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“Hindu terrorism:” India’s Pandora Box?

A Kashmiri child looks on from the window of his home as paramilitary soldiers guard a deserted street in Srinagar on Monday. Kashmir began voting Monday amid boycott calls by separatists who say the state elections will only entrench New Delhi’s hold on the troubled region. The elections are to be held in seven phases through December 24 in a staggered process that allows the government to deploy thousands of security forces in each area in an attempt to prevent a repeat of violence during elections in 2002 in which dozens died. (AP Photo)

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NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 17 (REUTERS): Reports that Hindu militants may be involved in bomb attacks first blamed on Islamists may open a Pandora’s Box for India’s beleaguered security services and become a key voter issue before general elections next year. At least 10 people, including a serving army officer and a Hindu monk and nun, have been arrested over alleged involvement in blasts in the Muslimdominated town of Malegaon in Maharashtra that killed four people. The same Indian army officer is being investigated over a bomb attack in February 2007 that killed 68 people on the Samjhauta Express, a train between Delhi and Lahore, police said. The attack killed mostly Pakistani passengers. The reports have proved an embarrassment for the main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as it prepares to take on the Congress-led government in both state elections this year and general elections in early 2009. The BJP has been quick to criticise the Congress-led government for being soft on terrorism when it involves Muslims or Pakistan, but critics say it has been less

willing to call for a clampdown on Hindu groups in the face of the latest allegations. “In the wake of daily arrests of... (Hindu)... terror outfits, the BJP stood exposed,” senior Congress leader Veerappa Moily told the Mail Today. “They cannot take a high moral ground.” While Islamists are suspects in many other attacks this year, the spectre of Hindu terrorist groups haunts many in India, which emerged from a traumatic partition in 1947 when hundreds of thousands were killed in religious clashes. “Given India’s diversity, a very delicate balance has been maintained,” said security analyst C. Uday Bhaskar. “If it is punctured, we will have very serious internal disturbances, aggravating the internal security of the country.” While many analysts believe this case could be isolated or limited to a small group, some believe it could signal something deeper and more sinister: a growing militant network that believes Muslims and a secular government are threatening what is basically a Hindu nation. It is not just Muslims that are the target. In Orissa state, Hindu groups angry at reports of conversions were blamed for attacks

on Christians in August and September. At least 38 people were killed. “The Hindu terrorist ... has been formed to retaliate and they are functioning in the atmosphere of hatred politics which runs deep into the social system,” said Amulya Ganguli, a political analyst. But while an embarrassment, analysts are divided on whether any revelations about Hindu militants will hurt the BJP. Some see it as an obsession of the chattering classes while millions worry more about inflation, an economic slowdown and a general perception that the government has struggled to bring anyone to justice for bombings, regardless of their religion. Experts also say quick conclusions cannot be drawn by the arrests. There are reports of inconsistencies in the cases and nothing has been proved. “This is not an open and shut case, going by the record of investigating agencies,” Major General Ashok Mehta, a security analyst, said. As elections approach, the noise is unlikely to die down. “Terrorism is definitely on the agenda of political parties and with elections round the corner everyone will talk about it,” said Bhaskar.

Factional Violence: Widows’ Spirit of Forgiveness

Merina Y. Chishi

Dimapur | November 17

ROKO WAS SEVEN months pregnant, when her husband was killed in a factional clash in 1997. When she received news about her husband’s death, Roko refused to believe unless she saw his body. Roko lived with the hope that he could return someday. His body was never found, and by that time she had already given birth to an undernourished baby. Virtually living hand to mouth, today Roko lives in a rented house in Dimapur with three children. Her biggest fear today is her chil-

dren growing up with a vengeful heart or going astray, owing to the hardships they face in the family. “No one can understand a widow’s problems. It is unfathomable,” she says. But with her hopes resting in God,; Roko hopes her children will begin to understand her and their condition better as they mature. With the Naga reconciliation process now underway, a sense of optimism is palpable amongst the Nagas today. But, for widows affected by factional violence over the last few decades, their cries echo back reminding Nagas of those whose lives have been left scarred forever.

Many similar stories echo amongst other widows. Zara lost her husband in 1999 in a factional clash. She comes from an extremely poor family. “I come from a very poor family. I eat only ‘dal-bhat’ and work the whole day in the fields to earn that meal,” she says. Zara is also engaged in ‘second hand’ clothes business which she does to pay her children’s school fees. Zara says she has to be very “stingy” with her savings because she has no one to lean on, lest misfortune befall her family. Zara today is confronted with questions about her husband from her children and admits some are very difficult to answer. She says “I

always tell them that God took away their father, and study is all they should think of.” Zara knows her children crave for material things like others do, but she says that it is her bounden duty to bring them closer to God. Despite her many hardships, Zara says “It is my cross. I have left everything in God’s hands. I have forgiven my husband’s killers.” Dolly has also forgiven her husband’s killers. Like Roko, she never saw her husband’s body. She had been married for only a few months and was pregnant with her first child. She struggled to survive in the initial months following the news of her husband’s death. With a mea-

ger salary of one thousand rupees a month from tuition classes she gives, Dolly looks after her 10-year old daughter. Dolly says she never told her daughter about her father till her eighth birthday. “I used to tell her that he has gone away for work. I wanted to tell her only after she reached an age when she would understand,” Dolly said. The most miserable thing about being a widow is, she describes, people tend to think they are “beggars.” She has experienced moments when people hurriedly brushed her off thinking she has paid them a visit to “ask” for something. Continued on page 3

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Miss Nagaland on December 6 DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The annual Miss Nagaland 2008 beauty pageant is to be on December 6 at the State Academy Hall in Kohima. The district organizers for beauty pageants are requested by the Beauty and Aesthetics Society of Nagaland (BASN) to send three contestants each representing their respective districts. All participating contestants are to report at the DUDA Guest House in Kohima, on the 1st of December positively. The forms including the terms and conditions for the contest will be available at Hotel Pine in Kohima and can also be downloaded from www.akasworld.com and www.kuknalim.com in a few days time. President of the BASN Kevi Naga said in a note that regular updates on the contest will be released to the media from time to time. The following BASN numbers may be contacted for information pertaining to the contest: 9436001599, 9436401982, 9436010788 and 9436001757.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Election Commission of India has announced the Special Summary Revision of Electoral Roll with reference to January 1, 2009 as the qualifying date, with Draft Publication of Electoral Roll on November 10, 2008 and period of filling claims and objections from the 10th of November, 2008. Updated details of it are made available in the official website of the Chief Electoral Officer of Nagaland at http:// ceonagaland.nic.in The PDF of the Draft Electoral Roll 2009 can be viewed or downloaded. There is a search

facility for searching names of electors in their respective district, Assembly Constituency and polling stations. The phone numbers and addresses of ERO/AERO and for district and a list of BLOs for assembly constituencies and polling stations assigned can be seen. Any bona-fide voter from Nagaland may visit the website for verification of personal details to make correction or enrollment as elector in their respective polling stations or contact the respective deputy commissioners, elector registration officers, assistant electoral registration officers or booth-level officers for any assistance

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Eastern Naga Students’ Federation has expressed displeasure over what it stated is the “non-implementation” of the 25% job reservation made in the current appointment under the department of Works and Housing (PWD) in the state. The ENSF in a note today alleged that 14 LDAs were promoted to UDAs and the vacancies caused by the promotions “were completely kept in dark under the influence of the concerned minister and high ranking officials of the said department”. In addition, the ENSF said, applications for two posts of SOs grade 1 and 2, three posts of sectional assistants and a post each of chowkidar, sweeper and peon were found to be

approved by the government. “However when an enquiry was made by the federation, only one mere peon post was offered to our people out of a total of 21 existing posts. It is shocking to know that the government had issued an approval order no. WH/EST/33/2008(A), dated Kohima the 11 Nov. 2008 directing the Engineer in chief to issue an appointment orders in favor of the relatives and well-wishers of the dept. officials and minister by depriving and denying the genuine candidates from the six backward tribes of eastern Nagaland” stated ENSF general secretary P Methna Konyak. The ENSF alleged that one of the applications for the post of LDA, “which did not have clear

bio-data” and which was “not even signed by the applicant” was found to be accepted and approved by the concerned officials, “the applicant being a candidate of the concerned minister”. Another applicant, the ENSF charged, who applied for LDA in the said department in Longleng was directed for appointment at Kiphire and ‘the rightful candidate who applied for Kiphire was denied’. The ENSF expressed concern over what it claimed is the “policy of suppression and denomination by the department towards the six backward tribes”. The ENSF cautioned the department to “comply with the federation’s demand” or face an own course of action.

NPF to endorse Kenye as Secy Gen Special Correspondent Morung Express News

EVEN AS the ruling Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) appears all set to re-elect veteran leader Dr Shurhozelie Liezietsu to the post of president, the other top position within the party looks set for some key changes. As the party meets tomorrow at Kohima for its General Convention, all eyes will be on the post of the Secretary General, till now held by party veteran Chubatemjen Ao, who has now resigned ahead of the party’s convention. While Election Board convener Khekiho Zhimomi had confirmed yesterday that it had shortlisted it’s “consensus candidate” for the post, The Morung Express has now learned that former minister and present NPF General Secretary K.G Kenye has been “promoted” to take over from Chubatemjen. Kenye’s selection will be endorsed in tomorrow’s General Convention. It was also learnt that NPF Vice-President Apong Pongener has also been promoted to take over the post of working president.

‘Land of Water’ Kiphire is thirsty... Health cover for

Lipichem

Kiphire | November 17

KIPHIRE, A TOWN LITERALLY known as the ‘land surrounded by waters’, is facing acute water scarcity not due to the retreating monsoon and low water table but being a victim of underdevelopment. It may be mentioned that the ongoing laying works for optical fiber cables has damaged the only ‘low grade pipe’ water pipeline to Kiphire and citizens are parched. Citizens were seen busy wandering in the streets looking for truck owners who would help in supplying water. At this point of time, where water has become dearer than any other essential commodity, suppliers are unable to meet the demand of the people. Even an ambulance which is basically for health emergencies, is not spared from transporting water. When queried about the acute water problem and other is-

HOW TO CURE WATER SHORTAGE...: A rare and incongruous scene captured in a photograph, citizens of Kiphire seen here collecting water from, yes, an Ambulance.

sues related to Kiphire, an employee of a Government establishment felt that Kiphire is ‘nice and beautiful

place to reside but the scarcity of water is miserable’. Sharing the problem with this correspondent,

some members of the Kiphire District Voluntary Consumer Organization (KDVCO) went on to say, that for

this part of the region there is no government, as it has failed to address this problem and turned a deaf ear even after repeated appeals. It may also be mentioned that in most of the DPDB meetings of Kiphire the top priority discussion is on basic amenities like water supply, health and electricity. However, no one knows when it will materialize from paper. The scarcity of water has not only affected the economy but also affecting students. The board and final exams are at the door but most of the students are seen with their cans and jars looking for water sources rather at their tables studying. On one hand, citizens are facing sleepless nights fetching water and on the other, while those residing near water sources are having sleepless nights thanks to the tingle, tangle and rankling noises of water utensils, cans and jars of citizens seeking water.

families in poverty Morung Express News Dimapur | November 17

IF STATISTICS ARE to go by, then eighty thousand below the poverty line (BPL) families in Nagaland will soon be covered under the Rashtriya Awasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY or National Health Insurance Scheme) launched by the Government of India on October 1, 2007. The scheme which became operational in April this year will cover all the BPL families in the unorganized sector in the next five years. Nagaland will be the first state in the north-east region to enjoy this benefit. Seen as a tool for empowering BPL families, this health insurance scheme, if implemented, will also act as an agent for creating other opportunities associated in the scheme’s successful functioning. The state government will also bear lesser financial grant for the health insurance scheme because the centre has

fixed only 10% as premium to be paid by the state, whereas other states are paying 25%. However, the centre makes it clear that there should be financial commitment from the states to implement this health insurance scheme. As per guidelines of RSBY, a technical cell will be set up by the central government to assist the state government in preparation of projects and monitor and evaluate the implementation of it; while the state government will have to put in place an institution for implementing the health insurance programme. One unique feature of RSBY is that it operates on a business model. Government of India representative, Anil Swarop, IAS, Director General Labor Welfare issued a press note stating that there are business opportunities for all key players, like insurance companies, hospitals, smart card service providers and the intermediaries. Continued on page 3

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Citizens wake to call of KTC

Citizens of Kiphire actively cooperate with the Town Council’s drive towards removing unplanned structures in Kiphire town. The KTC in an effort for a better-planned town began the beautiﬁcation drive on October 13 last. Lipichem Kiphire | November 17

BARELY A couple of weeks after the Kiphire town council (KTC) issued a notification to implement provisions under the Nagaland Town Council Act 2001, against defaulters for erecting unplanned structures in the town, its citi-

zens woke up to the call and promptly responded. Disclosing the developments with this correspondence Chairman KTC R. Joshua Sangtam said the beautification drive which kick started on October 13 last will continue until the work is accomplished. The main objective behind the beautifica-

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DDBPOA informs

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): All owners of beauty parlors, barber shops and saloons under Dimapur district are informed to have their registration for the year 2008 renewed before November 30 at DDBPOA office, C|o LABO UDYOG, MP Road (near Rajasthan Fort) Dimapur. The association further informed that action would be taken against defaulters.

NCVYS informs on picnic party DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The New Chumukedima Village Youth Society (NCVYS) has informed the public to take prior permission from the society, for any type of gathering or picnic under its jurisdiction of the village. “Any kind of outdoor activities like fishing, hunting, breaking of bottles, playing with crackers bombs etc are strictly prohibited,” stated Seyievikho Kera, general secretary of the society in a press note, adding, “Any violators will be strictly dealt with by the youth society of the New Chumukedima village accordingly.”

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PSUN, PYO on banning of hunting KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Poilwa Students’ Union Nagaland has reminded all neighboring villages of Poilwa that the Union along with Poilwa Youth Organization has banned hunting, fishing and burning of jungles within the jurisdiction of Poilwa village. It warned that if anyone (group) is found violating the rules and regulation will be strictly penalize according to the rules and resolution set by PSUN and PYO Poilwa.

tion drive is to keep the town planned for future generation, he added. When queried about any resistance faced by the KTC in removing unplanned structures in the town, Chairman KTC said, so far KTC has not imposed the use of force which is well within its provisions. This was so because “citizens

are doing it voluntarily which is too impressive,” he added. Sangtam also mention the active role of some prominent citizens namely Yanglizi S.I.S, Yangkimong President Kiphire District GB Association, R.L. Akumba Ex MLA and others who were instrumental in taking the lead in removing their structures paving the

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): Clarifying to a news item, “Rev. Moon has taken…,” the Naga Students, Korea in a press note stated that this has been really disturbing to the Naga students in Korea. “There is no denying the fact that Rev. Barnabas Moon of ‘CONA International’ has contributed to the welfare of the Naga students in the past. As far as support goes we are of the knowledge that 4 students came to Korea for their studies through his initiative. Two of them had gone back within six months and support was withdrawn for the other two.” The note pointed out that

“the students that are enrolled in different academic institutions in Korea at the moment amount to a little more than 30. The fact remains that we have had no support of any sort from Rev. Barnabas Moon of ‘CONA International’. The claim of support therefore is a false claim and we have 30 plus student to attest to this.” “We are forced to make this clarification because it is not fair on the churches, schools and individuals who have supported us and continues to do so here in Korea. More so, we don’t want Naga to be misled by people having vested interests,” it concluded.

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NOKLAK, NOVEMBER 17 (DIPR): Christian High School, Noklak celebrated its Silver Jubilee on October 29 last with Minister for Urban Development and Higher Education Shürhozelie Liezietsu as the chief guest. He also unveiled the Jubilee monolith. Speaking on the occasion, the Minister expressed his gratitude to the people of eastern Nagaland for making considerable progress in the field of education, within a short span of time even though education came late to the area. He reminded teachers of the area that

their duty is heavier than that of their counterparts in advanced areas as most of the parents are illiterate. The responsibility to even play the role of parents lies with the teachers, he said, adding that teachers are left to translate the dreams of thousands into reality. Shürhozelie said that the present Naga society is concentrating more on quality education. He said that the government to fulfill the demands of the people has established many schools. He lamented that imparting of quality education still lags behind in the state, and

such complacency has no room in this era of competition, he added. He urged the local leaders to support the schools to impart quality education to the youngsters. The Minister advised the school authorities that mere celebration of the jubilee is not enough but it should be the starting point of planning new things with new initiatives and new vigour to make further progress in the days to come. He also donated Rupees one lakh to CHS, Noklak. Commissioner & Secretary, Higher Education, F.P. Solo, who accompanied

Naga students of Craters in Dimapur, not just on the moon Korea clariﬁes DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): Clarifying to a news item, “Rev. Moon has taken…,” the Naga Students, Korea in a press note stated that this has been really disturbing to the Naga students in Korea. “There is no denying the fact that Rev. Barnabas Moon of ‘CONA International’ has contributed to the welfare of the Naga students in the past. As far as support goes we are of the knowledge that 4 students came to Korea for their studies through his initiative. Two of them had gone back within six months and support was withdrawn for the other two.” The note pointed out that “the students that are enrolled in different academic institutions in Korea at the moment amount to a little more than 30. The fact remains that we have had no support of any sort from Rev. Barnabas Moon of ‘CONA International’. The claim of support therefore is a false claim and we have 30 plus student to attest to this.” “We are forced to make this clarification because it is not fair on the churches, schools and individuals who have supported us and continues to do so here in Korea. More so, we don’t want Naga to be misled by people having vested interests,” it concluded.

This road needs attention: Among the busiest in Dimapur, this road near the trafﬁc island at Burma Camp lies in terrible condition. It may be mentioned that the PWD has been carrying out repairing of roads within Dimapur town since the past few days. (Morung Photo)

KEH, KSO bans gutkhas

WOKHA, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): Amidst growing concern over the increasing propensity in the consumption of gutkhas and other related items, the Kyong Eloe Hoho (KEH) and the Kyong Students’ Union (KSU) decided to ban the sell of this item in the larger interest of the students and the public as well. This was decided in a joint meeting held on November 16 last. The meeting

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my team are charged up.” After having witnessed the support of its citizens towards this end, Sangtam felt, Kiphire has become the role model for other town council as well. He hoped that if the citizens responded in this manner many developmental activities in the pipe line will be implemented soon.

TUENSANG, NOVEMBER 17 (DIPR): Müleangkiu Baptist Church Golden Jubilee Celebration programme was held from November 14-16 under the theme ‘Gods love endures through all generations’. Parliamentary Secretary for Information & Public Relations and Economics & Statistics, R. Tohanba in his exhortation address termed the occasion as historic and said that such a celebration makes us dream for the future ahead while also reflecting on the past. Referring to the significance of the occasion he reminded the gathering that there is so much over which we can rejoice and celebrate together. He also called upon the people to strive to attain not only spiritual growth and fulfill the purpose of God but also physical development and celebrate the Jubilee as a day of forgiving and forgetting past wrongdoings and share the blessing of God with others. The Parliamentary Secretary donated Rs. 20,000/- towards the church and 10,000/- to the village council. He also held a meeting with the village council members where he encouraged them to maintain peace and unity and cooperation with the Government for all round development. Deputy Commissioner, Tuensang, Y.L. Jami and ADC Shamator also delivered short speeches. Executive Secretary, YBBA Akhang, Pastor Mokokchung Village Baptist Church N. Sobu Pongen and Director MPM, Dimapur, Yimso were the main speakers of the jubilee celebrations. Bible reading, singspiration by Kihoto Theological College Yahkor, award of certificates to pioneers and active workers in the church and release of souvenir were some of the highlights of the programme. Jubilee office bearers under the chairmanship of K. Mahjih led the three days jubilee celebration.

Naga students of Korea clariﬁes Noklak Christian High School silver jubilee celebrated

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way for other citizens to cooperate without hindrance. Expressing satisfaction over the recent developments of the drive undertaken by the KTC, Joshua said, “I did not expect the citizens to be supportive like this, and was anticipating using force, but after witnessing the positive response of the citizens I and

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“And is not time even as love is undivided and pace less” “Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am among all men most richly blessed”. Amen Loving Ayao and all loved ones.

also adopted 3 joint resolutions that included, “if any individual or group are going against any officials/ volunteers and creating unwanted situation while conducting surprise checking, the house will take its own course of action and further he/she will be handed to the law enforcing agency. “Any shopkeepers/whole sellers found any of the above mention items in their custo-

dy in any manner will be imposed a fine of Rs. 2, 000” and “Any shopkeepers or whole sellers fail to comply the house resolution and found selling for the second time, will be subjected to cease/cancellation of trade or license.” This was stated in a press note issued by Zuchopeni, chairperson, KEH, Yiben Humtsoe, president, KSO and N Mhabemo Mozhui, general secretary, KSO.

