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Vehicle thieves Beware Nagaland state’s indigenously developed SMS Based Vehicle Monitoring System has helped state police immensely in recovery of stolen vehicles imkong Walling Dimapur | September 13

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The daughter of shantilal Boghra, who died in a cooking gas cylinder blast in Madhya Pradesh on saturday, is consoled during the funeral of her father in Ahmedabad, september 13. (REUTERS)

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‘People should be consulted before any agreement’ NNC/FGN says any solution bypassing will of people is dishonourable and unacceptable

full confidence of the people.” “Every responsible organisation has been pressing for the inclusion of all NPGs in the ongoing Indo-Naga talks. If there is one single reason for welcoming the Accord, it is due to the fact that the GOI seemed to have taken some concrete step towards addressing the Indo-Naga conflict with a changed perspective and strategy.” Thus, the FGN/NNC stressed that any solution that “bypasses the general will of the people is dishonourable and unacceptable.” KL Kronu noted that NSCN (IM) is just one of the groups. Stating that they “do not represent” any other NPGs apart from themselves, he maintained that “No agreement between any single group and the GOI can be treated as Indo-Naga Agreement.” “If any agreement is happening between any single group and the GOI, like surrendering in exchange of some governmental benefits, Nagas have nothing much to say unless it concerns the rights and future of the Naga people. However Nagas have everything to say if such agreement is interpreted as an agreement between the Naga people and the GOI. No agreement between the GOI and the NSCN (IM) should infringe the rights and the interest of the Naga People about which the NNC/FGN are still willing to press on,” stated the Kilonser for Ministry of Rali Wali Affairs. Reiterating their full commitment to the ‘Naga cause,’ the NNC/FGN stated that “We can speak for ourselves and we are very clear as to who and what to represent.” To that end, the NNC/FGN stated that they do not recognize anybody speaking for us or for the Nagas. However, they group is not opposed to any talks in a democratic country and “We are open to dialogue, but that does not mean we are to accept anything and everything that has been imposed on us or the Nagas.”

In a place remote and largely under-developed, the police force adopting technology to check crime appears farfetched. Yet defying popular notion, the Nagaland Police became an unlikely champion in the technology sphere when it launched the Nagaland Police SMS Based Vehicle Monitoring System (NPSVMS) – an application for curbing vehicle theft. Launched into operation by the Nagaland Police in the latter part of April this year, the indigenous system was touted as “unique” and the first such to have single-window access to the vehicle databases maintained by the National Crime Records Bureau, the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and the state police. It was developed in collaboration with a Nagaland-based IT firm ‘Elysium Enterprise’, which served as the technical vendor and consultant of the project. The basic concept behind the implementation of the system was to streamline checking and empower the police constabulary while minimising discomfort generally felt by the public during

police checking. The system was unique in the sense that it is user-friendly and simple enough to be applied via ordinary mobile phones with no requirement for ‘smart apps’. “The usefulness of the system is in its simplicity and its user friendly attributes,” commented Ben Imchen, who helms Elysium Enterprise. It even has the ability to recognize typing and command errors or queries that have been misspelt or are not uniform. Corrections are automatically made by the system. Its uniqueness is “in how we have been able to drastically empower the policeman on the field using a common technology like SMS. He now has access to information, which would earlier have taken weeks to obtain, at his fingertips,” added Imchen. To refresh public memory on how to access this service, a user has to register his mobile number and vehicle at the nearest police station with copies of personal ID proof. It can also be done online @www.npsvms.com. “The Public user has the freedom to register as many vehicles as he desires on his verified mobile number,” states a concept note on the system.

The NPSVMS also provides a Hotline - 8415-900400 for instantly reporting vehicle theft. Once a user has registered his mobile phone number and vehicle details with the police, the person can send an SMS to this number with the keyword LOST, which will immediately alert all checkposts and police personnel registered in NPSVMS. Nagaland State and the Nagaland Police can take pride in the fact that no other state in India has in place such a system. According to sources, the Central government was impressed, the Ministry of Home Affairs in particular showing interest in the system. Sources in the Nagaland Police Headquarters said that a number of local conditions were taken into consideration before going ahead with the project. Principal among them were the poor internet connectivity in the state, and the level of education of the constabulary, who make up the bulk of the police force and costs. It was developed at a cost of around Rs. 25 lakhs under the Police Modernisation Scheme and took one and a half years to complete. According to the sources, it was comparatively cheaper than other

applications developed by other state police forces to facilitate policing. The poor network connectivity and the time it takes to get used to a smart phone based service ruled out the possibility of opting for a mobile phone app. The Nagaland Police finally decided to opt for an SMS-based system, which would require less authentication protocol and put lesser technical demand on the constabulary to learn and use the system, the sources said. Data made available indicate that significant inroads have been made in curbing vehicle theft and recovery since its launch in April. Around 20 stolen vehicles have been recovered up till June through the application of the system, while nearly 500 users have registered and it has handled over 5000 ‘queries’ during the same period. One unanticipated upshot of the system has been that people intending to buy second-hand vehicles are increasingly using the system to check vehicle history. It though has its limitations. One of its biggest limitations has been the unavailability of records of vehicles registered before the Vahan System (All India Transport) was fully implemented.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 13 (MExN): The Federal Government of Nagaland (NNC/FGN) with S. Singnya as Kedahge has asserted today that the talks between the Government of India (GoI) and NSCN (IM) is not between the Nagas and GoI. A press note from KL Kronu, Kilonser of NNC/FGN’s Ministry of Rali Wali Affairs, gave a number of reasons why any agreement arrived between only the two You sell more booze than parties would be “invalid.” Mohan Meakin Brewery ltd. The note stated that unlike the NNC, so stop grumbling if no“there was no point of time where the body buys your Momos. Naga people have given their mandate” to the NSCN (IM) to negotiate the Naga issue The Morung Express with the GoI or any other party. “ConsulDIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 13 balances” as a result of “outright dis- further expressed its desire to the GoI Poll QuEsTioN tative Meetings do not count as mandate,” (MExN): The first round of bilateral crimination and negligence by the for an early, peaceful and amicably talks between the Government of In- successive governments of both the acceptable solution to the protracted Vote on www.morungexpress.com the Kilonser maintained. According to Kronu, an agreement dia (GoI) and the Eastern Nagaland centre and the state” were highlight- Indo Naga political issue. The next sMs your answer to 9862574165 has currently been forged “without the Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO) was ed before the central officials, the round of the bilateral talks is expectDo Naga apex prior consent of the people.” Since the ed to be held before the year end. held on September 10 at New Delhi ENPO informed. organizations truly Naga people have “originally” given their The ENPO further opposed a triIt may be recalled that the resowith regard to the demand for the seppresent the v mandate to National Workers to fight for oice of the public? arate state of ‘Frontier Nagaland’ by partite talk on the issue proposed by lution for the separate statehood the “recognition of Naga’s independence the six federating tribes of the ENPO. the GoI. The ENPO said that both par- was adopted on the May 25, 2000 at and sovereignty,” Kronu said that anything A press note from the ENPO in- ties “mutually agreed to initially have Tuensang head quarter which was Yes No others short of this cannot be considered as the formed that discussions between several rounds of bilateral talks.” “As endorsed by the village councils of Has commercialisation final solution. the officials of the MHA, GoI and was also officially intimated to the the six tribes. The movement for the of educational “However, if there are obstructions, real institutions taken the ENPO was held under “a very govt. of Nagaland in regard to the demand is based on a public referor perceived, then the people should be priority over value based cordial and constructive atmo- former by the GoI, the same has also endum which was further endorsed consulted before making any decision or education in Nagaland? been informed for the latter (i.e. bilat- to the Central Executive Committee sphere with fairness and opneness, agreement,” he maintained. Further, “There Yes 79% (CEC) of the ENPO for representawhere the issues and grievances of eral meeting),” it added. seems to be a mismatch between the aspi08% No Both the ENPO and the GoI also tion of the public memorandum to the people of eastern Nagaland was ration of the Naga people and the supposed 13% others highlighted for the consumption, “agreed in principle that the process the GoI through the Prime Miniscontent...the Accord seems to serve the inDetails on page 7 better understanding and feedback of discussions and the demand of ter. Subsequently, a memorandum terests of NSCN (IM) and the GOI more than statehood by the ENPO is a separate was officially submitted to the GoI of both the parties.” the interest of the Naga people.” The discussions, it revealed, per- issue in nature from the present Naga through the then Union Home MinAccording to the Kilonser, the “kind of responses” by the people after the signing tained to the historical and political peace talk with the GoI.” The two is- ister on the December 6, 2010, and of the ‘Peace Accord’ gives a “clear indicabackground of the ENPO. “Glaring sues, they agreed “cannot be mixed the then Union Home Secretary on tion” that NSCN (IM) “does not enjoy the socio-economic and political im- up and misunderstood.” The ENPO December 8, 2010. DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 13 (MExN): The Ghokuto Village Council (GVC) has alleged that the 32 Assam Rifles “conducted raids” at the residence of Morung Express News DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 13 (MExN): of NSCN(K) enroute to Avangkhu, it was its Head GB, G Shikavi ZhiThe Assam Rifles (AR) today denied recent decided to send a larger force to verify the Mokokchung | September 13 momi at Ghokuto village, reports that security forces were involved border pillars and also prevent movement Niuland Sub- division, Di- The 5MVA transformer that was in strikes against the NSCN (K) inside of NSCN(K) cadres from the border to mapur on September 10 under repair at the Power DepartAvangkhu and Pokhungri villages, as a seMyanmar. at around 7:30pm. A press ment’s central stores in Dimapur arA press note from the PRO, IGAR (N) curity measure for own troops conducting note from Khevito Zhimo, rived here today at 10:20 am; bringrecalled that on September 10, “a party of medical camps,” it added. The AR stated that movement of Assam Assam Rifles while going to Avangkhu for Secretary, Ghokuto Village ing a sigh of relief to the people of conducting medical camp was fired upon Rifles troops “towards the border” has Council alleged that the AR Mokokchung town, who have enby cadres of NSCN (K).” This party, it re- “unnecessarily been construed as movepersonnel broke the lock to dured a severe power crisis over the vealed, was also tasked to carry out veri- ment across the border and linked up with the Head GB’s room “in the past weeks. fication of Border Pillars, which is a man- some uncorroborated operations against presence of 2(two) minor Executive Engineer (Electrical) dated task of Assam Rifles, “being a Border Tsera Camp of NSCN (K).” children while G. Shikavi for Mokokchung, Er Moa Aier along It informed that there is no road existing Management force.” Zhimo and his wife were with his staff and leaders of the Mofrom Avangkhu to Tsera Village in MyanDuring Ceasefire with the NSCN (K), out of station, causing ha- kokchung Town Lanur Telongjem it said that a small detachment of troops mar except a foot track, and that there was rassment, immense physi- (MTLT) were at the Mokokchung could go upto the border and verify the a landslide between Pokhungri and Avancal and mental pain to the town power station when the truck Border Pillars, more so because Assam gkhu due to which all vehicles were stasaid minor children.” It carrying the power transformer arRifles posts were located at Pokhungri. tioned at Pokhungri. Therefore, it said that was informed that Zhimo rived. The engineer said that it would However, after the ceasefire abrogation, all movement upto Avangkhu was carried is also the President of the take at least 24 hours to ‘charge’ the it informed that the isolated posts at Pok- out on foot. The AR asserted that there is Ato Area GB’s Association, transformer before transmission of leaders of Mokokchung Town lanur Telongjem along with the Executive En- hungri, Pungro and Ziphu in Phek dis- “absolutely no question of any vehicles or under EAC HQ Nihokhu. electricity could begin. gineer, Mokokchung Electrical Division (third from right) are seen here in front trict were closed down. Since then, it was soldiers moving across the border.” The GVC while condemnIt looks like it would take at least of the new 5MVA power transformer that was brought from Dimapur today, imperative to send a large posse of troops Reports of strikes carried out by Indian ing the incident stated another two days for the town to en- september 13. for carrying out verification of Border Pil- security forces inside Myanmar, the AR to start transmission of electricity. that “such kind of unwar- joy uninterrupted power supply as today would continue tomorrow. lars to ensure security of the troops, the postulated, “appears to be based on some Meanwhile, the MTLT has reIt may be recalled that the main AR stated. ranted raids by uniformed the new transformer, weighing ten mischievous comments posted in social defence personnel should tons, was yet to be installed till the fil- quested the people of Mokokchung 5MVA power transformer at MoIt further claimed that the intention of media sites... by inimical elements of sobe condemned by all right ing of this report. The workers on site town to bear with the inconvenience kokchung town power station got sending Assam Rifles troops to Avangkhu ciety.” “Involvement of Myanmar based thinking citizen.” It further could only manage to dismantle the until the power transformer is in- damaged on August 26 last, leav- on September 10 was to carry out medi- cadres of NSCN (K) is a strong possibility asked the AR not to “harass damaged transformer today, which is stalled and commissioned. MTLT ing the people of Mokokchung town cal camp at Avangkhu as well as verify the especially after the NIA announcement innocent public” while to be transported to Dimapur. The in- also said that now that the transform- and nearby villages reeling under an border pillars in the area. “After the Assam of Rs 17 lac bounty on Khaplang and Niki conducting such “raids.” Rifles troops were fired upon by cadres Sumi,” it added. stallation of the transformer brought er is stationed, it would not take long acute power crisis.

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The 15 semi-finalists of Miss Dimapur 2015 pose for lens after the official photo shoot on September 12. Andy Imchen and team did the make-up and Toshizen and Keny Rakho directed the shoots. A press release informed that the sub-title "Miss Photogenic" would be judged by some renowned photographers. Photo by Sentiyanger

in Medziphema gets new building A different kind of old age home GPSSMC members urge authority to deploy more government teachers

(Left) Ararat Care & Old Age Home, which opened on September 11 at Aoyimkum, Dimapur. (Right) Ayala Longkumer. Morung Express News Dimapur | September 13 C M Y K

With spiritual nourishment as its objective, a home for senior citizens has been opened in Dimapur. Located at Aoyimkum and christened Ararat Care & Old Age Home, the facility was inaugurat-

ed on September 11. The home seeks to look after the spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing of senior citizens. It is located about 500 metres from Aoyimkum Baptist Church. It was the brainchild of 26 year-old Ayala Longkumer, who holds a Mas-

Ararat Care & Old Age Home to look after spiritual, mental and physical well-being of senior citizens

ENLU condoles LJ Toshi Sangtam’s death

Kohima, September 13 (mexN): The Eastern Nagaland Legislators Union (ENLU) has expressed condolences over the demise of LJ Toshi Sangtam, former state minister of transport & communication and geology & mining. A condolence note from R Tohanba, parliamentary secretary for municipal affairs and general secretary of ENLU recounted that Toshi Sangtam, the first MLA from 52 assembly

constituency, came to Tuensang in the early 50’s. He studied at Mission School, Jorhat and National High School, Kohima up to class X. He was a good footballer, the note said. Sangtam served as Joint Secretary, NNO; Secretary, Tuensang District People Convention; Assistant Secretary, Peace Mission Tuensang. He was also a nominated member of Regional Council and was elected vice chairman of

Tuensang District Regional Council on February 11, 1969 and continued for the second term till February 23, 1974. In 1976, he was the vice chairman of UDF. He also served as vice chairman of Red Cross Society Tuensang, president of Rotarian Club Tuensang from 1976-1993. He was also the president of United Sangtam Student's Conference. He was treasurer of NPF Tuensang District until his death.

ter's Degree in Divinity from Discipleship Bible College (DBC). She is described as a woman with “God-given gift”. Rev. O. Alem, DBC Principal, inaugurated the home on September 11, and the event was attended by DBC lecturers and a host of well-wish-

ers. According to a release, the home aims to “spiritually awaken senior citizens and bring back lost souls to Christ.” Senior citizens can visit the home and even take up temporary residency depending on need, it was added.

Nagaland Engineer’s Day to be celebrated on Sept 15

Kohima, September 13 (mexN): The Federation of Nagaland State Engineering Services Association (FONSESA) will be celebrating its Engineer’s Day on September 15 at Engineerin-Chief’s conference hall, NPWD Complex, Kohima at 10:00 am. Pankaj Kumar (IAS), Chief Secretary, Nagaland will be the chief guest of the event. The programme will be chaired by Er. Shikato Sema, Vice Presi-

dent, FONSESA, welcome address & significance of Engineer’s Day will be delivered by Er. R. Temsutemjen, President, FONSESA, short speech will be presented by Er. K Miachieo, Chief Engineer (T&G), Department of Power and the vote of thanks will be pronounced by Er. Limanaro, S.E, NPWD. The organizing committee has requested all FONSESA members to attend the programme without fail.

R Amongla Jamir, DDEO, Dimapur with SMC members and other during the inauguration of GPS building at ward no.7, Medziphema Town.

medziphema, September 13 (mexN): The much awaited new building of Government Primary School at ward no.7, Medziphema Town has been inaugurated. It was inaugurated on September 11 by R Amongla Jamir, DDEO, Dimapur, in the presence of School Management Committee (SMC) members, public leaders and other invitees. The Deputy District Education Officer (DDEO) in her address acknowledged the full cooperation given by the public and also requested to do so even in days to come. She expressed her full trust in the SMC members in maintaining transparency in the

management of the school. She further appealed to the teachers to be dedicated in their work and maintain the standard of education. She also urged the gathering not to depend only on government, but extend community participation. According to a press release, the land for the building was donated by agriculture department. The construction of the building, which started in 2012 and completed in September 2015, was funded by SSA. The total cost of the project was Rs. 2,04,754/-, the release added. The school with students from nursery to class-3 has five classrooms

for a total of 57 students. Meanwhile, it has only two government teachers and two private teachers whose salaries are paid by SMC members. In this regard, the committee has appealed to the authority concerned to deploy more government teachers. Earlier, the programme was chaired by Chinnu, SMC member. God's blessing was invoked by pastor of the Lotha Baptist Church, Medziphema Town, welcome address by Khekuto, chairman, SMC. Vote of thanks was proposed by Rokovitso, GB, Ward no.7, Medziphema Town and benediction by the pastor, Lotha Baptist Church.

