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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor Water shortages lead to ‘tanker mafia’ in India [ PAGE 8]

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G.R.L’s Simone Battle found hanging [ PAGE 11]

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LSUD apprises CM of issues with MOGPL

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F1: Lewis wins Italian Grand Prix

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Islamic State makes inroads in South Asia

Flash floods kill nearly 300 in India, Pakistan

Modi calls floods in J&K as ‘national level disaster’ Stop feeling insecure. We, the Rapid Response Force, are here now.

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NTC rally on Sept 9 in Zunheboto town Kohima, September 7 (mexN): The Nagaland Tribes Council (NTC) has organized a protest rally at Zunheboto town on September 9 to protest the State Government’s “antipeople” decisions vis-àvis the Nagaland Special Development Zone and Rongmei tribe recognition. The NTC’s media cell informed that the rally will be hosted by the Sumi Hoho. The NTC appealed to all citizens of Nagaland to “awake & register” their voices and “take hold of its own destiny and fight against all sorts of vested interest & hidden agendas and guide the established government to a desired direction.”

SriNaGar, September 7 (ap): Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed nearly 300 people in large swaths of northern India and Pakistan, officials said Sunday. Five days of incessant rains in Indian-controlled Kashmir have left at least 120 people dead in the region’s worst flooding in more than five decades, submerging hundreds of villages and triggering landslides, officials said. In neighboring Pakistan, more than 160 people have died and thousands of homes have collapsed, with an official saying the situation was becoming a “national emergency.” Rescuers in both countries were using helicopters and boats to try to reach tens of thousands of people stranded in their homes as floodwaters rose and submerged many villages. Rescue efforts in Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, were hampered by fast-moving floodwaters that submerged large parts of the city. The rains had stopped on Sunday, but officials said the spreading water from the overflowed Jhelum River was moving too fast to allow boats to reach many people stranded in Srinagar. By evening, several boats had been deployed to start rescue efforts, said Omar Abdullah, Jammu and Kashmir state’s top elected official.

Kashmiri men evacuate women and the elderly from a flooded neighborhood in Srinagar on September 7. Fast-moving floodwaters submerged large parts of the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Sunday after five days of pounding rain. The flooding, the worst in 50 years, has killed at least 120 people across the Himalayan region. (AP Photo)

In many of Srinagar’s neighborhoods, the water was about 4 meters (12 feet) deep, submerging entire houses. Stranded residents left their homes to move in with friends or relatives in safer areas. “I’m in my 80s and I’ve never seen floods like this,” said Ghulam Nabi, speaking through a window from the third story of his house in Srinagar’s upscale Rajbagh section. “If this is how it is in my neighborhood, I cannot imagine the devastation in other areas.” Floodwaters entered the first floor of the state’s main maternity hospital,

forcing more than 200 patients and attendants to move to higher floors of the building. Thousands of police officers and army rescue workers were fanned out across Jammu and Kashmir to help with relief and rescue efforts. At windows and balconies, worried residents looked at the swirling waters and waited for help. “The situation is extremely grim,” top civilian official Rohit Kansal said. “We are not able to reach many people because the water is moving so fast.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi surveyed the flood-hit areas from

a helicopter Sunday and promised the state federal help to deal with the devastation, which he described as a “national level disaster.” Across Indian Kashmir, at least 450 villages have been submerged and 2,000 others have been affected by the floodwaters, officials said. All schools, colleges and offices have been shut, and electricity and drinking water supplies have been limited across the state. In Pakistan, 103 people have died in the eastern province of Punjab from the collapse of houses, flooding and elec-

trocution, said Ali Imam Syed, a senior official in the province’s rescue agency. He said more than 5,000 people had been rescued since Thursday, adding that three soldiers had gone missing during the rescue operation. Ahmed Kamal, spokesman for Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority, said 48 people had died in the Pakistani-administered part of Kashmir and 11 in the adjacent Gilgit Baltistan area since the flooding began. “Army helicopters and navy boats are rescuing people and taking them to safety from submerged villages in Punjab and affected areas of Kashmir,” Kamal said. He said that the flooding had hit 286 villages in Punjab, as several rivers breached their banks, and that the crisis was rapidly becoming a “national emergency.” Naeem Mushtaq, a 30-year-old farmer from Gujranwala district, said he and four other people climbed into trees when the floodwaters surged through their village on Saturday. They waited in the branches for more than 20 hours before rescuers reached them, he told an Associated Press reporter. More than 4,000 homes across Pakistan have collapsed, rendering thousands of people homeless. Pakistan’s armed forces and civilian rescuers have mounted a massive operation using helicopters and boats to get villagers to safety. Kamal said 95 relief camps had been set up for those displaced by the flooding. Pakistan and India suffer widespread flooding each year during the monsoon season, which runs from June through September. In 2010, flash floods killed 1,700 people in Pakistan. Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, but claimed in its entirety by both countries. Related news on page 8

Scots offered more power Young Nagas encouraged to do good if it reject ‘independence’ Morung Express news Dimapur | September 7

“More tax-raising powers, much LoNDoN, September 7 (re- an uncertain future. That looked like a precarious greater fiscal autonomy ... more uterS): The British government is scrambling to respond to a lurch calculation after a YouGov poll control over public expenditure, in the opinion polls towards a vote for the Sunday Times showed more control over welfare rates for Scottish independence this supporters of independence had and a host of other changes.” Nicola Sturgeon, deputy leadmonth by promising a range of new taken their first opinion poll lead powers for Scotland if it chooses to since the referendum campaign er of the pro-independence Scotbegan. With less than two weeks tish National Party, welcomed the stay within the United Kingdom. British finance minister to go before the vote, the poll put YouGov poll as a “very significant George Osborne said on Sun- the “Yes” to independence cam- moment” in the campaign but reday that plans would be set out in paign on 51 percent and the “No” jected talk of more devolved powthe coming days to give Scotland camp on 49 percent, overturning a ers for Scotland. Salmond described the plans more autonomy on tax, spending 22-point lead for the unionist posias a “panic measure”. “This is a riand welfare if Scots vote against tion in just a month. “You will see in the next few diculous position being put forindependence in a historic referdays a plan of action to give more ward by a campaign ... in terminal endum on Sept. 18. Prime Minister David Cameron powers to Scotland ... Then Scot- trouble,” he told the BBC. “They had, ironically, vetoed a third ballot land will have the best of both have failed to scare the Scots, now option for greater devolution, bet- worlds. They will both avoid the they are trying to bribe us. That ting that the stark choice of yes or risks of separation but have more won’t work either because people aGartaLa/aizawL, no to independence would deliver control over their own destiny, have come to the realisation that September 7 (iaNS): a clear victory for the status quo as which is where I think many Scots we can take the future of this counThe Tripura and Mizoram cautious voters turned away from want to be,” Osborne told the BBC. try into our hands.” governments have taken a number of preventive measures to check spread of deadly Ebola disease, officials from both the states said Sunday. “The Tripura moKoKchuNG, Sepgovernment has taken four- tember 7 (mexN): Several pronged steps to prevent villages along the Japukong contact or spread of Ebola range in Mokokchung district virus,” Health and Fam- remained badly affected as ily Welfare Minister Badal landslides due to heavy rains Choudhury told IANS in blocked surrounding roads. Agartala. “All people coming Due to rains since September from Ebola-affected coun- 4 from 7:00pm to 7:00am, 14 tries would be thoroughly landslides have occurred at screened and they would several locations in the Japube quarantined for 21 days, kong range. Of these, Japu vilif they have fever,” he added. lage is completely cut off from Health authorities of all the Nagaland, with water supply eight districts were alerted and electricity gone off. Planand precautionary guide- tation, paddy fields and cattle lines were sent to them, he were also affected. 6 cows were said. In Mizoram, the state taken away by flooding water government has put the health department on high from River Tzuong. One non alert to deal with any even- local labour was also reported tuality of Ebola outbreak. to be taken away by the flood. Other villages affected are “Senior officials of health department met in Aiza- yet to assess their damage. The wl Saturday to review the PWD, Government of Nagapreparedness to tackle the land, is working to clear the dreaded disease,” Pachuau landslides. Meanwhile, the Lalmalsawma, nodal officer Mokokchung district adminof integrated disease sur- istration has not come forveillance programme, told ward with any aid to the rescue Several spots in Japukong range, Mokokchung district, remain blocked off of the citizens. reporters in Aizawl. since September 4 as incessant rains led to landslides.

Ebola: Tripura, Mizoram take preventive steps

Landslides affect Japukong range

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The Faith In Action team that recently returned from the World Hanmadang Taekwondo Championship, South Korea, as World Champions in the team event, has, among others, a 70-year-old behind their success. The team’s journey to South Korea was not without hiccups – from finding funds for tickets to being able to purchase food and drinking water. The team, having been invited for the world event, had approached the Nagaland State Government for funds but financial support was not forthcoming. The team missed their flight to South Korea due to late arrival of visas and was left stranded at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi. With ticket prices shooting up, Deepak Kumar, founder coach of Faith In Action, remembers people advising them to return home and try next year. “It was the worst day of our lives,” he says. However, they did not lose hope. “We had faith in God,” Kumar adds. The team pointed to an act of providence when an elderly gentleman, after seeing the team sleeping on the floor of the airport, enquired and upon hearing their grievances, offered to buy them tickets to South Korea. “For us, he was like an angel from heaven,” says Husheto Zhimomi, a member of the team. Born in Bhiambi, a small village in Himachal Pradesh, Baliram Sharma had a humble of beginning. After completing his matriculation from the village, he went to Delhi. He remembers the nights he spent sleeping on the streets of Delhi. Today, he is a retired Government official, an anticorruption activist and a philanthropist. Sharma started his career as a photographer at the

Baliram Sharma

Bureau of Police Research and Development, Kolkata. He was then transferred to the Central Forensic Institute where he contributed research papers in the field of forensic science. Amongst others, he had a stint at the Indian Institute of Criminology and Forensics, Delhi where he helped solve a number of cases. He later worked at the Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre. A staunch anti-corruption activist, Sharma was a part of the ‘India Against Corruption’ movement where he sat alongside Anna Hazare and team. In the process, he was arrested twice. Sharma is of the view that voters should have more power. For instance, he says, “MPs and MLAs get salary, pension and other benefits, but voters who vote them to power get nothing.” And with this in mind, he formed the ‘Voters India Voters’ forum in 2004 to make voters aware of these issues. With an aim to reach out to the masses, he has also created a ‘Voters India Voters’ page on Facebook. Sharma further opines that MPs and MLAs should have no right to raise their salaries and pensions. “A public servant cannot raise his/her salary simply by raising their hands in parliament,” he argues. A philanthropist, Sharma seeks to contribute to society

at every given opportunity. “My objective for every day is to help 5 different people at least,” he says, adding that until his objective is fulfilled, his dinner waits. Recalling the day he met the Faith In Action Team, Sharma’s attention is immediately caught by it. He had gone to the airport to see his sonin-law off. “When I came out, I saw some sleeping, some kneeling and some tearing up,” he says. Concerned, he asked what their problem was. The team initially didn’t want to tell him of their problems, he recalls, and replied that they were going through some problems. On further prodding, the team told him how they had missed their flights and how ticket prices had soared since. Sharma told the team that he would give them the money for the tickets and that they should go to South Korea, “come what may.” He recalls that the team did not believe him and was hesitant. He gave them his phone number and address, and left as the airport security had ordered his waiting car to be driven off. “As I left, I felt hurt,” he says. Later the next day, the team called asking if he was serious about arranging money for the team. He replied in the affirmative and went about arranging the required sum. He also helped some of the team members obtain visas. He was confident of the team. He told them, “Don’t worry, you will win.” Sharma feels obliged to have helped the team. “When I learned that the team won the Gold Medal, I was very happy,” he says. He adds that he has great regard for the Nagas and the people of the Northeast. His message to the young Naga people is, “Do good. Do not be disheartened if you do not get rewarded.” But, “Do not be carried away by small gains.”

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LSUD apprises CM of issues with MOGPL CM encourages students & young minds to be pro-development

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New Delhi, September 7 (mexN): Lotha Students’ Union, Delhi (LSUD) on September 6 apprised the Nagaland Chief Minister of various concerns regarding ongoing tussle over the allotment of permit to Metropolitan Oil & Gas Pvt. Ltd (MOGPL) to extract oil and natural gas from Changpang and Tssori blocks. LSUD along with its senior student advisors had called on TR Zeliang at Nagaland House, New Delhi. A press release from advisor to LSUD, Merithung Odyuo informed that the Union expressed its support to the State government’s decision to restart the hydrocarbon exploration and drilling of oil and natural gas. However, it raised various concerns over the allotment of explo-

LSUD team with Chief Minister TR Zeliang in New Delhi on September 6.

ration and drilling permit to MOGPL. The Union also discussed the issues raised by the Kyong Students’ Union against MOGPL re-

garding its efficiency, technical expertise, economic stability, and competency to set up refineries and other amenities within the

land affected zone. According to the release, the chief minister assured that there has been no complaint against

MOGPL from SEBI, and the State government is much aware of the financial stability of the Company. He also said that the “main criteria” for the final allotment of the permit was that MOGPL was the highest bidder among the other companies who expressed interest for the same. He further informed the students that MOGPL agreed to pay 18% of the total profit as revenue to the State government, whereby the government and the landowners, the land affected and the Wokha District Planning & Development Board will get equal royalty (i.e., 50-50). TR Zeliang further encouraged the students and young minds to be “pro-development” and not obstruct any developmental activities in the State, it was added.

Call to live up to people’s expectation

Kohima, September 7 (mexN): is the only district in Nagaland to have the Konyak Union Kohima (KUK) held its “unique institution of Anghship.” Under 25th general meeting on September 6 at the system, he said, “we learn to respect Midland, Kohima with Minister for PHED, and regard each other. We should continNoke Wangnao as guest of honour. Noke, ue with this culture and set as an example to others.” He also underlined in his speech, stressed that Konyaks living in Kohima, Minister Noke that Konyaks are well-known blacksmith in Nagaland the capital of the State, are graces Konyak in and beyond. The release also in“privileged ones” and “our Union Kohima formed that following new office people back home expects a lot from us.” Therefore, he general meeting bearers were nominated and approved by the house for the tenure encouraged, “We must try to 2014-17: T. Ngamjok – President, live up to their expectation T. Nyangpong – Vice President, Y.T. Manlem – and exist in harmony with one another.” A press release from KUK vice presi- General Secretary, Y. Yongyo – Assistant Gendent, Er. K. Tingten further informed that eral Secretary, W. Chatyam – Finance Secrethe minister pointed out that Mon district tary, Mr. & Mrs. N. Sammy – Treasurer.

Home guard volunteers' training

Kohima, September 7 (mexN): The Director General, Civil Defence & Home Guards, Nagaland has informed that selection of candidates for home guard volunteers training will be conducted in all the district headquarters of the State on September 23. Interested candidates from the age of 18-35 years may report to the office of the Deputy Controller, Civil Defence & District Commandant Home Guards in the respective districts on the day at 10:00 am along with

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testimonials and certificates in original. The documents required are: Indigenous inhabitant certificates/ Scheduled Tribe certificate, educational certificate - Minimum requirement is Class VIII passed, character certificate issued by chairman village council/ GB/ ward panchayat, birth certificate, three latest passport size photographs (self attested), antecedent character certificate from police station, and medical fitness certificate issued by government authorized medical officer.

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SBTA executive meeting

Dimapur, September 7 (mexN): The Sümi Baptist Theological Association (SBTA) has called for an Executive Meeting on September 9 from 10am at Unity Village Sümi Baptist Akukuhou, 5th Mile, N.H. 29, Dimapur. Therefore, all the office bearers and executive members have been requested to attend the meeting without fail and come prepared with agendas for discussion.

Poumai Baptist Church Kohima presents special song during the 50th anniversary of IndoNaga Cease-fire Day at Chedema Peace Camp on September 6. (Morung Photo)

Documentary on Naga music goes global

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The Village Education Committee Chuchuyimlang express its profound gratitude to SDEO office Mokokchung, teachers, students, village council Chuchuyimlang and well-wishers for making the Teachers Day Celebration of Government Elementary School Chuchuyimlang a grand success. We would also like to thank the children of Late. Immakmangyang Pongener for donating a sum of Rs. 1,00,000 ( Rupees one lakh) as corpus fund towards the installation of Immakmangyang Award for excellence in teaching.The award will carry a cash prize of Rs. 5000/- and a certificate which will be conferred on teachers day to a teacher who promotes quality education at elementary Government school level in Chuchuyimlang village. Late. Shri.Immakmangyang Pongener was one of the pioneer teachers in Chuchuyimlang village who has whole heartedly contributed in the field of education. In the year 1950, he became the first teacher in Government L.P. School, Unger village.We would like to specially mention Smti. Bendangmenla, Deputy Director, Industries and Commerce, Daughter of Late. Shri. Immakmangyang, Shri. Talitemsu Jamir, Deputy Mission Director, SSA Nagaland, Shri. Tinumangyang, JEO,SDEO office, Mokokchung for their inspiring messages. Deep appreciation to the Chuchuyimlang Education officers’ forum for sponsoring this important programme and for your continual financial and moral support in mentoring and providing remedial classes to our students. Lanumatong Jamir (Chairman) Village Education Committee Chuchuyimlang, Mokokchung. Nagaland.

