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Naga groups urged to demonstrate resolve RECONCILIATION PROCESS MAKES STEADY PROGRESS

People from Longsa village seen engaged in paving works on a link road from Wokha to Bokajan under the NREGS program in Wokha district, in Nagaland on October 21. (UB Photos)

Poor education & governance hampers India

MUMBAI, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): Quality of secondary education, cost of starting a business and the lack of government effectiveness have led India to rally ahead of many South Asian nations ranking at 70 position among 104 nations on the Legatum (rpt) Legatum Prosperity Index (WPI) 2008. “India has a relatively entrepreneurial culture. It requires government effectiveness and tackling corruption,” Legatum Institute Managing Director Alan McCormick told PTI.

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Increase in capital and education contribute directly to the value of physical and human capital and thus directly increase economic output. Poor governance and excessive bureaucracy impose costs on business and thus restrain growth, the report released last week said. The Institute also ranks India 10th on its ‘Who’s Going Places’ list, with China on number six. “These countries have the best context right now within which to create wealth,” McCormick said. Both the economies have recently

grown faster than almost any country in the rich world. Being the home of more than two billion people, these improvements in competitiveness have brought about a dramatic lessening of the global wealth gap, a good news for global prosperity, the report said. “India outstrips many South Asian nations in various aspects of wealth creation. It ranks stronger with reference to other Asian countries in terms of avoiding dependence on commodity exports and foreign aid,” McCormick said.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): Notwithstanding the hiccups that followed the reconciliation soccer match, the Forum for Naga Reconciliation persists. The “Naga political groups” (factions) and the Forum for Naga Reconciliation met in Dimapur on October 21. This is the fourth meeting since the “A Covenant of Common Hope” was adopted by the Naga Peace Summit III at Chiang Mai, Thailand in August. The representatives from the Naga groups expressed urgency for reconciliation, said the forum today, in a statement. They affirmed sincere commitment in contributing towards the realization of reconciliation. “While recognizing that significant progress is being made at every level of the process, the Naga political groups acknowledged the presence of ground difficulties in realizing reconciliation. After honest deliberation, the representatives expressed optimism that the ground difficulties – how difficult they may be – can be overcome if they are addressed together in the spirit of self-examination, forgiveness and mutual acceptance” the forum said. The forum said the

In this image released to the Media, representatives of the Naga political groups (“factions”) and members of the Forum for Naga Reconciliation are seen together after another round of Naga Reconciliation meeting in Dimapur today. This is the fourth meeting in Dimapur since September 9. The representatives of the “factions” today expressed their commitment to reconciliation and conveyed resolve to overcome the ground difﬁculties that stand in the way of reconciliation through forgiveness and mutual acceptance.

groups acknowledged that there have been continuing “stray incidents of violence”, and expressed “deep anguish and pain” at the loss of human life. “They however affirmed and clarified that such incidents should not be seen as a sign that they are not for Naga reconciliation” the forum said. The forum expressed deep concern over the con-

tinuation of violent incidents and use of provocative statements through the Media by the groups in concern. The reconciliation forum has pointed out that such actions and activities will only undermine the commitment and sincerity which was mutually expressed and agreed upon by the Naga political groups for reconciliation. “To strengthen the Naga

reconciliation process and to publicly demonstrate their sincerity and resolve to build a common understanding among Nagas, the FNR urged the Naga groups to take practical step-by-step measures in ensuring that no act of violence or provocation is committed till the next Naga Reconciliation meeting” the Forum for Naga Reconciliation said.

Bomb blast strikes Imphal Parties ﬁght over anti-Christian violence AT LEAST 17 KILLED AND 30 INJURED

Manipur state Chief Minister Ibobi Singh, left, visits a blast victim at a hospital in Imphal, Tuesday, October 21. (AP Photo)

IMPHAL, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): At least 17 people were killed and more than 30 others injured tonight when unidentified militants exploded a bomb attached to a two-wheeler near a police commando complex in Imphal West district. Sources said the victims included a few security personnel. While 13 people died on the spot, four more succumbed to injuries in

Ban on export of food grains DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): In order to ensure smooth transportation of essential commodities from Dimapur to various parts of the state, the state government withdraws with immediate effect, the ban on export of food grains out of Nagaland. The ban was earlier ordered on June 27, under Section 3 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and section 12 of the Nagaland Foodgrains Dealers Licensing Order, 1966. This was stated in a order issued by Lathara, Additional Chief Secretary, Food & Civil Supplies.

hospital. The death toll is likely to increase as the condition of several injured people is critical, sources said. According to the first official report, the militants raided the place where security personnel and civilians were gambling ahead of the Diwali. The injured were shifted to Regional Institute of Medical Science and Hospital and Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital.

NPCC responds to NPF Nagaland BJP criticizes Cong

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The political parties are at it again. The Congress today issued a rejoinder to the NPF’s rejoinder which was issued yesterday from the CMO as a rejoinder to an earlier statement of the Congress, over the anti-Christian violence in India. The latest missive from the opposition, this time from NPCC general secretary S. Supongmeren Jamir, said the rejoinder to the congress’ Media cell statement, by the CM’s press secretary “was found to be devoid of substance and direction”. According to the NPCC, the “crux of the issue” before the Christian community in the country today stands “on a threshold of acute threat of our existence”. But, the Congress queried, “can a government who are associated with the BJP, the parental embodiment of Bajrang Dal and VHP be construed as the savior of Christian community?” In this context, the NPCC

‘reminded’ the NPF, whether the BJP legislators are “still a conglomeration of the DAN Ministry in Nagaland?” “Further, the NPCC would like to remind, that it belittles the representative of the Government of the day to question the wisdom of the party media cell as an individual when matter of greatest concern was raised by the most responsible political party in the state and noted that personal vendetta cannot salvage the image of a tainted ministry” the NPCC stated. Over the banning of the Hindu bigots VHP and Bajrang Dal, the Congress said to have taken up the matter by the AICC, but “what logical stand have been taken by the NPF in this regard?” Terming itself to be the “embodiment of the AICC the party that rule the country today at Delhi” the Congress stated that a “fragmental regional entity questioning the vision of INC do not merit comment”. Continued on page 3

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): Following the Congress’ criticism at the stance of the NPF-led DAN over the anti-Christian violence, the Nagaland BJP also jumped the wagon to support Rio over the matter. “The genuine concern and efforts of the chief minister, Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio, on the fate of the Christians have also been clearly expressed to the central authorities and on other platforms and the initiative of the central (UPA) Government, lackadaisical though is being observed” stated the BJP in a statement appended by its vice president K. Medom Angami. From day-one of the atrocities against Christians, the BJP Nagaland unit said, the party has “never shied away from condemning” the atrocities and had demanded

justice and constitutional rights for the affected minorities. The BJP said at a juncture, ‘when thousands of Christians in the states of Orissa and Karnataka are being tormented, killed, their homes and churches destroyed and people fleeing to the jungles for cover, the people of Nagaland extending magnanimous joint efforts to help end the atrocities deserve unsullied appreciation and support’. According to the party, LK Advani, has “out rightly condemned” the atrocities and said that any religion which propagates violence has no place in the society. Taking a shot at Congress media cell chairman R. Paphino, the unit said his attempt to “vilify” the BJP “on the pretext of condemning the predicaments of hapless Christians” is with vested interest, very self-

ish and the motive is selfexplanatory”. “The country (India) is in a coalition era and Nagaland has a mandated, stable government under DAN coalition, with the BJP as an upright partner, and the BJP Nagaland shall continue to do so. The BJP representation in the DAN coalition may be small in number, with only two legislators; never the less, they represent the masses through democratic mandate” the unit explained. It is absurd and ‘sheer nonsense’, the BJP stated, to dictate the chief minister to detach or “de-link” from any of the memberpartners, be it the BJP or any other, from the coalition. “It is the sole prerogative of the coalition leaders to make their erudite decisions so far as the health of the coalition family is concerned” the BJP added.

‘Additional security will not solve problem’ Dr. Murry rectiﬁes Rat menace views

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HOME MINISTER Imkong L Imchen today claimed that deploying 5 additional companies of NAP (IR) ‘will not solve the problem of kidnappings and rampant extortion in Dimapur’. Rather, he claimed, the people should come forward to ‘inform’ such cases or incidents to the authority in concern at the earliest. He was responding to the demands of the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce in regard to the recent abductions and killings of businessmen in Dimapur, in a meeting at the conference hall of DC, Dimapur. It was attended by the ADC and SP of Dimapur, the city’s Chamber of Commerce and the business community. Imchen said that it is the duty of the state government to provide security to the ‘needy people’. However, he said the government cannot provide security to every house.

Home Minister Imkong L Imchen (centre) ﬂanked by the ADC and SP of Dimapur in the conference hall of the DC, Dimapur, on Tuesday. (Morung

While stating that people are part of the government, the Home minister said people should not hesitate to disclose information about anti-social elements but rather bring it to the notice of the authority in concern. Referring to the business community of Dimapur, he said “if we

loose you, we will lose everything.” Imchen said Dimapur should be a ‘paradise’ and not a place for killing, abduction and extortion. Terming the recent abductions and killings of businessmen as a common concern, the Home minister asserted that ‘the government is with you

and for your welfare’. However, he sought cooperation from the people. “I want to provide peace and security to the minds of everyone in the State,” he said. While condoling the death of businessman Prasanjit Dhar, he said abductions and murders are the highest condemnable crimes. Earlier, Kasheto Aye, president of the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce, highlighted the demands of the organization to the Home minister. He also informed the minister that many businessmen have shifted to other places due to security reasons. Also, Ato Yepthomi, president of the Nagaland Drugs Dealers’ Association, stressed on the need to set up police posts in vulnerable residential areas as most of the abductions are from homes. Basu Damani, general secretary of the Dimapur Chamber of Commerce, while terming the situation as very volatile, said “we are really suffering and our wife and children do not want us to go out.”

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): Minister for Agriculture Dr. Chumben Murry today issued a rectification of his statements made recently over the rodent menace in Peren district, as carried in the local dailies. “I said that the damage is colossal and that we have lost the war against them (rodents). But to construe this statement as failure on the part of the department of Agriculture or the Government will be a distortion of facts. I also said that, within the constraints of financial resource, officers of Agriculture department have done a laudable job. I can’t possibly laud the department and at the same time say that it has failed, can I?” the minister

said in his statement. On related matters, the minister said the rodent menace as being seen in Peren, is a natural phenomenon but one that is “ill understood”. The minister explained: Continued on page 5

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ENSF to begin phase 1 Nagaland observes Police Commemoration Day sit-in agitation today Our Correspondent Kohima | October 21

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THE EASTERN NAGA STUDENTS’ FEDERATION (ENSF), the apex students’ body of the six tribes – Konyak, Chang, Yimchunger, Sangtam, Phom and Khiamniungan – is all set to begin its first phase of agitation with a sit-in dharna at all the Deputy Commissioners’ offices of the four districts of Mon, Tuensang, Longleng and Kiphire tomorrow. The agitation is being staged “in view of the School Education Department’s apathy towards the ENSF’s demand,” stated the press statement issued by the Federation’s General Secretary, P Methna Konyak. The ENSF had demanded that a relaxation of 10 years be allowed to the six tribes under the Federation with regard to the implementation of the new Recruitment Policy for teachers. The new policy for recruitment to the post of teachers makes it mandatory for graduate teachers to have B.Ed degree whereas undergraduate teachers are required to possess ‘Pre-Service

Teacher’s Education’. Eastern Naga Students Federation demanded that 10 years relaxation be given to the six backwards tribes during which to equip themselves with the necessary degrees. However, with no formal response from the government, the four districts have launched the agitation. On being contacted, Principal Secretary of School Education, Banuo Jamir, stated that the Government had already discussed the matter and a Cabinet decision had been passed to allow relaxation of 3 years. It was also decided that after three years, the matter would be reviewed to decide whether relaxation should be continued. However, despite the Cabinet decision, Banuo said that “unfortunately” no official notification had been issued since it was a “conditional relaxation” and it would take time. Meanwhile, ENSF president Y Chillio said that the students had waited patiently for the government’s response for two months even after the expiry of its ultimatum on August 22, 2008. In the face

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STATE GOVERNOR and Chairman of North Eastern Zonal Cultural Centre, K Sankaranarayanan, today said that NEZCC is contributing to the development and promotion of the rich cultural diversity and traditions of the northeastern states throughout the country and that the activities of the NEZCC has helped to bring the folk dances, music, drama and songs of the region into prominence. He was addressing the various officials of NEZCC of the region during its annual meeting of executive board and governing body at the conference hall of the Police Officers’ Mess, Chumukedima, in Dimapur. Stating about the NEZCC at Dimapur, which was inaugurated by the late Rajiv Gandhi in 1987, the Chairman said the journey of the last 21 years has been truly challenging and that the Centre has taken up the onerous task of preservation, development and documentation of arts, crafts and literature with special emphasis on folklore, folk traditions and the vanishing arts of the northeast region. “It is incredible that the peo-

of the government’s silence, there was no other option left for the students but to launch the sequel of agitation starting today. After Wednesday’s sit-in dharna outside the DC’s office, the students’ body will continue its agitation with an “indefinite picketing” of the District Education Office (DEO) and Deputy Inspector of School (DIS) offices on Thursday, October 23, in all the four districts. ENSF president, Chillio, also let on that the federation was not willing to settle for the 3 years relaxation passed by the cabinet, though the decision was yet to be intimated to them and any negotiation would have to be at least 5 years relaxation. He also revealed that in the event of the government continuing to remain silent over its demand, the students would be compelled to resort to “violent measures” for the fulfilment of its demand and in this case, the government would be held responsible for it. For this reason, the federation has also issued direction to all its federating units to comply with the series of agitation effectively in their respective headquarters and jurisdictions.

Ofﬁcers laying the wreath in honour of policemen who lost their lives on duty, during the Police Commemoration Day at New Reserve Phesama, Kohima. (Morung Photo)

Since then October 21 has been observed as Police Commemoration Day all over the country to pay homage to the brave comrades who lost their lives in the service of the country. During the last 12 months in the country, as many as 685 policemen have lost their lives in the line of duty. In this glorious Roll of Honour, includes one police personnel from Nagaland. “Today, we join policemen all over the country in paying rich tributes to all the departed souls,” said DGP Nagaland. Changkija also stat-

ed that the death of any citizen due to violence is a loss to the society, more so in the case of a policeman, because the society loses not only a trained personnel but also a protector of law. However, while in the call of duty in helping to protect the lives and properties of the citizens, certain element of risk is inherent and an occasional loss of life becomes unavoidable. Stating that it is the bounden duty to remember the families and children of those who have made the sacrifice, he said, “We have to extend

all possible help so that circumstances and their struggle for existence may not break their confidence. Such a helping hand will also reassure and give added strength to the serving policemen to face the hazards and risks involved in the job with confidence.” Later, the ‘Roll of Honour’ having 685 names of gallant policemen of various ranks who have sacrificed their precious lives in the last one year was read out by Sonia Singh, SP (Crime). Laying of wreaths also marked the occasion.

‘NEZCC promoting rich culture of Northeast’ ple of the northeast have not lost their own identity, which speaks volumes for their inner strength and love for their own traditions handed down from generation to generation.” Encouraging the members of the newly constituted executive board and the governing body, Sankaranarayanan appealed that they contribute to the progress and development of the NEZCC and make notable contributions during their tenure. He also made a mention of the various activities undertaken by the outgoing members. “We need to support the Centre and ensure that the Centre is strengthened and equipped to address the challenges lying ahead for preservation and promotion of the rich cultural traditions of the region,” Sankaranarayanan said adding, “I am also convinced that the time has come to encourage the exposure of the rich culture of the people of the Northeast, especially the colourful performing folk arts and classical forms for art at the

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State Governor and Chairman of NEZCC, K Sankaranarayanan, addressing the ofﬁcials of NEZCC at its annual meeting of executive board and governing body at the conference hall of the Police Ofﬁcers’ Mess, Chumukedima, in Dimapur on Tuesday. (Morung Photo)

international platforms.” Informing that the Centre

NCSU Unit, Mon informs

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The Mon District Contractors and Suppliers Union (MDCSU) has sought to inform that the Union belongs to the Konyak community under the umbrella of the Eastern Nagaland Public Organization (ENPO), the apex body. Stating that the union was formed in 2006 as per the Contractors Registration

ALONG WITH THE rest of the country, Nagaland today observed Police Commemoration Day at a function held at New Reserve Phesama, Kohima. The day is a very momentous day in the history of police in India. It is observed all over the country to salute and honour the valiant heroes who have laid down their lives at the altar of duty. Speaking on the occasion, J Changkija, DGP Nagaland, appealed to all the police officers and men of Nagaland Police to draw inspiration from all those who have sacrificed their lives for a noble cause and “made us to be proud members of the police department.” “Let us solemnly reaffirm and rededicate ourselves to our profession, to serve our country and to serve the people of Nagaland in particular,” he said. On 21 October 1959, a small contingent of CRPF patrol party, numbering 10 personnel led by Deputy S P Karam Singh of the Intelligence Bureau, was ambushed by the Chinese aggressors at Hot Spring in Ladakh region. The 10 gallant CRPF heroes had an unequal combat with the heavily armed Chinese troops who had violated the Indian border in an area that is extremely inhospitable and at an altitude of 16000 feet, which is devoid of any habitation or vegetation. The Indian forces, though less in number, had fought the enemy and made the supreme sacrifice of laying down their lives to defend the integrity and solidarity of the country.

Act, 1966, of 4 (b), its president, W Gopang Konyak, and general secretary H Pujok Konyak stated that there will be no faction or misunderstanding with the ENPO “since the business organisations for the welfare of the public in everywhere and every walk of life,” reasoned the press release. The release further iterated that the Mon District Con-

tractors & Suppliers Union is affiliated to the Nagaland Contractors & Suppliers Union (NCSU) and stands with the NCSU head office, Kohima, under the presidentship of Pele. Therefore, the release stated, the NCSU unit in Mon was cooperating with the apex body ENPO “in every walk of life to uplift the socio-economically and educationally in general.”

receives regular grants for various schemes under the Ministry

of Culture, GoI, the Chairman said the Centre operates on a

Corpus Fund of Rs.21.90 crores and the interest earnings of the Corpus Fund has enabled the Centre to meet its establishment costs as well as other programme expenditures. “We request the State Governments of Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya to contribute the remaining balance of Rs.50.00 lakhs and Rs.60.00 lakhs respectively,” he said. Appreciating all member States for their involvement and participation, he said with little more involvement and support, we can greatly improve the implementation of programmes under various schemes. “The importance of the Zonal Cultural Centres have been taken note of by the Bhaskar Ghose Committee set up by the Government of India, and in the near future more and more programmes of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India is expected to be decentralised and delegated to the Zonal Cultural centres,” he said, concluding, “I encourage all member State Governments to become active partners in the

progress and development of the Centre and utilise the services of the Centre to work for the preservation and promotion of art and culture of the North East.” Anil Sarkar, Minister for Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism, said, “We must take some action on documentation of the heritage cultures of the North East. It is necessary to make publications on cultural activities of different North Eastern States too, giving details of various dance forms.” Sarkar, while expressing his hope, said the centre would come forward to remove imbalances and make sustainable efforts to nourish the rich heritage of the entire region. Yitachu, Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism, Art & Culture, said the NE region has been cut off from the main country for so many decades. However, he said, under the banner of NEZCC, there is bright and better prospect for northeast people. He also suggested to the Centre that the annual Hornbill Festival be made a platform where the northeast people can exhibit their culture and traditions not only to the national but the international community as well.

