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Tragedy in Mecca

NPCC launch roadmap to up Congress graph in Nagaland At least 717 people killed; worst tragedy in 25 years

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MINA, SEPTEMBER 24 (REUTERS): At least 717 pilgrims were killed on Thursday in a stampede outside the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi authorities said, the worst disaster to strike the annual haj pilgrimage in 25 years. At least 805 others were injured in the crush at Mina, a few kilometres east of Mecca, caused by two large groups of pilgrims arriving together at a crossroads on their way to performing the “stoning the devil” ritual at Jamarat, Saudi civil defence said. Thursday’s disaster was the worst to befall the pilgrimage since July 1990, when 1,426 pilgrims were crushed to death in a tunnel near Mecca. Both stampedes occurred on Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice), Islam’s most important feast and the day of the stoning ritual. The haj, the world’s largest annual gathering of people, has been the scene of numerous deadly stampedes, fires and riots in the past, but their frequency

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Kohima | September 24

Survivors assess the scene from the top of roadside stalls near white tents as rescue workers in comb the area where more than 700 people were killed in a stampede at Mina, near Mecca on September 24. (AP Photo)

was greatly reduced in recent years as the government spent billions of dollars upgrading and expanding haj infrastructure

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DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 24 (MExN): The Sumi Totimi Hoho (STH) Aghunato and The Aghunato Town Students’ Union (ATSU) held a public rally on September 21 to protest against the alleged rape of a minor by a 56 year old man at Aghunato Town. A press note from the two organisations identified the accused as one Ghukiye Achumi, who has been accused of “raping a 7 years old girl of Zheishe village under Aghunato sub-division, studying in class 1.” “According to the police statement of the victim, she has been raped on five occasions,” it added. The Village Council Chairman and the GB from Zheishe village, along with members of the Students’ Union and the Sumi Totimi Hoho Aghunato urged “befitting punishment as per the law.” After the rally, a memorandum was submitted to the ADC, “demanding licence cancellation of the shop and the Government service of the accused.” It further demanded that no bail be granted to the accused and that “no family members of the accused rapist should be replaced to his service.” Zunheboto Police could not be reached to ascertain the details of the case.

project collapsed during a storm and toppled off the roof into the main courtyard, crushing pilgrims underneath.

NRHM employees left stranded with no pay Morung Express News Dimapur | September 24

The employees working under the centrally sponsored flagship scheme National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Nagaland are once again at the receiving end due to non-payment of their salaries since the last three month. This is despite the fact that funds meant for their salary have already been transferred by the Centre to the State treasury, NRHM employees stated today. “It has become very difficult for us to attend to our duty because of the nonpayment of our salaries and if this continues, we might have to abstain work from next month onwards,” the employees stated. Salaries for the month of June, July, and August has not been released and the medical department had reportedly told the employees that

Youth succumbs to injury after fight KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 24 (MExN): One person succumbed to injuries resulting out of a fight between two groups of persons in Kohima on September 23. Kohima police, in a press note, informed that on September 23 at around 8:00pm, information was received at South Police Station Kohima that a fight erupted at Box-cutting area, Kohima. On receipt of the information, a police team rushed to the spot, but by the time the police team arrived, the two parties had already left the place. Police however learnt that one person injured in the fight was admitted at Naga Hospital Kohima. The police on reaching the hospital found the victim already declared dead by the medical officer of Naga Hospital Kohima. The deceased, who had suffered serious injuries to his head, was identified as one Medosetuo Suohu (21 years). After holding the inquest report, the body of the deceased is being kept at South PS Morgue for postmortem, which is scheduled to be held today. During preliminary investigation, it was ascertained that the altercation started after five people had a misunderstanding

and crowd control technology. Two weeks ago 110 people died in Mecca’s Grand Mosque when a crane working on an expansion

with two boys who were at the park above the box cutting area. According to the police, the two boys called seven of their friends to the spot, after which there was further altercation between the two groups. Police said that an FIR has been filed at South PS Kohima, on the basis of which a case vide Kohima South PS Case No. 0104/15 U/S 302/34 IPC was registered against 9 people. During the course of investigation, all the nine accused were arrested on September 23 and 24 in order to ascertain the facts of the case. Among the nine arrested, four are minors while five are adults. While the names of the minors are being withheld, the five adults arrested have been identified as Kevizoto (19), David Kape (19), Meyato Rhuno (20), Vilabeizo Theunuo (20), and Setongba Sangtam (19). All the arrested persons were produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Kohima on September 24 and remanded to judicial custody. Further investigation in this connection is on and the post mortem report of the deceased is awaited to ascertain the actual cause of death, police added.

they can release salary of one month only, it was informed. Apart from administration staffs, even doctors and nurses at NRHM are totally dependent on the salary because they cannot practice anywhere else while working with NRHM as is the contract. The employees alleged that even though the funds have already been released by the Centre to the State treasury, they have either been diverted for some other projects or have been put in civil deposit. They also pointed out that the Central government, in order to give more power to the State government and to avoid misuse of the funds transfers the NRHM funds directly to the State treasury instead of the medical department bank account. It also directs the State government to release the funds meant for NRHM within a stipulated time of 15 days once

it reaches the State treasury. While appealing the Department of Health & Family Welfare and the State treasury to release the whole amount of their pending salaries, the employees also demanded that the State government and the department concerned give proper explanation through media as why they (employees) have to suffer when the Centre has already released the funds. “If this continues, we will be compelled to stop going to work from next month onwards,” the employees further cautioned. This is not the first time NRHM workers in Nagaland have endured hardship due to non-payment of salaries. In August 2014, NRHM employees from over the State remained absent from work from as they protested the non-payment of their salaries by the health department since April 2014.

Amidst wide protest from a section of Congress party workers over the disqualification petitioned against the eight Congress MLAs and other related issues, the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) on Thursday went ahead to launch its road map at the Congress Bhavan, Kohima in the presence of All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary, Nagaland in-charge, V Narayanswamy and Dr Jayakumar, AICC secretary, Nagaland in-charge. “Congress is at a crossroad in Nagaland. The Congress graph has gone down and it’s time to bring it up again,” Dr Jayakumar announced on the occasion. Underlining the reasons that led to downfall of Congress, Jayakumar said it failed because of strategic mistakes, improper decisions and lack of resources. Appealing the Congress followers to tolerate and cooperate for a while, Jayakumar indicated that the NPF party was vertically divided and sailing through a very delicate situation. The AICC secretary, Nagaland in-charge also hoped that Nagas will not allow ‘fascist forces’ to become rooted in Nagaland. He also requested the party workers to keep aside their petty differences and hoped that the roadmap will bring the party back to power. Earlier, NPCC president K Therie in his welcome address noted that the roadmap intends to lead the people of Nagaland for a better tomorrow. According to the NPCC, the roadmap will move in a new political direction to thwart communal forces and to provide an alternative political and economic route for the people against the backdrop of regression in the nation and the state. Contents in the roadmap of Nagaland include removal of planning commission; urgency of electoral reforms, rule of ruin and state of affairs, NPCC’s stand and Congress assurances on administrative reforms, good governance, welfare schemes, women participation, minority participa-

A section of Congress party workers seen protesting during the launching of the roadmap on Thursday at Kohima. (Morung Photo)

tion, challenges to bring up the new generations, job and resource oriented development programs, poverty reduction, economy of the state, climate change and evaluations. Following the launching of the Congress roadmap, the NPCC delegates and presidents of District Congress Committees (DCC) and Assembly Congress Constituency Committees (ACCC) also resolved to demand that Government of India (GoI) and State government to review the abrogation of the ceasefire with NSCN (K). It also resolved to appeal to all secular minded people to come together to defend freedom of religion and social practices as special attention has been drawn by the aggressive designs and movements of communal forces through the lines of religion as adopted by BJP.

ACCCs seeks withdrawal of disqualification petition against 8 MLAs

All is not well within the Congress family as Thursday launching of the party’s roadmap witnessed protest from members of the party. Halfway through the programme, Assembly Congress Constituency Committee (ACCC) members, with placards and banners, created uproar inside the Congress Bhavan while demanding withdrawal of the disqualification petition on the eight MLAs. Around 44 ACCC presidents from the total 66 joined the protest and warned the house that it was ready to withdraw cooperation to the party with effect from October 4 if the disqualification petition against the eight MLAs was not

withdrawn. The ACCC presidents noted that the MLAs have not joined the government on their own accord. The committee also asserted that they were also aware of the intensive discussions held at the state level and had also endorsed the MLAs to join the government. The agitated protestors also sought explanation from NPCC president K Therie on the issue of unceremoniously ousting several ACCC leaders. While accusing Therie of being pro-BJP, they also demanded to know why random decisions have been made without the consent of the rest of the NPCC leaders. AICC general secretary V Narayanswamy was also demanded explanation on the issue of the ‘commission’ allegedly cut from the 6th Central pay commission (Revision of Pay) of 712 crore released to Nagaland in 2012. Further, they also demanded withdrawal of suspension order on ACCCs; put on hold the revamping process and removal of the present NPCC president. The roadmap launching programme was disrupted for more than two hours due to the protest. Therie is learnt to have told the ACCC presidents that their grievances would be addressed in a proper and systematic manner but not under duress. A meeting between the AICC officials and senior PCC members was convened in the evening to discuss on the revocation of the disqualification petition among other issues. A senior PCC member, when contacted, confirmed about the meeting. He, however, declined to comment on the outcome of the meeting.

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ICFAI University Nagaland sounds the ‘BizHorn’—a management fest

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Dimapur | September 24

In a time of woes and cries over the road condition in Nagaland, the Kalos a nonprofit group pulled in resources available from in and around Pfutsero to give a facelift on the road leading to Pfutsero town Baptist Church from the Glory Peak- Phek road junction to embrace the CBCC women convention. it may be mentioned that the support towards this work came in from a wide range of people from the schoolchildren, church workers, PWD dept Pfutsero, contractors, and retired personals. Neiba Kronu, parliamentary secretary, planning and coordination, evaluation and monitoring cell contributed bitumen towards the road repairing.

NEICORD train volunteers for village level information

Wokha, September 24 (mexN): For improving access to information for the Public Schemes Projects in North East India NEICORD, ACTED and local partner Team Metamorphosis Wokha have been working hard to cre-

ate enough awareness in Wokha district of Nagaland. A press note stated that Wokha is the only district in Nagaland projected to be helped by NEICORD amongst Seven other districts from the North East India. To provide adequate

information to the common people in the district NEICORD started the training of the volunteers for disseminating information at the village level from September 19 to 23 at its office. Limakum Jamir District

Coordinator was the resource person. All together, fourteen volunteers covering Wokha sardar have attended the training. The same training shall be held with the Bhandari block from September 29 to October 2 at Bhandari.

ICFAI University Nagaland, at 6th Mile, Sovima, today began a two-day management festival, BizHorn 2015. Organised by its Department of Management, the theme of this year’s festival is ‘Collaborating Thoughts, Creating Ideas.’ It will be held on September 24 and 25, with participation from various learning institutions from Nagaland. “The world today is asking for something original. For that you need creativity which fests like BizHorn provide a platform for,” said Khrienuo C. Metha, Secretary and Team Leader of the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency (NBDA), Government of Nagaland. She was speaking as chief guest at the inaugural programme of the festival. The NBDA has a close working relationship with the ICFAI University Nagaland, providing students with internship opportunities. The NBDA team leader noted that the youth are

Khrienuo C. Metha, Secretary and team leader of NBDa speaks at the inauguration of BizHorn 2015, a management fest of the iCFai university Nagaland, on September 24. (Morung Photo)

the generation of today. “Today it is time for you to work your minds, explore your minds and see what you are capable of—a festival like this gives you that opportunity,” she said to the students, encouraging them to “come up with something that will amaze us all!” This is an era of growth and entrepreneurship, Metha explained to the students, quoting inspiring lessons from founder of Alibaba Group, Jack Ma. Ac-

cording to Metha, he said that below 20 years of age, one must take their studies seriously. Below 30 years, one should join a small company and learn from a competent boss in order to develop passion and try your hands in different areas. From 30-40 years of age, focus on yourself and work towards what you are good at with a clear mind. From 40-50 years of age, you are where you are supposed to be. From 50-60, invest in young minds.

Earlier, in a welcome address, Pro-Vice Chancellor of ICFAI University Nagaland Dr. CP Alexander informed that this is the second time BizHorn is being held after a good response to it in 2014. ICFAI was first established in 1984 in Hyderabad, he said, and it now has 11 universities all over India, including five in the North East of the Indian subcontinent. The one in Nagaland, established in 2006, now has more than 400 students with more than 20 teaching staff. He hoped that the simulation of business environment at the BizHorn festival will help students have an enriching experience. Wapangsenla Imchen, Head of the Department of Management, gave an overview of the festival. The Festival will see such events as debate, sketching, table tennis, mock interview, PC gaming, business plan making, paper art, corporate relay, role play, ad campaign designing, quiz and puzzles, and even a dance mania!

Tohanba calls for public cooperation Dialogue on ‘Local Markets & Vending’ Morung Express News

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Parliamentary Secretary for Municipal Affairs, Economics & Statistical, R Tohanba today called upon the people to cooperate with the present government and work together hand in hand to make Nagaland a peaceful and progressive society. The parliamentary secretary, R Tohanba solicited the cooperation from the public with the Municipal Affairs department while having a meeting with the Mokokchung Municipal Council, Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce & Industries, ward authorities and GBs at the MMC conference hall here today. “I would like to impress upon all of you to cooperate with the present government and work together hand in hand to make Nagaland for peace and progress for development and economic sovereignty,” said Tohanba. About the 33 percent reservation issue, Tohanba disclosed that he is talking with the different women organizations as to how to bring an amicable solution can be brought about to this issue with regard to the municipal and town committee elections in the state. He also lauded the present DAN government under Chief Minister TR Zeliang for bifurcating the Urban Development Department into two depart-

Parliamentary Secretary R tohanba while speaking with the MMC, MCCi, Ward authorities and GBs at the MMC conference hall on Friday, September 24, 2015. Nla Deputy Speaker, imtikumzuk (left) and addl director & Hod MaC, toshimanen (right) are also seen in the picture. (Morung Photo)

ments and for getting the privilege of being the first parliamentary secretary of the newly created Municipal Affairs department. “In the three tier system of government, Municipal Affairs which is the Local Government is the basis. As such it has a very important role in the governance of the citizens,” said R Tohanba. Earlier, the ADC & Administrator MMC, Bendanglila, who chaired the programme, presented a brief highlight of about the Mokokchung Municipal Council, the immediate needs of the municipality, and future scope for development. She highlighted about the need for proper housing of the MMC sweepers and labourers, the need to renovate the Vegetable market (Old Town Hall), the relocation of the garbage dumping place, the need for a cess-

pool vehicle, mini-garbage disposal vans like pick-up trucks etc. The Parliamentary Secretary assured that he would look into the issues. Representative from the MCCI and All Ward Union, Mokokchung also spoke at the function. The Parliamentary Secretary was accompanied by Deputy Speaker and local representative from Aonglenden A/C, Imtikumzuk and other top officials from the Municipal Affairs Department and Statistical Department. After the meeting, the Parliamentary Secretary also inspected the district Statistical Office and interacted with the officers. The Parliamentary Secretary is scheduled to be the chief guest at the 13th Eastern Nagaland Students’ Union, Mokokchung General Session cum Literary Day on Friday, September 25 at Cosmos hall.

Dimapur, September 24 (mexN): North East Network (NEN), Exotic Echo Society & SEWA Nagaland is organising a discussion on ‘Local Markets & Vending – Emerging Concerns in Nagaland’ at NMM Conference Hall, Duncan Bosti, Dimapur on September 28. Kesonyu Yhome, Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur will attend the event as the guest of honour. Neimhanu Kulnu, Programme Associate, NEN will speak on ‘Local markets & street vending with special focus on women vendors in Nagaland- Sharing of the Study Findings & follow up work. District Urban Development Officer & CoConvenor, City Mission Management Unit, Dima-

pur will dwell on ‘National Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act 2014: Relevance, Gaps & Strategies in the context of Nagaland’ while Role Play by SEWA Dimapur while be on ‘My Identity & Respect.’ The speakers for the penal discussion includes MY Ngullie, President, GB Union, Dimapur; Thungbemo Murry, Chairman, BAN; Khegholi Awomi, Women Coordinator, DCCI; President, Survival Nagaland; Amenla, Vendor, SEWA Dimapur. The discussion is organised with the objectives to provide a platform for discussion on emerging concerns of ‘local markets & vending’ amongst diverse stakeholders, thereby

creating wider awareness, deepen understanding on the issue, and share strategies/solutions and to provide a platform for women vendors to learn, share their experiences and also build networks.

Emerging Concerns in Nagaland Local markets play an important role in providing spaces for local producersvendors to directly sell their produce to consumers or to middle persons. In the context of Nagaland, these markets are managed by local councils to whom it belongs, though some are owned and managed by private individuals. In all these built-up local markets where local produce are sold, the presence of

Disability certificate for differently abled persons

kohima, September 24 (Dipr): The District Administration, Kohima in collaboration with the Departments of Medical, Social Welfare, School Education and Rural Development along with Nagaland Parents Association for Disabled (NAPAD) and other NGOs is organizing a Disability Medical Assessment Camp at Naga Hospital Authority Kohima (NHAK) from September 28 to 30.

During the Assessment Camp, Specialist Doctors in ENT, Orthopedic, Ophthalmologist and Clinical Psychiatrist will be available to examine the patient. The Doctors will assess the percentage of the disability and issue the Disability Certificate for the persons with 40% disability or more. The persons with 40% and above can avail any governmental scheme provided by the Government of India for the disabled.

The Disability Medical Assessment Camp is being organized for Tseminyu and Chiephobozou circle on 28th September; Jakhama, Secȕ and Kezocha circle on September 29 and for Kohima Sadar on 30th September 2015 at NHAK from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. In this connection, all the concerned persons have been informed to come forward and avail the opportunity.

local vendors, particularly women vendors have always been dominant until recently. In recent years, it has been observed that many of these local markets, existing and newer ones are increasingly accommodating non-local men who sell non-local produce, and this is one among several serious concerns that need to be reflected upon. On one hand, the presence of local women vendors on the roadsides/pavements/streets of Nagaland, selling their produce or of produce of their fellow sisters are increasing day by day. Whereas local women vendors contribute significantly in sustaining the agrobiodiversity of Nagaland, supporting thousands of local producers’ liveli-

hoods, so also promoting the local food culture, yet their contribution remains unrecognized and their livelihoods insecure. Unless the livelihood of the local women vendors is safeguarded, the food chain, local food culture and the livelihoods of the producers will be greatly affected. To pave the way towards sustainable livelihoods of the local people, deepening one’s understanding on the above issues is crucial. Though the National Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act was passed in 2014, Nagaland is yet to have in place a State policy for Street Vendors. Besides, there are several other concerns that need serious deliberation.

NLA secretariat informs

kohima, September 24 (mexN): Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) speaker Chotisuh Sazo, who is also the chairman of the House Committee has convened the first meeting of the House Committee on September 29 at 11:00 am in the Committee Room of the Assembly Secretariat for revision of the salaries, allowances and others facilities etc. of the members and pension for ex-members. All concerned committee members have been requested to attend the meeting.

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D.El.Ed trainees in Kiphire informed kiphire, September 24 (mexN): All the teacher-trainees undergoing D.El.Ed program under NIOS at GHSS, Kiphire Study Centre have been informed that the personal contact program (PCP) for the 2nd year course will commence at 10.00 am on September 30 at GHSS, Kiphire Study Centre. Therefore, all the teacher-trainees have been informed to attend the PCP without fail.