CM to inaugurate Medziphema ADC ofﬁce DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (DIPR): Chief Minister, Neiphiu Rio will inaugurate the ADC Office Medziphema on November 20 which is being upgraded from SDO (C) to ADC level. MP (Rajya Sabha) Khekiho Zhimomi will grace the occasion as guest of honour. Having a total of 21 different departments Medziphema is becoming one of the fastest growing sub-division in the state, and therefore the need for upgrading to ADC level. Medziphema sub-di-

vision lies on the National Highway-39 between Chümukedima circle and Sechü sub-division situated 30 kms away from Dimapur HQ and covering 21 villages and one town. The area comprises of almost all tribes of Nagaland, the pre-dominant tribes being Angamis, Kukis and Semas. The total population as per 2001 census is 23035 with 11775 male and 11260 female. It has a Town Council comprising of 9 wards. There are three major banks including SBI, Allahabad Bank and NSCB.

the chief guest, inaugurated the school laboratory on the same day. Former Head Master Visakuolie, C. Mucho on behalf of past students, T. Beyan, President KSU, W. Chuba Lam, President KTC and Nyusitho Nyuthe, ADC Noklak, delivered short speeches. Assistant Head Master S. Sangmong delivered the welcome speech. Jubilee resolution was read out by Noksa. Student of CHS, Noklak and GHSS Noklak presented special songs. The function concluded with benediction by Rev. Chillia, Pastor, Noklak town.

Peren District Dobashis meeting held TENING, NOVEMBER 17 (DIPR): The 9th general conference of Peren District Dobashis Association, Nagaland under the theme ‘Custom for Justice’ was held at Tening Town Adhoc Committee Hall from November 11-12 with Tarie Zeliang, MLA 6th Tening assembly constituency as chief guest. N. Mesen, Deputy Commissioner, Peren and Kerang Domtta, Vice Chairman Tening Town exhorted the Dobashis to actively play their role in the interest and service of the public so as to enable ushering in a peaceful atmosphere in the district. About 36 delegates from Peren, Tening, Nsong, Athibung, Jalukie and Ngwalwa attended the conference.

KPYO restricts vehicular movement DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Kacharigaon Phevima Youth Organisation (KPYO) in its executive meeting held on November 16 last, resolved to restrict unidentified vehicular and human movement to enter the village without any reason after 8:00 pm, with effect from November 17. A press note issued by Kevishel Viswentso, president and Lango Neikha, general secretary, LPYO stated that the decision was taken in view of the safety of villagers as there was random criminal activities committed within the village jurisdiction such as lifting of cars, stealing of domesticated animals, collection of illegal tax in the name of certain underground faction, dumping of murdered corpse which was creating unpleasant atmosphere and insecurity for the villagers. “The youth organisation will be on duty therefore, anybody who enters the village jurisdiction after 8 pm will be at their own risk. Inconvenience is regretted,” concluded the press note.

BJP Dmp pre-Christmas on Dec 6 DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): A general meeting of the BJP Dimapur District was held on November 11 at its office at Kuda guest house, Burma Camp. The meeting was presided over by the District President, Meren Imchen. The house witnessed through deliberations on a number of important matters pertaining to the uplift of the party. Among senior members of the party, Abraham Lincoln, State Vice President (Minority Cell), also attended the meeting and exhorted the district team to work unitedly and uphold party principle. The house also decided to organize a pre-Christmas celebration on December 6, 2008, for which the following have been selected as organising committee members: Bankhathong Lotha, Treasurer of BJP Dimapur as Convenor, and Sashi Onen Jamir, Vice President BJP, Dimapur as Secretary. Makuran Rongmei, General Secretary (Org) BJP Dimapur District, in a release informed that the house also entrusted all mandal presidents to assign a representative for each ward in their respective mandals to assist the Booth Level Officers (BLO) at their respective polling stations.

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Violence: Widows’ ‘Congress to act as vigilant Factional Spirit of Forgiveness against corruption of DAN’ DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Congress Legislative Party Nagaland in press statement today reaffirmed that it would continue to work selflessly for the welfare of the people of the state. C. Apok. Jamir, parliamentary secretary, CLP Nagaland in a press note informed of the CLP meet held here today in Dimapur. The Congress on the side lines of the meet reiterated its earlier stand on peace and security in the state. Expressing serious concerns over the ‘excessive kidnappings and extortions by anti-social elements’ the Congress felt that that ‘the prevailing law and order situation has found the present DAN government wanting of its promises to usher a sense of security especially among the business community.’ “The slogan of ushering peace by this present government has been found hollow and self-congratulatory, whereas in reality the situation has gone from bad to worse,” the Congress stated, adding that the prevailing situation is ‘creating a fear psychosis among the public’.

On the deteriorating security and state of affairs in Nagaland, the Congress noted that the promise of development and prosperity by the DAN government have become only a slogan to fool the general public, whereas the reality can be seen and felt by the public in our daily life. Jamir also took note of the accusations on the Congress party for imposing the president’s rule before the election. “The Speaker without applying his mind and understanding of the law-used his whim and fancy to disallow the dissident and independent MLA’s to vote in the house of the Assembly, where by creating a new law for himself not found in any written code of law- the result of such malice and ill intended role played by the Speaker has been over ruled by the honourable high court as illegal and unfortunate.” The CLP reiterated its stand that the Speaker and Chief Minister should step down on moral grounds for misleading the people. Affirming that the Congress party is ‘united and strong as ever’, the CLP accused the DAN government of play-

ing ‘cheap tricks’ by spreading rumors ‘such as dissidence and disunity among its members’ to bring about ‘confusion in the minds of the people’. At the meet on Monday, the CLP also resolved to make the party stronger and more efficient by ushering the value of hard work and following the ideals set by the ‘great leaders of the Indian National Congress’. Leader of opposition, Chengwang Konyak at the meet also expressed gratitude to Sonia Gandhi, President AICC for appointing Oscar Fernandez in charge of northeast affairs. Further CLP also thanked outgoing general secretary Margaret Alva for her contribution towards the congress party during her tenure. The CLP while thanking the NPCC for its pro-active role in countering the mis-governance of the DAN government reiterated that that “CLP would act as a vigilant for the people against the disease of corruption and nepotism spread by the present DAN government, which has become the hallmark of this Dan government.”

‘Parents should be more committed’

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 ((MExN): Christian High School, Niuland celebrated its Parents’ Day on November 15 with Tokugha Sukhalu, IAS, Commissioner Secretary to the government of Nagaland as the chief guest. Addressing the gathering at the 20th Parents’ Day of the school, the chief guest lauded the proprietor and the management team of the school for their sincere commitment to provide education to children, which, in the present context are lacking in many schools because many educational institutes in state have become inclined towards business, he said. Largely stressing on the responsibility of the parents towards the children, Sukhalu reminded the parents that many parents forget their duty towards their children while

working for earthly materialistic things but human resource is more important than all other developmental works. Urging parents to be more committed towards their children, he said, “We should not sacrifice the future of our children because of our selfish reasons”. As a token of love, the chief guest donated a sum of Rs. 25,000 towards the school. Dignitaries who attended the function include Honikhu, DIS, Vihuto Yeptho, Member DMC, Khehovi, BDO, Tokuho Neho, Chairman APMC Kuhuboto and Aheto Yeptho, former Congress candidate.Khevihe Yeptho, the proprietor of the school accorded a warm welcome to all dignitaries by presenting a souvenir to them. Earlier Rev. Viheto Achumi invoked God’s blessing for the function.

Health cover for families in poverty From page 1 Swarop also pointed out that an average of around rupees 7.5 crore will be pumped in each district which will create business opportunities as there will be incentive for private sector health providers to set up heath related infrastructure. Currently operational in twelve states, the insurance to the tune of thirty thousand (30,000) covers all illness that requires hospitalization and pre-existing diseases. The insurance covers five members in a BPL family and the beneficiaries will be issued smart cards. The smart card issued to beneficiaries is assured full security as it envisages use of finger print verification and more interestingly, the beneficiary can choose the hospitals from a list of hospitals, including private hospital, for seeking treatment. RSBY is likely to be launched by January 1, 2009 in Nagaland.

DIPR extends condolence KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 17 (DIPR): The Director, Officers and staff of the Department of Information & Public Relations, Nagaland has condoled the sudden demise of one of its retired officer L.R. Murry at Dimapur on November 16. The department officials recall that late L.R. Murry, who retired as DPRO, Wokha in November 1986 was an active and dedicated officer. The department officials have conveyed sorrow to the family members of late L.R. Murry and prayed that the Almighty grant solace and comfort to the loved ones of the departed soul.

NSACS informs candidates DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Nagaland State Aids Control Society has informed all candidates who have accepted the post under DAPCU, Nagaland State AIDS Control Society to attend a brief orientation programme on November 25 next at 2:00 pm at NSACS, Conference Hall. “Appointment order will be issued after the briefing,” stated Dr. Neiphi Kire, Project Director in a press note.

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MOKOKCHUNG, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): A Christmas music video album 'Christmas Ola' by 'Loyang' – a ladies group was released here yeaterday at Ken Hostel in Salangtem Ward, by the pastor of Mokokchung Town Baptist Church, Ponen Longchar. The video CD containing ten tracks, all from the Ao Gospel Hymnal is priced at Rs.120. The music album will be available at Lucky Cassette Library, A.M. Road, Mokokchung.

DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The All Nagaland PWD Field Workers Association and All Nagaland PWD (R&B) and (H) Work-Charge Employees’ Association has convened a joint emergency meeting on November 25 at its Head Office in Kohima at 11:00 am (sharp) to discuss matters relating to pending salaries and also to form an association in the Department. All the unit presidents/ general secretaries of both the association have been requested to attend the said meeting positively. Atovi Awomi, General Secretary, in a release has informed that the defaulter unit/division would be responsible for any problem “that arises from the employee, whereas the association will not liable to bear any responsible.”

Archbishop of Imphal ordains 4 Sisters DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): Four Novices were on Saturday ordained in a special ceremony to become ‘Sisters’ at the SABS Provincial House, 7th Mile, Chumukedima, where Rev. Dominic Lumon, Archbishop of Imphal, officiated the service on November 15. Rev. Dominic Lumon in his speech stressed on ‘discipleship’ to be followed by a Christian in a Godly manner. He congratulated the sisters who “have desired to work

for God” and urged them to search the ‘will of God’, further adding, “Religion by man is a choice to decide. And we should decide the right path.” Rev. Lumon also advised that “following God’s approach in this world of today is the right choice.” He concluded by saying, “We should always carry the cross to be always near to God.” Other highlights of the day included an entertainment program to welcome the four Sisters.

NBSA ofﬁce shifted to Dimapur DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The Office of the Nagaland Bamboo Development Agency ( NBDA), Red Cross Building, PR Hills, Kohima; Nagaland has been shifted to the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre (NBRC), 6th Mile Dimapur (Defunct Sugar Mill), Ph.No: 91-3862-240855; Telefax: 913862-241305. Henceforth all correspondences & contacts may be address accordingly. This was stated in a press note issued by Norman Putsure, IAS, Team Leader, NBM-IT.

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Dimapur DPDB Emergency meeting November 18

MLA & Chairman DPDB, Dimapur has convened an emergency meeting on November 18 at 11:00 am at Deputy Commissioner’s Conference Hall, Dimapur for discussion of LADP 2008-09. All members are therefore informed to attend the meeting positively.

GRATITUDE The Mon District Kickboxing Council shares gratitude to Shri Neiba Konyak, Parliamentary Secretary Sports and Youth Resources for donating a sum of Rs 3,000 (three thousand only) towards the council to meet the partial expenditure during the 1st Annual Inter District Kickboxing Council Championship held at Dianty Bud School Kohima on 14th-15th Nov 2008. At the same time, Mr Tingtei Konyak, President MDKC and Mr Apang Konyak, General Secretary MDKC also congratulated all the winners of the championship and particularly from Mon District under MDKC, viz 1. Mr. W. Manom Konyak: Gold Medal (60-65) KG 2. Mr. T. Temyeih Konyak: Gold Medal (56-60) 3. Mr. H. Samuel Konyak: 2 Gold Medal (51-55) 4. Mr. H. Manleih Konyak: Gld Medal (56-60) Also appreciated the never die spirit of the team coach Mr T. Ngamom, Black Belt AIKC 1st Dan.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALAND

No.IFC/TECH/FC-6/2007-08/3435-41Dated, Kohima, the 17/11/2008: Sealed tender affixing Court fee stamps of Rs 7.50 (Rupees seven and fifty paisa) only are hereby invited on behalf of the Governor of Nagaland by the undersigned from Class-I Registered Contractor of Nagaland PWD having experience on Embankment and River Protection Works for construction of the under mentioned works. The Tender documents and detail particulars of the work can be obtained from the Office of the undersigned during working day upto 15:00 hours of 04/12/08 on payment of Tender Document cost for each set of particular work as mentioned in column No.7. The Tender will be received in the Office of the undersigned upto 12:00 hours on 05/12/08 and will be opened on the same day at 14:00 hours in presence of the intending tenderer(s) or his authorized representative. TheTenderer(s)shouldquoteintheprescribeformatforeachspecifieditemofworksseparatelyas“_%abovetheSchedule of rate” or “_% below the Schedule of rate” or “As per scheduled rate” (in the underlined space, numerical figure should be written) for both NPWD SoR 1996 and I&FC Analyzed Rates for all the below mentioned particulars of work. Sl.No

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DIMAPUR, NOVEMBER (DIPR): The Nagaland government has granted Dearness Allowance (DA) /Additional Dearness Allowance (ADA) to all its employees. Principal Secretary and Finance Commissioner Toshi Aier in an order said the rate of DA has been revised from the existing 41% to 47 % with effect from first January 2008 and from 47% to 54% with effect from first July 2008 in respect of employees drawing pay in the revised scales under ROP 1999. The rate of ADA has also been revised from the existing 249% to 265% from first January 2008 and from 265% to 283% from first July 2008 in respect of government employees drawing pay in the Pre-revised scales under ROP’1993. The order said that the DA/ADA will continue to be a distinct element of remuneration and will not be treated as pay within the ambit of FR 9(21). The revised rate of DA/ ADA shall also apply to the employees appointed on contract against sanctioned posts, and drawing pay in identical scale applicable to the regular employees of the corresponding categories. But these orders shall not apply to the Work-charged employees (whether on time scale of pay or on fixed daily/ monthly wages) nor shall these orders apply to any other categories of employees on fixed monthly pay or on daily wages. The order further said, the whole of the arrears from first January 2008 to 30th November 2008 will be credited to the respective GPF/CPF accounts of the employees concerned. Cash payment shall be made from December 2008 salary onwards. No part of the arrears upto 30th November be paid in cash except in respect of those employees who have already retired from service or have died or are due to retire on superannuation on or before 31st March 2009. Government servants who have not yet opened Provident Fund Account can be allowed to draw the arrears only after the Provident Fund Accounts are opened so that the arrears can be credited to their Provident Fund Accounts. Arrears of DA/ADA may be paid in cash in respect of those employees who are not required to subscribe to provident fund under the Rules applicable to them. The order instructed all Heads of offices/DDOs to carefully scrutinize all arrears bills to ensure that no cash payments are allowed except in respect of those who have already retired or died or are due to retire on superannuation on or before 31st. March 2009. The amount of arrears credited to the Provident Fund shall not be treated as accumulation for the purpose of temporary or Non-refundable withdrawals till 31st March 2010.

NOTICE INVITING TENDER

The Chief Medical Officer and the Medical Superintendent, Peren would like to express profound gratitude to the doctors and staff of Zion Hospital & Research Centre, Dimapur for the Free Health Camp conducted at the District Hospital, Peren on the 15th November 2008. The rural populace of Peren District and nearby villages of Manipur availed the free consultation, investigation and treatment from the specialist and super-specialist doctors. Altogether 550 (Five hundred and fifty) patients were treated. The public and patients are thankful for the medicine distribution, pathological investigation like FNAC, blood tests, etc, ECG, endoscopy, surgeries and lap ligations which were free of cost. The Deputy Commissioner, Peren, Chairman of Peren Town Council and various public leaders contributed their help in making the camp a great success. The Free Health Camp by Zion Hospital & Research Centre, Dimapur is appreciated for their selfless humanitarian service to the poor and needy rural people. We pray for success in all their endeavours.

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with the Indian government,” and render the sacrifice of their husbands valueless. All these women have taught their children to forgive. And this is the same message they put across to the leadership of different factions. “We have forgiven our husbands’ killers. We have no hatred for any faction and we hope that the leaders will also do the same,” they say. They collectively say they will continue to support the Naga ‘national’ movement while they also plead for their voices to be heard along with the rest of the people. On the initiatives of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, the widows hope the forum would accommodate and take the opinions of those affected as well. “They must try to reach to the heart of the issue, the people, and feel it. We are all with them,” they assure.

'Christmas Ola' by Longyang released

PWD ﬁeld workers, work-charge employees to meet

Students of Christian High School perform a choreographed dance at the Parents’ Day celebrations on Saturday. (Inset) Tokugha Sukhalu, IAS, Commissioner Secretary to the government of Nagaland was the chief guest.

From page 1 Aya and Asheli have faced similar problems. The say their hardships and problems are too deep to even talk about. All five ladies have dreamt horrible dreams the past few months, they say. “We never thought another group would emerge. We have lost so many good friends because of this and now there is suspicion even among all of us,” they expressed. They also talk about young widows whose husbands were killed in this year’s factional violence. Memories of the days they left behind returns to haunt them. With tears rolling down her cheeks Dolly says, “A prayer warrior who went to the mass funeral after the Seithekiema massacre told me that she saw one cadre holding a baby’s hand glove in his hand. I cried.” These women also live with the fear that “the groups may come to a compromise

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Training, boarding & lodging are free. However, trainees have to bear travel expenses to Ramnagar and back. Date of training will be fixed after trainees are identified. Interested candidates may submit their application to the Director of Employment & Craftsmen Training, Nagaland, Kohima during Office hour. Last date of submission is 10th Dec.2008. Sd/- N.PANGER JAMIR Director, Employment & Craftsmen Training, Nagaland, Kohima

Tender without Court Fee Stamps & Earnest Money will not be accepted. The Earnest Money should be submitted in the form of DAC in favour of the Chief Engineer, Irrigation & Flood Control, Nagaland, Kohima from any Nationalized Bank separately for each work. 2. Tenderer(s) should enclose attested Photocopy of the Govt. Registration Notification, I.D Card and their credentials of having past experience on civil works and embankment & River Protection works alongwith the tender paper. 3. The Original copy of all the above mentioned documents should be produces at the time of opening of tender. 4. Certificate of Financial Soundness should be furnished. 5. Tenderer having Machineries and Tools & Plants may furnish the list. 6. The successful tenderer(s) are required to fill up the agreement form after receipt of the intimation of award of work within a week. 7. The work order will be issued only after completion of agreement between the contractor and the Department. 8. 10(ten) percent of the works bill amount will be deducted as security deposit and which will be released after six months of successful completion of the work. 9. Payment will be made as per the availability of fund only. 10. Works Contract Tax @ 4% will be deducted from the gross amount of the bill as per Govt. Office Memorandum. 11. The undersigned reserves the right to reject any or all the tenders without assigning any reason thereof and the acceptance of the lowest rate are not obligatory. Sd/- (Er. MEZAKROL) Chief Engineer, Irrigation & Flood Control, Nagaland, Kohima

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18 November 2008

Tata Teleservices launches Murdoch upbeat about telecom services in Assam the future of newspapers

Rupert Murdoch Chairman and Chief Executive Ofﬁcer. (AP Photo)

SYDNEY, NOVEMBER 17 (AP): Global media magnate Rupert Murdoch says doomsayers who are predicting the Internet will kill off newspapers are “misguided cynics” who fail to grasp that the online world is potentially a huge new market of information-hungry consumers. Newspaper companies in the United States and elsewhere are facing fundamental changes to their businesses as more people get their news from the Internet and other sources, and advertis-

ers follow the market away from the paper-and-ink format. Murdoch, the Australianborn chairman and chief executive of News Corp., said in a speech broadcast Sunday titled “The Future of Newspapers: Moving Beyond Dead Trees” that the Internet offered opportunities as well as challenges and that newspapers would always be around in some form or other. “Too many journalists seem to take a perverse pleasure in ruminating on their pending demise,” Murdoch said in a speech, recorded in the United States and relayed nationally by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. It was the latest in an annual ABC “Unlike the doom and gloomers, I believe that newspapers will reach new heights” in the 21st century, Murdoch said. Murdoch grew a small city newspaper he inherited in 1953 into one of the world’s largest media conglomerates that now includes 20th Century Fox, Fox News Channel and Sky Broadcasting, Dow Jones & Co. and the online networking site MySpace. He said people now were “hungrier for information that ever before” and that papers have an edge over bloggers and other newcom-