BSI Dimapur Auxiliary DC Mkg proposes 2 new Municipal Council Wards OCTOBER 21 should submit his/her objection, in writreleases Anal Naga Bible MOKOKCHUNG, (DIPR): The Deputy Commissioner, ten, to the Government through the Deputy

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The Bible Society of India Dimapur Auxiliary on October 19 released the Anal Naga Bible at the Maha Union Government Higher Secondary School ground in Chandel, Manipur. The Bible was released by Rev. Dr. Z K Rochill, Auxiliary Secretary of the BSI. The Anal Bible is the first Naga Bible released in Chandel district. The Anal Naga Baptist Association (ANBA) had paid Rs.2,98,400/- before the release of the Bible. Rev. SR Onesemas, Executive Secretary of the Anal Naga Baptist Association, informed that more than 4000 people attended with enthusiasm. Altogether 3000 copies were sold on the day of the release like hotcakes. People rejoiced with special songs sung by the Baptist Choir and Gospel Friends. The offering collection for BSI ministry was Rs.20,716/-. Further, Rev. Onesemas has expressed deep appreciation to the BSI ministry on behalf of the Anal Naga community for providing God’s Word in their mother tongue.

Mokokchung has notified for all public concerned that as per the government notification dated September 26, 2008, in exercise of the power conferred under section 6(1) (a) & (2) of the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001, the Government wants to increase the number of Mokokchung Municipal Council Wards from 16 (sixteen) to 18 (eighteen) by creating 2 (two) additional wards, namely Mongsenphai and Lijaba Lijen Wards. The boundaries of the 2 (two) wards are defined below for the purpose of election of 1 (one) Municipal Council member each. Therefore, in exercise of the powers under section 6(3) of the Nagaland Municipal Act 2001, any inhabitant of the specified areas desiring to object to this notification

Commissioner, Mokokchung, within 30 (thirty) days from the date of issue of this notification. Detailed boundary demarcation of the proposed Mongsenphai and Lijaba Lijen wards under MMC. 1. Mongsenphai ward North – Kumlong Ward East – Arkong Ward, Assam Riﬂes Camp West – Ungma land area South – Ungma village land and Sewak gate 2. Lijaba Lijen ward. North – Civil Hospital/Majakong ward East – Mokokchung village land area West – Artang Ward area South – Ungma village land area

Develop the spirit of ‘I can do it’: T R Zeliang S.D. JAIN COLLEGE CELEBRATES ITS ANNUAL DAY

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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): Minister for Planning & Coordination, Evaluation, Veterinary & Animal Husbandry and Parliamentary Affairs, T R Zeliang today defined a good educational institution as one which would “wholly mould and develop young people to become responsible citizen…” Speaking at the 16th freshers’ social-cum-annual day of S.D. Jain College in Dimapur, the minister said that such a good educational institution was the need of the hour. Expressing admiration for the vision of the founder, Sri Digamber Jain, Zeliang said that this first exclusively girls college was greatly sought after for the holistic education it imparts. In his exhortation to the students, the minister said that learning is a continuous process, but the period of formal education was short; therefore, he said, the focus

Minister for Planning & Coordination, T R Zeliang, being presented with a shawl during the 16th freshers’ social-cum-annual day of S.D. Jain College, Dimapur.

during the short time as students should be on learning and education. Zeliang stressed on the receptiveness of the students irrespective of background, along with discipline, hard work and focus, and realisation of opportunities, which would emancipate and lead the students to a higher paradigm. “You can develop the spirit of ‘I can do it’ to face the challenges, to contribute to development and to the society, and become responsible citizens and valuable assets,” he advised the freshers of the college. Earlier in the program, the flag was hoisted by the president of S.D. Jain Samaj, Dimapur, Shantilal Chhabra, while Joint Secretary Anil Tongya introduced the chief guest to the gathering. The college’s annual magazine, Jyotsna, was released by the chief guest and the vote of thanks was proposed by vice principle N R Deka.

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ethnic textile design ANSTA for reorganization NEexhibition underway of Education Department

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21(MExN): While calling for reorganization of the Education Department the All Nagaland School Teachers’ Association through a joint release by its president, Kepelhoutuo Chusi and general secretary N. Thungchio Shitire has demanded ‘for trisection of the department into three cells by allowing three Directors’ for elementary, secondary and higher secondary education ‘to man their respective cells efficiently’. On the present structure of the education department, ANTSA lamented that ‘despite its vastness, the manning personnel at the higher level is (in) much contrast with other sister state departments which has been neglected for years altogether’, noting that the education department is the second biggest department next only to the police department in the state. While calling for trisection of the department

Demands for Principle Director and three other Directors for elementary, secondary and higher education

ANSTA is effectively proposing ‘that there should be a Principal Director of school education in particular who can be above the three cell directors to coordinate into the affairs of the entire department’. At present the state has about 1375 schools in primary section, 270 GMS, 116 GHS and 16 higher secondary schools with high school attached, and a total strength of about 18000 employees. ANSTA noted that the ‘department alone had become over loaded and observed that this oldest department need either immediate Restructuring or bifurcation like other states’. It further argued that reorganizing the department ‘would certainly give proper management’ and assist the academic activities and of-

AHoDs, HoDs meeting today

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 21 (DIPR): The meeting of the AHoDs and HoDs will be held on October 22, 2008, at 1 pm in the Nagaland Secretariat Conference room. All AHoDs and HoDs are requested to attend the meeting in person and not send their representatives. The agenda will include address by CIC Nagaland on RTI matters, review of important matters recorded in AHoD/HoD meeting minutes of 24/7/2008, preparation of Draft Annual Plan 2009-10, status of clearances and sanctions of project proposals under negotiated loan during 2008-09, status of submission of DPRs, concept notes under SPA (2008-09), PAC related matters, direct release of funds under flagship programmes to implementing agencies and problems of submitting UCs and accountability, quality control of projects under implementation in the state and improvement of supervisory mechanisms, PowerPoint presentations, besides any agenda with the permission of the Chair.

Wokha DC to grace craft bazaar

WOKHA, OCTOBER 21 (DIPR): DC Wokha, A Wopen Lotha, will inaugurate the craft bazaar at the local ground on October 22. SP Wokha will be the guest of honour at the function. The craft bazaar has been organised by the Heto Multi Purpose Co-operative Society Ltd, Latsumi village, and sponsored by the Development Commissioner, Handicrafts, Ministry of Textiles, GoI.

DC Mkg to inaugurate Handloom Expo MOKOKCHUNG, OCTOBER 21 (DIPR): Deputy Commissioner Bendangkokba is to inaugurate the special Handloom Expo at the Youth Resource Sports Hall Mokokchung on October 22 at 11:30 am. This special Expo is being organised by the Nagaland Handloom & Handicraft Development Co-operation Limited and sponsored by the Office of the Development Commissioner for Handloom, Ministry of Textiles, GoI, New Delhi.

fices to run efficiently. ANSTA repined, that despite ‘all out effort’ by the association to assist the department, ‘very often the department officers failed to recognize and understand’ the approach of the association. ANSTA stated that the association had in the past ‘constantly given views and remedial constructive suggestions time and again’ to the department but only to fall on deaf ears. ANSTA further stated that, “Of such numerous discussions, appeal and representations submitted to the department in the recent past, one of the most urgent need representations to the School Education Directorate is restructuring of the department with cadre view so as to provide administrative convenience to-

Kohima | October 21

THE PRESS Information Bureau and the Directorate of Field Publicity, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting , Government of India will be launching the third phase of Public Information Campaign (PIC) on Bharat Nirman and other flagship programmes of central government in Wokha district from October 23 to 25. AIR, Doordarshan Kendra, Song & Drama Division, DAVP and others will also assist the campaign in various forms. The objective of the campaign is to propagate and create public awareness on various schemes and projects being undertaken by Government of India. The campaign will disseminate information to the community on various schemes and projects of Central government relating to irrigation, road, rural housing, rural water supply, rural electrification and rural telecommunication connectivity under Bharat Nirman. Addressing a press conference at Hotel Japfu, Pankaj Pandey, Deputy Director

(M&C) Press Information Bureau, Ministry of I&B, Government of India said that the campaign will be marked by technical session, workshops/ seminars, health camp, distribution of books and literatures pertaining to various schemes and projects. Ashiko Lassa, Additional Director General, DFP and Chairman Core Committee, Nagaland said a time has come for the community to be aware of the various schemes and projects being undertaken in the country and get maximum benefit from it. Similar campaign will also be conducted in other districts of the state, she added. As per the tasks of Bharat Nirman, it said that every village to be provided electricity; remaining 1,25,000 villages to be covered by 2009 as well as connect 2.3 crore households, every habitation over 1000 population and above (500 in hilly and tribal areas) to be provided an all-weather road; remaining 66,802 habitations to be covered by 2009, every habitation to have a safe source of dinking water; 55, 067 uncovered habitations to be covered by 2009, every village to be connected

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The combined inauguration of Anghmio’s memorial School and a new water pipeline was held on Saturday October 18 at Pongkong village where Dinesh Kumar, IAS, DC Mon was the Chief Guest. Stating this in a release Jackmeth Konyak, Pastor and Chairman, VDC Pongkong Village, noted that the construction of an eight room concrete school building and a new 50mm and 6540ft connection from a Punyuhong hillock between Pongkong and Longkei villages were undertaken by ADP World Vision Mon. Programme Manager ADP World Vision Mon, DEO and BDO Mon, both guests of honour, DPO, SDO (Civil), EAC, SDPO, Asst Deputy Commandant (VG), PA to DC, besides, many prominent citizens of Pongkong village attended the inauguration After the formal inauguration, DC Mon and concerned department representatives interacted with chairman and secretary of various village communities. Thereafter an entourage led by DC Mon inspected all governmental works around the village. The DC thanked World Vision for providing the village with two of the most vital necessities and further urged World Vision to continue its endeavor of uplifting the

by telephone; remaining 66, 822 villages to be connected by November 2007, 10 million hectares (100 lakhs) of additional irrigation capacity to be created by 2009 and 60 lakh houses to be constructed for the rural poor by 2009. “These investments in rural infrastructure will unlock the growth potential of rural India,” a pamphlet received here said. Bharat Nirman is a time –bound plan for rural infrastructure by the Government of India in partnership with the state governments and Panchayat Raj institutions 2005-2009.’ Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA), Deputy Speaker Ralangthung Yanthan will grace the inaugural programme of the campaign in Wokha on October 23 at Don Bosco School Conference Hall. The campaign will also covered Wokha village on October 24 and it will culminate on October 25 at Longsa village. There will be exhibition by DAVP, DFP and other departments. Film shows by DFP and the theme based cultural programme by S& DD will be organized from 5 PM to 7 PM at the main venue on October 23.

One detained by IRB jawans NPCC responds to NPF DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21, (MExN): In a normal routine frisking by 9th IRB jawans one Senchomo Ezung, alias Mark Ezung, 31 years, s/o Nzio Ezung, village Mongya, district – Wokha, presently residing at Notun Basti, Dimapur was apprehended at near Holy Cross School, Circular Road, Dimapur at 10:30 am on October 21. Police seized a .32 pistol (Italian made) with 8 live rounds from his possession and later handed him over to West Police Station for further interrogation. Police added that he has been booked under the Arms Act.

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WSSU meeting October 23 The Western Sumi Students’ Union has convened its meeting on October 23 at 10:30 at Union ofﬁce, Thahekhu. WSSU general secretary P Iloto Zhimo in a released informed all the executives members and advisor’s board to attend the meeting positively.

KSC Silver Jubilee October 25 Kohima Surumi Community informs all the non-residential students of Surumi Village who are studying at various College and High Schools located at Kohima are requested to attend its Silver Jubilee Celebration to be held on October 25 at 11:00 am at State Academy Hal Kohima Sano Vamuzo, chairperson, Women Commission Nagaland inaugurating the Nort EastEthnic Textile Design Exhibition cum sale in Kohima. (DIPR PHOTO)

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“We should also nurture October 25 at 10:00 am at the School Chapel Hall prior to Silver Jubilee. All and preserve it,” she said. She the Alumni are therefore requested to attend the said meeting positively. Kohima | October 21 also emphasised on the need A THREE-DAY North East to build a cordial relationship Ethnic Textile Design exhi- amongst the northeastern bition-cum-sale under the states and to move towards aegis of the Department of a peaceful co-existence. EarDIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): Voting for the secArt & Culture Nagaland and lier, the programme was ond round for the NSACS Naga Idol 3.08 contest is now NEZCC Dimapur got under- chaired by Allem Longkumopen starting from October 22 and will close on October way here today in the State er, Additional Director, Art & 29 next. The second recording of the Naga Idol has been Academy Hall under the Culture Nagaland, while the released and will be telecast across local cable networks theme ‘Threads of prosper- UVE Cultural Society Kohiat the usual timings. Voting cards are available from all district outlets as listed in the videos. ity’. Inaugurating the event, ma presented a special song. Sano Vamuzo, chairperson, K Kire, Documentation OfWomen Commission Na- ficer, NEZCC Dimapur, progaland, stressed on the need to nounced the word of encourexplore the rich culture heri- agement. The exhibition will DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21, (MExN): In a tragic misgo on till October 23. hap, two vehicles collided into each other when they tage and to focus on quality. were plying at National Highway – 39, near Phirima on October 20. A Maruti Van (NL-077-0120) crashed unto the Santro (NL-01C-6196) while coming down from Kohima. When the traffic police arrived at the scene, both the motor vehicles were many feet away from each other. However, there were no reports of death except some minor injuries to the occupants of the Maruti van along with DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): Two the driver. They are now hospitalized, added a source. villages Pongching and Mongtikang, want Both the vehicles are under police custody. Meanwhile downtrodden, the note added. to be excluded from the proposal submitted in another incident two private buses reportedly met an The note also added that Pong- through the DPDB of Longleng for creation accident due to a minor machinery problem today; howkong villagers led by Angh Leiwang of Yachem EAC headquarter. A request adever, sources disclosed that no one was injured. Konyak and village development dressed to the Nagaland Commissioner from the village council chairmen and head GBs committee chairman Jackmeth expressed deepest gratitude to ADP of the two villages was received here today. The government is requested to exclude World Vision for providing the school building and new water pipe- the two villages from the proposal approved line stating that, “we were so short by District Planning and Development Board of water and winter is approach- of Longleng on September 8, which was subing but due to its help we are well mitted to the government earlier. “…we were never intimidated or consulted regarding the equipped for water is overflowing creation at any point of time, as we feel that all everywhere.” Pongkong village also barriers should be removed and unanimous FROM 22Nd Oct. to 31st Oct.2008 expressed gratitude to DC Mon and decision should have taken before approving his entourage for sparing precious such proposal,” stated the letter. At Wokha Public Ground time to visit the village and checking The two villages, however, does not oppose the loopholes existing in the system the creation of Yachem EAC HQ, “but under Organised by : Heto MPCS Ltd. Natsumi and for mending them, mentioned these circumstances and as per our origin, we the note, also extending indebted- have subsequently decided to remain under Sponsored by : O/o the Development ness to SDO PHED Mon and the Longleng sardar (Yingnyu range) as we are Department for technical helping in nearer to Longleng by means of communicaCommissioner (Handicrafts) connecting the pipe line. tion as well as traditions etc”. The government Jackmeth Konyak also added is requested to look into the matter for considMinistry of Textiles, that World vision has been instru- eration “for the welfare and benefit of the two mental in a number of developmen- villages as well as the public of the area”. Govt. of India New Delhi-6 tal works in pongkong village for the past 7 years. Among the many works Notice to mention a few are installation of stone crusher, diary, etc. Konyak also The Last date of submission of expressed gratitude to World Vision Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection for selecting pongkong village as the Open from 9:00 A.M onwards Test (JNVST) 2009 application forms has entry point for development works been extended up to 31.10.2008 and further pledging for the judiM. Nanagopal ciously use all resources provided by Principal World Vision. Our Correspondent

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wards efficient management and quality education in the state. In this regard, the Association had earlier submitted a representation along with administrative chart having two lines of promotion among secondary, Elementary and Higher Secondary till bifurcation. Vide No. ANSTA/Gen-1/8/2003, Dt.15/7/03 to then secretary school education Govt. of Nagaland. Again a well modified Administrative chart along with representation was submitted to the Principal Secretary, Department of School Education Vide No. ANSTA/ gen-1/03//2007-0, Dt.22/02/08.” “The Association acknowledged the NSEAOA. for taking up the matter considering the growing need of the department and Review Sub. Committee had started pursuing to the competent authority and expecting to do justice to the department without further delay,” the note further added.

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In response to the demand of the AICC and other supporting parties at Delhi to ban VHP and Bajrang Dal, the UPA government is presently “in the process” of “eliciting opinion of the people” it stated. “However, the DAN/NPF considered opinion to ban VHP and Bajrang Dal is yet to be known by the people in the state till today” the NPCC stated. “Also people living in glass houses should know that they should change their clothes in the dark. Living on the strength and support of the parental perpetrators and trying to shift their bounden responsibility could be the greatest liability to our posterity”.

