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‘We have to correct our past mistakes & change our attitude’

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Naga Hoho appeals against violating CFGR

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Naga Hoho has expressed concern over the “raiding of houses by Assam Rifles...” and lamented that “even the innocent public is not spared from such raids.” A press note from the Naga Hoho remindeded that such acts are being committed “under the guise of draconian laws of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and thereby engaging to derail the hard earned ceasefire/ peace process between the GoI and different Naga political groups.” It appealed to the AR and the Chairman of the Ceasefire Monitoring Group to “uphold the mutually agreed Ceasefire and to restrain from violating Ceasefire Ground Rules (CFGR) till we achieve amicable settlement of the Indo-Naga political problem.”

ZPO (N) resolves to defend protective rights

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DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Zeliang People’s Organization (ZPO) Nagaland has resolved to “unstintingly protect, and even confront all ulterior motives that are designed to jeopardise the stand of native Zeliang people of Nagaland in particular and the Nagas of Nagaland in general, from within and outside.”

A press note from the ZPO (N) informed that this was resolved in a consultative meeting of the “native Zeliang people of Nagaland” under the aegis of the ZPO (N) on September 13. The meeting also resolved to strengthen activities of the Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) and to support the NTC public rallies in all district headquarters of Nagaland on the issues of NSDZ and Rongmei tribe recognition.”

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High Court has not revoked disqualification order: NCP DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Nagaland state unit of the NCP has today stated that the Kohima bench of the Guahati Hight Court has “neither revoked the disqualification order of the Speaker nor allowed the MLAs to join the BJP.” The NCP stated this, in reference to the recent interim stay granted on the disqualification order of three MLAs, which was is-

sued by the Nagaland Legislative Assembly Speaker.

A press note from the NCP General Secretary, Miathou Krose recalled that at the hearing on September 12, “the single Judge at the Kohima Bench, Justice LS Jamir heard the Speaker’s counsel at length.” It stated that the judge “also heard the counsel for the NCP and counsel for the petitioner

ILANDLO: Nagaland’s first multichannel online portal Morung Express news Dimapur | September 14

A first of its kind, Ilandlo (www.ilandlo.com), is an online shopping website based in Nagaland. It began with an objective to promote and boost Naga indigenous weavers, artisans, craftsmen, local artists, writers, fashion designers, small businesses and entrepreneurs to provide an alternative source of exposure and a sustainable income.

“It is a marketplace where sellers, skilled and talented individuals can sell their work without any prior monetary investments,” says the minds behind the website, Imti Longchar and Lipok Ozukum, both of whom are based in Dimapur. While Imti is a Computer Engineer with 6 years of working experience from Delhi, Lipok holds an MBA degree and is an online tutor and freelances.

Ilandlo intends to market internationally and most importantly focuses on branding the seller and their products. This is especially advantageous for local artists and designers where branding gives them an opportunity to be exposed on a larger scale.

Most importantly, it provides a platform where skills are appreciated and inspirations are created for people to keep following their passion. For local weavers, craftsmen and artisans, this site provides an alternate selling plat-

form especially for homebased businesses. While showcasing their unique creations, it gives them a channel to expand their businesses from the comfort of their own homes.

The portal further tries to introduce merchants from outside the state to sell their products on their webpage. This allows a free flow channel for goods from the outside market to reach the state with cost effective delivery systems that are implemented by Ilandlo. The company has a Cash on Delivery (COD) facility available for customers from Dimapur, where a customer can order online to pay cash for the ordered product at their doorstep. This could possibly be the first time in Nagaland that a COD system is being implemented, which Ilandlo believes will help develop proximity with the customers and at the same time build trust with their service.

The site is integrated with a safe and secure payment gateway assuring customers to pay without any doubt and provides international purchase and shipping facilities. There is no listing or seller joining fees unlike other online marketplaces.

According to Imti and Lipok, this concept will allow them to “evolve to new and greater heights, expand horizons, enrich with greater value and empower to explore boundaries;” a vision they hope to achieve.

MLAs and passed an interim order suspending the order of the Speaker...” “The Judge carefully dictated the order stating that the interim order was being passed without going into the merits of the case,” it added.

The NCP further reminded that the party central office had suspended the 3 MLAs “immediately after their defection on June 16, 2014.” “Therefore, though

they can continue as MLAs till the next hearing i.e. on October 28, 2014 or till such time that a final verdict is pronounced by a competent court, they cannot be considered as BJP MLAs, rather they remain as MLAs who have been suspended by their original party, NCP,” it stated. The NCP termed this as a “most unenviable and a serious political predicament for them.”

NEw DElhI, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): Four months after the Election Commission announced that 694 confirmed cases of paid news have been detected in the general elections it is yet to send any formal intimation to the Press Council of India, the body mandated to take action against erring media organisations.

A PCI official said they are unable to serve show cause notices to publications allegedly involved in paid news in the absence of an EC statement.

“We’re aware that nearly 700 cases of paid news took place during the Lok Sabha polls, but we cannot act on the basis of media reports.

We normally wait for a statement from the Election Commission, which we have not received yet,” Punam Sibbal, deputy secretary of PCI, told IANS. In fact, after a long wait of four months the PCI last week issued a reminder to the EC, contending that it is unable to take any action in the matter as a formal statement carrying details of the paid news incidents is yet to arrive.

Sibbal said the EC is yet to respond to their reminder. By the time the 10 phases of polls ended to form the 16th parliament, thousands of cases of paid news

were reported, according to EC officials.

On May 12, on the completion of the last leg of the polls, EC director general Akshay Rout told the media that in 3,053 cases notices were issued by the EC’s Media Certification and Monitoring Committee on suspicion of foul play.

“We served 3,053 notices, 694 of which were found to be genuine cases of paid news by our committee,” Rout had said.

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“We need three members from the Lok Sabha, two from Rajya Sabha, and one each from the Bar Council, the University Grants Commission and Sahitya Akademi,” she said.

The delay in reconstitution of the self-regulatory body is due to the fact that the three members from the Lok Sabha had not been notified till as late as last week, she added.

Asked if the EC is making unusual delay in sending them a statement on cases of paid news, she said she is unable to comment on that.

When IANS contacted EC on the same, a senior official said that all cases of paid news are from the states, which are in the process of verifying the allegations. “The candidates (who were involved in giving money for publishing or broadcasting favourable news) have a right to appeal; so there is a delay,” another official told IANS requesting anonymity.

He said that the final appeal lies with the EC, without giving any further information on whether the poll panel has received any plea for appeal from involved parties.

Asked when the EC is likely to intimate the PCI about the paid news cases, he said “no tentative date can be given.”

700 cases of paid news detected during last Lok Sabha polls mittees to detect paid news and initiate action.

But since the current term of the PCI expired in June, that option is not available, officials said.

The government is yet to constitute a new edition of PCI - adding to the delay in handling cases of paid news. “Notification for reconstitution of PCI is awaited due to procedural delays on the part of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry,” Sibal told IANS. She said the PCI has already made a list of 20 of the 28 members from three different categories of media owners, editors and working journalists.

Police bust ‘bank account racket’ Morung Express news Dimapur | September 14

Dimapur police arrested one man for opening multiple banks accounts using forged documents. The man identified as Vitoka (26), a resident of Boro-Lengri, Karbi-Anglong was arrested on September 4.

According to the officer incharge of West Police Station, police received a complaint from the Dimapur branch of the ICICI Bank

about a savings account showing unusual transaction patterns involving huge sums in a short period of time. The complaint was lodged on August 25.

Subsequent investigation led to the unearthing of a ‘bank account opening’ racket with strong links to the Nigerian SMS-online lottery scam. It was discovered that the man had opened as many as ten accounts at the Dimapur branches of the State bank of India, Union Bank and the Punjab Na-

tional Bank using forged papers.

The pass books and confidential access codes to the accounts were delivered to a suspected Nigerian national, the OC said.

The accounts were then used to route money to a ‘nostro account’ based in New York, USA. The holder of the destination account was said to be one Lyle Graham, whose real whereabouts could not be established. An amount of Rs. 4.57 lakhs was transferred to the ‘nostro account’ through the accounts

opened in Dimapur. The OC said that all the illicit accounts were frozen after the arrest of Vitoka.

The OC further informed that one of the accounts had anomalous address entry, raising questions on the screening process employed by banks to open accounts.

The address was entered as “Purana Bazar, Notun basti, Dimapur.”

The arrested was charged and booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including sections 403 and 420.

Waiting for a flicker of development Ashikho Pfuzhe

Meluri | September 14

For villagers of Avankhung in Meluri sub-division bordering Myanmar, their prayers for electricity still remains on the wish list.

The small Pochury village located some 300 kms from the state capital Kohima is the last village in Phek district to be brought under electrification. “We have petitioned the state government to give us power connection a couple of years back, but so far no action has been taken. Last time the Power department officials said that they have no fund to take up electrification in our village”, said Avankhung village chairman, Tsulenthong.

While the village waits for the ray of development, Avankhung uses solar lamps bought from Layshi town from across the border to light up its nights.

And it is not only solar lamps.

Villagers of Avankhung in Meluri sub-division bordering Myanmar taking the International Trade Route on their way back home from the fields.

With the nearest town Meluri some 145 km away, villagers of Avankhung prefer to trek all the way to Layshi, some 20 kms from Avankhung, to conduct their trade and business.

“If we start around 7 am from our village, we reach Layshi by 4 pm. After conducting our business, we stay overnight in Layshi and trek back to our village the next morning”, said

Avankhung village chairman, Tsulenthong.

In Layshi, Avankhung villagers buy food stuffs like rice, household items and medicines and in return sell Indian goods like watches, pencils, salt and radios.

“Philips radios are very popular in Layshi.

They also ask for soaps and mustard oil saying Indian brands are better in

quality”, another villager said. And it makes business sense to trade in Layshi. “For Rs. 100 we get 1500 kyat Burmese currency. Whereas price of rice is around Rs. 35 in our nearest towns, in Layshi it comes to Rs. 27-30 per kg”, the villager said.

Both Layshi and Meluri people belong to the Pochury Naga tribe divided by the International border.

The small village with about 30 households is also yet to get a dispensary or community health centre. The only sign of the Nagaland state government’s presence in the village is the Government Primary school with around 50 students and five teachers.

Ironically, the remoteness of the area has come as a boon for the students.

“All the teachers are also stationed here in the village itself. Due to the distance and transport problems, they also find it hard to go on frequent leaves”, the village chairman said.

For the moment, the villagers are focused on the ongoing construction of the International Trade Route funded by DoNER, which will connect Avankhung International trade centre (ITC) with Layshi.

“Once the road connectivity to Layshi is completed, then our village can hope to see brighter days”, a village elder said.

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eptember 6, 1964, the “first day of ceasefire and peace,” wrote journalist Harish Chandola in his 2013 book ‘The Naga Story,’ “seemed as if the radiance of the day had driven away the shadow of death cast by a decade of fighting.” He was referring to the first Indo-Naga ceasefire, which never ended in peace for the Naga people despite 50 years of its observance.

The ceasefire, however, then and now, remains deeply significant.

The first meeting for peace between the then vice-president of Naga National Council, Imkongmeren, and Nagaland Peace Mission member Reverend Michael Scott happened in the forests of Longmisa village in Mokokchung district on April 23, 1964.

Later, on September 6, 1964 the chief minister of Assam and Peace Mission member Bimala Prasad Chaliha adventured all the way to Longmisa and declared the ceasefire.

It was the first time in independent India that Naga people saw rest from violence. “There was hardly a single Naga village or family that was not affected by the punitive operation conducted by the Indian Security Forces. Seeing the suffering of their people the Church could no longer remain silent,” stated a note from the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), while commemorating the 50th year of the ceasefire. According to Prof. Xavier Mao, the suggestion for an Indo-Naga ceasefire came also from Prof. Bertrand Russell after hearing of the gross human rights violations that the Indian army subjected the Naga people to.

“The 1964 ceasefire was a breather to the suffering of the people—for a moment, the common people were relieved of fear, worry and anxiety.

There was jubilation everywhere and worry of what tomorrow would bring did not bother anyone,” reflected Rev. Zhabu Terhuja.

With that sort of external and internal support (the Church as a massbased organization), the ceasefire’s breakdown (abrogated unilaterally by the Government of India in 1972) is understood today by observers as an opportunity missed by the Naga people, as well as the Government of India (GoI).

Peace talks The ceasefire first led to talks between the Naga leaders of the Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) and representatives of the GoI, facilitated by the Peace Mission, itself facilitated by the Church. Harish Chandola, who reported from the region during the time, notes nine rounds of talks between the FGN leaders and the Indian External Affairs Ministry Secre-

tary, Y.D. Gundevia from September 1964 to April 1965.

From February 1966 till October 1967, six rounds of political talks between Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, and Prime Minister of FGN, Kughato Sukhai, took place. During this time, in 1966, the Peace Mission fell apart. Jayaprakash Narayan resigned. The GoI, allegedly ruffled by Rev. Michael Scott’s documentation of human rights abuse in the Naga areas, expelled him from India— the same day BP Chaliha resigned.

Historians suggest that it was Scott who first introduced the Naga issue through a small gathering to the United Nations in the 1960s.

Meanwhile, political level talks ended in a ‘deadlock’ in October 1967, as neither India nor the Nagas budged from each of their ‘sovereign’ position—India wanted the Nagas to embrace the Indian constitution, the Nagas remained steadfast on retaining ‘sovereignty.’ As HK Zhimo pointed out, “The 1964 ceasefire was situational, meant to control the violence at the time. No one was prepared for negotiations.”

India’s failure “It was a historical opportunity for both the Indian State and the Nagas to negotiate a worthwhile settlement,” said Nandita Haksar of the first ceasefire between the Naga people and the GoI. But the opportunity was missed to tap into peace due to India’s own fears, among other factors.

“The Cold War and the very real possibility of the influence of Communists in the Northeast, especially Naga lands—these factors would explain India's reaction to the Peace Mission, the reasons for not trusting the church leaders (while making use of them) and perhaps the Indian Government's hostility to Rev. Michael Scott,” explained Haksar.

Harish Chandola, as well as some Naga observers, affirm India’s fear of China, and the Nagas moving between the lines both during and after the ceasefire—an attempt to begin talks between Indira Gandhi and AZ Phizo was lost in the layers of this fear in 1977. The Naga issue was consistently taken out of political hands, misunderstood by bureaucrats and dealt with poorly by politicians who were approached (for instance, later, Morarji Desai).

During the peace talks following the 1964 ceasefire, while the Indian government, according to Chandola, made use of “clever tactics” to keep the “underground” delegitimized, “clear provocations” were made with an added complication of a Nagaland State Government which was “against the peace talks.” All through the bureaucratic-level talks, observed Chandola, India did not agree that the Naga people had the ‘right to self-determination,’ which was rec-

The 1964 ceasefire was more than an opportunity to cease war—but was peace made?

FGN Leaders with Peace Mission Members at Khensa Peace Camp 1965.

Photo courtesy 'Hails and Blames-- A Brief Account of Naga Independence Struggle,' Scato Swu (Heritage Publishing House, 2013).

ognized by the Peace Mission. “Delhi wanted surrender first, before accepting Naga traditional rights.”

Meanwhile, the military approach continued, and contribution of the Indian army and Indian State intelligence to the failure of peace in the region remains under cover. “India has opened up many new military posts after the cease-fire agreement and nobody knows how many Indian soldiers have moved into Nagaland after the Cease-fire..” wrote the Naga delegation to the talks in a letter to the FGN during the time, to which former member of the delegation, General Thinoselie Keyho (Retd) still accedes.

The GoI had continued with its “military approach,” which, for him, was the “wrong approach.” Besides, when they could have been taking better advice, the GoI approached the illambitious Government of Nagaland (GoN) instead.

While some believe that Jawaharlal Nehru was “badly misled,” others hold firm that the GoN was formulated to “divide the Nagas into two classes—those for political self determination, and those against it,” stated a commentator. The GoI could not keep the commitments made to the Nagas in earlier pacts. In 1972, following an ambush of then chief minister Hokishe Sema, Nagaland was shifted from the Ministry of External Affairs to the Ministry of Home Affairs after promulgating the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, in Nagaland.

“The Naga people were neither consulted when this switch was made, nor when the ceasefire unilaterally abrogated by the GoI in 1972,” said HK Zhimo, hinting at an “ulterior motive” on India’s part. “Naga people were united then and were willing to solve the problem—they wanted

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Model code of conduct in Kohima

Dimapur, September 14 (mexN): With the bye-election to 11-Northern Angami- II A/C scheduled to be held on October 15 tentatively, it has been informed that Model Code of Conduct has come into force in Kohima district. Chief Electoral Officer, Nagaland, Sentiyanger Imchen in a release informed that the Model Code of Conduct will be applicable to all candidates, political parties and the State government subject to partial modification as issued vide Commission's instruction No. 437/INST/201/CC&BE dated 26th April, 2012. The Model Code of Conduct will also be applicable to the Union government in respect of the district and constituencies of the State concerned.

Schedule of the bye-election: Date of issue of Gazette Notification Last date for Nominations Date for Scrutiny of Nominations Last date for withdrawal of candidatures Date of Poll if necessary Date of Counting Date before which election shall be completed

20.09.2014 (Saturday) 27.09.2014 (Saturday) 29.09.2014 (Monday) 01.10.2014 (Wednesday) 15.10.2014 (Wednesday) 19.10.2014 (Sunday) 22.10.2014 (Wednesday)

‘Exploitation’ of sericulture farmers highlighted

kohima, September 14 (mexN): The District Sericulture Officer (DSO), Mokokchung has highlighted that “certain sections of individuals/ agencies etc are found exploiting the sericulture farmers by purchasing their products below the floor price fixed by the government.” In a press release, the DSO informed that the revised floor price for various sericulture products has been fixed vide Government Order No. Seri/Gen/2/7/2009 dated June 4, 2014.The officer also informed that any individual/agency etc. involved in

trading sericulture products within the district shall have to obtain “certification of trading of sericulture products” from the District Sericulture Office, Mokokchung, which will be issued after verification of trader’s genuineness and to maintain record of flow-out of silk products from the district. Therefore, DSO Alemkumzuk has requested the sericulture farmers to sell their products only to authorized individuals/ agencies (certified by the department) so they are not exploited through illegal trading of silk products.

all-out independence, and therefore changing the administration pattern of the Naga areas by changing who was in-charge of it might have been seen as useful to India,” he expressed, adding, “India wanted Nagas to understand its situation but was not ready to understand the Naga situation.” This challenge continues in some way.

The GoI not only created, but also saw through the divisions among the Nagas, used the ceasefire time to cash in on them, and waited for six years after the peace talks failed before considering the Nagas “weak enough” to break the ceasefire unilaterally and launch a fresh round of attacks. This has been the speculation as India has remained silent on those years of Indo-Naga history.

“Every underground movement, given time, dies. India learnt this from the British experience in Malaysia. Protracted peace talks makes the weak side weaker still—by the late 1960s, there was no big delegation to speak on behalf of the Nagas in a strong voice,” said an observer.

India refused to specify the increasing armed deployment to the region, and while its commitment to peace remained unclear, it was the Naga stand on self-determination that created the space for peace and dialogue. While addressing the PM of India, Indira Gandhi, PM of the FGN reiterated the Naga right to self determination, and insisted on peaceful means as resolving the issue.

