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The Morung ExpressDimapur VOL. VI ISSUE 295 www.morungexpress.com

A Daily Publication of Morung for Indigenous Affairs & JustPeace

Friday, October 28, 2011 12 pages ̀ 3

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Campaign against antisocial activities DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 27 (MExN): As resolved in various public meetings on October 1, October 12, Oc-tober 17, October 20 and October 27, the public of Dimapur has finalized the programme for a people’s campaign against antiso-cial activities in Dimapur. This was informed in a press note issued by Presi-dent Naga Council on be-half of Public Joint action Committee. The campaign will be launched at 8 AM near Naga Council office at Nyamo Road (Church Road). The day’s campaign shall last from 8 AM till 10 AM. All citizens shall wear self-made black badges and raise black flags on their homes or shops. All shops and business activities are requested to halt from 8 AM to 10 AM and join the mass Campaign. The Pub-lic Meeting reiterated that the Campaign against an-tisocial activities in Dima-pur shall be sustained in a phased manner.

NPCC general secretary resigns DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 27 (MExN): General Sec-retary of the Nagaland Pradesh Congress Com-mittee (NPCC) and active member 36 assembly con-stituency, Inavi Jimomi has resigned from the par-ty. Jimomi submitted his resignation to the NPCC President today citing no particular reason except “in larger interest of my sup-porters and well wishers of 36 A/C Satakha.”

Y. Chuba AoKohima | October 27

Kohima is fortunate to have 3(three) National Highways passing through the Town. These include Dimapur-Kohima-Imphal-NH-39; Kohima-Wokha-NH-61 and Kohima –Pfutsero-NH-151. Now changed to Wokha-Kohima-Imphal—NH-2 and Dimapur-Kohi-ma-Pfutsero-NH 29. Un-fortunately, all these roads are badly maintained, due to which we have the maxi-mum traffic problems.

Next, the following town roads should be wid-ened wherever possible and strengthen the roads properly.(i) The road starting from

Dzuvuru (Mohonk-hola NH-2 & A.G. road junction) towards New Minister’s Hill- Old Minister’s Hill through Para- Medical Colony to Naga Hospital-Teenpati junction.

(ii) The New Market Road to N.S.T Bus Station.

(iii) The road from Mezhur School opposite War

What are the available solutions to ease traffic in Kohima?

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 27 (MExN): Clark Theological College’s Clark Centre for Peace Research and Action (CCPRA) will be hosting ‘Peace Media and Art pro-gram’ under the theme Pro-moting Just Peace Through Art, during November 4 and the 6th in Kohima and Di-mapur respectively. With this initiative, Clark Theo-logical College reaffirms its commitment to “reflect and respond to the challenges and need for peace-building in the North East region and the world at large.”

The venue for the Ko-hima event is Chakhesang Baptist Church, Kitsubo-zou on November 4 from 5:00 PM. For Dimapur the venue is Dimapur Ao Bap-tist Arogo on November 6 from 5:30 PM

“Due to people’s expe-riences and personal nar-rative in our long history of conflict and pain, it is true there are people are scep-tical, and even pessimistic about peace and reconcili-ation. Many of those who have stood for truth and

have worked wholeheart-edly for peace have been targeted, silenced and even executed,” said a note from the CCPRA. “But all hope is not lost. Today, the present situation is a momentous opportunity in our history where peace and reconcili-ation has every possibility of becoming a living reality.”

Referring to the pur-pose of the event, the orga-nizers said storytelling is at the essence of Naga oral tra-ditions and like other indig-enous peoples and commu-nities around the world, it has been a critical means in passing stories and in shap-ing and re-shaping values and worldviews from one generation to the next.

“Like in many other conflict-torn communities, one of the consequences of protracted conflict has been the marginalization of the art of storytelling and the break down of society.

We believe that for re-hu-manization of the people and society, Nagas need to redis-cover the art of storytelling,” the organizers said.

An effort in Peace-building through art

Traffic problems at Kohima & some remedial measures

Cemetery towards Chan-dmari-A.G. Colony upto Lerie joining the NH-2.

(iv) Road from Kitsubozou (Chotobosti) towards Billy Graham Road join-ing the Secretariat.Kohima needs a Bye-

Pass urgently, to avoid heavy vehicles entering

into the town. A Bye-Pass starting from Lalmati of the existing road (Pedu-cha) joining Kohima-Wokha road to Secretariat Area joining the NH-2 somewhere around Phesa-ma Village will serve all the vehicles moving towards Wokha, Phek and Imphal.

If this Bye-Pass is con-structed, the development of Kohima Town will auto-matically expand and the congestion of the town will reduce drastically.

Another measure that can be taken is the Kohima Municipal Council and the Traffic Police should prop-

erly study to Levy Parking Fees on the Main Road .This will discourage parking and stopping of vehicles hap-hazardly on the road side and thus, the movement of vehicles can be properly regulated.

Along with the increase of vehicles, pedestrians have also increased tre-mendously. More Traffic Police is required to regu-late the movement on the roads. Also the Bus and Taxi Drivers should wear Uni-form with the name tag, so that they are easily identi-fied, which will be for their advantage. For the safety of the pedestrians, Zebra Crossings should be pro-vided in all the crossings.

The High Power Com-mittee for development of Kohima Town may kindly study the above suggestions and if acceptable, the ap-propriate authorities may be directed for necessary actions within a time limit.

(The writer is Engineer-In-Chief (Rtd) and Convener-

Advisory Board, Kohima Municipal Council)

NEw DElhI, OCTOBER 27 (PTI): Amid reports that the Army is opposed to withdrawal of controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from some areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Army Chief General V.K. Singh on Thursday said the issue is under the purview of the Home Ministry. He said the Army has already given its in-

puts on the issue.“This (Armed Forces Special

Powers Act) is within the pur-view of the Ministry of Home Af-fairs. They are debating this and we have given our inputs. I would not like to say anything more,” he told reporters on the sidelines of Infantry Day celebrations here.

Asked about National Con-ference leader Mustafa Ka-

mal’s remarks that the October 25 grenade blasts in Srinagar were orchestrated by the Army, Gen. Singh said, “Whosoev-er has given that comment, I think that does not deserve the courtesy of any remark from me“. Army has been advocating for continuing the Act on the grounds that it needed to deal with terrorism in the state.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had on Wednesday said that the with-drawal of the Act from certain areas of the state was in no way an effort to undermine the role of the Army. “The army is essen-tially playing a major role in anti-militancy operations in Jammu and Kashmir”, he had said.

“Even the process of removal

of AFSPA from certain areas of Jammu and Kashmir is being done in close consultation with the Army and other central para-military forces and their inputs and security concerns will be evaluated and considered while removing the footprint of AF-SPA from certain parts of the state,” he had said.

The Chief Minister had said

that an attempt is being made to create an impression that the state government and the Army are working on divergent paths, which is not correct. Omar had said that it is nobody’s case to demonize the Army as the Army has proved time and again that it is a disciplined force which is governed by certain standard operating procedures.

‘AfsPA issue under purview of Home Ministry’

14 lakhs worth alcohol destroyedIn this image, crates of alcohol are seen here being destroyed. A street value of seized IMFL at Rs. 14, 51, 550 was destroyed today by the excise department here at the KMC dumping site in the presence of repre-sentatives from Naga Mother’s Association, district administration, police and Kohima Municipal Council. The case of the seized IMFL were registered from 3.11.2009 to 29.9.2011 The seized IMFL which destroyed today included IMFL 750ml- 6557 bottles, IMFL 375 ml- 46 bottles, IMFL 18ml 114 bottles, Beer 650 ml- 3314 bottles, can beer 500 ml- 1368 nos and yeast- 6 cartoons.

KOhIMA, OCTOBER 27 (MExN): The third day of the hunger strike by the Ag-grieved Teachers’ Associa-tion of Nagaland (ATAN) re-portedly left three volunteers admitted to Naga hospital Authority Kohima this eve-ning even as the government has assured that the Cabinet would discuss the issue. The volunteers were identified as Kakheho Achumi, Keyiho Achumi and Zareni Lotha.

The aggrieved teachers are on an indefinite hunger strike since 25 October de-manding revocation of an “abeyance order,” cancella-tion of the show cause notic-es served to teachers and to implement the DVC recom-mendation approved by the Cabinet, all related to the bo-gus appointment of teachers.

Responding with the ap-proval of the Minister for School Education and the Chief Secretary of Nagaland, Commissioner & Secretary for Education T Imkonglem-ba Ao wrote a letter to ATAN saying that the issue would be taken up in the next Cabi-

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 27 (MExN): The Nagaland Congress has blamed shoddy de-cisions of the Nagaland government for the now-regular upheavals in the recruitment and service sector – from bogus teachers to employment and retirement. Referring to the agitation of teachers, woes in the re-cruitment sectors and the plight of retired government employees, the Congress said the present government has ‘brought down governance to an all-time low.’

“Its policy of appeasement on one side and victimization on the other side have re-sulted in total chaos in governance. In the

history of Nagaland State, the NPF govern-ment has brought down governance to an all-time low,” the Nagaland Pradesh Con-gress Committee (NPCC) stated in a press release issued through its media cell today.

Be it the case of “aggrieved teachers’ case, work-charged employees of Power de-partment or the forced retirement through the Nagaland Retirement from Public Em-ployment (Second Amendment) Act, 2009, the NPCC said the government employees have become the object of victimization by the NPF government.

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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 27 (MExN): Newly instated Vice Chancellor of Nagaland University, Prof. BK Konwar on Thursday acknowledged that the university is func-tioning under a lot of limita-tions. Despite the amount of issues and problems, one has had to realize “what we can do and what you can do,” un-der the given circumstances, said Prof. Konwar.

The VC of the only full-fledged central university, which Nagaland can boast of, was speaking at the inau-gural of ‘Tech Aura 2011’ – a technical festival organized by the students of School of Engineering Technology and Management in Dimapur. It started on October 27 and will conclude on October 29.

He said that the universi-ty is trying its best to provide whatever there is at its dis-posal, while stating that one has to be happy with what-ever the university is doing in the development front, the limitations notwithstand-ing. “Yes, it hurts me when you look at us for facilities… I know it is not sufficient but we have our limitations. Even then I will always be there to help and guide you.”

Stating that there is no

dearth of intelligent minds, he added that the challenge will be, whether this institute (SETAM) can produce stal-warts in the field of technol-ogy. He said that the north-east has produced stalwarts in the field of engineering technology, only problem in NE is, “we don’t recognize our own achievements and potentials.”

He wrapped up his brief speech by commenting on the shortage of teaching fac-ulty at the institute. “Hope-fully by next semester, we’ll get something (more faculty members),” he said. Nev-ertheless, “We have good enough teachers,” he said while adding, “You be good students as well.”

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‘NU working under limitations’Prof. Konwar inaugurates

SETAM Tech Aura 2011

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 27 (MExN): The NSCN/GPRN-K has withdrawn “without any conditions its declaration to take action against Azheto, MLA in the Nagaland Government”. Stating this in a press note, Hokato Vusshe Kilon-ser, Ministry of Fi-nance (Chaplee) has expressed the government’s ap-preciation to Min-ister Kaito Aye for working towards bringing about un-derstanding with regard to the misunder-standing between NSCN and MLA Azheto.

The NSCN Khap-lang also acknowledged and appreciated the role played by the Western Sumi Hoho in bringing about understanding and goodwill in the aftermath of the impasse over the Hemail Sumi-Azheto is-

sue. While acknowledging and appreciating the con-stant support and coop-eration from the various NGOs and civil societies for their tireless efforts to bring about better un-derstanding and goodwill amongst different groups,

the NSCN expressed con-fidence that they will con-tinue to render support and cooperation for which it stated that they would also assure fullest cooper-ation and support.

Further, in response to appeals made by the busi-ness community to na-tional workers not to seek donations during the fes-

tive season, the NSCN-K informed that strict orders have been issued to its rank and file including the army and civil set-ups not to seek donations individually. To-wards this, the NSCN-K asked the business com-munity not to entertain

donation requests from individual workers.

The NSCN-K also admitted that there are some indi-viduals and groups impersonating the NSCN town com-

mand and demanding taxes and donations in the name of NSCN. “The NSCN, therefore, advises the busi-ness community not to entertain such imposters but to immediately report such instances of demands for donation to the follow-ing telephone number – 9856002222”, the press note informed.

NSCN Khaplang withdraws ‘declaration’ against Azheto

‘Strict orders issued to its rank and file not to seek donations individually’

AtAn hunger strikers in hospital

Nagaland Cong blames govt. for upheavals

net meeting. A definite date has yet to be scheduled as the chief minister is currently out of station.

ATAN has dismissed the letter saying the letter does not contain any “concrete outcome” and so the agita-tion will resume. Coordi-nator of ATAN, Vikato Swu disclosed that the associa-

tion will continue with the agitation till they receive a ‘written letter with proper assurance.’ Doctors said the case of the patients is due to de-hydration and as they refused to take food, they were prescribed fluids.

A press statement re-ceived here this evening, is-sued by executive member

RBI warns against fraudulent offers KOhIMA, OCTOBER 27 (DIPR): With a number of fictitious offers of cheap funds in recent times, often in the form of lottery prize money, through letters, e-mails, SMS, etc being of-fered by fraudsters, the Re-serve Bank of India (RBI) has advised customers to be aware and follow prop-er guidelines laid down by the RBI. The RBI has said that fraudulent commu-nications are being sent on fake letterheads of the RBI or other reputed organiza-tions, purportedly signed by their top executives/se-nior officials. It has been re-ported that many persons have fallen victims to such teasing and tempting offers and in the process, have lost huge sums of money.

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ATAN Imliakum and gen-eral secretary Limayanger accused the Cabinet min-ister holding charge in the absence of chief minister. The ATAN warned that any harm or ‘tragic instances’ befalling the volunteers would be blamed on the government solely.

In a late night informa-tion received here, ATAN officials informed that fol-lowing written assurance from the department, it has decided to temporarily sus-pend the hunger strike.

BREAKING NEWSHunger strike temporarily suspended

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28 October 2011Friday2 Dimapur The Morung ExpressLOCAL

‘Vigilance Awareness Week’ from Oct 31Kohima, october 27 (DiPr): Along with the rest of the country, Nagaland State will be observ-ing the ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’ from October 31 to November 5. In this connection, a function is to be held on October 31 at 11 am at the conference Hall of the State Vigilance Commission, where the Chief Sec-retary of Nagaland who is also the Vigilance Commis-sioner will deliver the keynote address and administer the pledge. District and Session Judge and TDP Vigi-lance Commission, Khesheli Chishi, will also deliver a short speech while there will be an extempore speech competition where SP Shiwoto Wotsa will be the mod-erator. Director & DIGP Vigilance & Anti-Corruption JI Yaden will propose the vote of thanks.

Educational exposure tour valedictory functionDimaPur, october 27 (DiPr): The valedictory function for the Educational Exposure tour for class IV meritorious students 2010 will be held on October 28 at 9 am at IG Stadium, Kohima. The program is be-ing organized by the District Mission Authority, SSA Kohima. According to the program, Deputy Commis-sioner and Ex Officio Chairman, DMA, SSA Kohima, Bei-u Angami will deliver a speech. Special number will be presented by the participants and the program will be chaired by ADC, DMA, SSA Kohima, Theyievilie Suohumvu.

KMC direct shopsKohima, october 27 (mexN): In view of the forthcoming Hornbill Festival, the Kohima Municipal Council directed all the shops establishments/insti-tutions/agencies within the jurisdiction of Kohima municipality to white wash/paint the front side of the building latest by November 20 to face-lift the capital city of Nagaland. The KMC further informed all shops/business establishments to display the sign board/light in front of their respective shops without fail.

Musical concert at CBCKKohima, october 27 (mexN): The music de-partment of Chakhesang Baptist Church Kohima will hold its musical concert on October 29 at 5:00 PM at the church premises.There will be a free-will dona-tion to support the CBCK praise and worship team for Asian Pacific Baptist Youth Federation, Regional Leadership Conference scheduled for November 3 to 6 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Poumai Public Union get-togetherKohima, october 27 (mexN): All the Poumai’s residing in Kohima have been informed that the Pou-mai Public Union, Kohima will hold its annual get to-gether-cum- general assembly on October 29 at Pou-mai Catholic Community Hall, Naga Bazar, Kohima at 10:00 AM. All the bonafide members of the Union have been requested to attend the same without fail.

KLEE exposure trip to ShillongKohima, october 27 (DiPr): Representatives and office bearers of Kohima Lotha Eloa Ekhung, un-dertook a four day exposure trip to Shillong in a bid to learn more about the neighboring states and to mo-tivate them to take up innovative ideas by seeing for themselves the varied activities taken by women folks of other states, to be economically independent. Be-sides other places, the group visited Mawlai Museum, Water Sports Complex at Umiam, Barapani, Nohkali-kia fall, Cherrapunjee, Thankharang Park and Maws-mai cave. The group also had a good time at Wards Lake, Shillong Peak where God’s name was glorified through songs and prayers. It was indeed a thrilling experience for all the group members. In a separate release, the President of KLEE has informed all concerned Lothas (Kyongs) that donations in any form will not be enter-tained at Kohima Town without the prior approval of the Lotha (Kyong) Women Apex Body and KLEE.

CSAK12th general session held Kohima, october 27 (DiPr): The Chakhesang Service Association Kohima (CSAK) observed its 12th general session at Naga Heritage Village on October 26 with MLA & Advisor, Art & Culture, Science & Tech-nology, New & Renewable Energy, Deo Nukhu as the chief guest. Expressing his concern over the status of the community, he said that the morale of the people is something we need to keep nurturing the Chakhesang are known for their honesty and sincerity. Asserting that the community needs to improve its status in the field of education, he lamented that Chakhesang are yet to produce an IAS Officer and also urged the people to work hard to bring more people to the government service sector. In the session, the Presidential address was delivered by President, CSAK, Chizü Kapfo while vote of thanks was delivered by Women Co-ordinator, Vepotalü Lohe. The invocation was pronounced by State Chaplain NLA, Rev. Khütsoyi Lürüo, and Bene-diction by Sr. Pastor CCRCK, Upper PWD Kohima, Rev. Zhowhüyi Nyekha. The programme was chaired by Vice President, CSAK, Vesato Dozo. Folk songs were also presented by Phüsachodü Union Kohima and Zhavame Union, Kohima. Treasurer report was also reported by its Treasurer, CSAK, Pungotso D. Vadeo and election and installation of new office bearers was also held. Later area wise tug of war was also held.

MEx File

A Konyak kid in Lungwa carrying his younger sibling on his back peers into the camera. Lungwa which runs through the India-Myanmar border divides Lungwa village, some 41 kms from Mon district headquarters. (Photo / Caisii Mao)

DimaPur, october 27 (mexN): To promote awareness on human rights issues and sensitization among the state police per-sonnel the Nagaland police conducted debate at district, range and state level compe-titions. In this debate com-petition, police officers, men and women from the rank of constables to district super-intendent of police and com-mandants can participate.

Dy Inspector of Police (R/NAP/TRG & BDR) Di-mapur, K Elias Lotha, NPS in a press release stated that the debate for Dima-

pur range level competition was held at the police con-ference hall officers mess. Chumukedima on Octo-ber 27. Dimapur and Peren units from Chumukedima under Dimapur range par-ticipated in the debate com-petition which was held un-der the topic ‘Law enforcers inclined on abuse of power rather than human touch on human rights issue.’

The panel of judges was Meren Jamir, Comdt 15 (IR) Mahila Bn; Aochuba Ao, Dy Editor, Nagaland Post; and Y. Etsumongo Ngullie, SP (BDR) Cmd.

Our Correspondent Kiphire | October 27

The 8th general session of the Eastern Nagaland Contractor and Supplier’s Union (ENCSU) cum in-auguration of its unit of-fice at Kiphire was held on October 26 at Super Mar-ket Complex, Kiphire with CL John, MLA and Chair-man MARCOFED Naga-land as chief guest.

Addressing the pro-gramme CL John en-couraged the ENCSU to maintain good relation-ship with the 20 legislator of Eastern Nagaland. He asked the ENCSU mem-bers that instead of po-liticizing and misunder-standing with one another they should come forward to make a strong relation-ship and render coopera-tion to foster better devel-opment.

