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NSCN (IM) notifies DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 8 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today directed “all the National Workers not to involve in the forthcoming 11 Northern Angami-II A/C bye-election.” A press note, issued by the MIP of the NSCN (IM) cautioned that “any National Workers (Angami region in particular) found participating in the electioneering process in any manners shall be dealt with dire consequences.” It further requested the public to “cooperate and not approach the National Workers in the matter relating to the 11 Northern Angami –II A/C bye- election 2014.”

Drugs to soon treat Ebola of any kind

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NEw YORK, OCTOBER 8 (IANS): The lethal virus Ebola can have many strains but thanks to a new drug discovery tool, there could soon be therapies to treat all known strains and likely future strains of the disease. Researchers have produced a molecule, known as peptide mimic, that displays a functionally critical region of the virus that is universally conserved in all known species of Ebola, a new study showed. This new tool can be used as a drug target in the discovery of effective anti-Ebola agents. “Our target will enable the discovery of drugs with the potential to treat any future epidemic, even if new Ebola virus strains emerge,” said lead study author Tracy Clinton from the University of Utah. Ebola is a lethal virus that causes severe haemorrhagic fever with a 50 percent to 90 percent mortality rate.

There are five known species of the virus. Over 6,500 people have been infected and over 3,000 have died in the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, so far. There are no approved anti-Ebola agents, but a number of promising experimental drugs are being aggressively advanced to clinical trials to address the current crisis.

“Although the current clinical trials will hopefully lead to an effective treatment for the Zaire species causing the present epidemic, the same treatments are unlikely to be effective against future outbreaks of a different or new Ebola species,” said Debra Eckert from the University of Utah. Development of a broadly acting therapy is an important long-term goal that would allow cost-effective stockpiling of a universal Ebola treatment, Eckert maintained. The study appeared online in the journal Protein Science.

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A man is seen carrying banana leaves over a wooden bridge in Tuensang. Banana leaves have many benefits. They contain nutritional value and are used as a home remedy to heal burns and skin irritation. Banana leaves are commonly used as a wrapper during the cooking process and as makeshift plates and placemats. The leaves are also used to block streams and split the flow of water, as a method of catching fish. (Photo by Imojen I Jamir)

In a significant discovery, one of the rarest butterfly species, the Bhutan Glory Butterfly, has been found to inhabit Kiphire district in Nagaland state. The Warden of the Kiphire Wild Life Division spotted specimens of this rare butterfly in the forests of the Fakim Wild Life Sanctuary.

The Bhutan Glory Butterfly also known as Ludlow’s Bhutan Swallowtail (Bhutanitis ludlowi) is a vulnerable specie of butterfly that was originally thought to be endemic to Bhutan but was found by a team or researchers in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, bordering Bhutan.

Kamdi Hemant Bhaskar (IFS), Wildlife Warden Kiphire, spotted the rare Bhutan Glory Butterfly in Fakim when the Kiphire Wild Life Division organized a World Wildlife Week Cum Trekking at Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary on October 2, 2014. Fakim Wild Life Sanctuary, in Kiphire district covers an area of 641.4Ha and was established in 1981.

During the trek to the sanctuary, Kamdi Hemant Bhaskar (IFS), Wildlife Warden for Kiphire was filled with excitement and stopped the trekking team when he identified the Bhutan Glory Butterfly in Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary.

The Bhutan Glory Butterfly located in Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary

Ludlow’s Bhutan Glory Butterfly (Bhutanitis ludlowi) found at Fakim Wild Life Sanctuary Kiphire district. (Morung Photo)

The butterfly has a large dark brown to black colored upper surface with white longitudinal lines running across the wings.

There are grey or dirty yellow submarginal lunules on the upperside of the hindwing. The hind wings have minor extensions apart from the single larger tail like extension, characteristic of swallowtail butterflies (Family papilionidae). This butterfly belongs to swallowtail family with Papilioninae sub family

and is usually found in high altitude regions. The size of the butterfly is 90-110 mm.

Bhaskar informed the trekking team that people around the world are looking for this butterfly, which has a good market due to its uniqueness and beauty.

Spotting a total of 17 Bhutan Glory butterflies within a span of a few hours, Bhaskar added that butterflies, which are indicators of a pristine and clean environment, pollinators and food chain/food web, indicate

the good health of the sanctuary.

Eco Club Fakim village and villagers who came along with the trekkers were excited to have the rare species of butterfly as a guest in their village. They affirmed to protect the butterfly by photographically documenting it.

Master Educator, Eco Club Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary, Limthure informed that so far more than 82 species of Butterfly have been documented, which will be published with the help of North East Network (NEN) Chizami. Limthure has been training the 18 Eco Club Member of Fakim in conservation and documentation since 2013. He postulates that there could be more rare species of butterflies available in the sanctuary.

The Bhutan Glory Butterfly is protected under the Wildlife Protection Act 1972 under Schedule I& II and is an endangered species.

Killing this species of butterfly is equivalent to killing a tiger and offenders can be sentenced for up to seven years of imprisonment.

The discovery is particularly significant because the species was rediscovered in Bhutan only in 2009, after the initial specifies description in 1942 based on the specimen collected in 1933-1934. The Bhutan government has made this butterfly as their National Butterfly because of its uniqueness and rarity.

Action plan made to tackle human trafficking ‘Re-establish FTCs in Nagaland’

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 8 (MExN): The delegates of the twoday seminar on Human Trafficking, organized by the Nagaland Baptist Church Council’s Miqlat Ministry, have affirmed that “human trafficking is a crime and a direct violation of human rights, and is against the teachings of the Bible.”

The delegates comprise of church leaders and workers, women secretaries of churches from Nagaland, church-based associations, NGOs, social welfare organizations and theological seminaries.

“We are committed to combat and stop the evil of human trafficking,” stated a declaration by the team, by taking up the following action plans:

1. Create awareness by conducting seminars on Human Trafficking issues in schools, churches, seminaries and beyond.

2. Engage with efficient and trained law enforcement agencies on issues of Human Trafficking.

3. Offer training for all pastoral leaders on Human Trafficking.

4. Offer victim counseling training in churches.

5. Co-ordinate NGOs and organizations within and outside the state working on issues of Human Trafficking by sharing resources, information and skills.

6. Request NBCC to put in calendar to devote one Sunday in a year for social issues including

Human Trafficking.

7. To maintain consistency in organizing Human Trafficking awareness programs in churches/associations/ conventions/institutions.

8. Mobilize the churches to take up campaign against child labor and Human Trafficking.

9. Campaign through- symbols, billboards, street plays, local TV channels and other media.

10. Setting up helplines/centers for victims of human trafficking.

11. To come up with a resource material for teaching purposes and to request that it be published and disseminated by the NBCC.

appeals For building a just & dignified society Governor for safe passage Morung Express news Dimapur | October 8

With a mission to contribute towards building a new social order based on human dignity and social justice, Nagaland state’s first Master of Social Work (MSW) College, the North East Institute Social Sciences & Research (NEISSR), was inaugurated in Dimapur on October 8, Wednesday.

NEISSR College, which is initiated by the Catholic Church, is located at Bishop House, Circular Road, Dimapur and aims to work with a preferential option for the vulnerable and exploited. The institute, managed by the Diocese of Kohima, also aims to build a cadre of young professionals having global perspective and strong values based on compassion, personal integrity, moderation, tolerance and self-respect.

At the inaugural programme held at Christ

Hall, Holy Cross HSS campus, Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education, Deo Nukhu, stressed on the need to understand the nature and causes of various conflicts and their resolution. As such, he added that the opening of NEISSR College is of paramount importance.

The Parliamentary Secretary said that people in the North East region

formation studies in India, would go a long way in transforming a conflict and faction-ridden Nagaland into a peaceful and progressive state.

Vice chancellor, Nagaland University (NU), Prof.

BK Konwar; pro- vice chancellor, NU Merima Campus, Prof. Lanunungsung and Bishop of Nagaland, Most Rev. James Thoppil, who is also chairman of NEISSR, also addressed the gathering.

Earlier, principal NEISSR, Rev. Fr. CP Anto delivered the welcome address and Liangamang Robert, NEISSR faculty member presented a glimpse of NEISSR. NEISSR is the first regular MSW institute affiliated to Nagaland Central University and offers post graduate degree in Master of Social Work in the field of peace and conflict transformation studies, youth empowerment and community development.

Nagaland state’s first Master of Social Work college inaugurated have been witness to a lot of conflict, whether physical, social or ideological.

He encouraged the faculty and students at the college to not only focus only on degrees but conduct thorough research on why there is conflict in the region.

Nukhu expressed optimism that NEISSR, which offers specialization in peace and conflict trans-

to Amur Falcons

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 8 (DIPR): Nagaland state Governor, Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya has appealed to the people of Nagaland state, village councils, and various departments to protect the Amur Falcons and ensure a safe passage “to these amazing raptors through Nagaland.” A press note from the Nagaland Governor expressed sadness over the news of “large scale massacre of these amazing raptors...” that was reported previously and asserted “Let us be sincere in our efforts and actions to preserve the environment and nature’s beauty.”

He reminded that India, as a signatory to the Convention of Migratory Species (CMS), is duty bound to “prevent this massacre but provide safe passage.” He further lauded all agencies involved in protecting the falcons during their stay in the state.

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 8 (MExN): The Human Rights Law Network, Nagaland (HRLN) has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) before the Kohima Bench of the Guahati High Court, seeking directions from the Nagaland state government to “establish/ re-establish Fast Track Courts (FTCs)” in Nagaland state.

A press note from the HRLN informed that the PIL was heard and allowed by the Kohima Bench of the Gauhati High Court on September 26, 2014. “The matter is fixed on November 3, 2014 for the government to file the affidavit-inopposition,” it added.

It recalled that in 2003, two FTCs were established at Kohima and Dimapur districts to try pending criminal cases, which were functional till 2012. However, it lamented that “vide impugned Office Memorandum NO. CAB-2/ 2008 (PT) dated 18/09/2012 -2/ 2008 (PT) dated 18/09/2012, the Nagaland Cabinet of Ministers decided for discontinuance of FTCs and in pursuant to it, the Government of Nagaland discontinued all FTCs in the State of Nagaland and consequently, cases pertaining to crime against women were transferred to the Family Court.”

It reminded that the Naga Mother’s Association (NMA) had also submitted a representation dated July 13, 2013 to the Nagaland state Governor requesting immediate set up of Fast Track Courts in all districts of the state, in view of the “alarming rise of crimes against women and children.” Further, the NMA also submitted a rep-

resentation dated July 19, 2013 to the Nagaland state Chief Minister to review the September, 2012 Cabinet decision that had revoked/ discontinued the functioning of the Fast Track Courts.

The HRLN further revealed that the Under Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Law & Justice Department of Justice had, on May 28, 2014, written to the Secretary, Department of Law/Home Government of Nagaland, Kohima to implement decisions taken in the Conference of Chief Ministers of the States and Chief Justices of the High Court’s, held on April 7, 2014. The HRLAN cited decision no.3 from the conference that the state

Registrar for the Kohima Bench of the Guahati High Court had conveyed to the Additional Chief Secretary Department of Justice & Law, Nagaland that the Guahati High Court had “considered and rejected” the Nagaland state government’s proposal to declare Family Courts as the Special Court for cases pertaining to crime against women.

The HRLN lamented that crimes against women have become a “daily routine in Nagaland and several such cases are pending in various Courts…” It further stated that the “slow legal system in disposing such cases has made sexual offenders remain unpunished thereby encouraging other likeminded criminals to commit similar offences without hesitation.” It termed the Nagaland state government’s decision to club together the FTCs with Family Courts to try crimes against women as a “mockery” and “against the directives of the Supreme Court and the Central Government.”

The HRLN urged the Kohima Bench of the Gauhati High Court to “restore / establish Fast Track Courts in all the districts of Nagaland as per the National Policy adopted by the Central Government.” It further called for the constitution of an enquiry headed by a retired/sitting Judge of the Guahati High Court as to why the Nagaland state government had closed down the FTCs in Kohima and Dimapur districts and transferred the cases of FTCs to Family Courts “without the permission of the Hon’ble Court in violation of the established legal procedures.”

Human Rights Law Network, Nagaland files Public Interest Litigation governments “shall, in consultation with the Chief Justices of the respective States, take immediate steps to establish a suitable number of FTCs relating to offences against women, children, differently-abled persons, senior citizens and marginalized sections of society.” It further referred to decision no.10 that “the state government will delegate the power to create temporary posts of staff to the High Courts whenever average pendency in a subordinate court increased.” According to the HRLN, the letter further requested that the number of FTCs functional in the state as on March 31, 2014 may be intimated and that “the action taken note in respect of above mentioned decision no.10” be notified.

The HRLN further informed that through a letter dated June 24, 2014; the

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‘Higher education Governor’s wife Kavita Acharya adopts school facing quality crisis’

Dr. R.K Behera speaking at ICFAI University on Wednesday.

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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 8 (MExN): Dean of Social Science, Patkai Christian College, Dr. R.K. Behera said that the present day system of higher education in India was facing a quality crisis. He pointed out the need to make a shift from ‘quality assurance’ to ‘quality enhancement.’

He was speaking at the 3rd NJY Memorial Lecture

on ‘Quality Enhancement in Higher Education and RUSA’ at ICFAI University, Dimapur on Wednesday.

Dr. Behera said one the important issues before the higher education system in the country was to maintain the quality so that the students could compete in the global market. He suggested that those institutions which have already

been accredited by National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) should strive for quality enhancement to survive in the stiff competition.

“Any quality education should provide necessary inputs to modern aspects like job oriented, needbased and work-centered education,” he said.

Speaking about Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Dr. Behera said it emphasizes to promote reforms in the State Higher Education System by creating a facilitating institutional structure for planning and monitoring at the state level. He said RUSA would help to promote autonomy in the state universities and include governance in the institutions.

During the programme, ICFAI University Nagaland pro-vice chancellor, Dr. C.P. Alexander delivered the welcome address.

KOhIMA, OCTOBER 8 (DIPR): The wife of the Governor, Kavita Acharya made an introductory visit to Government Middle School, D’ Khel, Seikhazou on October 8. She has adopted the school as a guest teacher and will help out at the school.

Interacting with the teachers, Kavita Acharya encouraged them to work diligently and guide the students in the right way to help them become responsible citizens. She also asked the teachers and school management to approach her regarding any problems, if any, faced by the school and said that she will do her best to help find a solution to the problems. She later visited the classroom and distributed sweets to the students of the school.

Kavita Acharya has completed her MA and had done her B.Ed and plans to take about two classes per week in the school. She has experience in teaching English, Hindi and Math

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Wife of the Governor, Kavita Acharya interacting with students of Government Middle School, D’ Khel, Seikhazou on October 8. (DIPR Photo)

subjects for students of 6 and 7 standards. GMS D’ Khel was established in 1947 and has an enrollment of 315 students and 19 teaching staff. The wife of the Governor was accompanied by Joint Director School Education Ruovihulie Angami and Chairman VEC, GMS D’ Khel, Zaputuo Khezhie.

Earlier in the day, the

officers and staff of Raj Bhavan Kohima led by Commissioner & Secretary to the Governor, T.C. Sangtam wished the Governor on the occasion of his birthday who turned 84.

Interacting with the Officials and IPR news personnel, Governor Acharya informed that his wife, Kavita Acharya has adopted the Government Middle

School, D’ Khel, Seikhazou as a guest teacher and will be teaching the students for about 2 days a week.

The Governor appealed the educated housewives, retired government servants and all willing persons, whom he termed as HEN (Hidden Energy of Nagaland) to share their knowledge and skills to the younger generations

by adopting one school as a guest teacher in Government schools. He said that they could adopt schools where there are shortage of teachers and to help the society in general. He also opined that Nagaland could become one of the richest states in the country if its huge natural recourses and human resources can be tapped in the right way.

“Hard work and respect key to success” Call to contribute towards development of district

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T. Torechu, parliamentary secretary speaks at the felicitation programme organised by Kiphire District Planning and Development Board on October 8. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Kiphire | October 8

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To encourage students, as resolved, the Kiphire District Planning and Development Board today awarded students who secured highest mark with distinction in the district.

The DPDB Kiphire facilitated Neuto Justin Kenny of St Mary School, Seyouchung with certificate and a cash of Rs 10,000 each for securing highest mark in Science and Mathematics in the district at GHSS Kiphire.

In the facilitation programme, T. Torechu, par-

liamentary secretary for PWD Mechanical & Excise and chairmen DPDB congratulate Neuto for being the best in the district and also asked him not to stop from the present position but to move further so as to bring more laurel to the district.

Advising the students, the parliamentary secretary said, “if you want to achieve in life you have to work hard, respect your teachers, fellow class mates, elders and parents only then only you will be successful.”

Reflecting his earlier

schooling days, the parliamentary secretary said, “In our days there were no proper building, no copy books, no pen pencils and no uniform. We hardly had little cloth to cover our whole body and were almost naked but today you have all the best thing and the only thing you have to do is to study.” He asked the student s to be equipped enough to fit into the system.

Challenging the students, Torechu said, “21st century is yours and in this century belongs you seated here today is going to re-

place us one day so keeping this in mind all of you should know how to walk in the right direction otherwise you will become a liability to the society rather than to become an asset.”

The Parliamentary secretary also said that English has become a medium for us to communicate, taught in school, class room and outside the institution so time has also reach for us to do away with backward tag.

Latter, the parliamentary secretary handed over certificate and cash to Neuto Justin Kenny. Deputy Commissioner and vice chairman, DPDB Chumremo Odyuo who also spoke on the occasion, asked the students to shunt drugs, alcohol and bad habits so as to become successful in life. Marathon Asst Headmaster GHSS said the institution is running without toilet for students, proper infrastructure and conference hall and asked the parliamentary secretary to look into the matter. Neuto Justin Kenny, D. Panda DEO, Head teacher St Mary School spoke on the occasion.

MOKOKChUNg, OCTOBER 8 (DIPR): Parliamentary Secretary, Labour & Employment and Chairman of the Mokokchung DPDB Dr. Longri has called upon the members of the DPDB to be sincere in shouldering their responsibilities as head of the district and urged them to do one’s bit towards development of the district.

Addressing the DPDB meeting in the ADC Planning conference Hall on October 8 the Chairman sought their full cooperation to ensure that the developmental activities in the district always move forwards. Drawing attention on regular attendance in the meeting by all the members Dr Longri requested the members to re-look at some important decisions of the DPDB taken in 2013 such as expansion of Mokokchung town and total ban on hunting wild animals in the district to get positive result out of it. Stressing the need to strengthen the efforts to preserve wild animals, he said some villagers are

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Parliamentary Secretary and Chairman of the Mokokchung DPDB Dr. Longri addressing the meeting held in the ADC Planning conference Hall on October 8. (DIPR Photo)

successfully implementing imposition of ban on hunting but some villagers are not adhering to.

On reported order of shooting of dogs in the town, the DPDB chairman opined that killing of dogs whenever seen on the street is not the solution saying that there are some ways to control this problem.

In the meeting DC and Vice Chairman of the DPDB, Sushil Kumar Patel made a power Point presentation on Identification and Verification of Work-charged/Casual employees. He said government is all out to weed out bogus employees through this exercise as random

appointment of W/C and Casual employees severely hit on the state exchequer.

He said the step taken by the government is to have them on need base. Patel informed the members that the entire exercise of identification and verification has to be completed

by November 2014 and asked all Heads of department to get it done within the time frame. Minister for Agriculture Dr.Benjongliba supplemented the DC’s power point presentation by saying government is serious to streamline the W/C and casual employees and called upon the members to take positive action.

Construction of long cherished DC office com-

plex and construction of Ring road in Mokokchung town also came up for discussions.

