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The Morung ExpressDimapur VOL. VI ISSUE 292 www.morungexpress.com

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Monday, October 24, 2011 12 pages ̀ 3

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A vendor selling some captured amur falcons at Wokha on October 21, 2011. The annual migratory birds – Amur Falcons – have started their migration and are flocking in dif-ferent parts of the state, and nagas are doing what they do best – catch it and sell it for a price. Though the Wildlife Wing of nagaland has cau-tioned public not to consume migra-tory birds fearing ‘bird flu’ outbreak, the caution is seems to have been ig-nored. These birds, if consumed may lead to avian influenza due to their wide ranging migratory nature, the Wildlife Wing of nagaland. Besides, in the past also, there have been a lot of concerns over the shooting and capturing of these migratory birds since it might lead to destruction of the ecosystem. Though, many vil-lages and groups have taken up con-certed efforts to save these migratory birds, a lot seems needed to be done. It has been reported that these migra-tory birds, in order to escape extreme climate, some birds, especially Amur falcon, migrate to the state from Ger-many and Mongolia in October to no-vember every year.(Morung Photos)

AI Flight rescheduledDimapur, OctO-ber 23 (mexN): Sta-tion Manager, AIR IN-DIA LTD. Dimapur has informed that due to op-erational reasons the fol-lowing Air India flights on October 24, 2011(Mon-day) got rescheduled. AI9702/24OCT for DIMA-PUR/KOLKATA sector is rescheduled to 1400 HRS. All the passengers are re-quested to report for check in formalities at1145 HR. Inconvenience caused is highly regretted.

mOkOkchuNg, Oc-tOber 23 (mexN): Mak-ing a maiden visit to the oldest college in the state, the Nagaland University Vice Chancellor Prof Bo-lin Kumar Konwar made a visit to the Fazl Ali College campus and had interac-tion with the Principal, faculty and staff and visited the different labs and class-es in the college, and sug-gested the college to take up meaningful research in different fields which can be assisted by the Univer-sity academically.

In a short interaction with the local media per-sons at the FAC Princi-pal’s office, the newly ap-pointed Vice Chancellor Prof BK Konwar replied to some queries posed by the scribes. The VC, while say-ing that he is at the Naga-land University to serve for the good of the University, expressed deep hope that NU can become a great aca-demic centre in the region.

On being queried on his plans for the University as the Vice Chancellor, Prof BK Konwar disclosed that he plans to introduce more

New VC of NU visits oldest college Fazl Ali

subjects in the University. He said that subjects like Environmental Sciences, anthropological studies and other social sciences subjects will be introduced in the University. He also disclosed that the Supreme Court of India has directed that every university in the country should have a sub-ject of Environmental Sci-

ences for the benefit of the students, and therefore he assured that the Univer-sity will work towards that agenda. Saying that the Na-galand University could be a great centre of Arts and Science, and a place for teaching and learning the traditional principles and the ways, Prof BK Knowar asserted that the University

would be honoured to take this privilege in the field of social sciences.

On being queried about the frequent protests and strikes in the University and how he aims to tackle it, the non assuming and newly appointed VC who has been in office not barely forty-five days simply as-serted that the ‘University

Rules and Regulations’ are intact and that he would function accordingly.

“Beyond that (Uni-versity Rules and Regula-tions) I will not be doing and I will not do,” said Prof BK Konwar.

Saying that he is at Fazl Ali College to know more about the college, the NU VC commented that ‘ev-eryone looks very young with great minds’. Saying that the University can extend help to the college in academically, the Vice Chancellor opined that it would be good if the Col-lege could take up ‘mean-ingful research’ in differ-ent fields which can be assisted academically by the University.

It may be noted here that Prof Bolin Kumar Konwar, a Professor of Mo-lecular Biotechnology from Tezpur University, Assam, is the 4th vice chancellor of Nagaland University who took office on September 2011. His visit to the pre-miere educational institu-tion in Mokokchung is seen as a great moral booster for the prestige of the college.

Nagaland University Vice Chancellor Prof BK Konwar (sitting middle) and Fazl Ali College Principal Kuholi Chishi along with faculty and staff of the college at the principal’s office on Saturday, October 22, 2011. The nU VC visited the oldest and the only nAAC Accred-ited Government College in nagaland on a maiden visit since his appointment as VC last September. (Morung Photo)

Imkong Walling Dimapur | October 23

Thanks to its flat geography, Dimapur, unlike the rest of the districts is spared the headache of water scarcity. This natural topography has ensured it with an abundant storage of ground water, while making the populace wholly dependent on it for existence. The dependence of the populace on ground water can be gauged from the fact that only a small fraction of the population of Dimapur is using water sup-plied by the department of Public Health & Engineer-ing. As of 2011, according to the records of the PHE’s Di-mapur urban division, only a little over 900 households

or consumers are registered with the department for their daily requirements.

With almost all of the urban population of Dima-pur dependent on ground water, there arises the ques-tion of ‘safe drinking water’; for it is not wholly safe from pollutants as is presumed otherwise. The knowledge that Dimapur’s ground wa-ter reserve is not free from chemical as well as organic contaminants is not some-thing new. Infact, ample coverage has been provided, particularly in the local me-dia, in this regard. Call it ig-norance or a lack of concern for health on the part of the people, the use of ground water still continues.

“People are blindly de-

How potable is the water we are drinking?

The existing PHE infrastructure, predominantly the pipelines, is said to have outlived its lifespan.

Laid way back in the seventies, the exist-ing pipelines envisaged to last a maxi-mum of 30 years are already fragile and vulnerable to damage. A proposal to refurbish the whole of the existing in-frastructure was presented by the de-partment to the government during 2008-09. It was finally approved in the beginning of this year with the govern-ment giving the nod to an estimated Rs. 165.58 lakh for the project under the an-nual state plan. An undisclosed amount for the first phase of the project is await-ed, it was disclosed.

Most of the water pipes, feeding water to reservoirs/tanks in Dimapur are now lying 4-5 feet under the ground. Some

are even below huge RCC buildings and tarred roads. Under such circumstances, repairs become an almost impossible task when breakage on the fragile pipelines oc-curs. If that is not enough, many of the res-ervoirs set up by the department are on the brink of extinction caused by human encroachment.

“The response of the public towards the PHE is very poor,” a department offi-cial stated. If the project goes off as planned and is successfully completed, it will greatly boost the functioning of the department with the public being the beneficiaries, the official added. “We’ve got enough water to cater to the entire population of Dimapur district for twenty years … but we’re tapping only 1/3rd of it,” said the official. The water source is the dam at the perennial Chathe river at New Chumukedima village.

Proposal to revamp existing infrastructure in Dmr approvedpendent on ground water,” said an engineer attached with the PHE’s Urban Divi-sion in Dimapur, while add-ing that traces of chemical contaminants have been found in water collected from certain locations of Dimapur. The chemical contaminants detected, include fluoride and arse-nic, which are known wa-ter contaminants, beside other organic pollutants and of course iron. Though these contaminants appear in minute quantities, long term exposure to it can be hazardous health-wise, said the official who has a back-ground in civil engineering.

According to research long term exposure to fluo-ride can result in skeletal flu-

orosis (severe bone damage). In the short term, it can cause digestive disorders, skin dis-eases and dental fluorosis. Cancer of the skin, lungs, urinary bladder and kidney are some of the effects of long term exposure to arsenic and even diarrhoea.

Besides, the water table of the plains of Dimapur is quite shallow, the average depth said to be being about 20-30 feet, thus making its vulnerable to contamina-tion from organic pollut-ants from the surface. In some pockets it is as shal-low as 5 feet, the engineer said. The usual culprits are sewage from natural drains which percolates into the underground water system.

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Consultative meeting of working journalists, Editors & freelancersDimapur, OctO-ber 23 (mexN): In or-der to meet the need of a State level association for media persons in Na-galand, a consultative meeting of all Working Journalists and Editors of the dailies, weeklies and periodicals as well as freelancers in Naga-land is proposed by the Editors’ Forum of Na-galand to be held on No-vember 10, 2011, at 11:00 am (Thursday) at Hotel Saramati, Dimapur. This was informed in a press note issued by K. Tem-jen Jamir, Convenor, Drafting Committee for a State Level Media As-sociation.

The following media personnel in the State are requested to attend the proposed meeting positively: All Journal-ists & Editors of local dailies, weeklies, peri-odicals of Nagaland reg-istered under RNI; any journalist contributing to registered newspa-pers or other media in the State or outside as freelancer; permanent non-journalist employ-ees working under reg-istered Media Houses. It is further requested that all concerned confirm attendance at the meet-ing in advance to the un-dersigned for necessary arrangements.

beNghaZi, Libya, Oc-tOber 23 (ap): Libya’s transitional leader has de-clared liberation of the coun-try, three days after the death of its leader of four decades, Moammar Gadhafi. Mus-tafa Abdul-Jalil also told thousands of supporters at a ceremony on Sunday that Islamic Sharia law would be the “basic source” of legisla-tion in the country and that existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified. In an address that set an Islamist tone for post-Gadhafi Libya, he said new banks would be set up to follow the Islamic banking system, which bans charging interest.

“This revolution was looked after by God to achieve victory,” he told the crowd.

Meanwhile mounting calls for an investigation into whether Moammar Gadhafi was executed in cus-tody overshadowed plans by Libya’s new rulers Sunday to declare liberation and a for-mal end to the eight-month civil war that toppled the longtime dictator. An autop-sy confirmed that Gadhafi died from a gunshot to the head, Libya’s chief patholo-gist, Dr. Othman al-Zintani, said hours before the libera-tion declaration was to start the clock on a transition to democracy.

However, the patholo-gist said he would not dis-close further details or elaborate on Gadhafi’s final moments, saying he would first deliver a full report to the attorney general. Lib-

ya’s acting prime minister said he would not oppose an investigation, but cited an official reporting say-ing a wounded Gadhafi was killed in cross-fire follow-ing his capture.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Britain’s new defense secretary, Philip Hammond, said a full investigation is necessary. The Libyan rev-olutionaries’ image had been “a little bit stained” by Gadhafi’s death, Hammond said Sunday, adding that the new government “will want to get to the bottom of it in a way that rebuilds and cleanses that reputation.” “It’s certainly not the way we do things,” Hammond told BBC television.

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Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee (NPCC) expresses “pride” for Naga women on the landmark judgment of the Gauhati High Court to implement the 33% reservation for women in town and municipal councils.

“The NPCC welcomes the judgment which is in line with the national policy on women reservation. Yet, it was unfortu-nate that due to the anti-women policy of the NPF government and its defiance to the national policy, the Naga women had to realize their rights through a legal battle,” a press release form the NPCC said today. “The landmark judgment also vindi-cated the NPCC’s repeated de-mand for timely elections to the

Urban Local Bodies.” The NPF government, the

Congress said, had “subvert-ed” the constitutional provi-sions of the Nagaland Munici-pal (Amendment) Act, 2006.

In its maneuver to install NPF members only as advis-ers to the town and municipal councils, the NPCC said, the NPF government through its Urban Development Minister Dr. Shürhozelie in 2009 had cited the ongoing peace pro-cess as the reason for indefi-nite postponement of election to the urbane local bodies.

The NPCC explained in length – “Then in order to al-low NPF members to continue as Advisers, it took the stand in 2010 that ULB elections would be held after the final publica-

tion of the Census 2011 only. In its desperate attempt to avoid implementation of 33% reser-vation for women in ULB by in-definite postponement of ULB elections, the Minister for Ur-ban Development finally em-barked on district tours in early part of 2011 with the excuse of having wider consultation and to work out consensus.”

To do away with the pro-vision of 33% reservation for women it even went to the ex-tent of suggesting the need to amend the Nagaland Munici-pal (Amendment) Act, 2006, the opposition explained.

According to the Congress, the “facts highlighted above proved beyond doubt that the NPF government led by Neiphiu Rio was hell-bent on non-imple-

mentation of 33% reservation for women in ULBs.”

Saying that the “educated Naga women” have every right to be equal partners in the de-cision making process and exercise their proficiency for development and betterment of the Naga society, the NPCC expresses pride that “our Naga women” have “won the right and power to participate in the decision making process.”

They need to be given the opportunity to prove their mantle before being judged unjustly, the NPCC said.

“The Naga customary law entails respect for our women. That respect should extend be-yond the domestic sphere in the fitness of paradigm shift in con-temporary social dimension.”

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): Members of the women wing of the India National Con-gress, Nagaland unit, are unhappy at the appointment of a new pres-ident of the women’s wing. The members are unhappy that the ‘mahila president’ was ‘removed without any reason’ and ‘without the knowledge of the state mahila Congress office bearers after serv-ing the party with loyalty and dedi-cation for many decades.’

Women workers said the ‘ac-tion’ has humiliated members of the mahila Congress. It was alleged that the appointed chief ‘is one of the ju-nior most members of the state level office bearers’ and ‘undeserving of such an important position like the president’s, to lead the party.’

Members are lamenting that Pradesh Congress Committee president and the Congress Legis-lature Party Leader had gone ahead and appointed a junior member, ‘overlooking the years of sacrifices endured by the previous team over the last many years.’ They are ex-pressing resentment especially for not informing or consulting before selecting the new president and ‘directly going to the AICC presi-dent to get her approval.’

While assuring that the women workers are very much part of the Congress, they nonetheless said the ‘hasty decision’ was a ‘put down.’ Terming the act as “undemocratic”, the Mahila members have no doubt that the decision is a ‘huge disap-pointment’ for the entire wing.

newmai news networkImphal | October 23

Reacting strongly to “blood-shed” allegedly “suggested” by the United Committee of Manipur during a public meeting on Manipur Land Reforms (MLR) and Land Revenue (LR) Act held in Imphal on Saturday, the United Naga Council (UNC) has sternly cautioned that the Manipuri organization and individuals would be held responsible if any ‘cata-strophic situation’ arises.

“The meeting which was telecast on the lo-cal channel saw the Unit-ed Committee Manipur (UCM) president suggest-ing bloodshed and one Ranendrajit mentioning the possibility of a civil war in Manipur if the MLR&LR Act is not extended to the hills. The threat is clearly directed to the tribals in absentia,” the United Naga Council (UNC) said today.

“This is a wakeup call for the tribals in Manipur. It is being put on record that

the concern individuals and their organizations would be held solely responsible for any untoward incident arising out of their instiga-tion and threats,” the UNC warned in a statement today.

The Naga organization said the public meeting on the Manipur Land Reforms and Land Revenue Act in Imphal on October 22 to-tally ignored historical facts concerning the Nagas’ and the tribal in Manipur.

The Nagas and the trib-als in the present state of Manipur were independent of the Manipur Maharaja, the UNC added. The UNC stated – “A dual system of administration for the Hills and the Valley came into ex-istence after the British an-nexed the Meitei kingdom of Manipur in 1891. This system continued even after 1949 when the Meitei kingdom was merged with the Indian Union along with the hill ar-eas, without the knowledge and consent of the Nagas and other tribal people.

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Falcons for sale: Libya’s leader declares liberation

Cong women lament appointment NPCC elated at HC’s verdict on 33% women quota

UNC reacts strongly against UCM

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PDCSU general session cum workshop on October 25Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): A day long Phek District Cooperative Societies Union (PDCSU) 2011 general meeting cum workshop is scheduled to be held at Phek Town Hall, on October 25 at 11.00 am onwards under the sponsorship of Phek ATMA. According to a press note issued by PDCSU President Khosapa Venuh, the day long programme will be graced by Mikha Lomi, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Phek, as the Chief Guest, while Dr. Moa Walling, District Horticulture Officer (DHO) Cum Project Director, ATMA, Phek and Hang-singh (SMS) DAO Office Phek, will be the resource per-sons in the workshop session. The note further stated that the chief guest will officially launch the PDCSU drafted constitution. A new team of PDCSU executive council for the tenure 2011-2014 will be elected during the meeting. A sum of Rs.20/- shall be charged as regis-tration fee per head. The union, through the release, also invited all the area representatives and two representa-tives from the entire societies under Phek district to be part of the program

STKK Annual meet on Oct 25KOhima, OctOber 23(mexN): The Suruhuto Tokukujo Kuqhakulu Kohima (STKK) annual meeting will be held on October 25 at 4:00 pm at the private resi-dence of Khukiye Aye, president STKK at New minister Hill colony. A press release issued by its general secre-tary Jehovi Achumi has requested all the concerned of-fice bearers, executive members, advisors of STKK to attend the meeting positively.

GSUK informs Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Gorkha students of Kohima are informed that the Gorkha Stu-dents’ Union Kohima (GSUK) is going to publish its 1st annual magazine. Therefore, all interested members are requested to forward their articles, poems, jokes etc to any of the present Executive members or mail it to gsukkohima@yahoo.com or gsukkohima@gmail.com on or before October 31. This was informed in a press release issued by GSUK President Dhan Prasad Sharma.

Spiritual awaking crusade in KohimaKOhima, OctOber 23 (mexN): The spiritual awakening crusade under the theme “Renew in Christ” will take place from October 28 to 30 at Naga Shisha Hoho, Prüzie, Kohima. The speakers will be Rev. Dr. L. Tsanso Lotha, E-Evangelism (SA) Southeast Asia, Rev. Dr. Tsiebu Rutsa, president leader for Christ Inter-national USA, Rev. Phomly Van, pastor Phom Baptist Church Kohima and Mhonchumo S. Lotha, lecturer Kohima Bible College, Kohima. Praise and worship will be led by Mughavi Chishi & Daniel Seb while Lower Kit-subozou Prayer Fellowship- 1&11 will be crusade choir.

Committee on Public Undertakings meeting on October 27Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): A meeting has been convened by Vikho-o Yhoshu, MLA and Chairman of the Committee on Public Undertakings on October 27 at 11:00 am in the Committee Room of Assembly Sec-retariat. The meeting has been convened for adaptation of 33rd Report of NSMDC o C&AG Report 2006-07, 34th Report of NSMDC o C&AG Report 2007-08 and 35th Report of NSMDC o C&AG Report 2008-09. All the concerned members are requested to make it con-venient to attend the meeting. This was informed in a press release issued by NLA Secretary A.E Lotha.

NUEPA to conduct workshop Dimapur, OctOber 23, (mexN): National Uni-versity of Educational Planning & Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi in collaboration with the Depart-ment of Higher Education, Technical Education and Economics and Statistics Nagaland will organizing a one day workshop on November 2, 2011 at the confer-ence Hall of the Directorate of Higher Education at 10.00 am onwards. Athili Kathipri, Director, Technical Education & Convener, Organizing Committee stated that the workshop assumes significance since the sta-tistics to be collected will be widely used in the planning and policy making by the Government of India. It was thus informed in the press note that all government/private colleges, polytechnics, DIET’s and all universi-ties within the state of Nagaland are to depute one offi-cer familiar with computer and internet usage and hav-ing detailed knowledge of the respective institution to attend the programme positively. TA/DA may be paid by respective colleges/institution added the note.

Refresher course for govt Hindi teachersKOhima, OctOber 23 (mexN): The SCERT Kohima is organizing a refresher course for govern-ment Hindi teachers serving in private schools under the establishment of DIS Kohima from November 1-5 at SCERT Kohima. A press note issued by its di-rector, Vipralhou Kesiezie has requested all the DIS Kohima to depute 50 Hindi Teachers to attend the programme on the motioned date at 9.30 am. For de-tails the teachers are directed to contact programme coordinator at 9436604869.

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Farmers harvest rice stalk at a paddy field in the outskirt of Dimapur, on October 19. According to agriculture expert, India the world second biggest rice producer in the world after China is expecting bumper harvest this year due to timely arrival of monsoon. Rice harvesting started in mid October till November. (Photo/Caisii Mao)

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): MLA Azheto Zhimomi, Advisor for Seri-culture & Co-operation, who is also a Lion member inaugurated the Children’s Park at Pimla Village today, October 23, 2011 by cutting the ceremonial ribbon. A press note issued by Ajay Sethi, PRO Lions Club of Dimapur stated that Lions Club of Dimapur will main-tain the park permanently with due assistance from the Pimla Village Council.

Lions President & Sec-retary, Lion Rakesh Jain and Lion Neeraj Kala were present on the occasion along with the Chairman of the project Lion Onkarmal Agarwal, besides members Lion P. K. Jain, Lion Go-pal Sharma, Lion Pawan

Maheshwari, Lion Manoj Chhabra, Lion Ramesh Sharma, Lion Ravi Poddar & Lion Sandip Bakliwal.

Chief Guest Azheto Zhimomi lauded the social initiatives of Lions Club of Dimapur in his speech. Pastor Ghoshito Yepthomi conducted the invocation which was followed by wel-come speech by Head GB P. Dohoi Swu, short speech-es by Lions President & Chairman and the chief guest. Vote of thanks was proposed by GB Lughozhe Swu while. Ghotoli Zhimo did the benediction. Lion Onkarmal Agarwal thanked each & every Lion member as well as the people of Pim-la village for their support in making this noble project a grand success.

Children’s Park inaugurated at Pimla Village

MLA Azheto Zhimomi, Advisor for Sericulture & Co-operation, who is also a Lion member inaugurating the Children’s Park at Pimla Village on October 23.

JMS Mkg Student receives NCERT

scholarshipDimapur, OctO-ber 23 (mexN): Tem-sunaro Pongen, daughter of Medemkaba Pongen of Yimjen Kimong village studying in Jubilee Memo-rial School, Mokokchung has successfully passed na-tional talent search exami-nation 2010-2011 which was conducted on May 8, 2011.

S.K. Maitt, Principal, Jubilee Memorial School, Mokokchung in a press note stated that Temsun-aro Pongen was among 25 students selected from Nagaland in preliminary round. Meanwhile in the National round Tem-sunaro Pongen is the only student from Nagaland state who emerged with flying colours. She will be receiving scholarships at different stages as stated. All classes except Ph.D, she will receive Rs 500 per month. At Ph.D degree (four years) stage as per UGC norms. The princi-pal also further stated that Temsunaro Pongen is a hard working and humble student and her success in this exam is a great hon-our not only for her but for the school and the Na-gas in general. The School wished her best in her fu-ture endeavors.

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Baptist Church of Mi-shikito village Dimapur was dedi-cated on October 22, 2011. A press note issued by Shikato Shohe, Mishi-kito village stated that the grand pro-gramme was attended by pastors of various Churches in and around Mi-shikito village, GBs, elders and hosts of well wishers. Head GB of Mishikito village D. Kughaho Chophy gave the welcome address and said the Dima-pur district administration in 2009 has said Mishikito village was outside the jurisdiction of Thilixu village. He said the village has a household of 254 houses with 1180 population. All or-ganisations in Mishikito village such as the student wing, women wing, GBs etc were all taking active part with the Western Sumi organisations. He said

the Government has approved Gov-ernment Primary School on 10 March 2011. He said Mishikito village while establishing the village is not snatch-ing the rights of anybody but only fighting for its rights.

Deacon Board chariman, Ghoni-vi Awomi and Laghilato Area presi-dent Qhevihe Chophy also spoke in the programme. Pastor of Mishikito Baptist Church Atoshe delivered the sermon on the title “Hiye Alhou ki eno kungugha kikhaghoe” meaning “this is the house of God and the gates of heaven”.