Updating of National Population CCHE organises seminar on E-Roll and Registration Register from October 1

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Organized by Survival Nagaland to encourage and promote local vendors/ entrepreneurs

kohima, September 24 (mexN): All concerned are informed that updating of the National Population Register and the fieldwork for the house-to-house enumeration throughout the State of Nagaland for collection of information relating to all persons who are residing within the jurisdiction of Local Registrar shall be undertaken with effect from October 1 to 31. The updating of National Population Register (NPR) and seeding of Aadhar in the NPR database shall be carried out in pursuance to the subrule (4) of Rule 3 of the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. The Deputy Commissioners in the State have been appointed as District Registrars in the respective District and are delegated with the power for appointing Charge Officers and Block Enumerators in their respective Districts to carry out the operation. Updating of National Population Register (NPR) and seeding of Aadhar number in the NPR is nationwide exercise to update the growth of population in the country, which is an indicator for growth and development of the nation as a whole. In Nagaland, the exercise will start from October 1 to 31. It is appealed to the public of the State of Nagaland to cooperate with

the Enumerators by providing accurate and unambiguous information such as, name, father’s name, mother’s name, date of birth, address etc. for those person(s) whose name are not found in the list or left out in the National Population Registration 2011 which includes new born for filling up new NPR Forms by the designated official/Enumerator. It is also an opportunity for those person(s) whose information has been entered incorrectly during population enumeration in 2011 Census to rectify those incorrect information such as, incorrect name, date of birth, father’s name, mother’s name, address etc. It is also a duty bound of the respondent to reveal the death of a member of the family or in cases where the whole of the family or some member(s) of the family have migrated out for deletion of those person(s) who have died or migrated out without any apprehension. In this connection, the State Government has appointed the following officials as State Coordinator and District Registrar for clarification of any doubts in connection to updating of NPR in pursuance to the Citizenship Act, 1955 and Rules, 2003 as follows; This was informed in a press release issued by Chief Secretary to the Govt of Nagaland Pankaj Kumar IAS.

kohima, September 24 (mexN): The Capital College of Higher Education Kohima organized a seminar on Awareness on Electoral Roll and Registration on September 24 at Sahitya Sabha Hall P R Hill, Kohima in collaboration with District Election Office Kohima, with R. Mhathung, Asst Election Officer, Office of Deputy Commissioner Kohima as resource person. Speaking at the function

he stressed on the need for registration of electoral roll, deletion or objection, corrections, transposition of electoral roll etc to the students. He also enlightened the students on the ethics of election and clarified the misconceptions amongst the public. Ape Puro Asst Professor chaired the programme and the welcome address by Zokho Venuh, Vice Resource person address the seminar Principal of Capital College of on awareness on Electoral Roll and Higher education. Registration held on September 24.

Yi Nagaland chapter opens free public library

kohima, September 24 (mexN): Young Indians (Yi) Nagaland chapter started a free public library to promote reading called ‘Give one Take one (GoTo)’ based on the concept of book exchange. Chuba Ozukum, HoD CII Nagaland chapter on September 24 in the presence of Yi Nagaland chapter members, inaugurated the library. The books were donated by Yi Nagaland members and well wishers. In the initial stage, it will start off from 4 locations - StarMart Kohima, StarMart Dimapur, Patkai Christian College and St. Joseph's College Jakhama. Young Indians (Yi) is an integral part of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), a non-government, not -for - profit, industry led and industry managed organisation playing a proactive in India's development process. Its membership includes young progressive Indians between the age of 21-40 and comprises of entrepreneurs, professionals and achievers from different walks of life. Chuba ozukum, HoD Cii Nagaland chapter inaugurates the library on September 24.

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New Delhi, September 24 (iANS): Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla has defended his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the violence in Manipur over its state assembly passing three controversial bills, and said he wanted to help his people in the neighbouring state. "I don't want to antagonise anybody. I simply want to help my people in Manipur enjoy their rights within the Constitution of India," Lal Thanhawla said in an interview that will be published in the forthcoming issue of the North East Sun magazine. His remarks came after Manipur's Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam said Lal Thanhawla, a fellow Congressman, should have consulted his party first before writing to the prime minister. The Manipur unit of the Congress has also complained to the party high command. Following a monthslong agitation by people living in the valley districts

of Manipur, the assembly on August 31 passed the Protection of Manipur People Bill, the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms Bill (Seventh Amendment), and the Manipur Shops and Establishments (Second Amendment) Bill ostensibly to protect the rights of the indigenous people. The day the bills were passed, protesters, mainly from tribal organisations, torched five houses belonging to Congress lawmakers. These included the houses of state Health and Family Welfare Minister Phungzathang Tonsing and Lok Sabha member from Outer Manipur Thangso Baite in Churachandpur district. The violence and resultant police action left at least nine people dead. According to the tribes in the hills of Manipur, the bills would directly undermine the existing safeguards for the hill areas regarding land-ownership and population influx, as the primary threat for the tribal people came

not from outside the state but the Meitei people from the valley itself. Lal Thanhawla, in his letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requested that the central government should "not give its consent to the three bills passed by the Manipur legislative assembly as they are directly against the tribal people of the state". In the interview, the Mizoram chief minister said the tribal people have been living in the hills of Manipur for ages and they have their rights. "I was told that if the bills are passed as they are, many tribal people, those who have been living there for ages, would be deprived of their citizenship and their other rights," he said. "That is why, at the request of the people, I thought it was my duty to write to the prime minister to see that all citizens of the country, irrespective of their caste, creed or religion, should live in complete harmony."

He, however, said that though as a Mizo, he was concerned about his own people, "we don't want to do anything against the Manipur government". "I don't want to play any blame game but my only concern is how to restore peace in the state and protect the rights of each citizen of the state. Now that the three bills have been passed, the Kukis and Mizos feel these are anti-tribal," the Mizoram chief minister said. According to him, the Nagas living in the hills of Manipur had asked their legislators not to attend the assembly session and the Kukis and Mizos too did likewise. "I am told that the Nagas abstained from the session but not the Mizos and the Kukis. That is why this trouble has erupted in Churachandpur, which is very unfortunate," he said. Lal Thanhawla pointed out that the Meiteis and subsequent governments of Manipur have been living in complete peace with the tribal peo-

ple for ages. "But how it could erupt in such a way, I am surprised. It is good that the Naga area (in Manipur) is peaceful," he said. Hoping that law and order would be restored soon, he said leaders of various political parties of Mizoram were visiting Manipur to help restore peace and normalcy in the troubled area. "They (Mizo leaders) want to meet all sections of Mizos and Kukis and appeal for peace and calm," the chief minister said. Asked what he felt about the demand for an inner line permit system in Manipur, he said it was a good protection for tribal people from the bigger communities. "But it should not be misused and also should not be misjudged by people of other parts of the country," he said. Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang has also written to the prime minister on the situation in Manipur.

'Govt has ignored my 15 years old hunger strike' Our Correspondent Imphal | September 24

Anti-AFSPA campaigner Irom Chanu Sharmila was today produced before the court of chief judicial magistrate, Imphal West at 11 am. This year on January 22, Sharmila was released after Imphal East district chief judicial magistrate rejected charges of attempt to suicide against her. She was arrested again a day after her release under section 309 of IPC for attempt to commit suicide through her indefinite fast. Dubbed as ‘Iron Lady,’ the 42-year-old rights activ-

and to the home ministry and urge them to decide on it," Gogoi told newsmen on the sidelines of a function. Gogoi and the governor have been at loggerheads many times after Acharya, who was then the Nagaland governor, assumed additional charge of Assam last year. Gogoi was referring to a recent meeting of Acharya with a delegation of the Assam unit of the BJP including the party's Lok Sabha members. The governor urged the BJP legislators and parliamentarians to perform their duties properly before staging a movement

against the 'misdeeds' of the Congress government in the state. Assam's regional political party Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) has also sent a memorandum to President Pranab Mukherjee, informing him about the "controversial" role played by the governor. "The governor has turned Raj Bhavan into a BJP and RSS office and a training centre for the BJP and RSS, which is dangerous for democracy," AGP president Atul Bora said in the memorandum, and sought the intervention of the president.

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State HealtH Society; national HealtH miSSion department of HealtH & family Welfare : naGaland, KoHima

NL/NHM/HR/46/2015-16/8692

Dated Kohima, the 24th Sept. 2015

Applications are hereby invited for filling up the vacant post under National Oral Health Programme – National Health Mission (NHM), Nagaland, as mentioned in the table below; Category of Staff Dental Surgeon Dental Hygienist

Number Place of postSalary (p.m) Qualification of Post ing 1 DH, Mon Rs. 30,000/- Bachelor of Dental Surgery from recognized University. 1 DH, Dimapur Rs. 12,000/- i) 10+2 Science from recognized Board. ii) Diploma in Dental Technician/ Dental Hygienist/Dental Mechanic Course from a Government recognized Institute. iii) Registration with State Dental Council. Exp: 2 yrs exp. in dental college/clinic Dental Assis- 1 IMDH, Mokok- Rs. 10,000/- Matriculate from recognized Board. tant chung Exp: 2 yrs exp. in a dental college/ clinic.

Interested applicants may submit all relevant documents along with phone no. on or before 12th October 2015, addressed to the Mission Director, National Rural Mission, Nagaland, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Ruziezou, Kohima 797001. Interview shall be conducted on 17th October 2015 at 11:00 am at the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Kohima. All applicants are to bring original documents on the day of interview. No separate calling letter shall be issued for the above mentioned interview. For any queries, applicant may contact 0370 2270565 on working days between 11:00 am to 4:00pm. -Sd/(DR. SUKHATO A SEMA), Mission Director, NHM.

Government of naGaland

State HealtH Society; national HealtH miSSion department of HealtH & family Welfare : naGaland, KoHima

NL/NHM/HR/45/2015-16/8691

DimApur, September 24 (mexN): The Governing Body, Executive Board and Finance Committee of the North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) convened its annual meeting at Shilpgram, Guwahati on September 21 under the Chairmanship of PB Acharya, Governor of Nagaland, Assam and Chairman NEZCC. Sreya Guha, Joint Secretary (Culture), Government of India, Bhanulal Saha, Minister of Tripura, Pema Khandu Minister, Arunachal Pradesh and Eshak Konyak, Parliamentary Secretary Nagaland, Secretaries, Directors and

the goal. The next hearing of the case is scheduled for October 12 next. Prior to that, Sharmila is also likely to appear before the Patiala House Court, New Delhi on October 5. Sharmila has been frequently arrested, released and then re-arrested on the charge of attempting to commit suicide. Under Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code the maximum punishment is a one-year jail term. She began her fastunto-death agitation on November 5, 2000 after Assam Rifles killed 10 people in Malom town near Imphal.

Assam launches mobile app to help disaster victims GuwAhAti, September 24 (iANS): The Assam government on Thursday launched a mobile application that will disseminate information about disaster management to the people in need. The application - Disaster Ready Assam - was inaugurated by Chief Secretary V.K. Pipersenia here. "The application could be useful to smartphone users in the state as a fast communication tool to tackle disaster situation be it flood, landslide, fire or earthquake," said an official with the Assam State Disaster

Acharya acting as RSS-BJP activist: Gogoi NEZCC annual meeting held at Shilpgram GuwAhAti, September 24 (iANS): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Thursday said he will write to the president, prime minister and the union home ministry about Governor P.B. Acharya, who he said was behaving like an "RSS and BJP activist" rather than the constitutional head of a state. "The people of the state are aware of it... The governor is behaving more like a Sangh (RSS) activist than a constitutional head of a state. We are going to send video footage of the speeches of the governor to the president, prime minister

ist is on an indefinite fast for nearly 15 years demanding repeal of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA.) After coming out of the court room, Sharmila told journalists the Government of India has refused to recognize and honour her democratic protest demanding repeal of AFSPA. “The Government is taking too much time on purpose in considering the people’s legitimate demand for revocation of AFSPA,” she added. The activist called on the people to join her campaign against the draconian law and do their best to achieve

state representatives from the member states of the North East Region, attended the meeting. Chief Secretary of Assam Vinod Kumar Pipersenia also attended as a special invitee. Besides policy matters, the Governing Body and Executive board resolved to make concerted efforts to ensure that every community in the North East States, with special emphasis to the rural artisans, would be given proper attention so as to ensure that the region’s dynamic cultural heritage attains its deserved respect and appreciation.

Gardener

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an international organisation responsible for preserving cemeteries and memorials around the world commerating the sacrifices made by the Commonwealth forces during the two World Wars. We are seeking candidates for the position of Gardener, based at theKohima War Cemetery, Kohima, Nagaland, India For information about how to apply for this position and to obtain a Fact Sheet and Job Description, interested applicants should contact Manager, Kohima War Cemetery, Kohima, Nagaland, India. Tel: +91 3702292259 | Mobile: +91 9436274484 | Application closing date: Wednesday 30 September 2015. Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 12 October 2015.

Management Authority (ASDMA). "While downloading the app, an user will have to create a personal profile where they can register two phone numbers and once they press the distress button in case of an emergency situation, the application will automatically send distress messages to our control room and the two registered phone numbers." The inbuilt features will help us identify the location of the person by using a location tracking software and rush our personnel for emergency assistance, the official said.

Hologram, a Guwahatibased IT firm, was engaged by the disaster management authority to develop the application and it will be ready for download from Google play as well as from the ASDMA website from Monday. "There is a torch and a system which will generate beep sounds and will alert people in the nearby areas to provide assistance to the person in distress. We believe that the use of this application will further improve our disaster management preparedness," he said.

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Dt. Dimapur the 22nd Sept’ 15

NO.REV-17/2013-D/10808-09/ Notice is hereby given that Smti. Runole Kent@ Smti. Remone Thapa, W/o. Lt. Roshan Thapa applied for correction of name to be corrected and recorded as Smti. Runole Kent declared vide Reg.No.319/15/ Dt.03/09/15, in Patta No.692, Dag No.19/732 located at Block No.7. The undersigned hereby invites claims & concerning to the said land for rectification/correction of name as rightful pattadar on or before 06/10/15. Sd/-, Revenue-Cum-Re-Settlement Officer Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur: Nagaland

oBJection notice

Dated Peren the 23th Sept 2015 NO.PRN/JUDL-SC-1/2015/77

Smit. Reguizeule of Heningkunglwa has applied for issue of Succession Certificate in her name to draw Family Pension of her Late husband Namteilung of Peren District. Public are hereby invited to file claims/Pensions within 30(thirty) days w.e.f date of publication in local papers. If no objection is received from the public within the stipulated time, the said Certificate shall be issued in his/her name. (PETER LICHAMO) Deputy Commissioner, Peren: Nagaland.

Government of naGaland

office of tHe depUty commiSSioner peren: naGaland

NO.PRN/SDR/VCR-1/2015/75

Dated peren the 22nd Sept’ 2015

PUBLIC NOTICE

Public are hereby given 30 (thirty) days for claims/Objections if any from the date of Publication of this Notice for Recognition of Lekieram Village under Peren District Nagaland. Schedule of Boundaries as follows: North – Deukwaram. South – Peletkie Village. East – Peletkie Village. West – Old Jalukie Village. No Claims/Objection will be entertained after the stipulated time. Deputy Commissioner Peren::Nagaland

military enGineer ServiceS e-procUrement tender for mUKHyalaya 137 nirman aBHiyantHa HeadQUarterS 137 WorKS enGineerS, c/o 99 apo HQ 137 Works Engineer, C/O 99 APO on behalf of President of India invites electronic bids form MES enlisted Contractor/Un-enlisted Contractors for following works:“SPL REPAIR/REPLACEMENT OF IRON REMOVAL PLANT AT PH NO 09 IN ZONE ‘M’ AND PH NO 3 IN ZONE ‘P’ AT AGARTALA MIL STN” estimated cost of the work as per contract is Rs. 40.60 Lakhs (8972/E8). For details refer www.eprocuremes.gov.in. The prospective/likely contractors are requested to look up the website www.eprocuremes.gov.in. These tenders are being received based on e-Tendering system, manual offers/bid for these tenders will not be accepted in any circumstances, only electronic offer/bids shall be accepted. Tender information is also available in www.mes.gov.in Call: 03862-249225

Dated Kohima, the 24th Sept. 2015

Applications are hereby invited for filling up the vacant post under National Mental Health Programme – National Health Mission (NHM), Nagaland, as mentioned in the table below; Sl. Name of the No. of Place of Monthly remuneration & required No Post posts posting qualification 1. Psychiatric Social 2 (1 in each Mokokchung, Rs. 30,000/- for Psychiatric Social Worker Worker/ Social dist) Dimapur (M.Phil-PSW) and Rs. 18,000/- incase of trained worker social worker. 2. Clinical Psychol- 2 (1 in each Mokokchung, Rs. 30,000/- for Clinical Psychologist (M.Phil-Cl. ogist/ Psycholodist) Dimapur Psychology) and Rs. 18,000/- incase of trained gist Psychologist (MA Psychology) 3. P s y c h i a t r i c 2 (1 in each Mokokchung, Rs. 25,000/- Psychiatric Nurse (M.Sc. Psych. Nurse/ Trained dist) Dimapur Nursing or DPN) and Rs. 15,000/- incase of General Nurse General Nurse 4. Record Keeper 2 (1 in each Mokokchung, Rs. 10,000/- (Graduate) with suitable experidist) Dimapur ence 5. C o m m u n i t y 2 (1 in each Mokokchung, Rs. 25,000/- (Trained General Nurse with adNurse(Case dist) Dimapur ministrative experience for keeping a record of Manager) all severe mentally ill) 6. Case Registry 2 (1 in each Mokokchung, Rs. 8,000/- (12th + proficiency in computers and Assistant dist) Dimapur office work for assisting the programme manager) Interested applicants may submit all relevant documents along with phone no. on or before 12th October 2015, addressed to the Mission Director, National Rural Mission, Nagaland, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Ruziezou, Kohima 797001. Interview shall be conducted on 17th October 2015 at 11:00 am at the Directorate of Health & Family Welfare, Kohima. All applicants are to bring original documents on the day of interview. No separate calling letter shall be issued for the above mentioned interview. For any queries, applicant may contact 0370 2270565 on working days between 11:00 am to 4:00pm. -Sd/(DR. SUKHATO A SEMA), Mission Director, NHM

Government of naGaland

direcrtorate of indUStrieS & commerce ADVERTISEMENT

Dated Kohima, the 24th Sept. 2015

NO.IND/EXH-PUB/IITF/2/93 (Vol-V): Interested Entrepreneurs those who are expert on Indigenous Local Produce are hereby invited for allotment of stall at the following Exhibition cum Sale of Handloom & Handicraft Products. 1. Bamboo Pavilion, Naga Heritage Village at Kisama during the Hornbill Festival from 1st to 10th December 2015. An amount of Rs 5000/- (Rupees five thousand only) will be charge per stall for 10(Ten) days and the banner will be provided by the department. No TA/DA will be paid to the participants. 2. India International Trade Fair at Paragti Maidan, New Delhi from 14th to 27th November 2015.The theme for IITF 2015 is “Make in India”. No fee will be charge for the stall, no TA/DA will be paid to the participants. Stall will be allotted to the selected entrepreneurs by the Selection Committee of the department Application in plain paper alongwith sample with detailed items to be displayed/exhibited/proper authentic address and contact number be submitted to the Directorate of Industries & Commerce (Exh.Branch),Kohima on or before 9th Oct 2015. All the display items will be screen out by the Committee for all the participant and strictly adhere to the selected items. No applications will be entertained after the last date of submission Sd/(Er. Kahoto Sema), Director of Industries & Commerce

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FriDAY 25•09•2015

BUSINESS

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Volkswagen could pose bigger threat to German economy than Greek crisis beRlIN, SeptembeR 24 (ReUteRS): The Volkswagen emissions scandal has rocked Germany’s business and political establishment and analysts warn the crisis at the car maker could develop into the biggest threat to Europe’s largest economy. Volkswagen is the biggest of Germany’s car makers and one of the country’s largest employers, with more than 270,000 jobs in its home country and even more working for suppliers. Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn paid the price for the scandal over rigged emissions tests when he resigned on Wednesday and economists are now assessing its impact on a previously healthy economy. “All of a sudden, Volkswagen has become a bigger downside risk for the German economy than the Greek debt crisis,” ING chief economist Carsten Brzeski told Reuters. “If Volkswagen’s sales were to plunge in North America in the coming months, this would not only have an impact on the company, but on the German economy as a whole,” he added. Volkswagen sold nearly 600,000 cars in the United States last year, around 6 percent of its 9.5

million global sales. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the company could face penalties of up to $18 billion, more than its entire operating profit for last year. Although such a fine would be more than covered by the 21 billion euros ($24 billion) the company now holds in cash, the scandal has raised fears of major job cuts. The broader concern for the German government is that other car makers such as Daimler and BMW could suffer fallout from the Volkswagen disaster. There is no indication of wrongdoing on the part of either company and some analysts said the wider impact would be limited. The German government said on Wednesday that the auto industry would remain an “important pillar” for the economy despite the deepening crisis surrounding Volkswagen. “It is a highly innovative and very successful industry for Germany, with lots of jobs,” a spokeswoman for the economy ministry said. But analysts warn that it is exactly this dependency on the automobile sector that could become a threat to an economy forecast to

grow at 1.8 percent this year. Germany is already having to face up to the slowdown in the Chinese economy. “Should automobile sales go down, this could also hit suppliers and with them the whole economy,” industry expert Martin Gornig from the Berlin-based DIW think tank told Reuters. In 2014, roughly 775,000 people worked in the German automobile sector. This is nearly two percent of the whole workforce. In addition, automobiles and car parts are Germany’s most successful export -- the sector sold goods worth more than 200 billion euros ($225 billion) to customers abroad in 2014, accounting for nearly a fifth of total German exports. “That’s why this scandal is not a trifle. The German economy has been hit at its core,” said Michael Huether, head of Germany’s IW economic institute. “MADE IN GERMANY” There are also voices, however, that say the impact on the economy as a whole should not be exaggerated. “I don’t think that the German automobile industry will be

lumped altogether,” Commerzbank chief economist Joerg Kraemer told Reuters. “There won’t be a recession just because of a single company,” Kraemer added. The German BGA trade association also tried to calm the public by saying there were no signs that customers abroad were starting to doubt quality and reliability of German companies. “There isn’t a general suspicion against goods labelled ‘Made in Germany’,” BGA managing director Andre Schwarz told Reuters. But he acknowledges there is a degree of concern among German companies that the scandal over cheating on U.S. diesel emission could have a domino effect on their businesses, eroding the cherished ‘Made in Germany’ label. Some observers also see some irony in the scandal. While the German economy defied the euro zone debt crisis and, so far, the economic slowdown in China, it could now be facing the biggest downside risk in a long while from one of its companies. “The irony of all of this is that the threat could now come from the inside, rather than from the outside,” Brzeski said.