Acknowledging the founders of ENCSU, he

also expressed hope for a better development through ENCSU in days to come. He also asked the Kiphire citizens to avoid ism and rather learn to cultivate peace, as peace is the bridge for every de-velopment. He advised to preserve nagamese as common dialect in East-ern Nagaland as dialect is the main means of com-munication. Earlier the chief guest inaugurated the Office of the ENCSU (Kiphire Unit)

The program was chaired by L Tochi Chang, Joint Secretary ENCSU, and welcome address by R Joshua Sangtam, Sec-retary ENCSU and special number by Re-evolution band and vote of thanks by A. Neangba, President ENCSU. C. Noklem, Ex-Minister and T. Zukimong Former Vice President ENCSU also spoke at the programme.

CL John exhorts ENCSU members

Looking beyond...

Mokokchung District Quality Control Committee & Task Force today conducted a proficiency test for all labourers in Mokokchung at Town Hall, Mokokchung, on October 25, 2011. The labourers will be graded ac-cording to their proficiency as highly skilled, skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled labourers and issued Job Proficiency Cards accordingly.

DimaPur, october 27 (mexN): A four days Faith Christian Ministers (FCM) conference was held at the Life Spring Cor-ner, Khermahal from Octo-ber 18 to21 with the vision “helping you fulfill the vi-sion and call God has giv-en”. 50 ordained ministers and licensed pastors under the FCF attended the con-ference. FCF is an organ-isation of churches and ministries, a family within the family of God, called to reach the world for Jesus Christ, demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit and build covenant rela-tionships with one another.

Rev Keith Hannah, a teacher and evangelist with an apostolic anoint-ing from Brisbane, Aus-tralia ministered during the conference and shared

Faith Christian Fellowship ministers conference held

about the ‘Benjamin gener-ation’- the end time gener-ation of grace. Rev Hannah shared about the ‘lifestyle

of thanksgiving’. FCF India relational representative Rev Balie Kirha also spoke during the conference

about the ‘Sovereignty of God’ and the misconcep-tions regarding the nature of God. The evening session

witnessed large groups of people. Many came with the sick, the depressed and the mentally challenged

DimaPur, october 27 (mexN): The Interna-tional Border Area Peo-ple Welfare Organization (IBAPWO) has inaugurat-ed water tank at Mimi vil-lage, which falls under in-ternational border block, on October 24. The con-struction was under water system and livelihood proj-ect and funded by ATREE Darjeeling West Bengal.

Dr. Tino Jongshi Chang, SDO (C) Pungro was the chief guest of the occasion who urged the villagers to cooperate, un-

dertake development ac-tivities for the area people either governmental or non governmental organi-zation (NGO). He said that the area under Mimi are rich in minerals and natu-ral resources, and if we de-veloped this area properly, it could become a source of tourist attraction and exported to neighboring countries like south east Asia to uplift the economy we can find many more hidden and unexposed rich natural resources and min-erals in Mimi area. He also

stated, “We should mainly stress on maintaining our ecological balance and called for active support from the public for pres-ervation and protection of the natural environment”.

P r o j e c t M a n a g e r Makezho said that water is the most important part of our life, and we cannot survive without water, and so through this water sys-tem and livelihood project, we undertake the scheme of rural water supply by digging and constructing public common ponds by

fixing tube-wells for un-derground water. “We are adopting possible ways and methods as a measure to provide pure and safe drinking water facilities to the village people. Our main motive is to uplift and empower the backward tribal along the border ar-eas, and to improve the so-cio-economic status of the people,” he said.

The programme was chaired by N. Musole Co-ordinator Ngarhang Cul-ture Society (FNGO) under NRHM.

Water tank at Mimi village inaugurated Nagaland police debate on human rights

DimaPur, october 27 (mexN): The indoor stadium cum community hall of Sishunu Village was inaugurated on October 25 by Commissioner & Secre-tary, RD, Viketol Sakhrie.

A press release issued by Rural Development As-sistant Director K. Neibou Sekhose said that V. Sakh-rie congratulated the VDB for bringing the village at a level in par with some of the advanced villages of the state. He challenged them to continue with the current pace of devel-opment towards making

their village a model and the best village. Sakhrie also stressed on the impor-tance of self-reliance, rec-ognizing one’s strengths and weaknesses, prioritiz-ing goals and pursuing that goal with perseverance and determination.

In her short speech, BDO, Tseminyu, Rosenle Kath stated that the in-door stadium was the first among the community in Rengma area.

Project Director, DRDA Kohima, Nolengol wished that the project will bring unity and understanding

among the villagers. He was of the view that even though the department gives fund to the VDBs through vari-ous schemes, not many achieve good results and congratulated the village for their achievement. In a brief report, the VDB Sec-retary revealed that this project, constructed under MGNREGS, was the biggest one since the inception of the village in 1931. Till date, a total of rupees 60.57 lakhs has been utilized and is yet to complete toilet facilities, electrification, water sup-ply, PA system and fencing.

DimaPur, october 27(mexN): Zhaleo Rio, Secretary PHED & Fisher-ies has urged Nagas to stop the practice of open def-ecation completely, due to the imminent health haz-ards. Speaking as the chief guest at the celebration of Swachhata Utsav (Cleanli-ness festival) in Dimapur on October 26, 2011 a To-tal Sanitation Campaign (TSC) for women bodies in TSC districts held at CPO hall Chumukedima, Rio said that the spread of diseases in rural areas is due to open defecation and improper solid and liquid waste disposal system.

Sharing his concerns for general well being at the inaugural programme of the TSC, he further in-formed that the Public Health Engineering De-partment (PHED) is tak-ing up steps to provide low cost latrines to the entire BPL households in all the rural villages. He also en-couraged the Women bod-ies to take initiative in tak-ing up cleanliness drive in their respective villages, as the success of the sanita-tion campaign will depend much on the role of wom-en. Short speeches were also delivered by the spe-cial invitees.

It may be noted that the

Government of India has declared October 2 to No-vember 4, 2011 as Swach-hata Utsav throughout the country. Along with the Swachchta Utsav celebra-tion across India, this To-

tal Sanitation Campaign for Women bodies in T.S.C districts was held here. The programme was organized by the Chakhroma Women Organization under the sponsorship of PHED.

Projects under MGNREGS inaugurated at Sishunu

V. Sakhrie along with Officers and Village elders during the inauguration of the indoor stadium cum community hall of Sishunu Village on October 25.

‘Stop practice of open defecation’

Zhaleo Rio celebrating Swachhata Utsav (Cleanliness Fes-tival) by a symbolic hand washing with soap on October 26.

people, where the speak-ers ministered and many received the word of God.

The Faith Christian Fel-lowship India secretary Rev Robert Kikon on behalf of the team thanked the pro-prietor of the Life Spring Corner for the use of the facility and for hosting the overseas guests. It is indeed a joy to know that God has been using this family to open their facility for any Christian organisation with absolutely no charge.

The FCF India would be having the same con-ference next year during the same period and fur-ther encouraged all the churches and ministries associated with the FCF International to continue to spread the fragrance of Lord Jesus in every spheres of society.

The Morung Express Friday28 October 2011 Dimapur 3LOCAL

The Management, Staff and Students ofSt. JoSeph’S College, Jakhama

invite you to theGraduation Day programat 10:00 AM, Saturday, October 29, 2011

withmr.luizinhoFaleiro, Ex-CM of Goa,

Member Congress Working Comittee,AICC i/c of Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura and Sikkim

as the Chief Guest.and

prof. Bolin kumar konwar, Vice Chancellor, Nagaland Universityas the Guest of Honour.

314 Graduates, 32 Rank Holders!2011 Graduates, come one and all.

I, Bendangsenla Amer have lost my document (s) MARKSHEET [name of the document (s)].Finder may kindly report to M/S NEEDS LOWER P.W.D. KOHIMA-NO: 9436066107 (address)My particulars are:-1.Name: Bendangsenla Amer2.F/name: Moameren Amer3.M/name: Jemtimenla4.Date of Birth: 03-01-19735.Name of the School/Centre: Chandmari Englilsh School/Koh-36.Name of the Examination: H.S.L.C.7.Roll no: 8091 Year: 1990 Result: III DIV

LOST NOTICE is being organized by

Symposium on“Recent advances in the

Clinical Management of HIV infection”

All practicing Clinicians of Dimapur District are cordially invited to attend the symposium,

which will be followed by dinner.

Speaker: Prof.S.K.Guha.School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata.

Dimapur Branchon 29/10/2011 at 6:30 pm.

In the Conference Hall of Zion Hospital & Research Centre

THE INDIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

The first meeting of the alumni of SCC was held on 22nd Oct. 2011 in the Conference Hall of the college and resolved to form Alumni association of the college. The members present in the meeting decided to hold its second meeting on 26 November 2011. The meeting unanimously nominated Shri. Bendang Chang as convener and Shri. Hopung and Shri. L. Shillem as co-convener. All the alumni are hereby requested to give the contact number and address to the following numbers- 9402908298, 9436007218 and 9402807274. It was also informed to all the alumni to attend the next meeting i.e. on 26th November 2011 without fail.

OFFICE OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONSAO CHANG COLLEGE TUENSANG: NAGALAND ZION HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CENTRE

For registration, please contact the Reception.03862-224117, 231864,227337

NEUROLOGIST FOR CONSULTATIONDr.R.R. Das MD DM (Neurology) from Guwahati will be available for consultation on 28th October 2011.Patients requiring consultation may contact the reception for registration.

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F/Committee

S.A.S.A GOLDEN JUBLIEE-2012 COMMITTEE MEMBERS MEETING WAS HELD ON 26-10-2011 AND DISCUSSED AT LENGTH REGARDING S.A.S.A GOLDEN JUBLIEE RAFFLE DRAW. IT WAS ANONYMOUSLY DECIDED THAT ALL COLLECTORS ARE DIRECTED TO DEPOSIT THE AMOUNT ALONG WITH TICKETS COUNTERFOILS TO ANY MEMBERS OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE OR S.A.S.A EXECUTIVE MEMBERS ON OR BEFORE 31-10-2011 WITHOUT FAIL.

GOSPEL AND HEALING CRUSADE

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FOR DETAILS CONTACT: 9436060987, 894003756, 9436064101

VENUE: DDSC STADIUM, GOLAGHAT RD.DIMAPURDATE: 4TH -6TH NOV.2011 TIME: 4:30PM DAILY

SPEAKER: DR.ADE BANJO, NEW JERSY USA

ORGANIZED BY:NORTH EAST HARVEST BIBLE INSTITUTE, DIMAPUR

As resolved in various public meetings on 1st October, 12 October, 17th October, 20th October and 27th October, the public of Dimapur has finalized programme for above mentioned Campaign as follows:1. Launching of the Campaign at 8 AM near Naga Council office at Nyamo Road (Church Road)

with prayer by President of Pastors’ Fellowship, Rev. Dr. Weyiete Lohe. The day’s campaign shall last from 8 AM till 10 AM.

2. Following are requested to be at the Launching prayer :• All Executive Members in the Joint Action Committee • President & Members of DCCI• Councilors of Naga Council • President & Executive of Dimapur Naga Women Hoho• President GB Union & some members • Tribe Hoho Presidents/Secretaries • President & Executive, NMDA• President/Leaders of Non-Naga Communities • Senior Citizens • DBPF, DCCF, FNR• 3 representatives from each village/colony • NGO leaders & Concerned citizens • DPC & media fraternity• The Joint action Committee & other leaders shall pay a flying visit to colonies/villages/

locations as many as possible to witness the demonstration.3. All citizens shall wear self-made black badges and raise black flags on their homes or shops.4. All shops and business activities are requested to halt from 8 AM to 10 AM and join the

mass Campaign.5. After doing its round of visit, the Joint action Committee and accompanying convoy will

return and converge at Dhobinala Police Point to conduct a press conference (approximately 10.30 AM if not delayed anywhere) which will conclude the day’s programme.

6. The Public Meeting reiterated that the Campaign against antisocial activities in Dimapur shall be sustained in a phased manner.

By : Campaign Joint Action Committee

October 29, 2011 People’s CampaignAgainst antisocial activities in Dimapur

Organized by:Nagaland Apex Weavers & Artisans Cooperative

Federation Ltd. Dimapur.

Sponsored by:Office of the Development Commissioner

(Handloom), Ministry of Textiles, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

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Dimapur, OctOber 27 (mexN): Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) President SI Jamir has come un-der severe criticism from for-mer members of the Nagaland Pradesh Mahila Congress Com-mittee (NPMCC) for his remarks about their resignation. In a press release, former NPMCC secretary Bendangla Lemtur stated that the clarification given by NPCC presi-dent has triggered more confusion than solution. She stated that S.I.

Jamir has tried in vain to put the re-cord straight by concealing his im-propriety and dragging the name of AICC President for temporary reprieve. “We appreciate his theo-retical notion of a big Congress family but the manner in which he ignored the members of the family has weakened the congress party, and only exposes chinks in the ar-mour of the party,” the note stated.

Further mounting criticism, the note stated that the Congress in Nagaland has long history of

building consensus in transition of the helm of affairs at the frontal organization, but conspicuous by its absence of consultation is “the present President” for the reason best known to him. The note add-ed that it may be secure and safe to take shelter behind AICC pres-ident on the plea that she makes all the appointments, but trying to portray us as opposing the de-cision of Sonia Gandhi is yet an-other “manifestation of his igno-rance and disregard for the party

procedures”; reminding him that the impropriety committed in the manipulation of all appointment procedures in the State cannot be absolved simply by hiding behind AICC president in Delhi.

The former members have fur-ther reiterated that they have re-signed from the respective posts in protest against “the manner in which the president NPCC manip-ulated the appointment of NPMCC president, ignoring all procedure and convention.” They added that

the NPCC president “did not hon-our the codes of the party by con-sulting persons of matter over the nomination and appointment of NPMCC president.” The note also clarified that dragging the name of AICC President over the ap-pointment of NPMCC President is “nothing but a cheap route to legitimize his wrong deeds.” All officials of the committee along with presidents of District Mahila Congress Committees resigned en masse on October 20.

Former NPMCC members flay SI Jamir’s remark

NSF condemn assault on

ANSAM presidentDimapur, OctOber 27 (mexN): The Naga Stu-dents’ Federation (NSF) has strongly condemned the physical assault per-petrated on J Kumo Sha, President of All Naga Stu-dents’ Association, Mani-pur (ANSAM) at Taphou in Senapati on the night of October 24 under the com-mand of Major Marathi, a commander of Assam Ri-fles in Kangpokpi out-post.

The NSF in a press statement issued by NSF General Secretary, N. Ejanthung Ngullie while questioning the integrity of the Assam Rifles stoutly affirmed to stand for the rights and will not tolerate such atrocities meted out to a Naga student’s leader. The NSF therefore con-curred and supported the memorandum submitted to the GOC, 57th Mountain Division, Leimakhong, Manipur by ANSAM, Se-napati District Students’ Association (SDSA) and Senapati District Women Association to terminate the erring Major Marathi and all the patrolling AR jawans involved in com-mitting such brutal crime against an innocent stu-dent’s leader.

Chakhesang Region of NSCN

seeks clarification from CPO

Dimapur, OctOber 27 (mexN): The Chakhe-sang Region of NSCN in a press note stated that it had taken notice of the news reports, which stated that the Chakhesang Regional Council of NNC have taken the decision to support the stand of Chakhesang Public Organization(CPO) in sup-porting NNC/FGN and also taking the vow to stand by it.

The Chakhesang Re-gion, NSCN, in the state-ment issued by the MIP added that based on that report, the Chakhesang Region member NSCN, Tatar and above had a meeting at Council Head-quarters (CHQ) Hebron on October 24 and took the decision to get further clarification from Chakhe-sang Public Organization on the matter if the CPO had taken such decision in any of its official meeting and if so where and when.

Dimapur, OctO -ber 27 (mexN): An un-explained fire incident at New Market, Dimapur on Thursday, October 27, destroyed a row of store-houses storing furniture and second-hand clothing. It took fire-fighters nearly seven hours to completely douse the flames.

The fire started at the first floor of a one-storied building, which housed a row of warehouses belong-ing to 26 different individ-uals, known as ‘MC Line’ towards the western edge of the market. According to an estimate, properties worth around 4-5 crore was destroyed.

The fire is said to have started at around 5:00 am in the morning, and it required a total of 11 fire trucks, including one each

from the Defence and Sewak; and 50 fire-fight-ers to make sure that the flames did not reignite. Making it trickier for the fire-fighters, the majority of the burning items con-sisted of bales of second-hand clothing for sale.

The cause of the fire is yet to be established. Chance of an electrical fault was initially ruled out as it was said that the warehouses did not have electrical connections.

The sight, after the fire at New Market on Thursday, October 27. (Morung Photo)

Fire destroy warehouses at New Market

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DIMAPuR STD CODe: 03862Civil Hospital: 232224; Emergency- 229529, 229474Metro Hospital: 227930, 231081Faith Hospital: 233044, 228846Shamrock Hospital 228254Zion Hospital: 231864, 230889Fire Service: 232201Police Control Room 228400Police Traffic Control 232106East Police Station 227607, 228400West Police Station 232181CIHSR (Referral Hospital) 242555/ 242533Dimapur hospital 224041, 285117, 248011Apollo Hospital Info Centre: 230695/9402435652Railway: 131/228404Indian Airlines 229366Northeast Shuttles 22232

KOHIMA STD CODE: 0370Police Control Room: 100/2244279North Police Station: 2222222South Police Station: 2222111Fire Brigade: 2222952Naga Hospital: 2222916Oking Hospital: 2243339Bethel Nursing Home: 2224202Northeast Shuttles 08974997923

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Zunheboto, october 27 (DIPr): The 19th State Level Nation-al Children’s Science Congress 2011 organized by NIHESW and District organizing committee NCSC, Zun-heboto was held at Town hall on Oc-tober 21 with Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, GOI, CK Nihekhu Sumi gracing the occasion as chief guest.

CK Nihekhu said that science and technology department is a nodal department in the State, to promote science and technology in the State including research and de-velopment. He said that this year’s

theme ‘prosperity and for posterity’ is very appropriate at this juncture. The theme for the children science congress is Land Resources: ‘Use for prosperity and for posterity’. In this regard, he said that as a lay-man one should apply our scientific method for utilization of our land resources for wealth and prosperity and ensure sustainability in utiliz-ing the rich land resources that our creator had given us. He also stated that in the last century, we have seen tremendous growth in the field of science and technology such as In-dustrial Revolution, Green Revolu-

tion and Space exploration. It is a challenge for the scientists of 21st century to improve or develop new technologies, which will not cause irreversible harm to the environ-ment, he added.

The demand for better standards of living and higher income is also increasing, yet our farmers are still practicing the old age method of ag-riculture using the same old tools and implements to cultivate the land, he stated and expressed that Scientist should find suitable solutions which will suit us and our local conditions. He also challenged all young scien-

tists to understand the problems and find a solution in this endeavour. Stat-ing that our Naga children shy away from science and mathematics with a wrong misconception adding that these subjects are not suited for us, he however said that it is not true, as we have seen that there are some Nagas who have excelled in these subjects.

The chief guest also informed to those who want to take up scientific research as a career that there is a Na-tional programme launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India called INSPIRE and this programme starts for stu-

dents from the age of 10 (ten) to scien-tist up to the age of 35 (thirty-five) and this career schemes are incorporated with handsome scholarships. He fur-ther informed that complete details are available on the ministry’s website (http://dst.nic.in) and called upon the interested students to avail this op-portunity. Earlier, the programme was chaired by Director NIHESW, Kohima, Dr. Inakhe Sumi while in-vocation was said by Asstt. Pastor SBCZ, Shitoho Kiho and welcome ad-dress was delivered by T. Kiheto Sema Deputy Commissioner, Zunheboto, Chairman DOC, NCSC, Zunheboto.

Students urged to take interest in science and technology

DImaPur, october 27 (mexn): The NSS-Unit of Patkai Christian College (Au-tonomous), under the guidance of Bendan-gnungsang, Programme Officer, NSS, orga-nized a One-Day Autumn Trekking Camp at Seithekema Old Village on October 22, 2011 under the theme “Nature Wonders Trek”. Programme Officer along with 18 active volunteers (nine boys and nine girls) attended the camp. The camp adven-

ture activities have extensive treks (which covers 12 kilometer (to & fro) treks, group tasks and team building games. Apart from the treks, the volunteers had a fellowship with the children’s of Seithekema (old) village and planted saplings of trees in the church compound and village area. Pro-gramme Officer expressed gratefulness to the volunteers and village community for making the camp successful.

DImaPur, october 27 (mexn): Christian Mission School (CMS) Meluri ob-served parents’ day on Octo-ber 21 at school campus with Alarü Nyuthe, Deputy Cen-tral Intelligent Officer (SIB) Kiphire as the chief guest. He encouraged the teachers and the parents to work together to give quality education to the students and asked the gather-ing to extend all possible helps for the mission.