Citigroup downgrades India’s economic growth rate to 6.8%

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NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): Global financial major Citigroup has lowered India’s economic growth rate projection to 6.8 per cent from 7.2 percent for this fiscal due to slowdown in consumption and investment. “Incremental data both on the domestic and global front has been worse than anticipated...at this juncture, (economic) data points to a marked slowdown in consumption and investment,” Citi said in a report. It has also reduced its growth projection for the fiscal year 2009-10 to 5.5 percent from the earlier 6.6 percent. In the last one month, the RBI has infused liquidity of Rs 2,70,000 crore by cutting the Cash Reserve Ratio (the amount banks must keep with the apex lender) by 350 basis points and Statutory Liquidity Ratio by 100 basis points. RBI has also reduced the short term lending rate (repo) by 150 basis points to

7.5 percent from 9 percent last month. Citi expects that RBI’s monetary policy to boost liquidity will continue. “Further, to boost liquidity, one could expect the possibility of further easing of the capital account norms, NRI deposit scheme, temporary dollar liquidity support from international institutions and some fertiliser/oil bonds becoming eligible for SLR requirements,” it added. Recently, financial services giant Goldman Sachs has revised downwards India’s economic growth forecast to 6.7 per cent from 7.5 percent projected earlier for this fiscal. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at G-20 Summit in Washington said, “India’s (economic) growth rate is expected to slowdown between 7 percent and 7.5 percent in the current financial year.” The GDP for the first quarter of the current fiscal was at 7.9 percent and the figure for the second quarter is expected later this month.

ers because they are more trusted by readers. “Readers want what they’ve always wanted: a source they can trust,” Murdoch said. “That has always been the role of great newspapers in the past. And that role will make newspapers great in the future.” He said newspapers would have to evolve from the physical item to “news brands” that are delivered in a variety of ways and are flexible for readers. “I like the look and feel of newsprint as much as anyone,” he said. “But our real business isn’t printing on dead trees. It’s giving our readers great journalism and great judgment. “It’s true that in the coming decades, the printed versions of some newspapers will lose circulation. But if papers provide readers with news they can trust, we’ ll see gains in circulation - on our Web pages, through our RSS feeds, in e-mails delivering customized news and advertising, to mobile phones,” Murdoch said. “In this coming century, the form of delivery may change, but the potential audience for our content will multiply many times over,” he said. Murdoch cited two of his most prestigious newspapers, The Times of London and

The Wall Street Journal, as examples of how newspaper brands can win large online readerships. But he stressed that even these papers must recognize that online customers will decide what news they want and how they receive it. “To compete today, you can’t offer the old one-size-fits-all approach to news,” he said. “The challenge is to use a newspaper’s brand while allowing readers to personalize the news for themselves and then deliver it in the ways that they want.” To capitalize on online opportunities, Murdoch said The Wall Street Journal was planning to offer three tiers of content online - free news, a subscriber-level service, and a third “premium service” of reader-customizable “high-end financial news and analysis.” Murdoch was scathing of journalists who predicted the death of newspapers as self-pitying and “misguided cynics who are too busy writing their own obituary to be excited by the opportunity.” “The newspaper, or a very close electronic cousin, will always be around,” he said. “It may not be thrown on your front doorstep the way it is today. But the thud it makes as it lands will continue to echo around society and the world.”

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product and service and host of value added benefits. With unmatched coverage and voice clarity, Tata Indicom will provide its customers a unique experience of latest technology at an affordable cost. We are confident that the launch of Tata Indicom shall redefine the way people communicate in the region.” Tata Indicom has also announced the launch of one photon-high-speed Internet access service with speeds 10 times faster than any existing mobile wireless technology. The photon service can be accessed using two devices - router for small and medium enterprises and business enterprises and the USBmodem, for individual users and the small office home office segment. The photon Internet access service allows customers to be connected — not only for mails, but also for downloads, large files uploads, photo sharing, send and receive SMS and is compatible to both laptops and desktop personal computers. With Photon, customers can avail the benefit of multiple infotainment services such as access to rich text and images, web browsing, blogging, network on friendship sites and enter forms for travel, e-commerce, jobs, entertainment and more. Tata Indicom products and

TOKYO, NOVEMBER 17 (AP): Japan’s economy slid into a recession for the first time since 2001, the government said Monday, as companies sharply cut back on spending in the third quarter amid the unfolding global financial crisis. The world’s second-largest economy contracted at an annual pace of 0.4 percent in the July-September period after a declining an annualized 3.7 percent in the second quarter. That means Japan, along with the 15-nation euro-zone, is now technically in a recession, defined as two straight quarters of contraction. The result was worse than expected. Economists surveyed by Kyodo News agency had predicted gross domestic product would gain an annualized 0.1 percent. Japan’s Economy Minister Kaoru Yosano said following the data’s release that “the economy is in a recessionary phase.” But the worst may be yet to come, especially with dramatic declines in demand from consumers overseas for Japan’s autos and electronics gadgets. Hurt also by a strengthening yen, a growing number of exporters big and small are slashing their profit, sales and spending projections for the full fiscal year through March. Toyota Motor Corp., for example, has cut net profit full-year profit forecast to 550 billion yen ($5.5 billion) - about a third of last year’s earnings. And Sony Corp., whose July-September profit plunged 72 percent, expects to make 59 percent less this fiscal year than last year.

Pedestrians are reﬂected on an electric market board in Tokyo, Monday, November 17. The benchmark Nikkei 225 stock average fell in early trade. (AP Photo)

“What we’re starting to see is the extent of deterioration in external demand start to weigh more heavily on the Japanese economy,” said Glen Maguire, chief Asia economist at Societe Generale. “And I think looking forward, there’s every indication that dynamic is going to continue.” Compared to the previous

quarter, GDP shrank 0.1 percent, the Cabinet Office said. Business investment - a main driver of Japan’s six-year economic recovery since 2002 - dropped 1.7 percent from the previous quarter. “As the global economy is expected to slow down for the time being, downward movements (in Japan) are expected to continue,” Yosano said, accord-

ing to Kyodo. Investors seemed to take the news in stride. The Nikkei 225 index, already down sharply this year, edged up 0.7 percent to 8,522.58. Since taking office in late September, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso has unveiled two economic stimulus packages in an effort to cushion the blow. His latest 27 tril-

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services will be available at exclusive Tata Indicom showrooms and several retail selling points across the state. Tata Teleservices has already installed over 134 cell sites in the first phase of its network roll out itself. Tata Indicom has deployed a state-of-the-art CDMA network in the Assam Circle which allows superior voice quality and data connectivity. The CDMA advantage ensures improved call quality with better and consistent sound, minimum call drops, enhanced privacy, improved coverage and network efficiency amongst others. About Tata Teleservices: Tata Teleservices is one of India’s leading private telecom service providers. The company offers integrated telecom solutions to its customers under the Tata Indicom brand, and uses the latest CDMA 1X technology for its wireless network. Tata Teleservices, along with Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited operates in more than 6700 towns across 20 circles ie, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, New Delhi, Maharashtra, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Bihar, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh (E), Uttar Pradesh (W), Kolkata, Kerala and Assam. Tata Indicom brand has a customer base of over 30 million.

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GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): Tata Teleservices Limited, India’s fastest growing telecom service provider, has launched its much awaited telecom operation in the Assam circle, under its brand Tata Indicom. The company has introduced an exciting range of products which include prepaid and postpaid mobile services, photon-high speed Internet access, fixed wireless telephony under the brand name walky-talky and a host of value added services. To increase its national footprint TTSL has invested over Rs 100 crore in Assam circle establishing a pan India network with 20 circles. During the current stage of launch, TTSL will provide seamless coverage in 31 towns of Assam and will shortly be launching services in the North East region. On the occasion of launching services in Assam, Tata Indicom introduced North East corridor starter pack just for Rs 199. Subscribers in the region can now make STD calls across Assam for just 50 paisa per minute. Commenting on the launch, Anil Sardana, managing director, TTSL said, “The launch of Assam Circle is a key milestone in our pursuit of realising the Tata dream of having nationwide presence. Tata Indicom is committed to providing best-in-industry

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Sudoku # 1138

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lion-yen ($275.7 billion) proposal includes expanded credits for small businesses and a total 2 trillion yen ($20.4 billion) in cash disbursements to households. At its last meeting, the Bank of Japan cut its key interest rate for the first time in more than seven years, lowering it to 0.3 percent, joining central banks around the world in trimming borrowing costs. In its semiannual outlook report, the central bank slashed its projection for economic growth to just 0.1 percent for the year through March, compared with a 1.2 percent gain it projected in July. It said both exports and domestic private demand have weakened. The deteriorating conditions also recently led Masamichi Adachi, senior economist at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo, to downgrade his outlook on the Japanese economy. “We are now looking for a severe recession, similar to that during Japan’s own financial market crisis in 1997 to 1998, and to the current US recession, in terms of depth of real GDP contraction,” he said in a report. Monday’s data showed that net exports sapped 0.2 percentage point from growth, as the high cost of importing fuel eclipsed a slight increase in outbound shipments. Imports rose 1.9 percent, while exports grew 0.7 percent. Private consumption, which accounts for more than half of inflation-adjusted GDP, increased 0.3 percent from the previous quarter. However, the rebound in consumer demand is unlikely to last, economists say.

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Yesterdays answer Sudoku #1137

ACROSS 1. Vincent - - - horror films actor (5) 7. Risky (8) 8. Style of typeface (5) 10. Protective (10) 12. Fame (8) 14. Be unsuccessful (4) 16. Nibble (4) 17. Scouted (8) 20. Reference book (10) 23. Pugnacious (5) 24. Frightening (8) 25. Tennis score (5)

DOWN 1. Public procession (6) 2. Applaud (4) 3. Sediment (4) 4. Slightly drunk (5) 5. Single diamond (9) 6. Too (2,4) 9. Work of fiction (5) 11. Type of nut (9) 13. Boat steersman (3) 15. Make eyes at (5) 16. Festoon (6) 18. Novelist, - - - Du Maurier (6) 19. Stupid (5) 21. Number (4) 22. Oxen harness (4)

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The Morung Express

Tuesday

Indian Jews ready to leave for ‘Promised Land’

AIZAWL, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): About 200 Indians are set to emigrate to Israel in January after they were officially recognised as Jews, community leaders here said Monday.Rabbinical leaders in Jerusalem said the Israeli government approved the request for emigration by 200 people from the states of Mizoram and Manipur in northeastern India. “The new batch would arrive in January by a special flight and would be received by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert at the Ben-Gu-

rion Airport in Jerusalem,” a communiqué from the Israeli prime minister’s office received by newly converted Jews here said. “Many people are waiting to go to their ‘Promised Land’. We are yet to get the details of who would actually go,” Jeremia Hnamte, administrator of the Mizoram chapter of the Shavei Israel Organisation (SIO), told media persons. The SIO is a group headquartered in Jerusalem and dedicated to searching for lost tribes of Israel and

helps them return to their ‘Promised Land’. Rabbinical leaders announced in 2006 that some 6,000 members of the Bnei Menashe tribe in India’s northeast were descendants of ancient Israelites or one of the Biblical 10 lost tribes. The recognition from Israel came after tribe members sent scores of applications seeking to migrate to Israel, saying it was their right to do so. According to Israeli law, every Jew enjoys the “right of return” - or the right of

abode in the country. After the recognition, a group of rabbis visited Mizoram in 2006 and converted the first batch of 218 Mizo tribal people to Judaism after they took a holy dip at a mikvah or a ritual bath. The rabbi spent six months in Aizwal to teach Hebrew and impart lessons in Judaism to the tribal people. “Everybody is waiting to leave for their Holy Land. A vast majority of the people do not know Hebrew, though many of them are now learn-

ing the language and following the religion like the one practised in Israel,” said Zaitthangchungi, a local researcher and author of a book “Israel Mizo Identity”. Some 1,000 people from Mizoram and neighbouring Manipur have migrated to Israel since 1994 when a private body, the Amishav Association, took up their case. The last batch of 208 Mizo Jews left for Israel in 2006. Mizoram is a predominantly Christian state, while most Manipuris follow Hinduism. Most Jews

in the two states were Christian by birth. Apart from names, the converts share many practices in common with traditional Jews -such as keeping mezuzahs or parchment inscribed with verses of the Torah at the entrance to their homes. The men wear a kippah or headgear during prayers. “I have no regrets leaving Mizoram as going to Israel is our right,” said Y. Ralte, a young Mizo Jew now learning Hebrew at a school here.

18 November 2008

Dimapur

3 militants shot dead

IMPHAL, NOVEMBER 17 (PTI): Three militants were killed by police commandos in separate incidents in two districts of Manipur since Saturday, official sources said today. Commandos attached to Imphal West district police station combing Langthabal Kabui area, about 15 km from here, gunned down two unidentified militants on Saturday night. On the same day, commandos attached to Thoubal district police station also shot dead an unidentified militant at Patpan Lamkhai area, about 40

km from here, the sources said. Commandos also recovered one pistol, one carbine, some rounds of ammunition from Langthabal Kabui area while one 9mm pistol with some rounds of ammunition were recovered from Patpan Lamkhai area. The bodies were kept at the morgue of Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital here for post mortem, the sources said. Over 353 persons, including civilians, were killed in militancy-related incidents so far in Manipur this year.

Two Myanmarese bodies identiﬁed IMPHAL, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): The two Myanmarese nationals killed by the Assam Rifles in Chandel district of Manipur were identified by Lamkhawgen Vaiphei, the president of Vaiphei Students Association, Manipur, today. The duo; Letkhanhao Vaiphei, 29, and his younger brother Khupthenkham, 25, were from Namphalong in Tamu district of Myanmar sharing border with Chandel district.The two belonged to the Vaiphei community. Lamkhawgen Vaiphei represented the relatives of the deceased.Police sources here said that post-mortem was conducted and the bodies were taken to the border township of Moreh. “The

authorities at Moreh will hand over the bodies to their Tamu counterparts,” a police source here said. Troops of the 31 AR gunned down the two youths in an encounter in the wee hours of Friday near Kwatha village along the Indo-Myanmar border. The AR claimed to have seized an AK-47 rifle, a Chinese hand grenade and a radio set. The chairman of the Tamu District Peace and Development Council, Aung Oo, wrote to the additional deputy commissioner of Chandel, T. Hopson Chothe, yesterday claiming that the two were Myanmarese nationals. The Tamu authorities also demanded that the bodies be handed over to them. Namphalong located just

across Moreh is Myanmar’s border trade centre. As people residing on either side are free to cross the border up to 20 km, those living on two sides get to know one another. Thoubal killing: Police gunned down a suspected militant at Khongjom in Thoubal district of Manipur at 11.30pm last night. A 9mm pistol with two bullets was found on him. The body is yet to be identified. In another incident, two unidentified persons shot at and injured Lourembam Tejmani Singh, 37, at Kangjabi Leirak in Imphal. The duo came to his house and left after firing a shot in his right thigh. Tejmani has been admitted to the Regional Institute of Sixteen ﬁnal participants of the 3rd DARPAN Mrs. India North East 2008 contest pose for photograph during a practice session in Guwahati on NovemMedical Sciences. ber 17 ahead of the ﬁnale at Machkhowa ITA Centre, Guwahati to be held on November 22. (UB Photo)

Railways to install surveillance system in 100 stations ITANAGAR, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): The Railways were considering installing an integrated electronic surveillance system and modern security gadgets in over 100 sensitive stations to prevent terrorist attacks. "Guarding of vital installations and bridges has been intensified in vulnerable and sensitive areas and sharing of intelligence between RPF, GRP and IB of the concerned states is also being given priority", Minister of state for Railways R Valu said in a letter to Kiren Rijiju, BJP MP from Arunachal Pradesh. "Although policing is a state subject and prevention and detection of crime on the Railways is the constitutional responsibility of the state government concerned

‘Gorkhaland’

needs a proper outlook

through GRP, the RPF Act and the Railway Act have been amended to enable the Railways, through RPF, to supplement the efforts of the state governments in controlling crimes on the Railways", he said. Steps have also been taken for maintaining close liason with state police and GRP for taking preventive measures in the vulnerable to avert terrorist attacks, he said. Periodical meetings with the state administration of such states and police authorities were being regularly held by Railway administration to formulate effective joint strategy to combat the threat, the letter said. The minister also agreed that all trains running to and from the northeast should be giv- As winter sets in and cool wave begins, people of Shillong are getting busy buying Charcoal at Iewduh, Meghalaya en priority for security. on Monday, November 17. (UB Photos)

Tripura alerts WB on Suspected NDFB militants beaten up possible terrorist attacks First ever museum on

RANGIYA, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): Two suspected NDFB bike lifters were severely beaten up by the public and handed over to police in lower Assam's Kamrup (Rural) district on Monday for allegedly attempting to steal a motorcycle to use in bomb blasts, official sources said. The two presumably from the National Democratic Front of Bodoland, which is suspected to be responsible for the October 30 last serial blasts

in Assam, decamped with a parked motor-cycle of a person in Rangiya. The bike owner on telephoning some people in the direction the two were heading, the public intercepted them and beat them up seriously injuring them, the sources said. The two admitted that they had been acting on orders and that the motor-cycle could be used for planting bombs in it for future blasts. They, however, did not reveal the names of

those assigning them for the purpose, the sources said. Identified as Kiran Basumatary and Anush Rabha from Pakribari, under Jamalpur police station in Baksa district, the two were sent to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital. So far six Pulsar motor-cycles, an Indica car and a Maruti 800, the kind of vehicles favoured by the militants for car bombs in the serial blasts, had been stolen from Rangiya in the last one month, the sources added.

AGARTALA, NOVEMBER 17 (UNI): The Tripura police have alerted its West Bengal counterparts on possible terrorist attacks in a few locations of the state, official sources here today said. According to report, Inspector General of Police (Intelligence) B K Debbarma was informed by the BSF yesterday that a group of Bangladesh-based terrorists had been planning to strike in some important locations of West Bengal.

explosives in Assam

GUWAHATI, NOVEMBER17 (ANI): With terrorist activities becoming a global reality, a lot of people have started showing curiosity in understanding the details of blasts. Such inquisitive people can now educate themselves by visiting the Forensic Science Laboratory in Guwahati which has instituted India's first ever museum on explosives. Forensic Science Laboratory in Guwahati is meant to develop methodologies and facilitate in probing blast explosions in detail and thereby preventing such incidents in future. This Explosive Museum, inaugurated recently will be a nodal point to research and develop methodologies to probe blast explosions in detail and thereby prevent such incidents in the country. It may be recalled that Assam has witnessed several violent incidents in the last couple of years, the worst being the recent bomb blasts on October 30 in Guwahati and other places in the State. Over 80 people had died and several injured in the serial blasts in the State capital and other areas last month. The credit for setting up the museum is attributed to Dr. Padma Pani, currently Joint Director of the Forensic Laboratory of Guwahati, regarded to be among the best in country. This institution has trained personnel not only from the north-east but also YOUNG CULTIVATORS: Children carryhay on their heads and shoulders in paddy ﬁelds situated 17km far away from many other States and from Imphal on November 17. (UB Photos) foreign countries. "This is

a really good effort to have a place which you can use for the capacity building of the police officials as well as even the public to see and gain knowledge on this. Because such type of gallery or museum can provide a place where one can get to know how different kinds of explosives have been used in the recent times as well as earlier. And how police actions and other steps are required to check the menace of illegal explosives," said Dr. Padma Pani, Joint Director, Forensic Science Laboratory, Assam. Padma Pani says that in north-east there have been around 1,000 blasts over the years and some way or the other, he has been associated in the investigation of many blasts. And, thus it came to his mind to set up an "Explosive Museum", which he says will help Investigators in many ways. Dr. Padma Pani has also authored many books on forensic sciences including a couple in Assamese. An expert in forensic science, he has been a regular guest speaker at seminars on criminology. Besides the police personnel, general public can also come to the museum and gather knowledge about explosives. The explosive materials that have been displayed in the museum include the RDX, PTD devices, TNT explosivse, grenades, guillotine sticks, detonators, and many others devices that have been used since early times in the North East.

