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KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 20 (PTI): Nepal on Sunday adopted its new fully secular and democratic Constitution, achieved after seven years of painstaking deliberations, amid violent protests by minority Madhesi groups over a seven province federal structure. “I announce the presented constitution of Nepal, passed by the Constituent Assembly and authenticated by the chairman of the Constituent Assembly, effective from today, 20 September 2015, before the people of Nepal,” President Ram Baran Yadav said as he unveiled the statute in Parliament. “I call for unity and cooperation of all at this historic moment,” he said at the special ceremony at the Constituent Assembly (CA) hall in Naya Baneshwor to mark the Himalayan nation’s transformation into a secular, federal democracy from a Hindu monarchy. He added: “The Constitution is the common document of all of us to protect our freedom, independence, geographic integrity, and sovereignty in people.” With this the Interim Constitution has been annulled. President Yadav said the newly promulgated ‘Constitution 2072’ has

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institutionalised republicanism in the nation. He hoped that the Constitution would lead Nepal to economic development. The new Constitution has given an opportunity to maintain unity in diversity in the nation and ensure rights of all, he added, while addressing the final meeting of the CA as the Assembly unanimously endorsed an acknowledgement motion, thanking the President for announcing commencement of the statute. It has been endorsed by 85 per cent of the 601 members of the CA and has the provision of a bicameral legislation. The Lower House or the House of Representatives will have 375 members and the Upper House has 60 members. The Constitution has 37 divisions, 304 articles and 7 annexes. The seven provinces will be finalised by a high-level commission within a year. Sunday’s historic moment came amid protests by Madhesi groups over the issue of federating the country. Violence surrounding the federal structure that will divide the country into seven provinces has triggered violence in the Himalayan nation, claiming at least 40 lives including one reported on Sunday. Promulgation of the long-

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A nepalese policeman detains a protester during a demonstration against the government and the new constitution during in Kathmandu, nepal, sunday, sep 20, 2015. Weeks of violent protests linked to two ethnic groups — the Tharu in southwestern nepal and the Madhesi in the country’s south and southeast — have left at least 44 people dead, including police. (AP Photo)

pending Constitution came amid high security, including a large number of security personnel deployed at the CA hall. In central and eastern Nepal as well as in hilly districts, firecrackers went off as people celebrated the occasion of having their own Constitution — the first to be drafted by elected representatives — after a 67 year— long democratic struggle. Madhesis and the Tharu ethnic communities in

southern Nepal and some western districts are opposed to the new Constitution as they believe it has failed to address concerns raised by the Madhesis and the Tharu ethnic communities. India, that sent Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s special envoy to urge top Nepalese leadership to address concerns of all sides, had expressed concern over the ongoing violence.

Promulgation of the statute should be an occasion of joy and not violence, Mr. Jaishankar said on Saturdayyesterday, a day before the unveiling of the new statute following protests that has spilled over to districts bordering India. Security was tightened in the southern Nepal districts, where nearly 40 people were killed over the last one month during violent protests against the seven province model that would

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ular country, despite widespread protests for it to be declared a Hindu state. A clause stating “Religious and cultural freedom, with the protection of religion and culture practiced since ancient times” has angered some people who say it favours Hinduism. Proselytising remains illegal, reflecting fears of growing numbers of low-caste and other marginalized groups converting to Christianity. Rights to citizenship were hotly debated during the drafting and critics say the constitution discriminates against women in terms of passing on citizenship. The constitution is the first in Asia to specifically protect the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities. The state and the judiciary are prohibited from discriminating against sexual and gender minorities. The rhododendron is the national flower, and the cow remains the national animal after seeing off a charge from several lawmakers proposing the one-horned rhino.

be incorporated in the new Constitution. One protester was killed and several other injured as police opened fire at protesters demonstrating defying curfew and declaration of prohibited zone in Birgunj, a town bordering India. Security has also been tightened in and around Rastrapati Bhawan, Prime Minister’s Office, residents of chiefs of diplomatic missions in Nepal and other

high government officials and foreign missions. Vehicular movement was very thin in Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, where people lighted candles at public places soon after the President unveiled the new Constitution. Earlier, a bomb threat was sounded in two places of Lalitpur district, adjoining Kathmandu, but the suspicious objects were found to be hoax, police said.

India concerned over border unrest

NEw DElHI/KATHMANDU, SEPTEMBER 20 (IANS): As Nepal on Sunday adopted a new constitution, India said it has always supported a federal, democratic, republican and inclusive constitution in the Himalayan nation, but voiced concern over the unrest in parts of the neighbouring country bordering India. In a statement, India extended good wishes to the people of Nepal on promulgation of the much-awaited constitution, and urged Nepal to resolve through dialogue the issues on which differences remain. The statement said Indian envoy Ranjit Rae spoke to Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala about India’s concerns regarding the unrest in the border areas. “Throughout the process of constitution-making in Nepal, India has supported a federal, democratic, republican and inclusive constitution. We note the promulgation in Nepal today of a constitution. We urge that issues on which there are differences should be resolved through dialogue in an atmosphere free from violence and intimidation, and institutionalised in a manner that would enable broad-based ownership and acceptance.”

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NEw DElHI, SEPTEMBER 20 (IANS): It started with seemingly simple instances of forgetfulness -not remembering where the house keys were, or difficulty in recalling the names of some relatives. But over time when her mother, who lived alone, started asking the same questions over and over Who decides who wins-you again, and sometimes foror the parents? got that she had had her meal just an hour back, The Morung Express alarm bells started ringing Poll QuEsTion for Rama Venkatesh. Her Vote on www.morungexpress.com doubts proved right when the doctor confirmed it was sMs your answer to 9862574165 Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Do you agree that while Naga AD is the most common Churches are becoming type of dementia, in which more ‘magnificent,’ God’s the mental ability of a perkingdom is being neglected? son declines and gradually reaches such a stage Yes no others that it becomes difficult for Do Naga apex organizations them to lead a normal life. truly present the v It is an incurable disease oice of the public? with a long and progressive Yes 19% course. 68% no In India there are more than 50 lakh people suffer13% others ing from dementia, of which Details on page 7

nearly 80 percent have Alzheimer’s. According to doctors, this number is expected to double by 2030. The disease throws up a lot of early signs, which one can read by careful observation of a person’s day-to-day behaviour. “Shrinking of one’s vocabulary; disorientation with regards to time, place; asking the same question again and again; loss of short-term memory; inability to carry out simple calculations; forgetting names of relatives; and bad mood swings leading one to be temperamental are all early signs of AD,” J.D. Mukherji, director and head of the Neurology department in Max Hospital, in New Delhi, told IANS. What causes AD is the deposit of a protein, Amyloid, in the brain which renders parts of it responsible for memory, thinking, calculation, and vocabulary non-functional. The threat of the disease progressively increases with increasing age, Mukherji said. While there is no ‘prevention’ as such, one can keep the dis-

ease at bay as much as possible with certain changes in lifestyle. “Sleep well,” Mukherji said, adding: “Being physically and mentally active, reading and writing, and even taking turmeric have shown to be of help.” Alzheimer’s is also one of those diseases where the immediate family suffers just as much, or sometimes even more, because they see their loved one lose their ability to remember and function normally over time. “It’s not easy being a care-giver. You get irritated despite yourself because a seemingly healthy person is behaving illogically; refusing to dress properly or asking weird questions. Then, over time, you realise that the person becomes completely dependent on you,” said Saima Khan whose father suffers from AD. “It’s like taking care of a baby. They are not aware of their mistakes. But it’s a challenge getting through dayto-day affairs along with the rest of the family,” she added. Robi Das, whose moth-

er is an Alzheimer’s patient, shares a similar story. “It’s not easy taking care of an AD patient. Both I and my wife work in the corporate sector, and we have no relatives who would take the responsibility of looking after my mom. So we’ve found a good day care centre for such patients in our vicinity; in the evenings we get her back.” “It’s been like that for two years now. Sometimes I feel guilty that I am not there all the time... she needs help to change her diaper and to eat, so we have a nurse to look after her at night. I am doing the best I can,” he added. Doctors agree. “And apart from being an emotional upheaval, it takes a toll on one’s finances. The disease lasts for years,” said Nahid Alam, a psychotherapist. “Since most patients live with their families, the need of the day is, therefore, to train community and institutional care-givers who can help these patients and share the work of the family.”

TSEMINYU, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): The Rengma Hoho, in a meeting held on August 19, while welcoming the Framework Agreement signed between the NSCN (IM) and the Government of India, urged “mutual understanding and respect for each other’s rights and interest.” The Rengma Hoho in a press note suggested that “it should be agreed upon by both the parties to protect it under the clause and guarantee that the future interest of both the parties be defended individually. This will be the most acceptable solution.” While welcoming and supporting the agreement, the Rengma Hoho reminded that the Rengmas “share the major portion of the Naga problem since, we were arbitrarily divided into two states Assam and Nagaland and our people are being deprived and dehumanized by the Assam

government without even given basic human needs.” As such, it requested the Interlocutor to the Naga peace talks, RN Ravi and the NSCN (IM) leaders to formulate a structure to constitute the entire Rengma areas in Assam for an Autonomous council. “Further we are open to physical verification of our areas for fact finding of our claim. In the event of any final solution reach between the parties, all NPG leaders, stalk holders and all tribes should be taken onboard in the formation of policy,” it urged. The Rengma Hoho further cautioned that prejudices and partisanship at this juncture will do no good to the Nagas. Viewing the recent Framework Agreement as a positive sign towards finding a solution to the protracted Indo-Naga political problem, the Rengma Hoho reiterated that “Rengmas were never con-

fused on the Naga political issue, and have stood always for a peaceful negotiated settlement.” The Rengmas, it stated, have given a significant role in the political struggle of the Nagas, and reminded that the first Naga flag was designed and woven by a Rengma woman and hoisted on the soil of the Rengmas. “It was the first Ato kilonser, Whenha under whose visionary wisdom, the Rengmas gave shelter to AZ Phizo the founder of Naga political movement; from the soil of the Rengmas he made his en route to foreign country which marked the importance in the political history of the Nagas, since it gave a starter point of Naga political journey. Whenha believing his conscious and God, adviced AZ Phizo that nonviolence is a mean only to achieve the goal of the Nagas,” the Rengma Hoho recalled.

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The Nagaland Paper & Pulp Co. Ltd. (NPPCL) or the Tuli Paper Mill will now be commissioned only by November 2017. Ex Chairperson of NPPCL, TN Manner IAS (Rtd.), revealed this in an article today. The paper mill was last said to be revived by November 2016, but has now been delayed to November 2017. “The project cost was finalised on 29th January 2015 fixing at Rs 489 Crores in total taking into account of all the different items /components in the package. The implementation was to complete in 27 months (Nov.2016) starting from January 2015. This was assured by the Union Minister Anant G Geet

during his visit to NPPCL in February 2015,” informed Mannen. He further stated that “It has now been reframed and extended by another 1(one) more year and will commission in November 2017 only,” and alleged that judging from the “casual, unsupportive responses” of the Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd. (HPCL) management, “it is not likely that the revival scheme will be completed and commission on time.” The HPCL, he further alleged, has become “the stumbling block rather than facilitating smooth, timely implementation of the revival scheme.” Mannen visited the premises of the mill on September 11 to find out the latest position of the revival activities related to the mill. On seeing rows of loaded trucks and on

further enquiry, he stated to have found that “NPPC has no money at hand to clear the bills of the Vendors for supply of material and machineries brought in connection with the revival works.” He informed that the Central Government has approved the NPPCL revival package in 2013 “after nearly 2 decades of negotiation and waiting.” Subsequently on July 2, 2013, “an amount of Rs 100 Cr was sanctioned and released as a part of 1st instalment stipulating certain directives to HPC,” stated the retired IAS officer. He alleged that Rs. 40 crore had been “utilised” by NPPCL on “various supplies and on site construction works,” while the remaining Rs. 60 crore is “in HPC corporate Office, Kolkata.” However, the NPPCL has

now been told, Mannen said, that there is “no more money available” for the mill, which Mannen found “surprising and unexpected.” He further extrapolated on his points and gave further suggestions to revive the Tuli paper mill. Noting that failure after coming this far will be an “unfortunate end of a very potential industrial venture due to human failure,” Mannen asserted that “its success will have a tremendous positive impact changing the whole industrial development scenario in the state, besides bringing huge employment generation opportunities along with economic prosperity to the people. Every effort should be made to give the last chance for revival of the Nagaland Pulp & Paper Mill at Tuli.” Full text on page 10

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seen here is the deplorable condition of the Dzuzha Bridge along the national Highway 29 between Dimapur and Kohima. Tarmac has been ripped off the surface and metal rods are seen probing out of the surface of the bridge, posing a danger to motorists. Photo courtesy Neikho Shosahie

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Awareness programme on PPV & FRA, 2001 held

ADC & ERO Zunheboto informs ZUNhEBoTo, SEPTEMBER 20 (DIPR): ADC & Electoral Registration Officer, Zunheboto, Nunsangmenla Imchen has informed the public of 31 A/C to 36 A/C in Zunheboto district that Special Summary Revision will commence with the publication of Draft Electoral Roll on October 1. All concerned have been informed to visit the VRECs, Polling Stations and ERO/ AEROs Office for detail information on the Special Summary Revision.

Grace School Wokha meeting WokhA, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): Grace School Wokha has convened an emergency meeting on September 28, 11:00 am at the school premises to discuss on the forthcoming Silver Jubilee celebration. Therefore, all the students from 2001 - 2015 batches have been requested to attend the meeting positively.

PGSU NUKC annual fresher’s meet kohIMA, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): The Post Graduate Students' Union, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema will hold its 24th annual fresher’s meet cum Mr & Miss PGSU Contest 2015 on September 24 at Regional Centre for Excellence in Music & Performing Arts, Jotsoma. CT Jamir, senior advocate, Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench and Prof. A. Lununungsang pro-vice chancellor, Nagaland University, Kohima Campus, Meriema will grace the occasion as the chief guest and guest of honour respectively.

MoN, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): Training cum awareness programme on Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Right Act (PPV & FRA), 2001 was held for farmers in Mon on September 16. The programme was organized by State Agriculture Research Station (SARS), Yisemyong, Mokokchung in collaboration with the District Agriculture Office (DAO), Mon. ADC Mon, MA Shihab A (IAS) in his inaugural address called upon the department officials to bring about perceptible changes in the farming sector of the State through committed working force, a press release informed. He asked the officials not only to emphasize on figures but to introspect on real changes in the ground. He also requested the department to make agriculture attractive Hekani Jakhalu (Left), Director, YouthNet and Chekrovolu Swuro, Arjuna Awardee archer for the youth to venture in. were conferred the True Legends Awards 2015 Northeast at the Radisson Blu, Guwahati Thungjamo Lotha, Joint on September 18. Director of Agriculture,

Kohima in his address described the rich biodiversity of Mon district which can be tapped for the benefit of the farming community. He added that PPV & FRA is an effective tool for protection of the farmers’ rights in this sector. Meanwhile, Sosangmar, Deputy Director of Agriculture stressed on the crops of the district which can be registered under PPV & FRA. The keynote address was delivered by Dr. DK Chetri, Project Officer, SARS, while vote of thanks was pronounced by Temsutoshi, Subject Matter Specialist (SMS), DAO, Mon. The programme was chaired by Kivikhu Achumi, DAO, Mon. During the technical session, Kikatemjen presented on the status of germplasm conservation at SARS, while Dr. Manoj Sachan, SMS, Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Mon dwelt

on the details of PPV & FRA 2001 and process for plant registration. Forms for registration of the farmers’ variety were also distributed to the farmers. Meanwhile, in Mokokchung, training cum awareness on PPV & FRA, 2001 was organized jointly by SARS, Yisemyong and District Agriculture Office, Mokokchung on September 18, which was attended by 52 farmers and department officers of Mokokchung district. Speaking at the programme, Rongseninla, Joint Director (Agri) stressed on the need to preserve the indigenous plant varieties found in the region and said that with the change in climate and also the farming system, protection of plant varieties by both the farmers as well as the officers has become utmost important. The resource persons were Maongsangla, APP, SARS and Bendangjungla, SMS (PBG), KVK.

KNO health camp at Domokhia NU: SASRD students organize exhibition for farmers

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KNO members alongwith the doctors and others during the free medical camp organised at Domokhia village on September 20.

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DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): The Kyong Nchumchio Okho (KNO) organised a free medical camp at Domokhia village, Dimapur on September 19. According to the KNO, more than 250 villagers from Domokhia and its neighbouring villages availed the services of specialist medical practitioners, who volunteered to take part in the charitable event. A dental check-up

camp was also conducted simultaneously. The medical team was led Dr. T. Longshi Jami and Dr. Thungjamo Ngullie of Nikos Hospital and dentists – Dr. Alex Kithan and Dr. Chanbemo Kikon. The KNO is a non-profit charitable organisation, which seeks to help the under-privileged. In line with this motto, the organisation has been organising charity programmes regularly

USSC meets DC Dimapur

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): The United Sangtam Students’ Conference (USSC) called on the deputy commissioner of Dimapur, Kesonyu Yhome on September 17 in his office. A press release from USSC executive chairman informed that the DC urged the USSC officials to enlighten the youths of Eastern Nagaland, who are mostly students, in building self confidence to reach greater height in their career. In this, he called upon the conference to jointly initiate innovative educational platform in order to bring the Eastern youths at par with the rest of Naga society. The conference extended its utmost cooperation for the project to be implemented. At the same time, it apprised the DC regarding the Sangtam villages under Dimapur in health sector as the villages which are in the border still lack immediate medical aid. The students’ conference urged Yhome to consider when the proposal is put forth in the DPDB meeting.

Winners at Spero Meliora 2015 Our Correspondent, Kohima | September 20

The Kohima Village Students’ Union (KVSU) and Dolphin Club Kohima conducted 23rd Spero Meliora 2015 (Literary Competition) on Saturday at Kohima village under the theme “Break the ice and steal a march.” Parliamentary secretary for irrigation & flood control N. Jacob Zhimomi graced the event as the chief guest. Following are the winners in different competitions held during the event: Solo: 1st – Keneisenuo Sorhie (LSU), 2nd – Neingulaii Kire (DSU), 3rd – Vilazotuo Tseikha (LSU) Essay: 1st– Nourhenuo Mepfhiio (LSU), 2nd – Neikieii Sachii (DSU), 3rd– Mengubeinuo Solo (TSU) Painting: 1st– Neiketouzo Keyho (PSU), 2nd –Neiriikriinuo Mepfhiio (LSU), 3rd– (i) Ruopfiizhazo Dziivichii (LSU), (ii) Neitseizolie Mechiilho (PSU) Spelling Bee:1st – Kevilekhoii Miachieo (LSU), 2nd– Medosenuo Belho (TSU), 3rd _Thejasenuo Rutsa (PSU) Cultural Group Song:1st – PSU, 2nd – DSU, 3rd - TSU Quiz:1st– Neimezhiinuo Rutsa & Nguluonuo Rutsa (PSU), 2nd– Thejavor & Neizosetuo (DSU). Debate: Topic "The backward quota reservation system in Nagaland is doing justice to all Nagas." 1st– Riivuotuonuo Vizo (Against the motion)- LSU, 2nd– Medosenuo Solo (For the motion)- TSU, 3rd– Khrienekuonuo Kire (Against the motion)-DSU

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Founder of Kiyeto Village Born in 1921, Died on 20.09.2015 will be held on 21.09.2015 at 11:00 A.M. at Kiyeto Village, Dhansiripar Sub-Division, Dimapur, Nagaland

since its formation in 2010, stated the KNO. It has so far organised 5 health camps in rural villages and orphanages. The KNO added that fund for conducting such programmes is generated through freewill donations from amongst the KNO members and well-wishers. The KNO further stated that it will continue to work with the same spirit as enshrined in its founding principles.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): Final year B.Sc (Agri) students of NU: SASRD, Medziphema organized agricultural exhibition in four villages of Kohima district on September 18. The exhibition was organized under the banner of RAWEP (Rural agricultural work experience programme), which is jointly organised by NU: SASRD and the Department of Agriculture, Government of Nagaland. 57 students have been placed to undergo this programme for the period from August to November. A press release received here informed that exhibition was organized for the farmers in Sakhabama, Kezo Basa, Kezoma and Kidima villages. The exhibits, prepared by the students using locally available resources, included wide range of display of innovative recycled products for productive use, processed agricultural products, value added products, models of improved land man-

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Villagers attend the exhibition organised by the B.Sc (Agri) final year students of NU: SASRD at Sakhabama.

agement system, scientific housing systems for animals, insect pest management with application of indigenous technical knowledge possessed by the farmers, display of improved farm implements, eco friendly agricultural practices for improved

productivity, cost effective bamboo products. The highest number of exhibits were displayed in Kezoma village (130), followed by Kezo Basa Village (120), Sakhabama (80), and Kidima (65), the release said. The programme was witnessed by more than

500 farmers from the villages, including village council chairmen, VDB secretaries, GBs, youth bodies, women and children, host farmers etc. The exhibits were evaluated by the Programme Supervisor (PS) Seyievonuo from Department of Agriculture, SE Dr.

LY Longchar and RAWEP coordinator Dr. KK Jha. The programme was first of its kind in these villages and was liked by the participating farmers. The respective village council chairmen also expressed appreciation, the release stated.

