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Teachers’ Day reflect on challenges Nagaland needs to collectively tackle school education issues

sept 7 declared as school holiday

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One drown at the Dhansiri Morung Express News Dimapur | September 5

An 11 year-old girl drowned at the Dhansiri River on September 5. The girl reportedly fell off a hanging bridge at Toulazouma village while she was crossing the river. The incident occurred at around 2:00 pm today. She was identified as one Tekhele Kapfo, daughter of Mehipelo Kapfo of Toulazouma. The body was yet to be retrieved till the time of filing this report.

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Rengma community urge NPGs to unite KoHima, SepTember 5 (mexN): A consultative meeting on the Naga political issue was convened by Parliamentary secretary, Housing Er Levi Rengma with Rengma elders, political leaders, NGOs, Church leaders on September 5 at Hotel Jafu. The meeting unanimously welcomed the Framework Agreement signed on August 3 between the Government of India (GoI) and the NSCN (IM). It also appealed all the Naga Political Groups and responsible organizations to unite and create a congenial atmosphere to bring an honourable solution to the protracted political issue. The meeting further urged the GoI and NSCN (K) to restore ceasefire so as to create a conducive and peaceful atmosphere for political negotiation on the Naga political solution.

NPC commends peace efforts of NMA, NSCN (K) Dimapur, SepTember 5 (mexN): Nagaland Peace Centre (NPC), Kohima on Saturday commended the Naga Mothers’ Association (NMA) for their valiant efforts in meeting the leaders of NSCN (K) at the International Border between India and Myanmar, Pangsha area on August 31 while braving bad weather and inhospitable roads conditions. “We are more appreciative of the willingness of the NSCN (K) leaders for giving opportunity to the delegation of the NMA to meet them with an objective for resumption of ceasefire agreement with the Government of India,” stated a press note issued by Lhusi Haralu, Executive Director and N. Theyo, Chairman.

The NPC hoped that the GoI and the security forces will look as a positive sign, the peaceful attitude of the NSCN (K) by offering the opportunity to the NMA and pave way to any Naga NGO willing to stake their lives to work in the warring situation for resuming ceasefire and peace talk.

Minster for Education & SCERT, Yitachu addressing the State Level Teachers’ Day celebration at NBCC convention centre, Kohima on Saturday. (Morung Photo)

Our Correspondent Kohima | September 5

Taking Teachers’ Day as an opportunity to highlight problems and anomalies existing in the School Education department, Minister for School Education and SCERT, Yitachu on Saturday called for immediate attention to address all these issues collectively.

Addressing the Nagaland the State level Teachers Day celebration at NBCC convention centre, Kohima, the minister pointed out some key concerns that have been dogging the school education. Some of these include: promoting students to higher class without teaching or attending classes; teachers not present in their posting place and resorting to substitutes, Village Education Committee (VEC) sharing salary of teachers by granting leave of absence from posting place, fake enrolments to prevent school from being closed down, wrong justification of vacancy availability and appointing teachers in

excess, bifurcation of schools leading to extra requirement of funds for school buildings and teachers, infighting between various associations etc.

Touching upon another oft debated topic, Yitachu shared equal concern over the issue of government teachers sending their children to private schools and neglecting the children of the poor and weaker section of the society.

The minister for education also voiced concern over the latest emerging reports of teachers practicing malpractices while conducting exams to earn ‘good names’ for the teachers and well as the school. “This is a very dangerous trend and it will destroy our society instead of doing good,” he cautioned.

Yitachu asserted that the school education department must aim at building up human resource development by imparting value based knowledge and education and not just qualification certificate.

“The opening of schools and appointment of teachers should be aimed at providing quality ed-

ucation to every section of the society. Today in our society we are opening schools and upgrading schools to solve unemployment problem which if it is not to put to stop will destroy the very foundation of providing true education to the citizen,” the minister for education stressed.

Yitachu informed that the department of school education was undergoing exercise of renationalization of schools and information seeking to furnish for this major exercise has been circulated three months back. He, however, expressed disappointment that till now; information sought is not forthcoming. In this connection, Yitachu said directives have been issued to stop salary to those SDEOs where information is still pending.

Yitachu appealed to all the teachers and employees of the school education department to re-dedicate “our commitment and come together in concerted efforts to redress the issues that confront us today so that we can build our upcoming younger gen-

eration to effectively tackle these issues such as global warming and climate change, terrorism and violation of human rights, dreaded diseases like HIV & AIDS, cancer and social insecurity.”

27,904 government teachers, 5 lakh students in Nagaland: TR Chief Minister TR Zeliang, on the occasion of Teachers’ Day, reflected on the many changes and expansion experienced by the Department of School Education since inception in its journey to meet the needs of the students.

Zeliang said the school education department has become the largest department in Nagaland. Literacy rate has increased from 14% at the time of the formation of the State to more than 80% in the present.

With the chief minister in New Delhi, his speech was read out by Minister for School Education & SCERT, Yitachu during the State level Teachers’ Day celebration held in Kohima.

Highlighting statistics, Ze-

he Nagaland State government has declared September 7 as a school holiday. This was announced by Minister for School Education & SCERT, Yitachu on Saturday at the State level Teachers’ Day celebration here in Kohima.

Yitachu said the holiday was declared in the name of Teachers’ Day. On the occasion, the minister for education also handed over State teachers’ award to 33 teachers across the State in recognition of their immense contribution and invaluable service to the society.

Earlier, teachers’ day messages from President of India, Prime Minister, Human Resource Development minister, Governor or Nagaland and Chief Minister of Nagaland were also read out on the occasion.

liang said government educational institutions have increased from 956 at the time of Statehood to 3299 at present and the number of teachers from 2554 to 27,904.

The State has more than 500 registered private schools and approximately 5 lakhs student enrolment- inclusive of government and private schools.

Zeliang stated that one of the greatest challenges facing education department in recent year has been to “rationalize” teacher’s deployment in all the government schools. In this regard, the government has recently notified the staffing pattern for teaching staff in all the government schools from primary schools to higher secondary schools, he informed, adding that trainings and posting of teachers were being worked out as per the new staffing pattern which would be completed shortly.

Meanwhile, the chief minister appreciated the contributions of the private schools and their teachers toward improving the quality of education in Na-

galand. “In spite of constraints of infrastructure and lesser pay for the teachers, they have been producing excellent academic results year after year, much better than the government schools,” he stated.

At the same time, Zeliang also had a word of praise for government schools and its teachers for showing gradual improvements in their academic results and producing a few toppers in the HSLC/HSSLC exams in recent years.

The Chief Minister announced that 33 teachers of Nagaland have been selected for the prestigious state teachers’ award for the year 2015, while two teachers from the state have also been selected for National Teachers Award. (List of Nagaland State Level Teacher Awardees 2015 on page 5) In honour of this year’s Teachers’ Day, the government have also decided to provide financial assistance to seven teachers, who are undergoing serious medical treatment.

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4 NPF MLAs from Manipur resign GoI urged to hammer solution over anti-Naga stance of Ibobi govt ‘acceptable’ to all stakeholders

Dimapur, SepTember 5 (mexN): Four Naga People’s Front (NPF) MLAs of the Manipur Legislative Assembly has tendered resignation from the membership of the Assembly on September 4.

The MLAs are L Dikho of 48 Mao constituency; Samuel Rison of 44 Ukhrul constituency, ST Victor Nunghlung of 41 Chandel constituency and Dr V Alexander Pao of 47 Karong constituency.

The four MLAs, in a press statement, said they resigned from the Assembly in protest against the “consistent, cruel, crude and unpardonable anti-tribal and anti-Naga attitude, approach and actions of the Ibobi Singh government as evident from its recent legislative measures such as the Protection of Manipur People Bill, 2015, the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (Seventh Amendment) Bill, 2015, the Manipur Shops and Establishments (Second Amendment)

Bill, 2015 and the Resolution on the Indo-Naga Peace Accord.”

“The height of anti-tribal, anti-Naga and undemocratic posture of the Ibobi government is its persistent denial to constitute and notify the two Autonomous District Councils in Chandel and Tamenglong despite a clear majority obtained by the Naga People’s Front in these two districts,” the MLAs further stated.

The resigned MLAs has called upon all concerned including the Governor, the President of India, the NDA Government at the Centre, the Interlocutor for the Indo-Naga Peace Talks, the people, the churches, the leaders and the workers of all political parties to unite, consolidate and act in tandem so that the injustices committed by the Ibobi government through the aforesaid legislative measures and resolution on the people of the Hill Districts, are halted and reversed.

NPCC questions GoI & Nagaland govt’s intent

Dimapur, SepTember 5 (mexN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) today sought explanation on the Government of India (GoI) and Nagaland government’s ‘intent of summoning’ the Eastern Nagaland Public Organization (ENPO) to Delhi reportedly on September 10.

In a hard hitting statement targeting the GoI, NPCC president K Therie, said the people of Nagaland have had enough of GoI’s design to destroy the peaceful united society of Nagas which have been dissected and sectioned into fractions.

Holding the GoI responsible for the factional killings and multi-government taxations imposed on the Naga public, the NPCC alleged that even though the GoI knew of the situation, it never offered any solution to the factions because it wanted “the public to be tortured and armless civilians to fight with them.”

The NPCC also stated that the ceasefire between the GoI and Naga national workers were handled by bureaucrats who are trained to weaken the enemy through tactical designs. “Hasty recognition of factions and encouraging factions to be formed within 72 hours and visiting ENPO secretly; giv-

ing package of 300 crores, inviting ENPO frequently and the rise of demand for Nagaland Frontal State are all the handy work of the GoI,” it alleged.

The NPCC further alleged that the “hidden process of negotiations and signing and refusing to talk to other factions after agreeing to ceasefire, are all living evidences in front of the people, that GoI of India is not sincere.”

The NPCC also hit out at the current 60 MLAs in the Nagaland Legislative Assembly. Even though they had the mandate of the people, they were lame unlike the past leaders who stood upright for the people, it stated.

“They only want power and money, because all the voters demand money. The GoI on its part has taken advantage of the weakness of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly,” the NPCC alleged.

While pointing out that the people have given their mandate to the government of the day to rule a welfare government, protect their rights and provide security to life and property, deliver justice and equal opportunities without favor or ill will, the NPCC cautioned that failing to protect the people’s social practices, religion, land and rights, will not be forgiven.

R.N Ravi, interlocutor for the Naga peace talks seen here with the NSCN (Reformation) delegation led by president Wangtin Naga and general secretary P. Tikhak along with senior leaders Imlongnukshi Chang, Wangpai Konyak and Abuan Zeliang. (IANS Photo)

NSCN (R) says ‘we have humbled down because we want a solution for the Naga issue’

New DelHi, SepTember 5 (iaNS): The NSCN (Reformation) has become the first breakaway group of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (NSCN) to support the Naga Peace Accord, inked in June to bring peace and development in the northeast region. It also urged R.N Ravi, the central government’s Interlocutor for the Naga peace talks, to hammer out a solution acceptable to all stakeholders.

After meeting Ravi in the national capital, leaders of NSCN (Reformation) said that though they have supported the Naga Peace Accord, they had also put forth some conditions such as the talks to be transparent and inclusive of ideas from the stakeholders.

“We met R.N. Ravi and it was a very positive meeting. Being such a senior and knowledgeable bureaucrat, he is the perfect person to handle the Naga issue,” NSCN (Ref-

ormation) president Wangtin Naga told IANS. Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi an iron man, Wangtin said that New Delhi had now understood the unique history and the political situation of the Nagas and that there was a collective effort to find a solution to an imbroglio that has festered for over half a century.

“The Naga people also must respond to the situation responsibly.

The Naga people must take this opportunity in their best interest and this can be possible only if we stand down from our personal agendas and look at the collective responsibility,” he said.

Apart from Wangtin Naga, the delegation comprised NSCN (Reformation) general secretary P. Tikhak and senior leaders Imlongnukshi Chang, Wangpai Konyak and Abuan Zeliang.

On June 3, the NSCN-IM (IsakMuivah) and the central government signed the Naga Peace Accord, concluding almost 20 years of peace negotiations that started in 1997 after the group signed a ceasefire agreement. One of the major

reasons behind the delay in reaching a conclusion was the demand for a Greater Nagaland by the Naga extremist groups.

Nagaland has several extremist groups including the NSCN-IM, NSCN-Khaplang, NSCN-Reformation and NSCN-Khole-Kitovi - apart from the oldest of them all, the Naga National Council (NNC).

Elaborating on the meeting, the leaders said Ravi assured them that the accord should not be seen as peace pact with only the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) but with the entire Naga community even though it was signed with NSCN (Isak-Muivah).

“NSCN (Isak-Muivah) have been leading the talks since 18 years and have contributed toward resolving the Nagas’ problem, which no one is denying but, Ravi has assured us that all stakeholders will be taken on board (before reaching a final agreement),” Tikhak told IANS after the delegation met the Naga peace interlocutor at his office.

It has also been learnt that during the nearly two-hour-long meeting with Ravi, discussions were also held on the role of the NSCN (Reformation) in the peace process.

The NSCN (Reformation) came into being in April after two of its founders - Wangtin Naga and P. Tikhak - were expelled from the NSCN (Khaplang), reportedly due to misunderstandings that arose over its recent abrogation of the ceasefire with the central government.

During the meeting with Ravi, the NSCN (Reformation) leaders maintained that it was important for the central government to respect their contribution. They argued that if the talks failed, they were ready to carry out the struggle for another couple of decades to achieve their target.

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Teacher’s Day celebrated across Nagaland

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‘Teachers need to retrospect on true value system’ ‘Feel great to be a teacher’

Jubilee Memorial School performing the opening act at the 54th Teacher's Day Celebration organised by AKM at Town hall Mokokchung. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Mokokchung | September 5

“We need to retrospect as to whether as a teacher we have performed well or not, whether we have really contributed to the society,” said C. Apok Jamir, Parliamentary Secretary, Tourism, Nagaland at the 54th Teacher’s day celebration organized by the

Ao Student’s Conference (AKM) at Town Hall, Mokokchung. He stressed on the value system and said tremendous change has taken place in the system of education and imparting knowledge but one thing remains - the value system. He said, “Modern technology can enhance the pace of development but development with-

out value system, we are zero.” He further urged the teachers, students and the politicians to do a reality check on what is happening with the society today and encouraged everyone to have a pro-active involvement and commitment in the development of the society. He ended his speech saying, “we all have to be

God fearing and spiritually strong.”

I. Anungba Sanglir, ADS, Food and Civil Supplies, Dimapur as the guest of honour said that Teachers are nation builders and knowledge cannot be acquired or received without teachers. He further said that teachers play a multifaceted role in the society and that no other person-

ality can have more profound influence like that of a teacher.

Jubilee Memorial school opened the function with a play depicting the evolution of the forms of teaching right from the stone ages till date. The welcome address was given by L. Jemti Longchar, President, AKM. The programme saw special item and performances from students of different schools, felicitation of teachers by the AKM, and Teachers award which included the District Teachers Award, Sub-Divisional Award and Achievers Award (by Education Forum of Mokokchung). Yutusung, principal, Model Hr. Sec. School gave a speech on how teachers envisage the students. Vote of thanks was given by the DEO, Mokokchung.

‘You have changed my ‘Teaching transforms character of society’ September 5 (Dipr): confined their teachings to the and help them to bridge that gap life, Dear Teachers’ mon, Addressing the teachers on the academic knowledge alone but and added that every student is

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LongLeng, September 5 (mexn): Education Department of Longleng successfully conducted Teachers’ Day programme for all the schools of Longleng at PBCA Convention Hall, Longleng under the theme, ‘You have changed my life, Dear Teachers.’

The celebration was graced by BS Nganlang Phom, Parliamentary Secretary, Land Resources & Excise as the chief guest.

In his speech, he cited various examples of how teachers were regarded by the students and people in general.

He further requested the teachers not to choose the profession of teaching as an employment opportunity. Moreover, he requested the teachers to work hard in providing quality education to the people of Phom community as a whole.

Twelve teachers were awarded the best teachers’ award for rendering their outmost service towards the students.

This was followed by presentation of songs, poems, short play and choreography by students from various schools.

The programme started with the invocation of God’s presence by Mongngoi Associate Pastor-LTBC, followed by welcome address by DDEO Longleng and Significance of Teachers’ Day speech by Smti. Temsusenla JamirSDEO Longleng.

Nuklu Phom-Executive SecretaryPBCA Longleng conducted a special prayer for teachers. Later, the presentation of songs, poems, short play and choreography by students from various schools enthralled the gathering. The celebration which was chaired by Chingdam, TOT and. Y. Angngoi, Co-Editor LTSU, concluded with vote of thanks from Rabenthung Lotha-PrincipalGHSS Longleng.

Teachers Day celebration 2015 at council hall, Mon, ADC, Mon MA Shihab, IAS called upon the teachers to rededicate to their noble profession with dedication and commitment and shape the students for the betterment of the society. He informed that teaching is a noble profession that transforms the character of the society and the future of an individual.

Asserting that teachers are the role model of the society he appealed to the teachers not to

to impart moral values and enriching the personality of the student in the classrooms to ensure value base education. He also said that with the advancement of civilization and competitive world the role of the teacher is widening, and it is very crucial for change and development of the society.

Pointing out that every child is unique and no child is beyond hope he urged the teachers to realize both the weakness and strength of every student to identify the gap

greatly influence by the quality of the teachers and parents.

He also gave away the Teachers Award 2015 to the nine teachers.

Invocation was proposed by Fr. Athili Martin, Principal, DBS while welcome address was proposed by Razouseyi Vese, Dy. DEO, Mon. Elvis Konyak, teacher in-charge GHS– C spoke on behalf of the awardees. Daniel, Principal Sacred Heart School, chaired the programme and concluded with vote of thanks by Zennon, SDEO, Mon.

‘Teachers and students should together strive to excel’

pfutSero, September 5 (mexn): Pfutsero Town School Association along with Baptist Theological College and Pfutsero Government College had a combined Teachers’ Day celebration on September 5 with Parliamentary Secretary for Higher & Technical Education, SCERT, Deo Nukhu as the chief guest. The programme was held at the Pfutsero Sports Complex.

In his speech, Deo Nukhu, reflected of the days when he was a teacher and expressed how he faced difficulties being a teacher such that a teacher has to be a student to study and prepare to teach and play a role model for the student where he said teachers should work hard

and be sincere.

He added that teachers and students should together strive to excel in Mathematics and Science stream where there are ample avenues of employment even in the state and the district itself. He advice the students to respect and honour teachers as they selflessly impart education for their future life and the importance of learning from a teacher as they spend majority of their time with teachers during their students life. He congratulated Teachers who are recipient of awards from the state level, district level and divisional level. He congratulated the students who were awarded as the best students from each school

under PTSA. Parliamentary Secretary for Planning and Co-ordination, Monitoring Cell and Evaluation Neiba Kronu sponsored the Award for the best Teacher and Best Student of schools and colleges under Pfutsero Town School Association. Students and teachers who could stand out were awarded with certificates and cash. The award will keep on continuing to encourage teachers and students to excel in their field, which will be sponsored by Neiba Kronu during his tenure as a representative MLA of the Division, for which the PTSA express it gratitude for his immense concerned for the Teachers and Students.

Students of Agape School Kiphire present traditional show during the Teacher’s Day celebration at the school campus. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News Kiphire | September 5

Agape School Kiphire today celebrated Teacher’s Day at the school campus with teachers, students and the staffs with the administrator addressing the programme.

Encouraging the teachers the administrator said, “teaching is not a profession where everyone is gifted and” asked the teachers to feel great to be a teacher. He added, “Leaders and great men that we see in the society today is the product of teachers” and asked the teachers to keep

these things in mind while discharging one’s duties and the responsibilities.

The administrator also reminded the teachers that the job of a teacher is not to create students in ones image but to develop students who can create in their own image and asked the teachers to help students find the best in themselves so that the product become a citizen who can build a just society.

