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CNTC maintains stand Dimapur, SepTember 29 (mexN): The Central Nagaland Tribes Council (CNTC) has reiterated its stand on “disassociation” from the Naga Hoho on “Rongmei recognition as an indigenous tribe of Nagaland.” This was decided during a meeting held on Thursday, September 29, of its “constituent units of three tribal apex bodies.” A press note from the CNTC Media Cell informed that the Council “thoroughly deliberated” on the approach of the Nagaland State Government and the Naga Hoho on forming committees to review the issue. It was resolved that “any issue pertaining to the three tribes in general in regard to the Rongmei tribe recognition will be initiated only under the aegis of the CNTC and not separately.”

NH 29 four laning to begin post Oct 15

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Kohima, SepTember 29 (mexN): Contractors involved in the four-laning of National Highway 29 have informed the Chief Minister of Nagaland State that work on stretches of the Highway will begin after October 15, once the dry season sets in. This was informed in a press release from I Himato Zhimomi, Commissioner & Secretary, Department of Works & Housing, Government of Nagaland. Chief Minister TR Zeliang chaired a coordination meeting with the Departments of PWD (NH), Power Department, Police Department, the Chief Secretary, DGP, the GM, National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) and the contractors for the fourlaning of NH 29 on Thursday, September 29. During the meeting, the Chief Minister directed the Department of Power to “immediately begin” the process of shifting of the power utilities in the areas affected by the four lane project, informed Zhimomi in the press release.

Since the contractors have informed that the work will begin after October 15, public in Nagaland State have been requested to “extend their cooperation and to bear with the inconveniences that would result from the construction works.” The Chief Minister has also asked departments concerned to work out “alternative stretches for inter and intra state traffic wherever possible.” The contractors are also said to have informed that they were given three years time to complete the project but the CM requested the works to be completed earlier, stated the press release from Zhimomi. Other issues such as security arrangements, cooperation of the local communities, and work related issues were discussed during the meeting, it stated, adding that regular meetings chaired by the CM would be held henceforth in order to “closely monitor” the four-laning of NH 29.

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india conducts ‘surgical senapati town erupts in protest NSCN-IM ‘officials’ arrested by Assam Rifles; Released strikes’ across the loc

NeW DeLhi/iSLamabaD, SepTember 29 (reuTerS): India said on Thursday it had conducted “surgical strikes” on suspected militants preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-ruled Kashmir, making its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan.

Pakistan said two of its soldiers had been killed in exchanges of fire and in repulsing an Indian “raid”, but denied India had made any targeted strikes across the de facto frontier that runs through the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir.

The cross-border action inflicted significant casualties, the Indian army’s head of operations told reporters in New Delhi, while a senior government official said Indian soldiers had crossed the border to target militant camps.

The announcement followed through on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s warning that those India held responsible “would not go unpunished” for a Sept. 18 attack on an Indian army base at Uri, near the Line of Control, that killed 18 soldiers.

Lt General Ranbir Singh, the Indian army’s director general of military operations (DGMO), said the strikes were launched on Wednesday based on “very specific and credible information that some terrorist units had positioned themselves ... with an aim to carry out infiltration and terrorist strikes”. Singh said he had called his Pakistani counterpart to inform him of the operation, which had ended. India later briefed opposition parties and foreign ambassadors in New Delhi but stopped short of disclosing operational details.

Pakistan’s military spokesman slammed the Indian account as “totally baseless and completely a lie”, saying the

We have captured one Indian soldier, killed eight: Pakistan

iSLamabaD, SepTember 29 (iaNS): The Pakistan military on Thursday said it had captured an Indian soldier and killed eight others, Dawn quoted security sources as saying.

The soldier was identified as Chandu Babulal Chohan, 22, from Maharashtra. Dawn said he had been shifted to an undisclosed location. The soldier was caught after the Indian military fired across the Line of Control (LoC), it said. Dawn said the bodies of the dead Indian soldiers lay unattended at the Line of Control (LoC), which divides Jammu and Kashmir between India and Pakistan. contact between DGMOs only included communication regarding cross-border firing, which was within existing rules of engagement.

“We deny it. There is no such thing on the ground. There is just the incident of the firing last night, which we responded to,” Lt General Asim Bajwa told news channel Geo TV. “We have fired in accordance with the rules of engagement[...] We are acting in a responsible way.”

Pakistan said nine of its soldiers had also been wounded. Neither side’s account could be independently verified.

India’s disclosure of such strikes was unprecedented, said Ajai Sahni of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi, and sent a message not only to his own people but to the international community. “India expects global support to launch more focused action against Pakistan,” Sahni told Reuters.

“There was tremendous pressure on the Indian prime minister to prove that he is ready to take serious action.”

NO MORE STRATEGIC RESTRAINT The border clash also comes at a delicate time for Pakistan, with powerful Army Chief of Staff General Raheel Sharif due to retire shortly and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif still to decide on a successor.

The Pakistani premier condemned what he called India’s “unprovoked and naked aggression” and called a cabinet meeting on Friday to discuss further steps.

India announced its retaliation at a news conference in New Delhi that was hurriedly called, only to be delayed, as Modi chaired a meeting of his cabinet committee on security to be briefed on the operation.

“The prime minister is clear that this is exactly what we should have done,” a senior government official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. “Informing the world about the surgical strike was important today.”

SIX-HOUR EXCHANGE Exchanges of fire took place in the Bhimber, Hot Spring, Kel and Lipa sectors in Pakistanadministered Kashmir, and lasted about six hours, the Pakistani military said earlier.

An Indian army officer in Kashmir said there had been shelling from the Pakistani side of the border into the Nowgam district, near the Line of Control, and the exchange of fire continued during the day. There were no casualties or damage reported on the Indian side of the frontier. An Indian military source told Reuters that the operation was carried out on the Pakistani side of the Line of Control where there were between five and seven infiltration “launchpads”.

Assam Rifles officials with agitated protestors in Senapati Town, Manipur, on September 29. (NNN Photo)

Seen here are barricades put up by the protesting public in Senapati Town, blocking the Imphal-Dimapur road. The road block was later lifted. (NNN Photo)

Newmai News Network Senapati | September 29

All activities came to a grinding halt as people came out in protest in Senapati town since Wednesday night. Three NSCN-IM “officials” were arrested by the Assam Rifles on Wednesday, September 28, accused with indulging in “nefarious activities” along the Asian Highway-2.

Senapati town erupted in protest against the arrest of the three NSCN-IM “officials” identified as Captain PK Akas (41), a resident of Kaibi village under Tadubi police station, Senapati district, Lt Ashang Kashung (41), a resident of Kachai village under Somdal police station, Ukhrul district and Cpl N Elvis Kayina (26), a resident of Makhre-

lui village under Senapati police station. The people were demanding the release of the three NSCNIM “officials” immediately.

The people came out in large numbers and attempted to gherao the 35 Assam Rifles post, the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Senapati and the police station in the headquarters.

All kinds of transport, both goods and passenger, were halted along the AH-2 as protestors blocked the road.

Meanwhile, in a press release, the Press Information Bureau (PIB), Defence Wing claimed that troops of Maram Battalion under Senapati Brigade apprehended three high ranking “active cadres” of NSCN (IM) in an operation carried out on September 28 along

“Asian Highway-2 between Senapati and Henbung.”

According to PIB, Defence Wing, based on specific input regarding presence of “active cadres” of NSCN (IM) on AH-2, operation was launched by troops of Maram Battalion that resulted in apprehension of three “active cadres” of NSCN (IM) along with one 9mm pistol, three live rounds and Rs 10,000 in cash.

The PIB, Defence Wing, said that “spot questioning” of the individuals revealed that they were carrying out “extortion” on AH-2 from trucks plying on the highway and were involved in various “nefarious activities” on behalf of the organization. The apprehended cadres were handed over to Imphal West police station at Lamphel along with recoveries for further investigation, it stated.

“Certain socio-political organizations of Senapati district agitated against the arrest and blocked the NH-2 during the night demanding unconditional release of the apprehended cadres. It was conveyed to the organizations that armed cadres of any organization carrying out extortion are a threat to the peace and security of the region and all socio-political organizations must support the endeavour of the security forces in apprehending such cadres.”

Discussions between the socio-political organizations, security forces and the State Police had ensued to resolve the matter at the earliest.

NSCN-IM ‘officials’ released The three NSCN-IM “officials” have been released late Thursday evening from the custody of Imphal West police station. They reportedly appeared before the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) of Kangpokpi in-charge of Senapati as the CJM Senapati is on leave.

Meanwhile, the protest in Senapati has also been halted on learning about the development.

The bandh and blockades have also been lifted.

State Govt ‘shying away’ from responsibility : NTC Congress eyes election to ULBs in Nagaland State

Kohima, SepTember 29 (mexN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) has stated today that the “indigenous tribe” recognition issue in Nagaland State today is the “most contentious issue” in public domain.

In reference to this, a press release from Theja Therieh, Chairman of the Media Cell of the NTC, noted that the State Government “taking shelter” under the Writ Petition of the Zeliang People’s Organisation (ZPO) amounts to either “shying away from

its official responsibility to address the issue or intending to misguide the general public.”

Explaining the point, the NTC took the position that the petition filed by the ZPO does not challenge notification No. HOME/SCTA6/2007 (PT.I) dated Kohima, August 4, 2012, “that had given recognition to Rongmei as indigenous tribe in Nagaland.”

According to the NTC, ZPO’s Writ Petition “challenged Rongmei’s indigenous inhabitant status” and the

Gauhati High Court gave interim orders “restricting issuing of indigenous certificate to members of Rongmei Community.”

“As a matter of fact, since the ZPO did not challenge the issue of recognition of Rongmei as indigenous tribe of Nagaland, the question of subjudice either to discuss it in public domain or interfering the court procedures does not arise. Rather to retain the recognition or to revoke the order lies in the court of the State Government,” the NTC maintained.

MALT sEALs subDivisioNAL EDucATioN officE

Reopened after agreement to post Head Assistant maNgKoLemba, SepTember 29 (mexN): The Sub Divisional Education Office (SDEO) in Mangkolemba was temporarily sealed for one day on September 28 by the Mangkolemba Ao Lanur Telongjem (MALT) following the Nagaland State Government’s failure to post a Head Assistant (HA) at the office.

The office was sealed as an expression of displeasure against the School Education Department and the State Government for failing to post a Head Assistant (HA) at SDEO establishment in Mangkolemba, stated a press note from Media Cell, MALT. The MALT, on September 24, had resolved to carry out an indefinite sealing of the SDEO office from

Dimapur, SepTember 29 (mexN): The Congress has pinned fresh hopes of resurgence on the elections to the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) that the Government of Nagaland is set to announce soon.

Dr. K Jayakumar, Secretary, All India Congress Committee (in-charge Nagaland) stated in a joint press statement with K Therie, President, Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC), that the said elections will be considered by the Congress party as “an opportunity to consolidate its position.”

“It is time for our leaders and cadres to expose the ineffective Administration in Nagaland. All the civic amenities are at their lowest level and these issues can be addressed only by the elected representatives of the local bodies,” stated Dr. Jayakumar.

Stating that Congress is a “grassroots

level party” in Nagaland, he expressed that it should “get in touch with the people, assess their requirements and accordingly prepare for the elections.” He urged the NPCC to “seriously prepare” and contest elections “at all levels.”

Meanwhile, K Therie, took a similar route and stated that elections to the ULBs will be a “litmus test of clean election that has failed in the past.”

Making an offer of “God-fearing clean candidates for good governance,” the NPCC stated that it will give separate election manifestoes for each Municipal and Town Council “underlining the future and with assurances to deliver.”

Nagaland needs decent and disciplined ULBs, stated Therie, and urged all Congress “rank and file” to “prepare to fight” the elections to ULBs.

Jung alerts cops on crimes against women, people from NE in Delhi

Members of Mangkolemba Ao Lanur Telongjem (MALT) sealing the office of The Sub Divisional Education Officer, Mangkolemba on September 28.

September 28 until its demand were met by the authorities concerned.

The proposed indefinite sealing, however, was suspended after receiving assurance for posting a HA from the Under Secretary, on behalf of the Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Department of School Education through the ADC

Mangkolemba, it said.

An agreement in this regard was also signed between the MALT, the Addl. Deputy Commissioner (ADC), the Sub Divisional Police Officer and the Mangkolemba Adhoc Town Committee, it added.

While the MALT has decided to call off the agitation till October 15, the

body said that it will resume the agitation with “more vigor” if the State Government fails to carry out its assurance.

Earlier on July 4, the MALT had picketed the same office and through the ADC, Mangkolemba submitted an ultimatum to the Chief Secretary to post a HA latest by July 18.

NeW DeLhi, SepTember 29 (iaNS): Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung on Thursday directed Delhi Police to adopt zero-tolerance policy for crimes against women, an official spokesman said.

Jung also cautioned them to be careful of any targeted crime against people from the northeastern states, particularly girls and women, said a statement from Raj Niwas after Jung headed a meeting there to review crime and law and order situation in Delhi. He said individual responsibility of officers, including

SHOs of their respective areas, should be fixed if any crime took place against people from the North-East region residing in Delhi.

Jung instructed police to intensify patrolling, particularly in areas more vulnerable to crimes against women. The Lt Governor also expressed concern over the growing incidents of motor vehicle thefts and snatching.

He directed all ranges and districts to work concertedly towards bringing crime down “through greater intelligence gathering and by being extra vigilant”.

The meeting was attended by the Commissioner of Police, Special Commissioners of Police (Law & Order), Joint Commissioners of Police of all ranges and the Deputy Commissioners of Police (DCPs) of all districts.

Jung told the DCPs to ensure that the conduct of SHOs and their subordinate staff, especially while dealing with the public, was of the highest standards.

He also advised the police personnel on duty to demonstrate sensitivity towards people and their issues.

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Nagaland Land Resources officials interact with MBDA Global Leadership

Deliberates on conceptualisation planning and implementation of springshed development in Meghalaya Morung Express News Shillong | September 29

Department of Land Resources officials led by its Secretary, Y. Kikheto Sema IAS and Joint Director, Albert Ngullie on Wednesday afternoon held a meeting with officials of Meghalaya Basin Development Authority (MBDA) at Shillong.

The meeting deliberated on conceptualisation planning and implementation of springshed development in Meghalaya. Nodal Officer, Climate Change, Soil and Water Conservation Department, Meghalaya, L. Shabong presented power point presentation on ‘Rejuvenation and Climate Proofing of Springsheds for Livelihood, Water and Food Security in Meghalaya’ and enlight-

Land Resources Department officials visiting springshed development project at Khlieshnong, Sohra in Meghalaya on Thursday. (Morung Photo)

ened the visiting officials on the activities of springshed development.

Kikheto also interacted with the Meghalaya officials on various activities under springshed programme including livelihood and plantation activities. The Meghalaya officials were also forthcoming in providing their

technical know-how and shared their experiences.

The Assistant Resident Commissioner, Nagaland House, Shillong, Pakom Phom also accompanied the visiting Nagaland officials to springshed development projects and actively participated in the interactions.

On Thursday, the Naga-

Family Planning Association of India calls on Governor

FPAI delegates from Delhi and Mumbai with the Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya at Raj Bhavan during the meeting on September 29. (DIPR Photo)

Kohima, September 29 (Dipr): Family Planning Association of India (FPAI) delegates from Delhi and Mumbai, who were visiting Nagaland BranchKohima as a part of future investment possibilities for branch and expansion of work area, called on Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya at Raj Bhavan on September 29. The delegates were led

by Regional Director South Asia Regional Office, International Planned Parenthood Federation, and London, Anjali Sen.

During the meeting the Director apprised the Governor about the works and programmes of PFA India in Nagaland besides looking at ways and means to expand the work to needy areas of the state. PFA India mission is to strengthen a voluntary and non- government commitment to promote sexual and reproductive health rights including family planning. It supports rights of individuals to reproductive choices, including legal and safe abortion, works towards reducing the spread

and the impact of STIs/HIV/ AIDS and increasing access to gender sensitive SRH information, education and services to all, especially the young and marginalized and eliminating violence, discrimination and abuse.

Anjali Sen was accompanied by President FPA India Umesh Aradhya, Director Adolescents FPA Amita Dhanu along with Local branch President & colleagues James Liezietsu, Helena Yepthomi, Moanungla Kevichusa and Vincent Belho.

Health camp at Samaguri Village Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): In commemoration of World Heart Day, Dimapur district NCD Clinic, Dimapur District Hospital organised a health camp at Samaguri Village on September 29 under the theme ‘Power your Life.’ During the health camp, the beneficiaries were screened for BP, diabetes, and BMI which are the main causes for cardiovascular or heart disease.

It was informed in a press release that a good number of beneficiaries turned up to availed the services. They were also counseled about healthy lifestyle habits. IEC materials and free medicines were also distributed. The camp was organised with the aim to benefit the villagers who are not readily accessible to basic health check-up like BP and Blood sugar testing.

The team was led by Dr. Temsusashi, Senior Specialist cum Nodal Officer NCD Clinic DH Dimapur along with Dr. L. Chem, M.O Chumukedima PHC and staff under Samaguri Sub-Center and NCD Clinic.

The camp was sponsored by NHM, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Kohima and supported by the Village Health Committee, Samaguri and Samaguri Village Council.

land officials were taken to Nursery of Fruit and Forest Trees Species near Shillong Peak where various indigenous tree species are being raised for planting at springshed project areas.

Later, in the afternoon, the officials were taken to Khlieshnong, Sohra, one of the project sites for springshed development. Elders

of Khlieshnong and officials explained on how they constructed series of recharge/ percolation pits and check dams for harvesting runoff water. It was observed that indigenous tree species have been planted and growing well on a rocky barren land where the pits have been fully silted with top soil which would not have been possible without such intervention.

Nagaland officials also visited Tyrna village where multiple plantation including coffee and wild pepper were grown.

Officials of Land Resources, Government of Nagaland gained wide knowledge during the field visit to different places and expressed gratitude to the officials of Meghalaya Government including Director Administration and Finance, MBDA, Aiban Sweer; Nodal Officer, Climate Change, Soil and Water Conservation Department, Meghalaya, Lam Shabong; Range Officer, Cherrapunjee, SWC Department, Lam Sohlang and the various villager elders for enlightening them on various activities.

Joint meet resolves on work-charged regularization and fresh appointment Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): The All Nagaland Mechanical Field Staff Association (ANMFSA) and the Department Senior Engineer held a joint meeting in the Chief Engineer office conference hall, Kohima on September 27 and discussed the issue of work-charged regularization and fresh appointment in the department.

It was resolved that out of the eleven existing vacancy nine vacancy will be utilized for regularization of work-charged employees and two will be proposed for fresh appointment. The meeting resolved that the All Nagaland Mechanical Field Staff Association shall not henceforth; further claim the deficit as per 67.33 rules of regularization and fresh appointment with effect from January 1, 2015.

It was also resolved that the department shall abide

by the Office Memorandum issued by P&AR vide No. AR-3/GEN-201/2009 dated 17th March, 2015 (67.33%) for regularization of workcharged employees and fresh appointment in the future.

ANMFSA president T Chuba Ao and general secretary I Mar Pongen in a press release stated that the joint meeting was held as per the request of the Association. The meeting was represented from all the divisions and sub-divisions of Mechanical Department of Nagaland. The meeting also discussed the strategy of how to generate the highest revenue amongst the department. ANMFSA also acknowledged Chief Engineer Limatemsu Longkumer and his subordinate Additional Chief Engineer, Superintendent Engineers and office Superintendent for their cooperation to the Association till date.

Summit on Oct 7 and 8

Organising team for the Kohima Global Leadership Summit during a press conference held at UBC Kohima on September 29.

Morung Express News Kohima | September 29

The Global Leadership Summit (GLS), a summit held via video cast worldwide with renowned leaders around the globe as speakers, will be held on October 7 and 8 at Union Baptist Church, Kohima. Running its third year in Kohima, the summit has received positive feedbacks and impacted attendees enabling them to effectively practice in their workplaces.