Lions Club peace poster drawing contest; entries invited

DIMAPUR,SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): Lions Club International is organizing the 28th Peace-Poster Drawing Contest on the theme “Share Peace” at Lions Club of Dimapur, Midland on October 2 at 11:30 am. Each of the interested schools or youth groups in Dimapur district have been requested to submit the names of 3 participants from their respective institutions in the age group of 11 to 13 years (as on No-

vember 15, i.e. born between November 16 , 2001 to November 15, 2004). Lions Clubs International has been annually organizing the Peace-Poster Contest around the world wherever Lions Clubs exist. The motto of the contest is to foster the spirit of harmony, tolerance & international understanding amongst the youths in particular, thereby giving a message of peace to all the sections of the society. The contest will be held

on 4-levels, namely local Lions Club, District, Multiple & International level. A press release from chairpersons of the contest Purnima Hajoi (Lions Club of Dimapur Blue Vanda) and Ajay Sethi (Lions Club of Dimapur) informed that International Grand Prize Winner will receive a free trip to the award ceremony venue. At the ceremony, s/ he will receive US $ 5,000 (or local equivalent) and an award. Two family mem-

Legal awareness, Lok Adalat prog held in Peren

PEREN, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): Peren District Legal Services Authority organised a legal awareness cum Lok Adalat at Ngwalwa village on September 19, where more than 180 beneficiaries, comprising village council members, church leaders, senior citizens and students from cluster of villages participated. Assistant Public Prosecutors, EAC and police officials were also present at the programme. Ajonba Imchen, Civil Judge & Secretary, Peren District Legal Services Authority spoke on power and duties of Village Council and stated that they serve as the rural police and should exercise power and jurisdiction as per the Village Council Act.

Resource persons Asungbe, Esther K Aye, and Limasenla Longkumer spoke on various legislations and schemes, including MGNREGA, Arms Act, Motor Vehicle Acts, RTI and Domestic Violence Act. Later, National Lok Adalat was held at Jalukie Police Station, where Ajongba Imchen, briefed about the benefit of availing the services of Lok Adalat to avoid protracted legal proceedings. During the sitting, 3 criminal compoundable cases were settled at the Police Station. One criminal compoundable case related to damaging of standing crops was also compromised and settled during the Lok Adalat sitting.

Farmers in Tuensang attend awareness camp on soil health

TUENSANg, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), Tuensang conducted awareness camp on soil health for the farmers under Sangsangnyu block on September 18. Altogether, 35 farmers from 15 villages participated in the camp. Subject Matter Specialist (Soil Conservation) gave the farmers first hand information about the Soil Health Card Scheme launched by Government of India recently, through which, farmers can test their soil and manage soil health efficiently to increase crop yields. She covered topics on different aspects of soil such as the general characteristics of the soil of the district, productivity problems of soil, soil fertility and its manage-

ment. She stressed on assessing and maintaining soil fertility which is essential for balanced nutrition of crops and application of the essential plant nutrients in right amounts and proportions using correct methods and time of application for site specific fertilizer recommendations. Soil sampling for analysis and the methods of collection were also demonstrated to the farmers. According to a press release, the objective of the programme was to impart knowledge and equip the farmers with the skill of the soil collection process, so as to aid in the process of issuing Soil Health Cards to the farmers of the block in the near future once they submit soil samples to the Kendra.

bers (one being the winner’s parent or legal guardian) and the sponsoring Lions Club President or a club member (as designated by Club President) will accompany the winner to the award ceremony. The award ceremony is planned in March 2016. Further, 23 Multiple-District Merit Award Winners each will receive US $ 500 (or local equivalent) and a certificate of achievement. The criteria for the award are originality,

artistic merit and expression of the theme. Locally, there will be cash awards of Rs.3,000/-, Rs.2000/-, Rs.1,000/-, for the Top 3 winners respectively, besides the certificates for the schools and the winners. The project is jointly organized by Lions Club of Dimapur and Lions Club of Dimapur Blue Vanda. The release recalled that last year, 23 schools in Dimapur participated in the contest and Sangita

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Lishram(1st) and Raina Dutta (3rd) of Livingstone Foundation Hr. Sec. School and Diksha Hazarika (2nd) of St. Mary’s Hr. Sec. School emerged winners. For further details, interested school authorities may email participation form to niitdimapur@ yahoo.co.in or contact the Project Chairman Lion Ajay Sethi, NIIT Dimapur Centre on Ph. No.9612171341 or Lion Purnima Hojai on Ph. No. 96121-53272.

DMC employees receive health check up, sanitation guidance

Employees of DMC get a check up during the medical camp organised on September 20 in Dimapur.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): To educate as well as provide medical treatments to the DMC employees who clean the roads and drainages of Dimapur town, a medical camp was held here today. The camp was organised by Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Dimapur. Highlighting the objective of the camp, DMC administrator, Atokhe Aye

said the need to sensitize the employees on sanitation and to provide medical assistance is very important as they are the ones who go around cleaning the dirt and drainages of the city without having much awareness on its impact and the harm it causes to their body. The Rotary Club of Dimapur led by President Temsusenla Kichu and a medical team headed by Dr. DR Sharma provided

free medical check-up while providing medical assistance to more than 100 employees. Whole body check up and medicines were provided to the registered patients, while proper sanitation guidance was provided to the employees to overcome health hazards. During the camp, it was informed that such medical camp cum sanitation awareness was being held in DMC after around ten years.

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Civilian deaths decline in NE; Floods have made Assam source, transit point of trafficking: Kailash Satyarthi killings of personnel increase New DelhI, September 20 (DeccAN herAlD): Violent incidents and civilian casualties due to insurgency reported a decline in the troubled North-East this year, but the killings of security personnel have shown a three-fold rise, according to a Home Ministry analysis. Seven insurgency-hit states — Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Meghalaya and Assam — together accounted for 418 violent insurgent actions this year until September 15, down from 575 during same period last year. Manipur and Meghalaya reported the highest number of 169 and 89 incidents respectively this year. For the whole 2014, there were 824 incidents as against 732 in 2013. The decline in violence comes at a

time when the Centre and the NSCN (IM) have signed a framework agreement to finalise a peace accord and attacks on security personnel by rival Naga outfit NSCN (K). The drop in violence also reflected in the impressive 71 per cent decline — from 114 until September 15 last year to 32 during same period this year. This decline becomes more significant when one compares the 2013 and 2014 figures. The civilian casualty last year almost doubled to 212 from 107 in 2013 with Assam topping the list in both years. This year, 12 civilians were killed in Assam while 8 lost their life in Meghalaya, 7 in Assam and 5 in Nagaland. Even the incidents of kidnapping

Northeast Briefs Three NLFT collaborators held in Tripura AgArtAlA, September 20 (ptI): Three collaborators of banned National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) including two Bangladeshi tribals, have been arrested from Anandanagar area of North Tripura district, a police officer today said. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested two Bangladeshi tribals, Kanendra Debbarma and Biduram Tripura, from Anandanagar of North Tripura district yesterday. They are citizens of Bangladesh and hail from Japui village in Bagaichhari area of Chittagong Hill Tract (CHT). The police officer said on the basis of their confessional statement they arrested one Rajesh Debbarma of Sutarmura village of Sipahijala district of Tripura. The official said they intercepted some secret cyber information of NLFT, on the basis of which they could arrest the Bangladeshis. The police said the NLFT has launched a new recruitment drive and the Bangladeshi tribals had come to take youths to NLFT base camp in CHT for training. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said, leaders of 'active outlawed groups' had gone to Myanmar recently to set up a link with the NSCN, Khaplang group. "The NSCN (K), which has been carrying out violence in parts of the North-East has been trying to bring all active outfits under one umbrella," Sarkar said yesterday while speaking in a function to commemorate the 25th foundation day of 2nd battalion of Tripura State Rifles (TSR), paramilitary force raised to launch anti-insurgency operations.

Rani Gaidinliu birth centenarycum-AZSU Golden Jubilee DImApur, September 20 (mexN): The Rani Gaidinliu Birth Centenary cum All Zeliangrong Students’ Union Golden Jubilee celebration will be held from December 16-18 at Gaidinliu’s native place in Khoupum Valley, Tamenglong District, Manipur. A press note informed that the Government of India (GoI) joined the celebration on August 24 with a special venture at New Delhi Vigyan Bhavan, where Prime Minister, Narendra Modi released commemoration coins of Rupees 100 and 5 denominations in honour of “Ranima”. Another valedictory occasion will be organised on November 6 organised by Zeliangrong Welfare Association, Delhi. “At this auspicious occasion of a historical mileage, all are invited to participate and extend excellent cooperation for the glory of our people and believing the celebrations will lead us to live in peace and harmony looking at our past and building our future,” it added. The press note was appended by Rani Gaidinliu Birth Centenary cum Golden Jubilee AZSU, Chairman (COC), Ningthaodai Gonmei and Info & Pub Secy (Manipur), David Kamson.

Assam Rifles treat snake bite victims ImphAl, September 20 (mexN): Medical team of 2 Assam Rifles saved the lives of two snake bite victims on September 18, according to a press release from PRO, IGAR (South). The victims, Rashi Muddin (47) and Jilla (72) were bitten by snakes while farming and were immediately rushed to the unit hospital of 2 Assam Rifles, the release said. The victims were attended by the medical team and necessary first aid was administered. They were discharged duly examined in stable condition, it added. Meanwhile, 45 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (South) conducted an AADHAAR card camp at Mantipukhri Garrison from September 10 to 15 for Assam Rifles personnel, their families and children posted at Mantripukhri garrison. The initiative was aimed at providing the facilities of AADHAAR card to Assam Rifles troops. More than 450 Assam Rifles personnel, their families and children attended the camp, the PRO said.

have also come down to 182 from 250. Nagaland had witnessed the highest number of abductions at 55 while for the whole of 2014 witnessed 65 such incidents in the state. One figure that would be considered negative for the security is the rise in number of casualty among security personnel. This year there were 40 casualties of security personnel as against 12 last year. This year’s figure includes the killing of 18 Army personnel in Manipur on June 4 this year by NSCN (K) operatives. Another is the decrease in the number of surrenders of militants — from 170 in 2014 to 91 this year. However, the number of arrest of extremists has shown a slight increase to 1,453 from 1,401.

New DelhI, September 20 (ptI): Assam has turned out to be both a source and a transit point for human trafficking rackets, mainly due to destruction caused by flood and its aftermath almost every year, Nobel Peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi said today. Assam is now a major source for human trafficking rackets based in Delhi-NCR and the children trafficked from there are mostly placed as domestic helps at residences either in the national capital region or towns in Haryana. Many, who fail to be placed anywhere, are later

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in Assam, in which the state government and the foundation are expected to contribute in equal proportions, for immediate relief to trafficked children," said Satyarthi, adding that so far Assam government has contributed Rs 1 crore to the welfare fund. Satyarthi also men-

Historic accord signed between Nyishi and Apatani tribes ZIro, September 20 (ptI): Aunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today witnessed the historic signing of accord between the Nyishi and Apatani communities here and hailed it as ushering in "a new era of peaceful co-existence" in the state. The accord with eight resolutions was signed by Bengia Tulom, president of Nyishi Elite Society (NES) and Dr Hage Loder, president of Tani Supum Dukum (TSD) with witnesses signing from both the communities. The resolutions of the accord would be made public later. The accord - a trend setter

for other communities to take a cue - is unique and historic and an agreement between the two neighbours for peaceful co-existence, brotherhood and social harmony, the Chief Minister said. "Today is the beginning of a new era of peaceful co-existence and social harmony. Let this message go out to the world and let other communities learn that if there is will there will be peace," said Tuki while addressing people on the special occasion. The Chief Minister lauded the leaders of NES and TSD, apex social bodies of the Nyishis and Apatanis respectively, for com-

ing together with the idea and fostering a bond between the two communities that will be socially binding on each and every member of the communities. He lauded the tireless efforts put in by NES President Bengia Tulom and Dr Hage Loder, President, TSD. Tuki said people with hatred and violence in the name of caste, creed and community constitute only one per cent of the population. "And with such social sanction provided by the accord these one per cent people would be overpowered and no petty differ-

ences or disputes would ever take a communal colour," he said. Tuki viewed the accord as an example that needs to be followed for communal and social harmony between tribes of the state, particularly those living in close proximity of each other. Such understanding will not only prevail peace and bonhomie but also push for accelerated development in the region, he said. The accord was signed at a conglomeration of hundreds of members of both the communities as well as members of various community-based organisations from across the state.

Culture cops take Two cases of JE detected Marry-a-Mizo pledge in Manipur's Imphal West guwAhAtI, September 20 (the New INDIAN expreSS): Her mixed parentage prevented Mary from fulfilling her dream of becoming a doctor. In Mizoram, the children of mixed parentage are not viewed as Mizos by the locals. Mary, whose father is Bengali and mother a Mizo, could not appear for the medical entrance test, because of the mixed parentage. Mizoram does not have any medical or engineering college. A certain number of seats are reserved for the locals in institutes outside the state. But the children of mixed parentage literally have no scope of getting admission there. In the state, a strong sentiment is brewing against inter-caste marriage to protect and preserve the indigenous Mizo cultures, traditions and identity. Adding to the woes, recently the influential Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), which is the state’s apex students’ body, made Mizo students across the state take a pledge that they would marry only Mizos. The MZP says it received positive response from students, Mizo groups and organisations besides political parties. As part of the movement launched on September 2, students in the schools and colleges of the state took a pledge in writing that they would

not marry a non-Mizo. The MZP says the students will take a similar oath every year on September 2, and that there will also be awareness campaigns on the issue. “Our aim is to create awareness among young Mizos against inter-caste marriage since it is a threat to Mizo cultures, business, society and security,” says MZP president Lalhmachhuana. The MZP says the number of inter-caste marriages is not huge, but as the Mizos have a very small population, the need of the hour is to stop the inter-caste marriages. It says protecting land is another reason behind the movement. It alleges that the non-tribals are grabbing land through their local wives. “As per Article 371 G of the Constitution, non-tribals cannot purchase land in Mizoram. But inter-caste marriages let huge amount of the land go to non-tribals through the names of their local wives. As per the rules of Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulations, outsiders are required to obtain Inner Line Permit (ILP) for a period of at least two years to do business in Mizoram. As ILPs of such term are rarely issued, the nontribals are using the names of their local spouses to do business here,” Lalhmachhuana points out.

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Imphal | September 20 Two isolated cases of Japanese Encephalitis (JE), a mosquito-borne disease, have been reported in Manipur’s Imphal West. Health officials said an 11-year-old boy hailing from Tamenglong district, a Class 3 student of Meijarao Model English School, was admitted to Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), Imphal on August 22. He was tested

1971, should be considered a foreigner. It does not matter whether they are Muslims or Hindus," Ahmed asserts. As we speak to Ahmed, close to the local mosque of Juria, a Muslim majority village in Nagaon -about 120 kilometers from Guwahati - the television camera draws in more people. With most people nodding their heads, Ahmed seems to be echoing the sentiments of the majority of the people who have gathered here. Juria is a Muslim majority village but has a substantial population of Hindus, mainly Bengali Hindus who had come in from East Bengal or present day Bangladesh at the time of Partition. What do they think of the Centre's move? We speak to Saurav Debnath, a 20-year-old college student, who is helping

out his father at his garment store. "I don't think Assam alone should take the burden. All other states of India should also shoulder responsibility. Why only Assam?" asks Debnath as he takes a quick break between showing baby suits for a couple at his father's shop. Debnath's concern is shared by the local Congress lawmaker, Gaurav Gogoi, whose father is the Chief Minister of the state. "While we welcome the humanitarian assistance, essential Assamese cultural identity shouldn't be compromised," says Gogoi adding, "Any such step should be taken in consultation with the state government." The principal Opposition in the state - AIUDF founded by perfume king Badruddin Ajmal - alleges that the Centre's

positive for JE. Another 70-year-old woman was tested positive for JE at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) on September 7, they said. The first case of JE was detected in Manipur in 1982. In 2010, over 60 patients were hospitalised with the dreaded disease and three deaths reported. The disease, spread from mosquito bites, affects the brain and the symptoms include severe headaches, high fever and seizures that

can lead to paralysis, coma and death. July falls in the high incidence period as JE is widespread between the months of May and September, according to health officials. They said that outbreak of vector borne diseases such as JE, dengue and malaria mainly occur during rainy season. Since there is no specific treatment for JE, health experts strongly advise all to get tested quickly if symptoms appear.

UNC appeals to Naga people to stand united tAhAmZAm, September 20 (mexN): The United Naga Council (UNC) today lauded all the Naga public for responding positively to the call of the UNC for mass Naga public rally to welcome the IndoNaga “Historic Peace Accord” signed on August 3, 2015 at New Delhi. The rally was organized on September 9 at Ukhrul HQ, September 14 at Chandel District HQ, September 15 at Tahamzam (Senapati) HQ, and September 17 at Tamenglong HQ The rally was also called to condemn the “most controversial anti-Naga tribal Bills and Resolutions” passed by the Manipur Legislative Assembly on August 31, 2015 and consequent killing of 9 civilians, including a minor, and injuring hundreds of civilians on August 31 and September 1 “while defending inalienable rights of the tribal people and its political aspiration in Churachandpur.” A press release from UNC general sec-

Narendra Modi government's decision rekindles foreigner debate in Assam NAgAoN, September 20 (NDtV): Fifty-year-old Farukh Ahmed, a former student leader of the minority students' union, had given up politics a decade ago. But a recent order of the Union Home Ministry has prompted him to come out of political retirement. Nearly three weeks ago, on September 7, an order of the union government said Bangladeshi Hindus or other religious minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan who came into India seeking refuge before December 31 last year will get legal rights to stay. This, Ahmed argues, is against the agreement - popularly called as Assam Accord - that students leaders had signed in 1985 with the Rajiv Gandhi Government. "Anyone who had come into the state after March 24,

forced into prostitution or begging, Satyarthi told PTI. Assam is also a transit point for children who are trafficked from Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya. However, these two states are targeted particularly by human trafficking rackets based in Kolkata and Mumbai, said Satyarthi. The Nobel Peace Prize winner has urged the Assam government to adopt a three-pronged approach to check trafficking of children from the state. "I have suggested the creation of a 'Rehabilitation and Welfare Fund' under Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation (KSCF)

move is aimed at Bengali Hindus votes who decide the fate of 15 seats in the Barak valley. "First, they released the religion-based census report. By this report, they are showing that nine districts are going to be Muslim majority. And nearly 40 seats will be dominated by Muslim. By that declaration all the non-Muslims are getting afraid of Muslim growth... They want polarisation of votes," says Aminul Islam, a senior functionary of the AIUDF. The BJP rubbishes this charge. "If he is quoting a figure from census, then that's a fact. If I highlight a fact, if I highly a reality, am I doing politics? The hard reality of Assam is that it has been demographically submerged by economic migrants from Bangladesh," asserts Siddhartha Nath Bhattacharjya, the BJP chief in the state.

retary S. Milan acknowledged that signing of the Indo-Naga “Historic Peace Accord” on August 3 based on unique history of the Nagas and its situation was a hard earned political achievement for bringing lasting peace in the region. The UNC appealed to all the Naga people to stand united and remain alert with preparedness to “defend our inalienable political rights from repressive, oppressive and suppressive measures of state(s) forces or adversaries to peoples’ aspiration.” It also appealed to all the Naga public to extend all out support and co-operation to its call in near future. The UNC further lauded the tribe presidents, district apex organisations, Naga frontal organisations, regional frontal organisations, Church leaders, politicians, social workers, village headmen and chairmen and the general public for huge turnout in the rallies.

‘Smoking, tobacco use main reason for cancer in NE’ AgArtAlA, September 20 (ANI): Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) scientist Dr Prabhdeep Kaur on Sunday said that high prevalence of smoking and tobacco use are the main cause of cancer in the northeastern region. "Smoking and use of tobacco and tobacco products are the main cause of cancer in India's northeastern region, there are some other reasons for the increase of the dreaded disease in the region," said Dr Kaur. The ICMR has launched a study in all the eight northeastern states to get a detailed picture of the causes of cancer and its rise. The study has already begun in Sikkim, Mizoram and Tripura, she said, adding that it would soon start in other states as well. Kaur and five other experts attended at a four-day workshop here on National Programme for Prevention and Control of Cancer, Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke (NPCDCS). NPCDCS, which was launched recently by the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry, would cover 640 districts in 36 states and union territories across the country by 2017.

tioned about instances where the trafficked children managed to escape and reach Guwahati, but had no resources to go any further. Later, they were hunted down by the traffickers and taken back forcibly from the railway station. "In many cases, the children belonged to the floodhit districts of Assam and they could not reach home because of the calamity, despite having reached the concerned region. Many of those children were held by the traffickers and taken back from places not very far away from home," said Satyarthi.

Grant citizenship to Chakma, Hajong tribals in 3 months: SC New DelhI, September 20 (ptI): The Supreme Court has directed the Centre and Arunachal Pradesh government to grant citizenship within three months to Chakma and Hajong tribals who had migrated from Bangladesh in 1964-69, saying they cannot be discriminated in any manner, "It is well known that the Chakmas and Hajongs were displaced from the area which became part of East Pakistan (now in Bangladesh) on construction of Kaptai Dam and were allowed to be rehabilitated under the decision of the Government of India. "They could not be discriminated against in any manner pending formal conferment of rights of citizenship. Their status also stands duly acknowledged in the guidelines of the Election Commission of India," a bench of Justices Anil R Dave and Adarsh K Goel said. The apex court said that Chakmas have a right to be granted citizenship and it is even "recognised by judicial decisions that they cannot be required to obtain any Inner Line permit as they are settled in Arunachal Pradesh." The court passed the order on a petition filed by Committee for Citizenship Rights of the Chakmas (CCRC) seeking direction to grant citizenship to the Chakma and Hajong tribals who migrated to India in 19641969 and were settled in Arunachal Pradesh. "As earlier held by this Court, the Delhi High Court and Gauhati High Court, they need to be protected and their claims of citizenship need to be considered as per applicable procedure," the court said.

