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The Naga search for Common Ground Morung Express News Dimapur | September 27

Is it possible for the Nagas to come together as a people? Students from various colleges in Dimapur gathered to find a Common Ground as a step towards finding an answer.

In a unique feat, the Diphupar Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) organized a platform called Common Ground—an interaction for a better perspective—at the Agri Expo here today. It brought Naga intellectuals, activists and leaders together on one platform, and gave the young Nagas an opportunity to listen and clarify confusion on issues faced by Nagaland today. “The objective is not to look for a solution, but to instill confidence in the younger generation and give insight into the views of leaders,” said Sakulemba Jamir, President, DNSU, in his welcome address. The Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC), Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation Nagaland (ACAUT), and the GPRN/NSCN participated in the discussion, alongside prominent intellectuals like P. Leonard Aier and Niketu Iralu.

The platform, for Niketu Iralu, was a “quiet but firm assertion” that there is a Common Ground for the Nagas today—“we should not lose sight of this.” He congratulated the DNSU and Diphupar Village Council for bringing so many voices, tribes and ages together.

Speaking on the Common Ground of unity, co convenor of ACAUT, Joel Nillo Kath, asserted the position that ACAUT is “against the division of the Naga national movement.” Highlighting how the

Cabinet recommends PR in Maharashtra new DelhI/mumBaI, SeptemBer 27 (IanS): The union cabinet Saturday evening recommended President’s Rule in Maharashtra, official sources said. The development follows a recommendation to this effect by Maharashtra Governor C. V. Rao earlier in the day following the resignation of Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Friday. The cabinet’s recommendation will be sent to Rashtrapati Bhavan.

Rev. Dr. Z Keyho speaks as other panelists look on at the DNSU organized ‘Common Ground’ interaction at the Agri Expo at Dimapur on Saturday, September 27. (L-R) Joel Nillo Kath (ACAUT), Moa Walling (GPRN/NSCN), P Leonard Aier and Niketu Iralu. (Morung Photo)

post 1980 born Naga generation belongs to a “globalised society of no emotional attachment to the Naga movement,” he requested the Naga political groups to “bury differences” before this attachment is completely severed.

The GPRN/NSCN found the Common Ground in truth. “It is very expensive to speak the truth in Naga society today,” said Secretary to the Collective Leadership of the GPRN/ NSCN, Moa Walling. Admitting that “we have done wrong,” Walling stressed how current leadership among the Nagas tries to “escape” the situation instead of “engaging with it,” thereby creating more divisions.

“We do not communicate with or trust each other—the young generation should not learn this from us. Nagas have not achieved any-

thing because of this,” said Walling.

He highlighted how it is generally the black sheep of the family who joins the various political groups these days and “nothing good” can be expected from this. Stressing on how the young generation should not play the backdoor politics that they have inadvertently inherited, Walling noted that “coming together is the beginning—if we can hold on, that is progress, and if we can carry on, it is success.”

For the Naga Students’ Federation, this common ground could be found in “doing away with tribalism, regionalism and pre conceived notions about each others as Nagas,” said NSF Speaker RS Jollyson in his exhortation.

P. Leonard Aier, Principal of City Law College, Dimapur, agreed and

disagreed. “Tribalism identifies in Naga society the diversity of tradition, customs and culture—to pass all this on to the next generation, we need it,” he said, cautioning, however, that “tribalism will break us apart” if applied to issues that “affect us all.”

He admitted that the older generation has “misled” the Naga youth. “If justice has failed, we can presume strongly that there is no stability in our society,” he noted, stressing on Christianity as a “common bond” that enshrines justice. What is the law of Nagaland? Lawlessness, said Aier, describing his presentation in a word.

“We are a small community, and we cannot allow the Naga nation to be disintegrated. It is for us to make sure that the common ground we find remains firm and stable,” stated Aier.

And finding this ground has to be an effort in individual and collective transformation. “If each of us can ask ourselves, why am I angry?

What is my resentment with? If I can be truthful, a process of transformation can begin,” said social activist and educationist, Niketu Iralu. If each tribe and national group can do this, he asserted, “the temperature of blaming each other will come down and truthfulness can begin.”

Extrapolating on the point, he said, “our society needs individual transformation to give up wrong doing.”

“ACAUT has shown what is rotten within our society—if it is to win, each of us needs to start contributing on an individual capacity,” the basis for which is truth, Iralu maintained—everyone has to contribute to that.

The moderators for the discussion were Samuel Sumi and Kathyinla Jamir; an invocation was offered by Rev. Candid Sareo, a vote of thanks from the organizing committee and benediction by Benjamin Aye. NSCN (IM) skips discussion The organizers announced that the NSCN (IM) skipped today’s discussion due to “unavoidable circumstances.” In that, it missed an opportunity to connect with the youth. “It has left a bad impression— they failed to contribute to the topic and give us a clear picture on their stand,” said a student from JN Aier College, Diphupar. “Maybe they are too scared to speak the truth—perhaps they don’t want to work together with the others,” stated a student from Eastern Christian College, Padum Pukhuri.

Morung Express News Dimapur | September 27

The Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act (NLTPA) is “not to suppress but to liberate,” stated Rev. Dr. Z Keyho for the NBCC today. He was speaking at the Common Ground organized by the Diphupar Naga Students’ Union at the Agri Expo here today. The NBCC, he said, has been “misunderstood on her position” on the Act—“the State Government is the custodian of the Act, not the NBCC.” Acknowledging loopholes in the NLTPA, he reiterated the NBCC’s position that it is not the State Government that is only to be blamed, but urged it to strengthen the Act by looking seriously into these loopholes instead of merely paying lip service to the same—that the Act should at least be implemented, not revised.

“We have failed many times over in our responsibility but it is not reason to give up. The State Government cannot seek an easy exit without properly exhibiting the Act,” said Rev. Dr. Keyho, adding that the Act by itself “without related willpower is anathema.”

Highlighting that the core arguments against the NLTPA has been revenue and individual freedom, he questioned, “What will revenue amount to when young minds are destroyed?” And if freedom is the argument, “let there be no government or law.” For him, the Common Ground is in the ‘social fabric’ that has “brought us thus far.” The NBCC’s concern, he said, is with elements “destroying” the fabric of society.

Tourism has ‘Make in Nagaland’ potential CM is hopeful Centre Chizokho Vero

Kisama | September 27

Commissioner & secretary for tourism, art & culture Himato Zhimomi today said tourism industry in Nagaland has the ‘Make in Nagaland’ potential when promoted in entirety. His statement was in reference to the non-existence of any production or manufacturing industry at present where ‘Make in Nagaland’ is yet to see the light of the day.

Addressing the 35th World Tourism Day here at Heritage Bamboo Hall, Zhimomi also stressed on the need to initiate innovative schemes to promote tourism industry in the State.

Emphasizing on maintain-

ing proper sanitation, he called for making Kisama a ‘plastic free village’ and also to ensure that no plastic bag is allowed during the Hornbill festival here. He also urged upon the hotels and restaurants to adopt the method of segregating waste before disposing.

“Waste can be segregated as biodegradable and non-biodegradable,” he stated.

Meanwhile, tourism director Purakhu Angami pointed out that this year’s theme “Tourism & Community Development” perfectly coincided with the National Sanitation Awareness Campaign, which kick started on September 25 to continue till October 23. He called upon the people to main-

tain proper sanitation and tourist friendly environment to enhance the inflow of tourists, which will in turn benefit the people and uplift their economy. He also enunciated that tourism is the main contributor to foreign exchange earnings, and it also generates large number of job opportunities.

Representative from Nagaland Hotels & Restaurants Association called for a collaborative effort of Nagaland Tourism Association (NTA), hotels/ restaurants unions, town councils, administration, police, adventure club, tourism department etc. towards promotion of tourism industry in Nagaland.

He maintained that tourism industry will flourish when State’s

tourism council is constituted and carry forward the same in the right perspective. Stating that other North East states got their own tourism council, he said the Council when constituted in Nagaland will surely be beneficial and play rich dividend towards promotion of tourism industry in the State.

He also stressed on the need to encourage and support one another to make Nagaland a tourist hotspot of North East.

NTA president Vincent Belho also affirmed that tourism has a potential industry in Nagaland and encouraged each and every individual to play pro-active role in promotion of tourism industry to get maximum benefit from there.

Survival Nagaland for dignity of labour Jayalalithaa gets four years

Expresses ‘astonishment’ over Nagaland CM’s statement on ILP

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NBCC: NLTPA is not to suppress but to liberate

DImapur, SeptemBer 27 (mexn): The Survival Nagaland (SN) has expressed “astonishment” over the Nagaland CM’s statement of “relaxing the ILP from 15 days to 6 months”.

According to a note from its media cell, “Till date, since statehood different governments in power over the years have completely failed to implement the ILP even in the ten districts… and this is the main reason for the influx of Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrants.” While maintaining that “cheap labour is essential,” the SN noted that “it should not be necessarily from outside and should encourage our people to possess work culture and stress on the dignity of labour.”

“It is even with the ILP act in effect, some corrupted administrative and police officials are more concerned for their pocket money and issue ILP randomly rather than caring for the future of our children and our land.

With this inefficient system we are going to be in a mess which we will never be able to come

out,” stated SN, quoting the examples of Assam and Tripura.

According to the SN, Dimapur being an ILP-free zone, “Illegal Immigrants have now overtaken the local population.” It appealed to the State Government leaders to “enforce more stringent rules and regulations for effective implementation of ILP rather than emphasizing on economic development like NSDZ which will completely destroy your inherent rights.” It also appealed to all the Naga people to “boycott such projects at the cost of the people in the name of economic development.”

Meanwhile, at a program organized by the Diphupar Naga Students’ Union here today, the SN stated that it is “not an organization but a peaceful and democratic movement.” It was formed by young like-minded individuals to “protect our socio-economic and cultural identity and to preserve the dignity of labour,” informed Vikuto Robin.

It is a movement, he said, against chains that bind “our people” from remaining financially independent, economically sufficient and physically able. Robin asserted how every individual here can help by taking that extra effort to support local entrepreneurs and farmers.

in jail for corruption, to quit

Bangalore, SeptemBer 27 (IanS): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa was taken into judicial custody in Bangalore Saturday after a special court sentenced her to four years in prison for corruption, dealing a huge blow to the charismatic former actor’s political career.

Pronouncing his verdict on a legal battle that began in 1996, judge John Michael Cunha held Jayalalithaa, 66, and three others guilty of amassing wealth disproportionate to known sources of income. The chief minister was fined Rs.100 crore -- and she stands disqualified as a legislator.

The other three held guilty are V.K. Sasikala, a close associate, now disowned foster son V.N. Sudhakaran and J. Illavarasi, a former aide. All three were also sentenced to four years in prison and fined Rs.10 crore each. All of them were convicted under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the Indian Penal Code.

As police escorted Jayalalithaa to a hospital for a check-up before being sent to the Bangalore Central Jail, her supporters clashed with police in the Karnataka capital while AIADMK members stoned buses and forced shops

Tamil Nadu state Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalitha was found guilty Saturday, September 27 of corruption in a landmark case filed 18 years ago. (AP File Photo)

to shut down all over Tamil Nadu.

Long-distance bus services in Tamil Nadu were called off.

Saturday’s development is expected to impact Tamil Nadu politics where Jayalalithaa is a towering figure, particularly after her party swept a whopping 37 of the state’s 39 Lok Sabha seats in May. As of today, she won’t be able to return to office in the next election due in 2016. Amid celebrations by the DMK, which filed the case against her 18 years ago saying she

had Rs.66 crore of illegally gained assets, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) gave a cautious reaction, saying Jayalalithaa could take recourse to legal methods.

Before this year’s general election, Jayalalithaa did not hide her prime ministerial ambitions.

And although she did not ally with the BJP, she has enjoyed a close relationship with Modi for years. Special public prosecutor G. Bhavani Singh said Jayalalithaa and the others would be lodged in the Bangalore Central Jail. He added that a bail application cannot be moved if the jail term exceeds three years.

“The fine will be recovered from the sale of property including jewellery and land that were seized during the trial and is in the court’s custody.” “As Jayalalithaa has been convicted and sentenced for four years, she automatically loses her membership in the Tamil Nadu assembly and thus has to step down from the chief minister’s post,” government counsel B.T. Venkatesh told IANS in Bangalore. Jayalalithaa can, however, move the high court in Karnataka or Tamil Nadu seeking suspension of the sentence.

will help Nagaland with its huge deficit

KohIma, SeptemBer 27 (IanS): Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang has expressed confidence that the Narendra Modi-led central government would bail out the cash-strapped state which is groaning under a deficit of Rs 1,234 crore.

“We have apprised Prime Minister (Narendra Modi) and Finance Minister (Arun Jaitley) of Nagaland’s financial constraints and the huge deficit that we have incurred. We have requested them to waive off the deficit,” Zeliang said in an interview with IANS here recently.

The five-time legislator, who is heading the Naga People’s Front-led Democratic Alliance of Nagaland coalition government, said the deficit of Rs 1,234 crore was a result of the “adverse recommendations” of the 13th Finance Commission.

Nagaland has over one lakh government employees whose salary constitutes about 65 percent of the total government expenditure, whereas the 13th Finance Commission recommended that no state should spend more than 35 percent on this account.

It is practically impossible for us to achieve. Therefore, a huge deficit has resulted which we could not bridge with our own resources, Zeliang explained.

“We have high hopes that the new government under the dynamic leadership of Modiji will rescue us by waiving off this deficit. The NDA government under Atal Bihari Vajpayee had bailed out Nagaland by waiving off a deficit of Rs. 365 crore,” the chief minister added. Zeliang, who also holds the finance portfolio, said that

his government is planning to streamline its policies to plug the tax leakages and adopt new taxation strategies to generate more financial resources. “Oil and natural gas is one of the areas where we can generate sizeable revenue,” he said.

Zeliang, who took over as chief minister five months ago from Neiphiu Rio, who was elected Lok Sabha member from Nagaland parliamentary seat, said that his government has adopted measures to ensure rapid socio-economic development in the impoverished Eastern Nagaland. “We have serious concerns on development of Eastern Naga areas. Being in far flung area, these are economically and educationally backward. We will try our best to bring some kind of special package to develop these backward areas,” he said.

Further, he said that the government has proposed construction of four important roads - Chin Mahow to Yangchong, Pangsha to Hempu, Avangkhu to Leshi and Monyakshu to Yanching - to connect remote villages in Eastern Nagaland with Myanmar.

“Once these four roads are complete people living on both sides of the border will benefit socio-economically through trade and commerce. Our people in Eastern Nagaland and the Nagas living in Myanmar will be connected,” he said.

The government has also envisaged a trade centre in Noklak and Pangsha along the India-Myanmar border, he said. “This proposed trade centre will be a corridor for not only Myanmar & Nagaland, but for South East Asia too,” he said.

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CSUK 11th freshers’ meet

Kohima, September 27 (mexN): The Chang Students’ Union Kohima will hold its 11th annual fresher’s social 2014 on October 2 at 10:00 AM at Ura Academy Hall, Kohima. Er. Imti Meren, SDO, DUDA Kohima will be the guest speaker. P. Bangjong, president CGOA will also exhort the gathering. CSUK president N.Y. John will deliver welcome address. Imtila will chair the function while CSUK general secretary Naomi will propose vote of thanks.

Special Handloom Expo in Dimapur DimapUr, September 27 (mexN): The Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd. Dimapur is organizing Special Handloom Expo for 14 days, from October 22 to November 4, at Diphu Town, Karbi Anglong, Assam. The Expo is being sponsored by the Office of the Development Commissioner (Handloom), Ministry of Textiles, Government of India, New Delhi. Interested weavers, corporations, apex weavers, SHGs, NGOs etc. from within and outside the State may apply to the Project Cell, NHHDC Ltd., Half Nagarjan, Dimapur, on or before October 17 during office hour.

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Skipper Furnishings opens store in Dimapur

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International day of older persons at Kohima

Kohima, September 27 (mexN): Nagaland along with the rest of the country will be observing international day of older persons on October 1 at Zonal Council Hall, Kohima from 8:00 AM onwards under the theme “Leaving no one behind, promoting a society for all.” Parliamentary secretary for horticulture Kejong Chang will grace the occasion as the chief guest. Walkathon from Old MLA Hostel junction to Zonal Council Hall will take place at 7:00 AM. Significance of the international day of older persons will be given by Dr. S.I. Tushi Ao, president Nagaland Senior Citizens Forum. The occasion will also witness presentation of award to distinguished senior citizens (State level- 2 persons) and Kohima district level-2 persons). Khevito T. Shohe, director social welfare, will propose vote of thanks.

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Proprietors of ‘Skipper Furnishings’ along with family members at the launching of the showroom at East Dimapur on Saturday. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News than three decades into owner Kamlesh Agarwal, Dimapur | September 27

‘Skipper Furnishings’, a pioneer in home furnishings synonymous with beautiful homes and spaces, launched its first showroom in Nagaland here at East Dimapur above KurlOn showroom on Saturday.

The showroom offers a breathtaking and vast range of home furnishings inclusive of upholstery, curtains, carpets, wooden floorings, wall coverings, cushions, blinds and mattresses.

According to a company press release, Skipper Furnishings, which is more

business, follows a stringent quality control methodology and other internal checks and balances to ensure that every product is exclusively sculpted to suit the needs of discerning modern homemakers.

“Even with its prestigious roster of corporate clients like Oberoi Group, Taj Group and beyond, Skipper never stops perfecting its products and constant enhancement of quality. Overall, Skipper just does not sell products….it gives homes a personality,” the release stated.

Commenting on the new showroom, brand

said, “Skipper is today a name to reckon with in the home furnishing category.

The decision to expand operations to Dimapur is a part of Skipper’s larger vision of expansion into newer geographies and reaching out to larger client bases across the country.”

“The store is a microcosm of Skipper’s vision and achievement. Customers can browse through our collection and choose what best fits their homes.

At Skipper, quality comes without say,” Agarwal said.

The Dimapur showroom is a joint venture of X Kitsukha and Sudhir Jain.

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Church Nagaland leads community Kiphire joins national sanitation awareness campaign Kidima organises Sanitation Day conservation of land area Our Correspondent

Kiphire | September 27

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Members of DTGZP with PCCF and HOFF Nagaland, JICA members and other officials from the forest department during their visit to Dikhu (Tzula) Green Zone Project. (Morung Photo) Our Correspondent Dikhu (Tzula) Green Zone conserve area.”

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“Nowhere in the world but in Nagaland have we seen community conservation of area in more than 1400 villages and it will prove as potential for development in the future,” said Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & Head of Forest Force, M Lokeswara Rao during his visit to Dikhu (Tzula) Green Zone Project.

The DTGZP is a community-conserved area jointly managed by the two village councils of Longsa and Ungma in Mokokchung District.

Principal Chief Conservator of Forests & Head of Forest Force, M. Lokeswara Rao along with two members from the Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA), Tokyo, visited the

Project (DTGZP) for the Nagaland Afforestation and Eco-development Project fact-finding mission. The JICA team stated that it was an honour for JICA to be in Nagaland and particularly in Dikhu Green Zone area.

They lauded the activities of DTGZP as an example and demonstration to other places not only in Nagaland but also in India and they were looking forward to working in Nagaland with the Naga people.

I Panger Jamir, APCCF Nagaland, who was also present, stated that the forest department was happy to be partners with DTGZP and hopes that it will be a model for other villages and area. He further said, “DTGZP should not only be a community conserve area but also biospheres

An advocacy program and public rally on national sanitation awareness campaign was held at the Hopongkyu memorial hall, Kiphire today with Lankonsen Tsanglao, SDO(C) Kiphire as chief guest. WSSO PHED Kiphire division organised the program.

