pakistan that it should realise that the kind of environment it was generating between the two countries was certainly not going to help in normalising relations. Reacting to the continuous ceasefire violations, the minister said Pakistan has been trying to create tension in both the International Border and Line of Control (LoC). “This is resulting in a series of ceasefire violations as a result of which innocent civilians have lost their lives. Pakistan must realise that the

kind of environment it is generating between the two countries is certainly not going to help in normalising relations. The onus of creating a positive environment is on Pakistan which is utterly failing to do so. “Let everybody be assured that our armed forces and para-military forces are fully ready and they are responding to each of these provacations from Pakistan,” Jaitley said. In one of the worst ceasefire violations by Pakistan, five villagers were killed and 29 people injured today in heavy mortar shelling and firing from across the international border and LoC in Jammu and Poonch sectors.

Kashmiris flee IndiaPakistan violence; Nine dead An Indian villager enters a door of his residence near mortar shell marks allegedly fired from the Pakistan’s side at Masha da kothe village, in Arnia Sector near the India-Pakistan international border, about 47 kilometers (30 miles) from Jammu, Monday, October 6. Tens of thousands of villagers were fleeing their homes in Kashmir on Monday, as Indian and Pakistani troops bombarded each another with gunfire and mortar shells over the border separating Pakistan from India’s portion of the disputed region. At least nine civilians were killed. (AP Photo)

SRINAGAR, OctObeR 6 (AP): Tens of thousands of villagers were fleeing their homes in Kashmir on Monday, as Indian and Pakistani troops bombarded each other with gunfire and mortar shells over the border separating Pakistan from India’s portion of the disputed region. At least nine civilians were killed. Indian officials said the flareup left five villagers dead, including one child, and 35 injured on the Indian side of the border. The Pakistani army reported four civilians killed on its side, including two children, and three injured. Monday’s violence — one of the worst violations of a 2003 ceasefire between India and Pakistan — followed several meetings between the commanders of the two countries’ border forces aimed at calming tensions. Two of the three wars between the enemy nations have been fought over competing claims to Kashmir, though the 2003 cease-fire has largely held despite small but regular skirmishes. Each side accused the other of firing first before dawn, and each said its troops had only retaliated. Both sides said the violence was happening at several points along the border, including the desig-

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JAmmu, OctObeR 6 (PtI): Condemning the shelling on civilians in Arnia belt of Jammu that left five dead, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that the targeting of civilian areas exposed the frustration of the Pakistani government after its failure to gain international attention on the Kashmir issue. “They (the Pakistani leadership) have nothing else to speak, but only Kashmir. Whenever they go abroad, they try to raise only Kashmir issue, but every time they miserably fail to get international attention. The cross-border shelling is an indication of their frustration,” he told reporters after meeting civilians injured in the shelling at the Government Medical College Hospital here. Omar strongly condemned the firing and said, “Either we are unable to understand Pakistan?s motive behind the increase in the incidents of ceasefire violations or the internal situation in Pakistan is so bad that by targeting Indian side they want to divert the attention of their own people from their internal turmoil.” The Chief Minister said that at a time when people of Jammu and Kashmir should be getting Eid greetings from the Pakistan side, the Pakistani army has gifted them with bombs. “There was no reason to violate the ceasefire. It was a deliberate attempt from the Pakistani side to target the civilian areas. The death and injury to so many innocent civilians is a part of their nefarious designs,” he said. nated frontier dividing Pakistan from the Indian-held Kashmir region of Jammu, as well as the U.N.-monitored line of control that slices through the mountainous region and divides it into an Indian-controlled portion and a Pakistan-administered territory. “First we heard gunshots,” said Akshit Kumar, a resident of Arnia,

a town in Indian-controlled Kashmir. “But as the shelling started, that’s when we decided to flee.” On the Indian side, officials were evacuating tens of thousands of people from Arnia and nearby villages to underground bunkers and government shelters. A man said he was sleeping on the lawn outside his home on the out-

skirts of Arnia when a mortar shell landed and exploded on a nearby house, killing his neighbor and wounding five other people. “There is panic,” said Jammu’s top administrator, Shantmanu, who goes by one name. “We’re trying to give them a sense of security and temporary shelters.” Many saw the chaos as part of

what’s become a predictable cycle of violence in a region riven by decades-old animosities. A similar outburst of cross-border violence in August led about 15,000 villagers to flee temporarily. Indian officials regularly accuse Pakistan of waging violence as a cover for separatist militants to infiltrate into the Indian side. Pakistan staunchly denies this, saying it offers only moral and diplomatic support to the militants and to Kashmiris who oppose Indian rule. “They want to push more militants. We are keeping the utmost vigil,” Indian army spokesman S.D. Goswami said. Meanwhile, the Indian army said troops killed three suspected militants in an early morning gunbattle, after spotting them moving through the forest in an uninhabited area called Tandhar, farther north along the Line of Control. While the Line of Control is guarded by both the Indian and Pakistani armies, each country uses a separate paramilitary border force to guard the lower-altitude frontier, defined by coils of razor wire that snake across foothills marked by ancient villages, tangled bushes and fields of rice and corn.

Kashmiri Muslims watch from a window as a sheep is sacrificed on the occasion of the religious festival of Eid alAdha in Srinagar, India, Monday, October 6. Eid al-Adha is a religious festival celebrated by Muslims worldwide to commemorate the willingness of Prophet Ibrahim to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God. (AP Photo)

Missing children of professor found murdered hyDeRAbAD, OctObeR 6 (IANS): The bodies of the two missing children of an ICFAI University professor, who committed suicide here last week, were found Monday, police said. A. Vittal Virinchi (9) and A. Nanda Vihari (5) were found murdered near the railway track at Beerappaguda in Medchal on the city outskirts. Police suspect that their father Raghvendra Guru Prasad (43) killed them before committing suicide over marital discord. The professor’s body was found on railway tracks in Secunderabad and it was identified on Sunday. Police launched search for two sons accompanying him after his wife Suhasini lodged a complaint at Malkajgiri police station. Guru Prasad and his wife were living separately and and a divorce case was pending in a city court. The court a few months ago had permitted the professor to take the children with him on weekends. He picked up the children from his wife’s house at Anandbagh in Malkajgiri on Saturday morning and the same evening, he committed suicide by jumping before a train. Police suspect that he took the children to a plot owned by him in Medchal and after murdering them, took his own life.