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neW DeLHI September 20 (ptI): In welcome news for taxpayers, the IT department has decided to launch a new system of issuing email notices to which an assessee can respond electronically, obviating the need for a physical interface with the taxman which often led to complaints about harassment. The Central Board of Direct Taxes, the apex policy-making body of the IT department, is working on a strategy to create the required processes and capacity in this regard. “We have been thinking how can we make life easier for taxpayers especially for those who are in the middle and the slightly higher tax bracket. So, now we are thinking of allowing that when a notice is issued

in an assessment or scrutiny case, the taxpayer can send the department an eresponse. “We are trying to resolve some security issues in this regard now after which it could be implemented,” CBDT Chairperson Anita Kapur told PTI in an interview. Explaining the procedure, Kapur said if a taxpayer provides the department with a bonafide email address in his Income Tax Return (ITR), the Board will be able to send him an enotice and not a paper document dispatched through post for which he usually has to travel and meet the Assessing Officer (AO). “The taxpayer can respond through the email and if we have some more queries we give you anoth-

a sea change in our tax administration,” Kapur said. Tax experts say the initiative will also ensure privacy of a taxpayers’ communication with his AO and the tax department. The CBDT chief said she was aware of instances where the taxpayers complained about the AO raising numerous queries upon meeting the assessees despite their earlier order sheets having mention of only a few queries. “This (sending emails) is one way of giving both the taxpayer and the AO a good opportunity to solve their things without any problem. It has also been mentioned in our earlier instructions to the field that the questionnaire sent to the taxpayer in scrutiny cases should be focused

er notice by the electronic medium so that both the AO and the taxpayer remain in an e-environment and, may be, during the final hearing when the AO wants to close the matter, the taxpayer can come once to the tax office,” the CBDT chief said. She said the purpose of introducing the system was to reduce the interface between the taxpayer and the AO. “The taxpayer can send documents over email, scan them, upload them and it’s over,” she added. “It (scrutiny session) should be over and should not go beyond that. This is the way we are trying to address the issues of compliance and limiting the interface between the taxman and the taxpayer. This will be

and specific so that the person knows what is he being enquired about. “We are trying to do this for a medium-level taxpayer and others,” Kapur said, adding she hopes this would bring down taxpayers’ complaints. The CBDT chief said the number of cases landing for scrutiny had gone down over the years following introduction of technology in the administration of taxes. “The overall percentage of cases brought under scrutiny across the country in a financial year is less than 1%. The entire system is handled electronically and there is no human intervention. I can assure taxpayers that there is no personal role of a tax official in deciding who can be scrutinised or who cannot be,”

she said. Kapur added that as part of measures to further check instances of harassment of taxpayers, the CBDT has recently asked its field offices to not undertake any “fishing or roving inquiries”. “We are also saying to our officers that when you select a case for scrutiny you should say that this is the reason that we have selected your case. “We are asking our officers that if we are selecting a case for scrutiny on a third-party information (through banks, credit card agencies) just limit your inquiry to those issues which have been flagged and based on which your case have been selected for scrutiny. No fishing inquiries (should be undertaken),” she said.

Hong Kong, September 20 (ptI): In a stern message to states, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said states cannot expect public sector banks to fund the deficits faced by power distribution companies due to levy of inadequate tariffs. Expressing concern over the financial health of some state-owned power distribution companies (discoms), the Finance Minister said some states are not levying adequate electricity tariff. His remarks came against the backdrop of many discoms facing financial stress, which has also resulted in rising non-performing assets in the banking sector. "... some states were not charging adequate money for power, which was affecting the discoms, and these states can not expect the PSU banks to fund the deficit of discoms," Jaitley said while addressing investors and business leaders here. The combined debt of discoms is estimated to be more than Rs 3 lakh crore. Recently, Power Minister Piyush Goyal had said the Centre cannot be considered as a bailout bank for helping debt-ridden discoms and states would have to find a way out of the crisis. "Some states have serious crisis (power) looming large. The Centre can only facilitate the turnaround of these discoms. And we cannot finance it," Goyal had said.

FPIs take out Rs 4,600 cr OlaCabs to invest $20 million ‘Coca-Cola owes $3.3 billion in unpaid taxes’ from capital markets in Sept September from the manufacturer of soft pany under-reported the licensing on safety initiatives this year WaSHIngton, 20 (IanS/eFe): The US Internal drinks and other food products as fees it charged its affiliates in other neW DeLHI, September 20 (ptI): Foreign inves-

neW DeLHI, September 20 (ptI): Taxi-hailing app Ola will invest $20 million by March, 2016 on various initiatives to ensure passenger safety. The Bengaluru-based company has also introduced a new number masking feature on its app that does not disclose the customer’s mobile number to drivers.“All driver-partners on the Ola platform are verified and licenced by the local authorities. They have to necessarily undergo the mandatory training at the time of on-boarding and subsequent feedback driven training from time to time,” Ola chief operating officer Pranay Jivrajka said. The new feature comes as part of Ola’s commitment to safety initiatives, he added. While the number masking feature will reduce the risk of any untoward experience for passengers, driver-partners can save on their calling costs. It will also offers features like live GPS tracking, sharing of ride details, feedback and reporting during the ride as well as an in-app SOS button to ensure passenger safety.

the result of an audit carried out in fiscal years 2007, 2008 and 2009 that found that less income was declared in those years than the company actually earned, for which it demands payment of taxes on the undeclared revenues, but without applying any additional sanctions. The discrepancies between the IRS and Coca-Cola is between the amount of revenue the company declared as taxable income in the US, and what the Internal Revenue Service says it should have declared, specifically claiming that the com-

Revenue Service, or IRS, has demanded that the American multinational Coca-Cola Co. pay $3.3 billion in unpaid taxes for the years between 2007-2009 together with the corresponding interest, the soft-drink maker announced. The company based in Atlanta, Georgia, said in a statement on Saturday that it considers the IRS appraisal “without merit, and plans to pursue all administrative and judicial remedies necessary to resolve the matter”. The IRS demands this payment

countries to sell its products. “The company has followed the same transfer pricing methodology for these licenses since the methodology was agreed with the IRS in a 1996 closing agreement that applied back to 1987,” CocaCola said in the statement. Coca-Cola is not alone in these difficulties, since several giant US companies, like Amazon and Microsoft, have had ongoing disputes with the IRS in recent years over revenues coming from overseas markets.

tors have pulled out over Rs 4,600 crore from the capital markets since the beginning of this month primarily on account of various global and domestic factors. Outflows are unlikely to continue as the US Federal Reserve maintained status quo on interest rate, which may give the Reserve Bank of India some headroom to lower its key lending rate, according to some analysts. The latest pull-out follows a record net outflow of Rs 17,428 crore from equities last month. That was the highest net outflow by foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) in a single month since 1997. Market experts attributed the huge outflows to sustained global risk-off trend along with concerns over economic slowdown in China and currency devaluation by the world’s most populated country.

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WeLLIngton/SYDneY September 20 (reuterS): Nearly four years after dozens of black-clad police rappelled into his New Zealand mansion and cut him from a safe room, flamboyant German tech entrepreneur and would-be hip-hop star Kim Dotcom may finally be about to face the music. A New Zealand court hearing starting on Monday will determine whether Dotcom will face charges of copyright infringement, racketeering and money laundering in the United States related to the Megaupload filesharing site he founded in 2005. Well known for his hip-hop inspired photo shoots with scantily

clad women and luxury cars, Dotcom had assets including computers, art works, a pink Cadillac and bank accounts holding millions of dollars frozen after the 2012 raid in the hills outside Auckland. U.S. authorities say Dotcom and three co-accused Megaupload executives cost film studios and record companies more than $500 million and generated more than $175 million by encouraging paying users to store and share copyrighted material, such as movies and TV shows. “The U.S. ... took down the entire Megaupload site, went ahead and froze all their assets and did this with great publicity and public fanfare and did it in coordina-

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State govt revises scheme on ‘compassionate appointment’

Only spouse, son or daughter eligible to replace an employees who dies while working

Dimapur, September 20 (Dipr/mexN): The State Government has revised the existing scheme for ‘appointment on compassionate ground’ for the family members of its employees who dies in harness (or expires while working). According to the new guidelines, the appointment shall be available only to spouse, son or daughter of the deceased employee's family. The decision for the same was taken at a supersession of the Government’s Office Memorandum recently, a DIPR report informed. The revised guidelines further said that the appointment on compassionate grounds “shall be made only on a regular basis to direct recruitment posts and only if regular vacancies meant for that purpose are available in that Department where the deceased Government employee was serving.” Therefore, the applicants cannot claim appointment under this scheme in “any other Department” other than the Department where the deceased employee was serv-

ing, it said. For the NCS officers, however, it added that the appointment may be considered under the establishment of the Commissioner, Nagaland, or the Nagaland Civil Secretariat. Besides, it noted that scheme will be available to family of the deceased employee provided “no surviving member of the family holds any regular post in the State Government and only one member can benefit from the same.” The revised guidelines also stated that the scheme would be available only for dependent of “deceased Government servants appointed and serving on regular basis at the time of death” and not for those working on “daily wage or casual or ad-hoc or contract or re- employment/extension/consultant basis.” A spouse, once appointed under this scheme, shall be allowed to continue in service even after remarriage, it added. t is also non- transferable to any person in “any circumstances” and any request for the same shall be invariably rejected. Applicants are eligible and qualified for the posts in all respects under the provisions of the relevant Recruitment Rules though

MEx FILE BLOs under 40 Bhandari A/C informed Dimapur, September 20 (mexN): All the BLOs under 40 Bhandari A/C are informed that there will be training on Special Summary Revision of Electoral Roll 2015 on September 22, 10AM at the Conference Hall of ADC Bhandari. All the BLOs are requested to attend the training without fail, a press note from ADC Bhandari, Orenthung Lotha stated.

PAMA general session Kohima, September 20 (mexN): The Phek Area Mothers’ Association (PAMA) will hold its general session on September 25 at Jerico-I colony, Phek Town. Kuvesulu Khesoh and Zaposhelu Venuh will be the resource persons of the session while Neichulou Tsuzuh will exhort the gathering. All the affiliated villages under PAMA have been requested to attend the session positively.

Dimapur Police officers attend leadership seminar Dimapur, September 20 (mexN): The officers of the Dimapur Police Commissionerate held a seminar on leadership under the theme ‘Leaders Arise Nagaland’. The resource person Apostle Rev. Luoliehu Yimsung, Coordinator, Global Indigenous Prayer Network, Australia, Initiator & Ambassador at large, Overseas Naga Association spoke on the various aspects of attitude, leadership, building a strong team and working as a team. The seminar was lively, inspiring, and thought provoking, PRO, Dimapur Police said in a release. The Dimapur Police has lauded the dedication and concern of the resource person in organizing such seminars for the police.

MVYO warns of late night party Kohima, September 20 (mexN): Meriema Village Youth organization (MVYO) has once again reminded that hunting, fishing, selling of liquor or intoxicant in any form or late night partying and indulging in “immoral activities” within its jurisdiction is strictly banned. MVYO further informed that the organization would continue to monitor in the form of night patrolling and cautioned that defaulters would be penalized as per the MVYO constitution.

Legal literacy training held for Dobashis Dimapur, September 20 (mexN): Dimapur District Legal Services Authority (DDLSA) conducted legal literacy training for Dobashis on September 19 at video conference hall, District Court, Dimapur. Around 27 Dobashis from Dimapur district attended the programme, which was chaired by Duvelu Shashi, Panel Advocate, DDLSA. Welcome address was pronounced by Sentimenla, Panel Advocate, DDLSA. Resource persons for the training were Neiko Kanuo, District and Session Judge, Dimapur, who is also the chairperson, DDLSA, Advocate Limasenla Longkumer and Esther K. Aye, Panel Advocate, DDLSA. They spoke on various topic like “Source of Law for Dobhashis”, “Gender Equality and Principal of Natural Justice” and “Nagaland Village Council Act” followed by interaction.

Training held on updating NPR in Z'boto ZuNheboto, September 20 (Dipr): The Zunheboto district level training for updating National Population Register (NPR) database and seeding of Aadhaar number in NPR database was held at DC's conference hall on September 15. Highlighting that NPR is important for every Indian citizen, Deputy Commissioner of Zunheboto, Temsu Longkumer in his keynote address called upon the officers concerned to bring out genuine data. Assistant Director, Census, Imkong and Nodal Officer, Zunheboto District, Hinoca Assumi were the resource persons. The training focused on issues like role and responsibilities of various stakeholders, preparation and training, field work, enumeration of the household, NPR data booklet and Aadhaar status. The training was attended by all administrative officers under Zunheboto district.

the “date of joining” by a person appointed under this scheme shall be “treated as the date of his/her regular appointment. “ Further, no relaxation in eligibility will be made in any circumstance, except to the extent provided under this scheme. However, upper age limit of applicants, in exceptional cases can be relaxed up to a maximum of 5 years in addition to existing relaxation, if any. But the lower age limit shall, however, in no case be relaxed below 18 years of age. The government has also directed all the Departments to maintain a waiting list in chronological order for compassionate appointments and all the applicants will be given the waiting list number on receipt of the application, if there are no regular posts available. The appointment under this scheme, irrespective of the appointing authority specified under the rules, must have the approval of the respective Heads of Administrative Departments with the prior clearance of the Department of Personnel & Administrative Reforms. In this context, the departments were also asked to amend their respective Service Rules or Recruitment Rules to make a pro-

vision for compassionate appointment. A proposal for appointment on compassionate ground as per the format enclosed was also given to all departments, the report informed. In addition, any dispute arising out of the provisions of the scheme or any clarification must be referred to the Department of P&AR for decision of the Government, it noted. The new guidelines also done away with 5% ceilings for the direct recruitment on compassionate appointments in Group C and Group D posts provided it does not exceed 50% of the vacancies during a year. Compassionate appointments may be made to the posts falling under the combined direct recruitment quota of Group C or D. The appointment against posts for direct recruitment in Group C should be in the entry grade only and limited only to those posts that outside the purview of NPSC for recruitment. Lastly, the seniority of person appointed under this under this scheme will be fixed with reference to their date of appointment and interpolated with between or among themselves (inter se) the direct recruits without disturbing the inter-se seniority of direct recruits/promotees.

Zeliang orgs condole ZPO (N): The Zeliang People’s Organisation Nagaland has expressed its deep sorrow over the untimely demise of Suirang Iralu in a tragic incident of drowning at Sattal Lake, Nainital in Uttarkhand on September 17. He was attending a Bible Camp organised by the Zeme Church Delhi. A press condolence from ZPO(N) general secretary, Kiesamyi Iranggaung described Late Suirang, son of Keyipetbe Iralu of Ngwalwa village under Peren district, as a young man and a zealous Zeliang student leader was well disciplined, down to earth, humble and self-giving. Mourning his void left by his untimely demise, ZPO (N) said that sacrificial works towards the Zeliang students, the ZPO (N) and the community by his association in various capacities shall forever be cherished. It further offered its deepest condolences and solidarity to the bereaved family at their moment of challenging and dark hour of grief and wished eternal rest to the departed soul. ZPO (Kohima): The ZPO, Kohima has also expressed its shock and grief to hear the untimely demise of Late Suirang Iralu. “It is so heartbreaking that the corporeal nature of our mortal being should so suddenly and tragically snatch away the life from one upon whom

Fourteen defaulters netted in Kohima police ILP round-up

Kohima, September 20 (mexN): Kohima Police surprise but intensive ILP checking drives has beared fruit with the detainment of 14 defaulters in two separate operations in Kohima district. A press note from Sub – Divisional Police Officer & PRO, Kohima Atu Zumvü NPS informed that in the first operation 6 defaulters were arrested for non possession of Inner Line Permit (ILP) when the District Intelligence Branch of DEF Kohima conducted a surprise checking of ILP around Kohima Town on September 19. The defaulters included three juveniles. The detainees were identified as Muzibur Rahman (30 yrs), from Charua, Karimganj district State, Assam and presently a resident of D Block, Kohima; from Chiria, Motihari district, Bihar and presently residing in New Sectt., Kohima, Village; and Muna Kumar (22 yrs) of Ghorasaon, Motihari district, Bihar and was currently staying in Tinpati, Kohima, Village. The names of three juvenile are withheld from publishing, the police added. A regular case vide Kohima North P.S case No. 0083/2015 U/S 3/4 BEFR Act has been registered against them for prosecution under the relevant sections of law.

Meanwhile, the second arrests were made when the Police teams from Khuzama P.S, as a follow-up ILP drive in the District, conducted intensive checking around its jurisdictions. 8 ILP defaulters were caught from the adjoining areas of Mima village on September 19 during the drive. According to the police, the defaulters were identified as Vigu Sah (58 yrs) from Chaita, PO/PS – Pakadidayal, Dist – Purwi Champaram, Bihar; Jiyalal Das (48 yrs) of Chaita, PO/PS – Pakadidayal, Dist – East Champaram, Bihar; Hajrat Ali (30 yrs) of Pandoba, PO/PS – Baguan, Dist – Goalpara, Assam,Ashok Das (30 Yrs) R/o – Chaita, PO/PS – Pakadidayal, Dist – East Champaram, Bihar ; Ponamaji (24 yrs) a resident of Pakadidayal, PO/PS – Pakadidayal, Dist – Motihari, Bihar; Ismail Hussain (22 yrs) of Pachim Pandoba, PO/PS – Markula Bogoan, Dist – Goalpara, Assam; Md. Siddiue Ali (22 yrs) of Noemati, PO/PS – Doboka, Dist – Nagaon, Assam; and Manoj Kumar (19 yrs) from Chaita, PO/PS – Pakadidayal, Dist East Champaram, Bihar. A regular case vides Khuzama P.S case no. 0041/2015 U/S 3 BEFR Act was also in this registered connection.

DPC organises free eye screening camp

we saw hope of good leadership” the ZPO (K) condoled in a press note issued by its general secretary, Joshua Newmai adding that Late. Suirang’s inspirations and good work would be always remembered. It further shared its profound sorrow and heartfelt sympathy with the bereaved family and prayed for God Almighty strength and solace at their hour of grief. Its bade also the departed soul a eternal rest in peace.

Dimapur, September 20 (mexN): A free eye screening was organised for its member by Dimapur Press Club on Sunday. The Camp was organised in association with Lions Club of Dimapur at Lions Health Centre. More than 20 DPC members and officials from DPRO Dimapur availed the benefits of the eye screening camp, a press note

ZSUK: The Zeliang Students’ Union Kohima, Nagaland today conveyed its extreme sadness and shock to learn about the untimely and tragic demise of its former President, Suirang Iralu. In a press condolence issued by its Executive Member Bengkam Newmai, the ZSUK said Late Suirang was a bright and an upcoming student leader who was well known for his humility, selflessness and the courageous nature in being able to stand up for the cause of truth in his life. “His good deeds and sacrifices as a young and a bright student leader shall be cherished and remembered ever long. The void left by his sudden demise will be difficult to fill” it added. ZSUK further conveyed its profound sympathy and heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family at this hour of grief and wished the departed soul an eternal rest.

3 Army recruitment facilitation booths established

from the camp informed. Doctors from Jorhat Lions Eye Hospital, who were here in Dimapur for the 2-day free eye screening camp organized by the Lions Club of Dimapur, performed the eye examinatioan on the press fraternity. A number of journalists were recommended to wear spectacle after they were di-

agnosed with eye problems, it added. Free medicines and medical advice were given to the press corps. Meanwhile, Dimapur Press Club has extended its gratitude to Lions Club of Dimapur and also the Doctors from Jorhat Lions Eye Hospital for providing their facilities to the members of the press club.

Applicants can register at Dimapur, Medziphema and Jalukie for November 5-10 Kohima recruitment rally in Assam Rifles Kohima, September 20 (mexN): In view of the Army recruitment rally scheduled to be held in Kohima from November 5 to 10, units of 6 Sector Assam Rifles have established online registration/ application booths in Dimapur, Medziphema and Jalukie. According to a press release from Defence PRO, the booths have been established to facilitate registration of local youth for the forthcoming Army recruitment rally at Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima. At the booths, information will also be provided for recruitment rallies scheduled to be held in Shillong with from December 3-5 and in Tamulpur, Assam with from October 15-24, the release said. The facility has been created conforming to

the new recruitment rules promulgated by the Army. Expert guidance would be provided to the youth by proficient individuals of the unit, the PRO said. Assam Rifles units will also provide assistance and pre recruitment training to the interested youths at Posts and Battalion Headquarters. Desirous candidates belonging to area in and around Dimapur and Peren districts may utilize the facility. For further assistance, candidates have been requested to contact nearby Assam Rifles Camp. Subsequently, from first week of October, rigorous pre-recruitment training will be imparted to the registered candidates to facilitate their recruitment at the Kohima rally in Dimapur, Medziphema and Jalukie, it added.

