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Dimapur VOL. VI ISSUE 313

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12 pages ` 3

“ ” ‘supra state Body’ likely christmas gift for nagas! Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names

reflections

by Sandemo Ngullie

DELHI & DIMAPUR

Source: Seven Sisters Post

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After more than half a century of protracted conflict, the Indian Government is close to offering a “Christmas gift” for the Naga people — a final settlement that the 1975 Shillong Accord promised to work towards, but could not deliver. The negotiations between the Indian Government and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Issac-Muivah faction) is now in its final stages, and Seven Sisters

Post has access to all its many details. The final settlement envisages a “special federal relationship” between India and Nagaland and creation of a “Supra-state body” for the Nagas to “preserve, protect and promote their cultural, social and customary practices.” The offer to create a pan-Naga ‘Supra State Body ’, instead of the “Greater Nagalim” demanded by the NSCN, has been touted by Indian negotiators as the “second best option for the Naga people”. The “Greater Nagalim” that would involve merger of Naga-inhabit-

ed areas of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh with the State of Nagaland is likely to provoke huge resistance in these States. So Delhi is offering to create the “Supra State Body”, to which the legal authority and decisionmaking power of the Naga populated areas of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh will be formally transferred. This, the Indian officials say, is recognition of the “distinct identity” of the Nagas, and will surely merit a major Constitutional amendment. “The proposed

agencies on the implementation of different development projects in the Naga areas. But it is not yet clear whether the three concerned States, all run by India’s ruling Congress party, have been briefed about this new experiment and how they have reacted to it. But in both Manipur and Assam, and possibly also in Arunachal Pradesh, there is likely to be considerable resistance to the “Supra State Body” proposal. Inclusion of any part of these States in the “Supra State Body” will be seen as slicing away some-

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1 held for circulating MMS sex clip

Has basic infrastructure been developed sufficiently well in Nagaland?

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): One man was arrested by police for allegedly circulating a sexually explicit video clip via MMS in Dimapur. The man, identified as Dipankar Roy (28 years), was arrested on November 12. The clip shows a naked woman indulging in a sexual act, whose face is not shown. According to police, on November 12, they got wind of a report of an MMS sex clip doing the rounds and started investigating. The same day, police were able to trace out the woman shown in the clip, who told investigators that she was not aware of such a video in circulation. Based on her statement, police were led to one Dipankar Roy of Lhomithi colony. He is said to be a shoe seller in New Market. During interrogation, Roy told police that the video was recorded by him but at the consent of the woman and at a place called ‘Citizen Hotel in New Market, sometime in October. He then showed it to his friends, which eventually circulated to a wider network of people. The woman, on the other hand claimed that she was not aware that Roy had recorded everything on video.

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CM greets Sumis on Ahuna fest DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): The Chief Minister of Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio extended his greetings on the occasion of Ahuna festival which is celebrated by the Sumi tribe. The festival signifies the celebration of the season’s harvest with thanksgiving and also prayers for good fortune in the year ahead. The Chief Minister wished that the festival may be celebrated under a spirit of unity and brotherhood which may contribute towards oneness of the Naga family.

Mother, daughter swept away in Zungki river KIPhIRE, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): In a tragic incident today a women aged 55 and her daughter aged 18 of Sangphur village under Kiphire district were swept away by strong current at Zungki river in the early hours today. The incident happened when the deceased and friends were trying to cross the river making a human chain by holding hands together. The unfortunate victims slipped off and got carried away by the current of the water. The dead bodies were later fished out with the help of administration, police and well wishers.

Congress core group discusses Telangana, AFSPA

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SUPRA-STATE body will oversee the cultural, traditional and other aspects of Naga life inside Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. They will also ensure that nobody interferes with the lifestyle and dignity of the Naga people. But they will not have the power to oversee the security aspect of the Naga inhabited areas,” a top Home Ministry official said. He said law and order and police will “entirely be the call of the concerned State Governments” but the Supra-state body will advise the concerned State

NEw DElhI, NOVEMEBR 14 (IANS): The Congress core group met here Monday to review the Telangana statehood issue and revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Jammu and Kashmir, party sources said. However, no definite decisions have been taken on both the issues, the sources said. At the most the party may come out with a statement indicating the need for more time for consultations on Telangana, they added. Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and union Home Minister P. Chidambaram in the morning to discuss the demand for the lifting of the AFSPA from parts of the militancyhit state. Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and senior ministers and party leaders attended the 90-minute meeting at the prime minister’s 7, Race Course Road official residence.

Italian right wing party supporters hold a banner which partially reads: “No to Monti” as they stage a protest outside the lower chamber demanding for general elections, in Rome, Monday, Nov. 14w. Italy’s premier-designate Mario Monti began talks on Monday to create a new government of non-political experts tasked with overhauling an ailing economy to keep market fears over the country from threatening the existence of the euro. (AP Photo)

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thing they hold dear . Congress Chief Ministers like Ibobi Singh or Tarun Gogoi will have to worry about how the Opposition in their States can play up the territory issue – specially after the kind of reactions one has seen over the land-swap deal with Bangladesh that involves a mere few thousand acres. They may also like to seize the chance of playing saviour to their own ethnic communities that constitute the core of their State’s demography – all to perpetuate their position at the helm. Continued on page 5

nPf hits back at cong over award

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): The Naga People’s Front (NPF) has taken exception at the Congress’ observation that the India Today “State of the States Award for most improved State to Nagaland in infrastructure development,” to Nagaland, was “purchased.” “It is unfortunate that the Congress leaders cannot see what even independent and respectable agencies are recognizing and acknowledging the remarkable development that has been achieved in Nagaland. The Congress leaders herealsoneedtobereminded that the award was given by Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee who in his address while endorsing the awards appreciated the independent nature and accurate parameters of assessment in

selecting the award winners,” the NPF media cell said. The Nagaland Congress is also criticized by the ruling party for their “recent utterances on various matters especially on their stand on corruption.” The statement issued by the NPF’s media bureau did not refer much to the charges made against it by the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee earlier on corruption but focused more on the Congress’ woes at the Centre. The NPF said that the Congress “General Secretary Felario” had called the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland government “champion of corruption” and repeated by Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi. Continued on page 5

Common interest thaws Rail-link deadlock Entrepreneurs cry foul as govt. delays

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): The deadlock over land compensation rates, to be paid to landowners for the proposed Dimapur-Kohima railway link, seems to be thawing. A number of villages – on whose land the link probably would pass through – are agreeing to the government’s rate. However, the issue is far from resolved as a section of the “affected landowners” are still demanding Rs. 60 per square feet. The government of Nagaland represented by Member of Legislative Assembly Azheto Zhimomi and the district administration of Dimapur led by Dep-

Railway compensation rate remains unresolved

uty Commissioner N Husheli Sema met today with leaders of villages and landowners today. The meeting was held in the conference hall of the district’s Deputy Commissioner. A visibly exasperated Azheto Zhimomi commenced the proceedings with the statement that the issue at hand continues, since 2008, with no compromise in sight. He reiterated that the landowners’ demand for Rs. 60

per square feet of land is exorbitant by any standard and far beyond the Centre’s standard rate of Rs. 25 per square feet. He reminded that nowhere in India in any state or province does a “Rs. 60 per square feet” exist. Terming the demand “abnormally high” as stated earlier by the Centre. ‘The government cannot give Rs. 60 per square feet. If the demand stands, the project might be dropped; feels like the proj-

ect may be abandoned,’ the MLA said in ‘Nagamese’ to the gathered villagers. He cited instances of land rate in Manipur and Mizoram. While others stood adamant on their demand, a number of villages from Dhansiripar, Pimla and Shokuvi agreed to take whatever the government rate is. Leaders from these areas said development of the entire state and people cannot be hampered over the question of compensation or money. Speakingfortheirrespective villages the leaders said nobodycanimposeadecision on another village or area. Continued on page 5

PEREN, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): All Selected Entrepreneurs Association of Nagaland (ASEAN) — state’s young entrepreneurs selected and trained under the declaration, “The Year of Entrepreneurs” by the state government, have cried foul as the year is barely a month away and nothing substantive announcement has so far been made. The President of the association K. Michael in a press statement has categorically blamed the government for not seriously upholding its solemn declaration and has sought immediate action and necessary implementation. “We will

submit our ultimatum and fight till each of our dreams of becoming an entrepreneur is realized; the government needs to be sincere, sensitive and caring towards the young and upcoming entrepreneurs”, it stated. “The watchword of the year’s action plan has significant rationale for the success and failure of the future DAN, for which the political house needs proper consultations amongst themselves and with other agencies while also building serious tie-ups with financial institutions, not forgetting to look out for all possible help and package from the Centre”, the note further stated.

It is also noteworthy that the trained entrepreneurs have been anticipating with courage and responsibility to begin their journey of entrepreneurship. The government must ensure that this fire of passion should not be put on for long without implementation, the note stated. We believe in the sincerity of the DAN’s desire to implement this proclamation in letter and spirit so that the upcoming thousand entrepreneurs would ensure the state’s economy is not further drained and the integrity and honesty of the DAN may be evident to all Nagas, it stated.

Kalam urges ‘power-hungry’ Rural development department directly India to go for nuclear energy linked to the villages: Pangnyu Phom

KOlKAtA, NOVEMBER 14 (PtI): Power-hungry India should go for “clean” nuclear energy, including that from the Kudankulam plant, former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Monday said, warning that fossil fuel would damage the Earth. The fossil fuel burnt every year by all States was equivalent to 30 billion tonne of car-

bon dioxide, Mr. Kalam said when asked about West Bengal government’s opposition to nuclear power. “Only clean power is the solution. Solar, nuclear, bio and hydel are clean power,” Mr. Kalam told reporters on the sidelines of IIMCalcutta’s golden jubilee celebration. Asked about the Kudankulam nuclear

power issue, Mr. Kalam said, “We are a power-hungry nation and 2000 MW of clean power is ready to be pumped into the grid. If it is clean power you must go for it.” Noting that he had visited Kudankulam, he said, “It is really a modern plant.” Asked about its safety, he replied, “Of course, I am confident of its safety.”

Naga Council happy with GPRN/ NSCN on drive against “anti-socials”

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): The Public Joint Action Committee and the Naga Council with all civil organizations appreciates the decision of the GPRN/NSCN for resolving to tackle antisocial activities “such as rape, kidnapping.” “This is a major step towards removing the quasi-national cadres which have indeed, disturbed the citizens in many ways,” the committee stated. “This is the need of the hour in the Naga nation

with the numerous antisocial activities taking place on a high scale particularly in Dimapur with victims even fearing to report such matters to the law enforcing authorities,” a note from the Naga Council of Dimapur, on behalf of the committee, stated today. The GPRN/NSCN’s “clear stand” has “enlightened public” to air their grievances “without fear or hesitation,” the Naga Council claimed. The public is also urged

to ‘come forward with courage’ to report any such matters of antisocial threats or acts perpetrated by any elements “so that GPRN may ascertain and take stringent penalties as assured.” The Naga Council hopes and appeals to all “national governments” to act against any element threatening the normal conduct of life of innocent citizens whether in Dimapur or anywhere in Naga areas “so that goodwill is rebuilt and peace prevails.”

KOhIMA, NOVEMBER 14 (DIPR): Parliamentary Secretary for RD and REPA, Pangnyu Phom said that the department of Rural development is the only department that interacts directly with the villages, and observed that if villagers are properly educated on the intention/reality of the various flagship programmes of the Government of India, and uplift them, the economy of the country and the state would prosper. Interacting with media persons in his official chamber on the 14th of November 2011, Pangyu Phom while highlighting on the Backward Regions Grants Fund (BRGF) said that RD department has taken up mostly housing schemes under the programme. “Before this scheme was introduced there were so many thatched houses especially in Eastern Nagaland, but after introduction of this scheme, there is cent percent housing coverage,” he informed. He also said that funds under BRGF are al-

Parliamentary Secretary for Rural Development Pangnyu Phom seen here at his office chamber on Monday

located to VBBs and Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) on the basis of rural and urban population. The fund is allocated to the VDBs based on tax-paying households of the BRGF districts which cover Mon, Tuensang, Wokha, Kiphire and Longleng districts. With regard to Indira Awas Yojana (IAY) Pangyu disclosed that Nagaland is one of the most success-

ful state in the country in implementing the scheme in the country and has also received the best award under IAY. He further informed that IAY is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme for providing housing to BPL households in the rural areas and said that in the next few years the department is contemplating to declare Nagaland as cent percent housing complete

state. On the much talked about Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) Phom made it specifically clear that the scheme is purely for villagers who have obtain registered job cards. Re-iterating that MGNREGS has been introduced for upliftment of the rural economy, Phom regretted that it has been politicized in many states and viewed that there should be no political interference. To enhance the livelihood security of the rural households, the Government of India has enhanced the wages from Rs.100/- to Rs.118/- per day per head wef 1st Jan.2011, with respect to Nagaland, he said. Further, he said that various developmental activities especially in the road sector is visible after implementation of MGNREGS, where Nagaland has been dubbed as the best state in terms of implementation and generation of man days. Continued on page 5

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Dimapur

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Tuesday 15 November 2011

conclave on Ahuna-celebrating essence of traditions ENSF November 16-17 Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): The Aghunato Areami Union Dimapur (AAUD) celebrated Ahuna Festival’ with the theme “Celebrating the essence of our rich traditions....” at Hukato Naga Private Residence at Ikishe Village, Dimapur. A press note issued by Hukavi T. Yepthomi said that the festival was observed with rich display of cultural and traditional dances, folksongs and folklores, and traditional acts of various short stories depicting the ancestral life styles in its originality from Lizutomi Union Dimapur.. The celebration was hosted by Mr & Mrs. Hukato Naga. The host Hukato called upon the people to lead a good and better living with Jesus Christ as a personal saviour. Among others Hekhevi Achumi of Khumishi village related the significance and tenets of Ahuna festival, its origin and various practices. Hewoto Awomi, MLA, Ghaspani-I who hails from Khetoi village, K. Hollohon, MLA, Ghaspani-II, who hails from Khukishe village, Ihezhe Zhimomi, former Minister and senior most member of the Union who also hails from Khetoi village and Tokheho Yepthomi, MLA and Congress Legislature Party Leader who hails from Luvishe village addressed the gathering. The original “Ahuna” was prepared and cooked and distributed to all the gathering. The festival was attended among others by all the officers including Hushili, IAS, Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur, Viccahse, IPS, IGP and all the well wishers and in laws including Nuklutoshi, MLA.

‘Preserve our rich cultural heritage’

Sema men present war dance at the Ahuna celebration organized by Satoi Range Public Union Dimapur.

Naga Sumi men folk performs a traditional play ‘migrating from another village’ at the Ahuna, a harvest festival of the Sumi Naga at Dimapur on November 14. (Photo/Caisii Mao)

Leshelimi, a women’s group presented folk tunes. Rev. Mulato Chishi, Missionary pronounced invocation, Rev. S. Vitoshe Swu, Executive Secretary, WSBAK conducted mass prayer meeting for the

people of the Union and the area and Rev. Dr. Yehevi Zhimomi, Pastor, Thahekhu Baptist Church pronounced benediction and for Ahuna feast. Shikuto Zalipu, Vice Chairman, AAUD conducted

the formal programmme as chairperson, K. Ahovi Sema, Chairmandeliveredanintroductory speech and Hukavi T. Yepthomi, Secretary highlighted the overall activities, programmmes aims and objects of the Union.

Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): The Satoi Range Public Union Dimapur celebrated Ahuna, the post harvest festival of Sumi tribe at the residence of Phushika Awomi, Thilixu Block-IV, Dimapur on November 14. Kaito G. Aye, Minister, Road & Bridges, Government of Nagaland was the chief guest of the occasion that witnessed a large gathering. Speaking on the occasion, the chief guest greeted the gathering and said that such is an occasion for all to come together and share the joy while also strengthen/encourage one another to take up responsibility to uplift the community in general. Stating that cohesion among the members can take the union forward to a higher level and would pave the way for the community to prosper, he called on the gathering work together with positive mindset in the interest of not only Satoi Range public living in Dimapur but for the society as a whole. He reiterated that our rich cultural heritage must be

Students enlightened on ‘children’s right’

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Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): Children’s Day was celebrated at Eden Hr. Secondary School, Dimapur with the theme “Children’s rights are the duty of all” which was jointly organized by Eden Secondary School, Eyilo Ministry and Prodigals’ Home (UNICEF), Dimapur on November 14. K. Ela, Director, Prodigals Home highlighted the convention on the rights of the child. She encouraged the students to know their rights and learn to re-

spect other children and to be more sensitive to those children that are unfortunate. She added that getting the highest grade alone is not complete education, but a child should learn to have good personality which would make them into a responsible adult, and a good human being. Maong Jamir, Asst. Director, Prodigals Home gave a brief presentation on HIV/AIDS in child -friendly way. He mentioned that there are lots of children infected and

affected by HIV /AIDS in Dimapur and added that most of them are from poor families. Jamir further stated that many HIV infected/ affected children do not go to school because of financial problems and encouraged the students to extend their help in different forms. He suggested the students to form school support group to extent help to infected and affected children in the school and outside. He also briefly highlighted the activities

of CHILDLINE (Toll free 24X7 Child helpline with no 1098). Rev. K. Chumben Kyong Convenor, Eyilo Ministry briefed about Eyilo Ministry under Lotha Baptist Church Dimapur. He shared about overcoming stigma and discrimination. He encouraged the student to remember those unfortunate friends and uphold them in prayers while celebrating this children day Presentation of certificates along with tokens for

preserved and passed on to younger generation as culture itself a part of education in one life and its important that our children know the roots of their tradition. He also called on the congregation not to succumb to ones shortcomings but join hands and strive to progress. Delivering a short speech, Nishela Vihoshe, joint secretary, WSTH called on the members of the union to continue to uphold the image good of Satoi Range. Former president, SRPUD, Kaiho Zhimo shared the significance of the festival. Presentation to folk dance and songs marked the celebration. Alobo Naga and his friends also presented specials songs. Shitovi Hokiye, vice president, SRPUD chaired the program. Rev. Yekishe Awomi, Principal, NBC said the invocation. Phushika, host of the festivals delivered welcome address while Phukato Zhimomi, president SRPUD proposed vote of thanks.

Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation (ENSF) will be organising a conclave for eastern Naga college students studying in various colleges in Nagaland on November 16 and 17 at Penal Retreat Centre, Hozukhe Village, Niuland, Dimapur. The Federation in a press release has requested colleges under Eastern Nagaland to send five representatives each and Colleges in other parts of Nagaland may send two representatives each. Food and Lodging will be provided by ENSF. However, delegates are informed to bring their own beddings. Delegates are requested to assemble at NST Dimapur by 7 AM on November 16 for transportation to the venue. Theological Colleges are also invited for the same. For details contact the following: General Secretary ENSF8974837948, President, ENSUD- 9774335852 and Finance Secretary ENSF- 9612741419.

Revocation of 3:1 seniority benefit

Kohima, November 14 (Dipr): Government of Nagaland, Department of P&AR in an office memorandum has issued a memo for revocation of 3:1 Seniority benefit to the regularised contract employees on November 14th 2011. The memorandum has said to revoke the Notification No. AR-5/ ASSO/98 Dated 16/11/2006 regarding grant of service benefit of 1 (one) year seniority for every 3 (three years) of continuous service, with effect from 3rd October 2011. This has the approval of the Cabinet vide OM No. CAB-2/2008 (Pt) dated November 5th 2011.

LFHSS observes Parents’-cum-Children’s’ Day

the student with best Attendance and best student of the year were awarded from Class A to Class 12. Vinod Khaba, Asst. Head Master gave the vote of thanks which was followed by a special prayer for children by Rev. Chumben Kyong. The programme was chaired by Marina Kikon, and Motsuthung Kikon, Principal, EHSS said the invocation and welcome address respectively. Approximately 600 students and 30 staffs attended the celebration.

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Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): Livingstone Foundation Higher Secondary School (LFHSS), Dimapur, observed Parents’cum-Children’s’ Day on Monday, with Advisor, Co-operation & Sericulture, Azheto Zhimomi, MLA, as chief guest of the celebration. Greeting both parents and students on the occasion, the chief guest said that on parents day, parents are treated with a glimpse of joy and hope; “an inspiration to renew responsibility of parenthood.” To students, Azheto ex-

Students of Town Higher Secondary School, Mokokchung cheer their teachers as they perform a choreographed dance as part of the Children’s Day celebration programme at the school premises, November 14.

GRATITUDE

Master GAIGENG PAMEI S/o Jenggai Pamei has bagged Lawn Tennis Men’s Single Champion from the recently concluded Niathu sports festival 2011 also he has won the title of Nagaland Lawn Tennis Men’s Champion. In the past he has participated and bagged Trophies within the state as well as outside Nagaland. We the parents, relatives of Master Gaigeng would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all those who supported him through prayers, morally and physically for his success. We would also like to express our gratitude to the Nagaland Lawn Tennis Association (NLTA) for giving various platform enabling him to participate and earned various trophies within and outside the state as well. We would like to give our special thanks and gratitude to Mr.Asa Khate, Director of Greenwood Hr.Sec School Dimapur, for his advices and sacrifices from the beginning of his career as his mentor. Without him he would not have come to this stage also we are grateful to his coach Shri. Vikhozolie Khate for his untiring support and guidance. We will continue to look forward for all the love and advices in the future as well. Parents of Gaigeng Pamei With Relatives and Friends.

ANFWA begins verification Work Charge employees

WoKha, November 14 (Dipr): Five member team of the All Nagaland Field Worker’s Association (ANFWA) led by its President Inakhu Aye begin verification of Work Charge Employees of PWD (R&B) and Housing from November 8. The team will cover the entire State of Nagaland for verification, which will culminate on March 28. The team visited Wokha District on November 8 and toured Sanis, Baghty and Bhandari Division and district Headquarter on November 14. They also visited Wokha-Bokajan Road, where the Association appealed to the Government of Nagaland and the concern Department to allot fund and depute labourers for the maintenance of the road. They also urged the govern-

ment to view the matter seriously as this road is one of the life line of not only the Lotha’s but the entire State and take up necessary step for the benefit of the people.The team also appealed to the Employees especially the Work Charge Labourers (WCL) to be regular and work with sincerity for the benefit of the society. The ANFWA expressed gratitude to the E.E R&B and staff, Sr. S. P Wokha and District Administration Wokha for their support and co-operation extended during their visit at Wokha District. The President (ANPWDFWA) was accompanied by General Secretary (ANPWDFWA) K. Atovi Awomi, Vice/President T. Yanger Ao, Joint/Secretary Imna Jamir and Central Executive Member, Imkong Yanger.

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horted them to “show love and respect to the world around you. Obey your parents, teachers and be loyal towards your family, school and nation.” He also said that over the years, LFHSS has flourished much, both in terms of academic and the infrastructure of the school. “As I look around the campus, there is a quantum leap of progress, which a reflection a vision, dedication and sacrifices of the school authority,” he said. The chief guest further said that teachers play a vital role in shaping char-

acters of students who are going to be leaders of tomorrow. “And thus, to a great effect, the character of a nation may be attributed to the teachers who mould the young minds at a tender age,” he added. Administrator, LFHSS, Arthur Edwards, in his address confessed that during his more than two decade associating with school children; he has come to realize that “children are the lifeline for parents and all of us. Without them, we cannot imagine what the world would like be.”

Forum for special people launched at Mokokchung moKoKchuNg, November 14 (Dipr): At the time when issues relating to disabled persons receives due importance worldwide and legislations by governments are being framed for the welfare of those, what we called, special people, a Forum for Special people has been launched at Mokokchung aiming at ‘providing a helping hand to the growth and development of people with disabilities’ in Mokokchung district. The forum under the NGO “Care and support society” was formed in March 16, 2011 by parents of special children and well-wishers. Since then, the forum is engaging in various activities to help those people. The need to have such a forum in the district was discussed in the Mokokchung District Planning and Development Board meeting in August 2011. Care and Support Society is one of the NGOs in Mokokchung district actively engaged in fighting against HIV/Aids. According to Lanunechet, Co-ordinator, Forum for Special People, a two day meet for special people will be held on 2nd and 3rd December 2011 where number of events such as drawing competition, Art, flower making and sports for them will be organized. The forum will also observed world Disabled Day on 3rd December.

KABA AnnuAl fest 2011: The Kohima Ao Baptist Church (KABA) youth annual fest 2011 was held at the Jubilee Memorial Centre on November 12 last under the theme “Rebuilding”. The programme was marked by painting, pencil sketching, cooking, poetry, laughter challenge and mono act competition. A special concert of praise and worship by the “Praise Fountain” marked the one day event. Hundreds of youths attended the programme.

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Manipur reacts to Supra-State Body for the Nagas Newmai News Network Imphal | November 14

The sTaTe governmenT of manipur and civil organisations here has taken serious note of reports regarding the 'supra state Body' for the nagas. manipur chief minister okram Ibobi singh on monday denied having any knowledge with regard to the "suprastate Body" for the nagas, saying the Central government has not yet intimated to the state government pertaining to the information revealed by guwahati based seven sisters Post which was reproduced by some leading Imphal dailies of the state on monday. according to The seven sisters Post newspaper reproduced by Imphal based dailies today, the negotiations between the Indian government and the nsCn-Im faction are now in its final stages, and seven sisters Post newspapers has access to all its many details. The final settlement envisages a "special

federal relationship" between India and nagaland and creation of a "suprastate body" for the nagas of manipur, assam and arunachal Pradesh to be given as this year's Christmas gift to "preserve, protect and promote their cultural, social and customary practices", according to a report published by The seven sisters Post. The offer to create a pan-naga ‘supra state Body ’, instead of the "greater nagalim" demanded by the nsCn, has been touted by Indian negotiators as the "second best option for the naga people", the report said. m e a nw h i l e , w h e n asked about the credibility of creation of a "suprastate Body" for the nagas, manipur chief minister o bobi said, "The government of manipur will never take into consideration anything that is going to be detrimental to the integrity of manipur." he said, "no information was received regarding the proposed su-

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Kohima, November 14

sPeakIng on The occasion of 2011 general session of Chakhesang hoho kohima as guest speaker at Jubilee hall, Chakhesang Baptist Church, kitsubozou, kuzholuzo (azo) nienu, minister for health & Family Welfare asserted that Chakesang as a community should come as one united family. he stated that irrespective of the differences in party, political ideology and party principles, they should stand together on community issues. he also exhorted the gathering by saying that it’s a high time for the Chakhesangs to build a strong unity for the larger interest of the youngsters. he advised the gathering to stop playing the blamegameandstartconcentrating on collective efforts. he said that no one is perfect therefore if any enmity arises, one should settle it without taking it further and readily give up so that unity prevails among the fellow Chakesangs. stressing the importance of present context specially Chakhesang people living in kohima, nienu said, it

Children’s day celebrated in Bethesda Hr Sec School Dimapur Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): Bethesda higher secondary school, Walford, Dimapur celebrated Children’s day with much pomp and gaiety at the main Bethesda Campus. The teachers entertained the children by various activities like solo, individual and group dances, jokes, skits and Choreography to mark the Children’s day. The highlight of the day was the distribution of prizes and presentation of gifts to the children. Provision of refreshment by the school management to the children was also another attraction of the day. The principal in his address elaborated on the significance of the day and urged the students to follow the set of rules and be obedient to the parents and teachers to grow into meaningful men and women. he also advised the students to listen to the inner voice- conscience to do good and desirable while adhering to the inculcation of values.

Chakhesang hoho kohima (Chk) a new team of executive Council was selected.

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Minister H&FW Azo Nienu along with newly elected President Zhonyi Rhi seeing releasing Chakhesang Kohima census book.

was a big achievement that Chakhesang hoho could bring out Census today which is no doubt the long desired dreams of all. Touching on the role of electoral process, nienu reminded the Chakhesangs to be very vigilant adding that due to some shortcomings committed by some pioneers he said, they have lost one seat in state assembly. CPo President sovenyi in his greetings also urged the chakhesangs to preserve the aged-old traditions and culturesoftheforefathers.hesaid Chakhesangs were hard workingpeoplebutthespiritisslowly and gradually degrading. The day dignitaries included, Parliamentary secretary for social Welfare and Women DevelopmentChotisu sazo, mLa & advisor, art & Culture, science & Technology and nreDeo nukhu, Chairperson, nagaland state Women Commission-sano vamuRedg: 4931

zo, retd. aDgP-m.veyie, ex-minister-n.Theyo, exmLa-W.krome etc a new emblem of the hoho was also approved on the day. The change of nomenclature was endorsed to the Chakhesang Public organization (CPo) for final approval. guest speaker azo nienu, released the Chakhesang hoho kohima Census containing the population of approximately 10,000. The gathering also paid respect to Late .Lechotsie Lasuh, Chk President by observing silent prayer for the departed soul. rev. Dr. Thupu-o nyekha invoked god’s blessing for the session, sekhotalu Dawhuo presented a solo, rasipra and friends presented a folk tune, general seceraty vezuhu keyho gave secretary report, Treasurer razukhru vasa proposed vote of thanks and a closing prayer was pronounced by rev. khrotso mero.

DECLARATION

Dated 14/11/11

I, Shri. Phalman Gurung, Son of Shri. Nar Bahadur Gurung, aged about 46 years, temporary resident of Merhulietsa (Paramedical) Colony, Kohima, Nagaland, and permanently resident of V.D.C Pyrajung, District Lamjung, Nepal, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare on oath as follows:1. That my original name is Shri. Phalman Gurung which can be ascertain from the Identity Card issued by the Government of Nepal. 2. That in my official documents and Service records my name has been recorded/entered and reflected as Dhanbir Gurung. 3. That I am serving under the Directorate of Fishery Department as Driver under the Nagaland State Government where my name has been entered in the said service as Dhanbir Gurung. 4. That Mr. Phalman Gurung and Mr. Dhanbir Gurung are of the same person. 5. That henceforth my name shall be called as Phalman Gurung and shall be used in all the retrospective records and the same shall be rectify and corrected. 6. That the statements made in the foregoing paragraphs are true to the best of my knowledge and nothing has been tampered and concealed herein. Sworn and signed before me by the deponent on this the 10th day of November 2011 at Kohima MAGISTRATE District & Sessions Judge Kohima: Nagaland

DEPONENT

AFFIDAVIT

I, Dr.N.Moa Jamir, son of Mr.I.Noklensashi Jamir, of Mopungchuket Village, Permanent resident of Mopungchuket Village, presently residing at Yimyu Ward, Mokokchung Town, Police Station – Mokokchung, District – Mokokchung, State – Nagaland, do hereby solemnly affirm and declare as follows: 1. That, I am the deponent of this affidavit. 2. That, my half name is Dr.N.Moa Jamir, as such, in some of my official documents, my Official name Dr.N.Moa Jamir has been recorded. Whereas, in my Educational Certificates and Birth Certificate, etc. my full name Mr/Dr.N.Moangangba Jamir has been recorded. 3. That, my names Mr/Dr.N.Moangangba Jamir and Dr.N.Moa Jamir are of the same person. As such, the above noted name stands for the same. 4. That, I hereby declare that, my half name Dr.N.Moa Jamir, shall be used as my Official name in all my Official documents from the date of declaration of this affidavit. That, the statements made above are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and nothing has been concealed therein. And i signed this affidavit on this the 20th day of October, 2011. Solemnly affirmed and declare before me by the deponent on this the 20th of October, 2011 at Mokokchung. MAGISTRATE/NOTARY PUBLIC, MOKOKCHUNG.

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pra-state Body. The Union minister and the Prime minister will be called to account on the offer." Joy said on august 4, 1972, the then Central government and the state government of manipur conceded to unify all the nagas, and today its outcome is the ‘supra-state body.’ The government of manipur should immediately find out the truth and if it is officially confirmed, then assam, arunachal Pradesh and manipur should be ready to oppose against the proposal and that the state government should also convene emergency assembly to discuss the matter, the mPP leader demanded. meanwhile, taking serious note on the proposed supra-state Body for the nagas as this year's 'Christmas gift', various civil organizations of manipur on monday convened an emergency meeting to discuss the fresh issue. Miss Sumi 2011, Viliho flanked by 1st Runners Up, Kimyetoli and 2nd Runners Up, Kuholi Details of the meeting during the Miss Sumi Peagent organized by Sumi Totimi Hoho at Town Hall Zunheboto on Monday, November 14. (Morung Photo/ K. Filip Sumi) are awaited.

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Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): education and Youth affairs and sports minister, manipur government DD Thaisii, popularly known as DD came to grace a community hall cum guest house at Purul, his village. he was waylaid between maram and Barak river. according to a report received from anthony henii, some rounds of shots were directed at the entourage. sDo Purul was one among them. The uniformed men accompanying DD were not given order to reply the raining bullets. Bombs were also laid beside the road, injuring the escorting officer, subedar Thaiho sanii, 4th IrB. It was also mentioned that the public house sprouted from national rural employment generation scheme and mLa Local area Development Fund. It was seeded by former mLa henry Paotie in 2006. The following day, sunday, DD was his usual self again; composed and ever knowing. however signs of uneasiness,

due to previous evening’s drama, could be noticed at close range as he deliberated the speech. he echoed the glorious deeds of the Congress; introduction of nregs and waiving of kIsan Loans. With mega emphasis on the Congress party, he said, nregs would be stopped without the Congress in power at the centre. Does it mean supporting the Congress, its policies right or wrong? The hospitalised officer, report stated that he is out of danger. Fingers are at the four masked men, unproved yet what group they belong. rDX (research Development explosive) was used, as per report. and the bullet shells were identified to have come from the barrels of ak47. on the return trip, Friends of the hill People defused the remaining live bombs. DD thanked them. and with safety ahead, the party zoomed towards Imphal in the same bullet proof safari with a cracked windshield, somehow demonstrating that he could not be intimidated.

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Kingfisher Airlines to sell property to cut debt, shares surge 4 percent lya’s UB Group, which owns United Spirits, India’s biggest liquor company. The UB Group will also convert Rs 675 crore of debt into equity as part of the plan to pare debt. The preferential issue of equity, if approved, will replace a rights issue of Rs 2,000 crore approved by the board in August. Once these plans are approved, Kingfisher will approach banks for up to Rs 500 crore of working capital to buy fuel and pay salaries, according to people familiar with the matter. Kingfisher’s lenders have made it clear that the airline would have to come up with a credible business plan. “Kingfisher is a valued company, but an airline would need fuel, fleet and finance to run the show. Kingfisher should tell us how it plans to streamline its daily requirements,” Pratip Chaudhuri, chairman, SBI, said in Kolkata. SBI is the lead lender to Kingfisher among the consortium of 13 banks. Chaudhuri said banks have asked the airline’s owners to bring Rs 800 crore as equity. The company has said Rs 400 crore has been arranged, but Chaudhuri said he wanted to “see the money”, news agency PTI reported. He said banks will meet KFA’s management on Tuesday. Over the weekend, reports that the government might move to bail out Kingfisher has met with strong opposition from politicians and sections of industry. “If it’s a free market economy, those who die must die,” said Bajaj Auto Chairman Rahul Bajaj. The principal opposition party, the BJP, and the CPM have strongly opposed government help to Kingfisher. Over the next two years, King-

mumbai, November 14 (ageNcies): Shares of Kingfisher Airlines rose more than 4% on Monday on Economic Times’ report that the cash-strapped carrier would consider proposals, including selling property, to cut its $1.3 billion debt by more than half. The board of Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) will consider a proposal to cut debt by more than half by selling property, converting loans from its parent company into equity, and changing the terms under which it leases aircraft. The management of the airline, which has cancelled 200 flights in the past week, leading to fears it is close to bankruptcy, says its plan will result in debt coming down from Rs 6,500 crore to Rs 3,000 crore. Kingfisher shares had plunged as much as 18% on Friday to an alltime low of Rs 17.7 after the airline said it was dropping unprofitable routes and speeding up a fleet reconfiguration, which would see its daily schedule of flights drop to 300 from 340. At 10:10 a.m. (0350 GMT), shares in Kingfisher Airlines were trading up 4.33% at Rs 20.50 in a firm market. The debtreduction plans to be placed before the board were spelt out in a presentation, which has been reviewed by this paper, to potential financial investors on November 6. The management is likely to propose a preferential issue of equity to the promoters and other investors, meeting a key demand of banks that are insisting Vijay Mallya, the flamboyant tycoon who owns the airline, infuse equity into the troubled carrier. Kingfisher is promoted by Mal-

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fisher plans to raise close to Rs 900 crore by selling Kingfisher House, the airline’s headquarters near the Mumbai domestic airport, and other real estate, and Rs 700 crore more by changing the leases on its aircraft from financial to operating. In case of a financial lease, the airline has to deposit money with the aircraft manufacturer, which can be up to 15% of the total value of the aircraft. Converting it into an operating lease would mean the deposit is paid by the leasing company, which in turn is paid lease rental by the airline. Sanjay Aggarwal, Kingfisher Airlines CEO, however, refused to comment on the additional working capital but confirmed that the airline was planning to raise funds by changing the nature of lease agreements and selling real estate. “All this exercise is going to reduce our interest costs that are pinching us a lot right now and reduce debt levels to reasonable limit,” he said. But industry insiders doubted if a change in the nature of the lease would raise the kind of money that KFA seemed to be expecting. Further, they say, the Mallya-owned airline’s relationship with leasing companies is less than stellar as it has repeatedly defaulted on lease rental payments for some of its aircraft. “It needs to be seen how much value can be unlocked from sale of real estate assets as the realty sector itself is going through a challenging phase. With the troubles the company has with leasing firms, it will also be interesting to see if they are agreeable to bailing Kingfisher out. But if they are indeed able to half their debt, as they

are planning to do so, it will help the company a lot as what is hurting Kingfisher’s profitability is the high interest outflows,” said a research analyst with a leading brokerage firm not wanting to be identified. According to sources, some of the money that Kingfisher is seeking from the banks will go into reconfiguring the aircraft it wants to use for its full-service operations. These aircraft were earlier used by Kingfisher Red, KFA’s defunct lowcost arm. Kingfisher had announced after a board meet in September that it would do away with Kingfisher Red, known as Air Deccan before Mallya acquired it in 2007 from GR Gopinath. Kingfisher expects to increase its revenues by 15% once the reconfiguration of these aircraft is complete in another three to four months. An earlier restructuring of loans had brought down Kingfisher’s debt to Rs 6,500 crore from over Rs 7,500 crore. The lenders - 13 banks, including SBI and ICICI - paid a 61% premium when they got a 23% stake in the airline in April this year, a move that has been panned by independent analysts as they got only one board seat. The Kingfisher scrip has tanked since then, closing at a new low of Rs 19.65 on Friday. The airline will also look at reduction of manpower costs. “Tough measures have to be taken even if it means manpower reduction for the sake of the remaining 7,500 employees,” Aggarwal said. Kingfisher is looking at a timeline of three to four months when all these initiatives will come together enabling it to keep operational.