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A man shopping at a local supermarket in Moscow,on October 20. Some analysts say that Russia’s economy remains relatively healthy and the currency should show more resilience, but many Russians still remember the 1998 currency collapse. (AP Photo)

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Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora, second left, talks with Mahindra and Mahindra automotive sector President Pawan Goenka as Mahindra Group chairman Keshub Mahindra, right, looks on during the launch Micro Hybrid technology ﬁtted Mahindra Bolero SUV, in New Delhi on October 21. Mahindra is India’s ﬁrst automotive manufacturer to launch Micro Hybrid technology in their SUVs. (AP Photo)

A Port worker inspects tin ingots before being loaded onto a ship Tuesday October 21 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Prices of Tin as well as many other commodities have been heading lower as the world economy slows. (AP Photo)

Japan wants economic partnership with India

TOKYO, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): India and Japan have made “substantative progress” in their negotiations on the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), says Prime Minister Taro Aso but the pact is unlikely to be signed during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Tokyo. Aso said the planned agreement will become the “trigger” for expanding bilateral economic ties. “EPA is one of the most important issues. I would like EPA to become the trigger for further development of the economic relations between Japan and India, Aso said. “In order to

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TOKYO, OCTOBER 21 (REUTERS): Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said his country was ready to cooperate in an International Monetary Fund loan scheme to rescue countries struck down by the global credit crisis, Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reported on Tuesday. At the Group of Seven finance leaders’ meeting in Washington this month, Japan said it was ready to offer part of its $1 trillion foreign reserves to the IMF if the multi-national lender needed it to support countries facing economic crises. Singh told a group interview with Japanese media on Monday that India, with foreign exchange reserves of roughly $300 billion, would happily accept any request for cooperation in expanding the IMF’s emergency lending scheme, the Nikkei said. Singh is due to arrive in Japan on Tuesday to meet Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso before heading to China for a summit of Asian and European nations later this week.

do so, EPA needs to be of a high quality and beneficial to both countries.” “We have seen substantive progress in our EPA negotiations and I am looking forward to discuss this matter with Prime Minister Singh, based on the negotiations the two countries have had so far,” Aso told PTI in an e-mail interview ahead of Singh’s official visit from Oct 21 to 23. India and Japan have been negotiating a EPA for the last two years with an objective of giving a boost to the USD 10 billion bilateral trade by way of eliminating and slashing duties on as much as 90 per cent of the

goods and services traded between the Asian countries. While the trade negotiators have completed several rounds of discussions, they have not been able to reach a complete agreement. Both the sides have areas of concern that include the rules that will govern the value added third country goods, quality standards and the negative areas to be shielded from the breaking of the tariff wall. Describing the Indian market as “quite huge,” Aso said it has been growing at an astonishing pace in recent times. “The Japanese companies are keenly watching

its development.” It is only natural that Japan and India, the largest and the 3rd largest economies respectively in Asia, should further deepen their economic ties, Aso said. “We cannot say, however, that the size of their economic relations is large enough considering the size of their economies.” In 2007, for example, India is Japan’s 27th largest trade partner, and the share of Japan’s trade with India in its total foreign trade is merely 0.8 per cent, he pointed out. “We should, therefore, try to enhance drastically the economic relations between

Indo-Pak begin cross-LoC trade today SALAMABAD,OCTOBER 21 (AP): Trucks laden with fruit, honey and spices from the Kashmir Valley waited near the heavily armed frontier on Tuesday as India and Pakist an opened a trade route between the two sides for the first time in six decades. “I was 12-years-old when I last saw baskets of fruits being packed to be sent to Rawalpindi in Pakistan,’’ said Haji Abdul Ahad Bhat, a 74-year-old apple farmer from the Indian side. The opening of the trade route was meant to bolster a 2004 peace agreement between the rivals, which has appeared increasingly fragile in recent months amid dozens of crossborder shootings and charges from New Delhi that Islamabad backed attacks in India. Separatists on the Indian side, who have stepped up demands for a trade route between Indian and Pakistani-controlled sections of Kashmir during recent mass protests against Indian rule, also hailed it as a victory. The trade route follows the introduction of other confidencebuilding measures in recent

years, including the opening of rail and bus links between the two sides. On Tuesday the mood was festive as the crowd waited for the governor of Jammu & Kashmir to flag off the 13 pickup trucks heading to the Pakistani side. Four trucks were expected from Pakistan, carrying rock salt and raisins. “I’m completely hopeful that this will remove a lot of difficulties and create an atmosphere of friendship on the two sides,’’ said the governor, Narendra Nath Vohra. Dozens of school children lined the road in Salamabad, a town near the Line of Control,, where a specially designed trading post has been set up with warehouses and security checks for the goods. Thetrucksweredecorated with flags and banners reading ``Long live trade across the two sides.’’The head of a fruit growers’ association said he hoped the renewed trade would ``transform the relationship between India and Pakistan to a more friendly one’’ and extend trade opportunities for all. ``I hope our products will not just be sent

to the other side, but eventually but to Central Asia and the Gulf,’’ Gulam Rasool said. On Pakistan’s side of the LoC, more than a dozen trucks carrying rock salt, garments and raisins waited to make the crossing. “We want that the people of Kashmir should come closer to each other,’’ said Sardar Attique, a top official of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir as he waited in the border town of Chakothi for the Indian trucks to arrive. “We hope the process we are starting today would ultimately lead to the resolution of Kashmir issue,’’ he said. For now, the route remains largely symbolic. After the inaugural exchange Tuesday, only four trucks will be allowed across from each side once a week. Kashmiri separatists claimed the move as a victory. ``This is the first step toward achieving economic independence for Kashmir,’’ said separatist leader Mirwaiz Omer Farooq. Separatist groups have been fighting since 1989 to end Indian rule, leaving an estimated 68,000 people, most of them civilians, dead.

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Aso for eco pact with India, non-committal on nuke commerce TOKYO, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): Ahead of summit talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Japanese Premier Taro Aso was non-committal on Tokyo opening the doors for nuclear commerce with India as he batted strongly for an economic pact to further bolster bilateral ties. Aso, who will be meeting Singh here tomorrow, hoped that India would stick to its unilateral moratorium on atomic tests and “implement” commitments made to the NSG for securing the waiver that ended its 34-year nuclear apartheid. In an e-mail inter-

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view to PTI, Aso did not directly respond to whether Tokyo would allow Japanese nuclear power companies to engage in nuclear commerce with India but highlighted that Japanese nuclear power industry was strong and had proven credentials. The Japanese government had boldly supported the Indo-US civil nuclear deal at the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group(NSG) despite a public outcry in the only nation to have suffered atomic bombings during World War II. On the proposed Economic Partnership Agree-

ment (EPA) between the two countries, he said “substantative progress” has been made in their negotiations. “EPA is one of the most important issues. I would like EPA to become the trigger for further development of the economic relations between Japan and India, Aso said. “In order to do so, EPA needs to be of a high quality and beneficial to both countries.” He also expressed confidence that Singh’s visit to Japan will give a “renewed momentum” to the enhancement of bilateral relations.

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“A Source of Discomfort”

It was an uneasy existence and a source of discomfort for the NSCN and particularly for the Chakesang’s standing image and their commitment towards the national cause. Because the rumbling within the Chakesang national workers of NSCN gave enough signals about ill-motivated members creating unnecessary nuisance to eventually make an exit from NSCN at any opportune occasion. So when Alezo Venuh, Vedeta Neinu, Chewelo, Vechizo, Chenibo and Vevolhu left NSCN to be on the side

of Azheto Chophy it does not come as something surprising. It was on the expected line as they proved their true colour. It was a big relief to see depart as NSCN’s Chakesang Region has cleansed of the members with doubtful credentials that does not fit into the morality that keep built NSCN. There are over 30 Chakesang national workers in the Civil Set-up of GPRN and equal member in the Naga Army who represents Chakesang in the national service shouldered by NSCN. It is their commit-

ment that matters, and their political conviction that strengthen the NSCN as a mighty force. Persons with mercenary mindset and to commercialized and criminalized themselves taking the good name of NSCN have no place in the service of the nation. They should go to where they belong. Today, the whole Nagas are a living witness as they went to the side of the people who share common interest sans Naga political vision. Issued by: Chakesang National Workers, NSCN

‘Funding pattern of RD schemes for NE changed’

GUWAHATI, OCTOBER 21 (AGENCIES): Union Minister for Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad Singh on Monday announced that the present funding pattern of all rural development schemes have been changed to 90:10 from the existing 75:25 for the northeast states.

Singh told reporters in Guwahati that the funding pattern has been changed to ensure better management of finance and to improve quality of implementation of the programmes. Referring to the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), the Union min-

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Japan and India through all means, and we have many bilateral economic co-operation on the agenda during Prime Minister Singhs visit, Aso said. Ahead of Singh’s visit, industry body FICCI had also sought immediate tariff elimination by Japan on products of export interest to India. Japan has high tariffs on items like leather, textiles, marine and chemical products, the chamber said. Although Japan has zero duty on around 30 per cent of its chemical and pharmaceutical products, its stringent approval and product registration act as a barrier to Indian exports.

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Prez Patil says strong Tribal students to return certiﬁcates to MU medical system is must Newmai News Network

GUWAHATI, OCTOBER 21 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil today said that there is an urgent need for augmenting medical institutions in the country. Laying the foundation stone of the Tezpur Medical College in Sonitpur district of Assam, Patil said the country has at present 271 medical colleges out of which about 31,000 medical graduates pass out every year. “The healthcare professionals form the backbone of the medical system in the country. Enough number of skilled medical personnel is essential for making affordable medical facilities available to all,” she added. Patil said the education system in our country should not only to produce capable doctors but also sensitize them to national efforts to provide healthcare to all. Appreciating the Indian Medical Association for their effort to adopt six hundred villages under its project for taking medical fraternity to the villages, Patil said 75 per cent of our medical facilities are located in urban centres while 70 per cent of our population lives in villages where medical facilities are limited. The President said doctors should have a sense of compassion and maintain the highest standards of medical ethics. Assam Governor Shiv Charan Mathur, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, State Assembly Speaker Tanka Bahadur Rai and Health Minister Dr. Himanta Biswa Sharma were also present on the occasion. The new medical college to be built in 35 acres of land at Tumuki area, near Tezpur at a cost of around 160 crore rupees, is targeted to be completed by the year 2011. The Tezpur Medical will be built by the Assam Government at a cost of around

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President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil arrives at the Tezpur airport. Patil was received by DC Sonitpur Rajesh Prasad on her arrival along with army ofﬁcials,she was to later attend a a “Sainik Sanmilan” in Tezpur on October 21. (UB Photos)

President shares meal with jawans

TEZPUR, OCTOBER 21 (UNI): A meal with ‘’her men’’, sweets for those at forward areas and enquiries of their well-being marked the visit of Armed Forces Supreme Commander, President Pratibha Devisingh Patil, to the 4 Gajraj Corps headquarters here today. In a first-of-its-kind gesture from a President, Patil participated in a ‘’Barakhana’’ in the 4 Corps headquarters here when she feasted on vegetarian fare with jawans and officers together, Tuesday being a ‘’no meat-fish’’ day for the Army.

Patil also interacted with the army personnel before the feast, asking them about their welfare and their families. Not to forget those posted at the forward areas along the Indo-China border in Arunachal Pradesh, controlled by 4 Corps, were also sent 20 boxes of sweets by the President. Going through an exhibition at the function venue, Patil took note of the achievements of the 4 Corps, including the mass success the Corps had attained in counter-insurgency operations. She asked at length about the peace initiatives, pursued

by the Army, along with its military operations, with the Army officials explaining to her the ‘’iron fist in velvet glove’’ policy of the 4 Corps. Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor and 4 Corps Commander Lt Gen B S Jaswal escorted the President around the exhibition, displaying the success saga of the Army. Earlier, the President also addressed a Sainik Sanmelan and lauded the Army’s success in counterinsurgency operations as well as guarding the frontiers. ‘’Our security forces have been entrusted with the challenging task of fighting

insurgency and they have successfully carried out this responsibility and helped the state governments in this regard,’’ Patil said. Acknowledging the immense hardships the personnel had to face in their duties, she said, ‘’The government is aware of your hardships and sacrifices and is endeavoring to minimise your problems and provide more facilities.’’ The President also reaffirmed the forces’ preparedness to tackle any situation and said, ‘’Our Army is among the best and we are well equipped to face any situation.’’

160 crore rupees at Tumuki village, 20 kilometers away from Tezpur. This will be the fifth medical college in Assam. The State Government has

allocated 35 acres of land in Tumuki to set up the medical college. Later, President Patil is scheduled address a Sainik Sanmilan at Gajraj Corps Headquarters in Tez-

pur. After spending three days in Assam, the President will proceed to Meghalaya on Wednesday, where she is expected to attend the centenary celebration

of the Laban Bengali Girls Higher Secondary School. The President will also inaugurate the Baljek Airport in West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.

Dr. Murry rectiﬁes Rat menace views From page 1

“It is assumed that bamboo flowering is a contributing factor in the abnormal reproduction of rodent population. Such sporadic phenomenal rodent growths have been documented without bamboo flowering in the picture. I am more inclined to believe in delicate climate change as the casual factor rather than solely attributing to bamboo flowering. However, observing the amount of crops damaged by the rodents”. Regarding the timing of intervention, Dr. Chumben Murry said more scientific research on the correlation between bamboo flowering and proliferation of rodents is required to develop a “rational mythology”. The Agriculture department on its part, Dr. Murry assured, is doing its best to mitigate the situation and will soon be submitting a detail report to the government. The minister assured that the Cabinet has also sat to ponder on the issue and has sanctioned Rs. 50 Lakhs to fight the menace. “But most important problem at hand is to help the affected farmers. In this regard, I appeal to all organizations and well placed individuals to extend their helping hand to the affected farmers,” Dr. Murry added.

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 21 (DIPR): The monthly co-ordination meeting of all heads of offices under Jakhama SubDivision was held at the T.B. Hospital, Khuzama, on October 17 last. The chairman of the board, SDO (C) Jakhama, Anthony Ngully, chaired the programme. The chairman welcomed all the members of the board and made a brief review of the last meeting minutes. He urged the officers of different departments to contribute in whatever way they can in the development of the area. He also stated that it is the bounden duty and responsibility of all department officers to attend the meeting and update their departmental activities and problems faced by the department while discharging their duties. Dr. Loso Chalai, Medical Superintendent at T.B. Hospital, Khuzama,

MOKOKCHUNG, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): A farmers’ training on soil and water management was held here today at the Longkumer Kilem, organized by the Department of Soil and Water Conservation, Mokokchung. The resource persons for the training were Kilemsungba, H.O. Mokokchung, Aodangba Jamir, SDO(HQ) DSCO Mokokchung, and Dr.Rongsen, SMS (AH&V) KVK Yisemyong. The first resource person spoke on the topic ‘soil and water management through horticulture’, the second on ‘soil and water conservation through engineering’ and the third on ‘poultry and piggery healthcare and byproduct management for soil fertility. Their presentations were followed by group discussion. The training was chaired by Imtiyongdang Ao, DSCO Mokokchung.

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The United Sangtam Students’ Conference (USSC) will hold its 2nd presidential meeting on October 29 at Longkhim Town. All the affiliated Union presidents, area presidents, USSC official and executive committees have been informed to reach Longkhim town on October 28 without fail.

Four insurgents held in Assam

DIPHU, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): Three KNLF insurgents and a suspected UPDS cadre were apprehended with arms and ammunition by army in central Assam’s Karbi Anglong district on Tuesday. Troops of the 5 Rajputana Rifles nabbed the Kuki National Liberation Front and United Peoples Democratic Solidarity extremists at Rangapara, near Deupani under Bokajan police station, defence sources said. A China-made m-20 pistol with six rounds of live ammunition were recovered from them, the sources said. The trio was handed over to police for further investigations, the sources added.

incompetent”, the students’ body has also demanded the amendment of the Manipur University Act 2005 to incorporate a special provision to ensure 34.2 percent reservation for the tribals in the teaching and the non-teaching. The students’ body also demanded a special recruitment drive for the tribals and that no classes should be held without the tribal students. The students’ body also demanded a separate university for the tribals if their demands were not met. While accusing the Vice Chancellor and the Registrar of “being communal on the tribal issue”, Michael, spokesperson of MUTSU pointed out that in this condition the tribal students in MU consisting of about 700800 have no future. The student leaders then demanded that the culprits who had assaulted the tribal students on October 6 be booked and also demanded the suspension of the Kakwa police station officer- incharge for letting in people into the jail to threaten the tribal leaders. “Kakwa police station is the nearest police station to the MU for tribal security. But if the security is not improved, where do we find it?” questioned the MUTSU leaders. The student leaders appealed to all the students also the parents of the tribal students not to misunderstand them but rather support and show solidarity towards the student bodies. “We have sacrifice much including our academic sessions and we are ready to sacrifice for the sake of our people,” said the student leaders. The leaders also informed that a consultative meeting of the tribal students will be held on October 24 conducted by ATSUM on the issue of tribal reservation.

Jakhama meet focuses on health, development

Farmer’s training held at Mkg

USSC 2nd presidential meeting

THE MANIPUR University Tribal Students’ Union (MUTUS) has resolved to return all the certificates issued by Manipur University if their demands on the issue of tribal reservation at the University was not considered and solved by October 25, conveyed Michael Lunminthang, spokesperson of the students’ body here on Tuesday. Talking to NNN, members of the Manipur University Students’ Union (MUTSU) consisting of Humaliabou, vice president, John Pamei and Michael Lunminthang, spokespersons, alleged that since the inception of Manipur University, no tribal graduates of the university have been employed in the university nor given a chance. In this regards the student leaders stated that there was no need of the certificates issued by the Manipur University and that they have resolved to return the certificates if their problems and demands on the issue of tribal reservation were not solved by October 25. “Tribal graduates from Manipur University who have cleared the National Eligibility Test (NET) and the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) are easily recruited into Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, North Eastern Hills University (NEHU), Shillong and even Tripura University but why not in Manipur University?” questioned the student representatives. They further pointed out that this ‘manipulation’ by the authorities of MU was the main reason why many educated tribal graduates and degree holders have to venture into other states for jobs. The student leaders also accused state chief minister, O. Ibobi Singh of ‘false prom-

ises’ by taking the student leaders of MUTSU and the All Tribal Students’ Union, Manipur (ATSUM) to New Delhi to meet the Prime Minister, however brought them back to Imphal without any meeting with the Prime Minister. The MUTSU leaders alleged that the chief minister met the Prime Minister alone but not fixing an appointment for the meeting with the students. (Student leaders were represented by president and secretary of ATSUM and president of MUTSU). “In history, this is the biggest fault played by the state government on the tribal students,” alleged Michael referring to the chief minister’s failure to fix an appointment with the Prime Minister for the meeting with the tribal student leaders. “This is a promise only to minimise the tension”, added the student spokesperson. The tribal student leaders have also condemned the authorities of the University for conducting recruitment interviews for the four posts of Physical Education on October 13 even as the tribal student leaders were taken to New Delhi on the pretext of discussing the issue with the Prime Minister. In this regards, the student leaders have demanded the cancellation of the interviews conducted on October 6, 7 and 13 and that no recruitment was to be held until an amicable solution was brought to the present issue of tribal reservation. MUTSU has also demanded the reschedule of the tests and exams for tribal students conducted when they were out of the university. Further, while demanding the removal of the ViceChancellor and the Registrar of Manipur University “for being communal and

spoke on the topic ‘How T.B. patient can be cured’. He stated that a T.B. patient could be fully cured if full course medicine was used. About 80 to 90 percent of the patients are chest T.B. cases, he said. Dr. Chelo, M.O. Viswema, spoke on the importance of Asha and Anganwadi workers. He stated that if both workers combined and worked together, it would be beneficial for the villagers in many ways. Other highlights of the programme included a visit to the T.B. Hospital by the officers, an interactive session, invocation prayer by Dr. Loso, followed by light refreshments. Vote of thanks was proposed by the SDO (C) Jakhama. The board has decided to conduct the next co-ordination meet- President of India, Pratibha Devisingh Patil being greeted with a traditional Assamese “sarai” by the Chief ing at the SDO (C) Jakhama Head- Minister Assam Tarun Gogoi at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the proposed Tezpur Medical Colquarters on November 19, 2008. lege at Bihaguri, Tezpur under Sonitpur District in Assam on October 22. (UB Photos)

ENPO holds General Session

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The General Session of the Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO) was held in Mon Town from October 14 to 16, and hosted by the Konyak union. Tongang Konyak, Gen / Secy Konyak Union stated this in a release. Nyeiwang Konyak Minister for Education was the Chief Guest while N.Chingwang Konyak CLP Leader graced the session as the Guest of Honour. Legislators from the four districts of the area who attended this session included M.C.Konyak, Minister, Longon Khiam Minister, E.E.Pangteang Konyak Advisor, DUDA, Thorecho P/ Secretary, Tohanba P/

Secretary, Dako Phom, P/ Secretary, Naiba Konyak P/ Secy, Pangnyu Phom P/Secy, C.L.John Konyak Chairman, MARCOFED, Kipile Sangtam Chairman, Konngam Konyak, Kichung Chang, Lanpha Konyak and Aloh Konyak. Besides, Kevilito Angami President of Naga Hoho also attended the session, the release added. At the general session a special talent show was also organized by the Konyak students’ union and was graced by Longon Khiamongan , Minister for soil conservation and Land resources. A ‘sensational play’ of the ‘love story of Ahom King Godhabani and

Princess Watlong (Ahngya) Konyak by Thai Ahoms’ was staged. Besides ‘a nerve chilling fire eating, eating boiling eggs and skin piercing feat by Hongphoi village youths’ were among the many highlights of the show, the release added. Cultural presentations, exhibitions and traditional games marked the evening sessions that were performed at the Local Ground Mon Town where Kichung MLA Tuensang was the Guest of Honor. Besides various cultural troupes from the state, the Thai Ahoms and Pongcha Konyaks of Arunachal Pradesh also participated in the programme, the note added.