DARJEELING, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): The Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists (CPRM) is initiating an all-India programme at Delhi to frame a comprehensive outlook of the general public towards the Gorkhaland demand. It has a series of programmes lined up for December which starts with a dharna and a public meeting at Jantar Mantar. The programmes scheduled from 19 to 22 December include a seminar with other organisations and parties demanding separate states within the framework of India. “The CPRM representatives will leave for Delhi on 16 of December,” CPRM general secretary Mr RB. Rai said. Emphasising the need for a national perspective, Mr. Rai said: “The groundwork in Darjeeling, Dooars and Siliguri is set but now we need to focus outside this region. We have to tilt opinion in favour of Gorkhaland in other states too. This can be achieved only by involving Gorkhas residing all over India”. This year the party's youth and women's wings organised dharnas in Kolkata in June in which over 500 cadres participated. The party will also publish books and leaflets to clear the misconception about Gorkhaland that was generated because of few misleading articles in newspapers and magazines.

Centre reafﬁrms support for peace in NE AGARTALA, NOVEMBER 17 (UNI): The Centre has assured insurgency-infested states of Northeast to supplement support by providing security for vulnerable institutions and installations, strong surveillance on Bangladesh, Myanmar, China and Bhutan borders, including fencing of borders and intelligence sharing. The latest report of Union Home Ministry revealed that 40 Indian Reserve Battalions (IRB), including eight each for Tripura and Assam and seven for Manipur, were sanctioned for the region in 2007-08 fiscal to deal with militancy while vigilance on international borders had also been augmented following recent incidents in Tripura and Assam. The report expressed concern over security issues in Assam and Manipur and stated that the operation against ULFA in Assam was suspended in 2006 followed by peace negotiation initiative but suddenly they increased the attacks on civilians with the help of international terrorists. The violence attributable to some other insurgent outfits had also been observed in North Cachar Hill and Karbi Anglong districts, which affected the surface transport movement towards Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur and south Assam to a large extent, the report underlined.

MIG-26 crashes in Bengal, pilot safe, 2 injured SILIGURI, NOVEMBER 17 (UNI): A MIG-26 of the Indian Air Force war plane on a routine sortie crashed into a house injuring two people at Alipurduar in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal today, police said. Kumargram police station officer Tirtha Bhattacharjee told UNI that the MIG crashed into the house at 1245 hrs, about 50 east of Hasimara air base. He said two people on the ground were injured and the hosue caught fire immediately after the accident. Mr Bhattacharjee said the pilot was unhurt and safe. His name and designation were yet to be known. The accident happened at Dobarbari village under Kumargram policestation. Senior Army and Air Force officials have rushed to the scene of accident.

The Power of Truth

The Morung Express TUESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2008 VOL. III ISSUE 320

Democracy from Below?

n an era of globalism and concentration of power through corporates and rigid States, it is only but natural to witness the popular growth of peoples movement, or in other words, the unfolding of Democracy from Below. For as long as one can remember, rigid States through the use of State coercion have practiced a system of Democracy from Above. However, as State power transformed itself in the post-cold war era, it created a stop-gap, leaving behind an opportunity for social movements to reorganize themselves through pragmatic thinking and to align themselves in critical solidarity with others. It has become inevitable for movements that represent values of Democracy from Below to be rooted with the people. Simultaneously they are required to have the political maturity that combines knowledge of internal situation with external conditions, so that, they have a plan for the immediate and a plan for the future. After all, any movement can only achieve what is achievable within their time. In essence, the present has come to signify a period of recovery for social movements; representing a combination of indigenous mass involvement with a certain degree of contemporariness. The key towards successful recovery implies the necessity of political will for self-criticism, honest and open admission of mistakes, going back to the roots and having the ability to diplomatically maneuver successful solidarity and pragmatic understanding. Movements failing to adopt and adapt to the changing internal and external conditions will invariably find themselves at the foot of a mountain. It is true to say that miscalculated policies are quickly depleting the ability of the powers that be to sustain its once unchallenged position. Winds of change are certainly blowing everywhere. While empirical reality reveals global conditions which necessitate Democracy from Below to replace Democracy from Above, internal conditions within each particular situation will need to be examined to assess the ripeness of time. Hence, for winds of change to actually take place, the question of political courage and willingness is at the forefront of history. Indeed, the aching need for Democracy from Below is now more than ever amongst indigenous people. The ever increasing deafness of the powers that be to easily discerned cries of the people for basic human needs such as food, water, shelter, electricity, education and right to dignified life are only deepening chasms and inflicting wounds on the people. There is no doubt that the powers that be are guilty of neglect, and while it may seem easy to ignore its cost, the impact of the neglect on human life cannot be ignored. It is fundamental that the goals and means of the existing status quo are judiciously examined, so that, the sense of reason acquires a principled role in the need for Democracy from Below to take responsibility in ensuring the realization and sustainability of human existence.

LEFT WING |

Thomas L. Friedman

We need a bigger boat

IN-FOCUS

arack Obama surely has one of the toughest leadership challenges any incoming president has ever faced. We’re in the midst of a terrible economic meltdown, the current administration has lost all credibility, the House of Representatives is full of knuckle-dragging Neanderthals, and the public is being whipsawed between free-market fundamentalists preaching the virtues of just letting the market rip and left-wingers who think we can punish Wall Street while protecting Main Street. It feels like a mess with no one in charge. Now is when we need a president who has the skill, the vision and the courage to cut through this cacophony, pull America together as one nation and inspire and enable us to do the one thing we can and must do right now: Go shopping. Obama can’t wait until Jan. 20 to weigh in on this. If we don’t stimulate the global economy fast enough enough, some of Obama’s inaugural balls might be held in soup kitchens. When President Bush told us to go shopping after 9/11, he was right. We needed to stimulate the economy then. The problem was that the Bush economic team never turned off the green light and told people to “go saving.” So with easy credit seemingly endlessly available, American consumers saved virtually nothing and bid up housing prices to record levels. Retailers expanded stores and China expanded factories to accommodate all the shopping. It was quite a party. We had banks in America giving mortgages to people whose only qualification “was that they could fog up a knife,” one mortgage broker told me. But when something seems too good to be true, it usually is. When these reckless mortgages eventually blew up, it led to a credit crisis. Banks stopped lending. That soon morphed into an equity crisis, as worried investors liquidated stock portfolios. The equity crisis made people feel poor and metastasized into a consumption crisis, which is why purchases of cars, appliances, electronics, homes and clothing have just fallen off a cliff. This, in turn, has sparked more company defaults, exacerbated the credit crisis and metastasized into an unemployment crisis, as companies rush to shed workers. Governments are having a problem arresting this deflationary downward spiral - maybe because this financial crisis combines four chemicals we have never seen combined to this degree before, and we don’t fully grasp how damaging their interactions have been, and may still be. Those chemicals are: 1) massive leverage - by everyone from consumers who bought houses for nothing down to hedge funds that were betting $30 for every $1 they had in cash; 2) a world economy that is so much more intertwined than people realized, which is exemplified by British police departments that are financially strapped today because they put their savings in online Icelandic banks - to get a little better yield - that have gone bust; 3) globally intertwined financial instruments that are so complex that most of the chief executives dealing with them did not and do not understand how they work - especially on the downside; 4) a financial crisis that started in America with our toxic mortgages. When a crisis starts in Mexico or Thailand, we can protect ourselves; when it starts in America, no one can. You put this much leverage together with this much global integration and start the crisis in America and you have a very explosive situation. If you are going to fight a global financial panic like this, you have to go at it with overwhelming force - an overwhelming stimulus that gets people shopping again and an overwhelming recapitalization of the banking system that gets it lending again. I just hope the U.S. Treasury has enough money to do it. And that brings me back to Obama. We need a leader who can look the country in the eye and say clearly: “We have not seen this before. There are only two choices now, folks: doing everything we can to shore up banks and homeowners or risk a systemic meltdown.” Yes, that may mean rescuing some bankers who don’t deserve rescuing, while also helping prudent bankers who were doing the right things. And, yes, that may mean rescuing reckless home buyers who never should have taken out mortgages and now can’t pay them back, while not aiding people who are still meeting their payments. No, it’s not fair. But fairness is not on the menu anymore. We will deal with that later. Right now we need to throw everything we can at this problem to make sure this recession doesn’t spiral down into a depression. This is no time for half-measures. If you want to know where we are right now, rent the movie “Jaws.” We’re at that moment when Roy Scheider first sets eyes on the Great White Shark and comes back and says to the skipper, with eyes wide with fear: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”

THE EDIT PAGE

C O M M E N T A R Y

Nehemiah Rong

Dreaming Nagas’ Dream...

agas’ inheritance was and is freedom, their land, independence and democratic governance, economic self reliance, quick and just delivery and disposal judicial system based on traditional customary laws, egalitarian, casteless and classless society, rich cultural and traditional heritage, the participatory approach and communitarian in decision making, planning, execution and dispensation of affairs with sufficient natural resources. Nagas’ dream is rooted in history of fierce resistance and warfare to the colonial powers. Naga dream is to put stop to external rule, the coercive invasion and to build its own nation state. It is everybody’s dream. It was started with a non-violence principle. It did not at first subscribe guns as its weapons but mutual understanding as equals, practicing democratic ways and means to defend their birthright. It is built upon people’s mandate, consent and endorsement (15th May 1951 Plebiscite). It is built upon sweats, tears and blood of its suffering people. It is a sacred dream. It is a precious dream. It is a worthy dream. Indeed a most noble dream for all those who belong to the land by reposing their faith in goodwill, respect, equality, justice, inclusivity and mutual understanding, unity and reconciliation. Nagas were dreamers, great dreamers. Never had a common kingdom yet each Naga village was an independent entity or kingdom, each village has got its own chief or elected leader to govern their land without any outside interference. These people had consented and dreamt together for common homeland. Never had a country army but believed in its citizens to guard their land, never had industries and factories but have sufficient land and natural resources. Never had a common economic agenda but each village was a self reliant with its production. They were wooden platters, head-hunters in the past, pierced ear people having rich culture and tradition, never had a police or a beggar in the past, fierce warriors yet humble folks, histories woven in the form of folk lore and oral narration past down from generation to generation through morung system (common dormitory in every village), having common boundaries, sharing common streams, rivers etc. spread across in Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Arunachal and Myanmar belonging to Sino-Mongoloid stock. Nagas’ dream believes in ‘all men are equal; there is no high or low class, everyone according to one’s capacity and character.’ It upholds the ‘ethics of work culture’. Nothing can beat the hard work. It envisions for vibrant, progressive, collaborative, community oriented society. It seeks to protect and preserve the natural resources, the forest, the land, water, minerals etc. All the resources belong to the people and not to some few. Nagas’ dream must set to make the maximum benefit to the villagers who own their resources. Nagas’ dream is not betrayal and division but of brotherhood and dedication to the nationhood. It dreamt to free every individual as a free human being. Naga dream never believes in factionalism and partisan society. Naga founding fathers were a great dreamer, they dreamt of united Nagaland and not a divided one. They dreamt beyond tribes and sub tribes. In pursuit of their collective dreams, they fasted, prayed, they toiled, they bled, they cried and they died. Nagas’ dream was tested in fire (many villages were burnt down for several times) and bullets-many precious Nagas lives were fallen for the land, and dream------ a dream of freedom. In fire and water Nagas’ dream continues to live. Nagas’ dream had and is being facing the fiercest and longest arms resistance in South Asia. Well pursuing their dreams, the Nagas caught up in the factionalism and tribalism. They have among themselves killed each other and exclude each other. People no longer have trust or have hope. But Nagas’ dream was and is always beyond factionalism, tribalism and division because it is the people’s dream, it is their birthright. It was people’s dream and people must and needed to recapture that big dream of united people and be radar of the movement and not the mere follower. People should guide and control the faction(s) and let the later work out what the former want not the other way round. Here it means not to undermine the sacrifices of the leaders in various factions. Only through their sacrifices, dedication and devotion towards the Nationalism, that the Nagas are coming thus far. So much have been in done in the past and so yet to be completed. It goes beyond the present geo-political arrangement of separating the Nagas with the authoritative and coercive administration without the consent of the people. It is inclusive of all the people who called themselves Nagas and the land they live in. It leaves room for its neighbours to live together with the Nagas’ dream. It does not seek to de-

stroy others to win the Nagas’ dream. It envisioned fighting their justice without hating their colonial rules. It is beyond mere taxation, it is beyond arms supremacy, it goes beyond present pride and pursuit of personal gain but it is a noble dream to be pursued with humility and discipline to achieve the birthright which is their inheritance. Any sort of luxury and contentment without achieving the Nagas’s dream, the birthright, is just but thinking to be the greatest kings inside the prison bar. Any person inside the prison is never a free man. Are the Nagas becoming self-contented prisoners with the due bread and butter supply by the subjugators? Are the Nagas contented themselves with the recognition of their history as ‘unique’? Are they contented with the present divided people placed in different states? Are Nagas contented with their past glories? Try to dream beyond.... just dream beyond the present.... the present scenario of violence and present arrogance and aggressive pursuit of personal gain make many young Nagas impossible to have any dream. It is like those vehicles driving in the thick foggy roads. They have fuel and driving capacity but those fogs restricted them to drive further.... Many young Nagas have intellectual power, knowledge, information, innovative ideas to contribute for better society politically, economically, socially and culturally, and great potential of building diplomatic relations with other countries especially those studying or working abroad and within the India but they were left neglected for systematic consultation, genuine opinion collections and they are stuck up in the roads due many unfavourable circumstances. It (Nagas’ Dream) is facing two prominent problems among many others. They are political problem and human problem. Political problem (NagaIndo-Myanmar political issue) has got time frame whereas human problem (like jealousy, hatred, greed, power craziness, factionalism born out of power tussle, discriminatory factors etc) is timeless. The former (political problem) has to be settled or solved within limited time frame whereas the later cannot be clearly drawn out where to end, it has to be a constant change for better, renewal, and revival individually, collectively as Churches, Tribes and People. In other word, the later can be best said as the moral bankruptcy. The human problem has adverse affect in the political problem because, until the people themselves are humility and honest enough to realize their own weaknesses, mistakes and listen to each other to unify and fight with united voice, it is very vague to pursue the dream without specific goals, it is like a football game played by a team playing to one’s own conveniences without the team target to put maximum goals to win the game. The factions are in to unending killings and unceasingly opposing each other, Naga people must unite to bring all the groups to understanding and healthy dialoguing among the factions for unification and reconciliation. The Forum for Naga Reconciliation’s activities to unite and reconcile the warring Naga Factions in the form of soccer is a ‘change’ that is taking place in the land. The initiative is very important and crucial in the history of the Nagas’ journey towards achieving their dreams through reconciliation process. Therefore, it is time for the people to realize their position, other’s position and the team’s position to continuously build a team spirit by following the rules of game (to reduce the human problems, like factionalism, tribalism, greed, superiority complexes, jealousy etc.) accommodating each other, submitting to continual reconciliatory, revival and renewal processes (both underground groups and overground Tribal Hohos, Civil Societies/Organisations, Politicians and Individuals) to enhance, optimize, expedite the political peace process to be solved in the minimum time within hand without losing so much lives that are perishing in the name of ‘tribalism and factionalism’ everyday leaving behind many women weeping widows and children helpless orphans. When Nagas stand united, Nagas’ dream is never far away. Rather it can be said freedom is knocking at Nagas’ door, it is up to Nagas whether, are they willing to open its door by coming together and stand united and fight in unison integrating every possible means at their disposal? Are they (Nagas) ready for that? When Nagas fight with one voice no one can stop them, because they have their historical and political rights. May be it is the time that critical but positive policies and plans are formulated and actions taken towards the internal reconciliatory and unifying process. For the future, a vision plan must be in continuously evolving process so that the most refined and best thoughts are produced, well written and followed to fulfil the dream. By this it means that, Nagaland as a dreamt Nation-State to be must have its own well written governance system (basing on the democratic system of the past), laws (basing on customary laws), economic

and industrial policies (based on the self reliance village economy. Each Naga village can be a centre of one kind or the other of small scale industry unit like the past. Each Naga village can be the centre of development and prosperity while building the Nation Wealth at the same time.), preserving the past culture and heritage, protecting the natural resources (forests, minerals, land etc.). This may sound like putting a cart before the horse but until Nagas have such clear roadmap, how can they be proud to work hard and sacrifice for their future. These documents may subject to changes and amendments from time to time but will be guiding principles in the nation building process. Such clear and well written documents will give clearer roadmap for post political solution/settlement arrangement even. If such well written documents already existed earlier, it is felt that it needs more elaborate public scrutiny. It can be suggested here that economy, development students, entrepreneurs can be assigned to bring out the best written proposal for economic and industrial policies, for codification of Naga Customary Laws in the best way in aligning with international laws, Law students and practising Advocates can be assigned to study the customary laws while doing that all the tribes (Naga tibes living in Nagaland, Manipur, Assam, Arunachal and Myanmar) can be called together for exhaustive consultation, political science students, researchers and others can be assigned with the assignment for the political framework studying the political situations and international relations of other nations so as to draw out the best workable political framework for Nagas. Also in other cases like agriculture, art and culture, literature, history, geography, geology, computer programming, information, communication technology, education, health etc or other such related subjects can be assigned to the respective students or practising fellows among the Nagas to produce the best work suitable to the Naga people. Also the missionary sending plan can also be formulated, Nagaland being a Christian land. That is Nagas’ bounded duty towards the immediate neighbours, those struggling people and for the humanity at large. The funding of such projects can be done through proper setting up of Foundation or Trust for Researching and Archiving by forming Consultative Committee for Common Policy Formation, may be comprising of bodies like NSF, ANSAM, ENSF, Naga Hoho, UNC, Eastern Naga Hoho, Religious Institutions and Nagas in Myanmar (formerly Burma) combined together with experts (like young professionals, media persons, activists, thinkers, intellectuals etc.) (Sorry for my ignorance if orgn. names are quoted wrongly). Further, it can be suggested that the selection of eligibility for the committee can be done through selection process by giving forms where, the personal statement, personal commitment, indepth knowledge in the subjects, leadership capacity at regional and village level, mobilisation capacity to draw the voices and opinions from lowest grass root level i.e. village level are asked to be submitted. Such selection process is required not to mess up the initiatives (not to make it everybody’s business is nobody’s business) but to make it genuine and sacrificial work for the people and nation building. The based headquarter can be set up through consensus and the regional offices can also be set up for timely coordination and consultation. For instance, Headquarter at Dimapur and branches can be opened in all Naga inhabited districts and also extension branches like New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai etc. and even a forum for those Non Resident Nagas can be created. This will allow fullest participation among Naga people. The functional mechanism can be worked out properly. This initiative should not be felt as a threat by any groups in Nagas society but should be broadly understood for systematic and proper documentation of common policy formation for the betterment of whole Nagas and not for the few. The fund raising can be done from the Naga people themselves, which in other way is a challenge for independency willingness to be on their own feet. It is felt that this movement must begin. It must start. The time is now. It is Nagas who should do it and not others. The change and transformation must begin now. Change and Transformation must start from ‘Within Nagas’ and not from ‘Without’. World may observe and support Nagas, but until the change and transformation do take place ‘inside’, ‘outside’ alone cannot solve the Nagas’ problem. Once again it can be repeatedly said, freedom is ringing at Nagas’ door, the question is, are they willing to be united and it flow to their land? Is it too hard for them to be united, and let freedom go away? What is the hardest thing for the Nagas to get freedom? It is believed that the Nagas dream evolved from and endorsed by its peo-

ple, and it should be realized and put to realities by its people. At the ground it is the people who have to work although outside other people may support. Until and unless the, Nagas, as people know and learn their own situation, conditions, histories, mistakes, achievements, potentials, resources, hopes and scopes it will be just a few men’s job to pursue the half hearted dream. It is the time for all to dream beyond.... for everyone without the exception for those who positioned themselves to be the leaders of the society.... Nagas’ dream demands of very strong research and analysis, effective self criticism and evaluation, a constant positive dialogues and debates, planning and strategy making. It demands of cohesive coordination between the policies makers, national workers/leaders and young intellectuals/professionals to bring out the best out of the past to meet the international norms be it in customary laws, governance system, economic policies, international relation without losing the past identity and system. It also needs wise diplomacies with the international agencies, unions, countries not undermining the necessity of united and reconciled Nagas back home. Upon broken home no peaceful and prosperous family can be built. It is felt that is an inclusive dream of the children of the soil. It demands the people to work more and not less. It is not a dream of sitting back and to enjoy the ‘falling manna’. But it is a dream of hard work with sweat, proper resource management, constant confidence building among themselves (Nagas), building partnerships with other countries and strong economic ties with India and other friendly countries etc. Nagas’ dream envisions for well informed society, it believes in the education of its younger generation, economic prosperity, democratic governance, best and quickest judicial system based on the codified Naga customary laws, strong social and cultural integration. It seeks to stand for the rights of weak and downtrodden. It seeks justice and peace. It seeks to give a space for an individual to exercise one’s freedom and pursue one’s dream. It seeks to provide a security to the poor and ignorant villagers and not to robe away their simplicities. It never dreamt to use power to abuse and misuse but to use power to usher in equality, justice, peace and prosperity. Nagas’ dream demands the students to study more and not less, to think more and not less, to dream bigger and not smaller. It demands the younger generation to pursue their goal vigorously with a mission to uplift their suffering people. May be it demands from the younger lot to ask themselves what they can contribute to society and not what the society can offer to them. It is the time that younger people are to be motivated to bring positive change in their society. It demands from the students to be ambassadors of goodwill and peace makers among themselves and towards other people. It demands the youth to search for social entrepreneurship, self employment to help eradicate poverty to bring development with environmental sustainability. Nagas’ dream is not only a rich man’s dream or a poor man’s dream, it is a common dream, a common and collective hope for common destiny. Above all it needs humility, discipline and dependence on God who gave Nagas their land, race itself and their dreams. When all argument fails, reasoning fails, diplomacy fails and all human efforts fall short, God’s grace come in through divine’s intervention. May God bless Nagaland once again. Building a Naga dream needs young and old minds, learned and unlearned and indispensably the Nagas people. Wherever you may be working or studying, you must know where you belong to, your inheritance, your people’s dream. Nagas, as the people are the ones to fill the gaps and build bridges to reach their long cherishing dream. As Nagas you belong to the land, the sons and daughters of the Naga soil, you are the heirs of the great inheritance, you must, as a Naga pursue a dream, the great Naga dream. Through this humble piece, it is attempted to present the voices of the young Naga(s) and suffering people carrying a mar of atrocities and humiliation living a very pathetic lives, those who are dying from illnesses born out of thrashing by rifles butts, being buried alive, orphans and widows, smeared with chillies power, letting to give birth in open ground etc yet trying to dream Nagas’ dream and humbly put forward suggestions and some vital points to remind the whole Naga society and others to truly understand the Nagas’ dream basing on their historical and political rights. If some positive points to be noted, it is felt, the time is now for the Nagas, leaders and citizens to take right action and if any shortfall and error(s) in the write up, it is solely the writer’s weakness. Indeed, it is felt Nagas’ dream is not lesser than any nation’s dream. (Views can be sent to neherong@gmail.com)

