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Dimapur VOL. III ISSUE 313

Archbishop faces threat BHUBANESWAR, NOVEMBER 10 (PTI): The Cuttack-Bhubaneswar diocese Archbishop, Raphael Cheenath, has claimed that he is facing a threat to his life in the aftermath of the VHP leader Swami Laxamananda Saraswati’s killing in Kandhamal district on August 23.

“I received an anonymous letter from some Hindu youth organisation which threatened to eliminate me,” Archbishop Cheenath revealed after meeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday.

Stating that he had informed the matter to the Chief Minister, Cheenath said he became “careful” after receiving the letter. Replying to a question on the reasons behind his long stay at Delhi, particularly during the large scale violence in Kandhamal, Cheenath said the letter came to him during the last week of August after the killing of Saraswati. Cheenath, however, said that he was not scared of the threats.

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Rio for settlement of Vaccine for HIV/AIDS Naga political issue

NEW SHIFT: Social ‘Infection spreading fast in state’

Miscreants assault class 8 school boy DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): In a shocking incident, a class VIII student from a well-known school in Dimapur was assaulted by two drunken miscreants today at the Khermahal junction. According to complaints received in the Press, the boy, who was in his school uniform was “waylaid” by the drunk youths when he was returning home from school at around 2 pm at a place close to the Khermahal junction. The two youths, whose identities were not disclosed, were on a motorcycle. One of the youths got down from the bike and physically assaulted the schoolboy. The school student is said to have received repeated blows for no reason.

On hearing about the incident, family members of the boy contacted the area’s authorities. No further details were made available.

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In this image released to the media, the Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio is seen here with legislators and other dignitaries after unveiling the monolith of the new EAC HQ at Englan, in Wokha today.

Chizokho Vero Englan (Wokha) | November 10

REITERATING THAT the DAN government supports the ongoing peace process, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio today repeated the government’s stance to ‘pave way’ for an alternative arrangement in the event of a permanent settlement. “We want peace. We want settlement of the Naga political issue,” said Rio while inaugurating Extra Assistant

Commissioner HQ at Englan in Wokha district.

Saying that the state possesses vast areas of oil deposits in the districts of Wokha, Mokokchung, Mon, Peren and Dimapur, the chief minister felt that a time has come for exploration of mineral resources in the state. In this regard, the chief minister called upon the landowners, public and government to arrive at a mutual understanding so oil exploration will take place in a ‘healthy manner’.

Saying Wokha district is the richest district

in Nagaland in terms of soil, viable climatic conditions, mineral resources and agri-horticulture potential, he complimented the contribution of the Kyongs to the Nagas in many ways. He maintained that the people of Nagaland have been benefiting much through the Doyang Hydro Project and surplus production in agri-horticulture from this district.

Also stating that the rays of progress and development can move faster when public support and cooperation is there, he urged to focus with seriousness for all-round development of the state. Terming unity as the biggest weapon for development and progress to take place, Rio pointed to harnessing unity and peace to reap the fruits of ‘developmental packages’.

Y. Patton, Parliamentary Secretary for Geology & Mining, also legislator from 37 Tyui Assembly Constituency, said Englan range consists of about 15-20,000 population but still backward.

He urged for more attention to the people of this range. Urging the people to maintain unity, Patton also called upon them to cooperate with the government so developmental packages in every possible way can be facilitated.

“We need peace and security” said home minister Imkong L. Imchen in his speech. He said development will take place only when there is peace. Also, minister for Agriculture Dr. Chumben Murry said “we want to be at par with the rest of the world,” and strongly felt that special attention must be given to this area on the developmental front. The living condition of this range still needs improvement in many areas, he said.

K. Thungdemo Lotha, president of the Englan Range Gazetted Officer’s Forum said the creation of EAC headquarters at Englan has ‘touched the hearts of the people of Englan range with a reality’ while saying it looks forward to the government for speedy development and progress in the days to come.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The AIDS Competence Process (ACP) was initiated in year 2004 by the AIDS Competence Constellation with the belief that the battle against HIV/AIDS can be won by the local people themselves.

This is based on the reality that people have the capacity to respond, to take charge, to learn from each other and to change.

This is to be the new concept called ‘social vaccine’.

Initiated in the year 2007 across India, ACP is capacitating over 30 NGOs in helping communities to be AIDScompetent. Joe Ngamkhuchhng, director of NEDHIV has been part of ACP India since 2007. In September 2008 a support team of the ACP national coaches visited Nagaland and held a 3 day programme at NEDHIV in Dimapur.

Joe Ngamkhuchung in an interaction with Rituu B. Nanda, Programme Associate of UNAIDS recently explained the concept of “social vaccine”. He said a concerted effort through targeted intervention into injecting drug users under the Nagaland State AIDS Control Society has drastically reduced HIV transmission among injecting drug users from 39% to 2.27% within a span of about eight years. However, he said, public infection has risen to 80% through the heterosexual route. “Nagaland remains a high prevalent state with 1.27% prevalence while HIV infection among selected targets (IDUS, CSWs, MSM) has been held at bay (and) infection is spreading fast among the general population in the state”.

Joe explained the concept of AIDS Competence Process said it is people’s capacity to respond to HIV/AIDS. “The sharing with fellow participants during ACP meetings and visits to communities who progress and my own SALT visits in Nagaland have shown that people’s response is the answer to HIV problem. We know there is no vaccine to prevent HIV infection, no vaccine to cure AIDS. People’s response to it is the vaccine. I call this response ‘social vaccine’” he said.

Saying this concept made “sense”, Joe Ngamkhuchung said a community, with its experiences and strengths, can effectively respond to HIV/AIDS. “Rather than looking at intervention programmes as remedies, which have limited scopes, the community response is lasting and embraces all sections of people” he said.

On the impact of ACP, he said ACP application is a new method of organizing an old practice; it is based on community strengths, resources and potentials and ownership of the problem. comtinued on page 3

Kyongs take tough stand on AR

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): Following the Tokhu Emong upheaval, the Kyong community today issued a number of decrees against the 41 Assam Rifles posted at Wokha town, virtually censuring the force from associating with the Kyong public.

Amongst the five points issued by apex Kyong organizations, include censuring the 41 AR from drawing water from Wokha town’s biggest and central water source ‘Etsu Chukha’; censuring the public from entering the AR camp and removal of the AR from the town.

A joint statement appended by the chief executives of the Kyong Hoho, Kyong Students’ Union, Kyong Eloe hoho and the Wokha Town Council was received here today. The 41 battalion of the Assam Rifles at Wokha town are to withdraw immediately. Relatively, it was also mentioned that the present location housing the force is in the heart of public-inhabited areas and should be shifted immediately. The resolutions

also censured the AR from pumping water from Etsu Chuka while no public member is allowed to access the AR camp. Violation of this resolution shall be strictly viewed, the community said.

Mention may be made here that the AR camp has a “canteen”, one of the town public’s most-accessed places in Wokha, where domestic goods and commodities are procured.

The Kyong community also censured the town’s public from procuring or “collecting” liquor from the AR camp. Any one found guilty of breach of this resolution shall be ‘strictly viewed’ the resolutions said.

The Kyong Hoho in the statement also gave a gist of the cause that led to the November 6 upheaval during the Tokhu Emong celebrations. According to the statement, a 41 AR jawan, identified as one Mahesh Singh, along with two local girls entered one Hotel NiLi. After consuming liquor, a room was demanded. Being refused a room, the

jawan threatened the hotel’s manager and verbally abused him using vulgar and lewd language. In the meantime, the commotion enraged two local boys nearby, leading to a “rough scuffle” with the jawan. The following evening, jawan Mahesh Singh returned to the hotel with other jawans in three Maruti Gypsies, “in full operation mood”. The jawans then assaulted the manager and occupants of the hotel. On the 6th, the next day, the “very frustrated jawan” created the now-widely-publicized situation under the pretext of searching for underground workers.

Vehemently condemning the attitude and action of the Assam Rifles for defiling the Tokhu Emong festival, the Kyong apex bodies said, the fracas created by the force was also an insult to not only the Kyong community but also the minister and parliament secretary who were in attendance in the Tokhu Emong festivities. continued on page 3

In a handout photo provided by the family of Billy Graham, the famed evangelist celebrates his 90th birthday with his son Franklin, his grandson Will and great-grandson Quinn, in Montreat, N.C. on Friday, November 7. Graham has counseled every American president since Dwight Eisenhower. (Courtesy of the Graham family)

Tomato prices seeing high Red Parched Manipur KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The vegetable markets of Kohima and Dimapur have been hit by an exorbitant price hike for tomatoes and some few other vegetable items. Within a few span of months, the price of tomatoes have increased from Rs.30 to Rs.60 per kilogram which currently exists in all the markets of Kohima while in Dimapur, shopkeepers are making big money charging anywhere around Rs. 45 to Rs 50 per kilogram of tomatoes. Interestingly the administration or municipal’s price-control presence seems to be ignoring or oblivious to this free-for-all-price.

In Kohima, according to vegetable vendors, the price of tomato which rose from Rs 50 to Rs 60 per kilogram took place only four days ago. The vendor when queried from where the tomatoes are being made available said, “as we were the registered tender, all items were being supplied to us here at the market itself by the wholesale traders; however we are being told that it was Shillong (Meghalaya) product”.

In the early part of this year, the price was around Rs 30 per kilogram. However, it was in the month of around September that the rate rose to Rs 40 per kilogram and subsequently by October, it had increased to Rs 50 per kilogram. No wonder within few days, vegetable vendors were “compelled” to sell tomatoes at Rs. 60 per kilogram. One existing tomato sort in the market, said to be brought from Nasi (Mumbai) is made available in the mar-

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ket at Rs.50 per kilogram. This produce is smaller in size and is made available in small quantities.

One vegetable vendor said time comes when there is no option, when wholesellers supply the produce with high rate and vendors are also compelled to set the price to have a profit of at least Rs.1 to Rs.1.50

out of it. The vendor further disclosed that, sometimes they face “huge losses” when it takes time to sell them. The produce gets damaged and become rotten.

When queried of the prices fixed by Kohima Municipal Council (KMC), the vendor said, as the rate of price vary “we can’t always wait for them to fixed price

for the items, therefore we go selling the items under a reasonable price where we too get a little gain out of it, indeed we respect their directives as and when they intimate to us”.

When queried on other vegetable items, the vendors informed that the price-hiked items include potatoes at Rs.15, onions at Rs. 30 and fresh chilies at Rs 50 per kilogram. However, the price of chili is expected to increase to Rs.60 per kg within a week. One vendor said “we were being charged with very high amount of tender fees this year as was compared to last year, but the improvement of the vendors ‘gain’ remain the same”.

One customer in the market conversing with the one of the vegetable vendors joked: ‘Do you know, these days when Kohima citizens cook a dal curry with tomato, that curry is considered equivalent to pork curry for the price of dal and tomato equals Rs.120?’

The customer wondered the quirk that Longkhum’s tomatoes faced the problem of sale in the local state market while Shillong’s tomatoes could be made available at exorbitant prices. To promote Naga produce and encourage local farmers, another customer said, the concerned department should pay attention to these matters. Interestingly it is being observed that, some customers in the market after enquiring the price of the tomato go, “Chari bi, sida jaikene mongso (meat) kini hi lab hobo” (forget it, it is better to go buy meat to be profitable).

goes Fuel-thirsty Newmai News Network Imphal | November 10

HARD DAYS are here again for vehicle owners and the business community as Manipur is on the threshold of facing yet another instance of scarcity of fuel. With an economic blockade along the National Highway (NH) 39 underway imposed on November 1 by the Senapati District Students’ Association, all supplies of petrol and diesel to the state have been put on halt.

Speaking to NNN, Shiva Dalal, a senior salesman of the Phulchand Tilokchand (PCTC) oil pump in Imphal, asserted there would be scarcity of oil in the state if the ongoing economic blockade continues. Dalal also informed that the oil being distributed at the moment from the oil depot at Chingmeirong in Imphal East may last only for the next 3-4 days. “If the economic blockade along the NH continues for longer, we will not be able to serve the people of the state with this less amount,” Dalal said.

Interestingly, the blockade imposed by the Senapati District Students’ Association against the bad condition of the highway is

being supported by the All Manipur Tanker Drivers' Union and other heavy carriers. They have declared support to the bandh until the demands were met and the roads repaired.

Confirming this stance, Y. Bhupenchandra, president of the All Manipur Tanker Drivers’ Union affirmed that until and unless a solution was brought about to the demands of the SDSA and the condition of the road improved, the union would join in the agitation and continue with the bandh.

This has also been the demand of the drivers' union over the months to the state government.

The president on the drivers' union said the road between Mao Gate in Senapati district and Imphal is the worst. Due to the bad condition of the road between these two destinations, ‘at least 5-6 vehicles springs are broken daily’ thus consuming time and fuel, stated Bhupenchandra.

The ‘health conditions of the drivers are also at risk due to the dust’ he asserted. The president also charged the state government of mishandling the central government-sanctioned central pool for the national highway’s development.

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Rights training ‘Get involved to bring positive changes’ forHuman government officers Morung Express News Dimapur | November 10

Sitting Congress MLA Apok Jamir enjoying the Ahuna feast prepared by the Withee Bible College at its college premises, on Monday. (Morung Photo)

MEx File Imkong condoles demise of GB Kihoto DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): I Imkong, member of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly, has expressed shock at the demise of Kihoto, GB of Alaphumi.

“At this time of bereavement, I and my family share grief and express deepest condolence. It is our sincere prayer that God will give you strength and solace to overcome this loss,” Imkong conveyed in a condolence note.

KMC informs on parking tax DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has informed that all the taxi owners in Kohima (plying within Kohima Municipality) are to pay the parking tax to the authorised collectors of KMC without fail. Action will be taken against the defaulters as per the Nagaland Municipal Act, warned the Council.

Rio to inaugurate Angjangyang, Chen offices

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MON, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): Chief Minister of Nagaland Neiphiu Rio will inaugurate the newly upgraded Sub-Divisional Officer (Civil) Headquarter of Angjangyang and Chen respectively on November 12. Nyeiwang Konyak, Minister of School Education, Nagaland, will be the guest of honour. Wangyuh Konyak, MP (Lok Sabha) and C L John, MLA and Chairman of MARCOFED and DPDB, will also speak during the function at the Chen Headquarter. At Angjangyang, the function will be chaired

by ADC of Aboi, K S Anden, while Deputy Commissioner Mon, Dinesh Kumar, IAS, will preside over the function at Chen. In this connection, the district administration has requested all the Heads of Department and officers under Mon district to attend the function without fail.

BJP refutes allegations DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The BJP state unit has taken serious note of the ‘unfounded allegations’ made against the party state president by some district presidents and state level leaders through the local dailies. Shikuto Sema, State Secretary (Office), in a press statement sought to clarify that “the allegation is totally null and void and devoid of any truth.” He further pointed out that the subject had been clarified sufficiently on earlier occasions.

The party central leadership has also advised the party workers not to indulge in such indiscipline activities on the same issue as it does not hold

any iota of truth, he stated. The BJP Nagaland unit, including the two legislators, stated Shikuto in the statement, are fully committed to the commitment of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland, as the BJP is a natural and permanent ally and a partner of DAN. Hence, he further stated, the question of the party state president or party indulging in any antiparty or anti-DAN activities does not arise.

The state party has, therefore, through the State Secretary, advised the party workers to refrain from such baseless allegations “as it is unhealthy not only to the BJP state unit but also for the DAN government as a whole.”

SITTING CONGRESS MLA and former Member of Parliament, Apok Jamir, while stating that the future of the present society is blink due to suspicion, disunity, bloodshed and fear-psychosis, appealed to the people to collectively curtail the negative aspects of the society one by one, so as to ensure a brighter future. He continued that with collective work we can see a bright Nagaland. The MLA was addressing the people as the chief guest at the Ahuna festival celebrations, organised by the Withee Bible College (WBC) today at its college premises here at Darogajan village.

While noting that the root cause of trouble faced by the people in the society lies within us, he said if people are hungry, they cannot think effectively and guide the society. “A hungry man is an angry man,” he cited as an example, adding, “Unless we are filled physically, we cannot think effectively and guide the society.”

“We should involve our-

selves to bring about positive changes in the society,” Jamir challenged the people. Referring to the students of WBC, the MLA said, “We have to train ourselves in Bible scriptures and to prepare ourselves to win souls.”

He continued that the ventures of the students will not be successful unless they work with sincerity, commitment and love towards the people of the society.

He also appealed to the students to guide people spiritually.

While greeting the management of the college on the occasion, he said the celebrations are always filled with joy and happiness, and most importantly with the blessing of the Almighty God. Also exhorting the students, N Tali Jamir, Retired IGP of Prison, said preservation of culture and tradition is very important along with theological education. He appealed to the students to become devoted Christians and spread the Word of God. Earlier, Rev. Dr. Vikheshe Chishi, founder principal of WBC, highlighted about the Ahuna festival. The highlights of the programme included songs, dance and Ahuna display.

More than 600 avail Lions’ free eye screening DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The two-day annual Lions Free Eye Screening Camp held at the Lions Club of Dimapur was held on November 8 and 9, benefiting more than 600 patients.

Dr. P Bhagwati from the Jorhat Lions Eye Hospital led a team of 5 technicians for the project. He identified 111 patients who needed cataract operations, of which 20 have been taken for operations to Jorhat in a Lions Club Jorhat-sponsored bus. All the patients’ medicines, transportation, accommodation, food, etc., including the cataract operations will be sponsored totally by the Lions Club of Dimapur and it’s members in their personal capacity.

Speaking as chief guest at the Camp, I Imtisungit Jamir, MLA for DimapurII, was highly appreciative of the noble project of Li-

ons Club of Dimapur and bestowed his blessings for the successful continuation of the same. Informing this in a release, Lion Rajendra Khadria, Chairman of Sight Conservation and Work with Blind, added that in view of the rush of patients, the Lions Club of Dimapur would be organising a similar two-day Free Eye Screening Camp on November 29 and 30, 2008, as well. Registration forms, free of cost, will be available at Lions Club of Dimapur, Midland for on-the-spot registrations, he stated.

Expressing gratitude to all the citizens of Nagaland, the Lions Club stated that their financial contributions and moral support had enabled them to take up this mammoth project on a yearly basis to cater to the needs of the society, irrespective of caste and creed.

Playing the perfect host, villagers, both old and young, carry placards and wait to accord a warm reception to Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio during the inauguration of the EAC HQ at Englan, under Wokha district, on November 10. (Morung Photo/Chizokho Vero)

‘Hornbill Music Fest will open up windows of opportunity’ KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): With Nagaland Hornbill Festival just around the corner, the Music Task Force today announced the schedules for the Hornbill Music Festival 2008 in a press conference held here at Unitex store.

The Hornbill Music Festival 2008 will feature the happening musicians of Nagaland like the solo and band winners of Nagaland Music Safari 08, NSACS Naga Idol 3.08, Dimapur Idol 08, besides other outstanding musicians on the evening of December 1 at the Kohima local ground. December 2 will have the Korea-India Festival at Secretariat Plaza, while a ‘country, western and blues’ concert, also featuring veterans, will mark the third day at the local ground.

The much-awaited Hornbill National Rock Contest 2008 presented by Airtel will commence on December 4 in which auditions for the finale will begin. The auditions for the ‘Airtel presents Hornbill National Rock 2008’ contest will continue on December 5, while earlier winning bands – Divine Connection and XTC – and renowned Indian band Parikrama will perform on December 6. The 9 shortlisted bands for the finale will also be declared.

The XL team along with Project Director of MTF, Gugs Chishi, MTF advisor Dr Nicky Kire, and secretary, YR& Sports, K T Sukhalu, briefing the mediapersons on Monday.

The final day (December 7) will witness the finale of the ‘Airtel presents Hornbill National Rock 2008’ followed by a prize distribution to mark the event closed. The chief guest(s) for the events are yet to be declared by the government.

Briefing mediapersons on the upcom-

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ing event, Project Director of the Music Task Force, Gugs Chishi expressed that the event would be a channel for opening up windows of opportunity for musicians towards higher levels. With the annual event gaining credence every year, he also looked forward to making it a state event sponsored by corpo-

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Women from the Sumi community devoutly worship with prayer and song at the Women’s Annual Conference held at Thilixu, Dimapur. The theme of the Conference, hosted by the Nagaland Christian Revival Church Sumi, Thilixu village, was based on Jeremiah 9:20.

His mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament’ based on Jeremiah 9:20.

