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The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children

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tripura to be 100 percent literate in six-months: cM

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Reducing demand is the only way to win this war against them bottles, but Iam glad they don`t know that.

DC Mkg to tour border areas

A panoramic view of Mesulumi village and its terrace paddy fields as seen from National Highway 150 en route to Meluri from Kohima. Terrace cultivation is endemic to mountainous terrain and is widely practiced by ethnic communities in north-east India. This type of farming is held to be more environment-friendly than the slash-and-burn (jhum) cycle of cultivation practiced in most parts of Nagaland. Photo by Caisii Mao

NPSC’s not-so-current affairs

‘Copy-pastes’ exam questions from single book Morung Express News Dimapur | September 8

‘copy-pasted’ straight from a particular book.

A flip through the book in question, Tata Mc Graw Hills’ ‘General Studies Manual for Civil Services Preliminary Paper I’ confirms that in the Current Affairs section of the question paper, all 50 questions were lifted from the model questions for current affairs (page 99-103) of the book. Again, the concept of “current affairs” in NPSC lexicon appears to pertain to “events” which occurred two or three years back, and not the “current” as the conventional connotation

suggests.

“All the current affairs questions were on events which happened in 2012,” states a dejected candidate. This is her third NPSC Mains exam and she points out that even last year the Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) were “copy paste” from a Tata McGraw book.

She also highlighted the “sub standard” work in the setting of NPSC question papers. “There are many spelling errors of names and places, many wrong questions, and some questions are repeated.”

Further look into the

In an extreme case that has elicited both consternation and shock among the examinees and aspirants of the Nagaland Public Service Commission (NPSC), it has been found that majority of the questions for the General Studies (Paper I), of the recently connew DelhI, SepteM- cluded NPSC (Mains) were ber 8 (IAnS): External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj Monday said Bangladesh will soon extradite ULFA leader Anup Chetia to India. “Bangladesh said it will deliver Anup Chetia to us. It will happen soon,” Sushma Swaraj told the media DIMApur, SepteM- pointed through SSA pro- arise. However, inspite of adhere. The United Liberation ber 8 (Mexn): With a beg- gramme “as they have not verse condition they have, Front of Asom (ULFA) lead- ging bowl directed towards paid for last 4 months” and many of aforesaid teachers er has been lodged in a Dha- Delhi, the Government of Special Education Teachers are performing regular duty ka jail for the last 17 years. Nagaland continues to show (SET) “who have not been till date against all odds.”

Sushma Swaraj further said the people of Nagaland the paid for the past 10 months.” Keeping in tune with the The Association reiter- Parliamentary Secretary’s the issue of illegal migration stick. In a trend of sorts, emhas been discussed with ployees of the State Govern- ated that “salary is the only message to “release pendment have remained unpaid sustaining source of the ing salaries of SSA teachers Bangladesh. for as many as 10 months. teachers for which if it is not within a month,” the AssoThe All Nagaland School paid on time, then the very ciation has appealed to the Teachers Association (AN- survival of teacher is threat- same to “kindly take-up the STA) has made a “fervent ened and jeopardized… issue with personal interest appeal” to the department when one’s own survival is so as to release the pending lonDon, SepteM- authority for early release of put at stake, the question of salaries of the concerned ber 8 (IAnS): The elusive pending salaries for those sincerity and dedication to- teachers at the earliest posHiggs boson, also called the teachers who had been ap- ward assigned duty does not sible time.”

“God particle” and discovered by scientists in 2012, has the potential to destroy the universe, eminent scientist Stephen Hawking has warned. The ‘boson’ is a sub-atomic particle named after the late Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose. At wAShIngton, SepteMber 8 an amount of food that would be suffivery high energy levels, the (ptI): As the world population continues cient to feed the global population with Higgs boson could cause to grow, the global food supply may not an increasing reliance on redistribution space and time to collapse meet escalating demand - particularly for through trade.”

D’Odorico and his co-authors demonsuddenly and “we wouldn’t agriculturally poor countries that depend see it coming”, the former on imports for much of their food supply, strate that most of Africa and the Middle East are not self-sufficient, but trade has professor of mathematics scientists say. improved access to food in the Middle East Using production and trade data for agfrom the University of Camand in the Sahel region, a vast, populous, ricultural food commodities collected by bridge in Britain explained. semi-arid region stretching across the the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture The Higgs Boson is the parcentral portion of the African continent.

Organisation, a new study reconstructed ticle that is theoretically the the global food trade network in terms of The investigators found, however, reason why all matter in the food calories traded among countries. “We that trade has not eradicated food insufUniverse has mass. The God found that, in the period between 1986 and ficiency in sub-Saharan Africa and cenparticle, which gives shape 2009, the amount of food that is traded has tral Asia. “Overall, in the last two decades and size to everything that more than doubled and the global food net- there has been an increase in the numexists, could cause a ‘cata- work has become 50 per cent more intercon- ber of trade-dependent countries that strophic vacuum delay’ if nected,” said Paolo D’Odorico, a University reach sufficiency through their reliance scientists were to put it un- of Virginia (UVa) professor of environmental on trade,” D’Odorico said. der extreme stress, Daily sciences and the study’s lead author.

“Those countries may become more Mail reported. “The Higgs “International food trade now ac- vulnerable in periods of food shortage, potential has the worri- counts for 23 per cent of global food pro- such as happened during a food crises in some feature that it might duction, much of that production moving 2008 and 2011, when the governments of become megastable at en- from agriculturally rich countries to poor- some producing countries banned or limergies above 100 billionn er ones,” said D’Odorico. ited food experts, causing anxiety in many giga-electron-volts (GeV),” D’Odorico noted that food produc- trade-dependent countries,” D’Odorico wrote Hawking in the pref- tion during more than two-decade pe- said. The study was published in the jourace to a new book, Starmus. riod increased by 50 per cent, “providing nal Earth’s Future.

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Food Security: Trade may not meet all future demand

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Mokokchung, SepteMber 8 (DIpr): DC of Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel, will embark on a tour of villages in the Assam-Nagaland border areas to “acquaint himself” with the problems and to address such problems “timely without allowing it to go out of hand.” During his reception programme as the new DC of Mokokchung at town hall on September 2, Patel clarified that a solution to the border problem and minimizing the border tension with neighboring Assam would his “top priority.” Besides meeting people in the border areas, Patel will meet his Sivasagar and Jorhat counterparts with a message to make renewed efforts to ensure peace in the region. Patel is also expected to take up issues with his counterparts on frequent imposition of road blockades.

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question paper and the book reveals that nearly 130 questions out of 200 questions were taken from the book. The history and science section questions reveal appalling case of poor workmanship.

Sources informed The Morung Express that NPSC outsources the work of setting question papers to a company.

Will there be a re-examination for the given paper?

It is not currently known as an official from the NPSC refused to comment on the issue stating that there is no written complaint yet.

AgArtAlA, SepteMber 8 (IAnS): India’s northeastern state of Tripura, which has already achieved the first position in literacy in the country with 95.16 percent, is likely to achieve 100 percent literacy in six months, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said Monday.

“Tripura attained the first position in literacy in India with 95.16 percent last year. We have launched all-out efforts to make literate the remaining people with Class 3 standards by March 2015,” Sarkar said here on the occasion of International Literacy Day. “Tripura jumped to the first position in literacy among the states from the 12th position in the 2001 census and the fourth position in the 2011 census,” he said.

While Mizoram and Tripura are among the toppers in literacy in India, another northeastern state, Arunachal Pradesh (66.95 percent), is placed second lowest in literacy in the country, just above Bihar, which recorded the least literacy of 63.82 percent.

Kerala follows Tripura with 94 percent literacy.

Sarkar said that after Tripura attained 87.75 percent literacy in 2011, a government survey was conducted by the eight district magistrates in August 2012 which found that only 131,634 people of the state’s 37 lakh people, including those aged 50 and above, were illiterate.

“Over 8,254 voluntary lit-

eracy workers (VLW) have worked tremendously with full dedication under 8,152 literacy centres to make the leftover (131,634 people) unlettered people literate,” the chief minister said.

Over 85 master trainers have supervised the work of the VLWs, who have worked at the village and habitation levels. Anganwadi workers under the social welfare department have also assisted the VLWs in their endeavour.

“The final evaluation of the neo-literate people was conducted across the state in August last year under the supervision of the (Kolkata-based) Indian Statistical Institution (ISI) and (Noida-based) National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS),” the chief minister said.

Both the ISI and the NIOS are national institutes recognised by the National Literacy Mission, under the union human resource development ministry. Sarkar said the Left Front government has concurrently taken up a literacy programme and a job-oriented occupational training programme for the neo-literate so that they can become self-reliant.

“To build up sustainable livelihood, the state government is also considering providing financial, technical and logistical support to those who complete the literacy course and skill development training,” he said. “Much before the UN proclaimed

the ‘literacy and sustainable development’ scheme a few years back, the Left Front government in Tripura took the scheme with all sincerity,” Sarkar said.

According to the 2011 census, the literacy level is 94 percent in Kerala, 91.58 percent in Mizoram and 88.7 percent in Goa, among the most literate states in India. The national literacy rate, according to the 2011 census, is 74.04 percent.

Tripura’s Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Bhanulal Saha said the state government has just not tried to make people literate, it has undertaken specific plans to improve the functional literacy of the neo-literate. The Tripura success story is attributed to the involvement of local government bodies, including gram panchayats, NGOs and local clubs under the close supervision of the State Literacy Mission Authority headed by the chief minister.

Former census director Dilip Acherjee, who has also held the post of school education department secretary in Tripura, told IANS: “In Tripura, increase of female literacy is better than their male counterparts.” “The literacy rate of females during the period of 2001 and 2011 census rose from 64.91 to 83.15 percent, with an increase of 18.24 percent, while in the case of men the increase was just 11.18 percent -from 81 to 92.18 percent,” Acherjee said.

Modi, Sharif lower cudgels as floods ‘ravage’ Kashmir

SrInAgAr/MuZAFFArAbAD, SepteMber 8 (reuterS): The prime ministers of India and Pakistan have offered to help each other in efforts to alleviate flood havoc in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, lowering tension between the rival nations after weeks of army clashes and heated rhetoric.

Kashmir is divided by one of the world’s deadliest and most heavily militarised borders. Both the Indian and Pakistani sides have been ravaged by floods that have killed at least 239 people as rivers burst their banks after heavy rain.

The disaster, which left large parts of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, deep in water, comes weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cancelled high-level peace talks and accused Pakistan of fighting a “proxy war”.

Modi’s tone was more conciliatory in a letter to his Pakistani counterpart on Sunday. “It is a matter of great distress that the retreating monsoon rains have played havoc in many parts of our two countries,” Modi wrote to Nawaz Sharif, according to excerpts released by his office. “In this hour of need, I offer any assistance that you may need in the relief efforts that will be undertaken by the government of Pakistan. Our resources are

Pakistani villagers wade through water to find safe shelters in Pindi Bhatian, 105 kilometers (65 miles) northeast of Lahore, Pakistan on Monday. Army and air force troops on Monday worked to rescue thousands of people stranded in Indian-controlled Kashmir and northern and eastern Pakistan, where flooding and landslides have caused hundreds of deaths. (AP Photo)

at your disposal.”

Pakistan’s foreign ministry reciprocated, saying the government was “ready to help in whatever way possible to mitigate the suffering of the people affected by the floods” in Kashmir. It is unlikely either side will accept the other’s offer of help, given the military sensitivities in the region, where hundreds of thousands of troops have faced off for decades.

Both prime ministers flew over their respective areas of Kashmir on Sunday to review the extent to the flooding. At least 175 people have been killed by flash floods and landslides on the Indian side of the de

facto border, while Pakistan’s Kashmir State Disaster Management Authority said 64 deaths had so far been reported.

“Most deaths have been caused by houses collapsing, landslides and incidents of drowning,” said Akram Sohail, the head of the organization. “Over 29,406 people have been affected in around 120 villages.” When he took office in May, Modi invited Sharif to Delhi in an unprecedented gesture that raised hopes of progress to resolve the nuclear armed countries’ differences over Kashmir.

Kashmir, known for its natural beauty, was divided soon after indepen-

dence from British rule and partition in 1947 created the separate states of India and Pakistan. The two nations have fought three wars and came close to a fourth in 2001. Sometimes fatal skirmishes between the two armies are common along the Line of Control, as the de facto border is known.

In an apparent bid to thaw ties again, Pakistan last week sent 15 boxes of mangoes to Modi. “They were delivered to the prime minister’s office on Wednesday last week,” said a spokesman for the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi.

“He must have eaten some of them by now.”

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Bankers encouraged to be agent of revolution

Gov shares priorities and concerns of the central Government with bankers Kohima, September 8 (mexN): The Governor of Nagaland & Tripura, PB Acharya invited the representatives of all the banks present in Nagaland to a Luncheon Meeting at Raj Bhavan, Kohima, on September 6. The bankers were led by the SLBC Convenor, Binod Srivastava, AGM, SBI, Regional Business Office, Dimapur.

The Governor’s main reason for inviting the bankers was to share the priorities and concerns of the new Government at the Centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On the onset, Acharya said that he came to Nagaland to help and strengthen the State

and urged the bankers to change their mindset and become the agent of revolution by participating in the progress and development of the State.

He said that India is rich but the Indians are poor.

Similarly, Nagaland is rich but the Nagas are poor. The main reason for this is that the wealth of the Nation is concentrated in the hands of very few corrupt people.

“However, the saddest part is that though the corrupt people are very few, we do not have the guts to face them because we ourselves feel guilty somewhere or other as many times we are hand in glove with them,” Acharya lamented.

Governor of Nagaland & Tripura, PB Acharya with the various bank representatives during the Luncheon Meeting at Raj Bhavan, Kohima, on September 6.

The Governor urged the bankers to implement sincerely the new scheme “Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana” which

was launched on August 28, 2014 by Prime Minister. He also spoke about the construction of Public Toilets as national priority

of the new Government.

He lamented that there is not even one toilet, especially for ladies, between Dimapur to Kohima. Even

the petrol pumps in the National Highway, which are earning in crores, have Toilets only for their staffs.

Therefore, he requested

that each bank branch operating in Nagaland to construct two toilets for public (both for gents and ladies).

The fund for the construction of these Toilets should be made from other source and not from the bank’s 2% for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). The respective bank branch should maintain the toilets at least for one year.

The Governor also encouraged the bankers to participate in the development of the school, especially, in rural areas.

He requested the Bank to sponsor students, both boys and girls, age between 10-15 years, from real poor families in the State. He advised the bank officials to give opportunity to their highly educated wives, who are simply staying at home, cooking and waiting for them, to go as Guest Lecturers to Government Schools. In this regard, he

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said that the Governor’s wife, would be taking up one School in Kohima.

He told the bankers to submit to him in writing before the end of this month, the report on total Bank Deposits, Total Lendings, Sector wise Lending, the progress on PMJDY and action taken in the construction of Toilets by each Bank operating in Nagaland. In conclusion, the Governor exhorted the bankers to work quietly without getting confrontation from any group or person. He advised the bankers not to become heroes and targets of unnecessary animosity. He said that he has full faith in them and urged them to “take up the task wholeheartedly, do it sincerely and together become the real agent of change in our own way.”

This was stated in a press release issued by Lanuteka Imchen, Chief Manager, Lead Bank Office, Kohima.

ANHTU Kohima to celebrate Hindi Diwas

The deplorable condition of the road linking National Highway 150 with Matikhrü village in Meluri sub-division, Phek. This link road is crucial for other villages which are part of the Kamaleah range of the Pochury.

The road is also crucial two other villages, Akhen and Reguri, located close to the border with Myanmar. (Photo by Caisii Mao)

Kohima, September 8 (mexN): All the respective Hindi Teachers under DEO, SDEO Kohima and SDEO Chiephobozou are informed that All Nagaland Hindi Teachers Union Kohima Unit will celebrate Hindi Diwas on September 17 at 10:00 am, at Ura Academy Hall, Mission Compound Kohima Village.

The celebration will have Polem Tep, Additional Director School Education, Nagaland, Kohima as Chief Guest. The Union is organizing the essay/ debate/singing and poem recitation competition for Classes-4 to 10 and classes 11 and 12 (Kovid) Student

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on the Eve of Hindi Diwas (Hindi Day celebration) i.e. on September 16 at 9:00am.

The competition is for all the Schools under Kohima DEO, SDEO and SDEO Chiephobozou (both Govt and Private schools).

ANHTU Kohima unit Information & Publicity Secretary Nelson Yhokha in a press release informed that all the concern Hindi Teachers are necessary and compulsory to attend the celebration. Those, who fail to attend the celebration will have to pay a fine of Rs.300 as resolved by the Union.

The categories are as follows: Hindi Essay writing

(Topic- Nagaland mein Hindi bhasha ka vartman stithi (Present situation of Hindi Language in Nagaland) : Class 6 to 10 (both government and private schools both local and non-local) and Class 11 to 12 (kovid) students.

Debate (Television): Only for Local student of Class 6 to 10 Hindi Song (HindiGospel songs, Patriotic & Poetic Songs, formal Hindi film songs): Class 6 to class 10 (both local and non local students) Po e m Re c i t at i o n (From the respective own class poem): For only Class 4 and 5

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KBCM against lifting of Prohibition Act Amur Falcon 'affected villages' Lizumi Sub-Centre new Resolves to conduct building inaugurated write to Principal CCF ‘Social awareness Campaign’

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moN, September 8 (mexN): With the Government of Nagaland is contemplating to revoke the present “Liquor Prohibition Act” of Nagaland, the Konyak Baptist Church Mon (KBCM) held a meeting on August 31 2014.

KBCM Mon pastor

Nahngom and Secretary H. Laitak in a press release stated that after thorough deliberation on the issue with the church members, it has resolved that Nagaland being a Christian state, the KBCM is against the liberalization of free flow selling of alcohol, drugs and other intoxicating items in the state.

The KBCM has taken the matter in all seriousness, to control the social evils affecting harmony

and tranquility of the society. It is felt pertinent to conduct mass awareness campaign programme in every ward/colony in collaboration with the NGOs. It has resolved to organized “Social awareness Campaign” in every nook and corner of Mon town in order to strengthen the spiritual growth and well being of the young generation to improve the moral conduct.

Heads of school conference

Kohima, September 8 (mexN): The School ministry of the Nagaand Baptist Church Council is organizing Heads of School Conference on September 10 and 11. In regard to this program, all the headmasters and principals of the NBCC member school along with one staff are invited to attend the Conference. The program will be held at the Platinum Hall, NBCC Office, Bayavü Hill Kohima. Arrival

and registration will be at 1:00 PM, September 10, 2014. The resource persons will be Kesonyü Yhome, IAS, Additional Secretary, H&FW, Dr. Ratsamee Dangsuwon (Ph. D.), Chairperson of the Educational Board Committee, Church of Christ in Thailand, Parinya Tawinno, Director of Padoongrasdra School, Church of Christ in Thailand and Wasenmo Apon, Principal Baptist Higher Secondary School, Tseminyu.

WoKha, September 8 (mexN): Under the aegis of New Riphyim Village Council, the “Amur Falcon affected villages in Wokha district, Nagaland” has written an open letter to the principal chief conservative of forest, Kohima.

According to the letter appended by NRVC chairman T Hayithung Odyuo, the “Amur Falcon affected villages” include Old Riphyim, New Riphyim, Old Changsu, New Changsu in Englan Range on the left bank of Doyang HE Project and on the other side Sanis, Yonchucho, Sunglup Villages on the right bank of Doyang HE Project.”

These villages share equal responsible for protection to the said migratory birds and “if these Villages

do not extend fullest cooperation and all possible protection through Village Council authority, conservation could not successes,” Odyuo stated in the letter.

While expressing appreciation to the Department of Forest, Nagaland for selection of Pangti Village Council for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Earth Heroes Awards 2014 in the RBS ‘Save the Species’ Award category, the chairman said that the “other stakeholders villages in Wokha District” are equally responsible for the conservation. “In the interest of the general public,” the chairman also “appeal to the Department of Forest, Nagaland to give equal importance to Amur Falcon affected villages in Wokha

District so that public may have more awareness for protection of the same.”

Secondly, it also brought forth to the authority concerned that, Wild Elephants had been halted in Englan Range for the past 15 years, which causes property damages for lakhs of rupees every years and villagers cannot practice their regular cultivation due to fear of Elephant resulting in untold hardship for livelihood. In this regard, the village authorities have lodges complaint for several times to the Department of Forest but no protection measures have been initiated so far.

Therefore, the competent authority is requested to look in to the matter and do the needful.

ZuNheboto, September 8 (mexN): Lizumi Sub-Centre new building was inaugurated by Dr. G. Hokishe Sema, CMO, Zunheboto on September 6. During the inaugural speech, Dr. G. Hokishe expressed that through the new Sub Centre building the department is hopeful that the community of this area will be benefitted immensely as far as health sector is concerned. He also urged the staffs and community to develop a working atmosphere and be sincere thereby leaving no space for others to complain. He also stress on the importance of communitization. Dr. Hokishe also encouraged the community to go for timely

immunization of children and said that it is very important for everyone to be in good health and further hopes that this new Sub Centre building would be beneficial to everyone.