Public SPace

Is India’s democratic system suitable to the Northeast people?

ur Northeast politicians are seen struggling in the sea of Indian political arena. Their political wisdom is fast waning. The Northeast is sharply divided on ethnic and tribal lines by wrong policies and programs of Delhi. Even after 70 years of India’s Independence, Delhi can hardly solve any of the issues of the Northeastern India – be it social, economic, developmental or political. The hatred against the Northeastern people by the mainland people keeps increasing and this can be seen from the increasing crimes on them in many major Indian cities. The greatest fear of Delhi is the “UNITY” of the Northeast India as they presume that such “UNITY” will become a major threat to the “UNITY OF INDIA”. But is it logical to keep Northeast people divided for the sake of country’s Unity? The people of the Northeast steadily and gradually start realizing that Indian democratic system is not working for the growth and benefit of them except creating more haves and have nots, besides systematically destroying the

social fabric of them. Now stark reality is the younger generations start hating their representatives thinking that the politics they are playing under the Indian democratic system are not suitable to them. This not a good sign. Even known and veteran mainland politician like Pappu Yadav, MP, from Bihar could openly threaten to forcibly pull out Manipuri passengers from trains running through Bihar and send them back to Manipur in retaliation of violence against Bihari migrants there. In fact, the MP was misinformed as no Biharis have been targeted as they have been peacefully living and running their business activities in the heart of the Imphal City. But what about open attacks on Utter Pradesh and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra in early 2008 by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and also in the last part of 2003, there was anti-Bihari drive in Assam wherein nearly hundred were killed and hundreds rendered homeless. This anti-Bihari drive in Assam just happened as the locals felt that jobs in the Northeast Frontier Railway in

Assam would be snatched away by outsiders particularly Biharis. The exams were to fill up 2,750 Grade D posts. Of the total 6.2 lakh applicants, 94,533 were from Bihar. Local people in Guwahati feared that Biharis would capture most of the posts and this led to violence against the Hindi speaking people. But the fact is where the job securities are for the youth of the Northeast. Nothing at all! The Center has terribly failed to frame clear cut employment policies under various major Ministries. No one knows clearly what are the policies and programs being framed for the educated employed youth of the Northeast nor are our MPs aware of the loopholes. Nearly 30 lakh educated unemployed youth are there in the Northeast and the numbers keep increasing every year and what will be the fate of them if the Government does not think seriously on this. Where will they go? The job security will become out of question after some years and there will be fights and chaos in the region if the immediate attention is not paid.

As we know there are no major factories and industries in the Northeast till now. The Center keeps sweetly preaching that the youth of the Northeast should not attempt for the Government jobs only but they would hardly give alternative for them. They know there is a lack of industrial establishments in the Region, but never trying to have one for the Region. Some 4 to 5 major factories and industries are in the region and most them were also built by the British when India was under them. See the famous Digboi Refinery which was set up in 1901 at Digboi in Assam. Even Commercial production of tea in India began after the conquest of large areas by the British East India Company, at which point large tracts of land were converted for mass tea production. The widespread popularity of tea as a recreational drink began in earnest in the 1920s, after a successful advertising campaign by the Tea Board and several mass promotion drives by the Government, using railway stations as a base. Even almost all the existing rail tracks, railway stations

and services in the Northeast were established by the British and so also many roads in the Northeast. Now a very simple question is what are the major industrial policies the Center had so far framed for the development of the Northeast India after attaining her Independence in 1947. The thinking that the citizens of this part of the country would get more development and dignified lives after India’s Independence has become otherwise. Because historically, the British was responsible for many unwanted issues that have been prevailing till today. Why haven’t the rulers of this country thought of this or whether the new leaderships of this country are planning any? We need an answer from our country’s leaders at Delhi. What a life the citizens of the Northeast are enjoying? Yet, one of the most setbacks on our part is also that our elected representatives in their respective States in the Northeastern Region sometimes fail to understand their roles and limits. Our 34 Members of

Parliament from the Northeastern Region have been terribly failing to come together even for the common cause of the Northeast people. When we study the allocation of the funds for the Northeast comparing to other States is like a joke. See the Central allocation of Rs 53,000 crore for the entire Northeast (201516) is just little more than a half of Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train Cost – Rs 90,000 crore. Yet, not a single MP from Northeast complained of this. Have our MPs ever thought of examining the budgetary allocations not only to their respective States but also the entire Region? Have our MPs and politicians ever sought of taking advices from the experts as to why the huge economic imbalances have been going between the Northeast and the rest of the country? Time has come for the people of the Northeast India to wake up to thoroughly study as to why they are still underdeveloped and far behind others in this funnily “CYBER AGE ERA” before it is too late. It is now or never. Oken Jeet Sandham

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express X issue 257X issue 185 ThursdAy 9volume July 2015 volume By Along longkumer

Broadening Peace

C O M M E N T A R Y

When Dictators Die

he thought of seeing the top leaders from the different Naga Political Groups (NPGs) coming together in some form or the other and resolving to speak with one voice to the Government of India was always been the hope and prayer of every Naga for many many years now. Therefore when a joint statement was signed on August 22, 2011 with the top rung leaders of three groups (including the NSCN-IM) agreeing to “strengthen and broaden the peace process based on the uniqueness of Naga history”, a sense of quiet relief was felt by our people with the hope that a common ground will be worked out to take forward whatever has so far been achieved by the present negotiating team. And after reading such joint statement signed by the top leaders of the concerned groups, Nagas were finally coming to the realization that things were moving forward and people could indeed look ahead for better things to come. But looking at what is happening around us, alas that is not to be. The aftermath of the signing of the Framework Agreement on August 3, 2015 between the Government of India’s Interlocutor and the NSCN (IM) has brought more differences and conflicting voices within the Naga movement it would seem. At least in the last five years or so, the signatories to the Covenant of Reconciliation, the two NSCN groups and the NNC/FGN had been speaking mostly in one voice and affirming their resolve in the ‘journey of common hope’ under the initiative of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR). Now even the FNR, which was successfully keeping the different groups engaged in the reconciliation process, appear to be non-functional and completely discouraged by the gradual erosion of trust and understanding among the Naga Political Groups (NPGs). At a time when we most need trust, goodwill and understanding among the leaders, the NPGs seem to have thrown away all the hard work they had jointly built with the FNR. The August 20 & 22, 2011 high level meetings of top leaders and their willingness to share a common space was indeed significant and a way forward. Perhaps the Naga public should put pressure on the concern groups to revisit the agreed text of the above meetings and several others, after all these have all been done under public knowledge and support. The FNR should also seriously deliberate on calling for an emergency session of the public if needed and hold the groups accountable on their earlier participation and joint agreements arrived at. Failure to abide by earlier declaration/s is as good as cheating the Naga public. By their failure to come together, despite all their high sounding joint statements and resolve, the NPGs have only themselves to blame if the Naga public come to distrust them for failing to keep their word. Even the many skeptics out there would argue their case even more that peace and reconciliation of the warring factions is never going to succeed. This reflects poorly on Nagas as a whole that they cannot be trusted or relied upon to keep their word. Despitewhatever has happened in the last one year or so, we should remember that Naga reconciliation is too important a cause for our people to even contemplate putting in the back-burner or stalled. Hopefully the FNR and the NPGs will reflect on this most vital question facing the Nagas today As India prepares to sign a peace accord Nagas should not be found wanting. (The writer is a former Editor of the Morung Express and presently serving as a board member. Feedback may be sent to alongnews@yahoo.com)

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Indian women: living in constant fear

n a bid to provide a better policing atmosphere, Northern Indian state Haryana has started all-women police stations all its 21 districts of the state on the eve of Raksha Bandhan, the Hindu festival symbolising brother-sister bond. “The step promises an environment conducive to fearless reporting and sensitive investigation of crimes against women by only women police officers manning one women police station in every district,” Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) YP Singhal told the media in Chandigarh in a recently held press conference. Such steps are not uncommon in Northern part of India these days. Government agencies are taking various steps to ensure safety of women and address the problems associated with fairer sex. Country’s National Crime Records Bureau of India in a report said that crime against women witnessed an increased 6.4% during the year 2012. The report further said that there were a total of 244,270 incidents of crime against women were reported the year, almost one incident every three minutes. In the year 2011, there were 228,650 such incidents were reported from various parts of the country. Of the women living in India, 7.5% live in West Bengal where 12.7% of the total reported crime against women occurs. Andhra Pradesh is home to 7.3% of India’s female population and accounts for 11.5% of the total reported crimes against women. Sociologists say that crimes against women are high in Northern part of the country, but most of the time they go unreported. One of the key reasons is unfriendly nature of police force, largely dominated by men. That is why almost every state in Indian is working on the Idea of all women police station. These police stations would investigate various crimes against women such as stalking, dowry death, foeticide, molestation, sexual harassment, disrobing, voyeurism, abduction, elopement, kidnapping, rape, dowry harassment, sodomy, illegal second marriage, abetment to suicide and child marriage (in case of female child). Besides, of cases of immoral trafficking, dowry, and under the Commission of Sati (Prevention) Act, Protection of Woman against Domestic Violence Act, the Information Technology Act (if the offence is committed against women), Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and other laws are also tackled by women in uniform. Haryana’s adjoining Delhi, India’s national capital, is also planning to launch an all-women cab service. This is keeping in view of the increasing number of crimes against women in buses and taxis in the city which is often referred as rape capital of the country. In India a rape occurs every 22 minutes in India, according to National Crime Records Bureau. In the last few months at least two incidents were reported where cab drivers allegedly raped the female rider. In December 2013, a woman was raped and brutally murdered in a moving city bus. The issue hit the national headlines and forced the government to think of stringent action those involved in the crime. The civic agency had planned to launch the cab service named “Shakti” with a fleet of 20 taxis. However, the date of official lunch is yet to announced. In January 2011, the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) Questionnaire reported that 24% of Indian men had committed sexual violence at some point during their lives. Besides, even women are fast realising that they are responsible for their security. There has been a significant increase in self-defence classes for young girls across Delhi. A group called, Red Brigade, teaches girls how to protect themselves from attackers in Lucknow in Northern India. The group members are always dressed in red and black. There has also been an increase in the sale of pepper sprays. Besides, a manufacturer launched a gun especially for women last year. The biggest question, however, is would these initiatives will help to stop crime against woman at ground level or will just remain a Public relation exercise for the authorities.

Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz

The world’s dictators are aging — but democrats shouldn’t be too quick to rejoice

here are 55 authoritarian leaders in power throughout the world. Eleven of these leaders are 69 years old or older, and they are in varying stages of declining health. Most of these aging dictators, such as Angola’s Jose Eduardo dos Santos (73 years old), Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev (75 years old), and Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe (91 years old), have been in power for decades. At first blush this paints a hopeful picture for democracy watchers, who have recently documented a slow but steady authoritarian resurgence. Surely the fact that 20 percent of the world’s autocracies face the specter of succession provides an opportunity for new democracies to emerge — or does it? Alternatively, perhaps the number of aging and ailing dictators is a cause for concern. Some fear that the deaths of these longtime leaders will spark intense political infighting or public unrest that could plunge their countries into chaos. The fact that most of this aging cohort, such as Algeria’s Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir, has yet to identify a political successor seems to add credibility to these concerns. Both perspectives seem plausible — but our research shows that there is little merit to either of them. In our review of the 79 dictators who have died in office from 1946 to 2014, we find that the death of a dictator almost never ushers in democracy. Nor does it typically bring down the regime. Instead, in the vast majority (92 percent) of cases, the regime persists after the autocrat’s death. The deaths of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela in 2013, Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia in 2012, and Kim Jong Il in North Korea in 2011 illustrate this trend. Compared with other forms of leadership turnover in autocracies — such as coups, elections, or term limits — which lead to regime collapse about half of the time, the death of a dictator is remarkably inconsequential. Not only is it exceedingly rare for an autocrat’s death in office to result in democracy, but it also does not improve a country’s longer-term prospects for liberalization. Leaders who come to power following the death of an autocrat and who seek to deviate from the status quo are likely to provoke resistance from the “old guard” — elements of the regime who maintain control over the levers of power and find it in their interest to limit changes in the new system. It is often forgotten today that the brutal Syrian dictator, Bashar alAssad, came to power after his father’s death in 2000 with hopes of liberalizing his country. Soon after inheriting power, he began a series of political reforms, including efforts to increase press freedoms, release political prisoners, and expand Internet use. But President Assad’s ability to change the system was limited by influential figures from his father’s regime who exerted their political power and influence to block policy changes and inhibit their implementation. We also find that coups and public revolts are rare following a dictator’s death. During the year of a leader’s death in office, coups have occurred in only 6 percent of cases, compared with 32 percent when autocrats have left power via other means. Similarly, mass public protests are far less likely to break out following a dictator’s death than after other forms of authoritarian leader exit. This pattern persists even when we adjust our time frame and look at the fiveyear period following a leadership transition. In some cases, such as Kuwait or Saudi Arabia,

In this file photo, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe falls after addressing supporters upon his return from an African Union meeting in Ethiopia on Wednesday, February 4, 2015.

the resilience of authoritarian regimes following the deaths of their leaders reflects the durability of monarchies, where highly institutionalized succession processes ensure stability across generations. In other cases, a regime’s resilience is driven by the ability of fathers to position their sons as heirs, such as in Syria (2000), Azerbaijan (2003), and Togo (2005). But countries with less formal or obvious mechanisms for succession, such as Venezuela in 2013, Zambia in 2008, or Turkmenistan in 2006, have also endured their leaders’ deaths. Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that there is little change following a dictator’s death in office. Autocrats who die in office tend to be particularly adept politicians — having evaded myriad threats to their rule — and they are likely to have fashioned entrenched political systems capable of persisting beyond their passing. On average, dictators who die in office have enjoyed 16 years in power, compared with just seven for those who exit by all other means. Such longevity is only possible by developing an inner circle of elite supporters who are highly invested in the status quo and are equipped with institutions that they can use to maintain it. In other words, the very strategies that are key to a dictator’s ability to stay in office until death increase his regime’s resilience after his passing. The presence of a well-functioning support party is among the key strategies that enhance the durability of autocracies and facilitate the succession process. A strong body of academic studies demonstrates the prolonging power of political parties in authoritarian settings. While these parties differ from political parties in democracies, they do serve important functions in autocracies, such as counterbalancing interventionist militaries, distributing benefits to citizens, and promoting the regime’s ideology. Moreover, well-functioning political parties can co-opt individuals with political aspirations or those seeking to gain access to the spoils of office. Once these potential political rivals to the regime are incorporated and incentivized to participate in the system, the party serves as a focal point for negotiations over the choice of a new leader who can continue to protect their interests. Although a leader’s death in office infrequently prompts the downfall of the regime or instability, these events do occasionally occur. So when should we worry about prospects for instability? Regimes governed by “strongmen” — where political power is highly concentrated in the hands of an individual — tend to be more at risk of instability following a leader’s death. But even then, insta-

bility is rare because many personalized regimes rule with the aid of a political party. The depth of the party matters, and those that invest in their development tend to be the regimes that more seamlessly outlive the death of the leader. For example, after the deaths of the highly personalized regimes of both Hafez al-Assad in Syria in 2000 and Ethiopia’s Meles Zenawi in 2012, the ruling political parties — the Baathist Party in Syria and the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front — were critical in ensuring the regimes’ resilience. In addition to countries where the regime lacks an effective ruling party, we find that countries that have recently experienced protests and domestic instability also have an elevated risk of coups and protests in the wake of a leader’s death. These findings are consistent with a body of research indicating that recent instability enhances the prospects that a country will experience instability in the future. Periods of instability produce segments of the population with networks and experience that prove useful in mobilizing further protests in the face of any discontent during a leadership transition. For example, previous episodes of instability likely contributed to unrest in the aftermath of Guinean President Lansana Conté’s death in 2008 and Gabonese President Omar Bongo’s death in 2009. In another small subset of cases that we reviewed, a leader’s death set into motion dynamics that spurred instability in the longer term. In these cases, instability stems not from immediate disagreements over a potential successor, but from the tactics the new leader uses to consolidate power. In ethnically or geographically divided societies, opportunistic leaders can leverage divisions to boost their popularity. This was the case in Ivory Coast, where the death of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny in 1993 triggered the rise of Ivoirian nationalism that planted the seeds for civil war nine years later. In its 2015 “Freedom in the World” report, Freedom House reported that the risk of a widespread democratic decline is higher now than at any time in the last 25 years. Unfortunately, our results show that the advanced age of 11 of the world’s autocrats offers little hope for reversing this trend. Instead of creating space for change, the deaths of these longstanding leaders will most likely leave in place the resilient autocratic systems they’ve created. Though most leadership transitions generate opportunities for political transformation in dictatorships, death in office is not among them. Death in office, it turns out, is a remarkably unremarkable event.

"Sextortion" is blind spot in fight against corruption Astrid Zweynert

Thomson Reuters Foundation

he U.S. immigration officer told a young Colombian woman that he wanted sex, once or twice, and in return would give her a green card, the coveted document that would allow her to live and work in the United States permanently. What he did not know was that the conversation was recorded on a digital camera in her pocket and used as evidence in a case of "sextortion", a form of corruption that involves officials abusing their power to obtain a sexual favour. "Sextortion is very widespread, but it is one of the hardest-to-prove forms of corruption," said Nancy Hendry, senior advisor at the International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ), which coined the term in its quest to stop the abusive practice. Statistics are hard to come by but Interpol says reports indicate that sextortion is a growing problem with hundreds of thousands of victims around the world. Prosecutors often have hard evidence and anti-corruption laws to charge people in positions of authority caught taking bribes. But when sex is involved, prosecu-

tion is harder because evidence is elusive, the law is unclear and victims often shy away from coming forward for fear of being shamed. As a result, corruption prosecutions for sextortion remain relatively few because there are rarely witnesses and evidence, short of video or audio recordings, which are difficult to get in meetings that are often private. Through heightened awareness, the judges hope to see sextortion get the same attention and penalties that sexual harassment and domestic violence crimes that were once ignored or unquestioned now command. "People tend to dismiss is, partly because it is seen as part of life," Hendry told delegates at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Malaysia during a panel debate on the issue on Wednesday. "But it shouldn't be, just like sexual harassment or domestic violence are unacceptable."

ploys fear rather than physical forms of coercion. It does not have to involve sexual intercourse or even physical touching, but could be any form of unwanted sexual activity, including exposing body parts or posing for sexual photographs or videos, the IAWJ says. Many sextortion cases happen in the workplace or in educational institutions, where "sex for grades" cases may be prosecuted under sexual harassment laws. Han Che e Ru l l , d e p u t y commissioner at the office of legal research of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, said sextortion is hard to prove as it is carried out in secrecy. "Proof is also often hard to obtain due to a lack of evidence of physical violence because perpetrators and victims exchange sexual favours as a quid pro quo" - an exchange of services, he told delegates, adding that Malaysia has prosecuted only two cases. BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Justice Engera Kileo, chairwoman The demand for a sexual favour can of the Tanzania Women Judges Assobe explicit or implicit, and usually em- ciation, said Tanzania in 2007 recog-

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nised the solicitation of sexual favours through abuse of authority as a form of corruption, but the law was too weak to deal with sextortion cases. "Building awareness and training officials is a key part of our work to stop sextortion from happening in the first place," she said. GROWING PROBLEM The number of people affected by sextortion is not available, partly because there is no standard procedure to record and document it as an offence. A 2014 study by the IAWJ and the Thomson Reuters Foundation on laws in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Kenya, Mexico, Taiwan, Uganda and the United Kingdom found that none of the nine countries had adopted laws that use the term sextortion. Interpol has warned that as Internet access continues to expand, especially in developing countries, there are likely to be more victims as sexually explicit material is posted online to blackmail people. An Interpol-coordinated operation targeting organised crime networks behind sextortion cases around the world resulted in the arrest of 58 people last year.

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PERSPECTIVE

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BUSINESS OF DOING BUSINESS

he World Bank routinely brings out ranks countries on various criteria. The more well-known of the indicators are the World Development Indicators,the Worldwide Governance indicators and the Ease of Doing Business indicators. The past week saw the World Bank release a report that helps to measure the relative ease in which businesses can be opened in different states in the country. In a move touted to usher in competitive federalism in India this exercise was undertaken after the Prime Minister requested the World Bank to rank states that have done the most to further the ‘Make in India’ campaign. Make in India campaign aims at ensuring that adequate employment opportunities are created to absorb roughly 67% of population who will be in the job market in 2020. The assessment is that any failure on the part of the policy makers to factor in this demographic dividend would be lost and may hamper overall economic growth in the country. As a first pass towards ensuring growth in employment by improving industrial friendliness, a set of 98 actions to be completed by 30th June were drawn up in the workshop held in December 2014. The scores obtained by the states are a reflection, in other words of the degree to which the promises for action towards friendlier businesses have been fulfilled. The report, ‘Assessment of State Implementation of Business Re-

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forms,’ ranks 32 states/UTs.The ranking is donebased on the performance of individual states in 8 broad areasthat include among others setting up of business, enforcing contracts, registering and complying with tax procedures etc. Our state, Nagaland ranks 31 in the country and received a score of 3.41%. To put the rank in perspective, no state from the North-east received a score greater than 15% and all NE states except Assam received a score of less than 10%. One state Manipur and 3 UTs Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli were not ranked in the report. Based on the scores attained by the states, the study divided the states into 3 categories, namely aspiring leaders (50-75%), acceleration required (25-50%) and jumpstart needed (025%). 50% of all the states ranked came in the last category. It is interesting to note that states that have shown good progress in human development indicators like Himachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Goa and Kerala all fall in the ‘jumpstart needed’ category. One would think that human development has a lasting impact on people’s welfare than a narrow measure of doing business indicator. It is also surprising to note that there is a negative correlation between per-capita income of the state and the scores they received.