N. Koda spoke on behalf of the teachers and Boketo spoke on behalf of the students.

Other highlight of the programme was song, dance, traditional show and one act play.

State Teachers awardees with ministers Yitachu minister Dr Neikiesalie Kire and others during the state level teachers’ day celebration in Kohima on September 5 held at NBCC Convention Centre. It was organized by School Education Department. (Morung Photo)

Students in Kohima witness PM’s speech

Kohima, September 5 (mexn): Government Middle School D. Khel Kohima Village students watched the live telecast speech of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the eve of Teacher’s day on September 4 at the school auditorium. This was organised by District Mission Authority (DMA) SSA Kohima.

The live speech was attended by the teachers, VEC members, K. Mary Dzüvüchü DEO-cum DPC DMA SSA Kohima and Thekielie Keditsu, Deputy Mission Director SMA SSA Nagaland.

About 200 hundreds students wit-

nessed the Prime minister speech who interacted with students from 9 States across the country which was held at Manekshaw Auditorium at New Delhi.

The live programme was witness by the students of GMS D. Khel Kohima Village which lasted for 90 minutes. The media coverage was done by Laxmi Kumar cameraman and his team from Kohima Doordarshan for national news as per the directive of MHRD, This was stated in a press release issued by T. Rengma ADC, DMA SSA Kohima.

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‘Teaching is a sacred and noble profession’

Dimapur, September 5 (mexn): Salesian College of Higher Education marked Teacher’s day highlighting the importance of teacher in the lives of the students. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. (Fr.) Policarp Xalxo, Principal of the College exhorted the teachers saying, “The student who challenges you most is the one who needs you the most.”

The programme began with invocation

by Rev. Fr. Tom Karthik Rector of Salesian College imploring blessing upon the teachers. Dominic, Head Department of Political

Science speaking on behalf of the teachers asked the teachers to introspect themselves asking do I deserve the salary. He said, “teaching is a sacred and noble profession.”

President of the Student Council Robin Kapani expressed gratitude to all teaching and non-teaching staff for making priceless sacrifices for the welfare of the students. Rajendra Reang while appreciating the teachers said, “We have teachers who not only teach but inspire.” A friendly basketball match between teachers and students made the day memorable.

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(Left) Students of Christina Memorial Higher Secondary School, Aoyimti presenting a number during their 17th teacher’s day programme. Dr. I T Asangla jamir, Associate Prof NU SASRD (School of Agricultural science & Rural development) Medziphema w as the chief guest. (Right) Proprietor, principal and faculty of CMHSS with the pastor and other church workers of Aoyimti Baptist Church during the inauguration of the new library, computer institute cum managing board conference hall before the event. (Morung Photo)

Hope Academy students pay homage to teachers

Students present a guitar number during the Teacher’s Day celebration at Hope Academy on September 5. (Morung Photo) Morung Express News teachers as well keeping the Dimapur | September 5

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“You’re not wasting your time. You’re shaping young minds. Let us take pride in that,” stated Sashizungla, the Administrator of Hope Academy, during the school annual Teacher’s Day celebration programme on September 5.

The celebration was organised by students from Grade 4, 5 and 6 at the school’s new campus at United village Seitheke Basa.

While the teachers took the seats, the students took the stage paying homage to their

teachers entertained. “I am sure that the students organised this programme to show their admiration and appreciation.”

While lauding the teachers for their dedication despite the workload, the administrator added that the students after leaving school will recall of their formative years in school and how the teachers have had an influence on them. As part of the celebration, the students also organised a ‘peer award’, which was jointly shared by teachers Chubasenla and Wabangmeren.

Teachers urged to keep updated with technologies mangKoLemba, September 5 (Dipr): Teacher's Day was celebrated at Mangkolemba on September 5 at the Town Hall with ADC Imtiwapang Aier as the chief guest. Wishing and congratulating the teachers present, Aier said education is a lifelong process and the teacher plays an important role in developing and shaping the life of every student.

Appreciating the performance of the teachers under Mangkolemba sub division for being torchbearer despite the lim-

ited facilities available, Aier urged them to keep themselves updated with the various technologies as the mindset of the students are changing in the present world.

He also said it is the duty of every teacher to extract the best out of the students inspire of their limitations.

Both government and private schools presented various items. Earlier, Asst Pastor MBC, Mar pronounced the invocation while Alemla, Director Christian Education Department delivered the benediction.

‘Need to re-engineer methodology of edu system’ Morung Express News Kiphire | September 5

Kiphire district today celebrated teacher’s day with Dr Tinojungshi Chang ADC HQ as chief guest at Loyola Higher Secondary School, which was organized by the District Education Officer Kiphire Honouring teachers, Dr Tinojungshi Chang defined the term “Guru” saying, ‘Gu’ stands for darkness and ‘Ru’ stands for removal of darkness. He asked the teachers to re-engineer the methodology of teaching learning system so that students are equipped to fit into the society and not confined to the traditional system of education, which is confined to book knowledge.

He told the teachers that they are placed in a society to remove the darkness, called upon the teaching community in

the district to know the role and responsibility of the teacher as the teacher are the role model and the torchbearer. He also said, “As a teacher you have very special role to play in a society in any capacity as you act as guide, mentor and a motivator” and asked the teacher present to play proactive role in shaping generation.

Stressing on the significant of the day Dr Chang said, the day also mark the birthday of Dr S Radakrishna who was a philosopher, guide and a great teacher and the second president of India.

The chief guest also gave away the district and sub divisional award to 10 teachers. Y. Kongkhao principal GHSS welcome the gathering while Liseba President ANSTA Kiphire proposed vote of thanks. Other highlight of the programme was special song, dance and choreography.

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Manipur unrest: What is the one way to bring peace to the divided state?

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Of all the consequences of the violence that has erupted in Manipur since August 31, the most important outcome has been the new focus on the rift between the hills and the plains.

Across national and regional media, there have been headlines about the deep divide between the Meiteis, who live in the oval basin of the valley and account for about 60% of the population, and the hill tribes like the Nagas, Kukis and Zomis.

While the Meiteis have been agitating the past few months for an Inner Line Permit regime, which would restrict the entry of outsiders into the state, the hill tribes have been quietly resisting this. The hill tribes suspect that the regime would help level the constitutional division between them and Meiteis in terms of land rights and other reservation benefits.

Simmering tensions came to a boil on Monday, as the Manipur assembly passed three bills – the Protection of Mani-

pur People’s Bill; the Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (Seventh Amendment) Bill; and the Manipur Shops and Establishment (Second Amendment) Bill – effectively introducing the Inner Line Permit system. Within hours, violence exploded. Houses of legislators were torched, and people spilled out on the streets, clashing with the security forces.

In the time since, there has been much talk about the three bills’ merits and demerits, and whether the clashes are the result of a “misunderstanding” or ignorance about the legislation.

To me, this is less about the bills and more about the mutually incompatible political imagination of the hills and plains. It is their almost visceral suspicion and dislike of each other that is exploding in our faces. If anything, the bills were the spark that ignited the tinderbox.

abandon their mutual antagonism and coexist peacefully?

I, for one, don’t know how. As the Manipur Tribals Forum in Delhi said in a memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday: “This is proof, if any more are needed, that the hill tribals and the plain Meiteis cannot live together under one administration.”

In the meantime, death stalks Manipur. The toll in Churachandpur district rose to nine on Thursday morning, as one of the injured, Pumkhenthang of Hiangtam Lamka, succumbed to his wounds. He was shot in the stomach on the first day of the protests, when the security forces allegedly used live bullets. Six of the nine killed died of bullet wounds.

At a rally at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Wednesday, banners were raised proclaiming, “Rubber bullets for the Valley, live bullets for the Hills." The Unbridgeable divide slogan may sound like a referCan this divide ever be ence to the death of a young bridged? Is there a chance that man, Robinhood Sapam, in Manipuris of all stripes could Imphal in July while he was

protesting for the introduction of the Inner Line Permit regime.

He died of wounds caused by teargas shells. But it also underlines the allegedly biased treatment of the tribals by state security forces over the years.

Failed agreement With violence raging, a meeting was held on Tuesday evening between the chairman of the Autonomous District Council (Churachandpur), deputy commissioner and the heads of major tribal groupings representing the protesters and the victims.

According to the terms of the agreement they reached, the government would pay Rs 5 lakh each to the families of those killed in the protests.

Civil society leaders would take the bodies and hand them over to the families. Tribal bodies would take steps to subdue the agitators. And the issue of the three bills would be taken up with the Hill Areas Committee, a sub-committee within the Manipur assembly that is made up of all the MLAs elected from

the tribal areas. As per Article 371C of the Constitution, this committee should be consulted on any legislation that affects the hill tribes.

The agreement only served to further inflame tensions. What rankled the protesters was the fact that the news of the ex-gratia payment was touted as a success and announced on loudspeakers. They also questioned the purpose of raising the issue of the three bills with the Hill Areas Committee when its members had already failed to oppose them once in the assembly.

The signatories were accused of selling out the sacrifices of those who died for cheap money. The agreement shows, according to the protesters, just how far the community leaders failed to grasp the public mood – particularly since alleged differences in ex-gratia payments made to Meitei and tribal victims over the years have always been a source of deep consternation among the tribals.

the Churachandpur agreement coincided with the news of an agreement on Robinhood Sapam’s body which has been lying in an Imphal morgue since July 8. A joint committee and the Manipur government decided that a shrine will be erected in Sapam’s memory, the land and expenses for which will be borne by the government.

In Imphal, they are talking about one dead body. In Churachandpur, nine.

In the event, the Churachandpur agreement of Tuesday was scrapped, saving the signatories from the agitators’ wrath. On Wednesday, another meeting was held where a Joint Action Committee was set up and tasked with coordinating the future action on the bills. It will also pursue the longstanding demand for a “separate administration” for the hill areas of Manipur.

Echoing the Robinhood agreement, the meeting resolved that August 31 will be declared as Tribal Unity Day, and Sustained momentum the eight people who died for As it happened, the news of their cause will be buried not

in their respective village but a designated place in the heart of Lamka town. Their bodies will not be taken till such time that a proper decision is made on the agitators’ major demands.

As of writing, protests were still continuing in Churachandpur and in other hill districts of Manipur. Bandhs had been called on the Moreh-Imphal Road. Apart from Delhi, where a big rally was held, Manipuri tribal people in cities like Shillong, Hyderabad and Bangalore formed forums in support of the agitators and to push the demand for “separate administration” for the hill areas.

Whether they will succeed is uncertain. As time passes, tempers will cool. The mob will disperse. Then, it will be up to the tribal community leaders to find ways to sustain the momentum and give the hill tribes’ demands some direction. This won’t be easy: the existing crop of leaders neither inspire confidence nor do they exhibit the ability to do so.

The writer is an independent researcher based in New Delhi.

Indigenous Peoples' Forum resent recent bills passed by Manipur assembly Flood toll rises in Assam haflong, September 5 (mexn): The Indigenous Peoples' Forum (IPF), NC Hills, Assam has raised strong resentment against the three bills introduced in the special session of Manipur Assembly on August 28. The Forum, which comprises N.C. Hills Indigenous Student's Forum (NCHISF), Indigenous Women Forum (IWF), Indigenous Village Chief Forum (IVCF) with the affiliated apex body of the Zeme, Hmar, Kuki, Vaiphei, Biate, Rongmei, Ilrangkhol and other communities, expressed the resentment during its joint meeting held on September 3 at Haflong. The three bills in question are: The Protection of Manipur

People Bills 2015, The Manipur Land Revenue and Land Reforms (7th Amendment) Bill 2015, and The Manipur Shop and Establishment (2nd Amendment) Bill 2015.

A press release from Media & Publicity in-charge of IPF, Zion L Faihriem said that the meeting observed that the three bills are “detrimental force acting against the safety of the indigenous tribal of Manipur as it attempts to exclude them from their own land.”

The meeting also agreed that declaration of the bills by the Manipur Legislative Assembly was done without the free and prior consent of the hills’ tribal of Manipur and is therefore, gross violation and in-

Northeast Briefs 3 Killed in Manipur encounter moreh, September 5 (anI): At least three militants were reported killed in a gunfight with Assam Rifles at the highly porous India-Myanmar border on Saturday. The encounter took place 7km north of Manipur's border town of Moreh. The killed militants were yet to be identified. More details awaited.

Arunachal confers state award on 30 teachers Itanagar, September 5 (ptI): Arunachal Pradesh today conferred state award on 30 teachers in recognition of their services on the occasion of Teachers' Day. Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Bamang Felix while describing teachers as 'unsung heroes' exhorted them not to confine their teachings within the four walls of the classroom but for the larger population. "Teachers are powerful human beings on earth who can lead a society to prosperity...." Felix said in his address. He appreciated the teaching community for their contribution in the state and added that there is no retirement age for a teacher who contributes to the society even after his retirement in one way or the other. "We talked about education policy and prepare plans for the education sector. However, the ultimate education depends on the teachers and their lessons in the classroom," Felix added.

fringement upon the indigenous rights of the tribal communities and the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous People Article 26, l &2. IPF opined that under no circumstances, the Government of Manipur should infringe upon the rights and dignity of the indigenous tribal peoples, but adopt fair and just legislations.

The Forum further reiterated that a judicial inquiry into civilian deaths should be instituted immediately by the central government and prompt action should be taken for immediate restoration of peace and normalcy in Manipur.

The meeting also condemned the killings by Manipur police

forces of “innocent” tribal “who opposed the declaration of the bills in the larger interest of security and unity to protect, promote and preserve their ancestral land for all time to come.” The Government of Manipur, it stated, should take swift action against the deteriorating law and order situation in the state. The IPF also urged both central and Manipur government to check further escalation of violence and killings in the State and immediately instill peace and security in the minds of the indigenous hills tribal people.

The meeting also extended condolences to the victims’ families who hadlosttheirbelovedonesinprotest.

Further, it urged the government to forbid “step-motherly” treatment to any particular community living in Manipur state and drew the attention of the government of Manipur “not to follow the footsteps of Assam government who amid wide protest from the Indigenous hills tribal forcibly changed the nomenclature of N.C. Hills to `Dima Hasao' on 30th March,2010.” Inthis,thereleasesaid, the IPF communities which comprise 67% of the NC Hills’ total population are left with no other option, but launch a strong movement for creation of a separate autonomous district under Article 244 (2) and 275 ( 1 ) of the sixth schedule of the constitution of India since 2008.

Three of family die of food poisoning agartala, September 5 (IanS): Three people of a family, including two children, died in Tripura due to food poisoning, officials said on Saturday. The cause of the death has been confirmed by the post-mortem examination reports, officials said. According a health department official, Basanti Debbarma, 55, her two grand daughters -- Shristi Das, 7, and Maxi Das, 9, died on Friday while her two daughters are being treated in a government hospital here. "The victims, before dying, started vomiting incessantly after taking food prepared with wild potato at their home at Nagichara (in western Tripura). All the five people were admitted to the hospital and three of them died on Friday night," the official added. The tribals in the northeastern states traditionally eat bamboo shoots, roots, herbs and fruits of different forest plants.

visited the flood-affected areas and assured help to the affected people. Relief camps have been set up all across the state as well.

The Brahmaputra river and many of its tributaries have breached their banks after downpours, washing away thousands of homes mostly made of bamboo and straw, as well as roads, bridges and power lines.The floods have affected close to 900,000 people in 1,841 villages of 18 districts in the tate. As many as 85,000 people have taken shelter in the 214 relief camps set up by the government.

Ex-Assam minister to quit Assembly seat; crisis haunts Cong new DelhI, September 5 (IanS): Former Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who joined the BJP last month, on Saturday said that he will soon resign from his seat in the state assembly after leading nine Congress MLAs from the state to a meeting with BJP president Amit Shah here.

"I will resign from my seat in the assembly in a day or two after returning to Assam," Sarma told the media here after the meeting.

Sarma, who held the state's health and education portfolios, quit his ministerial post in July

last year after a major fallout with Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi. Sarma was at one time seen as Gogoi's blue-eyed boy.

Stating that the fall of the Gogoi-led Congress government was certain in next year's assembly elections in the state, Sarma said: "We don't want to defeat Gogoi by playing the game of numbers. Not MLAs, but the people of Assam will bring about the downfall of the Gogoi government."

He added: "We are not going to move a no-confidence motion against the chief minister. We may consider resigning which

would force the chief minister to go to the people and seek their mandate again." The strategy, however, he said would be fixed by the BJP leadership only.

Regarding Saturday's meeting with Shah, Sarma said that since the BJP president expressed his desire to meet the 10 MLAs, he brought them along.

The nine Congress MLAs comprised Jayantamalla Barua, Pijush Hazarika, Pallablochan Das, Bolin Chetia, Kripanath Malla, Binanda Saikia, Pradan Barua, Rajen Borthakur and Abu Taher Bepari. Trinamool Con-

gress legislator Dwipen Pathak, who recently resigned from his party, also decided to join the BJP and met Shah on Saturday.

Sarma claimed that in the days to come, as many as 500 NSUI, Youth Congress and district-level Congress workers would soon join the BJP. Sarma was elected in 2011 to the state assembly from the prestigious Jalukbari seat by a record margin of nearly 78,000 votes.

"We have met Amit Shah today (Saturday) and expressed our willingness to join the BJP and work under strong leadership of

For Chayangtajo, the nearest bank is 80 km away

Large quantity of explosives found goalpara, September 5 (ptI): A huge quantity of explosives was recovered in Assam's Goalpara district and a person apprehended by Army, a Defence spokesman said today. Based on intelligence, Army launched an operation at Marnai on Thursday and apprehended a person identified as Hobibur Rehman. 8 kg of explosives and 52 detonators were found in his possession, the spokesman said quoting delayed reports. The individual was suspected to be a supplier of explosives to various militant groups in the region of Lower Assam. The recovery on time averted major subversive activities, he said.

guwahatI, September 5 (anI): The flood situation in Assam remained grim as 26 died in a fresh round of flooding and hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced.In Jorhat, villages were empty as houses and shacks were submerged under water. Dhemaji, Kokrajhar, Bongaigaon, Sonitpur, Barpeta, Morigaon, Kachar, Lakhimpur, Jorhat, Tinsukia, Darang, Baksa , Nalbari , Udalguri , Kamrup and Dibrugarh were among the worst affected areas in the state.

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For the 15,000 people of Chayangtajo, inclusion in the financial system will take a while longer.

Itanagar, September 5 (ptI): Establishment of a bank branch at Chayangtajo, an ADC headquarters in East Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh, still remains a distant dream for the 15,000odd people who have to travel at least 80 km for banking.

More than two decades have passed since a bank branch was set up at Seijosa on June 26, 1986, but Chayangtajo was deprived.

“Our people are suffering a lot due to absence of

bank. They have to travel 80 km to Seppa, the district administration even for small transactions.

The area with four circles and 12 subdivisions has many important establishments, including an independent PWD division, Vivekanada Kendra Vidyalaya and Don Bosco school,” Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Ashok Tojo said.

The State-level Banking Committee (SLBC) during a meeting on June 21, 2011, decided to establish banks

in all unbanked blocks in the State.

The RBI, through its subvention scheme, had proposed to open a bank at Chayangtajo and sought information on availability of infrastructure and other facilities from the Deputy Commissioner of East Kameng, but surprisingly the proposal was withdrawn later.

Health and Family Welfare Parliamentary Secretary Karya Bagang, who represents Chayangtajo constituency, has in sever-

al representations to both Central and State Government authorities pleaded for early establishment of an SBI branchBut her efforts haven’t paid off yet.