The inauguration programme was chaired by Nikheshe, GB, Chairman,VHC. Rev. Hokuto, Pastor Lizu New, pronounced invocation and the Head GB delivered short speech. Tonokali presented a special number.Khekuto Zhimo, Chairman, Lizumi Council delivered the vote of thanks and benediction was pronounced by Samuel, Pastor, Lizu Aviqato. Avikali, DPM, Shekho Sophie, Media Officer and Valerie Kiba, BPM, Zunheboto Sadar accompanied the CMO, Zunheboto.

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DC Mkg stresses on regular attendance AICF nationwide campaign underway

moKoKchuNg, September 8 (Dipr): Deputy Commissioner Mokokchung, Sushil Kumar Patel (IAS) has instructed all Head of Offices in the district to attend the monthly DPDB meeting regularly and sent a strong signal that those who do not attend the highest district level meeting will be viewed seriously.

Sushil Kumar Patel who became the 35th DC, Mokokchung on September 2 said this while presiding

over the DPDB meeting for the first time on September 8 in the ADC’s conference hall. Welcoming all the members in the meeting Patel said that regular attendance in the meeting is imperative as many issues pertaining to the welfare of the district is deliberated upon and decision are made in the meeting.

He also said that any officers who are out of station on official duty or training

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School Rajeshwari Karuna at Tuli, upgradation of Springfield School from GPS to GMS at Changtongya town and upgradation

Level Verification Committee for verifications of work-charge and Casual employees headed by DC as per government decision to identify exact number of genuine employees under these categories in all the departments for which separate circular will be issued to all the offices.

The meeting decided that Irrigation and Flood control will make a power point presentation in the next DPDB meeting.

Senior Citizens share concerns with Governor

In reference to the news item dated September 7, 2014 under the heading “Tangkhul Baptist Church Silver Jubilee” it is clarified that the Silver Jubilee is of the Naga Girls’ Hostel run by the Tangkhul Baptist Church, Kohima and Kohima, Septemnot as published. ber 8 (Dipr): The Nagaland Senior Citizens Forum called on the Governor of Nagaland at Raj Bhavan on Kohima, September 8 (mexN): On the happy September 8. The Executive occasion of Onam, the harvest festival, P.B. Acharya Members of the Forum led Governor of Nagaland has extended his heartiest greet- by Dr. S.I. Toshi, while welings and best wishes to all the Malayalees living in Naga- coming and wishing P.B. land. “Onam, the festival of Kerala which is celebrated Acharya, a successful tenure with gaiety by the people irrespective of caste and creed as Governor of Nagaland, is a reminder of a golden past and aspiration for a pros- shared their social concerns perous future. May this joyous occasion which symbol- over the early and final setises our oneness and the linguistic and cultural har- tlement of the prolonged mony strengthen the bonds of unity and bring peace, Naga Political Issue, good progress and prosperity to all,” the Governor conveyed governance in the State and in the greeting note. improvement of the deplor-

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of GMS to GHS at Sapangya and decided to forward it to the concerned department for further action.

The agenda on establishment of tourist camp/tourist Lodge at nature Park Ungma was forwarded to the District Tourist Officer asking it to fulfill the criteria and it would be taken in the next meeting.

The DC also informed all the members about constitution of District

Instructs all heads of offices to attend DPDB meeting

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should bring to his notice.

During discussions on agenda, the meeting approved opening of new

able road condition.

The Governor as a senior citizen himself appreciated the Senior Citizens Forum, for the befitting concern shown on the serious social issues facing the society and stressed the need for EEE (Education, Electricity and Employment). He reciprocated by sharing his own concerns on the issues expressed by the Forum and expressed that concrete measures are required to be evolved and imple-

mented on various fronts.

During the discussions, the Governor pointed out to objections over the appointment of the interlocutors for the Naga Political Issue. The Senior Citizens Forum members expressed that the appointed dignitary should be given the opportunity to function first, to be commented on. The Forum assured to extend support towards programmes for social betterment and for the generations.

Participants during the AICF’s meeting in Kohima held on September 6.

Kohima, September 8 (mexN): All India Christian Federation (AICF) is conducting nationwide campaign to Christian leaders and the Christian youths to prepare for the upcoming National youth conference in Delhi in January 2015 with the theme of “Youth in Building Nation… a call to Christian youths.”

In that regards AICF has conducted a meeting at the Manipur Baptist Convention (MBC) Headquarters in Imphal on September

4, 2014 which was attended by Manipur University Evangelical Fellowship (MUEF) leaders and DM College Evangelical Union leaders. AICF’s spokesperson Jyothi Raju, Rev. Pastor Simon of MBC, Rev. Fr. T.S. Dominic, Chancellor of Imphal Diocese and Isaac Bukli, AICF’s coordinator for North East India have spoken in this meeting.

Isaac Bukli, AICF North East Coordinator in a press release said that as part of nationwide campaign,

AICF has conducted a meeting at CAN (Catholic Association Nagaland) building in Kohima Town on September 6, 2014 which was attended by several Christian youth leaders and students. AICF’s spokesperson Jyothi Raju, Rev. Fr. Sojan, Chancellor of Kohima Diocese, Elias Lotha, President of Catholic Association Nagaland and Isaac Bukli, AICF’s coordinator for North East India have spoken in this meeting.

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Manipur ADC members reiterate demand 'Strengthening ADCs will bring down unrest & chaos in hill areas' Newmai News Network New Delhi | September 8 The members of Autonomous District Councils (ADC) of Manipur have expressed belief that strengthening the ADCs under the Sixth Schedule will bring down the unrest and chaos in Manipur’s hill areas and development and progress will subsequently follow.

After their ten-day campaign in New Delhi for the devolution of powers to the six ADCs of Manipur, the members returned to Manipur today. Several ADC members had arrived in New Delhi on August 27 and met Central leaders including the President of India. They also staged sit-in protest at Jantar Mantar on September 5.

ADC member from C h u r a c h a n d p u r, H Mangchinkhup informed that Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh assured the ADC members he would look into the matter and address it at the earliest. The ADC members also met DoNER Minister General (Rtd) VK Singh, who said he would collect all the relevant documents on the ADC of Ma-

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NSUM demands judicial enquiry in Ukhrul Killing

MuMbai, SepteM- condemned the killing 144 of CrPC on any ground, ber 8 (MexN): Naga of Autonomous District “mostly illegitimate, which Students’ Union Mumbai Councilor Ngalanzar Mal- grossly breaches the fun(NSUM) has demanded ue and demanded judicial damental right of Iakhs of people of Ukhrul.” In Ukhrul, immediate judicial enqui- enquiry for the same.

Condemning the “bar- NSUM stated, the reason for ry into the killings of unarmed civilians in Ukhrul baric act of Commando imposing 144 CrPC is not on August 30 and immedi- IRBs” in the August 30 in- clear, “what we have seen is ate intervention of the Gov- cident, NSUM stated it was that it has brought turmoil ernment of India. NSUM disheartening and painful to the people of Ukhrul.” made this demand during that “the very troops who are NSUM thus demanded the a candlelight vigil it orga- supposed to protect the civil- State Government of Maninized on September 6 here ians are massacring them.” pur to withdraw 144 CrPC “It is even more disap- and Manipur Police Comto “sympathize” the loss of two “martyrs” and to con- pointing that the State Gov- mando/ Indian Reserved demn the incident. About ernment of Manipur still Battalion from Ukhrul “since 400 Nagas, including stu- believes in use of weapons the public unanimously dedents, working people and as the only tool to solve civil- mand for its withdrawal, afchurch leaders attended ians' demand,” NSUM stat- ter all the people constitute ed. The government, it said, the government; and the the condolence service.

A press release from should engage in negotia- representatives are for repNSUM president Wung- tions with citizens, especially resenting public interest.”

Manipur ADC members with Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi. (NNN Photo) NSUM further extendshok Khokyar, advisor Tali unarmed peace protesters, ed heartfelt condolences nipur and address the mat- Amendment Act 2008. "But devolution of the powers and uled Provision of the Consti- Jamir, and general secre- rather than using force.

NSUM also questioned to the families of the two ter after a thorough study. to our utter dismay even as functions under the said Acts tution to all the 6 ADCs, the tary Chenithung Ezung Union Minister of State for we complete four years we and Rules, the ADC Elections members lamented that the informed that NSUM also the imposition of Section 'martyrs’.

Home Kiren Rijiju had re- see no change and are de- was withheld since 1989 in hill areas of Manipur is the portedly told the members nied of powers bestowed demand for extending the only tribal areas in North that the devolution of pow- under the said Act. Accord- provisions of the Sixth Sched- East India “which is ignored, ers to the ADCs in Manipur is ing to the new Act, there uled Provision of the Indian unattended and unjustly left a must and assured them his were 26 (twenty six) sub- Constitution to these ADCs." out from extension of the utmost service on the issue. jects enlisted under SecThe ADC members fur- Sixth Schedule Provision of iMphal, SepteMber 8 (aNi): The Ma- state highways in the Naga inhabited arnipur Government has withdrawn prohibi- eas of the state is still going on," he added.

The ADC members al- tion 29 in sub-section (1) of ther said that three succes- the Constitution of India.”

The blockade had badly affected the leged that successive gov- the principal Act," the ADC sive State governments had Several memorandums tory orders imposed under Section 144 of the ernments, both in the State members stated. adopted resolutions for 6th have been submitted to the Criminal Procedure Code on the town and transportation of essential commodities and Centre, have denied According to them, the schedule implementation State as well as to the Cen- district of Ukhrul, where two persons were to the state through Imphal-Dimapur them their rights and pow- existing 6 ADCs, i.e., Chura- based on the recommenda- tral Govt. to “redress our killed in police firing during recent protests. and Imphal-Silchar national highways.

State Principal Secretary (Home) Dr. J. However, no report of any untoward iners under the Manipur (Hill chandpur, Chandel, Sadar tion of the Hill Areas Com- grievances, unfortunately Areas) District Council Act, Hills, Senapati, Ukhrul and mittee (HAC) Manipur. all these prayer have so far Suresh Babu said, "The state government cident has been reported.

The Manipur government had im1971. This led to a boycott Tamenglong were installed However, the issue was kept remained unnoticed," the reviewed the law and order situation in the posed prohibiting order code under seccall and for 20 years, the in the year 1973 in pursuance in abeyance by the State Gov- members stated. "We feel town and it has significantly improved."

"Security forces deployed in Ukhrul tion 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code ADCs were nonfunction- of the North Eastern Reorga- ernment despite repeated re- proud to be part of the Ining in Manipur hill areas. nization Act, 1971 and later minders by the Central Gov- dian democracy system, will also be withdrawn gradually if there before the clash with the protestors took In 2010, election to passed as Parliamentary Act ernment. but it pained our heart to is further improvement. Meanwhile, the place on August 30. Both the UNC and the ADCs was held under called ‘The Manipur (Hill Reiterating their de- experience alienation, dis- indefinite economic blockade called by NSUD have been demanding the removal the Manipur (Hill Areas) Areas) District Council Act, mand for implementation crimination, deprivation, the United Naga Council (UNC) from the of section 144, which they see it as a threat fourth of this month on all national and to their democratic right.

District Council, Third 1971’. "However, due to non of Extension of Sixth Sched- and subjugation.”

Prohibitory orders withdrawn from Ukhrul district

With multi donor backing out, GoI to fund transmission lines in Arunachal & Sikkim GuWahati, SepteMber 8 (et): Facing stiff opposition from the China over external multi donor agency funding power projects in Northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim, government of India has decided to fund interstate and intra state transmission line on its own. The project will costs around Rs 9877 Crore.

The power ministry will soon convene a meeting of those opposing the 2000 MW Lower Subansari project along AssamArunachaL Pradesh border to break the logjam.

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Centre directs M'laya not to hold talks with Garo outfit ShillONG, SepteMber 8 (NNN): Meghalaya Government today said it was asked by the Centre not to hold talks with the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) as the outfit is still carrying out ‘violence and illegal activities’ in Garo Hills region.

The GNLA has been declared as a “terrorist group” by the Centre. “The Centre has advised the State Government not to hold talks with them (GNLA) as they are still very much active in carrying out violence and illegal activities in Garo Hills,” the Under Secretary to the Government of Meghalaya (in charge political) B Khongwir said in a statement issued here on Monday.

The statement came in the wake of the GNLA’s recent threat of serial blasts in Garo Hills region while expressing “unhappiness” over the Chief Minister’s initiative to hold talks with the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council (HNLC).

The banned GNLA outfit has threatened to conduct a wave of serial blasts in Garo Hills targeting government institutions and Congress offices in retaliation against Chief Minister Mukul Sangma for allegedly sidelining Garo outfits in talks while preparing the groundwork for peace negotiations with the Khasi outfit HNLC. The government however said, “It has earlier written to the Central Government the need for holding talks with GNLA and other militant groups in order to rid the State of the scourge of insurgency and ensure that developmental projects do not get stalled.”

"The State Government would like to place on record its genuine commitment for bringing in peace and harmony amongst all sections of the people...," said the statement.

Goyal while interacting through the video conferencing with the media persons in Guwahati on Sunday said, "World Bank is reluctant to fund power projects in Arunachal and Sikkim following which Centre has stepped in and implement the interstate an intra state transmission line project in Northeast India."

He added, "We will doing this project without World Bank support as we are self respecting country and will do it despite international agency going back on it commitments."

Sources in power ministry said that Union government is

trying to clear Rs 15000 Crore externally aided rural electrification project for six Northeastern states which are languishing since last four years. "For two states Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim the fund will be provided by the union government.

External agencies have shied away from funding projects in Arunachal and Sikkim. China has often claimed Arunachal as it territory," sources added.

NHPC's 2000 MW Lower Subansiri hydro power project is stalled since 2011 following massive protest from the anti dam groups. The project is facing mas-

sive cost overrun.

Goyal said, "We have called meeting with different stakeholders including those groups opposing it on September 12 however owing to by election in Assam, the meeting is postponed. I am ceased by the problem of Subansari. We will discuss and find way forward."

The power minister informed that one unit of NTPC's 750 MW Bongaigaon Thermal Power Station (BTPS) in Assam will start functioning by this year.

"The project has faced delay as there were problems in Bodoland." The area has seen two ma-

jor ethnic riots. Goyal added that he is in touch with chief ministers of Northeast India especially with Arunachal to find out ways to augment power production from the region.

"With an aim to maximize electricity production from hydro electric (potential 1, 48,000 MW) particularly in the Northeast so that region gets powers and also benefits from trading surplus power. We are working on the environment clearance for the Dibang project. Time bound action plan to expedite environmental clearances have been developed."

Church body calls for anti-AFSPA meet ShillONG, SepteMber 8 (tNN): A church body has arranged for a public meeting at the Durbar Hall of Mission Compound here on September 11 to seek repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958, which is operational particularly in Manipur and Kashmir, as an expression of solidarity with all those who are for repealing of the "draconian act".

"A letter will be addressed and sent to the Prime Minister, home, law and DONER ministers to bring a Bill in the next session of Parliament for repealing AFSPA as military law and rule cannot co-exist side by side and put democrat-

ic functioning of governance on the backburner," church leader P B M Basaiawmoit said.

Citing the anti-AFSPA struggle by Irom Sharmila, he said that in August 2004, the executive committee of the National Council of Churches in India had written to the then President and PM to have the Act repealed. "Its Peoples' Forum Pre-Assembly and Quadrennial Assembly held in Bangalore in April 2012, had passed resolutions to the effect," he said.

"In 2005, the Justice Jeevan Reddy Commission of Enquiry had recommended that AFSPA be repealed and so did the UN special rapporteur on Human Rights,

not once but twice. Many eminent persons had said that such a law, similar to military rule, has no place in a democracy. However, all this has fallen on deaf

ears," the release read, adding that simultaneous public meetings would be held in the northeast to urge the Centre to repeal AFSPA.

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Tuesday 9 September 2014

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herefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death way death came to all people, because all sinned. Romans 5:12 Ever since the beginning of creation the first sins of the first male and female became a snare to the entire human race. The consequences of the fall of Adam and Eve was severe and disastrous and just as they were destined to fall, we were also born in the way we were destined to be born. In the Word of God the curses pronounced on sins are scary and if sinners invest in sin, their wages will be death. Every church has to understand that the cross of Christ signifies the condemnation of sin, death and wickedness. In regard to the condemnation of the wicked the Bible says “All sinners will be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off. (Psalm 37:38). This gives us multiple reasons to be awakened to a certain degree of what we must be informed with. There will certainly be condemnation as far as the curses of sins are concerned but the sealed ones will have no reason to fear even if they are to be killed for the cause of their faith. As far as the numbers of the righteous are concerned the scripture says “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” In another passage it is also written “There is no one righ-

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s, as Christians and therefore with the of course logical but ‘taking for granted’ attitude and mindframe, we usually do not pronounce it vocally but our way of thinking translates it all into as if crying out aloud - Big deal! But it is their duty. It is akin to like us not counting our blessings but more of complaining as we face and tackle the day to day cares of life. But if we really care to look, read, hear and see instead of just like flipping over the pages of a book or a newspaper with just a cursory glance or a go-through at only the headlines as many of us are prone to, we will see the real picture emerge where the Church, right from its earlier avatar as the “Naga Church Ministers Mission for Peace” (NCMMP) of 1957 to the NBCC and its various offshoots and branches of today has been and is doing its fair share in its mission and prerogative to bring about the desired changes wherever and whenever necessary in the life and mindset of us Nagas which have already proclaimed Christ as the head of our respective homes, the unseen host at every meal and the silent listener

teous, not even one” (Romans 3:10,21).

These truths teach us to learn more of what we do not know and it adds unto us the deeper things of God. The law was given that we might be conscious of sin and it is only by the Holy Spirit that we get convicted of how unholy, evil and perverse our past had been. Every past sins of our lives must have certainly pierced us somewhere and if our sins are to be taken into account we will not be able to stand before the judgment seat of Christ. However we have this to our delight that in Christ there is forgiveness, redemption and the salvation of our souls in this life and in the age that is to be. The death and the resurrection of Christ had the world of darkness shaken and it is we who will look on in triumph over our enemies.

Unrighteous as we are we would have perished in our sins and unfaithful as we had been we would have been destroyed had it not been because of love.

In regard to the nature of Christ, the Gospel of John accounts “Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ (John 1:1617). This opens our eyes to know more of all that we need to know and it convicts us of the love of Christ. In regard to the doctrine of life and death, the Holy

Scriptures states “Consequently, just as one trespass result in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous ( Romans 5:18,19 ). It is only in Christ that we can have salvation and it is only by the power of His blood that we can be cleansed from all our sins. The Bible says “You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. While in the preceding verse it is also written “But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. (Romans 6:18,22) The end lines reveal the process of our sanctification and it clearly speaks of the promise reserved for the loved ones of God. Being who we are now we cannot live in the way we used to. Not to live as sinners but as saints. To be in step with what we love and represent will ensure us more rewards, greater crowns and more of God’s love in us. The Holy One sent by God sinned not and it is important for us to remain spotless, and blameless that we may be considered worthy of taking part in the wedding of the Lamb in the next life. It is only by ho-

liness that we can see God and be where He is. The life lived in this world is short; no one knows who dies first. But as long as we live in the truth, the powers which are in us will train and equip us to fight the battles that are on and which are to be. Christ now speaks to us to live in His will and the benefit of it will lead to greater success, greater holiness and greater satisfaction in the truth. The righteous blessings are now been released and whoever receives it receives it and whoever has it has the Spirit of Christ. At its appointed time everyone will begin to clearly know what the Word means and blessed will be the souls who are God’s. Let everyone who has heard this message be revived in the powers of salvation. The new age of holiness that is to be is reserved for those whom it has been reserved for. God calls! God cries and it is we who matters most to Him. The greater feelings of God will be felt by us when we constantly live in the great powers of His Holiness. Greater crowns and glory belongs to those who loves Christ. The race is on and God never sleeps.

From NCMMP to NBCC

to our every conversation.

Be it in its endeavor to bring about ‘clean election campaign’ or in its role and views on the ‘Prohibition Act’, the views and actions are all very pragmatic and clear. While the ‘clean election campaign’ is in itself self-explanatory, on the ‘Prohibition Act’ the Church has made it clear in very clear terms that the Act has to stay and the ball hence is in the enforcers court which is not the role of the Church. There is no arguing in this case that the government of the day is in a sticky wicket. The ongoing ‘Catch Them Young’ campaign of the NBCC has not just caught the imagination of the young but also of the not so young and the old alike. Ask any young mind and with the exception of the very naïve, there is just no young mind whose imagination has not been touched by this campaign. On the subject of peace in Nagaland, much has already been said and done by the Church, but as we all know, peace is a subject where much is never enough. Today, it will be our own undoing if we fail to read the times and correct the wrongs by seriously weighing heavy the counsel of

the Church whose priority it seems brings to the forefront, reconciliation and unity.

