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Rs.20 discount on taxi fare for tourists Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): All Nagaland Taxi Association (ANTA), Dimapur unit has an-nounced it will give“Rs.20 discount” on taxi fare per passenger to tourists from Assam, Tripura, Megha-laya, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram vis-iting the State during the Hornbill festival. The con-cession also includes senior citizens of Nagaland and journalists from Nagaland and outside. Further, ANTA said services will be avail-able 24x7. ANTA informed today that it is celebrating the festival with peace and welcomes tourists from all over the world to the Horn-bill. It has also appealed to all citizens to cooperate with the tourists.

Villagers allege assault by UG cadres Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The Village Council Upper Tiru in Nag-inimora, Mon has alleged that the council chairman and ‘Rana Peyu’ were as-saulted by some members of the NSCN/GPRN on No-vember 16. According to the Upper Tira Council, around 20 cadres led by “Com-mander” Wangpoh, “Ma-jor” Noktha and Tahlem in full arms came to the village and demanded “100 kgs of rice and a big pig.” The vil-lagers reportedly provided them with some chickens and rice, and told them that they would arrange for the pig the next morning. How-ever, the following morn-ing at about 6 am, when the duo to meet the cadres, they were beaten, mercilessly without any explanation. The Village Council Upper Tiru has issued a press note condemning the incident.

GPRN/NSCN releases annual calendar 2012Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): A GPRN/NSCN annual Calendar was released during the winter session of the National Tatar Hoho. The five page double printed calendar traces the history of the Naga people in the last one hundred years through quotations and photo im-ages. The calendar reaffirms the position of the Nagas with regard to their political past, present and future.

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KoHima, November 23 (NepS): Ever since the Naga IR (In-dian Reserve) jawans from Nagaland deployed to Chhattisgarh’s Nax-alite prone areas like Dantawada, Bastar, their services were further sought by the Center to other Nex-alite and Maoist infested areas too. After 9 NAP (IR)’s tenure in Chhat-tisgarh was over, the 10th NAP (IR) have been deployed to West Bengal’s Maoist stronghold area in Purulia district. During their deployment, many of them had sacrificed their precious lives in defense of the coun-try. One of the latest Naga IR jawan who sacrificed his life while fighting Maoists in West Bengal’s Purulia dis-trict was Mhasivikho Angami. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Ba-nerjee also paid her respect to the slain Naga jawan.

But in spite of such sacrifices made by the Naga IR jawans, they too were engaged in various “Community Policing initiatives” to win the heart and confidence of the locals in the ar-eas. The 10th NAP Bn (IR) currently in West Bengal’s Purulia district has in fact started “Community-policing (Humanitarian works)” since Sep-tember last year in their respective Company locations in the district (Pu-rulia). They have divided their Bn into five Companies (Coy). In all these five Coys, they have initiated “Communi-ty-Policing” works by constructing badminton courts, parks, rest houses, providing stationery items to various schools, sports goods to various local sporting clubs, extending financial as-sistances to poor and needy villagers for treatments, etc.

In Kumarikanan area, the “A Coy” of the 10th NAP (IR) has con-structed first class Badminton Court, besides distributing stationery items to various primary schools and also

distributed sports items to local A.C.C. Club.

In Murguma sector, the “B Coy” of the 10th NAP (IR) carried out tree plantations, provided sports ma-terials to local sports club---Netaji Club Murguma, visited Jhalda Gov-ernment High School and extended financial assistance to 7 physically challenge students and also conduct-ed social works at the Government Primary schools and college.

In Bughmundi area, the “C Coy” of the 10th NAP (IR) constructed garbage dumps at different sides for dumping medical wastes. They also constructed five Naga style bamboo garbage baskets with signboard---“Keep your surroundings Clean” written in English and Bengali. They had conducted social works in hospitals of this area too, besides white-washing front part of the Hos-pital building, the gate and the tree stamps/stems.

In Sirkabad sector, the “E Coy” of the 10th NAP (IR) donated sports items to Kalapani Football Club. They even played football exhibition match with the players of this club by spon-soring the prize. Not only giving away stationery items to schools of this area, they also even extended educational materials to one Mr Hari Pata Maji of Arsha Higher Secondary School, the first and the only matriculate from Danasi Village since India’s Indepen-dence. They even extended financial assistance to villagers who were in dire need of medical treatments, besides providing towels and toiletries to pa-tients of Sirkabad Civil Hospital.

This sector is the perhaps the big-gest Coy out of the total “5 Coys” un-der 10th NAP (IR) Bn. They also de-veloped a beautiful “Park” under the name and style of “Lake View Park”.

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Neglect of two-lane Dhansiri Bridge irks public

Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The public of Khaghaboto, Ni-uland and Aghunaqa areas are irked by stoppage of work at the two-lane Dhans-iri Bridge between Shozuku village and Zukihe village. According to Jacob Zhi-momi, Chairman of the Khaghaboto Area Kukami Kuqhakulu, the public has seriously viewed that there “could be gross manipulation behind the non completion of the bridge which is the life line of many villages under Niuland sub-division and also intersect the interstate road of Bokajan-Wokha.”

It is alleged that the concerned agen-cy funding the project has reportedly released the entire fund meant for the project but on contrary the construc-tion company is said to have not received the payment for the works already been done. Zhimomi said the public is of the view that the State department and Construction Company have violated the contract agreement rules and ques-tions the holdup of work for about 2 years. He is said that company has even shifted entire machinery elsewhere.

In this regard, Zhimomi said he had filed RTI to the office of Executive Engineer, Road & Bridges, Dimapur Division who was not in a position to furnish the detail information and di-rected him to approach the Chief Engi-neer’s office at state capital.

Zhimomi said it is completely ri-diculous on the concerned depart-ment and the company to have ne-glected a vital project and behalf of the public of three areas has urged the department and the company to come to a negotiating table and sort out the differences and resume the work at the earliest in the interest of the village people, otherwise the agitated public may even resort to agitation creating tricky situation.

Our CorrespondentKohima | November 22

Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu has been re-elected as the President of Naga People’s Front (NPF). The recom-mendation of the election board for election of cen-tral office bearers of NPF was announced by elec-tion board chairman, CM Chang, Lok Sabha MP, dur-ing the 6th general confer-ence of NPF here today at Indira Gandhi Stadium. CM Chang administered oath to the President and other central office bearers.

Dr. Liezietsu expressed gratitude to the party func-tionaries for reposing faith in his leadership and as-sured to do his best to serve the party with sincerity and devotion. Earlier, Dr. Liezi-etsu in his presidential ad-dress at the conference said the NPF is a regional politi-cal party with national out-look and there is no ethnic, communal or religious ori-entation.

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Nagaland state has an un-spent outstanding balance of about Rs. 61.33 Crore from grants in-aid for de-velopment extended to the state, Minister of State (In-dependent Charge) for De-velopment of North East-ern Region (DoNER) Paban Singh Ghatowar has said.

Nagaland is among other North Eastern states that have been enjoying grants in-aid under the Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources (NLCPR) Scheme by the Ministry of DoNER.

That the state has no revenue parley and has to depend on the central gov-ernment, the “unspent balance” may be compara-tively petty. However, con-sidering that a tiny state as Nagaland has no revenue but has accrued a debt of Rs. 5221.67 crore, the “unspent balance” of Rs. 61.33 crore may still attract misgivings about the state govern-ment’s use of funds meant for development.

Citizens may find inter-esting that on November 13, the Nagaland Pradesh Con-gress Committee (NPCC) had accused the Democrat-ic Alliance of Nagaland of being “unable to release the development funds for the state’s work programs.” The government’s ‘inability’ to release the funds, the NPCC had stated, has led to devel-opment activities coming to a ‘standstill’ and that “it has no money to maintain the state’s assets.”

DoNER Minister (In-dependent Charge) Paban Singh Ghatowar informed the Lok Sabha November 22 of the status of outstand-ing utilization certificates and unspent balances with the state governments.

He said Arunachal Pradesh has Rs. 160.38 crore, Assam has Rs. 107.95 crore, Manipur at Rs. 65.77 crore, Meghalaya at Rs. 97.58 crore, Mizoram at Rs. 71.69 crore; Nagaland has Rs. 61.33 crore, Sikkim at Rs. 85.93 crore and Tripura with an outstanding bal-ance of Rs. 35.10 Crore.

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Naga IR jawans’ “Community Policing” wins hearts in Purula

Morung Express NewsDimapur | November 23

Dimapur was caught un-awares on Wednesday as fuel retail outlets in town went on an unannounced closure. Unsolicited mone-tary demand or illegal taxa-tion imposed on one petrol pump was the reason. It cre-ated a chain reaction of sorts as the closure was felt even at Chumukedima. The sud-den shutdown forced many vehicles off the road today with the most affected being

passenger autorickshaws, which usually get their tanks filled on a daily basis. Many vehicles had to make the trek to either Lahorijan or Khatkhati for refills.

A peeved Dimapur Petroleum Dealers Asso-ciation (DPDA) justifying the move said that some unidentified individuals threatened to burn down a petrol pump at Duncan Bas-ti on Tuesday evening after the proprietor failed to meet their monetary demand.

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Dimapur, Novem-ber 23 (mexN): The Di-mapur police is on the hunt for three cadres who re-portedly harassed employ-ees of a petrol pump located in Duncan Basti on Novem-ber 22 and threatened to blow up the outlet and also took away the keys of the outlet. Addl Sp and PRO of Dimapur informed that it received a complaint today from the Dimapur Petro-leum Dealers Association today in this regard.

Dimapur police began investigation and based

on strong suspicion that it could be the handiwork of underground cadres be-longing to the NNC/FGN, made efforts to ascertain their involvement. On as-certaining their involve-ment of their cadres, pres-sure was exerted on the “senior functionaries” of the organisation to hand over the culprits involved and also the keys to the dis-pending units which were taken away.

The police said that while it was being assured that organisation would

investigate into the inci-dent and hand over the err-ing cadres; it received in-formed that an “unknown person” had left some keys at a shop near the district hospital at about 4:30 pm today. Police personnel went to the shop and re-trieved the keys which were handed over to the pro-prietor of the outlet. The Dimapur police have reg-istered a case in this con-nection and efforts have been made to identify and arrest the culprits involved in the crime.

Dimapur DC ban on donation Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur N Hushili Sema has informed all organisations, unions in and around Dimapur that any kind of donations, whether in the name of “Christmas and New year” or any other function/occasion are banned with immediate effect. Anyone found collecting such do-nation will be booked as per the rule amended.

NSCN/GPRN directs cadres Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): Kilo Kilonser incharge of the NSCN/GPRN, D. G. Robert has informed all the rank and file of the NSCN to strictly refrain from collecting any “Christmas donations.” “It has come to our knowledge about the rampant collection in the guise of ‘fixed rate Christmas donations’ is prevailing in and around Dimapur. Such donations and harassment to the business community is neither the spirit of Christmas nor the culture of the Nagas,” the NSCN/ GPRN stated.

Unending illegal taxation causes hardships for publicPolice search for cadres Peeved fuel retailers

shut down outlets

Nagaland’s ‘unspent’ dev funds at 61+ crores

Dr. shurhozelie gets re-elected ‘NPF entry into Manipur and Arunachal will not alter their boundaries’

Dr. Shurhozelie who was re-elected as NPF President taking oath along with other mem-bers during the 6th General Convention of the NPF held on November 23 at Kohima.

parties and in due course of time, regional parties will dominate the politics of the largest democracy in the world,” he said and expressed happiness that NPF is there as a well estab-

lished regional party.“People now talk about

a ‘National Government’ or a ‘Supra State Body’. Our priorities are for the settle-ment of the Naga political problem, peace and devel-

opment”, he said adding that come what may, “we will remain contended peo-ple by fulfilling our com-mitments with clear con-science.

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NPF for fast tracking political solution; reiterate demand for integration story in page 5

Rio eye Manipur polls; calls for

Naga unityChizokho Vero

Kohima | November 23

Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio today said the Naga politi-cal issue continues to be at the top of the NPF and DAN government’s agenda. “We have won the peoples’ man-date to run the government on a political plank of play-ing the role of an active fa-cilitator to the Naga peace process, along with an as-surance that our govern-ment will make way for any alternative settlement that may come about as a result of the peace process which is honourable,” Rio said at the 6th general convention of NPF general convention here today.

Rio said the immedi-ate challenge of NPF on the hand is the upcoming as-sembly elections in Mani-pur where it will be making its maiden entry.

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24 November 2011Thursday2 Dimapur The Morung ExpressLOCAL

State youth festival 2011 to conclude todayDimapur, November 23 (Dipr): The 12th State Level Youth Festival 2011, which is being held at Indira Gandhi Stadium, Kohima will conclude on November 24, 2011 with Director Youth Resources & Sports, Kelei Zeliang as the chief guest. The final competitions for folk dance and folk song will be conducted at the clos-ing function. The programme will be chaired by Joint Director Youth Resources & Sports Arupe Zeliang. Bonfire will follow the closing ceremony.

Biometric Capturing in Peren Town on November 24Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The Biomet-ric Capturing exercise in continuation with the NPR is to begin from November 24 in Peren Town, at Town Hall. A press note issued by Smita Sarangi, IAS sub-di-visional officer (civil) Hq, office of the Deputy Commis-sioner stated that the exercise is to start with ward No.1 and ward No 2 and will cover Peren Town and Peren Sadar villages in the first Phase.

2nd eNorth East award summit on Nov 25 Dimapur, November 23 (Dipr): The 2nd ‘eNorth East Award Summit’ 2011 will be held at RI-ELIT Kohima Nagaland on November 25, 2011. The objective of this eNorth East Award Summit is to con-tribute to an enabling, networking ICT for develop-ment environment, in the region. The focus of this en-tire programme is on sustainable ICT practices that brings working and long term outcome from various ICT investment programme.

Health mela at Wakching on November 24 and 25Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The Health & Family Welfare Department Mon will organize a two day health mela on November 24 and 25, 2011 at Wakch-ing PHC, Mon district. The health meal will offer health services from a number of specialists like Gynecologist, Pediatric etc and will also include free distribution of medicines. Therefore, all the administrative officers, pastors and village leaders are requested to kindly in-form the people of Wakching Villages and Wakching block to avail the services of the department on the aforesaid mentioned days. This was state din après note issued by Dr. T. Kikon, chief medical officer, Mon.

ABAM rest house inauguration on Nov 25 Dimapur, November 23 (Dipr): The sacred shelter (Rest House) at the ABAM farm Tuli will be in-augurated by Chairman NIDC & NHL, Nuklutoshi on November 25, 2011 at 12 noon as the chief guest at Tuli under Mokokchung district. The programme will be chaired by Commissioner & Secretary and President Kohima Ao Officers Union, Sentiyanger Imchen, IAS while Executive Secretary ABAM, Rev. Dr. Mar At-songchanger will propose the dedication prayer.

CLCSU 14th freshers day cum parting socialDimapur, November 23 (mexN): The City Law College Students’ Union Dimapur (CLCSU) is organiz-ing its 14th fresher’s day cum parting social on Novem-ber 26, 2011 at 10:00 am at AIDA Hall Don Bosco River belt colony. A press note issued by Vilito Sema, presi-dent CLCSUD has requested all the student to attend the program without fail. The note also mentioned that J.Alam, IAS, Home Commissioner Nagaland has consented to grace the occasion as the chief guest.

Dimapur Mahila Congress president resignsDimapur, November 23 (mexN): Dimapur Ma-hila Congress president, Asangla Imti has tendered resignation from Nagaland Mahila Congress. A press note issued by Asangla Imti stated, “I have decided to tender my resignation with immediate effect and re-dedicate myself on strengthening the Indian National Congress in Nagaland”.

MCCI annual general meet on Nov 30Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industries (MCCI) annual general meeting will be held on November 30, 2011 at 2:00 pm at Cosmos Hall. A press note issued by Lanuk-aba, president and Bendang Walling, general secretary directed all the members to close their shop by 2:00 pm and attend the meeting positively. Agenda to be dis-cussed in the general meeting should be submitted to the office in written on or before November 28, 2011. ADC, Mokokchung Kesonyu Yhome, IAS has consent-ed to be the guest of honour at the meeting.

Peren DPDB meet on Nov 28Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): Peren Dis-trict Planning and Development board members are informed that DPDB meeting for the month of No-vember 2011 will be held on November 28 at 11:00 am in DC’s conference hall, Peren Town. Therefore, all the DPDB members of Peren district are informed to take note of the same and make it convenient to attend the meeting. This was stated in a press note issued by Chairman, DPDB Peren, T.R Zeliang.

Rengma NGADA festival on Nov 28Dimapur, November 23(mexN): The Kandi Ni Union Dimapur will be celebrating Rengma Ngada fes-tival on November 28, 2011 at 10:00 am at the residence of Nillo Rengma (ex-minister) Pamdumpukri, Dima-pur. A press note issued by K. Kedimo Apon, general secretary has informed that Kenilo Apong, Director Nagaland State Lotteries has consented to be the chief guest. KNUD has requested all the Kandi Ni Union members to attend the Ngada festival celebration in Rengma traditional attire.

Mon DCC secretary resigns and joins NPF moN, November 23 (mexN): H. Shamlau Konyak has tendered resignation from the post of Secretary DCC Mon and executive member ACCC 48TH Moka and joined NPF Party. A press note issued by H. Sham-lau Konyak stated, “The purpose of joining NPF party is for the greater interest of general public to support E.E. Pangteang Advisor (DUDA) in the forthcoming Assembly Election under the leadership of Chief Min-ister Neiphiu Rio and President Dr. Shurhozelie”.

TADO annual picnic on Dec 1Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The Tenyim-ia Auto Drivers and Owners (TADO), Welfare Kuda Di-mapur Nagaland will hold its 2nd annual picnic which is scheduled to be held on December 1, at Urra Village from 10.00 am onwards. A press note issued by Vekho-sayi Ringa, President and Niesahu Swuro, Publicity and Information Secretary TADO stated that Thep-funeituo Rio, former DMC member has consented to be the chief guest. The note also appeals to all the auto owners to grant one leave to the Tenyimia Auto Driv-ers. All the respective Tenyimia Auto Drivers and Own-ers are hereby requested to reach the venue place at 9:00 am sharp without any fail.

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Dimapur, Novem-ber 23 (Dipr): Elec-tion Commission of India (ECI) Electoral roll Ob-server for Mon, Longleng, Mokokchung and Wokha

districts V. Shashank Shek-har has made it clear that the figures of Electoral roll should be consistent with the state level figures.

