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A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement White tiger kills youth in Delhi Zoo [ PAGE 8]

MOGPL reiterates its commitment

Miley Cyrus Burglars to Face Imprisonment

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By Sandemo Ngullie

Limasenla Jamir

Dimapur | September 23

Tenant is here to collect the monthly house rent.

2014 may become hottest year on record

Kakheho is a happy 14 year old boy. He was born a healthy child, but eight months after his birth he suffered from typhoid and malaria. His sickness gave way to symptoms of cerebral palsy, and the wheel chair became his companion for 13 years hence.

In a quest to part with his wheelchair, Kakheho has sought treatment in many places—it was, however, at home in Nagaland where he found useful intervention.

Today, he can walk on his own, eat with his own hands and share a joke with his siblings—one cannot tell if he was on a wheel chair a day in his life.

A little known practice, forging miracles for disabled persons, the Nagaland Rehabilitation and Research Centre (NRRC) in Dimapur, came to his rescue.

Hamlong, in his late 40’s, has a similar story.

A year ago he was diagnosed with hyper lordosis, a kind of spinal deformity.

He tried to get help from many but in vain—he became bed ridden, gained weight and the spine went from bad to worse. After a month’s treatment at NRRC, Hamlong has lost more than 15 kilos, can drive his own car and manage most activities.

These are real life experiences of people whose lives have been transformed by the will and effort of three young health practitioners in Nagaland who set up the NRRC. Supongwati Jamir is a Bio-engineer, the only known Prosthetist and Orthotist in Nagaland.

Bindra signs off with two bronze medals [ PAGE 12]

Dr. Khekaho Chishi is one among the only two Occupational Therapists in Nagaland and Dr. Disinlung Gangmei is a Physiotherapist. In a State where disabled persons are “cured” by giving out wheel chairs, the young trio made the timely intervention of setting up the Nagaland Rehabilitation and Research Centre in Dimapur in January 2014, the first and only physical and mental rehabilitation centre in Nagaland.

out on their own and help disabled people in a way no one in Nagaland had attempted before—the NRRC tries to understand the socio-economic conditions of the disabled community, and the persons they treat. The charges for the treatments are nominal and the devices and appliances that they custom make for their patients are five folds cheaper than those available outside Nagaland. The Centre has patients not only from within the State but also from Assam, Tripura and Manipur.

“The State’s attitude towards the disabled community needs to change. Something which can be treated and cured cannot be done away with a wheelchair,’’ asserts Jamir.

The NRRC specializes in rehabilitation related to Autism, Polio Foot Drop, Bells Palsy, hand therapy, splinting and pain management and provides cosmetic restoration such as hi-tech artificial limbs, Orthotics, clubfoot lumbar corset, scoliosis, lordosis and knee braces silicone products. Along with their rehabilitation centre they also run their workshop where they make custom devices and appliances for their patients according to their needs.

“The people and the disabled community need to be aware that there are doctors and specialists out there who can make life easier and independent for them,” says Dr. Chishi, adding, “The Government and NGOs, in a way, make the disabled further dependent by giving out wheel chairs instead of helping them live an independent life through proper treatment.”

Nagaland Rehabilitation and Research Centre steps in where government fails disabled persons

An Indian villager carrying his goat on his shoulder walks through a flooded road at the Chaygaon village in Kamrup district of northeastern Assam state, India, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. Landslides and flash floods triggered by two days of heavy rain have killed at least 28 people in India’s remote northeast, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

UN adopts plan to enhance rights of indigenous people

UNIteD NAtIoNS, Sep 23 (IANS): The first World Conference on Indigenous Peoples, a colourful assemblage from the world over, began here Monday with a boost from the UN General Assembly which adopted a plan to enhance their rights.

The normally drab General Assembly hall was a riot of colors as hundreds of representatives of indigenous people in their traditional regalia joined world leaders at the forum.

A woman blowing a conch on the Assembly’s dais set the tone for the meeting that highlighted their need to preserve their cultures.

General Assembly President Sam Kutesa said the plan contained in a

document, known in UN officialese as “Outcome Document,” would require member nations to “demonstrate resolve in addressing inequalities that adversely affect indigenous communities.”

The document follows up on the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People adopted by the Assembly and sketches out an action-oriented plan for the Declaration’s implementation.

Representing indigenous people, Aili Keskitalo, president of the Sami Parliament in Norway, said, “”The challenge now remains to implement the provisions of the declaration, by closing the gaps between theory and prac-

tice, between inspiration and reality.”

Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon began his speech with a greeting in six languages of indigenous people from around the world.

He said, “Indigenous peoples are concerned about issues that top the global agenda. They are deeply connected to Mother Earth- whose future is at the heart of the Climate Summit opening tomorrow.”

There are more than 5,000 distinct groups of indigenous people - the equivalent of schedules tribes in the Indian Constitution - spread across 90 countries. According to the UN, they number 370 million and are more than

5 per cent of the world’s population. “These peoples continue to self-identify as distinct peoples with strong links to traditional territories with their own social, economic and political systems as well as unique languages, cultures and beliefs,” the UN said.

Dalee Sambo Sorough, Chair of UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, highlighted an issue that affects many of them around the world: “Indigenous peoples’ right to their land and resources remains essential to their survival.” Nations should go beyond their legal imperatives and be guided also by moral imperatives and obligations,she said.

BJP declares candidate for bye-poll NSF, ANCSU intervenes to cancel exam Morung Express News Dimapur | September 23

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Moving towards independent living

reflections

New York, September 23 (IANS): The year 2014 is poised to become the warmest year ever measured, suggests new data released by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The combined temperature of June, July and August has been unprecedented in historical records, said the NOAA data, suggesting that Earth’s oceans reached a level last month not seen since humans have been keeping comprehensive weather data, wired.com reported. “Global ocean temperatures in August 2014 warmed to the largest departure from average for any month on record,” according to a NOAA statement. The previous record was set in June 2014. “If the next four months rank among the five warmest on record, 2014 will be the warmest on record for the globe,” Jake Crouch of the National Climatic Data Centre was quoted as saying. “Having an El Nino would increase the chances of 2015 starting out much warmer than average, and approaching record or near record warmth,” Crouch added.

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US, partners begin airstrikes on Islamic State

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The bye-election to 11 Northern Angami II assembly constituency is likely to see a “friendly” but “tough” straight contest between the DAN coalition partners NPF and BJP. Both the NPF and BJP have a lot in stake in the so-called “friendly” contest as the outcome would have political ramifications in the DAN coalition and also act as a pointer to the 2018 assembly elections.

Throwing the gauntlet first, the BJP Tuesday night declared its candidate for the bye-election here at Hotel Saramati, attended by a large number of BJP party workers which exceeded the party’s expectations. The BJP has been a partner of the DAN coalition since 2003 when Neiphiu Rio swept into power.

The party’s candidate, Visasolie Lhoungu, is a former bureaucrat who was last posted as chief executive officer NRLM (Rural Development). The 61-year-old BJP candidate hauls from Dihoma village.

Nagaland state BJP president, Dr M Chuba, who handed the party ticket to Lhoungu, said the latter’s name was approved by the national BJP parliamentary board at a meeting held on September 20.

Expressing optimism of a BJP victory in the bye-poll, the state BJP president also said he was impressed that the Northern Angami II BJP unit has been set up booth level committees in all 29 polling booths within short notice.

The lone BJP legislator in the state

and parliamentary secretary for Transport and IPR, Paiwang Konyak, who also graced the programme said the event should not be considered as one of “celebration” but of commitment and responsibility.

Stating that it is the collective responsibility of all rank and file of the state BJP to ensure victory of Lhoungu, Paiwang further appealed to all party workers and well wishers to contribute financially, physically and morally. “It is our responsibility to report back to Delhi with our head held high and return the trust reposed in us”, the parliamentary secretary said.

The BJP candidate in his acceptance speech said he was overwhelmed by the support and concern shown by the state BJP and all its frontal organizations. “This is just the beginning of the journey and we still have a long way to go”, Lhoungu said. He also pledged to uphold the BJP’s principles and ideologies.

Sources have disclosed that the Congress will convene a meeting tomorrow to finalize on setting up a candidate for the NA-II bye-election. There are reportedly two aspirants for the Congress party ticket but the party would take a final decision on whether to set up its candidate in tomorrow’s meeting.

NPF to declare candidate today Meanwhile, the Naga People’s Front (NPF) has informed that the ticket distribution ceremony to Dr. Neiphrezo Keditsu, son in law of Neiphiu Rio, for the forthcoming by-election will take place on September 24 at NPF Central Office, Kohima at 11:00 AM.

Morung Express News Kohima | September 23

With the intervention of the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF) and the All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANSCU), an exam for four posts (Forester 1) under the Forest Department of Nagaland was cancelled. Although the recruitment came from the directive of the Government of Nagaland, there was no information given out to the public by the department on the vacant posts. An official from the department confirmed that no advertisements were given in the papers for the said posts.

“They should not just recruit people hidingly. Equal opportunities should be given to all students,” said Jungithung Yanthan, Auditor General, NSF. The exam was to be held today at the Forest Office Complex, Kohima Division opposite Ministers’ Hill Higher Secondary School. 44 applicants had arrived at the complex to appear for the exam.

“We are here for the welfare of the students. We strongly oppose this because they have not advertised the posts in any of the local papers. The department should

maintain transparency,” said Tsukjem Longkumer, President of ANCSU. He asserted that with unemployment increasing in Nagaland, unemployed youth are waiting for such opportunities, which should not be denied.

“These exams should be made an open competition for one and all eligible candidates. There are many more who would be eligible for the said posts. Why should some few privileged get the chance?

Why the backdoor exams?” questioned a concerned citizen, who further added that it is not the job of the people to go door to door to every department enquiring about job vacancies. “This is not how a government department works. They put an ad in the paper. And if the people don’t apply, then it’s their fault.”

Applicants deem NSF as ‘unprofessional’ Following the cancellation of the exam, candidates who arrived at the Department to appear for the exam expressed their frustration over NSF and ANCSU members, who had already left the venue after cancelling the exam without any proper explanation as to why the exam

was cancelled.

Some of the applicants informed that they came to know of the available posts after inquiring in the department. The applications were submitted last year. “They have valid reason because it was not published in the paper and it was unfair for those individuals who have not got the information about the exam. But we feel that it was not right for NSF to cancel in the last minute. Why have they not discussed it days before the examination?” said an applicant, who further stated that it was “unprofessional” on the part of NSF to cancel the exam and leave without any proper explanation.

While the applicants acknowledged the reason for cancellation of the exam, they questioned why the NSF President or General Secretary was not present to address the candidates and did not provide the candidates a chance to express their voices. “Maybe if they had stayed and discussed with us properly we will not have been offended but they didn’t. They stormed out quickly and didn’t care to talk to the candidates” stated another applicant.

The Centre’s objective is to motivate and help disabled persons move towards an independent life.

“Nagaland is badly in need of a State rehabilitation centre where the disabled community can avail required treatment,” says Jamir.

After years of learning and training in their fields of study, these young and passionate specialists felt it would be a waste to just sit and do nothing—opportunities in the State are meager. Having come across the plight of disabled people in Nagaland, they realized it was time someone did something for the community. They used to work under the Dimapur District Rehabilitation Centre but after its closure, they were left jobless. They approached the Government of Nagaland for job opportunities in their area of specialization, but the Government, probably the only one in the world, did not need their assistance.

However, the people of Nagaland did. So the specialists decided to venture

Naga Hoho resents ‘prohibitory orders’ issued against NE people DImApUr, September 23 (mexN): The Naga Hoho today expressed its resentment over what it termed were “prohibitory orders” issued to the North East staff of a hotel in Ahmedabad, Gujarat where they were reportedly told “to stay away from the hotel premises during the stay of Chinese Premier Xi Jingpin.”

A press note from the Naga Hoho stated that the “decision of excluding” people from the Northeast at the hotel “no doubt comes from a top level, be it the Chinese or the Indian security agencies.” “Whichever agency has imposed this segregationist order… shouldn’t let go as a forgivable error,” it stated. It further lamented that the incident amounts to “racial discrimination.”

The Naga Hoho further urged the Ministry of Home Affairs to initiate a probe and take appropriate action and measures immediately. While stating that a lot has been said regarding the “successful visit” of the Chinese Premier to India, the Naga Hoho questioned whether “the prohibitory orders issued against people from the Northeast…

has been included in the successful lists of rolls.”

The Naga Hoho stated that “whenever any national party leaders land up in Nagaland as well as North East region, they are the number one who will praise the hospitality of all of us, exclaiming at the top of their appreciation, how we are gifted in greeting guest, taking good care of them and the likes.” It further said that many programmes have been carried out in the past decade in the hospitality sector where people from the Northeast undergo training in the hospitality sector “in collaboration with private as well as government institutions all over the country.” It called upon the “institutions to share their solidarity and opinions with us in such racist related orders and assure us that no such stay away orders is imparted in their syllabus…”

While scrutinizing the whole episode and the “mindset of the people in main land India,” the Naga Hoho stated: “we feel that the struggle for self determination in the NE region by different political groups is genuinely justified.”

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The Morung Express 2 LocaL Fight or face injustice: KLC Freshers’ Meet MOGPL reiterates Dimapur

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Morung Express News Kohima | September 23

With the theme ‘Fight or face Justice’, the Kohima Law College (KLC) held its 35th Freshers Meet on September 23 at the State Academy Hall, Kohima.

Khyomo Lotha Ex-MP President, Managing Board KLC shared a brief note on the need of legal services in Nagaland, while mentioning that KLC is one of the cheapest colleges in Nagaland where the students are charged nominal fees and

State level training on minor irrigation census

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Kohima, Septtember 23 (mexN): The department of irrigation & flood control, Nagaland is organizing a one day state level training for the conduct of 5th Minor Irrigation Census with reference to year 2013-14 on September 24 at the conference hall, office of the Chief Engineer, Irrigation & Flood Control, Kohima from 10:00 am onwards. Parliamentary secretary for irrigation & flood control and election Y. Vikheho Swu will grace the inaugural function as the chief guest. Er. R.K. Sinha, chief engineer, central water commission Shillong and Dr. SP Sharma, director, Minor Irrigation Census, Ministry of Water Resources, New Delhi will also speak on the occasion. All the divisional executive engineers in the districts and sub divisional officers along with the junior engineers of the department have been directed to attend the said training programme without fail.

the teachers paid very less salary. “The main aim of the college is to impart legal knowledge to serve, protect and defend the rights of our own people,” stated Khyomo Lotha, who also noted that Nagas often tend to use violence when they are unable to raise their rights vocally, therefore imparting legal knowledge becomes a necessity.

Deo Nukhu, Parliamentary Secretary for Higher Education & SCERT, who graced the occasion as chief guest, stated that KLC

is a pioneering college in the State in the academic study of Law & Justice. “In today’s world where there is so much rampant corruption and social injustice, we need to produce more and more Law graduates to fight and bring justice to our society.” The Parliamentary Secretary added that human equality and injustice are inalienable ideas that are of utmost importance in today’s democratic world, therefore it is essential for all educated people to have a sense of morality- of know-

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by the government, namely KLC and Mokokchung Law College and hoped that Nagaland University will initiate the Department of Faculty of Law. The Kohima Law College was founded in 1978 and was affiliated to the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) and later to Nagaland University.

Some of the pioneers of KLC were J.B Jasokie, R.S Bedi, Darshan Singh, Rainbow Ezung, Ringa Thong, T. Tankha, Khyomo Lotha and Akang Ao.

Sazolie College celebrates cultural day

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): Sazolie College, Jotsoma, held its 5th annual cultural day on September 20. Theyiesienuo Keditsu, a former teacher of the College, and currently an Assistant Professor at Kohima College, Kohima, graced the occasion as resource person.

A press release informed that speaking on culture, the resource person asserted that the appreciation of “our” culture should not simply end with wearing traditional attire and celebrating the past, but the good traditional values should be inculcated in “our” lives. She also encouraged the students to spend time and interact with their elders as they can learn so many good things in doing so.

Folk songs, traditional dances and dramas based on folklore were presented by the students from differ-

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Old Jalukie village | September 23

Metropolitan Oil & Gas Pvt. Limited (MOGPL) chairman, AK Hazarika has assured that the company is fully committed to take all the necessary steps as per the commitments in the EOI, to carry out pre-production activities in Wokha and Peren zones.

“MOGPL will be putting to use state of the art technology. We have the most competent technological expertise and experts in oil exploration who will be working amongst you to achieve the best possible results in the most effective way,” Hazarika said in a message read out by one of the company’s board directors, Sam Rajpal, during the launch of oil & natural gas operation in Peren district on September 23 at Old Jalukie Village. Hazarika also assured that MOGPL will strive to uphold the in-

terests of the people living in the operational areas in particular, and the zones as a whole, especially in matters such as employment, award of contracts or purchase of materials etc.

Meanwhile, Kireshwar Bora, Chief Operating Officer of the company said the uniqueness of the petroleum reserves of Nagaland state is that oil is found in the fractured granitic basement rocks and Syhlet and Kopili formation, adding extensive exploration efforts are necessary in the Peren and Wokha districts zones in order to discover hydrocarbon.

“The Peren and Wokha zones are a hilly one with ridges and ranges dissected by seasonal and torrential streams. General altitude of the district varies from 303.3 to 1313.69 m asl,” Bora said. He added that pre-production is to be meticulously planned and executed if the most valuable

commercial discoveries are to be achieved. Further, he informed that if all conditions are ideal in a period of 5 to 7 years, the appraisal drilling can be conducted, which will be followed by full-fledged development and production within a span of minimum 2-3 years, he said.

Bora said the company has already started operations in Changpang field.

In the first phase, the company is planning to revive five wells to achieve a production level of 1000 bopd within a period of one year.

He also said that to clean the oil spillage in the Changpang field, experts have already visited the sites and work will start

by October. He further assured that MOGPL is 100% committed to carry out Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects as submitted in EOI to the government for local area development.

Watchman supports raids on ‘immoral’ activities

Ao students of Sazolie College present a cultural dance at the college annual cultural day on September 20.

ent communities, said the note. The teachers judged the various cultural presentations and the Aos,

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ing what is right and wrong and acting upon it. Law as a professional study is still a new concept in Nagaland where Nagas are yet to recognize it as a profession, therefore Nukhu urged the students that they can be leaders as law students.

Nukhu further stated that Nagaland despite being one among the oldest state in India remains a bench under the Gauhati High Court. However, he noted that despite all constraints, the state is in the process of taking over 2 Law Colleges

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The family of N.David Zeliang eldest son of Late N.C.Zeliang, express our sincere heartfelt gratitude to each and every person / organisations who stood by us during his prolonged illness and demise on Sunday the 14th September 2014, at his residence at Jalukie. We thank you, for your prayers, material, financial and physical support.

We convey our special thanks to:1. Mr & Mrs. T.R.Zeliang, Chief Minister.

2. Mrs Banuo Z Jamir, Chief Secretary.

3. Mr & Mrs. Bangdi Iheilung. Ex-Minister.

4. Mr H.K.Khulu (IAS) Rtd. Addl Chief Secretary.

5. Mr & Mrs.Weku G.Kenye. Rtd. Secretary.

6. Mr & Mrs. V.K. Sema Rtd. Dy. Secretary.

7. Mr & Mrs. D.K.Zeliang Rtd. PCCF. 8. Dr &Mrs. Inakhe Yeptho Rtd. Principal Director Medical.

9. Mr & Mrs. Iheirie Ndang. Rtd. S.P. 10. Mr & Mrs. Inchekam Panme. Rtd. Commissioner Taxes.

11. Mr & Mrs. C.R. Zeliang. Rtd General Manager NHHDC 12. Mr & Mrs. Rinsanbo. Rtd. Manager NHHDC. 13. Mr & Mrs. Wizabo, Rtd. Dy. Commissioner Taxes.

14. Mr & Mrs. T.Y. Sangtam Rtd D.S.O Tuensang.

15. Mr & Mrs. H.K. Rentta. Rtd. Ranger.

16. Mr & Mrs. Benjamin Newmai. Secretary Nagaland.

17. Mr & Mrs. Wezope Kenye. D.C.Dimapur.

18. Mrs. Angou Thou. D.C. Mon. 19. Mr & Mrs.Bendang Yanger. Jt Director Agriculture.

20. Mr & Mrs. Paudabo Newmai. Dy. Director Arts & Culture.

21. Mr & Mrs. Achakbo Newmai. Agri. Engineer.

22. Mr. Bendang Sangtam. Dy. Comdt, 9th NAP (IR).

23. Mr & Mrs. Igwangheing Hemang. DSP Kohima.

24. Dr. & Mrs. P.Savino. Dimapur.

25. Dr & Mrs. Akho Angami. Dimapur.

26. Dr. & Mrs. (Dr.) Hojesong Panme. Dimapur.

27. Mr & Mrs. Sailanbo. Edu. Dept. Kohima.

28. Mr & Mrs. Ambo Rentta. Forest Dept.Dimapur 29. President & Colleagues, BJP Nagaland State.

30. Mr. K.Medom Angami. National Executive. BJP 31. Mr. Yumbos Murry. National Security Cell, Central Committee member BJP. 32. Mr. Sundur Jain. State Executive. BJP. 33. State Kissan Morcha. BJP. 34. State Mahila Morcha. BJP. 35. President & Colleagues, BJP Dimapur District.