As stated by the press release of the NBCC on the occasion of the 6th of Sept.2014 being the 50th year of Peace Day (Ceasefire) we see that the objective of the Church since the early days was not only to prevent conflict but to promote a just society where people can exist in an environment of peaceful coexistence.

I take the liberty of reproducing below the sincere appeal of the “Naga Church Ministers Mission for Peace (NCMMP) of(in) 1957: “The vision of the crucified Lord has already become blurred to many Christians. How can we take up arms against one another when we know that we are standing under the shadow of the cross on which the Prince of Peace was crucified…? There is no time for misunderstanding and indecision among us. Now is the time for us to decide what we really want to be. Through the prayers of the Church of Christ this power of the love of God in Christ Jesus is stronger than the hatred of man.” Quoting again from the said Press release of the NBCC, we see Rev. Kijung,

one of the members of the NCMMP, poignantly reflecting the thoughts and burdens that were also going through in the minds of the pioneering peace workers, “Just half a century ago, we were saved from head hunting and now how can I believe in the worse killing of my people?” This gave them the insight and the need to develop a more cohesive Church organization and the urgency for a high level Peace Mission to negotiate between the GOI and the FGN thereby leading to the ceasefire of 1964. Recently on the 6th of Sept.2014 while addressing the 50th anniversary of the Indo-Naga Ceasefire day to an august gathering, Rev. K.Luruo Chaplain NBCC very fluently did hit the nail’s head when he in just so many words said it all – “there is no way for our political solution unless we come together united.”

It is imperative that Nagas learn from history for it has been said that if we do not learn from it we will be condemned to repeat it. India, under the repressive rule of the British and after much hardship and loss had its first war of independence in the year 1857. When 2nd World War came, India had

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the opportunity to conspire and even side with the Axis power to overcome the common enemy, the British. India even organized and formed its armed wing, the Indian National Army (INA) under Subhas Chandra Bose. That Subhas Chandra Bose died tragically is another story. We have to remember that it was only in the very later stages of the war that the balance tilted in favor of the Allies. India however fought along with the British and ultimately savored victory thereby saving the lives of countless of Indians. Who, where and when may have died along with the body but India lives because of the dead. Angami Zaphu Phizo may be long dead. But whatever may be, he is the brain behind Naga self-respect and Nationalism and we owe it to him to remain united.

Lastly, a tailpiece. No one can just toss up a coin and say, “Head I win, Tail you lose”. It would be like that rule under Section 294(a) of the Indian Penal code 1860 which clearly says “Suicide is legal but attempts are not.” So if you succeed, you die. And if you fail, you are arrested.

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Erratic weather impacts tea production in India Coonoor, September 8 (IAnS): Erratic weather, scanty rains and high temperatures this summer have impacted tea production in India, as evident from 18 million kg (average) lower yield during the first six months of 2014.

“Changing weather pattern in north India, especially in the eastern states resulted in tea production declining 22 million kg first half of this year compared to same period in 2013,” an official of the commodity planters’ representative body told IANS here.

Belated rains during June and July in south India, however, benefited its planters to produce 4.5 million kg more tea than in the like period last year as the southwest monsoon had set in late.

Production declined 7.9 percent in north India to 260 million kg in January-June this year from 283 million kg in like period last year, while it increased marginally to 121 million kg in south India from 116 million kg year ago.

On all-India level, production dipped 4.5 percent to 381 million kg in first six months of 2014 from 399 million kg in same period year ago.

“Climatic changes such as prolonged dry period and peak monsoon are not conducive for the crop intake. Fluctuating seasons, global warming and sudden changes in weather impact tea gardens as much as our lives,” United Planters Association of South India (Upasi) commodities head R. Sanjith said.

North India accounts for about 80 percent of the country’s tea production, as the area of the crop cultivation is larger and widely spread, covering 459,610 hectares as against 119,740 hectares in south India, where tea is grown mostly in Tamil Nadu in 80,460 hectares and Kerala in 37,140 hectares.

Of the total production (1,200 million kg) in the country in 2013, northern states contributed 959 million kg while southern states 242 million kg, with Tamil Nadu accounting for 173

million kg, Kerala 63 million kg and Karnataka 6 million kg only.

“Total production in south India for this calendar year (2014) is expected to be more or less same as last year (242 million kg), as rainfall is less, due to which tea gardens are unable to follow standard farm practices,” Sanjith noted.

The state-run Tea Board had revised the production from 2011 by bringing in organised and unorganised producers, especially in northern states, as many of them were not reporting their crop output earlier.

Of the country’s production in 2013, which was 74 million higher over 2012, main contribution (72 million kg) was from northern states for the record crop, while southern states posted marginal growth of 2.4 million kg.

“Southern states, however, have come out of low crop trap, which grappled the tea plantations over the past four years,” Sanjith said on the margins of the association’s 121st annual conference here, about 520 km from Chennai.

Production worldwide increased 6.5 percent (298 million kg) in 2013 to 4,907 million kg from 4,609 million kg in 2012, with China contributing 1,925 million kg, followed by India (1,200 million kg), Kenya 433 million kg, Sri Lanka 340 million kg and Vietnam 180 million kg.

China also continues to account for bulk of the increase in production, with 135 million kg, followed by India 74 million kg, Kenya 63 million kg, Sri Lanka 12 million kg and Vietnam 6.3 million kg, as weather conditions were favourable in the top five producing countries.

“Though 2014 started with a decent carry-over crop from 2013, production trends in the first seven months (JanuaryJuly) indicate a lower crop due to adverse weather conditions in most of the tea-growing regions. Hence, crop worldwide is expected to be 15 million kg lower this year over 2013,” Sanjith added.

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The Morung Express

Tuesday 9 September 2014

Dimapur

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Nagaland University Inching Forward @20 (Foundation Day Lecture of Nagaland University 2014, Kohima Campus, Meriema) 1. Brief Genesis of Nagaland University The history of Nagaland University dates back to 6 September, 1994, when by an Act of Parliament the Nagaland University was carved out of the erstwhile NEHU, Kohima Campus, which was itself established in 1978. Nagaland University is spread in three campuses including Kohima Campus, Medziphema Campus, and with its headquarters at Lumami Campus. The School of Engineering & Technology and Management is temporarily located at Dimapur.

2. Growth & Development From providing a few courses in limited fields in its initial years, there is today over 34 post graduate academic departments in

Nagaland University offering MA, MSc, MCom, MSc Agri, MBA, MPhil and PhD degrees in various disciplines under 5 Schools - Social Science, Humanities and Education, Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology and Management. The University also provides undergraduate courses in BSc Agri, BE, BTech., Diploma in Mass com. etc Nagaland University has 61 colleges affiliated to it. There are 46 colleges offering Arts courses, 14 colleges providing Commerce and 11 colleges offering Science, 2 Institutes giving BBA course, 8 B.Ed colleges, and 3 Law colleges. In a sense, the academic landscape of Nagaland University does not look as attractive as it should be.

Professional and Technical Education is woefully lacking. Nonetheless, on this day I would not be doing justice if I do not highlight the encouraging strides that the University has

made during the last few admittedly a humungous years of its journey. exercise.

3. Introduction of new 3. Major Achievements in Departments - Psycholothe last few years gy, Linguistics, Mass ComNagaland University munication to cite a few has made steady progress and many more courses in term of of study are waiting in the 1. One of the most strik- wings such as M.Ed, Tribal ing improvements made in Language Studies, South the University may be said East Asian Studies etc. to be in the realm of physi4. Initiatives taken to cal infrastructure facilities. streamline research, adConstruction of academic ministration and examidepartment buildings in nation section:- The latest SASRD, construction of hos- case in point being that tels for both boys and girls the Kohima Campus has in all the campus are some been given the autonomy major developments. The li- to conduct the postgradubrary building construction ate course examinations at Kohima Campus and the for the Departments under auditorium at Lumami are it - Education, English, Hisappreciated among others. tory & Archaeology, ComThe financial assistance giv- merce, Tenyidie, Geology, en for development of facili- Psychology and Linguisties for women in the Univer- tics. Such a development is sity has been fully utilized in noteworthy as it is expected all campuses. to usher in positive changes 2. Restructuring of un- in the examination system, dergraduate courses into ensuring efficiency and acsemester system in line countability, speedy/timewith the UGC proposal and ly declaration of results of along with it the recasting postgraduate degrees, MA of the syllabi, which was dissertation results, MPhil

and PhD theses results/degrees.

5. Recruitment of teachers and non-teaching staff have been made to fill up vacant positions and advertisement of some remaining posts is in the offing.

CAS promotion for teachers and non-teaching staff have been taken care, although much more remains to be done in this front.

6. Lately, training and orientation programs for officers and staff of various groups had been organized which is commendable as all levels of personnel working in the University need to be refreshed and oriented regularly to increase efficiency and productivity.

7. Attempts to provide internet connectivity in the campuses is appreciated. It is hoped that better service will be provided in the near future. Collaborative programs are on the rise and the importance of Inter-departmental and inter-disciplinary researches

will depend on good internet services.

8. Evaluation system is expected to drastically improve for the undergraduate, postgraduate and research degrees with the computerization of the university examination section. Results of the undergraduate courses had been declared on record time for the first time under the semester system.

4. What are the Objectives of Higher Education/University?

The objectives of a university/ higher education are evident from the following observations: 1. Jawaharlal Nehru in his address at the Allahabad University Convocation in 1947 clearly stated that “A University stand for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search for truth. It stands for the onward march of human race to ever higher objectives. If the universities discharged

Dimapur police NSCN (I-M) questions AR ‘motives and philosophy’ acts on ‘extortion’ DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): The Dimapur Police Anti-Extortion Team constituted to check ‘extortion’ and other such illegal activities especially in the commercial areas of the town have apprehended 7 (seven) persons on charges of extortion in a week. The “extortionists” were arrested in three separate incidents, informed a press release from the Dimapur Addl. SP/PRO. Two people, identified as Aghato Achumi (36) of Lukhiyi village, Dimapur and Thungbemo Kikon (48) of Wvoruku village, Wokha, were apprehended on September 6 while the two were allegedly “in the process of collecting illegal taxes in Ghorapatti.” Two tax coupons in the name of GPRN/NSCN were seized from their possession.

In another unrelated case of alleged extortion, two FGN cadres were apprehended on September 6. The cadres identified as Arun Chishi (33) of Kiyito village, Dimapur and Kivito (29) of Hozhekhe village under Niuland had reportedly threatened and put an

extortion demand to the management of a shopping mall located at Clock tower.

On learning of the demand, “the team acted swiftly and apprehended the two extortionists when they were in the process of collecting the demand money,” stated the press release.

In another incident, three people were apprehended on September 7 from Ghorapatti while they were in the process of “collecting illegal taxes from trucks.” The three have been identified as Ikaho Swu (25) of Hevishe village under Niuland, Zakai Awomi (26) of Homeland village under Niuland and Kuhoi Zhimomi (43) of Keltomi village under Aghanato. 14 illegal tax collection receipts bearing the name Lorry challan of Deopani Sand Suppliers Agency and Assam Sand Suppliers Agency were seized from their possession. Cases have been registered against the arrested accused persons who have been forwarded to court while investigation is ongoing, it was informed.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): The NSCN (IM) today stated that the motive of Assam Rifles (AR) in hilly areas is “nothing but to dominate” the Naga people even though they call themselves as “Friends of the People”. In a press note received here, Khekuto Jakhalu, Secretary, Union Territory, GPRN said that, under the pretext of “peace and triangulate atmosphere”, the AR is creating many “local intelligence” and going directly against

the people Naga people and “knowingly ignoring” ceasefire agreement between Government of India and the NSCN (IM). Condemning the raid by 33 AR on the residence of Roko Leacy, Supervisor Chumukedima area residence on September 8 at 5 AM and meting out unnecessary harassment to him in front of his entire family members without “any prove or evidence”, the NSCN (IM) asserted that, the Naga people were no to longer foolish to

“fall down” before the AR modalities. Further it added that, while “today they raids only NSCN member’s residence”, but tomorrow they might raid public as well as NGO’s residence on the pretext of “guiding and supporting National workers”.

In this regard, it requested all the “peace loving citizens and various NGO’s members” to condemn such “draconic act” practiced by AR when the Nagas are eagerly waiting for Indo-Naga political solu-

tion. “We, the Naga People should rise against our birth rights from the Government of India and not to Indian agent AR” it added. Further, it stated that, the AR is trying to take control and rule over the entire Naga people and have started interfering in Naga political talk, State politics and business field.

The Secretary, therefore, appealed to all the right thinking citizens to “judge and analysis” the pros and cons of AR’s ideology “Friends of the People” thoroughly.

their duties adequately, then it will be well with the nation and the people”.

2. Radhakhrishnan C o m m i s s i o n Re p o r t 1948-49 remarked that “Dissemination of knowledge, incessant search for new knowledge, unceasing effort to...the meanings of life, provision for professional education are the functions of higher education” 3. Kothari Commission Report 1964-66 states “Education should develop so as to increase productivity, achieve social and national integration, accelerate the process of modernization and cultivate social, moral and spiritual values”.

4. The National Policy of Education 1986 (modified in 1992) visualizes that higher education should be more dynamic as never before. The main feature of the programmes and strategies to impart the necessary dynamism to higher education system will consist of (i) con-

solidation and expansion of institutions (ii) development of autonomous colleges and departments (iii) redesigning of courses (iv) training of teachers (v) strengthening research (vi) improvement in efficiency (vii) creation of structure for coordination (viii) mobility (xi) finances and (x) review and monitoring.

5. What Makes a Good University?

Some of the key elements that make a good university or quality education are: 1. Good Infrastructure Facilities 2. Effective TeachingLearning Process 3. Robust Curriculum and Co-Curricular Activities 4. Strong Community Support 5. Active Student Participation (Foundation Day lecture was delivered by Prof. Dr. Buno Liegise on September 6, 2014 at Kohima Campus Meriema.)

KMC informs ward panchayat KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): The Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) informed all ward panchayat chairman/colony officials that the labour department is organizing a state level programme on registration of building and other construction workers’ Welfare Cess Act, 1996 on September 10 at 10:00 AM at The Heritage, Old DC Bungalow, Kohima. Er. Vikho-o Yhoshu, Parliamentary Secretary for Veterinary and Animal Husbandry and the Chairman of NBOCW Welfare Board and Dr. Longri, Parliamentary Secretary for Labour and Employment will address the meet. All ward panchayat chairman/colony officials have been requested to attend the programme and acquire the benefit of being registration under the Act.

PHED Jalukie informs

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): The Public Health Engineering Department, Jalukie Sub-Division today informed that water supply to Officers Colony/D B Lane will be affected for some time due to damages to existing water supply pipe line. In a press note, S K Dep, SDO, PHED Jalukie Sub-Division added that the pipeLahieü Metsieo invoke lines were damage due to ongoing drainage construcGod blessing. The function tion at that area and requested the consumer to bear the also witness performances inconveniences till the lines are repaired. from various schools in the BJP Peren mourns area including;- ‘Oath to my teacher’ by GPS Phe- PEREN, SEPTEMBER 9 (MExN): The BJP, Peren Dissazou; Special song by trict today conveys its deep sorrow over the demise of Late GMS Centre; Stage play by Ramgiu Zeliang, on September 6 at his residence in TenGHSS Chiechama; Action ning Heraka Village. A press note by issued by N C Max song by Don Bosco; and Daliam, President, BJP Peren described Late Ramgiu as a dance by Sharon School. sincere, honest and true friend and he a strong believer in A vote of thanks was deliv- Heraka, an indigenous faith. It further added that, his sad ered by CSU President The- demise was a great loss for the BJP as he was one of their arjasetuo Keditsu at the end. dent supporter and sympathizer of the Party. The Party also The programme was orga- offers their prayers of grace to his bereaved family memnized by Village Education bers and peace for the departed soul.

Committee in collaboration with Chiechama Stu- WSBAK offers condolence dents’ Union.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): The Western Sümi Baptist Akükühou Küqhakulu (WSBAK) today expresses their profound grief over the sad demise of Late Reverend Sükhalu Shohe, Chaplain, SABAK Mission Centre, Pughoboto on 6th September 2014. In a press note, WSBAK’s Executive Secretary, Rev. S Vitoshe Swu ciety. He also added that,the described Late Rev. Sükhalu as a “man of God” who faithteachers are the backbone fully had served the Lord in various capacities during his of the Nation and the Torch lifetime and his humility and goodness will be an ample bearers of the Country. He example for all other serving in the ministry. The associaalso gave away the Tobu tion further conveyed their heartfelt condolence to his Sub-Division Teachers bereaved family members and prayers of eternal peace award to three teachers. for the departed soul.

H Neangnyu, President, KNSK Tobu unit and Ngao- DSAK seminar bu, Vice President, Konyak Union Tobu Branch also KOHIMA, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): The Dzulhami exhorted the gathering. Students Association, Kohima will be organizing a semiThe function was chaired nar on September 13 at 10:00 AM at CBCK jubilee memoby H. Rose Monyu and vote rial hall, Kitsubozou, Kohima. All the Dzulhami students of thanks was delivered by (Class VIII & above) and youth have been informed to attend the seminar.

B B Nyakba.

Teachers’ Day Celebration at Chiechama CHIECHAMA, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): With the rest of the country, Teacher’s Day was celebrated at Village Council Hall, Chiechama with Menuokholie Kire,Deputy Director, Higher Education as the chief guest.

Speaking at the function, Kire exalts the teachers for their selfless service and contribution to the society.

Appreciating the contribution of the teacher, he urged the teachers to have a vision, determination, a role model, job satisfaction and expert in subject mat-

ter in order to guide the students properly.

While encouraging the teachers for dedication in their profession, the chief guest said that a good teacher is a source of information, guide and a motivator and called upon the students to inculcate sense of respect for their teachers.

Teacher are deserved to get respect as they are molding one’s life, he added.

In the exhortation speech, Village Council Chairman, Mhalezolie Metha showered respect and honor to the teachers

for their contribution in the task of human resource development. He made a fervent appeal to the teachers to recognize their weaknesses and rededicate themselves to be more sincere and devoted teachers.

On the occasion, teachers were honored by presenting token by the Village Council in recognition of their devotion and dedication in their profession. The programme was chaired

by Village Education Committee Chairman Neisatuo Keditsu; Chiechama Women Society President

DAYO condemns ‘threat’ Teachers’ day celebrated at Noklak and Tobu by illegal immigrants NOKLAK, SEPTEMBER 8 (DIPR): Noklak sub-division celebrated Teachers day at GHS Noklak HQ on September 5 with L Samuel gracing the occasion as the Chief Guest.

Speaking on the occasion, L Samuel called upon the leaders, organizations and individual to give their supports in the field of education for the brighter future of the youngsters so that they would attain greater educational stature. He aslo stated that, education is only tools which could bring social reformation

and to allow the society to live in harmony. "Teachers who had sacrificed their time in labour to sow the seeds of education will ever be remembered in the community" he added.

The Head G.B also delivered short speech and awards were presented to the teachers under SDEO, Noklak. Poem recitation and choreography were also presented by the students. The programme was chaired

by Mongshei Village (VEC)

Abiogenesis performs at Down Town University

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): A joint setting of Chang Tribal Council and Khiamniungan Tribal Council was held on September 5 at at Wokyung (Chingmei Village) to discuss matters pertaining to an incident between NNC/FGN Longdon, Sub-Region Khiamniungan Region and Dr. Sungmo, SMO Noklak on

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): The Dimapur Ao Youth Organization (DAYO) today expresses their “serious concern” over the alleged “threatening words” made by Abdul Basit against Pastor James Ngullie and his wife on September 2 at New Market Dimapur. In a press note received here, K Longri Imchen, President, DAYO and Meyatoba, Assistant General Secretary stated that, such incident not only evokes “unrest psychosis”

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): Abiogenesis, the folk fusion band from Nagaland performed at the annual fresher’s day of Down Town University on September 6. With the perfect opening song “The Riverside” from their album “Slice of Heaven”, Abiogenesis announces that it was there to celebrate and make it a merry gala event. The students along with the faculty and VIP invitees were invited to sing along with the band at top of their lungs especially in the choruses when Naga chants like howey and war cries were belted out.

The band comprising of Arenla on Vocals/ Bamhum, Kora on Bass, Moa on Guitar/Bamhum/ Harmonica and Aso on Drums performed for ex-

and “endangers” life of innocent people but also creates unrest in the society.

Therefore, the organisation appealed the concern authority to arrest and punishes the culprit as per the law of the land. Further, it reiterated its stand for unity and progress and requested the government, civil organisation and all right thinking person to curb the “ever rising menace of Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrant (IBI) activities in our society”.

member. Village Council Members, student leaders and staff of SDEO Noklak attended the function.

Teachers Day was also celebrated at Tobu with JEO, M K Sen as the chief guest on September 5 at GHS Hall.