Shashank Shekhar,

who held a meeting with recognized political par-ties, NGOs and public of Mokokchung district at DC’s Conference Hall on November 23, 2011 on his

Dimapur, Novem-ber 23 (mexN): The 10th Nagaland Theological Col-leges Association (NTCA) Annual General meeting was held on November 19 and 20 at its administrative centre at NLBC campus, Purana Bazar, under the theme: “Mission and the Role of the Churches in Na-galand Today”.

A press note issued by Rev. Thebemo Yanthan, President, NTCA stated that the programme begun with the opening introduc-tion by Rev. Thebemo Yan-than, President, NTCA. Special welcome was ex-pressed by Dr. Xeshebu, Director, NLBC, host col-lege of this NTCA-AGM 2011 to the office bearers

and to all delegates. They were 25 various bible col-leges and seminaries par-ticipated and with the total of 58 delegates. The wor-ship service guest speakers were Rev. Dr. N. Paphino, Principal, Logos College, who emphasis on the pow-er of the Holy Spirit in the lives of the believers and Pastor Khriesito Savino,

Golden Crown College Choir Singing during NTCA-AGM

Our CorrespondentKohima | November 23

A seminar on energy con-servation was held today at Hotel CIMORB, Kohi-ma with commissioner & secretary Power, K.Kire as the chief guest. The seminar was organized by Nagaland state desig-nated Agency in collabo-ration with petroleum conservation research association (PCRA), un-der the ministry of petro-leum and natural gas.

Addressing the gath-ering at the inaugural function, Kire said India is emerging as global eco-nomic power and with its growth, we should have power security. Kire as-serted that the demand for power is very high and imperative and therefore there is a need to see that consumption of power is used away sustainability. While congratulating the organizers for initiating the programme, creating more awareness on con-servation of power he also urged the department

to create awareness, the need of energy, efficient, usage and conservation.

Also, Kire appealed the organizers to conduct awareness to the stake-holders and also not to confine only in Kohima and Dimapur but also to reach out to the oth-er districts. He opined that there should be zero tolerance for erring de-faulters as government is spending almost 11% of the state fund on pur-chasing power which can be used for other develop-mental activities.

Mohanta, Joint Di-rector, PCRA ER and K.L Bhutia, deputy di-rector, PCRA were the resource persons at the seminar. Engineers from different department, Hotel proprietors and students from geology department Nagaland University attended the seminar. Earlier the pro-gramme was chaired by Er. K.T Wapang Ao, Chief Electrical Inspector, Na-galand State Designated Agency.

Rotary Club Dimapur President, Akokla Pongen Lucy, along with Rotary Club Kohima members, and others during its 8th Anniversary Charter night of Rotary Club Kohima, Dist 3240, held at the Heritage on November 22.

Dimapur, November 23 (Dipr): District level training pro-gramme on National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) was held on Novem-ber 23, 2011 at DC’s Conference Hall, Wokha with Principle ETC, Phek, Dr. Kedise Pucho as the resource person. The training was sponsored by Minis-try of Rural Development.

Project Director, DRDA, Helo Semp while delivering the inaugural speech, stressed on proper imple-mentation of schemes under NRLM and added that, over a period of time, the programme aimed to uplift and reach to all people living under below poverty line. He also appealed to the Self Help Groups to strengthen their activities and work hand in hand for socio economic development. Un-der the programme, financial assis-tance in the form of banks loans will be extended to the people and further urged them for timely repayment of loans for the success of the policy.

Highlighting on the concept and objective of NRLM, Course Direc-tor, Dr. Kedise Pucho said that the main aim is to link them to sustain-able livelihood to over come poverty, to reduce poverty by enabling the poor households to access gainful self-employment and skilled wage employment opportunities, result-ing in appreciable improvements in their livelihood on a sustainable ba-sis through grassroots institutions of the poor. He also dwelled on the top-ics like, Evolution of NRLM and Re-structuring of SGSY, Building of Self Help Group and SHG Federation, Planning and Implementation of NRLM. About 150 trainees from vil-lage functionaries, SHG, NGO’s and church leaders attended the training programme. The inaugural function was chaired by DPO, DRDA Wokha, Nchumthung Ngullie while vote of thanks was proposed by Programme Officer, DRDA Wokha C. I. Meren.

Seminar on energy conservation held

10th NTCA annual general meeting held BRC, delivered message on the Kingdom of God on earth and in heaven. Spe-cial songs were presented by Golden Crown College, New Life Bible College and Eastern Bible College.

The note also men-tioned that during the ses-sions, the well researched seminar papers on the top-ic; “The Biblical and Theo-logical Concept of Mission in the Context of Nagaland- A Call to Renewal “and “Contemporary Issues in Mission” were present-ed by Kansinlung Kamei, Withee Bible College and N. Toshi Ao of Missiologi-cal Research Centre. One of the official respondents Moa, SBC toss thought pro-voking ideas on the paper of the presenters. Meanwhile, the moderator of seminar session Merensola, CTC and Mar, DBC played a ma-jor role in keeping the audi-ence in the right perspec-tive of theological thoughts during the discussion on the paper presentation. The next NTCA -AGM will be held in November 17 to 18, 2012.

Training on NRLM held at Wokha

E-Roll in Mkg district needs more verificationsecond visit to the district said there has been lot of improvement in the veri-fication of electoral roll in the district but insist-ed that more verification needs to be carried out to bring the electoral roll per-centage at the state level. Nagaland state Electoral roll percentage to the to-tal population of 2011 cen-sus stands at 67 per cent whereas the percentage of total electors to total pop-ulation of Mokokchung district was recorded at 94%. With intensive veri-fication conducted by ad-ministrative officers and Booth Level Officers in the district, the percentage has been brought down to 72 percent after making suo moto deletion of 6167 persons and another about 33820 persons where no-

tice is being issued for fur-ther deletion as on Novem-ber 22, 2011 update.

However, even after such exercise, there are certain areas where per-centage is still abnormally high which needs to be rec-tified. He said the assem-bly constituencies where percentage is above 70% are 22-Arkakong, 25-Mon-goaya, 28-Koridang and 29-Jangpetkong which is considered much higher than the broad working range and requires inten-sive verification.

The Observer said in the meeting that electoral roll percentage recorded below 50 % and above 70 % in any polling stations should be re-verified for which the observer asked the district Administra-tion particularly the BLOs

to carry out the re verifica-tion of electoral roll. Sha-shank Shekhar further said high percentage of electoral roll as compared to total population in any polling station would not be accepted by the Elec-tion Commission and may ask for re-verification. Therefore he called upon all concerned to under-stand the importance of ongoing steps being taken by the Election Commis-sion to clean the electoral roll by deleting those non-genuine voters from elec-toral roll.

The ECI had appointed three senior officers; name-ly, N.Putsure, T.C Sangtam and V.Shashank Shekhar as Electoral Roll Observer for Nagaland state for the on-going summary revision of electoral roll in the state.

Electoral roll Observer V. Shashank Shekhar during a meeting with DC Mokokchung, political parties, NGOs, and public of Mokokchung district, at DC’s conference hall on November 23. (DIPR Photo)

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Through this coloumn, we would like to extend our gratitude. Words are

insufficient to express our thanks and gratitude to all those who stood by us and supported us with prayers, physical presence, materials and financial assistance as we mourned the sudden demise of our beloved Late Mhasivikho Kirha who laid down his life in the call of duty after the gun battle at Purulia(West Bengal) on 19th Nov.2011.We convey our special thanks to:-

1. Chief Minister(West Bengal)2. Home Minister(West Bengal)3. Chief Minister(Nagaland)4. Governor(Nagaland)5. Home Minister(Nagaland)6. DIG Training and Border(Nagaland)7. DGP(Nagaland)8. AIG(Nagaland)

9. Principal PTS10. Commandant 10th ,11th ,13th

,14th,15th IRB11. APO(President and Colleagues)12. Advisory & Staff Chumukedima Town

Council(CTC)13. Neisakhoto Kuotsu Jharkhand14. Azolie Shüya(West Bengal)15. Tiachuba Naik(West Bengal)16. Zakie S.N.Havildar(West Bengal)17. Christian Revival Church

Chumukedima Village and Town18. Town Baptist church19. Baptist Church Chumukedima Village20. Catholic Church Chumukedima Town21. 10th IRB Church22. Veterinary Fellowship Chumukedima Town23. Jakhama Kuda Union Chumukedima Town24. Chumukedima town and Village Youth25. Zasi Krotho Veterinary Chumukedima Town26. Tenyimia Union(West Bengal)27. Akhoto ABSI(West Bengal)28. Unit Church(West Bengal)29. Nkasi Mass Party(West Bengal)30. ‘F’Coy 16 Platoon(West Bengal)31. ‘F’Coy Personal(West Bengal)32. Sumi Community(West Bengal)33. Lotha Hoho(West Bengal)34. Tenyimi Group (West Bengal)35. ‘B’Coy (West Bengal)36. Family Members ‘F’Coy(West Bengal)37. ‘F’Coy Church(West Bengal)38. Tenyimia Brothers(West Bengal)39. Nagamese Church Chumukedima Village40. ‘F’Coy and Comrades.

All well wishers, loved and dear ones.Loving mother and

family members……………….

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F.NO.FIN/REV-3/EXEMPT/43/09::In exercise of the powers conferred by the sub-section 6 of Section 12 and Section 22 of the Nagaland Value Added Tax Act,2005,the Governor of Nagaland is pleased to make the following amendments to the Schedules of the Nagaland Value Added Tax Act,2005,as follows:-(i) “Textiles and all varieties” listed in Entry 65 of Schedule-I shall stand deleted;(ii) In the existing Schedule IV, listing goods taxable@4.75%,a new entry shall be inserted after the last entry namely:-“Textiles of all varieties”; and(iii) “Declared Goods as specified in Section 14 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956(Central Act 74 of 1956), other than goods specified in Schedule-I” listed in Entry 45 of Schedule IV shall stand increased from 4% to 4.75%.This Notification will come into force from the date of publication in the official gazette.

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18th November 2011

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The Tenyimi Students’ Union Dimapur (TSUD) has elected its new office bearers for the tenure of 2011-2013 on 11th Nov. 2011.(1) Jesse Kath - President(2) Jenpu Rongmei - Vice President(3) Isaac Inkah - General Secretary(4) Rukusuto Ltu - Asst. General Secretary(5) Katini Mahe - Fianace Secretary(6) Kromeh - Secy. Social & Culture(7) Chopfokho Robviina - Secy. Information & Publicity(8) Azo Wetsah - Secy. Games & Sports(9) Sangamlung Dangmei - Secy. Education & Statistics(10) Kadenlungbo - Speaker U/A(11) Namthiurai - Deputy Speaker U/AIt is also informed that the office of Tenyimi Students’ Union Dimapur will open on Tuesday and Friday from 10.00 a.m – 1.00 p.m. any students’ organization, Civil Societies can contact in this no. 9615267312/9862009250 for official work.

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Newmai News NetworkGuwahati | November 23

The process of a vertical split in the banned Ulfa has completed on Wednesday with the anti talk faction led by the outfit’s military chief paresh Barua constituting a new central committee by drop-ping eight top leaders now engaged in peace talks with Govt. of India.

In an email to media houses on Wednesday, Ulfa publicity conve-nor Arunudoy Dohotia said that the new central committee was formed at the outfit’s mobile head-quarters. The anti talk faction ap-

pointed Abhijit Barman as the new chairman in charge of the outfit re-placing Arabinda rajkhowa who is leading the pro talk faction.

Apart from holding the post of commander-in-chief, paresh Ba-rua has taken over as the vice presi-dent in charge of the outfit. The new foreign secretary of Ulfa is pranmoi Asom. The new central commit-tee has Dristi rajkhowa and Bijay ‘chinese’ Das as new deputy com-mander-in-chiefs. Jiban Moran, a close confidante of paresh Barua has been given the responsibility of the outfit’s general secretary and finance secretary posts.

The anti talk faction had ear-lier announced that it would form a new central committee as "the arrested leaders" of the outfit have engaged themselves in negotia-tions with Govt. of India.

Meanwhile, in a swift reac-tion, pro talk faction leader Arabi-nda rajkhowa while reacting to the constitution of new central com-mittee said that elusive military commander paresh Barua has no authority to constitute a new cen-tral committee.

Another top pro talk leader Mrinal hazarika said that paresh Barua attempted to divide Ulfa.

“paresh Barua’s recent activities will not hamper the on going peace process”, said hazarika.

With the formation of the new central committee, paresh Barua became more significant leader in Ulfa as apart from his command-er-in-chief (commander in chief ) post, he holds vice chairman post of the outfit which is one of the top posts in political wing of the outfit.

In Ulfa new struggle, Barua has managed to get support from chi-na. Though the Govt. of India had raised the issue of Barua’s presence in china from time to time, china had rejected the claim.

Newmai News Network Imphal | November 23

A personAl assistant (p.A) of Manipur Youth Af-fairs and education minis-ter DD Thaisii was report-edly kidnapped by some unidentified persons sus-pected to be militants, a police source here said Wednesday.

The victim, KT Joseth, 43, who was going along with his daughter and a 16-year-old helper of his family in a Bolero storm (white colour bearing registration no Mn-o1-p2255) when some unknown persons suspect-ed to be militants stopped the vehicle near fishery de-partment office, lamphel in Imphal West and kidnapped them yesterday at around 9:30 am.

however, the helper girl and his daughter were later freed by the abductors on Tuesday afternoon at Kangpokpi in senapati dis-trict, the source added.

Joseth was on his way to drop his daughter, a stan-dard three student, at st. sa-bio school, lamphel. Joseth, a personal assistant of DD Thaisii, a resident of purul rosophy in senapati district is currently staying at lam-phel sanakeithel in Imphal.

The motive behind the abduction is unknown. A FIr has been registered with the lamphel police regarding the kidnapping. Few days ago, the entourage of DD Thaisii was ambushed in a village se-napati district by militants. The minister escaped the as-sassination attempt.

Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The Gprn/nscn began its three day winter session of the na-tional Tatar hoho at the ok-ing, a press note from MIp, Gprn/nscn informed. Gprn/nscn collective leadership, Gen. (retd) Khole Konyak and Ato Ki-lonser n Kitovi Zhimomi attended the session and ad-dressed the members which included npAc members, cabinet Kilonsers, Dy. Ki-lonsers, Tatars, hoDs, top military officials from the naga Army, regional chair-men and secretaries. prior to initiating the business hour, speaker of the Tatar hoho, hevukhu Yeptho, called for a minute’s silence in remembrance of naga

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martyrs over the years. Gen. (retd) Khole ad-

dressed the house and urged every member to re-commit and rededicate to the national cause because men and women with na-tional principle will always stand out among the crowd. he urged the members to strengthen naga unity be-cause only through unity can nagas find a practical solution to their political problem. A common vision of our forefathers should not be frittered away for our self-ish interest, he said. he also released an annual Gprn/nscn calendar to be dis-tributed to different regions.

Ato Kilonser n Kito-vi Zhimomi, in his short speech urged the members to be prepared mentally and physically to shoulder greater responsibility in the coming years. he also urged the members to first earn respect and acknowledg-ment from their respective villages and regions. every member must strive to be the best one could be as a christian and as a freedom fighter. he said that moral strength and dedication for the cause must be exhibited to the nagas. he reminded the members that if we fail to follow the “Ahza,” than the “Ahza” will follow us.

Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The All Zeliangrong stu-dents’ Union of Assam, Manipur and nagaland today lashed out at the rongmei council for questioning the primacy of the Zeliangrong Baudi (As-sam, Manipur and nagaland) as the mandated apex Zeliangrong body of the Zeliangrong people living in the state of Assam, Manipur, nagaland ‘and elsewhere.’

The AZsU termed ‘unfortunate’ that the president of the rongmei council (AMn) had claimed there was no apex body of the Zeliangrong people and that the “Zeliangrong apex body” was split into “ZU and ZB.” A note appended by AZsU presi-dent pamei Tingenlung was received here today.

According to the students’ orga-nization, a convention of the Zelian-grong people of the three states was held on July 30, 2010 at peren district in nagaland. prior to that, the joint consultative meeting of ‘Zlr interim body’ with “national workers” and frontal organization held on June 18, 2010 at siguilong village in Manipur

decided the general convention 2010 to held in peren.

“This decision for the holding Zeliangrong general convention in order to decide/constitute the apex Zeliangrong body of the three states was jointly initiated with the presence and in consultation with responsible nation workers and Zeliangrong lead-ers including nscn IM, K, and nnc. Accordingly, the general convention was duly held at peren town as per decision and scheduled of 18th June Joint consultative meeting. The con-vention was attended by Zeliangrong public, leaders, representative of vari-ous frontal organizations and nation-al workers,” the students’ organiza-tion said.

After hearing the various views and opinions, the AZsU said, consti-tuting a Zeliangrong apex body under the nomenclature ‘Zeliangrong Bau-di’ was unanimously agreed upon. “Thenceforward, Zeliangrong Baudi has been recognized as the sole apex body of Zeliangrong people and it is has been representing the entire Ze-liangrong people to the naga hoho,

United naga council, naga national Government etc. In reciprocation the naga hoho, the United naga council etc have officially recognized Zelian-grong Baudi as the apex body of the Zeliangrong Tribe,” the union said.

The union also mentioned that the election of incumbent naga hoho office bearers was hosted by the Ze-liangrong Baudi at peren and the elec-tion of the incumbent United naga council office bearers was also rep-resented by the Zeliangrong Baudi. The candidature of incumbent Gen-eral secretary United naga council Gaidon Kamei was recommended by Zeliangrong Baudi as well, the union said. “And it is the Zeliangrong Baudi alone which represents Zeliangrong people in every platform of the nagas society,” AZsU added.

The union said it is perturbed that some organization in the Zeliangrong community could question time and again the apex body of the Zeliangrong community. “In view of the above stat-ed facts and circumstances there is no an iota for confusion as to who is the apex body of Zeliangrong community.

Zeliangrong students stand by Baudi

CS & IT general meeting on Nov 26Kohima, November 23 (mexN): The computer science and information technology engineer Gradu-ates recognized by AIcTe are informed that there will be a general body meeting on 26 november at 11 am at nsG conference hall Kohima. Its information & publicity sec-retary ruchuyung seb has requested all its members to attend the meeting positively.

Gariphema NCRC, mass social workKohima, November 23 (mexN): The Gariphema village ncrc organizes a mass social work on 1 December starting by8 am at its native village in view of the golden ju-bilee celebration. Its secretary information, rükhriezetuo pesochü, in a press release has requested the people from all walks of life of Gariphema to compulsorily participate at the social work without fail.