“Out of bitter conflict a fast friendship will be evolved through political wisdom and vision which could become an example to other people of the world,” said Kughato Sukhai, according to Scato Swu’s narrative of the time in his 2013 book ‘Hails and

Blames.’ No such gesture came from bornness!”

It was, nonetheless, a “historiIndia. cal opportunity” for both the Indian State and the Nagas to negotiate a Naga failure “The talks were declared failed worthwhile settlement, said Nandita by the FGN either because they mis- Haksar, but “neither side had the viunderstood the situation or due to sion and those who did were isolated wrong application,” said Gen. Thi- and not listened to.” Plus, as another noselie Keyho (Retd), who main- commentator pointed out, such “non tained that ceasefires have “spoiled issues” as “territorial limits” did not the Nagas.” Two observers also point apply to the ceasefire and core issues out how the Naga mission to China could have been taken up in 1964. during the ceasefire period led to cyToday, even though an equally clic militarisation. significant peace process exists, “our But in 1964, Nagas had the “bar- own people have become completely gaining power” as they stood united incapable,” maintained Prof. Xavier at the time.

Mao, and the peace process has not “Prime Minister Indira Gandhi moved on due to “our own weakhad met the Naga Prime Minister nesses and splits, as well as the play of because she knew that the Naga is- coalition politics at the Centre.” Naga sue was not a mere law and order nationalism, according to others, has problem. She respected the moral become a “stepping stone” for lucrastrength of the Nagas, not their armed tive careers, which was not the case strength. The Nagas misunderstood in 1964. this,” noted an observer of the Naga “A peace process should be conpolitical movement. ducted with all the Nagas. One fac“Will Modi ever meet Muivah?” tion, however powerful, is not the he asked, questioning the “moral Naga people,” said Gen. Thinoselie. and political character” of the Naga “We have to correct our past mistakes movement today. “We need new in- and change our attitude—we have to tellectual strength to fortify the moral reason together and find out where right that Nagas still have.” we have gone wrong. This will hapFor Hokishe Yeptho, the 1964 pen only when we sit together and ceasefire was a “great opportunity” talk.” For HK Zhimo, people have to for the Naga people as the talks were be consulted for current negotiations on a prime ministerial level. “We to go anywhere—in 1964 the Nagas missed an opportunity there by in- were not prepared for this, but today sisting on full sovereignty,” he said, they are. adding that the eventual abrogation of the ceasefire was “partly our mis- Ceasefire actualised, but no peace take.”

Extrapolating on how “Peace“Due to lack of political sagac- making becomes the alternative ity among our people, divisions hap- form of state making,” Ranabir Samapened. Tribalism developed quickly ddar, in a paper titled ‘Government and the Government of Nagaland of Peace’ in 2012, wrote how “peace materialized,” observed Prof. Xavier accords become, barring some exMao. ceptions, the occasions for the next Divisions in Naga society had rounds of conflict,” in post-colonial become visible, and the NNC/FGN governance, taking the case of India’s faced organizational challenges. dialogues with Kashmir or the Nagas.

Following a ‘deadlock’ in the politiThe 9-point or the 16-point agreecal peace talks, according to Scato ments that preceded the 1964 ceaseSwu’s book ‘Hails and Blames,’ a new fire had set up a “model of agreeRevolutionary Government of Naga- ment,” as per Samaddar, “which later land (RGN) emerged that wanted to peace dialogues found difficult to continue political talks with India in escape.” some manner. According to his nar“Characteristic of such dialogues rative, the RGN made an attempt for are the inevitable legal shackles on Reconciliation with the FGN, as In- discussion between the two adverdia, even at the time, quoted ‘disunity saries in the name of obligations to of the Nagas’ as a challenge towards the Constitution, top level presence moving forward. of government leaders and officials For Rev. Zhabu, both India and giving an appearance of state recogthe Naga leadership remained “stub- nition of the adversary, prolonging born” during the peace talks, and ceasefire without conceding anyneither side “sufficiently consulted” thing substantive from the governthe people. “Had there been more ment side, grant of limited autonounderstanding, trust and plans on my, and introducing various interim part of the GoI and appreciation on arrangements that take a life of their the part of the Naga leaders, the talks own and continue without ever givwould have resulted in more suitable ing over to a resolution of the quesmaterial,” offered Rev. Zhabu. “Was tion.” there a lack of political acumen and He thus stated, “If ceasefire has diplomacy on both sides at the time? actualised, peace has not returned.

If only there was a good-humoured Conflict remains perennial - in tide approach to kill the spirit of stub- and ebb.”

Truckload of liquor seized in Dimapur

Dimapur, September 14 (mexN): 1184 cases of assorted liquor were seized from a truck in Dimapur on September 12. According to a press release received here, 29 Assam Rifles at around 3:30 pm conducted a search of the truck bearing registration number AS03A2783 parked at a gas filling station at 6th Mile. There was no occupant in the truck, the release said.

A case has been registered, informed the note, adding investigation is on to apprehend the owner of the consignment and persons involved in the illegal transportation for violation of NLTP Act. Assistant Commissioner of Excise in-charge of Dimapur District, Visedelie Mepfuo in the release further stated that the Excise Department is short staffed and highway patrolling/ checking are seldom undertaken, and lauded the efforts of the Assam Rifles.

BJP State unit condoles

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Dimapur, September 14 (mexN): The BJP Nagaland unit has condoled the demise of its senior leader N. David Zeliang, President, State Kissan Morcha and son of N.C. Zeliang, one of the pioneers of BJP State unit, on September 14 at Jalukie. “The State Unit President and all the party members express their shock and condolence to the bereaved family with prayers that Almighty grant them strength at this time of grief,” stated a message issued by Jaangsillung Gonmei, State Secretary (Media), BJP Nagaland. The message informed that N. David Zeliang joined the party in 1989 and was an active member holding several posts like Peren District President, State Secretary and other responsibilities of committees. He also contested in the 1993 assembly election from 6 Tening A/c with BJP ticket. The party stated that it will not forget the deceased’s ceaseless contribution and support for the uplift of the party. The funeral service will be held on September 15 at 1:00 pm at Samjiuram, near Assam Rifles camp, Jalukie town.

HIV/AIDS advocacy prog in Pfutsero

phek, September 14 (mexN): The District AIDS Prevention and Control Unit (DAPCU) and Phek District Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PNP+) will organize an advocacy program on HIV/AIDS on September 18 at Pfutsero town hall, supported by Legislators Forum on AIDS (LFA). Dr. Vinito Chishi , State Consultant (LFA), Dr R. Rose, STO, NSACS and Rev. Dr. Yiepetso Wezah, Principal, Baptist Theological College, Pfutsero will be the resource persons. The organizers have requested all the village elders, frontal organizations, NGOs, Church leaders, student bodies, women groups, and head of departments to attend the program.

The truck loaded with liquor which was seized on September 12.

KLH condemns school girl’s murder

kohima, September 14 (mexN): Condemning the recent murder of a school girl in Wokha district, the Kohima Longsa Hoho (KLH) has urged the government and the authorities responsible to take up the incident critically and book the criminal(s) at the earliest. The Hoho Chairman, Er. Zachariah Ezung in a press release further stated (Plant Pathology), Christy that “such an act of heinous crime was beyond unimagina(Soil Science) and Tasvina ble capacity for a human being and the murderer(s) does R. Borah (Plant Pathology). not deserve a place to be in a society.” The Hoho further In his valedictory conveyed condolences to the bereaved family members. speech, Dr. Bidyut C. Deka, Joint Director of the centre, emphasized on skill development, implementation of kohima, September 14 (mexN): The Kohima Sciimproved agro-techniques ence College (Autonomous) Students’ Union (KSCSU) in for improving the produc- collaboration with All Nagaland College Students’ Union tivity of crops and livestock, (ANCSU) is organizing a mass prayer programme involvvalue addition and entre- ing all the colleges of Nagaland on September 16 from 9:00 preneurship development. am to 10:00 am in their respective college campuses for The participants were given early settlement of the land encroachment issue at Kohima poultry birds and mush- Science College, Jotsoma. Therefore, KSCSU through its room spawn, and were also general secretary, Manngai Phom, has requested all the awarded with certificate, colleges affiliated to ANCSU to show solidarity to “this notraining manual and leaflets. ble cause” by observing mass prayer programme.

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Dimapur, September 14 (mexN): The Niuland Area Citizens Forum (NACF) has expressed its support to the newly formed movement ‘Survival Nagaland’. A press release from NACF president, Kakishe Shikhu stated that “NACF is very sad to learn that some vested Nagas are encouraging illegal immigrants (IBI) to receive fake documents to get voting rights and other benefits. Such an immature, thoughtless and unthinkable action will only bring threat to Naga society in no time.” Further, asserting that “we have been threatened

by IBI in our own land; our economy is being captured and drained slowly,” NACF cautioned, “If we don’t control the influx of IBI now we will not have time to even regret later.” It expressed hope that the movement will bring positive step for the Naga society.

Dimapur, September 14 (mexN): Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) is promoting smart agricultural practices to mitigate the climate related stress with an aim to improve the crop and livestock productivity of North Eastern states, including Nagaland, a press release stated.

To sensitize the rural women about smart agricultural practices, three days training programme was conducted on ‘Empowerment of rural econo-

my through smart agricultural interventions’ at ICAR RC NEH Region, Nagaland Centre, Jharnapani under National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture from September 9-11. Thirty five women farmers from 13 different SHGs of Zunheboto, Kohima and Dimapur districts participated.

Theory and practical lessons on different aspects of formation of SHGs and microfinance, improved maize production technology, system of rice intensification, poultry and pig

rearing practices and entrepreneurship development, citrus and kiwi fruit cultivation, organic disease management, vermicomposting and nutrient deficiency diagnostics of field crops, and mushroom production techniques were imparted during the training.

The trainers were Dr. K.K. Jha (Assoc. Prof, SASRD), Dr. Rakesh Kumar (Agronomy), Dr. M.K. Patra (Animal Reproduction), Dr. A. Thirugnanavel (Horticulture), Dr. D. Chatterjee (Soil Science), Dr. G. Rajesha

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CRPF personnel to be JCILPS relaxes ‘curfew’ on non-locals deployed at Manipur NIT imphAl, September 14 (NNN): The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), Student Wing has relaxed the 'curfew' on the non-locals till September 19 after the State Government gave an assurance to release all the arrested members of JCILPS including its student wing convenor M Angamba by September 19.

"In the event of the State Government failing to translate its assurance by September 19, we will reimpose the curfew on the non-locals immediately," asserted Oinam Nandababu, an executive member of JCILPS, Student Wing while addressing a hurriedly arranged press meet late last night in Imphal.

The break-through came after a three-hour long marathon meeting held between State Government representatives headed by chief minister O Ibobi Singh and the leaders of JCILPS, Student Wing which ended at around 9 pm.

Oinam Nandababu said all the arrested JCILPS

members should be released without condition

by September 19.

On September 11, the JCILPS, Student Wing had announced that it would enforce an indefinite ‘curfew’ on business activities of non-locals in Manipur beginning the following day until its demands were met by the State Government.

The JCILPS, Student Wing had decided to enforce the indefinite curfew on business activities of non-Manipuris in the state until all the 12 activists of ILP movement including students arrested by police are released and Additional Superintendant of Police (Traffic) Yengkhom Victoria is suspended from service.

A police team from Porompat Police Station had arrested the 12 persons including members of JCILPS, Women Wing following an altercation broke out between ILP activists and a team of police led

by Additional Superintendent of Police, Imphal West Police, Yengkhom Victoria here on September 8.

Northeast Briefs

Two NE youths attacked in Delhi, three held

New Delhi, September 14 (iANS): Two Manipuri students were attacked with a scissor, stones and iron rods by three people, two of them juveniles, when the northeastern youths objected to racist remarks against them, police said Sunday. The attackers have been apprehended. The incident took place around 9 p.m. Saturday at Babulal Chowk in Munirka area of south Delhi. Police said the Manipuri youths had gone to a nearby shop where the accused made racist comments at them. "When the victims objected to the racist remarks, the accused started using abusive language.

A heated argument started, and the accused attacked the victims with a scissor, stones and iron rods from a nearby construction site," a police official said. The Manipuri youths were taken to the Safdarjung Hospital.

One of them, 21-year-old Laith Golain, was discharged after first aid, while Boylen, also 21, was still under treatment following multiple stab injuries. The attackers fled the spot after the incident, but were nabbed later, police said. The two Manipuris, who are undergraduate students of Delhi University, stay in a rented accommodation in Munirka, south Delhi.

Nodal officer appointed for NE people in Delhi New Delhi, September 14 (NNN): A Nodal officer for railway stations and metros for the North East people in New Delhi has been appointed in order to address the rising cases of crime at different railway stations and metro stations. Though police stations are available to look into such cases, the direct intervention of senior police officers is sometimes required to look into such cases. “With the rising crime against North East people in metro cities especially in Delhi, the ACP Railways of Delhi Police has been nominated as the Nodal Officer for Railways and Metro for crime against North East people,” informed IGP Robin Hibu, Nodal Officer for North East People in Delhi Police. The nodal officer for Railways and Metro can be contacted at 01123994004 (landline), 08750871301 (mobile) or email at acp_railway_dl@nic.in

IIT-G student found dead behind hostel GuwAhAti, September 14 (iANS): An electronics and communication engineering student of IIT Guwahati, hailing from Haryana, was found dead behind his three-storeyed hostel building Sunday, police said. The body of Tushar Yadav (19) was found lying in a pool of blood around 7.30 a.m. Police investigators say that the student committed suicide Saturday night by jumping from the building rooftop. Police also found a note addressed to his parents which says he was suffering from depression for the past two months.

"In the suicide note, the student has apologised to his parents," police said, adding they are waiting for the fingerprints report. The student was a resident of Gurgaon in Haryana. His father, Narender Singh rushed here after getting information. Post-mortem examination of the body was conducted at the Gauhati Medical College and Hospital. This is the second such incident in the IIT-G this year. Shoaib Ahmed, a second semester M.Sc. student from Bengal, hanged himself from the ceiling fan of his hostel room in March.

SMSU stages sit-in protest in Shillong

ShilloNG, September 14 (pti): Manipuri students studying in Shillong today staged a sit-inprotest, to express solidarity with the agitating groups demanding implementation of the Inner Line Permit (ILP) in the state of Manipur.

The demonstration sponsored by the Shillong Manipuri Students' Union (SMSU) was held at the Don Bosco Square, Laitumkhrah in Shillong here.

"The demonstration was to express our support and solidarity with the agitating groups in Manipur who

are demanding the implementation of the ILP, a system to control influx and illegal immigration," SMSU president Chongtham Thangmaba Meetei told reporters here.

Series of agitations have been launched by several pro-ILP groups to pressurise the government of Manipur, the need to implement the ILP, a mechanism to curb the inflow of influx and illegal immigration into the state.

Urging the Manipur government to have dialogue with the pro-ILP

groups, Meetei said, "Even if they (government) say ILP is an outdated act, but there should be some other mechanism to safeguard the indigenous people, their culture and identity."

He also maintained that the Union is not against anybody but it is just concern about the possibility that outsiders can outnumber the local indigenous people.

Meanwhile, the Adviser of SMSU Surjit S Thokchom said, "the demand for ILP is not a demand to isolate Manipur from the rest of India.

Imphal educational institutions to reopen

imphAl, September 14 (pti): The Manipur government has decided to reopen all educational institutions from Monday following an agreement with the Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS).

This decision was taken yesterday after the JCILPS agreed in a meeting with the government to lift the "indefinite public curfew", imposed since September 11 by student wing of the Committee to press implementation of inner line permit system in Manipur, an official release said. During

the meeting between Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh and representatives of JCILPS last night, the government also agreed to release all the arrested members of the JCILPS including women volunteers.

A spokesperson of the JCILPS said if the government failed to release the arrested persons including top JCILPS members without any condition till September 19, the committee would reimpose "public curfew" which restricted movement of non-Manipuris particularly migrant labourers who do

not have valid documents.

Educational institutions were closed in the state since September 11 following the "indefinite public curfew." JCILPS, supported by various social organisations and students bodies, launched the agitation for implementation of the ILP system in the state. As a precautionary measures, more than 150 nonManipuris particularly labourers in Imphal west, Imphal east and Bishenpur districts were being kept at Dharamsala relief camp.

in the second half of the year, the North East market will show much healthier growth," Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) Senior Vice President and Director (Sales and Marketing) N Raja said.

The North East market contributes 20 percent of the total eastern market, therefore making it very significant region for TKM, he added. Last month, TKM sold 11,215 units in India, down 6.6 percent as compared to 12,007 units in August 2013. With rising sales in the eight states of the North East, the auto

imphAl, September 14 (pti): Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel would be deployed “immediately” at the complex of National Institute of Technology (NIT) at Langol area in Manipur’s Imphal West district following an altercation between two sections of students. “The State government has decided to deploy CRPF personnel at the institute immediately both as a confidence building measure for the students from outside Manipur and also to strictly maintain law and order within the campus”, a government order said in

Imphal on Sunday.

The decision was taken after an altercation between students from the outside the state and local students of NIT on September 12. “In case of any reports of ragging, physical violence, fights, intimidation etc, the authorities of NIT Manipur must immediately take strict and prompt punitive action against the responsible students including rustication from the institute, black-listing from joining any other institution in the country or even filing of FIR in any concerned police station”, the order said.

The Director NIT was also told to submit daily reports to the state government on the atmosphere prevailing in the campus for the next one week. Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh and Education Minister M. Okendro personally visited the institute and discussed the matter with the NIT authorities on Saturday.

AMWJU calls for saving medium & small newspapers imphAl, September 14 (mexN): All Manipur Working Journalist Union (AMWJU) in its State report tabled at the national executive committee meeting of the Indian Journalists Union, IJU, held in Tirupati, Andra Pradesh, argued that the ‘diverse voices’ of the country must be kept alive by saving the medium and small newspapers operating from the peripheries of the country.

A press release received here stated, “This can be partly done by addressing the disparity in DAVP advertising rates in the country.” Citing the example of Manipur, Ratan Luwangcha, the Vice-President of AMWJU, highlighted that newspapers in Manipur enjoy a pathetically low advertising rate as compared to the rest of the country. “While newspapers in Meghalaya are given Rs 100 per column on DAVP advertisement, their Manipur

counterparts get a meagre Rs 10 per column,” the release stated. AMWJU urged the IJU to highlight the plight of Manipur’s newspaper at appropriate forums to bring relief.

He argued that a revised DAVP rate for the medium and small newspapers can be offered to those publishers who adhere to the Majithia Wage Broad which in return can uplift the lifestyle of the journalist in line with the minimum wage of the working journalists passed by the verdict of the Supreme Court which makes the Majithia Wage Broad mandatory for all newspaper publishing Houses in the country, the release added.

In the ensuing discussion on the implementation of the minimum wage proscribed in the Majithia Wage Broad, the national executive of the IJU, observed that around 70 newspaper publishing houses of the

152 newspaper organizations notified by the Union Labour Ministry have already adopted the mandatory Majithia Wage Broad. However one of the disturbing trends that have developed is of opting for contractual journalist rather than regular ones to escape the mandatory minimum wage, the release stated and added, “The Committee condemned this conversion and termed it an illegal practice and resolved to take the matter to the apex court.”