Addressing the gathering, M K Sen urged the students to respect and honour their teachers and parents as they are the guiding stars who will shape and mould their life in a proper manner as the future leaders of the so-

Joint sitting of CKS and CTC Mt. Sinai School welcomes July 17. In a joint press note, the Sessional Chairman & Vice-President of Chang Khulei Setshang (CKS), T Mongko and the Sessional Secretary & General Secretary of KTC stated that, both the parties willingly apologized and agreed to forgive one another in the presence of CKS and KTC and accepted to settle the issue. Further it added that,

as the issue was resolved amicably between the two parties at the presence of both the tribal body, all previous articles published in various media outlet regarding the issue become null and void from immediate effect. The press note was further countersigned

by CKS‘s President, M P Noksang and KTC’s Executive Chairman, Khaikho.

'Liquor prohibition achievable' actly an hour and played number of songs from their 4 albums thoroughly entertaining the crowd and left them demanding for more.

The Down Town Charity Trust was formed in 1997 by the Down Town hospital Ltd. The trust set out to start one of the largest and inte-

grated educational campuses in the region, which will be able to provide a variety of professional programmes at a reasonable fee structure. The trust started with B.Sc Nursing Program in 2008. Today, the university is offering almost 50 programmes under various categories.

DIMAPUR, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): The excise department today informed the prohibition of liquor is being implemented successfully in the districts of Tuensang, Mon, Phek, Peren and Longleng district with active support and cooperation of mothers’ association, youth organisations and

civil societies. In a press note, the Commissioner of Excise, Moangwati Aier, IAS added that, since the district of Dimapur, Mokokchung, Mon lies in close proximity with Assam Border, special efforts are being made to the by excise and police with the help of civil societies to implement liquor

prohibition in these district. The Commissioner also exudes confidence that the total liquor prohibition can be achieved within a short span of time at this rate. Further, it warned that, the Excise and Police Department will penalize those officials or non-officials drinking liquor in public places.

Yitachu’s T/Day speech

WOKHA, SEPTEMBER 8 (MExN): At a time when the private schools in Nagaland are having acute shortage of Mathematics and Science teachers, the Teachers’ Day speech of Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary for School Education at the State level Teachers’ Day function at NBCC Convention Centre, Kohima, was a big relief for the private schools in the State.

He informed the gathering that the School Education Department is trying to provide one Mathematics and Science teacher to all the private high schools in the State.

Mt. Sinai School, Wokha Headmaster, Thungchibemo T Lotha in a press release said, “It is a known fact that Nagas have mathematics and science phobia resulting acute shortage of Mathematics and Science teach-

ers especially in the private school. It is evident that in recent teachers’ recruitment we have seen that the Government of Nagaland and the Education Department had recruited Mathematics teacher from commerce, engineering and computer background too. If this is the position of Mathematics teacher in government school in the State then there will be no Mathematics teacher in private school in the near future in the State.”

The Headmaster also put across the question, “Can we think of a school without Mathematics and Science subject? Impossible!”

Therefore, the School urges the Parliamentary Secretary for School Education and the Department of School Education to fulfill the commitment at the earliest possible time.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express TuEsDAy 9 sEPTEmbEr 2014 volumE IX IssuE 248

Two sides of the same coin

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olitical sovereignty and Economic sovereignty are two sides of the same coin, interconnected and interdependent upon each other. Yet, the powers that be have used every opportunity to pit one against the other. In essence, sovereignty is not divisible; after all, the exercise of sovereignty lies in the expressed free will of the people. But, it is also a matter of fact that at various points of time in human history, either politics or economics has been at the center of human affairs, and, thus influencing the other. For instance, during the Cold War era political sovereignty primarily impacted the world economy. During this time, the modern welfare State was supreme, boundaries were rigid, the question of nationalism was critical and issues of human rights were central.

After the end of the Cold War, the international community witnessed the gradual shift from political to economic sovereignty as the paramount factor in world affairs. Eventually, elements of economic sovereignty succeeded in establishing its control. This led to the disintegration of States where the power center shifted from States to Corporations and the blurring of boundaries gave rise to ethnicism.

With economic sovereignty at the helm, the consequences have been staggering. The divide between rich-poor has widened and poverty has increased exponentially, communities are breaking down, and intra-state conflicts have increased over resources and rights. During this period the State has declined and strategic alliances have emerged between governments at the same time that territorial sovereignty has eroded.

Measuring which of the two – Political Sovereignty or Economic Sovereignty – has contributed more positively to world affairs is difficult. Perhaps the tendency to view these two phenomena from an existential perspective has only further fueled the argument that one should precede the other.

And, in doing so, not only does it create an illusion that sovereignty can and has been divided, but it usurps people’s inherent capacity to decide and exercise their free will. Eventually, such an erroneous viewpoint only compromises and eliminates people-centered processes when their rights are not honored and all authority is transferred either to State agencies or multi-national corporations. Hence, sovereignty is being reduced to a static concept that is no longer life giving or responsive to peoples’ aspirations.

The capacities, impacts and roles of both Political and Economic sovereignty need to be carefully examined. This requires recognizing that Political and Economic sovereignty are two sides of the same coin that counter balance each other. In doing so, the people will regain their role at the center where they can exercise their sovereignty in accordance to their needs and aspirations that make possible the creation of the ‘unconstructed state.’

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Sandi Villarreal Sojourners

Do We Really Want to Be Transformed?

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IN-FOCUS

he Internet is a wonderful, fascinating, and disturbing place — a petri dish of The Fall characterized by opinion as truth. As the Web Editor of Sojourners, I spend more time than anyone has a right to (or typically, the stomach for) perusing unconscionable clickbait, racism and sexism parading as deeply informed counterthought, various analyses of others’ public failures, and, obviously, cat and baby memes.

I’m not sure how many times a headline has toyed with my emotions, threatening to “blow my mind” by dropping a “truth bomb” that “no one saw coming!” Invariably, whatever is behind the façade of amazement punctuated with eight exclamation points fails to impress (unless it’s this baby goat jumping for joy set to indie acoustic guitar), and I’m left with a handful of moments of my days I’ll never get back.

In the Christian publication world, we easily fall prey to this trend, and I’ll confess I fail on a fairly regular basis. A colleague and I were discussing how there seems to be a clear trend in Christian blog posts that are aimed at airing the church’s dirty laundry in attempts to prove “yeah, we’re Christians, but …” We’re Christians, but we’re not like them. We’re Christians, but you can probably believe whatever you want to believe and it’ll be fine. We’re Christians, but we’re not going to try to convert you. It goes a little something like: Here is a problem. Here’s how the Church (universal) fails. Here’s what the Bible says and/or what Jesus would probably say today. Maybe one day it will be better. Hope and/or Easter.

The Interwebz need this kind of commentary amid all the crap. Especially people who have been victimized by the church’s failures need this kind of commentary.

And I’ll continue to read, praise, and publish this kind of commentary.

But — do we really want to do better? Do we really want to be transformed?

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” –Romans 12:2 How much time do we, as Christians, spend attempting to discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect? I know I’ll never hit “perfect,” but I’ll strive for “acceptable" — maybe “good” when the week is going my way. How often do we shut out the noise, the drumbeat of the news cycle, to process and listen before speaking?

I was lucky enough to go on a contemplative prayer retreat earlier this week. As an intense multitasker, and somewhat of an extrovert who is constantly glued to at least two media devices, the idea of sitting in silence made me incredibly apprehensive. What could possibly fill the void made empty by the lack of my and my colleagues’ voices? Oh, that’s right: God. It’s amazing what silence will do for the soul. Communication doesn’t mean noise. And the failures of this world, the church, and each other don't mean that we shouldn't still strive for “thy kingdom come.”

I know. There’s so much to talk about. There are so many people who are doing it wrong. There are so many stories in need of telling and opinions in need of expressing. There is so much pain and suffering and injustice and death.

There is a world in need of transformation.

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Vanlalruatkima Source: Grist Media

What prohibition meant in my home state of Mizoram

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verybody knows that Gujarat is a dry state.

But few are aware that other states in India are as well – full or partial prohibition exists in Nagaland, Manipur and Lakshadweep.

For 17 years, Mizoram has been under prohibition, but in July this year, the Assembly scrapped the MLTP Act and passed the Mizoram Liquor (Prohibition and Control) Bill 2014, or the MLPC Bill. Under the new rules, sale of alcohol will still be restricted to a degree, but wine shops can open under strict regulations, and people over 21 will be allowed to drink.

The MLPC Rules 2014 will soon be sent to the Law Department for final approval. In layman’s terms, here’s what it will mean: bye-bye prohibition, hello inebriation, no more adulteration.

Ironically, that’s exactly what the MLTP Act managed to cause – it increased the amount of adulterated liquor in the black market.

In Gujarat, there are Special Economic Zones (SEZs) where you can purchase and drink liquor.

Apart from that, permits are given to foreigners, NRIs and “patients”, and I’m sure many of us have our fair share of Gujarati friends who often boast about knowing where they can easily get alcohol in Gujarat.

In Aizawl (the capital district and the most populous one, constituting around 37 percent of the population of Mizoram, going by Census 2011 data) the only places where you can illegally purchase authentic liquor, usually under the cover of darkness, are from the Army and paramilitary camps (the Assam Rifles, the Border Roads Organization and the Army Medical Corps) as they do not come under state law. Only people with good “contacts” can get them on days it is available; for those less fortunate, practically every bootlegger in Mizoram either sells homemade hooch or adulterated alcohol smuggled from across its borders, whether the domestic borders with Tripura, Assam and Manipur, or its international borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar. The three autonomous districts of Southern Mizoram – Chakma, Lai and Mara area are not affected by the MLTP Act. In towns and villages along the porous “international” border of Myanmar, imported alcohol as well as Myanmar brands can easily be obtained.

But smuggling alcohol into the state isn’t an easy affair, and that’s why such a large percentage of liquor in Mizoram is adulterated. It is difficult to transport alcohol via road from Assam, because the staff at the Vairengte check post are extremely vigilant, and they will look through all your baggage and search your vehicle thoroughly (unless you happen to know the right people in the right places, pointing to the alarming factor prevalent in any place where prohibition exists – the nexus between bootleggers and police, and the differential treatment of the “haves” and “have-nots”).

Even after Vairengte check-gate, there is the Kolasib check-gate, aka "Inchhirna kawn". The literal translation of this nickname is "place where everybody regrets!" You either managed to smuggle alcohol past Vairengte check-gate and got caught at Kolasib check-gate. Or you didn't smuggle in any alcohol for fear of being caught but weren't checked at Kolasib check-gate because nobody was on duty there. Either way, plenty of regret.

Air travel is a different story. In India, we’re allowed to carry up to 5liters of alcohol in our check-in luggage on domestic flights, and no airport authority will stop you from carrying alcohol just because your destination is a dry state – that is the responsibility of your destination’s law enforcement agency, not theirs. And yes, those arriving at Lengpui Airport in Mizoram are usually not checked upon arrival. But then again, 5 liters is not a large quantity, especially when all your friends, relatives and the Facebook friends you don’t even know exist suddenly ask you to bring a bottle home for them the moment they know you’re flying home, so happiness doesn’t last very long during vacations. I once had all five bottles of mine confiscated by the airport authority in Kolkata because in order to lighten my luggage, I had transferred the alcohol from their original heavy glass bottles to plastic ones. I learned the hard way that even though we’re allowed to carry up to five bottles of alcohol, we aren’t allowed to tamper with the seal of the bottles! I’ve never been that grumpy during a flight in my entire life.

Since alcohol in Mizoram is in such short supply, profits on smuggled alcohol can easily be maximized by adding ethyl alcohol or other dangerous additives to increase the quantity of liquor available. And that poses a serious threat to health: earlier this year, The Telegraph reported that according to records with Mizoram’s Excise and Narcotics Department, illicit liquor was responsible for 90 deaths in the past 17 years.

Spurious alcohol can mean either locally brewed alcohol, or smuggled Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) that has been adulterated beyond recognition. To give you a taste of what it’s like to consume adulterated alcohol, here’s my personal experience. I live in Mumbai, and I’m a loyal fan of Old Monk rum. During one of my vacations back

How do you feel about prohibition? Would you rather risk dodging vigilantes and drinking spurious alcohol in a dry state or dealing with sometimes-violent addicts in a wet one? As Mizoram prepares to lift prohibition with the passing of a new law in July, Vanlalruatkima takes us through the 17 years of prohibition and what they meant for him

home, I was invited to a dinner party, to which one of my friends brought a bottle of Old Monk (a plastic one) bought from a bootlegger. The moment I drank it, I choked and nearly vomited. The taste of chemicals in it was overwhelming, and I could feel my stomach constricting immediately. Sadly, none of my friends seemed affected because they were accustomed to the taste of that stuff.

Historically, alcohol (different varieties of rice beer) has been very much a part of our Mizo culture.

Back during the days when we were warring tribes fighting amongst ourselves under different clans, when we were Animists long before the missionaries came, we drank at every village festival, danced around the bonfire under the crystal blue moonlight, drunk and carefree with no regard for the future or the number of Facebook friends we had.

There were different types of alcohol for every occasion. Some types of alcohol like zupui were served only on special public occasions such as weddings, a successful hunt, or a successful raid on another village. Others like zufang were consumed at home (even the kids got to drink it!) and served to visiting guests. And there were special zufang served to important guests such as the chieftain of the village or a pasaltha (a warrior who had proven his courage during a hunt or raid). Other types like rakzu (also called tinzuin some regions) were consumed for leisure within the village.

All that changed when the Welsh missionaries arrived in Mizoram in 1894 during British colonization. Along with Christianity, they gave us a script, taught us how to read and write, educated us and abolished some social evils such as the practice of slavery, animal sacrifice, raiding villages and the tradition of proving one’s bravery by beheading somebody from a rival clan in order to become a pasaltha. It is thanks to their relentless effort that even though we had a late start on the literacy scene, Mizoram is now one of the most literate statesin India, second only to Kerala.

But the missionaries also made us do away with other practices, such as our consumption of alcohol (terming it a sin) and the way we would sing in unison with drums (which was, ironically introduced into our Church rituals years later).

Christianity remains a major legacy of the British in Mizoram to this day. When India got Independence, Mizoram was known as the Lushai Hills District. It became a Union Territory in 1972 and finally India’s 23rd state in 1987. Census data indicates that in 2001, around close to 90 percent of the population of Mizoram was Christian. Presbyterian and Baptist are the two largest denominations in the state. Consumption of alcohol continues to be considered a grave sin.

Church pressure on the government to enforce prohibition has been tremendous: it was church influence that resulted in the Congress government passing the MLTP Bill. While all church denominations in Mizoram are for prohibition, the Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod, which has the largest following, has been the most vocal about it. They have held mass prayers, protested on streets in large numbers, and put up posters all over the city opposed to the lifting of prohibition.“Total prohibition has been beneficial in ridding Mizo society of various social evils. […] We are against any change in the 1995 Act as

it would make people more prone to alcoholism.

The state is already plagued by widespread drug abuse,” Robert Halliday of the Synod told Tehelka.

The same Congress government, back in power since 2008 and voted in for a second consecutive term in December 2013 in a landslide win, introduced what a newspaper called “a bold move that defied influential churches” when it passed the new liquor law this July. Ironically, Mizoram’s Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla, who is now serving his fifth term as CM and has been elected to the state Assembly nine times since 1978, was in June 2014 caught on camera allegedly drinking beer with his wife. No action was taken against him, but he did earn himself the nickname ‘AlcoHawla’. According to the state’s Minister for Excise and Narcotics R Lalzirliana, the primary reason behind the decision to lift prohibition was to stop the harm done by spurious liquor.

The former Mizoram Governor Vakkom Purushothaman once described Mizoram as “the wettest dry state”. In January 2011, a special study group formed with the help of Mizoram University’s Department of Psychology studied the problem of prohibition and alcohol abuse, and a year later submitted a report recommending changes to the MLTP Act. A growing sentiment among the Mizos is that the restrictions on alcohol has led to an increase in drug abuse among the youth. And then there was the worrying rise of vigilantism from groups like the dreaded Supply Reduction Service (SRS), which was finally disbanded in 2008 due to public pressure. The SRS were infamous for violating human rights, beating up and on occasion, causing the deaths of alleged drug peddlers and bootleggers. The SRS was a purely voluntary association like its parent body, the Young Mizo Association (YMA), and was created as a special unit to combat bootleggers and drug peddlers. The YMA organizes community initiatives such as functions, funerals, helping the needy or relief efforts for natural disasters. While the YMA isn’t sponsored by the state, nearly all Mizos are part of it, including our politicians and police force. So, for that matter, am I. It feels good to know that amending the MLTP Act may prevent the consumption of spurious alcohol. But at the same time, many are skeptical about how this will affect our society. The Church and its loyal devotees are afraid this will lead to a rise in immorality and decline in spirituality, and even from a non-Christian-doctrine perspective, people are worried about the deterioration of law and order. To an extent, it is reassuring to know that under the new law, those creating a nuisance after drinking will be punished severely and could be imprisoned for up to two years. Drunken driving could invite the same punishment.

Growing up, my home in Mizoram was right opposite what used to be one of the most popular taverns in Aizawl before the prohibition days began in 1997. Before the Congress government at the time brought in the Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition (MLTP) Act in 1995, which was enforced fully only two years later, drunk men would knock on our door every day, asking us for money because they had run out of cash. Some of them would demand that we pay for their drinks. There were drunk men fighting outside our house almost every night, making it unsafe for me and my three older sisters to venture out after dark, and there would occasionally be one or two people passed out inside our gate in the morning. Even when we complained to the police, all they did was post a few cops around our house for a few days; things would be peaceful for a bit before it would all start once again. Sometimes it was even the cops themselves who asked us for a little “show” – a Mizo way of asking another person to treat them to a drink.

Those incidents traumatized me as a child.

But when prohibition came, all of that changed for us: the next 17 years brought us peace and quiet. So even though I drink, I support the Church’s stand and remain a skeptic about this new change. Is our law enforcement really capable of maintaining law and order once this act comes into place? Only time will tell.

One of the reasons cited for lifting prohibition (although the Congress government is keen to emphasize that it is not the most important reason, an allegation made by churches) is the potential for revenue alcohol has in terms of sales tax. One of the key examples that anti-prohibition lobbyists cite is Kerala, which has the highest per capita alcohol consumption in India. Kerala brought in over Rs 8,000 crore in the last fiscal year from liquor sales alone; this was probably what hammered in the last nail on the MLTP Act coffin. And in an ironic twist of fate, just as Mizoram is freeing itself from prohibition, Kerala is now slowly heading towards it.

Vanlalruatkima (better known as Kima in the real world and ‘Mizohican’ in the online world) is an avid blogger from Mizoram, who has been blogging about the North East for nearly a decade.

He is currently located in Mumbai and heads his own mobile games development company.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Nigeria in the Time of Ebola

Studying Ebola, Then Dying From It

adewale Maja-Pearce

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eople avoid shaking hands here these days. The government is urging us not to. This is a serious matter in a country where a casual “hello” is downright rude and everyday greetings involve elaborate rituals based upon age, rank and even the state of the weather and the day of the week.

Until about a month ago, it was by no means unusual for two friends, male as well as female, to remain hand-in-hand long after the protocol of the greeting was complete. Now not so. The Ebola scare has introduced a new awkwardness in social relations.

I first heard about the government’s call to avoid shaking hands from a priest at Mass three Sundays ago. It was not long after the Ebola virus had landed at the Lagos airport on July 20 in the person of Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian national and naturalized American citizen who had fled the Liberian capital Monrovia in hope of better treatment in Nigeria. He died five days later, by which time others had been infected, whereupon the Lagos state government, in collaboration with federal authorities, was quick to promulgate the message: Avoid physical contact, wash your hands frequently, and leave it to professionals to handle the dead.

While the country’s myriad radio stations broadcast the warnings, the authorities also asked churches and mosques to spread the word. (Most Nigerians are profoundly religious, and even many nonbelievers attend services, compelled as often as not by neighborly tradition rather than pietistic pressure.)

Working from the airline passenger list and hospital patient information, the authorities were quickly able to develop a comprehensive list of those who came into contact with Mr. Sawyer, and sent medical workers to locate those who might have been exposed to the virus. Some 200 people were put under observation until the 21-day incubation period had passed.

The authorities wanted to avoid the panic and mayhem that occurred in Liberia, and I have to say (though I usually find very little to praise in any government in Nigeria) that the speed and efficiency with which the Lagos State authorities reacted was exemplary.

It seems as if the virus has been contained in this city of 20 million people. Agence FrancePresse reported this week that 320 people suspected of exposure to the virus have been certified clear and released, and that another 41 remained under surveillance.

But the situation here and elsewhere is still uncertain. Despite all the precautions, one of the nurses who had treated Mr. Sawyer managed to escape a poorly guarded isolation ward and travel to the southern city of Enugu. Her name was never released, and it is not known why a professional nurse would suddenly take flight. In any case, the Enugu state government was quick to act. All of the 20 or so people she is known to have come into close contact with during her daylong trip from Lagos were located and placed under surveillance. Though the nurse, who apparently did not know she was infected, has since been reported to have died, there have been no reports — so far — that any of the people

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FILE - In this Wednesday, August 6, 2014 file photo, a Nigerian port health official uses a thermometer on a passengers at the arrivals hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria.