Modi trip gives Facebook, Google chance to press on Indian expansion SAN FRANCISCO, SeptembeR 24 (ReUteRS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip this weekend to Silicon Valley gives Facebook and Google the chance to press him on issues that have bedevilled them in that country, a market they see as vital to their aggressive global expansion. Among their concerns are unreliable electricity, slow Internet speeds and an education system that does not produce the engineers they need. For Facebook and Google, India is a crucial market. With 1.3 billion people, it is the world’s second most-populous country - and they are blocked from China, the most populous, making success in India even more critical for their global growth. For well-travelled Modi, the first trip to the U.S. West Coast by an Indian leader in more than 30 years is a chance to get help on his top policy initiatives, including “Digital India,” which aims to connect thousands more Indian villages to the Internet and create more tech jobs. “I’ve been in the Valley for two decades, and I’ve never seen Indian policy or leadership have a deep engagement with the Valley” until now, said Punit Soni, chief product officer for Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce company and a former Google executive. Facebook and Google executives were scheduled to travel to Seattle for a visit this week by Chinese President Xi Jingping, but sources close to the companies told

Reuters they would not be meeting with him one on one. In contrast, Modi is visiting Google’s campus and will hold a town hall with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Both Facebook and Google declined to comment ahead of Modi’s visit. Modi clearly understands the power of social media: His more than 30 million “likes” on his Facebook page and 15 million Twitter followers make him the second most-followed political leader after U.S. President Barack Obama. Modi is eager to bring jobs to India for the 1 million Indians entering the job market each year, foreign policy experts said. India needs to maintain GDP growth of 9 percent a year to provide them all jobs, but the rate is currently hovering at about 7 percent. He sees technology as vital to increasing that rate. Facebook and Google have added staff in India over the past five years - although neither breaks out staff numbers by region - but Modi will likely press for even more, seeking deals for them to build research and development centres in India and for the companies to employ more local Indians. “(Modi’s) top programs ... are based on the idea that international companies will invest money and bring in technological know-how to build out the infrastructure - digital and otherwise - that India needs,” said Mukesh Aghi, president of the US-Indian Business Council.

Maruti sells over 50000 units Renault India launches Kwid @Rs 2.57 lakh India exploring Smart Cities’ DelhI, Septem- in Kwid, the highest ever by an making it the country’s most part funding by World Bank of AMT equipped vehicles New fuel efficient petrol car. beR 24 (AgeNCIeS): auto manufacturer in India.

New DelhI, SeptembeR 24 (NDtV AUtO): Maruti Suzuki India Limited announced that sales of its vehicles equipped with Auto Gear Shift have crossed 50,000 units. First introduced in the Celerio in 2014, the automatic transmission has been quite the favourite among buyers. Maruti Suzuki has been doing its best to keep up with the rising demand for AGS equipped vehicles. The waiting period for a Celerio with an automatic gearbox was close to 4 months and it was in November last year that it announced that the waiting period for the Celerio automatic had been brought down to six to eight weeks. Today vehicles equipped with AGS account for 25% of sales of Celerio and Alto K10 put together. R S Kalsi, Executive Director, Marketing & Sales, Maruti Suzuki said, “Auto Gear Shift technology’s distinct attributes such as affordability, and convenience of driving in stop-go traffic conditions without any compromise on fuel efficiency have led to the popularity of this technology across India. It is another brilliant example of bringing right technology in the right offering at right price. Aligned with our goal of selling 2 million cars annually by 2020, we will focus on bringing these customer friendly technologies in the future.” Maruti Suzuki plans to introduce more vehicles with AMT and to meet the demand for AGS equipped variants, the company was in the process of setting up the manufacturing plant with Marelli at Manesar which was expected to begin production this year. Currently, Maruti Suzuki offers auto gear shift models in its Alto K10 and Celerio models. The new Alto K10 manual variant is offered at an introductory price of Rs. 3.19 lakh to Rs. 3.70 lakh while auto gear shift variant at Rs. 3.94 lakh. The CNG variant is priced at Rs. 3.96 lakh (Ex-showroom Chennai).

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Developed with an investment of around Rs 3,000 crore, the SUV-shaped small car will be powered by an 800cc petrol engine. The company is looking to make India a regional hub for exporting the new car. India is the first market where the company has launched the hatchback. Renault plans to roll out the model across various markets globally. Renault has set a target of cornering 5 per cent market share in India and the new car will play a big role in it.

New DelhI, SeptembeR 24 (IANS): The World Bank is in talks with the Indian government to provide some initial funding for the latter’s smart cities programme and the Amrut initiative for urban revitalisation. “The World Bank is in discussions with the (India) government to provide some funding in the initial stages for the smart cities and Amrut (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) programmes,” the bank’s country director Onno Ruhl told reporters here on Thursday. He was speaking at the launch of a World Bank report on urbanisation, titled “Leveraging Urbanisation in South Asia: Managing Spatial Transformation for Prosperity and Livability”, released by visiting World Bank managing director and chief operations officer Sri Mulyani Indrawati. “India’s urbanisation drive will be the biggest of its kind in the next 30 years. The government’s implementing of the 14th Finance Commission recommendations will help in devolving finances to states for the programme,” Ruhl said. The report says South Asia’s urban population grew by 130 million between 2000-11, and is poised to rise by almost 250 million by 2030. “Cities in South Asia are not fulfilling their potential for transforming their economies, putting enormous demands on their infrastructure, as in Mumbai which I just visited,” Indrawati said. “The World Bank can help by citing examples of cities dealing successfully with various issues, to provide clarity and accountability,” she added. The report says policymakers must address three “fundamental urban governance deficits” by way of empowerment of urban governments, providing them adequate resources and stregthening mechanisms to hold them accountable.

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The company claims that maintenance worries can be left behind as the compact hatchback’s maintenance cost would be around 19% less than the market leader. The car comes with various features including class leading ground clearance of 180 mm and a boot capacity of 300 litres with a seven-inch touchscreen Media Nav system and a digital instrument cluster. Its boot space capacity can be expanded from 300 litres to 1115 litres. Kwid is powered by allnew 0.8 litre engine delivering mileage of 25.17 kmpl,

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Carmaker Renault India on Thursday launched its much awaited hatchback Kwid at a competitive price of Rs 2,56,968 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi) to take on Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai in the mini car segment. While Maruti Alto800 is priced between Rs 2.52 lakh and Rs 3.72 lakh, Hyundai Eon is priced between Rs 3.10 lakh and Rs 4.27 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). Kwid, which would come in four variants and two options, is priced between Rs 2.57 lakh and Rs 3.53 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). “We are not launching a car but a new era. With Kwid we are launching a new benchmark for automotive industry. No car can be compared to Kwid at this point in time,” Renault India Operations, Country CEO and Managing Director, Sumit Sawhney, said. He further said that the company has taken the localisation level to 98 per cent

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STD CODE: 03862 232224; Emergency229529, 229474

Metro Hospital: Faith Hospital:

227930, 231081 228846

Shamrock Hospital

228254

Zion Hospital:

231864, 224117, 227337

Police Control Room

228400

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232106

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227607 232181

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224041, 248011

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KOHIMA: 0370 2222952/ 101 (O) 9402003086 (OC) DIMAPUR: 03862 232201/ 101 (O) 9436017479 (OC)

CHUMUKEDIMA: 03862 282777/101 (O) 9856158740 (OC) WOKHA: 03860 242215/101 (O) 9862039399 (OC)

MOKOKCHUNG: 0369 2226225/ 101 (O) 9436012949 (OC)

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PHEK: 8414853765 (O) 9862130954(OC)

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Chumukedima Fire 282777 Brigade Nikos Hospital and 232032, 231031 Research Centre

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Toll free No. 1098 childline

KipHire: 8414853767 (O) 8974304572 (OC)

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STD CODE: 0369

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2226241

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2226214

Civil Hospital: Woodland Nursing Home:

2226216 2226263

Hotel Metsüpen (Tourist Lodge):

2226373/2229343

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FriDAY 25•09•2015

NAGALAND

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Postal Dept launches parcel booking centre at Dimapur Second such facility in NE; promise better, faster & safer delivery Morung Express News DIMAPUR | SEPTEMBER 24

The Department of Posts on Thursday launched a Parcel Booking Centre at Dimapur Bazar Sub-Post Office Naharbari. With a budget of Rs.9 lakh and second such centre in the entire Northeast Region after Assam, it inaugurated by chief postmaster general, North East Circle Shillong, SC Barmma. The centre was launched in partnership with the Global University Nagaland and Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency. Addressing mediapersons after the launching, Barmma said the new service will offer better packaging, security, cash on delivery services and track & trace system of the articles with services between 9 am to 5 pm. The Parcel Booking Centre will receive and book parcels (speed post parcel, business parcel and registered parcel)

which will then be processed to Guwahati and then to respective destinations. It will facilitate corporate community and bulk customers with discounts and free pick-up. The centre is also in partnership with e-commerce sites, which will facilitate local entrepreneurs to reach their trade to other parts of the country. All parcel consignments shall be given door delivery irrespective of its weight within Dimapur City. Naharbari Village Council chairman, Tokheli Kikon, thanked the department bringing the schemes at Sub Post Office Naharbari and assured security and co-operation to the Department of Posts. Meanwhile, with the objective to enhance opportunities and include all sections of society under the financial umbrella, the postal department also simultane-

ously launched the Prime Minister Jan Suraksha schemes, namely Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) for accident insurance and the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY) for life insurance. While the PMSBY & PMJJBY Schemes are currently available only at Kohima HO, it was informed that it will be launched in rest of the Post offices within a short span of time. To avail these schemes, the public can open POSB accounts while current account holders as well as customers having silent POSB accounts can also join the schemes after reviving their accounts. The Postal department will also offer opening of account under Atal Pension Yojana (APY) scheme and Sukanya Samriddhi Account under the prime minister flagship Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme.

Salient FeatureS oF the SchemeS PRADHAN MANTRI SURAKSHA BIMA YOJANA • Eligibility: 18-70 years • The applicant should have a SB A/c in a CBS PO. • The scheme covers a period of one year starting from 1st June to 31st May subject to renewal in subsequent year. • Annual premium is Rs. 12/- to be paid by auto debit from the Saving Bank Account. Benefits: a) In case of Death Sum Insured Rs.2 lakh b) Total and irrecoverable loss of both eyes and loss of use of both hands and feet Sum Insured Rs.2 lakh c) Total and irrecoverable loss of sight of one eye or loss of use of one hand or foot Sum -Insured Rs.2 lakh. PRADHAN MANTRI JEEVAN JYOTI BIMA YOJANA • Eligibility: 18-50 years. • The applicant should have a SB A/c in a CBS PO. • The scheme covers a period of one year starting from 1st June to 31st May subject to renewal in subsequent year. • Annual premium is Rs. 330/- to be paid by auto debit from the Saving Bank Account. Benefits: The Scheme covers insurance benefit of Rs. 2 lakhs in case of death. ATAL PENSION YOJANA. • Eligibility: 18-40 years, and non-income tax payer • Period of contribution: up to 60 year of age, subject to minimum 20 year of contribution, • The scheme target old age income security for persons of un-organized sector. • There is provision of contribution up to 50% or Rs. 1000/- per annum whichever is lower by Central Govt. SUKANYA SAMRIDDHI ACCOUNT – (Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme) • Can be opened in the name of girl child up to 10 years of age through natural or legal guardian. •Minimum and Minimum Invest Per Year: Rs. 1,000/ & Rs. 1, 50,000/- respectively • Subsequent deposits can be made in multiples of Rs. 100/-. • Deposits can be made up to 14 years from the date of opening of the account. • Deposits earn rebate under Section 80C of the Income Tax Act. • Rate of interest: 9.2% yearly compounded (for 2015-16). • Payment of monthly interest can be opted. • Partial withdrawal up to 50% of the balance standing at the end of the preceding financial year can be taken when the account holder attains the age of 18 years. • Account can be closed after completion of 21 years. On marriage also the account can be closed without loss of any interest

Governor greets people on Id-Ul-Zuha Kohima, September 24 (mexN): The Governor of Nagaland, Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya has extended his warm greetings to the people of the State on the auspicious occasion of Id-ul-Zuha. In his message, the gov-

DuccF Social Work Dimapur, September 24 (mexN): All the members of Dimapur Urban Councils Chairman Federation (DUCCF) are informed that the Federation will conduct a social work at Deputy Commissioner Office compound on Saturday, September 26. A press note asked all the members to reach the venue at 6:30AM, along with four to five council members. Members are further requested to bring dao, hard broom, spade, grass cutters, etc for the social work.

anthu mon unit informed Dimapur, September 24 (mexN): All the Hindi Teacher’s under Mon District are informed to attend the forth coming 22nd State Level Hindi Divas celebration on September 28, 10 AM at Mon Town Council Hall without failure. A press note form the unit president, Chemkai warned that the absentee(s) will be fined a sum of Rs 2000/.

ernor said, Id-Ul-Zuha is one of the greatest festivals of Islam celebrated by the followers of the religion celebrate with special prayers, greetings and gifts. It is also a festival of sacrifice, he added. Acharya further appealed all to observe the

festival in the true spirit of celebration, irrespective of religious barriers by exchanging feelings of fraternity, trust and goodwill; and upholding the renowned tradition of unity amongst the people of different religions and cultures of the region.

Rural development and beyond Our Correspondent Kohima | September 24

The Nagaland Rural Development Service Association (NRDSA) today held its general conference here under the theme “Rural Development and Beyond” with chief secretary Pankaj Kumar as the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, Kumar called upon the officers not only to have a sense of implementing the schemes but also have a sense of addressing the need of the villages. Stating that officers are the engine of rural development, he called upon them to have a quality of flexibility. He was hopeful that the Association will take up various challenges ahead and look beyond their horizon. Regarding the cadre review of the department, Kumar assured that the government will do it best to get it done. Rural development secretary Kelei Zeliang said Nagaland has been a pioneer in community development in the country. 35 years down the line since the Village Development Boards came into being, the concept of grass root development institution has been recognized and has won accolades not only in the country but also

NRDSA general conference 2015 held

Association resolves to‘re-dedicate’ itself Morung Express News Kohima | September 24

In the form of resolution, the Association resolved to re-dedicate and put “our self before the department and the department before our self” and continue to work cohesively for the upliftment of the rural people to the best of its ability. The NRDSA also expressed gratitude to the state government for actively considering the cadre review for a positive outcome and do justice to the department without further delay. In addition, the Association also resolved to - request the state government internationally and based on which the communitization was introduced for governance by empowering and delegating the responsibilities to the community. “Our state in spite of making tremendous progress in terms of literacy and others, such as development of urban or town areas, yet our villages are still devoid of basic amenities of life,” he said. For this, the rural development department which is entrusted with the development of the rural areas has to seriously ponder on

to release the state share of salary component in connection to the DRDA administration; and to abide with the constitution of the NRDSA with all sincerely and honesty to further the interest of the Association in an unbiased manner. NRDSA general secretary Mhiesihulie Bizo and nomination committee convenor Imlimeren Jamir respectively conveyed adoption of resolution and nomination committee report of new office bearers. Chairing the function, R. Vasa informed that the Association would be celebrating its silver jubilee by next year. Vote of thanks was proposed by NRDSA joint secretary Kupto Achumi.

how far it has been able to attain sustainable development all these years with the resources made available from the various flagship programmes and schemes implemented through the central and state government and take it beyond with appropriate strategies for sustained and inclusive development. Zeliang also urged upon the departmental officers to rededicate themselves to the service of the rural people. “It is of utmost importance that the officers should be in their respective place of postings and readily

available for their service to the people and ensure execution of official matters on time,” he said. He also advocated that the officers must develop a good working environment in districts and block offices and effectively coordinate the officers and staff for timely submission of reports, uploading of MIS besides maintenance of the office records and reaching out to the people, by adopting effective delivery mechanism at field level. Rural development director Metsubo Jamir also stressed on the need to bridge the gap in many

areas to uplift the rural people. Stating that people have high expectation from the officers, he was hopeful that they will not let the people and the government down. NRDSA president Taliyanger said the Association is spread across the state in 11 districts and 1238 villages delivering the essential goods for socio-economic development of the rural people, to enhance their livelihood which is a clarion call to its initiatives to rededicate itself to transform the living standard of the rural populace. “Let us all deviate from the stereotype functioning and become more innovative to create awareness among the stakeholders so that we can adopt an effective delivery system,” he said, He continued that rural development is a vast subject which cannot be defined and conceptualized but “our efforts to understand the local condition shall definitely have a positive impact in the lives of the rural people.” Taliyanger also thanked rural development & REPA minister CL John, cadre review committee and chief secretary Pankaj Kumar for giving a patient hearing on the issues related to cadre review.

One NSCN (IM) cadre arrested Drug trafficking unit ‘busted’ at Peren Dimapur September 24 (mexN): One armed NSCN (IM) cadre was arrested during a operation general area of Purna Bazar, Dimapur on September 21 by 37 Assam Rifles, under the aegis of Headquarters 6 Sector Assam Rifles. The operation was launched based on specific information regarding the presence of an armed cadre and his indulgence in extortion/arms peddling activities in the area, a press note from Assam Rifles informed.

The arrested cadre was identified as Awang Wangsu (28 yrs), a Rajapeyu of NSCN (IM), presently residing in Unity colony, Purana Bazar – B, Dimapur. A one Point 38 Colt Revolver was also recovered from him, it said adding that possession of weapon by underground cadres is in contravention to the Ceasefire Ground Rules (CFGR). The cadre along with recovered weapon were handed over to the Dimapur East Police Station.

pereN, September 24 (mexN): A ‘fully functional’ drug trafficking module operating from Athibung town was 'busted' and one person was arrested along with huge quantity of drugs on September 18, an AR press note informed. The operation was carried out by troops of 18 Assam Rifles under the aegis of Headquarter 6 Sector Assam Rifles alongwith the State’s Police representatives. The arrested person is suspected to be a GPRN/ NSCN cadre, was identified as Lamkholen alias Alen. It

added that a huge cache of banned SP capsules totaling 25600 Nos and 2800 Nos of Nitro capsules worth 3,14,000/- in open market

were recovered from him. AR maintained that he was attempting to smuggle the contraband drugs from Dimapur to Peren for sale.