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

Deaths in China milk scandal go uncounted Charles Hutzler

obstruct both kidneys is even more rare." Like the others, the Li family grew distressed when Xiaokai started to become i Xiaokai died of kidney fussy in July. With their two-acre farm in failure on the old wooden Liti Village, her parents never had much bed in the family farmmoney and already had a child, a son. But house, just before dawn they wanted a larger family, bucking the on a drizzly Sept. 10. Her one-child family planning limits. Xiaokai grandmother wrapped was "the more active" of the twins, said the 9-month-old in a her 70-year-old grandmother, Li Xuan. wool blanket. Her father handed the body By August, Xiaokai was running a high to village men for burial by a muddy fever, unabated by ever higher doses of creek. The doctors and family never medicine. Alarmed after she stopped knew why she got sick. A day later, eating and urinating, the family took state media reported that the type her to the nearby Runnan county hosof infant formula she drank had pital on Aug. 18. The doctors diagbeen adulterated with an industrial nosed kidney failure and rushed her chemical. overnight by ambulance to ZhengYet the deaths of Xiaokai and at zhou Children's Hospital, three hours least four other babies are not includaway and the best in Henan province. ed in China's official death toll from "They knew right away," said the faits worst food safety scare in years. ther, Li. Xiaokai was run through tests The Health Ministry's count stands and put on intravenous solutions to at only three deaths. The stories of try to shrink the kidney stones. Unthese uncounted babies suggest that able to stay with her or afford a hotel, China's tainted milk scandal has exLi and his mother slept on the paveacted a higher human toll than the ment outside the hospital. After five government has so far acknowledged. days, the hospital said it could do no Without an official verdict on the more. "The doctors wouldn't operate deaths, families worry they will be because they said 'she's too small,"' said unable to bring lawsuits and refused Li. They suggested taking Xiaokai to compensation. Beijing or Shanghai. Hospital officials So far, nobody is suggesting large declined comment and refused to numbers of deaths are being conmake Xiaokai's doctor available. The cealed. But so many months passed hospital stay in Zhengzhou cost 7,331 before the scandal was exposed that yuan, or $1,070 – about a year's cash it's likely more babies fell sick or died income for the family - and they had than official figures reflect. Beijing's already borrowed money to pay for apparent reluctance to admit a highXiaokai's care. So Li brought Xiaokai er toll is reinforcing perceptions that home to die. They took her to a tradithe authoritarian government cares Li Xiaoyan near her mother Li Aiqing at their home in Liti village, near Runan, central China's Henan tional medicine doctor in the village, more about tamping down criticism province, Sunday, Octoebr 19, 2008. Li Xiaoyan's nine-month-old twin sister, Li Xiaokai who has been who gave her an herbal medicine and than helping families. Lawyers, doc- drinking a brand of milk formula linked to the melamine scandal died from kidney failure. (AP Photo) confirmed the grim prognosis. "The tors and reporters have said privately old doctor told us 'the child will die in that authorities pressured them to not play medical treatment to the 50,000 children Siyu was fed Sanlu products from birth 10 to 18 days,"' Li said. up the human cost or efforts to get com- sickened, and unspecified compensation and developed recurring kidney problems Early on Sept. 10 while it was still pensation from the government or Sanlu, to them and families of the dead. The in May last year, at age 3, said her mother, dark, the grandmother called Li into the the formula maker. Health Ministry, which is coordinating Li Songmei. Twice hospitalized, she was side room where she and Xiaokai slept. "It's hard to say how the government the government's response, declined to taken off Sanlu milk and started to recover, "Her stomach was puffy" - a sign of kidwill handle this matter," said Zhang answer questions about the compensa- only to fall ill again when the family began ney failure - "and she wasn't breathing," Xinkui, a Beijing-based lawyer amassing tion plan and whether it was investigat- to give her Sanlu products, Li said. Sick for he said. In many parts of north China, evidence of the contamination for a pos- ing deaths and illnesses not yet counted a third time and swollen, she died of kid- the death of a child is considered a missible lawsuit. "There may be many chil- by the government. Melamine, a chemi- ney failure at the Zhengzhou Children's fortune that can bring bad luck on a famdren who perhaps died from drinking cal used as a flame retardant and bind- Hospital on May 2, said Li. "Ever since she ily and is best suppressed. Accordingly, Sanlu powdered milk or perhaps from ing agent to make cooking utensils and was born, she had been using Sanlu milk. Li Haiqin, a cousin, and three other men a different cause. But there's no system industrial coatings, is rich in nitrogen. As Only when she felt sick and couldn't eat took Xiaokai to a creek on the far side of in place to find out." In the weeks since such, it makes an attractive low-cost addi- did she stop taking Sanlu," said Li. the village fields. They put a brick in the Xiaokai's death, her father and his older tive to milk and other foods; nitrogen regOthers among the five include an blanket with the body and placed it in a brother have talked to lawyers and be- isters as protein on many routine tests. infant in far western Xinjiang province, shallow hole under a path between rows seeched health officials, with no result. Though melamine is not believed whose story was posted on the provincial of poplar trees. Then they walked back in "My heart is in pain," said her father, harmful in tiny amounts, higher concen- government Web site, and a 6-month- silence beneath a gray dawn and a light Li Xiaoquan, a short, taciturn farmer with trations produce kidney stones, which old boy in southeastern Jiangxi prov- rain. No close family members were there hooded eyes. From a corner of his farm- can block the ducts that carry urine from ince, reported by the New Legal Daily. A and none was told where the grave is. house courtyard in central China's wheat the body, and in serious cases can cause reporter who worked on the article and Xiaokai's family says Beijing had and corn flatlands, he pulls a worn green kidney failure. All eight babies who died would give only his surname, Liu, said waived regular inspections of Sanlu bebox that once held apples and is now stuffed were diagnosed with kidney failure, ac- the newspaper was careful not to blame cause its quality controls were said to be with empty pink wrappers of the Sanlu In- cording to the families, medical records Cai Cong's death on Sanlu formula be- excellent. "The government should shoulfant Formula Milk Powder that Xiaokai or state media accounts. All also suppos- cause "the local government has not yet der its responsibility. This was a national nursed on. "We think someone, the compa- edly drank Sanlu infant formula or pow- reached a verdict." Medical experts say brand, inspection-exempt products," said ny, should compensate us." In coal-mining dered milk. The fathers of Li Xiaokai and kidney stones in infants are rare. Doc- Xiaokai's uncle, Li Shenyi. Since the country 450 miles to the northwest, Tian Tian Jin both wave inch-thick sheaves of tors in several parts of China first no- death, Li Shenyi approached the RunXiaowei waits for his wife to leave the newly medical reports and tests from their chil- ticed a rise in cases in the past two years. nan county Health Bureau to classify built house before removing five small pho- dren's stays in hospitals. Xiaokai, a twin Pediatric urologist Feng Dongchuan Xiaokai's death as caused by tainted fortos of a wide-eyed baby boy from a brown older than her sister Xiaoyan by three tried to sound an alarm, posting an item mula. "They said the upper levels (of govplastic document folder. "She breaks down minutes, was fed with Sanlu formula on his blog in July about a spike in cases ernment) were working on it," he said. when she sees them," Tian said. The county health bureau referred while the younger girl nursed on breast at his hospital in the central city of XuThe photos are the only mementos left milk because their mother did not have zhou and in nearby Nanjing city. calls to its supervisors in Zhumadian city, of year-old Tian Jin, who died in August. enough for both, family members said. Feng pinpointed infant formula as who said ultimately it was up to Beijing. "I want these people who poisoned the An ultrasound examination of Xi- the likely cause. Feng at first refused re- "Right now, the Health Ministry has no milk powder to receive the severest pun- aokai's kidneys at the Zhengzhou Chil- quests for interviews, then responded in clear explanation on how the victim's famishment under law. I want an explana- dren's Hospital on Aug. 21 found a stone a terse e-mail: "The chance for infants or ilies should be compensated," said a Ms. tion and I want consolation for my dead in each kidney that was about the size of a small children to come down with kidney Shang at the Zhumadian Health Bureau's child," said Tian, a broad-shouldered ap- small marble and 2 1/2 times larger than stones is very small, and having stones that medical affairs office. "Nobody knows."

Associated Press Writer

ple farmer and part-time truck driver. "I feel like we could die from regret. If we knew that it was contaminated, we would never have fed him that." Since September, when the scandal was first reported, Beijing has said that Shijiazhuang Sanlu Group Co., the dairy, knew as early as last year that its products were tainted with melamine and that company and local officials first tried to cover it up. The government has promised free

what doctors consider a critical threshold. Tian Xiaowei, the apple farmer, sent bags of Sanlu infant formula to a government laboratory in September. The Xi'an Product Quality Supervision Institute's report, dated Oct. 8, found melamine levels of 1,748 milligrams per kilogram, more than 800 times the government-set limit. Then there's Wang Siyu, the daughter of an accountant and proprietor of an Internet cafe in the central city of Shangqiu.

“Behold the New is Here”

Rev. Dr. Wati Aier

t is an exciting day filled with hope! It is the moment in our history in which a new order is being born. Today, we are here to witness the death of “old age” of the Nagas and the emergence of the new. In the words of St. Paul, “The old has past away, behold the new is here.” Biologically, there is no growth without birth. With the emergence of the new we are saying “no” to the oppressive nature of the old. The fact that we are here, with all these leaders, is indicative of the fact that we are tired of the past and that we are committed to wielding the future together. Our hats off to them and we applaud all these leaders for their commitment and taking the ‘risk’ to bring the new! Today as we face this new world in the making, let us be reminded that we all have the responsibilities and challenges that come along with it. First, the people will have to guard their rights jealously, and must stop hoping that by a twist of historical fate we will be in paradise! If we are going to be saved, it will be the people who do it. We must start believing in the power of the people. We must jealously halt the trend to destroy ourselves. We must discard the false doctrine of “exclusivism.” This new order is a world of togetherness. All of us, including the “others” who live amongst us, have an investment in the future of our history. Therefore, we must transcend every tribalistic, ethnocentric, and religious overtone. If we fail to un-

derstand these holy and noble values, we perish! Secondly, the challenge before us in this new order is “good will.” The virtues of truth, mercy, justice and peace must stand tall at the centre of our lives. Only then, will -“emerge a child called reconciliation.” In February of this year, the Forum for Naga Reconciliation, comprising of all Naga frontal organizations including the Church came into being. We have traveled a long road toward reconciliation. We must know that all “Naga political groups” have agreed to reconciliation. Today, it is no secret that we are already into difficult territories - those hurdles and roadblocks to reconciliation. Unity and peace is being carefully discussed. Despite the struggles, the commitment to

travel the common journey of reconciliation is a promise and commitment given by all the Naga political groups. For this we say “Thank you.” Finally, the FNR will never betray the people from our commitment to Naga reconciliation. We find our strength in God our Savior. We must also let the Nagas know that FNR is not the only one working for peace and unity. The FNR acknowledges the efforts of many other groups and organizations; we walk side by side with you all. May God be our guide who will lead us to victory! Kuknalim This address was presented at the inaugural session of the Naga Reconciliation Soccer Match on November 13, 2008 at the DDSC, Dimapur

The return of soft power?

Paul Kennedy

There are many things to say - and are being said - about Barack Obama's historic victory in the U.S. presidential election, and analysts of the fascinating transformations of American society will do a far better job than myself at explaining the outcome. But as I surveyed the extraordinary non-U.S. response to Obama's undisputed achievement the morning after his victory became clear to the world, I was tempted into a further thought: Will the sheer appeal of this man across the globe actually make an impact upon America's capacity to persuade other nations to follow its lead and agree to measures that Washington wants but fellow members of the system of states may not initially be so enthusiastic about? Will it convince governments and peoples abroad that policies "made in the U.S.A." are good for humankind as a whole? For this, after all, is the definition of the term "soft power" as it was first systematically argued by Joseph Nye of Harvard University in a series of books he composed during the early 1990s. For too long, Nye suggested, realist scholars had focused far too heavily upon the hard-knuckled dimensions of military and economic/financial power and ignored the significance of national characteristics that allowed certain countries to "win friends and influence people" better than others. An attractive way of life, an appealing culture, a capacity to be marching with (or at the head of) world opinion rather than standing against it were thus as potentially useful parts of a nation's toolkit as were clever diplomats, financial solidity or even large aircraft carriers. It is clear that when Nye developed these ideas he believed that the United States possessed most of the attributes of soft power: That is, he rightly felt that Hollywood, MTV and American youth culture had much greater worldwide appeal than did the collapsed Soviet Union or the lack of freedoms in China. Moreover, vast parts of the globe were marching in the direction pointed to by the Founding Fathers - democracy, the rule of law, economic liberty and so on. All of this reinforced America's special position in the world. It also confounded scholars who were writing about American decline. The three-legged stool of U.S. military power, economic power and soft power would keep the Republic at the top for generations to come. Then came George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and the neo-con agendas of military activism, ideological assertiveness, over-riding of some basic human rights, unbalanced stress upon "the war on terror" and John-Bolton-like distaste for multilateralism - a collective bag of prejudices that the efforts of more moderate Republicans such as Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice could only rarely ameliorate. By all measures of ranking world opinion - for example, the Pew Foundation global polls - the Bush administration became the most unpopular in recent American history. Unsurprisingly, therefore, America's "soft power" collapsed. The capacity of the White House to persuade other countries to do what it deems best was battered; the worldwide empathy that followed the 9/11 attacks steadily evaporated, even among countries traditionally most friendly to, or most reliant upon, the United States. Last week's collective global rejoicing at the end of the Bush era was testimony to how far the nation of Lincoln, Wilson, FDR and Kennedy had fallen into international dislike over the past eight years. Yet soft power, perhaps by its very nature, is volatile. And it is surely more easily adjustable and amendable than, say, a long-term relative decline in military-strategic power. So the interesting question remains: Will the electoral victory of Barack Hussein Obama give back to America that third "leg" of the stool, the triple undercarriage that supports its world position, the grand if immeasurable advantage of political and ideological appeal? Judging from the media reports from far and wide, the answer is an unreserved "yes." Predictably, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France cabled Obama with the message: "Your election raises in France, in Europe and elsewhere in the world, an immense hope," offering a Gallic embrace that the next incumbent of the White House would be wise to accept with care even if the sentiments are sincere. The jubilation across Africa and Indonesia, both claiming an Obama relationship, is widespread. Regimes that do not permit free and open elections are clearly disturbed at the ripple effects, just as their political opponents are heartened by this amazing example of democratic openness. Even the most purblind Hezbollah or Iranian fundamentalist is going to find it hard to accuse someone called Barack Hussein (descendant of the Prophet) of inherent anti-Muslim prejudice. To be sure, if Obama attempts to rely upon international goodwill alone that would be like an automobile seeking to run on hot air rather than high-grade gasoline. What the next president needs to do is recognize clearly what the hopes are that have made him so popular in so many different parts of the world: the African hopes that he will give real help to their troubled continent; the desires across Latin America that he will keep to liberal policies on trade and immigration, offer to ease the impasse with Cuba, and pay their region real respect; the yearnings in Europe, Canada and Australasia that he will take seriously America's obligations toward international institutions and treaties, including environmental and anti-protectionist commitments; and the moderate-Arab hopes that he will offer more than lip service to the Palestinians. All of these aspirations are much easier stated than realized, and all of them will involve compromises between certain of his campaign promises to American voters and the larger "constituency" he has picked up overseas. Yet if he really wishes to recover America's soft power in the world, he will have to begin by offering the world something of what foreigners yearn for, not the whole stall of course, but items that look good and agreeable and helpful to quelling our many global fears and discontents. Here a close study of the rhetoric and the actual policies of his predecessors Wilson, FDR and JFK will come in very handy indeed. For, as historians will tell you, none of those great "internationalist" statesmen did anything other than pursue America's "national" interests. What they had in common was the wisdom to see how they could merge what was good for their country with what was good for the world, or at least large parts of it. They convinced millions of people worldwide to have faith in America's commitment, judgment and leadership, and thus to take more seriously reform proposals that would emanate from the White House. That, in a nutshell, is what soft power is all about. But because it is "soft," it can dissipate fast. Large parts of an anxious world are waiting with hope for the coming of an Obama presidency, and most are sensible enough not to expect a sort of first-100-days miracle. But they are sitting in judgment, like the voters of Ohio and Florida, and willing to give "the new man" the benefit of the doubt - but not forever, perhaps not for long. Like many other things in life, Obama's bid to restore American soft power has term limits. Paul Kennedy is the J. Richardson Professor of History and the director of International Security Studies at Yale University. He is currently writing a history of the Second World War. Distributed bye Tribune Media Services.

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Tuesday 18 November 2008

IAS academy produces record women trainees MUSSOORIE, NOVEMBER 17 (NDTV): These are the moments to cherish but there’s indeed something special about this batch at the IAS training academy in Mussorie. It has the highest number of women officer trainees the academy has ever seen in a single batch. It’s a historic moment for all the 32 women who have made to the IAS. “It’s always great to be a part of history and we are proud that we are a part of the batch which has the highest number of women trainees,” said Smita Sarangi, IAS. But of these women only a handful come from rural backgrounds. The academy directors hopes that will now change. “Women have as good a contribution to make in these services as anywhere else and these are the days where we find the so called male bastion is breaking up so the fact that there are so many women in this one batch is not only welcome but something that is long over due and I hope it also encourage more and more women especially in rural area to sit for civil services exams and get into not just the IAS but other services as well,” said Rudra Gangadharan, Director, IAS Academy. Creating history, these young lady officers of the Indian Administrative Services have blazed a trail. Now, one hopes that the way things are going with New India, someone, some day will some how better this with a 50-50 ratio.