Among other highlights of the conference was the ‘Song Fest’ held on the evening of November 8. Other attractions included ‘praise and worship’ led by the Conference office bearers and womenfolk of NCRC Sumi Dimapur and Living Bible

College (Vihokhu village) Dimapur.

The main speakers at the conference were Dr. Akaho Awomi, MD, Civil Hospital Zunheboto, Dr. Imcha Yanger, Pastor of NCRC Dimapur, Qanili Ayemi, member of Missionary Board NCRC Sumi, Xevili and T Swu, Padum Pukhri Dimapur.

The office bearers of the NCRC Sumi Women department expressed

gratitude to all the participants, volunteers, donors, planning board and the NCRC Sumi Thilixu village.

Khekali Jambo, Vice President, expressed profound gratitude to K L Chishi, MLA and former Chief Minister of Nagaland, and public leader Kakugha Zhimomi, for gracing the conference services and “delivering prized exhortations.”

rate sectors.

Eight bands from outside the state have confirmed their participation, while others are said to have made contact for entry in the event. The last date for entry for bands from outside is November 15. For local bands (from Nagaland), audition for 3 more slots will be held on November 19, starting from 9:00 am at the Academy Hall, Kohima. Other two spots have been taken by the recent winners of the Nagaland Music Safari 2008, i.e. Diatribe and Dementia.

The winner of this year’s Airtel presents Hornbill National Rock contest will be awarded a cash prize of Rs.5 lakhs. The Hornbill Music Festival 2008 is organised by the Music Task Force, Directorate of Youth Resource & Sports, and the event is managed

by XL. Further information may be sought by contacting the XL team: Neingulie Nakhro, Event Director – 9856774871; M Ababe Ezung, chief event consultant and media manager – 9436425903, stage manager – Thejakielie Zuyie; press & public relations – Xavir Rutsa; XL producer – Abu Metha or Unitex store, opposite Kohima War Cemetery, or login to www.hornbillmusic.com/ email – hornbillmusic@gmail.com.

CSU seizes weapons during ‘wildlife preservation’ drive Kuzhovesa Soho

ZUNHEBOTO, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The 30th ‘Totimi Mpe Tsu Hoho’ Nagaland Christian Revival Church (Sumi) concluded its threeday Women Annual Conference hosted by the Thilixu NCRC (Sumi) from November 7 to 9, 2008. The Conference was held on the theme ‘Now, O women, hear the Word of the Lord; open your ears to the Words of

KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): A two-day sensitisation training programme for Human Rights, which is also the first of its kind on human and universal rights for women officers, began at the Administrative Training Institute (ATI) Kohima on November 10, 2008. The course object of the training programme aims to impart knowledge on basic human rights; to discuss various rights and time violations relating to economic, social and cultural issues; to promote, protect and fulfil the general principles of ESCR and to underline the basic human rights with special emphasis on disadvantaged groups and communities.

Former Chief Secretary of Meghalaya and National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Special Rapporteur for North East Zone, S K Tiwari, who is also one of the resource persons, gave a presentation on the universal declaration of human rights and its relevance in the local scenario. He said that human rights begins from the self, home, school, workplace and then at the state and national level, and that they are the basic rights of all humanity without any discrimination on the ground of caste, creed, colour, sex, belief, etc.

The two-day course schedule includes topics such as human rights and NHRC, rights of the elderly, human rights and HIV/AIDS, gender rights, right to environment, human rights in Indian Constitution, rights of disabled persons, and rights of the child.

The resource persons for the training are Senior Lecturer (Computer), ATI, and Advocate of Guwahati High Court, Kohima Bench, Moajungla Ao. The training is being attended by officers from the departments of SCERT, DIC, Art & Culture, Employment, Crafts & Training, School Education, Labour, Higher Education, including Lt. Col. B B Yadav from Assam Rifle Hq. IGAR (North) and Information & Public Relations.

IN REFERENCE TO the resolutions made earlier by the Chakhesang Students’ Union (CSU), the Union today issued certain terms and conditions to be awarded to ‘violators’ of the resolutions. Earlier on January 11, 2008, during its 61st general meet, the CSU had adopted a resolution at Kikruma to mark the year 2008-2009 as the ‘Year of Wild Life Preservation’ under the theme ‘Give them a chance to live’. Further, the same was endorsed in its 1st Union Assembly held on April 11, 2008, and approved by the CPO during its meeting at Pfütsero in May this year.

In execution of the resolution, the CSU undertook surprise checking and seized approximately 20 weapons (guns) from individuals at different locations within the Chakhesang jurisdiction since May 2008. According to Esther Rhakho, the CSU general secretary, an intimation let-

ter was then dispatched to all the defaulters to reclaim their weapons by paying Rs.2000/-.

However, she stated, many of them failed to turn up for the same, and therefore, the CSU, in consultation with the CPO, decided to deduct a sum of Rs.10,000/- against each defaulter from the VDB funds of their respective villages.

The CSU added that after deduction of the said amount, the seized weapons of the defaulters would be handed over to the district administration, along with their bio data and address so as to prove the real identity of the defaulters. The conditions further added that after the weapons are handed over to the administration, no defaulters would be allowed to collect their seized weapons without the authorisation of the Village authority.

The CSU has further informed that all the defaulters may collect their seized weapons, on payment of Rs.2000/-, from the office of the CSU until November

30, 2008. No requests in this matter would be entertained after the mentioned date, the Union warned. The defaulter who wishes to collect the same must approach the district administration to obtain an authorisation from the concerned village authority. Due to communication problems in terms of time consumption, no separate circulation would be dispatched other than this media publication, the Union added, further requesting the ‘public of the community’ to bear with the inconvenience.

Meanwhile, in view of the forthcoming 62nd conference to be held at Phek Village from January 7-9, 2009, “which is coinciding with the Phek Students’ Union (PSU) Golden Jubilee celebration,” the CSU informed “the areas whose programs are coinciding with the CSU conference to defer it with immediate effect,” stating that “this is a usual notice and not a new notice.”

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People! Get to Know Away with election rivalries: Kithan STARTING LINE-UP your consumer rights

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Consumers’ Society of Dimapur is organizing a public rally on consumer rights under the theme ‘consumers are to be protected’. The event is to be held on December 6 with Dimapur Deputy Commissioner Maongwati Aier and president of Nagaland Voluntary Consumer Organization Kezhokhoto Savi as the main speakers.

“Consumers are to be more careful and vigilant with the festival seasons, unlike other cities prices really shoot up in Nagaland and we appealed to the business community to maintain their prices correctly espe-

cially during Hornbill Festival at Kisama and Christmas times,” the consumers’ organization said in a note received here today. The authority in concern is also requested ‘to control the prices of goods including local products in the stalls at Kisama during Hornbill festival’ managed by the state Government every year starting from December 1.

In a related matter, a citizen has written to the PIO of the department of Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection to furnish a number of details sought under the RTI. The citizen has sought documents in duplicate, related to consumer protection

Training for Kma Taxi drivers KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): As part of the ‘Year of Capacity Building’ the Regional Transport Officer, Kohima has informed that a two-day training will be conducted for Local and Zonal taxi drivers of Kohima town. Training for the Local Taxi drivers will be held on November 11 while that of the Zonal Taxi drivers will be conducted on November 12 respectively.

Superintendent of Police, Kohima, R. P. Kikon will grace the inaugural function of the training on November 11 as the Chief Guest while Deputy Commissioner, Kohima, Sachopra Vero will be the Chief Guest the following day. All Local & Zonal Taxi drivers have been informed to attend the training programme.

only for the financial years for 2003-04, 2004-05, 200506 and 2006-07. Details are sought on how much the state government had sanctioned or released money under various heads. How it was utilized in consumer awareness and campaign programs financial assistance to voluntary consumer organizations; observance of World Consumers Rights Day and National Consumers Day; purchasing machineries, equipments, vehicles, etc for which purpose; printing, banners and so on for which purpose and occasion and any other expenditure related to consumers protection have been sought.

AAY food grains for Kma KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The AAY food grains for two months, allotted for Kohima district, will be issued to the approved beneficiates through their respective Village Councils and the FPS from November 11 to 12, between 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Informing this in a release, Temsu Jamir, Assistant Director of Food & Civil Supplies, has directed all concerned village councils and FPS’ to collect their respective quota.

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Parliamentary Secretary W Kithan addressing party workers at the Wokha division NFP meeting on November 1, seated beside him is R. Yanthan Deputy Speaker NLA.

WOKHA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): A meeting of the Wokha Division NPF was held on November 1 at its Office at Wokha Town, with Deputy Speaker R Yanthan, Parliamentary Secretary W Kithan, senior party officials, and frontal organisations of

women and youth. The President and office bearers from the 37th A/C, 38th A/C, 39th A/C, 40th A/C and a host of party workers also attended the meeting.

The meeting was presided over by the Division’s president, A Y Odyuo, and

a brief introduction and aims of the meeting were described by its President, R Yanthan, Deputy Speaker of Nagaland. Stating that “good road communication is the Mother of all development,” he appealed to all common people to give peace a chance to enable the government to work for development.

Parliamentary Secretary W Kithan encouraged the party workers to eliminate all election rivalries and to work united for the cause of development for the common people. He also said that one must offer selfless and sacrificed service to the party and must remain loyal to the principals of the party. Informing this in a release, Odyuo added that the house held detailed discussion for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election and the NPF Convention to be held on November 18, 2008.

ZBT DPDB approves constituency convenors

ZUNHEBOTO, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): At the monthly DPDB meeting Deputy Commissioner & Vice Chairman DPDB, Zunheboto, C. M. Tsanglao today tabled before the board, the various LADP fund implementing proposals, for approval of the members. It was also brought to notice that in all the constituencies including Pughoboto, a three members committee with administrative officer

as the Convenor was set up.

The DPDB members present on the day approved the committees so proposed. At the meet DC Tsanglao also hinted for judicious utilization of the fund.

A proposal for setting up of a marketing shed at Philimi village under Atoizu Sub-Division was also deliberated. The house endorsed the same to the Project Director (DRDA) for consideration. Meanwhile,

DC who also the chaired the meeting called for a mass social work on November 11 next, in view of the Ahuna celebrations to take place on November 14, 2008. He informed the house that the Chief Minister would be the chief guest on the day. Earlier Deputy Commissioner introduced ADC Headquarter, Motsuthung Lotha to the board. The meeting earlier began with review of the last DPDB meeting.

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SALT visits and community visits give a new approach for mass response to the epidemic. “Community response guarantees success and sustainability,” he reminded.

In the second area, he said, HIV/AIDS can not be prevented nor contained without community involvement while money is a help but not the answer. “This concept is quite different from TI approach, which concentrates on key populations as communities. In ACP approach community is inclusive of every section of the village population,” Joe explained.

The third impact, he further said, is about changing the mindset. Building on the strengths, resources and potentials of village communities is a new mind set and the community is now responsible for its own problem. “It must own the problem,” he said adding that approach goes against the stereotyped mind set of the “it’s somebody else’s problem”.

Rituu B Nanda is working with UNAIDS as Programme Associate and looks after UN and donor coordination. She is also a volunteer with the AIDS Competence Process.

Also, a separate note from the Kohima Kyong Hoho expressed condemnation for the incident. Creating such ‘emotions’ during traditional festivals should be condemned by all, the Kohima hoho stated. An assurance is made that all Kyong hohos under the Kyong Hoho shall cooperate in any future course of action to be taken.

Wokha DPDB chairman to review status reports WOKHA, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): The monthly Wokha District Planning & Development Board meeting will be held on November 12 at Bhandari. The Chairman of DPDB and Deputy Speaker of Nagaland Legislative Assembly, Ralanthung Yanthan has requested the following departments to submit their status reports on implementation of various schemes/activities under the their department for the last two years at the ensuing DPDB meeting: all BDOs under Wokha district, all CDPOs under Wokha district, EE (R&B) of Wokha district and Baghty, Medical, Power, Town Planning, Agri, DFO Wokha, and PHED. The Chairman DPDB has also requested that the Deputy Commissioner of Wokha conduct surprise checking in all the offices in the districts and forward the report to the Chairman for action. All DPDB members are to attend the meeting without fail.

Special casual leave for AGOK DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Home Department, General Administration Branch II, on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the Angami Gazetted Officers’ Krotho (AGOK), has granted 1 day ‘special casual leave’ on November 14 next to all members of the AGOK to enable them to attend the silver jubilee celebration.

This was stated in an order issued by Lalthara, Additional Chief Secretary of Home.

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Tuensang DPDB meeting November 12

Tuensang District Planning & Development Board meeting for the month of November is scheduled on November 12 at 11:00 am in the DC’s Conference Hall. All the DP&DB members in Tuensang District are requested to attend the meeting.

ENPO Diphupar Area social work November 15

The General of Eastern Nagaland Peoples Union Diphupar Area will hold a social work in Diphupar ‘A’ Naga Cemetary on November 15. All members residing within the jurisdiction are requested to participate and bring along ‘dao’, spade and gather in the cemetery by 6:00am without fail.

CLP meeting November 18

A meeting of the Congress Legislature Party will be held on November 18 at 11:00 am at the residence of Torechu Yepthomi, MLA at Naharbari Purana Bazar Dimapur. All members are requested to attend the meeting positively.

District level Youth Festival at Wokha WOKHA, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Department of Youth Resources and Sports, Wokha will conduct the District Level Youth Festival on November 22 next at the Town Hall. The event would entail a competition in performing arts, namely folk songs, folk dance, guitar recital and elocution. The winners and the best performer in all competitive items will be selected to represent the district in the forthcoming State Level Youth Festival, which will be held sometime in December 2008. In this connection, K Libemo Jami, Youth Resources Officer of Wokha through a press release informed all interested cultural clubs, academic institution and individuals alike to contact the Youth Resources Office, Wokha for entries and other formalities, during office hours, on or before November 18 next.

NPA GM in Zunheboto KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): The annual general meeting of the Nagaland Pensioners’ Association (NPA) will be held on November 11 and 12, 2008, at the Town hall in Zunheboto. Parliamentary Secretary for Industries & Commerce, Dr. Nihoshe Yepthomi, will grace the occasion as the chief guest, and Deputy Commissioner Zunheboto, Merio Tsanglao, will be the guest of honour at the inaugural session on November 12 at 10 am. Registration of delegates will begin at 9 am. The welcome address will be delivered by the President of Zunheboto Unit, Kughulho Sumi, while members of the Zunheboto Unit NPA will present a welcome song. The business session will be held after the inaugural session.

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Principal Soalemba with Col S C Rana, KC Comdt, 28 AR, and officers in this image released to the media, at the inauguration of the computer centre at Peren Government College, constructed under OP Sadbhavana 2007-08. The entire project worth rupees 12 lakh encompasses a newly constructed block, seven computers, furniture and peripherals, two printers, LAN facility and reference books for basic computer aptitude knowledge.

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Nagaland Pradesh Mahila Congress Committee (NPMCC) today expressed grief at the sudden demise of Kihoto Kinimi, father of Kakheli Zakhalu, Vice President, NPMCC who passed away this afternoon at 3:30 pm at Alaphumi village, Zunheboto district. In a condolence message by its president, Atsole Wazah stated that late Kihoto Kinimi was a strong Congress supporter during his life time, besides being an active social worker, adding also that in his demise the NPMCC has lost a

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Condolences father figure. The NPMCC further conveyed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and prays to the Almighty God to grant them solace and strength and for the departed soul to rest in eternal peace.

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The 15-Southern Angami-II Assembly Constituency Congress Committee (ACCC) expressed shock over the sudden demise of Swülehe Tholre of Kidima village who passed away on November 9 last. In a condolence message by its presi-

dent, Kroyieho Lcho stated that Late Swülehe was a renowned public leader and an active social worker besides being a former Naga Wrestler, who brought fame and laurel to the village in particular and the Southern Angami in general. “His demise is a lost to Kidima villagers and the Southern Angami in general and the vacuum created will be difficult to fill,” the note added.

Lcho conveyed heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family members and prayed for solace and strength at this hour of grief, and also for the departed soul to rest in eternal peace.

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The Entrepreneurs Associates (EA) in collaboration with the Government of Nagaland (GON) is providing a special Entrepreneurship Skills Training capsule to youths and first generation entrepreneurs under the “Year of Capacity Building 2008” Nagaland. The training is for 3 months/ 90 hours of motivational and shared learning inputs along-with hands on experience training.

EA intends to provide micro loans /financial support to trainees who exhibit excellent entrepreneurial skills to start up self employment activities/ business and also provide jobs to interested trainees. We believe this is a rare and great opportunity for our youth to get jobs and take up self employment activities under the “Year of Capacity Building 2008”.

There would be selection of candidates as seats are limited and only shortlisted will be called for interview. Applications must be submitted to Entrepreneurs Associates, Next to Traffic Police Point, NH 39, Kohima, on or before 17th of November 2008 with their bio-data, correspondence address, contact telephones and 3 passport photos.

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): The department of Youth Resources & Sports has planned a district-level Youth Festival at Dimapur to be held on November 21.

Various competitions like folkdance, folksong, guitar recital and elocution will be held at the Festival. Any interested person or groups are invited to collect the form and guidelines at the State Girls Hostel at Half Nagarjan, Dimapur. Winners in the various competitions will further represent the district during the Inter-District competition to be held at Kohima on December 15 to 17, 2008. For further information, one may contact: 9856175508.

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What I think of and what I want to say to our people Nagas Maj. Z.D.Akho

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(I) When we joined underground we did not join to give up our faith in God for gaining worldly power and wealth. We believe that Naga as a nation among the nations of the world is the will of God and to fight for the cause of the Nagas is to do the will of God. We had the courage of like Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego who refused to worship the Image of Gold and dared to be thrown into the fiery furnace and Daniel who did not stop to worship his God and pray against the decree of King Darius and dared to be thrown into the lions’ den. For we believe that the Almighty God’s purpose for us is to fight for the cause of “Nagaland for Christ” and to end our life in fighting means to inherit eternal life.

But today, can any Naga particularly the Christian leaders explain us that the present underground activities of intimidating, kidnapping, extortions, killing etc. are right in the sight of God? This is a very crucial question before us, today. If it is sin and if our National leaders would continue to lead us in this way, we better abandon them or their Nagaland because the Bible says, “What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?”(Mark 8:36-37) We love Nagaland, we are proud of being as Nagas and we believe our Nagaland but all these are because we have our faith in God. Without God it is impossible for the Nagas to imagine of ourselves as a people.

Again, the question before us is, because when underground fight for freedom with the motto “Nagaland for Christ” is very much supported by the people and also the leaders of the underground are the very persons who often speak of God and the Nation, the Naga people mostly the commoners as well as the underground cadres are confused and most of them believe that, though, the underground activities are in every way contravene to the Biblical teachings, it is justifiable as such things are unavoidable to happen during the course of a people fight for freedom. This is the very reason that today; we can remain as Christians and as well as underground men and also supporters of underground though underground’s activities are in complete contravention of the Biblical teachings. I think this is very serious, the Christian leaders must teach us very clearly because we cannot serve both God and mammon. If they do not do this, they will be responsible because in Ezekiel 3:18 the Lord says, “When I say to a wicked man, you will surely die, and you do not warn him or speak out to dissuade him from his evil ways in order to save his life, that wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood”.

Therefore, let us not speak out helplessly or make excuses by saying because of underground threatenings, because of Aks etc. Our Lord Jesus says in Matt. 10:28 “Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell”. Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were in a exile country, Babylon where the people did not know God and worship Him. Though, they were there in the midst of idol worshipers, they did not stop to worship God. They defied the decrees of the King and dared to face the fiery furnace and the lions’ den that were more dreadful than the Aks. Ours is a country where almost of us are Christians. We can say our land is in the hand of the Christian leaders. They have abun-

dant opportunities, they can do and speak out without any fear. Though, we are sinners we as Christians are with them and waiting them to lead us. Queen Esther’s decision must remind of us today, out of her love for her people, the Jews and because of her faith in God, she took the decision and declared, “I will go to the King, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish”.

In a country like ours, our Christian leaders can be brave as like Prophet Samual when he rebuked King Saul for disobeying the Lord’s command to destroy completely the wicked Amalekites and everything that belongs to them. Like Prophet Nathan when he rebuked King David for taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite after strucking him down in the battlefield.