“Chayangtajo is a fast developing hub with many developmental programmes and government departments coming up. It is not possible for MNREGA job card holders in two blocks, Pipu and Chayangtajo, to come down to Seppa, the district headquarters, to meet their banking needs,” Karya said in her letter to Sanjay Kumar Magoo, Chief General Manager (North-East circle), SBI. Tara Bagang, a senior citizen of the area, said that with many upcoming power projects in the area, establishment of a bank branch at Chayangtajo is a prerequisite, while former All Arunachal Pradesh Students Union (AAPSU) President Kanu Bagang said that without a bank, the people of the area, especially the labourers, are facing a tough time.

The SBI official, in a letter to Tuki, has assured that the bank will open a branch in that area in the second half of the current financial year.

Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi," said Jayanta Malla Baruah after the meeting with Shah.

Baruah said that they would formally join the saffron party at a date fixed by president of the Assam unit of the BJP Siddhartha Bhattacharyya.We will ensure that the party's Mission 84 (winning 84 of the state's 126 assembly seats) is successful," he said.

It may be mentioned here that the Congress, which has been in power in Assam since 2001, had the support of 78 legislators in the 126-member house till Sarma joined the BJP last month.

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G20 promises transparency on rate moves AnkArA, September 5 (reuterS): World financial leaders will agree to calibrate and communicate monetary policy carefully to avoid triggering capital flight, but will not call an expected U.S. rate rise a risk to growth, a draft communique showed on Friday. Many emerging market economies are concerned that when the U.S. Federal Reserve raises borrowing costs, investors will withdraw from other markets and buy dollar assets, weakening other currencies and creating turbulence as capital flees.

Officials from emerging markets wanted the communique from finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 20 biggest economies, meeting in Turkey, to say that a U.S. rate rise now would be a risk to growth.

But the draft avoids such wording.

"We note that in line with the improving economic outlook, monetary policy tightening is more likely in some advanced economies," the draft communique, seen by Reuters, said. "We will carefully calibrate and clearly communicate our actions to minimize negative spillovers, mitigate uncertainty and promote transparency,"

said the draft, which may yet change before it is finally agreed on Saturday.

An earlier version of the text said policy tightening in developed economies "may remain one of the main sources of uncertainty in financial markets". "In one of the wild formulations it said that this was the biggest threat to the world economy. This was killed immediately and forever," a Russian source said earlier.

The text welcomed strengthening activity in some economies but said that global growth fell short of expectations, although it expressed confidence a recovery would gain speed.

It also indirectly addressed Chinese moves that weakened its yuan currency in August, in a sign these were not seen as a competitive devaluation to prop up Chinese exports. G20 members reiterated their commitment to exchange rate flexibility and would "refrain from competitive devaluations and resist all forms of protectionism," it said.

Reinforcing that message, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei that it was important that China let the yuan move up as well as down, and avoid any move to lower its value to gain a competi-

India among few bright spots in global economy, Says IMF AnkArA, September 5 (ptI): The IMFonFridaysaid Indiaisamong the few bright spots in the global economy as G20 Finance Ministers began their two-day meeting here against the backdrop of concerns over Chinese economic slowdown looming large on world markets. The remarks from International Monetary Fund (IMF) Chief Christine Lagarde came at the meeting of G20 Finance Minister and Central Bank Governors where they also discussed monetary policy uncertainties.

Ms Lagarde told the gathering that between advanced and emerging economies, there are problems in most places in the advanced world while in emerging economies, there are problems in China

although not that big as stock markets are making it to be, according to officials present at the meeting.

Among emerging economies if there is any growth, that is in India. India is among the few bright spots in the global economy, the officials said quoting Ms Lagarde.

Officials said that RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said at the meeting that they are surrounded by economic gloom probably hinting at concerns over slowdown in China.

The meeting continued well beyond its schedule time till late into the night. Policymakers from South Korea, Australia, China and the US were among those who were present at the meeting. Meanwhile China assured other G20 member coun-

currencies and tumbling commodity prices. But the G20 had been seen as unlikely to come up with any concrete new measures to address the spillover from instability in the world's second-largest economy, or to call directly on Beijing to address structural issues such as rising bad debts.

tive edge in global trade, a U.S. official said. China told the group it was committed to continuing structural reforms and to supporting economic growth, Europe's Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici told reporters after the meeting. Slower growth in China and rising market volatility have boosted the risks to the global economy, the International Monetary Fund warned ahead of the G20 meeting, citing a mix of potential dangers such as depreciating emerging market

EASY MONEY Luxembourg Finance Minister Pierre Gramegna, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, shrugged off the prospect of U.S. in-

tries that its economy would not collapse and would continue to grow at a slower pace, officials said. They added that draft declaration has so far not named the US or China.

On Thursday, India deprecated the recent devaluation of major currencies followed by currency depreciation in a large number of emerging markets which raises the risk of competitive devaluations.

Currency devaluations at a time when the global demand is sluggish is a major threat to stability in the global economy, India had said.

Earlier in the day, Dr Rajan said global economies witnessing sustainable growth need to hike rates although not in a "one go, big bang" manner.

terest rate hikes. "We cannot live all the time on easy money ... One has to be realistic that at one point in time the curve of interest rates will have to change," he told Reuters. Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said any Fed rate rise would be a positive sign for the global economy, despite the unease in some emerging markets that such moves could cause capital outflows and currency volatility. "If the U.S. were to raise rates, that would speak to the underlying firmness and growth

in the U.S. economy, and that would actually be a plus for the global economy," he said.

One specific idea being examined at the Ankara meetings is a proposal from a group of financial stability experts to adopt a two-stage approach for introducing Total Loss Absorption Capacity (TLAC) buffers for big banks, a G20 source said. The buffer is a new layer of debt big banks like Goldman Sachs (GS.N) and Deutsche Bank AG DBGKn.DE must issue to write down in a crisis and

bolster their capital. The proposal would introduce a buffer of 16 percent of a bank's risk-weighted assets from 2019 and 20 percent from 2022, the source said.

The United States had pushed for 20 percent, while some in Europe had been arguing for 16 percent on the grounds that their banks were still recapitalising after the financial crisis.

The draft pencilled in that a deal should be ready for the endorsement of G20 leaders at their summit in southern Turkey in November, but some countries were concerned there would not be enough time to reach a final agreement by then.

There was no clear pronouncement on China's desire to have the yuan included in the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Rights basket of currencies, but the draft said G20 finance chiefs expected progress in November, when the IMF has a board meeting on the issue. "China has moved in the direction in currency and monetary policy ... that is necessary if they want to achieve the goal of getting China into the IMF currency basket," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters, welcoming Beijing's near 2 percent yuan devaluation last month.

China is keen for the symbolic boost it would get from the yuan's inclusion. Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said he is open to discussion on including the yuan in the IMF basket, and said China's recent market upheavals should not pose a lasting danger to the global economy. "The currency basket should in principle reflect relative global economic strengths," he told Reuters, but added China must fulfil the conditions for inclusion. One delegate said it was possible that the likely failure of the U.S. Congress to approve an IMF quota reform that would give China and other emerging markets more say could work in Beijing's favour on the SDR issue. The reasoning goes that benefiting the leading emerging economy, China, could help offset the perennial failure to boost emerging market quotas.

However, IMF members will also be examining whether China's heavy intervention in the yuan market was befitting of a freely convertible reserve currency, the delegate said.

One option being floated was the idea of giving China a more limited share of the SDR basket at first until its convertibility and market orientation improved.

Toyota, Mahindra offer best car buying experience finds study Three Indian B-Schools among Most Coveted in 2015 mumbAI, September 5 (ZeegnItIon): Both Toyota and Mahindra scored 872 points each in a scale of 1,000, with the Japanese car maker performing particularly well in the sales initiation factor while Mahindra scoring the highest in the paperwork factor.

When it comes to the art of selling of cars, it appears Mahindra and Toyota know best how to keep customers happy. The two car makers jointly secured the top spot in the JD Power Asia Pacific 2015 India Sales Satisfaction Index Study aimed at finding out which company offers the best shopping experience to car buyers.

Both Toyota and Mahindra scored 872 points each in a scale of 1,000, with the Japanese car maker performing particularly well in the sales initiation factor while

Mahindra scoring the highest in the paperwork factor. However, overall sales satisfaction is still on a decline compared to last year.

Nearly one in five (18%) customers is dissatisfied with several critical aspects of the purchase process, including negotiations for their new vehicle, delivery commitments and the overall delivery process. In fact, satisfaction with the delivery process and delivery timing has declined the most year over year, dropping by 9 points in each factor. The average time for vehicle delivery has increased to 11 days after booking in 2015 from 9 days in 2014.

The study, based on responses from more than 7,895 new car owners who purchased their vehicle between September 2014 and April 2015, and includes evaluations of more than 75 models within the mass market segment.

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Dimapur celebrates Teacher’s Day Nagaland State Level Teacher Awardees 2015

Teacher awardees along with DC Dimapur, K Yhome, DCP Dr. K Ilyas, officials of School Education department during the common Teachers’ Day celebration of Dimapur district.

Morung Express News rightness, honesty and in- ber of scientists, doctors or Dimapur | September 5

The common Teacher's Day celebration of schools in Dimapur was held at Covenant Hall, Christian Higher Secondary School, with the district deputy commissioner, Kesonyu Yhome, as chief guest and deputy commissioner of police, Dr. K Ilyas, as guest of honour.

The chief guest in his address said teachers have always been the source of inspiration since the dawn of civilization and urged them to continue to be the “conscience keeper” of the society and “source of inspiration” in the present day fast changing world.

“Be the source of inspiration to our society. As the society changes, we need a community of people to uphold the spirit of up-

tegrity,” Yhome said.

Yhome admitted Naga society has failed to give due respect and recognition to teachers who had all along sacrificed their comforts to mould students, the leaders of tomorrow.

“On behalf of the common citizens, I tender my due apology to all teachers for not giving you the respect and position you deserve. Teachers are indeed the true builders and shapers of society. I also stand here today because of the blessings and guidance of my teachers,” the DC said.

Urging teachers to be the conscience keeper of the society, Yhome added that “teachers are not only our role models but also our unsung heroes.”

He further reminded that teachers would not be remembered for the num-

engineers they have helped to mould but for the kind of life they lead- a life of uprightness, honesty and integrity.

Meanwhile, the guest of honour stressed on the vital role of teachers in shaping the destiny of students.

Narrating his own experience, the police officer said his greatest source of inspiration had been his teachers, including his former headmaster.

On the occasion, the School Education department also gave awards to 26 dedicated teachers from various schools under Dimapur district. The Rotary Club Dimapur also felicitated the teacher awardees.

Other teachers who attended the celebration were not left out as students presented them with tokens for their life of dedication in spreading education.

Ketousielie Dzuvichu, GMS L. Khel, Kohima village Sebastian ND, GHSS Tseminyu Nepasalu, GHS Chandmari, Kohima Saktibrata Basu, Mt. Sinai HSS, Kohima T. Alemba Jamir, GMS, Aoyimkum, Dimapur district P. Kavito, GHSS, Niuland, Dimapur district T.N. Pandey, Government Hindi Institute, Dimapur Debi Prasad Tripathy, Lima Air HSS, Lingrijan Dimapur district PG Joshua, Don Bosco HSS, River Belt Colony, Dimapur district Bishnu Bahadur Chetri, North Town HSS, Dimapur Zasenulu, GPS Phuhgi-A, Phek district Chineyi Lohe, GHS Phek town, Phek district Lusie Katiry, GHS Kameleah (Lephori) Phek district Yashilila, GPS Langa Mangmetong, Mokokchung Mangyangtemsu, Senayangba GHSS, Mopungchuket, Mokokchung district Lobeno Yanthan, GMS Wokha Town sector-A, Wokha K. Nzanbemo Tsopoe, GHS Sungro, Wokha district R. Thejongse, GPS Phoya, Tuesang district S. Hotongse, GHSS Chungtor, Tuesang district G. Lekshmi Narayanan Nair, Mt. Carmal School, Tuesang district S. Shiakpong Konyak, GPS Monyakshu-D, Mon district M. Nokyim Konyak, GPS Loakkun, Mon district Bhagendra Jha, GHS Jaboka, Mon district Khushangla, Konjong HSS, Mon town, Mon district P. Mongsula Phom, GPS Tamlu Town sector-B, Longleng district Babban Singh, GHS Nyenching, Longleng district C.M. George, Christian HSS, Longleng district M. Teachang Tikhir, GMS Kiusam, Kiphire district Mamata Satapathy, Saramati View Modern School, Kiphire district Kupua, GPS Keletzai colony, Peren town, Peren district Vikhezhe, GMS Aquba, Zunheboto district Subash Prasad, GMS Achikuchu, Zunheboto district Sunil Kumar, GHS Zunheboto, Zunheboto district

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NSCN (R) dy kilonser clarifies assault on pastor

Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): NSCN (R) deputy kilonser for finance, Kuzoveyi Kezo, who along with some cadres were accused of physically assaulting one Pastor Krishna Ramauli of Nepali Baptist Church, Pfutsero town on August 31, has in a rejoinder, termed the allegation as “baseless and a propaganda to spoil his image.”

The Pfutsero Town Pastors’ Fellowship (PTPF) had alleged on Friday that Pastor Ramauli was assaulted by the deputy kilonser for finance along with some cadres and also extorted Rs 10,000 from him. ACAUT Pfutsero had also con-

demned the incident.

According to the version of the deputy kilonser Kezo as contained in a rejoinder, Krishna Ramauli was not only the Pastor of Nepali Baptist Church but also a business man running two shops at Pfutsero town and plying one commercial truck.

The deputy kilonser admitted that the pastor was approached by some NSCN (R) cadres sent by him recently for normal taxes for the ‘Naga cause.’

He, however, termed the alleged assault and extortion on the pastor as baseless.

Kezo claimed that the pastor had quarreled with the cadres instead of pay-

ing, even refusing to pay non-local tax at that point of time. However, during a phone conversation, Kezo claimed that the pastor assured to pay as assistance towards the government.

Kezo asserted that he had only asked for help as a willing contributor, whereas the pastor reported the matter to the traders union, ACAUT Pfutsero and also to the Indian Army.

The deputy kilonser further claimed he had not accepted the Rs 10,000 offered to him by the said pastor, nor received a single paise during his tenure as finance incharge in Phek distirct for 2014-2015.

Chief Guest Ashish Modi, IAS, Asst. Commissioner, Dimapur along with Producer and Director Akash Atae Konyak and others during the release of Nagamese movie ‘Morom Laga Chehira’ in Dimapur, on Saturday, September 5, 2015. (Morung Photo)

Online registration for Army Mega Christian Book Fair in Dmp from Sept 7 recruitment opens on Sept 7 Morung Express News Dimapur | September 5

Kohima, September 5 (mexN): Online applications for Army recruitment (Kohima rally), which is scheduled from November 4 to 8 for recruitment to Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs)/Other Ranks (OR), will be open from September 7.

This is the first time that Department of Social Welfare, Government of Nagaland is a rally is being organised observing National Nutrition Week from September 1 to 7 exclusively for candidates under the theme ‘Better Nutrition: Key to Development’. of Nagaland, informed a press release issued by PRO (Def), Kohima Lt Col

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Dimapur Bengali Samaj extends Janmashtami greetings Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): KK Paul, president, Dimapur Bengali Samaj has wished a Happy Janmashtami to each and every citizen of Nagaland. “Geeta is the biggest gift of Lord Krishna to humanity which is the source of eternity for all human beings. May this birthday of Lord Krishna usher us all into further peace & prosperity,” Paul wished.

Emron Musavi.

Performa for online registration is available on www.joindianarmy.nic.in and the entire procedure has been given in the publicity posters sent to all DCs, ADCs, SDO(C) and EAC offices in the entire state of Nagaland by ARO Rangapahar. There is no change in recruitment procedures except that now candidates will be allowed to attend recruitment rally only when they have registered and

filled up online applications, the release said.

The website www.joindianarmy.nic.in can be opened on any personal computer with internet facility. For candidates of Nagaland, Army Recruiting Office Rangapahar has established five computer terminals with internet and printing facility in their motivational hall to guide and facilitate online registration from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm everyday for the entire duration.

Gov expresses sorrow at social worker's death

Kohima, September 5 (mexN): PB Acharya, Governor of Nagaland & Assam has expressed sorrow over the demise of Binny Yanga, a Padma Shree awardee and a social worker from Arunachal Pradesh.

The governor in a condo'E-payment Literacy lence note issued by his OSD Workshop’ on Sept 8 remembered Yanga’s close Kohima, September 5 (mexN): The Nagaland association with the Indian Rural Bank will be organising 'E-payment Literacy National Fellowship Centre Workshop’ on September 8 at LCS building, Midland, (INFC), Mumbai, an NGO Kohima. Ashok Chakraborty, General Manager, NABARD, Nagaland State Office Dimapur will launch Epayment Literacy Booklet and deliver the keynote address. With an objective to make transactions of all users hassle free, safe and risk free, the workshop is organised by the Nagaland Rural Bank in collaboration with Na- Dimapur, September tional Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) and NA- 5 (mexN): The first state BJP BARD. Coinciding with the World Literacy Day, the meeting on organisational workshop aims to identify the day as Financial Literacy elections was convened by cum awareness campaign. With the recent Government the State Election Officer schemes and thrust towards a less cash economy, add- (SEO), Mmhonlumo Kikon, ing to a mass of first time user of cards and banking sys- Parliamentary Secretary for tems, the workshop is imperative for massive education Labour and Employment, and awareness on electronic payment products among Skill Development and Border Affairs on September 4 e-payment users in the country. here.

The SEO highlighted the IVR issues directive to dog owners schedules of the election: First Dimapur, September 5 (mexN): The village council of Industrial Village Razuphe (IVR) has informed all dog owners to keep their dogs chained or within their own compounds. A press release from the head GB of the village, TL Angami and council secreMorung Express News tary, Kenei Angami informed that the notification is being published in the interest of the villagers having Mokokchung | September 5 received complaints about dogs loitering around freely, defecating, and causing nuisance. The release warned In a noble gesture, the State that any dog found loitering around within the village Bank of India (SBI) today jurisdiction will be considered as stray and shot after donated a hearse van to seven days from the date of this publication. It added the Indian Red Cross Sothat no complaint whatsoever will be entertained by the ciety (IRCS), Mokokchung Unit in the presence of village council.

Parliamentary Secretary Tourism, C Apok Jamir Traders Union, Pfutsero condemns for here at the Imkongliba MepheK, September 5 (mexN): The Traders Union, morial District Hospital, Pfutsero, Phek district has condemned the act of Mokokchung.

The Deputy GenerKezoveyo Kezo, S.S. Deputy Kilonser, Chaplee, NSCN (R) for threatening and extorting Rs 10,000/- at gun al Manager (SBI), Jorhat point from Khrishna Ramauli on August 31. “The kind (South), NK Malviya, who of languages spelled out to Khrishna Ramauli, who is was the guest of honor, also a Pastor of the Nepali Baptist Church, Pfutsero is formally handed over the unchristian and unpatriotic,” stated a condemnation hearse keys to Sushil Kunote issued by president, Visatso Kronu and general mar Patel, DC Mokokcsecretary, Zewete Mero. Condemning and standing hung, who is the chairman, against any kind of threat to any of its member, the union IRCS, Mokokchung .

A host of dignitaries requested the law enforcing agency to book the culprit that included top SBI offiwithout any condition at the earliest. cials, IMDH doctors, IRCS

founded by Acharya himself in 1980s, and is now working vibrantly in the North Eastern states.

The note recounted that Acharya met the deceased twice in New Mumbai when she was admitted for treatment and consoled and prayed for her early recovery. “She was in a joyous mood facing deadly ailment.” Even those days, she was thinking of her people

from Arunachal and orphans in her Oju Welfare Association, the note said.

Acharya paid his respect to her work and appreciated and valued her continuation of the service to the society and hoped that she will be an icon for many other people working in the field of social service. He further prayed that her soul rest in peace and her life be an inspiration to all the new generation.