Significantly, some reputed newspapers have reviewed this practice and are making amends not to end up in the wrong side of the law. The Punjab unit informed that ‘Tribune’, a popular newspaper of Punjab re-converted 210 contractual journalists into regular and implemented the Majithia Wage Broad. The national executive body of the IJU also resolved to file a contempt

case on all others newspapers that are yet to implement the minimum wage for the working journalist despite Supreme Court’s order to do the same by May 2014, the release added.

In the 3 day executive committee meeting, AMWJU also highlighted several of its efforts undertaken for the welfare of the working journalists in Manipur. AMWJU Vice President informed the house that the Union has successfully persuaded the State Labour Ministry to constitute the mandatory tripartite committee, comprising of the working journalists, publishers and the Govt to finalize the implementation of the Majithia Wage Broad. It informed that through persistent persuasion and backed up by keen interest shown by the Manipur Chief Minister, allotment of sites for the establishing a Press Housing Colony and the Manipur Press Acad-

emy in Imphal by the Manipur Govt were lauded by the national gathering. It added that the enhancement of Manipur Working Journalists’ Pension Scheme from Rs 2000/- to Rs 4000/- was also mentioned in AMWJU’s State report in the National Executive Committee Meeting at Tirupati held at Reddy Bhawanam in Andra Pradesh where more than 25 State units participated.

Further the IJU national body accepted AMWJU’s proposal to hold its next national executive Committee meeting in Manipur in the month of November 2014. AMWJU’s intention to invite the national body of journalists is to coincide with the State’s tourism event, the Sangai Festival, to compliment the State Government’s effort to draw maximum mileage in national newspapers.

The national meet will conclude on September 15.

Villagers recount GNLA beating incident ShilloNG, September 14 (NNN): The sleepy hamlet of Pakregre in Garo Hills, Meghalaya was suddenly thrust into the national limelight after a video surfaced showing the inhuman beatings by Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) cadres given to villagers in the presence of nearly the whole village. While the villagers themselves were shy and fearful of providing details of what exactly transpired on the September 4, a few came forward to give the real version of the events that occurred.

While the police maintained that the civilians were beaten on the allegation of being police informers, the village differed, saying that most were involved in extortion in the name of GNLA and two were alleged informers. While most of them have recovered from the severe beatings, three of them are still bed ridden from the assault.

According to the villagers, 22 of the men from GNLA were staying in a house, 2 km from where a police security camp now stands. They were there before the police raid of August 29 and came back after the police left. A total of 9 people were severely beaten by the outfit with canes, some of which broke due to the severity of the thrashing. Three of the 9 are still bed ridden due to the beatings received. The police team had launched another operation in the village on September 9 in which a GNLA cadre Bestfield Marak was killed and police got a hold of the video.

“They held a meeting in the school playground with almost the whole village present. 7 of the 9 had been into the extortion business and two others were suspected police informers. They even wanted to shoot five from the group but the villagers asked them not to and they acceded”,

said an elderly resident of the village.

“They had demanded money from me and we were all aware of their activities. The 7 involved had asked me for Rs 2.5 lakhs and had even demanded Rs 50 lakhs from a well known contractor in Rongjeng.

It was only on this information that they started beating these people up.

It seems that someone set up the other two saying that they were police informers though they have never been such,” added another resident of the village, stating also that there had been misbehaviour from the outfit.

A police camp comprising a full platoon is now in place to ensure security for the village besides preventing those militants who managed to escape from returning. The village still wears a coat of fear that will take time to heal after the horrific incidents that have transpired.

Militant killed in Meghalaya gunbattle ShilloNG, September 14 (iANS): A militant was killed Sunday in Meghalaya in a gunbattle with security forces, police said. The hour-long gunfight between Garo militants and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commandos took place at the Jhum field in Rambogre Songgital

area, district police chief of East Garo Hills Davies Marak told IANS. He said the dead militant was identified as Rikman. "We launched an operation in the area based on a tip-off that some members of the group were taking shelter there," Marak said, adding that operation is still on in the area which is about

340 km from here.

"Operation Hill Storm" to A pistol, a very high- flush out militants. frequency wireless set, two mobile handsets and incriminating documents FAIR LOOK GOLD were recovered from the It’s not only about face, it’s site, police said. SWAT comall about body. If you are not mandos, backed by the Cohappy with your look start BRA (Combat Battalion for using Fair Look Gold from Resolute Action) troopers, today to get your complexion are conducting a combfair and beauty. ing operation code-named

Toyota looks to enhance operations in North East GuwAhAti, September 14 (pti): Japanese car giant Toyota plans to increase operations in India's North Eastern region, where its sales have grown at double the national average of 3 percent annually.

The company, which is present in India through a joint venture with Kirloskar group, is looking to set up an area office in the North East considering its rising importance. "The North East market is currently growing by 6 percent in our representative segment against a national growth of 3 percent. It is expected that

The decision was taken after an altercation between students from outside the state and local students of NIT on September 12

maker plans to strengthen presence in the region.

"We do intend to establish an Area Office in Guwahati at the right time in future," Raja said without giving any timeline for having the establishment.

Currently, the entire North East market is being addressed out of the East Regional Office in Kolkata.

The company, however, has exclusive sales, service and customer relation personnel in the region.

When asked if the company planned to invest in the region for building capacity or other activities, Raja said:

"...We will study the market and decide accordingly."

Talking about sales, Raja said petrol variants of TKM models contribute to around 45 percent of sales on an average, while diesel ones contribute to about 55 percent. "Innova, Etios, Liva, Cross and Fortuner have seen very good response in the North East region. We also have seen growing demand for premium vehicles like Camry and Land Cruiser," he added.

Comparatively a new entrant in the region, TKM is selling approximately 150 cars per month in North

East with Assam contributing the highest at an average of 110 units a month.

Talking about future roadmap, Raja said: "We are in the process of establishing and stabilising our network in North East. The customers are now getting the touch and feel of world-class quality of Toyota vehicles and at the same time, the exposure to international sales and service infrastructure."

TKM has six dealerships in the region at Guwahati, Nagaon, Silchar and Dibrugarh in Assam, Dimapur in Nagaland, and Shillong in Meghalaya.

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Office of the Nagaland In-Service Doctors' Association Dated: 12/9/14

Emergency General Body meeting of the Nagaland In-Service Doctors' Association (NIDA)

This is to inform all NIDA members that an emergency GBM is to be held on the 19th of Sept 2014 at 11.00 am sharp in the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Conference Hall Kohima, to discuss some urgent issues. In this regard each district is to send at least five members including CMOs and MS positively.

Dr KEDOZETO PUNYU President (NIDA)

Dr VEZOKHOLU Gen.Secretary (NIDA)

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New Delhi, September 14 (pti): Cracking down on money laundering, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has closed down six Urban Cooperative Banks (UCBs) which were suspected of being used to route illegal money.

The central bank has also asked state governments to take stern action against any other erring UCBs after reports emerged that such entities were being used as conduits for money laundering.

The matter of misuse of UCBs, over which there is dual control by central and state governments, was discussed during a recent meeting of the Economic Intelligence Council (EIC) headed by Finance Minister.

UCBs are inspected annually or once in two years depending on their ratings or classification. About 70 per cent of these urban

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agas are a passionate bunch. It is heartening to see that we take our history, culture and identity very seriously. We do not miss any opportunity to spell out and declare our ‘Naganess’. No doubt our rich culture and heritage is something to be proud of. However, very often while we excitedly display our loyalty to our roots there is also this tendency to get carried away to the point where passion and pride meets absurdity.

For quite sometime now the local dailies have published articles on the case of the Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants (IBI) in Nagaland and it is disappointing to see the stark racist overtones rather than a clear understanding and a critical view of the state and its policies regarding illegal immigration which is rife in the Northeast. While there have been repeated calls for attention regarding illegal immigration, the approach to this problem appears to

cooperative banks are subjected to inspection every year. RBI has aggressively pursued the issue and around six UCBs were closed as they were found to be “unviable”, according to the minutes of the meeting.

Sources who were present at the meeting said it was found that these banks were lax on regulatory issues and were used as conduits. “RBI had taken up the issue with the state governments and also advised stringent action against the erring UCBs,” it said, but did not disclose the names of the banks.

On the issue of risk categorisation and compilation or updating of profiles of all their existing customers, the apex bank said their regional officers have been advised to seek compliance from UCBs and submit an update which would be reviewed and any necessary

action initiated.

RBI has been directed by the Chairman, EIC, to block accounts of noncomplying customers while keeping the credit option open. The customers would be able to credit money into their accounts but the withdrawal facility would be activated only when the mandated information is furnished.

The action comes after it came to be noticed that the UCBs, which hold deposits of over Rs 2 lakh crore, are being misused for money laundering, causing alarm to the government.

It was observed that the problem of irregularities in the UCBs is of “grave nature” given their wide reach and penetration across the country with 8,100-plus branches which have huge deposits to the tune of Rs 2.09 lakh crore and advances worth

Rs 1.35 lakh crore.

The government had earlier formed an interministerial group headed by the Director General of the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB) and comprising members from CBI, Department of Revenue, Department of Financial Services, Financial Intelligence Unit, RBI and Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT).

The report of the group has been shared with all member agencies for further action, it said.

The EIC, while discussing the issue earlier, was informed about a case of a Gujarat-based cooperative bank in which 9,166 forged savings accounts were opened in the name of deceased persons to launder black money to the tune of Rs 161 crore which was deposited and withdrawn immediately, a senior CEIB official said.

Misplaced Passions be somewhat confusing and worrying. One wonders if it is really an attempt for a productive discussion or simply an opportunity to blatantly spread racist propaganda.

Illegal immigration has been an issue which both the state and the centre have been grappling with whether it is from Bangladesh or from Burma (although there isn’t much mention of immigration from the Burmese side perhaps because of racial and cultural similarities).

That the immigrant population is supposedly increasing by the day is of concern because of its impact on the socio-political landscape of the states affected. This concern stems from questions of accommodation, citizenship, rights, ownership and so on.

The lack of clarity on such issues by the government is perhaps the reason why the people continue to remain in oblivion. One must also note that the continuing growth of the urban middle class has been made possible in

part because of the presence of these immigrants and the cheap labour and services they make available. In other words, they have made it possible for many of us to live the fabulous modern Naga lifestyle!

It is therefore amusing to know that the only solution to this problem that can be conceived of is an immediate ‘flush out’ of these immigrants, many of whom are unaware of their own illegitimacy. To think that the preservation of the Naga identity is possible only with the extinction of the other is appalling. Adding to this, some have conveniently decided to put the blame on them for all the ills that exist in the Naga society. It is true that members of this community have been involved in various instances of crime. But rape, murder and theft are committed by Nagas too.

Are we suggesting that such crime if committed by a Naga is more acceptable than if committed by an IBI? Are we

Several gross irregularities were also mentioned in another RBI report relating to inspection at another such bank based in Uttar Pradesh, he added.

It was also noticed that a sum of Rs 17.57 crore was withdrawn from an account while deposits were only to the tune of Rs 11.90 crore. The account was found to have been closed without settling the transaction. It appeared to be a fake account created for siphoning off money from the bank, the EIC report has found.

As to the dual control of UCBs, which affects the implementation of regulatory measures, RBI had informed that the problem is being resolved through the mechanism of TAFCUB (Task Force on Cooperative Urban Banks) and the banking related aspects of the UCBs are regulated by it.

going to roll out a measuring tape for all crimes and not see it for what it is?

The fact that many of us still function with this myopic view of issues is perhaps more disturbing than the issues themselves. It seems to be becoming increasingly difficult for Nagas to indulge in intellectually enriching discussions without having to wear their identities on their sleeves, beating their chests about everything or even without quoting from the Bible at every instance!

The passionate call for unity to deal with such issues, while admirable in a sense, is ironic when ethnic violence between tribes occur at the drop of a hat as we have witnessed a few years back between two ‘major’ tribes. We would be doing ourselves a big favour if we realistically think about where to place our passion.

New Delhi, September 14 (pti): Competition in the booming multi billion dollar Indian smartphone market is further set to intensify with e-commerce giants Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal all set to launch Google’s much-awaited sub-USD 100 (around Rs 6,000) handsets tomorrow.

Google is launching the Android One devices in India tomorrow. In June this year, the US-based tech giant had announced the ‘Android One’ initiative to bring in under-USD 100 handsets aimed at bringing the next one billion population to the Android operating system ecosystem.

While homegrown online marketplace majors Flipkart and Snapdeal will be exclusively selling Android One smartphones from Spice and Karbonn, respectively, US-based ecommerce giant Amazon’s Indian arm will sell handsets from Micromax. All the

Nagaland Tribes Council on NPSC decision

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he Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) appreciate the prompt and decisive action of the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC) for reviewing the candidature of Pausuipeule Gangmei who was selected for the post of Junior Engineer (Civil) under PHED under BT quota of Zeliang tribe vide result of the CTE-2013 and cancelled the result of Pausuile Gangmei vide NPSC/CON/-15/2007 dated, kohima the 2nd Sepetember, 2014.

In another notification, the NPSC yet again reviewed and put the result of Lalal who was selected for the post of Junior Engineer (Civil) under PWD under BT quota of Zeliang tribe as per the result of CTE-2013 in abeyance till the identity of Lalal is ascertained.

In both the cases, the Zeliang People’s Organisation, Kohima represented against the candidaBenjamin Vinito Chishi, tures of Pausuile Gangmei and LaUpper Bayavu Hill, lal stating that the candidates are Kohima not from Zeliang Community but

three handset makers have come out with teasers of their launch.

It is not the first time that device makers have partnered with e-com-

merce firms for launching their products. Motorola and Xiaomi have successfully launched their smartphones on Flipkart, while Spice, Micromax and Intex have launched their devices on Snpdeal.

Apart from apparels, electronics -- especially mobile phones -- are one of the highest selling items on ecommerce sites. According to research firm IDC, smartphone sales in the country grew almost three-fold to over 44 million in 2013,

from Rongmei Community and cannot avail the BT reservation or indigenous status of Zeliang tribes.

The NTC appreciate the NPSC for upholding justice and rectify the result to the rightful candidates who are deprived due to false and manipulated documents and the Zeliang People’s Organization, Kohima for defending the rights and privileges of the deserving Naga tribes of Nagaland.

Earlier, one Sanchui Kamei, a Rongmei candidate bearing Roll No. 1831 was selected for recruitment to the post of LDA-CumComputer Assistant under the department of Social Welfare and Security, Nagaland. The candidature of Sanchui Kamei was nullified and all his false documents were deemed cancelled by the concerned authority. The NTC lauded the intervention of the Zeliang Students’ Union, Kohima and urge all other organisations to be vigilant for such unscrupulous people and protect the rightful citizens of the state.

The NTC caution the District authorities not to issue false indigenous inhabitant certificate, BT certificate and other permanent residential certificates without

buoyed by affordable devices made by local firms such as Micromax and Karbonn.

In the second quarter of 2014, 18.42 million smartphones were shipped in India. Though Samsung is the leader with a 29 per cent market share, Micromax (18 per cent), Karbonn (8 per cent) and LAVA (6 per cent) are close competitors.

While Android is the dominant operating system globally, other OS’ like Windows and iOS (Apple) are also gaining traction. Also, newer platforms like Firefox and Tizen may emerge as strong challengers to Google’s platform.

Google’s attempts to also important as it aims to capture a larger share of the entry-level segment. Recently, Firefox (in partnership with Spice and Intex) launched two new smartphones, priced below Rs 2,300, aimed at those looking to upgrade from feature phones to smartphones.

proper verification in consonance to the law of the land to avoid further complications detrimental to the rights and privileges of the citizens of the State.

Media Cell, NTC

Open letter to the CM

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know that you are frustrated that the P.M. of India did not give you any pocket money during your junket to Delhi. Instead, he gave you Yoga lessons to improve your health. I would be grateful if you could restrain your ministers and babus by telling them not to look for other means of filling their coffers by giving us the people erratic power supplies and lousy roads.

Instead you could teach them yoga which is about spiritual cleansing and tell them to chill a bit and concentrate on what they were appointed to do.

A frustrated citizen of Nagaland AoTemjen Jamir, Signal Bosti, Dimapur

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

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DLYF demands SIT in school girl’s murder

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Dimapur Longsa Youth Forum (DLYF) has reiterated its demand to the Government of Nagaland to immediately set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the murder of a school girl, whose body was found between Merapani and Bhandari in Wokha district on September 12.

The forum in a press statement issued by its president, M Zachamo Ezung and publicity secretary, Sebastian also urged the district administration, the investigating authority to speed up the investigation process without further delay. It meanwhile expressed surprise over the delay of the post mortem report “which should have been completed on the same day.”

Pointing out that the final post mortem report is yet to be out even after two days, the forum cautioned the medical team not to distort the findings of the post mortem and asked the authority to bring out the report by the first hour, Monday.

Recounting the incident, the forum informed that on September 11, the victim, residing in Merapani, along with her

younger sister and some friends left home at 7:30 am for school which is about 3½ kms away. While on the way, she received an SMS from her class mate, informing her to come with full school uniform since it was an examination day. Thus, she went back home alone telling her sister to go ahead. According to the statement of the victim’s youngest sister, who was at home, the victim came to the house and left after changing her dress.

However, she did not reach the school and mysteriously disappeared, while her cell phone was found switched off, DLYF stated.

According to DLYF, the parents of the deceased reported that two elderly women from the locality who went to collect bamboo shoots at around 9.00 am saw traces of something being dragged and some foot prints where the body was found later by a search team. The forum also stated that there has been series of incidents that had occurred at the same locality where the young teenage girl was “brutally murdered”.

Meeting on registration of birth & death

WOKHA, SEPTEMBER 14 (DIPR): A District Level Co-ordination Committee meeting on registration of birth & death was held at DC’s Office chamber, Wokha on September 12. Deputy Commissioner and Chief Registrar of Birth & Death, A. Robin Lotha chaired the meeting. The committee brought various means and suggestions for onward submission to State level for discussion. Member Secretary for the committee DSO, Wokha Peter Chumdamo briefed the policies and strategy of the Department in bringing accurate statistical data for the State. The chairman and others suggested for conducting seminar in Block and Range wise to create awareness at the grassroots level.

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NBCC’s Students Meet 2014 concludes

MEx FILE Landslide affects villages under Seyochung

NACF accepts 29 AR’s unconditional apology Participants of NBCC’s Students Meet 2014. (Inset) Besesayo Kezo (L) and Nuklu Phom (R).

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Students Meet 2014 organised by the students’ ministry of the Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), Youth Department concluded today at the NBCC Convention Centre, Kohima. Gracing the programme on the last day, the DGP, Nagaland, Besesayo Kezo exhorted the students to “remember their Creator” during their youth and added that even the wisest and most learned person in the

world “must learn to fear the Lord”. He also challenged the congregation to make the widely proclaimed slogan 'Nagaland for Christ’ a reality.

The main speaker of the event, Nuklu Phom, Executive Secretary, PBCA spoke on “Devil” attacking from every corner and the need to stay “awake and alert” in one’s prospective life. Emphasizing that “our Enemy-the Devil” is neither meek nor idle, he challenged the gathering to remain active in order

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): For the first time in Nagaland, a Training of Trainers (TOT) program on “Disaster Safe Hill Area Development” was held at Administrative Training Institute (ATI), Kohima from September 8 to 12. Twenty seven officers from different departments, including Nagaland University and Administration attended the training.