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Answer Number # 2024

across1.Operatic solo5. Condition10. Join metal14. Let for money15. Like some currents16. Found in skin lotion17. Vote19. Unskilled laborer20. Blvd.21. Anxiety22. A short crowbar23. An act of help or assistance25. Give a speech27. Residue from a fire28. A web-footed wading bird31. Gunk34. Paperbacks35. Black gunk36. A light37. Fake38. After-bath powder39. Draw a bead on40. Impertinent41. Luxurious country residence42. Untouched44. Flipper45. A very tall fellow46. Prolific50. Sexually aroused (slang)52. Angered54. Geographic illustration

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55. Flair56. Devotee58. Ritual59. Strong sexual desires60. Matured61. One who accomplishes62. The body63. DepartedDoWN1. Wall hanging2. Christopher of “Superman”3. Surmise4. Consumed food5. Stink6. Bit of color7. Tallies8. A statement that is neces-

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NEFTI to empower technical institutions of North East

Guwahati, November 23 (mexN): The second meeting for the formation of a forum for all AICTE ap-proved technical institutions of the region was held at ERDF head office in the city on November 22. It was pro-posed in the meeting that the name of the forum would be ‘North East Forum for Technical Institutions (NEF-TI)’. A press note issued by CABSFORD PR on behalf of NEFTI stated that office bearers for the Forum were nominated with the consent of the representatives of the various technical institutions present at the meeting. Mahbubul Hoque, Chancellor of University of Science & Technology Meghalaya (USTM) was unanimously se-lected as the President of NEFTI. The others inducted as office bearers were: ZN Sharma Vice President), AK Pan-sari (Treasurer), Devajit Bhuyan (Secretary), and Sandip Lodh (Joint Secretary).

The note mentioned that among the priority tasks of the Forum are- taking initiative to conduct a com-mon entrance test under the banner of NEFTI and highlighting the problems of private institutions to the authorities concerned through print and electron-ic media. The other objectives of the Forum would be to popularise science and technical education, guide parents and students about admissions and compile a compendium of genuine and recognised institutions so that people do not fall in the trap laid by fly-by-night operators of fake institutions.

New Delhi, November 23 (Pti): Air India and its subsidiaries owe Rs 2,310 cr to the oil marketing companies, Civil Aviation Minis-ter Vayalar Ravi informed the Lok Sabha today. “Till the end of first fortnight of September, Air India has a total due of Rs 2,310.65 cr, of which the cash strapped national carrier owes Rs 1563.67 cr to Indian oil Cor-poration, Rs 409.82 cr to Bharat Pe-troleum Corporation and Rs 337.16 to Hindustan Petroleum Corpora-tion,” he said in a written reply.

He said that in order to help the national carrier, a Group of Min-isters last month agreed to grant a credit period of 3 months as sought by airlines management. “The cred-it period, however, was agreed with-

out exempting Air India from pay-ment of interest,” the Minister said. Facing liquidity crunch, the nation-al carrier has a debt of Rs 22,000 cr as working capital loan and around Rs 21,000 as aircraft acquisition loans. In reply to a separate question, the Minister said Air India has with-drawn its services from 14 routes. The routes are Mumbai-Sharjah, Calicut-Doha-Bahrain, Mumbai-Vadodara, Kolkata-Ahmedabad/Jaipur-Kolkata, Hyderabad- Mum-bai, Chennai-Calicut, Chennai-Mumbai-Kuwait, Hyderabad- Cochin-Coimbatore-Hyderabad, Kolkata-Hyderabad-Kolkata, Ban-galore-Singapore, Chennai-Coim-batore, Mumbai-Nairobi, Chennai-Damman and Kochi-Agatti.

Honda launches new variant of Unicorn DazzlerNew Delhi, November 23 (Pti): Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) today launched a new variant of its 150 cc bike -- CB Unicorn Dazzler, priced up to Rs 66,198 (ex-showroom, Delhi.) The new Deluxe variant of CB Unicorn Dazzler will be available by the end of November, 2011, the company said in a statement. Technical specifications of both standard and deluxe variants will remain the same, it added.

While deluxe variant will be available in two colours and is priced at Rs 66,198 (ex-showroom, Delhi), the standard vari-ant is priced at Rs 65,198 (ex-showroom, Delhi). Driven by a 150cc engine, the CB Unicorn Dazzler has a power of 14 BHP and comes with tubeless tyres and alloy wheels. It is BS-III norms compliant.

Hyundai launches LPG variant of hatchback i10 New Delhi, November 23 (iaNS): Automobile major Hyundai Motor Tues-day launched a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) powered variant of its hatchback i10 priced between Rs.416,144 and Rs.430,659 (ex-showroom Delhi). “The LPG version of our next-gen i10 is a viable alternative for customers looking at low running cost,” said H.W. Park, managing director and chief executive, Hyundai Motor India Ltd.

The new variant is powered by a 1.1 litre iRDE2 engine which can run on both LPG and petrol. The car has a factory-fitted LPG kit. “With separate petrol (35 litre) and LPG (34 litre) tanks, the customers have an op-tion to choose from LPG and petrol modes,” the company said in a statement. The car sports a special LPG tank which offers larg-er boot space than other LPG-fitted cars. “The LPG kit in i10 blue drive is impact re-sistant and is approved by the department of explosives,” the statement said. The car has been fitted with an alternator manage-ment system which controls delivery of power to the battery, which extends the bat-tery life and improves mileage.

Tata Motors’ Nano gets facelift to boost salesNew Delhi, November 23 (Pti): In a bid to boost sales, Tata Motors is giving its small car Nano a facelift, with a more powerful engine and new features, while keeping the prices same. “Making the Tata Nano even more desirable, the car’s 624cc engine has been made more powerful, de-livering an impressive 38 PS of power (ear-lier 35 PS) and 51 Nm of torque (earlier 48 Nm),” the company said in a statement. Despite delivering more power, the car will become more fuel efficient.

Nano will now give a mileage of 25.4 km per litre of petrol as certified by Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) com-pared to 23.6 km a litre earlier, Tata Motors claimed. Besides, the company said: “The high fuel efficiency, with a low kerb weight of 600 kg, ensures that the Tata Nano at 92.7 gram per kilometre has the lowest CO2 (carbon dioxide) emission among cars in India”. The earlier Nano had an emission record of 101 gram in every km.

New Delhi, November 23 (aGeNcieS): More than 60 vehi-cles will be launched, including sev-eral global debuts, at the Auto Expo 2012 in New Delhi early next year despite the recent slump in the Indi-an car market, industry officials said. German carmaker BMW’s small luxury car Mini, which will make its India debut at the show, and Bu-gatti, maker of the world’s fastest car, are expected to be among the show-stoppers at the 6-day event starting on January 7.

The highlights of the show-the

world’s most popular auto fair at-tracting more than 2 million visi-tors, up from 1.2 million in 2010-will be a new breed of sports utility ve-hicles and super bikes that will hit the Indian roads soon, officials said. Leading the pack will be Maruti Su-zuki, the country’s largest carmaker, which has finally woken up to the potential of SUVs in the country. It will showcase a new ‘made for India’ five-seater concept SUV on the first day of the fair, signaling its intention to look beyond the ageing Gypsy and Grand Vitara models. “It’s the best

bet from Maruti Suzuki so far to tap the potential of younger customers,” a top company official said. “Essen-tially an SUV, it will have the afford-ability of Maruti and durability of Suzuki,” added the person, request-ing anonymity.

A line-up of 1,000 different vehi-cles spread over 1.25 lakh sq metres will be on display, including at least a dozen new cars made specifically for Indian customers. Tata Motor, which stole the show in 2008 with its Nano, is looking at a repeat with three new global launches to be done

by its chairman Ratan Tata. Tata Mo-tors has also lined up all new sedans, SUVs and concept vehicles from its Jaguar and Land Rover brand. In fact, Jaguar Land Rover has decided to skip the Detroit Auto Show, which overlaps with Delhi expo for three days. After posting some stunning sales in China with it new range, JLR is betting high to unshackle the dom-inance of German players in luxury car segment. It is expected to bring its new sedan range and the DC100 concept from Land Rover.

There will be at least six launch-

es in the luxury car segment includ-ing the Audi S6 and its smallest SUV Q3, BMW’s new M5 Series and the Mercedes Benz GLK compact SUV. South Korean major Hyundai Motor is looking at getting its new small car and a compact SUV concept besides launching its new Sonata limousine. Then there will be an array of super-bikes entering the second largest market for two wheelers. Triumph will mark its entry into India at the expo, while Harley Davidson will launch customised options for its bikes besides debuting new models.

New Delhi, November 23 (Pti): Reebok International is work-ing to develop a “sustainable business model” as part of its German parent Adidas AG’s plans to sell “one dollar shoes” in India. After conducting a pilot test for 5,000 pairs of shoes of an existing design of Reebok in three vil-lages in Bangladesh last year, the firm is now planning to apply the learnings in India in the next stage, which it has termed as ‘Phase III’. “The focus of Phase III is the development of the ac-tual product and the development of a sustainable business model to ensure the program’s long-term success,” Reebok International spokesperson Daniel Sarro told media.

During this phase, Reebok will be testing the technical feasibility of producing a durable, functional and affordable shoes-based on learnings

from the Bangladesh market. When asked if the shoes would be priced at one dollar as envisaged by Adidas CEO Herbert Hainer, Sarro said: “The price of the product is unknown at this time. However, the goal of the proj-ect remains - to create an affordable product that meets the needs of the consumer.” Having failed to get the desired result in its similar attempt in Bangladesh, the company is ensuring that in India they are taking the right steps to overcome the challenges.

“Based on the staffing challenges learned in the previous phase (in Ban-gladesh), phase III is being conducted in India, where Reebok has a central headquarters and a range of staff that can dedicate the time needed to de-velop the product and test the busi-ness model,” he said. In 2008, Hainer began discussions with Bangladeshi

economist and founder of the Gra-meen Bank, Muhammad Yunus for developing, marketing and distribut-ing a low cost footwear in Bangladesh in the form of a social business. Fol-lowing the initial exploratory project, the Reebok Brand, based on its cor-porate responsibility focus, created a plan to move forward with the next phase of the project.

“In the fall of 2010, Reebok pro-ceeded with the second phase of the project, a pilot test of 5,000 pairs of an existing Reebok shoe in three villages in Bangladesh,” Sarro said. However, there were a number of challeng-es that became evident during this phase of the project such as the lack of a permanent Reebok office or staff in Bangladesh to help with product and business model development, as well as import costs and taxes, he said.

Chief Executive of Qatar Airways Akbar Al Baker, flanked by stewardesses, poses with a replica of their aircraft during a press confer-ence announcing the city as its latest inclusion of passenger and cargo service in Kolkata on November 23. Al Baker said India played a key role in Qatar Airways’ infrastructure, being a key employer of Indian nationals, who represent around 25 percent of the airline’s 20,000 strong workforce, according to a press release. (AP Photo)

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Dimapur, November 23 (mexN): The Naga Peo-ple’s Front (NPF) has called for expediting the Indo-Naga political process and has reiterated that the par-ty would pave way for any “alternative arrangement” that may come with a polit-ical solution. Likewise, the party reiterated its demand for integration of all contig-uous Naga areas under one administrative umbrella.

The NPF met in it 6th general convention in Ko-hima today. During the convention the party un-dertook a number of reso-lutions. The NPF urged the negotiating parties of the Indo-Naga political dia-logue to expedite the peace process and bring about early resolution through a negotiated settlement “that is honorable and acceptable to the people”.

“The NPF assures that its commitment to pave way for any alternative ar-

rangement that comes about from the political set-tlement still stands,” stated a copy of the resolutions re-ceived here today. The copy was appended by convener of the resolution commit-tee Abu Metha and secre-tary general KG Kenye.

The party also appealed to all sections of the Naga society to undertake ef-forts for “unity and one-ness under a spirit of recon-ciliation”. The convention expressed support to the Forum for Naga Reconcili-ation under the banner of the church and civil soci-eties, while welcoming the meetings of the top un-derground leaders that re-sulted in the signing of the ‘Naga Concordant.’ The ‘Naga Concordant’ states to “having reconciled on the basis of historical and po-litical rights, the top Naga leaders have agreed that Nagas are one and the sig-natories have resolved to

work towards formation of one Naga national govern-ment.”

“The general conven-tion of the NPF observes that this is a historic step taken by the underground leaders and appreciates the sacrifices made by the sig-natories in the greater in-terest of Naga society,” the NPF said. The party further ‘endorsed’ the expansion of the NPF to Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh and ex-pressed ‘full fledged sup-port’ to the new units for all its future endeavors.

During the convention, the party also congratulat-ed the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland for the award “most improved state in in-frastructure development” it received from the In-dia Today group. The NPF lauds the outgoing NPF leaders under the leader-ship of Dr. Shurhozelie and welcomes the new team with support.

NPF for fast tracking political solution; reiterate demand for integration

GPRN/NSCN releases annual ...From Page 1

The years of conflict, the search for peace and unity are all imprinted and portrayed, poignantly re-minding the viewer of the fact of Naga history.

Published by the MIP, the calendar will be dis-tributed at a nominal price of Rs. 200/- per copy. It will be made available through regional authori-ties of GPRN/NSCN. A firm “ahza” has been issued that no member shall charge more than the prescribed rate. Disciplinary action shall be initiated against the offenders. GPRN/NSCN appeals to all business as-sociations, chambers of commerce, law enforcing agencies in Nagaland for kind co-operation.

Nagaland’s ‘Unspent’ dev funds at 61+ croresFrom Page 1

Ghatowar informed that Lok Sabha of the de-tails of total funds grant-ed/released and utilized (state-wise) for the devel-opment of North Eastern states under the NLCPR, during each of the last three years and the cur-rent year.

According to the DoN-ER minister’s details of the funds released to Nagaland and utilized by the state under the NLCPR, the seg-ments are: Rs. 103.81 crore (2008-09) out of which Rs. 61.84 crore was utilized; Rs. 102.94 crore (2009-10) out of which Rs. 113.96 crore was utilized; Rs. 98.43 crore (2010-11) out of which Rs. 109.37 crore was utilized and Rs. 59.02 (2011-12 as on 16.11.11) crore out of which Rs. 61.94 crore was utilized.

From Page 1According to the association, on Tues-

day evening three unidentified persons ar-rived at the said petrol pump and ordered it to shut down, while snatching the keys to the main fuel dispenser. The thugs then threatened of setting fire to the pump if it dared resume business and took the keys with them. Without going into details, the association said that the proprietor received a demand for an undisclosed amount of money which the latter was not able to meet. When queried which of the many underground factions the persons belonged to, they discreetly said that that, they could not determine. “We’ve always been paying them, this (monetary de-mands) is not something new,” but Tues-day’s incident is beyond bearable limit, said an upset member of the DPDA.

In addition to the countless number of extortions and illegal taxation that has

become the norm; individuals who claim to belong to one underground group or the other come to us demanding money in the name of ‘Christmas donation’ as the Christian festive season draws near-er, said an attendant of one fuel outlet in town. On the part of the association, they have already met with the district Super-intendent of Police and the Deputy Com-missioner, and have updated them on the incident; while the DPDA cautioned that they will not resume business until and unless firm action is not taken and the keys returned.

Later in the evening, the police when contacted disclosed that the key taken away by the thugs have been recovered. An uniden-tified caller had informed that the keys be re-trieved from a certain location in town, police said. Further, no member of the DPDA could be reached till late evening to determine whether they will call off the closure.

From Page 1Referring to the expan-

sion of the NPF to neigh-bouring states, NPF Presi-dent said that there is no law/rule to stop a recog-nised political party to ex-tend its activities in any state in the country, add-ing because the Constitu-tion of India guarantees to all citizens the democratic right to choose the party of their choice which can best represent them in the assembly in as much as an individual has the right to vote for the candidate of its choice.

‘For example, NPF cannot stop Congress, BJP, Trinimool Congress to Nagaland to organ-ise their party and if it is so, it will be good for our neighbouring states to keep their future clear,” he said. On our part, the NPF chief said, “we feel we are always in good term with neighbours and we will continue to do so.”

Dr. Liezietsu said the government may come and

go, leaders may come and go but our people will contin-ue to live together as neigh-bours as long as our planet survives.

Dr. Liezietsu said NPF entry into Manipur and Arunachal states will not alter their boundaries. “There is nothing to be afraid of. Our only desire is to participate in their as-semblies by NPF members.

He said that the general elections to the Manipur assembly is coming by the first part of next year and for which NPF Manipur unit leaders along with the central committee from the headquarters are on the move to organise the party.

Dr. Liezietsu said he has strengthened the cen-tral committee for Mani-pur unit by inducting more leaders. Besides, it set up election committee for the ensuring election in Mani-pur to organise the party at the grass root level, to iden-tify the candidates and such other preparations neces-sary for election.

Naga IR jawans’ “Community Policing” wins hearts in PurulaFrom Page 1

This park is adorned with paddle boat and a diverse ar-ray of floras. One of the significant works carried out in this sector was their conducting combine fellowship program between “E Coy” jawans and the Believers Church of India.

The 10th NAP (IR) Bn’s last Coy—“F” also donated significant development in their area, Patarband. In the Patarband Village, they had constructed and donated “Aram Garh” (Rest House). They also constructed anoth-er badminton court to Patarband Maidhamik Shikasha Kendra School to encourage extra-curricular activities and awareness on the importance of the role of the games and sports. They also distributed secondhand clothes, shoes, boots, plates and cups to poor and needy villag-ers, besides planted trees in their villages. They also con-stantly crated awareness campaigns for the importance of tree plantations.

It may be mentioned that these “Community Polic-ing (Humanitarian works)” were carried out since a year back from September 2010 with the contributions made by Officers and other ranks of the respective Companies of 10th NAP (IR) Bn. These services were mainly carried out for the welfare of the local people, said Nagaland DGP K Kire, IPS.

The Nagaland Police Chief also disclosed that the peo-ple in the areas were cooperative with their jawans and at no point of time, there was any adverse attitude from the locals to their “Community Policing (Humanitarian Works)” carried out in their respective areas. These “Com-munity Policing (Humanitarian services)” had brought wonderful “rapport” with the locals, Kire stated.

The Nagaland DGP also spent his last Christmas with the jawans of the 10th NAP (IR) Bn at Purulia.

Illegal taxation causes hardships

Dr. Shurhozelie gets re-elected

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When it came to China, my mother, an Army wife, used to tell her son, a General, “With Pakistan India

is cocky but when it comes to China it becomes a mouse.” That was some 10 years ago. Last week, at Bali, during the East Asia Summit, we were told by Indi-an officials accompanying Prime Min-ister Manmohan Singh that he acted tough by rejecting China’s objections to India’s presence in South China Sea and told Premier Wen Jiabao that our inter-ests were “purely commercial”. Equally firmly, Mr Wen warned ‘outside forces’ from getting embroiled in disputes in South China Sea. The warning was re-peated on Monday. Will New Delhi back down? Let’s see.