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different questions (with Yes/No as answers) spread over these 8 ‘areas’. For example, under the broad area of ‘Enforcing contracts’ a total of 9 sub-questions were asked to respondents. These included questions about the unfilled-vacancies in the judiciary, the degree to which the judiciary had posted its cause-lists etc; online and even steps taken towards filling recruiting judges in the district judiciary. These questions were then mailed to the respective state governments from whom answers were sought. Visits to the states were conducted and thereafter a period of revising and reviewing the entire process was also undertaken. The area score is arrived at as a percentage of ‘Yes’ answers within a given ‘area’ and an aggregate percentage of all ‘Yes’ answers across the 8(eight) areas and covering the 285 questions aggregate score. The questions that are Methodology not applicable to individual states The performance of each of the are netted out of the percentage calstates was assessed by asking 285 culation.

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time line under consideration. If there are extraneous and emergent issues that the government has to grapple like droughts or political instability then a time frame of 6 months maybe too short and inappropriate. It can also be argued that a 6 month period is biased towards those who already have a good enough business environment and therefore has a first mover advantage. The need for sustained changes may not be captured by these one off measures. Portraying these scores as ease indices of ease of doing business in different states may be misleading because of the short timeline used for the above index. There is also no attempt to reason out the puzzling negative correlations between high human development and per-capita incomes of the states and the scores they obtained.

Nagaland returned a 0% score in 5 of the eight areas in which questions were posed. These included carrying out inspections, setting up of business, land allotment and obtaining construction permit, labour compliance and obtaining utilities connections. If we assume that no question was classified as being not applicable to Nagaland then out of the 285 different questions only about 10 questions Future course In spite of the above shortcomwere answered in the affirmative. ings the index could still be used as a valid measure of performance monDrawbacks All the questions were in the Yes/ itoring in the public sector.If these No format. In a state like ours it be- performance measures are diversicomes quite a stretch to apply the fied to include other sectors where general conditions that are seen in goals can be set then similar indices other parts of the country. For exam- can be constructed to improve perple in the matter of land acquisition formance measurement.The manour customs and procedures cannot ner in which the above index has be applied to a simplified version of been constructed is fairly rudimenthe questionnaire that may have been tary and hence even amenable for circulated. In the matter of judiciary use in social sector interventions. the impact of traditional Dobashi For example, if a similar index is crecourts would not have been taken ated in respect of implementation into account by these measures. The of annual budget targets set in the scores are heavily dependent on the education or health sector in then a

POLL RESULTS

Do Naga apex organizations truly present the voice of the public? Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • Yes, formally they represent their own tribes and organizations. But they have failed to reach out to the people. What makes the Naga society unique is our traditional organizations. It is not the organizations that have failed, but it is the people who are running it and manning its powers that have failed to represent the voice of the public. • Yes, the village council system is the most democratic form of system which represents the voice of the public. • During this time, this question is very important. The question needs to be weighted not by emotion, but through reason. Our village council and tribe hohos are the decision making body of our villages and tribes. These traditional bodies have been there in one form or the other and therefore just cannot be brushed aside. They have for many centuries served our needs. But today they are faced with difficulties since our society is no longer organized only through villages. Nagas are slowly becoming a modern society. This is where our apex organisations also need to change so that they can become modern and not just represent those in the villages. There was a time when the apex organisations were the only voice of the people. Just because our society is changing it does not mean that they are not representing the public. • Naga institutions like the village council, clan organizations have been there since time immemorial. They are the foundation of the Naga village republic and are the voice of the people. • Yes, in the most difficult time of the Naga history, it was organizations like Naga Students’ Federation, Naga Mothers Association and Naga Hoho that fought for the Nagas and defended Naga people’s rights. Today, we have some new groups like Acaut that came only after ceasefire and without understanding the situation are pushing their own personal agenda. • Yes, we are the ones who nominated them. Is it not the people of the respective tribes that nominate them. We are hypocrites. We the public elect our MLAs and after than we curse them. After taking their money we abuse them and blame them for everything. The same logic applies here. Our apex organizations are elected us. So lets not blame them. We are to blame. Some of those who voted NO had this to say: • If they have confidence of masses, they could organize any meeting to prove so, but these leaders are shit scared to have dialogue with masses as we see with ACAUT. plz ask them to even Give public opinion on naga problems by them and they

will find that public opinion will be different from them. • No. The leaders are suppose to carry out the message (general voice) of the people they represent but we don't find such thing in Naga society anymore. We only find the voice (individual) of the so-called leaders which is why there is no positive changes in our society for so long. • No, many are just turning to be boneless puppets of the I-M group. • No. Why do the IAS, IPS, technocrats, professionals, etc keep quiet when such an important issue for us is being decided by people hailing from some other states? Apex organizations ought to include the

sires and glorification of themselves instead of fighting for the common cause and representing the voice of the common people. Their mind is shut down by the immorality, greed and covetousness. In addition to this, the previous generation spoils the mindset of the young upcoming generation. • Its so sad to say NO ,when they are the voice of the common people to represent the entire Nagas from grassroot to high section of people. But today our Apex parent bodies failed to understand the very concept "" MANDATE OF THE PEOPLE "" !!!!! Today our Naga society is in a mess because our Leaders choose to be BIAS. They no longer

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intellectuals as well. Peace alone is not enough. • No..... they do not represent the voice of the public at all. If they truly represent the puplic they must have guts to open to public views and opinion but on contrary they are comfortable with close door meetings and conventions. • Not at all. When all the organizations has few tribal units with them how can they present the voice of the public? Be it Naga hoho or NMA they can no longer call themselves as apex organizations. So kindly stop parading around. • A Big NO from my side..Many of the present naga leaders are totally gratify towards their own selfish de-

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represent the common people but they are for the Elites /dignitaries . Had our leaders dare to call spade a spade then i believe our society will be the best example to the world .God blessed nagas with so many dynamic leaders but our leaders hunger for power/status blinded them that they themselves became a mockery of their gifted abilities. Our society will change /grow for good only if our leaders and we the nagas shed our EGOS/PRIDE/ ISM .Only ""UNITY & TRUTH "" can bridge the division/gap /space created by we the Nagas and our Apex bodies . • No. The complete term of what we call as "apex bodies aka NGO's" is

totally lost in terms of Naga civil society. Today we only see individual opinions, individual interests, individual decisions by our so called civil bodies. • No. They have vested interest and is mostly driven by external forces and in the process the general nagas are left unrepresented. • No...because they are not speaking the same voice as the people.. • No, They bow down to the corrupt politicians for their narrow minded interest. Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say: • The Apex Naga organizations especially the Naga Hoho and the NSF function like a tree being blown into different directions by the wind, visions blur, and instead of leading following the masses, institutions for grooming future politicians and also working tirelessly as individual interest groups. Once again reminding you NSF that your job is to work for the welfare of the students… where is your action on all those poor results in the government schools and proxy teachers? What have you done regarding those backdoor appointments? Nothing, right? These are the areas you need to focus with. So far your performances were below par… no better than HSLC results of Government schools. Your positive voices unheard. • There is a town and village divide. In villages the apex hohos and organizations represent the voice of the people. But in towns and other urban centers they are failing. Likewise • Naga has a Tribal representative system in Naga Apex Organisation. Represented by respective Tribal Hoho, when the respective Tribal Hobo has given a consent on certain issue then certainly the voice of Tribal Hobo reflect to their own people. It is up to the People to respect or not to respect their own Tribal Hobo, where it is represented as a member in Naga Apex Organisation. • What's the % of women representation in 'apex' bodies anyway? • In Japan society, the elders people are respected everywhere. The elder people has the character of understanding, patient and wisdom. But in naga society, many younger generation don't listen, obey and respect the parents and elder people. Many young generation may be oversmart with the present worldly knowledge and neglected the wisdom of the elder people. Besides there are many selfish motives among the elder people and also the younger generation, that is why the wisdom of apex body are also affected. And therefore, it is not possible to say yes or no, without knowing the fact of reality. • Future of Naga people must in the hands of Naga people. Who do naga people trust??

ranking of districts according to performance will provide an incentive for the individuals to perform better as well as to implement the policies and programs earnestly. The spirit of competitive federalism can be brought to bear upon the districts. One challenge while using numerical data or measurable characteristics is that most social development measures are not amenable to easy measurement. But the use of a dichotomous yes/ no criterion also gives hope as seemingly immeasurable characteristics can also be counted. The use of an index could be a reform measure that we can profitably try out in our budgets so that there is an internal pressure within the actors to perform their roles in a better fashion. Moreover, these measures also tend to act as a commitment device to the state actors. The credibility of the said device is another matter as it depends on the necessary followup action that may be initiated by the controlling authority.In short, though the index places our state at the bottom of the pecking order we should not look at the numbers too literally. We need to realise the shortcomings in the business environment in our state but at the same time the index also gives us a tool to use in the implementation discourse on social and public policy. (The author is an IAS officer of Nagaland cadre. The views expressed in his column, featured every Monday, are personal. Feedback can be emailed to vyasan_r@yahoo.com)

THE LIGHTNING INSIDE US Oliver Morton

Intelligent Life

N JAMES WHALE'S 1931 film of “Frankenstein”, the monster is brought to life as his creator imagined God’s first creatures to have been: by lightning. “Behold!” Victor cries, as the storm lashes his laboratory and its metal armatures begin to glow. “The great ray that first brought life into the world.” A couple of decades later, in a ground-breaking foray into the science of life’s origins, the biochemist Stanley Miller used high-voltage sparks to produce some amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. His Chicago laboratory was less dramatic than Victor’s, but the idea was the same: a flask of gases represented the atmosphere of the early Earth; the sparks, its lightning. There is lightning, too, in a wonderful new book by Nick Lane, a biochemist at University College London, and, I should add, a friend of mine. “The Vital Question”, rated “masterful”, “epic” and “scintillating” by the critics, contains as convincing an account of the origins of life as any now on offer. And it also contains lightning—but as a comparator, not an instigator. The strength of the electric field across the membranes that allow living things to capture the energy they need is a startling 30m volts per metre: the same sort of strength seen in the fields that tear open thunderclouds. Lane belongs to a small and persuasive cabal that is using studies of the way cells access energy to gain insight into all sorts of questions, from why there are different sexes to why creatures grow old (and—a personal favourite—why birds age much more slowly than other creatures of their size). The cabal takes Theodosius Dobzhansky’s well-worn dictum, “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution”, and adds that nothing in evolution makes sense except in the light of energetics. At the centre of this view of the world is that membrane of lightning-like potential. Both of the primary processes by which cells get their energy, respiration and photosynthesis, depend on a flow of electrons through protein complexes in these membranes to move protons—hydrogen atoms from which the electrons have gone missing—across them. It is the return of the protons thus exiled which turns the energy gained from sunlight or food into something that the cell can access. These processes are harder to grasp than those of DNA—as Watson and Crick noted in their first paper on the subject, once you see how the links between them bind a pair of DNA molecules into a double helix, each the template for its complement, the idea that molecules store information that can be read and copied is intuitively obvious. But if they are less pretty to look at and less easily understood, the membranes Lane writes about are, if anything, even more fundamental to an understanding of life, not least because they predate DNA. Indeed, they pre-date life. Norman Pirie, a brilliantly eccentric biochemist, was one of the first to point out that laboratory studies revealed a continuum between life and death. These two words, he wrote in the 1930s, “still have a very definite meaning when used by poets, knackers or soldiers, but little or none when used to describe the phenomena observed in tissue culture, virus research and kinetic studies on interrelated enzyme systems.” One of the achievements of the school Nick Lane writes about is its application of this idea to the question of the origins of life, suggesting ways in which mineral membranes separating fluids with very different proton concentrations could have given rise to biological systems in which they would eventually be replaced with the sorts of membranes seen in cells today—going from pure geochemistry at the beginning to pure biochemistry at the end, with only the flow of energy constant throughout. The implications of understanding life in this way far outstrip the span of a column. Even Lane’s magnificent book can scarcely contain them. But there is an overarching point that transcends the insights into everything from extraterrestrial life to three-parent babies that are on offer. From “Frankenstein”—and the electrochemical speculations that its author, Mary Shelley, took as her inspiration in 1818— to Miller and beyond, electricity comes as the bolt from the blue that brings life to the inanimate. It is imagined acting almost as a soul—as what the pre-electric poet Pope, imagining the last moments of the emperor Hadrian, first dubbed a “vital spark”. This new science undercuts such dualism. Energy is not an addition to life: it shapes it from the inside out, and from the point of origin. DNA allows living things to copy themselves, and fixes the small variations on which evolution can act; the membranes enable the ceaseless production that underlies all that reproduction. It is this process, not some abstract set of sequences, which explains the way biology is—an unending, exciting and excited flow. It may be that the question “What is life?” is, for reasons like those given by Pirie, a foolish attempt to pin down an essentially abstract noun. The wiser question is “What is living?” And the answer, on current evidence, is a current. Oliver Morton is the briefings editor of The Economist and the author of "Eating the Sun"

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Modi's 'Make in India' is 'Take in India' Congress to fight land bill in states: Rahul

New Delhi, September 20 (iaNS): Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the fight against the controversial land bill has not ended but has shifted to state assemblies, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" campaign was actually "Take in India" as it has "no place for farmers and labourers". Addressing a well-attended rally at the Ramlila Maidan here to mark the party's "victory" over the government on the land bill, Gandhi said Modi only lis-

tens to "people in suit-boot". He said Modi does not talk to farmers or the youth about their problems but only to bureaucrats and businessmen. Gandhi referred to the working conditions at a ship-breaking facility in Alang in Gujarat -- Modi's native state -- and said labourers get insulted as their "chemical-ridden bodies" are not able to burn properly after their death. He said labourers get killed under wreckage of ships and also due to radioactive material

in ships. "When the bodies are burnt, there is so much chemical that the bodies do not burn completely. This is how a labourer is insulted," Gandhi said. He said the Modi government brought ordinances to change the land Act of the United Progressive Alliance government but had to finally relent and allow the ordinance to lapse. "But I know Modi-ji. What he really thinks, he does not say. On one hand, he said the bill of the Congress will not end, on the

other he told his chief ministers that we (Congress) could not do it at the Centre. "Try to do it (make changes to the land law passed in 2013) at the statelevel. The battle has not ended. It is in the state assemblies. The Congress has to fight it in every state," he said. Stating that the "victory" over the land bill was first of the farmers and later of the Congress, he promised to take on the government over issues concerning labourers.

AAP govt under scanner over alleged #OnionScam New Delhi, September 20 (ageNcieS): Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party government has come under scanner over an alleged onion scam within seven months after it assumed power. According to a Zee Media Group Exclusive report, an RTI has revealed that the AAP government procured onions at a much cheaper price of Rs 18/kg and sold them to the people of Delhi at Rs 30/kg. The RTI revelation

shows that the move is in stark contrast to the Cabinet decision that the government will sell onions at a no-profit-no-loss basis in the National Capital. The RTI documents accessed by Zee Media reportedly reveals that the government procured onions from markets of Nashik and Indore through Small Farmer Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) at much lower prices, but sold them at a huge profit margin.In its reply,

the Delhi government's Department of Food Supplies and Consumer Affairs has apparently said that the government had purchased 2,511 metric tonnes (25,11,000 kgs) of onions at an average price of Rs 18.57 per kg. This also includes warehousing and other local expenses. However, the government has denied any financial bungling on its part. Ruling out any financial bungling on its part,

Delhi’s Food and Civil Supply Minister Aseem Ahmed Khan said that government had procured onions from Small Farmer Agri-Business Consortium (SFAC) at Rs 32.86/kg. He added that owing to transportation and labour expenses, the prices shot up to Rs 40/kg and the AAP government then decided to subsidise the onion price by another Rs 10 per kg and decided to sell them at Rs 30 per kg to the public.

'India's smart cities aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals' New Delhi, September 20 (iaNS): With the announcement of 98 aspirants for India's smart cities and the government incorporating sustainability as a key component of the project, global consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) feels "the pillars of a smart sustainable city" are completely aligned with the proposed UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs, that will define the global sustainable development agenda post-2015, are a proposed set of global development targets to be adopted by

governments around the world."The closer the integration of sustainability into India's '100 Smart Cities' initiative, the greater will be the linkages with the SDGs," PwC said in a report titled "Making cities smart and sustainable". "The pillars of a smart sustainable city are also directly or indirectly aligned with the objectives of the SDGs," the report said. Under the government's 100 smart cities programme, each selected city will receive central assistance of Rs.100 crore annually for 5 years, driving economic growth. Citing good governance, plan-

ning and financing as among the key institutional factors for realising sustainable cities, the report said "responsibility and accountability are integral towards making our community more sustainable." "Good governance serves as a powerful inspiration for promoting reforms in policies and programmes for sustainable development," PwC said. "These include open and transparent opportunities for the poor and underprivileged to access information and secure their rights over land, forest and energy resources," the report added.

Gandhi recounted that a farmer had told him that the land he tilled was like his own mother. "He told me Narendra Modi-ji is not just snatching our land but our mother. He wants to snatch our mother and give it to someone else, please fight for us. That day I realised it is a fight (not only) for your land but for heart, prestige, future of farmers. The Congress stood for you," he said. The Congress leader said Modi's 'Make in India' does not have "place for labourers, farmers but for

only those whom he meets and talks". "We don't want such India. This is not 'Make in India'. This is Modi's 'take in India'," Gandhi said. "On the one hand, they want to snatch your land, on the other your rights. In the end, you will get nothing. His two-three chosen friends will get it in the end. We will fight your battle. And you see what we did for your land, we will do it for labourers. We will do it for MSP (minimum support price), we will do it for problems of sugarcane farmers. You build India. We will never forget you," Gandhi added. He said Modi wants farmers to be weak, and they were facing problems in every state. "I want to tell the prime minister, try to understand their problem. Help them. If you do not, you will see the Congress," he said. Rahul Gandhi said Mahatma Gandhi wore suitboot but later chose a life of simplicity as he mingled with the people and had only a few belongings in the end. "Look at Modi-ji. He wears new clothes every day. He wears suit worth Rs.15 lakh. The more he goes farther from you, the better clothes he wears," Gandhi said.

Nine killed, 15 injured in truck mishap in Odisha bhubaNeSwar, September 20 (iaNS): At least nine persons were killed and 15 others injured when a mini-truck overturned in Odisha's Sundargarh district, police said on Sunday. The accident occurred near Suarapalli on Lahunipara-Baharaposi road on Saturday evening. Police said while three persons died on the spot, three others died on way to hospital. The injured were admitted to Ispat General Hospital. The death toll could go up as several of the injured were in critical conditions, sources said. Police said the mini-truck was carrying kabaddi players and their supporters of Sendhpur village in Bonai block. Sources said the driver lost control over the vehicle following which it overturned and fell off a small bridge. Additional SP (Bonei) R.B. Panigrahi said police were inquiring into the incident.

Most hygienic Punjab hospital to get Rs.50 lakh award chaNDigarh September 20 (iaNS): To encourage hygenic conditions and cleanliness in government hospitals, the Punjab goverment will give a Rs.50 lakh award to the most hygienic hospital in the state, a senior officer said on Sunday."The Punjab government has constituted a state-level evaluation committee to assess the general conditions of each government hospital in the state and on the basis of its recommendations the hygienically best hospital would be awarded with a cash award of Rs.50 lakh," said Principal Secretary Health Vini Mahajan. "Instructions have been given to the civil surgeons across the state to ensure cleanliness and basic hygiene in the hospitals under their control. The Best Hospital Award would be given on the basis of the overall cleanliness in the hospitals, sanitation and hygiene, disposal of hospital waste, infection control, availability of support services and hygiene promotion," she said. The hospitals will be given a 250-parameters questionnaire before these are shortlisted for evaluation.75% of the award money would go towards welfare of patients while the remaining 25% would be disbursed among the staff members who have worked hard to make this cleanliness drive a success.

UP Cop suspended after he smashes typewriter of an elderly man in Lucknow luckNow, September 20 (pti): A sub inspector of the police has been suspended following intervention of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav after pictures of the cop damaging the typewriter of an elderly typist went viral on the social media. Krishna Kumar (65) had been sitting on the pavement outside the General Post Office (GPO) working as the typist for the last 35 years, a senior officer said. On pretext of “security movement”, Incharge of the Secretariat Police outpost Sub Inspector Pradeep Kumar asked Kumar to vacate the place yesterday and even crushed the latter’s typewriter under his boots. The pleas of the elderly man went unheard and the SI continued with the act till the typewriter was completely smashed. As the pictures of the incident went viral on the social media, the CM asked

The pictures of the incident that went viral on social media. (Photo sourced from Facebook)

senior officers to suspend the errant cop and provide a new typewriter to the victim. On his directive, SSP Rajesh Pandey suspended the SI and ordered an in-

quiry to be headed by the Circle Officer, Alambagh. District Magistrate Rajshekhar and SSP Pandey later visited Kumar’s house and handed over a type-

writer to him. The CM has asked the senior officers to train policemen in improving their behaviour while dealing with the public, the officer said.