A press release from Dr. Hovithal Sothu, Course Coordinator, ATI informed that the topics covered in the programme were Disaster Risk Reduction in the Hills; Landslides, its impact and solutions; Earthquakes; Earthquake hazard zonation mapping, Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction; Post Disaster Medical Aid; Zingki Bridge that connects road from NH 202 and Likimro Hydro Project was inaugurated Mainstreaming of DRR into developby Khuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu, Minister for Road & Bridges on September 11. T. Torechu, Parl. ment activities; practical first aid and Secy Housing and Excise, R. Tohanba, Parl. Secy., CAWD, Economics & Statistics, and Kejong a full day field work.

Chang, Parl Secy Horticulture were also present at the inauguration.

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): A post-event award ceremony of Kohima District Teachers’ Award-2014 will be conducted at the office chamber of District Education Officer (DEO), Kohima on September 18, at 10 AM. The DEO of Kohima, Ruovihulie Angami in a press release has invited all 16 awardees to the programme and directed the head of institutions of the teachers to enable them to attend the programme without fail. The Award Recipient Teachers are: Avino Peseyie, Rüzhükhrie Govt. Hr. Sec. School (GHSS), Kohima; Nepasalü, Govt. High School Chandmari; Liyalo Apon, Rüzhükhrie GHSS, Kohima; Mesohol Kweho, Govt. High School Kigwema; Pekruyabi Rino, Teacher In-charge, GPS Jotsoma (Upper); Zekuovonuo Mhasi, GMS Keyake, Kohima; Sebastian GHSS, Tseminyu; Hisinle Kent, GPS Tseminyu; Lalan Kumar Jha, Govt.

High School, Botsa; Asento Magh, GMS Tesophenyu; Kekhrieneituo Kense, GMS Botsa; Kevimiade Thalhou, Christian Mission School, Sechü-Zubza; Koheni Tokhoro, Baptist High, Kohima; Bina Bhowmick (Bujar Baruah), Don Bosco High School, Tseminyu; Khrievonuo Vizotha, Fernwood School, Kohima; Diwakar Mishra, Don Bosco Hr. Sec. School, Kohima.

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KIPHIRE, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The KiphireSeyochung road via Lukhami village is blocked since Monday due to the heavy landslide near Yangzitong Village under Seyochung sub-division of Kiphire district.

The villages of Lukhami, Phisami, Shothumi “A” and “B” are also almost “sandwiched” in the middle for almost a week owing to the mudslide. According to the Kiphire District Sumi Students’ Union (KDSSU) officials, the department concerned is not giving any assistance to the villagers and as a result, they are facing untold hardship. In light of this, the KDSSU has requested the department concerned to clear up the landslide for the interest of the public at large.

to save oneself from the devils’ trap. Dr. Imotemsu, Senior Specialist, Department of Obstetrician and Gynecologist (NHAK) also took a session on the first day on the topic “Why be Pure? A medical point of view.”

At the two-day event, besides regular time of praise and worship led by the worship team, special songs were also presented by the students of Sazolie college, Northfield, NBCC staff and Japfü Christian College EU.

Training of Trainers on ‘Disaster Safe Hill Area Development’

Post-event award ceremony for Kohima teacher awardees

Dimapur

For field visit, the participants were taken out to study the hazards, risks and vulnerabilities of Phesama Village and Kisama. Useful recommendations have been worked out by the trainees and the faculty to help reduce disasters in the areas, which will be given to the authorities concerned for future action, the release added.

The program was sponsored by National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi. The resource persons for the training were Dr. Surya Prakash, Associate Professor, National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi, Dr. Hovithal N. Sothu, State Coordinator, ATI, Nagaland, Er. N. Moa Longkumer, Lecturer (Computer) ATI, Er. Keneizhatuo Kuotsu, Dr. Thingtimla, Medical Officer, Central Training Institute, Tuluvi Dimapur, and Deepak Lama, Pharmacist, CTI, Tuluvi, Dimapur.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Niuland Area Citizen Forum (NACF) has accepted the “unconditional apology” offered by Col. Vikram, Commandant, 29 Assam Rifles, over raid on the residence of Mughavi Swu of Nahabari village on September 13. In a press note, NACF president, Kakishe Shikhu stated that, the apology was rendered by the 29 AR in the presence of Naharbari village council and NGOs. The NACF has requested the security force to properly ascertain their “intelligence inputs” to avoid such misadventure in future.

Seminar on Autism Sept 20

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Sisterhood Network will be organizing a seminar titled “An Awareness Seminar on Autism” on September 20 from 10am-12pm, at Anchor Complex, East Block, Burma Camp, Dimapur. According to a press note, the main objectives of the seminar are to discuss the behavior and nature of the people with autism and highlight their learning and developmental difficulties. It will also discuss myths surrounding the developmental condition of autism and examine its traits of impairment. The resource person will be Lindsay Graham Longkumer, who has over 10 years of working experience with learning disabilities in U.K. Interested people may contact919615081011/ 918575012737 for further information.

PHED officers’ introductory meet held

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Public Health Engineering department (PHED) officers’ introductory meeting with Secretary PHED, Government of Nagaland was held on September 12 at PHED, Directorate office in Kohima, opposite Naga Solidarity Park. The program was chaired by Er.K Ghushito Sumi, Director WSSO, PHED and the welcome address was delivered

by Er. J Walter Longchar, Addl. Chief Engineer, PHED. Meanwhile, the highlight of PHED activities was briefed by Er. Kevisekho Kruse, Chief Engineer, PHED and short speeches were given by both newly appointed joint secretary of PHED, Lhoucalie Viya and Asenla S Longchar IAS, Secretary PHED to the Govt. of Nagaland. The program was attended by SDO’s and above from the department from all the eleven districts of Nagaland. Later, the department officers also had a marathon meeting headed by Er. Kevisekho Kruse, Chief Engineer for review of 2013-2014 “Targets & Achievements” and discussion on AAP Targets for 2014-15.

Rengma Students' Union detects NPF 17th Chizami A/C holds executive meeting SEPTEMBER 14 ‘rampant irregularities’ in offices PHEK, (MExN): The NPF of 17th

TSEMINYU, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The Rengma Students’ Union (RSU) during its surprise visits to some schools and offices under its jurisdiction had detected “rampant irregularities”. According to a press note issued by RSU vice president, Zapi Kath and finance secretary, Ahulo Bukh, the union conducted the surprise visits on August 22 and September 9.

In the case of educational institution, the release said, the existence of “ghost teachers” was quite rampant while genuine employees were found to be highly irregular resulting in half day classes. In this context, the union has appealed to all the erring teachers to observe their duties sincerely and warned that, it will list out the names of slacking teacher(s) if their polite appeal does not elicit any posi-

tive responses. The union also discovered shortage of teachers in high schools, especially in mathematics and science subjects, and urged the higher authorities to take immediate corrective measures.

Meanwhile, during their visit to government offices under Tseminyu sub-division, the union witnessed functioning of some offices without any norms despite their repeated request and warning and expressed shock at this. Thus, the union has appealed to all the employees to open the office on time and “continue to work” at least till 1 PM. Most of the infrastructures of the offices were in pathetic condition needing “urgent attention”, it added, and requested the higher authority to visit their respective department and take necessary and appropriate action.

Chizami Assembly Constituency of Phek district had its executive meeting on September 13 at RPO Hall, Razeba. A press release received here informed that Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education and SCERT Deo Nukhu, in his address, thanked the party workers for their support and appealed to the members to continue extending their support to him and the party. He also asked the party workers to maintain party ideology so unity will prevail among them and also highlighted some of his vision and assured the people gathered that he will continue to work for the welfare of his people.

The house also acknowledged the Chief

Members of NPF 17th Chizami A/C after their executive meeting on September 13.

Minister for appointing K.G. Kenye, a veteran NPF leader as the Adviser (Political) to the CM, according to the release. Meanwhile, the 17th Chizami A/C NPF unanimously resolved to support and stand by the leadership

of Parliamentary Secretary Deo Nukhu, Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang, and NPF Central President Dr. Shürhozelie Liezietsu.

“The party is confident that under the leadership of such people, NPF will continue to grow in serv-

ing the interest of the Naga people,” the release added.

The programme was attended by all the office bearers of 17 Chizami A/C NPF, chairmen and secretaries from all village units, 17th A/C youth wing and women wing.

AR recovers IMFL, ganja, arm Training on mushroom cultivation 'Professionalism and Empowerment

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): The mobile vehicle check posts set up by troops of 29 Assam Rifles and 18 Assam Rifles seized 177 cases of Indian made foreign liquor (IMFL) in four separate operations between August 14 and September 5. According to an AR press note, 114 cases of IMFL were seized in Dimapur on August 30 and 31 by the 29 AR and two persons were apprehended in this connection. In another such operation in Peren, the troops of 18 Assam Rifles seized 63 cases of IMFL and apprehended three persons on August 20 and September 5. All the arrested persons along with the seized goods were handed over to respective local police stations.

Ganja worth lakhs recovered Meanwhile, troops of 29 and 18 Assam Rifles recovered huge quantity of contraband ganja in two separate incidents on August 29 and September 3 during their routine Mobile Vehicle Check Post.

According to a press note from Assam Rifles, around 94 kilos of ganja costing Rs.2.5 Lakhs approximately were recovered from three individuals on August 29 by the 29 AR between Patkai and Zubza.

The arrested individual along with the recovered contraband were handed over to Excise department, Dimapur. In another operation, 103 kilos of Ganja, costing nearly 2.5 lakhs were recovered by troops of 18 Assam Rifles on Sep-

tember 3 from general area NTU, Peren district. The recovered ganja was later handed over to Tening Police station.

One apprehended for possession of arm Troops of 29 Assam Rifles launched a search operation based on “specific information” about the presence of unauthorised weapons in a house in Lake View Colony, Dimapur on September 12.

During the operation, one 7.65 mm pistol was recovered, a press release from AR informed. The house owner Awoto Achumi (35), who identified himself as SS Lt in NSCN (IM) was apprehended. The accused with the recovered weapon was handed over to West Police Station, Dimapur, it added.

of Teachers' book gains popularity

LONGLENG, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): A traning-cumdemonstration on “Oyster Mushroom Cultivation” was conducted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), ICAR, Longleng on August 29. The Subject Matter Specialist (SMS), Plant Protection, E Lireni Kikon presented a PowerPoint presentation on mushroom cultivation such as Oyster, Button and Paddy straw mushroom with special emphasis on disease management. According to her, the most common factors causing infection to such crops were excess humidity, temperature and poor ventilation and recommended a clean and tidy cropping room to avoid such infection. Excess water in the medium should also be removed to avoid growth of unwanted moulds, she added. Demonstration on cultivation of oyster mushroom using was also shown practically with the active participation of farmers. All together 20 women attended the day long programme. Spawns and polythene bags were later distributed to all the participants.

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 14 (MExN): A book entitled “Professionalism and Empowerment of Teachers” authored

by Zavise Rume and Kewepelo-u Kapfo is now gaining popularity as it has become a must read for all those in teaching profession.

The book attempts to explore and discover the true meaning of teaching as profession and its professionalism, to understand the professional status, discuss the professional identity crisis of teachers, professional freedom, teachers’ professional organization and professional development, and the ethics of teaching and professional codes of ethics. The book also discusses various concepts of teacher empowerment, how teachers can be empowered, teacher empowerment and its contributions to school effectiveness.

The book also talks about the professional competencies, professional commitments and professional performances of teachers. Further, it talks

about some specific roles of teachers in relation to the Right To Education (RTE) Act 2009.

“Every teacher should first know his or her profession. Therefore, teaching professionalism and teacher empowerment should essentially form as part and parcel of teacher education and training programme,” the gist of the book states.

This book will be found useful for the students of Post Graduate degree in education, students of teacher education programmes like D. Ed, B.Ed, M.Ed, teacher educators, school teachers, research scholars and social workers interested in education. Published

by Heritage Publishing House, Dimapur, the book is priced at Rs. 350/-.

This book is available at: Kohima -Western Book Depot, Old NST Bus Station, opposite Evergreen Hotel, Variations Shop, Below Government Higher Secondary School Rüzhükhrie; Dimapur - Modern Book Depot, Church Road.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express MonDAy 15 SEPTEMbEr 2014 voluME IX ISSuE 253

A POEM FOR PEACE Max Ediger

An exploding roar of power and might echoes through the air.

It crushes and threatens, alerting the whole world to its presence its force, its desire to conquer.

Guns, bombs, mines and tortures form its massive sound.

But, within its power, within its might and within its fearful threats, peace is not to be found.

The shout of a mighty voice, echoing vanity and arrogance rumbles across nations.

It claims sovereignty over people's lives over resources, over justice.

Its arrogance covers its own fears and insecurities by destroying others.

And within its titanic voice, within its destructive vanity, peace is not to be found.

And then, the quiet sound of compassion, like a temple bell stirred in an evening breeze, gently quietens the roar of power and the shout of arrogance.

It holds in its tones the victims of this world's violence and gently soothes away their pain and their suffering.

Within that gentle sound of compassion, peace is to be found.

A light flickers from a small flame, illuminating hope and love.

Its subdued halo, holds high human dignity, proclaims respect for the environment, and caresses the world's resources as though touching pure and precious gems.

Within the light of that small flame, peace is to be found.

A scarred and furrowed hand reaches out, palm facing forward ordering the violence to cease ordering the hatred to dissipate challenging fear to become hope.

It is the hand of those who have already given their lives so that peace can become deeply rooted in the rich soil of sacrifice and commitment.

It beckons us forward in courage, giving us the example of those who have already given all.

But, while they have given their lives, they still live, and in their outstretched hands peace is to be found.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk and poet, has said, The enemy is not a person.

If we kill people, with whom will we live?

The enemy is not a person, it lies within each of us.

When the sound of compassion and the flame of love, and the hand of sacrifice effuses from each of us, the enemies called fear, defeat, over consumption, chauvinism, love of power, pride, lack of caring, busyness, blindness to truth, deafness to cries of pain, and muteness caused by fear, will fade away along with the roar of power and the shout of arrogance.

Then peace will flow like a mighty and never ending stream of justice throughout our world Perhaps, just perhaps it takes only one more person to shake the temple bell of compassion to light a candle of love, and to hold up their hand in courageous refusal to the enemies lurking within each of us, to finally break the grip of violence over our world.

Then, truly then, peace will be found.

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C O M M E N T A R Y

Javier Helsinki

Development as a world religion

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emantically, development is to go through a process of natural growth, differentiation, or evolution by successive changes. But this is insufficient, as it is debatable how to grow in a “natural” manner and if growth is 'natural' at all. The resolution 41/128 adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its 97th plenary meeting, as of the December 4th, 1986, states that the right to development is an inalienable human right, and defines development as “a comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process, which aims at the constant improvement of the well-being of the entire population and of all individuals on the basis of their active, free and meaningful participation in development and in the fair distribution of benefits resulting therefrom”.

The concept appears again in the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which states in Chapter 3, paragraph 1.1, “we are committed to making the right to development a reality for everyone and to freeing the entire human race from want.” Even though, as some commentators show, the aforementioned Declaration on the Right to Development “(...) takes the scope of duties a step further in seeking to provide a juridical framework for oft-repeated claims against the public international order, for the failure of our international economic arrangements to allow for an environment conducive to human-centered development for all”, it still does not conceptualises development.

What kind of want shall be, then, fulfilled through the comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process of development? According to the United Nations Development Program, there are currently eight goals which tackle the issues that prevent regions of the world from developing, i.e. extreme poverty and hunger, universal primary education, gender equality, child mortality, maternal health, diseases such as AIDS and malaria, environmental sustainability, and global partnership for development.

As part of this approach, the United Nations Development Program uses the Human Development Index (HDI), which measures life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries worldwide. As it is explained by the United Nations Development Program itself, the current understanding of what human development is arose in part as a result of growing criticism to the leading development approach of the 1980s, which presumed a close link between national economic growth and the expansion of individual choices. The target is, then, enlarging people’s choices and enhancing human capabilities and freedoms. However, this definition fails to capture the essence of the thing, as it provides a mere glimpse of our uses of the word rather than a real definition. According to Rist, in order for a definition to be operational “(...) it must first of all eliminate all preconceptions, the fallacious ideas that dominate the mind of the layman”. And mainstream development texts point out at the idea of qualitative transformation of a whole society, a shift to new ways of thinking, new relations and new methods of production, and improvement in the quality of life of people while empowering them with more control over their destinies.

These are subjective thoughts, and “the principal defect of most pseudo-definitions of development is that they are based upon the way in which one person (or set of persons) pictures the ideal conditions of social existence”. It is difficult to build an idea of development based on concepts such as “well-being” or “new ways of thinking”, adjectives such as “meaningful”, and the aspiration of control over one's destiny.

For authors like Preston, at the core of development is the idea of social change and the most familiar ethical term associated with it is progress, though he rejects that it is formulaic; rather, he insists that it is an ethic-political notion and what it is depends on circumstances and specific analysis since it must be locally determined. Sen, in concordance with the latter, opts to see development as a process of expanding the real freedoms that people enjoy through removal of sources of unfreedom, i.e. poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunities, social deprivation, and neglect of public

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s the Narendra Modi government completes 100 days in office, the prime minister seems keen to implement far-reaching changes, phasing out the old and ushering in the new. One of the first things he did was to question the relevance of the Planning Commission - a question also asked by his predecessor Manmohan Singh in 2009.

The commission's inability to keep up speed with change has stood in the way of its primary responsibility - to act as think tank of high standards and futuristic vision, linked to the research and innovation council.

Its past may be glorious but the country has suffered. Though the commission has extra-territorial powers to deal with the states, it only created a vacuum. A few eminent members even implied that there is too much economics within the pane; and almost negligible future orientation and management.

It is ironic that India was more competitive before independence as the first industrial policy (1948), which could have put the country on a fast track, vested powers with the government only, amplifying officialdom and reducing economic competitiveness.

The panel's contribution is not denied but the approach was not visionary enough to create a great nation.

The infection was inescapable. It changed the course of goals and responsibilities of the commission, reducing it to a time series regression planning and funding agency. The lack of vision is evident in the incongruity of resource planning, state of monopoly,

facilities, intolerance, and repression.

It can be seen, then, that it is far simpler to determine which countries are wealthier than others and then analyse if economic growth is nourished by the results of human development. That is why the critical views on development are worth of consideration, because, unlike mainstream scholarship, they do offer a definition, e.g. Rist's “development consists of a set of practices, sometimes appearing to conflict with one another, which require -for the reproduction of society- the general transformation and destruction of the natural environment and of social relations. Its aim is to increase the production of commodities (goods and services) geared, by way of exchange, to effective demand.”

The reasoning behind the elements of Rist's definition can be summarised as: (i) some practices tested as formulas for development contradict others, e.g. border liberalisation to foster international trade and import restrictions as part of a restructuring; (ii) the practices enable the world system to reproduce itself by expanding its area of influence; (iii) focuses on increased production of goods and production generally involves destruction; (iv) it destroys social relations since the market makes object of a contract matters which used to be within the private sphere; (v) it is geared towards production of the maximum rather than the optimum -hence it exists solely through spreading geographically or into new natural or social domains; and (vi) it is based on demand, regardless of the social, environmental, and cultural costs involved.