The programme was a grand suc-cess and the Mishikito village thanks each and every one who extended their help and support in construct-ing the church and making the pro-gramme memorable.

KOhima, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Nagaland State Disaster Management Au-thority, Home Department held a workshop on ‘Disaster Management and Aware-ness’ at the premises of the Raj Bhawan in Durbar Hall. It may be mentioned that the workshop was held on the request of the office of His Excellency, the Governor of Nagaland. This programme was conducted in collabora-tion with the Home Guards and Civil Defence who gave a demonstration on fire safety, first aid and Search & Rescue techniques.

The programme be-gan with a short speech from Wennyie Konyak, SDO (Civil) Sadar. In his

speech he briefed the au-dience on the role of the administration in disaster management and the need for community participa-tion. Stressing on the need for awareness, the SDO remarked that awareness though spread through the media, is also sometimes ‘mismanaged’ by the same. Here, he remarked that the media should also play a responsible role in disas-ter management. R. Ra-makrishnan, Secretary to Governor, while address-ing the audience thanked the NSDMA for taking up disaster management on a large scale. Referring to the recent earthquake in Sikkim, he said that di-

Ramakrishnan, Secretary to Governor attending the pro-gramme along with the Raj Bhavan staff.

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): There are some who find themselves in the wrong jobs mainly because it is not really their cup of tea. It is only common to find people or professionals that will somewhere be in need for guidance and help in making decisions. This holds true, especially for ca-reers, a delicate part of any-one’s life where futures will be made and relied upon. This is why it is important to take into account that a per-son’s career is taken care of properly. In such decision-making matters, workers cannot afford to lean on decisions based on judg-ment alone. It takes care-ful analysis and the opinion and guidance of people who are already veterans in these kinds of issues.

A press note issued by Zajano Yanthan, New Delhi stated that on Octo-ber 22, 2011special career counseling was held at ALS IAS coaching centre, New Delhi, for students hailing from Northeast states who are aspiring career in civil service. A very good num-ber had turned up and the interaction was highly pro-ductive. The participants were mostly from Naga-land, Manipur, Assam, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

The stated that the session was chaired by Dr.Zuchamo Yanthan, As-sistant Professor, IGNOU. He gave a short lecture on the topic ‘digital informa-tion services’. He has en-couraged the students to make the best use of the digitized information re-sources that are available at eGyanKosh at free of cost. After his presentation, Dr. Zuchamo Yanthan had en-couraged the Northeast stu-dents to make the best use

Mishikito Village Baptist Church dedicated

Front view of Baptist Church of Mishikito village Dimapur, which was dedicated on October 22.

NSDMA conducts awareness on disaster management at Raj Bhavan

saster can strike anytime and therefore there is an urgent need to sensitize and educate the public. A power point presentation on the topic ‘Disaster Pre-paredness’ was given by Khrolo Koza, Training and Capacity Building Officer.

Johnny Ruangmei, State Project Officer speaking in the programme shared his experience as part of the UN staff sent to help out during the devastating Tsu-nami in South India a few years back. Portraying how disaster strikes and the ex-tent of human helplessness at the fury of nature, he im-plored the audience to take disaster management se-riously. A highlight of the programme was the demo conducted by the Home Guards led by Kohima dis-trict Commandant, Dally Jamir. The staff of Raj Bha-van were also invited to get a hands-on experience with the assistance of the Home Guards while pamphlets on disaster management were also handed out. The programme was chaired by the State Media Officer, Keren Rose. It may be men-tioned that the NSDMA has been tirelessly carrying out awareness programmes in various schools and colleg-es in Kohima.

Interactive Career Counseling for Northeast Civil Service aspirants

of the opportunity of having an interactive session with Jojo Mathew, director of ALS coaching centre and the editor of competitive wizard magazine.

Jojo Mathew had given comprehensive informa-tion on how to prepare civil service examinations by using his two decades of teaching experience. Be-ing the director of one of the most successful IAS coaching centre in India, his experience cannot be taken for granted. ALS has produced thousands of successful civil service can-didates in the country. He has encouraged the partici-pants to come forward and ask questions to clear their doubts concerning issues relating to civil service ex-aminations.

The participants were highly interactive and had taken full advantage of the opportunity to clarify their doubts from the experts.

Jojo had mentioned that one of the important crite-ria for choosing optional is interest on the subject and the availability of subject experts and proper study materials. By mentioning the recent records of UPSC examinations, he stated that subjects such as Public Administration, Sociology, and Psychology are becom-ing very popular among the successful candidates, therefore, students who are having interest in this sub-jects should take up any of them. Jojo Mathew clearly stated that to be successful in UPSC examination, one has to be very disciplined and should kept his/her focus clear. He had also warned the North East stu-dents to be disciplined as there are no alternatives for achieving success in life except through a disci-plined life style. The inter-action ended with a vote of thanks to the experts.

Students from Northeast states listen attentively at a career counseling held at ALS IAS coaching centre, New Delhi.

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Guest of Honour: Shri Norman PutsureSecretary of Social Welfare & Bamboo Mission. Govt. of Nagaland

Date: 25th Oct. 2011 Time: 11:00am Venue: The Heritage (Old DC Bungalow)

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BJP Nagaland meeting on Oct 24The Bharatiya Janata party Nagaland state office bearers will convene a meeting on 24th October at 10.30 AM at BJP Head office Dimapur. Lachit Kachari, Secretary, BJP Nagaland, through a press release in-formed all different district guardian in-charges to submit their reports in the meeting. It was further added that all frontals head and cell Conve-ners are to attend the meeting positively.

PACSU emergency meet on Oct 26 An emergency executive meeting of the Phokhungri Area College Stu-dents' Union and senior students is convened on October 26, 10:30 am at the residence of Jonathan Thviiviiry, joint secretary of PACSU at Bayavu Hill Kohima. Therefore all are requested to attend the meeting without fail.

OFFICE OF THEYESHOLUTOMI VILLAGE COUNCILThe Village Council and Youth Sports Association Yesholutomi would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Shri. K. Hukato Chishi ACF (Assistant Conservator of Forest) Dimapur for providing necessary sports materials such as jersy, boot, stockings, shin guard etc to our youth (team) who participated in the 16th H.C. Khulu Trophy held from 17th to 21st October 2011 at Akaito Town. We also pray the Good Lord to richly bless upon his life and his family.

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Chief Guest : Shri. Lalthara, IAS, Chief Secretary, Govt. of Nagaland.Guest of Honour : Shri. Norman Putsure, IAS, Secretary, Social Welfare & Bamboo MissionCompere : Shri. Daniel Thong & Ms. Purnima KayinaInvocation Prayer : Shri. Sentisashi, Associate Pastor, Ao Baptist Church, KohimaWelcome Address : President, NAPADA Song : Nzano (visually Impaired)Message from : NIMH (National Institute For Mentally Handicapped Secundarbad)Testimony : Mr Kedizellhou RutsaSpecial Number : Shri. Mayang, MokokchungShort Speech : 1. D.C. Kohima 2. Indian Red Cross, Kohima 3. Enabled, KohimaSpeech : Chief GuestSpecial Number : Cherry Blossom SchoolSpeech : Guest of HonorA Dance : Spastic Society, KohimaPuppet Show : Hotoi & FriendsVote of Thanks : Dr. Joyce.

Chizokho VeroKohima | October 23

In keepIng wIth its on-going leg of the north eastern tour “Badhte kadam” to spread awareness on disabilities, the na-tional Institute for the Mentally handicapped (nIMh) Secun-derabad is currently in nagaland to carry out series of orientation programme relating to disabili-ties for media persons, parents and regular school teachers on learning problems in primary schools.

nIMh today kick started its awareness programme by hold-ing an orientation programme with media persons at hotel Japfu here this afternoon. After highlighting the various matter relating to disabilities, nIMh called for the active participation and contribution of the media persons. Similar orientation pro-gramme is designed for parents at hotel Japfu from 10:00 onwards on October 24.

VRp Sheilaja Rao, hOD-DSe, nIMh said the objective of its on-going awareness programme is to create awareness among the pub-

lic, create a disability friendly en-vironment and make the public aware of the issue related to dis-ability, its causes, prevention and rehabilitation. She added that each and every individual has to play a major role in prevention of disability.

She told the workshop that children with special needs con-stitute nearly 15% of the school going population as per war-nock report 1979, adding that in accordance to report (nSSO no. 393, 1991 that enrolment of chil-dren with disabilities in ordinary schools was only 0.01% both in ru-ral and urban areas.

She said enrolment as well as retention in school is a major problem for children with dis-abilities.

She asserted that active in-volvement from parents can en-sure a quality in rehabilitation of disabilities.

Rao also highlighted the cur-rent concerns like, fulfilling 3% employment placement in government sector by revising recruitment criteria, training and adaptation of accident free equipment in open employment,

parents awareness, promoting parent participation by forming parents’ association, prevention, early detection and early inter-vention, awareness among me-dia, health, education, welfare and women & child development etc. etc.

Dr. Om Sai Ramesh said gov-ernment of India has given in-struction to the Institute to pay attention to north eastern states for which the nIMh takes the re-gion in its priority service.

Dr. Ramesh also assured to conduct similar programme in nagaland in the coming days as well. touching on the route cause of disability and preventive mea-sures, he said that it can be pre-vented provided the risks are at-tended at the right time.

Out of 7 categories listed in the persons with Disabilities (pwD) Act, the four major cate-gory include; visual impairment, hearing impairment, mental re-tardation and physical disability.

Meanwhile, nIMh will con-duct orientation programme for regular school teachers on learn-ing problem in primary schools from 27 October where it would

focus on introduction of Rte Act 2009, education of CwSn, over-view of learning problems, iden-tification of learning problems in regular schools.

the objective is to orient regular school teachers about diverse educational challenges face due to intellectual prob-lems, to upgrade regular teach-ers competencies in teaching Children with Special educa-tion needs (CwSns) with intel-lectual challenges in inclusive schools, to update regular school teachers about appropriate methods of assessment, educa-tional programming with use of adaptive curriculum and tLMS and current trends in evalua-tion prevalent for CwSns with intellectual challenges and to promote child friendly teaching strategies suitable for CwSns in regular schools by developing resource room models in regular inclusive schools.

Meanwhile, an official re-lease said the parents of persons with Mental Retardation have a unique challenge of caring their child even after they have at-tended adulthood. taking cog-

nizance of this unique challenge national trust Act 1999, aims at protecting social concerns of persons with Mental Retarda-tion, Autism, Cerebral palsy and Multiple Disability. to achieve its goal, parents of persons with disabilities under national trust Act 1999, require systematic up-gradation of information and competencies to manage respec-tive disability condition.

It said nIMh with the sup-port of all its faculty across its regional centres has undertaken the responsibility to support par-ents of persons with disabilities under national trust Act 1999, by conducting parent training pro-grammes and creating awareness about parental rights and provi-sion under this Act.

Meanwhile, Badhte kad-am will kick off on October 25 in kohima with chief secretary Lalthara as the chief guest and norman putsure, secretary social welfare as the guest of honour.

the flagging-in will take place in Dimapur on October 29 with minister for health & family wel-fare kuzholuzo (Azo) nienu as the chief guest.

NIMH team to create awareness on disability

AVKAUK appeal GPRN/NSCNDimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): the Akuluto V.k Area Union kohima(AVkAUk) requested the high command of gpRn/nSCn for the safe release of Aron kits, ‘Finance Secretary’, nSCn (k)from kohima on October 15.Ayeto Sumi, general Secretary, AVkAUk and toshika kinimi, Secretary publicity and Informa-tion, AVkAUk in the press statement stated that the Union feverently appealed gpRn/nSCn to show con-siderations on humanitarian ground.

FGN Sumi region terminates cadre Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): In a press release issued by 'midan peyu' of Sumi Region, Federal govern-ment of nagaland Vikihe Zhimo, it was stated that Fgn, Sumi region had terminated 'leacy' honito Yeptho s/o Lazheyi Yeptho, nikhekhu Village under Sumi region from active national service for his dual policy in serv-ing two governments, which the Fgn termed as defec-tion. It was thus stated that henceforth, all his service record during his associate with the government stand cancelled and his termination shall come into immedi-ate effect from the date of publication of this ahza.

President of DMCC retorts Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): the president of DMCC tuensang nokchila Yimchungrü has clarified that her resignation was given without her consent.“In response to the paid news item quoting my name on the issue of resignation of nagaland pradesh Mah-ila Congress Committee (npMCC) office bearers and some DMCC presidents that appeared in local dailies on 21st October 2011, I’m constrained to clarify that the purported resignation was given without my consent. hence, the question of my resignation from the post of president DMCC tuensang did not arise,” she retorted in a rejoinder. She also stated that she has got nothing to do with the mass resignation of npMCC office bearers and some DMCC presidents whatsoever and that she dissociates herself from the controversy. “As a loyal par-ty leader I’m committed to abide by the high command’s decision and order. My responsibility is to strengthen the party and not to weaken it for cheap personal gain. I urge those responsible for the controversy not to drag my name unnecessarily in future.”

President DMCC Wokha clarifiesDimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): the president DMCC, wokha, t.Mhalo clarified to the press state-ment issued by Bendangla Lemtur, secretary, npMCC in the local dailies of October 21 on the issue of her resignation from the post of DMCC wokha. In a press release, t.Mhalo stated that she had not tendered her resignation letter officially. She added that her name was being dragged into the present controversy after installing newly appointed president npMCC and as-serted that she disassociates herself from such unnec-essary political adventure. She also added that she re-main faithful to the InC under the leadership of Sungit Jamir, president, npCC and tokheho Yepthomi CLp leader nagaland.

Pre-scholarship forms issued for DimapurDimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): the District education Officer, Dimapur, has informed both gov-ernment and private schools about the pre- metric scholarship forms which will be issued from the Dis-trict education Office, Dimapur during the office hour. kitoli naje, District education Officer, Dimapur, naga-land in a press note stated that the pre-metric scholar-ship is only for the students belonging to the minority communities. It was also mentioned that only the stu-dents studying in class 1-10 are eligible. All interested students, parents and school authorities were asked to collect the forms. the last date of the submission of the form is on or before november 15 and has to be submit-ted with complete documents to the District education Office, Dimapur.

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): the Mission Colony Youth Organisa-tion, pfütsero town has stated that the facts of the incident that happened on the night of October 10 has been distorted.

In a rejoinder issued by its president Vezhohu kezo and general secretary Bedukho Ruho stated: “…is constrained to release this counter-rejoinder to the re-joinder filed by the youth of pwD ward pfütsero which appeared on 18th Oct. 2011. with an intention to mis-lead and distort the fact of actual happening on the night of 10th Oct 2011. the Mission Colony Youth Or-ganisation is publishing this write up to clear the confusion basing on the fac-tual incident for the benefit of all right thinking citizen without any bias.”

the note stated that on the night of October 10, Me-sewe kapfo, advisory board member of pfütsero town Council himself climbed up the truck and charged Rhüchove (Driver) “with drunkenness of which the driver is a teetotaler”. Instead of reasoning the volatile situation, Mesewe

kapfo took advantage of the mob and involved in the brawl and assaulted the driver physically within the driver’s cabin. So the question of Mesewe kapfo courageously acted as a re-sponsible leader to control the situation as alleged by the youth of pwD ward is a total concoction.

It went on saying that Mesewe kapfo completely overpowered and “sup-pressed the driver’s rights of speech and said “khasündi” (will not give up)”. thereby the mob got influenced to make a hoot cry to kill the driver and burn the truck. therefore, the point of not arousing the mob as assert-ed is far away from truth.

“kekhrozülo Ritse, the so called president pwD Youth Organisation should not in any manner concealed the right of one person to fa-vour another.this counter-rejoinder is to reveal the ex-act happening without any bias, while in doing so, the organization have no inten-tion whatsoever to find fault or malign any individual or group. hereinafter, we will not make any further clarifi-cation through the media re-lating to the present subject.”

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): the Old Ministers’ hill Youth Organization to-day, October 22, observed a social work from 7:00 am to 11:00 am and was immedi-ately followed by visitation to all the booze joints within the colony jurisdiction by the office bearers led by the Action Committee and Con-venor Metevi. All the booze joints have been warned to abide by the notice whereby any booze joint found open after 8:30 pm will face pen-alty of fine and confiscation of liquor products.

the participants com-prising of the colony youth members actively partici-pated in the social work with the primary objective to im-provise sanitation and to cre-ate an awareness of hygienic atmosphere in kohima.

the organization in a press note issued by its gen-eral secretary Vire nukhu sated that the Sanitation Committee, ward 14 led by its Convener nokehel, took

NBKK Convention &Song Festival at Sechü ZubzaDimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): the bien-

nial Convention and Song Festival of the niakracha Baptist khriesarüü krotho (nBkk-western Angami

Baptist Youth Department) would be held at Sechü Zubza Baptist Church starting from October 28 to 30

on the theme “Deeper in truth”. the speakers of the convention are Rev kev-

iyiekielie Linyü, executive Director of Angami Baptist Church Council (ABCC); Vicavor krose, Youth Direc-tor of ABCC; Dr Buno Iralu, Lecturer of Shalom Bible Seminary - Sechü Zubza and pungosüle kera, Mission-ary, Sudan. the Bible Study would be conducted by kel-huseto nagi, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, phezhu – Jotsoma

Song competitions in male voice, female voice, solo and choir will also mark the song festival, while a night of gospel music extravaganza would be held on October 29 evening (Saturday).

OMHYO conducts social work, warns booze joints within colony jurisdiction

the initiative of today’s so-cial work, which has been noted with due for the suc-cessful team work.

the office of the Old Ministers’ hill Youth Orga-nization extends its grati-tude to the Mount Sinai School students led by its office staff who contribut-ed a remarkable job. Office

president and colleagues of the Old Ministers’s hill Youth Organization fur-ther extend deep gratitude for the generous contri-bution by MLA Vikho-o Yhoshü, Advisor, It, naga-land, for providing refresh-ment to all participants during the social work, the note added.

Members of OMHYO led by its president Kethose (extreme right) inspecting the booze joins.

MCYO responds on Oct 10 assault incident

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose’s family members in NagalandOur CorrespondentKohima | October 23

the FAMILY MeMBeRS of netaji Sub-ash Chandra Bose including 25 members of InA trust Delhi are currently in naga-land.

the team today visited the last camp of netaji Subash Chandra Bose in India in Chesezu village of phek District. the team also visited netaji’s peak there.

netaji Subash Chandra Bose family members include Sheila Sengupta (niece of netaji Subash Chandra Bose), Renuka Malakar, Capt. prabal Malakar, poormina Dhilon and Mayabeen Shanawaz.

the team was coordinated by er. Vek-ho Swuro, director netaji trust, nagaland Chapter and Aienla Lemtor, convenor ne-taji trust, nagaland Chapter

Netaji Subash Chandra Bose's family members and others pose for camera during their visit. (Morung Photo)

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New Delhi, OctOber 23 (Pti): To beef up its opera-tions, cash-strapped Air India has launched a massive drive to recruit chief operating officers for itself and Air India Express, along with commanders, co-pi-lots and cabin crew for almost all types of aircraft in its fleet. Expe-rienced and inexperienced cab-in crew are also being recruited for its Boeing 787 Dreamliners, which are yet to be inducted in its fleet, and the latest Boeing 777s meant for international opera-tions, airline sources said.

This major recruitment drive comes ahead of a meet-ing of a Group of Ministers, led by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee next week, that would review Air India’s fi-nancial restructuring and turnaround plans. The post of Air India’s COO fell vacant after Gustav Baldauf quit the

post in February after alleg-ing “political interference” in the functioning of the ailing national carrier. The highly-experienced Austrian pilot was appointed the first COO of Air India in April 2010. However, the new Air India COO would not be as highly paid as Baldauf who used to get around three crore rupees as his annual pack-age. The new COO’s compensa-tion package would have a fixed component of between Rs. 40-60 lakh or 60 per cent of the package. The remaining part would be performance-linked.

While the Air India COO would be based in Mumbai, the one for AI Charters Limited, which operates low-cost Air In-dia Express to Gulf and South-east Asia, would be based in Kochi. The COO of AI Express would get a fixed package of Rs. 25-30 lakh, comprising 60 per

cent of the entire emoluments, while the remaining would be performance-linked. Both COOs would be on a three-year contract which would be extend-able by two years on the basis of their performance, the sources said. The national carrier has also launched a drive for large-scale recruitment of pilots, flight attendants and other staff like ramp agents and customer ser-vice personnel. The pilots and cabin crew are being employed to operate all aircraft-types in its fleet, as also those to be inducted.

The planes for which this recruitment exercise is being carried out are Airbus A-320s, A-330s, Boeing B-777s, B-787 Dreamliners, B-737-800 Next Generation, turboprop ATRs and regional jet CRJ-700s. Both commanders and co-pilots are required to fly these aircraft while the cabin crew could be

fresh as well as those experi-enced. The Air India Board, which met in August, has decid-ed to go ahead with the acquisi-tion of B-787 Dreamliners, 27 of which have been ordered, and would be seeking government nod for it, the sources said.

A proposal for equity infu-sion of Rs. 6,600 crore for the ailing carrier has already been mooted by the Civil Aviation Ministry to enable the airline clear its massive dues. The gov-ernment has already infused equity worth Rs. 2,000 crore in the last two financial years. The debt-ridden carrier is riddled with outstanding loans and dues of Rs. 67,520 crore. Of this, Rs. 21,200 is working capital loan, Rs. 22,000 crore is long-term loan on fleet acquisition, Rs. 4,600 is vendor dues. It has an accumulated loss of Rs. 20,320 crore, latest official figures show.

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yours, we wish you all happiness, joy and success in all things that you do and aspire for. We are al-ways praying that God give you wisdom to live through each and every moment of your life. Happy birthday to you.

Loving Mom, Dad, brothers and sisters.

DiMAPUr, OctOber 23 (MexN): 21st October 2011 saw the Inauguration of the DB Tech Batch 4 at Don Bosco Youth Centre, Kohima. The occasion was sol-emnized by the presence of Johnny Ru-angmei, State Project Officer, Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority, Home Department (Govt. of Nagaland) as the Chief Guest. Father Athishu Anthony SDB, In charge, DB Tech, Kohima Centre & Director, Don Bosco Youth Centre, Ko-hima, welcomed everyone present for the function – Chief Guest, Guests of Honour and Parents & Guardians of the DB Tech Students. Johnny, as he began his short but enlightening speech, said: “I feel at home and happy to be here. I’m also one of the fruits of Don Bosco School.” From differ-ent points of view and from various lives of great people in the world he stressed on the need of having a good and positive attitude in life. “People who have made great im-pacts in the world have been great dream-ers. Be dreamers dear students that you may become dreams come true for your parents.” While appreciating the noble works of Don Bosco Tech he remarked, “Just as DB Tech is skilling India, I hope, dear students, that you will be skilling Na-galand too in the future.”