TM Lotha assessed damages caused by wild Elephants Dimapur, September 24 (mexN): Dr. TM Lotha today made a spot visit to New Wokha Village (NWV) and undertook firsthand information on the damage caused by wild Elephants. He later had a meeting with Village council and aggrieved farmers of the villages. The Advisor for Treasuries & Accounts, Relief and Rehabilitation was apprised by the Chairman of NWV, Khyolamo Humtsoe regarding the wild elephant’s rampages in the past two years. Wild elephants numbering around 60 for the last two years are causing huge damages, Humtsoe told the legislator adding the herd has visited three times this year alone damaging 29 agriculture and horticultural fields. Maintaining that such

Dr. TM Lotha, with DC Wokha, Chairman Lotha Hoho, DFO Wokha and others on spot inspection of Elephant damaged fields at New Wokha Village on September 24.

events have affected the livelihood of the farmers, the chairman seeks appropriate assistance and requested the government to device a long-term policy to tackle the menace. Dr. Lotha, while addressing the gathering expressed sympathy to the villagers for the damaged caused by the elephants and assured all possible

help from the government. He also advised the village chairman to submit an accurate list of people whose property or agricultural fields have been damaged with proper photographic evidence to the government for further action. Lamenting the loss of forest coverage at Mt. Tiyi, he also stressed the need to restore its forest coverage to

avoid any ecological imbalance in the region including water scarcity. He also appreciated the villagers for making a smooth transition from traditional paddy cultivation to modern farming of cash crops and other horticultural products, as the returns is much better in terms of cash crops, vegetables and horticultural farming.

Meanwhile, advising the farmers to avail benefits from the ‘peoples’ friendly’ schemes launched by the Central government including the interest free loans to the farmers, accidental benefit scheme, welfare schemes for pensioners and girls’ students etc, Dr. Lotha asked the party workers to explain the policies to people at the grassroots level. A Robin Lotha, DC Wokha and Mhao Humtsoe, Chairman, Lotha Hoho and DFO Wokha also spoke on the occasion. The meeting was also attended by members of Tiyi Wildlife Conservation and Animal Human Conflict Control Society, NWV and officials of the Green Foundation Wokha, a press note from the Amongo Ezung, the PA to Dr. TM Lotha informed.

4th Nagaland Spelling Bee C’ship kicks off at Kohima Our Correspondent

Kohima | September 24

The 4th edition of Nagaland Spelling Bee Championship under the aegis of Fountain Club Kohima in partnership with SCERT Nagaland got underway here this morning at Capital Convention Centre under the theme “The Learning Edge." Minister for environment, forests & climate change Dr.Neikiesalie (Nicky) Kire graced the inaugural function as the chief guest. Dr. Kire maintained that the competition does not only enrich one mind but it also develops positive attitude. He also told the gathering that it is time for each individual to contribute something to the society. Organizing committee convenor Medo Yhokha on behalf of the Fountain Club submitted a repre-

sentation to the Chief Minister, TR Zeliang requesting the institution of an annual scholarship package to encourage and acknowledge the champion of this spelling bee event. Thanking all for their support towards this spelling bee championship, Yhokha also called for continuous support and to collectively create a platform to the students to develop their skills and potentials and make them men and women of substance. SCERT additional director Khrietuo Mezhur said that the spelling bee competition helps enrich language, gives confidence and spirit of competition. Altogether, 64 students from the districts of Kohima, Dimapur, Phek, Wokha, Mokokchung and Zunheboto are taking part in the competition. Dr. Visakhonii Hibo, Principal Japfu Christian College, Kigwema will be

Selected contestants for round of 32

A participant at the 4th edition of Nagaland Spelling Bee Championship in Kohima on September 24

the special guest at the closing function on September 25 at 4:00 PM. The champion will

fetch a cash prize of Rs. 60,000 while the 2nd, 3rd and 4th place will receive Rs. 40,000, Rs. 20,000 and

Rs. 15,000 respectively. Quarter finalists will also be awarded with Rs. 5000 each.

Name Nourhevito Nagi Nungshikaba Imsong Pekrusanuo Kiewhuo Ad. Rayza Muhaimin Impolong Changkiri Wekeso-ü Mero Heboka Yeptho Tiang Shio Vimeyeno Bio Dzuzhuro Arücho Abigail Awomi Sophia Kent Kenovi Rhetso Imlikala Imchen Kuzoto Swüro Khrukutulu Rhakho Vetho Ringa Khrieketouzo Khezhie Lamhen Kezevilie Hansing Sentiyanger Jamir Kimyeni Grace Kelezono Kere Alankrita Kumari Rohni Narayanan Sentinaro Jamir Radetolü Ringa Ramu Thapa Lipdensangba Imsong Thejanguzo Chielie Mercy Kikon Imsurenla Jamir Wewube Thopi

School Baptist Mission School Jotsoma St. Mary's Cathedral HSS Mount Hermon HSS Charity School Senayangba Govt. HSS Don Bosco HSS Don Bosco HSS Vineyard School Dainty Buds HSS Model HSS Lampstand School St. Joseph's School Minister's Hill HSS Minister's Hill HSS Modern Academy Modern Academy Coraggio School Coraggio School Chandmari HSS Christian HSS Christian HSS St. Paul School Phesama Army Public School Rangapahar Army Public School Rangapahar Japfu Christian College Kohima Science College Kohima Science College Vikesel's Vision School Northfield, Khikha Northfield, Khikha Don Bosco HSS Tewehi Medo Tyrannus HSS Pfutsero

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express X issue 262X issue 185 Thursday 9volume July 2015 volume By dr. sao Tunyi

Heart Healthy Environment ‘The places where we live, work and play should not increase our risk of heart diseases’

e worked hard so that one day, we will rest and enjoy the fruit of our labour. But our lifestyle resulting from improved socio-economic condition in turn becomes a cause for ill health. We thought we worked hard so that one day, we will work less. But now, we are advised to work out to prevent illnesses. We walked to earn food. Now we walk to digest food. The nature of work has so much changed so that work now means moving the fingers across the computer keyboard. We now travel several kilometres to work but in the comfort of a car/bus seat. We have gadgets and appliances in the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom which have reshaped how we live. How we normally live i.e. our sedentary lifestyle has become a risk factor for developing chronic illnesses. The new epidemic of chronic lifestyle diseases did not come in with a bang, like an outbreak of infectious disease. When there is a food poisoning outbreak from a wedding party and hundreds of people check into a hospital, everyone takes notice. But when equal number of people from that wedding develops heart diseases over the years because of continued consumption of the type of food served in the wedding, no one notices. That is what is happening with disease trend. Chronic diseases like heart diseases, cancers, diabetes, stroke, etc are silently taking over the world. They are already responsible for 68% of all deaths globally and are set to rise. ‘The places where we live, work and play should not increase our risk of heart diseases’ says the World Heart Federation. Tuesday, September 29 is World Heart Day and this year, the focus will be on creating ‘Heart healthy environment’. In Nagaland, the medical department is appealing to the churches (and through other platforms) to spread awareness through health talk on the four main risk factors of heart diseases and stroke. 80% of cardiovascular diseases can be prevented if these four risk factors – unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, tobacco use, and harmful use of alcohol – are controlled. Once they are developed, it is difficult and costly to treat these disease conditions. But preventing them by going for morning walks, restricting salt intake, and avoiding tobacco/ alcohol are not beyond us. The pressing need is to awaken our consciousness to the danger so that our behaviour will be changed. Not only are we unaware of the danger of such diseases because of their slow progress, we don’t notice the risk factors because they are part and parcel of our normal lifestyle. Some, you have to do it on our own. You can choose to stop smoking. You can train your tongue to get used to less salt in diet. You can make a physical activity plan, or set personal target to reduce weight. You can teach your kids to enjoy fruits and go out and play instead of letting them munch potato chips and watch television. But some, we have to do it together. We need more parks and playgrounds in the neighbourhood for walking and playing. We can form health clubs. We need to restrict sale of tobacco and junk food around schools. We can advice our office canteens to offer healthy food choices. We need to make laws or enforce them, for example on food safety, urban development, tobacco taxation, etc. And we need to make healthy lifestyle popular, and encourage people to make healthy lifestyle choices. Dr. Sao Tunyi works as an Epidemiologist at Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Kohima. Feedback can be sent to saotunni@yahoo.co.in, or visit his blog www.thatchhouse.blogspot.in

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Venkatachari Jagannathan IANS

Of Tibet's thukpa, shaptra tingmo and salted butter

ea with milk, masala tea, lemon tea, black tea, herbal tea, jasmine tea and green tea are well known. But butter tea or salted butter tea? "Not many in India would have heard about butter tea that we Tibetans normally take at home," chef Tenzin Namkha at Chap Chay, Asian stir fry restaurant at The Raintree, St. Mary's Road hotel told IANS keeping the tea pot and a small cup on the table. Thirty-year-old Namkha, whose parents have their roots in Tibet but settled in Mysuru, is anchoring the 10 day 'Taste of Tibet' food festival at the hotel. Namkha joined the hotel last April. He was earlier with Hyatt in Ahmedabad. A glance at the festival menu card reveals that Namkha has designed a small range of non-vegetarian and vegetarian Tibetan dishes that include momos, stuffed fried pies, noodle soup meal and desserts. "Restaurants are hosting Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean food festivals but not Tibetan. So we decided to showcase Tibetan cuisine for our guests," Namkha said pouring the thickish tea into a small cup. I took a small sip first and found the initial taste to be like a new tea flavoured soup. And much to the surprise of Namkha and his colleagues, the cup not only got empty but a refill was asked. "Perhaps a different name than calling it as a tea would have removed the mental block about the drink," said a staffer. Displaying a strong flavoured cake, Namkha showed it was nothing else but dried tea leaves compressed into a cake. A portion of the cake is boiled in water and then normal salted butter is added to the decoction. "Yak butter is not available here and it will give out more strong smell," he said. Then, starters -- momos (chicken and potato) and shapaley (chicken, lamb and vegetables) -- arrived at the table. While the non-veg stuffings are made in the traditional manner, the dough for the outer covering is made with maida and not barley flour as the latter will be thick and may not be in sync with the usual expectations of the guests, Namkha said. "The difference between Chinese and the Tibetan momos lies in the fat. We mix fat with the non-veg stuffing which makes the momos juicier. Further, fat is essential for people living in high altitudes like Tibet," Namkha said. What he said was true about the chicken momos while the potato momo was also good. Meanwhile, chicken thukpa (whole meal chicken noodle soup) was brought to the table in a big bowl. The chicken, noodles, black fungus mushroom and vegetables were in liberal quantities and tasted nice but mild. A liberal dash of pepper is also suggested for those who want their meal a bit spicy and one need not have to add salt. There are beef and vegetable options as well. The noodle soup meal was followed by tasty shaptra tingmo (stir fry of meat tossed in oyster sauce, celery and fresh chilli, served with tingmo, a steamed bun). The steamed bun - normal and garlic - and the meat dish are made for each other and tasted yummy. Namkha also offers phingsha mokro (stir fry glass noodle and black fungus mushroom, served with rice) with beef, chicken and vegetarian options. Those with a sweet tooth can go for the lip-smacking Tibetan rice cooked with unsalted butter and mixed with dry fruits or the tsampa pancake with roasted corn and barley.

C O M M E N T A R Y

Robin Wilson

Northern Ireland: What Einstein would have said The latest crisis in Northern Ireland looks like déjà vu all over again. It’s not that the situation never changes but the remedy offered by London remains stubbornly the same

vents in recent weeks in Northern Ireland, including a feud in the IRA in Belfast and tottering power-sharing institutions at Stormont, have highlighted once more that, far from being a ‘post-conflict’ society with an ‘historic’ peace agreement, it remains a region in pre-postconflict mode where history isn’t over just yet. This is not, however, due to the ‘ancient hatreds’ often projected on to this complex canvas by the simplifying gaze of superficial observers. Indeed, as the all-too-similarly dysfunctional nature of post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina and Lebanon demonstrates, it is the consistent application of this stereotyping perspective by representatives of the ‘international community’—the most powerful states with a regional investment—which is the real problem, regardless of the fine-grained variety of the cases in point. For it leads, as in all three related agreements—Belfast (1998), Dayton (1995) and Taif (1989)—to the same outcome. The first step is a conceptual hoovering up of the unique individual diversity of the populace into communal tribes—Protestants and Catholics; Serbs, Croats and ‘Bosniaks’; Maronites, Sunni and Shia Muslims—failing to recognise the fundamental difficulty, as the late Italian political scientist Norberto Bobbio pointed out, that every democratic constitution is based on the individual citizen. The inevitable victim of this Realpolitik is universal norms: every human-rights convention, including those enshrining minority rights, requires the individual to be the rights-bearer; and the rule of law is meaningless unless state institutions are impartial among diverse citizens. Yet what has really brought violence to an end in another divided society, the Basque country, is that the Spanish state has foregone the humanrights depredations of the earlier ‘dirty war’ and ETA paramilitaries have been effectively, and legitimately, arraigned by the justice system. Having thus discredited all civic, non-nationalistic forces in favour of a male-only, ethnic oligarchy, the second step—this is where the agreements come in—is a hothouse negotiation which throws these ethnic cartels into government with each other. Since the negotiating parties have no commitment to the common interest and the public good, they treat politics as the continuation of war by other means and ensure deadlocking vetoes are built into the resultant pacts. By contrast, their uninterest in economic and social divides offering alternative political cleavages means they fail miserably to provide basic public services—as, in extremis, with the current ‘You stink’ protests in Beirut, over the inability of the government there to stop rubbish piling up in the streets. Government by cartel, with no universal language and no public purpose, inevitably fails to work—indeed even sometimes to exist. The 2010 election in Bosnia only issued in an actual state government 15 months later. And it took four and a half years after the first post-agreement powersharing administration in Northern Ireland collapsed—over a previous IRA manifestation—before it was re-established in 2007.

til the next crisis blows up. Actually, at this point, it would be better for the British and Irish governments to recognise the merits of reculer pour mieux santer, with an interim period of renewed direct rule and a public deliberation over the way ahead. Admittedly, that would not allow them to disengage from Northern Ireland once more as quickly as they decently can but it could allow of a long-term, stable solution. The fundamental challenge in ethnically divided societies is to engineer constitutional arrangements which enshrine both aspects of democracy (as defined by the standard-setter, International IDEA): popular control and equal citizenship. That the former can be simplified to ‘majority rule’ and the latter to ‘minority rights’ means that parties from demographic ethnic majorities and minorities line up in predictable ways. External brokers have to act in impartial fashion to make sure both features are embedded in democratic constitutions so that, over time, trust is built, ethnic cleavages become of reduced significance and others, such as on socioeconomic lines, acquire greater salience. These arrangements need to be buttressed by full adherence to the rule of law and international human-rights standards—including because ethno-political majority parties tend to counterpose the first to the second and vice versa for their minority opponents.

Three flaws The Belfast (or Good Friday) agreement was put together in a few days and then heavily spun, in typical New Labour fashion. Not only did it lack even the ambition in the Taif accord of the ‘abolition of political sectarianism’, three key flaws in the main components of the architecture unwittingly embedded it. Each was motivated by the vital aspiration—as with the more publicly and prudently drafted arrangements of the 1974 power-sharing experiment, sadly truncated by a strike led by Protestant paramilitarism—to transcend the monopoly of Protestant ethnic power which had characterised the first half-century of Northern Ireland’s existence from 1922. But Intolerance each was poorly thought through in the week leadBut the superficial Westminster view of Northern ing to Good Friday in 1998, when a draft was finally Ireland—that its decades of ‘troubles’ stemmed from presented by the two governments to the parties and the ‘men of violence’, rather than a socially conser- subject to last-minute haggling. vative (and certainly masculinist) culture of intolerance, of which paramilitary violence is a symptom— The three critical errors were:— has meant successive governments have found (1) The electoral system: the single-transferablethemselves repeatedly validating Einstein’s defini- vote (STV) method was carried over from 1974 withtion of madness: doing the same thing repeatedly in out reflection, as if it were the only proportional alexpectation of a different outcome. ternative to first past the post. Yet the more common, The British and Irish governments hope that yet- additional-member system was to be introduced in further talks among the Northern Ireland executive devolved Scotland and Wales—as the then taoiseparties will lead to a renewed willingness to remain ach, Garret FitzGerald, conscious of the clientelist in government together, perhaps through the revit- failings of STV in Ireland, had unsuccessfully urged alisation of a body like the Independent Monitoring upon the them prime minister, Ted Heath, in the earCommission, set up in 2004 to reassure political Prot- ly-1970s deliberations. Heath wrongly insisted STV estants (aka ‘unionists’—though they show no inter- would help ‘the moderates’: in fact, in a divided soest whatever in British political life) that the IRA was ciety, multi-member STV constituencies incentivise going out of business. But even before the latest kill- ethno-political entrepreneurs to pitch for the narrow ings—and this is not to diminish their viciousness nor core vote they need to reach the quota for election the concern that more may yet follow—it was evident (just 17 per cent in six-seat constituencies, as for the that Stormont was facing a slow-motion car crash over Northern Ireland Assembly). the inability of the parties to agree on a range of issues AMS, while sustaining proportionality via the redividing them along the critical sectarian faultline. gional top-up, would at least encourage competition These did not only include the continuing vis- in heterogeneous constituencies for cross-commuceral battles over Protestant-communalist parades nal majorities. It is an unadmitted fact, including by and Union flag-flying (in a manner which happens the party itself, that all three of the Catholic SDLP’s nowhere else in the UK except on neo-fascist march- Westminster seats are secured through such tactical es). There is also the wider issue of healing the trau- (Protestant) voting. AMS would also favour the emerma of the recent past. On this the representatives of gence of new forces, such as the Greens, currently small-C Catholic paramilitarism (aka the ‘republi- confined to one assembly seat but able to make gains can movement’—although no party in democratic through regional lists, and—most importantly—put Ireland recognises its legitimacy) are fully aware of real pressure on the parties to remedy, via prioritisaOrwell’s 1984 dictum ‘who controls the past controls tion of list candidates, the appalling under-representhe future’, particularly with the centenary of the Eas- tation of women in Northern Ireland politics. ter rising looming in 2016. And on top of that comes the impasse over ‘wel- (2) Assembly decision-making: to prevent ethnicfare reform’, including the cap on benefits for large Protestant majority voting, as under the old Storfamilies. Opposed by the left in Britain on obvious mont, the agreement introduced a system of comegalitarian grounds, even this suffers a sectarian munal designation, under which members of the skew in Northern Ireland, with political-Protestant legislative assembly (MLAs), once elected, were resupport for the Tories, despite the predominantly quired to register as ‘unionist’ or ‘nationalist’ (or, as working-class demography of Belfast and Derry, ex- a residuum, ‘other’). This was to allow that a ‘petiplicable only by unspoken prejudices about Catho- tion of concern’ of 30 of the 108 members would relics having large families who ‘sponge off the state’. quire that, to pass, a substantive motion would need So, at best, further talks will lead to another shaky to attain not just an overall majority but the ‘paraldeal which cobbles together the power-sharing ex- lel consent’ of majorities in each of the communalecutive once more, malfunctioning as ever… un- ist blocs. This provision—not even aired when the

1974 system was being planned, it being assumed the executive parties would vote together—has not only had the insidious effect of entrenching sectarian mindsets (all but one of the ‘unionists’ have so far been Protestant, all but one of the ‘nationalists’ Catholic). In addition and perversely, though pressed by the SDLP in the 1998 talks, it has been most used by the Democratic Unionist Party—the only party in the assembly big enough to be able to secure a petition of concern on its own—to hold a Canute-like line against modern social legislation, such as on sexual orientation. Meanwhile, progress on the Northern Ireland bill of rights envisaged in the agreement has been stymied by political Protestants. Yet political Catholics have demanded provision in any such bill for communal ‘parity of esteem’, even though this is unworkable because all rights conventions require a potential individual who can vindicate her rights, as well as a clearly defined right as the object and a clear addressee of whom it can be demanded. Such a bill could quite straightforwardly build on the European Convention on Human Rights by incorporating the minority-rights Council of Europe standards—the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the Charter for Regional or Minority Languages— thereby rendering them similarly justiciable. (3) Executive formation: The cursory, secret talks on how a power-sharing government would be formed in April 1998 were in sharp contrast to the extensive discussion of this core issue in 1972-73. Indeed, a paper presented to the Ministerial Committee on Northern Ireland by the secretary of state, William Whitelaw, which included five options for executive formation, specifically ruled out a government with party representation proportionate to that in the assembly—as in the Belfast agreement—on the unsurprisingly prescient argument that this was ‘likely to encourage intransigence and face us with a group who have nothing in common and have no intention of working together’. It was clear at the time that, in Dublin as well as London, the balance of argument was favouring a secular weighted-majority requirement for the executive to be established—although in the end Heath opted for a ‘you, you and you’ alternative which the government effectively controlled. A weighted-majority requirement could provide belt-and-braces protection on top of a bill of rights but the key constitutional stipulation would be that, after an election, those parties willing to share power should be mandatorily required to agree a cross-sectarian coalition—political Protestants have suggested a ‘voluntary’ coalition, of which political Catholics are understandably suspicious—with those unwilling to join such a coalition forming an opposition to hold the executive to account. This is the only way to make elections meaningful in Northern Ireland, where historically-high turnout has been plummeting, since citizens cannot currently ‘turf the scoundrels out’. It would mean a devolved government that operated with collective responsibility and It would also allow initially small opposition parties, on the left for instance, to play a meaningful political role. Dog-eared None of the suggested reforms raises any ideological issues, because of their impartial character. But none of these constitutional flaws is going to be discussed, never mind addressed, in the talks stewarded by London and Dublin, which will follow a by-now dog-eared agenda. Yet a transformative outcome at such talks will always be debilitated by the parti pris nature of the participants. Fixing the broken architecture will in any event require amendments to the Westminster legislation under which it operates. This offers a route to progress the parties cannot veto—and indeed was the route pursued, via a green paper, a white paper and an act, in the run-up to 1974. A proper public debate on what such legislation should contain—a debate in which the Irish government could be a full partner—could bring not only much-needed structural reforms but also stimulate the emergence of new, secular political agents in the region. Northern Ireland’s citizens need to be given the chance to become architectures of their future, rather than prisoners of their past. But they need the help of the UK and Irish governments to do so.