Dr. Nicky inspects colonies in Kohima town

KOHIMA, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The 9th Kohima Town A/C MLA, Dr. Nicky Kire, inspected different colonies in Kohima town along with officials of various departments under Kohima Division on Monday morning. During the inspection, Dr. Kire and officials visited the sites that need road widening, modification of PHE pipelines, and shifting of electric posts, and also inspected the area of road encroachment. Meanwhile, Dr. Kire urged all concerned officials to be more sincere in their duties and oversee the development works taken in

MLA Dr. Nicky Kire with the ofﬁcials during his inspection to different colonies in Kohima Town on Monday.

and around Kohima Town so that all-round development would come to the state capital. The MLA was accompanied by the PWD (R&D) South Division Executive Engineer

and staff, the PHE Urban Division Executive Engineer and staff, the Power Kohima Division Executive Engineer and staff, and the KMC Chairperson and Councillors.

Condemnation on killing of Lt. Prasanjit Dhar DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The abduction and killing of businessman Prasanjit Dhar has sent shock waves across the state and several organizations have come forward and condemned the brutal incident.

PUBLIC OF DMC WARD NO 15

The public of Ward No 15 vehemently condemn the gruesome murder of the abducted businessman Prasanjit Dhar of Lhomithi village, Dimapur by unidentified men who held him captive for four days for ransom and later murdered him in most barbaric manner. Late Prasanjit was a simple natured businessman who was liked by all for his simplicity and honesty. Targeting a person like him is a direct attack not only on the business community of Dimapur but on peace loving residents of Dimapur, which must be condemned by all peace loving citizens and stand upright against the atrocities committed upon the innocent people. If such heinous acts are not put to end at this stage then there will be a time when our society will have to face worse of the situation. Member DMC Ward No. 15 Simon Yepthomi while condemning the murder, on behalf of the Dimapur Municipal Council convey deepest condolence to the members of the bereaved family

members and pray that God October 20 has discussed on almighty would comfort the recent incident of kidnapthem at this time of sorrow. ping and killing of businessmen Late Prasanjit Dhar. The NMBOA Councilors expressed shock The entire business com- and anguish on the ‘barbaric munity of Dimapur has ex- action of the anti social elepressed shocked over the ments.’ DMC has raised the inhuman killing of Late question “on the duties of the Prasanjit Dhar who was ab- law enforcing agencies and ducted from his residence in also question on the present the morning of October 16 by system of issuing sim cards by unidentified miscreants for the Cell Phone Companies to ransom. “In the manner in the customers. DMC Senior which he was killed, the New Councilor Atomu in a release Market Business Owners As- advice to restrain all concern sociation (NMBOA) feels, is phone companies from isthe most inhuman and bar- suing sim cards randomly baric act which has no place in without following the norms the society like ours. The busi- inorder to check the criminal ness community in particular activities in the society. and the public in general are no safer from those designers WSSU of evil who are out to destroy The Western Sumi Stuthe society,” Hokivi Chishi dents’ Union (WSSU) has President, NMBOA stated in strongly condemned the aca condemnation letter. tivities in Dimapur including The NMBOA strongly abduction for ransom, extorcondemn the killing of an tion, intimidation, especially innocent businessman and against business community urge the law enforcing agen- in Dimapur which has becy to step up its measures to come a daily routine. WSSU ensure the safety of the inno- General Secretary, P Iloto cent people and also conduct Zhimo while condemning the thorough investigation and unidentified miscreants for bring the culprits to book. killing of Prashanjit Dhar also The NMOBA expresses con- appealed to the administration dolence to the bereaved fam- to be more vigilant since the ily and pray for eternal peace fear psycho has gripped both of the departed soul. business community and innocent public due to frequent DMC incident of abduction for ranThe Dimapur Munici- som in Dimapur. The WSSU pal Council (DMC) in the has also conveyed deep condoCouncilor meeting held on lence to the bereaved family.

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The Morung Express WEDNESDAY 22 OCTOBER 2008 VOL. III ISSUE 293

Walking the tightrope

he headlines in recent months have sent shock waves through Naga society. In ways like never before, the public imagination is having to seriously contemplate upon the moral and social questions around the nature of crimes that the society is compelled to confront today; and more fundamentally, the profile of its offenders. For close knit community based societies, the scientific study of crimes has indicated that questions concerning crimes of a serious nature, such as homicide have always been difficult to redress in a clinical method largely because of the social implications and the concrete collective social perception on what it considers to be acceptable and unacceptable. Bearing in mind the overriding need of community based societies to maintain the balance of all harmonious relationship for its continued communal existence, a criminal justice system must be culturally evolved so that it is enabled to address both the ethics of justice as well as to ensure that the continuity of harmonious relationship in the society is not imbalanced as a result of the due process of law. This need is important because the roots of the present criminal justice system has been derived from within the social values and world views of a society that is centered on individualism; which remains insensitive to the nuances of community life. For quite some time the public conception of violence focused predominately around political and structural violence, so much to the extent that it failed to fully comprehend that the Naga society itself was increasingly becoming more vulnerable to violence, giving rise to crime. The recent incidences of teenagers and young people involved in serious offences of murder quite clearly reveal the disturbing fact that not only is our society become more prone to violent crimes, but the supposition that the offenders are within a young age group just simply cannot be ignored. The denial syndrome will only encourage it further and it requires us to address the question of violence from a broader societal context – be it political violence or socio-economic violence. Therefore, in light of the disturbing trend of increasing criminal offences particularly amongst the youths, the society by large need to objectively address the situation and introduce remedial measures. To begin with the Government of Nagaland should initiate an independent body of the highest qualification to do a study on the nature of crimes in the Naga context and the factors that are causing youths to take to them. In this case the behavioral impact of violent Hollywood and Bollywood movies, gang culture and violent videogames must also be studies thoroughly, considering that children in our society are exposed to them at a very early age, with no parental control or censorship. The role of trauma in contributing to violence must be studied in a more deliberate manner. The need to have a specially trained and well equipped team to investigate serious crimes like homicide cannot be more emphasized. Notwithstanding the important contribution of the regular police force, it is a matter of prudence to have a homicide unit with the specific purpose of investigating all cases of homicide in a professional manner which is culturally and socially sensitive to the people. Likewise, considering that the institutions of customary law itself have not developed sufficiently and scientifically enough to address complicated nature of crime, a criminal justice system that would be relevant to the context of the situation needs to be seriously explored. The responsibility of mass media in crime reporting needs honest deliberation and the media must acknowledge its accountability to the public in providing information, without sensationalizing the news and to avoid all forms of speculations while investigations are ongoing; and most of all by remaining sensitive to the needs of the affected families. This raises the need to also have journalist who are trained particularly for crime investigation and reporting. Perhaps in this concerted manner, we will be able to start engaging with the roots of the increasing violence. Finally, considering that the increasing crime rate has moral, social and spiritual implications, the responsibilities of religious institutions needs to be weighed. It would therefore be tragic if the highest institutions of the church, maintains the status quo, by stating, that its jurisdiction is only confined to the spiritual realms of human life!

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Source: The Economist

Not merely academic In religion as well as diplomacy, jaw-jaw is better than war-war

T’S a very long way from the cloisters of Cambridge to the Iraqi city of Mosul, where at least a dozen Christians have been killed this month, and hundreds of Christian families have fled, in that country’s latest sectarian mayhem. But Rowan Williams, head of the 80m-strong Anglican Communion, and Ali Gomaa, the grand mufti of Egypt, were doing their gallant best to minimise the distance as they presided, this week, over a new effort by the world’s leading Muslim and Christian scholars to understand each other. The threat facing Iraqi Christians had “undermined a centuries-old tradition of local Muslims protecting and nourishing the Christian community”, the two clerics carefully opined, as they pledged to create links between Western academia and Muslim universities, like Egypt’s 400,000-strong al-Azhar campus, a place which had already been awarding degrees for two centuries when Cambridge was founded in 1209. “Keep it cerebral” has been the watchword of a sort of strategic Muslim-Christian debate that was launched a year ago and is also bringing pundits together on American campuses such as Yale and Georgetown. Mustafa Ceric, Bosnia’s grand mufti, came to Cambridge to remind fellow clerics that Islam, and Muslim scholarship, has deep roots in European history. Mindful of the row he caused by saying sharia law had a future in Britain, the archbishop stressed some differences between the two faiths’ ideas on love and sacrifice. All a little too academic? Worthy utterances in universities may not ease the woes of Christians in Iraq, but they do reduce the chances that somebody will say the wrong thing and make the situation worse: it was a university lecture by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 that triggered anti-Christian violence in Muslim lands from Somalia to Turkey. Perhaps all participants in inter-faith discussions should observe the old doctors’ maxim: “First, do no harm.”

S O U N D BITE “I consider our bilateral relations with Japan to be one of the most important bilateral relationships we have. A strong India-Japan relationship will play a significant role in the emerging Asian security architecture and will contribute to the peace, stability and prosperity of Asia and the world.” Indian Prime Minster Manmohan Singh

“We are tired of the Americans coming over here and acting like they own the place.”

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari

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Mountain Trails to Peace

fghanistan has become the object of tough talk in the midst of gentler feelers toward negotiations. A revived US air war with its casual concern for civilians has also begun. More troops, notably American, are in the pipeline. The familiar calls to build the Afghan military and police force, the routine mantra to every invasion, is heard as regularly as the call of the minaret among the foreign forces stationed there. And finally the hand wringing over the slow pace of development and its cousin corruption is always present. Behind these cheerless calls for nation building is the shadowy ghost of Al Queda and the opium trade. What are we to make of this? How can people with a commitment to lowering the level of violence, advocate in any positive direction? In the short span of a century three great empire builders, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States and allies in succession have fallen short of their goals for victory over or within the Afghan nation’s multi-ethnic collection of 32 million peoples in seven primary ethnic groups. Should we choose to do so we may learn from these experiences. Afghanistan, particularly its southern and eastern sector is made up of an interlocking quilt of Pashtun tribes, clans, villages, alliances and overlays of larger movements like the Taliban and other religious or economic connections. These groups have a long history of work together, vendettas, violence and complex formulas for dispute settlement that sometimes require generations to conclude. They know how to negotiate with each other and usually believe, like most people in the world that violence must be answered in kind - an eye for an eye. This cacophony of expectations, assumptions and cultural patterns are not the expertise of visiting soldiers, distantly trained development sages or the long arms of central governments. Even the Pakistani government has learned to tread lightly in these tribal areas and has been known to get burned from thoughtless policies. Who are these Pashtun people? The Taliban is not the only supra tribal militant organization to appear among the Pashtun in the last century. Badshah Khan, a child of a Pashtun elder near Peshawar, Pakistan burst on the scene less than a century ago and organized his people into the 100,000 person Khudai Khidmatgar (Servents of God), one of the largest nonviolent armies the world has known. This pan tribal movement that allied itself with Gandhi’s freedom work was highly disciplined and its members were often arrested, beaten, jailed and even killed by the British imperial forces. After the Salt Satyagraha (Salt March) organized in India in 1930, over 200 Khudai Khidmatgar were shot and killed by British Imperial forces in Peshawar. When people joined the Khudai Khidmatgar they took an oath.

“I am a Servant of God, and as God needs no service, serving His creation is serving Him, I promise to serve humanity in the name of God. I promise to refrain from violence and from taking revenge... I promise to live a simple life, to practice virtue, and to refrain from evil.” (See end of article for complete oath)

Badshah Khan, the movement’s leader, led a long life. When he died in 1988 the civil war then raging in Afghanistan was temporarily suspended and two hundred thousand people gathered in Jalalabad, Af-

were to receive the kind of subsidy that some farmers around the world receive to plant their more desirable crops. In order for any of this to happen they believe that they must have at least a semblance of peace. Experience has taught them, like it is preached elsewhere, that peace comes through force, strength and resistance to the silly outsiders, crazy with bullets, brawn and new trinkets for war. When the Taliban appear with an organization, a strategy and a vision consistent with at least some deeper religious values there is little wonder that support unfolds. But this support is not aimed at a permanent state of war. It is to achieve a state of peace. Like President Bush many Pashtun believe in peace through force.

lage classrooms by village suras (councils). Without the threats from the air and enemy soldiers they know how to find a way across enemy lines to fashion thousands of local treaties. Like their ancestors going all the way back to Alexander the Great they may even discover a tentative tolerance of central governments if those governments learn the lessons of history - leave their culture to unfold as it will so that those hearts that were formed by the two strategies of active resistence can inform real solutions. The opium problem can find its own demise based on the convictions of Pashtun tribal people. In the end their solution arising from the character of lived culture will be faster than the high tech chemical defoliants manufactured in distant factories. As for Al Queda, it would have fewer allies among Pashtun peoples if the US government and its allies were less insistent that their modern nation building vision was so right. The message of the US, Canadian, and NATO guns and air planes is that the tribal way will be destroyed. This is not a message that Pashtun people or people anywhere welcome. Nations do not get built by foreigners weighted down with heavy advice. Nations get built when the internal time is right. The Oath of the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God)

ghanistan for his funeral. He was a strong independent minded leader who was fearless in struggle, spent years in prison under both British and Pakistani rule. His pan Pashtun movement kept the Pashtun people, long feared and on the fringe of the British Raj, knitted to the larger political and social developments of the region during the period of the independence struggle. Taliban leadership is more diffuse and reflects a second generation working through negotiations, pressure, force and traditional alliance to craft a coalition. Both built international alliances as part of the long term struggle for security. Today the tribes of south and eastern Afghanistan want to be able to feed themselves and even improve their lives a little. They want to sell crops or other items to earn money. In general they know how to farm, organize irrigation and care for the land. They are no more inclined to give up their opium crops that bring a good price than other farmers around the world are about to give up high priced corn, or cattle which may also be unhealthy. Of course their love affair with opium as a cash crop might be reconsidered if they

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Letters to the Editor Illegal Immigrants creating Naga crisis •Sir-Nagas are well known in the four corners of the Universe as an Indigenous people having unique culture and traditional identity. Each tribal community having a distinct tradition and customary laws safeguarding the ancestral land. But it is slowly deteriorating and diminishing because of the influx of the illegal immigrant sheltering in every nook and corners of the Naga ancestral home and whereby creating an identity crisis to the Naga community at the present time which we cannot deny the fact. Today, we can see many social evil practicing in our land which is in no way related to our culture and tradition but it is a foreign culture, which our younger generations have already adopted, and it is no doubt becoming a harmful practice. Work culture vanishes as and when our Nagas began to keep the illegal immigrants in our land. Everyday hundreds of illegal immigrants are poured down at the railway station Dimapur, who were being flushed out from our neighboring states like Arunachal Pradesh, Assam etc. Knowing the negligence and ignorance of the Naga people about them interestingly Dimapur the commercial hub of Nagaland has become the homeland of the illegal immigrant. The hospitality and the kindness towards the so called illegal immigrant have become a worm that is swallowing the indigenous identity of the Nagas. Where after some few years we will be losing our identity and as a laymen my opinion and views in this regard does not mean in no way to discriminate the foreigner or non-Nagas residing at our homeland, but as a concern Naga citizens it is a serious matter where every Naga youngster should ponder upon for our upcoming generation to once again live with Pride as an Indigenous People. Know that- We are majority in our land, who have an independent and a direct control over its Ancestral Land and its resources, and a people having political self-determination. Kuknalim. Kenneth Rengma Student Activist, DNSU, Dimapur

All conflicts do eventually end. Some end when one side is able to overwhelmingly defeat the other side. This is most unlikely in Afghanistan where grievances are passed from generation to generation during which the international supporters always lose interest. Usually there are negotiated ends to armed conflicts. This occurs especially when one side or both just get tired of the battle and are collectively exhausted. Practitioners of conflict resolution and diplomacy believe that a resolution can happen faster when their science is applied in a sustained way over time often with the help of various confidence building measures. Two of the many sides of the Pashtun character in struggle are revealed in the strategies of the Khudai Khidmatgar and the Taliban. We can say confidently that the Taliban will never be permanently defeated on the battlefield. Their predecessors, The Servants of God, were also never defeated by British bullets. Today if you travelled the bazaars of Peshawar and Afghanistan as I have, you will find the children of the Khudai Khidmatgar still bringing the fruits of nonviolent struggle to the people, evolving traditional methods of conflict resolution often worked out in vil-

I am a Servant of God, and as God needs no service, serving His creation is serving Him, I promise to serve humanity in the name of God. I promise to refrain from violence and from taking revenge. I promise to forgive those who oppress me or treat me with cruelty. I promise to refrain from taking part in feuds and quarrels and from creating enmity. I promise to treat every Pasthun as my brother and friend. I promise to refrain from antisocial customs and practices. I promise to live a simple life, to practice virtue, and to refrain from evil. I promise to practice good manners and good behavior and not to lead a life of idleness. I promise to devote at least two hours a day to social work. I put forth my name in honesty and truthfulness to become a true Servant of God. I will sacrifice my wealth, life, and comfort for the liberty of my nation and people. I will never be a party to factions, hatred, or jealousies with my people; and will side with the oppressed against the oppressor. I will not become a member of any other rival organization, nor will I stand in an army. I will faithfully obey all legitimate orders of all my officers all the time. I will live in accordance with the principles of nonviolence. I will serve all God’s creatures alike; and my object shall be the attainment of the freedom of my country and my religion. I will always see to it that I do what is right and good. I will never desire any reward whatever for my service. All my efforts shall be to please God, and not for any show or gain.