Rev. Fr Raju Philip SDB, Assistant Di-rector, DB Tech, National Office, Delhi, while exhorting the students on the oc-casion commented, “Learn to pick up as many skills as possible in these three months of training. The greatest happi-ness of the DB Tech is to see you support-ing yourself, your life and your family after you finish your training and are well placed with jobs.” Mr Biseswar Talukdar, Coor-dinator of DB Tech Centres in East and North-East India exhorted the students with these words, “Dear young friends, I can see the burning fire in your eyes to

learn and be useful in your lives.” Br Sunny SDB, Dimapur Province Coordinator of DB Tech Centres & Assistant Director of AIDA, Dimapur, emphasized on the role of Parents in the training of the students. He said, “Your children are with us for 8 hours, but they are with you for 16 hours in a day. So dear parents, you have a big role to play for your children’s future.” He also exhorted the students to learn to the maxi-mum to be skillful in all fields of life, espe-cially in the specialized sector of the train-ing. Fr Jerome Moshary SDB, Rector and Parish Priest of Christ King, Kohima, con-gratulated the DB Tech for the immense good works carried out throughout India, particularly in our region. He told the stu-dents, “Students, please grasp this chance as a golden opportunity to learn many skills so that you can be useful for yourself, your family and our society at large.”

The other highlights of the pro-gramme were the Remix of the Folk Song, Traditional Fashion Show, gospel songs and a few special items presented by the students. After the formal function, there was an informal interaction of the Parents and Guardians of the DB Tech Students with Ms Mary, Coordinator & Trainer, Ms Martha and Sir Azmal, Trainers, DB Tech, Kohima Centre. While interact-ing, Parents were enlightened about the Project and the Training involved for the job opportunities offered to the students after successfully completing the three months’ training in the centre. The par-ents took part actively in the session and a lot of matters were clarified during the given period of time. We may here men-tion again about the DB Tech Training - funded by the Ministry of Rural Devel-opment, Govt. of India, the Training is to-tally free with 100% Job Assistance at the end of the course!

cheNNAi, OctOber 23 (AgeN-cies): ICICI Bank is recalling hun-dreds of credit and debit cards after being warned by the Chennai city po-lice that customers’ data have been stolen. Officials from other banks - private and national - said they were also initiating similar steps. On Oc-tober 5, the city police had busted a card-cloning racket. Initially, they re-ceived complaints from 64 card users and the number has been increasing ever since. “Apparently data of sever-al people have been stolen and mis-used. We advise card users to change their PIN immediately ,” said central crime branch deputy commissioner S Radhika.

But neither the police nor the

banks have been able to estimate the number of customers affected. The police have arrested Umesh Balara-vindran , a Sri Lankan national living in Chennai, and four of his associ-ates who are believed to have cloned credit cards using skimmers that copy data from ATMs. The police said they also bought card details put up on a website. Now the police have reasons to believe that more such gangs could be operating in Chennai and other cities. Last week, ICICI either blocked or cancelled several cards following breach or suspect-ing problems. An ICCI spokesper-son said the cards will be replaced free of cost within six working days.

“We continuously monitor all

card transactions of our custom-ers. If there is some suspicion in any transaction , we call the customer... We advise all customers to be care-ful, but there no need to panic,” the bank spokesperson said. Many banks have IPS officials on deputa-tion from National Association of Software and Services Company ( Nascom) to monitor such frauds. They also work in collaboration with the city police. Central Bank of India, which has 25 ATMs in the city, has categorized them as of high, medium and low risk. Officials said nearly 15 of the bank’s ATMs are in the highrisk category. “We have CCTVs in all these ATMs apart from armed guards,” a spokesperson said.

Training for Anganwadi workers heldDiMAPUr, OctOber 23 (MexN): A 2-days refreshers course of Angawadi worker was conducted under Jalukie ICDS project, on October 20 & 21 last.

Nezolu Rhakho, CDPO, along with Supervisors im-parted comprehensive practical knowledge on (1) Immu-nization, (2) Referral Services, (3) Health Check-up, (4) Nutrition & Health Education, (5) Supplementary Nutri-tion and (6) Non-formal Pre-school Education. The tar-get groups of the following components were for pregnant mother, lactating or nursing mother, adolescent girls 11 to 18 years and children from six months to six years. Besides this, proper maintenance and keeping of various records, Monthly Progress Reports, (MPR) and Growth monitor-ing were emphasized.

The courses also included rebuilding the mind-set of the workers to be more sincere in discharging their duties ac-cording to the guidelines of the department.

‘.....The machine will dispense gold and silver bars, coins, pendants, with religious motifs and a range of dia-mond studded jewellery....’

MUMbAi, OctOber 23 (Pti): After cash, now gold and diamond will be avail-able through vending machines, where one can now purchase medallions, coins or jew-ellery, thanks to Gitanjali Group which has launched such a machine here. The group plans to set up 75 such gold and diamond ATMs at premium malls, airports and tem-ples in the next three years, giving custom-ers another one-stop shopping option.

“It is a kind of vending machine for both gold and diamond jewellery designed like an

ATM. The machine will dispense gold and sil-ver bars, coins, pendants, with religious mo-tifs and a range of diamond studded jewellery, making it the first of its kind in the country,” Gitanjali Export Corporation Chief Execu-tive Mr Sanjeev Agarwal said. “We will spend about Rs 50 crore for this initiative and we ex-pect about Rs 450-500 crore business from this in the next three years,” he added.

This vending machine will give the consumer a mix of up to 36 options in dif-ferent sizes and prices ranging from Rs 1,000-30,000 from across these categories, which will include coins. This new retailing format will be ideally suited for last minute purchases on auspicious occasions and for gifting, providing instant gratification to the purchaser.

CIhSR (Referral hospital) Dimapur which is empanelled under RSBY Scheme, providing free cash-less treatment to the BPL families with smartcards issued by the insurance company was visited by Vijay Thakur, Associate Vice President – Nagaland head- government partnership (Centre) and San-tanu Choudary, Sr. executive, Ne region (left) from Apollo Munich health Insurance Co Ltd along with relation manager, SM, Relationship Manager-government Partnership, AMhI (second from left) and Odang Pongener, State Manager, Medave healthcare (TPA) Ltd (Right) on October 20.

Air India launches drive to recruit staff at various levels

DB Tech Batch 4 Kohima Centre inauguratedICICI Bank recalls hundreds of credit and debit cards after card cloning scare

Vending machines for jewellery now!

Dimapur 5Monday24 October 2011

The Morung Express Regional/loCal

How potable is the water we are drinking?

Water to be free of organic pollutants has to perco-late atleast 30-40 feet below ground it was added; while informing that 90 percent of the pollutants is organic in nature. Water from deep bore wells and shallow wells may appear crystal clear, but one cannot simply bank on appearance to judge its quality, the engineer said, albeit with a touch of concern as well as caution. Dwell-ing on the common practice of using home-made water filters, made of sand and charcoal, the engineer clarified that the process only removes visible impurities and iron content but not chemical pollutants. The depart-ment already has a water quality testing laboratory. “If the facility is provided why not make use of it,” the engi-neer said while urging the masses to make use of it. “We cannot make tall claims but what we are concerned about is the presence of pollutants in ground water.”

Though, most of the general populace may be un-aware, the department already has in progress, an ‘Iron Removal Plant (IRP)’ project. This project, unique to Na-galand, was solely initiated by the engineers of the depart-ment and was introduced in 2005-06. Suitable for the foothills, the scheme was to install the aforementioned IRPs in specified localities, schools and hospitals. It was informed that the department has already installed the plants in certain schools, hospitals and localities and is envisaging setting 197 such units. One of these units can cater to 220 people with a capacity of 20, 000 litres per day. It removes 90 percent of iron content in water.

While encouraging the people to avail water from the department, the engineer acknowledged that the impression of the public on the PHE as a whole is one of discontent. One cannot deny the fact that the de-partment is not functioning upto the expectations of the public, nevertheless, it is trying its best making use of whatever resources they have at their disposal at the moment, he added. He mentioned the sight of unused ‘water meter units’ going to waste which are set up at various intersections in the town and its lo-calities. One can sight these ‘water meter units’ just between The Morung Express Office and Carewell School at Duncan Basti. The purpose of these units was to act as delivery points from where consumers can tap water to their respective homes.

UNC reacts strongly against UCMThe indisputable separateness between the Na-

gas/tribals in Manipur and the people from Manipur Valley was recognized even then. Article 371Cof the Indian Constitution also provides for protection of the rights and interest for the tribals in Manipur.” The council said the separate Manipur Land Re-forms and Land Revenue Act (MLR & LR Act) was passed by the Indian Parliament in 1960 and was made applicable only to the valley area of Manipur. This is a logical extension of the historical position of the ‘hills’ viz-a-viz the ‘plains’ and protects the trib-als from land alienation, the Naga body pointed out.

“The discussion at Imphal smacks of utter disre-spect for the Tribals and their separate identity and is symbolizes the arrogance and domineering attitude of the majority Meitei community. The discussion re-corded that the hill people do not hold any document of land holding and that the Chief/Khullakpas can simply claim ownership over hill ranges of their locali-ties,” the UNC said. Denouncing that the ‘subtle and condescending arguments’ from the Manipuri orga-nizations continue to emerge to ‘legitimize the usur-pation of the land of the tribals,’ the UNC has made clear that every Naga village and tribe has its own dis-tinct territorial boundary and jurisdiction. “The trib-als have their own way of life. To them the land and the people cannot be parted as their culture, tradition and identity are interwoven with the land,” the UNC said.

Libya’s transitional leader declares liberation

“We would have liked to see Col. Gadhafi going on tri-al to answer for his misdeeds.” Clinton told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that she backs a proposal that the United Na-tions investigate Gadhafi’s death and that Libya’s Nation-al Transitional Council look into the circumstances, too.

The 69-year-old Gadhafi was captured wounded, but alive Thursday in his hometown of Sirte, the last city to fall to revolutionary forces. Bloody images of Gadhafi be-ing taunted and beaten by his captors have raised ques-tions about whether he was killed in crossfire as suggest-ed by government officials or deliberately executed.

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Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): The Depart-ment of Health & Family welfare on October 21 or-ganized an essay writing competition at Christian Higher Secondary School, Dimapur under the theme “Importance of Iodine in Human Physiology.” Alto-gether 72 participants from class 9 to 12 participated in the competition. Later, a programme on observa-tion of global iodine defi-ciency prevention day was held which was chaired by Dr. Ritu Thurr, Dy Chief Medical Officer, Dimapur. Dr. Yartenla Jamir Nodal Officer IDDCP (Iodine De-ficiency Disorder Control Programme) and Dr. Tuska Specialist DHD graced the programme.

The Key note address was presented by Dr. Ngupe-lo, Medical Specialist DHD, where he highlighted the el-ements of Iodine, its physio-logical role and consequence on the deficiency. CHSS principal Aheto Sumi gave away the award for the essay writing competition where Chubaramok Walling won the 1st prize, Wapangtoshi Longchar- 2nd prize and Uzma Sadaf -3rd prize. Af-ter the programme Sendong Food Safety Officer, Dimapur and Samuel Food Safety Offi-cer, Dimapur, demonstrated

on how iodine testing is done.

Longleng: Observance of Global IDD Day Held at IDSP Hall Longleng on October 21. The programme was chaired by Dr. Imtiwapang DIO, wel-come address by Dr. Angto MD District Hospital Long-leng, key note address by Dr. O. Kongyan Phom Dy. CMO also the DNO (IDD) Longleng, vote of thanks by Dr. Mhon-chan SMO District Hospital Longleng and benediction by Chingshak Phom UIP Long-leng. Teachers from all school and NGO in Longleng Town were present alongwith the Medical Officers, Nurses and staff attended the programme.

Kohima: The State capi-tal on October 21 observed Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day at the EDUSAT Con-ference Hall, Directorate of Health & Family Welfare Kohima. The Commission-er and Secretary Health & Family Welfare, Menuk-hol John chaired the func-tion which was attended by the department of So-cial Welfare, Department of Women Development, Department of Food and Civil Supplies, Department of Rural Development and Education Department.

The Deputy Director & Programme Officer, NIDDCP

(H&FW) gave a presentation on NIDDCP scenario reflect-ed upon the importance of iodine and its daily require-ment for human lives. The consequences of IDD defi-ciency causes various illness which effects people of all ages both sexes and different socio economic status.

The IDD scenario in the country reflected that sur-veys were conducted in 28 States and 7 UTs. The Govern-ment’s policy is universalized iodization of salt for human consumption with the imple-mentation agency of Direc-torate of General Health Ser-vices MoHFW, GoI.

Presenting the Nagaland scenario on IDD, he said that

Nagaland is way ahead for the following:- To sustain the present IDD prevalence rate by sustaining regular supply of iodised salt to the population. To established District level IDD Monitor-ing Laboratory for effective monitoring of quality con-trol of Iodised salt. To seek assistance from other agen-cies such as UNICEF, ICMR etc for conducting base line IDD survey of the whole State. To create demand generation for iodised salt through Public Distribu-tion System (PDS) as well as strengthen advocacy on the sale, purchase and proper storage of iodised salt for hu-man consumption. To bring

about a change in the tradi-tional practice of jhum culti-vation, burning of forest and deforestation of all forms to conserve the mineral con-tents of the biomass.

Deputy Director & Pro-gramme Officer, NIDDCP (H&FW), Dr. Ngangshime-ren presented on NIDDCP scenario while representa-tives from the Departments of Social Welfare, Women Development, Food & Civil Supplies, Rural Develop-ment and Education shared their views and comments. In the interaction session, Commissioner & Secre-tary H & FW, Menukhol John urged all concerned departments to contribute their part and work joint-ly with the nodal depart-ment i.e. the Department of Health & Family Welfare for achieving success of the pro-gramme. The vote of thanks was given by Director & HoD (H&FW), Dr. Yangerlemla.

Mokokchung: Global Io-dine Deficiency disorders prevention Day was ob-served at Imkongliba Me-morial District Hospital, Mokokchung on October 21. It was organized by Dis-trict Health Society, Mo-kokchung where Dr. Wa-pang made a power Point presentation on the subject.

Dr. Wapang in his pre-

sentation said iodine defi-ciency is considered to be the single greatest preventable cause of mental retardation and growth and is an impor-tant public-health problem. He said nearly two billion individuals had insufficient iodine intake, a third being of school age causing iodine deficiency ailments such as goiter and hypothyroidism. He therefore said the mini-mum requirement of dietary iodine 150 micrograms for man and 120 micrograms for women should be con-sumed for our health, say-ing that the effects of iodine deficiency is serious even though it is preventable.

Addressing the function, Deputy Chief Medical Offi-cer, Mokokchung, Dr. Akaba said that sub-Himalayan re-gion and the entire North east is endemic goiter zone. As such, he appealed to the public to use only iodized salt to maintain normal metabo-lism of cells and for essential development of hormone in the human body. Referring to availibity of iodized salt in market, Dr. Akaba said steps are being taken to ascertain contents of required iodine in the salt available in the market. He said 20 samples collected from villages have been seen to the Directorate of Health and Family Welfare, Kohima and result is awaited.

Observance of Global IDD Day in various districts

Commissioner and Secretary Health & Family Welfare, Menukhol John addressing the medical officers during the observance of Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder Pre-vention Day at Kohima on Friday, October 21. (DIPR Photo)

Dimapur, OctOber 23 (mexN): Arunachal Pradesh continues to reel as the polit-ical crisis in the state govern-ment scaled new heights – or lows – with increased reports of abduction of legislators by parties wanting to prevent them from joining others or take them into own fold.

In a latest twist to the pow-er tussle in the Congress-led state government, one legis-lator, Wangki Lowang from 54-Namsang Assembly Con-stituency, who was reportedly ‘confined’ inside the official residence of the chief minis-ter earlier, has reportedly ‘es-caped’ early this morning only to be confined in his own resi-dence. A civil organization Ti-rap Longding Peoples’ Forum stated this development to the Media in a press release.

Quoting sources, the or-ganization said Lowang “left” the CM’s residence at about 6 am this morning alone citing personal chores to attend and walked at least 4 kms to his official residence at the MLA cottage complex. “Allegedly, the Home Minister rushed to the MLA’s residence to convince him to come back, which the MLA refused. Later a group of youths led by a Cab-inet minister of the Gamlin camp went to the MLA’s resi-dence but were stopped by se-curity guards at the entrance. Later, sources said, the Home Minister brought the youths in his official car and dropped them at the MLA’s residence to ‘keep an eye’ on him.”

“Arunachal Pradesh has been facing a political crisis since last couple of months with Nabam Tuki, PCC Presi-dent and a Cabinet minister in the Jarbom Gamlin Gov-

ernment, heading a group of at least half the Congress leg-islators demanding change in leadership,” the organization’s president T Wangsa stated in the press release. “While the dissidents were reportedly camping in New Delhi lobby-ing for leadership change, oth-ers in favour of Gamlin were ‘staying under guard’ at the Chief Minister’s residence.”

AICC observers are ex-pected to visit the state capi-tal on October 23 and report to Congress chief Sonia Gan-dhi after assessing the ground situation. “Both Chief Minis-ter Jarbom Gamlin and Tuki have already authorized, in writing, Mrs Gandhi to have the final say on the ongoing crisis. Tuki, along with his leg-islators, have already reached the state capital from Delhi via Guwahati yesterday,” the organization said.

The youths have alleged-ly confiscated all mobile and telecommunication devices in the house and also pre-venting anyone from meet-ing the MLA. A relative of the MLA, who came with some medicines for him, was also said to have been prevented from meeting him.

“While filing of this re-port, the MLA is still said to be in confinement inside his official residence. If it comes to secret ballot in deciding the leader of the Congress Legislative Party (CLP), ev-ery MLA’s vote would be very crucial. In such a scenario both the rival factions would like to have as many MLAs as possible in their respective camps,” the organization said. Arunachal Pradesh As-sembly has 60 legislators of which 42 are of the Congress.

MLA ‘abductions’ in ArunachalGuwahati, OctOber

23 (tNN): Alone woman's nearly 12-yearlong fast in the periphery of the coun-try has now caught the na-tion's attention, thanks partly to the success of a similar 12-day-long agita-tion in Delhi by Anna Haz-are. If the Gandhian from Ralegan Siddhi could get Parliament and the govern-ment to bend by fasting for less than a fortnight, Irom Sharmila Chanu - on a hun-ger strike since November 5, 2000 - could also achieve her demand for revocation of the Armed Forces (Spe-cial Powers) Act, 1958 (AF-SPA), her supporters rea-son in faraway Manipur.

"Anna articulated a very popular demand for effective steps to fight cor-ruption. Sharmila is also voicing a demand that is very popular in the North East. But Anna succeed-ed because he was able to build a mass movement and catch the attention of the nation and the national media. Sharmila's hunger strike is not well-known beyond the North East and the national media, too, has largely ignored it," says Rojesh, a prominent mem-ber of the 'Save Sharmi-la Solidarity Campaign' (SSSC), in New Delhi.

Sharmila's supporters, primarily human rights activists from Manipur, have over the past couple of months launched an inten-sive campaign among civil society groups in New Delhi to drum up support for her. And their efforts may just have started meeting with some success.

Activists Medha Patkar, Aruna Roy, Dr Binayak Sen, writer Arundhati Roy and a host of intellectuals, littera-

India wakes up to Sharmila

New DeLhi, OctO-ber 23 (tat): Painting a rosy picture of the State’s economic health, Chief Minister, Tarun Gogoi, strongly advocated insti-tutionalisation of the pro-posed Special Agricultural Policy for the North-east in the 12th Plan approach.

The Chief Minister’s call for a special plan was in tune with Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh’s pro-posal for continuation of special plan for the North-east. “The Eleventh Plan, for the first time, present-ed an infrastructure plan for the North East. It has made a good start and we must continue this thrust in the Twelfth Five Year Plan,” Dr Singh said.

Addressing the 56th meeting of the National De-velopment Council (NDC), which was chaired by the Prime Minister, Gogoi in his 54-page-long speech dwelt at length on the vari-ous aspects of the State’s economy, listing out the problem areas including the acute power shortages. He also trained his focus

on flood and erosion prob-lem, creation of North East Water Resources Author-ity (NEWRA), the special package for the State’s in-dustrial growth.

He argued that based on the potential for agricul-ture in the region, a special agricultural policy that pro-visions financial resources and promotes agricultural growth in the region for a rap-id transformation of the rural economy is proposed. “This Special Agricultural Policy should be institutionalised in the 12th Plan,” he pushed.

The Chief Minister, said agriculture and allied sector growth has been considerable during the 11th Five Year Plan regis-tering growth of 3.17 per cent by the end of the Plan period. Rice has regis-tered a record production of 50.86 lakh MT in 2010-2011, which is 15.4 per cent higher than the production of 2009-2010.

Stating that the State’s economy is out of the gloom, Gogoi said that the first four years of the 11th Plan (2007-2011) regis-

tered an annual average growth at the rate of 6.76 per cent. The growth dur-ing this period was due to the result of annual aver-age growth of agriculture and allied sectors at the rate of 4.86 per cent, indus-try sector at the rate of 2.07 per cent and service sector at the rate of 9.7 per cent.

Patting his own gov-ernment’s back, the Chief Minister said development activities undertaken by his government to ensure the flow of benefits and cover-age of all sections of people have brought positive re-sults and the State econo-

my has been revitalised. He referred to the Economic Outlook 2011-2012 that said that Assam with low per capita income in 1999-2000 has made significant progress in income growth and is ‘catching up’ with other prosperous States.

The financial position of the State is healthy. The State could achieve both revenue and fiscal surplus during the first four years, he claimed.

The Chief Minister urged the Central Govern-ment for a special industrial package for Assam in order to give an impetus to indus-trial growth and ensure a level playing field with the rest of the country.

About the adverse im-pact of insurgency on the State’s economy, Gogoi stat-ed that though the situation has improved remarkably, it still gives rise to concern, as the perception of the law and order scenario is a ma-jor factor influencing eco-nomic decisions such as inflow of investments, in-stitutionalisation of proj-ects among others.

Pay for anti-separatist drive: B’desh min to India

Dhaka, OctOber 23 (pti): India should pay Bangladesh at least Rs 10,000 crore to Rs 15,000 crore for its support to New Delhi's anti-separatist campaign in the northeast-ern region, a junior minis-ter in the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Ha-sina has demanded.

"After assuming power, the present government uprooted India's separat-ists from Bangladesh soil. India earlier needed to spend nearly Rs 50,000 crore to combat them," state minister for Libera-tion War affairs Tajul Is-lam claimed at an academic meet on Dhaka-New Delhi ties yesterday, 'Prothom Alo' newspaper reported.

"India should pay at least Rs 10,000 crore to Rs 15,000 crore to Bangladesh from the amount it saves annually," Islam said.

His comments came as the premier Dhaka Uni-versity along with India's Bardhaman University and Assam University began a two-day meet on the Ban-gladesh-India ties, joined by politicians and academ-ics of the two countries.

Islam said there was a time when Bangladeshi soil was used to train insurgents of Nagaland, Mizoram and Assam with assistance of Pak-istani intelligence agencies.

"But these elements were evicted after our gov-ernment came to power" af-ter the landmark 2008 gen-eral elections, he said.