LOCAL NEwS Flora & Fauna Agro farming Ltd launched

Dearest H. Premy (Chumu, Dimapur), Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): An investment firm “Flora & Fauna Agro Farming Limited” was launched today at Chumukedima. The firm not only has its business prospects but aims in creating employment avenues especially for the As you enter yet anoth- youth. The firm has also opened an er thriving year, May God institute – Global Computer Institute bless life’s best for you that as a part of its project. It disclosed that could ever be. Celebrate the institute will employ youth who Life and enjoy all pretty have computer knowledge as well as good time ahead which will train youngsters and give them job add colors to your life and placement too. bring bliss to your heart. In regard to investment, the comCheers!! and wishing You pany has daily and monthly saving “HAPPY BIRTHDAY “” plans according to the customer’s inBuddy. come. The firm also deals in real estate, building and construction, import and Love and sincere wishes, export, agriculture products, food Truly Yours products, travel and tourism, hotel (Hlo… Shillong). and resorts, fishery, spices and agro

er howoto Chishi releasing the brochure and the passbook of the Flora & Fauna Agro farming Ltd on November 14.

project. The chief managing director of the firm is Hoska Achumi, managing director – Bendangtoshi Lemtur and development director – Dayal Singha. Earlier, the brochure and the

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The Morung Express

PUBLIC DISCOURSE

“An open letter to the President, Nagaland Olympic Association & the President, Nagaland Football Association and the President, Kohima District Football Association (K.D.F.A)” Sub: Representation against arbitrary allotment of Kohima District Football Association (KDFA) Quota for the forthcoming Nagaland Premier League (NPL). Hon’ble Sir, ith reference to above cited subject, the undersigned on behalf of the New Market Football Team, Kohima is constraint to bring the following few points for your kind information and necessary perusal. That Sir, as per The Nagaland Premier League (NPL) article No. 2 format for the qualification of the league, the Kohima district has been allotted a slot on merit basis which is in the form of winner of the KDFA League. However, it is a known fact that the esteem governing district football body has never conducted the league for reasons best known to the concern Association. The KDFA with its own flair of favouratism has straight away allotted the quota to the Life Sports Football Club (LSFC) undermining the contributions and credentials of various Football Clubs in Kohima district, It has been brought to our notice that the allotment was made on the criteria of recent performances and well managed team which has prompted us to question the wisdom of KDFA for allotting the slot to LSFC. 1. What were the criteria followed by KDFA toward allotment of the slot in the absence of a KDFA League Champion? 2. What is the recent performance and achievement of LSFC that qualifies them for the NPL slot of Kohima district?

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3. What does KDFA mean by the properly structured system they (LFSC) have in place? Keeping these questions in mind, it is pertinent to mentioned that the New Market Football team, Kohima was established in 1977 following its participation in Sir Pausey Trophy. Since then, the team has been consistently participating in all the major tournaments organized in the district and State. The team has been a sprint board which provided many players the opportunity to represent the State team, which has brought many laurels to the State. It is also to be mentioned that few players had even represented the Country and also have found prominence in the top football clubs of our country. If, the recent performances had to be taken into considerations, the New Market team had been the runner-up of the 16th &17th edition of Classic Cup (erstwhile Youth Soccer Tournament) during 2010 & 2011and is also the runner-up in the 1st & 2nd edition of the Kohima Inter-ward football tournament. The team is also the only team to have the distinction of participation in all the editions of the Classic Cup. Unceasingly, the team had also participated in the lead tournaments of the State like the N.S.F Martyr Trophy and the Royal Gold Cup (An all India football tournament). Three decades of holistic football experiences, be it participation or management, speaks volumes about the credentials and reputation of the New Market Football team. The following roll-of-honours further substantiates this claim.

Name of Tournament Sir Pawsey Trophy 1st Open Invitation soccer Cup, Dimapur Senior Soccer League Kohima Senior Soccer League 1st Youth Soccer Cup 4th Youth Soccer Cup Peace Cup 2nd NSF martyr’s Trophy 3rd NSF martyr’s Trophy 10th Youth Soccer cup Sekrenyi League 12th Youth Soccer Cup 18th Royal Gold Cup 16th Classic Cup 1st Kohima Inter-ward 17th Classic Cup 2nd Kohima Inter-ward

The undersigned would like to categorically make clear that the management team of the New Market IX, Kohima is not against the LFSC but appalled by KDFA system of allotment of slot for Kohima District under very vague norms and criteria. This act of conduct is arbitrary and massacre to the game of football in the district. It is really unfortunate and regretted that this issue has cropped up at this crucial juncture when the whole State is anxiously waiting for the birth of NPL. In view of the above facts and figure, we

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‘Supra State Body’ likely Christmas ... The NSCN, though, has already started extensive interaction with their constituents and “fraternal organizations” to figure out their reactions to the concept of the “Supra State Body” to the Naga people – a task that is proving to be less than easy. So if the NSCN and the Indian Government cannot agree on the exact nature of powers for this “Supra State Body” there could be an obvious delay and the intended “Christmas gift” for the Nagas may have to wait until another Christmas. In the interest of maintaining the exclusivity of this obviously huge newsbreak, Seven Sisters Post has so far refrained from seeking reactions of the Chief Ministers of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh or the Opposition parties there. But so far there is no indication that the three Congress Chief Ministers – of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur – have been told about the “Supra State Body” proposal to solve the Naga problem. After this newsbreak, we anticipate their reactions but there is no point anticipating them . We will report them once we have them. There could be many a hurdle in implementing the “Supra State Body” proposal even if the NSCN and the Indian Government finally write it into the Accord – but if it finally comes into being, the “Supra State Body” will turn out to be a far-reaching Constitutional experiment with major implications for India’s body polity. It is an arrangement that will seek to retain the Naga-inhabited areas within the States of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh but linking them to the State of Nagaland for ensuring the cultural unity of the Nagas and giving them a sense of cohesiveness.

NPF hits back at Cong over award “They seem to have forgotten that they are the architects of the biggest corruption scams in the history of the country. The 2G scam and the Commonwealth Games scam are just two examples of how they have plundered the country,” the NPF statement said. According to the NPF the visit of Rahul Gandhi was awaited by the youth of Nagaland with high hopes and expectations “but his visit ended up more as a dampener as he lectured about corruption and poverty.” He will have served himself and the country well if he focused on solving “the corruption in Delhi” and the “poverty in his home state Uttar Pradesh especially in the constituencies of Amethi and Rai Bareilly.” Asserting that the Congress “seems to making their statements without opening their eyes to the realities of what is happening in Nagaland,” the NPF said “many of the awards for achievements and improvements were bagged by states which are governed by Congress party as well.” For a regional party like the NPF, the NPF said, “our real high command are the masses and it is only a regional party like that NPF which can echo the true voice of the Nagas while understanding the problems and issue of the local population.” The ruling party asserted further that a party “commanded by a culture of high command politics” is “bound to get cut off from the needs and problems of the people at the grass root level and the recent utterances and visits of the Congress leaders have clearly shown the Naga people how the Congress is completely cut off from the people.”

One held for circulating MMS sex clip Roy further claimed that the woman was a sex worker, whom he met at New Market and bedded her at a monetary charge of Rs. 400, the same evening the video was made. An ‘extra charge’ was also paid to the woman to get her consent to record their encounter, he told police. The woman’s side of the story however contradicted Roy’s version. Her version was that they shared a mutual admira- Dipankar Roy in police custody on November 14. tion for each other. The evening the video was said to have been made, they met up at the aforementioned hotel in New Market. Roy was booked under section 67A (publishing and transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act in electronic form) of the IT Act 2008. The quantum of punishment according to the section is imprisonment upto five years for a first offence with monetary penalty.

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Dimapur

CSDD meeting

LocaL News

The Consumer Society Dimapur District has convened a meeting of its office bearers and executive members on November 15 at 10:00 a.m. at Dimapur, November 14 from the state government so far, department and the Commissioner tion of separate rules for registration its office at Millennium Mar(mexN): Long-suffering “local” the NCSU said in a press released & Secretary of Works &Housing on would create confusion and diffi- ket building. contractors in Nagaland today an- issued today. October 8, 2007, November 7, 2008 culty for the government for exercisnounced an indefinite agitation Contrary to the aspiration and February 2, 2009. During these ing effective control over the vari- KMC Informs against the Nagaland government’s of the NCSU, the union said, the meetings a number of agreements ous departments. “Thus, it was felt decision to cancel standing State government of Nagaland issued a and conditions were agreed upon, that there is a need to make amend- In reiteration to an earlier orders that stipulated that contract memorandum on October 24, 2011 the unions said. It was agreed that ment to the extent that the new rules notice jointly issued by the and supply works would be allot- basing on the Cabinet decision that for the security deposit through would be applicable to all the govern- Deputy Commissioner, Koted only to Nagaland Contractors Nagaland Registration of Con- treasury receipts as provided for in ment departments,” the union said. hima and Kohima Municipal & Suppliers’ Union (NCSU) card tractors Rules 2006 would be en- the Registration Act of 20006, the The union said the decisions Council dtd. 13th November, holders. forced with immediate effect. “In contractor in concern would be re- and agreements with the depart- 2011, the Deputy CommisThe NCSU met on November 14 this connection the NCSU would quired to pay the fixed security de- ments were rejected aside from sioner Kohima and Kohima and decided on the agitations after like to make it amply clear that at posit in the form of bank draft from the Cabinet canceling the stated Municipal Council further the Cabinet cancelled the orders on present, out of 11 districts only two any nationalized bank in favor of orders. “…the NCSU is left with no hereby remind the public to October 3-4 this year. The contrac- districts – Kohima and Dimapur – the engineer-in-chief of PWD, Na- option but to stand firm against clear/remove all the buildtors lamented that their services have capable contractors to obtain galand in the prescribed scale of the indifferent attitude of the state ing materials, loose soil, continue to be undermined by the registration of the 2006 rules and different categories. Also, Class-V government of the day as the said earth, waster and off road government. The NCSU said it whereas the remaining nine dis- category contractors were to be Cabinet decision is totally direct- vehicles etc. that are places/ “represented” to the chief minister tricts contractors are not in a posi- exempted from registry allocated ed against NCSU,” the contractors dumped on the roadside in of Nagaland on October 29 to re- tion to do so,” the NCSU said. work up to Rs. 10 lakh for NCSU said. All NCSU members of all the and around Kohima City voke the cancellation and “restore The union reminded that the identity card holders if e contrac- districts, action committees and within 7 days from the date the status quo” within November union met with the engineer-in- tor is found suitable. legal advisors are asked to be pre- of issue of this notice. Failing 20. No response has been received chief of the Nagaland Public Works Further, it was felt that prolifera- pared for the program of agitation. to comply with the order, all the building materials and the broken down vehicles on the roadside will be cleared/ towed away. This further informed Dimapur, November revealed that, 90 percent of land. Therefore, individu14, (mexN): NPP+ (Net- the registered children are als and government have to that torn and rusted boards, work of Naga People Living from the Below the Poverty come forward and help those banners and hoardings with HIV and AIDS) cel- Line section. Moa, Presi- in need.” placed at the main town of ebrated Children’s day in dent of DNP+ stated, “WCD The members affirmed the State Capital should be the most unusual way in Di- (Women & Child Develop- on the memo that, thousands removed in a week’s time. mapur. The Network (NPP+) ment) is an organization of children in Nagaland eiThe business establishcalled a meeting among the that provides aid to children. ther infected or affected by ments are also asked to rerepresentatives to discuss It’s a scheme through which HIV/AIDS lack even the paint the damaged board “Protecting the Rights of children should get abet ev- basic needs and facilities. If of their shops and place in a Children Infected and Af- ery day, but it happened only proper schemes and funds proper place. fected by HIV & AIDS” with once in three or six months.” are shared and supplied to Obersving that some The chief guest Kovi Meyase ADC, Kohima along with the aid of CRAR (Centre for Other additional griev- the Network, they can infact buildings have plastic sheets principal Anna Molly and Sr. Superior Ivy D'Souza, Little Advocacy & Research). Net- ances were that, the gov- prevent cases of suicides and and temporary toilets on top Flower Higher Secondary School, Kohima. work representatives from ernment did not share any social rejection among HIV and side of the buildings, the nine districts congregated to schemes or funds sanctioned & AIDS infected children. district administration and discuss the issue and find so- to the state from the centre. The Network members KMC hereby inform the publutions to aid deprived chil- This kind of deadlock from requested individuals, or- lic to remove the same so as dren in Nagaland. the government checks the ganizations, associations to make Kohima a better and The assembled repre- Network from reaching a and the government to cleaner place to live in. sentatives lamented that, larger section of children in come forward, which will Elizabeth Ngully there is no schemes, projects need. Khandao, CFAR state enhance in a more effective Chief Executive Officer and funds to aid children coordinator stated that, outreach mission. Kohima Municipal Council infected and affected by “Government should come HIV&AIDS in Nagaland. It forward, merge with the Netwas also shared in the meet- work and provide aid to chiling that, around 1795 affect- dren. Also, Children’s Right The orphans of Wondang-Ki smile for the lens on Chil- ed and 300 infected children and Equal Opportunity for dren's Day. The orphanage conducted a humble pro- are registered with the net- Children is an important gramme for the children. (Morung Photo) work. The members further concept neglected in Naga-

Weary and angry, contractors finally launch stir

In pictures..

Six penalized for illegal possession of IMFL Dimapur, November 14 (mexN): The District Excise Duty Party conducted a surprise raid on November 14, 2011 in and around Blue Hill Station Area and A.H Road area (Bata Charali area) and seized a total of 308 bottles of assorted IMFL and Beer. A press note issued by Pitongse Sangtam, superintend of excise & prohibition, Dimapur stated that in this connection, six accused person were arrested and later penalized as per the NLTP Act 1989. The note also informed that such surprise raids would be conducted more often.

Children’s day celebrated in unusual way in Dmr

Diphupar ‘B’ council informs land owners Dimapur, November 14, (mexN): Maintaining to work for the welfare of the village general public,TheDiphupar‘B’village council has informed all the land owners under the jurisdiction of the village, that there will be land patta/permit verification starting from November 15 to December 15, 2011. In a press release issued by N.Mhabemo Mozhui, Secretary,DiphuparVillage Council, Dimapur, it was stated that all thel and owners were directed to verify and authenticate the land

patta/ permit from the village council Chairman and Secretary. It was also stated that failing to comply with the order may lead to imposition of fine and cancellation of the land. The Village Council also expressed concern over the hazardous effect and increasing consumption of alcohol and other related products and has resolved to ban the selling of alcohol in and around the village with immediate effect from November 8, 2011. The Village Council has warned the suppli-

ers and the sellers to stop selling the said product in order to maintain hygienic environments and peaceful atmosphere in the village. The Council, in the press note, had also cautioned that strict actions would be taken against those who fail to comply the order i.e. imposition of fine and expulsion from the village for three years. The village council had therefore appealed to all the individuals and general public to extend their fullest cooperation for peaceful coexistence in the village.

Common interest thaws Rail-link rate ... “We cannot speak for other villages but for us, we would accept whatever the government gives us. If we look for money we won’t have development. We will take what the government rate is,” a leader from Shokuvi said (in ‘Nagamese’). There were also sections of the “affected villages” who stood adamant by their demand to be Rs. 60 per square feet. Concluding the meeting, the government has asked them to come up with a resolution by November 20 and meet again. On November 11 earlier, government officials and landowners in Dimapur met concerning the proposed Dimapur-to-Kohima railway-link. The meeting also ended in a deadlock after the sides failed to reach an agreement over land compensation rates. The government has suggested to the landowners a rate of Rs. 25 per square feet for residential areas, Rs. 10 per square feet for paddy fields and a separate rate for damaged properties.

