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by Sandemo Ngullie

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Don`t worry we`re being rocked by corruption. Bye Bye!! Oh. Btw if the world ends today call me ok?

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Nagaland gets Rs.8325.97 lakh under RMSA Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) has finalized approval of DPRs for all the north east states for 2011-2012 for implementation of the flagship programme of Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA).

According to the minutes of Project Approval Board meeting of eight north east states, Nagaland has been allocated Rs.8325.97 lakh (Rs. 6471.11 for civil works/infrastructure and Rs.1854.86 for salaries and maintenance). The fund allocations for other north east states are (in lakhs): Tripura Rs.5629.22, Manipur- Rs.5167.49, Arunachal Pradesh- Rs. 4528.75, Mizoram- Rs. 4052.59, Assam- Rs. 3691.54, SikkimRs.705.23 and Meghalaya Rs.330.27. RMSA is a flagship programme for universalisation of secondary education in which the Central Government provides 90% shares while the State governments contribute only 10% of the cost of the project. Nagaland is one of the few states in India to have perspective plan of RMSA unto 2016-17.

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impHaL, November 7 (pTi): Petrol pumps in Manipur have gone dry with the punishing blockade of two national highways by the United Naga Council continuing since August 21. Manipur government Spokesman N Biren Singh said all the petrol pumps in the state have gone dry except one. Only one petrol pump has stock but it will supply petrol and diesel only to school buses and school vans, official sources said. The ImphalDimapur-Guwahati (NH39) and the Imphal- Jiribam-Silchar (NH-53) have been blocked since August 21 by United Naga Council (UNC), which is opposed to the Sadar Hills District Demand Committee demand for creation of a full fledged revenue district of Sadar Hills to be carved out from Naga-majority Senapati district. Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh had said at a public function on Sunday that he will do something about the blockade but did not elaborate.

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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader

- Daisaku Ikeda

Trusted ally NCP pulls Women Reservation: JAC out of NPF led DAN govt seeks Guv’s intervention

NCP Nagaland President Neiba Ndang Ashikho Pfuzhe Dimapur | November 7

In a late afternoon bomb shell, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has decided to pull out from the Democratic Alliance Nagaland (DAN), signaling the end DAN coalition and the cold prospects of the ‘Cock’ crowing alone in the next

assembly election.

The NCP Nagaland state at its executive meeting held at NCP office, Dimapur, on Monday unanimously resolved to pull out from the DAN coalition citing numerous ‘betrayals’ from the major DAN partner, the Nagaland People’s Front (NPF).

Later, interacting with a section of the media in his home residence at Nagarjan (Kuda village), NCP Nagaland president and secretary general NCP (Northeast), Neiba Ndang, confirmed that the NCP state, with full approval of the NCP central leaders, has finally distanced itself from the DAN. “We had all respect and regard for the DAN coalition, although we lost two of our legislators, and we tried our best to maintain the coalition spirit,” Ndang said.

The party however disclosed that the final straw

came during the last byelection to Aonlengden assembly seat, which NCP said the NPF went alone with its candidate and never consulted DAN partners.

“For so long we have tolerated and tried to keep up the coalition spirit. In any major policy matters or decisions, they (NPF) should at least consult with their coalition partners.

But in the case of 26 Aonglengden AC by-elections, there was never a consensus among the DAN partners. We were never consulted or informed beforehand about the candidate,” the state NCP president said.

On the other hand, Neiba said that without consulting DAN partners, the NPF declared their own candidate and tagged it as “DAN consensus candidate.” “This is a clear-cut indication that then DAN partners are being side-

lined,” he said and hinted that the NCP, being a national party has its own set policies and programmes, can survive “with or without” a regional party.

State NCP General Secretary Miatho Krose who along with NCP state member of Political Affairs Committee, Chonben Yanthan, were present during the press briefing, reminded that the DAN government should own up to whatever “negative or otherwise” decisions the government had taken up till the present, since the NCP was never taken into confidence.

With the NCP pull-out, DAN government is now reduced to NPF government as there are no other political allies the NPF can take into confidence.

Even the five Independent MLAs in the current state assembly have been reduced to “associated members” of the NPF.

Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): The Joint Action Committee (JAC) on Women Reservation has sought the intervention of the Governor of Nagaland to ensure timely municipal/town council elections and implementation of the long awaited Women Reservation Bill. A representation addressed to Governor Nikhil Kumar, signed by representatives from the Naga Mothers Association, Eastern Naga Women Organization, Watsu Mongdang, Naga Women HOHO Dimapur and the Tenyimi Women Organization was received here today.

The JAC brought to the attention of the Governor the judgement order of the Guwahati High Court Kohima, on the writ petition filed on behalf of women which clearly stipulates for election to the Municipal/ Town Councils to be com-

pleted before January 20, 2012 and strict implementation of women reservation in the coming civic body elections.

It informed the Governor that JAC held a consultative meeting with tribe women organizations from the eleven districts of Nagaland on November 1, where it was resolved by the House, to start the process of selection of eligible women candidates who will stand for election in the 82 women reserved wards in the State, through the respective tribe women organizations/women Hoho.

The final list of Naga women consensus candidates for the women reserved wards will be ready by the December 3, JAC informed the Governor.

JAC requested the Governor to on behalf of all women of Nagaland, to intervention and ensure

SDSA flays Manipur Cabinet decision to bifurcate Sadar Hills Dimapur, November 7 (meXN): While reaffirming its stance to defend and protect its ancestral land, the Senapati District Students’ Association (SDSA) has strongly condemned the Manipur Cabinet’s decision to bifurcate Sadar Hills into (three) sub-divisions.

Terming it as “illogical and bias” decision a press communiqué from SDSA stated that, “such premature decision of the communal Government will only escalate the tension created by present situation.”

SDSA President LR John pointed out that, during the visit with Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on November 2 to Senapati District, Chief Minister O. Ibobi had assured that “no unilateral decision will be taken but due consultation of concerned communities will be considered.” But, the Cabinet decision on November 5 to create 3(three) sub-divi-

sions has made the SDSA to questions the integrity and credibility of the CM, SDSA added that.

SDSA also condemns the repeated assault of 3(three) bandh volunteers at T. Khullen by a 43 AR Post commander at Kangpokpi AR out post. SDSA stated that the officer is the same AR major who some days back assaulted the President of ANSAM J.Komu Shah at Senapati.

Till date, the concerned officer or the Assam rifles has not tender any apology to the incident. The SDSA stated it has decided to lodge complaint against the officer to the higher authority; adding that if the concerned authority does not take any disciplinary action against the tainted Major immediately, “the SDSA will not continue to tolerate such inhuman and irrational behaviours of the defence personnel but react accordingly.”

timely elections and implementation of Women Reservation Bill.

It further requested the State Election Commission to begin necessary preparation for announcement of dates for election and conduct the municipal/town council elections without any further delay.

JAC stated, “We firmly believe that Naga society must recognise the rights of women as equal citizens granted by the Constitution and it is the bounden duty of the State Government to support the empowerment process. We are confident that Your Excellency will ensure protection of the Constitutional rights of Women in the state and give women the opportunity to actively participate as equal partners in these urban decision making bodies for the development of the state and the society.”

Women folk of Lotha Community display traditional rice grinding during the Tokhu Emong, a post harvest festival of the Lotha tribe at Dimapur on November 7.

The post harvest festival celebrated by the Lotha Naga invokes the blessing of god for an abundant harvest and mark the end of harvesting of crops.

(Photo /Caisii Mao)

‘Fund for Dist HQs road improvement yet to be released’

KoHima, November 7 (NepS): Nagaland Minister for Road and Bridges Mr Kaito said today that his department was making all out efforts for the improvement of the road conditions of all the 11 districts headquarters in the State. Disclosing to NEPS here today, the Minister said technical estimates for these works had already been approved and the mon-

ey was yet to be released.

As per the approved estimates, Kohima gets Rs 90 lakh; Dimapur gets Rs 90 lakh; Mokokchung gets Rs 70 lakh; Mon gets Rs 75 lakh; Wokha get Rs 70 lakh; Tuensang gets Rs 90 lakh; Longleng gets Rs 50 lakh; Zunheboto gets Rs 45 lakh; Kiphire gets Rs 50 lakh and Phek gets Rs 20 lakh but it (Phek) actually gets 70 lakh but being used for some other road de-

velopment there.

The Minister further disclosed that the construction of roads to the above 11 districts headquarters would be done by his department. “I have already requested my colleagues to allow my department to directly do the job for this particular districts headquarters road development works.” Kaito said his department was trying its

best for the improvement and proper maintenance of existing roads in the State.

“But we are finding difficulty to carry out due to the shortage of fund,” he added. “We are making all out efforts to maintain but it is near impossible for the department to take care of 12000 kilometer roads including portions of National Highways without the assistance of the Government

of India.”

At the same time, being a Christian State, they had to consider cases of many approach roads like to Theological Colleges whenever such requests came up to them, the Minister also disclosed. Kaito also stated the state Governor Nikhil Kumar was also concerned for the paucity of fund for the maintenance of the huge roads in the state.

Frustrated Rio wants crime in Dimapur stopped ‘Because of anti-socials, many non-Nagas and Nagas earn here and take away the harvest to invest elsewhere because of the fear’ Morung Express News Dimapur | November 7

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio today expressed frustration that crimes and “antisocials” have begun to ruin the only economic and commercial centre of the State.

Businesses are leaving and the fact that Nagaland and her people would prosper only if Dimapur prospers, “the people must create peace, do away with fear,” the Chief Minister told a huge gathering at the ‘state stadium’ during celebration of Tokhu Emung, the principal festival of the Kyong Naga community.

Addressing the crowd as chief guest of the celebration, Neiphiu Rio expressed sadness that Dimapur, “miniature India; miniature Nagaland,” is already headed for ruin. Referring to the recent protests and “people’s campaign against crime,” in Dimapur, the Chief Minister said the ‘menace of extortion, kidnapping’ must be stopped

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio speaking during the Tokhu Emong festival held at State Stadium Dimapur on Monday.

Also seen is NPCC President and Congress MLA Sungit Jamir. (Sorei Mahong/Photo)

so that the “hub can begin to look and feel like a commercial hub again.”

The Chief Minister lauded the efforts of Dima-

pur civil society for willing to speak out against all anti-social activities. But, he said, more needs to be done.

“I want to remind all of us

to remind ourselves of our responsibility; (it is a collective effort) it is the responsibility of the government; responsibility of the public; it is not only the responsibility of the state government alone,” Rio said.

In an apparent reference to extortion, the Chief Minister posed a query – “without labor, how can you harvest? Without harvest how can you celebrate? We have much more things to do; we have so many things in mind,” Rio said. “If we have to celebrate we must first create peace.” Relatively, Neiphiu Rio referred to how the “anti-socials” and society’s fear of them are impacting the economy of the state. “Both Nagas and nonNagas” are “earning from here” but ‘taking the money outside’ now, he lamented.

“It is sad because of antisocials, many non-Nagas and Nagas earn here and take away the harvest to invest elsewhere because of the fear.

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‘Wild animals’ victim of festivities in Nagaland’ Chizokho Vero

Lakhuti/ Wokha | November 7

Minister for Health & Family Welfare Küzholüzo (Azo) Nienu today expressed regret that wild animals and birds have become the victim of festivities in Nagaland. He was speaking at the premier festival of Lotha- Nagas- Tokhu Emong here today. Lakhuti lies 45 km away from district headquarter Wokha.

The Minister asserted that the rich traditions and culture possessed by Nagas speaks volumes of Naga identity and the peaceful attitude of the people. He said Nagas are peace loving people and economically sound but when it comes to festivals, wild animals and birds become the victim of the festivals.

In this, he stressed the need to adapt the new culture and restrain from

using wild animals and birds during the festivals.

He told the villagers to use domestic animals on such occasions in order to preserve the nature and to save Mother Earth.

Stating that Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio is generous and treats everyone equally, he said the government will bring a big project to Lakhuti village before the next State general elections. Preferring to keep mum on the type of project as of now, the Minister said the project will be made visible soon.

Pleased by the number of good leaders being produced by Lakhuti village and the village also known for producing many officers, he told them not to be arrogant; rather to be more humble so God will bless them. Azo also stressed on the need to know as to how to pre-

serve the senior leaders so that they can put their footprint in the village.

Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) Deputy Speaker Ralanthung Yanthan, NPF vice president in-charge of Wokha district, Pusazo Luruo also spoke on the occasion.

The significance of the festival was briefed by Mhonchumo Ngully.

Tokhü Emong is the harvest festival of the Lothas. With the harvest done and the granaries full, the people now take a respite from the toils and sweat and settle down to enjoy the fruits of one’s hard labour. Tokhü Emong is celebrated in the 1st week of November every year. Merry making, seeking forgiveness, reconciliation among the family and friend circles, seeking God blessing marks the weeklong festival.

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Kyong Rejoice in midst of Hopes for the Future Al Ngullie Morung Express News

The Kyong community of Dimapur today celebrated the gift of life, of harvest and all blessings in being a brotherhood, a community and a people and sharing in retrospection of who they as a people can give more to the progress of the state and the peoples they are a part of.

Thousands from the Kyong Naga tribe thronged a sun-drenched ‘state stadium’ in Dimapur October 7 to make merry in ‘Tokhu Emong,’ the principal festival of the community, where Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphu Rio was the chief guest.

Among others in attendance was Minister for Forest MC Konyak, Minister for Agriculture Dr. Chumben Murry and Minister for Soil & Water Conservation P Longon and President of Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee SI Jamir, parliamentary secretaries and members of Nagaland Legislative Assembly and senior state government officials.

‘Tokhu Emong’ is primarily a feast of harvest to mark the conclusion of activities of the community in a year and commemorative of welcome for the New Year ahead. Interestingly, the festival also coincided with the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Lotha Hoho of Dimapur. The Kyong ‘hoho’ was the first tribal organization formed in Dimapur, said

Lead in peace-maKing, Rio to Kyong

Men folk of Lotha community dance during the Tokhu Emong, a post harvest festival of the Lotha tribe at Dimapur, on November 7. The post harvest festival celebrated by the Lotha Naga invokes the blessing of god for an abundant harvest and mark the end of harvesting of crops. (Photo/Caisii Mao)

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio. Stating that the Kyong Naga is one of the leading Naga tribes, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio urged the community to promote and forest peace amongst the people and in the state. “You need to foster peace if you want to celebrate festivals.’

CSU6th Union assembly on Nov 9 Dimapur, November 7 (mexN): Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU) has convened its 6th Union assembly to be co-hosted by the Chozuba Town Chakhesang Students’ UniononNovember9at11:00amatVamuzoMemorialTown Hall. Assembly Secretary, Dapulu Lea in a press release has requested all affiliated Units and Subordinate bodies to send two representatives to attend the meeting and also informed that absentees would be dealt as per the 1st Union Assembly resolution. The union has also invited all the senior leaders and intellectuals for the positive outcome of the assembly.

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Power failure affects OMH, NMH, AG, Dzüvurü Kohima, November 7 (mexN): In a wake of the reported power failure in four colonies of the state capitalOld Ministers’ Hill, New Ministers’ Hill, AG and Dzüvurü, the Old Ministers’ Hill Youth Organization (OMHYO) has appealed the state government to restore the power supply at the earliest. The NMHYO stated that the residents of the four colonies are facing untold suffering due disruption of power supply for the last four days. Sources said that power supply has been affected due to the breakdown of transformer. In this, the Organization appealed the concerned department to restore power supply at the earliest in the interest of the general public.

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The chief minister acknowledged the Kyong Nagas as one of the ‘leading’ Naga tribes. ‘You have the highest literacy rates and per capita income and promote the society; let us have peace so we can continue to celebrate more festivals in the land of festivals,”

Neiphiu Rio said “Let this celebrate ignite more enthusiasm in the years to come; ignite enthusiasm to harvest even more,” chief minister Neiphiu Rio told the community. ‘Yours is a land of plenty; you have oil deposits; hydro potential; you

have more and have even more.”

As is a tradition, community revelry highlighted the event. Cultural groups from various sections of the city’s Kyong populace sang and danced to celebrate the harvest of the year; dedicating hopes for the New Year;

You have done enough to deserve the award: Nikhil

"Happy Birthday"

M. Odyuo, speaking the significance of Tokhu Emong festival at residence of A. E Lotha, NLA Secretary Kohima.

Guides 1. Christian higher secondary school, Diapur, 10 guides 2. Christ King Higher Secondary school, Kohima, 3 guides 3. Little Flower Higher Secondary School, Kohima, 3 Guides 4. Mezhur Higher Secondary School Kohima, 7 Guides 5. Regimental School Wokha, 2 Guides.

Our Correspondent Kohima | November 7

21 Scouts and 28 Guides received Rajya Puraskar award while two scouts and nine guides also received Rashtrapati certificate from different districts this morning which was handed out by Nagaland Governor, Nikhil Kumar at Durbar Hall, Raj Bhavan.

The Nagaland State Bharat Scouts & Guides observed Rajya Puraskar Award cum Release of Rashtrapati Certificate ceremony with Nagaland State, Governor who is also the Chief patron of Nagaland Bharat Scouts & Guides, Nikhil Kumar as the chief guest.