36. President & Colleagues, BJP Dimapur Dist. Mahila Morcha.

37. BJP Mon District.

38. BJP Zunheboto District.

39. BJP Peren District.

40. Mr. Kitangwi. Executive Secretary Liangmai Baptist Association.

41. Rev. Kamwang.

42. Rev. Wichapbo.

43. Christian Baptist Church, Jalukie Town.

44. Christian Baptist Church,Samjiuram.

45. Christian Baptist Church,Women's Society Samjiuram.

46. Liangmai Church, Kohima.

47. Liangmai Church, Dimapur.

48. Lungwiram Church, Dimapur.

49. Friends Gospel Ministry. Dimapur.

50. All Saints Home, Past Students' Association.

51. Veterian Football Club, Peren District.

52. Ntu Lun Aruong, Nagaland.

53. Ntu Lun Union, Jalukie Valley.

54. United Youth Club, Samjiuram.

55. Chairman and Village Council, Samjiuram.

56. Mr. Namnabi VCC New Peren.

57. Mr & Mrs. Kewekote Akami. ALC Peren.

58. Mr & Mrs. Kiengau. NDA. Dungki Village.

59. Mr & Mrs. Toshi Jamir. Jalukie.

60. Mr. Heisei and Brother. Saijang.

61. Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kason, Dimapur.

62. Ms. Akala Jamir. Dimapur.

63. Mr & Mrs. Pongba. Jalukie B. 64. Mr & Mrs. Pausuiheing. Gaili Village.

65. Mr & Mrs. Ernest. Peren Town.

66. Samjiuram Village.

67. Ntu Village.

68. Friends and well wishers of Jalukie Town, 'B' Jalukie, New Jalukie. Mhainamchi, Kejanglwa, Ngwalwa, Peren Town, Tenning Area, Nsong Area, Athibung Area. And Beisumpuikam.

Though we are unable to mention each and every name we sincerely pray that God will less each of you abundantly for your generosity love and sympathy during our time of grief.

We remain ever indebted to all of you.

Loving Wife, Brothers, Children, in laws and relatives.

Lothas and Chakesangs won the first, second and third prizes respectively.

Display of traditional attire

and modern attire based on traditional motifs by the students was another highlight of the programme.

KCSU Ist emergency union assembly

Dimapur, September 23 (mexN): Supporting the raids conducted by NSCN (IM) on “immoral activities that are taking place in public places,” the Watchman team today stated that there is a need for a “strong arm authority to stop outright sin that is going on.”

In a press statement, the team asserted, “It is right to call evil as evil and there is a need to do moral policing.” Stating that NSCN (IM) has taken a positive stand on this issue, the Watchman observed, “The trend of young people indulging in intoxicating drinks has often led to immoral sexual activities.” The result of this, it added,

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The Fountain Club, Kohima in partnership with the State Council of Educational Research & Training (SCERT) Department, Government of Nagaland is organising the 3rd edition of Nagaland Spelling Bee Championship from September 25-26 at Capital Convention Centre, Kohima. In the inaugural function, Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary, School Education Department will grace the function as chief guest on September 25, while Kesonyu Yhome, Additional Secretary, Health & Family Welfare Department, will be the guest of honour in the closing function on

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MEx File September 26. The organisers have requested all the participating students to reach the venue on September 24 before 4:00 pm for registration and briefing. The organisers can also be contacted for any clarification and confirmation of participation on the following numbers: 9402453002/ 9856071055/ 9436609258.

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The Kohima Chakhesang Students’ Union (KCSU) will hold its first emergency union assembly on September 27, 11:00 am at Kohima Chakhesang Baptist Church Kitsubozou. All the village and college units have been asked to attend the same compulsorily with two representa- NLA estimates committee meeting tives each. The assembly will discuss matters relating to redrafting of the union constitution, Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The fresher’s day and election for the next tenure. first meeting of the Committee on Estimates (2014-2015), Nagaland Legislative AssemFor further detail, contact 9612713250. bly has been fixed on September 30 at 11:00 in the committee room of the Assembly KUK convenes emergency meet am building, Kohima, to take stock of works and Kohima, September 23 (mexN): to chalk out the work programme for 2014 and The Konyak Union Kohima (KUK) has con- adoption of 119th ATR and 120th ATR pertainvened an emergency meeting on September ing to irrigation and flood control and indus27, 10:00 am at the Konyak Community Hall, tries and commerce respectively. NLA secreMidland Kohima. The KNSK Kohima unit and tary, AE Lotha in a press release has informed KSUK and all responsible citizens have been all to attend the meeting positively. requested to attend the meeting positively.

Nagaland Spelling Bee Championship from Sept 25

“is not just getting infected with sexual diseases but has often led to girls to have an unwanted pregnancy and has in many cases led to abortion and has also led to an increase in contracting HIV/ AIDS as well.”

The Watchman team further urged the Naga Society to “stand fast on Christian principles and not encourage fornication, adultery in any way be it young or old.” It also called on the churches to stand on good moral standard and not compromise. It also urged “people of high standing in our society to also lead a right Christian life if they are Christians and not indulge in immoral lifestyle.”

PHED to launch National Sanitation Campaign

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) Nagaland under the initiative of Water & Sanitation Support Organization (WSSO) will be launching ‘National Sanitation Campaign’ in Kohima on September 25 at the Zonal Council Hall at 2.30 pm. As the Government of India (GOI) is committed to achieving Swachh Bharat status by October 2, 2019, coinciding with the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, it decided to launch National Sanitation Campaign from September 25 till October 23. Chief Minister TR Zeliang will be the chief guest, while minister for PHED Noke Wangnao

Inaugural Function

will be the guest of honour. The program will be chaired by Anenla S. Longchari, secretary, PHED while keynote address will be delivered

by Er. Kevisekho Kruse, Chief Engineer, PHED. Vote of thanks will be pronounced by Er. KG Sumi, Director, WSSO, PHED.

Tetso College ParentTeacher meeting

Dimapur, September 23 (mexN): Tetso College has invited all parents/ guardians of all students (Higher Secondary and Degree) to a parent-teacher meeting scheduled for September 27 from 9:30 am onwards.

Teachers will be available to meet the parents individually till 1:00 pm, informed a press release from the college. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the progress of their child/ ward, attendance, grades etc., it added.

TGUK general session

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Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The Tesophenyu Group Union Kohima (TGUK) has convened its general session cum election of new office bearers on September 27, 9:30 am at the Tesophenyu Group Fellowship, Kenouzuo Hill, Kohima. Therefore, TGUK general secretary has requested all the members to come along with agendas to be discussed after the session.

VGOK general session

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The general session of Viswema Gazetted Officer Krotho will be held at The Naga Heritage Village Kisama on September 27 at 11:00 am. All the members have been requested to attend the session without fail.

Three-day fellowship held for Naga missionaries of Himalayan Region

'TRAINING OF TRAINERS ON MUSIC AND ART THERAPY' 25th -27th September 2014 Date: 25th September 2014 Venue: Heritage, Old DC Bungalow Arrival & Registration: 9:00 AM

Chairperson : Ms. Neikule Doulo Chief Guest : Ms. Banuo Z Jamir, IAS Chief Secretary, Nagaland

ORDER OF PROGRAMME Introduction : Ms. Neidonuo Angami Chairperson, Managing Board, ABC Prayer : Mr. Kedo Peseyie Pastor, City Church Duet : Mr. Avikuo Tepa & Friend Words from the Resource Persons : Ms. Elana Lakh & Ms. Tsvia Horesh Special No : Mr. Alemtemshi Jamir Former Chief Secretary Speech : Chief Guest Announcements : Closing Song : 'Thanks to God'

Light Refreshment________

Naga Missionaries of Himalayan Region with NMM officials during the fellowship.

A forum for the misDimapur, Septem- ter coordination among ber 23 (mexN): A three the Naga missionaries sionaries named Nagaland day fellowship for the Naga working in the region, a Missions Movement HiMissionaries of Himalayan press release informed. malayan Region MissionRegion was held at Retreat More than 30 missionar- ary Fellowship was also Home, Siliguri from Sep- ies from Nepal, Sikkim formed with the following tember 18 – 20. The fel- and West Bengal attended missionaries as committee lowship was organized the fellowship. NMM Di- members; Yanger Longby Nagaland Missions rector, Rev. Andrew Semp kumer (Kathmandu), ZaseMovement (NMM), the and Associate Director, vituo Kuotsu (Sikkim), PikMissions Department of Rev. Khevihe Yeptho were eto Yeptho (Kalimpong), Nagaland Baptist Church the main speakers during Chutilo Kath (Siliguri) and T. Chenithung (Doers).

Council (NBCC), for bet- the programme.

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Incessant rains wreak havoc; 8 dead in Assam Guwhati, September 23 (pti): Altogether eight people have died in heavy floods and landslides triggered by continuous rain for the last three days in Assam, where airforce helicopters, army, NDRF and SDRF have been pressed into service for rescue work, officials said.

The situation was the worst in Goalpara where five people have died and more than 50,000 people have been affected due to heavy rains in the state and neighbouring Meghalaya, District Deputy Commissioner Pritam Saikia said.

With rains halting on Tuesday, rescue and relief operation are on and airforce helicopters have been pressed into service to rescue the marooned people in Dudhnoi, Krishnai and Bolbola. Army, NDRF and SDRF are also engaged round-the-clock for rescue work. However, majority of the people have come down on their own to the plains, he said.

The district administration has made arrangements to provide shelter and necessary relief materials to the affected, Saikia said. The situation in Guwahati, where two persons have died -one in landslide and another due to electrocution following heavy precipitation in the past three days, was also improving as rains stopped since this morning.

The city recorded 162.56 mm of rainfall since last night and the severely

affected areas of Anil Nagar, Tarun Nagar, Zoo Road and other areas remain waterlogged, Kamrup (Metro) district administration spokesman said.

About 300 people have been evacuated from Anil Nagar and housed in relief camps opened by Kamrup metropolitan district administration, which has also made arrangements for distribution of drinking water, candles, biscuits and other items to the affected people.

Ten boats have been pressed into service to provide relief and rescue people from Anilnagar, Nabinnagar, Lachitnagar, besides Rajgarh and Zoo Road in the heart of the city, the district administration officials said.

The situation in Dhubri district, bordering Bangladesh, was grim with water level of Brahmaputra river showing an upward trend.

People are being moved to safer places, Deputy Commissioner Kumud Kalita said. One child was killed and three others were injured in landslides at Hatisinghmari area of the district, officials said.

The rains have severely affected electric supply and telephone services in both Goalpara and Dhubri districts. Train services in central Assam’s Morigaon district were also affected as rain water submerged rail tracks between Jagiroad and Dharamtul stations, Northeast Frontier Railway spokesman said.

All up and down trains passing through the area have been regulated. The Ledo-Guwahati Intercity Express and Silghat-Kamakhya Express have been stopped at Jagiroad and Chaparmukh stations respectively, he added.

Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi held an emergency meeting with senior officials during the day to take stock of the flood situation in some parts of the state and directed the concerned authorities to take all-out measures to deal with the situation, CMO officials said.

The chief minister, who is monitoring the situation, had already directed the State Disaster Management Authority to press into service SDRF personnel to evacuate the marooned people. It was also decided in the meeting that SDRF personnel must be stationed permanently in the flood prone areas and two additional SDRF companies would be raised.

NDRF and SDRF personnel are already operating in Goalpara, Dudhnoi and other places to evacuate the marooned people. SDRF personnel from Sonitpur and North Lakhimpur have also moved to affected areas.

In the flood prone areas of upper Assam, the water level in the river was below the danger level in most of the places and there are no reports of any breach in embankments maintained by water resources department.

Arunachal: Flash floods leaves trail of destruction

Indian army soldiers rescue flood-affected villagers at the Chaygaon village in Kamrup district of northeastern Assam on Tuesday, September 23. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

Meghalaya toll at 21, 24 others feared dead ShillonG, September 23 (pti): Twenty-one persons have lost their lives and another 24 are feared dead after being reported missing in flood affected areas of Garo Hills region in Meghalaya, according to state government officials.

Incessant rain for the last 36 hours has affected more than three lakh people and more than 20,000 people were camping in relief camps, they said on Tuesday. At least three districts in Garo Hills region have been declared worst-affected. In Shillong, a landslide has killed at least eight persons, including two women, in Mawbah area on the outskirts of the city last night, East Khasi Hills SP M Kharkrang said.

Seventeen persons were feared dead in North Garo Hills district's Kharkutta area even as the bodies of five persons were retrieved from different places, district Additional SP Ramesh Singh said.

Seven persons have died in South West Garo Hills district and another seven were feared dead in neighbouring West Garo

Hills district after they were reported missing, an official said.

In all, 12,000 persons were shifted to 29 relief camps set up in South West Garo Hills district alone, district deputy commissioner Ram Singh said. In North Garo Hills district and West Garo Hills district, several relief camps have been set up and officials are awaiting reports for an exact number of persons lodged in those camps.

Two teams of NDRF squads have arrived with eight boats in North Garo Hills district for search and rescue operations early today even as the BSF and the Air Force are carrying out similar operations in West Garo Hills district and South West Garo Hills district.

Chief Minister Mukul Sangma, who was stranded in Guwahati along with Speaker AT Mondal while on their way to flood affected region on Monday, reviewed the situation. Sangma also reviewed the flood affected areas by air and ordered officials of all affected districts to compile details of damages and losses at the earliest.

itanaGar, September 23 (pti): Incessant rains and an unprecedented rise in the water level of the Subansiri have triggered landslides and flash floods in Arunachal Pradesh with the swirling river water leaving a trail of destruction.

The Subansiri river recorded an unprecedented rise in the water level at Daporijo in Upper Subansiri district on Thursday night. "The water level of the river rose between 6-7 feet on Thursday night but receded Friday morning," Upper Subansiri DC T Tagu said. District Information and Public Relation Officer (DIPRO) N Namchoom said that the flood water from the Subansiri submerged the villages located on its banks, damaging over 200 dwellings and washing away livestock.

There was, however, no human casualty, she said.

Pasighat DIPRO said that landslides triggered by torrential rain have snapped road communication in Pasighat. Restoration of the Pasighat-Mariyang road was on but continuous downpour was hampering work. Upper Siang district remained cut off from the rest of the state due to road disruption at several points following incessant rain.

West Kameng DIPRO said that the newly constructed Orang- Kalaktang-Shergaon-Rupa-Tenga road

was breached and washed away at several locations due to continuous downpour since August 14 last.

Upper Subansiri DIPRO spoke to Tagom Yekar, who runs a tourist Lodge at Sikarijo. Yekar said it all happened very suddenly at about 2 AM. At first they heard the sound of the gushing water and within 10 minutes the water rose about 10 feet high, flooding their house and washing away their belongings. They escaped as they could swiftly shift to a higher place.

Tajum Batak who stays nearby had a similar experience. He and his family too were sleeping when the water came gushing in and they could escape by drilling a hole in the bamboo walls of their home, the DIPRO said.

Sippi bore the brunt of the disaster with inundated houses, livestock and belongings swept away, rice fields flooded and bamboo groves uprooted. At the Dhulaam Raji Memorial Public School at Sippi, the rains flooded the buildings up to 6 feet mark. The school had 72 boarders who were 5 to 12 years old. The students were evacuated on foot to a Batem village nearby, the DIPRO said.

The wet and muddy classroom with scattered books, upturned furniture and logs and clothes strewn in the hostel dormitories are a silent reminder, she said.

Release Assam journalist from custody: Amnesty ZB-M asks AR to respect Indo-Naga ceasefire Guwahati, September 23 (ianS): Amnesty International India Tuesday asked the Assam government to release a journalist from custody and guarantee him a fair trial after he was accused of having links with banned militant outfits.

Kokrajhar-based 44-year-old Jaikhlong Brahma was detained September 2.

He was sent to judicial custody by a court for two weeks. A detention order under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, which allows administrative detention for up to 12 months, was issued by the local administration September 9.

"He (Brahma) is at risk of being de-

tained for 12 months without charge or trial under the NSA," said a statement issued Tuesday by Amnesty.

Shailesh Rai, programmes director at Amnesty, said: "The use of administrative detention under the NSA or any other legislation must end and all legislation that facilitates the use of administrative detention should be repealed," "Administrative detention is a system that allows the authorities to detain individuals by executive order without charge or trial, and denies them the safeguards of a fair trial as required under international law," the Amnesty statement said.

It said the NSA detention order

states that Brahma "has been indulging in various types of violent activities with secessionist aims".

The order also said Brahma maintained "personal link with the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (anti-talk faction or Songbijit faction)", provoked and abetted the militants to commit killings and arson, and accepted money from the outfit in exchange for producing and broadcasting video reports about it.

The Kokrajhar Press Club has issued a statement refuting the allegations against Brahma, and said his wife was also facing harassment from police.

Mizo woman booked for Facebook post aizawl, September 23 (enS): A senior office bearer of the Mizoram Pradesh Youth Congress Committee has filed a police complaint against a woman here for a Facebook post in which she alleged that a Mizo fugitive and his friends were beaten up in Delhi by two members of the party unit.

Acting on the complaint from secretary of the committee R Lalhmingmawia Ralte, the police filed an FIR on Monday against Lalrinfeli, who

goes by the Facebook name Felly Jahau. Ralte in the complaint said someone going by the name ‘Felly Jahau’ posted an article on the widelyfollowed “Zoram Politics” Facebook group where she “defamed” the ruling Congress and wrote about two party members who “do not exist”.

The said Facebook post talked about one Michael, a man wanted by the Mizoram Police in connection with a case involving allegations of EVM rigging during the last

year’s state Assembly polls, being approached and manhandled by two men in Delhi. The post alleged the attackers were dressed as policemen, but they turned out to be youth Congress leaders.

Michael is wanted by the police for instigating a well-known Aizawl educationist to make allegations that the Congress rigged EVMs using a “powerful radiowave machine” and winning 34 of the state’s 40 assembly seats unfairly.

imphal, September 23 (nnn): The Zeliangrong Baudi, Manipur (ZBM) has asked the Assam Rifles to respect the IndoNaga ceasefire agreement of 2001 signed between the Government of India and the NSCN-K. The ZB-M was irked by the alleged raid by the 27 Assam Rifles on an NSCN-K camp in Tamenglong district four days ago.

According to the Zeliangrong organisation, it deeply deplores the arrogant behaviour of the 27 AR troops that raided the NSCN-K camp at Rengkekiulong village under Tousem sub-division of Tamenglong district, Manipur around 5 am on September 20. The acts of 27 AR created fear, physical harassment, tensions, and disturbances to the innocent public of the villagers, it added.

"The Assam Rifles and other security forces should respect the IndoNaga Ceasefire Agreement of 2001 that was signed between the Government of India and NSCN-K. With full knowledge of the Ceasefire Agreement, the Assam Rifles crosses its limit and ransacked the designated

Assam to take students on 12-day tour to NASA INFORMATION ing, conduct space experi- to John F Kennedy Space

Guwahati, September 23 (pti): Assam government will take 10 meritorious students on a 12-day educational visit to the US-based National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

The 'Deba Kumar Bora Memorial NASA Visit 2014' will sponsor visits of first three toppers of 10th standard and first position holder of 12th standard in each of Arts, Science and Commerce streams, an official release said.

"Our vision is to groom a well-educated and a creative generation of students who would be the leaders of tomorrow in all walks of life including the world of science and technology," it added.

The third edition of the annual visit, which was started in 2012, to NASA next month will provide unique opportunity for the students as they would get exposure to the advances in space science and astronomy.

"They would understand various aspects of space and astronomy in simulated environment, including astronaut train-

ments with NASA educators, understand space shuttle mission control, meet NASA scientists and directly interact with the NASA astronauts and generate awareness about their world and the challenges of space exploration, including the 'unknown'," the release said.

During the tour, the students would be taken

Centre, University of Florida, AT&T Bell laboratory, Benz manufacturing factory, and visit Washington and New York cities.