Guwahati, September 7 (tNN): 'Songs of the Blue Hills', a featurelength documentary on contemporary Naga folk music, directed by National Award-winning film critic-turned-filmmaker Utpal Borpujari, will soon be screened in China, Italy and Romania. It will also compete in the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in Australia. The 96-minute film features an eclectic range of Naga musicians, all of whom practise the folk music of various Naga tribes in their pure and contemporary forms. Among the musicians featured in the documentary are veteran Ao folk singers Sademmeren Longkumer and A Bendangyanger Tsuwar Jamir, Chakhesang folk veteran

Zachunu Keyho, classical pianist Nise Meruno and groups like the Tetseo Sisters, Nagaland Singing Ambassadors, Chancel Choir, Ru'a, Usou's Instrumental, Abiogenesis, Nagagenous, Baptist Youth Choir Poilwa Village and Purple Fusion. The film, produced by the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training of the Union ministry of culture, has been invited to the prestigious Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival and the Silk Road International Film Festival, both in China, the 21st IFFEST Document Art Film Festival in Bucharest, Romania, and the Parma International Music Film Festival in Italy. The film has been selected for 14 international film festivals, including the 11th Eyes and Lenses Ethnographic Film Festival in

Warsaw (Poland), the New York Indian Film Festival, the Gothenberg Indie Film Festival (Sweden), Visions du Reel in Nyon (Switzerland) and the World Music and Independent Film Festival in Washington. Terming it an 'extraordinary documentary', embodying human concerns and rational thinking, the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival has picked it as one of the 20 films to be screened in Guanzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. The film will also be showcased at the Silk Road International Film Festival, to be held in Xi'an city and sponsored by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of The People's Republic of China and the People's Government of Shaanxi Province.

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Volunteers of Sinai Ministry carrying out awareness campaign, house-to-house in Dimapur, on vector borne disease like dengue fever under National Vector Borne Disease Control Program (NVBDCP), Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Nagaland.

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Naga women to hold ZHRF calls for judicial Patkai Christian Academy wins laurels inquiry on Ukhrul killings protest on September 9 Sothing Shimray

Ukhrul | September 7

IMPHAL, SePteMber 7 (NNN): The Naga Women’s Union (NWU) is organising a Sit-In-Protest in all the four Naga Districts on September 9 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to register 'strong protest' against the 'unabated assault' on the rights of the Naga people and tribals by the Government of Manipur with the 'sole motive' of keeping them under perpetual suppression. The NWU in a press release said the recent senseless act of killing two persons namely Mayopam Ramror and Ramkashing Vashi in Ukhrul, injured 34 civilians, damaged about 15 private vehicles, snatched away mobile phones and money by the Manipur Police Commandos and IRB at Ukhrul on August 30 manifest the prejudice and intolerance policy of Manipur Government. The two surviving wives of the deceased have to bear the brunt of tragic death of their husbands who are both in advanced stage of pregnancy, expecting their first child. Following the incident, the UNC has imposed indefinite ban

on vehicular traffic on National and state Highways, and Construction works on National Projects from 6 a.m. of September 4. "It has been more than 50 days since 144 CrPC has been imposed in Ukhrul and continue to be in place. Despite the consistent demand to revoke the same the Government of Manipur has refused to pay heed. Instead of listening to the voice of the people and addressing the grievances and concern of the people, the state government continues with its militarization policy of the Naga areas. This belligerent attitude of the Government of Manipur, with Government of India as a bystander is condemnable," the press release of the NWU stated. It then expressed, "At stake is our rights, dignity and life, the Naga women demand for an immediate intervention by the Prime Minister of India for the withdrawal of the Section

144 CrPC from Ukhrul and cessation of militarisation of Naga areas". The NWU also demands for expediting the Indo Naga peace process for an acceptable and honourable settlement. It further demands for taking forward the tripartite talk process for alternative arrangement, pending settlement of the Indo-Naga issue. The NWU finally demands the intervention of the Prime Minister for ensuring that the Government of Manipur does not subvert the constitutional rights and protections of the tribals and Nagas in all spheres – educational, employment, ownership of land and natural resources, development opportunities . The NWU then appeals to all who believe in justice and democracy to participate in the programme to raise voices against the “despicable acts” aimed at keeping the Naga people and the tribals under perpetual deprivation and subjugation.

DIMAPur, SePteMber 7 (MexN): The Zomi Human Rights Foundation has expressed shock at the incident that occurred in Ukhrul on August 30 where two civilians – Mayopam Ramror and Ramkashing Vashi, both from Teinem village in Ukhrul – were killed and several others injured. A press release from the Information and Publicity department, ZHRF, stated that while security forces are ordained to be law abiders and protectors of civilians from unlawful act, they however, turned law breakers, human rights violators and degrading human social

values. It opined that such “manifestation of forces” undermines the sovereign responsibility to maintain peace and tranquility in the state. The foundation in this regard has called for setting up a judicial inquiry commission to conduct an impartial, independent and judicious inquiry into the circumstances that led to the loss of two innocent valuable lives. The foundation also called for withdrawing the deployed security personnel for creating an environment of mutual trust and respect and for restoration of peace and harmony in the state.

Ukhrul’s Patkai Christian Academy has become the new champion of the eastern region’s ASISC Football tournament thereby adding more feathers to the football laurel cap of Manipur. In the recently concluded ASISC Tournament held at Kolkata, Manipur was represented by Patkai Christian Academy – the lone CISCE schools of the state. In the final match played at Sailen Manna Stadium, Howrah, Patkai Christian Academy defeated Sikkim’s Modern English School by 2-1 in the junior category to grab the ASISC West Bengal chapter’s coveted golden cup. The Best Scorer award of the tournament was also

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An Appeal to 11 Northern Angami-II A/C Electorates The Forum for Fair Election-2014,11 NA-II A/C, having drawn its inspiration from NBCC Clean Election Campaign was formally launched on the 27th August, 2014 with the vision to appeal every electorate to elect our representative through free and fair means during the forthcoming bye election which is to be announced very shortly. We thank our Almighty God for the success of the program with the presence of our Church leaders, Village Councils, Political Parties and many responsible citizen of our constituency. While challenging every believer, Rev. Dr. Rachülie Vihienuo, Pastor, UBC stated the importance of election in Christian life and pointed out the responsibilities of every believer for a positive change. Besides other he had stressed the following : - Not to indulge in corruption - Maintain Christian values and ethics during election - Church to take active role in condemning unconstitutional practices. - To discourage voters from accepting cash for vote. - To choose a God-fearing leader The Forum has through its previous pamphlets highlighted some of the evil practices prevalent during elections in one form or the other in our state. It is our earnest appeal to all the people of our constituency that these undesirable practices should never be encouraged in our constituency during the forth-coming Bye-election in the interest of the people. Many electorates in our constituency may not be aware of the election code of conduct which they ought to know; therefore, out of their ignorance they may commit mistakes. In view of this, the Forum took the initiative to educate our people. It is generally observed that during elections many electorates plague the contesting candidates to fulfill their personal problems/demands before election, thus compelling the candidates to oblige. This implied the electorates selling their votes and the candidates buying the same. Therefore, we appeal to the electorates not to burden the candidates during election but may do so after election. We also appeal to the candidates to listen to the problems of the people and to find a solution, wherever possible, on being elected. As a Christian society, if we really yearn for a positive change, we should shoulder free and fair election as a common responsibility in electing our representative. If we long for a God-fearing leader we should first fear God and display Christian character. The fear of the Lord should rule over our hearts and our actions as we inch nearer to the polling day and we hope that through this Bye-election we set an example for others to follow in the days to come. Let us all stand firm for the truth. Forum for Fair Election-2014 11 Northern Angami II A/C 7th September 2014. (N: B. Readers should note that the writings of the Forum does not intend to defame an individual, candidate or political party)

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Eighteen student players from Patkai Christian Academy led by teacher coach Khareithan Kharay and Sochipem participated at the regional tournament’s junior category during August. In an interaction with the student players and teacher cum coaches at the PCA campus, Khareithan said that the triumph of PCA is the blessing of God. PCA has recently become the centre of arena for ‘sports and education’ in Ukhrul District for outreaching approach. A month long district football coaching camp for students was taken up at PCA in June last to harness sports talent. Student players of the PCA team attributed the recent triumph to the football training they had at the school.

given to Ngasan Shishak for his excellent goal scoring techniques. Even though the bulk of CISCE affiliated schools in the eastern region is from West Bengal and Orissa School teams from almost all the north eastern state participated at the recently concluded tournament. ASISC football tournament is an annual tournament of schools affiliated to CISCE in India as part of their ‘discipline through sports’ policy. As a preliminary for the national meet the regional tournaments were held at different regions of the country during August. Champions at the regional meet are scheduled to meet at the national tournament slated at the last part of October at West Bengal this year.

This is to inform all the school Authorities and children highlighted below that the State level Science Exhibition will be organized on the 18th September 2014 at Rϋzϋkhrie GHSS Kohima at 9:00 AM. On account of the warrants reaching us only on the 4th Sept. 2014 and the National Level Competition which is due on the 6,7 & 8 Oct.2014 it is informed that the participants will be awarded cash money of Rs.5000/- each drawn from the warrants of the children mentioned below by the bank officials. Free accommodation is arranged for those children and Teacher guides coming from remote areas at DUDA Guest House. All the children mentioned below are to report positively at Rϋzϋkhrie GHSS Kohima at 9:00 AM on the 18th Sept. 2014 for the mentioned science exhibition. For necessary query contact Nodal Officer Mob No: 09436000597.

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This time’s different as Asian markets warm up

Singapore, September 7 (reuterS): Faced once again with the prospect of rate rises in the United States, investors in Asia are no longer selling and running as in the past, choosing instead to stay in markets like India and South Korea, that are relatively sheltered from global forces. The two bouts of market turmoil in May 2013 and January this year demonstrated the perils of selling out of markets prematurely and indiscriminately. This time, investors have already begun preparations for a rise in U.S. rates by mid-2015 at the earliest, albeit with a degree of caution about the different moving parts to the policy story. For one, central banks in Europe and Japan could soon be injecting stimulus, which would compensate the world for the cash the Federal Reserve is withdrawing. And secondly, it is entirely plausible that U.S. growth disappoints, thereby keeping yields down but pushing stock markets sharply lower. Standard responses to a spike in U.S. rates, such as avoiding Indonesia, India and other countries which rely on external funding, may no longer be

appropriate, given how rapidly Asia has changed in the past year. The region’s current account deficits are smaller, bond yields are high and currencies already quite weak. Governments perceived to be more reform-oriented have taken over in India and Indonesia, and Asia’s rallying stock markets are backed by robust growth in company earnings. “You should be in countries where idiosyncratic forces are more dominant drivers than the global forces,” said Jahangir Aziz, head of Asian research at JPMorgan. “They allow you to hedge against global changes.” As of now, both Asian equity and bond markets are still riding a six-year long rally spurred by the heavy quantitative easing policies of the Fed and other developed economies. But investors are prone to worry, says Aziz, and this abnormally long period of very low volatility and memories of the vicious selloff in 2013 have made them uneasy. “There could be significant pre-emptive reaction in the market to the likelihood of better U.S. growth, jobs or inflation numbers. That is where the concern

is,” he said. PICK THE NEUTRAL TRADE The basis for investment is belief that, unlike the scares in 2013 and early 2014, the Fed will raise rates only when it is confident that the economy is on track for higher growth, more jobs, better demand and investment. “You are at that stage of the global cycle where the traditional growth or high-beta assets are what you want to own,” said Huw McKay, Westpac’s chief Asian economist based in Sydney. “You don’t want to be back in safe haven assets such as U.S. bonds.” The decision to stay invested in high growth emerging markets in Asia is the simpler one. Markets are pricing little change in the already low U.S. yields - 10-year yields are around 2.4 percent, and the forwards markets indicate little to no growth or inflation prospects. The equity market meanwhile is consistently reaching for record highs. The more challenging issue for investors is that of deciding which shoe drops first, bonds or equities. As yields rise, bond prices would drop. “Secular stagnation is being priced into the bond markets, strong nominal growth is being

priced into the equity markets. One of these is more wrong than the other, or even both could be wrong,” said UBS strategist Bhanu Baweja. Still, that happy co-existence of surging bond and equity prices could very well continue, and should fund managers sell before an actual turn in the market they could risk underperforming peers and global indices. “You’ve got to survive to that point,” says Baweja. “You can’t go short the markets right now.” The consensus however ends there. Westpac’s McKay finds India has made greater strides in fixing its current account problem, more so than Indonesia which was one of the worst hit in 2013. Plus, in a scenario where a rise in U.S. yields is preceded by strong global growth, India’s services exports would benefit hugely. McKay also reckons the winning markets this time might be in countries, like South Korea, that offer foreigners a seamless transfer from equities to bonds. “If you have both asset classes to offer in local currency, you can actually see a transfer rather than switching out of the currency altogether

to go back to the dollar,” McKay said. JPMorgan’s chief Asian economist Jahangir Aziz warns that now is not the time to look for global plays, or heavy bets on assets linked to U.S Treasury yields or broader emerging market risk. “India and Indonesia is where you want to be right now,” he said, citing the new governments and possible policy changes in both economies that will proceed regardless of global factors. Investors should be wary of being too exposed to China, should there be a decline in global demand and therefore in the exports that are driving Chinese growth, he said. Blackrock’s head of Asian equities prefers being more exposed to North Asian markets such as China, Taiwan and Korea, both because of their valuations and healthier current accounts. “As a recipient of little investor flows in recent years, we believe Asian equities are well placed to receive more interest even if U.S. rates begin to rise,” he said. Blackrock has $344 billion of long-term assets under management in Asia.

Govt can print Re 1 note: Law Ministry BSNL, MTNL merger likely by July next year new Delhi, September 7 (pti): Putting to rest the debate on printing of one rupee notes, the Law Ministry has opined that the Government of India has all the powers to print currency notes of this denomination. While the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has the authority to issue bank notes of denominational values of Rs 2, Rs 5, Rs 10, Rs 20, Rs 50, Rs 100, Rs 500, Rs 1,000, Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000, the one rupee note was printed and issued by the central government. The Government of India also has the sole right to mint coins of all denominations. However, since the RBI was of the view that with the repeal of Section 2 of the Currency Ordinance, the Government of India is not empowered to issue note of denominational value of one rupee, the law ministry opinion was taken. The Law Ministry in its opinion stated that the Coinage Act of 2011, which consolidates the laws relating to coinage and the mints, does not bar the Government of India from printing one rupee notes. Section 4 of the Act provides that the central government may authorise minting of coin of denomination not higher than Rs 1,000, it said, adding that the def-

inition of coin in the Act makes it clear that Government of India one rupee note is included in the definition of coin. The Act defines a coin as “made of any metal or any other material stamped by the Government or any other authority empowered by the Government in this behalf and which is a legal tender including commemorative coin and Government of India one rupee note,” the ministry said in its opinion. “Further, apart from the metal, the coin may be made of any other material,” it said. The ministry said while repealing the Currency Ordinance, 1940, “necessary provisions for inclusion of Government of India one rupee note within the meaning of ‘Coin’ have been consciously incorporated in the Coinage Act, 2011. Further, the RBI, as per Section 24(1) of the RBI Act, 1934, is not empowered to issue bank note of denomination of value of one rupee.” “Central government is not precluded to issue one rupee Government of India note under the Coinage Act, 2011. The dimension, design, material and standard weight of such One Rupee Note have to be prescribed by the Central Government in terms of Section 4 and 5 of the Coinage Act, 2011,” the opinion said.

new Delhi, September 7 (pti): The much-awaited merger of telecom PSUs, BSNL and MTNL, is likely to take place by July next year as the two companies look at synergising operations by offering services as a single entity. At present, BSNL offers services in the whole country, except Delhi and Mumbai. MTNL provides telecom services in these two zones. “The deadline of June-July 2015 has not been officially commissioned to the organisation but the merger is likely to take place in the time frame,” BSNL Director (consumer mobility) Anupam Shrivastava told PTI. He added there are some matters which need to be sorted out before the merger takes place which include the salary issues and debt on MTNL books. “Commercially it makes sense for the two companies to merge as it will lower the tax outgo. Currently, BSNL is billing MTNL and vice versa for services for which both are paying taxes. If it becomes one entity, the tax outgo will be less,” Shrivastava said. He, however, said

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before the merger, there are some issues which need to be resolved. Shrivastava said the first issue is that MTNL is a listed company and the government has to see how it can be merged with BSNL.

One option could be that the government buys back MTNL shares, he said. “Second thing is the salary difference between the two firms. The salary of MTNL employees is higher than BSNL, so that issue needs to be sorted out,” he added. The other issue is about debt on MTNL books, which is a big concern for BSNL. Shrivastava said in order to resolve the issue, the government can provide a soft loan to the new entity. On the merger, Minister of Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad said in a in-

terview to DD News, “There is an idea on consideration, we have not taken a final call.” Prasad said as of now the companies must be revived. “I personally monitor the functioning of both these departments as to how many towers are functioning, the names of chief general managers are there, their mobile numbers are there, I talk to them directly...So monitoring is done at my level also,” Prasad said. Prasad had also met the senior management of BSNL and MTNL recently to discuss the blueprint for reviving the loss-making PSU telecom companies. The total debt of the two firms has increased to Rs 21,208 crore at the end of June 2014. The public sector firms are also losing market share. The market share of BSNL has been reduced to 12.3% at the end of May 2014 from 13.27% at end of March 2012 whereas that of MTNL stood at 4.83% at May-end, 2014. In 201213, MTNL recorded a net loss of Rs 5,321.12 crore on annual revenue of Rs 3,428.6 crore. BSNL losses, as per unaudited results, stood at Rs 8,198 crore for 2012-13.