The programme was chaired by Elvi Nyuthe and the blessing prayer was invoked by

Rev. T Kachusie Phoji, Pastor Meluri Village Baptist Church. Nyurhietho Kajiri, assistant teacher gave a welcome address to the huge gathering. Speech on behalf of the students and the parents was delivered by Tsiazhitho Nyusou, General Secretary CM School, Meluri and Virhethsu Kajiri respec-tively followed by variety show. Vote of thanks was delivered by Wungnaoshon Tangvah, assis-tant teacher. The program con-cluded with a closing prayer by Bhim Kumar Mukhiya, Head-master CMSchool, Meluri.

CMS Meluri observes parents’ day

NSS-Unit Patkai autumn trekking camp

India’s richest getting poorer: ForbesmumbaI, october 27 (re-uters): India’s richest are getting poorer, according to Forbes, as fall-ing stock prices, corruption scandals in Asia’s third-largest economy and a global slowdown wiped 20 percent off the total value of the country’s 100 wealthiest in the last year. Mukesh Ambani, head of Reliance Indus-tries, India’s most valuable company, retained the top spot with a value of $22.6 billion, despite seeing his net worth drop by $4.4 billion.

In the same period, Ambani completed construction of a 27-sto-rey house in Mumbai, costing an es-timated $1 billion. The biggest loser in the list was Ambani’s younger brother, Anil, whose net worth stood at $5.9 billion, down from $13.3 bil-lion. His Reliance Group companies have been some of the worst per-formers on the Mumbai bourse this year. A major drag for Ambani has been telecom firm Reliance Com-munications, which has $7.5 billion

in debt and has so far failed in efforts to ease debt and raise money.

The combined wealth of India’s richest 100 people fell to $241 bil-lion in 2011, according to the Forbes India Rich List, which includes 57 dollar billionaires, a dozen less than a year earlier. “This has been a turbulent year for India’s richest,” Naazneen Karmali, India Editor of Forbes Asia, said in a statement. “Despite the economy growing at close to 8 percent, a spate of cor-ruption scandals and rising infla-tion have taken a toll.” The world’s second-fastest growing major economy after China grew only 7.7 percent in the three months to June, its weakest in 18 months, and Mumbai’s benchmark stock index is down 16 percent since January.

India has raised its interest rates 13 times in 19 months, hurt-ing demand for big-ticket items and making it more expensive for busi-nesses to raise capital. Of the 85 alumni from last year’s list, 66 saw their worth drop this year. A net worth of $370 million was enough to make the 2011 list, down from

$500 million a year ago.Mukesh Ambani lead a top ten

dominated by industrial tycoons, including ArcelorMittal chair-man Lakshmi Mittal, who came in second with a net worth of $19.2 billion. Energy and metal barons Shashi and Ravi Ruia lie fourth with a combined worth of $10.2 billion. Kumar Birla, head of the fabrics-to-cement Aditya Birla conglomer-ate, Adi Godrej of the Godrej Group and construction tycoon Pallonji Mistry -- the largest individual shareholder of the Tata Group and father-in-law to Noel Tata, touted as a likely successor to Ratan Tata -- are also in the top ten.

Many of those companies are benefiting from India’s plans to spend $1 trillion in the five years to 2017 to overhaul its creaking infrastructure, seen as a barrier to continued economic growth. Only one name from India’s showpiece IT sector made the top ten: Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, India’s No. 3 software services provider, ranked third with a net worth of $13 billion. Savitri Jindal, head of

Jindal Steel and Power Ltd, was India’s richest woman, sitting fifth on the list with a net worth of $9.5 billion. Jindal was one of only five women on the list of one hundred.

A $39 billion telecom scan-dal, likely India’s largest ever graft scam, made its mark on the list, with two accused in the case, Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa, falling out of the top 100. Both deny any wrongdoing. Debutants on the an-nual list include Kapil Bhatia and his son Rahul, founders of budget airline IndiGo, and V.G. Siddhar-tha, whose coffee shop chain Cafe Coffee Day gave him a net worth of $595 million. India’s biggest gain-er in percentage terms was Brij-mohan Lall Munjal, head of two-wheeler HeroMoto Corp, whose net worth rose to $2.7 billion in the year his firm ended a 26-year part-nership with Japan’s Honda Mo-tor. India’s auto industry has seen car sales declining on high interest rates while families of four con-tinue to buy two-wheelers, most of which can be bought without rely-ing on loans.

Former president of PCC and a veteran congress lawmaker K V Pusa celebrating Diwali, fesrival of lights at his residcence with Nishpaya Jana Seba Nepali Samati, Kohima. Diwali is joyously celebrated nationawide in spirit of harmony among the multi-racial society. It is also a time for contemplation and prayer that serves as a reminder of our obligations to our fellow humanbeings, especially the less fortunate. May Diwali the festival of lights dispel darkness and gloom and bring joy, happiness and prosperity to the people of Nagaland.

BSNL site hackedchennaI, october 27 (agen-cIes): The Web site of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd - bsnl.co.in - has been hacked. A message posted on the site, purportedly by a Pakistani hacker, said: “Hax3d by KhantastiC HaXor - Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd – India’s No. 1 Telecommunications Company.

The hacker claimed in the mes-sage put out in the BSNL site, “You have been pwned by Pakistani hack-er. This is not a joke or dream, this is f*****g reality, kids. This is now just a warning!! “Deleted Every Database!! Muwah <3…. Backup in my Pocket=p ohh I means in ma Flash Drive = D.” The site has not been available since morning.

Mukesh Ambani richest Indian; brother Anil Ambani biggest loser

NSS-unit of Patkai Christian College (Autonomous), during the one-day Autumn Trekking Camp at Seithekema Old Village on October 22.

Darjeeling tea gets EU’s protected tag

brusseLs, october 27 (agencIes): The European Union (EU) has registered India’s Darjeel-ing tea with a Protected Geographi-cal Indication (PGI). The tag seeks to protect product names from mis-use and imitation. This has made Darjeeling tea the seventh non-EU product receiving the protected sta-tus, following one from Colombia and five from China. In all, Darjeel-ing tea has been added to over 1,000 names of agricultural products and foodstuff protected as PGIs in the EU, according to the European Com-mission, the EU’s executive body.

Three EU schemes, PGI along with PDO (protected designation of origin) and TSG (traditional special-ity guaranteed) promote and protect names of quality agricultural prod-ucts and foodstuff. These EU schemes encourage diverse agricultural pro-duction, protect product names from misuse and imitation and help con-sumers by giving them information concerning the specific character of the products. For existing blends mix-ing Darjeeling tea with non-Darjeel-ing tea, the EU regulation foresees a five-year transitional period during which the term can continue to be used. After this period these blends would have to be renamed.

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District Level SHG coordination meet on Oct 28 The Exotic Echo Diezephe village has informed that the District Level SHG coordination meeting will be held on October 28, 10:30 am at Ex-otic echo Diezephe Village Dimapur.

Seminar on Biblical Concept of nationhood on Oct 29A Seminar on Biblical Concept of nationhood will be held at Baptist Theological College, T.Chikri Pfϋtsero, Nagaland on October 29, 9:00 am. The resource person will be Kaka D.Iralu, a prominent writer (Author of Naga Saga). All the leaders and concerned citizens are welcomed to attend this seminar. For details you may contact program coordinators Vekulu Lohe and Neingupeϋ Kazhie at- 9612034915.

KCSU general election on 29 OctKohima, Oct 27 (MExN): The general election of the Kohima Chakhe-sang Students’ Union (KCSU) will be held on 29 October at 2 PM at LCS building, Kohima. KCSU president directed all its unit presidents, representatives to inform their own unit members to be present for the election. It also informed to contact 9402716690 for any queries.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDOFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDING ENGINEER, INVESTIGATION

CIRCLE, IRRIGATION AND FLOOD CONTROL,DIMAPUR: NAGALAND

NOTICE INVITING TENDERNO.IFC/SE-IC/FMP-2/2011-12/264-68/Dated Dimapur the 25th Oct’2011: Sealed Tender affixing Court Fee Stamp of Rs.7.50 (Rupees Seven and Fifty Paise) only are hereby invited by the undersigned from Class-I Registered Contractors of Nagaland PWD.The Tender document and detail particulars of the work can be obtained from the Office of the undersigned during working hours up to 04.11.2011 on payment of Rs.1000/-(Rupees One Thousand) only.The Tender will be received in the Office of the undersigned up to 12:00 Hrs. on 05.11.2011 and which will be opened on the same day at 14:00 Hrs. in the presence of the intending Tenderers or their authorized representative.The Tenderers should quote the rate(s) in the prescribed format given in the Tender document for each item of work of the Site Code against the respective Scheme Code No. and name of work for the below mentioned works. The tendered rate should be - % above or % below or at par the Nagaland PWD Schedule of Rates 2010.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS.1. Tender documents without Court Fee Stamp or Earnest Money will not be accepted .The Earnest Money should be submitted in the

form of DAC from any Nationalised/Scheduled Bank in favour of the Superintending Engineer, Investigation Circle, Irrigation & Flood Control Department, Dimapur separately for each work tendered.

2. The Tenderer should produce attested photocopy of the Govt. Registration Notification, ID.Card and their credentials.3. Certificates of Financial Soundness should be furnished.4. The successful tenderer(s) are required to fill the agreement form accepting the Terms and Conditions.5. The Work Order will be issued only after completion of Agreement between the Contractor and the Department.6. 10(ten) % of Bill amount for the work will be deducted as Security Deposit and the same will be released after 6(six) months of

successful completion of work. Incase of damage or defect in the workmanship, the Contractor will be obliged to undertake restoration of the work, failing which the Security deposit will be forfeited and utilized by the Department to restore the work.

7. Payment will be made as per availability of fund.8. Work Contract Tax will be deducted from the Gross Bill amount as per Government Memorandum.9. The Department reserves the right to reject any or all tenders without assigning any reason thereof and acceptance of the lowest rate

is not obligatory.(Er.VITOSHE SWUNETHO)Superintending Engineer,

Investigation Circle, Irrigation & Flood ControlDimapur: Nagaland

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Nag-7

Anti erosion works on Dhansiri River at Lower Purana Bazar and Burma Camp-North Block, Dimapur District

Nag-7(1) Site-1:275m Bank Revetment Works 99.535 0.995 1.99 3(three)months

Nag-7(2) Site-2:570m Bank Revetment Works 206.308 2.06 4.13 3(three)months

Nag-7(3_ Site-3:450m Bank Revetment Works 162.875 1.63 3.26 3(three)months

Nag-7(4) Site-4& 5:545m Bank Revetment Works 197.261 1.97 3.95 3(three)months

Nag-8Anti erosion works on Chathe river at upper Seithekima, Dimapur District

Nag-8(1)Site-1,3 & 6:770m Revetment Works & 4 Nos. of Bed Bar (R/Bank)

335.006 3.35 6.70 3(three)months

Nag-8(2)Site2,4,&5:340m Bank Revetment Works & 23 Nos. of Bed Bar(L/Bank)

323.601 3.24 6.47 3(three)months

Nag-10

Protection of Dimapur-Kukidolong-Jalukie-Peren road from erosion of Ruzaphema Nallah at Ruzaphema, Dimapur, District

Nag-10(1)Site-1:450m Bank Revetment Works & 6 nos.bed bar

237.708 2.38 4.75 3(three)months

Nag-10(2)Site-2&3:785m Bank Revetment Works & 6 Nos. Bed Bar

334.623 3.35 6.69 3(three)months

Nag-11

River training works along Dzumha River at Jharnapani-Kukidolong, Dimapur District

Nag-11(1)Site-1 to 3:490m Bank Revetment Works & 5 Nos. Bed Bar

85.469 0.85 1.71 3(three)months

Nag-11(2) Site-4:575m Bank Revetment Works 116.658 1.17 2.33 3(three)months

Nag-11(3) Site-5& 6:700m Bank Revetment Works 142.018 1.42 2.48 3(three)months

Nag-11(4) Site-7&8:425m Bank Revetment Works 86.225 0.86 1.72 3(three)months

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDDIRECTORATE OF SCHOOL EDUCATION

NAGALAND: KOHIMADated Kohima, the 26th Oct’2011

ADVERTISEMENTNO.ED/CON/HC-02/2011:Routine for 2003(UGT) court case oral interview are as follows:

Time: 10:30 am onwardsVenue: Directorate of School Education

1. Date:03/11/2011 : (A) Kohima District (B) Dimapur District (C) Wokha District2. Date:04/11/2011 : (A) Mokokchung District (B) Peren District (C) Longleng District3. Date:05/11/2011 : (A)Zunheboto District (B) Tuensang District (C) Phek District (D) Mon District.All the candidates are hereby informed to submit two (2) copies of recently taken passport size photo one day ahead of Programme scheduled.Details table/room allotment will be available at the notice board before the programme is started.

Sd/-(N.KHEVITO SEMA)

Director

NO.NPSC/ADVT-1/04NAGALAND PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

KOHIMADated Kohima, the th Oct’2011

ADDENDUM/CORRIGENDUMWith reference to Nagaland Public Service Commission’s Advertisement No. 3/2011 dt. 13-09-2011, the following Posts shall be added.Item No. 13: 10 (ten) Posts of S.D.O (Class-I Gazetted) under NPWDItem No. 14: 3 (three) posts of Sub-Divisional Officer (class-I Gazetted) under Irrigation & Flood

Control Department.Item No. 15: 2 (two) posts of Jr. Lecturer (Class-II Gazetted) under Soil & Water Conservation

Department.Item No. 16: 1 (one) post of Computer Programmer (Class-II Gazetted) under Nagaland Information

Commission.Item No. 17: 1 (one) Post of Asstt. Inspector of factories & Boilers (Class-II Gazetted) under Labour

& Employment DepartmentItem No. 18: 1 (one) post of Technical Assistant (Class-III Non-Gazetted) under Science &

Technology Department.Item No. 19: 3 (three) posts of Fishery Inspector (Class-III, Non Gazetted) under Directorate of

Fisheries.QualificationItem No. 13: Degree in Civil Engineering or its equivalent from a recognized University/Board of

Technical Education (India) Item No. 14: 1. B.E (Agri. Engg.) 2. B.E (Civil Engg.)Item No. 15: B.Sc. (Agri) Agri. Engg.Item No.16: A Bachelor degree in Engineering in Computer Science & Engg/Electronics/Information

Technology equivalent to B.E/B.Tech/MCA from a recognized University.Item No. 17: Degree in Mechanical Engineering.Item No.18: 3(three) years Diploma Course in Mechanical or Electronics Engineering.Item No. 19: B.F.Sc. or B.Sc. (Zoology) with one year P.G.D in Fishery Science.Age as on 01-01-2011 Minimum MaximumItem No. 13 to 16 21 years 30 yearsScale of Pay:Item No. 13, 14: Pay Band – Rs. 15.600 - Rs.39.100/- Grade Pay – Rs. 5400/-Item No. 15: Pay Band – Rs. 9300 - Rs.34.800/- Grand Pay – 4400/-Item No. 16,17: Pay Band – Rs. 9300 - Rs.34.800/- Grade Pay – Rs. 4600/-Item No. 18, 19: Pay Band – Rs. 5200 - Rs.20.200/- Grade Pay – Rs. 2800/-Candidates who have already submitted their application forms may give option for addition of posts in order of preference by writing an application in plain paper addressed to Secretary, Nagaland Public Service Commission, Kohima.Application forms will be issued for Item No. 13 to 19 only from 28-10-2011 onwards.The last date for submission of application is 15-11-2011.Other terms and Conditions of the advertisement remains the same.The post of SDO (MIS) under power Department appearing at Item No. 6 of the advertisement dated 13th Sept’2011 has been withdrawn vide Power Department’s letter No. PWR/ESTT-42/2010 dated 10-10-2011.

Sd/- SARAH. R. RITSESecretary,

Nagaland Public Service CommissionKohima

OFFICE OF THENAGALAND MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

(NMSA) Regd.NO, RS 124HQ. R.I.M.S, IMPHAL- 795004E-mail: in. nmsa@gmail.com

1. President : Mr. Emmanuel Patton2. Vice-president : Mr. Nyemwang Konyak3. General Secretary : Mr. Kipito Awomi4. Asst.Gen.Secy : Mr. Samuel Sorhie5. Finance Secretary : Mr. Bentilo Kath6. Treasurer : Ms. Arenmongla7. Literary Secretary : Mr. Azhe Mero8. Asst.Literary Secretary : Ms. Aveni Koza Ms. Neikhrietsonuo Kesiezie9. Pub.& Inf.Secy : Mr. Longna10. Asst. Pub.& Inf.Secy : Mr. Hangsha Konyak11. Senior Advisors : Dr. S. Ngampa Sangme : Dr. Handilo Kath : Dr. Lipoksanen Jamir

The Nagaland Medical Students’ Association has inducted its new executives on 9th Oct 2011. During the 19th General Conference held at Administrative Training Institute in Kohima for the session 2011 – 2013. The executives are as follows:

(Kipito Awomi) (Emmanuel Patton)General Secretary President

NMSA NMSA

The Dimapur Gorkha Union (DGU) supports the proposed Protest Rally, “People On Streets” orga-nized by the Naga Council to held on October 29.

It is to be mentioned that, as desired by the ev-ery citizen and the parent Organizations of Dimapur District to fight against Anti-Social activities col-lectively and the DGU be-ing one of the strong cru-saders against Anti-Social activities like illegal & un-lawful taxation/extortion/rape/kidnapping etc, the DGU in its meeting held

on 15th Oct;2011 had re-solved to imposed blanket Ban on any kind of fund drive by means of Cou-pons/Badges/Lotteries/Calendars/Profit making programmes etc. from the public/business commu-nities within its jurisdic-tion i.e. Dimapur District by any organization which reflect the name Gorkha/Nepali.

DGU therefore appeals to one and all, irrespective of cast, creed & religion to be a part of the protest rally “People On Streets” on 29th Oct’2011 and pledge your

strong support to the Naga Council to fight against An-ti-Social & unlawful activi-ties. Anti-Social activity is like terrorism which needs to be fought together. Let us join our hands together and fight Anti_Social activity and make Dimapur a better place to live. The DGU once again appeal to every Gork-ha of Dimapur Dimapur District to be present on the 29th Oct’2011 wearing Black Badge and be part of the programme.

Kumar Subba

Chairman DGU.

DGU supports Naga Council’s proposed rally

NCP Jalukie meet held The Nationalist Congress Party held a meeting on 22nd at its president resident in Jalukie with the village elders and the party functionaries from state and the district as well. The house has deliberated on certain issue relating to its party and its function.

The speaker in the function includes Hotongse sang-tam, Neiba Ndang, Mitho Krose and leaders from area. They have deliberated on the importance of the NCP party in regards to the Nagaland contact.

That NCP is the only party which can stand for the for-mation of the third Party in the state. Sangtam mention that NCP will be like a king makers likes SYED BROTHERS in the Indian history. He urge the party functionaries to with-hold all ode from the alien force, so that we can be a part of the king makers. Neiba Ndang deliberated on the party aims and objective. And its road map for development.

The area leaders also express hope in the NCP party for a change in a region. . The following office bearers are accept-ed to bear the burden of the party for the coming tenure.

1. President Hanggau N .Hau.2. Vice President. a) Namhereing. b) Amang. c) hurangbo.3. General Secretary a) Harsong Siang. b) Johny Newme.4. Secretaries a) Mapeu. b) Ngimchong. c) Haihing.5. Treasurer Kiasinlak.6. Advisors a) Kedipeung. b) Pauhetling. c) Gaugong. d) Wizabo. e) Peihausing.

sd/-Johny

From page 1RBI warns against fraudulent offers

The fraudsters seek money from people, under different heads, such as, process-ing fees/transaction fees/ tax clearance charges/ conversion charges, clearing fees, etc. The fraudsters open multiple accounts in banks in the name of individuals or proprietary concerns in different bank branches for receiving such payments and the amount so remitted is withdrawn immediately, leaving the victims in the lurch. Evidently, the fraudsters’ strategy is to play upon the credulity / naiveté / gullibility / ignorance / greed of unsuspecting victims, the RBI said.

In the light of such undesirable developments, the RBI has advised to follow and take care that customers “do not remit or deposit any amount in response to such fictitious offers of easy money through lottery, prizes etc, received mainly through let-ters, email or SMS.” Further, RBI said it “does not maintain any account in the names of individuals/companies/trusts etc. to hold funds for disbursal.” Reserve Bank of India would never ask people to deposit money in any account. Also note that “mak-ing any type of remittance towards participation in schemes of lotteries/ offers from unknown entities abroad or their agents in India is illegal.” Customers may refer to the cautionary advices available in the matter at the RBI website (www.rbi.org.in).