Speaking in the programme the chief guest said, the gathering may be less but the subject matter is very important where each one should be an active participant in this campaign. He asked the participants to educate the fellow neighbors and friends to make the campaign more effective and successful. Sharing his observation the SDO(C) said that community participation is not very encouraging in the town. Therefore, he asked the gathering not to think just for oneself but for the welfare of others in every aspect so that the drainage problem, which is also one of

Er Subongyanger, Executive Engineer PHED interacting with participants during the public rally on national sanitation awareness campaign held Kiphire on September 27. (Morung Photo)

the subjects of sanitation, is solved. Asking the gathering to be productive citizen the chief guest added due importance should be given for community interest than for selfish interest and welfare of the community should be put first.

Giving Keynote address, Er Subongyanger, Executive Engineer PHED said, the departmental officials is going to all the villages and through WATSAN commit-

tee a campaign for sanitation has already started.

Stressing on the importance on sanitation the EE said, more than 60 % of the diseases can be reduced by keeping our hands clean and said taking care of sanitation can improve the economy of the village.

To create more awareness on sanitation, Dreamz Unlimited will be coming to Kiphire town in the month of October. It was also in-

Seeing the development and management of the project, Supongnukshi, Conservator of forest, Nagaland asserted that, “The DTGZP is a very encouraging initiative and this will go a long way not only in fostering the relation of both the villages but also in the economic development of the surrounding areas through promotion and development of ecotourism.”

The Chairman and members of DTGZP expressed their heartfelt gratitude to the PCCF and HOFF Nagaland, JICA, APPCF, Sate Conservator of Forest, DFO and all the officials for their visit to the project area and hope that the visit will further strengthen the growth and Students appear for the Children Education Allowance Fund exam conducted by the District development of D(T)GZP. Education Officer Kiphire on September 27. (Morung Photo)

formed that the department would conduct Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) in nine remotest villages in the district.

Evangelical Union ZPC presented special song while Er Akokba Sair, SDO PHED chairs the program.

The programme was followed by workshop on awareness on self-sanitation, awareness on solid & liquid waste management and public rally.

Kohima, September 27 (mexN): The Baptist Church Kidima organised Sanitation Day on September 26 at Kidima village in preparation for Platinum Jubilee (1940-2015) under the theme “Arise and shine” (Prophet Isaiah 60:1). A press release received here informed.

The volunteers of the church members made a sanitation drive to public building like panchayats, institutions, streets, roads and drainages. Rev. Keholeshü Tepa, Chairman, Baptist Church Kidima Platinum Jubilee Committee, informed that the sanitation drive was to create awareness for cleanliness.

A plantation drive for beautification was also undertaken during the day. Rev. Tepa informed that Kidima villagers received “yimchak seed and plant” this year for economic upgradation.

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CEAF examination conducted in Kiphire Our Correspondent

Kiphire | September 27

Around 160 students from Kiphire town appeared the Children Education Allowance Fund examination conducted by the District Education Officer Kiphire at the Government Higher secondary school today.

Interacting with this correspondent, the concern officer informed that students from Pungro and Seyochung sub-division could not come to appear

the exam due to “distance and expenditure.” Officers also disclosed that to get a remuneration of rupee 1000 per annum if selected, a student has to shell out more than 2000 rupees which discourages the students from outside the district headquarter to sit for the exam.

The CEAF exam is for students of class V and Class IX. On being qualified, the students receive an allowance of 1000 rupees per annum for two years.

Training on IPPE & BPT at Aghunaqa ‘Competition and merit - keywords today’

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Village representatives of RD Block Aghunaqa participating in the two days training programme on IPPE & BPT organised by DRDA Dimapur, Thursday.

DimapUr, September 27 (mexN): The District Rural Development Agency, Dimapur organized a two-day programme on Intensive Participatory Planning Exer-

cise (IPPE) and training for MGNREGA Block Planning Team (BPT) for villages under Rural Development Block, Aghunaqa at Aghunaqa on September 24 and 25 last. A press release re-

ceived here informed.

The release stated that Aghunaqa is one of the blocks declared as 'backward block' by the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. The

prgramme was conducted

by RD Block Aghunaqa, led

by Block Development Officer, Phoishe Sumi, who chaired the entire programme.

APC, DRDA Dimapur, Imkong Phom, who was the resource person stressed on the benefit and importance of IPPE and BPT while Apri, MS, DRDA Dimapur, another resource person, gave a demonstration of social mapping and resource mapping, the release informed.

More than 60 village representatives from 37 villages of the block attended the two-day programme.

Giving a remark of the programme, BDO Phoishe urged the members of village development boards to make best use of information and guidance provided by the department for development of the villages under the block, the release stated.

DimapUr, September 27 (mexN): Pointing out the rapidly progressing globalised situation in every field, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, P. Longon on Saturday told the young people especially students that competition and merit were the keywords in such a scenario. He said unless the youngsters equip themselves with the qualities to face the cut-throat competitions, they will have little chances to achieve outstanding success.

Longon was speaking as chief guest at SD Jain Girls’ College, Dimapur during its 22nd Freshers’ Socialcum-Annual Day. Stating that students would be sitting in the chairs of present leaders and bureaucrats in the future, Longon said Minister P. Longon lights the lamp at SD Jain Girls’ College Dimapur on Saturday. (Morung Photo) such success can come that the yearning for peace the chief guest gave away zine, ‘Jyotsna.’ Students of from their determination, was what separates achiev- awards to toppers, other the college presented variadding “all power to suc- ers from others. meritorious students and ous cultural items and othcess is within you.” He said During the programme, released the college maga- er entertainment pieces.

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Inpui student Centre to Assam: Use 85 killed by floods in Assam, M'laya: NDRF DG leader assaulted disaster relief fund

Guwahati, September 27 (et bureau): Assam is now caught in the politics of flood. A day after Chief minister, Tarun Gogoi sought special package of Rs 1000 Crore for flood ravaged Assam, BJP has pointed that Assam has Rs 346 Crore unused fund lying in the disaster relief fund.

On Friday Union minister of state in the Ministry of Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, sports and youth affairs, Sarbananda Sonowal assessed the flood situation in Assam. Gogoi also made an aerial survey.

Sonowal said, "We have asked state government to make a ground assessment of the losses incurred by the state and assistance required from the Centre.

Assam has at its disposal Rs 346 Crore in the disaster relief fund. This fund is basically a central fund."

Sonowal said that state government has not communicated to the Ministry of the Home Affairs about the flood scene. It is the duty of the chief minister to inform the centre. "Flood marooned people have com-

plained that they are not getting adequate food. Centre has announced ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh for next kith and kin of the deceased." Sonowal added that as Assam is flood prone the state government must have done some advance preparation.

This is completely lacking.

Gogoi however argued that he has written a letter to Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on Thursday where he narrated the devastation wrecked by the latest wave of floods in Goalpara, Dhubri, Kamrup and Kamrup (Metro). "As you would be aware, areas comprising Guwahati city and some western Assam districts have suffered unprecedented floods in recent days. These floods were caused by exceptionally heavy rainfall over Assam and Meghalaya and sudden spill over of water along the rivers and streams flowing from Meghalaya into Assam,"Gogoi said Modi.

Gogoi said, "In the flash floods, till date, 36 persons have lost their lives, thousands of dwellings damaged and nearly 1.4 lakh forced to abandon their homes and habitation and seek shelter in relief camps," adding, "Due

to earlier waves of floods in the State during the current monsoon season, a total of 16.26 lakh people have been affected, and 2.3 lakh forced to shift to relief camps and nearly 93,000 hectare of cropped area was affected.

The rescue efforts are going on and there is possibility that the death toll may rise further.

It has been in fact one of the worst flash floods in Assam in recent times."

Chief Minister said, "Without Central Government support in a big way, it will be difficult for the State Government to enable adequate restoration of the damage to property and infrastructure in the affected areas."

Gogoi said it would take some time to make a correct assessment of the 'extent of the current loss' till the flood waters recede.

"While the overall damage is expected to be much higher, I would request that a special package of Rs 1000 crore may be immediately provided by the Central Government to initiate the rehabilitation of the normal life of the people in Assam." In Meghalaya 39 people have lost their lives in the floods.

Guwahati, September 27 (pti): A total of 85 people have been killed due to heavy floods and inundation in Assam and Meghalaya, the NDRF said on Saturday.

After combating the floods and water logging tragedy for over a week in the two states, the lead mitigation force has now shifted its operations from rescue to relief.

"While 39 people have been killed in Assam, 46 deaths have been reported from Meghalaya. We are now concentrating our energies to undertake relief operations as rescue work has finished largely. There

are signs of water receding in these areas," NDRF chief O P Singh told PTI after accompanying Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on an aerial survey of the two states.

The National Disaster Response Force chief said in Assam the worst affected areas are the districts of Goalpara, Kamrup (rural) and Boko alongwith some adjoining areas whereas in Meghalaya, the areas of Tura and seven districts in Garo Hills area were hit the most by the tragedy.

"There has been massive destruction in these areas due to flood waters," Singh said.

The NDRF which is operating 16 teams in the two states, he said, has rescued close to 6,000 people and distributed 80 quintals of food and other essential items to the people who are marooned.

He said the force has also undertaken night operations in these areas and such tasks are continuing.

The delegation led by Rijiju met Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and senior leader and Tura Member of Parliament P A Sangma during the visit today, apart from briefing by senior officers of the administration of both the states.

Floods: Rijiju assures central aid, M'laya seeks Rs.2,000 crore ShilloNG, September 27 (iaNS): Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijju Saturday conducted an aerial survey of flood-hit areas of Meghalaya where 46 people have been killed and several lakh have been affected.

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mukul Sangma has submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking Rs.2,000 crore to tide over the situation caused by unprecedented floods and landslides due to incessant rains.

"The situation is very serious.

There has been extensive damage all over. I have seen with my own eyes thousands of damaged houses and public property (roads and bridges)," Rijiju told IANS over phone after making an aerial survey of the Garo

Hills region and lower Assam.

National Disaster Response Force chief D.P. Singh also accompanied Rijiju during the aerial survey.

Rijiju said: "They have submitted their representation and given their presentation on the extensive damaged caused by floods and landslides.

I will brief Home Minister Rajnath Singh Sunday on the flood situation in both the states." Rajnath Singh will also conduct an aerial survey October 1 to assess the damages.

Promising that the central government will allot funds to both Meghalaya and Assam to recoup the damages, Rijiju, also minister for disaster management, said: "The prime minister (Narendra Modi) will make an announcement for a special relief package to tide over

the post-flood situation once he returns from his US visit."

Rijiju also held a review meeting in Tura, the district headquarters of West Garo Hills in Meghalaya with Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A. Sangma on the flood situation.

"I have submitted a memorandum to the prime minister through Rijiju seeking a financial assistance of Rs.2,000 crore to help the state and its people to rebuild public and private infrastructure damaged by the floods," Mukul Sangma told IANS over phone from Tura.

"The overall assessment of the damage will be done once the flood waters recede and the roads open for officials to reach all the areas," he added.

imphal, September 27 (NNN): The All Inpui Student Union (AISU) has urged the transport counter association of Sagolband, Imphal to resolve the student leader assault case at the earliest before things blow out of proprtion.

According to AISU, its speaker Kaongam Inpui was assaulted by Ching-Tam counter keeper identified as one Anand today at around 11 am in the counter at Sagolband.

AISU alleged that Anand assaulted the Inpui student leader after the latter pleaded the former to refund the amount for the ticket he cancelled. AISU also alleged that Kaongam Inpui had booked a ticket but as an urgent work had cropped up he cancelled his trip.

All Inpui Student Union president Shalwan Khumba alleged that Anand gave blows on Kaongam on the head. He urged the counter association to resolve the matter at the earliest.

Ticketing for Tamenglong, Jiribam, Silchar, Noney, Nungba and other destinations along the NH37 is done at Sagolband, Imphal.

Oil India investing Rs1,200 crore to revamp pump stations Guwahati, September 27 (pti): Energy major Oil India today said it is investing Rs 1,200 crore to revamp the pump stations of pipelines for carrying crude to refineries in Assam.

Addressing the shareholders during the 55th Annual General Body Meeting at the company's Fields' Headquarters in Duliajan, OIL Chairman and Managing Director S K Srivastava said: "The pumping stations of the trunk pipeline have been operating for over five decades and a revamping of these pump stations is being undertaken at a cost of Rs 1,200 crore."

OIL operates a 1,157 km long crude oil trunk pipeline of 5.5 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) capacity for transporting crude oil produced at oilfields in Upper Assam to the public sector refineries at Numaligarh, Guwahati and Bongaigaon, the company said in a statement.

Srivastava also mentioned about An artisan paints an idol of Hindu goddess Durga at a workshop in Guwahati, Assam on Friday, September 26. The five-day Hindu festival Durga Puja is scheduled to start on September 30 and end with the immersion of idols. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath) OIL's contribution to both state and

Northeast Briefs GNLA slams ANVC factions over agreement Guwahati, September 27 (tNN): Meghalaya's Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) criticized rival rebel outfit Achik National Volunteer Council (ANVC) and its breakaway faction, ANVC (B), for signing a peace accord with the Centre and the state government, and for scaling down its demand for a separate state of Garoland to that for an autonomous district council. GNLA's joint publicity secretary, Garomandai Ch Marak, said, "When ANVC became fed up with the idea of 'Greater Garoland', they started seeking a strong GHADC (Garo Hills Autonomous District Council). They should not have sold false dreams to the people of the Garo Hills. Now they claim there is no point in taking up arms. Why did their leaders like KK Sangma, Windam, Debesh, Dinggam and Michael have to sacrifice their lives?" The two factions of ANVC signed the peace agreement in New Delhi on Wednesday. The parent outfit was formed in 1995 with the aim of carving an 'Achik Land', comprising Garo Hills in Meghalaya and parts of Kamrup and Goalpara in Assam. Later, the outfit scaled down its demand and advocated the creation of a Garoland Autonomous Council. The GNLA leader strongly condemned the death of two persons who were protesting against National Green Tribunal's ban on rathole coal mining in Meghalaya. The two were killed in police firing in East Jaintia Hills district. Marak said, "They were forced to protest against NGT as they were left penniless. Their livelihood depended on coal. Rubber bullets and water cannons could have been used."

Assam: HC prods govt on scribe arrest Guwahati, September 27 (tNN): The Gauhati high court on Friday issued notices to the state government, police and the Kokrajhar district administration and asked them to reply to a petition challenging the arrest of a scribe, Jaikhlong Brahma, who was detained under the National Security Act (NSA) recently. Under the NSA, the scribe is at risk of being detained for 12 months without being charged or tried. The HC asked the respondents to submit their replies within October 15 as to why Brahma was detained under the act. The petitioner has challenged his detention as being illegal. Advocates Bijon Mahajan and Arshad Choudhury represented the petitioner in the court. Brahma was arrested by Kokrajhar police on September 2 on suspicion of criminal offences, including multiple counts of conspiracy, being in close contact with militant outfit National Democratic Front of Boroland's Songbijit faction and 'inciting unlawful activities'. He has been in detention since then. The scribe, who worked for a local TV channel, was then sent to judicial custody by a local court for two weeks. Subsequently, the local administration on September 9 issued an administrative detention order against him under the NSA. An administrative detention is a process that allows authorities to detain individuals by an executive order without any charge or trial and denies them the safeguards of a fair trial as is permissible under the international law. Three days ago, Amnesty International India urged the state government to release Brahma from administrative detention and provide him with a fair trial in accordance with international guidelines.

central exchequer in terms of cess, royalty, sales tax, etc. "The contribution to the state exchequer during the year (2013-14) was Rs 1,786 crore and that to the Central government was Rs 4,154 crore," he added.

The turnover of the company stood at Rs 9,612.70 crore in FY'14 as against Rs 9,947.57 crore in the previous fiscal.

The profit after tax was Rs 2,981.30 crore in last fiscal compared to Rs 3,589.34 crore during 2012-13. During 2013-14, the company declared a dividend of 215 per cent, the statement said.

In 2013-14, OIL provided subsidy discounts to the tune of Rs 8,736.85 crore, which was an increase of 10.7 per cent compared to Rs 7,892.17 crore in 2012-13, to oil marketing companies to compensate their under recoveries in line with government policy.

Srivastava also said crude oil production and condensate (including JV Share) was 3.502 MT in FY'14 as against 3.701 MT in 2012-13, while natural gas

production was 2,626 MMSCM, which was almost same as 2,639 MMSCM in FY'13. He also informed that during last fiscal, OIL made a total of seven hydrocarbon discoveries, of which six were in Upper Assam basin and one was in overseas in Gabon in West Africa.

SpeakingaboutOIL'snaturalgasproduction, Srivastava said the company achieved production of 2,626 MMSCM from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Rajasthan fields during the year. "The present gas production potential is about 7.35 MMSCMD from Assam and Arunachal Pradeshfieldsandabout0.70MMSCMD from the Rajasthan fields," he added.

Giving an overview of overseas activities of OIL, Srivastava said the portfolio comprises of 16 blocks and are spread over 10 countries - Libya, Gabon, Nigeria, Yemen, Venezuela, USA, Mozambique, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Russia. In addition, OIL has 10 per cent interest in a product pipeline in Sudan, he added.

Railway track conversion to hit supply of essentials in NE aGartala, September 27 (iaNS): The supply of foodgrains and other essentials to Tripura, Mizoram, parts of Manipur and southern Assam would be severely affected due to gauge conversion of railway lines from next week, officials said here Saturday.

The railway lines would be converted from metre gauge to broad gauge. For this, the Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) would stop train services in Tripura, western Manipur, Mizoram and southern Assam from Oct 1.

"The 18-month-long gauge conversion works from Assam's Lumding to Tripura's Agartala would start on Oct 1 and would continue till March 2016," an NFR official told IANS. The railway line is broad gauge from Assam's main city of Guwahati up to Lumding (in southern Assam). From Lumding, Tripura's capital Agartala and western Manipur, Mizoram and southern Assam, the railway link with the rest of India is single and 110-112

years-old metre gauge.

The 437-km long Lumding-Agartala metre gauge railway line, part of which is in Assam and the remaining in Tripura, would be converted into broad gauge in two phases.

The Lumding-Agartala metre-gauge rail link connects Bairabi in northern Mizoram and Jiribam in western Manipur with the rest of the country.

Tripura Transport Minister manik Dey told IANS : "The Tripura government has repeatedly asked the NFR authorities and the union government to reschedule its gauge conversion work or to simultaneously undertake the works both in Assam and Tripura to avoid the crisis."

The Tripura government has also requested the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to build a buffer stock of rice and other essential commodities for Tripura.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar earlier this month held a meeting with NFR general manager R. S.

Virdi and general manager (construction) Rajesh Kumar Singh and other top officials of the railways, FCI and Tripura government.

"The chief minister asked the railway officials to take up gauge conversion work concurrently both in Assam and Tripura to complete the work early," Dey added.

Tripura's three members of parliament - Jitendra Chaudhury, Sankar Prasad Datta (both Lok Sabha) and Jharna Das Baidya (Rajya Sabha) - in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week urged him to ask the railway authorities to complete the gauge conversion work in Tripura

by March 2015 along with southern Assam to minimise the distresses of people and crisis of supply of foodgrains and essentials.

Surface connectivity is an important factor as the landlocked northeastern states are surrounded

by Bangladesh, Myanmar, Bhutan and China.