The governor congratulated the awardees and lauded the well disciplined nature of the students saying “You have done enough to deserve the award”.

He asserted that anything that is learned during the Movement will be of very practical in the society and urged the students

Kohima | November 7

A very Happy Birthday to you Darling!!! As a wonderful day falls on this day the 8th Nov. 2011, May you grow with love, care and good health. We love you so much. Loving Sis's & Bro's (Theja & Edi).

Lakhuti villagers greet minister for health & and family welfare Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu on his arrival for Tokhu Emong celebration at Lakhuti village on November 7. (Morung Photo)

aWaRd RecipientS

Nagaland Governor, Nikhil Kumar, HTE & Urban Development minister and president NSBS&G, Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu and State Chief Commissioner (G) NSBS&G and exMP Khyomo Lotha along with Rajya Puraskar Award recipients (Scouts).

to be prepared to meet the needs of the society, people and also to live up to the expectation of the community and the country as well.

Adding that the students should be aware of the mission, the governor maintained that the foundation laid during tender age will later realize the selfless service and love they have rendered to the society in the later years.

“You are apart of the world wide movement that builds character with commitment, desire and passion to work for others”, Governor said and urged to be a contributor to the society.

Chairing the ceremony Minister, Urban Development & Higher & Technical Education who is also the President, Nagaland Bharat Scouts & Guide, Dr. Shürhozelie Leizietsu in

IYC on nation-wide membership drive

Dearest Elusile

Minister for health & and family welfare Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu, NLA deputy speaker Ralanthung Yanthan and his lady wife at the Tokhu Emong celebration at Lakhuti village on November 7. (Morung Photo)

Scouts and guides conferred awards

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Dr. Neikiesalie Nicky Kire, Chairman, NKVIB seen inspecting the new NN Market complex soon after inauguration, Sunday.

He inaugurated the newly constructed N N Market located in between Mao Market and Bethel Hospital on Sunday morning.

The 8 storied wooden structure with 83 rooms and others amenities such as toilets and other fire safety measures was constructed by Bizo and Choro Mao.

felicitations for the community’s pioneers leaders and citizens.

The community also shared in retrospection over the progress the Kyong Naga community has made over the decades in the field of economy, politics and society and in the recent times, their role and place in the larger aspirations of Nagaland and the Nagas.

“Culture is a resource; some of the values of tradition have to be discarded; some of the traditions have to be valued,” Minister for Agriculture Dr. Chumben Murry told the gathered mass. “As we celebrate 50 years and Tokhu Emong, the question now is: where are we going to be in (year) 2036; what legacy would we have left for our people and society in the next 50 years?”

The theme of unity and sense of brotherhood with one and all characterized the appeal of the Kyong leaders who spoke during the main function. Parliamentary Secretary for Border Affairs Yanthungo Patton challenged the community to use unity as good, productive and enriching ‘weapon’ to build the community. Addressing the people in Kyong, the parliamentary secretary appealed to the tribe to keep reminded that peaceful existence with one and neighbor, tribe and community is itself strength.

This strength would take the tribe forward, and in the process take the state and peoples ahead.

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The Indian Youth Congress has embarked on a historic nation-wide mission to restore the voice of the youth in politics and is holding internal elections to unearth political leaders from the youth of Nagaland.

A team of Returning Officers of India Youth Congress are working across Nagaland to ensure that the membership drive which kicked off on November 3 till 30, opening to whoever desires, and that no one is denied an opportunity to participate in the revolution.

Addressing a press conference this afternoon at Congress Bhavan, Prakesh Joshi Election Commissioner IYC said the membership drive is being done

through out the country while in North East Region, Nagaland and Manipur is yet to get over with the membership drive while Sikkim is yet to start.

On completion of the membership, he said Booth Election will follow where the booth election committee will be set up from outside the state so that there is no influential system will take place during the election.

The election will be however, no loser system, Joshi added.

Also along with Joshi, Deepak Rathore, Pradesh Returning Officer, Nagaland, Lok Sabha Returning Officer, Abu Sharma and Raju Kumar said the membership is open to all people irrespective of social or political background so long as they fulfill the age criteria, are of good character, com-

mit themselves to the ideals of the congress party and give up membership of all political backgrounds and should be between the age of 1835 years.

The team added that only members enrolled by the last date of membership will be eligible to vote, to elect Youth Congress leadership while elections are only route to leadership positions and there will be no nominations in the future for posts left vacant after the elections.

The Foundation for Advancement Management of Elections (FAME) an independent NGO will ensure that the process is free and fair process while in the case of any complaints regarding the fairness of the process, complaints may be directed to FAME, Joshi said.

his brief address said the movement has grown from strength to strength though the movement reached Nagaland lately.

He suggested involvement of enrolment from the church and urged the students to convey the message of its movement values that can have huge association in the later years.

Leizietsu also said the movement has rapidly

Scouts 1. Christ King Higher Secondary school, Kohima, 6 Scouts 2. Mezhur Higher Secondary School Kohima, 4 Scouts grown all over the world which is an educational movement, to train young people of the healthy habits and to develop sense of service to God, community and country at large, inculcating human values to produce worthy citizens.

The chairman urged the students to be prepared to help others and also should learn the art of forgiveness, respect elders and funda-

3. Christian Model High School Wokha, 2 Scouts 4. Regimental School Wokha, 2 Scouts 5. Government Higher secondary school, Zunheboto, 1 Scout.

RASHTRAPATI AWARDEES Scouts 1. Abhay Kumar Gupta 2. Imlisunep Imchen Guides 1. Sile Haikam 2. Yile Haikam 3. Honli. B. Yanglem 4. Keneisanuo Kiwe 5. Khriephrenuo Rutsa 6. Vikho-ü Medom 7. Khriengutuonuo Mere

mental human values adding that once the movement flourishes, there will be a change in the society at large.

Earlier welcome address was delivered by Nino Iralu, additional District & Session Judge/FTC Kohima & State commissioner (G) NSBS&G, while Khyomo Lotha spoke on the significance of the day.

Engineer Nekitu proposed vote of thanks.

Mini Hydro Electric Project at Lang, Noklak, Tuensang, Nagaland

The Government of Nagaland in order to harness the hydel potential for generating electricity is constructing a Mini Hydro Electric Project at Lang, Noklak sub division, Tuensang. Seen in the picture is a Heavy MAN truck carrying a 500 MW transformer negotiating the hilly terrain of Changki village, Mokokchung on November 3 en route to the Power House at Lang Mini Hydro Project. The project is estimated to generate 2 x 500 MW of power on completion. (Photo Courtesy/Rusovil John)

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Nokia to target Govt unlikely to roll back petrol price hike Petrol price hike fuels protests youth with Asha guwahaTi, November 5 (ageNcies): The state witnessed a volley of protests from all corners immediately after oil companies hiked petrol price by Rs 1.80 a litre once again to offset the fall in rupee.

The Federation of Industry & Commerce of North Eastern Region (FINER) suggested the government to prepare a petrol price stabilization mechanism to check such rise in future. While the Kamrup Chamber of Commerce (KCC) asked the state government to take immediately steps to comfort the state, former chief minister Prafulla Mahanta sought curbing of such rise in price.

"There must be a petrol price stabilization mechanism in the country to control frequent rise in petrol price. The government should think of a long-term solution.

It affects inflation," said R S Joshi, the chairman of Finer. The KCC asked the state government to introduce gas-based transportation system to minimize public apathy. "If the Centre can't control petrol price, then the Assam government should introduce remedial government sources have said that a roll back is unlikely as there is not much political measures such as gas- based transportation system as the state has plenty of natural gas heat at present.

loNDoN, November 5 (ageNcies): Last week in London, Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop launched two messaging phones - Asha 200 and Asha 201- aimed primarily at the Indian mass market. Asha 200 is a dual-SIM handset, while Asha 201 is a single SIM device.

The erstwhile market leader in the cell market has been struggling a little lately with the combined losses of 436 million euros, or $606 million, in the second and third quarters. It had also had to down size its work force globally by 18%.

But Nokia India MD D Shivakumar says the company's profile is looking up in India. Although data is unavailable, sale of Nokia handsets have roughly quadrupled in the third quarter, he says. With the Asha phones, Nokia is hoping to capture the next generation of a billion young users, who would like to use their mobiles to connect with the Net. Blanca Juti, vice-president, Nokia Mobile Phones Marketing, says the phones are meant to catch the fancy of the 25-year-old, who wants to stay connected on the move.

Though both phones are feature devices rather than smart phones they can still down load Java applications in addition to the ones built into the handsets.

Pre-installed software includes a web browser, a music player, and networking support.

"Bulk penetration in the Indian market will happen in the next three or four years, and the Asha phones are the right vehicles of change," says Shivakumar. The London event's focus though was on the launch of the smart windows phone Lumia 800 and Lumia 710. The company is making a rather late entry into a field dominated by smarties like Google, Apple and Samsung.

Nokia's share of the global smart phone market has fallen by nearly half, to 15.5% in September from 27.5% in December.

New Delhi, November 5 (PTi): A roll-back in the steep Rs 1.80 a litre hike in petrol price is unlikely, government sources said on Saturday. “As of now there isn't much political heat. The rollback looks unlikely,” said a source.

Meanwhile, hitting out at the ruling UPA alliance partners such as Trinamool Congress, who have denounced the hike and threat-

ened to withdraw support from the government, a Cabinet Minister said, Mamata Banerjee was part of the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) that in June of 2010 had decided to deregulate or free petrol prices.

“She (Mamata Banerjee) had not attended that EGoM meeting of June 25, 2010, but her consent was taken. She continued in the

Union Cabinet after the decision was made and did not threaten even once to withdraw support,” the minister said, adding that the decision to hike petrol price was in line with the empowerment that government has given to oil companies last year.

“She (Mamta Banerjee) is a compulsive populist. When we have alliance like them we don't

need opposition BJP,” he added.

Sources said the state-owned oil companies took the decision to hike prices on their own and were not required to consult anyone in the government.

They added that the government does not want to become unpopular, but sometimes it is forced to take unpopular decisions. “It is not that the govern-

DAPCC Mon meeting held

DimaPur, November 5 (mexN): The District AIDS Prevention and Control Committee (DAPCC), Mon meeting was held on November 2 at CMO office. Dr. T Kikon, CMO, Mon, Chairperson addressed a short welcome note followed by self introduction. Longyim Tzudir, DPO, DAPCU, briefed about the objectives of DAPCU and further updated the ongoing HIV and AIDS programmes in the district.

Some of the key issues discussed by the members include

resources," said KCC head Mahabir Jain.

Added Mahanta, "Petrol price has skyrocketing after the UPA government took charge at the Centre. It's totally against public interest. Already inflation is making common people's life miserable. At this juncture, hike in petrol price is a huge blow to commoners."

P Roy, the president of Guwahati Retaliers' Association, said, "It seems the government has surrendered to the corporate and capitalists. Despite people's resentment over the petrol price hike, the government is surprisingly mum," said P Roy, president of the Association. Earlier on Thursday night, long queues of vehicles forced petrol pumps here to fuel vehicles till midnight as city residents looked like in a hurry to fill their vehicles' tanks before the hike in price. "I had no choice but to fill my car's tank before midnight to save some bucks," said Sanjay, a city resident. This is the second hike in petrol process in less than two moths.

"In Guwahati, the present price of petrol (normal) costs Rs 72.31 and Rs. 74.81 for the premium range," said Suresh Jain, the manager of a petrol pump in the city.

strengthening the referrals among the health service delivery points, advocacy programme, mainstreaming with line department, civil societies, churches and partner NGOs for successful implementation of the programme at district level. The House also discussed the importance of involvement of PLHIV community for better response and to continue work on motivating them to access health care facilities and finally shared agenda for observance of World AIDS Day 2011 event in Mon.

AHODs & HODs bi-monthly meeting held Kohima, November 5 (DiPr): The bi-monthly meeting of Administrative Heads of Departments (AHODs) and Heads of Departments (HODs) was held on November 4 at the Secretariat Conference Hall Kohima under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary Nagaland, Lalthara, IAS. The meeting started with a review of the last meeting minutes and followed with the day’s agenda. In regard to mass social work to be held in the state capital, the House decided that it would be held on November 19 and further decided to ask some departments having trucks to provide vehicle for clearance. The House also discussed on the problems of accommodation facing in the Guest House, New Delhi by the Nagaland Officials and decided to enquire about it with the Resident Commissioner. Delay of payment to the retired employees has also discussed and the House suggested inviting the concerned officer in the AG to highlight on the issue. The State Bank of India gave a power point presenParliamentary secretary, geology & mining, I & FC, border Affairs, Y. Patton and others, pose for lens dur- tation on State Government salary package which include Centralised coming the inauguration of Thillong village community hall on 29 October. The hall was constructed under pensation, salary administration, convenient management of salaries, emthe LADP (common pool) and NRegS 2008-09. ployees benefit, salary account and Housing and Car Loans.

Mt. Hermon School Parent’s day

Kohima, November 5 (mexN): Mount Hermon School Kohima will observe parent’s day on 7 November at 9 am at its school premise with Additional secretary & DevelopmentcommissionerAlemtemshiJamir,IASasthechiefguest.

Azo to grace Tokhu Emong

Kohima, November 5 (mexN):Tokhu Emong, the premier festival of the Lotha Nagas will be celebrated at Lakhuti village under Wokha district on November 7 from 9:00 am onwards. Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu will grace the celebration as chief guest while Nagaland Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Ralanthung will be the chief host. Therefore, the Deputy SpeakerhasrequestedallLakhutianstojointhecelebrations.

JNV Mokokchung informs

moKoKchuNg, November 4 (DiPr): Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) Mokokchung, Nagaland has informed that, with partial modification to the earlier notification, the last date of submission for application form for JNVST 2012 is extended upto November 30. However, time activity schedule will be as per circular already circulated.

KNCS Tokhü Emong on Nov 7

DimaPur, November 5 (mexN): The Kyong Naga Cultural Society will celebrate Tokhü Emong, The post harvest festival of the Lotha on November 7, near bypass. Therefore all the committee members & volunteers of Mr & Miss Tokhü Kohima 2011 and well wishers are cordially invited. Executives and members of the KNCS are asked to attend without fail. Gathering point will be near Hotel Fira at 10 am. This was informed in a press release issued by R. David Shitio Secretary, KNCS.

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Rejoinder on settlement of Mokokchung rape case In response to the News item published in your esteemed daily on 7th Nov. 2011 regarding the “Settlement of rape case between the Mokokchung Town Aoer Telongjem and the Mokokchung Chang Union”, the undersigned on behalf of the All Tribal Students’ Union Tuensang (ATSUT) would like to congratulate all the parties involved in solving the rape case amicably, respecting each Tribes Customs and Traditions in the greater interest of the Tribal Understandings. While appreciating the decision of both the parties, the Union feels that it is the HEIGHT of respect being accorded to each other’s Custom & Traditions, keeping in mind the nature and extend of the crime committed by the Rapist. But the timely decision of all the parties will go a long way in enlightening the Public on Tribal Jurisdiction, Boundaries and Limits while tackling the social evils, ills and malady that eats into Naga Society.

The ATSUT feels that the “Chang Union Mokokchung ” is very wrong in rightly taking action against the Ao Rapist as it was againsts the Ao Custom and Traditions and that too within an Ao Country (as mentioned in paper). The Chang union Mokokchung should therefore seek unconditional apologies from the Ao Community before the matter escalates out of proportion. This Rape case has indeed made headlines for the past more than one month and therefore has inked into the history, pinpointing deeply to comtemplate on the fragility o the Naga Tribal fabrics and its Customs and Traditions thereof. The Chang Union Mokokchung should have enquired throughly the Ao Customs and Traditions, before initiating any action against the Crime of the Ao Rapist, they ought to have again studied “Whether Rape is Legal in Ao Custom and Tradition and Ao area?”or “Whether they are encroaching upon the legally accepted Rape of an Ao within their Country?”. Hence, the apex Chang Tribal Body (CKS), the Women Association (CTS) and the Confederation of Chang Students’ Union (CCSU) should immediately summon and question the activitism of the Chang Union Mokokchung in talking action against the Ao rapist without proper verification, study, ignorance, knowledge and understanding the insensitivity towards the Legallly Accepted Rape as per Ao Customs and Traditions within their Country. The Rapist might have raped and committed a highly condemnable crime against one of the minor girl of Chang Community in Mokokchung and also a crime in the eye of humanity, which otherwise is Legal and Acceptable for the Aos in their Country, therefore the unethical and unwise decision of the Chang Union Mokokchung is uncalled for and unadvisable and amounts to crime against the Rapist, the Rapist family, the Rapist Village or

the whole of Ao Community, rendering the Chang Union Mokokchung subject to explaination and clarification from the Nagas in General and the Chang Tribe in particular.