Paul Krugman

ast month, when the U.S. Treasury Department allowed Lehman Brothers to fail, I wrote that Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, was playing financial Russian roulette. Sure enough, there was a bullet in that chamber: Lehman’s failure caused the world financial crisis, already severe, to get much, much worse. The consequences of Lehman’s fall were apparent within days, yet key policy players have largely wasted the past four weeks. Now they’ve reached a moment of truth: They’d better do something soon — in fact, they’d better announce a coordinated rescue plan this weekend — or the world economy may well experience its worst slump since the Great Depression. Let’s talk about where we are right now. The current crisis started with a burst housing bubble, which led to widespread mortgage defaults, and hence to large losses at many financial institutions. That initial shock was compounded by secondary effects, as lack of capital forced banks to pull back, leading to further declines in the prices of assets, leading to more losses, and so on — a vicious circle of “deleveraging.” Pervasive loss of trust in banks, including on the part of other banks, reinforced the vicious circle. The downward spiral accelerated post-Lehman. Money markets, already troubled, effectively shut down — one line currently making the rounds is that the only things anyone wants to buy right now are Treasury bills and bottled water. The response to this downward spiral on the part of the world’s two great monetary powers — the United States, on one side, and the 15 na-

tions that use the Euro, on the other — has been woefully inadequate. Europe, lacking a common government, has literally been unable to get its act together; each country has been making up its own policy, with little coordination, and proposals for a unified response have gone nowhere. The United States should have been in a much stronger position. And when Mr. Paulson announced his plan for a huge bailout, there was a temporary surge of optimism. But it soon became clear that the plan suffered from a fatal lack of intellectual clarity. Mr. Paulson proposed buying $700 billion worth of “troubled assets” — toxic mortgagerelated securities — from banks, but he was never able to explain why this

WRITE-WING would resolve the crisis. What he should have proposed instead, many economists agree, was direct injection of capital into financial firms: The U.S. government would provide financial institutions with the capital they need to do business, thereby halting the downward spiral, in return for partial ownership. When Congress modified the Paulson plan, it introduced provisions that made such a capital injection possible, but not mandatory. And until two days ago, Mr. Paulson remained resolutely opposed to doing the right thing. But on Wednesday the British government, showing the kind of clear thinking that has been all too scarce on this side of the pond, announced a plan to provide banks with £50 billion in new capital — the equivalent, relative to the size of the economy, of a $500 billion program here — together

with extensive guarantees for financial transactions between banks. And U.S. Treasury officials now say that they plan to do something similar, using the authority they didn’t want but Congress gave them anyway. The question now is whether these moves are too little, too late. I don’t think so, but it will be very alarming if this weekend rolls by without a credible announcement of a new financial rescue plan, involving not just the United States but all the major players. Why do we need international cooperation? Because we have a globalized financial system in which a crisis that began with a bubble in Florida condos and California McMansions has caused monetary catastrophe in Iceland. We’re all in this together, and need a shared solution. Why this weekend? Because there happen to be two big meetings taking place in Washington: a meeting of top financial officials from the major advanced nations on Friday, then the annual International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting Saturday and Sunday. If these meetings end without at least an agreement in principle on a global rescue plan — if everyone goes home with nothing more than vague assertions that they intend to stay on top of the situation — a golden opportunity will have been missed, and the downward spiral could easily get even worse. What should be done? The United States and Europe should just say “Yes, prime minister.” The British plan isn’t perfect, but there’s widespread agreement among economists that it offers by far the best available template for a broader rescue effort. And the time to act is now. You may think that things can’t get any worse — but they can, and if nothing is done in the next few days, they will.

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PERSPECTIVE NEWS ANALYSIS, FEATURE AND DISCOURSE

If Elected ... How would If Elected ... How would a President McCain govern? President Obama govern?

NANCY BENAC

Associated Press Writer

rabble-rouser from his earliest days, John McCain has never been one who likes to be told "no." There's no reason to think a President McCain would be any different. McCain styles himself as a Teddy Roosevelt Republican, eager to be in the arena. If elected, he could be expected to pick certain issues and push them to the limit. Look for him to throw down the gauntlet in a few high-profile battles - vetoing legislation larded with pork-barrel projects, for example. He's already promised to make an example of legislators who try to finagle government dollars for pet projects without thorough review, saying over and over, "You will know their names. I will make them famous." He'd plant his feet firmly in resisting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. He'd try to give people new tax credits for health insurance and - in a first for a Republican president â&#x20AC;&#x201C; move to deal aggressively with global warming even while opening more offshore waters to oil drilling. But his my-way-or-the-highway approach would only take him so far, particularly when the nation's economic crisis is sure to limit maneuvering room for whoever becomes the nation's 44th president. And especially for McCain, since Democrats are likely to strengthen their majorities in the House and Senate come Election Day. As a candidate, McCain has stressed his ability to work with congressional Democrats while standing up to those in his own party. There's no skill he'd need more if elected. "He's going to have to truly be the maverick McCain who takes on his own party," said Darrell West, director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, a think tank. "He will not be able to govern as a conservative Republican." McCain's task would be further complicated by the conservative stances he adopted during the campaign season. "If he compromises too much with the Democrats, he'll face a grass-roots rebellion from conservative activists who were always suspicious that McCain is not one of them," West said. McCain talks boldly about what he could accomplish if voters put him to work at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. Even in the face of the economic meltdown, he has continued to set high expectations. Strengthening Social Security? "Look, it's not that hard to fix Social Security. It's just tough decisions." Finding Osama bin Laden? "I'll get him no matter what, and I know how to do it." Financial chaos? "The point is we can fix our economy." What about the triple challenges of health care, energy policy and entitlement reforms? "We can do them all at once." In short, he says,

"We need to change the way government does almost everything." McCain's good friend Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, envisions McCain using the presidency in a big way. "Man, would we do a lot if he got to be president," Graham says. "He would push Congress to do things it should've done 20 years ago." This is how McCain framed his mission when he announced his candidacy on April 25, 2007, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. "I'm not running for president to be somebody, but to do something; to do the hard but necessary things, not the easy and needless things." For all that bullish talk, though, McCain knows he will have to display a measure of pragmatism. Three times in recent weeks, for example, he has supported legislation allowing thousands of pork-barrel projects to go forward, rather than oppose bills that contained other important features such as the $700 billion financial rescue package. And although neither candidate wants to talk about it, the financial crisis surely will narrow the next president's possibilities. "This financial crisis may just have pulled the rug out from under any meaningful honeymoon, when a president tries to identify his top priorities and exploit the honeymoon period," said Steven Smith, a political science professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Instead, Smith said, "A major part of the next president's first State of the Union address will be how we proceed after getting through the first stages of this crisis. ... There are going to be pretty massive restraints on new initiatives." Even McCain's promises to cut government spending would be tougher to fulfill because of the economic mess, Smith said, because "it doesn't make a lot of sense economically, when we might be headed into a recession, to radically reduce the federal deficit." McCain himself has acknowledged that the economy is not his strong suit, meaning he'd have to rely heavily on his staff and Cabinet. McCain is more comfortable dealing with foreign policy than domestic affairs, and he'd have a freer hand there. The former Vietnam prisoner of war, and son and grandson of admirals, eagerly claims the credentials to serve as commander in chief. He refuses to set a timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, and pledges unspecified troop increases in Afghanistan. For all his years in the public eye, the 72-year-old McCain, a four-term senator, has had little in the way of executive experience, making it harder to predict his governing style. Calvin Mackenzie, a Colby College professor who has written a paper about predicting presidential performance, says McCain could be expected to take a strong stand on a few symbolic issues and willingly delegate other major policy matters. Despite McCain's many campaign promises, says Mackenzie, "I can see a presidency like Eisenhower's, a sort of senior statesman capping his career as president without much of an agenda to do anything and not pushing very far on policy initiatives." Mackenzie predicts McCain would be afflicted with the same malady as Richard Nixon, who savored foreign policy but was less interested in the budget and other domestic matters, a disease known as MEGO, short for My Eyes Glaze Over. "I think we'd see a lot of that with McCain," he said. One thing that can be predicted with confidence is McCain's unpredictability - he's gone out of his way to do the unexpected. "I can imagine McCain, on one issue or another, trying to come up with surprise agreements," says Smith. That could help McCain set the agenda in a way that makes it difficult for opponents to take it in a different direction. McCain also can be sure to show at least flashes of his famous temper. That can be used to dramatic effect, to underscore one's resolve. But it can also backfire. "I think members of Congress won't like that style in the White House," said West. "That will make it more difficult for him to bargain and negotiate with members of Congress. I mean, they don't like getting yelled at." And given McCain's advanced age, speculation would be strong from Day One about whether he'd seek re-election. That could portend an even more independent Senate, with lots of jockeying by potential presidential candidates for 2012. Much has been made of McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as a running mate, and questions have been asked about her qualifications to serve as vice president. Palin says she and McCain have identified three areas where she would take the lead: promoting energy independence, reform of government overall and working with families who have children with special needs. Those fit with Palin's background: As Alaska's governor, Palin has dealt with a variety of oil and gas issues, and has pushed for government reforms. She also has a six-month-old child, Trig, with Down Syndrome. Smith envisions McCain working with Palin in a way that is akin to how the first President George H. W. Bush used Vice President Dan Quayle - delegating broad responsibility in a few specific areas rather than relying on the vice president to serve as an all-purpose adviser in the style of vice presidents Dick Cheney or Al Gore. That means McCain could end up leaning more heavily on his secretaries of State and Defense. He has promised to include Democrats in his Cabinet, and his friend Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent, also has been the subject of speculation for a Cabinet slot.

JENNIFER LOVEN

Associated Press Writer

or all Barack Obama's talk about change, there are signs that in style if not substance - a new White House under Democrat Obama would operate much like the current one under President George W. Bush. Think discipline, efficiency and secrecy. These are hallmarks of Obama's campaign, just as they have been for the last eight years in the leak-proof, tightly managed Bush administration. If Obama becomes the nation's 44th president, however, the extraordinary history-making aspects of his ascension could for a time overshadow almost everything else. The nation would have its first black leader, one of its youngest presidents ever and someone with a varied, even exotic, background. The book on the United States' checkered history of race relations would add a new chapter. And even if Obama's honeymoon was short-lived, the world would see America in a new light. There are other ways, small and large, that an Obama White House promises to usher in newness. Obama's two daughters, at ages 10 and 7, would be the youngest residents to roam the White House since 9-year-old Amy Carter tagged along with President Jimmy Carter and his wife in 1977. Obama's poise at the podium would end an era of water-cooler jokes about presidential malapropisms. On issues, Obama's approach on everything from Iraq to health care would look much different from the last eight years. He has pledged to preside over an unconventional style of politics and policy development virtually blind to party, an intriguing possibility even if hard to trust after years of divisive partisanship. Circumstances often spring game-changing surprises on a new president. But how candidate Obama has managed his campaign, and what he's promised along the way, offer hints of how a President Obama would govern. Obama, like Bush, demands an orderly shop. Aides are expected to be both tightlipped and tight-knit. They get a "no drama" speech upon hire. And even if that rule is violated, histrionic disagreements over strategy, policy or personality are expected to stay behind closed doors, and they actually do. Most events come off like clockwork. Obama's style as a candidate predicts a chief executive officer-style president, one who delegates rather than micromanages. It's the same model as for Bush, the nation's first president with a masters in business administration. It derives in part from something the two men have in common: natural political gifts that set them on a path to the White House that took shortcuts around much government experience. That means policy experts are needed for heavy lifting. The 47-year-old Obama hasn't finished his first term in the U.S. Senate, and before that had just eight years as a state lawmaker under his government belt. Obama, like Bush, relies most on a small, hard-to-penetrate inner circle. It's been a successful formula, but can irk power players in his party and in Congress, who sometimes see Team Obama as too insular. This image was only fed by the decision to place Obama's campaign headquarters far from Washington in Chicago and the way his campaign used the Internet and grass-roots supporters, more than party bosses, to capitalize on the Obama phenomenon. Obama's discipline is less about the importance of secrecy and more about making the organizational trains run on time, said Princeton University political historian Julian Zelizer. Bush and Obama stand for very different things, says Zelizer, but Obama "runs his campaign with the same sort of methodical efficiency and closed nature of the Bush White House." "He's not going to have a freewheeling White House where people are free to go out on their own and do what they want and be allowed to talk to the press," Zelizer said. Sen. Dick Durbin, a longtime Obama friend and fellow Illinois Democrat, says Obama created a tight ship in part by being willing to hear things he doesn't like from aides, and by not ripping into them when mistakes were made. "There were setbacks, but there was no bloodletting," he said. Obama is known for his loyalty, as well as for preferring aides who keep their mind on the work and the attention on the boss. Know much about David Plouffe or Valerie Jarrett or Pete Rouse or Steve Hildebrand or Robert Gibbs or David Axelrod? These campaign masterminds could well soon have offices in the White House, but none has become a celebrity aide in the mold of Bill Clinton's James Carville or Bush's Karl Rove. Obama's own style combines cool-to-the-point-of-detached bearing with cerebral decision-making and natural charisma. His Republican rival, John McCain, casts Obama as indecisive, inexperienced, and aloof - a celebrity empty suit. Obama's camp counters that he is a leader who thinks first, decides later and remains calm in a crisis. Regardless, Zelizer said, Obama will need to guard against abandoning his natural caution to launch a spree of legislative action right off the bat. Going too far to please Dem-

ocrats excited about finally being in control again of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue could risk a backlash from the public, he said. With all the attention that is paid to a president's first 100 days in office, candidates themselves often divide their proposals between those with get-it-done-now status and those that will have to wait. One issue that won't wait even until Inauguration Day is the battered economy. Obama supports immediate action, in a special post-election congressional session, to spend billions on new economic stimulus measures. His ideas: a moratorium on home foreclosures, tax breaks for job creation and small-business investment, penalty-free withdrawals from retirement accounts, an unemployment benefits extension, support for state and local governments, money for infrastructure construction, and doubled loan guarantees for automakers. Beyond that, Obama has defined three big issues for the first 100 days of his presidency: working to bring combat troops home from Iraq in a little over a year, beginning a plan to achieve universal health care coverage, and getting started on a far-reaching energy plan. During 20 months of campaigning, he also has promised that many other things will gain his immediate attention, among them: immigration reform; a strict ethics code; a review of Bush's executive orders, particularly those dealing with warrantless wiretaps, the prison at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base, and interrogation techniques; and a rural policy summit in Iowa with accompanying legislative proposals to Congress. With an economic emergency at hand, many may have to be postponed. But for a man whose candidacy got rocket fuel from his opposition to the decision to go into Iraq, the one promise Obama cannot afford to put off is the one to end the war. Obama has promised that ending the war would be a priority not for his first 100 days in office - but for his very first. The Joint Chiefs of Staff will find themselves in the Oval Office on Jan. 21, he says, being handed a new mission from their commander in chief "to end this war, responsibly and deliberately, but decisively." In all these things, Obama has reached big. That means he would need to spend a fair amount of time early on building bridges to Capitol Hill. Working with a Congress controlled by his own party doesn't guarantee he'd easily get what he wants. To marshal public support for his agenda, he'll need to draw on his vaunted oratorical skills. His speeches may be as measured as his "No Drama Obama" demeanor. But with subtle shifts in volume and pacing, Obama can move an audience to thunderous ovation or hushed attention. That's a potent tool, in governing as well as politics. "The smart thing to do," Zelizer said, "would be to keep that up."

THE CANDIDATES AND THEIR PROMISES

The Associated Press

IRAQ-AFGHANISTAN McCain: Opposes scheduling a troop withdrawal from Iraq, saying latest strategy is succeeding. Promises to employ same strategy in Afghanistan, with unspecified boost in U.S. forces there. Willing to have permanent U.S. peacekeeping forces in Iraq. Obama: Promises to complete the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops within 16 months of taking office. But hedges by saying this would require consultations with military commanders and, possibly, flexibility. Says he will use the drawdown to bolster U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan. FINANCIAL CRISIS McCain: Proposes $300 billion plan for the government to buy bad mortgages and renegotiate them at a reduced price. Proposes a one-year suspension of requirements that people age 70 1/2 begin cashing in retirement

accounts. Would eliminate taxes on unemployment benefits; guarantee 100 percent of all savings for six months; lower the tax rate on retirement funds to the lowest rate, 10 percent, on the first $50,000 withdrawn; cut the tax rate on capital gains in half, down to 7.5 percent for two years.

power reactors by 2030. Seeks mandatory reductions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases by 60 percent from 1990 levels by 2050, using a market-based cap-and-trade system the would increase energy costs. Supports $2 billion program to develop carbon capture and other clean coal research and development. $5,000 tax credit for Obama: Calls for immediate, post- the purchase of zero carbon emission election passage of new stimulus mea- cars; $300 million prize for improved sures including a 90-day moratorium on batteries for hybrid vehicles. home foreclosures at some banks, $3,000 tax break to businesses for each new job Obama: Proposes emergency costcreated, unpenalized withdrawals of up fighting measures such as a windfallto $10,000 from retirement accounts, profits tax on largest oil companies to cutting capital gains taxes for invest- pay for energy rebates of up to $1,000 ment in small businesses, an extension per couple and the release of up to of unemployment benefits, short-term 70 million barrels of oil from Stratefederal loans to keep state and local gov- gic Petroleum Reserve to boost supernments functioning, money for in- plies. Ten-year, $150 billion fund to frastructure construction, and doubled encourage biofuels, wind, solar, plugloan guarantees for automakers. in hybrids, clean-coal technology and other "climate-friendly" alternaENERGY tive supplies, with financing to come McCain: Advocates increased off- from selling pollution allowances in a shore drilling, and building 45 nuclear market-based, cap-and-trade system.