Rural development department directly ... Commissioner & Secretary RD, V.Sakhrie who was also present, opined that MGNGEGS implemented by the Rural Development department came at the nick of time, when development was the need of the hour in the rural areas. Our society has strong social community based set up and MGNREGS scheme fits well with our community/tradition and if implemented properly, it can do miracles for Nagaland, he maintained. Such community based set up is a new culture for many states but we are lucky as it is already inbuilt in the Naga society, he added. On constitution of Ombudsmen in the State, Sakhrie said that Nagaland was the best state for constituting Ombudsmen after Kerela where members were drawn from different fields. In all the 11 districts Ombudsmen are in place, he added. The Morung Express is introducing “Public Space” as part of our intention to provide deliberate space for the opinions of the people to be expressed and heard through this newspaper. Nonetheless, The Morung Express points out that the opinions expressed in the contents published in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper or the editor.

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express TuEsDAy 15 NovEMbER 2011 vol. vI IssuE 313

Sustainable Population

he United Nation has symbolically declared the world’s 7-billionth human on October 31, 2011. And to take the honours was the little girl Nargis Yadav born in a small rural clinic in north India in the State of Uttar Pradesh, which is the most populated in India. While roughly 4.5 billion people have been added to the world population in just the last 60 years, according to United Nations estimates, the U.N.-declared landmark of 7 billion humans underscores the challenges faced by the global community to address the environmental and social impacts that continued population growth will have. While individual countries will have to address this concern, the fact that the UN has chosen India to showcase the 7-billionth human only underscores the bigger problem and challenge for India, China and other developing countries. At the outset it must be understood that the problem is not so much about population growth but the real concern should be to find a right balance between growth and sustainability. Although India has been recognized as the first country in the world to officially adopt a family planning program in 1952, serious thinking about population growth was reflected only through the subsequent five year plans. Even then policy makers failed to grasp the statistics behind the booming numbers. One of the measures adopted to curb population growth was in the nature of financial incentives in the form of cash awards for undergoing sterilisation; extensive use of sterilization for both males and females. Policy makers had always put too much attention into meeting targets rather than on basic welfare measures such as education and economic development as levers to restrict the growth of population. Such a lopsided strategy was bound to fail because adoption of family planning in India was never properly explained in terms of the various socio-cultural and economic factors. For instance the low age of marriage particularly in rural India contributed to high fertility. Further owing to prevalence of illiteracy, low status of women, deep rooted religious beliefs and customs besides the economic advantages of having a large size family has led to a mindset which is not amenable to the government’s family planning programs. Only in the last few years a broader perspective was adopted in the form of family welfare programs. The MS Swaminathan Expert Group on National Population Policy had called for the implementation of Minimum Needs Program. This includes the universalization of primary education, abolition of child labour, priority to primary health care and food-clothing-shelter programs. Addressing global population growth is therefore not the same thing as ‘controlling population’. The latter is essentially about numbers and we cannot humanly stop population from growing. What we should therefore focus on is on the welfare aspect of our population such as human development. Recently, the UN released its Human Development Index (HDI) report where India ranks a low 134 among 187 countries in terms of the HDI, which assesses long-term progress in health, education and income indicators. If countries and communities can give special emphasis on the HDI, the problem of population growth should not become such a big issue. And one of the focus areas should be on improving the overall condition of our womenfolk. This will include proper education, healthcare, proper sanitation, access to clean drinking water, livelihood options etc.

PUBLIC GRIEVANCE PUBLIC GRIEVANCE CELL CELL open letter to NPsC, Power dept •-I the applicant of the Technical Exam (No.NPSC ADVT-1/04) would like some clarification as to why Item No.6: (a): 1 (one) posts of S.D.O (Management Information System) Class-1 Gazetted under Power Department (Electronics & communication Engineering), has been cancelled by the Power Department, has the said post been already filled or under what condition has the above said post been revoked. Even the previous technical exam in 2010 the post of Programmer (NPSC dept) the results were not declared and following which an advt for Deputation of the said post from other dept with a work experience of 3 years had been put up. The criteria of which was next to impossible to fulfill. So this is my kind request to the concerned departments to maintain transparency for the aspiring candidates, and also to give answers to the said queries. Imse, Dimapur

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Source: The Hindu

Manipur blockade must end

t is inconceivable that agitationists can ever succeed in blocking the main highways leading into, say, a State such as Madhya Pradesh for more than a few hours. Yet they get away with blockading Manipur for months on end, again and again, simply because disruptions in that farthest corner of the Northeast do not cause a ripple in the rest of India. So it is hardly surprising that people in Manipur think the country does not care for them. The latest blockade, which started on August 1, has led to an acute shortage of essential commodities, with the prices of food, medicines, and fuel shooting up sky high. Ordinary people have borne the brunt of the agitation, black marketeers and hoarders are having a field day, and the central government has been a bystander to the less-thancompetent handling of the situation by the Ibobi Singh government in the hapless State. The siege began when the Kukis affiliated to the Sadar Hills Districthood Demand Committee blocked National Highways 53 and 39 to press their demand for a Kuki majority district to be carved out of portions of a larger district claimed by the Naga people as part of the ‘greater Nagalim.' The Nagas responded to the SHDDC blockade with one of their own. Instead of handling both firmly, the State government appears to have only worsened ethnic tensions by getting the SHDDC to withdraw its blockade with a written assurance that the demand for a separate Kuki district would be met. The United Naga Council and the All Naga Students' Association of Manipur have since intensified their blockade. The Centre's apathy aside, the inflexible positions taken by the protesters, and their political vision stretching no further than the narrow confines of their ethno-nationalism, are the main reason for the mess in Manipur, and in some other parts of the Northeast as well. The Meities, who form the majority ethnic group, are not blameless in this saga of exclusivist politics; the tussle between the Kukis and the Nagas cannot be separated from the larger confrontation between the nationalisms of the Meitei and the Naga. Reconciling these competing visions is not an easy task; there are no quick answers. It calls for a leadership that is prepared to think big and re-imagine the State, and the region, in progressive inclusivist fashion. More immediately, the blockades on the highways must end. They have caused immense suffering to the poorest of Manipur's 2.7 million people who cannot afford to pay black market rates for their daily essentials. The blockaders must realise that they cannot use blackmail to gain their political ends.

THE EDIT PAGE

C O M M E N T A R Y

John Bellamy Foster

Capitalism & Environmental Catastrophe This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk delivered at a teachin on "The Capitalist Crisis and the Environment" organized by the Education and Empowerment Working Group, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti Park (Liberty Plaza), New York, October 23, 2011. It was based on a talk delivered the night before at the Brecht Forum. Fred Magdoff also spoke on both occasions.

he Occupy Wall Street movement arose in response to the economic crisis of capitalism, and the way in which the costs of this were imposed on the 99 percent rather than the 1 percent. But "the highest expression of the capitalist threat," as Naomi Klein has said, is its destruction of the planetary environment. So it is imperative that we critique that as well.1 I would like to start by pointing to the seriousness of our current environmental problem and then turn to the question of how this relates to capitalism. Only then will we be in a position to talk realistically about what we need to do to stave off or lessen catastrophe. How bad is the environmental crisis? You have all heard about the dangers of climate change due to the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere -- trapping more heat on earth. You are undoubtedly aware that global warming threatens the very future of the humanity, along with the existence of innumerable other species. Indeed, James Hansen, the leading climatologist in this country, has gone so far as to say this may be "our last chance to save humanity."2 But climate change is only part of the overall environmental problem. Scientists, led by the Stockholm Resilience Centre, have recently indicated that we have crossed, or are near to crossing, nine "planetary boundaries" (defined in terms of sustaining the environmental conditions of the Holocene epoch in which civilization developed over the last 12,000 years): climate change, species extinction, the disruption of the nitrogen-phosphorus cycles, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, freshwater usage, land cover change, (less certainly) aerosol loading, and chemical use. Each of these rifts in planetary boundaries constitutes an actual or potential global ecological catastrophe. Indeed, in three cases -- climate change, species extinction, and the disruption of the nitrogen cycle -- we have already crossed planetary boundaries and are currently experiencing catastrophic effects. We are now in the period of what scientists call the "sixth extinction," the greatest mass extinction in 65 million years, since the time of the dinosaurs; only this time the mass extinction arises from the actions of one particular species -- human beings. Our disruption of the nitrogen cycle is a major factor in the growth of dead zones in coastal waters. Ocean acidification is often called the "evil twin" of climate change, since it too arises from carbon dioxide emissions, and by negatively impacting the oceans it threatens planetary disruption on an equal (perhaps even greater) scale. The decreased availability of freshwater globally is emerging as an environmental crisis of horrendous proportions.3 All of this may seem completely overwhelming. How are we to cope with all of these global ecological crises/catastrophes, threatening us at every turn? Here it is important to grasp that all of these rifts in the planetary system derive from processes associated with our global production system, namely capitalism. If we are prepared to carry out a radical transformation of our system of production -- to move away from "business as usual" -- then there is still time to turn things around; though the remaining time in which to act is rapidly running out. Let's talk about climate change, remembering that this is only one part of the global environmental crisis, though certainly the most urgent at present.

Climate science currently suggests that if we burn only half of the world's proven, economically accessible reserves of oil, gas, and coal, the resulting carbon emissions will almost certainly raise global temperatures by 2° C (3.6° F), bringing us to what is increasingly regarded as an irreversible tipping point -- after which it appears impossible to return to the preindustrial (Holocene) climate that nourished human civilization. At that point various irrevocable changes (such as the melting of Arctic sea ice and the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, and the release of methane from the tundra) will become unstoppable. This will speed up climate change, while also accelerating vast, catastrophic effects, such as rising sea levels and extreme weather. Alternatively, if our object is the rational one of keeping warming below 2° C, climate science now suggests that we should refrain from burning more than a quarter of the proven, economically exploitable fossil fuel reserves (unconventional sources such as tar sands are excluded from this calculation).4 The central issue in all of this, it is important to understand, is irreversibility. Current climate models indicate that if we were to cease burning fossil fuels completely at the point that global average temperature had increased by 2°C, or 450 parts per million (ppm) carbon concentration in the atmosphere (the current level is 390 ppm), the earth would still not be close to returning to a Holocene state by the year 3000. In other words, once this boundary is reached, climate change is irreversible over conceivable humantime frames.5 Moreover, the damage would be done; all sorts of catastrophic results would have emerged. Recently climate scientists, writing for Nature magazine, one of the world's top science publications, have developed a concrete way of understanding the planetary boundary where climate change is concerned, focusing on the cumulative carbon emissions budget. This is represented by the trillionth ton of carbon. So far more than 500 billion tons of carbon have been emitted into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. In order to have an approximately even chance (50-50) of limiting the increase in global average temperature to 2°C, the cumulative CO2 emissions over the period 1750-2050 must not exceed one trillion tons of carbon; while in order to have a 75 percent chance of global warming remaining below 2°C, it is necessary not to exceed 750 billion tons of carbon. Yet, according to present trends, the 750 billionth ton of carbon will be emitted in 2028, i.e., about sixteen years from now. If we are to avoid burning the 750 billionth ton of carbon over the next four decades, carbon dioxide emissions must fall at a rate of 5 percent per year; while to avoid emitting the trillion ton, emissions must drop at a rate of 2.4 percent a year. The longer we wait the more rapid the decrease that will be necessary. The trillionth ton, viewed as the point of no return, is the equivalent of cutting down the last palm tree on Easter Island. After that it is essentially out of our hands. 6 This takes us to the social question. The problem we face when it comes to the appropriate response to impending climate catastrophe is not so much one of climate science -- beyond understanding the environmental parameters in which we must act -- as social science. It is an issue of social conditions and social agency. We live in in a capi-

talist society, which means a societyin which the accumulation of capital, i.e., economic growth carried out primarily on the terms of the 1 percent at the top (the ruling capitalist class), is the dominant tendency. It is a system that accumulates capital in one phase simply so that it can accumulate still more capital in the next phase -- always on a larger scale. There is no braking mechanism in such a system and no social entity in control. If for some reason the system slows down (as it is forced to periodically due to its own internal contradictions) it enters an economic crisis. That may be good temporarily for the environment, but it is terrible for human beings, particularly the bottom portion of the 99 percent, faced with rising unemployment and declining income. Overall, capitalism is aimed at exponential growth. It cannot stand still. The minimum adequate growth rate of the system is usually thought to be 3 percent. But this means that the economy doubles in size about every 24 years. How many such doublings of world output can the planet take? Hence, there is a direct and growing contradiction between capitalism and the environment, a contradiction that becomes more and more apparent as the size of the capitalist economy begins to rival the basic biogeochemical processes of the planet. Naomi Klein has rightly characterized the age we live in as "disaster capitalism" because of its dual economic and ecological crises -- and due to the increasingly exploitative means the rich employ to enable them to prosper in the midst of increasing destruction.7 There are two predominant ways of addressing the climate crisis and the environmental problem generally. One is to look for technological ways out -often seen as being spurred by the creation of carbon markets, but the onus is on the technology. The argument here is that through the massive introduction of various advanced technologies we can have our pie and eat it too. We can get around the environmental problem, it is suggested, without making any fundamental social changes. Thus, the pursuit of profits and accumulation can go on as before without alteration. Such magic-technological answers are commonly viewed as the only politically feasible ones, since they are attractive to corporate and political-power elites, who refuse to accept the need for system change. Consequently, the establishment has gambled on some combination of technological miracles emerging that will allow them to keep on doing just as they have been doing. Predictably, the outcome of this high-stake gamble has been a failure not only to decrease carbon emissions, but also to prevent their continued increase. The turn to those alternative technologies that are already available (for example, solar power) has been hindered by the fact that they are often less profitable or require changes in social organization to be implemented effectively. As a result, greater emphasis is placed on: (1) nuclear energy (a Faustian bargain if there ever was one); and (b) carbon capture and sequestration technology for coal-fired plants, which is neither economically nor ecologically feasible at present, and hence only serves to keep coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, going. Beyond this the only option that the vested interests (the 1% and their hangers-on) have left is to push for geoengineering technologies. This involves such measures as dumping sulfur dioxide particles in the atmosphere to block the suns

rays (with the danger that photosynthesis might be decreased), or fertilizing the ocean with iron to promote algal growth and absorb carbon (with the possibility that dead zones might expand). These geoengineering schemes are extremely dubious in terms of physics, ecology, and economics: all three. They involve playing God with the planet. Remember the Sorcerer's Apprentice! Nevertheless, such technological fantasies, bordering on madness, continue to gain support at the top. This is because attempts to shift away from our currently wasteful society in the direction of rational conservation, involving changes in our way of life and our form of production, are considered beyond the pale -- even when the very survival of humanity is at stake. The other approach is to demand changes in society itself; to move away from a system directed at profits, production, and accumulation, i.e., economic growth, and toward a sustainable steady-state economy. This would mean reducing or eliminating unnecessary and wasteful consumption and reordering society -- from commodity production and consumption as its primary goal, to sustainable human development. This could only occur in conjunction with a move towards substantive equality. It would require democratic ecological and social planning. It therefore coincides with the classical objectives of socialism. Such a shift would make possible the reduction in carbon emissions we need. After all, most of what the U.S. economy produces in the form of commodities (including the unnecessary, market-related costs that go into the production of nearly all goods) is sheer waste from a social, an ecological -- even a long-term economic -- standpoint. Just think of all the useless things we produce and that we are encouraged to buy and then throw away almost the moment we have bought them. Think of the bizarre, plastic packaging that all too often dwarfs the goods themselves. Think of military spending, running in reality at $1 trillion a year in the United States. Think of marketing (i.e. corporate spending aimed at persuading people to buy things they don't want or need), which has reached $1 trillion a year in this country alone. Think of all the wasted resources associated with our financial system, with Wall Street economics. It is this kind of waste that generates the huge profits for the top 1 percent of income earners, and that alienates and impoverishes the lives of the bottom 99 percent, while degrading the environment.8 What we need therefore is to change our economic culture. We need an ecological and social revolution. We have all the technologies necessary to do this. It is not primarily a technological problem, because the goal here would no longer be the impossible one of expanding our exploitation of the earth beyond all physical and biological limits, ad infinitum. Rather the goal would be to promote human community and community with the earth. Here we would need to depend on organizing our local communities but also on creating a global community -- where the rich countries no longer imperialistically exploit the poor countries of the world. You may say that this is impossible, but the World Occupy Movement would have been declared impossible only a month ago. If we are going to struggle, let us make our goal one of ecological and social revolution -- in defense of humanity and the planet.