“Everyone wins when a leader gets better, is what Bill Hybels always says and there is so much of truth in that. So in order to help leaders lead well the GLS aims at leveraging the influence and effectiveness of those who lead others. To accomplish this GLS carefully assemble the faculty of top leadership experts across the variety of backgrounds like church, business, nonprofit, academic and government because of the strong conviction that leaders can learn from anyone,” Rev. Dr. Rachülie Vihienuo, Pastor, UBC during a press conference held at UBC on September 29.

He added that “What sets the Summit apart is the intentionality to engage not just the leader’s mind, but also their heart.

So those who attend GLS don’t just leave having attended a good event but they leave inspired.”

With a desire to help Naga leaders experience world class leadership event here in Kohima, the Union Baptist Church is hosting the two-days GLS summit 2016 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Four sessions will be held each day including special music, food and discussions. The registrations fee details are Rs. 300 (August 1-31), Rs. 350 (September 1-30), Rs. 600 (October 1-8). The GLS Kohima is targeting 350 delegates this year and is open to all people in every profession.

Considered one of the best ways to catalyse mission, vision and strategic initiatives, the GLS will focus on topics such as executing ideas that matters most, virtues that accelerate teamwork, navigating effectively through cultural differences, harnessing the power of emotional intelligence, building cultures that values efficiencies, ingredients of successful turnaround. “Everyone who has attended

Cocoon Mela cum Cocoon grading in Mkg

moKoKchuNg, September 29 (Dipr): Organized by the District sericulture office Mokokchung, a one day Cocoon Mela cum Cocoon Grading awareness programme was held at Youth Hall, Imkongmeren sports Complex, Mokokchung on September 27.

The chief guest of the programme was Addl.

Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung, Bendanglila, while keynote address was given by District sericulture Officer, Mokokchung, Alemkumzuk. Short speech was delivered by Deputy Director, Directorate of sericulture, Mhathung Kikon, which was followed by the inauguration of the Cocoon Mela by the

wants to come back again. It is enormously impactful and life changing,” says Meripeni Zares, who has been a regular attendee of the Summit in Kohima.

“Our people do not have access to good seminars and training resources, so this is the right opportunity,” remarks Pastor Kedo Peseyie.

Some of the renowned speakers are Melinda Gates, Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Allan Mually, President & CEO, The Frod Motor Company (20062014); Jossy Chacko, Foudner & President, Empart Inc, John C. Maxwell, Leadership Expert, Bestselling author and coach.

The summit speakers are from diverse backgrounds, but one thing they all have in common is that they are all innovative leaders who positively impacting the world in a big way, says Rev. Dr. Vihienuo adding that the GLS is an opportunity for leaders and their team in Kohima town to learn incredible insights, get high challenge ideas and fresh perspective on leadership from these leaders who have proved themselves in their own fields.

All the speakers will be presented via video-cast on a giant screen with an objective to provide a realistic experience to the attendees. The Summit is open to all who are willing to sharpen their leadership skills in order to develop people in their organisation, government, business, or church thrive.

The organising team for the Kohima GLS are Pastor Jonathan Mesen, Associate Pastor, Powercomm, UBC as the Producer, Pastor Visato Yhoshü, Associate Pastor, Youth, UBC, as the Marketing Coordinator, Rev. Dr. Rachülie Vihienuo, Pastor, UBC, as the Convenor, Organising Team, Meripeni Zares, Government Employee, Nagaland Civil Secretariat, Member organising team and Pastor Kedo Peseyie, Pastor, City Church, Kohima, Member, Organising team.

GLS was initiated in 1992 by Pastor Bill Hybels, Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, Illinois, USA. It started as a small local affair in 1992 but over the years, it has grown and has today become a global movement impacting more than 2,50,000 leaders in 105 countries around the world.

Cabinet approves Journalist Welfare Fund Redesigned IPR website launched

Eri Cocoon sold by farmers to the Department of Sericulture, Mokokchung during the Cocoon Mela cum Cocoon Grading awareness programme held in Mokokchung on September 27. (DIPR Photo)

chief guest.

Around 120 Eri Cocoon farmers from villages under Mokokchung district participated in the Mela.

Altogether 717 Kg of Eri Cocoon was purchased from the farmers participating in the Mela by the Department at Rs. 500/- per Kg.

Kohima, September 29 (Dipr): Secretary IPR, T Ao, IAS on the sideline of a launching event in Kohima today announced that “the long awaited Journalist Welfare Fund has been approved by the Cabinet.” The Secretary IPR formally launched the redesigned official website of the Department of Information & Public Relations on September 29 at the IPR Citadel Conference Hall, Kohima. Director IPR, Limawati Ao, who chaired the programme, said that IPR was one of the first departments in the state to have a website, however due to some technical issues the website had to be upgraded and redesigned. Stating it a milestone for the Department, Limawati said that the website is comprehensive and will be beneficial for everyone especially for media personnel, not only of the State but outside the State as well. Key modules of the IPR website will include VIP Profile, Photo Video Gallery, Naga News, Notification (Press Release/Announcement/Circulars/etc.), Article Publications, Archives, District/Festivals Profile with GIS Maps Integration, Downloads and Contact Directory. Once can access the IPR website at www.ipr.nagaland.gov.in

Impact assessment of Catchment Area Treatment Plan conducted

Longleng District Health Society celebrated the World Heart Day at District Hospital Longleng on September 29. A short programme was organised which involved block administrative officers, community leaders and all the patients who were admitted in the hospital. Health talk, free screening of blood sugar and blood pressure were carried out by Dr Wannau Phom, Anaesthesia, Dr Meren Phom, Gynaecologist, Dr Pongau Phom, Dental Surgeon and Dr Waulong Phom, Radiologist. IEC materials were also distributed by the health workers for creating awareness and motivating people. The programme was also attended by DPMU staff.

Lumami, September 29 (mexN): An impact assessment of the Catchment Area Treatment (CAT) Plan, Doyang Hydro Electric Project (DHEP), was carried out by the Geography Department of Nagaland University, Lumami on September 27 and 28.

A group of 16 students accompanied by the faculty-in-charge Dr. Wangshimenla Jamir and two field staff assisted by officers and staff of Forest and Soil Departments visited various villages in the Doyang Catchment Area. They visited the plantation areas and soil and moisture conservation works carried out in these villages under Doyang CAT Plan and interacted with the presidents and members of the Village Forest Committees (VFC). They also visited the Doyang Dam area, the internationally acclaimed Amur Falcon

Officers of Forest & Soil Departments and NEEPCO along with the faculty, staff and students of Geography Department, NU, Lumami and the Village Forest Committee presidents.

roosting area at Pangti.

A press release stated that a closing programme of the visit was held at the NEEPCO Guest House with Dr. Ramesh Aima, IFS, Additional PCCF (Territorial) as the chief guest and DS Rai, Head of Project, DHEP, NEEPCO, as the guest of honour. Zuthunglo Patton, IFS, DFO Wokha, chaired the programme and Su-

pongnukshi Ao, IFS, delivered a special introductory note about CAT Plan to the gathering of faculty, staff and students of NU, VFC Presidents and officers and staff of Forest Department.

Khekiho Shohe spoke about the SMC works carried out in the Doyang Catchment Area. Dr. Toiho Sema, Senior Technical Assistant of NU gave a brief re-

port about the visit and activities that they had been involved in over a period of two days as well as some preliminary observations.

On behalf of the VFC Presidents, Jerry Patton of Old Riphyim village appealed to the Government to carry on the good work that CAT Plan had achieved on a pilot basis in just 20 Catchment Area villages and also

to further include the other untreated areas in the next phase. Yanarao Mozhui, Forester-II and Field-incharge, CAT Plan, also spoke about the achievements of CAT Plan thus far and the practical problems involve to be addressed in the next phase.

The chief guest inaugurated the website of Doyang Plantation Division which could be achieved through this CAT Plan for even greater spread of awareness and publicity. Speaking about the degrading forests of our state and the urgency with which we need to increase our green cover, the chief guest expressed that project such as CAT Plan has been instrumental in involving the community towards achieving this goal.

The programme concluded with vote of thanks by Jweni Semp, RFO Doyang.

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CM flags Mizoram to continue peace talks with HPC-D Arunachal off all-women Mt

AizAwl, September 29 (iANS): The Mizoram government would continue to hold peace talks with the Manipurbased terror outfit -- Hmar People's Convention-Democratic (HPC-D) and the second round of the bi-partite talks is scheduled on October 5, an official said here on Thursday. The first round of talks between the government and the HPC-D was held on August 10.

"We would continue to hold talks with the HPC-D. The second round of talks between the state

officials and the representatives of the outfit would be held on October 5 in Aizawl," Mizoram Home Department Additional Secretary Lalbiakzama said.

He said: "We are hopeful that a positive outcome might emerge out of the talks." The official, however, refused to divulge the issues discussed at the first round.

An official of the Mizoram Home Department told IANS that the HPC-D delegation did not include cadres of the extremist outfit but six human rights activists

Disqualification case against five MSCP MLAs quashed Newmai News Network Imphal | September 29

A Tribunal of the Manipur Legislative Assembly Speaker today quashed a petition seeking disqualification of five MLAs of the Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP), who had joined the Indian National Congress (INC).

Former MSCP vice president Adim Panmei, who is the petitioner, challenged the move contending that the five legislators had violated the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution by merging the party with the Congress on April 4, 2014.

Speaker Th. Lokeswar’s Tribunal concluded in its ruling that the case filed against the five MSCP legislators was ‘deemed unmerited.’

The party merged with the Congress along with its five MLAs Paonam Brojen,

Largest fresh water lake in Imphal to be developed imphAl, September 29 (iANS): Union Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change Anil Madhav Dave on Thursday announced that the Centre will develop the Loktak lake, the largest fresh water body in eastern India. Talking to reporters at the conclusion of his two-day official visit to the border state, he said: "As soon as I reach Delhi I shall be in touch with all Ministries which are connected with the project. I will even take the issue to the United Nations." On Thursday, he visited the lake and went to lake islet Pabot Ching to see the proposed developmental works. Manipur's environment Minister Irengbam Hemochandra and senior officials also accompanied the Minister. Later women of the BJP Mandal at Thanga, an islet in the lake, accorded him a warm welcome. During his brief speech, Dave extolled the rich culture and arts of Manipur. He said funds will not be lacking for the overall development of the northeastern states. "People of Manipur are blessed with the largest lake while there is a shortage of water at many places."

Militants abduct nine Assam traders in Meghalaya ShilloNg, September 29 (iANS): Militants of the outlawed Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) on Thursday abducted nine traders in Meghalaya's Garo Hills region, police said. The traders from South Salmara area under Assam's Mancachar district were kidnapped by suspected GNLA militants from Songotagre village, near Chokpot in South Garo Hills, Anand Mishra, the district police of South Garo Hills said. Police said the traders were proceeding towards Silkigre weekly market in South Garo hills in a Mahindra pickup vehicle, when armed militants abducted the traders at gunpoint.

"The search operation is on to rescue the traders," Mishra said. Meghalaya's Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) commandos have been pressed into service to trace the hostages. GNLA has been fighting for a separate Garoland in five impoverished districts of Garo Hills in western Meghalaya.

RK Imo, Nemcha Kipgen, Karam Thamarjit and Janghemlung Panmei. They were elected from their respective constituencies in the last state Assembly polls.

Adim Panmei, however, joined the state BJP last year pending judgment of the case in the Tribunal.

MSCP was set up following a group of ministers and MLAs led by former Chief Minister of Manipur W. Nipamacha breaking away from the Congress. The party was de-recognised by the Election Commission of India in June 2015 following the merger.

The ruling came amidst hectic preparations by major political parties for the upcoming Assembly polls to be held early next year.

All four state Trinamool Congress MLAs joined the INC recently increasing the strength of the ruling Congress to 51 in the 60-member house.

and civilians from Mizoram and Manipur. The negotiations between the state government and the HPC-D reached a standoff in 2013 on the issue of extension of the period of suspension of operations. A six-month ceasefire between the Mizoram government and the militant outfit expired on July 31, 2013.

After the talks broke down previously over suspension of operations against the terror group, a host of leaders of the outfit were arrested.

others seriously wounded.

Mizoram is the first and only state in India which received Rs 182.45 crore from the central government in 2000-01 as "Peace Bonus" for keeping peace after decades of insurgency.

After Mizo National Front's founder leader Laldenga, a former Indian Army official, became Chief Minister in 1986 when his group took to mainstream politics, peace and law and order had returned to the Christian-majority Mizoram.

Rahul gets bail in defamation case in Assam

guwAhAti, September 29 (iANS): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi got bail after he appeared in a court here on Thursday in connection with a defamation case.

The court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Kamrup released Gandhi against a Personal Recognizance (PR) bond of Rs 50,000 and fixed November 5 as next date of hearing for the case.

The case is regarding Gandhi's visit to the Barpeta Satra, a 16th century Vaishnavite monastery, on December 12 last year.

Later, Gandhi addressed the party workers outside the court and said that his fight against the RSS' ideology to divide the country will continue.

"RSS wants to divide the country and my fight is against them. I am not scared and my fight against poverty, unemployment and underdevelopment

NEFIS oppose DU decision to make Hindi compulsory

DimApur, September 28 (mexN): NorthEast Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) today condemned the compulsory imposition of Hindi in Delhi University as “another disgraceful attempt to discriminate against” students coming from different parts of the country.

Terming the move as “shocking,” a press release issued by NEFIS convenor, Chinglen Khumukcham stated that the University did it without issuing any notification after years of unsuccessfully attempting to impose Hindi as a mandatory subject in the DU syllabus.

According to NEFIS, imposition of Hindi would cause immense hardships to students belonging to nonHindi speaking communities while it maintained that it amounts to “nothing less than cultural chauvinism” by the university administration directed particularly against students from the North-East as most of them are not adept in the language. Not only is the move a gross neglect of the special needs of the “students of

The Manipur based militant outfit of the Hmar tribals has been triggering intermittent violent activities in Mizoram since 1994 demanding a separate autonomous district council under the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution by carving out areas adjoining southern Manipur, northern Mizoram and southern Assam. On March 28, 2015, the HPC-D guerillas attcked a legislator's convoy near Zokhawthlang village in north Mizoram, leaving three policemen dead and six

the North-East,” it would be of serious disadvantage to the NE students, the NEFIS maintained.

It further alleged that the interests of the students from the North-East are always neglected while framing university polices and “it is not a new thing.”

In this connection, NEFIS said that it will launch an agitation against the discriminatory policy along with the rest of North-East students.

NEFIS further said that a similar attempt to impose Hindi/Modern Indian Languages (MIL) on DU students in 2013 was withdrawn by DU following a campaign by NEFIS.

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The residential plot of land at Lerie, Kohima along NH-39 (KohimaImphal Road) measuring 1743 sq.ft. with following boundary description belongs to Mhiehu Kire, of D’ Khel, Kohima Village.

Boundary description: North Industries Deptt. Quarter South NH-39 East D. Zeliang Plot West Industries Deptt. Quarter This Plot of Land was allotted to Mhiehu Kire by Govt. of Nagaland vide: a. Land allotment registration No. 187. b. Govt. Allotment Order No. LR/ALLOT-K/3-9/93 dated 06-05-2003. c. Deputy Commissioner, Kohima Order No. REV/ ALLOT-A/1/2000 dated 07-06-2003.

This plot of land has been under the occupation of Mhiehu Kire, since 2003, with a house still standing on the land.

Any person who buys or sells this plot of land shall be doing so at their own risk.

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will continue," Gandhi said after appearing at the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Kamrup.

A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) volunteer had filed a defamation suit against Gandhi last year and the court of the CJM

after examining various witnesses asked Gandhi to appear before the court on September 29.

"Gandhi sought relief under the PR Bond. The court with permission from the petitioner released him against a PR bond," said the

District Education Officer, Dimapur Inform

As a part to create awareness amongst all stake-holders responsible for U-DISE at School, NUEPA has requested all STATE TO OBSERVE 30th September 2016 as U-DISE DAY Therefore, it is informed to all the schools under Dimapur District (Govt., Private & Central Schools) to attend U-DISE Day organized by District Mission AuthoritySSA, Dimapur on 30th September 2016, 10:00 AM at IMC Hall Dimapur.

All Head of the institution along with One Teacher for Govt. Schools and Principal/ Representatives for Private & Central Schools are hereby informed to attend the same.

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I, Mr. ZAPOVI RHETSO S/o LT. SOSE, R/o Keleilwa Village PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist. Nagaland hereby declare that the names Zapovi and Zapovi Rhetso is of same person. I hereby declare that my correct name is Zapovi Rhetso and shall be used for all official purposes in the future.

I, Mrs. Kepalungle D/o Shri. Hiazinchuheing of JALUKIELO Village PO & PS Jalukie, Peren Dist.

Nagaland hereby declare that the names Kepalungle and Pangle is of same person. I hereby declare that my correct name is KEPALUNGLE and shall be used for all official purposes in the future.

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Date: 1st October 2016 Venue: Baptist High Auditorium

Speakers : 1. Shri. Kepelhoutuo Chüsi

Headmaster, RGHSS Kohima 2. Shri. Vilelie Khamo Super Class 1 Contractor, Nagaland st Time: 10:00 am 1 session Chairperson : Mr. Kedoroko Casavi Invocation : Rev. Pastor Visakuolie Chüsi Special Number 1 : Mezo-D Group i/c Neiphingulie Viya Speech : Shri. Kepelhoutuo Chüsi Topic : “Career Motivation” Special Number 2 : Mezo-Kohi i/c T. Husie Lhousa TEA BREAk Time: 11:30 am 2nd session Chairperson : Rev. Vicavor Krose Greeting : Mr. Meyapie Kehie President, MMK Folk Song : Mezo-Khe i/c Kevicalie Kehie Speech : Shri. Vilelie Khamo Topic : “Entrepreneurship” Special Number : Mezo-Medziphe-Kuda i/c Miatho-u Krose Vote of thanks : Er. Neisievilie Lhousa LUNCh Time: 2:00 am 3rd session Chairperson : Mr. Khrielievi Chüsi Presentation of Reports : Audit Committee Discussion hour : Induction of New Office Bearers for the tenure 20162019 : Nomination Committee

petitioner's advocate Bijan Mahajan while talking to media outside the court.

"They (Bharatiya Janata Party) want to disturb my 30-day trip to Uttar Pradesh for the farmers. That is the reason such cases are filed against me," Gandhi said, adding that his fight will continue. He was supposed to enter the Satra in December before taking part in a road show, organised nearby, but did not do so.

Later in New Delhi, he told media persons that some RSS workers prevented him from entering the Satra. He also alleged that the RSS has incited the local women to prevent him from entering the Satra.

The volunteer filed the defamation suit, not only denying the role of the RSS into the incident but also alleging that Gandhi's statement to media in New Delhi had tarnished the image of Satra.

Gorichen expedition itANAgAr, September 29 (pti) Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu today flagged off an all-women Mt Gorichen expedition here.

This will be the first all women team attempting to summit the second highest peak of the state, which is considered as a technical peak and only seasoned climbers can make it to the top (6,488 m).

Anshu Jansempa, who climbed Mt Everest twice, will lead the team of ten members from states like Jammu and Kashmir (Ladakh), Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh with four support staff, an official release said.

Appreciating the women expedition team for taking up the challenge, Khandu prayed for their safety and successful summit.

"On behalf of the state government and as the local legislator of the area, I assure all cooperation and support to the expedition," he said.

Interacting with the team members, the Chief Minister said their expedition will open up more such ventures in other areas of the state, besides promoting adventure tourism.

"With team leader Anshu and member Tene Mena, an Everester herself, I am sure your expedition will be a successful one.