Gogoi seeks special agriculture policy

Tarun Gogoi

Irom Sharmila Chanuteurs, artistes and activists have joined SSSC. Promi-nent organizations like the National Alliance of People's Movements (NAPM), the Justice Foundation, Gandhi Global Family, Asha Parivar, Jagriti Mahila Samity, Yuva Koshish, Asian Centre of Social Studies and Justice Foundation, to name a few, have hitched on to the SSSC bandwagon that has started rolling from Srinagar to Ma-nipur's capital Imphal.

Sharmila's supporters delivered a tortuous round of lectures and made pre-sentations before these groups and at colleges and universities in major cities to educate people about the "draconian" provisions of the 1958 Act and its alleged misuse by security forces. "We spoke to people about the overarching powers it (the Act) gives to security forces, detailed the cases of human rights violations, disappearances of people taken away by security forces, fake encounters and summary executions, arbi-trary arrests, molestation and rape of women by men in uniform and their immu-nity from prosecution. Ev-eryone backed our demand for repeal of the Act," said Prasanta Aheibam of 'Save Democracy Repeal AFSPA'.

What followed was a string of small rallies and demonstrations in New Delhi. Many more are in the offing, including a na-tionwide fast on November 5. "There was a candle-light march at Delhi University campus on September 25, a cycle rally on September 28, a march from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar on October 2 and a 'national convention on grievance redressal' in New Delhi on October 10 that was attended by Aruna Roy and other prominent people which adopted two resolutions: one demand-ing repeal of AFSPA and the other that Sharmila be allowed to meet anyone she wants to," said Aheibam.

The highlight of these efforts is the ongoing rally, christened 'Jan Karwan' , that was flagged off from Srinagar on October 16 and is making its way through 16 cities in Punjab, Hary-ana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Nagaland, covering 4,500km to reach Manipur on October 26. A massive rally is planned at Imphal on that day. "This move-ment will only gather mo-mentum. We'll take it to the western and southern parts of the country also soon. The November 5 hun-ger strike will be held in all major cities of India and also some cities abroad," said Rojesh. Sharmila's supporters realize the road ahead will be long and dif-ficult. "Those who haven't lived in a state where the AFSPA is in force would find it difficult to appreci-ate the sufferings of those who do. But we're striving to educate people about it. It'll take time, but victory shall be ours," said Rojesh.

New DeLhi, OctO-ber 23 (pti): Giving a fresh impetus to the ongo-ing peace process, the gov-ernment will hold talks with the banned ULFA on Tuesday with an aim of finding a lasting solution to Assam's three-decade-old insurgency problem. Top ULFA leaders will discuss with government repre-sentatives various aspects of the group's 'charter of demands' which sought amendment in the Consti-tution for finding "mean-ingful" ways to protect the rights and identity of the in-digenous people of Assam.

Observance of ground rules, signed by both sides, surrender of arms and am-munition and total halt of operations by security forces against the pro-talk faction are other key issues which are expected to be dis-cussed, official sources said.

The ULFA team, led by its 'chairman' Arabinda Rajkhowa, and representa-tives of Central and Assam governments, including in-

terlocutor PC Halder, are also expected to deliberate in detail on various aspects of the ground rules of the Suspension of Operations.

Before the formal talks on October 25, both sides are likely to hold informal talks to acquit themselves with each other's views.

Members of the rebel group -- numbering around 600 -- are now put in special camps, which will be called as 'Nabanirman Kendras'.

In its 'charter of de-mands', the ULFA also de-manded change of rules and law and said a solution to their demands was not pos-sible under the provisions of the existing Constitution.

Among other demands of the group are discussion on grounds for "ULFA's struggle and their genuine-ness", status report on miss-ing ULFA leaders and cad-res -- numbering around 50 -- including those missing since 2005 when the Bhu-tan government conducted offensives and other socio-economic issues.

ULFA-govt peace talks on Tuesday

DarjeeLiNG, OctO-ber 23 (pti): The death toll in the collapse of a wooden footbridge over Little Rangeet River in Darjeeling district rose to 34 with 10 persons suc-cumbing to their injuries on Sunday. The toll is likely to increase further as some of the victims are seriously in-jured, hospital sources said.

Chief Medical Officer of Darjeeling Subir Bhow-mik said the 10 persons succumbed to their inju-ries at the North Bengal Medical College Hospital at Siliguri and at Darjeel-ing Sadar Hospital. The old wooden footbridge at Bijanbari in Darjeeling dis-trict, which was weakened after the September 18 earthquake, gave way un-der crowd pressure during a Gorkha Janmukti Mor-cha (GJM) meeting nearby at Bijanbari on Saturday.

Army personnel of the Mountain Brigade and the Army Medical Corps have joined the fire brigade, police and disaster management personnel in the rescue op-eration and mobilized some ambulances at their disposal.

Some of the injured have also been admitted to Army hospitals, district ad-ministration sources said.

West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan visited the Darjeeling Sadar Hospital on Sunday and promised all help to the relatives of the victims and those injured.

Chief Minister Mama-ta Banerjee, who visited the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital, in-structed the hospital au-thorities to provide best treatment possible the ex-penses of would be borne by the state government. Ms. Banerjee also an-nounced the State govern-ment’s decision to pay Rs. 2 lakh to the families of the deceased, Rs. 50,000 each to the seriously injured persons and Rs. 25,000 each to the persons who suffered minor injuries.

The State government would also bear expenses for treatment of those patients who were admitted to private hospitals and nursing homes in Siliguri, Mamata said. She was accompanied by Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi and Union Minister for Health Sudip Bandopadhyay.

The Chief Minister will also go to Darjeeling to visit the Sadar Hospital there where many injured persons were admitted and from there she would proceed to the site of the bridge collapse.

Darjeeling footbridge collapse toll rises to 34

INTRODUCTIONThe Nagas belong to a distinct Mon-

goloid race, occupying the northeastern part of India and western part of Myan-mar. There are approximately 40 sub- tribes. Nagas were once headhunters, as they used to cut off the heads of the enemies and preserve them as trophies. Traditional Naga religion took various forms of Animism. Today the Nagas are dominated by Christians after the onset of the British colonization. In 1832, the British invaded the Naga region for the first time. In 1879 the British set up post in Kohima, declaring it a British district in 1881.For better understanding of the issue, the contents are broadly divided into three phase:- Pre- ceasefire, - Mid-ceasefire and - Post-ceasefire (theoretical view).

PRE-CEASEFIRESince the Nagas have been known

for their pride and independent iden-tity, the process of politicization led to the urge for an independent Naga na-tion. However when the memorandum before the Simon Commission was re-jected, the beginning of political conflict between Nagas and the Government of India started. When the Asia’s hour of freedom from colonial rule was at its peak, the Naga National Council un-der the leadership of A.Z. Phizo (NNC President) had also declared Naga inde-pendence on 14th August 1947. This led to the arrest of A.Z.Phizo in 1948. Dis-appointed with his talks with Nehru, he turned to armed rebellion.

The Indian Army resorted to ha-rassment, tortures, rape and killings. In the name of counter-insurgency mea-sures, numbers of black laws, such as the AFSPA, TADA, NSA, etc., have been imposed upon the Nagas.

However, some moderates (Naga People’s Convention) felt that it would be better for the Nagas to be in Indian Union. The crucial 16-point Agreement was signed in 1960. On Dec 1, 1963, Na-galand became a full-fledged state. The NNC felt that the 16- point Agreement was a complete sell out of the Naga Po-litical struggle. Eventually Dr. Imkongli-ba the NPC President was assassinated. Since violence was so rampant, the Na-galand peace council was set up and a cease-fire agreement was signed and be-came effective from September 6, 1964.

MID-CEASEFIREThe first ceasefire and talks broke

down in 1972 when an assassination attempt was made on the Chief Minis-ter of the state. In November 1975, the NNC signed the infamous Shillong Ac-cord. The accord was condemned by many Nagas and it marked the begin-ning of factionalism. The National So-cialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN) was

formed in the late 1970s by Thuingaleng Muivah, Isaac Swu and S.Khaplang. The NSCN further divided into two with the breaking away of Khaplang. The 1990s were marked by violence between the faction groups.

The NSCN (IM) signed an indefinite ceasefire with the GOI and negotiations continue till date. Recent trends in talks indicate that the NSCN(IM) have narrowed on their demand for sover-eignty and instead strengthened the demand for autonomy and unification of all Naga areas in Manipur, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh with Nagaland which is unacceptable to the Khaplang group. However, the negotiations on how to solve the existing problems be-tween the Naga and the Indian govern-ment still persists.

THE DARKER SIDE OF NAGA FREEDOM FIGHTERS: However, what was once a people’s movement in the early stages, the Naga freedom fighters has lost its way. Internal splits have created many factions claiming legitimacy and collecting ‘tax’. Internal conflicts have led to bloody wars. They continue to be actively involved in ille-gal activities including extortion, kid-napping, inter-factional clashes besides imposing various tax to all types of commercial enterprises and establish-ments. The extortion network spreads over all naga inhabited areas. The ex-tortions are main-ly carried out by some low rank cad-res who are mostly school dropouts.

As per ceasefire ground rules, they are not supposed to indulge in extortions. Moreover it’s a sin to extort money in the name of “Nagaland for Christ”. The ques-tion arises among the Naga public as to whether they are truly patriotic.

ILLEGAL TAXATION AS HIN-DRANCE FOR YOUNG ENTRPRE-NEURS: Youths believe that business is not profitable due to illegal taxation. It’s a practical problem among the ed-ucated Naga youths due to the pres-ence of many factions .This discour-age youths in venturing into business which escalates the number of unem-ployed youths.

TRIBALISM-THE BIGGEST STUM-BLING BLOCK TO UNITY: Until and unless we do away with tribalism, all our efforts for unity through reconciliation, not only amongst the underground fac-tions but also among the different Naga tribes will remain as elusive as before and our glorious dreams of something worth achieving will remain as far-off dreams.

When we go through social net-working site like facebook (especially groups maintained by Nagas) we find many comments which are “ism” in-tended and this can distort the Naga

unity. There is an evil notion that the Nagas in present Nagaland state think that they are the true Nagas and the rest Nagas are just “wannabe”. This mental-ity should be buried as it only invites wrath from God.

NO SOLUTION WITHOUT INTE-GRATION: No permanent and hon-orable solution can be hammered out without bringing all Naga-inhabited areas under one roof. Though the Naga sovereignty issue encompasses all Na-gas, firstly integration of all Nagas with-in India should be stressed followed by integration of Naga areas in Myanmar.

COMMON LANGUAGE: Common language is one of the strongest ele-ments of Nagas’ unity. Therefore, lan-guage of convenience among Nagas like Nagamese and English should be en-couraged. English is however increas-ingly becoming the preferred language of commerce and office. This phenom-enon is also driven by globalization.

PEACE EFFORTS: The churches and organizations like the Naga Hoho and the Naga Mothers’ Association have worked towards reconcialiation.In June 2008, a reconciliation meeting of the Naga factions, mass-based Naga organizations and tribal Hohos was organized by the Naga Reconciliation

Forum, headed by Rev. Wati Aier.

THE NAGA NA-TIONAL GOV-

ERNMENT: Frustrated Nagas wanted change and now there’s light at the end of the tunnel. The Naga faction groups have agreed to form a single govern-ment. The recent top-level meeting of the FNR brought together the NSCN (IM), the NSCN (KK) and the NNC/FGN, forming a single faction the “Naga National Government (NNG)”.They agreed to one government, one tax and one army for the Nagas. Meanwhile, Myanmar-based leader SS Khaplang has boycotted the NNG.

POST –CEASEFIRE (THEORETI-CAL VIEW)

This is the most crucial stage where the leaders may encounter problems where one wrong decision could have adverse long-term effects and lead to se-vere mistakes and considerable failures.

POSSIBILITY OF AUTONOMY: Recent talks has created rumours as to whether the leaders have narrowed down the demand from sovereignty to autonomous which is unacceptable to Khaplang and to all the Nagas in Myan-mar particularly. At the same time, by speculation most Naga public will go for nothing less than sovereignty as ev-ery Naga dreams of a Naga nation with

optimism.

SPECULATION: Leaving aside auton-omy, there are some speculative points which we need to examine in order to be an independent Naga nation. Once we become a nation, we would require:• ResourcestoruntheGovernment,

Administration, Judiciary, Police, Civil Services etc.

• Resources forArmy,AirForceandother Defense related expenditure.

• Providing education, health care,water supply etc. for the people.

• Establishingdiplomaticmissions,atleast with major countries

• Findingavenuesforemploymentforour educated youth within the nation.

• EstablishingourownPostal,Tele-graph and Telephone services, Cus-toms and Excise machinery, Banking services, Currency and Coinage, In-dustries etc.

CIVIL WAR PHOBIA: Every Nagas fear the eruption of civil war which is a legitimate concern. It may lead to huge loss of lives and economy. However we must be positive as nothing can be achieved without taking risk and chal-lenge.

A MESSAGE TO ALL NAGA BROTH-ERS AND SISTERS

Though we may live in different states under Indian Union or in Myan-mar let us all foresee our land becoming a prosperous nation minus bloodshed, poverty and civil war. Let not our ances-tors’ sacrifices go in vain, for they suf-fered untold pains and miseries and left us a legacy which is rightfully ours. The present statehood is not what our an-cestors sacrificed their lives for.

Therefore, let us all rise up and di-rect our dream towards the brighter side. And avoid comparing Naga nation with India as this is where most Nagas go wrong. Let’s learn to use our patrio-tism in the right places.

CONCLUSIONThe formation of ‘One Naga Gov-

ernment’ is likely to have a significant impact on the on-going Indo-Naga po-litical negotiation. The agreement on ‘Naga Concordant’ will pave way for every Naga political organization to get involved with the Indo-Naga talks. With these important changes taking place in Naga political movement, the common Naga people can see the com-ing of brighter future for Nagas.

Though the peace talks may keep continuing till an amicable solution is obtained, let us all be optimistic not for-getting “UNITED WE STAND, DIVID-ED WE FALL”. KUKNALIM!!

By: Mongaimo Dovih DLovely Professional University

Phagwara, PUNJAB-144402

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S O U N D B I T E THE nAGAs: bEyonD THE cEAsEFIRE

A patient being tested for malariaMalaria is a mass killer, taking just under 800,000

lives a year. Most of them are babies and children un-der five. A significant number are pregnant women. It is an entirely preventable disease, caused by a par-asite transmitted by mosquito bite, but the millions who live under its curse are too poor and have too few options to be able to avoid it.

The malaria vaccine [See: “Malaria vaccine partly effective” — ‘Science & Technology' page, October 20, 2011] that now appears to be within reach, following successful large-scale trials in seven African countries, is a potential game chang-er for the rural villagers whose children are the main victims of this ancient disease, which was named “mal'aria” for the bad air mediaeval Ital-ians thought caused it.

Early results from 6,000 babies aged 5-17 months show that their risk of malaria was re-duced by slightly more than half (56 per cent) and their chance of severe malaria — the kind that af-fects the brain, kidneys and blood and often kills — by slightly less than half (47 per cent).

Malaria is so common in sub-Saharan Africa that families think any fever in a baby must be the killer disease. Too often it is, and the hospitals are full of listless babies with vacant eyes on drips.

Vast numbers of bed nets impregnated with insecticide have been provided by donors and dis-tributed in malaria-endemic regions. New drugs — compounds involving artemisinin [See: Edito-rial page, The Hindu, October 5, 2011] — have been developed and widely distributed to replace older antimalarials, which have been failing as the para-site develops resistance to them. Mortality rate down

Malaria deaths have come down from more than a million to an estimated 780,000 a year, ac-cording to the latest report from the Roll Back Malaria partnership of the World Health Organ-isation (WHO). Three countries were certified ma-laria-free in the past four years, and nine more are preparing to move towards elimination — but that is out of 108 where the disease is endemic.

Since bed nets are not always effective and drugs can become ineffective, a vaccine could massively im-prove children's chances.

While researchers started work on a potential Aids vaccine with extraordinary and, as it turned out, mis-placed optimism, many in the scientific community thought a malaria vaccine was a non-starter. Nobody had ever made a vaccine against a parasite-borne disease.

Twenty-five years on, a clutch of indomitable sci-entists — veterans such as Joe Cohen, who has been on the case for the past 23 years — has proved the

sceptics wrong. According to Andrew Witty, chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, the British company that has developed and trialled the vaccine, there were tears among the team when the results of the large-scale trial results came out. “It was the emo-tion of what they had achieved,” said Witty. “The first vaccine against a parasite-borne infection. They were overwhelmed.” The results show conclusively that it

is possible to prevent many cases of malaria in babies aged 5-17 months. Most of these children still got ma-laria, but less frequently and less severely. There were 750 cases for every 1,000 vaccinated children over a year, compared with 1,500 cases for 1,000 children (as one child can have more than one bout of the disease) among those who were given dummy injections.

That could make a big difference in sub-Saharan Africa. There are 200m cases of malaria every year. Many children are damaged — sometimes brain-dam-aged — by it. Even stopping half of those cases would

save millions of lives over the long term. But there is a way to go yet, with more results from the trial to come, and many uncertainties, including how much this vac-cine will cost and who will be persuaded to pay. Trial in seven countries

The trial is continuing in seven countries: Burki-na Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. It is big: there are 15,460 babies and

infants involved. The data published so far in the New England Journal of Medicine concerns 6,000 of the older babies, those aged 5 to 17 months. Next year, results are expected for newborns, which are crucial, because the three-dose vaccine, which needs cold storage, must be incorporated into the routine infant vaccination schedule. All the signs are, though, that the response in new-borns will be similar.

A bigger question is over the duration of the protection, which appears to have dropped from 47 per cent to 35 per cent for cases of severe ma-laria after 22 months. Some of the babies will be given a booster, to see whether this helps. While most side-effects were similar in children given the vaccine and given dummy jabs, there were significantly more with meningitis among those given the vaccine. “There seems to be no plausible explanation for this and it may well turn out to be a chance finding, but it cannot be ignored,” wrote malaria expert Prof Nick White in a commentary otherwise warmly welcoming the vaccine.

In three years' time, when the final results are in and the WHO has recommended its use, the sci-entists may hit the biggest stumbling block of all: money to roll it out. At a press conference to dis-cuss the results, Dr. Regina Rabinovitch, director for infectious diseases at the global health pro-gramme of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was asked whether they would fund it. They would want to look at the data on efficacy, duration and safety in 2014, she said. “Would I prefer to see a 100 per cent vaccine? Certainly,” she added.

Price will be a critical factor. Witty says they will do everything they can to get it down. He is prepared to offer licences to get the vaccine pro-

duced cheaply in India or in Africa itself. “I have got every confidence that we can get this

price to a level that makes it very viable for donors to consider,” he said. “I don't want people to think this is an alternative to bed nets. This is about doing all we can to shut the door on malaria.” He recalls the hos-pital wards he has seen in Africa, full of malaria cases: “If you could take that burden away, imagine what the health capacity would be.” (Sarah Boseley is the Guardian's Health Editor.) — © Guardian Newspa-pers Limited, 2011

Who will pay for malaria vaccine? The trials look promising, but the next challenge is to keep the costs down

Illicit trafficking of Drugs/ Liquor & prosecution thereof

Alcohol & Drugs is the primary reason that have led our people to commit various crimes and enslaved our people to poverty. It has claimed thousands of lives and the precious human resources of Nagaland will

be destroyed if this menace of liquor & drugs is not eradicated from our society.

Liquor and drugs have killed more people than the second world as per the statistics.

Under the Nacrotics drugs & Psychotro substance Act 1985, this is guided by the International treaties, conventions & PROTOCOLS, and Assented by the President of India on the 16th September 1985 and came into force on 14th November 1985. It extends to the whole of India.Offences & penalties under section 15-35 of NDPS Act 1985:-(1) Penalty For possession of Heroin

A person seized with 5 (five) Grams Heroin & below; will undergo six months of rigorous imprisonment or fine up to Rs 10,000/-. A person seized with Heroin 250 gm and above for commercial purpose will undergo not less than 10 years rigor-ous imprisonment which may extend up to 20 (Twenty) years with a fine of not less than Rs one Lakh.(2)Penalty for Opium:

A person seized with 25 gms Opium shall undergo rigorous imprisonment of 6 (six) months or fine of Rs 10,000/-. A person seized with Opium meant for commercial purpose will under-go not less than 10 years rigorous imprisonment and Rs 1 (one) Lakh fine. A person seized with 2.5 kgs of Opium shall undergo 10(ten) years to 20(twenty) years rigorous imprisonment and Rs one lakh fine.(3)Penalty for Ganja:

A person seized with 1 (one) Kg Ganja shall undergo 6 (six) months rigorous imprisonment. A person seized with Ganja meant for commercial purpose shall undergo ten (10) years rig-orous imprisonment. A person seized with 20 (twenty) Kgs of Ganja and above shall undergo 10 to 20 years of rigorous im-prisonment and Rs one lakh fine.(4) Under the Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act 1989 Section 44:

Whoever in contravention of the provision of this Act il-legally imports liquor, illegally bottles liquor, Illegally sells or buys liquor shall on conviction, be penalized for each such offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 (three) years also with fine.

(The writer is Commissioner of Excise & Director of Prohibi-tion, Nagaland: Dimapur)

Hang some of us if that help…There is obviously a pattern to defame every member of Team Anna. It has been sys-tematic from day one…Team Anna is paying a personal cost for raising national con-cerns on rampant corruption and voter awareness to en-sure the passing of the Jan Lokpal Bill in Parliament

Former cop and activist Kiran Bedi

Achieving Quality Control

It is common sense for any right thinking person to demand quality in a product or service rendered. By experience the government sector fails to deliver on this front. Every-where you go, most products or services handled by the

government are below par in terms of quality. The same is the case in Nagaland when it comes to our roads, electricity, health care, education, water supply etc. Many people misconstrue that quality require more costs and that it is expensive to maintain quality services. Such an argument is not necessarily true. The important thing to do is to manage whatever resource is made available in an efficient manner without wastage and compro-mise. Against this backdrop and expectation for quality, the Na-galand Government has finally set up a State Quality Control Board comprising of a Chairman and two members. As per what-ever little official information that has been put out, two senior retired Engineers and a bureaucrat have been appointed. The board has started functioning in the old PWD (Housing), Chief Engineer’s office located at the PWD complex in Kohima.

The need for a Quality Control Board was on the agenda of the State government for long and therefore the decision to of-ficially set up such a board does not come as a surprise. In fact it was long overdue. The only concern is whether the board will be able to function independently without fear and favour and come out with not only clear guidelines or direction but also enforce the same. While no doubt on paper the board may have powers to inspect projects, construction work that are being undertaken in the State by various government departments/undertaking etc or verifying that the quality of materials being used in the construction or materials supplied to department are in accordance with specification, what are the mechanism spelled out to ensure that follow up action is there to ensure quality control not on paper but on the ground where the real work is taking place.

Maintaining quality control while implementing public works will be easier said than done. If we desire quality in our government, we have to do away with the corrupt system—of paying kickbacks and commissions whether to our politicians or our national workers. All these are added to the enormous costs of implementing a project. The result is that quality suf-fers a great deal. This is the crux of the problem. It is not that our engineers or contractors are incapable of doing a good job rather they are faced with enormous hurdles. If the Govern-ment is serious about quality control, then the premise of hav-ing a board should reflect in its independence, real powers, composition of the team (not just yes man) and the nature of appointment (where the Leader of Opposition should also be included while selecting the members).