The ATSUT also appeals to the apex Organizations of Eastern Nagaland to urgently take stock of the information (as published) and enlighten the Eastern Nagaland Tribes by dessimenating the information that Rape is Legal in Ao Custom and Traditions so as to avoid future confrontations, issues, problems and clashes of interest and customs. The ignorance of the Legally Accepted Rapes as per Ao Custom & Tradition is shocking so inorder to again avoid future misunderstandings and animosity between the peaceful co-existence of Tribes of Nagaland due to Social issues/crimes, hence divuldging of this information minutely is the need of the hour. All the Eastern Nagaland Tribes residing within an Ao Country should be made aware that Rape is Legalised in Ao Country so necessary respect and understanding should be given to the Ao Custom as long as they are in Ao Country, for the saying goes “when you are in Rome, think and act like Romans” so as to avoid unnecessary harrassment.

The Union appeals to the Ao Community not to mind and take seriously the actions of the Chang Union Mokokchung’s shortcomings in undermining the legally accepted rapes in an Ao Country and ATSUT openly condemns their actions in unfortunately punishing the Ao Rapist against Ao Custom in Ao Land, tarnishing the good image of the fellow Ao brothers.

The Union is also grateful to the highly respected and educated Ao Tribes for enlightening the Nagas in legalising Rape or legality of Rape within Ao Country.

On the positive note, the Ao Community Custom is well justified, for if such a custom is made use by all the other counterpart Naga Tribes then it would save lots of problems arising out of Rapes or say there will be no Rape cases as Rape will be completely legalised. The wisdom of the Aos is a welcome step and should be appreciated as it is going to open “pandora box” on rape for the other Tribes to contemplate and legislate Rape in their own Countries.

The Government also should appreciate the Ao Custom and Traditions to legalise Rape in Nagaland. Based on this concept, if a bill is passed in Nagaland and an Act enacted then Nagaland will save lots of headaches of rapes and the Police Department would be relieved of one major issues conflicting their duties. The Government should therefore earnestly intervene to legislate on this important matter which will be beneficial for all the Nagas. The Women Department/Cell, Domestic Violence Act 2005, the Juvinile Act, Various Acts of rapes under IPC etc would be useless in Nagaland if such an act is enacted and Nagaland would achieve another landmark jingle to her credit as the “LAND OF RAPIST” or “LAND OF LEGALLY ACCEPTED RAPES”. Is this the solution

Nagas are searching?

The Union trust the wisdom of the Educated Nagas in judging the rising Rapes Cases in Nagaland and thus would like to ask some few questions for the benefit of all the readers: 1.

What is Educated intelligensia of the Ao Community accepts Rapes as legally right as per their Customs and Traditions?

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What is the reaction of the Ao Women Folks in the stand taken by the MTAT basing on Ao Custom and Traditions and legalising rape in Ao Country?

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What will the common Ao or MTAT say or do, if suppose any Ao Womens are Raped by any Sadist outside or within Ao Country?

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Will Ao as a Tribe who are the forerunners of the Nagas fall into a trap and remain mute and accept Rape as legally accepted in an Ao Country?

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avail the opportunity of witnessing live and interacting with the youth icon both at Dimapur Town Hall, and DDSC Stadium on Your daily Meetings, Appointments, Information and Reminder column November 9, 2011.

Khrozote Kapfo, president NSUI Dimapur and Piketo Achumi, general secy. (Media) DYC Diampur

28th Koridang ACCC mourns

28th Koridang ACCC, Mahila and ACYCC convey our condolence on the sad demise of Late. Impongti, father of Shri Watinungsang, Vice President, 28th Koridang ACCC. We share the profound grief and sorrow and pray for solace and comIn conclusion, the Union appeals to all fort from our Almighty God for the famthe Ao Tribe, Chang Tribe, Eastern Nagas ily members of the departed. May Rest his and the other Nagas to seriously contem- soul in Peace. Amen plate the ramification this decision is going Limanungsang to affect our younger generation and their SecretayrInformation & Media future therein. It is also appealed that the 28th Koridang ACCC Union is just sharing the middle opinion from outside, not directed or further confrontations.

Lachem, President Moa, Executive Chairman Bumut, General Secretary Shingnyu, Executive Secretary Tsali , Secy, Press & Information

Dimapur

Brit bungalow in Peren gets new look

The time tested Bungalow of the British at Pedi in Peren District which had been neglected all these years has a brand new look now, due to the initiative undertaken by Khrienuo C. Metha, the Deputy Commissioner and Iherie Ndang, Superintendent of Police, Peren that it has become a proud possession not only for Pedi Town but for A condolence meeting was held in Di- the entire District. mapur Sahitya Sabha Bhavan (DSSB) in Namghar premises at 4:00 pm on NovemTsilungheing Chairman ber 6, 2011 under the leadership of RS Paswan on the occasion of demise of music legend Dr.Bhupen Hazarika. The president describes Dr. Hazarika as a multi dimensional figure whose contribution in different fields shall be remembered not The Yimchungrü Akherü Arihako (YAA) only by the people of Assam of Northeast condemn the action of the 1st Assam Rifles but also by the people of India and world personnel who seized a weapon belonging as well. SD Borkotoky, Apurba Khanikar, to Yimto Yimchunger, Kilonser of GPRN/ Ajit, Jintu Gogoi and others paid homage NSCN and also a member of Ceasefire Suto the departed sole though short speech- pervisory Board on 3rd November 2011 some es. The DSS resolved to appeal with the rest few kilometers ahead of Kuthur village. It of the country to award him Bharat Ratna may be noted that when political negotiawhich is also the desire of the nation. DSS tion is going on between the Government of also expressed heartfelt condolences to the India and Naga political groups/ factions, the bereaved family. personnel of 1st Assam Rifles has disrupted peaceful atmosphere and created a fear psySD Borkotoky, vice-president, DSS chosis in the minds of the general public.

The YAA therefore, appeal the both the parties to strictly follow the ceasefire ground rules for the peaceful co-existence of people in the society and also to avoid any confrontation particularly in Yimcunger areas.

In view of the scheduled maiden visit of Z. Throngshe Rahul Gandhi, All India Congress ComPresident mittee General Secretary and Member of M/No. 9436440086 Parliament, the Dimapur District Youth Rolland S. Yim Congress and NSUI Dimapur warmly welDy. Speaker comes all interested youths to come and M/No. 9862115919

DSSB mourns death of Dr.Bhupen Hazarika

YAA flays

Youth invited to interact with Rahul Gandhi

LOCAL NeWS

Nagaland observes World Sunday School Day

Witter Theological College committees meeting on Nov 9 All concerned members are informed that a coordination meeting of Witter Theological College Finance Committee and Building Committee will be held at Witter Theological College Main Building Site, KBES Mission Centre Vankhosüng on November 9 (Wednesday) at 10:00 am. The agenda for the meeting will be “Dedication of the Main Building” therefore, members are requested to attend the meeting positively.

TWUD consultative meeting on Nov 10 All Dimapur Tenyimi women advocates and college lecturers are requested to be present for a consultative meeting with the TWUD office bearers and all Dimapur Tenyimi women unit presidents on November 10 at 10:00 am at the TUD office near hotel Tragopan, Khermahal.

Mishililmi Students’ Union meet on Nov 10 General Meeting of Mishilimi Students’ Union (MSU) has been convened on Nov 10, 10:00 am at Sumi Aphuyemi Baptist Church Kohima (SABCK) Nagabazar for the upcoming annual session. Therefore all the executive, advisors and elders are requested to attend the meeting positively.

KWS Biennial get-together on Nov 10 The Kethagha Welfare Society (KWS) Kohima will organize the 17 biennial get-together- cum picnic at Highland park (IG Stadium) Kohima on November 10. The Society invited all the members and in-laws to attend the programme.

SYC 37th general session cum cultural day on Nov 11 The Sakraba Youth Organisation 37th general session cum cultural day coincide with Fish festival (Khilunyie) will be held on November 11 at local ground, Phek. A press release issued by Kuhusheyi, president SYC stated that Chotisuh Sazo, Parliamentary Secretary Social Welfare, Child and Women Development, government of Nagaland will be the chief guest and Vepraswu Resich, president Centre Chakhesang Sports Association will be the guest of honour. Hence, all the Sakrabami citizens residing outside are requested to attend the said session.

SASU executive meeting on Nov 13 The Executive Committee of Seyochung Area Students’ Union along with the Office Bearers will have an emergency meeting on November 13 at its Sub-Treasure Kiphire at 12:00 noon. Therefore, all the Executive Member/s and Office Bearers are requested to attend the meeting without fail.

“Footsteps of traditions” in coinciding with Ahuna fest The department of art & culture in collaboration with NEZCC Dimapur is organizing a programme on “Footsteps of traditions” in coinciding with Ahuna festival at Satakha in Zunheboto district on November 15. Artistes from Satakha town/village and its neighbouring villages will be participating in this one day programme. The programme will be graced by T. Kiheto Zhimo, deputy commissioner Zunheboto as the chief guest.

AIFF Introductory Course Instructor AIFF Introductory Course Instructor will be held at Kohima in the 2nd week of December 2011. The District Football Association are requested to nominate three candidates each on or before November 30, 2011. For further information, kindly contact Willaim Koso, AFC ‘B’ Certificate, 09862835381/09774644961. This was stated in a press note issued by K. Neibou Sekhose, Secretary Nagaland Football Association.

DEO notifies District Education Officer Kohima Rheituolie Metha has informed all the principal/headmaster of all GHSS/GHS/ Pvt HSS/High Schools under Kohima District to forward the deserving teachers for awarding National Award 2011 on or before November 18. It added to collect information from the office of the District Education Officer Kohima during office hours.

Zunheboto DSO issues circular The District statistical officer Zunheboto informed to all the Registrar of births and deaths (teacher incharge) of respective villages under Zunheboto district to collect spiecement signature form from its office within a week time from the date of this circular/publication. Certificates of births and deaths will be issued to only those registrars who could the specimen signature in the format, stated Kulhieo Khale DSO.

PDBA to conduct 10th general conference

Children presenting different items during World Sunday School Day programme on November 6.

Kohima, November 7 (mexN): Nagaland on Sunday, November 6 joined the rest of the country in observing World Sunday School Day. Special programmes were organized in various churches here to mark the occasion.

Union Christian Revival Church, New Market Kohima observed the day with

a theme “Train up a child in the way he should go...” On the occasion more than 200 children alone with the church members celebrate the special day.

The programme was marked by praise and worship, songs like solo, duets, group, trio etc. Also, the interesting part was ‘fancy dress’ & ‘Choreography’ shows where

Kohima inter-ward prize distribution on cleanliness on Nov 30

Kohima, November 4 (mexN): All the wards under the jurisdiction of Kohima Municipal Council have been informed that the annual inter-ward competition on cleanliness, beautification, illumination and nativity including performances under De-centralized services will take place this month which will be completed by November 25.

This will be followed by inter-ward prize distribution and preChristmas celebration on November 30.

Prizes For Ward ComPetitioN oN CleaNliNess etC. *Ist: Rs. 30,000 with running trophy *2nd: Rs. 20,000 with running trophy *3rd: Rs. 15,000.

Beside 2 consolations prize of Rs. 10,000 and Rs. 6000 each.

Prize For de-CeNtralized serviCes *Best Managed service: Rs. 15,000 *2nd- Rs. 10,000.

the children acted the role of different personalities like Adam & Eve, Princess, South African Modelers, Mary & Joseph, Flowers, fruits, fairies, Micheal Jackson, College girls, Prince & princess & modelers etc.

Presentation for best attendance, discipline was also awarded to Sunday school children. In the programme word of God

ANGDA- CC state wide tour commences

Kohima, November 7 (mexN): The All Nagaland Government Drivers’ Association (ANGDA) CC state wide tour commenced from today.

The team led by its president Milan Raj Banshi will hold meetings with ANGDA unit officials at Pfutsero, Phek, Meluri, Kiphire, Tuensang, Longleng, Mokokchung, Zunheboto, Wokha and Tseminyu.

The Association directed the mentioned districts/units to make necessary arrangement for the visiting team.

Meanwhile, the Association informed all delegates/ member trainees participating in the driving training refresher course at Dimapur Driving Institute (NST) scheduled on November 17 & 18 to report on time.

was delivered by Vetalü Keyho(Church Secy), Keneingunuo Kire (SST) led the programme, invocation pronounced by Pastor Zhabu Kuotsu, bible reading by Aneile Lohe (SST), G.S. report & presentation by Thezienuo Suohu (SST).

World Sunday school day is a special service held on the first Sunday of November.

ZWS destructs seized liquor

The members of Zhadima Village Women Society and others with the seized IMFL.

Kohima, November 7 (mexN): The Zhadima Village Women Society confiscated IMFL liquor from the vehicles bearing registration number AS-01K-0, AS-01Z-4343, NL-01H1076 and seized 25 cases of foster, 5 cases of tuborg and 1/2 case of whiskey respectively.

According to a press release received here, the seized IMFL were destroyed by the Zhadima Village Women Society

on November 6, 2011 in the presence of GBs, Zhadima Youth and ADC Staff, Chiephobozou. In this regard, the Zhadima Women Society has cautioned that it will not be a mere spectator to such practices and will continue to penalise and apply stringent action as per the society rules on selling and importing liquor including local brew and IMFL in any way under its jurisdiction.

The Peren District Dobashi Association (PDBA) will conduct its 10th general conference from November 8 to 9 at Athibung Town with T.R Zeliang, Minister Planning & Coordination as chief guest and Khrienuo C. Mehta, Deputy Commissioner, Peren as guest of honour respectively stated a press release issued by Kochuiding, president, Peren District DB Association and Lungrahei Herie, general secretary, Peren District DB Association.

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Frustrated Rio wants crime in Dimapur stopped They don’t keep anything now in Dimapur; buildings are emptying; stores are emptying; if you want anything, they will bring a sample from outside first,” the Chief Minister said.

To be prosperous, peace must be created; do away with fear and make peace or people won’t invest here, Rio said in exhortation to the gathering.

If the trend continues, he cautioned, “the people will leave; the brains will leave and the common people would be the only ones left; they would be the ones left to quarrel among themselves.”

The Chief Minister also called for unity of all sections of the Naga society, both the undergrounds and the “overgounds.” He explained that the Nagas enjoy talking about reconciliation, about reconciling the undergrounds and how the “UGs” must unite.

“But the overgounds are more divided than the undergrounds!” Neiphiu Rio thundered to the gathered people. “Overgrounds are more disunited!”

Calling for unity, the Chief Minister said the people must foster peace, “do away with fear and build the state and her people again. Let us have peace so we can continue to celebrate more festivals in the land of festivals,” he said.

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 Morung Express TuEsDAy 8 NovEMbER 2011 vol. vI IssuE 306

Guest editorial Famine and Politics in the Horn of Africa

sanjay (Xonzoi) barbora

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ince the summer of 2011, there has been a crisis that the world’s media has not been reporting upon with the urgency that it deserves. The Horn of Africa, comprising Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, is facing another famine that the constituent countries are unable to deal with. The online resource, Famine Early Warning System (www.fews.net) claims that at least two large areas of Southern Somalia are facing catastrophic conditions.

Those fleeing the effects of the famine have made their way to the eastern part of Kenya, where according to conservative estimates, there are more than 3 million people living in makeshift relief camps. Geographers and social scientists are calling this the worst famine that has been visited upon the people of the Horn of Africa in over 60 years.

The main causes for the famine are actually a combination of climatic and political factors. According to Swiss political scientist, Dr. Tobias Hagmann, who is based at the University of California at Berkeley, the price increase in staple crops like sorghum and rice, as well as debilitating droughts in the region, have merged to create famine conditions. What compounds matters, he says, is the erroneous media assumption that pastoralist depredations and the absence of a strong centralised state have added to the crisis. As a matter of fact, Hagmann and his clutch of colleagues who work on east Africa and Horn of Africa related conflicts, opine that the collapse of the state is only one aspect of the issue. They also feel that the anti-pastoral discourse is flawed, for it remains a major source of livelihood for many Somalis and to abandon it, as experts are wont to suggest would mean the end of their culture and economy.

International aid agencies and the western media are of the opinion that part of the problem is related to the ongoing conflict between a weak transitional state and the militant group, (that owes allegiance to the Islamic Courts Union) Al Shabaab.

The United States of America lists the latter as a terrorist organisation. Hence any agency that seeks to deal with the organisation, risks running foul of the nebulous Material Support (for Terrorism) Statute in the US. This is difficult to ignore, since Al Shabaab actually controls a significant portion of territory in Somalia and has also exhibited the ability to retain its authority over the area that it controls. The organisation has, until recently, banned the entry of foreign aid agencies that it considers to be working on behalf of the US State department.

Somalia’s conflicts have its roots in the European scramble for empire in the 19th century, when Somali peoples were divided into different territorial units without their consent.

Ethiopia, a predominantly Christian country, with a long tradition of monarchical rule, was seen as a natural, though subservient mirror by European colonizers such as the Italians. As a result, they began to divide Somali territory, leaving much of it in Ethiopia’s adverse control. In addition to this, in the 1970s the Soviet-supported Somali state transferred large numbers of its mobile, pastoral population (from the north) to the riverine areas of the south in the hope that they would begin to cultivate the land and grow more food. This combination of social and political engineering rendered the population vulnerable to external threats, including drought-induced famines.

The current view that Somalia needs an infusion of famine relief in the short run and achieves food security in the long run, is perhaps misplaced. For one, the current transitional government in Mogadishu is not representative of the entire country; leave alone the dispersed Somali nation.