Mr Singh has repeatedly said there is “enough space for the rise of both In-dia and China”. But Beijing says that space is in certain areas of cooperation. Besides already becoming Air India’s Frequent Flier of 2011, Mr Singh, by his own admission, has met top Chinese leaders 28 times. That’s another record for any Indian Prime Minister.

Except for trade which is mainly to China’s advantage, there is little else to glow about. Chinese transgressions on the border continue. Their military buildup has outstripped our conven-tional deterrence. Beijing has quietly excised 2,000 km of the Ladakh bor-der de facto trilateralising the bilateral Kashmir dispute.The India-China dis-pute is ready for entry in the Tussaud’s museum.

Numerically border negotiations have overtaken Mr Singh’s record meet-ings with Chinese leaders. Eight rounds from 1981 to 1987, 14 rounds from 1988 to 2001; 13 rounds since 2003 till the 14th dialogue between Special Repre-sentatives later this month. Both sides have sequentially toyed with ‘swap of territory’, delineation of Line of Actual Control and the ongoing political, eco-nomic and strategic dialogue.

India missed out on the swap deal in the 1960s. The Chinese backed off from exchange of maps fearing the LAC would become hostage to the presence of Indian troops. The cur-rent three-stage talks —agreement on political parameters, framework for delineation and the actual delineation — are deadlocked after China reneged on the agreement on not disturbing settled areas. Since then, only the two Special Representatives know what is going on. China has successfully di-verted the border problem towards economic and strategic issues. The chi-mera of a breakthrough is posited even

as Mr Singh repeatedly urges his inter-locutors to expedite resolution of the border dispute.

A new joint mechanism for main-taining peace and tranquility on the un-demarcated LAC is in the offing even as China has quietly pushed troops into Gilgit-Baltistan, illegally excised from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir by Paki-stan. The rationale for the glacial pace of border talks was confirmed last week at a seminar at New Delhi’s United Ser-vices Institution by the articulate and moderate professor Zhou Gencheng of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies.

He explained that at present the in-tention was to maintain status quo on the border so that peace and stability prevail. He elaborated that the Treaties of Peace and Tranquility in 1993 and Confidence Building Measures in 1996 were designed to do just that and added the customary appendage of the border being ‘a legacy of history, very compli-cated and requiring time and patience’. So much for the optimists who are ex-pecting a breakthrough.

Make no mistake: China will drag the border dispute at great cost to India till it feels it can impose a settlement on its terms and after the Dalai Lama has reached heaven. China has developed a deep and abiding interest in Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh (which it still calls South Tibet) which has become the sticking point in the border dispute. Privately, the Chinese are conveying

that if India lets them retain Aksai Chin and Tawang, it will give up all other claims including Arunachal Pradesh. Tawang is important for China because the Khampa movement of the 1960s in Tibet had its roots here; tax records show Tawang as part of Tibet and a fu-ture revolt in Tibet could spring from Tawang.

India’s military preparedness is woefully inadequate and has remained virtually static for the last two decades except for some recent force accretions and infrastructure upgrades. Only a tiny part of the military enhancements recommended in 1988 are being imple-mented. Union Minister for Defence AK Antony admitted that we are lagging behind in modernisation. The Chinese are way ahead in their infrastructure and defence capabilities. That is why a Tawang grab or a Kargil-like skirmish have become possible.

But there is a simpler Confucian strategy to achieve the same objective: Keep India tied down to South Asia by prolonging the border dispute and en-circling India. Beijing is back at playing its old game in the North- East by as-sisting Indian insurgent groups.

Yet, India’s conciliatory disposition and downplaying the China threat can be attributed to two reasons: A hang-over of the 1962 defeat and avoidance of a two-front situation. New Delhi just does not have the resources for conven-tional deterrence on two fronts which is exacerbated by its No First Use nuclear

policy whereas China’s No First Use is ambiguous over territory it claims.

India’s window of vulnerability has to be closed by other means which it has been shy of using so far. Vietnam, (which taught China a lesson in 1979 and since then the PLA has not fought a war), Taiwan and Tibet are low hang-ing force-multipliers. India should also activate other pressure points —off Ma-lacca Straits and the Myanmar coast to buzz Chinese shipping. A belated start has been made in Hanoi. New Delhi must reclaim lost ground in Nepal and Sri Lanka and prevent further loss of in-fluence to China.

Professor John Lee of Sydney Uni-versity says that increased trade does not necessarily reduce tension; rather it deepens competition and rivalry in the long term. China cannot rise peace-fully as other powers are also rising si-multaneously. The geopolitical space is not large enough for the rise of any single power, without tension as last week’s East Asia Summit showed.

Managing China’s rise is not just India’s headache. It is a declining US’s primary concern — an America which is heavily indebted to Beijing and a China whose economy will overtake the for-mer’s in 2020. At the same time, the US’s military spending will also have declined to its lowest level since 1940. Yet, the US is tipped to remain the num-ber one smart power. To deal with Chi-na, India has to act like India.

Source: The Pioneer

Comical on part of KDFA clarification on Kohima NPl berth •-The Kohima Berth for NPL is now become an eye of storm , with two teams New Market Football Team and Excel United Club both expressing their resent-ment and disappointment over the quota.

It was appalled to see the Kohima District Foot-ball Association (KDFA) clarification on Kohima berth for NPL, thus there by making a mockery of the football game. It is now highly questionable that when the KDFA could not hold the Kohima league for the years best known of the officials of KDFA, who are at the helm and holding the offices as if it is their prop-erty and now standing up to justified it stand by clear-ly showing their true colors to promote and project the Life Sports Football Club with five points , which is irrelevant and unfounded , because the rest teams from Kohima also have, what the Life Sports FC have, though may not be up to the professional standard .

It is quick funny and awkward that the KDFA jus-tified their stand saying that New Market XI team “not applied/ approach” for NPF slot for Kohima quota, which would mean that who ever (team(s) ap-proach the KDFA are entitled for the Kohima quota?.

It could have been a wise that the KDFA admit its mistake on their part and issued a public regret over the matter instead of trying to defend its position. A simple advise to KDFA before the things get out of touch, it would be better KDFA set its house in order.

It quick true that there has been few write-ups on the issue, both for and against over the berth giv-ing to Life Sports FC. People need not to be confused further. When did the KDFA conducted the football league for Kohima ? This answer, the KDFA need to give straight away to the football loving state of capital in particular and the state in general. The Article II of the NPL clearly states “the winner of Kohima league get will get automatic berth on merit.

A writer when to say that the teams like New Mar-ket Football Team, Excel United Club, Naga Boys Club , Penguin Club and Puliebadze Club etc use to practice for two-three weeks before the tournament and participate. But this is not true. Let the writer concern get his fact and figures write. In-fact those are the hard working teams who have produce local state players in the pass and pres-

ent and event some of their players when on to represent the state and the country. Why he trying to defend the KDFA for allotting Life Sports FC for Kohima quota .Let he asked himself whether he is aware that when did the KDFA conducted the Kohima football league.

Ketho Angs, Kohima Town

Delight at reading ‘Thought For Food’ by Theyiesinuo Keditsu•- The weekly column "Thought For Food" by Theyie-sinuo Keditsu is a delight. Many have written on grand subjects but a common man hardly gets to live them. But food, all man experience them daily. I con-nected instantly because the articles were talking about things that I do. It dignified my common activi-ties into something worthy and romantic.

Also the author's mastery of words in describing the eating exercise is so admirable. The eating sensations which I cannot express in my own mother tongue has so simply and clearly been expressed by the author.

The author's use of common places and incidents are the ones that hit you the most. The author makes the reader enjoy the daily monotonous ritual of eat-ing and activities associated with it. The tiresome act of cooking can now actually be enjoyed. One usually visits only common and not so fancy restaurants. But those are not so common anymore. One can actually see and taste the daily monotonous teas and meals in a more grandeur and tasty manner.

A common man's life does not revolve around royal parties or saving the world etc. But it revolves around common simple things. It is to the credit of the author that she has made a reader like me enjoy his eating experiences more.

Lelen Singsit, Kuda Village, Dimapur

Individual comments on FNR•-This group of people had been placed by God's spirit to bring different leaders of the Nagas for reconcilia-tion. It’s a matter of moral issue not an organizational status as some members would think. Since they have led the Nagas to this stage we must appreciate them. However, I think they have no more oil or spirit leading them further to bring leaders together due the reason

best known to them and the Nagas in general. I wish to appeal to them to hand over this mantle to someone who would bring moral authority to bring Nagas to-gether. If at all they refused when there is good chance of changing the system they will held responsible.

I pray they will consider this matter prayerfully for the benefits of the Nagas future.

John Angami, Kohima Twon

Appeal To The bsNl AuthoritiesThe General Manager,BSNL, Nagaland, Dimapur

•-It is now nearing two months since the BSNL network had been completely down causing great inconvenience to the general public of Zunheboto district. Since majority of the mo-bile phone users are subscribers of BSNL, every section of the people of the district is greatly ef-fected including the government, business and private establishments.

It is learnt that the ongoing expansion of road between Kohima and Zunheboto has damaged the optical fibre cables and because of which the BSNL services is nonfunctional. It is also learnt that the road construction would take around three years. I would like to make mention here that Zunheboto district cannot be isolated for three years. All the other districts has two to three optical fibre cable ways and when such kind of situations arises, they have an option.

Unlike other private companies, BSNL is a public sector and therefore we appeal to the con-cerned authority to route an optical fibre cable way to Zunheboto at the earliest. The concerned authority is also urged to exempt Rental Charg-es of landline connections, WLL, internet, etc. from the public during these months.

Vihuto Asumi,Secretary, Sumi Hoho

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Playing checkers with China India's conciliatory disposition and downplaying the threat from China won’t fetch us results. To deal with China, India has to act like India

Supra State Body for Nagas—No takers?

Time for Nagas to work on common strategy, approach

According to the recently launched The Seven Sisters Post newspaper, the negotiations between the Indi-an Government and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim are now in its final stages. The Seven Sisters

Post newspaper has claimed that it has access to all the details of a solution. The final settlement envisages a “special fed-eral relationship” between India and Nagaland and creation of a “Supra-state body” for the Nagas of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to be given as this year's Christmas gift to “preserve, protect and promote their cultural, social and cus-tomary practices”, according to a report published by The Sev-en Sisters Post. Further, the offer to create a pan-Naga ‘Supra State Body’, instead of the “Greater Nagalim” demanded by the NSCN, has been touted by Indian negotiators as the “Second best option for the Naga people”, the report said. Following the wide media coverage given to this particular news item, there has been a volley of protest coming in from Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh. Not surprisingly it is the politicians who are making the most noise. While media report suggests that the Union Home Ministry people are denying the offer of a ‘Supra State Body’, yet there has so far been no explicit state-ment in black and white issued by Delhi. Those involved in the negotiation process have also neither affirmed nor denied the report. So it becomes quite obvious that there is some merit in the revelation made by The Seven Sisters Post.

Strangely the Nagas are not saying anything and have re-mained so quiet even though others around us are making their protest known. Isn’t it high time for the Nagas to also make known their stand and take a position? Over the years especially since the ceasefire, Naga civil society, political parties (both the NPF and NPCC) and the public have been making regular mention on the need to expedite the Indo-Naga peace process and the appeal for early resolution through peaceful dialogue. So if we really want an early solution why is it that we are keeping so quiet? It is another matter that those at the negotiating table have remained very dis-creet when it comes to the specifics of the proposals or counter-proposals. And yes they may have their own compulsion to keep things under wraps away from public scrutiny. However, if both the Government of India and the Naga negotiators are indeed af-firming (as stated in previous joint statements) that the dialogue has entered a crucial and end stage, then why are they on the de-fensive when certain proposals are being put in the public domain. Does it also mean that they disown something as creative as a ‘Su-pra State Body’? What will happen to the credibility of the more than fifteen years of peace process if everything is brushed under the carpet. For both Delhi and the NSCN it makes sense to start a process of serious consultation with the concerned peoples and even governments of the region.

Coming to the Naga people’s response, our silence is not going to solve the Indo-Naga problem. Further we seem to be completely clueless on how to go about things. There is neither strategy nor a common approach. Maybe the Joint Legislature Forum of the Nagaland Assembly under the initiative of the Speaker, Chief Minister and Leader of Opposition should help in formulating some kind of approach so that the voice of the Nagas can also be heard on whatever proposals are being dis-cussed for a settlement. The Common Naga Platform, which had been suggested in the past, could be reinvented as the time for such a platform is at hand. As for the proposed ‘Supra-State Body’ (whether this is true or false), if this is indeed the ‘second best option’ for the Naga people as being pushed forward by In-dian negotiators, the question is why our neighbors should be so unsympathetic. It is not fair to oppose everything that is be-ing offered to the Nagas through the dialogue process. It is high time that as good neigbours for posterity we should be helpful and be accommodative to each other’s needs and aspiration. For Nagas too, this is the time to reconnect with our neigbours, rebuild the broken relationships and reach out to them so that we may be able to make them understand through dialogue and persuasion. All this will have to be done through better strategy and common approach among the Nagas.

lEfT wiNg | Source: The Pioneer

It takes two to tango Delhi, Dhaka strengthen ties further

As talks between the Home Secretaries of India and Ban-gladesh drew to a close in New Delhi on Sunday, a sense of bonhomie and good cheer was palpable, and ex-pectedly so. Relations between the two countries have

improved remarkably in the past three years since the Awami League Government, led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, came to power in Bangladesh in January 2009, and bilateral talks held this past weekend should serve as an impetus for further strengthening of ties. Bangladesh’s Home Secretary Monzur Hossain hit the right notes when he reiterated his Government ‘zero tolerance’ policy for any anti-India activity. In the recent past, Dhaka has done much to contain such activities on Ban-gladeshi soil — it has come down heavily on Islamists known for anti-India propaganda as well as cracked down on terrorist net-works that either have ties with Pakistan or seek to set up sleeper cells in India. It has also handed over several separatists who had led insurgencies in the North-East. The most prominent among them are ULFA leader Arabinda Rajkhowa, his deputy Raju Ba-ruah and other top ULFA leaders such as Sasha Choudhury, and Chitraban Hazarika. Against this backdrop, Mr Hossain’s em-phasis on Dhaka’s continued commitment to eliminating anti-India elements hiding in Bangladesh was naturally well received. Equally welcome is his assurance that other fugitives, such as ULFA general-secretary Anup Chetia, will be handed over to In-dia soon. Chetia has been lodged in jail since he was arrested in 1997 for entering Bangladesh without valid documents. Since then his asylum requests have complicated his extradition which remains mired in a convoluted legal process.

To do away with such obstacles, the Home Secretaries have announced that they will operationalise the Mutual Legal As-sistance Treaty. Signed during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Dhaka in September, this agreement aims to fa-cilitate the handing over of wanted people in each other’s terri-tories. An Extradition Treaty is also in the pipeline and will be a huge step forward in ensuring greater security cooperation between the two countries. During the three-day talks, both countries also agreed to implement other key agreements such as the Agreement on Combating Organised Crime and Illegal Drug Trafficking that were signed during Sheikh Hasina’s visit to India in January last year. Of particular importance in this case is the finalisation of the coordinated Border Management Plan that was formulated this July. India and Bangladesh share a 4,095-km-long porous border that remains vulnerable to il-legal immigration and cross-border human trafficking. Hence, effective border management is an imperative for both New Delhi and Dhaka. Hopefully, that will happen soon.

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.

ThursdayTHE MORUNG EXPRESS24 November 2011 NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

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Theme: “Youth for Transparency and

Good Governance- The Kohima Campaign”

ToThe Public Information OfficerDepartment of Industries, KohimaNagaland

Sub: Application under Section 6 of the RTI Act 2005

Sir,Kindly furnish the information sought herein below

1. What was the amount of money the Government sanc-tioned under the Year of Entrepreneur for the year 2010-2011?

2. In what ways the Government have utilised the money? Please give the detail break-up of the amount.

3. In what way an individual can get benefit through this scheme?

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2. Kuovi Belho, Program Officer, YouthNet, Below Raj Bhavan, Officers Hill, Kohima

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ToThe Public Information OfficerKohima Municipal Council, Kohima Nagaland

Sub: Application under Section 6 of the RTI Act 20055

Sir,Kindly furnish the information sought herein below

1. Under the recent total sanitation programme how many vehicles were bought?

2. As per the new sanitation programme, please specify the number of times the vehicle picks up the garbage in different colonies in and around Kohima town.

How are the funds generated to carry out the sanitation drive? Please give in detail.

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ToThe Public Information OfficerPower Department, KohimaNagaland

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Sir,Kindly furnish the information sought herein below

1. Are all the villages in Nagaland electrified?2. What is the total energy distributed for each colony/wards

in Kohima?3. Why is there a constant load shading especially in the month

of January – March during students exam?4. What was the total amount collected through electricity

bills in Kohima during the year 2009-2010?Why is there a constant power cut even though the customers

pay the bill?

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Juliette Jowit

Population policies have little im-pact on the way a minority of hu-mans use the Earth's resources.

The birth of a baby is usually an oc-casion for joy. The arrival, however, of the seven billionth person is being awaited with growing trepidation about the devastating impact of humans on the planet. Environmentalists are ar-guing in circles about who or what is to blame: the total number of people; or the amount of water, food, mineral ores or clean air each demands. Professor Paul Ehrlich, whose book The Popula-tion Bomb helped ignite this debate, likens the environmental impact to the area of a rectangle: one side is the size of population, the other their consump-tion.

Although Ehrlich's rectangle is a neat illustration, the population “prob-lem” for the environment is more accu-rately described as two rectangles, each representing the number of people on the vertical and their lifestyles on the horizontal: one tall skinny quadrant en-compasses billions of people who use very little of Earth's resources; the oth-er a much shorter, extraordinarily long one for the minority of humans who

use the vast majority of natural wealth. The World Bank estimates, for exam-ple, that the richest fifth of the world has more than three-quarters of the in-come; the poorest fifth just 1.5 per cent.

Given that populations are barely stable and sometimes falling in most of the rich world, population policy would inevitably have to make noticeable in-roads into the tall-skinny many/poor rectangle. Assuming such policies were successful — and excluding the widely unacceptable coercion of China's one child policy or India's mass sterilisa-tions in the 1970s, persuading people to have fewer babies has proved very tricky — the overall reduction in com-bined environmental impact would be very small.