The only land corridor to the northeastern states

from India is through Assam and West Bengal and this route passes through over 70 percent hilly terrain with steep roads and multiple hairpin bends.

Carrying of food, essentials and heavy machinery for several northeastern states via Bangladesh from different parts of India is much easier. For instance, Agartala via Guwahati is 1,650 km from Kolkata and 2,637 km from New Delhi, while the distance between Agartala and Kolkata via Bangladesh is just about 350 km.

In a first, a 5,000 tonnes consignment, of a total of 10,000 tonnes, of rice carried in small ships from Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh reached Ashuganj river port in Bangladesh via Kolkata Aug 5. From Ashuganj, 40 km from Agartala, Bangladeshi trucks have ferried the rice to FCI warehouses in Nandannagar near Agartala city.

In 2012, Bangladesh had allowed India's stateowned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to ferry heavy machinery, tur-

bines and cargo through Ashuganj port for the 726 MW Palatana mega power project in southern Tripura.

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Last journey on historical Silchar-Lumding metre gauge line KarimGaNj, September 27 (pti): People of Barak Valley in Assam will undertake their last railway journey on the metre gauge track of the historical Silchar-Lumding route tomorrow with the Northeast Frontier Railway closing it for infrastructure and technical build up for a broad gauge track conversion from October 1 next.

The 15692 Down Cachar Express will have its last journey on the metre gauge track at 7:15 pm tomorrow and 15694 Down Barak Valley Express will wind up its journey at9:25amofSeptember29,an

official of the N F Railway said.

The journey through the engineering feat of the British and a picturesque scenic metre gauge rail route from Silchar to Lumding will then become part of history, the official said. The metre gauge route covered a serpentine hills section going through green forests, rivulets and streams and mounting the highest ridge of Jatinga station known for oranges and migratory birds, he said.

Agonising moments were those when passengers were detained in the hills for days, particularly during the

monsoons and blockade of the track due to landslips, he said. With the mega-block coming into effect from October one next for enabling the N-F Railway to go for necessary infrastructure and completion of the BG track, the MG railway line will sink into oblivion, he said. Built in the 19th century, the Silchar-Lumding Metre Gauge line has 37 tunnels, 586 bridges and 24 stations on the way through the difficult hilly terrain of North Cachar Hill with the steepest gradient on the Harangajao-Jatinga section.

APPRECIATION The Suthozu Nasa Village Council and NPF Unit Suthozu Nasa Village would like to convey our deep appreciation to Chotisuh Sazo, Speaker, Nagaland Legislative Assembly and lady wife for visiting the Prayer Centre and extended financial help and food items towards the Centre.

In our side we don’t have anything to repay him and his family but we pray to Almighty God to bless him abundantly and give him good health and strength to continue to serve our people.

- Suthozu Nasa Village Council - NPF Unit Suthozu Nasa village

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28 September 2014

1. This year 2014 has been an eventful year for Nagaland State as many important events have taken place, which have captured the headlines of all local News Papers. To refresh memory summary of some important issues are enumerated below with comments.

2. Result of MP Election (Nagaland). Consequent to vacation of the post of Chief Minister by Neiphiu Rio on having elected as MP, there were few aspirant candidates for the post of CM. But it was amicably resolved through democratic procedure under which T.R Zeliang was elected as the new Chief Minister of Nagaland. During the above process, the elected leaders and other social and political organisations (Read- TenimiyiPeople’s Org, ENPO, CNTO, etc) have shown both their strength and weaknesses and tribes equation under the new dispensation have been disturbed. But good lesson learnt be respected.

3. MP Election Result in Manipur. It has been a disappointment for the Nagas as they could not elect their own representative inspite of they being the biggest tribe. This have exposed the harsh reality of their disunity and blocking their common objective of unification.

Nagaland Total Liquor Prohibition Act-1989.

4. Recently, the State Government has announced to hold a Special Session of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly to discuss the above issue. This has drawn a sharp criticism from all sections of the society including Churchesboth for and against the Act. But a vast majority are against lifting or relaxation of the Act, for reasons as stated below.

5. Lifting the Act will promote the growth of many evil things in the society and in personal life, which are also against the ethic of the Christianity. Besides, whether prohibition or no prohibition people who want and can effort to drink have been drinking and will continue to do so and nobody is being deprived of his/her right to drink due to prohibition.

6. Biblical Prospective. Since the theft in the Garden of Eden, God has given men, the freedom of choice between good and evil in all sphere of life. So let people chose for themselves either the path of life perseverance or path of self destruction.

But the Govt. of the day should not be seen as promoting men to choose the path of self destruction by way of lifting the Act. Which may also be seen as an act of testing God’s patience.

7. Loss of Revenue. Since the Act is already there in its place, let it

remain so, though Govt may loss a few crores of rupees as annual revenue, but it cannot compensate for loss of a generation.

Absence from Duty Stations and Offices by Govt. Officials/Servants.

8. This issue have been there for a long time, and again have been brought out in public meetings by the present Chief Secretary, Nagaland-Banuo Z Jamir, stating that the problem have been effecting the efficient function of the Government.

But there have been no reaction on the issue raised, except student organisations in some Dists have reportedly inspected Govt. offices and submitted their findings, to Govt. for actions. 9. Reasons for Absence from Duty Stations/offices. There are Govt. Standing, Orders like, No-Work, No-Pay, etc. but same could not be enforced effectively, due to following reasons (Real, or, imaginary). . (a) Firstly Officers responsible to enforce the orders have either no moral courage to do so due to their own weaknesses or lack of confidence for support from their superior officers or both. (b) Secondly, service of the Govt., servants including unauthorised absence from duty are generally protected by their politician friends. (c) Thirdly, Govt. officials-especially those posted to semi-urban and rural areas complained about non-availability of basic amenitieslike living quarter recreational facility sanitation transport and unfriendly attitudes of local people etc. (d), Fourthly, reason generally given by those from development depts are that they have no work as no fund provided .

Reports of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India.

10. They have brought out the irregularities and miss-management of fund in terms of multi crores of rupees. But it seemed that nobody took notice of it. It may be because such money freely comes from the above; or perhaps being a Christian State, people have forgiven each other in a reciprocal manner.

11. Under such circumstances, the Roles of the Accountant General-Nagaland (Audit) and the Vigilance Commission (Anti- Corruption Wing) seems to have lost their relevance But in other parts of the country, such reports have brought down high and mighty to their knees and sent to jails (readBiharFooderScam,2-G SpectrumScam, Coalgate Scam, Common Wealth Game Scam, etc Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation..

12. They have asserted that

their activities is a people’s movement and one of their objectives is to bring all Naga Political Groups under one platform for the Naga cause. This is a positive approach, but if their goal of ‘one tax ,one government’ is to be a reality, ACAUT needs to address the larger issue of Naga political solution.

Assam-Nagaland Border Disputes.

13. The cause of recent incident of land dispute in Ralan and Merapani Areas reportedly between land owners and tenants was due to nonpayment of land taxes by tenants.

This is an eye opening for people owning land/living in border areas that they should not introduce land tendency system on their own will.

Effort should be made to use modern methods of cultivation. Because physical occupation of land will justify claim of ownership in any future dispute. Action taken by the Govt of Nagaland is appreciable.

14. Construction of Foot Hill Road. This will be a life line for Nagaland which has been delayed.

Any irregularity detected should be settled in all fairness but the project should not be stalled in the best interest of general public.

15. Oil Exploration in Wokha Dist. This has been unduly delayed in Nagaland as if Nagaland is the first in the world for such project. But the world including Nagaland have been moving without oil from Nagaland and will continue to so. Therefore, people in authority should, without any personal interest attached to the project if any should follow the standard set by others and move forward. Again there are some problems raised by Students Union of Wokha Dist. regarding credibility of the Oil Company and location of oil refinery.

Peren Dist. has also raised some objection. raised by, Peren District.

They should be attended with all seriousness and take the project forward. Otherwise Nagaland will always remain backward economically, while the world will move forward without Nagaland’s oil.

16. Nagaland Special Development Zone. Public are not clear about the concept of this scheme.

But most probably it will be connected with oil exploration and construction of Foot Hill Road.

While some are glamouring for the project others are apprehensive about people with vested interests. The majority views are that the scheme should be implemented but without surrendering the rights of the Nagas guaranteed by the Constitution of India.

Lt.Col.SI Jakhalu (Retd) Ex-DIG, Home Guards/ Secretary, Rajya Sainik Board, Nagaland.

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he world is fast moving, marching towards the future where both men and women are joining hands together in building a better, prosperous and more peaceful and happy society.

Resultantly in many parts of the world the gap between men and women is fast bridging. The sooner the better!

The shift is most evident post Second World War in many western countries which gives birth to the concept like Women in Development (WID), Women and Development (WAD) and Gender and Development (GAD) among others. These kinds of concepts have occupied important stage in any country’s developmental programme policies. No doubt there is a debate on the pros and cons of all these approaches, including the natures of its origin.

Many critiques have pointed out that the policies emanated out of the above concepts are mostly guided by the economic reason and not necessary to challenge the traditional social structure which is deeply rooted in patriarchal norms.

Nevertheless, if we see the statistics of the world rich list one can see 172 women billionaires out of the total 1,645 billionaires in the world (2014 Forbes list). Likewise there is

also a staggering rise in women CEOs in big enterprise across the globe. Not only in economy but also in politics there is an increasing number of women active participation, taking a lead role especially in developed countries.

Women parliamentarian in some of the Scandinavian countries such as Sweden or Finland has almost proportionate representation from both the genders. In a nutshell it would not be wrong to say that gender equality is a sign of progressive society.

If we reflect upon the situation of women in Naga society we all have the answers how gender bias our society is. I want to quote the excerpt of John Rawls’ classic work on Theory of Justice (1971) where he said “The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor it is unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institution deals with these facts”.It is time for all the Nagas to seriously think how the social structure be it family, clan, tribal institution or Hohos, including various other facets of traditional Naga institutions are responsible for killing and subjugating the Power of She in our society. Expanding

John Rawls argument it can be equally said that it is not only how institutions is responsible for how we deal with the natural distribution; whether to reward more to football player or cricket player likewise to a brave warrior or to a ‘physically weak IAS officers’.

It can be equally applicable to how institution is dealing with the natural distribution to men and women. I would say it would be unjust if we discount the credit of any individual on the basis of gender.

Leaving aside this argument, it is my strong believe that the making of a better, peaceful, prosperous and happy society will certainly require our institution including family to start rewarding and recognizing without any gender biasness.

Situating the above discourse in our struggle at various levels including the fight to have our own political space and for economic autonomy will necessarily require effective participation of both men and women.

Taking a recent example, it was very disappointing to see only one female delegation out of 10 members in just concluded UNC (United Naga Council) New Delhi trip. I am not arguing that women should be there just for name sake. Women in many fields

have demonstrated that they are very effective negotiator and very much result oriented. Why is it not happening to the Nagas? Here I am not trying to blame on one specific organization. It is needless to say that the case is more or less the same in almost all our institutions. Are we men so insecure to team up with powerful and strong women which is why we have to only promote only those women who fits in the traditional concept of ‘Good Woman’?

Men! Lets celebrate the little discomfort that it might bring in dealing with strong women in our society but this is the future which can guarantee prosperity, dignity for all and happiness. Let this be a plight of every young Nagas and let this message resonate to every institution in our society where there is presence of gender biasness. The day we celebrate the Power of She in the Naga society, the world and we all will see a much stronger and prosperous Naga Nation! Kuknalim!

My deepest gratitude to all my female friends who inspire me to write this article.

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Time and tide waits for none

compel others to respect us.

India knows us too well by now. We are just demeaning ourselves and diverting from the agenda when we cry out time to time everytime a personality is named to be the go-between. Everyone knows there’s nothing new which the go-between can know or see or decide. It is only for us to know that “Time and tide waits for none”. Ecclesiastics Chapter 3 demands from us to act. We have to let anything which must happen happen.

We Nagas are magnanimous by character. Conclude it all in a blaze of glory, goodwill and a confirmed ticket to Heaven.

As it is, we have not inherited but simply borrowed from the generations to come.

Rajiv Gandhi hogged both the national and the international limelight for the Mizoram Accord. It is now Narendra Modi’s chance to prove all skeptics wrong.

Good Luck and God bless.

he Congress led UPA government had treated Nagas as any other class of citizen but not just that same equal first. Even more than we the people of Nagaland know ourselves, the UPA leaders knew the hard harsh reality Naga people had been enduring, but anyway turned a Nelson eye. We need not elaborate for anyone to see that the NPGs in Nagaland have forfeited the goodwill of the people because of them having taken the people for granted. It is very unfortunate that the UPA government too had taken the Nagas for granted. Nagas will no more be taken for granted. Nagas are not just empty chairs for the NPGs and the Government of India to play musical chairs with. For the Congress led UPA government the Naga issue is and was never a priority, or for that matter an ‘important enough’ issue. It was just a nuisance, the usual passing of the buck to the next

dispensation. Something like the unwritten and unspoken understanding between the NPGs and the UPA government to maintain the statuesque. Live and let live is what has been going on. If the NPGs and the Government of India is of the view that the same principle of statuesque can be maintained and passed over to the next generation in line, they are sadly mistaken.

Nagas not just wants to live, but also to thrive. Nagas wants to be an asset to the Nation and not otherwise. Why are both the NPGs and the Government of India forcing the mentality of the Naga people to accept something which is so abnormal as normal?

Mark the words, Nagas are no more naïve. Unless things change, change of things will happen and the Naga people will prove themselves to be atleast that sharp tiny bit

of deeply imbedded rusted shrapnel which no antiseptic medication can provide solace. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the humane statesman which India could not produce since independence, leaving aside the leaders immediately after independenc; was very aware of our problems. Had he got that second chance in Delhi, something concrete would have happened. It was but our bad luck that the BJP lost power. Or who knows, our good Lord willed it otherwise to admonish us. However today, Nagas will not be looking back. Nagas too wants to work hard and live normally as any other citizen of India does in any state. Nagas too wants to live and thrive democratically without fear and prejudice, and exchange views, opinions, ideas etc with our diverse but collective mentality, and with an attitude which naturally but

Lakpachui Siro Research Scholar at National University of Educational Planning and Administration (NUEPA) Co-founder of FUNICH (Forum for Understanding the Naga-India Conflict & Human Rights)

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Sunday 28 September 2014

Dimapur

HC judgments has no mention of ‘constitutional impropriety’

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): In defence of the Speaker of Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), Secretary, NLA today stated that nowhere in the two judgments pertaining to the disqualification of the three Nagaland MLAs has the High Court stated “constitutional impropriety,” whereas it has been alleged that “the learned judges have again reiterated that justice would prevail despite the arbitrary

and unconstitutional act of Chotisuh Sazo, the Speaker of Nagaland Legislative Assembly.”

Reacting to the press statement issued by “a section of the people,” which appeared in the local dailies, “casting aspersion” on the NLA Speaker, the NLA secretary, A E Lotha termed the statement “a determined bid to defame the Speaker and the Constitutional Post he holds.”

In a rejoinder, the sec-

retary recounted that, the Speaker on receipt of merger claim by the three NCP MLAs, conducted an enquiry and “upon full satisfaction that their claim was invalid disqualified them” with effect from June 16, 2014. After their disqualification, the three MLAs filed a writ petition in Guwahati High Court, and the same was heard on September 12 in Kohima bench.

The Judge, he said, in its order dated September 12,

2014 stated, “This court after hearing the learned counsel for the parties and without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case is of the considered opinion that the petitioners have made out a case calling for interim. Accordingly, the impugned order dated 25/8/2014 passed by respondent No.1 shall remain suspended till 28/10/2014. The respondents shall file their respective counter affidavit within a period of 2(two) weeks

from today. Thereafter, the petitioners are given liberty to file reply to the said counter affidavit within a period of 2(two) weeks thereafter.”

Consequently, counter affidavit was filed in Guwahati High Court and was listed for hearing on September 24, 2014 at Guwahati High Court, he informed, adding Chief Justice (Acting) K. Sreedhar Rao, Justice AK Goswami stated in their judgment that “the counsel appear-

ing for all parties submitted that these matters being of public importance, the same be heard and decided by the Division Bench at Principal Seat.”

In view of the submissions, the writ petitions and miscellaneous cases connected with the writ petitions have been withdrawn from Kohima Bench for hearing and disposal by Division Bench at Principal Seat, i.e., Guwahati, the NLA secretary stated.

KVK Dimapur organizes training State Horti Deptt meets Union Agri Minister programme on Poultry Management DIMAPuR, SEPTEMBER 27 (MEXN): A four days on-campus training programme for Rural Youths was organized at KVK Dimapur from September 22-25 where 21 people from Peren and Dimapur district participated.

The programme was jointly organized by KVK Dimapur, ICAR-RC for NEH Region, Medziphema, Nagaland Centre, NABARD Dimapur and Development Association of Nagaland (DAN) and coordinated by Dr. Ebibeni Ngullie, Subject Matter Specialist (SMS) Agri. Science, KVK Dimapur.

During the training programme, the participants were made aware of the modern scientific practices in poultry like the hous-

ing requirements, care and management of chicks, grower and layer, principles of feeding in poultry birds, care and management of important poultry diseases along with the importance of record keeping and economic in poultry enterprise. The resource persons were Dr. M K Patra, Dr. Ebibeni Ngullie, Dr. Yhuntilo Kent, Dr. Rajib Kr Das and Dr. Adison.

Practical demonstration on various aspects of poultry like handling of chicks and adult birds during physical examination and medication; different routes of administration of drugs; commonly used medicines in poultry; hands on training on brooding of chicks; management of grower

birds; poultry housing; and equipments required in poultry farming were also shown at the programme.

During valedictory session, Dr. Bidyut C Deka, Jt. Director, ICAR-RC for NEH Region, Nagaland Centre urged the participants to take up poultry as an enterprise. GM, NABARD, V Chelladurai encouraged the participants to form SHG in their village followed by joint liability group and convert it into Producers Company and get registered with NABARD to avail the loan facilities and other Govt. schemes. He also told the participants about the Prime Mininter’s Jan Dhan Yojna where the farmers can open their account at zero balance.

Parliamentary Secretary, Kejong Chang seen along with the Union Agriculture Minister, Radha Mohan Singh and other visiting State Officials.

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): The Parliamentary Secretary, Horticulture, Nagaland Kejong Chang along with the N Benjamin Newmai, the Secretary Horticulture, Watienla Jamir, Director of Horticulture and Pawan Kumar, Joint Director of Horticulture paid a cour-

tesy call on Union Minister for Agriculture, Radha Mohan Singh at his official residence on September 24.

According to a press note from Joint Director of Horticulture, the Union Agriculture Minister was apprised about the various activities undertaken by the department as well

as the problems faced by farmers involved in horticulture during the interaction. On his part, the Minister gives his assurance that he will look into the matter and take up appropriate measures to give a boost to the horticulture development in the State, stated the press note.

In this connection, the Minister also informed that, he had already convened a meeting of all Agri/ Horti Ministers of North East State on October 24 at Shillong to discuss the developmental activities in the agri & allied Sector in NER Region. Further, it added that, the Parliamentary Secretary also invited the Union Minister to visit Nagaland to witness development of horticulture in the State to Minister responded positively.

KDLSA sets up Legal Aid Clinic at Kohima Training and briefing session of EEMC KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (DIPR): Training and briefing session of the Election Expenditure Monitoring Cell (EEMC) was held at DC’s Conference Hall, Kohima on September 26.