Its authority and control do not extend beyond the capital city and there is every possibility that it will not be able to deal with the disbursement of famine relief. An interlocutor, acceptable to both Al-Shabaab and the western countries that support the transitional government, will have to be found for the short-term famine relief strategy to work.

In addition, Somalia’s food security is dependent upon restoring sovereign rights to the dispersed Somali nation, whose territory has been arbitrarily divided.

Sanjay (Xonzoi) Barbora xonzoi.barbora@gmail.com

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Nikhil Kumar | Governor of Nagaland

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am very happy to know that the State Vigilance Commission is observing the “Vigilance Awareness Week” from the 31st of October to 5th November, 2011. Corruption, which is mostly concerned with bribery, takes several forms and can be defined broadly as any abuse of power for personal gain. In philosophical, theological or moral parlance, corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. In economy, corruption is payment for services or material which the recipient is not due under law. This may be called bribery. In our country, where our motto is “Satyameva Jayte” or “Truth Alone Triumphs”, it is very sad to see that corruption had become deeply entrenched in our society and the system.

Today, there is a decreasing trend in the number of public servants whose integrity the public can vouch for. On the other hand, the habit of greasing the palms of public servants to get favours, has increased to such an extent that it has become the norm rather than an exception. The Naga society in the past was known for its simplicity, hospitality, and most importantly, its honesty. I am made to understand that in the past our people did not use locks but only a piece of stick to keep animals from entering their houses. Today, this has completely changed.

The Vigilance Commission from its inception has been actively involved in tackling cases of corruption, frauds, etc in the functioning of the Government machinery. However, one should remember that it is not only the duty of the Commission to fight against corruption but it is the bounden duty of every citizen of the Country to ensure that the menace of corruption is removed from the system. The Legislature, particularly at the Centre, has introduced various laws to bring about transparency and to tackle corruption such as the Right to Information Act 2005 and the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988, and now the Parliament is in the process of passing as strong Lokpal Bill to combat corruption. This shows that the Government on its part is doing all that is possible to ensure a corruption - free Country. It will succeed in its endeavour if it gets public cooperation. The fight against corruption has to be a public - private partnership.

On this occasion of the observance of the Vigilance Awareness Week in the State, I call upon all sections of the society, especially public servants, to rededicate themselves to promoting transparency in the society and the system and enhance the level of awareness amongst all sections of the people, so as to strengthen our resolve to eradicate corruption.

(The above is the vigilance awareness week message of Governor of Nagaland)

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Swarn Kumar Anand

Oil first, democracy later

Libya is not even another Afghanistan. It’s just returned to its “Little America” status of the 1950s

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he Obama administration’s call for a probe into the killing of Muammar Gaddafi reflects a great deal of cynicism. The eight-month-long NATO war, launched apparently to help fulfill the democratic aspirations of Libyans, has been, in fact, waged with the aim of installing a client regime that would service America’s interests more than fulfill the democratic aspirations of the people.

The saga of the US NATO involvement in the Libyan war of liberation started with anti- Gaddafi dissidents’ plan to observe February 17 as a “day of rage.” On February 15, security forces had arrested a prominent lawyer named Fathi Terbil, who had represented families of some of the 1,200 prisoners massacred by Libyan security forces at the Abu Slim prison in 1996. Terbil set up a webcam overlooking Benghazi’s main square, where some of the families had been protesting. With the help of exiled Libyan in Canada and around the world, the video spread rapidly on the Internet.

Amid widespread demonstrations on Tripoli roads that sometimes turned violent, NATO entered the conflict on March 19, after UN Security Council Resolution 1973 was adopted authorising military intervention to protect civilians. Ironically, the same day 40 Yemeni protesters were killed by sniper fire of President Saleh’s brutal security forces and a day before, the Bahraini security forces of King Khalifa shot, clubbed and brutally cleared peaceful protesters from the Pearl Square in Manama who were demanding only moderate Constitutional reforms. But the UNSC chose to ignore these tragedies.

Despite many US State Department proclamations that American interests lie in promoting the creation of demo-

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he mission of the Church as a whole has been much criticized in recent theological studies due to the flaws in its method and approaches. Churches in Nagaland, the mission emphasis is given more on the Church planting and cross national frontiers and has overlooked the immediate context, mission priorities, existential realities, issues around the Churches and uplifting the living standard of the people that are within the Churches. Thus allow me to say that it is important to theologize mission into contextualization.

Contextualization of mission doesn’t undermine the mission of God seen in Matt 28:18 and Mk 16:15f; which talks about mission, to go out extending even to the whole creation. The intention of doing mission must look into the priorities within the context before launching the “going out mission”. In a simple understanding the goal of mission is to save and lead someone to accept Christ as their Savior. It is in line with evangelization – a beggar telling the other beggar where to find food.

In India, Nagaland is claimed to be the most Christian dominated state and today, the competition of new church buildings in Nagaland is very prominent. In a year minimum 10 new Church buildings are being constructed. When we see in relation to the economic level, approximately 10-15 Crores are being invested in the building churches.

It is to be understood that the Church of God (believers’ community) is not like formal organization which are run by huge buildings. It is an institution of God and therefore, the primary focus is to build Christ in the heart of the people. The main concern is to seek the lost, save the unsaved and established Christian doctrines and principles in every individual’s life. However, today hundreds of Church buildings are standing beautifully at the top of the villages, in towns and cities yet, very sad to reveal that the peace, love, justice, truth and unity among the believers is being questioned. The issues like land dispute, social evils, leadership clashes, litigation among the believers has interrupted/challenged the integrity, religiosity and identity of the Naga Christians. The question is, is it that

cratic governments around the world, it is established that US power has at times supported oppressive regimes.

In a situation eerily similar to the current Libyan one, George Kennan, the originator of the Truman Doctrine, said, during the US military intervention in Iran in 1953, that he was not too bothered about the rest of Iran as long as the oil fields were under US control.

The situation in Libya is not too different at present.

This is why at a time when American political leaders feel compelled to advocate budget cuts to reduce the deficit and when polls show Americans solidly and increasingly opposed the war, the US Government spent huge sums of

strained because of the latter’s foreign policies supporting international terrorism and subversion of moderate Arab and African governments.

However, in 2004, President George W Bush unexpectedly lifted economic sanctions on Libya in return for its renunciation of nuclear weapons and America-alleged terrorism. There was a burst of optimism among American oil executives eager to return to the Libyan oil fields they had been forced to abandon two decades earlier. But later, Gaddafi progressively hampered the interests of the US and Western oil companies by demanding a greater share of profits and other concessions. Gaddafi even forced oil companies to give their local

money to fight war on behalf of Libyans.

There is no doubt that the supreme national interest of America lay in controlling Libya’s oil, not bringing democracy to Libyans. Libya has one of the biggest and most proven oil reserves — 43.6 billion barrels — outside Saudi Arabia.

From 1954 until 971, the US enjoyed a profitable presence in Libya through the Wheelus Air Force Base, then widely dubbed “Little America” on the shores of the Mediterranean sea. In exchange for the airfield, the US gave impoverished Libyans an average of $2 million per year, besides other aid that was already being provided. From 1959, when Libya became an oil producer, till 1986, US oil companies made considerable profits under the rule of authoritarian King Idris I. But after Gaddafi’s 1969 coup, USLibya relations became increasingly

subsidiaries Libyan names. Eni became Mellita, and the Spanish firm Repsol became Akakoss. Oil firms were pressed to hire Libyan managers and local human resource. It grew to such a level that some of those corporations were mulling that it may no longer be profitable or worthwhile to drill for oil in Libya.

Upset over not getting US Government respect and recognition for his earlier concessions, Gaddafi pressured the oil companies to influence US policies.

This did not go down well with the US administration. Moreover, the growing Libyan resource nationalism was considered a larger threat to the US interests.

In his 2006 speech marking the founding of his regime, Gaddafi was quoted as saying: “Oil companies are controlled by foreigners who have made millions from them. Now, Liby-

Mission in Context Nagaland is safe from the judgment of God by investing Crores of rupees in building Churches and neglect the mission to love the losing souls, release the captives from the bondage of evil, give comfort to the poor and proclaim justice and peace to the social evils?

Another issue to be considered is – in Nagaland there are more than 30 Theological Institutions and every year hundreds of theological students are been graduated from their theological education. In this relation let us mull over few questions. Where the graduate goes and what is their mission? How their theological education is being utilized?

Are they only in the Churches? What is their mission? What is their role in socio-religious life? The serious questions before us is, in spite of their presence in the Church and society; the Churches are not secure and most of the Councils and Associations are not progressing in true mission, the Christian socio-political are becoming more corrupted. Dirty politics amidst religious community, disunity among the believers, leadership clashed among the leaders and failing the ministry of contextual mission has threatened the present churches. In the previous year Naga Churches was being challenged by a group of False Preachers, in that context; did the Baptist Churches stood firm, what was our theological stand in reference to the doctrines? Are we able to defend our sheep in the context of sheep stealing ministry? How far we have gathered and shepherd our sheep? Producing thousands of theological graduates may not be the answer to our Nagas religious and socio-political problem.

Every Naga Christians should have a missionary mindset. Talking about mission in context, today other faiths have over shadowed the Naga Christians therefore, the task is very challenging.

Just take an example, in Dimapur city, other faiths are becoming majority, out of 10 persons roaming in the streets, 6 persons are from the other faiths so the demand of mission is more of within

than going out. The Associations/Councils and Churches launch missions to national/international levels however, I am serious about its priorities. When our kitchen is in mess, can we ignore and simply go out to our neighbor and tell them to clean their kitchen? The minority Christians, 4 persons out of 10, can they play a missionary role as Christians and guide/lead the other 6 persons to experience Christ in their life and fulfill the mission of Soul Winning?

Paul the Apostles was successful in contextualization of mission. His adaptability of mission was fruitful (1 Cor 9:1923). When he goes to Jews, he behaved like Jews, to Gentiles acted as Gentiles, to free and slaves he became like them but he did not compromise with their culture however, as his chief purpose was to present the Gospel, save and lead them to Christ; he was victorious. Can the Naga Christians play as a contemporary Paul in our context?

Though Nagas may act and dress like Korean, adopt the life style of the Westerners; we can never be Korean or Westerners. One can’t change their cultural living identity.

The Churches in Nagaland seem to be neglecting the mission in Context. Mission is not only sending out. In our context today, when the Churches are confronted with numerous issues; circled with different religious faiths and the Christians are becoming nominal and going astray; why the Churches have to keep silent, what is their priority? Are the Churches not seriously addressing the issues or is it that the Gospel is not presented meeting the needs of the people? The mission within the context is desired and should be seriously considered.

In the context, of pluralism we cannot deny the fact that the Naga Churches are seriously surrounded and exposed to the people of other faiths. In such a time as this, every Naga Christian must stand for the Gospel; act as a true missionary to save the losing souls who are in our midst and prove as one of the true disciples of Jesus. Today, Churches must voice out and counter

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ans must take their place to profit from this money.” This renewed the old manoeuvring of the US to do away with Gaddafi. As early as 1969, Henry Kissinger revealed in his memoirs, that discussions were held within the US Government about covert action to assassinate Gaddafi, largely because of his radical Arab nationalism, his interference with US-Saudi control over OPEC oil policies and his closing down of the Pentagon’s biggest airbase on the African continent. In 1986, the Reagan administration carried out the US bombing of Gaddafi’s Tripoli compound. And, in the 1990s, Britain’s intelligence service, MI6, conspired with Islamist elements in a bid to kill him.

Oil politics has always produced incredible equation in the Arab-US relations. The then Egyptian President Sadat persuaded the late Saudi King Faisal to threaten to withhold oil from the West to gain political advantage of the growing dependence of the industrialised West on Arab oil.

And the tactic was effective.

Soon the major American oil companies backed the Arab cause in public, and privately worked to weaken US support for Israel. But it was also in US favour, as money generated from Saudi oil sales to the US often translates into Saudi arms purchases from US weapons dealers.

The US participation in the Libyan democratic movement has indeed improved its image after it got ruined by campaigns like the one in Afghanistan. However, going by the character of the US, it is certain that it would extract the cost of the support from the new government in Libya. The National Transitional Council (NTC), which led this democratic upsurge in Libya, is now busy in formulating foreign policy instead of addressing pressing internal problems like mistrust among the masses. The Misratans, the Zintanis, the Amazighs all are on Tripoli’s streets brandishing their weapons, because they are afraid of each other.

What will happen to the high hopes of Libyans from the NTC is vague, but what is certain is that the new regime will be forced to renew the oil contract to the US companies. Last month, representatives of the rebel coalition in Benghazi spoke to the US-Libya Business Council in Washington, reiterating their promise of giving more oil contracts.

Source: The Pioneer

all unchristian acts, unbiblical lifestyle and uncultured behaviors which are threatening the Christians in Nagaland.

In a Christian state like Nagaland, dirty politics, nepotism, bribery, social evil and injustice, politicize churches, rape cases, murder, drug abuse, dishonest, adultery, prostitutions and human trafficking has to be critically challenged with the Gospel of Truth.; and build a loving Naga Christian Community.

L. Mhonthung Humtsoe President, KBTA

Letters to the editor society contribute materials for road repair •-The India Northeast Tribal Community Welfare Society (INTCWS), Dimapur, under the aegis of Libra Consultancy, its educational wing have contributed a truck load of mud with broken bricks and repaired the 18m stretch of road by its members, near its office at Ao Khel, Notun Basti, Dimapur, on 5th November, 2011,which has remain neglected for many years, creating a lot of inconvenience to public and student communities, especially during rainy seasons as water gets logged in this particular area. This social work is done for the greater benefit of the public in general.

Anthony Richa Asst.General Secretary INTCW Society

Attention to Director, school Education •-With due respect, I would like to bring to your attention that I am confused and dismayed over UGT interview 2003. I am sad when I found Noklak, Aboi and Kiphire were not called for the interview.

However, I would like to know why three places were excluded and what the reason behind it.

Mechu Chio Naga Bazaar Kohima

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8 November 2011

PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Food Diplomacy in Korean Peninsular

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Jim White and Matt Ellingson

id groups have a proven ability to monitor the way food is distributed in North Korea. So why is the US still delaying food aid when the need is so great?

Some items will certainly be high on the agenda of President Obama and South Korean President Lee Myungbak as they meet this week in Washington: a trade agreement, strategies for the global economic downturn, and a potential revival of the six-party talks with, among others, South Korea’s troublesome northern neighbor. But there’s another agenda item that the American and Korean leaders need to tackle now: the revival of humanitarian assistance to North Korea’s starving masses.

There’s no time to waste. During a recent trip to North Korea, we were among groups who saw first hand that severe hunger is on the rise (compared to what we saw on a trip earlier this year). Many people – especially children, pregnant women, and new mothers – are suffering from dangerous levels of malnutrition. In one hospital, near-catatonic children were being spoon fed nutrient-rich therapeutic foods we had delivered, while others were listlessly hooked up to intravenous units and looked close to death.

The scene was tragic but not surprising; we’d been predicting starvation in North Korea for months. What is surprising is the lack of American response. While North Korean children are wasting away, the United States is turning a blind eye.

Last month, we co-led a team from five US-based aid organizations that traveled to North Korea to deliver flood relief supplies. Our weeklong trip took us to the provinces of North Hwanghae, South Hwanghae and Kangwon, the region that was most severely hit by monsoon-strength storms this summer.

We interacted with North Koreans in hospitals, orphanages, farms, schools, and even their homes. We saw that health and food security had deteriorated. Hungry children have been pushed over the edge by continued food shortages and diarrhea caused by dirty water and bad hygiene. While we were accompanied by North Korea authorities on our visits, the scope and severity of the hunger could not have been an orchestrated show. These were real children starving, and in some cases, on the brink of death.

The situation in North Korea today was portended by a trip our same group of organizations – Christian Friends of Korea, Global Resource Services, Mercy Corps, Samaritan’s Purse, and

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Why are US & South Korea turning a blind eye to starving North Koreans?

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Rev Dr T. Alem Meren

THE GREaTEsT MINd

Composed on 25th October 1997 Hong Kong

Tens of thousands of North Koreans rallied in their capital to condemn the United States and South Korea on the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. The sign reads 'Wipe Out U.S. Aggressors'. (AP Photo/File)

World Vision – made seven months ago. At that time, we conducted an assessment of the food situation, and observed malnutrition, food shortages, and people desperately foraging for wild grasses and herbs. These trends most severely impacted children, the elderly, the chronically ill, and pregnant and nursing mothers.

Soon after that trip, we strongly recommended that the US government support emergency food aid for these vulnerable populations. We were not alone in making this recommendation. Over the course of the past seven months, six teams from entities including the World Food Programme (the European Commission’s humanitarian aid arm) and even the US government have visited North Korea and come to the conclusion that food aid is urgently needed.

Yet incredibly, the US government has failed to provide food for hungry North Koreans. Some experts – including recently the head of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the primary source of American foreign assistance – have said that food aid cannot move forward because

hange is the effect of growing or dying. It is a natural process or phenomena of this universe. There is a universal law called, law of Negation which states that everything undergo change; growing old and dying off replacing of the old with the new. Human society is not exceptional. Change is inevitable and unavoidable. It is good to accept change with a positive mind and attitude.