OM Books, the retail arm of Operation Mobilisation (OM), will be organising a “Mega Christian Book Fair” in Dimapur from September 7-12 at Rengma Baptist Church, Khermahal.

The fair, among other things, will showcase variety of books, Bibles, gospel music and movies, gifts article.

There will be great collection of various such items in display and special offers will be given during the fair, it was informed.

This is the first time such a mega book fair is being organised in Dimapur, informed BV Sridhar, Manager of Om Books, though it holds regular sales mobilisation across Nagaland.

The responses have always been good and it strives to offer best available Christian materials in various format despite logistical challenges at times, he added.

Operation Mobilisation, according to its website, works in over 110 countries “motivating and equipping” people to share God’s love with people all over the

world and seeks to plant and strengthen churches. The literature arms are part of its mission.

In India, the not-forprofit organisation started its operation in 1963 and the Dimapur chapter was started in 2004. Its bookstore is located near Clock Tower, Dimapur, currently manned by three staff, including the manager.

The manager said it would also be a great opportunity for churches, institutions as well as individuals to visit the fair, take advantage of the great collections and big offers, and appealed for their support.

Meanwhile, a project known as “Manna for the Soul” will run in parallel with the Book Fair. A recent initiative, the project aims to encourage the culture of readership by giving and sharing of books with substance with people who do not have easy access to them.

“The reading of the books can build up a person’s character and profitable to one’s growth, but over the recent years, the culture of book reading has been a steady decline,” noted

a press release from the project initiator, adding while the reason are manifold there are those who are unable to read beyond school textbooks and academic materials simply because they do not have the means to get the books provided for them.

“Thus we are looking for people who desire to share from their surplus collection or would simply want to give away used books so that someone else can have the pleasure of reading,” it added. It can be used books, especially Christian Literature, both fiction and non-fiction which will be distributed to orphanages, children’s home and other ministries.

The collection point for the books will be from September 7-11 between 10 am-5 pm at Rengma Baptist Church, Khermahal, it informed.

“Manna for the Soul” team consists of Sridhar Buruga, Alongla Aier, Pastor Robert Kikon, Pastor Zeirangbe, Atohili Chishi, Visasier Kevichusa, C Meren Jamir, Bensile and Kim Leivon. Interested individual can contact # 9862008081, 8974010446 for details.

State BJP holds meeting on organisational election Appeal not to ply heavy Phase - Booth level election to commence from September 20; Second Phase - Mandal Election to commence from October 10; Third Phase - District Election to commence from October 30; Fourth Phase - State Election to commence from November 20.

The SEO assured that the election will be free and fair and there should be no politicking unnecessarily, which

otherwise would attract disciplinary actions. At the same time, he emphasized that there should be no press releases from the party members except from the office of the SEO till the completion of the election process. Referring to the party constitutions, the SEO reminded that party presidents at state, district, Mandal, Booth level, who have consecutively served in

the same post for two years shall not be eligible to contest for the post of President.

The SEO has directed the district presidents to nominate/submit three names for the post of District Election Officer at the earliest before September 10 in hard copy.

Trainings for the DRO/ARO shall be undertaken in the second week, soon after the appointments of the same.

vehicles in Kidima

Kohima, September 5 (mexN): Kidima Youth Organisation (KYO) has appealed to the public not to ply heavy vehicles to Kidima.

In a press release, KYO president, Eyore Phinyo and general secretary, Kekhrüseto Kiso request-

ed to oblige with the appeal for safety of the road in order to keep the road as emergency linkage considering the landslide on NH 29. The KYO also repaired the road with PWD department labourers in Kidima jurisdiction, the release said.

SBI donates hearse van to IRCS Mokokchung Mokokchung officials and members, concerned citizens and students’ leaders attended the formal programme of handing over the hearse.

The chief guest, Parliamentary Secretary C Apok Jamir, while speaking at the programme, expressed heartfelt gratitude to both the State Bank and the IRCS for their noble initiative towards the welfare of the people. While appreciating the SBI for understanding the need of the people and extending their help through their Corporate Responsibility Schemes, Apok at the same time encouraged the IRCS Mokokchung to continue their herculean task of working for the downtrodden people in the society and live

C. Apok Jamir, Parliamentary Secretary, Tourism, Nagaland and NK Malviya, Deputy General Manager (SBI), Jorhat (South) flagging of the hearse donated by SBI to Indian Red Cross Society, Mokokchung. (Morung Photo)

up to the expectation of the community as always.

The Guest of Honor, NK Malviya said that the State Bank is always ahead and have discharged social re-

sponsibility projects all over, especially in the rural areas. He said that the State Bank is always there for the people, and asked the people to approach the SBI

if they need more services, which the bank will examine and work on it.

The Honorary Secretary, Dr Takosunep Ao, while delivering the vote of thanks,

said that the hearse was very much needed in Mokokchung because the dead were disposed off in an undignified manner earlier. But now, with a dedicated hearse, the dead can travel their last journey with respect and the bereaved families won’t have much difficulty to find a hearse now.

The chairman of IRCS Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel (Deputy Commissioner) said that the hearse will be hired out in a reasonable price and that the IRCS will be charging only the ‘running cost of the hearse’.

Artang Baptist Church pastor, Bendang dedicated the hearse while the chief guest and the guest of honor formally flagged off the hearse.

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Being Special Counting to 10

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Motor planning. For some children, figuring out how to physically do something -- even something as obvious as stopping what they're already doing -- can be a multi-step process.

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If your child has trouble processing language, it may take more than a count of three for him or her to figure out what you want done, much less how to do it.

Janelle Cox

oday, teachers are always on the lookout for ways to make learning fun. They know that humor in the classroom brings optimism and enthusiasm for learning. Here are a few tips and strategies to bring laughter and humor into your classroom.

Terri Mauro

hen it comes to getting kids to do what they're told, three seems to be the magic number. The success of books like 1-2-3 Magic -and maybe the success of our own parents in telling us we had a three-count to hop to -- makes us assume that if our kids don't get moving in a similar time frame, they're being disobedient. But for children with special needs, three may be a very unrealistic number. Think about what you're asking your child to do when you give an order and start counting.

He or she must 1) figure out what you want done; 2) figure out how to do it; and 3) do it. Can your child negotiate those three steps in three seconds?

Don't be too quick to say yes. Consider these possible problems:

Using Humor in the Classroom

Stress management.

Some people find deadlines energizing, but others can become paralyzed by them. Anxiety caused by deadline pressure can take over your child and cause him or her to be unable to focus on the task at hand.

Frustration tolerance. If your child feels unable to obey for any reason, it may seem easier to invite punishment than to do what's called for.

A count of three gives your child very little time to work through other possibilities.

If any of these are problems for your child, you may find you will have more success if you extend that "count of three" to a "count of 10." Counting to 10 gives your child adequate time to either process your request or ask for clarification; to transition from what he or she is doing to a different activity;

Tips for Using Humor: Humor can be an effective way to get and keep your students engaged. Here are a two tips for using huand to deal with frustra- mor in the classroom. tion without becoming overly stressed. You may Create a Comfortable find that your child some- Learning Environment: times needs less than 10, when there is laughter and at which point you can joy in your classroom, you provide praise and en- are creating a learning encouragement. And if 10 is vironment where students reached and the behavior feel safe and comforthasn't changed, you can able. Laughter eases tenstill provide your conse- sion and when students quence. are able to let their guard Giving your child down, they will be more more time to do what you open to learning. The ask may seem like a sign key is to create a comof parenting weakness, but if you have reason to believe that your child can't comply in short order, it's not only merciful but practical to extend the deadline. Your goal, after all, is to have your directions followed. In the end, it's far more efficient to spend seven extra seconds and get what you want than spend minutes and hours dealing with the consequences of disobedience. Patience, after all, is a virtue.

fortable learning environment where students feel that you are easily approachable. You can achieve this by lighting things up a bit. You don't have to be a comedian or be naturally funny to have laughter in your classroom. Tell a silly joke, or allow time for the children to share a few funny stories with the class.

Make Lessons Fun: Teachers can use humor to bring their lessons to life and make learning fun.

They can do this through games, creating science experiments, using drama in the classroom (such as dressing up as characters from a book) or even using comical voices to tell a story. Students will appropriate the effort that you put into making lessons fun.

So, before you roll out your

Laughter has the power to help students learn

next lesson, be sure to add dle on the front board for sheets. These humorous a bit of humor to it. students to ponder. quotes can be just the thing to cheer someone Humor Strategies to Laugh at Yourself: It's up when their having a Try: Even if you find that okay to laugh at yourself bad day. you are not naturally fun- when you make a misUse humor in the ny, you can still use humor take. Show students that classroom any way that in the classroom. Here are it is perfectly normal to you can to make lessons a few humor strategies to have a chuckle when you more fun and effective. try. mess up. Be sure to men- Laughter is a great stress tion what you did to the reliever, and we all know Add Humor to Your students so everyone can how stressful school can Worksheets: At the end of have laugh. be. Take the time to incoreach worksheet or test, try porate humor into your adding a silly joke or ridAdd Silly Quotes to classroom, and you will dle. This will help break up Your Classroom: Keep see a more positive learnthe monotony, and give silly quotes around your ing environment in no students a laugh. classroom. Put them on time. the walls, doorways, and Tell a Joke a Day: Start bulletin boards, and add your day with laughter by them to your either telling your students w o r k a joke each morning, or writing a silly rid-

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tephen McPhee was 6 years old when he first witnessed the plight of homeless children in Alberta. That year, he and his family collected 15 backpacks, filled them with clothing and supplies, and donated them.

Now, his charity collects more than 3,000 every year.

Meet the Founder: Stephen McPhee

ummer wouldn't be summer without the chance to blow bubbles! Use our bubble recipe to make up your own batch Hi I’m Stephen! I am of super bubble mixture. Store it in jars or bottles overnight currently in grade 8 and I for an even better mixture. Scroll down this page to find our bub- love to learn, I especially ble recipe. like math. My best friends are Dustin and Jordan.

BUBBle Recipe They are great friends to 1/2 cup of dish detergent (washing up liquid) hang out and always make 5 cups water (soft water is best - if your water is very hard con- me laugh. Even though I sider using distilled or bottled water) am older now I still have a 2 tablespoons glycerine (available at the pharmacy or super- dream. I want no kids to be market). You can substitute light corn syrup (not golden syrup!) on the street and every kid Mix the ingredients together very carefully, so that they don't to have their own bed and get too bubbly. pour into storage containers and, if possible, grass to run on and toys to leave overnight to blend. play with.

Mission: Rallying our communities and the children within them to help children in need Leadership: In January of 2008, Stephen’s Backpacks Society was officially formed. Our overall goal is to continue the good work that was begun during the Christmas season of

2006. We recognize and expect that in order to remain effective, we will need to continually strive to find creative ways to reach out to our communities. When Stephen McPhee spoke of a dream to help children in need, we recognized that this was not just a dream, but a vision of how things could be. We now consid-

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.

er ourselves charged with the task of casting that vision before us and our communities so that we can bring hope and support to those in need in our community. Our inspiration? The simple fact is that if a six year old can envision a way to have an impact on his community, so can anyone else.

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f you are walking in willful disobedience to God's Word, if the consistent pattern of your life is the practice of sin and the deeds of the sinful nature that Paul describes in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, Galatians 5:19-21 and Ephesians 5:3-7, then you must question your salvation.

Any teaching that opens the door to false assurance and loose living is not from God. A wave of watered-down and milquetoast "Churchianity" has flooded the church world. A nonconfrontational gospel has failed miserably to deal with sin and repentance. We have forgotten that the central message of the gospel is that Jesus came to save us from our sins (Matt. 1:21), not in our sins. He didn't just come to forgive us of our sins, but to free us from our sins. This is one of the most tragic fundamental errors we have made in our contemporary gospel, and it largely explains the degradation in our society today. A weak church has opened the way for the devil's onslaught.

Not only has our gospel been watered down, but the themes of holiness and sanctification in the church are hardly ever mentioned. As a matter of fact, there's been a diabolical silence on it as the "I'm OK, you're OK—once saved, always saved" mantra gains popularity. And all at the expense of the many urgent appeals of New Testament writers to warn the early saints of the dangers of deception (1 Cor. 6:9), falling back (2 Pet. 3:17), drifting (Heb. 2:1), stumbling

(1 Pet. 1:10), changing the grace of God into a license for immorality (Jude 4), and giving heed to seducing doctrines of demons (1 Tim. 4:1). The church world is fast adrift into an "easy believism" salvation void of His Lordship that Christ would not recognize today.

Men who profess Christ are not meeting God's own conditions for true conversion.

"Christian" is almost a meaningless word to the masses today, because so many believe they are Christians, when in fact, they are not. And sadly, there are very few voices today strong enough to change that and stir the church and shake the world.

It has been estimated that over half a million were converted to God as a direct result of Charles G. Finney's ministry in the 1800s, and that by a conservative estimate over 80 percent remained true to Christ to the day of their death, without backsliding or falling by the wayside. Figures are nowhere near that today.

"Examine yourselves, seeing whether you are in the faith; test yourselves" (2 Cor. 13:5).

Only the dishonest fear the truth. If your faith is real, it will stand any thorough examination. If it is false, God knows it, and you shall know it too. Please do something about it before you go out into eternity.

Christian, God's question to you is not "What are you doing?" but "Why are you doing it?" It is possible to look exactly like a true Christian in every outward detail, but for a fundamentally different reason. Man looks on the outward appearance, but God

looks on the heart. Other professing Christians judge you by the ways and means you live out your life, but God looks at the reason and purpose for which you are living (see Matt. 6). Almost any means of Christian service can be counterfeited by a deceived person, but unless there has been a change of heart, or ultimate purpose, nothing you do is really true.

So a person may believe that Christ came to save sinners, and on that ground may submit to be saved for his own safety, without submitting to His Lordship.

His submission is only on the selfish condition that he will be happier. It is never with that unreserved trust in God's character and love for the complete will of God. And in large part, this is what we have come to today: Christianity is a religion of happiness and prosperity. But that is not the gospel, dear ones.

The false convert obeys God, not because he loves Him, but only because he hopes to get something good out of it for himself. The true child of God delights in doing God's will. When love for Christ and the gospel is central, there is no weariness or struggle in serving the Lord. It is your delight! His commandments are not grievous (1 John 5:3; Matt. 11:30; 23:4; Luke 11:46).

Do you enjoy Christianity or do you serve God only for what He can do for you?

A true convert loves the Word of the Lord. He loves hard truth. He loves to hear about being holy, fearing the Lord, denying himself and taking up his cross and follow-

ing Jesus. He is not the least bit offended by these themes.

The false convert never enjoys hearing these types of messages.

Christ's words commanding supreme love of His followers over all other earthly loves have no meaning to the false convert.

They do not supremely love Him. They love themselves, and everything connected with their own happiness (Matt. 6:33, 22:36-40, 10:37-39; Luke 14:25-26).

We have a radically defective Christianity today. It is not an exaggeration nor unloving to say that these aforementioned descriptions of false conversion seem to fit a very large majority in the church.

Now, let me ask you another question. Is Christ the center of your life, or are you trying to fit Him in for your own happiness?

The problem has been that it has become quite fashionable today to take Jesus as your Savior, but not as your Lord as if He is somehow divided. However, if you do a study on the word "Lord," you will find it listed more than 400 times in the New Testament as opposed to Savior, which only appears 15 times. The New Testament calls Him our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His Lordship always has preeminence. To our own detriment, preachers today have subtly excused His Lordship by saying things such as, "Sinners just need to take Jesus as their Savior," as if His Lordship is optional or something you do later on when you become a stronger Christian.

The common thought has been that this nominal "Christian" may partly serve God while at the same time partly living in sin. His ticket to heaven is guaranteed; his discipleship is optional. It appears by this that a man can be saved, but not surrendered to Christ; following Him, but still serving himself.

Once again, friends, that is not the gospel! This line of thinking is at the root of all the church's problems today.

Maybe it is time to face the hard truth.

The real answer is that the person who displays these characteristics is a false convert.

Our churches our full of them.

They are "fashionable Christians!" Their style of religion is fashionable and popular and they generally follow the spirit of this age in their thinking, behavior, fashion, dress and custom. No matter what God requires, they are carefully determined not to offend His enemies. If they are ever faced with a choice between pleasing man or pleasing God, they will offend God. They will do more to gain the approval of men than the approval of God. This must change in the church today if we are to see nationwide revival.

Will you surrender now and trust in God's empowering grace to live no longer for yourself, but to live for God and His glory? Will you, preacher and pastor, begin to proclaim the real gospel and the real salvation?

Bert M. Farias, revivalist and founder of Holy Fire Ministries, is the author of several books, including The Real Spirit of Revival and the newly released My Son, My Son— a beautiful father-son memoir co-written with his son Daniel for the purpose of training up a holy generation.

The weakness of Ruth is greater The Salt of the earth and than the strength of Samson the Light of the world

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JD Greear

recently reflected on the dark conclusion to the book of Judges— how the book ends with a note of desperation. “In those days Israel had no king; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” And what was “right in their eyes” was patently horrific. It seemed so appealing at the beginning, to define God how they wanted him to be. But it turned out to be hell on earth.

If the book of Judges were all we had to capture this time in Israel’s history, it would be a dismal piece of history indeed. But there’s another story, a hidden subplot, to what’s going on in Judges. It’s the tiny companion volume known as Ruth.

The book of Ruth is set in the waning days of the rule of the Judges. In case you forgot what those days were like, it wasn’t a great time to be a woman in Israel. Women were bought and sold as property, kidnapped to satisfy the demands of the warriors, and murdered with no apparent concern for justice. Yet the central character of Ruth is a woman. Not only that, she isn’t even an Israelite. And at the start of her story, she’s a widow. By all outside appearances, Ruth is as low and as weak as a person could get.

But while the obviously strong men and rulers are busy driving their nation into the ground, the weak and seemingly helpless Ruth stands out because she trusts God in the face of impossible odds.

And because of her faith in the midst of

uncertainty, God would use her as his avenue for undoing Israel’s darkness.

You see, all throughout Judges, we’re left wondering if any of these judges will be the savior and deliverer that Israel needed. Some displayed incredible feats of strength and might, but in the end, none of them were up to the task. But the book of Ruth shows us that where the strength of Israel failed, the weakness of God would succeed. God chose Ruth—a woman, an outcast, a nobody—to keep the promise of God alive. Ruth would have a son, Obed, who had a son, Jesse, who had a son, King David. The king that Israel needed would come not through the strength of Samson, but through the weakness of a foreign widow.

But even David wasn’t the ultimate king that Israel needed. From David’s line, generations later, came the king that they truly needed, a king who would have more in common with Ruth than with the judges: Jesus. Like Ruth, he was poor, wandering as an outcast without a home. Like Ruth, he wasn’t the deliverer Israel expected.

But because of his weakness, he was the Savior they needed.

Jesus, however, would endure far worse than Ruth ever did. While Ruth endured hardship for a while, she ended her life in a stable and wealthy family. But Jesus would end his life with his closest friends abandoning him. He would not be rich, but would have his only possession on earth—the clothes

on his back—stripped from him. And he would not end his days in ease, but would face the most horrific death that humanity has yet dreamed of.

This is where it’s worth another glance back at the book of Judges. For as dark and gruesome as the conclusion to Judges is, it’s not the darkest chapter of Scripture. The darkest moment in the Bible is when the gracious and beautiful Son of God was beaten, mocked and crucified by religious leaders who thought they were doing the work of God. The cross was so bloody and horrifying that we’re tempted to look away.

But it was no more bloody than our sin demanded that it be. The difference between the horrific scene of the cross and the horrific scenes of Judges 17–21 is that Jesus took it on voluntarily. While the men throughout Judges were comfortable subjecting other people (usually women) to bloody punishment, Jesus would accept the punishment on our behalf.