If you really believe that Nagaland is God’s purpose, if you really believe that Nagas are a people belonging to God and if you really believe that you have a mission in it, today, you must tell the underground leaders straight in their face, what is right and what is wrong in the sight of God. If they refuse to listen to you, you must tell the people not to follow them. If you cannot do that, you yourselves are lacking something before God. Today, it is not only the underground that are divided into different groups and make it a habit of defection from one to another. It is also the Christian leaders/church leaders (not all) that are divided into supporting different groups and even shift their stand for supporting from one to another depending on where their men are. The church leaders who are for IM and regular visitors of IM’s camps preach, pray and prophesy as if the IM are the Israelites and the other groups as the enemies of the Israelites. Likewise, who are close to the K, NNC may do the same. Do we mean that there are different gods for the different factions as it is for the idol worshipers that there are the gods of Egyptians, the gods of Philistines etc.? Are there the prophets of Baal among the Nagas, today?

The Hindus/Indians believe that Christianity is a religion and culture of the west and accepting it as a disgrace to their society. This is one of the main points that they hated and opposed the Christianity. We, Nagas too did the same in the early days when the light of the Gospel of Christ was preached and brought into our land. Today, we face the same problem again. Though, in name we are all Christians, we are unable to become practical Christians or born again men because of many reasons of this worldly matters or Naga problems. Let me not say because of this and that in detail but let us all ask ourselves. Are we really Christians?

No, not at all, as the Hindus have a big problem to become Christian, we too have still problems to become practical Christians, as such we are not Christians still, since there is no benefit of being a half Christian.

Today, we blood stained underground cadres long and thirst for the voice of true Christian leaders, the sweetest voice of a Christian leader like Apostle Paul when he said in Galatians 2:20 “ I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me”.

(II) While I was in Class III a teacher of our school who was from Kerela state talked to us about how he heard about the Nagas in Kerela. He told us there the people heard that the Nagas were eating human’s meat. But it was not true, it was only a rumor. Such rumor about the Nagas were heard and talked by some others too. Such was an impossible

thing that the Nagas could do and we believed that we are the most human and possessed the deepest heart of a human being.

As we were backward and uneducated, we might be seen before others as cruel and uncivilized but when we look back and study how we lived and grew up in the family, how we lived and shared together with the villagers and as well as with the people who were around us, we have the deepest of human’s love and relationship. The way how we care for the sick, how we care for the young and old and how we mourn and bury the dead etc. If I describe these in detail of what I saw and experienced it will go too long but let us know that, Nagas were/are not a people who eat human’s meat.

However, today, it is completely different, we live as irrational animals. In the past what some people heard and believed the rumor that Nagas were eating human’s meat was not true. But today, in our very times, Nagas killing of Nagas, those are happening almost every day before the very eyes of ourselves in every part of Nagaland, in town, villages, field, on the road, at home or office etc. are all really a fact. We thought the eating of human’s meat as unimaginable, horrible and shameful though such was a thing that had never been among the Nagas. Then, today, what do we think and say about the Nagas butchering of Nagas? Do we think it, as an act of courageousness? In my opinion, it is in no sense better than the eating of human’s meat. We talk now the head hunting days as a thing of the past and we celebrated the Golden Jubilee, Diamond Jubilee, Centenary and so on of the advent of Christianity into our land.

The Bible tells us in Ist Peter 2:10 “Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy”.

But when we examine our life and our deeds we are just the opposite.

Whom shall we blame for all of these?

Here, I would like to quote what Albert Einstein said and I think this is what exactly mean to the Naga society today. The saying is: “The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing”. Because, it is too long now that we have been so helplessly watching the underground activities. If we are really concern and hope to see the Nagas as a people, it is in the hand of the people, it is the turn of the public leaders, social leaders, church leaders, intellectuals, student leaders etc. to lead the Naga people and not to be deterred by the underground again. Or do we prefer a ruler among us? Do we believe that a dictatorship form of government is best suited for the Nagas? Is this the reason today, we just prefer to watch and see the result of the trial of Survival of the Fittest among the underground groups?

It is really a wonder, thinking what we Nagas really are. We, Nagas think ourselves as brave and we believe our forefathers were brave. Today, our Naga U.G cadres most of them who are composed of semi literate persons fight and kill among themselves not knowing what is fear. It seems they are not even serious and reason why they should kill and why they should die. They are brave as a fool. We are really confused over what is actually call ‘Brave’. Do we mean it because we Nagas could commit such barbarity among ourselves. Is it our bravery because of our ignorance and stupidity? This might be the reason that our forefathers were brave and today, our less educated group of Naga people are committing such killings among

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Therefore, as the more educated Naga people are not brave as the less educated Naga people to fight and kill or to fight and die nor the Naga educated group have the courage to speak up for truth and stand in this moment of danger, whether we like it or not we are bound to be ruled by U.G as they wish. As such the contribution of the Naga Christian leaders and the Naga intellectuals to the Naga society will be in question now and in the days to come for being coward and failing to voice more louder and clearer.

What is a man’s life if we cannot stand up for a truth and fight? Is there none among the Nagas who dares to risk even his life and fight for the sake of truth when almost every day our young men are being killed here and there for nothing and our young men without knowing anything are rushing in there to kill or be killed. Let us remember the words of the Lord Jesus what it says in St. Luke 17:33 “Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it”.

(III) The fact of about the Nagas’ situation today is: The Naga Army whichever group it may be are ever ready to fight and sacrifice their lives for the cause of our freedom. The Naga commoners or the villagers are ever ready to support and if need be, even ready to sacrifice their lives for the cause of our freedom. We, Nagas were/are never in lack of men to fight for the cause of “Nagaland for Christ” It is the question of the Naga leaders both over-ground and underground where they will lead us. We follow where they lead us as it is seeing in the present situation.

The problems today, we are facing are purely because of the leadership. It is because of the power tussle at the top levels that, we are being divided and scattered here and there resulting in weakening ourselves. It is obvious that today, we are being led astray. Our patriotic courage and undying fighting spirit for the Nation are being adversely exploited and badly misused. We are being led into killing our own brothers and sisters purely the reason is stubbornness by the top leaders to reconcile and some other reasons best known to them.

Next is; the most wicked type of Naga people today are from among the kilonsers rank of underground government and the leaders of Public and Social Organizations (not all). They play the most wicked role in the Naga politics and it is on account of them that, we Naga could never come to an agreement and take a bold decision of what is right. Actually, most of them do not have true dedication to any particular group or bitter animosity against any particular group. But they take it as an opportunity to get the post of a leader and so remain under a group or maintain closeness with a group and play politics of their own safety, the safety to remain in their posts instead of fighting for the betterment of the Naga people. to be continued

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PM woos Oman’s businessmen MUSCAT, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wooed business leaders in Oman to invest in India, which, he said, “offered a large and growing market”, during his meeting with them here on Sunday. Singh, who is on his first visit to West Asia, said: “Our total non-oil trade which was less than $200 million in 2000 has gone up seven-fold to around $1.4 billion. I am told this could soon cross $2 billion.” “I would call upon captains of Oman’s industry and financial companies to invest sur plus liquidity into key infrastructure sectors in India. There is vast potential for cooperation in the energy, fertilizers, IT, tourism and education sectors.” “Oman’s economy is witnessing robust growth. There are ambitious plans for investment in infrastructure, diversification of the industrial base, tourism, free trade zones and energy security,” he added.

The Indian economy, Singh said, has witnessed a rapid and sustained growth, averaging nine per cent over the last four years. “The macro economic fundamentals of the economy are sound. Our domestic savings rate is 35 per cent of our GDP and our investment rate is 37 per cent of our GDP. Our young demographic profile will lead to a further increase in these rates of savings and investment over the coming years,” the PM said. “Our infrastructure financing needs are estimated to be $500 US billion in the next five years. India offers a large and growing market. Despite the global economic downturn, the Indian economy is expected to maintain a growth rate of 7 to 7.5 per cent next year.”

India is likely to sign a Free Trade Agreement with the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council by next year. The PM held extensive discussions on the FTA with Oman on this issue.

On the MoU signed to establish the India-Oman Joint Investment Fund on Saturday, he said the Fund is the first step to facilitate investments in infrastructure, tourism, health, telecom, utilities, urban infrastructure and other sectors. “Against the background of the current international economic and financial situation I suggest there is an even greater need for us to join hands to shape counter-cyclical growth strategies,” the PM said. Later, addressing the Indian community members at the Indian embassy here, Singh said, “The fundamentals of our economy are strong. Our banking system and financial institutions are well capitalized and secure. I have constituted a high level committee to monitor the situation and suggest short-term and long-term measure to use this opportunity to further accelerate our growth.” “Your contribution to the development of India is invaluable. Annual remittances from Oman are more than $780 million,” he said.

Land on moon available for Rs 1,000 per acre NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 10 (CNN-IBN): If you’ve been house hunting lately, you will know that with prices over the moon, there is nothing available for love or money. But the moon has already been surveyed by a dozen moonwalkers.

Sites like lunarembassy.com, lunarregistry.com and moonshop. com, will only be too glad to sell you a piece of your own celestial hearth. The commute would be a drag but there’s plenty of space and the view is to die for. A whole acre costs a measly Rs 1,000. No wonder then, even Indians have put down a deposit.

Anish Das Gupta who bought land on the moon, says, “This is something

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that will be taking place soon that common people will be travelling to the moon. People can call me ‘loony’ or whatever they want, but I don’t mind.” Is it really possible to live on the moon? Well, scientists know it’s rich in minerals and believe it might have frozen water. Which is why NASA’s planning a lunar post by 2020.

And people have already begun naming the plots – The Sea of Tranquility, Mount Agnes and the Alpes Valley – to name a few. Of course, to start building, one will need to get there first. And guess what, Google has offered $30 million in prize money for anyone who can build a personal spacecraft to fly to the moon.

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Tuesday 11 November 2008

Dimapur

Arrested ‘militants’ released

CALCUTTA, NOVEMBER 10 (THE TELEGRAPH): Forty-eight hours after putting seven youths from Manipur, said to be members of the People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (Prepak), behind bars at the Lalbazar central lockup here, police released all of them yesterday. The decision to release the youths was taken after police officials from Manipur arrived here yesterday and gave a clean chit to the seven young men, saying in writing that there were no cases pending against them.

According to police sources, the team from Manipur interrogated the seven youths throughout the day.

After the clean chit, the po-

lice forwarded them to the Bankshal court, where the suspected militants were released.

“On Friday, the seven youths were arrested on the basis of a military intelligence tip-off from an auction house on Lenin Sarani here.

We contacted our counterparts in Manipur and a team of officials rushed here. They examined them thoroughly and gave us in writing that none of them was wanted in any case,” said special inspector-general of Special Task Force (STF) Rajeev Kumar.

The army spokesperson at Fort William refused to comment on the arrest. “We don’t have all the information about the release,” he

said. The seven youths had gone to attend an auction of used cars of the Border Roads Organisation. The STF personnel were tipped off that that since the vehicles were from the Northeast and most of the bidders were from that region, members of Prepak would be there to extort money from the buyers.

Though the STF officials could not find any evidence against the youths, they detained them and informed Manipur police. “We sent the photographs and other details of the seven youths within a couple of hours of bringing them to Lalbazar police headquarters,” said an STF official. According to him, Manipur police wanted to interrogate the

youths and left for Calcutta after confirming that three of the arrested seven, identified as T. Kantha Singh, Abiyoma Singh and Chittaranjan Singh, had been arrested earlier and released on bail.

The three youths were staying at Madhyamgram in the North 24-Parganas for the past month. The names of the other four, who had arrived in Calcutta a week ago and were staying in lodges around Chowringhee, were not mentioned in the police record books. “Since the Manipur police were yet to reach the city, we had no option but to arrest the seven youth. Our hands were tied because the Indian Penal Code does not allow us to detain a person,” A pair of Rosy Pelican basking the sun at Assam State Zoo in Guwahati on Monday morning November 10. (UB PHOTOS) explained the officer.

Mizoram nameless bank Migrant drive irks Assam prime suspect arrested

Newmai News Network Aizawl | November 10

THE SPECIAL Investigation Team’ set up by the government of Mizoram has confirmed that they have managed to nab C. Lalmuanpuii, the prime suspect behind the Chiahpuam bank or ‘nameless/faceless banks’ scandal in the state.

The state police however refused to disclose any other information as the case is still under investigation. Acting on a tip-off, the police special investigation team left for Assam on November 8 and managed to nab Lalmuanpuii on November 9.

Police sources stated that Lalmuanpuii was captured near Pathar Gandhi Police Station in Assam’s Karimganj district. She was hiding in a non-Mizo house in Hailakandi Road, sources said.

Speaking to NNN,

Aizawl South SDPO David H Lalthangliana, one of the members of the police special team told that they were able to capture Muanpuii mainly because of the tight co-operation and good co-ordination maintained among the special team, the police and the CID. “Yes we have nabbed her.

However, as we have only kept her in custody for one night, we do not have any further information other than her capture. All the statements she has given are still yet to be confirmed and we do not know why she had left Mizoram,” he said. The police officer also added that they still do not know whether she works under some people and the police are investigating to ascertain it.

Meanwhile, the special police team till date has taken into custody 22 other suspects in the Chiahpuam or

‘nameless bank’ scandal and also that a total sum of Rs. 2,41,84,400 has been seized till so far. The special team has also seized 61 cheque books, 14 LSC and 17 vehicles.

Police sources stated that over 150 FIR have been filed in connection with the Chiahpuam or nameless bank. Police sources have also stated that as the scandal is one of the biggest cases in Mizoram police history, the special team is careful in their investigation and the case cannot be speedied up as against the wishes of depositors.

“We ask the people to have patience with the police as the whereabouts of a few of our suspects are still yet to be traced. We also want to request everyone who has any information in this regard to contact the Aizawl police station,” a police official stated.

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G U W A H A T I / SHILLONG, NOVEMBER 10 (THE TELEGRAPH): Dispur has claimed that the 130-odd “illegal migrants” Meghalaya had picked up and pushed into Assam last week, were genuine “Indian” citizens, mostly Assamese.

Meghalaya police had rounded up nearly 190 suspected Bangladeshis on November 2, two days after the serial blasts in Assam on October 30. The suspects were working in various parts of Shillong and lived in the Bangladeshi colony.

Since they did not have the papers to prove their “Indianness” and claimed to have come from Assam, they were evicted by the Meghalaya police. CMO sources said Dispur decided to lodge a formal complaint on the issue with Shillong after the border wing of Assam police found out that the “illegal migrants” picked up by Meghalaya police and pushed into Assam were Indian citizens —from Dhubri, Bongaigaon, Nagaon and Kampur.

While some are originally from the Hindi-speaking belt, a few are Nepali and others belong to local tribes of Assam.

“We had sought a report from the border wing. The final report will be ready within a week but we have enough facts to challenge the eviction by Meghalaya police. We are also in favour of the drive against illegal Bangladeshis but it should not be at the cost of our own nationals,” a CMO source said.

This is not the first time that the Congress-led Assam government has protested against such drives. Last year, it had come out in support of “migrants” evicted from Arunachal Pradesh by having their names published in newspapers as genuine Indian citizens following pressure from leaders of the minority community, the Congress’s traditional votebank. Meghalaya, on the other hand, is firming up its anti-infilttration movement with chief minister Donkupar Roy ready to convene a meeting of head-

men, NGOs and legislators to discuss the problem of influx.

A delegation of 16 NGOs had submitted a memorandum to Roy demanding a separate directorate to check infiltration in the state.

Though the chief minister said the directorate would not be feasible, he decided to devise other ways to curb influx with the help of NGOs. The KSU general secretary, Hamlet Dohling, said the organisation, along with the Garo Students Union, held a meeting with urban affairs minister Paul Lyngdoh on Friday and discussed the need to introduce work permits to check influx from Bangladesh.

Lyngdoh, who is also the chairman of the cabinet committee on influx, assured the KSU-GSU delegation that work permits would be issued by December. The only hurdle is that the work permit proposal, which comes with a price tag of Rs 3 crore, is still pending with the planning department for clearance.

Manipur employees threaten cease work

IMPHAL, NOVEMBER 10 (THE TELEGRAPH): Manipur government employees will go on strike later this month to support the demand to implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission.

The employees are at present sporting black badges as part of their campaign to pressure the government into implementing the hiked pay rates. They have been wearing black badges since November 6.

“The black badge campaign will continue up to November 12. From the next day we will apply work-torule up to November 19,” Priyobrata Singh, the publicity secretary of the Joint Administrative Council of the employees’ unions, said today. The employees will then launch a pen down strike from November 20 to 26. An indefinite ceasework will follow from November 27.

“We do not want to launch any agitation as the situation in the state is bad.

But we are compelled to do so as the government is indifferent to our demands,” the secretary said. He, however, said the employees would call off the agitation if the government responded positively. So far, there has been no response from the government.

The employees said the central government employees were paid according to the revised payscales. “We are suffering and the government must come to our rescue,” they said. The All Manipur State Employees Council, another organisation of government employees, submitted a memorandum to chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh yesterday, demanding an increased in the minimum wage of skilled workers from the current Rs 150 to Rs 180.

Once Allied Army launching pad, Pangsau Pass now a drug route Sikkim backs ‘Gorkhaland’, mends past wounds PANGSAU PASS (INDOMYANMAR BORDER), NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): It was a remote and inaccessible area from where the Allied forces had launched counter-attack against the Japanese Army during World War II, but for the past few decades it has been the route used predominantly by drug traffickers and militants to cross into Myanmar and back.

Pangsu Pass, also called the 'Hell Pass' for its hazardous terrain and perched 3,727 feet above sea level on the historic Stillwell road of the Patkai mountain range, is the last post along the border with Myanmar in the Arunachal Pradesh sector and had played a prominent role in the Allied campaign against Japan in Burma (now Myanmar).

A deceptively serene lake on the Myanmar side along with an abandoned helipad, a war cemetery and the 1700 km-long Stillwell road leading to China amidst verdant

rain forests bear mute testimony to the Allied campaign.

In the last three decades the area has turned into a nightmare for security forces with several militant organisations like the NSCN (IM) and ULFA using it to sneak in and out of Myanmar after receiving arms and training from the Kachin guerrillas based in that country, a senior defence official said.

About 12 kms from the last Indian border town of Nampong in Arunachal Pradesh's Changlang district, the security of the area is under Assam Rifles and entry to the area is highly restricted to check the movement of both militants and drug traffickers operating through the route, the official said.

The Centre, however, under its recent 'Look East Policy' has initiated steps for trade ties between the two countries through this point and a weekly market is held on the Myanmar side where people from India go for

trading, a senior official of the Arunachal Pradesh government said.

Myanmarese citizens, too, come regularly to Nampong for buying products of daily use including foodstuff and other household products.

A correspondent witnessed groups of Myanmarese youth with loaded baskets trekking up the mountain while several young men whizzed past in racer motor bikes with their pillions heaped with a variety of goods bought at Nampong. ''We usually go to Nampong to buy essentials like salt, oil and other household articles as it is not easily available in this part of Myanmar,'' said Shoeue, a young Myanmarese lady, who had some knowledge of Hindi and Assamese.

A customs office was under construction on the Indian side and is expected to be operational soon. The area occupies an important place in the annals of world history as the Patkai range

was one of the most difficult terrains in the world where road construction was done

by Allied forces, led by General Jospeh W Stillwell while fighting the Japanese.

According to war records, the Stillwell road, originally called the Ledo road, was built to link the 1,257- km Burma road into China to fight the Japanese forces who had captured the whole of Burma in 1942. The construction of the road began in 1942 and ran from Ledo in Assam to Myitkyina in Myanmar from where the Burma road ran to Kunming in China's Yunnan province.

The first supplies to the beleaguered Chinese Army fighting the Japanese onslaught travelled the whole route in 1945, according to the records. Beneath the shimmering water of the 'Lake of no Return' inside Myanmar lies the debris of several aircraft used by the Allied forces who perhaps attempted to land in a near-

by helipad, but crashed into the lake and its surrounding swamps.

Another war relic is a cemetery at Jairampur on the Stillwell road in the Indian side with about 1000 graves of Allied soldiers, believed to be of Chinese, Indian, Kachins, British and American soldiers who died in the Second World War, and was discovered by security forces a few years ago.

The cemetery covered with thick jungles on the banks of Namchik river was cleared by the army and they found the graves enclosed within an area of about three acres. The boundary was enclosed by concrete posts with entrance on three sides and the graves are arranged in five lines and several rows with a large grave at the centre, which was probably a mass burial. Most of the graves have, however, been damaged by marauding wild elephants, vagaries of nature and sheer neglect.

Crime against women rising in Meghalaya

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Shillong | November 10

ARMY RECRUITMENT RALLY AT KOHIMA ON 22 TO 30 NOV 2008

Newmai News Network

THE STATISTICS of the Meghalaya police and State Women Commission have revealed 200 rape and 47 attempted rape cases in the matriarchal society of Meghalaya from the year 2001 to 2008.