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public discoursE Is The NSCN IM Ceasefire With The GOI The Only Valid Ceasefire?

have just returned from Mokokchung where I went to speak at the 50th Anniversary of the Indo- Naga Ceasefire of 1964 which was arranged to meet at Longmisa on Sept 6, 2014. The meeting was scheduled to be addressed by Dr. Mar- ABAM Executive Secretary, myself and L.P. Chaliha-the son of late B.P.Chaliha-former Chief Minister of Assam and a member of the Peace Mission in the 1964 Ceasfire and Peace talks. On reaching Mokokchung, to our great embarrasment in front of L.P. Chaliha, we were told that the NSCN IM had forbidden the commemoration meeting from the highest level. I for one was left wondering as to what demage a 50th anniversary commemoration meeting and a stone erection ceremony would do to the IM if the programme was held. Late Chaliha was a great Assamese leader who sacrificed a lot of his time for the Naga cause, often endangering his own life and also bearing with a lot of criticism from some of his own colleagues and peers like his pre-decessor and second Chief Minister of Assam, B. R. Medhi. Unlike B.P. Chaliha, B.R. Medi did great harm to our Naga national cause. Way back in 1953, after Nehru and U.Nu’s visit to Kohima and the total walk out of 12000 Nagas from the local play ground when an audience was refused to them, arrest warrants were issued against all the NNC leaders. Next, the Assam Armed Police and the Assam Rifles were unleashed against all Naga national workers and their activities. Beginning from April 1953, the Indian Government had resorted to severe political persecutions, mass arrest, torture and terrorism against all Nagas. But during this tense period, Mr. Chaliha who was then, the President of The Assam Pradesh Committee came to study the situation in Nagaland from Sept. 21 – 30, 1953. He next organised the Praja Socialist Party of Assam for a “Goodwill Mission” to Nagaland which visited all the principle areas of Kohima and Mokokchung Divisions from Oct. 1-14, 1953.Mr B. P.Chaliha is also fondly remembered for the excellent hospitaliy he extended to the Naga Goodwill mission that visited Assam from Nov.30-Dec29, 1953. In the light of all these past associations, this time, his son L.P. Chaliha-though an old man now and also physically handicapped, graciously came to Nagaland taking two days to reach Mokokchung. He came just to enaugurate the Monolith set up by the villagers of Longmisa to commemorate the 50th Indo Naga ceasfire of 1964. The NSCN IM denying him that honor is like slapping him, his father and all Assamese people who are our neighbors and will be so for all times to come. In conclussion, perhaps, it will be well, if the NSCN IM realizes the fact that Naga history did not begin from the formation of the NSCN in 1980 or the formation of the NSCN IM in 1988. After all, no one can undo, or re-write a nation’s history.As for me, I wish to put on record, my deepest as well as embarrassed apology to Mr.L.P. Chaliha and all Assamese well wishers.I am sure all right thinking Nagas are with me in this apology. Kaka D Iralu

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Monday 8 September 2014

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PM’s Text & Context - It is Time to Walk the Talk

n the 15th of August, 2014, Prime Minister Modi maiden Independence Day speech ridiculed the UPA saying that what he could accomplish in 60 days UPA failed in six years. Modi is known for stirring speeches. Modi talked his talk, but what the people of India want to see when he is going to do. So the people want him to walk the talk. Campaign orations are different from Independence Day speeches. Independence Day speech is an exclusive prerogative and privilege given to the Prime Minister. It is an address by the PM to the nation. Apparently the PM seemed to have maintained absolute silence on varied crucial issues such as deteriorating law and order; violence against women; Hindutva brigands and a few ministers uttering derogatory statements against minority communities; allowing religious fundamentalist to spew venom against others in communally sensitive constituencies and failing to curtail spiraling inflation. He went to the extent of elevating Amit Shah as the President of BJP and thus accommodated his preferred coterie to run the political establishment. In return Amit Shah overhauled the party structure by appointing new General Secretaries by picking loyalists such as B S Yeddyurappa who was removed

by BJP as the CM of Karnataka on charges of corruption and others known for their divisive politics. So, the message conveyed to the citizens of this country is that, corruption can be tolerated provided its practitioners has practical uses like helping win elections and pushing the project of Majroritarianism. It should be acknowledged that in the BJP’s leadership structure, the RSS play the key influence in the choice of personnel. This time RSS’s influence is apparent, since Hindutva majoritarian plank has a clear majority in the House. The media largely go agog on all issues whether petty or some have little significance. But the media hype should be analyzed objectively because it seems on crucial issues the media especially visual media create or go to the extent of inflating competitive frenzy amongst the viewers and in the process lose objectivity to understand and analyze diverse issues that are happening in different spheres of our country. Hardly have we seen clear analyses and opinions being offered by the media allowing the viewers to come to come their decision-making process. Meanwhile, the RSS and the rest of the Parivar brigade keep pushing their own agenda consolidating their ultimate realization of Ram Rajya vis-à-vis Hindu state. Amit Shah’s inner circle consists of RSS cadres, including Ram Mad-

hav recently ‘loaned’ to the party by RSS headquarters. RSS chief has not uttered anything and left the matter to perceive that the recent election was not won by one man, but certainly by RSS cadres and Sangh Parivar. If we were to recapitulate the Independence eve address by the President Pranab Mukerjee, he warned the nation against “the poison drip of inflammatory provocation” and “intolerance and violence”. He further added that we need peace and united efforts for development and progress. He give the caution against the backdrop of what is happening in Asia and Africa being increasingly threatened by the rise of a new, bigoted, medieval caliphate. The warning is indeed more relevant and appropriate to our context where the last debate in the last Lok Sabha session, Yogi Advaithanath of Gorakhpur kept on chanting that all Indians are Hindus. Even recently the Minister of Minorities Nijma Hebtullah reiterated the same sentiments of the Parivar. Others belonging to the Hindutva brigade followed suit. It should be underscored and understood that the term Hindu was derived from the ArabalHind which the French pronounced Inde, hence India. The people of (H)industan were named Hindus or Hindis. What happened was when Westerners came

to these shores, this they gave this term (name, title, designation, title) given to a whole people, morphed into a label for a broad spectrum of Vedic faith (s) other than the Christians, Muslim and certain other categories that they knew or vaguely recognized. But the ultrarightists went to the extent of twisting it which implies that those who live in India should henceforth call themselves other than Hindus as Hindu Muslims, Hindu Christians, Hindu Sikhs so on and so forth. Modi’s government has changed Teachers’ Day (September 5) to Guru Utsav and directed the schools to compulsorily watch Modi’s interaction with the children and telecasted national network. It is nothing but imposition of one language on people who speak diverse languages. While viewing these inferences we could come to plausible consensus that all Indians are civilisationally and culturally are Hindu or Bharatis. Hindutva on the other hand, is not a faith, but an exclusivist, ultrarightist, fundamentalist, fascist political ideology that seeks dominance under the rubric of ‘cultural nationalism’. This distinction is to be known and spread around and then certainly attitudes within and between one another will automatically change. PM Modi during electioneering used a maxim frequently: “First is governance and then govern-

ment”. But there are gaps in what PM is saying and what he is doing. For instance, the government decided to get rid of judicial collegium and thus set up a National Judicial Appointments Commission in which the government could have the last word in judicial appointments. The bureaucracy, private government offices and senior information officials are being handpicked and centralized, with PMO sifting and filtering. Even the Home Minister is restrained from senior appointments and should be cleared by Appointments Committee of the Cabinet. People are observing over recent events with growing apprehension and are seriously concerned about such exercises. Recently the Chief Justice of India R M Lodha has expressed his distress at the Legislature interference in the sphere of the judiciary. As Ambedkar once pointed out, for a democracy to work all the three organs of the state (Executive, Judiciary and Legislature) should work together respecting each other without transgressing on each other, then there won’t be any friction. If there is interference, the possibility fascist forces taking over cannot be ruled out. History reminds us of Hitler, Mussolini and others. When these three organs of the state in logger heads then the possibility of a fascist taking-over the nation-

state becomes easier. The text Modi used during the parliamentary elections and the ways with which it galvanized votes from the people has not been forgotten. The ruling party might think that “people’s memory is short’, but the citizens are closely watching the chains of events happening across the country. BJP should go back and read the text. The message that the ruling party conveys to the people is that, the text it used is superficial or empty rhetoric for votes. For a party that created a great propaganda machine to decimate Congress should abide by the promises it made to the electorates and translate them in concrete terms. The powerful usage chanted during the elections “evaluate us by what we do” had manifested into little value thus far because more problems are generated and less being done. BJP as of now should show modesty because it has just completed first 100 days. We wait for a reasonable time-frame on which BJPs performance could be assessed. Nevertheless, the issues that surface and the utterances its ministers and MPs makes people apprehensive. There are whole domains of confusion, silence, even suspicion and violence which need to be commented on. While on the other hand, the ruling party hardly makes any comments on policy matters. This became evident

that on the Independence Day’s speech when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi tried to galvanize the people rather than activate his government. He said “governance first, and then comes the government”, what is happening is just the reverse. One gets the impression that RSS is in the forefront pushing its cultural nationalism and translating it across the country in overt and covert ways. But Modi’s government coyly acts as if secrecy is the first pre-condition of good governance. Without any debates some of the major decisions are pushed and implemented. BJP made a series of promises and swept to power. Modi and his party were hungry for votes, but have not even making attempts to fix malnutrition and hunger problems. Half of India’s children are malnourished, which is indeed a national shame. Modi in his interview in August 2012 blamed malnutrition in Gujarat due to “vegetarian diet”. Gujarat is a middle-class state. Gujarat is “more beauty conscious that health conscious”. Media just ignored because it was a bare bluff. His contentions didn’t match with data whichever way it was spliced. Haryana is more vegetarian than Gujarat but has better nutritional figures. NSSO data (20092010) showed poverty behind state’s poor nutritional indices. Likewise there are a number of problems

that grips the poor and vulnerable communities who voted for BJP so that the government would intervene and find solutions to their woes. After taking over the reign of India, Prime Minister Modi in his cabinet meeting set out a 10-point agenda, stressing peopleoriented governance and time-bound delivery which should be completed in 100 days: 1) Remove hurdles to economic growth, contain inflation, 2) Prioritize education, health, water, energy and roads, 3) Push reforms in infrastructure, focus on attracting investments, 4) Provide peopleoriented government and governance, 5) Ensure time-bound implementation of policy, 6) Maintain stability and consistency in policy, 7) Promote eauctioning in tenders and other government work to increase transparency, 8) Build confidence in bureaucracy, 9) Improve inter-ministerial cooperation and 10) Empower bureaucrats and welcome innovative ideas from them. 100 days are over. It is time for the Prime Minister Modi to assess the time-bound priorities and check what went wrong in not fulfilling or translating at least a few. It is time for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “walk the talk”, and not talk the talk”. Dr. John Mohan Razu Professor Of Social Ethics CTC, Mokokchung

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10 Days free medical camp at Jain Hospital extended 'Anant Chaturdashi' procession in Dimapur today DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 7 (MExN): A free medical which is currently in progress at Jain Hospital have been further extended till the Tuesday, September 9. In a press note received here, Ajeet Sethi, Secretary, Jain Hospital Committee, Shree Digambar Jain Samaj informed that, the medical camp is extended on the account of Paryushan Parva, a celebration of 10 values of Jainism, being extended till Tuesday. Already more than 700 patients from various communities have benefitted with free check-ups besides free X-ray, ECG, Blood Sugar tests, vaccinations & free medicines and 100 patients taken into care of every day during the camp, it added. The Secretary further expressed its gratitude to Dr. B K Sethi, Dr. R N Padhi, Dr. Yanger, Dr. Dipika, Dr. Swati, and Dr. Sunil Sharma

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 7 (MExN): An the account of the celebration of Anant Chaturdashi, there will be a procession march on Monday September 8 at 2 pm starting at Dimapur Jain Temple. The procession will pass through Ram Janaki Road, G. S. Road, M.P. Road, Nyamo Lotha Road, SBI Bazar Branch

Junction, G.S.Road, Kalibari Road before finally culminating at Jain Temple by 4.00pm. In a press note, Sanjay Kumar Sethi, Secretary Information and Publicity of Shri Digambar Jain Samaj, informed that necessary permission for this procession has already been taken from Superintendent of Police, Dimapur

celibacy- which all devotees of Jainism adheres to. Most of the Jain devotees observe various level of fasting in these 10 auspicious days and twenty of them observing complete 10-days fasting (except for water once a day) in Dimapur will be breaking their fast at Jain Bhawan an Tuesday, it added.

BYYM condemns death threat: Urges Nagas to 'take notice'

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 7 (MExN): The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) today expresses its “utter shock” to learn about the “insecurity” faced by a Naga Pastor and his wife at the hands illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. In a press note, BJYM President, K Kahato Chishi and General SecrePatients at Free Medical Camp at Jain Hospital in Dimapur. tary, Mathew K Janger stated that, the for volunteering their ser- sethi, Manoj Chhabra & Su- Interested patients may call alleged “death threat” made by Abvices for various check-ups shil Jain for the humanitar- 03862-232774 during the of- dul Basit, an illegal Bangladeshi imbesides surgeries, dental & ian service; and generous fice hours for more details migrants and a shopkeeper in New gynecological issues; Ajeet donors from the Jain Samaj. regarding the camp. Market Dimapur, to the Naga couple

TSUD’s installation programme on Sept 9

Women selling organic vegetables, fruits, local chickens, ducks, fish etc. in the newly opened AMK Market, near DC office, Kohima. This market opens from 6:00 am till 6:00 pm daily. (Morung Photo)

Kohima Phiro Khumshum celebrates Silver Jubilee KohIMA, SEPTEMBER 7 (DIPR): Commemorating 25 years of existence, the Kohima Phiro Khumshum organised a programme befitting the occasion on September 7, at Highland Park (Near IG Stadium) Kohima. Addressing the Phiro people residing in Kohima, the main speaker Rev. Mhathung Lotha, Pastor Kohima Lotha Baptist Church, dwelling on the topic, "Burn the lamp continually," said that the lamp of Kohima Phiro Fellowship has been burning for the past 25 years and many souls who were in the dark has been shown the light through this lamp. Citing examples of Phiro people working as missionaries in different parts of India, Rev. Mhathung stated that the good works started by the Kohima Phiro Fellowship is bearing fruits and the Kohima Lotha Baptist Church is also enjoying the fruits borne by the fellowship. Introspecting 25 years back, he added that, the fellowship started in 1989 with only a hand full of households but, presently there are 108 households with approximately 440 head count of Phiro people residing in Kohima. Further, the Reverend observed that, now there are many

and regret any inconvenience it might cause for the citizens. Further it added that, the day is a culmination of Paryushan Parva, a celebration of ten values forgiveness, humbleness, simplicity, truthfulness, purity of soul, being content, meditation, renunciation, non-attachment &

people who could provide oil to the lamp and encouraged the Phiro Kohima residents to continuously burn the lamp brightly even in the days to come. Associate Pastor City Church Kohima, Moyithung Odyuo also from Phiro village exhorted the congregation to live a Christ centered life so that people could see the beauty of Jesus through their lives. "We need to grow together and be deeply rooted in Christ," he shared. Additional Director Employment and Craftsmen Training Y Vandanshan Lotha also exhorted the gathering while Retd Director Social Welfare A Y Odyuo delivered the welcome note. A minute silence was observed led by Pastor Phiro Baptist Church, Thunhjanshio Odyuo as a mark of respect to the departed souls who hails from Phiro village. Other highlights of the programme included special number by Lonachen Patton and scripture reading by Merenla Odyuo. One of the founding and the oldest member of Kohima Phiro Khumshum, Rhonthungo Tungoe invoked God's blessings while L Shoshumo Enieo proposed the vote of thanks followed by grand Silver Jubilee Feast.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 7 (MExN): The Tenyimi Students’ Union Dimapur (TSUD) will be holding its installation programme for its newly elected office bearers for the tenure 2014-2016, on September 9 at Tenyimi Complex, near Tragopan Hotel. In a press note received here, the Secretary Search Committee of TSUD, Kambuiga Rongmei requested all the Unit President and colleagues, President and Secretary all the Sub-Ordinate body of TSUD, Tenyimi Union Dimapur Officials and its Unit President and Colleagues to attend the programme and bless the newly elected officials.

Sumi Baptist Convention Condoles

DIMPAUR, SEPTEMBER 7 (MExN): The Sumi Baptist Convention (SCC) today expresses their “shock” over the sudden demise of Late Rev.Sukhalu Shohe, the former Executive Secretary SABAK, Pughoboto and the present Chaplain of SABAK Mission Center on the September 6. In a condolence note, Rev. Khehovi Shohe, Director, Sumi Baptist Convention described Late Rev. Sukhalu as humble and dedicated man of God who rendered his unflagging service for the Sumi churches particularly in the southern region of Sumi inhabited area. The SCC also conveyed its heartfelt condolences to his bereaved family members and prayers of peace for the departed soul.

is a “serious matter” and urges the law enforcing agency to investigate the incident thoroughly and award befitting punishment as per the land of the law. Asserting that, this particular incident is not a lone case in recent years, the BJYM said that, it will be difficult to “uphold peace with such community” if the local continues to be mistreated and suffers abuses at the hands of non-locals. Further, it maintained that, due to huge influx of illegal immigrants and their control over numerous business

entities, the original citizens are constantly suffering at their hand and the region is becoming more “insecure” for future generation of legitimate citizens. Therefore, its high we take notice of their “evil design” and take initiative against those involved in such activities, it added. The BJP Youth Wing Nagaland (BJYM) further cautions all the Naga youths to refrain from maintaining any “special relationship” with illegal immigrants in “any manner” for personal gains.

Freshers’ Day celebrated at SASRD

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 7 (MExN): NU: SASRD, Medziphema celebrated its ‘20th Annual Freshers’ Social cum 21st Nagaland University Foundation Day’ on September 6. Lipokmar Tzüdir, Director, North East Zone Cultural Centre (NEZCC) graced the function as chief guest. Exhorting the students, Lipokmar stressed on the need of new ideas and inventions for the progress and development of agriculture in the region, “as agriculture is the backbone of our economy.” He encouraged the students to have perseverance and dedication in whatever they do and to aim high in life. In commemoration of the University’s foundation, a foundation day lecture was also delivered by Prof. R. C. Gupta, HoD, Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Soil Science, NU: SASRD. Meanwhile, a cultural programme was also held, where students showcased their talents. A well choreographed Fresher King & Fresher Queen competition was the main attraction, informed a press release received here. ‘Hills Theatre’, a Drama Troupe from Dimapur presented a compelling play about the ill treatment of wom- Wochamo Tsanglao and Apibeni Kikon en in our society and the prevailing social evils, were adjudged the Fresher King and the release added. Fresher Queen respectively.

Lipokmar Tzudir with SASRD faculty and students.