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Dated: 29/09/2016

I, KAWOLI AYEMI D/o Hotovi Ayemi R/o Duncan Bosti, Dimapur: Nagaland hereby declare that my original B.A Part-III(Three Year Honours) Examination 2010 Marksheet bearing Roll: 2033-51-0051 having Regd. No. 00306 of 2007-2008 of University of Calcutta, have been lost by me while travelling on 26/09/16. Therefore, this declaration is solemnly sworn to declare the lost of the aforesaid original B.A Part-III(Three Year Honours) Examination 2010 and to obtain the same from the concerned Board/university.

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I, IMDONGTANGBALONGKUMER S/o Kilangmeren Longkumer R/o Duncan Bosti, Dimapur: Nagaland hereby declare that my original Cl-XII(Arts) Marksheet bearing Roll: 0480, No. 10005 having Regd. No. 12-A151501 of 2007-2008 of Assam Hr. Sec. Educational Council: Guwahati-21 have been lost by me while travelling on 26/09/16. Therefore, this declaration is solemnly sworn to declare the lost of the aforesaid original Cl-XII(Arts) Marksheet and to obtain the same from the concerned Board/university.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

DIRECTORATE OF HORTICULTURE NAGALAND: KOHIMA

ADVERTISEMENT No. HR/Gen-1/INTRV/2013-14/ Dated Kohima the September, 2016

Applications are invited from eligible Local/ Indigenous Candidates for filling up of 5 (Five) posts of Horticulture Extension Assistant (HEA) under the Department of Horticulture, Nagaland in the manner prescribed below: 1. Educational Qualification: Graduate in B.Sc Horti/Agri. from any recognized University 2. Scale of pay: 5200-20200 with Grade Pay 2000/- P.M. 3. Age limit: Minimum 21 years and Maximum 35 years as on 20th October 2016.

4. Reservation of vacancies: Reservation policy issued by the Government from time to time shall be applied for Backward Tribes 5. Applications should be enclosed with all the Attested copies of Age Proof Certificate/ Indigenous certificate/ Unemployment Certificate/ Educational Qualification Certificate from HSLC onwards in support of candidature addressed to the Director of Horticulture, Nagaland, Kohima.

6. Candidates are required to bring all Educational Certificates in original at the time of interview for scrutiny.

7. Incomplete documents including unsigned applications if any and application received after closing date shall be rejected.

8. Last date for submission of applications is 20th October 2016.

Sd/- (WATIENLA JAMIR) Director of Horticulture, Nagaland: Kohima Issued by: DIPR

On behalf of the people of the state, I wish you all the best," Khandu said.

Giving a brief about the expedition being jointly sponsored by state department of Sports and Youth Affairs and Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF), Anshu said the main objective of the all-women expedition is to promote women empowerment besides, promoting adventure tourism in the state.

"We expect to make the summit by the last week of October," she said.

Anshu and her team also wished luck to the team of ITBP and IMF which is on its way to summit the states highest and most difficult peak Mt Kangto (7,042 m).

Khandu had flagged off the Mt Kangto expedition on September 25, the release added. PTI UPL DKB

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Price Monitoring Committee notify rates for Kohima Kohima, September 29 (Dipr): The Kohima District Level Price Monitoring Committee has notified the following rates as mentioned against each for implementation in the District of Kohima vide this office notification of even No. dated 15/07/2016 while inviting for objections to be raised within a period of one month. Since no objections have been received till date, the Office of Deputy Commissioner Kohima is hereby notified that henceforth the following rates shall come in to effect from the date of issue of this notification.

The notification was issued in pursuance of Government notification vide No.SPLY-8/4/98 dated 01/07/2008 and in view of the effect of cost of various items on the price of essential commodities. The notification further stated that the rates notified will be revised every three months.

ATMA Dimapur conduct training and demo at Toshiho village

Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): ATMA Dimapur Niuland Block conducted training and demonstrations at Toshiho village on September 28. Resource person Sentibenla, ATM, Niuland Block spoke on ‘organic farming’ and said that basic organic farming comprises of five categories i.e. green manures, crop rotation organic manures, biopesticides and biofertilizers. It improves the soil physical and chemical properties and the quality of plant products are better and more aromatic.

Imlitemsu, Supervisor, MushMaximun Labour/Wages and Carriage rates for the room Development Centre, State District of Kohima Horticulture Nursery demonstrated I. Labour rates for Loading and unloading: on ‘Oyster Mushroom Cultivation.’

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ATMA officials demonstrating on use of tricho cards in paddy fields at Toshiho village.

cus were mostly used in the paddy field. Tricho-cards have pasted onto them eggs of a surrogate host infested with Trichogramma larvae, which release pests that tackle other pests like leaf roller worms or stem borer worms, which are common threats in paddy fields. The pests that emerge from the eggs on the card, after doing their job, either move on or die

without enough food, thus creating no further threat for the crop. Each tricho card contains about 20,000 parasitized eggs and requires around three to five cards in one hectare.

The programme was chaired by Demalu Hasnusa, BTM, Niuland block and 150 trichocards and mushroom spawns were distributed to the farmers and SHG members.

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moKoKchuNg, September 29 (Dipr): Cadets of 25 Nagaland (I) Coy NCC held cleanliness drives in all the District Hospitals in Mokokchung, Tuensang, Zunheboto, Mon, and Longleng on September 25. Lt. Col V. Srinivas, Officer Commanding, 25 Nagaland (I) Coy NCC said cleanliness drive was undertaken in all the District Hospitals in five districts as part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. In Mokokchung, more than 100 cadets from four schools and Fazl Ali College participated in the cleanliness drive. The cadets from Army Wing, Air Wing and Girls Cadets carried out the cleanliness drive in and around the hospital under the supervision of the Commanding Officer and the hospital authority.

Tohanba graces ENSU Shillong Freshers’ Social Meet Kohima, September 29 (mexN): Parliamentary Secretary for Municipal Affairs and Economics & Statistics, R Tohanba graced the 13th Freshers’ Social Meet of the Eastern Nagaland Students’ Union Shillong at Naga Community Hall, Nagaland House, Shillong on September 26.

Appreciating that the ENSUS has been doing notable job since its inception, he stressed on the need for the union to maintain “Progress in Unity” and also protect and preserve the integrity of Eastern Nagas in particular and Nagas in general.

Tohanba further as-

serted that to be a successful person in the future one must work hard. In this modern generation, he stated, students have a great responsibility and vital role to play in building the human resources and progress of the nation. He said students must be aware of such responsibilities and

strive hard to be one among the nation builders.

The Parliamentary Secretary further noted that the most important feature of students’ life is discipline. “It is only when we have proper discipline we will be able to manage our time and it refers to how honest we are,” he added.

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ATMA Jakhama conduct demo for FIG and Farmer Friend JaKhma, September 29 (mexN): ATMA Jakhama block conducted demonstration on seed bed preparation for Cole crops and line sowing of green pea at Phesama Village on September 28. The participants were members of Farmers Interested Group (FIG) and Farmer Friend from the respective village.

A press release stated that hand on demonstration on detailed procedure from seed bed preparation till sowing followed by mulching methods were shown to the participants at a garden belonging to the group. Also land preparation and line sowing of green pea was demonstrated. All the members actively participated and learnt new ideas on how a nursery bed should be raised and on controlling weeds through mulching methods which also retains soil moisture content required for seed germination. The Resource person, Vimenuo Mere BTM also spoke on disease control measures for the above crops where use of pest resistant varieties, row covering, crop rotation and removal of infected plants by burning can protect the various infections were taught.

All together 10 members of FIG, Farmer Friend and thee ATMA functionaries attended the programme.

Kohima, September 29 (Dipr): The Celebration of U-DISE Day cum Sensitization on Implementation of Student Data Collection In-sync with U-DISE 2016-17 will be held on September 30 at Ura Academy Hall, Kohima at 10:30 AM where Deputy Commissioner & Chairman DMA, SSA Kohima, RovilatuoMor, IAS will address the gathering. The programme is being organized by the District Mission Authority, SSA Kohima. Asst. District Co-ordinator DMa, SSA Kohima, Thongsenlo will be the chairman and keynote address will be delivered by Deputy District Education Officer i/c District Project Coordinator, DMA, SSA Kohima, Nagaland, Neizetuonuo.

The resource persons for the programme will be Statistical Officer DSE Nagaland, Kohima, Tsupithong; SMA, SSA Official; RMSA Official and Asstt. Programmer DMA, SSA Kohima, Aseno. Short Speeches will also be delivered by SDEO Kohima, SDEO Chiephobozou, SDEO Tseminyu and words of gratitude will be given by District Data Entry Operator DMA, SSA Kohima, Kevisevolie Kevin Solo which would be followed by distribution of student profile format & TA/DA Disbursement.

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Fuel adulteration: Ban Dimapur to observe Swachh Bharat on Oct 1 supports call for CBI probe

Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): Business Association of Nagas (BAN) on Thursday extended its full support to the proposed call for bandh on the National Highway if a CBI inquiry is not instituted within 15 days to probe the fuel adulteration case.

A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry is crucial to unearth the “entire truth and rackets” and it is a collective call and desire of the Naga People, BAN stated in a press note from its Media Cell.

The State Government

should immediately accept the demand made by Committee as “no power is powerful than the voice of the common people,” it said.

The Coordination Committee on Fuel Adulteration, formed by various frontal organisations during a public meeting on September 10, had given a 15 days ultimatum to the Government of Nagaland to bring in CBI to thoroughly probe the fuel adulteration racket busted on June 27.

The Committee said it would enforce a National Highway bandh if the state

government fails to constitute the probe within 15 days effective from September 23 to October 8.

BAN further appealed all public and likeminded NGOs to support and be prepared to bear the challenges in the quest for “Good Governance and fight against corruption.”

Meanwhile, BAN expressed its “utter disappointment” that the State Government was “turning blind eye to such open corruption” as no tangible result have been seen even after 3 months.

“Corruption without remorse is the pinnacle of any corrupted system, and reminds that the boldness and level of corruption in Nagaland can shame autocracy,” it maintained.

BAN further cautioned the state politicians to refrain from patronizing few “non local” against entire Nagas public for their selfish interest as in the case of fuel adulteration.

It also lauded the efforts of ACAUT Nagaland for busting fuel adulteration depot which could lead to “far reaching positive result.”

FPAI and IPPF officials visit Nagaland

Kohima, September 29 (mexN): The Family Planning Association of India (FPAI), Nagaland Branch held a press conference on September 29 at its Clinic, Daklane with H.R. Umesh Aradhya, National President of FPAI, Amita Dhanu, Director (Adolescents), and Anjali Sen, Regional Director, South Asian Region, International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), India who are currently on an official visit to Nagaland.

FPAI National President Aradhya gave a brief introduction of the history of FPAI which was initiated by a few women activists with a vision for population control. Aradhya also mentioned that FPAI is a voluntary organization with more than 10,000 volunteers and

800 staff members.

Meanwhile Amita Dhanu highlighted the activities of FPAI which goes much beyond family planning such as advocating and providing awareness for women empowerment, gender equality, and youth by giving livelihood skills, with a special focus on the poorest of the poor. Their activities also targets and involves men in health issues, and provide health services for women and children.

The FPAI Nagaland branch is said to have started in 1978. Anjali Sen lauded the Nagaland branch for its achievements while also giving a brief overview of IPPF which is a federation of 150 countries. “We are locally involved but globally connected,” said Sen

adding that the Federation came out of the needs of the people and has been able to leverage its technical expertise that are available across the globe.

Over the years, the IPPF and FPAI has moved from family planning to a broader continuum of several issues such as sexual reproductive health, sexuality, gender, HIV/AIDs, provide save and legal abortion etc, stated Sen, with its main mission to work and serve the poorest of the poor, and the under-served.

Stating that the official visit is a routine branch visit to see how the FPAI is progressing in Nagaland, the officials mentioned that they were impressed with the services provided in Nagaland by FPAI. Howev-

er, the officials mentioned that Nagas still need more awareness to understand the services provided and assert their health rights.

Vincent Belho, FPAI, Nagaland Branch, highlighted the activities and services provided in Nagaland such as free tests on HIV/AIDS, Hep-B and Hep-C, counseling, pediatric services. Belho emphasized that FPAI’s main focus is to ensure quality life, and not just family planning or population control.

The FPAI has the highest number of immunization in Nagaland. The number services provided by FPAI in Nagaland in 2013 was 40,784; 46,770 services in 2014; 48,254 services in 2015; and 16,875 services in 2016 (till date).

Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): A meeting related to the Swachh Bharat Mission was held in the Dimapur DC’s Conference Hall on September 28.

According to a press release, District Brand Ambassador for Swachh Bharat Mission, Geoffrey Yaden, briefed the members regarding the purpose of the meeting and cerebration of Swachh Bharat day on October 2.

The members decided that since October 2, falls on Sunday, the district will celebrate Swachh Bharat day on October 1.

The Durga Puja committee also briefed the members that the theme for this year Puja’s celebrations shall be ‘Swachh Bharat.’

Naga Council Dimapur along with 18 civil societies of Dimapur shall be conducting social work on October 1 covering the entire

town area. Eastern Bible College and Living Word Centre along with other institutes shall also conduct social work in and around Dimapur town. Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC) and all the business communities also assured of joining the social work on October 1.

The members also decided to initiate an award for the cleanest school in Dimapur. A committee shall be formed to look into it, the release informed.

DCCI informs business communities Meanwhile, the Dimapur Civil Societies under the aegis of Naga Council Dimapur will be participating in the Swachh Bharat Day in Dimapur. In this regard, the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) has informed the business community to keep their shops closed from 6:00 am to

12 NPCC members elected as AICC members Kohima, September 29 (mexN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) has elected twelve of its members as representatives in the All India Congress Committee (AICC) Working Committee and in the party Headquarters in Delhi.

The elections were made during the General Session of the NPCC held on September 28 at Conference Hall, Congress Bhavan, Kohima, a press release informed.

The elected members are: K.

Therie, K.L. Chishi, I. Imkong, E.T. Ezung, Khutovi Sumi, Lanpha Konyak, Shami Angh, Khriedi Theünuo, Iherie Ndang, Dokiu Kecham, Khegholi Awomi, and Asangla Walling.

I. Imkong nominated as CWC Member Further, the NPCC General Session unanimously nominated I. Imkong, former CLP Leader and President, NPCC as Member of the AICC’s highest policy making forum, the Working Committee.

Reconsider decision to lease toll tax NSCN (IM) welcomes 25 'home comers' Septem- “warm welcome” to the from the NNC (NA) led collection, NWHD appeals state govt Dimapur, ber 29 (mexN): 25 cad- 25 “home comers” who by Kilonser James Anar; Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): The Naga Women Hoho Dimapur (NWHD) today appealed the state government to reconsider its decision to lease out toll tax collec-

tion to private parties in the interest of the public.

NWHD noted that the toll tax collected by DMC over the years “has been more transparent” bringing all round development in Di-

mapur. In this regard the Hoho stated that it fully stands by the demands made by other Dimapur civil society organizations “for the welfare of the people of Dimapur”.

res from different Naga Political Groups (NPG) have joined the NSCN (IM).

According to a press release from the MIP, the Joint Council awarded a

expressed their decision to support the Collective Leadership for Naga unity and the August 3, 2015 Framework Agreement.

Of the 25, nine were

8 from GPRN/NSCN led by Deputy Kilonser Kuzoveyi Kezo; 3 from NSCN (K); 3 from NNC; and one each from NNC/ FGN and KNA.

NGPTA dissolved, merges with ANGPTA 4 arrested for selling banned IMFL Kohima, “Accordingly, the NGP- dent James Ruokuoselhou Septem-

Kohima, September 29 (mexN): Kohima Police on Thursday arrested four persons for selling banned IMFL and booked them under the NLTP Act. According to a press release from the Kohima Police PRO, the arrests were made during a joint

raid carried out by the New Reserve Youth Organization (NRYO), Women Cell and South P.S personnel on Thursday afternoon to check the sale of expired goods and banned IMFL. During the raid, 99 quarter bottles of MC Rum, 22 cans of Kingfisher beer, 4

cans of Budweiser beer, 20 bottles of Haywards 5000 beer, 9 cans of Fosters beer and 6 quarter bottles of MC Whisky were seized from the four identified as – Yashpal Rawat (65 yrs), Jaya Nepali (44 yrs), Kamala Tamang (42 yrs), and Deka Chetri (33 yrs).

One held with banned Spasmo Proxyvon Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): Excise (Narcotic Cell) personnel on Wednesday, September 28, arrested one person for possessing the banned drug, Spasmo Proxyvon.

According to a press re-

lease from the Office of the Commissioner of Excise, the recovery was made following a hot pursuit from 6th Mile to Supply Colony, Dimapur, during which 724 capsules of the banned Spasmo Proxyvon was re-

covered from the possession of one Rokovilhou Meru. The accused person was later forwarded to court of the District & Session Judge and was booked under Sec. 27 of Drug & Cosmetic Act 1940.

cation documents and the amount published before. Members are to come personally for signature and clarification, if any in this regard to ISBT, Purana Bazar from 10:00

CondolenCe messages TR Zeliang Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang has expressed sadness to learn of the demise of Ruth, wife of the late Tajenyuba, exMLA, who passed away in Mokokchung on Thursday morning.

“Though I did not have the privilege to meet her personally, I had heard of the sterling role she had played, not only as a wife who stood steadfastly by her husband’s side during the worst of times, but also her dedication as an Adult Education Officer under the School Education Department,” Zeliang stated in a message.

Stating that it was her mission to ensure that all the elderly Aos should be

able to at least read the Bible, Zeliang informed that “she went beyond the call of her duty by visiting villages and selflessly educating the senior citizens so as to enable them to achieve some degree of literacy.”

“Her efforts paid off richly in that while increasing the rate of literacy among the Aos, the overall literacy rate of the district also went up to be amongst the highest in the state,” the message added.

Extending condolences to the near and dear ones, Zeliang stated, “The people of Nagaland join me in paying rich tributes to her and thank the Almighty for her life and service to the people.”

TA is dissolved and ceased to exist. Henceforth, ANGPTA shall be the one and only independent association representing all the Government primary teachers of the state of Nagaland irrespective of qualification and nature of appointment,” a press release from the ANGPTA Presi-

and erstwhile NGPTA President Heikielung Zeliang stated.

In this regard, all NGPTA officials and members holding any sort of official posts in the ANSTA machinery will tender their resignation with immediate effect, the release informed.

Schedule for Kohima BLOs training

Kohima, September 29 (Dipr): The Deputy Commissioner and District Election Officer, Kohima, Rovilatuo Mor, has notified the schedule for training of Booth Level Officers (BLOs) in connection with Special Summary Revision of Photo Electoral Roll w.r.t. January 1, 2017 as the qualifying date.

For 8-Western Angami am to 3:00 pm on Saturday, October 1. DSSATA and 11-Northern AngamiPresident informed in II, the training will be held at a press release that defaulters will be individually responsible for the progress of their career.

Kiphire, September 29 (mexN): State President Visasolie Lhoungu has appointed Hobbs S. PB Acharya Thonger as the President of Nagaland Governor BJP Kiphire District on adPB Acharya has expressed hoc basis as per the resoludeep grief at the demise tion of the Kiphire District of Zakielietuo Kire who party meeting held on Seppassed away today in Ko- tember 16 and in consulhima due to illness.

Late Kire was General Secretary of Indian Red Cross Society Nagaland State Branch for six years moN, September 29 till 2014.

(Dipr): The Konyak LaoAn active social worker ongmo celebrated Talent and prominent business Harvest Night at the Local man, late Kire’s contribu- Ground Mon on September tions for the uplift of poor 28 with Parliamentary Secand needy people of Na- retary, Art & Culture, E. Esgaland is well appreciated, hak Konyak, as chief guest.

Governor Acharya stated in Speaking on the occaa condolence message. sion, the chief guest stated Conveying heartfelt that God has given talent condolences to the be- to every individual but it is reaved family, Governor the hard work and sincerity Acharya prayed for the de- of an individual that makes parted soul to rest in peace. one excel. He encouraged

GTs under DSSATA informed

Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): All the GTs under DSSATA are requested to submit two copies of appointment order along with all educational qualifi-

ber 29 (mexN): The All Nagaland Government Primary Teachers’ Association (ANGPTA) and the Nagaland Government Primary Teachers’ Association (NGPTA) in a joint official meeting held on September 27 at Kohima have decided that the NGPTA will merge with the ANGPTA.