Indian jihadist group calls for attacks on non Muslims New DelhI, OctObeR 6 (ReuteRS): A group of Indian Islamic militants, operating out of Pakistan, has called for attacks on non Muslims in the region in retaliation for U.S.-led air strikes on fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. The head of the little-known Ansar alTawhid fi’Bilad al-Hind urged Muslims to kill foreigners and other infidels in mainly Hindu India where Muslims have largely stayed away from global jihad. “If you are in the fortunate position to kill an American or European, whether French or Australian or Canadian, or other unbelievers who have declared war on the Islamic State, then do so,” said Maulana Abdul Rehman al-Nadwi al-Hindi in a 30-minute video posted online last week. Indian security analysts said that Maulana Abdul Rehman is a pseudonym for fugitive jihadist Sultan Abdul Kadir Armar, a former resident of southern India who attended an Islamist seminary before going to Pakistan. “Kill the idol worshippers wherever you find them ... shoot them if you can, stab them, throw stones at their heads, poison them, run them over, burn their fields - and if you are unable ... spit in their faces,” al-Hindi said, referring to Hindus. The emergence of a Islamic State-aligned militant group in India comes weeks after al Qaeda announced the formation of an Indian branch, aiming to rouse the world’s third largest Muslim population into action. “There is no doubt that the radicalisation process has begun in different parts of the country. Islamic fundamentalists are seeking to indoctrinate Indian Muslims,” said Ajay Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi which monitors militant groups across South Asia.

Modi attacks ‘family rule’ in Haryana, seeks change

Accuses parties and leaders for “looting the state over the years”

hISAR, OctObeR 6 (IANS): In a frontal attack on parties and leaders in Haryana for “looting the state over the years”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Monday came down heavily on Haryana’s dynastic politics and corruption and urged people to vote the BJP to power in the Oct 15 assembly polls. Addressing election rallies in Hisar and Kurukshetra for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Modi launched a scathing attack on the past Congress and INLD governments in the state and said Haryana had not seen a government in which political families looked beyond themselves and their family members. “We want to make Haryana free from this ‘parivaar-vaad’ (dynas-

SeNA AttAcKS PM Over bAl tHAcKerAy reMArKS mumbAI, OctObeR 6 (IANS): A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he won’t criticise the Shiv Sena out of respect for its founder Bal Thackeray, the Sena Monday hit back, saying the “real tribute” to the late Thackeray would have been to continue with the BJP-Sena alliance. “We are happy to learn that he (Modi) has respect for Balasaheb in his heart... Then why did the Bharatiya Janata Party broke the 25-year-old alliance in Maharashtra?” the Sena asked in an editorial in its mouthpiece “Saamana”. It said the strong ties built on Hindutva started by Bal Thackeray tic politics). In the last 25 years, have you seen a government in Haryana which worked for the welfare of the people? “In Haryana, the government works only for the chief minister and his family. All political leaders have been running their shops in Haryana for themselves and their families,” Modi

were snapped only on the issue of seat sharing in the Maharashtra assembly elections. “Where was your respect for Balasaheb when the BJP broke the alliance? If the BJP had shown maturity by keeping the alliance intact, that would (have been) the genuine tribute for Balasaheb,” it said. The Sena also took potshots at BJP leaders for proclaiming their love for Chhatrapati Shivaji though they had never celebrated his anniversary once in their lifetime. “This is a sheer insult, and even Chhatrapati Shivaji’s soul must be getting distressed in Raigad Fort (the site of his Samadhi

said. “Only the voters of Haryana can save the state from being looted further. We have seen Haryana being looted. A new hope and trust has been built in these elections,” he said. He urged voters to bring the BJP to power with full majority so that the state could be rid of dynastic politics, nepotism

memorial),” the Sena said. The Sena also took umbrage at Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel’s invitation to businesses in Maharashtra to shift to Gujarat. “The CongressNCP looted Maharashtra... The BJP is casting a covetous eye on Maharashtra’s resources... Such a statement (by Patel) also tantamounts to looting. “The people of the state are well aware of the hidden looters who speak one thing and do another,” the editorial said. Suggesting a conspiracy to divide Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena asked why no BJP leaders had spoken on the subject. “The BJP is trying to break it (the

and corruption. Modi said corruption and land scams had become rampant in Haryana. “All ministers in Haryana are playing the game of ‘kaun banega arabpati’ (Who wants to be a billionaire) on the lines of Amitabh Bachchan’s popular TV show ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’. “There is large

scale corruption. In all governments in the past, contractors have had a free run,” Modi said.In Kurukshetra, Modi said he was surprised that politicians in Haryana, the land of Lord Krishna, dared to tell lies over the years. “They cannot look beyond their self-interest,” he said. Modi said the BJP was

state) by creating Vidarbha... Why has not Modi even once in Mumbai or Maharashtra said the state will not be split?” It warned - what the Congress did not dare to do and earlier Morarji Desai could not achieve -- that the BJP, “which backstabbed us by breaking the alliance”, is hell bent on breaking Maharashtra. The party also reiterated its objections to Modi’s proposed 20 public rallies in the state for the Oct 15 polls. “The Congress-NCP has destroyed Maharasthra... He need not waste his time as prime minister to come and inform us all this in the blazing heat.” the only party where a tea vendor like him could become the prime minister. Claiming that there was a wave in favour of the BJP in Haryana, he said: “I have not come here for a political rally. I have come here to congratulate you in advance for supporting the BJP.” Ridiculing the Congress, the prime minis-

ter said: “The Congress should be ashamed. It has not given an account of its 60 years of sins while in the government. But they are questioning my government after just 60 days.” He also warned voters in Haryana from being misled by leaders of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD). “I do not need

support of people sitting in Tihar (jail). (INLD) leaders are trying to mislead voters by showing my past photographs with them,” Modi said. Slamming INLD president Om Prakash Chautala for saying that he will take oath as chief minister from Tihar jail, Modi said: “I am shocked (that he is saying that).

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family planning: decades Tiananmen legacy looms over Hong Kong protests ofChina putting all eggs in one basket HONG KONG, OctOber 6 (AP): The legacy of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square looms larger in Hong Kong than in mainland China, where the Communist Party has virtually erased all public mention of it. In this former British colony, hundreds of thousands attend candlelight vigils each anniversary to commemorate the grim end to the Beijing movement that was vanquished before many of the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong's streets were even born. Hong Kong's student-led protesters insist they are not challenging communist rule, just details of Beijing's plans for political reforms in the city. But many of their elders fear the protesters risk going too far if they stay in the streets in defiance of demands to leave in the biggest challenge to China since it took control of Hong Kong in 1997. One urging the Hong Kong protesters to bide their time is reform-minded Bao Tong, former aide to then-Communist Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang, who spent the last 16 years of his life under house arrest after sympathizing with the students who occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square to seek democracy on the mainland. "The seeds have already been sown, and they need time to lie fallow," Bao wrote in a commentary Sunday for Radio Free Asia. "Take a break, for the sake of future room to grow. For tomorrow," wrote Bao, who has been under house arrest himself after spending seven years in prison. The memories of the June 4, 1989, military assault that ended the sit-ins in Tiananmen, killing hundreds,