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Interlocutor for Peace

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he Government of India (GoI) has appointed RN Ravi, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) as the new Interlocutor for talks with the NSCN (IM). Ravi, a 1976 batch IPS officer from Kerala, who retired in 2012, was Special Director of Intelligence Bureau. The choice of Mr Ravi as the new Interlocutor is unprecedented given that ever since formal talks began more than a decade ago, the GoI has been assigning the task of the Interlocutor to those with administrative or political background but never to someone from the security or intelligence background. Also this will be the first time that the Interlocutor for the Naga talks will have another full time job, heading the crucial JIC. As already reported in the media, the JIC analyses intelligence data from the Intelligence Bureau, Research and Analysis Wing and the Directorates of Military, Naval and Air Intelligence. The JIC is also an integral part of the National Security Council (NSC), the apex agency looking into the country's political, economic, energy and strategic security concerns. Given the immense responsibility he has as the head of JIC, Mr Ravi, who is widely regarded for his expertise in northeast affairs and known for his pragmatism, will hopefully do equal justice to his other role as the Interlocutor for the Naga peace talks. Coming back to the possible reasons for the appointment of Mr Ravi, the Prime Minister reportedly wants a ‘quick conclusion to the peace talks, preferably within a year’ and Mr Ravi was ‘seen as a better’ choice. One hopes that the PM’s decision to go for Mr Ravi has nothing to do with the latter’s personal opinion on the Naga political issue, which is quite extreme to the point of being intolerant at times and radical. Mr Ravi in an opinion piece written last year has described the ceasefire between the GoI and the NSCN (IM) as ‘reckless’. That’s precisely the problem in the thinking of the security establishment in India, which has never been open to the idea of engaging in a political process but would rather seek a violent, military style solution. It is not a surprise therefore what Mr Ravi had to say about the ceasefire, coming as he does from a intelligence background. Hopefully whatever calculation the new PM may have in appointing Mr Ravi as the Interlocutor, the 17 year long Naga peace process should continue in the same spirit when talks first started i.e. mutual respect for each other’s position and to work towards an honorable-mutually acceptable political settlement recognizing the unique history and situation of the Nagas. Atleast to the credit of the political establishment in India the realization had dawned on them that a military solution was not the way forward to resolve what was essentially a political problem. This move of the GoI to engage with the Naga Political Groups through the ceasefire mechanism and dialogue process has the full support of the stakeholders, whether it is the popularly elected State government, the tribal hohos, Church and all section of Naga civil society. It would therefore be wrong to allude that the ‘ceasefire’ first entered in 1997 “was in utter disregard for the logic of the prevailing situation”. Not everything that Mr Ravi has written is wrong or false either. Yes the present ceasefire regime in place is imperfect, Nagas are divided, there is an absence of a credible State and the political negotiation has gone on endlessly. The new Interlocutor for peace while fine-tuning some of the concerns will do well to work within the broad parameters already agreed upon and use the trust that the Prime Minister has bestowed on him to facilitate for an early mutually acceptable solution on the Naga political issue. (Feedback can be sent to consultingeditormex@gmail.com)

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Why Are BMW and Mercedes So Rich?

hen the financial crisis of 2008 sent U.S. automakers to the precipice of failure, conservatives, notably Mitt Romney, urged the Obama administration to let the car companies go bankrupt. Neoconservatives blamed “high wages” paid to unionized autoworkers for the inability of GM, Ford, and Chrysler to compete. In his book The Crash of 2016, author Thom Hartmann points out a flaw in the argument that high wages to American workers are the problem. He says: Actually, Germany paid their autoworkers about $67 an hour (including wages and benefits). But the United States paid its average worker only $33 an hour (also including wages and benefits). On top of that, German car manufacturers were highly profitable, despite the comparatively large paychecks of their workers. BMW earned a before-tax profit of 3.8 billion euros, and Mercedes-Benz hauled in profits of 4.6 billion euros. So how did Germany just completely blow up the myth that car companies have to pay their workers less to be more profitable and manufacture more cars? How can Germany do the opposite: pay their workers more, be more profitable, and make more cars? The answer: democracy. First, Germans have completely democratized the auto plant by unionizing nearly every single autoworker in the country—under IG Metall, the German autoworkers union. With such a high union membership rate, autoworkers hold a lot of sway when they threaten to go on strike. That’s how workers have been able to keep wages high and working conditions satisfactory. But as Horst Mund, the head of the International Department of the German autoworkers union, pointed out, unions hardly ever go on strike in Germany “because there is an elaborate system of conflict resolution that regularly is used to come to the sort of compromise that is acceptable to all parties.” One reason for the more collaborative relationship between CEOs and workers is that, unlike in the United States, unions aren’t under attack and there aren’t any “right to work for less” zones in Germany to which car manufacturers can flee so they can ignore the voice of organized labor. Another and perhaps more powerful reason is that there is a constitutional amendment in Germany that forces corporate executives to listen to labor unions. The Works Constitution Act requires every factory to set up a works council that gives representatives of the workers a seat at the table in every decision-making process at the factory. That is the democratization of capitalism, expanding the decision-making process to not just the corporate elite but the entirety of the company, from the bottom up. This, according to Mund, is the real reason why the autoworkers union has a loud voice in the German economy. Pointing to the adversarial relationship between employers and labor unions in America, Mund says, “The accusation that American unions are more radical and destructive … definitely has to do with the hostile environment in which the unions have to act. How can they be constructive and friendly if their asses are kicked all the time?” He goes on to say that without the Works Constitution Act in Germany, “employers would not talk to us either if they had the choice.” But intentions aside, the empowerment of labor unions in Germany and the democratization of the workplace through an enforced constitutional amendment have been an economic boon for Germany, as demonstrated by car sales, employee wages, and profitability. As Mund concludes, “We have strong unions, we have strong social security systems, we have high wages. So, if I believed what the neo-liberals are arguing, we would have to be bankrupt, but apparently this is not the case…the economy is working well in Germany.” So how do we democratize capital in the United States and give workers more of a say in how our economy is run?

In this photo taken on Thursday, July 17, 2014, Uighur women walk past barricades set up at the entrance to a shopping district in the city of Aksu in western China's Xinjiang province. China has blanketed parts of Xinjiang, home to Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs, with such heavy security that it resembles an occupied territory under martial law, complete with armed troops, spiked barricades, checkpoints and even drones. But the massive security effort has not brought stability to Xinjiang, and neither has Beijing’s strategy of pouring in economic investment. A few hundred people have died in ethnic violence in Xinjiang and in two attacks in Chinese cities elsewhere over the past 16 months. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

n this ancient oasis town in China's restive west, assault rifle-toting police officers patrol the cobblestone lanes of ochre-brick houses in an ethnic Uighur neighborhood. Three police surveillance cameras atop a white pole watch over a narrow dirt road frequented mostly by cows. Wanted posters for suspected Uighur assailants are stuck on walls every few hundred feet. China has blanketed parts of Xinjiang, home to Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighurs, with such heavy security that it resembles an occupied territory under martial law, complete with armed troops, spiked barricades, checkpoints and even drones. But the massive security effort has not brought stability to Xinjiang, and neither has Beijing's strategy of pouring in economic investment. A few hundred people have died in ethnic violence in Xinjiang and in two attacks in Chinese cities elsewhere over the past 16 months. The Chinese leadership's latest attempt at a solution is an initiative to foster ethnic mingling between Uighurs and the country's Han Chinese majority. Communist Party leader Xi Jinping introduced the high-stakes campaign to integrate — or some say assimilate — Uighurs with Chinese-language schooling, more jobs and greater mobility in May. At least one county is even promoting intermarriage between the groups by dangling financial rewards. "All ethnic groups must understand one another, have mutual tolerance, appreciation, learn from one another, help one another and embrace one another like seeds of a pomegranate," Xi said at a high-level meeting. China is trying to bring Uighurs into the fold by encouraging them to leave their hometowns and mix with Han communities, while pledging to share the rewards Beijing has reaped from the riches of Xinjiang's oil and gas deposits with more jobs and better infrastructure. The strategy may include a reassessment of some of the policies that had favored ethnic minorities — such as limited exemptions to China's rules on how many children couples can have — in a bid to reduce distinctions between the ethnicities. However, removing such exemptions will stoke controversy. "The administration of Xi Jinping wants to make a bold and yet risky attempt to increase inter-ethnic mingling," said James Leibold of Australia's La Trobe University, who has studied Chinese ethnic policy for over a decade. "It's boldness in the sense that it would signal a major change in current ethnic policies and risky in the sense that it could potentially exacerbate tensions between the Uighurs and the Han majority." Many Uighurs bristle under Beijing's heavy-

he Islamic State militant group that has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq and declared a self-styled caliphate poses one of the most significant threats to stability in the Middle East in years. But what danger does it immediately pose? Here are some questions and answers about the Islamic State group: DOES THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP RUN A DE FACTO COUNTRY? The Islamic State group holds roughly a third of Iraq and Syria, including several strategically important cities like Fallujah and Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. It rules over a population of several million people with its strict interpretation of Islamic law. It also controls many of the roads linking the communities it has conquered — although much of the territory in between is sparsely populated desert. It claims thousands of heavily armed fighters, and has set up its own civil administrations and judiciaries. "It acts as a state in areas that don't have a state at the moment. It's effective because it provides services, it has a military presence, it speaks as a state," said Hassan Hassan, an analyst at The Delma Institute in Abu Dhabi. In propaganda videos, the group lays out ambitious expansion plans that include targets such as Baghdad, Damascus and Islam's holiest city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. WHAT RESOURCES DOES THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP HAVE? The Islamic State group controls oil fields, power plants, dams and factories in Iraq and Syria. Charles Lister, an analyst who closely tracks jihadist groups at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, estimates the group is capable of bringing in some $2 million a day just from the sale of oil. The group has long generat-

handed restrictions on their religious life and resent the influx of Hans into their homeland, while Hans often say Uighurs are ungrateful for the government's support. In Kuqa and the nearby city of Aksu, the two groups live in separate districts with de facto segregation. The Han districts look like Chinese urban neighborhoods parachuted into the desert, with few signs of adopting local architectural or cultural styles. The two groups speak little or none of the other's language. "Just don't go out at night if you're in a Uighur neighborhood," said a middle-aged Han woman getting a bicycle tire fixed in the only Chinese repair shop on a mostly Uighur street in Aksu. "It's not safe." Aksu's Chinese schools are ringed with tall fences topped with razor wire. Shoppers enter a pedestrian mall by weaving their way through two rows of spiked barricades. Troops with armored personnel carriers guard busy intersections frequented by Han. In the county of Shache in Kashgar prefecture, police searched the area with drones in recent weeks after the region saw its bloodiest unrest in five years, with nearly 100 people killed, more than half of them shot by police. "Uighurs feel like they are living in an open-air prison," said Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the Germany-based World Uyghur Congress. They have "no dignity, no equality, and are at any time subject to discriminatory inspections and illegal detention." It doesn't help that the voices of Uighurs in China are rarely heard, especially after the arrest of a well-known, moderate Uighur rights advocate in China, economist Ilham Tohti, who was charged with separatism. Xinjiang police also bar attempts at independent reporting in the region. A team of three Associated Press reporters on a recent trip were intercepted by police as soon as they landed at Kuqa's airport, and then tailed around the clock — even in restaurants, hotels and bathrooms. As the reporters were leaving a restaurant in Aksu, a Uighur employee held up two fingers and pantomimed a scissors gesture, as if cutting off his tongue. Some scholars fear the government's highpressure tactics are feeding insurgent sentiment that might one day explode. "It's not about an outburst taking place right now but the energy that is accumulating for an explosion in the future," said Wang Lixiong, a Chinese scholar and minority rights activist who sees tensions in Xinjiang as rapidly descending into "Palestinization," in which there is mutual ethnic hatred between groups.

"If one day the authoritarian regime falls apart, the explosion of ethnic conflict could potentially be very violent and brutal," Wang said. "That is the greatest worry." Beijing's latest attempts at weaving Uighurs into the fabric of Chinese society seem aimed at easing that worry — though whether they will work or further inflame tensions is debatable. China plans to increase Mandarin-language instruction in schools instead of the native Uighur and allow more Uighurs to move out of southern Xinjiang and into Han-dominated cities in the Chinese heartland. The southern Xinjiang county of Qiemo, meanwhile, is promoting intermarriage between Hans and Uighurs by offering financial incentives to newlyweds, as well as subsidized health care and free schooling for their offspring. But such policies might be problematic. "You might say it is ethnic integration, but others might call it ethnic assimilation," Wang said. "By sending Uighurs to the interior for school, is it just meant for them to learn to take on Han ways of thinking?" Part of the overall effort is the building of a university in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar, the cradle of Uighur civilization. But Gardner Bovingdon, a Xinjiang expert at Indiana University, said the school only serves to project Chinese cultural influence into the fabled center of historical Uighur culture, with the government's top-down approach failing to address Uighur demands. "Pick your issue: language, religious practice, family planning or the taboo subject of immigration. On all these dimensions, the government has shown no sign of accommodating what Uighurs say they have wanted for the longest time," he said. Many Uighurs say they want religious freedom, measures to preserve their culture and language, and to be free from discrimination that makes it difficult for them to get jobs, passports and loans. The government has promised to better distribute benefits from its investments in Xinjiang by requiring state-owned companies based there to hire more local minority workers. Without setting specific targets, some companies pledged in June to direct more benefits back to the region in response to Xi's call at the May meeting. Oil and gas company PetroChina said it would boost training for local staffers to give them more opportunities to advance their careers. Xinjiang Zhongtai Chemical Co. said it would improve employment in southern Xinjiang's Hotan, Kashgar and Aksu areas by developing the walnut production industry there. Another potential shift in Beijing's strategy might be to reduce some ethnic-based preferential policies in line with the opinion of some Chinese academics that they emphasize ethnic over national identity. In an apparent nod to such views, the regional party chief Zhang Chunxian indicated last month that Uighurs in southern Xinjiang would no longer enjoy more lenient family planning rules that allow them to have up to three children in rural areas and two in cities. Han couples are allowed one less child in both cases. No details have been released on changing child limits but a move to curtail Uighur births would stir a significant backlash. Devout Muslims in southern Xinjiang already believe the Han are infringing on the rights of Muslims to have as many children as they want, said Barry Sautman, an expert on China's ethnic policies at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "For Muslims, children are regarded as a gift from Allah. It's considered to be at least an interference if people are told that they must restrict the number of children they have," he said. "They are more than opening a can of worms — they're entering a world of troubles if they decide to do that."

A look at dangers posed by the Islamic State group Adam Schreck & Zeina Karam Associated Press ed cash too from extortion, kidnapping for ransom, illicit businesses and other gangland-style criminal activity. Militarily, the group has seized heavy weaponry, including tanks, artillery pieces and surface-to-surface missiles, from Iraqi and Syrian forces. Human Rights Watch has accused the group of using ground-fired cluster munitions in at least one place in northern Syria.

a new counterterrorism strategy in the region," said Lina Khatib, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. Colin Clarke, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation who researches global security, said even without the trappings of any kind of nationhood, the territory that the Islamic State group controls "can still prove to be an incubator for extremism ... and exporter of terrorism."

WHAT DANGER DOES HAVING THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP HOLDING THIS TERRITORY IN THE ARAB WORLD POSE? The world has seen the risk of allowing a state sympathetic to Islamic extremists exist before. Al-Qaida was able to flourish and plot the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in large part because it had a safe haven in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. The Islamic State group is a far superior threat today than al-Qaida was in 2001. It is richer, operates a modern, effective media arm and holds much more territory than al-Qaida ever did. And while al-Qaida operated on the basis of a loose network of various cells in different countries — a decentralization that worked in its favor in the beginning — the group eventually could no longer centralize its command in a coherent way. "With the Islamic State we are seeing a highly centralized command and governing structure which will require

WHY HAS THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP ATTRACTED SO MANY YOUNG MUSLIMS? Both Iraq and Syria are rife with corruption and weakened by sectarian divisions that the Islamic State group and other extremists exploit. In an audio speech released in July, the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, listed instances of alleged oppression of Muslims around the world, describing the "Islamic State" as one that "will return your dignity, might, rights and leadership." With its transnational agenda, the group has become a magnet for disenfranchised young Muslims from all over the world. The group's leader has called on scholars, judges, doctors and engineers to flock to the region to help build the state. In a recent article, the group's English-language magazine offered them advice: "Do not worry about money or accommodation. ...

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There are plenty of homes and resources to cover you and your family." DOES THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP WANT TO STRIKE THE WEST? The Islamic State group so far has shown little desire, let alone the capability, to launch major terrorist attacks in the West. But that could change. Islamic State militants called American journalist James Foley's gruesome videotaped beheading revenge for U.S. airstrikes against the group, and they still hold at least three other Americans hostage, including freelance journalist Steven Sotloff. A video posted online Tuesday purported to show Sotloff's beheading by the group. Apart from Foley's killing and random threats by individual fighters, however, there are few other instances in which the Islamic State group officially threatened the U.S. of the West. This sets apart the group from al-Qaida, which has long made attacks on the West a priority. CAN THE ISLAMIC STATE GROUP EXPORT TERRORISM? Western officials are concerned about the threat posed by Islamic State sympathizers. They point to the case of Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman who authorities say fought alongside Islamic State militants before he shot four people at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in May. Analysts believes the group is foremost a regional threat but acknowledge that "lone wolf" attackers inspired by the group's ideology do threaten the West. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah warned last week: "If neglected, I am certain that after a month they (IS) will reach Europe and, after another month, America." British officials have raised the country's terror threat level to "severe," its second-highest level, because of developments in Iraq and Syria.