DC’s Conference Hall, Kohima on October 4 at 11:00 am, where SDO (C) Sechü and ADC, Chiephobozou will be the resource persons.

The training for 12-Tseminyu will be held at Dobashi Court, ADC Tseminyu office on October 4 with ADC Tseminyu as resource person, and for 14-Southern Angami-I and 15-Southern AngamiII, it will be held at Dobashi

Court SDO (C) Jakhama office on October 4 at 11:00 am with SDO (C) Jakhama and EAC Kezocha as resource persons.

For 9-Kohima Town and 10-Northern AngamiI, the training will be held at DC’s conference hall, Kohima on October 5 at 11:00 am with SDO (C) Kohima (Sadar) and SDO (C) Kohima (Judicial) as resource persons.

BJP Kiphire president appointed tation with the District Incharge of Kiphire. Hobbs S. Thonger is the former PS to C. Kipili Sangtam, Minister for Power. Tsasepi Sangtam, Vice President, has commended Hobbs S. Thonger for taking the right decision at the right time to join the party and

thanked the district party members for their firm decision to accept Hobbs’ leadership. The appointment order comes into immediate effect, informed a press relese issued by Jaangsillung Gonmei, General Secretary (Media), BJP Nagaland.

Talent Harvest Night celebrated in Mon the artists to continuously work hard to reach their goal and achieve more for themselves, for the society, State and for the nation. He also urged the youths to be dedicated in whatever they do and encouraged the farmers to continue farming and to impart the art of cultivation to the new generation.

Parliamentary Secretary CAWD, Y.M. Yolow, patron of the feast, presidents

of all the apex bodies, administrative heads among other invitees attended the Harvest Night.

Various artists including The Toxic peace band, WanyenBezo, Sunday and the black skippers, Wangyat Wangshu and the band, The Royal hip boys, David Konyak, Manching Konyak, The Eastern project, Eastern Gospel Brass Band etc participated in the programme.

10:00 am. Business owners have been asked to compulsorily participate in the National Swachh Bharat Day by cleaning their business establishments and premises.

DNSU informs educational institutions As per a meeting resolution of the civil societies under the banner of the Naga Council Dimapur (NCD) on September 29, the Dimapur Naga Students’ Union (DNSU) has directed all educational institutions – both government and private – within its jurisdiction to take part in the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan on October 1 from 8:00 am to 10:00 am within its respective school/college premises. A press release from the DNSU urged the educational institutions to strictly adhere to its directive and cautioned that its officials will be inspecting

all the institutions.

Dimapur GBs informed As per the direction from the District Administration, all GBs of Dimapur Sadar have been informed that there will be a mass social work at Supermarket on October 1 from 6:00 am to 8:00 am as part of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. A press release from the GBs Union Dimapur (Urban) in this regard requested all concerned GBs to bring spades, dao and shovels.

DUCCF informs colonies The Dimapur Urban Councils Chairmen Federation (DUCCF) has informed all member colonies under Dimapur Municipal Area to join the mass social work on Saturday, October 1, in their respective colonies from 6:00 am to 9:00 am as part of the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.

MEx FILE Unidentified dead body found Morung Express News Dimapur | September 29

An unidentified woman, suspected to be homeless, was found dead today in Dimapur. The body was found below the new Flyover near Traffic Control - I during the day, police said. Around 35 years of age, the deceased was suspected to have died of starvation. The body is being kept at the District Hospital morgue for identification, police added.

NSCN K appoints finance incharge Nagaland Dimapur, September 29 (mexN): The Chaplee Ministry, NSCN/GPRN has informed in a press release that Jackson Sema is appointed as the new Finance In-charge of Nagaland State with immediate effect.

Henceforth, all the financial matters shall be addressed

by Jackson Sema, stated a press release issued by MIP NSCN/GPRN.

Gospel Beat Contest Kohima, September 29 (mexN): ‘Music to God’ Gospel Beat Contest will be held on September 30 and October 1 at the Heritage Old DC Bungalow, Kohima. The event is being organised by Kohima Baptist Youth Fellowship. The gospel beat contest is open to all Churches and bands of Nagaland. On September 30, the contest will start at 9:00 am and on October 1, the event will start from 3:00 pm. For details, one can contact 9774414279 / 9856307607.

Meetings & AppointMents ENCSU emergency meeting today The Eastern Nagaland College Students’ Union has convened an emergency meeting on September 30, 2:30 pm at DUDA Guest House, Kohima. The agenda of the meeting will be “NSEE II Exam Results – Unsatisfactory response from the Government and the next phase of agitation,” as the state cabinet failed to deliver justice to the demands of the union, a press release from the ENCSU informed. In this regard, the union has appealed the following Eastern Nagaland organisations to attend the meeting positively: Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO), Eastern Nagaland Gazetted Officers’ Association (ENGOA), Eastern Nagaland Women Organisation (ENWO), Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) including all 6 federating units, and the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Union Kohima (ENPUK).

Meeting on revision of Electoral Rolls In connection with the conduct of Special Summary Revision of Electoral Rolls with reference to 01.01.2017 as the qualifying date, the Assistant Election Officer, Office of the Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer, Kohima, R. Mhathung, has informed that the Deputy Commissioner & District Election Officer, Kohima, will hold a meeting with recognized political parties, NGOs/Civil Societies, press/media on October 1 at 11:00 am in the DC’s Conference Hall, Kohima. In this connection, all concerned have been requested to attend the meeting with large number of representatives.

Tuensang DPDB meeting on Oct 6 The Tuensang (DPDB) District Planning & Development Board monthly meeting for the month of October will be held on Thursday, October 6 at 11:00 am at the Deputy Commissioner’s Conference Hall. Therefore, all the DPDB members are requested to attend the meeting without fail.

CorrigenduM A clerical error occurred in the speech of the Chief Minister which was handed out to the media yesterday in his address to the Seminar cum workshop for NPF Press Secretaries wherein it was mentioned that the first political party to be recognised in Nagaland by the Election Commission of India was United Democratic Front (UDF) whereas it should have read as Democratic Party of Nagaland (DPN). The inadvertent error is regretted. The forerunner of the Naga People's Front DPN was registered with the ECI on November 29, 1963 and contested in the first General Assembly elections in Nagaland with the Symbol of "Cock" and the motto "Fide Non Armis ".

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express volume Xi issue 269

By Witoubou Newmai

Often, truth is a bitter pill

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n the face of complex and fast moving reality that has come to define today's media, there have been complaints from the public about "too many depressing stories" in the media. It is not the complaints that hurt as much as the veiled attacks on the media of indulging in “biased reportage.” People have a notion that the media rides on negative news since it is also a sales driven establishment.

Even someone of the stature of APJ Abdul Kalam wondered why the media was so negative. He once asked, "Why are we so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? ... we have so many amazing success stories, but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?" The media will always have a remarkable capacity to absorb all these tirades hurled at it, albeit it has too many answers to counter them, and at same time, the media can never be in denial mode that the "escalation of mass media reporting can have both positive and negative aspects", to borrow the language of journalist Rajiv Bhattacharya.

A journalist begins his/her day hunting for what we call 'news'.

However, the meaning of the 'news' is still ethereal as one school of thought will define it from a different perspective than the other— it will continue to be redefined with time and trend. In a normal understanding of the term 'news', it is something unusual, new, interesting, attracts curiosity, significant...and the list can go on.

To cite an example, from among a thousand vehicles plying between Dimapur and Kohima in a day, an incident of two trucks coming from opposite directions colliding head-on will be focused by journalists but not those 998 remaining vehicles. Or, turning the example other way round, if 99% of vehicles meet with accidents everyday then 1% of those spared from the ill fate will be focused on by the media.

To take another example, on an average there must be over a hundred birthday parties in Nagaland every day. Here, a businessman's birthday gift box containing a grenade from militants is, by all means, a news item, leaving out the rest of the birthday parties from newspaper pages. Also, a case of a 25 years old man marrying a 70 years old woman will always attract the media but not those marriages of regular age groups.

In this area of discussion, we can never consider the illustration complete without referring to a classic piece. The New York Sun Editor Charles A. Dana once said, "If you see a dog biting a man don’t write it up. But if you see a man biting a dog spare no pains or money to get the details to the 'Sun' office".

As for the ‘biased reportage’ accusations—in certain situations, especially in conflict zones, "factual and objective reporting" becomes a big challenge for journalists. According to journalist Teresa Rehman, while reporting in conflict zones, "we have to unlearn many theories and grab our own rule". Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner, while participating at the 'International Conference on Media’s Role in Facilitating Peace in Conflict Situation in Northeast India and Neighbouring Countries’ held in Arunachal Pradesh few years ago, said that "it is not an easy task for a journalist to write about any war. It is obviously not possible to go back and forth between two warring parties, so one has to stay on one side of the conflict." In such a situation, there is less chance of fair and balanced reportage from a single agency.

Many journalists have been attempting to understand the standard role of the media. Facilitating peace is one common role for journalists reporting in conflict zones. But to do so would mean also to report the truth, and the truth often comes as a bitter pill which is depressing indeed.

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Mohd Asim Khan IANS

Rao cleaned the mess created

by Indira, Rajiv: Sanjaya Baru

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f today's Indian leadership can boast about the country's economic growth despite the world economy largely being in a slump, the credit largely goes to former Prime Minister P.V. Narsimha Rao, who set the ball rolling way back in 1991, says this book by veteran journalist and former media advisor to Prime Book Review: 1991: How P.V. Narasimha Minister ManmoRao Made History: Author: Sanjaya Baru; han Singh, SanjaPublisher: Aleph; Pages: 216; Price: Rs 250 ya Baru.

But Rao, like most other outstanding achievers outside the Nehru-Gandhi fold, remains largely unappreciated and underrated, thanks again to the "First Family" that has made a (once) national political party its personal fiefdom. Baru places Rao's achievements against the backdrop of national and international social-political-economic circumstances of the time when India faced its worst economic crisis after independence.

The crisis, as Baru recounts, had its genesis in the 1970s and was left unattended -- nay, aggravated, through "short-term political considerations and extreme political cynicism", as Baru puts it -- by the subsequent governments of Indira and Rajiv Gandhi, allowing it to snowball into a monster that threatened to inflict unprecedented damage on the sovereignty and credibility of India.

Baru recalls how former Prime Minister Chandrashekhar, swornin with Congress support, tried to stem the rapid decline through a slew of "forced moves", but his efforts -- notably to have persuaded the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to lend India desperatelyneeded dollars -- were brought to a nought when a paranoid Rajiv Gandhi prevented the coalition government from presenting a regular budget in February, and when ultimately Congress' highhandedness drove Chandrashekhar to throw in the towel.

After Rajiv's assassination, Rao, who was mulling retirement at that point in time, was thrust to the top by a combination of luck and political manoeuvring.

The book describes in detail how Rao not only managed to run a minority government but turned the country's fortunes around along with his hand-picked confidants (Manmohan Singh, who was named his Finance Minister and later went on to become a two-term Prime Minister, being one of them).

"Before P.V., at least four senior political leaders -- three of them ex-Congressmen -- tried leading non-Congress governments in New Delhi: Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Chandra Shekhar and V.P. Singh.

All of them failed. Most of them were in office for less than a year.

P.V., however, demonstrated his staying power within a year. He did this not by becoming authoritarian, but by being democratic in his instincts, consensual in his approach and, above all, transactional in his dealings," Baru writes. However, Rao, was never accorded the due respect or credit by the Nehru-Gandhian Congress the former Prime Minister deserved. Worse, it disowned him. Baru writes: "During the intervening years the Congress Party disowned P.V. His name was virtually erased from the party's public memory. When he died, the party shut the gates of its headquarters and refused to bid an official farewell to a former (party) president. His crime: Seeking to end the proprietary control of the INC by the Nehru-Gandhi family. P.V. died on 23 December 2004... Even Manmohan Singh was unable to honour P.V. with a Bharat Ratna during his decade-long tenure as Prime Minister. The party had again become a proprietorship."

Baru's previous work, "The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh" had sparked a row over its claim that the Manmohan Singh PMO was actually run by Sonia Gandhi. The present one, too, is certain to

Book Review

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Martin Khor Inter Press Service

The Right to Development at 30 Years

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t’s had a very useful if sometimes controversial past and it will have great relevance for many more years ahead. That’s the sense one has about the Declaration on the Right to Development as it is commemorated 30 years after its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in 1986.

Three decades ago, the Declaration “broke new ground in the struggle for greater freedom, equality and justice,” remarked the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, at a session of the Human Rights Council on 15 June, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Declaration.

The right to development has had great resonance among people all over the world, especially in developing countries. Even the term itself “the right to development” carries a great sense and weight of meaning and of hope.

In the past three decades it has been invoked numerous times in international negotiations. The right to development is a major component of the Rio Principles endorsed by the 1992 Earth Summit, and most recently it was included in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change of 2015.

It is fitting to recall some of the important elements of this right to development. It is human and people centered. It is an inalienable human right , where every human person and all peoples are entitled to participate in, contribute to and enjoy development in which all rights and freedoms can be fully realized . The human person is the central subject of development and should be the active participant and beneficiary of development.

It gives responsibility to each state to get its act together to take measures to get its people’s right to development fulfilled. But it also places great importance to the international arena, giving a responsibility to all countries to cooperate internationally and especially to assist the developing countries.

The right to development is also practical. The Declaration makes it a duty for governments to work towards the realisation of the right to development. It recognises that there are national and international obstacles to the realisation of this right and calls on all parties to eliminate these obstacles.

It is thus useful to identify some of the present key global issues that have relevance to the right to development, or that constitute obstacles to its realisation, and to take steps to address them.

Firstly is the crisis in the global economy. The economic sluggishness in developed countries has had adverse impact on developing economies, with lower commodity prices and falling export earnings affecting their economic and social development..

Many economies face the havoc of volatility in the inflow and outflow of funds, due to absence of controls over speculative capital, and fluctuations in their currency levels due to the lack of a global mechanism to stabilise currencies.

Several countries are facing or are on the brink of another external debt crisis. There is for them an absence of an international sovereign debt restructuring mechanism, and countries that undertake their own debt workout may well become victims of vulture funds.

All these problems make it difficult for developing countries to maintain their development momentum, and constitute obstacles to realising the right to development.

Second is the challenge of formulating and implementing appropriate development strategies.

This includes getting policies right in boosting agricultural production, farmers’ incomes and food security; and climbing the ladder from labour intensive to higher technology industries and overcoming the middle-income trap. There is also the imperative to provide social services such as healthcare, education, water supply, lighting and transport, and developing financial and commercial services.

For many countries, development policy-making has been made more difficult due to premature liberalisation resulting from loan conditionality and trade and investment agreements which severely constrain their policy space. Policies used by other countries when they were developing may no longer

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n Kampong Speu province, when the wet weather doesn’t come, as in other parts of Cambodia, it can affect whether food goes on the dinner table.

“When there’s drought, it strongly affects crop production,” Vann Khen, 48, a married father of three from Amlaing commune, who farms corn for his family’s consumption, and rice, cattle, pigs, chickens and ducks to sell, told IPS. What has been worsening the situation for farmers in Kampong Speu, some 40 miles west of the country’s capital Phnom Penh and with a population of at least 700,000, was that a 770-metre water canal, made during the reign of dictator Pol Pot, needed urgent restoration, so when it did rain farmers could access water.

In each irrigation scheme, a command area normally allows all farmers access to water. But in many instances lack of maintenance, destruction due to floods or animals, and culverts or other gates not working properly can prevent farmers from accessing water, stress officials with FAO Cambodia.

In other cases, if the irrigation scheme is not built correctly or if there is ineffective land levelling, the water won’t flow. Those not having water access, in both cases, rely mainly on rain patterns. During long dry spells and drought, they suffer more than farmers who have access to irrigation water.

“Last year wasn’t a good harvest, I got only about 500 dollars in total,” Phal Vannak, 28, a married father of three, who mainly farms corn and

be available due to conditionality or international agreements.

Recently, there has been a crisis of legitimacy over investment agreements that contain the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system, which enable foreign investors to take cases against host governments, taking advantage of imbalanced provisions and shortcomings in the arbitration system.

The cases taken up not only cost countries a lot in monetary compensation payments but also put a chill on the formulation of policies and regulations.

A review of these conditionalities and trade and investmemt agreements, taking account of their effects on the right to development, would be useful.

Thirdly, climate change has become an existential problem for the human race. It is an outstanding example of environmental constraints to development and the right to development.

In 2014 the Assestment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) revealed that the world has to limit its release of Greenhouse Gases to only release another 1,000 billion tonnes if there is to be a reasonable chance of avoiding global warming of 2 degree Celsius, and anything above that level would cause a devastating disaster. Global emissions are running at 50 billion tonnes a year.

Within two decades the atmospheric space would be filled up. Therefore there is an imperative to cut global emissions as sharply and quickly as possible.

The Paris Agreement of December 2015 was a success in multilateral deal making. But it is not environmentally ambitious enough, nor did it generate any confidence that the commitment for transfers of finance and technology to developing countries will be met. There is a danger of that the burdens of adjustment will be passed on to the developing and poor countries. How to equitably share the costs of urgent environmental action which should also be economically feasible is the major climate change challenge that will impact seriously on the right to development.

Fourthly is another existential problem — the crisis of anti-microbial resistance and the dangers of a post-antibiotic age. Many diseases are becoming increasingly difficult to treat because bacteria have become more and more resistant to anti-microbials.

Some strains of bacteria are now resistant to multiple antibiotics and a few have become pan resistant – resistant to all antibiotics. The WHO Director General has warned that every anitibiotic ever developed is at risk of becoming useless. She added that: “A post-antibiotic era means in effect an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child’s scratched knee could once again kill.”

Actions are needed to reduce the over-use and wrong use of antibiotics including control over un-

ethical marketing of drugs, control of the use of antibiotics in livestock, to educate the public and discover new antibiotics. The World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2015 adopted a global plan of action to address anti-microbial resistance but the challenge is in the implementation. Developing countries require funds to enforce the measures as well as technology such as microscopes and diagnostic tools; they also need to have access to existing and new antibiotics at affordable prices; and people worldwide need to be protected from anti-microbial resistance if life expectancy is to be maintained.

Finally there are major challenges in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs include very ambitious and idealistic goals and targets, but there are obstacles to fulfilling them.

For example, Goal 3 is “to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.” One of the targets is to achieve universal health coverage, that no one should be denied treatment because they cannot afford it. But this will remain an unfulfilled noble aim unless governments address the controversial issue of how to finance public health measures..

The problem is compounded when medicines are priced beyond the reach of the poor and the middle class. The treatment for HIV AIDS became more widespread and affordable only when generics were made available at cheaper prices, for example $60 a patient a year today, compared to the prices of original drugs of $10,000, and millions of lives have been saved.

Some of the new medicines, for example for Hepatitis C and cancers, are unaffordable even in rich countries and thus not provided through their national health service. They will certainly be out of the reach of patients in developing countries unless generic versions are made available through the use of flexibilities in the global patent regime, such as the non-granting of patents and compulsory licenses.

The interconnecting issues of patents, over pricing of original drugs, and the need to make generic drugs more available, are relevant to the implementation of SDGs, universal health coverage, and the realisation of the right to health and the right to development.

The examples above of pressing global problems show there is a long way to go before we make progress on social and economic development, while protecting the environment. The principles and instruments associated with the Right to Development can shine a bright light on the way forward. The Declaration adopted 30 years ago continues to have great relevance, if only we make full use of it.

Canals Save Farmers in Times of Drought Amy Fallon

Inter Press Service rice, told IPS. For corn alone, he earned only about 100 dollars due to the delay in rainfall.

Kampong Speu has been on the other end of extreme weather, suffering from floods and storms.

But the province experienced severe droughts in 1987, 1999, 2000 and the last two years in a row.