The meeting also approved the LADP schemes for 2014-15. Besides construction of Tourist Resort/Lodge at Ungma Nature Park, registration of Social society Salangtem ward and Opangpu Self Help Group Salangtem Ward, Mokokchung were also approved.

Minister for National Highway, Soil and Water Conservation, Nuklutoshi and Amen Yaden, Chairman, NBDA and Pollution Control who were present in the meeting actively took part in the discussions.

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Swachh Bharat: Promoting rural sanitation

Advocacy workshop and public rally at Jalukie Town

JAlUKIE, OCTOBER 8 (MExN): In continuation with the National Sanitation Awareness Campaign, the PHED Peren Division sponsored by WSSO, PHED, Nagaland organised an advocacy workshop and public rally at Jalukie Town on October 8.

The main objective of the workshop and rally was to accelerate and promote rural sanitation. It also aimed at bringing awareness among the masses to plan and wholeheartedly engage in a sanitation drive that would help in our collective quest to achieve a Swachh Bharat on October 2 in commemoration of

School students participate in the public rally organised as part of the National Sanitation Awareness Campaign at Jalukie Town on October 8.

150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

Rosietho Tguori SDO (Civil) Jalukie graced the function as chief guest.

Mongzeung Mpom, Pastor Jalukie Town BC pronounced the invocation prayer. Addressing the gathering, the chief guest on the campaign, he told them

to focus the campaign on keeping the villages clean, safe sanitation methods, washing the hands with soap, safe disposal of solid and liquid wastes and safe handling and storage of drinking water. He directed them to take up the campaign with missionary zeal.

He also encouraged the stu-

dents, leaders, teachers and gathering to be an agent of sanitation and actively participate in an effort to keeping clean our homes, villages, towns, office, surrounding and environment.

Er. Ichirang Zeliang, SDO Peren highlighted the objectives of the campaign wherein he urge the

students and gathering to make cleanliness a habit and way of life. He briefed on the importance of toilet and the profound impact of the sanitation crisis, and brought to the forefront the health and emotional consequences as well as the economic impact of inadequate sanitation.

A press note further informed that later on the day, the students of St Xavier Jalukie performed a play based on sanitation and a special number from Christian school. Students from seven schools attended the rally along with Nagaland Home minister, Y Patton (centre) along with top brass of Nagaland Police and public leaders, NGOs and Wokha district administration and police officials at the inauguration of a new police station teachers. the programme at Ralan in Wokha district, Tuesday. (Morung Photo) was chaired by Moanaro, Chemist WSSO Peren.

Er SK Tep SDO PHED Jalukie delivered the vote of thanks. The students undertook a pledge as a part of Swachh Bharat Mission.

State level National Role Play Competition held

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KOhIMA, OCTOBER 8 (DIPR): State Level National Role Play Competition was held at Assembly Hall, Ruzhukhrie Government Higher Secondary School, Kohima on October 8 with Director SCERT, Vipralhou Kesiezie as the chief guest. The theme of the role play was “Charms and challenges of Adolescents”.

The chief guest in his speech said that Adolescents go through a stage where emotional, physical, psychological and social developments take place rapidly. Therefore, the theme was very relevant in their day-to-day lives.

Director SCERT, Vipralhou Kesiezie addressing the State Level National Role Play Competition held at Assembly Hall, Ruzhukhrie GHSS, Kohima on October 8. (DIPR Photo)

Kesiezie cautioned the students in copying unhealthy grown up culture since it could destroy one’s life at a young age. He urged them to learn about the charms and challenges of life by

participating in the role play and teach their friends as well in the process.

Altogether three teams vied for the competition.

Government Higher Secondary School, Jalukie

representing Peren district won the 1st position, the 2nd position went to GHSS Dimapur and Government High School, New Market from Kohima clinched the 3rd position. All the win-

ners were awarded cash and citations. The competition was organized by Population Education Cell, SCERT Nagaland in collaboration with NPEP, NCERTNew Delhi.

Senior Academic Officer, SCERT, N.C. Kikon chaired the programme while Dr. Imlienla Imchen said the welcome address.

Kenei presented special number and the closing remark was pronounced by Senior Academic Officer SCERT, T. Lima Longkumer. The judges of the competition were officers from SCERT namely Moatemjen Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya, his wife Kavita Acharya with commissioner & secretary Longkumer, Kegwalo Th- to the Governor, TC Sangtam and ADC to the Governor at Raj Bhavan, Kohima on occasion yug and Zavise Rume. of the Governor’s birthday on October 8. (DIPR Photo)

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Why children in Assam are crying at the sight of rains Priyanka borpujari

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ndrani Sarma lives with her husband and daughter in a three-storied house on Zoo Road, an upmarket area of Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern state of Assam.

However, the height of their house— like several others in the vicinity—did not fortify them against the floods.

From the afternoon of September 22 onwards, until the next 36 hours, Sarma and her family were stuck at home, in utter darkness after sundown, with water flooding their house and nearly submerging their car. “Water was everywhere, yet we had no water to drink. There was no way to communicate with the world except for the mobile phone, until its battery died,” she said.

So far, over 44 people have been killed in Assam, and 55 in Meghalaya, due to massive floods that were caused after two days of heavy rainfall on September 21 and 22. Accord-

ing to the Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA), 431 villages in the districts of Dhemaji, Kamrup, Goalpara, Nalbari, Nagaon and Morigaon still stand affected; 93,155 hectares of crop area are under water. Last week, the central government announced Rs674 crore in aid. In 2014 alone, there have been several waves of floods in Assam, affecting more than six lakh people in 23 of its 27 districts and killing 68.

Relief camps with tarpaulin sheets as roofs have been dotting the states’ roads for a long time now.

“The IMD (India Meteorological Department) had informed us of heavy rainfall across Assam. That is very vague information because Assam is spread out. IMD could do better by providing relevant information so that preventive measures can be taken,” said Nandita Hazarika, state project officer, ASDMA. Given that most of Assam is agrarian, farmers are looking at a poor year ahead. While one paddy crop was

harvested earlier in the year, two others have been destroyed in the floods.

In Morigaon district’s Asigor village, the bamboo houses of Raj Ali and Hilimuddin Khatun seem to be floating on an island amid deep waters. A tiny boat is their only point of contact with the rest of the world.

When the waters came in, the boat was the first thing Khatun had rushed to save; his wife hurried to gather the children, the utensils, documents and the Koran. As water nearly reached the tin roof, the two families moved to a relief camp on the road.

On the edge of the houses is a swamp, which leads to a large mass of water, with trees only at a great distance. The swamp is where the children defecate, and the mothers wash clothes and utensils. They get their drinking water from a borewell.“Every time it thunders now, we fear the roof will fly off and water will enter the house again. It is very difficult to sleep,” Ali’s wife Madaja Khatun said.

In Simultola village, one man

pointed to the river nearby. “When we were young, the river was about 40kms away. In the last few years, it kept coming closer. Today, it has reached our doorstep,” he said. Particularly for women, floods mean their lives take a turn for the worst.

Safiya Khatun, a young mother of two, explained that broken roads increased the distance to the market and schools. “Our brick stoves are on the floor. When it floods, we cannot cook. Men go in search of work and food because the crops are destroyed.

But I am worried about my children’s books being destroyed,” she said, adding that government officials and NGOs visit only after the worst has passed. She pointed to a broken mangle of woven bamboo sheet, which once used to be the wall of her toilet.

“Men can go anywhere (to defecate), where can we go?”

In Dhemaji’s Rekhasapori village, Bhagyaban Doley had noticed the breach of an embankment at a few hundred meters away from the school

where he is the principal. He rushed out the 105 students to the main road at an elevated height. Within an hour, the gushing water took down several meters of a nearby concrete bridge, and the school was submerged. What was visible when this reporter visited, was just the tip of the roof; 33 houses in the vicinity were also submerged.

“The Army and the National Disaster Relief Force came immediately.

But I’m concerned about the future of these children. They see floods every year and it affects their education. Many students begin to cry even when there is slight rainfall,” he said.

The relief efforts by the government are ineffective. Hazarika said that ASDMA is pressurised to take ad-hoc measures but they aren’t helpful in the long run, especially in Guwahati where there has been haphazard construction. In several villages, borewells get submerged, creating an acute shortage of clean water. Similar is the fate of temporary toilets erected with bamboo and tarpaulin. It was not for nothing that the

‘Bangladeshi garments to spin business in North East’ agartala, october 8 (IanS): Bangladeshi garment traders are keen on doing business in northeast India and the Tripura government is ready to provide logistical support to them, an Indian diplomat said here Wednesday.

"Bangladeshi garment manufacturers and traders have approached us to do business in the northeastern states. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar promised to provide logistical supports, including land, for this purpose," India's Deputy High Commissioner in Dhaka, Sand-

eep Chakravorty, told reporters.

After meeting Sarkar, the Indian diplomat said: "Sarkar has a good understanding of Bangladesh. He readily agreed to provide land and other logistical support at the Bodjunjnagar industrial estate (in western Tripura) if the Bangladeshi garment traders want to do business in the northeast or set up their manufacturing units."

Chakravorty said that after returning to Dhaka, he will again meet the traders and industrialists involved in the garment industries to convey

Sarkar's willingness.

"Tripura would be an ideal place for doing business and setting up industries by the Bangladeshi investors as the northeastern state has surplus power and natural gas," said Chakravorty, now on a four-day visit to the state.

He will visit Sabroom in southern Tripura to see the progress of the proposed bridge over river Feni for accessing the Chittagong international port from India's northeastern states. The sea port is just 75 km from Tripura.

He will also visit Akhaurah, just two km away from Agartala city, to look at the 15-km-long proposed Agartala-Akhaurah rail link, work on which is scheduled to start early next year.

Tripura will be the second power surplus state in India within the next three-four months after Sikkim, once full generation starts from Palatana and Monarchak gas-based power plants.

State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has commissioned its biggest 726 MW capacity commercial power project at Palatana in southern

Tripura, 60 km south of Agartala.

The power generation from the first unit (363 MW) of the Rs.9,000-crore Palatana power plant began December 2013 and the second unit (363 MW) is expected to start generation by next month.

The state-owned North East Electric Power Corporation is setting up a 104 MW power project at Monarchak in western Tripura, 70 km south of Agartala, and just eight km from the India-Bangladesh border. The project is likely to start generation within the next three-four months.

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ShIllong, october 8 (IanS): The Congress Wednesday appointed former union minister V. Narayanasamy as in-charge of the party's affairs in seven north-eastern states in place of former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro. "The Congress president has given me the task to look after the party's affairs as general secretary in-charge of Sikkim, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland and Manipur," Narayansamy told IANS over phone from New Delhi. "I will be touring the north-eastern states once our party's leaders chalk out the programme for my visit," he said.

tezPur, october 8 (PtI): A National Democratic Front of Bodoland (Songbijit) militant was shot dead, another ultra and three civilians were injured in separate incidents involving the militant outfit in Assam since last night.

A militant identified as Nirjon Basumatary alias Ganda alias B Nangtha was killed when two groups of the militant outfit fired at each other at Rowta in Udalguri district last night, a police officer said. Three civilians were also injured in the crossfire, he added. The injured have been admitted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital and were identified as Lalit Swargiary (30), Pratap Boro (24) and Ratneswar Boro (22). Another militant of the same outfit identified as Sujalang Basumatary, who was wanted in connection with several cases, received bullet injury during an encounter with security forces involving the 36 Assam Rifles and army's Gajraj Intelligence at a place in Sonitpur district today. Basumatary was admitted to Tezpur Medical College Hospital, police said. The encounter took place at Laigangpara in Batachipur area of Sonitpur district along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border. A 7.65-mm pistol, one magazine, two grenades, two 9-mm cartridges and one detonator were recovered from the militants, police said. Besides Basumatary, three ultras were also nabbed.

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Jorhat, october 8 (PtI): An Assam Rifles jawan was arrested after he beat up two Assam police constables and a few Village Defence Party (VDP) members in the wee hours today. Jorhat SP Amanjeet Kaur said Assam Rifles Naik Govinda Raju, accompanied by a woman, was loitering near Jorhat Law College at around 1:30 a.m. when he was challenged by the VDP members present there. Raju then assaulted the VDP members who informed the police, she said, adding, as soon as the police arrived, Raju attacked Constable Partho Borbora and Head Constable Ranjan Das. The two constables and VDP members Apurba Baruah and Digit Baruah were admitted at the Jorhat Medical College Hospital (JMCH), Kaur said. Raju was arrested and sent to jail.

guwahatI, october 8 (enS): More than four years after 16 children, all students of a missionary-run high school, perished in a devastating fire that engulfed a thatch-and-bamboo hostel in Kurung Kumey district in Arunachal Pradesh, authorities in another district — Lower Subansiri — have directed closure of six hostels for flouting safety norms. Lower Subansiri Deputy Commissioner Krishna Mohan Uppu said an inspection was carried out in the wake of death of a child due to negligence of the hostel owner at Joram two weeks ago. “As the boy died due to criminal negligence by the owner of the private hostel, we found on inspection that the hostel was a dingy and extremely hazardous place. This prompted us to urgently inspect all the hostels, during which we found six which did not even have the permission to run them,” he said. In his order, he said owners of these six hostels not only ignored safety norms, but had also failed to obtain permission from competent authorities to set up these hostels. Fire hazard, security and emergency exit facilities in the wake of natural calamities were the major aspects that were looked into. The notification said these hostels had been running for years without proper permission from the authorities.

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middle class in Assam was livid about Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi’s Rs5 crore relief fund towards flood-affected Kashmir, before flash floods hit his own state.

The apathy of officials is legendary.

“Each year the government spends crores to fortify infrastructure and embankments. Yet, every monsoon, these collapse. Where is all the money?” asked an angry Luit Goswami of Rural Volunteers Centre in Dhemaji, which has been working on flood relief work in the district for nearly two decades.

According to the Economic Survey that was carried out in Assam for 20132014, the state incurs a loss of Rs200 crore annually due to floods. The average erosion rate is 8,000 hectares every year and 4.27 lakh hectares of land have been washed away since the 1950s.

The assistant commissioner of Goswami’s district, Dharmakant Mili, perfectly reflected official attitude towards the problem. “Flood is a regular phenomenon in Assam, and the people are used to it. They know how to deal with it their own way.”

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'Ensure foreigners not included in voter list' aIzawl, october 8 (IanS): Mizoram's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has requested political parties to ensure that no foreigners' names are included in the upcoming special summary revision of photo electoral rolls, an official said here Wednesday.

"Mizoram CEO Ashwani Kumar held a meeting with all the recognised political parties in Aizawl Tuesday.

The CEO requested them to cooperate with the electoral officials to prevent foreigners from getting included their names in the electoral rolls illegally," an election department official said.

According to Mizoram home department officials, over 50,000 Myanmar nationals are residing in the state. Of them, some hold work permits issued by the state government

in consultation with the union home ministry and some Myanmarese are residing illegally without any work permit. The Myanmar nationals work as domestic help with Mizo families, as construction workers and in other such occupations.

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Silver Jubilee Year of Dry State

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he Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act 1989 is celebrating its “Silver Jubilee Year” and very appropriately The Nagaland Legislative Assembly have decided to have a closer look on its health and performances and if necessary scrap it.

The situation did really warranted to pressurise the State on passing the most popular legislation which has lived the last Twenty Five years, closely watched by the people all through and have witnessed to have it passed its days. What we have seen is that Scientists have not yet discovered insulating device for liquor to stop its flows to the ever thirsty consumers. The only variable in this mechanism is the prices under different pressure situations.

The seizures made by the different agencies are only a tiny fraction of the quantity that may be flowing because the availability is not affected and the demands are always met.

I wish to put forth a few points for information and consideration of all concerned, while deciding on this important issue of Dry State.

1. The enforcement agencies were not prepared for such a sudden radical change in their functions to tackle a deeply rooted liquor addicted community, which we have seen it all through.

2. Though the Excise Department may have made many proposals for more effective implementations the Government has never been in a position to

legging all over the State.

10. Thousands of people consuming illicit liquor are exposed to many dangers of unsafe liquors.

Even if the liquors are poisoned with toxic chemicals it cannot be prosecuted because it is illicit here.

11. We have seen the government enforcement agencies activities and the various social organisations trying their hands in fighting the liquor menace in the state. The outcomes are in full view of everybody. It is like the fight between the African Buffaloes and the Lions. For which a realistic review is justified.

12. Force enforcement of the Act is bound to fail, unless everyone takes the ownership of the law in upholding and respecting it.

It may be possible in an oppressive Communist state. Today people are much more civilised and educated compared to those days.

13. If the outcome of the Review Exercise is in favour for continuing the NLTP Act, then the Act and the Rules should be revised basing on the quarter of a century experience.

14. In the event of lifting the NLTP Act of 1989 and Rules 1992. The Nagaland Excise Act 1967 and the Rules 1972 should be revised thoroughly suiting to the new situation: including licensing policy and policing Acts and Rules. It will reverse the flow of money to Assam and will break the networks of bootlegging.

Alem Ao Dy. Comm. of Excise (Rtd.)

ties collected by the Nagaland State was around Five Crores on the Eve of the enforcement of the NLTP Acts. I think, then the duty structure was more primitive and the amount realised was minimal. The present All India Taxation Regime on Alcoholic Liquors are uniform for all states, and duties rates are varied according to qualities, classified such as : (a)General (b) Luxury (c)Premium, etc.

In those days the cost of a Black Bull Rum was approximately as given below : I. Cost of one bottle about Rs.10 /II. Commission of Bonder and Retail vendors say Rs.3 /III. Excise duty for State Rs.20 /Total cost of a bottle was around Rs.35 /-. At present the Excise duty has been increased by many folds, which our illicit consumers are paying to Assam Government. If tapped properly, it has the potency to raise by many Crores of Rupees, sufficient to finance some important developmental projects annually.

7. The Total Prohibition has deprived the State the source of Revenue which may not be easily dismissed for a revenue starving state like Nagaland.

But requires heavy investment on enforcement. It is a double edged burden on the State’s exchequer.

8. It has crushed the distillery along with its cane farmers, workers and factory machineries. We are compelled to import Spirit from outside for Industrial and Medical uses.

9. It has created a network of boot-

implement them in views of its financial ills and lack of strong wills too, perhaps.

3. In the given financial health of the State Government it would be impossible to implement and enforce the Dry law in letter and spirit. It requires heavy investment by providing facilities for easy movements of enforcement staffs round the clock in all the important locations of the whole of the State with sufficient strength of well trained and dedicated personnel.

The annual fund allotment to the Excise department for enforcement will show how poorly the department is equipped with.

4. The Excise Department is also heavily burdened with the enforcement of Drugs laws in tandem in the state, as the state is deeply afflicted by drug addictions and its severe consequences.

5. As contained in the NLTP Act, Prohibition Council and District Committees may also have constituted to support the enforcement of agencies in implementation of the prohibition laws. The intention is very sound and appears workable.

However, its functioning depends upon individual Committee members’ interests and feasibility of its members, as the members are mostly non-officials. It cannot function effectively with the present scenario.

6. Revenue: - The duty on Alcoholic liquors is one of the highest, which is by nature prohibitoty.

The revenue from Excise du-

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Power ministry to sell LEDs at Rs.10

New Delhi, OctOber 8 (iANS): A day after the Nobel Prize in physics was won by the scientists who invented blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), the power ministry Wednesday launched a business model enabling the sale of LEDs to households at Rs.10 against the market price of Rs.400.

“The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) together with the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), which is a joint venture of four central public sector undertakings in the power sector, have worked with electricity distribution companies (discoms) to

develop a business model under which EESL procures LED bulbs in bulk and sells them to households at Rs.10,” an official release here said.

“The discoms then repay EESL, over a period of five to eight years from the savings that accrue due to use of this energy efficient lighting technology,” it added.

Under an MoU between EESL and the Andhra Pradesh government, EESL last week completed the procurement of two million LEDs, the statement said.