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Kohima, September 13 (mexN): Malayalis living in Kohima celebrated Onam on September 12 bringing the rich cultural heritage of Kerala alive. The harvest festival of Kerala was celebrated at the auditorium of Don Bosco Higher Secondary School, Kohima with much gaiety and pomp, a press release from Malayali Samajam Kohima (MSK) cultural secretary Sureshkumar RP informed. According to Keralite customs, the auditorium was beautifully decorated with Pookkalam- rangoli made with colourful flowers, the release said. The celebration started with lighting of traditional lamp. KM Geevarghese, President, Malayali Samajam Kohima (MSK), delivered welcome address. Women dressed in kasav saris (off-white saris with

Malayali women perform the traditional clap dance of Kerala during the celebration of Onam in Kohima on September 12.

golden border) performed 'Thiruvathira', the traditional clap dance of Kerala with much poise and gaiety. Besides, the audience was enthralled by other cultural performances by

the children of MSK and entertainment games. Fr. Sebastian, Vice Rector, Don Bosco, Kohima and Fr. NJ Joseph, Don Bosco, Zubza extended Onam greetings to the Keralites living in Ko-

hima. Vote of thanks was pronounced by Sureshkumar RP, Cultural Secretary, MSK. The day's celebration ended with sumptuous traditional 'Onasadya' (Onam feast).

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Protests continue in Manipur's Assam MLA accused of raping minor untraceable, say police Churachandpur without respite Our Correspondent Imphal | September 13 Demonstrations and protests continued for the second consecutive week on Sunday without respite in Manipur’s interior Churachandpur district. Members of all social groups under the banner of the joint action committee (JAC) Churachandpur continued to participate in sitins to demand withdrawal of three Bills passed in the Manipur Assembly on August 31 and resignation of all tribal MLAs. There are 20 tribal representatives in the 60-member Manipur Assembly. Among them, four legislators from Naga People’s Front (NPF) had put in papers to show stiff opposition against the Protection of Manipur Peoples Bill, 2015, Manipur Land Revenue & Land Reforms (Sev-

enth Amendment) Bill, 2015 and Manipur Shops & Establishments (Second Amendment) Bill, 2015. The passage of the three Government Bills, intended to protect the interests of indigenous people in the state, sparked violence in Churachandpur on August 31. The state police forces have allegedly killed nine protesters in the district during the violence. Large scale arson attack was also witnessed in different parts of the district. Residences of an MLA and a minister were torched by protesters who also set ablaze a few Government offices. The tribal civil society groups have insisted that the three Bills violate the rights of the tribals in the state. During an emergency meeting of the JAC yesterday it was decided to boycott all tribal MLAs who

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have refused to tender resignation, a statement said. Civil society groups Kuki Inpi, Hmar Inpui and Zomi Council in a joint meeting on September 1 had served an ultimatum to the Hill Areas Committee (HAC) to exert pressure on the Government to either withdraw the Bills or incorporate certain clauses in the controversial Bills in ten days’ time. The JAC, however, relaxed the agitation from 5 am to 10 am on Sunday. All educational institutions in the district have remained closed since protests erupted following the passing of the three Bills. The Manipur Government is still adamant that the Bills do not impinge upon the rights of the tribal people, but it has also said these Bills intended to safeguard the indigenous communities are amendable.

BOKO, SeptemBer 13 (the IndIan expreSS): Exactly a week has passed since a minor girl, who was working as a domestic help, lodged an FIR against Assam MLA Gopinath Das, accusing him of sexual assault. The police, however, are yet to trace him. “We have conducted raids at several places, but have not been able to locate him. We will arrest him the moment we find him,” said Kamrup SP Indrani Barua. The cell-phone of the three-time MLA, who is currently with the All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), has remained switched off since Monday. A case under Section 343 of the IPC along with sections 4 and 5 (B) of POCSO Act has been registered against him. Meanwhile, the girl, aged about 14 — she has no birth certificate — is currently in the Children’s Home for Girls in Jalukbari, Guwahati. Her mother said she never went to school and has been working as a domestic help in different households since she was about four. She was in the MLA’s house in Guwahati for about one-and-a-half months, she added. The FIR registered under her

name — someone had to write down what she said — states: “The MLA brought me with him in his car to his village home at Nagarbera on the morning of August 29. By the time we left for Guwahati, it was night. At 10 pm, as we reached near Nijeshwari temple (40 km east of Boko, on the highway to Guwahati), he sexually assaulted me. He put his fingers into my private parts twice despite my resistance. I was very scared and could not protest loudly. He also touched my breasts several times.” The FIR was lodged on September 6 after the girl managed to run away a day earlier, her mother said. Their village, Jogipara, is about 15 km west of Guwahati. “On September 5, Puspalata came to me and said my daughter had run away from the MLA’s house. She asked me if I knew anything, but I told her I did not,” she added. Puspalata Biswas, president of 43 Hekra-Jogipara gram panchayat, is known to Das. “It was Puspalata who had taken my daughter to the MLA’s house in Guwahati with a promise of Rs 1,000 per month. I have not received the first month’s salary,”

aGartala, SeptemBer 13 (ptI): To create three waterways between landlocked Tripura and Bangladesh, two major rivers of the state would be linked with the river Meghna of the neighboring country, official sources said today. The Ministry of Water Transport and Shipping has asked the state government to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) to connect state's two major rivers- Howrah and Gomati with Meghna, state Transport Secretary Samarjit Bhowmik told reporters. "Transport department has already engaged a consultancy agency to prepare a DPR for the project, which is likely to be available within a short period Imphal, SeptemBer 13 (ptI): A body was found at and then we would place the road side of Thoubal Sabal Tongba Ikop Pat lane in the budget for the project", Manipur's Thoubal district early this morning, police said. The body was sent to Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences for post mortem, the police said. The deceased was identified as Akoijam Binoy of Thoubal Wangma Taba village of Thoubal district, the police added.

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Bhowmick said. Earlier, RITES had conducted a survey for the new waterways and submitted the report to the ministry suggesting dredging of the two rivers and a required fund of Rs 47 crore for developing three waterways, he added. Meanwhile, another (DPR) for construction of a bridge on River Feni has been finalized to connect Sabroom, a subdivisional town in South Tripura district with Ramhar of Chittagong Division of Bangladesh and the government of India has sanctioned Rs 91 crore for the project. The DPR for the 250 feet long bridge was handed over to the state department of Industries and Commerce, the nodal de-

partment for communication with Bangladesh, State PWD's Chief Engineer Sunil Bhowmik said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to the neighbouring country on June 6 had laid the foundation stone for the bridge through video conferencing from Dhaka in presence of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. India will construct the bridge on the river Feni to get access to the Chittagong international sea port in Bangladesh and the neighbouring country has agreed to allow India to use the Chittagong port, about 75 km from Sabroom. Tripura has 856 km long international border with Bangladesh which surrounds the state on three sides.

Arunachal CM Nabam Tuki conducts aerial survey of flood-hit areas

GuwahatI, SeptemBer 13 (ptI): Stating that ban on sale of meat is a retrogressive step, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today said his government will not impose it. The ban on sale of meat by some states is a retrogressive step as it violates the rights of the people to eat whatever food they like, Gogoi said. "Our Government will not impose any ban on sale of meat in any form," he said in a statement. The chief minister described the ban as decline from a better to a worse state as "people have the right to choose the food they prefer to eat." However, Gogoi said, his statement should not construed as promotion of non-vegetarianism. "A vegetarian has the same right as a non-vegetarian to eat whatever food he or she prefers," he said. Some BJP ruled states have imposed a ban on sale of meat in view of a Jain festival for varying days this month.

Man injured in bear attack aIzawl, SeptemBer 13 (ptI): A bear attacked a man in Mizoram's Saiha district seriously injuring him, a police officer said. Chuanmawia was attacked by the bear near river Tuipanglui and suffered serious injuries on face besides fracture of right arm last evening, the officer said. The badly bruised man was later taken to the Primary Health Centre in Tuipang by the locals and then shifted to the District Hospital in Saiha. Doctors in the District Hospital said that the bear-attack victim was now in stable condition. Villagers said that bears and wild boars were roaming in the forests near Tuipang and had destroyed the cultivation in many places during the past one month.

ItanaGar, SeptemBer 13 (ptI): Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today conducted an aerial survey of seven flood-hit districts in the state. The high-level team, lead by Tuki, was shocked by the trail of devastation in flood-wrecked Doimukh, Kimin, Mebo, Diyun, Dambuk, Namsai, Tezu and worst affected Paglam village during the threeand-half-hour long aerial survey. Apart from Tuki, Ministers Chowna Mein and Kamlung Mossang, Parliamentary Secretary Jomde Kena (Likabali constituency), MLAs Gum Tayeng (Dambuk constituency), Zingnu Namchoom (Namsai) and Nikh Kamin (Bordumsa-Diyun) were part of the delegation.

Relief and Rehabilitation Commissioner Khapa Kholie and Director Y W Ringu, Arunachal Pradesh State Transport GM Abo Tayeng also accompanied the team. East Siang Deputy Commissioner has submitted a report on flood damage losses amounting to Rs 14 crore so far, though the extent of damage was still being assessed. After witnessing that Anupam village under Paglam circle of Lower Dibang Valley district was completely devastated by the merger of Taro Tamuk and Dotung rivers, the chief minister directed to shift the village. MLA Tayeng along with General Manager, Transport, Abo Tayeng apprised the team about the devastation at Paglam village.

Imphal, SeptemBer 13 (mexn): Troops of 12 BIHAR battalion of 9 Sector Assam Rifles along with Mayang Imphal Police launched a joint operation in Muttum Phibao and apprehended one PLA cadre on September 13. The apprehended cadre, identified as No 1581 (Batch No 16), SS L/Cpl Kharibam Nimai alias Anal (40), was handed over to the Wangoi Police Station, a press release from PRO, IGAR (S) informed. `In another incident, a cadre of PREPAK (PRO) identified as Tokelambam alias NG Amkhai (46) was apprehended by combined team of 12 BIHAR battalion of 9 Sector Assam Rifles and Mayang Imphal Police from Uchiwa. The apprehended cadre has been handed over to the Mayang Imphal Police Station, the PRO said. painting competition conducted A drawing and painting competition was organised at L Thangkam Primary School, Chandel by 20 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector Assam Rifles on September 12. 70 students participated in the event, where they were given the freedom to decide on their own theme to boost their creativity. It was a platform for the students to express themselves through art and cultivate hobbies for overall personality development, the press release said. Prizes were distributed to the 3 best students of the event. The principal of the school requested Assam Rifles to organise such programmes in the future

Initiatives, plans of investment in NE proposed to Jitendra Singh new delhI, SeptemBer 13 (anI): A delegation of Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) led by its President Shiv Siddhant Kaul called on the Union Minister of State for Northeast & MoS PMO Dr. Jitendra Singh here on Sunday and proposed several initiatives and plans of investment that the Chamber envisages for the North Eastern Region.

Jitendra Singh congratulated Kaul for having taken over as President of ICC for the year 2015-16. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Singh said, last 15 months have been a period of visionary reforms aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship, particularly in those parts of the country where it has relatively lagged behind. In this regard, he said,

Northeast offers tremendous opportunities for investment, generating job employability and above all, becoming a part of the present Government's "Make in Northeast Make in India" and "Start-up India" missions. Kaul requested Jitendra Singh to chair the 9th Northeast Business Summit scheduled to be held at Guwahati early February next year. He also sought the Minister's

school dropouts and physically handicapped, opening primary schools in villages, medical centres, libraries and computer centre in the village and making the residents self-employed by engaging in agriculture and jaggery-making and by setting up oil mills, biogas plants, mechanised carpentry shops and khadi sales counters. Octogenarian Thakkar, a dedicated Gandhian, who settled in Chuchuyimlang village in Mokokchung district of Nagaland and worked tirelessly for decades for the NE people recalled his association with India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and leaders of all other streams on this occasion.

Shah said that while many people sacrificed their lives to attain freedom, people like Thakkar dedicated their life for the nation. Lauding the contribution of individuals and institutions to keep North East connected with the mainstream, Shah said that he wants to say it with pride that RSS had a great contribution in it. "More than 272 full time RSS pracharaks, who worked in the region and 10 of them also lost their life, four of whom were killed in Tripura after being kept hostage for long. There are many institutions, which got inspiration from the RSS and worked for there. The BJP chief also claimed that

whenever his party came to power, it focused on North East and took a dig at the UPA dispensation without naming it for making the DoNER ministry "dormant". "Whenever a BJP government came to power, we brought the NE region in forefront. When Vajpayee ji was Prime Minister, he set up the DoNER ministry. Then it became dormant after our government went out. Again when Modi government came to power, the DoNER ministry is back to life," he said. He rued that despite having the nature's bounty, the region could not develop into a tourist hub, which would have been the case in any other country.

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Shah praises RSS for efforts to integrate NE with rest of India new delhI, SeptemBer 13 (ptI): BJP chief Amit Shah today heaped lavish praise at RSS for its effort to integrate North East with rest of India as he felicitated noted Gandhian Natwar Thakkar for his life-long contribution in connecting the NE people with the mainstream. Giving away the "Karmyogi Award 2015" by My Home India, a Mumbai based NGO, working for the cause of national integration, Shah said that Mahatma Gandhi had inspired many youths to work for the country and exuded confidence that the youths will take inspiration from Natwar Bhai's life sketch. Thakkar's work in Nagaland includes vocational training for

bad things to her inside the car,” the mother said. On hearing the girl had reached the village, some student leaders took her to Mandira police outpost. “Since we don’t have women constables, I called up the Inspector at Boko police station, who asked me to rush her to Boko,” said ASI Amiya Goswami, who heads Mandira OP. Inspector Barman said, “We took down the FIR and took her to Guwahati Medical College Hospital for medical examination.” The next morning, the girl was produced before a magistrate, who recorded her statement. Police said they wanted to keep them in “protective” custody but the mother refused. “The next morning, they were supposed to go for deposition. But when cops reached the village, they found the house locked,” Barman said. Witnesses said they were “taken away in a car”. Around 4.30 pm that day (September 9), they reappeared in the village. Barman rushed to the village and police are trying to ascertain whose car they went in. The girl was shifted to the Children’s Home for Girls the same evening.

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GuwahatI, SeptemBer 13 (ptI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday directed the authorities concerned to ensure completion of the Assam Gas Cracker Project being set up by Brahmaputra Crackers and Polymers Limited in Dibrugarh. The project has so far achieved an overall progress of 99.78 per cent and is expected to lay the groundwork for substantial investments to set up a slew of downstream plastic processing industries, Gogoi said during a review meeting at Lepetkata in Assam’s Dibrugarh district. The Gas Cracker Project is the first-ever petrochemical one in the NorthEast and an offshoot of the historic Assam Accord signed in August 1985. Gogoi said that since the project carries historical importance, it should work towards fulfilling the dreams of the people of the North-East and improve its economy. He said 136 plastic processing industries have been identified across the region as the offshoot of the Gas Cracker Project, which is expected to create job opportunities for the local youth.Gogoi also spoke of a joint venture between the Assam government and BCPL harnessing the benefits of downstream industries to solve the unemployment problem.

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Grocery shopping goes online: Lower prices, hassle-free purchases see business surge NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 13 (IANS): Shopping for vegetables, fruits or bread wasn’t fun - not as a regular chore in the least. But online grocery marketplaces are fast changing the habits and mindsets of people, especially the young urban professional, on what was once mundane into fun. Plus, no more scurrying around for parking space, small change or wading through dirty marketplaces. In the past year or so, India has seen a virtual mushrooming of such online grocery portals - with some even promising free delivery on the same day, if ordered within the first half, not counting the attractive discounts and promotional offerings they excite you with. “This was almost the last piece of the parcel that was left,” said 23-year old, Harvard-educated Pratik Jindal, chief executive of SRSGrocery.com, speaking

about the online market. “The main reason behind grocery portals is: People are getting more tech-savvy,” Jindal told IANS. Names such as Zip. in, SeaToHome.com, AaramShop.com, LocalBanya.com, EkStop.com, BigBasket.com, AtMyDoorSteps.com, MyGrahak.com, ZopNow.com, Omart.in, RationHut.com and SeaToHome.com are just a handful of such stores that have set up shop -- some with deliveries at multiple locations. The numbers and the growth potential also seem to add up in favour of such stores. As per the latest data released by the Internet and Mobile Association of India, the online food delivery market saw an impressive 40-percent growth in 2014 and reached Rs.350 crore by the end of December. “The online grocery market garners six percent

of the total online services pie.” It’s also not that big physical retailers or the small kirana shops in the neighbourhood are scared. This is primarily because the online stores need them. Even big retailers like Future Group, which owns Big Bazaar, are planning to go online sometime soon. To converge its digital and physical channels, Big Bazaar it has roped in SAP company Hybris, which helps transform businesses to meet the demands of the digital age. With Hybris solutions, it plans to give customers thje flexibility to buy anywhere, pay anywhere and get things delivered anywhere. It had also launched Big Bazaar Direct where it is partnering with mom-andpop shops and even individuals. With this, the franchisees can sell both their own and Big Bazaar products,

FSSAI proposes norms for nutraceuticals, ayurvedic products to check mis-labelling NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 13 (ptI): Aiming to check mis-labelling of ‘health supplements’, Food safety watchdog FSSAI has come out with gazetted regulations proposing to ban the sale of such products as ‘medicines’. At the same time, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has also framed regulations for products based on ayurveda, sidhha, unani and other traditional health systems. The regulator has proposed to fix the permissible limits of various ingredients used in the products, which are based on traditional health systems. “Every package of food or health supplements shall carry the information on the label... the words FOOD or HEALTH SUPPLEMENT... the term ‘NOT FOR MEDICINAL USE’ shall be prominently written on the label,” as per a draft order issued by FSSAI. Under the new regulations proposed by the authority, companies can not claim that their nutraceuticals and health supplement products are for therapeutic and curative purposes. FSSAI has also proposed the maximum usage levels for cow’s milk, buffalo’s milk, camel’s milk, ghee, curd, butter, honey, gold, gold foil, silver, pearl in ayurveda, siddha and unani

ingredients based products. The limit has been fixed as maximum usage levels per day for use as a health or food supplements which are based on ayurveda, siddha and unani. The regulator will finalise these regulations after receiving comments from all stakeholders on the draft note. FSSAI said that the benefits of speciality foods containing ingredients based on ayurveda, unani and siddha and other traditional health systems of India, should be shown by science based evidence. Meanwhile industry body Assocham had released a knowledge paper suggesting that FSSAI should come up with safety norms for nutraceuticals and dietary supplements. In the paper, the industry body said about 60-70 per cent supplements in the nutraceuticals market, which has potential to grow to USD 12.2 billion in the next five years, are fake and such unregistered and unapproved products should be recalled. India accounts for 1.5 per cent of the global nutraceuticals market. Heinz, Kellogg’s, Nestle, Hormel, Unilever%, Johnson & Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals are key players in this segment.

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NCR region in the name of Value Bazaar -- started in January this year. The company has 45 stores. Stakeholders like Jindal also explained there were also attractive captive shoppers in working couples and even old people. Plus, another attraction is that the number of products available in the online format is much higher than neighbourhood mom and pop shops. But the final say in all this, the stakeholders concede, has to be the price. The USDA report also gave a risk-benefit analysis. “Compared to these (physical) stores, online retailers will need to overcome delivery challenges (traffic, poor roads, greater distance, and cost). Nevertheless, online retailers enable consumers to bypass parking and traffic congestion in most Indian cities while providing better selection than a neighborhood store.”