“In 2015 and 2016, as in other countries, Cambodia has been hit by El Nino, affecting crop production,” Proyuth Ly, f ro m FA O Cambodia, told IPS. The dry periods are the “most prominent hazard” threatening the agriculture sector in Kampong Speu, says FAO Cambodia. The industry is one of the sectors most impacted by drought, and smallholder farmers particularly suffer. Tens of thousands of households are thought to be affected by drought every year, with “millions” spent saving lives and recovering livelihoods, according to FAO Cambodia.

Vannak is the president of a Farmer Water User Group (FWUG) for the Kampong Speu irrigation scheme.

There are 500 households from six villages who are members. To effectively manage water use, they established six sub-committees (one for each village), and a sub-committee of between four to eight people.

“The farmers weren’t happy (last year) because they needed the water to get into the rice field,” said Vannak.

After a request for help from Cambodia’s ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, FAO Cambodia, with funding from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DIPECHO), rehabilitated the canal.

“Livelihoods would be affected as they could not grow intended crops,” Etienne Careme, in charge of operations at FAO Cambodia, told IPS. “FAO Cambodia rehabilitated the canal to ensure correct flow of water to needy farmers. It meant rehabilitating canal corridor, strengthening slopes, con-

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Martin Khor is the Executive Director of the South Centre, based in Geneva

structing or rehabilitating culverts.”

The 80,000-dollar, three-month project, completed last December, included setting up software to train farmer water user groups in water management (a figure that doesn’t include staff time and other travel costs).

Today, even though Kampong Speu is still experiencing a dry period, rice grows in lush green fields.

The irrigation scheme is connected from a stream located about 20 miles from the Aoral mountain, the main source, and can supply water to 400 ha of paddy fields.

“This water has really saved this rice crop,” said Ly on a recent field trip to Kampong Speu to monitor the irrigation scheme and the farmer’s needs, trips conducted regularly, as water rushed past him.

Vannak said this season’s harvest was already an improvement on last year.

“When I heard this (canal) was being fixed I was very happy because some people didn’t have water to save their crops,” he said, clutching a handful of corn in a field.

Khen said he was also happier. “We can open or close the water gate,” he said.

“Also the small water gate is allowing us to better regulate water and better distribute it to farmers in the commune.”

Careme said the restoration of the irrigation scheme had improved rice yields.

“It allows better production and therefore increases incomes through sale of rice,” he said.

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Friday 30•09•2016

PERSPECTIVE

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Peace is possible… if we remember 4 lessons By 2014, people were fighting 40 wars, with terrorism reaching an all-time high and battle deaths reaching a 25-year high. As International Peace Day passes, what lessons are there?

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Peacebuilding must happen before, during and after violent conflict Some people imagine that peacebuilders rush in after war like an ambulance to treat the wounded.

That is indeed badly needed. But prevention is surely better than cure, and peacebuilding is at its best when no-one has ever heard about it – because action taken early has prevented bloodshed.

The focus on prevention has been underlined by the 2015 UN review of peacebuilding. As UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliason put it: "We must invest more in the peacebuilding which is needed to prevent violence – not just after an explosion of conflict.

Otherwise we pay a horrible price later on.”

Peacebuilding needs to happen even in the midst of war: the warring parties need to feel their people’s thirst for peace in order to sit at the table and negotiate a deal. They need to know they have a mandate – and they need to feel the pressure to settle.

Equally, work at the grassroots to heal the wounds of war cannot start a moment too soon – to mitigate further violence and lay the foundations for a future peace. For example in Syria, where so many children have known nothing but war, peace education classes can give them a chance to receive trauma healing and the space to express their anger. As one Syrian teacher told me: “We must keep going, we must believe in the next generation.” Meanwhile, businesses can also help de-escalate the conflict in the country by providing much-needed livelihoods that provide the economic underpinning for peace and re-build bridges between communities.

If the UK intervenes in conflict, we must plan properly for peace Clive Baldwin

From Bosnia to Iraq to Libya, the UK has failed to learn from its disastrous history of neglecting post-war planning

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Harriet Lamb

ver the past three decades, the face of fighting has changed significantly. In 1986, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan were conducting arms talks, while mass uprisings and violence were breaking out in Northern Ireland.

Today the Cold War is over. In fact, the quiet good news story of the last three decades was that, after a spike in armed violence at the end of the Cold War, the zone of peace globally was expanding. In 1990 there were 50 wars; by 2010 – there were 30 wars, with fewer people killed in violent conflict and key peace deals being hammered out in Myanmar, in Colombia, in the Philippines.

Sadly violence is now on the rise again - from the brutality of Syria to inter-community violence in places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, to violence linked to crime and gangs as in many parts of Latin America and the Caribbean. Global challenges, such as the rise in violent extremism and climate change, are ever-growing threats to peace. By 2014, people were fighting 40 wars, with terrorism reaching an all-time high, and battle deaths reaching a 25year high.

But while the political and social contexts have changed, the international community meetings for the UN General Assembly this September must surely get better at learning the lessons of the past – about how to prevent conflict and build peace. In the 30 years since International Alert was set up in 1986, we’ve learnt plenty about what does and doesn’t work when it comes to resolving and preventing conflict. Here are four lessons we can keep in mind.

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investment by governments.

Twenty years after the genocide, the people of Rwanda have made remarkable progress – but the scars of the war are yet to fully heal. It takes years for people to forgive those who have killed their families, or to recover from torture, or build back their shattered livelihoods. Trauma healing and dialogue sessions, along with opportunities to do business together, can support this process.

Even the fastest-changing countries have taken between 15 and 30 years to raise their institutional performance from that of a fragile state today – Haiti, for example – to that of a functioning institutionalised state, such as Ghana. Institutional performance is a key indicator of more peaceful societies.

Addressing other contributors to conflict, such as the trust-eroding force of corruption have taken, at their fastest, 27 years.

In the 1980s, Alert started working in Burundi where people made huge progress. But the attentionspan of the global community often does not match the long term nature of change and is much lower than the determination of the powerful to stay in power. And today Burundi is spiralling back towards violence, all the early-warnings ignored.

The international community must not walk away from countries once a peace deal is signed but continue to address the root causes of conflict that brought about violence – such as poverty, inequality, poor institutions and corruption – to ensure it does not break out again.

Peacebuilding needs investment Peace doesn’t fall from the skies. It is won through difficult, tireless work – building societies where people feel they have a say in the decisions that affect them, where they have job opportunities, working with women leaders, with victims and perpetrators, businesses, and with the future custodians of peace – youth. It also has to be won little tiny peace by little tiny peace; down on the ground inch by inch, helping each child talk about their trauma or each mother express her rage – just as people making an area safe from unexploded landmines, have to work literally inch by inch to clear the debris of war, to make a community safe again.

That needs investment. The cost of world military Peacebuilding takes time spending is US$1.7 trillion, according to the StockPeacebuilding is slow. It needs patient long-term holm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Meanwhile, according to the latest Global Peace Index the total cost of conflict is a mind-boggling US$ 14.3 trillion. That is 11 times the size of total foreign direct investment, and eight times more than we invest in peacekeeping (US$ 8 bn). By comparison, we invest a puny $6.8 billion in long-term peacebuilding.

Just as we invest billions in training and equipping the military so that we can ‘win’ wars, let’s invest in training and equipping people for the harder task of winning and sustaining peace. If it takes time to train people to use guns, it takes even longer to train them not to use guns.

And this can be great value for money. Poverty thrives on conflict – while countries that are more peaceful can become more prosperous, stimulating the global economy. Not to mention that peace is definitely better for human happiness.

The two 2015 landmark UN reports on peacebuilding architecture and peace operations throw up a flare that we are not investing enough. The Sustainable Development Goals, Goal 16 in particular, have recognised peace as a pre-requisite for global development, while the World Humanitarian Summit in May acknowledged that the humanitarian system is unsustainable unless something is done about prevention. We have the resolutions – now we need the reality.

Peacebuilding has to take place at multiple levels Peacebuilders live in skyscrapers not bungalows. You need to build peace at all levels – from the peace deals signed in the revolving glass-restaurant on the top, right down to the very deep foundations, addressing land reform or other structural inequalities that are the base of the conflicts. Otherwise, the peace deal thrashed out by the warring parties will not hold. In fact, half of all peace deals collapse back into war after five years. Because the underlying causes of the conflict have not been addressed, and peacebuilding is not taking place right across society.

Peace is as much about communities living side by side and resolving their differences, about building everyday peace, as it is about people signing a treaty, laying down their arms and changing government policy and institutions.

This is why it’s time to take on board the lessons of the past, and re-double our efforts to build a lasting peace that benefits all.

or the second time this year, a parliamentary inquiry has examined a British military intervention that resulted in the collapse of a dictatorship, and found a disastrous lack of planning for the aftermath. After Iraq in 2003, came Libya in 2011. But the history of failures in long-term planning following British intervention in conflicts stretches back to long before Iraq; I experienced similar problems when working in Kosovo and Bosnia. Why does this keep happening? One reason is a failure to take basic rights and the rule of law seriously in the critical months after fighting has ended.

In the summer of 2011, Human Rights Watch documented serious human rights abuses by the Gaddafi government, but also the failure to protect basic rights in the growing amount of territory under opposition control. Our information on Gaddafi’s crimes was welcomed in NATO capitals; our concerns about opposition abuses much less so. Western countries displayed a profound lack of interest in addressing abuses by the armed groups they supported - and this became even more apparent when those forces took power.

The UN Human Rights Council had set up a Commission of Inquiry on Libya as unrest began in February 2011. It reported on serious rights violations in the country in the year that followed, including by anti-Gaddafi forces. But the Council - with the strong support of Britain - shut down this Commission in early 2012, a few months after Gaddafi was toppled. UK officials told Human Rights Watch that such monitoring was no longer needed, and that the new Libyan government objected to being monitored. And although a UN mission was set up in Libya with a substantial human rights component, it decided to focus on elections rather than rights abuses. The result was that, at this critical time, there was little public scrutiny of what was going wrong.

Another key mistake was not to focus on the rule of law.

When the governing structures of a country collapse, as may happen at the end of civil war, one of the urgent tasks is to ensure basic rule of law so that crimes, both serious and petty, can be dealt with by a functioning police force and justice system. This cannot be delayed; if a law and order vacuum emerges, those with guns will quickly fill it. Creating a robust justice system means ensuring there is a police force that has clear powers but also respects the rule of law and basic rights. It also needs, from the start, a detention system where people are held on a clear legal basis and are brought before a judge as quickly as possible. All of this was clear to those of us who had worked in post-conflict missions in the Balkans a decade before. Between 2002 and 2005, Paddy Ashdown was the de facto ruler of Bosnia-Herzegovina on behalf of the international community that had intervened in the conflict. He warned in 2003: “in Bosnia and Kosovo we paid a bitter price for not establishing the rule of law early. It is not a mistake we should repeat in Iraq.”

But that error was indeed made in Iraq in 2003, and then again in Libya in 2011.

On a hot day in September 2011, I sat in a stuffy room in London and listened to leaders of the Libyan opposition and British officials present a plan for security in post-Gaddafi Libya. They announced that Tripoli would fall within weeks - (they were right) - and assured us they had a plan to ensure Libya would not fall into chaos like post-invasion Iraq. After about an hour of talk about the need for police and military to ensure security, I asked about judges and detention, which had not been mentioned, and was told that the justice system would be set up later.

But ‘later’ never came. Instead, without basic judicial review of detention, five years on thousands remain arbitrarily detained by militias and others. And while Libya’s post-2011 rulers did create new forces for policing and detention, they have turned out to be answerable to no one.

Even more damaging was the failure to secure heavy weapons in Libya. Western officials gave assurances that the new authorities in Libya would be able to do so. Instead, the arms spread across Africa and beyond – a UN panel later found that “arms originating from Libya have significantly reinforced the military capacity of terrorist groups operating in Algeria, Egypt, Mali and Tunisia.”

What is striking, five years on, is the naivety of British and other officials whose attitude seemed to be to hope that everything would turn out for the best once Gaddafi was gone. It is deeply dispiriting that the mistakes made in the Balkans 20 years ago were made again in Libya in 2011. In fact they risk being repeated in Libya in 2016, where there is scant discussion on how to build rule of law if and when the conflict there finally subsides. We keep hearing that “lessons have been learned”, but they seem to be just as quickly forgotten.

Is the Philippines' "war on drugs" fuelling an HIV epidemic?

David Doyle Thomson Reuters Foundation

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s Rosita leaves Jose's small office in downtown Cebu in the central Philippines, he passes her a handful of biscuits and six clean needles. What Jose has just done could land him in jail.

Rosita is a pregnant, HIV-infected injecting drug user - and Jose is a social worker. Amidst Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs - in which nearly 3,000 people have been killed, according to police - it is safer to be anonymous. Neither wants to give their real name.

Clean needles have been distributed in Cebu City for years, sometimes illegally, in order to prevent the spread of HIV. Under the new government, which took office at the end of June, pressure is increasing for such clandestine activities to stop.

The Philippines has one of the fastest growing HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world, according to the United Nations.

"HIV cases have sharply increased from maybe one new infection a day back in 2007 to what we have now which is more than 24 new cases a day," said Teresita Bagasao, country manager for UNAIDS in the Philippines.

The latest Department of Health figures showed there were 841 newly diagnosed HIV cases in the Philippines in June - the biggest monthly total since records began in 1984 and higher than the annual total for 2009.

Most new cases were from sexual contact, particularly among men who have sex with men (MSM), according to the government's figures, but in Cebu it is sharing dirty needles that is the driver.

Rosita, a former sex worker, explained: "Sometimes my friends don't have needles so we share."

Since finding out she had HIV two years ago, Rosita says she has stopped sharing needles but adds that a lack of clean syringes means she is scared more people are going to contract the virus.

Rosita, 35, lives in Kamagayan neighbourhood - the historic epicentre of the drugs problem in Cebu, the Philippines' second city.

In a dark rabbit warren of wood and corrugated iron, the most commonly used drugs - shabu (crystal meth) and nubain (a morphine-like opiate) - are sold in "shooting galleries" for 300 pesos ($6) per syringe.

For those who can't afford a full syringe, it can be divided between up to 10 people.

Prices have almost doubled since Duterte was elected by a landslide in May after vowing to wipe out drugs and crime.

CRACKDOWN Efforts to protect drug users, including the distribution of clean needles, began in Cebu, particularly in Kamagayan, in 1993 but were halted by city officials in 2009.

"The following year prevalence of HIV amongst people who inject drugs went from

less than 0.5 percent to 53 percent,” said Ilya Tac-an, who leads the STD/AIDS detection unit at Cebu City Health Department.

The World Health Organisation says there is "compelling evidence" that needle programmes substantially reduce the spread of HIV among injecting drug users without increasing drug use, but in the Philippines possession of "paraphernalia for dangerous drugs" is illegal and carries a prison sentence of between six months to four years.

Since 2009, research programmes - under which clean needles can be legally distributed - have been repeatedly given the green light by the Philippines' Dangerous Drugs Board but then stopped under pressure from anti-drugs groups and politicians.

In 2015, the programmes were finally terminated, and under Duterte's government pressure to not distribute needles has increased.

"It is very hard for us to work with the new administration as they have a very strong programme for drugs and there have been a lot of killings going on," said one healthcare source in Cebu. "They are really quite serious about it."

Jerson See, founder and president of Cebu Plus, an HIV care organisation that has in the past been involved in clean needle programmes but does not distribute any more, said the organisation was being watched by the government.

"It came to our attention that the name of our organisation is already under the radar of

the National Bureau of Investigation," he said.

He urged the government to reconsider its position on needle programmes.

"The police and drug enforcement agency's mandates are a supply and demand reduction programme but we just hope the government will reconsider the harm reduction programme because it is also a way of halting the spread of HIV," See said.

"SPECIAL CASES" Jose, the social worker, also says he was "called by Manila" a month ago and advised to stop distributing clean needles. He says he has drastically reduced the amount of needles he hands out.

"In some special cases I hand out needles - when it is really needed such as in the case of a person living with HIV who is in the company of those not living with HIV," he said.

Cebu Plus and Cebu City Health Department offer other services to people with HIV including counselling and HIV testing, but Dr Tac-an says it is not enough.

"The needle and syringe programme was one of getting them (injecting drug users) to come in for the other services," she said. "We are not really reaching that many injecting drug users (now)."

But not everyone in Cebu is supportive of clean needle initiatives. Alice Uttlang is the head of COSAP, the city government's Cebu Organisation for Substance Abuse Prevention.

The veterinarian-by-trade was given the

COSAP job in 2014 in the office next door to Cebu Plus at a time when clean needles were being distributed as a part of a research programme.

"I saw a lot of people outside my office with the typical 'users' look," she said. "I asked myself what these people are doing here, were they lining up to get the syringes?

"Is this not a slap in our face? Our office is here preventing and here they are condoning, even encouraging them to continue to use drugs, to inject drugs, as long as you use a clean syringe."

Uttlang says some of those getting free needles would go on to sell them. She adds that she would potentially accept a clean needles programme as long as there were other conditions, such as police being given data about the locations of drug users.

The Department of Health did not respond to questions on clean needle programmes in Cebu, but said it was implementing a "behaviour modification programme" which included community members teaching others about the dangers of drugs, as well as HIV testing.

For Jose, the government's efforts are helping: "Everybody is trying to think of what is best and there is no perfect remedy."

But he says he will continue to distribute needles in special cases.

"I have a different understanding. Others (the government, churches and NGOs) are doing something good but they are not on the frontline - I know these people."

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INDIA

THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Panic, disbelief in Kashmir as India makes surgical strikes

SriNAgAr, September 29 (iANS): Panic, confusion and disbelief gripped Kashmir residents on Thursday as India said it carried out surgical strikes at terrorist launch pads across the Line of Control (LoC) inflicting heavy casualties on terrorists and their supporters.

Reports from Uri sector in north Kashmir's Baramulla district, where cross-border terrorist attack at an army camp on September 18 left 18 Indian troops killed, said people living close to the LoC have already started migrating to safer areas.

People were seen rushing home earlier than usual in Srinagar as the news of the surgical strikes by Indian special forces spread.

The Kashmir Valley has been shut for 83 consecutive days, following the July 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani. However, there is no curfew anywhere in the valley.

"Whether a knife falls on a melon or a melon falls on the knife, it is always the melon that gets cut," said Zahoor Ahmad, 52, a businessman in north Kashmir's Ganderbal district.

"In wars between India and Pakistan, the Kashmiris have always been the worst sufferers and if, God forbid, a war breaks out now, we would be at the receiving end again," he stressed.

"Is the worst still to come? Is it already lurking in the dark? Will they (India and Pakistan) really be so mad so as to start a war which will destroy both?" cynically asked Abdul Gani, 58, while recalling the horrors of the 1965 war when he was a child.

"My mother would hide us in a dark room after serving an early dinner and speak in whispers,"

Gani recalled.

There were others who wished to believe that there would be no war, given Pakistan's denial of surgical strikes by India.

"I think it is just cross-border firing in which two Pakistani soldiers have been killed and nine others injured, which is being overplayed to satisfy bruised egos," said Professor Muzaffar Ahmad, a college principal.

"I don't think any country, much less a country like Pakistan, would eat a humble pie by not even admitting that an incident like surgical strikes within their territory had taken place," he added.

"People have started shifting with their families to safer places away from the LoC in Uri areas after today's (Thursday) development," said an official.

Reports said the Centre had spoken to the state government about "hot pursuit launched across the LoC against militants ready to infiltrate into J&K", but there was no official word so far from any leader of the Peoples Democratic PartyBharatiya Janata Party coalition over the development.

A senior state minister said it was a wait-and-watch situation while contingency plans about evacuation of the border area residents were already in place.

"We are glued to our television.

These TV channels have already declared a war even before the fighter planes start hovering over our heads," said local lawyer Suhail Ahmad, 32.

"It appears that everybody anchoring news programmes on TV news channels is a foot soldier already fighting a full-fledged war," he added.