The more troubling issue, though, is that this calculation assumes that as the tall-skinny rectangle gets shorter, it does not get wider. Experience, how-ever, suggests that, except for extreme cases such as Zimbabwe, it will get fat-ter.

A better life?Across time and geography, coun-

tries that have reduced birth rates have got richer and so more consumptive: rising incomes, better health and edu-cation give men and women the confi-

dence that more of their children will survive into adulthood and help sup-port their families; and as birthrates fall governments can spend more on each person's health, education and jobs, feeding a virtuous cycle of economic development and slowing population growth.

It would be interesting to see a proper assessment of the point at which the benefit of having fewer people con-suming is offset and then increasingly dwarfed by their greater consumption. There are some telling pointers. Com-parison by the London-based Guard-ian's James Ball of the CIA World Fact-book data for countries' birthrates and average purchasing power of each per-son shows a pretty strong correlation between the two.

Statisticians are quick to point out that because two things appear to be linked does not mean one causes the other, but on-the-ground evidence sug-gests rising affluence and declining fer-tility rates are inextricable.

Time after time descriptions of countries that have successfully re-duced population growth show how they have grown notably richer at the same time, even if they are not exactly well—off: Guatemala in central Ameri-

ca, Bangladesh in south-east Asia, and the Asian tiger of South Korea.

At the same time, study after study shows environmental damage rises — so far almost always perpetually — with income, and often more steeply as de-veloping countries begin to industri-alise. Most dramatically, these forces appear to have come together in China, whose one-child policy — albeit with massive state investment and rapid ex-pansion of the market economy — has coincided with the country's rise to be-come the world's second biggest econo-my (and, incidentally, the biggest emit-ter of greenhouse gas pollution).

Technically speaking, of course, population campaigners are right: en-vironmental degradation can be helped by reducing the number of people and what they use. Population policies are best left to those focusing on poverty and women's rights. For environmen-talists, talk of too many people is a dan-gerous distraction for campaigners and consumers, too many of whom will find it a convenient excuse to ignore the more pressing need for changes to what and how we spend our growing riches. (Juliette Jowit is the Observer's Envi-ronment Editor.) Guardian Newspa-pers Limited, 2011

roger southall

South Africa's president has out-gunned his young, ambitious rival and cleared the road to re-election. But the struggle be-

tween them casts an unforgiving light on aspects of the country's governance, says Roger Southall.

At the end of an extended two-month process, the president of the Af-rican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was handed a five-year sus-pension from South Africa's ruling ANC for offences against party discipline. Julius Malema was joined in his pun-ishment by the league’s four next most senior office-bearers. There will be ap-peals, but these hold little prospect (be-yond a possible reduction in the length of exclusion) of a substantial alteration of the verdict.

The outcome reflects Malema’s to-tal misreading of the political qualities of Jacob Zuma. Zuma was propelled to South Africa's highest office on a popu-list wave that represented a reaction to the elitism of his predecessor Thabo Mbeki. The third post-apartheid presi-dent (Nelson Mandela was of course the first) has cultivated the image of an amiable buffoon: the dancing, singing president, friend to all, warm and easy in company, the man no one dislikes and (near fatally) whom the party can push around. Yet beneath the surface Zuma is a wily, calculating and thor-oughly ruthless politician, with a pro-found commitment both to his political survival and personal aggrandisement.

The rivalsThe outlines of the Zuma-Malema

contest are being endlessly replayed in South Africa's media. The succession of episodes form a large part of the coun-try's political history in the past four years:

* How Malema’s ANCYL joined with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), the South Af-rican Communist Party (SACP) and many others to form a "coalition of the aggrieved" to oust Thabo Mbeki and re-place him with Jacob Zuma at the ANC’s Polokwane conference in December 2007, this after Mbeki had dismissed Zuma from the deputy presidency for apparent implication in a corrupt arms deal

* How, after the general election of 2009 and his rise to the state presi-

dency, Zuma proved benignly tolerant of a series of public statements by Ju-lius Malema - about whites "stealing land", for example, or about nationalis-ing the mines - which both veered close to directly contradicting the ANC’s programme agreed at Polokwane and which greatly embarrassed many with-in the party

* How, as time wore on, Malema’s confidence in his ability to reshape the ANC grew apace with his embrace of an anti-white, anti-Indian, anti-elitist, anti-communist, anti-imperialist and chauvinist agenda which increasingly made him major enemies within the "tripartite alliance" of the ANC, Cosatu and the SACP.

Malema, who claimed to represent the interests of the unemployed and marginalised African millions, gravi-tated to an interpretation of ANC his-tory which saw the contemporary AN-CYL replaying the role of the Mandela/Tambo ANCYL of the late 1940s which had overthrown a conservative leader-ship and led the ANC into a period of mass action.

This increasingly cast Zuma as a vil-lain, a false hero who had disappointed voters by failing to implement a radi-cal nationalist political and economic agenda. The conclusion was that Zuma - and those around him, notably the ANC's secretary-general Gwede Man-tashe - would have to be replaced by can-didates who would commit to Malema’s programme; this would happen at the ANC next conference at Mangaung in December 2012.

In all this, Malema fatally mistook Zuma’s form for substance. Zuma’s style of governance is thoroughly unlike that of Mbeki - a centralist moderniser, who ruled his cabinet with authority and brooked no dissent.

By contrast, Zuma has espoused a reconciliatory role whose princi-pal concern is to appease all elements in the very disparate coalition which brought him to power. This has had the merits of allowing an overall competent economics and financial core to main-tain reasonable control over the econo-my during an era of immense global tur-

bulence. The downside is that, across many ministries, inefficiency, medioc-rity and downright predation and plun-der have been permitted to flourish; a succession of financial scandals has re-sulted.

At the centre, the Zuma presidency has provided for a remarkable rise in the fortunes of "Zuma Inc", a cluster of firms associated with his friends and family. The financial interests of Zuma himself, and Zuma Inc, are an impor-tant factor motivating Zuma’s deter-mination to secure a second five-year presidency of the ANC from 2012 and of South Africa via a fifth general elec-tion in 2013.

So when Malema transformed from supporter to political threat, Zuma prepared to pounce. For a man who had risen to the head of ANC in-telligence in exile, this was child’s play. All he needed to do was wait, as suc-cessively Malema embarrassed the ANC by embracing Robert Mugabe’s land and indigenisation polices; hailed Muammar Gaddafi; and declared the Botswana government to be in bed with United States imperialism.

The short step to filing charges was made easier by the ANCYL leadership's stunts, such as invading an official meeting of the mother body’s senior of-fice-leaders. The mobilisation of unruly supporters in the streets of Johannes-burg outside the ANC’s Luthuli House during the early days of the disciplinary

hearing also did little to help the Youth League leaders’ cause.

The prospectSo what does Julius Malema’s po-

litical demise mean for the ANC and South Africa? Four conclusions sug-gest themselves.

First, Jacob Zuma will sail on to a second presidency. Those touted by the Youth League as an alternative op-tion, notably deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe, have a clearer sense of Zu-ma's real political abilities and no stom-ach to challenge him.

Second, Zuma will maintain his multidirectional balancing-act: molly-coddling diverse constituencies, prom-ising employment-generating policies, maintaining broadly conservative eco-nomic policies, alternately punishing and tolerating corruption according to political interests.

Third, the ANC under Zuma will proceed to a repeat election victory in 2013 after a year of celebration of the party’s centenary in 2012. It is pos-sible this will shore up its perceptibly eroding vote at the cost of its inatten-tion to issues which are steadily un-dermining its longevity: corruption, "tenderpreneurship", and resulting incapacity to address collective needs (especially at provincial and local-government level).

Fourth, the ANCYL will doubtless regroup around another leader. Even if Malema's sentence is reduced on ap-peal, he will be unable to play an overt role in the party prior to Mangaung. His choice will be to buckle down in the hope of long-term rehabilitation or take the major risk of launching out politi-cally on his own. But the latter option would require major financial and po-litical backers; at present there are few either free of ties to the Zuma state or prepared to place their money on such an unpredictable horse.

It could get worse before it gets better for Malema. He has already ac-quired improbable levels of wealth - and the withdrawal of Zuma’s political protection has provided space for vari-ous anti-corruption agencies to probe the dubious routes to this enrichment, which include apparently manipulat-ing the award of contracts in his home province in Limpopo. Zuma’s message to the ANC has become brutally clear: plunder if you will, but if you cross me politically, expect no mercy.

S Africa’s political duel: Zuma vs Malema

1. Some Meitei said we had organic relationship with the Tribals surrounding the Imphal valley.

2. But the organic relation-ship was defined as calling the Nagas as “Hao” meaning un-touchable/un-civilized/pollut-ed. For instance, when a Hao buys anything from the Mei-tei women in the bazaar, they would ask the former to drop the money as they were consid-ered untouchables and fear of polluting, completely denying the human dignity.

3. Definition of various re-lationships can go on, however in the context to the Naga so-lution through dialogue to re-solve the oldest insurgency in Asia with ceasefire signed in 1997 as two entities was stiffly opposed by the dominant Mei-tei community. When ceasefire was declared without territo-rial limit it was opposed again, orchestrated through UCM, AMUCO, Meirapaibi, and AMSU founded in the name of colonies’ club. This was well managed through propaganda by the Meitei Journalist and one sided media funded by the Dominant Govt of Manipur. Traditionally Meitei have act-

ing skill which they call it Lee-la, acting craft is so convincing that tears can be shed within a few second in front of the cam-era. In 2001 the so called June uprising started with different stages. The Act-part I (Leela in Manipuri) started with the burning of Indian National flag, state Assembly Secre-tariat and Naga MLA officials’ residence. Act-part II, 18 inno-cent drug addicts in their youth were pushed in the front to be killed. Act-part III; quit notice issued to the Nagas staying in Imphal. Thousands of Naga families and Govt employ-ees fled Imphal and rendered homeless in Senapati, Ukhrul, Chandel and Tamenglong.

4. Further insulting the Na-gas, the Govt of Manipur want-ed to declare June 18th as mar-tyrs’ day (state official holiday) in 2005.This was objected by the Nagas.

5. The Naga Students’ Fed-eration officials who were on their way to Oinam village un-der Senapati district for their Federal Assembly were not allowed to enter Mao- Gate (Naga village under Manipur state NH-39) on 2nd May 2010.

6. Th. Muivah, the princi-

pal negotiator of Indo-Naga peace talk wanted to visit his native village after 50 years, for which, the Government of In-dia (GOI) had given clear order to the West Bengal, Nagaland and Manipur Govt to provide full proof security as he is enti-tled with Z plus category. This was objected with thousands of Police commandos, IRB de-ployed in Mao Gate imposing 144Crpc by the communal govt. of Manipur. In the process ter-ror was let loose upon the civil-ians. When such operation was opposed by the Mao women in the form of peaceful protest rally, the Meitei Commandos reacted by killing two students Chakho and Losii and injuring hundreds of innocent women. Many of the Mao gate villagers’ properties were looted and de-stroyed. The entire village fled and took shelter in the neigh-boring Angami villages at Khu-zama and Kidima in Nagaland.

7. Autonomous District Council (ADC) Act of 1972 which was rejected 25 years back by the tribal people in Ma-nipur was re-imposed as con-stitutional obligation in the guise of Local Self Governance against the will of the people

despite repeated appeal by the tribal people to postpone until consensus is arrived.

8. Subsequently, three women were shot at Noney, Mr. Abonmai, a theological stu-dent on picnic at Makhan was shot by commandos in civil dress to camouflage their iden-tity. In Ukhrul Manipur IRB imposed curfew without the consent of District administra-tion and assaulted civilians, in the process women folk came out protesting and seized 17 weapons from the personnel of IRB which was returned later when all IRB station at Ukhrul was shifted to Imphal.

9. Now with the media re-ports of “supra State” for the Naga solution, Both the Gov-ernment and ruling party Con-gress have come out openly that Territorial integrity of Manipur will not be allowed to touch in Naga solution. Another Mei-tei political party MPP chief has openly declared that there will be civil war between Meitei and Nagas in his interview with North- East Television.

Implication:Meitei’s against Naga in-

tegration clearly define their vested interest over Nagas’

land to maintain status quo of dominance rule in the present structure. Continued attempt to let Naga suffer by divide and rule policies over tribal and particularly through electoral politics by distorting Naga his-tory through imposed fabri-cated Meitei history in school curriculum, forcing Meitei language as official transac-tion in Govt. communication, Meitei Scripts in all school and also to implement Manipur Land Revenue (MLR) Act and Land Revenue (LR) Act in the hill area. The present ruling Govt in Manipur led by Ibobi exercise on some Nagas as his agency to uphold present he-gemonic rule. Fantasizing to please the Naga people in the name of New District creation, by Nagas’ name over their land and plant Meitei population from nearby Thoubal district, Bishnupur and Jiribam in the name of revenue district such as Tonji meril in Tamenglong, Phungyar in Ukhrul is nothing but a systematic grabbing Na-gas’ Land.

The Indo-Naga Ceasefire declared in 1997 to the 5 de-cade old bloody conflict was welcomed by all people around

the world. Nagas regarded it as hard earned Peace, where approximately 1, 50,000 Naga people were killed in their struggle for freedom. Cease-fire means peace therefore; Meitei opposing the ceasefire is itself opposing the Peace. The Meiteis’ hidden attitude against peace was exposed through their different level of their corrupt society in 2001 episode. Congress led Govern-ment in Manipur coming out openly opposing honorable settlement of the Indo-Naga through Chief Minister Ibobi, Manipur Congress President, Government funded NGOs, UCM, AMUCO, MEIRA Paibi and AMSU have exposed their natural chauvinist polluted so-ciety. Ironically the Nagas in the Congress party have sup-ported Territorial Integrity of Manipur. Valley based political party, Manipur Peoples Party (MPP) leaders directly inflam-ing to Civil war between Mei-tei versus Naga is an open chal-lenge to the civilized Human race in this region.

Naga should understand the reality of present age rather than harping on past glorious position only. We need to con-

textualize within the paradigm shift. Rationality should over-come the politics of survival in the present system of hege-monic dominance rule through facelift developmental politics. Though Nagas in Manipur are living hand to mouth yet their persistence and strong deter-mination could withstand for their Rights against all odds but sadly, there are few Nagas who are puppets, swaying to the tune of dominant community Meitei for their selfish person-al gain. We must realize that the legacy left behind by our wise forefather cannot be bar-ter away by selfish attitudes to please the Meiteis. The values of our History must be assimi-lated for the best of present and future generation guided by correct political decisions. If at all the blood of innocent Nagas’ runs through the green Naga Hills than the selfish pseudo Naga shall be responsible for all time to come.

We can choose friends but you can’t choose neighbors. Be a good neighbor.

Hopeson ShatsangDelhi University, South Ext. Delhi

Consumption, not population, is the issue

Why the Meiteis are always against Nagas?

Julius MalemaJacob Zuma

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24 November 2011Thursday8 Dimapur The Morung ExpressNATIONAL

KolKata, November 23 (IaNS): With Sunderbans vot-ed out of the race for the ‘New Seven Wonders of Nature’, tourism industry insiders say the world’s single largest block of mangrove forests may have lost a golden opportunity to be-come a global destination for wildlife tourism. Sunderbans, a UNESCO World Heritage Site,

is the single largest block of tid-al halophytic mangrove forest shared by India (West Bengal) and Bangladesh. Nearly 60 per-cent of it is with Bangladesh and the rest with India. It was voted out of the provisional list of the ‘New Seven Wonders of Nature’ based on the first count of vote results Nov 11. This has led to frustration among the people Sundarban spotted deer

Sundarban Delta

Sunderbans out of wonders race - a lost opportunity?of West Bengal, including trav-el agents who say it would have helped the Sunderbans push up its tourist numbers way beyond the current 150,000.

“It’s really unfortunate for both Bengal and India. Sunder-bans making it to the new seven wonders list would have opened new gates for the influx of for-eign tourists in the state,” state Forest Minister Hiten Burman told IANS. “It would have been a hotspot for wildlife tourism on the world map,” he added. Said Travel Agents Federation of India (TAFI) chairman-east-ern chapter Anil Punjabi: “It’s indeed not good in terms of the tourism business.” “The rush of foreign tourists would have increased if Sunderbans was voted one of the new seven won-ders of nature. The economy of the area would have got a heavy boost,” he added. The New-7Wonders of Nature was a proj-ect undertaken by Canadian-Swiss Bernard Weber to make a list of seven natural wonders selected by people across the world through a worldwide poll.

The criterion was that the

site was to be “a clearly defined natural site or natural monu-ment” that was not created or significantly altered by humans for aesthetic reasons. The initia-tive was started in 2007 and at-tracted 100 million votes from around the world. Sunderbans was the only Indian entry in the final list of 28 that included the Grand Canyon of the US, the Amazon of Brazil, the Great Bar-rier Reef of Australia, the Halong Bay of Vietnam and other natu-ral sites. The case of Sunderbans - home to a number of rare spe-cies of birds and animals, includ-ing the endangered Royal Bengal Tiger - was also diplomatically important as it had brought In-dia and Bangladesh together.

Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Bangla-desh Forest Minister Hasan Mehmud had declared that the neighbours would work togeth-er to ensure the land of Royal Bengal Tigers made it to the final list. But Sunderbans De-velopment Minister Shyamal Mondal said: “We are the only ones to be blamed. The Left

Front government didn’t care much about the whole thing. What were they doing? Sun-derbans getting selected would have helped both the countries.” It is also believed that selection of Sunderbans would have trig-gered the flow of foreign funds in West Bengal which would have in turn helped the state in better wildlife conservation and unlocking new windows for eco-tourism.

Sunderbans, with its wild beauty, Royal Bengal Tigers and winding boat rides, at-tracts a large number of tour-ists throughout the year, espe-cially in October-November. The main tourism hotspots of the Sunderbans are the Sunder-bans Tiger Reserve - the home of Royal Bengal Tigers; Sunder-bans National Park - sanctuary to spotted deer, white bellied eagles, kingfisher; Bhagabatpur Crocodile Project - hatchery and home to the biggest estua-rine crocodiles; and Halliday Is-land - sanctuary of the barking deer. The tour operators and travel agents, however, feel the infrastructure needs to be de-

veloped according to interna-tional standards.