The Nomenclature Zeliangrong have been misconstrued, misinterpreted, wrongly defined, misgiving and misused by Zeliangrong people and others. The reasons could be traced to the beginning of its formation way back in 1947 wherein, Zeliangrong Council was formed to meant a common platform for the people of Kabui Naga and kacha Naga( Rongmei-Inpui & Zeme and Liangmai) Communities with an aspiration to come together as a close-ethnic and brethren people to address common issues for the purpose of political and socioeconomic development of the cognates communities.

The fact is that the nomenclature Zeliangrong is not the given name for a single tribe or community but of people joint or common platform or council developed through the former organization called the Agangmei(Area people) organization 1925, then Kabui Chingsang 1927, then to Kabui shamiti 1934, to Kabui Naga Association meant for all Kabui and Kacha Naga and then major shift and change took place at Keisamthong wherein the Nomenclature Zeliangrong was coined and a joint council was formed based on ethnic affinity and cognate relations among the Zeme, Liangmai, Rongmei and Inpui communities.

Hence the Zeliangrong came to originate and exist as a joint council mainly of political purposed.

There was not a thought of expressed view or motive to merge in of the four distinct communities to form or become a single tribe or community. Therefore the bitter truth is Zeliangrong is union of tribal organization and not of a single tribe. This does not contradict the fact that the Zeliangrong people are kindred brethren and cognate communities having identical he thick forests in the tranquil village of Jirwa in Simariya Tehsil of Chatra district in Jharkhand hide a gloomy past. With bare land where lush cover once stood, the forests had been felled over the years by indifferent and greedy hands. A magic wand seems to have changed all that. A magic wand held up by several hands. The miraculous makeover was not achieved in the blink of an eye but over a long period of time, backed by unity and hard work of the various communities that came together to create it.

The unique experiment of collective forest management was initiated by the Jirwa Panchayat. “About a decade ago, our rich forests had turned to barren land with no pasture left for the cattle. Some stumps and shrubs were the only reminder of what had been,” remembers Indranath Bhokta, a member of Jirwa Panchayat. “Villagers were facing several problems caused by the loss of forest cover. Less bamboo meant

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the North Korean government might stockpile aid or divert it to elites. We know that the South Koreans have shared similar concerns. Yet we know that food aid can get to people in need.

In 2008 and 2009, our same group of five organizations ran an aid program that fed 900,000 North Koreans over a period of nine months. We operated under a ground-breaking set of monitoring provisions. We had a team – including American Korean speakers – living in the provinces where food was being distributed. We saw that hungry people were eating, and their health dramatically improved.

Our team was very satisfied with our monitoring and oversight, and so was our generous funder: the United States government. We know that food aid can provide vital relief for North Korea’s poorest people, and we’ve seen that North Korean authorities are willing and able to make this happen.

With a clearly demonstrated need, and a proven ability to monitor the way food is distributed, we are baffled as to why the US is still delaying food aid.

The politics of North Korea are complicated, and no doubt can be frustrating

Zeliangrong on the wheel of change culture, tradition and folk tales of origin.

However, the breaking up of Zeliangrong into Zeliang of Nagaland is not only the beginning of division, and discontentment among our people but also an eye opener or waking bell for our people to see and hear clearer of the reality, possibility and opportunities to explore, develop and survive together in the spirit of unity in diversity. Zeliangrong itself is union of group of communities and people with diversity seen in one united bond. It tells us to shake off and liberate ourselves from self-made entanglement or bondage of conceptualized prison. Let us speak up the truth and let freedom ring and heard on the mountains and valleys of Makuilongdi, Asalu and Zeilad of the land of Zeliangrong that we are the united people living on the same Mountain ranges and regions from ages past.

Having perceived of the reality, origin and essentiality of the Council or organization, it is pertinent to strengthen, develop each pillar communities so as the Union of Zeliangrong people Organization is fortified and our people solidarity is made more steadfast through the bond of brotherly love and care. With this view in mind, I am of the opinion that, the four communities, Zeme, Liangmai, Rongmei and Inpui should develop, contribute and unite themselves as a distinct community asserting their own identity/name and come together to form the larger people platform which may be called by any other good and commonly acceptable name as Baudi, people organization, Union etc. This platform can be represented by the four constituent units or communities in the form and manner of federalism in the house of Common as the people apex body organization.

While considering the need to make a positive and di-

for Mr. Obama and Mr. Lee. But the humanitarian imperative is simple: Starving children need food, the US can provide it, and we need to act now.

A US-funded food aid program run

by American aid workers could also have the positive side effect of thawing US-North Korean relations. With so little contact between the two countries and their people, the chance for Americans to live in North Korea, interact with normal citizens, and offer assistance and goodwill from the United States is a rare opportunity to improve the relationship. Both sides could claim a well-executed food aid program as a successful, cooperative effort.

In his 2009 inaugural address, Obama vowed to the people of poor nations that his administration would help “make your farms flourish” and “nourish starved bodies.” We hope that he and Lee can move forward with a plan to put these powerful words into action for the people of North Korea.

Jim White is the vice president of operations at Mercy Corps, and Matt Ellingson is the director of program development at Samaritan’s Purse.

Source: CSM

rective change, I opined that the following points be considered along with the trend of the current developments and changes. I as a concerned citizen, would like to make my humble appeal to all Zeliangrong and propose that; 1. The Nomenclature Zeliangrong be redefined or if need be changed into a better, collective and common name for our cognates communities.

2. Further, opined that, a collective nomenclature for larger platform covering the closed-ethnic groups for communities living closely together in the same region and mountains of Bairail ranges having compact geographical location in this part of southern Asia, such as Mao,Paomai, Maram, Thangal, Kharam, Zeme, Liangmai, Rongmai, & Inpui to collectively organized into common people apex body organization. Propose that the common name for the brethren tribes be United people organization (UPO) 3. The present contention of authority between Union and Baudi as Zeliangrong people Apex is observed to be the manifestation of the inward feeling of dissatisfaction, tussle over privileges, share of importance or an unending apprehension and unexpressed pain of the communities resulting from the nature and type of the formation of our people Nomenclature. Hence, a change attitude, a wider outlook and understanding is necessitated to develop our people organization that will bind us closer, greater and serve us most effectively.

The writer is responsible for the content and intent of this write-up. If any misreading, misgiving or contradicting to the wish and aspiration of the concerned people, I am to be accountable for it. If it be good for education, edification and admonition of the people, the content is of the people and for the people.

Readers may kindly read the content as intended and not otherwise. If any comment or criticism you may call me through the given No.09612848686.

Gwangphun Gangmei Social Worker (Peace Activist)

Blessed Holy Spirit, You are the greatest Mind .

You’re the Author of the Bible, the Book of books Which became the source of all civilization, Which is valid for all men for all time and place .

The human minds You used to write Your living Book.

But they were just mere instruments of Yours You used.

Time changes but You remain the same forever.

What You did yesterday You can do it today.

You graciously chose Moses the servant of God To write Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. Five books in number These books became the foundation of all others.

You used Joshua to write book of Joshua Who led the people of God to the promised land .

You used some servants whose names were never disclosed They hid their names from men to receive praise from God. You used these hidden people to write Judges, Ruth, First and Second books of Samuel, Kings, Chronicles; Then Esther and Job; eight books in Old Testament.

You used David the king of Israel to write Psalms.

You gave Solomon the wisdom to write through him Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon, You used prophet Isaiah to write Isaiah.

Jeremiah and Lamentation too You wrote.

You used prophet Ezekiel to write Ezekiel, Daniel to write Daniel about kingdom of God .

You used prophet Hosea to write Hosea; You used Joel to write Joel, Amos to write Amos.

You used erring prophet Jonah to write Jonah, Micah to write Micah; Nahum to write Nahum.

You used prophet Habakkuk to write Habakkuk; Prophet Zephaniah to write Zephaniah, You used Haggai the prophet to write Haggai, and Prophet Zachariah to write Zachariah; You used prophet Malachi to write Malachi Who was the last prophet of the Old Testament .

You used Mathew to write the Gospel of Mathew; Mark to write Mark; Luke to write Gospel Luke and Acts .

You used John to write John's Gospel, John's Epistles, And the wonderful book of Christ, Revelation.

You used Paul to write Romans, Both Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippines, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy's, Titus, Philemon.

You used an unknown instrument to write Hebrew.

You used James- to write James, Peter to write Peters.

You used Jude to write a short epistle of Jude.

You breathed in them the same what You wanted to write.

They were just mere instruments; You were the Writer.

You revealed the purpose and the will of God, and Destiny of men both for the saved and the lost .

Without: You, blessed Holy Spirit no man knows Neither God nor self. You reveal all to mankind.

All good ideals and thoughts that passed through human minds Of the adherents of various ideologies, Which effected for the good of humanity Were all inspired by You blessed Holy Spirit.

LEGALLY I HAVE NO SIN AT ALL Composed on 4TH MARCH 1998, Hong Kong

Jesus, You were my Substitute on the cross of Judgment.

And now my Representative on the throne of Glory .

All my sins, not a part but whole, nailed upon Your body.

Legally I have no sin at all. I am justified .

When You were judged on the cross it was for me You were judged.

When You bore the penalty of sin 'twas for me You bore.

When You fully paid the price for sin 'twas for me You paid.

My sins were borne; my sins were judged; the price was fully paid.

When You died I died; when You were buried I was buried.

When You arose from the dead I too arose from the dead.

When You ascended to heav'n I too ascended with You. When You were seated on the throne You carried me with You. You defeated Satan in my place in my name for e'er And You placed him under my feet legally in my name.

I'm now the master over my enemy forever.

That's what You did as my Substitute on the cross for me.

You are now my Representative in heav'n before God. You are my life; You are my righteousness; You are my hope.

You're my head, I'm Your body. You subdue my enemies.

I'll share Your glory when You come to reign upon this earth I am now a Victor, a Master, more than conqueror.

Satan has no right legally over me anymore.

I have every right and authority in Jesus' Name To command Satan and cast away his evil spirits Then why should the master bow before a slave -the vanquished?

Is not the master of the house lord over his household?

Oh how long should I allow the slave to reign over me?

I Rise up as a master in Jesus Name. Praise the Lord .

(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”).

Together, we can save our forests

no beams for roofs of our houses.

That is when villagers realised what they had done,” he adds.

Community meetings were organised under the leadership of the panchayat to work out what was needed to be done. Everyone agreed to come together to stem the crisis. That collective realisation set the tone for the present day voice of the community. The initial work gained momentum without any outside support, not even of the Forest Department that was expected to sustain the natural wealth with its access to knowledge and resources.

Later initiatives of the department led to the creation of forest committees in these villages. The Joint Forest Management was launched in 2001 to make villagers aware about the protection of forest resources.

The Southern Forest Division, under which the Jirwa Panchayat

Residents of a Jharkhand village show the way to protect the environment without waiting for official help, writes Naushad Alam

falls, has succeeded in its efforts in some parts of Chhatra District but Village Jirwa continues to work independently, blissfully unaware of the Joint Forest Management programme or the committees.

The determination and will of the people helped overcome the difficulties that cropped up, and problems were solved effectively. Here, dwellers of seven villages have joined hands to protect the forests in an organised manner. A systematic distribution of the forests in different divisions has been done by the villagers with each group taking charge of the protection of the adjacent forest area.

Explaining the methodology adopted, Manoranjan Singh, the panchayat head says, “Every forty-five days, the local communities meet to discuss the security of the forests. The main agenda of such meetings is to tackle a variety of issues like laxity in protection of the forests and identifying threats to the harmony of the forests.”

As a result of such meetings, people come up with innovative and strict measures to punish the guilty.

Imposing a fine of up to `500 on the culpable was one such step. “These people have learnt the art of sustainable development which is indicated by the fact that they use a certain

amount of forest products which could be naturally gained in a specific time-frame”, he added.

The people follow an annual ritual of worshipping the forest Goddess. In a country where emotions and religious beliefs play a central role in the lives of people, the idea of worshipping the forests was an intelligent way to establish a sensitive relationship between people and forests. At the festival, ceremonies include offering prayers and chanting mantras. The most intriguing ceremony at the festivities is the tying of a security thread around the tree which, like the popular festival of Raksha Bandhan, symbolises a commitment to protect.

The communities relied on rustic and effective means. Of the seven villages, Kathara, a native adivasi village, played a central role. The close relationship that tribal communi-

ties share with water, forest and land became a source of inspiration for the people of Jirwa panchayat. They shared with villagers the traditional art of protecting and invigorating the forests, helping them to renew the green cover. “The tribal communities participated in the discussions in large numbers. Their contribution in regenerating the forest can't be ignored,” says Singh.

Joint efforts by various communities to save the forests, starting with awareness, have become an integral part of the lives of its people.

The success of the Community Forest Management is evident from thousands of teak, Asan and Chakodi trees that stand tall today, adding to the natural wealth of the village.

Such steps taken by communities living outside the urban compass defy all the divisions set over time. Taking a leaf from Mahatma Gandhi’s wisdom, they became the change they wished to see around them, this time for their environment.

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

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KBC Rs 5 crore winner Sushil Kumar to be NREGA’s face NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): Sushil Kumar, the Rs 5 crore Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC) jackpot winner, has agreed to be the brand ambassador for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA). Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh had written to Sushil Kumar congratulating him on his win. Ramesh had expressed his hope that Sushil Kumar, a data operator with NREGA, will keep contributing to the rural jobs scheme. Kumar had said that his ultimate aim is to clear the Civil Services examination conducted by the Union Public Service Commission for which he will be coming to New Delhi for his preparation. Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh had written to Sushil Kumar congratulating him on his win. Sushil Kumar from Motihari in Bihar is the first person to win the mega prize. He was greeted by a hysterical crowd when he reached Motihari after winning the KBC jackpot.

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Prayers mark Eid, but clashes in Kashmir 17 security men injured in J-K srINAgAr, NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): At least 17 security personnel were on Monday injured as protesting youths clashed with them soon after the congregational Eid-ul-Adha prayers concluded in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag district, police said. Clashes also broke out at Sopore town in Baramulla district and some parts of the city, marring Eid festivities.

17 police and CRPF personnel were injured in Anantnag, 50 km from here, when clashes broke out after the security forces tried to prevent a large group of youths from taking out a protest rally after the congregational Eid-ul-Adha prayers, police said.

Shouting "pro-freedom" slogans, the agitators threw stones at the security forces who retaliated with tear smoke cannisters, they said.

At least 12 policemen, including Anantnag SSP R K Jalla and SP (Operations) Zahid Malik, and five CRPF personnel were injured in the clashes, police said.

14-yr-old gangraped for more than 7 months cHANDAuLI (uttAr PrADEsH), NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped for more than seven months by four youth of her village, police said on Monday. In her complaint to the police, the victim’s mother Munni Devi on Sunday alleged that four persons, all in their 20s, raped her daughter for more than seven months, they said. When the girl became pregnant, the accused forced her to undergo an abortion at a private clinic on November 5. An FIR has been registered against all four accused and the girl has been sent for medical examination.

Treatment for poor: Govt to get tough with pvt hospitals NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): After the Supreme Court said that private hospitals in the National Capital must provide free treatment to poor patients in lieu of the concessions in getting subsidised land, the Delhi Government has decided to go after the hospitals that have failed to abide by this. The hospitals are obliged to give free medical care to 10 percent of indoor and 25 percent of OPD patients belonging to economically weak section (EWS) of society. The government move to recover the monetary penalty from over 25 private hospitals will also help lift the standards of medical care in Delhi ‘s government hospitals. For, the recovered amount has to add to the corpus of the government’s Health department for investing in improving facilities in its hospitals. The erring hospitals will have to pay 10 percent of their total earnings in a particular year on a pro-rata basis and this money would go to public health care services.

Mild earthquake in north India, no reports of damage NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): An earthquake of slight intensity, measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale, was felt on Monday in Haryana, Chandigarh, Punjab and J&K, a senior official of the meteorological centre said.

The mild tremor occurred at about 5.30 PM. The epicenter was near Hindukush region, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

There were no reports of any injury or damage to property from any part of north India. There was panic in Srinagar as people were celebrating .

CWG scam: CVC to speed up probe NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): The Central Vigilance Commission has decided to speed up and complete its probe by December-end into alleged irregularities in the multi crore Commonwealth Games-related works. Sources said that the decision in this regard was taken recently and a directive has been issued to a Special Cell of the Commission entrusted exclusively with the Games-related probe. This follows complaints by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of non-cooperation from certain departments.

“The Commission will complete its investigations by this year-end,” a senior CVC official said. He said the probity watchdog has decided to convene regular review meeting with CBI and other agencies to closely monitor the progress in the probe. Sources said that Central Vigilance Commissioner Pradeep Kumar has expressed unhappiness over the slow progress on CWG related probe and asked his officials to fast track it.