According to whatever little information appearing in the media, it seems that the Quality Control Board will be limited to making recommendations only and not having the power to enforce on its findings. It’s more like following the conven-tion of submitting an annual report to the Chief Secretary and also recommendations of the board would be placed before the Cabinet for review. So the question arises whether having a Quality Control Board will be wastage of time and effort if the work of the board is confined to making annual reports and the power to decide is left at the political level.

Some of those who voted YES had this to say:• YesNagapeopleare.law&orders,providingsecurityassistance,vigilance,mustbefromtheGON

• Wehavethemanpowernow...Nocountryorstatewaseverreadyfortheinvestorstoestablishabusinessbutlettheminandtackledwhateverproblemsorshortcomingstheyhadastheyprogressed.Waitingfortherightatmosphereorcircumstancesisnottherightapproach.IknowthatweareinasituationwherewecannotprovidetotalsecuritytotheinvestorsbutiftheyarewillingtotakeriskandinvestthenIwouldsay,welcomethemwithopenarmsandextendallsupportpossiblesothatwecangrowalongwithit.

• allworksprogressunderunderstandingandChristiansarenaturallyunderstanding

• NagalandandherpeopleareindireneedforDomesticaswellasForeigninvestors.AndImeanitwhenIsayitsfore-mostpriorityandnecessity,toenticetheinvestors.Butthebigquestionmarkis,ISNAGALANDFEASIBLEFORIN-VITINGINVESTORS?Whataretheodds?Whattypeofinvestorsarewillingtoinvest,wherethereisnoindustryorinshort,feasibleinfrastructure?ArewetheNagasreadytoface,thechallengesahead?Therearemanyquestionstobeanswered.ButIhope,wewillbereadyoneday.

• Yea,especiallythosefromKorea.• AsfarasmytakeonForeignDirectInvestmentinNagalandisconcerned,ourNagasocietyingeneralisbelievedtohavenoproblemwithFDIasinfact,thisveryissueisofpara-mountimportancewhichisperceivedtobeindispensableinbringingholisticandsustainabledevelopmentsintermsofrequisiteinfrastructures,requiredhightechnologies,second-aryintertiaryindustries,etctothestatethatitsdependenteconomicwithselfconfessedconsumingsocietyreallyeverneedmorethananythingelseinordertoboostitsgrosslocalproductsandgenerateemploymentopportunityforNagaswhoarenowexcellingineveryfieldofdisciplinewhilebeinggivengreatattentiontoconservationoffloraandfaunaonthelandoffestivals.Onceagain,makenomistakethattheFDIinNagalandwillcertainlynotbeabanebutaboontoallandsundryofourNagabrothersandsistersinparticularandtheNagasocietyanditsfuturegenerationatlarge.

Some of those who voted NO had this to say:• Ireallydon’tthinkthatNagasarereadyforforeigninvestors.Justlookatthestateofourinfrastructure,itsinacompletemess.AlsoIdon’tthinkwehaveourprioritiesright.Atthisrate,foreigninvestorswillripNagalandoffournaturalresources.

• Whatready?!We'llextortfromthem,threatenthem,kid-napthem,traumatizethemsobadlythatthey'llrunoffatthespeedoflightning.Sorryforbeingsonegative,butatthemoment,Idon'tthinkwehavewhatittakes,esp.Intheareaoflawandorder.

• Unstablegovernment,insurgencyproblems,lackofin-frastructure,andRAPmustbetakencaredoffirst.

• No,unlesstheinternalproblemsolve• TheLawandorderproblemwillnotencourageinvestorstocometoNagaland.

• ExtortionandcorruptionisthemainproblemhereinNa-galand...tellmewhowantstorisk(Extortionandcorrup-tion)..tocomeandinvestinNagaland?idoubt?

• Adefinite'No'aslongasAFSPAand"InnerLinePermit"isinoperation.

• InternalproblemsduetowhichevenIndiancompaniesarestilltoparticipatewithfullstrength

• itsbecauseoursocietyisfragile/unstabilized.Fewmightgainbutthegeneralpopulacewillnotbenefit.Fornagastoenjoythefruitofforeigninvestment,abalanced/ma-turedsocietyandeconomicpolicyisneeded.

• Everysocietyneeds foreign investment.There isnocountryintheworldthatdoesnotrelyoninvestorsfromabroad.Nagaswillalsorequireinvestment.Butthisisnotthetimenow.Mostofthepeoplearestillnaïveandthereisagreatdealofinsecurityandinequality.Ifforeigninvestorsweretocomenow,thanIamsureonlyahand-fulofpeoplewillbenefitfromtheinvestment,whilethe

restwillremainexploited.Weneedtoprepareourselvesbeforeweagreetoanyinvestmentofanykind.

• Bullshit.Nobodywantstodie.Thosethievesinnagalandhadmorethanenoughtoinvest,butwerehesitatingtoinvestcauseiftheypreservetheirlife.Youeitherhavetobeakilonserfirstandinvest.

• Thereisnounityandunderstandingbetweenus.• ibelieveForeignInvestorswillnevercomeinnagalandbecauseofExtortionfromvariousGroupandafriendlybehaviourndlyofnagapeople.

• Thegovt.willhavetoupgradethepowerdistributionsystemstoo.Noonewillinvestbigtimewhereregularpowersupplycan-notbeguaranteed.Unlessthestategovt.isincompletecon-trolofthelawandordersituationinourland,wetoo...shouldnotmisleadotherstocomeandbeharassed.Theywillleaveourlandwithbadexperiencesandsharethattotheworld.Thestategovernmentisinvitingpeopletoinvestinourlandbutthequestionweneedtoaskis,'whoisreallyin-chargeinourland?'Yesthepeople/societywantdevelopmentandprogressbutisthepoliticalscenarioconduciveforoutsideinvestorstocomeandbepartnersinourquestfordevelopment?Wehavetobehonestandnotcheatotherstoowithfalseassurances.

• untilandunlessifthereisnoinstitutionalreformsesprightsizingofthebureaucracyanyinvestmentbeitdomesticorforeigndirectinvestmentallwillgodowntodrainandthetrickledownofprofitwillntgodowntocommonpeopleorcommunity.infact,thereislackofpoliticaltrustdeficitinnagaland....whateverthegovernmentaresayingarerheto-ricinnaturebeitcongressornpf.....!atthegroundlevelwenaga'scan'tevenmanagetomaintainsroadswhatdoyouthink?arewecapableofmanagingeconomyinthestate?a simpleexample isroads in kohima...itsapittythatwetalkaboutglobalin-vestmentandwecanevenmanage roads in the capi-tal....! letsfirstdoourhomeworkandthenletstalkaboutglobalinvestmentinthestate.basicinfrastructureisaprob-lem!nweallwanteasymon-eyparticularattheinstitution-allevelsothingsaregettingbad to worse in nagaland.daysinearly1970,1980livewasatpeaceandlively....!

• Noinfrastructuredevelopmentinthestate,andnagalandhasmanybottomlineproblems,inmanysectorsforforeigncom-paniestoinvest.govtshouldprovide70-80%infrastructuredevelopmentsotherwisenoforeigncompanywillbewillingforbigscaleinvestment.

• No!andIbelievedeeplythateverysensiblefellowNagasarebehindmeinagreeingwithmeinsayingNo.Everysingleinvestmentcompanymustbebannedforonceandforall.Wehadenoughofthesecapitalistswineswhocomeonlyfortheirselfishmotives.Thesecapitalistslackcourageandzealtoworkforthepeople.Theycanbeatbesttermedasthebig-gestfraudstersNagalandhadeverseen.Thepeoplethem-selvesknowitverywellhowmanylakhsofrupeesoftheirhardearnedsavingshavebeensnatchedawaybythesecapitalistsandcommercialbusinessprofiteers.Theymustbebroughttotrailandawardedlifesentenceimprisonment.Thenexttimetheytrytolaytheirgreedyhandsuponourfa-therland,theywillhavearealhardtime.Nagasbeware!!Thefoxislurkingaroundourbelovedfatherland!!

Some of those who voted OTHERS had this to say:•Yeswearealwaysreadyforfundsandprojects,butIstheforeigninvestorsreadytoinvestinnagaland?EvenIfBillGates'MicrosoftinvestinNagaland,theymaygobankruptwithinafewyears..Gateswilllendupinamentalasylumandsayingaloudtohimself'arre,ihaveinvestedmillionsandmilionsof$sbutroadsstillhavepotholes,somear-

easdnthaveroads,noelectricityinmanyremoteareas,notourist,noeducationalandhealthcarecentre..noITdevel-opment,forgetITandmicrosoft,theydontevenknowme..AllisawinNagalandwasmanySUVs,bmws,mercedesandbigpalatialbuildingsinsomeareas..Boohoo..Nagasarestillheadhunters..theyhavecutmyhead.Sobsob..

• Creativeindustry!!That'swherewecanexcelandattractforeigninvestors..butthenwhowillberesponsibleforprovidingaconduciveatmosphereinthestate?

• UntilNagalandGovernmentcanguaranteesafetynolargescaledeveloperwillcometoNagaland.IwouldsayNagalandcanbedeveloped.

• Whatdoforeigninvestorsseewhentheylookatnaga-land?whenitcomestotechnologicalandalliedindus-tries,theonlythingthatmayattractthemtoinvesthereiscomparativelycheaperlabour,whichisgoodforthembutnotgoodenough....theyneedtoknowthattheirin-vestmentissafeandprofitable.Asforsettingupfacto-riesandplantsfortechnologicalproduction,theywillre-quirelargeareasoflandtoo,andnotjustanywhere,landwithsatisfactoryaccesstotransportandcommunicationfacilitieslikegoodroadsandtheywantitnearthecit-ieswitheasyaccesstotheraw-materials.canwegivethose?ThegovtcantevengetlandtolayrailwaytracksuptoKohima.Theinvestorsdontwantanytroublewiththelocalinhabitants-remembertheTATAcompanyhav-ingtoshiftitsNANOproductionplant?Theydontwantthatkindoftrouble.Andhowdoweguarantytheirprofit?

• Whatindustriesarewelookingatinvestorsandwhy?Isitforfundingorisitforknowledgeassistance?Aninvestorwill

investobviously tohavesomeeconomicgain,sowhatwillthepercentageofprofitbeforthem?Willthegovernmentprotecttheirinvestmentswhentheyareusu-allyunable toprotecteven theminusculeinvestmentsbylocals?Why is investment from a for-eignerbetterthenfromthoseinourowncountry?Ithinkthesearepertinentquestionstoaskfirstbe-foreweinviteotherstoinvestwithus.BOTTOMLINEIS,NOONEWILL INVESTUNLESSTHEYBENEFITASWELL,SOWHATAREWERELINQUISHINGORWILLINGTOSHELLOUTBE-

FOREWEWELCOMETHEM?ForcertainindustriessuchasTourismIthinkacalculatedinvestmentisready,nottorep-licatewhatexistscompletelybuttocreatesomethingthatisexclusivelyours,buttieupwiththemasstakeholderstomakesurewehaveenoughvisitorssentbythemtosustainourgrowingindustry.AsforAgricultureandalliedindustries,thisismorecomplexaswecertainlydonotwanttobecomeanex-perimentalgroundforthemnordowewanttomissoutonanopportunitytoensureexportorientedproductsaredeveloped.Howmanycountrieshaveourpolicymakersvisited(andcon-tinuetodoso)inthepast2decades,eventoplaceswherewehavenothingsimilartoevenconsidertrade,allattheexpenseoffundswhichmighthavebeenusedforbuildingthebasicinfrastructurerequiredforlocalentrepreneurs?Andiftheygo,howmanyactualentrepreneursorofficialswhoarefromthedepartmentsandwillbesupervisingtheprojectsactuallyat-tendthesetrips?Whatkindofworkshopsdotheyconductwhentheycomebackfromthesestatefundedtrips?Whyarewethepeoplegivingupourfundstobeartheirexpenses??Iftheywerecoveringthetripsontheirown,whoarewetostopthem,butmoreoftenthennot,itisallacoverupforapaidholiday...Havingyour1daymeetingisnotenoughtocoveryouroneweektrip?Canthegovernmentatleastletthepublicknowwhatworkshopshavebeenpublicizedandattendedbypeopletolearnfromtheknowledgetheygainedfromtheirtrips.Sorrymayhavedigressedalittlefromthetopic,butthepointis,inseekingtheseinvestors,howmucharewereally

spendingwithnoresultsatall???Arealitycheckisrequiredtolookatnationsandstatesclosertouswhomightactuallycostlesstovisitandaredoingsomeamazingdevelopmentsinstead,ifseekingforeigninvestmentisanecessity.Insteadofonlylookingatinvestorstocomein,whatmightbebetteristoactuallyhiresomeexperiencedpersontocomestayinNa-galandandactuallyteachoursocietywiththeskillsrequiredtobuildthatindustry.Soallthesetripsforanumberofpeoplecanbeconvertedtopayforagood,successfulandrenownedconsultanttocomelivehereandimpartknowledge.Thatway,societyreallybenefitsphysicallyandnotjustonpaper.

• Oneareawherewemightlookatinvestmentfromdevel-opednationsisenvironmentprotectionandalternativeenergyusage.WeinNagalandarenotgivingenoughimportancetothis.Thefactthatonly2%oftheworld'sdrinkingwater isapparentlypotableand thatour re-sourcesarefastdepletingshouldbeatriggerforthecur-rentgenerationtostopbeingselfishandrectifywastefulmethods,likeyesterday,sothatourchildrenwillhavesomethingforthefuture.Whyisthegovernmentnotask-ingcompanieswhohavetappedthesealternativere-sourcestocomeexploreandinvestintheseareas???Thinkwindandsolarenergytostartwith.Thesewillbeapartoffutureinfrastructurebuilding....

• Well,jumpingfromonetotwentylevelsisquiteweird&unimaginable.Whatdowe,asanunder-developstate,havetooffertotheforeigninvestors?Normally,busi-nesspeopledonotinvestblindly.Itissmartt...olearnfromothersexamplebutwasthereathoroughstudy?Arethedomesticindustriesherereadytocompete?Tomyknowledge,ourdomesticfirms&industrieshardlyexist.Wearestillatstrugglingstage.Justeasyflowofmoneywithforeigninvestorsisnotgoingtosolvetheproblemshere.Whathappentoourancientsayingofdoing&solvingthingsatone-stepatatime?Firstly,givethebenefits&opportunitiestoourlocalbusinesstogrow.Aren’ttheymoreimportantforademocraticgov-ernment?Ithinkforaforeigninvestmenttobesuccess-ful,weshouldatleasthavethefollowing-Availabilityofrawmaterial,Availabilityofcheaplabour,Cheappro-ductionCost,&Readymarket??Inaddition,mindyou,foreigninvestmentisnotgoingtosolvetheemploymentproblem.Isourpeoplereadywithadvancedmanage-rialandtechnicalknowhow?Rare!Iwouldsaythatourgovernmentistakingaratherboldunknownstep!

• FII''sareleeches.Oncetheysuckalltheblood,theywilldumpeverythingandleavethevictimtobleedtodeath.ThereasonwhyourpoliticiansdonotwantthePSU'stotakeovertheOilexplorationandproductionisthattheywon'tgetashareofthepie.Butmydearpoliticians,itelluthatthereistheheftyroyaltywhichucanpryon.LetthePSU'scomesothatourpeoplecangetpermanentem-ploymentandalsotheinfrastructureintheruralareascanalsobeimprovedtoagreaterextend,andCorporateso-cialresponsibility,whichisanewmantra,activelyfollowednowadayswillgreatlybenefitthepeopleoftheareas.

• eventhoughourownCMistryinghisbest2wooinves-tors,sadlyevenintheagrisectorsupplyisnotmeetingthedemand.eg,howmanytruckloadsofpineapplesgoesoutthroughnagalandgateannuallytoindianruncompanies,saydabur.foreigninvestorwilldemandmore.arewereadytosupplyintermsoftonnesntonnesofouragriproducts.

• Fromtheinvestor'sperspective,it'salotlikerentinganapartment?Askyourselfthis.WouldIrentaplacewhichhasaleakyroof,cloggedtoilets,noelectricityorwater,bulletriddenwallsandsmashedindoors?

• Nowiftheapartmentownerexpectsthetenanttoreno-vatetheapartment,theownerbetterbepreparedtoseeamuchmodifiedapartmentwithquiteundesiredchanges!

• IhaveabigreservationtothedifferentinitiativethatarebeingtakingplacebetweengovernmentofNagalandandforeigninvestors.I'mafraidNagasmaybecomeslaveoftheseinvestors.franklyourNagasarestillnotfarsighted.I'mafraidwemaybecomeslaveinourownland.

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It’s just a tug-of-war

I think it’s just a tug- of- war the celebrity American poet Robert Frost experiences in his master-piece poem “Stop-ping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”. “The woods are love-ly, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles

to go before I sleep/And miles to go before I sleep.” Yes, obviously it’s a tug of war, a kind of sturdy mental conflict, a

kind of fierce friction between decision and indecision and a shaking psychological war between what to do and what not to do. The poet was in a fix. But his indomitable determination and commitment could make him take the right decision at the right moment. So he could move forward for his actual business in life transcending the sturdy pull of infatuation for the scenic magic by which he was mesmerised.

The poet was totally lost in the enjoyment of intoxicating natural beauty being unexpectedly forgetful to the real busi-ness of life. The repeated tinkling of the harness bells due to shaking of head by the horse only woke him up from the in-toxication stupor and he suddenly became aware of his press-ing duties of life and he uttered that he had to go miles and miles before sleeping. The poet was steeped in the enjoyment of serene, sacred, heart-winning scenic beauty of Nature and not in the enjoyment of anything perverted, but he was di-verted from the real duties of life for certain moments.

Conflicts of similar nature or different, haunt our minds in different steps of our practical life. Very often we feel confused to decide in a right way. Only a person who has a strong determi-nation and a positive goal in life can resolve such conflicts.

Life is not a bed of roses. But at the same time life is filled with fun and frolics, pleasures and enjoyments. Can we always give time for such frivolous pleasures of life? Virtually not, because our real life is very tough and demands a lot of sacrifices, diligence and commitments. We need to trudge tirelessly along the thorny path to reach our goal.

On the way of success there come a lot of tantalizations, al-lurements and temporary pleasures which may set a blockade on our missionary march. Such tantalizations, allurements are mostly misdirecting and misleading and filled with futilities. But they give us a lot of temporary joys, pleasures and enjoyments.

If we give way to such frivolities, then our future is foggy. In the present day scenario, a lot of promising youths are found drawing frivolous enjoyments from consuming liquor, drugs, intoxicating stuffs like tez, gutka, talab, etc. and misusing of mo-biles and computers, and passing invaluable time playing un-health-friendly games which have zero physical exertions. Many youths are found getting infatuated by some strange hairstyles, nail-styles and dress-styles which not only consume their pre-cious time but also divert their attention from the real business of life. Many are even found doing nothing important and easing out time and living as parasites on their parents. They are too young to understand the futilities of what they do.

Many youths are found stuck in the labyrinth of frivolous pleasures and find it hard to come out of it. They have lost the real path of life. They need a lot of mental strength and deter-mination to come out of the vicious circle they have fallen into.

In order to come to the real track they must follow the scrip-tures, attend spiritual gatherings, follow the parents, teachers and elders. They must also read biographies of great souls. They must set an ideal and goal in life and must always keep in minds the lines: “Woods are lovely, dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ And miles to go before I sleep/ And miles to go before I sleep.”

Gopal TalukdarPGT(English)JNV,Kohima

The training for the State Disaster Re-sponse Force (SDRF) is in full swing with trainers and trainees both participating enthusiastically. The SDRF was inaugu-rated at a grand function on the 10th Oc-

tober 2011 at CTI, Toluvi, Dimapur. The first batch to be trained is the ‘Alpha’ Coy from the 9th IRB. The training is being given by selected groups of people who have been roped in from various related depart-ments. The ‘Training Team’ are all from CTI namely Vikiho K. Sema, Trg Officer, Dr. Thingtemla, Medical Officer, Thesuohie QM, Vingutuo SI, Gwasalo SI, Vi-kiho Hav, Maongkaba Hav, Imener Hav,

Lipoksashi Hav, Deepak Compounder.The resource persons consist of five people who

were also sent by the Nagaland State Disaster Man-agement Authority to crpf Coimbatore especially to be trained as ToTs for the SDRF. They are V. John Dy. Commandant 11th IR, Imtitoshi Dy. Commandant 12th IR, Dally Jamir Dst. Commandant HG&CD, Dr. Chibenthung MO and Sevi Kera ASI F&ES. Part time Resource persons for the SDRF training are M. Yaden Commdt.General HG&CD, Dr. G. T. Thong Proffessor NU, Er. Moa Associate Proffesor ATI, M. Pienyu Se-nior Staff Officer HG&CD, Akhu Kath JSO HG&CD, Issac Semy Dist. Commdt. HG&CD Phek, Avinuo Dist. Commdt. HG&CD Wokha and Mulai Dist. Com-mdt. HG&CD Mon. Besides these army of tainers the SDRF is privileged to be assisted by seven members of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) from the 1st Battalion based in Guwahati.

Speaking about the progress of the trainees, Insp. Rajesh Ranjan from the NDRF stated that they are very pleased and even surprised by the skills of the IRB jawans. Admitting that theory wise, the jawans are not very quick but in practicals they have sur-passed expectations. The Inspector further stated that even their own troops were not so quick to grasp the practical aspects. The NDRF team lauded the IRB jawans saying that they are young, fast and smart. Cit-ing that even during leisure time the jawans were still practicing, the NDRF team said that the effort and dedication of the jawans is commendable. Report-edly the IRB jawans are getting well versed with not only the medical terms for parts of the human body but are confidently naming medical terms for various parts of the skeleton. Excusing the shortcoming of the jawans in theory classes also considering the level of entry into the service, the NDRF team added that the jawans are not being trained to give lectures but to save lives. A spokesman for the CTI also said that so far the otherwise ‘infamous’ jawans have not caused any problems and have been very disciplined while also co operating well with authorities.