are vivid among Hong Kong people old enough to have lived through the exhilaration of the protests and the gloom that followed the crackdown. Many of Hong Kong's 7.2 million people moved to the city to escape poverty, political pogroms and repression of dissent in the mainland, and they value the city's democratic, Western-style civil liberties. Benny Li, 46, was a university student in Shanghai at the time of the Tiananmen protests and has been living in Hong Kong for several years. "I participated in the 1989 protests because I wanted the same things that Hong Kong people want now. All my friends in my generation, and those younger than us probably, morally support Hong Kong protesters. We agree with and understand what they are doing," Li said. The protesters who have camped in some of the city's busiest commercial districts for over a week, and the tens of thousands of their supporters who have poured into Hong Kong's streets, are exercising civil liberties nonexistent in the Chinese mainland, where the government bans public dissent, censors the media and harshly punishes those deemed to be challenging the Communist Party's monopoly on power. Hong Kong's protesters are peacefully condemning China's decision to require that a committee of mostly pro-Beijing figures screen the candidates for the city's top leader in the first-ever direct election in 2017. The protesters also have demanded Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chunying resign. He has refused. The protests in Hong Kong, like those in Ti-

Barricades set up by pro-democracy student protesters block the main road in the Mong Kok area in Hong Kong, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Student-led protests for democratic reforms in Hong Kong shrank Monday but a few hundred demonstrators remained camped out in the streets, vowing to keep up the pressure until the government responds to their demands. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

ananmen, are a legacy of student and intellectual dissent stretching to the anti-colonial May Fourth movement of 1919. Jeffrey Huang, 22, was sitting with other protesters in Hong Kong's Admiralty area, where traffic was blockaded for an encampment festooned with canopies, banners and posters. He said he learned about Tiananmen during secondary school when teachers talked about it at an assembly marking the June 4 anniversary. "For us, we believe that democracy will help us improve our lives in general and we think that not having democracy is the cause of many problems in Hong Kong, for example the high property prices," said Huang, who recently graduated from law studies. "The government pays much attention to the property developers because they maybe have the power to

elect the chief executive," he said, "and people think if there is more democracy the chief executive and the government will be more accountable to the citizens ... instead of to the privileged class only." So far, China's central government has lashed out at the protests, branding them illegal and saying Leung has its full support in restoring order. But it has left the handling of thecrisistoHongKong,which has its own legal system and police â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a force of 28,500 officers and 4,000 auxiliary police who at times have appeared hard stretched to keep order with tens of thousands of people in the streets. Given that the heavily guarded main garrison of the People's Liberation Army is just next door to the central government headquarters and Leung's office, the possibility of an intervention by the mainland authorities, however uncertain, weighs

on many minds. Those fears were reinforced when police deployed tear gas and pepper spray on Sept. 28 in an attempt to disperse the protesters â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a strategy that backfired and drew still more people into the streets in sympathy for the non-violent, young activists, leading the authorities to adopt a less confrontational approach. Repeated warnings and appeals to everyone to go home and stop blocking the roads, issued by Leung and other top officials in recent days have emphasized the government's desire to see the protests end peacefully, while also acknowledging the rights of protesters, and those opposed to the disruptions caused by their lengthy blockades, to peacefully express their views. The most potent legacy of Tiananmen in Hong Kong, some say, is the pas-

sion driving so many of its residents to spend days and nights in the street, risking entanglements with the police and protest opponents, for the sake of attaining the "universal suffrage" they were promised when Beijing claimed control 17 years ago. "I'm worried about police clearing the site but I'm not scared. Because I won't yield to police violence. After they clear the site, I will come back," said Larry Lai, a 20-year-old college student. The point, they say, is to ensure their voices are heard. Jackie Ng, 43, was a firstyear university student in the Chinese mainland at the time of the Tiananmen protests. She brought her husband and young son to the protests in Admiralty. "I was so moved to see this happening in Hong Kong. It reminds me a lot of what happened in 1989," she said.

beIJING, OctOber 6 (reuterS): China's Communist Party leaders have praised their onechild policy for preventing the population from spiralling out of control, but critics say it has spawned decades of forced abortions, infanticide and child trafficking. China, the world's most populous country with nearly 1.4 billion people, says the policy has averted 400 million births since 1980, saving scarce food resources and helping to pull families out of poverty. Critics say it has created a generation of spoilt brats and re-enforced a cultural preference for male heirs who can better take care of their parents in old age - if couples are allowed only one child, many want to make sure it is a boy. "The parents put all their eggs in one basket," said Huang Zheng, born in 1980. "This generation carries the burden of too much pressure. But it has already become the norm, because everyone is in the same situation." Couples violating the policy have had to pay a fine, or in some cases have been forced to undergo abortions. China fined acclaimed film director Zhang Yimou 7.5 million yuan ($1.24 million) in January for having three children. But late last year, China changed tack and said it would allow millions of families to have two children, part of a plan to raise fertility rates and ease the financial burden on a rapidly aging population. Under the old rules, urban couples were permitted a second child if both parents did not have siblings and rural couples were al-

lowed to have two children if their first-born was a girl. But now urban couples can have a second child if just one of them is an only child. There are other exceptions, including looser rules for ethnic minorities. DOUBLE STRESS Growing up as an only child brings added pressure to meet parental expectations, many say, not to mention pressure from grandparents who may have just one grandchild to dote on. Zhang Bowen, born in 1985, said modern life in China presented double stress - as an only child, he alone is responsible for the welfare of his wife and child and his parents. "I would like to have had a sister or a brother," he said. "Because I would have felt less lonely when I was growing up ... As your parents get older, it would be good to have brothers and sisters to share the responsibilities." While taking pictures of children and their parents, some were very shy, as though not used to company, while others jumped into poses straight away, as if they were used to hamming it up for the camera. One child born in 2008, without any encouragement, immediately started doing kung fu moves. "I don't want to have older brothers or sisters or younger ones either, because I don't want them to mess up all the things in the house," he said. One girl, born in 2009, has all her toys stacked up in the living room, dominating the family space. Asked if she wished she had a brother or sister, she said: "I don't. Because my mother would dote on him or her."