“Almost the entire lighting industry participated in the bid and the lowest quoted price was Rs.204 per LED

bulb,” it added.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu Thursday launched the Energy Conservation MissionÂ’s Demand Side Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP) in the state, which promotes replacement of incandescent bulbs with energy-efficient LED bulbs. The DELP is covering 3.7 million households, who will be provided with two high quality LED bulbs each at a subsidized price of Rs.10.

The programme started in Guntur, to be followed by Anantapur, West Godavari and Srikakulam districts.

The union power ministry

has already decided that all below-poverty line households at the time of electrification under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyuthikaran Yojana (RGGVY) would be provided LED technology.

LEDs are emerging as the most energy-efficient source of lighting as they use one-tenth of the energy of a normal incandescent bulb and half as much energy as a Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) to produce the same amount of light. The first LED lamp made in India, in 2010, was sold for Rs.1,200, the ministry said.

EESL has already completed a number of projects to retrofit existing street-

lights to LED streetlights as well as a 750,000 LED bulb replacement project for households in Pudhuchery, the statement said. “Increase in domestic demand would further reduce cost of LED bulbs with larger production capacities getting created in India,” it said.

All lighting manufacturers have established domestic manufacturing facilities for LED-based lighting system, and have started training programmes for engineers and demonstration programmes in various buildings to showcase this technology, it added.

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inhabitants know God. If all of the inhabitants of the world know God, the world too will be perfect. So the hope of the world rests on

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Risks of livestock for Human Health

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ivestock production and consumption can lead to four main types of human health risks: (1) diseases transmitted from livestock to humans; (2) environmental pollution; (3) foodborne diseases and risks; and (4) diet-related chronic diseases.

Diseases transmitted from livestock to humans. Zoonoses are diseases that can be transmitted from animals to humans via bacteria, parasites, viruses and unconventional agents. The more serious zoonoses caused by infectious agents include salmonellosis, swineherds’ disease caused by Leptospira species, brucellosis, the hepatitis E virus (HEV), swine fever caused by Pestivirus, adult meningitis caused by Streptococcus suis, the influenza virus and the highly pathogenic “bird flu,” caused by the H5N1 virus.. Zoonoses pose a significant human health risk.

In the past, attempts at eradicating zoonoses associated with livestock included quarantine, vaccination, depopulation, cleaning and disinfection of farms, and mass culling of animals. Today, unconventional measures are being suggested, such as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Program (HACCP) controls by food processors, bans on imports of live animals, and early warning systems. The death of livestock from disease epidemics severely impoverishes poor households, as does the ill health or death of the bread- winner from diseases. Thus, for small livestock-keeping households in developing countries to ascend from poverty, the provision of human and animal health care is crucial.

Environmental pollution. Livestock production systems are intensifying worldwide, particularly in urban and periurban areas. As a result, livestock waste is emerging as a serious environmental and public health concern. Livestock waste can lead to huge nutrient surpluses concentrated in areas close to humans and has even been implicated in climate change.

Untreated and ill-disposed hog waste can become airborne and waterborne, leading to health hazards such as gastrointestinal diseases; respiratory ailments primarily caused by inhalation of noxious gases like hydrogen sulfide, methane, and ammonia; and skin irritation.

Foodborne diseases and risks. Several deadly bacteria are associated with the consumption of ill-prepared livestock products, notably Campylobacter, Salmonella, E. coli O157:H7, and Enterococcus. Antibiotics are used widely in developed countries in intensive livestock operations and are used increasingly in

developing countries as growth promoters and to prevent the spread of infection.

Though they have the potential benefit of increasing the availability of ASFs(Animal Source Foods) to poor families in developing countries, a recent study estimated that the benefit was negligible. Antiobiotics are also a foodborne public health risk: there are concerns that the use of antibiotics in animals could lead to the emergence of strains of resistant pathogens that also cause diseases in humans, thus reducing the ability to treat human disease. Concern about livestock-related foodborne diseases has led industrialized countries to develop strict food safety standards, but compliance with high-technology, process-based food safety standards, like HACCP, is prohibitively costly for many small, developing country producers. Unless addressed, this situation could lead to negative feedback on income and poverty reduction.

Diet-related chronic diseases. Although consumption of livestock products can bring nutritional benefits, ASFs are energy-dense and contain high levels of saturated fats. Excess saturated fat and calorie consumption are associated with the development of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and some cancers.

Societies in developing countries are now en route to adopting the typical Western diets high in saturated fats—largely contributed by increasing intakes of animal source foods—and in consequence are experiencing rapid rises in obesity and chronic diseases.

Effective surveillance, prevention, and control of zoonoses are indispensable and require improved coordination among farmers, public health agencies, and animal disease control officials, as well as organizations involved in food and water safety. There must also be systematic integration between public health infrastructure and policy, as well as between human and animal health surveillance and control. It may be necessary to rethink concentrated livestock feeding operations to better handle waste disposal problems linked to the ill health of livestock keepers and the community at large. Less intensive livestock operations could also potentially reduce animals’ susceptibility to infection and disease and reduce the indiscriminate use of antibiotics.

Sedeneinuo Suohu, 3rd year, B.V.Sc & A.H, College of Veterinary Science, Khanapara, Guwahati

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

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Former designated camp turned into peace centre muKalimi, october 8 (mexN): The vacated NSCN (IM) camp at Mukalimi village under Pughoboto sub-division has been converted into "Centre for Peace and Human Resource Development" under the initiative of Sümi Aphuyemi Baptist Akuhou Küqhakulu (SABAK).

Parliamentary secretary for IFC & Election Y. Vikheho Swu formally inaugurated the Centre on October 7, and it was dedicated by Rev. Hotokhu P. Zhimomi, executive secretary, SABAK in the presence of various villages under Pughoboto and government officials.

The plot of land measuring about 10 acres was donated to SABAK by Mu-

kalimi village in 1989. With a vision to promote various activities, SABAK has decided to use the land for multi-purpose activities, such as, human resource development, conference, training centre for any vocation, prayer centre, retreat and camping, Bible study, handicraft training, and development of language, said Rev. Hotokhu P. Zhimomi.

Meanwhile, Y. Vikheho Swu called the Centre as a positive approach, which will not only develop Pughoboto areas, but help the entire Sümis and even cater to Nagas and can attract people from outside also.

He expressed that he wants the centre to be developed in such a way that every vil-

lage under Pughoboto will come up with one house each, so when people come for training or any other activities, different houses can accommodate their own villagers and even give services to other people.

"We have to look into the future, our children, our people would have the privilege to work outside and when they come home they would like to work in the similar facilities," Swu stated. In this, he asked the SABAK to look beyond for the future of youngster and develop every facility to suit the youngsters’ needs.

Swu also said that in the centre, a big hall will be constructed with stateof-the-art facilities and will be named as "Pilinhaboto

29 AR allegedly assault NSCN (IM) cadres Dimapur, october 8 (mexN): Secretary, Union Territory, NSCN (IM) today alleged that on October 7 night, personnel of 29 Assam Rifles assaulted NSCN (IM) cadres at State Stadium here. In a press release, the UT secretary, Khekuto Jakhalu informed that around 10:30 pm on October 7, when the UT special team was on duty at the stadium, a non-local man “believed to be an AR intelligent and two females

came by Bike Apache new model bearing Rgt, NoNL-07/1555 under deep influence of Alcohol.” The UT team chased them away from the stadium, the release said.

However, after few minutes, the release said, 29 AR personnel arrived in two Gypsy with “full equipment” and search light. “Without asking anything, they start(ed) hitting our cadres with gun butts, punching,

Temjen Toy takes over as Finance Commissioner Kohima, october 8 (mexN): Temjen Toy (IAS), who has taken over as Finance Commissioner of Government of Nagaland, held a meeting with the senior officials of Finance Department on October 8 at the department’s conference hall. A press release from the Finance Department stated that Temjen Toy requested the support and cooperation of all the officers and staff to enable him to carry out the task of spearheading the Finance Department.

Y. Kikheto Sema, IAS, Secretary, Finance, on behalf of the officers of the Depart-

ment, welcomed the new Finance Commissioner and assured him that all officers and staff would give him full support and cooperation as was done in the past, the release added. While mentioning that the current financial year would be a challenging one as it is the ending of the 13th Finance Commission period, Kikheto hoped that the recommendations of the 14th Finance Commission would be better than the 13th Finance Commission, and stressed that the State Government shall have to make all efforts for better management of the State’s finances.

Dimapur Police arrest nine Dimapur, october 8 (mexN): Dimapur police arrested one person identified as Mughato Awomi (23), while he was collecting “illegal tax” in the name of NSCN (IM) and FGN at Itta Bata, Zani village on October 2. One “illegal tax” challan of FGN, two motor cycles and cash amounting to Rs 1100/- was seized from his possession, according to a press release from Addl. Superintendent of Police/PRO, Dimapur.

The accused has claimed that he has been collecting taxes for the two organizations for the past three months, the release added.

In another unrelated incident, Dimapur police apprehended 6 (six) persons on October 2 from Kushiabill area for collecting illegal taxes from trucks carrying local sand and bricks. The six arrested have been identified as Akashe Chopy (32), Shikato Chopy (34), Hotokhu

Chopy (33), Zubemo Merry (28), Kito ka Chopy (19), Vikaho Sema (27). The release informed that cash amounting to Rs.14,367/- with list of the vehicles from which taxes were collected along with 3 bottles of whisky, 26 cans of Beer, 3 bottles of Rum and a Pulsar bike were seized from their possession. Cases have been registered under relevant sections of law for investigation.

Meanwhile, on October 7, two persons identified as Atoka Awomi and Lutoi Chophy were arrested while they were collecting “illegal taxes” from the business establishments at Old Market, Dimapur in the name of NSCN (K).

One illegal tax slip and cash amounting to Rs.1500/were recovered and seized from their possession, the release informed, adding a case has been registered against the arrested persons for investigation.

kicking and assault(ed) them,” it alleged.

Accusing that 29 Assam Rifles were never concerned about the people and their culture, the release stated, “They are just supporting illegal activities when Naga peoples are trying to clean Dimapur from all evil activities.” Further, it added, “If the AR has a good sense for the people they should respect our task but I think Dimapur will never improve, if the law enforcing agency like AR remain supporting criminals and evil activities. They are adopting an ugly policy to tarnish the good image of GPRN.” The UT also lamented it is not getting much support from the church leaders except neighboring colony in the mission “Clean Dimapur from all evil activities.”

hall" and that would give service to big gathering.

Besides that, the entire centre would be designed with proper parking facilities, small recreation area.

The Nagaland Development Outreach (NDO) of NBCC has also indicated some positive response towards contributing to

develop the centre, he informed. He also assured to contribute some funds from Local Area Development Fund (LADF) and hoped that he will be able to bring funding from some central ministry.

Additional deputy commissioner Pughoboto Nokchasashi Ao also spoke on

the occasion as a guest of honour. He said the centre should be a peace centre for everyone, as the place is a centre point for most of the villages of the area.

Short speeches were delivered by president SAKH, president SAKK, president SATH and chairman, Mukalimi VC.

National Postal Week from today Kohima, october 8 (mexN): The Department of Posts, Nagaland is observing the annual “National Postal Week” from October 9 to 15. During the National Postal Week, all the Post Offices, Mail Offices and Administrative office will be spruced up and cleaned as part of the Swachh Bharat campaign, stated Director of Postal Services, Nagaland, Som Kamei in a press release.

Each day of the week will observe a special day with special themes, it added. October 9 will be “World Post Day” - Customers meet; settlements

of complaints and workshop on soft skill for the employees will be organized. October 10: “Savings Bank Day” - Special drive for opening of Post Office Savings Bank accounts will be organized by all the Post offices. October 11: “Mail Day” - Visit of school children to mail offices will be organized; awareness on postal products and use of standard stationeries for school children will be organized. October 13: “Philately Day” - “My Stamp” facility will be launched on this day, where personalized stamps of individual can be printed at the Phila-

telic Bureau, Kohima HO and students’ interaction will also be held. October 14: “Business Development Day” - Corporate customers meet will be organized. October 15: “PLI Day” - Special drive on awareness on Postal Life Insurance and Rural Postal Life Insurance will be carried out by all the agents and staffs. PLI claims settlement will also be given priority.

Department of Posts, Nagaland Division has requested all the employees and public to participate in the National Postal Week and make it a success.

MEx FILE BYE SBCK silver jubilee Kohima, october 8 (mexN): The Baptist Youth Endeavour (BYE) of Sangtam Baptist Church Kohima will be celebrating its silver jubilee from October 10 to 12 at the church, Middle PWD colony.

The main speakers of the celebration include; Rev. C. Lima, executive secretary USBLA Yangli, Nuklu Phom, executive secretary, Phom Baptist Christian Association, Longleng, Rev.Y. Imtiba, pastor Sangtam Baptist Church Kohima, Tsilise, youth secretary USBYE, Yangli and Dr. Apise, pastor, Sangtam Baptist Church, Punana Bazar Dimapur. C. Kipili Sangtam, minister for power, T.C. Sangtam, IAS commissioner & secretary and M. Sangtam, director employment & CT will also address the congregation. All the founder members, Sangtam in-laws, well wishers and members of Sangtam community have been requested to attend the celebration.

Evening of fashion, music & dance Kohima, october 8 (mexN): The Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) is organizing an evening of fashion, music and dance as a fund raiser event in aid of CSU scholarship and stationery shop on October 10 at Phek Local Ground at 4:00 PM.

Vendor development programme Dimapur, october 8 (mexN): Br. MSME is organising one-day workshop on vendor development programme in association with Nagaland handloom & handicrafts corporation Ltd, on October 10 at 11:00 am.

General Manager NABARD will inaugurate the function. All are welcome to visit the ongoing handloom expo and attend the workshop.

Kohima, october 8 (mexN): A bunch of keys has been found at Bank of Baroda, Kohima Branch premises. The Key Holder is marked with 'ONAMA'. Rightful owner may contact Bank of Baroda, Kohima Branch or call 9436062150.

Lazami migration monolith erection

A glimpse of the ongoing ‘Kohima Christian Book Fair’ at ABCC self Reliance Building, 1st Floor, Near Peraciezie Baptist Church, High School Junction, Kohima. The fair is offering varieties of Christian literature ranging from Gift items to Bibles. Highly discounted books, CDs, DVDs are also available. The Christian Book Fair, which started on October 7 will go on till October 11 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The fair is being organized by OM Books Dimapur.

fice in Kiphire.

According to a press release from USSC general secretary, Achumba and president, T. Pithrongse Anar, the notification affirmed to support “unconditionally” the declaration of ‘Peace Zone’ by ENPO within its jurisdiction. It also asked the NPGs to “strictly” adhere to the ENPO resolution within USSC jurisdiction (Kiphire district & Longkhim

Chare under Tuensang District). Further, it cautioned that in case of violation of ENPO resolution within USSC jurisdiction, the conference shall cease its co-operation to the factions. No negotiation shall be entertained during the period of non-cooperation, USSC said, including No taxation, and settlement within the USSC jurisdiction; however, negotiation will be entertained after

the expiry of one year. The notification will come into force from October 7, 2014, stated USSC. During the meeting, Justin Khatomong, Executive secretary USSC welcomed the gathering and expressed gratitude to the NPG leaders for responding positively to the USSC circular, while stating that the meeting is for peace, harmony, and better understanding in the district.

DC Kohima meets political parties and candidates Kohima, october 8 (Dipr): A meeting with the political parties and candidates of the 11 Northern Angami-II A/C bye-election was held at the DC’s chamber on October 8.

Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer, Kohima, W. Honje Konyak informed that everything has been arranged for the election in 39 Polling Stations with total votes of 18,834 (9,316 males and 9,518 females). He told both NPF and BJP parties that the priority is to conduct free and fair election with peaceful atmosphere. The DC urged them to know the roles of political parties and asked them to cooperate with the officials so as to bring 100% success. In case of any apprehension and complaints during the election period, it should

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Keys found at Bank of Baroda, Kohima

USSC affirms support to ENPO’s ‘Peace Zone’ declaration Kiphire, october 8 (mexN): The United Sangtam Students’ Conference (USSC) has issued a five-point notification to all the Naga Political Groups (NPGs) within Sangtam jurisdiction. The notification came about after USSC’s consultative meeting held with the NPGs of United Sangtam Region (USR) on October 7, which was attended by representatives of the factions at USSC of-

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be reported to the nearest locality authorities or DC or SP Kohima, he added.

Principal Secretary & CEO, West Bengal Human Rights Commission, Laima Chozah, who has vast experience as General Observer for the last 16 times all over India in the meeting stated, being a Christian a tribal state, he expects the election to be conducted smoothly and the Rules and Guidelines of Election Manuals be followed. This is the first time he has been appointed as an Observer in Nagaland.

Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, T. James Singson, who is the Election Expenditure Observer for the bye-election, said that all the political parties should maintain the election incurred expenditures in the registers which could be

inspected and checked by his assistants three times.

The election expenditures should be twenty lakhs as per the Election Commission of India Guidelines.

Singson said that whatever the expenditure incurred should be withdrawn from their Bank Account. He informed the political parties that after the election result is declared they should lodge /submit the registers to the DEO within 30 days excluding the counting day.

SP Kohima Joseph Hesso said for security measures, all the polling stations survey has been done and arrangements have been made to depute central security forces along with the Nagaland police.

This time, seven striking forces will be there in all Polling stations. Checking and movement of vehicles

will be done day by day in order to secure the safety of the public, he said.

Three categories namely, Hyper sensitive/critical, sensitive/vulnerable and Normal Polling station/location have been listed to tighten the security.

As per the last date of Nomination and corresponding to the Authentic Copy of the Roll to be supplied to polling stations for use as marked copy, polling station with highest electorate is Chiechama Basa with total votes of 937 votes (M-463, F-474) and the lowest is Tuophe- Phezou with total no. 58 (M-33, F-25) votes.

AEO Kohima R. Mhathung Ngullie and SDO Sardar Wennyie Konyak also highlighted on the election Code of conduct, rules and guidelines.

Kohima, october 8 (mexN): Lazami (Lozumi) Migration monolith erection will take place at Khezhakeno village on October 11 at 11:00 AM. Naga Hoho president P. Chuba Ozukum will grace the occasion as the chief guest. Ex-MLA Joshua Achumi will also exhort the gathering. The function will be chaired by Timikha Koza, advocate, while welcome address will be delivered by C. Kemvii Koza, VCC Khezhakeno. Act of blessing will be pronounced by Dikha Meche Koza, oldest citizen of Khezhakeno.

Survival Nagaland decries monopoly on king chilli Dimapur, october 8 (mexN): The Survival Nagaland has expressed their concern over the “latest monopoly” exercised by the "Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants" (IBIs) in King Chilli (Raja Mircha) business.

In a press note from the Media Cell, Survival Nagaland maintained that the IBIs has formed a chain of network though which they purchase the chilly at cheap price from local farmers and sell the same to local entrepreneurs and the customers at a much higher price fixed by them. In this connection, it has appealed to the district administration, DMC and the DCCI to fix a common rate for the chilly so that the local farmers are not “cheated and customers charged exorbitantly”. The ‘Movement’ further encouraged the Naga youths to get engaged other avenues of occupation rather than focusing only on “white-collar job” as numerous other professions are could be undertaken if only “one starts searching and learning”.

ABIM delegates on ‘Pilgrim Tour to Molungyimsen’ m o lu N gy i m s e N, october 8 (mexN): A team of ten American Baptist International Ministries (ABIM) delegates led by Rev Dr. Reid Trulson (Executive Director, ABIM) accompanied by delegates from BIM and NBCC reached Molungyimsen village on October 7 for their ‘Pilgrim Tour to Molungyimsen’. Rev. Dr. Mar Atsongchanger, ABAM Executive Secretary, led the ‘Pilgrim Tour’ team.