Two new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria and, in an alarming development, they are outside the group of caregivers who treated an airline passenger who arrived with Ebola and died, Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said Friday, August 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

she came in contact with have been infected.

People in Port Harcourt, the oil capital in the south, have not been so lucky. Another suspected carrier also escaped from a Lagos isolation ward. Unlike the nurse, he allegedly knew he was infected. The doctor he consulted died of Ebola on Aug. 22, according to the World Health Organization. The doctor’s wife, who was flown to Lagos for treatment with her three-month-old baby, is also said to have died, according to local media reports. The infant’s fate is unknown. The authorities say the man who infected them may be tried on manslaughter charges. W.H.O. officials said this week that there were three confirmed cases of Ebola infection in the city, and that some 200 people remain under surveillance there.

The tendency to panic in the face of a deadly virus with no known cure is of course understandable, especially given the stories that have been coming out of Monrovia and elsewhere in West Africa. Foreigners from suspect countries are regarded warily. Just recently, the Lagos police, acting on a tip from fearful neighbors, raided a hotel and arrested 39 people, 35 of them from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The others were from Senegal, or Sierra Leone, depending upon what newspapers you read.

There have also been the inevitable quack cures, as well as traditional herbal remedies from folk doctors. In one bizarre case, claims that drinking and bathing in salt water would prevent infection flooded the Internet. A surprising number of people apparently believed it. Two are reported to have died from drinking salt water, and another 20 have been hospitalized.

Yet it is remarkable how calm most people have remained. Not that they aren’t taking precautions. The other day, for instance, a bank security guard offered me some of the hand disinfectant that most people seem to carry about these days, as did the owner of a local cafe I frequent.

There is little doubt that quick action by the authorities has generated a broad sense of civic responsibility that is rare in Nigeria.

Even the federal government, otherwise so mired in corruption that it is helpless in the face of our home-grown Islamist insurgency, appears to have taken an atypically responsible approach. Despite the perennial distrust that most Nigerians have toward any government statement, the fact that the virus has so far been relatively contained has given this nation of skeptics hope that our leaders can govern, once they put their minds to it.

Nevertheless, fear remains that Ebola may yet spiral out of control. Another death was reported here this week, this one at the Lagos University teaching hospital. It is said, though not confirmed, that the health workers who attended to the victim were not wearing the recommended protective equipment.

This does not inspire confidence. Though United Nations officials have praised the way Nigeria has handled the threat so far, the nation’s health minister warns that “a few” more cases are likely. In the meantime, most of us are crossing our fingers, rubbing our hands with disinfectant, and carrying on as best we can. Meanwhile, newspaper cartoonists are having a field day dreaming up alternatives to the handshake.

Adewale Maja-Pearce is a writer and critic, and the author of “Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Other Essays.”

Islamic state: From the Inside

The west must understand the Islamic State's worldview, and accept its own failings, if it is to meet the challenge

Paul Rogers n the early months of 2014, there was little particular concern in the west about the movement then known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS or ISIL), and now as the Islamic State (IS). That changed radically with the group's rapid advance through parts of Iraq, including the capture of the city of Mosul, in the first half of June. Now, even greater concern is raised by the gruesome killings - staged for propaganda purposes - of two journalist hostages, James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

There is some caution over an immediate military response to the murders, amid recognition that this may be what Islamic State wants. Indeed, the murders may be a direct incitement to just such.

It's clear that the debate about how western states should respond needs to be based on understanding the movement's current status and motivation. At least five elements are important here. First, IS is well organised and coherent in the running of the territory it now controls - an area about the size of the UK and with well over 4 million people under varying degrees of control.

Second, it works readily with other groups in a manner that might suit its purpose in the short term. These include Ba’athists and Sunni clans in Iraq that were strongly opposed to Nouri al-Maliki's government in Baghdad, which favoured Iraq's Shi’a majority. That may change now that al-Maliki has been replaced as prime minister by Haider al-Abadi, but perhaps not for many months.

Third, IS's paramilitary ability is enhanced by years of fighting in Syria and (even longer) in Iraq. In the latter case, moreover, its combat was against American troops who were both well-armed and highly motivated by the need to respond to what they saw as a terrorist insurgency directly connected to the 9/11 attackers.

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A feature of the United States occupation of Iraq was the detention of tens of thousands of Iraqis without trial, often for years on end. The squalid and congested prisons were hot-houses for radicalisation, and many young men were more than willing to join the movement after their release.

Fourth, IS is sophisticated in the use of propaganda to target potential supporters and recruits. Its presence on the new social media, and its holding of hostages as a counter in relation to western military action, are examples.

Fifth, and perhaps most important, is IS's underlying idea - the creation of a new caliphate - which has proved capable of striking a chord in the minds of disaffected Muslims, mainly young and male, and including those with little or no direct experience of the region.

This ambition draws on the historic desire to establish a unitary religiouspolitical entity of a type known in the Islamic world over the past 1,400 years. The last caliphate was abolished as part of the fall of the Ottoman empire in the early 1920s, though the classic reference-point is more often the Abbasid caliphate which was centred on Baghdad from 750 CE and peaked around the mid-10th century.

That caliphate was powerful: it stretched across much of the modern day Middle East, was the world's most important centre of civilisation (with impressive achievements in astronomy, art, architecture, medicine and many other areas), and was relatively benign in political terms (with prominent Jewish and Christian communities in the larger cities).

Such an exemplar is quite unlike anything the extreme and puritanical IS envisages. But the movement's success in promoting the idea of a new caliphate does exploit a deeply inbuilt perception that the Muslim world has been in retreat for hundreds of years in the face of western expansionism, and that this must be reversed. It seems a remarkable worldview when the typically western fear is that of a rampant Islamist entity challenging the west at every turn. There seems little possibility of any meeting of minds.

A time for reckoning This makes it even more advisable to delve a little further into how this narrative spreads, especially among some disenchanted and marginalised young men. There are two aspects to the process. The first is the repeated claim that the United States and its allies are rigidly determined to take over the entire Islamic world. This “far enemy”, the narrative goes, has been barbaric in its suppression of independent states; it has also specifically aided one state, Israel, in pursuing this aim even to the heart of the Islamic world (not least by controlling Islam's third holiest site, Haram alSharif ). What is being argued here is that a crusader-Zionist plot threatens the integrity of Islam; the plot must be fought and defeated, however long this takes.

The second is that much of the action since 2001 can easily be represented as just this kind of assault. It includes regime termination in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya as well as many instances of barbaric behaviour such as the marines' reprisal air-raid on Fallujah early in 2004 (see "Between Fallujah and Palestine", 22 April 2004).

Furthermore, the crusader-Zionist element has received a substantial boost by the death and destruction in Gaza in JulyAugust 2014, which were made possible by billions of dollars of US military assistance to Israel - the fruit of a cosy, decades-long relationship between the two countries.

The movement thus contains an eschatological dimension but also encompasses the traditional acquisition of power, thoroughly imbued with male control.

Even if much of its worldview is gross exaggeration, it has enough truth to provide it with a dangerous air of authenticity and attract widespread support.

On this basis, the Islamic State seeks to establish an unyielding caliphate in response to a perceived western threat. If the west is ever to get to grips with the challenge, it will have to confront some of its own grievous mistakes and even worse behaviour. That will be very difficult, but it is essential if there is to be any way forward.

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N late May, a woman was admitted to the Kenema Government Hospital’s maternity ward in Sierra Leone after a bloody miscarriage. Augustine Goba, director of the hospital’s diagnostic laboratory and my longtime collaborator, ran a series of sensitive molecular tests and detected the first case of Ebola infection in the hospital, and one of the first confirmed cases in the country. Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, Sierra Leone’s leading virologist, and other medical staff members isolated the patient and wore gloves, gowns and masks while treating her. She survived and made a full recovery, and no one else was infected.

Had this patient been one of the first cases of Ebola in West Africa, the hospital’s rapid diagnosis and expert handling might have helped control the outbreak quickly. But by May, the epidemic had already been spreading for six months, with hundreds of cases in neighboring Guinea and Liberia. When the hospital’s outreach team traveled to the patient’s village, they found that 14 people had already been infected, with what turned out to be two distinct versions of the virus. With each week, the number of confirmed cases in Sierra Leone grew, to 31, then 92, then 147, until the virus emerged in nearly every district of the country.

Kenema was well positioned to detect and treat Ebola because of its experience combating another deadly virus, Lassa, a project I started working on in 2008. As the hospital’s reputation for treating Lassa fever spread, more patients with unexplained fevers began to travel there. Rapid diagnosis of more people not only helped treat individual patients, but it could also uncover other unexpected pathogens hiding in the population, thus warning of outbreaks before they became global threats.

Just weeks before Ebola entered Sierra Leone, Dr. Khan and I joined colleagues from around the world in Nigeria to inaugurate the African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease, a new venture that would enable monitoring of dangerous microbes across West Africa.

The Ebola outbreak put our plans on hold. Soon after Dr. Khan returned to Kenema, the hospital became overwhelmed.

He and the nurses were treating up to 80 patients at a time, working 16-hour days.

In the United States, my colleagues and I struggled to get aid and novel treatments to them, while we worked on sequencing the virus’s genome. Help did not come in time. While drafting a paper on the viral samples from Kenema, we began receiving devastating messages. Seven members of our team had become infected with Ebola. The constant flow of severely ill patients made it impossible for hospital staff members to protect themselves. Over the next few months, around 40 contracted the disease, including Mbalu Fonnie, a head nurse, who had worked there for 25 years, and Dr. Khan. By the middle of the summer, they were both dead.

It did not have to be that way. If diagnos-

tic facilities like those at Kenema had been more widely available, the virus could have been caught as it emerged. A team of trained individuals, perhaps 50 people, could have been sent to the site of the outbreak before it spread, and stayed for 50 days after the last infection. Working with the local community, they could have isolated and treated the sick, buried the dead, traced each person’s contacts over the incubation period, performed outreach and education services, and ensured food supplies, all while keeping themselves safe from infection. With the virus confined to one village, this largescale 50-50 approach would have been a modest investment for the world.

Instead, the virus was allowed to escape the first village, and then to spread into four more countries. That missed opportunity has cost the lives of many people, including my good friends. Failure to contain the virus now will be cataclysmic. Based on World Health Organization numbers, more people became infected with the Ebola virus in August than in all the earlier months of this epidemic combined. The W.H.O. predicts that Ebola may afflict 20,000 people before the outbreak ends, but that is only if the world mounts a prompt and enormous response.

If we fail, that number will become 40,000, then 80,000, with no end in sight. Meanwhile, the virus is evolving as it spreads from human to human, raising the risk of it becoming even more contagious.

As the virus reaches new villages and now large cities, the challenge of fullscale containment increases by orders of magnitude. We need governments and international organizations to immediately send out response teams to all sites with active cases, and to train many more people on the ground.

At the same time, we need to find creative solutions. Nigerian celebrities, through the Nollywood Workshops’ Lens on Ebola campaign, are helping to spread health information on Facebook; we need more large-scale public service campaigns like this. Our own scientific team publicly released genome sequencing data so groups around the world could use them for better diagnostics, vaccines and therapies. The National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the W.H.O. are now accelerating drug candidates and vaccines to clinical trials. These organizations are also pursuing the use of the blood of Ebola survivors, which contains antibodies to the virus, to treat those afflicted.

Had Ebola not intervened, Mr. Goba and Dr. Khan would have spent this summer with me at Harvard and the Broad Institute, training in advanced molecular diagnostics for genomic surveillance.

Instead, Dr. Khan is gone. Mr. Goba remains on the front line in Kenema.

We must end this outbreak, both to honor the memory of those who have died, and to aid those still in the path of the virus. And then we must make sure that it never happens again.

Pardis Sabeti is a geneticist and infectious disease researcher who is on the faculty of the Broad Institute and Harvard University.

"HARD TIMES" IN THE NAGA SOCIETY

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ard Times' People are embracis a novel ing the new materialistic world with open written by the eminent writer “Arena of mind” portrays a space for idea germination, a arms, thrilled at the cum social critic, field where ideas from multi-disciplinary viewpoints fertilize progress of science the world of intelligence. The writers aspire to envision Charles Dickens. and technology, but a new future by exploring the mind, discovering new Charles Dickens' seeds of insights and unleashing them to enlightenment. unaware of its impli'Hard Times' critically cations. Everything in projects the social ills of his time, that is the victo- life is valued and regarded in terms of wealth, rian age. Dickens highlights the disparity that ex- power and status. Like Stephen Blackpool in ist in an industrialist society. The novel appraises 'Hard Times', a poor man with dignified integEnglish society and is aimed at highlighting the rity has no value in a materialistic society. They cannot prosper and is treated as an outcast. social and economic pressures of the age.

It projects how the characters are driven by On the other hand, a man of wealth strives to the utilitarian way of life - a theory which was maintain his status in society by accumulatwidely accepted during the victorian times. ing more and more money and materialistic Dickens was against this theory as it propagat- possessions, depicting his unlimited quest for ed the idea that people should act according to richness. This thirst is often quenched by sactheir self interest. The novel informs the readers rificing his sensibilities. Mr Josiah Bounderby, about people that have suffered different fates the wealthiest man in Coketown, rejected his in an industrial town, called Coketown. The mother's love and deserted by his wife fails people belong to both rich and poor, and Dick- to realise that money is not enough for hapens' approach is to investigate the lifestyle of piness. Even though he is rich, he does not people that live in a changing industrial town. profit from his lifestyle and money only made The modern Naga society is facing the same him lonely. Eventually he died all alone, leavscenario as in Dickens' "Hard Times." The Naga ing all his wealth behind without a heir. society is changing and transforming drastically Modernisation, Progress and Development compared to its preceding years. The touch of is beneficial to society. It does not only transmodernisation can be seen and felt in every as- form a society but also upgrades the position of pect of our life. Society is altering through the cre- a society. However in trying to be a part of such ation of new ideas and theories, in the hope that changes and accepting it as a new way of life, it will ensure better quality of life. Fortunately or we must simultaneously hold on steadfastly to unfortunately, the people are able to keep up with our sensibilities so as to remain humane and these changes taking place in the society. In the save us from the hard times of life.

K a r l Ma r x c o m m e n t e d t h a t midst of such changes brought about by modernisation, most of us have lost touch with our Dickens........."issued to the world more politihuman sensibilities. In order to keep up with this cal and social truths than have been uttered changing society, we are motivated by the idea of by all the professional politicians, publicists self interest. Spontaneity, freedom, fellow-feeling, and moralists put together." In our society, contentment, generosity, hospitality and com- there are people who have greeted these modpassion are no longer the governing values of ern changes with fear and apprehensions and life. These values have in fact become a conflict wants desperately for society to check its efto attain a better modern lifestyle. In the pur- fects. Probably they too have the same belief suit for a high standard of living, our life has be- like Dickens that human behaviour and emocome dull and monotonous. We no longer feel tions would be lost in a materialistic society, beauty, joy or charm in the simple things of life. which in the long run will face hard times.

Zulusenla Jamir We have forgotten the graces of our heart.

Assistant Professor This relentless pace of progress has blinded Department of English St. Josephs' College, Jakhama us to acknowledge the lost of our sensibilities.

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Massive rescue operation under way, Srinagar submerged Social networking sites aid rescue, relief work

A Kashmiri flood victim, center, pleads to an Indian army officer to rescue her family members after she was airlifted by the army from her flooded neighborhood to the Indian Air Force base in Srinagar on Monday, September 8, 2014. Six days of rains in Indian Kashmir have left more than 120 people dead in the region’s worst flooding in more than five decades, submerging hundreds of villages and triggering landslides, officials said. (AP Photo)

SrinaGar/Jammu, SepTember 8 (pTi): Massive rescue operations were under way on Monday to evacuate tens of thousands of people stranded in floods in Jammu & Kashmir as the situation remained grim with most parts of Srinagar city still under water and bad communication lines and high water levels posing a big challenge.

As authorities struggled to deal with the calamity, a landslide was reported from Pachori village in Udhampur district and mitigation forces have reached the area to rescue the few people trapped there.

A total of 25 boats have been launched in flooded areas of Srinagar city to ferry people

out even as over 5,100 people have been rescued from the state which is reeling under heavy floods.

Flood fury has so far claimed the lives of about 150 people and damaged many buildings, including hospitals, and snapped road and communication links, cutting off many areas. The Army cantonment, civil secretariat and the high court in Srinagar have also been inundated.

“We are facing a big problem of communication as all links are down. We are not able to communicate with our teams sent on ground in this flood-ravaged areas. Also, as water level is high in many places our personnel are not

able to reach the stranded,” National Disaster Response Force chief O P Singh told reporters in Delhi.

“We have launched a massive operation in the state and divided the state into three zones for smooth conduct of operations. Each zone will be headed by a commandantrank officer and there will be an overall supervision of a DIG,” he said.

A total of 5,183 people have been rescued till now from the flood waters which includes children and women, he said.

The NDRF Director General said massive operations are being undertaken in the submerged areas of Goglibagh, Batmalu, Badami Bagh and

new delhi, SepTember 8 (pTi): Hundreds of people have logged on to social networking sites likes facebook and twitter to share information on floods, which have created havoc in Jammu and Kashmir, and are even collecting aid for the victims.

People are sharing pictures and information of the affected areas and rescue and relief efforts being undertaken by the central and state authorities on these portals.

The information related to floods is trending on twitter under #KashmirFloods.

“Please keep us updated abt the network status in Kashmir (sic),” said one of the users on twitter. Some people also appreciated the rescue and relief work being done by the Army and other de-

Bakshi Stadium area of state capital Srinagar apart from other areas.

He said over 13 bodies have also been recovered by NDRF teams in the state till now, he said. Over 500 satellite phones have also been dispatched to aid rescuers deployed in both Jammu and Kashmir Valley areas, he said. In view of the deteriorating situation, the state government has ordered closure of all schools till September 12.

The Army has, meanwhile, stepped up relief efforts, deploying 184 columns (75-100 personnel each) while IAF has pressed 29 planes and helicopters into service, set up a disaster monitoring cell and alerted all its bases to a high state of readiness.

fence forces. BJP MP from Bihar’s Patna Sahib constituency Shatrughan Sinha tweeted “Proud of our Indian Army for the rescue work without worrying about their own safety!!”.

He also asked people to share control room numbers set up by the centre for assistance pertaining to the floods.

Anybody seeking assistance related to the flood crisis in J-K can also approach Home Ministry’s control room in New Delhi at the telephone numbers: (011) 23093054, 23092763, 23093564, 23092923, 23092885, 23093566, 23093563.

While on facebook, people are seeking information from fellow citizens in other districts of the state. “Someone from Rajbagh plz try to contact,” said a post on

Though thousands of people have been rescued from various areas by Army and IAF, many people were still trapped and awaiting help in upper stories of buildings in low-lying areas, including in Srinagar. Chief minister Omar Abdullah had on Sunday described the situation in the state as unprecedented and said, “We doing the best we can under the circumstances. Please do not panic, we will reach you, I promise”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who reviewed the flood situation in the state on Sunday, had termed it a “national level disaster”. The Prime Minister had said that the Centre stands shoulder to shoulder with J&K government and the people of

facebook. “My father is in Karanpura, Srinagar…. how to contact wid my dad :’( :’(,” said Priti Das on facebook.

People have also opened an online forum ‘Volunteers for flood victims in J&K’ to donate money, clothes, blankets or other essential commodities.

“People at lala rukh hotel, near gantaghr, lal chowk, Srinagar trapped in 2nd storey. if somebody could help…. Its urgent pls pls,” said the facebook post by an user.

Floods in Kashmir have left 150 dead and caused huge damage to road, rail and other infrastructure.

The teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel have alone evacuated more than 5,246 people–5,223 from Kashmir region and 23 from Jammu.

the state in this hour of crisis.

“An additional special project assistance of Rs 1,000 crore will be made available by the government to the state for flood relief and rehabilitation.

More assistance would be provided, if required, after a proper survey of the situation has been made,” the PM had said.

Communication system has been disrupted in Kashmir with all almost all private cellular networks out of order. The landline telephone network has also been badly affected.

Electricity and water supply has remained disrupted in affected areas for the past seven days now.

Meanwhile, pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Mata Vaish-

nodevi in Trikuta Hills of Reasi district resumed this morning after remaining suspended for four consecutive days in view of heavy rains. An Air Force officer said the situation in Jammu sector was under control but the situation in Srinagar was yet to improve.

“The situation in Jammu sector, I think is under control now. We have been able to air lift more than 18 tonnes of relief material in the last two days.

Before that we saved around 800 people from various villages. “Situation this side is OK but I think the situation in Srinagar is a bit bad,” the officer said.

Meanwhile, flights from Delhi to Srinagar operated as scheduled till the afternoon.