“The infrastructure needs to be developed and it will au-tomatically attract foreign tourists to Sunderbans. Better roads, transportation and lodg-ing facilities should be devel-oped,” tour operator Raj Basu said. Battered by cyclone Aila two years ago, the residents of the world’s largest delta are still picking up the pieces. Many are

yet to be compensated. Over 300 people were killed and heavy losses were incurred in terms of infrastructure in the disaster. State Tourism Minis-ter Rachapal Singh told IANS: “We should start preparing for the next opportunity. It is very necessary to familiarise foreign travellers with the Sunderbans. We need to take up an aggressive campaign at all international tourism festivals.”

baNgalore, November 23 (PtI): Winding up her deposition before a special court here, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha on Wednesday maintained the dispro-portionate asset case against her was “politically motivated” and “fab-ricated” at the instance of her rival DMK. Appearing for the fourth time since last month before special judge B M Mallikarjunaiah in the 15-year-old case, she completed answering 1,339 questions framed by the judge, who recorded her statement in the closed door hearing held at the high-security makeshift court hall at Para-pana Agrahara on the city outskirts.

Jayalalithaa, who had replied to 580 questions yesterday, fielded the remaining 192 today, special public prosecutor B V Acharya told report-ers after the more than three-hour-long proceedings. “With today’s deposition she has answered all the 1,339 questions which were framed by the court under section 313 of CrPC (relating to recording of state-ment),” he said. The AIADMK supre-mo had appeared before the court on October 20 and 21 when she replied to about 571 questions. She deposed in the court yesterday for the third

time after Supreme Court rejected her plea for exemption from person-al appearance and seeking permis-sion to submit written answers.

Apparently relieved at the com-pletion of the deposition, Jayala-lithaa who emerged out of the court greeted the onlookers with folded hands and sporting a smile as she drove to the airport en route to Chennai. During today’s proceed-ings, Jayalalitha also filed “a very de-tailed” statement along with several documents in addition to her deposi-tion, he said adding in her statement she had asserted the case was fabri-cated at the instance of DMK which was in power in 1997. “Therefore it is a politically motivated case.” Acha-rya said the court adjourned the next hearing in the case to November 29 when it will record the statements of the other three accused including Jayalalitha’s close aide Sasikala, at the regular special court in the city.

In her statement, Jayalalitha also said the case was taken up and an in-quiry ordered under the CrPC on the basis of a ‘false’ complaint by Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy. She also stated that the search war-rant was only taken in respect of her

31/3 Poes Garden residence and not the adjacent house. Therefore, the search (in the other house) was ille-gal. On seizure of costly sarees and matching accessories like footwear and watches during the raids, she said as a famous actress she had acted in about 120 films in various languag-es, where she was required to wear them with matching accessories.

“Because a saree once used in a film will not be used again, she had kept all these as a momento and po-lice is wrong in valuing all these sa-rees and footwear,” Acharya quoted Jayalalithaa as telling the court in the written statement. She termed the investigations by police officials as ’illegal’ and said permission was granted only to probe the complaint filed by Dr Swamy. She said searches of all her properties in Hyderabad was illegal as the court has no right to issue a search warrant for properties outside Chennai. Jayalalitha alleged that the case has been instituted by her political opponents to defame her and tarnish her image in the eyes of the public.

She, however, admitted that mu-sic director A R Rahman attended the marriage of her estranged fos-

ter son Sudhakaran in 1996 and also performed at the instance of the bride’s family. “He (Rahman) did not receive any payment for it,” she said. She also said Rehman produced some silver articles given to him by the bride’s family while inviting him for the marriage. Jayalalitha denied the statement by an IAS officer that she had used government officials for her private purpose. She also stated that during the check period, she had no other property except the Poes Garden property. She said that dur-ing investigation, the then law minis-ter Madhavan and DMK leader Arcot Veerasamy interfered in the process, which she termed illegal.

Jayalalitha’s senior counsel B Kumar, said she answered all the re-maining questions “correctly and to the point.” He said she has also filed a written statement detailing her grievances and that her examination under Sec 313 CrPC has been com-pleted. Kumar said the questions per-tained to investigation by police and documents acquired by them during the raids. Kumar said the “whole case is false and engineered by her oppo-nents and is totally mala fide.”

New DelhI, November 23 (IaNS): The Supreme Court Wednes-day granted bail to five executives who were accused in the second generation (2G) spectrum allocation case, seven months after they were jailed, even as a stay was granted on shifting the trial to Tihar jail. The five co-accused grant-ed bail are Sanjay Chandra of Unitech Wireless, Vinod Goenka of Swan Tele-com and Reliance Group’s Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair. They are among the 14 co-accused in the case, who include former telecom minister A. Raja.

A bench of Justice G.S. Singhvi and Justice H.L. Dattu ordered the release of the five co-accused, in custody since April, on a surety of Rs.5 lakh each but also allowed the Central Bureau of In-vestigation (CBI) to seek a review if the bail was misused. “We reserve the lib-erty to the CBI to make appropriate ap-plication for the modification, recalling the order passed by us, if for any reason, the applicants violate any of the condi-tions imposed by this court,” the judg-ment said. “There will be no induce-ment, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts or the case so

as to dissuade him to disclose such facts to the court or to any other authority,” said the court, asking the accused to be present in court when required.

Their trial is being conducted by a special CBI court presided over by Judge O.P. Saini. The proceedings will continue in Patiala House courtroom till a panel appointed by the Delhi High Court identifies an alternative location. A five-judge bench of the high court headed by Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri stayed Tuesday’s notifica-tion of the registrar general to shift the case to Tihar Jail after the accused said it was illegal and will inconvenience them as well as their lawyers. Now, a committee comprising the registrar general, special Judge Saini, a district judge of the Patiala House court and a few lawyers representing the accused will identify the place where the trial can be conducted.

The developments had led to a cel-ebratory mood, notably among the rel-atives of the five accused, in the Patiala House court. Judge Saini asked them to vacate the courtroom and not inter-fere with the proceedings. They later distributed chocolates outside. In a re-

lated development, out of the nine ac-cused still in judicial custody, 6 of them led by Raja’s party colleague and Rajya Sabha Member Kanomozhi Karunani-dhi moved the Delhi High Court for an early hearing of their bail pleas, slated for Dec 1. Regarding the bail Wednes-day, the 5 executives had challenged the judgment and common order of the Delhi High Court delivered May 23, which had rejected their pleas given the magnitude of the offence and gravity of the accusations against them.

The 5, however, contended in the apex court that the rejection of bail by the high court was bad in law and that their continued incarceration amounted to a pre-trial punishment, which violated their constitutional right. “The courts below committed a grave infraction of the Article 21 of the Constitution as there is no evidence that the petitioner may frustrate the trial by tampering with the witnesses or the records.” The probe agency had filed the first set of charges April 2 in which it had named as accused Raja, his former personal secy R.K. Chan-dolia, former telecom secretary Siddhar-tha Behura, Swan Telecom’s Shahid Us-man Balwa, Goenka and Chandra.

Kashmiri villagers gather near derailed coaches of a passenger train at the site of an accident in Sadura, 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, Nov 23, 2011. Three coaches of a passenger train derailed near a station in south Kashmir in-juring 25 passengers, police said. (AP Photo/

lucKNow, November 23 (IaNS): With his political opponents dubbing his visits to villages and shar-ing of meals with the poor as a “drama”, Congress general secretary Rahul Gan-dhi Wednesday said in Uttar Pradesh that he would “continue the drama throughout the life”. “Every time when-ever I mingle with the poor, visit their houses and share meals with them, se-nior leaders while sitting inside TV stu-dios mock at me…They call such things a drama of Rahul Gandhi,” he told a gath-ering in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich dis-trict, some 240-km from Lucknow.

“If mixing with the people to under-stand their problems and issues affecting them is a drama, I will continue with this drama throughout my life. I am not here to win elections…I am not going any where...I am here to change Uttar Pradesh,” Gan-dhi said while giving his third speech of the day. Rahul Tuesday embarked upon a five-day mass contact programme ahead of the state assembly polls next year. “The opposition leaders call me a kid, who has no information about politics,” said Rahul. “Yes, I don’t have that much information, but in the seven years of my political career I have very well understood one thing that there is no question in the entire country

for which the people of the country don’t have an answer.”

“The poor, the farmers and the labour-ers have an answer to every question,” said Rahul, citing the changes made by the cen-tral government for the implementation of a package for the weavers. “A delega-tion of weavers only told us that the pack-age should not be implemented through the help of co-operative societies that are governed by the state government. The weavers feared they would not get a single penny if the societies were involved for implementing the package,” said Gandhi. He said he would continue to strive for a better understanding of public problems. “Those confining themselves to speeches only must start visiting homes of the poor, share food with them and water from their well even if they get an upset stomach,” said Rahul.

Accusing the Mayawati govt of working against the farmers, Rahul said: “Whenever a farmer shouts over the forcible land acquisition, he is shot at…Atrocities were committed on the women there.” “It was the Cong party that fought for the farmers…Come what may, we would continue to do it…We will together work for an all-round development of the state,” said Rahul.

New DelhI, Novem-ber 23 (IaNS): As an ag-gressive opposition forced the adjournment of both houses of parliament without trans-acting much business on the winter session’s second day Wednesday over demands for debates on illegal money and the price rise, the wedge be-tween the ruling and opposi-tion parties seems to have wid-ened, threatening a repeat of last year’s washed-out winter session. The main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party put the onus of the smooth function-ing of parliament on the Unit-ed Progressive Alliance (UPA) government and threatened to continue the disruptions till its demand for debates on the price rise, corruption and black money was accepted.

“It is the government’s responsibility to run parlia-ment,” BJP leader S.S. Ahluwa-lia told reporters. He indicated

that his party will cooperate with the Left parties on their notice for debate on price rise that entailed voting, while the Left parties would return the gesture for its notice for ad-journment over illegal money. “Our demands are not illegal. Rules allow adjournment mo-tions in the houses to pave way for discussion by voting. If the government doesn’t want the discussion, it should be held re-sponsible for the disruptions,” he said. Returning the opposi-tion barb, Congress spokes-person Rashid Alvi said it was “very unfortunate” parliament was being disrupted for the last two days by the opposition.

“Parliament is a place to discuss concerns of the peo-ple. The prime minister has already said whatever issues the opposition wants to raise, the government is ready for discussion. The attitude of the opposition is very unfortu-

nate,” he said. In the two days since the winter session began Tuesday, parliament lost 17 hours of work, causing a cumu-lative loss of over Rs.4 crore to the national exchequer, con-sidering that an hour of parlia-ment’s functioning cost Rs.25 lakh according to rough esti-mates. Meanwhile, in the Lok Sabha, MPs from Telangana region, including those from the Congress, flashed placards demanding a separate state and Shiv Sena members sought a hike in cotton rates for farm-ers in Maharashtra.

The Left parties have been asking the speaker to consider their adjournment motion on price rise even as the gov-ernment had agreed to have a discussion on inflation under Rule 193 that doesn’t entail vot-ing. The discussion was listed in Wednesday’s business but the speaker has apparently de-cided against the adjournment

motion. The ruling threw the Lok Sabha into chaos result-ing in the chair adjourning the house for the day. The Rajya Sabha was also adjourned for the day after the suspension of Question Hour in the morning due to noisy protests. Giving a further headache to the UPA government, its main ally Trin-amool Congress hinted that it may oppose the government on the issue of price rise during the parliament debate.

Railway Minister and se-nior Trinamool leader Dinesh Trivedi said: “TMC will always be with the people. We are a re-sponsible party and TMC will never do anything which will create problems for the com-mon people.” But it does not pose a danger to the govern-ment, as the UPA ally from West Bengal would still vote with the government. Asked whether Trinamool would support the government if

there is voting on the issue of price rise, Trivedi said: “Yes, but in parliament allies also ex-press their views.” Trinamool had opposed petrol hike by the central government and its members had also met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the issue.

Meanwhile, the Commu-nist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said “there is no use of holding another discussion” on price rise in parliament without voting, as two such de-bates had taken place earlier. “But the government has not initiated any concrete steps to check inflation and price rise,” CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters outside Parlia-ment House. “The discussion should only be held under the rule which entails voting, so that there is pressure built on the government to initiate concrete steps to curb inflation and check price rise,” he added.

UPA-opposition wedge widens

Supporters of Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, or Indian Workers Group, par-ticipate in a protest rally in New Delhi on November 23. The supporters demanded that the government protect workers rights in the ongoing economic reform process as well as the financial crisis. (AP Photo)

Kashmiri villagers gather near derailed coaches of a passenger train at the site of an accident in Sadura, 65 kilometers (40 miles) south of Srinagar on November 23. Three coaches of a passenger train derailed near a station in south Kash-mir injuring 25 passengers, police said. (AP Photo)

5 executives get bail in 2G case, Tihar trial stayed

Jayalalitha replies to 1,339 questions in assets caseI will continue ‘drama’ of mingling with poor: Rahul

Thursday24 November 2011

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Pak quickly names new envoy to U.S.ISLAMABAD, NoveM-Ber 23 (AGeNCIeS): The Pakistani government announced on Wednesday the appointment of Sherry Rehman as the new ambas-sador to United States, a day after the former envoy, Hu-sain Haqqani, was forced to resign.

Rehman, who is a mem-ber of Parliament belong-ing to the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party and a former information minister, is a leading politician and rights activist who has been a vocal supporter for women’s and minority rights.

A former journalist, Rehman is well respected among liberal circles, where she has drawn praise over her campaign against the coun-try’s controversial blasphe-my laws, an effort that has drawn death threats from extremists. She is also the founding chairwoman of the Jinnah Institute, an Islam-abad-based think tank.

Rehman appeared to be a consensus candidate be-tween Pakistan’s military es-

In this photo taken on Thursday November 17, 2011, children on the trampoline team stretch during a physical train-ing session at a boarding sports school in Fuzhou in southeast China's Fujian province. Many talented children start all-day-long training in their early ages in China to aim for medals in future sports event. (AP Photo)

tablishment and President Asif Ali Zardari following the controversy that resulted in Haqqani’s ouster, according

to analysts here. Haqqani was forced to resign in the wake of accusations that he had sought American help

to rein in the powerful Paki-stani military. Rehman’s think tank recently pub-lished a report that was clos-er to the Pakistani military’s views concerning relations with Afghanistan.

“The military had been cultivating her since the pe-riod of her ouster,” said Mu-hammad Ziauddin, execu-tive editor of The Express Tribune, a Karachi-based English-language daily.

Rehman served as infor-mation minister beginning in 2008 but stepped down in March of 2009 over differ-ences with the party leader-ship. She had since been wag-ing a campaign to win back a government portfolio.

“She has the ability to be accommodating and though she is as ambitious as Haqqa-ni, she doesn’t step on other peoples shoes,” Ziauddin said.

Arif Rafiq, an analyst on Pakistani politics who is based in Washington, said Rehman was acceptable to Pakistan’s president, prime minister and army chief.

In this March 31, 2008 file photo, Pakistan's former Informa-tion Minister Sherry Rehman is seen in her office in Islam-abad, Pakistan. Pakistan has appointed Sherry Rehman as new ambassador to the United States on Wednesday No-vember 23 replacing Husain Haqqani, who resigned Tues-day amid allegations he wrote a memo to Washington ask-ing for its help in reining in the military. (AP Photo, file)

YeoNPYeoNG ISLAND, South Ko-reA , NoveMBer 23 (AP): South Ko-rean attack helicopters screamed through the skies above the Koreas' disputed Yellow Sea waters Wednesday in a display of power exactly a year after North Korea launched a deadly artillery attack on a front-line island.

Residents of Yeonpyeong Island laid flowers at statues to commemorate the four South Koreans killed in the barrage and sent aloft a balloon carrying a banner with their portraits. On the mainland, Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik joined families of the victims at the National Cemetery south of the capital for a solemn tribute on a cold, windy day.

Kim Yong-sub, a former marine who was stationed on Yeonpyeong during the attack, laid a flower at the cemetery in his friends' honor."I still think a lot about that day," he said.

Wednesday's drills involving aircraft, rocket launchers and artillery guns took place off Baengnyeong Island, another front-line territory near the disputed maritime border, and were meant to send a strong mes-sage to North Korean rivals stationed within sight just miles (kilometers) away. The ex-ercises represent far greater firepower than the South Korean military mounted last year in response to the artillery shells showered on military garrisons and fishing villages on nearby Yeonpyeong, Joint Chiefs of Staff spokesman Lee Bung-woo said.

"South Korea's government will never

compromise, and will take firm measures when it comes to the safety and security of our people and the country," Prime Minister Kim said. South Korea's delayed response to the shelling at the time — the first on a civil-ian area since the three-year Korean War ended with a truce in 1953 — drew heavy criticism and concern that Seoul was unpre-pared for a North Korean provocation. The defense minister resigned, and successor Kim Kwan-jin has pledged a fierce air strike if the North stages another attack.

Two construction workers and two marines were killed, dozens of homes dec-imated and scores evacuated to the main-land. Most islanders have returned but remain traumatized by the attack, which turned the tiny island's downtown into an inferno. "I often become tense when some-thing goes 'boom,'" said Yoo Dae-geun, 33, who runs a restaurant on the island.

Pyongyang blamed Seoul for provok-ing the attack, saying it struck after warn-ing the South not to carry out live-fire drills in waters both Koreas claim as their terri-tory. North Korea disputes the maritime border drawn by the U.N. at the close of the war, and three deadly naval gunfights have taken place in the Yellow Sea waters since 1999. South Korea also holds North Korea responsible for the sinking of one of its war-ships in March last year; 46 sailors were killed. Pyongyang denies involvement.

SKorea flaunts firepower year after NKorean attack

South Korean Prime Minister Kim Hwang-sik, center, and family members of the vic-tims of North Korea's attack, pay a silent tribute during a ceremony to mark the the first anniversary of North Korea’s artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island, at the National Cemetery in Daejeon, South Korea, Wednesday, November 23, 2011. (AP Photo)

‘Libya has priority to try Kadhafi son’trIPoLI, NoveMBer 23 (AFP): Libya has pri-ority to try Seif al-Islam, the most prominent son of deposed leader Moam-er Kadhafi arrested last week, chief International Criminal Court prosecu-tor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Wednesday.

"The primacy is for the national system. If they want to do it, we are not competing with them," Moreno-Ocampo said at a media conference during a visit to Tripoli for talks on jurisdiction in the cases of Seif and Kadhafi's spymas-ter Abdullah al-Senussi, both of whom are wanted by the court on charges of crimes against humanity. "We do it when they can not do it," Moreno-Ocam-po said. "As soon they can do it, we stop. This is the system, and it's what we are discussing here."

During the media con-ference, Moreno-Ocampo said that as long as Libya conducted appropriate investigations and pre-sented its findings to ICC judges "the rules say they can do it." "We are not doing something else," Moreno-Ocampo said.

Libya's Interim Jus-tice Minister Mohammed al-Allagui said that talks toward a cooperation deal between the ICC and the new government in Trip-oli were underway while maintaining that "all the guarantees and conditions are available in Libya for a fair trial". "It is the will of the Libyan people," Al-lagui said stressing that trying Seif in Libya was not contradictory to coop-erating with the ICC.