"Assam is perhaps the pioneer in the country where the students are being taken on such a unique, once in a lifetime educational tour to NASA under complete government funding," the statement said.

This is to inform that the General Session of Viswema Gazetted Officers Krotho (VGOK) will be held at Heritage, Kisama on 27th September, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. All the members are requested to attend the session without fail.

(OREDER-V, RULE-1, 5, 20)

In The Court of Shri.Inalo Zhimomi, Civil Judge (Sr.Div) Dimapur, Nagaland Suit No. : Civil Suit-116/14 Plaintiff : Smti.Zubeni Odyuo Defendants : Shri.K.Aaron Quinker To, Shri.K.Aaron Quinker,S/o-Shri.N.Kiuthrong Yimchunger, Chairman & C.E.O., M/S.Queensberry Foundation Longtoker Village, Tuensang, P/Add-Adm. Office. ANA-KI Building, Khermahal, Opp.NST. Office, Dimapur.

Whereas plaintiff instituted a suit against you.

You are hereby summoned to appear before the Court in person or by pleader duly instructed and able to answer all material questions relating to the suit on 28-10-2014 at 10:00 a.m. without fail.

Take notice that in default of your appearance on the date mentioned the suit will be heard and determined in your absence.

Given under my hand and the seal of the court 22nd day of Sept, 2014.

Civil Judge (Senior Division) Dimapur: Nagaland

en the people of Tousem sub-division of Tamenglong district, Manipur but the AR troops break all ground rules of Ceasefire Agreement and attacked the NSCN-K’s camp surprisingly. The security forces are expecting a pat on the shoulder from the Government of India, but their services are unaccounted and properly not recognized, this is how the grievances and the welfare of the armed forces in India are not fully addressed and the status of the security personnel are sideline in the society. The ZB-M recalled that after the Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of India and NSCN-K was signed in 2001, peaceful atmosphere has prevailed in Zeliangrong and Naga inhabited areas. The people expect and hope that the current talks between the Government of India and Naga groups will bring about a permanent peaceful solution to the protracted Naga issue, it added.

The ZB-M then said witnessing the arrogant acts of security forces, the civil society and Zeliangrong people feel apprehensive that the Ceasefire truce may break again as before and return the gross violation of human rights, bloodshed, violence and militarization in Zeliangrong’s land. "The Zeliangrong Baudi, Manipur and its frontal organizations are forced to term the acts of 27 Assam Rifles as provocative, unnecessarily creating tensions and violation of human rights. We urge the Government of India and its security forces to respect the human rights of the people by suspending unnecessary operation in our inhabited areas. If the security forces continue to harass and create unnecessary disturbances, we will not be mere spectators. We will be forced to take necessary democratic agitation against the security forces," Zeliangrong Baudi, Manipur warned.

To, Dr. Bendangtoshi/Mrs. Temsunaro Sub: - Nur Kibong Palatsü Ken-o Temeim Lenir Longsa aser Akhoya Putu (Join Court) ajanga nur kibong palatsü atema ken-o rajemtsu yamai agutsür.

Taoba mapang Longsa/Akhoya Putu Joint Court ajanga palatsü ken-o jembitsu mechi 6/8/2014, 19/8/2014 aser 23/09/2014, anogotem nung Joint Court-i jaok. Saka Mrs.Temsunaro-i kodanga arua metentet,saka ano yimteni (Joint Court) yimli aguja 27/9/2014 , 10:00 ako nung Longsa Salang (Joint Court) nung jembitsu: pa/la marutetsusa akumyonga ken-o tatem kuma panuji-sa bendangtsü.

Anungji mapang shidak nung arutsu metetdaktsur.

President VGOK

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTOARTE OF INDUSTRIES & COMMERCE ADVERTISEMENT

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camp of NSCN-K that led to unnecessary physical harassments, tortured and threatened the peaceful atmosphere of the surrounding areas," the ZB-M said.

According to the ZB-M, though AR troops may think their actions are to maintain peace and harmony in the country but it has been created lots of problems and trust deficit with the civilian populace prevail.

"The security forces highhanded actions of so called counter-insurgency policy have been brought counterproductive of breeding the anti-national groups. In order to escape from mental harassment and tortured by security forces, the semiliterates, and unemployed youths are forced to join into the anti-social organizations," the Zeliangrong Baudi, Manipur said.

According to ZB, Manipur, it was learned that NSCN-K cadres were not active and no sign of moving around with arms to threat-

Dated Kohima, the th Sept ,2014

NO.IND/EXH-PUB/IITF/2/93 (Vol- IV): Interested Entrepreneurs those who are expert on Indigenous Local Produce are herby invited for participation during the India International Trade Fair at Pragati Madian, New Delhi to be held from 14th to 27th Nov. 2014. The theme for the year 2014 is “Women Entrepreneurs” and hence preference will be given to women participants. Stall will be allotted to the selected entrepreneurs by the Selection Committee of the department.

No fee will be charge for the stall, no TA/DA will be paid to the participants.

Application in plain paper with unit name, communication address, contact no. and items to be displayed may be submitted to the Directorate of Industries & Commerce (Exh.Branch) Nagaland, Kohima on or before 10th Oct.2014. All the display items will be screened out by the Committee for all participant and strictly adhere to the selected items.

Sd/(Keneilel Angami) Director of Industries & Commerce

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We the affected individuals of the fire outrage caused at Hazi Park area on 19th September 2014, would like to convey our sincere thanks to all the individuals and organizations who selflessly extended their helping hands in the damage control and rescue operations.

Words are just falling short in expressing our heartfelt gratitude to all.

Special thanks to :1. The Deputy Commissioner, SDO (Civil) & the District Administration, Dimapur 2. The Superintendent of Police, Additional SP, DSP (Reserve), OC (East), OC (SubUrban) & Police Department.

3. The Officer in charge & Staffs of Fire Service Station, Dimapur 4. CRPF Commandant and his team 5. 29 Assam Rifles 6. Army Supply Depot (ASC) 7. Chumukedima Fire Service station 8. Airport Authority of India 9. Khatkhati/Bokajan Fire Brigade 10. Dimapur Municipal Council.

11. G.S. Road Welfare Committee 12. Hazipark Welfare Committee 13. Old Daily Market Welfare Committee.

Our special words of thankfulness also goes to all the para military jawans, individuals, friends, family members, labourers, Auto drivers and all other individuals and organizations for their prayers and untiring assistance in the entire operation.

Sincerely Affected individuals of the fire outrage.

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hatever the differences, the Labour and the Conservative party along with the other smaller parties in Britain should have looked at the bigger picture. Sir Winston Churchill played a larger than life pivotal role in the Second World War to defeat Nazism.

He surely could not have invested the time and efforts as he himself and his party would have liked and wanted in the General Election of 1945. But prudence and insight should have dictated the Britons to bring Churchill back to power.

Had some weak-kneed personality been the Premier of Britain at that time, we may not be incorrect to safely assume that Britain would have capitulated even after only a week of intense continuous bombing by the German Air Force. The morale of the general British public and her armed forces were at an all time low as wave after wave of death and destruction flattened city after city with London taking the brunt of the German air superiority. But Churchill stayed put. He dived and delved deep into the unknown, not bothering about his future but only

First time in India

about the future of his people and country. As much as London was being bombed, that much was Churchill’s life giving, moral boosting and inspiring speeches being aired and heard through transistor radios big and small by Britons of all walks of life. He was there personally too in every possible situations and infact was the main interlocutor from among and in between the Allied leaders.

It was not Sir Winston Churchill who lost when his Conservative Party was defeated by the Labour Party in the General election of 1945.

It was Great Britain that lost in the world arena. It marked the beginning of the end of Britain as the superpower of the world.

To bring a long story short, Britain would have been in America’s shoe today and the ‘iron curtain’ which Churchill nicknamed Soviet Russia would not have descended across the European continent as it did. Had Churchill retained power in 1945 he would have very legitimately kept for Britain the Lion’s share of all and everything

KNK condemns

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he Lotha Ngullie clan of the Naga family in our humble endeavor to serve the interest of the Naga people through the state Government of Nagaland in the developmental programs particularly through the Works & Housing Department has contributed one of their technocrat, Er Chanbemo Ngullie in the early 80’.He has proved his efficiency and capability and today holds the Office of the Chief Engineer (Housing). In the process of discharging his responsibilities with dedication and diligently, we the family members are painfully hurt and discontented by the threat letter issued by one VK Sumi (‘designation not mentioned’) on 21.09.2014 and received on 22.09.2014 at 5:20P.M. The letter served to him is malevolent and premeditated with ill- intention.

The KNK while out rightly condemning such a threat to our member hereby inform VK Sumi that he shall be held solely and personally responsible in any case of any untoward incident of harm befalling upon Er Chanbemo Ngullie.

Dr P Ngullie Chairman, KNK Jail Colony, Kohima Vanthungo Ngullie General Secretary, KNK Lerie Colony, Kohima

negotiable post war besides the coverings for the damages that Britain endured. Let me not go about beating around the bush but straight to the point. We are faced with a similar situation here in Nagaland as well.

At this point of time we cannot afford to make a mistake. We must not let history repeat here in our Nagaland. We cannot afford or even risk to throw away the gains the DAN government has made in clearly projecting the identity of we Nagas to both the national and the international political arena and more importantly to their collective conscience. We Nagas are but just a drop in an ocean of humanity from even within the geographical boundary of the Indian nation. A show of disunity just for the sake of a localized political advantage can prove to be too costly for the Nagas. It can turn out to be a historical blunder, a term used

by Late Jyoti Basu the former Chief Minister of West Bengal, to describe the lost opportunity when the CPI(M) politburo disallowed him from becom-

ing the first and maybe the last Leftist Prime Minister of India.

At this point of time Nagas have to be magnanimous and display the ‘united colors of Nagaland’ and God forbid not otherwise. Knowingly earning a very expensive infamy is not something which many will find palatable. Nagas, and more pointedly the people who hosted the Second World War in Nagaland should be knowing better.

Good sense must prevail and the same reciprocated.

Actually it is indeed sad that in Nagaland we, more often than not, do not leave either room or options for our leaders to work upon or maneuver.

The attitude has become more or less “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” And the alternatives suggested are either impractical or downright impossible at that point of time.

It helps nobody but only in leaving a lingering bad taste in the mouth. It is more or less like that televised national news channel interview with that Kashmiri Hurriaht leader Yasin Malik not long after he and his cronies

people. One never knows. It might be just the tip of the iceberg. It also raises some food for thought. Is two individuals consummating their love before marriage the only criteria for expulsion for a period of time from the register? I do not know. But here we have no less a sin if not more.

On the positive side, look at how things and events are shaping up, all for the common good. We the public are not blind to it and in fact very happy for it. When all the other Governors have fallen by the wayside, our respected and revered figure Dr S.C Jamir still remains walking tall. Is this not unity in motion! The NPF, the Congress and the BJP, all three coming together for the greater good, is this not God in motion!

It is for the first time ever in India where a super strong regional party (led and nurtured by the Superlast NPF President Dr. Surhozelie and the Superglue Neiphiu Rio), and the two principal national parties the Congress and the BJP, all three coming together for the greater

good. Is this not divine intervention? This is definitely the cry of the Book of Ecclesiastes chapter 3. Yes, praise God for this and lets keep praying and thanking. Everybody cannot speak, and as such, from them “thank you” the three.

Lastly, we Nagas are not hypocrites and must not be. We do not change the tune of our hymns just because our instruments are a little off tune. We have been led and are led by leaders who dives into the unknown to save the unknown.

Just as sweet Jesus has shown the way, we too in the least can atleast try to imitate Him. N.B The old superglue feviquick from the brand name ‘Pidilite’ might have lost a bit of its potency lately but the same company is now retailing the same glue much, much more potent and efficient for any type of surfaces by the name of ‘Flex Kwik’. It comes in a bigger, rectangular plastic bottle with a long cylindrical crane neck accompanied with a needle cap. Earlier you could use it just once. But now with the needle cap you wouldn’t ask for anything better.

Benito Z. Swu

Quo Vadis Technical Education Department

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he sordid saga of the innocent and hapless students in hands of the Technical Education Department, Nagaland seems to have no ending.

The drama started from the Notification of the Department dated 11th December 2013, which stated, quote, during 2014 there shall be no State JEE. Selection of students for State reserved seats in Under Graduate Engineering and MBBS and allied courses will be on the basis of JEE ( main ) and All India Pre Medical Test ( AIPMT)respectively to be conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). It is felt that by sitting for one examination students will be benefited by becoming eligible for admission to national level institutes such as IITS, NITS, IIITS, etc. as well as State reserved seats and not having to appear multiple examinations unquote. Surprisingly, this very important Notification was not even endorsed to State Common Selection Board Members unlike the much touted “Meeting Minutes of 10th December 2010 “ which was purportedly send to all Department HODs, Government of Nagaland “for strict compliance”. Thereafter, the Department issued Guidelines for Selection to Nagaland State Quota Seats in Medical and Allied Courses AIPMT 2014. The instruction in General Information (viii) reads ‘ Applicants MUST NOT indicate preferences in those branches of studies for which they are not interested. Once preferences are indicated by the applicants and if selected against any of the preferences, the candidates must accept the nominations. If not, the candidate will be debarred from sitting in the AIPMT from the following year This step has been necessitated to discourage the uninterested students from spoiling the chances of other candidates who may like

to pursue other branches of study.

On the 4th May, 2014 students from Nagaland took the AIPMT along with the rest of the country.

Through a letter NO./TECH-A/6/2011.

Dated nil July 2014, the Director of Technical Education on the recommendation of the Common Selection Board issued provisional selection of students for undergoing studies in various MBBS and allied degrees through AIPMT. A list of 46 students for MBBS, 10 for BDS, 11 BvSc, 30 BSc Agri, 10 BSc. Nursing , 3 BSc Horti, 1 BAMS, 1 BSc Fishery, 5 B. Pharm, 2 BHMS, 3 BSc MLT and 1 Home Science were shown as selected. A footnote which said “As per AIPMT results declared by CBSE, only one candidate has secured the minimum eligible percentage of 40 % as stipulated by the MCI for admission to MBBS course. The State Government is actively pursuing the matter with the GOI for relaxing the qualifying percentage, so that all candidates selected for MBBS course may be given admission. However, till such time the GOI agrees to our request, selection of MBBS candidates remains purely provisional”.

To the utter shock and dismay of many proud and happy students, there came out another Order from the Technical Education Director on the 23rd July, 2014, calling the attention of All AIPMT 2014 appeared candidates from Nagaland, and to inform “ since none of the bona fide candidates who had appeared in AIPMT 2014 could secure the minimum qualifying marks of 40% as required by the Medical Council of India for admission to MBBS & BDS courses, the Government of Nagaland has decided to conduct Nagaland State Pre Medical Test (NSPMT) on the 9th August, 2014”. Amongst 5 conditions, ii) says AIPMT 2014 candidates who have already accepted and taken their nomination letters for

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hijacked a boat carrying provisions, courtesy; the Congress party, for the flood victims. Inspite of hard solid video and audio evidence, the interviewer was directed to either get in touch with the police station up there somewhere in Kashmir or to pay a visit to a psychiatrist.

And kept repeating it, stubborn and emotionless. Shame.

And we too are many a times even worse than that. Is it not so when, right or wrong, the judiciary comes under the scanner! It is in itself a big letdown but to be conclusively proved to be involved in a crime of such proportion where an unknown innocent person is subjected to such harassment of unknown quantum just for some monetary consideration takes the cake. It is the height. Does the fact that the victims are not our own but unknown from other states justify the crime to be less severe? Not just an SIT for the Zunheboto judigate but another extra special SIT for all the districts of the state must be set up too, and its step by step progress report made known to the

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any other allied courses like BSc Agri, BVSc, BSc Horti etc. will not be eligible to take the NSPMT 2014. Condition iv) also said candidates securing less than 40% marks in the NSPMT will not be eligible for nomination to MBBS/BDS seats.

This letter clearly is in total contravention to the Notification dated 11thDecember, 2014 by the Commissioner & Secretary of the Technical Education Department which said that students will not sit in multiple exams. This letter of the Director also seems to have made null and void the provisional selection of the Common Selection Board of dated nil July, 2014 where in the footnote clear mention of the State Government’s active pursuance to the GOI for relaxing the qualifying percentage so that all candidates selected for MBBS course may be given admission is stated. What was the reply of the GOI to the request of the government is not known to public, but what is known is that the inconsistent and heartless acts of the Department bordering on Muhammad Bin Tuglaq’s endless shifting of his capital which brought about his inevitable end seems to be eminent. It is now in public knowledge that NSPMT did not bring the desired results. None could attain 40% as required by Medical Council of India. But the Technical Education Department has come out with its list of students for MBBS &BDS purportedly based on 60% AIPMT & 40% NSPMT. What utter nonsense!!! When the Department through its 11th December, 2013 Notification has already stated that students will not appear for multiple exams which include allied courses also, where is the Notification superseding the latest government Order? If there is no Corrigendum to that effect, with what authority the Department decided to conduct the NSPMT? More serious question is with what Government executive order the rest of the stu-

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dents who were selected for other allied courses barred from appearing for NSPMT? How did the Government Notification dated 11th December, 2013 bifurcated into two separate entities? i.e. one criteria for MBBS/BDS and the other for Allied courses, when all the students fulfilling uniform eligibility criteria appeared AIPMT on 4th May, 2014, under the same norms and conditions ?The most foulest act of the Department of Technical Education was allowing selected students who had “already accepted and taken their nomination letters for any other allied courses” were made to take the NSPMT 2014, most notably, serial no.185 roll no. 41199, who had already accepted and taken nomination letter for B.Sc Horticulture in Dr. Y.S. Parmar University of Forestry & Horticulture, Solan, and whom the whole State had stood for, for “justice and fairness” was allowed to sit in the exam. Was the same justice and fairness extended to hundreds of deserving Naga students whose aspiration to become Medical professionals were cruelly shut out by one stroke of a defective and biased Government order? The Government of Nagaland should wake up from its deep slumber and conduct an Enquiry at an early date so that its citizens will have faith in the Government. No one no matter how powerful is above the law. The future of our next generation cannot and must not be gambled away so cheaply and criminally. Meanwhile, it is demanded that the so called selection list brought out furtively by the Technical Education Department should be put on hold.

People will no longer tolerate the undemocratic, biased and clandestine activities of the Technical Education Department!!! We demand and deserve an answer and fast!!!

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'No payment without quality work' Our Correspondent

Kohima | September 23

Minister for PWD (Roads & Bridges) Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu today called upon the Executive Engineers of the department to release payment only after the completion of the road projects with quality work.

Stating that the government is releasing the bills from today onwards, he asked the Executive Engineers not to make payment until unless they verified and found satisfactory. He also called upon the engineers to inspect the ongoing projects on frequent manner for the successful execution of the road projects in the state. “A time has come where PWD department should deliver good roads to the people of the state”, added Azo. Speaking at the de-

Roads & Bridges minister Azo with T C Sangtam and D Mero during the departmental review meeting in Kohima on September 23. (Morung Photo)

partmental review meeting here this morning, the minister said the people have high expectation on the government and the PWD department to have a good road in the state.

“They (People) also deserve good roads. Who can deliver good roads, if not PWD whose department?” the minister questioned and urged upon the engineers to pull up their socks and belt to deliver good roads to the people.

Admitting that it’s a “shame” for department as

it could not even give 10-20 km stretches of good road within 51 years of the statehood, the minister questioned “Who is responsible?” “I am not going to accuse my predecessor.

I am not going to accuse anybody, any engineer, but the fact remain is we fail to deliver quality work,” Azo said. He asserted that, had there been quality work in the past, the work load of the department would have been much lesser today.

Azo said the department has been spending a lot of

money for maintenance of the roads “because we failed quality work and that is why we are suffering.”

“PWD department should be an action oriented department”, he said and opined that there should be a “follow- up action” upon any work undertaken by the department.

He said the review meeting aim to check out the previous as well as the ongoing work programme and discuss threadbare on the latest status of the road condition in Nagaland.

“This is one of the most important meetings, because this is where we can check, we can retrospect our previous work programme,” he said adding that such platform will also identify the area of workmanship to deliver quality work.

We are here to take corrective measures, to discuss our grievances, he said.

Azo also said such type of review meeting will be held from time to time and SDOs and JEs will also be called in the forthcoming meetings.

The day-long meeting touched on various road works be it under state plan, NABARD, NLCPR etc.

Earlier, introductory note was given by Roads &Bridge chief engineer D. Mero. Commissioner & secretary for roads & bridge T.C. Sangtam also spoke on the occasion.