As mandated by the NDMA, the jawans are being trained on the following topics: Concept of Disaster Management, Emergency Medical System & Medical First Responder, Incident Scene Assessment, Infec-tious Disease Precautions, Human Anatomical Refer-ences, Basic Life Support and Cardiopulmonary Re-

A brief report on the SDRF training

suscitation, Emergency Child Birth, Oxygen Therapy, Medical First Responder, Earthquake, Fire, Welfare Service etc

It may be pertinent here to give a brief history of how the SDRF came into being for public information. The Disaster Management Act, 2005 has made the statutory provisions for the constitution of the Na-tional Disaster Response Force (NDRF) for the pur-pose of specialized response to natural and man-made disasters. According to Section 45 of the Act, the Force has to function under the general superintendence, direction and control of the National Disaster Man-agement Authority (NDMA) and under command and supervision of Director General, NDRF. Though the units of this Force were nominated in 2003, it is only after the establishment of NDMA that their training and equipping were vigorously pursued. In lieu with the Section 44 (i) of the Act that states NDRF a spe-cialist force, the force is gradually emerging as the most visible and vibrant multi-disciplinary, multi-skilled, high-tech force of the NDMA capable of deal-ing with all types of natural and man-made disasters

The vision of the NDMA is to build a safer and di-saster resilient India by developing a holistic, proac-tive, multi-disaster and technology driven strategy for Disaster Management. With this vision, a detailed “Training Regime for Disaster Response” has been prepared by NDMA/NDRF identifying the specific disaster response training courses and devising a uni-fied, structured and uniform course module as well as syllabus for these training courses. The proposition behind a unified, structured, uniform course module and syllabus is that first the entire NDRF battalions will successfully attain these courses and subsequent-

ly after its constitution in 2005, NDRF with its swift and highly-skilled rescue operations has emerged as most visible and vibrant force of the NDMA. NDRF personnel are invariably trained in courses like Flood Rescue, Collapsed Structure Search and Res-cue, Medical First Responders, Rope Rescue, Nucle-ar, Biological and Chemical Emergencies; Dignified Disposal of Dead Bodies etc. NDRF personnel are trained in prestigious institutes like NISA, DRDO, BARC, CME, Army, Navy and Air Force as well in foreign countries like USA, Singapore, China, Fin-land, Korea, Switzerland etc. It may be mentioned here that a contingent of the NDRF was deployed in Japan following the devastation caused by the earthquake and Tsunami. The team accomplished its task in a purposeful manner, which was lauded by one and all. The Union Home Secretary Sh. G.K. Pillai felicitated the NDRF team during a ceremony organized in Delhi to welcome them home.

State Disaster Response Forces (SDRF) and other stakeholders are trained on the same lines. The need of uniformly structured course module emerged out of the fact that if all the NDRF battalions and other ‘first responders’ undergo the same training exer-cise, the coordination between different stakehold-ers would be expedient and well planned at the time of any major disaster where different NDRF battal-ions, SDRF battalions and other stakeholders will be working together in close coordination with each other. While the NDRF is being trained, re-trained and equipped as a specialist force for level three di-sasters, it is equally important to ensure capacity building of state police personnel who are invariably the first responders in any natural or man-made di-sasters. To ensure this, a two-pronged strategy is be-ing suggested to the states: firstly, to train state police personnel in the basics of disaster management and secondly, to train at least one battalion equivalent out of their state armed police units as State Disas-ter Response Force (SDRF) on lines of the NDRF. In addition to police personnel, the SDRFs may be con-stituted from existing resources of the Fire Servic-es, Home Guards and Civil Defence. NDRF Bns and their training institutions will assist the States/UTs in this effort. The State/ UTs are also encouraged to set up Disaster Management training facilities in their respective Police Training Colleges and include this subject in their basic and in-service courses.

It is the vision of the Nagaland State Disaster Man-agement Authority (NSDMA) that in the future the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) of Nagaland will not only prove its worth in the state but will even be deployed to other parts of the country when the need arises. The training for the first batch of the SDRF will continue till the 8th November 2011 and the next batch will be the ‘Alpha’ Coy of the 14th IR. A company each from five Battalions namely 9th/ 11th/ 12th/ 13th/ 14th IR have been identified for the SDRF of Nagaland.

(Issued by: Nagaland State Disaster Management Authority (NSDMA), Home Department)

24 October 2011Monday8 Dimapur The Morung ExpressNATIONAL

New Delhi, OctOber 23 (AgeNcies): The report of Raju Ramachandran, the amicus cur-iae in the Zakia Jafri case, has laid the ground for Narendra Modi to be charge-sheeted for his alleged role in the 2002 anti-Muslim Gujarat po-grom. The report is still confidential, though it has now been shared with the Special Investigation Team set up by the Supreme Court to investigate and prosecute cases stemming from the 2002 violence in which more than 1200 persons were killed.

islAMAbAD, OctOber 23 (Pti): India’s champion of anti-corruption Anna Hazare’s recent remarks on his readiness to fight against Pakistan in the event of hostilities have spurred a virtual Indo-Pakistan war. Hazare wrote on his blog that he had fought on the India-Pakistan border as a sol-dier and was ready to take part in a war against Pakistan. “Even today you can see the marks on my forehead left be-hind by Pakistan’s bullet. This is my ac-tive conviction that Kashmir is an in-tegral part of India and will remain so.

Today once again if I have to, I am ready to take part in war against Paki-stan. But some people can only speak and don’t do anything on ground (in reality for Kashmir) and this is unfortunate,” Hazare posted on his multi-lingual blog annahazaresays.wordpress.com. The post was first noticed by a blogger on the website for The Express Tribune daily. “Not long ago, international me-dia saw the rise of a new star; a man who vowed to reincarnate the principles of Gandhi… We hoped his anti-graft move-ment would come to Pakistan as well. Moreover, we prayed that the Pak-India border would be adorned with flowers and candles rather than barbed wires…However, today all of my hopes suddenly evaporated when I read Anna Hazare’s blog,” wrote Omair Tariq.

What hurt most Pakistanis was the statement that Hazare was willing to take part in a war against Pakistan. “I don’t understand how people can name him as a second Gandhi when Hazare talks about war, something Gandhi was

fiercely opposed to. I have heard that Gandhi went on to a fast till death mis-sion on the issue of the distribution of resources to Pakistan and one shouldn?t forget that this was in favour of Pakistan, not against it,” Tariq wrote. “…Thus, I don’t think Anna Hazare will be wel-comed in Pakistan after his arrogant dec-larations,” Tariq concluded. In response to Tariq’s post, Indians and Pakistanis jumped to defend and oppose Hazare.

A reader wrote, “This article is our wake-up call, thank you for bringing it up. Everyone in India and here was already eulogising Anna Hazare as though he descended straight from heaven. How-ever, just brace yourself against a diatribe from Indians here as I am sure you’ve hit their raw nerve by exposing his ‘peace-ful’ demeanor.” An Indian reader said he couldn’t stop laughing at the post. “Dear friend we are not allowing Anna to go any-where and not to your country to say the least…And by the way…do you think your problems can be solved? Can’t see it hap-pening any time soon man…”

Another Indian reader who signed in as Shalini Singh posted: “You are perfect-ly alright from your view point, you are a patriot, you are a peace lover. But you know that in your country people are not so good (except few like you), mainly the politicians, they want to rule the country based on Kashmir issue. They are for no one. And about Anna Hazare, he is also a patriot like you, that’s why he said if its needed to defend his country, he will fight war. Won’t you fight for Pakistan if needed?” AK Murthy too snubbed Paki-stani comments with,

New Delhi, OctOber 23 (Pti): In his trademark style, Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar today took a dig at Congress party, the UPA government and the Planning Commis-sion, ruing that while India was prospering Indians were not. He also did not spare bil-lionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani, mak-ing snide remarks about his 27-storey home in Mumbai. Speaking at a SCOPE function here, Aiyar said, “The fact of the matter is that India is prospering but Indians are not.”

“We are a country where domestic ser-vants of each one of us is regarded by Dr Mon-tek Singh Ahluwalia as definitely APL (above poverty line)... But the fact that is we are des-perately a poor country,” he said. Responding to a query on whether there is any quick fix solution to the issue of unethical practice of private and the government making the pub-lic sector undertakings orphans, Aiyar, said, “Yes. There is a very quick fix solution. Does the Congress party, which is the leader of the government, own up to the Nehruvian lega-cy? Do we still believe in socialistic pattern of society that was proclaimed in 1955.

“It has never been repudiated and to which we are committed to the Congress par-ty. How often has the word socialist been used in a Congress manifesto in the last 20 years,” he said. “We have a Planning Commission run by a man who says he does not believe in plan-ning,” Aiyar said. “The irony of it... plans are being produced by people who do not believe in that and the public sector is being run by those who don’t believe in the public sector. Do you think being the Minister for Heavy In-dustries is a high profile job?,” he said.

He further not-ed that one way out is to get rid of the public sector. “That’s what some elements in the Congress wants. The other way is to assert the pub-lic sector, which is what some other ele-ments in the Congress wants.” According to him, the Govern-ment of India has not been p r o u d about the p u b l i c s e c t o r . “... The g o v e r n -ment is not proud of you (public sector). I don’t know why the government should be proud of someone whose chief achievement is to build a 27-storey house for himself and his three chil-dren... I am not proud of that,” Aiyar said.

Speaking on the occasion, NTPC Chair-man Arup Roy Choudhury said that public sector is doing a great job. “If you are CEO of a public sector vis-a-vis a CEO from a pri-vate sector entity, you are seen as an em-ployee than being the owner because the owner, the government does not treat you like an owner,” he said. Choudhury is also the Chairman of Standing Committee of Public Enterprises (SCOPE).

Indian villagers stand near the remains of a wooden bridge across River Rangeet Khola that collapsed Saturday night in Bijanbari, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Darjeeling on October 23. The bridge built in 1942 and weak-ened by a September earthquake gave way as more than 150 mountain villag-ers gathered on it to hear speeches by local officials. At least 31 people died and 100 others injured. (AP Photo)

hyDerAbAD, OctOber 23 (iANs): Hyderabad Indus-tries Limited (HIL), a house-hold name in asbestos cement roof sheeting, is transforming into a manufacturer of green building products and solutions provider in tune with the chang-ing demands of environment-conscious consumers. The over six-decade old HIL, a C.K. Birla Group company, will continue to make asbestos cement roof sheeting as a “social responsibil-ity” but has devised a new busi-ness strategy to focus on green building products, which are driving the growth. The Hyder-abad-based firm, which started focussing on non-asbestos build-ing products a few years ago, has become a leader in some of them.

“Green building is the buzz word today. It makes business sense. Customers have become extremely environment-con-scious,” HIL managing director Abhaya Shankar told IANS. “The government is also promoting green buildings. Responsible cor-porate giants like to have green buildings which are platinum rated,” he said. “We want to give to the building industry products slightly futuristic and green in na-

ture,” he added. With pan-India presence, the largest distribution network and a strong research and development team, HIL is constantly looking to come out with new products and applica-tions and provide complete solu-tion support, Shankar said.

During the last three years, the company aggressively ex-panded capacities in roof sheet-ing sites as well as Aerocon Auto-claved Aerated Concrete (AAC) blocks which are used instead of red bricks and Aerocon panels which are used as partitioning materials. The company recently started dealing with steel sheet-ing too. The Aerocon panels are giving the company’s green prod-ucts fast acceptance in the mar-ket, with a 40 to 50 percent share. HIL holds the worldwide patent for the fibre cement sandwich panels with lightweight con-crete inside. The panels are re-placing plywood, which is more expensive, harms the environ-ment, gets eaten up by termite, gets spoilt by water and catches fire, Shankar pointed out. AAC blocks, the large concrete but light weight blocks, help in saving energy cost and air-conditioning cost within the building by re-

ducing the amount of steel used in tall buildings.

However, focusing on green building products does not mean the 63-year-old company will give up manufacture of crystolite as-bestos roof sheeting. “The world has no alternative to asbestos corrugated roof sheeting as an af-fordable hard roof. Fifty percent of roofs in India especially in rural areas are thatched roof. The rural income levels are low and they can only graduate from thatched roof to asbestos cement roof sheeting,” the managing director said. “With 20 percent market share in asbes-tos cement roof sheeting, we are the largest in India and perhaps one of the largest in the world,” he said. Over 80 percent of the company’s revenues are still con-tributed by roof sheeting and less than 20 percent come from green building products. “This equation is changing. It is slow because roof sheeting is a big chunk and it is also growing.”

The company, which is setting up a new asbestos cement roof sheeting plant in Uttar Pradesh, has a total of eight plants for roof sheeting, two each for Aerocon blocks and panels and one for in-sulation. During the last three

years, the company has invested Rs.200 crore in setting up new plans and expanding capacities. “We will keep investing to main-tain our market leadership in the areas where we are already mar-ket leaders and to become lead-ers in other areas,” the managing director said. “With a strong bal-ance sheet, Hyderabad Industries can afford to target aggressive growth,” he added. The company, which has so far made the invest-ments from its own internal re-sources and through some bor-rowings from banks, has not ruled out going to the market in future.

“So far we have not felt the need to go to the market to raise additional funds but if that situ-ation arises in future we will not hesitate. It may happen in two-three years depending on the kind of project requirement that we may have.” HIL, which had revenues of Rs.801 crore during 2010-11, is targeting a 10 percent growth rate in its top line dur-ing the current fiscal. “Given the demographics of India and the growth story of India, the building industry is going to be a good in-dustry to be in with a growth rate of over 10 percent for the next 15 to 20 years,” Shankar said.

Amicus report lays the groundfor chargesheeting Narendra Modi

According to informed sources in Ahmedabad, who briefed The Hindu on the report’s contents, the report strongly disagrees with the SIT’s view that no case against the Gujarat Chief Minister was made out. It says that only the cross-examination of senior Gujarat police officers, including Sanjiv Bhatt — who stated that he was present when Modi instructed police officials to allow Hindus to vent their anger — could establish whether the Chief Minister was innocent or guilty. Significantly, the report also says that Bhatt’s statement was made probable by the presence of two Min-isters in the Ahmedabad Police Con-trol Room (PCR) at the time Muslims were being attacked.

If the trial court accepts Ramach-andran’s view, the sources said, the stage will have been set for the pros-ecution of the Chief Minister under various sections of the IPC, among them, 153 A (statements promot-ing enmity between communities), 153 B (imputations and assertions prejudicial to national integration) 505 (statements conducing to pub-lic mischief ) and 166 (public servant disobeying a direction of the law with the intent to cause injury). Under Section 166, any public servant who disobeys a direction of the law as to how he should conduct himself as a

public servant and knowing the act will cause injury is liable to be pun-ished with imprisonment for a term extending to one year. As the chief ex-ecutive in control of the administra-tion, Modi was especially under ob-ligation to quell the riots, the sources said.

The SIT was tasked by the Su-preme Court to investigate Jafri’s complaint against Modi and 61 oth-ers. The Court subsequently asked Ramachandran independently to evaluate the reports filed by the SIT by interacting with witnesses. The sources said the SIT recommended closing the case against Modi on the grounds that police officer Bhatt, who was vital to fixing blame on the Chief Minister, was a controversial and unreliable witness. The SIT also concluded that there was no material on record to show interference by the two Ministers who were present in the PCR when Muslims were being attacked across Ahmedabad.

In his testimony to the SIT, Bhatt had said he was present at the Febru-ary 27, 2002 meeting where Modi in-structed top police officials to allow Hindus to “vent their anger” against Muslims. The meeting was held late in the evening at the Chief Minister’s Gandhinagar residence. The SIT said none of the other officers pres-

ent at the meeting had corroborated Bhatt’s presence. The sources said the amicus disagreed with the SIT’s conclusions, arguing that evidence has to be weighed and not counted, and this can happen only when Bhatt and others present at the meeting are cross-examined in the trial court. The amicus’ view was that it would be premature and presumptuous to close the case against Modi with-out an adversarial party putting the other officers to rigorous question-ing: Bhatt could turn out to have lied. Equally, other officers present could turn out to have lied.

The amicus was in fact credited with the view that the presence in the police control room of two Ministers unconnected to the Home portfolio probablised Bhatt’s statement. More so because the SIT had itself suggest-ed that the Ministers had the Chief Minister’s blessings (Tehelka maga-zine which scooped the SIT report quoted Raghavan as saying that the presence of the two Ministers fuelled speculation that they were there with Modi’s blessings.) If the view of the amicus is rejected by the SIT,. Jafri and her co-complainant Teesta Se-talvad will have the option to contest it in the trial court. The court can also form its own, independent opinion on the views of the amicus.

Anna Hazare sets off virtual war with Pakistan comments

Hyderabad Industries goes green ‘India prospering but not Indians’

rAiPur, OctOber 23 (Pti): Se-nior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Sunday alleged elaborate attempts at a cover-up in 2G scam and demanded “serious investigation” to ascertain the role of the then Finance Minister P. Chidam-baram in spectrum allocations. Cur-rently on a Jan Chetna Yatra against corruption, Advani also questioned Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s integrity and leadership alleging that his government had “no capacity left to respond to” multi-crore scams that took place “under his nose and, from all accounts in his knowledge“.

His comments came in the wake of a Delhi court framing charges on Sat-urday against all the 17 accused in the 2G scam including former Telecom Minister A Raja, DMK MP Kanimo-zhi and corporate honchos. “While the framing of charges of fraud against a former Minister, several officials, an

MP and functionaries of companies that allegedly benefitted from the scam is welcome, I believe the probe has left some important facets out of its ambit,” Advani said in a statement here. “Despite elaborate attempts at a cover-up, the role of former Finance Minister and incumbent Home Min-ister, P. Chidambaram, clearly merits serious investigation,” he said.

The BJP leader said what prompt-ed the Finance Ministry to change its stated position on auctioning scarce spectrum “remains an abiding mys-tery.” “Why did Chidambaram concur with A Raja’s decision to allot spec-trum in 2008 at 2001 prices, days after giving an opinion to the contrary?,” he asked. “I demand that the Supreme Court-directed investigation into the 2G Spectrum scam must be extended to probing his role and that of officials of the Finance Ministry of the time,”

Advani said. Accusing the UPA of fail-ing to adopt a consistent policy on cor-ruption, Advani said, “The Manmohan Singh regime has been so weakened by the succession of gigantic corruption scandals that it has no capacity left to respond to challenges.”

“Just yesterday, the Delhi High Court has admitted the final charge sheet presented by the CBI against 17 persons in the massive 2G Spectrum scam. The prosecution has filed the charges under sections of the law that entail life imprisonment for the ac-cused if they are found guilty of crimi-nal conspiracy to loot the country’s resources,” he said. “The Prime Min-ister prides himself on his personal in-tegrity. However, the fact that the loot happened under his nose and, from all accounts with his knowledge, puts a se-rious question mark on his leadership,” the BJP leader said. “The suspicion

that the money trail did not end with the charge-sheeted persons is growing stronger every day, especially after it was revealed through an RTI applica-tion that Pranab Mukherjee, senior-most member of the Cabinet had also opposed this transaction,” he said.

Advani reiterated that his Yatra is for the restoration of a value system in governance “that we seem to be losing.” “The cancer of corruption is destroying the soul of our great civili-sation,” he said and pointed out that the siphoning off of public funds is at the root of runaway inflation. Advani also said incredible amounts of black money have been taken out of our country and stashed away in Swiss banks and other tax havens abroad. “I raised this issue way back in 2009 but the UPA regime has shown no interest in pursuing this criminal di-version of funds,” he said.

Chidmabaram’s role in 2G scam merits serious probe: Advani

Largest aircraft makes emergency landing at Hyderabad airporthyDerAbAD, OctOber 23 (iANs): The world’s larg-est airplane Airbus A380 made an emergency landing at Ra-jiv Gandhi International Airport near here Sunday due to a technical snag, an airport official said. The Emirates EK385 flight, with 481 passengers on board, was on its way from Bangkok to Dubai. “The aircraft landed with 481 passen-gers safely at 3.40 a.m.,” an airport spokesman told IANS. The pilot cited a technical snag as the reason for making the emergency landing at the airport.

The aircraft first approached the Chennai airport but did not get clearance for landing as the runway was busy. The pilot then contacted Air Traffic Control at Shamshabad and got the clearance to land. The Emirates was making arrangements to accommodate the passengers on its Hy-derabad-Dubai flights, including a special flight. An official said that out of 481 passengers, 80 left for Dubai by regu-lar Emirates flight EK527 Hyderabad-Dubai at 10.20 a.m. Some passengers will be sent by a special flight at 11.20 a.m. and the remaining by the regular Hyderabad-Dubai flight in the evening. Airbus engineers from the company’s head-quarters in Toulouse, France, are rushing to Hyderabad to attend to the technical snag. This is the second time that A380 has landed at Hyderabad.

New Delhi, OctOber 23 (iANs): An Indian army heli-copter that strayed into Paki-stan in bad weather Sunday and was told to land there has returned to India after Paki-stani authorities let it go, an In-dian official said. The Cheetah helicopter with four officers on board returned to Kargil in Jammu and Kashmir around 6 p.m., ending an inadvertent in-trusion that immediately trig-gered urgent talks between the two foreign and military estab-lishments. The chopper landed safety in India, Virendra Singh, the army’s assistant public re-lations officer, told IANS.

Indian military officials ear-lier said that pilot error forced the chopper to stray across the Line of Control (LoC) that di-vides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The helicopter carried two pilots, a junior com-

missioned officer and an engi-neer officer. It had taken off from Leh in Jammu and Kashmir’s Ladakh region and was bound for Bhimbhat in Drass sector near Kargil, on the LoC, to bail out an Indian Army helicopter that got grounded there after a snag. An earlier account had mistakenly described the heli-copter as a Chetak. Pakistani of-ficials said the helicopter, which had taken off at around 1 p.m., was forced to land in Skardu sec-tor in Pakistani administered Kashmir for violating the coun-try’s airspace.

Skardu also lies close to the LoC. Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said in Islamabad: “The helicopter had come deep into our airspace. It was forced to land. Four Indian army officers have been tak-en into safe custody. They are

safe.” Pakistani accepted the Indian version that the viola-tion of the Pakistani airspace was an accident, caused due to volatile weather. Immedi-ately thereafter, the director general of military operations (DGMA) in New Delhi got in touch with his Pakistani coun-terpart to retrieve the chopper and its occupants. India’s for-eign ministry also contacted the Pakistani government. “It is understood that an army Cheetah helicopter flying from Leh to Bhimbet with four offi-cers on board strayed across the Line of Control due to in-clement weather and landed in PoK (Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir),” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vish-nu Prakash said here. He said India’s high commission in Islamabad had been in touch with the Pakistani side.

Indian chopper strays into Pak, returns safety

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Berlin, OctOBer 23 (AP): Scientists were trying to establish how and where a defunct German research satellite returned to the Earth on Sunday, after warn-ing that some parts might survive re-entry and crash at up to 280 mph (450 kph).

There was no immediate solid evidence to determine above which continent or country the ROSAT scientif-ic research satellite entered the atmosphere, said An-dreas Schuetz, spokesman for the German Aerospace Centre. Most parts of the minivan-sized satellite were expected to burn up, but up to 30 fragments weighing a total of 1.87 tons (1.7 metric tons) could crash.

Scientists were no lon-ger able to communicate with the dead satellite and it must have traveled about

12,500 miles (20,000 kilo-meters) in the final 30 min-utes before entering the atmosphere, Schuetz said. Experts were waiting for "observations from around the world," he added.

Scientists said hours be-fore the re-entry into the at-mosphere that the satellite was not expected to hit over Europe, Africa or Australia. According to a precalculat-ed path it could have been above Asia, possibly China, at the time of its re-entry, but Schuetz said he could not confirm that.

The 2.69-ton (2.4 met-ric ton) scientific ROSAT satellite was launched in 1990 and retired in 1999 af-ter being used for research on black holes and neu-tron stars and perform-ing the first all-sky survey of X-ray sources with an

MOGADiSHU, OctO-Ber 23 (reUterS): Ke-nyan and Somali govern-ment troops edged closer on Sunday to a town in southern Somalia where al Qaeda-inspired rebels have grouped, hoping to strike a quick blow against them.