A worker examines an air bag inside a factory of air bag maker Rane TRW Steering System Ltd at Singaperumal Koil in Tamil Nadu on September 105. (REUTER Photo)

million cars a year. Some of the world’s largest air bag makers - Autoliv Inc, Takata Corp, TRW Automotive Inc and Toyoda Gosei Co are already gearing up to cash in. It expects revenues from the air bag unit to hit 3.5 billion rupees by 2020, from 400 million rupees today.

parts, such as inflators, are imported. And without rules imposing their use in a country of poorly maintained vehicles and overcrowded, badly lit and potholed roads, carmakers often opt not to add a costly component that could drive up prices. The new rules, part of the Road Transport and Safety Bill, do not directly propose airbags, CRASH TESTS but instead make crash tests Air bags in India are expen- mandatory for new models sold sive mainly because most of the in India from October 2017.

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NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 13 (rEutErS): The world’s largest air bag suppliers are setting up plants and ramping up capacity in India, eyeing a $2 billion opportunity thanks to tougher rules aimed at improving one of the world’s worst road-safety records. In India, a person is killed in a road accident every four minutes - 141,000 in 2014 - yet less than a third of the 2.6 million cars sold each year have air bags in this cost-conscious market. But a planned law that will impose crash test standards by 2017 is creating an opportunity for makers of safety equipment, as cars without air bags will achieve only the lowest safety ratings after tests. That, for the first time, will force consumers to directly consider the risks they run by buying cheap. By 2020, overall revenues from airbag sales in India are set to rise 11% a year to hit $2 billion, outpacing the 9% growth expected in China, according to data from Transparency Market Research. By then, India is expected to be selling over 5

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methodologies such as online banking, credit cards, debit cards, and cash-ondelivery have meant that it is convenient for urban Indian consumers to shop online while saving both time and money,” the study said. Navneet Singh, chief executive and co-founder of PepperTap, told IANS that growth has been rather good for his portal. “We are now present in 12 cities and will be present in 35 cities by year-end. It is a capitalefficient model. Logistics is provided by us,” he said. In January, Singh said, the company saw only 50 orders a day, which is now touching 12,000-15,000 orders. He said, their mantra was to partner with local stores and put their catalogues online. “We have tie-ups with 140 retailers so far.” Jindal of SRSGrocery said the venture -- which is a part of SRS Grocery stores spread across the Delhi

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through a tablet provided to them. So far, there are some 700 franchisee under this concept. Globally, as per a Nielsen Global E-commerce and the New Retail Survey released a few months ago, a quarter of the respondents said they were already ordering groceries online for home delivery and more than half were willing to use it in the future. The majority of the 30,000 respondents in 60 countries felt physical shopping had its charm. But the study added: “Research also shows clicks do lead to bricks and this is an important take-away for retailers and manufacturers who must engage the consumer early on the path to purchase.” A study on online grocery done by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) also predicts strong growth. “The availability of multiple payment

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mumbAI, SEptEmbEr 13 (ptI): Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate 21st Century Fox is betting big on its subsidiary Star to lead its international growth. “Top opportunity continues to be international, led by Star, which clearly is going to lead a lot of our international growth,” 21st Century Fox chief financial officer John Nallen told an industry summit over the weekend. “One of the top priorities, uniquely for us is international. We’ve got a particular focus on growth outside the US. We continue to harness the assets we have in Star, FIC (Fox International Channels) and in Sky but we continue to be opportunistic to the extent we can outside the US,” according to a webcast on the company’s website. Nallen was addressing an industry seminar in California last week. Star India, which is a fully owned subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, broadcasts over 40 channels in seven languages, reaching more than 720 million every week across 100 countries. Nallen further said Star is on target to achieve an EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation) of USD 500 million by 2018. In April, James Murdoch, the present chief executive of 21st Century Fox, had said Star India is likely to earn operating income of USD 1 billion by 2020. Morgan Stanley recently pegged Star TV’s value at USD 11.2 billion. The American brokerage estimated the fair market value of Star on the basis of rising ad revenue from India and said the firm contributed 11.3 per cent to the overall fair market value of 21st Century Fox. As of June 2015, Star’s earnings from entertainment business stood at USD 300 million.

McDonald’s to double outlets with Rs 750-crore investment mumbAI, SEptEmbEr 13 (ptI): McDonald’s India is stepping up its operations in western and southern markets of the country by doubling its outlets with an investment of Rs 750 crore in the next five years. “We currently have 213 restaurants, and are looking to add up to another 250 restaurants by 2020, which would entail an investment of Rs 750 crore,” said Amit Jatia, Vice Chairman, Westlife Enterprise, a master franchisee for McDonald’s here. McDonald’s, which was the first quick service restaurant (QSR) format to start operations in the country two decades ago, is now betting on alternative, healthy offerings in the face of competition. Other international chain restaurants, most recently Burger King, besides Dominos, Pizza Hut and Dunkin Donuts among others, and food-on-demand delivery services are competing for consumer attention in the segment. The company’s overarching strategy now is to offer “healthier beverages” to customers here. “We are now betting big on our coffee. We have opened McCafe’s within our outlets serving premium locally sourced arabica coffee at affordable prices,” he said. Started last year in the country, there are about 45 McCafes, which in the next two years is expected to go up to 140, he indicated. The company will spend invest Rs 20 lakhs to Rs 30 lakhs per outlet, to set up McCafes. McDonald’s has also rejigged the food menu in the country to make it more healthy. “We have brought down the calorie content in our sauces by 60-70 per cent, which has cut down the overall calories in the meal by 9 per cent,” he said. DIMAPUR Civil Hospital:

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ACAUT Public Platform : Nagas Opinion on Peaceful Settlement

have returned home from Australia after nearly 20 years.I have been away for a long time and I may not fully understand the current situationin Nagaland. Today some people will raise questions: What authority has ACAUT to interfere in our political affairs? What is their legal status and what mandate do they have? These are legitimate questions and we must listen to all the views but I also would like to quote Victor Hugo, “There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” The time has come to rise up and fight against the evils of corruption and extortion; the two biggest evils in our society today. This is where ACAUT will have the moral authority to fight against the evils of our time. ACAUT will have only that authority and mandate, but if ACAUT becomes corrupt, you will lead our people down and people will hate you for that. We have allsuccumbed to our greed, power and status and that is why we have lost our moral authority to handle difficult crises. Now coming to the Framework Agreement, I am not qualified to talk about the peace accord. I am not a politician and not a member of any Naga Political Group. But I would like to share a few comments on this hot topic.

All the Naga Political Groups, the NGOs, the public and our society must contribute their best wisdom so that this Agreement can lead to a solution. AS the group that has brought this agreement, NSCN-IM must be honest, inclusive and follow the democratic process, inviting the different groups share their vision. This should be said for their own sakes and for the sakes of the Naga people. The people must be frank with IM and tell them where they have done right, tell them to be honest and change their wrongs ways as General Atem boldly asked for at the 8th Naga People’s Consultative Meeting on 25 August 2015 in Dimapur, so that they can work together with others for a common future, with one voice for one nation.This is where our values and struggle are at stake. Gandhi once said to a group of British, “ I don’t like you Christians but I like your Christ, you are so unlike your Christ.’ Will anyone say the same thing about us Naga Christians? I hadthe honour of meeting uncle Muivah and uncle Isak at the United Nations in Geneva some years ago. It was like meeting legends, theyare heroes. I was deeply impressed by their commitment and dedication for the Nagas but I cannot accept their doc-

trine of politics and revolution, which has justified the killings that we all know about. I am fully conscious that all the different national groups have done their own shares of killings of innocent Nagas. The only difference being that justification for killings was absent. I have a real problem with the killings of some close and dear friends and my villagers, which have damaged NSCN-IM’s position as much it has deeply shocked and outraged us. I do not know how we Nagas are going to heal the terrible wounds we have inflicted on one another. As far as I am concern healing these wounds is one of the tasks I am committed to. One point I want to emphasize is about integration. Make no mistake; there is no greater Nagaland or smaller Nagaland but one Nagaland. We must make it clear that we will not take an inch of Assamese land, we will not take an inch of Meiteiland, not even a piece of stone, no blade of grass. But Naga ancestral land belongs to the Nagas and to no one else.We have the right to live together with our own laws and our own culture. We have the right to own our ancestral land.The solution has to be worked out through dialogue with our neighbours because it cannot be imposed on use by Delhi.Another point I want to mention is the name of

our country. Nagalim is given by one faction. In other to legitimise the name, all the other groups must approve. If they cannot agree, we must go for a referendum. I am not against Nagalim but the right democratic process must take place, wecannot change the name of the country by force. Naga National Council chose Nagaland when there was only one national party. History of many nations has shown us that the future can be shaped by a leadership who are flexible and open to grasping new opportunities when they emerge. History has also demonstrated that such opportunities can be lost due to a leadership locked in the thinking and hatreds of the past. The experience of Nationalist movements around the world should make us cautious about embracing the aim of a unified Naga state. Most such visionaries finish up doing more harm than good. The leadership of both ISIS and the Al Qaeda movements would appear willing to drag their followers into wars that lead to the total destruction of cities, communities and families. The “true believers” hold that this is all for their good, and the good of their New World Order, the caliphate as they call it! Such movements need not be religious. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, for

example, brought death and destruction upon their people in the pursuit of a glorious vision. President Mugabe has done the same for the people of Zimbabwe, reducing many of his people to starvation with many more fleeing to neighboring countries. Yet still he promotes himself as the great liberator. How delusional can you be! Sounds just like Hitler and Stalin; blind and in denial to the very end! ‘Nationhood’ does not have to be all or nothing. There are many constitutional arrangements where high autonomy has allowed a nation to pursue many of its national goals, while remaining part of a larger sovereign state. Scotland in UK is one good example of a people who have a strong sense of National identity, and enjoy a large measure of political independence while remaining part of Britain. Many difficult conflict situations have been solved by the goodwill and determination of the people. The human desire to live in peace is so great that given the right opportunities and leaders with vision, communities that have in the past fought and struggled have put aside their differences and worked out a peaceful way forward. With realism, the right attitude, and the growth of trust between leaders, seem-

ingly impossible conflicts are worked out peacefully, such as the ending of apartheid in South Africa, and the successful peace process in Northern Ireland. A successful negotiation between the Naga and the Indian Government should not be viewed as the end of the Naga journey toward nationhood, but as the beginning of a new, peaceful political and cultural process. A new Naga mind-set can assist this process. The Naga leadership in India and in Burma can pursue a goal of greater autonomy using peaceful means; although divided geo-politically we can be united in a broader political and cultural sense. This united Naga culture and mind-set will develop as Naga in India, in Burma, and in the Naga diaspora and work together to assist each other. In this changing world, we can all look beyond old colonial boundaries and draw strength from an emerging vision of Naga National identity that is rooted in our traditional homelands but has spread to encompass Nagas across the world. Let me end here with a quote from Edmund Burke, “It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for the evil to triumph” Dr. Visier Sanyü Meyasetsu President, Overseas Naga Association

Tranquility Life is bestowed with bliss And advocate for tranquility. Rebukers have no place to set in; Offenders have nix ultimate goal. The world invoke for peace, To shun violence is to see cloud nine. We require a state free of oppressive thoughts; Free the world from civil disturbances. Cease the war to cease trauma Amid loads of the afflicted; Let the world see kind gestures, That is what we live for! Niekhoyi Rhakho Stephen

Open letter to SDEO (Department of School Education) Zunheboto Sir, Besides the Teachers Association of Zunheboto district, we the undersigned on behalf of the teacher’s fraternity would like to seek some important clarifications in regard to the constant delay in disbursing the teacher’s salary in time. Unlike other districts, we never get our salary before the 10th of every month and this trend has been in practice for the last few years. We have been facing a lot of hardships and troubles in our own homes. Everything has its own set of rules and because of this reason, the head of the educational institutions, the owner of the tenants and many more odds and ends starts directing us to let our children to abstain from regular classes/hostels/rented house in consequence of fees/due not able to clear up on time. Henceforth, it is our quest in depth to the concern authority to clarify whom/what to blame in this issue. Is it the negligence of accountant or cashier of your office establishment? Is it the negligence of state government or DoSE for delay in sanctioning the teacher’s salary every month meant for Zunheboto district alone? Therefore, we request your kind authority to address our grievances once for all. Chishi , P/T Kivigho, C/I Pukhato, PET

James, P/T Kavito, P/T Bokuto, G/T

Striving for vibrancy, NSUS organises cultural meet Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): With the theme, “Towards a Vibrant Culture,” the Naga Students' Union Shillong successfully held its cultural meet today at Naga Community Hall, Shillong. A crowd of around 700 (seven hundred) turned up for the occasion and the event saw enthusiastic participation from students, elders, well-wishers, dignitaries and officials, informed a press note received here. The Parliamentary Secretary, Art and Culture, Government of Nagaland, Eshak Konyak graced the occassion as the chief guest The Chief Guest while thanking the NSUS for organising such a grant event said he accepted the invitation as he wanted to share his thoughts with the students. He called upon the

Chief Guest along with the ARC, Advisors to the NSUS, President NSUS, Khasis, Mizos and Arunachalis who made a special appearance.

students to study hard, work hard and to maintain culture Urging the students Nagas to care for one another

and preserve the unity, Eshak said, "From the forefather’s time, Nagas have been united. No one can break our unity.”

He also expressed his respect and appreciation towards the Naga elders and leaders for their relentless efforts in bringing

about a good solution for an independent Nagalim. "Better days are coming," he said. The chief guest also lauded the Arunachal Students' Union, Khasi Students' Union and Mizo Students' Union, who give special performance act in the first session, for their flawless performances. He also welcomed the crowd to the upcoming Hornbill Festival. The Assistant Resident Commissioner Shillong, Pakon Phom and Tolu Chophy of Naga Elders' Forum, Shillong also ex- MLA Tovihoto Ayemi (seated centre) with NPF leaders LR Anthony (seated right) and Joseph Sumi (seated left) and other party workers after a reconciliation meeting in horted the gathering. The second session saw Dimapur on September 12, 2015. the competitions in various events like Cutural Dance, Cultural Folk Song and Cultural Folk Tale The judges for the event were Atula Yaren Sharma, Ketoulhoukho Suohumvu and H Abraham.

Nagaland Students’ JNU welcome freshers DHS Zunheboto Health Mela at Aghunato CHC

Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): The students from the state of Nagaland, JNU observed its Fresher’s Programme on September 12 with a small but solemn gathering upholding the tradition of bonding with newcomers in an informal and relax atmosphere. According to its current conveners, the event was an opportunity to get together, rekindle old ties, and meet the freshers over a sweet Naga cuisine. Currently, there are 55 students from Nagaland at Jawaharlal Nehru University undergoing different postgraduate courses as well as higher research studies in

various disciplines. The programme started with an invocation by Heroka Yepthomi, a research Scholar in Centre for Political Studies, while the evening was lightened up by an introductory game by Kuku Lungalang, a MA student from the same centre. Arenpongla Jamir, an MA Students of Centre for English Studies spoke on behalf of the Freshers’ while felicitation was done by Khangaka Keyho, a Research Scholar in Centre for Linguistic Studies. Elito Achumi, a JNU Alumnus and currently a faculty at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi exhorted

the gathering drawing upon her experiences and advantages on being in premier university like JNU. She, however, advised everyone to take well informed decisions regarding career choice and to make the best use of the ample facilities that the university offers. The programme concluded with a vote of thanks by convenors, followed by benediction by Honjem Konyak, a M.Phil Student in Centre for Historical Studies. It was followed by a sumptous and delicious naga dinner. This was informed by Nokmedemla Lemtur & Chibenthung Yanthan, the curent Convenor, Nagaland Students, JNU.

Dimapur, September 13 (mexN): A Health Mela was organised by the District Health Society, Zunheboto in Aghunato CHC under Aghunato Block on September 11 where 343 patients were consulted and treated. A press note from Shekho Sophie, Media Officer, Zunheboto informed that during the mela, health services and medicines were provided free of cost to all the patients. Nutritional packages were also given to pregnant and lactating mother and Pamphlets and leaflets were distributed free. Various ailments including common cough and cold, minor OT and other diseases prevalent in the area were also treated, it stated adding that Mp, Urine test, HIV testing, Hb%, and sputum AFB investigation was carried out during the camp. Besides, 56 Eye cases was screened and 59 Dental procedure were done. In addition, the community were also taught on household hygiene and other communicable diseases as well as FGD and one to one sessions were carried out on Child Health and Maternal Health. The team of medical personnel was led by Dr. Heto, SMO Aghunato CHC; Dr. Heroto, MO I/c, Tokiye PHC; Dr. Mulasato Keyho, MO I/c Asuto PHC; Dr. Obed, MO I/c Atoizu PHC; Dr. Renchamo, MO I/c Suruhoto PHC; Dr. Puloto, MO, Aghunato CHC; Dr. Ayim, Dentist, Aghunato CHC along with supporting nurses, Lab. Tech, Ophthalmic Assistant. The district team comprised, DPM, BPM, Aghunato Block, Mijito, ASHA Co- ordinator, Lab tech and nurse (MMU) along with vertical programme staffs RNTCP, NVBDCP, DAPCU, the press note further informed.

Medical camp was conducted at Ikishe village on September 11 as part of the Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, under which, the Rajya Sabha MP Khekiho Zhimomi had adopted the village. Dr. Obed, Medical Officer, Singrijan PHC and Dr. Sashi, Medical Officer, Dhansiripar CHC along with the Dimapur Mobile Medical Unit team comprising of a nurse and a lab technician conducted the medical camp. The beneficiaries were provided free medical check-up and free medicines. A total of 51 beneficiaries availed the service.

Mount Tiyi College, Wokha and NSS on September 12 repaired a section of the WokhaBokajan road as part of its Community Service Programme. The highway which cuts through Mount Tiyi College land has been lying un-motorable for a long time causing lots of inconvenience and hardship to the college community and the general public, the college said. It has thanked all officials and individuals who rendered their help during the social work.

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a song of hope by Oodgeroo (Kath Walker) Look up, my people, The dawn is breaking The world is waking To a bright new day When none defame us No restriction tame us Nor colour shame us Nor sneer dismay. Now brood no more On the years behind you The hope assigned you Shall the past replace When a juster justice Grown wise and stronger Points the bone no longer At a darker race. So long we waited Bound and frustrated Till hate be hated And caste deposed Now light shall guide us No goal denied us And all doors open That long were closed. See plain the promise Dark freedom-lover! Night's nearly over And though long the climb New rights will greet us New mateship meet us And joy complete us In our new Dream Time. To our fathers' fathers The pain, the sorrow; To our children's children the glad tomorrow.