World's richest nations fail to meet aid pledges - report

A Syrian refugee woman laughs and holds collected syrah grapes as she harvests at a vineyard of the Chateau Kefraya winery in Bekaa valley, east Lebanon. In Syria and Lebanon, boutique wineries mainly run by Christians have endured despite decades of unrest and the fact that Islam, the majority faith in the region, forbids both the production and consumption of alcohol. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

World falling behind 2020 plan for nature protection OSLO, OctOber 6 (reuterS): Governments are failing to meet goals to protect animals and plants set out in a biodiversity plan for 2020 that also aims to increase food supplies and slow climate change, a U.N. report showed on Monday. Many rare species face a mounting risk of extinction, forests are being cleared by farmers at an alarming rate, and pollution and over-fishing are continuing despite the U.N. push agreed in 2010 to reverse harmful trends for nature. "There has been an increase in effort (by governments) ... but this will not be enough to reach the targets," Braulio de Souza Dias, executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), told Reuters, citing a progress report. Overall, the Global Biodiversity Outlook issued at the start of a biodiversity meeting in South Korea on Monday showed that only five of 53 goals set for preserving nature were on target or ahead of schedule. The other 48 were lagging. Governments were on track, for instance, towards a goal of setting set aside 17 percent of the world's land

area by 2020 in protected areas for wildlife, such as parks or reserves. But they were lagging targets such as halving the rate of loss of natural habitats, or preventing extinctions of known threatened species. "Despite individual success stories, the average risk of extinction for birds, mammals and amphibians is still increasing," the report said, adding that biodiversity meant more than high profile campaigns to save orang-utans, polar bears or rare frogs. Urging governments to redouble efforts, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that success in preserving life on the planet would help goals of "eliminating poverty, improving human health and providing energy, food and clean water for all". Other U.N. reports have estimated, for instance, that free insect pollination -- largely by bees -- is worth about $190 billion a year worldwide by securing food production. Monday's report estimated that the world would need to spend between $150 billion and $440 billion a year to achieve the 2020 goals to ensure the biodiversity of animal and plant life.

LONDON, OctOber 6 (tHOmSON reuterS FOuNDAtION): The majority of the world's rich donor nations failed to meet their development aid pledges in 2013 and only one third of the money went to the poorest countries, a report said on Monday. Aid by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) rose 5.3 percent year-onyear to a record $131.2 billion in 2013 after two consecutive years of decline, The One Campaign said in its annual aid data report. Only a third went to the least developed countries, most of which are in sub-Saharan Africa, despite high-level support for a new target of 50 percent of all aid to be directed towards the poorest nations, said ONE, co-founded by Irish rocker Bono to end

extreme poverty. As world leaders prepare to agree a new set of development goals next year, ONE urged both rich and poor countries to address aid shortfalls to ensure the poorest people are at the heart of a renewed global drive against poverty from 2015. "If donors don't step forward and target at least half of their aid to those countries that need it most, the world's poorest people risk being left behind," Sara Harcourt, policy director at ONE and an author of the report, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Seventeen out of 28 DAC members increased their overseas development assistance (ODA) but despite these rises aid still only accounted for 0.29 percent of their national wealth, short of a United Nations target for aid

spending of 0.7 percent. Britain became the first country among the Group of 7 industrialised nations to meet the target last year, helped by a$3.95 billion boost to its aid budget. Japan, Germany and Norway also stepped up efforts but others such as long-standing aid champions France, Canada and Australia showed marked declines in aid budgets amid cuts in overall public spending, along with the Netherlands. The United States, the world's largest bilateral donor, compared poorly with other G7 states in terms of aid spending relative to national wealth, with a ratio of just 0.19 percent.

are also failing to prioritise their spending on programmes to boost the fight against extreme poverty, ONE said. Only six out of 43 sub-Saharan African countries met their own spending goals on health, and only eight met targets on agriculture, the report found. An additional $54.8 billion would have been mobilised for health between 2010 and 2012 if all sub-Saharan African countries had kept their promises, ONE said. "First and foremost, public spending by African governments should be targeted towards the fight against poverty," Sipho Moyo, the campaign's Africa executive director said. AFRICAN GOVERNThe report also highMENTS MUST PLAY lighted a need to change THEIR PART the rules on what counts African governments as aid, saying that since

2000 some $250 billion, or a sixth of all ODA reported by governments, did not involve a real transfer of funds to developing countries. In 2012, for example, the cost of looking after refugees totalled $4.3 billion, or 3 percent of ODA. Administrative costs stood at $6.7 billion, or 5 percent of ODA. Aid levels have also been given an artificial boost by including inflated valuations of debt relief, ONE said. More stringent guidelines are also needed on which loans to developing countries count as aid, ONE said. It reckons that if these had been in place in 2012, $19 billion of loans would not have qualified as aid. It urged the DAC countries, due to hold a senior-level meeting in Paris this week, to ensure a new definition of aid means it reaches those who need it most.

Aid worker says in letter is afraid to die INDIANAPOLIS, OctOber 6 (AP): An Indiana aid worker threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group said in a June letter that he's afraid to die and is saddened by the pain his captivity must be causing his family, his parents said Sunday. In a statement released to media, Ed and Paula Kassig said their 26-year-old son, Abdul-Rahman Kassig, thanked them for their strength and commitment. And he appeared to try to prepare them for his death. "I am obviously pretty scared to die but the hardest part is not knowing, wondering, hoping, and wondering if I should even hope at all," Kassig said in the letter, according to his parents. "I am very sad that all this has happened and for what all of you back home are going through. If I do die, I figure that at least you and I can seek refuge and comfort in knowing that I went out as a result of trying to alleviate suffering and helping those in need." Kassig was taken captive by the Islamic State group Oct. 1, 2013, in Syria, where he was providing

aid for refugees fleeing that country's civil war. The group said in a video after the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning last week that Kassig would be next. The Kassigs pleaded for their son's freedom in a video statement released Saturday. According to a former Islamic State hostage, Kassig voluntarily converted to Islam sometime between his capture and December 2013, the Kassigs said. He was known as Peter Kassig before his conversion. The letter continues: "In terms of my faith, I pray every day and I am not angry about my situation in that sense. I am in a dogmatically complicated situation here, but I am at peace with my belief." The Kassigs say the complication appears to arise from his conversion but that they see this "as part our son's long spiritual journey." Parents plead for his release The parents of a U.S. man threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group are pleading with his captors to free him, saying in a video statement Saturday that their son has

This undated photo provided by Kassig Family shows Peter Kassig standing in front of a truck filled with supplies for Syrian refugees. A video purportedly produced by militants in Syria released on Friday, Octtober 3, 2014, shows Kassig, of Indianapolis, kneeling on the ground as a masked militant says he will be killed next. (AP Photo/Courtesy Kassig Family)

devoted his life to humanitarian work and aiding Syria's war refugees. Ed and Paula Kassig's video was released a day after the Islamic State group's online video threatened to behead 26-year-old Peter Kassig next â&#x20AC;&#x201D; following

the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning. That video was a heartbreaking development for Kassig's family and friends, who had stayed silent since his capture while working to secure his release. In the family's video,