If we see our sin for what it is, if we realize that what Jesus endured was our due, what can we say to this but, “Grace! Grace! God’s grace! Marvelous, infinite, matchless grace, freely bestowed on all who believe! You that are longing to see his face; will you this moment his grace receive?”

J.D. Greear, Ph.D., pastors the Summit Church in Raleigh-Durham, NC. Tagged

by Outreach magazine as one of the fastest growing churches in America, the Summit has grown in the past 8 years from 400 to over 5,000 each weekend.

When music gets in the way of worship Dan Wilt

the music is leading the way, rath- modus operandi. ometimes, the music gets in the er than the heart. It’s a problem. In way of worship. Sometimes, worship leading, the music can get Communities need worship leaders who are able to kill the music the best thing a band can do in the way of worship.

People need open spaces to confor the worship experience is to stop verse with God. Those spaces can Great music is not enough what they’re doing—either partialWhen the music leads, we exebe created with songs, but also with ly, or completely. In my last two desimple music played repetitively cute the experience, and our comcades as a worship leader, I’ve had the privilege of working with some munity appreciates it. Well done. and without flourishes, and with siamazing musicians. They are pro- We would also agree together that lence. Worship musicians who can fessional, capable and have a lot to weakly executed music hinders wor- play 15 minutes of a 4-chord patoffer to any moment that something ship. It just does. I’m still convinced tern, tastefully and without throwthat’s why Saul threw the spear at ing in lead breaks or distracting (in special is needed.

And executing a song? They nail David. But it doesn’t follow that ex- this context) frills, are worth their it—the pushes, the rises, the falls, cellently executed music always fa- weight in gold.

Worship leaders who are sensithe musical elements—like masters. cilitates worship in the best possible I also have many peers who are way. Rather, it is great music, led by tive to more than the music, who simultaneously worship leaders and the heart of a worship leader and can read that moment well, are producers. They know how to build bandmates, that facilitates the kind also worth their weight in gold. It’s a song, sonically, from the ground of worship that ultimately moves us. in those moments prayer can occur—a woman struggling with deup. They can arrange and paint that pression can taste God’s nearness, same song in many different ways, A call to lead from the heart a man who’s mistreating his family When the heart leads, we still exand can shift styles like most of us can hear some straight talk from the ecute the experience and the music, change clothes. But the music can get in the way of the worship. A pro- but we are also free to lose ourselves Spirit, or a desperate soul who needs fessional musician can miss read- in the worship moment, to pull the physical healing can be prayed for ing the moment. And worse yet, a band back to creating a space that by others. I am convinced that such worship leader can fall into execut- is sonically sparse—for people to sensitivity is learned only in the seing the songs instead of leading the personally respond to God. In fact, cret place—not in the rehearsal hall, when the heart is leading, the lead- on the stage or even in the leading worship. er and the band know when to stop of a thousand worship sets. We can completely, reading the moment, never replace leading from the heart The music can get to allow silence in the community’s with leading from the music, and in the way of worship the heart can only be cultivated in A nice, clean song—with a verse, worship experience. the secret place—when no one but Silence. It is music itself. I’ve chorus, verse, big double chorus God is listening. In knowing when to and sweet chorus out—is a well ex- been in many corporate silent moquiet or kill the music, we can expeecuted worship song. Most worship ments in the last few years, even in rience fresh life in our worship gathleaders can execute a song like that, large conferences, that have been erings. and the musicians can fill the sonic profound moments where God was Dan Wilt, M.Min. is an artist, author, musispace from start to finish. But I’ve truly leading the worship. Those cian, educator, songwriter, communicator, and spiritual life writer. With 20+ years in the noticed, for myself and for some of moments, pregnant with the presVineyard family of churches, he serves in varithe best musicians/producers/wor- ence of God, are often missed when ous ways to further a “New Creation” centered ship leaders I know, that sometimes executing the music is the primary vision of the Christian life through media.

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Selie Visa The Salt of the earth: "You are the salt of the earth.

But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men.”

Matthew 5:13 NIV The word “You” is emphatic.

Jesus is saying, “You, my followers and none others, are the salt of the earth.” Salt was used in the ancient world to flavor foods and even in small doses as fertilizer.

Above all, salt was used as a preservative. Rubbed into meat, a little salt would slow decay. Strictly speaking salt cannot lose its saltiness; sodium chloride is a stable compound. But most salt in the ancient world derived from salt marshes rather than by evaporation of salt water, and thus contained many impurities. The actual salt, being more soluble than the impurities, could be leached out; leaving a residue so dilute it was of little worth.

The question “How can it be made salty again?” is not meant to have an answer. The point is that if the disciples are to act as a preservative to prevent spiritual delay in the world by conforming to kingdom norms, they can discharge this function only by retaining their own spiritual virtue.

The Light of the world: “You are the light of the world.

A city on a hill cannot be hidden.

Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”

Matthew 5:14-16 NIV Often built of white limestone, ancient towns gleamed in the sun and could not easily be hidden.

At night the inhabitants’ oil lamps would glow over the surrounding area. As such cities could not be hidden, so also it is unthinkable to light a lamp and hide it under a peck-measure. A lamp is lighted and put on a lampstand to illuminate all. Jesus' disciples constitute the true locus of the people of God and the means of witness to the world.

The pride of the Jewish leaders: Jews consider themselves as the light of the world by birth right and possession of the law. They are supposed to guide and teach others. But by their boastfulness and fruitlessness they failed to respond to God in terms of trust and obedience. Paul, in Romans 2:1724 begins to dialogue with a representative Jew. His razor-sharp expression of irony is superb for its skillfulness. He first builds up the Jews, citing their various distinctive way of life and appearing to appreciate them. But he swings abruptly into a frontal assault. Paul did not mince word in spelling out the hypocrisy prevalent among the Jewish leaders.

His gifted ability as an orator is unmistakably reflected in his speech. He used the interrogation mark with great deftness. Interestingly Paul employs the same terms actually used by the Jews for the Gentiles.

Romans 2:17-24 (NIV) Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to God; if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth-- you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

You who brag about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? As it is written: “God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”

Jews were characterized by their reliance on the law, given

by God through Moses. Such reliance came as the result of a relationship with God enjoyed by no other people. In Paul's time some of the leaders of Judaism were making such extravagant statements about the law as to put it virtually as more important than God. Many Jews were trying to keep the law for its own sake, to honor the law rather than its

Giver.

The new light after the ascension: Though the Jews saw themselves as the light of the world, the true light is the Suffering Servant, Jesus himself as prophesied in Isaiah 42:6. “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles.” A similar passage is found in John 8:12, When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." John 9:5 affirms this statement as Jesus reiterated that, “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

Jesus professes to be not only the inexhaustible source of spiritual nourishment, but also the genuine light by which truth and falsehood can be distinguished and by which the right direction can be established. Derivatively after the ascension, his disciples constitute the new light. In the Old Testament as in the New Testament, light most frequently symbolizes purity as opposed to filth, truth as opposed to error, knowledge as opposed to ignorance, and divine revelation and presence as opposed to reprobation and abandonment by God. Witnessing includes deeds: The disciples of Jesus must show their “good works”-- i.e. all righteousness, everything they are and do that reflects the mind and will of God. And others must see this light. It may provoke persecution, but that is no reason for hiding the light by which others may come to glorify the Father.

Witness includes not just words but deeds as well.

Thus the kingdom norms so work out in the lives of the kingdom's heirs as to produce the kingdom witness. If salt exercises the negative function of delaying decay and warns disciples of the danger of compromise and conformity to the world, then light speaks positively of illuminating a sin-darkened world and warns against a withdrawal from the world that does not lead others to glorify the Father in heaven.

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

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Govt announces OROP implementation, veterans satisfied New delHI, September 5 (IaNS): Putting an end to months of speculation, the government on Saturday announced it will be implementing 'One Rank One Pension' (OROP) for the armed forces. The veterans initially said they were not satisfied with the scheme, but later, after a meeting with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, accepted the government version.

The defence minister, making the much awaited announcement at a press conference called at short notice, said: "Despite the huge fiscal burden, given its commitment to the welfare of ex-servicemen, the Government has taken a decision to implement the OROP." Parrikar said an order implementing the scheme was likely to come in a fortnight to a month.

The minister squarely blamed the previous Congress-led government for miscalculations on OROP, and said it led to the delay in its implementation.

He also quoted a reply by a former minister of state for defence in parliament in 2009, who had said "there are administrative, technical and financial difficulties in implementing OROP".

"It is for these reasons that the present government took some time to fulfill its promise," he said.

Parrikar also urged the veterans to give up the agitation and resume the role they have been playing in nation-building.

"Prime Minister Modi has fulfilled his commitment... I would like to mention that the contribution of military veterans in nationbuilding in the past 67 years has been immeasurable.

Now that OROP is hopefully behind us, I urge the vet-

Highlights of OROP • OROP will be implemented from July 1, 2014 and the base year would be 2013.

• The estimated cost to implement OROP would be between Rs 8,000 crore to Rs 10,000.

• Pension of ex-servicemen will be revised every five years.

• Re-fixed pension will be the average of minimum and maximum pension in 2013.

• OROP arrears to be paid in 4 half-yearly installments.

• Those drawing pensions above the average will be protected.

• A one-member judicial committee will be constituted. It will give reports on equalisation period in 6 months.

• Personnel who retire voluntarily will not be covered under OROP scheme.

BJP, Cong spar over decision

Members of the Indian Ex Servicemen Movement take part in a sit-in protest in New Delhi on September 5. (Reuters)

erans to contribute to the vital task of nation-building and development," the minister said.

While initially the veterans said the announcement made by the government did not satisfy them, later, after a meeting with Parrikar, the issues were sorted out.

Maj. Gen. Satbir Singh (retd) told reporters after the meeting that they discussed the issue of OROP being denied to those who take premature retirement.

"Premature retirement was the one point we wanted to discuss. The defence minister verbally confirmed there is no VRS in armed forces, there is just premature retirement," said the retired major general.

"He will talk with the prime minister and let us know in a few days. Till that time, we will also talk with the core group and decide tomorrow (Sunday) whether to take the agitation forward," he said.

Govt will not allow people's faith to be broken: Rajnath puNe, September 5 (ptI): The faith of people, who brought the Narendra Modi government to power with absolute majority, will not be allowed to be broken, home minister Rajnath Singh said and made it clear that results of various steps taken will be reflected on the ground soon.

"I know many people are saying that 15 months have gone but no change is seen on the ground. "I want to tell you all that the way the Prime Minister is working, the way our government is working, I can assure you that your confidence will not be broken.

"Give us some time. After some time, people will see the results and the good work being done by this government," Singh said

addressing an interactive session with various professionals.

The home minister alleged that the condition of the country was very bad during the 10 year rule of the UPA government. "Our intentions are good. We have taken many steps. You will see the results soon," he said. Singh said after independence, for the first time a non-Congress government came to power with clear majority and people's faith will not be allowed to be broken. He said India's standing in international sphere has gone up, the wholesale price index and consumer price index have gone down, inflation is under control and the RBI has cut the interest rate resulting in economic growth.

Asked if they were satisfied, Maj. Gen. Singh said: "After this statement, yes, we are satisfied."

Earlier on Saturday, the veterans said they were not "fully satisfied" with what was being given, exclusion of those who take voluntary retirement being a major issue.

Parrikar in his press conference said "personnel who voluntarily retire will not be covered under the OROP scheme", even as he later told reporters that those who retire with injuries will be "protected".

The estimated cost to the exchequer for the scheme will be Rs.8,00010,000 crore, and the arrears will amount to around Rs.12,000 crore.

The scheme announced by the government will take 2013 as the base year to calculate pensions.

"Pensions will be refixed for all pensioners retiring in the same rank and with same length of service

as the average of minimum and maximum pension in 2013," Parrikar said.

Those drawing pension above the average will be protected.

Parrikar said the government came to power on May 26, 2014 and the budget came in June, so the date of implementation will be immediately after that, which was July 1, 2014.

The period for review is five years, something that has been a major sticking point.

The arrears are to be paid in four instalments, at a gap of every six months.

To war widows, the arrears will be given in one instalment.

Minister of State for Defence Rao Inderjit Singh said veterans above 60 years of age will also get arrears in one go.

Announcing the scheme, Parrikar said the government was dedicated to the scheme which has been pending for "40 years".

"The issue of OROP has been pending for nearly four decades. It is a matter of deep anguish that various governments remained ambivalent on the issue of OROP," said Parrikar.

In the government press conference, Parrikar blamed the previous Congress-led government, saying they promised implementation of OROP in 2014-15, but "did not specify what OROP would be, how it will be implemented or how much it will cost".

"An estimated Rs.500 crore provided for OROP in the budget presented in February 2014 by the then government was not based on any calculation," he said.

"The reality, however, is that to implement OROP the estimated cost to the exchequer would be Rs.8,000 to Rs.10,000 crore at present, and will increase further in future," he said.Currently the pension bill of the defence ministry stands at Rs. 54,000 crore.

In no time, the BJP refuted the Congress accusation.

"It is the Congress's passion to criticise the government for everything, forgetting that they have not been able to fulfill this responsibility while in power," union minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said here.

"Ten years in office is not an ordinary time, what have they done? They just make announcements," he added.

The BJP termed the decision "historic" and credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the decision.

BJP president Amit Shah thanked the Modi government for the OROP implementation, saying it will provide a financial security net to defence personnel.

"We have not just fulfilled the promise but implemented it as well. The Modi government has provided the retired and serving servicemen a financial security net," Shah told reporters.

The party said the Modi government had honoured the soldiers of the country.

"We welcome the decision. It is a historic decision," BJP general secretary Anil Jain said here.

"The Congress had deceived the exservicemen on OROP for decades. It was the Modi government which honoured them by implementing the scheme," he said. "Earlier governments had made the OROP scheme complicated."

Soon after the announcement, members of the BJP's ex-serviceman cell took out a march from India Gate to Shah's residence and thanked him for the announcement.

The government on Saturday decided to implement the OROP scheme for veterans.

The pension would be re-fixed every five years and the scheme will be with effect from July 1, 2014.

Cong seeks PM's intervention Indian govt considers extending maternity leave to boost child nutrition to assist drought-hit farmers New delHI, September 5 (tHomSoN reuterS FouNdatIoN): India is considering extending maternity leave to 24 weeks from 12 weeks, a government official said on Friday, adding that it would encourage more women to breastfeed and help reduce high rates of child malnutrition in the country.

"We feel the current three months is not enough time for women to adequately care for their newborns," said an official from the ministry of women and child development.

"The proposal, if approved, would give working women in all sectors -public, private and even the informal sector such as domestic workers -some kind of protection."

According to the ministry, an expectant mother needs one month of rest before birth, and seven months after, to adequately nurse her child, said the official, who declined to be

named.

India has one of the highest child malnutrition rates in the world. Forty-six percent of children under five are underweight and 48 percent are stunted, according to the latest government figures from 2005/6.

Child malnutrition is an underlying cause of death for 3 million children around the world every year - nearly half of all child deaths - with most dying from preventable illnesses due to weak immune systems, says the United Nations Children's Fund.

Those who survive, grow up without enough energy, protein, vitamins and minerals, causing their brains and bodies to be stunted which means they cannot fulfill their physical, academic or economic potential.

The World Health Organization (WHO) - which recommends exclusive breastfeeding for babies up to six months old - says breastfeeding re-

duces child mortality and has proven health benefits that extend into adulthood.

Yet only 47 percent of Indian mothers exclusively breastfeed for the first six months, compared with 70 percent in neighbouring Nepal and 76 percent in Sri Lanka.

Gender experts say extending maternity leave will also encourage more women to return to work and close the gender gap in the labour market.

Many women reluctantly drop out of work because they need more time for their newborns, they say.

At around 33 percent, female participation in the workforce in India is well below the global average of 50 percent, a March report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said.

During to a visit to India in March, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said the gender disparity in the labour sector was a "huge missed opportunity".

Muslim Board to campaign against imposition of ‘Brahminical’ culture

Hyderabad, September 5 (IaNS): The All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the apex body of Indian Muslims, has decided to launch a nationwide campaign against attempts by the government to impose Brahminical culture and vedic dharam.

Voicing concern over the threats posed to the religious and cultural identity of minorities and other groups, the board announced the launch of the 'deen aur dastur bachao' (save religion and constitution) campaign.

The board has also involved other minority groups and organisations from the depressed classes in the campaign.

Stating that an "alarming" situation was prevailing in the country, AIMPB general secretary Moulana Sajjad Naomani told a news conference here on Saturday that the attempts to impose a Brahminical social order and rituals like yoga, surya namaskar and Vande Mataram were against the Indian Constitution.

"This is not bothering just Muslims but also all other social and

New delHI, September 5 (IaNS): Political parties began their blame game on Saturday soon after the government announced implementation of the 'One Rank One Pension' (OROP) scheme for ex-servicemen, with the ruling BJP calling it a "historic decision" while the Congress termed it "totally disappointing".

"The (Narendra) Modi government has substantially diluted the provisions of the OROP announced by the UPA (Congress-led United Progressive Alliance). Today's (Saturday) announcement about OROP by the defence minister is totally disappointing," Congress leader and former defence minister A.K. Antony told the media here.

Antony's remarks came soon after Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar made the announcement in the presence of army chief General Dalbir Singh, navy chief Admiral R.K. Dhowan, air force chief Air Chief Marshal Aroop Raha and Defence Secretary G. Mohan Kumar.

"Today's claims by the defence minister that the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government is for the first time accepting the long standing demand...

I don't know what language to use. We had already accepted in toto the demand for OROP and were in the process of implementing it," Antony said.

"They (the government) have ridiculed the ex-servicemen as well as the whole country," the Congress leader said.

Antony also accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of politicising the issue, saying the defence minister used the occasion of announcing OROP to criticise the previous UPA government.

While announcing OROP, Parrikar said: "It is a matter of deep anguish that the various governments remained ambivalent on the issue of OROP, which was pending for nearly four decades."

religious units. As the largest minority, the board took up the responsibility to take all along and launch a movement to save our faith and constitution," he said.

As part of the campaign public meetings, seminars and symposiums would be organised to bring about public awareness and to demand implementation of the constitution in letter and spirit.

The board also plans to wage a legal battle by challenging the imposition of Brahminical rituals. It will also challenge in the Supreme Court the orders of the Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan high courts, which ruled that rituals like surya namaskar should be optional.

"Even optional is against the constitution. Imposing culture of a particular community on all is not fair," he said.

When asked if the board would also make a representation to the prime minister or home minister, he said this was not on their agenda for now.

Naomani said it is shameful that Prime Minister Narendra

Modi says one thing and then does something else.

"We have no objection to what he is saying. What all he is saying is good but there is so much difference in what he says and what he is doing. Our movement is against his actions not his statements," he said.

The Muslim leader said minorities can't be deprived of their religious and social identity in the same of development. "On one side you talk of development and on the other you want to deprive minorities of religious and social identity and you take actions and make legislations for this," he said.

He also took strong exception to the prime minister's meetings with the RSS leaders and said this was a government of India and not a government of Hindus and Brahmins.

"Muslims can never compromise on their faith come what may.

The community is disturbed with the developments," he said while pointing out that India is a secular democratic country and the con-

stitution guarantees religious freedom.

Naomani said some forces were bent upon distracting the community from its fundamental faith and way of life. He cited examples of large scale changes in the education system and changes in the syllabus of schools and colleges.

The board leaders claimed that efforts were being made to amend the laws, which may affect Muslim personal laws.

"The communal forces are upbeat with the support of people at the helm of affairs. The growing communalism is not only a danger to the Muslim community but also to other religious, cultural and social groups. This communalism will hamper the growth and well being of the people," the board said.