Katara killers live in luxury in AIIMS NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): The killers of Nitish Katara, Vikas and Vishal Yadav, sentenced to life imprisonment by the court, have been misusing the system to stay in government hospital for extended periods. The Yadav brothers, who are sons of former MP and Uttar Pradesh strongman D P Yadav, have enjoyed 85 medical outings in the last three and half years. Recently, Vikas Yadav had spent 25 days in ‘A’ category luxury room of AIIMS for backache, cough and diabetes. Interestingly, Yadav was discharged abruptly without any diagnosis after CNN-IBN began investigations. Vikas and Vishal Yadav have been in jail since 2008 after being convicted of the murder of Nitish Katara. The Yadav brothers were convicted for killing Nitish Katara in May 2008. During the three and a half years since their conviction, they have been given as many as 85 outings for medical reasons. Vikas had stayed in room number 3002 in the new private ward of AIIMS. A day after CNN-IBN began its investigations, it was found that the room was locked and that they had been discharged. Doctors told CNN-IBN that the reason why Vikas was admitted for so long because he had to undergo a PET scan and Tihar wasn’t making a payment for the same. The doctors later confirmed that Vikas was discharged abruptly without any scan whatsoever, which means the main purpose for which he was brought to AIIMS wasn’t even fulfilled. In fact, private doctors say that his medical condition doesn’t even require admission. The A-category luxury rooms in AIIMS have a refrigerator, two air conditioners, a television set a telephone and even an attached washroom. Basically, it has all the comforts of home. And since he had been here for 25 days, he must have run up a bill of at least Rs 45000. According to authorities, he was waiting for a body scan for which a payment of Rs 7000 had not been made, but it just does not add up.

Indian Muslims offer prayers during Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, at the Taj Mahal monument in Agra on Monday, November 7. (AP Photo)

NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): Thronging mosques, sacrificing goats, greeting friends and rustling up delicacies, millions of Indian Muslims celebrated Eid-ul-Zuha on Monday. The day passed off peacefully, barring in Jammu and Kashmir where clashes broke out between stone pelting youths and security personnel.

What reigned supreme was the spirit of sacrifice. Be

it Delhi or Mumbai, Kerala or Uttar Pradesh, the festive mood prevailed everywhere as friends and family got together to mark the occasion, also known as Bakr-Eid. In Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, protests erupted soon after Eid prayers in Sopore, Anantnag and some parts of old Srinagar.

Youths, shouting slogans, started pelting stones at police and the paramili-

tary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). More than two dozen security personnel were injured, a senior policeman said. Batons and teargas shells were used to disperse the protestors.

Celebrations were, however, peaceful in other parts of the state. The devout thronged Eidgahs and mosques to offer prayers despite the morning cold.

Among them were CM Omar Abdullah and his fa-

ther, Union minister for renewable energy Farooq Abdullah. In the capital, thousands crowded the 17th century Jama Masjid and other mosques.

Chants of "Allah ho Akbar" resonated in the narrow lanes of Delhi's old quarters from the loudspeakers of the Jama Masjid, the biggest mosque in India and one of the main centres for Eid festivities. India has the third highest Muslim population

in the world at 14 million, after Indonesia and Pakistan. And on Monday, many of them fondly recalled the legend associated with Eidul-Zuha. In a symbolic gesture, on this Eid thousands of animals are sacrificed Monday to commemorate the historic sacrifice offered

by Prophet Ibrahim.

Around five lakh goats and sheep were sacrificed in Mumbai, nearly two lakh at Deonar abattoir alone. The

abattoir, one of the largest in Asia, ensured no illegal animal was brought in for slaughtering as per a court order.

According to tradition, after cutting a goat or a sheep, every Muslim divides the meat into three parts.

One part goes to the poor, the second to relatives and the third remains with the family.

The meat was used to prepare a variety of dishes.

Hit by controversies, Hazare to restructure his team Modi denies rift with rALEgAoN sIDDHI, NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): With his team rocked by controversies, Anna Hazare on Monday said he plans to restructure his core committee to also give representation to religious minorities, tribals, dalits and youths to strengthen the campaign against corruption.

Hazare also hit out at the UPA government for targeting the key members of his team, alleging that those who are threatened by the lokpal movement are attacking his supporters and close aides and try-

ing to break his team.

The social activist's move to restructure his core team came against the backdrop of allegations that he was being misguided and used by his team members to fulfill their political agenda.

Some key members in Team Anna--Kiran Bedi and Arvind Kejriwal--also faced alleged financial irregularities.

"We will take all sections in the core committee, Dalits, Muslims, Adivasis and all others. "Even youth will be well represented.

Youth's power in commit-

tee is extremely necessary.

Youths from different communities will be picked for the committee," he added.

Hazare recalled that when the core committee was formed there were complaints from some sections they were not given representation.

"That committee was for two-and-a-half months.

But the committee that we will form now will be for a much longer period," he added.

Hazare said he and his team will not be cowed down by anyone and challenged the government

to show any evidence of misconduct or irregularities committed by his team members.

Plagued by controversies, Team Anna is also approaching retired judges requesting them to become part of a committee to be set up the civil society to probe the allegations against some of its members.

Without giving any time-frame for the restructuring exercise, Hazare said, "All the present members unanimously agree to the idea of making core committee more participative.

Manmohan, Hasina may discuss Teesta in Maldives NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 7 (IANs): Over two months after they met in Dhaka, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina will hold talks in the picturesque Addu Atoll in the Maldives later this week to review bilateral projects. The stalled Teesta water sharing accord may also figure in the discussions.

The two leaders are expected to meet on the sidelines of the eight-nation

South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit and discuss a host of bilateral and regional issues, including ways to step up collaboration in the SAARC framework. They will review bilateral ties and discuss the implementation of projects identified under the $1 billion line of credit India had pledged to Bangladesh during Sheikh Hasina’s visit to New Delhi in 2010, official sources said. The Teesta accord may come up for dis-

cussions, with Dhaka still sore that the agreement could not be signed at the last minute during Manmohan Singh’s visit to Dhaka in September due to opposition from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

The meeting acquires an added significance as Calcutta University has invited Sheikh Hasina for its annual convocation, to be held either in December or January.

If Sheikh Hasina does visit Kolkata, there is a

strong possibility of a meeting with Banerjee. In September, Banerjee decided not to go to Dhaka with the prime minister at the last minute to register her resistance to the Teesta accord as she felt it will adversely impact West Bengal. last week, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said “the overall bilateral relationship and where we are certainly will be discussed” between Manmohan Singh and Sheikh Hasina in the Maldives.

Advani, blames media

bHArucH (gujArAt), NovEmbEr 7 (AgENcIEs): Ruling out differences between himself and senior party colleague lK Advani, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday accused the media of playing into the hands of the ruling Congress and sensationalising news.

Addressing a rally at Bharuch on Monday as part of Advani's 'Jan Chetna Yatra', he reacted to reports of friction between him and the BJP veteran and said these had been created by the media during its coverage of the Yatra on Sunday.

"It is all a handiwork of the media barons," Modi said, in the presence of Advani whom he accompanied in the specially-configured bus throughout the Yatra on Sunday and Monday to drive home the point that all was well between the two.

He was reacting to reports that there were cold vibes between him and Advani, both said to be in the race for the prime minister's post, despite his welcoming him in Vapi with garland.

Rebutting the news of rift, the Gujarat CM also referred to Monday's newspaper photographs of the vacant chair between him and Advani in Sunday's meeting in Vapi as proof of their differences, and said the chair "remained vacant because state party president R C Faldu was delivering his speech."

"There is a visible major rift because the chair between Anant Kumar and Advaniji was empty. If Modi is standing to deliver his speech, then his chair would obviously be empty.

"All the national dailies had a big story about the chair between Anant Kumar and Advaniji being empty. What has happened? May be just as we add spice to bland food, similarly media sensationalising things," he said.

"Media liked creating a controversy," Modi said lamenting that the media barons were "playing into the hands of certain Congress leaders who were working behind the scenes for planting such news items which were untrue."

Rekindling the magic of Kashmir's saffron tale Sheikh Qayoom Pampore, Kashmir | Nov 7 (IANS)

SAFFRON FIElDS are aglow with their priceless purple blooms, bringing a whiff of a 500-year-old romance between a royal horseman and a wandering beauty that blossomed amid the hills of south Kashmir. But for saffron growers, regaining the state's lost glory in saffron cultivation is no easy task.

For hundreds of families who depend for their sustenance on the saffron crop the profits have been short-lived. Saffron, one of the costliest spices of the world, is derived from the dried stigmas of the flower.

It is the only spice that is derived from a flower.

Saffron is used as a colouring and seasoning agent. Some also use the spice for its aphrodisiac properties.

The world's best quality saffron is grown in Spain and Kashmir. But during the last many years, saffron cultivation has suffered heavily in Kashmir.

"This happened because of crop diseases and adulteration of the product for higher gains by unscrupulous traders," Mohiud-

din, 54, a saffron grower here, told IANS. Others accused the government of neglecting this heritage crop of the Valley.

"The government only rose to the occasion after our future was destroyed.

Now we are being trained and educated for using better agricultural technology to protect the crop and produce better harvests," said Abdul Rashid, 45, another saffron grower.

When the purple blooms arrive in November-December, the bygone romance seems to come alive once more. A royal horseman - Kashmiri King Yusuf Shah Chak - and a wandering beauty - Zoon met amid the saffron fields and fell in love at first sight in the 16th century.

Perhaps the early November moonlit night had wrought magic for the couple that has since become part of Valley's folklore.

Zoon, a local woman, later became the poetess queen under the name of Habba Khatoun.

A National Saffron Mission (NSM) was announced in November last year to boost saffron production.

The Rs.376 crore (Rs.3.76 billion) ambitious

NSM aims to offer growers latest agricultural technologies, disease control, management, bore-wells for better irrigation and quality control to ensure that Kashmir saffron regains its lost glory.

As part of the NSM, Jammu and Kashmir Agricultural Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir distributed cheques worth Rs.9.5 crore among the saffron growers Wednesday.

"Ten grams of pure saffron costs Rs.1,000. But, unless quality control is strictly enforced, the historic faith of the buyers in Kashmir saffron cannot be restored," said Ali Muhammad, who grows saffron in his fields in Gowharpora village in Pulwama district.

"We are providing all possible guidance and assistance to the growers. Our field staff inspects the saffron crop," said an official of the agriculture department.

"Growers are being trained for better cultivation and crop maintenance and this year's results have been encouraging."

"We had a disease-free season this year after many years," he said.

Abdul Majid Wani, gen-

Saffron farming in Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo by Raashid Bhat)

eral secretary of the Saffron Growers Association, told IANS that the production of saffron last year was 6,000 kg. "This year it is expected to be less than 5,500 kg."

According to Wani, around 9,300 acres of land is under saffron cultivation in the Valley.

Wani said under the

NSM, latest technology is made available to growers, but so far it has been employed only on some land.

"Once it is used on all the land, productivity is likely to go up."

Since growers sell it individually, he was unable to give a figure to the total amount saffron sale

fetched.

Although saffron cultivation needs both labour and skill, yet the romance and the folklore attached to this crop in Kashmir has created a poetic aura around the dazzling purple fields of Pampore that have survived for more than five centuries.

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Israel: Government sites crash after hacker threat

Jerusalem, November 7 (PTI): In a major embarrassment to Israeli security agencies, their websites crashed barely two days after a hacker group threatened to paralyse the Jewish state's online activities over the interception of two Gaza-bound ships trying to break the blockade of the coastal territory.

All Israeli government and security-related websites that crashed on Sunday started working once again overnight after long hours of malfunctions.

The international hackers' group Anonymous had earlier threatened the government in response to the Israel Navy's interception on Friday of two boats of activists trying to reach Gaza, but Israel's e-Government, responsible for managing the state's websites, denied claims that they were hacked.

Among the sites that were affected were those of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), the Shin Bet security service and the Mossad, Israel's espionage agency.

"A thorough investigation was conducted and the source of the malfunction was found to be IBM-manufactured storage component," e-Government said in a statement.

"During the night, e-

Government worked with IBM representatives to restore the component successfully," it said.

The release said that that they will continue to thoroughly investigate the malfunction in order to be able to prevent similar incidents in the future.

The fact that the biggest computer crash in the history of Israel's online government came so soon after the 'Anonymous' threat led many to greet the treasury claim with scepticism.

The hacker group is credited with paralysing the web activity of numerous governments and large companies all over the world.

The threat, issued in an online video addressed directly to the Israeli government, called the interception of the activists' vessels an act of "piracy" and an "illegal action against human rights, democracy and international and maritime laws."

The group said that if Israel continued to prevent "humanitarian" missions and continued its "crimes against unarmed civilians," the group would "have no choice but to strike back, again and again."

A short time after the video was uploaded, the government sites crashed.

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Riot breaks out in Liberia day before vote lIberIa, November 7 (aP): Violence broke out at the headquarters of Liberia's main opposition party and at least one person was killed Monday, less than 24 hours before a presidential runoff vote that is being viewed as a test of the country's fragile peace after a devastating civil war.

It was unclear what caused the rioting outside the Congress for Democratic Change party, but Monrovia has been tense ever since the CDC's candidate Winston Tubman called for his supporters to boycott Tuesday's vote.

International observers have rejected his allegation that the electoral process is rigged in the incumbent's favor, and analysts say he is pulling out of the vote because he knows he will lose.

On Monday afternoon, at least 100 Liberian security forces and United Nations peacekeepers descended on the Congo Town neighborhood of Monrovia, where they secured the perimeter of the CDC headquarters, setting up roadblocks to redirect traffic.

An Associated Press photographer saw a man lying inside the headquarters, his head bloodied. Debris including rocks were strewn across the road, and witnesses told the AP that

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, front, walks with Prince Johnson, right, as they arrive for a rally at the Stephen Tubman Estates, in Monrovia, Liberia, on the final day of campaigning, November 6 . Liberia's president has urged voters to go to the polls this week and to ignore a boycott by the opposition. Opposition presidential candidate Winston Tubman announced Friday he is pulling out of the November 8 presidential runoff election, a move that would guarantee victory for the country's ruling party but would rob the electoral process of its legitimacy. (AP Photo)

security forces opened fire after the rioting broke out.

Tubman trailed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by a more than 10-point margin in the first round of voting in October, finishing with around 30 percent of the vote to Sirleaf's more than 40 percent. Sirleaf, a Harvard-educated economist who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has since been endorsed by the third-place finisher and

it appeared likely that she would win the Nov. 8 runoff.

Tubman's boycott will not stop Sirleaf from winning, but it could damage the credibility of the election and undercut her victory since she will be running unopposed.

Electoral law allows candidates to pull out before the start of the election, but once the election is already in progress, ballots cannot be altered and

so both Tubman and Sirleaf will appear on Tuesday's ballot, said Alexander Bick the head of the Carter Center's observation mission in Liberia.

The Carter Center, as well as the United States and the U.N. Security Council have issued sharp rebukes, calling on Tubman to reverse his decision.

Liberia emerged from a 14-year civil war in 2003 after rebels encircled Mon-

rovia, forcing its warlord leader Charles Taylor to accept an offer of exile.

Sirleaf became the continent's first democratically elected female leader when she defeated soccer star George Weah in the 2005 race. Since then she has been credited with maintaining peace, and with luring hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign investment.

Unemployment and

poverty remain among the highest in the world, however, and Tubman attempted to paint Sirleaf as elitist and her administration as corrupt. He threatened to boycott soon after the results from the first round began trickling in following the Oct. 11 poll.

The government agreed to change the head of the electoral commission, whom Tubman said was biased toward the ruling party. But last Friday, Tubman said the concessions did not go far enough and that he was not sure the vote would be fair. He asked for the election to be delayed by up to two months, and when that demand was not met, he gave a speech calling on his supporters to boycott the vote.

"This decision is unfortunate for the electoral process in Liberia, and unfortunate for Liberia's young democracy. The result is that there won't be anything at stake," said International Crisis Group West Africa Director Gilles Yabi, the author of a report on the country's electoral process. "It's motivated by the fact that they (Tubman's party) think they don't have a chance. It's a way to stain the election. To create a problem of credibility for the president."

Floods encircle Bangkok industrial estates PM Berlusconi plays last cards, denies will resign

Thai men ride a makeshift raft through a flooded neighborhood in Bangkok, Thailand, November 7. The water slowly advancing through Bangkok's northern and western neighborhoods is threatening the city's subway system, two key industrial estates and the emergency headquarters set up to deal with the flooding. (AP Photo)

baNGKoK, November 7 (reuTers): Floodwater encircled two industrial estates in the east of Bangkok on Monday and closed in on the center of the capital, disrupting bus services, although mass transit train systems were still running and commercial districts remained dry.

Starting in the north and northeast of the country in late July, the water has flowed slowly south, overwhelming industrial provinces and rice areas in the center before moving into Bangkok over the past three weeks. It is now only about 7 km (4.5 miles) from the Silom business and entertainment district at the heart of Bangkok.

Somkid Tanwatanakul, deputy governor of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT), told Reuters floodwater had reached the vicinity of the Lat Krabang Industrial Estate in the east of the city and was now about 1.5 meters (5 feet) high.

"We have strengthened dikes around the estate to 2.6 meters (8.5

feet) high. My worry is if this much water continues to hold for a long time with nowhere to go, the estate might not make it."