According to a press release received here, the torchbearer who brought first Christianity to Nagaland, Rev. Dr. E.W Clark

was an American missionary from ABIM and he established Molungyimsen village in 1876.

ABIM is commemorating their 200th anniversary as well as their 175th year of its mission in India.

The guests participated in the just concluded India Mission Summit at Kohima hosted by NBCC. Their journey started on October 7 from Kohima and they visited Vankhosung (Wokha), Impur and Akhoya village (Mokokchung) on their way to Molungyimsen village. They will be visiting some important spots at Molungyimsen.

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Training on Aloe Vera soap making underway NCSU demands to cancel work order of Maytas–Gayatri (JV)

Kohima, october 8 (mexN): The Kohima Chakhesang Students’ Union (KCSU) has decided to go for selection process pertaining to new team of 2014-15 tenure during its Union Assembly.

In this regard, a search committee has been constituted, comprising Dode Nakro, Neithsho Wezah and Wekhrope Marhu as the committee members. For any query, call 8974788525, 9856115731, 9612788383.

Dimapur, october 8 (mexN): The seven days training program on Aloe Vera soap making and its by-products for self help groups (SHGs) under Dimapur district started at State Horticulture Nursery, 4th Mile, Dimapur on October 6.

Forty participants from three different SHGs are attending the training.

The training is sponsored by the Department of Horticulture, Government of Nagaland under the scheme of Horticulture Mission for North East and Himalayan Region (HMNEH), Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India,

informed a press release.

The inaugural program was chaired by Pawan Kumar, Joint Director of Horticulture, who is also the co-ordinator for the said training.

Manesh of M/S Manesh Agro Engineering and Technology Jaipur, Rajasthan, the main resource person for the training, during the inaugural function, highlighted the topics to be covered during the training period – production technology of Aloe Vera, handmade Aloe Vera soap making and production of various by-products of Aloe Vera such as jam, jelly, shampoo, juice, etc. – which will be covered

both theoretically and practically.

According to M/S Manesh Agro Engineering and Technology Jaipur, which is the pioneer for production of various Aloe Vera products and marketing of the same, this is the first training to be conducted in the North East region, the release said. After the completion of the training, the beneficiaries will be able to produce good quality of handmade Aloe Vera soap and its product which will go a long way to sustain the livelihood of the SHGs to increase their income, added the release.

Kohima, october 8 (mexN): The Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) today demanded from the Governor of Nagaland to cancel the work order allotted to Maytas–Gayatri (JV) for widening of two-lane roads on Longleng – Changtongya road, Mon – Tamlu – Merangkong road, Phek – Pfütsero and Zunheboto – Chakhabama road, and allot the works to capable local contractors.

A 12-member delegation of the Nagaland Contractors’ & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) led by its president, Pele Khezhie met the Governor of Nagaland, P.B Acharya

at Raj Bhavan Kohima today, coinciding with the birthday of the Governor.

A press release from NCSU president, Pele Khezhie and general secretary, John Kath informed that the NCSU reiterated its demands as stated in a memorandum submitted to the Governor earlier, seeking his intervention for urgent action with regard to widening of 2-lane road on Longleng – Changtongya road, Mon – Tamlu – Merangkong road, Phek – Pfütsero and Zunheboto – Chakhabama road, which were allotted to Hyderabad based Maytas – Gayatri (JV) in February 2011.

The release stated the company has “abandoned” the work “completely haphazard resulting a nightmare thereby causing untold inconveniences and suffering to the travelling public on these roads undertaken by them.”

NCSU further demanded to hand over the National Highways and State Highways in the State, presently under the Jurisdiction of Border Road Organisation (BRO), to the Nagaland PWD “in view of the fact that the performance and workmanship of BRO have of late become poor and unsatisfactory.”

According to the note, the Governor replied that he has personally taken up the matters with the Union Minister for Surface Transport & Shipping Ministry, Nitin Gadkari and he was hopeful to get positive response soon. He also assured that he would give his best service and work hard to develop Nagaland and called upon the people of Nagaland for joint efforts. He advised the NCSU members on how they can best serve the people of Nagaland. He also emphasized on various problems being faced by the people of Nagaland and the urgent need to find solutions, the release added.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express THursDAy 9 OcTObEr 2014 vOlumE IX IssuE 278

by Aheli moitra

Why is she in it?

THE EDIT PAGE

C O M M E N T A R Y

Jem Bendell

The future of the climate debate

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s a question most often asked about women in sex trade.

Here are a few Hints: (1) Because she is struck by poverty. She was not born of her volition into it, and she has no choice but to fend for her family—to support her addict parents, or an addict husband.

Or both. Probably from a marginalised community, her husband will face the consequences of not having an easily available job; inevitable consequences of being at the bottom rung of the economy and polity, facing what women face across communities. This will not be clear to him. Taking advantage of the fact that at least he is a male member of the family and thus the king of his house, also not born of his volition but bestowed the position by society, he will not look for harder avenues of work, slumping into alcoholism or drug addiction instead. Reality continues—children still have to be brought up, fed, sent to school, clothed, and the woman of the house will not leave them to lurch.

(2) Because in a market economy, customer is king. Men from across caste, class and creed have, and been allowed to with honour, demanded sex from women across caste, class and creed. Women have been exploited through centuries, and the market economy has solidified this across-cultural exploitation. With the great new free market economy that has made golden nations of the worst of us, the commodification of women has found new depths. If there is a demand for it, a customer exists with money to pin the value of anything on, it must be respected. Supply is slave—it must cater to the demand. If the source of supply is unwilling, it must be forcibly taken. In sex trade, men create the demand and organize supply, yet find themselves unaccountable.

(3) Because cultural systems now aspire a position in the 'free market.' The market does not look at the value of culture, of peoples or of bodies—merely the price. Cultural systems that keep men as the stronghold factor, no matter their ineptitude, have nothing more to pay with today than hard cash. In its cultural element, a system created by men, for men, with women trying to fit themselves into roles. If lucky enough to be born into the upper sections of communities, women can sometimes choose their role. Most often, she cannot. Beaten, manipulated or threatened, she plays her honourable or dishonourable role in the social framework according to what the men around her command.

(4) Remember the time when the justice delivery system failed to find evidence to pronounce guilt in the man who traded her, lent her to his friends to be raped, or in the system that facilitates this? Remember the time when her uncle visited her as a child and charged her sexually? Remember the time mothers remained silent to save their brothers, or the fathers who never bothered to know? Remember how we watched men trade on the front desks of hotels where women remained in the back booth? Remember how we bought and sold that child like chattel?

Because of systems we never challenged, she went in, and remained there.

To share a story of abuse, write to moitramail@yahoo.com

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Liz Murray

SCOTTISH REFERENDUM: Big business bypassed democracy

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igher food prices, destabilisation of the financial markets, a drop in the value of Sterling, job losses, capital flight, the next great depression...

All of these things, and more, were being predicted by big business and the financial industry, and faithfully reported by the mainstream media, in the months, weeks and days before the Scottish independence referendum.

In what was a free and democratic vote for the Scottish public, undemocratic business voices waded in an unprecedented and blatantly unethical way, demonstrating the power that the corporate elite (from wherever it is in the world) has in the UK. Whichever way Scots were planning on voting, they could be forgiven for feeling like they were, at best, being patronised and, at worst, being held to ransom by the increasingly dramatic predictions that were being made by big business as the vote got closer.

In contrast, civil sociWhilst NGOs ety organisations such as and civil society NGOs, the churches, academic institutions and politely facilitated most of the trade unions discussion, big went to some lengths to provide balanced informabusiness waded tion and engage the public in a way that allowed them into the Scottish to consider both sides of referendum with the debate.

While there were busioverblown threats. ness voices on both sides of Does free market the referendum debate, the interventions of big busicapitalism really ness, multinationals and walk hand in hand the financial industry were almost without exception with democracy? in support of retaining the Union. Senior executives of BP and Shell pretty much instructed the public to vote No (for more detail on BP’s influence on the independence referendum I’d recommend this recent blog from Platform). RBS, Standard Life, Lloyds, TSB, Clydesdale and Tesco Bank all threatened to move their headquarters to England in the event of a Yes vote.

Asda suggested that food prices could rise in an independent Scotland. Then it said that actually they could fall, but only if politicians abolished the tax known as the large retail levy.

The Financial Times reported on September 9, after a poll showed the Yes vote in the lead for the first time, that, "Asset managers, investors and pension savers are moving billions of pounds out of Scotland". Deutsche Bank’s predictions were perhaps the most dramatic, claiming that a Yes vote would result in economic circumstances that were ‘incomprehensible’ and predicting another great depression.

I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised by any of this. With one eye on the balance sheet and another on the likely response of shareholders to the outcome of the referendum, big business exposed the extent to which the international markets and the profit motive drive them and their behaviour, and how strongly they can react to any perceived threat to the neoliberal status quo. But we should be angered by it – and the fact that these statements, predictions and (let’s face it) guesses in support of mainstream economic thinking were given such disproportionate prominence.

We are endlessly told that free market capitalism and democracy go hand in hand. But what we saw in the run-up to the independence referendum is that, when the chips are down, they are actually incompatible. With political engagement at phenomenally high levels in Scotland, and the focus on devolving power, now is the time to recognise the undemocratic influence of big business and to stop this interference in the future.

A boy swings a bundle of rice seedlings to get rid of excess mud as he helps his family planting rice in a paddy during the rainy season at Serey Andet village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Wednesday, September 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

The cutting edge of the climate change debate was absent from recent events in New York City, including mass marches. It’s time to unlearn the deluded notions that keep us from exploring the real issues for the future

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he climate summit and related events that took place in New York at the end of September 2014 got lots of people talking. But I looked at the 400,000 people marching in the streets of Manhattan with a heavy heart. It’s tragic that such a huge wave of awareness has arrived only after the opportunity to prevent dramatic climate change has passed. Instead, we have to explore how to respond to the difficulties that now lie ahead.

Climate science has moved on, as hinted by actor Leonardo DiCaprio in his speech to the United Nations when he mentioned the plumes of methane that are already rising from the ocean floor. What’s been happening in the Arctic over the last few years is far beyond even the worst case predictions. It already amounts to a localised warming of five degrees centigrade. The summer pack ice looks set to disappear in the next couple of years, when just seven years ago there was a scientific consensus that this might only happen in the 22nd century.

Warming in the Arctic has been exponential, and there are signs that this is already affecting frozen methane on the sea floor, leading to its release into the atmosphere. Over 20 years, methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of the greenhouse effect. The release of oceanic methane was the cause of the largest mass extinction on Earth, called the Permian, which ended 95 per cent of species in existence at that time.

Given these trends, future debates about climate change will have to be very different to anything that was on offer in the conference centres or on the streets of New York. It’s this future debate that we need to explore ourselves--and urgently--even if politicians, businesses, and mainstream environmental

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o one is for human trafficking, save the traffickers, recruiters and middlemen who profit from it. But does this mean that everyone with a publicist to please has the requisite experience to take on the complexities of human trafficking, or that we should unquestioningly follow the recommendations and advice of these selfdesignated anti-trafficking icons?

Until the summer of 2014, when Newsweek led with a cover story implying that Somaly Mam, an anti-trafficking activist, was a fraud, every celebrity human rights activist, government official, NGO representative and member of Congress I met had claimed her as a ‘close friend.’ She was dubbed a ‘hero’ (and awarded money with that title) by everyone from the US Department of State to Glamour magazine. She was lauded by John Kerry, Oprah, the UN Secretary General, and the Pope, among others. When I asked one US State Department official a few years ago why that agency continued to fund her when legitimate questions were surfacing about whether she was carrying out the work she claimed, the honest, if somewhat disappointing response that I received was “she’s very photogenic.”

The implication was that Somaly Mam was one of a handful of people who put a face on human trafficking activism, and that the benefits that came with ease of recognition outweighed the potential costs of backing the wrong horse.

Celebrities – people known for being known – are increasingly involved in human rights activism. The pop star who sells clothes to fight poverty in Africa, the movie star working on intervention strategies in Darfur, the journalist who specializes in oped’s about rescuing girls from their plight: all secure a broader following through work that seems both important and seri-

groups are not ready to acknowledge it. On the sidelines, I’m seeing four emerging lines of thinking and action: profound change, emergency response, local resilience, and transcendence.

Profound change is the theme that’s been heard from author Naomi Klein in recent weeks. The argument is that efforts to incorporate climate concerns into current economic systems have failed to produce any significant impact on aggregate carbon emissions. The claim that such efforts are useful because they are ‘pragmatic’ and ‘non-ideological’ no longer holds any water. Moving forward, the only intellectually and morally sound environmentalism is explicitly revolutionary, in that it seeks to transform our political and economic systems. It’s an analysis I’ve also arrived at in my book Healing Capitalism, in which I explore the need for fundamental monetary reforms.

The second approach is based around the idea of emergency, in which profound changes in these systems are considered insufficient because we are already on course to experience abrupt climate change within the lifetimes of human beings who are alive today. The emergency paradigm starts with a call for urgent geo-engineering to cool the Arctic, including actions like the release of sulphur dioxide at high altitudes. Geo-engineering also has risks, but the situation is so serious that they simply have to be taken.

This call is not just for more scientific research and technological experiments, but for intergovernmental frameworks to implement such an approach and deal with its potentially damaging consequences for regions that might be hit by severe climate and weather disturbances as a result. Authors exploring these ideas include Mark Lynas and several writers in The Ecologist. The emergency approach triggers discussions about how to deal with climate-induced collapses in societies, including humanitarian and security responses: for example, new roles for atomic energy agencies in bringing nuclear power plants to cold shut down.

But while such writers often talk about physical adaptations such as higher sea walls, they rarely discuss the need for any deeper psychological adaptations to climate change, which is where the other two other lines of debate come in.

The first is local resilience, which assumes that it’s too late to avert a collapse in current systems due to catastrophic climate change even if the economy is transformed and geo-engineering is underway. A belief in such near-term collapse

leads advocates of this approach to focus on how to sustain at least some forms of life, and on the values and aspirations that might help to facilitate the transition to radically different ways of living.

This isn’t the well-known agenda of transition to a post-carbon world, but transition to a way of life in which basic aspects of our current societies no longer exist, such as the nation state, industrial agriculture, and pharmaceutical drugs.

The film Collapse introduced the world to the late Michael Ruppert, who expressed these views eloquently. Some of the more radical elements of the Transition Towns movement also give space to this line of argument, as do authors like John Foster, Charles Eisenstein, and projects such as Dark Mountain which encourage new cultures to emerge to help facilitate the traumatic times that lie ahead.

A key insight of this approach is that not making things worse--by remaining attached to current ways of life and values like private property or nationalism, for example--is a key area for action.

‘Transcendence’ is the name I’ll give to the fourth line of thinking that’s emerging. It’s based on the acceptance of probable near-term extinction of the human race (not just collapse)--a harrowing thought for most people, and a prospect that leads to various forms of denial. Critics say that this approach implies fatalism, despair, depression and inaction. But among those who accept its analysis a host of new insights are being generated. For people like me, who for decades have defined their self-worth in terms of their contribution towards strengthening sustainability and protecting the climate, these insights can be extremely destabilizing. Yet despair can also be transformative, leading people to transcend their previous senses of self and allow new ones to emerge that are less framed by linear notions of human progress.

This line of debate calls us to reflect on fundamental questions concerning the meaning of our lives, and the meaning of life itself. Some will turn to religion for answers, while others will find existing religious explanations to be unsatisfactory in addressing such dilemmas. Carolyn Baker explores these issues using insights from hospice care. I think the writings of others who study what we can learn from suffering like Mark Matousek will also be helpful.

These four lines of debate were largely absent from the events on climate change that took place in New York. I’ve found that most professionals engaged in the climate issue avoid these debates because they think they won’t help them to communicate to the general public, potential donors, or the business community. Nevertheless, they are bubbling up in private conversations, and they are beginning to be explored by organizations like the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability.

Current mainstream economic and political systems, including things as basic as monetary institutions, don’t help societies to respond in any of the ways I’m describing. I’m also convinced that our whole understanding of leadership has to be transformed. Critical leadership studies conclude that common notions of heroic leadership from ‘special’ individuals are misplaced. There is no one coming to the rescue. Instead, we need to act together in a movement of, not just for, massive change.

People in senior positions have a useful role to play, but they must transcend the need to conform to stereotypes of successful people who are in command of events. Instead, we need everyone--including leaders--to approach the traumatic times that lie ahead with greater humility, equanimity, gratitude, inquisitiveness, compassion, love, playfulness and hope: leadership that is heartfelt not heroic.

Unfortunately the institutions we’ve created in the political, economic and social spheres have not promoted such qualities. Therefore the greatest leadership challenge of today may be to unlearn deluded notions about self, success and progress that keep us from exploring the immensely difficult issues that the Arctic is now asking of us.

When human trafficking becomes a Cause Celebre Dina Haynes

Celebrities no longer just raise money and awareness. They offer advice about how to approach and ‘solve’ the human trafficking problem. The United Nations has multitudes of celebrities representing it as the ‘faces’ of the topic ous. They are celebrities, but also humanitarians. A complicit public often respects multi-millionaire stars all the more for putting their celebrity to good use.

To paraphrase Susan Sarandon, a member of the Somaly Mam Foundation global advisory board, if a celebrity is going to be treated as a commodity she might as well get some air time for her particular activist agenda.

And it works. Appearing in public recently, Emma Stone and her boyfriend Andrew Garfield held signs in front of their faces that described the needs of two charities.

If the paparazzi tailing them wanted to publish photos of the two movie stars together, they would also have to show the information about the charities. They did.

But an all-too-real downside of the celebritisation of human rights causes is that questioning the veracity of celebrity claims becomes a perilous business.

They are respected and loved by millions, and have funding and political support to back them up, regardless of how beneficial their activism is. The same has

been true with human trafficking. One of the many problems with turning antitrafficking activists like Somaly Mam into figureheads for a cause (and her celebrity supporters, in a circular fashion, into bona fide anti trafficking ‘experts’ for endorsing her) is that by virtue of their sizable public following, their words and suggestions become sacrosanct. Questioning dubious statistics and dramatic claims about human trafficking requires one to parry wrathful retorts like: “Are you saying that you are for five-year-old girls being sold into brothels?!”

No. I’m not.

Celebrities no longer just raise money and awareness. They offer advice about how to approach and ‘solve’ the human trafficking problem.

Congress regularly invites celebrity witnesses to testify on human trafficking.

The wife of one Hollywood star, an actress herself, was invited to address the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on human trafficking, even though she admitted she had never even heard of the issue until eight months earlier. A pop star and another Hollywood couple each created

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anti-trafficking foundations that received sizeable funding from the US government. They were in turn designated ‘heroes’ for using that government funding to put out public service announcements about trafficking. The United Nations has multitudes of celebrities representing it as the 'faces' of the topic.

Yes, celebrity activists can raise awareness about the existence of human trafficking. But their often ill-informed characterisations of the problem and its potential solutions lead to unintended consequences, misallocated funds, and misdirected victim services, because the claims they make are backed by data, statistics and assumptions rife with error.

A multitude of careful and considerate experts on human trafficking have emerged in the past few decades, and scholarship on the topic is showing us that much of what we think we know about human trafficking may be wrong.

But it is the opinions of celebrities and celebrity activists like Somaly Mam and Nicholas Kristof who continue to hold sway. These individuals receive the lion’s share of attention from the press, from the public and, crucially, from legislators and policy makers. In September 2014, an article in Marie Claire disputed the Newsweek allegations, suggesting that Mam was not misrepresenting herself or her work. Regardless of which story holds the most truth, no one person or one aspect of the issue should dominate the direction of policy, funding or programming solutions.