Meghalaya, known and renowned for its unique matrilineal society and which made Pratibha Patil, President of India “highly impressed” during her visit in the state on October 22, has shown the other side of the feature.

Crime against the fairer sex in Meghalaya is fast-rising in spite of the fact that the Domestic Violence Act had come into force in the year 2006.

With the appointment of protection officers under the Act in various states, the Act is to give assistance to the abused women for medical examination, legal aid and safe shelter.

Further, the Domestic Violence Act was implemented with the aim to set imprisonment and monetary fine for violence and harassment including physical, verbal, emotional and economical outrage of the modesty of

women. However, Meghalaya has not provided any official record to the Centre despite the increasing cases of crime against women, especially the cases of rape victims in the state, which has risen to 200 rape and 47 attempted rape cases during the last seven years in the state. Meanwhile, the culprits of the rape of a minor girl Monica Biswakarma in the year 2002 and the mystery alleged rape and murder of Darihun Lyngwi in Meghalaya in the month of June are yet to be found.

Sussane Marak, chairperson of Meghalaya State Women Commission expressed concern about the rising crime-graph in the state.

She had called for setting up of “women specific fast-track court” in all the district headquarters in Meghalaya for speedy action in solving and arresting criminals for timely justice to the victims.

Marak said that the SWC would play a proactive role in fighting against crime and atrocities against women and has appealed to the police and judiciary to take up effective measures to reduce crime and violence against women.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

HOME DEPARTMENT: RAJYA SAINIK BOARD Dated, Kohima the 10th Nov 2008

The Army Recruitment Office, Rangapahar (Dimapur) will be conducting Army Recruitment Rally at IG Stadium, Kohima from 22 Nov to 30 Nov 2008 for candidates of all Dists of Nagaland as per programme given below: Date Districts Min Edn Post(s) Age Qualification 22 Nov 2008 (a) For sons of serving/ VIII std & above SoI (GD) 17 ½ to ex-servicemen, sons of 23 yrs war widows and widows of serving personnel/ ex-servicemen and NNC Cadets only of all districts (b) For candidates of all 10+2 pass SoI Tech, SoI districts & above (all Clk/SKT and SoI -dostreams) Nursing Asst 23 Nov 2008 Kiphire, Kohima & Mon VIII Std & above SoI (GD) -do24 Nov 2008 Zunheboto & Dimapur -do-do-do25 Nov 2008 Tuensang & Peren -do-do-do26 Nov 2008 Mokokchung & Phek -do-do-do27 Nov 2008 Wokha & Longleng -do-do-do 28-29 Nov Documentation & Medical 2008 30 Nov 2008 Written test for all selected candidates of all categories who are medically fit 2. Eligible/intending candidates are advised to report at IG Stadium, Kohima at 05:30 AM daily 3. For further details & documents candidates may contact Secretary, Rajya Sainik Board, Nagaland (Kohima) on Phone No 0370-2270029.

(Wg Cdr Rajeev Dong (Retd)) Deputy Director Rajya Sainik Board, Nagaland

DARJEELING, NOVEMBER 10 (SNS): Sikkim government has extended an olive branch to mend its fallout with Gorkha Jana Mukti Morcha by announcing that it would help strengthen the Gorkhaland movement spearheaded by the party as and when required. “ The demand for Gorkhaland is justified because the Gorkhas are not demanding a separation from the country rather a separate state within India. Even the Union Minister has said that this is not an unconstitutional demand. We will support the demand in all ways that we can”, said BB Goorong, advisor to Sikkim chief minister Pawan Chamling at the release of a book based on Indian Idol Prashant Tamang in Darjeeling today.

Differences had marred

the once cordial relations between Sikkim government and GJMM over the frequent blockade of NH 31 A- Sikkim’s only link with the rest of the country- a stretch of which falls within the Kalimpong sub-division of Darjeeling district that is disrupted due to the frequent strikes for the separate state movement. The issue escalated when the Supreme Court reacting to a PIL by a Sikkim resident OP Bhandari had instructed the West Bengal government to intervene in the matter. Sikkim though has always verbally supported the cause of Gorkhaland and had gone on record saying it would adopt a resolution in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly in favour of it.

But of late it had maintained a stoic silence despite

several appeals from the GJMM to officially sponsor the demand. Today, Goorong condemned two or three political parties coming in way of a “genuine leader” as GJMM president Bimal Gurung.

“History will not pardon those who are trying to pose hurdles to the Gorkhaland movement. The future generation should not forgive them”, he said. The GJMM leadership appreciated the gesture. “Mr Goorong has spoken and we value their support greatly” Gurung said.

Meanwhile the All Transport Joint Action Committee, a GJMM affiliate has decided to bar movement of vehicles on all routes within the Gorkhaland territory on 11 November protesting the Left-Front government’s effort to transfer the Motor Vehicle department to Siliguri.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND Nagaland State eGovernance Society (NSeGS)

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & TECHNICAL EDUCATION (Below New Secretariat, Thizama Road) Nagaland: Kohima 797001

No.NSeGS/NagaSWAN-4/2008

Dated 10th November 2008

NOTICE INVITING TENDER NSeGS, Department of Information Technology & Technical Education, Govt. of Nagaland the implementing agency for the NagaSWAN Project invites bids for Supply, Installation, Commissioning & Operation of the NagaSWAN as per the detailed specification given in the tender document on Build, Own, Operate & Transfer (BOOT) basis for a period of 5 years to carry Data, Voice & Video traffic between various location of the State of Nagaland.

Bid documents may be obtained in person by the interested bidder from the above address on payment of a non-refundable fee of Rs 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) only in the form of a Demand Draft in favour of “CEO, NSeGS” and payable at Kohima during office hours on working days upto 09-12-2008. In case the tender form is sought by post Rs 500/- towards postal charges will be charged extra. The bidders can also download the bid documents from http://www.itngl.nic.in, http://www.nagaland.nic.in. The bidders must enclose the above fee at the time of submission of bid documents. For any other queries The Director, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & TECHNICAL EDUCATION, Government of Nagaland may be contacted.

IMPORTANT DATES Last date of receipt of queries on RFP : 01-12-2008, 05:00 pm Pre-Bid Conference : 03-12-2008, 11:00 AM Last date of Submission of Bids : 10-12-2008, 12:00 Noon The bid document should reach the above address before the last date of submission.

Secretary to the Govt of Nagaland & CEO, Nagaland State eGovernance Society, Directorate of Information Technology & Technical Education, Nagaland: Kohima

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The Power of Truth

The Morung Express TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2008 VOL. III ISSUE 313

Say Yes to Hope

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oday, people have come out to stand together in solidarity to express their collective support for Nagas to come together as one. Their yearning for peace demonstrates the deep manifestation to live together in peace and for all Nagas to non-violently work together in common purpose and understanding; and to ensure their rights and aspirations are realized in a decisive manner. A time has once again dawned upon the Nagas to collectively discern and choose between Fear and Hope.

Some have said that Hope is what threatens power; Hope is what drives the revolution forward. If hope is a decisive element that defines the line between status quo and transformation, between oppression and justice, then surely hope is what the powers that be would like to erase. But hope is what the voices of change should nurture and strengthen. The anti-thesis of hope is fear. There is a constant battle between hope and fear, and eventually, the one that succeed defines the existential fate of how a nation conducts its affairs.

Just as it is the struggle between memory and forgetting, it is the struggle between hope and fear. While hope is life-giving, fear paralyzes life. Hope is abstract and dwells on the bigger picture, while Fear is immediate and very concrete, it is very real and has the capacity to rip families apart, destroy resources and obstruct the growth of a nation. It is the intent of the powers that be to ebb away any form of hope and create conditions that instill fear in people’s minds. Often it seeks to create fear that leads to hate and creation of the image of an enemy, and its dehumanization.

Nagas are at a time when they have to search deep within themselves and collectively decide what to choose – hope or fear.

There is no doubt that fear as gripped the Naga heart and mind which has done more damage than good. It has further fragmented the society, sown seeds of suspicion and division, replaced critical thinking with complacency and most of all; it has induced a situation where people are no longer living. Consequently, people are becoming indifferent to the question of the common good, and have increasingly accepted the status quo as the norm. For Nagas to grow as a nation, they require leaders that can bring out the spirit of hope and confidence. The common Naga person needs to be assured of hope and to know that any form of change that comes should represent hope and life. It requires a vision, a vision that embraces a dignified future, a vision that represents hope. The Naga youths are looking and yearning for a direction that will enable an understanding in which hope overcomes fear and assumes a critical position of determination.

The future stands on soft and precarious ground. Nagas cannot wait for hope to come to them, they must choose hope and commit themselves to attaining it through their actions. A starting point is saying NO to fear and YES to hope. The steps toward hope must be an active, energetic and organized process. Hope is the most basic need for Nagas to be transformative. For too long, Nagas have continuously lived in the past and it has reached a point of saturation.

To move forward the present generation is dependent on hope, a hope that is transformative and visionary. Naga youths of today must not be the generation that breaks faith with life. It must take responsibility of building upon an understanding of the shared humanity and passing on hope to the next generation. Never before has the peril of Naga survival been put to such test. An open-ended process of critically engaging in constructive sharing is required.

Nagas must choose hope if they are to survive, flourish and realize their full potential as dignified human beings. Hope is the decisive element. Hopefully, Nagas will choose Hope!

LEFT WING |

Nicholas D. Kristof

Obama and the War on Brains

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arack Obama's election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual. Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and educated leadership is no panacea, but we've seen recently that the converse - a White House that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance - doesn't get very far either.

We can't solve our educational challenges when, according to polls, Americans are approximately as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution, and when one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the Earth. Almost half of young Americans said in a 2006 poll that it was not necessary to know the locations of countries where important news was made. That must be a relief to Sarah Palin, who, according to Fox News, didn't realize that Africa was a continent rather than a country. Perhaps John Kennedy was the last president who was unapologetic about his intellect and about luring the best minds to his cabinet. More recently, we've had some smart and welleducated presidents who scrambled to hide it. Richard Nixon was a self-loathing intellectual, and Bill Clinton camouflaged a fulgent brain behind folksy Arkansas aphorisms about hogs.

As for President George W. Bush, he adopted anti-intellectualism as administration policy, repeatedly rejecting expertise (from Middle East experts, climate scientists and reproductive health specialists). Bush is smart in the sense of remembering facts and faces, yet I can't think of anybody I've ever interviewed who appeared so uninterested in ideas. At least since Adlai Stevenson's campaigns for the presidency in the 1950s, it's been a disadvantage in American politics to seem too learned. Thoughtfulness is portrayed as wimpishness, and careful deliberation is for sissies. The social critic William Burroughs once bluntly declared that "intellectuals are deviants in the U.S." (It doesn't help that intellectuals are often as full of themselves as of ideas. After one of Stevenson's high-brow speeches, an admirer yelled out something like, You'll have the vote of every thinking American! Stevenson is said to have shouted back: That's not enough. I need a majority!) Yet times may be changing. How else do we explain the election in 2008 of an Ivy League-educated law professor who has favorite philosophers and poets? Granted, Obama may have been protected from accusations of excessive intelligence by his race. That distracted everyone, and as a black man he didn't fit the stereotype of a pointy-head ivory tower elitist. But it may also be that Bush has discredited superficiality.

An intellectual is a person interested in ideas and comfortable with complexity. Intellectuals read the classics, even when no one is looking, because they appreciate the lessons of Sophocles and Shakespeare that the world abounds in uncertainties and contradictions, and - Bush, lend me your ears - that leaders self-destruct when they become too rigid and too intoxicated with the fumes of moral clarity. (Intellectuals are for real. In contrast, a pedant is a supercilious show-off who drops references to Sophocles and masks his shallowness by using words like "fulgent" and "supercilious.")

Obama, unlike most politicians near a microphone, exults in complexity. He doesn't condescend or oversimplify nearly as much as politicians often do, and he speaks in paragraphs rather than sound bites. Global Language Monitor, which follows linguistic issues, reports that in the final debate, Obama spoke at a ninth-grade reading level, while John McCain spoke at a seventh-grade level. As Obama prepares to take office, I wish I could say that smart people have a great record in power. They don't. Just think of Emperor Nero, who was one of the most intellectual of ancient rulers - and who also killed his brother, his mother and his pregnant wife; then castrated and married a slave boy who resembled his wife; probably set fire to Rome; and turned Christians into human torches to light his gardens.

James Garfield could simultaneously write Greek with one hand and Latin with the other, Thomas Jefferson was a dazzling scholar and inventor, and John Adams typically carried a book of poetry. Yet all were outclassed by George Washington, who was among the least intellectual of our early presidents. Yet as Obama goes to Washington, I'm hopeful that his fertile mind will set a new tone for our country. Maybe someday soon our leaders no longer will have to shuffle in shame when they're caught with brains in their heads.

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C O M M E N T A R Y

Al Gore

The Climate for Change

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he inspiring and transformative choice by the American people to elect Barack Obama as our 44th president lays the foundation for another fateful choice that he - and we - must make this January to begin an emergency rescue of human civilization from the imminent and rapidly growing threat posed by the climate crisis. The electrifying redemption of America's revolutionary declaration that all human beings are born equal sets the stage for the renewal of U.S. leadership in a world that desperately needs to protect its primary endowment: the integrity and livability of the planet.

The world authority on the climate crisis, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, after 20 years of detailed study and four unanimous reports, now says that the evidence is "unequivocal." To those who are still tempted to dismiss the increasingly urgent alarms from scientists around the world, ignore the melting of the north polar ice cap and all of the other apocalyptic warnings from the planet itself, and who roll their eyes at the very mention of this existential threat to the future of the human species, please wake up.

Our children and grandchildren need you to recognize the truth, before it is too late.

Here is the good news: The bold steps that are needed to solve the climate crisis are exactly the same steps that ought to be taken in order to solve the economic crisis and the energy security crisis. Economists across the spectrum agree that rapid investments in a jobs-intensive infrastructure initiative is the best way to revive the U.S. economy in a quick and sustainable way. Many also agree that our economy will fall behind if we continue spending billions of dollars on foreign oil. Moreover, national security experts in both parties agree that we face a dangerous strategic vulnerability if the world suddenly loses access to Middle Eastern oil.

Thirty-five years ago this past week, President Richard Nixon created Project Independence, which set a national goal that, within seven years, the United States would develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources." His statement came three weeks after the Arab oil embargo had sent prices skyrocketing and woke America to the dangers of dependence on foreign oil. And it came only three years after U.S. domestic oil production had peaked. At the time, the United States imported less than a third of its oil from foreign countries. Yet today, after all six of the presidents succeeding Nixon repeated some version of his goal, our dependence has doubled from one-third to nearly two-thirds - and many feel that

global oil production is at or near its peak.

Some still see this as a problem of domestic production. If we could only increase oil and coal production at home, they argue, then we wouldn't have to rely on imports. Some have come up with even dirtier and more expensive ways to extract the same old fuels, like coal liquids, oil shale and "clean coal" technology. But in every case, the resources in question are much too expensive or polluting, or, in the case of "clean coal," too imaginary to make a difference in protecting either our national security or the global climate. If the coal industry can make good on this promise, then I'm all for it. But until that day comes, we simply cannot any longer base the strategy for human survival on a cynical and self-interested illusion.

Here's what we can do - now: We can make an immediate and large strategic investment to put people to work replacing 19th-century energy technologies that de-

pend on dangerous and expensive carbonbased fuels with 21st-century technologies that use fuel that is free forever: the sun, the wind and the natural heat of the earth.

What follows is a five-part plan to repower America with a commitment to producing 100 percent of our electricity from carbonfree sources within 10 years.

First, the new president and the new Congress should offer large-scale investment incentives for the construction of concentrated solar thermal plants in the Southwestern deserts, wind farms in the corridor stretching from Texas to the Dakotas and advanced plants in geothermal hot spots that could produce large amounts of electricity.

Second, we should begin the planning and construction of a unified national smart grid for the transport of renewable electricity from the rural places where it is mostly generated to the cities where it is mostly used. The cost of this modern grid - $400 billion over 10 years - pales in comparison

Crisis and Opportunity Ban Ki Moon, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Donald Tusk & Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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s world leaders gather in Washington over the weekend, they would do well to remember that we face two crises. The global financial crisis is most immediate; the more existential is climate change. The urgency of the first is no excuse for neglecting the second. On the contrary, it is an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

Let us make the case purely in terms of pragmatic economics. Global growth is slowing. Budgets are tightening. We will likely have fewer resources to tackle a lengthening agenda of global problems. What steps can we take, then, to create jobs and spur growth? How can we assure energy supplies at affordable prices? What must we do to insulate the global financial system from recurring shocks and cyclical bubbles, so that people of all nations can live in economic security?

The answer is to find common solutions to the grave challenges facing us. And when it comes to two of the most serious - the financial crisis and climate change - that answer is the green economy.

Scientists agree: To address climate change, we need an energy revolution, a wholesale change in how we power our societies. Economists agree as well: The hottest growth industry in the world is renewable energy. That's where the jobs of the future are already being created, and where much of the technological innovation is taking place that will usher in the next era of economic transformation.

Practical philosophers remind us that tomorrow begins today. Yes, this weekend's financial summit in Washington is critical. But we face no less a test in early December, when nations gather in Poznan, Poland, for the next round of UN climate convention negotiations. The meeting marks the half-way point along the Bali road map, embraced in Indonesia last year. It aims to set the stage for a grand bargain in Copenhagen next December, when world leaders come together to negotiate an ambitious climate change agreement that all nations can embrace.

At Poznan, environment and climate ministers will meet for the first time to chart out a long-term vision of cooperative action. To reach a deal in Copenhagen, we need a clear work-plan with specific goals for reducing emissions and adapting to the adverse effects of climate change. We need an agreed institutional architecture, a serious commitment to an Adaptation Fund and, above all, a willingness of both developing and developed nations to do their part. Financing will be key. If developing nations lack the financial resources and technologies to "go green," we cannot effectively fight climate change.

Wishes do not automatically translate into deeds.

But let us be clear: That is what businesses, investors, governments and citizens' groups want. In fact, it is already happening. The UN Environment Program estimates that global investment in zero-greenhouse

energy will reach $1.9 trillion by 2020 - a significant portion of global GDP. Worldwide, nearly two million people are employed in the new wind and solar power industries, half of them in China alone. Brazil's biofuels program has been creating nearly a million jobs annually. In Germany, investments in environmental technology are expected to quadruple over the coming years, reaching 16 percent of manufacturing output by 2030 and employing more workers than the automobile industry.

We do not need to await the arrival of new technologies, nor need we worry excessively about the costs of taking action. Studies show that the United States could cut carbon emissions significantly at low or near-zero cost, using existing know-how.

For evidence, consider how Denmark has invested heavily in green growth. Since 1980, GDP increased 78 percent with only minimal increases in energy consumption. Poland has cut emissions by a third over the past 17 years through aggressive energyefficiency measures, even as its economy boomed.

For businesses, such savings translate into profits.

Today, European companies in the green tech sector enjoy substantial "first mover" advantages, accounting for one third of the world's burgeoning market in environmental technologies.

With the right policies and incentives we can steer economic growth in a low-carbon direction.

With the right policies and the right incentives, we can be sure that developed and developing countries alike contribute to the cause of fighting global warming, without compromising every nation's right to the economic well-being of its citizens.

The most forward-looking chief executives know this. That's one reason why businesspeople in so many parts of the world are demanding clear and consistent policies on climate change. Let us accept that there are many paths to Rome. In Poznan, and later in Copenhagen, some will seek strict emissions limits. Others will prefer voluntary targets. Still others will debate the pros and cons of "cap-and-trade" carbon markets versus taxes and national conservation regulation. Many will call for policies to reduce deforestation, accounting for roughly a fifth of green-house gas emissions. Investment of $17 billion to $30 billion annually could halve that amount while boosting conservation-related employment in tropical countries like Indonesia We need all of these approaches. Even more, we will need leadership. The global financial crisis is a wake-up call. It requires innovative solutions that take into account the larger challenges we face. It is not an invitation to defer what needs to be done to safeguard our future. We have no more time to lose.

with the annual loss to American business of $120 billion due to the cascading failures that are endemic to our current balkanized and antiquated electricity lines.