India briefs envoys of 25 countries including P5

New Delhi, September 29 (pti): India today briefed top envoys of 25 countries including the US, China, Russia, the UK and France after the Indian Army said it has carried a "surgical strikes" on seven terror launch pads across the LoC,inflicting "significant casualties" on terrorists preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK). Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar briefed the envoys in the South Block to convey the "context" of carrying out the strikes, External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Vikas Swarup confirmed.

The Foreign Secretary told them that it was "a classic counterterrorism operation more than a military one" and that it was to neutralise terrorists who were trained to carry out attacks in Jammu and Kashmir and other major Indian cities. They were also told that India has no plans for any further operation as of now but added the armed forces will not allow terrorists to carry out any attacks.

An all-party meeting chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh was also informed about it. Significantly, earlier in the day American National Security Advisor Susan Rice had spoken to Indian counterAn Indian army soldier patrols along a highway on the outskirts of Srinagar on September 29. part Ajit Doval and said the US wants Pakistan to "combat and delegitimise" UN-designated terrorist entities, including LeT and JeM (REUTERS Photo)

Punjab on maximum alert, nearly 1,000 villages being evacuated ChANDigArh, September 29 (iANS): Residents of nearly 1,000 villages in Punjab districts bordering Pakistan are being evacuated following escalation of tension between India and Pakistan in the wake of surgical strikes by the Indian Army across the LoC. The villages being evacuated as a preventive measure include 300 in Ferozepur district, 290 in Gurdaspur, 137 in Amritsar, 135 in Tarn Taran, 65 in Pathankot and 60 in Fazilka.

Punjab shares a 553-km border with Pakistan. "We are trying to evacuate residents of

around 1,000 villages. Camps are being set up to accommodate people. We have made all preparations," Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal told media after an emergency meeting of the Punjab Cabinet here.

Badal said all schools falling within a distance of 10 km from the international border with Pakistan had been ordered shut. The leave of all officials in the border belt, including police, has been cancelled.

He asked people not to panic and assured that police will remain stationed in the

evacuated villages to protect property. "Though the public will be inconvenienced, we are ensuring it is minimal.

People are being helped in evacuation," the Chief Minister said. Congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the "bold step" of ordering the surgical strikes, Badal dubbed the army operation as "kamaal da (great work)".

Punjab Chief Secretary Sarvesh Kaushal said that schools, community centres, marriage palaces and other infrastructure were being used to accommodate evac-

uated people. Badal said the Punjab government will not raise the issue of expenses incurred on the evacuation with the Centre at this juncture.

Army columns with artillery moved towards Punjab's border with Pakistan on Thursday amid rising tensions between India and Pakistan after the surgical strikes by special forces across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

Army convoys could be seen moving towards the various Punjab districts bordering Pakistan, including Fazilka, Ferozepur, Amrit-

sar, Tarn Taran, Gurdaspur and Pathankot. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Badal over telephone to request him to immediately start evacuation of villagers living within 10 km from the border, a Punjab government spokesman said here. Following the Centre's request, the Punjab government ordered the evacuation within 10-km belt along the international border in Punjab.

The Border Security Force (BSF) was mobilising its troops and strengthening the security along the border.

Defamation case: Arrest warrant issued against Uma Centre notifies constitution Only five per cent Indians amation case since October 2015 of Monetary Policy Committee bhopAl, September aware of thrombosis and enough time has been given 29 (pti): A non-bailable arrest warrant was issued against Union Minister Uma Bharti by a local court today for not appearing before it in connection with a 13-year-old defamation case filed against her by Congress leader Digvijaya Singh.

Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Bhubhaskar Yadav said senior police officers should execute the arrest warrant, while dismissing the Union Water Resources Minister's application, moved by her lawyer Harish Mehta, seeking exemption from appearance during court hearing today due to an important engagement.

Mehta pleaded that his client be exempted from the hearing on ground that she was engaged in a meeting regarding the Cauvery water dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu in view of Supreme Court's order.

CJM Yadav dismissed the plea saying that Bharti is not turning up to record her statement in connection with the def-

to her in the 13-year-old case.

Earlier in February, the then CJM Pankaj Singh Maheshwari had asked Bharti and Digvijaya Singh to be present at a mediation centre on its premises along with their lawyers to resolve their differences, but it didn't work.

The senior Congress leader had filed the case against the then BJP chief ministerial candidate Bharti in the run-up to the 2003 Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls after she alleged that a scam running in crores of rupees had taken place during Singh's tenure as the state's chief minister between 1993 and 2003.

New Delhi, September 29 (iANS): The central government here on Thursday notified the constitution of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) well ahead of the Reserve Bank of India monetary policy review on October 4. "In exercise of the powers conferred by the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934, the Central Government has accordingly constituted, through a gazette notification dated September 29, 2016, the Monetary Policy Committee of RBI," the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

With the notification of MPC and full membership of the pan-

el in place, the next bi-monthly monetary policy update of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is expected to go by the recommendations of this panel, including a call on interest rates.

Three academics have been named the government nominee members to the Monetary Policy Committee. The names, cleared by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, are: Chetan Ghate, Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute; Pami Dua, Director at Delhi School of Economics; and Ravindra Dholakia, Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

1.05 bn Aadhar cards issued, challenge to enroll remaining 20 crore: UIDAI New Delhi, September 29 (iANS): With 1.05 billion Aadhar biometric ID cards issued till date, the government and regulator are ahead of the curve in the use of IT to set up a national digital payments infrastructure, a senior official has said.

"With the Aadhar Act passed by parliament, being notified earlier this month, the challenge now is of enrolling the remaining 20 crore people, who are still out of the Unique ID (UID) system... people mostly in difficult to access, remote areas," Chairman Unique Identification Authority (UIDAI) J. Satyanarayana said via videoconference, addressing an event on Wednesday evening, organised here by the Centre for Digital Financial

Inclusion (CDFI).

"The second challenge is of activating systems to keep these 1 billion-plus data updated, as required in two diverse time-cycles of five and 15 years. And the other big challenge is how to promote the use of Aadhar," he added.

Describing developments in this area as being "revolutionary" in the sense of "momentous change", the government said dynamic changes were accelerating transformation which, for the first time in India, was being orchestrated by government and the regulator.

"For the first time, what is accelerating transformation in India are the two agents -- government and regulator," Secretary Ministry of Electronic and

Information Technology (MeitY) Aruna Sundararajan said while addressing the gathering.

"What is driving this change ... innovation and disruption, and the technology initiatives of the government are way ahead.

Today government and regulator are ahead of the curve," she said.

"We'll move all transfers (subsidy) towards digital Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) payments," she added. CDFI, which has just completed two years of existence, almost coinciding with the second anniversary of the government's Jan Dhan scheme for financial inclusion, is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) and Tata Trusts, among others.

In his address, Deputy Di-

rector BMGF Daniel Radcliffe, said India is much ahead of other countries in Asia and Africa in setting up a digitised system for implementing financial inclusion.

"India is way ahead of many other countries... We are convinced that India will teach the world about financial inclusion," Radcliffe said, referring to the phenomenal "intersection of financial inclusion and digital technology" in India.

"What is unique about India is the way the government is playing a pro-active role in building a payments and ID infrastructure. This has opened the space to private players for a supportive structure of payment banks, fintech, mobile money," he added.

FinTech, or financial technologies, is a rapidly growing sector in the Indian economy, led by an innovation-driven ecosystem, and a large consumer base.

CDFI, a non government think tank working on research, innovation and dissemination in the area of digital financial inclusion, is currently assisting MeitY and other departments in the process for digital payments enablement.

It is asking the government to adopt some of the innovations and applications it has developed like the Financial Inclusion MIS and Dashboard that provides a platform to measure the performance of bank business correspondents and other stakeholders against predefined parameters.

Sedentary Lifestyle: Heart’s worst enemy Heart disease affects young Indian 10 years ahead of their Western counterparts

New Delhi, September 29 (iANS): Sedentary but fast-paced lifestyle is a leading cause for heart diseases in India, a survey conducted by Curofy, a doctors networking app, has revealed.

According to the survey, cardiovascular disorders are the cause of 25% deaths in India and heart disease does not affect the urban and economically strong only, it also affects the rural and underprivileged population.

The survey is based on 2,230 doctors and around 22.4% of them said unhealthy food habits are the culprit, leading our population to an epidemic of heart failure.

Meanwhile, the na-

tion’s top cardiologists have warned that heart disease has affected the young Indian population 10 years ahead of their Western counterparts - particularly over the last three decades - owing to sedentary lifestyles and lack of exercise.

Heart disease or cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a collective term for diseases of the heart and blood vessels. The term commonly includes diseases such as coronary heart disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, peripheral vascular disease and stroke.

"We have witnessed an increase of approximately 10.5% in young heart patients from urban areas and 6% from the rural ar-

eas as compared to youngsters in western countries with about 3-4% rise in the disease," Naresh Trehan, Chairman and Managing Director at Gurgaon's Medanta - The Medicity, told IANS. According to experts, nearly 7% patients aged 2540 in the metros suffer from coronary heart diseases (CAD). CAD -- also known as hardening of the arteries -- is caused by the build-up of plaque. The arteries, usually smooth and elastic, get plaque on their inner walls, making them more rigid and narrowed.

The condition then restricts the blood flow to the heart, starving it of oxygen.

The plaque could then rupture, leading to a heart

attack or sudden cardiac death. Typical symptoms include chest pain or angina, or shortness of breath especially after physical exertion.

"CAD is the most common type of heart disease affecting the youth of the country," Ashwani Mehta, Senior Consultant (cardiology) at New Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, told IANS. "At times, there can be unusual symptoms like epigastric discomfort -pain that is localised to the region of the upper abdomen immediately below the ribs -- jaw pain or left arm pain as well as acute myocardial infarction or heart attack," Mehta explained.

"Globally, Indians have a 50-400 per cent higher incidence of CAD as compared to people of other ethnic origins," noted Gunjan Kapoor, Director (interventional cardiology) at Jaypee Hospital in Noida.

This premature CAD in Indians occurs due to genetic predisposition which includes high levels of lowdensity lipoprotein (LDLC) or "bad" cholesterol and metabolic syndrome.

When these get coupled with adverse effects of lifestyle factors associated with urbanisation, affluence and changes in diet, it results in risk of an early heart disease -- even death.

"CVD is preventable if one controls sedentary

lifestyle and tobacco use, alcohol addiction, foods containing too much salt and low physical activity," Trehan noted.

All these factors increase the risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and weight gain -- leading to heart disease.

According to Ritika Samaddar, renowned dietician and nutritionist, processed foods need to be cut down as they are high in calories and sodium (salt).

Consuming fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds such as almonds and flaxseeds/pumpkin seeds coupled with daily exercise and a stress-free environment can help ward off heart disease risk.

KolKAtA, September 29 (iANS): Only five per cent of Indians are aware of thrombosis -- formation of blood clots in the vein -- which affects roughly one in 1,000 people in the country, an expert said here on Thursday.

Thrombosis is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide but, sadly, not many people know of its fatality, said critical care expert Rajat Chowdhury ahead of World Thrombosis Day on October 13.

"Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) affects almost one in 1,000 people in India ... people's awareness of thrombosis is as low as a dismal 5 per cent," said Chowdhury, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Head of Intensive Care Unit in IPGMER and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata.

Chowdhury said that in pregnant women the number of affected is "almost seven in 1,000" in the Caesarean section, as they are "more prone" to venous blood clot.

Referring to official statistical analysis, he said, more than 10 million people globally are affected by VTE, an acute kind of thrombosis in which a blood clot in the limbs breaks free from a vein wall and travels to the lungs and stops some or all of the blood supply. Worldwide, one in every four persons dies of thrombosis-related illness.

In the US, there are almost one lakh to three lakh VTErelated deaths every year whereas, in Europe, the number of VTE-related casualty is a staggering five lakh a year.

According to 'The World Thrombosis Day' committee, this number is "higher than the number of deaths caused

by AIDS, breast cancer and motor vehicle accidents". In India too, thrombosis-related complications are on the rise and a three- to four-fold increase in VTE-related illness has been witnessed in the last 10 years.

"Earlier, people had a notion of keeping hospitalised patients under bed rest, but immobility for a long time increases the chance of thrombosis," Chowdhury explained. As VTE symptoms are silent and diagnosed late, Chowdhury advocated preventive strategies. He said people above 35 years of age should undergo annual check-ups and maintain a healthy lifestyle. As for hospitalised people, mechanical compression, like graduated compression stockings (GCS), can be used to prevent deep vein thrombosis, he added.

Kerala to tweak liquor policy thiruvANANthApurAm, September 29 (iANS): The Kerala government is all set to tweak the much-debated liquor policy of the previous Oommen Chandy government, a state minister said on Thursday.

State Minister for Excise T.P. Ramakrishnan said: "We are very clear on what the policy should be. It will come into effect from the next fiscal year."

Ramakrishnan is a senior CPI-M leader and a close aide of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. "Generally, the liquor policy is an annual affair and it comes into effect on the first day of every financial year," he said. Talking about the likely changes in the tweaked liquor policy, he said: "Whenever our policy is announced, it will be one that lays emphasis on the policy of abstinence and not total prohibition, which the last government's policy stressed upon."

The Chandy government had laid out a road map to take the state towards total prohibition by 2023. As a first step, it decided to allow only some two dozen bars to operate in five-star hotels across the state, which led to the closure of more than 700 bars operating in other starred hotels and restaurants.

It also decided to close down 10% of the retail liquor vends every October 2 (Gandhi Jayanti) starting October 2014. Currently, there are 338 retail liquor vends in the state, all of which are run by the state government.

Had Ramakrishnan carried forward the policy of the Chandy government, which came in force on April 1 this year, 38 retail vends would have had to down their shutters on October 2.

"We looked into the figures and found that liquor sales have not gone down, instead they have gone up. Our policy is being worked upon and it would have specific policies to see that the message of abstinence is sent out very strongly," said Ramakrishnan.

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Colombia tipped for Nobel Peace Prize after deal to end war OSLO, September 29 (reuterS): A Colombian peace accord ending a half-century of war is widely tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize next week, returning the award to its roots after a run of wins for organisations including the European Union.

The prize might be shared by President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist FARC rebel leader Timochenko - the nom de guerre of Rodrigo Londono - after they signed a deal on Sept.

26 to end a war that killed a quarter of a million people.

“The agreement ... is one of the most obvious peace prize candidates I’ve ever seen,” said Asle Sveen, a historian who tracks the awards. Still, he said a prize may hinge on a “Yes” to the agreement in a referendum in Colombia on Sunday.

It would be the first award for Latin America since Guatemalan human rights activist Rigoberta Menchu won in 1992.

Other candidates for the 8.0 million Swedish crown ($934,000) prize include Svetlana Gannushkina, a Russia campaigner for human rights and refugees, Syria’s White Helmets, a civilian group that seeks to rescue victims of air strikes, or Greek islanders who have aided Syrian refugees.

Others tips include negotiators of a deal over Iran’s nuclear programme or former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden who

leaked details of U.S. surveillance.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, puts Gannushkina as his favourite, with Colombia second, saying such a prize would be an overdue rebuke to President Vladimir Putin.

“Ten years into the future there’s a risk that it will be seen as major omission by the Nobel Committee,” he said of a lack of criticisms of Russian restrictions on human rights and the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region in 2014.

HUMAN FACE An award for Colombia would shift the prize back to traditions of peacemaking by individuals. The five-strong Nobel committee, comprising several former politicians, might also be swayed because Norway helped broker the accord.

Organisations have won three of the past four years in the strongest run since the awards were set up in the 1895 will of Sweden’s Alfred Nobel, a philanthropist and inventor of dynamite.

Last year’s prize went to Tunisia’s National Dialogue Quartet, for peacefully helping build democracy, in 2013 to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and in 2012 to the European Union, now set to shrink after Britain voted to leave.

“There was less interest in the media when there

ELN rebels say ready to start formal peace talks

People gather for the signing of the government’s peace agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cartagena, Colombia on September 26. (REUTERS Photo)

was only an organisation,” said Geir Lundestad, who was secretary to the secretive committee from 19902014.

In many years, prizes to organisations have been shared with a person to give a human face, such as when the United Nations won with Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2001.

Before the EU, the last prize solely to an organisation was in 1999, to Medecins sans Frontieres.

Harpviken said there was no suggestion the prize was losing lustre - there were a record 376 nominees this year.

Thousands of people, including all members

of national parliaments worldwide, university professors of subjects such as history and law and former winners can make nominations.

Individuals have always been the most compelling winners.

This year’s award comes days after the death of Israel’s Shimon Peres, who shared the 1994 prize with late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Mother Teresa, the 1979 winner, was declared a saint by Pope Francis this month.

The prizes begin on Oct. 3 with Physiology or Medicine, Physics on Oct. 4, Chemistry on Oct. 5,

Peace on Oct. 7, Economics on Oct. 10. The date of the Literature Prize has not yet been set. All except peace are awarded in Stockholm.

Japanese write Haruki Murakami, Syrian poet Adunis and U.S. novelist Philip Roth are among favourites for the hard-topredict literature award, according to bookmakers Ladbrokes.

Among the favourites for Physics are scientists who detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesised by Albert Einstein a century ago, according to a study by the Intellectual Property and Science business of Thomson Reuters.

NKorean soldier makes rare Three killed, more than 100 hurt in New defection across DMZ to South Jersey train crash - media, officials SeOuL, September 29 (reuterS): A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea on Thursday, the South’s military said, making a rare crossing of one of the world’s most heavily fortified borders amid heightened tension between the rival neighbours. The soldier crossed the military demarcation line that runs through the demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas, which remain in a technical state of war since their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a peace treaty.

While on average more than 1,000 North Koreans defect to South Korea every year, most travel via China and it is unusual for a North Korean to cross the DMZ, which is heavily mined and lined with barbed wire and soldiers on both sides. The last such crossing was in June 2015. The soldier was unarmed and there was no exchange of fire, a South Korean military official said. He walked across an eastern part of the front line at around 10 a.m. (0100 GMT) and was being questioned over how and why he made the crossing, South Korea’s Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

The escape follows a series of high profile defections that have angered North Korea at a time of heightened international tension over its nuclear and missile tests. The most prominent defector was Thae Yong Ho, the North’s deputy ambassador to Britain, who became the highestranking diplomat to defect to the South when he arrived last month, an embarrassing blow to the government of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In April, 12 North Korean waitresses in a restaurant in China fled to the south, along with their manager. Tension has been high on the Korean peninsula since the North conducted its fourth nuclear test at the beginning of the year and followed it with an unprecedented string of missile tests, and then its fifth and largest nuclear test this month.

NeW YOrK, September 29 (reuterS): Three people were killed and more than 100 people were injured, some of them critically, when a New Jersey Transit train derailed and crashed through the station in Hoboken, New Jersey during the morning rush hour on Thursday, U.S. media and a transit official said. MSNBC reported that three people were killed, citing medical officials. There were well over 100 people with injuries, many of them with critical injuries, New Jersey Transit spokeswoman Jennifer Nelson told reporters. She did not say if there were any fatalities.

Dramatic pictures posted by commuters showed a train carriage that appeared to have smashed right through the station concourse, collapsing a section of the roof, scattering debris and wreckage and causing devastation. ABC News said on its website that New Jersey Transit was reporting many passengers were trapped. Hoboken lies on the west bank of the Hudson River across from New York City. Its station, one of the busiest in the metropolitan area, is used by many commuters traveling into Manhattan from New Jersey and further afield.

Linda Albelli, 62, said she was sitting in her seat in one of the rear cars when the train approached the station. She said she knew something was wrong a moment before the impact. “I thought to myself, ‘Oh my god, he’s not slowing up, and this

is where we’re usually stop,’” Albelli said. “’We’re going too fast,’ and with that there was this tremendous crash.”