Ed Kassig says his son, who now goes by the first name Abdul-Rahman after converting to Islam during his captivity, was captured on Oct. 1, 2013, in Syria, where he was providing aid for Syrians fleeing that country's civil war. He says his son has grown "to love and admire" the Syrian people, after growing up in an Indianapolis family with a long history of humanitarian work and teaching. "Our son was living his life according to that same humanitarian call when he was taken captive," says Ed Kassig, a teacher. The family says Kassig, a former U.S. Army Ranger, formed the aid organization Special Emergency Response and Assistance, or SERA, in Turkey to provide aid and assistance to Syrian refugees. He began delivering food and medical supplies to Syrian refugee camps in 2012 and is also a trained medical assistant who provided trauma care to injured Syrian civilians and helped train 150 civilians in providing medical aid. His work in Lebanon led to his capture when he crossed the border into Syr-

ia. After that, SERA suspended its aid efforts. Paula Kassig, a nurse, sits next to her husband on a couch in the couple's three-minute video, wearing a head scarf and holding a photo of her son as she speaks directly to him. "Most of all, know that we love you, and our hearts ache for you to be granted your freedom so we can hug you again and then set you free to continue the life you have chosen, the life of service to those in greatest need," she says. "We implore those who are holding you to show mercy and use their power to let you go." The family says Kassig served in the Army from 2006 to 2007. He was a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment and served four months in Iraq in 2007 before being medically discharged at the rank of private first class in September of that year, his military record shows. Kassig focused on humanitarian work after leaving the military. While attending Indianapolis' Butler University, he worked to help refugees from Myanmar who had resettled in central Indiana, said family spokeswoman Jodi Perras.

The Morung Express 10 SPORTS Ronaldo scores 3 as Juventus beats Roma in fiery clash Real rolls over Bilbao Dimapur

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Real's Cristiano Ronaldo, right, celebrates his third goal, during a Spanish La Liga soccer match between Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, October 5. (AP Photo)

bArceLONA, OctO ber 6 (AP): Cristiano Ronaldo netted another hat trick to extend his scoring streak to eight consecutive games and lead Real Madrid to a 5-0 win over Athletic Bilbao in the Spanish league on Sunday. It was Ronaldo's second treble to go with one four-goal game already this season and gave the Ballon d'Or holder a league-leading 13 goals in six appearances, more than the entire team goal totals of 16 of the league's 20 sides. It was also his 22nd hat trick in the Spanish league, equaling the record held by Alfredo Di Stefano and Telmo Zarra. Karim Benzema added two goals as Madrid's speedy forwards picked apart a Bilbao side that proved brittle at the back and is now winless in its last seven games. Gareth Bale set up Ronaldo's goals in the third and 55th minutes. Benzema scored in the 41st and 69th, and Ronaldo completed his hat trick in the 88th. "We are growing since the start of the season and we have margin to get even better," Ronaldo said, adding that he would add the game ball to the collection he keeps at his museum in Madeira, Portugal. Madrid rose past Atletico Madrid into fourth place, four points behind leader Barcelona. Valencia is in second place in front of Sevilla

in third after it beat visitors Deportivo La Coruna 4-1. Also, Villarreal dealt Celta Vigo its first loss of the season with a 3-1 road win, while Espanyol downed Real Sociedad 2-0 at home in its most solid performance under new coach Sergio Gonzalez. Since losing back-to-back games, Madrid has won six in a row in all competitions and outscored its opponents 27-5. Bilbao arrived without injured striker Aduriz Aritz and with its morale down after its 2-1 defeat at BATE of Belarus on Tuesday in the Champions League. Madrid jumped on its struggling visitors early with an electric start. Bale found Ronaldo at the far post to head in the opener under goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz, and Benzema rose above his marker to nod in a corner kick to put Madrid in control by halftime. Bilbao hasn't won at the Santiago Bernabeu since 2005, during Ernesto Valverde's first stint as coach. And once again, Bilbao's attacking strategy and high defensive line gave Ronaldo, Bale and Benzema plenty of room to romp. Bale streaked down the right side before squaring for the unmarked Ronaldo to make it 3-0. Then it was Ronaldo's turn to beat Bilbao's offside trap and generously lay off for Benzema to get his second goal. Ronaldo called Benzema the "best striker in

15th NSF Martyrs Memorial Trophy Day 6 Results: Orion FC Kohima beats 4th NAP Thizama 4-3 (via tiebreaker; 0-0 AET) Tiema-Khe Kidima beat Strivers FC 6-0 (TKK: Mhasil Thol 4’,35’, 42’,66’,Lesazol Kotso 50’,Vizayieto Thokhwe 59’) Freeman FC Chozuba beat Asian Mission College 2-0 (FFC: Kuzoto Nyekha 17’, Berelhu Shijoh 37’) Tsosinyu United FC beat Oriental College Kohima 4-3 (via tie-breaker; 0-0 AET) OctObeR 7 FixtuRes: United Tribes Club, Kohima Vs LN United FC Pughoboto @ 9.00 AM Maple FC Dihoma Vs Modern College Kohima @11.00 AM IGAR North Vs Venns United Forest Colony Kohima @12.00 PM Meriema Students' Union Vs FC Lenlem Dimapur @2.00 PM

State Karate association win gold in International C’ship dIMAPur, OctOber 6 (MexN): The All Nagaland Karate-Do Association participated in the 5th Open International Karate Championship 2014 held at Dhangadhi, Kailali, Nepal from September 15-16. A press release from the association’s President and Technical Director, Sensei T. Sangtam, informed that Sempai L. Akhumienla Imchen (15 IRB) brought laurels for the state winning the Gold medal in the Individual Kumite Senior 55+ kg event. The state association took part as members of the Indian Team in the International championship organised by the Nepal Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Association and attended by South Asian countries. The state association has meanwhile extended gratitude for the hard work put in by the participant and the cooperation extended by the Commanding Officer of 15 IRB.

the league" and applauded Bale's contribution. "We are used to playing together and we link up very well," Ronaldo said. It could have been much worse for Bilbao. Iraizoz made eight saves and a pair of one-handed stops to deny Ronaldo and Bale before the final whistle. But Iraizoz could do nothing but watch when Pepe's offtarget shot hit Ronaldo's arm pressed against his flank and bounce into the net to cap the demolition. Bilbao is barely recognizable from the potent side that finished fourth last season and eliminated Napoli to qualify for the Champions League group phase at the start of this campaign. "My team is down but we are convinced we can turn this around," said Valverde. "We are in a tough emotional situation. We have to rediscover what made us strong." Sevilla eased to the win over Deportivo thanks to Stephane M'Bia's double and goals by Carlos Bacca and Victor "Vitolo" Machin. Sevilla could have won by an even wider margin. Benoit Tremoulinas hit the crossbar in the 33rd, and Deportivo goalkeeper German Lux made amends for fouling Bacca in the area by saving his penalty kick in the 68th. Deportivo's fourth straight loss left it in last place with one win through seven rounds since its return to the top flight.