5 Don’t withdraw NAP from disputed area, urges AKK Wednesday

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Dimapur, September 23 (mexN): The Aghunaqa Kukami Kuqhakulu (GBs Union), representing thirty eight villages under Niuland sub division, Dimapur, has urged the Nagaland state government not to withdraw the Nagaland Armed Police (NAP) from the disputed area along the Assam Nagaland border.

A press note from the AKK further censured the Assam Chief Minister’s recent statement calling for withdrawal of NAP personnel stationed at the Assam Nagaland border area. The AKK lamented that despite several agreements signed between the two states regarding the border issue, “the Assam government had never obliged to the said agree-

ment but deployed more Assam Police at the border area even after signing the said agreement.” “This can be substantiated as a living witness by the people living under the dispute belt at the sector,” it added.

The AKK informed that the Nagaland state government had obliged the agreement “in letter and spirit” and had withdrawn all its armed forces within the disputed area, “paving way for peaceful co existence in the border area.” It further censured the “policy of the Assam government”, who it alleged has “always encouraged and provided logical support to Bangladeshi immigrants and Adivasis to settle at the border belt.”

The AKK clarified that the recent “conflict is not a

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border issue between the two states but is an issue between the tenants and the landowner.” It further said that the Nagas have “always maintained a relationship with the Assamese keeping in mind the age old relationship between the Ahoms and Nagas.” However, it lamented that “due to some vested interest politicians of Assam, the communal clashes occurred every now and then between the two states in the border areas.

The AKK, as such, called upon the Nagaland state government not to withdraw NAP personnel, “unless the Assam government withdraws all its armed police from the dispute area.”

This, it stated must be done to “maintain equilibrium between the two states.”

Awareness campaign on aberrant climate condition Dimapur, September 23 (mexN): In order to address the climate variability in some pockets of Dimapur district, KVK Dimapur organized one day input distribution cum awareness campaign at Dhansiripar Village on September 20 under NICRA project.

Z. James Kikon, Subject Matter Specialist(SMS) on Soil Science lauded the

farmers for taking up the National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project seriously and further urged them for strengthening the local institutions and better integration of policies with adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change, according to a press release.

Dr. Anamika Sharma, Programme co-ordinator KVK, Dimapur exhorted the

farmers to upgrade their adaptation and mitigation potentialities to cope with adverse climate change and to make use of the Digital Weather Station installed in the village to reduce losses in farm produce due to aberrant weather conditions.

Kolom Rab,SMS on Plant Breeding advised the farmer to cultivate drought tolerant and short duration varieties so they can cultivate second

crops during Rabi season.

Meanwhile, Dr. Bidyut C. Deka, Joint Director, ICAR, Research complex for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre encouraged the farmers to shift from protected crops like rice and maize to profitable cash crops in the event of drought like situation or late onset of monsoon. He appealed to the farmers to utilize the assets provided under NICRA project judi-

ciously and access other services - irrigation, banking, marketing and crop insurance. Further, he advised the gathering of 61 farmers to focus more on poultry and livestock, fisheries and Rabi season crops like vegetables and oilseed crops making use of the residual moisture in the field and river water as many paddy field are affected by late on- Nagagenous team performs at Little Star Higher Secondary School, Dimapur on Tuesday. set of monsoon.

Nagagenous uses indigenous musical items as their musical instruments. (Morung photo)

ECI designates police as election officials Assessment for Cleanest School Award soon Ladies bag found in car Kohima, September, 23 (Dipr): The Election Department has stated in a Notification that in pursuance of the standing instruction of the Election Commission of India (ECI) as contained vide order No. 434/1/ES02/94MCS dated 24.10.1994 and letter No. 434/1/98/PLN-III 10.01.98 and No.52/2012SDR dated 16.10.2012, the Government of Nagaland has designated DIGP (Kohima Range) and all Police personnel of the District of Kohima includ-

ing Home Guards from the level of the Superintendent of Police down to the level of Constable as Election related officials for the purpose of section 28A of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, with immediate effect till the completion of the ByeElection to the 11-Northern Angami-II A/C. The Notification further stated that the Police Officials stated above who are involved in any way in election related arrange-

ments and perform duties in connection with the Conduct of Bye-Election to 11 Northern Angami-II Assembly Constituency are, by law, Officers of the Election Commission, being deemed to be on deputation to it, and are subject to its control, supervision and discipline, and are answerable to the Election Commission for any acts of Commission or omission on their part while performing any election related duties.

Johnian spelling championship 2014

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The inspection of private and government schools in Kohima for Cleanest School Award under Clean Kohima campaign 2014 will be carried out soon. The campaign began last year to make cleanliness a way of life, especially amongst students, under the aegis of Environment and Sanitation (E&S) committee of Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC).

A press release from NBCC (E&S) Chairman Kuolachalie Seyie and Coordinator, Rev. Phomlee Van has appeal to princi-

pals/ headmasters for cooperation, so the target of achieving a clean Kohima becomes a reality and the message of sanitation as integral to health and dignity of its denizens is conveyed.

The schools would be assessed on criteria like toilet sufficiency and cleanliness, general cleanliness of school and its compound, level of awareness on hygiene and sanitary education through questionnaires, solid and liquid waste management and tidiness of uniform, the release said. The schools with the top ten ratings would be commended with cer-

tificates and those securing first three positions would be given trophies. As previously observed, the institutions which are lagging behind are expected to improve this time, the release stated.

The work undertaken through NBCC Sanitation Committee is in collaboration with churches, Kohima Municipal Council, Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Kohima Village Council, Public Health Engineering Department, Angami Students Union, Kohima Village Youth Organization and State Urban Development Department.

A blue coloured ladies bag containing important documents was found inside a car which was parked at District Hospital Dimapur on September 23. The owner of the bag had mistakenly kept it inside another car which might have appeared similar. Rightful owner has been asked to claim the bag by contacting mobile number 9862833249.

KPC invites entries for its motto and logo Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The Drafting Committee of the Kohima Press Club has invited entries for its motto and logo. This was decided in a committee meeting held today at the KPC office. The best motto and logo selected will be awarded a cash prize of Rs. 5000/while the last date for entries is October 25. The entries along with full address and contact number may be addressed to- The Convenor/Secretary, Drafting Committee, Kohima Press Club and kept at the Morung Express Office, Kohima or emailed to sumichi@rediffmail.com or ritakrocha@yahoo.com. For more details, one may contact the Convenor, H. Chishi at 9436011581 or the Secretary, Rita Krocha at 9856912524.

NGSEF appeals State Govt to KLH defends its member review Retirement Act 2009

Winner of Johnian Spelling Championship 2014 with teachers and others.

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The annual Johnian Spelling Championship of St. John’s School Kohima was held on September 20 last under the theme “Quest for Excellence.” Ramdibe

R. Hau of Class VI was declared the Johnian Spelling Master 2014 and won the most covetous Reiphinyii Sekhose Ever Rolling Memorial Trophy. The award also carried citation certificate and scholarship

The Watchman decries murders Demand ‘just punishment’ for the criminals Dimapur,September 23 (mexN): The Watchman Team has condemned the murder of the 19 year old student near Merapani and the rape and murder of a minor girl at Amaluma Village.

In a press note, the Watchmen said, there were many instances of criminal and offenders being released early without serving their prison term fully. In this context, “We recommend judiciary and judges to not be swayed in their judgments or be moved by emotional appeals or by bribes” the press note stated. Further, it voice out its concerns over the practice of lawyer using their office and authority to bailouts of criminals “who are not getting their just punishment or time

in prison”. Requesting the “keepers of law” to dispense their duty “rightfully” it asserted that, the society stands to benefits if the criminals are kept behind the bar instead of waiting for “next victim” due to lenient punishment.

Meanwhile, regarding the “suffering of Nagas in Ralan area”, it urged the Naga Public to heed Pastor Yanbemo of the Lotha Baptist Church and his appeals for help. Further, it requested the State Government, NBCC and NCRC to visit the site and give necessary assistance.

“If we can help Kashmiris living more 2000 kms away,surely we can give more than a helping hand to our own”, it added.

for the year 2015. This intellectual pursuit was held under the aegis of English Department and was witnessed by parents, invitees, students and teachers, a release received here said today.

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): Stating that the Retirement from Public Service Act 2009 is costing the state exchequer as well as affecting the functioning of good governance, the Nagaland Government Senior Employees’ Forum (NGSEF) on September 22, appealed the Government of Nagaland to review and partially amend the “Retirement” from Public Service Act 2009. Pausiu Zeliang, Vice President of NGSEF stated that, Nagaland is the only state in India which is still implementing both “35 years length of service and 60 years Superannuation

age” under the Act and further asserted that the retirement pattern should be at all India level of 60 years of superannuation. “The Act has created a vacuum where recruitment and retirement are occurring on a massive scale,” said Zeliang.

T Lipok Jamir, Chairman of NGSEF mentioned that, the forum has also consulted NSF and NMA for the amendment of the Act. “Many offices are facing difficulties and an amendment will benefit all employees”, he added.

Stating that the “60 years retirement” is a false hope, R Angami, Adviser to

NGSEF affirmed that most employees are retiring at their early fifties and as a result many departments are facing difficulty due to lack of experience.

It further added that, the Forum was initiated not to confront the government but to appeal for a review for the benefit of all Nagaland employees and the State as it is adversely affecting the state exchequer.

Since the implementation of the Act, approximately 12,000 employees have retired from their services. A representation has already been submitted to the Chief Minister urging for a review of the Act.

First Batch trainees graduates from EA

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The graduation day of the 1st batch of trainees of the Entrepreneurs Associates (EA)’s Basic Entrepreneurial Skill Training (B.E.S.T) program for the year 2014 was held at the EA Training and Research Centre, Kohima on September 22. B.E.S.T is a training program on the “basics of entrepreneurship” taught by successful first generation entrepreneurs. The second batch of trainees under DUDA is also currently underway.

Gracing the occasion as a chief a special guest the EA Team Leader, Gopen Moses encouraged the graduates to work hard, be honest and be exemplary entrepreneurs and give tips on forwarding new and untapped entrepre-

Kohima, September 23 (mexN): The Kohima Lotha Hoho (KLH) had expressed their pain and anguish over the threat issued to one of its “bonafide members”, Chanbemo Ngullie, the Chief Engineer, (Housing), Government of Nagaland by V K Sumi. In a press note, KLH Chairman, Nchumbemo Tungoe & Secretary Thunglamo Ovung, asserted that the threat letter served to the Chief Engineer was “pre-meditated” with ill intention and out rightly condemned the action. It further warned that, if any untoward incident or harm befalls upon the Chief Engineer, (Housing), the KLH will hold V K Sumi “solely and personally responsible”

Chümukedima village council notifies ChÜmuKeDima, September 23 (mexN): The Chümukedima Village Council (CVC) today informed all the plot holders under Chümukidema jurisdiction to register their land with the council. In a press note, CVC Chairman, Razouvotuo Chatsu and CVC Secretary Mhasiletuo stated that, the registration process was supposed to be completed September 26, but an extension of one weeks grace period from October 6-10 have been made at the request of the plot holders. Therefore, it requested all the plot holders under Chümukedima Village to register on that period as no further registration will be entertained by the CVC Office after the expiry of the grace period. The CVC further informed that, all Land Registration/Patta issued prior to June 2, 2014 shall be “deemed cancelled or invalid” and any individual, institutions, organisation etc to entertaining such “deeds” will be doing so at their own risk.,

BLOs training on electoral revision Dimapur, September 23 (mexN): In connection with the summary revision of electoral role, there will be a training of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) under Dimapur district. A press note from Assistant Election Officer, Dimapur R Toshi Aier informed that the schedule for the training will be as follows: BLOs of 1 DMR I & 3 DMR III and BLOs of 2 DMR II on September 24 and 25 respectively at the DC Conference Hall, Dimapur; BLOs of 4 GHSY I AC at on September 24 at Town Hall Chümukedima; and BLOS of 5 GHSY II AC on September 24 at DB Court ADC office, Medziphima. All the training will start at 11 am added the release and all the BLOs are directed to compulsorily attend the training without fail

Excise Mobile Squad ‘scouts’ restro-lounges neurial avenues.

EA CEO, Neichute Doulo also exhorted the trainees and handed out the cash incentives earned by them through the practical selling assignments

while Neingulie Nakhro, a first generation entrepreneur and key member of EA handed out their certificates.

The trainees shared their personal experiences

and also expressed their gratitude to EA for the knowledge acquired during the two month long training. The program was chaired by in-house trainer.

Susan James.

Dimapur, September 23 (mexN): With the objective of checking and curbing illegal sale of alcohol, an Excise Squad party lead by Inspectors Kakiho, Hevito, Lichumse raided raided restuarants and lounges in Dimapur on September 22. According to Ghokiho Yeptho, Superintendent of Excise (Mobile Squad), a bottle of 175 bottles of assorted liquor were seized and seven people were charged and penalised under the NLTP Act' 89.

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Prohibition: A Paradigm Shift From a prohibition paradigm to a prevention & treatment paradigm

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he present discourse on the Prohibition issue in Nagaland state seems to be polarizing and hardening the different views into entrenched positions. This has increased social divide and reduced the space to identify shared concern and common ground. It has delayed the process of exploring constructive dialogical solutions to the question of Prohibition. Eventually, no one benefits from the present discourse – except perhaps, the bootleggers – which ironically only strengthens the status quo.

The Prohibition paradigm is one that is fuelled by messages that deters an honest dialogue from taking place. For instance, most people are still very much in the original prohibitionist paradigm that passes judgments like: Alcohol is bad; Alcohol should be illegal and forbidden; and Alcoholics are sinners. It also is predicated on the assumption that by criminalizing supply and marginalizing users, the demand will dry up and we will have an Alcohol-free Nagaland. However, after 25 years since its introduction, the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act of 1989 remains ineffective as it lacks the ability to seriously address the problem.

The limitation of Prohibition paradigm in Nagaland State is constantly exposed in one form or the other by its geography, culture and politics. Furthermore, the proponents of Prohibition have not adequately addressed the basic principle of natural law - where there is demand, there will be supply – after all demand creates supply. The interplay of all these diverse yet inter-related elements have rendered prohibition ineffective, and, simultaneously, the unwillingness to acknowledge this crucial historical fact has had devastating consequences on many lives.

Without betraying the spirit and the context of why prohibition came into Nagaland a shift away from the failed Prohibition paradigm could provide a turning point in how Nagaland looks at the alcohol problem. The shifts that took place in the global campaign against tobacco products provide insightful lessons in this regard. There is an urgency to make a paradigm shift towards developing a prevention and treatment paradigm that is guided by democratic values and not by theocratic dogma.

This involves emphasizing public health, de-emphasizing moral judgments which create guilt or fear of public condemnation and decriminalizing what may otherwise be legally acceptable.

The paradigm of prevention and treatment allows the emergence of a public health framework by reducing the punitive and criminalizing framework. This paradigm encourages issues around prohibition to be discussed and addressed freely and openly in the public realm without the fear of public humiliation or societal contempt, which is intimately tied to the Prohibition paradigm. The objective of the prevention and treatment paradigm is to educate the people, and it will eventually address the question of demand, thereby reducing the supply.

In this way, the proponents of the Prohibition paradigm in Nagaland can by-large achieve their core objectives by adopting a more realistic and non-judgmental paradigm in their fight against alcohol. The question is whether they have the courage to make the paradigm shift after living under the failed Prohibition paradigm for the past 25 years.

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Research fuels e-cigarette debate

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he fierce debate over whether e-cigarettes can help people quit smoking took another twist on Monday as a research paper on their use by cancer patients was criticized as flawed.

The study of cancer patients who smoke found that those using e-cigarettes as well as tobacco cigarettes were more nicotine dependent and equally or less likely to have quit than those who didn't use e-cigarettes. The scientists behind the research, which was published online in Cancer, the journal of the American Cancer Society, said their results raised doubts about whether e-cigarettes had any benefit in helping cancer patients to give up smoking. But that conclusion was questioned by other tobacco and addiction researchers, who said the selection of patients for the study had given it an inherent bias.

The uptake of e-cigarettes, which use battery-powered cartridges to produce a nicotine-laced vapor for the "smoker" to inhale, has rocketed in the past two years, but there is fierce debate about their potential risks and benefits. Because they are new, there is a lack of long-term scientific evidence on their safety. Some experts fear they could lead to nicotine addiction and be a gateway to tobacco smoking, while others say they have enormous potential to help millions of smokers around the world to quit.

What few studies there are give a mixed picture, with some concluding that e-cigarettes can help people give up a deadly tobacco habit, while others suggest they may carry health risks of their own.

A World Health Organization (WHO) report last month called for stiff regulation of e-cigarettes as well as bans on indoor use, advertising and sales to minors. But that report itself was also criticized by experts who said it contained errors, misinterpretations and misrepresentations.

For the Cancer journal study, researchers led by Jamie Ostroff of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City studied 1,074 cancer patients who smoked and who were enrolled between 2012 and 2013 in a tobacco treatment program at a cancer center. They found a three-fold increase in e-cigarette use from 2012 to 2013 - rising from 10.6 percent to 38.5 percent.

At enrolment onto the program, the researchers' analysis found, the e-cigarette users were more nicotine dependent than non-users, had more prior quit attempts, and were more likely to be diagnosed with lung or head and neck cancers. By the end of the study period, the researchers said, e-cigarette users were just as likely as non-users of e-cigarettes to be smoking.

But Robert West, director of tobacco research at University College London, said the study was not able to assess whether or not for cancer patients who smoke using an e-cigarette to try and quit is beneficial "because the sample could consist of e-cigarette users who had already failed in a quit attempt, so all those who would have succeeded already would be ruled out".

Peter Hajek, director of the Tobacco Dependence Research Unit at Queen Mary, University of London, agreed that the study's data did not justify the conclusions.

"The authors followed up smokers who tried e-cigarettes but did not stop smoking, and excluded smokers who tried e-cigarettes and stopped smoking," he said. "Like smokers who fail with any method, these were highly dependent smokers who found quitting difficult. The authors concluded that e-cigarette (use) was not helpful, but that would be true for any treatment however effective if only treatment failures were evaluated."

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C O M M E N T A R Y

Dipti Bhatnagar

Climate summit, climate justice The climate summit called by the United Nations secretarygeneral, Ban Ki-Moon, will not bring the commitments needed to avert global chaos.

Only popular mobilisation for climate justice can do that

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n Sunday, from New York to Kathmandu to London to Delhi to Amsterdam, hundreds of thousands of citizens and environmental activists took to the streets. In advance of today’s climate summit at the United Nations, they joined the People’s Climate March, the largest climate action in history, endorsed by more than 1,200 organisations representing 100 million people worldwide.

The voices of those hardest hit by climate change must be heard. At the heart of every climate solution must be an impetus urgently to transform energy and food systems and the way forests are managed, and to build the power of people everywhere to take action.

The numbers and science are clear. As a planet and a civilisation, we cannot let average global temperature rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.

The voluntary pledges by governments and business at the summit are laughable in the face of the climate crisis. Non-binding pledges are an insult to the hundreds of thousands of people who are losing their lives and livelihoods due to climate change, including extreme weather events, more floods and droughts and failing agriculture. What we need are ambitious, equitable, science-based and, most importantly, binding emissions-reduction targets for developed countries.

Undue corporate influence Yet developed countries’ leaders are neglecting their responsibility to prevent climate catastrophe.

Their priorities are increasingly driven by the narrow economic interests of wealthy elites, the fossil-fuel industry and multinational corporations. They are listening to the polluters instead of the people.

The summit for business held on the eve of the climate summit highlighted the undue corporate influence at the UN. Dirty energy companies and other polluters and their financiers are co-opting democratic governments and the UN, where the voices of ordinary people should be heard.

Business used this year's UN Private Sector Forum on “a fair valuation” of carbon to profit even more from carbon trading and offsetting, which have proven false solutions to the climate crisis. Carbon trading’s basic premise is that polluters can pay someone else to soak up their pollution, so they don’t have to do any work to reduce it. It isn’t working to reduce emissions—it's only making profits for elites while further dispossessing vulnerable communities in the developing world of land and other resources.

Similarly, the “climate smart agriculture” initiative, yet another push for offsetting being launched at the summit, is a new empty phrase used to greenwash the worst practices of industrial agriculture; synthetic fertilisers, industrial meat production and genetically modified crops. The proponents of this dangerous solution—the corporations which stand to benefit and the World Bank, among others—are seeking to turn the carbon in farmers' fields into carbon credits. It would be another excuse to grab lands and resources from communities, as has already been happening in other multi-billion-dollar carbon-credit schemes.