Is it better to do nothing than something? The answer is not necessarily one or the other. But when the something done is not carefully thought out, or is based merely on the proposals of celebrity activists with something to gain, then it might well be better to do nothing.

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7 PERSPECTIVE Response To Public Discussion On NSDZs, NIB & The NLTP Act 1989

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NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Dr. Chumben Murry (Ex. Minister)

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n appreciation to the participatory approach taken by the Govt. on the NSDZs, NIB and the NLTP Act. And, in response to the invitation to participate in the public discussion on the topics held in Kohima on 8th September 2014, and the call for submission of opinion on the above subjects, the following article of personal opinion is written for sharing with readers of your esteemed dailies. The issues are of public importance and if a calculated approach on the concept of Nagaland Special Development Zones (NSDZs) and review of the redundant NLTP Act is taken, I believe they will have important impact on the health of the State.

ON NSDZs: As presented in the brief write up on the concept on NSDZs, it is agreed that, we are faced with the stark reality of saturated Govt. employment.

Over saturated may be the right words as Nagaland has the highest Govt.

Servant-Population ratio (1:16) and that our expenditure on salary and allowances is a painful resource drain (The State spends almost double the amount we are suppose to. (as per the 13th Finance Commission Award).

A rough estimate suggest that, 15 to 18 thousand jobs need to be gulled in the next five years or so to achieve the desired level of the State's expenditure on salary and allowances. Given the lack of contribution of the private sector in employment generation and economic growth, gulling of jobs in the State Govt. sector would result in livelihood chaos. Therefore, alternative avenues have to be sought. A cursory look at the economy of the common Naga, and employment prospects of the ever inflating population of educated unemployed Naga youth (which currently stands at over 60,000) indicate that all is not well. Prevailing poor economy and poor prospects of employment opportunities can have vicious cyclic effects on the health of the State. Therefore, the Govt. of the day, the planners and the complementary stake holders of the State should without further ado take proactive roles in their given capacities, collaborate and work out avenues to create conducive atmosphere for sustainable private sector development and thereby, employment generation. All right thinking Nagas must wake up to this pressing need without vested interests. It is unfortunate that, many important stakeholders tend to take an anti-establishment attitude and many a times, even good intention of the Govt. of the day is viewed with suspicion. This sort of negative attitude is not healthy for our progress.

I believe That: 1) It was prudent on the part of the Govt. to have called for the public discussion on the issue, as there seems to be misconstrued feelings against the Assembly Resolution on NSDZs. Any discussion on the subject must be based on the following basic points or understandinga.) That, the Resolution is still not a binding Act (of the Assembly). b.) That, the Resolution in effect only enables the executive tier of the Government to work out further details of the Policy in question based on the broad guidelines of the Resolution. c.) That, to achieve point b.) above, there is unequivocal provision for wide consultation with different stakeholders - the District Administration, the Tribal Hohos and the Landowners. Stakeholders must take truthful advantage of the participatory approach of the Government. d.) That, there is room for flexibility and amendment of the policy if required.

2) In today’s globalized world, economy has become literally market driven. And in this globalized market driven world, how do we rate our own standing? We are obviously at ground zero! Lack of private sector development is obviously causing stress on the health of the State. Therefore, in order to move ahead, it has become imperative for us to have Secondary and Tertiary Sectors of development taking roots in Nagaland at the earliest. The foremost need is to understand that, Govt. cannot bring development to non receptive subjects.

Take two examples, first is that of 150 year old well developed and magnificent harbor city of Sydney, Australia. The city started when civilization was taking roots in our land. The question is have we progressed good enough? Does our development so far commensurate the time since civilization came to our land? The answer obvious! Second example I would like to give is that of modern China. The China we see today developed after lifting of the "iron curtain" in 1989. It took China just barely a quarter of a century to transform itself and adapt to the changing global scenario. No doubt, responsible governments were in place but importantly, the people were productive and receptive to the policies of their respective governments. What about us Nagas? Are we productive and receptive as well?

• We do not react with characteristics and refineness seen in people of developed countries! Our external appearances have changed but our mindset have not evolved and become refined through the tests of time.

• We have not yet learnt to live by the rules!

• Our unresolved political turmoil has affected our psyche and thinking process in one way or the other!

• Over-ground, we Nagas are as divided as the Naga political groups!

• Our Land is a land of Presidents and Secretaries of thousand Unions and Associations trying to compete and assert their existence over and above the other?

These and many more questions comes to my mind. I think we Nagas need deep introspection. Many write ups on the interpretation of Article 371 (A) and the Assembly Resolution have at large been consciously critically or negatively directed. The main concerns of the write ups have been, dilution or negation of Article 371(A), relaxation of ILP and criterion for Land access.

Imagine a spectrum of attitude where critical and appreciative attitudes are on two extreme ends and complacent attitude is in the centre. If you are to rate yourself on any issue, on a scale of 0 - 10 on both sides of complacent attitude (zero point), where would you stand?

Nagas can no longer afford wanton attitude of listening with intent to argue and disagree creating a milieu for disunity but, should collaborate, call for change and move on!

3) The right push in this direction of change for the Nagas was ushered by the Assembly Resolution of July 2010 on the Article 371 (A). Fellow Nagas, I believe the Nagaland Assembly resolution of July 2010 has partitioned Naga History into that before and that after the Resolution, more than the formation of statehood. Look at Article 371 (A), what it is and what it has actually done for us in the past 50 years. It is indeed the essence of the formation of Nagaland as the 16th State of the Union of India. (Nagaland was born out of a political negotiation and not by necessity to demarcate boundaries nor to segregate people with the same attributes as provided under the Constitution for the formation of new State.) But, Article 371 (A) at large has been just a dormant insinuation in the Indian Constitution for nearly half of a century. The Assembly Resolution of July 2010 on the Article changed that To refresh our minds let me reproduce the Article 371(A) ARTICLE 371(A) (1) Notwithstanding anything in this Constitution, (a)No Act of Parliament in respect of, (i) religious and social practices of the Naga (ii) Naga customary law and procedure (iii) administration of civil and criminal justice involving decisions according to Naga customary law, (iv) ownership and transfer of land and its resources shall apply to the State of Nagaland unless the Assembly of Nagaland by a resolution so decides.

Article 371(A) simply empowers the State Assembly to resolve on

whether or not to accept Acts of Parliament which may have consequence on the four issues mentioned in the Article by passing resolution to that effect, without which we are bound by prevailing Acts of Parliament. The Assembly Resolution of July 2010 on the Article essentially invoked that authority given to the State. Therefore now, it is incumbent on the Assembly of Nagaland to pass its own resolutions/Bills on • religious and social practices of Nagas which in effect will nullify any Act of Parliament on any religious and social practices from being enforced in the State of Nagaland.

• Naga customary Law and procedures, administration of civil or justice thereof. There is an urgent need to research and develop a concise book on Naga customary law and procedures. The jurisdiction of the Naga customary Law and criminal procedure has also to be defined as there is obvious crisscross of the Naga customary and mainland system of jurisprudence.

• ownership and transfer of land and its resources.

Consequent upon the Assembly Resolution of July 2010 on Article 371(A), the Nagaland PNG Rules and regulations came into being. Obviously, this is just the beginning in the right direction after having slept over the Article for half a century. But, rather than Unity we fight over the Article and the resolutions the Nagaland Legislative Assembly adopted from the start point itself. Why be argumentative on filtered areas when, the need of the hour is to come together in a positive manner. Pertaining to PNG, it is interesting to note that, seeing our disunited stand, Govt. of India has written to our State to withdraw the resolution on PNG as it is unconstitutional.

This tantamount to telling us that, Indian petroleum Act will prevail even in the State of Nagaland!

4) In conclusion, I feel that the Government should go ahead with the NSDZs project and summarize my suggestions in the following four areasa.) Land: Land, with or without wealth below or above, it still is the most important resource. It is the first commodity industrial investors will look for. It is agreed that, because of topography and the limited quantum of transport capabilities of our hill areas, major industrial potential lies only in the foothills. Therefore, for NSDZs to become a reality, select areas of the foothills have to be converted into industrial development investor friendly areas. In this regard, it is imperative that, the Government of the day review all existing Rules & Regulations and Acts on land use in the State and promulgate necessary Amendments in the light of emerging needs and make them user friendly. b.) Peace: The second commodity investors will look for is Security. Peace and development are interdependent. Specially in the private sector, few or no investors will take risk of investing in an atmosphere of turmoil. Therefore, the Government, and all Nagas be it individuals, Political Parties, Tribal/Community based organizations, Church/Religion based organizations, Women and Youth organizations must WILL ourselves to proactively make the peace process a mass movement for the ultimate resolution of our political issue. Therefore, importantly the Govt. of the day should leave no stone unturned to facilitate and help bring about a final resolution of our political issue in the foreseeable future. c.) ILP/RAP: Seeing the primitive and susceptible Nagas, the British and the post British India took upon themselves to protect the Nagas by way of ILP or RAP. But today, we live in a globalized scenario where interdependence has more or less become the key word to existence. Yet, we want to stick to the ILP promulgated ages ago and make hue and cry about relaxation of ILP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent visit to USA declared that, US Tourists will have visa on arrival in few months time. Without question, this policy will have a far reaching impact and consequences for India and its international relationship yet; I will call this moving forward. I think, Govt. of Nagaland has to seriously think about reviewing the existing laws from our own perspective and context and in tune with our times. Government will have to if need be, categorize visitors to Nagaland whether one is a tourist, short duration business entrepreneur or long duration establishment or industrial investor and issue ILP according to the nature of visit. Remembering that Rome cannot be built in 15 days, there should be provisions for prolonged ILP/RAP for large scale investors. Nagas have to understand that more stringent or relaxed ILP has nothing to do with illegal immigration. Today, most of the townships in Nagaland have on non-naga businessmen who have been running their establishments for more than 20, 30 even 40 years and we are silent on such issue. d.) Feasible Roadmap: The onus on establishment of Nagaland Investment Board (NIB) should lie with the Government. However, there should also be a good focus on mobilization of our own resources and channelizing them gainfully rather than look for 100% external funding. While thinking about the high level modern industrial development, we tend to forget the small grass root level cottage to small-scale industrial developments which are essentially step boards to bigger developments. I believe that a policy slogan of "THINK BIG, START SMALL AND SCALE UP" will prove to be more result oriented. In this regard, a principle or broad roadmap would be called for since, the objective of the NIB and at large the NSDZs is essentially a vision.

NLTP ACT: Abuse of alcohol is the root of many evils. Rev. Increase Mather, one of the most influential puritan ministers of the late 17 century said “Alcohol is a good creature of God and that, man should partake of the gift without abusing it”. Jeffry A. Miron said, “Prohibition can only reduce demand if consumers exhibit respect of the Law”. The Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act 1989 was passed by the Govt. in place at that period of time under the influence of the churches. It might have been appropriate at that period of time to do so. Whatever the reasons, when an Assembly or Parliament passes an Act, it becomes obligatory on its citizens to contribute in making enforcement of the Act a success. Laws are made for the betterment of the people but, when such Laws become redundant or ineffective of its objectives because people fail to respect them then, a review to repeal or amend is the logical sequence. Looking back, our own NLTP Act 1989 has been theoretically a happy venture but practically an utter failure in spite of the efforts put in by the concerned Department, Law enforcement agencies, volunteering Women Organizations etc.

Ours is a secular democratic form of governance and while the Government of the day is responsible for orderliness in its day-to-day affairs, it is also responsible for taking its citizens to a level of progression as per the demand of the time and situation. The decisions and policies adopted should be on analysis of the totality of the situation not on the wishes of a section of the people. Nevertheless, today after 25 years of experience on the issue of prohibition, the ongoing discussion is healthy, as it will hopefully enable the Govt. take further rational decision in the interest of its people.

The main concern here is that as elsewhere, the prohibition in its present form gave birth to some collateral problems and menaces. The following comes to my mind. i.) Smuggling of Alcohol. ii.) Criminalization among participants. iii.) Bootlegging & introduction of spurious alcohol iv.) Health problems arising out of the Sequel of prohibition. v.) Additional expenditure on its enforcement while revenue is cut off.

Prohibition results in a variation of demand-supply equation. Legalized supply is cut off but, demand remains and the stage is set for smuggling.

In spite of up scaling of efforts on enforcement, smugglers will continue to find loopholes. This has been the experience worldwide where there has been prohibition. If we are to think that total prohibition can eradicate alcohol then, probably we are chasing dreams and butterflies. So, finally, it

is just a matter of control of smuggling of alcohol, which by itself is a defeat insofar as total prohibition is concerned. But of more concern, is the spurt in bootlegging and introduction of spurious alcohol and its natural adverse health sequel observed in places where total alcohol prohibition has been promulgated.

With particular reference to Nagaland, smuggling of alcohol is easy as in the immediate neighboring state Assam; there is no such prohibition.

Alcohol and other psychotropic substances which are banned in Nagaland are not so in the state of Assam. Each State of the Indian Union has its own right to enact law on alcohol. This has given rise to what is called “Patchwork of Law” due to differences in legality of alcohol sale and consumption. This by itself is another disadvantage.

In Gujarat, where prohibition was enforced in 1960, it is reported that more human lives have been lost after prohibition than before. In 1989 hooch tragedy in Vadodara, an inquiry commission headed by Justice (Retd.) A. A. Dave recommended to the Govt. either to abolish the prohibition policy or to make suitable changes in it. Other legal luminaries who headed such other commissions made similar recommendations. Other consensus feeling is also that if lifted, there will be decrease in prohibition related corruption and also decrease fund used by the Govt. on its implementation.

In USA, when National prohibition of liquor now referred to as the Noble Experiment was enforced during 1920 – 1933, these are some of the comments on the prohibition • Prohibition curtailed the growth of responsible drinking practices (Zinberg & Frazer 1985).

• Prohibition encouraged lawless drinking – Drinking in 1910 (before prohibition) was a man’s game, today it is a man-and-woman’s game.

Earlier a man comes back to an alcohol-disgusted wife, today they both sometimes get drunk together and try to slip into the house as quietly as possible so as not do wake up the children (Asbury, 1968).

• In 1924, the great social critic H.L. Mencken wrote of prohibition: Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic, but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished.

Prohibition of alcohol and the ensuing smuggling of alcohol lead to criminalization. Participants in an illegal trade cannot use the legal and judicial system to resolve disputes. So, they use other methods such as violence. Consumers also cannot seek redressal for spurious substances. Below are some more facts related to prohibition.

• Jeffrey A. Miron of Boston University wrote, “Prohibition can increase demand (of alcohol) through Forbidden Fruit Effect”.

• Prohibition clearly benefited some people. Notorious bootlegger Al Capone made $60,000,000... that's sixty million dollars... per year (untaxed!) while the average industrial worker earned less than $1,000 per year.

(Schlaadt, R. G. Alcohol Use and Abuse. Guilford, CT: Dushkin, 1992,) • Some bootleggers used recipes that included iodine, creosote, or even embalming fluid (Asbury, 1968, pp. 272-273, 283). The resulting problems caused financial burdens to the nation, but bootleg, being untaxed, deprived the treasury of much needed revenue. (National Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S. by David J. Hanson, Ph.D.) • Many groups and individuals tried their best to make prohibition a success. For instance anti alcohol Robert Wood Johnson Foundation developed and funded large nationwide network of temperance oriented organizations and individuals. In four years it had invested over a quarter billion dollars ($230,000,000) to promote its anti alcohol policy agenda.

• At the Govt. level, the amount US spent on enforcement of prohibition are $ 6,350,000 (1920), $ 28,500,000 (1923) and few years later $ 300,000,000. Finally, when prohibition ended, the popular votes for repeal of prohibition were 74% in favour and 26 % in opposition and only half of the breweries that had previously existed reopened (Childs1947).

Coming to our own figures, during the public discussion, Chief Minister Nagaland has been very modest about the implication of revenue out of alcohol being more concerned about the economic loss of alcohol consumers. The Church on the other hand may say, “We do not want to thrive on revenue earned out of alcohol”. But, the fact is that Nagaland is revenue starved. Our revenue is barely 5-6 percent of our total non-plan expenditure and every bit of revenue increase counts. Exploring revenue from alcohol will have strong economic impact. Consider the Excise Department's figure of Rs. 110 Crores/annum revenue loss because of prohibition.

Consider also the present funding pattern of 90:10, wherein, the share of the State Government is 10% on almost all central development schemes.

Again consider also the fact that because of negligible State’s own revenue many central programs suffers because the State is unable to pay its 10% share. Then if Rupees 100 Crores out of the 110 Crores could be utilized as the State's share for central schemes, for the State, it could mean Rupees 1000 Crores worth development (say 8-10 Crores/district!). Lifting prohibition will also mean 5-6 times less expenditure on alcohol by liquor consumers. Current expenditure on alcohol consumption could be anywhere between 500-600 Crores per annum.

I would like to conclude by sharing with readers, narration from a video clip that I came across not very long ago. The clip was taken in 1920 during the start of alcohol prohibition in the USA during which, millions of gallons of alcohol were destroyed. In the clip, you can see very enthusiastic men destroying alcohol (their facial expression says all), crowd of curious onlookers. In this interesting pied of human activity, I noticed one gentleman with suspender held long pants which was somewhat ungentlemanly shorter, rolled up sleeves with sleeveless jacket and a sling bag over his back, drinking as much alcohol he could collect in his cup before the spirit flowed into the gutters. It was a hilarious continence! I thought, it can only happen in America! But, Fellow Nagas, I stand corrected! Sometime back, I was narrated of an incident of a similar picture that happened in our own homeland in one of our district head quarters. Our own gentlemen similarly, tried to salvage his likened spirit as much as possible from alcohol destruction site and obviously got drunk and slept there at the destruction site. Following the American way almost 100 years later? What understanding I got and can share with readers is that, in the stage of alcohol prohibition we will always have two main actors. On one hand will be the vocal actor who will want to destroy alcohol to its available last drop! On the other hand, it will be the silent actor who will try to salvage the last drop of the spirit! It has happened, it is happening and it will happen, whatever is the level of prohibition standard. Today, apparently, there is a consensus feeling among the secular public and organizations of the State for review of the Prohibition Act. The Government of the day will have to ultimately decide on what is best for its people. My personal feeling is that we should sooner than later decide the American way and lift the prohibition.

Lastly, if we try to look at the smoking side of the fence, Anti-tobacco campaign has substantially achieved its objectives. Public utility areas are now more or less free of the usual tobacco smoke stench and I believe that there is a significant reduction in the numbers of smokers. If a village (Gariphema of Kohima District) in Nagaland can achieve tobacco free status, it definitely can be replicated in other places and also areas of substance abuse including alcohol. Lifting of prohibition of alcohol should simultaneously be followed by adoption of a strong people centric anti-alcohol consumption campaign and galvanize our effort on that line rather than prohibition of its sales and consumption. When I say people centric, I do not mean only people who are already alcohol consumers but the families specially the nascent ones, the youths and specially people with susceptible tendencies. What better agencies can we have than the Churches, the Women Organizations and the AA who can be financially empowered by the State Govt. for such campaigns?

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India-Pak border continues to crackle

Jammu/New Delhi/ uNiteD NatioNs/ mumbai, october 8 (iaNs): Pakistan Rangers continued to fire across the international border with India through the night and well into Wednesday, killing at least two more people and injuring two dozen.

India was quick to retaliate, but the casualties on the Pakistani side was not immediately known.

More than 20,000 residents of 30 villages along the international border in Jammu region have been shifted to safer locations, Indian officials said. India’s top military official said they were keen to resolve the ceasefire violations as Pakistan again raised the Kashmir issue at the UN. The latest string of Pakistan ceasefire violations on the 700 km-LoC and the international border started Oct 3. The number of people killed in Pakistan shelling on civilian areas in Jammu region has now gone up to seven, while the number of injured has shot up to 55.