AAP video alleges BJP offering bribes Prez asks corporates to help eradicate illiteracy

new delhi, SepTember 8 (ianS): The AAP Monday released a video showing a BJP leader offering money to an AAP legislator to induce him to quit the assembly to improve the BJP’s chances of forming a government in Delhi. The grainy video shot covertly shows Delhi BJP vice president Sher Singh Dagar making the bribe offer to AAP’s Dinesh Mohaniya if he resigned so as to bring down the effective strength of the hung Delhi assembly.

The disclosure triggered an angry rebuttal from Dagar but no senior leader in his party came to his defence, with one saying that whatever the man did was in his personal capacity. Aam Aadmi Party sources told IANS that they released the video in a bid to prevent Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung from inviting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to try forming a government in Delhi although it lacks legislative majority.

In the video, played at a press conference addressed by AAP leader and former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Dagar is seen exhorting Mohaniya to resign from the AAP and promising him money if he did so. “Char le lena (Take four),” Dagar is heard saying.

Kejriwal said “char” stood for Rs.4 crore. Dagar also says in the video that after accepting a “token amount”, Mohaniya won’t be allowed to go anywhere until the floor test is taken in the Delhi assembly. Dagar is also heard claiming that some other legislators, including three from the AAP, were ready to resign too. The BJP now has

BJP trashes AAP’s charges of horse-trading

KolKaTa, SepTember 8 (ianS): BJP vice president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Monday said AAP’s horse-trading allegations were a desperate attempt by the Arvind Kejriwal-led party to be in the limelight. “The AAP is ... fighting an existential battle. By making such baseless allegations, it is desperately trying to be in the limelight,” Naqvi told the media here.

Asked about government formation in Delhi, Naqvi said the Bharatiya Janata Party would take a call in line with the demands of the situation. The Aam Aadmi Party Monday released a video which showed a BJP leader allegedly offering money to one of its legislators in a bid to form a government in Delhi. Delhi has been under President’s rule since Kejriwal resigned as chief minister Feb 14 after 49 days in office.

28 members in the 70-seat Delhi legislature after three got elected to the Lok Sabha. The AAP has 27 members and the Congress only eight. There are four other members in the house.

According to the AAP, the BJP is inducing rival members to resign from the assembly so as to bring down its effective strength. This will make it easy for the BJP to muster a legislative majority. Speaking in his usual assertive tone, Kejriwal vowed not to let the BJP take power in Delhi with deceitful tactics.

“The BJP has been wooing our MLAs for the last one month, but we will not let them come to power... They are betraying the people of Delhi,” he said. “The BJP’s dirty game is exposed today.” The BJP criticised the video but made no effort to defend Dagar.

“They (AAP) have been doing this for long. Earlier they made allegations against (now central minister) Nitin Gadkari ... and now again they are attacking us. This is an attempt to de-

fame the party,” BJP leader Vijender Gupta said. But Gupta quickly added: “Even if Dagar interacted with the (AAP) MLA, it was in his personal capacity and not as a leader of the BJP.” Dagar denied he was trying to bribe anyone and insisted that the AAP legislator had come to see him at his residence saying he wished to join the BJP. “He came to me 45 days ago and even yesterday (Sunday)... He wanted to join our party,” Dagar said. He claimed he had never done any wrong.

Dagar had initially called a press conference at the party office but the venue was shifted to his home in south Delhi. No reasons were given.

No BJP leader was with him at the presser. Asserted Kejriwal, who resigned as chief minister Feb 14 after ruling Delhi for 49 days: “Our MLAs are being offered chairmanships, ministerial berths and money but none of them will defect.” The AAP leader said more such videos would be released “at an appropriate time”.

new delhi, SepTember 8 (ianS): President Pranab Mukherjee Monday asked the private sector, especially the corporate houses, to contribute towards eradicating illiteracy in India.

“The success of our march towards total literacy in India will ultimately depend on two factors. One is meaningful and effective advocacy and, secondly, cooperation and support of society at large, to bring nonliterates into the mainstream of literacy,” he said.

Mukherjee was speaking at a function here to mark International Literacy Day. “I call upon state governments, panchayati raj institutions on one hand and on the other,

I appeal all the stakeholders in a resurgent India - the corporate and private sectors, voluntary agencies and civil society organisations - to work together, in unison and with greater vigour to realise this goal.”

The president said SCs, STs, minorities and other disadvantaged groups have much lower literacy levels. “The Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, minorities and other disadvantaged groups, which constitute a sizeable part of our population, have very lower rates of literacy.

“There is, thus, an urgent need to focus attention on these groups to help them to catch up so that we can move faster towards the national targets,” he said. “Gender disparity in

literacy is another important challenge,” he said.

Meanwhile, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said the central government was committed to make more women, SCs, and STs literate. “It is the foremost concern of our government to substantially improve literacy rates of women, Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and minorities,” Irani said.

International Literacy Day was designated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). The day aims to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies.

India loses more foresters than any other country

Chennai, SepTember 8 (Tnn): India loses more forest rangers each year than any other country in the world. As many as 72 forest rangers died in India in the past three years.

Other countries in Asia, Africa and the Americas lost less than 10 rangers in the same period, according to statistics made available to TOI by International Ranger Federation, a non-profit organization working to raise awareness about the work of park rangers.

Wild animal attacks and poachers were responsible for most of the ranger deaths in the country. “We are extremely concerned that rangers continue to face high levels of violence and are being murdered at an alarming pace,” International Ranger Federation president Sean Willmore said. Nearly 60% of the rangers killed are in Asia, says the federation’s report.

India lost 34 rangers in 2012, a year in which the US, second on the list the

second largest number of deaths of foresters, lost only six. India recorded 14 forester deaths in 2013 and 24 in 2014, the largest number among all countries for both years. The Philippines and Congo each lost nine forest guards in 2013, Uganda seven and Kazakhstan and Chad each lost six. Kenya has recorded 10 deaths of foresters this year, Thailand six and Tanzania three.

While most rangers were killed by animals or poachers, were responsi-

ble for most ranger deaths, but some died of diseases like dengue and malaria and in forest fires and road accidents. Wildlife Conservation Society director Ullas Karanth says the thousands of forest officials, guards and rangers of state and central forest departments often have to put their lives on the line.

“The country has been successful in protecting wild animals this has also led to officials coming under attack,” he said.

Rubber planters want anti-dumping duty on imports

Coonoor (Tamil nadu), Sep 8 (ianS) Natural rubber planters, especially small growers from Kerala, have petitioned the union government to impose antidumping duty or increase import tariff to protect them from falling prices in the domestic market.

“We have urged the government to impose anti-dumping duty or hike tariff on surging imports, as prices of rubber varieties declined 16 percent during eight months this year,” an official of the commodity planters’ representative body told IANS here Monday.

Prices of RSS IV (ribbed smoke sheet) variety declined 15.7 percent in January-August to Rs.144 per kg from Rs.171/kg in same period year ago (2013) and that of RSS V 15.9 percent to Rs.140 a kg from Rs.167/kg in like period year ago.

Worldwide, price of RSS III variety also declined sharply 21.5 percent to Rs.129 per kg in eight months of this year from Rs.165 a kg in like period in 2013.

“There is an urgent need to safeguard interests of small growers, who number over a mil-

lion, as production cost has shot up due to increase in inputs, wages, and transport,” United Planters’ Association of South India’s (Upasi) commodities’ head R. Sanjith said at its 121st annual conference here, about 520 km from Chennai.

Natural rubber is mostly grown in south India across 600,943 hectares, with Kerala producing in 539,565 hectares, followed by Karnataka 41,588 hectares and Tamil Nadu 19,790 hectares.

Production wise too, South India contributed 796,500 tonnes in fiscal 2013-14, with 748,250 tonnes from Kerala, 25,000 tonnes from Karnataka and 23,250 tonnes from Tamil Nadu.

In terms of value, out of Rs.13,306 crore generated last fiscal (FY 2014), Kerala contributed Rs.12,501 crore, Karnataka Rs.417 crore and Tamil Nadu Rs.388 crore.

Of the four commodity plantations (tea, coffee, rubber and spices) across the three southern states, rubber growers have been reeling under crisis over the last 40 months, as prices plunged to Rs.144 per kg in May this year

from a high of Rs.243/kg in April 2011, while cost of production and increase in wages have steeply gone up.

Shift in imports from Indonesia and Vietnam than from Thailand by the user industry also contributed to the crisis in the sector, as tyre manufacturers started using technically specified rubber (TSR) variety than RSS IV & V as raw material.

With domestic production not keeping pace with rising demand, the user industry has been importing huge quantities, as the landed cost is lower than falling domestic prices.

“Even after levying 20 percent import duty, landed price is lower than the domestic rate, resulting in lower demand for native rubber.

Moreover, prices from Indonesia and Vietnam are not known in advance unlike from Thailand in past,” Sanjith asserted.

The association has also asked the central government to revise the standard input and output norms to limit imports, which surged 68 percent to 100,800 tonnes in first quarter (April-June)

of this fiscal (2014-15) from 59,553 tonnes in same period of last fiscal (2013-14), as the industrial sector started using more SMR-20 (Standard Malaysian Rubber) grade than the native RSS variety.

“If prices decline further, majority of growers may be forced to abandon rubber cultivation or switch over to other plantation crops if the government does not step in to safeguard their interests and protect from import onslaught,” Sanjith observed.

Planters also want the government to study rules on fixing import quantum under the advance licensing scheme or duty exemption entitlement certificate, which is fixed on the basis of standard input-output norm.

Production declined 69,000 tonnes or 7.6 percent to 849,000 tonnes in 2013 from 919,000 tonnes in 2012 in India, while it increased 3.8 percent worldwide to 12,041 tonnes last year from 11,603 tonnes in 2012.

“Production, however, is estimated to increase 106 tonnes or 12.6 percent this fiscal (2014-15) to 950,000 tonnes from last fiscal.”

Indian Hindu devotees splash water on a large statue of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha before immersing it in the Arabian Sea on the final day of the festival of Ganesha Chaturthi in Mumbai on Monday, September 8. Every year millions of devout Hindus immerse Ganesh idols into oceans and rivers in the ten-day long Ganesh Chaturthi festival that celebrates the birth of Ganesh. (AP Photo)

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Killings by China anti-terror cops raise concerns BEIJING, SEptEmBEr 8 (Ap): When attackers from China’s minority Uighurs killed 37 people in a July rampage in far western Xinjiang, police responded by gunning down at least 59 of them. When three Uighurs allegedly killed a top state-appointed Muslim cleric, police shot dead two of them. When security forces led a raid on 10 suspected Uighur terrorists, they fatally shot all but one.

The incidents are part of a pattern raising concerns that Chinese police are excessively using deadly force in their bid to prevent more attacks by Uighur militants, who have killed dozens of civilians in train stations and other public places over the past few years.

In some cities, patrolling SWAT units have already been authorized to shoot dead suspected terrorists without warning.

An Associated Press review of articles by China’s official Xinhua News Agency and other state media has found that at least 323 people have died in Xinjiangrelated violence since April last year, when the unrest began to escalate. Nearly half of those deaths were inflicted by police — in most cases, by gunning down alleged perpetrators who are usually reported as having been armed with knives, axes and, occasionally, vaguely-defined explosives.

Beijing’s tight controls and monopoly on the narrative make it difficult to independently assess if the lethal action has been justified. And Chinese authorities prevent most reporting by foreign journalists inside Xinjiang, making it nearly impossible to confirm the state media numbers. Uighur exile groups and the U.S.-government funded broadcaster Radio Free Asia report far more violent incidents than Chinese state media do, and in some cases, higher death tolls and police shootings of Uighur protesters. But those reports are similarly hard to verify.

To understand just how tough it can be to determine whether China’s hand is being forced — or whether officials are recklessly lashing out at those who resist them — consider this recent series of confrontations in Xinjiang: On Aug. 1, police cornered a group of alleged terrorists in an abandoned house and shot nine of them dead, arresting one. In June, police gunned down 13 “mobsters” who allegedly attacked a local police station. In April, checkpoint police fatally shot a teenage Uighur motorcyclist after he allegedly attempted to grab their guns.

In many cases, the government’s accounts of violence are wildly divergent

from overseas reports. Of the June incident, Uighur exiles said Uighur residents were simply protesting outside the police station when police fired at them and their truck, setting off a fire. In the teenager’s case, RFA reported that he had been shot after running a red light.

Who’s to say what really happened? Xinjiang authorities operate with a “deeply disturbing” lack of accountability, said Sophie Richardson, China director at Human Rights Watch.

“If the use of force is justified, the Chinese government should be allowing independent, credible experts to review the evidence,” she said. “It should be making that evidence public.”

Experts in policing, terrorism and human rights, meanwhile, point to several aspects of the authorities’ crackdown that make it all too easy for security forces to open fire unnecessarily.

China doesn’t have comprehensive laws defining terrorism and how authorities should respond.

The Chinese leaders’ use of war-like rhetoric risks inflaming patriotic fervor instead of clear-headed rationality in the security forces. Above all, the ongoing “strike hard” campaign prioritizes tough, swift action over legal protections.

“Under the terms of the ‘strike hard’ campaign, they can dispense with the

usual considerations about legality,” said Willy Lam, an expert on Chinese politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “They don’t have scruples about shooting to kill suspects and they appear to be using disproportionately heavy force and firepower.”

The trend has alarmed overseas Uighur activists, who say many innocent Uighurs may have been killed.

“The use of force by the Chinese security against Uighurs is really like it’s against foreign enemies,” said Alim Seytoff, President of the Uyghur American Association in Washington, D.C. “The extrajudicial use of lethal force is rampant.” The Ministry of Public Security and police in Xinjiang did not respond to faxed requests for comment.

Though the death tally culled from state media is virtually impossible to independently confirm, and some foreign media have cited higher tolls, the figures still provide a sketch of the human cost of the unrest that has rocked the region over the past 17 months. The ruling Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, head of the new national security commission, has staked his political prestige on stemming the turbulence — but it has been challenging.

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In this May 1, 2014 file photo, a Uighur woman rests near a cage protecting heavily armed Chinese paramilitary policemen on duty in Urumqi in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang. Beijing’s tight controls and monopoly on the narrative make it difficult to independently assess if the lethal action has been justified. And Chinese authorities prevent most reporting by foreign journalists inside Xinjiang, making it nearly impossible to confirm the state media numbers. (AP File Photo)

military-grade equipment to combat the terrorists and underground groups, and also summary executions,” said Lam, the Hong Kongbased analyst. “I think the major reason is that Xi Jinping thinks that unless they use extraordinary or draconian methods, they cannot solve the problem quickly, and the Uighur problem has proven to be one of the major policy failures of (his) administration.”

Elsewhere in China, police rarely use firearms to quell violence or mass unrest, preferring to deploy tear gas, water cannons and riot police with truncheons and shields.

Although the anti-terror campaign is being carried out by SWAT and paramilitary police, the operation more closely resembles war than policing.

“It’s exactly the opposite of a criminal case. In a criminal case, we say we only get the guy if they’re guilty. Otherwise, if there’s a slight bit

of doubt, let them go,” said Professor Kam C. Wong, an expert on Chinese police at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. “In the case of terrorists, even when in doubt, we will get them.”

“In China, terrorists are to be treated as a contradiction between enemies and not contradictions amongst the people. They are afforded very few protections under the law,” Wong said.

In that sense, China’s counterterrorism effort bears similarities to the United States’ anti-terror practices post-9/11, including assertions that deadly military force against terrorists— even if U.S. citizens — might outweigh their constitutional rights, he said.

Xi has cast the campaign in patriotic, militaristic terms, in one instance evoking the memory of a Ming-era Chinese military leader who fought Japanese pirates. “Sweat more in peacetime so you will

bleed less in wartime,” Xi said in a pep talk to Xinjiang police during a highprofile April tour.

Special police units in cities such as Beijing and Guangzhou have recently been authorized to fire without warning at suspected terrorists engaged in violence. The eastern city of Xiamen and the province of Jiangsu went a step further — saying SWAT officers were allowed to shoot dead such alleged perpetrators. The government hasn’t specified how threats are to be assessed.

Xi has called for a “people’s war” — an effort to mobilize the public to act as informants, with rewards in some instances. But without a counterterrorism law in place, “and with emotions running high, the people would act like vigilantes,” said Wong.

Public information tends to be based on personal prejudice, racial profiling and ethnic animosi-

ties, making it unreliable and of dubious use, with innocent people likely to be implicated, Wong added.

Part of the problem might be Xi’s choice of words, saying he wants terrorists to be like “rats scurrying across the street, chased by all the people.”

“They’re using rhetoric that’s very dehumanizing toward people,” said William Nee, Amnesty International’s China researcher. “It encourages an atmosphere in which excessive use of force is condoned.”

Catching terror suspects alive is a better approach anyway, because then you can interrogate them, said Raffaello Pantucci, a London-based terrorism researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank. “You can find out who their networks are, you can find out more information and you can then investigate that.”

“That’s counterterrorism practice 101.”

5 minute walk every office Obama to outline strategy on Islamic State World falls ‘further behind’ in “Clearly, he’s put together is not going to be an announceSEptEmhour good for your heart WASHINGtON, BEr 8 (Ap): President Barack a coalition of the willing — we ment about U.S. ground troops,” efforts to tackle climate change

NEW YOrk, SEptEmBEr 8 (IANS): If you are working long hours at the desk, do make it a point to take a five minute walk every hour to reverse negative effects of prolonged sitting, says an Indian-origin researcher.

“We found that easy five minute walks can reverse harm caused to leg arteries during hours of prolonged sitting,” claimed Saurabh Thosar, a post-doctoral researcher from the Oregon Health and Science University. When people sit, slack muscles do not contract to effectively pump blood to the heart.

Blood can pool in the legs and affect the endothelial function of arteries or the ability of blood vessels to expand from increased blood flow. “We have shown that prolonged sitting impairs endothelial function, which is an early marker of cardio-vascular disease and that breaking sitting time prevents the decline in that function,” added Thosar, who led the study as a doctoral candidate from Indiana University’s school of public health.

The study involved 11 non-obese, healthy men between ages 20-35. In one trial, they sat for three hours without moving their legs. In the second trial, the men sat during a three-hour period but also walked on a treadmill for five minutes at a speed of two mph at the half hour, 1.5 and 2.5 hour marks respectively.

Researchers demonstrated that during a three-hour period, the flow mediated dilation, or the expansion of the arteries as a result of increased blood flow, of the main artery in the legs was impaired by as much as 50 percent after just one hour.

The participants who walked for five minutes each hour of sitting saw their arterial function stay the same - it did not drop throughout the threehour period. “Normally, a working adult sits for approximately eight hours a day.

The impairment in endothelial function is significant after just one hour of sitting. It is interesting to see that light physical activity can help in preventing this impairment,” Thosar concluded.

How sun exposure leads to skin cancers

NEW YOrk, SEptEmBEr 8 (IANS): Connecting the dots between sun exposure and skin cancers, a study says that a genetic mutation caused by ultraviolet (UV) light is likely to be the driving force behind millions of human skin cancers. The mutation occurs in a gene called KNSTRN, which is involved in helping cells divide their DNA equally during cell division. Genes that cause cancer when mutated are known as oncogenes.

“This previously unknown oncogene is activated by sunlight and drives the development of cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas,” said senior study author Paul Khavari, a professor from the Stanford University School of Medicine in the US. Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common cancer in humans. “Our research shows that skin cancers arise differently from other cancers and that a single mutation can cause genomic catastrophe,” Khavari noted.

The researchers made the discovery while investigating the genetic causes of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

They compared the DNA sequences of genes from the tumour cells with those of normal skin and looked for mutations that occurred only in the tumours. The researchers found the UV induced KNSTRN mutation leads to 20 percent of actinic keratoses - a premalignant skin condition that often progresses to squamous cell carcinoma.

But they did not find the mutation in 122 samples of normal skin, indicating the mutation is likely to be an early event in the development of the skin cancer. The identification of a new oncogene will allow researchers to better understand how these types of skin cancers develop. “It is critical to protect the skin from the sun,” Khavari noted. The study appeared online in the journal Nature Genetics.

Obama plans to begin laying out his strategy for defeating Islamic State militants expanding their grip in Iraq and Syria.

He’ll outline his evolving tactics when he meets with congressional leaders from both parties at the White House on Tuesday and then delivers a speech Wednesday on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Lawmakers said in advance that they would like the president to give specifics. The president should target command and control centers and oil refineries controlled by insurgents within Syria, suggested Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who sits on both the Senate Intelligence and Foreign Relations Committees.

Rubio, claiming that Obama has committed “presidential malpractice in his foreign policy,” said he is eager to hear directly what Obama “should have said months, weeks ago.” “First, clearly explain to the American people what our national security interests are in the region” and spell out the risk that Islamic State militants pose “for us, short-term and long-term, and why they matter,” Rubio told CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

have heard that before — to tackle this problem,” said House Intelligence Republican Committee Chairman Mike Rogers.