AIMPB secretary Moulana Vali Rehmani and other key figures including AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi, Abdul Raheem Qureshi and Moulana Khalid Saifullah Rehmani were also present.

mumbaI, September 5 (ptI): Congress today demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should intervene to provide relief to drought-hit farmers in Maharashtra. "PM should intervene since the state government does not seem to be taking enough efforts. There are hollow announcements and nothing concrete on the ground," Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ashok Chavan said.

Chavan discussed the state's drought situation with senior party leaders at Gandhi Bhavan, the state party office, here. The former chief minister also said Modi has recently announced a financial package for Bihar.

"Modi should intervene to help Maharashtra farmers

as well who are reeling under drought for last couple of years," he said. "Even a large city like Latur does not have drinking water. The chief minister only announces that water would be brought by railway. However, nothing is happening on that front," he added.

The Maharashtra Congress chief also said the party is in the process of formulating an action plan to assist the drought hit people. "We don't want to politicize miseries of farmers. But, the party would constructively contribute for their welfare," he added.

According to him, inputs of district units would be taken to ascertain the ground situation so that assistance in terms of water, cattle and fodder camps, food for farm labourers can be arranged.

Green belt plantation along Odisha coastline bHubaNeSwar, September 5 (IaNS): The Odisha government has decided to take up green belt plantation along the saline embankments to protect the environment and sea-erosion off the Odisha coast. The government would take up the green belt plantation along the saline embankments executed under the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) in Ganjam, Puri, Jagatsinghpur and Kendrapada districts, said an official of the water resources department on Saturday. The official said that raising and strengthening saline embankments has been taken up by the Odisha State Disaster Management Authority (OSDMA) with World Bank assistance. "The green belt plantation shall be developed on the sea facing embankments to protect and enhance the environment as well as to act as a first-line of defence for the embankments against sea waves and wind," said water resources additional secretary P.K. Das in a letter to the forest and environment secretary. Since Odisha is prone to cyclones, the government hopes that the green cover would help in mitigating such disasters. .

Goa hospital gets notice over patients sleeping in corridors paNajI, September 5 (IaNS): The Goa Human Rights Commission on Saturday issued notices to the health secretary and the dean of the state's top government run medical facility over the issue of patients sleeping in the hospital's corridors last month. The notices were issued some days after the issue was highlighted in the media and subsequently a petition was filed by three individuals, including a human rights' activist and an Aam Aadmi Party leader, with the commission. The petition demanded that instead of making patients sleep in the hospital's corridors, patients without a bed should be accommodated in VIP rooms at the hospital, which are often vacant. "Instead of making patients sleep on the floors in and around the neurology ward and/or any other ward, patients should be shifted to other wards where occupancy is available or should be housed in the private wards of GMC and/or in the GMC rooms meant for VIPs... "The criteria of allotting beds in GMC should be who urgently needs the treatment, and not who is an influential person. VIP should mean Very Important Patient and not Very Important Person or Very Important Politician," the petition filed by advocate Satish Sonak and AAP secretary Valmiki Naik had said. Both the state health secretary and the dean of the Goa Medical College, located near Panaji, have been asked to file their replies to the Commission's notice by September 24.

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A nation divided: Hungarians loathe and help refugees BUDAPEST, SEPTEmBEr 5 (rEUTErS): Gazing down from the street outside Budapest railway station onto thousands of migrants camped out in an underpass, some locals cursed and even spat on the families below.

But others brought food, blankets and soap to the refugees, many escaping civil war and Islamic State in Syria - divergent reactions that highlighted a deep rift within a nation which itself has been torn apart several times by war and revolution.

"Just look at them, they are filthy, God knows what disease they bring, and they want to turn our country over to the Islamic State," said Geza Szilagyi, 56, as he waited for a bus, looking down on tents and makeshift cardboard beds.

Hungary, a major transit point for migrants heading into the heart of the EU via the Balkans, is ruled by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said on Friday Europe would be "lost" if it let all the migrants in and said he did not want to live alongside a large Muslim community.

His Fidesz party enjoys a strong poll rating of 22 percent, followed by the hard-right Jobbik whose rising popularity, at around 13-14 percent, has shifted Hungary's political centre to the right, making anti-immigration rhetoric, some of which would be considered racist in other European countries, acceptable.

Still, even as Orban used some of his toughest language, other Hungarians took it on themselves to help the men, women and children crowded out-

Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary

Migrants arrive at the Austrian-Hungarian border station of Hegyeshalom, Hungary on September 5. (Reuters Photo/ Laszlo Balogh)

side the train station.

"It's so easy to say that this is a terrorist mob, but it's just to clear your conscience. These are families, with newborns, and toddlers, they're mothers and fathers who have behaved with a lot more dignity than we have," said Kata Szentgyorgyi, who distributed food to the migrants.

"SO DESPERATE" In an incident rich in symbolism, migrants attempted to storm a train this week pulled by a locomotive painted with images of East Germans escaping via Hungary in 1989 when Budapest broke with its allies and opened the 'Iron Curtain' to let Germans flee to the West.

Hoping to remind Hungarians of their own past, a

For diabetes in obesity, weight -loss surgery beats medication Anne Harding Reuters Health Weight-loss surgery beats medication for controlling type 2 diabetes in obese people, according to the longest-term trial ever to compare the two approaches.

Half of the patients treated with weight-loss surgery in the study were diabetes-free at five years, said Dr. Francesco Rubino of Kings College London in the UK and colleagues in a report in The Lancet.

“The five-year mark is an important mark in many diseases,” Dr. Rubino told Reuters Health by phone. “The fact that some patients at five years are basically disease-free is a remarkable finding.”

In 2009, he and his colleagues randomly assigned 20 obese patients with type 2 diabetes to receive medical treatment, 20 to receive a type of weight-loss surgery called a gastric bypass, and another 20 to undergo a weight-loss operation called a biliopancreatic diversion.

Eighty percent of patients who had surgery had their bloodsugarundergoodlongterm control, versus about 25 percent of patients treated with drugs only.

All of the study groups had a reduction in cardiovascular risk. But the surgery-treated patients had a 50 percent lower risk of heart and blood vessel disease than those treated with drugs only, and they needed fewer drugs for treating high blood pressure or high cholesterol.

The improvements in blood sugar control and heart disease risk weren’t related to how much weight patients lost.

“What really is causing the remission of diabetes after surgery remains mysterious,” Dr. Rubino said. What is known, he added, is that the intestines produce a host of hormones involved in regulating metabolism. Reconstructing the gastrointestinal tract so that food bypasses the stomach and small intestine may help restore normal metabolic control, he explained.

Like any surgery, weight

loss operations carry risks.

An international study published earlier this, for example, found that after two years, people randomized to have gastric bypass surgery had better control of their type 2 diabetes than people assigned to a medication group, but they also had a higher risk for infections and bone fractures.

(See Reuters Health story of May 21, 2015.)

And some patients may gain back some of the weight they lost.

Still, doctors are increasingly referring to this type of surgery as “diabetes surgery,” rather than obesity surgery, said Dr. Philip Schauer, the director of the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute and a bariatric surgeon, in a telephone interview with Reuters Health. Dr. Schauer did not participate in the new study.

“There are some people, this study shows, that can go into remission for up to five years or more,” he said.

“We hesitate to use the word ‘cure,’ but it’s pretty darn close to a cure, about as close to a cure as you can get.’”

Dr. Schauer pointed out that about half of patients with type 2 diabetes are unable to control their blood sugar with medication and lifestyle measures. Based on the new findings, he said, bariatric surgery should be offered to these patients if they are moderately obese, for example with a body mass index (BMI) of 35.

(BMI is a measure of weight in relation to height.)

Currently the National Institutes of Health states that patients should have a BMI of 40, or a BMI of 35 with obesity-related illness, such as type 2 diabetes, in order to be eligible for weight loss surgery.

“There are still many insurance companies today that will not pay for this surgery for any reason, whether it’s for obesity or diabetes. It means that they are denying people effective treatment,” Dr. Schauer said. “This study is going to make insurance carriers and third party payers rethink their coverage policies regardingbariatricordiabetes surgery, as we prefer to call it.”

spoof political party erected a billboard in Vienna, thanking Austrians for not closing the border in 1956, when nearly 200,000 fled as the Soviets put down an uprising.

An August poll by research company Tarki showed that while only 5 percent of Hungarians said Hungary should take in migrants, 56 percent said the government should at least consider doing so.

Hungary's Catholic Cardinal Peter Erdo said the Church would not take in people because that would constitute human trafficking, a stark contrast to comments from Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, who said his churches could accommodate as many as 1,000 refugees.

" The government thinks it can benefit politically from this conflict," said Richard Szentpeteri Nagy, a political analyst at the Centre for Fair Political Analysis in Budapest.

"It's also a conflict between east and west because we've always looked up to the west and looked down on the east, so, it's not that they are Arab or Muslims, but that they're from the east."

On Saturday, the underpass was far less crowded after Hungarian authorities provided buses to take some 4,500 migrants to the Austrian border to continue their trek towards Germany.

But thousands remain at holding areas around the country and some reports say around 5,000 are on

Hungary’s southern border, expected to enter over the weekend.

"It's not 5,000, really, but several million heading towards Europe," Janos Lazar, Orban's cabinet chief said on Saturday.

Oblivious to Hungary's internal conflict, New Zealand tourist Sophia Duckor-Jones said she had been stunned by how few people or organisations appeared to be helping the migrants.

She raised 5,000 New Zealand dollars ($3,000) on Facebook in just a few days and has been distributing food in the underpasses by the station.

"It's shocking and terribly sad with all the kids.

They literally stormed us for food," Duckor-Jones said.

"It's so desperate and so few seem to be helping."

HEGYESHALOm /VIENNA, SEPTEmBEr 5 (rEUTErS): Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a rightwing government that had tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers reaching Europe’s frontiers.

Left to walk the last yards into Austria, rain-soaked migrants, many of them refugees from Syria's civil war, were whisked by train and shuttle bus to Vienna, where many said they were resolved to continue on to Germany.

Germany said it expected to receive up to 10,000 on Saturday. Austrian police said 4,000 had crossed by the morning, but that many more were expected during the day as Europe’s asylum system buckled under the pressure of the continent’s worst refugee crisis since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s.

"It was just such a horrible situation in Hungary," said Omar, arriving in Vienna with his family and hundreds of other migrants who poured out onto a fenced-off platform and were handed food, drinks and other supplies.

In Budapest, almost emptied of migrants by nightfall on Friday, the main railway station was again filling up with newly arrived migrants but trains to western Europe remained cancelled. So hundreds set off by foot, saying they would walk to the Austrian border like others had tried on Friday.

After days of confrontation and chaos, Hungary’s government deployed over 100 buses overnight to take thousands of migrants to the Austrian border. Austria said it had agreed with Germany that it would allow the migrants access, waiving asylum rules that require them to register in the first EU state they reach.

Wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags against the rain, long lines of weary migrants, many carrying small, sleeping children, climbed off buses on the Hungarian side of the border and walked into Austria, receiving fruit and water from aid workers. Waiting Austrians held signs that read, “Refugees welcome”.

“We’re happy. We’ll go to Germany,” said

a Syrian man who gave his name as Mohammed. Another, who declined to be named, said: “Hungary should be fired from the European Union. Such bad treatment.”

Hungary's insisted the bus rides were a one-off, even as hundreds more migrants assembled in Budapest on Saturday, part of a seemingly relentless surge through the Balkan peninsula from Turkey and Greece.

Bavarian state police said they expected the first refugees to arrive in Germany around midday, with national rail operator Deutsche Bahn saying a special train with 500 refugees aboard due to reach Munich around lunchtime.

Desperate Migrants Force Hungary's Hand Hungary, the main entry point into Europe’s borderless Schengen zone for migrants heading northwards through the Balkans, has taken a hard line, vowing to seal its southern frontier within days. Hungarian officials have painted the crisis as a defence of Europe’s prosperity, identity and “Christian values” against an influx of mainly Muslim migrants.

For days, several thousand camped outside Budapest’s main railway station, where trains to western Europe were cancelled as the government insisted all those entering Hungary be registered and their asylum applications processed in the country as per EU rules.

But on Friday, in separate rapid-fire developments, hundreds broke out of a teeming camp on Hungary’s frontier with Serbia, escaped a stranded train, and took to the highway by foot chanting “Germany, Germany!”

The government appeared to throw in the towel, ordering over 100 buses to take them to the border. Arriving at a Vienna railway station on Saturday, migrants were met by announcements for Germanybound trains in Arabic as well as German.

The scenes were emblematic of a crisis -- about 350,000 refugees and migrants have reached the border of the European Union this year -- that has left the 28-nation EU groping for solutions amid sharp divisions over burden-sharing.

Hillary Clinton says 'sorry' for email confusion WASHINGTON, SEPTEmBEr 5 (rEUTErS): Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Friday she was sorry that her use of a personal email account while secretary of state had caused confusion, and blamed herself for "not thinking a lot" about the matter when she took the job.

In her most contrite comments yet about an issue that has plagued her White House bid, Clinton said she had made a mistake by not using a government email account. But she maintained she had done nothing wrong and did not apologise explicitly for using a private email account for her work as America's top diplomat.

"At the end of the day I am sorry that this has been confusing to people and has raised a lot of questions

but there are answers to all these questions," the former first lady told MSNBC in an interview.

Clinton, front-runner to be the Democratic Party nominee in the November 2016 election, has faced steady criticism from political opponents since it emerged in March that she used her own email account on an unsecured private server in her New York home for official business.

Republicans say she flouted rules on record-keeping and transparency.

"I certainly wish that I had made a different choice and I know why the American people have questions about it," said Clinton, who was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. "I take responsibility. I should have had two accounts, one for personal and one for work-related."

Doubts over Clinton's

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a press conference after talking about her strategy for rural America during a campaign stop at the FFA Enrichment Center at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny, Iowa on August 26, 2015. (Reuters Photo/Scott Morgan/File)

trustworthiness have damaged her numbers in opinion polls, allowing liberal Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to narrow the gap with her before the first contests early next year to pick the Democratic Party nominee for the election.

Clinton's slump in polls

has also given space for a possible run by Vice President Joe Biden. Biden's elder son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in May aged 46 and the vice president said on Thursday he is trying to determine whether he has the emotional energy for a White House bid.

Clinton said she used the personal email account for convenience and did not give the issue much thought when she started her job as secretary of state.

"I was not thinking a lot when I got in. There was so much work to be done.

We had so many problems around the world. I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be," she said.

Clinton said that while she should have acted differently, she had done nothing wrong. "It was allowed and it was fully above board. The people in the government knew that I was using a personal account," she said.

The FBI is now investigating the security of the private server and any classified information on it.

Reviews by Reuters of Clinton emails released to

the public under a judge's orders found 87 email threads that the State Department has marked to show they include information shared in confidence by foreign government officials, from prime ministers to spy chiefs.

U.S. government regulations say this sort of information, whether written or spoken, must be classified from the start and handled through secure, government-controlled channels.

The Republican National Committee said Clinton was only sorry about being the centre of so much controversy over her emails.

"What's clear is Hillary Clinton regrets that she got caught and is paying a political price, not the fact her secret email server put our national security at risk," RNC spokesman Michael Short said in a statement.

Grand corruption is big stumbling Japan gives first block for new development goals clean toilet awards PUTrAYAYA, SEPTEmBEr 5 (THOmSON rEUTErS FOUNDATION): The most serious forms of corruption are one of the biggest threats to the new development goals due to be adopted by world leaders this month because they deprive the poor of millions of dollars, campaigners said.

Nearly $1 trillion in illicit finance, much of it amassed by those in positions of high authority, is estimated to leave poor countries each year, money that could help replace shrinking aid budgets and support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

"Grand corruption is a big problem for development because of the massive amounts of money involved," Akaash Maharaj, executive director of the Global Organisation of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC), told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on the sidelines of an

international anti-corruption conference in Malaysia.

Anti-graft campaigners fought successfully for the inclusion of a corruption target in the SDGs but say that it will be a struggle to implement it globally as kleptocrats continue to steal millions from the poor.

While most countries have established a legal framework to fight corruption they often struggle to enforce their laws because those who have grown rich and powerful through cor-

ruption are able to shield themselves from the rule of law.

SEEKING JUSTICE Citizen activism increasingly plays a major part in scrutinising and bringing to justice senior officials accused of corruption, said Jose Ugaz, chair of anti-graft group Transparency International.

One model for such citizen activism is the criminal proceedings brought in 2007 by non-governmental organisations and a citizens' group accusing three

African heads of state - Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, Omar Bongo of Gabon and Denis SassouNguesso of the Republic of Congo - of embezzling state money to buy properties in France.

In Malaysia, tens of thousand of demonstrators took to the streets of the capital Kuala Lumpur last weekend to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak amid allegations that a donation of almost $700 million was paid into his personal bank account. Najib denies any wrongdoing.

GOPAC, meanwhile, wants grand corruption to become a crime to be punished under international law or in regional courts.

"This will enable international institutions and alliances to prosecute offenders and develop additional mechanisms to apprehend and prosecute those who have committed crimes of grand corruption," Maharaj said.

TOkYO, SEPTEmBEr 5 (IANS): A total of 28 municipalities and businesses have received the Japanese government’s first toilet awards for promoting clean, safe and comfortable public lavatories, the media reported on Saturday.

The recipients for Toilet Awards Japan, launched earlier this year, were selected from among 378 applicants by six ministries. The awards were presented on Friday, the Japan Times reported.

Tokyu Department Store Co., the Sapporo Cultural Arts Foundation and nine other winners were given the women’s empowerment minister award for making women’s restrooms more attractive, such as by making space for breast-feeding and by shortening waiting lines.

In a shopping area at the Shibuya Hikarie commercial complex in Tokyo, Tokyu has spaces featuring art displays, background music and special fragrances that are "called

‘switch rooms’ instead of restrooms because they are designed to give visitors a change of mood,” said Tokyu official Kazuo Nakano.

“We want to have our female visitors feel relaxed and enable working women to switch between their business and private moods,” he added.

Improving women’s toilets will lead to a society that is comfortable for all, including men, the disabled and tourists, said Arimura, who is leading the government’s toilet beautification initiative.

The government is looking to make Japanese restrooms more friendly for tourists from abroad ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

Narita International Airport Corp. and Tokyo International Air Terminal Corp. were among the seven who received the tourism minister award for promoting the charms of Japanese toilets as a way of attracting tourists.

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The Last Ride

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y brothers and comrades you took my seat, drove my car, on my errand you went. Awaited your return but alas! it was your last ride never to return. It was me they attempted to kill but you died in my place.

My brother Capt. Medo, you were the gem of Angami, the only veteran and senior most officer representing your tribe. Ever obedient were you, without retort you sat in my place, steered my fateful Gypsy and took your last ride, you died for me dear brother, how I long to meet you and repay the debt, perhaps my time is yet to come.

Dear comrade Lieutenant Joseph Sumi how glad was your heart and your spirit soared as you received your wife alas! your laughter and happiness to last for only 10 minutes, the merciless Indian killers slain you both in a flash. Can’t fathom the tragedy of your teenage children deprived of parents at so tender age.

Our beloved comrade Lieutenant (Chaplain) Reuben Sumi as gracious as ever and faithful to the banner “Na-

galand for Christ” knowing not the cruel killers awaits you, cheerful were you when the hails of death descended on you.

Brother Hukavi your loyalty drove you to the last ride of death, never questioning, never refusing, only to abide the command given, faithfully carried on your instructed errand and peacefully returning were you. Alas! the Godless killer shredded your flesh with their leads of fury.

My son Sergeant Seipu, ever my physical armor, for the last five years you always stood beside me. You were dragged down alive and shot at pointblank by own Nagas in enemy’s garment. How mournful that I could not save you from the cruel fate.

“Your bodies destroyed but your souls who can harm Your flesh consecrated to the Nation and spirit ascended to heavens Your precious blood fertilizes the motherland In your death will arise many more…

Beloved sons of soil prepare for us a place until we meet again in his glory”.