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Climate change versus conspiracy theory in India Nayanika Mathur limate change rejection or denial produces particularly imaginative conspiracy theories. As David Runciman has shown, different sides of the debate – those who deny the existence or seriousness of climate change and those who point out the conspiracies behind climate change denialism – share a conspiracist logic. Pushing this line of inquiry further, I ask if it is conceivable to have an overlap between climate change accounts and conspiracy theories? Distinct as the two might appear, is it possible to tease out any shared beliefs or politics between them? In other words, are conspiracy theories necessarily and always radically incommensurable with climate change accounts? This case study from the Indian Himalaya would suggest not. I briefly describe two seemingly contradictory narratives: an official one emanating from the local state that adduces certain phenomena to be caused by climate change. The counter-narrative to this, voiced by Himalayan residents, was skeptical of climate change as the causal factor. Their counter-explanations for the very same events were, in turn, dismissed by agents of the Indian state as idiotic conspiracy theories. My suggestion is that these two narratives have more in common than is immediately apparent. Elsewhere, I have described this co-existence and jostling between narratives in greater detail. I traced the process through which the category of climate change made an entry into a remote place like India’s Himalayan borderland and demonstrated the power that the label of ‘conspiracy theory’ has to silence speech. Here, I take the discussion in a slightly different direction. Through a closer focus on the so-called conspiracy theories, I suggest that they should be read as expressive comments on historical-political injustices and anthropogenic ecological damage. If we take seriously the concept of the Anthropocene and consider climate change in its entanglement with the excesses of capitalism, then these particular conspiracy theories can be seen to possess a family resemblance to climate change narratives. The ambition here is to ground the discussions of climate change and conspiracy theory within localized politics and to relay the voices and opinions of those people, such as the residents of the Indian Himalaya described here, who are already coping with the damaging consequences of global warming. One need not, after all, be able to use the (English language) category of climate change or speak the same expert language of environmental change and damage or even subscribe to the universalism of science to know that climate change is an overwhelming threat. In its attempt to convey the different terms of speech and concerns of my informants and friends in the Himalaya to the world beyond, this research joins that of an expanding number of anthropologists, amongst other social scientists, who are engaging climate change by practicing new forms of inter-disciplinarity, writing, and public outreach.

cat conflict receives a surprisingly large amount of media and public attention when it is refracted through the lens of climate change. The rising number of articles in the international media on human-animal conflict are evidence of the latent potential of the discourse of climate change to make widely accessible issues of human-animal conflict in hitherto marginalised areas. The fear of climate change creates the space, for instance, for a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) employee to urge everyone in the world to change their consumption patterns and be conscious of the environment for otherwise, “the only way that the royal Bengal tiger will survive this century is with scuba gear.” This particular report goes on to make explicit connections between consumption patterns in the west and the increased submergence under water of the forests in which tigers live in South Asia.

Cats that eat humans The north-Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, where I have worked for close to a decade, experiences high levels of human-big cat conflict. Big cats that turn on humans as nourishment are considered aberrant and are popularly described as ‘man-eaters’. Man-eating big cats have a long history in this region. Surprisingly, this problem receives somewhat limited attention nationally and globally. Official statistics on deaths and injuries are hard to come by and the ones that do exist are, by all accounts, lower than the reality. Despite the absence of hard figures, there is a widespread belief that big cats are becoming more and more violent toward humans in the Indian Himalaya as well as in other parts of India, including heavily populated urban spaces. Speculation on the causes of the supposed increase in man-eaters is rife. Generally it is believed that big cats turn on humans—an otherwise alien prey—when they are unable to hunt their ‘normal’ food due to old age or injuries. However, many of the man-eaters that were being hunted down in Uttarakhand proved to be young and healthy leopards. Another interesting observable trend was that the majority of the attacks by big cats approximately 70% - occurred in the winter. Pulling these two strands together, officials came up with a theory on the cause of the supposed increase in man-eaters. According to them, in the winter leopards are pushed down by snowfall from the higher reaches of the mountains to spaces inhabited by humans. Previously, there was abundant prey available for them (sheep, goats, deer, cattle, and so on). However, due to resource degradation and biodiversity depletion in the Himalaya, the leopards now find themselves faced with sparser options for hunting out their regular prey and are, thus, constrained to turn on humans. This disappearance of regular prey for the leopards is directly related to the set of processes that fall under the rubric of climate change. It follows, they claimed, that the per-

ceived increase in human-big cat conflict is a direct outcome of climate change in the Himalaya. Some of the residents of Uttarakhand, however, disagreed with the climate change explanation. Instead, they voiced a variety of different theories on why there has been such a marked increase in attacks on humans by big cats. One theory went that due to the poaching and trafficking of big cats across the border to China, leopards were getting angry at humans and were therefore killing them in order to seek retribution. The most popular theory related to the alien or non-indigenous nature of the man-eaters. This theory claimed that the true provenance of the man-eaters was located in the plains. When leopards grow old in their zoos in the plains then the plainspersons send them up to the mountains to die. At other times, when zoos get overcrowded with leopards then, too, they ship them up to the mountains. As these leopards are used to being provided with meals and some are, in any case, too old to hunt wild animals, they turn on the easiest prey of all—humans. The second theory has to be understood in the context of a historical mountain-plains animosity that dominates the politics of this impoverished borderland region. A movement for statehood that allowed for the creation of a distinct Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in 2000 had voiced a long-held and much fretted over perception of systematic neglect of this region by the postcolonial nation state. The neglect is coupled with an active exploitation of this region’s rich natural resources such as water, timber, minerals, and herbs that has been going on from the colonial period right through to the present. Releasing old leopards and tigers from zoos up to what the plainspersons merely consider ‘jungle’ with no heed paid, as usual, to the perils this poses for its inhabitants was considered just another event in a long list of actions that combine abuse and neglect of the mountain-people by the plains-people. These differing versions of the reasons for the occurrence of man-eating big cats were entirely rejected by state officials who were keen to maintain the ‘climate change’ explanation; an explanation that they considered to be premised upon Science and rational deduction. Any explanation for man-eaters that did not stem from this scientific fact of global warming and changes in the climate was dismissed as evidence of native idiocy and the proclivity to imagine conspiracies. Climate change and conspiracist talk: a family resemblance? But are these so-called conspiracy theories all that wildly different from the climate change explanation? Instead of seeing them as opposed to one another – as climate change and conspiracy theory always is – could we think of them as, at their core, politically aligned? In the first place, there might be some – if not complete – truth to the theories on the man-eaters that were dismissed as ‘conspiracy theories’. There is a strong correlation between the practice of hunting and humananimal conflict. Recent work points out that the regions in India that continues to battle big cats are also precisely those regions where hunting, poaching, and/or trafficking persists. The notion that man-eaters in the Himalaya are killing and feasting on humans in order to dispel retributive justice might not be, then, quite as far-fetched as it would immediately appear. On the argument that these are alien leopards that are coming up from zoos in the plains or have been sent up from someplace else, I met many eyewitnesses who swore they had seen the release of big cats into the mountains brought from elsewhere. While I could never establish any official confirmation of this, the practice

of capturing and relocating big cats is commonly undertaken by the Indian state. From a fascinating study conducted in the city of Mumbai, we learn that the capture and relocation of big cats greatly and directly increases conflict with humans. This work from Mumbai suggests that the more one interferes with these large felines that can – and have – traditionally lived peacefully in and around human habitations, the more the possibility of conflict will be aggravated. But let us move beyond the feasibility of these socalled conspiracy theories. What if we were to not take them literally but instead were to regard them as instantiations of critical subaltern speech? What is it that they can then tell us and how might they then possess some connection to climate change? The alternative explanations for the existence and perceived increase of man-eaters are, quite straightforwardly, voicing discontent with the operations of hegemonic power and, especially, with the marginalisation of the Himalaya. In that sense they share two key features with climate change: its capacity to reveal the worst aspects of capitalism, especially the gross inequalities the system perpetuates; and the interconnected nature of the globe where actions in one part directly affect the rest. Shared features Consider, first, the shared trait of pointing out inequality. The discourse of climate change holds within itself the potential to radically unmask contemporary inequalities. Naomi Klein, amongst many others, argues that climate change is a civilizational wake-up call that renders explicit the many injustices of capitalism. Academic literature as well as environmental organisations are hard at work making stronger links between market capitalism, consumption and lifestyle patterns in the west as well as the rich in poorer countries, and anthropogenic climate change. The conspiracy theories, too, indicate a world, albeit within the nation-state of India, where people in the plains continue to live on in relative comfort and ease with little heed paid to the mountainspeople. At the same time as they are releasing big cats into the mountains where they are also unthinkingly using up the region’s natural water or cutting down their forests for personal use. The suspicion of people from the plains, in fact, stems from precisely this long-standing ecological devastation that has been visited upon the Himalaya by the colonial and post-colonial state. Let us turn to the second correspondence between climate change and the conspiracist talk: their shared capacity to reveal the interconnectedness of the world. A defining feature of climate change is the manner in which it shifts scale from the local to the global; from specific communities and spaces to a global ‘us’. As Ulrich Beck wrote, with climate change “geographically remote spaces become literally perceptible, ‘knowable’ places of possible concern and action”. The Himalayas primarily figure in mainstream accounts in India as the distant and supposedly-natural frontier of the nation. The plethora of conspiracy theories that this region produces vis-à-vis the Indian state cannot but be linked to the overwhelming feeling of neglect that echoes through this region. Indeed, a key aspect of the counternarratives to the climate change explanations for maneaters has underlined and originates from this feeling of being-forgotten. It is noteworthy that the catastrophic threat of the melting of the Himalayan glaciers has brought a new, gentler form of attention to this space. It has allowed for the Himalayas to become a common, pan-Indian and, indeed, a global cause of concern. Similarly, the otherwise largely invisibilised problem of human-big

Interviewing a man with one arm To restate, my suggestion is that both the climate change and the so-called conspiracist explanations for man-eaters do a very similar work of sharply delineating historical, political, structural and economic inequalities of this region. Just as critical work on climate change shows us how the local is folded into the global, so too does the conspiracist talk in the Indian Himalaya draw our attention to inequality and active marginalisation, albeit within the nation-state of India. To illustrate this claim, let me end with snippets of an interview I conducted with a young man who had his right arm chewed off by a leopard. This young man had been walking home from a friend’s house one evening when the leopard suddenly appeared from nowhere and dug his teeth into his arm. As it was early evening and he was in the middle of the town, other people came running up to defend him and managed to yank the leopard off his body. In doing so, a large chunk of his arm was ripped off and had to be subsequently amputated in its entirety. All through our conversation, he kept gesturing with his left hand to the prominent absence on the right side of his body: “Do you know why that leopard attacked me? Because he has no food left for himself anymore up here in the mountains. Everything here is dying: the forests, the rivers, the soil, the animals. The only living beings left are us humans and even we won’t last here for much longer at the rate things are going. And the reason for all of this is that they [the They he is referring to is the Indian state and the plainspeople] come here to cut down our trees, to steal our water and to generate electricity for this own houses in the cities of the plains… they drive around in their big cars but they don’t even bother to build roads for us up here. Their industries spew out all this filth which comes up here to ruin our environment… We are being eaten up by leopards but even then they remain more concerned with saving the life of the leopard than our human life.....” Narratives of such a nature were absolutely commonplace. They consistently referred to an exploitative state that was only interested in furthering the interests of its own narrow coterie of powerful and wealthy people, all living in the distant plains of India. To do so not only did they not care if human lives were being brutally lost but also they were interested only in the exploitation and expropriation of the rich natural resources of the mountains. While the narratives emanating from victims and their families did not actually utilise the term ‘climate change’, all the practices that they were talking of are the ones that contribute to anthropogenic climate change. Furthermore, the utilisation of metaphors of death, destruction and endings in these localised narratives bear strong affinity to more mainstream narratives on catastrophic climate change - for instance of the sort presented in Alan Weisman’s The World Without Us. With the increasing penetration of the notion of climate change into the hitherto marginalised Himalayan regions, it is worth speculating what the intersections or rather the collisions of these different-yet-similar narratives might produce in the future. In a recent piece, the writer Amitav Ghosh rails against what he considers an astonishing failure to grasp the urgency of climate change in India. He argues that while Indians are good at indignation and the politicisation of several causes, they seem to be ignoring the most urgent of them all: climate change. My argument here runs counter to Ghosh’s reading in its suggestion that criticism of climate change abounds in the political. Those seemingly absurd counter-narratives or silly conspiracy theories – big cats being shipped up to eat the natives or big cats turning on humans for revenge – can and should be seen as angry commentaries on the wider politics and practices underpinning anthropogenic climate change. A failure of the imagination is evident not, as Ghosh despairs, in the deep politicisation of the world to the exclusion of an ecological focus. Rather, it lies in our inability to read these political commentaries as intrinsically critical of the processes that cause and sustain global warming in the first place.

Employment conundrums, a worry for the future of Nagaland agriculture

t must be a wonder for many of theso called ‘mainstream’ Indian population about Nagaland on HOW DO THEY SURVIVE?, Nagalandwith such a dismallow contribution to national GDP, poor infrastructure, political instability, backward economy, geographically remote et al. This is what I commonly get to hear from most of my curious fellow mates. To clear their doubt is very difficult, to contradict those most commonsensical idea that Nagaland Government cannot provide Government services to all those educated Naga population. Where does the rest of educated population get absorbed? Let’s try on a thought experiment, on what could be the future of Nagaland’s economy, when the attitudeof the young generation today has lost the dignity of labour. The present scenario of the educated young generations, want to confine their employment perspective only towards regular salaried jobs (especially, government jobs) with very limited interest to extrapolate other employment activities.Such voluntary withdrawal of labour force from the Economy is a worry for the State’s future economic growth. Perhaps, it has become necessary and imperative for state intervention to direct those untapped human resources to more productive ways. To reflect more on this situation, we see a common

trend in Nagaland; those educated unemployed prefer to settle in urban cities/towns with an expectation to get fitted in one or the other government jobs. With the fact as such that the Government cannot accommodate all those educated population within its ambit, for the number of government employees have reach such astounding proportions, which has adversely affected productivity and efficiency.We find that the total number of Government employees in Nagaland as on March 2013 stands at 93,530, which accounts for 4.73 percent of the total State population (19,78,502) and 9.60 percent of total workers (9,74,122) in the State as per 2011 census. The robust and rigid idea of employment among Naga society towards white collar jobs will lead us nowhere. Another thing of worry is that to catch up with the competition for Government employment, urban spaces have been flooded with job seekers from every corners of the state. For one feels that staying in urban towns gives one a better chance to secure a white colour job.This huge influx of unemployed and job seekers, which has directly and indirectly compounded our existing urban problems, not to mention poverty, corruption, nepotism, etc. It has also resulted in our thorough neglect of our rural economy which is in tatters.

Subject Matters Renbeni Kikon Urban spill over effect on rural Economy: With nearly 70% of Naga population living in rural areas,many government reports declared that agriculture is the main occupation for their source of livelihood, where agriculture production is mostly forself-sustenance and not muchfor commercialisation that pulls similarly to be an egalitarian society in nature. Given such distinct economy, the question here is, can the rural agriculture economy still survive/maintain the level of selfsufficiency?When the most productive and energetic age group are seen disinterest towards agriculture and its allied activities as occupation. It is a worry for the state

in general and particularly rural households whose income is purely dependent on agriculture and other allied activities. Given the primitive/ traditional methods of agriculture in rural Nagaland, where mostly labour intensive man power is required for agricultural production, withdrawal of certain members in the household labour force from agriculture will either reduce the productivity or increase the burden of cultivation to the rest of the members in the household. Those household members who have withdrawn from agriculture and have gone to urban towns in pursuit for better opportunities or education,does not prefer to come back to the village and engage in cultivation even in

the worst case. Instead they prefer to be in urban towns and cities to look for Governmentemploymentor other non-farm sector activities. Now, given this scenario what will happen to the agriculture production? Will it still be self-subsistence, with withdrawal of household labour force! Let me state from my field visit experience to some rural villages during off festive seasons, I could hardly see youths (young people) in the village. All I came across were the old parents/grand-parents, mentally unsound/ill, few primary school drop-outs(who still prefer to stay at home) and some very young newly married couples, who for their survival still depends on their old parents. Those potentially productive age groups have mostly migrated to urban towns/cities either for education or seekingemployment or in any non-farm economic activities, and of course, they do not prefer to come back to their native place and contribute in the household labour force. The employment expectation of this young generation has gone up so high, that exploring agriculture for their livelihood makes them psychologically inferior in the society and it is also considered as less earning/income which is socially not presentable. While many of them prefer to remain jobless for some time until they get a decent

employment. If we try to forecast the future, it is necessary to rethink on where our economy is leading into. Does positive human development really contribute to the state Economyviz-a-viz to the farm-sector? We need to rethink on the question of survival. How can we survive and how we will survive in the future? By generating our own income instead of waiting for the central Government with a begging bowl. Commercialisation of agriculture (crop diversification) is still yet to be educated to our modern generation, where they can do so much beyond waiting for Government jobs and can also bring growth in the state agriculture.One should not keep waiting for the Government to create employment, who knows the Government itself must be waiting for you. Meanwhile Government should also come out with effective schemes and policies at the grass root level that encourage the young generation to explore more in farmsector and introduce them to innovative ideas and technologies which can be attractive and indeed bring in lucrative income with stability.