Addressing the gathering, Deputy Commissioner, Kohima W Honje Konyak said that the EEMC is a very important part of the elections and requested the

Mayang Lima, Member Secretary, Nagaland State Legal Service Authority and Registrar, Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench inaugurating the Legal Aid Clinic at NNP+ Kohima.

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) set up a Legal Aid Clinic at NNP+ Kohima with Mayang Lima, Member Secretary, Nagaland State Legal Service Authority and Registrar, Gauhati High Court, Kohima Bench inaugurating the Clinic.

Speaking at the inauguration, the member secretary expressed hope that the Legal Aid Clinic will help facilitate in addressing

the grievances of the PLHIV and IDUs. He also shared about Financial Assistance to PLHIV and double orphan children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. Mezivolu T Therieh, Secretary KDLSA and chief judicial magistrate, Kohima, in her opening remarks acknowledged the presence of God and thank Him for all the opportunities provided to help those people in need.

She also appreciated the

magnanimity of the Government of Nagaland for providing all assistance to establish the Legal Services Authority in all Districts of Nagaland.

Short speeches were delivered by Bendang Jamir, State Program Manager, NNP+ and Alemwapang Ao, Panel Lawyers. V Ashu Theyo, Panel Lawyer introduced the Para Legal Volunteers while Joshua Sheqi, Panel lawyer, chaired the programme.

DBYC holds refresher course for Skill Trainees

various teams to be alert and thorough with the instructions and guidelines.

He also urged the members not to neglect their duties and to be efficient in carrying out their assignments in order to ensure a free and fair bye-election.

T James Singson IRS, Joint Commissioner, Income Tax Department who is the Expenditure Observ-

er for the upcoming byeelection, gave a briefing on the background of the duties each team under the EEMC would be performing during the bye-election.

Er. Yapangnungla also gave instructions to the various teams including the Video Surveillance Team, Video Viewing Team, Accounting team, MCMC, Flying Squads etc.

BOB Kohima opens second ATM booth

at the platform provided to them at the institute. It was also a “recapitulating” lesson for the trainees from Arunachal Pradesh who had earlier learnt the programme at DBYC, Itanagar.

The sessions dealt with topics such as Re-Evaluating Personal Goals, ValueBased Living, Work Ethics and Being a North Easterner outside the region. “The trainees were also reminded to keep in mind the age old maxim- When you are in Rome, be like Romansand to follow local codes of conduct to be happy and safe”, it stated.

Further, it added that, the trainees were “powerfully reminded of the neg-

ativities of life” through a short film titled, Culture of Death and also taught about the wrong use of the internet and the media, the deterioration of familial values, desire for easy money and the loss of the sense of sin.

“It was also a clarion call to be free to live life in full measure and to move away from a culture that promotes death to a culture and lifestyle that promotes life”. The trainees expressed great satisfaction on all aspects of training and thanked the government and the Department of Industries for arranging the Skill Development programme.

A Dry State? A vehicle transporting used Liquor bottles and beer cans at the National Highway 39 between Kohima and Dimapur, late Friday night. A recent Consultative meeting of the Government of Nagaland with Tribal Hohos, NGOs and Civil Societies has resolved to review the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition (NLTP) Act, 1989 citing 'apparent failure to accomplish its objectives'. (Morung Photo)

‘expert Committee’ to study nLTP Act KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (DIPR): An “Expert Committee” will be set up to study in detail the entirety of issues relating to the implementation of the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition (NLTP) Act, which will submit its findings and suggestions to the Nagaland government. This was decided during the consultative meeting called by State government on September 26 in Kohima.

The Committee will also study implementation of prohibition in other States of the country; their experiences, the outcome of such policies, and list out in detail the factors that favours as well as oppose lifting of total prohibition for further examination by the

government and consultations with civil societies before taking a final decision, the resolution read.

Further, it stated that Government of Nagaland is desirous of examining the implementation of the NLTP Act 1989, in view of the fact that, 25 years have elapsed since its introduction without a review, and views “there appears to be sufficient justification to have the matter re-examined in the context of the existing realities.”

According to the resolution, all members and stakeholders present unanimously viewed that the NLTP Act has failed to achieve its objectives and that the Act and its implementation need to be reviewed.

MEx FILE TBC cautions public against ‘unscrupulous elements’ DIMAPuR, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): The Toluvi Baptist Church (TBC), Dimapur has informed the general public that some unscrupulous elements had printed challan in aid of its Women Department and selling the same in the market without the knowledge of the church. In this connection, TBC Pastor, Rev. Shitovi Swu in a press note, requested the public at large to stop entertaining such challan but booked the culprit and informed the church authority for further action.

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Bank of Baroda, Kohima Branch officials with the staffs of NHAK during the opening of ATM Booth at Naga Hospital, Kohima on September 27.

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): Bank of Baroda (BOB), Kohima Branch has opened its second ATM Booth at Naga Hospital, Kohima on September 27.

The ATM was inaugurated

by Dr. Vikeyie Losu, Managing Director, NHAK in the presence of Dr. Neikhri-

elie Solo, MS. NHAK along with senior manager, staffs and well-wishers.

While inaugurating, Dr. Vikeyie Losu, appreciated the Bank for opening the ATM at its premises and dedicated the same to the hospital staff and stated that the bank had fulfilled a

much needed requirement of the hospital.

Sr. Manager, BOB, K B Hmar thanked the NHAK for allotting the premises for installing the ATM Booth and added that the ATM will be beneficial to the hospital staffs in particular and the patients in general.

Medical camp conducted at Bade village NOIDA, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): A group of three 320 trainees of SBJ Centre of Excellence from Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Nagaland undergoing Govt-sponsored skill training in Beauty and Spa were provided Refresher cum Mid-Term Counseling Course here today in the new premises of SBJ. According to a press note form Shreya Sarin, a Trainer of SBJ Centre of Excellence, Noida the Refresher Counseling Programme, an initiative of Don Bosco Youth Centre (DBYC), Itanagar, was aimed at enabling the trainee to “re-focus” themselves

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DIMAPuR, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): The Dhansiri River Flood Control Board (DRFCB) will be holding a joint meeting with “Sand, Sand Gravel and Boulder Mahaldars” within Dimapur District at its office in Marketing Complex, Purana Bazaar, on October 4 from 11 am.

A press note from the Chairman of DRFCB, Hokheto Kiba requested and all the board members to attend the meeting without fail.

Nzaulun Aruang Meeting PEREN, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): The Nzaulun Aruang Apex body will hold its annual meeting at Old Nzau village on October 3 and 4. According to a press release from its president, the members will convene at 2 pm on October 3 and the meeting will continue till the next day.

It further requested all to members of Nzaulun Aruang to attend the meeting without failure.

SRPUD general meeting DIMAPuR, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): The Satoi Range Public Union Dimapur (SRPUD) will be organizing its General Boy Meeting (GBM) at the residence of Tohuvi Aye, Thilixu Block IV on October 2 from 10 am.

In a press note, SRPUD president Phukato Zhimomi informed all its members to attend the meeting positively as important matters including the “New team of office bearers and Ahuna 2014 will be discussed at the GBM.

Xuivi Union mourns

(Left)A senior citizen waiting to receive her medicines after her check-up during the free medical camp at Bade. (Right) A Child being weighed before being taken for a check-up at the free medical camp at Bade Village, Dimapur.

DIMAPuR, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): A free medical camp for general, children and eye check-up was organized by Prodigals’ Home at Bade village under Dhansiripar Block, on September 26. The camp was conducted under the support of NABARD’s Tribal Development Fund Project.

Dr. Atsüng Aier, Dr. Jacob and a Staff Nurse, Mariam along with assistants from Christian Institute of Health Sciences & Research (CIHSR) Dimapur provided free check-up and consultation for general, children and eye cases respectively.

The day long camp witnessed a huge turnout and

162 registered patients were prescribed medicine, treatment and advice as per respective cases. Prodigals’ Home and the villagers duly acknowledged the selfless service provided by the Doctors and assistant and also encourage them to carry on their noble work for the society.

DIMAPuR, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): The Xuivi Union, Dimapur has expressed their sadness over the demise of Ghokuto Kiyeshe Zhimomi, of Xuivi village under Satakha range of Zunheboto who died after a short illness on September 23. In a condolence note, the Union president, Kuhoi Zhimo and secretary, K Hokaito Zhimomi stated that, Late Zhimomi was a member of Steering Committee of NSCN (IM) till his death at the age of 86 and described his patriotism and dedication for the Naga cause as “unparalleled”. The Union further offers their heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family members and prayer of eternal peace for the departed soul.

Corrigendum

Apropos to the news item on 3rd Nagaland spelling Bee, the name in the list of quarterfinalist should be spelled as Ramu Thapa and not as published.

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Stigma of mental illness 'Still Real' inside the Church, LifeWay Research Reveals Most Protestant Pastors Seldom Speak to Congregation About Mental Illness

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alking openly about mental illness remains a struggle within the Christian church community despite the fact that pastors often become first responders when a crisis in the family hits, according to a study released by LifeWay Research on Monday.

Experts say pastors and churches do want to help, but too many are unprepared and blame the stigma still attached to mental and emotional problems.

"One in four Americans has suffered from some kind of mental illness. Many look to their church for spiritual guidance in times of distress. But they're unlikely to find much help on Sunday mornings," writes LifeWay's Facts & Trends magazine senior writer Bob Smietana.

The study revealed that most Protestant senior pastors (66 percent) seldom speak to their congregation about mental illness. Almost half of the pastors surveyed rarely speak on the topic (39 percent) or never (10 percent).

About 1 in 6 pastors (16 percent) speak about mental illness once a year. And about a quarter of pastors (22 percent) are reluctant to help those who suffer from acute mental illness because it takes too much time, according to the LifeWay study.

"Our research found people who suffer from mental illness often turn to pastors for help," said Ed Stetzer, executive director of LifeWay Research. "But pastors need more guidance and preparation for dealing with mental health crises. They often don't have a plan to help individuals or families affected by mental illness, and miss opportunities to be the church."

During a press conference to release the findings, Stetzer added that after researchers talked to many mental health experts they found that the stigma attached to mental illness "is still felt, is still real inside the church."

"Perhaps the perception that everyone inside the church is supposed to have things 'together' when I think that's not the desire or the intent of the church," he said. "The stigma still remains and the stigma is still problematic in congregations. De-stigmatization is still a work in progress."

However, Stetzer said that when it comes to churches, sermons break stigmas. "The necessity is for

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ast week, the world’s most globespanning empire until the mid-20th century let its fate be decided by 3.6 million voters in Scotland. While Great Britain narrowly salvaged its nominal unity, the episode offered an important reminder: The 21st century’s strongest political force is not democracy but devolution.

Before the vote was cast, British Prime Minister David Cameron and his team were so worried by voter sentiment swinging toward Scottish independence that they promised a raft of additional powers to Edinburgh (and Wales and Northern Ireland) such as the right to set its own tax rates—granting even more concessions than Scotland’s own parliament had demanded. Scotland won before it lost. Furthermore, what it won it will never give back, and what it lost it can try to win again later. England, meanwhile, feels ever more like the center of a Devolved Kingdom rather than a united one.

Devolution—meaning the decentralization of power—is the geopolitical equivalent of the second law of thermodynamics: inexorable, universal entropy. Today’s nationalism and tribalism across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East represent the continued push for either greater autonomy within states or total independence from what some view as legacy colonial structures. Whether these movements are for devolution, federalism, or secession, they all to varying degrees advocate the same thing: greater self-rule.

In addition to the traditional forces of anti-colonialism and ethnic grievance, the newer realities of weak and over-populated states, struggles to control natural resources, accelerated economic competition, and even the rise of big data and climate change all point to more devolution in the future rather than less. Surprisingly, this could be a good thing, both for America and the world.

Woodrow Wilson brought his fierce anticolonialism to the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, insisting on national self-determination as one of his famous “Fourteen Points.” But stubborn Western Europeans held on to their imperial possessions until World War II bankrupted them. The dismantling of the British and French empires over the course of the 20th century gave birth to more than 75 new countries within four decades. Decolonization was followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union, which created 15 independent states. All told, the jackhammer of devolution has more than tripled the number of countries around the world, from the 51 original member states of the United Nations to its 193 members today.

Strangely, international law as enshrined in the UN Charter appears to work against these trends, strongly privileging state borders as they are as if to freeze the world map in time. But to paraphrase Victor Hugo, there is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come. People can no longer be cheated (for long) out of their legitimate aspirations for self-rule.

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pastors and church leaders to speak more frequently on this issue," he said.

Kay Warren, wife of Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren, also shared during the press conference on Monday that she is committed to tearing down the barriers that prevent churches and congregations from tackling mental health issues to the fullest. The Warrens tragically lost their son, Matthew, who struggled with mental illness for most of his life when he died at the age of 27 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound on April 5, 2013.

"We decided to honor our son and try to help families and perhaps other churches not go through what we went through or at least find better help. It comes from such a deep personal place for us," Warren said.

She explained that after reading thousands of emails and messages from families sharing about their own struggles with mental illness, and the intense pain and suffering, that one of the things that became clearer is that the church can provide comfort and hope.

"The church actually can provide a layer of protection to those who are struggling with mental illness to the point that it becomes one of those factors that can keep someone alive, keep them from taking their life if they are really connected," Warren said. "The church has a vital role to play. The church community has something to contribute to this conversation that's different than what the mental health community might add, different than what the government might

add in terms of legislation.

"The church has a historic role. It has a Biblical role.

Jesus is our example. God tells us all through the Word that He is compassionate and that He aches and He hurts for His soldiers when they suffered. Jesus modeled a deep compassion to those that were vulnerable and those that were perceived to have mental and physical [afflictions], and even demonic influences."

A summary of the findings provided by LifeWay Research includes a number of what researchers call 'key disconnects' including: - Only a quarter of churches (27 percent) have a plan to assist families affected by mental illness according to pastors. And only 21 percent of family members are aware of a plan in their church.

- Few churches (14 percent) have a counselor skilled in mental illness on staff, or train leaders how to recognize mental illness (13 percent) according to pastors.

- Two-thirds of pastors (68 percent) say their church maintains a list of local mental health resources for church members. But few families (28 percent) are aware those resources exist.

- Family members (65 percent) and those with mental illness (59 percent) want their church to talk openly about mental illness, so the topic will not be a taboo. But 66 percent of pastors speak to their church once a year or less on the subject.

That silence can leave people feeling ashamed

about mental illness, said Jared Pingleton, director of counseling services at Focus on the Family. Those with mental illness can feel left out, as if the church doesn't care. Or worse, they can feel mental illness is a sign of spiritual failure.

"We can talk about diabetes and Aunt Mable's lumbago in church — those are seen as medical conditions," he said. "But mental illness – that's somehow seen as a lack of faith."

Methodology: LifeWay Research conducted 1,000 telephone surveys of Protestant pastors May 7-31, 2014. Responses were weighted to reflect the size and geographic distribution of Protestant churches. The sample provides 95% confidence that the sampling error does not exceed +3.1%. Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.

LifeWay Research conducted 355 online surveys July 4-24, 2014 among Protestant adults who suffer from moderate depression, severe depression, bipolar, or schizophrenia. The completed sample includes 200 who have attended worship services at a Christian church once a month or more as an adult.

LifeWay Research conducted 207 online surveys July 4-20, 2014 among Protestant adults who attend religious services at a Christian church on religious holidays or more often and have immediate family members in their household suffering from moderate depression, severe depression, bipolar, or schizophrenia.

dismantling empires through devolution Democracy is not the most potent political force of the 21st century

large and unwieldy post-colonial states.

Take the example of India, where more than 60 years of independence have brought little development to peripheral and rural states in the east and northeast of the country. Rather than fostering economic growth outside the capital, New Delhi’s priority instead has been imposing either the Hindi (Mahatma Gandhi’s preference) or English languages across the country. But such malign neglect has only stoked devolutionary pressures. Since 1947, the number of states in the Indian federation has doubled, with the 29th (Telangana) created earlier this year. As state boundaries better conform to ethnic and linguistic boundaries, provincial units can focus more on their internal growth, rather than on having to defend themselves against the center.

Notice how the secondlargest contributor to Indian GDP besides Mumbai’s Maharashtra state is Tamil Nadu, the state that is geographically farthest from notoriously corrupt New Delhi.

Another accelerant of devolution is ubiquitous data. Much as modern nation-states seem to have lost their monopoly on armed forces, so too has evaporated their dominance of information flows and narratives. Call it the triumph of transparency: Whether through free media, leaks, hacks, democracy, or legal pressure, people increasingly know how their countries are run—and crucially how their money is spent.

This March, participants in a nonbinding online referendum in Venice overwhelmingly supported an unofficial “declaration of independence” from Italy. The reason? Venice pays 70 billion euros in taxes per year, but receives only a fraction back in fiscal transfers, meaning support from the capital.

Catalonia, with its unique language and centuries of cultural traditions, made similar calculations with respect to Madrid and is set to vote on independence in November. Spain and Italy’s constitutions forbid secession, but to avoid severe internal unrest beyond that which has already beset them since the financial crisis, both governments will likely grant more autonomy to these important provinces. Ultimately, these upstart—or start-up—regions want the “devo-max” deal the Basques of north-

Parag Khanna ern Spain have: complete fiscal autonomy with no taxes paid to the capital.

Even global warming can drive devolution: As Greenland’s ice sheet melts, its 60,000 Inuit have greater access to abundant and valuable reserves of resources such as uranium and natural gas. This creates an incentive for Greenlanders to hoard the potential windfall rather than send it to Copenhagen, which has retained some governing authority over the island since Denmark seized and colonized Greenland nearly

three centuries ago. The 2021 date proposed for a Greenland independence vote provides an eerie parallel to Scotland’s referendum, which took place roughly 300 years after that country joined the United Kingdom. Unlike Scotland, however, Greenland’s vote for independence wouldn’t even be close. Make way for another seat at the UN. Shrill warnings against devolution ignore the evidence that it is also a logical consequence of connectivity. In the days before Scotland’s independence referendum, Gordon Brown, the Scotland-born former British prime minister, made a passionate appeal to his countrymen to choose unity over independence. Scotland’s “quarrel should be with globalization, rather than England,” he said. But on whose terms should that tug-of-war for jobs be waged?

Smaller states and smaller economies have less of a margin for error when it comes to

their own survival. Would Scotland have outsourced its manufacturing base to Asia in the way that far-off London capitalists so enthusiastically did? Would Scotland, as politicians in London warned, really have been unable to establish its own currency within 18 months? As even the anti-independence Economist noted, 28 new central banks have been created in the past 25 years; Estonia set up its own central bank and currency in a week. A connected world—the result of Brown’s bogeyman of ‘globalization’—has turned such bureaucratic hurdles into commoditized tasks.

The more cities and provinces attain quality infrastructure—courtesy of investment from their own governments and foreigners—the more they can leverage these new capacities. In America, fiscal federalism is a crucial driver of economic dynamism. For example, Texas has made itself the most business-friendly state in the country by minimizing regulations and keeping taxes low; it now boasts an $8.8 billion surplus. California also experiments at the state level with immigration and greenhouse-gas emissions reduction policies that are best suited to its own needs and goals.

Oil-rich British Columbia and gas-and-mineral-rich Western Australia have their own resource wealth funds that have propelled infrastructure investment and growth in cities such as Vancouver and Perth first, before a share of the profits is sent to the distant capitals Ottawa and Canberra.

In Europe, devolution has become a healthy form of competitive arbitrage— a perpetual negotiation to get maximum freedoms from under-performing national governments so that over-performing provinces can get on with their own priorities.