Real solutions The list of false solutions to climate change is long and includes nuclear energy, mega-dams, natural gas, “clean coal”, carbon capture and storage, genetically modified organisms, agro-fuels, carbon trading, offsetting and mechanisms like REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation).

These false fixes distract from the real social and economic changes needed to exit the climate crisis.

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s international leaders gather in New York for a United Nations climate summit, they will be preoccupied with how to tackle the rising rate of carbon emissions. To mitigate the crisis, one measure they are likely to promote is reducing deforestation and planting trees.

A landmark deal to support sustainable forestry was a heralded success story of the last international climate talks, in Warsaw last year. Western nations, including the United States, Britain and Norway, handed over millions of dollars to developing countries to kick-start programs to reduce tropical deforestation. More funds are promised.

Deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of global emissions of carbon dioxide. The assumption is that planting trees and avoiding further deforestation provides a convenient carbon capture and storage facility on the land.

That is the conventional wisdom.

But the conventional wisdom is wrong.

In reality, the cycling of carbon, energy and water between the land and the atmosphere is much more complex.

Considering all the interactions, largescale increases in forest cover can actually make global warming worse.

Of course, this is counterintuitive.

We all learn in school how trees effortlessly perform the marvel of photosynthesis: They take up carbon dioxide from the air and make oxygen. This process provides us with life, food, water, shelter, fiber and soil. The earth’s forests generously mop up about a quarter of the world’s fossil-fuel carbon emissions every year.

So it’s understandable that we’d ex-

Environmental activists rush towards the U.S. Embassy for a rally to coincide with the U.N. Climate Summit in New York by several world leaders including Philippine President Benigno Aquino III Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. The protesters are demanding for payment from major greenhouse gas-emitting countries through deep, drastic and ambitious cuts in their respective countries' GHG emissions and for reparations for their "climate debt." (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

First among these real solutions is the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions at source. This must be agreed through a legally-binding agreement at the UN in line with science and equity.

The way energy is produced, distributed and consumed must also be transformed. Dirty energy is causing climate change and harming workers and communities. Clean, sustainable, community energy fulfils the right for people to have access to energy, to decide and own their sustainable-energy sources and to enjoy sustainable consumption patterns.

Deforestation is a contributor to net carbon emissions and must be stopped. It is mostly driven by industrial agriculture, agro-fuels, excessive meat consumption and unsustainable demand for timber. To stop the destruction of forests, we need public funds to implement community forest management, to tackle deforestation and support communities at the same time.

Current industrial methods of food production and consumption also contribute to carbon emissions, as well as to global food crises and shortages due to mismanagement and waste. The solution is “food sovereignty”, which includes decentralised food production and distribution, and agrarian reform in favour of small-scale, peasant farmers practising agroecological farming, absorbing atmospheric carbon.

Another solution promoted at the People's Climate March is the financial transaction tax (FTT)—a tax on Wall Street also known as the Robin Hood tax. It proposes a tiny tax on trades of stocks, bonds and other financial instruments which would nevertheless generate hundreds of billions of dollars of new revenue annually.

The FTT is supported by Nobel Prize-winning economists and the Pope, among others. It would generate public funds desperately needed to help people around the world transform their energy and food systems. Eleven European countries, including Germany, are establishing a regional Robin Hood tax. France, a member of that coalition, already has one, the revenue from which is used in part to help developing countries address climate change.

is based on a rights-and-equity approach—“climate justice”—which needs much more support to make a difference on a global scale.

The climate crisis is about people and about justice, not just saving cute polar bears. It is about asking why we live in a world which is so unequal. The causes of the climate crisis and sky-high inequality are the same: a “dig, burn, dump economy”.

Richer developed countries, with less than one fifth of the world’s population, are responsible for almost three-quarters of historical greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union and the US alone are responsible for more than half the carbon emissions in the earth’s atmosphere, yet they only have roughly a tenth of the world’s population between them.

By contrast, the poorest 10% of the world’s population has contributed less than 1% of these emissions. Developing countries have contributed least to the causes of climate change—yet they are the most affected.

Industrialised countries must commit to reducing their emissions domestically, without carbon trading, in line with what science and equity demand. The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (the Kyoto convention) clearly states that developed countries have a “historical responsibility” for their carbon emissions. They have accrued a climate debt to developing countries which must be reflected in ambitious emission-reduction targets, as well as technology transfer and financial support for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.

Climate change is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people every year. Most are in the poorest countries of the world, which didn’t do anything to create this crisis in the first place.

From 10 to 18 October, people across the world will be taking co-ordinated actions on energy as part of Reclaim Power. In the coming sequence of official climate-change “Conferences of the Parties” to the convention, world leaders must be held accountable: from the social “pre-COP” in Venezuela through “COP20” in Lima, culminating in the much-hyped “COP21” in Paris in December 2015, where a global agreement is Climate justice supposed to be reached. It will take popular mobilisaThe FTT is an example of a grassroots initiative tion and further successful climate-justice initiatives to which has affected the leaders of some countries. It avoid the worst the climate crisis may bring.

To Save the Planet, Don’t Plant Trees nadine unger NYT pect trees to save us from rising temperatures, but climate science tells a different story. Besides the amount of greenhouse gases in the air, another important switch on the planetary thermostat is how much of the sun’s energy is taken up by the earth’s surface, compared to how much is reflected back to space. The dark color of trees means that they absorb more of the sun’s energy and raise the planet’s surface temperature.

Climate scientists have calculated the effect of increasing forest cover on surface temperature.

Their conclusion is that planting trees in the tropics would lead to cooling, but in colder regions, it would cause warming.

In order to grow food, humans have changed about 50 percent of the earth’s surface area from native forests and grasslands to crops, pasture and wood harvest. Unfortunately, there is no scientific consensus on whether this land use has caused overall global warming or cooling. Since we don’t know that, we can’t reliably predict whether large-

scale forestation would help to control the earth’s rising temperatures.

Worse, trees emit reactive volatile gases that contribute to air pollution and are hazardous to human health.

These emissions are crucial to trees — to protect themselves from environmental stresses like sweltering heat and bug infestations. In summer, the eastern United States is the world’s major hot spot for volatile organic compounds (V.O.C.s) from trees.

As these compounds mix with fossil-fuel pollution from cars and industry, an even more harmful cocktail of airborne toxic chemicals is created. President Ronald Reagan was widely ridiculed in 1981 when he said, “Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.” He was wrong on the science — but less wrong than many assumed.

Chemical reactions involving tree V.O.C.s produce methane and ozone, two powerful greenhouse gases, and form particles that can affect the condensation of clouds. Research by my

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group at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and by other laboratories, suggests that changes in tree V.O.C.s affect the climate on a scale similar to changes in the earth’s surface color and carbon storage capacity.

While trees provide carbon storage, forestry is not a permanent solution because trees and soil also “breathe” — that is, burn oxygen and release carbon dioxide back into the air. Eventually, all of the carbon finds its way back into the atmosphere when trees die or burn.

Moreover, it is a myth that photosynthesis controls the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. Even if all photosynthesis on the planet were shut down, the atmosphere’s oxygen content would change by less than 1 percent.

The Amazon rain forest is often perceived as the lungs of the planet. In fact, almost all the oxygen the Amazon produces during the day remains there and is reabsorbed by the forest at night.

In other words, the Amazon rain forest is a closed system that uses all its own oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Planting trees and avoiding deforestation do offer unambiguous benefits to biodiversity and many forms of life. But relying on forestry to slow or reverse global warming is another matter entirely.

The science says that spending precious dollars for climate change mitigation on forestry is high-risk: We don’t know that it would cool the planet, and we have good reason to fear it might have precisely the opposite effect. More funding for forestry might seem like a tempting easy win for the world leaders at the United Nations, but it’s a bad bet.

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7 PERSPECTIVE Affluence eludes poor crowding into Asian cities WEDNEsDAy

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NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Elaine Kurtenbach and Margie Mason

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own a concrete path, between rail tracks that buzz with each approaching train and a river choked by plastic and raw sewage, Asih Binti Arif cradles her baby and reflects on dreams gone dark.

Five years ago, Arif and her husband left impoverished Madura Island, joining migrants throughout the Indonesian archipelago seeking a better life here in the capital.

Across the developing world, migration from country to city has long been a potential path out of poverty.

Less and less is that true for Arif and millions of others in Asia, where the wealth gap is growing in many of the most densely populated cities in human history.

From India to Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines, overcrowded cities have become studies in extremes of deprivation and wealth.

The trend could worsen as the widening global gap between the richest and everyone else undercuts efforts to reduce poverty. When the rich capture a rising share of wealth, the poor and middle class typically suffer. Experts say other problems tend to follow: poorer health, less education, family breakups, crime and unstable societies.

"With inequality, the impact of growth on poverty eradication is muted," said Indu Bhushan, an Asian Development Bank official.

Indonesia's inequality measure rose from 30.8 in 1999 to 41.3 in 2013 on a scale of zero to 100 where zero means everyone has equal wealth and 100 means one person has all the wealth. Such sharp increases, which reflect wealth concentrating in fewer hands, have occurred in India, China and elsewhere, too.

Against the backdrop of Jakarta's gleaming office towers and luxury hotels, Arif's family lives in the Tanah Abang slum. They scavenge garbage for discarded bottles, cardboard boxes and frayed clothes.

"I can't even imagine or dream of that life," Arif said as a train thundered past. "The gap is so big. They are in the sky, and we are on the earth."

In past decades, the power of industrialization allowed hundreds of million to emerge from extreme poverty. In 1981, nearly 1.7 billion Asians were living on less than $1.25 a day. Today, the figure is about 700 million.

But vast numbers cannot aspire to rise much further. About 80 percent of the 3.6 billion people in developing Asian countries still live on less than $5 a day, many relying on day labor, rag picking or other meager livelihoods. Even migrants who arrived in cities years ago feel trapped in a seemingly permanent underclass.

At the same time, the numbers of millionaires and billionaires has burgeoned, creating elites that have more in common with the ultra-rich in cities such as Paris and New York than their own countrymen. Outside of eastern China and the advanced economies of South Korea and Japan, an Asian middle class has not taken widespread hold.

In Mumbai, India's financial capital, Pandurang Bithobha Salvi, 52, is a veteran migrant from Naganwadi, a village about 500 kilometers (300 miles) away. Villagers have been heading to Mumbai since the 1950s to work and supplement meager farm incomes. Despite India's ascent as a business outsourcing center, most migrants find only low-paying unskilled work.

Salvi and 20-odd men share the $130 monthly rent on their 17-square-meter (180-square-foot) room festooned with drying shirts and pants. Cramped as it is, the tiny room is a step up from Mumbai's slums.

Across town on tony Altamount Road, billionaire Mukesh Ambani and his family luxuriate in their 400,000-square-foot (37,000-square-meter) mansion.

Three years ago, Ambani moved into the 27-story structure, with three helipads, a movie theater and recreation center for a price reported above $1 billion.

It's among the world's most expensive homes in a

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t was a dramatic moment at the United Nations when it voted in 2010 to affirm water and sanitation as a human right.

Then Bolivian ambassador to the U.N., Pablo Solon, shocked the silent auditorium with a devastating reminder of the consequences a lack of access to safe, available and affordable water and sanitation have on human life – every 21 seconds, a child dies of a waterborne disease.

This key moment at the U.N. – which hosts its General Assembly this week – marked the beginning of a diplomatic process through which the need for states to progressively realise the human right to water and sanitation, and all the standards and principles it entails, became an obligation for member states.

Now, four years on, governments around the world are coming together to finalise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which will guide official development policy and processes for the next 15 years.

However, while there has been recognition of the centrality of water and sanitation to development through its standalone goal, there has been a palpable reluctance from many – though not all – governments to firmly state the realisation of the human right to water and sanitation as a SDG target.

Mirroring this at national level, there is an equally distinct lack of movement in the recognition of the right in constitutions and legislation.

And in many cases where it is recognised, a few bright spots aside, rights have failed to become a reality.

Rights vs reality In the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector, the framework of access has come to dominate. For those unfamiliar with the human right and its legal obligations, it is a perfectly reasonable call – for everyone to have ac-

In this August 14, 2014 photo, people walk in an alley at a densely populated slum near the main business district in Jakarta, Indonesia. Across the developing world, migration from country to city has long been a potential path out of poverty. Less and less is that true for many in Asia, where the wealth gap is growing in many of the most densely populated cities in human history. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

city of 21 million people where an estimated 40 percent live in slums without basic sanitation. The crisis has worsened since 2005, when slum dwellers made up 35 percent of the city. Stagnant pay and runaway inflation are putting a decent life out of reach, said Salvi, who used to work as a bus conductor and for a time could afford to have his family live with him in Mumbai.

Having given up the job because of back problems, he earns much less now as a security guard. His family returned home, and Salvi squeezed back into the village's shared room, where sleeping arrangements are a nightly conundrum: six on a makeshift loft, 10 on a floor mat, one or two on a table, and occasionally several in the hallway.

One factor behind Asia's widening wealth disparities, said Bhushan of the ADB, is soaring real estate prices. Affordable housing has been squeezed out by luxury apartments, hotels and malls. India's home prices have soared 60 percent since 2009. Prices in Indonesia, China, Myanmar and the Philippines have surged, too. "In the past, some of us have made a better life for ourselves and our families," Salvi said.

"Such cases are becoming rarer now."

Asia's ultra-rich and their offspring, with their private jets and platoons of servants, live in gated communities in a world prized by brands such as Cartier and Louis Vuitton and educate their children overseas.

Some have been enriched by the rise of industries such as online commerce and by a property boom.

But most of Asia's richest are second- and third-generation beneficiaries of family fortunes.

The World Bank and other global organizations have found that extreme poverty has declined over the past 30 years, in part because U.S., European and Japanese manufacturers brought work to poor Asian countries — textile factories to Bangladesh, for example, and electronics makers to China.

Yet experts say the decline in poverty has been slowed by the wealth gap. The Asian Development Bank estimates that an additional 240 million people in Asia would have risen out of the direst poverty if inequality hadn't increased.

For countries such as Myanmar that are latecomers to industrialization, the challenges are acute. A treasure land of gems and tropical timber that was the world's biggest rice exporter during Britain's colonial era, Myanmar stagnated for decades under generals who yielded power in 2011.

Economic reforms are transforming the skyline

of its biggest city, Yangon, but not the lives of people like Thein Tun Oo, whose extended family of 10 subsists in a one-room bamboo shack on the muddy banks of Pazundaung Creek.

Thein Tun Oo, a carpenter who sold his farmland to pay for his father's failed cancer treatment, wagered everything in moving five years ago to Yangon from Bago, a region 100 kilometers (60 miles) away. "At least here we can find some work," said Thein Tun Oo, 44.

The family feels it has been worth years of illness and hand-to-mouth living to secure education and opportunities for their four girls, ages 4 to 17. The eldest, Po Po Aung, left school at age 7. For a time, she worked with the next eldest hauling gravel for less than 4 cents for each 20 kilogram (44 pound) basket, earning money to pay for school fees.

"We work a day and eat a day," said their mother, Thin Thin Khaing, struggling to be heard over the engine of a gravel-hauling boat berthed beside their door. Asked what she hopes will come of Myanmar's reforms, including plans for factory parks that might provide better-paying jobs, Thin Thin Khaing and her husband laugh. "We are just manual laborers, and we don't know about such things," she said.

Some of Indonesia's super-rich are known for announcing their wealth by roaring down Jakarta's main roads in sports cars or stretching out in chauffeured Roll-Royces.

Amanda Subagio, 37, a socialite whose father founded a telecommunications and satellite empire, said the flaunting of extravagant wealth by "new money" is deepening the discontent of struggling Indonesians.

"You should be at least aware of how other people are living in this country," she said. The "other people" are those like Arif, the scrap collector in Jakarta's slum, and her neighbor, Samia Dewi Baturara, who share the same shack divided by a plywood wall.

Baturara left the island of Sumatra alone last year to try to earn enough to support her two children, who stayed behind with their grandmother. She said she earns too little to ever bring her children to the city. Yet unlike Arif, she still allows herself to dream.

As Baturara peddles coffee opposite the luxury Shangri-La hotel, she pictures herself as a guest in the exclusive world inside. She would have to work 40 days, without spending anything, to afford one night in the cheapest room. "I imagine that I can come to the hotel and see the room," she said. "Almost every day, I imagine how I can sleep there."

Will govts keep their promises on the Human Right to Water?

Dilip surkar Inter press Service

cess to water and sanitation.

But everyone has a human right to water and sanitation that is not only accessible, but universally available, safe and affordable and in addition to this for sanitation, acceptable.

Reducing our demand for water and sanitation to access alone hinders the fulfilment of these all important standards of the human right, while it also puts out of focus human rights principles such as opposing discrimination, ensuring participation, equality and accountability, among others.

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reduced our monitoring of water to access alone, with no measure for its sustainability. While having a tap would be a step up for many millions, as anyone living without water as a daily reality could attest, a tap, standpipe or other means of accessing water does not mean water is consistently available from it, nor that it is safe or affordable.

By the measure of access alone, the MDG on water has already been achieved. Figures from the World Health Organisation and Unicef ’s Joint Monitoring Programme suggest that 748 million people now lack access to water – between 1990 and 2012, 2.3 billion people gained access to ‘improved drinking water sources’.

But, as research has demonstrated, increase the complexity of this measure to safe water and the figure balloons: some 1.8 billion people are thought to lack access to safe water.

The shameful events in Detroit, when thousands of the poorest inhabitants of the U.S. city were disconnected from their water supply this summer after being unable to pay their bills, brought the failure to realise the human right to water and sanitation into sharp relief: in the world’s richest economy, people can be left, essentially, to die, removed in a discriminatory manner from the sustenance of life-giving water.

“Disconnections due to non-payment are only permissible if it can be shown that the resident is able to pay but is not paying,” said U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, who was joined by the rapporteurs on housing and extreme poverty in condemning the USA. “In other words, when there is genuine inability to pay, human rights simply forbids disconnections.”

In Kenya, one of the very few countries where the human right to water and sanitation is embedded in the constitution, rights remain far from reality, with patterns visible across the world replicated in microcosm – the poor pay more for their water than the rich.

“I call upon the authorities to take immediate measures to enforce and monitor the official tariffs for water kiosks. This is crucial to correct the systematic pattern of the poor paying much more for water from kiosks than the rich for water from pipes,”said de Albuquerque.

“The rights to water and sanitation should not remain a dream for so many.

These rights are recognised in the Kenyan Constitution itself,” she went on.

What is to be done?

At End Water Poverty, the world’s biggest water and sanitation coalition with more than 275 members, we decided at the beginning of the year to reframe our “Keep Your Promises” campaign to focus on the human right to water and sanitation.

This means that at a national level we will support our members in demanding that the right is recognised, and where it is already recognised, that it is realised.

This means all the standards and principles of the right are adhered to; it means that in situations of water scarcity the state must meet people’s needs, whether for drinking, cooking, washing or hygiene, as a first priority; and it means governments must use the maximum available resources in a non-discriminatory manner to realise the right.

At an international level, it means the SDGs must adopt the realisation of the right as a target. Do governments intend to regress on international human rights law they created? Do they not want provision of water and sanitation to be framed by non-discrimination? Or for sanitation to be framed by privacy, dignity and cultural acceptability?

As then U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said last year on the SDG process, development efforts must be directed to the realisation of human rights: “This has been so central to the demands of people from all regions that we can now confidently assert that the extent to which it is reflected in the new framework, will in large measure, determine its illegitimacy.”

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Recently, we saw the penalty meted out to a rape offender in Meluri, Phek, creating a huge debate on the degree of punishment imposed. All over the world, when people are wounded, we become protective of our own and enforce measures that sometimes lead to the cost of another’s life. Is this right or wrong? Are we making the right judgment call? These are questions that plague us as they directly impact the kind of state we create for ourselves. Similarly, in Nagaland, looking back at our history and culture and comparing it with the lives we lead today, there are moments we must question exactly where Nagaland is headed today.

Where is Nagaland Headed?

Mhalo Ngulie, Asst. Professor, Dept. of English

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have read about the origin of the ‘Nagas’, the root from where I have originally come. People from different states, different colours have raised issues on its origin. Here, I’m not concerned with how, why, or where we are from, but how we lived in the earlier times. Despite modernism, the mechanism in our life, a Naga family was a happy family (in general). We were illiterate, but not narrow minded, we were always ready to protect our loved ones and by that we mean every Naga. No doubt, we were head-hunters but that is long forgotten. We fought against giant obstacles in our society in unity. Brotherhood, love, peace, unity, appreciation and humanity were all so known to each and every Naga. The question is do we still acquire all these in our blood? It pains me when I move around and see people repairing the walls to confine themselves from being loved by others. I don’t see people wavering around for help. I no longer see a person appreciating another person for his/her good deeds. Where is the good land of brothers flocking together joyously? Where is the land of love where foreigners came and envied the intensity of our relationships? Why can’t we feel the presence of belongingness anymore? Has anything changed? Or has it been the same since the beginning?