Third, we should help America's automobile industry (not only the Big Three but the innovative new startup companies as well) to convert quickly to plug-in hybrids that can run on the renewable electricity that will be available as the rest of this plan matures. In combination with the unified grid, a nationwide fleet of plug-in hybrids would also help to solve the problem of electricity storage. With this sort of grid, cars could be charged during off-peak energy-use hours; during peak hours, when fewer cars are on the road, they could contribute their electricity back into the national grid.

Fourth, we should embark on a nationwide effort to retrofit buildings with better insulation and energy-efficient windows and lighting. This initiative should be coupled with the proposal in Congress to help Americans who are burdened by mortgages that exceed the value of their homes. Fifth, the United States should lead the way by putting a price on carbon here at home, and by leading the world's efforts to replace the Kyoto treaty next year in Copenhagen with a more effective treaty that caps global carbon dioxide emissions and encourages nations to invest together in efficient ways to reduce global warming pollution quickly, including by sharply reducing deforestation.

Of course, the best way to secure a global agreement to safeguard our future is by re-establishing the United States as the country with the moral and political authority to lead the world toward a solution. Looking ahead, I have great hope that we will have the courage to embrace the changes necessary to save our economy, our planet and ultimately ourselves.

In an earlier transformative era, President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation to land a man on the moon within 10 years.

Eight years and two months later, Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface. The average age of the systems engineers cheering on Apollo 11 from the Houston control room that day was 26, which means that their average age when Kennedy announced the challenge was 18. This year similarly saw the rise of young Americans, whose enthusiasm electrified Barack Obama's campaign.

There is little doubt that this same group of energized youth will play an essential role in this project to secure our national future, once again turning seemingly impossible goals into inspiring success.

Al Gore, vice president of the United States from 1993 to 2001, was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.

Letters to the Editor Invoke to Government of Nagaland “To recognize contiguous Naga tribes, areas, villages”

•Sir, In the context of the Naga integration implementation process which is amenable by the government of Nagaland and the Nagaland Legislative Assembly if desires to solve the issue.

The Arunachal Pradesh Nagas, Assam Nagas, Myanmar Nagas and Manipur Nagas have been urging the government of Nagaland on several occasions to implement the 16-point agreement according to clause 12 & 13, signed between the government of India (GOI) and the Naga people convention (NPC) in 1960, in fact, the exact Naga integration was done when the 16-point agreement was politically legalized, officially approved and authenticated by the government of India and the NPC. Also, resulting in the creation of the present Nagaland state under the parameter of 16-point agreement, refer to clauses 12 & 13, where it is crystal clear to all well versed Nagas.

Clause: - 12 Retransfer of reserved forests: All the reserved forests and the Naga areas that were transferred out of the Naga area will be returned to Nagaland with a clearly defined boundary under the present settlement.

Clause: - 13 Consolidation of contiguous Naga areas: The other Naga tribes inhabiting the areas contiguous to the present Nagaland be allowed to join Nagaland if they so desire.

On the factual cause, the mass movement for entire Naga areas integration, unity and solidarity front (MMENAIUSF). Fervently invoke the government of Nagaland to recognize the contiguous Naga tribes, areas, villages, which are irreproachable, according to the said clause which does not stipulate any schedule time table frame or bound, such as, the hour, day, week, month and year etc. The integration door is still open to all Naga tribes, areas, villages. There is nothing questionable on the Naga integration, Naga unity and Naga solidarity according to the clauses.

That, the MMENAIUSF, strongly appeal to the government of Nagaland to let the contiguous Naga tribes, areas, villages, exercise referendum in order to take stock and ascertain the correct assessment whether the contiguous Naga tribes, areas, villages whishes to live together or not. There upon a clear picture will come out to proof the Naga Indigenous people mandate, which boundary which state, territory Nagas belongs to.

The Naga tribes are compelled to express deep and serious concern over the commitment of the government of Nagaland on integration unity and solidarity, which has been in limbo for the last 45 years. Even after four resolutions passed on the floor of the Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) and the auspicious rally for Naga integration which brought entire Naga tribes together on 31st August 2005 at local ground Kohima, to expressed their solidarity.

If the Lackadaisical attitude of Nagaland government as well as Nagaland Legislative Assembly continues, there is no option but to blame the government of Nagaland for all the consequences for its failures to bring the contiguous Naga tribes, areas, villages into an administrative unit and no NGOs (Civil societies), Naga tribes, Ban Ki Moon is secretary general of the areas, villages shall bear the responsibilities if any development United Nations, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono takes place. is president of Indonesia, Donald Tusk is prime minister of Poland and Anders Fogh Rasmussen is prime minister of Denmark.

Puni Ashuli Arche President, (MMENAIUSF) HQ, Dimapur

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The violence of the virtuous

Rajesh Kasturirangan

When the good is almost always defined in terms of one community's ascendance over another, it is not the evil in us that makes us violent. How can we reduce this?

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few days ago, in the midst of the violence against Christians in coastal Karnataka, the chief minister of the state made an interesting comment. He said the violence against Christians was in retaliation for the conversions taking place in that area. There are several reasons to find the statement disturbing.

In principle, conversions are perfectly fine as long they are not coerced. Our constitution does guarantee freedom of religion, after all. But more menacingly, it cannot be overlooked that the chief minister's statement echoes Narendra Modi's famous claim about the Gujarat riots, about 'action and reaction'. Even those who find conversion unacceptable should be troubled by the possibility that Karnataka will go the Gujarat way.

An incomplete analysis The current analysis of what one might call 'values oriented' violence leaves something to be desired. For one, it mostly denies that values have any role to play. For example, anti-minority violence is cast as a straight-forward power play, with Hindu fundamentalist outfits like the Bajrang Dal casting a web of terror in service of the overall Parivar political agenda. Terror is surely being used to serve political ends and to consolidate the 'Hindu' vote before the upcoming elections, but that cannot be the whole story. Political explanations have the Parivar as cynical operators with no virtue on their side.

But, as we all know, the Parivar has its share of supporters who think that they are fighting for the good. So do Islamic fundamentalists and Christian fundamentalists. I take their professed goodness at face value, i.e., that they genuinely and sincerely believe that their cause is the right one and that violence is justified in defence of that cause. Religious violence in India – whether of Islamic, Christian or Hindu origin – stems from a clash of moralities (even if the various camps share the same morals). And conversion is not the only source of values oriented violence; there are other examples. Class struggle as practiced by the Maoists, for instance, is a secular example of violence based on conflicting moralities.

But modern, abstract accounts of right and wrong do not recognise the passions that drive our behaviour as truly moral passions. A leftist is probably more willing to acknowledge the moral basis of Maoist violence but even in that case, no moral reasons are imputed to the state

that fights the Maoists. It seems as if, to our modern, universalist lenses these conflicting moral visions are invisible.

We, the good people Why? For one, our modern ideas of ethics – such as justice and fairness towards all – sit uncomfortably with our innate feelings about the moral nature of human actions. For example, most of us consider the soldier who single-handedly kills thousands of his enemies (remember Rambo?) to be a supremely virtuous person. Yet, transplant that same action to a crowded market in Delhi and we think of the very same person as a psychopath or terrorist. In the absence of a state that justifies one kind of violence but not the other, what is the difference between the two? From an abstract perspective, human acts are either just or unjust. So how can a soldier be a paragon of virtue when a terrorist is the very embodiment of evil?

The only explanation is that our primal intuitions about ethics allow for notions like nobility, honour, revenge and retaliation as well as fair play and justice.

In our intuitions, a soldier is doing something noble while a terrorist is a coward for targeting the innocent. Unlike our laws that are universal in space and time, our ethical intuitions are context dependent and even contradictory.

For a given community, some of its values are surely conditioned by history and communal circumstance. Indian society has thousands of communities living in close proximity with others with whom they have long standing conflicts over resources and social prestige. Is it any surprise that each community has its heroes who happen to be the villains of neighbouring communities? Or for that matter, when elections are used by communal outfits to capture state power (here I'm using 'communal' in its general sense of representing one community, and not in the religiously skewed current usage), should it surprise us when state functionaries openly support the demands of one community over another?

Unlike the politically correct mantra that says decent people everywhere want peace and that the peaceful majority is subverted by the political class, I think that it is precisely our conception of virtue that is the source of the problem. Values oriented violence in India is driven by people who believe that they are acting in the best interests of their respective communities. Who can deny the earnestness of the Kar Sevaks rushing to Ayodhya in late 1992? When the good is almost always defined in terms of one community's ascendance over another, it is not the evil in us that makes us violent, it is the good. So how can one reduce the violence of the virtuous?

India: unlike other nation-states In the nation-state era, the classic solution to the problem of virtuous violence is to legitimise violence by making it illegal within nation-states (i.e., the terrorist) and virtuous between nation-states (i.e., the soldier). In this scenario, we implement laws that guarantee equality and justice within national boundaries while allowing naked self-interest (albeit

usually masquerading as virtue) to rule international relations. The nation-state allows us to be modern and barbarian at the same time.

The great advantage of a national identity trumping others identities is that we no longer kill our neighbours; they are our fellow citizens and co-patriots.

Unfortunately, the cure of nationalism may well be worse than the disease. The twentieth century was the most violent in history primarily because it became legitimate to kill people from other nations. Further, unlike your neighbours, who are mostly killed at close hand, with swords and knives, violence between nations has increasingly become remote, driven by bombs and other weapons that can cause wholesale violence from afar.

Surely there is something wrong with a virtuous solution that only seeks to export violence across borders?

In India the situation is worse, for the very contours of nationalism and citizenship are contested. After all, isn't violence against Muslims routinely justified by their suspect patriotism? When the boundaries of the 'nation' run through every district, nationalist violence is no longer a problem for other nations, but our own. Unlike in the west, I think that the nationist-modernist solution cannot work in India.

We need a different strategy to address the violence of the virtuous. Laws alone will not guarantee peace; for those who are elected to uphold the law of the land are often its worst offenders. And as we all know, the state in India is not above the fray, it acts as a partisan agent.

Therefore, the state cannot be trusted as the sole guarantor of our rights. That burden must fall on civil society and our society is a curious combination of the modern and the pre-modern.

The mark of a modern society is that certain basic human needs and rights are universalised and available to all of its members. There is a natural reason why abstract rules of justice dominate modern discussions of ethics: these rules come fully universalised, so no extra work needs to be done. To a universalist, the presence of systemic oppression in India is not a matter of having the right rules, but the failure of the state in implementing them.

I think this line of reasoning is flawed, for it assumes that our ethical intuitions (especially the intuitions of those who have been hired or elected to uphold the law) coincide with an abstract system of the law. The law is uniform and context independent while our ethical intuitions are differentiated and context-dependent.

The law and our intuitions might well be fundamentally incompatible categories.

We will have to look elsewhere in order to find sources of a universalised ethics.

The family as the foundation However much the progressive might deny it, the road to peace in India passes through its non-modern aspects.

Some of the deepest impulses of Indian society – its focus on family and community, its toleration of difference – have to be plumbed in order to address violence.

These pre-modern factors are not purely

law-like or universal principles. They have a massive emotional component.

How can we tap into the possibilities opened up by these basic Indian intuitions about right and wrong?

I believe that as in many other social interventions in India, we have to learn how to universalise that most important Indian institution, the family. In an earlier article, I mentioned that the Indian family is neither a wholly subjective entity, nor a wholly objective entity. The family controls aspects of our life such as marriage that in the modern world come under individual subjective choice but the family also intervenes in job selection and various forms of public life that are supposed to be based on objective criterion.

The negative ethic of the family revolves around exclusion and cronyism; note, however, that many if not most Indians think of getting jobs for their family members as a virtuous thing, independent of the merits of said relatives. The positive ethic of the family consists of its capacity for care and obligation. In my opinion, a positive Indian modernity will be Indian to the extent it uses the family and other Indian social institutions as its basis and it will be modern to the extent these tropes are universalised to include other beings; all human beings for sure, but also other species and perhaps the earth as a whole.

Of course, the universalisation of an ethics of care and obligation is a tremendously involved process. Care and obligations work well within a family because these are people who we know well, meet regularly and share various resources.

The sheer physicality of the family makes it possible for us to indulge it with care.

But a nation of a billion people is an entirely different entity altogether. Most of us live our lives out interacting with a tiny fraction of our fellow citizens. Is it at all possible to universalise norms of behaviour from the family to the nation? More importantly, aren't our families cesspools of violence? Is it even desirable to generalise our 'family values' on to our nation?

I think that as in the case of 'development' we may have to pass through a period of understanding how this can work.

People still decry the Gandhian model of development because it made the village the centrepiece of the developmental strategy. Indian villages were and are notoriously riddled with hierarchies and injustices. Nevertheless, it is now understood that the reformed Indian village can be the focal point of a decentralised and just national material economy. Similarly, a reformed Indian family (with gender imbalances addressed, to start with) can be the foundation of a decentralised moral economy.

While the task is clearly challenging, it doesn't seem any more difficult than educating all Indians up to class twelve. If we can aim to put each and every Indian into a school for twelve years and teach them physics, why not use the same mechanism to engage with the ethical foundations of the family?

(Dr Rajesh Kasturirangan is a Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, in Bangalore.)

Part II : Nagas Ancestors Among Distant Relatives

Mazie Nakhro

If the Nagas did not just pop out from inside a cave, where did they come from?

Do they have a traceable biological relationship to the human race? This article is an attempt to initiate that quest.

Mythological legends on common ancestry The oldest known written document links the human ancestry to a flood (The Gilgamesh Epic, dated around 2700 2500 BC). This is a Mesopotamian legend which says that the council of the gods decided to flood the whole earth in order to destroy mankind in a distant past. So the righteous Utnapishtim was ordered to build a huge ark. The flood destroyed everything except Utnapistim’s family and a few other people, plus all kinds of animals. After 6 days, the ark landed on a mountain top. Thus the legend implies that these flood survivors became the ancestors of many peoples.

A similar legend is preserved in a Matsya Purana of ancient India, which supposedly occurred about 3000 BC (Romila Thapar, The Penguin History of Early India, p. 99). The legend says that god Vishnu warned Vaivasvata Manu, a pious king, of a great flood and told him to build a boat to carry his family and the seven sages of antiquity. The flood came and carried the boat on to a mountain peak. When the water finally subsided, Manu safely returned home along with the others. The progeny of Manu became the ancestors of many lineages.

Anthropologists maintain that there are over 250 such legends from nations such as Egypt, Iran, Ireland, Indonesia, Australia, China, Russia, Greece, America, Mexico, etc. Expectedly, each ethnic group introduced their hero as the focus in their legend and embellished their story with their own mythologies.

Proponents of various theories often argue back and forth about what legend could have borrowed from what source.

But the overwhelming similarities among the flood legends found around the globe indicate that they came from a common source--a shared catastrophic

flood event when the survivals became the ancestors of many lineages.

Anti-mythological source on common ancestry First, modern genetic studies have confirmed that all people groups come from one common human stock. The only differences are relating to insignificant traits such as skin color, hair type, and facial features.

Second, anti-mythological believers such as the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims cite their ancient Scriptures to prove that a catastrophic flood actually did occur during the time of Noah, the ninth generation from Adam (Quran Sura 11:40-44; 23:27; 54:11-14; 71:26-27; Genesis 6 – 9; Matthew 24:38; 2 Peter 2:5). This flood event is generally dated around 3000 BC. They further assert that only eight people were saved from an ark which eventually landed on a mountain top in Mesopotamia. And the three sons of Noah became the ancestors of all peoples on the earth.

Who are the descendants of Noah’s sons?

The Hebrew Bible says this: “Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth... These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the whole earth was populated” (Gen 9:18-19).

Hamitic People: Africans and Dravidians Scholars have traced the descendants of Ham into Africa and also into the Mediterranean, the Indian subcontinent and South Pacific regions. The name “Ham” means “hot” and indicates that Hamitic Africans and Dravidians migrated to hot climates. As they traveled toward tropical heat in the South, the melanin, an enzyme found in everyone, probably resulted in a higher level, causing their skin to be darker while protecting them from sunburn. The Hamitic people were the founders of the first recorded civilizations in Upper Egypt, Babylon and Harrapa in North India.

Japhetic People: Europeans and Indo-Aryans The descendants of Japheth have been traced to the European and the Aryan people, mainly of Europe, and also

into central Asia, Iran and North India.

The name “Japheth” means “extend” or “expand” and prophetically indicates the nature of this people (Gen 9:27). And history is noticeably proof to the fulfillment of that prophetic blessing.

As the Japhetic families migrated toward cooler, cloudier climates in the North, the melanin possibly remained less active and did not spread much to the top layers of their skin, leaving their skin pale.

Semitic People: Jews, Arabs and Orientals According to Moses’ account, Shem is called “the father of all the children of Eber” (Gen 10:21). From the phrase “of Eber” comes the word “Hebrews.”

Thus, the Hebrew race has descended from Eber in two branches: of Peleg and of Joktan (Gen 10:25).

The descendants of Peleg settled in West Asia. From the lineage of Peleg came Abraham who became the father of Isaac and Ishmael. From Isaac came the Jews but from Ishmael came all the Arabs (Gen 16:1-12). Although the descendants of Joktan make the bigger half of the Hebrew race, only little is mentioned about them in the Hebrew Scriptures (Gen 10:26-29).

The Joktanite migration route and early settlements are mentioned in the immediate context: “The region where they lived stretched from Mesha toward Sephar, in the eastern hill country” (Gen 10:30).

The word “Mesha” in Hebrew means “departure,” which probably refers to Joktan’s point of departure from the Peleg’s clan. Joktan’s caravan took their departure point somewhere on the Iranian plateau, or in central Asia, and that departure point (mesha) became the starting point of Joktanite settlement.

Joktan’s clan was certainly the first to scout the ancient Silk Road, which later became the main road of settlement into East Asia.

The phrase “towards Sephar” is a translation of the Hebrew word “sepharah,” but it literally means “toward a numerous population.” Instead of a

name, if we take the word’s meaning, we find a prophecy for the numerous populations that now exist in China and throughout the oriental countries. The phrase “in the eastern hill country” is a translation of “har ha-kedem,” but the literal Hebrew meaning is “the mountain of the orient.”

So the paraphrase translation of Genesis 10:30 can be rendered as follows: “And their dwelling place shall be from the departure point, as you go towards a numerous population, the mountain of the orient.” Chinese history affirms that the early pioneers came into the Eastern plains of China from the West, migrating along the Silk Road route. This verifies the accepted dating of early settlements in the Huang He (Yellow River) Valley of North China around 2200 B.C. Ancient Nagas among the Joktanite tribes The fact that Joktan’s thirteen sons migrated East with each of their families probably explains that the Oriental people make the largest population in the world: Mongolians, Chinese, Tibetans, Nepalese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Vietnamese, Malays, Laotians, Cambodians, Thais, Indonesians, etc. These major people groups may be considered as the distant relatives of the Nagas.

As a people of Mongoloid descent, the Nagas possibly had blood ties with the people of Bhutan, the Kiratas of Nepal, and even the Kinnaures of Himachal Pradesh.

But perhaps the closest siblings of the Nagas could be traced to other surrounding northeastern tribes of India. They all share striking similarities in their physical appearance and color, culture and customs. Even the fact that most of them ate almost anything in order to survive suggests that they went through similar migratory needs. Religiously, they were not so attracted to idol worship since they held a deep animistic belief in spirit-beings and nature. But broadly speaking, the Nagas, along with other East Asian people groups, came from a Joktanite tribe of Shem, one of Noah’s son, who lived some 5000 years ago.

A Memorable Journey

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he stillness of the morning winter drizzle and heavy mist all over could not hold the spirit of forty students of Kiphire team who were to participate in the recently concluded Inter Higher/High School Tournament held at IG Stadium Kohima. They gather at the NST station Kiphire and a tightly packet NST bus take off when its citizens are still in the warm winter cot.

October 27th 08 morning will be memorable for Students of Kiphire who took part in IHHST, for good number of reasons not knowing what lies ahead!! For some they got a chance to represent the district at the state level. Other breed of folks was extremely keyed up for the fact that they would see the capital of Nagaland may be for first and last.

The looks of the highly charged spirited students seems to dare anything on the planet and true indeed it was! Not long after passing Longmatra, few Km from Kiphire the team had to vacate the Bus to hold on hoes and spades (competition with mother nature have already started) to clear the mud flow on the road which nearly became a stopping plot for the troupe.

However, mother earth had succumbed to the hands of the determined students and let the Bus through.

The “Hip Hip Hurrah!” slogan became irritatingly cute and melodious as the Bus managed to negotiate the land slide area. The road was jumpy bumpy jerky and sinking every now and then, but the students enjoyed to their songs and danced automatically.