Col. Isak Sumi

6th September Pochury Black Day

T

he NNC leadership, at one of its meetings held at Washelo in May 1960, had resolved to flush the Indians armed forces out of Naga Territory. To achieve this goal, the Naga Army attacked the 14th Assam Rifles outpost at Thuda (Phor Vilage) in Pochury area. The attack was undertaken by the Eastern Command 1st Brigade under the command of major General Zuheto, along with the then 4th Battalion of Pochury region under the command of Lt. Colonel Thorpa. The monsoon was at its height during the time and the major rivers like Tizu, Lanye and Thethsü were in full spate. The attack was launched on 14th August 1960 after destroying all the six bridges on all the rivers. This was done to stop reinforcement from reaching the besieged army post.

As the attack continued into the third day, ammunitions on both sides were running short and on several occasions, the Indian Air Force plane tried to drop relief materials and ammunitions but were prevented by the Naga Army. At the same time the Indian Air Force jet fighters strafed the attacker’s positions.

An Indian transport plane bearing No.DC-3,HJ233 (Dakota) trying to drop relief materials and ammunitions to the besieged post was shot down by the Naga Army on the 4th day of the siege and crash landed at Zathsü, a paddy field of Meluri village.

In fact, this was the first plane ever shot down by the Naga Army in the history of Naga Struggle for sovereignty. The Naga Army captured 4(four) of its pilot and 5(five) crew members.

The captured Flight officers were Capt. Anand Sinha, Flight Officer R.E Rapheal, Sgt. J.C Chowdury. This led to a heavy army operation in Pochury area by the Indian Army, who were in the mission to search and rescue the captured airmen – none of whom were ever tortured but were later set free through the Indian Red Cross Society. In the process of the Army operations to rescue the airmen many villages were burnt down and untold atrocities and tortures were inflicted upon the villagers.

On 1st September 1960, 6(six) villagers from Phor village were tortured to death. Their names are as follows: 1. Lt. Türachu, village chief 2. Lt. Yutsüchu, Pastor 3. Lt. Chupüchu, DB 4. Lt. Yitüchu, GB 5. Lt. Türüchu, GB 6. Lt. Müghazu, GB Again on September 3, 1960 another 3 (three) villagers from Yisi village were beaten to death, their names are as follows: 1. Lt. Mazu GB 2. Lt. Throchu 3. Lt. Mazu RP Two villagers from Mokie village were also beaten to death.

1. Lt. Yichühu 2. Lt. Nyupuchu.

In Laruri village, Lt. Lingsang was buried alive after severe beating.

Lt. Nyukhrüsüh and Lt. Rhorüpa of Meluri village were beaten severely after which, their heads were chopped off.

Two villages namely Tsiküzo and Küluopfü, were abandoned due to tortures humiliations meted out by the Indian army.

On 6th September 1960, the 16th Punjab regiment posted at Kangjang village reached Matikhrii village around 10:00 AM. The entire village was encircled in three rings and all the villagers were ordered to gather in one place. Men-folks were separated from women and children.

All the men were made to keep jumping and do sit-ups, for more than 5 hours in the scorching sun, naked.

Any signs of tiredness were met with kicks and hits with rifle butts. Then just before sun-set, the Indian army not satisfied with the punishment meted out to the villagers, rounded them up inside the village chief’s house and were forced to sit head down like a lamb being lead to its slaughter.

Lt.Thah, the then village chief,

knowing what was in store for them bravely volunteered to sacrifice. He stood bravely for the Naga cause even to his last breath and said “IT`S A MAN`S PRIDE. NO SURRENDER, NO COMPROMISE FOR OUR BIRTH RIGHT. THIS SACRIFICE IS TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM.I SHALL GLADLY LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR THE NAGA FUTURE GENERATION” .Then an Indian army jawans, holding a blunt Dao Chopped-off the head of Lt.Pogholo, who was first in the line.

Witnessing the brutality and horror in front of their eyes and knowing that all of them were going to be killed, one of the villagers managed to escape the execution forcefully.

Then one after another, heads rolled down, separated from the bodies, and in the event a total of nine lives were lost.

Their names are as follows: 1. Lt. Thah 2. Lt. Pogholo 3. Lt. Mezitso 4. Lt. Pongoi 5. Lt. Eyetshii 6. Lt. Zasituo 7. Lt. Thitu 8. Lt. Kekhwezu 9. Lt. Kezii khwelo

The Indian army did not even allow the loved ones to perform last rites and rituals for the dead. All the death bodies were dump inside the village chief’s house and were burnt down to ashes along with the other houses and granaries.

The women and children who had fled to the jungle to evade the horror and torture of Indian Army came back the next morning to find the whole village burnt down to ashes.

Lt. Thitu who narrowly escaped from the execution was found by his wife Mrs. Rhiitariih with three cuts on the neck, stomach slashed and intestines thrown out. He quoted “LOVE, TELL MY BELOVED CHILDREN THE SACRIFICE I BEAR FOR THEM AND I AM WAITING TO DIE ON YOUR LAP WITH A CUP OF WATER” and after drinking, he breathed his last. Another victim Lt. Zasituo, traveling pastor, was also found almost dead with multiple injuries on the chest and neck. Not long after, he died. Then the horrified women and children with no means simply covered the death bodies with mud and left for the jungles fearing the Indian army might turn up any time.

For days together, the survivors wandered in the deep jungle without proper food and shelter. The wild berries and fruits of the jungle were their only food and means of survival. The only comfort and encouragement they could give to each other was the knowledge of glorious sacrifice made by their men-folks. The wild animals and birds of the jungle were their only companions, besides themselves. In extreme condition of hardships and difficulty, many more precious lives were lost.

The Naga Army then came to their rescue. They were given food, shelter and protection. Even today, the nightmares and tragedy of the incident still remains fresh in the mind of the survivors. In this long dispersion and exodus, the survivors entered Burma and stayed with the Naga Army in their camp at Sathi where Gavin Young of London Observer met them in the later part of 1961. In his book” Indo-Naga War”, he has written in page 29-30 that when he met the survivors, there were only a pathetic thirty people.

They spent their life in the wilderness for two and half years. In 1963, village re-establishment took place but normal lives could not be restored for many years.

The people of Pochury then observed 6th September as “BLACK DAY” in memory of all those who suffered and laid down their lives for the greater glory and freedom of the Nagas. It is a day of sadness and a day to acknowledge the sacrifices made by the martyrs.

Atsopu Pfithu, Vice President Pochury Students’ Union

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hey may hunt down the smaller groups … The Govt. may take their help… Separatism is over… Good day for India” these are the statements made on NDTV and his Facebook Page by Shekhar Gupta, a senior journalist, an authority on political issues regarding the Northeast. It sounded like he had full authority on the subject, after Delhi Accord was signed between Interlocutor for GoI, R.N. Ravi and NSCN-IM on 3rd Aug. 2015. I trust NSCNIM would never hunt down their own brethren as speculated under any circumstances, otherwise it would prove disastrous for the Nagas and signal a future of doom and gloom, or it would be another Shillong Accord. If anything goes wrong, people would naturally hold the authors of this hidden Accord responsible. The need of the hour is a settlement for a land free of fratricide and the scourge of hate and war.

The possibly diabolic statement from an Indian mind, a well known media personality, analyzing the Delhi Accord is a recklessly one-sided view.

Does it speak the mind of Delhi? Can we say Delhi has an ulterior motive trying to sow the seeds of division and factionalism amongst us as she has always been doing? This needs to be pondered upon, without prejudice, to rule out any unseen ugly element.

I guess what Shekhar Gupta was trying to say was that since the framework agreement is to settle all issues “within” the Indian Constitution “separatism” as understood by him is over. As such after honoring the Indian Constitution the NSCN-IM may hunt down the smaller groups and the Government may take their help whether one likes it or not. Or was he just indulging in speculation? Does mainland India espouse hunting down other groups by IM with the help of Delhi as a solution and expect it to be a good day for them?

I trust Gupta was not in favor of use of violence to implement the Delhi Accord, as it is reported to be a peace accord and having intention to be so.

However, as he has followed the NE crisis with deep concern for so many years, he was probably speculating about the likelihood of the given situation deteriorating further into more violence as past Accords have all produced.

If the opinion shared by Gupta on national media proves to be right, I for one dread the outcome, but hope it will never happen. I sense this apprehension is widely felt by many others too. For we have had enough lessons from the three great downfall Accords in our Naga political history, such as 16th Point Agreement, creation and surrender of Revolutionary Govt. of Nagaland (RGN) and Shillong Accord, and we do not need a fourth blunder. Was Gupta putting forward his views by assessing the character of the three aforesaid downfall Accords thereby predicting the possible outcome of the Delhi Accord? Referring to the Delhi’s Accord Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Dubai on 17.8.15, said “We move ahead successfully with different factions of Nagaland after 60-70 years of insurgency” Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju on 21.8.15 at Guwahati said ”but the Framework (Delhi Accord) has clearly stated that they (NSCN-IM) honor the Indian Constitution” This definitely is a good day for India as understood by them and Delhi knows it, that’s why Gupta must have said “Separatism is over.” If so, let’s examine the undeniable fact of our Naga National status.

The “great downfall Accord” meant abandoning the aspiration and stand of the Nagas i.e. “they are a People and a Nation not Indians and their territory is not a part of the Indian Union” and joining the Indian Union, as was done in 1960 by an NGO called

Naga People’s Convention (NPC) without mandate under a half-baked 16th Point Agreement, when there was war between Federal Govt. of Nagaland (FGN) and GoI. Under this agreement some Nagas submitted themselves and honored the Indian Constitution because of which their leaders were assassinated or attempted followed by counter attacks and cycle of violence and divisions.

This act of honoring the Indian Constitution is deceptively interpreted today as “sharing of sovereign power” between “two entities” by Interlocutor R N Ravi, as if it is something very close to a “shared sovereignty.” The sovereign Parliamentary State, Island of Niue having absolute free association with New Zealand, is an example of “shared sovereignty” in Britannica Encyclopedia. Nevertheless, in spite of all these weaknesses, the Nagas are proud that their struggle was right and not an act of secession that unlawfully or treasonously violated some solemn agreement made by them to be a part of the new independent India. This was the “first great downfall Accord” another type of Shillong Accord, which we all detest.

The 2nd great “downfall” was the surrendering Act on one hand, and honoring of the Indian Constitution on the other by a self-styled RGN. This 2nd great downfall was also responsible for the 3rd and the greatest Naga Nation’s downfall which took place under the Shillong Accord signed at Shillong in 1975 by the “Representatives of Underground Organizations” (RUO) who were veterans of the Naga struggle conducted by the Naga National Council (NNC) and FGN. The 3rd Clause of the said Accord ended with a rider which stated that “the representatives of underground organizations should have reasonable time to formulate other issues for discussion for final settlement”.

But the vast majority of the Nagas immediately reacted against it as the discussion was to take place “within” the Indian Constitution that had already been accepted in the Accord under duress.

The public call for rejection of the Shillong Accord thus started as soon as it was brought to Nagaland.

As such no discussion ever took place between Delhi and the signatories of the Accord till date, as the same was rejected.

However, some NNC and FGN leaders locked themselves up in the reeking Transit Camp for reasons best known to them, which is the by-product of Shillong Accord, thereby confusing and dividing the Nagas. The sad reality on the other hand is that too many of their leaders and followers were already assassinated for the said Accord in the name of Naga sovereignty. The Shillong Accord signed on 11th Nov. 1975 was only a Framework Agreement to “Accept or Honor” the Indian Constitution, other issues for discussion for final settlement were to follow. It is understandable as to why Delhi is jubilant for the Delhi Accord as a big glory for India which regards the NSCN-IM as an “insurgent” and a “faction” today that “honored the India Constitution” as aforesaid, but it is difficult to understand the jubilation of the South Nagas.

To my mind, these three faulty Accords of the past many years have not benefitted Delhi or Nagaland. They have only brought untold miseries, bloodshed, kidnapping, extortion, corruption and division, which India need not celebrate as a “good day” or seek a repetition. Should Gupta or Delhi be aware of the mistakes Delhi committed in making the 16th Point Agreement with an NGO itching for soft chairs without moral and legitimate authority, granting rehab to the RGN to hunt down FGN, or signing the infamous Shillong Accord with the RUO under duress?

However, I trust Gupta must have those cycle of

violent incidents of the past Accords in mind and said “they may hunt down the smaller groups … the Govt. may take their help ... good day for India”. In this he may be trying to say that violence in all forms needs to be prevented at all cost, so that history is not repeated, otherwise Nagaland could become a battlefield once again.

1. Under the circumstances, to a layman as I am, if the Delhi Accord for another Accord is bringing sovereignty then, our political groups or the public would happily thank NSCN-IM. But if it is not sovereignty or integration then, I feel, it cannot and should not be handled by just one political group, however powerful it may be, in order to bring about peace. Therefore, the need to sit down together with different political groups, carry out special consultations to sort out their differences, for a final solution is our priority.

2. If the fact of the Naga Sovereignty is to be compromised for peace, any settlement which is right and best for all in the given situation, honorable and acceptable to the political groups should be fine with the public, as long as it brings peace and with the guarantee that there will be no more underground activities of fratricide, extortion, kidnapping, etc. The national workers of different political groups are the one who gave their all for the Naga Cause, so they have the mandate, power and moral right to decide together a settlement. They can also tell the Naga people to be wise and realistic at this juncture. Therefore, I feel, before the Delhi Framework Agreement was made, all of them should have been consulted in advance. However, I hope, it is not too late for transparent and honest consultations to start.

3. Without taking other Naga political groups into confidence, maintaining absolute secrecy of the details of the Framework Agreement, conducting series of pre-conceived consultations with NGOs, Public and the State Govt. is a defective and questionable process because it is manipulation of the story of the Naga struggle. I am prepared to believe that the NSCN-IM would do all possible within their means, without compromising Naga Political Rights of our Sovereignty, given by our history.

“No solution without sovereignty and integration” as declared by NSCN-IM leader Th Muivah on 14.08.15 at Hebron is recorded in our hearts. But, if it is just a camouflaged statement juggled for illegitimate endorsement of the NGO’s, Public and State Govt., I would request them to be honest. They also will weaken their own position if they will insist on achieving their plan by leaving out the other political groups, from whom the Naga struggle for freedom originated. An Accord which ultimately concerns the Nagas cannot be kept out of bounds.

4. I strongly feel that transparency, integrity and equi-involvement of Naga political groups should be maintained to avoid speculative games and misunderstanding, if the path charted by Delhi Accord is to find a final solution, acceptable to the Nagas. The allegation in some quarters that the Delhi Accord made with just an Interlocutor has no legal validity, need not bother us. If peace can be had without legal binding of an Accord with Delhi, it will be far better.

Some may question if such a presentation of an individual’s view is needed at all. It is my humble conviction that the fears, doubts and longings felt by any concerned person at this critical time ought to be brought out and made a part of our common search for a solution that will work. The thoughts I have shared are from my prayer to God Almighty, the God of history, to open our hearts and minds to one another honestly so that He may show us the way.

Kuolachalie Seyie, Kohima

Misplaced linking of Literacy rate with Higher Education

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was perplexed to read the statement of the Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University Prof. Bolin Kumar Konwar that appeared in the Nagaland Post issue of 28th June 2015 under the caption “Literacy rate and reality is contrasting” wherein he juxtaposed that although Nagaland literary rate in 2011 census was 80.11% an increase of 13.52 % as against 66.59% in 2001 census the reality was that a good number of those enrolled as literates ends up as drop-outs while only a few pursue higher studies.

I have expected for the past two months to see some of our educationist and the learned academicians to respond the Vice Chancellor’s misplaced linking of the literacy rate with the higher education but till now no one have responded, meaning accepting the statement of the VC. Although I am not an educationist or an academician I, for one do not agree with the learned VC Professor Konwar’s reality remarks.

The dictionary meaning of literate/literacy is - ability to read and write and no further than that. The right to education enshrined in the Indian constitution under article 21A puts onerous on the state to provide free and compulsory education to all the children of the age of six to fourteen years (originally primary education) which means maximum attainable study is at secondary education level only. To my limited knowledge the level of education are; Lower primary, upper primary (elementary), secondary, higher secondary, degree and post graduate studies. In the word of Prof. Konwar anybody who do not continue their higher studies after passing the elementary education are all drop outs. I may be wrong here but my understanding of the meaning of the word “drop out” is when one leaves his/her course of study half way unfinished. For obvious reasons and under compelling circumstances one may not be able to enroll to persecute study in secondary, higher secondary or degree course but would begin working life for means of livelihood from early stage of life. How can one be tagged the atrocious word “dropped out” when he/she has not enrolled for the study course? While lamenting the great number of students not opting for higher studies resulting in low enrollment in the colleges in Nagaland, the VC has failed to give the reason why the trend happens. Today higher education has become expensive without any guarantee of employment and is a question of being affordable making no room for personal choice to poor villagers except for the lucky dweller of district head quarter where government colleges are available. We are said to have a backlog of 45,000 educated unemployed in the state although statistically lesser number of students goes for higher study. Unemployment is a world phenomena but more pronounced in our state due to lack of any industrial and large business and commercial houses.

Two things I implore the VC to clarify; first, huge number of merit students migrates to Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai, shilling, Guwahati etc for pursuing higher studies at high cost although there is low enrollment in colleges in the states. Is the cur-

riculum of the Nagaland University and the college faculties inferior to other universities in India? If so, what measure the University is contemplating to uplift the standard of our institution at par with other? Secondly, the Kothari Commission had recommended that only the talented and eligible students (means 1st Division or high 2nd Division students) to study higher education. Is the Kothari Commission recommendation irrelevant today?

Prof. Konwar is well aware of the prevalence of National Non-detention policy till class VIII which is far above literacy rate. Due to this non-detention policy there is good number of students who do not pass the HSLC examination and end up as MABF (Matric Appeared But Failed) While disagreeing with what Prof. Konwar has propounded, I would like to reproduce what the Kothari Commission has recommended on reorganization of School Education. The Commission visualizes…. (4) At the end of primary stage, about 20% students will step off the school system and enter working life, about 20% will step off the stream of general education into different courses whose duration may range from one to three years and the remaining 60 % may continue their general education. (6) At the end of ten years of school education, about 40 % students will get into working life, others about 30% will go to vocational courses and the remainder will continue further in the stream of general education. Means, from the 60% of students who entered secondary education only 30% will continue further general studies. If evaluation is taken properly it will be more than 60 % who enters higher secondary in Nagaland against the Commission yard stick of 30%.

The Khotari Commission also recommended that the secondary education should be vocationalized in large measure and enrollment in vocational courses be raised to 20% of the total enrollment at the lower secondary stage and 50% of the total enrollment at the higher secondary stage by 1986. The Commission on Future requirements of educated manpower states- “The Commission broadly accepts the estimates of future requirements of educated manpower given in the ISI/LSE paper, but holds view that this will have to be continually revised in the light of data available and kept up-todate. To achieve the aforesaid objects, some policies are to be framed- to restrict an unplanned and uncontrolled expansion of education if unemployment among the educated is to be avoided. Special and intensive effort be made to vocationalize the secondary education and to develop professional education at the university stage”. It will be pertinent to know to what extend the NU have vocationalized the higher education in Nagaland as productive education to offer working life? To my blunt mind the advocacy of general stream education by the VC is not only poor but a bad and unproductive taste in the present context in the state and is anti theses of the Khotari Commission recommendation.

While encouraging students to take higher study of general stream, has the VC discovered any means

for job placement of the unemployed graduates?

Suppose the encouragement of the VC percolates well down the mind of the students community and the whole lot of children enrolled in the primary education goes to take up higher education, where is the assurance for job placements? Will it not simply add on to swells the educated unemployed numbers? When interacting with student community of my village I used to encourage them to study hard and get a degree at all costs. These were the story of the eighties but after nineties I don’t dare encourage average students to go for higher study which finally ends up as waste of time and opportunity with a degree at hand. I rather encourage them to go for vocational practical courses after matriculation so that they are able to get a gainful employment or sustainable working life of self employment.