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Madeline Kennedy Reuters Health

Smoking worsens diabetes difficulty

eople with type 2 diabetes who smoke have significantly higher risks of heart disease, stroke, and death than diabetic non-smokers, a new study shows. They also had higher risks of clogged arteries, heart failure, and reduced blood flow to the limbs. The risks were lower for diabetics who quit smoking, but still moderately higher than risks among never smokers, the researchers write in the journal Circulation. Lead author An Pan told Reuters Health by email that smoking is still common among people with diabetes, despite efforts to discourage it. “We wanted to know whether smoking was related to total mortality and cardiovascular events among diabetic patients, and whether smoking cessation would reduce the risks,” said Pan, who is a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, smoking can worsen the health risks that go along with diabetes, such as heart and kidney disease, nerve damage, and blindness. Pan’s team pooled the data from 89 earlier studies of smoking among adults with type 2 diabetes and found that diabetic smokers were around 1.5 times more likely to experience clogged arteries, stroke, overall heart disease, and heart failure. In addition, smokers were more than twice as likely to suffer from peripheral artery disease, or reduced blood flow to the limbs, than patents who did not smoke. Former smokers had 1.2 times the risk of clogged arteries and 1.1 times the risk of overall heart disease, compared to never-smokers. Using the risk estimates from their review and global rates of deaths from diabetes, the researchers estimated that smoking accounted for 14.6 percent of deaths in diabetic men and 3.3 percent of deaths in diabetic women worldwide. Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy, division chief of global health at the University of California, San Diego, said part of the problem may be the care diabetes patients receive. “The physician caring for the diabetes patient might be focusing on cardiovascular risk factors or diabetes complications and diet and weight control while neglecting smoking as another important risk factor,” Al-Delaimy told Reuters by email. Pan said some smokers may be reluctant to quit due to concerns about gaining weight in the short term. However, he noted, “The long-term benefits clearly overweigh the shortterm side effects.” Pan advises diabetic patients who are smokers “to seek professional help to quit smoking.” Al-Delaimy agreed, saying, “If you are a patient suffering from diabetes and smoking cigarettes, or if you know a family member, friend or anyone else who is diabetic and smoking, there is still opportunity to substantially decrease further complications and suffering or even early death by quitting smoking.”

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obody must enforce their religious tenets on the people of other faiths and keep it to the confines of their respective homes" Uddhav Thackeray

C O M M E N T A R Y

Silvia Arana

Why do indigenous communities rise up? By eliminating indigenous educational autonomy, the government impoverishes the plurinational and multicultural character of the Ecuadorian State

hough they put the bullet here, though they put the rifle there, I must cry out wherever I want. I must keep fighting. To live, in freedom in this life”. –Dolores Cacuango (1881-1971), fighter for peasant and indigenous rights. Why do indigenous communities rise up? Because they feel diminished, marginalized, their dignity offended. Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui says “The issue of dignity is so fundamental for Andean oppression, that the same word expresses ‘oppressed’ or ‘oppression’ and ‘to exploit’, which in Aymara is only one word: ‘to make small’. And such is the issue of human dignity, that is, all that diminishes human dignity (be it a bad salary or bad treatment), diminishes you as a person… It is for that reason that people rise up. The people don’t rise up because of the productive forces… Also, in Quechua the word ‘to step on’ is the same as that used for ‘to oppress’. One has to put one’s life on the line, there’s no other way.” Lucía Chimbolema comes from Guaranda, in the central Andean region of Ecuador. Together with her family and other members of her community, she is in the El Arbolito park of Quito, where many indigenous groups from the Andean and Amazonian regions have come together. From there they will march to the Historical Center of Quito to participate in the “Indigenous Uprising” of August 13, 2015. Lucía explains that she has come to Quito to demand, among other things, for education. She says that the bilingual Kichwa-Castellano schools, which had been managed by the communities, have now been replaced by Millennium Schools, but that the school which corresponds to her community is very far away and there are no buses to transport the children, including her young grandchildren. Her adolescent grandchild studies medicine at a private university, because there was no place available for him in the state university. He needs two more years to finish but she doubts the family will be able to continue paying the tuition. She tells us she’s illiterate, since there were no schools in her community when she was a child. “I learned Spanish when I was 25”, she says and smiles, while easily passing from Kichwa (speaking to her grandson) to Spanish (when she speaks to me). She points to her son, a man of 40, dressed in white pants and shirt, and a black wool hat, who converses with a group of people. Her son was a candidate for mayor and “for only a very few votes did not win”, she remarks with pride. He was 6 when the first school was formed in the community, and was educated there. With humility, she says that she “only works in the fields”. That work covers everything from tilling the land to raising farm animals, providing, together with the other women, the basics of the family diet. Lucía wears the traditional dress: a long black skirt, a white blouse with embroidered flowers, a multicolored knitted band at the waist, a short shawl made of dark cloth, a golden necklace, a white wool hat adorned with ribbons, and sandals. Each color has a meaning. Black represents the earth, or Pachamama; white, the snows of the colossal volcano, Chimborazo, at whose feet lay Guaranda. The presence of Lucía and the other women united in the park here emphasizes the assumption that the indigenous woman is the guardian of the group’s identity and the carrier of the culture of the people. Lucía, olive-skinned, with harmonious features, slender but strong, seems to express: “Here am I, mother, grandmother, indigenous woman, and I come to the capital of the country to say what I have to say”. She asks if I believe that President Correa will hear of her complaints. She awaits the answer with much attention, as if it were of great importance, perhaps to evaluate the results of the march on Quito, or perhaps to try to understand if an interlocutor really exists: “Do you believe Correa will read what I have said?” Cecilia Velázquez, an indigenous activist from Cotopaxi, mobilized in the indigenous uprising, says: “There’s only one Millennium School in Cotopaxi. There are many students in each class, in some cases, up to 100-150 students. The majority of the teachers are high school graduates teaching students up to the 8th or 9th level. School district chiefs are changed very often; the present one has been in the position for only three months. When they finish high school, our young people are not well prepared, they cannot make the 800 or 900 points needed for admission to the public university; we have to go into debt to send them to the private universities… In 2009 I participated in the dialogues about education; not a single government cabinet Minister was present… The government accuses us of helping the right wing politicians; no, it’s the government itself which is helping them…” The first indigenous bilingual schools in Cayambe (1945) Two great historical leaders of the struggle for indigenous rights, Tránsito Amaguaña and Dolores Cacuango, were Kichwa speakers who learned to speak, read and write Spanish, when they were adults. Linked to the Communist Party, they fought for the rights of the peasants and indigenous peoples, for agrarian reform, and for education for the

indigenous communities of Cayambe. In 1945, Dolores Cacuango –with the help of María Elisa Gómez de la Torre, a teacher and her comrade in the Communist Party- founded the first indigenous school on the grounds of the “Tierra Libre” union en Yanahuayco, Cayambe. Shortly afterwards, they established three more schools in that region, with indigenous teachers and without support from the state. In 1963, pressured by the large landowners (who did not want educated peasants), the Military Junta forbid that children be taught in Kichwa, claiming that these schools were “communist cells”. Towards the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, with the emergence of Liberation Theology, and the Church of the Poor, new indigenous schools were created. The schools in the indigenous communities took on a task far beyond that of the education of the children and the young; they were considered a centre for political and social organization, from which to forge the struggle for agrarian reform. Signed in 1976, the Agrarian Reform Law, though it did not include their essential demands, was accepted by the indigenous movement as a starting point from which to continue the struggle. The Intercultural Bilingual Education System: the active role of the indigenous peoples In the 1980s and 1990s, the presence of the indigenous schools throughout the Central Andes was consolidated by the establishment of the Intercultural Bilingual Education system. This system, which was later extended to other regions, emerged thanks to the initiative of the Confederation of Indigenous Nations (CONAIE), composed of thirteen indigenous nationalities in Ecuador. Since its origin, CONAIE’s actions combined anti-neoliberal demands with the struggle for ethno-cultural rights. In that struggle for the right of the indigenous peoples to cultural autonomy and self-government, CONAIE elaborated an education proposal to present to the national government: in November of 1988, the National Directorate for Bilingual Education (DINEIB) was created. CONAIE, at this time, achieved a key demand: the right to elect the authorities of the DINEIB. CONAIE, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, elaborated didactic materials for teaching literacy and post-literacy, and for professional development programs for educators in the Kichwa, Awa, Chachi, Tsa’fiki, and other, languages. By the year 2000, the intercultural education system included 2,150 centers of primary education, 142 centres of secondary education, and 13 institutes of higher education. The primary strength of this model is the participation of the communities: based on research carried out in the communities, pedagogical materials are produced, teachers are trained, and the objectives of indigenous education are debated. The objectives of the alternative education system are: to vindicate their own culture –including the teaching of the historical struggles of the indigenous peoples, rendered invisible in the official histories; to strengthen the native languages; to revitalize community processes in order to improve the quality of life –with the understanding that the indigenous peoples and nationalities must have the freedom to construct their own models of development. An executive decree puts an end to CONAIE’s involvement in the integral education system In February of 2009, by executive decree, the government of Rafael Correa terminated the administration of the DINEIB by the indigenous community, putting it under the control of the Ministry of Education. This decree, by delinking the indigenous communities and the CONAIE from the National Directorate of Bilingual Education, effectively ended their autonomy. The declared objective was: “to unify all the country’s schools, urban as well as rural, under one common curriculum”. The new Millennium Schools are located in modern buildings, which attempt to concentrate the student populations of different villages. According to community spokespersons, the application of the plan does not take into consideration a key factor: the distance from the schools and the lack of roads or means to transport the students. In some cases, the children have to travel several hours, which makes attendance impossible. In addition, many of the new teachers do not speak Kichwa, nor are they familiar with the Andean cosmovision, nor are they properly

trained in the new technologies, according to complaints of indigenous activists in Cotopaxi. President Correa has used the term “schools of misery” to refer to the indigenous schools. And it’s true that the majority lack running water or any type of comfort, and in some cases there’s not even chalk to write on the board. But is the solution to eliminate the schools and their rich multicultural and bilingual legacies? Or is the solution to invest in improvements in all of these schools, as the indigenous communities propose? In numbers: The education budget has quadrupled By 2014, the Correa government had quadrupled the education budget. Among the government’s achievements in the area of education are: the universalization of general basic education; an increase in the number of students which graduate from high school; the construction of public schools: “in the coming years, 900 new buildings will be constructed and 4,600 schools will be rehabilitated, with an investment of nearly $10 billion”; professional development programs for educators; the creation of three new universities: the University of the Arts, Yachay and Ikiam; and approximately 8,000 Ecuadorian students have received scholarships to study in the best universities worldwide. René Ramírez –Secretary of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation- points out that during the government of Correa, the rate of university attendance has grown faster than in previous decades, according to the Population and Housing Censuses. Beginning in 2006, university matriculation doubled among the poorest 20%, a group composed mainly of indigenous peoples and Afro-Ecuadorians. Ramírez emphasizes that in Ecuador the budget for higher education represents 2.12% of the GDP, while the European average is 1%, and in Latin America it is 0.8%. [3] These numbers reveal a real commitment to education by the state, and a significant advance with respect to the previous governments. CONAIE demands educational autonomy for indigenous peoples and nations However, in the context of a policy which intends to strengthen the education system at all levels, there is a clear deficit in the participation of the indigenous communities, which are in complete disagreement with the path taken by the Integral Bilingual Education System. In the communication to call for the indigenous uprising of August, 2015, CONAIE affirms: “We demand full respect on the part of the State in the exercise of collective rights in the distinct branches such as education, health care, management of water resources and of our territories, as a concrete and legitimate manner of constructing the plurinationality, as mandated by the Constitution and Agreement 169 of the ILO. Therefore, we demand the reestablishment of the Intercultural Bilingual Education System and the reopening of Amawtay Wasi University. We demand that communitarian education models be strengthened, we emphatically oppose closing the communitarian schools…we defend a pedagogical model, as well as the production of knowledge, in accordance with the cultural and local reality.” In contrast with other countries in the region – such as Mexico and Colombia, where the assassination of community leaders is a daily tragedy- in Ecuador reigns the rule of law. Although the protests and uprisings have developed within a climate of tension and frictions, on occasion violent, between police and protestors, there have been no deaths. It is important to take note of this, faced with the exaggerated analyses, on both sides. The protagonists of this story, which is being written today, are the indigenous communities, which fight to recover their rights, such as the educational autonomy won through decades of struggle. By eliminating indigenous educational autonomy, the government impoverishes the plurinational and multicultural character of the Ecuadorian State. Now it’s the government’s turn to rise to this historic challenge and commence a true intercultural dialog with the communities and their leaders, without imposing conditions. The restitution of indigenous autonomy in education will enrich the plurinational and multicultural character of the Ecuadorian State, as mandated by Article 1 of the Ecuadorian Constitution.

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TO RAISE OR NOT TO RAISE T policy papers he global economy this week will watch closely what the Federal Reserve System (Fed) will do to US interest rates when the Federal Open Market Committee meets on 16-17th of this month. The federal funds (effective) rate which is the rate at which the banks and other deposit holding institutions in the US can borrow from each other overnight stood at 0.13% pa in the week ending September 4.The Fed has not raised interest rates since 2006. Any increase in policy rates can make borrowing costlier for the industries in the US and also lead to a possible slowdown of the global recovery process from the Great Recession (2008) that is underway but far from complete. Countries like India, China, Indonesia, Russia, Turkey and other emerging market economies are also keen to know whether rate increases will lead to a possible re-enactment of the taper tantrum drama that shook their economies in mid-2013.

The Mechanics of a Rate increase The increase in interest rates is brought about by the Fed reversing or even slowing the quantitative easing (QE) that it has been practising. QE refers to the buying of government bonds that include Treasury securities, mortgage backed securities federal agency debt securities and other assets by the Fed in exchange for dollars. This has the effect of pumping dollars into the

economy, increasing its supply and thereby reducing the cost of holding money which is the interest rates that we speak of. As of end July 2015 the Fed had securities worth US $4.23 trillion assets and total assets worth US$4.4 trillion in its balance sheet. Since, May 30, 2008 the Fed has added more than US$ 3.58 trillion in securities to its assets and pumped in more than US$540 billion in Federal currency to the economy. The past year alone saw the Fed increasing the note supply in the economy by US$ 86 billion. The fed funds rate which stood at 5.02% pa in 2007 fell to 0.09% pa in 2014. This is the process that the financial pundits fear will be reversed.

Taper Tantrum When Ben Bernanke the then Fed Governor, in May 2013, testified to the Congress about the possibility of tapering Fed’s securities purchases from the monthly $85 billion and hence a possible increase in interest rates in the future, it generated widespread panic throughout emerging markets. Known as the taper tantrum this episode resulted in panic selling of securities in the financial markets in emerging market economies, leading to capital flight and an increase in the yields on securities. The capital flight led to depreciation amounting to an average of 3% in the 21 emerging market economies in the world. The worst hit among the emerging market currencies in-

cluded the Indian rupee (9.98%), the Turkish Lira(7.6%), Brazilian real (12.52%), Russian rouble (4.63%) and the South African rand (8.96%). The Chinese stock markets fell but there was no impact of taper talk on the dollar value of the renminbi. The reasons for the vulnerabilities of the above currencies in May 2013 were a high current account deficit, a high proportion of foreign denominated debt, high inflation, low growth and low levels of forex reserves. However, in September 2015 it may seem that most of the causes for vulnerabilities have been addressed. For example, India’s forex reserves that stood at $292 billion have increased to $350 billion in Sept 2015. The growth prospects of the economy are also good with RBI forecasting the growth in GDP at 7.6%. In this scenario a group of emerging market economies have come together and already asked the Fed to increase interest rates now rather than later as inaction

the economy according to most estimates. The inflation forecast is still below 2% but the Fed fears that the excess liquidity in the economy may lead to inflation, thereby impacting the mandate of the Fed to keep inflation in check. The Phillips Curve rears its head up again in economic thinking.However, the low levels of wage rate growth and the impact of increased interest rate on the ChiBy Vyasan R an nese renminbi impacting treasury yields in the US may tilt the balance on the part of the Fed leads to un- towards maintaining status quo. nerving uncertainty that has destabilising tendencies every time the The Red Question The effect of any increase in interFOMC meetings are scheduled. The same concerns that are being voiced est rates on the Chinese economy will today were done in June of this year be one reason for the Fed to think twice before raising rates. Any increase in when the FOMC had its meeting. Apart from emerging markets US interest rates will lead to increased even advanced markets like the UK, capital outflow from China. The Chithe EU and Japan also are watching nese renminbi was devalued by 1.9% the Fed’s moves with interest. The against the US dollar in August which increase in interest rate by reversing led to speculations about a further dethe QE would signal the beginning preciation of the renminbi. The latter of the end of what in the economics was stalled only after the People’s Bank literature has been called uncon- of China offloaded more than $94 bn to help support the currency. With ventional monetary policies. forex reserves at $3.557 trillion of which $1.27 trillion are in US treasury securiRationale If the Fed actually decides to in- ties the decision of the Fed to raise increase the rates then it would be be- terest rates will also depend on how the cause of the revival in the US econo- Fed expects the increased interest rates my as seen by rising commercial real to impact the Chinese renminbi. For estate prices, a 3.7% GDP growth in example if the anticipation is that the the second quarter of 2015 as well higher interest rates in the US will lead as low unemployment rates. Unem- to a capital outflow from China then it ployment rates fell to 5.3% in June can have adverse impacts on the defi2015 which is the long run rate for cits of the US Government. This will

Women Revolutionise Waste Management ny but now a Nicaraguan national, is the director of the community organisation Environmental Education Ometepe, which works with children and young people on the island in environmental awareness-raising campaigns. When Paladino learned about the work of the recyclers, she got students and teachers in local schools to support their cause, organising clean-up days to collect waste which is donated to the women’s garbage collection and classification centre. Ometepe is a 276-sq-km natural island paradise in the middle of the 8,624-km Lake Nicaragua or Cocibolca, in the west of this Central American nation of 6.1 million people.