The RBI has further advised on registering such cases with the local police or the cyber crime wing at the State police headquarters, in case customers receive any such offer and invariably do so, if you have already parted with any amount at the behest of the fraudsters.

‘NU functioning under varied limitations’The event themed ‘Embarking the Era of Technology’ will see participants from

outside the state as well, who will be exhibiting their technical expertise through self designed models. Pranab Vidyapith Higher Secondary School, Delhi Public School, St. Mary’s, Greenwood Higher Secondary, NIIT, Holy Cross Higher Secondary, Unity College, St. John’s, Global Open University, Public College and NMTTC are the par-ticipating schools and institutes from Nagaland.

The main objectives of this festival are: “To establish a platform for the young pro-fessional to showcase their knowledge in the field of technology, to mould the young generation to enhance every opportunity and contribute to the field technology, to create and develop a thinking to create more awareness and yearn for techie quest.”

Oil major, ONGC is the main sponsor of the event alongwith Mindlogix. The other sponsors are – Doyang Travels, Bharati Chemicals Kolkata, Labuse Dimapur, BMG, Department of Higher & Technical Education, Zyrique Kohima, KK Society, Minitool Room, Dimapur, and Future Infosystem.

Nagaland Cong blames govt. for upheavalsReferring to the indefinite hunger strike of the Aggrieved Teachers Association

of Nagaland (ATAN), the NPCC extended its support to the agitators. The NPCC la-mented that the NPF government’s ‘retraction from its earlier assurance proved that it could never be trusted.’

The plights of the ATAN are “genuine and human in nature” the Congress claimed, and needs immediate solution not only for the interest of the “aggrieved teachers” but also for the ‘larger interest of the students who are affected for no fault of theirs.’ “The NPF government shall be held entirely responsible, should the democratic protest cause loss of life of any protester from medical complications due to hunger,” the opposition stated.

The NPCC is also said the legal battles of the recent 33% women reservation case and the case of 2003 UGT interview, cost the aggrieved parties heavily in terms of time, energy and money. “That, the NPF government was defeated in various legal battles and forced to bite the dust are proof enough of its anti-people policies and pathetic governance.

Faced with innumerable ultimatums from different quarters for mishandling various other issues, the NPF government have totally lost its right to rule, the Con-gress said. “The NPF (Naga People’s Front) government should either resolve the confronting issues at the earliest or gracefully step-down owning moral responsibility for the impasse,” the Congress added.

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Letters to the editor

Two back-to-back victories, from the point of view of those in power, has left some com-

mentators speculating that U.S. foreign policy has turned a page towards a less mili-taristic approach under the guidance of President Obama. These events are the killing of Colonel Qaddafi, leading Lib-ya's new leaders to declare lib-eration, followed by Obama's announcement that all U.S. troops in Iraq will be back home by the end of the year.

Those claiming that these events mark a shift away from the militaristic approach ad-opted by former President Bush justify their position with a su-perficial analysis. For them U.S. foreign policy is determined by the cleverness and stated inten-tions of leading government of-ficials, looking at leaders such as President Obama in isolation from the powerful economic interests they represent. His-tory is reduced to a parade of personalities rather than the play of larger social forces that appear in the political realm today. Consequently, starting from a superficial premise, they end up with wrong conclu-sions regarding the significance of histori-cal events. This approach sheds no light on what is happening in Libya and Iraq, but it is useful for President Obama's re-election campaign.

Like former President Bush, Presi-dent Obama's first and foremost pre-occupation is pursuing a foreign policy that increases the power and profits of U.S. corporations on a global scale. Any tactical shift in approach must be viewed with this in mind. The ends justify the means in foreign policy and in order to understand recent developments, we must comprehend how this policy serves the wealthy interests behind Obama.

The Iraq War Ends? The withdrawal of U.S. troops from

Iraq is a partial concession to public sentiment that is overwhelmingly op-posed to this war. Continuing the Iraq occupation on the scale it has been pur-sued can only be a source of political instability in this country. At the same time, however, the withdrawal of U.S. troops is a concession to the people of Iraq, since their hatred for the U.S. mili-tary prevented Iraqi government of-ficials from offering immunity to U.S. soldiers from prosecution for crimes they commit in Iraq. Had the public sentiment been different, the Iraqi gov-ernment would have been glad to of-fer the immunity. However, this with-drawal has only occurred after Iraq's

oil industry has been privatized, allow-ing U.S. companies to snatch up the li-on's share, and a government has been cobbled together that is dependent on maintaining this and other business arrangements conducive to U.S. corpo-rate profits and control.

At best, after the destruction of Iraq's once strong infrastructure, the killing of an estimated million and a half Iraqis, the deaths of 4,400 Americans, and the squandering of nearly $1 trillion dur-ing a time of economic crisis, President Obama's announcement is more bitter than sweet. Yet, on closer inspection, it is far from an end to the occupation it is be-ing touted as. Sixteen thousand "civilian employees," who are largely armed inde-pendent contractors, will remain. While this is useful for securing corporate in-terests, it will be a continuing source of violence and instability in Iraq. What is more, this presence will act as a foot in the door for again escalating the presence of U.S. troops, should the need arise.

Regime Change in Libya In Libya, Gaddafi's killing is being

proclaimed as an event marking that nation's liberation and an example of how President Obama's approach of creating coalitions and making part-nerships with other nations such as France, Italy, and England can help rid the world of dictators. In order to be convincing, such arguments depend on social amnesia. The execution of Sad-dam Hussein did nothing to stabilize and liberate Iraq. In fact, his supporters launched a series of bombings shortly thereafter. More importantly, howev-er, such arguments attempt to justify a policy of "regime change" that is consis-tent with the Bush Administration.

This policy has nothing to do with

liberation or humanitarian concerns, as is peddled to the public. It is entirely based on the cold calculations of geo-political politics guided by the interests of corporate profit and the intimidation of anyone who tries to impede these in-terests. In the case of Libya, it is not dif-ficult to determine what is involved in these calculations.

Libya is also a major exporter of oil, pumping out 1.6 million barrels of oil a day before the civil war. When Qaddafi came to power, he nationalized much of the state's economy, creating an ob-stacle for unfettered corporate plunder. It is primarily for this reason that Qa-ddafi was branded a pariah by western powers. Over the last ten years Qaddafi managed to shed this label, particularly when he began to implement neo-liber-al policies, opening up Libya to multi-national corporations.

However, this move led to falling living standards and growing inequal-ity which, in turn, greatly contributed to the discontent that sparked the uprising against Qaddafi. This uprising was part of the Arab Spring that has overturned U.S. friendly regimes in Tunisia and Egypt and posed a potential threat to European and U.S. business arrangements in the re-gion. It was necessary for these powers to find a foothold in diverting the Arab Spring away from challenging these prof-itable relations. Seeing that Qaddafi was unable to control the internal situation in Libya, the U.S. and some NATO member states orchestrated military incursions to secure their own interests and to make sure to remind those rebel Libyans who was really in charge.

NATO was quick to recognize the self-proclaimed National Transitional Coun-cil (NTC) as the new leadership of Libya. Many of the grassroots groups involved in

the uprising against Qaddafi re-gard the NTC with justified sus-picion. It is largely composed of former officials in Qaddafi's regime and others who want to accelerate the same economic policies Qaddafi was pursuing. While these policies promise greater profits for multina-tional corporations, this en-richment will come at the cost of working peoples' living stan-dards. Because of this continu-ing conflict, nothing is settled in Libya. President Obama's poli-cy has not achieved democracy and liberation, only a different means of achieving the same aims of making bigger corpo-rate profits through grinding exploitation, as was the aim of the Bush Administration.

The attitude of the Obama administration towards events in Libya could not have been more chillingly revealed than

in a recent CBS interview with Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. In it she says of Qaddafi's murder with unguarded sadis-tic laughter, "We came, we saw, he died." This is a threatening attitude to send out to the world; run afoul with U.S. inter-ests and you may face the same fate as Qaddafi. It goes without saying that such murderous arrogance could also be ap-plied to popular elected leaders who defy U.S. dictates, such as President Chavez in Venezuela and President Morales in Bo-livia.

Peace and Occupy Movement President Obama's foreign policy

does not represent a fundamental shift away from the Bush Administration. At best it is a tactical temporary maneuver based on conjunctional considerations.

If a fundamental change is to be made regarding a less militaristic for-eign policy, the powers behind the presidency will have to be confronted. Wars abroad, though used to divert the people in the U.S. from their real en-emies, are also an extension of the war on workers at home. They are the by-product of a system geared to enrich a tiny elite at the expense of those whose collective labor produces all wealth.

This is why the Occupy Movement and its re-energizing of the unions presents such a potential force for end-ing the wars and mobilizing working people to defend themselves against corporate attack. By placing the inter-ests of all working people and their al-lies in direct opposition to Wall Street, this emerging movement is challenging the forces that profit from war and is establishing the basis for genuine inter-national solidarity.

Source: Countercurrents.org

A Change In War Policy?

On 33% Women Reservation and compulsive litigation•-We salute those women who have struggled to pull women of the abyss of a patriarchal society. But it also must become a solemn moment for introspec-tion; and an opportunity to rededicate ourselves as a state, to provide the freedom that women deserve and need. We look forward to a state in which wom-en, when empowered, will transform the notion of power itself so it becomes about sharing and cre-ating partnerships rather than about the powerful dominating the weak.

The State Government had not taken a unique confluence of social welfare and empowerment ini-tiatives programmes “Reaching out to the unreached “sections of the state's vulnerable population.

Some of the points highlighted are:-1. Do the Government recognizes that women re-

sort to alternative like unsanitized cloth because they can't afford sanitory- napkins leading to incidents of reproductive tract infection.

2. Do the Government have a primary concerns and standing up for widows and women in distress?

3. Do the Government introduce schemes like- Pension for Women in Distress which includes wid-ow, divorced, separated, abandoned and deserted/destitute women?

The Naga Hoho should appreciate that 33% Wom-en reservation in municipalities was passed because the constitution makers felt that women needed a platform that could translate action into policy out-comes.

We hope that no “tactical incursions to subjudice 33% Women Reservation in Municipal Corporation which sets a dangerous precedent on Women's Right " will happen again.

As of now after the Supreme Court Judgment res-ervation is a constitution reality and we have to live with it.

Zeneisiilie Ate Loucii, Dimapur.

On recruitment of AbsI, ubsI & AsI•-The written examination result for recruitment of ABSI, UBSI & ASI which was conducted on 21st October 2011 has to be declared on 23rd October 2011 as per the information put on the Notice Board at NAPTC ground Chumukidema. At the same time repeated announcement was also made known to

the aspirant candidate during the recruitment ral-ly but the result has been yet to declare till date. Therefore, I would like to question as to why the concerned authority has delayed the fixed date i.e. 23rd October 2011. It is high time that the police de-partment being one of the most important organs of the government should maintain trust and honour of the public and refrain from making any further mistake in its decision making which may result in lost of confidence and trust of the public. Further delay in declaration of the written result would cre-ate suspicions and discourage the young minds. In order to maintain transparency and fair recruit-ment system the concern department should pub-lish in merit wise the marks obtained by the candi-date in the written examination and in the physical test without further delay. I would also like to ap-peal to the Naga Students' Federation (NSF) and various tribal students’ organization and unions to keep watchful and if necessary intervene on the is-sue in order to conduct such recruitment without political, money or any other unfair means at the in-terest of educated youths.

M. LothaDimapur, On behalf of aspirant candidate

On The special Recruitment Drive

•-The special recruitment drive has come to be the bone of contention amongst our Naga tribal brethren where the parties have resorted to vari-ous forms of discontent and demand as per the linking of their justification. The writers put their comment on rhetoric reasoning, and knowledge articulation of sorts. Indeed, the write ups seem to have carried weight and most deserved solution. However, when we see the pros and com of the govt. decision at the first place and then its sub-sequent counter allegation and supporting views, it may seem that govt. is poised to have taken the right decision. As we all know that the history of the world revolutions were all grounded on the principle of upliftment and restoration of human society. Therefore, we must give up all views of confrontation and dissension on tribal tines. After all, India is a land of underprivileged lot viz caste, creeds and tribal etc. And to be frank, we were once and even now fall under the mercy of such provision of justice in availing govt. schemes and facilities. And to this effect, we should not spoil the good fabric of our Naga Society at the cost of a one time govt. benevolent offer in favour of the underprivileged class on our land. We must admit

that govt. is the sole guardian of its citizen’s rights, and in that respect govt. might have done the right thing out of its wisdom. So, we must trust govt. atleast patiently, otherwise we ought to cause govt. to step-down for passing such infamous leg-islation against the welfare of its citizens. Howev-er, lets hope amicable solution is on the dais soon.

Kuvepeyi, Chozuoba

Remembering Z.M.sekhose •-Life is made and remembered as precious one when developed into a refined personality through many good deeds done in one’s life time. It’s worth remembering and accounting the good deeds done as there are lessons we can learn how to live bet-ter. Here is one I would like to recall and reflex his personality that we may draw lessons from his life though he is gone. he is no other than Late. ZM Sek-hose President TPO. Many Nagas may not know him or heard of him yet he has wrought a remark-able lesson for many to learn. My experience with and of him urged me to write a few things about him in memory of his many good deeds done to the Naga society as a whole and Tenimye family in particular. Many are his unwritten achievements and deeds imbedded in him that should have been an open book for all. His death has left a big space in our society yet to be filled as there arise no in-born leader of his type and person to take the lead in his particular place. He is counted to be one in-born leader who manifested tenacity, integrity and visionary in his leadership. I don’t put many other contemporary leaders aside in praising his person-ality and I feel the presence of many outstanding leaders in our society in different capacities and lines of leading, however, this man Z.M. Sekhose was one unique and peculiar leader who have lived a life worthy of quoting and remembering. Though he is gone, his remarkable deeds make him remains with the people as though he is still amidst us. May his spirit and souls rest with eternal reward for his noble contribution. Blessed is the man whose iniq-uity, the Lord counts not against him.

I as one of his associates remembering him and missing him, conveys my heartfelt regards for him and may Heaven bless His generation; descendents, and relative finds peace and blessings in resting as-surance that he Late ZM. Sekhgose will be forever blessed.

Denis Elung Former, President

Zeliangrong Baudi(N)

What part does China play in Burma’s civil war?

The Chinese army secretly transported dozens of Bur-mese troops inside its border on October 21 morn-ing to fight against the Kachin Independence Army, which is resisting an offensive by Burmese regiments,

Kachin News Group reported.Eyewitnesses said approximately 30 Chinese military

trucks clandestinely transported Burma Army soldiers from the Chinese border trade city of Ruili (Shweli) to Jang Hkawng, another border town close to Loije on the Burmese side. Only two or three trucks in the military convoy were carrying Chi-nese troops and the rest carried Burmese soldiers, added local witnesses. The aim of the maneuver seems to recapture two strategic positions which recently fell to the KIA at Jan Mai and Maw Shwi, near Loije, border-based military observers said. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) seized two important frontline posts from Burma Army in Kachin State on October 11, following more than 20 hours of fighting

At the same time over 2,000 Chinese troops have arrived on the Sino-Burma border, where KIA strongholds have been positioned since early this month. Eyewitnesses said Chinese soldiers take military exercises every afternoon from 4pm to 6pm in Jang Hkawng.

The Kachin Independence Army is opposing the huge 6,000 megawatt Myitsone Hydropower Project with armed re-sistance. The armed clashes have displaced tens of thousands of Kachin refugees, and ended a 17-year armistice agreement between the Burmese army and the Kachin Independence Or-ganization (KIO) and its military wing KIA.

Kachin State, which is situated in northern Burma (Myan-mar), has been facing appalling environmental damage. Kachin State holds large areas of intact natural woodland, and is one of the most important biodiversity spots in the region. It has been under threat since the 1994 ceasefire when the KIO was al-lowed to keep its arms and gained some some protective power while yielding control of natural resources to the then military regime. For that reason, many Kachin people believe the cease-fire agreement has been the cause of abject poverty and major environmental damage in their land.

As the Burmese junta has a bad reputation with its human rights records, it offers the natural resources of the country to China in order to gainshelter from the international criticism. As for KIO’s part, exploitation of the Kachin State’s natural re-sources by the Burmese and Chinese governments are unac-ceptable. All natural resources management decisions are ap-proved by Burmese authorities without local consultation.

Now, the Burmese authorities seem inviting China’s pres-sure in its ethnic affairs, amid the agreement to build seven hy-dropower dams on the Irrawaddy River and its tributaries with the China Power Investment Corporation (CPI).

In October 2009, the Thailand-based Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG) published a report – “Resisting the Flood” – highlighting the implementation of the Myitsone dam project on the Irrawaddy River.

The report demanded a halt to the project, saying it cre-ates unwelcome impacts like social, environmental, livelihood, cultural and security problems for tens of thousands of people in the area. The report states that more than 15,000 people in 60 villages around the dam sites are being forcibly relocated without proper resettlement plans. These individuals have lost their means of livelihood such as farming, fishing and collec-tion of non-timber forest products.

However, China is selfishly pressuring the Burmese gov-ernment to push ahead with the dam projects. Many people believe that the Burmese government has been escalating its military pressure on the KIO in order to protect China’s vested interest in Kachin State.

As a result, citizens think that China is pulling the strings in Burma’s politics in order to exploit not only natural resources but also to take advantage of regional politic

Verdict on Women Quota

In an expected outcome, the Guahati High Court has asked the Government of Nagaland to conduct the municipal polls, with reservation of seats for women and in accor-dance with Article 243T and Section 23A of the Consti-

tution of India. The Kohima bench of Guahati High Court also ‘squashed’ the Cabinet’s decision on December 16, 2009 and January 11, 2010 postponing the municipal elections indefinite-ly. The High Court said the state government must now conduct the municipal elections in accordance with law, and with reser-vation of seats for women, as required under Article 243T of the constitution. Not only this, but the judiciary has also rejected the argument of the present government that the municipal election will be conducted after the census report of 2011 is made final. In fact the manner in which the government has been putting out one justification after the other clearly proves that it was not at all serious to conduct democratic elections to the municipal bodies and also implement the mandatory 33% reservation for women. It is good that we have the judiciary to keep a check on the misuse of executive powers and this is the balance that is re-quired to ensure that the executive and legislature functions as per the provisions of the constitution.

Coming back to the ruling, the High court has directed the government to conduct the municipal elections and complete the process by January 20, 2012. Whatever may be the ratio-nale behind the government’s stand, unless it is willing to make an appeal to a higher court of law, the latest order of the judi-ciary must be adhered to. There is no doubt that there is a sharp gender divide over the question of 33% reservation for women in local bodies. Strong arguments have been posed by represen-tatives from women groups on the one side and the male domi-nated political establishment opposed to 33% reservation. But here it is of interest to note that the support for women quota has now come from the main Opposition Congress party. This has tilted the balance in favour of the women groups. So now the question of making changes in the legislation could well be impossible for the ruling party.

While this newspaper has taken a middle ground posi-tion on the contentious women quota issue, nevertheless we had earlier commented on the need for the State government to take a call for conducting Municipal Council elections. We have been arguing that the “government does not have much of a choice when it comes to the existing law—Nagaland Mu-nicipal Act 2006”. In fact, it was the previous Governor Shya-mal Datta who had refused to give assent to the Nagaland First Amendment Bill, 2005 on grounds of omission of two points: one being omission of one-third reservation of seats for women in local bodies. Another former Governor K Sankaranarayanan also indicated that he would go by the Constitution. As such this column had commented that “33% reservation for women appears inevitable whatever the critics may say”. While it is de-batable as to whether 33% quota is the right way forward, we have said this before that for women empowerment in elective bodies to succeed in the long run, their representation within parties must first significantly increase. This has to emerge out of the political process itself. For now though, our women folk will have to respond to the new challenges that will come with greater responsibility brought in by 33% reservation.

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

FridayTHE MORUNG EXPRESS28 OctOber 2011 NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

7 P E R S P E C T I V E

Be prepared for next play…For any sportspersons next play is the most important

and difficult games. The more you win the tough-er opponent you’ll face and that makes sports very

interesting. The only place where problem didn’t exist is only in cemetery. As long as you breathe problem is very much parts of life. Life itself is the problem. God made you and watch over you the way how you deal with your prob-lems. How you overcome problems in your life that makes you, the real you! Every individual has problems, the rich has a problem according to their status, and so is the poor man. The problems you’re going through maybe a minor problem for others, while you may laugh at others problem compared to your situation. No matter how big the prob-lem, there is every solution for every problem.