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Renbeni Kikon is a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad. Her areas of interest include Agriculture Economics, Institutional Economics, Labour Economics, Rural Economics/ rural transformation, Development Economics. She can be contacted at renbenikikon@gmail.com

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'Make in India' dominates Modi's 1 full day in US st

New YorK, SepteMBer 24 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to launch a full day of economic diplomacy, cajoling titans of industry, finance and media to invest in his hallmark "Make in India" programme. Modi, who arrived here Wednesday evening local time to a rousing welcome from members of the diaspora, has a double agenda for the five-day visit spanning the nation's two coasts: High-level diplomacy as he attends UN summit of heads of state and government, and promoting his "Make in India" and "Digital India" initiatives. Outside of the UN, Vikas Swarup, the external affairs ministry spokesman, told reporters here Wednesday, "Start-ups, innovation and manufacturing are the thrust areas of this visit." Ambassador to the US Arun Singh said that the focus on the economic dimension in the visit follows the strategic and commer-

cial dialogue that ended this week in Washington. Having developed political and strategic ties, it was time for the commercial dimension, especially with the goal of expanding bilateral trade to 500 billion per year that was set by President Barack Obama during his Republic Day visit, he added. After an evening of informal meetings on Wednesday with community members from several places, including New York and Chicago metro areas and Georgia, Modi switches gears Thursday focusing on his economic agenda. Modi's manufacturing agenda will have a special place in his meetings on Thursday. Singh told reporters that his meetings will be with leaders in the finance, infrastructure and manufacturing sectors. His first meeting of the day is a roundtable with many leaders of the finance sector at Hotel Waldorf Astoria where he is staying. In the evening he is to meet Marillyn Hewson, the CEO of Lockheed Martin, the aerospace, defence

and security company. India has bought giant C130 Super Hercules transport planes from Lockheed Martin. That is to be followed by a meeting with Mike Burke, the CEO of AECOM, an infrastructure engineering and design company that works on an array of projects ranging from construction to transportation, and from environment to mining, oil and gas. Modi caps off the day with a dinner with 40 CEOs of major Fortune 500 companies, mostly in manufacturing and infrastructure areas, Swarup said. Earlier in the afternoon, he has a roundtable with media industry leaders that is hosted by Rupert Murdoch, the executive chairman of News Corp. and 21st Century Fox which owns Star TV. The theme of the meeting, which will include executives from other companies, is "Media, Technology and Communications - Growth Story for India". He also meets in the evening with Michael Bloomberg, who owns the

news and financial information and media company that bear his name. Bloomberg, who is United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change, visited India earlier this year to promote sustainable development and international investments in the renewable energy sector. Ajay Banga, the CEO of MasterCard, who is also the chairman of the US-India Business Council, is also scheduled to meet Modi. The only diplomatic meeting of the day scheduled as of Wednesday is with Guyanese Prime Minister David Granger, whose country's population of about 800,000 is 43 percent of Indian descent. On Friday, Modi turns to high-level diplomacy. He is to address the first session of the UN Summit, which celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of the world body and undertakes a massive programme to eradicate poverty and hunger through sustainable development. It is called Agenda 2030 for

the deadline to achieve the programme's 17 goals that include protecting the environment and empowering women. India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Asoke Kumar Mukerji said that India is the broad canvas for the programme and it relies a lot on India for its success. Modi has scheduled bilateral meetings with King Abdullah II of Jordan, Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades. He starts off Saturday on the East Coast with a summit of the G-4, a grouping of India, Brazil, Germany and Japan that works for UN Security Council expansion and mutually supports one another for permanent seats. Mukerji said this is the first time in more than a decade the G-4 was meeting at the level of prime ministers and presidents. Mukerji said they will focus on building on the recent UN General Assembly endorsement of a negotiat-

Sanjay Dutt's pardon plea rejected, to stay in jail MuMBAI, SepteMBer 24 (IANS): Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will continue to serve the remainder of his sentence at a Pune jail, after Maharashtra Governor C.V. Rao rejected a plea for pardon, official sources said here on Thursday. The governor rejected the plea by retired Supreme Court judge, Justice Markandey Katju in March 2013, which came in the form of letters addressed to the president, the (then) prime minister, union home minister and other top officials. "On September 15, Governor Rao declined the appeal and has forwarded his recommendation to the state government for further action," an official, declining to be identified, told IANS on Thursday. While rejecting the pardon plea, the governor adhered to the state home ministry's advice, on - among others - grounds that it could set a wrong precedent. In his plea, Justice Katju had sought a pardon for Dutt on grounds that he was not a terrorist, and also demanded pardon for elderly co-convict Zaibunissa Kazi. Earlier, Dutt himself declared that he would not seek pardon from any quarter and abide by the Supreme Court verdict sending him to jail to serve the remainder of his five-year term at Yerawada Central Jail (YCJ), Pune. According to current indications, Dutt is likely to complete his sentence and walk out of prison by the year-end or early 2016. Dutt was convicted for his role in the March 12, 1993, Mumbai serial blasts and after his arrest in 1996, had spent 18 months in jail before getting bail. In 2013, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and was transferred to the Yerawada Central Jail for serving the remaining prison term of 42 months. In the interim, the "Munnabhai M.B.B.S" actor was out four times on parole on various grounds and is currently released on furlough since August 27 for his daughter's medical problems.

Woman jumps off train with baby to escape gangrape KoLKAtA, SepteMBer 24 (Ie): A 25-year-old woman jumped off a moving train near Dima station with her husband and 10-month-old daughter after a group of men allegedly threatened to gangrape her, said the railway police. No arrest has been made yet. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) said the couple jumped off the Mahananda Express with their child near a jungle in West Bengal’s Rajabhatkhawa area after about a dozen co-passengers, who were allegedly drunk, molested the woman and threatened to “tie him up and gangrape his wife” on Tuesday. “These men started harassing her after they crossed Siliguri. They were in the general compartment…and the family was alone with these men,” said an official. The family was travelling in the general compartment and were on their way to their hometown Dinhata in Coochbehar district from Ghaziabad, where they live. According to the police, the group of men escaped after reaching Alipurduar. Additional Security Commissioner (RPF) Mukul Chandra Medhi said that railway authorities were coordinating with the local police to arrest the accused. Deputy commercial manager, Alipurduar-NFR, Basanta Das said: “The family said that these men were continually threatening them. They molested the woman and told the husband that they would kill him if he protested. They spoke to people on the phone in front of the terrified family and kept telling them about the things that they would do to the young woman and her husband.” According to the officials, the group started harassing the family around 10:30 pm. In her complaint, the woman alleged that the family de-boarded the train at the New Hasimara Railway station and asked the guard for help. The guard, she claimed, told them to file the complaint at the next station, Alipurduar. Officials, however, denied the charge. The family then went back to the New Dinhata railway station. A senior doctor at the Alipurduar Railway Hospital said that both the baby girl and her father (32) suffered fractures in their skulls, while the woman escaped with minor injuries.

ing text on Security Council reform and decide on the way to go forward. The negotiations are scheduled to start in the first half of November. The General Assembly overcame the first major hurdle earlier this month by endorsing the document on which to base the discussions. Modi then flies off to the West Coast, where the focus will shift from high-level diplomacy to high-tech. He has meetings scheduled with CEOs Tim Cook of Apple, Satya Nadela of Microsoft, Shantanu Narayen of Adobe, and Sundar Pichai of Google, executive chairmen Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm and John Chambers of CISCO, and Venkatesh Shukla, the president of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), a nonprofit organisation. On Sunday, he is scheduled to visit Facebook, where social media's role in development will be the topic. At Google, another stop in the Silicon Valley, Modi will look at their health care and grid programmes. A highpoint of the visit will be

a 24-hour hackathon during which programmers at Google and in India will try to develop apps or programmes relating to the "Digital India" project. Modi is to meet US energy secretary Ernest Moniz and participate in a roundtable at Stanford University on renewable energy. Others on his agenda of meetings there are California Governor Edmund Brown and Salman Khan, the founder of the Khan Academy, the online education service. With NASSCOM, Modi will discuss creating an ecosystem for start-ups. Singh noted that Indianorigin entreprenurs are responsible for 15 percent of start-ups in the Silicon Valley and said that he would seek ways to create a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in India. In an attempt to recreate the glamour and popularity of his Madison Square Garden event last year, a massive Indian community meeting is planned at the SAP Center, a sport arena in San Jose where 20,000 peo-

ple are expected. Back in New York on Monday, he plunges into diplomacy meeting President Barack Obama, their third encounter in a year. He also has bilateral meeting on his agenda with presidents Francois Hollande of France, Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico and Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine Authority and the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. He will also attend a peacekeeping summit convened by Obama. Mukerji said that India is the largest contributor of troops to UN peacekeeping missions, with the cumulative total expected to reach 185,000 this year. "The time has come for peacekeeping to take into account India's concerns," he said. Modi has asked that the Security Council consult with troopcontributing countries in accordance with the UN charter, he added. Protection of civilians has emerged as a major task of peacekeeping operations and India has the most experience on which it can be built, Mukerji said.

No meeting scheduled for Paki & India at UN general assembly ISLAMABAD, SepteMBer 24 (reuterS): Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan have no plan to meet at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly, the Pakistani foreign office said on Thursday, scotching speculation that the leaders of the two nations might seek the opportunity to improve rocky ties. Both Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are due to stay at the same hotel in New York during the meeting of world leaders this month, leading some media to speculate the two would meet. But Qazi Khalilullah, a spokesman for Pakistan's foreign ministry, denied those reports. Planned talks between national security advisors from the two neighbours were cancelled last month hours before they were due to start, dashing hopes the two might tackle Muslim women offering their prayers during Eid Al-Adha in Chennai on September 24. Eid Al-Adha is the violence that many fear could one day spark a nuclear showdown. celebrated throughout the world as the festival of sacrifice.

India and Pakistan have fought 3 wars since becoming independent nations in 1947, two of them over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, which both claim in full but rule in part. Civilians on both sides are frequently killed as the two armies trade potshots at each other across the disputed Line of Control. Sharif was elected in 2013 promising to improve relations with India, domestic troubles have forced him to cede more control over foreign and security policy to Pakistan's more hawkish military. Modi, who took office last year, has taken a hard line with Pakistan, insisting he is unwilling to discuss other issues unless Pakistan admits its role in terror attacks. In last month's cancelled talks, India wanted to only discuss terrorism-related issues. Pakistan wanted a wider agenda, including the status of Kashmir, a topic that Khalilullah said Sharif would raise at the United Nations.

SC disposes of pleas on land ordinance Joint, muscular pain common after dengue: Doctors New DeLhI, SepteMBer 24 (ptI): The Supreme Court today considered Centre's submission that it has not re-promulgated the Land Acquisition Ordinance and disposed of two PILs challenging the re-promulgation exercise. A bench headed by Justice J S Khehar took note of the submission of Additional Solicitor General Pinki Anand, appearing for the government, that as of now, the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015 is not in existence. The court, at the request of senior advocate Indira Jaising who was representing the PIL petitioner, left legal questions pertaining to the government's right to promulgate ordinances, open for future challenges. On July 16, the bench had issued notice to the Centre on a plea by farmers body Delhi Gramin Samaj against the re- promulgation of the ordinance. The NDA government had re-promulgated the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency

in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance, 2015, after it lapsed on June 4. The ordinance was first promulgated in December last year, re-promulgated in April this year and again in May. It was finally allowed to lapse on August 31. The farmers' organisations had challenged re-promulgation of the ordinance terming it 'unconstitutional' and 'ultra vires' of the Constitution, saying it was a "colourful exercise of power" by the executive to "usurp" the law-making powers of the legislature. Besides Delhi Grameen Samaj, Bharatiya Kisan Union, Gram Sewa Samiti and Chogama Vikas Avam were also co-petitioners in the case. The petition had said the government's action in promulgating successive ordinances "bypassing" the legislative process of Parliament, was not only "arbitrary and violative" of Article 14 but also a "fraud on the Constitution" itself. It had said the government's action in re-promulgating the land ordinance was "malafide" and thus open to challenge.

New DeLhI, SepteMBer 24 (IANS): Joint and muscular pain for several days after recovering from dengue is common, health experts said on Thursday. They urged people to consume food items containing Vitamin D and E for speedy recovery. They blamed the associated vitamin and mineral deficiency behind making the pain serious and debilitating in 80% of the cases. "Several patients complain of muscle and joint pains for as long as 2 to 3 weeks after the disease has subsided. This is especially seen in the elderly," said S.K. Mundhra, head and senior consultant of Internal Medicine at Saroj Super Speciality Hospital. "Those deficient in micronutrients like Vitamin D, B12 and E are often seen complaining of persisting muscle and joint pains when compared with those who have sufficient amounts of the vital nutrient," said Mundhra. Delhi has witnessed over 3,000 dengue cases this year and recorded over 23 deaths, according to the ciy's municipal corpo-

NHRC issues Notices to Centre, Delhi Govt New DeLhI, SepteMBer 24 (ptI): The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the Centre and the Delhi government over reports that several patients of dengue died allegedly after being denied admission to hospitals in the national capital. The NHRC also directed authorities to specify in their reports action taken against erring hospitals and nursing homes that denied admission to dengue patients, besides the short-term and long-term measures proposed for prevention and treatment of dengue in Delhi. "Details have been sought on ex-gratia payment scheme formulated by the government for deaths due to negligence by hospitals," an NHRC statement said. The NHRC took a suo motu cognisance of media reports that two children died of dengue after some private hospitals in the city turned them away. rations. However, the unofficial figure puts the toll at over 60 with AIIMS alone witnessing 5 deaths. Shobhit Bhardwaj, senior consultant at Delhi-based Yatharth Superspeciality hospital, said: "Two types of pain are associated with dengue. Acute reactive arthritis and other is chronic joint pain. Acute stage has symmetric joint involvement of large and small joints of upper and

lower limbs with knee being most commonly affected joint. These joint pains can last up to 3 weeks, but a few subset of patient's joint pain persist up to 2 years." Research suggests that prolonged symptoms of muscle and joint pain may be an auto immune condition, which can be relieved by simple exercises, course of cortico steroids as per clinician's judgement.

We can't monitor Parliament, should never cross 'lakshman rekha': SC New DeLhI, SepteMBer 24 (ptI): Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a plea seeking guidelines to ensure uninterrupted functioning of Parliament, saying the judiciary cannot monitor the business of the legislature which lay in the hands of Speaker, and any attempt to do so would lead to crossing the 'lakshman rekha'. Objecting to bringing up such a matter before it, the apex court asked the counsel arguing on the issue, "have you kept your house (courts) clean". "You may not know. As Chief Justice of India,

I know. How many houses (courts) you have kept clean," Chief Justice HL Dattu told the counsel, in an apparent reference to the recent incidents in Madras High Court where lawyers disrupted the court proceedings by raising slogans against the High Court Chief Justice. When the counsel tried to pacify the CJI by saying that "the highest court of the country is clean," the bench, also comprising Justice Amitava Roy, interrupted him and explained that any indulgence by the apex court in the matter of Parliament proceedings

would amount to "overstepping." "We cannot monitor Parliament. The Speaker of the House knows how to manage the function of the House. We should know our 'lakshman rekha'. We should never cross the 'lakshman rekha'. We should not be over-stepping our boundary to say Parliament be conducted in this manner and not in this manner. No, we cannot say," the bench said. Further, it said "in democracy, the parliamentarians know how to function. We are not here to teach them. They know better,"

the bench said while rejecting the plea of the NGO, Foundation for Restoration of National Values. "We cannot start advising Parliament and they know what they have to do. They are experienced people and people with wisdom. They know and understand their responsibility well," the bench said, while rejecting the PIL which alleged that "sustained disruptions, unruly protests" and abstentions by elected members has led to losses to the public exchequer. The bench suggested that a representation should

be made to the Speaker about the lacunae in law so that it can be taken care of. When advocate Ravi Prakash Mehrotra drew the attention of the court to a speech of President Pranab Mukherjee on disruption and non-functioning of Parliament, the bench said "the first citizen of the country has already advised them and they would take the advise seriously." The PIL said over the last 6 sessions, nearly 2,162 hours of business has been lost. It said that in the absence of a law, there is total vacuum to deal with the issue of non-functioning

of Parliament as was witnessed in the recent monsoon session when large part of the proceedings were washed out due to opposition protests. Earlier this month, the apex court had refused to entertain another PIL asking it to interpret the "absolute privilege" an MP claims to disrupt parliamentary proceedings at the cost of the taxpayers’ money. The petition filed by NGO Janshruti had said the idea of "privilege is vague" and requires clarity in the Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha Rules.

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EU leaders claim unity regained and pledge aid for Syrians bruSSeLS, September 24 (reuterS): EU leaders pledged at least 1 billion euros for Syrian refugees in the Middle East and closer cooperation to stem migrant flows into Europe at a summit described as less tense than feared after weeks of feuding. Chairman Donald Tusk said the meeting, which ended early on Thursday after seven hours of talks in Brussels, was “really excellent, for sure much better than we expected”. He heard “very substantial and energetic” exchanges between the Austrian and Hungarian leaders, whose common border was among those disrupted by chaotic crowds of migrants this summer, but not the mutual recrimination that has threatened to tear apart the bloc’s cherished passport-free Schengen zone. “Today’s meeting and this atmosphere are a very positive sign,” said European Council President Tusk, a former prime minister of Poland. “It’s quite a symbolic moment for me as it’s clear we have stopped this risky blame game.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel, criticised by some eastern neighbours for what they saw as actions that have fuelled the influx of people trying to reach Germany, voiced satisfaction: “We know that the problem is not solved with the decision taken. But we have taken one of many necessary steps.” Held at short notice after governments fell out badly over a scheme to share out responsibilities for asylumseekers around the EU, the summit carried political rather than legal weight. A joint statement read: “We can only manage this challenge by working together in a spirit of solidarity and responsibility.” Rapid Actions Among short-term actions before the next regular summit in mid-October, the EU would offer at least 1 billion euros more to the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, its World Food Programme and other agencies and increase funding for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and other countries -- part of a broad push to ease factors driving Syrians to risk sailing to Europe. As part of efforts to win cooperation from Turkey, locked in a long love-hate relationship with Europe and host to some 2 million Syrian refugees, Tusk and EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker will host President Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 5. The summit set a November deadline for Greece and Italy to have EU-staffed “hotspots” in place to register and fingerprint new arrivals and start a process of relocating Syrians and others likely to win refugee status to other EU states and deporting those regarded as unwanted economic migrants. That is a demand of Germany and France but also of ex-communist states like Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia which fought against being obliged to take a share of asylum-seekers but were over-ruled in a rare vote on such a sensitive issue at a ministerial meeting on Tuesday. The accords may do little to ease the immediate chaos and tension which has flared, for example between old Yugoslav foes Croatia and Serbia, or to slow the rafts reaching Greek islands from Turkey. “The measures we have agreed today will not end the crisis,” Tusk said. “But they are all necessary steps in the right direction ... Tonight we have a common understanding that we cannot continue like we did before. Without changing the current paradigm the Schengen area will only exist in theory.”

Pope Francis urges divided Congress to share the wealth WASHiNgtoN, September 24 (CNN): Pope Francis urged the United States not to turn its back on undocumented immigrants, to reject the victimization of religious and ethnic minorities, to overcome income inequality and to save the planet from climate change, citing Scripture and the nation’s founding ideals in a historic address to Congress Thursday. Francis, who then swapped the corridors of power for a humble lunch with homeless people, also asked lawmakers to wage a constant battle against poverty and to ensure the wealth of the world is equitably shared and used to create jobs. Francis, who is on a six-day U.S. visit and is the first-ever pontiff to address a joint meeting of Congress, was watched not only by a packed chamber of lawmakers but also thousands of people who gathered outside the Capitol to follow the speech on big screens erected on the National Mall. He later appeared on the Speaker’s balcony, saying “Buenos Dias” and making brief remarks in Spanish before blessing the crowd below. The Pope, who was greeted by cheers as he stepped onto the floor of the House of Representatives, did not scold lawmakers, as his tough words on political topics at the White House Wednesday suggested he might. Instead, speaking in English rather than his native Spanish, he delivered a speech that evoked a sermon or even a pep talk. Using the podium of the House as a pulpit, he repeatedly couched the most politically divisive issues in U.S. public life in the context of the lessons of the Bible and the example of American heroes, including Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, to encourage his audience to live up to the country’s highest ideals. While he referred to traditional Catholic priorities like opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion in passing, he argued that the faithful also had a duty to be engaged on other politically

Pope Francis pauses after concluding his addresses before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress as Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) applaud in the House of Representatives Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington September 24, 2015. REUTERS

controversial social issues, like opposing the death penalty and forging a more equitable society to benefit those “trapped in a cycle of poverty.” Citing his own national heritage as an immigrant and his Argentine roots, Francis reminded his audience that undocumented migrants were human beings. At times this summer, the millions of people living in the shadows in the United States have been singled out in the heat of the presidential campaign. “We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners,” he said, as Vice President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker John Boehner, both Catholics, watched him deliver a speech punctuated by several standing ovations and repeated applause. “I say this to you as the son of immigrants, knowing that so many of you are also descended from immigrants,” Francis told the audience of lawmakers, top military brass, Supreme Court justices and Cabinet members on the floor of the House.