Panic gripped the border villages here as shells landed with fierce intensity on homes, shattering windows and leaving the walls with gaping holes and pock-marked. The bloodied and wounded were carried to hospital, while the locals scurried to safety and spent a sleepless night.

Pakistani troopers fired through the night and did not stop as the day broke Wednesday.

A senior police officer: “Two people have died and five are injured in Pakistan mortar shelling in Chilyari

An Indian man carries a boy, injured reportedly in firing and shelling from Pakistan side at Jora farm in Ranbir Singh Pura of the India-Pakistan border, for treatment to the government medical college hospital, in Jammu on Wednesday, October 8. Indian and Pakistani troops fired bullets and mortar shells across the border between Kashmir and Pakistan for a second day Tuesday, with both accusing the other of provoking the violence. (AP Photo)

village in Samba district today. The injured have been shifted to government medical college (GMC) hospital in Jammu city for treatment.” “BSF is also retaliating effectively to silence Pakistan guns in the area,” the officer said.

As many as 20 people, including 15 civilians, were injured in overnight Pakistani firing at the border.

“Four army soldiers were injured in Pakistan firing on the LoC in Poonch district, one BSF trooper and 15 civilians were injured in firing by Pakistan Rangers on the international border in Jammu dis-

trict during the night.

“Pakistan has again started firing at BSF positions and civilian areas in Hira Nagar sector of the border in Kathua district Wednesday morning,” a senior police officer told IANS in Jammu.

In retaliation to Pakistan targeting civilian habitations in Jammu and Kashmir, the union home ministry Wednesday put on hold a scheduled flag meeting between Pakistan and Indian paramilitary forces to discuss the recent hostilities.

Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha, who is also the

chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, Wednesday said India wants to resolve the issue of ceasefire violations by Pakistan as soon as possible.

“It is a serious issue, it should not have happened...The government is taking it seriously...

We want peace, tranquility, and good relations with neighbours,” he said after the 82nd Air Force Day celebrations at the Hindon Air Force Station on the outskirts of Delhi.

India’s top military official said that the government “has taken diplomatic steps and is making all ef-

forts to bring it (firing) to an end. We are all concerned and want an early solution to it. The security forces are working towards it”.

Raising the Kashmir issue yet again at the UN, Pakistan dragged the UN Military Observer Group (UNMOGIP) into the current situation along the Line of Control where cross-border shelling has flared up.

“UNMOGIP must be enabled to play its role in monitoring the ceasefire,” UN Ambassador Masood Khan told the General Assembly Tuesday.

He said: “...We call upon the Indian government to

immediately cease fire and help us preserve tranquility.”

The current round to cross-border firings resumed after an almost month-long lull. It has been described by Indian officials as the worst ceasefire violations since 2003.

Made up of military personnel from 10 countries, the UNMOGIP monitors the ceasefire along the Line of Control under a UN Security Council mandate.

Khan’s mention of the UNMOGIP comes after India signaled that it considers the group has outlived its utility. This is in line with India’s contention that the Kashmir issue can only be resolved between New Delhi and Islamabad because the 1972 Simla Agreement called for finding a bilateral solution to the dispute.

The cease-fire violations found a resonance in poll-bound Maharashtra. “Modi is needed in New Delhi, but the BJP has stopped him in Maharashtra. This is playing with national security,” said an edit in the party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ Wednesday.

It said Modi “is currently busy with election campaign in Maharashtra” and he is moving in different villages for votes. “Maharashtra politics can come later.

The country’s security is important. Modiji, please stop tolerating the indiscretions of Pakistan,” Sena urged.

Modi has so far not said anything on the latest border upsurge but is believed to be in regular touch with Defence Minister Arun Jaitley and military commanders in Delhi.

‘Country cannot run on politics of untouchability’

maheNDergarh, october 8 (iaNs): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday said that the country could not be run on the politics of untouchability and that parties will have to rise above this to take the country forward.

Addressing a political rally for the Oct 15 assembly polls in Mahendergarh town of south-west Haryana, Modi criticised the Congress party for its reaction to his recent statement of celebrating the birth anniversary of the country’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

“When I spoke about the birth anniversary celebrations of Nehruji, the Congress could not digest it. The country cannot be run on the politics of untouchability.

This has to stop and all parties have to rise above this to take the country forward,” Modi said.

Taking another dig at the Congress leadership for seeking an account of the work done by his government in the first 60 days, Modi said: “They have not given account of what they have done in 60 years of Congress rule in the country. But I am bound to give account of every single penny and each second to the people of this country who have elected me.”

“I was not born in the house of a prime minister, chief minister or a minister. I am from among you (common people). Those who were born in the families of prime ministers and ministers give their account only to big people. I will give my account to the people of the country,” Modi said.

Talking about ‘Team India’ at the centre and in the states, Modi urged the people to give the party full majority in the Haryana assembly elections so that development can be speeded up.

“I want to bring the centre and states not only closer (pass-pass) but also together (saath-saath),” Modi said while addressing a rally here.

“I want a Team India where the prime minister and the chief minister work together. Do you want to elect a government that feel like vomiting on hearing about the central (BJP) government? Modi said. He said that he was already seeing that people wanted change in Haryana and rid the state from the open loot, scams and mafia that have dominated it for the past 25 years.

“Haryana has been dominated by five political families in the past 25 years who have resorted to open loot, scams and massive corruption. The voters of the state have to rid it from this mess,” Modi said.

“This state has only seen ‘ghotalas’ (scams and scamsters) in the past 25 years. You have to change that and bring the BJP with full majority,” Modi said. The Haryana assembly has 90 seats.

Pakistan again raises Kashmir in UN Dengue cases may be 300 times higher in India than reported uNiteD NatioNs, october 8 (iaNs): Raising the Kashmir issue yet again at the UN, Pakistan dragged the UN Military Observer Group (UNMOGIP) into the current situation along the Line of Control where cross-border shelling has flared up.

“UNMOGIP must be enabled to play its role in monitoring the ceasefire,” UN Ambassador Masood Khan told the General Assembly Tuesday.

Ignoring the toll of Indian civilians from Pakistani shelling, he said: “As a result of the Indian firing yesterday, four innocent lives were lost on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha. We call upon the Indian government to immediately cease fire and help us preserve tranquility.”

At least five Indian civilians have been killed in Pakistani shellings over the last two days. The current round to cross-border firings that began in August resumed Friday after an almost month-long lull. It has been described by Indian officials as the worst cease-fire violations since 2003.

Made up of military personnel from 10 countries, the UNMOGIP monitors the ceasefire along the Line of Control under a UN Security Council mandate.

Pakistan earlier said that Monday it had lodged a protest with the UNMOGIP over “unprovoked firing” on the Line of Control (LoC) by Indian forces.

Khan’s mention of the UNMOGIP comes after India signaled that it considers the group has outlived its utility. This is in line with India’s contention that Kashmir issues have to be dealt with solely by New Delhi and Islamabad because the 1972 Simla Agreement called for finding a bilateral solution to the dispute.

In July, India asked the UNMOGIP to vacate the rent-free bungalow it had pro-

vided near the Supreme Court. Explaining the rationale for this step, Syed Akbaruddin, external affairs ministry spokesman said that it was “consistent with India’s long-standing view that UNMOGIP has outlived its relevance”.

Khan Tuesday also invoked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s Sep 26 speech to the UNGA raising the Kashmir issue: “The core issue of Jammu and Kashmir has to be resolved though negotiations, in accordance with the wishes of its people. In this regard, he (Sharif) reminded the UN of its own responsibility.”

After Nawaz’s speech, India exercised its right of reply and called his remarks “untenable”.

Abhishek Singh, a first secretary in the Indian mission to the UN told UNGA that day, “I would like to bring to the notice of this august house that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have peacefully chosen their destiny in accordance with the universally accepted democratic principles and practices and they continue to do so.

We, therefore, reject in their entirety the untenable comments of the distinguished delegate of Pakistan.”

Khan also made a plea for Pakistan membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group. “Pakistan qualifies for membership of export control regimes, especially the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and full access to peaceful uses of nuclear technology,” he said.

India, which has a partnership with the NSG, has an application pending for membership in the 48-nation organization that aims to control trading in nuclear materials to prevent nuclear proliferation.

US, France and Britain support India’s membership.

New Delhi, october 8 (iaNs): The annual number of dengue fever cases in India may be “almost 300 times greater” than officially reported, inflicting a massive $1.1 billion economic burden on the country each year in medical and other expenses, says a study.

The study, led by researchers at Brandeis University’s Schneider Institute for Health Policy in Waltham, Massachusetts, the INCLEN Trust International in New Delhi, and the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) Centre for Research in Medical Entomology (CRME) in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, is the first to use systematic empirical data to estimate both the disease burden and the direct and indirect costs of dengue in India.

Until now, the reported data indicated that there was an annual average of 20,000 laboratory confirmed cases.

But the new estimated results were striking.

“We found that India had nearly six million annual clinically diagnosed dengue cases between 2006 and 2012 - almost 300 times greater than the number of cases that had been officially reported,”

claimed lead study author Donald Shepard, health economics professor at Brandeis University.

To determine the annual number of dengue patients in India, the researchers collected data on patients who had been hospitalized with the disease in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, during a three-year period (2009-2011).

They then used that data, along with less complete disease surveillance data from 18 other states and information from a panel of dengue experts, to calculate a national estimate for annual dengue cases, including ambulatory cases.

“We found that the overall annual economic cost of dengue in India is about $1.11 billion annually or $0.88 per year for every person in the country,” said study co-author Yara Halasa, health economics researcher at Brandeis University.

“This study provides a valuable insight into the dengue disease burden in India. Dengue, in addition to inflicting pain and suffering, also extracts a significant social and economic toll on India,” said Alan Magill, president of

the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene which publishes the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that carried the paper.

“In recent decades, dengue outbreaks in India have become larger and more frequent, with a greater number of severe cases and deaths. Good data on the incidence and cost of the illness have been lacking due to gaps in how information on individual cases is col-

lected and reported,” said Narendra Arora, executive director of INCLEN. According to Brij Kishore Tyagi, senior investigator from CRME, “understanding the full extent of the economic and disease burden of dengue in India is necessary to help policymakers and public health officials prepare for and control future outbreaks of the disease”.

To estimate the cost of each dengue case, the

researchers analysed the medical records of 1,541 dengue patients who had been treated in 10 public and private medical college hospitals across India from 2006 through 2011.

Gaps in those data were then filled in through a survey of 151 patients who had received care at a medical college hospital in Mumbai in 2012 and 2013. India is believed to have more cases of dengue than any other country in the world.

Former Indian cricketer and honorary Indian Air Force Group Captain Sachin Tendulkar, center, leaves after an Air Force Day parade at the air force station in Hindon near New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo

Modi’s welfare reforms may need to be bigger and bolder

New Delhi, october 8 (reuters): Kamla Rani, a 50-year-old housewife living in a run-down area of New Delhi, baulks at the idea of having heavily subsidised food benefits replaced by money deposited in a bank account.

“How can we believe the government will pay on time or increase the amount when prices go up every month?” she asked, sitting in the doorway of her modest home in Gulabi Bagh, a residential area in the north of the capital where many people live in slums.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched an ambitious plan to streamline a bloated and inefficient welfare system by paying for everything from cooking gas to university stipends via a bank account, in a bid to save billions of dollars a year.

To sell his idea, he has promised a bank account for every household - a mammoth and expensive task in a country

where two in five people had lacked access to one.

But resistance among more than 800 million people entitled to subsidised food is high.

Years of double-digit inflation make them wary, the previous government’s pilot schemes floundered and, with so many people unfamiliar with basic banking, benefits like accident insurance offered under the scheme may not be fully utilised.

That may explain why Modi, in his biggest attempt at fiscal change since he swept to power in May, has been less bold than some would wish, steering clear of reforming the most sensitive and costly benefits - food and fertilisers.

“The new bank accounts will not be viable if they aren’t used for transfers,” said one participant at a meeting where senior officials spelled out their concerns to Modi.

To prepare the ground for his reforms, Modi has set a tar-

get of opening 75 million new bank accounts by January, a target which experts believe his nationalist government can reach.

Ensuring those accounts are used to funnel all state benefits, and so reduce corruption and wastage, will be much harder, raising questions about the fate of the People’s Wealth Scheme that Modi promised would end “financial untouchability”.

Starting Small To begin with, the government plans to transfer subsidies of nearly 400 rupees ($6.50) a month to the bank accounts of 140 million households to pay towards the cost of cooking gas.

These payments would replace a cumbersome system of subsidies and losses borne by state energy firms to provide affordable gas canisters to families.

In fact, P. Chidambaram, finance minister in the last Congress government, had already

launched similar payments in parts of India and weeded out nearly 20 million “ghost” beneficiaries in the system.

It is not the only time Modi borrowed from his predecessors.

Before the election triumph of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in May, Modi had wanted to scrap the Aadhaar (Foundation) biometric database launched by Congress that has registered 680 million people, or about half the population.

Linking bank accounts and welfare entitlements to the database would make it harder to steal from the system, for example by creating fake identities and using them to make fraudulent claims.

In an abrupt U-turn, Modi now wants to expand the database to cover 1 billion people, linking their fingerprint ID cards to the newly opened bank accounts.

That led one political opponent to accuse Modi of put-

ting “old wine in a new bottle”, but sources familiar with the policy say that the 64-year-old premier is determined to forge ahead.

“It is only a matter of time before cash payment of subsidies begins,” said a finance ministry official, who requested anonymity because he did not have permission to speak publicly. “You may see more action in the next budget.”

Other schemes that could follow under Modi’s reforms are payment of student stipends and wages under an employment scheme that guarantees 100 days’ work a year to the rural poor. Such payments are now typically made cash-inhand.

But the fate of big-ticket items, such as the $18 billion food aid programme or a $10 billion scheme to subsidise the cost of fertiliser to farmers, remains unclear.

“Modi and the BJP may have opposed Aadhaar before

the elections, but now I see a clear direction that the government will soon move most subsidies to cash transfers,” said Surjit Bhalla, chairman of emerging markets research and asset management firm Oxus Investments.

Bhalla, a prominent advocate of welfare reform, said it would be difficult to dismantle India’s vast public food distribution system quickly, but cash payments for kerosene, cooking gas and the rural jobs scheme could come in the next three years.

Billions Of Dollars Saved A successful overhaul would cut the waste and corruption that eat into India’s $50 billion budget for welfare, food and farm aid, and ensure that a greater share of funds reaches its intended target.

Economists at brokerage CLSA estimate potential savings at $13-$15 billion, or 0.70.8 percent of gross domestic

product. That compares with India’s budget deficit target of 4.1 percent of GDP for this year.

Failure would saddle banks with the cost of setting up and maintaining millions of accounts that could end up idle or even be abandoned once holders have tapped a built-in overdraft facility of 5,000 rupees ($80).

“It’s a great vision ... but execution is important,” said Uday Kotak, the founder of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd, one of India’s fastest-growing commercial banks. “Financial inclusion cannot happen without the support of society.”

Making the shift to cash payments of subsidies and benefits would also reduce the need to stockpile food.

Rice and wheat stocks at government warehouses stood at 57 million tonnes at the start of August, against a mandatory minimum of 16 million. Other countries have accused India of hoarding food, leading to the collapse of a global trade deal.

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“Crackdown or climbdown” - Hong Kong face stark choices HONG KONG, OcTObEr 8 (rEUTErS): Student protesters galvanised Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement with their energy and ideological zeal, bringing tens of thousands of people on to the streets in a show of defiance against Beijing.

People young and old speak of a “new era” of civil disobedience for an already well-established movement, with young and politically engaged activists more willing to stand up for what they believe to be right.

As events of the last 12 days prove, however, sustaining momentum is difficult, and whatever success protesters had in pressuring the government by disrupting city life, they will always come up against a formidable foe - mainland China.

Protest numbers have dwindled markedly to a few hundred people at times, and the focus for prodemocracy activists has switched to talks scheduled for Friday with key officials in the Hong Kong administration.

Already leaders among students and the “Occupy” movement, as well as tacticians in the city’s prodemocracy camp, say they are doubtful of an outcome that will pacify radical and moderate demonstrators, possibly paving the way for another crackdown.

Protesters’ core demands, namely full democracy in Hong Kong including an open nomination process for elections for the city’s next leader in 2017, are not even on the agenda.

“After the talks there will likely be another crisis,” said pro-democracy lawmaker Lee Cheuk-yan, who has helped advise the students behind the scenes.

“You don’t know what each party will do and what will trigger a crackdown or a backdown. It’s very difficult to say.”

The sticking point is China, which has the final say on what concessions, if any, it might grant Hong Kong. So far, all the signs point to it not budging from an Aug. 31 decision to restrict nominations for the 2017 poll to candidates who get majority backing from a committee stacked with pro-Beijing loyalists.

WHAT NEXT? That begs the question of what next for a movement that has lost much of its popular support as Hong Kong citizens count the cost of the disruption it has caused. “Crisis resolution is important right now,” said Kuan Hsin-chi, emeritus professor of politics at Hong Kong’s Chinese University who has been close to protest leaders. “It’s not the time for getting concrete reform policies or principles.”

A forced police clearance carries the risk of stoking fresh retaliatory blockades, while protest leaders have refused to withdraw given that their demands for full democracy and for Hong Kong leader Leung Chun-ying to quit have not been met. “If the discussions do not yield the results we want, we will continue the occupation,” said Lester Shum of the Hong Kong Federation of Students. “We believe that the occupation is our biggest bargaining chip, and for now it is able to apply the most pressure against the government.”

The protests have been the most disruptive and prolonged for decades in Hong Kong, affecting core shopping and government districts. The trigger was Beijing’s decision to allow only pre-screened candidates to run for chief executive in 2017. The turmoil presented the Chinese leadership with one of its biggest political challenges since it crushed pro-democracy protests in and around Tiananmen Square in 1989.

An editorial in the Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, the People’s Daily, criticised what it called a small number of protesters for “daydreaming” that they could incite a “colour revolution” in China through the Hong Kong occupation movement.

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in Hong Kong in 2003 that drew over half a million people opposing proposed anti-subversion laws, Beijing is likely to tighten policies on Hong Kong after the latest upheaval, diplomats and analysts said.

Communist Party entities such as China’s Liaison Office and the United Front Work Department will likely regroup extensive networks of political and business allies in Hong Kong, to redouble discreet efforts to counter the new populist front.

“Beijing will launch fierce rounds of United Front work after this,” said Sonny Lo, an expert on China’s influence in Hong Kong. “The short term result is to deal with the polit- A statue holding a yellow umbrella set up by students stands outside government headquarter Hong Kong on ical troublemakers in Hong Wednesday, October 8. Crowds of protesters who filled Hong Kong’s streets with demands for more democracy thinned dramatically Tuesday after student leaders and the government agreed to hold talks in the increasingly Kong in a decisive way.” frustrated city. (AP Photo)

TRIUMPH OR JUST TROUBLE? The firing of tear gas by police early on and attacks on students by hostile antiOccupy crowds may have generated fresh waves of public support, but opinion has turned against the protests too as disruptions to traffic and business bite.

The protests also widened a rift between Hong Kong liberals and conservative pro-establishment and pro-Beijing residents.

On the streets of the gritty Mong Kok district over the weekend, heated mobs, some with links to organ-

ised criminal gangs, or triads, waved China flags, swore and attacked small groups of student demonstrators.

“Democracy is destroying Hong Kong,” one man shouted before punching a student on the back of his head. The well-built young man turned and swung back at his assailant, only to be set upon by more proChina supporters.