An independence movement is brewing in Sardinia, for instance, that would see the already autonomous Italian island sell itself to landlocked (and far better governed) Switzerland as a maritime canton.

Can all devolution be handled so peacefully? With all the world’s terrain claimed, one’s gain (of independence) must equal another’s loss (of territorial integrity). Borders can therefore either change violently, or can be softened through devolution.

Devolution is why the Basques and Que-

becois are at peace today. To attempt to stem the pro-Russian rebel tide in Ukraine, the parliament in Kiev last week granted self-rule to the eastern provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk as a gesture to keep them within the Ukrainian orbit. Devolution today is thus not just a force of tribalism but a tool of peacemaking.

This kind of thinking will be necessary for remapping the Middle East as the centuryold Sykes-Picot map of the region crumbles.

The near-total dissolution of the Arab political cartography embodies the most severe entropy, fragmentation, and disorder. Today only the oil-rich micro-states of the Persian Gulf such as Qatar and the UAE have purchased long-term security. But we do not yet know what will replace the current Syria and Iraq—to say nothing of the Islamic State’s plans for Jordan, Lebanon, and beyond.

Yet if one rule of counterinsurgency is to find, protect, and build stable enclaves, that is also a bottom-up approach to replacing Arab colonial cartography with a more legitimate order based on smaller and more coherent islands of stability. Rather than artificial nations, the future Middle East order will likely consist of robust tribal states like Israel and Kurdistan, and urban commercial centers with mixed populations that will protect themselves and their trade routes.

Perhaps a world of smaller states would bring globalization more into balance, with each state maintaining the necessary production and jobs essential for social stability, even if not optimizing global comparative advantage. A world of smaller states might also be a more peaceful one as well, with none able to survive without importing food and goods from others. Such a world would embody the principle of anti-fragility that the author Nassim Taleb advocates: too small to fail.

The map of the world is in perpetual flux, with territories splintering and combining in various configurations. North and South Yemen merged in 1990; Czechoslovakia divorced in 1993. South Sudan seceded in 2011; now there’s talk of North and South Korea reunifying along the model of East and West Germany. The fundamental search for more coherent political entities can bring turbulence, but not always violence.

Thus, the Scottish precedent is a harbinger of neither global chaos nor the end of multi-national harmony. In fact, devolution’s dialectical opposite is aggregation.

The world may splinter, but it also comes together in new combinations such as the European Union, which ultimately absorbs all the continent’s micro-states into a truly multinational federation. Witness the Balkans, where two decades on from the bloody wars of Yugoslavia’s dissolution, all its former republics have become or are candidates for EU membership. If the world wants to see global solidarity of nations, the tribes may need to win first.

Parag Khanna is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order and How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance.

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ur Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

(1) "The Lord's Prayer" is not prayed by Jesus but given as the model to his disciples.Jesus forbids the prayers of "hypocrites". To Jesus, the critical element was not the location or position of the one praying, but the motives. The public versus private antithesis is a good test of one's motives; those who pray more in public than in private reveal that they are less interested in God's approval than in human praise.Not piety but a reputation for piety is their concern. It is far better to deal radically with this hypocrisy and pray in a private room. The Father, who sees in secret, will reward such disciples.Prayer is the language of the heart, not merely of the lips. Prayer is our hotline with the Almighty God who knows us more than we know ourselves; so, long prayers and repetitions should be avoided.

(2) The phrase "our Father which art in heaven" indicates that God is not only majestic and holy, but also personal and loving. That he is "our Father which art in heaven" reminds us of his transcendence and sovereignty.Jesus himself addressed God as his own Father, and he teaches his disciples to do the same.Jesus taught his disciples to pray "Our Father" and not "My Father".

We are bound together in one family where peace, unity and harmony should prevail.

THE MODEL PRAYER Matthew 6:9-13 (KJV) Selie Visa is eternally holy, so he eternally reigns in absolute sovereignty.To pray “thy kingdom come" is both to ask that God's saving, royal rule be extended now as people bow in submission to him and to cry for the consummation of the kingdom.

(4) When we pray "thy will be done," we are not resigning ourselves to fate, but praying that God's perfect purpose will be accomplished in this world as well as the next. We invite God into our hearts as our King and allow him to use us for the extension of his kingdom.

God's kingdom was announced in the covenant with Abraham, is present in Christ's reign in believers' hearts, and will be complete when all evil is destroyed and God establishes the new heaven and earth.To pray that God's "will", which is good, pleasing and perfect,“be done in earth, as it is in heaven”is to use language broad enough to embrace three requests. (1) We pray that God's will may be done now on earth as it is now being accomplished in heaven. This prayer corresponds to asking for the present extension of the messianic kingdom. (2) We pray that God's will may ultimately be as fully accomplished on earth as it is now being accomplished in heaven. (3) We pray that God's will may ultimately be done on the earth in the same way as it is now being accomplished in heaven.

knowledging that God is our sustainer and provider. We must trust God daily to provide what he knows we need.

We must pray for our needs, not our greed. It is for one day at a time. Pray for needs and spiritual bread of life.

This is a lesson easily forgotten when wealth multiplies and absolute self-sufficiency is portrayed as a virtue.

(6) In addition to physical provisions, we also need forgiveness of sin and deliverance from temptation. Just as God is ready to forgive our sins, we too must have a forgiving spirit toward those who hurt us.

(7) The word used for "temptation" rarely if ever before the writing of the NT means "temptation" in the sense of "enticement to sin"; rather, it means testing.

All Christians struggle with temptation. Sometimes it is so subtle that we don't even realize what is happening to us. God has promised that he won't allow us to be tempted beyond what we can bear. It is perfectly proper to ask God to spare us from trials and temptations because on our own we may fail under the test.

(8) "Deliver" can mean either "spare us from" or "deliver us out of." Both are spiritually relevant. The words translated "the evil one" can either mean "evil" or refer specifically to the Devil. “But deliver us from evil” is a petition that, while implicitly recognizing our own helplessness before the Devil whom Jesus alone could vanquish, indicates trust in the heavenly Father for deliverance from the Devil's strength and wiles.

(9) God wants to make us his subjects for his kingdom of glory. His purpose is to call us out from darkness to light.

(10) We end our prayers with "Amen" (so be it) and dedicate ourselves fully to God. Prayer is not just about requesting God's services. Prayer opens the door of our hearts to permit God to come in and bless us. Do you have Jesus in your heart and in your life now? Will you have a place in his kingdom everlasting?

(3) God is holy. We therefore hallowed his name by giving reverence to him in worship and obedience to his commandments. To hallow his name is a statement of praise and a commitment to honor God's holy May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be upon each name. We can honor God's name by being careful to (5) Our daily needs are few but our wants are endless. use it respectfully keeping in mind his holiness.As God When we pray "give us today our daily bread," we are ac- one of you now and forever. Amen.

End of the game Zechariah 1 holds a key to a third great awakening

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et him who does wrong continue to do wrong; let him who is vile continue to be vile; let him who does right continue to do right; and let him who is holy continue to be holy. Revelation 22:11 Our nationalist political groups which has been aggressively fighting for dominance seems to be more interested in devouring and destroying each other. When the armed forces under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru invaded our nation in 1955, our own forces and comrades stood by each other pledging to fight till the end. The invading forces outnumbered us and as a result we had to flee. The younger generation may not be actually aware of the history of our nation, and as long as we are ignorant of what we actually are, we will never witness progress and prosperity as long as we live. For further reference to this issue I recommend that you go through my articles “ Enemy of our Nation and War against Our Enemy “.

The said articles were based on the virtues of faith, unity and vision. Where there is no knowledge the people will be destroyed and the same is true with our stance (Hosea 4:6a).

God has destined our people to live together as one and our eternal destiny will also be determined by our works of the present. In view of this the scripture states “ though grace is shown to the wicked, they do not learn righteousness, they go on doing evil and regard not the majesty of the Lord Isaiah 26:10 ). Whatever is ours is ours but unless the strong man is defeated, we will never be able to inherit what is rightfully ours (Matthew 12:29 ). Though the battle ended, the hostilities still continues. When the ceasefire was signed between Nagaland and the Government of India in 1991, the factional clashes only grew from bad to worse. It can be assumed that the ceasefire is an opportunity for both groups to become stronger as they pursue peace. It’s an opportunity for both the groups to dictate each other’s weaknesses. If I were to be accused of only writing violence, warning and judgment? I will only hold my ground by stating the truths of the scripture. The truth is, how can we write about peace when the chaos and divisions of different political parties occupies the headlines of the print and electronic media. We only have to state the facts and good things will be written about us only when we are truly good.

If there is any group that claims to be righteous, they should denounce the acts of violence and pursue righteousness and peace. But we should realize that our righteousness are like filthy rags. The Word of God says … There is no- one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless, there is no one who does good, not even one. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and destruction mark their ways, and the way of peace they do not know. There is no fear of God before their eyes ( Romans 3:10-18 ).

Six decades has passed since the war has started and in another four decades we may ultimately reach the landmark of 100 years of struggle. The point is this: If these policies of intra politics survives, ruin and destruction will pursue us. The ultimate warning given to us is , either we repent or perish. We are in the last days and the political situation of our nation will only get from bad to worse.

The end is yet to come and even if we are freed from our oppressors, new enemies will always emerge, to persecute, to condemn, and to destroy all the followers of the light. The time has come for us to make our choices of whom to follow and of whom to serve. The good ones will only continue to be blessed; while the wicked will be tormented with burning sulphur. Something terrible is about to happen and if you are fortunate, you will survive the onslaught. Pray that you will not fall and die by the gun. The truth has been made known that you may accept it. It is not a game but it is a means to win the competition. Fight the war and win the war. The Lord prays for our salvation.

Ambrose.J. Chakre Founder President Ambrose Foundation in Christ Ministries Kohima, Nagaland

Rick Curry he sound of dancing like muffled rain drops on a tin roof can be heard in the distance. The heralds have their songs muted by the utterly chaotic noise of a confused generation, but make no mistake, they are singing still. They bear on the wings of their song the blessing of God's sovereign timing and the joy of His soon appearing. The Lord Himself is coming with banner and torch in hand lighting the way for all who will soon be awakened in the morning of His greatest harvest.

Do not allow fear to capsize your heart, disturb your mind, or distract you from the magnificence of this moment. He has heard the cry of the foolish and the appeal of the wise. He is choosing to come as no respecter of persons. He is coming as a Father to reveal the fierceness of His love and the fire of His holiness. Our Father, the King of Glory, is coming, and He will reign forever and forever.

The question is not of His coming but of our awareness of His approaching and our preparation for His arrival.

In Zech. 1:1 we are introduced in a single verse to the power of repentance and the hope of the King's appearing. Tucked away in the neatly scribed names of Zechariah and his fathers we discover a glimmer of light preceding the dark words, "The Lord was very angry with your fathers."

(Zech. 1:2) We read, "Zechariah, (which means "God remembers), the prophet, the son of Berechiah (which means "God blesses"), the son of Iddo (which means "At the appointed time") saying ..."

The message begins with the incredible reminder that God remembers and He blesses at the appointed time. Has history stumbled upon a time for such an encounter with the King of Glory as though He was unaware of her staggering? Might we even be so bold to ask if it is possible He was watching her stagger all along that she might fall into the arms of His embrace?

Are we in such a time of revival and awakening? Are we at such a time for the message of repentance and holiness to be sounded again from the pulpits of America without affection for fee or favor? Are we at such a time when the fierceness of His love and the fire of His holiness are being manifest and people's hearts are being flayed before Him in secret? Are we at such time when the sound of dancing in the distance and the muted song of the heralds is being heard—though it is muffled?

Are we at such a time that the great cloud of witnesses are anticipating the reactions of our generation to the times in which we live? Are we at such a time that the synergy of generations is rising before us like a tsunami of His holiness? Is awakening afoot?

The Lord is visiting His people with banner and torch in hand. The noise that produces fear is like a cluster of chaotic and confusing sounds, but the sound that accompanies His coming is as the mist upon a rooftop or songs carried on the wings of hope. Fear causes us to fail to hear the gentle steps of His approaching like a breeze among the

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myrtle trees or a whisper of assurance that His eyes are upon us. It is not difficult. Zechariah continues the Word of the Lord, "Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'Return to Me,' declares the Lord of hosts, 'that I may return to you,' says the Lord of hosts." (Zech. 1:3).

Zechariah yields his life to bend toward us releasing the message of the hope of His coming. The Lord warns Zechariah, "'Do not be like your fathers ... they did not listen or give heed to Me,' declares the Lord. Your fathers, where are they?" (Zech. 1:4). We hear easily in the times of shouting, but what of the times of whispering?

I propose to you the sound of His coming is at hand. The demand on us is not to manipulate His coming but to surrender to His arrival. The moment of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 was not determined by the disciples gathered in the Upper Room. Their responsibility was simply to recognize the sound of His arrival and surrender to the accompanying fire. The Lord Himself had orchestrated the affairs of men to be in the right city at the right time where the maximum number of people could receive the manifest glory of His appearing. He is orchestrating these days as well.

One of the early sounds of true awakening is the rapid and resplendent sound of people praying and seeking Him in different places at the same time. Suddenly you begin to realize it is not about this city or that, this church or that church, this region or that region, but it is the sound of His angel armies riding like horsemen across the land quickening hearts to arise and the wind of His Spirit blowing among the myrtle trees. (Zechariah 1). The sound of the hunger of His people being fed by prayer.

The sound of revival along the Gulf Coast during the past six months has been one of the most incredible times of my life and ministry. We have really sought to "prefer one another more than we preach to one another." A number of pastors from very different backgrounds and expressions of local congregations are seeking to "move together" throughout the region carrying the banner of hope and harvest in one hand and the torch of His holiness in the other. We have seen thousands respond to altar calls, and we have seen incredible miracles as we moved from city to city and church to church. Not everyone understands it, and many doubt the effectiveness of the model, but for those of us laboring together it is an incredible journey and I personally believe it is the hope of what is to come in the nation.

True awakening can never be contained in a building and will not be controlled by a single ministry! Why not allow the Holy Spirit to release the fire of His holiness that permits us to

value each other for the gift He is in us and allow our message to transcend the scope of personal preference or prejudice and walking in humility to make the Name of Jesus famous in the earth?

It has been said of the Welsh revival, "The outpouring of the Spirit came dramatically, with precision, in the second week of November 1904 on the same day—both in the North and in the South."

It was March 16, 2014 for me when through a vision I saw the Lord step into the sanctuary, and my life will forever be marked by that moment.

However, it was a moment, though the vision lasted for nearly six hours, others were experiencing their own encounters and visions that I knew nothing about. My vision in no way diminishes the significance of theirs— quite the opposite: I have learned the Lord is moving all over the nation and in many other nations at precisely the same moment. He is beginning a movement birthed out of moments of encountering His glory. For a dear friend of mine it started in a truck stop when the glory of God fell and people were saved, healed and filled with the Holy Spirit right on the spot. For another pastor friend it began in his kitchen floor! The story goes on and on, but it must be celebrated as a collective and received with the hope of His appearance.

If you are reading this and feel as though you are still waiting for the moment when you encounter His glory, do not be distracted by a sense of delay. "Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; He sends them out, and they inundate the earth" (Job 12:15, NASB). He chooses to restrain the water that it might come forth to transform the earth! In the revival of the 1890s there were regions in the British Isles that did not come into revival for a year or two, but when they did it was often a wider and deeper move of the Spirit.

You know you are getting close to revival when the level of your expectation demands the discipline of your preparation.

Prayer movements are being refreshed and renewed. Expectation is arising in the hearts of a people who are less concerned about their future than they are confident in the faithfulness of the Lord to respond to the appeal of His people. Regions are beginning to connect, and laborers are meeting in the field to reap a harvest no one can reap alone. Ministries are collaborating by the joining of hands until our hearts begin to become one.

We are living in unprecedented times, and unprecedented times provide unparalleled opportunities. My confidence is that we will witness thousands of churches of varying sizes, strengths and assets come together in these unprecedented days to witness the miraculous move of the awakening that is afoot.

Rick Curry was born in Richmond, Kentucky, and has been involved in full-time ministry all of his adult life. He is the lead pastor of King's Way Church in Pensacola, Florida, and provides apostolic oversight to its affiliate congregations.

He is currently leading with other key leaders a significant revival that is quickly spreading all along the Gulf Coast and in many other regions of the country.

The Phone That Rang With No Connection Rev. Mark H. Creech Christian post Columnist

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hile visiting Oklahoma City recently for a convention, I had an unusual experience. I'm typically a slow riser in the morning. So the night before I had set the alarm on my phone to stir me at 5:00 a.m. As a back-up, I also called the front desk of the hotel where I was staying and asked that they give me a "wake-up call" for 5:15 a.m.

When the alarm on my phone went off early the next morning, I silenced it and didn't delay getting out of bed, but found my way to the bathroom to begin getting ready for the day. While in the bathroom, the wake-up call from the front desk started ringing the room phone. I didn't bother to leave what I was doing because I assumed if I didn't pick-up the receiver; it would eventually stop ringing on its own. It did for a short time, but would resume ringing again.

So this time I presumed I needed to pick-up the receiver and hang-up the phone and it would end the wake-up call for good, which I did. Nevertheless, within a few minutes the room phone was ringing off the hook once more. This time, I thought maybe the front desk wants to be certain I'm up and about and I need to answer someone on the other end before the wake-up call will finish.

When I answered the phone, a courteous man who said his name was Jim, was on the other end of the line. Jim asked, "Is your phone still ringing from a wake-up call?" I responded, "Yes, and I'm beginning to think this is the wake-up call from hell." Jim laughed and said, "Well, strangely your wake-up call continues to ring incessantly at the front desk and I can't pinpoint the problem to stop it. Would you mind unhooking the phone from the wall and let's see if that ends it?" Reaching down behind the nightstand, I pulled the plug and went back to the bathroom to continue preparing for the day.

Enter "Twilight Zone" music. Within minutes, the phone started to ring again. At this point I asked myself, did I unplug all the necessary cords from the wall? Let me check. When I checked the phone, it was completely unhooked from the wall. Yet it was still ringing!!!

Naturally, unsettled by the matter, I picked up my cell phone and called Jim down at the front desk to ask him if he had any explanation for the phenomena. Jim said he couldn't explain it, but he corroborated that the phone was ringing again at the desk during the same time it was ringing unhooked from the wall in my room.

We both scratched our heads, so to speak, and laughed about the incident and discussed its similarities to a scene from a horror movie. How can a phone ring that has no connection? There was never any technical explanation for what happened. Eerie!!!

Really Eerie!!!

Since I told this story to family and friends back home, some have asked why I didn't answer the call when it was disconnected. I responded I didn't really know except that I was so stunned.

One friend said, "It might have been a phone call from an angel about your future. It might have been some spirit trying to reach you about your life, perhaps trying to warn you or give you some secret to success."

Although I suspect there is a completely natural explanation for what happened, even if it were an entity trying to reach me, I am unmoved and feel such contact would really not only be unnecessary, but dubious at best. In fact, it could actually be dangerous and damning. Why? Because everything one needs to know for life and its challenges is contained within the pages of God's Holy Word – the Bible. Any other source can never be fully trusted.

This is not to say God never uses extraordinary means for communicating with people, but even when or if He does, the message legitimately given would never contradict what is revealed in Scripture.

An inconsistency would clearly show the dispatch was not from Him. The apostle Paul gave some pertinent instructions, saying, "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed" (Galatians 1:8).