The estate has 254 factories with almost 50,000 workers. Consumer goods giant Unilever Pcl, Johnson & Johnson, Isuzu Motors and Honda Motor Co all have plants there. It is about 10 km (6 miles) north of Bangkok's main Suvarnabhumi airport, which is functioning normally inside a reinforced dike at least 3 meters (10 feet) high.

Flag carrier Thai Airways International Pcl said on Monday it had moved its ticket office from its headquarters in northern Bangkok to Suvarnabhumi and two other locations because access had become difficult. Bangkok's old Don Muang airport, still used for internal flights, has been closed since October 25.

Honda, which was only just recovering from Japan's earthquake in March, has suffered more than most. It withdrew its earnings

forecasts on October 31 after it was forced to close its car assembly plant in Ayutthaya.

It also closed its Thai Honda Manufacturing plant last month at Lat Krabang, which produces motorcycles and power products, and decided to extend that suspension on Friday.

"The problem with Thai Honda has been the difficulty for staff to get to work and parts supply disruptions," said Waraporn Pongpaiboon, an official at its regional headquarters in Bangkok, adding water had not got into the plant.

Bang Chan, another estate north of Suvarnabhumi airport, is also threatened. With 93 factories and about 13,000 workers, it is home to food firms such as Nestle SA and President Bakery Pcl, which makes buns for McDonald's.

"Our factory is still dry but outside, it isn't," said President Bakery marketing manager Yaowaret Kanjanachotkamol. "We have started to see water in some parts of the estate."

Filthy water has flooded into the streets of the estate through a canal and drains but factory compounds are dry.

"We started to cover the factory compounds with iron flood barriers after we heard about the flooding in Ayutthaya," said Charo Kritchankran, a factory manager for food and electrical equipment producer Saha-Union Pcl. Floodwater has started to recede in Ayutthaya province -- the site of World Heritage-listed temples and an ancient capital as well as huge industrial estates -- but at the same time the danger is rising in Bangkok.

The government's flood crisis center said residents of 11 of Bangkok's 50 districts had been told to leave as of Sunday and in another seven a partial evacuation had been called. But it said its use of so-called Big Bags -- huge sandbags weighing 2.5 tonnes -- to build a protective wall 18 km (10 miles) long across the north of the city appeared to have been successful in reducing flows into the inner city along the first 6 km constructed.

The government says 506 people have been killed and 25 of the country's 77 provinces are currently affected. The Chatuchak district in northern Bangkok was among the latest to be issued with an evacuation order as floodwater moved in over the weekend, although its huge market, popular with tourists and locals alike, remained open.

The overhead Skytrain, whose northern terminus is by the market, is running normally, as is the underground MRT system, which goes through the area. But many poorer residents rely on buses to get around and they were having more trouble.

Saitarn Siriatcharanon, 56, told Reuters she had been struggling for six hours to reach her son in the flooded area, whereas normally the same journey would take 30 minutes.

Bangkok Mass Transportation announced the suspension of bus services in the flooded areas, with military trucks offering an alternative in places.

rome, November 7 (reuTers): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, under huge pressure from international markets and rebels in his party, tried to play his last cards on Monday to hang on to power and denied reports that he could resign within hours.

Reports of a possible resignation had an immediate impact, boosting stock and government bond markets dismayed with the political disarray in Italy, which has dramatically worsened the euro zone debt crisis.

But a denial by Berlusconi reversed the direction, indicating just how much markets would like to see him depart.

Earlier, Giuliano Ferrara, editor of the Foglio newspaper and a former minister seen as extremely close to Berlusconi, said on his website: "That Silvio Berlusconi is about to resign is clear. It is a question of hours, some say of minutes."

Franco Bechis, deputy editor of the center-right Libero newspaper, also said on Twitter that the 75-year-old media magnate would resign on Monday night or Tuesday morning.

But Berlusconi said on his Facebook page: "Rumors of my resignation are baseless."

Earlier on Monday, benchmark government bond yields rose to their highest since 1997 at 6.67 percent. Many analysts say yields above 7 percent would make funding costs unsustainable for Italy's huge public debt, one of the highest in the world.

Berlusconi was making a private visit to Milan for a lunch with his children. As recently as Sunday he vowed to stay in power and denied that a party rebellion had robbed him of a workable majority.

Political sources said a late Sunday meeting of leaders of his PDL party had urged him to resign but he was not convinced.

He and his closest aides spent the weekend trying to win back the support of enough deputies to avoid humiliating defeat on Tuesday in a vote to confirm a state financing bill which he has already lost once.

Apart from offering wavering deputies government jobs, Berlusconi is branding rebels as traitors to Italy at a moment of

Spiritual leader Dalai Lama blames 'cultural genocide' for self-immolations ToKYo, November 7 (aFP): The Dalai Lama on Monday said Tibetans faced "cultural genocide" under hardline Chinese rule that he blamed for a recent wave of self-immolations in China's southwest.

"Chinese communist propaganda create a very rosy picture. But actually, including many Chinese from mainland China who visit Tibet, they all have the impression things are terrible," the Dalai Lama told journalists in Tokyo. Some kind of policy, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place," the 76-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader said, in comments that are likely to rile Beijing.

Eight Buddhist monks and two nuns have set themselves alight in ethnically Tibetan parts of Sichuan province since the self-immolation of a young monk in March at Kirti monastery sparked a government crackdown. Activists say that at least five monks and two nuns have died and that Chinese police have at times responded by beating the burning protesters and their colleagues rather than providing assistance. "(In the) last 10, 15 years, there were some kind of

hardliner Chinese officials," the Dalai Lama said at the news conference. "So that's why you see these sad incidents have happened due to this desperate sort of situation."

China has accused the Dalai Lama, who fled his homeland for India in 1959, of instigating the burnings in a form of "terrorism in disguise." In March 2008, major anti-Chinese unrest erupted in the Tibetan capital Lhasa and spread to neighbouring areas of western China with Tibetan populations.

Tibet's exiled government said more than 200 Tibetans were killed in a subsequent clampdown.

Beijing said "rioters" were responsible for 21 deaths.

A month later the Dalai Lama, who is reviled by the Chinese government, accused China of "cultural genocide".

Many Tibetans in China are angry about what they see as growing domination by the country's majority Han ethnic group. In the latest in a number of incidents, Buddhist nun Qiu Xiang last week died after she set herself on fire, calling for religious

freedom and the return of the Dalai Lama, rights groups said. On Monday, the Dalai Lama said: "We are totally committed to a non-violent principle."

China has long sought to discredit the Dalai Lama, who enjoys wide popularity in Tibet and abroad but is vilified as a "separatist" by China's communist authorities. He has in the past condemned self-immolations, which many Buddhists believe are contrary to their faith, but has until now kept a low profile over the recent wave of protests.

He announced in March that he wanted to shed his role as political chief of the Tibetan government-in-exile but will retain the more influential role of Tibet's spiritual leader.

crisis and saying that if he falls the country must go to early elections, something many ruling deputies do not want.

Defeat in Tuesday's vote is thought likely to lead either to his immediate resignation or to an order from President Giorgio Napolitano to call a confidence vote.

In addition, Italy's center-left opposition says it is preparing a no-confidence motion in Berlusconi. It may abstain in the pending vote to expose Berlusconi's lack of support without torpedoing an essential measure.

"Berlusconi is bluffing in a last desperate attempt to save himself. He no longer has a majority in the Chamber," said Dario Franceschini of the main opposition Democratic party.

Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, a senior member of Berlusconi's coalition ally the Northern League, said the writing seemed to be on the wall.

"The latest news leads me to think that the majority no longer exists and that it is useless (for Berlusconi) to be obstinate, " Maroni said. The League also says early elections are the only course if the government falls.

The scandal-ridden 75-year-old media tycoon said on Sunday: "We have checked in the last few hours and the numbers are certain, we still have a majority."

Newspapers have estimated the number of potential defectors at between 20 and 40, which would be more than enough to topple the government.

Berlusconi has been meeting and telephoning rebels since he returned from a humiliating G20 summit in France on Friday in which he had to agree to IMF monitoring of Italy's progress in reforms he has long promised but so far not implemented.

Italy has the third biggest economy in the euro zone and its political turmoil and debt worries are seen as a huge threat in the wider crisis facing the continent's single currency.

Government bond prices would recover and the yield spread would fall by a full percentage point if the government should fall, according to a Reuters survey of 10 fund managers, market analysts and strategists last week.

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crushes Lionel Messi rescues Federer Nishikori to win Barca against Bilbao Swiss Indoors Basel, NovemBer 7 (reUTers): Roger Federer won the Swiss Indoors title for the fifth time in six years when he demolished unseeded Kei Nishikori in the final on his home town tournament on Sunday. Federer, playing in his 98th ATP final of which he has won 68, triumphed 6-1 6-3 against the 21-year-old Japanese wild card, who was playing in his third.

"He didn't give me a chance, he was too good for me today," said Nishikori, who beat world number one Novak Djokovic in the Basel semi-final. Federer, who completed his third match without dropping a set following his wins against Andy Roddick and Stanislas Wawrinka, won his second title of the year and his first since Doha in January.

Nishikori, meeting his idol Federer for the first time, held his serve in

the opening game but the dominant Swiss rattled off the next seven as he totally dominated proceedings against the world number 32. The Swiss, playing in his first tournament since the U.S. Open in September, hit five aces and no double faults while Nishikori took only six points off Federer's serve.

Nishikori put up more resistance in the second set, saving two break points in the second game to at least end Federer's run.

However, it was only a matter of time and Federer broke in the sixth game.

Nishikori defiantly saved four break points but could do nothing about a perfect Federer lob which left him stranded on the fifth. The Japanese had his only break point in the ninth game but Federer saved it and went on to finish off the match with a forehand smash.

Switzerland's Roger Federer kisses the trophy after winning the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament against Japan's Kei Nishikori at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland. (AP Photo)

Barcelona's Lionel Messi from Argentina, right, controls the ball with Athletic Bilbao´s Ander Herrera during their La Liga soccer match at San Mames stadium in Bilbao northern Spain, Sunday, Nov. 6. (AP Photo)

BarCeloNa, NovemBer 7 (aP): Lionel Messi's stoppage-time goal salvaged a 2-2 draw for Barcelona against Athletic Bilbao after an epic La Liga clash at a rainsoaked San Mames on Sunday. Midfielder Ander Herrera put Bilbao ahead in the 20th minute at San Mames stadium before Cesc Fabregas drew the visitors even with a header four minutes later.

Bilbao appeared set to get the win after Gerard Pique scored an own goal in the 80th, but Messi slotted home his league-leading 14th goal in the 91st to split the points. "At the end we showed our mettle," said Fabregas, whose Barcelona remained undefeated in 18 games in all competitions to start the season.

Under steady rain, Barcelona and Bilbao set a fre-

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Tiger to be kept away from race row caddie in Sydney loNDoN, NovemBer 7 (ageNCIes): Tiger Woodsandhisformercaddie will be kept apart at this week's Australian Open following Steve Williams' racial slur against his former employer. Woods is preparing to make his first appearance in Sydney and was widely expected to be paired with home favourite Adam Scott for the opening two rounds in a high-profile pairing.

But with Williams now carrying Scott's bag, tournament director Tony Roosenburg ruled out the prospect of the tournament's two biggest names playing together after Williams allegedly referred to Woodsasa"blacka*******" on Friday. "This is Tiger's first visit to Sydney and we want to make it a five-star experience," Roosenburg said in the Daily Mail. Williams has since apologised for his comments and will not face any punishment after the PGA and European Tour released a joint statement condemning the New Zealander's comments but claimed the matter was "closed".

netic, up-and-down pace from the start. Bilbao coach Marcelo Bielsa sought to beat Barcelona at its own game by pressing the European champions and looking for young playmakers Iker Muniain and Ander to create chances for Spain striker Fernando Llorente.

"We aimed to take the game to them," Ander said.

Bilbao's daring approach paid off when Ander received a pass from Markel Susaeta at the edge of the area and curled his right footer into the right side of the net for the opener.

Bilbao goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz did well to block Dani Alves' strike from a set piece, but could do nothing when Fabregas rose above his marker to guide home Eric Abidal's well-placed cross to momentarily silence the crowd. Puddles of water appeared on the

pitch after halftime, slowing down the ball but not the flow of the game.

Bilbao went ahead for the second time when Abidal's clearance took a deflection off Llorente before Pique inadvertently redirected in into his own net.

But in the dying moments Messi pounced on his own rebound to fire it into the corner of the net to earn the away draw.

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola was full of praise for both teams. "How they run, I've never seen a team run so much, how they plug the spaces. It's absolutely (a Bielsa) team," Guardiola said about Bilbao, which is undefeated in 10 straight games overall. "What a spectacle these 22 players put on. This is one of the best games that I have been in and that's because both teams went out to win."

Keep mouth shut and focus No Eid celebration for on cricket: Waqar to Afridi families of Butt & Aamer

KaraCHI, NovemBer 7 (PTI): Former Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has advised flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi to keep his mouth shut and focus on performing well as a cricketer. In an unusually hard-hitting interview to Geo News in Dubai, Waqar said Afridi needs to rethink his priorities as a senior player. "All the time he is criticizing somebody and using distasteful language. It is time he just kept his mouth shut and focused on his cricket," Waqar said.

"To me it seems as if he always on the lookout for cheap publicity by making unwarranted and unhealthy comments about somebody or someone," he added. The dispute between Waqar who was than coach of the national team and Afridi who was

captain of the one-day team became public after the Pakistan team's tour to the West Indies in May with the latter accusing the former of interfering in his domain as captain.

The dispute became more serious after Afridi announced his retirement in protest after being removed as captain by the Pakistan cricket Board for breaching the code of conduct by speaking on team affairs in public. In the last few months, Afridi kept on criticizing the former PCB chief Ijaz Butt and Waqar.

Afridi only recently announced his availability for the national team and has been picked in the national squad for the one-day series against Sri Lanka this month. Waqar who had stepped down as coach after the Zimbabwe tour in September is presently doing commentary

in Dubai for the Pakistan and Sri Lanka series.

Waqar said Afridi has problems with everyone. "For months now he has been criticizing Ijaz Butt and saying all sorts of things like Butt is old and he should go home, this is not the way to talk about a former player and head of the board. He has problems with everyone and wants the world to believe he is the victim," Waqar said.

Afridi, however, refrained from reacting to Waqar's harsh words and told Geo News that attempts were being made to make him controversial and drag him into controversies ever since he announced his comeback to the national team. "I don't want to make any comments on Waqar has said.

I just want to play cricket for my country," he said.

laHore, NovemBer 7 (PTI): The families of jailed Pakistani cricketers, Salman Butt and Mohammad Aamer, are not celebrating Eidul-Azha this year as an atmosphere of gloom prevails in their home. "Tell me how could we celebrate Eid at this time when our son has been sent to jail after being framed by match-fixers," father Zulfiqar Butt said.

The senior Butt said that there was gloom and sadness in the household. "Everyone is missing him and we are naturally worried about him.

So how can we celebrate Eid when my son is in jail in another country," he said. Zulfiqar said he was consulting lawyers and still planned to hold a press conference soon to reveal more details of the case that will show why the family believes Salman is innocent and was trapped in the spot-fixing scandal.

Sister Khadija said everyone was missing Salman and were concerned about his welfare. "What is both-

ering us that since he was jailed he has not called us or spoken to us. There is no Eid for us we just pray he comes back home soon and he is safe there," she said.

Three pakistani cricketer Salman, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Asif and their agent were jailed for different terms by a British crown court last Thursday for their roles in the spot-fixing scandal. The elder brother of Aamer, Ejaz also said there would be no Eid celebrations for the family and they hope he is released soon. "How can we celebrate when day in and out we keep on seeing and hearing all sorts of things about Aamer. It is heartbreaking for the family and we just hope he is released soon because he is still so young," he said. 19-year-old Aamer was sent to jail for six months after he admitted his role in the scandal before the trial begun and also apologised during the sentence hearing.

Rooney, Ferdinand to miss England friendlies

loNDoN, NovemBer 7 (aFP): Manchester United duo Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand have been left out of England's squad for the forthcoming friendlies against Spain and Sweden at Wembley. As expected, England captain John Terry was included despite allegations that he racially abused QPR defender Anton Ferdinand, but coach Fabio Capello decided not to select Rooney as he needs to look at other attacking options ahead of Euro 2012 following the striker's three-match ban for a red card against Montenegro.

Rooney hopes to have the ban reduced on appeal, but he will definitely miss at least two group matches, so Capello has handed a first call-up to Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge, while Czech Republic's team, from left, Lucie Hradecka, Lucie Safarova, Kveta Peschke, Petra Kvitova, and team captain Petr Pala there is also a recall for inpose with trophy after defeating Russia at Fed Cup final match in Moscow, Russia on Nov. 6. Czech Republic won 3-2. (AP Photo) form Aston Villa forward

2nd Kiphire Dist Volleyball championship concludes DImaPUr, NovemBer 7 (mexN): The 2nd Kiphire District Volleyball Championship trophy organized by the Kiphire District Volleyball Association culminated on October 29, 2011 with Nzanbemo Odyuo as guest of honor. A press note issued by Asepi Sangtam, KDVA stated that the programme was chaired

by Arola Sangtam with an invocation pronounced by Chopngkyu Sangtam, pastor SBLKT. The guest of honour in his speech encouraged the young talented sportsman to make proper use of their talent and urged them to have the spirit of sportsmanship.