Letters to the editor DC longleng clarification on news report •-Apropos to the news item that appeared in Nagaland Post (P-7) and The Morung Express (P-3) dated 12th Nov,2011 under the caption “DCs hold meeting to maintain peace” and “Assam-Nagaland Dc level meeting held at Sivsagar”respectively,the undersigned would like to clarify as under:-

The undersigned presented five points of issues during the meeting including the illegal occupation of Nagaland Govt. Primary School Ladigarh Village and a designated polling Station No=1 of 49 A/C Tamlu under Longleng District by the Assam Armed Police (AAP) since 2007,and convey to the District Administration and Police Sivsagar to vacate the School and designated polling Station immediately as this is a forceful illegal occupation in violation of all mutual agreements between the two states and also in violation of Hon’ble Supreme

Court order. This particular polling station has been holding elections both state general elections and parliamentary elections till 2005 without any problems and interference. Besides other issues as mentioned above, the undersigned requested the District Administration Sivasagar to honor all mutual agreements between the two states in letter and spirit to maintain peace and tranquility in the border areas. K.Libanthung Lotha,Deputy Commissioner. Longleng: Nagaland

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15 November 2011

PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

RENEWING OUR FOUNDATION Mission

Niketu Iralu

am honoured to be invited to participate in the opening of the Clark Centre for Peace Research and Action on this day of thanksgiving for the founding of Clark Theological College. I understand the theme this year is Renewing Our Foundation, reflecting your concern that this pioneering theological institution launched by ABAM will go deeper into its values and calling to guide our floundering society. The thought and care that has obviously gone into the creation of this historic College, the resources sought for and given for it, speak powerfully of the conviction, sacrifice and commitment of its pioneers and those who have sustained it up to this day, specially the teachers and the administrators. My mother passed away when she was 106. I came home once to take part in a seminar in Kohima when she was in her late 90s. While preparing my talk I asked her “Mother you are one of the oldest persons in Kohima now. What according to you is the most serious weakness of our people today?” After a while she said, “God cannot be holding the hands of all the people in the world at the same time to guide them. But he has put the amazing human mind and heart inside each one of us for a very special purpose. He means us to use them whenever we are in need of His wisdom and guidance. Our most serious weakness is we are not using our mind and heart to know how to live each day because we are living without thinking. Our problems are not getting solved, and they are increasing, because we are living as we like without using what God has given us …. If we will live and do things as God shows us, this world I am sure too can become quite like what heaven must be like …..” I realized I had given very little importance to the priceless conclusions and evaluations my old mother was living with, obviously because I thought I knew best. Our colleges and universities are meant to be seats of learning to ensure all-round growth for our society. But, impacted by unprecedented pressures of existence, our colleges are becoming anything but seats of proper learning and sound growth in our youth who will be the ones to produce the society they and their children will need. Is it not obvious our theological colleges and seminaries have now to play their fullest role, that is, mental, spiritual, philosophical and character development of our people for the sound social, cultural and economic growth of our society? It seems most of the university colleges are now being forced by society to consider this to be not part of their role and responsibility. The perception now seems to be that the universities and their colleges are meant to only produce graduates with degrees to get jobs, or who should be given jobs, not for the service to society during the months but for the salaries at the end of the months. We do face a frightening crisis of mental and spiritual bankruptcy that is rendering our society irresponsible, directionless and impossible to develop. So we give heartfelt thanks for CTC for all that it has done , and the expanding role it is clearly called to play to help shape the thinking and meaning of life needed to steer our society forward to be the just, creative society it is meant to be for the fullest flowering of our people. The Clark Centre for Peace Research and Action went out a few days ago with their latest dramatic production to reach the people out there beyond the bounds of the campus here. I regretted I could not come to see what they were staging when the troupe was in Kohima. I believe it was pioneering something institutions like this must do with urgency to identify the things going wrong and the price each one of us has to play to answer them. Such thought-through initiatives help to demonstrate that “wrong is wrong, even if everyone is doing it, and right is right, even if no one is doing it”, and it is possible to reject wrong and do what is right. This gives clarity and hope, something desperately needed at this time. I venture here to go into what I believe God does say to us when we do use the listening, thinking and understanding equipment installed by Him inside every human being? It is certainly a “wonderfully and fearfully made” communication device as we all know. For sure He does not indulge in polite pleasantries about weather, health and all the other things that are so safe to be polite about. A study of the Bible and history shows clearly that if we turn to God, not with our needs and demands only, but to also give Him a chance to tell us what He wants us to be and to do, what God says to us is always linked to the most pressing needs and problems of our society and our world. What He tells may at first sound too insignificant, not directly connected to the central problems of society. But He always, it seems, starts with the deepest, honest reasons for our unhappiness. I believe it is an illuminating truth that God meets us at the point where His clear call to us and the

andit Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964), often referred to with the epithet of Panditji, was the first prime minister of independent India (1947–64), who established parliamentary government and became noted for his “neutralist” policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the 1930s and ’40s. Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India's first Prime Minister, and re-elected when the Congress Party won India's first general election in 1952. Nehru contributed to the establishment of a secularParliamentary democracy in India and was one of the founders of the international Non-Aligned Movement. The son of moderate nationalist leader and Congressman Motilal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru became a leader of the left wing of the Congress when fairly young. Rising to become Congress President under the mentorship of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Nehru was a charismatic and radical leader, advocating complete independence for India from the British Empire. In the long struggle for Indian independence, Nehru was eventually recognized as Gandhi's political heir. Throughout his life, Nehru advocated Democratic socialism/Fabian Socialism and a strong

devil’s temptation pulling us away from it are clashing fiercely. I am going to refer to two great events. One happened recently, the other in the 18th century. This morning I had the privilege of presenting a CD of the national apology speech Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivered from the floor of the Australian Parliament, to the aboriginal people of Australia. His apology, the first official act of his Government after the Labor Party won the election, was for all the crimes the white people of Australia had committed on the first inhabitants of the Continent including attempts to suppress them to extinction. He made special mention of the Lost Generation survivors. The British colonized the Australian Continent in the 17th and 18th centuries declaring it ‘terra nullius’, uninhabited earth. This led to treating the first inhabitants of the land as sub-human, and adoption of policies aimed at eventual racial genocide. Of course the unhappiness coming from the guilt in the conscience of many individuals was where the battle to totally reverse the attitude and the policy started. About two centuries later the battle resulted in acts of Parliament that restored vast tracts of land back to the various tribes, and the right of the children of all first nation people of Australia to be taught in their own mother tongues, making it the obligation of the State to implement the laws. The climax of the battle in legal and political terms was the apology speech from the floor of the national Parliament by Kevin Rudd. Watched in amazement by the whole world, Australia as a nation experienced the happiness and satisfaction of going deep and far enough to the roots of a wrong that had become an evil by being condoned for generations. The discovery and colonization of the Americas in the 15th century soon led to the start of the slave trade in the 16th century. The trade was legalized in Britain by Royal Charters and an act of Parliament in the 17th century. By the 18th Century Britain became the leading slave trading power. It was justified and defended as essential for the security and steady development of the Britain and her Empire. Indeed it had become the economic backbone of Britain. It also provided the field of action and training that gradually developed the Royal Navy to become the greatest navy in the world. It was estimated that ships from Liverpool and Bristol alone collected and carried more than 3 million African slaves to the West Indies and the Americas. But rejection of the rationalized justifications of the trade on grounds of economic prosperity and national security that had been ruthlessly upheld by the rich and powerful for generations started in the conscience and soul of many individuals. The Quakers were the first to totally condemn and reject slavery and its trade. It was followed by the revival movement led by the Wesley brothers. John Wesley called it “the execrable sum of all villainy”. The depth of the inner battle raging across Britain was revealed in conversions that took place in erstwhile supporters such as John Newton. He was a slave ship captain who became a priest. From his tiny parish church in an obscure part of London he played a significant role to strengthen the movement for abolition. He wrote “Amazing Grace”. His greatest contribution was probably the help he gave William Wilberforce to become a committed Christian. Entering parliament at the age of 21 Wilberforce was one of the two youngest MPs of the British House of Commons. The other MP was William Pitt the Younger, also 21, his best friend to whom he became the trusted confidante. Pitt, like his father, became Prime Minister. He was 23! It was widely held as certain that Wilberforce would succeed him as the next Prime Minister. A different destiny was beckoning Wilberforce. The experience of change in him was so fundamental that he said God had called him to take on the “suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners” (of British Society) as the two main tasks of his life. His leadership of the battle inside the House of Commons was so demanding of his “mind, soul and strength” that he did not become the Prime Minister. But after 20 years of the national crusade inside and outside the Parliament, the slave trade and slavery were abolished by an Act of Parliament. When his colleagues brought him the news that the Abolition Bill had been passed in Parliament Wilberforce was on his death bed. He looked up and replied, “What do we abolish next?” He died soon after. British historian G. M. Trevelyan assessed the triumph as “one of the turning events in the history of the world”. According to him the timing was amazing as far as Africa was concerned, “It was only just in time. If slavery had not been abolished before the greater commercial exploitation of the Tropics began, Africa would have been turned by the world’s capitalists into a slave farm so enormous that it must eventually have corrupted and destroyed Europe herself,

as surely as the world conquest under conditions of slavery destroyed the Roman Empire”. In the first scripture passage read earlier, God asked, “Cain, why are you angry? Why is your countenance fallen?” The son of Adam and Eve was facing the first crisis in his life. Cain’s self-centred view was that God had unfairly declared his younger brother to be a better farmer whose offering He preferred. And no one should be interested in how he was to handle his disappointment. It was a matter between him and his brother. God saw it differently. So He went all-out to battle for his soul, character and meaning of his life. He came to the bitter, complaining third human being and challenged him to see beyond his personal jealousy and hurt pride to the widest perspectives of the issues at stake. In God’s mind Cain’s part in the building of His kingdom on earth that He had launched with his parents was the most important thing requiring His attention just then. He came all the way to the self-pitying young man and put the highest challenge to him. Down the years individual Australians became aware of God requiring them to take on the task of their society and nation putting things right with the aboriginal people. Those who understood it were unhappy, fearful and poor in spirit contemplating the price they were called to pay. Hadn’t God done the same thing with Wilberforce and his fellow fighters earlier to end the slave trade and slavery in the British Empire? In both instances of great changes being achieved it was at the points of deepest discernment and personal spiritual needs that God came to individuals with His calling and vision. That has been true in my own inner journey of trying to follow what I understood in my heart and conscience. I was the shyest, most backward student in my class in Madras Christian College in 1955. I had read only editorials of Assam Tribune, The Statesman, Reader’s Digest articles and some simple High School level English poems and essays before coming to do English Honours! In my class were budding scholars who could already discuss Shakespeare, Milton, and any of the others with ease. Despite my diffidence I was captivated by the idea of “Remaking the world, starting with yourself” that I encountered when I met the people of Moral Re-Armament, now called Initiatives of Change. The first part I could push aside as crazy but to ignore the second part was dishonest. I could not deny that the two were complimentary parts. The first thought I wrote down in my first tentative experiment with “listening to the still small voice within” was “You are a very selfish man. You don’t love any one. You only have jealousies…” As I continued with the experiment it became clear I needed to start with my father. I wrote a letter telling him the honest truth about myself including the money I was spending wrongly which he was sending at great sacrifice. I asked him to forgive me. His response appreciating my simple honesty with him, telling me he regretted the way he had treated our mother at times and promising to treat her differently, moved me deeply. He wrote from Tezpur Central Jail where he was a “political prisoner” for a year. I had no idea my honesty with him would help my father to see where he too needed to change! I realized God used my little step of obedience to help my parents who were so important to me. I sensed I was being led to something I should not treat casually. As I look back I have no doubt God came to me at the moment of my greatest insecurity, and poverty and rebellion of spirit as I faced His calling and the temptation of the Adversary. My unhappiness was coming from my inclination to accept the easier option. In the second scripture reading of the two verses of Job 7, Job in exasperation and astonishment asked God “What is man that you make so much of him, that you give him so much attention, that you visit him every morning, and test him every moment? ” I too have found giving God sufficient time early in the morning is decisively important. I suggest that there are two Nagalands but most are familiar with only one of them. The Nagaland before 6 am is totally different from the Nagaland that takes over our lives and our senses after 6 am. We need to discover this and get the two Nagalands to help each other. Getting to know the Nagaland between 4 and 6 am, even earlier, will transform your life, to start with! If He visits you also in the mornings as Job of old says He does, you are a VIP. Do not treat Him and yourself casually. NB: The last part of this talk starting from Kevin Rudd’s apology I delivered by referring to points that had been jotted down. The completed, typed out version above is not exactly the same as the one heard on the occasion on November 10th. No points not made in the original talk have been added. NI (A speech delivered on Clark Theological College Thanksgiving Day, November 10, 2011 by Niketu Iralu)

Pt J L Nehru, Legacy, Education and Social reforms: - Architect of Modern India

the establishment of many institutions of higher learning, including the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Indian Institutes of Management and the National Institutes of Technology. Nehru also outlined a commitment in his five-year plans to guarantee free and compulsory primary education to all of India's children. For this purpose, Nehru oversaw the creation of mass village enrollment programmes and the construction of thousands of schools. Nehru also launched initiatives such as the provision of free milk and meals to children in order to fight malnutrition. Adult education centres, vocational and technical schools were also organized for adults, especially in the rural areas.

Conclusion:Pt Nehru was a true historian and was the First Prime minister of India and Continued from 1947to 1964 till his death .He loved children of India like a Uncle and popularly called As “Chachaji “and his birth day is celebrated as Children day on 14 Nov all over India from Kashmir to KanyaKumari and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi. (File Photo) Dwarika to Dimapur .He authored two Public sector as the means by which Education and social reform books glimpses of World History and economic development could be purJawaharlal Nehru was a passionate Discovery of India which are popular sued by poorer nations. He was father advocate of education for India's children not only in India but in whole World. to Indira Gandhi who was the third and youth, believing it essential for India's Dr NN Misra, (History Teacher) E-mail:-drnnmisra429@gmail.com Prime Minister of the Republic of India. future progress. His government oversaw

Calling

Rev Dr T. Alem Meren

NOTHING Is dIFFICuLT Composed on March 10, 1998 Hong Kong

God Who made all things out of nothing by a word Can return them again as it was before. He changes things to another form when He wills. He can do all things as He said in His word. God is God; He is my Father; I am His child. I'm redeemed by the blood of Jesus His Son. I’m indwelt by the Spirit of God and of Christ . Therefore nothing is difficult for me, too. Believer's faith is as powerful as God Himself. Faith is trust in God's word as infallible. The Bible is the word of God given to me. Praise God! I have the source of faith in my hand.

oH LorD, ACCePT mY FINITe SINFUL SACrIFICe Composed on 11th March 1998 Hong Kong Jesus, You are the same unchanging One,"I AM". Eternity is just like a moment passed by. You never grow old; Your strength and power never fail. Nothing can stain Your loving heart to love me less . "WONDERFUL", is Your Name and You are Wonderful. No creature can understand Your Infinite life. Men who are finite beings, the created creatures Can't grasp You fully even in eternity. Then how is it that You love me a vile sinner? By laying Your Infinite body and Holy blood On the Cross as the vilest and the most sinful? It is indeed the wonder of wonders of all. So today I lay my humble life at Your feet. Your Infinite love arouses my finite love; . Your Infinite Sacrifice touches my vile heart Oh Jesus, accept my finite sacrifice too.

THe rICHeS oF THe WHoLe WorLD Are mINe Composed on 11th March 1998 Hong Kong The riches of the whole world: gold, pearl precious things, The beauty of the whole world: flowers, green leaves and light, The fullness of the whole world: land, mountains and seas, They are all created for me by my Father. Adam abdicated them to the Lucifer My Savior Jesus Christ as my own Substitute Came and redeemed them back for me by His own blood. The world and its riches are mine; I'm the owner. The gold is mine, the riches of the world are mine. By virtue of birthright they are mine forever. They were created and redeemed back again for me To use them for God's glory and for His kingdom Then should I abdicate them again to Satan? Should I beg as a beggar for my own money? Should I go hungry, naked, homeless, penniless When mine is vast mansions with all treasures in them?

Ye Are THe LIGHT oF THe WorLD Composed on 14th March 1998 Hong Kong The Throne, the throne of God dazzling, Encircled by Shekinah glory, He is seated as a flaming fire. That's our God, His nature, His glory. Jesus said, “I’m the Light of the World." His eyes were flaming like burning fire, His feet - dazzling like heated furnace, His countenance like a shining sun . In the eternal city of God There will be no sun to shine in it. Jesus Christ Himself will be its sun. His glory will lighten the city. Jesus said to us , His followers, "You're the light of men and of the world". How can we be light without a fire? Is not the Light the essence of fire? “Baptize with the Holy Spirit and Fire", "Tarry until you're endued with power", "Be baptized with the Holy Spirit". Thus Christ gave to us His commandments. When an iron is cast into fire It catches fire into its body. Then its nature and color changes. It becomes fire; it burns; it dazzles. When a person is baptized into The body of the Holy Spirit He's transformed to the likeness of Christ. He becomes a burning shining light.

WHAT ComeS FIrST IN YoUr AFFeCTIoN AND CHoICe Composed on 16th March 1998 Hong Kong Araham had only one son by Sarah Who was born when he was a hundred years old . His whole life was knitted to his only son; He was his world; yes, he became everything. One day God told him to sacrifice his son Laying on an altar as a burnt offering. His love for God was tested. What did he do? His love for God was great; and it was matchless. He built an altar for a burnt offering And he laid his son on it to sacrifice. God saw his genuine love from innermost heart. So He accepted his love and blessed his son. "Do you love me more than these", says Jesus Christ. What comes first in your heart affection and choice? Who's placed first in your life, God or someone else? "Do you love me?" Says Jesus, "Do you love me?” (Mission Calling by Rev Dr T. Alem Meren is a collection of poems written over the years to inspire people especially young Nagas to take up mission work. Every Tuesday, the Morung Express will feature this column. As the writer states: “God laid upon my heart a burden to challenge the young people of Nagaland for Christ’s Ministry beyond our home”).