Problems bring complaints! On any conversation in the street, home or market, most of what you’ll hear is complaints-complaint about the family, the circumstances, the govern-ment works, studies, grumblings about what so-and-so did or didn’t do… a stream of grumblings and complaints! Com-plaint became a subjective part of our society today. Even a small school going children has a complaint on returning from school. If you need a ‘friend’, just open your mouth to com-plaint about something; you’ll soon be in familiar company! Seems everyone enjoys a good gripe. But always remember this, grumble and complaint produces downers, and leads to defeat. The more you grumble and gripe, the sadder you’ll be!

The Bible (God) says that grumbling produces discour-agement. If there’s a complainer on your team (maybe in sports, music or choir etc.) remember he’ll spoil everyone’s performance, and it’s just the same in our daily life. There are times when we need to get away from certain folks be-cause we know they’ve got a gripe. How these people can sniff out what’s wrong about everyone and everything! Many are experts in observing; so not everything in the world is quite hunky dory; but grumbling is going to get us nowhere fast. Well, try this out for yourself; grumble about what some-one does and you’ll find you’ll always be in a bad mood about them. Thank the person instead, for what they do well, and you’ve got someone who’ll come to appreciate you too!

Our world can never be improved by bitter, griping people. They’ll just make it a sadder place. Grumbling and groaning don’t tire us out; they just discolor everything and we even lose sight of God’s blessings. We feel like giving up and going home-failures. As believers we have to overcome this tendency to feel sorry for ourselves. Come on! Sharpen up! Get back on track and get on with the game of life. We’re supposed to give thanks to God for everything, and not to forget to have grateful spirit in order to focus and see the future, what next!

In life, all the big achievements are made step by step. Nobody arrives at the summit by magic, but by overcom-ing all obstacles and problems after having learnt how to persevere. Everyone has a plan in life, goals that we should reach, and they are only reached by advancing slowly without giving-up. This is exactly the same in our spiritual life; the most difficult game is the next play.

We are not accustomed to thinking in real terms. It seems that we walk with our heads in the clouds that we only pay attention to momentous events when, in fact, growth in the Christian life depends on our knowing the will of God and obeying it, day by day. Look for that which God expects from us, in all things and do it, without fuss and noise, but peaceful-ly. Many people fixed their eyes on their problems, and made problems as the god of their life. But as Christians ‘we must fix our eyes on Jesus, our goal and our destination’.

We must concentrate on what we can do; remember that just as in sports there are good and bad pitches and we must win on them all. We must always keep in mind; maybe the next effort is the most important. Maybe the next temptation is the most difficult. Maybe soon we will have difficulties in our studies or work; maybe emotional problems or stress. But we can know that we are going to conquer them. We are used to winning on any field. We are used to knowing that the most difficult game is the next!

We don’t worry so much knowing what is far ahead in the future. It is not our problem to know what will happen in two years, or three years, or four. Leave that matters to God. We simply concentrate on our next step. And that is not a fatalist approach. God knows our future, and it is a glo-rious future. The Bible tells us of the beautiful inheritance that He has given us. Nobody is happier than we are, be-cause nobody can feel true security about their future life, if they are far from God. What God has prepared for each one of us is something unique. He tells us, simply to play the next game with our best… and nothing more.

Every trip of thousands of miles begins in a very simple way: with the first step!

Dr. Thamsing LamkangPastor LFD &

Sports Resource Center

These protests are the weap-on of choice in the expres-sion of rival ethnic claims, are testing the people's tol-

erance beyond endurance, turning the State into a socio-political volca-no that could explode anytime.

Since August this year, Manipur has been under an economic block-ade called by the Sadar Hills District-hood Demand Committee (SHDDC). This and a counter-blockade by the United Naga Council (UNC) on the national highways have caused se-vere shortages of food, medical sup-plies, fuel and other essential items. There have been reports that hospi-tals are running short of medicines. Petrol, diesel and LPG are in short supply, and are being sold at exor-bitant prices. Onion, potato, rice and dal are similarly scarce and ex-pensive. There have been instances when rumours have set off incidents of small-scale violence. The scarci-ties have created an atmosphere be-fitting the description of a humani-tarian crisis in a war-zone.

The tolerance of the people in Manipur is being tested beyond endurance. It is fortunate that tra-ditions of mutual exchange and in-terdependency among all commu-nities have helped ward off major incidents in such trying times. But that is no guarantee that the situa-tion will not worsen.

Surprisingly, neither the State nor the central governments have shown any signs of dealing with this crisis. This catastrophe, as usual, has not caught the attention of the na-tional media or democratic voices in other parts of the country. A block-

Open Democracy, a member of TRANSCEND, analysed this key issue in the fol-lowing article, which was published few days before

Gaddafi’s death, however still relevant to better understanding the future of Libya.

Open Democracy* –TRANSCEND – The Libyan war is often portrayed through a “tribal” lens that fails to ex-plain how the country’s tribes coexist with a sense of nationhood.

The Libyan war has not been a trib-al conflict. Yet throughout the seven months of fighting, much external com-mentary predicted and expected that the war would acquire a tribal dimen-sion and viewed events through the lens of “tribes” and “tribalism”.

To understand the tension between reality and image, it is worth examining this tribal discourse more closely.

The Daunting Complexity FactorThe media’s sudden discovery of “Lib-

yan tribalism” owes much to the fact that for the forty-two years of Colonel Gad-dafi’s rule, the words “Libya” and “Gad-dafi” have effectively been synonymous.

The anthropologist John Davis la-mented (in his book Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution [1987) that this was always to take the “Libyan head for the Libyan whole”. Yet it took the crisis that began in February 2011 for many ob-servers to realise that beyond the Libyan regime there was a Libyan society.

In turn, however, the new aware-ness of the daunting complexity of this society encouraged (as so often) a temptation to find quick and simplify-ing keys to unlock its mysteries.

The information that tribes were a prominent feature of Libyan society enabled media commentary to allow “Libya” its autonomous reality – and separate it imaginatively from Gaddafi’s grip – without losing the habit of taking a part for the whole. The result was that tribalism became a dominant category for reading the Libyan events.

A Bunch of “tribes with flags”?A little knowledge taken too far can

lead to more obfuscation. Thomas Fried-man of the New York Times stated, for ex-ample, that Libya was not a real country, but only a bunch of “tribes with flags”.

In the always perilous attempt to digest a region’s history to fit an op-ed’s space, Friedman portrayed Libya as one of those artificial post-colonial middle-east coun-tries: an amalgam of tribal groups where “each tribe lives by the motto ‘rule or die’”.

Soon after, Benjamin Barber in the Guardian took pride in the fact that “unlike the exuberant naifs who insist-ed Tripoli was Cairo” he had correctly predicted a long “tribal war”.

Wrongs DiagnosesThese diagnoses were and are

wrong. The Libyan uprising has not been a tribal skirmish but a national rev-olution – albeit fought with (amongst other things) tribal means, and taking place against a backdrop of political ma-nipulation of tribal loyalties by the pre-vious regime. Thus both the regime and the anti-Gaddafi Transitional National Council (TNC) have sought tribal sup-

Libya’s RevoLution: tribe, nation, Politics

port during the war. The colonel organised (and tele-

vised) meetings with tribal representa-tives in Tripoli until the siege of the city, and his speeches made constant refer-ences to Libya’s tribes. The TNC pro-moted a series of declarations where tribal leaders (among them members of the Qaddhafa, the colonel’s own) ex-pressed their desire to remove Gaddafi.

Using the Tribal DynamicsIn each case, however, the regime and

the council have cultivated a tribal con-sensus only to prove their legitimacy to rule Libya as a nation. The fact that the contending sides have made use of tribal dynamics with the purpose of pursuing a national agenda might seem paradoxical. But, once Libyan tribalism is properly con-textualised, the paradox is easily resolved.

The “tribalist” commentators such as Thomas Friedman and Benjamin Barber have been eager to explain that Libya is about tribes. But they never bothered to explore what the Libyan tribes are about.

300 Tribes in LibyaIn Libya, tribal affiliations are not a

rigid system of alliances and divisions, but a very flexible reality. Some Libyans greatly value their tribal identity, many openly dismiss tribalism as a relic of the past, yet others do not even know what tribe they originally “belong” to.

There are some 300 tribes in Libya: but many of them, far from being homogeneous groups located in a unitary area, are simply networks of people who live far from each other and barely (if at all) know the identity of their tribal leaders. Such considerations help to explain both how a member of an historically minor tribe like Gaddafi’s could take power in 1969, and why for many Liby-ans there is no necessary conflict between tribal affiliation and national identity.

No Parties, No Civil SocietyMoreover, Libya’s tribal dynamics

must be viewed in the context of the effects of Gaddafi’s political project on Libyan society. For four decades, the Gaddafi regime has prevented the for-mation of a real civil society.

In the absence of political parties or

autonomous organisations, many Liby-ans were in practice forced to resort to tribal connections (and even tribal law) in their everyday life.

This was not always uncritical: dur-ing a 2008 visit to the country, Libyans of different age, social background and re-gional provenance constantly remarked to me that in Libya mafish qanun (“there is no law”) – thus voicing the felt need for a national system of sanctions that might diminish tribal nepotism.

This very lack of civil society is in no way a symptom of the absence of national sensibility. Libyans might be traditionally tribal, but they definitely think national.

Even those Libyans who value their tribal membership still refer to Libya as a nation with a specific history.

Omar al-MukhtarThe resistance against the Italians

in colonial times is frequently depicted as a national struggle, while important historical characters like Sidhi Omar al-Mukhtar – a key figure in the anti-colonial guerrilla movement, and the most power-ful symbol in Libya’s national imaginary – are described as national heroes.

It’s true that Mukhtar was exploited by Gaddafi as a symbol of legitimacy: the bearded freedom-fighter’s image imprint-ed, for example, on the ten-dinar note.

But many Libyans are acutely aware of the past regime’s instrumental use of national symbols for narrow politi-cal purposes, and are sophisticated in deconstructing nationalism as part of their facility to think national.

The challenge for those who en-dured Gaddafi’s long rule, however, has been made harder by the old regime’s clever and drenching propaganda tools.

The Green Book and the TribesFor the colonel’s iron rule was based

on a presentation of himself as the only national adhesive of an otherwise frag-mented country. He coated his image in the trappings of a Bedouin lifestyle – austerity, deserts and tents – but his Green Book announced that “tribalism undermines national identity because tribal loyalty weakens national loyalty”.

These attempts to strengthen “na-

tional loyalty” were always a form of “divide and rule” – the exacerbation of tribal antipathies in order to legiti-mise Gaddafi himself as the sole bul-wark against local divisions.

Gaddafi skilfully cultivated tribal disharmony while telling the world that his removal could lead Libya to frag-ment along tribal lines. Unfortunately, many observers of the Libyan uprising have uncritically bought the story.

The National LensThe contextualising of Libyan trib-

alism is important in understanding current events – and the possible course of future ones – as well as the Gaddafi-era dynamics. Today the country has been largely liberated, though Gaddafi’s loyalists still (at the time of writing [Oc-tober 5]) maintain a precarious grip on Beni Walid and Sirte in northern Libya.

Beni Walid has always been the home of the Warfalla, one of the largest tribal groups of western Libya and – along with two others (the Magariha and the Qad-dhafa) – one of the tribes of origin of the military officers that in 1969 organised the coup that brought Gaddafi to power.

The Warfalla CaseSince then, members of the War-

falla have held important security po-sitions in the regime. This makes it possible to read the resistance of Beni Walid as that of a tribe defiantly faith-ful to the regime. Again, this would be a mistake. It is relevant here that in 1993, members of the Warfalla were involved in an unsuccessful attempt to depose Gaddafi; and that sections of the tribe were among the earliest pub-licly to defect from the regime in 2011.

In April, Miftah Matouk al-Warfal-li, one of the tribe’s leaders – together with sixty chiefs of other tribal groups – expressed the will to create a demo-cratic Libya with Tripoli as its capital, in a document promoted by the TNC.

The tribe counts amongst its members Mahmood Jibril, the inter-im prime minister appointed by the council. Thus the siege of Beni Walid again shows that Libyan tribes are not monolithic entities but diversi-fied groups of Libyans with a poten-tial to take different sides on matters affecting their nation’s future.

Many difficulties will remain for Libya even after the last bastions of the Gaddafi regime has fallen and security and peace delivered throughout the country. But the risk of tribal-based vio-lence and warlordism does not seem to be one of them. It is very unlikely that tribal factions might attempt to gain power only though tribal consensus.

Many Libyans have fought with the idea of the Libyan nation – and a better nation – in mind, and that is what they will continue to want to achieve once the conflict is completely over.

Any force attempting to take the reins of the country must demonstrate national legitimacy, which the TNC seems capable of. “Libyan tribalism” is both more and less than it seems.

Published by TRANSCEND Media Service: http://www.transcend.org/

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2011 Human Wrongs Watch

Now that the Libyan National Transitional Council has announced the complete liberation of the country after the killing of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, many ques-tions have been raised about the future of this North African Arab nation and the role of its numerous tribes. (Photo: William Murphy/Wikimedia Commons)

Manipur blockaded on road to nowhere

A TEST OF TOLERANCE: People waiting in a queue to buy goods in Imphal city. (Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar)

ade has been historically a form or a component of war. In its early incar-nations, it would often be deployed between two parties, one belligerent force blockading another power, or between belligerents. Its maximum impact is felt in the everyday lives of the common people who are help-lessly caught in the situation.

Driven by ethnic politics An economic blockade has of-

ten been deployed as a form of pro-test by different groups to draw at-tention to their cause. Though the intention of those who use it as a form of protest may be to highlight their grievances and wanting it to be addressed by the authorities, it immediately puts pressure on the population. Blockades in Manipur, driven largely by ethnic politics and the geographical circumstances, at times, begin to look more like a form of collective punishment.

The logic of a blockade seems to be that considering the experience of majoritarianism being meted out by the Meiteis against the other communities, a protest against the Government of Manipur should necessarily target the Meitei popu-lation. The polity of Manipur is seen to be largely driven and controlled by the Meiteis. Thus, suffocating the supply lines through the national highways seem an unfortunate but unavoidable choice to make the gov-ernment listen to the demands of the aggrieved party.

supply in the open market, almost everything is available if one is will-ing to pay in the black market. And there seems to be a thriving market run by crisis profiteers.

This time round, the blockade on the national highways 53 and 39 was first imposed by the SHDDC from August 1. Its demand was the creation of a separate district of Sadar Hills out of the current Senapati district of which it is a part of. This otherwise simple administrative procedure is extraordinarily complicated in the context of Manipur. Senapati district happens to be inhabited largely by different communities of the Kukis, the Nepalis, and the Nagas. Within the district, Sadar Hills is dominated demographically by the Kukis.

A demand for a separate dis-trict of the Sadar Hills is resented by the Nagas. They fear it would jeopardise their claim for a ‘greater Nagalim.' Interestingly, the whole of Senapati district is included in the map of “Naga inhabited areas,” a phrase that has gained currency after it was modified from the earli-er “Naga dominated areas.” There-fore, the UNC called for a counter economic blockade on these high-ways from August 21 onwards fear-ing the possibility of Senapati dis-trict being bifurcated.

Given the history of ethnic clash-es between the Nagas and the Kukis in the hills of Manipur beginning in the early 1990s when Senapati dis-trict was one of the worst affected,

the atmosphere has been tense. In the context of the larger poli-

tics of Manipur, the demand for the creation of a separate Sadar Hills dis-trict has to be weighed alongside two other vociferous demands — for the creation of Jiribam and Phungyar as separate districts.

In all three demands, there have been fierce contestations from ri-val ethnic groups, a pointer to how in Manipur's politics, and also more widely in the North-East region, there has been a tendency to fit eth-nic identity perfectly on to a particu-lar territory. This is how “homeland” politics is conducted, but fusing eth-nic exclusivity with territoriality can create a combustible mix.

That Senapati district has wit-nessed abnormal population growth rates both in the census counts of 2001 and 2011, has led to its own share of controversies. In some areas within the district it has been more than 100 per cent. This has been in-terpreted as a move to legitimise one community's claim to being the ma-jority in a particular territory, creat-ing simmering animosity and hatred.

To critique the increasing tenden-cy of ethnic exclusivist politics is not to negate the genuine concerns of the different marginalised groups that get subsumed within a majoritarian ideology, but to open a more progres-sive form of politics. Manipur today is sitting on a latent socio-political vol-cano. If all parties concerned do not take action immediately, there is a danger that it might well explode.

(The author is at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi.)

Source: The Hindu

Sadar Hills issue Such smooth political logic is

blind to the fact that an economic blockade of this magnitude affects all people, irrespective of ethnicity. Their suffering can often be mea-sured against the rhetoric of sacri-fice: the rich and the powerful cut across community boundaries and, more importantly, are not affected as they get around the high prices

and scarcities with ease. Rather, they often use moments like this to project themselves as champi-ons of the suffering by carrying out symbolic acts of sacrifice. Such acts are in turn mobilised as propaganda for their ethnic politics. Moreover, moments of economic scarcity are also boom time for traders. Prices are disproportionately increased. Even though essentials are in short

Yengkhom Jilangamba

28 October 2011Friday8 Dimapur The Morung ExpressNATIONAL

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar hits back at DigvijayaNEW DElhi, OctObEr 27 (iANS): Congress leader Digvijaya Singh Thursday denounced Sri Sri Ravi Shankar as a BJP-RSS agent, prompting the spiritual guru to ask the politician to join his Art of Liv-ing course. Saying he could not respond to everything stated about him, Ravi Shankar suggested in Bangalore that Digvijaya Singh could join Art of Living, a group that offers various courses to achieve better qual-ity life. “People write a lot of things about everyone, I cannot respond to all of them,” Ravi Shankar said.

“I will continue to work against corruption. I am not afraid of anyone,” he added. Ravi Shankar’s comments followed Digvijaya Singh’s comments earlier Thursday that Ravi Shankar was “Plan C” of the BJP-RSS combine in order to divert public attention from its “terror links”. He identified the oth-er “plans” of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh as yoga guru Baba Ramdev as well as anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare. In a separate statement, Ravi Shankar said while leg-islation was needed to combat corruption, “a law alone cannot bring down corruption. A moral and spiritual wave has to be created”. He said he has been speaking against corruption and would continue to do so. “Even yes-terday (Wednesday), (I) administered oath to 1 lakh people to not give or take bribe,” the Ari of Living founder added.

NEW DElhi, OctObEr 27 (Pti): Upping the ante, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday alleged that the anti-corruption stir by Anna Hazare and Ramdev were part of an over-all plan of RSS- BJP to divert at-tention from Sangh’s “terror links” and warned spiritual guru Sri Sri Rav-ishankar that he too could be used by them. The AICC general secretary said that while Ramdev and Anna Haz-are were plan A and B of the Sangh-BJP, Sri Sri Ravishankar is plan C and asked the spiritual guru to be “wary” of the two organisations.

Singh remarked on the microblog-ging site Twitter “Plan A, B and C are of Sangh/ BJP to divert the minds of the people from their involvement in terror activities to corruption.” Later talking to reporters, he said that plan A of this over-all scheme has been Baba Ramdev, B is Anna and C is Sri Sri Rav-ishankar. “I hold Sri Ravi Shankarji in high esteem and have done a course in the Art of Living as CM MP in 2001. He should be wary of Sangh/ BJP,” Singh remarked in another post on twitter. Reacting to it, Sri Sri said, “People write so many things. I do not react to every comment. Everybody is entitled to his views.”

Singh, however, told reporters that all this is a part of an over-all plan of RSS-BJP combine to “divert” the at-tention of the people of the country “to corruption from the issue of involve-ment of Sangh activists in terror activi-ties” in Malegaon, Modasa, Hyderabad, Ajmersharif and Samjhouta Express.” Claiming that the UPA government under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has taken “all posstible steps” includ-

bANgAlOrE, OctObEr 27 (Pti): In more trouble for jailed former Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa, a local court on Wednesday granted one month time to Lokayukta police to submit its final report in a corruption case filed against him. Loka-yukta Special Court Judge N. K. Sudhindra Rao accepted the Lokayukta police’s request for time till November 26 to file the final re-port on allegations that Mr. Yeddyurappa re-ceived a Rs.13 crore kickback for awarding the second stage Upper Bhadra Irrigation project to a private firm.