There is chaos everywhere, in individual lives, family and society. Relationships are no longer based on trust nor is there any kindness left in our society. They say that we don’t have a definite origin, a long time subject of debate and research. Why has this differentiation risen amongst us after all these years of good bond? What is the reason behind this uncertainty in our society? The society where I grew up was a place of bliss where people never cared for the lengthy roads. Nagaland was a simple and humble circle where there was no beginning and an end, but where everyone participated to fill this circle. But now people here are less human and more like machines engrossed in materialism. We are now fighting with each other to win the game. Fame is all we are after and filling up our treasure has become our end. There isn’t any protection from our brothers but insecurity has made us timid. We are now scared of darkness, of the filthy hands that are eager to touch and defile our morality. Day light no more brings us strength, but we are woken up by the news of slaughter and bloodshed around our land. Brothers are killing their own brothers over issues such as wealth, land, property, etc. Sisters are rebelling against their own sisters for some unworthy thing. The old are no more our ‘wise old man’ when we used to gather and take their advice, but they are being thrown from the society. I wonder since when the word ‘Dalit’ entered our sweet land.

We have become so blind to neglect all this chaos in our land. It’s time we shake ourselves and see the evils encircling our land. It is now the time to break the chain of social, political and emotional evils from our lives. Remember that the right time will not come to us, but we should make the time right for us. It is time we unite to gather all the lost dignity. We should strive to bring back the joy in our peoples’ lives. We should learn to appreciate others when they do something good, instead of envying them. Being kind has been gifted to us from above so we should not hesitate to help others. We should not stop ourselves from being good. We can still gain back the peace that we all are yearning for. We have been far away from the land of good but there is still, for sure, the scent of goodness lingering around our land. Though things have changed, though we are against each other, yet we all are still ‘Nagas’ and we have the ability to reunite and make this barren land ‘Nagaland’ once again. This is to each section of Nagaland and not to a particular race. We might have come from different lands, we might have different origins, but when you decided to come and live with us, you became a part of our sweet land. And it is now left to us; it is now the duty of each and everyone to make this part of earth a sweeter and better land to live on.

“For we are all pieces of art which when brought together can make a fine art”.

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White tiger kills youth in Delhi Zoo New Delhi, September 23 (iANS): In a hair-raising incident, witnessed by scores and captured live on many cameras, a 200-kg white tiger mauled and killed a youth after he fell into the animal’s moat in the Delhi Zoo, eyewitnesses and officials said Tuesday.

The incident, which took place between 12.30 p.m. and 1 p.m., created a sensation and word soon spread through the city, with photos and video of the tiger - one of the zoo’s star attractions - dragging the youth going viral.

Eyewitnesses and zoo officials said the young man, who was later identified as Maksood, 20, a resident of Anand Parbat in Delhi, had “crossed the stand-off barrier” of the white tiger’s enclosure and then fell or jumped into the moat which separated the enclosure from the visitors’ gallery.

The majestic sixfoot, seven-year-old tiger, named Vijay, which was some distance away, saw the man in the concrete moat, that was covered with dry leaves, and bounded up to him. Footages showed the tiger glowering face to face at the man, as it initially appeared to be surprised on seeing the sudden human intrusion into its habitat.

“As soon as the youth fell into the moat, the tiger approached him and silently watched him for nearly 15 minutes,” Bittoo, an eyewitness, who re-

An irate White Tiger staring at a student after he fell in its enclosure at the Delhi Zoo on Tuesday. The Tiger killed him later. (PTI Photo)

corded the entire incident on his mobile, told media persons.

He said what possibly provoked the tiger to attack the man was when onlookers and a guard tried to divert its attention by pelting stones at it. “Everyone was pelting stones and making noises to divert the tiger’s attention,” Bittoo added.

“It was then that the tiger pounced on the youth with his paw and dragged him inside his enclosure by his neck,” Bittoo told IANS. The tiger then dropped the limp body at the far end of the enclosure. Another eyewitness Himanshu said: “The man was cowering in fear and appeared to be pleading with

folded hands to the tiger to spare him.”

Some eyewitnesses said it was not clear whether the man was drunk or he was clicking photos of the tiger when he accidently fell from the cemented fencing. Delhi Police official said post mortem report will reveal whether the man was drunk and fell accidently or jumped knowingly. Police is also investigating why the man came alone to the zoo.

A statement by Amitabh Agnihotri, the zoo director, said: “An unfortunate incident occurred in the National Zoological Park around 1 p.m. when a male visitor named Maksood, son of Meh-

fooz, resident of Gali no 11, Anand Parvat, aged 20 years crossed the stand off barrier of the white tiger’s enclosure....and jumped into the enclosure.

“Praveen, guard posted at the enclosure, sounded the alarm and collected his supervisor and other staff of the zoo by sending wireless SOS message. Praveen along with other staff of the zoo tried to divert the attention of the tiger from the visitor but to no avail.

The tiger mauled the visitor who died on the spot.

The ambulance and police were called immediately.”

National Zoological Park curator R.A. Khan told IANS that the youth himself jumped into the tiger’s en-

closure. “The tiger was later locked up. The tiger will be kept under observation and medically examined,” Khan said.

The space where the white tiger stays comprises of a moat, a natural space for the animal to roam around and a concrete enclosure. There are in all ten tigers in Delhi Zoo, six of them white and four Royal Bengal.

“All the enclosures of the National Zoological Park are absolutely safe.

No visitor can reach the moat wall of the enclosure without the stand off barrier. The visitor crossed the stand off barrier and ultimately jumped into the enclosure which lead to his

death by the tiger,” the zoo statement added.

The National Zoological Park, located in the centre of the capital and one of the oldest in the country, is spread over 176 acres is home to about 1,556 different birds and animals.

Delhi Zoo sees footfalls of 5,000 to 6,000 on weekdays and 12,000 to 13,000 on weekends.

Suparna Ganguly, founder trustee of Bangalore-based Compassion Unlimited Plus Action, an NGO for animal rehabilitation, said the tiger was not at fault.

“We get to see a lot of hooliganism among zoo visitors. People misbehave, disturb and harass the animals who have already been deprived of their natural habitat.”

But many thought that since there was a considerable gap between the man falling into the tiger enclosure and the animal attacking him, zoo authorities could have reacted with greater alacrity and could have been better equipped to handle this emergency.

This was not the first such instance in Delhi Zoo. Six years ago a drunk man had fallen into the enclosure of a lion but the lioness had spared him.

Earlier too many such cases have been reported from Indian zoos, including one in July 2012 when a 32-year-old man was mauled and seriously injured by a tiger after he sneaked into its enclosure at the Jharkhand zoo.

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Chinese, Indian troops in Himalayan standoff

New Delhi/SriNAGAr, September 23 (reuterS): Hundreds of Indian and Chinese troops have dug into positions on a high Himalayan plateau, leading India’s army chief to cancel a foreign trip and monitor a standoff that underscores deep differences between the Asian giants as they seek closer ties.

Military officials in New Delhi and Kashmir said on Tuesday that Chinese troops set up a camp about 3 km (2 miles) into territory claimed by India in the Chumar region of the Ladakh plateau more than a week ago. Indian soldiers have set up their own base nearby and have been told not to back down, the officials said.

Asked about the standoff, China’s Ministry of Defence said the two sides’ understanding of the line of the border was not the same. “The two countries’ border, to this day, has not been designated,” the ministry said in a faxed statement, adding that the Chinese military respected pacts signed by both countries. “Both sides, if problems occur in the border area, can reach an appropriate resolution through dialogue and consultation.”

India has deployed about 1,500 troops in the Chumar area and there are about 800 Chinese soldiers, an Indian government official said. The two sides are not in an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation and are well separated from each other, he added.

The alleged incursion by Chinese troops into territory claimed by India dominated a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping last week, overshadowing his pledges to invest $20 billion over five years and a bid to warm personal ties with new Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

TRIP CANCELLED Army chief, General Dalbir Singh, cancelled a threeday visit to neighbouring Bhutan on Monday in order to monitor the border situation, a government official in New Delhi said. Military commanders from both sides were due to hold a meeting in the border area on Tuesday, another official said, in a fourth such gathering to try and resolve the dispute.

Modi has promised to take a tougher stance in India’s border dispute with China, joining other Asian nations, including Japan and the Philippines, which have pushed back against Beijing. China must be combat ready to win a “regional war” and the armed forces must make sure they hew to decisions by the central leadership, Chinese President Xi Jinping told senior military leaders, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday.

Xi’s comments were widely reported in Indian media and came days after a speech in New Delhi in which he said China was not a warlike nation. During Xi’s visit Modi urged an early border settlement with China. Both sides have held 17 rounds of border talks since the early 1990s, with little progress.

‘Disturbing trend of Indian militants admiring IS/Qaeda’ New Delhi, September 23 (iANS): Delhi Police have discovered what they describe as a “disturbing trend” of Indian militants professing admiration for international terror groups like the Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda.

These indoctrinated militants seek to motivate vulnerable Muslim youth and lure them by showing videos of killings by international terror groups.

“We’ve noticed a disturbing trend after interrogating some terrorists we have recently captured.

They’re otherwise tough nuts to crack but profuse in their praise of groups like

ISIS and Al Qaeda,” a senior police officer told IANS on condition of anonymity as he is not authorised to speak to the media.

In the last one year, Delhi Police have arrested at least six suspected terrorists, including what they claimed as the “big catch” Yasin Bhatkal, one of the founder members of the Indian Mujahideen, though none of them have been been found to be directly in touch with IS or Al Qaeda.

“Terrorists like Bhatkal and Ajaz Sheikh are very hard to crack. They break down over time and say they would want to launch

attacks like ISIS and Al Qaeda,” the officer said. “They exude pride as though they were associated with such groups,” said the officer.

Bhatkal, a native of Karnataka was arrested last Aug 28 from the India-Nepal border near Motihari in Bihar. He was trained in Pakistan in 2006 to launch terror bombings in Indian cities. Ajaz Sheikh was arrested from Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district earlier this month.

Sheikh, a cyber expert, told interrogators that the other operators of IM want logistical and financial support from the IS and Al Qaeda. He is in the custody

of Delhi Police.

Bhatkal is described as a motivator, recruiter, expert bomb-maker and mastermind of a series of bombings in cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Pune and Jaipur since 2007. He is currently lodged in Delhi’s Tihar jail.

“These Indian terrorists believe that the jihadists in top terror groups are going on the right track for expanding the message of jihad and they too wanted to follow them,” another officer, who interrogated Bhatkal, told IANS. “These terrorists motivate Indian Muslim

youth and also lure them by showing videos of killings by international terror groups,” said the officer.

The IM, believed to be a byproduct of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), is banned by the Indian government.

SIMI was formed in Aligarh in 1977 and had thousands of members and offices in almost every district of Madhya Pradesh before it was banned in 2002. The group is said to believe in fundamentalist Islam and to spread its values. In 2007, the Supreme Court of India described SIMI as a “secessionist Traffic moves at dusk in New Delhi on Tuesday, September 23. United Nations Secmovement”. retary-General Ban Ki-Moon is challenging more than 100 world leaders at a climate

Govt can’t punish civil servants who expose corruption: SC

New Delhi, September 23 (AGeNcieS): The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that any civil servant who exposes corruption and other illicit acts by knocking on the doors of a court cannot be subjected to disciplinary proceedings.

A bench of Justices J Chelameswar and A K Sikri said that if a bureaucrat files a petition, alleging that the government was lax in discharging its constitutional obligations of establishing the rule of law, his or her conduct does not imply that he or she failed to maintain absolute integrity and devotion to duty, or indulged in conduct unbecoming of a member of the service.

“Clearly the rule only prohibits criticism of the policies of the government or making of any statement which is likely to embarrass

the relations between the government of India and a foreign state or the government of India and the government of a state. Allegations of maladministration, in our opinion, do not fall within the ambit of any of the three categories (warranting disciplinary actions),” said the bench.

It added, “The right to judicial remedies for the redressal of either personal or public grievances is a constitutional right of the subjects of this country. Employees of the state cannot become members of a different and inferior class to whom such right is not available.”

The court issued the ruling while quashing disciplinary proceeding against IAS officer Vijay Shankar Pandey. The proceeding had been initiated against Pandey under charges of miscon-

duct after he joined a campaign to bring back black money stashed abroad. He had actively participated as a member of a social group that filed a PIL and prompted the Supreme Court to pass a judgement on setting up a special investigation team to retrieve black money. He also gave his personal affidavit in the matter.

While an enquiry officer had given Pandey a clean chit after proceeding were initiated, authorities refused to accept this view and set up another board in September 2012 to look into his conduct.

The bench said that the purpose behind these proceedings appeared “calculated to harass the appellant since he dared to point out certain aspects of maladministration in the government of India” and that the order of a second inquiry was “wholly untenable”.

“The whole attempt appears to be to suppress any probe into the question of black money by whatever means, fair or foul. The present impugned proceedings are nothing but a part of the strategy to intimidate not only the appellant but also to send a signal to others who might dare in future to expose any maladministration,” it noted.

Highlighting that the petition filed by Pandey led to some effective orders, the court said, “The Constitution declares that India is a sovereign democratic Republic.

The requirement of such democratic republic is that every action of the State is to be informed with reason. State is not a hierarchy of regressively genuflecting coterie of bureaucracy.” The court also directed the authorities to pay Rs 5 lakh to Pandey.

summit to set a new course for a warming world and reverse the rise of heat-trapping gases. (AP Photo)

India to seek re-election to UNHRC

uNiteD NAtioNS, September 23 (pti): India will seek re-election to the United Nation’s main human rights body for a second consecutive term in a vote to be held next month. India is currently a member of the 47-nation U.N. Human Rights Council and its term ends on December 31, 2014.

It is seeking re-election to the U.N. body for the period of 2015-17 and the elections will be held in October during the ongoing 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly, according to the Indian mission to the U.N. here. India will compete in the Asia group in which four seats will be up for election.

The other countries in the Asia group that will be candidates in the election are Bangladesh, Qatar, Thailand and Indonesia. “The support of member states for India’s candidature in the Human Rights Council elections would be great-

ly appreciated,” a note from the Indian mission said.

The Council members are elected for a period of three years by the majority of members of the General Assembly through direct and secret ballot. They have the ability to discuss all thematic human rights issues and situations that require its attention throughout the year.

Last year, the General Assembly had elected 14 countries, including China, Saudi Arabia and Russia to serve on the Council. According to the Council website, the General Assembly takes into account the candidate states’ contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights, as well as their voluntary pledges and commitments in this regard.

While members of the Council serve for a period of three years, they are not eligible for immediate re-election after serving two consecutive terms.

Narendra Modi to get rock star reception in New York

New York, September 23 (reuterS): It is a rock ‘n’ roller’s dream to “sell out The Garden,” but for a foreign politician to pack New York City’s most famous sports and entertainment arena is another thing entirely.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his first trip to New York as leader of the world’s most populous democracy, will draw perhaps the largest crowd ever by a foreign leader on U.S. soil when he takes the stage on Sunday in Madison Square Garden before a crowd forecast to total more than 18,000 people.

Thousands more are expected to pack New

York’s Times Square to watch his address in Hindi on big screens as well as smaller viewing parties around the country and on TV in India. The Indian diaspora hopes this visit by a leader who was until recently barred from the United States will signify India’s importance not only on these shores but in the wider world too.

The event is being emceed by prominent members of the Indian American community, Nina Davuluri, who has just relinquished her crown as Miss America 2014, and TV journalist Hari Sreenivasan. “Indian citizens and diaspora over the world are

hopeful that this (Modi) administration will cut bureaucracy and focus on people,” said Dr. Dinesh Patel, chief of arthroscopic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, who arrived in the United States more than 50 years ago.

Patel, who says he was given an award for work in education by Modi, a fellow Gujarati, added: “People are passionate to see the new leader. Another Narendra is coming to this country to let the USA know what India is about.” The first Narendra was Swami Vivekananda, a 19th-century philosopher and monk who prop-

agated the Hindu faith in the United States. Modi often cites a speech by Vivekananda, born Narendra Nath Datta, to the Parliament of Religions in Chicago in 1893, as a source of inspiration.

“Let us remember the words of Swami Vivekananda and dedicate ourselves to furthering the cause of unity, brotherhood and world peace,” Modi wrote Sept. 11 to his 6.5 million followers on Twitter. India’s economy, the third largest in Asia, has struggled to recover from sub-par growth, shackled by layers of bureaucracy anathema to the diaspora. Modi’s general

election triumph in May was driven in large part by his entrepreneurial mantra.

On the eve of his U.S. visit, tensions remain between the Washington and New Delhi over trade and spying. The 64-year-old former chief minister of Gujarat was denied a U.S. visa in 2005 over sectarian rioting that killed more than 1,000 people, mainly Muslims, three years before. Modi, who denies wrongdoing, has been exonerated by a Supreme Court probe.

Washington was late to warm to Modi. Its ambassador to India only met him in February, when opinion polls already put his na-

tionalists on course for a and chief executive officer big election win. of Long Island, New Yorkbased Reliance CommuDILIGENT DIASPORA nications, a distributor of India’s U.S. diaspora is mobile telecom devices a highly educated popula- and accessories. tion of nearly 3.2 million, Narula, who came to making up about 1 percent the United States 17 years of the U.S. population, ac- ago, first working in the garcording to latest U.S. Cen- ment industry, now has his sus Bureau data. As a group, own company with more they are more likely to be than, 200 employees. He’s hooked to the internet than part of the host committee their fellow Americans, far for Modi’s visit to Washingmore likely to have a college ton, where the prime minor professional degree and ister will meet with Presitwice as well off with an av- dent Barack Obama on erage household income of Monday and Tuesday. more than $100,000.

“We attempted to do “Indians are generally business in India. I hope very ambitious and entre- Modi will look into streampreneurs,” said Mike Na- lining issues such as VAT, rula, the founder, president the role of FDI (foreign direct

investment) and find a way for American businesses to not have to go through 19 red tape bureaucracies,” he said.

While Indian Americans are well represented in America’s professional class, they are less visible in the military. Some 0.1 percent serve in the armed forces compared to 0.4 percent of Americans as a whole.

“The diaspora does very well on entrepreneurship, but not as much on the physical sacrifices. It is not just enough to be a citizen and taxpayer,” said Raj Bhandari, a 48 year old Mumbai-born banker from New Jersey. “As a larger community I would like it to be more engaged on the front lines.”

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US, Arab partners begin airstrikes on Islamic State WASHINGtON, SEptEmBEr 23 (Ap): The U.S. and five Arab countries launched airstrikes on Islamic State group targets in Syria, expanding a military campaign into a country whose three-year civil war has given the brutal militant group a safe haven.

Using a mix of manned aircraft — fighter jets and bombers — plus Tomahawk cruise missiles, the strikes were part of the expanded military campaign that President Barack Obama authorized nearly two weeks ago in order to disrupt and destroy the Islamic State militants, who have slaughtered thousands of people, beheaded captives — including two American journalists and a British aid worker — and captured large swaths of Syria and northern and western Iraq.

U.S. officials said the airstrikes began around 8:30 p.m. EDT Monday (0030 GMT Tuesday), and were conducted by the U.S., Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. The first wave of strikes finished about 90 minutes later, but the operation was expected to continue for several more hours, according to one U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly by name about an ongoing mission.

Syria’s Foreign Ministry said the U.S. informed Syria’s envoy to the U.N. that “strikes will be launched against the terrorist Daesh group in Raqqa.” The statement used an Arabic name to refer to the Islamic State group.

At a conference on Sept. 11 with Secretary of State John Kerry, key Arab allies promised they would “do their share” to fight the Islamic State militants. The Obama administration, which at a NATO meeting in Wales earlier this

month also got commitments from European allies as well as Canada and Australia, has insisted that the fight against the Islamic State militants could not be the United States’ fight alone.

Because the military operation was ongoing, no details could be provided yet, said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon’s press secretary. He said the military made the decision to strike early Monday. A White House official said Obama was being updated.

The strikes were carried out by manned Air Force and Navy aircraft, and the Tomahawk missiles were launched from U.S. ships in the northern Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush is in the Gulf.

Some of the airstrikes were against the Islamic State group’s self-declared capital in Raqqa in northeastern Syria. Military officials have said the U.S. would target militants’ command and control centers, re-supply facilities, training camps and other key logistical sites.