The al Shabaab rebels, blamed by Nairobi for sev-eral kidnappings of foreign-ers on Kenyan soil, pose a significant security threat to the Horn of Africa region and Nairobi launched an air-and-ground offensive against them a week ago. The rebels have reinforced their defens-es in the town of Afmadow, a strategic transit point for goods trafficked illegally through the rebel-controlled Kismayu port, al Shabaab's nerve center for operations.

Somalia's Western-backed troops say the aim of the operation is to rid Kis-mayu of the militants, which if achieved, would wipe out

on Friday and heading to-ward the border.

Kenya says it has not encountered any resis-tance from the rebels and that the militants are on the run and getting weak-er, but any attempt to take Afmadow, where the reb-els have massed and dug trenches, could result in a significant ground battle.

US WARNS OF IMMINENT THREAT

Kenya is the latest of So-malia's neighbors to inter-vene militarily in a country that has not had an effective government for the last 20 years. The militants have vowed to bring the "flames of war" into Kenya if Nai-robi refuses to withdraw its troops. The threat of repri-sal prompted the U.S. em-bassy in Kenya to warn its citizens of a possible "immi-nent threat" in the country, with attacks possibly tar-

geting prominent Kenyan facilities and places where foreigners tend to gather like malls and night clubs.

Kenyan police in-creased patrols on the country's northern border with Somalia, to prevent al Shabaab rebels from escap-ing into the East African country. "More patrol bas-es have been set up at Kol-bio, Hulugho in Garissa and Amuma in Wajir. The de-ployment of ... regular and administration police have been strengthened, the number of officers has been reinforced," a police officer from Garissa told Reuters.

Kenya, East Africa's biggest economy, has won wide support from neigh-boring countries for its op-eration which it launched on Sunday after four West-ern women were kidnapped and whisked into Somalia, putting the country's tour-ism industry at risk.

their base for logistics and recruitment. "We have so far captured Qoqani, just 120 km (75 miles) west of Kis-mayu, where we are heading to," said General Yusuf Hus-sen Dhumal, commander of Somali government troops near Afmadow. "Our troops

in Taabto and Hayo have also moved near Afmadow and are just 7 km away. We wish in the coming two days to reach Af-madow ... Kenyan convoys are also with us," he told Reuters.

On Saturday, the Kenyan military said it had moved be-yond Oddo and had launched

an air strike on Munarani, 10 km away from Oddo, hitting an al Shabaab command cen-ter. Residents said convoys of armored vehicles and trucks carrying weaponry, food supplies and tents were seen leaving four military camps in Isiolo in northern Kenya

cArAcAS, OctOBer 23 (AP): Venezuelan Presi-dent Hugo Chavez is in opti-mal health after undergoing cancer treatment, doctors on his medical team said Saturday. The Venezuelan doctors spoke out to dis-pute a surgeon's remarks about Chavez's condition. Dr. Salvador Navarrete was quoted as saying in a recent interview with a Mexican magazine that he believed the president's prognosis "is not good" and that the life expectancy in such cases can be as little as two years.

Dr. Fidel Ramirez, one of Chavez's doctors, read a statement at a televised news conference Saturday saying Chavez had never been a patient of Navarrete. The doctors questioned the surgeon's ethics, saying he is wrong and doesn't have access to Chavez's medical information. Ramirez said Chavez's health is "abso-lutely satisfactory, with an excellent prognosis." Dr. Ra-fael Vargas, another Chavez doctor, said Navarrete's only contact with the president came in 2002 when he was part of a group of doctors who had an "informal con-versation" with the presi-dent. He called Navarrete's comments irresponsible.

Navarrete didn't re-spond to requests this week to elaborate on his com-ments in the interview, and wasn't available at his medi-

cal offices in recent days. In a letter attributed to Navarre-te and published Friday in the opposition newspaper Tal Cual, the surgeon said he had left Venezuela with his family after his remarks were published. He wrote that he met with the chief of the government's national intelligence agency before abruptly deciding to leave.

Navarrete defended his decision to speak out about Chavez's health, but said some of his comments were being misinterpreted. He said his "analysis of the president's current condition is based on the official information that in some cases has been provided by the president." Chavez underwent surgery in

Cuba in June to remove a can-cerous tumor from his pelvic region. From July to Septem-ber, he received four rounds of chemotherapy, both in Cuba and in Venezuela, and he said on Thursday that tests show he is cancer-free.

The 57-year-old leader has not said where the tumor was located or revealed the type of cancer with which he was diagnosed. He has said he expects to undergo regu-lar exams to make sure the illness does not reappear. Ramirez, who is a brother of Chavez's close confidant and oil minister, Rafael Ramirez, declined to answer questions about the type of cancer or where the tumor was located.

"I think the wishes of the patient must be respected," Ramirez said at the news con-ference. "The president has a cancer that was located in the pelvic region. It was treated successfully and in time, and I think that's sufficient for everyone." "He's in perfect health," the doctor added. It was the first time Chavez's doctors have publicly made such remarks about his condi-tion. His medical team previ-ously remained largely in the background and let the presi-dent provide his own health updates. Chavez has said his medical team includes both Venezuelan and Cuban doc-tors, and he credits ally and mentor Fidel Castro with en-suring that he received proper and quick treatment in Cuba.

SAn FrAnciScO, Oc-tOBer 22 (AP): As the highly-anticipated biogra-phy of late Apple co-found-er Steve Jobs readies to hit the shelves on Monday, new details have emerged on the man's hitherto-unknown personal life. In a explosive revelation of sorts, Jobs was reportedly approached by former US President Bill Clinton seeking advice on handling the Monica Le-winsky scandal in 1998.

"Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson, to be published Monday, says Jobs in a late night telephonic conversa-tion had advised Clinton after the latter's affair with Lewinsky became public.

"I don't know if you did it, but if so, you've got to tell the country", Jobs told Clinton. The biographer then says that there was "si-lence on the other end of the line" after the former Apple boss advised Clinton.

The biography also delves into Jobs' fatal tryst with cancer and his regrets about delaying his surgery for nine-long months. Jobs learnt in October 2003 that he had a neuroendocrine tumour - a relatively rare type of pancreatic cancer that normally grows more slowly and is therefore more treatable.

Instead, he tried a vegan diet, acupuncture, herbal remedies and other treatments he found on-line, and even consulted a psychic. He also was in-fluenced by a doctor who ran a clinic that advised juice fasts, bowel cleans-ings and other unproven

tUniS, OctOBer 23 (reUterS): Tunisian vot-ers poured into a polling sta-tions to vote on Sunday in their country's first free elec-tion, 10 months after a vege-table seller set fire to himself in an act of protest that start-ed the Arab Spring uprisings.

The leader of an Islamist party predicted to win the biggest share of the vote was heckled outside a polling station by people shouting "terrorist" -- highlighting tensions between Islamists and secularists that are also being felt in other countries touched by the Arab Spring.

Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation, prompt-ed by his despair at poverty and government repres-sion, provoked mass pro-tests which forced Presi-dent Zine al-Abidine to flee Tunisia. This in turn inspired revolts in Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.

Rachid Ghannouchi, leader of the moderately Islamist Ennahda party, took his place in the queue outside a polling station in the El Menzah 6 district of the capital. "This is an historic day," he said, ac-companied by his wife and daughter, who were both wearing hijabs, or Islam-ic headscarves. "Tunisia was born today. The Arab Spring was born today." But as he emerged from the polling station, about a dozen people shouted at him: "Degage" French for "Go away" and "You are a terrorist and an assassin! Go back to London!"

Ghannouchi, who spent 22 years in exile in Britain, has associated his party with the moderate Islamism of Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan. He has said he will not try to impose Muslim values on society.

But the party's rise is wor-rying Tunisia's secularists who believe their country's liberal, modernist traditions are now under threat.

Across Tunisia, queues stretching hundreds of me-ters (yards) formed outside polling stations from early in the morning. This level of voter interest was never seen during Ben Ali's rule, when only a trickle of peo-ple turned out for elections because they knew the re-sult was pre-determined. "This is the first time I have voted," said Karima Ben Salem, 45, at a polling sta-tion in the Lafayette area of central Tunis. "I've asked the boys to make their own

lunch. I don't care ... Today I am not on duty. Or rather, I am on duty for my coun-try," she said.

Sunday's vote is for an assembly that will draft a new constitution to replace the one Ben Ali manipulat-ed to entrench his power. It will also appoint an interim government and set elec-tions for a new president and parliament. Most fore-casts are that Ennahda will not have enough seats for a majority in the assembly, forcing it to seek a coali-tion which will dilute the Islamist influence.

The Progressive Dem-ocratic Party (PDP), which is leading the challenge to

Ennahda dominance, has campaigned on a platform of protecting Tunisia's secular values.

Najib Chebbi, a former anti-Ben Ali dissident and PDP leader, stood in the queue outside a polling sta-tion in the Al Marsa district, chatting to other voters. "I will wait my turn, even if it takes all day. That is de-mocracy," he told Reuters. "This is Tunisia's happiest day. It is a celebration for democracy. Today Tunisia has joined the ranks of the advanced countries. "It is very moving to see all these people who are waiting their turn to vote," he said.

Ennahda has been at

pains to assuage the con-cerns of secularists and Western powers, fielding several women candidates including one who does not wear the hijab and promis-ing not to undermine wom-en's freedoms.

But fundamentalist Salafist Islamists have at-tacked a cinema and a TV station in recent months over artistic material deemed blasphemous. En-nahda says they have noth-ing to do with them, but lib-erals do not believe them.

Observers says Ennah-da's long-term intentions are not clear. Its election campaign has avoided of-fering policy details that

mark it out as much differ-ent from its rivals.

At a final election rally on Friday, Suad Abdel-Ra-him, the female candidate who does not wear a veil, said Ennahda would pro-tect women's equality.

But illustrating the par-ty's contradictions, many books on sale on the fringes of the rally were by Salafist writers who believe women should be segregated from men in public and that elec-tions are un-Islamic.

An Ennahda victory would be the first such suc-cess in the Arab world since Hamas won a 2006 Pales-tinian vote. Islamists won a 1991 election in Algeria, Tunisia's neighbor. The army annulled the result, provoking years of con-flict. Ennahda's fortunes could have a bearing on Egyptian elections set for next month in which the Muslim Brotherhood, an ideological ally, also hopes to emerge strongest.

Libya hopes to hold elections next year after a protest movement that transformed into an armed rebellion managed, with NATO backing, to oust Muammar Gaddafi. Unre-solved violent conflict con-tinues in Syria and Yemen, and many other govern-ments have begun reforms to avoid civil unrest.

With so much at stake in Tunisia, there are concerns that even the smallest doubt over the legitimacy of the vote could bring supporters of ri-val parties onto the streets.

The government says 40,000 police and soldiers are being deployed to prevent any protests escalating into violence. Shopkeepers say people have been stockpiling milk and bottled water in case unrest disrupts supplies.

Kenya, Somali troops close in on key rebel town

Tunisia votes in first free elections

imaging telescope. The largest single fragment of ROSAT that could hit into the earth is the telescope's heat-resistant mirror.

During its mission, the satellite orbited about 370 miles (600 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, but since its decommis-sioning it has lost altitude, circling at a distance of only 205 miles (330 kilometres) above ground in June for example, the agency said.

Even in the last days, the satellite still circled the planet every 90 minutes, making it hard to predict where on Earth it would eventually come down.

A dead NASA satel-lite fell into the southern Pacific Ocean last month, causing no damage, despite fears it would hit a populat-ed area and cause damage or kill people. Experts be-lieve about two dozen met-al pieces from the bus-sized satellite fell over a 500-mile (800-kilometre) span.

The German space agency puts the odds of somebody somewhere on Earth being hurt by its sat-ellite at one in 2,000 - a slightly higher level of risk than was calculated for the NASA satellite. But any one individual's odds of being struck are one in 14 trillion, given there are 7 billion people on the planet.

Jobs advised Clinton on Monica Lewinsky scandal, says biography

approaches, the book says, before finally having sur-gery in July 2004.

Isaacson, quoting Jobs, writes in the book: "'I really didn't want them to open up my body, so I tried to see if a few other things would work,' he told me years later with a hint of regret."

Jobs died on October 5, at age 56, after a battle with cancer.

The biography also says Jobs came up with the com-pany's name while he was on a diet of fruits and veg-etables, and as a teenager perfected staring at people without blinking.

The book was originally called "iSteve" and sched-uled to come out in March. The release date was moved up to November, then, after Jobs' death, to Monday. It is published by Simon & Schus-ter and will sell for $35.

Kenyan military patrol near Liboi at the border with Somalia in Kenya. Kenya said its launch of military operations into southern Somalia against al-Shabaab militants was in response to the kidnappings of four Europeans over the last six weeks, though military analysts suspect that Kenya had prepared the invasion before the abductions. (AP Photo)

Monica Lewinsky

‘Chavez is in optimal health’

In this photo released by Mi-raflores Press Office, Ven-ezuela’s President Hugo Chavez speaks before fly-ing to Cuba from Simon Bolivar international airport in Maiquetia, near Caracas, Venezuela on Sunday Octo-ber 16, 2011. (AP Photo)

German satellite ROSAT hits Earth

In this undated artist rendering provided by EADS As-trium the scientific satellite ROSAT is seen. (AP Photo)

iSlAMABAD, OctOBer 23 (Pti): After being criti-cal of Pakistan over its links with Taliban militants, Af-ghan President Hamid Kar-zai has now said his country would stand by Islamabad in the event of hostilities with any nation, including the United States or India. "God forbid, if at any time there is a war between Pakistan and America, then we will be with Pakistan," Karzai said in an interview with Pakistan's Geo News, excerpts of which were aired by the channel.

Asked specifically if Af-ghanistan would back Paki-stan if it was attacked by India, Karzai replied: "Anybody that attacks Pakistan, Afghanistan will stand with Pakistan. Af-ghanistan will be a brother of Pakistan. Afghanistan will never betray a brother".

Karzai's comments came against the backdrop of increased tensions be-tween Pakistan and the US on the issue of tackling ter-rorist groups like the Haqqa-ni network, which use bases in Pakistan's tribal belt to carry out attacks on US and allied forces in Afghanistan.

Secretary of State Hill-ary Clinton yesterday said the US did not intend to act unilaterally against groups like the Haqqani network but called on Pakistan to act within "days and weeks" to "squeeze" the Taliban fac-

tion. When Karzai was asked what he would do if there was a war between Pakistan and India, he replied: "If Pakistan is attacked by anyone, and if the people of Pakistan need Afghanistan's help, Afghani-stan will be there with you".

Kazrai had been criti-cal of Pakistan's role after the assassination of former president and peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani. The Afghan President even said that the Taliban will not be able to move a finger with-out Pakistani support.

However, Karzai turned soft on Pakistan during the interview, calling it a "broth-er". "Afghanistan is a brother. (Despite) all that the Paki-stani establishment has done to Afghanistan, Afghanistan is still a brother," he added. At the same time, Karzai sought to address Pakistan's concerns about the strate-gic partnership agreement signed recently by Afghani-stan and India, saying the two countries had been working on the pact for years.

"Now, our relation with India, our signing of the stra-tegic partnership with India, it did not happen at the spur of the moment. This is some-thing that we have been work-ing on for years now," Karzai said. "But the visit (to India) was not after these troubles that took place. It was planned long, long before," he added.

‘Will stand by Pakistan if it is attacked by U.S. or India’

HAKKAri, tUrKey, Oc-tOBer 23 (reUterS): A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 shook southeastern Turkey on Sunday, Turkey’s Kandilli Observatory said, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, accord-ing to a local mayor.

State-run media reported 50 people had been injured, while the prime minister’s office said the earthquake had caused a loss of life and damage. No figures were available on the death toll. “A lot of buildings collapsed, many people killed, but we don’t know the number. We are waiting for emergency help, its very urgent,” Zulfu-kar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis district, which was hit badly, told the news broad-caster NTV. “We need tents urgently and rescue teams. We don’t have any ambu-lances, and we only have one

hospital. We have many killed and injured,” he said.

Emergency teams were trying to rescue people be-lieved to be trapped in a building in Van, near the Ira-nian border, state-run news agency Anatolian said. It said 50 injured people had been taken to hospital in Van, but did not give details on how serious their injuries were. The Kandilli Observatory said the earthquake struck at 1041 GMT and was 5 km (3 miles) deep. The U.S. Geolog-ical Survey earlier reported that the magnitude was 7.6.

Television pictures showed damaged buildings and vehicles, crushed under falling masonry, and pan-icked residents wandering in the streets. Turkish media said phone lines and electric-ity had been cut off. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was heading to Van to see the damage, media reported.

Earthquake hits southeastern Turkey with many reported dead

An unidentified Tunisian woman shows ink on her finger after voting in the al-Aouina suburb north of Tunis. (AP Photo)

The Morung ExpressSPORTSMonday24 October 201110 Dimapur

All Blacks are Rugby World Champs

New Zealand All Blacks captain Richie McCaw holds up the Webb Ellis trophy as teammates celebrate after their Rugby World Cup final win over France in Auckland, New Zealand, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo)

AUCKLAND, OCtOber 23 (AP): New Zealand sur-vived the last of an uncan-ny spate of flyhalf injuries to close a cavernous gap in its rugby history, beat-ing France 8-7 in a grip-ping Rugby World Cup final Sunday to become the third team to win the title twice. Despite being the peren-nial favorite, New Zealand hadn't won the World Cup since hosting the inaugu-ral tournament in 1987. Two of the biggest losses in knockout matches in the in-tervening 24 years were to France. This time, the All Blacks held on.

"Marvelous. I'm so proud to be a New Zealand-er," All Blacks coach Gra-ham Henry said. "It's some-thing we've dreamed of for a while. We can rest in peace." The French had been writ-ten off after a scrappy tour-nament to date, but had another big match in them. "It's a real pity. I am really proud of my boys and what they did in the World Cup," France captain Thierry Dusautoir said. "We read a lot of (criticism) this week but I thought we showed we know how to play rugby."

All Blacks No. 10 Aaron Cruden limped from the field with a knee injury af-ter 33 minutes, joining pre-decessors Dan Carter and

Colin Slade as casualties of the tournament and leav-ing New Zealand's fourth-choice flyhalf, the often vilified Stephen Donald, to sustain its World Cup hopes. France also lost its starting flyhalf, the adapt-ed scrumhalf Morgan Par-ra, after only 22 minutes in a match of grim physical attrition and his replace-ment, Francois Trinh-Duc played both the hero and villain as a tense final un-folded.

Donald's internation-al career seemed to have ended when he was held responsible for New Zea-land's narrow loss to Aus-tralia in Hong Kong last year and he was about to join English club Bath when the All Blacks' flyhalf stocks dropped so low he was re-called. He took over the goalkicking in the second half and landed a penalty that gave New Zealand an 8-0 lead after it had led 5-0 at halftime. It was critical as New Zealand was left with a one-point margin when France hit back with a 47th minute try, then placed New Zealand under with-ering pressure throughout the second half.

Trinh-Duc had been discarded by coach Marc Lievremont as France's first-choice flyhalf in favor

of Parra, whose experience in the position was mini-mal. By a twist, Trinh-Duc came on in the final in the position he seemed predes-tined to play and became one of its most conspicu-ous figures as the ball fol-lowed him with an almost

magnetic attraction. He twice ghosted through the All Blacks backline, on the second occasion setting in motion the move that led to a try to Dusautoir. He also missed a 64th-minute pen-alty which might have given France its first lead in a bit-

terly hard-fought match.France, led magnifi-

cently by Dusautoir, placed the All Blacks under grind-ing pressure throughout the second half but some-how, through the merits of its defense rather than its vaunted attack, New

Zealand endured. And so, 24 years, four months and three days after New Zea-land's David Kirk became the first winning captain to receive the Webb Ellis Cup, Richie McCaw displayed the trophy to a crowd of 61,000 at the scene of that

first victory, Eden Park.In McCaw's 103rd test

— his 66th as captain — and in Graham Henry's 103rd test as coach, New Zealand finally broke one of world sport's most confound-ing jinxes, a long history of World Cup favoritism and failure which strained the nerves and the patience of a nation. "No-one can ever take this away from this group. I think the whole country should be proud of every single one of them," McCaw said. "I'm just so proud of every single one of the guys. We couldn't have been under any more pres-sure. "Everyone dug as deep as they can."

McCaw led his players heroically, as the first play-er to reach breakdowns, as a determined tackler and as a frequent ball-carrier. When he dragged himself from the ground to play on in the 76th minute, bruised and bone-weary after help-ing New Zealand repel 15 phases of massed French attacks, the crowd cheered him to the echo. After sur-viving everything France could throw at them, a pen-alty in the 79th minute al-lowed the All Blacks to es-cape from its own territory and preserve its tiny lead.

The second half re-versed the first in which

New Zealand had France under pressure. That led in the 15th minute to a try from a lineout to looseh-ead prop Tony Woodcock and although scrumhalf Piri Weepu sprayed three early kicks at goal, New Zealand built a measurable ascendancy, reflected only in a 5-0 lead at halftime. Donald made the lead 8-0 with his 45th-minute pen-alty but France plunged the stadium into silence two minutes later with Dusau-toir's try. Weepu kicked the ball into the hands of Trinh-Duc who made a big incision into their territory. Scrumhalf Dimitri Yachvili slipped in taking his infield pass but France moved the ball to the left touchline, then back to midfield where Dusautoir slid over near the posts. Trinh-Duc added the conversion which cut New Zealand's lead to a point.

Somehow, with its back to the wall in the second half of the match, New Zealand survived. Af-ter winning the World Cup at its first attempt in 1987, going through that tour-nament unbeaten as it did again this year, New Zea-land was beaten in the fi-nal in 1995, the semifinals in 1991, 1999 and 2003 and in the quarterfinals — by France — in 2007.

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25.10.11(Tue) (C) Dimapur CC VS Victoria CC (F) Dominant CC VS Lomithi CC26.10.11(Wed) (E) Sovima CC VS Scarlet CC (B) Flamingo CC VS N. Market

CC27.10.11(Thru) Winner of A Vs Winner Of B Winner of A Vs Welstar CC (G)28.10.11(Fri) Winner of C VS Winner of D Winner of F Vs Sparks CC (H)SEMI FINAL29.10.11 Winner of-(A VS B) & (F Vs H) Winner of- (E VS G) & (C VS D)30.10.11 FINAL

12TH NSF MAR-TYRS MEMORIAL

TROPHY 2011OCTOBER 24 MATCH

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Barcelona held by SevillaMADrID, OCtOber 23 (reUters): Cristiano Ronaldo fired Real Madrid top of La Liga with a superb 14-minute hat-trick in a 4-0 win at Malaga as Barcelona were held 0-0 in a stormy encounter at home to Se-villa on Saturday. Gonzalo Higuain opened the scor-ing against Malaga and Ronaldo, the world's most expensive player, rattled in three more before the break to take Real's goal tally to 25 from their last six games in all competitions.