They were happier because they did not have to put extra energy to dance as the road did it for them. For some, such dance was the first of its kind in their entire life journey and as such, ear drum breaking screams appeared here and there fill the air inside the tightly packed bus through out the journey.

Innocently happy to have crossed one obstacle at Longmatra the troupe went on finally to be greeted with bigger hurdle between Chizami and Missulumi. The slow drizzle had brought down a load of mud to the road and communication to the other side become impossible. It was already 6 p.m dark and the troupe decided to turn back to look for a night shelter. God bless! A million thanks to Chizami Baptist Church. Their hospitality to the stranded stranger was the manifestation of Gods own love upon mankind.

It was still dark the next day, probably for all the sweetest sleep ever have had at Chizami Baptist church’s guest house, when the enthusiastic children were up ready for another take off. They greed no sleep but looked fresh, determined to find their destination at any cost. Day two ignited following a report that a dozer was at work. The tightly packed NST bus arrived at the spot and the Students watched the mud still rolling down shamelessly as the dozer clear them. After two hours of hard work and with a little push, finally our Bus got through and provoked shouts of happy slogans once again.

So sad, the opening ceremony had kick started at 9am at IG Stadium when the bus was still at 88 Kms away to Kohima.

Steadily, the bus pulled on until 2:30pm on 28th of Oct.’08 and finally reached IG stadium.

By the time Kiphire troupe reach the venue half of the most exciting track and field events were over. Nevertheless, the Students took chance in some remaining events. No time to stand and stare, the final call for 200 meters race was announced. The team leaving their luggage haphazardly, hardly confirmed their respective rooms for lodging had rushed to take part to the track to join the race, some straight from the bus. Probably, the longest race for the troupe in their entire life time, since legs were all swollen in the course of the journey.

The tournament was coming closer to end and on the other hand the team officials going closer to frustration. Bus for the return journey was yet to be ascertained. The organizers were informed and quick action took place thereafter. However, it was not as easy to arrange a Bus in the capital to ply between Kohima and Kiphire to this remote district no matter, how high the offer was made for hiring charge none was willing to comply with the offer. The reason being that the potholed road was lengthy and the mid road security was at stake. No drivers dare to stride as where even angels fear to tread. Thanks to Sir Tingshem Konyak, the Joint Director of School Education Department who took personal concern to solve our problem in contacting friends at his circle and could arrange one NST Bus, which got confirmed at around 7 pm on the 31st Oct.’08 ‘relief at last’. The next morning i.e. the 1st of Nov’08 was a day of joy and happiness as our Home sweet Home was approaching closer. The students do not seem to be worried about the lengthy jumpy bumpy jerky road ahead.

During this course of one week outing there was no dearth of sympathy. Back home Shahoto the DIS Kiphire, Mambir Alley the headmaster GHS Kiphire, Tsilise the Deputy chairman Kiphire Town Committee, Lipichem Stringer The Morung Express, were constantly calling up to enquire our wellbeing, which gave us immense courage to go on through the week.

We also would like to put on record of O.C P.S. Chizami for buying us tea materials. Mortal tongue could not praise enough to say thanks to Chizami Baptist Church for their wonderful hospitality and Senthong Rengma Asistant Director Education and Nodal Officer for Kiphire District for his visit and for donating Rs. 500/- for the Kiphire team. The troupe remembers Shengato Rengma and Phanish Rengma for managing local conveyance for the officials of Kiphire team. The NST Department Kohima base for understanding our problem and detailing the Bus even at eleventh hour when there was least chance of getting a spare vehicle was indeed appreciable.

Probably that was the most memorable trip we ever had and will ever wish to see again Hanchulo James, Lisekyu Sangtam, Naro Team Officials Of Kiphire Team During the State Level Inter Higher/High School Tournament held at IG Stadium Kohima.

Forgive and Not Forget Paula Reger

life is too short to carry a grudge at first i thought i wouldnt speak to you i would not budge but we’re only humans mortals on this earth my love for you outweighs the bad by far and I’ll always love you just as you are i cant blame you for the way i think i cant blame you for the way i feel every single emotion is first contolled by a thought behind every emotion is a thought change my thinking about what you said and I will automatically change the way I feel about it and look at it in a new way only i can do that i am the master of my thinking which makes me master of my emotions then i can begin to change my outer world because i have done the inner work of changing myself self responsibility letting go forgiving this is the lesson i have learned cant go on being mad at you when really all i want is to be with you forgive you i will forget it no i will learn from it and we will grow

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NEWS FILE 80 children injured in Greater Noida school bus accident

GREATER NOIDA, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): At least 80 children were seriously injured when their school bus turned turtle after hitting a car in this suburb of the national capital on Monday. The incident occurred at 7.40 am near a roundabout under Kasna police station in Greater Noida’s Omega-I sector. Kasna station officer (SO) Arjun Singh said the bus was transporting about 85 students of KDS Public School when the driver lost control and hit a Santro. The bus then overturned. At least 80 students, aged between six and 12, sustained injuries. “After hitting the car, the driver fled the spot. We rushed the children to Kailash hospital, where the conditions of five was said to be critical. They were admitted to to ICU (intensive care unit). The other children were discharged after being given first aid,” Singh said. On the complaint of Bhagwan Dass Sanwaria, the Santro’s owner, a criminal case under Sections 279, 338 and 427 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) has been registered against the driver.

Case against MP minister over power misuse BHOPAL, NOVEMBER 10 (NDTV): Action has been taken on the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Minister for misusing his power. A case has been registered against Tukoji Rao Pawar, under section 353 of Indian penal code for obstructing administrative work, and under section 504 for intimidating and threatening an officer in her own office.

The minister had demanded that the nomination papers of a Congress candidate from Sonkatch be rejected as the latter had not submitted the B Form on time. The minister was caught on tape threatening the woman officer as the exchange between them got heated. There was an argument and the minister threatened to get the administrative officer sacked for not obeying his orders.

India to release 30 Pak prisoners on November 14 ISLAMABAD, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): India will release 30 Pakistani nationals, who have completed their prison terms in the country, and will hand them over at the Wagah land border on November 14. The PakistanIndia Judicial Committee on Prisoners recently recommended that prisoners who had completed their prison terms and whose nationality had been confirmed should be released from jail speedily. Official sources here said today that the Indian government would hand over the 30 Pakistani nationals to authorities at the Wagah land border. The Pakistani nationals had been arrested and jailed for various crimes. The Judicial Committee on Prisoners visited jails in both countries and met Indian and Pakistani prisoners.

The two countries have also exchanged lists of prisoners.

India has informed Pakistan that about 370 Pakistanis are currently detained in its jails. However, Pakistani officials claim over 600 Pakistanis are in Indian jails and over 150 have completed their terms.

Visa fraud: Eatery chain owner barred from entering US

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CHENNAI, NOVEMBER 10 (NDTV): The US consulate in Chennai has imposed a life ban on the owner of well-known south Indian eatery chain Saravana Bhavan’s owner, Shivakumar from entering the USA. Shivakumar is the son of Saravana Bhavan’s founder Rajgopal. He was arrested on charges of human trafficking on Sunday as he was trying to procure US visas for five of his employees, allegedly by using forged documents. Saravana Bhavan’s contract with the US consulate in Chennai has also been cancelled. Shivakumar has been sent to 15 days of judicial custody. His bail plea comes for the hearing on November 11. It is the second case involving a member of the Saravana Bhavan family owners. Shivakumar’s father, Rajgopal was arrested in 2001on murder charges. He was sentenced to 10 years in jail but has been out on bail since 2004. That case is still on. Saravana Bhavan has many outlets in Chennai, Delhi and even abroad.

Orissa Nun fails to attend identification parade BHUBANESWAR, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Unable to attend the proposed test identification parade in Kandhamal, the nun whose alleged rape sent out shock waves on Monday urged the court to allow her a month’s time as she was unwell.

On behalf of the alleged victim, her advocate Manas Singh moved a petition at the Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate’s court at Baliguda in Kandhamal seeking a month’s time for his client.

“She is under trauma counseling. Therefore, the nun could not come here to attend the identification parade,” Singh said to anews agency over phone. Singh added the nun had no objection to assist probe conducted by the Crime Branch (CB) of police.

Though the nun had earlier refused to assist probe by the CB on the plea that she did not have “faith” in Orissa Police, she later agreed to

cooperate after the Supreme Court turned down a petition seeking handing over the case to the CBI. The alleged incident had taken place at K Nuagaon in Kandhamal during Orissa bandh on August 25.

“The nun will cooperate now. She will, however, urge the court to allow shifting of the venue of the identification parade outside Orissa,” said Archbishop Rapheal Cheenath, who met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here. Cheenath said they have already informed the CB regarding the nun’s wish of conducting the parade outside Orissa.

Meanwhile, the CB had arrested at least 10 people in connection with the incident. “As the nun had mentioned in her FIR that she could identify the culprit, the identification parade was essential,” said a senior CB official.

Naxal-affected Chhattisgarh jittery as poll date nears NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 10 (CNN-IBN): Chhattisgarh goes to the polls on November 14 and 20 with the Maoist dominated areas the first ones to go to vote. The Maoists have already given a call to boycott the elections. It is almost a war zone in the Maoist-affected areas and this year the tribal vote could be decisive.

Mahendra Karma, the architect of the controversial Salwa Judum – the people’s militia to fight the Maoists, is also in the fray but he refuses to take any questions. “How many people have left the land?

I don’t know. How many people are left in the relief camps? I don’t know. I am not an accountant. Is there no other question?

Get out of here and delete the footage,” Karma shouts at the CNN-IBN team.

Puran a farmer living in a relief camp in Dornapal is facing the brunt of the cosy handshake between BJP’s Raman Singh and the Congress’ Karma. For three years he hasn’t cultivated his land and is he not thinking of returning back to his village.

“There is no way I can go back.

The threat from Maoists is too immense,” says Puran.

North Indians are unsafe in Maharashtra and that the state government was not doing nothing to protect them.

The PIL stated that in a situation like the one being witnessed in Maharashtra, the Centre should intervene.

The petition was first heard on Friday. The court had noted that prima facie, there is a lack of political will. It further observed that if there is a political will, such incidents could be averted.

However, the SC has dismissed a PIL demanding that cases against MNS chief Raj Thackeray be transferred outside Maharashtra.

But the court said that state

Meanwhile, Madvi Lakha has decided to go back despite a Maoists call not to return. His decision has been influenced by the presence of security forces and by his own fierce desire to rebuild. Now three years after the counter terror movement of which he has been a part, truth is bitter. “On both sides Adivasis get killed. On the side of the Salwa Judum and on the side of the Naxals also. Only Naxals and security forces flourish here,” Lakha says.

There is a consensus on the ground that counter terror has only resulted in more terror and that it is not the job of the tribals to fight Maoists. CPI’s Manish Kunjam is seeking to represent those voices. “We believe that ours is a just fight. We will win because we fought against the Salwa Judum,” Kunjam says.

In fact, no election has been so crucial for the tribals as this one as two ideologies fight to win the tribal vote. Fear and alienation are the defining forces of life in the region. People who live in the camps go to cultivate their field, sometimes not knowing whether they will return or not.

Even though the Maoists

BJP, Congress vie for BPL votes with cheap rice

RAIPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (PTI): Knowing well the timetested impact of giving rice at throw-away prices to people below the poverty line, both the ruling BJP and the main Opposition Congress are wooing voters with this incentive without bothering about the consequences on the Chhattisgarh economy.

It was the Raman Singh-led BJP government in the state that started the scheme – on January 16, 2008 – of providing rice at Rs 3 for those possessing the BPL cards, which interestingly are saffron – associated with BJP – in colour.

This was ostensibly done with an eye on the BPL voters. While BJP leaders feel this has sent a “good message” among the people, Congress started its assembly election campaign criticising the scheme but soon joined the bandwagon announcing that it will pro-

vide rice at Rs 2 if voted to power.

All BJP advertisements here openly declared that voters should cast their votes in favour of the saffron party as it is providing rice to poor at Rs 3 and salt at 25 paise.

Later, the advertisements said salt would be provided free of cost to the poor. The advertisements clearly state that Rs 945 crore has been earmarked for the purpose and about 36 lakh families would benefit by getting 35 kg rice every month.

Congress candidates started their campaign by vehemently condemning the policy. “Only those close to the BJP are getting rice at this rate. Many such families have got more than one such ration card. The others have been deprived,” said Rajju John, a Congress worker. Others say those getting rice at such cheap rates are selling it off for upto Rs 10 to the local grocers.

have given a call to boycott the elections, the presence of security forces has meant that at least those in the camps will vote, but

what about the rest? Elections will be held in a war zone and expect attacks by Maoists to rise as November 14 draws closer.

‘Extend CRPF deployment in Kandhamal till poll’ BHUBANESWAR, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Seeking to extend the deployment of central forces in Kandhamal till the general elections due next year, Christian leaders on Monday claimed that people were feeling insecure to return to their villages even 90 days after violence erupted in August.

A Christian delegation led by Archbishop Rapheal Cheenath met Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik here and submitted a memorandum which suggested that the judge of the fast track court to probe Kandhamal riot cases be chosen from a neutral community other than Christian and Hindu.

Claiming that people were still living under the shadow of fear, they said a large number of Christians of Kandhamal have gone to Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat and other places as they feel threatened. As many as 15,000 people have fled to different towns, including Bhubaneswar, they said. “Many are unwilling to return as criminals are still at large and moving about with swords and guns as in Raikia and Sarangodo blocks,” the memorandum said.

They said Christians who had returned to their villages were forcibly converted to Hinduism and their movements and meeting with people were also restricted by “fanatics” for instance in Padangi and Shankarakhol area. Though Cheenath said the state government was doing its best to restore normalcy in Kandhamal, Christian leaders alleged that FIRs were not lodged in Daringbadi and Sarangoda police stations.

“We have requested the Chief Minister to look into the matter,” Cheenath said, adding miscreants were looting houses, churches and other institutions and destroying or burning what ever was left.

German girl rape case: Goa education minister’s son gets bail

PANAJI, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): In a new twist to the German minor’s rape case in Goa, accused Rohit Monserrate, the son of Goa Education Minister Antanasio Monserratte, was granted bail on a bond of Rs 10,000 on Monday. A local court granted bail to Rohit after the victim’s mother withdrew her complaint against him. The court granted conditional bail asking him to report to the Calangute police station for next three days.

Relieved after the bail order, Atanasio Monserratte said that he had faith in the judiciary. “I have maintained right An unidentified woman holds a placard during a demonstration organized by the Asso- from first day that my son is ciation for Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) in Srinagar, November 10. According facing trouble due to political to APDP more then 10,000 people have disappeared since an armed rebellion broke out rivalry,” he told reporters outside the court. The minister, in the region in 1989. (AP Photo)

however, refused to comment on whether he would file a defamation case against the German mother, who had lodged a formal complaint against Rohit of raping her 14-year-old daughter on October 2.

The mother of the girl had expressed her frustration yesterday over the manner of probe into the case. After getting the bail Rohit said, “I am happy and feel good as I am innocent.” Rohit came out of the court room with his father who said that he is relieved after his son was granted bail.

21-year old Rohit was accused by the German woman of raping her teenage daughter and filed a complaint on October 2 and subsequently an FIR was lodged on October

Malegaon accused involved in other attacks?

Attempts to malign BJP through arrests: Laxman

MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): The ATS investigations could take a new turn with the probe authorities looking at the possibility of the involvement of those arrested in the Malegaon blast case in other terror attacks like the 2004 blasts in the Marathwada region.

The role of Lt Col Prasad S Purohit, arrested in the Malegaon case for his role in the conspiracy, is already being probed in the 2006 Nanded blast in which four suspected Bajrang Dal activists were killed while assembling a bomb. The 2004 blasts at the Parbhani, Jalna and Purna towns in Marathwada region were carried out near mosques and police fear that those involved in

the Nanded blast could have had a role in the conspiracy to carry out the attacks.

The CBI has filed its chargesheet against 10 persons for their involvement in the Nanded blast, but the agency has been interacting with the ATS over the Malegaon arrests and the possibility of links between the two cases. Officials had said interrogation of some accused has shown that 54 people were given training in handling of arms and explosives at Bhonsala Military School in 2001.

Some of them are believed to be involved in the blasts at Malegaon in 2006 and 2008 as well as the Nanded blast. Six persons were killed when a motorcycle bomb exploded in Malegaon

on September 29. Nine persons, including a sadhvi and former Army official, have been arrested so far for their involvement in the case. The role of Purohit, who was in the Military Intelligence, in the Nanded blast is still being probed with one of the prime accused still at large.

According to an accused in the Nanded case, one person identified as Mithun Chakravarthy had provided them with training on how to make bombs. A witness in the Nanded case had also said that during a camp organised by the Bajrang Dal in the year 2000, he had seen two senior retired Intelligence Bureau (IB) officers and two former defence personnel providing training in firing guns.

In the Malegaon probe, a team from the ATS visited the Shabridham ashram in Bardoli which is run by one Swami Ashimanand last week and questioned some of its members, officials there said. The ATS is also considering the possibility of charging the nine arrested accused in the Malegaon case under sections of the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).

The nine are presently charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for murder and conspiracy, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Indian Explosives Act. Five of the arrested accused will be produced before a Nashik court.

NAGPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): An attempt is being made to malign the image of BJP through the arrests of Sadhvi Pragya Singh and others allegedly involved in the blasts of Malegaon in Maharashtra, former party president Bangaru Laxman has said. “The UPA government at the Centre which has failed miserably to check terror activities in the country was now focusing on defaming the BJP by arresting Sangh Parivar activists,” Laxman told reporters, here yesterday. It will rather help the NDA, he added.

The Malegaon blasts and

14. Police had booked Rohit of rape, outraging the modesty, sending lewd messages and abetting the crime. Thereafter, Rohit went missing only to appear before the police on November 1. The minister’s son was arrested on November 4 after the girl deposed before a Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) accusing the 21-yearold of sexually abusing her.

Later, the medical examination also confirmed rape.

The German mother had gone public accusing two high profile politicians’ kin of sexually exploiting her minor daughter. Besides Rohit, state Public Works Department (PWD) Minister Churchill Alemao’s nephew Warren was also named in the rape case.

subsequent arrests are being blown out of proportion while similar terror activities like bomb blasts in Assam have suddenly disappeared from the scene, Laxman added. He said the UPA government has failed on all fronts and election results of state assembly elections in early next month will prove that UPA has lost the support of people further.

To a question, Laxman said the fear of global recession was looming large on our economy particularly on agriculture sector. Laxman was here to attend a programme in neighbouring Bhandara district.

Gujarat Police arrest key accused in MP SC asks CBI not to

AHMEDABAD, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Qayamuddin Kapadia, one of the key conspirators of the July 26 serial blasts in the city, has been arrested by the Madhya Pradesh police. “Qayamuddinn Kapadia has been arrested by the MP police. I do not have much details on this matter as of now,” Joint Commissioner of Police of city Crime Branch, Ashish Bhatia said on Monday.

Qayamuddin, who hails from Vadodara, was declared absconding by the city crime branch investigating

SC issues notice to Maharashtra govt NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Taking serious note of the recent attacks against North Indians in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the state government on the issue of protection of non-Marathis. In its notice, the SC has asked the Vilasrao Deshmukh government about the steps it has taken to protect the life and property of people from outside the state. The state government has four weeks to respond.

The apex court’s notice comes in response to a Public Interest Litigation which sought protection for nonMarathis. It alleged that

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police should take appropriate action against Raj. It also ruled out judicial probe in the killing of Rahul Raj, a young boy from Patna, who was shot dead in a police ‘encounter’ after he allegedly took a BEST bus hostage on gun point.

It may be noted that in recent months, there has been an upsurge in violence against migrants from North India in Maharashtra. The latest round of attacks began after activists of Raj Thackrey’s Maharashtra Navnirman Sena allegedly attacked North Indian candidates appearing for a railway exam last month. This was followed by a series of attacks against North Indians.

the serial blasts cases. He allegedly planted cycle bombs in the city as well as bombs in different parts of Surat, Bhatia said. He was also responsible for purchase of cycles on which the bombs were mounted and kept in different parts of the city, he added.

According to Crime Branch, after the arrest of SIMI leader Safdar Nagori in March this year, the Madhya Pradesh police had come to Vadodara in search of Qayamuddin, but he managed to escape. Qayamuddin, who is an expert in

using explosives, was allegedly present during various SIMI terror training camps in Waghamon in Kerala and Halol near Vadodara and was instrumental in training the participants. He is also wanted in a stabbing case registered under the Karelibaug police station of Vadodara city.