Syrian activists reported several airstrikes on militant targets in Raqqa. One Raqqa-based activist, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the airstrikes lit the night sky over the city, and reported a power cut that lasted for two hours.

The head of the main Westernbacked Syrian opposition group, Hadi Bahra, welcomed the commencement of airstrikes in Syria.

“Tonight, the international community has joined our fight against ISIS in Syria,” he said in a statement, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State group.

“We have called for airstrikes such as those that commenced tonight with a heavy heart and deep concern, as these strikes begin in our own homeland. We insist that ut-

most care is taken to avoid civilian casualties.”

An anti-militant media collective called “Raqqa is being silently slaughtered” said among the targets were Islamic State buildings used as the group’s headquarters, and Brigade 93, a Syrian army base that the militants recently seized.

Other airstrikes targeted the town of Tabqa and Tel Abyad in Raqqa province, it said. Their claims could not be independently verified.

“We will be prepared to strike ISIL targets in Syria that degrade ISIL’s capabilities,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told senators last week, using one of the acronyms for the Islamic State group.

“This won’t look like a shock-andawe campaign, because that’s simply not how ISIL is organized, but it will be a persistent and sustainable campaign.

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said that the plan “includes targeted actions against ISIL safe havens in Syria, including its command and control logistics capabilities and infrastructure.” He said he and Dempsey approved the plan.

The U.S. has also been increasing its surveillance flights over Syria, getting better intelligence on potential targets and militant movements. None of Monday’s airstrikes were from drones.

Military leaders have said about two-thirds of the estimated 31,000 Islamic State militants were in Syria.

Some officials have expressed concern that going after Islamic State militants in Syria could inadvertently help Syrian President Bashar Assad, since the militants are fighting in part to overthrow Assad.

In a speech Sept. 10, Obama

vowed to go after the Islamic State militants wherever they may be.

And his military and defense leaders told Congress last week that airstrikes within Syria are meant to disrupt the group’s momentum and provide time for the U.S. and allies to train and equip moderate Syrian rebels.

The U.S. military has been launching targeted airstrikes in Iraq since August, focusing specifically on attacks to protect U.S. interests and personnel, assist Iraqi refugees and secure critical infrastructure. Last week, as part of the newly expanded campaign, the U.S. began going after militant targets across Iraq, including enemy fighters, outposts, equipment and weapons.

To date U.S. fighter aircraft, bombers and drones have launched about 190 airstrikes within Iraq.

Urged on by the White House and U.S. defense and military officials, Congress passed legislation late last week authorizing the military to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels. Obama signed the bill into law Friday, providing $500 million for the U.S. to train about 5,000 rebels over the next year.

U.S. leaders have also been crisscrossing the globe trying to build a broad international coalition of nations, including Arab countries, to go after the Islamic State group and help train and equip the Iraqi security forces and the Syrian rebels.

The militant group, meanwhile, has threatened retribution.

Its spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, said in a 42-minute audio statement released Sunday that the fighters were ready to battle the U.S.-led military coalition and called for attacks at home and abroad.

Uighur scholar gets life in prison for separatism BEIJING, SEptEmBEr 23 (Ap): An outspoken scholar who championed China’s Uighur minority was convicted of separatism Tuesday by a Chinese court and sentenced to life in prison, according to the scholar’s lawyers.

The Urumqi People’s Intermediate Court convicted Ilham Tohti after a heavily guarded two-day trial that ended last week, said lawyer Li Fangping by telephone outside the courthouse. The court didn’t answer several telephone calls Tuesday seeking information about the trial. Li said the court also ordered the confiscation of all of Ilham Tohti’s possessions.

Ilham Tohti had been calm during the proceeding but shouted out “I don’t agree!” when the sentence was read, Li said. He was known as a moderate voice with ties to both the country’s Han Chinese establishment and the Muslim Uighur ethnic group that has long complained about what they say is harsh treatment under the govern-

Ilham Tohti. File Photo

ment. A Communist Party member and professor at Beijing’s Minzu University, Ilham Tohti ran a website, Uighur Online, that highlighted issues affecting the ethnic group. Chinese authorities detained the scholar in January along with seven of his students.

“Of course, this life sentence is too much,” Li said.

“But he has said that no matter what the result, this should not lead to hatred.

He has always said he wants to create a dialogue with the Han Chinese.” Tuesday’s sentence will leave Ilham Tohti’s wife, Guzulnur, with no means to take care of their two young children, Li said. Human rights activists said the harsh sentence revealed the Chinese government’s intolerance of criticism from even the most conciliatory of voices.

During the trial, prosecutors had cited Ilham

Tohti’s lectures and online writings, including his discussion of the different roots of Han Chinese and Uighur peoples. “It’ll send a strong signal to (Uighur scholars) there’s not much to be gained to take some risks and personal initiative to bridge the gap between what obviously people on the ground are feeling, severe discontent with the way things are going, and explaining them to Han policymakers,” said William Nee, a Hong Kongbased researcher with the human rights group Amnesty International.

The outraged response was immediate online from human rights activists and artists. Chinese writer Wang Lixiong said via Twitter the government had created a “Chinese Mandela,” referring to South African leader Nelson Mandela who was jailed for 27 years before becoming president. Columbia University Tibet specialist Robert Barnett called the sentence “deeply shocking” on Twitter.

Tensions have run high and flared into violence in

the Xinjiang region where many of China’s Uighurs live. Authorities said several explosions killed two people Sunday in central Xinjiang but did not say who carried out the attacks. In May, police said, 43 people died when Uighur militants plowed two vehicles through a market street in the regional capital of Urumqi and hurled explosives. After the recent violence, authorities have prohibited people in the region from having beards or wearing veils, and locals say many have been detained for speaking out about the situation there.

Ilham Tohti’s 20-yearold daughter, Jewher Ilham, said Tuesday from Indiana, where she’s studying, that she would continue to fight for her father’s release. The authorities arrested her father in January of 2013 in Beijing’s main airport as he was boarding a plane to take her to school in the U.S. “He wanted me to stay in a land that has freedom,” she said. “I’m speaking out for him. I won’t stop.”

Ebola could “rumble on for years” - study

GENEVA, SEptEmBEr 23 (rEutErS): The Ebola outbreak in West Africa could infect 20,000 people as soon as early November unless rigorous infection control measures are implemented, and might “rumble on” for years in a holding pattern, researchers said on Tuesday.

In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, experts from the World Health Organization and Imperial College said that infections will continue climbing exponentially unless patients are isolated, contacts traced and communities enlisted.

The WHO, in an initial roadmap issued on Aug 28, predicted that the virus could strike 20,000 people within the next nine months. The current death toll is at least 2,811 out of 5,864 cases, the U.N. agency says.

The latest study, marking six months from March 23, when the WHO says it was informed of the Ebola outbreak in southeastern Guinea, reflects projections based on the data from a third wave of the virus in Guinea, Sierra Leone and worst-hit Liberia.

“With exponential growth, you’ll see that the case numbers

per week go up so that by the second of November, over these three countries our best estimate is over 20,000 cases, confirmed and suspected cases,” Dr. Christopher Dye, the WHO director of strategy, and co-author of article, told a briefing.

Nearly 10,000 of those would be in Liberia, 5,000 in Sierra Leone and nearly 6,000 in Guinea, he said. But those numbers would only come about with no enhanced infection control.

“Everyone is certainly working very hard to make sure this is a not the reality that we will be seeing,” Dye said. “I will be surprised if we hit 20,000 by then,” he later added.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon said last week that under a $1 billion plan, he will create a special mission to combat the disease and deployed staff to the region. “If control is completely successful in the way that we know it can be, then Ebola will disappear from the human population of West Africa and probably return to its animal reservoir,” Dye said, noting that fruit bats were probably the reservoir.

But if control efforts are only partly successful, Ebola viral disease in the human population could become “a permanent feature of life in West Af-

rica”, Dye said. “The alternative possibility that we’re talking about is that the epidemic simply rumbles on as it has for the last few months for the next few years, on the order of years, rather than months.

“Under those circumstances, the fear is that Ebola will be more or less a permanent feature of the human population. Of course it could be extinguished later on.”

In the three hardest-hit countries there was a “mixed pattern”, Dye said.

“We see for example in the border areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, some areas where there has been no increase in cases for some weeks now. That’s true in Sierra Leone, it’s true in Lofa in northern Liberia, and it’s true in one of the provinces of Guinea.

“So the question that arises is whether we’re actually seeing the beginning of a stationary pattern in this epidemic. In two badly affected districts of Sierra Leone, Kenema and Kailahun, close to border areas with Guinea and Liberia, there has been a stationary pattern, he said.

“What we’ve seen in the past weeks there, maybe 8, 9, 10 weeks now, is a pattern of incidence, num-

bers of cases per week, which has not significantly changed. “And indeed there are signs that it’s going down. And I say that cautiously, because we’re prepared to be surprised again. That is what I mean by stationary pattern. A steady incidence week on week.”

There are other reassuring signs about the efficacy of infection control measures, he said, but whether the disease’s spread was stabilising would become clear in the next few weeks. No new cases have been recorded in either Nigeria or Senegal in the last three weeks, corresponding to the 21-day incubation period for developing the virulent virus, whose symptoms include fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.

“It is reassuring in many ways that a disease like Ebola can enter a city of 20 million, namely Lagos, and we are able to stop transmission, or rather the people of Nigeria are able to stop transmission,” Dye said. But the Liberian capital Monrovia, where the disease has recently spread fastest, was “uncharted territory”, he said. “Quite honestly if you ask ‘can we stamp Ebola out of Liberia?’ I’m not sure. In principle we know how to do it, but can we do it on the ground? It remains to be seen.”

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Students take pro-democracy protest to Hong Kong leader

Students of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts wear masks with cross mark during a silence parade on a footbridge in Hong Kong on Tuesday, September 23. (AP Photo)

HONG KONG, SEptEmBEr 23 (rE utErS): Scuffles broke out in Hong Kong on Tuesday as students took their pro-democracy protest to government headquarters and called on the city’s chief executive to honour his promise to listen to the people.

The clash came a day after thousands of students gathered on a university campus demanding greater democracy for the former British colony from Communist Party leaders in Beijing and launching a week-long boycott of classes. About 20 students clashed with police when they pushed barriers and rushed to meet Chief Exec-

utive Leung Chun-ying as he stepped out to meet the crowd in the Central business district.

“Obviously, the boycott is posing a moral question to society,” Hong Kong Federation of Students leader Alex Chow said after the scuffle. He added that students were sacrificing themselves to make the community aware of the dangers Hong Kong is facing. Leung did not speak with the students after the scuffle but told reporters that any political reform would need to take into account Beijing’s wishes.

Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997 with a high degree of autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed

on the mainland under a formula known as “one country, two systems”. But Beijing last month rejected demands for people to freely choose the city’s next leader in 2017, insisting that candidates had to be pre-screened, prompting threats from pro-democracy activists to shut down Central.

“We will pay full attention to the views of all sectors of the community,” Leung said. “...all proposals to implement universal suffrage to elect the chief executive in 2017 have to be within the framework of the Basic Law and also the relevant decisions of the National People’s Congress.”

The Basic Law refers to the mini-constitution for post-1997 Hong Kong which enshrines the one country, two systems formula. The National People’s Congress in China’s parliament. This week’s student boycott of classes is the latest in a string of civil disobedience campaigns in Hong Kong which has been dogged by a series of rallies over the issue of electoral reform.

Monday’s protest was peaceful but the mood at the university was defiant. Many university professors on Tuesday were delivering lectures on democracy, universal suffrage and civil disobedience in a Central park as students sat on the grass.

“When the teachers voluntarily give us lessons here, we can absorb the knowledge better,” said second-year Chinese University of Hong Kong student Steve Cheung.

Healthy lifestyle key to cut heart attack risk

LONdON, SEptEmBEr 23 (IANS): If the very thought of heart attacks makes you squirm, making a few amends in your lifestyle can help you breathe easy.

According to a new study, healthy lifestyle choices may help men cut down heart attack risk by up to 80%. Following a healthy lifestyle, including maintaining a healthy weight and diet, exercise, not smoking and moderating alcohol intake, could prevent 4 out of 5 coronary events in men.

“It is not surprising that healthy lifestyle choices would lead to a reduction in heart attacks,” said lead author of the study, Agneta Akesson, associate professor at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. “What is surprising is how drastically the risk dropped due to these factors,” Akesson added.

For the study, the researchers examined a population of 20,721 healthy Swedish men aged 45-79 years of age and followed them for 11 years. Men in the study with the lowest risk were non-smokers, who walked or cycled for at least 40 min-

utes every day, exercised at least one hour per week, had a waist circumference of below 95 centimeters, and consumed moderate amounts of alcohol.

They also followed a healthy diet with a regular consumption of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, reduced-fat dairy products, whole grains and fish. The researchers found a clear reduction in risk for heart attack for each individual lifestyle factor the participants practiced. Having a low-risk diet together with a moderate alcohol consumption led to an estimated 35 percent lower risk of heart attack compared to the high-risk group, those who practice none of the low-risk factors.

Men who combined the low-risk diet and moderate alcohol consumption with not smoking, being physically active and having a low amount of abdominal fat, had 86 percent lower risk. The researchers found similar results in men with hypertension and high cholesterol levels.

The study appeared in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

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‘Man United need massive China flex muscles at Asian Games investment on new players’ Phil Neville

MANCHESTER, SEPTEMBER 23 (REUTERS): Manchester United, who spent 150 million pounds ($245.18 million) on new players in the summer, might need to spend another 100 million pounds before they can compete for the Premier League title, according to former defender Phil Neville.

United's defenders have been savaged in the media after squandering a 3-1 lead to lose 5-3 at Leicester City on Sunday but Neville, who won six Premier League titles with United, said he was not surprised at what happened.

"I know United have spent 150 million pounds," Neville told BBC Radio 5 live. "I think there's another two transfer windows of similar amounts of mon-

ey needed -- maybe 100 million -- before they can even think about winning the title. "There are still key positions in the team that need filling. "I think the centre-back position is obviously the key area," Neville added. "Holding midfield or centre midfield needs addressing too." The imbalance in the United team was glaringly obvious on Sunday with Robin van Persie, Angel di Maria, Ander Herrera, Radamel Falcao and Wayne Rooney looking dangerous going forward.

But United's defending was shambolic, leaving new coach Louis van Gaal needing to fix the problems urgently if United are going to launch any kind of bid for the top four positions, never mind the title, this

season. To add to his problems, Jonny Evans went off injured leaving the ground on crutches and with his foot in a protective boot, while young defender Tyler Blackett, who has played in all five league matches at centre-half was sent off and will be suspended from Saturday's game against West Ham at Old Trafford.

United signed forward Di Maria, midfielder Herrera, defenders Luke Shaw, Marcos Rojo and Daley Blind in the summer but did not sign a top-class centre back to replace the departed Rio Ferdinand or Nemanja Vidic.

Neville, who was on the coaching staff at United last season, said there was a good reason for that. "That squad needed quality, not just run-of-the-mill players,

2nd Singkilling trophy DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 23 (MExN): The 2nd Singkilling trophy organised by Veteran Club, Bor Lengri-I and sponsored by Hemari Killing (SGB) will commence from October 13. This was informed in a press release from the VCB Secretary Agay Joshep and President Ren Jami.

Serena Williams out in 2nd round at Wuhan Open

WUHAN, SEPTEMBER 23 (AP): Top-ranked Serena Williams lost in the second round of the Wuhan Open, retiring after 11 games on Tuesday and dropping a third match to Alize Cornet this year.

Williams, who won the U.S. Open just over two weeks ago, had just converted a break point for a 6-5 lead when she asked for treatment beside the court. Organizers later said Williams withdrew due to a viral illness.

Cornet beat Williams at Dubai in February and had a third-round win at Wimbledon. The Frenchwoman is the first player since Justine Henin in 2007

to beat Williams three times in year, the WTA said, and has improved to 3-3 in career meetings with the most dominant woman in tennis.

The tournament's top two players were eliminated within hours, with Williams exiting after Garbine Muguruza of Spain beat No. 2-ranked Simona Halep of Romania 2-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Muguruza, who beat Williams in the second round at the last French Open, dropped the first set in 35 minutes but rallied to win the first four games of the second set and the last four games of the third to advance at the inaugural Wuhan Open.

they needed world-class players, and there were no world-class centre-backs out there," he said.

"I think that's why in the next two transfer windows, United might still be looking for that world-class defender. "I am certain Chris Smalling will come good and I have full faith in Phil Jones as well. They've bought a lot of foreign players, you don't get rid of your English spine."

United have made a worse start to this season than they did a year ago when David Moyes was starting his short-lived stint as manager.

After five games last season United had seven points and were eighth in the table, five points off the lead.

They are currently 12th with five points and one win from five games, leaving them eight points behind early pace-setters Chelsea.

If that was not bad enough, they also crashed to one of their most humiliating defeats when League Two (third tier) side Milton Keynes Dons defeated a team containing David de Gea, Evans, Adnan Januzaj, Anderson and the now departed Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernandez 4-0 in the Capital One (League Cup) a month ago.

Europe's marquee competition. UEFA already ordered CSKA to play Bayern Munich in an empty Arena Khimki stadium next Tuesday as an escalating punishment for offenses committed last season.

Manchester City captain Yaya Toure directed the match referee to home fans making monkey noises during a Champions League match last October.

Then, CSKA and senior Russian football officials denied the abuse happened, and suggested a British conspiracy against the 2018 World Cup host nation. UEFA closed a section of the stadium for a

China's Chen Xinyi reacts after winning the women's 100-meter butterfly swimming final at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, Tuesday, September 23. (AP Photo)

champions when teenage sensation Shen Duo picked up her third gold medal of the Games while Chen Xinyi, Fu Yuanhui and Ning Zetao all bagged their first.

Japan had swept the first six men's events on the opening two days of swimming but had to settle for three silvers and two bronzes on Tuesday.

Ning won the men's 50m freestyle sprint for China in 21.95, getting his hand on the wall just ahead of the Japanese pair of Shinri Shioura and Kenta Ito. Hagino, who has already won three golds and a bronze in Incheon, collected his fifth medal of the meet when he finished runner-up to Sun. The 20-year-old Japa-

nese university student set off at a cracking pace and led for the first 100m but was soon overhauled by Sun and could not catch the towering Chinese. "We swam fast, worked hard and truly competed against each other. The level of the swimmers in Asia is very promising," Sun said.

"Today's competition was very exciting and comfortable, but it was difficult for me to swim. As you know, I just injured my left hand. During the swim, I tried to not focus on the pain. "I had some issues, but my coach supported me. I still have more events so I will do my best to do well in all of them."

Ye, who has failed to match up to her London

performances, was under world record pace for the first 250m of the women's 400m individual medley.

She weakened over the concluding freestyle leg and stopped the clock at 4:32.97, more than five seconds ahead of Japan's Sakiko Shimizu and Vietnam's 17-yearold Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, who won the gold at the recent Youth Olympics.

"After winning the London Olympics, I felt lots of pressure. I know the expectation of my supporters was high," said Ye. "So I was distracted in my races and could not do well (even though) I performed really well in training." Shen picked up her third Asian Games gold in the women's 4x200m.

Robert Pires swamped Nadal's coach criticizes female Davis Cup captain SEPTEM- background in the world of such as Juan Carlos Ferrero,

by Arsenal fans in India BARCELONA, BER 23 (AP): Rafael Nad- men's tennis," Toni Nadal, to continue the recent line

GOA, SEPTEMBER 23 (AGENCIES): He may have spent the last three years in retirement, but that hasn't diminished the appeal of Robert Pires for an army of Indian fans. The former Arsenal man arrived in India to sign for FC Goa, and was greeted by a swarm of supporters. Pires stopped to pose for photos and sign autographs. He then tweeted: 'Didn't know I had so many fans in India!'

The 40-year-old has come out of retirement to play for FC Goa, one of eight teams in the newly created league, and will be joined in the competition by a host of other ageing stars. Former Gunners team-mate Freddie Ljungberg will play for Mumbai City while Alessandro Del Piero, David Trezeguet, Elano, Mikael Silvestre and David James will also feature in the league. Pires retired in 2011 when his Aston Villa contract expired. He was brought to the club by compatriot Gerard Houllier but only featured nine times for the Midlands club. Meanwhile, former Inter Milan defender Marco Materazzi has joined Chennaiyin FC. Although he might play for the club, the World Cup winner revealed he will primarily act as their manager. 'I am first a manager,' Materazzi told The Hindu. 'Our main players will be Elano, (Mikael) Silvestre and other Indian players. We can only play five or six foreigners.