Security tight as Kashmir votes in state polls

SUMBHAL, NOVEMBER 17 (AFP): Indian Kashmir voted under tight security Monday for a new state government, with a boycott call by Muslim separatists triggering sporadic clashes but failing to shut down the ballot. In the Muslim-dominated Kashmir Valley, election officials put the turnout at more than 30 percent, with hundreds of people queuing at polling stations from the early morning. Higher voting numbers were recorded in Hindu-majority Jammu and mainly Buddhist Ladakh -- two regions where the Kashmiri separatists hold little sway. Kashmir was put under direct federal rule in July, when the state government collapsed following its controversial decision to give land in the region to a Hindu pilgrim trust. That crisis sparked a revival of Muslim protests reminiscent of the early 1990s, when an insurgency against Indian rule had just begun. In an apparent bid to prevent large-scale anti-polling demonstrations, the security forces had rounded up some of the more influential anti-India figures ahead of the election. Over two dozen separatist leaders are currently under arrest, some under a law that allows police to hold people for up to two years without trial. The state elections are being staggered over seven phases, enabling authorities to mount a huge security operation as successive areas vote. The last stage of voting is scheduled for December 24 in Srinagar -- the urban hub of anti-India rebels. Among those voting in Sumbhal, situated 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Srinagar, several said local issues rather than separatist politics had motivated them to defy the boycott call. “We want freedom but we want devel-

opment and progress too,” said first-time voter Arshad Dar. “I am voting to elect the government. It is not that I am consenting to India’s occupation of Kashmir,” said another voter, Ghulam Mohammed. Both hardline pro-Pakistan rebels and moderate separatist politicians argue that conducting any polls strengthens India’s control over the disputed state. “These are sham elections. You can’t hold free and fair polls in presence of thousands of occupying troops,” said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a leading moderate separatist who was one of those under house arrest. In Bandipora town, north of Sumbhal, police fired teargas and used batons to disperse hundreds of anti-election protesters. Six demonstrators, including two women, were sightly hurt, police said. “They are traitors. Their participation is tantamount to selling out the blood of martyrs,” said protester Javed Ahmed, who had tried to stop people casting their ballots. “My conscience doesn’t allow me to be part of any Indian-held elections. I will vote when we will be free,” Ahmed said. Srinagar and other towns were almost totally locked down, as thousands of troops were out in force to prevent anti-election rallies, witnesses said. Kashmir is held in part by nucleararmed India and Pakistan but claimed in full by both nations, which have fought two wars over the region. The countries began talks to settle the region’s future in 2004 but there have been no breakthroughs, further frustrating the mood in Kashmir. One Indian soldier was killed in a gunbattle Monday with militants in Poonch district along the Line of Control, the de facto border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.

Sadhvi Pragya alleges torture by Anti-Terrorism Squad

NASHIK, NOVEMBER 17 (PTI): Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blast, has alleged that she has been tortured and ill-treated by the Anti-Terrorism Squad, her counsel told a court in Nashik on Monday. In an affidavit, Pragya claims she sold her bike to one Sunil Joshi of Madhya Pradesh in 2004, and she was paid Rs 24,000 for the bike. She also says that due to the torture and mental stress she was subjected to by the ATS, she developed acute abdominal and kidney pains. And this was why she was shifted to the ICU of the Sushruta hospital, where she was treated for three to four days. Eight blast accused were produced by the police in the Nashik Magistrate Court to demand extension of their judicial custody, which ends on Tuesday. The sadhvi asked the court to provide her the Hindi translation of the submisC M Y K

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sion made by her lawyers, which was in English, as she could not understand it. “I do not know what is my crime,” she told the court. In the jam-packed court of Additional Magistrate H K Ganatra, the sadhvi, Abhinav Bharart member Samir Kulkarni and former Army officer Ramesh Upadhyay, along with five other accused, were produced amid high security. Pragya was arrested by the Maharashtra ATS from Surat in Gujarat for her alleged role in the Malegaon blast which killed six and injured over 80. Earlier, the prosecution had alleged that the sadhvi had a long conversation with the main accused, Ramji, just after the September 29 blast in Malegaon which became basis for her arrest by the ATS. The prosecution lawyer had alleged that Pragya asked Ramji whether police have seized her motorcycle used in the blast and why less people had been killed in the blasts

Police, anti-poll protesters clash in Kashmir

A Kashmiri Muslim protester scufﬂes with a police ofﬁcer during a protest against election in Bandipora 75 kilometers from Srinagar, Monday, November 17. Large crowds turned up to vote in some towns while protesters clashed with police in others as state elections in India’s part of Kashmir opened Monday amid boycott calls by Muslim separatists who say the local polls will only entrench New Delhi’s hold on the troubled region. (AP Photo)

SRINAGAR, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): Police and a group of people protesting against the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir clashed in north Kashmir’s Bandipora town on Monday afternoon when polling was in progress in the constituency. “A small group of protesters came out in the town to dissuade voters from casting their votes. We have taken cognizance of the matter and the anti-poll protesters have been chased away,” said Sheikh Junaid, superintendent of police in Bandipora district. Reports from the town said there was tension when the police arrested two of the protesting youth and now the locals were demanding their release. In the neighbouring Sonawari constituency, where also polling is in progress, supporters of the regional National Conference (NC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) clashed at Poshpora polling station in Naidkhai area, 40 km from here. The clash broke out when PDP supporters accused the NC workers of booth capturing at the polling station.

Orissa police to question raped nun

BHUBANESWAR, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): A crime branch team of the Orissa police is likely to head to New Delhi soon to question the nun who was raped during the communal violence in Kandhamal district in August, officials said on Monday. “A team of five or six police officers may go to Delhi on Monday or Tuesday to question her,” a senior crime branch said. The crime branch, which is investigating the crime, has already arrested 10 people in this connection, but officials say the probe is not

progressing because of the non-cooperation of the nun. “She needs to identify the culprits as a part of the legal process,” the official said. He, however, refused to reveal if the test identification parade would be conducted in New Delhi, where the nun is believed to be residing. The nun, in her written complaint Aug 26, two days after the incident, alleged that a mob of about 40 to 50 armed men attacked a house at K. Nuagaon village where she along with a priest, Thomas Chellantharayil, had taken

shelter after their centre was attacked. The mob dragged her and the priest and took them to a deserted office of an NGO where she was raped. They also paraded her naked on the streets, she said, adding that the incident occurred in the presence of several policemen. The nun had narrated her ordeal at a press conference in New Delhi last month and said that she did not have faith in the Orissa police and wanted a federal probe into the crime. Raphael Cheenath, the archbishop of CuttackBhubaneswar, had filed a

petition in the Supreme Court seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe. The Supreme Court had last month rejected the plea. Cheenath, earlier this month, said the nun would cooperate with the state police if the identification parade was conducted outside Orissa. But a court in Kandhamal Nov 10 directed the nun to appear and identify the culprits on November 19 at Baliguda. Kandhamal district witnessed large-scale communal violence, mostly attacks on Christians and their places of worship, after the

Aug 23 killing of Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Swami Laxmanananda and four of his aides. Though Maoist rebels claimed responsibility for the killings, some Hindus held Christians responsible for the crime, despite repeated denials by Christian organisations. The communal violence that ensued claimed at least 38 lives and thousands of Christians had to flee to the jungles to escape rampaging mobs. While some have returned to their homes, more than 10,000 are still living in government-run relief camps in Kandhamal.

ATS denies 60kg RDX used in Samjhauta blast Is Malegaon blast probe lacking evidence? MUMBAI/NASHIK, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): Maharashtra’s Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Sunday denied that the 60kg of RDX that Lt-Col Prasad Purohit had pilfered was used in the Samjhauta Express blast in February last year. Public prosecutor Ajay Misar, representing the ATS in the Malegaon blast case, had on Saturday told a Nashik court that the pilfered RDX was used in the Samjhauta blast case. However, on Sunday, he blamed the media for “wrong interpretation” of his remark in the court. “I told the court that the po-

lice have to find out whether the 60kg RDX was used in some blasts across the country, including the Malegaon blast. My sentence has wrongly been interpreted by some newspapers,” Misar said. “I don’t know what Misar has told the court. I will have to check it out. We have not mentioned the use of RDX (in the Samjhauta case) in the remand papers. The ATS will not say such a thing without corroborating it with a witness,” ATS chief Hemant Karkare told TOI on Sunday. Around 70 persons, most of them Pakistani passengers, were killed near Pani-

pat in the blast. The forensic analysis report of the Samjhauta blast had said that the material used in the blast was a highly flammable cocktail of fuel oils, potassium chlorate and sulphur. Misar told the court on Saturday that Purohit (39) had handed over 60 kg RDX to one person identified as Bhagwan who used it for the Samjhauta blast. “A witness told us that Purohit had 60 kg RDX in his possession while posted in Deolali, Nashik. He had to deposit the explosive at the army’s artillery department in Jammu and Kashmir. However, Purohit

told our witness that he had not deposited the explosive with the army and instead told them that he had threw it into the Jhelum river in J&K. He later gave the RDX to a person named Bhagwan who used it in the Samjhauta train bomb blast,” Misar had told chief judicial magistrate H K Gantra while seeking an extension in Purohit’s police custody. Interestingly, the ATS prosecutor also did not clarify whether the Army conducted any internal probe after the 60kg RDX went missing and how much RDX was used in the train blast.

MUMBAI, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): A Lieutenant Colonel who stole 60 kg of RDX, a sadhvi whose bike was used to set off a bomb and a Mahant who ordered a terrorist attack, with each claim in the Malegaon investigations the questions are mounting -- does the police have enough evidence? The police claim the first breakthrough was the bike used in the blast, which was traced to sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur. But the sadhvi said the bike changed hands many years ago. Another claim of proof was a statement

from an eyewitness who allegedly overheard a phone conversation between the sadhvi and the main accused Ramji Kalsangra. But if the conversation was on phone, how did the eyewitness hear both sides? The police also claimed that Purohit stole 60 kg of RDX from an Army depot in Nasik. But experts say that it’s very difficult for Military Intelligence officers to source RDX, especially this quantity. The police have so far charged most of those caught for being part of the conspiracy. But they still haven’t zeroed in on those directly

involved in the plot of making the bomb and planting it. The bulk of the police case, as in most such cases, is built on the statements of the accused, owning up to the crime and on telephone transcripts, neither of which is admissible in court. But the police say they have got evidence which they will produce in due course. Every blast investigation is marked by exaggerated claims, flimsy evidence, and charges of bias. But given the kind of intense national scrutiny generated by Malegaon, the scope for error, is narrowing by the minute.

Tibetan exiles rethink struggle against Chinese rule

DHARAMSHALA, NOVEMBER 17 (AFP): Leading Tibetan exiles began a week-long meeting Monday in northern India that could usher in a more radical approach to their long struggle against Chinese rule in Tibet. The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, called the gathering after admitting that his attempts to secure greater autonomy for the region through negotiation with the Chinese government had failed. Before the talks began, he urged the 500 participants to consider all aspects of policy regarding China -- ensuring that the thorny issue of whether to push for full independence would be tackled. The meeting should air “the real opinions and views of the Tibetan people through free and frank discussions,” said the Dalai Lama, who has expressed uncharacteristic frustration over failing to win concessions from Beijing. Many exiles feel that his campaign for “meaningful autonomy” for Tibet -- which he fled in 1959 following a failed uprising against Chinese rule -- should now be replaced by a more aggressive pro-independence stance. “We certainly hope the cause of independence for Tibet is stronger by the end of the week,” said Tsewang Rigzin, Italian Army chief Lt. Gen. Fabrizio Castagnetti inspects a guard of honor in New Delhi, president of the influential Tibetan Youth Congress and Monday, November 17. (AP Photo)

Tibetan Buddhist monks wait outside the Tibetan Children’s Village School in Dharmsala, Monday, November 17. Several hundred Tibetan exile leaders gathered Monday in northern India for a landmark meeting to discuss the direction of the movement that has struggled for decades to win autonomy from China. (AP Photo)

a delegate at the meeting. “I was a bit surprised when the Dalai Lama called this meeting,” Rigzin told AFP. “But it was high time. As he says, he has done everything in his power and not made progress.” The conclave in the northern Indian hill town of Dharamshala opened with the arrival of a large portrait of the Dalai Lama, which was set at the front of the meeting hall. Participants, accompanied by traditional pipe players and drummers, sang the Tibetan anthem, after which a moment of silence was observed for victims of unrest in Tibet

-- most recently in March. The Dalai Lama said earlier this month that his “middle path” approach had been exhausted, and that there was now “no other alternative than to ask people” about how to proceed. Tenzin Bayul, another of the delegates, said she felt it was a moment of historic importance. “Non-violence is central to our culture, but frustration is strong among young Tibetans and people get very angry about the lack of success,” said Bayul, a 28-year-old activist studying at Tufts University in Boston. “This situation has gone on for so long, and the Dalai Lama is tired.”

The meeting has no policy-making power -- any recommendations would require the approval of the exiled Tibetan parliament -- but it comes as the Tibetan movement braces for change. One looming issue is the health of the Dalai Lama, 73, who had to cancel trips abroad after being hospitalised in August and undergoing surgery to remove gallstones last month. He has since returned to his gruelling schedule and still commands huge respect from Tibetans and supporters around the world -- but he now describes himself as semi-retired. The talks will also centre

on current conditions inside restive Tibet. Before the meeting, 17,000 Tibetans still living in China were consulted, said the speaker of the government of exile, though he declined to say how their opinions had been gathered. “About 8,000 said they would follow whatever the Dalai Lama decides, and 5,000 said the middle way policy should change and the Tibetan government should work for complete independence,” T.T. Karma Chophel told reporters. In March, protests against Chinese rule in the capital, Lhasa, erupted into violence that spread to other areas of western China with Tibetan populations. Tibet’s government-in-exile said more than 200 Tibetans were killed in the subsequent Chinese crackdown. The clashes were cited by some Tibetans as proof that a new, and more radical, strategy was needed. “The only way for us to survive as Tibetans is by holding fast to the hope of an independent Tibet,” said delegate Jamyang Norbu. “Independence is what motivates the troops. It needs to be our focus.” But any such policy shift could divide the Tibetan movement and see much of its international support seep away. A Chinese government spokesman earlier dismissed the meeting, saying that such “separatist attempts will get nowhere.”

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New Nepal constitution to be ready by May 2010 KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 17 (REUTERS): The nascent republic of Nepal will have a new constitution ready by May 2010, a top official said on Monday, the culmination of a peace process that ended a decadelong civil war. The country's main political parties and former Maoist rebels signed a peace deal in 2006 and adopted an interim constitution last year. This year the Maoists emerged as the biggest political party in an election for a constituent assembly meant to prepare a new constitution. They are now heading a coalition government whose main task is to oversee the drafting of the new constitution. Subas Nemwang, chairman of the assembly, said the panel approved a schedule on Sunday under which a draft of the new constitution would be ready by the end of May 2010. It will then be formally promulgated by the president the same month. "That will be a historic occasion for Nepal because it will be the first time ever when the country will have a constitution prepared by members of an elected constituent assembly," Nemwang told Reuters. Since the 1950s Nepal has swung between absolute monarchy, democracy and back again to absolute monarchy. But in 2006 weeks of pro-democracy protests ended a brief period of the king's absolute rule in the Himalayan nation, paving the way for a ceasefire in the war and then a peace deal. The Maoists eventually got the 239year-old monarchy abolished through an assembly vote this year. "The movement for democracy and the peace process with the Maoists will also come to a conclusion on the day when the new constitution is promulgated," Nemwang said.

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Obama vows to exit Iraq; rebuild US ‘moral stature’

Myanmar disperses dissidents throughout its gulag YANGON, NOVEMBER 17 (REUTERS): Myanmar’s junta has sent dozens of political prisoners recently sentenced to up to 65 years in jail to far-flung corners of its gulag, making it hard for family members to deliver food and medicine, relatives said on Monday. Without the informal delivery of supplies such as malaria and vitamin pills, detainees face a far greater risk of dying behind bars, say former political prisoners who have fled to Thailand. “They were taken in secret from Insein Central Prison through the back gate early on Sunday morning,” Ko Aung, the younger brother of former student activist Ko Ko Gyi, said. “We waited at the front gate hoping to see them but didn’t get the chance.” Ko Ko Gyi and Min Ko Naing, the former Burma’s best known political prisoner after detained opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, have been dispatched to Kentung in northeast Myanmar, 1,200 km, from Yangon. Other activists from the “88 Generation Students” arrested last August after several small fuel price protests were sent to Kawthoung in Myanmar’s southern tip, and others to Putao, in the Himalayan foothills of the far north. Many of the prisoners, some of whom spent more than a decade in jail after leading a brutally crushed uprising in 1988, are already thought to be in poor health. “It’s too bad,” said Nyan Win, a spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, more than a dozen of whose members are among the 60-odd dissidents sentenced to jail in the last two weeks. “It must have been done with intent to punish their families too. It will be very difficult for people to visit them,” he said. The sentences range from 65 years for prominent dissidents to 20 years for a blogger and four months for defence lawyers who took up the plight of the dissidents. The junta’s official media have made no mention of the sentences, which rights groups say are a campaign to eradicate all political opposition in the runup to a 2010 election, the final stages of a much-derided “roadmap to democracy”.

President-elect Barack Obama, right wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball cap, walks to his vehicle following his gym workout, Saturday, November 15, in Chicago. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER 17 (AFP): US President-elect Barack Obama vowed to pull troops out of Iraq, crush Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and shut down the Guantanamo Bay camp as part of a dramatic foreign policy break with George W. Bush. Repairing the stricken US economy will be priority number one, even at the cost of still-bigger budget deficits, Obama said in his first major post-election interview broadcast on CBS program "60 Minutes" late Sunday. Following his election triumph of November 4, Obama said at least one Republican would be in his cabinet and confirmed that he had met former Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton last week. But the president-elect

refused to comment on speculation linking the former first lady to the job of secretary of state. The man who will be the first black US president is accelerating his transition to inauguration day, resigning his Senate seat Sunday and appointing three more top aides to serve in his White House once he succeeds Bush. As soon as that happens on January 20, Obama said, "I will call in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, my national security apparatus, and we will start executing a plan that draws down our troops" from Iraq. "Particularly in light of the problems that we're having in Afghanistan, which has continued to worsen. We've got to shore up those efforts," Obama said in the interview, which was taped Friday. On the campaign trail, Obama

vowed to pull one or two combat brigades out of Iraq every month until after 16 months, only a residual security force of unspecified size remains. Some of those brigades would head to Afghanistan. He told CBS that "it is a top priority for us to stamp out Al-Qaeda once and for all" and that killing or capturing the group's mastermind Osama bin Laden was "critical" to US security. Obama pledged to tackle controversial offshoots of Bush's "war on terror" -- the US military's internment camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and harsh interrogations of captured terror suspects. "I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that," the president-elect said. "I have said repeatedly that Amer-

ica doesn't torture. And I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world," Obama added. But he did not elaborate on where the Guantanamo prisoners would be taken, whether they would be transferred to civilian custody in the United States itself, put on trial, or released. A command to redeploy troops out of Iraq or shut down Guantanamo could be done in short order under Obama's presidential prerogatives, and he is expected to reverse a slew of other contentious "executive orders" signed by Bush. Obama said that in Congress, his first legislative priority was getting another stimulus package passed to prop up the enfeebled

economy, if Democrats in the outgoing legislature fail to overcome Republican opposition. As already shown in excerpts released by CBS, Obama said it would be a "disaster" for the government to stand by and let the cashstrapped General Motors and the auto industry in general collapse. In line with the outcome of a summit Saturday of the world's 20 biggest economies, the president-elect said forging new regulation of the financial markets was essential to restoring the trust of consumers. Obama appeared unconcerned about the red ink blotting the US government's finances, arguing economists from left and right agreed that "we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again."

"And that we shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after. That short term, the most important thing is that we avoid a deepening recession," he said. Joined by his wife Michelle in the interview, Obama said their two young daughters would get their promised dog, and expressed hope that Michelle's mother Marian Robinson would move in with them at their new residence. Obama, a gifted writer who has authored two best-selling memoirs, turned wistful as he anticipated life in the White House fishbowl. "That's something that I don't think I'll ever get used to. I mean, the loss of anonymity," he said. "And this is not a complaint, this is part of what you sign up for."