The Lokayukta police, which had been directed by the court to furnish the report on October 10 on the investigation conducted in connection with a private complaint lodged by JD(S) leader Y. S. Datta, had sought time till today. Submitting the status report on the investigations, Lokayukta Deputy Superin-tendent of Police Girish, who has been in-vestigating the case, pleaded for one month more time to file the final report. The court, which took cognisance of the complaint, had

directed the Lokayukta police to file an FIR against Yeddyurappa on August 10 and con-duct investigations.

Datta in his complaint had alleged that R N S Jyoti firm was the highest bidder for the project, quoting the cost at Rs. 1,033 crore, and Yeddyurappa had awarded the contract to it, ignoring the claims of the lowest bid-ders. The complaint alleged that as a quid pro quo, R N S Jyoti firm transferred Rs. 13 crore to Davalagiri Developers and Sahya-dri Healthcare, owned and managed by Yed-dyurappa’s sons and son-in-law and Yeddy-urappa was accused of abusing his power as chief minister.

This is the sixth corruption case f iled against Yeddyurappa apart from five com-plaints registered by two advocates, Sirajin Basha and K. N. Balra, who secured the Gover-nor’s sanction to prosecute the former Chief Minister under the provisions of the Preven-tion of Corruption Act. Yeddyurappa, how-ever, has secured anticipatory bail from the High Court in the Upper Bhadra case.

In this Tuesday, October 25, photo, Sushil Kumar, left, with Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan, shows $1 million check after winning on an Indian game show, in Mumbai. Kumar, a government clerk from a desolate region of eastern India, has become the first person ever to win $1 million on the popular Indian version of “Who wants to be a Millionaire.” (AP Photo)

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is BJP’s Plan C: Digvijay

ing to bring Right to Information (RTI) Act and making Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act stricter to check cor-ruption, Singh charged that BJP’s re-cord on action over charges of corrup-tion has been “pathetic”.

Reacting sharply to Singh’s charg-es, BJP said the Congress leader was attempting to “demonise” all those who are fighting against corruption. “I compliment Digvijaya Singh for his important plan of almost shameless way of demonising all those who are fighting against corruption. Good luck to him. The more he speaks, more the Congress will lose its credibility,” chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said. Singh has in the past accused RSS of “spreading terrorism and making bomb factories”. Following the anti-

graft agitation by yoag guru Ramdev and Team Anna, the Congress lead-er has alleged that they were being backed by the Sangh.

Noting that the UPA has taken ac-tion against corrupt people in spite of the fact that they were allies, Singh questioned, “Why BJP did not register a case against (its former president) Bangaru Laxman under Prevention of Corruption Act when he was caught on camera taking money? “Why was the BJP MP ( Dilip Singh Judev) not sent to jail when he was caught on television cameras accepting bribe. Why a case was not registered against Jaya Jaitley whe she was caught on tape striking deal with arms-dealers in the house of then defence minister ( George Fernandes)?”

Anna Hazare to continue

vow of silenceMUMbAi/NEW DElhi, OctO-bEr 27 (Pti): Anna Hazare on Thurs-day decided to continue his ‘maun vrat’ ( vow of silence) as his health is not permitting him to break it even as his team is all set to meet this Satur-day to discuss the controversies sur-rounding it. Hazare will not attend the core committee meeting of the Team scheduled in the national capital. In his latest blog posting, Hazare said, “My health still does not permit me to give up my ‘maun vrat’. There is still some swelling on my feet and the knee troubles me a lot.

“Maun vrat helps me heal my body from within and outside. Ver-bal communication with people is an exertion for me leaving me very weak. Hence, keeping my physical condition in mind I have taken the decision to go on with maun vrat,” he said. Hazare began his ‘maun vrat’ on October 16’ at his native village in Maharashtra for ‘atma shanti’ (peace of soul). Hazare shifted his residence from the Padmavati Temple complex to his old residence, the Yadavba-ba Temple complex, in this village, about 250 km from Mumbai.

His decision to continue the ‘maun vrat’ comes at a time when Team Anna’s Core Committee has decided to meet. The meeting is ex-pected to discuss the controversies surrounding Team Anna. Sources in Team Anna said Hazare will not at-tend the meeting. Team Anna is en-gulfed in a series of controversies in the past few days, including the con-tinuance of Prashant Bhushan in the team following his controversial re-marks on plebiscite in Kashmir and alleged financial misconduct by Ar-vind Kejriwal and Kiran Bedi. The meeting also comes after the resig-nation of two prominent activists P V Rajagopal and Rajinder Singh from the Core Committee, apparently un-happy over the movement moving to-wards party politics.

KOlKAtA, OctObEr 27 (NDtv): It was a dark Diwali for several families whose babies were admitted to Kolkata’s BC Roy Paediatric Hospital. At least 13 infants have died in the last 48 hours, four of them on Wednes-day. Angry parents blocked a road outside the government-run hospital in North Kolkata on Wednesday, accusing the hospital of negligence.

“I was requesting the doctors to please come and have a look at my child but they didn’t come,” recalled a young father who has lost his son. “I thought now my child is surely dying so I started crying. That’s when eight nurses came to see my child and started putting pressure on his chest, but they were putting pressure on his dead body.” The health depart-ment has, however, given a clean chit to the hospital, and said that there is no evidence of medical

M O rA D A b A D ( U t tA r PrADESh), OctObEr 27 (iANS): For 14-year-old Ashraf, school doesn’t end with the stroke of the last bell. Rather, the next few hours proceed ‘comically’, as he vigorously starts working on comics to sensitise people on child labour. Ashraf, who lives in the Shivnagar slum here, is one of the 160-odd members of a young brigade that is striving to tackle child labour in Moradabad’s metalware industry that is highly labour-intensive, most-ly in the form of traditionally house-hold-based production involving all family members.

And they do it in a unique way - through handmade comics that they sit and prepare in their classrooms. They also stage street plays to project the miseries of child labour. “The so-cial menace can’t be fought without convincing the parents who them-selves make their children work,” said Ashraf. The credit for empowering Ashraf and other children to spear-

head a drive against child labour goes to NGO Ankur Yuva Chetna Shivir (AYCS), which works in association with UNICEF for child rights here. “Like Ashraf, there are around 160 children in the age group of 10-14 years who are assisting us in fighting the social evil in 11 localities of Mo-radabad,” Bhuwal Singh, an AYCS project officer, told IANS.

Moradabad, famous as the brass city of India, produces around 80 percent of India’s met-alware exports. “The drive against child labour cannot be undertaken efficiently without reaching and in-volving child labourers in the dis-cussions. And comics help us do the same,” Ashraf, who was once himself a child labourer, told IANS. “Though initially the child labourers may not understand the significance of our work, the handwritten comics serve

as a medium to attract them. Comics assist us in mingling with the child labourers, who otherwise don’t like interacting with outsiders,” added

Ashraf. Bhuwal Singh said: “Comics are a medium of free expression using art and simple sketching and day-to-day language. Children use them to express their concerns regarding se-cure life and non-discrimination.”

“Besides preparing the comics, the 11 groups of children also stage street plays to project the miseries of child la-bour and sensitise the people, particu-larly the uneducated ones, about the so-cial menace. Moreover, paintings made

by the children also serve as a potent medium to drive the message home,” he added. The groups involved in the drive against the social evil include a

mixed strength of normal students, former “working children” and those who were once child labourers but have now joined main-stream society and go to schools. The basic differ-ence between child labour-ers and working children involves the money aspect.

Unlike child labourers who are paid for their work, working children are those who are made to work by their own fam-ilies without any wages.

According to a survey conducted in 2009, there are over 9,000 “working children” and child labourers here, said Anshuman Kaul, a data support officer with Unicef. “The idea behind form-ing such groups was for a better under-standing of problems faced by child labourers. Former child labourers are

also in the group and provide us sever-al valuable inputs which help us in the execution of our project,” said Bhuwal Singh. “For instance, such members in the group are aware of their locality and help us in reaching child labourers and their families,” he added. Counselling sessions are also held for child labour-ers. The groups have even got several of them admitted to schools.

“Normally, on every Saturday we undertake a door-to-door visit to convince parents not to deploy their children in producing metalware but send them to school,” said Bhuwal Singh. “It’s not easy to convince the parents. I remember on several occa-sions the children of the groups were just shooed away by the parents when they approached them as a part of the drive,” he noted. “With the sincere ef-forts of children’s groups, around 160 child labourers have been admitted to different schools since January 2010 when the groups started function-ing,” Bhuwal Singh added.

Govt. gives clean chit to hospitalKOlKAtA, OctObEr 27 (Pti): The West Bengal government on Thursday gave a clean chit to the B.C. Roy Children’s Hospital after 12 infants died since Tuesday, holding there was no medical negligence or any lapse on the part of hospital authorities. The government came to this conclusion after the State’s largest referral hospital for children inquired into the deaths and submitted a report to it. “After consider-ing the report submitted to us, we don’t find any lapse or medical negli-gence on part of the hospital authorities,” Director of Medical Educa-tion Sushanta Banerjee said. “On an average five infant deaths occur out of the 300 admissions daily,” Dr. Dilip Pal, Hospital Superinten-dent said, adding “this is not abnormal as most of the referred cases are extremely critical and brought in a moribund state.” Dr. Pal said the babies in critical condition were brought for admission at the very last stage. “This poses a serious problem for us to deal with.”

Kolkata: 13 babies dead in 48 hrs in govt-run hospital

negligence.Doctors at the BC Roy Post-

Graduate Institute of Paediatric Sciences claim that on an aver-age, the hospital does see five to six deaths a day and that most of the babies who were admitted here were in critical condition.

They also acknowledge that the hospital, which provides free care to low-income families, needs more labs and machines for ultra-sound scans and x-rays. In June, the deaths of 21 babies in 48 hours at the same hospital provoked an-gry demonstrations, and had led

to a visit from Chief Minister. An inquiry conducted on the orders of the government absolved the hospital of medical negligence, and asked for new facilities to be added immediately.

Not much has changed. A Spe-cial Newborn Care unit was under construction in June, but has still not been completed. The equip-ment ordered for this department has arrived but is in storage since the building is still not ready. A CT scan facility and a blood storage unit have yet to be added. When asked why the hospital comes across as a repeat offender, medi-cal superintendent DK Pal said, “Many gadgets and equipment have been given to us for proper care but again if the referral num-ber of patients are coming to a greatly high level, and they are in a critically ill state, in spite of our new gadgets and equipment, we fail to revive all of them.”

Final report in corruption case against Yeddyurappa on Nov. 26

A Kashmiri laborer rests in his handcart during a strike in Srinagar on October 27. Separat-ists groups in Kashmir called Thursday general strike to protest the landing of Indian troops in Jammu & Kashmir on this day in 1947 to fight alleged Pakistan-backed tribal invaders. (AP Photo)

Fighting child labour in Moradabad - with comics

“...The social menace can’t be fought without convincing the parents who themselves make

their children work...”

WAShiNgtON, OctObEr 27 (iANS): Accusing India of trying to create an anti-Pakistan Afghanistan, former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf warned of “counter-measures” by Islamabad if Kabul moved too close to New Delhi. Fuming that Afghanistan enjoyed too close a relationship with New Delhi for Islamabad’s liking, Musharraf also called for a rapprochement between the intelligence agen-cies ISI of Pakistan and RAW of India. “Since our independence (in 1947), Afghanistan always has been anti-Pakistan because the Soviet Union and India have very good relations in Afghanistan,” he told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Wash-ington think tank.

Accusing India of working to turn Afghanistan against Paki-stan, he said: “We must not allow

this to continue.” “We must not begrudge if Pakistan orders ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) to take counter-measures to pro-tect its own interests,” he said. “Now, India is trying to create anti-Pakistan Afghanistan. This is most unfortunate, and I am not saying this because I have some (Indo-centric) - and I’m anti-In-dia. “I know this through intelli-gence, I know this to be a fact,” he said. “Today, and just to give you one proof, today, in Afghanistan, Afghan diplomats, the intelli-gence people, the security people, the army men, all go to India for training,” he said, echoing an old Pakistani complaint.

“Now they go there, they come back, they get indoctrinat-ed against Pakistan and, may I say, over the years ... Afghanistan always has been anti-Pakistan be-cause (the) Soviet Union and In-

dia have very close relation in Af-ghanistan. “And the intelligence agency, KGB, RAW and KHAD of Afghanistan have always been in cooperation and talking since 1950s,” Musharraff said. “So I think this needs a rapproche-ment certainly between India and Pakistan and rapprochement also between the two intelligence organizations: the RAW of India and the ISI of Pakistan,” he said.

Former army chief Mush-arraf, who seized power in 1999, was the president when the US invaded Afghanistan to topple the pro-Pakistan Taliban regime following the 2001 terror attack. Under US pressure, Musharraf stopped supporting the Taliban. But US and other experts say that the ISI has continued to main-tain clandestine links with the Taliban and is upset with India’s clout in Afghanistan.

‘Pak to act if Kabul gets too close to India’

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BANGKOK, OctOBer 27 (AP): It took only a second for the murky floodwaters swamp-ing parts of Asia to swallow Nguyen Phuoc Hien's baby. His 3-year-old daughter had been playing happily while her aunt studied, but somehow, the girl slipped quietly outside the family home deep in Viet-nam's southern Mekong Del-ta. When Hien's wife returned to the shack from feeding the pigs and realized her youngest child was missing, "she was in a panic looking around," he re-called. "Our neighbors helped us look for her. Her body was found an hour later in the ca-nal near the house."

Children make up around a quarter of the nearly 800 deaths reported since July across Thai-land, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines, according to

the United Nations. The region has been ravaged by some of the worst flooding in decades, but drownings are a huge unreported epidemic in Asia. Every year, an estimated 240,000 children up to 17 years old die — mostly because the majority of kids simply never learn to swim. That annual num-ber is roughly equal to the total deaths from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, but day-to-day water deaths rarely get attention.

"Those (in the tsunami) were counted because they drowned in a space of six to eight hours in the region, and every-one was just stunned because the number was enormous," said Michael Linnan, techni-cal director of the U.S.-based Alliance for Safe Children in Bangkok, who has studied child drowning. "But the reality is that in that the 364 days before

that, an equal number of moth-ers and children had drowned as well. But they drown one at a time and not in a disaster set-ting, so they weren't counted."

During excessive flooding, it's easy for children to acci-dentally get in over their heads while playing or wading in filthy water where it's impossible to see what dangers lurk be-neath each step. Some fall into fast-moving canals or streams in their yards or villages, while others lose their footing on porches or windows, falling into waters surrounding their houses — sometimes at night. Often their disappearance goes unnoticed because parents are busy trying to salvage livestock, crops or meager belongings vi-tal to the family's survival. "You have very little dry land and you have massive population move-

ments," Linnan said. "It doesn't take very long for a child to slip away from an already harried mother or older sibling who are trying to schlep all the belong-ings. It takes only two or three minutes for a child to drown."

Monster seasonal monsoon rains have overwhelmed swol-len rivers, dams and canals in the region, and back-to-back typhoons and tropical storms have hammered the Philip-pines, China and Vietnam. Some 4 million acres of Thai-land have been inundated in the country's worst flooding in a half century, and the waters are creeping deeper into Bangkok, an anxious capital city of 9 mil-lion barricaded behind walls of sandbags. In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, 49 of the 57 deaths since August have been children, ac-cording to the national flood and

storms control department. In neighboring Cambodia, at least 80 children have died in severe flooding there, while more than 50 have been killed in Thailand, all mostly from drowning, ac-cording to the United Nations. Myanmar also has suffered bad flooding, but no clear estimates on child deaths are available.

"It's painful to see that many kids drown," said disaster offi-cial Le Van Hung of Vietnam's worst-hit Dong Thap prov-ince. "All of them came from poor families where their par-ents had to struggle to make ends meet and did not prop-erly watch over their children in their flooded homes." Lin-nan said about three-quarters of children across Asia never learn to swim, despite living in a tropical region crisscrossed by rivers and canals. But even

though drowning is the top injury-related cause of death among kids, it typically does not receive much attention or aid because only about 15 percent to 25 percent of water deaths ever get reported to health sys-tems. Death certificates are of-ten not required, and children who drown are simply buried. Because they aren't taken to hospitals or clinics first, their cause of death is never counted. That, in turn, means childhood drowning deaths are grossly un-derestimated regionally.

"Sometimes there's more water than land" where chil-dren grow up, said Justin Scarr, drowning prevention commis-sioner of the Belgium-based International Life Saving Fed-eration, who says fear of wa-ter is linked to culture in many areas where his organization is

now teaching swimming skills. "Generations have associated water with drowning and so they've avoided basic things like learning to swim." Community education is also key to reducing deaths, since half of all drowning deaths occur in children young-er than 5 who are too small to swim. Research has shown that setting up village day care centers while parents are busy or working can reduce those deaths by more than 80 percent. For the Nguyen family in Viet-nam, it's too late. The loss they experienced during one minute of carelessness during this year's floods will forever haunt them. "We did not expect our daugh-ter would drown one day," said Hien, 31, who earns the equiva-lent of just US$100 a month fish-ing and doing odd jobs. "We are devastated by her loss."

Killer Asia floods swallow children who can’t swim

In this October 21, 2011 file photo, a Thai child carries a gas tank through floods in Rangsit district on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. Children make up around a quarter of the nearly 800 deaths the United Nations has tallied since July across Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines, which have been ravaged by some of the worst flooding in decades. Drownings are a huge unreported epidemic in Southeast Asia, killing an estimated 240,000 children up to 17 years old each year _ mostly because the majority of kids in the region simply never learn to swim. (AP Photo/File)

MOGADISHU, OctO-Ber 27 (reUterS): Soma-lia's al Shabaab rebels vowed on Thursday to fight Kenya after its troops entered the Horn of Africa nation and called on sympathizers to carry out major attacks in east Africa's biggest economy.

The call to arms came 12 days after Kenya sent soldiers into Somalia to battle the al Qaeda-linked rebels Nairobi blames for a string of kid-nappings on Kenyan soil and frequent border incursions threatening state security. Unknown militants attacked a vehicle in northeastern Ke-nya near Somalia on Thurs-day killing at least four gov-ernment employees, local officials told Reuters, the third strike in the east Afri-can country this week.

Two separate grenade blasts in the capital Nairobi on Monday killed one person and wounded nearly 30. A Ke-nyan man has pleaded guilty

to one of the attacks and being a member of al Shabaab.

There were also un-confirmed Kenyan media reports that gunmen had ambushed Kenyan sol-diers near a town 60 km (40 miles) inside Somalia. Government spokesman Alfred Mutua declined to comment on the reports. "The time to ask Kenya to stop war has passed. The only option is to fight them. Kenya, you have started the war and so you have to face the consequences," Sheikh Muktar Robow Abu Man-soor, a top al Shabaab offi-cial, told a demonstration.

"The Kenyan Mujahi-deen who were trained by Osama in Afghanistan, stop throwing grenades at buses. We need a huge blow against Kenya. Hand grenades hurled can harm them but we want huge blasts," he told hundreds of people gathered in Elasha, near the capital Mogadishu.

Kenya has long watched its anarchic neighbor wari-ly and its troops have made forays across the porous border with Somalia in the past, but this month's as-sault marks the first con-certed push to drive the rebels away from the fron-tier. The recent kidnappings of Western tourists and aid workers on Kenyan soil risk denting the country's lucrative tourist industry and hampering humanitar-ian support for more than 400,000 Somalis at a refugee camp in northern Kenya.

Al Shabaab has denied be-ing behind the kidnappings, saying they were being used as a pretext by Kenya to send troops into the country. "Now Kenya's planes are bombing us, and their tanks are inside Somalia. Let's fight collec-tively and defeat them as we defeated the Christian coun-tries who invaded us before," said al Shabaab's Mansoor.

ercIS, tUrKey, OctO-Ber 27 (AP): Rain and snow on Thursday compounded difficulties for thousands rendered homeless in the powerful earthquake that hit eastern Turkey, and the government said the death toll has gone up to 523. The prime minister's center for crisis and emergency man-agement said 1,650 people were injured and 185 were rescued from the rubble.

Meanwhile, a moderate earthquake, measuring 5.4 according to Turkey's Kan-dilli seismology center, hit the neighboring province of Hakkari, sending people rushing out of buildings in fear and panic. No injuries were immediately reported in that temblor, which was centered some 90 miles (150 kilometers) south of the epicenter of Sunday's devastating quake.

Turkish authorities de-livered more tents after ac-knowledging initial prob-lems in the distribution of aid for survivors of the 7.2-magnitude quake that shattered at least 2,200

buildings on Sunday.Foreign assistance also

began arriving after Turkey said it would accept help to house survivors through the winter. Israel, which has a troubled political rela-tionship with Turkey, sent emergency housing units, blankets and clothing. Ger-many also dispatched sup-plies, including tent heating units. Russia and Ukraine also contributed.