The accused, who is a rubber stamp vendor, had also stayed in Ahmedabad along with another absconder in the serial blast case, Abdus Subhan alias Tauqeer, prior to the July 26 terror attack, they added.

arrest Todi till Nov 17

NEW DELHI, NOVEM- earlier said that trial in the BER 10 (AGENCIES): The case would not commence Supreme Court on Monday till the Calcutta High Court asked the CBI not to arrest decides a petition filed by industrialist Ashok Todi till Todi challenging CBI’s deNovember 17 in connection cision to chargesheet him in with the Rizwanur Rehman the case.

Todi, along with six othmurder case in which a trial court has issued a non-bail- ers, was chargesheeted by the CBI on September 22 able warrant against him. for alleged A abetment b e n c h RIZWANUR CASE of Rizheaded wanur’s

by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan suicide. A Metropolitan passed the order for not ar- Magistrate in Kolkata had resting Todi as it would hear asked the accused to appear on next Monday his peti- before it on October 27 but tion challenging issuance they had failed to abide by of NBW by a trial court in the order leading to the isKolkata. Todi, fearing ar- suance of NBW. Todi, his rest in the case, had moved brother Pradeep and his the apex court on November brother-in-law Anil Saraseven seeking urgent hear- ogi had allegedly avoided appearing before the trial ing in the matter.

Senior advocate Harish court or the CBI and their Salve, appearing for Todi, passport were cancelled who has been chargesheet- last month.

The investigating agency ed for alleged abetment of suicide of his son-in-law had also moved the trial court Rehman, had said that de- to declare them Proclaimed spite the October 13 order Offenders in the case. The Indian Punjabi traditional dancers perform before a friendly Kabbadi match between India and Pakistan teams in Gopalpura on the outskirts of Amritsar, November 9. Kabbadi a sub of the apex court there was court had given them time continental rural sport, involves two teams of seven in which players take turns to "raid" no protection to the indus- till November 10 to appear trialist. The apex court had before it or the CBI. the opposing team's half of a rectangular pitch. (AP Photo)

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Rebels warns Africa not to send troops

A Conglese government soldier mans a checkpoint at the front line on November 10, near Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. (AP Photo) GOMA, NOVEMBER 10 (REUTERS): Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda said on Monday he would fight African peacekeepers if they backed government

troops against him, as more regional states joined efforts to try to end the conflict. African leaders from the south of the continent and the Great Lakes region

have offered peacekeepers if necessary to try to stabilise east Democratic Republic of Congo, where recent fighting has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The upsurge in fighting in Congo’s North Kivu province bordering Rwanda and the growing involvement of neighbouring states in moves to end it have raised fears of a

repeat of the 1998-2003 Congo war that sucked in armies from the region. Countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said after a regional summit

in South Africa on Sunday the group would send military advisers to help the government of Congolese President Joseph Kabila.

SADC would send a

peacekeeping force to east Congo “if and when necessary,” its executive secretary Tomaz Salamao said. Nkunda, whose Tutsi rebels are battling Congolese government soldiers (FARDC) and their Rwandan Hutu rebel (FDLR) and Mai-Mai militia allies, said he would welcome African peacekeepers if they were coming as an impartial force to pacify North Kivu. But, speaking to Reuters by telephone from eastern Congo, he added: “If they come in and fight alongside the FARDC and the FDLR, they will be weakened, they will share the same shame as the DRC government..”

“If SADC engages like this, they will have made a mistake ... I am ready to fight them,” Nkunda said.

The United Nations, which already has its largest peacekeeping force in the world, 17,000 strong, in Congo, is seeking up to 3,000 extra troops to reinforce its operations there. It says its existing force is thinly stretched across a country the size of Western Europe where armed groups abound.

It was not immediately clear whether the proposed African peacekeepers would operate under U.N. mandate or separately. The North Kivu fighting has already taken on a regional dimension as Rwanda, which has twice invaded Congo before, officially to fight Hutu rebels there, is accused

by Kinshasa of supporting Nkunda. Kigali denies this. A summit of Great Lakes leaders including Rwandan President Paul Kagame called in Nairobi on Friday for a cease-fire and a political settlement in North Kivu, but said that they could send peacekeepers if required.

Commenting on Sunday’s SADC offer of troops, Rwandan Foreign Minister Rosemary Museminali told

Reuters: “When we left the meeting in Nairobi, the direction was that there should be cease-fire and a political solution.” Congo’s government has again called on southern neighbour Angola, which backed it during the 1998-2003 war, for help. The weak and chaotic Congolese national army has collapsed in the face of determined advances by Nkunda’s battlehardened guerrilla force, which is estimated to total around 4,000.

The appearance in North Kivu of more disciplined, Portuguese-speaking soldiers on the government side has fuelled speculation Angola may have already sent troops to east Congo. But an Angolan Foreign Ministry spokesman in Luanda denied this on Monday. “Right now there are no Angolan troops fighting in Congo and I don’t know if they will ever go. This is a complex negotiation with many different players involved and Angola will only act as part of that joint effort,” he said. Despite calls from both the U.N. and African leaders for a cease-fire in North Kivu, sporadic fighting continued at the weekend, hampering humanitarian efforts to help hundreds of thousands of civilians seeking shelter, food and medical help.

U.N peacekeepers reported clashes on Sunday between Nkunda’s rebels and government forces and their Mai-Mai militia allies north of Rutshuru. Nkunda’s Tutsis also fought Rwandan Hutu rebels at Ngungu, 60 km west of the North Kivu provincial capital Goma, a U.N. military spokesman said. Humanitarian agencies have stepped up their operations to deliver assistance to more than 200,000 displaced civilians sheltering immediately around and to the north of Goma.

Indonesia handling of Bali executions questioned

JAKARTA, NOVEMBER 10 (REUTERS): Indonesia’s handling of the executions of three militants for the 2002 Bali bombings caused unnecessary suffering for victims of the blasts and helped fan domestic passions, Indonesian media said Monday. The three men from the militant Islamist group Jemaah Islamiah -Imam Samudra, Mukhlas, and Amrozi -- were executed by firing squad Sunday for the 2002 nightclub attacks that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesians.

Just days ahead of the executions, the bombers gave interviews to several television channels, often sounding

defiant and calling for more attacks. “The three terrorists most responsible for the carnage in Bali in October 2002 have finally been executed after months of uncertainty that turned the waiting into a public spectacle that only upset and infuriated relatives of the victims and prolonged their pain,” the Jakarta Post said in an editorial.

“The media, particularly television, seemed to be a willing partner throughout this whole spectacle, especially during the last four weeks while the authorities hesitated in carrying out the execution order,” the paper said. It quoted political expert Fachry Ali as saying repeated delays in execut-

ing the three men had led to “wide media exposure that played up these men’s toughness and persistence.”

Indonesia had appeared set to execute the men earlier in the year but it was delayed until after the Muslim fasting month in September and then set for early in November.

The media had speculated that the executions were about to be carried out several times in recent weeks. A spokesman for the Attorney General’s office said Saturday that the timing of executions was up to officials on the ground. Passions ran

high Sunday as thousands of people, including many hardliners from Islamist groups, poured onto the streets for the funerals of the men in their home towns in Java. Some analysts had warned of a hardline backlash but the funerals went off relatively peacefully, despite some scuffles with police and reporters.

Indonesia’s Republika newspaper urged the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to continue its fight against Islamist militancy. Since the 2002 Bali bombings, Indonesia has also won

some plaudits for its battle against Muslim militants, including setting up a special police anti-terrorism unit called Detachment 88 and a “de-radicalisation” program used to persuade former militants to recant and preach non-violence to other militants. The Koran Tempo newspaper said that police would now target Noordin Top, a Malaysian considered a key Jemaah Islamiah figure behind a series of bombings, who is still at large. Although there have been no major bomb attacks since 2005, Indonesia is considered still at risk.

Indonesian Muslims carry a coffin of Bali bomber Imam Samudra in Serang, Banten province, Indonesia on November 9. (AP Photo)

Music legend who fought apartheid dies US conducted secret strikes against Al-Qaeda

In an October 6, 2005 file photo South African singer Miriam Makeba performs at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, Cuba. The emergency room of the Pineta Grande Clinic, a private facility in Castel Volturno, Italy, says the 76-year-old singer died early Monday November 10. (AP Photo)

ROME, NOVEMBER 10 (AFP): Miriam Makeba, the singer who became the musical symbol of the black struggle against apartheid, has died after collapsing at a concert in Italy. She was 76.

Makeba, nicknamed “Mama Africa” by a worldwide legion of fans and famed for hits such as “Pata Pata”, “The Click Song”, died of a heart attack in a Naples hospital after she

collapsed as she left the stage at a benefit concert in Castel Volturno on Sunday. “One of the greatest songstresses of our time Miriam Makeba has ceased to sing,” said South African Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma in a statement. The singer “died performing what she did best -- an ability to, communicate a positive message through the art of singing”. Born in

Johannesburg on March 4, 1932, Makeba became one of Africa’s best known singers and while Nelson Mandela was in prison took up the battle against apartheid through her music.

South Africa revoked her citizenship in 1960 and even refused to let her return for her mother’s funeral. Makeba spent more than three decades in exile, living in the United

States, Guinea and Europe.

She saw her music outlawed in her homeland after she appeared in an anti-apartheid film. But she was an international success, winning a Grammy award for Best Folk Recording with US singer Harry Belafonte in 1965 for the album “An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba”.

“I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots,” she said in her biography. “Through my music I became this voice and image of Africa, and the people, without even realising.” But she also met controversy abroad. Her marriage to civil rights activist and Black Panthers leader Stokely Carmichael in 1968 caused controversy in the United States and some of her concerts were cancelled. Makeba performed for half an hour Sunday at a concert near Naples on behalf of an Italian writer, Roberto Saviano, who has received death threats after writing an expose of the Italian mafia.

“She had been the last one to go on stage, after the performances of other singers,” said Carlo Hermann, an AFP photographer who covered the concert and witnessed fellow singers rush to her aid when she collapsed. “There were calls for an encore and at that moment someone asked if there was a doctor in the house. Miriam Makeba had fainted and was lying on the floor.” Makeba was the daughter of a Swazi mother and Xhosa father. She cap-

tured international attention as a vocalist for a South African group, The Manhattan Brothers, when they toured the United States in 1959. Her citizenship was taken away the following year.

She was briefly married to trumpeter Hugh Masekela, another famous South African artist who also spent long years in exile under apartheid.

Makeba had her biggest hit in 1967 with “Pata Pata” -- Xhosa for “Touch Touch”, describing a township dance -- but unwittingly had signed away all royalties on the song. She was often short of money and could not afford to buy a coffin when her only daughter, Bondi, died aged 36 in 1985. She buried her alone, barring a handful of journalists from covering the funeral.

According to her biography, she also battled with cervical cancer and a string of unhappy relationships. It said rumours of her alcoholism were unfounded. While she was still in enforced exile, she performed with Paul Simon in the US singer’s 1987 Graceland concert in Zimbabwe, neighbouring South Africa.

She finally returned to her homeland in the 1990s after Nelson Mandela was released from prison as the apartheid system they had both fought for so long began to be dismantled. But it took her six years to find someone in the South African recording industry to produce a record with her. She entitled it “Homeland”.

WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 10 (AFP): US special forces have conducted about a dozen secret operations against Al-Qaeda and other Islamic militants in Pakistan, Syria and other countries under broad war-waging authority given them by the administration of President George W. Bush, The New York Times reported on its website. Citing unnamed senior US officials, the newspaper said the authority was contained in a classified order signed by then-defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in early 2004 with the approval of President Bush.

The order gave the military permission to attack AlQaeda and other hostile targets anywhere in the world, even in countries not at war with the United States, without any additional approval, the report

said. Under this authority, a Navy Seal team raided a suspected Islamic militant compound in the Bajaur region of Pakistan in 2006, The Times said, citing a former top CIA official. What's more, military planners were able to watch the entire attack "live" at CIA headquarters in Virginia through a video camera installed on a Predator aircraft that was sent to the area, the paper said.

Another raid was conducted by US special forces in Syria last October 26 in cooperation with the Central Intelligence Agency, the report said. There is no information about the remaining secret military strikes, but officials made clear the list of targets did not include Iran, The Times pointed out. The paper said, however, that US forces had carried out reconnaissance missions in Iran us-

ing other classified directives.

About a dozen additional operations have been canceled in the past four years because they were deemed too risky, too diplomatically explosive or relied on insufficient evidence, the paper said. Before the 2004 order, the Pentagon needed to get approval for missions on a case-by-case basis, which could take days, the paper recalled.

But Rumsfeld was not satisfied with the status-quo and pressed hard for permission to use military power automatically outside the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to The Times. The paper says the 2004 order identifies 15 to 20 countries, including Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and several other Persian Gulf states, where Al-Qaeda was believed to be operating or had sought sanctuary.

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Hughes safe in job, say Man City

VSC Phek clarifies

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Veteran Sporting Club (VSC), Phek has clarified that the half marathon race held at Phek on November 7 last was sponsored by the Directorate of Youth Resource & Sports and organized by Phek District Sports Council and not by Veteran Sporting Club (VSC) as mentioned. The club has also clarified that the distance of the half marathon was 20 km and not 16 km as mentioned. The club has also congratulated the winners of the half-marathon.

TDFA selects players

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Tuensang District Football Association (TDFA) has selected 19 players to represent the district in the 18th Dr. T Ao Football Trophy 2008 to be played at Kohima. The selected players are, Chejung, Shillom, Sipong, Yamchu, Tumong, S Yonga, Wati, Shingyu, C Yonga, Samuel, Ningpao Khiam, Bemo, Ongbou, Imlong, Lakiumong, Bendang, Samson, Ongching and Yanger. The coaches are, Mongchoa, Shering Lama, Chollen and Mongko. A press note issued by its general secretary, N Among Chang, stated that the final selection will be done as per the attendance during the coaching camp. The coaching will start from November 15 next at 5:30 am. Therefore, all players are requested to report without fail.

Phek Open Football Tournament

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The District Level Open Football Tournament, organized by the Veteran Sporting Club, Phek (VSC) under the aegis of District Youth Co-ordinator Nehru Yuva Kendra (NYK), Phek will start from November 13 next at 8:00 am at the local ground, Phek. Vezhu Vero, Co-ordinator of EBRC, Phek will inaugurate the tournament as the chief guest. A press note issued by its president, Kedechoyi Venuh and general secretary, Keveduyi Venuh informed that altogether 11 teams will vie for the title. The inaugural match will be played between Bros United Club and Upper Khomi Village Students’ Union.

KLSU sports meet underway

Manchester City manager Mark Hughes is seen before his team's English Premier League soccer match against Tottenham at The City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester, England on November 9. Despite Manchester City's third straight loss, wealthy chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said manager Mark Hughes' job is safe and promised funds for the midseason transfer window. Pressure is mounting on Hughes after City slipped to 13th place in the Premier League after losing to Tottenham 2-1 Sunday. (AP Photo)

LONDON, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has labelled reports claiming Manchester City are set to replace manager Mark Hughes as "rubbish".

"We on the board have the highest regard for Mark," Al Mubarak told the club's official website. "I am personally committed to him."

The 2-1 defeat at home to

Tottenham on Sunday means Hughes' team have now lost their last three top-flight matches.

But Al Mubarak has said money will be made available for players in January.

Hughes and Al Mubarak held talks before Sunday's game to discuss the long-term plans for the club, with the manager expected to fly out to Abu Dhabi to discuss his list of tar-

Manchester United still a danger says Lampard LONDON, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Chelsea's Frank Lampard says Manchester United remain a massive Premier League title threat despite losing at Arsenal.

Sir Alex Ferguson's side are now eight points adrift of the Blues, who are back on top of the table after beating Blackburn 2-0 at Ewood Park on Sunday.

Midfielder Lampard said: "United will always be big contenders, whether they are five or eight points behind. "There is a slight gap opened up between the top two, but the big four just keep grinding out results."

Chelsea, who have dropped just seven points and been beaten only once in the league this season, are top on goal difference from Liverpool, who crushed West Brom 3-0 at the weekend.

A brace from Nicolas Anelka gave Chelsea their victory at Rovers and made it six away wins out of six for Luiz Felipe Scolari's side.

"It is a great, great start but if you lose your attitude or get a couple of bad results it can all turn around, so you have to keep playing well,"

added Lampard.

Meanwhile, Lampard's team-mate Michael Essien believes Arsenal's stylish brand of football does not produce enough positive results despite Saturday's 2-1 win over Manchester United.

The result leaves Arsene Wenger's side, who last won a trophy in 2005 when they beat Manchester United on penalties to win the FA Cup, in third place, six points behind the leaders.

"Arsenal is one of those teams that just plays beautiful football, but they don't get the points they want to," Essien told BBC's Inside Sport show. To play beautiful football without points is, I don't think, worth it. To be rough and get three points, or play well and get three points... win ugly or beautifully, I don't care."

Essien is currently sidelined for five months after undergoing knee surgery in September.

The midfielder, who has been a regular for Chelsea since his £24m move from Lyon in 2005, was injured during Ghana's World Cup qualifier against Libya on 5 September.

gets at least once ahead of the January transfer window.

Al Mubarak added: "Thankfully I do not read the newspapers that are saying Mark is under pressure but I find it incredible. I am told that there are reports that we are associated with two different coaches and that we are about to sign them. It is rubbish. This is a winning team that is going

through a learning curve right now. While January is going to be an interesting opportunity for Mark to improve the team, this is an exciting dynasty we are building and we are only in the first two months. I think people will see then that we have good foundations in place in the team, we have a good coach and that we will be upgrading in terms

of players. Hopefully the results will come."

Hughes, who took over from Sven-Goran Eriksson at Eastlands in the summer, has seen his team register four wins and seven defeats in the Premier League this season, despite the signing of £32.5m Brazilian superstar Robinho.

The club's poor form has generated speculation that new owners the Abu Dha-

bi United Group, who are backed by Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and bring unrivalled spending power to the top flight, may lose patience with the team's inability to find consistency on the pitch.

The group bought City from UK Sports Investments Ltd, which was led by former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

Simon shocks Federer at Masters Cup SHANGHAI, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Roger Federer lost 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 to France's Gilles Simon at the Masters Cup on Monday in his first match since a sore back forced him out of his last tournament.

The second-ranked Swiss star said earlier he didn't know what to expect when he played his first round-robin match in the season-ending event for the top eight players. It turned out to be flashes of his usual brilliance, then a quick slide downhill. Federer faltered late in the second set with a rash of errors that allowed Simon to get back into the match.

Federer also lost his first match at last year's Masters Cup but went on to win the title. The ninth-ranked Simon, added to the field when No. 1 Rafael Nadal withdrew with knee tendinitis, started finding the lines and capitalized on Federer's slip in play in the last two sets.

Simon ripped a backhand crosscourt winner on breakpoint as Federer served at 3-4 in the third set, then served his seventh ace on match point. The crowd overwhelmingly favored Federer. Swiss flags were scattered around the nearly

Gilles Simon of France waves to his fans following his win over top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland in the Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, China on November 10. Simon upset Federer 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. (AP Photo)

packed Qi Zhong stadium, and one section was a sea of red and white.

Federer appeared to

take a few points to loosen up. Then, after wasting three breakpoints as Simon served at 1-1 in the first

set, he broke through for a 3-2 edge, taking the game with a forehand that Simon couldn't touch.

Federer staved off a break point in the next game and finished off the set with a second-serve ace and seemed to be headed for a quick victory. They traded early breaks in the second set, and Simon had a great chance to forge ahead but squandered three break points as Federer started to look tight while serving at 3-4. Federer smacked a routine overhead and an easy forehand volley into the net to fall behind 0-30, then found the net again with a swinging forehand off a short ball at deuce, but managed to hold.

Federer wasn't as lucky in his next service game, with Simon breaking to take the set and level the match with a great backhand winner after a long rally.