Fighting in Congo despite rebel promises RWINDI, NOVEMBER 17 (AP): Congo's army clashed with rebels in some of the worst fighting in a week despite the rebel leader's promise to support a ceasefire, the United Nations and witnesses said Monday. The two sides battled Sunday night in Rwindi, about 125 kilometers north of the eastern provincial capital of Goma. About 150 people took refuge outside a U.N. peacekeeping base here, huddling beside a white shipping container as mortar shells and artillery fire rained down. "These blue helmets would not let us inside, but it's better than nothing," said Clement Elias, 20, referring to the U.N. peacekeepers. He said he heard 100 explosions Sunday night. There was no immediate word on casualties, according to U.N. peacekeeping spokesman Col. Jean-Paul Dietrich. "Everybody is trying to push the other side back," Dietrich said. "It's very regrettable that they could not respect the cease-fire." On Monday, Rwindi was quiet but rebels were seen walking freely, carrying generators and boxes of ammunition. The town is tiny, housing little else but a headquarters for Virunga National Park and a peacekeeping base, which is surrounded by barbed wire and sandbags. Dozens of civilians were sitting under trees Monday, listening to the radio for news. Heavy fighting also broke out Sunday in Ndeko, about 90 kilometers north of Goma, Dietrich said. The Central African A young girl struggles to fill a water container in a camp for displaced people, Monday, nation has the world's largest November 17, in Kibati just north of Goma in eastern Congo. Congo's army clashed U.N. peacekeeping mission, with rebels in some of the worst fighting in a week despite the rebel leader's promise with some 17,000 troops, but to support a cease-fire, the United Nations said Monday. (AP Photo) the peacekeepers have been

unable to either stop the fighting or protect civilians caught in the way. Congo's main rebel leader promised a U.N. envoy Sunday he would support a cease-fire as well as U.N. efforts to end the fighting. "Now we have a message of peace. We should work with this mission," rebel leader Laurent Nkunda said. The U.N. envoy, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, met with Nkunda for the first time, after speaking with President Joseph Kabila and the leader of neighboring Angola. Nkunda launched a rebellion in 2004, claiming to protect ethnic Tutsis from Hutu militias who fled to Congo after Rwanda's 1994 genocide left more than 500,000 Tutsis and others slaughtered. But critics say Nkunda is more interested in power and Congo's mineral wealth. Fighting among armed groups has ground on for years in eastern Congo's lawless North Kivu province, but the violence sharply escalated in August and has since displaced 250,000 people. Congo's government says it is willing to meet Nkunda, but only with the many other militias in the region. Nkunda has criticized the government for signing deals with Chinese companies to exploit Congo's cobalt and copper. Congo has called on Angola for military help, but Angola insists it does not have any troops there. Some fear Congo's current crisis could once again draw in neighboring countries. Congo's devastating 1998-2002 war split the vast nation into rival fiefdoms and involved half a dozen African armies, including Angola's.

Colombian performers representing a Spanish conqueror, right, and Muslim warrior perform during the 'Cuadrillas de San Martin' indigenous annual festival in San Martin, Meta province, Colombia, Sunday, November 16. The festival, said to be more than 300-year-old, commemorates the native people's struggle for freedom against the Spanish colonization. (AP Photo)

UK terror suspect: Surprised by airport attack LONDON, NOVEMBER 17 (AP): A doctor accused of involvement in an attack at Glasgow airport testified Monday that he was surprised when his friend suddenly attempted to crash into a terminal entrance. Bilal Abdulla, 29, acknowledged that he threw a petrol bomb and fought with bystanders after getting out of the Jeep Cherokee but said he hadn't intended to hurt anyone. "I am told I am a terrorist, but is your government not a terrorist, is your army not a terrorist?" Abdulla said. "By the definition of the act, according to English law, yes. That is my aim: to change opinion using violence, using fire devices." But he insisted his actions were intended to frighten people, not injure them. Abdulla and co-defen-

dant Mohammed Asha, 28, have pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions. Both were physicians employed in Britain's National Health Service. The driver of the car in the June 30, 2007 attack, Kafeel Ahmed, died of burns. Abdulla contends that two cars armed with gas canisters and detonators left in central London the day before the airport incident were intended only to scare people. The gas failed to ignite and no one was injured. In Glasgow, Abdulla said he was hoping to catch a flight to Turkey, France or some other European destination. Ahmed drove around the terminal building twice because of heavy traffic, and then tried a taxi lane, Ab-

dulla said. "The car in front of us moved and I thought he would correct his position and switch to the other lane," Abdulla testified. "But he drove through the barrier and I got alarmed and I shouted 'What are you doing, what is happening?' Then in a matter of no time the car accelerated and turned left into the pole." He testified that Ahmed, frustrated at being unable to get into the terminal, handed him a petrol bomb. "He got one of the bottles, it was lit, and transferred it to my hands. He just put it into my hands," Abdulla said. "The first thought that came across my mind is to get rid of this bottle," he added, saying he had thrown it across the hood of the vehicle, away from bystanders.

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Barca beats Recreativo to stretch lead

FC Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o, from Cameroon, up, duels for the ball with Recreativo's Cesar Arzo from Spain, bottom, during their Spanish league soccer match at the Colombino stadium in Huelva, on Sunday, November 16. (AP Photo)

MADRID, NOVEMBER 17 (AP): Lionel Messi and Seydou Keita scored secondhalf goals Sunday to give Barcelona a 2-0 victory over Recreativo Huelva and open up a three-point lead atop the Spanish league after its closest rivals all failed to win. Messi fired a left-footed shot into the top corner at the near post in the 51st minute after a set move from a free kick. After coming on as a substitute, Keita tapped in Samuel Eto'o's shot in the 86th to extend the Catalans' unbeaten run to 16 games - including nine straight league wins. Barcelona has 28 points. Villarreal is second after allowing an injury-time goal

to earlier draw 2-2 at Malaga. "No league is won by November but this triumph strengthens us a lot," Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola said. Both Real Madrid and Valencia lost Saturday to stay on 23 points. They were joined by Sevilla after it won 2-0 at Getafe. Guardiola is off to the best debut by a rookie coach since Carlos Alberto Silva with Deportivo La Coruna 12 years ago. Recreativo goalkeeper Asier Riesgo was busy from the 20th as Messi's first shot on goal turned the momentum Barcelona's way. Riesgo saved a shot from Messi again two minutes later before Jesus Vazquez blocked one from Eto'o right

after. Barcelona's Sergio Busquets volleyed over the bar in the 27th, and Riesgo got a hand down to tip Eto'o's shot wide a minute later. Barcelona striker Thierry Henry's weak curled shot in the 37th was a poor finish after Messi's darting run, while Eto'o also shot over close to halftime. Recreativo, which stayed second from bottom, threatened twice in the half but goalkeeper Victor Valdes caught Roberto Gaspar's free kick and Cesar Arzo's header. Messi, who continued to create the majority of Barcelona's chances from the flank, took advantage of a dip in Recreativo's concentration to run on to Xavi

Hernandez's sly pass from a free kick to score his seventh goal with a rising shot. At Malaga, Helder Rosario headed from a tight angle past goalkeeper Diego Lopez as Malaga twice rallied for a point. Villarreal went ahead in the eighth minute through Giuseppe Rossi, before Sergio "Duda" Barbosa swung a left-footed free kick over the defensive wall and past Lopez to make it 1-1 in the 30th. Joseba Llorente, left off Spain's squad for a friendly against Chile on Wednesday, put Villarreal ahead again at the Rosaleda in the 50th minute with his sixth goal of the season. Sevilla joined 11thround losers Valencia and

Real Madrid on 23 points after beating Getafe 2-0. Sevilla's Ndri Romaric put Luis Fabiano, who scored a hat trick in a midweek Copa del Rey game, clear on goal in the 37th and the Brazil striker slid the ball through goalkeeper Roberto Abbondanzieri's legs. Young Belgium midfielder Tom de Mul scored his first goal for Sevilla in the 90th. Getafe's Esteban Granero had a chance in the 26th from the penalty spot, but goalkeeper Andres Palop easily saved the midfielder's weak shot. Atletico Madrid rallied from a poor draw in the domestic cup competition with a confident 4-1 win against Deportivo as Diego

Forlan scored two secondhalf goals. Dutch international John Heitinga scored his first goal for Atletico while Maxi Rodriguez also scored to lift some of the pressure off coach Javier Aguirre as Atletico jumped to sixth with 17 points. Luis Filipe scored a late goal for Deportivo, which remained on 15 points. At Seville, Sergio Garcia scored a goal in each half as Real Betis beat Racing Santander 3-1, with Achille Emana also scoring for Betis. Pedro Munitis got one back for Santander in the 86th. Alvaro Negredo, also left off Spain manager Vicente del Bosque's squad, scored two goals - including the winning penalty - to lead Almeria to a 2-1 win over Mallorca, which found the net in the 90th through Alhassane Keita. At Olimpico Lluis Companys stadium, substitute Carlos Bellvis scored deep into injury time as Numancia rallied for two goals in the closing stages in a 4-3 win at Espanyol. Javier Bakera equalized in the 85th after Raul Tamudo had given Espanyol the lead from the spot in the 72nd. Numancia had twice taken the lead through Txomin Nagori and Asier Goiria, only for Espanyol to rally both times with goals from Moises Hurtado and Daniel Jarque. In an allBasque clash, Joseba Garmendia scored in the 15th before Fernando Llorente celebrated his first Spain call-up with a goal in the 88th as Athletic Bilbao beat last-place Osasuna 2-0 for its first league victory in nearly two months. Madrid coach Bernd Schuster's finds himself under increased pressure after the two-time defending Spanish champions lost 1-0 at Valladolid. Sporting Gijon handed Valencia a second straight home defeat in a 3-2 win.

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NP lifts All India Police Badminton C’ship ‘08 KOHIMA, NOVEMBER 17 (DIPR): A felicitation programme was held today for the Nagaland Police officers’ team at PHQ Kohima for bagging the team championship at the 1st All India Police Badminton Championship 2008 (for gazzetted officers) which was held at Dehradun from October 31 to November 3. The Nagaland Police team was led by ADGP (Adm) K Kire and his team included SP Wokha, Imlisunep, Deputy Commandant (12 NAP), Rhovisie M Nyuwi and Deputy Commandant (13 NAP) V Hibo. In the veterans single 50 plus the runners up title was bagged by ADGP (Adm) K Kire and in the open single category Deputy Commandant (13 NAP) V Hibo emerged as the champion while in the Open Doubles, SP Wokha, Imlisunep and V Wankhede (IB) bagged the runners-up trophy. K Kire stated that the championship would be an annual affair and therefore hereafter selection to the Nagaland team would be done through open competition. The next Championship is slated to be held at National Police Academy, Hyderabad, he added. NBA felicitates Nagaland Police The Nagaland Badminton Association (NBA) has felicitated the Nagaland Police Team for their brilliant performance during the All India Police Officers’ Badminton Tournament recently held at Dehradun which has brought fame and laurel to the Police department in particular and the State in general. In a letter of felicitation to the Director General, Nagaland Police, the association stated that ‘it augurs well, that the Nagaland Police Department encourages Badminton discipline in the state, which will go a long way for the growth of the game of Badminton in the state and to scale to a greater height.’

PCB leaves Shoaib's fate to be decided by new selectors KARACHI, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): After Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar missed all the recently held three ODIs against West Indies due to a calf injury, the PCB has decided to leave his fate to be decided by the a new selection committee to be installed next month. A senior PCB official said Shoaib “got injured more than most cricketers”. The fast bowler last played his ODI in November 2007 against India in Gwalior but has been out of the squad since then either due to injuries or suspension. He played in some of the IPL matches for “Kolkata Knight Riders”, but failed to impress except in his first match in which he picked early three wickets. Shoaib was included in Pakistan`s squad for the Abu Dhabi assignment after he ‘convinced’ national selectors about his form and fitness by bowling well in a couple of Pentangular Cup games. But, the Rawalpindi Express was derailed as soon as he arrived in Abu Dhabi after injuring his calf muscle during a team training session. He failed

The 21-year-old has clearly impressed both Ferguson and Giovanni Trapattoni [Ireland manager] with his performances in recent weeks and he wants to build up some consistency in his play now. Gibson also views the injuries to Owen Hargreaves and Paul Scholes as a chance to break into the first-team and establish himself as an LONDON, NOVEMBER important squad member. 17 (AGENCIES): Wigan boss Steve Bruce has called for a change to "ridiculous" rules that stop players appealing against yellow cards. Latics defender Emmerson Boyce was sent off at Newcastle for two bookings, the second for a foul on Shola Ameobi. Replays showed that tackle to be fair but, despite referee Andre Mariner admitting his error, bookings cannot be rescinded under the laws of the game. "I admire Andre for admitting his error but what good does it do us? The rules are ridiculous," said Bruce. "Referees have a really difficult job and it's far too often that we are talking about them after games. "When Emmerson was sent off we were comfortPakistani Kushti wrestlers prepare the soil in the ring prior to a competition at Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Santonio Holmes (10) eludes San Diego Chargers linebacker Shaun ably in the lead and I honthe Champion Shahadra Wrestling Club in the Old City of Lahore, Pakistan on Phillips (95) on a 14-yard pass play during the second quarter of a NFL football game in Pittsburgh estly believe that we would Saturday, November 15. (AP Photo) on November 16. (AP Photo) have gone on to win the LONDON, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): Darron Gibson has told setantasports.com that Manchester United have just as many talented youngsters as Arsenal do and they could make a big impact for the Premier League champions this season. Gushing praise was directed towards The Gunners after they destroyed Wigan Athletic in the Carling Cup with a side comprised of

players with the average age of just 19. However, Gibson believes that United have a host of exciting players ready to make the step up to the first-team and that was showed in the recent victory over Stoke City with Jonny Evans, Danny Welbeck, and Manucho all featuring. Gibson, who has been called up to the Republic of Ireland squad for this week's

friendly against Poland, also played in that 5-0 triumph that showed The Red Devils' production line has plenty of new stars in the making. "The hype is always on Arsenal's young players, but we showed in the win over Stoke that we have a lot of good young players," Gibson told setantasports.com. "I was delighted to make my Premier League debut, but the most important

thing was that we got the three points and that is what we did. "Sir Alex [Ferguson] has told me that I'm not far off from playing in the first-team on a regular basis, but I'm lacking a bit of experience. I'm not going to get much experience if I'm not playing, but I just have to keep my head down and work hard. "Hopefully I will keep

getting more chances and it is up to me to take them. But the manager has shown faith in the young players at the club by using them in important games and he wouldn't do that unless he knew they could handle it. "The young players at the club could play a big role this year as we provide competition for places and that makes every player work an extra bit harder."

to make the playing eleven in all three games. The PCB official said that the Board`s top brass has been “closely monitoring” Shoaib on his comeback trail, “but is not convinced whether he deserves a place in the team”, especially after the rise of talented young fast bowlers like Anwar Ali, Mohammad Aamer and Mohammad Talha. However, the official said that unlike previous PCB bosses, the current regime doesn`t want to play a hands-on role in team selection and will expect the new set of selectors to decide whether Shoaib has a future with the Pakistan team. “We will appoint a new selection committee in the third week of December,” the official said and added, “The selectors will finalise the squad for the home series against India and if they overlook Shoaib then probably it would be game over for him.” Pakistan are scheduled to have a home series against India in January-February for three Tests, five One-day Internationals and a Twenty20 International.

Bruce fumes at 'ridiculous' rules

game. But instead we have to play the last 35 minutes with 10 men and now Boycey will also miss next week's game against Everton. "The biggest problem, and what I find most frustrating, is that we have no right to appeal." The Football Association used to allow red and yellow cards to be downgraded or upgraded, but after the 2005-06 season they moved closer into line with Fifa regulations. However, Bruce believes the time has come for such rules to change, while he also advocates the use of video technology. "In the time it took for Boycey to be sent off a fourth official or someone in the stands could have watched the replay from different angles (as is done in the press boxes) and a judgment made from there and relayed to the referee," he said.

England lose Gerrard and Lampard LONDON, NOVEMBER 17 (AGENCIES): England will be without Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard for Wednesday's friendly against Germany in Berlin. Liverpool skipper Gerrard has been ruled out with a groin injury while Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard will miss the game with a rib problem. As a result, Fulham's Jimmy Bullard and Scott Parker of West Ham have been added to the squad. But skipper John Terry, who has been struggling with a foot injury, is expected to be available. The Chelsea defender picked up the knock against West Brom at the weekend but completed a full England training session on Monday. Gerrard reported for duty on Sunday despite his club saying he would be unavailable after picking up the injury at Bolton on Saturday. But a check by

the FA's medical staff has confirmed the extent of the injury and Gerrard has returned to the north-west. The England vice-captain Gerrard played the full 90 minutes at the Reebok Stadium, but a Liverpool spokesman said: "A scan has confirmed a tear in the adductor magnus muscle in his right leg, and he is expected to be out for between seven to 10 days." BBC Five Live's football correspondent Jonathan Legard said Capello was not impressed earlier this season when Liverpool withdrew Gerrard from the World Cup qualifiers against Andorra and Croatia to have an operation on a groin injury. His midfield partner Lampard also misses out after scans on a rib injury he picked up at West Brom on Saturday revealed he would not be fit enough to be involved at the Olympic Stadium. It means Capello can call upon

just four of his likely first-choice lineup for England's first visit to the German capital since 1972. Manchester United trio Wayne Rooney, Wes Brown and Rio Ferdinand, along with Chelsea team-mates Ashley and Joe Cole and Wigan striker Emile Heskey are all sidelined with injuries. While some Premier League managers may see the friendly as an unnecessary distraction from an already busy fixture schedule, Manchester United's Michael Carrick has defended the match against the three-time World Cup winners, describing it as "the stuff of dreams". "If you ask any player if they want to play in England against Germany they will tell you it is a massive game," said the midfielder. "It is one I watched when I was growing up and wished that I would one day play in. It is not a hindrance

at all, it is a massive honour. "It is England versus Germany in Berlin at Olympic Stadium. The players are desperate to be a part of it." Spurs striker Darren Bent, who earned an England recall after rediscovering his goal-scoring form under new boss Harry Redknapp, echoed Carrick's sentiments. "You can see why managers don`t like it because there are a lot of games, but as players you always want to play for your country," he said. "There`s nothing better than playing for your country. The more games the better." Former skipper David Beckham, who is one cap away from equalling Bobby Moore's tally of 108 caps, has been left out of the squad. Beckham has not played since Los Angeles Galaxy's season finished on 26 October after they failed to make the Major League Soccer play-offs.

Capello has made it clear he will only pick players who are playing regularly, and the 33-year-old Beckham will be inactive until he joins Italian side AC Milan on loan in January. Goalkeeper Joe Hart has an ankle injury and has been replaced by Paul Robinson. Manchester City's Hart was hurt after falling awkwardly as Hull striker Daniel Cousin scored during Sunday's 2-2 draw at the KC Stadium. He will be sidelined for up to four weeks. Blackburn's Robinson, who has 41 caps, joins fellow keepers David James of Portsmouth and West Brom's Scott Carson. Despite the injuries to Heskey and Rooney, Capello has opted not to recall striker Michael Owen, who scored for Newcastle in their draw with Wigan on Saturday. , while Manchester City's Joe Hart and Micah Richards also return.

Chelsea defender Michael Mancienne - currently on loan at Wolves was a surprise inclusion in Capello's squad. Mancienne, who is yet to play for the Chelsea first team, joins uncapped Aston Villa duo Curtis Davies, 23 and Gabriel Agbonlahor, 22, in a youthful England setup. Capello said he will take a careful look at the youngsters in his new-look England squad in the international friendly at the Olympic Stadium, home of Hertha Berlin. "Our opponents Germany are always a very strong team, and when they play at home even more so," he said. "Everyone has told me that it is not a friendly game against Germany, but I think this will be a friendly game. We will do some experiments and after this game I will know better some different players."

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Smiling Sharon Stone puts a brave face on split S with toy boy lover

he may have just split up with her 24-yearold toy boy but it seems nothing can stop Sharon Stone having fun. The Basic Instinct actress, 50, was out on the town just hours after it emerged she had separated from Chase Dreyfous. However, her first foray into public after news of the break-up emerged was far from a raucous affair. Instead she chose the far sedate surroundings of a friend's bridal shower at Chado Tea Room in Beverly Hills. The actress looked

the picture of elegance in a demure check dress and patent flats. She happily posed for photographers and seemed relaxed about the breakup. News of her romantic troubles came after Sharon lost a custody battle over one of her sons. She began dating Dreyfous in June after meeting him through her charity work. But according to Hollywood insiders, she had misgivings about the romance following her unsuccessful attempt to change an agreement with her ex-husband, Phil Bronstein,

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over living arrangements for their son, Roan. Her application to have the eight-year-old spend most of the year with her was denied after Bronstein attacked her parenting skills and claimed she wanted the boy to get Botox injections to deodorise his feet. The actress vehemently denied the allegations but they are said to have taken their toll on her relationship with Dreyfous. A source said: ‘The whole custody thing really devastated Sharon. She has always devoted herself 100 per cent to her children. The stuff about the Botox and so on that came up in court was totally invented. But the sad fact is it took the spark out of her relationship with Chase. Right now her focus is on her family.’ The actress adopted Roan with newspaper boss Bronstein during their tumultuous sixyear marriage, which broke up in 2003. She subsequently adopted her younger sons Laird, now three, and Quinn, two. Her relationship with Dreyfous is said to have become serious in June, when the couple were first spotted out together at fashionable restaurants. Stone reportedly now plans to spend more time in San Francisco with Roan and is looking for a place to stay there. Last night, Dreyfous said: ‘I’ve known Sharon for about a year and a half. We’ve always been friends. I don’t want to say any more than that.’ The actress’s spokesman declined to comment.