Colombia and FARC rebels vow to end 50-year war within six months HAVANA, September 24 (reuterS): Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and the top FARC rebel commander pledged on Wednesday to end their 50-year war within the next six months, sealing their pact with a handshake likely to stand as a lasting image in the South American nation. Santos and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono, better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko, also agreed the leftist guerrillas would lay down arms within 60 days of signing the deal, which now has an official deadline of March 23, 2016. If successful, it would end a conflict that has killed 220,000 and displaced millions over half a century. A lasting peace would also mark a huge advance for one of Latin America’s star emerging economies and could deal a setback to illegal narcotics trafficking. Some FARC units have formed an alliance with drug cartels, exchanging protection for money. The government and the rebels have been in talks in Havana for nearly three years, but this was the first time Santos had come to Cuba and the first time he had met Timochenko. “We will not fail,” Santos said at a signing ceremony. “The time for peace has arrived.” Moments later, Santos and Timochenko greeted each other with a handshake. Cuban President Raul Castro, who hosted the meeting, joined his hands to theirs. In Wednesday’s breakthrough, the two sides agreed to create special tribunals to try former combatants, form an amnesty

that would exclude those who committed war crimes or crimes against humanity, and provide reparations for victims. Santos stressed the justice accord would apply not just to the FARC but also government troops and right-wing paramilitary groups, which took up arms as mercenaries for wealthy landowners or to avenge their own grievances against the FARC. With rebel negotiators insisting all along they would never go to jail, the special tribunals allow for less severe punishment for those who admit responsibility for their actions. Those who readily admit to crimes would received five- to eight-year terms in undefined conditions of restricted freedom. Those who come forward belatedly would get five to eights years in jail. But those who challenge accusations against them and are found guilty would face up to 20 years in jail. Timochenko repeated the rebels’ longstanding call for a bilateral ceasefire but also said the rebels were prepared to reach a peace deal even before the six months expire. “We don’t want anything to stop this overflowing desire for peace and

hope it will be forged in a night” of war and said “we hug of reconciliation,” Ti- do not have the right to almochenko said. low ourselves another failure.” RECONSTRUCTION Previously, the gov“WILL TAKE YEARS” ernment and the rebels Half a century of war has reached a partial agreeembittered many Colombi- ment on cooperating to ans who mistrust the peace end the illegal drug trade, talks or want harsher retri- in addition to others on bution for their enemies, land reform and the legal but the center-right Santos political participation for staked his presidency on rebels once they disarm. the peace talks. He won reThey also have a side election last year against a agreement on removing right-wing candidate who landmines from the battlethreatened to end the talks field. if elected. The major point left to “The end of the conflict negotiate is how demobiwill be a matter of a few lize rebel forces and stop months. The construction the fighting, which has conof peace in our land will tinued on and off throughtake years,” Colombian In- out the peace talks. terior Minister Juan FerOnce a comprehensive nando Cristo said on Twit- deal is reached, it would go ter. before Colombian voters U.S. Secretary of State for approval. John Kerry called the breakThe insurgent group of through “historic progress” about 8,000 combatants, and telephoned Santos to down from 17,000 in their congratulate him. heyday, is considered a The United States has terrorist group by United poured billions dollars into States and the European military aid and drug-fight- Union. ing efforts in Colombia, one The FARC grew out of of Washington’s closest al- a 1960s Marxist-inspired lies. peasant movement deKerry also thanked manding land reform, and Pope Francis for lending has been fighting succeshis support to peace when sive governments ever after Mass in Havana on since. The struggle has Sunday he called on Co- created one of the world’s lombia’s government and highest internally disguerrillas to end their “long placed populations.

Francis, who was greeted on the streets of Washington Wednesday by tens of thousands of exuberant admirers, made a clear connection between undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and the human exodus of Syrians and others into Europe from wars raging in the Middle East. “On this continent, too, thousands of persons are led to travel north in search of a better life for themselves and for their loved ones, in search of greater opportunities,” he said of migrants from Central and South America, indicating they needed to be treated as people seeking refuge rather than as exploiting the United States’ porous borders. He continued, “We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation.”Francis also appeared to reflect on news coverage of racial violence over the past year and a debate over the place of Muslims in U.S. society that arose in recent weeks. Citing Martin Luther King’s

“dream of full rights for all their brothers and sisters,” he urged Americans to remember the civil rights icon’s legacy of “liberty in plurality and non-exclusion.” Referring to turmoil tearing apart the Middle East, Francis warned the world was increasingly a place of fundamentalism and “brutal atrocities” sometimes committed in the name of religion, but he warned against a simplistic world view pitting good versus evil or “the righteous and the sinners.” Clearly conscious that many conservatives in Congress are skeptical that mankind is contributing to global warming, he called for a courageous and responsible effort to avert “environmental deterioration caused by human activity” and said Congress had an “important role to play.” He also praised efforts in recent months to “help overcome historic differences linked to painful episodes of the past,” a passage that President Barack Obama’s supporters may take as approval of his controversial policies towards Cuba and Iran.

Amid criticism that he is overly critical of global capitalism and dismisses its place in lifting millions of people out of poverty, Francis acknowledged that “business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world.” But he cautioned that wealth should be shared and geared to “the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good.” He did, however, cut one section of his prepared speech, in which he referred to the Declaration of Independence and said that politics should not be a “slave to the economy and finance.” The Pope also counseled members of the unpopular and divided Congress of the need to move forward together in a generous spirit of fraternity. “The challenges facing us today call for a renewal of that spirit of cooperation, which has accomplished so much good throughout the history of the United States,” he said. The Pope drew cheers, especially from the Republican side of the House, when he spoke of the need to “protect and defend human life at every stage of its development,” in a reference to abortion. But he earned only a smattering of applause when he said that reverence for life also means supporting the global abolition of the death penalty. Francis threw his weight behind efforts to pass criminal justice reform, saying society “can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes.” There were also signs of a partisan split in the chamber when Francis mentioned global warming and immigration. The Pope also sought to atone for some of history’s wrongs: “Tragically, the rights of those who were here long before us were not always respected.” The comments came a day after he canonized an 18th-century Spanish missionary who is credited for bringing Christianity to California but who treated Native Americans harshly.

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pectators in the gallery tend to play better than the players in the pitch, in any game. I have been in the gallery watching the Naga political games throughout. Therefore, I may have the tendency of playing better than the players without knowing how hard it is for the actual players to play well. Many Nagas do murmur about the ongoing political developments but have less gut to speak up as much as they whisper around. Many Nagas do sow seed of disapproval stealthily but bogged down to remain prisoners of, perhaps, the sense of greed and opportunism particularly those who can read and write. Nonetheless, I write this piece without malice and with hope that this is the season for us to be frank with one another for the sake of getting blessing in lieu of curse at this crossroad. The Naga society has been sick for long as it has been suffering from both political and social ailments over the decades. And as we have the diagnosis of the disease, we have the knowledge how to prescribe the right medicine which will definitely cure the Naga disease. Every sensible Naga strongly feels that we must heal our land now and without delay. And yet, except few individuals, we are either hesitant or afraid or both for prescribing the right dose of the medicine for treatment of the ailments. Without prescribing the right dosage, how bitter it intake may be, the disease will not be cured. The Nagas are to remain grateful to our National Father A.Z. Phizo and compatriots who established the foundation of Naga nationhood which was unique under the banner of NNC at the right time. By the founded right, Nagas have the legitimacy to become sovereign nation just as East Timor became so on 20.5.2002 with a mere 1.1 million population having just 14,609 sq. Km of the total area of its country. Then what has delayed the Nagas from getting sovereignty? Who has denied sovereignty to Nagas? A people that is broken into shreds by itself cannot become a sovereign nation no matter how deserving to be so as per historical inheritance. A nation that refused to unitedly fight for its aspiration has its rights denied to itself from natural and legal point of view. A people that has no unity does not command respect and recognition from others. No matter how valid Naga historical rights may be, those do not simply merit sovereignty when living, moving and wilfully acting in division. Indeed, it is a self denial and Nagas may not blame India in the first place for what we are today. See the recent accounts of initiatives for reconciliation among the factions since 1997. These are nothing but only chapters of regret. My greatest regret was the fiasco of Atlanta(USA) Reconciliation meet of 1997. The open involvement of American citizens and their open arms invitation to fragmented Nagas to a negotiating table set in the land of the greatest nation on earth, and much to the consternation of India perhaps, bore immense national and international implications. Had Naga factions honoured and accepted the wisdom of American and British mediators at that time, our aspiration would have gained stature. Had Nagas listened to them, they would not have left us in the lurch even during the process of quest for our aspiration. The Naga arrogance was a disrespect to them, and yet what did they loss except that such opportunity may not come back to us. What a blunder! We are crying now, and yet who, the foreign sympathisers, will bother and turn to us again. Secondly, under FNR the Covenant of Reconciliation was signed on 13.7.2009. Following which the NSCN(IM) in particular should have invited the other signatories to round table conference. For what? For NSCN(IM) to lay bare the agenda in the offing and seek suggestions of addition, deletion and rectification, if any, from fellow factions in the true spirit of reconciliation. Had it been so, majority of the Nagas would have united. Had it been so, there would have been no reason why any other faction should hesitate to have an inclusive common agenda for the purpose of a final solution. In such a situation, it would become perhaps handy for the mediators to pursue the rest to join the majority bandwagon. The third opportunity came after two years in the fashion of Concordant on 26.8.2011 although a major partner, NSCN(K) declined to be part of it. Here too, except the much publicity it failed to produce seedy conclusion. Perhaps, the Concordant had met the same fate as Covenant had suffered. Perhaps due to our iniquities in the sight of God, we are destined to suffer longer as this under the stalemate. Nevertheless, the above exercises were not of total wastage as the rate of fratricidal killings was drastically brought down since the process of reconciliation began. We cannot but thank Jesus. Of all the Naga factions, NSCN(IM) is found to be the most potent group from both organisational and military point of view. The GOI has therefore entered into exclusive dialogue with NSCN(IM) for political solution. The group has also assured the Nagas that an honourable and acceptable solution will be brought. However, as per the ongoing trend, the ‘Framework Agreement’ is within the Constitution of India. If so, the issue of sovereignty is out of question. Although integration is feasible within Indian Constitution, the Interlocutor RN Ravi has made it clear that Nagaland’s neighbour States particularly Assam and Manipur are assured that their territorial integrities would not be disturbed by Naga settlement. Therefore, when the principle aspirations of the Nagas are not in the agreement, it cannot be called honourable indeed. And let the acceptability be left to Nagas as a whole after the finality arrives. Well, even when Nagas are united today and have solid movement, there is no guarantee that we get our sovereignty with it. Then how can a political faction or group get Independence for the Nagas? NSCN(IM) is just a faction, and no matter how strong and capable the group may be, how can it bring sovereignty? There is no universal precedence in history that a cluster of people in a nation who managed to liberate the nation, without the total involvement of the citizens of a nation as a whole,

from foreign subjugation. Had there been such mechanism, the Nagas would have floated a global tender and allot the task to the most capable company to bring Naga Independence. Yet, the universal tenet for aspiring self determination is the total involvement of all citizens without colouring and discrimination. When NSCN(IM) is failing to get sovereignty for the Nagas, which faction, one can think is more capable of getting sovereignty for the Nagas? It is foolishness to believe that a faction can bring sovereignty as if it is cheap and available in plenty at throwaway prices. Therefore, if not for false promises made, I cannot blame NSCN(IM) as the issue is beyond their manageability. I also appreciated the comment of NSCN(IM) leadership as appeared in local media earlier that they have to respect India’s predicaments. Such attitude is positive and realistic. And unless we invoke the spirit of give and take, how an acceptable solution can be worked out? Let us not further displease the living God with unrealistic, unethical and self-betrayal utterances that ‘something (meaning the result of Naga Independence) will be known after transplantation period is over or just after harvest’. Let us no more have hallucination on Naga Independence that can be had with our military prowess. This is my belief. (Being the wretched sinner, and yet allow me to be over-smart here). Naga Independence can come only by one and the only option is by God’s grace and His miracle. By this option, factions are not required, weapons are of no use, governments with decorative paraphernalia and with strategies and manoeuvres are futile exercises. God does not need Naga army to perform miracle. I believe that the Nagas’ Jehovah has one condition for the Nagas which is well within our feasibility. That is, Nagas realize, repent and sincerely confess the abominable sins we have committed knowingly or unknowingly before God. That Nagas commit henceforth to worship and serve the Living God alone and pledged to no more worship temporal god of power and god of wealth. That Nagas will not only send 10,000 missionaries but much more to spread the Gospel to unreached. That every Naga family shall be a partner in His mission venture. Then let the Nagas take rest from the movement of warfare and patiently wait for God to perform His miracle. God is able. In the light of above para, the NSCN(IM) must not necessarily consider the tall promises of sovereignty and integration to be Frankenstein’s creation. It seems that NSCN(IM) is having sovereignty and integration phobia. I observe that NSCN(IM) seems to feel scared of its promises made to the Naga people and the possible repercussion of the Nagas should there be any failure to fulfil the promises. Perhaps, for this fear NSCN(IM) used to give defensive statements which are not realistic. In my opinion (I gave a tip of my opinion which appeared in local media on 1.9.2015), the better option for NSCN(IM) is to be bold and frank with the Nagas about the predicaments and the intricacies they have been facing in the process of negotiations. If sovereignty and integration are unattainable, say so. If not every Naga, there are sufficient sensible Nagas who can appreciate and accept the realities. Be frank, and allow those sensible Nagas to cut your hair, if justification warrants, instead of you trying to trim it yourself helplessly. I strongly believe that it is negotiable within the Nagas as far as utopianism and pragmatism are concerned. As for me, as an individual, I stand by pragmatism. The inclusiveness, frankness and transparency will be the basis for such understanding and it can lead to acceptability. Meanwhile, we have to give liberty to those who may like to bask in their rigidity that nothing below sovereignty is acceptable provided they do not become a menace to progress and prosperity of the fellow Nagas. The Interlocutor Ravi has adequately stated that Naga settlement will not be in piecemeal and therefore it has to be inclusive. I believe in this commitment that he means business, although the practical approach is not seen implemented as yet. In other words, no other faction is reportedly known to have been officially invited to have the dialogue. It is time for NSCN(IM) leadership to proportionately reciprocate by means of overcoming the temptations of egoism and prove their leadership maturity in upholding the principle of inclusiveness. If NSCN(IM) likes to claim superiority over other groups, do it so by means of magnanimity and without selfishness, vindictiveness and pride. Under the banner of inclusiveness, no other faction, when invited, should have any inhibition from participation when the GOI is found to be sincere today in trying to resolve the political issue. Under such circumstances, let us seek God’s guidance, forget the past, prove our worth that as much ability we have to divide ourselves that much capability we have to unite when required and collectively work out the best arrangement this time with which we can have political recess. If we miss this opportunity, it will be a greater regret, much greater than the aforementioned regrets. If not, when the accord is brought under the banner of exclusiveness, the following points of discord, I presume (as the contents are not known), may welcome the Accord with further debates. a) Disparity: The disparity in regard to owning States. When some Nagas owning two States instead of one at the cost of other Nagas possessing only one State. b) Neo-Fascism: If freedom in democracy is to be substituted by neo fascism. The other imperative question is when an Accord under the exclusive banner or inclusive banner is agreed upon, whether the contents so agreed will be a mere administrative order or those will be incorporated to the Constitution of India like Art 371(A). The first option is a simple matter, as we all know, that a Secretary of GOI will issue an order to that effect and we all know how ad hoc such order will be. Whereas, the second option will have to rout through both Houses of Parliament, and in the process two thirds majority in each house will have to approve. Not being a lawyer, this is my layman’s knowledge. –Z. Lohe

hrough this column, I take thisintegrity to echo my few apprehensions and anguish over SBIPfustero Branch under Phek Dist. which buckled the trust of the valued customers. Perceiving with the prevailing scenario of the Bank, I felt somehow reluctant to comment that ithas demoralizeditsefficacy where its functions have createdchaos and commotions amongstitsesteemedclienteles. It has been almost a month that it was malfunctioning without cash, technical failures, acute shortage of field staffs and uncalled close of transactions even on working days. In most cases, there is closer of ATM boot for being the reason best known to them. Being the forerunner of customers trust, most of the publics relied on it for their daily transactions. The bulk of businessmen depend on it for their day today transactions to keep their business stirring. However, malfunctioning of the bank has shattered their business. Most of the Govt. employees draw their salaries from this bank.Conversely,due to non-availability of cash, in many occasions, customers were compelled

to go down to Kohimaor nearby SBI Banks to withdraw cash. Even under such awful situations, the customers still remained loyal and faithful to the bank. The patience and serenity of the customers trust on the bank has been running out. The problems of the customers have come under strain. Thisregulartrend of ineffective operation of the bank will eventually endure unbecoming situationwhich deems to arise customer outrage and the bank has to be solely responsible for it. Learning from reliable sources, SBI Pfutsero has been downgraded which is so humiliating and mortifying.The public where not aware of such developments for which the public considered it as major setback and it was taken as untold amazement.Such untoward hasty actions of the Bank havemelancholy evoked strong resentments and antagonism from the Publics and Businessman. It is disheartening and revolting. It has bewildered the customers and common people. I felt somehow confused and tangledthat how could a Public Sector Bank take swift decisions without the concern of the public when

there is enormous growth of customers. Is it not disgusting and debasing? Downgrading of Bank from 'stable' to 'negative' on concerns over asset quality, capitalization and borrowings and debts, amid growth in customers has severely affected the public. As long as depositors and other stakeholders remained loyal to this institution, how could the Bank act in such a manner just for the cause of some few individuals or imposters? Legal system to recover money from defaulters is too weak and inefficient under SBI Pfutsero Branch. Being the public sector bank it should retrospect and reflect the consequences that it is going to fuelundesirable bearing to its active customers. It would be desirable and applauding on the part of State Bank of India being the Govt. owned enterpriseto retrospect and reflect the undue hardships faced by its valuable customers and the public andsave SBI Pfutsero Branch from ruining. Timely intervention and restorationof the Bank to former status will be highly regarded. KetshengupeLosou Pfutsero Town

BE CAREFUL MONEY LENDER & BORROWER

he Bibles tells us “borrow is one of his brother, and I sat a great Asnot only a sin but it is a curse to sembly against them.” borrow.” The lender who takes 5. Exo. 22:25: “If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, money interest is getting more thou shall not be to him as an usucurse than the borrower. Let us see some rer, neither shall thou lay upon him Bible reference in this context: usury.” 1. Ezek. 18:13: “Hath given forth upon 6. Pro. 28:2: “He that by usury and by usury (money interest) and hath takunjust gain increaseth his substance, en increase: shall he live? He shall not he shall gather it for him that will pity live: he hath done this abominations: the poor.” he shall surely die: his blood shall be Likewise, there are many instances, upon him.” Dear citizens, it is a terri- the scripture warns us not to lend monble thing to increase our wealth with ey with interest of any rate be it 5% or money interest, let us be careful. 10% pm which has broken many good 2. Levi 25:36-37: “take thou no usury of families and individuals life in Nagahim or increase: but fear thy God; that land. Many land/building/ properties/ thy brother may live with thee…… thou shall not give him thy money houses were seized in the name of sociupon usury, nor lend him thy victuals ety. It is sad to observe, some churches are raising fund by lending money with for increase”. 3. Deu. 23:19: “Thou shall not lend interest which is against the doctrinal upon usury to thy brother; usury of truth. When we read in Ps. 37:16 we money; usury of victuals, usury of found that, “A life that is righteous man hath is better than the riches of many anything that is lent upon usury.” 4. Neh. 5:7: ………”ye exact usury, every wicked”.