Aims for mandatory reductions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050. Supports increasing federal fuel economy requirements from 35 mpg to 40 mpg. Now would consider limited expansion of offshore oil and gas drilling, but opposes drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

HEALTH CARE McCain: Promises $2,500 refundable tax credit for individuals, $5,000 for families, to make health insurance more affordable. No mandate for universal coverage. Would no longer shield from income taxes those payments that businesses and their workers make toward employer-sponsored health insurance. Would let people buy health plans offered by insurers located in other states. Obama: Proposes mandatory coverage for children, no mandate for adults. Aims for universal coverage by requiring larger employers to

share costs of insuring workers and by offering coverage similar to that in plan for federal employees. Proposes spending $50 billion on information technology over five years to reduce health care costs over time.

students who perform 100 hours of community service a year.

TAXES McCain: Proposes extending all of President Bush's tax cuts and cutting corporate tax rate to 25 percent. After EDUCATION initially pledging not to raise taxes, McCain: Proposes more money for now says nothing can be ruled out in community college education. Ad- negotiating compromises to keep Sovocates expansion of District of Co- cial Security solvent. lumbia's voucher program, but not a federal voucher program as he did in Obama: Promises immediate tax 2000. Sees No Child Left Behind law cuts for households making under as vehicle for increasing opportuni- $250,000, and increased taxes on ties for parents to choose school. families making over $250,000, as well as on corporations and capital Obama: Proposes encouraging, but gains. Promises to create new tax not mandating, universal pre-kin- breaks for lower-income families, indergarten; teacher pay raises tied to, cluding tripling Earned Income Tax although not based solely on, test Credit for minimum-wage workscores; an overhaul of No Child Left ers, giving larger families a higher Behind law to better measure student credit, and eliminating the tax-filing progress, make room for subjects like requirement for older workers makmusic and art, and be less punitive to- ing under $50,000. Also calls for tax ward failing schools; and a tax credit incentives for savings, child care and to pay up to $4,000 of college costs for mortgage expenses.

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Wednesday 22 October 2008

NEWS FILE CEC to review Assembly election preparations on October 24

RAIPUR, OCTOBER 21 (AGENCIES): The Chief Election Commissioner N Gopalaswami will review the Assembly election preparations on October 24 here, official sources said. A high-level meeting including the Chief Election Commissioner, Election Commissioners Naveen Chawla and S Y Qureshi will review upcoming polls preparations, officials said. The CEC will arrive here on October 24 and return the next day, they said.

No trial under POTA if review committee decides otherwise: SC NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): The Supreme Court today held that a trial under POTA cannot proceed once the review committee gives the finding that the offence against the accused cannot be made out under the anti-terror law. However, the apex court said the state can always file an appeal against POTA review committee. The verdict was pronounced by a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan on a bunch of petitions filed by the accused in the Godhra train carnage challenging the decision to prosecute them under the anti-terror law even after the Gujarat state POTA review committee had held that offence under POTA cannot be made out against them.

RJD supremo demands probe into Jamia encounter NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 21 (AGENCIES): Joining Samajwadi Party over the Jamia encounter issue, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Tuesday demanded an inquiry into the gunbattle, saying it will help to clear all doubts. The government should order a probe to come clean on the Jamia Nagar encounter in South Delhi, Prasad said on the sidelines of a railway seminar. “I had spoken to the Prime Minister and Home Minister on the matter. I told them the need for such a probe,” he said. However, the minister did not insist on judicial probe. “I am not asking specifically for a judicial probe. But there should be a probe to clear all doubts,” RJD chief said. Prasad also pointed out that the matter was raised in the National Integration Council meeting where many political parties and individuals demanded a probe into the incident. Earlier, Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh had demanded a judicial probe into the incident.

Yoga guru slams religious conversion

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ROURKELA, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): Yoga guru Swami Ramdev has criticised religious conversion by inducement and said he would work to build a healthy and stronger India by taking the benefits of yoga and ayurveda to more than six lakh villages in two years. Ramdev, who is here to attend a six-day yoga camp that began on Tuesday, told reporters that religious conversion in the name of providing service should be stopped in the country. Condemning the killing of Lakshmananda Saraswati, the Yoga guru called for restoration of peace and harmony and said reactionary religious practices lead to confrontation. No religion permits violence, he said. Describing himself to be a ‘patriot’, he touched upon a host of political issues and spelt out his desire to float Bharat Swabhiman Manch (BSM), which would work to bring a revolutionary change in the eroding individual and national character. Referring to his mission for healthy nation, he said his Dibya Yoga Mandir Trust is working overtime to ensure availability of at least one yoga trainer in each village. The Dibya Yoga Mandir Trust has received a donation of Rs 400 crore and plans afoot to set up a mega integrated university on yoga and ayurveda study, he claimed.

Chandrayaan-1 embarks on 2-year moon mission today BANGALORE, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): If things go as planned, India's unmanned moon spacecraft – Chandrayaan-1 – embarks on a two-year mission tomorrow seeking to throw more light on earth's only natural satellite. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) spokesman S Satish said the sky is overcast and there are heavy rains, but it is not a cause for worry. A delay will happen only in case of a cyclone or lightning. Rains will not hamper the spacecraft's lift off, ISRO sources said. "Only cyclone-related incidents and lightning could force a delay," the sources said. The lift-off is slated around 0620 hours on board indigenously-built rocket, PSLV-C11, from the spaceport of Sriharikota on the east coast in Andhra Pradesh, some 100 kms north of Chennai. The event would mark India's entry into select band of lunar explorers – the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan, China, the US and Russia which have undertaken moon missions. "Basically, this (Chandrayaan-1) is meant for a comprehensive mapping of the lunar surface," ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair told PTI. "Earlier missions (by others) focused on specific regions or looked at one aspect or other only. It's for the first time (in the world) that we will have the entire lunar surface mapped up." Chandrayaan-1 is seen by some analysis as a move by India to catch up with Asian rivals China and Japan, and not lag behind in the race for moon. Coupled with the "pride factor", Chandrayaan-1 would signal India's rising international stature, seen as a reflection of its space prowess as well as build on its technological capability to undertake inter-planetary missions in the coming years.

Chandrayaan-1 to carry instruments from NASA NEW YORK: India's maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, will carry two instruments from the American space agency NASA which will assess mineral resources and map the polar regions and look for ice deposits. The American agency said the data from the two instruments Mineralogy Mapper and Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-

Critics question moon mission

In this undated photo provided by the Indian Space Research Organization, Chandrayaan-1, India's maiden lunar mission, is taken to the launch pad in this undated photo at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100 kilometers (63 miles) north of Chennai. India was set to launch its ﬁrst lunar mission from the center in southern India at 06:20 a.m (0050 GMT) Wednesday October 22, putting the country in an elite group of nations with the scientific know-how to reach the moon, but also heating up a burgeoning Asian space race. The 3,000 pound (1,400 kilogram) satellite Chandrayaan-1 (Moon Craft in ancient Sanskrit) will join Japanese and Chinese crafts currently in orbit around the moon for a two-year mission designed to map out the whole lunar surface. (AP Photo)

SAR) will contribute to its understanding of the lunar environment and are part of its implementation of its space exploration policy which calls for robotic and human missions to the moon. "The opportunity to fly NASA instruments on Chandrayaan-1 undoubtedly will lead to important scientific discoveries," NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said. "This exciting collaboration represents an important next step in what we hope to be a long and mutually beneficial relationship with India in future civil space exploration." The Moon Mineralogy Mapper is a state-ofthe-art imaging spectrometer that will provide

Deshmukh on arrest

Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, reacting to Raj's arrest, said the police have arrested an individual who had taken the law into his own hands. "There was no pressure from the Centre and we will now strictly follow the legal procedure," he said. Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil said the state government by arresting Thackeray had shown that "he was not above the law"."He had said to show the courage to arrest him and we have done so," Patil said. Meanwhile, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi, on a three-day tour to Uttarakhand, said that Raj Thackeray's policies are divieding the country. Earlier, the MNS chief had justified Sunday’s attacks and warned the state that it will have to "regret" the conse-

the first map of the entire lunar surface at high spatial and spectral resolution, revealing the minerals that make up the moon's surface. Scientists will use this information to answer questions about the moon's origin and geological development, as well as the evolution of terrestrial planets in the early solar system. The map may also be used by astronauts to locate resources, possibly including water, that can support exploration of the moon and beyond. India's mission is carrying a Moon Impactor Probe, the brainchild of former President and scientist APJ Abdul Kalam, which will detach from the spacecraft and land on the moon.

Being a Gandhi helped me in politics: Rahul

RAMPUR (UTTARAKHAND), OCTOBER 20 (PTI): Acknowledging that he was in politics because of his lineage to the GandhiNehru family, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he wanted to change the system of politician's family members getting easy entrance into politics. "I would not have been here, if I was not from a political family. If you do not have money, a family or friends, you cannot enter politics," Rahul told a group of girls here. The Amethi MP said it was "easy" for him to get an entry in politics as his "father was in politics, grandmother was in politics and great grandfather too was in politics. "But I want to change this," he said during the nearly hour-long interaction on the first day of his

three-day visit to Uttarakhand. He said he wanted to change this situation by introducing elections for posts in NSUI and the Indian Youth Congress of which he is the AICC General Secretary incharge. "In India, political parties have a nomination system in their parties. Who holds what position is decided at the top. “In this system, the voice of the youth is drowned,” he said, adding by introducing elections for posts in youth Congress and NSUI, a new beginning is being made. Emphasising on the selection of leaders through party elections, he said the doors of the two organiCongress party leader Rahul Gandhi, in sations (NSUI and IYC) were now white dress, interacts with college stu- open for all and acquaintance with dents at Ramnagar in Uttarakhand state, senior leaders is not important to Monday, October 20.( AP Photo) become an office-bearer.

Raj Thackeray sent to 14-day judicial custody

MUMBAI, OCTOBER 21 (AGENCIES): MNS chief Raj Thackeray was sent to two-week judicial custody till November 4 by a Bandra court on Tuesday. Raj was sent to judicial custody in connection with a case filed against him in Kalyan, after MNS activists beat up students there. He was however granted bail on a surety of Rs 15,000 in the Kherwadi case, where MNS men attacked North Indian candidates appearing in a rail exam on Sunday. The MNS chief was produced before the Bandra court after being arrested by Mumbai Police from Ratnagiri in the wee hours of Tuesday. He is being taken to the Kalyan jail. Earlier in the day, the police had also imposed a two-month gag order on Raj, thus preventing him from addressing public rallies and talking to the media. His arrest has triggered violence across Maharashtra, with police resorting to lathicharge in several parts to dispel the protesters. Heavy stone pelting by MNS supporters was also reported from outside the Bandra court before Raj was produced there. The police also fired in the air in Malad to control the rampaging activists. Mumbai DGP AN Roy had earlier said that the police would oppose bail for Raj in the court. Raj has been charged under Sections 153, 353, 336, 425 and 427 of IPC, police said. Preventive arrests of MNS activists were also made in large number in order to maintain peace across the city, police said. Meanwhile, Home Minister Shivraj Patil said that Centre has sent at least three advisories to Maharashtra government in the wake of attacks on north Indians by MNS activists.

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Founder of the hard-line Maharashtra Reconstruction Party Raj Thackeray, center, wearing white, walks out of the Bandra Court in Mumbai, Tuesday, October 21. Indian police arrested Thackeray Tuesday for inciting violence against migrant workers in India's ﬁnancial capital, sparking a violent rampage through the city by his followers. On Sunday dozens of Thackeray’s supporters attacked students from northern India who had traveled to Mumbai on the west coast of India to apply for jobs on the railways. (AP Photo)

quences in the event of his arrest. "Arrest me and be ready to bear the consequences.... you will have to regret," Raj, who was attending a ceremony at Bahadursheikh Naka in Chiplun, said yesterday. "If Raj is arrested, entire Maharashtra will be set on fire," he threatened. The MNS, predictably, flayed the arrest of its leader and described the incident as a "shame" for Maharashtra. "It is a shame on our government who do not utter anything favouring Marathi people... They are not prompt and keen enough for Maharashtrians," MNS said in a SMS sent to the media. "But they have shown their promptness in arresting a man who is struggling for Marathi people only. There cannot be better example of 'Kaliyug'," it said. Meanwhile, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray said that Raj must face music for his wrong doings.

Arrest triggers violence

Following the arrest, sporadic instances of violence were reported from various parts of Maharashtra and Section 144 was imposed in certain parts of Mumbai. MNS activists burnt a toll booth in Mulund while two buses were damaged in Bhiwandi. Violence was also reported from Nasik, Thane, Virle Parle, Juhu, Jogeshwari and Pune. According to reports, about 350 taxis were also damaged in the violence that

followed shortly after the firebrand leader was arrested. A truck was also set on fire in Panvel. There were also reports of some unidentified men throwing stones at the suburban resident of Congress spokesperson Sanjay Nirupam. Incidents of stone pelting at municipal and private buses were reported here this morning following the arrest of MNS chief Raj Thackeray in Ratnagiri. In Kothrud area, some alleged MNS activists damaged a company's bus that was taking its employees to workplace. Elsewhere, a few Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) buses were stoned by miscreants, police said. In Nashik, MNS activists set ablaze a truck near PWD minister Chhagan Bhujbal's farm this morning and also damaged another truck at Vilholi-Phata area, police said. Incidents of stone pelting on MSRTC buses and other vehicles were reported in some areas, they said, adding vehicular traffic on the busy Mumbai-Agra-national highway was disrupted following the protest. In Solapur, incidents of stone pelting on state transport buses around 0630 hours has also been reported, the police added. In view of the deteriorating law and order situation due to MNS-led campaign against North Indians, Deshmukh had yesterday warned Raj and his party to immediately stop his ‘gundaraaj’.

BANGALORE, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): Why moon again? Critics have questioned India's Chandrayaan-1 unmanned moon mission, pointing to explorations done by other countries in the past. They say the venture is expensive, "wasting resources" and objectives are nothing but "reinventing the wheel". Officials of Bangalore-headquartered space agency strongly disagree with the reasons. ISRO said though dozens of manned and unmanned spacecraft have explored the moon, this does not mean that every important aspect of the moon is known to humans or fully understood by them. On the contrary, there are many secrets, which the moon is yet to reveal. These concern the origin and evolution of the moon, very detailed understanding of the mineralogy of the moon, abundance of Helium-3, said to be a relatively clean fuel for future nuclear fusion reactors, and what appears to be the presence of water ice in the permanently shadowed regions of the moon's polar areas. "Thus, from the point of view of human intellectual quest as well as in the context of the future of humanity, exploration of the moon is very important," ISRO officials say. In the past few years, there has been a renaissance with regard to the lunar exploration. According to ISRO, many countries and international space agencies, including the European Space Agency (ESA), Japan, China, the US and Russia have undertaken or in the process of undertaking unmanned exploratory missions to moon.

Concern over anti-Christian violence conveyed to C’Wealth NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): The issue of recent anti-Christian violence in Orissa and Karnataka has reached the Commonwealth with some civil society groups voicing their concern over it to the 53-nation grouping which has conveyed the sentiments to India. “We keep getting communications from various parties on internal developments in member states. The practice is that we pass it on to the member states. This is what we have done in this (case) as well,” Commonwealth Secretary General Kamlesh Sharma told PTI in an interview here. He said the “communications” had been received by the Commonwealth from various civil society groups and these were “conveyed” to India. He, however, did not identify these groups. The concerns have been passed on to India as per the report of Commonwealth Commission on ‘Respect and Understanding’ which prescribes ways to promote greater tolerance, respect and understanding about the diversity of people of different race, religion, culture, gender and belief that can reduce tensions and misunderstandings. Asked about India’s response, Sharma said “if the government wants to convey anything it is up to them”.Sharma, an Indian diplomat who is here on the first visit since assuming the charge of Secretary General of the organisation in April, met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday but the issue did not figure in the discussions.

17 trafﬁcked kids rescued in ﬂood-hit Bihar districts

NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 21 (AGENCIES): Their parents were paid a paltry Rs 500-Rs1,000 with the promise that they would be sent to schools in the city. But these 17 children were instead being taken to agricultural farms to work as bonded labour when they were rescued by child rights activists and police. In two separate raids by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) NGO and police, 17 trafficked children were rescued from railway stations in the floodhit districts of Bihar. The children, mostly boys, were about to be taken away from their home state by three middlemen when activists of BBA con-

ducted a raid on Saharsa railway station and rescued them. "The three dalals (middlemen) had paid Rs 500-1,000 to their parents, telling them that the kids would be sent to school as well as earn a handsome amount by working part time," Umesh Gupta of the BBA said. "What the parents didn't know was that the children were being taken to Ludhiana and Patiala to work as bonded labourers in agricultural farms of Punjab," he said. R S Chaurasia of BBA added, "Trafficking of children for bonded and child labour is rampant in the agriculture sector, but as agricultural child labour is not considered a crime under the Child

Labour Act, the children can only be rescued if the government considers them as bonded labourers." "Trafficking goes on unabated in these parts as the law enforcement agencies simply turn a blind eye and even the police are not sensitized to the organised crime nature of trafficking. Police, especially railway police, need to be sensitised and rigorously trained to ensure that traffickers are arrested and children should not be victimised," he added. The rescued children hail from Madhepura, Supaul and Araria districts of Bihar and Nepal and have been sent back to their parents.

Is poverty in India coming down? Supriya Sharma, NDTV

IS INDIA becoming poorer or richer? How many people live below the poverty line? These are basic indicators, which could tell us what India's recent economic reforms have meant for its people. Officially, between 1993 and 2004, in the liberalisation decades, poverty declined from 36 per cent to 27.5 per cent which means around 300 million Indians are poor. But that's if one strictly goes by the poverty estimates. The question is, should we? ''By any standard, poverty line grossly underestimated,'' said Abhijit Sen, economist, Planning Commission. Indian poverty estimates are based on data collected through a door-to-door survey known as the National Sample Survey or NSS. NSS maps income or consumption, which is then used to determine poverty. So if a person earns less than Rs 540 a month in the city, he is poor. So is a person living in the village if he earns less than Rs 356 a month. Rs 540 in the city or Rs 356 in the village – that's the cash needed to buy 2,400 calories, the minimum a man needs to survive. This calorie intake norm was fixed in the seventies.