I’ll be back, says Mahima

rejection in Pakistan for its highly objectionable gay content. The much entertaining multi-starrer flick has won praises primarily for it’s storyline and the entertainment box’ up for an assured fun

filled experience. The Lahore High Court has issued notices to the Chairman of the Film Censor Board of Pakistan to justify the screening of the Bollywood movie ‘Dostana’

atie Price has hit back at claims that she is splitting up with husband Peter Andre. The former glamour model insists her marriage is stronger than ever, fearing rumours of a split could have leaked from someone they know. The couple further quashed rumours today, looking the picture of happiness on ITV's This Morning show as they hosted a slot discussing the new series of I'm a Celebrity...Get me out of here, where the couple met. She told The Sun: 'Pete and I laugh about it. We can’t win. If we’re smiling for the cameras they say we’re setting it up to gloss over the cracks. If we’re not together they think we’ve split up.' 'Everyone assumes we’re arguing and about to break up. 'Just because I went out two weeks on the trot with the girls it’s a big drama and everyone jumps to the conclusion we have split up. 'I know you can’t always have good publicity, which is fair enough as long as it’s true — but in this case it’s not. 'No one looks back to see when was the last time I went out without Pete — they just focus on one or two pictures and jump to conclusions. 'In the end it all just makes me stronger and we have the last laugh — so bring it on.' Jordan was recently reported as being 'in-

sanely jealous' in her relationship after Peter's ex-girlfriend Mel B invited him to her wedding. But Jordan claims her fiery temper is simply her ability to let go in front of the cameras. She said: 'I’m so honest. If I’m in a bad mood I’m in a bad mood and I don’t mind letting people know — it’s a reality show, so I don’t want it set up. 'And I probably look like I do moan, but what woman doesn’t. That’s what we are and we’re no different off camera to what we are on. 'It must look like we work all the time but I don’t work as hard as a mum who has a nine-to-five job, so we don’t have as much stress as people think and Pete and I get to spend lots of time with our kids — we’re very lucky.' The couple, who have been together since 2004, have three children - Junior, three, Princess Tiammii, one, and disbled six-year-old Harvey from a previous relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke - and have already revealed they will soon be trying for another. Peter has spent some time in LA recording his upcoming solo album. Price and Andre's three-year marriage was reportedly on the rocks after a UK magazine alleged the couple had been arguing. The pair had only just returned from a trip to South Africa to renew their wedding vows when rumours of a break-up started.

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Kidman vows to make her marriage to Urban last

Jordan and Peter deny rumours of marriage split

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in Pakistan due to the Gay content in the movie. ‘Homosexuality’ is tilldate illegal in Pakistan and a seriously punishable offence. Well, that’s a good enough reason for rejection!

ussie actress Nicole Kidman has revealed that she is determined to make her marriage to country music singer Keith Urban last and work out beautifully. Kidman, 41, who divorced her first husband Tom Cruise in 2001, is very determined and “touches wood” every day for good luck. The Moulin Rouge star, who married Urban in June 2006, and had their first child daughter Sunday Rose in July this year, insists that she and her husband have to work hard at their marriage if it is going to last the distance. “We’re both willing to move mountains to make it work and, with that, you still touch wood,” Contactmusic quoted her as telling USA Today newspaper “You commit to it and say, ‘Whatever we can do that's humanly possible, we’re going to do’. And that's it. “I don't take any of it for granted. To have love again is a beautiful thing,” she added.

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Karan Johar’s ‘Dostana’ lands into fresh trouble in Pakistan!

ooks like, Karan Johar’s ‘Dostana’ is running into fresh trouble in Pakistan. The movie that is fashioning tremendously well at the Box Office has apparently met

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he sponsor termed it as the "power of 3 Ms"— fashion designer Manish Malhotra, anchor/ actress Mandira Bedi and actress Mahima. A line of clothes based on the theme of Formula1 racing by the designer was presented in a fashion show that was graced by the two celebrities and witness to the event was the who's-who of the city at Hotel Taj Residency on Saturday night. Cynosure of all eyes was the racing car planted

on a ramp around which models strutted in the designer outfits. A leading liquor brand was the sponsor of the multi-city event. Mandira regretted not getting to see the famous sites of the Lucknow despite having been here a number of times, while Mahima acknowledged the gracious hospitality she kept receiving here on every visit. Recent motherhood, she said, was keeping her off work, but "I'll be back," she promised.

06:00 - Shakti Yug; 06:30 - The Faith Show; 07:00 - Enjoying Everyday Life; 07:25 - Ek Nazar; 07:30 - Sales Slot; 07:55 - Exposure Jhalak; 08:00 Teleshopping; 08:25 - Ek Nazar; 08:30 - Jai Ganesh; 09:00 - Ramayan; 09:30 - Naaginn; 10:00 - Vivaah; 10:30 - Betiyann; 11:00 - Maayka ; 11:30 - Saat Phere; 12:00 - Dulhann; 12:30 Kasamh Se; 13:00 - Parrivaar; 13:30 - Rakhi; 14:00 - Teen Bahuraaniyaan; 14:30 - Ranbir Rano; 15:00 - Dulhann; 15:30 - Maayka; 16:00 - Saat Phere; 16:30 - Naaginn; 17:00 - Teen BahUraaniyaan; 17:30 - Betiyann; 18:00 - Kasamh Se; 18:30 - Saat Phere; 19:00 - Vivaah; 19:30 - Shrii; 20:00 - Dulhann; 20:30 - Maayka; 21:00 - Kasamh Se; 21:30 - Saat Phere; 22:00 - Betiyann; 22:30 Ranbir Rano; 23:00 - Waaris; 23:30 - Kasamh Se; 23:55 - Ek Nazar; 00:00 - Asian Sky Shop; 00:55 - Exposure; 01:00 - Asian Sky Shop; 02:00 - Teen Bahuraaniyaan; 02:30 - Kasamh Se; 03:00 - Ek Se Badhkar Ek - Chota Packet Bada Dhamaka; 04:00 - Vivaah; 04:30 Urja; 05:00 - Parrivaar; 05:30 - Narseva Narayan Seva 06:00 - Hum Ladkiyan; 06:30 - Meet Mila De Rabba; 07:00 - Telebrands; 07:30 - Teleshopping; 08:30 - Maati Maangey Khoon; 12:00 - Hum Ladkiyan; 12:30 - Aathvaan Vachan; 13:00 Comedy Circus; 13:30 - Sujata; 14:00 - Meet Mila De Rabba; 14:30 - Hum Ladkiyan; 15:00 Aathvaan Vachan; 15:30 - Comedy Circus; 16:00 - Babul Ka Aangann; 16:30 - Sujata; 17:00 - Meet Mila De Rabba; 17:30 - Aathvaan Vachan; 18:00 - Hum Ladkiyan; 18:30 - Babul Ka Aangann; 19:00 - Jai Hanuman; 19:30 Sujata; 20:00 - Meet Mila De Rabba; 20:30 - Hum Ladkiyan; 21:00 Aathvaan Vachan; 21:30 - Babul Ka Aangann; 22:00 - Sujata; 22:30 - Comedy Circus; 23:00 - Indian Idol 4; 00:00 - Telebrands; 00:30 Teleshopping; 01:00 - Sujata; 01:30 - Comedy Circus; 02:00 - Babul Ka Aangann; 02:30 - Aathvaan Vachan; 03:00 - Hum Ladkiyan; 03:30 - Meet Mila De Rabba; 04:00 - Devi; 04:30 - Jai Hanuman; 05:00 Babul Ka Aangann; 05:30 - Aathvaan Vachan 04:15 - Modigliani; 06:15 - Americano; 07:30 - Infomercial; 08:00 - Captive Hearts; 10:15 - Blind Guy Driving; 12:25 - Out Of Reach; 14:15 - When A Man Loves A Woman; 17:00 - Charlie Chaplin; 17:30 - Tuck Everlasting; 19:30 - The Hurricane; 22:30 Rabbit Proof Fence; 00:45 - Epk; 01:00 The Whole Ten Yards; 02:30 - Marie And Bruce; 04:50 - Air Rage 06:00 - Hairy Biker’s Ride Again; 06:30 - Feast India; 07:00 - Jet Set; 08:00 - Globe Trekker 10; 09:00 Indian Rendezvous; 09:30 Adventures Of The Ladies Tailor; 10:00 - Trinny And Susannah Undress; 11:00 - Monster House; 12:00 - Overhaulin’ 5; 13:00 - Cooking It; 13:30 - Take Home Chef 2; 14:00 Cruiseline; 15:00 - Great Hotels Iii; 15:30 - Cocktail Kings; 16:00 - Jet Set; 17:00 - America The Wright Way; 18:00 - Hard Rock Treasures; 19:00 - Feast Bazaar Year 2006; 19:30 - The Hairy Bikers Cookbook; 20:00 - Cheese Slices; 20:30 - Living With The Future; 21:00 - Dream Hotels; 21:30 - Great Hotels Iii; 22:00 - Kylie Kwong: My China; 22:30 - Lawrence Of America; 23:00 - Beach Blast; 00:00 - Work Out; 01:00 - Monster Garage; 02:00 - Globe Trekker 10; 03:00 - Surf And Snack; 04:00 - Trinny And Susannah Undress; 05:00 - While You Were Out 3 06:00 - Global Tele Mall; 07:00 - Body And Soul; 07:30 - Tvc Sky Shop; 08:30 - Instant Khichdi; 09:00 - Hatim; 10:00 - Shaka Laka Boom Boom; 10:30 - Son Pari (Kids Drama); 11:00 - Mum Tum Aur Hum (Game Show); 11:30 - Shararat; 12:00 - The Great Indian Laughter Challenge IV; 13:00 - Ssshhhh Phir Koi Hai; 14:00 - Dill Mill Gayye; 14:30 - Mile Jab Hum Tum; 15:00 - Movie; 18:30 - Anu Ki Ho Gayi Wah Bhai Wah; 19:00 - Dill Mill Gayye; 19:30 Mile Jab Hum Tum; 20:00 - Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai; 20:30 - Dill Mill Gayye; 21:00 - Mile Jab Hum Tum; 21:30 - The Great Indian Laughter Challenge IV; 22:30 - Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai; 23:00 - Dill Mill Gayye; 23:30 - Mile Jab Hum Tum; 00:00 - Siddhanth; 01:00 - Tony B Show (Chat Show); 01:30 - Ankhiyon Ke Jharokhon Se; 02:30 - Dill Mill Gayye; 03:00 - Mile Jab Hum Tum; 03:30 - The Great Indian Laughter Challenge; 04:30 - Dill Mill Gayye; 05:00 Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai; 05:30 - Mum Tum Aur Hum

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Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh reacts after scoring a century against England during their second one-day international test cricket match in Indore, India, Monday, November 17. (AP Photo) INDORE, NOVEMBER 17 (REUTERS): Yuvraj Singh blasted his second consecutive century and grabbed four wickets to guide India to a comfortable 54-run win over England in the second one-day international on Monday. The 26-year-old hit 118 to lift India out of trouble at 29 for three and to an imposing 292 for nine before denting England's fightback, putting the hosts 2-0 up in the seven-game series. England collapsed to 238

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all out after Yuvraj ended a 96-run second-wicket partnership by removing Owais Shah (58) and Matt Prior (38) in successive overs before returning 4-28 bowling slow left-arm spin on a sluggish pitch. He returned to dismiss Andrew Flintoff (43) and skipper Kevin Pietersen (33) in the same over after their racy 74-run fourth-wicket partnership had kept alive England hopes before they lost four wickets for eight

runs. "At 29-3 we definitely felt we had a chance (but) we probably slipped there," Pietersen said. "And after the Power Play I think Freddie and I took it quite nicely to get the momentum back but unfortunately we lost ourselves to Yuvraj. "He again played a fantastic game today, scoring a 100 and taking four for nothing, I mean the boy is playing good cricket." Yuvraj, who stroked 138 not out to set up India's crushing 158-run win in Fri-

day's first contest of the seven-match series, took over after young paceman Stuart Broad's triple strike left the hosts reeling at 29 for three. He struck his 10th one-day hundred and added 134 runs for the fourth wicket with opener Gautam Gambhir, who made 70 for his second fifty of the series. Broad removed Yuvraj to return four for 55 but Yusuf Pathan hammered 50 not out from 29 balls on his 26th birthday to help India regain the initiative.

Yuvraj again displayed sublime form, showing no signs of a back injury which flared up in his previous innings to pick up his second man-of-the-match award in a row. "It wasn't an easy track, I had to work hard for my runs," he said. "I've worked really hard in the last couple of months, there were a few things in my batting I needed to control when I go in initially." Broad, 22, gave England a superb start by removing opener Virender Se-

hwag (1) and Suresh Raina (4) in his first two overs before claiming Rohit Sharma (3). However, Yuvraj settled down with fellow left-hander Gambhir. He lofted Paul Collingwood's medium-pace for a straight six before pushing him to point for a single to reach his hundred, running with his bat held aloft and punching the air in delight. Yuvraj cracked 15 fours and two sixes with shots all around the wicket in a 122-

2ND OPEN VOLLEYBALL 1st general conference of the CWA Championship underway in Kohima

Our Correspondent Kohima | November 17

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ALTOGETHER, 16 teams are taking part in the 2nd Open Volleyball Championship (Men and Women 2008) which got underway here today at Kohima Local Ground under the aegis of Kohima District Volleyball Association (KDVA) with the theme “Transcending through games.” Inaugurating the tourney, Er. Vikho Yhoshu, MLA, chairman Development Authority of Nagaland and advisor IT and TE Nagaland said that we can see good things happening in our state, adding “Our days are now filled with good programme and healthy activities.” Also stating that games and sports are essential event of healthy, strong and vibrant society, he lauded the organizer for organizing the meet to bring the people closer as well as to build the feeling of oneness through games and sports. Stating that volleyball is probably the most popular games in the rural areas, he stressed on the need to involve in the field with seriousness. Earlier, Neivilie-o Zuyie, youth director ABCC said a prayer while welcome address was delivered by Teisobou Sekhose, president KDVA. Special number was presented by Besuto while Dzuvichuto Khale, secretary, Organizing Committee administered oath to the participating teams. The tournament will go on till November 20.

Er.Vikho Yhoshu introduces to the players of 2nd Open Volleyball Championship in Kohima on Monday.

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Phek | November 17

THE 1ST general conference of the Chakhesang Wrestling Association (CWA) is scheduled to be held at the Chakhesang Baptist Church Council (CBCC) golden jubilee rostrum, Pfütsero on November 20, with Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu, Minister for Health and Family Welfare, as the chief guest. The conference which will start at 11 am will also feature both Naga Style and National Style Wrestling competition. The CWA further added that the 4 best wrestlers in Naga Style will be awarded cash prize which is being sponsored by Thupuzhoyi Tunyi, DSP, Reserve Kohima (1st prize), Dr. Neisatuo Mero, from Pfütsero Hospital (2nd prize), Neichute Duolo, Coordinator, Entrepreneur

Associates (3rd prize) and Sanyi Dukru, President, Phek District Timber Association (4th prize). It was also informed that only the registered campers are eligible to participate in the competition. The CWA further stated that 5 best wrestlers would be selected during the competition to represent the CWA during the State Level Wrestling Championship from December 3 to 4 at Kohima which would be in collaboration with the Hornbill Festival 2008. It was further informed that, during the state level championship, the four semi finalists would wrestle with the Korean wrestlers who have confirmed their participation in the championship. Meanwhile, Posetso Nyekha, general secretary of CWA, will lead the day conference sequence, opening prayer would be invoked

by Rev. K Luruo, executive secretary of CBCC, welcome song will be presented by NKN Group Pfutsero and BTC students Pfutsero, Avoilie Kezo, will deliver his presidential address, K Puro, vice-president, Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) will exhort the gatherings, Azo would deliver his inaugural address, publicity secretary CWA will tender vote of thanks while Dr. Yiepetso, vice-principal of BTC will pronounce the closing prayer. The day competition officials includes, Hukhonieyi Soho, Huvesu Puro and Vekhriyi Chuzho as referees, Shekhozo Theluo, Kewengupe and Salonyi Krocha as judges, Setso Puro and Vikrdou Thahu as recorders, Povehu Puro and Tshushenyi Kapfo as runners, Teisovilhou and Posheru Thuluo as announcer and time keeper respectively.

ball effort before Broad had him caught behind in the 44th over. Gambhir underlined his fine form by reaching his 13th one-day fifty. Pietersen forced Gambhir play a sharp off-break onto the stumps and then effected one of two direct run outs. Shah scored his seventh ODI fifty to lead England's response in the company of Prior before Yuvraj trapped him leg before and bowled his partner. Flintoff hammered off-spinner Harb-

hajan Singh for three sixes to help take 21 runs in one over as he and Pietersen rattled up 59 runs in the final set of five overs with field restrictions. Yuvraj, whose confident caught behind appeal against Flintoff on four was turned down, trapped him leg before and bowled Pietersen three balls later to virtually end England's hopes. Sehwag took three wickets for 28 towards the end. The third ODI will be played in Kanpur on Thursday.

13th Winter Cricket Challenge Trophy 2008 WOKHA, NOVEMBER 17 (MExN): The 13th Winter Cricket Challenge Trophy 2008, organised by the Senior Noble Klan of Wokha will start from December 27 next at the local ground. The tournament will carry prize money of Rs. 65, 000 collectively which include a cash award for both semi-finalists. A press note issued by the organizing committee informed interested teams and clubs that the last date of conformation letter along with the entrance fee of Rs. 3, 000 non refundable to be submitted at Celluar Infusion, Tsumang Square, below DC’s office on or before December 15 last. For detailed information contact, 9863356767 and 9862904488.

Hornbill Festival Motor Rally 2008 Our Correspondent Kohima | November 17 Women volleyball match in progrss.

TUESDAY’S MATCHES (NOVEMBER 18) (MEN) Faithballers vs Exceed Club Manipur Police vs 33rd AR Phek Faithballers vs Longsa SC Manipur Police vs Kohima Club Creepers Club vs Exceed Club Akin Club vs 33rd AR, Phek Faithballers vs Creepers Club TUESDAY’S MATCHES (NOVEMBER 18) (WOMEN) Rising SC vs Vortex SC Trinity Club vs Zion Club Shark Club vs Rising SC Halcyon Club vs Seasoned Players Lamkang Snulup vs Vortex SC Trinity Club vs Seasoned Players

THE MUCH hyped Hornbill Festival Motor Rally 2008 will take place from December 4 to 5 under the aegis of Nagaland Adventure & Motor Sports Association (NAMSA) in association with the JK Tyres and the state government and Nagaland Post as media partner. The organizers have confirmed a good number of participants from Chennai, Delhi and other north eastern states. “Maximum prizes will be sponsored by GK Tyres,” said V. Abu Metha, general secretary NAMSA, senior official

convenor for Hornbill Festival Motor Rally 2009, adding it will have better organize this time. The rally will be flagged off from Kohima at Indira Gandhi Stadium and it would touch Dimapur. Last date for submission of entry form has been fixed on November 25. Prizes for rally: Cars: Ist- trophies plus Rs. 40,000, 2nd- trophies plus Rs. 30,000, 3rd- trophies and Rs. 20,000, 4thtrophies and Rs. 10,000, 5th- trophies and Rs. 5,000. Bikes: Ist- Rs. 20,000 and trophies, 2nd- trophies and Rs. 16,000, 3rd- trophies and Rs. 12,000, 4th- trophies and Rs. 8,000 and 5th- trophies and Rs. 4,000.

Trophies will also be awarded to ladies team, senior citizen, best car, best bike, best institution participant, best decorated car, best decorated bike and most disciplined sportsperson. The maximum average speed for any section does not exceed 40 kmph, the organizers said, adding that the maximum driving time for each competitor will not exceed a continuous 10 hours in any unbroken 24 hour period. Competitors’ attention is drawn to the fact that the route passes through a few villages and they are thus advised to exercise extreme caution while passing through them.

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