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Unlocking secrets of can land rights, education North Korea volcano save an ancient India tribe? Eric Talmadge

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cattered across 31 remote hilltop villages on a mountain range that towers 1,500 to 4,000 feet above sea level, in the Malkangiri district of India’s eastern Odisha state, the Upper Bonda people are considered one of this country’s most ancient tribes, having barely altered their lifestyle in over a thousand years. Resistant to contact with the outside world and fiercely skeptical of modern development, this community of under 7,000 people is struggling to maintain its way of life and provide for a younger generation that is growing increasingly frustrated with poverty – 90 percent of Bonda people live on less than a dollar a day – and inter-communal violence. Recent government schemes to improve the Bonda people’s access to land titles is bringing change to the community, and opening doors to high-school education, which was hitherto difficult or impossible for many to access. But with these changes come questions about the future of the tribe, whose overall population growth rate between 2001 and 2010 was just 7.65 percent according to two surveys conducted by the Odisha government’s Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Research and Training Institute (SCSTRTI). First land rights, then education In a windowless mud hut in the Bonda Ghati, a steep-sloping mountainous region in southwest Odisha, Saniya Kirsani talks loudly and drunkenly about his plans for the acre of land that he recently acquired the title to. The 50-year-old Bonda man has illusions of setting up a mango orchard in his native Tulagurum village, which will enable him to produce the fruity liquor that keeps him in a state of intoxication. His wife, Hadi Kirsani, harbours far more realistic plans. For her, the land deeds mean first and foremost that their 14-year-old son, Buda Kirsani, can finally go back to school. He dropped out after completing fifth grade in early 2013, bereft of hopes for further education because the nearest public high school in Mudulipada was unaffordable to his family. Moreover, he would have had to walk 12 km, crossing hill ranges and navigating steep terrain, to get to his classroom every day. Admission to the local tribal resident school, also located in Mudulipada, required a land ownership document that would certify the family’s tribal status, which they did not possess. The Kirsani family had been left out of a wave of reforms in 2010 under the Forest Rights Act, which granted 1,248 Upper Bonda families land titles but left 532 households landless. Last October, with the help of Landesa, a global non-profit organisation working on land rights for the poor, Buda’s family finally extracted the deed to their land from the Odisha government. Carefully placing Buda’s only two sets of worn clothes into a bag, Hadi struggles to hold back the tears welling up in her eyes as she tells IPS that her son is now one of 31 children from the 44-household village who, for the first time ever, has the ability to study beyond primarily school. She is not alone in her desire to educate her child. Literacy among Upper Bonda men is a miserable 12 percent, while female literacy is only six percent, according to a 2010 SCSTRTI baseline survey, compared to India’s national male literacy rate of 74 percent and female literacy of 65 percent. For centuries, the ability to read and write was not a skill the Bonda people sought. Their ancient Remo language has no accompanying script and is passed down orally. As hunters and foragers, the community has subsisted for many generations entirely off the surrounding forests, bartering goods like millet, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, yams, fruits, berries and wild spinach in local markets. Up until very recently, most Upper Bondas wove and bartered their own cloth made from a plant called ‘kereng’, in addition to producing their own brooms from wild grass. Thus they had little need to enter mainstream society. But a wave of deforestation has degraded their land and the streams on which they depend for irrigation. Erratic rainfall over the last decade has

Bonda women in the remote Tulagurum Village in the eastern Indian state of Odisha seldom allow themselves to be photographed.

affected crop yields, and the forest department’s refusal to allow them to practice their traditional ‘slash and burn’ cultivation has made it difficult for the community to feed itself as it has done for hundreds of years. Mainstreaming: helping or hurting the community? Since 1976, with the establishment of the Bonda Development Agency, efforts have been made to bring the Upper Bonda people into the mainstream, providing education, better sanitation and drinking water facilities, and land rights. “Land ownership enables them to stand on their own feet for the purpose of livelihood, and empowers them, as their economy is predominantly limited to the land and forests,” states India’s National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST), a key policy advisory body. Efforts to mainstream the Bonda people suffered a setback in the late 1990s, when left-wing extremists deepened the community’s exclusion and poverty by turning the Bonda mountain range into an important operating base along India’s so-called ‘Red Corridor’, which stretches across nine states in the country’s central and eastern regions and is allegedly rife with Maoist rebels. Still, Odisha’s tribal development minister Lal Bihari Himirika is confident that new schemes to uplift the community will bear fruit. “Upon completion, the ‘5000-hostel scheme’ will provide half a million tribal boys and girls education and mainstreaming,” he told IPS on the sidelines of the launch of Plan International’s ‘Because I Am A Girl’ campaign in Odisha’s capital, Bhubaneswar, last year. The state’s 9.6 million tribal people constitute almost a fourth of its total population. Of these tribal groups, the Upper Bonda people are a key concern for the government and have been named a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group (PTG) as a result of their low literacy rates, declining population and practice of pre-agricultural farming. Social activists like 34-year-old Dambaru Sisa, the first ever Upper Bonda to be elected into the state legislature in 2014, believe mainstreaming the Bonda community is crucial for the entire group’s survival. Orphaned as a child and educated at a Christian missionary school in Malkangiri, Sisa now holds a double Masters’ degree in mathematics and law, and is concerned about his people’s future. “Our cultural identity, especially our unique Remo dialect, must be preserved,” he told IPS. “At the same time, with increased awareness, [the] customs and superstitions harming our people

will slowly be eradicated.” He cited the Upper Bonda people’s customary marriages – with women generally marrying boys who are roughly ten years younger – as one of the practices harming his community. Women traditionally manage the household, while men and boys are responsible for hunting and gathering food. To do so, they are trained in archery but possession of weapons often leads to brawls within the community itself as a result of Bonda men’s quick tempers, their penchant for alcohol and fierce protection of their wives. A decade ago, an average of four men were killed by their own sons or nephews, usually in fights over their wives, according to Manoranjan Mahakul, a government official with the Odisha Tribal Empowerment & Livelihood Programme (OTELP), who has worked here for over 20 years. Even now, several Bonda men are in prison for murder, Mahakul told IPS, though lenient laws allow for their early release after three years. “High infant mortality, alcoholism and unsanitary living conditions, in close proximity to pigs and poultry, combined with a lack of nutritional food, superstitions about diseases and lack of medical facilities are taking their toll,” Sukra Kirsani, Landesa’s community resource person in Tulagurum village, told IPS. The tribe’s drinking water is sourced from streams originating in the hills. All families practice open defecation, usually close to the streams, which results in diarrhoea epidemics during the monsoon seasons. Despite a glaring need for change, experts say it will not come easy. “Getting Bonda children to high school is half the battle won,” Sisa stated. “However, there are question marks on the quality of education in residential schools. While the list of enrolled students is long, in actuality many are not in the hostels. Some run away to work in roadside eateries or are back home,” he added. The problem, Sisa says, is that instead of being taught in their mother tongue, students are forced to study in the Odia language or a more mainstream local tribal dialect, which none of them understand. The government has responded to this by showing a willingness to lower the required qualifications for teachers in order to attract Bondas teachers to the classrooms. Still, more will have to be done to ensure the even development of this dwindling tribe. “The abundant funds pouring in for Bondas’ development need to be transparently utilised so that the various inputs work in synergy and show results,” Sisa concluded.

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ore than a thousand years ago, a huge volcano straddling the border between North Korea and China was the site of one of the biggest eruptions in human history, blanketing eastern Asia in its ash. But unlike other major volcanos around the world, the remote and politically sensitive Mount Paektu remains almost a complete mystery to foreign scientists who have — until recently — been unable to conduct on-site studies. Fresh off their third visit to the volcano, two British scientists studying the mountain in an unprecedented joint project with North Korea say they may soon be able to reveal some secrets of the volcano, including its likelihood of erupting again. They're collecting seismic data and studying rocks ejected in Paektu's "millennium eruption" sometime in the 10th century. "It's one of the biggest eruptions in the last few thousands of years and we don't have yet a historical date for it," Clive Oppenheimer, a professor of volcanology at Cambridge University, told The Associated Press after returning to Pyongyang last week from an eight-day trip to the volcano. "The rocks are a bit like the black box of a flight recording. There's so much that we can read from the field site itself." For volcano researchers, studying Paektu is a golden opportunity to break new ground because so much about it remains a puzzle. Oppenheimer said it is not located along any of the tectonic locations that often explain volcanic activity, so just figuring out why it exists at all is one question that needs to be answered. Little or no historical chronicles of the millennium eruption exist, so scientists are also interested in piecing together what exactly happened, what the volcano and the ecosystem around it were like before the eruption and how life returned afterward. Paektu is considered sacred ground in both China and in North Korea, where it is seen as a symbol of the ruling Kim family and of the revolution that led to the founding of the country, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. On the North Korean side, the area around the mountain is dotted with "revolutionary historical sites" and secret camps from which Kim Il Sung, North Korea's first president, is said to have led guerrilla attacks against the Japanese, who held the Korean Peninsula as a colony until their 1945 surrender ended World War II. Tens of thousands of North Koreans visit the mountain for political indoctrination tours each year during the summer months, when the snows have melted enough for it to be accessible. North Korea is also hoping to develop the volcano, which has a crystal blue crater lake, for foreign tourism. Fears that the 2,800-meter-tall (9,200-foot-tall) volcano might be unstable began to grow in 2002, when increased seismic activity and ground swelling suggested the magma below the volcano was shifting. That activity subsided in 2006. Though not seen as a serious possibility by most experts, concerns were raised in South Korea and Japan that nuclear tests in the North — conducted at a site which is less than 100 kilometers away — might trigger an eruption. "That activity sparked a lot of interest both in China and the DPRK, but also in Japan and South Korea and internationally," said Oppenheimer's colleague James Hammond, a seismologist at Imperial College in London. He added that fears of another major eruption soon are probably unfounded. "It's certainly very tranquil at the moment." Even so, Hammond said the activity prompted the North Korean government to reach out to the international scientific community for help in understanding Paektu's inner workings. Until the 2002 activity, little scientific research on the volcano had been conducted in China or North Korea. The project got underway in 2011 at the request of a North Korean government agency, the Pyongyang International Information Center on New Technology and Economy. With funding from the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in Washington, D.C., that supports the sciences, Oppenheimer and Hammond became the first Westerners to visit the North's six field stations on the volcano. Hammond said that although he was intrigued by the opportunity, the project was a logistical challenge, and not just because of language differences and North Korea's unfamiliarity in dealing with foreign researchers. International sanctions on the North over its nuclear weapons program made it difficult for the scientists to bring in some of the equipment they wanted because of concerns they could have dual use applications that might benefit the North's military. "If we want to understand what the volcano is like today, we need to park instruments on the ground," Hammond said. "Building the models of what happened previously allows us to address what might happen in the future." He said that the North Korean side has been cooperative and highly professional. Hammond said that with their first year of data now complete, the scientists are hoping to begin the next stage of studying the data and samples in the laboratory and publishing papers on their findings with their North Korean colleagues early next year. In September last year, Hammond installed six broadband seismometers to record activity on the volcano, while North Korea's Korean Earthquake Bureau built protective huts for the equipment. He also collected samples of pumice that could provide insight into the scale of the millennium eruption, which is believed to have occurred between 930 and 940 A.D. Hammond said their next trip is scheduled for next year and he hopes the project will continue beyond that. He also hopes to host North Korean researchers for training and joint research in the U.K.

poll reSultS

Is Ignorance of the north east people and theIr culture the cause for the rIsIng dIscrImInatIon? Some of those who voted YES had this to say: • Majority of the people in India don’t know anything about the north east. Their ignorance is sickening and is the cause for most of the discrimination. • People have no interest in learning about the people and culture of the North East. They look at us as different, and their attitude smacks of patronizing. This obviously has contributed to the rising discrimination. • Yes, they don’t care about the people. They only want our resources and land so that their look east policy can be successful. They have no interest at all in knowing about us. • Yes the ignorance has created stereotypes of the people of the North East. This has allowed discrimination to increase. • Yes, but it goes beyond this Idea, it's cultural divide and India has not

been able to accommodate it. Some of those who voted no had this to say: • No, its not ignorance. They very well know that the North East is different but they are not willing to accept us as an equal citizen. This is discrimination out of chauvinism and not ignorance. • North East has given them T Ao, Baichung Bhutia, Mary Kom and other personalities. Surely, they know that all of them are from the northeast region. So ignorance is not the cause of it. All these discrimination is increasing because they look at us as being inferior to them. • No, it is the other way round. The North East people’s ignorance of the mainland diverse people and culture generates our dislike to them. This in turn causes unwanted incidents in the cities. First, if we know the people and culture then

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we can mingle with them and also make them understand our culture and way of life. This we fail to do. • Perhaps no, but they are racist. • Not necessarily. This expected from Brahmanical and feudalistic mindset that believes in Caste. Also we have to be serious in our work, studies and thinking to gain respect. • Its not ignorance but lack of exposure. • No, for us we study the history of india and its culture. that's why we don't get into racism? what about the illiterates? they dont study but they are not into racism thing. It is due to their lack of respect for others. • Ignorance cannot be used to justify their racist attitude. They have no interest at all. They only refer us to as “bahadur” or “lama” or some Japanese tourist. • Not really. No one can claim ignorance. It is a lame excuse. They may not know in detail about the north east,

but at least they do know that there is a north east region and if they are interested, they can read about it. Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say: • Crime in general has increased. • Political destabilisation in manipur and border crisis in nagaland-assam which ignited enmity between one's community and races. • ''We'' haven't learnt to accommodate 'differences' and the modern world is feeling the brunt whilst learning the hard way of trying to accommodate differences. • The indifference and Apathy of the rest of India is one of the causes We are facing discrimination when we go out of our respective states. When some are ignorant who we are and where Northeast is.. but it is not just that, but in my opinion the rest of India is yet to consider and accommodate us as their fellow national beings.

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Water shortages lead to ‘tanker mafia’ in India

NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 7 (Ap): Every summer, when Minoo Phakey’s water runs out, she does what most people do in her middle-class neighborhood: She calls the mafia. Within an hour, a man in a tanker arrives, carrying a load of dubious water drawn illegally from the city’s groundwater. With India’s capital gripped by its annual hot season water shortage, the city’s so-called tanker mafia is doing a roaring trade. An estimated 2,000 illegal tankers ply New Delhi’s roads every day, lifelines to millions whose taps have run dry, and symptoms of a much bigger problem — the city’s desperately dysfunctional water system. The tankers don’t come cheap. But some Delhi-ites have no choice. “You need water, you will pay anything, right?” says Phakey, a marketing executive. She is hardly alone. In a city known for its vertiginous inequalities, the shortage affects people from both upscale gated communities and dust-blown slums, as every day, the city’s supply falls more than 160 million gallons short. Most residents have piped water for just a couple hours a day, and almost a quarter have none at all. With a leaky water infrastructure long overwhelmed by new arrivals, New Delhi is grappling with a dizzying social and environmental challenge, worsened by chaotic management. For many, it is a distressing reminder of a daily reality that lags behind India’s superpower dreams. While New Delhi has had water troubles for decades, the shortage has become critical in recent years as the city’s population has grown with little or no planning, rising from 9 million in 1991 to almost 17 million today. Even many of the wealthiest neighborhoods get water for just an hour in the morning, with residents rushing to turn on pumps and fill storage tanks when the municipal supply flows. The most urgent problem, though, is getting water to the sprawling neighborhoods of illegally constructed buildings, home to 40 percent of the city’s residents and largely without water lines. The city’s water agency, the Delhi Jal Board, sends 900 tankers onto the crowded roads every day. In some neighborhoods, a tanker passes every few minutes, its load sloshing down its sides. But it’s nowhere near enough. Tankers

In a first, NSG to train commandos to handle hostage situations NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 7 (ptI): For the first time in its three decade-old history, the country’s elite counter-terror force NSG has begun training its commandos in undertaking precision hostage rescue missions in jungles keeping in view emerging Naxalite tactics aimed at capturing high-value targets. The federal contingency force, which trains everyday to counter any terrorist act emerging in urban areas, has brought together a team of its chosen ‘black cat’ commandos to test their nerves and hone skills in this domain which has largely been an operations ground for central paramilitary and state police forces. Strategic security planners said Naxal violence incidents in the past like the 2013 Darbha Ghati killings of political leaders in Chhattisgarh and abduction of key government officials like Malkangiri (Odisha) Collector Vineel Krishna and his Sukma counterpart Alex Paul Menon has brought to the fore an urgent requirement to prepare a ‘Special Squad’ of commandos who can undertake hostile missions to secure the captured and end the crisis perpetrated by the Maoists. In order to achieve these objectives, the National Security Guard (NSG) under its new Director General JN Choudhury has prepared a blueprint to train a special forces team in this task. NSG commanders, according to a blueprint prepared in this context, are now training the ‘black cats’ to intervene in such a situation by various methods like air insertion through helicopters, silent landing of commando teams on para-gliders or storming of a hideout in dense jungles by camouflaged land movements aided by precise intelligence of the geography and inhabitants of the area. The commando force, raised in 1984 for undertaking special counter-terror and counter-hijack operations, is particularly bolstered to undertake these training missions as the force has the least number of 15 VVIPs to secure under its security net, a task that was not originally enshrined in its charter. This has enabled the force to widen its counter-terror charter and use its manpower for grinding sessions in difficult jungles of various Indian states affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE) violence and also in forested terrains of northeastern states which are tackling the insurgency menace, sources said. Post the 2008 Mumbai attacks, NSG has been undertaking special training and skill sessions to sharpen its response to combat in urban areas which are replete with a maze of concrete structures and milling crowds but the hostage-like threat posed by Naxals in dense jungles and interior villages has now drawn the attention of the force whose full-time task is to render contingency duties “to tackle all facets of terrorism”. The NSG, sources said, has been told by the top security establishment that the LWE cadres and their activities have been categorised as “terrorist” by the central government long time back and the Naxals can anytime spring such a surprise. The Special Force commandos of the NSG are now being trained in survival techniques, gathering intelligence and safe security protocols in these areas where once inserted, the commandos are on their own in terms of weapons, logistics, communication, food and water for a long time without any immediate backup.