On another occasion the apostle wrote, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work" (I Timothy 3:16,17).

Any message or messenger that contradicts what God has revealed in the Gospel, should be accursed, says Paul. Moreover, the word translated "adequate" in the last text quoted from the apostle means to be made complete or whole. In other words, the study of the Bible, God's own Word, makes us a whole person and is adequate for every need and equips us for every situation and responsibility.

Brain Harbour once wrote: "For the needs facing modern man – the deterioration of morality, the lack of a firm foundation, fear before the challenges of our time, a lack of hope in the future – the answer is to be found in the Bible…It not only speaks the truth; its truth will set you free." [1] Like a phone call bypassing its connecting lines, there are many voices that ring out today in seemingly amazing and astonishing ways. We may find their words and the circumstances surrounding them quite alluring, remarkable, and unparalleled.

Still, no matter the voices' agencies or channels, there is only one voice that can be trusted implicitly – God's voice – God's voice as revealed in the Scriptures – God's voice as revealed in the living Word – His Son, Jesus Christ. Whether it's a personal or a public test, "Let God be true though everyone were a liar" (Romans 3:4).

Resources: [1] Harbour, Brian L. From Cover to Cover. Nashville, TN: Broadman, 1982. Pg. 225.

Dr. Mark Creech is executive director of the Raleigh-based Christian Action League of North Carolina, Inc. He also serves as president of the American Council on Alcohol Problems.

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At UN, NAreNdrA Modi Asks world leAders to work for geNUiNe peAce

United nations, september 27 (ians): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday urged world leaders to put their “differences aside” and come together and curb extremism by urgently adopting the United Nations’ international convention against terrorism. Debuting at the United Nations as the prime minister of India, Modi in his address to the 69th session of the General Assembly said that terrorism has spread far and wide and that there was hardly any country that has stayed untouched by it.

“Terrorism is taking new shapes and new names. No country, big or small, in the north or the south, east or west, is free from its threat.

Are we really making concerted international efforts to fight these forces, or are we still hobbled by our politics, our division, our discrimination between good and bad terrorism...”

In perhaps a tangential reference to Pakistan, Modi said some countries still allowed terrorism to grow on their “territory or use terrorism as instruments of their policy”. Modi did not directly name the Islamic State terror group that controls large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria where it has declared an Islamic caliphate and which would be governed according to Islamist laws.

“We welcome efforts to

combat terrorism’s resurgence in West Asia, which is affecting countries near and far. The effort should involve the support of all countries in the region,” he said, referring to the US-led airstrikes on IS targets in Iraq and Syria. He said “seas, space and cyber space have become new instruments of prosperity, they could also become a new theatre of conflicts”.

He said the threats to world peace and stability have increased “more than ever” the need for a Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism, a deadlocked treaty that criminalises all forms of terrorism and denies terrorists, their financiers and supporters access to funds, arms, and safe havens. “We should put aside our differences and mount a concerted international effort to combat terrorism and extremism. As a symbol of this effort, I urge you to adopt the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism,” Modi said.

He said he used to raise the issue with world leaders 20 years ago and “they wouldn’t understand” the danger terrorism posed to world peace. “They would ignore it and say it is a law and order problem,” he said. He said India, despite being part of the developing world, was “prepared to share our modest resourc-

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of India, addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters on September 27.

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es with those countries that need this assistance as much as we do”.

“This is a time of great flux and change. The world is witnessing tensions and turmoil on a scale rarely seen in recent history.

There are no major wars, but tensions and conflicts abound and there is absence of real peace and uncertainty about the future.”

To further assert his calls on countering terrorism, Modi said that piracy has also posed a serious threat to the world’s economic development.

“An integrating Asia Pacific region is still concerned about maritime se-

curity that is fundamental to its future,” he said. “Europe faces risk of new division. In West Asia, extremism and fault lines are growing. Our own region continues to face the destabilising threat of terrorism. Africa faces the twin threat of rising terrorism and a health crisis,” the prime minister said.

‘Time world is united instead of operating in various Gs’ In a tongue-in-cheek reference to the numerous blocs of nations that have cropped up, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said at the UN that the world, instead of becoming

interdependent, “operates in various Gs with different numbers”. In his inaugural address to the UN General Assembly, Modi said “the need for an international compact, which is the foundation of the United Nations, is stronger than before”.

“While we speak of an interdependent world, have we become more united as nations? Today, we still operate in various Gs with different numbers.

India, too, is involved in several. But, how much are we able to work together as G1 or G-All?,” he wondered. He said that “on one side, we say that our destinies are inter-linked, on the

other hand we still think in terms of zero sum game”.

“If the other benefits, I stand to lose,” he stated. “It is easy to be cynical and say nothing will change but if we do that, we run the risk of shirking our responsibilities and we put our collective future in danger,” Modi cautioned. “Let us bring ourselves in tune with the call of our times. First, let us work for genuine peace.

“No one country or group of countries can determine the course of this world.

There has to be a genuine international partnership.

This is not just a moral position, but a practical one,” the prime minister said.

PM visits 9/11 memorial

new York, september 27 (ians): Symbolising India’s resolve to fight terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday paid tributes at the 9/11 memorial where the twin towers of World Trade Centre, destroyed

by Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attack, once stood.

Dressed in a half-sleeve white Modi kurta and churidars and a grey shawl thrown on his left shoulder, Modi walked to the grey granite memorial site, also known as Ground Zero, and stood solemnly before it with folded hands. He then placed, one by one, nine yellow roses on the memorial slabs around the twin memorial pools with names of nine Indian-Americans victims etched on them among over 3,000 victims of the attack.

Besides the names of every person who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack, names of the six victims of Feb 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing are also inscribed on the memorial. After that Modi visited the 9/11 Museum which includes a memorial exhibition dedicated to commemorating the unique life of each victim. Modi’s visit to the 9/11 memorial is seen as symbolic of India’s resolve to fight terrorism of which it has been a major victim.

Modi: UN should adopt International Yoga Day United nations, september 27 (ians): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday proposed that the UN should adopt an International Yoga Day. In his maiden address at the UN General Assembly, Modi said that for India “respect for nature is an integral part of spiritualism. We treat nature’s bounties as sacred”.

“Yoga is an invaluable gift of our ancient tradition,” he said. “Yoga embodies unity of mind and body; thought and action; restraint and fulfilment; harmony between man and nature; a holistic approach to health and well being. It is not about exercise but to discover the sense of oneness with yourself, the world and the nature. “By changing our lifestyle and creating consciousness, it can help us deal with climate change,” the prime minister said. “Let us work towards adopting an International Yoga Day,” he said, speaking in Hindi.

‘Pakistan raking up old song world has stopped listening to’ new deLHi, september 27 (ians): Pakistan’s raking up Kashmir at the UN General Assembly is “predictable” and an “old song” which the world has stopped listening to, said Indian experts and politicians of Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s statement that Kashmir is a “core issue” which needs to be resolved and that the UN must intervene in the “dispute”.

They added that Islamabad, while harking back to the 1948 UN resolution on Kashmir on selfdetermination, appears to

have conveniently forgotten its first requirements that Pakistan withdraw its armed forces and irregulars from the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir, including the part occupied

by Pakistan, and that its administration be handed over to India.

India’s former envoy to Pakistan, G. Parthasarathy, said he was not surprised at Islamabad raking up the issue of plebiscite or selfdetermination for Jammu and Kashmir and added that it is the “normal thing” for Pakistan and “they do it every year in the UN”. He

TN Guv instructs officials to maintain law and order

CHennai, september 27 (ians): Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah Saturday summoned senior state government and police officials and instructed them to maintain law and order and prevent further violence. He had summoned the officials to discuss ways and means to maintain law and order and also the next steps in the wake of Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa being held guilty in a disproportionate assets case. In a statement issued here, the Raj Bhavan said the officials apprised the governor of measures taken to prevent the spread of untoward incidents in the state.

“The governor instructed the officers to prevent any further incidents and to ensure that the law and order is maintained in the state,” the Raj Bhavan statement said.

Violence erupted in several parts of the state with AIADMK cadres indulging in stone pelting, arson, and forcing shops to down their shutters as news spread that a special court in Bangalore had held Jayalalithaa guilty of amassing assets disproportionate to her known sources of income, sentenced her to four years’ imprisonment and fined her Rs.100 crore. Following the judgment, Jayalalithaa loses her position and also stands disqualified as the member of Tamil Nadu legislative assembly. A new chief minister has to be elected by the AIADMK legislators within two days. A government bus was torched and several others were damaged in stone pelting, while there were at least three attempts at self-immolation by supporters of Jayalalithaa within hours of the court verdict.

What started as sporadic violence in some parts of the state, started spreading to other parts as AIADMK cadres stopped rail traffic and also threatened other road users.

They also burnt effigies of opposition leaders. The AIADMK partymen also stoned Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy’s house here. The party cadres had assembled outside Jayalalithaa’s residence in the morning to see her off to Bangalore. They were also ready to welcome her with garlands and sweets hoping that the court verdict will be in her favour. While a pall of gloom has descended over Jayalalithaa’s residence in Poes Garden, the mood was upbeat at DMK president M. Karunanidhi’s residence, just a kilometre away. Police beefed up security outside the residences of Karunanidhi, his son M.K. Stalin and senior leader K. Anbazhagan.

As soon as the court decision came, AIADMK cadres started stoning buses and forced shopkeepers to down their shutters in Kanchipuram, Trichy, Madurai and other places in the state. In some places, policemen pacified the AIADMK cadres who were trying to force shop owners to close their shops. Some private companies decided to close early in the evening and theatres cancelled their evening shows in Chennai. The city roads wore a deserted look with skeletal public bus services as well as autorickshaws. Most of the shops downed their shutters in T.Nagar a major commercial area.

said India’s UN mission has a standard way of responding to it and “there the matter ends”.

But while talking of plebiscite, he said: “They (Pakistan) forget that the UN resolution which was then passed (1948) required Pakistan to withdraw all its armed forces and irregulars from the state of Jammu and Kashmir and the administration would thereafter be manned by India. “The fact is they never withdrew. So where is the question of plebiscite? The first condition of plebiscite they did not meet.”

He said the UN resolu-

tion was in two parts - requiring the withdrawal of Pakistani forces and that the administration to be run by India. “There was no call for withdrawal of Indian forces from Jammu and Kashmir. The resolution called for withdrawal of Pakistani forces,” Parthasarathy told IANS Well-known strategic expert C. Uday Bhaskar too spoke on similar lines.

Describing Sharif’s speech as “predictable”, he said “it would have been news if he had not mentioned Kashmir”. He said with the background of India calling off the foreign secretary level talks last month, Islamabad

wanted to “use the forum to make a point about Kashmir and to internationalise the issue”.

Bhaskar, who is the director of the Society for Policy Studies, told IANS that the UN resolution called for the Pakistani military and irregulars to “completely vacate the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir and that the demography has to be returned to its original profile”. He added that India’s case is that “plebiscite is no longer a valid issue” after the signing of the 1972 Simla accord, according to which both countries “have agreed that it is a bilateral issue, and so the in-

ternational community or any other third party has no longer a stand”.

Bhaskar also feels that Sharif’s speech was not written by the Pakistan foreign office “but in Rawalpindi”, the general headquarters of the Pakistani army. He said all the points in his speech “in many ways reflects the views of Rawalpindi than the foreign office”.

Former foreign secretary Kanwal Sibal said Sharif had “made the worst possible statement he could have made”. He said Sharif had made Kashmir a central issue and was going back to 1948. “Then

there cannot be meeting of minds,” Sibal told IANS. He said Sharif had made “hardline” remarks “knowing that India will be carefully looking” at what he says in view of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to improve ties with India’s neighbours. He said Sharif had “pushed back by several months” any possibility of a dialogue.

A Congress leader condemned Sharif’s remarks and said Pakistan should stop day dreaming. General secretary Shakeel Ahmed told IANS: “Pakistan should stop daydreaming. It is a bilateral issue. It was not proper for

Pakistan to raise it at the UN.” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nalin Kohli said Pakistan was not tired of singing “the same old song on Kashmir year after year”. “The world has stopped taking notice of this.” He said Sharif was perhaps “desperately trying to create an agenda” by referring to Kashmir. “Before expressing concern on the status of women in Kashmir, it will do well for Sharif to reflect on the status of women his country.

“The world is not going to be fooled by Pakistan’s rhetoric to deflect attention from its serious internal problems,” Kohli said.

Ravi Shankar Prasad pitches for self-regulation by media

new deLHi, september 27 (pti): Pitching for self-regulation by the media, law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said great responsibility comes with freedom and flagged issues like paid news, trial by media and fake sting operations as matters which have

to be dealt with. He also said that as communication and information technology minister he is against excessive use of provisions in the IT Act to curb the freedom of social media.

Inaugurating national consultation on Media Law organised jointly by

the Law Commission and the National Law University, Delhi, the minister said he personally feels that self regulation by the media was the best way to go about functioning.

“As far as the legal architecture is concerned, as far as my view is concerned, I

am very clear. Self-regulation should be the mode.

When I say self-regulation, it is not an off-the-cuff remark. It carries a lot of responsibility, it carries a lot of meaning,” he said. He said the media will have to take care of issues like paid news, fake sting operations which

are used to further vested interests and trial by media.

Prasad said for the NDA government, the independence of media is “non negotiable” and those in the political class should realise that media has a right to criticise, condemn and even advice. The minister said

he was also not against media lampooning politicians.

Terming the trend of paid news as “sickening”,he asked the media to “correct” the malice. On the issue of right to privacy, he said the media has not yet found a “bridge” between its rights and a person’s right to privacy.

India: Graft in health care impoverishes millions

new deLHi, september 27 (ap): Digamber Rawat rarely emerges from the tiny windowless room he shares with his parents because a mysterious illness has wasted away the strength in his legs. His family can’t afford private health care, but they must pay for it anyway, even when they go to free government hospitals for help.

Rawat said that at a government hospital in central Delhi, a doctor ordered Xrays and scans that could have been performed in-house. “But when we would go to the hospital lab for the tests, they would give us the name of a private clinic and say, ‘Go get it done there and then we will look at it,’” he said.

Tests at the hospital lab would have been 1,500 rupees ($25). At a private clinic, they cost more than $130. Rawat’s parents make a combined 15,000 rupees ($245) per month, barely enough to feed the family and buy medicine for their 21-year-old son.

“They knew we were poor, but they just didn’t

care,” said Rawat’s mother, Bhavna Devi, wiping tears with her threadbare sari.

Rawat’s story is played out across India, where hundreds of millions of poor people without any kind of health insurance are forced to seek medical treatment at private clinics because of poor services and corruption at government hospitals. Those clinics are widely accused of ordering unnecessary tests to run up costs.

Government officials, health experts and many physicians agree that India’s $74 billion health care industry is preying on poor people, thanks to a cozy nexus among unethical doctors, hospitals and diagnostic laboratories.

Health care costs push some 39 million people into poverty every year in India, according to a 2011 study in the Lancet medical journal.

India has a network of free government hospitals and around 37,000 primary health care centers across the country, but they are crowded, badly equipped

and inadequately staffed.

Yet patients who turn to expensive private clinics may be subjected to unnecessary medical tests, scans or even surgery, with the referring doctor getting a commission for the work.

Dr. David Berger, an Australian who worked as a volunteer physician in a small hospital in India, created an uproar when he described the practice of referrals and kickbacks in an article published in the British Medical Journal in May. He wrote that when doctors accept kickbacks, it “poisons their integrity and destroys any chance of a trusting relationship with their patients.”

Dr. Bobby John, a physician with the organization Global Health Advocates, said Berger’s article was not really news to the medical community: “It’s just that everyone had turned a blind eye to what was going on.”

Doctors in private hospitals are “incentivized to generate business for their employers by over-investigation and overtreatment

of patients who are at their mercy both medically and financially,” said Dr. Samiran Nundy, a well-known gastroenterologist in New Delhi. The practice is so common that in July, doctors at India’s best-known teaching hospital, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, formed a group to counter it: the Society for Less Investigative Medicine.

Dr. Balram Bhargava, a cardiologist, said the group plans to establish guidelines on diagnostic tests and increase awareness about excessive and unnecessary tests, which he said “shatter the trust that should exist between the doctor and his patients.”

Doctors say the seeds of corruption in the profession are sown early. Since seats in prestigious government-run medical schools are limited, students opt for private medical schools where they get admission by paying a mandatory donation of up to 30 million rupees ($500,000) for a postgraduate medical degree.

Once they start working, “there is pressure on doctors from the management of private hospitals to recover as much money as possible, and therefore they are not only encouraged, but even pressurized, to do more procedures for which they can charge,” said Dr. K. Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India, a non-governmental organization.

Dr. Harsh Vardhan, an ear, nose and throat surgeon, who became India’s health minister in May, has vowed to make cleaning up the health service his priority.

“I am more aware than anybody else of the corruption that is eating into the entrails of every aspect of governance, including the health system,” Vardhan told reporters recently. “We have to root it out.”

Vardhan has been unusually blunt in criticizing health care regulatory bodies that are widely viewed as corrupt. He referred to the drug standards body that oversees clinical tri-

als as a “snake pit of vested interests,” and the council that oversees medical education as a “corrupt body.”

Late last month, Vardhan announced in Parliament that he was placing all government-run hospitals under review, but gave few details. Nor has he outlined what he plans to do to curb corruption in private hospitals.

According to the World Bank, India currently spends less than 1.3 percent of its gross domestic product on health, among the lowest in the world. The existing health care system faces an acute shortage of doctors and specialists. The situation is compounded by ill-equipped and decrepit hospitals and health clinics and inadequate supplies of lifesaving drugs.

According to government figures, around 40 percent of doctors at government-run health clinics are absent on any given day. With the low pay and abysmal facilities, they make up by moonlighting at private hospitals for higher salaries.

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the Morung express

Rohingya could face detention under Myanmar govt’s draft plan ment spokesman Ye Htut could not be reached for comment on the plan, despite repeated efforts by Reuters to contact him by telephone and email.

In this Reuter File Photo, Rohingya women and children are seen passing time near their shelter at a refugee camp outside Sittwe June 4, 2014.

YANGON/BANGKOK, SeptemBer 27 (reuterS): Myanmar’s national government has drafted a plan that will give around a million members of the persecuted Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority a bleak choice: accept ethnic reclassification and the prospect of citizenship, or be detained.

Most of Myanmar’s 1.1 million Rohingya already live in apartheid-like conditions in western Rakhine, where deadly clashes with ethnic Rakhine Buddhists in 2012 displaced 140,000 people, mostly Rohingya.

The plan, shared with Reuters by sources who have received copies of the draft, proposes Rakhine authorities “construct temporary camps in required

numbers for those who refuse to be registered and those without adequate documents”.

Many Rohingya lost documents in the widespread violence, or have previously refused to register as “Bengalis”, as required by the government under the new plan, because they say the term implies they are illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh.

Despite winning praise for political and economic reforms introduced since military rule ended in March 2011, Myanmar has come under international pressure over its treatment of the Rohingya.

The plan says one of its aims is to promote peaceful co-existence and prevent sectarian tension and

conflict. It includes sections on resolving statelessness through a citizenship verification programme, as well as promoting economic development. But rights advocates say it could potentially put thousands of Rohingya, including those living in long-settled villages, at risk of indefinite detention.

Citizenship Offer The government will offer citizenship for those that accept the classification and have required documentation. That may encourage some to consent to identification as Bengali. Citizenship would offer some legal protection and rights to those Rohingya who attain it. But an official from Rakhine State who is

part of the committee overseeing citizenship verification said even that would not resolve the simmering tensions between Buddhists and Muslims in the state, or prevent a recurrence of the inter-community violence that plagued the country in 2012.