Students and mothers from a school in the city of Altagracia make wastepaper bins using disposable bottles. It is one of the numerous recycling initiatives that have emerged on the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua, inspired by a group of women who organised to collect and process garbage. (Photo: Karin Paladino/IPS)

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Inter Press Service

group of poor women from Ometepe, a beautiful tropical island in the centre of Lake Nicaragua, decided to dedicate themselves to recycling garbage as part of an initiative that did not bring the hoped-for economic results but inspired the entire community to keep this biosphere reserve clean. It all began in 2007. María del Rosario Gutiérrez remembers her initial interest was piqued when she saw people who scavenged for waste in Managua’s garbage dumps fighting over the contents of bags full of plastic bottles, glass and metal. How much could garbage be worth for people to actually hurt each other over it? she wondered. She was living in extreme poverty, raising her two children on her own with what she grew on a small piece of communal land in the municipality of Altagracia, and the little she earned doing casual work. Gutiérrez talked to a neighbour, who told her that in Moyogalpa, the other town on the island, there was an office that bought scrap metal, glass and plastic bottles. The two women checked around and found in their community a person who bought waste material from local hotels, washed it and sold it to Managua for recycling. So Gutiérrez, who is now 30 years old, got involved in her new activity: every day she walked long distances with a bag over her shoulder, picking up recyclable waste around the island. Her neighbour and other poor, unemployed women started to go with her. Then they began to go out on bicycles to pick up garbage along the roads tossed out by tourists, selling the materials to a middleman. “It wasn’t a lot of money, but it was enough to put food on our tables. And since we didn’t have jobs, it didn’t matter to us how much time it took, although the work was really exhausting at first,” Gutiérrez told IPS. Women filling enormous bags with scraps of trash have now become a common sight along the streets on the island. Seeds of change Miriam Potoy, with the Fundación entre Vol-

canes, said her non-governmental organisation decided to support women who were scavenging for a living, starting with a group in Moyogalpa. “We initially helped them with safety and hygiene equipment, then with training on waste handling and treatment and the diversified use of garbage, so they could sell it as well as learn how to make crafts using the materials collected, to sell them to tourists and earn an extra income,” she told IPS. Impressed by the women’s efforts, other institutions decided to support them as well. The Altagracia city government gave them a place to collect, classify and sort the waste, tourism businesses that previously separated their garbage to sell recyclable materials decided to donate them to the women, and food and services companies provided equipment and assistance. Solidarity and cooperation with the group grew to the point that the city government obtained funds to pay the women nearly two dollars a day for a time, and provide them with free transportation to take their materials to the wharf, where they were shipped to the city of Rivas. From there, the shipments go by road to Managua, 120 km away. “The community appreciates the women’s work not only because they help keep the island clean, which has clearly improved its image for tourists, but also because they have showed a strong desire to improve their own lives and their families’ incomes,” said Potoy. And they have done this “by means of a nontraditional activity, which broke down the stereotype of the role women have traditionally played in these remote rural communities,” she said. Francis Socorro Hernández, another woman from the first batch of recyclers, told IPS that at the start “it was embarrassing for people to see us picking up garbage.” But she said that after taking workshops on gender issues, administration of micro-businesses, and the environment, “I realised I was doing something important, and that it was worse to live in a polluted environment, resigned to my poverty – and I stopped feeling ashamed.” Their work also inspired other initiatives. For example, Karen Paladino, originally from Germa-

Not everything is peaches and cream Of the 10 women who started the collective – now the Association of Women Recyclers of Altagracia – six are left. They continue to scavenge for recyclable waste material, removing it from the island and shipping it to Managua, where it is sold. They make enough for their families to scrape by. Gutiérrez said the mission has been difficult because of the high cost of transport, the job insecurity, and the scant financing they have found. “We have always had support, thank God; the city government supported us, some hotels have too, people from the European Union gave us funds for improving the conditions of the landfill,” she said. “But we need more funds, to be able to collect and transport the material, process it, and remove it from the island,” she added. With backing from the EU, the city government of Moyogalpa was able to improve the garbage dumps of the island’s two municipalities. Now there are large sheds in both dumps, where organic material is treated, as well as containers for producing organic compost using worms, and rainwater collection tanks. The two municipalities also gave the recyclers plots of land for growing their own vegetables and grains for their families. But the efforts and the solidarity were not sufficient to keep some of the women from dropping out. As global oil prices plunged, the value of waste products also dropped, and profits did the same, which discouraged some of the women who went back to what they used to do: combining farm work with domestic service. “I was really committed to the work of collecting garbage, but all of a sudden I felt that the project wasn’t doing well and I needed to feed my family, so I went with my husband to plant beans and vegetables to earn a better income,” María, one of the former members, told IPS. “But I still collect waste products anyway, and although I’m not participating anymore, I donate them to my former mates in the collective,” said María, who did not give her last name. But while some of the women dropped out, others joined. “The waste keeps pouring in, and support for our work is going to grow. Our families back us and we are enthusiastic,” one of the new women, Eveling Urtecho, told IPS. With Gutiérrez’s leadership, backing from the city government, and renewed assistance from the EU, the women are confident that their incomes and working conditions will soon improve. Ometepe – which means ‘two mountains’ in the Nahuatl tongue – is visited by an average of 50,000 tourists a year, and at least 10 million tons of plastic enter the island annually, according to figures from local environmental groups. The association of Altagracia gathers between 1,000 and 1,200 kg of plastic a month, and their counterparts in Moyogalpa collect a similar amount. Until the women launched their revolution, most of the waste in Ometepe ended up strewn about on the streets, in rivers and in backyards, or was burnt in huge piles. When it rained, the water would wash the refuse into the lake.

occur because the PBoC will be forced to sell its reserves of US treasury securities reducing the price and thereby increasing the yields of US treasury securities. Increased yield of the treasury securities will lead to increased borrowing costs which will in turn lead to ballooning deficits for the Fed and concomitant inflation worries. In a globalised world as ours the interconnections of international finance will force economies to be interlinked in ways that are not strictly according to national or state boundaries. Action When the FOMC does make a decision the fact that since wage growth in US labour markets are sluggish and the fact that he inflation rates are still well within the Fed’s target rate of 2% can tip the argument for the continued status quo. The fact that the growth prospects in Brazil and China are not so sanguine will also be factored in. If anincrease in US rates will affect growth in the US adversely this will add to the global growth worries and put downward pressure on the growth of 2.8% forecast for this year. As Harold Wilson remarked in a different context, this week could indeed be a very long time for global financial markets. Vyasan R is an Indian Administrative Service Officer borne of the Nagaland cadre. He is currently doing a Masters in Public Administration/International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. His column will be featured every Monday. Feedback can be emailed to vyasan_r@yahoo.com

The Morung Express Poll reSultS

Has commercialization of educational institutions taken priority over value based education in Nagaland? 79%

13% 8%

YES

OTHER

Some of those who voted YES had this to say • Yes, Its all about money in the name of quality education. They send and show all the fake report regarding salary of teachers and their facilities when inspection teams comes from Nu, NPSE, NAAc. There are schools where toilet stings but its all get cleaned up on inspection. This is what most of the management do. • Yes, because it is also like an indication of tax through .i.e. fine and funds • Yes, Yes, very much. The number of schools in Dimapur itself speaks volumes of this trend. More and more these schools are focusing on the business part of it rather than on imparting quality education. One good example is the number of theological institutions in Nagaland. Its high time something is done about it. • yes... hmmmm "more o less" • Yes, as much as i hate to admit it, it is very true that our educational institutions in Nagaland are becoming more and more commercialized. Not only this, the schools are beginning to organise around economic status and class. Now we have so called elite schools which are only for the children of the elite while the government schools languish in their misery. Some drastic steps need to be taken before it gets worse. • Yes it seems that way.. • Yes, as all the teachings of institutions are merit oriented rather than value oriented now-a-day Some of those who voted NO had this to say • No. When all the schools are just managing to keep afloat how can one say that they are commercializing education. • When there is no economy in our state worth its name and people are living in misery and poverty. I don’t think most of the schools are profiting out of it. • No, I do not agree with the question. I feel that the schools in the state are doing a very good job to impart quality education. • I don’t think commercialization is the reason. There are other factors as well. Our curriculum and syllabus are not value based. When our curriculum and syllabus are not promoting values, I don’t think it is fair to blame the schools. Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say • I don’t think this can be answered in a Yes or No manner. The state of affairs in our educational system is in a complete mess. The government has done precious little to actually improve the quality of education. As far as they are concerned the education system does not seem to be an important agenda. On the other hand, yes the private schools against much odds are doing well through sheer hard work. But maybe the time has come to also start questioning whether they are actually there to better education or to run it like a business. • It is still too early to comment on this question because most of our educational institutions are still in its nascent stage. It is still developing and has not yet reached the level where we can make this assessment.

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Utility debts threaten Modi's power-for-all drive New Delhi/mUmbAi, September 13 (reUterS): With a three-year government rescue package coming to a close, the highly indebted state of Rajasthan is getting tough - it's demanding farmers start paying for their electricity. In a country where rural communities have become used to free power by hook or by crook, the state that is home to some 70 million is tasking private firms with running power distribution in its big cities as it tries to recoup what it's owed. Restructured power distribution debts alone amount to a quarter of Indian banks' problematic loans, and Rajasthan's staterun utilities owe about 610 billion rupees ($9.2 billion), with some 30 billion rupees due by end-March. While Rajasthan dropped an earlier plan to actually raise existing tariffs after opposition from farmers, state energy minister Pushpendra Singh said the state must push on with plans to enforce existing payment rates. "We can't repay the interest and we still have these losses," Singh told Reuters in an interview. "Every year we are losing more money,"

the discoms (distribution companies) need to be reformed. Those states have been put on notice," Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told businessmen at a conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. A top government source said New Delhi was working on a detailed plan. Under India's federal system, responsibility for reform lies with states - all with different appetites for change, and for pursuing villagers who fail to pay.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a public rally in Chandigarh on September 11. (REUTERS Photo)

he said, estimating a third of Rajasthan's electricity is lost to theft and transmission leaks. With these debt levels echoed across the country, states have little choice but to find ways, extreme or otherwise, to face up to a long-ignored problem. Bad debts aren't just threatening banks - with electricity utilities central to the problem, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's elec-

toral promise of power for all could be jeopardised. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) warned in June that the risk of states failing to repay loans on time was "very high", as a three-year rescue package launched in 2012 comes to an end the source of Rajasthan's urgency on collecting fees for electricity. And central government has identified the power utility sector as critical to solving banks'

bad debt problems. States who cannot pay banks what they owe over the next few years could be forced to turn to the central government for help, putting pressure on India's consolidated fiscal deficit. Modi's government has ruled out a rescue package along the lines of the 2012 scheme launched under the previous government. "We are in touch with each of the states where

RURAL REWIRING Across India, decades of mismanagement and political meddling have left utilities selling electricity below cost and turning a blind eye to rampant theft. The result is state distributors are sitting on $66 billion worth of debt, according to rating agency CRISIL, double the level four years ago. Getting Indians to pay more for their power is not easy. Across the country around a fifth of power goes unpaid for and many still believe free power is a right rather than privilege. Rajasthan's drive to collect payments from farmers and call in private firms to

help run power distribution replicates reforms made a decade ago in Modi's home state of Gujarat. Distributors there are now largely profitable, and power is reliably available across most of the state. But reform has proved tough and not all states are willing to take difficult steps. In largely agricultural Uttar Pradesh, farmers pay a fixed fee for unlimited power, equating to about one rupee per unit of electricity, a sixth of the generation cost. The state power company's finance director says it has no plans to raise prices to close that gap. Rajasthan Energ y Minister Singh said his administration had little choice but to act: His aim is to halve theft levels in six months and get all farmers paying by meter in a few years. In the meantime, Rajasthan must find a way to keep banks at bay. As well as the almost 30 billion rupees due before the end of March, its utilities owe banks another 59 billion by 2018, one of India's largest lenders said in a recent presentation sent to the government and seen by Reuters.

Indo-Pakistan border CBMs to be implemented in next 15 days New Delhi, September 13 (pti): The latest set of confidence building measures (CBMs) agreed upon by BSF and Pak Rangers to put an end to ceasefire violations and firing along the border are expected to be put in place in the next fortnight. The two sides, during their three-day DG-level talks here, had decided to enhance communication channels by getting in touch over the fastest modes of communication like mobile phone, fax and email and ensure that they alert the other side with a precautionary illumination fire

if either side detects something suspicious on the International Border (IB). "The 20-point joint record of discussions stipulates that the new CBMs and other points agreed upon shall be put into operation in the next 15 days. "A number of these initiatives do not require the permission of governments on either side and can be implemented by the two forces on their own keeping in mind the top most agenda of peace, tranquillity and safety of border population," sources privy to the development said.

They said like in the case of exchange of mobile numbers, both the sides have to work out modalities as international calling is barred from border locations and hence mechanisms have to be put in place for this. "Basic details like the colour of the warning flare shots that will be used by either side will have to be worked upon and communicated to each other within the next fortnight so that the decisions taken during the DG-level talks could be implemented on ground," they said. The joint record was signed

and endorsed yesterday here by the two chiefs-- Border Security Force DG D K Pathak and Pak Rangers Director General Maj Gen Umar Farooq Burki. The Rangers delegation, after this official ceremony, crossed over to their side in the evening through the Attari-Wagah land border. These bi-annual border talks had taken place almost after a break of two years as relations between the two neighbours came under strain due to a host of issues. As part of efforts to bring peace on the border, India and Pakistan

had yesterday also decided to put a complete ban on firing of mortar shells along the IB in Jammu and Kashmir which has claimed the lives of several civilians and damaged their houses. The outcome of the talks, which both the sides said were held in a "cordial and constructive atmosphere", also endorsed a CBM that in case either side notices suspicious movement along IB, they will fire precautionary illumination shots to alert the counterpart that the forthcoming fire is aimed at the intruder and not at them. .

Seventy Indian sailors ABVP makes a comeback in JNU polls; stranded in crisis-hit Yemen AISF's Kanhaiya Kumar wins president's post

AhmeDAbAD, September 13 (pti): Nearly 70 sailors from Gujarat are stranded in crisis-hit Yemen for over 15 days now and have appealed to the Indian government to rescue them, days after six Indians were killed when their boat came under Saudi-led air strikes in the Arab country. According to a sailors' group, nearly 70 seamen from the coastal village of Mandavi in Kutch and from the Jodiya and Salaya villages of Jamnagar are stranded in Yemen along with five of their cargo boats. "About 70 Gujarati sailors along with five vessels are stranded in Yemen for around 15 days and they now need the government's help for their rescue," Vahanvatta Association of Kutch and Mandavi president Haji Juneja told PTI. "I yesterday wrote to the ministry of external affairs urging them to save our sailors or shift them to a safer place," he said. "The sailors are in a pitiable condition as some forces have been bombarding them. They escaped death last night when some force, either of the insurgents or the Saudi coalition, began an attack with rocket launchers," he said, adding that the sailors had gone to Yemen on a voyage to deliver cargo. Meanwhile, one of the stranded sailors, identified as Sikandar from Mandavi village, sent an audio message last night in which he said that they last night came under a bomb attack.

New Delhi, September 13 (iANS): In a major boost to the BJP, RSS affiliated Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad made a comeback at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) after 14 years on Sunday by winning the students union joint secretary's post. The joint secretary's post was won by AVBP's Saurabh Sharma. The JNUSU president's post was won by the CPI-affiliated All India Students Federation's (AISF) candidate Kanhaiya Kumar, while vice president and general secretary's posts were retained by Left-leaning All India Students Association (AISA). The seats were won by Shehla Rashid Shora and Rama Naga respectively. "The poll results were declared at 8 a.m. today (Sunday). Since paper ballots are used for polling and counting is done manually, the counting process takes longer at the JNU. The voting percentage at

After 29 years of trial, court grants man probation New Delhi, September 13 (iANS): In a breather for a man who has undergone 29 years of trial for allegedly possessing secret documents of the commerce ministry, a court has released him on probation of a year. While the man has not been awarded a prison term due to the long-drawn trial he underwent, a telling commentary on Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s judicial system, his conduct will be monitored. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Kumar Bansal, in an order delivered September 7, released Rakesh Kumar Jain, a joint managing director of a Delhi-based company, Jain Shudh Vanaspati Limited, on a year's probation and directed him to "maintain peace and good behaviour". Jain was being tried in an Official Secrets Act case lodged in 1986. Jain now, 57, was 28 when the case was registered.The court observed that the maximum punishment for the offence for which Jain was held guilty is three years' imprisonment or fine or both. The court directed Jain to maintain peace and good behaviour for one year and asked him to furnish a bond of Rs. 10,000 and a surety of like amount. The court also directed that if he breached bond he would produce himself before the court to hear his sentence.

The probationary officer was also asked to submit a report about his conduct every three months. Jain sought leniency stating that he was regularly appearing before the court since 1986 and, therefore, must be released on probation. Jain told the court that he has never misused the liberty of bail during the trial and had clean antecedent. However, the CBI sought maximum punishment, stating that he had in his possession secret documents that could affect the country's security and economy. According to Central Bureau of Investigation, Jain possessed a secret letter that deals with a policy matter on import and allocation of edible oil and the pricing policy of edible oil and vanaspati. The CBI alleged that documents would prejudicially affect the economy in matters relating to distribution and pricing of essential commodities. A first information report was registered against Jain on the basis of a complaint by a director in the commerce ministry on July 9, 1986. Jain's company was banned in 1984 by the government from importing or exporting vanaspati oil for five years as it was found to be mixing beef tallow in it.

the university is also relatively high. The ABVP made a comeback at the JNU after almost 15 years," said JNU poll's chief election commissioner Praveen Thallapelli. The AISF won the president's post by 67 votes over AISA, while AISA nominee won the vice-president's post against his ABVP rival by 234 votes. For the general secretary's post, AISA candidate defeated ABVP nominee by 213 votes while joint secretary's post was claimed by ABVP, defeating AISA by 28 votes. The ABVP last won a post in the JNU elections in 2001 when Sandeep Mahapatra became the president by a vote's margin. Shehla Rashid of AISA is the first Kashmiri woman in JNU history to contest the students' union polls and win in the central panel. She is also this year's highest polled candidate (1,387), according to JNU sources. "This victory is a mandate for

carrying on the struggles for which JNUSU is known. We will carry on the struggle for social justice, gender justice and against privatisation and saffronisation of education," said Shehla after winning the vice president's post. "We are content with the overall Left mandate, but we have to take cognizance of the proliferation of the right-wing in the campus and work collectively towards establishing a Left-progressive consciousness on the campus," she added. The students' union elections in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) on Friday recorded 53.3 percent turnout, a marginal dip over last year, when the turnout was 54.58 percent. A total of 22 candidates contested the JNUSU central panel that includes posts of president, vice president, general secretary and joint secretary.