usually stop for just 15 minutes, while dozens of people crowd around waving buckets and plastic tubes. Tempers flare in the fierce heat; fights are frequent. In some areas, people get just 3 liters (quarts). In a slum in Vasant Kunj, a young woman, Fatima, keeps her entire week’s supply in five 50-liter (13-gallon) plastic containers lined up next to her bed. They take up a third of the 3.5-meter (12-foot) metal box where she, her husband and child live. “Sometimes only one water tanker comes, sometimes they come after a day’s gap,” says Fatima, who uses only one name. “We are poor people. If we sit and wait like this for a whole day for the water tanker, when will we go out to earn our daily wage?” New Delhi’s water authority downplays the problem. “I wouldn’t call it a crisis,” says Vijay Kumar, the agency’s chief. “If you look at Delhi overall, certain pockets are water-scarce — not all.” Those pockets, though, are home to roughly 3.5 million people. The water board says it doesn’t have enough water and largely blames neighboring states, which it says failed to deliver extra water to the city after a 2012 canal renovation. “That is our biggest constraint,” says Kumar. “Once we are in position to commission the entire infrastructure, water will be more equitably distributed, more rationally managed. But what is crucial is that we should get more water.” Still, critics say the city — which is close to two major rivers and has a significant water table — shouldn’t be running short. In theory, as the World Bank noted, New Delhi should have more water available per capita than Paris. Instead, they say the water board has squandered its resources. “Delhi is a very privileged city in terms of water availability. So Delhi seems to be a case of crisis of mismanagement,” says Himanshu Thakkar, who runs the New Delhi-based South Asian Network for Dams, Rivers and People, a research and environmentalist organization. Insiders agree. A 2013 government audit of the water board depicted a system verging on collapse, with projects launched and then halted after years of delays, quality control labs understaffed, and most plants constantly leaking. One plant hadn’t been repaired in

In this August 28, a child sits on a tanker delivering drinking water as residents fill water in plastic containers in New Delhi, India. In a city known for its vertiginous inequalities, water shortage affects people from both upscale gated communities and dust-blown slums, as every day, supply falls more than 160 million gallons short. The city’s water agency, the Delhi Jal Board, sends 900 tankers onto the crowded roads every day. Tankers usually stop for just 15 minutes, while dozens of people crowd around waving buckets and plastic tubes, in some areas, people get just 3 liters. (AP File Photo)

57 years. Management failures mean New Delhi wastes the water it has, distributing it unevenly and, by its own admission, losing 40 percent of its supply a day. Some neighborhoods get more water than they can use while others go dry. Despite repeated audits acknowledging the problems, little has been done to address them. Often, the board ignores many of the real reasons behind the shortage. For instance, while the board blames leakage for most lost water, experts say more is actually stolen. Sanjay Sharma, a water engineer with the activist group Citizens Front for Water Democracy, says tens of thousands of builders and homeowners have illegally tapped into the city’s water mains. They don’t have many other options. With no reliable supply, illegal connections and calls to the water mafia have become routine. Aware they can offer no alternative, authorities largely tolerate it. In any case, the water board only manages to collect water charges on half its authorized connections. Ramanand Sharma, who runs a small illegal tanker business in southern New Delhi, fills his tankers from illegal wells outside the

city, paying off police patrols with $3 bribes. Government tanker drivers also often divert their loads for cash, he says. “The government water tankers are not under scrutiny,” he says. “Everyone knows that they make money, too.” Sharma charges 3,000 rupees, or about $50, for a thousand liters, impossibly expensive for most Indians. Other suppliers charge 600 rupees, or around $10, per trip, but that’s still beyond most people. Instead, hundreds of thousands of families dig pumps directly into the increasingly polluted groundwater, paying around 15,000 rupees, or $250, for installation. That has prompted a precipitous drop in the water table in many areas: In several parts of southern New Delhi, water has been receding by up to 9 feet (2.75 meters) a year, threatening environmental and human disaster. “There are predictions by the central groundwater authorities that, in decades and not more, some of these areas will be completely devoid of any usable groundwater,” says Thakkar, of the New Delhi environmental group. There are signs of progress. New Delhi’s government is completing a massive drainage

Vegetarian Indians prone to vitamin B12 deficiency

NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 7 (IANS): Nupur De swore by a vegetarian diet which she said helped her keep “healthy and fit”. But what she did not know until recently was that such a diet could result in vitamin B12 deficiency which, health experts say, is a common condition among Indians. Thirty-twoyear-old De gradually started feeling weak with a stinging sensation in her feet and suffered substantial weight loss and paleness, accompanied by bouts of depression. And it was only after prescribed tests did she know that she was vitamin B12 deficient. “Yes, Indians who are pure vegetarians or vegans (who don’t eat any animal products, including meat, milk, cheese, and eggs) are highly prone to be vitamin B12 deficient,” Anil Arora, unit head and senior consultant - orthopedics, Max Super Speciality Hospital, Patparganj, told IANS. He added that any healthy person who is a vegan or a vegetarian can get vitamin B12 deficient as he/she does not eat enough eggs or dairy products to meet the body’s vitamin B12 needs. The body needs vitamin B12, an essential

micronutrient, to make blood cells and maintain a healthy nervous system. The laboratory reference range value of vitamin B12 is 1101500 picograms per millilitre (pg/mL). Any lower value is regarded as deficient. The deficiency can lead to anemia. A mild deficiency may cause only mild, if any, symptoms. But if untreated, it may cause serious symptoms such as weakness, tiredness or light-headedness, pale skin, sore tongue, rapid heartbeat and breathing, easy bruising or bleeding, including bleeding gums, upset stomach, weight loss and even diarrhea or constipation. “There can be multiple reasons for vitamin B12 deficiency. Low dietary intake is an important cause, especially in vegetarians, since vitamin B12 is rich in animal products; malnutrition and poor absorption due to gastrointestinal causes is another important cause. Besides, vitamin B12 level can be low in some genetic diseases. In addition, gastric surgeries and alcohol abuse are also associated with low vitamin B12 level,” Sushma Sharma, senior consultant neurologist, Asian Institute of Medical Sciences, Faridabad, told IANS.

Vikram Huded, neurologist at Narayana Health City, Bangalore, said that the deficiency level can be checked through a blood test. “If one family member develops the condition, then it should be understood that the entire family eats the same food. They should also get themselves checked as the deficiency can be treated easily. However,inthelatephaseitcanalsoleadtoheart attacks,” Huded told IANS on phone. So what supplementary foods can vegetarians take to maintain the vitamin B12 levels? “Foods fortified with B12 are also sources of the vitamin. Examples of such foods are breakfast cereals, fortified soy products, fortified energy bars, and fortified nutritional yeast,” Arora said. Huded added that vitamin B complex tablets too are a good option. Health experts agree that there is a lack of awareness about the condition among people here. “Yes, there is a lack of awareness in India about vitamin B12 deficiency. This can be tackled by emphasising through media, better doctor-patient communication and roping in government health workers like anganwadi workers,” Sharma said.

Assembly elections in 4 states likely In two phases - Oct and Dec NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 7 (IANS): The Election Commission is set to announce the schedule for the upcoming assembly elections this week, with polling in Haryana and Maharashtra to be clubbed together in October while elections in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand would be held in December, sources in the poll panel here said. Informed EC sources said the assembly elections would be held in two phases -- the first phase in Haryana and Maharashtra and the second phase in Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand. “Due to security reasons, Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand would see polling in December. In these two states, the de-

ployment of much more forces is required,” the sources, not wishing to be identified, told IANS. The dates for the elections in Haryana and Maharashtra will be announced this week, while for the other two states the schedule will be announced after the first phase. Earlier, speculation was that all four states would have elections together. The elections in these states are keenly awaited by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which got a thumping victory in the April-May Lok Sabha elections. In all four states, the BJP intends to repeat its winning streak and the party’s senior leaders have started campaigning in these states. The legislative assembly of Jammu and

Kashmir comprises 87 members. The last assembly elections were held in 2008. Presently, the state is being run by a National Conference-Congress alliance. The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) is ruling Jharkhand with the Congress. The legislative assembly comprises 81 members. The Haryana assembly comprises 82 members while the Maharashtra assembly has 288 members. Both states are presently ruled by the Congress. “If elections are declared in all four states in the same period, the model code of conduct will come into effect there, which may halt the development works in Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir,” another source said.

project, which it says will cut river pollution by almost two-thirds, allowing more water to be pumped from the Yamuna River. A system of underground reservoirs is being constructed to distribute water more equally. The water board is also experimenting with smaller projects, including pay-per-use water dispensers. Known as “water ATMs,” the solar-powered machines offer treated water for a nominal sum in unpiped areas. Five hundred ATMs are to be installed in 10 slums in the next year. But such projects promise little for the millions in the unauthorized slums where no pipelines are planned. India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, came to power promising to bring efficiency to the country’s chaotic public services, including water. Expectations that the new government would prioritize basic necessities were high. But three months after his election, his government has yet to set a target date to bring piped water to all New Delhi’s citizens. “Just 10 kilometers from his office there is the area that has no piped network. In the capital city of India!” says Sanjay Sharma, the water engineer. “Where is the commitment?”

Government to encourage children for organ donation NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 7 (IANS): The government would work to encourage children to develop a positive attitude towards organ donation, particularly for eye donation, union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has said. The minister said he would request the human resource development ministry to include passages in school books to develop in children a positive attitude towards organ donation in general and eye donation in particular, an official statement here said Sunday. Harsh Vardhan, who was attending the centenary celebrations of Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital in Delhi Saturday, said he felt that the youngsters should be exposed to the enormity of blindness problem in India and their responsibility to end the problem. He said eyesight is one of the biggest gifts of God. “Unfortunately, the corneal blind population of India is the largest in the world. At a rough estimate, the country needs 1 lakh cornea every year but only about 17,000 are procured. Of these only about 50 percent is utilized,” he said. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are 45 million blind people in the world, of whom 12 million are in India. Corneal blindness accounts for one percent of the total blind population of the country. The WHO also estimates that the blind population may double by 2020 owing to the rise in population and longevity. He said: “We need more eye banks. But that is not enough. There should be synergistic interaction among professional health services and community engagement. Increasing awareness, promoting eye donation, implementing quality standards and organising a network of trained professionals for procurement, preservation and distribution of tissues are vital cogs in the wheel.”

PM announces Rs.1,000 crore aid for flood-hit Kashmir

JAmmu/SrINAgAr, SEptEmbEr 7 (IANS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday reviewed the flood situation in Jammu and Kashmir and announced a special assistance of Rs.1,000 crore. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah asked people not to panic, asserting that help will reach them soon. The Indian Air Force (IAF) began a massive aerial relief and rescue operation in flood-affected regions of the state. The floods have claimed over 100 lives so far. The Rs.1,000 crore package announced for the flood-hit state was besides a Rs.2 lakh compensation from the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund for the kin of each dead and Rs.50,000 each for the seriously injured. Modi, who undertook an aerial survey of the flood-affected Jammu and Srinagar regions, said the current crisis was a “national level disaster”. Abdullah, who also met the prime minister, promised the flood-hit people that help will reach them soon and asked them not to panic. The state is reeling under the worst floods in six decades. “This is an unprecedented situation and we are doing the best we can under the circumstances. Please don’t panic, we will reach you, I promise,” the chief minister wrote on his Twitter account. He said his primary focus was to save the lives of the people affected by the floods. Abdullah said he has asked the cabinet secretary to direct the air force to use helicopters to evacuate people. Modi said the army, air

force and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were cooperating with the state to expedite relief work. He said medical and other assistance would be provided on an urgent basis. In view of damage to houses, Modi said efforts were on to arrange tents. “Many houses have been destroyed. We are speeding work to

The prime minister also offered to extend all possible help to the flood-affected people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. “India will never hesitate from doing work of humanity,” Modi said, and also appealed to all states to provide assistance to Jammu and Kashmir. The prime minister was accompanied by army

‘Children’s safety should be priority in J&K’

NEW DELHI, SEptEmbEr 7 (IANS): Children’s safety should be the top priority for the Jammu and Kashmir government during the flood rescue operations, an NGO said Sunday. “Following reports that the children’s hospital in Srinagar being affected by flood, the NGO is concerned about the plight of children in the Kashmir Valley and Jammu region, where Jhelum and Tawi rivers are flowing above the danger level,” NGO Save the Children said in a statement. The NGO said it is committed to supporting the people of Jammu and Kashmir

by providing 5,000 blankets by next week. Over 100 people have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir due to floods. The NGO said its team has been stuck in the flooded Raj Bagh area of Srinagar. “We are eager to reach to the affected people and assist in the rescue and relief operations but our movement is restricted due to grim situation,” said Thomas Chandy, CEO, Save the Children. “Children’s nutrition and health of newborns, infants and pregnant women are also the priorities that need to be focused on,” he said.

provide 5,000 tents in flood-hit areas,” he said. Modi said the government was prepared to provide relief to people as the weather becomes colder. The government has directed officials to repair roads leading to Leh and Ladakh so that food and other livelihood supplies could be sent before the state gets cut off at the onset of winter.

chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on the aerial survey. Home Minister Rajnath Singh also took stock of the grim situation. The air force started a massive relief and rescue operation in the flood-affected regions Sunday. “A total of 850 personnel have been airlifted so far in the flood-affected regions of the state,” a defence ministry statement said.

“One C-17 Globemaster aircraft has been launched from Delhi to Awantipur with RAMT (Rapid Action Medical Team), two IL76 aircraft with medical supplies and boats have taken off from Palam Air Force Base for Srinagar,” it said. “One IL-76 with teams of NDRF (National Disaster Response Force) personnel has also taken off from Palam. Three C-130J Super Hercules special operations aircraft have been pressed into service to transport boats from Pune and Gandhinagar to Srinagar and blankets and tents from Kanpur to Jammu and Srinagar,” it said. A total of 26 IAF helicopters are also operating in the floot-hit regions. Meanwhile, radio transmission in the Kashmir Valley was cut off after flood waters inundated the transmitter installations of state-run Radio Kashmir in Srinagar, officials said. The local Doordarshan centre is already operating from makeshift facilities after its studios got flooded. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Sunday also undertook an aerial survey of flood-hit areas in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, said official sources in Islamabad. A Pakistan government source said: “The people of Pakistan are also feeling pain and saddened over the loss of lives and properties of the people in IoK (Indian Jammu and Kashmir) and are with them and ready to help in whatever way possible to mitigate their sufferings caused by the heavy floods”.

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Islamic State makes inroads in South Asia

PESHAWAR/DERA ISMAIL KHAN, SEPtEMbER 7 (REutERS): Islamic State pamphlets and flags have appeared in parts of Pakistan and India, alongside signs that the ultra-radical group is inspiring militants even in the strongholds of the Taliban and al Qaeda. A splinter group of Pakistan’s Taliban insurgents, Jamat-ul Ahrar, has already declared its support for the well-funded and ruthless Islamic State fighters, who have captured large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria in a drive to set up a self-declared caliphate. “IS (Islamic State) is an Islamic Jihadi organisation working for the implementation of the Islamic system and creation of the Caliphate,” Jamat-ul Ahrar’s leader and a prominent Taliban figure, Ehsanullah Ehsan, told Reuters by telephone. “We respect them. If they ask us for help, we will look into it and decide.” Islamist militants of various hues already hold sway across restive and impoverished areas of South Asia, but Islamic State, with its rapid capture of territory, beheadings and mass executions, is starting to draw a measure of support among younger fighters in the region. Al Qaeda’s ageing leaders, mostly holed up in the lawless region along the PakistanAfghanistan border, are increasingly seen as stale, tired and ineffectual on hardcore jihadi

social media forums and Twitter accounts that incubate potential militant recruits. Security experts say Islamic State’s increasing lure may have prompted al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri to announce the establishment of an Indian franchise to raise the flag of jihad across South Asia, home to more than 400 million Muslims. PAMPHLETS, CAR STICKERS Seeking to boost its influence in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, a local cell with allegiance to Islamic State has been distributing pamphlets in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and eastern Afghanistan in the past few weeks, residents said. The 12-page booklet called “Fatah” (Victory), published in the Pashto and Dari languages of Afghanistan, was being mainly distributed in Afghan refugee camps on the outskirts of Peshawar. The pamphlet’s logo features an AK-47 assault rifle and calls on local residents to support the militant group. Cars with IS stickers have also been spotted around Peshawar. Sameeulah Hanifi, a prayer leader in a Peshawar neighbourhood populated mainly by Afghans, said the pamphlets were being distributed by a little-known local group called Islami Khalifat, an outspoken Islamic State supporter.

“I know some people who received copies of this material either from friends or were given at mosques by unidentified IS workers,” he told Reuters. A Pakistani security official said the pamphlets came from Afghanistan’s neighbouring Kunar province where a group of Taliban fighters was spotted distributing them. “We came across them 22 days ago and we are aware of their presence here,” said the official. “Pakistani security agencies are working on the Pakistan-Afghan border and have arrested a number of Taliban fighters and recovered CDs, maps, literature in Persian, Pashto and Dari.” “We will not permit them to work in our country and anyone who is involved in this will be crushed by the government.” RECRUITMENT IN INDIA Signs of Islamic State’s influence are also being seen in Kashmir, the region claimed by both India and Pakistan and the scene of a decades-long battle by militants against Indian rule. Security officials in Kashmir say they have been trying to find out the level of support for the Arab group after IS flags and banners appeared in the summer. Intelligence and police sources in New Delhi and Kashmir said the flags were first seen on June 27 in a part of Srinagar, and then

in July when India’s only Muslim-majority region was marking Islam’s most holy day, Eid al-Fitr. Some IS graffiti also appeared on walls of buildings in Srinagar. A police officer said youngsters carrying Islamic State flags at anti-India rallies had been identified but no arrests had been made. Another officer who questions people detained in protests against Indian rule, many of them teenagers, said most were only focused on winning independence from India. “The majority of them have no religious bent of mind,” he said. “Some of them, less than 1 percent, of course are religious and radicalised and end up joining militant ranks. They are influenced by al Qaeda, Taliban, Islamic State.” Islamic State is also trying to lure Muslims in mainland India, who make up the world’s third-biggest Islamic population but who have largely stayed away from foreign battlefields despite repeated calls from al Qaeda. In mid-July, an IS recruitment video surfaced online with subtitles in the Indian languages of Hindi, Tamil and Urdu in which a self-declared Canadian fighter, dressed in war fatigues and flanked by a gun and a black flag, urged Muslims to enlist in global jihad. That came out just weeks after four families in a Mumbai suburb reported to the police that their sons had gone missing, with one leaving behind a note about fighting to defend Islam. It soon turned out that the men had joined a pilgrimage to Baghdad. They later broke off from the tour group and never returned. Indian intelligence believe the men ended up in Mosul, the Iraqi city captured by Islamic State in June, and that one of them may have died in a bomb blast. Last week, the Times of India newspaper said four young men, including two engineering college students, were arrested in Kolkata as they tried to make their way to neighbouring Bangladesh to join a recruiter for Islamic State based there. “It’s not just these four, but our investigations have found that there could be more youngsters who are in touch with IS handlers and this is a bit of a scary proportion,” the newspaper quoted a senior officer as saying. A top official at the Intelligence Bureau in New Delhi told Reuters: “The problem is we know so little about this network or who is acting on their behalf here. “We know roughly where the Lashkare-Taiba, the Indian Mujahideen (organisations backed by Pakistan) support groups are, where they make contacts. But this is a different challenge. Youth getting radicalised in their homes on the Internet, in chatrooms and through Facebook are not easy to track.”