The Elite Club of Changchor Village bagged the championship trophy making it 2nd consecutive winner while the Kisetong Village Students’ union and Spark Boys of Kiphire were bagged 1st and 2nd runner up respectively.

Individual prizes were awarded to Thsatingse of Elite Club as Best Spiker and Tinglise of Renewable club as Best setter. Meanwhile, the note also informed that the selection Board from organizing committee has selected ten players from different club/team to represent the forthcoming Inter District Volleyball Championship.

Gabriel Agbonlahor. Sturridge, 22, has scored five goals for Chelsea this season and started Saturday's win at Blackburn.

"He's an interesting player and a player who scores goals," Capello said. "I saw him play right wing, left wing and centre forward.

He has improved a lot." Agbonlahor hasn't played for England since 2009 but his presence means no place for Liverpool forward Andy Carroll, who has endured an inconsistent start to the campaign. Like Carroll, Ferdinand has struggled for form and fitness this season and Capello has decided against picking the centreback because he prefers to test out the likes of Gary Cahill, Joleon Lescott and Phil Jagielka.

With Steven Gerrard, Jack Wilshere and Ashley Young injured, there

was also a first call-up for Everton midfielder Jack Rodwell. Liverpool rightback Glen Johnson returns to the squad after injury at the expense of Manchester City's Micah Richards.

It remains to be seen if Terry will face world champions Spain on Saturday following the storm over the Ferdinand incident, which has prompted FA and police investigations.

Capello hinted on Saturday that Terry may only play against Sweden as he wants to look at his back-up defenders against Spain's world-class forwards.

Ferdinand will be asked to work on his fitness, whilst Rooney was told in a private meeting with Capello on Thursday that he will be excused duty and may, with United's permission, attend an eventual UEFA hearing into the ban.

Lucky Tottenham hold off Fulham

loNDoN, NovemBer 7 (ageNCIes): Tottenham Hotspur survived a late onslaught to earn a somewhat fortunate 3-1 win at London rivals Fulham on Sunday and remain fifth in the Premier League standings. At the other end of the table, Bolton Wanderers crushed Stoke City 5-0 and Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Wigan Athletic 3-1 to inflict the visitors` eight defeat in a row.

Goals from Gareth Bale, Aaron Lennon and Jermain Defoe gave Tottenham their seventh win in eight league matches to move them alongside Chelsea on 22 points, although Spurs have a game in hand on all the teams in the top four.

Tottenham were 2-0 ahead at the break but

manager Harry Redknapp, recovering at home after heart surgery, would have suffered as his team hung on grimly after Younes Kaboul`s 57th-minute own goal started a Fulham siege.

Tottenham keeper Brad Friedel made several reaction saves, Luka Modric cleared one shot off the line and Fulham had a strong penalty shout turned down after a frantic goalmouth scramble before Defoe scored on the break in stoppage time. "He (Tottenham keeper Brad Friedel) was probably the best player on the pitch," said Fulham manager Martin Jol, who was sacked by Tottenham in 2007 despite consecutive fifth-place finishes and who was warmly applauded

by the visiting fans.

"We had 26 or 30 attempts on goal after halftime and yet we just couldn`t sneak one in," Jol told Sky Sports. "We deserved at least a point, for sure. At least a point." Second-half goals by David Edwards and Stephen Ward sealed victory for Wolves after Wigan had equalised just before halftime through Ben Watson.

Wolves, who began the season well before a slump in form which resulted in no league wins since August, had taken the lead through former Tottenham player Jamie O`Hara. The home side moved up to 13th in the table with 11 points. Wigan are bottom with five points and Bolton failed to move

out of the bottom three despite thrashing Stoke.

Chris Eagles and Ivan Klasnic scored twice each to earn Bolton their first home league points of the season and avenge their 5-0 loss to Stoke in this year`s FA Cup semi-finals.

Tottenham seemed to be heading for a comfortable victory at Craven Cottage despite never finding their rhythm. They took the lead when Kyle Walker`s low cross reached Bale beyond the far post and the Welsh winger`s powerful shot was deflected in by Chris Baird.

Bale then combined well with Lennon on the stroke of halftime, sending the England winger on a surging run before he turned inside Baird and

drilled a shot past Mark Schwarzer and into the net.

The second half was almost unbroken Fulham domination and it was no surprise when they reduced the arrears, although Kaboul was unlucky when he unwittingly beat Friedel after Ledley King`s clearing header struck him from close range. Fulham camped in Tottenham`s half for the rest of the game and Clint Dempsey came close to equalising when he rounded Friedel but his shot was deflected wide by King. The 40-year-old Friedel made a series of excellent saves, one in particular from Dempsey from close range which sparked an incredible bout of pinball in the Spurs area.

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Kim Kardashian & Kris Humprhies Appeal to vote for Nikato Reconciliation 'Up in the Air'

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arry Potter` star Emma Watson`s romance with actor Johnny Simmons is reportedly on the rocks after he refused to follow her to England. The 21-year-old actress has been dating Simmons since they met on the sets of forthcoming film `The Perks Of Being A Wallflower` in June, reported Daily Mail. Watson is said to have asked LA based Simmons, 24, to come to England, where she has just enrolled at Oxford University, but he refused to move.

"Emma has been telling people that the relationship is complicated. Johnny has been very distant with her and she`s worried that it`s because he`s overwhelmed by her fame. They`ve not seen each other in a while and they`ve barely spoken. She has invited him to come to Oxford, but he has not accepted the offer yet. "She doesn`t want things to be awkward when they reunite to promote the film, but she`s worried the relationship is over before it even began," a source said.

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i m Ka r d a s h i a n a n d K r i s Humphries met on Sunday ... to see if they could save their marriage -- and after a four-hour meeting with their pastor, sources close to the couple say a reconciliation is "up in the air." According to sources, the meeting with Pastor Joel Johnson went well as they talked through

lots of issues. The two expressed respect and love for each other ... but both acknowledged a lot is wrong with their relationship.

Sources say Kris was "ecstatic" Kim made the trip to Minnesota and he truly thinks he can win her back. As for Kim .... she's unsure if she even wants to give it another go ... but for now, she's willing to keep talking.

nforming that November 8, 2011 (Tuesday) is the last date to vote for Nikato, who is the only singing sensation representing Nagaland at the North East Wave Singing Superstar launched by North East Council, the Pfutsero Students’ Union has appealed to the people of Nagaland to pray and vouch for him.

In support, it said that the Union has put up Nikato’s posters across Pfutsero town and has strongly urged everybody to vote for the talented star, who is also a student of Dimapur Government College. In this regard, it has informed that to show support, one can SMS Song NIK to 56363.

The Union further appealed to kindly vote and help Nikato bring home the prize while informing that 70% of the result would depend on the judges while 30% will be on votes, which ends today (November 8, 2011).

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woman who spent five years living in a nunnery and once dreamed of becoming a nun has been crowned Miss World 2011.

Miss Venezuela, Ivian Lunasol Sarcos Colmenares, beat contestants from 113 countries to the coveted title after impressing the judges in the categories of beach beauty, top model, talent, sports, and beauty with a purpose - where the contestants must demonstrate involvement in a charity project.

Ms Sarcos Colmenares, 21, one of 13 siblings, was orphaned at eight and spent five years studying at a nunnery. She dreamed of becoming a nun but her life took a different direction, as she gained a degree in human resources and worked for a broadcasting company before becoming a beauty queen. She was the favourite for the Miss World title going into the final at Earls Court, London, yesterday evening but reacted

Miss Venezuela Ivian Sarcos reacts as she is crowned winner at the Miss World competition held at Earls Court in London, Sunday, November 6. (AP Photo)

with delight and disbelief when she was announced as the winner of the famous beauty pageant. Now she

said she wants to use her title to help other people.

She said: 'Winning means everything to me and I hope

to take advantage of being a winner in a productive manner. I’m unbelievably happy to have won and there are

some incredible girls. I first and foremost want to help people in need. I would like to help people like me. I am an orphan. I would also like to help the elderly and troubled teenagers. As many people as I can. Unfortunately I lost both my parents at a very young age which led me to study for five years in a nunnery. I spent my five years in there and my dream was to become a nun.'

Ivian was all smiles as she presented to the judges earlier in the evening, and had shown surprise when she was put through to the final seven - perhaps having no inkling she would later be crowned the winner Over a billion viewers from around the world tuned into see her crowned the winner, with runner up prizes going to Miss Philippines and Miss Puerto Rico. Fans who were unable to follow the final on television were kept up-todate on the internet via live streaming and Facebook updates and tweets

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fter winning the largest prize in the history of India’s most popular quiz show Kaun Banega Crorepati, Sushil Kumar, a simpleton from Motihari, Bihar has become hot property.

Answering all question of the host Amitabh Bachchan, Sushil won an enormous bounty of Rs 5 crore and if reports are to be believed he may win an endorsement deal for the National Rural Job Guarantee Scheme.

According to sources,

the Union Ministry for Rural Development is in talks to rope in Kumar to endorse the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, a ministry official said. Kumar confirmed it and said he will accept the offer. "It will be an honour for me to be associated with the government scheme," he told the media.

While it is being seen as a smart move by ministry, advertising and branding experts feel that Sushil

would work wonders to find a great connect to the government scheme. The scheme guarantees 100 days employment in a year to every adult member of a rural family at an average pay of Rs 120 per day.

Details of the size of Sushil Kumar`s endorsement deal are not known. Kumar said he was not sure if he would endorse multiple deals if approached by others. Way to go Sushil, you much deserve this!

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Speaking at Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women of the Year Awards - where she won Ultimate Icon - at London's Banqueting House, Debbie told BANG Showbiz: "The music industry is already Girls flocking in big numbers at Hotel Gateway Grandeur, Guwahati on November 6 to audition for ruined. Computers and the internet and downloading Pond's White Beauty Naturals Eclectic Model Hunt 2011.

songs completely ruined the music industry and everything artists used to work for.

I remember when vinyl was corrupted by cassettes and the whole industry went crazy thinking nobody would sell any records, so it's really been heading this way for quite some time."

The 'Rapture' hitmaker who released her ninth album with the band, 'Panic of Girls' earlier this year - also admitted she finds it hard to keep at the top of the music industry, but now that she has been involved with it for such a long time, she finds it more rewarding.

She said: "It's always getting harder to keep at the top of my game, but on the other hand I enjoy it so much more now so it sort of balances out."

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NeW DeLHI, NovembeR 7 (PtI): India's famed batting line-up suffered a stunning collapse as an inspired West Indies gained an edge by taking a vital 95run first-innings lead in the first Test on Monday. After restricting West Indies to 304 all out, riding on Pragyan Ojha's career-best six for 72, the hosts' batting collapsed like a house of cards to be bundled out for a paltry 209 on an unpredictable Feroz Shah Kotla track on a day, which saw as many as 17 wickets fall.

It was a combination of poor shot selection and some spirited bowling by the West Indies that saw India's high-profile battingorder crumble, though, many of them got the starts.

Virender Sehwag (55), Rahul Dravid (54) and Gautam Gambhir (41) were the notable scorers for the hosts who found it difficult to negotiate the Kotla track, which offered variable bounce. Skipper Darren Sammy led the way with three for 35, while Ravi Rampaul and Devendra Bishoo chipped in with two wickets apiece. The visitors were 21 for two at close of an eventful second day's play,

extending their overall lead to 116. Kirk Edwards was batting on 15 while nightwatchman Fidel Edwards was yet to open his account as they managed to negotiate Pragyan Ojha and Ravichandran Ashwin after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni started with spin from both ends.

Kraigg Brathwaite and Kieran Powell were the two batsmen to be dismissed.

With three full days left, India will seek to dismiss West Indies as quickly as possible to try and come back into the match. Earlier, Ojha's maiden five-for haul hastened the West Indies' slide from an overnight 256 for six. But India undid much of Ojha's good work in the first session. India's start was solid as openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir put on 89 runs in 12.3 overs. Both negotiated an eventful 25 minutes as India went to lunch at 39 for no loss in five overs.

Gambhir survived a close lbw shout off Rampaul before Kirk Edwards dropped the left-hander at third slip off Fidel Edwards.

And then, Sehwag escaped due to a no-ball by Edwards after the pacer breached

Combo picture of Indian players, left to right in top row, Gautam Gambhir, V. Sehwag and V.V.S. Laxman; (bottom row) Sachin Tendulkar, M.S. Dhoni and Yuvraj Singh leave the ground after their dismissal during the second day of the first Test match against West Indies in New Delhi on Monday.

through the opener's defence. But lady luck smiled on the visitors when Sammy ran out Gambhir off his own bowling in the 13th over of the innings. Gambhir's dismissal triggered a collapse that saw India lose four wickets, including the one of Sachin Tendulkar, who yet again missed out on an opportunity to record his 100th international ton.

Dravid along with Yuvraj Singh (23 off 39) steadied the ship for a while by putting on 32 runs for the fifth wicket but the latter, seeking to establish his Test career, was once again guilty of throwing away his wicket when Sammy lured him with a ball that seemed to have stopped at the batsman. Yuvraj committed himself to the shot a tad too early, and Kirk Edwards did the rest at extra covers. The breakthrough West Indies were looking for came right after the tea break.

Wickets of Dhoni and Ravichandran Ashwin only made matters worse for India. Ishant Sharma (17) tried to offer resistance during his eight-wicket 49-run stand with Dravid, but that did not prove to be enough.

The session prior to tea too

belonged to the West Indies.

Apart from Tendulkar and Gambhir, they also sent back VVS Laxman and Sehwag. First up was Gambhir. Sammy got a finger to Sehwag's booming straight drive and the ball went on to hit the stumps on the runner's end, catching the southpaw well short of the crease.

If luck played a part in Gambhir's dismissal, Sehwag's wicket was bizarre.

The batsman's right foot was in the air while he tried to work the ball around his hip off leg-spinner Bishoo, and wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh clipped the bails off in no time. Baugh was in fact on fire today, effecting four dismissals. That brought Tendulkar to crease, but the Kotla was stunned into silence in a matter of 25 minutes as the champion batsman made his way back to the dressing room after being rapped on the pads by a Fidel Edwards delivery.

Credit must go to Sammy, who brought back his most lethal bowler after Tendulkar's arrival. Edwards looked hostile during that spell and returned with measly figures of five for one in as many quick overs.

Beckham advances to first MLS final Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham, left, and Real Salt Lake midfielder Javier Morales battle for the ball during the first half of the Western Conference Championship soccer match on Nov. 6 in Carson, Calif. (AP Photo)

Robbie Keane would go on to get the third for the Galaxy who will face the Houston Dynamo for the championship on November 20.

The match will take place at the Galaxy's Home Depot Center in south central Los Angeles after Houston beat Sporting Kansas City 2-0 in the other semifinal Sunday. Beckham's cross enabled Magee to score his third goal of the post-season. "When we walked through the tunnel for the second half, we heard some of their players saying we were tired, we were done," Beckham said.

"I think that inspired us.

We're happy to be winning the Western final tonight, but we're not getting carried away." Keane scored in the 68th minute by slipping past Salt Lake defender Jamison Olave then driving

a shot into the far corner of the goal to make the score 3-1. He celebrated with a somersault and cartwheel.

Beckham said Keane's goal was key because it gave them some breathing room. "We just tell him to score. He has always done that his whole career. His goal came at right time it eased the pressure for us," said Beckham.

Beckham said winning an MLS Cup would be comparable to some of the other championships he has been a part of. "It is my number one priority," Beckham said.

"As a professional you always want to be successful.

I have done it for most of my career. It always means the same whether it's winning the MLS Cup, the European Cup or La Liga. Every time you pick up the silverware it is the same."

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FIFA lift Myanmar World Cup ban on appeal

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ZURICH, NovembeR 7 (ReUteRs): Myanmar's ban from the 2018 World Cup qualifiers has been lifted on appeal but they must play all their qualifying home games on neutral territory, FIFA said on Monday. Myanmar, who have never qualified for the World Cup finals, were initially banned by FIFA after crowd trouble halted their 2014 Asian qualifying match against Oman in July.

"The Myanmar Football Federation will be ... reintegrated into the preliminary competition," said FIFA in a statement. "(Myanmar) will now be required to play all their home matches in the preliminary competition for the 2018 World Cup on neutral ground in another country."

Myanmar will still have to pay a fine of

25,000 Swiss francs ($28,000). Already 2-0 down from the first leg in the preliminary round tie, Myanmar were also trailing 2-0 in the second leg in their capital Yangon when the violence broke out just before the end of the first half. FIFA immediately awarded Oman a 2-0 victory which saw them through to the next stage and left Myanmar eliminated from the 2014 competition.

Japanese referee Ryuji Sato was forced to halt the game two minutes into stoppage time at the end of the first half when fans hurled rocks and glass bottles at him, visiting coach Paul Le Guen and the Oman players. Despite a heavy police presence, Myanmar fans turned unruly when Sato awarded a penalty to Oman with the home side already trailing 1-0.

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