One reason why Nagas are proud of their community and society is because of their possession of land holdings. No Naga is landless if he lives in his own village. God has bestowed on the Nagas the beautiful and fertile land called Nagaland to be its heritage. During the last one decade we are discovering through the efforts of the Agri, Horti, Soil and Land Resource Department many species of aromatic and medicinal plant, vegetable and fruits that are suitable to our soil and climate. I would rather advocate back to the soil theory as a practical approach than general stream study at university. Our villages and community is very rich but individual and families are mostly poor as stretches of fertile land remains uncultivated and follow.

During the head hunting days it was not safe for a family or small hamlet to be isolated making soft target for the head hunting marauder. Today we are living in a totally different changed atmosphere but still lives clustered in the traditional village site partially metamorphosed to modernity but neither agrarian nor industrial community. Our traditional produce instead of increase has greatly dwindled down as cultivators are slowly vanishing even in the villages as older citizens are slowly phasing out by the younger generations who do not follow cultivation but go to school and college.

The demographic shift from rural to urban although devoid of gainful employment also weans away cultivator from the village to urban area without any productivity. The urban educated lot will not go back to village to take up cultivation therefore there is huge mismatch of population growth and productivity growth. If we seriously take the message of the VC and our children flocks the higher study soon there will be no farmer/cultivator left in the village. The village will still be rich having land and its resources with educated unemployed youth but all the families will be poor without any sustainable product. We are fortunate to have NU a central University which can evaluate the right kind of vocational productive education required for Nagaland that can uplift the social, economic, trade and commerce in the state and change the face of the State.

Why not usher the right productive education?

T. Meren Paul, Kohima

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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Maria Cherednikova and her brother Dmitry Cherednikova from Russia staged an epic impromptu performance to the unexpected Students and Teachers of Government Middle School, Naharbari Village East Dimapur captivating everyone with their awesome music during the Teacher’s Day celebration.

Jamie Oliver's restaurants are coming to

‘Power CouPle’ all set to launCh in india

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ention Jamie Oliver and the words “fresh”, “organic” and “healthy” come to mind. This celebrity chef and activist is known for his penchant for local, high-quality produce, to the point of being almost obsessive about it. Ingredi-

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usic composer Aadesh Shrivastava (51), who was battling a cancer relapse, passed away at Kokilaben Hospital on Saturday at around 12.30am.

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ents that don’t come with a provenance find themselves as outcasts at the 63 restaurants that he owns in 11 countries. It is this blend of quality ingredients and unpretentious flavours that Oliver will be serving at two of his restaurants to be launched in India soon.

While Jamie’s Pizzeria will make its debut in Ambience Mall, Gurgaon, in September, Jamie’s Italian will open in south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj in October. This is in a series of firsts for Oliver: not only is he venturing into the previously unchartered Indian market, this is also the

first time that Oliver is opening a standalone pizzeria.

“Oliver is fascinated by India. It’s not a market he knows personally but enjoys Indian flavours,” says Jasper Reid, founder of the International Market Management, a London firm that specialises in setting up international

consumer brands in Asia.

It has been two years since news of Oliver’s upcoming debut in India was first heard. So, what has taken it so long for the launch to finally take place?

“We have invested time and money in finding good suppliers,” says Reid.

fter taking Israel by storm since the launch of its first season, internationally acclaimed show Power Couple is all set to hit the Indian television screens. Taking reality television a notch higher, Power Couple is now making inroads in the Indian market coming October.

They say love makes the world go round but can love also make your partner do things that

they may have never thought in their wildest dreams? For the first time on Indian television, 10 hot celebrities will undergo a rigorous test of love along with their better halves. There is a lot of money at stake of your partner’s strength.

The show will raise the moolah with each task.

Disconnected from the entire world, these 10 couples will be living under one roof and will be tested as they face ex-

treme challenges to prove how well they know each other. Love, trust, patience, belief, courage, sacrifice, compromise, every factor which keeps a relationship going will be tested under the most demanding circumstances. Couples who have been living their happily ever after will be judged on their physical, emotional and mental strength making them question their vows made to each other.

Aadesh Beyonce and Jennifer Lawrence fronting Global Goals Campaign Shrivastava B loses battle with cancer at 51 ties confirmed that he passed away after battling the disease hard for over 40 days. His condition had become very critical in the last few days. Actresswife, Vijeta Pandit and her music-composer brothers Jatin and Lalit Pandit were constantly by his side. One of his family members had said that his chemotherapy was stopped in the last

inger-actress Demi Lovato is willing to stand up for herself if she thinks she has been disrespected in any way.

The “Cool for the Summer” hitmaker, who sought treatment in rehab for an eating disorder, self-harming, alcohol and drug abuse in 2010 after she hit a back-up dancer while on a flight to South America, insists she would never attack anyone now, but would defend herself if she felt disrespected, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

Speaking to the new issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, she said: "I'm not proud of the mistakes that I've made. At the same time, my past shows what I'm capable of. I'm a wiser person today. On a plane in Colombia, I probably won't hit you. But if you disrespect me, I can't say that I won't come at you. I'll just never throw the first punch any more."

The 22-year-old beauty is also critical of her own gender and believes girls can be very "catty" which is not a good thing. "I wish I could word this in a way that doesn't sound bitchy, but I don't f**k around.

Girls can be catty with one another. Nobody really tries to pill s**t on me because they know I physically don't put up with it,” she said.

few days as he was not responding to the treatment at all.

In 2011, when the composer had been diagnosed with cancer for the first time, the industry had allegedly given him a cold shoulder. But, Aadesh had battled this deadly disease and overcame it with his zeal and positivity. Over the last

few days, several actors paid him a visit at the Andheri hospital.

Aadesh is best known for his work in films like Chalte Chalte, Baghban and Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. His last project as a music composer was recently released Welcome Back. It was the third time Aadesh's cancer had relapsed.

eyonce, Jennifer Lawrence and One Direction are among the celebrities throwing their support behind a new United Nations Global Campaign to fight poverty. Organisers behind the Global Goals initiative are launching a worldwide campaign to combat poverty, inequality, injustice and climate change, and have enlisted the stars along with Robert Pattinson, Ashton Kutcher, Meryl Streep and others to spread the message through various media platforms.

A statement about the campaign reads, "If the goals are famous - if people care about what has been promised by the politicians, it greatly increases their chance of being implemented. So today the campaign along with the UN is calling on everyone to help make the goals famous and ensure they become a reality." On 26 September (15), Beyonce, Ed Sheeran, Coldplay, and Pearl Jam, will perform in Central Park in New York on September 26 for the Global Citizen Festival to further boost awareness about the initiative.

First male cover star Meat Loaf performed of Miss Vogue UK with a bleeding throat

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he 16-year-old son of David and Victoria Beckham graces the front page of the latest edition of UK's Miss Vogue and is the first male to do so. Posting a snap of the cover on Instagram, Brooklyn wrote: ''Thank you @ missvogueuk check it out, #missvogue4brooklyn (sic).'' The image shows him cuddling up to a beautiful brunette as he gazes moodily in to the camera.

And although he is making waves as a model and footballer, Brooklyn revealed he actually wants a career behind the camera and now even refers to himself as a photographer in his Instagram bio. He told the magazine: ''I love football but I'm also very passionate about photography and film. ''I'm keeping my options open right now but I'm hoping to study art and philosophy in the US once I have finished my A-levels.''

Brooklyn's remarks come shortly after a report claimed he was eager to pursue a career in the movie business, having been inspired by his father's cameo role in Guy Ritchie's new film 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E'. A source said: ''He has been encouraged to look into a Hollywood career which he is very excited about. He is yet to sign with an agent though.''

number of stars have suffered the same problem in recent months, with British pop star Sam Smith and All About That Bass hitmaker Meghan Trainor both cancelling a slew of tour dates in the summer (15) to undergo surgery to fix the issue. British singer Adele underwent throat surgery in 2011 after developing a polyp on her vocal cords.

Meat Loaf has now opened up about his own vocal cord haemorrhage, which occurred while he was on tour Down Under in 2011, and revealed his throat filled with blood every night after he refused to cancel his shows.

He tells Billboard.com, "I've had three vocal surgeries now, and three sinus surgeries.

Adele cancelled a tour with a haemorrhaging vocal cord, I did a tour in Australia with a haemorrhaging vocal cord.

I was spitting blood every night on stage. And I've got nothing but grief and major hostility... I had flown 44 people to Aus-

tralia, we're all sitting there. Insurance wouldn't cover the band and everybody going back, so I just said, 'OK, let's go.' In New Zealand at the last show, I was warming up, and it was like you're slicing a vegetable and you cut your finger really bad and it's bleeding everywhere, that's how blood was coming out of my throat. It was just running out of my throat."

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Nadal crashes out of US EURO 2016 Open; Djokovic, Cilic advance

QUALIFIERS ROUNDUP

Argentina thump Bolivia

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HOUSTON, SepTember 5 (reUTerS): Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero struck two goals apiece in Argentina's 7-0 romp against an out-of-sorts Bolivia while Mexico were held 3-3 by Trinidad & Tobago in friendlies in the United States on Friday.

A largely second string side, with captain Lionel Messi coming on for the final 20 minutes, took to 12 the number of goals Copa America runners-up Argentina have put past Bolivia in two friendlies this year. Ezequiel Lavezzi also scored two goals while Angel Correa Argentina struck Argentina's seventh on his debut against a Bolivia side under new coach Julio Cesar Baldivieso, who barely had time to prepare them for the match in Houston.

Veteran Bolivia defender Ronald Raldes lent the squad $21,000 of his own

Messi is better than Maradona: Rooney

Serravalle, SepTember 5 (IaNS): England football team captain Wayne Rooney believes that current Argentina skipper Lionel Messi is a better player than the legendary Diego Maradona. "Up to a couple of years ago, people were saying Messi wasn't Maradona because he hadn't won the World Cup. In my mind, Messi is a better player than Maradona. But that's how football is," Rooney was quoted as saying by goal.com on Friday. Rooney said he can become an England legend like Sir Bobby Charlton, but knows it will take a World Cup win for that to happen.

The 29-year-old will surpass Charlton's 49-goal haul for England if he manages to score twice against San Marino on Saturday and help Roy Hodgson's side inch closer towards securing their place at Euro 2016. The Manchester United star has not given up hope of leading England to glory at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. "It's about trophies you win. As a team, that's how you're judged. Sir Bobby did that. Hopefully there's still time for me to be successful like that," Rooney said. money to cover the travel costs to the United States for the squad while the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) is in turmoil over corrup-

tion charges against leading officials, Bolivian media reported. FBF president Carlos Chavez signed the agreement for the match

to go ahead from prison, where he has been awaiting trial since his arrest in July, before the organisation sacked him, elected new authorities and appointed Baldivieso last week.

"I think the result was right given how seriously and intensely we played with good performances by the debutants and kids who have played little in the team," Argentina coach Gerardo Martino said. "The game was useful over and above the problems our opponents had to put a team together and comes in handy at least to impose our gameplan," he told Fox Sports.

Top-ranked Argentina, warming up for the South American 2018 World Cup qualifiers, play again on Tuesday in Dallas where they meet Mexico, held 3-3

by Trinidad & Tobago in Salt Lake City.

Germany power past Poland to go top

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berlIN, SepTember 5 (aFp): Striker Mario Goetze scored twice to seal Germany's 3-1 win over Poland on Friday as the hosts avenged last year's away defeat to top their Euro 2016 qualifying group.

Having lost the corresponding fixture 2-0 in Warsaw last October -- Germany's first defeat to their neighbours in 19 matches -- the world champions gained sweet revenge by knocking Adam Nawalka's Poland from top of Group D. It was Poland's first defeat in seven Euro 2016 qualifiers and this was an impressive display from the Germans after several below-par performances last season.

All four goals came from Bayern Munich players as Thomas Mueller gave Germany an early lead, then Goetze made it 2-0 before Poland captain Robert Lewandowski pulled one back with a diving header as it finished 2-1 at the break.

Mueller and Goetze then combined for Germany's third on 82 minutes to kill off hopes of a late Poland equaliser.

Georgia's 1-0 home win over Scotland, who Germany play in Glasgow on Monday, and Ireland's 4-0 thumping of minnows Gibraltar means Germany are top with 16 points with Poland now second on 14 while Ireland go third with 12, one ahead of the Scots.

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in Warsaw on Monday having routed the part-timers 7-0 away last year.

Germany coach Joachim Loew sprang a surprise before kick-off by naming Liverpool midfielder Emre Can at rightback to give the 21-yearold his debut. The game started at a high-paced tempo in Frankfurt and Germany scored off their first clear chance. A superb exchange of passes with Karim Bellarabi put Cologne left-back Jonas Hector in behind the defence and he squared for Mueller to fire home on 12 minutes.

The hosts doubled their lead six minutes later when World Cup final win-

ner Goetze cut in from the left and unleashed a fierce drive, which gave Poland's Swansea City goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski little chance just inside the near post. Poland were rewarded for a sustained period of pressure when left winger Kamil Grosicki powered down the left wing, with Can out of position, curled in a superb cross and Lewandowski powered the ball home with a superb diving header on 36 minutes. It was his eighth goal in Poland's qualifying campaign. The manner in which Lewandowski hastily gathered the ball from the net, punching the air with delighted, sent a clear

New YOrk, SepTember 5 (IaNS): Rafael Nadal was knocked out in the third round after losing a five-set thriller to Italian Fabio Fognini, while top seed Novak Djokovic and defending champion Marin Cilic advanced to the pre-quarterfinals at the US Open here.

Nadal, 29, the winner of 14 Grand Slam titles, won the first two sets, but lost the next three as he was beaten 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 4-6 in a three-hour-46-minute tie on Friday evening.

The 28-year-old World No.32 Fognini will now face Spain's Feliciano Lopez.

Djokovic meanwhile, beat 25th seed Andreas Seppi of Italy 6-3, 7-5, 7-5 while Cilic battled past Kazakhstan's Mikhail Kukushkin 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-1), 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1.

The eighth-seeded Nadal looked to be cruising, leading two sets to love, before the Italian surged back to claim his third victory over the Spaniard this year. After dropping the first two sets, Fognini turned in one of the most breathtaking shotmaking displays of the year.

He clubbed forehand and backhand winners from all parts of the court with exquisite timing that belied the amount of effort behind them. He also attacked the net regularly, winning 39 of 52 approaches.

In a rollercoaster final set, the players held their opening serves but then exchanged seven consecutive breaks before Fognini served out the match from 5-4.

Earlier, in a pulsating eighth game of the final set, Nadal rallied from 40-0 on Fognini's serve and ultimately saved four game points before leveling the set at 4-4. But Fognini responded with four clean winners to break the Spaniard to love.

"I can't describe how happy I am. It was very tough. To do it against Rafa, two sets down. It was an incredible match," Fognini was quoted as saying by atpworldtour.com.

Nadal was all praise for his opponent after the match. "He played great. It was not a match that I lost, even if I had opportunities.

It's a match that he won. So accept. I'm not happy that

he played better than me, but that's what happened," the Spaniard said.

Djokovic meanwhile, was broken for the first time at the US Open, but recovered to post his 203rd Grand Slam win.

He is sixth on the alltime list tied with Pete Sampras, and second among current players behind Roger Federer. Seppi surprised Djokovic with an early break in the first set, but the 2011 champion responded immediately and secured a one-set lead after 41 minutes. In the second set, both players held their serve before Djokovic raised his level on the return at 5-5, extending the game to 13 points before securing the break. The World No. 1 struggled to reach the finish line, needing to serve for the match twice.

Cilic also ran into a tough opponent in Kukushkin and the Croatian was made to toil hard before earning his spot in the pre-quarterfinals.

Kukushkin struck 62 winners to Cilic's 55 over the course of the fourhour, 11-minute duel, but

the defending champion's superior serves enabled him to advance. Cilic also smashed 27 aces to Kukushkin's 11; the Kazakh also put just eight of 24 first serves in play in the fifth set, leading to two crucial late-match service breaks for the Croatian.

In other third-round action in men's singles, 19th seeded Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga cruised past Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-3, 7-5, 6-2 and talented Frenchman Benoit Paire routed 26th seeded Spaniard Tommy Robredo 7-6 (7-3), 6-1, 6-1.

In women's third round singles matches, American two-time champion Venus Williams, the 23rd seed, rolled past 12th seeded Swiss Belinda Bencic 6-3, 6-4 and Estonian Anett Kontaveit topped American Madison Brengle 6-2, 3-6, 6-0. France's Kristina Mladenovic topped Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-2, 6-3, 13th seeded Russian Ekaterina Makarova defeated Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-5 and Italian Roberta Vinci stopped Colombian Mariana Duque Marino 6-1, 5-7, 6-2.

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Hamilton takes 11th pole in 12 races

mONZa, SepTember 5 (reUTerS): Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton saw off a strong Ferrari challenge at the Italian team's home Grand Prix to seal his seventh pole position in a row and 11th in 12 races on Saturday.

The Mercedes driver, whose team mate and title rival Nico Rosberg will start fourth after engine problems forced him to revert to using one without the latest updates, now has 49 career poles.

The pole, in bright sunshine, was the Briton's fourth at Monza and 23rd in succession for Mercedes, one short of the record set by the Williams team in 1992-93.

Kimi Raikkonen joined him on the front row with Ferrari team mate Sebastian Vettel qualifying third.

"These guys did a great job, they are very close," said Hamilton, who leads Rosberg by 28 points in the championship, of his Ferrari rivals after taking pole with a lap of one minute 23.397 seconds and two tenths faster than Raikkonen.

"My Spa lap was better," he added, referring to his Belgian pole of two weeks earlier.

Vettel, who could become the first driver since Stirling Moss in the 1950s to win at Monza with three different teams, hoped Ferrari would have a chance on Sunday but made clear Hamilton was the overwhelming favourite. "I think it's a fantastic result, second and third and very close to Lewis," said the German, racing for the first time in Italy in Ferrari red.

"Sorry Lewis, but I wouldn't mind if you are not on the podium," he grinned. "You can be, but if we are both ahead of you that would obviously be a dream come true.

"I think dreaming is allowed but you have to be realistic. It's going to be a tough race tomorrow and these guys (Mercedes) have some serious pace." Raikkonen, the 2007 champion for Ferrari, said it was nice to be back on the front row in front of the tifosi after a long absence.

"We expected a strong weekend, knew this place is not our stron-

gest probably but in the end the car turned out to be pretty good in qualifying conditions," said the Finn.

"It's nice to be here, a home race for us. This was our best qualifying performance this year as a team so we will try and give another good go tomorrow and get a good result for ourselves and our fans."

The Finn's performance drew immediate praise from watching Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne: "We saw a different Kimi. I was expecting that Kimi would have relaxed after his contract renewal."

The Williams pairing of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas qualified fifth and sixth with Mexican Sergio Perez seventh for Force India.

Toro Rosso's Dutch teenager Max Verstappen failed to set a lap time after his car's engine cover blew off in the first phase of qualifying -- the first time he has failed to reach the second stage in his 12-race career. He should move up the grid once a mass of penalties on cars ahead, including both Red Bulls and McLarens, are taking into account.

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message that Germany had a fight on their hands.

Early in the first half, Loew brought on Ilkay Gundogan for Bellarabi, who provided a superb pass to Goetze and the Bayern man hit the post on 57 minutes.

At the other end, Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer had his hands full keeping Lewandowski and his forward partner Arkadiusz Milik quiet.

The pair have scored 12 of their side's 21 goals in their qualifying campaign.

Germany settled the matter when Mueller's fierce drive bounced off Fabianski's legs and Goetze tucked away the rebound.

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