Passengers helped each other off the train and onto the platform. They ultimately had to cross the tracks to get to safety, she said: “When we got on the platform there was nowhere to go. The ceiling had come down.” The injured sat on benches in the station while they waited for first responders, said Albelli, who lives in Closter, New Jersey.

She did not know how many had been hurt.

“There was just so much, a lot of people in need of attention,” she said. “There were a lot of people who were really hurt.”

The train had about five or six carriages and was not full because many passengers exit at Secaucus, Albelli said. New Jersey Transit said in a post on Twitter that rail service in and out of Hoboken was suspended due to a train accident. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey did not have an estimate of when PATH service will resume, a spokesman said. The Federal Railroad Administration said in post on Twitter that its investigators were en route to the scene.

New Jersey State Police said it was sending “multiple assets” to the station and monitoring the situation. The worst passenger train crash in recent years in the United States was the crash of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia in May, 2015 that killed eight passengers and injured 186.

Thailand govt cracks down on migrant workers

A migrant worker cries during a crack down on illegal migrant workers at a market in Bangkok on September 27. (REUTERS Photo)

bANGKOK, September 29 (reuterS): Thailand is cracking down on migrant workers from neighbouring countries, saying they are “stealing jobs from Thais”, amid fears that antiimmigrant sentiment is rising as Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy stagnates.

In an operation led by the Thai labour department, police and troops on Wednesday raided a fresh produce market in Bangkok and arrested 14 people, most of them from neighbouring Myanmar.

“We have received many complaints about illegal immigrants

working in markets including Vietnamese and even South Asians who were stealing jobs from Thais,” Thai immigration police chief Nathorn Phrosunthorn told Reuters.

“They should be doing the jobs that Thais don’t want to do like work as house cleaners,” he said.

Under the terms of a 2015 memorandum of understanding Vietnamese citizens are restricted in their employment in Thailand and can work only as manual labourers in Thailand’s fishing or construction sectors.

Cambodians also have been nabbed in the raids, along with people from Myanmar and Vietnam.

ANTI-IMMIGRATION FEELINGS More than 3 million migrants work in Thailand, the vast majority from neighbouring Myanmar, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Thailand became wealthy compared to its neighbours when its economy boasted annual growth rates of over 7 percent in the 1980s and 1990s, drawing migrant workers from across the Greater Mekong Delta region and other parts of Asia. They mostly did jobs Thais tend to spurn, including backbreaking work in the fishing and construction sectors.

But, more than two years after the military government seized power and with Thailand’s economy on shaky ground, rights groups also see rising resentment against immigrants in Thailand, mirroring such sentiment elsewhere in the world.

“There seems to be a surge of national sentiment in Thai immigration policy claiming migrants from Vietnam, for example, are taking jobs that are reserved for Thai nationals,” Sunai Phasuk from Human Rights Watch told Reuters.

“We haven’t seen this kind of rise in anti-immigrant sentiment for decades. This has a lot to do economic concerns.”

Sanit Choklamlert, a shop keeper in Bangkok’s Silom business district, said migrants are seen

as competitors for some Thais.

“There are too many Myanmar people here now and they’re fighting for the same jobs as us,” he said.

“We need to send some back.”

HUMAN TRAFFICKING Thailand’s economy is on course to grow 3.0 percent in 2016 after expanding 2.8 percent in 2015 and only 0.7 percent in 2014.

Nathorn said the crackdown was not driven by an anti-immigrant policy. “We still need migrant labour. We just want to keep some order,” he said.

The raids have targeted fresh markets, restaurants, supermarkets and shopping malls. Around 153 immigrants were rounded up between Sept. 1 and Sept. 26, according to labour department figures. Those caught face up to five years in prison, a fine of up to 3,000 baht ($100) or deportation.

Migrants are often at risk of falling into the hands of human trafficking rings, who sell them into virtual slavery on plantations, timber mills and fishing boats, human rights groups say.

Thailand was removed from the bottom rung of the U.S. State Department’s annual list of worst human trafficking offenders this year despite what the department described as “widespread forced labour” in the country’s vital seafood industry.

bOGOtA, September 29 (reuterS): Colombia’s Marxist ELN rebels said on Wednesday they were ready to start formal peace talks with the government and resolve issues that have so far stymied the negotiations announced in March. The ELN’s announcement comes two days after Colombia’s center-right government and the Marxist FARC rebel group signed a peace deal to end a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people and once took the Andean country to the brink of collapse.

The leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels and the government had announced peace talks in March, but the negotiations have been delayed by the rebels’ continued kidnappings and infrastructure attacks. On Tuesday, President Juan Manuel Santos called on the ELN, Colombia’s second biggest rebel group with some 2,000 in its ranks, to free hostages and start the formal negotiation process. The government said the group was holding at least four hostages.

“We’re ready for the public phase to continue what was decided on March 30 and find solutions to difficulties,” the ELN tweeted on Wednesday. Inspired by Cuba’s 1959 revolution, the ELN has battled a dozen Colombian governments since it was founded by radical Catholic priests in 1964. The group frequently bombs pipelines and other installations linked to Colombia’s oil industry.

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pacquiao used drugs as a teen but backs duterte MANILA, SepteMber 29 (reuterS): Philippines boxing icon Emmanuel "Manny" Pacquiao says he took all kinds of drugs as a teenager but fully supports President Rodrigo Duterte, whose vicious anti-drugs campaign has led to the killing of more than 3,000 people, mostly users and pushers, in three months.

Pacquiao, now a senator and a close ally of the president, also said Duterte was anointed by God to discipline the Filipino people and his authority must be respected.

"The president, he doesn't know my experience with drugs," said Pacquiao, 37, adding he was confident it wouldn't damage their close relationship.

"He always gives a chance to people who want to be changed," said the boxer-turned-lawmaker in an interview in his senate office.

"I tried drugs...many kinds of drugs, all kinds of

drugs," he said, dressed in the traditional white Filipino barong shirt and trousers.

Pacquiao said this phase lasted for years "before I became a champion".

Duterte, who took office on June 30, has made the war on drugs the central part of his presidency, saying narcotics are destroying the nation of 100 million people. A total of 3,171 people have been killed since then, including users and pushers, nearly two thirds by unknown assailants and the rest in legitimate police operations, according to police.

The friendship between the boxer known as "The Destroyer" and the president known as "The Punisher" dates back at least 15 years as Pacquiao tells it, to a boxing ring in Davao, where Duterte helped organise one of his fights.

"He helped me a lot. He helped me with the promotion when I started in boxing. One of my fights held

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Philippine Senator and boxing champion Manny Pacquiao listens as Senator Leila de Lima (not pictured) delivers a privilege speech at the Senate in Pasay city, Metro Manila, Philippines on September 20, 2016. (Reuters Photo/Erik De Castro)

in Davao, he sponsored it," said Pacquiao, a southpaw who has been an eight-division world champion. "He helped with the promotion, financially as well."

Pacquiao has the initials of a group called Guardians Mindanao Brotherhood tattooed on his wrist, as does Duterte, according to media reports. "It's a frater-

nity," Pacquiao said.

Guardians Brotherhood started as a soldiers group that was later disbanded.

Pacquiao was born in the town of Kibawe in the Mindanao region of the southern Philippines, about 80 km (50 miles) from Davao city, where Duterte was mayor and

STOWAWAY MADE GOOD Pacquiao's family was dirt-poor, and, according to his autobiography, the family lived in a thatched hut. His father harvested coconuts and his mother sold peanuts. Pacquiao did odd jobs to survive and stowed away on a boat to Manila as a teenager, where he started competitive boxing.

According to Forbes, he has earned $500 million from purses, pay-per-view and endorsements so far in his career. Pacquiao could not recall his first meeting with Duterte but said it was when he was 22 or 23.

Since then, Pacquiao said they had frequently met for meals and that he is a godfather to Duterte's grandson.

Even now, Pacquiao says, Duterte often calls after a fight to congratulate him.

Pacquiao calls the president by his nickname, Digong, a play on his first

name, Rodrigo. "He's a very nice person, a nice guy," Pacquiao said, adding that the president was totally unlike the popular perception that he was foul-mouthed and aggressive. "He is a respectful person, a hospitable person, a friendly person."

Pacquiao said blaming the killings on the president was unfair because it was drug lords and drug pushers who were killing one other.

"God put him there for a reason, for purpose - to discipline the people," he said, adding that the people had to respect the authority and "the anointed one".

Pacquiao supported Jejomar Binay, a rival of Duterte, in the presidential campaign, but switched allegiance to Duterte later.

Now he is one of the president's closest allies, and one of his first acts in the senate was to file a bill to reinstate the death penalty for drug-related and serious crimes, one of Duterte's key plans.

Frustrated Perez threatens to walk away from F1

Sergio Perez

SepANg, SepteMber 29 (AFp): Sergio Perez warned Thursday he could walk away from Formula One if he cannot secure a seat for the 2017 season by next week's Japanese Grand Prix. Perez indicated at the Singapore Grand Prix two weeks ago that he would like to stay with Force India for 2017, after being sounded out by Renault.

But the Mexican is frus-

trated at delays in striking a deal. "I believe that next week is crucial to sort out my future, so by next week I need to know if the option remains or if I have to look somewhere else (other than Formula One)," Perez told reporters ahead of Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix. "At the moment I hope it works out with one team, and if it doesn't then by next week we will have to look at something else. Obviously I want to keep my career in Formula One going, but I cannot wait much longer."

Perez was asked about rumours that the deal has been delayed because he only wants a one-year deal, to keep his options open for a move to the works-backed Renault team for 2018.

"Other people are saying that," Perez replied. "But for me it's more important going into the next generation of cars with a team I know, and with people around me I know, and build from that. "I don't even know where I'll be in 2017, so 2018 is miles ahead."

public discourse

A clarion call from the CSCf Mokokchung

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uring this crucial juncture of threshold of the Indo-Naga political settlement, the Concerned Senior Citizen Forum, (CSCF) Mokokchung Nagaland feels that it is our utmost moral duty to stand unwavering based on unshakable Naga political principles; drawn from the Naga peoples’ memorandum submitted to the Simon Commission in 1929 and subsequent reaffirmation by way of conducting National Plebiscite in 1951,followed by various political steps taken so far; now, reaching towards a possible political solution under the Framework Agreement, signed between GOI and NSCN (IM) during the ceasefire period. If the Nagas miss this God given opportunity, they will lament forever.

Therefore, we strongly feel that it is not the time to remain divided, but to keep prepared overcoming all destructive forces emerging from outside and inside during this testing period of our strength and capability to shoulder heavier political responsibilities.

Realizing that future generation is more important than the past eventful developments, all Nagas should now learn the art of living together and working together learning from the past shortcomings for greater interest of the Naga Nation having one slogan and one vision for a unified Naga self-rule government; an excellent model of Naga democracy in Naga way that could be demonstrated to the world as Naga Indigenous Peoples’ Tribal Nation.

We feel that it is not the time to narrate about the past glory repeatedly, or to glorify the 16 Points Agreement. Moreover, it is not

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the time to debate on the issue of inclusiveness or otherwise but to prepare together to reach the Naga political destiny jointly towards creating a Federation of Naga Indigenous Peoples’ Nation under the provision of UN declaration on the rights of the Indigenous People like that of the Nagas, either living in Indian or Burmese occupied territories of the Naga Homeland.

Instead of creating misunderstanding among the Nagas over many non issues with parochial approach, having selfish motives, mobilizing vote bank under Indian political structure, playing dirty politics; all Nagas should now come out from all those localized cocoons and contribute their best in the process of the Naga Nation building.

We further call upon all the Naga Civil Societies lead by the Naga Hoho to remain united more firmly to lead the Naga populace giving proper direction to the people as the Indo-Naga political negotiators from both sides are now concretizing the long cherished Naga political struggle coming to an end as desired and mandated by the Nagas.

For these reasons, the CSCF Mkg humbly invites every conscious Nagas citizen to join hand and voice out together with one voice for early settlement of the Indo-Naga political issue and to keep ready to carry out the outcome of the present political negotiations.

Signed on behalf of the CSCF Mkg, dated 30th September, 2016 Prof. A. Lanunungsang, Prof. Sangyu Yaden, Dr. Lanusashi Mr. C.Bur Longkumer, Mr. Aoshingang Jamir, Mr. Pangerzulu, Mr. Benja Namo, Advocate.

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Salient features of Electronic Waste (Management) Rules 2016

he Govt. of India has enacted the revised E-Waste (Management) Rule 2016 as it accords high priority to Swachh Bharat and sanitation measures as a tool to synergize the dynamic growth and sustainability of the country.

Nagaland Pollution Control Board hereby highlights the salient features of the revised E-Waste (Management) Rule 2016 for concerned authorities for implementation.

1. Responsibilities of State Government: a) Department of Industry in State to ensure earmarking or allocation of industrial space or shed for e-waste dismantling and recycling in the existing and upcoming industrial park, estate and industrial clusters; b) Department of Labour in the State: i. ensure recognition and registration of workers involved in dismantling and recycling; ii. assist formation of groups of such workers to facilitate setting up dismantling facilities; iii. undertake industrial skill development activities for the workers involved in dismantling and recycling; iv. undertake annual monitoring and to ensure safety & health of workers involved in dismantling and recycling; c) State Government to prepare integrated plan for effective implementation of these provisions, and to submit annual report to Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

2. Responsibilities of collection centres. – • collect e-waste on behalf of producer or dismantler or recycler or refurbisher including those arising from orphaned products; Provided the collection centres established by producer can also collect e-waste on behalf of dismantler, refurbisher and recycler including those arising from orphaned products • ensure that the facilities are in accor-

dance with the standards or guidelines is• The manufacturer, producer, importer, sued by Central Pollution Control Board transporter, refurbisher, dismantler and recyfrom time to time; cler shall be liable for all damages caused to the environment or third party due to improper 3. Responsibilities of dealers. – handling and management of the e-waste; • in the case the dealer has been given the responsibility of collection on behalf of the 7. Urban Local Bodies (Municipal Commitproducer, the dealer shall collect the e-waste tee or Council or Corporation) shall ensure by providing the consumer a box, bin or a de- that e-waste pertaining to orphan products marcated area to deposit e-waste, or through is collected and channelized to authorized take back system and send the e-waste so col- dismantler or recycler. lected to collection centre or dismantler or recycler as designated by producer; 8. Responsibilities of State • ensure that no damage is caused to the Pollution Control Board: environment during storage and transportation of e-waste. i) SPCBs are required to perform the following duties: 4. Responsibilities of • Grant and renewal of authorization to consumer or bulk consumer. – manufacturers, dismantlers, recyclers and • consumers or bulk consumers of electri- refurbishers cal and electronic equipment listed in Sched• Monitoring and compliance of Extendule I shall ensure that e-waste generated by ed Producer Responsibility - Authorization as them is channelised through collection cen- directed by Central Pollution Control Board tre or dealer of authorised producer or dis- and that of dismantlers, recyclers and refurmantler or recycler or through the designated bishers authorization. take back service provider of the producer to • Action against violations of these rules. authorised dismantler or recycler; • bulk consumers of electrical and electron- ii) The concerned State Pollution Conic equipment listed in Schedule I shall maintain trol Board shall prepare and submit to the records of e-waste generated by them in Form-2 Central Pollution Control Board an annual and make such records available for scrutiny by report with regard to the implementation the concerned State Pollution Control Board; of these rules.

These revised rules can be viewed in detail 5. Responsibilities of the dismantler. – from the websites of the Ministry of Environ• obtain authorisation from the concerned State Pollution Control Board in accordance with ment Forest and Climate Change, Government of India, www.moef.nic.in or Nagaland the procedure under sub-rule (3) of rule 13.

Pollution Control Board website, www.npcb.

6. Liability of manufacturer, producer, im- nagaland.gov.in Issued in the interest of the public by, porter, transporter, refurbisher, dismantler Member Secretary and recycler.Nagaland Pollution Control Board

Clandestine relationship With truth

t is extremely saddening to observe the present leadership in various fronts gradually losing focus on the bigger picture of the collective well being the Nagas.

Many at the decisive helms of affairs in government and various NGOs are addressing hoards of burning issues with compromised honour and honesty dictated by vested interests while maintaining a very hypocritical relationship with truth.

Starting with issues such as (1) The opaque "Framework Agreement"; (2) The Rongmai recognition as an Indigenous inhabitant Tribe of Nagaland; (3) The emerging controversy within the Naga Hoho; etc., the overall response of our leaders has been far from satisfactory.

(1) Let us first deal with the "Framework Agreement" issue yet again. The joint statement issued by 'NSCN (IM) leaders on 'Framework Agreement' published in all the local papers on 1st September 2016 was a literal denunciation of "Nagas of Nagaland" into the realms of irrelevance. However, let it be affirmed that without the "Nagas of Nagaland" the core subject of "Naga Sovereignty" would not have existed in the first place. History reflects that political consciousness or the collective pride of 'Naga identity' as an independent people amongst our Naga brothers elsewhere was non-existent when thousands of Nagas of Nagaland were already being butchered by our adversary because of the NNM. There were still others who failed to find courage to join the National Movement

at its most trying hours even though the National call had unequivocally been sent out to them. Anyone with an honourable sense of pride would therefore customarily consider this joint statement of NSCN (IM) leaders as the mother of all insults to the Nagas of Nagaland... questioning the rightful place of Nagas of Nagaland in Naga History by those who joined the 'sovereignty' band wagon only after ensuring it was safer for them to do so. Having said that, it is amply clear that the Nagas in general are not against the "Framework Agreement" per se but are decidedly averse to the lack of transparency concerning its contents; As stakeholders, the common view being upheld is that the essence of the very principle of 'Naga freedom' gets violated and rendered meaningless if fundamental right to information directly linked to their future wellbeing and fair opportunity to be heard, is arrogantly and autocratically trampled to the ground even before achieving the goal. Lasting solution in real terms will be hard to find within such vicious environment especially without official participatory space being afforded to all the warring Factions in an honourable capacity. Whether big or small, productive or unproductive, all Factions have played a role in the NNM and deserve a role to play in the closing chapter of the NNM. Therefore, instead of taking an unbiased proactive initiative to find an acceptable middle-ground of reconciliation to reinforce the efforts of FNR or

go beyond the existing parameter to deal with this complex factional equation the trend amongst the socalled leaders in government and NGOs has tilted towards joining 'blind endorsement' band wagon dictated by fear or self-perpetuating motivations rather than by dispassionate reasoning. We are fast becoming mere spineless race devoid of courage or vision, divorced from honesty and honour.

(2) Coming to the Rongmai fiasco: Other than handful of Rongmai families brought in by the British for some specific nature of labour requirement, the Rongmais as a Tribe has no historical or territorial presence within the State of Nagaland...period. No one is questioning the legitimacy of Rongmai as a Naga Tribe but they are not officially qualified to be declared as "Indigenous inhabitant" within the State of Nagaland. Showing specific consideration for posterity of those authentic Rongmai families who settled within Nagaland before a certain cut-off dateline on an individual case to case basis would be a fair dispensation but recognizing the whole Tribe because of a few would be a huge miscarriage of justice. Subverting this factual historical and territorial ground reality to give them "Indigenous inhabitant Tribe of Nagaland" will definitely open the floodgate for all other Naga Tribes from other States to claim the same distinction. Can a Government grant an unfair status to Rongmai Tribe and yet refuse other Tribes like the Maos and the

Tangkhuls whose cases we understand are also pending consideration? This is a fundamental question of dispensing equitable justice for all that will haunt the Government now or later? Adopting irrational action will dangerously upset the delicate Tribal equilibrium and seriously deplete the already scarce resource-base and employment opportunities for the sons and daughters of the legitimate Tribes of this State. Therefore, since each Naga Tribe is enjoying democratic rights and privileges from the regions they presently belong, selfishly seeking "dual benefits" beyond their current defined location must firmly be put down with an iron fist.

The sanctity of the original status must not be disturbed until territorial integration becomes a reality.

Accusing Nagas of Nagaland for being uncharitable would itself be an uncharitable accusation. Decisions guided by dishonest ulterior motivations can only result in contradictions and confrontations as is being faced today. This must be undone in all fairness.