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With rising incomes, young people losing trust in others WASHINGtON, SEPtEMbER 7 (IANS): With an increasing amount of money in their bank accounts, young people’s trust in others and confidence in societal institutions are at their lowest point in over three decades, says a new survey. Young people today are more optimistic about their own prospects, but are apparently deeply distrustful of other people and large institutions. “Adults show these trends as well, suggesting that these attitudes are a product of the times and not necessarily a permanent generational shift,” explained lead researcher Jean M. Twenge, a psychological scientist from the San Diego State University. According to him, compared to Americans in the 1970s-2000s, the US citizens in the last few years are less likely to say they can trust others. “They are also less likely to believe that institutions such as the government, the press, religious organisations, schools and large corporations are doing a good job,” Twenge added. “With the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, people trust each other less. There is a growing perception that other people are cheating or taking advantage to get ahead,” he noted. To examine trust over time, researchers looked at data from two large, national representative surveys of people in the US: the General Social Survey of adults (1972-2012) and the Monitoring the Future Survey of 12th graders (1976-2012). Together, the surveys included data from nearly 140,000 participants. The data showed, for example, that while 46 percent of adult Americans agreed that most people can be trusted in 1972-1974, only 33 percent agreed in 2010-2012. Among 12th graders, while 32 percent agreed that most people can be trusted in 1976-1978, only 18 percent did so in 2010-2012. The respondents in both surveys reported high confidence in institutions in the late 1980s and again in the early 2000s, with confidence then declining to reach its lowest point in the early 2010s. “The decline of social capital is a profoundly negative trend for a democracy, a system of government predicated on the few representing the interests of the many,” researchers concluded. The findings appeared in the journal Psychological Science.

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Ukraine ceasefire threatened by renewed shelling

DONEtSK/MARIuPOL, SEPtEMbER 7 (REutERS): Shelling erupted in eastern Ukraine’s strategic port Mariupol and its biggest city Donetsk overnight, threatening a ceasefire struck less than two days earlier between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists. The ceasefire, brokered by envoys from Ukraine, the separatist leadership, Russia and Europe’s OSCE security watchdog on Friday in Minsk, is part of a peace plan intended to end a five-month conflict that has killed nearly 3,000 people. The renewed shelling broke out hours after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko had agreed in a telephone call the truce was holding and had discussed ways of getting in humanitarian aid. Both sides blamed the other for the violations to ceasefire. There was no immediate word on casualties. A Reuters witness heard prolonged shelling in an area north of Do-

netsk and saw plumes of black smoke filling the sky on Sunday morning. The shelling came from near the airport, which has been in the hands of Ukrainian government forces though pro-Russian rebels control the city. Rebels told Reuters the airport itself was now empty and fighting was centred on a nearby military compound. “Listen to the sound of the ceasefire,” joked one armed rebel. “There’s the a proper battle going on there.” Overnight the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, to the south of Donetsk, also saw a serious violation of the ceasefire when government forces came under artillery fire.

“TERRORISTS” In the days before the ceasefire, government forces had been trying to repel a major rebel offensive targeting Mariupol, a key port for Ukraine’s steel exports. Kiev says the rebels were backed by Russian troops, a charge

Moscow has denied. “They, terrorists, Russians, are trying to scare us. They have no respect for the ceasefire. They are lying all the time. They are people with no honour,” said Slavik, a Ukrainian soldier armed with a machinegun. “We left this area the day before yesterday. Everyone saw us pulling out tanks in line with the agreement. We only left lightly armed people to man checkpoints and these monsters violated every word of the agreement,” he said. A separatist leader, Andrei Purgin, told Russia’s RIA news agency: “Despite the provocations of Ukrainian forces, the militia of the people’s republics (self-proclaimed “states” in Donetsk and nearby Luhansk that do not recognise Kiev’s authority) will keep firmly to the Minsk agreements. The militias are not resorting and will not resort to arms.” The peace roadmap agreed on Friday also includes an exchange of prisoners of war and establishing a humanitarian corridor for ref-

ugees and aid. Interfax news agency reported that the first POWs were handed over to government forces late on Saturday but this report could not be confirmed immediately. Poroshenko agreed to the ceasefire after Ukraine accused Russia of sending troops and arms onto its territory in support of the separatists, who had suffered big losses over the summer. Moscow denies sending troops or arming the rebels. Poroshenko spent Thursday and Friday at a NATO summit in Wales at which U.S. President Barack Obama and other leaders urged Putin to pull its forces out of Ukraine. NATO also approved wideranging plans to boost its defences in eastern Europe in response to the Ukraine crisis. The Ukraine conflict has revived talk of a new Cold War as the West accuses Putin of deliberately destabilising the former Soviet republic. Putin says he is defending the interests of ethnic Russians facing discrimination and oppression.

Nigeria reassure as extremists rampage MAIDuGuRI, SEPtEMbER 7 (AP): Nigerian officials are trying to reassure citizens panicked about a spreading Islamic insurgency in the northeast even as fleeing residents report the extremists are urging people to join their fight and take their children out of school. The Nigerian Defense Ministry acknowledged “challenges in the counterterrorism efforts” that has filled citizens and even foreign allies with apprehension, but it repeated promises that “everything will be done to ... defeat the rampaging terrorists.” The statement did not admit that Boko Haram militants this past week seized Bama, the second largest city in Borno state, and now threaten the state capital, Maiduguri. Boko Haram has hoisted its black and white flag over several other Nigerian towns in recent weeks. Nor did the army statement mention that witnesses report hundreds of Nigerian soldiers fled the fighting across the border into Cameroon in the past two weeks. Borno Gov. Kashim Shettima said he cut short a visit abroad because of rumored fears of an attack on the Borno state capital of Maiduguri: “I cut short my official trip and returned home so we can be together as we have always been in trying to overcome the threat before us,” he said in a message broadcast Friday. Shettima extended sympathy to those who have lost loved ones in “serial massacres” in recent weeks. He said he was very aware of additional hardships caused by the Islamic insurgency: tens of thousands of farmers driven from their land, many children, including new orphans, out of school and the need for additional medical services. He said his government has bought thousands of bags of food for free distribution, is starting scholarships for all children orphaned by the insurgency,

and has instructed the state health ministry to introduce mobile clinics to attend to victims of the emergency. Shettima urged Nigeria’s federal government to redouble its efforts to contain the insurgency. More than 26,000 people have fled Bama, a city of 200,000, joining some 1.5 million Nigerians forced from their homes by the fighting since a state of emergency was declared in the northeast in May 2013, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Boko Haram has in recent weeks seized more towns and now controls a large swath of Nigeria’s extreme northeast, in a new strategy to form an “Islamic caliphate,” mimicking Iraq’s Islamic State group. Nigeria’s military appears incapable of responding to the aggressive land grabs by the insurgents who attracted international attention with their April kidnapping of more than 300 schoolgirls, of whom more than 200 remain captive. A refugee from the seized town of Bara, in Yobe state, told The Associated Press that Boko Haram fighters are forcing people to listen to their preaching, which includes rants against corruption in the government and orders to keep their children away from Western education. Boko Haram means “Western education is sinful” in the local Hausa language and the militants also are opposed to Western medicine. The extremists have killed health workers on polio vaccination campaigns. “In Bara now there is no single police, soldier, civil defence, state security service personnel,” said truck driver Musa Abdullahi, 60. “They have all run away for fear of being killed, even the civil servants are not spared from attack, if you are a government worker they kill you.” He fled with his wife and seven children to Ngaldi town.

Vigilante and local hunters armed with guns gather outside the Emir's palace in Maiduguri, Nigeriaon September 4. The United States is preparing to launch a "major" border security program to help Nigeria and its neighbors combat the increasing number and scope of attacks by Islamic extremists, a senior U.S. official for Africa said Thursday. Nigerian insurgents have begun attacking villages in neighboring Cameroon and have been seizing land in northeast Nigeria where they proclaimed an Islamic caliphate. (AP Photo)

The United States and the United Nations this week expressed deep concern about Nigeria’s deteriorating security situation, with U.S. Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield warning Nigerian officials that “The reputation of Nigeria’s mili-

tary is at stake. But, more importantly, Nigeria’s and its children’s future is in jeopardy.” In an apparent rebuke to the Nigerian government and the military’s denials of the perilous situation, she said it was “past time for denial and pride.”

In this Sunday April 20, photo, released French hostage Nicolas Henin arrives at the Villacoublay military airbase, outside Paris. A French journalist held hostage for months by extremists in Syria says one of his captors was a Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum earlier this year. (AP File Photo)

PARIS, SEPtEMbER 7 (AP): A French journalist held hostage for months by extremists in Syria identified one of his captors Saturday as a Frenchman suspected of later killing four at the Brussels Jewish Museum, saying the militant had took sadistic delight in mistreating prisoners. Nicolas Henin said he often heard Mehdi Nemmouche, who he said was among his captors from July 2013 to December 2013, torturing Syrians who were being held in the same former hospital basement. Once, Henin told reporters, Nemmouche punched him in the face and then showed off his gloves. “He was very proud, telling me ‘You saw these motorcycle gloves? I bought them just for you, to punch you in the face. Did you like them?’ That sums up the violent and provocative personality of Mehdi Nemmouche that I frequently saw,” Henin said. Henin arranged the news conference on Saturday after the information came out in French publications Le Monde and Le Point. He said he was unhappy that it had become public Henin was held for a time with American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, both beheaded by extremists from the Islamic State group in recent weeks. He was released in April with other French journalists who had been held since June 2013. Nemmouche has been in custody since his arrest in France soon after the Brussels killing in May. The attack crystallized fears of European governments that Europeans who join radical fighters in Syria could return to stage attacks at home. “It seemed to us that he did not leave for Syria because of some grand ideals but, above all, to make his mark, to carry out a murderous path that he had traced,” Henin said. Nemmouche’s lawyer, Apolin Pepiezep, questioned the latest account, saying his client was never interrogated about hostages. France’s top security official, Bernard Cazeneuve, confirmed that Nemmouche had been identified as a captor and said the information was passed to investigators. Henin said he recognized Nemmouche from video and audio recordings after the suspect’s arrest in the Brussels shooting. French authorities say there are some 900 people from France who have been implicated in jihad in the Syria region. Several dozen have been killed. Speaking to The Associated Press last month, Henin described how Foley had endured tougher treatment from captors because of his citizenship, but always behaved with courage and dignity. He and the other French journalists released in April described being held in about 10 underground places of captivity, mostly with other people. But they did not elaborate on some details of captivity because of potential consequences for hostages still being held.

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NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 7 (Ap): Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won their second Grand Slam women's doubles title, ending Martina Hingis' run at the U.S. Open. The fourth-seeded Russians rallied after losing the first set to beat Hingis and Flavia Pennetta 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday night. "Definitely, it was so amazing," Makarova said. "I'm just so happy. It was a great two weeks for me." Hingis and Pennetta thought they had broken to get the final set back on serve at 3-3, but the Russians challenged a shot that had been called a winner and the ball was shown to be out by a millimeter. Makarova and Vesnina saved three break points to hold and then won the next two games to clinch the championship. Playing doubles in her latest comeback from retirement, the 33-year-old Hingis was in her first major final since the 2002 Aus- Elena Vesnina, right, and Ekaterina Makarova, of Russia, kiss the championship trophy after tralian Open. She has won winning the women's doubles final over Flavia Pennetta, of Italy, and Martina Hingis, of Switnine Grand Slam doubles zerland, at the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament on September 6 in New York. (AP Photo)

titles to go with her five major singles championships. "It was an incredible journey," she said. Hingis returned to competition last year but lost in the first round of the 2013 U.S. Open with Daniela Hantuchova and this summer's Wimbledon with Vera Zvonareva. She and Pennetta had played in three tournaments together leading up to the U.S. Open. Makarova and Vesnina also won the 2013 French Open. Makarova was routed by No. 1 Serena Williams 6-1, 6-3 on Friday in her first major singles semifinal. She and Vesnina beat Williams and her sister Venus in the quarterfinals in doubles. Vesnina said she ran into Serena Williams in the locker room Saturday morning and the 13-time major doubles champion asked if she was playing in the final that day. "She looked straight at me in my eyes — she's like, 'Go for it, because you really deserve it,'" Vesnina said, still a bit in awe.

Navratilova proposes on big screen at US Open

Cilic stuns Federer to reach first career Grand Slam final

NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 7 (Ap): Tennis great Martina Navratilova proposed to her girlfriend on the big screen of Arthur Ashe Stadium between the U.S. Open men's semifinals on Saturday. Navratilova popped the question to Julia Lemigova in the Tennis Channel suite, drawing a loud cheer from the crowd. "I was very nervous," Navratilova said later. "It came off. She said yes. It was kind of an out-of-body experience. You've seen people propose at sporting events before, in movies, in real life. Here it was happening to me. It was like I was watching myself do it." The 57-year-old Navratilova won 18 Grand Slam singles titles, a mark she shares with Chris Evert. Serena Williams will try to match it in Sunday's women's final. Navratilova said somebody suggested she propose during a changeover in the first match between Kei Nishikori and Novak Djokovic, but she didn't want to disturb the players in any way. The only problem was that Navratilova was later scheduled to play a Champions doubles match with Jana Novotna against Tracy Austin and Gigi Fernandez. She tried unsuccessfully to get the start postponed without telling anybody why, so she was fretting

In this Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014 photo provided by cameraworkusa, Martina Navratilova, left, and Julia Lemigova celebrate their engagement at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. Navratilova tweeted after the proposal: "Thanks everyone for your good wishes- I am very happy, so is Julia and our whole family:)" (AP Photo)

that the Nishikori-Djokovic match would go five sets. Fortunately, it ended in four. After the triumph in her personal life, Navratilova was also victorious in doubles. When Navratilova walked into the locker room to get ready for the match, Austin didn't know anything about what had just happened. The two

chatted for a few minutes before Navratilova mentioned the proposal in passing. Austin then made her re-enact the whole thing. Navratilova said she and Lemigova would prefer to get married in Florida, where they live. A federal judge ruled last month that the state's ban on gay mar-

riage is unconstitutional, but Florida officials are appealing. Navratilova has said that her 1981 U.S. Open finals loss to Austin, when the fans gave her a long ovation as the runner-up, was the first time she felt accepted as a newly minted American citizen and a gay woman.

Leave decision on playing in Asiad to federation: Sania

HYDERAbAD, SEptEmbER 7 (ptI): Caught in a dilemma over whether to compete in the Asian Games or the WTA tournaments which clash with the event, Sania Mirza on Sunday left it on the All India Tennis Association to take a call on her participation in the continental extravaganza in Incheon, Korea. Sania today returned to the country after lifting the US Open mixed doubles title on Friday and was quizzed about the Asian Games dilemma after pullouts by Somdev Devvarman and Rohan Bopanna. "There are few problems obviously in Asian Games. Because it is clashing with two other biggest tournaments in Asia, Beijing and Tokyo. I have lot of points to defend in the same two weeks. So, it is a very difficult situation," Sania told reporters. "But I leave it to the Federation to try and take this decision. Because it is

very difficult for me to take this decision right now," she said. Sania said choosing to participate in the Games over the circuit would affect her chances of making the WTA season finale. "So, it is very difficult for me to take this decision right now.

Because, I think we have a chance to get into the championship which is in Singapore at the end of the year and if I don't play these two tournaments, the chances of that happening are very small. "Still if the country needs me, I will go and play Asian Games. But, this decision, I cannot take myself. I leave it to the Federation to help me out. I have to come and talk to them," she said. She also wondered about India's medal chances in tennis, saying her participation may not be enough given that the big stars have already pulled out. "With all the big stars pulling out, I don't know how good the chances are left anyways with me playing. But, we will see what we can do," she said. On to other topics, Sania hopes to win a Wimbledon title. "It is great to win my third grand slam and hopefully I will win Wimbledon one day to finish with a career Grand Slam," she said.

NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 7 (IANS): The 25-year-old Croat Marin Cilic reached his first career Grand Slam men's singles final after beating 17-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer of Switzerland 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the US Open semi-final here. Cilic Saturday became the first Croat to reach a Grand Slam final since his coach Goran Ivanisevic won the Wimbledon title in 2001, reports Xinhua. "It's just an amazing day for me," Cilic said. "I feel amazing. To be able to play like this, I never dreamed of, and I think today was the best performance of my career." Both players kept their serve until the fourth set, in which Cilic took advantage of Federer's error to finish the first break of the match to take a 3-1 lead. Federer didn't get any chance to break for the rest of the set, allowing Cilic to finish 6-3. The second set saw a more consistent Cilic. The No.14 seed broke again in the seventh game and took the set 6-4. Trailing by two sets, Federer led 2-0 to start the deciding set. However, Cilic immediately broke back to tie the score 2-2. Federer made several errors to drop the seventh game, and Cilic powered three aces to finish the match. "Considering also that, you know, even I was a set up and break up, the crowd was rooting for Roger to come back. It wasn't easy to deal with that, but I felt that my serve helped me a lot, to get some free points to breathe a little bit easier." It was Cilic's first victory against Federer. "I wasn't as confident this time around, because Marin played more aggressive," said Federer, who recovered from two sets down to beat Gael Monfils in the quarter-finals. "He was serving huge. From that standpoint I knew that margins were slim, even though I still believed in my chance."