Corpses rot in morgues, Netaji’s kin wants foreign countries to release files post-mortem tools rusted in kolkata, PMO yesterday asking us ries surrounding his disSeptem- files may have already gapore and Malaysia to month in Delhi. “Our main focus, how- to prepare an agenda for appearance doing the ber 20 (pti):Family been destroyed by the past declassify all Netaji files ever, would be on declas- the meeting. We will de- rounds since then. Most of of Subhas Chan- governments,” Netaji’s lying with them. National Capital: HC told members “Netaji was in touch sification of all Netaji files mand the constitution of a the family members have dra Bose said the Prime grand-nephew Chandra New Delhi, September 20 (pti): Rotting corpses, rusted and outdated post-mortem tools and lack of doctors are a common sight in most of the mortuaries in the national capital, a report submitted in Delhi High Court has said. Alarmingly, the report also points out that those working in the morgues had life-expectancy below the national average, probably due to the unhygienic conditions in their workplaces. Among several deficiencies are poor condition of cooling chambers, bodies not being covered properly, corpses lying unattended on rickety tables and rusted and outdated instruments for performing autopsy, the report by advocate Saqib, appointed as amicus curiae by high court to inspect how the dead were being treated in the morgues,. Even viscera samples, which are an important piece of evidence in criminal cases, have been seen lying unattended in open cabinets packed in polythene bags and "anyone could walk away with them", the amicus said. This was Saqib's third report in the matter as he told the court last week that there has been no improvement in the situation since his earlier reports. There are about 20 morgues, which are run by the government and other agencies. Noting that the Delhi Police has made autopsies a "matter of routine", it said even in cases where the cause of death is well known to the concerned investigating officer (IO), there is considerable delay in disposal of bodies due to the long time taken by them to submit inquest papers, without which a doctor cannot carry out the post-mortem. In this context, the report cites letters of an autopsy surgeon of Aruna Asaf Ali Government Hospital to its Medical Superintendent regarding 56 unclaimed unidentified bodies lying for over 72 hours in the mortuary without the inquest papers being submitted by the police for over 20 days. Subsequent to these letters, the concerned ACP decided to waive of post-mortem for one of the unidentified bodies on the ground that the doctor was harassing them and refusing to perform post-mortem. Highlighting the "dismal state of affairs" in the morgues, Advocate Saqib has told the court that life- expectancy of the people who work in mortuaries was less than the national average.

Minister must ask other countries to declassify files in their possession about his disappearance, as they fear some documents key to the mystery might be destroyed. “I am not too sure whether the existing files with the central government can reveal everything about what happened to Netaji after he went missing in 1945. The

Bose told. He said that even the Mukherjee Commission stated that four files had been destroyed during the time of Indira Gandhi. To connect all the dots relating to his disappearance, he said his family would appeal to Prime Minister to write to the heads of the countries of Russia, Japan, China, America, UK, Japan, Sin-

with people in all these countries. They all have classified files relating to him. We want to take this movement of declassification to the global level to get all the clues,” Netaji kin said. The family members said that the issue of global declassification of Netaji files would be on the family’s agenda, when they meet Mr. Modi next

held by the government of India. If we do not have our own files declassified, then how can we ask other nations to do it?” asked Abhijit Ray, Netaji’s another grand-nephew. In his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, Modi today said he would host over 50 Bose family members at his residence next month. “We got a call from the

high-powered committee under the leadership of the Prime Minister himself, to release all the files with the Centre,” Chandra Bose said. The recent release of 64 files by West Bengal government revealed that the Indian government had snooped on Netaji’s family even after 1945, when he was believed to have died in an air crash. There are many theo-

debunked the air crash theory.“A story that he escaped to Russia has been there for sometime, but the Bengal government files show that there could be a new Chinese angle to the story. And then some say he came back to India in disguise as ‘Gumnami Baba’. We do not have clinching evidence to prove any of these theories,” Mr. Bose said.

'School timings adversely affect physical, mental growth of kids' New Delhi, September 20 (ageNcieS): In a latest research, a British scientist has found that school timings are depriving children of much-needed sleep as they start early which puts an adverse affect on their physical and mental growth. According to a report published in Times Of India on Sunday, Oxford University professor Paul Kelly, who is working along with American scientists at Harvard University, said at the recently held British Science Fair that children aged eight to 10 should start school at 8.30 am or later, 16-year-old should start at 10 am, and 18-year-old at 11 am. Considering that children across the world are hooked on

to their mobile phones and iPads, the sleep deprivation state may not differ much in India. As sleep deprivation is emerging as one of the risk factors for disease ranging from diabetes to obesity to depression, Kelly wants to start trials under the TeenSleep project. Notably, in a research paper published last year, Kelly had calculated that British children lose around 10 hours of sleep every week. In India, where many leave home for school even before the sun is up, the new western thought got mixed reactions: some experts, including doctors and principals, agreed that children were sleep-deprived but felt that changing timings would not be easy.

In India, where many leave home for school even before the sun is up, the new western thought got mixed reactions: some experts, including doctors and principals, agreed that children were sleep-deprived but felt that changing timings would not be easy. However, opposing the idea of delaying the school timings, while speaking exclusively to Zee Media Group, Director Education, Lotus Greens, Madhu Chandra said, “Nowadays, children and adolescents stay up late due to reasons like working parents coming home late, other social lifestyles, and biological changes during puberty.” “If the kids will sleep ear-

ly they will definitely face no problem getting-up early in the morning. Going school early will even help students to go for tution classes and take out some leisure time for themselves,” she said, adding that traffic also remains week at early morning which will further help children to save their time. On the other hand some children and parents said that it will be helpful for them if the school timings are delayed a bit. “They have to go for classes after school, which cuts down on their leisure time. They are addicted to gadgets, which further cuts into their sleep time,“ parents told Zee Media . “Schools should ideally start

around 8.30am and should be like a day boarding where students don't just study ,“ TOI quoted former school principal Amita Katyal as saying. Furthermore, Kelly in his research have said that lack of sleep and abrupt cycles of it also increases obesity and memory problems in kids. “In the long run, sleep deprivation can increase risk of heart disease, high BP, stroke and diabetes,” says the report. The report further adds that lack of sleep can further affect sex drive and lead to weight gain. In children, it can lead to daytime drowsiness, depression, headaches, lower concentration and poor performance at school.

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Refugee crisis to test EU at summit of divided leaders BRUSSELS, SEPTEMBER 20 (REUTERS): Bitterly divided European leaders will seek to find a credible response to the worst migration crisis affecting the continent since World War Two, which has tarnished its image as a beacon of peace, at an emergency summit next week. European Council President Donald Tusk, who chairs EU summits, on Friday called on the 28-country bloc’s leaders to stop shifting the responsibility onto others and to build a credible migration policy. Europe is struggling to deal with the hundreds of thousands of people entering it this year, increasingly across the water from Turkey to Greece and then up through the impoverished Balkans to the formerYugoslavia, of which Croatia and Slovenia are members of the EU. The influx of migrants, most of them fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has led to bitter recriminations between European governments and the temporary closure of national borders, undermining one of the most tangible benefits of the Union. “If you don’t cope with this crisis, then I think the EU will fall apart,” said a senior EU official. When they meet in Brussels on Wednesday, European leaders will dis-

Migrants brave deadly dinghies, Turkish coastguard for new life

Migrants in a dinghy with a small motor paddle their craft after leaving Bodrum, Turkey, in the hopes of crossing the Mediterrean Sea to reach the Greek Island of Kos, September 19, 2015. (REUTERS Photo)

cuss longer-term strategies for dealing with the migration crisis, such as increasing cooperation for the Middle East to reduce the incentive for refugees to try to reach Europe and boosting aid to the World Food Programme and theUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. CEMENTING PEACE On Saturday, German Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said the EU needed to provide 1.5 billion euros ($1.70 billion) to the two agencies to address fund-

ing shortfalls. The EU prides itself on cementing peace among countries that until World War Two fought bloody battles and fostering prosperity by removing internal barriers among its member states through the so-called Schenghen agreements. But the more than 500,000 people crossing the Mediterranean into Europe this year alone and Hungary’s use of water cannon and razor wire on its external border with Serbia have seen the EU’s ambitions to act as one fall short.

“The (Schengen) agreements are now part of our daily lives and it is unthinkable that the facilities enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of travellers and cross-border workers in Europe are challenged by nationalist and reactionary thoughts and political actions,” said Jean Asselborn, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs for Luxembourg. As the holder of the rotating presidency of the EU, Luxembourg is working to broker a compromise that can break the deadlock between member states on sharing the bur-

den of the crisis. EU interior ministers, meeting the day before, are expected to agree on a voluntary relocation scheme to redistribute 160,000 refugees from frontline states across the EU, a fraction of the total entering Europe. That would allow the leaders to focus on the bigger issues, such as beefing up the EU’s asylum agency, Frontex, into a full border and coastguard agency, working on hotspots and a list of “safe countries” whose citizens would not normally qualify for asylum, a senior EU official said.

ANKARA, SEPTEMBER 20 (REUTERS): It is nighttime on a beach near the resort town of Bodrum and a group of migrants look out nervously at two ships on the horizon, wondering if they can slip past the Turkish coastguard and cross the Aegean Sea into a new life in Europe. But their dinghies are poorly made and slow, and the coastguard has stepped up patrols in the area, where the body of toddler Aylan Kurdi washed up, sparking international outrage. While Europe has only woken up to the size of the refugee crisis this summer, Turkey has been the front lines for more than four years. It shares a 900-km (550 mile) border with Syria and has welcomed those fleeing the civil war, now in its fifth year. It now hosts the world’s largest refugee population, at 2.2 million, and has spent $7.6 billion on providing them food, shelter and care, according to Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus. Many refugees attempt to use Turkey as a springboard into wealthier Europe. A record 300,000 or more Syrians and other migrants have arrived in Greece, mostly setting off from Turkey’s Aegean coast, according to the International Organisation for Migration. “Tonight, Al Yunan!”, one young migrant says, using the Arabic name for Greece. They wait until around 4 a.m., when the sea is calmest just before dawn, and then float the dinghies - cheap, dangerous boats - strap on their life vests and hit the sea.

PERILS OF DAYLIGHT CROSSING At its closest, Bodrum is just 4 km from the Greek island of Kos, but the coastguard is also nearby. Paddles and deflated boats float on the open water, signs of earlier attempts to cross that were foiled by the Turkish patrols. The coastguard has rescued more than 53,000 migrants while 274 have died in Turkish waters, Kurtulmus has said, without specifying a time frame. The “captains” of the migrant dinghies are often immigrants themselves, with no experience on the sea. As one of the boats starts to take water, a migrant dumps his only belonging into the sea, a bag carrying his phone charger, a few clothes and some medicine. Only one of dinghies manages to evade the coastguard tonight. The others are stopped and brought back to land, where they will be detained and questioned. If they are Syrian, they are sent to refugee camps. Migrants from other countries are deported. Other migrants remain on the beach, waiting for sunrise, when the patrols end their shifts and turn back to port. But a morning crossing brings its own perils, such as tourists in yachts and watchful locals on the beach. “I called the coastguard the other day and reported a boat. It doesn’t make me a bad person because I was trying to help,” one 55-year-old Bodrum local, himself a yacht captain, told Reuters. “A vessel was passing and they were just paddling right toward it. They were going to get killed otherwise.”

IAEA urges Iran’s Five killed in Cameroon suicide bombing Thai activists plan to defy cooperation to resolve junta ban with more marches remaining issues TEHRAN, SEPTEMBER 20 (IANS): The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Sunday called for Iran’s full cooperation over the remaining outstanding issues pertaining to the country’s nuclear programme, official IRNA news agency reported. Visiting IAEA chief Yukiya Amano said the best time has come to settle Iran’s nuclear issue, as the confidence of the international community could be built towards Iran’s nuclear programme through the full cooperation of the country. Iran and the IAEA agreed on a roadmap in July to resolve the remaining issues over the country’s nuclear activities, and so far significant steps have been taken to accomplish it, Amano said. He expressed the hope that the remaining issues would be solved by the deadline of December 15. “This process (of implementing the roadmap) is not openended,” he said. On Sunday, Amano met Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif and head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi. Amano’s visit to Tehran came as the IAEA is racing to implement an agreement reached in mid-July between Iran and the world powers to resolve Iran’s nuclear standoff. Under the agreement, Iran would improve the transparency of its nuclear plan while freezing some of its nuclear activities in exchange for sanction relief. The P5+1 countries, including the US, Britain, China, France, Russia plus Germany, want strengthened monitoring measures to ensure that Tehran complies with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and its commitment to the comprehensive nuclear agreement.

Above 50 and ailing? Try Tai Chi ToRoNTo, SEPTEMBER 20 (IANS): Chinese exercise Tai Chi could improve physical capacity among older adults with certain long term conditions such as breast cancer, heart failure, osteoarthritis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), new research has found. Tai Chi consists of slow, gentle, flowing movements that aim to boost muscle power, balance, and posture. It also includes mindfulness, relaxation and breath control. “The results demonstrated a favourable effect or tendency of Tai Chi to improve physical performance and showed that this type of exercise could be performed by individuals with different chronic conditions, including COPD, heart failure and osteoarthritis,” the study said. The researchers from University of Toronto and University of British Columbia in Canada wanted to find out how effective Tai Chi was in long term conditions that are common among older adults. They examined relevant studies published up to 2014, on the use of Tai Chi in people with cancer, osteoarthritis, heart failure, and COPD. The studies involved over 1,500 participants. The average age of participants ranged from the mid 50s to the early 70s, while the average length of the Tai Chi training programme was 12 weeks, with most sessions lasting an hour. Tai Chi training was usually offered two to three times weekly. The results showed that Tai Chi was associated with trends, or definite improvement, in physical capacity and muscle strength in most or all four long term conditions. This included improvements in the six minute walking test, muscle strength, as measured by bending and stretching the knees, the time it takes to get up, and move known as the TUG test and quality of life. The study was published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

YAoUNDE, SEPTEMBER 20 (REUTERS): At least five people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Sunday in the northern Cameroon town of Mora, military sources said, in what appeared to be the latest crossborder attack by Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militant group. The dead included a police officer, two civilians and the two female suicide bombers, who detonated themselves at around 8 a.m. (0700 GMT) in the Galdi neighbourhood near the en-

trance to the town. “It happened not far from the town stadium when the police officer who was killed attempted to carry out a routine check,” said one of the military officers, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the press. He said authorities had dispatched teams to the scene of the bombing to gather more details and it was possible the death toll from the attack could rise. Mora lies just a few kilome-

tres from Boko Haram’s strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. The Islamist group has stepped up its attacks in the area since Cameroon last year launched a crackdown on the group, which had previously used the Extreme North region as a base for recruiting and supplying its operations in Nigeria. Cameroon is a major contributor to an 8,700-strong, Nigerian-led regional force expected to start operations against Boko Haram this year.

Saudi-led coalition denies attacking home of Oman envoy to Yemen DUBAI, SEPTEMBER 20 (REUTERS): A Saudi-led coalition has denied its warplanes bombed the Omani ambassador’s home in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, target of months of its air strikes, and called for an investigation, Saudi media reported on Sunday. The Omani foreign ministry summoned the Saudi ambassador in Muscat on Saturday and handed him a protest letter over the air strikes, which the state news agency ONA said had targeted the residence of its ambassador to Yemen. The coalition’s military spokesman, BrigadierGeneral Ahmed al-Asiri, said Saturday’s air strikes had targeted the Yemeni Interior Ministry building, but not the Omani ambassador’s residence, the Saudi-owned Asharq al-Awsat said. The ministry had been turned into a military operations centre for the Houthis, the Iranianallied group that controls the capital and large swathes of the country, the daily said. Asharq alAwsat quoted Asiri as saying the coalition would welcome an investigation and suggested the

house may have been hit by a Houthi mortar shell. “One would be able from the beginning to distinguish between a mortar strike and a plane strike,” he said. The coalition began air strikes against the Houthis and allied forces in late March after they pushed from their northern stronghold towards the southern port of Aden. Yemeni sources said that a Houthi delegation left Sanaa on Sunday for talks with the U.N. envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed. Coalition air raids have intensified in recent weeks as a Gulf Arab ground force and fighters loyal to Hadi prepare a campaign to recapture Sanaa, seized by Houthi fighters in September 2014. Residents said about 10 air strikes were launched on the Interior Ministry building in the north of the capital, a police camp close to it and a military building. The coalition sees the Houthis as proxies for non-Arab Iran, which they accuse of trying to expand its influence into Saudi Arabia’s Arab neighbours. Iran denies those allegations.

BANGKoK, SEPTEMBER 20 (REUTERS): A group of pro-democracy activists said on Sunday they plan more marches after staging the largest political demonstration in Thailand’s capital since a military government took power in May 2014. Another protest would set up a flashpoint with a junta that is considering taking action against the organisers of the hundreds of people who, defying government orders, marched on Bangkok’s Democracy Monument on Saturday. The New Democracy Movement (NDM) may stage another event in early October, said Rangsiman Rome, an NDM coordinator and a law student at Bangkok’s Thammasat University. “We are scared but will we back down? No. I will keep fighting because we want Thailand to become a democratic country,” Rangsiman told Reuters on Sunday. The group had permission to hold a forum at the university on Saturday but not to march beyond its walls. It is unclear why authorities allowed the march to proceed. Protesters at many smaller gatherings have been detained by a government that has previously brooked no public show of dissent. The junta of coup leader and Prime Minister Prayuth Chanocha has banned political gatherings of more than five people and has summoned hundreds of activists for questioning. Many, including journalists and politi-

cians, have been forced to attend “attitude adjustment” sessions at army bases. Policy on gatherings has not changed, said junta spokesman Winthai Suvaree. “We have to see whether or not the demonstration was lawful,” he said. The demonstrators may have been attempting to “cause foreigners to misunderstand” that there is widespread opposition to the government ahead of a U.N. General Assembly in New York, deputy government spokesman Sansern Kaewkamnerd said on Saturday. Prayuth will travel to New York this week to address the assembly. He has faced international criticism for staging the coup, including from the United States, a longtime ally of Thailand. The protest on Saturday marked the ninth anniversary of a coup against the government of Thaksin Shinawatra that many Thais see as the trigger for a bitter political conflict that shows no sign of abating. The conflict pits supporters of the powerful Shinawatra family against a royalist military backed by a network of old-money conservatives whose influence is being challenged. The NDM aims to appeal to those on both sides of the political divide who want to see democracy, Rangsiman said. The military has no plans to cede power soon. Prayuth said last week an election could take place in July 2017.

Pope tells US and Cuba to push detente further HAVANA, SETEMBER 20 (REUTERS): Pope Francis exhorted Cuba and the United States on Saturday to set an example for the world by deepening the recent rapprochement that he helped secretly broker between the former Cold War foes. His zucchetto skullcap flying off in the Caribbean breeze at the start of a nine-day tour of Cuba and the United, the Argentine pope used his arrival speech at Havana airport to praise this year’s normalization of diplomatic relations. “I urge political leaders to persevere on this path and to develop all its potentialities ... as an example of reconciliation for the entire world,” he said before riding his open-sided pope mobile through roads thronged with well-wishers. Better sensitized to the issue than predecessors because of his Latin American roots, the 78-year-old pontiff facilitated a back channel for secret talks and sent missives to Presidents Raul Castro and Barack Obama at a delicate stage in 2014. That bore fruit with a prison-

er swap, the opening of embassies, and an easing of some travel and trade restrictions, although a half-century-old economic embargo is still in place, only removable by the U.S. Congress. Francis is a popular figure in Cuba and thousands lined the streets of Havana as he was driven to the papal nuncio’s home, cheering, singing, and waving Cuban and Vatican flags. “He brings hope for a better future for Cuba,” said Maria Antonia Iglesias, 65, waving a banner and clapping as Francisco passed by. “Love, peace and more unity is what we need between all Cubans: those who are here and those in the United States.” As on previous papal visits, Cuban authorities rounded up some political opponents to prevent them from attending events around the visit, a dissident human rights group said. Among them were three dissidents whose detention kept them from a meeting with the pope, said Berta, leader of the largely Catholic group Ladies in White. Instead of seeing Francis at

the Vatican’s diplomatic residence in Havana, she and dissident leaders Miriam and Martha Beatriz Roque were in police custody for several hours, Soler said. “The Holy Father is not going to change anything in Cuba,” Soler said. “We don’t expect much from Francis because he comes here to talk about political matters between Cuba and the United States, not to resolve anything.” Cuban police detained between 10 and 20 dissidents and a similar number were threatened or warned, said Elizardo Sanchez, head of the Cuban Commission of Human Rights and National Reconciliation. Castro Criticizes Embargo Raul Castro - who like his brother and former revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was baptized a Catholic and educated by Jesuits - received the pope at the airport after his 12-hour flight from Italy. It was the third papal visit to Cuba in less than two decades. Castro thanked the pontiff for his help with the U.S. rapprochement, but also used his

welcoming speech to criticize Washington’s embargo and its occupation of the Guantanamo naval base on the eastern tip of the Caribbean island. Cuba, he said, had been a model of internationalism and humanism in past decades. “We have done that while being blockaded, insulted, attacked, with a high cost in human lives and major economic damages.” Since reaching a historic breakthrough with Castro in December, Obama has come out against the embargo. On Friday, he issued new regulations weakening the embargo for a second time, using his executive authority to circumvent Congress. Despite making Cuba constitutionally atheist and repressing Catholics in the early years after their 1959 revolution, the Castro brothers have relaxed that stance since the 1990s. In his speech, Francis sent greetings to Fidel Castro, whom he is expected to meet. While in Cuba, he may well reiterate the Vatican’s opposition to the U.S. trade embargo. But once in the United, the pope

may tread more lightly, aides said, to avoid the appearance of meddling in the web of legislation, interests, and decades-old resentments slowing the pace of change. Cuba’s Communist Party will welcome any papal criticism of the embargo and may also have to bear a corresponding call for greater political tolerance from in the one-party state. “I would like my greeting to embrace especially all those who, for various reasons, I will not be able to meet, and to Cubans throughout the world,” the pope said upon arrival. He was clearly referring to Cuban exiles, who have dispersed to many countries with the most strident anti-communists in South Florida. Some also believed he was talking about critics of the Cuban government who are behind bars. The pontiff also urged further backing for Catholics “so that the Church can continue to support and encourage the Cuban people in its hopes and concerns, with the freedom, the means and the space needed.”