Vladimir Putin communist caricatures attackedMoSCoW, NoveMBer 23 (rIA NovoStI): Au-thorities in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod have accused the communist KPRF party of illegally using the image of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in its car-toon election leaflets. The leaflets contain a character bearing “a 100-percent re-semblance” of the Russian premier, Alexander Iva-nov, the deputy head of the city’s election committee, told Kommersant daily.

“You could also rec-ognize representatives of other political parties in the cartoon,” he said, pointing to caricatures of Sergei Mironov of A Just Russia and Vladimir Zhiri-novsky of the right-wing Liberal Democratic Party. The committee asked po-lice to decide if the cartoon breached Putin’s image rights since the 59-year-old had not granted KPRF permission for such use.

NO:DUDA/ENGG/TB/TENDER-1/2011-12 Dated: Kohima; the 22nd Nov' 2011

TENDER NOTICESealed tender in prescribed forms affixing court fee stamp of Rs.7.50/- and Earnest Money in the form of DAC / Fixed Deposit from any recognized Bank in favour of Executive Engineer, PWD Department of Underdeveloped Areas Division, Kohima are hereby invited on behalf of the Governor of Nagaland from class - 1 Registered Contractor(s)of Nagaland PWD/CPW/MEST/T&P&P/for the works mentioned below at above/below Nagaland PWD Schedule of rate for roads 2010 and building 2010. The same will be received in the Office of the Undersigned/Sub -Divisional Office upto 13:00 Hrs.on or before……30 Nov' 2011…...and will be opened on the same day at 13:30 Hrs.in the presence of intending tenderes.

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDOFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE ENGINEER : ( PWD )

DEPARTMENT OF UNDERDEVELOPED AREAS DIVISIONNAGALAND ::: KOHIMA

1 Terms and conditions are available at the Technical Branch DUDA Office Kohima.2 Tender for the works as per the notification in works programmes 2011-12 are also available at Technical

Branch DUDA Office Kohima.Executive Engineer : (PWD)

Department of Underdeveloped Areas DivisionNagaland : Kohima

Sl. No Name of works and location Amount (Rs)

in LakhsEarnest Money Rs

Tribal 1% Non Tribal 2%1 Extension of football ground at Chaoha - Chingnyu 4.75 4750 95002 Completion of Community Rest House at Chen Loisho 4.75 4750 95003 Completion of protection wall at Chen Moho 4.75 4750 95004 Constn. Of protection wall at Techahan ward GPS A/road Mon Town 4.75 4750 9500

5 Constn . Of footsteps from Mon-Namtola road to Fish market near Post office Mon Town 4.75 4750 9500

6 Constn. Of Protection wall below Civil Hospital colony near Walang's Res Old Wakching Rd 4.75 4750 9500

7 Constn. of cc footstep at Kangching 4.75 4750 95008 Const of Spring well Tamlu town 4.75 4750 95009 Constn. of Community hall at Tamlu village 4.75 4750 950010 Improvement of Khudei to Sangdak range road 4.75 4750 950011 Link road from Yukhumsang to Yimrup 4.75 4750 950012 Link road from Yimrup to Kumpung 4.75 4750 950013 Constn. Of Fishery pond at Aoyung project 4.75 4750 9500

14 Constn. Of Culvert and soiling of Approach road at Hakchang Ph-I (Constn. Of Culvert) 4.75 4750 9500

15 Constn. Of Culvert and soiling of Approach road at Hakchang Ph-II (soiling ) 4.75 4750 9500

16 Constn. Of Culvert and soiling of Approach road at Hakchang Ph-III (soiling ) 4.75 4750 9500

17 Constn. Of 1 room at Bejem school Tobu town 4.75 4750 950018 Improvement of road at New Man School at Tobu 4.75 4750 950019 Constn. Of R/wall at Yongkhao village to Tobu 4.75 4750 950020 Improvement of approach road to Purrur village-5km 4.75 4750 950021 Constn. of Sanezeuram village council/community hall 4.75 4750 950022 Constn. Of Panchayat hall at Old Jalukie village 4.75 4750 950023 Constn. Of Panchayat hall at Kepeuzang 4.75 4750 950024 Improvement of agri-link road at Khetoi village 4.75 4750 950025 Improvement of approach road at Aghiyili village 4.75 4750 950026 Improvement of approach road around the village at Thokihi village 4.75 4750 950027 Extension of GPS at Longwa Village 4.75 4750 950028 Extension of Play Ground at S/Tangten village 4.75 4750 950029 Extension of Play Ground at S/Chingnyu village 4.75 4750 950030 Repairing of School Building at S/Mokok village 4.75 4750 950031 Maintenance of Water Supply at Phomching HQ 4.75 4750 950032 Maintanance of Approach Road to Tangam Colony at Nyahnyu village 4.75 4750 950033 Maintanance of Approach Road to at S/Wamsa vill 4.75 4750 950034 Maintanance of Town Road at Longshen 4.75 4750 950035 Construction of Approach Road to Church Colony at Wetting village 4.75 4750 950036 Maintenance of Approach Road at Pukha village 4.75 4750 950037 Maintenance of Approach Road to Apho Colony at Longzang village 4.75 4750 950038 Construction of Approach Road to L/Wasa village 4.75 4750 950039 Construction of Common Toilet at GMS Angphang 4.75 4750 950040 Construction of Community Hall at Langmeing Village 4.75 4750 950041 Construction of Footpath Steps at Choknyu Village 4.75 4750 950042 Construction of Retaining Wall - 50 mtrs at Changlang Village 4.75 4750 950043 Public Drainage facilities at Changsa Village 4.75 4750 950044 Construction of Minor Irrigation at Aphak, Yakshu Village 4.75 4750 950045 Construction of Noklu Shelters for aged persons at Monyakshu 4.75 4750 950046 Construction of Play Ground at Kenjon Village 4.75 4750 950047 Construction of Water source Reservoir (Phase - I) at Thonoknyu Vill 4.75 4750 9500

48 Construction of Minor Irrigation (Tsokthsoi Nyei Project) at Chilliso Village - 8 Km 4.75 4750 9500

49 Construction of Community Hall at Sanglao East village 4.75 4750 950050 Construction of Community Hall at Wui village 4.75 4750 950051 Construction of Community Centre at Peshu village 4.75 4750 950052 Construction of Community Hall at Thoktsur village 4.75 4750 950053 Improvement of Approach Road - 10 Km (Phase - I) at Thongsongnyu 4.75 4750 950054 Construction of Temporary Bridge at Choklo River, Pang village 4.75 4750 950055 GHS School Extension at Salomi village 4.75 4750 950056 GHS School Extension at Chomi village 4.75 4750 950057 Const of Medical Staff Quarters at Pungro HQ 4.75 4750 950058 Const of Medical Staff Quarters at Pungro village 4.75 4750 950059 Constn. of Sub Health Centre, Thanamir Village 4.75 4750 950060 Improvement of Circular Road at Pungro HQ - 2 Km 4.75 4750 950061 Extension of 2 rooms for GPS at Yisisotha 4.75 4750 950062 Constn.of Veterinary Check Post Office, New Thewati Village 4.75 4750 9500

GOVERNMENT OF NAGALANDNAGALAND STATE AIDS CONTROL SOCIETY

NAGALAND :KOHIMANO.NSACS/TI/OST-01/2008-09/ /Dated Kohima, the 23rd Nov 2011

A D V E R T I S E M E N TApplications are hereby invited from eligible local candidates to fill up the following contractual posts under the Establishment of Nagaland State AIDS Control Society, Kohima. The contract period will be initially up to 31st March 2012 with effect from the date of joining. The appointment will be renewed every year based on the performance and directives from National AIDS Control Organization (NACO).

Sl. No. Category Pay Range No. of

postsQualification &

Experience Place of posting

1 Medical Officer Rs. 25,000-30,000/- pm 1

MBBSPreference: MD Psychiatry/ Diploma in Psychiatry Medicine

District Hospital Mokokchung & Kiphire under Oral Substituion Therapy (OST)

2 Nurse Rs. 7,000-11,000/-pm 1 ANM

3 Counsellor Rs. 7,000-11,000/-pm 1B.A in Psychology/ Social Sciences/ Humanity

4 Data Manager Rs. 6,500-8,500/-pm 1Graduate with Certificate/ Diploma in Computer Application

The application along with the following attested documents should reach the undersigned on or before 30th Nov 2011.

(i) Two passport size photo. (ii) Educational qualification certificates.(iii) Indigenous Inhabitant Certificate(iv) No objection certificate from the issuing authority if employed. (v) Proof of Experience.

The names of the Candidates who fulfill the criteria will be put up in the NSACS Notice Board. There will be written test on 2nd Dec 2011 and oral interview on 3rd Dec 2011 respectively for the short listed candidates. Incomplete application in any respect as well as application received after the closing date will be summarily rejected. No lobbying in any form will be entertained. No separate application forms will be issued.

Sd/-( DR. N.L. CHANGKIJA )

Project Director

The Morung ExpressSPORTSThursday24 November 201110 Dimapur

NAPLES, ItALy, No-vEmbEr 23 (AP): Edin-son Cavani ended his scor-ing drought in style with two goals in a 2-1 win over Manchester City on Tues-day, putting a big dent in the Premier League leaders' chances of qualifying for the knockout phase of the Champions League. Cavani, who hadn't scored since Oct. 29, gave Napoli the lead with a glancing header off a cor-ner in the 17th minute. Ita-ly forward Mario Balotelli then took advantage of a de-fensive error to equalize for City in the 33rd. But Cavani restored Napoli's lead in the 49th, taking a cross from An-drea Dossena and firing past goalkeeper Joe Hart from the center of the area.

In a furious finish, Nap-oli forward Marek Hamsik hit the post in the 76th and Balotelli wasted four chanc-es to equalize. Bayern Mu-nich leads Group A with 13 points after beating Villar-real 3-1. Napoli is next with eight, City seven and Villar-real zero. In the final group round on Dec. 7, City hosts Bayern and Napoli visits Villarreal. Napoli controls its own destiny, and can ad-vance by winning its final match no matter what City does. City, however, needs to beat Bayern and hope Napoli doesn't win in Spain.

"You never know. We'll see what happens,'' said Ro-berto Mancini, City's Ital-ian manager manager. "We didn't deserve to lose, but in the Champions League you can't allow your opponent certain types of chances. Napoli is a sneaky Italian side. We had our chances and it just didn't go in.''

For Cavani's first goal, the ball also touched City

Cavani gives Napoli 2-1 win over Man City

defender Aleksandar Ko-larov and Hart before go-ing in, and Cavani nearly scored again when he hit the side of the net two min-utes later. Cavani scored 26 goals for Napoli in Serie A

last season, managed a hat trick against AC Milan in September and also found the net in his opening two Champions League games this season. But he had struggled in recent weeks,

with his last goal coming against Catania in the Ital-ian league last month.

"Let's enjoy this beau-tiful moment. We knew we could do it from the very first day,'' Cavani said. "We

always prepare to give our maximum and today we were at our best.''

City's equalizer was the product of a poor clearing at-tempt from Salvatore Aron-ica. The ball went directly

to David Silva, whose shot was deflected by goalkeeper Morgan De Sanctis directly to Balotelli, who sent it into an empty net. Balotelli was playing his first club match back in his home country

since leaving Inter Milan and he now has two Cham-pions League goals to go with his six Premier League scores this campaign. The scene at the San Paolo stadi-um was electric, with about

60,000 fans filling the stands for one of the biggest crowds since Diego Maradona led Napoli to Italian titles in 1987 and 1990.

However, there were only a couple of thousand City fans, leaving the visit-ing supporters cage - which features double sets of Plexiglass barriers and net-ting stretching up to the sta-dium roof - half empty.

Before kickoff, Napoli fans put on a fancy dis-play, as fans held up cards in the squad's blue-and-white colors nearly all the way around the main ring of stands, and formed the outline of the letter 'N' with lines of flares on one end.

During the second half, fans held aloft a banner mourning the recent death of Maradona's mother, Dalma Salvadora Franco de Maradona. It read, "Lay in peace the mother of foot-ball, ciao Dona Tota.''

City began with Balotelli and Edin Dzeko in attack - leaving Sergio Aguero, its most productive scorer this season and Maradona's son-in-law, on the bench. Aguero came on for the final nine minutes. Napoli countered with its "Three Tenors'' of Hamsik, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Cavani. In the 63rd, Balotelli couldn't quite reach a cross with only the goal-keeper to beat, and he then was denied by De Sanctis in the 78th, headed high in the 82nd and failed to redirect a corner in the 84th. After the final whistle, fans stayed in-side the stadium to sing along to the old Neapolitan folk song, "O surdato 'nnammu-rato,'' while fans elsewhere in the city poured out onto the streets and celebrated with fireworks.

Napoli's striker Edinson Cavani, of Uruguay, celebrates after scoring during the Champions League, group A soccer match between Napoli and Manchester City, at the San Paolo stadium in Naples, Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 22. (AP Photo)

Serena, left, and Venus Williams pose for photos during a news conference in Bogota, Co-lombia, Tuesday Nov. 22, 2011. Venus will make her comeback Wednesday in an exhibition match against her sister Serena in Medellin, two months after pulling out of the U.S. Open because of an immune system disease. (AP Photo)

LoNDoN, NovEmbEr 23 (AFP): Roger Federer crushed old rival Rafael Nadal 6-3, 6-0 as the de-fending champion swept into the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals on Tuesday. Federer went into the match knowing victory would guarantee his place in the last four after Jo-Wil-fried Tsonga defeated Mar-dy Fish in the earlier Group B match.

The Swiss star seized the opportunity with a bru-tal demolition of the world number two in just one hour on court at London's O2 Arena. The 30-year-old hadn't beaten Nadal since they met in the final of the ATP's season finale here last year, but he produced his most emphatic ever win against the Spaniard to end-ed a run of three successive head to head defeats.

While Federer can re-lax in his final group game against Fish, there is no margin for error for Nadal, who needs to neat Tsonga on Thursday to make the last four. This was the 26th instalment of one of the great sporting rivalries and, while there wasn't a Grand Slam title at stake for once, Federer's masterclass made this just as memorable as some of their previous en-counters. Nadal has often had the better of Federer, winning 17 of their match-

Classy Federer routs Nadal to make last four

es including the last clash at this year's French Open final, but the meetings on hard courts have always been much closer affairs.

Federer, aiming for a record sixth Tour Finals crown, arrived on a run of 13 successive wins which brought him titles in Basel and Paris and he was quick to impose himself with a dominant opening ser-

vice game. The two heavy-weights slugged away for the first five games until Federer suddenly produced the kind of sustained brilliance that has done for so many oppo-nents in the past.

Federer unloaded a stunning cross-court win-ner to rock Nadal back on his heels and then brought up three break points with a perfectly timed smash.

That set the stage for one of the best rallies of the tournament as Federer worked Nadal around the court. The Spaniard fought gamely to stay in the point but eventually drove a back-hand wide as the capacity crowd rose to their feet to acclaim both players.

Federer had the bit be-tween his teeth now and kept Nadal from threaten-

ing a comeback with some cleverly placed serves to close out the set.

For the first time in the seven years they have been played each other, neither player was ranked number one after Nadal lost that spot to Novak Djokovic.

Federer has slipped to fourth recently but the qual-ity of his play in this mood remains unsurpassed. The 16-time Grand Slam cham-pion continued to take the attack to Nadal in the sec-ond set and the Spaniard was unable to find the right response. A blistering ex-change of ground-strokes in the first game ended with Federer producing a winner from a seemingly impossi-ble angle to secure the break.

It isn't often that Nad-al looks shell-shocked on court, but he was beginning to wear an increasingly ex-asperated expression and Federer, scenting blood, went for the kill in the third game. Again Nadal had no answer as Federer blazed forehand winners at will to open up a 3-0 lead. Fe-derer's serve was working beautifully and Nadal never threatened a fightback.

The Spaniard was ren-dered impotent on his own serve as well and Federer broke again in the fifth game before serving out the match to complete a re-markable performance.

Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates winning a point during the round robin singles ten-nis match against Rafael Nadal of Spain at the ATP World Tour Finals at O2 Arena in London, Tuesday, Nov. 22. (AP Photo)

ZDFRA refresher course on November 25 and 26 DImAPur, NovEmbEr 23 (mExN): The Zunheboto District Football Ref-eree Association (ZDFRA) will be orga-nizing a two day refresher course for the Football Referee Board at Zunheboto on November 25 and 26, 2011. Therefore, all the members are requested to attend without fail. For any information, contact Kihoyi Z.Zhimomi, President ZDFRA at 9863681919.

Nagaland open table tennis tourneyDImAPur, NovEmbEr 23 (mExN): Players interested in participating during the forth coming Inter-District Cum Naga-land Open Table Tennis Tournament, 2011 representing Kohima District in different Categories are hereby informed to submit their names and other details on or before December 5, 2011 in the office of KDTTA be-tween 3:00 to 5:00 pm. They can also con-tact in the following numbers- 9436011206, 9436010794. This was stated in a press note issued by Dr.J.Phoji, KTTA.

NEW DELHI, NovEmbEr 23 (PtI): Veteran batsman Ra-hul Dravid will be bestowed the 'Polly Umrigar Award for India's best cricketer of 2010-11' season during the BCCI's annual awards ceremony to be held on Decem-ber 10 in Chennai. The 38-year-old Dravid, who scored 1258 runs in 15 Tests at an average of 53 this season, pulled off six hundreds during the year.

Dravid was the star of India's disastrous tour of England ear-lier this year, which cost India the top spot in the ICC Test rankings after they were whitewashed 0-4. Only Dravid stood up and hit up three centuries as rest of the In-dian batting tumbled. The Ban-galorean will be honoured with a trophy and prize of Rs 5 lakh. India women's team captain Jhulan Go-swami will also be honoured at the annual awards. The pacer will be awarded the 'M A Chidambaram Best Woman Cricketer of 2010-11'

trophy for claiming 21 wickets in eight matches, including a five-for.