(3) Finally, let it candidly be stated that the present nomenclature of "Naga Hoho" is a misnomer. Naga Hoho was originally created as a common platform for the 16 Tribes of the Nagas of Nagaland. That the membership eventually expanded into a Pan Naga representation was a welcomed necessity but should have appropriately been re-christened as a "Pan Naga Hoho" that aptly describes the broader base better rather than to continue within the

limited confines of Naga Hoho despite this change of circumstance.

By not doing so, the much needed "exclusive voice of Nagas of Nagaland" that once existed was surreptitiously sabotaged and wiped out to a status of a 'submerged minority'. This 'loss of voice' is disadvantageous not only to the Nagas of Nagaland but to the larger family of Nagas beyond. This has seriously compounded the already confusing picture of a complex tribal tapestry. There seems to exist an apprehensive misgiving that such an effort would lead to disintegration of the present Naga Hoho. This is far from the truth. The crux of the matter is to simply change the nomenclature from the present "Naga Hoho" to that of "Pan Naga Hoho" with proportionate representation of all the Naga Tribes from Assam, Arunachal, Manipur and Myanmar including Nagaland. Pan Naga Hoho can then forthrightly address the desired subject of "integration of all Naga inhabited area under one administrative umbrella" as envisioned in the 16 Point Agreement with a more forceful legitimacy and also coordinate other equally important aspect of cultural and emotional integration of all the constituent members in a sustained manner. The Naga Hoho of Nagaland can then meaningfully participate in all the proceeding of the Pan Naga Hoho as equal partners with all the rest even as it regains empowerment to address problems endemic to Nagaland and usher in a fresh lease of sensibility within our

own kitchen in a similar way that UNC is making its presence felt in Manipur. The sorely needed honourable pride in us as a people has well been amplified by the walkout of Ao Senden, Lotha Hoho and Sumi Hoho from the present Naga Hoho even if it was for a limited but important agenda of withdrawal of recognition of Rongmai Tribe as 'indigenous inhabitant'. Although all the 'elected' Legislators as usual are unthinkingly scrambling to convince their respective Apex bodies to rejoin Naga Hoho, the unwavering stand of these three major Tribes is being applauded by most right thinking people in Nagaland!

For a starter, it has at least caused the government that seems to only function under the pressure of 'ultimatums', to form a Cabinet SubCommittee to try and clean up the droppings of the earlier Cabinet.

This in itself is a laudable accomplishment whatever be the end result produced by this 'Ultimatum Government'. It also serves as an eye-opening opportunity to consider restructuring and reforming the present Naga Hoho by re-naming it as Pan Naga Hoho with an acceptable proportionate representation from all the Naga inhabited regions. The Naga family can then honourably regroup and move forward together in one united voice and vision divorcing our present clandestine relationship with truth and legitimately marrying truth in Church.

Khekiye K. Sema IAS (Rtd); Upper Forest Colony, Kohima E-mail: kksema@gmail.com

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

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Amy Schumer and Justin Bieber

'Most Dangerous Celebrities Online'

‘Fault In Our Stars’ Real-Life couple dies 5 days apart

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study suggests web users who search for information about the comedian have a 16% chance of being exposed to websites riddled with malware and viruses. While Schumer fans are at greatest risk of falling victim to cyber criminals, people who search for Justin Bieber, Will Smith, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus are also particularly vulnerable.

Intel Security's research found some fraudsters are creating malicious webpages which claim to offer the latest gossip about these celebrities, as well as free downloads. Although some of these unsafe websites do provide authentic information, malware is often embedded in downloads

and only spotted by victims when it is too late.

Social media is another minefield, with some Twitter and Facebook accounts masquerading as legitimate news sources and offering links to risky pages.

Cyber criminals also appear to be capitalising on the popularity of file-sharing services such as torrents, which are often used for illegal downloads.

When the phrase "Amy Schumer torrent" is searched online, the risk of connecting to a malicious website jumps to 33% - potentially leaving the credit card details and personal information of unsuspecting fans exposed.

Gary Davis, of Intel Security, said: "Consumers today remain fascinated with celebrity culture and

he couple known as the real-life Fault in Our Stars husband and wife have lost their battles with cystic fibrosis. Five days after Dalton Prager, 25, died from the disease, his wife, Katie Prager, 26, passed away at her home in Kentucky. She was in hospice care at the time of her tragic death.

Katie Prager met her husband, Dalton Prager, on Facebook after learning they both shared the same terminal lung disease, cystic fibrosis. They were 18 at the time. They got married two years later in 2011, becoming a real-life version of the young cancer patients go online to find the latest at the center of the popular pop culture news. "With this craving for real-time information, many search and click without considering potential security risks. lthough she anCyber criminals know this nounced she’s taking and take advantage of this a significant career behaviour." break last month, cancelling The report advises surfher world tour and ducking ers to only go to official websites for news, music out of the limelight comreleases and video down- pletely, Selena Gomez has loads - as well as taking ex- become the first celebrity to tra care to avoid "phishing", gain 100 million Instagram where crooks replicate the followers. This is partly as a design of a website to try result of Gomez’s fans coland deceive visitors into lectively known as Selenathinking it is the real thing. tors launching a campaign Another tip is to think twice to get the 24 year old star before giving out personal past the historic social media details - especially social landmark in her absence, media logins and credit and despite the fact that she card numbers - as the con- hasn’t uploaded any new sequences of identity theft images in over a month.

At the end of August, Gocan be costly.

Source: Sky News mez revealed that she would

novel-turned-movie “The Fault in Our Stars.”

“We were given a great gift, we knew her time was short and she was able to do a few thinks that she wanted, and I am grateful for that,” Katie’s mom wrote on her and Dalton’s Facebook. “The days to follow will not be easy but I find comfort in knowing that my girl lived, she really lived.”

Just like Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort’s characters in The Fault In Our Stars, Dalton and Katie suffered from the same lifethreatening disease. They were married five years ago, and had each received lung transplants, but dealt with complications, including lymphoma, from

the complicated surgeries.

Dalton died in a St. Louis hospital on Sept. 17, and sadly, Katie was too ill at the time to be by his side. The

lovely couple had to say their goodbyes via video chat, and were not able to be with one another during the final days they had left.

Sadly, the last time Katie and Dalton saw each other was on their fifth anniversary, July 16.

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Selena Gomez becomes the first to get 100 Million Instagram Followers

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be taking time out to deal with depression and anxiety caused by her struggle with the debilitating autoimmune disease, lupus. She then cancelledtheremainder of live dates on her current Revival tour. In a statement to People magazine at the time, she said that she had decided to take time away from the pressures of the spotlight

“to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decided that the best way forward is to take some time off.” Gomez was already the most followed Instagram celeb at that point, but now she’s quite a long way ahead of fellow social media titans Taylor Swift (91.4 million), Beyonce (85.3 million), Ariana Grande (85 million) and Kim Kardashian West (83.6 million). A spokesperson from Instagram confirmed later on Wednesday that Gomez was indeed the only person to have followers in the twelve digits.

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Hill Theatre performs street play on Swachhta Pakhwada Pitt voluntarily tests for drug amid child abuse investigation

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Artists of Hill Theatre perform street play on Swachhta Pakhwada in Mangkolemba Town, Mokokchung district.

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15-minute street play on Swachhta Pakhwada was performed by artists of Hill Theatre in Mangkolemba Town, Mokokchung district.

Directed by Kilang Im-

song, more than 400 school students and general public saw the play titled ‘Use Me’, which portrayed a reality check on environmental pollution that prevails in the society/community. The act displayed a sequence of dif-

I’m the Lamborghini of men: Ranveer Singh

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e know he is energetic, crazy, smart and talentedbut Ranveer Singh has now said he is “the Lamborghini of men”. The 31-year-old actor, with his quirky style and mind-blowing attitude was under the surveillance of the shutterbugs at the GQ awards 2016, Men Of The Year, where he stated, “I’m very fast, bright and colourful and unbearably loud.

And if you’re in Bombay you can’t take me anywhere. I’m the Lamborghini of men,” he added, according to a Pinkvilla report. The Bollywood star was awarded with the Actor of the Year trophy at the event.

He also made a video on the GQ Awards’ night, which flaunts his crazy side by every means. Posting the video on social media, the actor wrote, “Sorry. Not sorry. #GQAwards.” Looks like, the actor in the video is making fun of the Silence Please board before him in his own way, as Ranveer and silence never go hand in hand.

On the work front, the Ram Leela actor is all set with Aditya Chopra’s directorial venture Befikre, opposite Shuddh Desi Romance actress Vaani Kapoor, which will hit the theatres this December.

He also has Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming historical drama Padmavati in the pipeline and it is rumoured that his new thick beard-look is all for his character Alauddin Khilji.

Source: ANI

ferent scenes where people in the community blame each other for polluting the surroundings in the town with no sense of responsibilities to maintain a proper dumping site, stated a press release received here. It also

created awareness on making proper use of the dustbins and dumping zones.

The play was an initiative of the Hill Theatre and NEZCC, Ministry of Culture, Government of India for Swachhta Pakhwada.

for his kids and for them to be in the best environment, and he'll do anything that will put them in the best position," a source said.

Jolie, 41, filed for divorce on Monday, September 19. The former couple has six children.

ctor Brad Pitt reportedly voluntarily took a drug test during the investigation into allegations of child abuse made against him.

"The DCFS [Department of Community & Family Services] wouldn't compel someone to provide the urine sample for the drug test; it would be voluntary," a legal source has told Us magazine.

TMZ also reported that Pitt, 52, had offered to take a drug test shortly after the jet plane incident to prove that he had nothing to hide. A second source has confirmed this. The FBI is currently gathering evidence to evaluate whether to investigate Pitt on a federal level. It was reported that Pitt misbehaved with his kids on a private flight.

Pitt "has cooperated [with the investigation]. He certainly wants what's best

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nternational designer brand Tommy Hilfiger's first ever collaborative collection with reigning supermodel Gigi Hadid titled TOMMYxGIGI is now available in India. The collection was recently showcased at

New York Fashion week as part of the brand's See now, Buy now initiative. TommyXGigi is a collection that celebrates Hadid's unique take on modern style, fused with Hilfiger's signature "classic American cool" heritage.

The sporty-chic silhouettes are modernised with the usage of chiffon, cable-knits and sleek leathers. The look is effortless, youthful and cool.

For Hadid, the collection is a new take on nautical with a playful, romantic edge The

collection is now available at select Tommy Hilfiger stores in Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Gurgaon, Mumbai, New Delhi and Noida and the price of the collection starts from Rs 1,999.

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THE MORUNG EXPRESS

Celtic hold City in thriller, Atletico sink Bayern

17th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy Forerunners oust 2011 champ Lamkang SU, Barak FC to face Street Hawk FC today Our Correspondent

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Kohima | September 29

orerunners FC 4th NAP today ousted 2011 champion Lamkang SU at the ongoing 17th NSF Martyrs' Memorial Trophy 2016 (Lt. Kekuojalie Sachii & Lt. Vikhozo Yhoshii) played here the Kohima Local Ground.

Lamkang SC took an early lead through Bungthot in the 33rd minute but Forerunners came back strongly in the second half with Mathew Kezhose scoring two goals – in the 63rd and 75 minute – to help the 4th NAP side win 2-1.

In the second match of the day, Senapati FC came from behind to defeat Upper Bayavu YO 4-1.

Joseph netted a goal for Upper Bayavu YO in the 30 minute. However, four second half goals from Sulunu (55th), Sushil (60th), Sana (68th) and Vareiyang (69th) helped Senapati FC proceed to the second round.

Kuki United FC blanked Red Hawks FC Dihoma 6-0.

Seilenmang scored a hat-trick for Kuki United while Simon Sitho, Gigin Haokip and Kamgoulen Haokip scored one each.

In the final match, Billy Graham FC edged Vanguard FC 2-1. Chise Nyusou and Neikethozo scored for Billy Graham FC while Calvin scored the lone goal for Vanguard FC. September 30 Matches 1st Match: FC Phusachodu vs Tragopan Club Viswema @ 9:30 am 2nd Match: Renegades FC vs Asufu Christian Institute @ 11: 00 am 3rd Match: Barak FC vs Street Hawk FC @ 12:30 pm 4th Match: Kezoma village SU vs Phileo FC @ 2:00 pm

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Riisoma | September 29

three day long 1st Men's Open Amateur Badminton Tournament under the aegis of Riisoma Village Youth & Sports Association (RVYSA) was formally inaugurated today by Roko Angami, football coach, Asian Football Confederation, and former international football player.

Addressing the inaugural function, the chief guest shared his experience of getting selected to play at the national level representing the state and the country and encouraged the players to be dedicated and sincere in their field to prosper.

He also stressed on the need to seek blessings from elders and at the same time urged upon the sports lovers to have patience and grab every opportunity to prove their talent so that their coaches will be satisfied.

Roko, who is also president of Nagaland Football Coaches' Association (NFCA) and PS to MLA 11th NA-II A/C said that discipline, dedication and determination is very important but patience and hardworking is also a must.

He also stressed on the need to do away with the blame game prevailing in the Naga society.

He appreciated the organisers for initiating the tournament and hoped that they will be consistent in providing the platform to the players.

14 players are competing in the singles event while 25 teams are competing in the doubles event.

The tournament will conclude on October 1.

Volleyball Referee Clinic held

Phek, sePtember 29 (mexN): The three-day Volleyball Referee Clinical Camp being held at Runguzu village concluded today. Over 40 participants from various villages and ranges under Phek District took part in the clinic organized by the Run-

guzumi Volleyball Club in coordination with Phek District Volleyball Association.

The training was imparted by two State Junior Volleyball Coaches – Yanbemo Humtsoe and Repatemjen Jamir, and Phek District Volleyball Association officials.

Paris, sePtember 29 (aFP): Raheem Sterling netted at both ends as Manchester City were made to fight for a 3-3 draw with Celtic in a Champions League thriller on Wednesday, while Atletico Madrid once again did for Bayern Munich.

While City's perfect start to the season was ended in Glasgow, their Premier League rivals Arsenal eased to a 2-0 victory against Basel.

Atletico had eliminated Bayern in the semi-finals last season and repeated the trick at the Vicente Calderon to make it a double for Spanish clubs against German opposition as Barcelona downed Borussia Moenchengladbach.

On paper, the Group C clash at Celtic Park appeared to be a bit of a mismatch with City looking to equal Tottenham Hotspur's English record of 11 successive victories at the start of a campaign from 1960.

But instead Pep Guardiola's men found themselves having to come from behind three times to claim a point at a raucous Parkhead, with Celtic first scoring in the third minute when an Erik Sviatchenko header went in off Moussa Dembele.

Fernandinho equalised only for a Kieran Tierney cross to go in off Sterling and restore the Scottish champions' lead.

Sterling's brilliantlytaken goal at the other end restored parity before the

Manchester City's goalkeeper Claudio Bravo (2R) watches as Celtic's striker Moussa Dembele (3L) scores his team's thrid goal during the UEFA Champions League Group C football match between Celtic and Manchester City. (AFP Photo/Oli Scarff)

half-hour mark, but Dembele capitalised on an Aleksandar Kolarov error to make it 3-2 just after the break.

However, Nolito got City's third equaliser and it was the English side who looked more likely to go on and win it.

"I don't know how many the chances they had after the third goal. We should have won it," said Guardiola.

It is Barcelona who are top of the section after the Spanish champions followed their 7-0 trouncing of Celtic last time out with a comefrom-behind 2-1 victory over

Gladbach in Germany.

Thorgan Hazard slotted the Bundesliga club in front in the first half but Arda Turan came off the bench to level after the break before Gerard Pique got the winner on 74 minutes.

"They put in a huge effort in the first half, but overall I think we were better and it is a deserved result," said Pique.

Five-time European champions Barca, who were without the injured Lionel Messi, can now look forward to a fascinating double-header with their old coach Guardiola's City.

Meanwhile, Theo Wal-

cott made the difference as Arsenal eased to three points against Basel at the Emirates Stadium.

The Swiss champions have enjoyed excellent results in European competition against English sides in recent years but a first-half brace by Walcott ensured it was a comfortable night for the Gunners.

"We had pace, technical quality and movement.

My only regret is we didn't take all our chances," said Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

PSG come from behind They are level atop Group A alongside Paris

Saint-Germain, who beat Ludogorets 3-1 in Bulgaria.

A Natanael free-kick gave Ludogorets the lead in Sofia, but Blaise Matuidi restored parity before the interval.

Edinson Cavani then grabbed two goals in the second half, either side of a Cosmin Moti penalty miss for the Bulgarian champions, to complete the comeback.

In Madrid, Atletico inflicted Carlo Ancelotti's first defeat as coach of Bayern as Yannick Carrasco's first-half strike separated the sides at the Vicente Calderon in Group D.

The Spaniards eliminated Bayern on away goals in the semi-finals of last season's Champions League and there was to be no revenge for the five-time European champions, who would have lost by a wider margin had Antoine Griezmann not struck the bar with a late penalty.

Atletico have maximum points before a double-header with Rostov, who claimed their first ever point in the competition in a 2-2 draw with PSV Eindhoven in Russia.

All the goals came in the first half, with Dmitri Poloz twice having Rostov in front only for Davy Proepper and Luuk de Jong to score for PSV. The Dutch champions could have won the game but Proepper saw his second-half penalty saved.

In Group B Napoli continued their excellent start to the season by beating Benfica 4-2 in Italy.

Marek Hamsik gave them a first-half lead at the San Paolo before three goals in seven second-half minutes, a Dries Mertens brace coming either side of an Arkadiusz Milik penalty.

Goncalo Guedes and Eduardo Salvio got goals back for Benfica, but they slumped to a first defeat of the season.

Also in Group B, Dynamo Kiev came back to draw 1-1 with Besiktas in Istanbul, substitute Viktor Tsygankov cancelling out Ricardo Quaresma's opener.

Kohli hints at end to India's dogged DRS resistance kOLkata, sePtember 29 (reuters): India test captain Virat Kohli remains sceptical on the accuracy of ball-tracking technology but hinted India might be ready to finally embrace the Decision Review System (DRS).

The influential Indian cricket board (BCCI) has been a staunch opponent of the DRS system, which aims at reducing umpiring howlers by detecting edges and predicting ball trajectory to get correct catch and leg-before decisions.

The BCCI does not allow DRS in bilateral series involving its team but Kohli said they had been discussing the issue for a while.

"We want to definitely think about it but it's something we have had discussion on and certainly look to probably introduce it in future," Kohli said on the eve of the second test against New Zealand at Kolkata's Eden Gardens.

"These are the things we have had meetings on.

There were areas which we felt can be debated... specially the ball-tracking and the Hawk-Eye." "We won't take (erroneous umpiring) decisions too hard because we in the

first place decided that we won't use DRS. For us to say then that umpires made an error and it's going against us, it's not logical.

"Once DRS is in place, once DRS is up and running for us as well, then you can say what are the grey areas."

Addressing media in place of New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson, who is down with a bug, opener Tom Latham vouched for technology.

"I suppose we've had it in the past back home and it is a good system that tends to work," the lefthander said.

"It gets rid of that decision that probably isn't out or is out, that major decision that is called incorrectly. We enjoyed it back home, if (India started using it) that'd be great."

Williamson skipped training but would be available as the tourists sought to level the series after losing the series opener in Kanpur, Latham said.

"Kane is a little bit 'crook' today so he won't be training. There is no discomfort, he is just down with a bug. Nothing too major, he is just resting up and getting right

for tomorrow."

Kohli confirmed offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who claimed half the Kiwi wickets in Kanpur despite bowling with a corn

on his middle finger, was available for the match.

The India captain did not rule out off-spinner Jayant Yadav making his test debut in a three-pronged

spin attack.

"We felt adding an offspinner, because they have five left-handers in their batting line up, would help us at a stage where possibly

we are looking to play three spinners," Kohli said.

"The whole idea was to bring in another guy who can bowl at the lefthanders."

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