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Tuesday 15 November 2011

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Rahul takes on Maya, hints UP govt has ‘mafia’ linkages

PhulPur (uP), November 14 (ageNcies): Launching Congress party’s luckNow, November 14 (ageNcies): Hitelection campaign symbolically ting back at the Congress general secretary Rahul Ganfrom late Jawaharlal Nehru’s dhi, who kickstarted his campaign ahead of UP polls on constituency, Rahul Gandhi Monday, BSP said that the people of the state were hardtoday unleashed a scathing atworking and had self-respect and were not beggars. This tack on Mayawati government was in reaction to Rahul’s question to the people of the calling it “corrupt and insensistate as to “how long will you go to Maharashtra and beg” tive”. He also accused the BSP and “how long will you go to Punjab to do labour.” government of diverting funds “The people of UP go out and change the face of given by the Centre for developother states as they are very hard-working,” BSP leadment schemes which he alleged er Swami Prasad Maurya countered. On Rahul’s allewent to the pockets ruling party gations that the state of Uttar Pradesh had made no workers and contractors. “Uttar progress under the BSP rule and that central funds Pradesh has been going backhad been siphoned off by the officials and the miniswards. Nehru was an MP from ters, he said that the comments were “false and basehere but mafia and criminals less”. Calling Rahul “Congress’ Yuvraj” the Bahujan are MPs from here these days,” Samaj Party leader said that his claim that the Chief Gandhi said addressing a ConMinister Mayawati had no time to go to Bundelkhand gress rally marking 123rd birth “was completely without truth”. anniversary of the first Prime “The Congress Party is responsible for UP’s backMinister of India. wardness, poverty and unemployment,” he alleged. “There has been no progThe BSP in fact questioned Rahul asking him what he ress in this state. I have been had done for the state, advising him not to indulge in in politics for seven years. In “political theatrics”. The BSP also accused the Conthese years, I have learnt the gress, fighting a perception battle on graft, saying that most from the people of Uttar “Congress has a long history of corruption”. In a veiled Pradesh,” he said. “The governchallenge to the Congress, Swami Prasad Maurya said, ment in Delhi made MNREGA “Even if Rahul stands on his head, the destiny of Conwhich says every individual Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, center, poses for photos with children at an orphanage at Swaraj Bhawan, gress is not going to change in UP.” should get work. But in Bun- the birth place of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in Allahabad, November 14. (AP Photo) delkhand, it was not the case... Crores of rupees which we sent am Singh Yadav’s tenure, police If your daughter is raped and bank accounts of the weavers,” house, he cannot understand package of Rs 7,000 crore but it vanished... The BSP workers, stations were virtually run by if you don’t have money, then he said. The 40-year-old MP the problems of the poor.... Till did not result on any tangible contractors profited from them goondas and when people went you cannot lodge an FIR,” he from Amethi said a leader can he does not get an upset stom- work on ground. “The chief while the poor were left gap- to lodge FIRs, counter cases said. Gandhi claimed he had understand the plight of the ach, does not fall ill, he does minister toured various parts ing,” he said. “People from UP were slapped on them. got a package of Rs 3,000 crore poor only when one visits the not understand poverty,” Gan- of the state, but did not care to are much sought after in other “Even under the present re- for weavers of Aligarh but the people and shares meals with dhi said. In a scathing attack go to the area reeling under sestates like Maharashtra and gime, people cannot get FIRs money did not go into the hands them. on the Mayawati government vere drought”, Gandhi alleged. Punjab for their hard work. But, lodged unless they greased of the people. “The weavers “The people of Uttar for misuse of central develop“Another package of Rs ironically, their own state is lan- the palms of police officials. came to us and said the money Pradesh have taught me that ment funds and corruption, 3,000 crore was sanctioned for guishing in abject poverty”, he There is corruption every- you are sending is not reaching to become a leader one has to he said he took up the case of weavers but they were appresaid. Attacking the police ad- where. If you want to lodge an us... So we made changes and go to the people... Till a leader Bundelkhand with the Centre hensive that the money would ministration, he said in Mulay- FIR, you have to pay money. the money now goes into the does not eat in a poor man’s which gave the region a special be swallowed up by the corrupt

‘People of UP are not beggars’

as their committees constituted by governments did not have proper representative character”, Gandhi said. The Congress general secretary said as he visited hit povertyhit countryside, “the people said they had heard of Centre’s MNREGA scheme but had not got any work under it. Similarly, the funds granted under the National Rural Health Mission were siphoned off and did not reach the targeted group of needy mothers”. Gandhi said the government is going to bring forward a Food Security Bill but he wondered “who will actually get the food in UP? People or the BSP workers?” He charged the Mayawati government with having acquired thousands of acres of land of farmers and giving it to rich builders. “When the people protested against it in Bhatta Parasaul, as they had not got reasonable compensation, atrocities were committed on their women and the people were fired upon by the police and branded as naxalites”. Gandhi said the Centre has brought forward a pro-farmer Land Acquisition Bill “but opposition parties were against it. They were not saying anything openly but voicing their opposition in the committee deliberations”. He said the government is going to bring forward a Food Security Bill but he wondered “who will actually get the food in UP? People or the BSP workers?”

Cash-for-vote: Police do not oppose bail pleas of accused BJP MPs Trust us, times have changed, Pak tells India

New Delhi, November 14 (ageNcies): The Delhi Police today did not oppose the bail petitions of five jailed accused in the 2008 cash-for-vote case, including two former BJP MPs and L K Advani’s former aide Sudheendra Kulkarni, besides the anticipatory bail plea of a party MP in the Del-

hi High Court. Justice M L Mehta reserved the order on the pleas of the six accused till November 16. “The honourable court may consider granting bail to all the six accused who have filed their bail applications in the court,” the Delhi Police counsel, Pawan Sharma, told the High Court during

the hearing of the bail pleas of the five jailed accused and the anticipatory bail plea of BJP MP Ashok Argal. The five jailed accused – former BJP law makers Faggan Singh Kulaste and Mahabir Singh Bhagora, Kulkarni, Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh’s former aide Sanjeev Saxena and alleged BJP ac-

tivist Suhail Hindustani – approached the High Court challenging the trial court’s order denying them bail. Justice Mehta would tomorrow hear the anticipatory bail plea of Samajwadi Party leader Rewati Raman Singh, who was summoned as an accused by the trial court judge recently.

PM, Chidambaram ‘receptive’on AFSPA: Omar New Delhi, November 14 (iaNs): Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Monday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram to discuss the partial withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and said they were “receptive” to this. “Partial withdrawal was one of the number of issues I discussed with the home minister,” Abdullah told reporters, emerging out of the North Block that houses Chidambaram’s office. The chief minister said he was in the process of meeting members of the cabinet committee on security. “I met the PM, the home minister,” he said, adding: “I have made my point clear. This is an ongoing process. The PM and the home minister were receptive.” The chief minister would also be meeting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee later in the day. On Sunday, the chief minister met Defence Minister A.K. Antony at his residence here to discuss the proposal that has been strongly opposed by the army. Abdullah said his meetings since Sunday were his first round of discussion with the prime minister and his four big ministers in the cabinet.

AFSPA issue very sensitive: Antony

New Delhi, November 14 (PTi): Amidst high expectations by India on the MFN issue, Pakistan on Monday asked New Delhi to have “trust and faith” in it, as “times have changed” and Islamabad wants complete normalisation of the bilateral trade. India said, there is a clear political desire to “walk the talk” with its neighbouring country. The mutual assurances were handed out by commerce secretaries of the two countries, who began their two-day talks for ensuring normal bilateral trade. Armed with a “political backing and mandate, Pakistan commerce secretary Zafar Mahmood said in his

opening remarks , “I want to assure you that please have trust and faith in the process (normalisation of trade). Times have changed. World is coming closer”. Mahmood, who is having a second round of talks with his Indian counterpart in the last six months said, he is looking forward to the official level discussions “in a spirit of mutual cooperation and confidence”. In Pakistan, besides common people and businessmen, political leadership wants normalisation of bilateral trade,he added. The commerce secretary, while welcoming the Pakistan’s decision to grant the Most Favoured Nation

(MFN)status to India, said “expectations from these talks are running high...” as the people including business communities and politicians want a breakthrough and lay a foundation for preferential trading arrangements. “With such clear political vision, we are now obliged to walk the talk,” Khullar said. India granted the MFN status to Pakistan way back in 1996. Islamabad, had announced to grant the crucial WTOcompliant regime for New Delhi on November 2. But confusions followed. At present, Pakistan allows import of only about 1900 items from India.

New Delhi, November 14 (PTi): Terming the issue of withdrawal of Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) as “very very sensitive”, defence minister AK Antony today said the matter has to be handled in a “mature and cool” manner. Antony said he had “very frank” and “very fruitful” discussions with Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah yesterday but it was inconclusive. “On our side, my opinion is that this being a very very sensitive issue, let us handle it in a very mature and cool manner,” he told reporters here in reply to questions on the issue of withdrawal of AFSPA in certain areas of the state. During his meeting with Antony, Abdullah, who has been pressing for revocation of the controversial law from certain parts of the state, presented his case. Antony said inter-governmental consultations are taking place and discussions on the issue will continue. To a question on the security situation in the state, the defence minister said it was much better. “But considering that the infiltration attempts from across the border are continuing, we have to be careful 24/7.” He stressed the meetings were to “narrow differences with what we want to happen and what the army has publicly stated”. Asked about militants daring the government to remove the act, the chief minister said they would not want it to happen. “We are talking about those areas where there is no army. Let them do whatever they want. They don’t want the act to be removed. They are threatening you,” he said. Kashmir’s main ruling party, the National Confer-

ence, Abdullah himself, and the principal opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) favour the revocation of AFSPA - which gives sweeping powers to the armed forces - from parts of the state. However, the junior partner in the ruling coalition, the Congress, has said “sufficient consultations” were not held before Abdullah proposed the idea a few weeks ago. The union home ministry is also believed to be in favour of partial Indian Navy’s Supersonic Sea Harriers fighter aircrafts are prepared for a display during an exercise on board Indian Navy vessel INS Virat at the Arabian Sea off the coast of Mumbai on November14. (AP Photo) lifting of the AFSPA.

Bald & beautiful: Women take the bold cut

New Delhi, November 14 (iaNs): It has been called the richest ornament of women. In some Indian cultures, it still is a decisive factor while pinning down on a bride. So when a woman decides to get rid of her tresses and go bald, it’s not just heads that turn, what also takes a 180 degree turn are society’s deep-rooted perceptions about beauty. While most would think of it as the end of their dating life or as the beginning of a body image issue, there are a few who would happily chop off their long locks to make a statement or just to get rid of the weight off their head. Take for instance 29-yearold Sumati Jain. Five years ago w h i l e she was pursuing her

masters, the Bangalore-based homemaker plotted her hair assassination after her parents started dropping hints of marriage. “My hairline was also receding and I also wanted to do something for kicks. It was this crazy, daring, wild phase of my life,” she says with a chuckle. She exposed her shiny scalp to the world after three stages of relentless, heartless mane chopping. The first visit to the parlour left her with a bob cut, then followed a shorter crew cut and she finally visited a men’s saloon on a quiet Sunday for the finale. “My mom didn’t speak to me for a week. But my dad and grandfather, who’s also bald, were really cool,” Sumati told IANS. “I got extreme reactions...Some thought it was really cool, some laughed behind my back, some even thought I’d turned into a monk,” she adds. But the ironical part was that Sumati got engaged while her hair was just a few inches long. “My husband was fine with it. He thought I looked cute,” she adds with more chuckles. But not all men hold similar notions of beauty. “I would like to wait for a year,” says 25-year-old Saurabh Dabbas, when asked if he would date a bald woman. The barren look is not for all women, cau-

tions hairstylist Sylvie. “It suits those with oval heads and good skin. It’s a complete nono for those with lots of wrinkles; it makes you look more aged,” said Sylvie who runs a saloon in Delhi. Ananya Bose, a Delhi-based journalist, went bald just after delivering a baby. “I had such long, lustrous hair. I remember when the parlour woman chopped them, the one standing next to her freaked out and asked her what the hell she was doing. “But it was such a weight off my head. I felt so, so free and light. You feel as if you get rid of all the troubles,” she says. However, in Indian society women with shaven heads have much deeper connotations. “In many Indian cultures, widows’ heads were shaved. It’s also associated with sadhvis or monks. It’s a sign of celibacy,” says social scientist C.P. Bhambri. However, these connotations don’t deter those tempted to take the plunge. “I think it would feel real good and free to have no hair to take care of. Though I like my tresses, they are very frizzy and at times unmanageable,” says Shikha Arora, a professional. “Going bald will be hassle-free. I would definitely love to do it in the hot Delhi summers,”

Antara Mali went bald for Amol Palekar’s “And Once Again”.

she added. But being bald comes with strings attached, says Sylvie. “It requires a lot of maintenance. You have to moisturise your scalp regularly. People usually call a barber home every month to clean the growth,” she adds. Also, there comes a stage while you are growing back your hair when it’s neither here nor there -just plain clumsy. “Though growing it back is a good idea as you get a new crop of hair, the stage when your hair is 10-18 months old is very difficult,” says Sylvie. Adds Ananya: “A strand would come out from one side, another from the other. It can get really messy.” It took Sumati three years to grow back her hair to what she describes as a “respectable length”. Internationally, pop star Britney Spears and actress Natalie Portman have famously sported the bald look. Back home, actresses Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das, Antara Mali, Lisa Ray and model Diandra Soares have tread the same path. However, all said and done, there are many sceptics of the unadorned look. “It completely baffles me why any woman would voluntarily want to go bald. A woman would like to look like a normal woman. There’s the whole cosmetic industry which runs into trillions to make you look good,” says Bhambri.

Ex-blogger to make public Anna’s unpublished letter

New Delhi, November 14 (ageNcies): Continuing his fight against Team Anna members, Anna Hazare’s former blogger Raju Parulekar today said he will soon make public an unpublished letter by the Gandhian which “proves” that he was fed up with the hidden personal agenda of four or five people of his Core Committee. “I will produce Annaji’s handwritten and signed letter which he wanted me to upload on his blog which describes that he wants impersonal connect with the nation. “Indirectly, this proves that Annaji is fed up of the 4-5 people for their personal interference and hidden personal agenda,” Parulekar said in his latest blog posting. In an earlier blog also, he had mentioned about the blog which he did not upload after being dictated by Hazare. Parulekar had named Arvind Kejriwal, Prashant Bhushan, Kiran Bedi and Manish Sisodia as a ‘gang of four’ whom Hazare wanted to remove from the team. Referring to Hazare’s announcement about restructuring the Core Committee, he said, “What I had said then holds merit as Annaji himself announced to the world his plans of re-structuring the Core Committee.” Parulekar fell out with Hazare after the activist distanced himself from his claim on restructuring the Core Committee, saying the blogger was talking in air and he never discussed this issue with him. He also quoted reports in the Marathi press that “Annaji fought with Kejriwal and Bhushan in favour of re-structuring of panIndian organisation in a close-door meeting held at Ralegan Siddhi. “How an opportunist takes advantage of a situation can be seen from these newspaper reports. Kejariwal and Bhushan asked Annaji to appeal for personal security for themselves (Kejriwal and Bhushan) but Annaji said ‘non-violent satyagrahis should not expect such privileges. “Ultimately these two want Annaji to come to Delhi and stay there (to control and, of course pressurise him) to which Annaji refused,” he said. Kejriwal could not be reached for comments.

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Syria warns Arab League suspension a ‘dangerous step’ Norway mass killer DAmAscus, NOvemBer 14 (AFP): Syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said on Monday that the government in Damascus will not budge despite its suspension from the Arab League, which he warned was a "dangerous step." Muallem's comments come after the Arab League announced a fresh meeting on Syria and as global pressure, including a threat of new sanctions, intensified on President Bashar al-Assad's regime over its lethal crackdown on protests. "The decision of the Arab League to suspend Syria... represents a dangerous step," Muallem told a packed news conference in Damascus. "Today there is a crisis in Syria which pays the price of its strong positions. Syria will not budge and will emerge stronger... and plots against Syria will fail," said the minister. Muallem said Syria's government was not concerned about the likelihood of foreign military intervention in the country, due to the opposition of China and Russia. "Syria is not Libya. The Libyan scenario will not be repeated; what is happening in Syria is different from what happened in Libya and the Syrian people should not worry," he said. In Brussels, diplomats said the European Union is set to slap further sanctions on Syria, targeting 18 people and freezing credits, with the measures likely to be agreed upon at talks between the EU's foreign ministers Monday. The Arab League talks scheduled for Wednesday come after the 22-mem-

Pro-Syrian regime protesters, hold portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad and shout slogans against the Arab League, as they gather outside the Syrian foreign ministry where Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem helds a press conference in Damascus, Syria on Monday, November 14. (AP Photo)

ber bloc's surprise weekend decision to suspend Syria, drawing international praise but sparking mob attacks on foreign embassies in Damascus. "We have decided on a meeting of foreign ministers of the Arab League on November 16 at Rabat (Morocco), on Syria," Algerian foreign ministry spokesman Amar Belani told AFP. Arab foreign ministers had met in Cairo on November 2, and drew up a plan to end the violence in Syria which has left 3,500 dead since mid-March according to the United Nations. Under the deal, Syria would pull back its troops from the cities that were the focus of

the anti-government protests and free demonstrators arrested since the start of the uprising. An Arab League official in Cairo told AFP that Wednesday's meeting would assess the degree to which Syria had applied the November 2 agreement. "The implementation of the suspension is due to begin on Wednesday. The foreign ministers will meet in Morocco to assess the situation and implement the deal," the official said. The November 2 meeting had given Syria 15 days to comply with the peace plan. At a meeting of the League's foreign ministers

in Cairo on Saturday, 18 of the 22 members voted to suspend Syria from November 16 over its failure to comply with an agreement to end its crackdown on protests. Syria, Yemen and Lebanon voted against the measure, and Iraq abstained. The foreign ministers recommended the withdrawal of Arab envoys from Damascus and agreed on sanctions, while inviting "all currents in the Syrian opposition" to meet at its Cairo headquarters to map out a transition. Despite the suspension, Syria is to retain its seat at the Arab League, unlike the decision to expel Egypt in

1979 when it signed a peace treaty with Israel. In practical terms, the suspension means Syrian delegates and ministers will not be allowed to take part in the League's activities. The Arab League resolution won widespread praise from the international community. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Monday that he backed the suspension, but his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov condemned it, saying the move was "incorrect." "It's important that the EU consider additional measures" against the Syrian regime, Hague said ahead of the EU minis-

ters' meeting. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, also in Brussels for the meeting, said it was time to look at increased protection for Syria's civilians and urged the UN Security Council to take a stand. "Today the time has come to see how we can better protect the population. I hope the Security Council too will finally take a position," Juppe said. Arab League head Nabil al-Arabi at the weekend said League representatives would be "studying mechanisms it could implement to protect civilians in Syria." China, meanwhile, on Monday urged Syria to implement the Arab League plan. "What is pressing now is to implement the Arab League's initiative appropriately and earnestly," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin told journalists at a regular briefing in Beijing. "China once again urges the Syrian government and all relevant parties to cease violence, launch an inclusive and balanced political process and make unremitting efforts to realise the Arab League's initiative." The League's decision to suspend Syria prompted an outpouring of anger among Assad supporters who surged in their tens of thousands into central Damascus on Sunday to show their support for the president. Late Saturday, hundreds of angry demonstrators attacked the embassies of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which were among the countries that voted to suspend Syria. The attacks sparked howls of international outrage.

admits July massacre

OsLO, NOvemBer 14 (reuters): The antiMuslim militant who killed 77 people in Norway on July 22, shattering a nation known for its open society, acknowledged carrying out the massacre but refused to plead guilty in his first public hearing since the attacks. Anders Behring Breivik, speaking on Monday at a court just two blocks from where he detonated a huge home-made bomb before shooting 69 people at the ruling Labour Party's summer camp,alsorejectedthecourt's authority to hear his case. "I am a military commander in the Norwegian resistance movement and Knights Templar Norway. Regarding the competence (of the court), I object to it because you received your mandate from organizations that support hate ideology (and) because it supports multiculturalism," Breivik told the court. It was the first time survivors and the families of victim were able to see Breivik face-to-face since the attack on the government and the ruling party for what Breivik said was their promotion of immigration. Oil-producing Norway, hometotheNobelPeacePrize, is known for its open society, peace and relative prosperity. The attacks sparked a public debate about immigration, securityandalegalsystemwhich never had to cope with such an event. "I acknowledge the acts but I do not plead guilty," Breivik told the court.