“That’s good.” “And then I think he needs to engage Congress, the American people, on what exactly we’re going to do here,” Rogers told CNN. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee, said on the same CNN program that Obama needs to spell out both the diplomatic and military components of his strategy.

“Time’s a-wasting, because we have now said that we’re going to go on the offensive. And it’s time for America to project power and strength,” Feinstein said.

Obama sparked criticism, most of it from Republicans, for his remark last week that “we don’t have a strategy yet” for confronting Islamic extremists gaining both land and followers in the Middle East. His upcoming sessions with lawmakers and the speech to the nation are clearly an attempt to try to show he now has an evolving strategy in place.

“The next phase is now to start going on some offense,” Obama said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “But this

he added in the session taped Saturday and broadcast Sunday.

The operations will be “similar to the kinds of counterterrorism campaigns” the U.S. has waged in the past, Obama said. “In Syria, the boots on the ground have to be Syrian.”

At the recent NATO summit in Wales, the U.S. and nine allies agreed to take on the militants because of the threat they pose to member countries. In addition to laying claim to territory, the militants have targeted religious and ethnic minority groups and threatened U.S. personnel and interests in the region.

At Obama’s direction, the U.S. military has conducted more than 130 airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq in the past month. In retaliation, the group recently beheaded two American journalists it had been holding hostage in Syria, where the organization also operates.

But the president has repeated his opposition to sending in U.S. ground troops to engage in direct combat with the militants, who have laid claim to large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria. Lawmakers have pressed Obama, so far unsuccessfully, to expand the airstrikes further.

LONDON, SEptEmBEr 8 (rEutErS): The world’s major economies are falling further behind every year in terms of meeting the rate of carbon emission reductions needed to stop global temperatures from rising more than 2 degrees this century, a report published on Monday showed.

The sixth annual Low Carbon Economy Index report from professional services firm PwC looked at the progress of major developed and emerging economies towards reducing their carbon intensity, or emissions per unit of gross domestic product.

“The gap between what we are achieving and what we need to do is growing wider every year,” PwC’s Jonathan Grant said. He said governments were increasingly detached from reality in addressing the 2 degree goal.

“Current pledges really put us on track for 3 degrees. This is a long way from what governments are talking about.”

Almost 200 countries agreed at United Nations climate talks to limit the rise in global temperatures to less than 2ºC (3.6 ºF) above pre-

industrial times to limit heat waves, floods, storms and rising seas from climate change.

Temperatures have already risen by about 0.85ºC. Carbon intensity will have to be cut by 6.2% a year to achieve that goal, the study said. That compares with an annual rate of 1.2% from 2012 to 2013. Grant said that to achieve the 6.2% annual cut would require changes of an even greater magnitude than those achieved by recent major shifts in energy production in some countries.

Glimmer Of Hope PwC said one glimmer of hope was that for the first time in 6 years emerging economies such as China, India and Mexico had cut their carbon intensity at a faster rate than industrialised countries such as the United States, Japan and the European Union. As the manufacturing hubs of the world, the seven biggest emerging nations have emissions 1.5-times larger than those of the 7 biggest developed economies and the decoupling of economic growth from carbon emissions in those nations is seen as vital.

Monkey study: Ebola vaccine works, needs booster

This undated handout photo provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and GlaxoSmithKline (NIAID/GSK) shows a vaccine candidate, in a vial, that will be used in human Ebola trials.

The hope is that the first human safety study of the vaccine might eventually be used in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa. (AP File Photo)

WASHINGtON, SEptEmBEr 8 (Ap): New monkey studies show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect waned unless the animals got a booster shot made a different way.

Some healthy people are rolling up their sleeves at the National Institutes of Health for the first human safety study of this vaccine in hopes it eventually might be used in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

The NIH on Sunday published some of the key animal research behind those injections. One reason the vaccine was deemed promising was that a single dose protected all four vaccinated monkeys when they were exposed to high levels of Ebola virus just five weeks later, researchers reported in the journal Nature Medicine.

Is five weeks fast enough?

That’s in line with other vaccines routinely used today, and fortunately it didn’t take mul-

tiple doses to trigger that much protection, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose employees led the work.

The bigger challenge is that the protection wanes over time.

Researchers exposed monkeys to Ebola 10 months after vaccination, and this time only half were protected. Partial protection is better than none, Fauci said. But the goal is long-lasting protection, so it was time to try booster shots. The vaccine is made with a chimpanzee cold virus, used as a delivery system for pieces of an Ebola gene. The researchers tried simply giving another dose as a booster two months later. That didn’t work well enough.

So they tried a different approach called “prime-boost.”

The first dose, to prime the immune system, was that original chimp virus-based Ebola vaccine. But for the booster two months later, they made

vaccine a different way. They encased the same Ebola gene pieces inside a poxvirus that’s used to make a vaccine against smallpox. (Neither vaccine type can cause Ebola.) This time, all four monkeys still were protected 10 months after the initial shot.

With the Ebola crisis rapidly worsening, the World Health Organization said Friday that it would try to speed the use of certain experimental products, including two vaccine candidates. The WHO said that in November, it expects early results from first-stage studies to see if the vaccine appears safe and triggers an immune reaction in people. That would help determine whether to test the shots’ effectiveness in health care workers in West Africa.

Small animal and human safety studies cannot guarantee that experimental vaccines really work in an outbreak, Fauci said. That’s why he emphasizes public health measures such as

isolating the sick, quarantine and, especially for health workers, using personal protection equipment.

“Make sure people do what works,” he said. The booster-shot findings illustrate an added complexity to speeding an experimental vaccine into the field. The initial first phase study results would shed light only on that “priming” vaccine made from the chimp cold virus, Fauci said. The poxvirus booster step would be tested later only if scientists decided the initial vaccine was promising enough.

Still, manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline has said it plans to begin manufacturing up to 10,000 doses of the initial NIHdeveloped vaccine. Canadian researchers created a similar Ebola vaccine that works in monkeys. Manufacturer NewLink Genetics of Ames, Iowa, said first-stage safety testing in healthy volunteers is set to begin in a few weeks.

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The Morung Express

Number 18 in the books, Serena targets 19

Slow start cost her chance at glory, Caroline Wozniacki says

Martina Navratilova, left, and Chris Evert, right, pose for a photo with Serena Williams after Williams defeated Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, in the championship match of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, September 7 in New York. (AP Photo)

NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 8 (REutERS): Serena Williams allowed herself a moment to savor a third straight U.S. Open win on Sunday, but only a moment.

Just three hours after securing her 18th grand slam title with a dominating 6-3 6-3 win over Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, the world number one soaked up the accolades and applause and then admitted that she was already thinking about number 19 and third spot on the all-time list now held by Helen Wills Moody.

"I am thinking 19," said Williams, who shares fourth on the list with Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. "Hasn't even been three hours and I have already mentioned 19. Oh, gosh, but not 22. "I'm taking it one at a time."

Williams will celebrate her 33rd birthday later this month and clearly has plans to celebrate many more grand slam titles as she climbs further-and-further up the rankings. Moody, at number 19, is the next target but just ahead sits Steffi Graf on 22 and just ahead her is the great Margaret Court who tops the list with 24.

Until Sunday it did not look as if Williams would add to her grand slam haul this season. She had added five tournament titles to her collection this season, coming into the U.S. Open with her career total at 62, but at the grand slams she had fallen flat, failing to get beyond the last 16 in any of the first three majors.

However, if there was any thought that Williams' career was on the decline she erased it with a stunningly ruthless performance, confirming herself as the Queen of Flushing Meadows. In claiming her sixth U.S. Open and third straight, Williams did not drop a set and never lost more than three games in any of them, capping off her run to the title with a ruthless 75 minute demolition of her one of her best friends to the delight of her fans who packed Arthur Ashe Stadium court.

"I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet," offered a humble Williams. "Living in Compton, this never happened before." And this was just the beginning, not the end, she said. "I

BCCI contemplates naming series after Sachin: Report

NEW DElhI, SEptEmbER 8 (agENcIES): During BCCI's informal meeting on Sunday in Chennai, the prospect of naming a series after cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was discussed. 21 members of the Indian board had met to discuss issues related to BCCI's Annual General Meeting. It was during this meeting that some members suggested a series be named after the 41-year-old.

A leading Mumbai-based daily quoted BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel saying: "It is too premature to talk about it at the moment. Before naming a series after Tendulkar, we have to first get into a bilateral series talk with some country. We should first get a commitment from the other board. We want a prestigious series to be named after Tendulkar." As of now, the Test series between India and Australia is named after Sunil Gavaskar and Allan Border and it is called the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. The recently concluded Test series between India and England on English soil is named after Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and is called the Pataudi Trophy. When India host England, the series is called Anthony De Mello Trophy, which is named after one of the BCCI founders, Anthony Stanislaus de Mello.

The BCCI decided to convene a Working Committee meet on September 26 to solve the impasse related to its much-anticipated Annual General Meeting. Among other decisions taken at the meeting, it was decided that the fifth ODI of the upcoming home series against the West Indies will now be held on October 20 in Kolkata.

The match was earlier scheduled for October 17 in Cuttack. This was prompted by an earlier decision to award the October 22 Twenty20 match to Cuttack. The West Indies will begin their six weeks tour with a five-match ODI series beginning in Kochi on October 8, followed by the one-off T20I and a three-match Test series beginning from October 30 in Hyderabad. Besides, the BCCI also decided to conduct the Annual Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi Memorial Lecture in Kolkata.

3rd inter departmental badminton tournament held at Pughoboto

pughObOtO, SEpEtmbER 8 (DIpR): Parliamentary Secretary for Irrigation & Flood Control and Election, Y. Vikheho Swu graced the inaugural function of the 3rd Inter-Departmental Badminton Tournament held at Indoor Badminton Stadium, Pughoboto as the chief guest on September 4, 2014. Speaking at the inaugural function, the chief guest expressed his appreciation towards the Pughoboto Administration and Pughoboto Sub-division Badminton Association (PSBA) for their active participation and organizing the tournament. He said that sports is conducive to peace and harmony and urged the people of the sub-division to give their best for economic growth as well as in the field of sports.

The function was chaired by the Treasurer PSBA Pughoboto, Bohoto while invocation prayer was pronounced by Pastor Pughoboto Baptist Church, Rev. Akhato, welcomed address was delivered by ADC Pughoboto, Nokchasashi and oath taking was initiated by general secretary PSBA, Toniho. Assistant Public Relations Officer, Pughoboto, Tialemba and Bendang emerged champions, while Vikuho, JE and Petoshe of RD department were runners-up. Bohoto Zhimo and Lashito Sheqi finished in third place. Toniho Sheqi and Atoho Sumi represented as the chief guest’s team.

want to do really well and I love the game," Williams added. "The reason I play is to sit at the end of the day and hold the trophy or stand and hold the trophy. For me, that's my joys. "I'm just a simple individual who just wants to win titles and wants to play tennis."

Williams' rise from the Los Angeles ghetto to top of her sport is a tennis fairytale and despite describing herself as a "simple" woman, those who have faced her on the court understand that she is something quite exceptional. "I don't believe that talent can beat everything," said Wozniacki, who leaned on Williams for support after golfer Rory McIlroy broke off their engagement just before the French Open. "She works hard every day, just like us, but when she needs to she can pull out that big serve. She has the power.

"She can push us back on the court and take the initiative. She definitely has the experience now, as well...and it makes it even harder to beat her. "I think her results and her career says it all: 18 grand slam titles. "You don't get that unless you're exceptional in what you

do." After nearly two decades of amassing records and titles Williams is still driven by the pursuit of excellence and the thrill of victory.

This marks a record 15th straight year Williams has won at least one singles or doubles grand slam title and with her win on Sunday she became the second woman in the Open Era to win three consecutive U.S. Open titles. Next year she will return to Flushing Meadows looking to match Evert's record of four set from 1975-78.

Although she has considerable accomplishments to reflect on, Williams says it is not something that her and older sister Venus, a double U.S. Open champion, dwell on. And it is not a conversation they plan on having for some time.

"I think we'll have those conversations when we retire, and hopefully that will be a long time from now," said Williams. "Right now we just really want to be in there. "We want to win matches. We want to win titles. We want to do really well. We just don't talk about that right now.

"I want to continue to rise and continue to play really hard and do the best that I can."

NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 8 (REutERS): Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki said nerves and a slow start cost her any chance of beating Serena Williams in the U.S.Open final on Sunday.

The former world number one was out-hit and outplayed by the American, who won 6-3 6-3 to seal her sixth U.S. Open and her 18th grand slam singles title.

“I went out there and I was a little nervous,” Wozniacki said. “I had a game plan in mind, but it was kind of difficult at the start. “I tried to push her back, but that really didn't work for me.

She really just stepped in and she was playing aggressive. She was playing better than me today."

Both raised their level in the second set, but Wozniacki said," it was just a little too late for me. “She was very aggressive from the start. So she didn't really let me dictate it the way I wanted to.” Williams had failed to make it to the quarter-finals of any of the first three grand slams of the year but Wozniacki said that may have played in the American's favour on Sunday. “I think she wanted to prove to herself and even play better in this one and she ended up winning it,” she said. “Unfortunately I was the one on the other side of the net today. I would have liked maybe to have more of a chance today, but I didn't. Hopefully I'll get another one in Australia.”

Having beaten Maria Sharapova and Sara Errani on her way to her first grand slam final since she was runner-up to Kim Clijsters in New York in 2009, Wozniacki went into the final with high hopes. But after dropping her opening service game she was always playing catch-up. “When she's on her game there's not much we can do,” Woz-

Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, sits at her bench after losing to Serena Williams in the championship match of the US. Open tennis tournament on Sunday in New York. (AP Photo)

niacki said. “She's so strong.

She has a good serve and she puts pressure on you straightaway. “When she needs to she can pull out that big serve. She has the power. She can push us back on the court and take the initiative. .... "She knows what she needs to do out there, and it makes it even harder to beat her.” After a few years in the

grand slam wilderness, Wozniacki said she was confident that she was back on track. “I have had a great two weeks here and I have played really well this summer,” she said. “I feel like I'm on the right path. I have been playing really well, so hopefully I can finish off the year strong and have a good start to next year."

Unhappy Ronaldo ready to quit Real Madrid France draws

NEW DElhI, SEptEmbER 8 (tNN): According to Argentinian midfielder Angel Di Maria, Cristiano Ronaldo is increasingly disillusioned at the Bernabau and is aware that he is slipping slowly down the world's highest-paid players list. Both Di Maria -and fellow Old Trafford newcomer Radamel Falcao -are believed to be now earning more than Ronaldo, not to mention Wayne Rooney who reportedly signed a £300,000 a week deal with United in February. Di Maria, a close friend of Ronaldo who shares the same

agent as the Portuguese superstar, said: "I don't know how much longer Ronaldo can put up with it at Madrid. I get the impression that he is not very happy."

Ronaldo is widely reported to be extremely disappointed with Real Madrid's transfer policy and said: "I have a very clear opinion but I cannot always say what I think." His bizarre behaviour in last Sunday's 3-0 La Liga victory over Granada when he refused to celebrate either of his two goal has not helped either. "I'm sad -when I don't celebrate goals it's because

I'm not happy. It's a professional thing. Real Madrid know why I'm not happy," he added.

Ronaldo's agent, Jorge Mendes, said that he was well aware about his client's issues with Real Madrid. "Ronaldo's comments are based on things I am aware of and he is at liberty to divulge them.

These comments have not surprised me and certainly not upset me." Despite interest from Chelsea it seems that if Ronaldo does leave Madrid he will almost certainly head back to United who would welcome him back with open

arms. Ronaldo said this week: "I love Manchester. Everyone knows that. Manchester is in my heart. I left many good friends there. The supporters are amazing and I wish I can come back one day."

Having openly challenged Madrid's decision to sell Di Maria to United, Ronaldo praised his former employees for signing Radamel Falcao to rub salt into the wound. "He is a very good player - I think United did very well. He will be a fantastic buy. They need quality players. And Falcao is a quality player."

Euro qualifiers: Germany wins, Portugal loses

lONDON, SEptEmbER 8 (ap): Two months after winning the World Cup, Germany opened its 2016 European Championship campaign with a 2-1 victory over Scotland on Sunday, while Portugal and Greece both slumped to defeats in their qualifying matches.

Thomas Mueller scored both Germany's goals — a difficult backward header in the 18th minute and a close-range effort in the 70th — just four minutes after Ikechi Anya had grabbed a deserved equalizer for Scotland. "I'm satisfied with the three points. It was important to start with a win," said Germany coach Joachim Loew, whose side is unbeaten in 33 European Championship or World Cup qualifiers.

Elsewhere, a Portugal side without injured Cristiano Ronaldo lost 1-0 at home to Albania, 10-man Romania beat Greece 1-0 and Serbia drew 1-1 with Euro 2016 host France in a friendly.

Germany labored for long periods in the Group D match, particularly in the second half when the Scots were at their most dangerous, but still the home side might have scored more goals.

"They're very well organized.

We missed one or two chances to make it more convincing. Then it got a bit close toward the end," Mueller said. Mueller missed two good opportunities before making the most of his third, when he beat two defenders to Sebastian Rudy's cross and looped the ball over the goalkeeper. Anya equalized when he raced onto Steven Fletcher's through ball and beat Neuer with a cool finish inside the far post.

Germany’s Thomas Mueller, left, heads the ball to score the opening goal during the Euro 2016 soccer qualifying group D match between Germany and Scotland in Dortmund, Germany, Sunday, September 7. (AP Photo)

But Mueller soon restored the home side's lead after a goalmouth scramble, rifling the ball to the roof of the net after Scotland failed to clear. Scotland ended the game with 10 men after Charlie Mulgrew earned two yellow cards in injury time. In the other Group D matches, Poland routed Gibraltar 7-0 in Portugal on the "home" side's competitive UEFA debut, and Ireland beat Georgia 2-1 in Tbilisi. Portugal sorely missed Ronaldo's firepower as it was upset by unfancied Albania and was loudly jeered by unhappy fans.

Bekim Bajal's spectacular second-half volley embarrassed the Portuguese who couldn't trans-

late their dominance into goals, although Nani came close several times in his 75th appearance and newcomer Ricardo Horta hit the woodwork. The surprise result compounded Portugal's problems after its disappointing first-round exit at the World Cup in Brazil.

Portugal commonly struggles in qualifying campaigns and had to go through the playoffs to reach the 2010 World Cup, Euro 2012 and the 2014 World Cup. Also in Group I, Denmark came from behind to beat Armenia 2-1.

Pierre Emile Hojbjerg leveled and substitute Thomas Kahlenberg netted the late winner for Denmark which fell behind to an early goal

from Armenia's Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Aleksander Kolarov's 80th-minute equalizer earned Serbia a 1-1 draw against France, which qualifies automatically as host country.

Paul Pogba scored for the French.

It was visitors' day in Group F with 10-man Romania beating Greece, Northern Ireland finding late goals to defeat Hungary 2-1 and Finland beating the Faroe Islands 3-1 after being a goal down at halftime. Greece was perhaps lucky to have played in front of empty stands — due to a home stadium ban — as the players were spared the likely embarrassment of being booed by their own fans for a sub-par performance.

with Serbia

bElgRaDE, SEptEmbER 8 (ap): Dick Advocaat's first match in charge of Serbia ended with a 1-1 draw against Euro 2016 host France in a friendly on Sunday. France took the lead in the 13th minute through Paul Pogba but had to settle for a draw after Manchester City defender Aleksandar Kolarov equalized in the 80th.

"Everything can be better, but for the first game ... I think it was OK," Advocaat said. "I think despite the few chances France got, we played well organized." "We are still trying to find something in the team, but after all 1-1 is a fair result against the team like France," he added.

France manager Didier Deschampes said his team "could have been better." "Our goal was to win. At the beginning we were winning, but in the end it was a draw," he said.

Pogba put France ahead when poor defense allowed him to steer the ball home from a corner taken by Remy Cabella.

France, which beat Spain for the first time in eight years in its previous friendly, looked confident toward the end of the first half despite several promising attacks by Serbia. A powerful shot by Cabella prompted a save from goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic after the restart, but Serbia's tenacity was rewarded when Kolarov leveled from a free kick.

Advocaat took over Serbia in July to help get the country qualify for the Euro 2016, after it failed to reach Euro 2014.

Serbia will play Armenia and Albania next month in the qualifiers. Dutch-born Advocaat previously coached the national teams of the Netherlands, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, Belgium and Russia. He succeeded Sinisa Mihajlovic, who switched to Italian club Sampdoria after failing to qualify for last year's World Cup.

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PrincE William

& Kate expecting second baby

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rince George is not going to be an only child for long — the toddler will soon have a baby sister or brother to share his fancy digs at Kensington Palace.

British royal officials said Monday that Prince William and the duchess of Cambridge, the former Kate Middleton, are expecting their second child.

For the second time, Kate is being treated for acute morning sickness in the early phases of her pregnancy.

The first time she was so ill she required hospitalization. This time, she is being treated by doctors at her residence in Kensington Palace. She canceled a planned engagement in Oxford to rest and receive medical care.