No lenience warranted in corruption cases: SC New Delhi, September 13 (pti) At a time when corruption has affected the system like cancer, courts should not get swayed by the concept of mercy while awarding punishment to the corrupt, the Supreme Court has said. The apex court's observation came while terminating the services of a conductor employed in Uttar Pradesh State Transport Corporation for carrying 25 passengers without ticket in 1992. "In the case at hand, as we perceive, the delinquent employee has harboured the notion that when the cancerous growth has affected the system, he can further allow it to grow by covering it like an octopus, with its tentacles disallowing any kind of surgical operation or treatment so that the lesion continues. "The whole act is reprehensible and such a situation does not even remotely commend any lenience," a bench of justices Dipak Misra and Prafulla C Pant said. It said that both the labour court and Allahabad High Court committed error by imposing lesser punishment and granting chance of reformation to Gopal Shukla as the only punishment should have been dismissal. The apex court said that the high court appeared to have been swayed by concept of forgiveness and mercy while remaining oblivious to the great harm caused to transport corporation."We must not forget the fundamental duty and work," the bench said, adding that the approach of the high court and labour court showing leniency towards the conductor is not judicially maintainable.

110 injured in traditional stonepelting in MP's Gotmaar Mela ChhiNDwArA (mp), September 13 (iANS): As many as 110 people were injured in the traditional stonepelting on Sunday in the annual Gotmaar Mela here in Madhya Pradesh, police said. The Gotmaar (hitting with pellets) fair is held in Chhindwara district every year. On the second day of the Pola festival (when bullocks, the traditional draught animals, are worshipped), people of Pandhurna and Sawargaon, on the other side of the Jam river, gather at the Chandi temple and hurl stones at each other as part of a tradition, remembering a pair of lovers who sacrificed their lives. At least 110 people sustained minor injuries in the stone-pelting on Sunday, Superintendent of Police Mithilesh Shukla told IANS. He said arrangements were made beforehand to treat the injured at the fair itself. According to legend, a boy from Sawargaon fell in love with a girl from Pandhurna. He eloped with the girl, and villagers chased the couple and hurled stones at them. The couple died in the incident, following which the two villages clashed and pelted stones at each other. The Gotmaar Mela is held every year in the couple's memory.

Road users have fundamental right to life, rules Court New Delhi, September 13 (pti): A sessions court here has upheld the jail sentence of a man, convicted of riding a motorcycle in an inebriated state, observing that human life is precious and road users have fundamental right to life and liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. District and Sessions Judge Rekha Rani dismissed the appeal of Netra Pal Singh, a Delhi resident, against a magisterial court order that had sentenced him to three days in jail for the offence of drunken driving under Motor Vehicle Act after he was found riding his two-wheeler in a drunken state. The magisterial court had awarded the jail term for drunken driving and for the lack of valid driving licence and insurance papers after Singh voluntarily pleaded guilty to the offence committed under provisions of Motor Vehicle Act. "Human life is precious and road users have fundamental right to life and liberty guaranteed by Article 21 of our Constitution... "Drunken driving has become a menace, which may cause injuries, disabilities, fatalities having devastating effect on the victims and their kin. It also causes collossal loss in terms of economy of State. Consumption of alcohol impairs vision, focus, consciousness, coordination, reflexes which make automobiles 'death traps' and the drunken drivers lethal weapon'...," the court said. It noted that Singh was not only badly drunk but also exceeded the prescribed speed limit by over 14 times and was also driving the vehicle without valid insurance. The magisterial court had jailed Singh for driving two wheeler under the influence of liquor and the alcohol content in his blood stream was found 440mg/100 m

MP Blast: People in desperate search of missing kin JhAbUA, September 13 (iANS): Clutching photographs of their relatives, people in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday launched New Delhi, September 13 (reUterS): Police said on Suna desperate search for their kin day they were hunting for the owner of illegally stored explosives which in hospitals, a day after 88 people accidentally detonated in the centre of a crowded town, killing at least were killed and over 100 others in88 people. Rajendra Kaswa has been charged with illegally storing gelajured in twin blasts. tin sticks and urea, a common fertiliser, next to a restaurant and busy Many of the injured were adjunction in the town of Petlawad in Madhya Pradesh, a senior police mitted to hospitals in Petlavad, Inofficial and the divisional commissioner Sanjay Dubey said. dore, Ratlam and Dahod in neigh"He is on the run. One of his accomplices has already been arbouring Gujarat. rested. He has been charged under the Explosives Act," Dubey told People who survived Saturday's Reuters by telephone from the site of Saturday's blast, one of the blast still shiver at the thought. deadliest in India in recent years. "I was on my way to work afPolice initially thought the accident was triggered by an exploding ter having tea with my son Ravi, gas cylinder in the restaurant, which then detonated the explosives when I heard the news about next door, but officers now believe it originated in the warehouse some 'sparking'. My son went off next to the restaurant where Kaswa stored explosive materials and to take a look at it. I tried to stop chemicals. Kaswa held a licence for the explosives but keeping them him, but he didn't listen to me. so close to a restaurant in a densely populated part of town was illegal, A moment later, a huge blast ocsenior police official Seema Alava said. curred and there were bodies lyThe chief minister of Madhya Pradesh arrived at the scene on ing everywhere. My son was also Sunday where his convoy was blocked by angry locals waving black among them," said Pushkar, a laflags, the Times of India reported. Local media have said residents bourer. previously complained about the location of the explosives but auPeople said many buildings thorities failed to act. The state government said a full probe into the turned into rubble, and they could explosions would be carried out, while officials from New Delhi have hear the screams of the victims been dispatched to help with the investigation. trapped underneath. A cylinder blast at a tea stall ripped through an adjoining capital Bhopal. packed with customers was fol- building in Petlavad in Jhabua, Many people were on Sunday lowed by a massive blast that located over 300 km from state found searching among the debris

Police hunt for owner of stored explosives

of buildings, holding photocopies of identity documents as well as photographs of their relatives who were missing after the blasts. People went to the post-mortem departments of hospitals, and to cremation grounds to look for their relatives. The magnitude of the blasts can be gauged by the manner in which the bodies were being identified by the clothes the victims were wearing on Saturday and by their birthmarks. Two students, Prince and Prashant, were going to a coaching institute when the blasts occurred. Their bodies were found on Sunday in a hospital. One of the bodies was headless, and it was identified as that of Prince only by an identity card in his pocket. The headless torso of Badri Lal was also identified by his relatives by the mark of an earlier wound. Akshat, a 12-year-old boy, suffered fractures in his legs and injuries to his head. He is undergoing treatment in a hospital in Ratlam, while his parents were killed in Saturday's incident.

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WORLD

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Hungarian refugee policies likened to ‘Nazi deportations’ Babies, children drown as migrant boat capsizes

ATHENS, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Thirty-four refugees, almost half of them babies and children, drowned when their boat sank off a Greek island on Sunday, almost certainly the largest death toll in those waters since the migrant crisis began, the coastguard said. Four babies, six boys and five girls died when the wooden vessel carrying them overturned on Sunday morning, about three miles (5 km) east of the small island of Farmakonisi, close to Turkey’s coast, the service added. Tens of thousands of mainly Syrian refugees have braved rough seas this year to make the short but precarious journey from Turkey to Greece’s eastern islands, mainly in flimsy and overcrowded inflatable

Migrants line up after arriving at a train station in Vienna, September 12, 2015. (REUTERS Photo)

BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Austria’s chancellor criticised Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country’s policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust as refugees complained of their treatment in the eastern European country. Thousands of refugees are crossing the border to Hungary, an eastern outpost of Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone, every day, and many are travelling on to the continent’s more prosperous west and north in what is Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the Yugo-

slav wars of the 1990s. Refugees continued to stream into Germany, favoured for its generous welfare system and relatively liberal asylum laws. At Munich’s main train station around 9,200 arrived by early evening and authorities said they would struggle to cope. In an interview with German news magazine Der Spiegel, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann likened Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s treatment of refugees to the Nazis’ deportation of Jews and others to concentration camps. “Sticking refugees in trains

and sending them somewhere completely different to where they think they’re going reminds us of the darkest chapter of our continent’s history,” he said. On Sept. 3, migrants boarded a train in Budapest in the belief that they were heading to the border with Austria but the train was stopped 35 km (22 miles) west of the capital in the town of Bicske, where Hungary has a camp for asylum seekers. Hungary dismissed Faymann’s comments as “utterly unworthy of a 21st century European leader” and summoned Austria’s ambassador. Hungarian foreign minister

Peter Szijjarto said the Austrian chancellor had been pursuing a “campaign of lies” against Hungary for weeks that made it harder to find a common European solution to the crisis. “THEY PUT US IN JAILS” Many refugees and migrants now arriving in Hungary want to avoid being registered there for fear of being returned to Hungary later as they travel on to richer countries in western and northern Europe. Saeed, a 25-year-old Syrian, was one of many refugees complaining about his treatment in Hungary. Speaking to Reuters

dinghies. Thousands have died, many of them taking the much longer crossing from Libya, in Europe’s worst migrant crisis in decades. Details of the nationalities and ages of the victims of Sunday’s sinking off Farmakonisi were not immediately available. The coastguard said 68 people were rescued from the water and another 30 survivors from the same boat were found on Farmakonisi. On Lesbos, an island which has borne the brunt of Greece’s migrant intake, a Reuters photographer saw 10 dinghies arriving within 90 minutes on Sunday. One inflatable carrying about 70 refugees, including many children, burst about 100 metres (90 yards)

in the Austrian border town of Nickelsdorf, he said he had spent the last six days in Hungary, where he was taken to five camps and had to sleep standing up in an overcrowded room. “They put us in jails. We were there for a week, so little food, one of these little breads in the morning and one at night ... Everyone has a cold because there is no heating or anything there,” he said. “I escaped from Syria because I wasn’t treated like a person, like a human being there and I came to Hungary and I was treated like an animal,” he added. On Friday, video emerged of

from the shore. Locals pulled infants and toddlers - including a two-month old baby cradled by his father - ashore on rubber rings. Greece has regularly called for more help from authorities in dealing with the influx, and caretaker Prime Minister Vasiliki Thanou urged the bloc on Sunday to agree a more comprehensive policy. Other countries were wrong to criticise Greece’s response to the flow of migrants, Thanou said during a trip to Lesbos. “We would urge them to consider the responsibility of guarding a 16,000 km long coastline of European borders ... and whether a future Europe of principles can be constructed by building walls,” she said.

crowds clamouring for food in a border camp as police in surgical masks tossed them packs of sandwiches. Police in Hungary said they had launched an investigation into the scenes. In an interview due to be published in the Sunday edition of Austrian newspaper Oesterreich, Faymann said: “It is unacceptable that refugees arrive from Hungary afraid, panicked, hungry and sometimes traumatised.” Orban, a conservative populist always keen to undercut his main political rival, the farright Jobbik party, has taken a tough stance during the crisis

and told German newspaper Bild’s Saturday edition that refugees should be sent back once Hungary closes its borders on September 15. Asked where, he said: “Where they came from. These migrants are not coming to us from war zones but rather from camps in countries neighbouring Syria like Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. They were safe there.” He said he would take a refugee family into his own home if he was sure this would not encourage others to come to Europe, adding that the continent would “perish” if it continued to take in millions of refugees.

Exiled Yemeni govt pulls Clashes, militant bombing, kill nine in southeast Turkey people’s expectation with killing one police officer out of planned peace talks DIYARBAKIR, TURa clear, concrete project,” and wounding another, KEY, SEPTEMBER 13 SANAA, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Yemen’s exiled government said on Sunday it would no longer attend U.N.-mediated peace talks with its Houthi adversaries. Loyalists of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi have been battling the Iran-allied militia across the country since late March, when the group forced him and his administration to flee to Saudi Arabia. A mainly Gulf Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in the conflict, mounting hundreds of air strikes on the Houthis and backing ground forces they hope will force the group accept an April U.N. Security Council resolution calling on them to recognise Hadi and quit Yemen’s main cities. The Houthis took control of the capital Sanaa in September 2014. “(The government) confirmed it would not take part in any meeting until the coup militia recognise international resolution 2216 and accepts to implement it unconditionally,” the official state news agency Saba said. Hailing the now-scuppered talks on Friday, the U.N. Security Council had urged the parties to refrain from preconditions and “unilateral actions”. Peace talks in June failed to end the fighting, which has brought the country to the brink of famine, killed more than 4,500 people and led to a security vacuum that has strengthened Al Qaeda’s Yemen branch. On Saturday night, a suspected U.S. drone strike killed at least five al Qaeda fighters gathered inside a military base outside the eastern coastal city of Mukalla, local security officials said. The group has partly controlled Mukalla since the army withdrew from the area in April. A mid-level commander in the organisation, Othman al-Sanaani, was killed in the strike, the sources said. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has carried out attacks against the Yemeni state for years of bomb, plotted to blow up U.S.bound airliners and claimed responsibility for a Januray attack in Paris on a French magazine that killed 12 people.

Israeli police, Palestinians clash at Jerusalem holy site JERUSALEM, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Israeli police raided the plaza outside Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday in what they said was a bid to head off Palestinian attempts to disrupt visits by Jews and foreign tourists on the eve of the Jewish New Year. Police used tear gas and threw stun grenades towards Palestinian youths, who barricaded themselves inside the mosque and hurled rocks and flares, a Reuters witness said. Israeli Public Security MinisterGilad Erdan, in a statement, said the Palestinian youngsters also had pipe bombs. There was no sign these had been detonated. No serious injuries were reported and the compound, revered by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and by Jews as the Temple Mount, was opened to visitors after the violence subsided, police said. A statement from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he “strongly condemned the aggression of the Israeli storming of al-Aqsa this morning with troops and occupation police”. Al Aqsa official Radwan Amr said 32 of the mosque’s windows were completely or partially destroyed, a door was shattered and the carpet burned in 12 places. The Palestinian youths, Israeli police said in a statement, had intended “to disrupt the routine of visits to the Temple Mount on the eve of Rosh Hashana”, the Jewish New Year, which begins at sunset on Sunday. “A police force ... surprised the barricaded youngsters and entered the Temple Mount area” so that the visits could get under way, the statement added. Jewish ultranationalists have been pushing the Israeli government to allow Jewish prayer on the compound outside al-Aqsa, which stands above Judaism’s Western Wall. Such worship, certain to stir Muslim anger, has been banned on the plaza by Israel since it captured EastJerusalem, and its Old City, in the 1967 Middle East war.

(REUTERS): Kurdish militants killed two police officers in a car bomb attack on a checkpoint in southeast Turkey on Sunday, as authorities imposed a curfew in the region’s largest city Diyarbakir where clashes broke out, security sources said. Turkish forces backed up by helicopters and commandos shelled a mountainous area where the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters had fled after the checkpoint attack in Sirnak province, killing six of them, the sources added. A police officer was reported killed in another confrontation. Hundreds of militants and more than 100 police and soldiers have died since a ceasefire collapsed in July, shattering a peace process launched in 2012. It is the worst violence Turkey has seen in two decades. The Diyarbakir governor’s office said it had

he said. “Even if the peace (talks) table has been upturned it is in our power to put it up again.”

A man runs past a burning trash can, set on fire by protesters before a police vehicle, in the Kurdish dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir, Turkey on September 13. (REUTERS Photo)

placed the central historic Sur district under a roundthe-clock curfew. Security sources said seven police officers were wounded in clashes there. In other central areas of the city, police fired tear gas and water cannon

at small groups of youths who threw stones and tried to set up street barricades in protest against the curfew. Speaking to reporters near the Sur district, the leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demir-

tas, called for the Turkish state and PKK leadership across the border in Iraq’s Qandil mountains to halt the violence and return to peace talks. “Both Ankara and Qandil must take a position that responds to the

‘Scottish nationalists to set trigger for new independence vote’ David Cameron in May ruled out another independence referendum despite spectacular gains by the Scottish National Party LONDON, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Scottish nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon will include triggers for a second independence referendum in the party’s manifesto for the 2016 Scottish election, she said in an interview with the Sunday Herald newspaper. British Prime Minister David Cameron in May ruled out another independence referendum despite spectacular gains by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in that month’s election, saying Scots had “emphatically” rejected a breakaway last year. Scots voted 55-45 percent against independence in a September 2014 referendum but the May 7 general election saw the SNP take 56 of Scotland’s 59 seats in the Westminster parliament. “Our manifesto will set out what we think around the circumstances in which, and the possible timescales in which, a second referendum might be

appropriate,” Sturgeon told the paper in an interview. “It will then be down to people to accept whether they vote for that manifesto.” Citing sources close to Sturgeon, the newspaper reported the trigger list would be limited but could include a general option allowing for a referendum in the event of a dramatic, unforeseeable event such as Cameron embarking on what they termed an illegal war. A vote to divide England and Scotland would amount to the break-up of the United Kingdom, the world’s fifth largest economy. When asked for comment on the Sunday Herald report, a spokesman for Cameron said: “The people of Scotland voted to remain part of the United Kingdom last year and we will see through our commitments to give them the extra powers.” ANOTHER GO? SNP leader Sturgeon has previously said there could only be another independence vote if Scots voted for a party which proposed one in a Scottish parliamentary election. Scottish elections are due in

May 2016 but so far Sturgeon has refused to say directly whether she would include a referendum pledge in her manifesto. After Jeremy Corbyn was elected as the new leader of the opposition Labour Party on Saturday, Sturgeon cautioned that if his party failed to show swiftly it could beat Cameron’s Conservatives in the next national election then desire for Scottish independence would rise. “If Labour cannot quickly demonstrate that they have a credible chance of winning the next UK general election, many more people in Scotland are likely to conclude that independence is the only alternative to continued Tory (Conservative)government,” she said. “The reality today is that at a time when the country needs strong opposition to the Tories, Jeremy Corbyn leads a deeply, and very bitterly, divided party.” Sturgeon has previously warned that if England voted to leave the European Union in a referendum on membership due by the end of 2017, then Scotland could seek a second independence referendum if its people voted to stay in the EU.

ROCKETS, SHELLS, FUNERALS The PKK began its separatist insurgency in 1984, triggering a conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people. The group, which says it is now fighting for greater Kurdish autonomy, is designated a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the European Union and the United States. President Tayyip Erdogan has promised the fight will go on until “not one terrorist is left”. The conflict has flared up as Turkey prepares for a snap parliamentary election on Nov. 1 after a June vote was inconclusive. The PKK also launched an attack on Sunday with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles in the Silvan district of Diyarbakir province,

one security source told Reuters. Locals officials said they also declared a curfew in that area. A week-long curfew in the town of Cizre, near the borders with Syria and Iraq, was lifted on Friday. The HDP has said 21 civilians were killed during clashes in the town. The government said one civilian and 32 militants died. Thousands gathered in the town on Sunday for the funerals of 16 of the people who were killed during the week and who were buried alongside each other, witnesses said. State-run Anadolu Agency reported Culture and Tourism Minister Yalcin Topcu as saying the recent security forces’ operations had hit the PKK hard. “A significant portion of the mountain forces has been destroyed. Their structures in the cities are being ripped out and cast aside,” he said.