“Practically, even after being given citizenship and resettlement and all that, a Bengali with a citizenship card still won’t be able to walk into a Rakhine village,” said Tha Pwint, who also serves on the committee that oversees humanitarian affairs in the Rakhine.

The plan was drafted at the request of the national government, said Tha Pwint and three other sources contacted by Reuters about the plan. Myanmar govern-

Stateless Minority Many Rohingya families have lived in Rakhine for generations and are part of a small minority in the predominately Buddhist Myanmar. They are stateless because the government does not recognise the existence of the Rohingya ethnicity, and has to date refused to grant the majority of them citizenship.

Accepting the term Bengali could leave the Rohingya vulnerable should authorities in future attempt to send them to Bangladesh as illegal immigrants, said Phil Robertson, deputy director for Asia at Human Rights Watch.

“One of human rights’ core principles is the right to determine one’s ethnic and social identity and this is precisely what the Myanmar government is doggedly denying the Rohingya,” he said. “So it’s no wonder that the Rohingya completely reject the national government’s efforts to classify them as ‘Bengalis’ because they know that is the starting point for an effort to confirm their statelessness and eject them from Myanmar.”

The draft plan states that the authorities would request the UN’s refugee agency, the UNHCR, to “resettle illegal aliens elsewhere”. That might leave them facing indefinite detention, Robinson said, as the UNHCR would be un-

able to assist.

Complying with the government request would be impossible, because the UNHCR only resettles “recognised refugees who have fled persecution and conflict across international borders”, said Medea Savary, a UNHCR spokeswoman in Myanmar. “The group in question does not fall into this category.”

Myanmar is preparing to carry out a state-wide citizenship verification process for the Rohingya as part of the plan, a process it recently piloted. The document says the plan “is a work in progress, with time frames to be adjusted according to the situation on the ground”. Almost all Rohingya were excluded from a United Nations-backed census earlier this year after refusing to list their identities as Bengali.

The Action Plan for Peace, Stability and Development in Rakhine State also says the government will ask international agencies for help in having the “humanitarian needs met in terms of food, shelter, water and sanitation” for Rohingya living inside the new temporary camps.

Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya is proving a stumbling block to the country’s opening to the world since a semi-civilian, reformist government led by former general President Thein Sein took over after 49 years of military rule. In May, U.S. President Barack Obama, who is due to visit Myanmar in November, cited abuses in Rakhine State as one reason for maintaining some economic sanctions.

‘Time not right for another phone call’

uNIteD NAtIONS, SeptemBer 27 (Ap): Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that the time isn’t right for another phone conversation or a meeting with President Barack Obama “because of the sensitivity that still exists between the two countries.”

One year ago, Obama and Rouhani came close to ending the decadeslong freeze on face-to-face meetings between their countries’ leaders. Obama and Rouhani spoke by telephone for 15 minutes as the Iranian leader headed to the airport after his first appearance at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual meeting of world leaders.

It was the first time the

presidents of the United States and Iran had talked directly since the 1979 Iranian revolution and siege of the American embassy. The conversation was hailed as an historic breakthrough.

Rouhani, peppered with questions about a repeat conversation at a news conference before heading home after this year’s ministerial meeting, said: “Not a meeting nor a telephone call had been included in the agenda nor been planned for, ... nor intended to be a part of our visit this year to the U.N. General Assembly.”

Rouhani said there must be substantive reasons with “high objectives” for conversations between

world leaders. If not, he said, “telephone calls are somewhat meaningless.”

The Iranian president said the time is not ripe as there still is too much sensitivity between the two countries.

A phone conversation between the two leaders “would only be constructive and fruitful when it is done according to a precisely laid plan with precisely clearly stated objectives,” Rouhani said.

“Otherwise it will never be constructive or effective.”

An important first step would be for Iran and six major powers including the United States to reach agreement on the country’s disputed nuclear program.

He said progress so far “has not been significant,” and the pace must be speeded up if the Nov. 24 deadline for a final agreement is to be reached.

But despite the slow pace, he said, Iran believes an agreement can be reached if both sides “show courage, the will, the strength ... along with the appropriate needed action and the needed flexibility.”

Once there is a nuclear agreement, Rouhani said, the first step will be restoring trust between United States and Iran, saying “the lack of trust” is the most important issue between the two countries.

“The people of Iran must learn to trust again,

and the interlocutors must earn that trust again,” Rouhani said.

Rouhani, responding to repeated questions about Iran joining the U.S.led coalition against the Islamic State terrorist group, stressed the country’s past, present and future commitment to combatting terrorists “until we eradicate them,” but he raised questions of his own about America’s intentions.

“We do not know the details of such intentions,” he said. “At the very least from my own part, I can say I have my doubts about the Syria portion of these announcements. What is the ultimate goal and objective of the aerial bombard-

ments? What endgame are they seeking?”

Rouhani stressed that a country seeking to intervene must ask for permission — and be asked to help — before launching attacks. Iraq asked the U.S. for help but Syria did not, though the Obama administration informed President Bashar Assad’s government before it launched airstrikes.

Rouhani stressed that Iran was the first country to come to Iraq’s aid when fighters from the Islamic State group crossed the border and helped prevent the takeover of Irbil and Baghdad. He said Iran will respond positively to any request to fight terrorists.

Ebola Crisis: Small-scale use of experimental vaccines in January

GeNeVA, SeptemBer 27 (reuterS): The World Health Organisation (WHO) said it expected to begin small-scale use of two experimental Ebola vaccines in West Africa early next year and in the meantime transfusions of survivors’ blood may offer the best hope of treatment.

WHO is working with pharmaceutical companies and regulators to accelerate the use of a range of potential treatments to fight the disease, a senior WHO official said. Ebola has no cure and has killed at least 3,091 out of 6,574 people infected in West Africa since an outbreak began in March.

GlaxoSmithKline has begun clinical trials of its vaccine in the United States and Britain, to be followed by a trial starting in Mali next week, while NewLink vaccine trials are about to start in the United States and Germany, said Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO assistant director-general.

“If everything goes well again we might be able to start to use some of these vaccines in affected countries at the very beginning of next year, in January.

This will not be a mass vaccination campaign, let’s be clear about that because the quantity which will be

available doesn’t make this possible,” Kieny told a news briefing in Geneva.

She stressed however that the shots were experimental and had not yet been shown to work against Ebola: “They have given very promising results in monkeys, but monkeys are not humans.

“We could still face a situation where these vaccines would be unsafe in humans or where they would do nothing in terms of protection. So we need to be very prudent.” Data will be collected from clinical trials when the experimental vaccines are being given to healthy volunteers who are then monitored for adverse side effects and to see if the shot elicits an immune response in their blood.

Regulators at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Friday they would begin reviewing data on experimental Ebola medicines to support any decisions made on whether to use them for treating patients.

Canada has given 800 vials of the NewLink candidate vaccine to WHO, expected to yield at least 1,500 doses, Kieny said. The U.S.based firm is “working very hard to produce a few more thousand doses in the coming months”, she added.

GSK has said it hopes to have 10,000 doses of its experimental vaccine by the end of this year. Kieny said an experimental Ebola vaccine being developed

by Johnson & Johnson but not yet ready for trials in humans was also under consideration.

Experimental Ebola drugs including compounds from Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Sarepta and Tekmira will be tested in affected states for the first time in a bid to fasttrack trials, the Wellcome Trust said on Tuesday.

WHO is taking part in that effort, Kieny said. “We are starting to discuss with African sites to see which would be the most suitable to test these new drugs and establish as soon as possible which one gives an advantage for survival to patients.”

ZMapp has been used to treat several Ebola patients who have since recovered, but doctors cannot say for sure whether the drug helped them or whether they would have recovered anyway.

“In terms of ZMapp the best, as we have known for a few weeks now, is that maybe a few hundred doses will be available by the end of the year. But clearly this is not the kind of scale that can have impact on

Health workers stand outside the Island Clinic Ebola isolation and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia on September 26.

The outbreak of Ebola has overwhelmed the weak health systems of some of the world's poorest countries - there aren't enough doctors and nurses or even clinics to treat the spiraling number of cases.

(AP Photo)

the epidemic curve,” Kieny said of the drug by the California-based private biotech firm.

The use of blood transfusion and infusion of human serum from Ebola survivors is recognised as a

“safe treatment”, but donated blood must be screened for infections including HIV and hepatitis, she said.

There was only anecdotal information on its use in Ebola-infected healthcare workers, as there is no

system in place.

“Will it be efficacious?

For the time being we don’t know because there are not enough people who have been treated,” Kieny said, adding that they could be counted on two hands.

W Africa Ebola death toll passes 3,000 - WHO DAKAr, SeptemBer 27 (reuterS): The death toll from an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has risen to at least 3,091 out of 6,574 probable, suspected and confirmed cases, the World Health Organization said on Friday. Liberia has recorded 1,830 deaths, around three times as many as in either Guinea or Sierra Leone, the two other most affected countries, according to WHO data received up to Sept. 23. An outbreak that began in a remote corner of Guinea has taken hold of much of neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone, prompting warnings that tens of thousands of people may die from the worst outbreak of the disease on record.

The WHO update said Liberia had reported six confirmed cases of Ebola and four deaths in the Grand Cru district, which is near the border with Ivory Coast and had not previously recorded any cases of Ebola. The district of Kindia in Guinea also reported its first confirmed case, the WHO said, a day after it said the spread of Ebola appeared to have stabilized in that country. Nigeria and Senegal, the two other nations that have had confirmed cases of Ebola in the region, have not recorded any new cases or deaths in the last few weeks.

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Hong Kong students clash with riot police

HONG KONG, SeptemBer 27 (re uterS): Hong Kong riot police used pepper spray to disperse protesters around government headquarters on Saturday, fuelling tension ahead of a planned sit-in by pro-democracy activists to protest against Beijing’s tightening grip on the city. Clashes through the night between police and demonstrators underscore the challenges China faces in shaping its vision for Hong Kong’s political future as a restive younger generation challenges its influence in the former British colony.

Several people suffered minor injuries. Hundreds of students and demonstrators had forced their way past a police cordon and scaled perimeter fences at government headquarters, close to Hong Kong’s financial district, on Friday in the culmination of a week-long rally to demand free elections in the Asian financial centre.

Several thousand protesters massed on streets outside the headquarters in support of those who had stormed inside, shouting “retreat, retreat, retreat” as police advanced and tried to stop them charging.

Many protesters used umbrellas to shield them from pepper spray, while those who got hit used water to rinse their eyes.

“I paid my highest respect to every soldier who defends till the last moment ... civil disobedience, it continues to happen,” student leader Lester Shum said on his Facebook page. Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997 under a formula known as “one country, two systems”, with a high degree of autonomy and freedoms not enjoyed in mainland China. Universal suffrage was set as an eventual goal.

But Beijing last month rejected demands for people to freely choose the city’s next leader in 2017, prompting threats from activists to shut down the Central financial district in a so-called Occupy Central campaign. China wants to limit elections to

a handful of candidates loyal to Beijing. ader Alex Chow, was among those who had occupied the so-called Civic Square and refused to leave despite police warnings. About 30 protesters remained in sweltering heat on Saturday. Some students dozed in the heat as members of the public shouted supportive messages through the gate. “We are here, you are not alone,” a man in his 40s yelled.

Leaders of the Occupy movement arrived to show their support. They plan a blockade on Oct. 1, a holiday, that organizers hope will escalate into one of most disruptive protests seen for decades. The clashes were the most heated so far in a series of anti-Beijing protests. Police arrested six people, including teenage student leader Joshua Wong, who was dragged away by police, kicking, screaming and bleeding from his arm, after he called on the protesters to charge the government premises.

“Hong Kong’s future belongs to you, you and you,” Wong, a thin 17-year-old with dark-rimmed glasses and bowl-cut hair, told cheering supporters before he was taken away. “I want to tell C.Y. Leung and Xi Jinping that the mission of fighting for universal suffrage does not rest upon the young people, it is everyone’s responsibility,” he shouted, referring to Hong Kong’s and China’s leaders.

“I don’t want the fight for democracy to be passed down to the next generation. This is our responsibility.”

The protest came after more than 1,000 school pupils rallied peacefully to support university students demanding democracy, capping a week-long campaign that has seen classroom strikes and a large cut-out depicting the city’s leader as the devil paraded in public. The government said in a statement it found it regrettable that demonstrators tried to forcibly enter the compound, causing injuries to government officers, security staff and demonstrators.

Volcano erupts in central Japan

tOKYO, SeptemBer 27 (Ap): A volcano in central Japan erupted in spectacular fashion on Saturday, catching mountain climbers by surprise and stranding at least 40 injured people in areas that rescue workers have been unable to reach. Another seven people were missing.

The injured, unable to descend 3,067-meter (10,062-foot) Mount Ontake on their own, are staying in mountain lodges, said Sohei Hanamura, a crisis management official in Nagano prefecture. Thirty-two people had serious injuries, including at least seven who lost consciousness.

Police, fire and military rescue workers were planning to try to reach the area on foot after daybreak Sunday, after deciding that the ash in the air made it too dangerous to use helicopters. Hanamura said seven people were reported missing on the mountain.

Lodge managers are familiar with first aid procedures and were communicating with rescue officials in town, he said. With a sound likened to thunder, the volcano erupted shortly before noon on a clear autumn day, spewing large white plumes of gas and ash high into the sky and blanketing the surrounding area in ash.

Smaller eruptions continued into the night. About 250 people were initially trapped on the slopes, but most had made their way down by Saturday night, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported. Some

were in shelters set up in four nearby towns. One witness told NHK that the eruption started with large booms that sounded like thunder. In a video posted on YouTube, shocked climbers can be seen moving quickly away from the peak as an expanding plume of ash emerges above and then engulfs them. Many of those who made it down emerged with clothes and backpacks covered in ash. They reported being engulfed in total darkness for several minutes.

Mikio Oguro, an NHK journalist who was on the slope on an unrelated assignment, told the station that he saw massive smoke coming out of the crater, blocking sunlight and reducing visibility to zero. “Massive ash suddenly fell and the entire area was totally covered with ash,” he said by phone. He and his crew had to use headlamps to find a lodge. “My colleagues later told me that they thought they might die,” Oguro said.

Two Jetstar flights headed to Tokyo’s Narita International Airport diverted to Kansai International Airport in western Japan as a precaution. Japan’s meteorological agency raised the alert level for Mount Ontake to 3 on a scale of 1 to 5. It warned people to stay away from the mountain, saying ash and other debris could fall up to 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away.

Mount Ontake, about 210 kilometers (130 miles) west of Tokyo, sits on the border of Nagano and Gifu prefectures, on the main Japanese island of Honshu.

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Kvitova beats bouchard FiFA to ban third-party to win Wuhan Open title ownership of players

WUHAN (CHINA), SEPTEMBER 27 (AFP): World number three Petra Kvitova overcame Eugenie Bouchard in straight sets Saturday to win the inaugural $2.4 million WTA Wuhan Open, her third title of the year. The Wimbledon champion was at her ruthless best to defeat the Canadian 6-3, 6-4, a result which confirmed her place in next month's WTA Finals, the season ending finale of the world's top eight women players.

The final of the premierranking tournament was a rematch between the two players who contested the Wimbledon final, and Kvitova reproduced in Wuhan the determination she displayed in London, where she won 6-3, 6-0.

The Czech player broke the world number nine in the second game and maintained her 3-0 lead to clinch the first set. Kvitova then took an early lead in the second set, breaking serve in the first game before Bouchard appeared to hurt her middle finger on her left hand which was bandaged later in the game. The third seed then advanced to 5-2 before Bouchard attempted a comeback. The 20-year-old sixth seed had three break

points against Kvitova in the eighth game, and while her opponent clawed her way back into contention with some powerful serving, Bouchard took the game.

The new poster girl for the WTA then took the next game, but Kvitova's strength at the serve wrapped up the set 6-4.

The victory was Kvitova's third over Bouchard in the three games they have previously played. Kvitova crushed her opponent in 55 minutes at Wimbledon, the shortest final ever at the tournament. Bouchard was also defeated when the pair met in Toronto last year. Victory was sweet for Kvitova, who has enjoyed a return to consistency at Wuhan after a poor run in the North American swing.

She won her second tournament of the year at New Haven, but crashed out of the US Open in the third round to 145th-ranked Serbian qualifier Aleksandra Krunic. Kvitova then lost to Elina Svitolina of Ukraine, her quarter final opponent in Wuhan, in her opening match in Cincinnati.

The victory at the Wuhan Optics Valley Tennis Center also means the lefthander will retain her position as world number three.

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic raises the trophy during the awarding ceremony after winning the match against Eugenie Bouchard of Canada in the final of the Wuhan Open tennis tournament in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei province on Saturday. Kvitova claimed the title with 6-3, 6-4. (AP Photo)

ZURICH, SEPTEMBER 26 (REUTERS): Football's governing body FIFA has agreed to ban the thirdparty ownership (TPO) of players, its president Sepp Blatter said on Friday, seven years after first promising to outlaw the practice.

Blatter said a working group would be set up to implement the ban which would come into effect following "a transitional period". "We took a firm decision that TPO should be banned but it cannot be banned immediately there will be a transitional period," Blatter told a news conference following a meeting of the executive committee.

The World Players Association FIFPro said they were "delighted" with the decision but were still waiting for details of its implementation. Blatter's announcement followed pressure from European soccer's governing body UEFA, which had said it would ban TPO unilaterally if FIFA did not act.

TPO is when the transfer rights of players are wholly or partially owned by the footballer himself

or a company, instead of just the player's club. It is widespread in Brazil and Argentina, and is also present in some European countries such as Portugal, but banned in others including England, France and Poland.

FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke said the working group would decide how long the transitional period would be and would submit a proposal to the next executive committee meeting in December.

"The ban cannot be implemented immediately and we are discussing the number of transfer windows we have to wait for this ban (to come into affect).

"It's a matter of whether we are talking about six transfer windows, meaning three years, or eight, meaning four years, this is what we will be discussing in this working group," he said.

Earlier this month, Sporting Lisbon president Bruno de Carvalho launched an outspoken attack on investor funds who buy players' economic rights, describing them as a “menace” and a “monster” that under-

mine clubs’ finances and football’s integrity.

Blatter previously said in October 2007 that the practice would be banned but FIFA failed to follow up on the promise.

PLATINI CRITICISM UEFA president Michel Platini has been one of the most outspoken critics of TPO. "I have been constantly warning for years that this practice, which is becoming increasingly widespread, is a danger to our sport," he said in March.

"It threatens the integrity of our competitions, damages football's image, poses a long-term threat to clubs' finances and even raises questions about human dignity.

"Increasingly, players are owned by opaque companies based in tax havens and controlled by some unknown agent or investment fund."

FIFPro general-secretary Theo van Seggelen said that TPO was the result of failures in the transfer system. "FIFPro is delighted that after months of intense negotiations...that

FIFA have finally heard our call to ban TPO," said Van Seggelen in a statement.

"Although the agreement is the first step towards achieving our goal, we now await with interest the details of implementation," he added. "While there must be a transitional period for the ban to take effect it must be implemented as soon as possible.

"A ban must also ensure that no similar practice is allowed to appear in any way, shape or form, that all loopholes are closed and that the transition process has to start immediately," he said.

"The damage to football is so great that every day without the prohibition of third party ownership is a day lost...