The above view is gloomy, indeed. However, it forces the reader to ask if development may be an ideological concept. Authors like Preston take off from the idea that all the main, meaningful theories of development are imbued by Western ethics, and, as such, the two main versions of what is progress can be identified during the XVIII and XIX centuries as the liberal democratic idea, which sustains the idea of 'man as consumer', and the radical democratic position, which invokes a historical materialist approach and takes off from the idea of 'man as doer'. While the first idea is evolutionary, for it perceives mankind as acting selfishly, the second sees humankind as acting in the light of social goals which advance over time.

These conceptions are the basis of the current theories of development: liberal market and social market and, still in the fringes of mainstream scholarship, radical democratic. The first one equates progress with economic growth and, as Preston affirms, “the ideological function of this scheme is quite clear: a relationship of super- and sub-ordination is legitimated whereby the development of the presently underdeveloped is ordered by the experts of the developed countries and their agents”. Since “aggregate trends (e.g. Gross Domestic Product) may correspond little or not at all to actual changes in people's living conditions”, the liberal market view is about how humans can accumulate and maximize their economic output while best satisfying their consumptive desires, hence it provides an “impoverished theory of human agency and implies a flatness of human life, attributing to the individual no capacity to reflect on the nature of the goods he or she will pursuit, and suggesting a passivity in making life choices”.

As a consequence, progress is starting to be increasingly seen through the eyes of the second school, i.e. social market theory. Nevertheless, the latter still relies on income levels and economic growth as important factors, albeit in a less emphasised way.

All in all, the current view of development is, indeed, importantly permeated by economic growth, with the exception of fringe positions which concentrate on the purely social. So, is it desirable to reach the state of the developed West? In view of the critical positions within development theory, the latter seems to be the appropriate question to ask, for the model used by the international and multijurisdictional institutions to illustrate what is considered developed is primarily the Western one. If such assertion holds true, then the obvious prior question is:

Does the Western culture hold the paternity of the current idea of development? Development as an idea can be traced back to Aristotle, who thought of 'nature' as the genesis of growing things, and translated as physis, which literally means 'development'.

Moreover, for Aristotle every being has a physis, i.e. its own principle of development. Aristotle, then, considered every being in terms of a cycle where all that is born and grows finally declines and perpetually begins again. Saint Augustine's theology of history took from Aristotle the cycle of birth-growth-decay, though he had to reconcile it with God's intervention in history according to his plan, hence rejected the eternal return of Aristotle and replaced Aristotle's view of nature (development) as spontaneous with divine omnipotence; i.e. “the historical succession of cycles in Aristotle is replaced in Augustine by a history constructed as a single cycle. But this adjustment was not exactly unimportant, given that it opened the way to a linear view of history”.

What occurred later on during the Enlightenment is a defining moment for what and how we consider development today. The Aristotelian and Augustinian idea of decay (for a cycle of birth, growth and fall imply a continuous decay) was contested by the mid and end of the XVII Century, while keeping the sense of development (growth) as something natural and positive no longer obstructed by the barrier of “a kind of optimum level after which the curve necessarily moved downward to comply with the laws of nature and God's plan”. Over the course of the next two centuries social evolutionism consolidates its triumph, one in which, according to authors like Rist, “there was general agreement on three essential points: that progress has the same substance (or nature) as history; that all nations travel the same road; and that all do not advance at the same speed as Western society, which therefore has an indisputable 'lead' because of the greater size of its production, the dominant role that reason plays within it, and the scale of its scientific and technological discoveries.” Under this logic, development necessarily (not optionally) has to be extended to the whole planet through endless growth.

As a consequence, colonization, the League of Nations' mandate system, and Truman's Point Four took place, according to Rist's view, naturally. Same goes for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank), which were created for different purposes though evolved into lenders and therefore definers of Third World countries' policy under the paradigm of development. At this point in history, then, there seems to be some consensus among scholars on the idea that development means that the Third World should follow the footsteps of the West in a linear Rostow-esque fashion. However, countries cannot achieve the same level of the developed countries or, if they can, then it is not through the same path and without some sacrifices from the part of the developed countries. This is due to the fact that the latter already had their chance of growing while destroying the environment and the former cannot go the same path due to environmental awareness. There seems to be consensus regarding how undesirable is for the environment for the Third World to replicate Western consumption patterns. Indeed, “it is clear that the development of the South cannot follow the same path of industrialization created by the North; it is essential that continuous growth is throughput, consumption and resource use in per-capita terms no longer be viewed as constituent elements of 'development'. Instead, the focus must on qualitative improvement in the first instance.”

Development then, it seems, cannot be based any longer on a social evolutionist, individualist and economist logic, for “broad-based development on a global scale is economically and ecologically impossible within the world economy as currently constituted.”

Faced with such a somber scenario, in which the evolutionist logic seems to be “little more than a celebration of the history of the West, and the USA in particular”, the question is: What, then, are the alternatives?

Planning for 'The Future Commission' rahul Singh Source: IANS and ad-hocism in talent and diversity management.

As a result, all the E's of nation's most essential systems - economy, education, environment and energy are suffering from the ad-hoc systems of future planning and accountability, for example, the case of the University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education in the education sector.

It cannot run on hired talent and with no accountability of office-bearers.

The question is - do we need such a commission for the government or for the country?

Don't we need a body comprising all stakeholders of national development that accounts for the future needs of a country of a billion and plans strategically?

India does not need a commission for planning; it needs a commission to ensure vision and flawless coordination for exceptional execution with integrity.

We can learn from nations that have realized the need for development beyond minor political conflicts, despite facing a scarcity of talent.

Economic growth of European nations like Finland, Poland and Hungary was slow and disturbing under the

communist model but they reinvented themselves with new systems. From a highly- depressed economy with hardly any resources, Finland became a highly-developed nation within 20 years by forming the "Committee for the Future" with specific tasks and responsibilities.

Paula Tiihonen, its founding counsellor, told this author recently: "The Committee for the Future, where 17 parliamentarians themselves stake out policy lines for the future, is unique in the world as an institution.

"Many parliaments globally have adapted our model to reorganize their futures-related work. It is independent by nature of functioning, this means that the committee must itself create its success and earn esteem for its work in each and every parliamentary term."

Tiihonen added that the Committee for the Future is always serious and focused to the national agenda under political leadership but not to a political agenda.

The Future Commission for India should structure itself on these lines and not try to accommodate all ministries, positions and party representatives (like Central Advisory Board of Education which is still colonial in nature).

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The executive functions must go to ministries. There should be an efficient and effective team that takes care of education, economy, think tanks, and few ministries with a lean permanent team.

In its new avatar, the commission shouldn't deal with issues related to states directly, for which the government should strengthen the Inter-State Council (ISC), Finance Commission and ministries for effective and efficient operations on national priorities and fiscal management.

Motivating states to create "The Future State Commissions" aligned with the central think tanks can also reduce their dependence on the centre.

This will also offer opportunity of inter-state cooperation as think tanks may always engage in higher discussions than governments with a political ideology. The relevance is only justified and sustainable if it focuses on the framework and capacity building of a development than the assistance model which conflicts the basic philosophy of development and subjects to incremental change only.

This new thought demands a bigger role for science, technology and innovation. Such a committee or commission must reflect and opine on questions of execution, delivery and accountability more than planning of limited political aspirations. The call for change is a welcome move but caution equally necessary.

Dr Rahul Singh is associate professor, Birla Institute of Management Technology. The views expressed are personal. He can be reached at rahul.singh@bimtech.ac.in

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meet the women fighting the Islamic state Guerrillas from Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party are on the front lines in northern Iraq. Many of the organization's leaders, including 24-year-old Avesta, are women

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vesta enters the cramped room in a teachers' residence turned temporary military base, ready for a meeting with her fellow fighters. The six commandos rise to shake her hand. She greets each individually. "Hello, heval," she says, calling them by the Kurdish word for comrade. Then she lays down her Russian sniper rifle, and tea and coffee are served.

The Islamic State's fearsome fighters are just around 10 miles away, but the Kurdish snipers, some still teenagers, are mostly relaxed. They debate the merits of drinking coffee versus tea, discuss the situation in the camp, and joke with each other. "You are very photogenic," one of the fighters tells Avesta cheerfully as she poses for a photo. She smiles shyly as others burst into laughter.

Avesta is only 24, but she looks much older, with piercing gray eyes. Her long face is wrinkled and roughened; her hands are calloused. Her sniper rifle is at her side at all times; when it isn't hanging from her back, it's resting within arm's reach -- a constant companion to her uncertain life as a Kurdish guerrilla.

Avesta, whose nom de guerre is the same as the holy book of Zoroastrianism, a religion that Kurds consider as their original creed, commands a group of 13 fighters, eight of them female, from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- a rebel group that has fought the Turkish state for three decades in pursuit of Kurdish rights. They wear olive and gray uniforms of baggy pants and a vest, with a wide cloth belt around their waists.

Avesta's squad arrived in Makhmour, a dusty town in Iraqi Kurdistan, by bus on Aug. 6 from a PKK base in the Qandil Mountains, a range that spans the Iraqi, Turkish, and Iranian borders. They are among the hundreds of Kurdish volunteers from around the region who have descended on Iraqi Kurdistan to fend off the vicious jihadists of the Islamic State.

Following a four-day battle that ended on Aug. 10, the Kurdish guerrillas retook control of their main target, a camp populated until early August by more than 10,000 Kurdish refugees from Turkey, many of whom are believed to be PKK supporters.

During the battle, Avesta used her sniper rifle to shoot at Islamic State fighters, providing cover for her comrades as they advanced toward the jihadists' front lines. "They were not as capable fighters as their propaganda claimed," she said. "They mostly fought from afar with heavy weaponry like mortars and artillery."

Avesta is no stranger to heavy combat. The PKK has fought for three decades against the Turkish military, NATO's second-largest. Avesta fought in major PKK

battles against Turkey in 2012, 2008, and 2005. The PKK fighters are up for the challenge of the jihadists, she says. "The Islamic State fought rigorously. But it was not as severe as our previous fights with the Turkish army," she said. "The Turks have warplanes and air power."

Seeing the atrocities committed by the jihadists against Kurds in Sinjar and other areas, Avesta says she and others in her unit volunteered to be among the first group of PKK guerrillas sent to Makhmour. Her unit takes its orders from the PKK command in the Qandil Mountains. But on the ground in Makhmour, the unit also has some "limited" coordination with Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga troops, Avesta says.

Like many who joined the PKK's ranks, she was radicalized at a young age. The trigger came when she saw her brother's mutilated body. He was a PKK fighter, too, and died in a clash with Turkish security forces in 2005. Shortly afterward, she left her hometown, Van, in Turkey's southeast and headed to the mountains to take up arms. She was 15.

Avesta attended an intense boot camp where she was immersed in the party's revolutionary leftist ideology and view of women's role in society, and trained to use weapons. In the mountains, PKK fighters live in isolation in bare-bones camps. The organization's rules prohibit romantic relationships, and the fighters have little access to their families.

It was as a young woman in the rugged mountains of southeast Turkey and northern Iraq that Avesta says she discovered herself. "It was in the mountains that I found out women can be also powerful," said Avesta. The ranks of the PKK, a Marxist organization, are filled with women, a rarity in the conservative cultures of the Muslim world. About half of the organization's leaders are women. And the Kurdish guerrilla group stands in especially stark contrast to the radical fundamentalism of the Islamic State, which confines women's role to mostly domestic tasks such as raising children, cooking, cleaning, and pleasing their husbands.

"It gives us strength and motivation when a woman like Avesta is our commander," says Kendal, a 19-yearold male fighter in Avesta's unit. "She gave us orders during the fighting and instructed us on tactics."

The PKK and its Syrian affiliate, the YPG, played a crucial role in securing an escape route from Mount Sinjar, in Iraq's western Nineveh province, all the way to Syria. Thousands of members of the Yazidi religious minority trapped on the mountain by the Islamic State fled to safety and returned to Iraqi Kurdistan through Syrian Kurdish territory. PKK fighters have also been deployed to Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, to boost Peshmerga lines.

But even if the presence of Avesta and her comrades in Iraq has helped beat back the Islamic State, other challenges lie ahead. For one, there are tensions with the Iraqi Kurds. Relations between the two groups have

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long been strained. The PKK and Iraqi Kurdish forces have fought each other on numerous occasions, from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. While Avesta said that the PKK liberated the refugee camp and played a major role in capturing the town of Makhmour from the Islamic State, Iraqi Kurdish officials insist that Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga carried out the bulk of the fighting.

The PKK's participation in the fight against the Islamic State has not yet stirred a strong reaction in neighboring Turkey. But given that Turkey considers the PKK a hostile organization and at the same time enjoys close political and economic ties with Iraqi Kurds, Ankara might not react favorably if the PKK decides to establish a long-term presence in Iraqi Kurdistan. A prolonged PKK presence in Iraqi Kurdistan -- especially if the Islamic State is defeated in northern Iraq -- could undermine the authority of the Kurdish government on its territory and give rise to tensions among Turkey, Iraqi Kurds, and the PKK. The PKK presence could also raise red flags for the West, a critical ally to the Kurds, as the war against the Islamic State moves forward. The PKK is designated a terrorist group by the United States and a host of European countries.

Avesta shrugs off such designations. "We have been called terrorists for years," she said while walking through the camp, returning from a quick tour of inspecting a guard post to make sure it is fortified in case the Islamic State attacks. "But we say to those countries: Come and see this war and then judge for yourselves.… The [Islamic State] beheads civilians.… We have rescued civilians."

With Islamic State jihadists pushed out of the Kurdish areas around Makhmour, the guerrillas at the refugee camp have no plans yet to go back to their bases in the Qandil Mountains. For the time being, they are busy training some of the few hundred camp residents who have returned on how to protect themselves.

Experience has taught these fighters to take no chances. They have used their time since driving out the Islamic State to set up fortifications in and around the camp and at nearby Mount Qarachukh.

The PKK fighters take turns manning the checkpoints and fortifications. After her meeting with her comrades ends, she picks up her sniper rifle and bids them farewell.

She and a male comrade get into a dusty car and head off to stand guard at the checkpoint at the camp's entrance. From there, she can see the hazy horizon south of Makhmour, where the Islamic State still maintains a foothold.

UPDATE September 13, 2014: 12:20pm: Avesta was killed on September 12. According to a spokesperson for the PKK guerillas in northern Iraq, she was leading a unit in a joint PKK-Peshmerga operation to re-take a village near Makhmour when a bullet fired by an Islamic State militant struck her in the neck. She was put in a Peshmerga Humvee headed for the hospital in Makhmour that was struck by an improvised explosive device. She died soon after, on the way to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, for further treatment.

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Is the NagalaNd goverNmeNt doINg all that It caN to support aNd facIlItate the growth of sports IN NagalaNd? Govt. of Nagaland that every schools state govt hosted any national sports • No. And I wonder how many Dr. T. kusti /wrestling...? its not an internaSome of those who voted YES should adopt two sports discipline tional sports, national level sports or a event the last 30 years? If the answer is Ao's and Chekrovolu's we have wasthad this to say: and 5% reservation in Employment state level sports. its just a community NO then it's a big NO. • Of course they are working very hard, ed over the years!! Yes we lack infrain all departments under sports quodont you see our dedicated sports structure but the first and foremost sports. We should preserve our cultur- • Not at all. The government is giving too ta?! 1.Priority, incentives and awards much attention to Hornbill, Handshake thing the govt should do and can do al identity but why spends all in someministers and Chief minister giving evshould be given to Olympic recogConcert, Foreign Study Tours. This erything for the greater cause of sports is to make sport as a curriculum in thing which only some can perform. nised sports honestly. 2.Proper inschool! Most of the great athletes we • NO, Sports means Sports. Apart from benefits only a few people. If only they development giving hope and concenfrastructure and sports equipments would give their support to encouraging trating on our born-talent skills..! 50% know always mention about how they Football, Archery, Cricket the Governin international standard must build sports. This will create oplearned and enhanced government failure, 20% society failand bought. 3.For better and highportunity for young people to their skill right from an ure and 30% individual failure. Ranexcel and help them have a er platform for Sportsman. It should dom analysis! Dr Tali Ao, Chekrovolu early age from their own livelihood. be made mandatory to adopt sports Swuro our only sports idols who has school, giving credit to • A big NO. A full time sports in schools, colleges and university achieved the highest podium, look at their school sport teachperson will not be able to to participate in National, internathe generation gap comon' i wonder er!! But most schools make both ends meet. So tional and world championships of here don't even have a who is going to be next and when? many talented sportsmen Inter-Schools, Inter-Colleges and • Yes, with their limited funds and limited playground let alone a have given up. We don't even Inter-Universities. 4.Sports coachknowledge, I think they are still doing all sports teacher!! have proper outdoor and ines should be appointed for schools, they can. It should not be left to the gov- • Nope. Fresh example is door stadiums. It is common colleges and university according to ernment alone. Schools and colleges how Faith In Action who knowledge as some of our their adoption of sports but in Unibrought laurel to our State should also encourage sports. friends have already pointversity all the sports coaches should & Country were neglected.

• Yes, nagaland govt. has enough reed out that our ministers be there. Coaches should appointed sources for it and young nagas are very • NO. Indeed it does the job of and bureaucrats will donate through with proper scrutiny in his/ talented in sport, if given right facilities chief guest only and give poto music programs. People her Discipline, their ability of analyzlitical speech in front of the they can compete in international level. knew their mentality and will ing and adoption of tactics and techplayers lineup for the play. invite them as Chief Guest niques, Methods and management, • Looking at the conditions Some of those who voted no and Guest of Honor even strategy and game plan, perforof grounds, aid provided had this to say: though their portfolios have mance of their participation or train• No, Not even i a dream, instead they to sportsmen, NO and to no connection with the proing etc. Assessment of their coachministers dried up the budgets on Study top it up the recent, Faith gram they are attending and ing be mandatory and accordingly tours and trips, festivals and cultural in Action bringing laurel donating money to them. salary should be paid. 5.It should programmes etc which common people not only to the state but to The "financial" assistance established Sports University and India as a whole by wincannot participate. Best example the rebenefits only a few persons Coaches Training centre. .6.Marks cent Faith In Action participate in Korea ning a gold medal should here. Promoting music is or remarks should be recorded/ have been felicitated but but Nagaland Govt. gave nothing. good but sports should not added in the academics result as a so far nothing has been • No, they are interested only in promotbe neglected. Our various subject by the education institutions seen in TV nor newspaper. ing music and hornbill festival. sports teams need better because sports is also education.

• No. Not at all. They have even forgotten It seems government sole coaches with technical ex7.Mass Media should play an active what sports is also. interest is only in music pertise. Our teams of any role for promotion and popularizing • Big NO not at all, the Nagaland governand cultural extravaganza sports discipline will not imthe sports. 8.Secret Vigilant commitment putting its all efforts on entertainto promote tourism. prove unless they are given tee or Observers should set up for ments, festivals, foreign tours etc.