Federer had to rally from 0-40 while serving at 2-3 in the deciding set, pumping his fist and shouting "Come on!" Simon replicated the escape act in the next game, with Federer helping with two forehands that sailed way long. Simon got the deciding break in the next game.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (MExN): The Kohima Lotha Students Union (KLSU) kick started its 6th Sports Meet on November 8 at the 26th Assam Rifles ground with Lalthara, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Nagaland gracing the opening ceremony as the chief guest. The chief guest during his inaugural speech urged the students and the participants ‘to forgive, forget and march forward.’ While pointing out that playing and participating was more important than winning, Lalthara encouraged the participants and students to take up sports as an essential thing. The Superintendent of Police, Kohima will grace the valedictory function as the guest of honour on November 11 at 2:00 pm. Therefore, the president O.Grace Ngullie has requested all the students to attend the function without fail. Meanwhile, the union has also informed KLSU members that an Advisory Board Committee consisting of three members, namely; Ramongo jami, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Nagaland, Lochumlo Yanthan, Chairperson, ohima Lotha Eloe Hoho and NSN Lotha, Former NSF president has been set up for the present tenure for the welfare of the students. The union has also thanked Lalthara, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Nagaland for helping the union financially and the 26th Assam Rifles for providing the play ground and every essential needs of the students now and then at the ongoing sports meet.

Naiba inaugurates football trophy at Peren

JALUKIE, NOVEMBER 10 (DIPR): The 2nd Peren District Legislature Football Trophy started at the MultiDisciplinary Sports Complex Jalukie kicked off today with Parliamentary Secretary, Youth Resources & Sports, Naiba Konyak as the chief guest. The sports event was organized by the Peren District Referee Association. Naiba Konyak, in his inaugural speech encouraged the players to keep working hard and play their best in a good sportsmanship spirit. He said that Zeliang people have not only a lot of national and international players who earned fame to the state but also have a good vision and plan. He also said that YR&S Department is searching for talented youth to give them a good opportunity. He lauded the organizers for initiating such kind of event in the district. Inaugurating the match, the chief guest kicked off the ball. Altogether 13 teams under Peren district are participating in this tournament. The chief guest was accompanied by MLA Tarie, Deputy Commissioner, Peren, Joint Director, Youth Resources & Sports, SDO (C) Jalukie and Town Council Member, Jalukie.

Bolt heads World Athlete of the Year list LONDON, NOVEMBER 10 (REUTERS): Jamaica's triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt was among six Beijing gold medallists shortlisted for the 2008 World Athlete of the Year awards on Monday, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said.

Bolt, who set world records in winning the 100 metres, 200 metres and 4x100 metres relay, joined Cuba's 110 metres hurdles champion Dayron Robles and Olympic long-distance double winner Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia in the men's category.

Fellow Ethiopian 5,000

and 10,000 metres champion Tirunesh Dibaba, 800 metres gold medallist and Golden League winner Pamela Jelimo of Kenya and Russian pole vault champion and world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva were the three women chosen.

The finalists were chosen following a poll of internet fans and the IAAF Family consisting of IAAF officials, member federations, ambassadors, leading athletes and selected members of the international press.

The winners will be announced during the 2008 World Athletics Gala in Monaco on November 23.

In this Aug. 29, 2008 file photo, Usain Bolt from the Jamaica celebrates after he won the 100 meters competition during the IAAF "Weltklasse Zurich" Golden League meeting at the Letzigrund stadium in Zurich, Switzerland. Bolt and Ethiopian distance runner Tirunesh Dibaba lead the contenders for the IAAF's world athlete of the year awards. (AP Photo/File)

Sergio Garcia of Spain watches his shot at the 9th fairway during the final round of the 2008 HSBC Champions golf tournament on November 10 in Shanghai, China. Garcia won the rain-delayed HSBC Champions to take the No. 2 spot in the world ranking behind Tiger Woods, beating Oliver Wilson with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff Monday. (AP Photo)

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Crissy Ronaldo's Ex Spills Some Beans

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ristiano Ronaldo's ex-girlfriend, Nereida Gallardo, just sold him out to the UK tabloids! The former 'model' sheds some light on Ronnie's super metro beauty regimen and self-centered tendencies.

Gallardo said, "He likes his body to be smooth all over and would even use a hair removal cream. He would also use tubs of moisturiser, coating every part of his body, at least twice a day…

His house is full of mirrors so he’s always walking around glancing at himself. She also went on to reveal that Ronnie has his initials and the number seven all over the place (it’s on the doors, the coffee tables, etc.). And, in addition to looking at himself in the mirror, he LOVES playing with his own curly hair.

During the interview, the ex also mentions that Ronnie broke up with her by text, which she's still pissed about, “He’s a coward who couldn’t end it face-to-face."

Lastly, Crissy is a huge momma's boy. The soccer groupie places a lot of the break up blame on Ronnie's mom, "He phones her every day. I wouldn’t be surprised if his next girlfriend is chosen by his mum.”

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ctor Pierce Brosnan has admitted that he wants the producers of The Thomas Crown Affair, to cast Charlize Theron as his leading lady - instead of Angelina Jolie. The former James Bond star is due to begin shooting the new movie next year- but he's still yet to discover who he will be starring opposite. And, despite summer reports linking Jolie to the role, Brosnan ad-

Uma Thurman OK with age

Barack Obama appoints ‘First Granny’ ;asks mother-in-law to move into the White House

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arack Obama has become the first American president to appoint a First Granny. Michelle Obama’s mother has reluctantly agreed to move from Chicago to Washington to take care of her granddaughters as they adjust to their new home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Marian Robinson, 71, was an indispensable part of the Obama campaign as babysitter for Malia, ten, and seven-year-old Sasha. The move could signal the first time in living memory that three generations of a family have moved into the White House. But the fiercely independent Mrs Robinson has suggested she could take a flat nearby because she doesn’t want to ‘intrude.’

Michelle, 44, has insisted that with 132 rooms, there will be no shortage of space. She said she ‘begged’ her mother to leave

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ma Thurman doesn't worry about ageing. The 38year-old 'Kill Bill' star isn't worried about Hollywood roles drying up as her years progress, because she has been told she would struggle to land parts throughout her career.

She said: "For an actress, every developmental stage is a culling of the herd. New people are found and pushed to the forefront. Now it freaks me out a little less these days.

"It makes it easier having gone through my teenage years and been told there would be no career for me as a 20-year-old. And then working as a 20-year-old and being told that was it. And then having children and being told there wouldn't be a career for me now." And then having children and being told there wouldn't be a career for me now Uma - who shot to fame aged 18 in 'Dangerous Liaisons' - is enjoying the more mature roles she is being offered now she is in her late 30s.

She added to InStyle magazine: "The characters I get to play as a mature woman are much more interesting than the ingenues I got to play as a kid, so I feel OK about it."

mits he would prefer to have Monster actress Theron as his co-star.

He tells People.com, "Charlize Theron is someone who I've always admired. I think she's someone who has acquitted herself grandly.

Nothing against Angelina Jolie. I think she's a magnificent actress. But Charlize has a poise about her and has an inner strength and femininity which I really like to watch."

her long-time home in Chicago’s tough South Side. ‘The girls are going to need her as part of their sense of stability,’ she told Newsweek magazine. ‘And what is true for my mum is that she does anything for us and her grandkids. All

they have to do is look at her with sad eyes and she is done for.’

Michelle Obama stands beside her mother Marian Robinson at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Michelle Obama will get a

private tour of the residence from Laura Bush, while U.S. President George W. Bush sits down with president-elect Barack Obama in the Oval Office. The Obama girls won’t be tagging along. But with the return of an attractive young couple with children to the White House, there is talk of a return to the Camelot feeling of the Kennedy years.

Jacqueline Kennedy’s former social secretary says it will be harder for Mrs Obama to juggle the jobs of wife, mother and first lady than it was for Mrs. Kennedy. Letitia Baldridge says 'it’s a very tough job,' and unlike JFK’s wife, Obama’s won’t be able to find some quiet time by hiding upstairs at the White House. But Baldridge says being first lady is worth it, saying the good parts of the job 'compensate for all the trouble.'

Gavin Rossdale: Zuma is 'Very Buddha-like'

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avin Rossdale's son Zuma is only 2 months old, but he's already exhibiting a Zen-like personality that inspires his father. "He's super mellow, and at the moment very Buddhalike," Rossdale told PEOPLE at BAFTA/LA's Brittania Awards, where he performed Thursday night.

Still, Rossdale says Zuma has been a little bit fussier for mom Gwen Stefani than his older brother Kingston, 2, who was an even more blissed-out baby. "Apparently Zuma's more trouble, but I thought that he was perfect all the way."

Being a dad to the Buddha-esque babies has also had a spiritual effect on the former Bush frontman. "What I've found from having children is that they just want to make you be better," said Rossdale. "Beforehand, without children, I think that I was probably more reckless and thinking a bit less about the consequences, and now I want to make sure I'm good for them when they check me out."

Rossdale's enjoying a career

comeback with his first official solo album Wanderlust and the hit single "Love Remains the Same." Still, that success comes at a price. Being away from his kids leaves him "feeling a bit bad. Like, I left my son. He was on holiday and I left the older one to come here. So I feel bad leaving them." "I haven't really written any songs about [my sons]," he says.

But Rossdale is happy that fans are responding to his softer sound. "It's just meant a lot, really, because of your faith. You keep making records and people hear them. I love singing and making music and so I'm into the success."

Performing at the Brit-centric BAFTA/LA event returned the London-born singer to his roots, something he maintains at home.

"At my house?" he says. "Yes, for sure. English roasts. Good tea.

What else do I bring? Irony. A lot of irony. A very dry, caustic humor.

You might not get it, but just as you think you haven't got it, it turns around and whips you."

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Twins’ Personalities Are Starting to ‘Shine’

rad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's twins may be only four months old, but they're already characters of their own. "They're great. They're still so little, but they do [have their own personalities]," Jolie told reporters at the DVD launch for Kung Fu Panda and the premiere of its companion adventure story, Secrets of the Furious Five in Hollywood on Sunday.

Knox and Vivienne are "starting to get very smiley," their proud mom said.

"They're at that [stage] where their personality really starts to shine." As for the rest of the brood, they share a love of their mom's work. "I think it's

06:00 - Telebrands; 07:00 - Untamed Earth; 08:00 - Wild Discovery; 09:00 - Fight Quest; 10:00 - When We Left Earth: The Nasa Missions; 11:00 - I Shouldn’t Be Alive; 12:00 - A Baby Story; 12:30 - Bringing Baby Home; 13:00 - Wild Discovery; 14:00 When We Left Earth: The Nasa Missions; 15:00 - Man Made Marvels; 16:00 - Planet Earth; 17:00 - I Shouldn’t Be Alive; 18:00 - Michael Wood: The Story Of India; 19:00 - Wild Discovery; 20:00 - Deadliest Catch; 21:00 - Man Vs. Wild; 22:00 - A Haunting; 23:00 - Man MaDe Marvels; 00:00 - Planet Earth; 01:00 - Telebrands; 02:00 - Man Made Marvels; 03:00 - Michael Wood: The Story Of India; 04:00 - A Haunting; 05:00 - Man Made Marvels

a great film, and it's brought a lot of joy to children – and to my children, absolutely," Jolie told PEOPLE at the event.

"My kids love it. They're very very proud, they've got mom [Tigress] dolls."

While Jolie – looking slim in a long-sleeved black dress and beige pumps with spiked heels – didn't let on whether she'd be attending any of President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural balls in January, she did say she was happy with the election last Tuesday. "I was pleased to see how excited so many people were," she told PEOPLE. At the premiere, held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre,

furry Panda characters wandered around and danced while costars Jack Black and Dustin Hoffman chatted with fans and press. Jolie and the rest of the cast were on hand also as DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg presented a check for $1 million to the Conservation International in support of their efforts for the preservation of pandas in their natural habitat.

Jolie told PEOPLE shortly before the presentation, "We are so privileged in everything we get to do in this business, and the amount of money this film has made. To be able to share that and do some good always feels good."

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Prince of Kolkata bids adieu to Cricket NAGPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): A glorious career comes to an end on Monday… Sourav Ganguly, a man with a never-say-die spirit, will never be seen again on the field wearing the Indian cap. Known as the best ever captain to have represented India and who is variously been described as “God of the Off-side”, Prince of Kolkata, the Maharaj of Indian cricket, Mr. Arrogance by the cricketing world bid his adieu to cricket today and will be remembered as a man who had a career as dramatic as it can be.

Sourav Ganguly has had a career of that of a hero. The day when Dada announced his retirement to the world, it seemed to be the end of an era for many.

He made his debut in the year of 1989, but subsequently dropped from the side because he allegedly refused to carry drinks to the ground. And for most of the people it seemed end of his career.

In 1996, the tour of England marked his comeback to international, the reason being him being in ‘good-terms’ with Jagmohan Dalmiya.

Most of the people thought Sourav did not deserve to be in the side. But in his very first match of the tour he proved everyone wrong by scoring a century and Lords witnessed birth of another Indian batting icon…

As an excellent player of spin, Ganguly made his mark on both ODIs and Test matches but as his career pro-

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gressed he became a better player of ODIs than Tests. As they say no one is perfect in this world and Ganguly was no exception. Though Ganguly was called the God on the off side of the wickets the short pitched balls proved to be a bane for him.

But Sourav’s success story was to continue for long as far as international matches were concerned as became the mainstay of Indian batting line up but Dada’s fortune in ODIs actually changed in Titan Cup 1996 when he was asked to open with Sachin Tendulkar against South Africa and though India ended up being on the losing side in that match however the match saw probably the best ODI opening pair batting for the first time.

Sourav-Sachin proved nightmare for almost every team in the world cricket succeeding like no other pair. One just can’t forget their 252 run opening stand against Sri Lanka when both of them scored centuries and then got out of consecutive deliveries showing how inseparable they are.

Sourav then played his first cricket World Cup in England in the year 1999. Though, India could not go past the super-six stage in the tournament more because of India’s loss to Zimbabwe in the league stage the tournament was remembered by Indian cricket fans for Dravid’s batting, who became the highest run getter in the tournament and his partnership of 318 runs with Sourav Ganguly against

Sri Lanka.

The match saw both the batsmen taking Sri Lankan bowling apart and Sourav went on to score his highest in the ODIs 183 not out. It was the highest individual score of an Indian in the tournament surpassing Kapil Dev’s 175 not out against Zimbabwe in 1983 World Cup. The 183 by Ganguly still remains highest individual score by any Indian in the world cup.

Full name: Sourav Chandidas Ganguly Date of Birth: July 8, 1972 in Kolkata Batting style: Left-handed Bowling style: Right arm medium Role: Batsman Test debut: June 20, 1996 and struck a century against England at Lord's Test match: 113 Tests Test runs: 7,212 runs with an average of 42-plus Test centuries: 16 Half centuries: 35 Highest test score: 239 against Pakistan at Bangalore in 2007 ODI debut: 1992 at Brisbane against Australia ODI matches: 311 matches ODI runs: 11,363 runs at an average of 41.02.

ODI Centuries: 22 Half centuries: 72 Highest ODI score: 183 not out against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 World Cup

India beat Oz by 172 runs to win Border-Gavaskar Trophy NAGPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Whether it is the beginning of Australia’s slide is debatable, but India’s 172-run victory in the fourth and final Test to wrap up the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a 2-0 margin is certainly a sign of things to come. Australia were bowled out for 209 in a thrilling final day of a riveting Test series, which lasted all of two hours.

The start of the day was ominous for India as a spirited run chase of 382 ensued, but Harbhajan Singh and Amit Mishra shared seven wickets between them to hasten Australia’s collapse as the visitors lost their last seven wickets for 59 runs.

Australia had made their intentions clear on the fourth day itself as only a win in the match would help them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, with the odds of an Indian win or a draw completely out of question. But India began the fifth and final day with a sweeper to not give away boundaries. If Australia had to chase down 382, boundaries would make

a large part of their scoring.

The first two wickets were a result of getting too much too soon. Simon Katich fell in this bid when he fetched an Ishant Sharma delivery from way outside off to hoick it over leg, but only managed to edge it on to the wicketkeeper for 16. Ricky Ponting, on the other hand, was eager to get off strike; his run-out, effected by a diving Amit Mishra at midon, repeated the same mistake made by Hayden in the first innings. Michael Clarke walked out in the middle with a runner due to general illness, but his foot movement remained up to scratch. But after three sumptuous hits to the fence, Ishant Sharma had him caught behind with another peach.

In a game oscillating between flurry of runs and heaps of wickets with a highly tactical day split right down the middle, the hour after lunch produced Test cricket at its very best. Hayden refused to be cowed down, and went after Harbhajan Singh and Virender Sehwag despite their ploy to repeatedly bowl

We were not good enough, India deserved to win: Ponting NAGPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (PTI): Australian captain Ricky Ponting today said India deserved to win the Border-Gavaskar trophy because his teammates "weren't good enough" in the two matches they lost to the hosts.

It's been a fair result, to tell you the truth," a candid Ponting said after Australia lost the fourth and final Test by 172 runs to India.

"It would have been an unbelievable run-chase if we could have got there today. With wearing wickets and good spinners, and fast

bowlers doing their job, we were out of the game after lunch. We weren't good enough here or in Mohali," the Australian said.

"From the start of the second test in Mohali, we've been chasing our tails and India deserve the 2-0 result," he added.

"I told guys this morning that a win is possible only if we play perfect cricket throughout the day.

But Indian pacers and spinners put lot of pressure on us and I guess we were out of the match right at lunch," he said.

Former Australian cricket captain Alan Border, second left, and former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar, second right, present the Border-Gavaskar trophy for winning the test series to Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, left, and former Indian captain Anil Kumble after India beat Australia in the final cricket test in Nagpur on November 10. (AP Photo)

at his legs after reaching his half-century. He put the slog sweep to great use, before hammering Sehwag over wide long on for six. If anyone were to take the game away, it had to be Hayden. The big Australian opener had added 68 with Hussey, but Mr Cricket merely looked a mere spectator as Hayden went berserk, panic spashing across the VCA like a heat wave in Vidarbha.

Dhoni had no option but

to go to his leg-spinner Amit Mishra, as it is not bowling him aearlier seemed bizarre, with the rough outside the left-hander’s off-stump there to bowl at. It worked. Mishra got the fourth ball of his first over to take off – maybe his version of the Jumbo – Hussey could do nothing but fend it off to Dravid at first slip.

Another batting collapse was only a matter of when, and as the first session had already dented the Austra-

lian batting, Hussey’s wicket triggered what became inevitable. Matthew Hayden walked across his stumps to work the ball away to leg only to be trapped plumb in front to Harbhajan for 77. Australia might have argued they had to go for a win, but their first five wickets had fallen inside 30 overs. Wickets continued to fall in tandem from either end. Every wicket of Mishra was followed by one from Harbhajan. Whether

they combined or were rivals on either end of the pitch was irrelevant. Emotions don’t hold sway when cricket is being played, rather fought.

Lack of emotion, even bordering on lack of a certain spirit was in question with negative tactics. Australia were trumped by a ruthless India. The four-Test series was India’s with a 2-0 margin as the Border-Gavaskar Trophy was won back after four years.

NAGPUR, NOVEMBER 10 (AGENCIES): Former Australian captain Ian Chappell has urged cricket administrators to crack down on the defensive fields which have tainted the fourth Test.

Chappell was angered by Indian captain M.S. Dhoni's decision to employ eight men on the off-side when Australia batted on Saturday and insist his fast bowlers pitch wide of off stump. Australia was stopped in its tracks and Test cricket endured one of its slowest days, with the tourists managing just 166 runs off

85.4 overs. "It is not the sort of cricket I like to see," Chappell said. "Administrators have got to think about suggesting that perhaps no more than two-thirds of the fielders can be on one side of the wicket. It really isn't a lot of fun watching the bowlers bowling well wide of the stumps and batsmen putting their bats on their shoulders."

Former Australian fast bowler Brendon Julian and Indian batsman Mohinder Amarnath were also disappointed with Dhoni's negative tactics. Amarnath, once regarded by Sunil Gavaskar

as the finest batsman in the world, feared for the future of the sport if those fields were regularly set.

Australian batsman Simon Katich, however, couldn't really criticise the tactic, for Dhoni achieved his purpose of stalling the tourists before prizing them out. "It's a good strategy if you can execute it," he said.

Chappell also took a swipe at India's sluggish over-rate - a series-long issue which has haunted both nations. The two-hour Saturday morning session was a particular grind, with only 24 overs

logged. "The over-rates were appalling again. The Indians really showed the true colour of cricketers," Chappell said.

"They are just not bothered by fines. They were quite prepared to slow the over-rate in the morning and even use it as a tactic. That is ridiculous.

Until the administrators suspend the captain for a couple of Tests, they are not going to get anywhere with overrates," Chappell said.

"They haven't got anywhere with fines because fines don't work. They need to start suspending the captain."

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Indian players Harbhajan Singh, center, Ishant Sharma, left, and Zaheer Khan carry Sourav Ganguly on their shoulders after India beat Australia in their final cricket test in Nagpur, India on November 10. (AP Photo)

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