Despite the challenges, some democrats already consider the spontaneous uprising a symbolic victory and want it to end. “I think the protests awakened the

Hong Kong people to the importance of democracy and freedom, but also to the price of trying to attain it,” said Daniel Sun, 20, a student at the University of Hong Kong. “These protests mark the start of a new era in Hong Kong people’s attitudes and the idea of wanting democracy will become a norm,” added Sun. But maintaining unity in a fractious movement will be tough, given infighting between radical and moderate elements that has weakened their leverage. “We need to discuss an exit strategy and we need to

have a united position on negotiations,” said Joseph Cheng, an academic and an elder member of the city’s democratic movement. “The protesters have come spontaneously. This is beautiful, but we also need better coordination, better unity in action.”

Once the dust settles, student, democratic and Occupy Central leaders say future actions could include fresh occupation of key districts, the disruption of government policymaking by filibustering in the legislature, the nonpayment of taxes, as well

as marches and class boycotts.

Some are hopeful the democrats can channel this energy into a longer battle.

“I like the students, they use a different approach,” said Martin Lee, a veteran Democrat who helped found the city’s biggest opposition Democratic Party 20 years ago. “We’ve been doing this thing (democratic activism) without success for 30 years, because every time we took into account Beijing’s bottom line. They’re thinking outside the box and setting their own terms.”

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for new microscopy technique Captain of South Korean ferry

In this image made available by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Wednesday Oct. 8, 2014 shows Americans Eric Betzig, top left, and William Moerner, bottom, and German scientist Stefan Hell who are the winners of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry . (AP Photo)

STOcKHOLM, OcTObEr 8 (AP): Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry

on Wednesday for developing new methods that let microscopes see finer details than they could before.

The three scientists were cited for “the devel-

opment of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy,” which the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said had bypassed the maximum resolution of traditional optical microscopes.

“Their ground-breaking work has brought optical microscopy into the nanodimension,” the academy said. Betzig, 54, works at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Ashburn, Virginia. Hell, 51, is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. Moerner, 61, is a professor at Stanford University in California.

For a long time optical microscopes were limited by among other things the wavelength of light. So scientists believed they could never yield a resolution better than 0.2 micrometers.

But helped by fluorescent molecules, the three scientists were able to break that limit, taking optical microscopy into a “new dimension” that made it possible to study the interplay between molecules inside

cells, including the aggregation of disease-related proteins, the academy said.

Each of the laureates has used these methods to study the tiniest components of life. Hell has studied nerve cells to get a better understanding of brain synapses; Moerner has studied proteins related to Huntington’s disease; and Betzig has tracked cell division inside embryos, the academy said.

“I was totally surprised, I couldn’t believe it,” Hell said after learning he had won. “Fortunately I remembered the voice of Nordmark and I realized it was real,” he added, referring to the Permanent Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The Associated Press broke the news to Moerner’s wife, Sharon, who then called her husband at a conference in Brazil to break the news to him. “I’m delighted, thrilled. I had no idea it would be these three individuals,” Sharon Moerner said.

Last year’s chemistry prize went to three U.S.based scientists who devel-

oped powerful computer models that researchers use to understand complex chemical interactions and create new drugs.

This year’s Nobel announcements started Monday with U.S.-British scientist John O’Keefe splitting the medicine award with Norwegian couple MayBritt Moser and Edvard Moser for breakthroughs in brain cell research that could pave the way for a better understanding of diseases like Alzheimer’s.

On Tuesday, Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano of Japan and Japanese-born U.S. scientist Shuji Nakamura won physics award for the invention of blue lightemitting diodes — a breakthrough that spurred the development of LED technology that can be used to light up homes and offices and the screens of mobile phones, computers and TVs. The Nobel Prize in literature will be announced Thursday, followed by the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday and the economics prize on Monday.

apologises for failure to rescue

SEOUL, OcTObEr 8 (rEUTErS): The captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized in April killing about 300 people, most of them school children, apologised in court on Wednesday for his failure to rescue passengers in the country’s worst maritime disaster for decades.

“I have committed a grave crime. I am sorry,” Lee Joon-seok, the 68-year-old captain, was quoted as saying by Yonhap News Agency. Anger and grief gripped the nation after the disaster, and President Park Geun-hye’s government was heavily criticised for what was seen as a botched rescue operation.

The overloaded ferry Sewol had capsized while making a turn on a routine voyage to the holiday island of Jeju. The victims totalled 304 people killed or missing. Lee was among 15 crew members accused of abandoning the sharply listing ferry af-

ter telling the passengers to stay put in their cabins.

Four, including the captain face homicide charges.

Lee has denied any intent to kill. The rest face lesser charges, including negligence. “I know I can’t get out of the prison no matter how much my lawyer and God help me. But I can’t have my children and grandchildren called a murderer’s family,” Lee said. “I have never had any intent to kill.”

Video footage of the crew abandoning the vessel after instructing the passengers, mostly teenagers, to remain in their cabins caused outrage across South Korea. Some crew drank beer while waiting for rescue, one of them told a court, in an admission that fuelled greater anger at their conduct during a critical time during the disaster. The court is expected to rule in November.

In the wake of the disaster, South Korean po-

lice launched the country’s largest-ever manhunt for Yoo Byung-un, the head of the family that owned the ferry operator, and his family and associates. Yoo was wanted on charges including embezzlement and negligence that prosecutors contend contributed to the disaster.

Yoo was found dead in a plum orchard in June, but his body was not identified for more than a month, despite being the focus of a nationwide search. Forensics have failed to identify the cause of death. Kim Hye-kyung, a close aide of Yoo, was captured in the United States on charges of embezzlement and brought back to Korean authorities on Tuesday. Prosecutors view Kim as a key person managing Yoo’s funds.

Prosecutors sought on Thursday a four-year prison sentence for Yoo’s first son, according to local media. His second son is still at large.

North Korea, at UN, mentions its labor camps

UNITED NATIONS, OcTObEr 8 (AP): A North Korean official publicly acknowledged to the international community the existence of his country’s “reform through labor” camps, a mention that appeared to come in response to a highly critical U.N. human rights report earlier this year.

Diplomats for the reclusive, impoverished country also told reporters that a top North Korea official has visited the headquarters of the European Union and expressed interest in dialogue, with discussions on human rights expected next year.

North Korea’s deputy U.N. ambassador Ri Tong Il said the secretary of his country’s ruling Workers’ Party had visited the EU, and that “we are expecting end of this year to open political dialogue between the two sides.” The human rights dialogue would follow.

In Brussels, an EU official confirmed a recent North Korea meeting with the EU’s top human rights official, Stavros Lambrinidis, but said any dialogue currently planned is limited to rights issues.

Choe Myong Nam, a North

Korean foreign ministry official in charge of U.N. affairs and human rights issues, said at a briefing with reporters that his country has no prison camps and, in practice, “no prison, things like that.”

But he briefly discussed the “reform through labor” camps.

“Both in law and practice, we do have reform through labor detention camps - no, detention centers - where people are improved through their mentality and look on their wrongdoings,” he said. Such “re-education” labor camps are for common offenders and some political prisoners, but most political prisoners are held in a harsher system of political prison camps.

The North Korean officials took several questions but did not respond to one about the health of leader Kim Jong Un, who has made no public appearances since Sept. 3 and skipped a high-profile recent event he usually attends. The officials said they don’t oppose human rights dialogue as long as the issue isn’t used as a “tool for interference.” Their briefing seemed timed in advance of the latest resolution on North Ko-

North Korean defectors shout slogans during a press conference demanding the improvement of North Korean’s human rights, in front of National Human Rights Commission of Korea in Seoul on Wednesday, October 8. The letters on a banner and cards read “Denounce the lies and hypocrisy of the North Korea” and “North Korea has no freedom of thought”. (AP Photo)

rea and human rights that the EU and Japan put to the U.N. General Assembly every year.

The North Korean briefing concerned a lengthy human

rights report it released last month in response to a U.N. commission of inquiry that concluded the authoritarian government had committed

crimes against humanity. “We dare say that the case of human rights in the DPRK exceeds all others in duration, intensity and horror,” commission head

Michael Kirby told the U.N. Security Council in April.

The report’s release in February put the North on the defensive. Its public acknowledgement Tuesday of the reform camps, and its overture to the EU rights chief, were signs that Pyongyang now realizes the discussion of its human rights record won’t fade away, said Greg Scarlatoiu, executive director of the Washingtonbased Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

He said the mention of the reform camps was the first direct acknowledgement by a North Korean official speaking before an international audience. Last month, a senior court official mentioned the reform camps’ existence in an interview with the pro-Pyongyang website Minjok Tongshin.

“While the North Korean human rights record remains abysmal, it is very important that senior North Korean officials are now speaking about human rights, and expressing even pro forma interest in dialogue,” Scarlatoiu said in an email. “The North Korean strategic approach to human rights issues used to be

to simply ignore reports by international NGOs, government agencies or U.N. bodies. Human rights used to just go away, outcompeted by nukes, missiles, and military provocations.”

While he called the mention of the reform through labor camps “a modest step in the right direction,” he stressed that this wasn’t an acknowledgement by North Korea of the harsher system of political prison camps, which are estimated to hold 120,000 people.

The North’s own report on its human rights system accuses the United States and its allies of a campaign aimed at interfering in Pyongyang’s affairs “and eventually overthrowing the social system by fabricating ‘human rights issue’ of the DPRK to mislead international opinions,” its preface says.

Param-Preet Singh, a senior counsel for Human Rights Watch who attended the briefing along with a number of diplomats from other countries, said the significance of the event was that North Korea held it at all. The country used to be seen as “impervious to pressure,” she said.

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NE United season preview: John’s franchise set high hopes for ISL

Members of the NorthEast United Football Club of the Hero India Super League 2014 (ISL) stand during the launch of their jersey in Gauhati, Saturday, October 4. ISL begins October. 12. (AP Photo) Samya Majumdar

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The Hard Tackle

orthEast United are one of the less-fancied teams of the inaugural Indian Super League (ISL) season despite having former World Cup and European Championship winner Joan Capdevila in their ranks. The left-back, who has more than 330 La Liga appearances to his name while playing for Espanyol, Atletico Madrid, Deportivo La Coruna and Villarreal, was signed by the franchise in July as their marquee player. However, apart from Capdevilla, NorthEast United have mainly signed utility players rather than going in for “big names”, thus making them the dark horse of the ISL. NorthEast United are also the only franchise out of the eight which does not have specific city’s name as their own, with their motto being “8 states. 1 united.” NorthEast United have therefore a fan base spread over eight states, and their roster, which is full of local players, means the franchise are sure to receive the backings of their supporters.

Ownership: Sanjiv Narain, Larsing Ming and Bollywood actor John Abraham are the principal owners of the franchise. However, Narain, who held 33% share of NorthEast United, recently decided to walk out after accusing Abraham of breaching an agreement. It is definitely a set-back for the franchise before the start of the ISL, and NorthEast United fans will be hoping that their team’s off-field antics does not affect their on-field displays.

stadium: NorthEast United will play their home games at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati, Assam. It is a one tier stadium with a capacity of around 35,000. The stadium is certainly not a big one compared to some of the other arenas of the country, but the vociferous home crowd are sure to more than make up for the numbers by cheering and becoming NorthEast United’s “12th man” during the seven fixtures which will be held at the ground. manager: Former New Zealand head coach Ricki Herbert, who is in the hot-seat of NorthEast United, will be looking to guide the franchise to a respectable finish in the inaugural ISL season. The 53-year-old was a defender in his playing days and also has the experience of managing New Zealand Knights and Wellington Phoenix. Thangboi Singto of Shillong Lajong will act as Herbert’s deputy, while Lee Taylor is the performance coach of NorthEast United. squad: goalkeepers – Alexandros Tzorvas, Kunzang Bhutia, Rehnesh TP Greece international Alexandros Tzorvas is expected to guard the goal for NorthEast United throughout the course the ISL season.

The 32-year-old, who represented his nation at the 2010 World Cup and the 2012 European Championship, counts clubs like Panathinaikos, Palermo and Genoa as his former employers. Tzorvas is definitely one of the topnotch goalkeepers of the ISL and will bring a wealth of experience to the NorthEast United side. Young Indian custodians Kunzang Bhutia and Rehnesh TP will also benefit in

the long-run under the guidance of Tzorvas, football, having played for Shillong Lajong who has 16 caps for Greece to his name. in the previous campaign. Chansa, who has more than 50 caps for his country and was defenders – Joan Capdevila, Massamba part of the Zambian squad, which won the Sambou, Miguel Garcia, Tomas Josl, Aibor- 2012 African Cup of Nations will be the pivlang Khongjee, Jibon Singh, Pritam Kumar otal figure in NorthEast United’s midfield in Singh and Robin Gurung Joan Capdevilla, the ISL. South Korean Do Dong-hyun is an NorthEast United’s marquee signing, will attacking midfielder while former Brazilian lead the franchise’s defence in the ISL. The Under-17 World Cupper Guilherme Castro is 36-year-old is an experienced customer at more defence-minded, and is likely to be deboth international and club level is expected ployed by franchise manager Ricki Herbert in to guide the fellow foreign recruits as well as front of North-East United’s back-four. Indian the Indian defenders. Monaco’s youth prod- midfielders Milan Singh, Zodingliana, Alan uct and Senegal international Massamba Deory, Boithang Haokip and David Ngaihte Sambou, who has also played for Le Havre are all energetic customers as they hail from and Nantes amongst other clubs, is a versa- hilly regions of the country. They can sprint tile player. The 28-year-old central defender for the full 90 minutes of a match which can can also play as a defensive midfielder and pose serious problems to the rival teams. has thus far earned a single cap for the Afri- In addition, they are also be accustomed to can country. Miguel Garcia and Tomas Josl playing in the testing conditions of the northare the other two foreign defenders of North- east like their defensive counterparts, which East United. While Garcia is a right-back and is a serious advantage. represented Portugal at the Under-21 level, Josl is a Czech left-back, who is expected to Forwards – Cornell Glen, Luis Yanes, Sergio be a back-up to Capdevila. The Indian contin- Pardo, James Keene, Durga Boro, Redeem gent of defenders is also experienced due to Tlang and Seiminlen Doungel NorthEast United have a pretty good attheir involvement in the I-League. Aiborlang Khongjee, Jibon Singh and Robin Gurung tacking line-up, comprising of a fine mix of are all Shillong Lajong players, while Pritam Indian and foreign talents. Cornell Glen, who Kumar Singh is a youth player of the club. like Chansa and Mtonga played the 2013/14 The quartet are expected to provide steel campaign for Shillong Lajong, represented to NorthEast United’s backline, and should Trinidad and Tobago in the 2006 World Cup in Germany. The 32-year-old was the I-League’s blend well with the foreign defenders. top goalscorer with 14 strikes to his name last midfielders – Isaac Chansa, Kondwani term and will be looking for a similar successMtonga, Guilherme Castro, Do Dong-hyun, ful stint with the Highlanders. James Keene, on Milan Singh, Zodingliana, Alan Deory, the other hand, is a product of Portsmouth’s Boithang Haokip and David Ngaihte youth set-up and has the experience of playing The Zambian duo of Isaac Chansa and in the English Premier League. The 28-yearKondwani Mtonga are not new to Indian old, who is Swedish club Elfborg’s top Europe-

an goalscorer of all times, is expected to strike up a deadly partnership with Glen upfront.

Fellow foreign strikers Luis Yanes and Sergio Pardo are also decent buys, while the likes of Durga Boro and Seiminlen Doungel will be more than ready to step up when called upon.

NorthEast United are likely to play in an attacking 4-4-2 formation with two out-and-out forwards upfront. While Tzorvas will stand between the sticks for the franchise, the back-line will comprise of Gurung, Sambou, Khongjee and Capdevila. Haokip, Milan Singh, Chansa and Deory are likely to be the midfielders in this system with Haokip and Deory expected to whip in crosses from the flanks for the strikers Glen and Keene, who are both good headers. The rival defences will also have to keep an eye out for Chansa’s darting runs towards the goal and his through passes for the forwards. player to watch Out For – Boithang haokip Haokip, who has been with Shillong Lajong since 2009, is good with both feet and can play in either flank. The 23-year-old has a knack of taking long-rangers and has been dubbed the “David Beckham of the North East” for his ability to take accurate and powerful free-kicks. The nippy and wily winger is a star in the making and could very well use the ISL to take his game into the next level. possible Finish – 6th NorthEast United have an energetic and youthful side at their disposal, but the relative inexperience of the Indian players is a worrying factor for the franchise. The likes of Doungel, Boro and Pritam Kumar Singh are talented individuals no doubt, but it remains to be seen whether they are up for the challenge to compete in the ISL on a regular basis.

LOCAL NEWS...

National sanitation awareness campaign underway at Mon

MOn, OcTOber 8 (DIPr): The Water and Sanitation Support Organisation (WSSO), PHED, Government of Nagaland vide No. EE/PHED/ WSSO- TRAINING/ 2012-13, the Govt. of India, Ministry of Drinking Water & Sanitation, “National Sanitation Awareness Campaign” is underway

with Chief Guest, Chingmei, President, MTSU at Town Hall, Mon on 8th October, 2014.

The President of MTSU Chingmei said that the meaning of sanitation is for promotion of health and prevention of disease. He also highlighted on comparative life between rural and urban where village is

more hygienic and healthy than urban with organic vegetables.

The Campaign is focused on “awareness to keep villages clean including through street cleaning, solid and liquid waste management including ways to do it; awareness on safe sanitation and the need to build and use toilets; importance of

hand washing with soap; safe disposal of child faces and safe handling and storage of drinking water”.

The special appearance was performed by Dreams Unlimited on principles of the drama was development and dignity, good health and economic growth brings happy life.

The campaign launches Swachh Bharat Tour ‘Let us join hand to clean Nagaland by cleaning our surroundings first’

by WSSO, PHED, Nagaland The WSSO also launching under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan as mission for the sanitation awareness campaign in the state and country at large.

The programme organiser also informed that the Global Hand washing Day is scheduled on 15th October, 2014 at Town Hall from 10:00 hours onwards under the banner of health and sanitation campaign.

Earlier invocation was pronounced by Tiatemjen, JE, Mon Town, reading of pledge

by the participants followed by S. Aochuba Longchar, Sanitation & Hygiene, Consultant.

Vote of thanks was proposed by Manlang, Tracer, Mon Town.

The programme was chaired

by Medoseto Kiso, IEC, Consultant. The light refreshment was served after the formal programme.

Tuensang DPDB meeting held Rally cum workshop on NSAC held

Parliamentary Secretary R. Tohanba addressing the Tuensang District Planning and Development Board meeting held at DC’s Conference hall on October 8. (DIPR Photo)

Tuensang, OcTOber 8 (DIPr): Tuensang District Planning and Development Board meeting was held at DC’s Confer-

ence hall on October 8. The Parliamentary Secretary, CAWD and Economics & Statistics and Chairman DPDB, R. Tohanba along

with Parliamentary Secretary for Horticulture Kejong Chang, attended the meeting.

The meeting started

with the introduction of the newly posted officer of Tuensang and the meeting also voted the final LADP 2014-15. Creation of the new RD under Sangsangnyu block by bifurcation of the existing block into two.

Creation of the ICDS Office in Sangsangnyu block was discussed and forward to Government for consideration. The forum also discussed the Work Charged & Casual employees Commission’s memorandum.

NBHM Tuensang gave a power point presentation on bee keeping and harvesting. The meeting was attended by all the district SDO (C) Tia Meren Chang addressing the Rally cum Workshop on “National Sanitation Awareness Campaign” held on October 8 at CKS Hall, Tuensang. (DIPR Photo) Officers. child excreta and safe hanTuensang, OcTOber plaining. He also said that the call.

Junior Engineer PHED, dling and safe storage of the 8 (DIPr): Rally cum Work- sanitation begins from shop on “National Sanita- home and urged the wom- Tuensang and SDEO Sha- drinking water.