Iran unexpectedly finds high uranium reserve DUBAI, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Iran has discovered an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium and will soon begin extracting the radioactive element at a new mine, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation said on Saturday. The comments cast doubt on previous assessments from some Western analysts who said the country had a low supply and sooner or later would need to import uranium, the raw material needed for its nuclear programme. Any indication Iran could become more self-sufficient will be closely watched by world powers, which reached a landmark deal with Tehran in July over its programme. They had feared the nuclear activities were aimed at acquiring the capability to produce atomic weapons - something denied by Tehran. “I cannot announce (the level of ) Iran’s uranium mine reserves. The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves,” Iranian nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA. Salehi said uranium exploration had covered almost two-

thirds of Iran and would be complete in the next four years. Uranium can be used for civilian power production and scientific purposes, but is also a key ingredient in nuclear weapons. The July deal between Iran and world powers will lift international sanctions on Iran in exchange for at least a decade of curbs on the country’s nuclear activity. The U.S. State Department said any new reserves of uranium discovered in Iran will be under the same monitoring as existing mines under the nuclear agreement. “Any violation of that commitment would be met with the appropriate response,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said in a statement. After decades of effort, Iran - which has consistently said its programme is for peaceful purposes - has achieved a full nuclear fuel cycle, ranging from the extraction of uranium ore to enrichment and production of fuel rods for nuclear reactors. Sanctions on companies taking part in Iran’s uranium mining industry will be lifted when the agreement is implemented. Salehi said uranium extraction was set to begin at a new mine in the central province of Yazd, according to IRNA.

MONDAY 14•09•2015

SPORTS

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Injured Rooney doubtful for Man United's CL clash against PSV

MANchESTER, SEPTEMBER 13 (IANS): Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney is unlikely to feature in Tuesday's Champions League group opener away to PSV Eindhoven. United manager Louis van Gaal has revealed his captain could return in time for next Sunday's English Premier League encounter at Southampton but he will

not be taking any risks with the minor injury suffered in training on Friday. While not completely ruling England's all-time leading scorer out of the European game, the boss did appear to indicate that hge will opt for caution over the player's fitness. "He is injured. So we have to take care of him," van Gaal was quoted as saying by MUTV after Rooney

missed Saturday's 3-1 win over Liverpool on Saturday. "I think he is very important for us and I don’t to take any risks so that’s why he doesn’t play today." "I don’t think he will play against PSV Eindhoven, but maybe he shall play at Southampton. We have to wait and see if he can play against PSV because we still have three days to go."

Messi lifts Barca, five for record-breaker Ronaldo

Singapore Grand Prix on alert over haze threat

SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Since the inaugural Singapore Grand Prix in 2008, drivers have been routinely quizzed about how they would cope with a tropical downpour during the only Formula One race held entirely under floodlights. After seven years of bone dry races, the answer still remains a mystery, but a different hazard could possibly threaten this year's race, scheduled for Sept. 20. A dense cloud of haze has been hanging over the city-state of Singapore for the past week, a result of farmers in neighbouring Sumatra burning forests to clear their land for agriculture. An annual occurrence, the smog is currently rated under the Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) as being in the mid to low range of "unhealthy" air quality, but race orga-

nizers are monitoring the situation in case it worsens and effects driver visibility. "The possibility of haze is just one of the many potential issues that are covered in the overall 2015 Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix Contingency Plan," a Singapore GP spokesperson said in a statement to Reuters. "The plan was formulated and refined with stake holders, government bodies and the Formula One community. "In the event that the haze caused visibility, public health or operational issues Singapore GP would work closely with the relevant agencies before making any collective decisions regarding the event." A number of local sports events in Singapore were cancelled this weekend because of health risks and the Singapore National Environment Agency told Reuters that

the PSI levels were likely to remain in the "unhealthy" range for the next week. "There has been a deterioration in the haze conditions in Singapore since early this morning, as the prevailing winds continued to blow in haze from Sumatra," the NEA said. "As at 11 a.m. today, the 24-hr PSI was... in the low to mid sections of the unhealthy range." Neither the NEA or race organisers would speculate on whether next Sunday's night race around the Marina Bay street circuit, could be effected if the smog worsened. The Singapore Grand Prix is the 13th race of the season and defending world champion and last year's winner Lewis Hamilton will be a strong favourite to extend his championship lead, currently 53 points, with an eighth victory of the campaign.

Barcelona's Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring a goal against Atletico Madrid's during their Spanish first division soccer match at Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid, September 12. (REUTERS)

MADRID, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Lionel Messi came off the bench to earn Barcelona a 2-1 victory at Atletico Madrid on Saturday while Cristiano Ronaldo hit five goals in a 6-0 romp at Espanyol to become Real Madrid's record La Liga scorer. Champions Barca, who started with talisman Messi as a substitute following the birth of his second son on Friday, fell behind after a tight first half at the Calderon when Fernando Torres sped clear to score in the 51st minute. Neymar levelled four minutes later when he curled a sumptuous free

kick into the top corner and the Brazil forward should have made it 2-1 in the 67th when his point-blank shot was cleared off the line by Diego Godin. Neymar was also involved in the winner before the ball fell to Luis Suarez, who had struck the crossbar in the first half, and he slipped a pass into space for Messi to dink it past goalkeeper Jan Oblak with 13 minutes remaining. The victory preserved Barca's perfect start to the season and they lead on a maximum nine points from three matches, three ahead of 2013-14 champi-

Tottenham release Narsingh picks up bronze, striker Adebayor Olympic spot at wrestling Worlds

Tottenham Hotspur's Emmanuel Adebayor. (Reuters)

LONDON, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Tottenham Hotspur striker Emmanuel Adebayor has been released from his contract by mutual agreement, the English Premier League club said on Sunday. The 31-year-old Togo international has not played for Spurs this season and was left out of both their Premier League and Europa League squads. "We can confirm that we have reached a mutual agreement with Emmanuel Adebayor which will see him released from his contract with the club," Tottenham said in a statement. "We wish Emmanuel well for the future." Adebayor joined Tottenham on a loan from Manchester City in 2011 then signed a permanent deal in 2012 but has since fallen out of favour with the North London club. Two days ago, Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino said he told Adebayor he has no future at the club after the forward had turned down a chance to leave in the recent transfer window. Adebayor rejected moves to Aston Villa and West Ham United and Pochettino told reporters he was unlikely to play again. The player has also fallen out of favour with Togo coach Tom Saintfiet, who likened him to a bad date and said recently that Adebayor had failed to respond to a call-up for an African Nations Cup qualifier.

LAS VEGAS, SEPTEMBER 13 (IANS): Narsingh Pancham Yadav clinched bronze in the men's Freestyle 74kg category to open India's account at the World Wrestling Championships here. Yadav, who also secured a quota place for next year's Rio Olympics in the process, defeated Zelimkhan Khadjiev of France in the bronze medal match after effecting a stunning comeback here on Saturday evening. The top six wrestlers in each weight category qualify for the Olympics. As per rules, an Olympic berth is awarded to the country concerned and not the wrestler who might have clinched it. Narsingh's performance was the only bright spot in an otherwise disappointing day for the Indian contingent as Amit Kumar (57kg), Arun Kumar (70kg) and Sumit (125kg) could not progress beyond the quarter-finals of their respective weight categories. Narsingh began the bronze-medal bout strongly, executing two take-downs on his way to a 4-2 lead. Khadjiev began in a rather slow fashion, but gradually fought back. In the second period, the French wrestler picked up the pace with three quick take-downs to take a massive 12-4 lead. With the match seemingly done and dusted with just 40 seconds on the clock, the Indian bounced back in incredible fashion. A perfectly worked headlock took Khadjiev by surprise and Narsingh finished off the move by executing an astute fall which handed him an impressive victory and a very creditable bronze. Earlier, the 26-year-old Narsingh began his campaign in roaring fashion, brushing off the challenge from Hanoc Rachamin of Israel 14-2 in the opening round.

He continued in the same vein in the next round, defeating European Games silver medallist Soner Demirtas of Turkey 4-2 to move into the quarter-finals where he ovepowered Cuba's Livan Lopez 16-5. In the semi-finals, the Mumbai lad took on Mongolia's Unurbat Purevjav. In a very close bout, Narsingh led the Mongol 4-3 till the last five seconds. But Purevjav pulled level in the dying seconds by pushing Narsingh outside the mat and picking up a point. The Mongol thus qualified for the final by virtue of having picked up the last point. Despite missing out on the final, Narsingh was in high spirits after securing the bronze medal. "It is an incredible feeling. I was doing well all through the day. Luck wasn't on my side when I faced the Mongolian wrestler. I was really disappointed with what happened in the semi-final but the determination to pick up a medal was always there," he said. "Winning by fall is perhaps the sweetest victory that a wrestler can achieve and there is no better feeling than winning a medal for your country." Amit started off in promising fashion with a hard fought 6-4 win over Sezar Akgul of Turkey before being edged out 1-2 by Viktor Lebedev of Russia. Arun, meanwhile, outclassed Tat Du Can of Vietnam 7-0 in the first round. He survived a tough challenge from Semen Radulov, ekeing out a 5-4 result over the Ukrainian. But he was no match for local favourite James Malcolm Green in the quarterfinals, going down 0-10. In the 125kg category, Sumit lost 0-3 to Aiaal Lazarev of Kyrgyzstan in the prequarter-finals.

Summer Open Penalty Shootout held

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 13 (MExN): The Rengma Students' Union Dimapur organized the Summer Open Penalty Shootout under the theme "Strive for unity" on September 12 at the RSA ground Tseminyu Old Town. Altogether 30 teams participated in the tournament. The inaugural function was chaired by Benlo Thyu, Vice President RSU. David Magh, President, RSUD delivered the welcome address while Zeyhun Tep (General Secretary, RSUD) delivered the welcome address. The Chief Guest, Thonsenlo Kath (ADC SSA) impressed upon the sports persons and youths present on the importance of games and sports and how it helps in building

The winners and runners up of the shootout along with the organizers.

competitive spirit and acts as a unifying factor. He appealed the youths not to remain idle but to be active and involved in the society. The young Kithagha

Students' Union team emerged as the Champions defeating the GHSS Tseminyu team in the finals bagging a cash prize of Rs. 10,000/- and 5,000/- respectively. Tesiseng (GHSS

Tseminyu) was adjudged as the Best Goalkeeper. The event also witnessed an exciting exhibition football match where the best of the participating teams were selected

for an All-Stars Organizers XI team to play against Vanguard FC. The first half of the match witnessed an exciting contest with the scoreline at 2-2 with a brace each from the Vanguard FC Captain Yhunshalo Kemp and the All Stars' striker Tesiseng. The second half was dominated by Vanguard FC with its young talent Shwensinlo Semp scoring a second-half hat-trick to seal the game. The event was attended by Kenneth Kath, President, Rengma Selo Zi (Rengma Youth Organization), Meshenlo Kath, President RSU among other student leaders and hundreds of people of all ages and groups from all parts of the Tseminyu Sub-division in the true spirit of the theme, "Strive for unity."

ons Atletico who are fifth. "We played very well after going behind and we’re very happy," Neymar told Spanish television. "Messi is the best player in the world and when he comes on to the pitch everyone plays better." Real have seven points in second place after Ronaldo, who like great rival Messi had drawn a blank in the opening two games, ended his early-season drought in emphatic style. The Portugal captain turned in a blistering performance that took his tally in Spain's top flight to 230, overtaking former Real

striker Raul's total of 228. The 30-year-old FIFA Ballon d'Or winner scored in the seventh, 17th (penalty), 20th, 61st and 81st minutes while Karim Benzema struck in the 28th as Real put a hapless Espanyol to the sword. Ronaldo, who hit five against Granada in La Liga last season, raced clear and finished calmly to set Real on their way before converting a penalty won by Gareth Bale. Bale's centre from the left set up Ronaldo to volley in his third, equalling Messi's Spanish record of 32 hat-tricks, before he turned provider by crossing

for Benzema to make it 4-0 inside half an hour. Wales playmaker Bale set Ronaldo up again after a swift counter attack and substitute Lucas Vazquez made the assist for the former Manchester United man's fifth and Real's sixth. "They (Espanyol) have a good team but when Cristiano has his day it's impossible," said Real's Portugal defender Pepe. Spain forward Paco Alcacer scored in added time to give Valencia an unconvincing 1-0 triumph at promoted Sporting Gijon, a first win of the campaign lifting them to sixth place on five points.

Chelsea stumble as United, Arsenal and City win

LONDON, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Champions Chelsea lost 3-1 at Everton before a stoppagetime goal for leaders Manchester City sealed a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace and Manchester United beat Liverpool 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday. Steven Naismith's hat-trick for Everton condemned Chelsea to their third defeat in five games while City avoided dropping their first points of the season when teenage substitute Kelechi Iheanacho struck the winner at Selhurst Park. Daley Blind and Ander Herrera put United 2-0 up against arch-rivals Liverpool. Christian Benteke pulled one back with a spectacular overhead kick before Anthony Martial scored a classy goal on his debut to seal victory for the home team. Manchester City lead the way with 15 points, five clear of second-placed United and Arsenal, who are third after beating Stoke City 2-0, and 11 ahead of struggling Chelsea. Manchester City were pushed hard by Palace, who started the day in second spot, and looked set to be denied their fifth successive win until Iheanacho came off the bench to grab the only goal. "We knew it was going to be a tough game with the first team in the table play-

ing the second," City manager Manuel Pellegrini told Sky Sports. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho remained in defiant mood after his team's third defeat of the season, the same number of games they lost in the whole of last term. "They are a very good team, in a good moment, so it was a very important three points," said Mourinho. "But we dominated the second half and had the better chances. The results are too wrong for our quality and our status and the players deserve much more than they are getting." Mourinho said he was the best man to turn around Chelsea's wretched start. NO BLAME "I don't blame the players and I don't blame myself. They are the worst results ever in my career but I am comfortable with the situation," he added. "I do not think there is a better manager than me to come to Chelsea and do my job. "I am the man for the job. I have done so many good things for Chelsea. Now I am the man with the bad results but give me the responsibility and I will sort this out." Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers described the game against United as the biggest derby in English football but the match only came to life in

the second half after a dire opening 45 minutes. The catalyst was a wellworked 49th-minute free kick that Blind curled home before Herrera hammered in a 70th-minute penalty to put United 2-0 ahead. Benteke gave Liverpool late hope but his effort was over-shadowed by Martial's stunning run and shot which bamboozled three defenders and keeper Simon Mignolet, showing why United spent a world record 36 million pounds ($55.54 million) for the teenager earlier this month. "The goal from Anthony, not a bad goal," United manager Louis van Gaal said. "He did alright, he had some space because Liverpool had to come out. He scored a marvellous goal. I've seen that physically he can play in the Premier League." Arsenal grabbed their first home win of the season against Stoke thanks to strikes from Theo Walcott and Olivier Giroud. Norwich City beat Bournemouth 3-1 and promoted Watford sank Swansea City 1-0, Odion Ighalo's second-half strike securing their first league win of the season. The victory was tarnished when Valon Behrami was sent off after appearing to stamp on Andre Ayew in the 64th minute.

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Gulshan Grover dines Saif Ali Khan: We're in no rush to have kids with Prince Charles "I am in no rush to become father... whenever she is ready (for it)," Saif told PTI in an interview here. Kareena had recently said in an interview that she wants to become a mother but not in next two to three years. Saif has two children -- Sara and Ibrahim -- from his former wife actress Amrita Singh. Kareena, who married Saif in October 2012, is having a good run at the box office with the success of her latest release Bajrangi Bhaijaan. The Phantom actor said Kareena has managed to strike a fine balance between the blockbusters and small-budget films with meaty roles. "I think it is important for her to balance with huge blockbuster films where she has nice small roles and with smaller budget films that are about her. She is doing that balance really well.. I am happy to see that," he said. Saif said he likes to watch Kareena in romantic roles like the one she played in 2007 release Jab We Met. While Kareena bonds well with Saif's kids Ibrahim and Sara and has been often seen hanging out with them, the actor said he too share a good rapport with Kareena's sister Karisma and mother Babita. "I don't think we would have got married if I wouldn't have had a great relationship with them. I am fond of her (Babita). She is an honest and down to earth person. I share a good relation with Karishma as well," he said. The 45-year-old actor also revealed that his mother-in-law likes his romantic comedies like Love Aaj Kal and Cocktail.

ollywood's 'Badman' Gulshan Grover was invited for a dinner by the heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, at Dumfries House here. They are even said to have discussed how the Scottish mansion could be used for a songand-dance sequence in an Indian film. "It was an honour to be invited. I was really amazed at the royal estate in Dumfries and requested him to make it available for a Bollywood film. It is a perfect setting, I feel,” dailymail. co.uk quoted Gulshan as saying. “Being the gentleman that he is, he agreed in principle to let it happen. I am hoping to return to shoot for a movie, or at least all the dancing song sequence of my new film,” the 59-year-old, who was last seen in “Kaun Kitney Panee Mein”, added. A Clarence House spokesman declined to comment on the “private” dinner. It came before Charles met TV presenters Ant and Dec, who are filming a documentary about the Prince’s Trust charity, at Dumfries House. Gulshan, who reportedly met Prince Charles earlier this week, added: “I hope he comes to India soon and look forward to taking him to the film studios. I believe he is making a real difference in the UK and he can do the same in India.”

'Resident Evil 6' stuntwoman in Men should watch 'Parched' to know coma following accident on set about woman's struggle: Surveen Chawla

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British stuntwoman Olivia Jackson has been hospitalised following an accident on the set of "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter" in South Africa. She has been in an induced coma since Saturday, September 5, suffering from head injuries and a punctured lung, reported Ace Showbiz. Jackson was filming a chase scene when the tragedy happened. She rode a motorcycle at high speed and suddenly crashed into a piece of met-

al camera arm. Unfortunately, she wasn't equipped with any protective gear or helmet during filming. A source close to the production said, "It wasn't a very dangerous stunt. She was riding a motorbike in a straight line but due to the scene she had no protective gear or helmet. There is a metal arm which carries the camera along. But it malfunctioned and didn't lift up. "It was totally out of her control. She had no

chance. She is a lovely lady, the most generous person you could ever meet." Jackson has been working as a stuntwoman since 2011. She was a stunt double for Charlize Theron and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in Mad Max: Fury Road. She was also Karen Gillan's double in Guardians of the Galaxy and Gwyneth Paltrow's in "Mortdecai". Jackson recently completed stunt performance in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

ctress Surveen Chawla, whose film “Parched” will be premiering at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), says every man should watch the film to understand the inner struggle of women. The Leena Yadav-directorial will be screened in the Special Presentation Section of the film festival on Sunday. “Every man should watch the film. It is very important, so that they understand the kind of inner struggle that

women go through. Women in urban India also go through the same journey of emotions, just the reasons are different,” Surveen told IANS over phone. Set in rural India, the film follows the lives of three ordinary women who begin to break free from centuries-old traditions. The “Hate Story 2” actress shared that her male friends and the men of the film crew were touched by the subject as well. “Women understand

what they go through, but men definitely need to know what we go through. Even my male friends and cast ... when we saw the film before the copies were sent, were touched and when men give such reaction, it says a lot ... it was rather overwhelming,” she said. “Parched” also features actors Tannishtha Chatterjee, Radhika Apte and Lehar Khan in key roles. The film has been jointly produced by Ajay Devgn, Aseem Bajaj, Gulab Singh and Rohan Jagdale.