• NO. Iam not a sports permore exposure in the nationanti-corruption, corrective measures • In their Chief Guest speeches they have son, but im a sports loval and international arena. In etc which should appointed by All the a lot of good things to say about raw er. And to tell frankly our games and sports we don't Olympic sports recognised by State Naga talent. But they dont do anything state gov is not even takget instant result, it is a long Association through National Olymto support the growth of sports. Maybe ing up any proper steps term investment. pic Association and National Assothey shell out some few thousands as for lifting up our the sports • It is a No. It goes all out to ciations. And also to vigil or observe academy, instead they Chief Guests, but nothing that has imthe State Associations functioning, support music, but music is are wasting all the funds proved the conditions of sports in Nagaany person can report to the Govt. not the only industry where & money in the names of land. and National Association or NOA naga youths are talented.

• No a big NO. If only the state govt. had sports. We are not asking or declare to public but with proper Equal attention should be them to fulfill all our needs taken initiative in the field of sports Naproof or evidence. 9.Dirty Politics given to others as well. galand could have achieve a greater or asking them to bring stay away from sports and don't disnew activities, instead we height...... courage and make frustration to the Some of those who voted only want to let them to • My opinion is that our government facilihard working sportsman. Dirty PoliOTHERS had this to say: tate and supported only with their mouth support and utilize what tics may play by mouth and brain but • No. They dont get budget we have. Why go for what in terms of the growth of sports in Nagasportsman play sports by physical, for sports after taking out we cant. A big example land. They do not do well upto the exYES no OTHERS budgets for retreats and For- spirit, brain and mouth. Etc. pectation of the Naga people. Instead of with what we can base eign "study tours". (Or) Yes. • To built a shooting range was mentioned facilitating and funding our govt. is most on. NAGALAND PRIMER in the last budged session but it was just They're investing too much in corrupted in the whole of India and we LEAGUE (NPL) it was the for name sake...! when is the govt gosports. Purchasing Sports Cars worth all knows the present financial crisis due only tournament where a nagas could ment should emphasis on other fields ing to take up facilitating the sports percrores of rupees... U know Sports. show their real action. where have it too. to their corruption. son/defence/public a proper shooting They're even playing sports by them• No a big NO. If only the state govt. had gone....?? Now talking on fund miss • Can anyone tell us if the state governrange.? the one in chumu firing range is selves. Playing sports with the patience ment has organised any district level, or use, im not against any particular pertaken initiative in the field of sports Naa cow field and i think its very necessary of common people. Duh!!! galand could have achieve a greater son or tribe(just a discussion), why do state level sports and games competito have atleast one in Nagaland. the state gov spend lots of money in tion during the last 50 years? Has the • Where is the Sports policy made by height......

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150,000 still stranded in Kashmir SrINaGar, SEptEmBEr 14 (rEutErS): About 150,000 people were still stranded in their homes a week after Jammu and Kashmir’s worst flood in over a century and fears grew on Sunday of an outbreak of diseases from vast fields of stagnant brown water.

Indian army and civilian boats trawled through the streets - now water channels - of capital Srinagar, picking up residents and delivering water, food and basic medicine to people who chose to remain camped out in the upper floors of their houses.

The state administration, which was itself knocked out after the waters of the Jhelum river gushed into the city centre, has struggled to cope with the flood, the worst in 109 years. The disaster has fuelled public anger in the Muslim-majority region where a revolt against Indian rule has simmered for nearly a quarter century.

Officials said they did not have enough pumps to drain out the water that had swept through Srinagar, a city of 1 million ringed by mountains. Several of the state’s pumps were under water and 30 new ones had been ordered from New Delhi.

“Stagnant water is much more dangerous than flowing water,” said Dr. Showkat Zargar, the director of the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), one of the few functioning hospitals in the city. “There are a lot of animals that have died,” he said. “This is the biggest source of infection.”

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Fears of epidemic loom large SrINaGar, SEptEmBEr 14 (tNN): government has been “generous” and has Amid fears of an epidemic breaking out sent 30 doctors who have been deployed due to floods in Jammu & Kashmir, the in various districts of Kashmir.

He wants at least 300 paramedic staff state government is gearing up to contain the damage and wants the Centre to from the Centre, saying it would be of great speedily send medicines as well as at least help. Drugs and medicines are coming into Kashmir in good flow but the Centre 300 paramedic staff.

The department of health services is should be little more generous in speedmaking arrangements on war-footing, issu- ily sending more of such supplies, he said.

He said departments allied with health ing advisories, deploying doctors and paramedics across the valley, besides dispatch- issues like Public Health Engineering ing drugs and medicines. The outbreak of (PHE) and municipalities need to get acepidemic is feared because of filth that has tive immediately to prevent an epidemic. accumulated across the valley along with Chief minister Omar Abdullah had said the death of animals and their carcasses that Kashmir has a history that lives are not lost in floods but in the aftermath of floods. floating around in the flood waters.

“We are sensitizing people about dos Weather worry for the valley Jammu & Kashmir may witness light and don’ts,” Saleem-ur Rehman, director, health services, told said, while pointing rainfall on Monday according to the Meto the apprehension about an epidemic teorological Department, although the breaking out. He said doctors and para- Met department has clarified that there is medic staff are being rushed across the no reason to panic yet.

“There is nothing to be panicky about; valley to sensitize people as well as take there are chances of light rain in Jammu precautionary measures.

“Our doctors and paramedics are hard division tomorrow, but it will be less than pressed ... We need a lot of people. We one centimetre. Srinagar might witness a In this photograph released by the Indian Air Force, a chopper flies over flood-affected Srinagar in Indian-controlled are drawing doctors and paramedic staff moderate rainfall but the intensity will be Kashmir, on Saturday, September 13, 2014. Flash floods have killed hundreds, washed away crops, damaged tens of from places which were not affected by the very light,” Charan Singh, a MET departthousands of homes and affected over a million people since September 3, when heavy monsoon rains lashed Pakifloods,” he said. Rehman said the central ment official said. stan’s eastern Punjab province and the Kashmir region, claimed by both India and Pakistan. (AP Photo) tal, dozens of dead cows lay ficials put the death toll at derwater automated teller believes are supported by teers onboard were not on either side of the road 264 on Friday. machines and hair salons. Pakistan. A new generation carrying. on Sunday morning after But many others have of young Kashmiris, who “People can’t get their a dairy flooded last week. Rescued not been as lucky, and have have grown up with house drugs, so their diseases are Both the Indian and PakiIn Srinagar’s south- waited days for rescue in raids and army check- becoming emergencies,” stan sides of the disputed ern neighbourhood of Raj vain, fueling anger among points, feel increasingly said Zardar. One 35-year- NEW DELHI, SEptEmBEr 14 (IaNS): Floods Himalayan territory have Bagh, a boatload of army residents toward the army angry at Indian rule and old man died in the hos- in Jammu and Kashmir have caused a loss of around been hit by extensive flood- personnel stopped at the and the state government champion street protests pital on Sunday after suf- Rs.5,700 cr with heavy damages to trade, hotels, resing since the Jhelum river, Presentation Convent which they said has been rather than the violent mil- fering a heart attack while taurants, horticulture and handicraft, Assocham said swollen by unusually heavy Higher Secondary School absent in the disaster. itancy that characterized stranded in his home. In Sunday.

“The total losses are estimated to be Rs.2,630 crore rain, surged last week. The and helped five nuns clamAs the same army craft the 1990s. another case, a man who river flows from Kashmir to ber down a steep ladder made its way through the Jammu and Kashmir had a treatable injury for hotels, trade, agriculture and horticulture, roads and the Pakistan side, and then from the school, where narrow canals, a boat of sev- Revenue Secretary Vinod from a car crash before the bridges, while infrastructure like railways, power and down into Pakistan’s lower they’d been stranded for six eral men shouted angrily at Kaul said it was natural for floods could not return to communication would have suffered a loss of around Indus river basin. days and were running out the soldiers. “We don’t need citizens to blame their gov- the hospital for care, devel- Rs. 2,700-3,000 crore,” Assocham said in a statement.

“These are only initial estimates and the real loss The government has of drinking water. your help!” one man yelled. ernment when struck by a oped gangrene, and had to will be much higher,” its secretary general D.S. Rawat put the death toll at 200 in “We haven’t had any “Whatever you have, we disaster of this scale. “This have his leg amputated. the part of Kashmir it con- contact with the outside don’t need any of it!” is a democratic system,” “The real injuries are said. He said the biggest worry was that tourist confitrols but there are fears world,” said Sister Elsie Hundreds of thousands he said. As the army boat going to reach us now,” dence had been shattered after the floods. “It is all the that number will rise as Thomas, taking in the eerie of soldiers are deployed in passed, people standing at said Zargar. “Patients who more difficult in states where the economy is heavily the damage to Srinagar waterworld where plastic the Kashmir Valley, where the water’s edge asked for have broken limbs are still dependent on tourism related sectors like trade, hoand villages in southern bottles, snarls of barbed the army says it has suc- specific drugs like blood sitting at home. Once the tels, eateries and transport.”

According to the report, all bookings for airlines Kashmir is fully revealed. wire and the odd dead ani- ceeded in putting down pressure or diabetes medi- roads are open, there will and hotels up to Oct 15 have been cancelled.

On the Pakistani side, of- mal floated alongside un- the armed groups that it cation, which the volun- be a flood of patients.”

Rs.5,700 crore loss in Kashmir floods: Assocham

Eat chikoo to fight cancer

KoLKata/BaNGaLorE, SEptEmBEr 14 (IaNS): The sweet and succulent chikoo or Sapota fruit, a popular ingredient for desserts, could well be the answer to halt cancer from spreading, according to a study by Indian scientists.

Researchers have now shown methanolic (alcoholic) extracts of the whole fruit possess certain active phytochemicals (plant-derived compounds) that can trigger a sequence of orchestrated events in tumour cells leading to their death (a process called apoptosis).

“There was a preliminary study which had used two of the phytochemicals isolated from Sapota fruit on cancer cell lines. Ours is the first study using whole fruit methanolic extracts which explores anticancer properties of the same on different cancer cell lines and on animal models.

“Our results indicate that inclusion of Sapota fruit in our daily diet may protect from genesis and progression of cancer,” Sathees C. Raghavan, associate professor at the department of Biochemistry, IISc, told IANS in an email interaction.

The collaborative study was conducted by scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, and the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotech-

nology, Bangalore.

It was published in August in Nature Publishing Group’s journal Scientific Reports. One million new cancer cases are reported in India every year and the figure is set to double in 20 years, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Out of the estimated eight million people globally who died of cancer in 2012, nearly 700,000 deaths were in India. As the disturbing figures rise on one hand, there is also, on the other end, mounting evidences of plant derived dietary substances as “suitable candidates for treating various types of cancers due to their broad chemical diversity”.

Raghavan explained: “We have tested its effect on cancer cells derived from different cancers such as leukemia, breast, ovarian and lung carcinomas. We found that it induces apoptosis in all types of cancers with varying efficiencies.

“We also found it slowed tumour progression in mice. Tumor containing mice that were treated with Sapota extracts lived three times longer than untreated mice.”

In fact not only did the extract “significantly decrease” the tumour load in mice induced with breast cancer, in 50 percent of the

mice examined, Sapota extract also led to a “three-fold increase in the life span compared to untreated tumour mice”.

“However, whether Sapota has cancer preventive effects needs to be tested. There are no side effects detected yet,” he said.

Raghavan’s group included Mrinal Srivastava, Mahesh Hegde, Kishore K. Chiruvella and Souvari Bhattacharya. It worked jointly with Bibha Choudhary and Jinsha Koroth at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology.

The next step, he said, is pinpointing the principal compound or compounds leading to Sapota’s anti-cancer effects.

“The advantage lies in the fact that once the active compound or compounds are identified, they not only can be synthesized in bulk in laboratory but also can be modified further to increase the potency.

Clinical trials may follow after identification and optimisation of the purified component(s),” said Srivastava, the first author of the paper.

A tropical fruit grown and consumed extensively in several countries, including India and Mexico, Sapota (Manilkara zapota) is packed with dietary fibre, minerals, vitamins and high antioxidant properties.

Congress demands Mamata’s resignation over Saradha scam

KoLKata, SEptEmBEr 14 (IaNS): Stepping up its attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the Congress Sunday demanded her resignation over the Saradha scam.

During a convention organised here to condemn the Saradha scam which has ruined lakhs of depositors across the state, Congress leaders slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress for its bid to thwart the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which is probing the multi-crore-rupee scandal.

“The chief minister cannot deny that fingers are being pointed at her honesty and integrity. So we reiterate our demand that she should step down until the CBI comes out with the truth,” party leader and former union minister Deepa Dasmunsi said.

Congress state unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said his party will organise a condemnation meet in the city Sep 19 over the scam. The Congress also demanded exemplary action for a Trinamool Rajya Sabha member who is alleged to have links with Bangladeshi fundamentalist outfit Jamaat-e-Islami.

“If it is proved that the Trinamool MP has links with terrorists or the Jamaat, then he should be treated as a traitor and given exemplary punishment,” party leader Pradip Bhattacharya said. Besides the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India-Marxist too have accused the Trinamool MP of having links with the Jamaat.

CIC issues show-cause notices to Sonia, Amit Shah

NEW DELHI, SEptEmBEr 14 (ptI): The CIC has issued showcause notices to BJP President Amit Shah and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi along with the heads of four other political parties asking why an inquiry should not be instituted in the matter of non-compliance of its order to implement the RTI Act. Last year, on a plea by activist Subhash Agrawal, the Central Information Commission (CIC) had declared six national parties -- Congress, BJP, NCP, CPI, CPI-M and BSP -- as public authorities, thereby bringing them under the ambit of the Right to Information Act. However, none of the parties either contested the decision in courts or followed the instructions of the panel.

The Commission had issued notices on February 7 and March 25 to these political parties seeking their detailed comments on the complaint by Agrawal that they had not complied with the orders of the CIC. “Therefore, a notice is issued to show cause within four weeks as to why an inquiry should not be initiated in the matter of non-compliance of the Commission’s order dated June 3, 2013, under Section 18 of the RTI Act, 2005... Take further notice that if you fail to respond within pre-

scribed time, the matter will be processed on the strength of material on record, in accordance with law,” the notice said.

The notice has been sent to the chiefs of Congress, BJP, BSP and NCP and to the general secretaries of CPI and CPI-M. The move comes close on the heels of a Delhi High Court order which directed the Commission to decide in six months on a complaint against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi regarding the issue of non-compliance with the transparency panel’s directions that the party was answerable under the RTI Act. Refusal to provide information or not furnishing complete information is deemed an offence under the RTI Act and attracts a penalty for the public information officer of the public authority of Rs 250 per day from the date the information became due to the day it was furnished.

None of the political parties have so far obtained any stay order against the decision of the Commission declaring them to be public authorities, which implies that they must adopt the procedures for processing RTI applications as laid down in the transparency law.

China on track to develop Indian railways

NEW DELHI/BEIJING, SEptEmBEr 14 (rEutErS): China will pledge to invest billions of dollars in India’s rail network during a visit by President Xi Jinping this week, bringing more than diplomatic nicety to the neighbours’ first summit since Narendra Modi became prime minister in May. The leaders of Asia’s three biggest economies - China, India and Japan - have crisscrossed the region this month, lobbying for strategic influence, building defence ties, and seeking new business opportunities.

Beijing’s bid to ramp up commercial ties in India comes despite a territorial dispute that has flared anew in recent years, raising concerns in New Delhi, where memories of a humiliating border war defeat in 1962 run deep.

It follows a pledge by

Japan to invest $35 billion in India over the next five years - including the introduction of bullet trains and a drive to deepen security ties during talks earlier this month between Modi and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo.

India and China are expected to sign a pact that will open the way for Chinese participation in new rail tracks, automated signalling for faster trains and modern stations that India’s British-built rail system desperately needs, having barely added 11,000 km of track in the 67 years since independence.

China, which added 14,000 km of track in the five years to 2011, is also pushing for a share of the lucrative high-speed train market in India, which it says would be cheaper than Japanese proposals.

“India has a strong, real desire to increase its co-

operation with China and other countries to perfect and develop its rail system, and has concrete cooperation ideas,” Assistant Chinese Foreign Minister Liu Jianchao told reporters ahead of Xi’s trip.

“India is considering building high-speed railways, and China has a positive attitude towards this.”

China’s consul general in Mumbai, Liu Youfa, told the Times of India last week that Chinese investment in the modernisation of India’s railways could eventually touch $50 billion.

Beijing is looking to invest another $50 billion in building India’s ports, roads and a project to link rivers, part of an infrastructure push that Modi has said is his top priority to crank up economic growth.

Chinese investment will also help narrow a trade deficit with India that hit $31 billion in 2013.

From economic parity in 1980, China’s growth has outstripped India’s fourfold. Beijing is now seeking to recycle some of its vast export surpluses into foreign investment in resources and infrastructure in South Asia to feed its industrial machine.

DISTRUST New Delhi’s ties with Beijing have long been held back by distrust, mostly over their contested border. India has reported a rise in incursions by Chinese troops in recent years across a military control line, prompting a drive to beef up defences.

India also views Chinese military collaboration with its arch-rival, Pakistan, as a security threat.

Beijing, for its part, is concerned about the activities of Tibetans led by the Dalai Lama who fled to India following a failed upris-

ing in 1959.

Xi kicks off his visit in Ahmedabad, the commercial capital of Modi’s home state, Gujarat, on Wednesday when the nationalist Indian leader will be marking his 64th birthday.

Xi is set to launch one of two industrial parks focused on building power equipment in the booming state, which topped India’s growth rates when Modi was its chief minister. China will set up another park in the neighbouring state of Maharashtra that will be mainly involved in the autos sector.

The informal setting of the first meeting between Xi and Modi is expected to bring a personal touch, much like the friendly gettogether of the new Indian leader and Abe in Kyoto before their formal summit in Tokyo.

“We hope that during this visit the Chinese and Indian relationship of the

An Indian cyclist pedals past a welcome hoarding put up ahead of an anticipated visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping this week in Ahmadabad on Sunday, September 14. (AP Photo)

last 50-60 years would see a directional change,” India’s Trade Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.

For all that, Modi’s bonhomie with Abe and his plans to meet U.S. President Barack Obama later this month point to a carefully balanced approach to relations with big powers.

“Modi is playing his

cards very close to his chest, first by visiting Japan ahead of Xi coming to China, and also by planning a U.S. visit later this year,” said a Beijing-based diplomat who follows the ChinaIndia relationship.

Before he arrives in India, Xi will visit the Maldives, the Indian ocean island which India has long con-

sidered its area of influence.

He will also travel to Sri Lanka, where China is building a port less than 200 km from India’s southern coast, part of a drive to build ports across the Indian Ocean that some have dubbed a strategic “String of Pearls”.

Earlier this month, Abe visited Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

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Fate of United Kingdom hangs in balance EDINBURGH, SEptEmBER 14 (RE UtERS): The fate of the United Kingdom remained unclear five days before a historic referendum on Scottish independence as three new polls on Saturday showed a slight lead for supporters of the union, but one saying the separatist campaign was pulling ahead.

On the final weekend of campaigning, tens of thousands of supporters of both sides took to the streets of the capital Edinburgh and Scotland's largest city, Glasgow.

Rival leaders worked across the country to convince undecided voters.

At stake is not just the future of Scotland, but that of the United Kingdom, forged by the union with England 307 years ago.

The battle also took a bitter turn on Saturday when a senior nationalist warned businesses such as oil major BP Plc that they could face punishment for voicing concern over the impact of a secession. The economic future of Scotland has become one the most fiercely debated issues in the final weeks of impassioned debate.