I do not mean to say lending and borrowing is wrong, but taking high rate of interest it is equally dangerous for our future generations.I realized the word of God in Pro. 22:7 that “the rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.” So let us be careful. As a Christian state, it will be more blessed to give loan without interest than to receive interest of any kind or cash. In Luke 19:8-9, Zacchaeus said…… “Lord the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, restore him fourfold”….And Jesus said unto him, “this day is salvation come, to this house……” It is my humble prayer that the Lord will visit many homes and individuals life in days to come and raise up 1000 Zacchaeus from Nagaland, and make our land, the beautiful Christian Nation a better place to live in for the glory of God. Nswahingbe Dimapur Town

Sumi council proposals for better Dimapur

imapur has seen many changes over the years and it has been for the better otherwise the city would not have seen the expansion we are witnessing in our day to day life. This trend has also made the responsibility of the administration and law enforcing agencies much bigger as compared to the past. The population, traffic, the business and other activities have increased manifold. The govt. of the day deserves all praise to have realised the gigantic task of the local administration and upgraded the office of the Superintendent of Police to that of Commissioner of Police. With the bifurcation of responsibility under the new system and division of areas zone-wise, the crime graph of the

city definitely is on the decline and the law enforcing agencies deserve kudos. Considering the vastness of the areas to cover, the traffic personnel may not be very conveniently positioned as they have to cover up to Chumukedima check gate, if not beyond in case of accidents and other traffic related matters. Therefore, it is being suggested that if a traffic outpost is created in the vicinity of Diphupar area (4th mile), it will improve the efficiency of the responsible people to attend to their duties without much delay as scope for making excuses will diminish to a large extent and the working system will be prompt and effective. Lastly, the proposal to shift the Deputy Commissioner’s office from its present site is something which does

not seem to have popular mandate of the people. There is no doubt about the fact that the shifting will cause inconveniences to vast section of the people. Therefore, it is suggested here that as it is in the Kamrup district of neighbouring Assam where there are two DCs, one for urban and the other for the rural, Dimapur can also be brought under the same system. It will stop lots of dissenting voices and help run the administration to the satisfaction of all concerned. For that matter when the police system can be upgraded there is no reason why the civil administration should be subjected to step-motherly treatment when their responsibility have equally increased. Kuhoi Zhimo, Chairman Sumi Council, Dimapur

Glorification of Guidinliu and recognition of Heraka is the secret agenda of Hinduvta

he term Hindutva is derived from the two terms Hindu and Tattva, which literally mean Principles. Hence, it is Hindu principle. According to V.D. Savarkar the president of Hindu Mahasabha in 1936, Hindu is the one who has adopted Hindu culture. Hindutva is a racial concept, Hindutva belong all the religious groups of India whose origin can be traced to India soil. They must have Sanskrit as their mother tongue or any other Indian language except Urdu and English. Hinduism is the various theologies or systems of religion Hindu people follow. But Hindutva means “Hinduness” that permeates into the whole being or the whole life of Hindus. The goal of Hindutva is “Hinduism all politics and militarize Hinduism. The ideological purposes of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) based on the Hindu Mahasabha, particularly on Savarkar`s theories. The prayer and the Pratigiya (pledge) of RSS are the ideological orientation of Hindutva saluting to the Hindu Rashtra and swearing to preserve and promote the cause of Hindu Dharma, Hindu Rashtra and Hindu Sanskriti. Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) is the religious wing of RSS and it is carrying out the religious agenda of RSS. The missionary work among the tribal and dalits and the conversion of the backward classes are its focus. Creating a fear psychosis among the Hindu it insist that their very existence in India is in danger due to the conversion work of Muslim and Christian missionaries. Its youth wing, Bajrang Dal is disturbing the peace of the land. In Gujarat and

Orissa (Odessa), it is found that VHP and its wing took a major part in the demolition of the Babri Masjit in Ayaodhy. The work of VHP shows that it is a fundamentalist organisation working for the Hindu alone and all other are enemies in their sights. One major objective of VHP is to forge a nation and international unity amongst all those it defines as Hindu. It felt that Hindus have been fragmented and divided into groups and castes in conflict with each other. Disunity and weakness have allowed foreigners to invade and rule over India. So to restore their power the Hindu have to become conscious of their underlying common identity, rediscover and forge the unity, which lies submerged. VHP mainly concentrated on setting up school clinics and temples with the work of proselytisation among the tribal and other backward classes. The plan of BJP government for construction of Heraka temple in Peren district is the goal of VHP. The ideology of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is encompassed with Hindutva. The party is opinion that Hindu nationalism, in its essence, is Indian nationalism. The BJP`s association with Hindu fundamentalism is evident in the treatment of minorities in the states under BJP rule. Most of the leaders of the VHP, RSS, Hindu Jagron Munch (HJM) and Bajrang Dal who joined the Kar serva to demolish the Babri Masjid were political leaders in the BJP ruling states. It is said that Gaidinliu and her devoted disciples attended the World Hindu meet at Prayag organized by VHP in January 1979, so attending in

the World Hindu meet gives clear picture that Gaidinliu was associating with Hindu Fundamentalists and considering her religion Heraka as Hindu. For which even today RSS and VHP leaders are linking with Heraka and attending Heraka festival, even Modi the Prime Minister of India had a meeting with the members of Zeliangrong Heraka Association on 30 November 2014, during his visit to Nagaland, and the Government of India decided to honour her, on her 100 years birth centenary celebration”. Why BJP Government is giving too much interested in glorifying Gaidinliu and recognising Heraka religion in Nagaland? Because Nagaland is one of the Christian states in India and there is no way to introduce Hinduism in Nagaland and the glorification of Gaidinliu and recognition of Heraka religion is the only way to introduce Hinduism in Nagaland. Therefore the leaders of VHP, RSS, are trying to penetrating the Naga society through glorification of Gaidinliu and recognition of Heraka. According to Indian political geography Gaidinliu was born at Tamenglong district in Manipur. Therefore, glorification of Gaidinliu and recognition of Heraka would have done in Manipur as the Chief Minister of Manipur says. But glorification of Gaidinliu and recognition of Heraka religion in Nagaland by BJP government is the secret agenda of Hindutva. For which I request all the intellectual Naga leaders to give serious in this matter and stop the ugly policy of BJP government. P. Inaho Yeptho, Pastor of Nikiqhe village.

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Tali Angh performs at Patkai Christian College on September 23. The concert was organised by NSS unit Patkai Christian College in aid of an orphanage home. Currently Tali Angh is visiting schools and colleges. So far, he has visited Northfield School, G. Rio School, Science College (EU), Sazolie College, Alder College and St. John Hr Sec school taking his music to encourage young people to live a positive life with a clear self- identity, to know God and experience true freedom. He will be visiting more schools and colleges.

Former Guns N' Roses star Slash to perform in India

rammy award winning Slash, a former guitarist of cult rock band Guns N'Roses, is heading to India to give music fans in the country a headbanging experience of a lifetime. Slash ft. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators will be headlining the rock music and adventure sports festival MTV Indies Xtreme, on their first ever India tour, during which they will promote their new album "World on Fire". It will release in India in October via Sony Music. The band members are Slash, lead vocalist Myles Kennedy, an American musician and singersongwriter best known as a member of the rock band Alter Bridge; bassist and vocalist Todd Kerns; drummer Brent Fitz and vocalistcum-guitarist Frank Sido-

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Excited about their first India tour, Slash said in a statement: "I'm really looking forward to taking our 'World On Fire tour' to India for the first time ever at MTV Indies Xtreme'." MTV Indies Xtreme -- a concept by LIVE Viacom18 in partnership with MTV Indies -will be held in Mumbai on November 7, followed by Bangalore on November 14. Tickets for the same will be available from Friday. On curating the power-packed event, Jaideep Singh, senior vice president and business head - LIVE Viacom18, said: “First year with Megadeth and now with the debut tour of all time rock legend Slash, MTV Indies Xtreme enters in to a new phase and it will only get bigger from here on.”

he Angry Birds Movie is an upc o m i ng 2 0 1 6 American-Finnish 3D computer-animated action comedy film directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly produced by John Cohen and Catherine Winder and written by Jon Vitti. The film is based on the video game series of the same name. The film stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Bill Hader,

and Peter Dinklage, as well as voice cameos, including YouTube sensation Smosh. The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds - or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis - We're the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck (Josh Gad in his first animated role since Frozen), and the volatile Bomb (Danny McBride - This is the

End, Eastbound and Down) have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to. From the looks of it, the film has already managed to garner a lot o curiosity amongst Angry Bird lovers and haters alike. This hilarious 3D adventure is slated for a theatre release in May 2016.

Women wearing Leggings are 'Crossing All Limits': TAmiL mAgAzine KumudAm LAnds in TroubLe

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cover story in a Tamil biweekly on the women’s wear, leggings, allegedly portraying those who sport it in a bad light, has kicked off a storm, more so in the virtual world, with many charging that the article amounted to moral policing. There is even an online petition, asking the magazine to apologise for the article.

The latest issue of popular Tamil periodical Kumudam Reporter ran the story on women wearing leggings, terming it ‘crossing the limits’ of acceptable dress code. It was accompanied by several photographs of women on the road and riding pillion, all cropped suggestively to further drive in the message that leggings were provocative.

Soon after the weekly hit the news stands, a controversy erupted over the moralistic tone of the article, with scores especially the youth — but not restricted to women alone — coming out with scathing criticisms. The article was variously described as misogynistic and regressive, and the magazine was asked to apologise for running it.

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DMK member Kanimozhi came out with a statement alleging that to be “moral policing masquerading as journalism. It is a classic case of objectification of women.” The activistic site Change.org has a petition addressed to the management of the periodical that has already received nearly 2,500 petitions within just a few hours.

U.S. hindu leader attacks Selena Gomez over 'DISReSPeCTFUl' New TaTToo

he Come & Get It singer unveiled her new 'Om' skin art on her thigh on Friday during a beach day in Miami, Florida, and the snaps that appeared online have upset religious leaders. Calling the tattoo "highly irreverent and disrespectful", leading U.S. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed tells WENN, "Hindus usually start and end their prayers with 'Om', the mystical syllable containing the universe. "Such trivialisation of 'Om' is upsetting to Hindus. It's highly inappropriate for Selena to place

such a revered and sacred symbol of Hinduism, with high religious significance, on her thigh." It isn't the first time Gomez has upset Zed, the president of the Universal Society of Hinduism - in 2013 he took aim at the singer/actress for her sultry performance of Come & Get It at the MTV Movie Awards, while wearing a bindi on her forehead. Zed called the decision to wear the spiritual Hindu decoration while performing a provocative pop song "insensitive". He tells WENN, "As a renowned performer, Selena should get acquainted with the basics of world religions...

Hinduism concepts and symbols have well-defined meanings and purposes and these were not created just for Hollywood stars. "We welcome celebrities to immerse themselves in Hinduism but to take it seriously and respectfully and not just for the indecorous showing of Hindu symbols and concepts to advance their selfish agenda. Casual flirting sometimes results in pillaging serious spiritual doctrines and revered symbols, hurting the devotees."

riyanka Chopra and her fan followers are eagerly waiting for October 3. The much awaited American television show Quantico would go on air in the country from October 3. It is the first international show for the Bollywood beauty. It is touted as one of the big-

gest show of 2015 fall. And it would also be the first time where an Indian actress has been roped in for an American show and playing the lead role in it. Quantico would be aired on India’s most loved channel – Star World and Star World HD. The show would be aired

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ctress Esha Deol was seen on the small screen as a judge for reality television show 'Roadies X3'. However, despite great response from the viewers, the actress has stepped down from her role of a judge and

now it has been reported that Neha Dhupia will replace her. It has been reported that Esha opted out of the show due to monetary issues. Meanwhile, Neha Dhupia, 35, said she is excited to be a part of the show. "To influence youth

and to be influenced by them is what excited me to take up the show. "And coming from an army background, I think I've got a thing or two to add to its action aspect. I want to propagate the idea of being yourself, having faith and never giving up on your dreams," Dhupia said in a statement Esha's mother Hema Malini took to Twitter to thank the channel for giving her daughter a chance to judge the reality show. Thank you MTV for selecting Esha as ur 1st female judge! She had a ball doing the prog & being part of ur family. We loved watching it too!

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every Saturday from 9 pm onwards. Priyanka who has fan followers across the globe is very excited for the new show of ABC – Quantico. The Bollywood beauty has also proved to be singing sensational and post that this American series is going to another big break for her.

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Celta stuns Barca as Real sinks Bilbao Summer Sprint Challenge

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maDriD, September 24 (reuterS): A Karim Benzema brace gave Real Madrid a 2-1 victory at Athletic Bilbao and lifted them to the top of La Liga on goal difference ahead of Celta Vigo, who thrashed Barcelona 4-1 on Wednesday with Iago Aspas hitting a double. Villarreal are also in a three way tie for first place on 13 points after they beat Malaga 1-0 away, while Barcelona are a point behind. Benzema took full advantage of a poor backpass by Mikel San Jose and fired home to put Real ahead after 19 minutes. Bilbao showed typical fighting spirit and a fine diving header from Sabin Merino ended Real keeper Keylor Navas’ record unbeaten start to the season after 67 minutes, but they were only level for three minutes. Benzema, a threat all night to the Athletic rearguard, was quickest to an Isco cross and knocked it in from close range. Real and Celta now have 13 points after five games while Barca are a point behind. After disappointing spells at Liverpool and Sevilla, Aspas is back to his best this season having returned to Celta and struck clinical finishes in either half against a Barca side who were far from their normal dominant selves. Nolito, a former Barca youth player, fired his fifth goal in as many games to put Celta ahead after 25 minutes with a pinpoint curling drive from the left

of the area. Aspas then chipped the ball over keeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen for the second minutes later. It was clear that it was not going to be Barca’s day when Lionel Messi struck the woodwork after 52 minutes with only

keeper Sergio Alvarez to beat and then Aspas raced clear and slotted home on 55 minutes. Barcelona's Neymar scored from a tight angle after 80 minutes but Celta substitute John Guidetti volleyed in their fourth

Srinivasan, Pawar meet in Nagpur as BCCI presidential race hots up

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NaGpur, September 24 (iaNS): International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman N. Srinivasan and Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) president Sharad Pawar met in Nagpur and it has been learnt that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) presidency was the primary topic of discussion between the duo. Former ICC and BCCI chief Pawar is currently on a tour of drought-hit Maharashtra and Srinivasan flew to Nagpur on a special flight to meet Pawar on Wednesday night. The duo had a two-hour discussion, but what exactly was discussed in the meeting is not known. However, it can be assumed that post the death of BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya on Sunday, the talks were around the filling up of the vacant post. Srinivasan is also likely to meet his group in Bangalore later on Thursday. A day after Dalmiya's death, Pawar attended his funeral, and then rushed to Mumbai to hold parleys with his

loyalists to gauge the emerging situation. Though he was now touring rural Maharashtra, it could well be that the shrewd former BCCI and ICC chief was playing a wait and watch game before taking the plunge. However, Pawar could face difficulties in getting a proposer from East Zone, with Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and National Cricket Club (NCC) strongly opposed to him. The Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) is controlled by loyalists of former BCCI boss N. Srinivasan, who had to quit following a Supreme Court directive to facilitate investigation into the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) betting and spot fixing scam. Though Srinivasan is not in a position to throw his hat into the ring due to the apex court ruling, he could try to control the proceedings from behind the scene by fielding his confidant and Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) chief Amitabh Choudhary.

minutes later. The players in the blue of Celta could have been mistaken for Barca the way they pressed the visitors back with their quick movement and link-up play. Ter Stegen could only get his fingertips to Nolito’s strike into the top corner and then Gerard Pique hesitated in possession on the halfway line with the ball finding its way to Aspas who ran through and lifted the ball over the keeper. After the break Barca pressed forward but left themselves wide open at the back. Messi hit the woodwork and then shortly after Aspas latched onto a long punt forward, evaded a challenge from Dani Alves, and found the corner with his shot. Messi set up Neymar for a consolation while Guidetti was then given space in the area and cracked the ball home. Real's Mateo Kovacic was given the chance of playing in the trident behind Benzema with Gareth Bale still out injured. Benzema was the visitors' most dangerous player on the night and he was quick to pounce on San Jose's mistake to put them ahead. Navas, who had been close to joining Manchester United during the transfer window, had set a club record start to the season by not conceding in five games, but he was finally beaten when Sabin's excellent header thundered past. Benzema secured the win with a predatory finish.

Riders in action at the 3rd Summer Sprint Challenge organized by Route 29 at Dimapur, Nagaland on Thursday, September 24, 2015. Photo by Caisii Mao

Dimapur, September 24 (mexN): The Summer Sprint Challenge flagged off to a roaring start on September 24 at the Agri Expo, 4th Mile, Dimapur. In its third edition, the motor racing championship is being organised by Route 29. Brig Brijesh Dhiman, Commander 6th sector, Assam Rifles flagged off the competition with a total of 76 participants from within and outside Nagaland competing in two categories for 4-wheelers and 2-wheelers. The Motocross event (bikes) has 14 competitors, while the 4-wheeler category has 62 participants competing in the SUV, Below 1000cc and Above 1000cc sub-categories. It will culminate on September 26.

16TH NSF MARTYRS MEMORIAL TROPHY 2015 Ablaze FC, Quasars Club, Kigwema SU, Senapati FC enter 2nd round

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Mizoram school claims Subroto Cup U-14 boys trophy New DeLhi, September 24 (iaNS): Mizoram's Government Chawngfiang Middle School lifted the 56th Subroto Cup Sub-Junior (Under-14) football trophy, beating Esteqalal School from Afghanistan 3-2 in a keenly contested final at the Ambedkar Stadium here today. Norbert Lalfakawma scored the match winning goal with a left-footed shot in the seventh minute of the extra time after the match was deadlocked 2-2 at the end of regulation time. Chunnfa Hamar scored once on either side of the break to A match between Senapati FC Manipur and Perizie XI Kohima on September 24. (Morung Photo) put the Mizoram team 2-0 ahead but the Afghan team fought back Our Correspondent came through Nikaho Awomi in the through Rasheed's brace, the sec40th minute. Fixture for FRIDAY Kohima | September 24 ond of his goals coming via a penFinally, Quasars Club overpow25 September alty. The winning team got Rs.2.5 Ablaze FC Kohima, The Quasars ered Spartans FC 4-3 via tie-break Ist Match (11:00 AM): lakh for their efforts while the run- Club Kohima, Kigwema Students’ and moved to second round. Native Feathers’ Ntuma Peren vs ners-up received Rs.1.25 lakh. Union and Senapati FC Manipur toIn the third match of the day, KigNagabazar Youth Org day registered wins in their respecwema Students’ Union blanked Mod2nd Match: (12:30 PM): tive matches of the ongoing 16th NSF el Christian College, Kohima 5-0. Poilwa Youth Org. Peren Vs Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy 2015 here Shiirhotolie scored a hat-trick for Headwinds FC Kohima at the Kohima Local Ground under Kigwema Students’ Union in the 15th, 3rd Match (2:00 PM): the aegis of Angami Students’ Union. 34th and 52nd minute while Zhazoto Barak FC vs Sechii-Zubza Youth Org. In the first match of the day, and Kuzole netted a goal each in the Ablaze FC Kohima defeated Van28th and 43rd minute respectively. ute. The second match between The guard FC 2-1. Senapati FC Manipur downed Joseph Konyak and Megoriezo Quasars Club Kohima and Spartans Perizie XI Kohima 3-0 in the last Chase netted a goal each to Ablaze FC Patkai CC Dimapur witnessed 1-1 match of the day. FC in the 35th and 49th minute re- draw within the allotted full time. Koveo, Mayon and H. Vareiyang Bichamo netted a goal for Qua- contributed a goal each to Senapati spectively. A lone goal for Vanguard FC came sars Club in the early 5th minute FC team in the 3rd, 65th minute and through Nouneneilie in the 8th min- while equalizer for Spartans Club added time respectively.

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Flamini on fire as Arsene finds unlikely Cup hero

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LONDON, September 24 (aGeNCieS): The first reaction was one of astonishment at how the man in Arsenal red had judged the drop of the high ball and timed a glorious right-footed volley into the bottom corner of the net to settle this frenetic north London derby. The feeling deepened when the identity of the scorer became clear. Mathieu Flamini is not supposed to score any goals, let alone one as beautiful as this. And yet it was not even the defensive midfielder’s first of the evening; almost implausibly he had also put Arsenal in front with a close-range effort that was marked by his desire to reach a loose ball first. As Tottenham Hotspur hearts sank Flamini beat his own with his fist and he revelled in the moment in front of the ecstatic travelling supporters. This was his first appearance of the season and there had certainly been times over the summer when his future at the club was in doubt. It was fast and furious, packed with attitude and Flamini’s celebration after his first goal was entirely in keeping with the tone. Having moved on to Michel Vorm’s weak parry

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from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain’s shot to bang the ball into the roof of the net he fronted up to the Tottenham fans in the Paxton Road end. Tottenham had the bit between their teeth when they emerged for the second half and, with Rose continuing to make inroads against Joel Campbell and

Mathieu Debuchy on the Arsenal right, the equaliser had been advertised. It came when Chadli crossed low and Chambers, who was close to Ospina and worried about what was behind him, felt he had to attempt to deal with the danger. Facing the wrong way there was a disastrous inevitability about

what happened when he jutted out his leg. Arsenal, though, came on strong towards the end. The substitute, Alexis Sánchez, who made a difference, and Giroud had gone close when Fazio hoofed the ball into the air and Flamini strode on to the volley. That finish will live long in the memory.

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