This 2009 file photo issued by Norwegian police on October 28, 2011, shows confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik in a passport photo. (AP Photo/File)

court picketed by a group of protesters holding a banner that read "No speakers' platform for fascists," attempted to address survivors and victims' relatives but the court denied his request. "He aimed at me on Utoeya Island. That was the last time I saw him," Bjoern Ihle, 20, from Oslo said after the hearing. "It is good to see he was powerless, which he was not then ... He looked nervous and weakened. It was a different experience than when I saw him at Utoeya." Most of the island victims were in their teens or 20s, and some were shot at point blank range or while trying to swim to safety. Daniel Vister, another survivor, said Breivik looked weak and his rant showed he was mentally ill. "I think that what he said there shows that he is completely mad. He is definitely not on this planet. "I didn't think he would look like that ... He "HE AIMED AT ME" was very big then and he now Breivik, speaking at a looked so flimsy," he said.

9 dead in gas explosion in NW China Italy’s Monti starts work to form new government

Rescuer workers go through the aftermath of an explosion at a ground floor restaurant in Xi’an in northwest China’s Shaanxi province on Monday, November 14. (AP Photo)

BeIJING, NOvemBer 14 (AP): An explosion in a restaurant in a tourist city in northwestern China on Monday killed at least nine people and injured another 34, state media said. The explosion hap-

pened at the start of the morning rush hour in a fastfood restaurant in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province and home to China's ancient terracotta warriors, according to a report on the website of the Xi'an Daily,

which is run by the Communist Party's local propaganda department. The official Xinhua News Agency said an initial investigation blamed a liquified petroleum gas leak. The explosion knocked out windows as far as a mile (about two kilometers) away. Photos online showed the front of a building had been blown into a street, where there were bodies covered in blue plastic. Many of the victims, including children, were walking by the front of the restaurant or waiting for a bus, the website said. Xinhua quoted a doctor as saying many people had wounds to the face and head and an unnamed witness as saying that many people rushed out on to the street with bleeding heads and hands. The news agency also quoted 11-year-old Gong Yejian, whom it said was passing by the building when the explosion happened. "The blast knocked me down with glass fragments hitting my body from head to toe," Gong said, in hospital with face and head wounds. "The tree near me fell down as well."

rOme, NOvemBer 14 (reuters): Former European Commissioner Mario Monti began preparations on Monday to form a new technocrat government to restore market confidence in Italy's battered public finances after accepting a mandate to succeed Silvio Berlusconi. In a frenetic weekend of political activity, Italy's parliament approved a package of economic reforms agreed with European leaders, Berlusconi resigned and President Giorgio Napolitano appointed Monti, a respected international figure as head of a new government. Monti is due to hold talks with the main political parties on Monday as he looks to appoint what is expected to be a relatively small cabinet made up of specialists from outside parliament. After a tumultuous week, when Italy's borrowing costs rose to the kind of levels that saw Ireland and Greece forced to seek an international bailout, reaction on Monday was positive with stocks rising and the yield on 10 year bonds well under the 7 percent danger line at 6.4 percent. A further test will come later when the Treasury of-

fers up to 3 billion euros worth of 5-year bonds in an auction that will show how far fragile confidence in Italy's battered public finances has been restored. Because the euro zone cannot afford the much bigger bailout that would be needed to save its third largest economy, the crisis threatened a European financial meltdown. Napolitano said after nominating Monti that there must be an extraordinary effort to address the crisis and Italy could not wait for elections to solve political paralysis. He said Italy must recover the trust of investors and European institutions. "I intend to fulfill this task with a great sense of responsibility in the service of our country," Monti said after receiving the nomination. "In a moment of particular difficulty for Italy, in a turbulent situation for Europe and the world, the country needs to meet the challenge," Monti said after his nomination. Italy's borrowing costs soared to way above a "red line" of 7 percent last week but markets calmed once it became clear that Berlusconi would go and Monti take his place. Berlusconi went on

Thai floods recede, weeks of hardship ahead

BANGKOK, NOvemBer 14 (reuters): The center of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, looks like it will escape the flooding that has hit some suburbs and provinces to its north, but evacuation orders are still issued each day in outer districts and many residents face weeks of hardship. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said Monday 562 people had died in the flooding since late July and that 22 of Thailand's 77 provinces were still affected. Flooding is receding in parts of Bangkok but remains high on the west bank of the Chao Phraya river, swollen by high tides in the Gulf of Thailand, and to the east of the capital, where authorities have diverted run-off floodwater from the north to try to protect the heart of densely populated Bangkok. Kawin Prachanukul, a 21-year-old student at Bangkok's Thammasat University, decided to stay with his dog in his home in Nong Kham district in the west of Bangkok, when it flooded in early November. "My food supplies are starting to run out. Now I've just got some packs of instant noodles left.

But it's not too bad for me -- at least I'm able to walk through the knee-deep water in my street to the main road, where there are a few food vendors," he said, adding that only a few men remained in his neighborhood. Krissana Laongkaew, 54, had to leave her house in western Bangkok on November 2 with her husband and two sons after the floodwater rose to waist level. She has also lost the traditional Thai massage shop nearby that she put all her life savings into. "The shop had only been open for three months. We only finished decorating it in late October. Everything is gone," Krissana said, close to tears. "It's very stressful for me ... My husband and I started everything from scratch and now we're back to zero," she said. "I don't know how much I can salvage from the shop. The water came in so quickly and I had no real time to prepare. They told me the water would be knee-high. Initially, I planned to stay at my house, but the water just kept rising."

Thai residents climb on a makeshift ladders hung from the tollway to a pedestrian overfly over a flooded road in Rangsit district on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand on Monday, November 14. (AP Photo)

main closed in the western Thonburi area. A limited bus service operates on some routes but most people have to rely on army trucks or small boats, always packed. In the parts of the capital that have remained dry, drinking water is back on shelves of supermarkets but still rationed in places. BIG CLEAN-UP Many main roads re- The overhead Skytrain and

underground railway have stayed open throughout, even in flooded areas. In one such area in the north of the city, Chatuchak, a big market popular with tourists was closed at the weekend but the floodwater had started to recede in some streets after almost two weeks, a Reuters reporter said.

Food vendors were back on the street and noodle shops and hair salons were opening for office workers. Businesses had started a big clean-up, sweeping water out of shops and clearing up rubbish that had floated for days in smelly brown water. Authorities estimate that about 16,000 residents have taken shelter in 163 evacuation centres in Bangkok. Other people have had to rent accommodation or find refuge with relatives and friends in the north where the water has receded or in the south and southeast, untouched by floods. For those who left, life is safer but not much fun. Housewife Kim Sirindhorn fled her house in Nakhon Pathom province adjoining western Bangkok in late October for a seaside resort in the eastern province of Rayong, an area full of car plants and heavy industry teeming with evacuees from Bangkok. The water in her area is still 64 cm (2 feet) high and she's been told it could take several weeks to go down. "It's depressing and frustrating. We have nothing much to do and staying in one room is boring," she said.

Italy’s new premier-designate economist Mario Monti leaves the hotel to start talks with parties’ representatives in Rome on Monday, November 14. (AP Photo)

television on Sunday and said he had resigned out of a sense of responsibility and to protect Italy from speculators. He expressed sadness that thousands of protesters yelling insults including "clown" had jeered him when he went to Napolitano's palace to hand in his resignation. Monti's government will try to push through reforms agreed by Berlusconi with euro zone leaders to cut Italy's massive debt and revive a chronically stagnant economy. But he could face opposition from right and left to

some of the more unpopular measures on pensions and the labor market. There are clear signs that he will face problems, with Angelino Alfano, secretary of Berlusconi's PDL party, saying there was "huge opposition" among its members despite promising its support to the new prime minister. The devolutionist Northern League, Berlusconi's partner in the center-right coalition, also said Monti would face an uphill battle in getting parliamentary support for the reforms from a disparate group of

parties supporting the technocratic government. Italy's political turmoil was very much centred around the flamboyant and scandal-plagued figure of Berlusconi and thousands of demonstrators partied in the streets of Rome on Saturday after he resigned. The normally ebullient media magnate cut a forlorn figure as he stared from his car, looking pale and drawn, when he left Napolitano's palace. Top European Union officials and German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed signs of an end to the weeks of uncertainty, with Merkel saying the approval of a reform package in parliament on Saturday was "heartening." "I hope that confidence in Italy is restored, which is crucial for a return to calm throughout the euro zone," she said ahead of a party conference in Leipzig. Berlusconi, one of Italy's richest men, had dominated the country since bursting onto the political scene in 1994. The next election is not due until 2013 but there are widespread predictions Monti will not last until then, making way for polls once he passes the reforms promised to Europe.

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Hamilton says Abu Dhabi GP win marks new start

McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain, second from left, celebrates after winning in the pit with his teammate Jenson Button, 2nd right, of Britain flanked by his girlfriend Japanese model Jessica Machibata after the Emirates Formula One Grand Prix at the Yas Marina racetrack , in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Sunday. (AP Photo)

Hamilton ready to reach new level: McLaren

Abu DhAbi, November 14 (AFP): Lewis Hamilton's victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is a sure sign of his championshipwinning potential in 2012, according to McLaren team chief Martin Whitmarsh. Hamilton has endured a rollercoaster year on the Formula One circuit, and off it. Last month he also split up with long-term girlfriend and fiancee Nicole Scherzinger. On Sunday the Englishman took full advantage of the early retirement of double world champion Sebastian Vettel to win the penultimate race of the season with comfortable aplomb. For Whitmarsh, it is a sign of great things to come. "There is no reason why, in my mind, he cannot raise himself to an-

other level now," said Whitmarsh. "I think this was a great recovery from where he has been in the last few months, and he can do greater things even than this. "I think he is pretty happy with this one. You can see that in him and that enables people to drive with greater confidence and to attack that little bit extra. "We are looking forward now to getting to Brazil and having another race, which is a good feeling for us all." Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso of Spain came home second for Ferrari, wiping away some of the memories of a nightmare race in 2010 when his title challenge was wrecked by strategic mistakes. In third was Jenson Button,

Nabi's strike helps India hold Malaysia

guWAhATi, November 14 (AgeNCieS): The indomitable Syed Rahim Nabi spared India the blushes, scoring just three minutes from time to help the hosts snatch a 1-1 draw against Malaysia in an international friendly played at the Indira Gandhi Athletics Stadium in Sarusajai. Sunday' s tie was the firstever international friendly played in the North-East. Malaysia's star playmaker Shafiq Rahim had put the visitors ahead just before the lemon break. Egged on by a vociferous crowd and with Malaysian players taking time to settle down in unfamiliar conditions, India started the match strongly, playing some nice passes but, they were let down by poor finishing. India, led by Mahesh Gawli, had a grand opportunity to take the lead in the ninth minute when Steven Dias' cross from the right found Sunil Chhetri in the box. The striker, however, failed to keep his header on target. Chhetri then

tried to make amends and turned provider six minutes later when he released Joaquim Abhranches with a nice through. The Dempo sharp-shooter dithered and was caught in possession. India were left to rue these missed chances as Datuk K Rajagopal's boys slowly but surely clawed their way back in the game. With Jewel Raja and Climax Lawrence not being able to mark Shafiq, the midfielder started orchestrating the midfield brilliantly and also kept the wingers busy. Shafiq put the team ahead in the 42nd minute. India stopper Gourmangi Singh failed to intercept an assist from Kunalan Subramanium, allowing Shafiq to barge into the box unchallenged and score with a powerful right-footer past Karanjit Singh. New coach Savio Medeira rung in the changes early in the second half, bringing on Anthony Perreira, Lalrindika Ralte, Jeje Lalpekhlua and Mehrajuddin Wadoo in quick succession to bolster the attack.

who along with Vettel, Alonso and teammate and fellow Briton Hamilton is the only other driver to win races this season. Whitmarsh added: "This win also means both of our drivers have got three great wins apiece this year and I am sure both of them think they can make it four by the end of the season." The final race of the season in Brazil on November 27. Although the outcome of the Abu Dhabi race means that Hamilton cannot overhaul Button in this year's drivers standings -- meaning he will be beaten by a team-mate for the first time since he came into Formula One in 2007 -- Whitmarsh believes that will not significantly affect Hamilton.

He added: "I think this season has been a challenging one for him. He has done a great job here and he will focus on the positives of that. "And, as I say, he will now be saying 'when can I get to Brazil? I love that circuit!' It is a fantastic circuit, and he will want to win there too." Button will also travel to Sao Paulo full of confidence and seeking to beat Alonso to the runners-up spot in this year's drivers' championship behind double world champion Vettel. "I have great memories of Interlagos," said Button. "I am sure we can be competitive there and I am really looking forward to it. It is so great for the team to finish the season winning races to set us up for next year."

Abu DhAbi, November 14 (bbC): Hamilton was gifted the lead when Red Bull's world champion retired on the opening lap because of a puncture going through the second corner. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso pushed hard and tried to take the lead at the final pit stop but Hamilton was too strong. McLaren's Jenson Button took third from Red Bull's Mark Webber while Paul di Resta was ninth for Force India. Hamilton said on arrival in Abu Dhabi that winning the final two races here and in Brazil would help turn around a difficult season in which he has struggled on and off the track. "He just turned it on here and looked like the old Lewis again," said BBC F1 commentator Martin Brundle. "There is nothing missing in his armoury but sometimes he seems emotionally like he's not in the race. But there were no tantrums. He just got in it and got on." Hamilton has been in confident mood and full of enthusiasm for the Yas Marina circuit, where he lost out on victory at its inaugural 2009 race when he was forced to retire. There was some irony, then, that Vettel, who won the two previous races here in the desert, retired to gift Hamilton the lead. The double world champion spun at the second corner when his right rear wheel suddenly punctured and his Red Bull slid onto the grass. He damaged the car further on his way back to the pits and looked furious when it dawned on him he was out of the race. "He had damage to the floor and the exhaust and part of the wishbone," explained BBC pit-lane reporter Ted Kravitz. "He couldn't carry on." It was Vettel's first retirement since last year's Korean Grand Prix - more than a year ago - and ended his run as the only driver to finish every race so far in

2011. "I don't know what happened," Vettel said. "We lost pressure all of a sudden out of the exit of Turn One. I don't why. There is nothing that I did differently to any of the other laps. "We need to find out why, maybe I cut the kerb at a funny angle. It is tough, but I used the opportunity to learn a bit on the pit wall." Vettel had snatched pole from Hamilton by just 0.141 seconds but the Englishman has been strong here all weekend and ran a controlled race to capture his third win of the season to match Button. Hamilton dedicated the win to his mother Carmen, who was there to greet him with a hug when he got out of the car. Alonso, who appeared to have made up with his former foe by complimenting him in the build-up to the race, pushed Hamilton hard in the final phase of the race. When Hamilton pitted for the harder tyres with 16 laps to go, Alonso stayed out to try and build up his lead but came in four laps later. The Spaniard had not done enough and Hamilton resumed his lead to win by nearly nine seconds. "I feel fantastic," Hamilton said. "It was one of my best races. To hold off one of the best drivers in the world is very tough to do. "I'm just happy. This is great. It's early days but this is definitely the start of something. We've got another great race ahead of us in Brazil. I've just got to keep my mind on the game." Alonso added: "It was a fantastic race for me as well. We fight most of the race three-five seconds distance to Lewis. "We were close but we had some traffic in the pit entry behind a HRT and in the last stint they had a little bit more pace so it would have been difficult to win the race even if we had got into the lead. I'm happy with second."

Messi comparisons embarrass Suarez LoNDoN, November 14 (AgeNCieS): Luis Suarez has played down his role in Uruguay's' recent 12-match unbeaten run and laughed off comparisons between himself and Argentina superstar Lionel Messi. Suarez, 24, has been in scintillating form for his country this year and drew plaudits again over the weekend for a four-goal haul in Uruguay's World Cup qualifying victory over Chile. The Liverpool forward also starred in this year's Copa America for La Celeste, scoring four goals as Oscar Tabarez's side lifted the trophy, with his displays seeing him crowned Player of the Tournament. Uruguay have now gone 12 matches undefeated since a friendly defeat to Germany in May but Suarez - who has been lauded in some quarters for being as influential a player as two-time World Player of the Year Messi - was keen to credit the entire team for the impressive sequence, as well as dismissing comparisons with the Barcelona playmaker. "Comparisons with Scotland's Catriona Matthew, center, holds her trophy after winning the Lorena Ochoa Invitational LPGA golf tournaMessi embarrass me," Su- ment, flanked by Mexican golfer and hostess of the event Lorena Ochoa, right, and Mexican gymnast Cynthia Valdez in Guadalajara, Mexico, Sunday. (AP Photo) arez told El Pais.

Button finished third but had to battle Webber and Ferrari's Felipe Massa for position after losing his Kers power boost system for half the race. Team boss Martin Whitmarsh said: "Jenson spent 20 laps without Kers. Then we re-set it and then it would fail and during that time he was trying to keep rhythm and pace and his brake balance was swinging wildly with the failure of Kers." Webber had been running in third for much of the race but the Australian was switched to a threestop strategy and ran until the final lap before making his obligatory stop for the harder 'medium' tyres, which put him back behind Button for the final podium place. "Well obviously on the second stop, we fitted the option tyre again to cut the race into something different. It was worth a bit of a punt," Webber said. "The two DRS (overtaking zones) were tricky. The first one was easy but the second wasn't so easy. The DRS was a bit of a gimme today. "We had pretty good pace and I was close to Jenson Button at the end of the first stint. Then we had a bad first pit stop. We lost a lot of time. It put us on the back foot. We lost track position. That's where we lost the podium." Massa gained one place to finish fifth ahead of Nico Rosberg, who bravely repassed Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher after losing out to him at the start. Adrian Sutil, who is under pressure for his seat at Force India, beat his team-mate Paul di Resta, who crossed the line in ninth after an unconventional one-stop strategy. Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi took the final points with 10th and veteran Rubens Barrichello fought hard in his Williams to take 12th after starting at the back of the grid.