"It is an urgent priority and we strongly urge FIFA that by the end of the year we need to see very clear measures on how to make the transitional period as short as possible.

"FIFPro reiterates that the emergence of TPO has only been possible because of the fundamental abuse of the player transfer system."

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NSRLM conducts meet on 2nd CRP Round implementation

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): In pursuance to the 2nd CRP Round implementation, NSRLM conducted an intensive 2 days de-briefing meeting at ATI, Kohima on September 15 and 16. The objectives of the de-briefing was specifically aimed at highlighting the implementation outcomes and follow-up initiatives of the 1st CRP Round; focus on the key learning from the 2nd CRP Round; and streamlining strategies for future course of actions in strengthening the ongoing intensive and evolving program thereby bringing substantial change in the lives of the poor and marginalized section of the society. It may be mentioned that, NSRLM is covering 9 Blocks as Resource Blocks across 9 Districts.

During his introductory remarks, Additional Secretary and Mission Director, NSRLM, Motsuthung Lotha appreciated the hard work and dedication of the mission staff. While appreciating, he also encouraged

One of the CRP Team presenting the report during the debriefing

and urged the staff to keep reigniting their sincerity and focus on bringing substantial changes to the rural poor people of the State.

The consolidated MIS Report was presented by State Project ManagerM&E/MIS, Imonenla Imkong Phom, wherein, out of

the total CRP Round target of 865 SHGs in this current FY 14-15, so far 487 SHGS have been formed; 465 SHGs have opened Savings Bank Account, and 9 SHGs have been provided with Bank Credit Linkage.

This was followed by power point presentations from

the 12 CRP Teams of the 9 Resource Blocks.

State Anchor, MoRD/ NMMU, Smita Jacob, on her wrap up speech, applauded the NRLM team Nagaland for successfully implementing and achieving so much shy of one year of the field implementation.

She further acknowledged Nagaland as one of the best performing State in Country. She stressed on the importance of standardized and uniformity in all the Districts in terms of implementation, capacity building and social mobilization.

A review workshop was also organized to standardize and simplify the SHG Book of Records with the objective of enabling SHGs on efficient bookkeeping and monitoring of their activities. This was facilitated jointly by Chief Operating Officer (Programs), NSRLM, M. Rollan Lotha and State CoordinatorNRO, M. Suresh.

The program ended with a vote of thanks from the Joint Director, RD and Addl. Mission Director, Tsalito Sangtam. The two days debriefing meeting was attended by all the NSRLM Staff of the 9 Districts and 9 Blocks; Internal CRPs, External CRPs, PRPs and State Anchors from MoRD/NMMU.

KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): Viswema Catholic Women Association (VCWA) organized a retreat camp for fathers at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Viswema from September 19-21, based on the theme “Year of the Family”. About 70 participants took part to retrospect on their past lives and appraised themselves on the call of Christian living, said a press release from VCWA chairperson Khasule Christina and general secretary Ketsokrole Anna.

Vikepelhou Lucas Meyase (Rtd. Director of School Education (HS), Rev. Fr. Alex Vizo, Parish Priest, SFS Kohima and Rev. Fr. Jerome Veigas, Parish Priest, Mary Help of Christian, Jakhama were the preachers.

Lucas exhorted to relate the specialty of “our” creation among creations, unique purpose of our call and responsible role of men in a true The ADC (Food & Civil Supplies) and EAC Wokha town inspects the PDS system on sugar Christian family. Rev. Fr. Alex was the at NST colony ward No 1 on September 25. (DIPR Photo) speaker in the healing session, and he emphasized on ‘power of the word’.

Many people experienced healing in this session, according to the release. Singspiration group from SFS Church, Kohima (Tabor Ministry) accompanied the speaker and led in the praise and worship.

Meanwhile, Rev. Fr. Jerome, the main celebrant on Sunday Mass, exhorted the participants to play an active role in the church and to strive to build a model parish through their leadership initiatives.

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Father Thomas, an old face in the Diocese family.

Mr. and Miss Josephite, 2014 was the highlight of the day. It had a flurry of activities which ranged from Ethnic Wear, Designer Wear, and Question

JN Aier College Dimapur held its 4th annual spiritual camp from September 22 to 24 at Youth Oasis Centre, Dimapur with the theme ‘Jesus, the only way.’ Alemsunep Jamir, missionary, Repairers of the Breach Ministry was the main speaker and praise and the Release Worship Team led worship. Altogether 150 campers attended the camp.

VCWA organizes retreat for fathers

Alder College Kohima has inaugurated a new complex. Nyielo Liegise cut the ribbon, Rev. Kenilevi Khate, Senior Pastor, Union Baptist Church, Kohima pronounced the dedicating prayer while Kevi Liegise, Chairman, Alder College gave the inaugural speech. The Complex houses classrooms, computer education unit, coaching centre and indoor stadium.

JAKHAMA, SEPTEMBER 27 (MExN): On the fourth day of the ongoing College Week, the St. Joseph’s College (SJC) celebrated its annual “Cultural Day” with performances from the various College Teams competing in Dance, Quartet, Fancy Dress and the crowning of the Mr. and Miss Josephite, 2014.

Officially welcoming the visitation of Rt. Rev. Bishop Thoppil of Kohima Diocese, the Principal of SJC, Rev. Fr. Abraham Lotha commented that, showers of blessings had began shortly after he arrived with his secretary,

Expenditure Observer, T James Singson IRS briefing the EEMC training at DC’s conference hall, Kohima on September 26. (DIPR Photo)

Rounds. Rukuwe Lasushe, a 3rd year B.A student and Khrieletuonuo Mepfhii-o, a 3rd year B.A. student was crowned Mr. and Miss Josephite, 2014.

The Designer Wear Round of the Contest fea-

tured original designs by Achumbo Zeliang, a young and well-known Naga Designer, who commented that his experience at St. Joseph’s was by far one of his best and the contest was choreographed by Vei-

neinem, the reigning Ms. Dimapur.

The winners of the other events of the day were Team Blood Hounds (Dance), Team Oregon (Quartet) and Team Aztecs (Fancy Dress).

In this image, seen are some of the displaced villagers due to Ralan area conflict stranded at Liiphanyan. The larger group of displaced villagers is at surrounding villages and some of them are at Dimapur.

Nagaland Minister for Forest, Environment & Wildlife, Dr. Neikiesalie Kire, visited government forest nursery in Jalukie ‘B’ village on September 22 and also inspected construction works being carried out under forest department in the village. Interacting with villagers, DFO and Range Officers of the department under Peren District, Dr. Kire exhorted the villagers to preserve the forest and also to protect Amur Falcons which visit the State during its migration.

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Purple Fusion Battle of the Bands screening round culminates11 bands “Ho Hey! You came along” video is airing in VH1

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The four bands will meet five other bands from Kohima and two from Mokokchung at the second round. All the eleven bands will slug it out at the second elimination round scheduled on October 14 at ‘The Garden’, Naga Shopping Arcade, Dimapur. Each band performing in the October 14 event will have to impress the judging panel as well as the fans for entry to the final round. Fan-votes plus the judges’ votes will decide the bands place in the competition.

More updates will be made available in the lead up to the second elimination round.

The Video Production is done by TL Entertainment.

Others in the production team include: photographer - James Chakhesang Designers - Among Longkumer, Achunbo Zeliang, Aquinah Pamei, Sekuzo Makeup artist - Imliben Jamir. Gear Partners - CRESCENDO Nagaland.

Make sure to keep an eye out for him on Vh1 Soul! The ““Folk Reminiscence” album is available on iTunes, Spotify, Indihut, Google play and amazon.

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hoobsurat, starring Sonam Kapoor and the Pakistani sensation Fawad Khan, might not have minted Rs 100 crores in a week, but the Shashanka Ghosh directed film has managed to earn a profit, thanks to positive word-of-mouth, says its co-producer. Anil Kapoor and his daughter Rhea had joined hands with Walt Disney Studios to co-produce Khoobsurat, a remake of the 1980 film Khubsoorat starring Rekha. Made at a Rs 12 crore budget, it hit 800 domestic screens on September 19. In India, it has collected Rs 19.10 crore in one week. It also released in 18 international territories like North America, Britain and Pakistan at across nearly 300 screens and minted over $2 million till Thursday.

Amrita Pandey, VP and head marketing and distribution, Studios, Disney India, said in a statement that Khoobsurat has appealed to audiences across all age groups, making it a “great family entertainer”. “In India, the movie saw a great growth trajectory at the box office as collections doubled from Friday to Monday. What is even more special is the response the movie has garnered in the international markets, especially like UK, Pakistan and North America, reiterating the fact that the appeal of a great story is universal,” she said. “A well planned release strategy and the positive word-of-mouth has propelled the movie even more. The casting and the treatment of the movie also had a very global appeal, with Sonam being an international fashion icon and Fawad’s fan following in Pakistan and India, our modern day fairy tale is truly heading towards a happy ending,” she added.

Rajesh Thadani of Multimedia Combines had also told IANS that Khoobsurat is picking up because of strong word-of-mouth.

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Ronaldo on target again as Real down Villarreal Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo, centre, from Portugal celebrates with Karim Benzema, from France, and Marcelo, from Brazil after Ronaldo scored against Villarreal during a Spanish La Liga soccer match at the Madrigal stadium in Villarreal, Spain, on Saturday.(AP Photo)

bArCELONA, SEptEmbEr 27 (AFp): Cristiano Ronaldo continued his hot scoring streak as Real Madrid moved up to fourth in the La Liga table with a hard-fought 2-0 win away to Villarreal.

Real survived an early onslaught from Villarreal and won the game with two goals in eight minutes before the break as Luka Modric drilled home the opener before Ronaldo converted from Karim Benzema's pass to register his eighth goal in a week. A third consecutive league victory moves the European champions to within two points of the leaders with Barcelona hosting Granada today, whilst Sevilla travel to champions Atletico Madrid.

The match started at a high pace with attention from the action on the pitch only momentarily distracted by a banner from a Manchester United fans group begging Ronaldo to return to Old Trafford.

Ronaldo and his teammates had more pressing matters at hand as Villarreal threatened to go in front as Ikechukwu Uche's low effort was well saved by Iker Casillas, whilst Argentine youngster Luciano Vietto sliced wide when well-positioned inside the box.

However, the hosts' proligacy in the final third contrasted with Madrid's killer instinct and Carlo Anclelotti's men went in front when Modric smashed home his first goal of the season from outside the box on 32 minutes. The visitors doubled their advantage five minutes before halftime thanks to a classic counter-attack as James Rodriguez picked out the run of

Chelsea extend lead at top, ManU survive Rooney red

LONdON, SEptEmbEr 27 (AGENCIES): Chelsea maintained their three-point lead at the top of the Premier League after a comfortable 3-0 victory at home to Aston Villa on Saturday.

Chelsea dominated the opening stages and it took them just seven minutes to open the scoring when Willian was set free by Branislav Ivanovic down the right flank. His initial shot was parried by Brad Guzan but the ball fell at the feet of the Brazilian again and he had the presence of mind to square the ball to Oscar, who was left with the simple task of tapping home from a few yards out.

Willian looked lively and sent another shot into the side netting in the 15th minute, but Villa reminded the Stamford Bridge crowd of their threat when Aly Cissokho picked up a loose ball from a corner and hooked an effort narrowly wide of the post.

Costa continued his incredible run of form by netting his eighth league goal of the season when he nodded home from Cesar Azpilicueta's cross to make it 2-0 after an hour. Willian grabbed his second goal of the afternoon and Chelsea's third in mANCHEStEr, SEptEmbEr the 79th minute with a tap 27 (AFp): A Manchester United fan in after Guzan could only group "United Reel" flew a banner over parry another Costa shot Villarreal`s El Madrigal stadium during as the home side continued their formidable start to the their clash with Real Madrid on Saturday season. pleading with Cristiano Ronaldo to return At Old Trafford, the two to the Premier League side. The "Come sides of Wayne Rooney Home Ronaldo - United Reel" banner were on display as the circled the stadium 20 minutes into the Manchester United captain match at the end of a sensational week for scored before being sent off Ronaldo that has seen him linked with a for a reckless challenge. The return to Old Trafford in the English press. goal, though, set United on its way to a 2-1 victory over Benzema and the Frenchman brilliantly West Ham, giving Louis van teed up Ronaldo to slot home his 13th goal Gaal just his second win as in nine games this season.

Villarreal should have at least halved the deficit before half-time as Casillas made a fine double save from Manu Trigueros and Vietto before the offside flag spared Uche's blushes as he fired the rebound over when presented wiith an open goal. And even when the Spanish captain appeared beaten the ball still wouldn't go in for Villarreal as Marcelo produced an incredible block to turn Trigueros's volley over. Madrid managed to contain Villarreal much better in the second period as Marcelino's men ran out of steam. Los Blancos rarely threatened to add to their lead as they reserved their energy ahead of a long trip to Bulgaria where they face Ludogorets Razgrad in the Champions League on Wednesday.

ManU fans fly ‘Come home Ronaldo’ banner

Manchester United's Robin van Persie, centre left, scores against West Ham United during their English Premier League soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England, Saturday September 27. (AP Photo)

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Rooney was red carded just before the hour mark after a rush of blood saw him kick out at Stewart Downing, but Louis van Gaal’s men held out with teenage defender Paddy McNair impressing on his debut for the club alongside Marcos Rojo.

At the KC Stadium, Hull gave Manchester City a fright but ultimately succumbed to a 4-2 defeat.

City looked to have pocketed the points early on as Sergio Aguero and Dzeko both found the net inside 11 minutes, but Hull wrestled their way back into contention with a helping hand from £32million centre-back Eliaquim Mangala. The Frenchman headed a calamitous own-goal past Willy Cabellero and then gave away a penalty with a

reckless high tackle on Abel Hernandez, who then converted the spot-kick.

But Manuel Pellegrini's visiting side regained control after the interval and sealed victory through Dzeko's clinical finish and a trademark strike from the evergreen Lampard.

Elsewhere, Southampton's impressive start continued with a 2-1 victory over Queens Park Rangers to remain three points behind Chelsea in second place, while Sunderland remains winless after drawing 0-0 with Swansea. Cystal Palace scored twice in a fiveminute span to beat Leicester 2-0. Leicester came from two goals down to beat Manchester United 5-3 last weekend but was given a reality check at Selhurst Park, with Fraizer Campbell and Mile Jedinak scoring for Palace.

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LONdON, SEptEmbEr 27 (rEutErS): Phil Jagielka's stoppage-time thunderbolt earned Everton an unlikely 1-1 draw in the 223rd Merseyside derby on Saturday after Steven Gerrard's free kick appeared to have secured Liverpool a welcome victory. With Everton making a desperate late assault on Liverpool's goal, Aiden McGeady's cross was headed clear, only for England defender Jagielka to send a 30-metre volley screaming past keeper Simon Mignolet into the top corner. Liverpool were stunned, and it was Everton's fans who were celebrating at the end despite their side's 15-year winless league run at Anfield continuing.

The home side had enjoyed the better chances and deservedly went ahead after 65 minutes when Gerrard's curling free kick nestled into the corner despite Everton keeper Tim Howard getting a firm hand to the ball. Mario Balotelli should have made it 2-0 moments later but struck the crossbar from close range and Everton punished the hosts' lack of killer instinct to earn a draw that left both sides still languishing in the middle of the table.

Archers, squash players bag historic gold, India in 11th spot

From left, gold medal winners India's team members Sandeep Kumar, Raijat Chauhan and Abhishek Verma celebrate after winning the compound men's team gold medal archery match at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, Saturday, September 27. (AP Photo)

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INCHEON, SEptEmbEr 27 (ptI): The men's squash and archery teams secured historic gold medals as India enjoyed their most productive day in the 17th Asian Games so far with an impressive collection of 10 medals to jump to the 11th position in the overall standings on the eighth day of competitions here today.

Young archer Abhishek Verma was hero of the day as he combined with Rajat Chauhan and Sandeep Kumar to clinch the gold medal in the compound team event before picking up the individual silver medal at the Gyeyang Asiad Archery Field.

Abhishek's heroics was followed by men's squash team led by Saurav Ghosal which claimed the coveted gold medal in the team event while the women's team of Dipika Pallikal, Anaka Alankamony and Joshana Chinappa also excelled by clinching the silver medal.

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India's Saurav Ghosal, left, Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu, 2nd left, Mahesh Mangaonkar, 2nd right, and Kumar Kush, right, pose with their gold medals during the men's team squash award ceremony at the 17th Asian Games Saturday, September 27 in Incheon, South Korea. (AP Photo)

Mary Kom, Sarita and Pooja in quarters

INCHEON, SEptEmbEr 27 (IANS): Indian women boxers made a promising start to their Asian Games campaign with Mary Kom, L. Sarita Devi and Pooja Rani advancing to the quarter-finals of their respective categories at the Seonhak Gymnasium here Saturday.

The 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Mary Kom registered a comprehensive 3-0 victory by a unanimous judges' decision over Yeji Kim of South Korea in the fly weight (48-51kg) round of 16 match. She next plays China's Haijuan Si in the quarter-finals Sunday. Former World Champion Sarita Devi defeated cher Trisha Deb (women's compound individual), grappler Vinesh Phogat (women's 48kg), Geetika Jakhar (women's 63kg) and athlete Lalita Babar (women's 3000m steeplechase), women's compound team -- comprising Trisha, Purvasha Shende and Jyothi Surekha Vennam -- were the bronze medal winners on what turned out to be India's best day at the Games.

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Chungson Ri of North Korea 3-0 also by a unanimous judges' decision in the lightweight (57-60kg) round of 16 contest. She will take on Mongolia's Suvd Erdene Oyungerel in the quarter-final match Sunday.

In the middleweight (69-75kg) round of 16 bout, Pooja won 3-0 against Mongolia's Undram Erdenesoyol again by a unanimous judges decision. She faces Chinese Taipei's Dara Flora Shen Friday in her quarter-final match.

Mary Kom, in blue corner, enjoyed considerable crowd support as they chanted her name. Buoyed by their support, Mary Kom began ag-

more medals, India, overnight placed 16th, rose to the 11th position on the table with three gold, four silver and 20 bronze medals.

China continued to leave their opponents behind with an impressive haul of 195 medals (96-58-41), followed by South Korea (35-42-40) and Japan (3243-38).

India were also assured of at least five bronze medals in tennis event by reaching the semifinals.

gressively against her taller opponent and won the first round easily 10-9.

Round two began in a similar fashion with Mary Kom landing a flurry of punches and pocketed the round 10-9, again by a unanimous decision.

Mary Kom used her vast experience to good effect, mixing roundarm punches with body shots and straight punches to keep her opponent on the back foot. She proved her supremacy in all areas, exhausting her opponent and wrapped up the contest comfortably in the third round. Mary Kom, five-time world champion, is the favourite to win gold in the women's flyweight (48-51kg) category.

While the archers and squash players stole the limelight with their medalwinning heroics, the Indian boxers also moved to the quarterfinals with easy victories over their opponents.

The men's hockey team also kept their medal hopes alive by advancing to the semifinals with a scrappy 2-0 win over China in their last pool B match.

Women grapplers Vinesh and Geetika bagged a

bronze medal each in 48kg and 63kg freestyle events respectively as India made an impressive start in their wrestling campaign.

Glasgow Commonwealth Games gold winner Vinesh needed two minutes 31 seconds to beat Narangerel Erdenesukh of Mongolia in a completely one-sided bronze-medal bout. The referee stopped the bout after the Indian had taken 10-0 lead over her hapless opponent.

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