Some media reports had said rescuers pulled out a 19-year-old alive from the rubble on Thursday, but Mustafa Ozden, the head of the team that brought out the young man, told The Associated Press that he was rescued on Tuesday, not Thursday.

Rain gave way to inter-mittent snow, deepening the hardship of thousands of people either rendered

homeless in the powerful earthquake or too afraid to return indoors amid after-shocks that continued to rattle the area.

In the worst-hit city of Ercis, families who managed to obtain tents shared them with oth-ers. Some people spent a fourth night outdoors huddled under blankets in front of campfires, either waiting for news of the

missing or keeping watch over damaged homes.

Sermin Yildirim, who was eight months pregnant, was with her twins and hus-band. They shared a tent with a family of four who were dis-tant relatives. Her apartment in a three-story building was not damaged but the family was reluctant to return. "It's getting colder, my kids are coughing. I don't know how long we will have to stay here," Yildirim said. "We were not able to get a tent. We are wait-ing to get our own."

Turkey's weather agen-cy predicted intermittent snowfall for the next three days. More than a dozen television stations organ-ised a joint aid telethon, amassing just under 62 mil-lion Turkish Lira ($37 mil-lion) in aid for the region.

S e a r c h e r s s i f t i n g through piles of debris re-covered more bodies. They included two dead teenage sisters and their parents who were holding hands, and a mother clutching her baby boy, according to media reports.

Somalia’s al Shabaab vows war against Kenya

Turkey earthquake death toll rises to 523

SeOUL, OctOBer 27 (reUterS): U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Thursday he was skeptical about the fate of the latest dip-lomatic push with North Ko-rea and called on China to do more to pressure Pyongyang over its nuclear programs.

North Korea's foreign ministry said this week's second round of talks with the United States in Gene-va had helped deepen each side's understanding about pending issues, and that they had agreed further confidence-building talks.

The Geneva meeting, which came after a first round talks in New York in July and two rounds of dia-logue between the two Ko-reas, was aimed at restarting wider talks on ending Pyong-yang's atomic activities in re-turn for economic aid.

But Panetta, on his first trip to South Korea since taking over the Pentagon in July, said it was not clear to him where the talks were headed. He renewed warn-ings that the North was a serious threat.

"There's an indication that some progress was

made (in Geneva) but that they haven't arrived at any agreements and we're not sure where those talks are headed at this point," Pa-netta said. "And so for that reason, I guess the word skepticism would be in or-der at this time as to what may or may not happen in those discussions."

The North said its posi-

tion for resuming regional aid-for-disarmament talks remained the same -- that dialogue should restart without any conditions.

Washington and Seoul stood firm that the North live up to its past denucle-arization pledges, including pulling the shutters down on its uranium enrichment facility and allowing the

return of international in-spectors to verify the halt.

Should Pyongyang again find engagement has run its course, analysts fear it could test another nuclear weapon or pick new fights with Seoul. North Korea was blamed for killing some 50 South Koreans in two at-tacks near their contested maritime border in 2010.

The North also unveiled a uranium enrichment fa-cility last year that gives it a second route to making an atomic bomb. "We always have to be vigilant in the way we approach North Ko-rea because there is a history here of accommodation and provocation," Panetta said.

U.S. military officials briefed reporters traveling with Panetta earlier in the day, warning that Pyong-yang continued to make progress in its missile pro-gram as well as cyber war-fare and other capabilities -- even as they said the ex-tent of that progress was of-ten difficult to measure.

Panetta, at the end of a swing through Asia that included trips to Japan and Indonesia, said Chi-

na, North Korea's closest ally, needed to do more to pressure Pyongyang to prove it was "serious about eliminating their nuclear program."

"There are moments when we think that they are urging North Korea to en-gage. But frankly, I think that China can do more to try to get North Korea to do the right thing," Panetta said.

At the same time, Panetta acknowledged that Beijing's influence was limited, saying that "sometimes North Ko-rea doesn't pay attention" to Chinese encouragement for Pyongyang to engage.

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang said during a visit to Seoul Thursday that the Bei-jing would continue to try to help reconcile the neigh-bors. He added Pyongyang was willing to seek dialogue with South Korea and ease tensions on the peninsula.

Meanwhile, the pace of diplomacy between the six states involved in the regional talks has picked up sharp-ly, with U.S. diplomat Kurt Campbell briefing officials in Seoul and the two Korean nu-clear envoys visiting Russia.

Earthquake survivors have their breakfast in a tent where 15 people has spent the night without any heating in a tent city set up in a soccer field in Ercis, Van, Turkey on Thursday, October 27. (AP Photo)

U.S. defense chief skeptical on North Korea talks

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, left, shakes hands with South Korean counterpart Kim Kwan-jin be-fore their meeting at Defense Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, October 27. (AP Photo)

AMSterDAM, OctO-Ber 27 (reUterS): Ne-gotiating the surrender of Saif al-Islam, the son of Lib-ya's slain dictator Muam-mar Gaddafi, would present logistical and security chal-lenges to the world's top war crimes court which will ex-amine various possible sce-narios to bring him to trial.

The International Criminal Court had charged Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam and Libya's former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi with crimes against hu-manity for the bombing and shooting of civilian protest-ers in February.

A source with Libya's National Transitional Council said on Thursday Saif al-Islam wants an air-craft, possibly arranged by a neighboring country, to take him out of Libya's southern desert so he can turn himself in to the ICC.

If arranged, Saif al-Islam would be transported to The Hague where the ICC shares a detention unit with the U.N. Yugoslavia war crimes tribu-nal and the Special Court for

Sierra Leone, where former Liberian president Charles Taylor is on trial.

The court is trying to confirm with the NTC whether Saif al-Islam wants to surrender and, if the in-formation is confirmed, will consider the best measures for his transfer, ICC spokes-man Fadi El Abdallah said.

"It depends on where the suspect is and how we can get into contact with him and what would be nec-essary to bring him to The Hague. There are different scenarios," El Abdallah said.

With no police force of

its own, the ICC has relied in the past on state co-op-eration to have its suspects arrested and many of them have remained fugitives such as Sudan President Omar al-Bashir whose government has snubbed the court.

Still, the ICC assisted in transporting several Suda-nese rebels to The Hague in recent years to face charges over the killing of 12 Afri-can Union peacekeepers in Darfur in 2007.

The Dutch authorities provide assistance to the Hague-based courts in the transfer of suspects to the de-tention center, such as when former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic was flown to Rotterdam on a Serbian government plane.

Mladic was then trans-ferred by the Dutch authori-ties by helicopter or car to the detention center in The Hague. "The ICC itself is re-sponsible for transfers to the Netherlands. Upon arrival of a suspect in the Nether-lands, we give logistical sup-port," a spokesman at the Dutch foreign ministry said.

Gaddafi son surrender would pose challenges to ICC

Saif al-Islam

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LONDON, OctOber 27 (AP): Manchester City kept up its free-scoring form by thrashing Wolverhamp-ton Wanderers 5-2 in the League Cup, while Chelsea and Blackburn scored late winners in extra time to ad-vance to the quarterfinals on Wednesday. Buoyant after routing Manchester Unit-ed 6-1 to take a five-point lead in the Premier League, City rallied with three goals in a four-minute span just before halftime after con-ceding an early goal at Mol-ineux. Adam Johnson and Samir Nasri started the comeback, with Edin Dzeko adding a double either side of an own goal by goalkeep-er Dorus de Vries in a domi-nant display at Molineux. "Them getting the early goal lifted everyone," said John-son. "The first 20 minutes were shaky but once we got the ball down and passing and moving and the second goal, it was virtually over." Substitute Daniel Sturridge scored Chelsea's winner with four minutes left in ex-tra time as the London club beat Everton 2-1 in a match that saw both teams finish with 10 men.

Blackburn left it even later to beat Newcastle

4-3, with French defender Gael Givet scoring in the last minute of extra time to inflict a first defeat on the visitors this season, while Liverpool rallied to beat Stoke 2-1 thanks to a sec-ond-half brace by Uruguay striker Luis Suarez in an-other all-Premier League match. Manchester United, Arsenal, Cardiff and Crystal Palace reached the quarter-finals on Tuesday. City took its tally of goals to 15 in its last three away matches but it needed Nenad Milijas' 18th-minute goal to stir the visitors into action.

With a point to prove after being ignominious-ly hauled off by manager Roberto Mancini before halftime in the Champi-ons League victory over Villarreal last week, Adam Johnson was instrumen-tal in City's comeback. The England winger ran on to Dzeko's lay-off and clipped a shot into the bottom cor-ner before turning provider, slipping through a pinpoint through-ball for Nasri to score with a low finish from the edge of the area. "I think Adam can do a bit more but he has everything to be one of the best wingers in Eu-rope," City manager Rober-

to Mancini said.Dzeko — fresh off a dou-

ble as a substitute against United — bundled in the third and fifth goals from close range, sandwiching an unfortunate own goal by De Vries in the 50th. Jamie O'Hara grabbed a consola-tion for Wolves a minute lat-er. With United easing past fourth-tier team Aldershot 3-0 on Tuesday, City could face its local rival in the last eight. "We'll play anyone at the moment," Johnson said. "Our confidence is up — it doesn't really matter who we get." While City made wholesale changes to the team that thrashed United at the weekend, Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish fielded a number of first-team players and will be thankful he retained Su-arez. The striker missed a number of chances in the 1-1 league draw against Nor-wich on Saturday but was more efficient against Stoke, equalizing with an unstop-pable curling shot after drib-bling past Ryan Shotton. Su-arez grabbed the winner for the seven-time League Cup winners by heading home a volleyed cross by Jordan Henderson.

"In the second half, the

boys dug deep, defended re-ally well, the wee man scored a fantastic goal and then a good header as well," Dalg-lish said. "It was important that we finished off some of the football we've been playing." Salomon Kalou made up for Nicolas Anelka's missed penalty in the 16th by putting Chelsea ahead at the Goodison Park before the visitors had goalkeeper Ross Turnbull sent off in the 58th for bringing down Everton striker Louis Saha.

Petr Cech, Turnbull's replacement, saved the re-sulting penalty by Leighton Baines but Saha took the game into extra time with a near-post header in the 83rd. Royston Drenthe was dismissed for Everton in a frenetic extra 30 minutes before Sturridge slipped home a rebound after Flo-rent Malouda's shot was par-ried out. An eventful game at Ewood Park saw Newcastle force extra time with goals in second-half injury time by Danny Guthrie and Yohan Cabaye, canceling out efforts by Ruben Rochina and Yaku-bu. Morten Gamst Pedersen scored a free kick for 3-2 but Newcastle equalized again through Peter Lovenkrands before Givet's winner.

Man City, Liverpool cruise to League Cup quarters

Manchester City's Edin Dzeko. left, scores their third goal past Wolverhampton Wanderers' goalkeeper Dorus De Vries right, during the English League Cup, Fourth Round match at Molineux, Wolverhampton England on Oct. 26. (AP Photo)

New DeLhi, OctOber 27 (AP): Formula One moves to its newest fron-tier for the Indian Grand Prix this weekend, with the dominant Red Bull team ea-ger to give Mark Webber his first win of the season. Web-ber, and everyone else in the field, has been eclipsed by the shadow of his teammate and drivers' championship winner Sebastian Vettel this season, yet the team wants to reward the Aus-tralian driver for his part in delivering the constructors' championship.

"We want to finish the year on a high, get Mark into second in the driv-ers' championship and it would be great to see him win a race," Red Bull team

principal Christian Horner said ahead of Sunday's race in New Delhi. "We are go-ing to attack the final races. They are like cup finals; we can really go for it now both titles are resolved."

Vettel may have already wrapped up back-to-back titles but the German still has statistical incentives in the remaining three races of the season: he can equal Mi-chael Schumacher's record of 13 wins in a season if he takes all three, and he needs two more pole positions to equal the single-season re-cord of 14 set by Nigel Man-sell in 1992. "I care about the sport, I know its history and the numbers according to the drivers," Vettel said. "I like to see from time to time

your name somewhere, but I don't set myself targets about the number of wins. I'm not racing for statistics."

The main obstacle to Vettel's chances of setting the records appears to be McLaren, which has had a late-season resurgence, with a race win and a pole position over the past two grands prix. On paper, the Buddh International Cir-cuit — situated in Noida outside Delhi — appears to be one that will suit cars with good straight-line speed, that perform well in a low-downforce setting. That would include McLar-en, as well as Mercedes and even 'home' team Force In-dia. "I am expecting some-thing exciting, I think we all

are," McLaren team prin-cipal Martin Whitmarsh said. "It is a venue we have not been to, it is a country we have not visited on the grand prix calendar, so it is going to be interesting.

"We felt quite strong in Japan, we felt quite strong in Korea, but Red Bull did a good job. Hopefully it can swing our way in India, and that is what we are trying to do." Reports out of India suggest ticket sales have been good for the inaugural race and a good crowd is ex-pected. Many will be there to cheer on local driver Narain Karthikeyan, who will race for Hispania, with Vitantonio Liuzzi stepping aside for one race. "Driving in front of the home crowd

cheering on is a once in a lifetime experience and I feel extremely fortunate," the 34-year-old Karthikey-an said. "Making it into F1 at the time I did was a seri-ously uphill task and the thought of being able to compete in the inaugural Indian GP was nonexistent. But it is finally here and I'll be on the grid."

Karthikeyan is im-pressed by the Buddh lay-out, which has been de-signed by Hermann Tilke; the man behind most new F1 track designs as the sport expands beyond its European roots. "They've taken a lot of corners from many tracks. They've kind of taken the best and put it there," Karthikeyan said.

"There are a lot of medium-speed corners, and a long straight. It's very wide in places." "There is a lot of up and down. Even on the main straight you climb up and then come down and then climb up and brake. It's come out really well." While Karthikeyan has been given the drive for his home race, Lotus elected not to pro-mote its Indian reserve driver Karun Chandhok. He will take part in Friday practice, but the team chose to stick to the experienced pair Jarno Trulli and Heik-ki Kovalainen for the race as the team fights for position in the constructors' cham-pionship, with millions of dollars at stake depending on the final order.

Red Bull still has goals at Indian GPFrom bottom left to top right, Ferrari driver Felipe Massa of Brazil, Hispania Racing Team driver Narain Karthikeyan of India, Mercedes driver Michael Schumacher of Germany, Lotus driver Jarno Trulli of Italy, Williams driver Rubens Barrichello of Brazil and Force India driver Adrian Sutil of Germany attend the driver's press conference of the Indian Formula One Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from New Delhi on Oct. 27. Noida will be host to India's first Formula One race on Sunday Oct 30. (AP Photo)

I am looking forward to meet Tendulkar: SchumacherGREATER NOIDA, Oc-tOber 27 (Pti): They are friends but Michael Schumacher does not quite remember when was the last time he and Sachin Tendulkar met each other and the German Formula One legend wants to catch up with the cricketing icon while being here for the In-dian Grand Prix. The two grabbed quite a few head-lines in 2002 when Schum-acher gifted the keys of a Ferrari to Tendulkar af-ter the Indian equalled Sir Donald Bradman's tally of 29 Test centuries.

"Even I don't remem-ber when was the last time we met but I am looking forward to meet him," said Schumacher who is in the capital for this Sunday's In-dian GP. Tendulkar, an avid F1 fan, has already stated that he would be support-ing the Vijay Mallya-owned Force India during the In-dian GP.

"I am excited about In-dian Grand Prix F1 race. I will support the Force In-dia team. I have friends like Michael Schumacher but I will support Force India because that is the Indian team and country comes first," Tendulkar said. Schumacher's teammate Nico Rosberg, meanwhile, has been exploring the city and even took a rickshaw ride while checking out Old Delhi. "It was crazy after coming from Europe. I also rode a scooter on the track (for the race)," he said.

bANgALOre, OctO -ber 27 (AgeNcies): Chris Gayle has demand-ed more clarity from the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), asking them to "state clearly", why they wanted him to apologise.

"They need to come clear and say what Chris Gayle should apologise for, and what should Chris Gayle retract, what are the terms, really and truly," Gayle told the Caribbean Media Corporation. "So they need to make it clear, rather than stating just one particular thing and leav-ing the public to speculate again, and just make this one big issue which I'm tired of, so they need to just cut it out now," he said.

Gayle also accused the WICB of playing "mind games" and said he would address their demand for an apology at the end of an on-going regional tournament.

Gayle, who is currently leading Jamaica in the Re-gional Super50 Series, told reporters: "I received a message about the apology

at a team meeting the day before we (Jamaica) had to play the Leewards Islands last Thursday in the middle of a regional tournament." "I think they (WICB) are playing mind games with Chris Gayle. I have told them that I want to focus on winning this tournament for Jamaica and I will deal with the apology issue at the end of this competition," he said. In a statement released to the media some days back, the WICB had asked Gayle to withdraw his comments in order to be considered for selection to the West Indies team. Gayle, who has had a series of disputes with the WICB, has not played for the West Indies since the World Cup earlier this year. He chose to participate in the Indian Premier League in April after being overlooked for the home series against Pakistan. Gayle then gave a radio interview in which he questioned his treatment by members of the board, including chief executive Ernest Hilaire and coach Ottis Gibson.

What should I apologise for, asks Chris Gayle

Veteran badminton winter challenge 2011Our CorrespondentKohima | October 27

The Dawn Club, Sunrise Club & Evening Club is jointly organizing a badminton tournament for veterans from No-vember 25-26 at Indoor Badminton Stadium, Kohima.

The organizing com-mittee invites partici-pants from the legisla-tors, district badminton associations including Nagaland Police in the categories of 35 years plus (Sub-veterans), 45 years plus (Veterans), 55 years plus (Super-veter-ans) and Mixed doubles.

The prize money is fixed at first- Rs.30,000 in all categories. 2nd -Rs.15,000 in all catego-ries

Shuttle cocks will be sponsored by Tali Jamir, Proprietor Sports In-ventory.

Entries will be re-ceived by email ve-twinchal@yahoo.com and or contact phone nos. 943600048, 943660436 , 9436609258 till or be-fore 3.00 P.M. on No-vember 24.

Terms & Conditions•The age of the male play-er in mixed doubles should be at least 45 years.• Each player will be al-lowed participation in only 2 (two) categories.• Age proof should be submitted.• Food and accommo-dation during the tour-nament should be ones own responsibility.

istANbUL, OctOber 27 (reUters): Caroline Wozniacki will end the year ranked world number one although her hopes of applying icing to the cake by winning the WTA Championships suffered a blow when she lost to Rus-sia's Vera Zvonareva in her second round-robin match on Wednesday.

The 21-year-old Dane was locked in combat with Zvonareva when news fil-tered through that Russian Maria Sharapova had with-drawn from the tourna-ment with an ankle injury following a 7-6, 6-4 defeat by China's Li Na.

World number two Sharapova began the day as the only player still able to topple Wozniacki from the summit but she was clear-ly not herself in an error-strewn defeat before an-nouncing that her season was over. It meant Wozni-acki's 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 defeat was immaterial as far as the rankings were con-cerned although with one

win and one loss in the Red Group she could still miss out on the semi-finals here even if she beats Wimble-don champion Petra Kvito-va on Thursday -- a tough ask after two three-setters in two days.

Wozniacki, who has been number one since February and has six ti-tles in 2011, was not go-ing to let defeat spoil her day. "You know, it's amaz-ing for me to finish the year as number one once more," she told reporters after being congratulated by WTA Tour chief Stac-ey Allaster in a presenta-tion. "I mean, only very few players have finished a year as number one and to do it two years in a row is very special. I'm only in the beginning of my ca-reer and to have achieved so much already, it's a dream come true. "Of course, the match today I would like to have won, but at the same time, I still have a chance tomor-row. Right now I'm just so

happy that I've been play-ing most consistently and the best tennis the whole year."

Former world num-ber one Sharapova, still bothered by the left ankle sprain she suffered in To-kyo recently, was quick to congratulate Wozniacki. "It's an incredible achieve-ment to stay in that posi-tion for so many weeks," the Russian told report-ers. Sharapova's place in the White Group will now be taken by French alter-nate Marion Bartoli. In the other White Group match Victoria Azarenka made a winning start with a 6-2, 6-2 defeat of US Open champion Saman-tha Stosur who had beaten Sharapova on Tuesday. Sharapova, playing at the championships for the first time since 2007, al-most missed the event due to the ankle injury and her lack of recent match prac-tice was evident again as she let tournament debu-tant Li off the hook.