The new baby, boy or girl, will become fourth in line to the throne, pushing Prince Harry to fifth.

George, who is 13 months old, is third and likely to become Britain's monarch one day. William is second in line, while his father, Prince Charles, is first.

Britain had changed its laws before George's birth so that the couple's first born would be in line for the throne regardless of its sex. Before the change, a girl would have lost her place in line if a boy was born later.

William and Kate have often expressed an interest in having a larger family.

The royal couple and their families are "delighted" with the baby news, said officials at Clarence House, the couple's office. The announcement follows months of speculation in the glossy British and American press about a possible baby brother or sister for George.

After hospital treatment for severe morning sickness, hyperemesis gravidarum, Kate recovered and gave birth to George in July 2013 without further complications.

The current illness means the 32-year-old duchess may need extra hydration, medication and nutrients.

Britain's Press Association reported that Kate's pregnancy hasn't passed the 12-week stage, which is when she became ill in her first pregnancy.

Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "delighted by the happy news that they're expecting another baby."

Royal officials said it wasn't clear if the duchess will be able to carry out planned official engagements, including a trip to Malta on Sept. 20 and 21 that would mark her first overseas solo trip.

Decisions on events would be made on a "caseby-case" basis, officials said.

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ood has been an indispensable part of human society, with every race, nation, tribe having their own method of food preparation. Nagaland today has become a treasure for food lovers both from and outside the country. From the famed Naga Raja Mircha to fermented soyabean, anishi and Bamboo shoot, Naga food is slowly creating a niche for itself among the list of must try for food lovers across the globe. From the regular Naga rice hotel along Dimapur’s Eros Lane that has been loyally serving fresh and smoked meat prepared in bamboo shoot and fermented soyabean for more than a decade, to the usually busy Wokha food hotels on the way to Mokokchung and beyond serving their specialty of pork, beef and fresh fish prepared in the local style. Who could forget the famed Bamboo Shoot Hotel, the Ao Naga Hotel and Chapru along the NH 29 stretch from Dimapur to Kohima where early morning passengers stop by to savour the delicacies prepared by these Hotels?

Many are loyal customers to these joints.

The new decade has ushered in the rise of a new breed of entrepreneurs who have courageously

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decided to venture into the food industry. They experiment on varieties of Naga food, giving it their own signature of ingredients to add more flavor. The Naga Chef, The Hornbill Masterchef and the Morung Fest (all held in 2013) witnessed Chefs both young and old displaying cooking prowess in wowing their audiences and customers with Naga delicacies developed from their kitchens.

Meet Aketoli Zhimomi, winner of Naga Chef 2013, who has recently added another feather to her cap with the launch of her own restaurant ‘Ethnic Table’ at Sewak Road opp. Faith Hospital, Dimapur. A big fan of Naga food I decided to visit the restaurant to see for myself and also relinquish the food served at her restaurant. Having

tasted some of her food at last year’s Hornbill Festival, where she had opened a stall courtesy of her win at Naga Chef 2013, I excitedly stepped into her restaurant along with some friends to see what she had on offer.

Greeted by an ever jolly Aketi, we settled in our seats and ordered a list of dishes for ourselves. I could not help but smile as my friends who are self confessed food-lovers, smiled gleefully everytime they gulped down their food with every now and complimenting her on the way the dishes had been prepared. The hint of local herbs which not only increase one’s taste buds but also have medicinal value was one of the prime features one could clearly make out from her dishes.

What makes Ethnic Table

a must-try restaurants for food lovers in Dimapur, and a perfect evening dine out spot for families, is the way this talented woman creates magic with local herbs and spices to her food, with a pot pourri of dishes on the menu comprising of Beef, Pork, Chicken and Fish, not forgetting her trademark Galho. Ethnic Table is the perfect eat out any day for any food lover.

Although she improvises substituting, for instance, tiny dried fish with similar dried local fish in a dried-fish chutney, Aketi relies much on traditional ingredients for her dishes which in turn spells out the secret for her mouth watering dishes, There is the atmospheric, sour spice powder, athumu, made from a seed the size of a mustard seed which makes a per-

fect combo in preparing fresh fish, and then there is the soft beef prepared in Black sesame. For chutneys Aketi says, “I wake up every morning and I just make a chutney. I feel like making there’s no particular choice of chutney for particular days.” With the restaurant in its initial stage Aketi in the coming days plans to serve her customers with local delicacies like snails, hornets, silk worms, crabs (which will be served on request). Also she hopes to add a vegetarian menu to her list in the next few days.

Asked about how she defines her cooking, Aketoli, who has making Ethnic Table a food chain says, “Cooking is an art! It’s amazing what one can create with just simple ingredients. I love to experiment and see what I can create next!”

Aketoli will be conjuring up some of her signature dishes to give her customers a taste of authentic Naga food. So food lovers, if you are in town alone or with friends, make sure you drop in at Ethnic Table open on weekdays from 9:30 am- 8:30 pm on weekdays, and from 3:30 pm to 8:30 pm on Sundays, and savour Naga Food like never before!

Auditions to Hornbill International Rock Contest 2014

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he NOC & Sky Entertainment have announced to musicians and musical hedonics across India and abroad, the commencement of auditions for bands / artistes who will be competing in the 2014 edition of the subcontinent’s biggest rock competition, the Hornbill International Rock Contest.

The organizers encourage all the bands in the country and overseas to be a part of the great Nagaland experience, fight for the one million prize (among other individuals prizes) and of course, the Hornbill Festival of the Naga people too!

smartphones and the Internet on his family. The 47-year-old actor said Jason Reitman's 'Men, Women & Children', which is on people's fears over new technology, left a horrific impact on him, said the Hollywood Reporter.

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! Network has yet to decide whether hit show Fashion Police can continue without its famed host. As the world came to grips with the sad passing of Joan Rivers on Thursday, the broadcaster announced the future of her style panel show was uncertain. Issuing two statements, E!

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cial contents. Bands will be given 20 minutes (inclusive of time for set-up) to present their songs. We will inform the selected bands through email or phone. However, as we will be giving information through the media regularly from now on, we encourage you all to watch this space.

Audition details for national & international bands For national and international bands, October 15 is the last date for submission of registration forms as well as audio / visual materials.

National and International Bands must submit two demos (one in WAV or MP3 format, and the other, a YouTube link demonstrating live performance).

The quality of sound will not be judged but the audio must be clear enough for one to identify or differentiate instruments, vocals, and general make-up of the music.

We will inform the selected bands through email or phone. However, as we will be giving information through the media regularly from now on, we encourage you all to watch this space. You can also get updates from our page on Face-

book: www.facebook.com/hirc National / international bands are also required to submit a band profile, band logo, and band photograph (in JPEG). Any submission without all the required particulars will be rejected. They are to email all the stated materials, including registration forms, to hircnagaland@ gmail.com. International bands are to take care of their Visas, travel expenses and all expenses related to entering India and traveling to Nagaland. Only accommodation (dormitory) will be provided by the organizers. Subsistence expenses such as food will have to be borne by the bands themselves.

All interested bands can download the registration forms from www.skygroup.org.in For clarification and further information, please contact A & R Manager Khriesazo Liezie at the number +91 961 5 170 264 or email him at hircnagaland@gmail.com “We will be announcing the results of the auditions on October 25,” informed a press release issued by Al Ngullie, Publicity & Media Manager, NOC & Sky Incorporated, Hornbill International Rock Contest 2014.

Helen mirren offended iCloud hackers ignored her AdAm SAndlEr fearful over technology, youth unnyman Adam "As a parent, you real- ily from going that way," ctress Helen Mirren says she felt offended that Sandler is terrified ize that there's stuff out Sandler added.

A hackers, who stole and published nude photos F about the impact of there that can be painCo-star Jennifer Garner of celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Upton, didn't target her iCloud account. In an interview with The Sun, the actress quipped about the recent incident in which private iCloud accounts of 101 celebrities were targeted, reports contactmusic.com.

I was rather insulted my phone wasn't hacked. I kept desperately looking at the list of people whose phones were hacked, hoping to see my name, the actress said.

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Audition details for bands/ artistes from Nagaland For this year, the last date of submission of registration forms for Nagaland bands is October 15, 2014.

The live auditions for Nagaland bands will be on October 18, 2014, at the Regional Centre of Excellence for Music & Performing Arts (RCEMPA) in Jotsoma, Kohima.

Bands are to note that the organizers will reject songs / music that have themes glorifying Satanism, anti-religion, and / or have antiso-

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said the network and its stars needed to mourn the loss of the sharp tongued comedian and the driving force of the program before a decision could be made.

A spokesperson for E! confirmed to Deadline that no decisions were being made yet: 'Right now we are mourning

ful to everybody, and it's right there if you hit a button," he said on the sidelines of the Toronto Film Festival. "It's a rough thing to watch as a parent, and you pray you're doing everything to protect your life and your fam-

our beloved Joan. We will respond at a later date with programming updates.' Earlier on Thursday, prior to the announcement the 81-year-old had passed away, E! said in the immediate future, the popular show will be on a two week hiatus.

'E! will not be producing a new Fashion Police this week or next. Instead, we will be airing two E! From Fashion Week specials that will deliver the latest news and information from the highly-anticipated event.' As the guiding force of the program, Joan led co-hosts Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Osbourne and George Kotsiopoulos since 2010 on the show that picked apart celebrity fashion on the red carpet.

Starting off as just a half an hour show, it was quickly expanded to an hour as Joan's bitting and no holds barred commentary on Hollywood's top stars won over audiences. Only two days before the veteran actress suffered a cardiac arrest during a routine vocal chords procedure last Thursday, she was leading the charge against bad celebrity fashion at the MTV VMAs and Emmy Awards. During that show - aired August 26 - Joan had sounded a little raspier than usual but, if she was not feeling her best, the longtime red carpet

admitted new technology has her mystified and fearful about its impact on her own family. "We're so behind. I've got to suddenly get on these things before my daughter wants to be on Instagram or Facebook," Garner said.

reporter did not show it or hold back about those who committed fashion don'ts.

On Thursday, her co-hosts paid tribute to the woman all three looked up to. Taking to Facebook Kelly wrote: 'I'm completely heartbroken by the loss of my beloved Joan. Not only was she my boss, she was and will always be my teacher, therapist, closest friend, inspiration and the only grandmother I ever knew. 'She was family and I will never forget her.

Laughter will be difficult for a while but when I'm sad, lonely or upset all I will have to do is think of Joan and a smile will cross my face. Laughter is what she gave us and laughter is what she would want us to do in remembrance of her.'

Giuliana also mourned the funny lady's passing issuing a statement saying: 'It is almost impossible to describe how much I adored Joan and how much she has meant to me. 'She was not only the funniest woman I have ever met but was incredibly loving, honest, and lived her life with no regrets. Working with her for the last 13 years has been one of the true joys of my life. She could put a smile on your face, instantly, no matter how hard your day was.'

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Naga 1st Male supermodel & former Mister International 2012 Opang Jamir Metsubo will be attending the Naga's Students Union Chennai, 36th Freshers day as the special guest and Jury member for the entire competition on September 13. Opang Jamir will be back to Mumbai for three advertisements photo-shoot.

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olly Glynn, an accomplished Chicago theater actress who also played a recurring role as a doctor on the TV series "Chicago Fire," has died after a tree toppled by a powerful storm struck her as she rode her bike in a forest park. She was 46.

Glynn was with her husband, Joe Foust, when

the storm rolled quickly into the area, just north of Chicago, the executive director of First Folio Theatre and a close family friend, David Rice, said Sunday.

"Molly was one of the most loving and generous people in the Chicago theater scene," he said. "She was incredibly talented — incredibly versatile. She could handle both comedy and the deepest, darkest dramas."

Glynn's husband called the emergency dispatcher just before 4 p.m. on Friday to say his wife had been injured, Cook County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said. NorthShore Evanston Hospital spokeswoman Colette Urban confirmed Glynn died Saturday.

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Serena WinS 3rd Straight US Open NEW YORK, SEptEmbER 8 (Ap): Serena Williams ended a difficult-for-her Grand Slam season in the best way possible, winning her third consecutive U.S. Open championship and 18th major title overall. And like each of her matches at Flushing Meadows the past two weeks, the final wasn't close at all — a 6-3, 6-3 victory over good friend Caroline Wozniacki that lasted only 75 minutes Sunday. Williams equaled Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova with 18 Grand Slam singles titles, the fourth-most in history. Williams also matched Evert's total of six championships at the U.S. Open and became the first woman to win three in a row since Evert's four-title run from 1975-78.

Not only did Williams, ranked and seeded No. 1, win all 14 sets she played in the tournament, she never even dropped more than three games in any of them. When the final ended, Williams dropped to her back behind the baseline, covering her hands with her face. Her first major trophy also came in New York, in 1999, when she was 17.

"It is a pleasure for me to win my first Grand Slam here and then this No. 18," Williams said, her voice choking. "So I'm really emotional. I couldn't ask to do it at a better place." Williams earned $4 million, a record in tennis — $3 million for the title, plus a $1 million bonus for having had the best results during the North American summer hard-court circuit. Evert and Navratilova joined her on court during the trophy and check ceremony. Williams also has won five titles apiece at Wimbledon and the Australian Open, plus two at the French Open. Only three players have more Slams to their credit: Margaret Court with 24, Steffi Graf with 22, and Helen Wills Moody with 19.

Until the U.S. Open, though, Williams had not been at her best on her sport's biggest stages in 2014. She lost in the fourth round at the Australian Open, the second round at the French Open, and the third round at Wimbledon, where a disoriented Williams also struggled through an odd appearance in doubles that was attributed to a viral illness.

Back at the top of her game, Williams broke Wozniacki's serve five times and compiled a hard-to-believe 29-4 edge in winners. "You really deserved it today. You played better than me," the 24-year-old Wozniacki said. "You're an unbelievable champion and you're an inspiration to me, both on and off the court. You're an unbelievable friend — and you definitely owe drinks later."

Remarkably, until a cross-court backhand on the run in the final game that Williams applauded, the only winners registered by the 10th-seeded Wozniacki came on a trio of aces. That was, in part, a result of the Dane's iffy play in only her second Grand Slam final — she

lost to Kim Clijsters at the 2009 U.S. Open — but mainly due to Williams' relentless pursuit of every ball.

A few weeks shy of her 33rd birthday, making the American the oldest major champion since Navratilova was 33 at Wimbledon in 1990, Williams powered this way and that in her black-and-pink hightops. Wozniacki is the one training for the New York City Marathon, but she was tuckered out by the end.

Wozniacki may as well have been an extra in this Williams highlight reel. Points were directed

by Williams, via serves that reached 120 mph (194 kph), forceful returns that backed Wozniacki into a corner when not producing outright winners, unreachable groundstrokes or the occasional volley. Yes, this was all about Williams. At times, it felt as if Wozniacki were there because, well, someone needed to be on the opposite side of the net.

They've been pals for years, and they hung out together in Miami — heading to the beach, watching an NBA playoff game — after both lost early at the French Open in May. Wozniacki says Williams helped her get over the end of her engagement to golf star Rory McIlroy. "We text almost every day. She's such a great person, a nice friend," Williams said, before turning to address Wozniacki.

"I know you're going to be winning very, very soon, maybe even Australia," Williams said, referring to the next major tournament, in January, "so I got to go home and get fit again so I can be ready for you there." The friendship between Williams and Wozniacki did not matter one bit, of course, while they played with so much at stake as early evening shadows moved across Arthur Ashe Stadium. As Williams put it beforehand, referring to her older sister, "If I can play Venus, I can play anybody."

Sure looked that way Sunday.

Serena Williams, of the United States, hugs the championship trophy after defeating Caroline Wozniacki, of Denmark, during the championship match of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Sunday, September 7, in New York. (AP Photo)

Naga Wrestle Mania 3 - King of the Ring 2014 5th horsepower Challenge 2014

Registration starts from September 10 Our Correspondent Kohima | September 8

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3E (Elite Entertainment Enterprise) is all set to organize Naga Wrestle Mania 3 (King of the Ring Series 2014) at the Kohima Local Ground from November 3 to 4 under the aegis of Nagaland Wrestling Association (NWA).

3E managing director Kethosituo (Elvis) Mepfhüo said that the wrestling competition would have four categories - lightweight championship, middleweight championship, heavyweight championship and junior championship; aside from the final series - King of the Ring championship. According to Mepfhüo, this year, Naga Wrestle Mania will feature youngsters (14 years and below) competing in the junior category. Mepfüo said that the idea is to encourage Naga youngsters to take interest in Naga wrestling.

The championship carries a total prize purse of Rs. 5.24 lakhs. The top 16 wrestlers from the lightweight, middleweight and heavyweight categories will vie for the King of the Ring title scheduled on November 4.

The champion, runnerup and losing semi-finalists of the three weight categories will get Rs. 50,000, Rs. 30,000 and Rs. 10,000, respectively. The King of the Ring title carries a cash prize of Rs. 70, 000 alongwith a motorbike. The runner-up and the losing semi-finalists will receive Rs. 50,000 and losing semi-finalist Rs. 20,000, respectively. The champion of the junior category will be awarded with Rs 10,000, the runner-up Rs. 5,000 and the losing semi-finalist Rs. 2000.

Registration of competitors from within and outside the state would start from September 10 and

3E officials during the press conference in Kohima. (Morung Photo)

conclude on October 10. liminary round would be mation, log in to the 3E webThe registration will take decided only after the last site @ www.3enagaland. place on ‘first-come, first- date of registration comes to org or the Facebook group/ served’ basis. a close on October 10, 2014. page -3enagaland.

It was informed that This time round, wres3E is an event mana sum of Rs. 500 will be tlers must come person- agement group which was charged as registration fee ally for weight measure- formed in the latter part of alongwith security deposit ment and registration. 2010. It is managed by proof Rs. 1000 from each wres- Every wrestler must sub- fessionals with a strong detler in the lightweight, mid- mit two passport-sized sire to serve as harbingers dleweight and heavyweight photographs, while each of change. categories. ComAs members petitors in the juof student bodnior category will WEIGHT CATEGORIES ies, youth orbe exempt from • Lightweight- Below 65 kg ganisations and security deposit • Middleweight- 65 to 78 kg registered sociand their regis- • Heavyweight- Above 78kg eties in different tration fee will • Junior- 14 years & below as on 31st Oct 2014 capacities for be Rs. 100, it was many years, its added. wrestler will be required members have vast experiAs requested by NWA, to furnish the name of a ence in event management.

Mepfhüo said that the event manager, who will take full The objective of the has been restricted to two responsibility on his behalf group is to target sports days. It was informed that throughout the competi- that require the least inif the number of wrestlers tion, said Mepfhüo. frastructure and suit Naexceeds 50 in any categoThe registration forms gas physically and where ry, a screening round will can be availed from 3E Of- there is scope of developing be conducted prior to the fice, Dzevi Building 2nd youngsters with talent into tournament for which the Floor, Opposite UBC, near professionals, while creatcompetitors will be notified Local Ground (North Gate) ing avenues for alternative through phone. The pre- Kohima. For further infor- source of sustenance.

KOHImA, SEptEmbER 8 (mExN): The 5th Horsepower Challenge 2014 concluded on September 6. The motor competition, which began on September 3, was held at the NFA ground, Meriema, Kohima. It witnessed great response from motor enthusiasts.

According to Nagaland Adventure Club, a total of 116 entries were received for 6 competitive categories in the two-wheeler (motocross) and fourwheeler (autocross) class.

reSUltS AUTOCROSS (BELOW 1000CC CATEGORY) 1ST BRANDON BRAZELEY, MEGHALAYA 2ND LICHIE MERO, NAGALAND 3RD AVIU RUTSA, NAGALAND

MOTOCROSS (NOVICE CLASS) 1ST NICKY FAST, MEGHALAYA 2ND ARUP JYOTI INJAL, ASSAM 3RD RR ANU SUOHU, Nagaland

AUTOCROSS (ABOVE 1000CC CATEGORY) 1ST STEPHEN SYMPHLI, MEGHALAYA 2ND AVIU RUTSA, NAGALAND 3RD A UNOKA ASSUMI, NAGALAND

MOTOCROSS (EXPERT CLASS) 1ST SUHAIL AHMED ( TEAM SPEAR HEAD), BANGLORE 2ND REHAN KHAN (TEAM SPEAR HEAD), DELHI 3RD ANTHONY LYNDOH, MEGHALAYA

4X4 OFFROAD CATEGORY 1ST KEVIZETUO RIO (DRIVER), BODEVI SHUYA (CO DRIVER), NAGALAND 2ND TOKAVI HOLO (DRIVER), LICHIE MERO (CO DRIVER), NAGALAND 3RD BODEVI SHUYA (DRIVER), KEVIZETUO RIO (CO DRIVER), NAGALAND

MOTOCROSS (OPEN CLASS) 1ST RR ANU SUOHU, NAGALAND 2N ANTHONY LYNDOH, MEGHALAYA 3RD DIGANTA BARUAH, ASSAM

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