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agas... please note that we are racing against time. It has become all the more urgently imperative that we come out from our slumbering cocoon of unquestioning complacency and take a courageous rational road of honestly questioning what appears ambiguous at this critical juncture so that the well deliberated constructive opinion so expressed can contribute towards a lasting solution acceptable to all. The present situation of secrecy surrounding the "Framework Agreement" can only point towards something that may not completely be acceptable to the Nagas of Nagaland...otherwise why the desperate secrecy if goodness is intended for us?! The bottom-line being reiterated is that it is absolutely irrational and downright stupid for the Nagas to blindly endorse, support or go against the "Framework Agreement" without knowing the contents. Maintaining neutrality would have been the most honourable thing to do under the given circumstances until we know what this agreement is all about in a definitive way. Of all the topics that have attracted one review or the other in the local media concerning "Framework Agreement" of 3rd August 2015, the one subject that has totally escaped the evaluation of the Nagas is the possible significance of the formation of Pan-Naga Confederation (PNC) even without achieving physical integration of all the Naga inhabited areas. NSCN (IM) has clearly enunciated that PNC will have 'statutory', 'financial' and 'customary' authority vested in it. The NSCN (IM) has further stated that all the Tribal Apex Hohos would suitably be empowered. The possibility of Article 371 A or a similar Act becoming applicable to all the Confederating units is perhaps being considered to enhance the clout of this platform. The majority have yet to spend quality time to clearly understand the "Yezabo" of NSCN (IM) but PNC appears to be a close definition of the same. Maintaining complete lockdown on transparent information, NSCN (IM) has de-

liberately failed to explain the hierarchical and operational status of PNC or the Apex Hohos. This encourages unanswered questions to continue. Now consider the following speculations and cross examine your thoughts to see which side of the fence you belong: 1. Let us take a closer look on NSCN (IM)'s intended structure of their hierarchical system of governance as per their "Yezabo". It talks of "Collective Leadership" with "one party system". Now take a look at the Pan Naga Confederation where selected representatives of Nagas of Assam, Nagas of Arunachal, the Nagas of Manipur and Nagas of Myanmar all get to become members of the Pan Naga Confederation even without a physical integration thus completing the formation of PNC with Collective Leadership emerging from this forum. Would this imply that the Nagas of Nagaland would also be reduced to the status of Nagas beyond the present State boundary in the formation of this Pan Naga Confederation set up? God forbid...Nagas of Nagaland have not shed their precious blood fighting for freedom so as to just be reduced to the level of our other brothers who unfortunately got left behind. Would this then imply that the PNC will replace the present State Government which is the legal custodian of the statutory and financial authority? If not, what is the definition of the socalled "statutory and financial" authority that will be vested in PNC? Can NSCN (IM) please explain how this parallel structure between the two will operate? Please? Is it the intent of NSCN (IM) to suitably restructure the present Nagaland bureaucracy to become the working arm to directly operate under the dictate of the Pan Naga Confederation with transferred statutory and financial authority that otherwise rests with the present State Government? These are some of the troublesome questions that occur and yet Nagas of Nagaland are prepared to endorse the F*#% agreement with unanswered questions. Take

Open Letter on Power Failure in Mkg Town & adjoining villages

he unfortunate breakdown of 5MVA 33/11KV Power transformer in Mokokchung sub-station has made every individual consumer both in Mokokchung town and adjoining villages suffer and has made with an optimum loss. Yet the unfortunate losses has made a wakeup call to one and all and the transformer which normally takes at-least 2-3 months time to repair was replaced by the department in such a short time which made them to work in a war footing. I on behalf of the citizen of Mokokchung Town take this privilege to congratulate the works done by the department and my gratitude to the State Government officials for monitoring round the clock for timely completion of all the jobs. I also appreciate the thoughtful gesture of the general public during such times when there was a mammoth power crisis in Mokokchung town. Now the power crisis is over, it doesn’t mean we have achieved what we have wanted because if we still remain complacent the power crisis will evolve during the winter. As we all know winter is a time of festivals and during these time of year power consumption is at its peak thus it is vital for the department to initiate some immediate steps such as the augmentation of power by installation of the said new transformer which is in procure by the

government at the earliest before the commencement of winter season. In this perusal the department and the state government must understand the active participation of consumers in Mokokchung district and its welfare. It is also imperative in the part of the state government to see that Mokokchung is an upcoming city and the need for electricity and its consumption is consistently increasing, thus the present capacity of 7.5 MVA (5 + 2.5) is already overloaded. Even if the current 2.5 MVA is upgraded to 5MVA taking the total capacity to 10 MVA the capacity upgraded would be too marginal taking into account the demand and supply concept at this juncture. Secondly the department must ensure adequate maintenance funds particularly for procurement of fuse wire, transformer oil, and switch gear etc… for immediate maintenance and normal functioning of the substation at Mokokchung. Thus it is high time for both the stakeholders to understand the necessity as well as the service utility in power sector. Without which the present normal functioning of our daily lives will be paralyzed. (M. Bendangnukshi Longkumer) Member, State Advisory Committee (SAC) Nagaland Electricity Regulatory Committee (NERC)

another factual analysis into consideration: It is beyond imagination to think that an ambitious man like Mr. Muivah would pack up his bags and quietly retire to his native village or head an insignificant Autonomous Naga Council in Manipur after sacrificing his entire life for the cause. Therefore, in all likelihood, if PNC structure becomes the statutory authority of governance then it would not be difficult to imagine that Mr. Muivah would become that all powerful Chairman of the Collective Leadership without being a Naga from Nagaland with Mr. Isac Swu out of the loop naturally being incapacitated by age. Depending on the quantum of the economic package salvaged from the final settlement, Mr. Muivah can then exercise the statutory financial authority to not only fund development projects in Nagaland but all the other Nagas in Assam, Arunachal, Manipur and even dare fund Nagas of Myanmar beyond the International boundary. Here again, would it mean that Nagas of Nagaland will necessarily have to share its development funds with all beyond our immediate boundary? Would that also aggravate the level of aggression of all the States against development projects funded by PNC (like that of the NEC) within their respective Naga inhabited region? Would this be a camouflaged detour to in fact reinforce the unity of Nagas in other States to stand up and fight for their financial rights as never before which eventually would perpetuate a crisis situation forcing the hand of GoI to rethink the issue of integration of all the Naga inhabited areas under one administrative umbrella which is presently being postponed for future review under the present "Framework Agreement"? I most probably could be wrong but it does throw up an intriguing possibility. 2. The other disturbing scenario that emerges from the confidently adamant refusal of NSCN (IM) to bring all the other factions on board for the final settlement with the GoI stems from the statement of the Governor of

Nagaland saying that 4000 NSCN (IM) cadre will be absorbed in the Army. It is indicative of another proven factor in the "Framework Agreement" which does not mention anything about surrender of arms by the cadre which normally gets incorporated in every settlement with the rebelling forces. Mr. Governor is not a common street boy to be making a loose statement without knowing the internal thinking process of the GoI even if the NSCN (IM) denies his statement. The reported recruitment drive being intensified by NSCN (IM) 'South of the border' is not without a reason which is predictable. Should the "in-service" NSCN (IM) cadre really get absorbed in the Army it would allow the continued dominance of the present legacy of top heavy Tangkhul entrenchment further being reinforced by the equally bottom heavy newly recruited Tangkhul army which will surely strengthen the hand of the Chairman of the Collective Leadership for ethnic cleansing if he so desire. Such an army under the direct control of PNC would then have the legal sanction to wipe out all the other weakly fragmented, divided NPGs who would all necessarily be declared as anti-national elements under the new dispensation. A blood bath civil war within our own people will then become imperative with the silent majority fearfully and helplessly looking on as we are prone to doing even in the present day. Can the Nagas contend with such an oppressive regime that may evolve or afford such a development of converting Nagaland into a killing field all over again if the NPGs of Nagaland refuse to surrender? Yet with a dangerous impending possibility such as this, our very callous indifferent NPG leaders are still unable to see beyond their personal egos and their present financial taxation comfort zone instead of recognising the potential threat of this new development and uniting amongst themselves. It does not take a rocket scientist to envision that NSCN (IM) and the GoI would have no option but to recognise the emergence of a united NPGs of Nagaland under one roof and seriously

acknowledge 'inclusiveness' before the settlement which has now become the standard will of the masses. 3. The despicable nature of our Naga Hoho and other Tribal Hohos thus far displayed in giving endorsement without first consulting their respective constituents to an agreement that they know nothing about is another cause for worry. Street talks are on the increase that many responsible vested interests have begun their discrete treasure hunt vying for favour of NSCN (IM) for future lucrative positions should they finally form the Government after the settlement...therefore the blind loyalist support of which our elected representatives have been an active participant in endorsement without question. The Naga Hoho, (with Nagas of Nagaland being the minority in our own kitchen and NSF in the same mould), went an extra mile in not wanting ACAUT to facilitate a common platform for people to think for themselves. Imagine...they disapprove people from expressing themselves or even thinking independently anymore! What a disgrace! It is no longer a farfetched notion to casually throw out such a notion out of the window considering the irrational manner in which the Naga Hoho/ many Apex Hohos have blindly opted to endorse the "framework agreement" without knowing its contents. The promised carrot of empowerment of the Tribal Apex Hohos seems to have gone into the heads of the leaders who have begun the exercise of self perpetuation/preservation while compromising the rights of the common man. I fail to understand why the people keep following visionless leaders without a question, but being what we sadly are...we deserve such leadership I suppose. Given the above speculated possibilities do the Nagas accept the present trend of blind endorsement or do they believe that support for the framework agreement must be given only after we know the factual details? Make your call! Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd), Kohima.

Ban On NscN (K) – Effect On A common Naga

propos, a number of articles recently appearing in the print on the issue of banning of NSCN (K) by Government of India under Unlawful Activities (Prevention), Act 1967 and a sense that the time was not appropriate to ban the group. The Naga Mother’s Association (NMA), Naga Hoho and ENPO in the recent past were trying to re-establish communication with NSCN (K) with the aim of getting it on track for a ceasefire. Enough bloodshed has been witnessed again in our Naga villages- the sound of the bullets, wailing mothers, crying children, are re-entering the Naga narrative once again. After decades of peace during the ceasefire period, there was truce between the NPGs and Assam Rifles. The present imbroglio is a pre-cursor to more violence and bloodshed, which a Naga common, like me, can ill afford. The recent instance and insistence of banning of NSCN (K) on 16 September is going to put more hurdles in way to peace and tranquility. The effect of such a one-sided move by the Government of India is a step back towards peace. Delhi could have waited and let the tribal bodies and Hohos, Naga Mothers, initiate a dialogue with Khaplang – a little patience now may have led to a better scenario. Alas! It was not to be. That the ban has been opposed by the Naga Legislators Forum

(NLF), NPCC, Naga Hoho, NMA and a sense of shock espoused by Naga Political and Social leaders, as evinced in the recent media articles, is indicative of the ‘disconnect’ between Kohima and Delhi. We can now only condemn this, but what is more worrisome are the grave effect of its implementation to the Nagas. I claim no fame to be a legal wizard as the legality and its legal implication of the ban, but a citizen aware of my rights and responsibilities. Browsing through UAPA 1967, it is evident that there are host of clauses, sub clauses, restrictions, prohibitions etc, all enclosed in the said Act. To act as the ‘Devil’s Advocate’, for sake of imparting same advice to all Nagas, for a minute, it would be amply clear that despite our tribal or any other ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬affiliation, any form of assistance is likely to be misconstrued support to the banned NPG, NSCN (K) and therefore, liable for penal action. So what and how do the family members of NSCN (K) behave and act in such a legal tangle. As a avid net browser, it may be prudent for me to give first a glimpse of the clauses of this Act, to justify my debate. ‘Section 10-Penalty for being member of unlawful association etc sub section (a) (iii)’ – a person who contributes to or recovers or solicits any contribution for the purpose of such association; or (iv) in any way assists the operations of such association – shall be punishable with im-

prisonment for a term up to two years and liable to a fine. ‘Section 17 – Punishment for raising funds for terrorist act’ - Whoever, in India or in a foreign country, directly or indirectly, raises or collects funds or provides funds to any person or persons or attempts to provide funds to any person or persons, knowing that such funds are likely to be used by such person or persons to commit a terrorist act, notwithstanding whether such funds were actually used or not for commission of such act, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. ‘Section 18B – Punishment for recruiting of any person or persons for terrorist act’ – Whoever recruits of causes to be recruited any person or persons for commission of a terrorist act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine. ‘Section 19 Punishment for harbouring, etc’ – whoever voluntarily harbours or conceals, or attempts to harbour or conceal any person knowing that such person is terrorist shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than three years but which may extend to imprisonment for life, and shall also be liable to fine.

It does not require legal acumen to understand the effects of such an Act. NSCN (K) cadres, especially those from Nagaland – Semas, Konyaks Yimchungers, Khiamnungam, Chakesang etc and their families and children are going to be the most affected. Any support in form of money, taxes etc are liable to be illegal; any harbouring/providing shelter is illegal, so is any youth joining the folds of Niki Sumi and Khaplang. Any willful support would be termed as helping the banned NPG and therefore any such persons - villagers, family members etc, liable for punishment with imprisonment upto five years being an illegal activity. The import of such a decision is vast and not restricted to NSCN (K) cadres in Myanmar, only. The Govt of India waited for almost six months, since the unilateral abrogation of ceasefire by NSCN (K) in March, this year. Probably, Delhi was waiting in expectation for the Naga society, our Hohos, the polity, to convince Baba Khaplang to return to ceasefire, before the ban was enforced on 16 September 15. That the NSCN (K) has not understood the yearn and desire of the Nagas to revoke its stance, goes to show how precarious and tenuous the present situation is and how we, the Nagas, have failed; and thus pay its price now. We hope the message goes across our hills and mountains to Baba at Taga in Myanmar! L Zhimomi, Chumukedima

The Challenges to the revival of the Nagaland Paper & Pulp Co. Ltd (NPPL) Tuli

he commissioning of the Paper Mill at Tuli in 1982 as a commercial venture unit was a sound decision based on the logic of converting the abundantly available local raw materials into economic assets on a long term sustainable manner e.g. the bamboos and the reeds into the finished paper products, and the raw human resource of the areas into industrially cultured-skilled workforce by gainfully engaging them in the Mill which otherwise could not have been possible for lack of opportunities in such an industrially backward areas. Unfortunately the initial promised expectations are yet to become a reality in spite of the potentiality, for number of reasons; some of which could have been avoided if critically evaluated and corrected at the time of establishing the plant. Among the obstacles, the most critical one was non-availability of adequate power for running the Mill at the sustainable level. Added to that, there were serious law and order situation, harassment by demands of money from the anti social as well as from the UG elements on the workers. Lack of discipline and non-observance of industrial culture among the workers and unreasonable interference mostly from the public leaders, politicians and so forth. With the ramification of all those factors, obviously the Mill had failed without a fair opportunity of converting the tremendous economic potentials of the area. Available records had shown that, the Mill could hardly utilised on an average around 15% of its capacity of both men and machines when the Mill was functioning after it was commissioned in 1982 till 1992, before it was closed down. However, the acute shortage of power supply was mainly responsible for the low production and under utilization of its capacity at that time. Therefore, it was compelled to shut down indefinitely till an alternative arrangement is made rectifying those obstacles. That being the case, the rehabilitation

package announced after a prolong waiting has come as a real MANA (divine gifts) to the NPPC and to the Naga people to reconstruct and revive the only Public Sector Undertaking in Nagaland which will provide gainful employment to many young people of both educated and trained skill workers in the Mill. Besides, much more employments and business opportunities in ancillary units and tertiary sector employments will be generated. Once again bamboo growing will become very profitable occupation for many villagers as there will be huge demand for the raw material/ bamboos that are mostly wasted at present. Imagining all these pleasant economic developmental prospects for the people that can come by opening the Mill, as an ex-Chairman of the NPPC Ltd, on 11th Sept 2015, I visited the premises of the Mill wanting to know the latest position of the revival activities on the ground. To my surprise I saw a row of loaded trucks parked within the premises without any sign of unloading the materials. On my enquiry it was found that NPPC has no money at hand to clear the bills of the Vendors for supply of material and machineries brought in connection with the revival works. They were insisting on payment before unloading /delivery of the materials. Naturally I enquired how the Rs 100 Cr released earlier toward the revival package has been exhausted without much visible sign of activities. Any delay in implementation or any misuse of fund will jeopardise the whole scheme leading to cost overrun. The fact of the matter is that the Central Government has approved the NPPC revival package in 2013 after nearly 2 decades of negotiation and waiting. Subsequently on 2nd July 2013 an amount of Rs 100 Cr was sanctioned and released as a part of 1st instalment stipulating certain directives to HPC. The money was released to HPC office Kolkata, with direction to operate the fund by opening an Escrow Account in the name of NPPC.

The CMD of HPC was made personally responsible to ensure timely disbursement of fund for the NPPCL revival activities without diversion to any other work so that the implementation are carried on unhampered and completed it as per scheduled. In the main time, the NPPC had awarded various works of supplies of machineries and materials components and constructions to 12 firms on the basis of open bidding. It is said that till August 2015 only Rs 40 Cr has been utilised by NPPC on various supplies and on sites construction works. The unspent balance of Rs 60 Cr is in HPC corporate Office, Kolkata. But in spite of requisitioning fund required by the NPPCL for the next three months (August to October 2015) out of the remaining amount with HPC, the CMD who is designated as MD, NPPC has informed that there is no more money available for NPPC which is most surprising and unexpected. The project cost was finalised on 29th January 2015 fixing at Rs 489 Crores in total taking into account of all the different items /components in the package. The implementation was to complete in 27 months (Nov.2016) starting from January 2015. This was assured by the Union Minister Anant G Geet during his visit to NPPCL in February 2015. It has now been reframed and extended by another 1(one) more year and will commission in November 2017 only. But, judging from the casual, unsupportive responses of the HPC management specially the CMD (HPC) cum- MD, NPPCL; it is not likely that the revival scheme will be completed and commission on time. Such a time and cost overrun will create further complication with disastrous consequences. HPC is the main partner in HPPCL and the custodian of the fund earmarked for the rehabilitation scheme. The CMD contrary to the responsibility given has indulged in financial mismanagement by not complying with the directives contained in the sanctioned order of the GOI. Thus, HPC

has become the stumbling block rather than facilitating the smooth, timely implementation of the revival scheme. There are other glaring failures on the part of HPC. Such as:(a). Non-compliance of the directives of the Nodal Ministry, in not operating the escrow account mechanism thereby diverting the unspent fund kept in the HPC account as evidenced in the instance case, affecting the timely implementation of the scheme. This is precisely the situation the Ministry has intended to avoid in stipulating the directives which the CMD of HPC is flouting with impunity for reason best known to him. (b) In the final approved project report HPC is to contribute Rs 10 Cr as their share which is part of the total cost of Rs 489 Cr. But instead of making that contribution, HPC is arbitrarily charging 1% of the total project amount every year during the implementation period out of the NPPCL project fund, which means Rs15 CRs in three years. This has been objected to and reflected in their audit report of 2014. (c) Both the Nagaland State and the HPC must release their committed share without fail to the project fund for NPPCL revival scheme. It is heartening to note that Nagaland state has budgetted its share in the current year (2015-16) which shows the seriousness of the state government in successful implementation of the revival scheme. (d). The interest accrued by keeping the entire Rs 100 Cr in HPC account since its sectioned in 2013 to 2015 and further interest earned on Rs 60 Cr unspent balance should rightfully be credited into the NPPCL account which will further augment funding of the revival scheme. (e). The financial transaction of earmarked fund for the revival activities under the control of CMD of HPC is going on unmonitored creating doubt of financial mismanagement. Unless it is corrected before it is late, it may kill even the whole rehabilitation scheme. Both

the state as well as the central government is jointly responsible for an active and regular monitoring and taking timely corrective measures. There should be a mechanism to do so if not already in existence. (f ). Another important issue which needs the urgent attention of the Ministry of Heavy Industries as the Nodal department is for appointment of an independent MD exclusively for the NPPCL, Tuli. The present arrangement of duel charge given to CMD, HPC who is also designated as MD, NPPCL is not producing the expected result of prompt, effective and coordinated supervision on the implementation activities of the revival scheme. Instead it has given a convenient conduit to manipulate the fund without a proper check which is adversely affecting the overall implementation. The nodal ministry should be sensitive enough to the demand of the stakeholders of the Mill to initiate requisitioning the Public Enterprises Selection Board (PESB) at the earliest for appointment of an MD exclusively for the NPPCL so as to provide constant undivided attention for timely implementation of the revival scheme round the clock at this crucial moment of revival struggle of the Mill. If the revival package fails to take off this time, there will never be another chance, except closure without availing the last opportunity to revive and prove to all the critiques and cynics that a profit making industrial unit can successfully run in Nagaland. Failure, after coming this far will be an unfortunate end of a very potential industrial venture due to human failure. On the other hand, its success will have a tremendous positive impact changing the whole industrial development scenario in the state, besides bringing huge employment generation opportunities along with economic prosperity to the people. Every effort should be made to give the last chance for revival of the Nagaland Pulp & Paper Mill at Tuli. T N Mannen IAS (Rtd)

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Beckham Author Jackie Collins dead at 77 David 'not serious' Best-selling author Jackie Collins, queen of the 'bonkbuster', dies aged 77 after secretly battling breast cancer.