Nationalists accuse British Prime Minister David Cameron of coordinating a scare campaign by business leaders aimed at spooking voters, while unionists say separation is fraught with financial and economic uncertainty. But former Scottish Nationalist Party deputy leader Jim Sillars went much further than separatist leader Alex Salmond, warning that BP's operations in Scotland might face nationalisation if Scots voted for secession

on Thursday.

"This referendum is about power, and when we get a 'Yes' majority we will use that power for a day of reckoning with BP and the banks," Sillars, a nationalist rival of Salmond's, was quoted by Scottish media as saying. "BP, in an independent Scotland, will need to learn the meaning of nationalisation, in part or in whole, as it has in other countries who have not been as soft as we have been forced to be," Sillars said. Banks such as Standard Life would face tougher employment laws after a vote for independence, he added.

When asked about the comments in a BBC interview, Sillars confirmed he had raised the prospect of nationalisation, but said he had used the term to get media coverage. Nationalisation was not on the table, he said. A BP spokesman declined to comment but BP chief Bob Dudley has said that independence could cause "uncertainties," and he did not want to see oil-rich Scotland drift away. Major banks, oil companies and supermarkets have said that a vote for secession would create concern. North Sea oil would have to be divided up while there is uncertainty over the future currency and central bank of an independent Scotland.

Salmond struck a softer tone on Saturday. "Mr. Cameron and his Tory friends in Downing Street and the Labour front men in Scotland are going to get their comeuppance next Thursday because Scotland is going to vote yes in very substantial proportions," Salmond said. "It's unfortunate that a number

“No Thanks” badges, wrist bands and stickers are offered to supporters as Member of Parliament and Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, Jim Murphy, speaks in support of the Union on the final day of his 100 Streets in 100 Days Better Together tour, in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland on Saturday, September 13, 2014. Scotland will vote in an independence referendum on September 18. (AP Photo)

of businesses have allowed themselves to be recruited

by David Cameron and Downing Street, but let me say, after a 'Yes' vote, and we are going to get one, it is incumbent on us to reach out everyone and build that atmosphere of 'Team Scotland'."

From the windswept islands of the Atlantic to the inner city estates of Glasgow, Scots are debating whether to vote 'Yes' or 'No' to the ballot paper question they will be asked on Thursday: "Should Scotland be an independent country?" Independence supporters say it is time for Scotland to rule itself, free of politicians in London.

"No" campaigners say that

Gaza children return to school after war GAZA CItY, SEptEmBER 14 (Ap): Some half million Gaza children made a delayed return to school on Sunday after a devastating 50-day war with Israel that killed more than 2,100 Palestinians and damaged hundreds of school buildings.

Gaza Education Ministry official Ziad Thabet said the opening is for 230,000 1st to 12th graders attending public schools, 200,000 going to United Nations-run schools and tens of thousands enrolled in private institutions.

The opening was delayed for two weeks because of damage to schools and the diversion of U.N. school buildings for use as temporary centers to house tens of thousands of displaced people. Some 50,000 people are still being housed in the U.N. schools, the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said.

Early Sunday the Gaza City streets were crowded with children dressed in a broad array of school uniforms, many accompanied

by parents or older siblings.

“I’m not as excited coming to school as I was in the past,” said student Tamar Toutah, 11. “I feel that something is missing. I asked about my fellow students, but some were killed or wounded.”

Thabet said that unlike in previous years the first week of instruction in government schools will be given over to providing psychological counseling and recreational activities to help the war-weary children transition to learning.

“We gave special training to more than 11,000 teachers and 3,000 principals and administrators about how to address students after the war,” he said.

Thabet said 26 Gaza schools were destroyed during the war, and another 232 sustained damage.

He said government funding for education remains spotty, with no money provided for operational expenses since the formation of a unity government earlier

this year between Hamas, the Islamic militant group that runs Gaza, and the Westernbacked Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank.

UNICEF official June Kunugi echoed his concerns.

“Investing in education is an investment for the future,” she said. “Without increased support and commitment to their education and protection, an entire generation in Gaza could be lost.” The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency says it is providing 130,000 school bags and teaching aids for government schools, and that it has carried out training programs for nearly 12,000 school counsellors, teachers and supervisors.

Despite the assistance, teacher Akram al-Fares, 45, said the mood among his colleagues was dour. “We are in the same boat with the kids, we lived through the same very difficult days,” he said.

“But we are here together to prove that life continues, and not only can we teach, but also our kids can learn.”

Scotland is more secure and prosperous as part of the United Kingdom, and the end of the union would destroy three centuries of bonds and shared history, as well as be an economic disaster.

Until September, all polls but one in 2013 had shown the unionists with a comfortable lead. Several surveys this month, however, show the nationalists have won over hundreds of thousands of Scotland's 4 million voters. Out of four opinion polls released on Sunday, three showed the unionists with a lead of between two and eight percentage points while an ICM poll conducted over the inter-

net showed supporters of independence in the lead with 54 percent and unionists on 46 percent.

The ICM poll is the second this year to show independence supporters in the lead though a small sample size of 705 people means its margin of error is higher than most other polls. Polling expert John Curtice said the survey came with "a substantial health warning." In other developments, media tycoon Rupert Murdoch visited Scotland on Saturday and praised the country for being alive with debate ahead of the vote.

"No politicians, just street and pub talks," Murdoch, 83, said on his Twit-

ter feed. "Everywhere alive with debate. Democracy truly at work. Both sides predicting victory." About 12,000 Protestant unionists, including contingents from Northern Ireland, marched through Edinburgh's Old Town on Saturday in an emotional show of support for keeping Scotland in the United Kingdom. With fife and drum bands, bowler hats and orange sashes, the marchers said the referendum on Scottish independence, which takes place this Thursday, threatened their culture and history.

"It's your own history being taken away from you. What will you tell your grandchildren?" said Jim Prentice, a gardener, wear-

ing a Rangers soccer club shirt, who had travelled from south of Glasgow to watch the march. Organised by the Orange Order of Scotland, the march demonstrated that the antiindependence campaign could count on a solid, substantial, bloc of votes in Glasgow, the main battleground of the campaign.

But it also injected a sectarian element with a bitter and sometimes violent history into the campaign. The Order is linked to the Northern Ireland Protestant "loyalist" organizations and many lodges had crossed over the Irish Sea for the event. Rivalry between Catholics and Protestants - famously manifested by supporters of Glasgow's Celtic and Rangers soccer clubs has often been a blight on Scottish society.

The pro-independence campaign was also pulling out all the stops across the country. "I think it's probably the biggest day of campaigning Scotland's ever seen. It's enormous," Calum Cashley, a "Yes" campaigner and SNP activist, told Reuters. "I'm running Edinburgh Eastern constituency today, and we leafletted the entire constituency, we've had sweet stalls, people putting posters up in their windows, it's just been enormous. We're seeing cars go by bedecked with 'Yes' posters and stickers. It's amazing. It's a great feeling and buzz."

Deutsche Bank said a vote for independence would be a mistake akin to Winston Churchill's decision to return the pound to the Gold Standard or the failure of the Federal Re-

serve to provide sufficient liquidity to the U.S. banks, decisions that helped bring on the Great Depression.

"Foreign investors come to Scotland because they rely on a predictable investment environment. All of this comes from a united Great Britain," David Folkerts-Landau, Deutsche's chief economist, said in a note to clients.

Such is the gravity of the situation that finance minister George Osborne cancelled a trip to the G20 meeting in Australia to be held the weekend after the vote. Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will leave the G20 meeting early. Prime Minister David Cameron will warn Scots on Monday that if they break the United Kingdom by voting for independence on Thursday then the union will never be put together again. "There will be no going back," Cameron will say, the Sunday Telegraph reported without citing a source. "We will go our separate ways forever."

Former prime minister Tony Blair said he hoped Scotland voted to stay part of the United Kingdom. "To rip up the alliance between our countries would not be sensible, politically, economically or even emotionally," Blair, who was born in Scotland, said at a security conference in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Investors pulled $27 billion out of British financial assets last month - the biggest capital outflow since the Lehman Brothers crisis in 2008 - as concern mounted over the fate of the United Kingdom, a report by London-based consultancy CrossBorder Capital showed.

North Korea sentences American man to 6 years pYONGYANG, SEptEmBER 14 (Ap): North Korea's Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced a 24-year-old American man to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and trying to commit espionage.

At a trial that lasted about 90 minutes, the court said Matthew Miller, of Bakersfield, California, tore up his tourist visa at Pyongyang's airport upon arrival on April 10 and admitted to having the "wild ambition" of experiencing prison life so that he could secretly investigate North Korea's human rights situation.

Miller, who waived the right to a lawyer, was handcuffed and led from the courtroom after his sentencing. The court ruled that it would not hear any appeals to its decision.

Earlier, it had been believed that Miller had sought asylum when he entered North Korea. During the trial, however, the pros-

Handcuffed Matthew Miller, a U.S. citizen, is led to a courtroom for his trial at the Supreme Court in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, September 14. North Korea’s Supreme Court on Sunday sentenced Miller to six years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and trying to commit espionage. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)

ecution argued that it was a ruse and that Miller also falsely claimed to have secret information about the U.S. military in South Korea on his iPad and iPod. Miller is one of three Americans now being held in North Korea.

A trial is expected soon

for Jeffrey Fowle, who entered the North as a tourist but was arrested in May for leaving a Bible at a provincial club. The third American, Korean-American missionary Kenneth Bae, is serving out a 15-year sentence for alleged "hostile acts." All three have appealed to the U.S.

government to send a senior statesman to Pyongyang to intervene on their behalf.

During a brief interview with The Associated Press in Pyongyang last week, Miller said he had written a letter to President Barack Obama but had not received a reply.

Fowle, a 56-year-old equip-

ment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said his wife, a hairstylist from Russia, made a written appeal on his behalf to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He said the Russian government responded that it was watching the situation.

The U.S. has repeatedly offered to send its envoy for North Korean human rights issues, Robert King, to Pyongyang to seek the freedom of the detainees, but without success. Former President Bill Clinton came in 2009 to free a couple of jailed journalists.

Jimmy Carter made the trip in 2010 to secure the release of Aijalon Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years of hard labor for illegally crossing into the country to do missionary work.

In 2011, the State Department's envoy for North Korean human rights managed to successfully intervene in the case of KoreanAmerican businessman Eddie Yong Su Jun.

behind brightest IS video shows slaying of British aid worker Mystery objects in universe solved

BEIRUt, SEptEmBER 14 (Ap): Islamic State extremists released a video showing the beheading of British aid worker David Haines, who was abducted in Syria last year, and British Prime Minister David Cameron late Saturday condemned his slaying as "an act of pure evil."

Cameron confirmed Haines' death in a statement after the British Foreign Office had said earlier that it was "working urgently to verify the video." Haines is the third Westerner beheaded in recent weeks by the Islamic State group, which has seized vast swaths of territory in Syria and Iraq.

"This is a despicable and appalling murder of an innocent aid worker. It is an act of pure evil," Cameron said, adding that "my heart goes out to the family of David Haines who have shown extraordinary courage and fortitude throughout this ordeal." "We will do everything in our power to hunt down these murder-

ers and ensure they face justice, however long it takes," Cameron said.

President Barack Obama issued a statement strongly condemning "the barbaric murder" of Haines by the Islamic State terrorist group. "The United States stands shoulder to shoulder tonight with our close friend and ally in grief and resolve. We will work with the United Kingdom and a broad coalition of nations from the region and around the world to bring the perpetrators of this outrageous act to justice, and to degrade and destroy this threat to the people of our countries, the region and the world," Obama said.

In the video showing Haines' slaying, the group threatened to kill another British captive. Both British men were dressed in orange jumpsuits against an arid Syrian landscape, similar to that seen in the Foley and Sotloff videos. The SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. terrorism watchdog, reported the video, which

This image made from video posted on the Internet by Islamic State militants and provided by the SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S. terrorism watchdog, on Saturday, September 13, 2014, purports to show British aid worker David Haines before he was beheaded. The video emerged hours after the family of Haines issued a public plea on Saturday urging his captors to contact them. The 44-year-old Haines was abducted in Syria in 2013 while working for an international aid agency. (AP Photo)

was also posted online by users associated with the Islamic State group.

The video was entitled "A Message to the Allies of America." Haines' killer, who appeared to be the same masked man speaking with a British accent and brandishing a knife as

in the previous videos, tells the British government that its alliance with the U.S. will only "accelerate your destruction" and will drag the British people into "another bloody and unwinnable war". In the video, according to a transcript provided

by SITE, Haines says that he

holds Cameron "entirely responsible for my execution" because Britain has "voluntarily entered into a coalition with the United States against the Islamic state."

His killer says in the video that Haines was paying the price for Britain's decision to supply weapons to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, who are battling the Islamic State group in northern Iraq.

He references U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State fighters near the Haditha Dam in western Iraq, which the U.S. began targeting on Sept.

7 — indicating that Haines' killing took place sometime during the past week.

Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said the Islamic State group releases such videos because it has concluded that neither the American nor the European public has the stomach for a protracted conflict in which civilians are tortured and killed. "Each video that's released, of course, is a propaganda coup, if you

will," Rubin, a Pentagon official during the George W. Bush administration, told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday night.

If the slaying of Haines took place in the last few days, Rubin said, the timing suggests that U.S. and other forces have no idea where the extremists are keeping their captives and that, in turn, means a lack of intelligence about what goes on within the group itself.

Mike Haines said in a statement issued by the Foreign Office that his brother was devoted to humanitarian work. "David was most alive and enthusiastic in his humanitarian roles," Mike Haines said. "His joy and anticipation for the work he went to do in Syria is for myself and family the most important element of this whole sad affair.” British media have reported that Haines, who is married to a Croatian woman, was educated in Perth, Scotland, and spent 11 years serving in the British Royal Air Force before becoming an international aid worker.

WASHINGtON, SEptEmBER 14 (IANS): Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe and display a mysterious diversity in their appearance that has puzzled astronomers for over two decades.

Scientists believe that the mystery can now be solved.

The mystery can be solved by looking at two simple features of quasars how quickly matter is being fed into the quasars and the direction from which they are being seen.

Quasars are super-massive black holes, up to billions of times the mass of the sun, that live at the hearts of distant, massive galaxies.

Though previous studies found that the physical properties of quasars follow definite, regular trends, for some puzzling reasons, they can vary greatly in appearance in visible and ultraviolet light.

To help solve the mystery, scientists examined the largest sample of quasar observations yet - data

from over 20,000 quasars.

"Our work solves a twodecade-long mystery in quasar research," said Yue Shen, lead author and astronomer at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California.

The first factor is the so-called Eddington ratio the luminosity of a quasar compared with its mass.

This ratio predicts how quickly matter is falling into a quasar and was long suspected to play a major role in why quasars often varied in appearance.

The other factor is the direction from which astronomers look at a quasar.

"These findings will help improve future measurements of black hole mass to help scientists better understand the cosmic growth of super-massive black holes and their place in galaxy formation," said Luis Ho from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University.

The study appeared in the journal Nature.

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Floyd Mayweather remains unbeaten

Floyd Mayweather, right, follows through on a punch at Marcos Maidana during their title boxing match Saturday, September 13, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo)

LAS VEGAS, SEPtEmbER 14 (AP): Floyd Mayweather worked far too hard against Marcos Maidana their last time out to have to do it again in the rematch Saturday night.

Mayweather dominated Maidana from the opening bell, using his boxing skills to keep the Argentine off balance and pile up points on his way to a unanimous 12-round decision to retain his welterweight and super welterweight titles before a crowd at the MGM Grand that sometimes booed the lack of action. It almost came at a cost, though, in a bizarre scene in the eighth round when Mayweather claimed that Maidana bit him on his wrist while they were in a clinch near the center of the ring.

"He bit me!" Mayweath-

er yelled to the Showtime announcers working ringside. Mayweather remained unbeaten in his remarkable 18-year pro career, winning for the 47th time and doing it with such dominance that about the only one complaining about the decision was Maidana. "I was pressuring him and I was the aggressor," Maidana said. "I won the fight."

Mayweather earned at least $32 million for the rematch, bringing his total purses to more than $100 million in the last year.

Though he wasn't marked up, he was upset over the bite. "We were tangled in the center of the ring and I didn't realize what it was.

Then I saw that he bit me," Mayweather said. "After the eighth round my fingers were numb, I couldn't use

my left hand."

Maidana denied he bit Mayweather. "How can he say I bit the glove with my mouthpiece?" Maidana asked. "I'm not a dog."

The fight was a marked contrast to their first bout in May, when Maidana roughed Mayweather up in a close fight. Mayweather won that bout, but it was close enough for Mayweather to offer an opponent only the second rematch of his career.

Maidana won't get a third fight after failing to land any big punches.

Two ringside judges scored it 116-111 for Mayweather, while the third had it 115-112. The Associated Press had it 117-110.

"I felt sharper in the first fight, my rhythm was off," Mayweather said. "I got hit with some shots tonight I shouldn't have gotten hit with. But that comes with the sport." Mayweather complained long after the first fight that Maidana was a dirty fighter, and complained even more when Maidana seemed to try to hit him below the belt in a clinch in the eighth round, then apparently tried to bite him.

Mayweather immediately jumped back and gestured to referee Kenny Bayless that Maidana bit him on the wrist. He went to his corner and showed Bayless where the bite was, then went over to the Showtime announcers table to complain.

Maidana would later be penalized a point for tackling Mayweather as he tried desperately to find something that would work. By the end of the ninth round, Maidana was so out of sorts he went to the wrong corner when the bell rang. Maidana spent many of the early rounds trying to figure out a way to get inside like he did in May. Mayweather kept him at a distance, circling around and landing left jabs and hooks, then scampering out of the way before Maidana could respond.

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Villa extends unbeaten start with a victory at Liverpool

Aston Villa's Gabriel Agbonlahor, bottom centre left, scores against Liverpool during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England, Saturday September 13. (AP Photo)

LIVERPOOL, SEPtEmbER 14 (AP): Liverpool received a reminder of how tough life will be without last season's two leading goalscorers in a 1-0 loss to Aston Villa in the Premier League on Saturday.

Gabriel Agbonlahor put Villa in front after 11 minutes at Anfield and the second-placed visitors clung on to preserve their unbeaten start to the season.

"We came here with tactics to frustrate Liverpool and try and nick a goal, and they came off perfectly for us," Agbonlahor told British broadcaster Sky Sports.

With Daniel Sturridge sidelined for up to three weeks with a thigh injury, it meant Liverpool started a game without the England striker or Luis Suarez, who

was sold in the offseason to Barcelona, for the first time since December 2012.

Last season the pair scored more than 50 league goals between them so it was immediately apparent where the Reds were most likely to be under the greatest strain.

Mario Balotelli was brought in by Liverpool last month from AC Milan to provide additional firepower but he appeared to spend much of the first half either being kicked or trying to avoid being kicked on his home debut by Philippe Senderos. The Swiss defender got away with at least one hack at the former Manchester City striker off the ball which would have likely resulted in a red card had referee Lee Mason or either of his assistants seen it.

Whether or not such treatment knocked Balotelli off his stride, it was the latter stages of the first half before he started to show signs of life with one dipping shot dropping just wide of the post. Balotelli also created a good chance for Adam Lallana, making his debut after injury in preseason delayed his first appearance since an offseason move. But the former Southampton midfielder drilled a half-volley just wide from Balotelli's layoff on the edge of the area.