MILAN, OctOber 6 (AP): Juventus beat Roma 3-2 in a fiery clash to take sole lead of Serie A on Sunday as the capital side dropped its first points of the season. Leonardo Bonucci scored the winner four minutes from time with a screamer into the bottom left corner from just outside the area, although teammate Arturo Vidal was in a clear offside position. "It's certainly my best and most important goal," Bonucci said. "It's worth three very valuable points ... We made very few mistakes and they punished us with the only chance we allowed them. But at the end we reaffirmed that, in Italy, Juve is the strongest." Roma defender Kostas Manolas and Juventus striker Alvaro Morata were sent off following a brawl shortly after Bonucci's strike. Juventus' early goals had been controversial as Carlos Tevez converted two debatable first-half penalties. Juan Iturbe had given Roma the lead after Francesco Totti leveled from the spot. Roma coach Rudi Garcia was sent to the stands for ironically pretending to play a violin after the first penalty. "I prefer to talk about the game," Garcia said. "There were so many incidents, but we lost partly through our own fault. We had two great chances which we didn't score with. I don't feel beaten, it's a shame that here they make the penalty area slightly larger." Juventus became the first Serie A side to win 22 consecutive home matches and went into the international break three points ahead of Roma, with Sampdoria a point further back following a 1-0 victory over Atalanta. In the evening matches, Inter Milan lost by three

Juventus' Leonardo Bonucci scores during a Serie A soccer match between Juventus and Roma at the Juventus stadium, in Turin, Italy, Sunday, October 5. Juventus beat Roma 3-2 in a fiery clash to take sole lead of the Serie A on Sunday as the capital side dropped its first points of the season. (AP Photo)

goals for the second successive match as it was beaten 3-0 at Fiorentina. Napoli, meanwhile, came from behind to win 2-1 against Torino. A late goal also saw 10-man Genoa win 2-1 at Parma, which fell to a third successive defeat. Earlier, in an encounter between newly promoted sides, Empoli cruised past Palermo 3-0 for its first win of the season. Both Juventus and Roma had maximum points coming into the match after winning their opening five fixtures. Andrea Pirlo recovered from injury to make his first appearance of the season and the midfield maestro had a hand in Juventus' 27th minute opener as his free kick was

However, Juventus leveled with another controversial penalty as Miralem Pjanic's foul on Paul Pogba was adjudged to have been inside the area and Tevez converted again with an exact copy of his first spot kick. Both sides had chances to take the lead before Bonucci's winner. Inter was looking to bounce back from last week's embarrassing 4-1 loss to struggling Cagliari but Khouma Babacar sent an unstoppable 25-yard strike into the top left corner in the seventh minute and Juan Cuadrado doubled Fiorentina's lead with an equally stunning goal 12 minutes later. Nenad Tomovic sealed the result in the 77th with a great solo effort. They were the first

goals Fiorentina has scored at home in the league this season. Former Napoli striker Fabio Quagliarella appeared to be offside when he raced forward to give Torino the lead against his hometown club with an angled drive. He didn't celebrate but was still booed by the Napoli fans who have not forgiven him for leaving to Juventus. Napoli, which was booed off the pitch at halftime, twice hit the woodwork before Lorenzo Insigne leveled with a powerful header. The young forward, who has endured a lot of criticism recently, burst into tears. Jose Callejon's deflected strike secured the win for Napoli.

F1 praying for Phelps says swimming stricken Bianchi on hold after DUI arrest

SuzukA, OctOber 6 (reuterS): French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi remained in a critical condition after suffering severe head injuries in a Japanese Grand Prix crash on Sunday, with the sport praying for him to pull through. The 25-year-old's Marussia team issued a statement on Monday giving no medical details but acknowledging a "huge outpouring of support and affection for Jules and the Team at this very difficult time". They said any update about his condition would be guided by the wishes of his family. "Together with Jules' care, they will remain our highest priority. Therefore, we would ask for pa-

tience and understanding with regard to further medical updates," added the British-based team. French media said Bianchi remained critical and was under artificial respiration. Bianchi suffered the injury when he aquaplaned off a wet track and hit the back of a recovery tractor deployed to remove Adrian Sutil's crashed Sauber. The race was then stopped, with fellow drivers and teams in a state of shock. The governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) said the driver had been extracted unconscious and taken to hospital where a scan revealed severe head injury. He underwent immediate surgery.

Kevin Pietersen blasts former teammates, coach for bullying

LONdON, OctOber 6 (IANS): Former England captain Kevin Pietersen Monday launched a scathing attack on his ex-teammates and former coach Andy Flower, accusing some of them of "horrendous" bullying within the team. Pietersen blasted his former teammates in an interview to The Telegraph after his confidentiality clause with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) expired Sunday night. The 34-year-old was discarded from the team by the ECB in January. The batsman, talking before the release of his autobiography, was particularly critical of wicketkeeper Matt Prior, who he described as "a negative influence" in the team. The Delhi Daredevils batsman accused Prior of leading an orchestrated bullying campaign along with bowlers James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann, where these men forced fielders to apologise for dropping

handled by Douglas Maicon in the wall. The referee initially gave another free kick on the edge of the area but changed his mind after consulting with his assistants and pointed to the penalty spot. Tevez fired the spot kick into the left side of goal. Roma leveled moments later with a penalty of its own after Totti was bundled over by Stephan Lichtsteiner and the veteran forward converted. It was the first goal Juventus had conceded in the league since April, a run of eight victories with clean sheets. The visitors then took the lead a minute from halftime when Iturbe burst into the box to fire home a fantastic through ball from Gervinho.

a catch off their bowling. “Horrendous. Hugely disturbing,” Pietersen said of the alleged bullying. "The thing that horrified me the most was when Andy Flower and (former captain) Andrew Strauss in Bangalore before the One-Day Internationals (ODI) said: 'Guys we’ve got to stop this, it’s not right for the team, there are guys that have come to (us) that are intimidated to field the ball.' “And they (the bowlers) had the audacity to stand there and say: ‘No, if they’ve f****** up we deserve an apology. “But the double standard for me was the bigger thing. If one of them messed up - if Jimmy messed up, or Swanny messed up nothing was ever said. Prior left them alone.” The outspoken batsman said he had no issues with Anderson and Broad but Prior's alleged hypocrisy angered him. “It’s only Prior that I’d seriously have real issues with because of how he was portrayed as a teamman, the heart and soul of the dressing room

when he was getting up to the stuff he was getting up to," Pietersen said. “Then he wanted to start a media campaign to stop me getting the vice-captaincy because Shane Warne and Michael Vaughan were talking favourably about me being Alastair Cook’s deputy. That’s what I took him up on in January when I got sacked. “Is that seriously the heart and soul of the dressing room? This big team player? He doesn’t have a central contract now. They’ve got rid of him. And a lot of people are very happy," Pietersen said of Prior. The South Africa-born batsman added that Flower hated his unwillingness to be 'scared' of the coach. "He built a regime, he didn't build a team. I've told him this before. I told him during his coaching reign. I told him on numerous occasions: 'You're playing by fear here, you want guys to be scared of you. And Andy I'm not scared of you.' And he hated it," the right-hander said.