The Col. C K Nayudu Life-time Achievement award will be bestowed on former captain and coach Ajit Wadekar.

bCCI Awards 2010-11:Col. CK Nayudu Lifetime

Achievement Award: Ajit WadekarPolly umrigar Award: Rahul Dravidmadhavrao Scindia Award (Highest Scorer in the ranji trophy 2010-11): S Badrinath (922 runs at a rate of 131.71 in nine matches, inclusive of four centu-ries and three half centuries).madhavrao Scindia Award (Highest wicket-taker in the ranji trophy 2010-11): Bhargav Bhatt (47 wickets at an average of 21.57 in nine matches, inclusive of four 5WI and one 10WM).mA Chidambaram trophy (best under-16 cricketer of

2010-11): Vijay Zol (858 runs at an average of 85.8 in seven matches, inclusive of four centuries and two half-centuries).mA Chidambaram trophy (best under-19 cricketer of 2010-11): Avi Barot (971 runs at an average of 88.27 in seven matches, inclusive of four centuries and three half-centuries).mA Chidambaram trophy (best under-22 cricketer of 2010-11): Suryakumar Yadav (721 runs at an average of 80.11 in seven matches, inclusive of two centu-ries and four half centuries).mA Chidambaram trophy (best woman cricketer of 2010-11): Jhulan Goswami (21 wickets at an average of 7.62 in eight matches, inclusive of one 5WI).mA Chidambaram trophy (best woman cricketer ( junior) of 2010-11): Mona Meshram (623 runs at an average of 103.83 in eight matches, inclusive of one century and five half centuries).

best umpire in Domestic crick-et 2010-11: S Ravi

Dilip Sardesai Award for In-dia's Best Cricketer in the 2011 Test series in the West Indies: Ishant Sharma (22 wickets at an average of 16.8 from three Tests, inclusive of two 5WIs and one 10WM).

Dilip Sardesai Award for In-dia's Best Cricketer in the 2011-12 Test series against the West Indies: To Be Decided at the end of the on-going Test series

Lala Amarnath Award for the Best all-rounder in the Ranji Trophy 2010-11: Iqbal Abdulla (385 runs and 27 wickets from 8 matches).

Lala Amarnath Award for the Best all-rounder in the Domestic Tournaments 2010-11: Sumit Nar-wal (163 runs and 13 wickets from 6 matches).

Best Overall Performance in 2010-11: Railways Sports Promo-tion Board and Delhi and District Cricket Association.

BCCI Awards: Dravid to get 'Polly Umrigar' Trophy Results of under 18 boys played at Guwahati.DImAPur, NovEmbEr 23 (mExN): David Kire vice president Nagaland Ten-nis Association, in a press note stated that Naga boys Keneisezotup Whuorie defeat-ed Rakshit Rishi (No 8 seat) 4-6, 7-5, 7-5. While Vilasier Khate defeated Jude Ray-mond 7-5, 6-3 to enter the quarter finals.In doubles Vilasier and partner defeated Gary Docker and Manish Kumar 6-1, 6-3.

Comm. Secy Tourism to grace Ato Area trophyDImAPur, NovEmbEr 23 (mExN): Commissioner Secretary of Tourism, Art & Culture, Government of Nagaland I. Himato Zhimomi (IFS) will grace the inaugural function of the 26th edition of Ato Area G.Bs’ Trophy organized by Ato Area Sports Association on Novem-ber 26 at Sukhato village as chief guest. Atovi Zhimomi, Advisor, Dimapur will grace the closing function as guest of honour. The organizing committee have informed all the GBs and public leaders of the Ato area to participate in the inau-gural and closing functions.

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12:00Jaguar Adventure1:00Telebrands2:00Mysteries of Asia: The Lost Temples of India3:00Clash of the Dinosaurs: The Defenders4:00Swamp Brothers4:30Destroyed in Seconds6:00Mysteries of Asia: The Lost Temples of India7:00Echo and the Elephants of Amboseli

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Seal has revealed he and wife Heidi Klum want to adopt a child some day af-ter being inspired by their

friend Sandra Bullock. The couple raise four children together, sev-en-year-old Leni - whose biologi-cal father is the supermodel's ex-boyfriend Flavio Briatore - Henri, six, Johan, five, and two-year-old

Lou and would love to take on the care of another youngster after seeing their friend Sandra Bull-ock go through the process with her 18-month-old son Louis.

Seal told Closer magazine: "I was really inspired by Sandra Bull-ock, who we've become friends with. She came round with her ad-opted son and she's raising a little

boy by herself. She's giving him a chance, but he doesn't know it yet, which is just awesome. We've talked about adopting. I've no idea where we'd adopt from but I think we will one day - just not yet."

Seal adopted Leni in Decem-ber 2009 but has previously in-sisted the legal process hasn't changed the way he views the

little girl he has brought up since she was born. He said: "Adopting Leni doesn't make her any more or less my daughter as she always has been. It makes a difference to us only in that I don't want Leni to be Leni Klum and her siblings called Samuel - that's just not right. I don't want her to feel dif-ferent in any way, shape or form."

Wearing a thick turtle-neck, Duchess Kate stocked up on essen-tials at the grocery

store Tuesday. Prince William's wife bought bananas, chicken, milk, pota-toes, oranges, cereal, Haagen-Dazs ice cream, lettuce.

But don't jump to the conclusion that Kate's eating for two. Earlier this month, the 29-year-old sparked preg-nancy rumors when she refused peanut paste during her and William's visit to a Denmark UNICEF distribution cen-ter. (Although Kate is not allergic to peanuts, pregnant women are often advised to avoid peanut products to prevent allergies in their babies-to-be.)

But a royal insider explained that Kate simply isn't "comfortable eat-ing in front of cameras… What if she didn't like it and made a face? That expression would then be on every newspaper." A spokesman for the couple said that the policy is "to nev-er confirm or deny [pregnancy] ru-mors," but an insider insists: "If and when there is an announcement to make, it will be made by the palace as soon as it's safe to."

She underwent a double lumpectomy to treat her breast cancer just one month ago, and now Giuliana Rancic is talking about life post-surgery. The 37-year-old says

she's mostly good, which she owes to her own in-ner strength and the support of fans. 'I'm good. I'm hanging in there,' she tells Parade magazine. 'I have good days and bad days, but so far good.' She added: 'I'm very optimistic and I'm just happy to have caught it early. I think that's really the most important thing. Early detection means so much.'

The E! News host discovered her tumour in its early stages during a doctor-recommended mam-mogram while undergoing in vitro fertilisation. She underwent a two-hour surgery that removed cancerous growths in both breasts as well as her lymph nodes. She urges other women to take care of themselves, as well, saying: 'I want women to make sure they're taking care of their health and being proactive.'

Rancic was initially afraid of letting the world know about her ordeal, but in hindsight says it was the best decision she could have possibly made. 'When I went public, I thought, 'OK, I guess a couple of people are going to talk about this', but I couldn't believe it. The outpouring of love and support was just beyond anything I could have ever imagined. I really relied on a lot of those mes-sages I was receiving through Twitter and email and through blogs right before the surgery and the week I was recovering.'

She credits her fans and the hope they gave her for her current optimism regarding her chances of a complete recovery. 'I know it sounds so cli-che, but I think it helped me recover quicker and it got me in better spirits. The word I kept seeing over and over again was 'strong.' 'Be strong, you're

Angelina Jolie has tak-en pride in her nip-pers to a new level. Most mums save a

first tooth or lock of hair. But Ange keeps her six kids' used plasters in jam jars. A former assistant told a US magazine: "She tries to hide it but she has a crazy side to her that's beyond just being quirky. She thinks she's being edgy and artistic but to others she just seems weird." Brad Pitt must feel pretty left out when his go in the bin.

This isn't the first time An-gelina has stored bodily flu-ids. She used to wear a vial of ex-husband Billy Bob Thorn-ton's blood around her neck while they were married. That would've been an awkward thing to ask for back.

In other news, onlookers were reportedly shocked too see Jolie thinner than ever, as she prepared to board her pri-vate jet after a family trip to Vietnam last week. Wearing a loose-fitting red dress knotted around her waist that empha-sised the bones on her spine and her ultra-skinny arms, Angeli-na's already very slender frame seemed painfully slight. Her weight is said to hover around the 97lb mark - underweight for her 5ft 8in height.

But while her figure seems to be shrinking, sources say

Salman Khan is miffed with Kareena Kapoor.

The actor who is otherwise

very fond of Bebo got miffed with her when she com-pared him to superstar Ra-

Seal & Heidi Klum to adopt child Kate Middleton goes grocery shopping

Entirely fictional though they may be, Bella and Edward's nuptials in The Twilight Saga's Breaking Dawn, Part 1 have caused quite a

ripple throughout the wedding industry. Just days after the blockbuster film hit screens to rapturous success, bringing in a massive $139.5 million on its opening week-end, an imitation version of Bella Swan's wedding dress has gone on sale in stores.

The ultra-fast turnaround has not been a miracle of high-speed creation, however. Instead, the film's producers at Summit Entertainment worked with bridal retailer Alfred Angelo, who have se-cretively been planning the replica dresses together since May, according to the Wall Street Journal. Designer Michael Shettel joked that the confidentiality agreement for the top-secret project was 'signed with blood,' while code words were used in the discreet planning process. While word got out in August that the dress project was

under way, the clandestine nature of the project was so watertight that Alfred An-gelo stores were not given prior warning of the arrival of the Bella dress, nor were photos and inventories given to staff.

Kristen Stewart's original gown was the responsibility of Venezuelan fashion designer Carolina Herrera, who gave the vampire's lover old-world elegance with a long-sleeved silk dress, complete with lace detailing on the sleeves and a cut-out illusion back. Buttons run the length of the back of the 'Edwardian inspired' gown, which according to Hollywood Life is val-ued at $35,000. A demure V-shaped neck-line shows Bella's décolletage without ex-posing too much skin.

The replica, costing a very reasonable $799, stays faithful to the original, but opts for liquid satin instead of silk. Mr Shettel told the Wall Street Journal: 'The stitching on the bodice is the same, and the lace de-tailing is similar.'

Salman Khan doesn’t like to be compared to Rajnikanth

'I'm hanging in there'Giuliana Rancic opens up about breast cancer surgery

strong.' That word has never meant so much to me as it has this past month. I owe that all to the people behind me.'

The most important person behind her is hus-band Bill Rancic, The 40-year-old's strong emo-tional support will be visible on the Style Net-work's Giuliana and Bill as her cancer ordeal plays out on the small screen. She told Parade: 'The fact that we can help people through our show is an honour. We're happy to do it and it's something that we continue to do. We really are like open books. It's worth it to kind of sacrifice some of my personal life to help others.'

Angelina Jolie keeps kids’ dirty plasters

Angelina rarely eats a full meal and frequently forgets to eat. According to Grazia magazine, Angelina survives on as little as 600 calories a day, which is

the equivalent of two bowls of cereal with milk. 'Angelina has been known to start her day with little more than a spoon-ful of coconut oil and a handful

of cereal,' a source told Grazia last week. 'The worrying thing is that she is so busy, she often forgets to eat.

Sometimes she'll skip lunch altogether or will just grab a few almonds and some gummy bears while she's on the go, or will have a protein-based shake rather than anything more sub-stantial. Then dinner could be something like a lean steak and a glass of red wine.'

Angelina's fluctuating weight has been well document-ed, with her slim frame becom-ing painfully thin during difficult emotional times in her life. The actress was forced to defend her waif-like frame in 2007, when her weight plummeted following the death of her mother Marche-line. At the time, she said: 'I have always been lean, and this year I lost my mum and I've gone through a lot. Instead of people saying I look like a person deal-ing with something emotionally, they assume it's because I want to fit into skinny jeans.'

But while in 2007 the weight loss was put down to An-gelina's mourning process, this time round reports suggest her battles with food have come as a result of her frenetic lifestyle, which requires constant work to balance work, children, trav-el and, of course, her relation-ship with Brad.

How to look like a wedding Bella

Bella in replica: The Alfredo Angelo version of Caro-lina Herrera's Bella gown stays as true as possible to the original, with long, lace-edged sleeves, an illusion back and buttons running the length of the dress.

jnikanth. At a recent press conference, Kareena had stated that she consid-ered Salman as the Rajni of Bollywood. The actress said, “ To me Salman is the Rajnikanth of Bollywood. His action sequences, his screen presence reminds us of the same Rajnikanth that we saw earlier in Bol-lywood.”

While both Salman and Rajni’s action sequences are larger than life, Salman felt that Rajni is of a dif-ferent league altogether. Looks like Kareena will have to think other ways to compliment Sallu!

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MUMBAI, NoveMBer 23 (AgeNcIes) : The talk before the start of the Test had been about West Indies' line-up having only seven centuries on their re-sume while India's boasted 20 times as many, but two days into the match it was the less-decorated batting unit that had put on 575 for 9. Darren Bravo crafted his third hundred in four Tests to lead the way, while Kirk Edwards and Kieran Pow-ell were left to rue missing centuries on a shirtfront at the Wankhede.

Marlon Samuels par-took in the run-fest after tea, to make it only the fifth time in Test history that each of the top six made half-centuries. Varun Aaron, the debutant fast bowler who was ordinary for much of the innings, showed plenty of tenacity to bowl a quick spell even as West Indies' total swelled past 500, earning three wickets to spark a late col-lapse.

The tone for the day was set by Bravo, who ca-ressed the first two deliv-eries of the morning be-tween the bowler, Aaron, and mid-off for four. West Indies plundered 111 runs before lunch, after which India went completely on the defensive, spread-ing the field, and giving the part-timers, Virender Sehwag and Sachin Ten-dulkar, extended spells. The strategy reduced the boundaries but there was no flagging of the run-rate, as an untroubled West In-dies marched towards 500.

Like on Tuesday, there was little to encourage In-dia's fast bowlers. Bravo showed how easy the track was to bat on as he pulled an Aaron bouncer wide of mid-on for four. His partner Ed-wards continued to show-case his driving skills, and a muscular style that favours the on-side. Edwards was

'Did not plan to go after

Lara’s record'MUMBAI, NoveMBer 23 (PTI): West Indies’ Darren Bravo and Brian Lara may have more in common than just style, but the former doesn’t seem to get bogged down by the similarities and com-parisons with the legend-ary Prince of Trinidad. Bra-vo, who had equalled Lara’s record of scoring 941 runs in his first 12 matches prior to the ongoing third Test against India, today stroked his way to 166, but still fell short of the 167 the world re-cord holder had scored in his 13th Test, against England at Georgetown. “Had I scored one more run I would have equalled Lara’s record. But it is something that I didn’t plan, it is not something that I would go out and achieve.

“Nevertheless, I played a good knock and got a big hundred for my team. Hopefully, we would go out there tomorrow and put down a good performance,” Bravo said after helping his team amass 575 for nine on day two of the Test at the Wankhede Stadium here. This was Bravo’s second ton in as many innings and third in his last four to take his tally to 1,107 runs, which is again one less than Lara at the same stage. “It was very important to stay as much as possible at the wicket. The openers did a tremen-dous job as well as number three Kirk Edwards. It was important for me to contin-ue the job. I batted pretty well yesterday and contin-ued it today with Edwards. Unfortunately he did not get another hundred. Ki-eran Powell played pretty well,” he said.

more tentative than Bravo and he eventually fell short of a third Test century when he nicked a short-of-length ball to the keeper, giving Is-hant Sharma reward for a long, tight spell.

That brought in Powell, who started shakily - get-ting knocked on the back of his helmet by Ishant off the first delivery he faced. That

didn't faze the 21-year-old, though, and he showed off his footwork against spin, dishing out a boundary an over. Powell initially domi-nated his partnership with the well-set Bravo, making his intentions clear early on by charging and lofting off-spinner R Ashwin over his head, a stroke he repeated several times against the

spinners.Bravo was briefly

starved of the strike when Powell got going, but he didn't lose his rhythm. He continued to favour the off side, using the graceful back-foot punch between cover and point heavily. His century came up with a slice past cover for four a few overs before lunch.

Bravo stars as WIndies pile on 575

West Indies player Darren Bravo bats during the second day of the third test cricket match against India in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, Nov. 23.(AP Photo)

sHANgHAI, NoveM-Ber 23 (AFP): Fourth seed Saina Nehwal and six-seeded Juliane Schenk were shock casualties at the China Open in Shanghai Wednesday, where Dane ace Peter Gade battled all the way to avoid becoming a third victim. India's Ne-hwal was upset by Korean

Youn Joo Bae 15-21, 24-22, 21-15 in a match that last-ed just over an hour, while Hong Kong shuttler Yip Pui Yin dispatched with sixth seed Juliane Schenk of Ger-many 21-18, 19-21, 25-23.

Schenk, apparently upset at a lineman's call, threw her racket to the floor and sat down on the

court for nearly a minute, before going on to suffer her second straight first-round loss in a row. In the men's singles, Denmark's fourth-seeded Peter Gade had to dig deep to win his match in a fierce show-down against 23-year-old South Korean Ho Shon-Wan, 21-13, 20-22, 22-20.

Saina knocked out of China Open

Shanchithung Murry Kohima | November 23

Life Sports of Kohima cruised into the semi-fi-nals of the Royal Cup by defeating Dengzong Boys of Gangtok by four goals to nil (4:0). It was a convincing win for Life Sports and they will now play the winners of the third quarter finals be-tween IAM FC, Imphal and TT Aizawl FC of Mizoram.

The first half ended in a stalemate as both teams failed to score. In what turned out to be an unevent-ful forty five minutes of play, neither teams created any meaningful chances despite getting many opportunities in front of the goal.

Five minutes after play resumed, Denzong Boys thought they finally broke the deadlock when their skipper, Amir Lama (7) headed the ball into the net. But unfortu-nately for them, the referee disallowed the goal. Sikkim looked like they were set-tling down and created some good chances. They almost scored the first goal of the match in the 57th minute; but Stanley’s (12) shot from the left went wide of the left had post. Life Sports held on and soon created their own chance in the 58th minute and scored the first goal of the match through Thangtinlen (9). Denzong were awarded a free-kick in the 65th min-ute, but they gave away the

Life Sports Kohima blanks Dengzong Boys Gangtok; cruise into SF

ROYAL CUP23rd Nov 2011

Result:Life Sports, Kohima: 4

Dengzong Boys, Gangtok: 0

ball easily and allowed Life Sports to make a fast counter attack. Thangtinlen (9) made a good run from the left and easily beat the keeper and

Santosh of Life Sports and Stanly of Dengzong Boys fight for the ball

slotted the ball into the net registered the second goal for Life sports.

Dengzong tried to come back into the match and very nearly reduced the deficit late in the match when Lakpa Bhu-tia’s shot was brilliantly saved by Vekuto Puro. But any hopes of a recovery by Dengzong was shattered when Vikuzo (7) scored the third goal in the 88th minute. Life sports sealed the match when Khwetelhi (18) scored a clean goal in stoppage time when he in-tercepted a good pass from Keyigumgwangbe (11)

Today’s match:Nagaland Police, Chu-

mukedimaVs

Mizoram Youth Team, Aizawl

Time: 1:00 pm