Barcelona were denied by an inspired performance from goalkeeper Javi Varas who crowned his display with a stoppage-time pen-alty save from Lionel Messi as his side finished with nine men at the Nou Camp. Real climbed to 19 points from eight games, one ahead of Barca. Unbeaten Sevilla are fourth with 16 points and big-spending Malaga are sixth with 13.

"Our first half was fantas-tic and that's where we won the game," Ronaldo told re-porters. "I haven't taken the match ball because I don't have space for them all," he added, after his third three-goal haul this season. Sport-ing Gijon logged their first win of the season with a 2-0 home victory over promoted Granada, first-half goals from David Barral and Andre Cas-tro dragging them off the foot of the standings and easing the pressure on coach Man-uel Preciado. The Asturians pushed north-coast rivals Racing Santander down to

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20th on goal difference after Hector Cuper's winless side suffered a 1-0 home defeat to Espanyol. Both Malaga and Real had penalty appeals waved away in a pulsating start at the Rosaleda, but the hosts were unable to stay the pace as Jose Mourinho's side ripped into them. Higuain rounded the keeper to score after a clever pass behind the defence from his Argentina team mate Angel Di Maria. Di Maria also laid on the second, his dipping cross from the right being side-footed home by Ronaldo and the knockout

blow came when Malaga's de-fence parted for Ronaldo to fire in from outside the area just five minutes later.

T h e P o r t u g u e s e wrapped up his hat-trick with a back-heel volley af-ter a corner was headed back into the danger area in the 37th minute. Malaga restored some pride with a battling second-half display, twice hitting the woodwork, but the damage had been done. Sevilla keeper Varas pulled off a string of im-pressive saves against Barca and when he was eventu-

ally beaten in the second half Andres Iniesta's lob bounced on the crossbar.

Iniesta was brought down for a disputed pen-alty at the end and Sevilla striker Frederic Kanoute was sent off, after first kick-ing the ball off the penalty spot, and then tussling with Cesc Fabregas as the visitors disputed the decision. Varas saved Messi's spot kick and Sevilla defender Fernando Navarro was also sent off in the tense last seconds as he brought down Pedro on the edge of the area.

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo from Portugal, reacts after scoring a goal against Malaga during his Spanish La Liga soccer match at Rosaleda stadium in Malaga, Spain on Oct. 22. (AP Photo)

LIVerPOOL, OCtOber 23 (AFP): A marvellous last-gasp save from John Ruddy helped Norwich earn a battling 1-1 draw at Liverpool as the Mersey-siders lost ground in the race for a top four spot Sat-urday. Ruddy parried away a well-struck Luis Suarez volley in the fourth min-ute of injury time to deny Liverpool victory after the Canaries had fought back to level through Grant Holt following Craig Bellamy's opener.

Norwich also had a lucky escape late on when Liverpool's £35 million striker Andy Carroll head-ed wide as Kenny Dalglish's side pressed for a winner. "We (goalkeepers) don't get much to cheer about but when you make a save like that at the end the buzz is massive. It's like scoring a goal," Ruddy said. "I was pleased to make the save because I was at fault from a cross just before so thank god for that.

"We were terrific in the second half. We were a dif-ferent animal and showed what we are about. We don't fear anybody." Liv-erpool are still looking for a first home clean sheet of

the season and have drawn three of their five home matches. Even more dis-appointing for Dalglish was the fact that his team had enough chances in the opening quarter to secure a comfortable victory.

The hosts were domi-nant from the start and could have taken the lead with just a minute gone, when Charlie Adam's cor-ner was headed on to the bar by Martin Skrtel. Su-arez's header from the Ste-ven Gerrard corner that followed was also blocked by a crowd of Norwich de-fenders. But the Uruguay-an went even closer shortly after, when he controlled Jose Enrique's throw and span past Leon Barnett be-fore shooting into the side-netting.

Liverpool opened the visitors up once again when Bellamy sped past Kyle Naughton and sent over a cross that was head-ed on to the post by Suarez before Stewart Downing missed with the follow up. Norwich came through that early spell of pressure and threatened for the first time when Steve Morison headed through for Wes Hoolahan and the Irish-

man shot straight at Pepe Reina. But Suarez passed up another opportunity when he hit a shot on the turn just past the post from Glen Johnson's cross.

Reina had to be alert to hold Morison's pow-erful header from David Fox's corner and the Span-ish goalkeeper also denied Elliott Bennett after Jose Enrique had given the ball away. Suarez should have opened the scoring but could only head straight at Ruddy after rising above Barnett to meet Downing's looping cross before Bel-lamy missed with a hopeful effort. But Liverpool took the lead with a quick break-away just before the inter-val. Martin blocked Suarez but Bellamy pounced on the loose ball and broke into the area before hitting his shot which deflected off Marc Tierney and past Ruddy.

Just after the restart, Anthony Pilkington had a low effort blocked by Reina as Norwich pressed forward. But after Kuyt glanced a header wide from Downing's cross, Suarez, who beat Barnett once again on the edge of the box, had a low effort deflected on to the post by Martin.

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Liverpool's Charlie Adam, center, reacts with teammates after conceding a goal against Norwich City during their English Premier League soccer match at Anfield, Liverpool, England, Saturday Oct. 22, 2011. (AP Photo)

Waqar resigned due to fallout with Butt: ReportLAHOre, OCtOber 23 (PtI): Poor health may not be the reason for Waqar Younis stepping down as Pakistan's coach as specula-tion is rife that his exit was the result of a fallout with former PCB chairman Ijaz Butt. Although the former Test captain said he was resigning for personal and health reasons, there are now media reports emerg-ing that perhaps Waqar might have also rubbed Butt the wrong way.

Media reports claim that Waqar decided to re-sign after being snubbed by Butt over the issue of the role of the coach in selec-tion matters. "The rumours are that Waqar wanted the board to give a clear cut pol-icy on the role of the coach in selection matters and he obviously wanted more say in such matters. At one point he told some board of-ficials who were close to the outgoing chairman that if he (Waqar) didn't get pow-ers he would rather resign as coach," a report said.

NeW DeLHI, OCtOber 23 (AgeNICes): Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina both played a clinical innings to guide India to a thump-ing win over England in the fourth ODI at the Wankhede stadium in Mumbai. Suresh Raina fell to Steven Finn af-ter playing a fiery innings of 80, but skipper Dhoni joined Kohli in the middle to finish off things. Virat Kohli and Suresh Raina scored a half century each to power In-dia's run chase against Eng-land when the hosts lost ear-ly wickets. Ajinkya Rahane failed to carry on the good form from the last match and got out early at his home ground on Sunday.

It was speedster Steven Finn who put India on the backfoot early as he got rid of Parthiv Patel and Gau-tam Gambhir in quick suc-cession. Opener Parthiv Patel was all over the place playing a ball from Finn and in the process got clean bowled. Next to fol-low was left-hander Gau-tam Gambhir, who got out in a similar fashion. Ear-lier, spinners Ravichan-dran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja shared five wickets as India dismissed England

India thrash England by 6 wickets in fourth ODIfor 220 in 46.1 overs in the fourth one-day interna-tional. Off-spinner Ash-win took 3-38 and left-arm spinner Jadeja 2-41 as the England batsmen failed to get big individual scores af-ter the tourists elected to bat. Ashwin struck at regu-lar intervals and took the wickets of captain Alastair Cook, a well settled Kevin Pietersen and Samit Pa-tel while Jadeja dismissed Ravi Bopara and Jonny Bairstow in consecutive overs. Pace bowler Varun Aaron then helped remove the lower order with 3-24, despite Tim Bresnan pro-ducing a determined knock of 45 that rescued England from a precarious 145-6 in the 32nd over.

Bresnan struck six fours in his run-a-ball innings be-fore he was the last man out, bowled by a delivery from Aaron that pitched on the leg stump but moved away to clip the off stump.

Earlier, Pietersen (41) and Jonathan Trott (39) shared a 73-run third-wick-et partnership to revive the innings after England start-ed well but lost openers Cook and Craig Kieswetter off successive deliveries.

India's batsmen Suresh Raina, left, and Virat Kohli greet each other on both scoring half centuries during their fourth one-day international cricket match against England in Mumbai, India, Sunday, Oct. 23. (AP Photo)

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The skeletons of a pair of lov-ers buried holding hands in a final embrace has been un-earthed by workers renovat-

ing a palace in Italy. The pair are be-lieved to have been buried together 1,500 years ago in a joint tomb inside the palace walls in Modena, indicating some sort of nobility towards the dy-ing days of the Roman empire.

Observers say the woman seems to be looking lovingly at what scien-tists believe is her partner. 'It is a very touching scene and very rare,' said one.

The discovery was made during construction work. It is believed the pair were buried at the same time be-tween the 5th and 6th Century A.D. Archeologist Donato Labate, the di-rector of the excavation, told Discov-ery News: 'We believe that they were originally buried with their faces star-ing into each other. The position of the man's vertebrae suggests that his head rolled after death. The two couples are separated in time by five millennia, and both evoke an uplifting tenderness. I have been involved in many digs, but I've never felt so moved.'

The archeological dig revealed

L imitless devotion to Lopez! Bradley Cooper pulled out all the stops to woo Jennifer Lo-pez, sources reveal in the new

Us Weekly.After a talked-about, candlelit din-

ner date at NYC's chi-chi eatery Per Se Sept. 10, the 36-year-old Limitless ac-tor stepped up his seduction game again -- this time with a secret flight to Boca Raton, Florida. Cooper checked into the posh Boca Beach Club resort where Lopez, 42, was staying with 3-year-old twins Emme and Max as she shot the 2012 thriller Parker. "They checked in one day apart," a source says of the posh Boca Beach Club. Ever since she and Marc Anthony ended their seven-year marriage in July, the singer, actress, American Idol judge and designer "has been trying to concentrate on her kids and work," a friend explains. "But Brad-ley has been especially eager."

Cooper, who split with Renee Zell-weger after two years together in March, "has been after Jennifer, calling her, for ages," the friend says. And Lopez, at last, has decided to "let him in." Adds another source: "She likes the thrill and the fact that Bradley has been pursuing her."

Maybe, maybe not, but Lindsay Swagerty met a chivalrous

Prince Harry -- wearing only his skivvies! -- by the pool at the Ivy Rooftop at the Andaz hotel Oct. 7.

The American office assis-tant says that she got thrown, fully clothed, into the pool, and the single prince, 27, came to her rescue. Having an impromptu swim in the pool with pals, Harry imme-diately came to sopping-wet

Swagerty's aid. "He came over to wrap his towel around me," she explains. The duo spent more time together the next night at the Ivy as well, she says. "He has a very charming personality," Swagerty said. "It was so fun!"

Prince Willam's mischie-vous, single little brother has been partying on Ameri-can turf in between intense Apache helicopter training at California's El Centrol Na-val Air Facility. But any young

women who cross the red-head royal's path should be-ware. "Harry likes a laugh and a flirt," one close source says. "He loves female attention, but it's all for the moment."

One lesser-known fact about Harry's romantic tac-tics? "I've rarely seen him give his phone number to any girl," a source explains of the hunk, currently on the outs with longtime love Chelsy Davy. "Them giving him numbers is another matter!"

The trailer Will Smith used for "Men In Black III" was too big for New York City ... but it's become too SMALL for

the "X Factor" judge Simon Cowell ... because contestants on the show have taken it over!

Sources close to the show say... Si-mon is using the EXACT same trail-er on the set of "X Factor" that Will used back in May. Simon considers it his home away from home and he spends more time there these days than at his home.

According to sources, not only does Simon relax in it ... but he takes his meetings there and the "X Factor" crew films in it as well. The trailer is 1,200 square feet, but Simon already has his eyes on getting a BIGGER one because so many of the all the crew and passersby who've taken to hang-ing out there.

Contestants on the show have taken to hanging out in the behe-moth too -- the group Stereo Hogzz jokingly posted a pic of themselves hanging out around the trailer.

Madonna's brother is homeless

While Madonna kicks back in her newly renovated $32 mil-

lion NYC townhouse and her homes in Los Angeles and London, her second eldest brother is living under a bridge and on the streets of Michigan.

Anthony Ciccone, 55, has opened to local news site The Michigan Messenger in an interview that addresses the influx of homeless flocking to Traverse City because of its generous meal program and shelter program.

"My family turned their back on me, basically, when I was having a hard time," said Ciccone, who grew up in Roch-ester Hills, Mich. along with his six siblings including his multiplatinum music artist sister, 53. "You think I haven't answered this kind of question a bazillion times -- why my sis-ter is a multibazillionaire, and I'm homeless on the street? Never say never. This could happen to anybody."

Ciccone attributes his sta-tus to losing his job at his fa-ther's Suttons Bay winery over a year ago.

A model walk the ramp during the Lakme North East Fall Winter Fashion Festival in Di-mapur, Nagaland on Saturday, October 22. (Photo by Caisii Mao)

Together for eternity The skeletons of Roman lovers buried together holding hands

three layers of scientific interest. The couple were found on the middle layer among a total of 11 burials at a depth of about 10 feet. Archeologists believe the couple were not particularly rich due to the simple nature of the tombs they were buried in and think they

may have lived on a farm. It is thought the man's head would have been look-ing at the woman's when they were buried. But the area they were buried in was subject to several floods from the river Tiepido which may have caused the man's skull to roll away from the female.

The poorly preserved skeletons will now be studied by Giorgio Grup-pioni, an anthropologist at the Uni-versity of Bologna. He will attempt to establish the couple's age, relation-ship and cause of death.

Kristina Killgrove, a biological anthropologist at the University of North Carolina, told Discovery News that the positioning of the skeletons suggest they were a couple. She said: 'In antiquity, it is not surprising to learn of spouses or members of a fam-ily dying at the same time: whenever epidemics such as the Black Plague ravaged Europe, one member of the family would often die while the fam-ily was trying to bury another mem-ber. Whoever buried these people likely felt that communicating their relationship was just as important in death as it was in life.'

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Profile of Top 21 Contestants of Naga Orpheus Hunt 2011…

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Name: Kezevilie (13)Age: 26Location: BotsaQualification: Master of DivinityProfession: StudentMusical History: Choir Member of Botsa Baptist Church, lead vocal of “Unlimited Band”Hobbies: Singing and TalkingMost Inspiring Artist: Gothard and Divine ConnectionFavorite Genre of Music: Soft Rock

Name: Kezhocuyi Kezo (14)Age: 22Location: KohimaQualification: B.A, Patkai Christian CollegeProfession: StudentMusical History: Choir Member of Chakesang Baptist Church, Minister Hill Hobbies: Listening to music, watching movies etc. Most Inspiring Artist: Josh GrobanFavorite Genre of Music: Pop and Christian music

Name: A.Anjo (15)Age: 22Location: DimapurQualification: B.Sc 3rd yearProfession: StudentMusical History: Naga Idol Contestant 2009, regular performer in occasions and churchesHobbies: Singing, playing outdoor games and readingMost Inspiring Artist: Keith Urban, Mr. Big and Ronan KeatingFavorite Genre of Music: Soft rock, Country and Pop

Name: D.Longpang Angh (16)Age: 22Location: LonglengQualification: B.A 3rd, Yingli CollegeProfession: StudentMusical History: Lead Vocal P-Branch, the band repre-sented Longleng district in the recently concluded Rock aware ContestHobbies: Listening to music and playing VolleyballMost Inspiring Artist: David CookFavorite Genre of Music: Met-al Core and Alternative rock

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SepaNG, malaySia, OctOber 23 (aFp): Celebrated Italian rider Marco Simoncelli died on Sunday af-ter a horror crash that saw the Malay-sian MotoGP at Sepang cancelled, in the latest tragedy to hit motor sports. The smash occurred just minutes after the race began, when the mop-haired 24-year-old Honda rider lost control and veered across the track into the path of riders Colin Edwards and Simoncelli's compatriot Valen-tino Rossi. Simoncelli, who ironical-

ly enjoyed his finest hour at Sepang when he clinched the 2008 season's 250cc title here, had his helmet knocked off in the collision, which left him face down and motionless on the asphalt. He suffered "very se-rious trauma to the head, neck and the chest" and later went into cardiac arrest, MotoGP medical director Mi-chele Macchiagodena told reporters.

"Despite their (doctors') efforts, Marco sadly succumbed to his in-juries at 4:56pm local time (0856

GMT)," MotoGP said in a sombre statement. "Everybody involved in MotoGP extends its deepest condo-lences to Marco?s family, friends and team at this tragic loss." Motor sports have endured a nightmare stretch and Simoncelli's death looked cer-tain to throw up more awkward ques-tions over safety. Last weekend, 2010 MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo crashed during warm-ups in Austra-lia, severing a finger that was later surgically reattached, while two-time

Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Whel-don died in a 15-car crash in Las Vegas in Indy Car. The race at the Sepang circuit was immediately red-flagged and organisers later announced it had been cancelled. Edwards also fell and suffered a separated shoulder, a race doctor said, while Rossi rode away unscathed. The stunned other riders were not available for comment after the race. Rossi, racing for Ducati, left the track devastated at the death of his "good friend", Ducati team manager

Vittoriano Gureschi told AFP."Valentino is shocked by this in-

cident. Valentino is a strong man but this incident is a big tragedy. He has lost a good friend," he said. "Marco is a wonderful person. He is friendly with everybody. He loved this sport," Gureschi said. Sepang is a notoriously tricky circuit due to Malaysia's heat, humidity and frequent rain, but con-ditions on Sunday, although hot, were fine. Spain's Dani Pedrosa had seized pole position a day before despite tak-

ing a tumble, as did Rossi.Before the race, Sepang officials

had promised special attention on safety following the previous week-end. "It is a sad back-to-back week-end for motorsports," Sepang Circuit chairman Mokhzani Mahathir told reporters after Simoncelli's death was announced. "We try our best to avoid incidents and prepare for the worst. You see, 99 percent of the time, riders falling and walking away. Only one percent do not."

Simoncelli dies in MotoGP crash in Malaysia

(Left) FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2008 file photo, Gilera 250cc rider Marco Simoncelli of Italy celebrates after clinching the World 250cc Championship title at the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang International Circuit near Kuala Lumpur. (Center) Crash between Colin Edwards, center, Valentino Rossi from Italy, left, and Marco Simoncelli from Italy is seen at turn 11 during the Malaysian MotoGP Grand Prix in Sepang, Malaysia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. Italian rider Simoncelli died of chest, head and neck injuries Sunday after a crash at the Malaysian MotoGP motorcycle race, organizers said. He was 24. (right) Kate, right, girlfriend of MotoGP rider Marco Simoncelli of Italy, is comforted by a TV crew member at the Malaysian MotoGP Grand Prix in Sepang, Malaysia, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photos)

Solo and Stephen Khap-tong edged past CMO team represented by Dr. Robin

Mozhui and Dr. Yanren Jami in the decider to lift the coveted trophy.

OlD traFFOrD, OctO-ber 22 (pa): Controver-sial striker Mario Balotelli provided the spark as Man-chester City stormed Old Trafford to humiliate rivals Manchester United this af-ternoon. Hours after more headlines about his off-field antics following a fire at his home, Balotelli struck twice to set up a convincing win for the Barclays Pre-mier League leaders over 10-man United.

Balotelli also won the free-kick which led to a straight red card for Unit-ed defender Jonny Evans before Edin Dzeko struck twice and Sergio Aguero and David Silva added to the tally. United claimed a consolation with a fine goal from Darren Fletcher 10 minutes from time but they were ran ragged in the dy-ing moments as City struck

three times after the 88th minute. City's stunning victory not only lifted them five points clear of United and underlined their title credentials but shattered a host of statistics.

In recording only their second win at Old Trafford since 1974, City inflicted United's first home defeat since April 2010 and ended their run of 19 consecutive home league wins. It left the watching Glazers, United's owners, hoping for better luck as they flew to Wemb-ley by private helicopter to watch their other team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, in the NFL tonight. Balotelli had returned to the side after suspension in mid-week as one of six changes. United showed similar ro-tation from their Champi-ons League win over Otelul Galati with fit-again defend-

er Rio Ferdinand among those to come in while Phil Jones and Nemanja Vid-ic dropped out. It was the hosts who made the early running with Ashley Young twice testing Micah Rich-ards down the left, winning a free-kick and a corner.

United threatened

Manchester City hammer United with six of the best

Tendulkar, Zaheer unchanged in ICC Test rankingsDubai, OctOber 23 (pti): Sachin Tendulkar remained the highest placed Indian batsman at his un-changed fifth position, while injured pacer Zaheer Khan held on to his sixth spot in the bowling chart of the lat-est ICC Test rankings issued on Sunday. Rahul Dravid, unchanged at 10th, was the only other Indian batman in the top-10. Meanwhile, Ku-mar Sangakkara edged clos-er to regaining the number one position in the rankings for Test batsmen after hit-ting a match-saving double-century against Pakistan in the first Test at Abu Dhabi which concluded on Satur-day.

Sangakkara, whose 211 also earned him the man of the match award, has gained 29 ratings points for his ex-cellent effort and he is now just 31 points away from reclaiming the number-one position which is cur-rently held by South Africa's Jacques Kallis. Sangakkara, who had surged to the top of the batting table in Decem-ber 2007, had lost the cov-eted position earlier this year to Tendulkar and Kallis after the two batsmen stroked sparkling centuries in the drawn Test in Cape Town.

The biggest mover in the batting table is Taufeeq Umar, the Pakistan opener, who has gained 17 places after his epic 236 which came off 496 balls. The 30-year-old from Lahore is now in 46th position. Also heading in the right direction are Azhar Ali in 33rd (up by one place), An-gelo Mathews in 37th (up by two places), Prasanna Jayawardene in 48th (up by two places), Moham-mad Hafeez in 60th (up by six places) and Asad Shafiq in 90th (up by six places). Batsmen losing ground include Mahela Jayawar-dene, Younis Khan and Til-lakaratne Dilshan, the ICC said in a statement. In the rankings for Test bowlers, Pakistan's left-arm fast bowl-er Junaid Khan has rocketed 62 places to 66th position after claiming his maiden five-wicket haul in Sri Lan-ka's first innings. Junaid re-turned figures of 5/38 and finished the Test with match figures of 45.1-9-121-6.

again when Young bent in another free-kick but Balotelli was back to head clear. Wayne Rooney went down in the box under a challenge from Vincent Kompany but referee Mark Clattenburg saw nothing untoward. Despite their quieter start, it was City who took the lead after 22 minutes through Balotelli.

Silva fed Milner and the midfielder pulled the ball back for Balotelli to place a low, first-time shot beyond the reach of De Gea from 18 yards, finding the right corner. He marked the goal with self-deprecating humour by lifting his shirt to reveal a T-shirt saying, "Why Always Me?". Unit-ed responded but Ander-son and Rooney both shot straight at Joe Hart. United had another good chance when Rooney pulled the ball back from a Young cross but Evans badly miskicked. Kompany was booked for bringing down Danny Welbeck as United tried to launch another counter-attack but City held firm until the break.

United's problems then increased considerably as Evans was sent off within two minutes of the restart for de-nying Balotelli a goalscoring opportunity. Balotelli stayed on his feet until crossing the 18-yard line as Evans pulled back his arm but Clattenburg awarded a free-kick outside the area and then showed the defender the red card.