Economist Y K Alagh, architect of the calorie intake norm, says it was aimed to tackle hunger in the seventies and has no place in today's India. ''We need a commission which will differentiate between malnutrition and give separate index for deprivation,'' said Alagh. But for being poor and deprived in India means having less than Rs 540 a month, that's Rs 18 a day or less than half a dollar. Much less than the $1.25 a day that the World Bank has recently fixed as the bare minimum needed for survival. The moment you use that as a benchmark, the Indian poverty line moves up to 41 per cent. But there is another school of thought that says we have perhaps overestimated poverty. As evidence they point to the growing divergence between the NSS, which measures total household consumption, and National Accounts Data, which captures total production in the economy. Consumption should equal production. And in the fifties it almost did. NSS and National Accounts data almost converged with just a 5 per cent difference. But by 2000 the difference between them had grown to 40 per cent. So is National Accounts

over estimating income or is NSS underestimating it? Economist Surjit Bhalla used National Accounts Data to argue poverty in India is half the current NSS estimate – a controversial claim that most economists have contested. While they differed in detail, one broad agreement among them - the divergence between NSS data and National Accounts could have more to do with the NSS undercounting the rich rather than overcounting the poor. Are we underestimating poverty? Or overestimating it? The debates and the disagreements became most acrimonious in 2000 when the 55th round of NSS threw up data that showed poverty had nosedived by 10 per cent in just 6 years. A miraculous decline till economists pointed out the data could not be used for comparison since the NSS had altered its survey design. That controversy appears to have settled down with the latest round of NSS in 2004 going back to the original method of counting the poor. But what the polarities of 2000 did reveal was just how the position economists took on poverty figures was linked to their views of reforms and liberalization. A more fundamental

question, how does the official poverty estimate impact the poor? On the surface it doesn't. Whether a person gets particular measure of foodgrains at the ration shop or it is decided by Below Poverty Line (BPL), fixed not on the basis of the NSS income norm used by the planning commission but a more sophisticated mix of 13 parameters, developed by the Rural Development Ministry. But here's the problem. If NSS survey estimates 25 per cent of UP's population is poor even if the Below Poverty Line census by the state government identifies more numbers, the funds allocated by the Centre to UP will be for only 25 per cent. The NSS poverty estimate has set a cap. "The ministry of rural development having a separate index than planning commission created confusion. We are neither able to tackle problem of malnutrition nor find a way to fulfill aspirations of the lowest fourth quartile of our population which is not hungry but wants a place in the world,'' said Y K Alagh, economist. Interestingly, in states like Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Kerala, the percentage of BPL cardholders turned out to be three times more than the official NSS estimates.

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Obama to leave trail and visit sick grandmother

FLORIDA, OCTOBER 21 (REUTERS): Democrat Barack Obama will leave the presidential campaign trail to visit his ailing 85-yearold grandmother in Hawaii, whose health has deteriorated in recent weeks, an aide said on Monday. With two weeks left in an intense battle for the White House, Obama will hold a campaign event in Indianapolis on Thursday and then fly to Hawaii to see his grandmother before returning to campaigning on Saturday, aide Robert Gibbs said. "Senator Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has always been one of the most important people in his life," Gibbs said in a statement. "Along with his mother and his grandfather, she raised him in Hawaii from the time he was born until the moment he left for college." The campaign interruption comes as both candidates head into a final sprint for the November 4 election. Obama criticized Republican White House rival John McCain for a "say-anything, do-anything" political style as he launched a two-day tour to kick off early voting in Florida. McCain told supporters in Missouri that "nothing is inevitable" and he could still

beat Obama, who leads in national opinion polls as the pair began a frenzied race to the finish line. Obama's former Democratic rival, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, joined the Illinois senator at a rally of 50,000 people in Orlando. "In the final days of campaigns, the say-anything, do-anything politics too often takes over," Obama said. "We've seen it before. Hillary has been subject to it before. "We're seeing again today – ugly phone calls, misleading mail and TV ads, careless, outrageous statements – all aimed at keeping us from working together, all aimed at stopping change," he said. Obama noted McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, told reporters on Sunday that if she called the shots she would end the automated phone calls being made by McCain's campaign, including some that link Obama with 1960s radical Bill Ayers. "You have to work really hard to violate Gov. Palin's standards on negative campaigning," Obama said. McCain defended the calls, shrugging off Palin's remarks in an interview to be aired on Tuesday morning. "Well, Sarah is a maverick," McCain told CBS' "Early Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (C) is seen posing with his maternal grandparents Stanley Show." "That robocall is ab- and Madelyn Dunham in an undated family snapshot released by his presidential campaign, February 4. ( REUTERS)

Nepalese Police joins UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan NEW YORK, OCTOBER 21 (PTI): Over 100 Nepalese police officers have arrived in the conflict ridden Darfur region of Sudan to strengthen the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission (UNAMID). The officers are expected to stay in the region for about a year. About 40 more officers will also join the mission shortly to form a 147-strong Nepalese Formed Police Unit (FPU). FPUs are specialized, selfsufficient and fully mobile rapid reaction police units that are entirely composed of police officers from a single contingent, with expertise in crowd management and other police tactical operations. The Nepalese officers – specialised in crowd management and other police tactical operations – may be required to engage in highrisk assignments and the protection of people in imminent danger, preventing attacks and curbing threats against civilians, the mission said.

The FPUs will monitor and provide security and protection to Darfur internally displaced person (IDP) camps, threatened villages, and migration routes. Besides providing security, the FPUs will also assist national authorities and UN agencies in delivering humanitarian assistance in times of need and conducting escort duties in order to build the confidence of the local population in the rule of law. The Nepalese FPU is the third country-based unit to be deployed following Bangladesh and Indonesia. Nineteen such units were mandated by the Security Council resolution creating UNAMID. Some 300,000 people are estimated to have been killed across the impoverished, arid region in Darfur since fighting erupted between rebels, Government forces and allied militiamen in 2003. Another 2.7 million people have been displaced from their homes.

BEIJING, OCTOBER 21 (REUTERS): China released on Tuesday a wanted list of eight "terrorists" it said had threatened the Beijing Olympics and were bent on achieving independence for its restive western region of Xinjiang. The eight, all members of China's mainly Muslim minority Uighur group, belonged to the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), which the United Nations listed in 2002 as a terrorist organization with links to Al Qaeda, police said. "The eight are all key members of the ETIM, and all participated in the planning, deployment and execution of all kinds of violent terrorist activities targeting the Beijing Olympics," Wu Heping, a spokesman for the Public Security Ministry, told reporters. Two of the suspects, named in a statement handed to reporters as Xiamisidingaihemaiti Abudumijiti and Aikemilai Wumaierjiang, had tried to bomb a "large

market place where many Chinese business people gather" before the Games opening ceremony. A third, Yakuf Memeti, had targeted a big oil refinery, but was thwarted by tight security, the statement said. It also named Memetiming Memeti, 37, as the head of the ETIM, and said he had sent members to China and "certain Middle Eastern and Western Asian countries" to collect funds, explosives and carry out terror attacks on targets in China and overseas. The ETIM head, also named as "Memetiming Aximu" among other aliases, had called in videos posted online for "2008 to become China's year of mourning," the statement said. The other suspects – Emeti Yakuf, Memetituersun Yiming, Memetituersun Abuduhalike and Tuersun Toheti – had variously been involved in recruiting and training militants and collecting finances and materials for attacks.

This is an undated handout image released Monday October 20, by the charity SERVE Afghanistan, of aid worker Gayle Williams. Taliban gunmen killed Christian aid worker Gayle Williams in Kabul as she was walking to work on Monday, and the militant group said it targeted the woman because she was spreading her religion. The dual South African-British national, who worked with handicapped Afghans, was shot to death by gunmen who drove by on a motorbike in western Kabul, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary. The Taliban claimed responsibility. (AP Photo)

Independence Goal

Resource-rich Xinjiang, strategically located on the borders of Central Asia, was rocked by violent unrest before and during the Games. Chinese security officials blamed it on Uighur militants seeking an independent state they call East Turkestan. Sixteen armed police were killed in a bomb and stabbing attack near a police checkpoint in the far western city of Kashgar days before the opening ceremony. Eleven people died the following week in a series of supermarket bombings in Kuqa, in Xinjiang's south. Many of Xinjiang's 8 million Uighurs chafe at the strict controls on religion that China enforces and resent influxes of Han Chinese migrant workers and businesses. Wu called for international cooperation to track the eight suspects down. "We hope that relevant international governments and law enforcement departments can carry out

investigations into these eight terrorist suspects according to the law, and if their whereabouts are discovered, that they be arrested and handed over to China," Wu said. Beijing is also pushing the United States to hand over 17 Chinese Uighurs, held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay since being captured in Afghanistan in 2001. It describes the men as members of ETIM and terror suspects who must face "the sanction of the law." Rights groups have accused China of exaggerating the terror threat in the region in order to crack down on Uighur demands for greater autonomy and religious freedom. Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the Europe-based World Uyghur Congress, dismissed the list of names released on Tuesday as "politically motivated" and said he had never heard of the suspects. "They have produced no evidence to support these claims," he told Reuters by telephone.

COLOMBO, OCTOBER 21 (AGENCIES): A massive Sri Lankan government offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels is taking longer than expected because of concern for civilians trapped in the battle zone, the country's President said Tuesday. Mahinda Rajapakse told the state-run Daily News newspaper that his security forces were "fighting under severe constraints, to cause no harm or loss to innocent, civilian human life." "The battle against terrorism, which we could convincingly win within a few days, is nevertheless prolonged due to the grave concern and the optimum caution exercised by the highly disciplined armed forces," he said. The President's remarks came a day after the Defence Ministry admitted that scores of its troops had been killed or injured in fighting with the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) over the weekend. The Defence Ministry said troops had edged closer to the rebels' northern capital of Kilinochchi, but battles

since Saturday had left 33 soldiers dead, three missing in action and 48 injured. Rajapakse accused the LTTE of using "human shields." "We have directed the armed forces to refrain from inflicting any harm, even a scratch, to the innocent civilians who are being utilised as human shields by the terrorists," he said. "We are proud to have an army which is complying and carrying out their humanitarian operations accordingly." Neighbouring India, which itself has a large Tamil population, has expressed "grave concern" over the plight of tens of thousands of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians caught up in fighting in the north of the island. New Delhi has also told Colombo that a military solution to the long-running conflict is impossible. Tens of thousands of people have died on both sides since 1972 when the LTTE launched its campaign for an independent state to break away from the Sinhalese-majority island of 20 million people.

Greens, greens, they’re good for your heart: study on 19 food groups, which contained healthy and unhealthy items and were tweaked to include dietary preferences of each country taking part in the study. The researchers found that people who eat a diet high in fried foods, salty snacks, eggs and meat -- the "Western Diet" -- had a 35 percent greater risk of having a heart attack than people who consumed little or no fried foods or meat, regardless of where they live. People who ate a "Prudent Diet" -- high in leafy green vegetables, other raw and cooked vegetables, and fruits -- had a 30 percent

Florida a battleground Obama planned to spend two days in Florida to encourage voters to cast their ballots early in the battleground state, which has 27 electoral votes and is vital for either candidate in their quest for the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. Standing on stage next to Obama, Clinton highlighted the financial crisis as she urged Florida voters to choose Obama. "Now is the time to close the deal for Barack Obama and close the book on eight years of failed Republican leadership," she said, linking McCain to President George W. Bush. "Sending the Republicans to clean up the economic mess in Washington is like sending the bull to clean up the china closet." It was the third time Clinton and Obama have campaigned together since he clinched the Democratic nomination in June. A Reuters/C-SPAN/ Zogby poll showed Obama with a 6-point edge on Mc-

Cain. A new CNN poll gave Obama a 5-point lead among likely voters, down from an 8-point edge two weeks ago. Other polls also showed a tightening race. At a rally outside Kansas City, Missouri, McCain jumped on comments from Obama's running mate, Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, that Obama would be tested with an international crisis within six months of becoming president. "We don't want a president who invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and Americans are already fighting in two wars," McCain said. "Senator Obama won't have the right response, and we know that because we've seen the wrong response from him over and over during this campaign." Obama touted his endorsement from Republican former Secretary of State Colin Powell. "He will have a role as one of my advisers," Obama said on NBC's "Today" a day after earning the endorsement of Powell, who is also a retired four-star general and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Whether he wants to take a formal role, whether that's a good fit for him, is something we'd have to discuss."

China names eight wanted Olympic terror plotters Ousted Thai PM

‘Battle against Tigers delayed due to civilians’

WASHINGTON, 21 OCT (AFP): Diets worldwide that are rich in fried and salty foods increase heart attack risk, while eating lots of fruit, leafy greens and other vegetables reduces that risk, a groundbreaking study showed. The study, called INTERHEART, looked at 16,000 heart attack patients and controls between 1999 and 2003 in countries on every continent, marking a shift from previous studies which have focussed on the developed world. The patients and controls filled in a "dietary risk score" questionnaire based

solutely accurate and by the way, Senator Obama's campaign is running robocalls as we speak."

lower risk of heart attack than those who ate little or no fruit and veg, the study showed. The third dietary pattern, called the "Oriental Diet" because it contained foods such as tofu and soy sauce which are typically consumed in Asian societies, was found to have little impact on heart attack risk. Although some items in the Oriental diet might have protective properties such as vitamins and anti-oxidants, others such as soy sauce have a high salt content which would negate the benefits, the study said. The study was groundbreaking in its scope and be-

cause previous research had focussed mainly on developed countries, according to Salim Yusuf, a senior author of the study. "We had focussed research on the West because heart disease was mainly predominant in western countries 25-30 years ago," Yusuf, who is a professor of medicine at McMaster University in Canada, told AFP. "But heart disease is now increasingly striking people in developing countries. Eighty percent of heart disease today is in low- to middle-income countries" partly because more people around the world are eating western

diets, he said. "This study indicates that the same relationships that are observed in western countries exist in different regions of the world," said Yusuf, who is also head of the Population Health Research Institute at Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario. Patients who had been admitted to coronary care units in 262 centers around the world, and at least one control subject per patient, took part in the study. The INTERHEART results were published Monday in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association. The main countries in the study were

Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia in South America; Canada and the United States in North America; Sweden in western Europe; Croatia, Poland and Russia for eastern Europe; and Dubai, Egypt, Iran, Kuwait and Qatar for the Middle East. In sub-Saharan Africa, the main countries were Cameroon, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe; while nearly all the South Asian countries -- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka -- took part, as did Southeast Asian countries including the Philippines and Singapore, Yusuf told AFP.

Thaksin sentenced to two years in jail

In this July 31, ﬁle photo, deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Pojaman Shinawatra arrive at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand. The Thai Supreme Court has found Thaksin guilty of a corruption charge, and sentenced him to two years imprisonment Tuesday, October 21. Pojaman, who was tried with him, was acquitted. (AP Photo)

BANGKOK, OCTOBER 21 (AFP): A Thai court on Tuesday found ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra guilty of conflict of interest and sentenced him in absentia to two years in jail, in the first ruling against the exiled multi-millionaire. The Supreme Court judgement was in connection with a cutprice land deal he helped his wife Pojaman obtain in 2003, but Thaksin, 59, was cleared of more serious charges of abuse of power. Pojaman was cleared of all charges. The couple was not in court to hear the verdicts, having fled Thailand for Britain in August claiming they would not get a fair trial on the numerous graft charges against them. Tonglor Chomngarm, head of the panel of Supreme Court judges, said Thaksin had violated the country's corruption laws. "The defendant is a leader of government and should have acted with a good example to others, so the court decided not to suspend the sentence and decided to jail him for two years," Tonglor told the courtroom. The judges said that as prime minister, Thaksin should not have authorised his wife to take part in the bidding process for the prime plot of Bangkok real estate, which was owned by a government agency. Neither the land nor the money connected to the deal would be seized, the court judges said, but they issued a fresh arrest warrant for Thaksin and prosecutors said they will seek his extradition from Britain. "We will urgently ask the court for the full version of the verdict today and the prosecutor has already set up the team to work for the extradition," Sakesan Bangsomboon, one of the lead prosecutors, told AFP. Hundreds of Thaksin's supporters gathered outside the court, and analysts say the ruling is unlikely to alleviate the political turmoil here. Thaksin, a telecoms tycoon who became the first Thai prime minister to complete his first term and be re-elected, was ousted in a military coup in September 2006. The junta claimed there was massive corruption and

abuse of power under his rule and set up a special corruption investigation unit, which has stacked the charges up against Thaksin and his family. The Supreme Court has so far agreed to hear five cases, and there are also five arrest warrants out against Thaksin. Pojaman was on July 31 convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to three years in jail. She appealed, but analysts have said the court decision against her stunned Thaksin and helped spark the couple's flight into exile. Although the former premier is no longer in Thailand and plans to apply for political asylum in Britain, his shadow hangs heavy over Thai politics. His allies in the People Power Party (PPP) won elections in December -- the first since the coup -- angering the old power cliques in the palace, military and bureaucracy who tried to rid Thailand of Thaksin's influence. Thaksin's old foes in the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) launched street protests in May claiming the PPP was running Thailand on behalf of the former premier and was trying to amend the constitution to help him escape graft charges. The protests have steadily escalated, with thousands of PAD supporters seizing the prime minister's Bangkok offices in late August. Earlier this month, two people were killed and nearly 500 injured when police fired tear gas on protesters who were trying to block parliament. Since the bloody street clashes, pressure has been mounting on current Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat -- Thaksin's brother-inlaw -- to resign to take responsibility for the street violence. Tuesday's verdict will likely be hailed as a victory by the PAD protesters, but will do little to heal the deep divide in society between Thaksin's friends and foes, analysts say. "This verdict won't change anybody's opinion. Some people think he's a corrupt crook and other people think he's unfairly persecuted," said Thai historian and author Chris Baker.

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MDFA Trophy 2008 underway

9TH NSF MARTYRS MEMORIAL TROPHY 2008

Kingdom Stewards enters semis Ist semi finals match between Nagaland Police and Anal SU today

Our Correspondent Kohima | October 21

KINGDOM STEWARDS today found semi finals berth after defeating rival Merhulietsa Football Club 3-1 in the 4th quarter finals match of the ongoing 9th NSF Martyrs’ Memorial Trophy 2008 here in the Kohima Local Ground. Kikrusato opened the account for Kingdom Stewards in the 22nd minute and the team took the lead 1-0 till the first half. The second and third goal in favour of Kingdom Stewards also came through Kikrusato in the 62nd and 70th minute. Kikrusato earned the hat-trick of the match. Patrick netted a lone goal for Merhulietsa FC in the 90th minute. Keyigumgombe of Kingdom Stewards was declared as the player of the match and he was awarded with a certificate and memento. Today’s match witnessed three yellow cards- Hadibe (Kingdom Stewards), Yanger and Kevin (both Merhulietsa FC). Dr. V. Sekhose, Principal Director, Health & Family Welfare acted as the match patron and donated Rs. 50,000. Earlier, in the first exhibition match, Angami Students’ Union defeated Kohima District Referee’s Association 3-1. ASU fetched the goals through Medo (15th minute), Sedevikho (30th minute) and Vilabeituo, former ASU sports secretary (53rd minute). A lone goal for KDRA came through Kevichutuo in the 46th minute. The second exhibition match also took place between All Nagaland College Students’ Union and Dimapur Naga Students’ Union. Meanwhile, the first semi finals match will take place on October 22 with Prof. K. Kannan, vice chancellor, Nagaland University as match patron.