Shakira, Santana team up with Emilio Estefan against racism

atina superstars Shakira and Carlos Santana are joining hands with 19-time Grammy-winning musician Emilio Estefan for anti-racisim song called "We're All Mexican". The project also has Estefan's wife Gloria Estefan, Wisin, Wyclef Jean, Thalia and Pepe Aguilar, reported Aceshowbiz.

The song that comes in response to the controversial remarks made by Donald Trump about Mexican immigrants will be released later this month. Republican presidential candidate, Trump, described Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists while announcing his GOP presidential nomination. Estefan insisted that

We're All Mexican would not be particularly directed at the Republican presidential candidate, whom he's known "for many, many years." "There's a message being sent out to the world where people are giving opinions that are plain wrong. We need to lift up our pride and show the world what we're doing," he said.

HBO Wins Big At Creative Arts Emmy Awards

BO won 29 awards in total at the ceremony in Los Angeles, which is a precursor to next Sunday's (20Sep15) Primetime Emmy Awards. The network's TV movie Bessie, based on the life of U.S. blues singer Bessie Smith, won four awards, including Outstanding TV Movie. American Horror Story: Freak Show, starring Kathy Bates, took five trophies, while the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special won four, including Outstanding Variety Special. Joan Cusack won Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy for her recurring role in Shameless, while Bradley Whitford won the actor prize for his guest role in the Amazon series Transparent.

From Coldplay to Mumford & Sons: India is the destination for international music videos

f Coldplay lead man Chris Martin's impromptu Delhi gig last month was not enough to tease the band's fans in India, this time around the entire four-man group was photographed in Mumbai earlier this week; apparently filming one of their music videos from the upcoming album A Head Full of Dreams. The British band, which can be seen drenched in Holi colours along with children from Dharavi in their latest pictures, have joined the list of musicians that have headed to the vibrant Indian peninsula for creative inspiration; a tradition that dates back to The Beatles and is still a hit trend among musicians from the west.

summer, the peppy number that was recorded for Major Lazer's third studio album Peace Is The Mission peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and at number 2 on the UK Singles Charts. Indian tele buffs immediately identified the palace in the song to be the same one from the show Jodha Akbar; set up in Maharashtra's Karjat and Vasai.

M.I.A — Matahdatah Scroll 01 Broader Than a Border This English artiste of Sri Lankan heritage, who has one of the most diverse approaches to music in pop music, recently presented a new project called Matahdatah with this video dubbed Matahdatah Scroll 01 'Broader Than A Border'. Shot in the western parts of India Major Lazer & DJ Snake feat MO — Lean On and Africa, it features traditional dancers from One of the most streamed songs of this both locales, along with shots of M.I.A. sitting

among them. The video incorporates a new song called Swords and her Matangi track Warriors. "My new song was filmed in a temple in India and we recorded the clang of the metal to make the beat at the same time as shooting these incredible girls," said the singer. Iggy Azalea — Bounce The Australian, who raps like she's American, shot the 2013 music video, from her debut albumThe New Classic, in India. The opening shot kick starts with a cacophony of traffic and the hustle and bustle of Mumbai; portraying the city in its true sense. The rest of the video has the 25-year-old shaking a leg at a big fat Indian wedding, riding an elephant somewhere on the Western Express Highway and making a chillum-smoking sadhu blush with her scantily-dressed appearance in a temple.

Imogen Heap feat Vishal/Shekhar — Minds Without Fear The two-time Grammy nominee singer and songwriter joined forces with the Indian duo for this song from her fourth studio album Sparks. The song initially came into existence for the music show The Dewarists, which explored the theme of music that occurs when musicians collaborate while travelling and exploring. Imogen was game for the idea as soon as she heard about it and the resulting music video was shot in Jaipur, where these artistes are seen marching on the streets of the Pink City with local people. Highlight Tribe — Shankara The eccentric French music group has invented their own genre of trance music, which they have termed live natural trance. With strong Indian influences and a love for

locations like Goa, it came as no surprise when they released a music video for their hit song Shankara and chose to feature a compilation of clips from their performances in India to be the highlight of this video. Mumford & Sons — The Cave Rumour has it that before being famous, the Indie Brit band gave a concert in Goa which was not even attended by a hundred people. But that did not stop them from filming a video from their debut album Sigh No More in the Konkan land, which is shot without the standard visual cliches — beaches, butter garlic prawns and beer. Instead, the quartet are seen handing over their instruments to four local wedding band members and riding on their scooters around the Sunshine State. The video went on to feature on VH1's top 40 music videos of 2011.

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Shastri to stay team director till 2016 World T20: BCCI

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MUMBai, SEPTEMBER 13 (iaNS): Ravi Shastri will continue as the director of the Indian team till the 2016 World T20, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed on Sunday. "Ravi Shastri to continue as Team Director of Indian Cricket Team till ICC World T20 2016," BCCI tweeted. Apart from extending Shastri's contract, the tenures of the three current associate coaches -- Sanjay Bangar (batting), Bharat Arun (bowling) and R. Sridhar (fielding) -- were also increased for a similar period. "The tenure of assistant coaches - @ImSanjayBangar, B Arun & @coach_ rsridhar extended till ICC WT20 2016," BCCI said in another tweet. These extensions were decided on the recommendations of the advisory committee that included Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, V.V.S. Laxman, BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya and secretary Anurag Thakur. "BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya

and honorary secretary Anurag Thakur appreciated the work done by the coaching staff and accepted the decision unanimously," a BCCI statement added. The extensions come in the wake of India's first away Test series victory against Sri Lanka since 1993. The efforts of the coaching staff in achieving that victory was acknowledged by the BCCI through the contract extension. Shastri took over the task of overseeing the team's performance as director in August last year, just before the One-Day International (ODI) series in England, and insisted on having the services of Bangar, Arun and Sridhar, with under-pressure Zimbabwean Duncan Fletcher remaining the coach. But after India failed to defend their title in the 2015 World Cup, Fletcher's contract was not renewed and Shastri was given the responsibilities on a fulltime basis but no duration of his tenure was determined then. Thakur earlier said that a coach would be appointed before India's home series against South Africa. South Africa will play three T20s, five One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and four Test matches during their 72-day tour with the first competitive game scheduled on October 2 in Dharamsala. India host World T20 tournament for the first time from March 11 to April 3 next year.

Pennetta wins US Open, then retires

NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Flavia Pennetta won her first grand slam singles title over Roberta Vinci in an improbable all-Italian U.S. Open final on Saturday then added one more shock to a stunning fortnight by announcing her retirement. With the 7-6(4) 6-2 win, the 33-year-old Pennetta becomes the fourth oldest grand slam winner in the Open Era and joins 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone as the only Italian women to win a major singles title. But as the celebrations kicked into high gear, Pennetta dropped a bombshell that provided a dramatic finish to the year's final grand slam and her career. After embracing childhood friend and Fed Cup team mate Vinci at the net a smiling Pennetta stood at center court during the trophy presentation and told a capacity crowd at Arthur Ashe Stadium that included Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi that she would retire. "This is the way I would like to say goodbye to tennis," she said before hoisting the trophy and accepting the $3.3 million winner's check. "I'm really happy. It's what all the players seem to want to do, to go out with this big trophy. "And so this one was my last match at the U.S. Open and I couldn't think to finish a better way." Pennetta's surprise announcement provided a

jaw-dropping finish to a grand slam packed with surprises. She said it was a decision she made a month ago when a grand slam triumph would have seemed improbable and suggested fate may have played a part in her grand slam goodbye. "Maybe that is why I am here today," Pennetta said while embracing the trophy. "I was trying to play every match like it was my last one. Trying to play best

all the time. "For me it is easy to practice and stay in this life but sometimes it is hard to compete. "It will be a new life for me, I played tennis since I was young." BREATHTAKING UPSETS The unlikely final was set up by breathtaking upsets as unseeded Vinci knocked off world number one Serena Williams in the semi-finals to end the 33-year-old Ameri-

can's quest for a calendar year Grand Slam. [ID:nL4N11H59F] Pennetta's path to the final included two huge hurdles which she cleared with confidence, taking down Czech fifth seed Petra Kvitova in the quarterfinals and Romanian second seed Simona Halep in the semi-finals. "Miracles can happen. Because I beat Serena, miracle," said Vinci. "And then two Italians can reach the

Grand Slam final, a miracle." While the all-Italian final was greeted by a big yawn in the Big Apple, Italy was gripped in tennis hysteria as the sport made front page headlines and convinced Renzi to drop his busy schedule and fly to New York. Since Williams's triumph at Wimbledon in July, the buildup to the U.S. Open had focused almost entirely on the American's

bid to become just the fourth woman and first since 1988 to complete the calendar slam. Her surprise semi-final exit took much of the buzz out of the tournament and triggered an immediate collapse in ticket prices for the women's final. According to ticket aggregator SeatGeek, the median price for tickets to the final on the secondary market had risen to more than $1,500 when Williams reached the semi-final but plunged below $500 following her loss on Friday. The match between best friends and former doubles partners who first played each other when they were nine years old got off to a predictably cautious start for two players competing in their first grand slam final. Showing signs of nerves, Pennetta and Vinci seemed content to battle from the baseline, trading early breaks as the first set went to tiebreak. After winning the tiebreak and sensing the title was within her grasp, Pennetta broke Vinci at the first opportunity en route to 4-0 lead before clinching the match with a final service break. "We spent so much time together, we moved to Rome together when we were 13-, 14-years-old and stayed in the same room for four years," said Pennetta. "It is like a sister, it is so magical you have one of your best friends with you in this moment."

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Sep 12, 2015; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Floyd Mayweather and Andre Berto box during their WBA/ WBC welterweight title bout at MGM Grand Garden Arena.

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LaS VEGaS, SEPTEMBER 13 (REUTERS): Floyd Mayweather Jr. cemented his place among the pantheon of boxing greats with a unanimous decision over fellow American Andre Berto on Saturday in what he has repeatedly said would be the final fight of his career. Mayweather, 38, easily outboxed his younger opponent over the 12 rounds to retain his WBC and WBA welterweight titles and improve his perfect career record to 49-0, matching the benchmark set by former heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano. Five-division world champion Mayweather dominated most of the exchanges in the MGM Grand Garden Arena with his lightning jabs, control of space and agile movement about the ring to finish well ahead on all three judges' scorecards. Berto, a 30-1 underdog against one of the best defensive fighters of all time, dropped to 30-4 as he suffered his fourth loss in his last seven fights. "Andre Berto has heart, a tremendous chin, he wouldn't lay down," Mayweather said in a ringside interview after sinking to his knees after the final bell sounded before looking up at the rafters as the fans snapped pictures with their cell phones.

"It was a good fight. I knew he would be a tough competitor. Experience played a major role tonight. He is a very athletic boxer. What can I say? I was the better man tonight." Asked if he might be tempted to come back for a 50th fight, Mayweather replied: "My career is over. It's official. I'm financially secure and I'm in good health. "You've got to know when it's time to hang it up, so I think it's about time for me to hang it up. I'm close to 40 years old, I've been in this sport 19 years, been world champion for 18 years, I've broken all records. "There's nothing left to prove in the sport of boxing," said Mayweather, who has made more than $700 million during his stellar career. Back in the ring for the first time since May when he beat Manny Pacquiao in a 'mega-fight' that became the richest bout in boxing, Mayweather landed 232 of 410 punches thrown while Berto connected with just 83 of 495. Mayweather also dominated the jabs count, connecting with 83 of 191 compared to his opponent's paltry 39 of 301. LOW ON ENTERTAINMENT However, it was a welterweight showdown that failed to capture the public's imagination given Berto's relatively low pro-

file globally and his mixed run of results over the past four years, and it was low on entertainment value on the night. Barely five hours before the start, the MGM Grand box office said "a bunch of tickets" were still available for the arena in the price range between $300 and $1,500, and the official attendance ended up at 13,395 -- 3,000 short of full capacity. Among those in the crowd were American actor, singer and comedian Jamie Foxx, Canadian pop star Justin Bieber and boxing Hall of Famers Evander Holyfield and Thomas Hearns. "I was in shape but he was difficult to hold on to, he's really, really slippery," said Berto, a 32-year-old twice former welterweight world champion who overcame a career-threatening shoulder injury in 2013 to knock out Josesito Lopez in March. "I was coming forward, I used a lot of speed but he was really crafty, he was using little things to kind of get me out of my rhythm. It is what it is. "Tonight I felt like we put on a great performance. We pushed him to the limit but we fell short. He's where he is for a reason. Floyd is definitely one of the best out there, for sure."

NEW DELHi, SEPTEMBER 13 (PTi): Manipur's Bijang Loubuk Junior crushed Shri Ram School (Delhi-NCR) 8-1 while Nakachar Hr Sec School (Assam) defeated Maharana Pratap Sports College,Uttarakhand 6-0 in the Sub-Junior 56th Subroto Cup Football Tournament at the Ambedkar Stadium here today. Similarly, the team from NSS MP Shikshya Niketan (Odisha) beat Govt High School (Haryana) 6-0 to earn full points. For the Manipur school, their hero was Mangmin Thang, who netted five goals. As for the Odisha team, Haryana were no match to their opponents D Sanjay scored the maximum (3 goals) for the winners while Haryana were mute spectators. In other matches, Sports Hostel, Nagaland beat Air Force Bal Bharti School 6-0, match ended in tie between NCC, Delhi & The Air Force School, Subroto Park, Delhi scores being 0-0, Farook Hr Secondary School, Kerala beat Govt Senior Secondary School, Lakshwadeep 4-0, Sai northeast regional centre beat Gujarat 7-0, Jatragachi Pranabandana High School, West Bengal Beat Maharshtra 6-0, BS +2 High School, Jharkhand beat Atul Vidyalaya, Gujarat 10-0.

MaDRiD, SEPTEMBER 13 (iaNS): The injury jinx that seems to follow Barcelona defender Thomas Vermaelen, struck again when the Belgian international footballer suffered another muscle injury during his side's 2-1 away win against Atletico Madrid on Saturday night. The central defender, who was first choice for Luis Enrique's side as a result of the four-game ban being served by Gerard Pique, had to limp out of the game after just 25 minutes

with an apparent calf problem, reports Xinhua. The club has not yet confirmed how long he will be sidelined, but it is likely to be at least three weeks and Vermaelen has a long history of muscle problems which have pursued him over the past three years. He missed almost all of his debut season with Barcelona after joining from Arsenal with a troublesome injury which only cleared up in the last month of the campaign.

However, he had begun this season in positive form and had covered well for Pique, who will be able to play in this week's Champions League fixture away against Italian outfit AS Roma but not in the following home game against Levante. Brazilian Dani Alves is also sidelined with a muscle injury which means that Spaniard Marc Bartra will almost certainly start next weekend when Barcelona will look to make it four wins out of four in the La Liga.

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Temporary ban on Bangladesh pacer Shahadat DHaKa, SEPTEMBER 13 (iaNS): The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) on Sunday slapped pacer Shahadat Hossain with a temporary ban. The cricketer will have to stay off all cricket activities until the charges filed against him under the Women and Children Repression (Prevention) Act are settled, reports bdnews24.com. BCB CEO Nizam Uddin Chowdhury said police were in-

vestigating allegations of child abuse against Hossain. “It’s a sub-judice matter,” he told reporters on Sunday. “The board has made a decision. The pacer will remain suspended from BCB cricket activities until investigating authorities give a report and the matter is resolved,” he added. Hossian and his wife are on the run after being accused of torturing an 11-yearold maid. After the case was start-

ed on September 6, Chowdhury dubbed the episode “unfortunate” and said the board was “utterly embarrassed” at Hossain’s implication in the case. His parents came to the BCB office seeking help last Tuesday and Wednesday. BCB President Nazmul Hassan said on Saturday it was the board that would decide on the issue but he was inclined to keep him out of action.

Spurs record first win of season against Sunderland

LONDON, SEPTEMBER 13 (aGENCiES): Tottenham recorded their first Premier League win of the new season after Ryan Mason's late strike gave Mauricio Pochettino's side a 1-0 victory at the Stadium of Light that sent Sunderland bottom. The two sides came into the match placed 17th and 19th in the table and their lack of confidence showed in a disappointing match on Sunday. The home side produced a spirited performance and had the best of the chances when former Tottenham striker Jermain Defoe hit the post in the first half. Tottenham did not have a single attempt on target until the closing stages, but Mason's 82nd-minute finish gave them the points, although he was injured in the process of scoring and left the field on a stretcher. The crossbar denied Jack Rodwell late on as Sunderland were left to rue their bad luck. Son Heung-min played for 62 minutes in a relatively quiet performance after being handed his Tottenham debut, while Fabio Borini was given his second

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Sunderland bow after rejoining the club from Liverpool and Ola Toivonen made his first start. Sunderland had a scare just one minute into the match when Kyle Walker appealed for a penalty after a heavy collision with Patrick van Aanholt, but referee Craig Pawson was unmoved. Defoe shot straight at Hugo Lloris for the hosts, while Jeremain Lens was not far away with an effort after cutting inside from the right. Defoe then missed a golden opportunity to find

the breakthrough midway through the first half after he was played through by a pinpoint Lens pass. The striker beat Toby Alderweireld for pace and a goal looked inevitable as he bore down on Lloris, only for his shot to cannon off the foot of the post and out to safety. Sunderland threatened through Defoe again when he tested Lloris after twisting into space despite being pulled back by Alderweireld. At the other end, a crucial challenge from Jordi Gomez denied Son the chance to pull the

trigger after a slick passing move as Tottenham were otherwise restricted to long-range chances in the first half. Defoe and Lens continued to cause trouble for Spurs and the duo combined again before the Dutch winger forced Lloris into a low diving stop. Harry Kane mis-kicked awfully when Mason's dipping cross fell into his path as his wait for a 2015-16 Premier League goal goes on. Eric Dier and Mason finally managed to work Costel Pantilimon for the first time in the final 15

minutes as Spurs began to gain momentum. The victory was sealed when substitute Erik Lamela slipped through Mason, who recovered after a poor first touch to impressively dink his finish over Pantilimon as he injured himself in the act of scoring. Sunderland would have felt hard done by to fall behind and Rodwell crashed a shot against the crossbar with five minutes left after good work from Younes Kaboul before Pantilimon denied Kane what would have been an undeserved second goal for Tottenham.

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