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he bestselling British author passed away on Saturday (19Sep15), aged 77, more than six years after she was diagnosed with the disease. A family statement released to People. com reads: "It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the death of our beautiful, dynamic and one of a kind mother, Jackie Collins, who died of breast cancer today."She lived a wonderfully full life and was adored by her family, friends and the millions of readers who she has been entertaining for over four decades. She was a true inspiration, a trail blazer for women in fiction and a creative force. She will live on through her characters but we already miss her beyond words." Collins, younger sister to actress Joan Collins, had her first book, The World Is

Full of Married Men, published in 1968. She went on to write more than 30 novels throughout her career, including 1981's Chances,

which introduced fans to her most famous character, Lucky Santangelo. She also penned Hollywood Wives, which was adapted

into a U.S. drama series by TV mogul Aaron Spelling in 1985, starring Candice Bergen and Anthony Hopkins. Collins was ap-

nsel Elgort is officially an actor-slash-musician. The young star, who's best known for starring in movies like "Divergent" and "The Fault in Our Stars", has released his first single "To Life" under his DJ alter-ego Ansolo. "HERE WE GO! 'TO LIFE' IS OUT NOW!!!! SO HYPE!!!" he alerted his Twitter followers when the song arrived on iTunes on Friday, September 18. Featuring the group Too Many Zooz and the phrase "L'Chaim" (which means "to life" in Hebrew) throughout, the track is perfect for Bar Mitzvahs, clubs and EDM festivals. including Electric Zoo and Ul- cords. He recently talked about As Ansolo, Elgort has per- tra. The 21-year-old heartthrob his music career in a Rolling formed at some dance festivals is currently signed to Island Re- Stone interview published

Ansel Elgort releases first single 'To Life'

pointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2013 for her services to fiction and her charity work.

shortly after news broke that he'd joined the major label. "The whole thing ...it's more than just writing and performing," he shared. "It's engineering and producing. It's magical. It's something on your computer you can do all by yourself. It's the same thing as piano and voice, but now you have tracks that are 70 channels. You can write lines for all these different synthesizers and make unique things. With a piano, everyone's heard what a piano sounds like, but with dance music, every month there's a new track with a sound that everyone's like, 'What is that sound? How did he do it?' That's so exciting to me."

One Direction for Superbowl? C M Y K

ne Direction may play their last show at the Superbowl. The 'Night Changes' hitmakers announced they would be going on an extended hiatus next year and a source has now claimed

the group may join the lineup for the coveted half-time show, with a performance that will act as a ''farewell'' to their many fans. They told the Daily Star on Sunday newspaper: ''NFL bosses want a superstar

line-up and One Direction are very much in the mix. They want a pop and rock mash-up and it is thought that Coldplay and Bruno Mars are in talks too. ''NFL bigwigs want a one-off show that will be remembered

and garner the greatest audience figures ever. Obviously the 12-minute half-time show will be worth millions in revenue, sales and downloads too. With the band finishing it would be the ultimate way for the group to say farewell to their fans.'' Meanwhile, band member Liam Payne recently insisted the band will work together again after their break. He said: ''I realise now this is the time to start branching out and exploring. This won't last forever, and there will be a point when we will break off and do our own things, but ... we will work together again. ''A lot of people say to me, 'Oh, you'll go solo,' but I haven't thought about that. If the right song comes along and I think I should sing it, then I will release it as a solo artist. Otherwise, I'm happy being behind the scenes. When the others boys [in the group] go solo, I would love to write songs for them. I want to make great music that people want to listen to.''

ormer footballer David Beckham says acting is just for fun and he has no intention of making it his new career. Although the 40-yearold retired soccer star has taken on roles in Guy Ritchie's movies 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” and “Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur”, he insisted he has no plans to making acting his full-time career and he is just enjoying the new experience, reports femalefirst.co.uk. David told MrPorter. com: "I saw an article the other day that said this is my new career, and it's really not. It's something that I've dipped myself into from time to time, but I only did it for a friend, Guy. "I did a small bit in 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.', and I've done little bit more for him in 'King Arthur'. But it's definitely not my new career, it's just fun, it's not something that I'm training to be better at." Beckham,who tied the knot with fashion designer Victoria in 1999 after two years of dating, says most of his time these days is spent driving his sons Brooklyn, 16, Romeo, 13 and Cruz, 10 around.

Riya Sen to play Sheena Bora in a film

heena Bora case is the most sensational murder mystery that’s grabbed headlines nationwide. Bollywood filmmakers have openly shown interest in making the real life murder mystery into a film. After Rakhi Sawant showing interest to play the role of Indrani Mukerjea, it is now confirmed that Riya Sen would play the role of Sheena Bora. Riya Sen sounds very delighted to bag the role and says it’s a dream role for her. “My dad had told me if ever there were a movie about the case, I should play Sheena. So it’s like a dream and my parents are thrilled to bits.” While Rakhi Sawant would play the role in a Hindi movie, Riya Sen is roped up to play Sheena Bora in a Bengali film that revolves around the real life murder of Sheena Bora. The actress was quoted as saying, “Agnidev is a sensible filmmaker. I’m sure a topic such as this will make for great viewing material. Sheena’s character comes across as grey and it will be a challenge for me. This film is special because I’ll be working with Rituparna.” Rahki Sawant has already started shooting for the real life murder case and the movie is titled Ek Kahani Julie Ki. Riya Sen says it’s her dream come true to bag the role of Sheena Bora. Big Task Riya Sen says Sheena’s character is grey, and would be a challenge to play the role. Indrani who murdered her daughter on April 24, 2012 is in judicial custody at the moment.

Lady Gaga’s latest song New Selena song released reveals rape culture in 20 years after her death American colleges T

ady Gaga’s new song “Till It Happens To You” featured in the documentary movie ‘The Hunting Ground’ dissects the culture of rape and sexual assault prevalent in colleges in US. The song splits open the reality of “what is happening on regular basis in college campuses”. Laced with a series of sexual assault scenes, the music video written by Diana Warren, aptly starts with a disclaimer beforehand as the scenes in the video are actually “emotionally upsetting”. But this is not all, through the song; Lady Gaga has shown solidarity towards those who’ve been victims of sexual assaults on campus premises. The video attempts to end on a positive note with the victims rallying with support from friends and family. While releasing the song, Gaga had tweeted, “We hope u feel our love&solidarity through the song & perhaps find some peace in knowing u r not alone through this film #TilItHappensToYou (sic)”

wenty years after Selena's tragic death, the family of the beloved MexicanAmerican singer has shared a previously unreleased track, Oh No (I'll Never Fall In Love Again). The Dreaming of You singer's father, Abraham Quintanilla, said the song was never recorded professionally, but they found a recording of Selena rehearsing the track and decided to release it, reported Entertainment Weekly. "The reason we never released it as one of her songs is because it's not up to par as far as sound is concerned, but years later my son AB recorded it with the Kumbia Kings. "We thought that the fans would enjoy it even though it's not a professional recording," he said. Selena, born Selena QuintanillaPerez and known as the Queen of Tejano Music, died on March 31, 1995, after she was shot by a fan in Corpus Christi, Texas.

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BCCI president Dalmiya Vettel wins Singapore Grand Prix passes away in Kolkata

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KOLKATA, SEPTEMBER 20 (PTI): The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Jagmohan Dalmiya passed away on Sunday evening in Kolkata. The former International Cricket Council (ICC) chief was 75. He was admitted with chest pain in a city hospital few days and had undergone a surgery. He passed away within 72 hours of the heart surgery. “Mr. Dalmiya died of internal gastrointestinal bleeding and internal organ failure,” hospital sources said confirming the veteran cricket administrator's death. Cricket Association of Bengal sources added: “At 6 p.m. in the evening his condition deteriorated and shortly afterwards he suffered a massive cardiac arrest from which he could not recover.” He leaves behind a daughter and a son. "BCCI Condoles the sudden demise of our president Shri Jagmohan Dalmiya", the official handle of India's apex cricket body tweeted. According to sources, the BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur and IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla will reach Kolkata on Monday. The 75-year-old veteran cricket administrator has been physically indisposed for quite some time with a lot of ailments and was actively not taking any part in the BCCI’s day to day activities. “Jagmohan Dalmiya was admitted to the BM Birla Hospital after 9 pm after he was brought here with complaints of chest pain. A medical team has been assigned and they are monitoring his health,” a hospital source said on the date of his admission. It has been learnt that Mr. Dalmiya might have suffered a cardiac attack due to which he needed to be hospitalised.

During the time of hospitalisation, his son Abhishek Dalmiya is learnt to have accompanied him. Former India captain Sourav Ganguly also rushed from his Behala residence while minister in-charge of sports (West Bengal) Arup Biswas also rushed to the hospital. The senior officials of local body Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) have also rushed to the hospital. That Mr. Dalmiya’s health has been an issue was an open secret in the Indian cricket circles for quite some time after he took over the BCCI president’s post in March, this year. Due to Mr. Dalmiya’s health conditions, it has been secretary Anurag Thakur who has called the shots. It has been quite some time that Mr. Dalmiya was not able to properly conduct any BCCI meetings in the near past. In fact, Mr. Dalmiya could not coherently answer any question when he met the three-member SC appointed panel headed by Justice RM Lodha, where his son was prompting all the questions to him. There has been dissenting voices in BCCI about his fail.

SINGAPORE, SEPTEMBER 20 (REuTERS): Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel won an incident-packed Singapore Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday after world champion Lewis Hamilton retired early for the first time this season and an intruder set heart rates fluttering when he strolled on to the track. Hamilton was running fourth approaching the halfway point of the 61-lap race when he lost engine power, rapidly dropping back through the field before he was told to return to the garage and call it a night. Starting from pole position, Vettel had no problems, leading all the way to take the chequered flag for the fourth time at the floodlit Marina Bay Street Circuit, despite twice losing the big advantage he had built up when the safety car was deployed. Australia's Daniel Ricciardo finished second for Red Bull, his best result of a frustrating year, while Vettel's team mate Kimi Raikkonen crossed the line third. "It must be one of my best races. It was pretty intense," Vettel said. "Lots of pressure from behind; Daniel had a very good race looking after his tyres. "Second stint I was dic-

Korean 'Son' rises in London, helps Tottenham Hotspur down Crystal Palace

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LONDON, SEPTEMBER 20 AFP): Son Heung-min was Tottenham`s hero once again as the South Korean`s first Premier League goal clinched a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace on Sunday. Son had scored twice on his home debut in Tottenham`s Europa League victory against Qarabag of Azerbaijan on Thursday and the forward`s dream start continued as he was the toast of White Hart Lane just three days later. The 23-year-old settled a hard-fought encounter midway through the second half to give Mauricio Pochettino`s side their first home league win of the season. Son already has three goals in three appearances since signing from German club Bayer Leverkusen for £18 million ($27 million, 24 million euros) in August and he departed to a standing ovation with 12 minutes remaining. After his team made a slow start to the season, Son`s dynamic displays have been a much-needed tonic for Tottenham, helping them climb to mid-table in the Premier League with two successive wins. Pochettino made five changes to the side which beat Qarabag, including a return for Harry Kane after the out-of-form England striker was rested for the Europa League tie. Kane`s presence up front meant Son moved

Ferrari Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany celebrates on the podium after winning the Singapore F1 Grand Prix at the Marina Bay street circuit September 20. (REUTERS)

tating the pace. From then, I was trying to control the gap. We had a really great weekend." Nico Rosberg finished fourth for Mercedes to cut Hamilton's championship lead to 41 points with six races remaining. Vettel trails Hamilton by 49 and Raikkonen is 145 adrift with a maximum of 150 available. No other driver has a chance of win-

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into a deeper role, but he was no less effective as he roamed menacingly across Tottenham`s attacking midfield trio. Kane, without a club goal this season, hadn`t scored at White Hart Lane since March and the youngster`s lack of confidence was clear to see when he headed over from a corner in the opening minutes. While Kane struggles to find his peak form, teenage midfielder Dele Alli has burst into the Tottenham team in the vibrant manner that his team-mate did last season.The 19-year-old was a blur of energy and enthusiasm when he won a sliding tackle and powered forward to pick out Erik Lamela. Lamela cleverly worked space for a fierce shot that Palace goalkeeper Alex McCarthy couldn`t hold, but Kane wasn`t able to react

quickly enough to convert the rebound. Alli flashed his potential again with a stinging drive from the edge of the penalty area that McCarthy parried out to Kane, who again lost his composure as he drove the loose ball wide from a tight angle. Palace, who had won both their previous away games including a stunning success at Chelsea, began to threaten with some incisive counter-attacks and Tottenham keeper Hugo Lloris was forced into action to repel Bakary Sako`s curling free-kick. Alan Pardew`s team went even closer just before half-time through French midfielder Yohan Cabaye, who unloaded a swerving strike that cannoned off the far post with Lloris beaten. But Pochettino`s side regained the upper hand in the second half, with Son setting the tone as he closed

down McCarthy tenaciously before the Palace keeper tipped over Lamela`s dipping free-kick. Ben Davies thought he had put Tottenham ahead in the 57th minute when the defender nodded home after Son`s cross-shot was saved by McCarthy, but the goal was disallowed as Kane was clearly offside. Tottenham remained vulnerable at the back and Lloris produced a superb one-handed save from Sako`s effort after the Palace forward was left in space at the far post. That proved the turning point as Tottenham took the lead moments later in the 68th minute when substitute Christen Eriksen slipped a pass to Son, who accelerated away from Brede Hangeland and Kelly Marti before hitting a low strike just powerful enough to beat McCarthy through his legs.

ning the championship. "If we have more weekends like this, yes we can catch Mercedes," Vettel said. "Massive attack. Maybe we can make the impossible possible - we will definitely go for it." Vettel's win was the German's third this season and the 42nd of his career, enabling the quadruple world champion to overtake the late Ayrton

Dhoni to lead India against South Africa,

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Gurkeerat and Aravind earn maiden calls SquadS

T20I: MS Dhoni (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, Stuart Binny, Ambati Rayudu, Stuart Binny, R Ashwin, Akshar Patel, Harbhajan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Amit Mishra, S Aravind. OdI: MS Dhoni (capt), Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ambati Rayudu, Suresh Raina, Ajinkya Rahane, Stuart Binny, R Ashwin, Akshar Patel, Gurkeerat Mann, Amit Mishra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohit Sharma and Umesh Yadav.

NWA convenes meet KOhIMA, SEPTEMBER 20 (MExN): The Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA) informed all the NWA officials, members of the constituent units and all committee members of the 25th anniversary of NWA Tournament that a general meeting will be held on September 30 at Hotel Ura, near Red Cross Building Kohima at 1:00 PM. The meeting will discuss matter relating to pre-celebration of NWA tournament and report from various committees of 25th anniversary of NWA tournament. NWA president Nikhrolo Khalo and general secretary Rangsam N. Hau requested all the concerned to attend the said meeting positively.

Senna into outright third place for the most lifetime wins, trailing only Michael Schumacher (91) and Alain Prost (51). A proven master on the slow and twisty Singapore track, Vettel gave his rivals no chance when he planted his foot on the accelerator and made a flying getaway from the front of the grid. The 28-year-old opened up a three-second lead over

Ricciardo on the opening lap and was never seriously challenged even when the safety car was introduced. Its first appearance came on the 13th lap when Felipe Massa exited the pits and was hit from the side by Nico Hulkenberg who speared into a wall, wrecking his Force India car and ending his race. The second came when a spectator walked on the circuit before climbing back though a hole in the fence. "If there was no safety car we could have been close for the undercut but the two safety cars came at pretty crucial times," Ricciardo said. "It was really good to back up qualifying. We matched Seb in race pace and we have got to be pretty happy." Hamilton, who needs one more win to draw level with his childhood hero Senna, endured his worst weekend of the season. The Englishman struggled with his tyres in qualifying, starting fifth on the grid, and his race came to an end just when it looked like he might be able to challenge for a spot on the podium. "I was feeling super optimistic and easily keeping up," he told the BBC. "I was hoping for a quick fix but it never came."

NEw DELhI, SEPTEMBER 20 (AGENcIES): MS Dhoni will lead India in the first three T20s and ODIs for the 72-day-long series against South Africa, the BCCI announced on Sunday. As expected, no major changes were made in the squad apart from the inclusions of Karnataka seamer Sreenath Aravind and Punjab allrounder Gurkeerat Singh Mann in India's T20 and ODI lineup respectively. Gurkeerat has impressed with a fulfilling Ranji Trophy 2014-15 season, having scored 677 runs at an average of 56, while Aravind picked up eight wickets from five matches during the IPL. Both are currently featuring in the India A squad against Bangladesh A in Bangalore and have kept their perfor-

mance-meter high. While Gurkeerat scored a century and picked up a five wickets in the first unofficial ODI, Aravind picked up 3 for 29 in the same match. The Punjab player's 87 against Australia A in August helped India A clinch the tri-series title. Shikhar Dhawan, who was out injured with a fractured finger after the first Test against Sri Lanka, seems to have recovered and has retained his place in the limited-overs front. Also, the board has decided to go ahead with four spinners for the T20s, with Ravichandran Ashwin, Amit Mishra and Axar Patel set to partner veteran offspinner Harbhajan Singh. Even though Harbhajan was dropped after the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle, where he managed just one wicket, he had bagged six wickets in three ODIs and one T20 against Zimbabwe. Ravindra Jadeja, who was axed from the Zimba-

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bwe ODIs, continues to not find a place in both squads. Jadeja last played in the second ODI against Bangladesh in June. After being rested for the Zimbabwe tour, highprofile player as Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ashwin and Suresh Raina were automatic selections in both squads and so were Ambati Rayudu and Mohit Sharma. Fast bowler Mohammed Shami was not included in the squad because he is still undergoing rehabilitation for the knee injury he suffered during the tour of Australia in 2014-15. Shami last played for India during the 2015 World Cup and has since, been sidelined from all forms cricket. Chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil also asserted that the Indian side has been doing well under MS Dhoni and that there are no immediate changes required in India's captaincy in the shorter formats.

‘Czechmate' for India in Davis Cup

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NEw DELhI, SEPTEMBER 20 (IANS): In the end, neither adverse conditions, the heat, humidity, unfriendly crowd, nor India's best players -- nothing could stop the visiting Czech Republic tennis team from easily pocketing the Davis Cup World Group Playoff 3-1 against India this weekend. A straight sets victory of Jiri Vesely over India No.1 Yuki Bhambri here on Sunday was enough to seal the deal, making sure the home team remained in Group 1 Asia/Oceania of the tournament. Vesely beat Bhambri 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 on the rebound ace hard court of the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association (DLTA) complex. The three-time Davis Cup champions showed

why they are the No.1 ranked team in the world by overcoming the hot and humid conditions, and India's best players to remain in the elite World Group comprising 16 top nations. Already ahead 2-1 after winning the doubles clash on Saturday, World No.40 Vesely needed just two hours and 12 minutes to clinch the match after which both teams mutually decided to not play the inconsequential fifth rubber -- scheduled between Somdev Devvarman and Lukas Rosol. Bhambri, who had also lost his singles contest on Friday, played much better on the last day of the tie. The 23-year-old occasionally hit some exquisite forehand winners but it was his backhand that faltered.

The Delhi boy's backhand errors, which regularly found the net, cost him crucial points which could have made the contest a lot tighter. He hit some good forehand winners which caught the 22-yearold Vesely on the wrong foot. But too many errors and the lack of consistency made the Indian lose the first set. The one break of serve in the fourth game was enough for Vesely to seal the set in 42 minutes. The Indian, ranked 125, found rhythm in the second set and moved far better, helping him earn his first breakpoint opportunity in only the second game. But it was saved by Vesely. Being 4-3 up, Bhambri had a great opportunity to consolidate on the advan-

tage in the eighth game when he earned three breakpoint chances. However, he wasted them all as the Czech fought back to hold serve. At 5-5, Vesely upped the ante just when it was required to break Bhambri for the first time in the set, and the second time in the match, to pocket the second set. The left-handed Vesely broke Bhambri twice in the third set to take a big 4-0 lead, which broke Bhambri's resolve of making a comeback. The Indian saved two matchpoints but eventually Vesely claimed the match on his third chance. This was Czech Republic's fourth win over India in as many meetings, although their last tie before this was way back in 1997.

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