It was a bad day for seeds on other courts, too.

No. 10 Jelena Jankovic was trailing 4-1 when she retired against American player Coco Vandeweghe due to a back problem, Alison Riske of the United States recovered an early break to beat No. 11 Sara Errani of Italy 6-4, 6-4, Swiss qualifier Timea Bacsinszky defeated No. 13 Ekaterina Makarova 6-4, 6-1, and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic had a 6-4, 6-4 win over No. 16 Andrea Petkovic of Germany.

Eighth-seeded Caroline Wozniacki, however, held SAO PAULO, SEPTEMoff Carla Suarez Navarro of BER 23 (AP): One of BraSpain 6-1, 3-6, 7-6 (4). zil's most successful clubs is facing harsh criticism from supporters after enduring one of its worst losses ever, prompting some fans to throw rocks and bottles at the bus carrying its players.

Police intervened and subsequent home match no one was injured in the protest, which came just against Bayern.

Last December, UEFA hours after Palmeiras was charged CSKA for fans dis- trounced 6-0 by Goias playing far-right symbols at a on Sunday, a result that match at Viktoria Plzen, and dropped the traditional imposed the stadium closure club to last place in the 20at its first home Champions team standings.

Local media said the league game this season.

CSKA has again been drawn objects were thrown by a in a group with Bayern and few fans who waited for the Man City, and hosts the Eng- team's return to its hotel in lish champion on Oct. 21. the city of Goiania followIn the latest case, CSKA and ing the defeat, one of the Roma face further UEFA sanctions for fans lighting flares and throwing missiles.

Roma is also charged for "insufficient organization" of the match under UEFA rules which make home clubs liable for security.

al's coach criticized the appointment of a woman as the captain of Spain's Davis Cup team on Tuesday, arguing there are substantial differences between the men's and women's games. His comments have been labeled sexist by Spain's leading political parties, and go against both the backing the decision has received from others in tennis and the history of the sport in the Mediterranean country.

Gala Leon, a former WTA player, became the first woman to be appointed captain of the country's Davis Cup team on Sunday, replacing Carlos Moya. "It is preferable that (the captain) is someone with a

Rafael Nadal's coach and uncle, told Onda Cero radio. "I have nothing against her, I don't know what her capabilities are, and I hope she does her job well, but in theory she is a person that doesn't know men's tennis, because men's tennis isn't the same as women's tennis.

"The truth is that the men's game isn't the same as the women's game on the tactical level, not that one is better than the other." Toni Nadal said he would have agreed with the decision if "you could tell me that she had spent 10 years coaching" on the men's circuit. He added that he expected the job to go to a former men's player,

of Albert Costa, Alex Corretja and Moya.

Leon, who will be presented later Tuesday, briefly told Spanish television she was "very happy, it's undeniable, it's a very good position from where I can do my part to help." "I am not going to talk about the controversy now," Leon replied when asked about Toni Nadal's statements.

Andy Murray, coached by Amelie Mauresmo, tweeted his congratulations to the 40-year-old Leon on Monday. International Tennis Federation vice president Juan Margets also congratulated Leon in a letter, according to the Spanish tennis federation.

Brazilian fans throw rocks, bottles at team's bus

CSKA Moscow faces 3rd UEFA charge for fans racism

NYON, SEPTEMBER 23 (AP): UEFA has charged CSKA Moscow with racist behavior by fans at a Champions League match for the third time in a year. The Russian champion also faces charges over crowd disorder which halted play during a 5-1 loss at Roma last week, UEFA said in a statement.

Fans clashed with riot police at the Olympic Stadium, and the match was stopped for two minutes in the second half. UEFA said its disciplinary panel will deal with the case on Oct. 3.

CSKA Moscow has now been charged with racist behavior by its fans at three of its past five matches in

INCHEON, SEPTEMBER 23 (REUTERS): China's swimmers provided another imposing demonstration of their seemingly bottomless depth of talent by scooping up six gold medals in the pool at the Asian Games on Tuesday.

Led by London Olympic champions Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen, the Chinese transformed the Munhak Aquatics Centre into their own private pool party, winning all but one of the seven titles decided on the third night of swimming finals. Sun, who took a day off after being beaten by Kosuke Hagino in the 200 metres freestyle on Sunday and injuring his thumb when he hit the touchpad, was better suited by the longer distance and avenged his loss to the rising Japanese star when he successfully defended his 400m freestyle title.

Ye, whose eye-popping performances at the London Olympics led to thinly-veiled accusations from other nations about the source of her success, turned the women's 400 individual medley into a virtual time-trial.

She steamed clear of the field from the start and was never challenged as she made an audacious attempt to break her own world record.

China also provided a sneak preview of their next wave of potential Olympic

worst in the history of the club celebrating its centennial this year.

There were other cases of fan violence in Brazil this weekend, including a confrontation between different Corinthians fan groups at its stadium. The supporters clashed on the stands and police had to intervene with batons to disperse the crowd. In Belo Horizonte, Cruzeiro fans threw rocks at the bus carrying players of rival Atletico Mineiro before a match at the Mineirao Stadium. There were no reports of injuries in the two incidents.

Authorities said four Atletico Mineiro fans heading to the stadium sustained minor injuries after being

shot at while at a bus stop in Belo Horizonte, but it wasn't clear if the violence was directly related to rival fan groups.

When Palmeiras arrived back in Sao Paulo on Monday, team officials avoided using the airport's arrivals terminal in fear of further protests. Players entered the bus directly on the tarmac before heading back to the team's headquarters.

Most of the fans' criticism is against team president Paulo Nobre, who is accused of making too many poor signings since taking over the club. Nobre earlier this year took a chance on hiring Argentine coach Ricardo Gareca, who lasted only three months

on the job after winning only four of 27 points while in command.

The Brazilian team with the most national titles, Palmeiras was losing 4-0 by the 37th minute on Sunday. Goias, 10th in the Brazilian league standings, had the competition's second-worst attack coming into the weekend.

"What happened was very unusual," recently hired Palmeiras coach Dorival Jr. said. "Now we have to move on and find a solution. Things can't stay like this. We need a change in attitude so we can start giving some hope to our fans."

It was Palmeiras' worst Brazilian league loss since a 6-0 defeat to Internacio-

nal in 1981. Palmeiras lost 6-2 to minnow Mirassol in the Sao Paulo state championship last year, and 6-0 again to Coritiba in the Brazilian Cup in 2011. One of its worst losses was a 7-2 home defeat to Vitoria in the Brazilian Cup in 2003.

The team has 22 points from 23 matches in the 20-team Brazilian league standings, although it is only one point away from the first team outside relegation zone. The bottom four clubs are demoted.

Palmeiras is trying to avoid its second consecutive relegation, and third in its 100-year history. Palmeiras played in the second division in 2003 and in 2013.

GHHS Phek annual sports week begins

Valencia up to second thanks to 3-0 win at Getafe

MADRID, SEPTEMBER 23 (REUTERS): Valencia continued their solid start to La Liga and climbed to second when recent Spain recruit Paco Alcacer set them on their way to a 3-0 win at Getafe on Monday. Forward Alcacer, who scored on his competitive Spain debut in this month's 5-1 Euro 2016 qualification victory against Macedonia, fired Valencia ahead in the seventh minute at Getafe's Coliseum stadium in the Madrid suburbs.

Midfielder Andre Gomes made it 2-0 in the 20th minute. Striker Rodrigo had an eventful second half when he netted a 72nd-minute penalty before earning a second yellow card and getting sent off a minute later. The victory lifted Valencia into second place after four matches, level

on 10 points with Sevilla and two behind early leaders Barcelona, the only team with a perfect record.

Four-times World Player of the Year Lionel Messi starred as Barca scored a thumping 5-0 win at Levante on Sunday, while champions Atletico Madrid have eight points in fourth following Saturday's 2-2 draw at home to Celta Vigo. Real Madrid are seventh on six points after they hammered hapless Deportivo La Coruna 8-2 on Saturday to help the stuttering European champions put consecutive La Liga defeats behind them. Hopes are high at Valencia, who failed to qualify for Europe last season, that a takeover by Singapore billionaire Peter Lim will help the club put years of financial woes behind.

PHEK, SEPTEMBER 23 (DIPR): The Government Higher Secondary School Phek, began its Annual Sports Week 2014 on September 23 with the theme “Strive in truth and Shine” at local ground

Phek with DC Phek and Managing Board Chairman, Murohu Chotso as the chief guest.

The DC in his address appreciated and congratulated the participants and faculty members for

having great patience in organizing the function well despite the bad weather. He cited some example of good sportsmanship who represented our country and participated in the Olympics, like

Talimeren Ao, Chekrovolu and Mary Kom. He encouraged participant to give great effort to catch up to the tactics of China, Japan and Korea so as to be competitive with others. He advised

the students to sincerely play with enthusiasm by maintaining good sportsmanship to get a mark in their lives. The chief guest later declared the G.H.H.S annual week open and lighted a torch.

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he Battle of the Bands rock contest kick-started on September 23 with the first leg of the screening round held at Mokokchung. Funk Fuzz and Third Reich clearly emerged as the judges’ favourites at the au-

dition held at Longkumer Kilem.

The two bands will compete at the second round with other bands selected at the Kohima and Dimapur legs of the screening round scheduled on September 25 and 27, respectively.

The venue for the Kohima screening round will be DUDA Guest House, while the screening round in Dimapur will be held at the Symbios conference hall.

The bands, which get the judges’ nod of approval at the

screening round, will perform at the second elimination round of the contest scheduled on October 14 at ‘The Garden’, Naga Shopping Arcade, Dimapur.

The event organiser, Hillspraise Music Society in associ-

ation with Zip Sound Engineering, has roped in professional musicians to judge the event.

The panel of judges include crooner Alo Wanth, Atsaba (Incipit guitarist) and guitar maestro Manen jamir.

Dimapur based gospel rock band Chickenhead (left to right Thomas - vocals, Mankon - lead, Mhathung - drums & Bendang - bass) pose for lens on stage after winning the Auxesis 4.0 2014 organized by Dibrugarh University on theme 'ransack-raid the rostrum' held from Sept. 19 to 22, 2014 at Dibrugarh.

THIRD REICH FUNK FUZZ Formed on September 2013 Vocal - Along Guitar - Wati Bass - Lipok Drum - Yanger Funk Fuzz is an experimental rock band made up of people with a common interest in trying out different musical genre and rhythms, who love to spread and explore the world of music.

Formed on August 2014 Vocal - Kibulong Imsong Guitar (Lead) - Chaknung Imchen Guitar - Yanger Jamir Bass - Alem Jamir Drum - Kilem Keitzar Manager - Takoinba Third Reich is a loaded ready-to-burst progressive band, who loves to experiment with new sounds, giving their everything, fusing rhythm and emitting into the space for the world to hear. And that’s what they are here for playing what they do best.

'The Lion King' musical becomes most 'successful' production

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he Lion King' musical is the most successful production ever and has earned more money at box office, whether it is in comparison to any other stage show or movie. Based on the successful 1994 Disney animation film, the musical has earned more than 6.2 billon dollars in ticket sales alone, beating Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'The Phantom

of the Opera,' the BBC reported.

The production, which featured music by Elton John, with lyrics by Tim Rice, began on Broadway in 1997, and was the highest-grossing musical on the New York stage in 2013, and still maintains its number one position so far in 2014. It has had 22 productions around the world, which are believed to have

had around 75 million audiences.

'Phantom' producers Cameron Mackintosh and The Really Useful Group congratulated 'The Lion King' in a statement, and even called their rival show, The Pride of Broadway.

Thomas Schumacher, Disney's Theatrical Productions president said that the show's impact was emotional and felt deeply proud.

Miley Cyrus Burglars to Face Imprisonment

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he two burglars who broke into Miley Cyrus' home in June are to be imprisoned. Tylor Scott and Naomi Charles broke into the 'Wrecking Ball' hitmaker's property earlier in the summer, stealing her Maserati, purses, clothes and jewellery. The pair both pleaded guilty to one count of felony residential burglary on Monday (22.09.14), TMZ reports. Scott also pleaded guilty to a charge of felony grand theft and was sentenced to four years behind bars. The thief's sentencing was influenced by his prior convictions, as well as the fact he held a gun during the robbery of 21-year-old singer's home. Charles, meanwhile, will face a

year in a county jail. The duo robbed Miley's home when she was out of town over the summer, but were arrested a few days later after the police identified them using surveillance video. Earlier this month, Miley risked spending time in a Mexican jail after delivering one of her typically controversial onstage performances. The singer stirred trouble after one of her dancers playfully smacked the prosthetic butt she was sporting at the gig in Monterrey, Mexico with the symbolic piece of fabric. TMZ suggested Miley had angered the congress of the state of Nuevo Leon and could face 36 hours in jail or a fine of $1,200.

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Bindra signs off with two Bronze medals

Earlier in the day, Bin- failed to reach the final.

98, 99 and 93 in three shots, Incheon, September The gold went to the respectively. Gurpreet, with 23 (IAnS): Abhinav Bindra dra had also led India to the ended his shooting career bronze medal in the 10 me- Chinese team of Yifel Cao 284-6x, took 14th position with his first Asian Games tre air rifle men's team event. (630.7-54x), Haoran Yang and Tamang was 19th with individual medal, a bronze, Bindra's individual bronze (629.2-54x) and Tianyou a score of 277-5x.

Stage 1 was topped by and also inspired the 10 me- medal was India's eighth Liu (626.5-50x) with an actre air rifle team to another medal in the Incheon Games cumulated score of 1,886.4- China's Yuehong Li, who bronze in the 17th Asian and sixth from the shooting 158x. South Korea grabbed scored 295-19x. Stage 2 of Games at the Ongnyeon In- range. Bindra's bronze also the silver after the trio of the qualification and the fiternational Shooting Range marks the end of an illustri- Sangdo Kim (626.1-48x), nal will take place Wednesday. In women's trap, here Tuesday.

Medal Tally the team of Shreyasi The 2008 Olympic Singh, Seema Tomar champion Bindra, who RaNK Country Gold Silver Bronze Total and Shagun ChowdMonday tweeted that 1 China 40 21 20 81 hary finished eighth.

Tuesday will be his last South Korea 18 18 21 57 India had a combined day as a professional, 2 Japan 13 15 16 44 total of 188 and finrecorded a final score 3 ished far behind KaMongolia 3 3 6 12 of 187.1 to take the 4 zkahstan, who took third position as Chi- 11 India 1 1 9 11 gold with a score of na finished one-two with Haoran Yang (209.6) ous career with an elusive Hyeonjun Kim (622.3-44x) 203. China took silver (199) and Jinseop Han (619.2- while North Korea (198) clinching the gold medal Asiad individual medal.

"There is no question 44x) shot a total of 1,867.6- settled for bronze. and Yifel Cao (208.9) takof relief. I did well. I won 136x. The bronze medal Shreyasi was the top ing the silver.

Bindra looked like fin- a medal. Relief is not the was India's seventh medal performer for India in the ishing fourth till his pen- emotion at the moment. I in the Incheon Games and final but failed to get the ultimate round but Iran's am just happy," said Bindra. fifth from the shooting required support from her Earlier, Bindra spear- range. But there was disap- compatriots Seema and Pourya Norouziyan, who needed a 9.9 to ensure his headed the men's team to pointment for India in the Shagun. Shagun was esprogress after the 31-year- win the bronze in the 10 men's 25m rapid fire pistol pecially poor with an individual combined score old Indian shot 10.5, scored metre air rifle event. The event and women's trap.

Harpreet Singh finished of 59 after three rounds a poor 9.6 to slip to the Indian team comprising fourth spot and handed Bindra (625.4-47x), Ravi seventh as Gurpreet Singh while Seema shot 63 with Bindra a medal. Bindra Kumar (618.9-43x) and and Pemba Tamang failed Shreyasi (66) scoring three scored 10.6 and 10.7 in his Sanjeev Rajput (618.7-45x) to impress in the men's 25 more points. Anastassiya final two shots but it was shot a total of 1,863-135x to metre rapid fire pistol qual- Davydova was the top indiIndia's Abhinav Bindra prepares to shoot during the men's 10m air rifle final competition at the 17th Asian Games Tuesday, not enough to stop the claim third position. Ravi ification stage 1. Harpreet vidual scorer in the finals, September 23 in Incheon, South Korea. (AP Photo) (20th) and Rajput (21st) scored 290-8x with scores of notching 71 points. rampaging Chinese duo.

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sanathoi, narender give india two wushu bronze medals Incheon, September 23 (IAnS): India had to settle for two bronze medals in wushu after Sanathoi Devi and Narender Grewal lost their respective semi-final bouts in the sanda category in the 17th Asian Games at the Ganghwa Dolmens Gymnasium here, Tuesday. Sanathoi settled for the bronze after she lost her semi-final bout to Chinese Luan Zhang in wushu women's sanda (52kg). The Manipuri girl lost 0-2 to the Chinese.

Shortly after, Grewal also had to content himself with a bronze medal after he lost his men's sanda (60kg) wushu semi-final bout to Filipino Saclag Jean Claude. Earlier in the day, Y. Sapana Devi finished seventh in the final of the women's changquan event. Sapana scored 9.27 points out of 10 as she collected 4.7 for quality of management, 2.57 for overall performance and two for degree of difficulty. Though Macau's Man Cho Sou and Iran's Hanieh Rajabi also finished with 9.27 points, they have been ranked eighth and ninth, respectively, on the basis of lesser number marks for degree of difficulty.

Cho Sou bagged 1.9 points for degree of difficulty to be placed higher than Rajabi, who got 1.85 points.

China's Wencong Kan won gold with 9.75 while Hong Kong's Xiaoling Geng walked away with silver, collecting 9.66 points, which is 0.3 better than bronze medal winner Ni Yan Tan of Singapore. India's tally in wushu from the Asian Games is now five. W. Shandyarani Devi won a silver in women's sanda 60kg in 2010, while M Bimoljit Singh bagged a bronze each both in 2006 and 2010 in men's Sanda 60kg event.

indian men's hockey team beats oman 7-0 Incheon, September 23 (IAnS): Indian men's hockey team notched up its second consecutive win in the Asian Games beating Oman 7-0 at the Soenhak Hockey Stadium here Tuesday. Drag flickers Rupinder Pal Singh and V.R. Raghunath struck a brace each while Akashdeep Singh, S.V. Sunil and Danish Mujtaba scored goals apiece. India won 8-0 against Sri Lanka in their opening match of the hockey tournament.

Both the teams made a careful start and in the first quarter the focus was on the defence. It was early in the second quarter of the match that India secured a penalty corner and Rupinder splendidly converted it into a goal in the 18th minute.

In the next minute, Rupinder was again on target and converted yet another penalty corner to double the lead for India. India continued their dominance in the third quarter as well. It was Akashdeep in the 33rd minute who made no mistake to convert a penalty corner taking the score to 3-0 and Raghunath immediately sliced in a penalty stroke in the 39th minute to increase the lead by 4-0.

The fourth quarter of the match saw Oman trying to penetrate the Indian half. The Indian midfielders and defence line-up held their ground and snatched away the opportunities from Oman. It was only in the 54th minute of the game when Indian forward Sunil converted a penalty corner to take the score to 5-0. A field goal pierced by Mujtaba in the 60th minute and Raghunath converting another penalty corner in the same minute completed the scoreline for India. India will be play their third match against Pakistan, Thursday and will end the group stage against China, Saturday.

nagaland school enters final in U-14 in Subroto Cup C M Y K

neW DeLhI, September 23 (ptI): Greenwood High School from Nagaland entered the final of the Under-14 category competition of the 55th Edition of Subroto Cup International football tournament after defeating defending champions Govt Chawngfianga Middle School from Mizoram 1-0 at the Dr Ambedkar Stadium here today. Nagaland boys, who were the title-holders in 2013, made amends for their early exit in 2014.

Striker Tokavi used his head to a great advantage as he got the winning goal four minutes before the teams went for the break. Following a free kick from midfield Nighatu, Tokavi trapped the ball in the rival box and headed home in the 21st minute.

Another Delhi outfit, Government Boys Senior Secondary Schoo, Moti Bagh, beat Lseling Lower Secondary School from Bhutan 2-0. Ishwan was the star for the winners as he struck both goals. Khrumediengei Secondary School from Meghalaya defeated Emerald Heights School from MP 5-0. The Army Boys from Lucknow accounted for Zahira College from Sri Lanka 3-0, the latter's second successive loss.

Namchi Sports Hostel boys from Sikkim beat Maharana Pratap Sports College from Uttarakhand 1-0. For the Sikkim outfit, the lone game came from Roshan Suba as early as in the 17th minute.

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