Caroline Wozniacki seals No. 1 ranking

Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki salutes the spectators after defeating Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska in the WTA championship final in Istanbul. (AP Photo)

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C ate Edwards made sure everything at her wed-ding was just as her late mother would have

wanted - and that included banning her father John Edwards' mistress from being a part of the ceremony. The disgraced presidential candi-date's daughter made it clear that Rielle Hunter was not welcome at her October 22 nuptials to college sweetheart Trevor Upham. She did however say her father's love child Frances Quinn could share in the celebration, but the three-year-old was notably absent.

A source close to the family told the Enquirer: 'John had hoped that his two families could come togeth-er for this happy event. 'But the last thing Cate wanted on her wedding day was to see her father's mistress there - and she made it very clear to him that Rielle was not welcome. Cate had no objections to Frances Quinn being there as she believes she is just an innocent child caught up in this tragedy, but she still hasn't forgiven Rielle for wrecking her family and destroying her mother.'

Miss Edwards married her sur-gical oncologist fiancé at a local Methodist church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina - the ceremony tak-ing place beside an altar which had been lit in her mother Elizabeth's memory after she died following a brave battle with breast cancer last December, aged 61. According to the Enquirer, Elizabeth' favourite flowers, foods and poems were a part of the big day as a way for her mother's spirit to be there as much

John W Schlitt to join inauguration of dance academy

Renowned vocalist of Petra and four rimes Gram-my award winner John W Schlitt will participate in the inauguration of the dance academy and

school of choreography at School of Music on November 16 at 4:00 pm. The School will offer courses on free sty-ler, salsa, contemporary, hip-hop, locking and popping and aerobic classes from November 16 onwards.

Mhonyamo Kikon who has a degree in Theology and Music, a person with a vision started the School on Mu-sic at Purana Baazar, with a very humble beginning with a few students and two teachers o January 16. At the ini-tial stage the course offers were piano, keyboard, violin, guitar and church music. Later, drums, vocal and choir conducted were added to the course. Within a short span time, the student enrollment increased and also the teachers increased from 2 to 6. At present the school has hostel facilities for both boys and girls. The School of Music also has a strong board member to support with the vision of the Director.

With the culmination of voting for the 1ST round, the Naga Orpheus Hunt had its vote counting on the 27th October at the D.C’s Conference Hall, Dimapur in the presence of Bizo Angami, P.A to D.C and MDACC Members.

John Edwards' daughter Cate banned father's mistress from her wedding

T hey are two of America's most high profile fam-ilies, but a rift

seems to be developing be-tween the Obamas and the Kardashians. The famous sisters are reportedly an-gry after Michelle Obama last week revealed that the President had tried to stop his daughter watching 'Keeping up with the Kar-dashians'. They have alleg-edly responded by insulting the First Lady's dress sense with one of the sisters re-portedly calling her ward-robe 'pretend poor' while another said her outfits are 'cheap suburban tack'.

But last night the Presi-dent revealed that he has never even seen the sisters' E! show.

'Kim, Khloe and Kourt-ney are furiously dissing the First Lady,' a 'Keeping up with the Kardashians' source told the National Enquirer. One of the sisters report-

Prince Harry Shops at Walmart! Credit: An-war Hussein/WireIm-

age.com The third heir to the throne has been living the life of a commoner while in the United States, -- replacing state dinners with $6 break-fasts, postpub "street snacks" and Walmart runs!

In the early hours of Oct. 16, while bar hopping on a break from his heli-copter training in El Cen-tro, Calif., Prince Harry ate tacos from a food stand outisde a bar in nearby Del Mar. Later that morning, he ate bacon and eggs at Pipes Cafe in Cardiff-by-the-Sea. The tab? $6.45! "He stood

as possible.John Edwards walked his

daughter down the aisle to the tune of Trumpet Voluntary. When the minister asked, 'Who gives this woman to be wed?', he answered: 'Her mother and I do.' Cate - who wore a Monique Lhuillier dress - danced with Trevor to Wagon Wheel, the same song they danced to when they started dating, ac-

cording to People magazine. She then danced with her father to The Temptations' My Girl.

John Edwards, whose long-run-ning affair hit the headlines while Elizabeth was in the final stages of her battle with cancer, would be forgiven for having felt a tiny bit uncomfortable during the cer-emony. The initial plans were that he would at least walk her down the

aisle, but it is not known if he gave his daughter away. He avoided all the photographers - or attempted to at least - and was seen trying to make a low-key exit via a back door of the venue.

Cate has been a vocal support-er of her father, who faces felony charges of more than $1million in undisclosed payments allegedly paid to cover up an affair, but it was clear that his scandal was not going to overshadow the wedding celebration. His case will go to trial in January. He faces a a 30-year jail sentence after he was indicted by a grand jury on six counts, including conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements.

Before the wedding Cate, 29, had spoken about her plans for the day, which she discussed at length with her mother before she passed away earlier this year. 'We want this to be really happy and joyous; that's what my mother would want,' she said. 'There are a lot of sort of small ways that she's infused into the day.

The attorney, who has left her job in May to start the Elizabeth Edwards Foundation, is the sec-ond-eldest of her parents' four chil-dren. She said that she sees traces of her mother every day in younger sister Emma, 13, and brother Jack, 11. Her older brother, Wade, tragi-cally died at the age of 16 in a car accident in 1996. Emma was her maid of honour on Saturday, while Jack was a groomsman. 'They had a tough year, but they're doing well,' Cate added.

Prince Harry Shops at Walmart!

in line like everyone else," a source tells Us Weekly of the British royal, 27.

But his most unroyal act? He did his own shop-

ping at a nearby Walmart! He loaded his cart with Coke, pizza, bananas and beer, a witness confirms. What an average bloke!

Film and television star Ronit Roy was on Thursday arrest-ed on the charges of

rash and negligent driving after his speeding vehicle hit a moving four-wheeler with four occupants of a family, injuring a woman seriously, in suburban Am-boli, police said.

Ronit was produced be-fore the Bandra Metropoli-tan magistrate court and was granted bail on a surety of Rs 12,000 as all the sections against him were bailable.

The 42-year-old actor was behind the wheels of his Mercedes when he rammed into a WagonR with four oc-cupants at around 6.45 am on Linking Road near Sab TV lane, H. Vhatkar, senior inspector at Amboli police station, told PTI.

The occupants — identi-fied as Deepak Darera (60), his wife Kaanta (56), and daughters Sneha (29) and Pooja (24) — who stay at suburban Andheri’s Shash-tri Nagar area, were on their way for a picnic to hill sta-tion Matheran, police said.

Kaanta sustained se-vere injuries on her back, Pooja had stitches on her head whereas Deepak in-jured his hand. Sneha re-ceived negligible injuries. All the four were taken to Kokilaben hospital by the

Tragic singer Amy Winehouse refused to undergo therapy

to overcome her alcohol-ism issues, according to her doctor. The British soul star, who passed away in July, was reviewed by a psy-chologist and a psychiatrist last year, but her physician, Christina Romete, has re-vealed the star was deter-mined to get better without the help of a therapist.

Romete told an inquest in London on Wednesday, "(Winehouse was) opposed to any sort of psychologi-cal therapy... She was one of the most intelligent young women I've ever met. She was very determined to do everything her way, includ-ing her therapy. She had very strict views on that."

Romete also insisted she wasn't worried about Wine-house taking her own life as the star had been making

M ichael Douglas will “never forget” the mo-ment he was diagnosed with throat cancer.

The Oscar-winning actor was told he had stage IV throat cancer in August 2010, eight months after he first com-plained of soreness in the area, and he admits he “knew” the problem by the way the specialist looked at him.

“I found an ear nose and throat doctor in Montreal,” Michael said. “He literally opened my mouth and took a tongue impression and I’ll never forget the moment when he looked up at me and looked back down and I knew.”

Michael — who has children Dylan, 11 and Carys, eight with wife Catherine Zeta-Jones as well as grown-up son Cameron, 32, from his first marriage — admits he put off see-ing a doctor about the issue because he thought he had simply damaged his throat while filming Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. “I thought may-be it was from tension from the part where you haven’t placed your voice and how you are swallowing your words and you are speaking from the back of your throat,” he said.

Michael recently admitted he is feeling a lot better following his com-pleted treatment. “I feel good, it’s nice, about a year out,” he said.

At war! Obama admits he's never seen the Kardashians

edly said that the First La-dy's clothes were selected to 'keep voters on a budget', ac-cording to the source. 'They charge Michelle is 'two-faced', that she really wor-ships the kind of life they lead and 'takes every vacation she can'.' Khloe Kardashian is said to be most offended

as she had told friends that the President thought their show was great after she met him at the White House in 2009 at a function with her Lakers basketball husband Lamar Odom, reported the Enquirer.

Mrs Obama apparently agrees with the assertion

that the TV show is not good for their daughters. A White House source told the National Enquirer that the show is 'no example' for young women and 'teaches the wrong message'.

Last night, while sitting down with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show Mr Obama

admitted that he had never seen the programme. 'No I haven't seen the show,' he said. 'I am probably a little biased against reality TV, partly because there's this programme on C-Span called Congress that I…'

'No I have not seen the show,' he continued.

Ronit Roy arrested for rash driving, gets bail

actor himself following which the injured were ad-mitted, police said.

The Udaan star, who is a resident of upscale Yari Road area, was driving towards the home of his brother Rohit, also an ac-tor, when the incident oc-curred.

Both the vehicles were severely damaged, police said, adding that subse-quently Ronit was arrested under IPC sections 279 (rash driving or riding on a public way), 338 (causing grievous hurt by act of en-dangering life or personal safety of others).

Michael Douglas Won’t Forget Cancer Diagnosis

Amy Winehouse Refused Therapy

future plans the night be-fore her death. The doctor adds, "I was not concerned that she was suicidal. She was looking forward to the future and we were discuss-ing plans for her upcoming birthday party. She had pre-viously said she did not want to die and said that night, 'I have not achieved things I wanted to do.'"

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DGP to grace XVII MDFA FinalsDImAPur, OCtOber 25 (mexN): The Mokok-chung District Football Association stated that they were pleased to inform that the ongoing XVII MDFA Trophy to be one of the most successful football tour-nament ever held in Mokokchung. It was announced that the nearly one month long trophy will come to an end within the next four days. In a press release issued by President, MDFA, Moasangba Jamir it was stated that “This year, the XVII MDFA Trophy is for-tunate to have the Nagaland Director General of Po-lice, K Kire IPS as the Chief Guest at the final match to be held on Friday, October 28, 2011”. Despite his heavy schedule, the DGP of Nagaland graciously con-sented to take the honour to witness the final match as the chief guest. The MDFA deeply acknowledged DGP K Kire for consenting to be the Chief Guest at the XVII MDFA Finals.

This XVII MDFA Trophy had been successful especially with regard to crowd turnout, team par-ticipation and discipline. While the MDFA tirelessly tried to improve the condition of football in the dis-trict in particular and the state in general, the Asso-ciation was appreciative of the public of Mokokchung for their unwavering support in this regard. We also deeply appreciate the different government officials, the business community and the media for the great support rendered to the MDFA Trophy held annu-ally. Furthermore, the MDFA also invited the public of Mokokchung to Imkongmeren Sports Complex and witness the ongoing matches and not to miss the October 28th, 2011 Finals which surely would be one of the greatest matches every played in the football History of Mokokchung.

NPL Champions to have shot at I-LeagueDImAPur, OCtOber 27 (mexN): Nagaland’s of-ficial football league -The Nagaland Premier League (NPL) ups the ante for football in the state with the confirmation that the champions of NPL will have a shot at the I-League- India’s top tier football league. This adds fresh momentum to the league as it inches towards kick off for its first ever season.

A press note issued by CEO of NPL Asalie Peseyie stated, “I can now officially confirm that the champion of the NPL will win itself a slot in the All India Football Federation Second Division League from which the winner and runner-up get an entry into the I-League, India’s Premier Football League. This was revealed af-ter a conversation with Atuo Mezhur (President, Naga-land Football Association) and the NPL. The NPL paves way for the winning club to be a part of the AIFF Second Division League - the winners and runners-up of the I-League 2nd Division are automatically promoted to the I-League, thus giving the NPL champions an opportu-nity to fight for a slot in the prestigious I-League.”

Peseyie in the note further expressed, “We know that this is a long shot but we are extremely happy and proud to provide such a platform and the pos-sibility of a shot at the top league for the players and clubs that will be participating in the inaugural sea-son of the NPL. We are extremely grateful to the Na-galand Football Association for making this a possi-bility. Until recently (May 2011) Shillong Lajong FC has been promoted to the I-League for the 2011-12 season. With this we have hope that the raw talent and the love of the game from the state will make it possible for the NPL champions to stand ground with its other northeastern counterpart.”

Having received a great initial response for the registration for team auctions, Peseyie mentioned that NPL Management would like to remind inter-ested participants that the final date of registration for the auction is November 9, 2011 and no applica-tions will be entertained thereafter. For further in-formation or details, visit the NPL Office located at: First Floor, Mall 1922, Khermahal, Dimapur.

Our CorrespondentKohima | October 27

Registering win in the 2nd semi finals today, Lamkang Students’ Union moved into the finals of the 12th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy 2011.

Lamkang SU defeated Kohima Science College 4-1 in the 2nd semi finals played here this afternoon. Angpol opened the account for Lamkang SU in the 61st minute while Limpa in-creased the score tally of the team in the 74th min-ute. L. Chovow George inked a goal for Kohima Science College in the 85th

minute.Jubilation was doing

the round within the camp of Lamkang SU when Ang-thot netted another goal for the team in the 89th min-ute. Rengshel of the Lam-kang SU sealed the victory box for the team with a mar-gin of 4-1 in the added time.

With this, the Lamkang SU will clash with Saku’s Mission College, Dimapur in the finals on October 29 at 1:00 PM.

Dr. Vizovol Mekro acted as the match patron of the day. Chief minister Neiphiu Rio will be the guest of hon-our at the grand finale.

The closing function

will also witness launching of Late Kekuojalie & Late Vikhozo Memorial Trust.

The grand final will also feature special perfor-mance by Faith in Action (Semi- finalist- India’s Got Talent) and Renbeni Odyuo (NSACS Brand Ambassa-dor). Meanwhile, the there will be an exhibition match on October 28 at 2:00 PM between Kohima District Football Veterans’ Associa-tion and ASU organizing committee 12th NSF Mar-tyrs’ Memorial Trophy.

Mentionably, the NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Tro-phy organized annually by Angami Students’ Union

(ASU), in reminiscence and tribute to the two students’ comrades, this years’12th edition also

12TH NSF MARTYRS MEMORIAL TROPHY 2011commemorate with the 25th anniversary of the slain martyrs Late Kekuo-jalie Sachü & Late Vikhozo Yhoshü, who made the su-preme sacrifice in the year 1986, while on the duty call of the Naga Students’ Fed-eration in its fight for jus-tice and rights of the stu-dents’ community..

Altogether, 57 teams joined this years’ 12 edi-tion from across five district of Nagaland in-cluding five teams from outside the state.

PRIZE MONEYChampion: Rs. 1, 25, 000Runners-up: Rs. 80,000Losing semi- finalists: Rs. 10,000 eachLosing quarter- finalists: Rs. 6,000 each

Lamkang SU to clash with Saku’s MC in finals

GreAter NOIDA, OC-tOber 27 (PtI): India`s image as a growing sports superpower will be put to test when it hosts the first ever Formula One Grand Prix beginning with the free practice session on Friday where racing afficanados will get the first feel of the high-speed action set for Sunday. Amid the Sebastian Vettels and Lewis Ham-iltons, the racers of home team, Sahara Force India, would look to score points to make the country`s entry into the glamorous world of F1 a memorable one.

The action begins with the free practice session On Friday, followed by the qualifying on Saturday before the race on Sun-day. Son of the soil Narain Karthikeyan will realise the dream of his life when he will run the Hispania car on the track of brand new Buddh International Cir-cuit but Karun Chandhok is not that lucky as Team Lotus has not given him a

racing seat. Chandhok has no choice but to be content with driving during the practice session on Friday.

Like any shrewd busi-ness group, Team Lotus put business over emotions and decided to stick with regu-lar drivers Heikki Kovalain-en and Jarno Trulli as they aim to finish 10th ahead of fellow newcomers Hispania and Virgin. A 10th place fin-ish would mean receiving close to USD 30 million as revenue from FIA, so Team Principal Tony Fernandes did not hesitate in making an unpopular decision.

"Driving in front of the home crowd cheering on is going to be a surreal expe-rience. A once in a lifetime experience and I feel ex-tremely fortunate. There is a huge buzz around the Grand Prix already and I`m sure that it`ll be a re-sounding success that will motivate more youngsters towards the sport and give us the future F1 drivers," Karthikeyan said. Force

India drivers -- Adrian Su-til and Paul di Resta -- have been in points contention consistently in the second half of the season and a good result will boost the team`s chances to stay in the sixth position in the construc-tors` championship.

The local outfit is go-ing to face stiff competition from Sauber, which is nine points behind the home team at 40, and Toro Rosso (37). Last season, Force In-dia had conceded the sixth place to Williams by just one point and the team would not want a repeat this time around and hence making the Q3 in Saturday`s qualifying would be crucial for them.

Only two races will be left after the Indian Grand Prix -- Abu Dhabi and Bra-zil -- and the team would look to consolidate its po-sition and extend the lead over Sauber. Red Bull has sealed both the drivers` and the constructors` champi-onship but Sebastian Vettel

and Mark Webber are not expected to drop intensity.

The fight for the second and third place in the driv-ers` standing is still fierce with McLaren`s Jenson Button leading the race with 222 points, just 10 ahead of Ferrari`s Fernando Alonso. Webber is not too far behind at 209 and would look to end his win drought this season.

The 5.14 km BIC is a vir-gin track but drivers who got a hang of it through sim-ulators have termed it one of the fastest in the world but how things will unfold can be known only on Sun-day. From the organisation-al point of view, it`s India`s first major event after last year`s Commonwealth Games and also the first major motorsport show-piece after tragic deaths of

Briton Dan Wheldon in IndyCar Rally in the US and of Italian biker Marco Simoncelli in Moto GP in Malaysia. There will be pressure on the organisers

– Jaypee Group, to deliver a successful race, which will be watched by fans in close to 200 countries.

India recently hosted two World Cups -- hock-ey and cricket -- without much glitch but had to suf-fer embarrassment due to the shoddy preparations for CWG before finally manag-ing to pull it off. The Jaypee officials had said that repu-tation of their own brand and that of the country is at stake and have vowed to wipe off the bad memories of CWG by hosting the race without any glitch.

The finishing touches to the sprawling 1,10,000-ca-pacity facility were still be-ing given till the last week and everyone is just keep-ing the fingers crossed.

There were a few chal-lenges thrown by the sys-tem before the organisers for hosting the race and those speed-breakers were dealt well but all that mat-ters now is performance in the next three days.

All eyes on India as F1 takes a pit stop in the sub-continent

Track shines despite teething problemsNeW DeLHI, OCtOber 27 (reuters): Teething problems were evident at India's new Buddh Inter-national circuit as the driv-ers arrived on Thursday but Formula One's main man declared himself sat-isfied. "Super. The track is super," commercial supre-mo Bernie Ecclestone told Reuters in the paddock as teams set up their garages and workmen busied them-selves painting markings in the pit lane. "They did ev-erything we wanted them to do within, what, two or three years of reaching the agreement," continued the Briton. "It took Silverstone 25 years, so I think they've done very well."

A lack of clear signage outside the circuit caused some confusion while me-dia centre staff battled an immediate power cut. Tele-vision reporters said they had suffered three separate outages in their compound by lunchtime. A small bat, disturbed from its slum-bers, flitted around above reporters heads in the press room before finally finding an exit and disappearing into the sunshine. Some buildings remained clear-ly unfinished, with what was immediately dubbed a 'stairway to heaven' lead-ing vertiginously up to a flat roof and a sheer and unpro-tected drop.

The overall appear-ance of the $450 million facility, which will host India's first grand prix on Sunday, was nonetheless impressive even if lack-ing a particularly Indian flavour. "I just walked in and it looks hugely impres-sive," retired triple world champion Jackie Stewart told Reuters as he arrived in the paddock. "From just driving in, the scale of it, it's extraordinary. I think it's wonderful and this is the new world. And they've done that like that," added the Scot, clicking his fin-gers. "When we think of the old world, we can't do that. But it will still take two years to get it right. Just like it will take two years to get the new Silverstone complex right.

McLaren Mercedes driver Jenson Button of Britain drives a three wheels ahead of Sunday's Indian Formula One Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Noida, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from New Delhi on Oct. 27. Noida will host India's first Formula One race on Sunday, Oct. 30. (AP Photo)