Bailey quits as Australia T20 skipper

SYDNEY, SEptEmbER 7 (REutERS): George Bailey has stood down as Australia's Twenty20 captain to concentrate on longer forms of the game with half an eye on adding to his five test caps. The 32-year-old batsman, who has also captained the Australian one-day side this week in Zimbabwe in the absence of injured skipper Michael Clarke, said he struggled with the transition between the different formats of the game. "It took a lot of thought and a lot of time," he told Cricket Australia's website. "I had a good think about

what I wanted to do in the next four years and I'm really passionate about playing the best four-day and one-day cricket that I can. "I guess the very end goal is to play test cricket, but more than that it's just about playing the best four-day cricket I can. "It's the format I find the most challenging and the format that I get the most enjoyment from – it's where my real passion lies. "Whether concentrating on that ends up in me getting back into the test squad, it doesn't worry me too much."

Bailey made his ODI tour of India last year. That debut in 2012 but he really ODI success earned him a came to prominence when test call-up for the return Ashes series around the end of last year, despite his extremely modest record in Sheffield Shield cricket. Although Australia destroyed England 5-0, Bailey was not a great success batting at number six with an average of 26.14 compared to his one-day average of nearly 50. He was dropped for the test tour to South Africa in the New Year. Appropriately, Bailey, he stood in as captain for who had never previously the injured Clarke on the represented his country,

took over as captain of the Twenty20 side after Clarke decided to drop the shortest format of cricket to concentrate on his own test and one-day form in 2011. He led Australia to the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka in 2012 but they bowed out in the Super 10 group stage in Bangladesh earlier this year. That the next World Twenty20 in India was just two years away in 2016 was a consideration when Bailey decided to step down. "I wanted to give a new captain an opportunity to find his feet and put his mark on that team for the World Cup," he added.

began path to the US Open final

Kei Nishikori, of Japan, reacts after defeating Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, during the semifinals of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, September 6 in New York. (AP Photo)

NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 7 (Ap): Kei Nishikori's journey to the U.S. Open final began a decade ago, when he was spotted as a teen at a tryout in Japan and invited to move to Florida to attend a tennis academy. Nishikori was among the first beneficiaries of a project to improve Japanese tennis funded by former Sony executive Masaaki Morita. "Kei was just 14, and he didn't speak a word of English," said Nick Bollettieri, a member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame who coached players such as Andre Agassi, Boris Becker, Jim Courier and Monica Seles. "He was gifted. Great speed. Great eyes." As Nishikori worked his way up the world rankings after turning professional in 2007, he became so wellknown back home that it seemed less distracting to stay in Florida. On the rare occasions he plays in Japan, tournaments sell out within hours. Now that he's the first man from Asia to make it to the final of a Grand Slam singles tournament, his profile — and that of his sport — figures to grow exponentially in his home country. Even though he hasn't lived there for years, the nation is watching as he heads into Monday's final against Marin Cilic. "Even from 17, 18, from when he won his first title, it's been sometimes even a bit over-the-top, maybe all a bit too early," said Nishikori's agent, Olivier Van Lindonk. "They are so intrigued by their heroes that they want to know everything," Van Lindonk said. "I've heard so many questions about: When did he eat? When did he go to bed?" Nishikori's surprising 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory over No. 1-ranked and seven-time major champion Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open semifinals began at about 1 a.m. Sunday in Japan, but people across the country stayed awake to keep track. When the match ended, Nishikori told the crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium during an on-court interview: "I hope it's big news in Japan. ... I feel the support from Japan. ... It's 4 o'clock in the morning, but I hope a lot of people watched it." They did. As soon as he

Japanese fans rejoice in Nishikori's US Open win

tOKYO, SEptEmbER 7 (Ap): Japanese fans celebrated Kei Nishikori's stunning win over top-ranked Novak Djokovic at the U.S. Open, staying up to the wee hours of Sunday morning to catch a moment of tennis history. The 24-year-old Japanese ace beat Djokovic 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in stifling heat to become the first man from Asia to reach a Grand Slam singles final. "The fact that he is the first Japanese to reach the final is very inspirational," said Tokyo office worker Keiko Mikami, who stayed up late to watch. About 350 supporters crammed into a hotel reception area in Nishikori's hometown of Matsue, a seaside city of nearly 200,000, to watch a live broadcast of the match that ended just after 4 a.m. local time. Those who didn't stay up late were elated to awake to the news. Nishikori's win has captivated a country that has had few male players to cheer before. For years, female players like Ai Sugi-

yama and Kimiko DateKrumm contended at the Grand Slams, but now Nishikori is the face of Japanese tennis. Even though he has been based in the U.S. for years, Nishikori is a huge star in Japan. And when he does play in the country, the tournaments sell out within hours. His surprising victory over Djokovic was the lead story on national Sunday morning TV news programs. Japanese celebrities even lauded Nishikori's historic victory. "I was so happy to get the chance to see Japanese reach the final," actor Ken Matsudaira said. "I really hope he can win the final." Regardless of the outcome, Nishikori's star is certain only to get bigger back home. "This is easily the biggest news in the history of Japanese tennis," former Japan Davis Cup player Jun Kamiwazumi said. "This will have a huge impact on the sport here and I expect many young children will be inspired to emulate him."

checked his phone, Nishikori found 20 messages from folks in Japan, despite the hour. Hundreds of fans celebrated after following along on television at a hotel in Nishikori's hometown of Matsue, a sleepy town with a population of less than 200,000. It was the lead story on Sunday morning TV news programs, and the mass circulation Asahi Shimbun issued a special online edition touting Nishikori's success. "This is easily the biggest news in the history of Japanese tennis," said Jun Kamiwazumi, a former member of Japan's Davis Cup team who reached the third round at the 1973 U.S. Open. "This will have a huge impact on the sport here, and I expect many young children will be inspired to emulate him." Others such as Bollettieri and Djokovic echoed that opinion. "This is definitely huge for Japan. It's a big country, over 100 million people. This can definitely be a great encouragement for tennis in that country," said Djokovic, who is from Serbia. "He's been around

for the last couple of years. He's been making a lot of success. But playing finals of a Grand Slam and now fighting for a title is definitely something different." It also will make Nishikori even more money than the $10 million in endorsements he reportedly already earns from sponsors such as clothing company Uniqlo, food company Nissin, and sports equipment company Wilson. Nishikori, the first man from Japan to be ranked in the ATP's top 10, has existing contracts that include escalator clauses providing extra money for certain accomplishments, such as reaching a Grand Slam final. It adds up to a far bigger take than his on-court prize money, which was less than $2 million this season entering the U.S. Open. But what matters more to the 24-yearold Nishikori, by the sound of it, is the impact he can have in his native country. "I hope more kids start playing tennis," he said. "U.S. has a lot of respect for the sports, but not as much in Japan. I hope I can make a little bit difference."

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MAAM presents Miss Mokokchung 2014 contestants Contestant No 1: Tyangsen Mongro Age: 18 years Height: 5’5 Vit. Stat: 31-25-30

Contestant No 2: Bendanginla Aier Age: 23 years Height: 5’4 Vit Stat: 31-24-34 Contestant No 6: Jentirenla Age: 18 years Height: 5’5 Vit Stat: 34-27-37

fter nearly two weeks of grooming, the Mokokchung Arts & Aesthetics Management (MAAM) conducted the fanning out programme at Setep Leden Resort on Saturday, September 6, 2014. The subtitles were judged by Dr Marina Yaden and Aotila Pongen.

Contestant No 3: Nediya Arya Age: 18years Height – 5’5 Vit Stat: 30-24-34

Contestant No 5: Deepika Chetri Age: 19 years Height: 5’5 Vit Stat: 32-30-34

Contestant No 4: Imnasenla Aier Age:19 years Height: 5’5 Vit Stat: 34-27-37 Contestant No 10: Watimongla Longkumer Age: 22 years Height: 5’6 Vit Stat: 36-28-38

Contestant No 8: Lendila Age: 18 years Height: 5’4 Vit Stat: 30-23-34

Contestant No 7: Jongpongmenla Age: 22 years Height: 5’5 Vit Stat: 31-24-35

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Contestant No 9: Yangerkumla Lemtor Age: 18 years Height: 5’4 Vit Stat: 29-24-33 Sd. Media Cell, Miss Mokokchung 2014

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G.R.L’s Simone Battle found hanging ‘People will always bring up negative stuff’

Chris Brown admits he will always be defined by his attack on ex Rihanna as he gives first post-jail interview

hris Brown has conceded that he will always be defined by his brutal 2009 assault on then-girlfriend Rihanna. Speaking in his first interview since being released from jail for a probation violation, the 25-year-old pop star admitted he is unable to escape his past. He told Billboard magazine: ‘As long as you’re doing something good, people will always bring up old stuff or negative stuff because they don’t want you to surpass a certain level or elevate. The Loyal hitmaker added that people will probably only stop ‘dredging up the past’ when he and Rihanna are ‘not relevant anymore’. But he added: ‘As long as you have your head on straight, it shouldn’t matter what people want to say.’ Chris touched on how the incident has affected his reputation. ‘Not everyone in the world is going to particularly love me,’ he said. ‘But I’m cool with that. As long as I love myself and my music, I’m fine. ‘…I don’t look over my shoulder or wish I could turn back the hands of time. Life is a learning experience, so I’m learning as I go. I’m not walking around angry about anything.’ Chris was released from jail on June 2. The Forever hitmaker spent had 108 days in a Los Angeles county jail for violating his five-year probation - which stemmed from the Rihanna assault. The violation came after he was charged with assault for punching a man who tried to take a picture with him outside a Washington D.C. hotel last October. On Tuesday, he appeared in court and plead guilty to the misdemeanor assault, telling the judge: ‘I’m sorry, I am very sorry.’

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For the assault Chris was sentenced to time served - the one day he spent in jail after his arrest - and no probation, along with a $150 fine. According to CNN, his five-year probation for the 2009 attack on Rihanna will end on January 23, 2015 - if he maintains good behaviour and fulfills another 600 hours of community service. The singer conducted his interview with Billboard on August 13; hours before, he appeared in a courtroom to receive a probation progress report, which was positive. As for what he learned from his experience behind bars: ‘My maturity level has risen as far as my realizing what’s important. Realizing that I’m human like everyone else. ‘At the end of the day, it’s just a humbling experience. You’re more appreciative of everything else that’s on the outside. A burger tastes 1,000 times better when you’re out (Laughs.)’

gn i s . L G.R. former X t d an er an r contest und my childhood fo o ‘Her heart Fact e Battle ap- friend. was pure gold and her star pown om limitless. Rest Simod at 25 fr cide inersweet peace Angel.’ At the time of dea rent sui her death, Battle was pa singing in the girl group

op singer Simone Battle died Friday morning, at her home in Los Angeles, MailOnline has confirmed. The 25-year-old G.R.L. group singer and former X Factor contestant was found dead around 8am, her father Anthony E Battle told MailOnline. ‘She will be greatly missed and loved,’ Mr Battle said. ‘She was an exuberant person and a very loved person.’ He says the death is still under investigation, but law enforcement sources told TMZ it was an apparent suicide. Today, Battle’s record company and management issued a joint statement on her passing. ‘We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of Simone Battle of G.R.L.’ the statement from Reign Deer Entertainment, Kemosabe Records, RCA Records and Pussycat Dolls founder Robin Antin reads. ‘Simone was an exceptional young talent and human being, and we are all devastated to learn of her passing. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and loved ones at this time.’ Friend and fellow-musician Derek Butler initially broke the news overnight on Instagram. Butler posted a picture of Battle and wrote: ‘I’m, still in shock and in disbelief to have confirmed the death of

G.R.L. which was initially organized as a re-boot of The Pussycat Dolls group. However, the group decided to go by a different name and launch as a second-generation of the band. The remaining members issued a statement about her death on Saturday via Twitter. ‘Words cannot express the depth of our loss. Simone’s incredible talent was only surpassed by the size of her heart. ‘We will carry her memory with us in everything we do.’ Battle first started singing professionally after her breakout on the U.S. version of the X Factor in 2011. She made it to the top 17 and was mentored by judge Simon Cowell. Calls to the Los Angeles Police Department were not immediately returned Saturday morning.

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F1: Lewis wins Italian Grand Prix

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, celebrates on the podium after winning the Italian Formula One Grand Prix at the Monza racetrack, in Monza, Italy on September 7. (AP Photo)

MONZA , SepteMber 7 (AFp): Lewis Hamilton turned a poor start into a dramatic victory ahead of his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg in Sunday's Italian Grand Prix, cutting the German's lead in their bitter battle for the drivers' championship from 29 points to 22 with six races remaining. Hamilton dropped to fourth on the opening lap, but recovered with a daring high-speed slalom to take second and then the lead. He finished 3.1 seconds ahead of Rosberg, who appeared to crack under pressure after 29 of the 53 laps when he made a mistake at the first chicane. A poor consolation for the German runner-up, it was the first time he had finished on the podium at Monza. Rosberg was booed when he stepped onto the podium as the fallout from

his controversial clash with Hamilton early in the Belgian Grand Prix a fortnight ago effectively ended the Briton's race. Brazilian Felipe Massa came home third, 25 seconds adrift of Hamilton -- for his first podium finish of the season -- ahead of his Williams teammate Finn Valtteri Bottas, Australian Daniel Ricciardo and his Red Bull teammate four-time champion German Sebastian Vettel. It was Hamilton's sixth win this year, his second at Monza and the 28th of his career -- he needs just three wins to equal Nigel Mansell's British record of Grand Prix successes. For the first time in five years, two-time champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso failed to finish a race, retiring his Ferrari with mechanical problems.

"Well done guys on the deserved one-two, it's a good result for the team," said Rosberg in a team radio message. "Sorry to the guys on my side of the garage. It's a shame." On a bright near-perfect late summer's afternoon, it was Rosberg who made the perfect start. As the lights went out, Hamilton appeared to be bogged down without sufficient torque to pull away from his first pole since Barcelona in May, allowing not only the German, but both Kevin Magnussen, from fifth on the grid, and Massa to pass him and pull clear. Within a lap, a partial answer emerged when Hamilton radioed in to report he was racing without the use of his Energy Recovery System (ERS). The team confirmed he had to wait for a re-set, but the Briton, keen to recover, made swift inroads into his rivals' advantage. Significantly, Mercedes had changed the front wing on Hamilton's car on the grid before the start, after a team member had, it was reported, caused some damage. Hamilton pushed hard but without doing enough before he pitted and rejoining just behind Rosberg again. Yet despite his crew advising him to sit tight until the final laps he pushed on and pressed the German. It paid off as Rosberg for the second time ran straight on at the first chicane and gifted the lead to the Englishman on lap 29. Both had been warned to preserve their tyres to ensure they finished, a goal that was removed from Alonso when he pulled up and retired, pointless, for the first time this year. It was his first mechanical failure in a race since 2009 and left him to trudge back to the pits in front of the disappointed tifosi. "It's a mechanical failure and said to do it here in front of our people," said the twotime champion.

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Apropos the Classic Cup news item which appeared on the September 7 issue of The Morung Express, the heading should be read as “Barak FC win Classic Cup 2014” and not as rendered. The inadvertent error is regretted.

Northern Ireland's Carl Frampton, right, lands a punch on Spain's Kiko Martinez, left, during their IBF super-bantamweight world title bout in Belfast, Northern Ireland on September 6. Frampton won the title by unanimous decision. (AP Photo)

Platini threatens retired Ribery with suspension

berLIN, SepteMber 7 (AFp): UEFA president Michel Platini has threatened compatriot and nowretired former France playmaker Franck Ribery with a suspension, according to Sunday's version of Bild newspaper. Bayern Munich winger Ribery announced his retirement from France duty after the World Cup in Brazil, which he missed due to a back injury. But Platini now claims the 31-year-old will have no choice but to continue play-

ing for his country if selected. "Franck cannot decide himself whether he plays for France," said the former France star and coach. "If (coach) Didier Deschamps picks him, he must come. That's the FIFA rule. If he doesn't come, he will be suspended for three Bayern Munich games." There is a FIFA rule in place which forces players to accept national team call-ups to prevent them – or rather their clubs – from picking and choosing which internationals they

play. But national teams usually respect a player's decision to retire from international duty. That wasn't the case, however, back in 2006 when then France coach Raymond Domenech forced Claude Makelele, then 33, to turn up to represent the national team despite having announced his international retirement after the World Cup. That led to Makelele's then Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho accusing Domenech of treating his player "like a slave".

Pro Kabaddi has made a huge impact: Abhishek Bachchan

JAIpUr, SepteMber 7 (ptI): Bollywood actor and owner of the Pink Panthers, Abhishek Bachchan on Sunday said that the inaugural addition of the Pro Kabaddi League has made a huge impact in the world of sports. Talking to reporters with his team Pink Panthers which won the inaugural addition of Pro Kabaddi League, Abhishek said that the success of the league was beyond his imagination but increasing the number of teams in the tournament was not possible for at least three years. Asked if the success meant that some teams would be added, he said, "The success this league received was beyond imagination and we are holding the second addition in coming March but as Team owner and Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan along with his wife Aishwarya of now there is no need to inRai Bachchan celebrates with the players of Jaipur Pink Panthers after they won the crease the number of teams in the league. "We have a Pro Kabaddi League title in Mumbai on August 31.(AP Photo)

three year contract with the franchises and we want to give them time to settle down. Increasing the number from existing eight is not possible at least for three years and it might be possible when the next auction takes place." "Work is also going on for looking the possibilities of launching a women's Pro league too," he added. Thanking his players for winning the league, Abhishek said, "The Pro Kabaddi league was the second most viewed event and Kabaddi-kabaddi has reached far corners of the world. "I was in Rome recently and met old friend English Footballer Ashley Coles. He surprised me by calling me Kabaddi -Kabaddi. He too was aware that Pro Kabaddi has arrived on international sports scene," said Abhishek who has also bought a team in ISL football League.

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