The resource persons tion Awareness Campaign” en sections to be well aware mator also spoke on the DHO Office Kohima and was held on October 8 at of the campaigns. He fur- programme. The workshop of the programme were Chozhule Kikhi, Dy Direc- CKS Hall, Tuensang. SDO ther said that sanitation is focused on few selected Dr. Emanuel Chang Meditor Training, Directorate (C) Tia Meren Chang who one of the most productive points they were: solid and cal Officer and Ashale Seb of Horticulture. Chozhule was the chief guest said investment in the current liquid waste management, IEC Consultant PHED Tuhighlighted causes of spoil- that the Sanitation is a life- scenario and added that non-degradable waste ensang. All tribal women age of fruits and vegetables, long process and one can the nation is taking up the management, safe sani- organizations of the Tudifferent methods of pres- only achieve when worked issue in priority so should tation and toilet manage- ensang attended the proervation, aims and objec- collectively without com- be our initiatives towards ment, safe disposal of the gramme. tive of fruits and vegetables and food preservation as means of meeting household food security with all its nutritional require- DIMaPur, OcTOber also attended the meeting. cal Colony, Full Nagar- the concerned department Power department jan was approved by the about the Work charge emments and also as a prof- 8 (DIPr): The monthly itable enterprise for self district planning and de- & PWD (R&B) gave the Board. Change of nomen- ployees verification .

Proposal on conductemployment to generate velopment board meeting departmental presenta- clature, St.Joseph Chrisincomes leading to quality of Dimapur district for the tion respectively. Review- tian School, Niuland to ing leadership motivational of life. The second session month of October was held ing the last DPDB meet- Lt. Vitoyi Memorial High seminar to be imparted by after lunch was followed on October 8 in the confer- ing minutes the board School, Vihokhu, Niuland. leaders arise Nagaland. It by practical demonstration ence hall of the Deputy discussed approval for This agenda was also ap- will be held on October 13 at the Deputy Commissionon Pineapple Juice and Star Commissioner, Dimapur. opening of theological in- proved by the board.

Approval of LADP er Conference Hall, DimaDeputy Commissioner stitution “Convenient InFruit juice making.

A similar programme and Vice Chairman DPDB, stitute of Theology & Mis- schemes for the year 2014- pur. Deputy Commissioner on pineapple preservation Dimapur Wezope Kenye sion”- The board asked the 15 was also approved. Wezobe Kenye requested concerned department to Constitution of Imple- all the DPDB members to and mushroom cultiva- chaired the meeting.

The meeting was at- bring the required docu- menting Committee for attend the seminar. tion was conducted for 150 In the next DPDB students of class 11 and 12 tended by Parliamentary ments and will discuss in LADP 2014-15. The board decided to continue with meeting , a power point at the Don Bosco Higher Secretary S&T, IT, TE & the next DPDB meeting.

Opening of two(2) the previous year LADP presentation will be preSecondary School Kohi- Chairman, DPDB, Dimaur. sented by Taxes and excise ma, with an aim to enthuse Parliamentary Secretary new school, Spear Army Committee.

The deputy commis- department. The meeting work culture in them and Urban Development Zha- Primary School Rangapato earn their own pocket leo Rio and Tokheho Yep- har Station, Dimapur and sioner said that he will give ended with vote of thanks thomi MLA & CLP Leader Riverbelt School, Electri- write up notification to all by the chair. money.

Training on preservation fruits conducted

Dimapur district planning and development board meet held

The participants with the resource person during the training cum demonstration on preservation of pineapple and star fruit conducted at Jalukie Town Hall.

JalukIe, OcTOber 8 (Mexn): Fruits and vegetables, an important protective food items in our daily diet deteriorates very fast due to a high moisture contents and enzymes.

The prices of these important food items are skyrocketing each day, which becomes a challenge for common households. As

a result, preserving these food items during the season is of crucial importance to secure household food security as well as to generate incomes.

Keeping this in mind, training cum demonstration on preservation of pineapple and star fruit was conducted at Jalukie Town Hall on September

26 by Horticulture Department along the District Horticulture Office staff of Peren district. More than 50 participants comprising of SHG members, educated unemployed and mothers enthusiastically attended the training programme.

The resource person for the training was Ayieno Hibo, Horticulture Officer,

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BBC unveil star-studded track

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host of high-profile musicians, including Stevie Wonder, One Direction, Chris Martin, Kylie Minogue, Dave Grohl and Florence Welch, have joined forces to cover the Beach Boys' 'God Only Knows' to launch the new BBC Music season.

One Direction, Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder, Sir Elton John and Chris Martin are among the stars to have joined forces tocover 'God Only Knows'. The 27-member supergroup - which also includes Kylie Minogue, Dave Grohl, Florence Welch, Lorde,

Brian May, Emeli Sande, Sam Smith and Jake Bugg - have recorded a version of the Beach Boys' classic hit under the name The ImpossibleOrchestra to launch the new BBC Music season and the song was played simultaneously across the network's TV, radio and on-

line channels at 8pm last night (07.10.14) and is now available to buy, with proceeds going to BBC Children in Need.

Also featured on the track are Paloma Faith,Chrissie Hynde, Jamie Cullum, Eliza Carthy,Baaba Maal, classical musicians Alison Bal-

som, Martin James Bartlett, Danielle de Niese and Nicola Benedetti and BBC presenters Zane Lowe, Lauren Laverne, Jools Holland and Gareth Malone, while the artists were backed by the Tees Valley Youth Choir and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson was also involved in the record and feels ''honoured and humbled'' to have his song chosen. He said: ''I just feel so incredibly humbled that the BBC would choose 'God Only Knows' to promote their new music ini-

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tiative. All of the artists did such a beautiful job I can't thank them enough. ''I'm just honoured that 'God Only Knows' was chosen. 'God Only Knows' is a very special song. An extremely spiritual song and one of the best I've ever written.''

Varieties of cactus and flowers displayed for sale at the sales day organised by Nagaland Women Voluntary Association at the Old Heritage bungalow, Kohima on October 2 and 3 for charitable purposes and “uplift the poor and downtrodden section of the society.” A variety of eye catching and colorful flowers were displayed for the visitors to see, buy, and take home. Also, there were vegetables, tree saplings, packed food etc. for sale. Another main attraction of the sales day was the food stall where homemade packed food (like pickles, fried chicken, sausages, fried rice, biscuits etc) were sold; the food items were prepared and donated by the Association members. Kevi Rangkau, President (NWVA) and wife of Chief Minister TR Zeliang, Association’s members, and well-wishers, attended the inaugural event on October 2.

Rainbow Choir to display “Ethnic Blend 2014”

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nder the theme “Peace & Unity through Culture,” the Rainbow Choir of Nagaland is organising a cultural show “‘Ethnic Blend 2014” at Town Hall, Dimapur on October 24, featuring array of cultural attires worn on different occasions, besides cultural dance from Chekiye Cultural Troupe and indigenous music by Anüri Nienü.

According to a press release, the Rainbow Choir

is a Christian choral group intended to sing in various parts of harmony, with or without instrumental accompaniment and its formation was inspired by the “need to tell brethrens that Nagas have unique tradition and beautiful culture of our own within the boundary of the Indian nation.”

“Since singing is one of the great talents given to Nagas…we would like to showcase our culture and tradition through our

choir,” stated the release.

It further added that the Rainbow Choir’s ultimate quest is to debunk the stereotyping of the North East region and present the best of “our rich culture and tradition” to the world and beyond “our” land.

“Our desire and decision have uplifted our morale, giving shape to RAINBOW, a youth group that will walk the way giving expression to the tones and steps of the culture and tra-

ditions, especially with our countrymen,” it added.

The upcoming cultural show, the release stated, is being organised to fulfil the objective of the group, and all together 20 organisations and tribal Hohos have been contacted to participate at the event. The group further requested to either call them at 9615089322/ 9402749559 or mail at rainbowchoir.naga@gmail. com if “organisation has been left uninformed.”

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Variety Reveals “Power of Women” Covers Glamazon Hair & Make-up Contests

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lamazon Events today announced four contests for Hair Stylist and Make-up Artists in the Northeast region.

Event Manager, Moanungsang, in a press conference today at Café Destination, Dimapur, called on grooming professionals saying, “Bring in your creativity and show the world.”

The contest – which includes the second edition of the Color Trophy – will be held at Niathu Resort and is scheduled for October 30. The organisers announced that State Parliamentary Secretary for Urban Development, Zhaleo Rio, would be the chief guest for the occasion.

The Color Trophy 2014

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hese women will be honored at Variety’s sixth annual “Power of Women” luncheon as Lifetime Impact Honorees for their humanitarian efforts. “The women of the entertainment industry are among the most passionate champions of philanthropy and affecting change for various causes,” said Michelle

Sobrino-Stearns, publisher, Variety. “We’re thrilled to once again honor, through our seventh Power of Women initiative, an outstanding lineup of women who do just that.”

Held in partnership with Lifetime Television, the exclusive October 10th event will host 500 Hollywood insiders who will pay tribute to the philanthrop-

ic efforts of the honored women. Jane Fonda is being recognized for her work with the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential, which focuses on teen pregnancy prevention and healthy choices.

Reese Witherspoon will be honored for her participation in the Malala Fund, which empowers girls through education

in developing countries.

Jennifer Lopez oversees the Lopez Family Foundation, which works on access to medical care for women and children.

And Viola Davis supports childhood hunger organization Hunger Is, while Donna Langley will be honored for her work with women’s development organization Vital Voices.

title which will be based on colour, style and technique carries a cash prize of Rs. 30,000/-. The other three contests – Evening Fashion Long Hair Up (for ladies), Street Fashion Style (for gents) and Bridal MakeUp – carry a cash prize of Rs. 15,000/- each. The contest is open to all Hair and Make-Up Artists, both professionals and freelancers, and to all Salons, parlours or institutions within the Northeast region.

The judges for the contests include acclaimed musician and celebrity in his own right, Nise Meruno, make-up artist and former model, Valerie Kachari, and model Esther Jamir. The contests will be

judged on originality, skill and technique, inspiration behind style and look, and overall appearance. The event production team includes the very impressive Tinted Light Studio (or TL Entertainment) and the proven Audio Garage.

The event, apart from the Hair Styling and Make-Up Contests, will also feature a fashion show which will showcase creative designs of up-coming fashion designers from the region.

The event is being held with a vision to promote upcoming style artists and to create an awareness of makeup and hair stylists as a profession. Moanungsang is optimistic that the event would be a success. Stating

that the grooming industry is still at a nascent stage in the state, he says, “Awareness is coming in.” Calvina Sumi, Director, Glamazon, adds that the last edition of the Color Trophy saw a “very good turnout.”

Glamazon was established in 2009 to promote the foray of Nagas in the grooming industry and to encourage Hair Stylists and Make-Up Artists in the state with the aim to generate job opportunities by professionalizing the grooming industry. Glamazon offers exclusive grooming facilities to clients and also ushers in well trained artists through a state of the art training institute under the aegis of Glamazon Salon.

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Murray beats Janowicz in shanghai Masters SHANGHAI, OCTOBER 8 (AGENCIES): Andy Murray further boosted his chances of qualifying for the ATP World Tour Finals with a 7-5 6-2 win over Jerzy Janowicz at the Shanghai Masters. The Scot eased into the last 16 of the tournament he won in 2010 and 2011 to continue his good form on the ATP’s China swing which saw him win in Shenzhen and get to the semi-finals of the China Open last week.

Murray moved himself up to ninth in the rankings with his performances in Shenzhen and Beijing as he aims for the top-eight spot that will allow him to qualify for the season-ending tournament in London.

The first set was a highquality affair with Murray ruthless as he got 82% of first serves in and dropped

just four points in his opening six games.

But Janowicz, who took Murray to three sets in the first round in Beijing last week, is made of stern stuff and he saw off two break points before eventually succumbing in game 12 and surrendering the set. Murray broke in game four of the second to take a 3-1 lead and things looked ominous for his opponent when the Pole was forced to call for the trainer for some treatment. The next three games went with serve but Janowicz handed Murray a third break and the match with a double fault. The 27-yearold advanced into the next round to face David Ferrer in one hour and 28 minutes.

Murray has won seven of his previous 12 matches against Ferrer and is expecting a tough test on

Thursday. “You need to play a high, high level to win against him,” said Murray.

Battling to qualify for the end-of-year tournament is a relatively new experience for Murray as he had held a continuous position in the world’s top five from September 2008 until January this year but he insists he is not phased by the situation.

“All of the players that are looking to qualify for the World Tour Finals will be aware of what’s going on,” he added. “But you need to just concentrate on trying to win your matches.

That’s the best thing that you can do for your chances to qualify.

“I haven’t been in this position for a while, so in Andy Murray of Britain returns a shot against Jerzy Janowicz some ways it’s kind of new. of Poland during their men's singles second round match But I’m enjoying it so far. at the Shanghai Masters Tennis Tournament in Shanghai, [It is] just giving me a little bit of extra focus and direcChina, Wednesday, October 8. (AP Photo)

tion for the last few tournaments.”

Earlier, fourth seed, Stan Wawrinka, crashed out after losing 5-7 7-5 6-4 to Gilles Simon. Wawrinka, fourth in the race for London, fell at the first hurdle in Tokyo last week and, after receiving an opening round bye, the Swiss was once again knocked out in his first match in Shanghai despite breaking Simon’s serve in the 12th game to claim the opening set.

His 29th-ranked French opponent refused to buckle, battling back to tie the contest before overcoming an early break in the decider to emerge victorious after two and a half hours.

Meanwhile, ATP World Tour debut of the world No553, Wang Chuhan, was halted in another second Players of Royal United (in white) and Arkong SC ‘A’ (in yellow) at the ongoing MDFA Trophy in Mokokchung round encounter.

Rising Star SC beat OCYA 2 goals to nil SSS beat NU Lumami five goals to one Royal United beat Arkong SCA one goal to nil

15th NSF MMT 2014 Day-8 results

1st Match: Jovial FC Kenuozou beat Young Creepers Naga Bazar 3-1 Scorers of Jovial FC Kenuozou: Kezhavilie - 3 goals Scorer of Young Creepers Naga Bazar: Mhademo - 1

Kyla Ross of the United States jumps from the balance beam as she competes in the women's team final of the Artistic Gymnastics World Championship at the Guangxi Gymnasium in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Wednesday. (AP Photo)

Vitsopi Kin- 2 Kelengoto James -1 Meyoho Sothu -1

results from XX MDFa trophy 2014

highest goal in a match –10 goals • Meriemva Village Students Union vs FC Lenlem,Dimapur 9-1

highlights of 1st round (1st-8th Oct.) Matches played so far in 1st drawn matches • Matches which were round (1st - 8th Oct) – 29 Fastest goal-1.20mts decided on penalty shoot(zevito of St.Joseph';s out -5 matches College Jakhama) 2nd Match: Total Goal scored – 115 @ Leading goal scorers 1. Salim Peter (10) St.Joseph's College 3.96 goals per match Yellow cards- 41 Christo Nagas Club Jakhama beat Ablaze FC Kohima 4-0 @ 1.41 per match Zhavame-5 goals Red Card- 3 2. Yhungshalo (9) Scorers of St.Joseph';s Rengma Students Union College Jakhama: 3. Mhasil Thole (7) - Tie hat-trick- 8 Zevito - 1 1. Salim Peter (10) of Mekhe Kidima -4 goals Viho Kin - 1 4. Petevizo Kezie-o (17) Paul Magh - 2 Christo Nagas Club Meriema Village Students Zhavame Union- 4 goals 2. Yhungshalo (9) of 3rd Match: Rengma Students Union 5. Neiphrezolie Usou (7) MT Youth Club New Police Reserve beat Kandi 3. Mhasil Thole(7)- of Tie Meriema Village Students Union- 4goals FC 6-0 Mekhe Kidima -4 goals 4. Able Sumi (14) of HQ Scorers of MT Youth Club Matches on October 9 New Police Reserve: IGAR (North)- 3 goals (second round) 5. Petevizo Kezie-o (17) of Huwato Awomi - 1 Meriema Village Students Troy FC Naga Bazar Vs Akavi Ayemi - 3 Christo Naga';s Club Hinato Ayemi - 1 Union- 4 goals 6. Neiphrezolie Usou Zhavame @9.30 am Kato Ayemi-1 (7) of Meriema Village Naga United Club Vs Students Union- 4goals Headwinds FC @11.00 am 4th Match: 7. Kezhavilie (6) of Jovial Twenty XI FC Viswema Barak FC Peren Vs Orion FC Kenuozou beat Chizhimi SA FC @12.30 pm Pughoboto 4-0 8. Akavi Ayemi (10) of MT Koubru Sporting Club Vs Youth Club New Police Scorers of Twenty XI FC Tieme-Khe Kidima Viswema: Reserve @2.00 pm

The plan is overwhelmingly opposed by Spain's parliament, where the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has a large majority.

A debate held in parliament in April vetoed the region's request to hold a referendum by 299 votes against to 47 in favor. "For such a modification to be given the go-ahead, we'd have to wait and see if the affected sector would agree to such a change," Tebas said, referring to the likely reaction in the rest of Spain to any secession by Catalonia. Separatist sentiment has surged in Catalonia in recent years following Spain's refusal to give the region more autonomy

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Matches for October 9 1st Match: EAC XI Kubolong Vs Eastern Wing FC 2nd Match: Arrjusanger FC Vs Telongjem FC 3rd Match: Shitilong S/A Vs Citizen SC Matches will be held at Imkongmeren Sports Complex Mokokchung from 11:30 AM.

Open veteran badminton tournament from Oct 16 KOHIMA, OCTOBER 8 (DIPR): The Kohima Badminton Club is organizing an open veteran badminton tournament 2014 under the motto “I am fit” from October 16 to 17 at State Indoor Stadium, Kohima. The tournament will be played in 3 categories- 35yrs and above, 45 yrs and above and 55 yrs and above. Forms for the tournament will be available at Yonex Store, opp. Indoor Stadium Kohima (Ph no : 09856536065); Sports Life Style Kohima Road Bank Colony opp. Saramati Hotel Dimapur (Ph no : 9436003859) and C/o I. TemjenAo (Mokokchung) (Ph no : 09436603938).The last date of enrollment/submission will be October 14.

NAGA WRESTLEMANIA 3 (King Of The Ring Series 2014)

Register at 3E Office, Dzevi Building Near Kohima Local Ground, Opp.UBC Senior categories Lightweight Middleweight Heavyweight -

below 65 kg 65 to 78 kg above 78 kg

Juniors Open category -

14 years & below

Catalan clubs face La Liga axe if region secedes

MADRID, OCTOBER 8 (AP): The president of La Liga said Tuesday that Catalan clubs like Barcelona and Espanyol would be excluded from Spain's top tier should the region succeed in its push for independence from Spain.

Javier Tebas said the country's sports law entitles only one nonSpanish territory — Andorra — to legally participate in the league or other official competitions.The proindependence government of Catalonia is pushing for a referendum to see how many of the wealthy northeastern region's inhabitants would like to secede.

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and fiscal powers.

The push is Europe's latest secession attempt following a Scottish independence poll last month on separating from Britain which resulted in a No vote.

Catalonia, with some 7.5 million inhabitants, is Spain's wealthiest region. Barcelona vies with Real Madrid for supremacy on the football field — domestically and internationally — with both clubs being listed among the world's richest. Tebas said the financial consequences of a split in La Liga caused by a Catalan secession would be "a disaster to the development of the football industry."

KDCa cricket tourney

KIPHIRE, OCTOBER 8 (MExN): The Kiphire District Cricket association (KDCA) is organizing its 2nd edition of Inter-District Cricket Tournament (U-19) from October 20 to 30 at Pungro ADC HQ, public ground.

A press note from the KDCA has informed interested clubs/institution to take part in the tournament. It was also informed that there will be individual prizes along with certificates. Interested parties may contact the organizing committee at 874279666 or 8974310935.

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