By that time Liverpool were already behind after mistakes by their two center backs. First, Mamadou Sakho tried to control the ball close to his own goalline instead of playing safe and ended up conceding a

corner, from which Dejan Lovren got the wrong side of Senderos to create a scramble from which Agbonlahor scored in the ninth minute.

The goal was against the run of play after Lazar Markovic, also making his first Anfield appearance, had volleyed over Alberto Moreno's far-post cross and headed wide. While Lallana was deservedly booked for a late challenge on Tom Cleverley, who made his debut after a deadline day loan move from Manchester United, Mason missed Senderos' kick at Balotelli and chose to take no action after Alan Hutton appeared to rake his studs down the Italian's knee.

Balotelli had the first chance of the second half, heading wide Steven Ger-

rard's corner. But Villa's plan to smother Liverpool continued to work and even the introduction of Liverpool strikers Rickie Lambert and Fabio Borini for Balotelli and Lazar Markovic failed to produce the chances needed to rescue a point.

The closest Liverpool came was when Philippe Coutinho bent a shot around Villa goalkeeper Brad Guzan only for it to rebound back off the post.

"Not many teams will come here and get a win," Agbonlahor said. "We showed a lot of character and I thought it was a brilliant performance from everyone." Villa fans left chanting "We're going to win the league" after a third win in four matches put the central England club second in the table.

Juventus takes charge to beat Udinese

mILAN, SEPtEmbER 14 (AP): Juventus showed little has changed since Massimiliano Allegri took charge as it eased to a 2-0 win against Udinese on Saturday in the former AC Milan coach's home debut.

Carlos Tevez scored in the eighth minute and Claudio Marchisio secured the points in the 75th to make it two Serie A wins out of two for Allegri, who started with a 1-0 victory at Chievo Verona before the international break.

Juventus dominated and was rarely troubled, although the three-time defending champion was almost made to pay for its profligacy in front of goal when Igor Bubnjic had the ball in the Naga cricketer Jonathan Rongsen Longkumer (third from left) with his Hubli Tigers team mates at the recently concluded back of the net, but it was ruled out for Karnataka Premier League. He will be playing next for the Railways at the Ranji Trophy which starts on November 2014. offside. "It was emotional to come out

for the first time as coach in this fantastic stadium," Allegri said. "The crowd is an added weapon, and the fans helped the team in our moment of difficulty.

"The team started very well, we had to break the deadlock early because we knew they defend well and are dangerous on the counterattack.

But we should have closed the match in the first half. Instead, we suffered at the start of the second, but it was a good test, and we even had more chances after we made it 2-0." Earlier, Roma also maintained its perfect start to the fledgling season with a 1-0 win at newly promoted Empoli.

Both teams open their Champions League campaigns next week. Juventus hosts Malmo on Tuesday, while Rome entertains CSKA Moscow the

following day. Juventus was struggling with injury problems with Arturo Vidal joining the likes of Andrea Pirlo and Giorgio Chiellini on the sidelines.

Tevez shook off a thigh muscle injury to start, and opened the scoring early on when Stephan Lichtsteiner pulled the ball back from the byline for the Argentine to rush into the area and slot past Orestis Karnezis.

Roberto Pereyra, who moved from Udinese in the offseason, almost scored against his former team on the half hour but he blasted a good ball from Fernando Llorente over the bar. Udinese's only real sight of goal came in the 67th minute when Bubnjic thought he levelled for Udinese, only for his effort to be ruled out for a tight offside decision.

Leo Club Inter-School TT tourney Atletico defeats Real, Barca beats Bilbao

Winners at the 27th Leo Club Inter-School TT tourney.

DImAPUR, SEPtEmbER 14 (mExN): The 27th Leo Club Inter-School TT tourney concluded today under the chairmanship of Leo Sanjay Jaiswal.

Zakiesato Memorial HS School and Delhi public School emerged as the winners in this year's tournament.

Steering his way amongst 74 paddlers, Jay Gurung of Zakiesato Memorial HS School remained unbeaten till the end and finally lifted his singles title and trophy for his school.

He defeated Bunty Barman of his own school by a margin of 11-7, 11-8, 8-11 and 11-3 in a 5 set match.

Gokul Jain and his partner Saurabh Jain of Delhi Public School lifted the Doubles title and trophy for his school by defeating Bunty Barman and Vicky Das of Zakiesato Memorial HS School in one sided match by a margin of 11-2, 11-6 & 11-7. While best disciplined team and school award went to Little Star Hr. Sec. School.

The winners of the 21st Inter School Contest were also declared. Ananyo Chakraborty of Pranab Vidyapith School won the 1st prize, Jamithung N Jami of El- Shaddai Academy got the 2nd prize and Afreena Ali from Holy Cross higher

Sec school got the 3rd prize.

Living Stone Foundation School got the prize for the highest number of participants in the slogan contest.

The Chief Guests on the occasion, Gopal Sharma was overwhelmed to see the enthusiasm of the participant. He urged the school authorities to participate in such tournament by sending their students, as it would develop their sporting skills. Lauding the efforts of the Leos to organize the tournament for 27 years, Sharma urged them to continue with the tournament for the benefit of the students.

b ARCELONA, SEPtEmbER 14 (AP): Atletico Madrid won 2-1 at Real Madrid in the Spanish league on Saturday to take a small measure of revenge for last season's loss of the European Cup final to its crosstown rival.

Atletico struck first through Tiago Cardoso's header in the 10th minute, but otherwise Madrid dictated the first half with Cristiano Ronaldo leveling from a penalty the forward earned in the 26th. The second half, however, was all Atletico as Arda Turan went on and scored the 76th-minute winner before fellow substitute Antoine Griezmann went close to adding another.

Ma d r i d' s s e c o n d straight loss left it four points behind the defending champion, and six points adrift of Barcelona after the league leader beat Athletic Bilbao 2-0 thanks to Neymar's brace from a pair of passes by Lionel Messi. "We have to analyze this problem and try to solve it quickly," Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti said.

Madrid can always

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, right, duels for the ball with Atletico de Madrid's Juan Fran during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, September 13. (AP Photo)

say it beat Atletico in the Champions League final last May. But the reality is that Atletico, for so long so inferior to Madrid, has gotten the better of Span-

ish capital derbies over the past year and a half. Under coach Diego Simeone, Atletico has won three of its last five visits to Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. It all

started when Atletico won the Copa del Rey there in 2013, and it has continued with consecutive wins in league play to add to a draw before winning a second

leg of the Spanish Super Cup at the Vicente Calderon in August.

Simeone's vehement protest in that Super Cup win earned him a multigame ban that he was still serving on Saturday from a glassed-in box where he watched assistant German Burgos keep his team unbeaten through five matches in all competitions this season. "We don't feel at home here, no. We have a lot of respect for these grounds," Simeone said.

"It's difficult to win here but we had a good start. Later, I didn't like how we played because we lost the ball.

Moving Koke into midfield gave us more fluidity, Arda going on gave us playmaking, and Griezmann gave us speed." Tiago took the opener when he slipped inside Karim Benzema's mark to head in Jorge "Koke" Resurreccion's corner kick at the near post. Madrid looked to Ronaldo to answer, and he showed no sign of his recent injury that kept him sidelined for the past two weeks when he blew by Siqueira, who fouled him in the area to set up his spot kick.

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uaranteed to be bigger international news than that of the second royal baby, if does indeed turn out to be accurate, is the seeming announcement that Beyoncé is pregnant again.

The source of the rumour? Her husband, Jay Z, who, according to Radar Online, swapped out some of his lyrics during the Paris leg of the couple’s On The Run World

Tour on Friday evening (12 September) to include the words “cause she pregnant with another one”.

He apparently made the change of dialogue midway through a rendition of the track “Beach Is Better”.

However, there was no report of any such reaction from Beyoncé, who makes up the other 50 per cent of the entire show and was on stage at the time.

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yoncé and Jay Z are also yet to confirm the reports.

The pair, who have been married for six years, are already parents to baby Blue Ivy, who was born in January 2012.

For her first pregnancy, Beyoncé chose to dramatically announce the news by ripping open her costume blazer and rubbing her stomach at the end of her performance of “Love On Top” at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards.

Corruption is in every NOH audition on WhatsApp human being: Aamir D

imapur, September 14 (MExN): The Naga Orpheus Hunt (NOH) is now on WhatsApp! The NOH event managers of 2014, the Soyachunks, have come up with a wider platform this year to give maximum exposure to participants from all over Nagaland. If you cannot make it to any of the audition centres this year, you can now send two demo videos of you singing on WhatsApp to the NOH judges on +91 8730022107 by September 21, 2014.

added: “Those who do not pay taxes to the government are traitors to the country.

Corruption is not prevalent in just Members of Parliament, but it is there in every human being.

“There is no point in changing our MPs every five years. Instead, we should first introspect and correct ourselves to improve the status of the country.” Aamir, who hosts “Satyamev Jayate”, a show where he shares startling facts and figures about socially relevant matters, also said that “if we want to do something for society then we do not need to become a social worker nor do we need to make an NGO”.

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his or her system to have a larger impact on the country’s progress. “How many people pay taxes honestly,” he asked the audience in response to a question, and

I don’t expect to be star all my life: Deepika Padukone

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fter giving hits like “Chennai Express”, “Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani” and “Race 2” in 2013, Deepika Padukone has become one of the most sought-after actresses in Bollywood. She says she feels secure, but is also aware that her stardom isn’t going to last forever.

When asked if she is afraid of losing her stardom, she said: “No, not at all. I know my stardom isn’t going to be all my life. I am secure about my work, but I don’t expect to be a star all my life. It’s practically impossible and if anyone thinks like that, they are delusional.”

The actress, who is being applauded for her performance in her new film “Finding Fanny”, said it’s very “rare” that she is happy with her work. “I rarely appreciate myself. I think it’s a good thing to be critical as it helps me to perform better,” she said

Pitt and Jolie spent £250M on Luxury Yacht

in both the categories to go through to the grand finale to be held in the last week of Oct 2014 with open air show to choose the ultimate winner of Naga Talents promo season 3 formerly known as Nagas Got Talent.The winners will walk away the title with the cash prize money of Rs 2 lakhs in group and Rs 1 lakh in Individual category.The final public voting round will be starting from 15th sept onwards date n venue for the grand finale will be published in all the local papers very soon.kashito kiba pma

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rad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly spent £250 million on a new luxury yacht, and it is said they plan to spend a further £200,000 so the boat fits their own specification The Hollywood newlyweds are said to have purchased the top-of-the-range ship, with plans to spend a further £200,000 so that it fits their own specifications, including being decked out with Italian marble.

According to the Sunday Mirror newspaper, the yacht will have woodwork by Italian boat-makers Razzardi, while the couple will also look to stop paparazzi by installing technology to interfere with digital cameras.

Meanwhile, the two stars are shooting a film together in Malia following their secret wedding in France last month, but locals are angry over alleged disruption to their village. The couple have reportedly hired six villas to ensure they are left in piece with their children Maddox, 13, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, eight, and six-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.

An insider said: “As well as two holiday homes to accommodate their brood they’ve hired four surrounding them so they can have privacy.

“It’s as though they’ve sectioned off their own compound. Locals are getting angry as their presence is getting disruptive.”

Justin Bieber Wants Kids With Selena

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Nise Meruno recently did two shows in Mumbai. The first was an exclusive event hosted

by The Piramals on September 11. The guest list included Bollywood stars and socialites like Juhi Chawla, Shilpa Shetty, Nita Ambani and Avanti Birla. The second show, on September 13, was at the St. Andrew’s Auditorium. Seen in the picture is Nise Meruno with young playback singer, actor Tara Sutaria (left) and singer Marie Paul.

Lines of Note playing at the Jumping Bean Café, Dimapur on September 12.

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A source said: “They have a very romaticised and immature idea of what it means to have a child. When they first fell in love, they promised each other that they’d be parents one day, and Justin still says he wants Selena to be the mother of his children, especially when he wants to make her happy.

“They’re rolling the dice, because they think whatever happens is God’s will.” But friends close to the couple think their turbulent romance is toxic. Another source told US OK! magazine: “They’re so irresponsible when they’re together.

Every time they start seeing each other, they make all kinds of declarations of love and talk like they’re going to be together forever. “But their relationship is dangerously toxic, and they’re the only ones who don’t realise that.”

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Switzerland beats Italy Inspired Asian Games: Indian women Somdev puts 3-1 in Davis Cup semifinal India level maul Maldives 15-0 in football

Roger Federer, of Switzerland, returns a ball to Fabio Fognini, of Italy, during the third single match of the tennis Davis Cup World Group semifinal between Switzerland and Italy, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, September 14. (AP Photo)

GENEVA, SEPTEMBER 14 (AP): Roger Federer has taken Switzerland to its first Davis Cup final in 22 years, beating Fabio Fognini of Italy in the opening reverse singles Sunday for a winning 3-1 lead in their semifinal. Federer celebrated with skipping jumps across the court on completing a 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (4) win against the 17th-ranked Fognini.

"It's fabulous to share in this moment," Federer said in an on-court interview after being hoisted

on the shoulders of teammate Stan Wawrinka and captain Severin Luethi for a lap of honor round the court. Their celebrations delighted a noisy 18,000plus crowd at Palexpo indoor arena. Switzerland will play at France in the final on Nov. 21-23.

In Federer's only previous Davis Cup semifinal 11 years ago, he lost a decisive reverse singles match against Lleyton Hewitt in Australia. "After the difficult defeat in 2003 we had anoth-

er chance this year," Federer said. Federer improved to 3-0 against Fognini, who again failed to win a set off the third-ranked Swiss.

The key point in the tiebreaker was Federer's forehand crosscourt return of serve for a winner to lead 5-4. He followed with an ace, and then won a rally on Fognini's serve when the Italian netted a forehand.

Federer was rarely troubled in the first set after firing an ace to save a break-point chance in his second service game. He broke Fognini's service to lead 4-2 and clinched when the Italian was frustrated by more service trouble with double faults and a foot fault.

A rare failure of Federer's forehand saw three breakpoint chances slip in Fognini's opening service of the second set. Federer forced a 5-3 lead when Fognini netted a forehand and slammed his racket to the floor.

The Italian right-hander played his best tennis yet in a dynamic rally to save Federer's first set-point chance, before failing to handle the next service.

Fognini raised his play in the third set, forcing four break-point chances which Federer saved, and punching the air when good defense won a key point on his own serve.

In a series of longer rallies, Fognini's varied play moved Federer around the court but could not create a decisive break.

BANGAloRE, SEPTEMBER 14 (IANS): Playing the match of his life that his captain wanted him to, tennis star Somdev Devvarman pulled off a brilliant five-set win over higher ranked Serb Dusan Lajovic to put India level at 2-2 in the Davis Cup World Group Play-off tie here Sunday. The 29-yearold Devvarman, ranked 144, picked himself up after a sluggish start to prevail 1-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 over No.62 Lajovic whose game and especially the serve, deserted him when he needed it most in this three hours and 40-minute epic encounter here.

The victory put India and Serbia, the 2010 champions and runners-up last year, on par at 2-2 with the outcome of the tie hinging on the second reverse singles between Yuki Bhambri and Filip Krajinojvic later.

On Saturday night, after India’s doubles win, captain Anand Amritraj had stated that Devvarman needed to play the “match of his life” to beat Lajovic and the player obliged by winning the toeto-toe slugfest under lights and in front of a partisan full house. The stage and occasion could not have got any bigger for Devvarman to showcase his character after being all but wiped out in the early stages of the match by the elegant Lajovic who came here on the back of a good season that had him climbing from 117 at the start of the year to 58 in July.

INCHEoN, SEPTEMBER 14 (PTI): The Indian women's football team shrugged off some unsavoury incidents in the runup to the Asian Games as they mauled Maldives 15-0 to open their campaign in style on Sunday.

Winger Sasmita Malik and midfielder Kamala Devi struck five times while striker Bala Devi scored twice. Captain Bembem Devi, striker Prameshwori Devi and defender Ashalata Devi also scored a goal each in a completely lopsided Group A match.

With Sunday's win, India are virtually through to

quarterfinals in the women's football competition which began a week before the opening ceremony of the Asian Games.

India next play hosts South Korea on September 17 before taking on Thailand on September 19 in their last group match.

Three teams from the fourteam Group A will qualify for the quarterfinals.

The Maldives side is yet to register even a single shot on Indian goal. The Indian women, who led 9-0 at the interval, seized the initiative right from the kickoff and they dominated the proceedings all through

the match. The flurry of passes, the slowing down of the game at will, the sudden bursts of speed and the quick interchanging proved too much for the Maldives women as they surrendered meekly.

It was as early as the fifth minute when India opened their account through Sasmita off a pass from Bembem, who by the end of the match was the architect of almost all the goals.

Bembem picked out Sasmita on top of the rival box before the fleet-footed left winger turned her marker to smash a powerful shot low to the keeper's

right.

Midfielder Kamala doubled the tally for the blue shirts 12 minutes later with a fine strike from inside the area after combining well with Bembem.

In-form striker Bala further took the game away from their lacklustre counterparts in the very next minute, placing the ball onto the roof of the net from a Tuli Goon cross from the right.

Three minutes later, Sasmita got her second goal, this time scoring off the rebound after Prameshwori Devi had forced the keeper to a diving save.

I don't look back in anger, says Sania Mirza

HYDERABAD, SEPTEMBER 14 (TNN): Not too long back, images of a teary-eyed Sania Mirza flashed through all TV channels. The tennis ace had broken down after her nationality was questioned by a minister post her appointment as the brand ambassador of Telangana.

Today, she has put all that behind her and is ready to head for the Asian Games. The decision actually came as a surprise as Sania had earlier said that she would not be playing in the Asian Games.

"Yes, it was my decision to not play in the Asian Games. But I wasn't happy about it. So, I thought over it and decided that I should

play. I know I am sacrificing 900 points, but sometimes you have to take a decision. Also, people wanted me to play," explains the tennis ace.

Sania only recently returned home with a Grand Slam title, and is in great form, but ask her if she is prepared for the Asian Games, and she says, "We have to give our best. And that's what I will do."

While Sania has had a change of plans, Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna and Somdev Devvarman have pulled out of the Games.

"To each his own. Every person has the right to take decisions and it's only fair. Mine is an individual choice and so is theirs," she says.

But does being the only consistent female tennis player in the international circuit put pressure on her, we ask.

"No, not at all. There was no pressure on me to play. If you want to know about pressure of being the only female tennis player from India, well, I can only say that I don't remember the last time I played under pressure. I play for the love of tennis and if I am the only female player from India, well, I got to perform."

As conversation veers to other topics, we ask Sania about her meeting with President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.

"I received a letter of invitation and was honoured

to meet them. I was glad when they congratulated me on my US Open win on Twitter. It was a nice gesture. This is the first time I met them and they were very welcoming and supportive. They told me that I make India proud and that they are extremely proud of me."

But despite all the laurels she brings home, Sania's 'Indianness' is still questioned, because she is married to a Pakistani cricketer. "Honestly, I have put all that behind. It happened, it hurt me, I spoke about it, and said I am an Indian and will always remain one. Beyond that, I don't keep things in heart.

I don't see a point in doing that."

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