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utting his swimming career on hold after his second DUI arrest, Olympic champion Michael Phelps began a sixweek program Sunday that he said "will provide the help I need to better understand myself." The winningest athlete in Olympic history made the announcement in a series of posts on his Twitter account. According to his representatives at Octagon, Phelps entered an inpatient program that will keep him from competing at least through mid-November, though there's no indication he plans to give up swimming. "The past few days have been extremely difficult," Phelps said in a statement. "I recognize that this is not my first lapse in judgment, and I am extremely disappointed with myself. I'm going to take some time away to attend a program that will provide the help I need to better understand myself. He added, "Swimming is a major part of my life, but right now I need to focus my attention on me as an individual, and do the necessary work to learn from this experience and make better decisions in the future." The 29-year-old Phelps was arrested early Tuesday and charged with drunken driving in his native Baltimore. Police said he failed a series of field sobriety tests and had a blood-alcohol content of 0.14 percent, well above the legal limit of 0.08. Phelps retired after the 2012 Olympics in London, having won a record 18 gold medals and 22 medals overall. But he returned to competition this year with the goal of making the 2016 Rio Games. His comeback has produced encouraging results, including three golds and two silvers at the Pac Pacific Championships in August. Now, swimming

FILE - In this July 31, 2014, file photo, Michael Phelps pauses before a training session at Meadowbrook Aquatic and Fitness Center in Baltimore. The winningest athlete in Olympic history is facing DUI charges for the second time after being arrested early Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in his hometown of Baltimore, where police said he was clocked going nearly 40 mph over the speed limit and was unable to perform a series of field sobriety tests. (AP Photo)

is on the backburner. A statement from Octagon said Phelps was entering "a comprehensive program that will help him focus on all of his life experiences and identify areas of need for long-term personal growth and development." "Michael takes this matter seriously and intends to share his learning experiences with others in the future," the statement said. While Phelps was still working out his schedule for the upcoming year, he will surely miss the first U.S. Grand Prix meet at Minneapolis, which begins Nov. 20. The remaining five Grand Prix meets are all in the first half of 2015 — important steps in the lead-up to next summer's world championships in Russia. Phelps has already qualified for the worlds, the biggest meet on the swimming calendar outside of the Olympics. Chuck Wielgus, the executive director of USA Swimming, praised Phelps for entering a program. The governing body suspended

him for three months in 2009 after a photo emerged showing Phelps using a marijuana pipe, even though he was not charged. USA Swimming has not taken any disciplinary action for his second DUI arrest. "We fully support Michael's decision to place his health and well-being as the number one priority," Wielgus said. "His self-recognition and commitment to get help exhibit how serious he is to learn from this experience." Phelps was also charged with excessive speed and crossing double lane lines in the Fort McHenry Tunnel on Interstate 95, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. An officer reported that Phelps was clocked going 84 mph in a 45-mph zone. His trial is scheduled for Nov. 19. If convicted of the latest charges, Phelps faces up to a year in jail, a $1,000 fine and the loss of his driver's license for six months. However, legal experts said it's unlikely the swimmer would have to serve any jail time.

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ris Jenner admits she keeps track of her children by using Google Alerts. The 58-year-old matriarch, who manages her kids' careers, admits she keeps up the date with the whereabouts of Kourtney, 35, Kim, 33, Khloé, 30, Rob, 28, Kendall, 18, and Kylie, 17, with email notifications. Speaking to E! News, she said: ''Sometimes I want to know where everybody is. I have a Google Alert on the

kids, and I'll go, 'Wait, that's right! They're in Italy!' '' Meanwhile, the brunette beauty recently admitted she finds it ''hurtful'' when her parenting skills are criticised because being a mother to her kids comes first. She said previously: ''As hurtful as it might be, no one knows what's going on. ''When someone starts criticising your role and your ability to be a good mum. I prided myself

my entire life ... my most important role in my life is being a mom. There's nothing I wouldn't do for my kids.'' And Kris isn't immune to criticism from her own family either, as she admits she gets ''tortured'' by her daughters over the way she treats their brother. She explained: ''I often get tortured by Kourtney, Kimberley and Khloe about it, and Kendall and Kylie, because they think I baby Rob.''

he boss of a Christian TV network has stepped down from his role because of a ‘moral failure’ in his marriage. Rory Alec said he was handing over the running of God TV, a worldwide network that got its start in Britain, to his wife Wendy. He did not elaborate – but religious figures have quit similar positions in the past after having extramarital affairs. Alec and his wife Wendy, who launched God TV from their London home in 1996, have been married for 27 years. In a brief statement, South Africanborn Alec said: ‘After 20 years of service, I have had a moral failure this year. For this reason, I am stepping down. 'Please forgive me for the disappointment I’ve caused, but I know your eyes are on Jesus who is the author and finisher of your faith and not on me, an imperfect man. ‘It is with a heavy heart that I confirm my season with God TV is over for now.’ Within hours, his name was removed from the list of leaders on God TV’s

webpage. Mrs Alec said she would explain the reasons for his departure with ‘transparency and authenticity’ in a broadcast from the network’s main studio in Jerusalem this week. Viewers expressed their support on God TV’s Facebook page. ‘Rory and Wendy we stand with you in prayer for restoration, reconciliation and forgiveness!’ wrote Victoria Webster-West. ‘Rory thank you for stepping down in honesty during this time of God’s dealing with your heart. Wendy all of our love and support. You’ve both done so much to build God’s kingdom and our prayers cover you!’ Linda Ford wrote: ‘So sorry for you both. We are all vulnerable to temptation, but there is forgiveness and restoration? This is my prayer for you both and may you both know the love, comfort and Shalom peace of The Lord Jesus at this very sad and difficult time.’ Another said: ‘God’s Grace covers a multitude of sins – we are made of flesh and we fail but God’s grace heals all.’

God TV can be seen in more than 60 countries and is popular in the US, where it competes with other religious broadcasters. It claims to reach more than 900million people with its mixture of sermons and uplifting stories of people saved by faith. The Alecs feature regularly along with US-based evangelists. Last year, the couple appeared in a show that attempted to exorcise ‘demons’ from President Obama to free him from ‘Jezebel’s clutches’. They were planning to open an office and a prayer revival centre in a former night-

club in Plymouth, Devon. Sources at the network said the revival centre would go ahead despite Alec’s sudden departure. The couple, who are in their 40s, met as singers on the cabaret circuit in South Africa. Mrs Alec was born in London but grew up in Durban, South Africa, and became a devout Christian after seeing the face of Jesus in a mirror in the lavatory of a nightclub where she was singing. The couple decided to set up a Christian TV channel in Europe after hearing a prophecy that they would do so. They launched God

TV with £140,000 in savings and it quickly became popular with US evangelists who paid to appear and gain access to European audiences. The couple still have a home in London but spend much of their time in Jerusalem at God TV’s main studio. Britain’s only Christian broadcaster can be viewed online and on its Sky television channel. Alec is the latest US TV preacher to be involved in scandal. Jim Bakker quit after being caught using prostitutes, while Jimmy Swaggart resigned over an affair.