Woods back in world's top 50

LoNDoN, November 14 (AgeNCieS): Tiger Woods' fine third-place finish at the Australian Open has catapulted him back into the world's top 50. The 14-time major winner has suffered an alarming slide in the past two years, a slump that has not seen him record a single tournament win. His poor run, combined with a lack of activity due to injuries and personal problems, saw him slip down to 58 in the world. He turned up at The Lakes in Sydney in upbeat mood and fine efforts in three of his four rounds earned him third spot. Had he not carded a 75 in round three he could well have been celebrating his first win since the Australian Masters of 2009, but it was an upturn in performance that will have the rest of the world taking note. And it earned him a rankings rise to No. 50. The top four in the world - Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood and Martin Kaymer - remain unchanged - while Steve Stricker has replaced Dustin Johnson at No. 5 to once again become the highest ranked American.

England to explore striking options against Sweden

Malaysian players in yellow, try to stop India's Sunil Chhetri, center, from advancing during a friendly soccer match between India and Malaysia in Guwahati. (AP Photo)

LoNDoN, November 14 (reuTerS): England showed they know how to work hard and defend when beating Spain on Saturday and now their fans will want to see progress at the other end of the pitch in Tuesday's Wembley friendly against Sweden. England took the prized scalp of the world and European champions with a 1-0 win that came thanks to a set-piece goal scored by Frank Lampard and a prodigious amount of hard work, not least by man-of-the-match midfielder Scott Parker. Fabio Capello, who seems to have a virtual blank sheet of paper when it comes to naming his likely starting XI for next year's European championship finals, has already said he will make several changes from Saturday's side, which itself was somewhat experimental. Captain John Ter-

ry and Gary Cahill will start in central defence while young full back Kyle Walker, who came off the bench for his debut against Spain, will get his first start. Of more pressing interest to Capello, though, is up front, where Daniel Sturridge is in line for a debut and Bobby Zamora is also set to play. With Wayne Rooney banned for the first three games of Euro 2012, Capello has decided to play this week's friendlies without him to give him a chance to look at the alternatives. Darren Bent, who set up Lampard's goal with a good header, is gradually working himself into Capello's plans, though international goal machine Peter Crouch seems to have fallen out of favour. Sturridge has looked lively at Chelsea this season after returning from an impressive loan spell at Bolton Wanderers and Capello, who also gave a debut to Everton

midfielder Jack Rodwell against Spain, is unfazed by throwing the youngsters in. "They played without fear, with personality on the pitch -- I can see they were good enough to play with the seniors," the Italian said of his new crop, which also included Manchester United duo Danny Welbeck and Phil Jones. It seems Capello has given up trying to establish a settled team and instead is intent on making sure he has a squad of players he has confidence in and who can slot in and out without destroying the side's rhythm. It has served him well recently as England face the Swedes on the back of a 12-month unbeaten run that includes an impressive final phase of their qualifying campaign. With few opportunities left before they depart for the Euro 2012 finals next June, any of the new group who put in an eye-catching display

on Tuesday has a real chance of securing a place in the squad. While all is suddenly buoyant in the England camp, Sweden looked lacklustre in Friday's 2-0 friendly defeat by Denmark in Copenhagen, and certainly lacked the spark shown when dramatically securing their fourth successive Euro qualification with a home win over the previously unbeaten Dutch in October. "Obviously I'm not happy, we weren't aggressive enough and we lost the ball too easily," head coach Erik Hamren said. Captain Zlatan Ibrahimovic was back in the lineup having missed the Netherlands match through injury, but again the Swedes misfired with him leading the line as he and fellow forward Johan Elmander sought the same space to play in. Consequently Hamren may have a look at PSV Eindhoven's

Ola Toivonen possibly alongside Ibrahimovic at Wembley but some observers feel it is the captain who is the problem. His return of 28 goals from 73 internationals is reasonable but the 30-year-old Ibrahimovic has often struggled to reproduce the form that makes him such a feared force in Serie A. Former Liverpool defender Glenn Hysen may have a vested interest as his son Tobias is vying for a strikbing berth in the national team but he has voiced concerns over Sweden's totem. "Zlatan is a wonderful footballer but he's not fast and recently Sweden have been looking better without him," he said. "Maybe it's because when he's there this is the idea that every ball should go to him. He's been fantastic for (AC) Milan but for Sweden, Zlatan has not been producing."

E n t / Ta b l o i d Justin Timberlake parties with 'Evelyn elated U.S. Marines as promised

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ustin Timberlake is a man of his word. The superstar made good on his promise after accepting a YouTube invitation to attend the Marine Corps Ball on Saturday night in Richmond, Virginia. The singerturned-actor fulfilled his promise and arrived on the arm of U.S. Marine Cpl. Kelsey de Santis, who asked him to be her date in a YouTube video. Timberlake looked dapper in a black suit, white shirt and a snazzy bow tie as he made a grand entrance into the Greater Richmond Convention Center. According to local television station WTVR, the wife of one of the marines at the ball said Timberlake 'posed for pictures and seemed like a normal guy'. His Friends with Benefits co-star Mila Kunis was invited to the November 18 Marine Corps Ball in Greenville, North Carolina. Sergeant Scott Moore made a YouTube video asking Kunis, 28, to be his date to the gathering. Her spokesperson recently told The Washington Post the Black Swan beauty is still planning to attend. After Timberlake encouraged Kunis to accept the invitation, De Santis invited the Sexy Back singer to a Marine Corps ball via YouTube. 'So, Justin,' De Santis said in her video clip. 'You want to call out my girl, Mila? Well, I’m going to call you out and ask you to come to the Marine Corps ball with me on Nov. 12.'She even added a reference to one of his songs: 'And if you can’t go, all I have to say is cry me a river.' The annual event is a hot ticket for U.S. Marines, but is not open to the pubA night to remember: Justin Timberlake accompanied U.S. Marine Cpl. lic. Those attending must be active duty Kelsey de Santis to the annual Marine Corps Ball in Richmond, Virginia Marines, reservists or retired, although they are allowed to be civilian guests. on Saturday.

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was our pillar of strength' Family's heartfelt tributes as the founder of breast cancer pink ribbon campaign - dies aged 75

velyn Lauder, who helped create the pink ribbon for cancer awareness, has died aged 75. Lauder died at her Manhattan, New York home on Saturday from complications of non-genetic ovarian cancer. She had been diagnosed with cancer in 2007. Lauder worked for more than 50 years for the beauty products giant, Estee Lauder, which was founded by her mother-in-law. She helped develop the company’s lines of skin care, makeup and fragrance, and is credited with coming up with the name of its popular Clinique brand during the 1960s. Most recently, she held the title of senior corporate vice president. Yet Lauder is best known as a champion of breast cancer research and for her role in creating the pink ribbon campaign. In 1992, she worked

with her friend Alexandra Penney, the former editor-in-chief of Self magazine, to create the campaign for breast cancer awareness. It started as a small project with Lauder and her husband, Leonard, largely financing the bows given to women at department store makeup counters to remind them about breast exams. It expanded into fundraising products, congressional designation of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and $330 million in donations — $50 million from Estee Lauder and its partners — to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which Lauder also started. That money helped establish the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, which opened in 2009. Her other passion was photography, and she was the author of the

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book In Great Taste: Fresh, Simple Recipes for Eating and Living Well. Born Evelyn Hausner in 1936 in Vienna, Austria, she fled Nazi-occupied Europe with her parents, and they settled in the U.S. She attended public schools in New York City and Hunter College, part of the City University of New York. As a college freshman, she met her husband, the elder son of Estee Lauder and whose family owned what was then a small cosmetics company. ‘We had five products in the line, we only had two or three colours in our lipsticks,’ she told cable news channel NY1 in 2005. ‘It was a baby company.’ The young couple married in 1959. Leonard Lauder is now chairman emeritus of the company. Estee Lauder died in 2004 at 97. Leonard and Evelyn Lauder's son William is executive chairman of Estee Lauder Cos. Another son, Gary, is managing director of Lauder Partners LLC, a technology investment firm. She is survived by her husband, two sons and five grandchildren. 'My mother carried the torch of our company heritage and the values that were passed to her by my grandmother, Mrs. Estee Lauder,' her son, William Lauder, said in a statement. 'My mother and father were life partners as well as business partners. They nurtured the culture and growth of the Estee Lauder companies, and as we grew, my mother was our creative compass and pillar of strength. Together my family and the company celebrate the beautiful person she was.'

John Abraham spotted with his new ladylove

t has been a while since Bipasha and John broke up after being in a relationship for over 9 years. Since their break up, both have been linked with co-stars and gossip mills have been relentlessly working overtime to juice out on their love lives. While Bips has been linked with Shahid Kapoor, Josh Harnett and Rana Duggabati, John’s relationship `status` escaped constant vigilance. However, there were speculations of him dating a banker chic. But now the time has come when this Bollywood hunk has no qualms

unfolding his new love story. John arrived at a book launch in the city with 26-year-old former banker Priya Runchal last Friday evening. And his arrival with a lady by his side raised many eyebrows and the paparazzi were quick enough to grab them their lenses. John was very much at ease being with his lady love in public. While talking to reporters, the hunk said, “There is someone special in my life, but I don`t want to say anything more than that. It is extremely personal.” Hmmm….we wonder what Bipasha has to say!

Kate Middleton Wears Black, Singer Beyoncé silences rumours with a fuller figure Bundles Up for Remembrance Day

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rince William's wife joined Duchess Camilla and Countess Sophie to honor those who died serving their country for Remembrance Day on Sunday.

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ritics have claimed she isn't pregnant at all but new photo's of Beyoncé show a different side of the story. The Party singer, who is crazy in love with husband Jay-Z, was definitely looking fuller figured when she stepped out in New York on Friday afternoon. Wearing a large grey and snow-white fur gilet, Beyoncé looked to have gained some healthy weight on her face as she turned and smiled at the camera. As the former Destiny's Child star left her office in Manhattan, she had covered her baby bump with a flowing brown top and a brown and black striped scarf. Her famous curvy hips and thighs also appeared to be bigger as she wore flat shoes with black and white leggings. The 30-year-old was today also revealed as the highest earning entertainer in the world who charges per minute for appearing on stage. Earlier in the week Beyoncé's pregnancy was questioned after an appearance on the Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Viewers had to do a double-take as the presenter introduced the singer as she certainly didn't look

six months pregnant. But fans can relax as the 30-yearold singer hasn't been living a lie - she just pre-recorded the performance back in the summer. But what baffled audiences more was the fact that Fallon made out that the U.S. star was actually there in the studio. As he clutched a copy of the singer's latest album, he looked into the camera and said: 'Tonight she's here to perform the song Countdown from her latest album, Four. Please welcome Beyoncé.' The audience surrounded him then erupted into cheers and began to applaud someone who wasn't even there. The video then cut to a totally different audience - the lucky ones who did actually get to watch the Destiny's Child beauty perform. It is unknown why Beyoncé chose to pre-record the performance so far in advance - perhaps it was because she didn't want to be on the show this far into her pregnancy. But it certainly started the rumour mill going again as the public took to Twitter feeling slightly confused and calling it The Case Of The Disappearing Bump.

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The three ladies wore all black and pinned Poppy flowers on their coats at the Cenotaph in London. (Remembrance Day is also referred to as Poppy Day in the U.K.)

Bands will have to perform 2 songs either original of cover numbers Audition will start at 10:00 AM at the Heritage, Old DC Bungalow, near Raj Bhavan on the 15th Nov 2011 No TA or DA will be provided to the bands. Bands will have to bring their own giutars, gadgets, power pedals, extra cymbals with stands, etc.. Registration Forms can be downloaded from www.hornbillmusic.co.in/.org and submitted at Unitex inc, Kohima & Crecendo, Dimapur. Forms can also be submitted at the venue on the day of the audition. For any Queries, the Event Secretary, Ngipwang Angeli can be reached at eventsec@gmail.com or 090898 95010

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Dravid's century powers India to 346/5 at stumps on Day 1

KOLKATA, NOVEMBER 14 (PTI): Rahul Dravid slammed a fluent 119 to put India in command before West Indies snapped up two quick wickets in the fag end of the day to recover marginally in the second Test on Monday. Opting to bat, Dravid and VVS Laxman (73 not out) continued their love affair on their favourite Eden Gardens track as their 140run partnership put India in a strong position of 346 for five at close on the opening day. On a day Sachin Tendulkar missed out again on the 100th international century when he was out on 38, Dravid took centrestage by notching up his 36th Test and his fifth in 2011. The fourth wicket partnership was broken by part-timer Kraigg Brathwaite who took his maiden Test wicket in the form of centurion Dravid who played one on to his stumps. Laxman was unbeaten on 73 from 116 balls with five fours as the day was called off early because of bad light with 2.3 overs remaining. Dravid notched up his century by guiding a Kemar Roach delivery towards fine leg for a boundary. The second leading Test scorer behind Tendulkar completed the mark in 179 deliveries with nine boundaries and one six for his fifth century against the West Indies. But Dravid missed the 13,000 Test runs mark by just 21 runs when he gifted five-Test match old part-time offspinner Kraigg Brathwaite an easy wicket playing an inside edge to the stumps. Nightwatchman Ishant Sharma was dismissed for a duck in a first ball dismissal. He may be lying low on 12 in the ICC rankings ladder, but Dravid once again showed why he is called one of the finest No. 3 batsmen in an innings of great composure. Dravid came at a time when India were cruising in Twenty20 fashion with 66 in 12 overs. The 38-year-old Dravid tried to match the run-rate

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Dravid pips Bell as the highest run-getter in Tests in 2011

KOLKATA, NOVEMBER 14 (PTI): Rahul Dravid on Monday reached a commendable milestone of becoming the highest runscorer in the current year surpassing England's Ian Bell. Dravid now has 952 runs in 10 Tests in the current year surpassing Bell's 950 runs from eight matches. The senior batsman was out for 119 bowled by parttime spinner Kraigg Brathwaite after being involved in a 140-run fourth wicket partnership. 'The Wall' has scored five centuries in the current year thus far with two against West Indies and three against England apart from two half-centuries at an average of 59.50. It has taken him 19 innings to score the runs while Bell has scored his runs at a staggering average of 118.75 in only 11 innings. Apart from Dravid, VVS Laxman also reached a mini milestone on the day when he completed 1500 Test runs against the West Indies. Centuries by Rahul Dravid in 2011 112 vs WI at Kingston 103 vs England at the Lord's 117 vs England at Nottingham 146 n.o. vs England at the Oval 119 vs West Indies at Eden Gardens. after Sehwag's cheap dismissal for 38 as he scored 33 from 51 in the first session. In the post-lunch session after Gautam Gambhir's departure, the focus obviously shifted to Sachin Tendulkar and his impending 100th international century. Dravid then slowly built his innings with all eyes on Tendulkar as the Bangalorean was at his defiant best scoring 29 from 77 balls in the second session. In the fruitful last ses-

sion, he scored 57 from 79 balls which also included two sixes. He clubbed Bishoo over long off to decimate the little reign the legspinner had after taking Tendulkar's wicket while his second overboundary came off part-time offspinner Marlon Samuels over long on. Tendulkar came and went but Dravid once again stood like a wall and grew in stature when VVS Laxman joined him in the middle. A little more than a decade ago,

the duo had shared an epic 376-run partnership with to see India bounce back from being followed on for a 171-run win over Australia in one of the most memorable wins. Laxman's 281 and Dravid's 180 is still part of the cricketing folklore and the duo showed glimpses of that knock. Laxman brought up his 56th half-century with a typical wristy whip towards square leg as the West Indian attack got little help from the Eden strip.

Chief Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Lalthara taking a salute during the opening ceremony of The XXXII Nagaland Police-Duty-cum-Sports & Athletic Meet today. (right) Athletics taking part at a rally race. (Sorei Mahong/Morung Photos)

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 14 (MExN): The XXXII Nagaland Police-Duty-cumSports & Athletic Meet kicked off with much fanfare at the NAPTC Stadium, Chumukedima Monday, November 14. Chief Secretary to the Government of Nagaland, Lalthara graced the customary opening ceremony as the chief guest. Riding on an overwhelming response from all the state police units, this year, a contingent of 29 teams from all the 15 armed battalions and the DEFs, as well as the NAPTC, IGP (Int), Kohima and NPTS are partaking in the event. The enthusiasm clearly evident among the participants, the chief guest, in his speech, without underplaying the success of the previous editions; remarked that compared to other years, the 32nd edition has received more than the anticipated interest from the respective units. Further “Hope to see some records are also broken this year,” he added. “Let us remember that participation itself is a reward”, he further said, while adding that some of the participating teams maybe under-strength, but which should not be taken as a ground for losing en-

thusiasm. Athletics marked the inaugural of the sports conclave, which will be held over six days and conclude on November 19. To refresh memories, a more than forty year-old record ( in 100 metre heat), is yet to be broken, which was set way back in 1970. That record, at just 11.01 seconds (and just over a second above the world record) was set by Zukhevi Sema for the NAPTC. There are many other unbroken records which were set mostly in the eighties and the seventies. In 200 metre dash, a twenty-six year old record still stands. Marked at 22.08 seconds, it is credited to Basna Singh of the 4th NAP. The latest entered in the records register was in 2010 in shot-put. That record is held by Ladu Chang of the 6th NAP at 11.83 metres. In high-jump, Purna Konyak of the 11th NAP (IR) holds the record at 1.80 metres. It was set in 2006. Coming to the Chief Secretary’s speech, he expressed his contentment that Nagaland Police, as a whole, is expanding in terms of strength and capability. In this regard, he made special mention of the 9th NAP (IR) and the 15th Mahila NAP (IR) bat-

talions, who has served outside of the state with great competence and sacrifice. He was also quick to remark that it does mean the other units are not upto the mark. They will be efficient just the same when given a task, he added. Rotating the 15 armed battalions for service outside Nagaland is important as it will act as an exposure and of great experience to the personnel. Such call for duty should be taken without a complaining mind, he said. “When your turn comes take it positively… if you go outside with a complaining mind, you’ll not be able to achieve anything… (a positive) attitude is very

important.” The disciplines up for competition are athletics, team events like football, volleyball and basketball; shooting, badminton (for Dy.SP and above), lawn tennis, tug-of-war, etc. Ever a crowd puller during the annual NP sports meet, competitive events for boxing has already been conducted. Further, a trade fair in aid of state police units ‘family welfare’ fund will be held simultaneously with the sports events. Open to the public, it was inaugurated by Neithou Kire, wife of the Director General of Police, K. Kire. The venue for the exhibition is at the NAPTC hockey field.

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