Rory Alec (right) says he will step down due to a 'moral failure' in his marriage.

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ollywood actress Neha Dhupia condemned the remarks of veteran singer K J Yesudas against girls wearing jeans, saying such a "flawed" thinking regarding women's apparel needs to be rectified. "This is very unfortunate that women are being asked what to wear and what not, even as our country is moving forward. I feel that the flaw does not lie in the ensemble of women but in the minds of those who make such remarks. I think this thinking towards what half of our total popu-

lation is wearing needs to be corrected," Neha told reporters in response to a query regarding the singer's remarks. Yesudas had on October 2 resented women wearing jeans, saying this went against the Indian culture. "Women should not cause trouble to others by wearing jeans. What should be covered should be covered," Yesudas had said. Neha was in the city for the promotion of her upcoming film, 21 Topon ki Salami directed by Ravindra Gautam. The film, also

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he study conducted at the University of Southern California analyzed 55 years of hit singles of Billboard and suggested that adding background vocals can help a song to top the charts. Joseph Nunes, professor of marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business, said that using background vocals in one song increas-

es their chances of reaching the top of the charts. The researchers analyzed all 1,029 No. 1 songs on Billboard's Hot 100 between 1958 and 2012 and each of the 1,451 songs that never climbed above No. 90. They secured audio recordings of as many of those 2,480 songs as possible and employed a team of graduate students, led

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by Ph.D. candidate Brad Sroka, at USC Thornton to code the types of instruments and vocals audible on each. Nunes said that their results suggested that songs that did not follow conventional instrumentation had the best chance of becoming No. 1 hits and the average song had three to five instruments, but songs

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points during the opening 18-5 run. Her 3-pointers barely moved the net as the Americans blitzed Spain, which was making its first appearance in the championship game. The Spaniards rallied within 24-17, but then Whalen took over. She had nine points during a 13-0 run by the Americans spanning the end of the first and start of the second quarter to make it a 20-point game. Whalen ended the first quarter with a spectacular drive that ended with a floater in the lane right before the buzzer. The Americans led 4829 at the half and by 25 points in the second half China's Tan Jiaxin performs her floor exercise during the women's qualifying round of the Artistic Gymnastics World before Spain closed the Championships at the Guangxi Gymnasium in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous In this photo taken on Sunday, October 5, U.S. basketball players and their coach Geno Au- game with a 14-2 run. Region Monday, October 6. (AP Photo) riemma pose with their trophy following their victory over Spain in the final of the women's Basketball Championship at Fenerbahce Arena in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP Photo)

ISTANBUL, OcTOBer 6 (AP): After dominantly winning another world championship, the U.S. women's basketball team left no doubt of the gap between the Americans and the rest of the world. And with so much young talent in the system, it might be a while before anyone can catch up. Maya Moore scored 18 points and earned MVP honors as the Americans beat Spain 77-64 on Sunday to win a second straight world title. With Moore, Brittney Griner, Tina Charles and a host of others still yet to reach their primes, it's a scary thought. With the exception of the Australia game, when Griner got in early foul trouble, the 6-foot-8 star was exceptional in making the all-tournament team. She had the first dunk in tourna-

ment history in the opener against China and dominated on both ends of the court. "She has potential to be one of the best ever," coach Geno Auriemma said. "She is very coachable and picks things up very quickly." Next up for the Americans is the 2016 Olympics in Rio. There's no reason to think they won't be a heavy favorite for a sixth straight gold there. That Olympics could be the last go-round for Sue Bird and a few others, but with the young core still intact, as well as players like Chiney Ogwumike, Breanna Stewart and Elena Delle Donne in the pipeline, it will be hard to see the U.S. not continuing this run for a long time. Bird became the most decorated player in world championship history with Sunday's gold. She has won

three gold medals and a bronze in her career. Lindsay Whalen added 12 points for the United States (6-0), which hasn't lost in a gold-medal game in the world championship since 1983, when it was beaten by the Soviet Union 84-82. Except for a hiccup in 2006, when the Americans lost to Russia in the semifinals, they have won every Olympic and world championship game since 1996. If not for that upset in Brazil, the U.S. would have five straight world titles. "I know when I hear 2006, it still makes me mad.," Bird said of her only bronze medal. The Americans jumped out to a 13-point lead in the game's first 4 1/2 minutes. Spain (5-1) could only get within seven the rest of the way. Moore was the key in that early burst, scoring 11

MDFA Trophy starts today Morung Express News

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Dubbed the biggest sporting event in Mokokchung, the MDFA Trophy 2014 will kick-start Tuesday with the inaugural match being played between Arkong SC and Marepkong YA, beginning 1:00 p.m. This is the 20th edition of the Mokokchung District Football Association Trophy, where 18 teams have registered for the tournament. The inaugural function will be graced by Nuklutoshi, Nagaland Minister for Soil & Water Conservation, National Highways & Mechanical. There are five debutant teams in the current tournament while there are two teams trying to stage a comeback. Royal United from Salangtem Ward of Mokokchung, EAC XI Kubolong, Eastern Wing FC, Walunir Ritsung from Artang Ward and Telongjem FC from Chungtia village are the new entrants. While all the new entrants promise to be serious contenders, Eastern Wing FC is a team that promises the surprise package. Former greats Arkong SC is making their foray into the tournament after a gap of six long years and their opening game against a formidable Marepkong YA side in the inaugural match will tell if they’re

here to reclaim their past glory. Arkong SC was the undisputed champions during the 1990s and the last time they played an MDFA tournament was in 2008 where they finished third. Ongpangkong Compound Youth Association (OCYA) from Yimyu are coming back after facing a one year ban that was ruled against them for misconduct in 2012 by MDFA. OCYA are usually a strong contingent and it will be interesting to watch them play with ‘vengeance’. Defending champions Retsung SA from the ‘football village’ of Salulamang, former champions Fusion SC from Chuchuyimlang, Ungma’s Sports Society Soyim and Shitilong SA from Mongsenyimti are some of the favourites to win the coveted MDFA Trophy, given their track records. MDFA has, over the years, proved its mettle in organizing hugely successfully tournaments. The game of football has strong fan following in Mokokchung and sold-out gallery stands are a regular feature. The players wait for this one tournament of the year to prove their worth playing in front of jam-packed stands cheering them, living their dream of sorts. The tournament is being played at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, Mokokchung. The inaugural match will be free entry for all.

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