(Left) The chief referee initiating the oath taking ceremony during the inaugural function of the MDFA Trophy 2008, at Imkongmeren Sports Complex, Mokokchung, October 21, 2008. (Right) Chief guest and Chairman of Dimapur Municipal Council, Khekaho Assumi being introduced to the players before the inaugural match of the MDFA 2008 tourney, October 21, 2008.

MOKOKCHUNG, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): MDFA Trophy 2008 got underway today here at the Imkongmeren Sports Complex. In the inaugural match that was played between defending champions Moanungsang Memorial Sporting Club (MMSC) and debutants Spartan Club Kinunger, the former trounced the debutants 6 goals to nil. The score line at half time stood at 2 goals to nil. With most of the best local players in the side, MMSC outplayed their opponents from Kinunger vil-

lage in every aspect of the game, sending strong message as favourites for winning this year's edition of the tourney as well. They have won the last two consecutive MDFA tournaments. The first hattrick of the tournament was scored in the first match of the tournament by Chubasunep of MMSC, jersey number 11 in the 11th, 44th and 55th minutes of the match, the last goal coming from a penalty kick. The captain of MMSC, Rongsenchiba, donning jersey number 9, scored two goals, his second goal via

another penalty kick in the 62nd minute. Maongtoshi was the other player from MMSC to score a goal in the 58th minute, sealing a sure victory for the 2006 and 2007 MDFA champs. The Chairman of Dimapur Municipal Council, Khekaho Assumi graced the inaugural function of the tournament as chief guest. Fixture for 22nd Oct. Time: 1:00 PM Exodus Club vrs Diamond Club Amokmolu Vs Medemchanger

IST SEMI FINALS October 22: Time: 2:00 PM Nagaland Police vs Anal Students’ Union

14th Inter District Volleyball Championship gets underway

Nagaland Archery Coach, Hunezo, training students of Mayangnokcha Government Higher Secondary School in archery, Mokokchung, October 21, 2008.

NZ beats Bangladesh by 3 wickets in 1st test

Daniel Vettori plays a shot during the last day of the ﬁrst cricket test match between Bangladesh and New Zealand, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Tuesday, October 21. Vettori contributed heavily with bat and ball to lead New Zealand to a three-wicket win over Bangladesh. (AP Photo)

CHITTAGONG, OCTOBER 21 (AP) : Captain Daniel Vettori's second half century of the match and his

82-run sixth-wicket stand with Daniel Flynn helped New Zealand come back for a three-wicket victory over

Bangladesh in Tuesday's final session of the first cricket test. Vettori helped steer New

Zealand to 281 for five at tea on the last day, needing another 36 runs to reach the 317 target. But he was bowled for 76 by Abdur Razzak after ushering the tourists to 298, 19 runs short of the win. Bangladesh left-arm spinner Shakib al Hasan picked up another wicket, dismissing Flynn on 49, with the teams tied at 316. Flynn, whose knock came off 126 balls with 6 boundaries, was denied a maiden half century when he only needed a single to bring up the victory. Jacob Oram (8) and Kyle Mills (1) were unbeaten at the finish when New Zealand reached 317 for seven. Razzak took three wickets for 93 runs and Hasan got 2-82, giving him nine wickets for the match in an impressive bowling performance. Vettori, who also scored 55 in the first innings and took nine wickets, was ad-

judged man of the match. "I think it's important for the captains to set the standards. It is pleasing for me to make a contribution with bat and ball," Vettori said. "I was pleased with the performance, having chased 317 in Bangladesh, who had the momentum." Resuming the fifth day at 145-2, Vettori and Aaron Redmond added 40 runs in the first session before Hasan dismissed Redmond for 79. Redmond's 237-ball innings included 10 boundaries. Ross Taylor (9) was next to go when he was caught by substitute fielder Mahbubul Alam off a Murtaza delivery. Brendon McCullum added just 2 runs before he was trapped lbw by Razzak shortly after lunch, with the visitors on 216-5. After dominating the opening session, New Zealand fell behind as Bangladesh stuck to a slow-but-

sure batting formula to recover to 245, then bowled the tourists out for 171 in reply. Hasan's 7-36 in New Zealand's first innings was a test record for Bangladesh, which has had only a solitary test victory since joining cricket's elite. Bangladesh built a 316run lead after scoring 242 in its first innings but although the match went to the final session, New Zealand was in command during the last day. Bangladesh has never won a test against New Zealand, losing five of their six previous matches by an innings. New Zealand won the preceding limited-overs series 2-1. Bangladesh skipper Mohammad Ashraful said his team was getting closer to adding to its sole test win. "We played well for five days and had a chance to win," he said. "I think Vettori's innings and bowling was the difference."

Lawson remains under pressure to produce good results

ISLAMABAD, OCTOBER 21 (AP): Former test cricketer Mohsin Khan thinks Geoff Lawson will be under pressure to produce good results even after the Pakistan Cricket Board decided not to renew his contract as coach after April next year. "Pressure will be a lot on him," Khan told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Ijaz Butt - newly appointed chairman of the PCB - made it clear that Lawson's two-year contract will not be renewed after it expires. Pakistan is scheduled to play three limited-overs internationals against the West

Indies in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates next month before the scheduled three test matches and five oneday internationals at home against India early next year. "India is not the team which it used to be 10-12 years ago, now it's among the top teams of the world so it will be a big pressure series for Lawson," Khan said. "He is the best judge for himself and maybe he takes the series against India as a challenge." Another former captain, Aamir Sohail, thought Lawson should accept it as a challenge after two losing test

series since the former Australian fast bowler replaced the late Bob Woolmer as Pakistan coach. "If he is a thorough professional, he should take it as a challenge and prove others wrong," Sohail said. "I don't think Lawson would be less motivated in the important series against India and he should accept Mr. Butt's decision as a challenge for him." Former PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf appointed Lawson for a two-year term in July last year and also named Shoaib Malik as captain until December 2008. "It was a daring decision of the PCB to

pair Malik with Lawson," Sohail said. "There was no planning, no goals. Malik was a novice as captain and the PCB should have appointed a coach who was seasoned enough to know about our cricketing culture. "Lawson himself was coming on his first major (coaching) assignment in Pakistan and I think it was a wrong pairing." Under Lawson's stewardship Pakistan has lost test series at home against South Africa and in India last year. Pakistan also failed to qualify for the final of the Asia Cup at home in July.

Intikhab Alam, Pakistan's 1992 World Cup winning coach and also a former captain, said that Lawson should leave Pakistan team's coaching job. "I think it's better he should quit himself," Alam advised Lawson. Butt decided not to terminate Lawson's contract immediately, claiming the pay out would cause huge financial losses for the Pakistani board. Pakistan's highest scorer in test matches and former captain Javed Miandad said the cricket board should look for homegrown coaches in-

stead of hiring foreigners. "I am against this concept of hiring foreigners for coaching the Pakistan team," said Miandad, who had coached the Pakistan team three times over the last 12 years. Miandad scored 8,832 runs in 124 test matches. "But if the PCB had decided to bring in a foreign coach, I think Dav Whatmore (Australia) was a better choice." Whatmore, who coached Sri Lanka to the World Cup triumph in 1996 in Pakistan, was also shortlisted by the PCB before it signed Lawson.

LONDON, OCTOBER 21 (AP):Liverpool and Chelsea return to Champions League action on Wednesday for matches that could help define the entire season for both clubs. The teams are tied on points at the top of England's Premier League and meet for the first time this season on Sunday, so a strong midweek performance could provide a crucial boost as well as take them to the verge of the next round in Europe. Five-time European champion Liverpool is unbeaten in the Premier League but still trails Chelsea on goal difference. While Chelsea hosts AS Roma in one of the day's eight matches, Liverpool must cope without star striker Fernan-

do Torres for a tough trip to Atletico Madrid. Victory in Spain would prove Liverpool can succeed without the player who scored 33 club goals last season. Torres' torn hamstring means he is also almost certain to miss Sunday's trip to Stamford Bridge. It was his strong performances for Atletico, where Torres started his career and played more than 200 league matches, that prompted Liverpool to spend a clubrecord 26.5 million pounds for him in 2007. Liverpool, meanwhile, could come up against one of its former favorites. Luis Garcia scored a contentious goal to give Liverpool a 1-0 semifinal win over Chelsea en route to the 2005 Champions League title, but he

could be starting for Atletico on Wednesday. Garcia left Anfield in 2007 and believes the current Liverpool squad is stronger than the one which won the most recent of the club's five European championships. The playmaker wouldn't be surprised to see Liverpool win the Champions League or English title. "When I first joined, Chelsea were far better than us," Garcia said, "but the gap is closing and Liverpool can now win the league." Atletico and Liverpool each have a maximum six points from two Champions League matches, so victory for either would put them in a strong position at the midway point of group play. But Garcia is really looking forward to the return leg at

Anfield on Nov. 4. "The game in Liverpool will be very special for me. In terms of sentimentality, the biggest of my career," Garcia said. "I was not able to say goodbye properly when I left because I was injured at the end of the season, it was the worst way possible to finish my career there. "I was so happy there and am desperate to play one more game at Anfield." PSV Eindhoven hosts Marseille in the other Group D match, with both needing to at least avoid defeat to maintain realistic hopes of progressing. Chelsea, meanwhile, will still be without Didier Drogba and Michael Ballack when it takes on Roma. But Chelsea has scored four or more goals in four of its 11

matches this season despite missing almost a full team of costly international stars and is up against a Roma side reeling from a 4-0 home loss to Inter Milan. "They are not the strongest Roma side I have ever seen," Chelsea assistant coach Ray Wilkins said. "They have some very good players within it, but it is not the strongest they have produced over the last couple of years. "They are still a side to be reckoned with, but if we conduct ourselves in the right fashion we should get a favorable result." CFR Cluj, which surprisingly is matching Chelsea on four points, hosts last-place Bordeaux in the other Group A match. Elsewhere, two-time

European champion FC Barcelona is at FC Basel. Barcelona scored two late goals in its last match – the second four minutes into injury time - to win 2-1 at Shakhtar Donetsk and keep the Group C lead with maximum points. Coach Pep Guardiola included Mexico defender Rafael Marquez and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure in a 19-man squad despite picking up injuries in Sunday's 1-0 win over Athletic Bilbao. Shakhtar and Sporting Lisbon, which are tied on three points, meet in Portugal, while Group B co-leaders Inter and Anorthosis Famagusta play in Milan. Werder Bremen is at lastplace Panathinaikos in the final match.

DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21, (MEXN): The ‘14th Inter District Volleyball Championship, 2008’ started-off today with 8 districts participating and organized by Dimapur District Volleyball Association (DDVA) under the aegis of Nagaland Volleyball Association (NVA). In the 1st match boys from Mokokchung defeated Phek by 2-0. Dimapur boys defeated Kohima (2-1). While in the girl’s match Mokokchung was defeated by Kohima in a straight knock out system. And Phek beaten Dimapur in a straight knock out match.

OA of Nagaland informs PHEK, OCTOBER 21 (DIPR): An emergency meeting was held in the office chamber of DC Phek on October 20, 2008 in regard to the district level marathon race to be held on November 7, 2008 at Phek. To commemorate the year of ‘Capacity building 2008’ the Olympic Association of Nagaland has decided to hold open competition for Marathon Race to be sponsored by the Directorate of Youth Resources & Sports. The marathon race competition for Phek district will be held at Phek on November 7, 2008, organized by District Sports Council Deputy Commissioner, Phek, Zachive Thele will flag off the race at 6 a.m and give away the prizes to the winners as the chief guest on the occasion. The prize for the first position carries a sum of Rs. 25,000/-, Rs. 15,000/- for the second position and Rs.10,000/- for 3rd position. And all the three winners of the district marathon race competition shall be eligible to compete in the state level marathon race to be on December 7, 2008, coinciding with the last day of Hornbill festival 2008. Any interested persons may come for physical fitness, medical check up at Phek Civil Hospital at 10 a.m on November 5 and 6 2008 for the same. For any further necessary information DSO, Phek may be contacted.

TBall Cricket pre-quarter matches DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MEXN): Circular CC, Rangapahar Ranger CC and Ravel Club will play against Royal Young Star, TMC and Napl CC at 7:30 am, 10 am and 1 pm respectively, on October 23 next, in the prequarter final while Tilixu got bi in the 1st annual Tennis Ball Cricket tourney of Toulazou Tenyimi village, played at Toulazou local ground. This was stated in a press note issued by the organizers, Ravel Club.

Half marathon race in Mkg MOKOKCHUNG, OCTOBER 21 (DIPR): The District Sports Officer, Mokokchung has notified that there will be a Half Marathon Race (21.197 Kms) at Mokokchung town on 18th November 2008 at 6:30 a.m. Winners will be awarded as follows: 1st – Rs. 2,500/-, 2nd-Rs. 1,500/- and 3rd-Rs.1,000/- respectively. All interested candidates are to submit their names on or before 5-11-08. All the participants will undergo medical verification on 7-11-08 at 2 p.m. at the sports hall, Mokokchung.

Liverpool, Chelsea face key Euro matches

Indian players Sachin Tendulkar, left, and Sourav Ganguly pose with their awards after India defeated Australia on the ﬁnal day of the second cricket test match between India and Australia, in Mohali, India, Tuesday, October 21. Indian paceman Zaheer Khan took three wickets in four balls Tuesday to erase Australia's last, limited chances of forcing a draw and propel India to a comprehensive 320-run victory. (AP Photo)

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11 Abiogenesis - Rustic Relish listed in the 51st Grammy Awards PRIME TIME

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he International Indian band Abiogenesis fom Nagaland has been listed in the Grammy Awards for the 2nd consecutive year. Rustic Relish is listed in the 51st Grammy Awards with 5 entries in 4 categories alongside popular artistes like Eagles, Enigma, Maroon 5, Duran Duran, Alanis Morisette, Asia, Ringo Starr etc. falling in the same category. Link and details given below:

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distribution companies like Napsters, Apple itunes, Amazon, Rhapsody etc. Rustic Relish is Abiogenesis' 2nd Howey album and their first howey album 'Aeon Spell' released through Saregama was also listed in the 50th Grammy Awards in 2 categories. Howey is a new music genre developed by Abiogenesis and it is a fusion of Naga folk tunes with various forms of modern music. Another unique feature of Abiogenesis is that they play a new wind musical instrument made of bamboo called Bamhum as a leading instrument invented by Moa Subong, a band member. Rustic Relish was recorded at Soul Speak Studios in Dimapur, Nagaland and the sound recordings were recorded and edited by Imli Subong. Abiogenesis are:Arenla on Vocals and Lead Bamhum, Moa on Bamhum/Guitar/Harmonica, Longden on Lead Guitar, Imli on Drums/Percussions and Kongdir on Bass.

http://www.grammy.com/ PDFs/entry/pop.pdf Click on the Bookmark(left) for category 7 / 9 / 11 1. Category 11 - Best Pop Vocal Album Album : Rustic Relish 2. Category 7 - Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals a. Be Free Like A Bird b. Rumble Tumble 3. Category 9 - Best Pop Instrumental Performance Nap In The Couch 4. Category 85 – Best Instrumental Composition Nap In The Couch

Rustic Relish was released worldwide through APH Records on 20th August 2008 with the album being distributed internationally through CD Baby, USA and 60 plus digital

Abiogenesis Website: www. abiogenesis.altpro.net Rustic Relish page: w w w. c d b a b y. c o m / abiogenesis/4 Bands Videos : www. youtube.com/abiogenesis88

Prince William’s Paris texts

ritain's Prince William has reportedly been bombarded with text messages from Paris Hilton. Paris - who swapped numbers with the 26-year-old royal after they partied together at exclusive London nightspot Whisky Mist last week - has even invited William to the opening of her new Las Vegas nightclub, although he is said to have declined the offer. A source told Britain's The Daily Mirror newspaper: "His mates have been teasing him and, although flattered by her attentions, he has politely had to turn down the jaunt.” During the night out at Whisky Mist, Paris attempted to get acquainted with Prince William's brother Prince Harry by performing a raunchy dance for him. However, Harry was more interested in spending time with his girlfriend Chelsy Davy. A source said at the time: "Harry clearly didn't want to speak to her but she did a sexy dance in front of him and he finally stood up to shake her hand. "He wandered off and Paris looked a bit annoyed."At the end of the evening William - who is heir to the throne behind his father Prince Charles insisted his royal bodyguards made sure Paris was safely escorted to a taxi cab.Paris said: "Don't you just love the princes? They are so hot."

Russel Peters takes a dig at Aishwarya!

ot everyone sings praises of the World’s most gorgeous woman Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Big B might laud her as the greatest bahu, and the finest actress in Bollywood, but for stand-up comedian Russel Peters, the beauty is only good for laughs. The Canadian comedian of Indian origin Russel Peters who keeps the world engrossed with his humour is surprisingly not too fond of Bollywood movies. A news daily quotes him as saying, “I wouldn’t watch a Bollywood

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film even if I am at the lowest point of my life. These films have horrible stories and terrible acting. I don’t know why your films have singing or dancing every other minute. Either you are telling a story or you are not.” And, then comes a shocker as Russel states Aishwarya as an example of a bad actress. Here it is, from the

horses’ mouth, “Aishwarya Rai is the biggest example of bad acting. She has proved it time and again how it can do wonders. In Bollywood, people can become superstars just by having a pretty face.” Well, we certainly wish Russel a safe stay in India as he’s all set to perform live in Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi this October.

Aamir turns into a devilish cannibal for next production

ith his timely sarcastic master-strokes wrapped up in humour and satire, Aamir Khan has often put his contemporaries to shame. The perfectionist, who often pokes fun and cunningly mocks his coactors, has now made his mind to ‘eat’ a few of them and cut out the competition right fair and square. Sounds gross though, but the actor is all geared up to taste raw flesh and blood as he turns into a cannibal for his next home production. Buzz has it that Aamir had been hunting for an interesting script for a long time. The actor, who has looked into various scripts finally zeroed in on the idea of playing the psychic man-eater. The film will be produced by Aamir and directed by a top helmsman from the south. A news daily even quoted a source as saying, "The actor is busy preparing for the role. To get into the skin of the character, Aamir has been visiting butchers in town to see how they cut meat. Aamir is also on a high-protein nonvegetarian diet to build his muscles for the role. He is also watching the behavior of all animals very closely to bring in a 'beastly' touch to his character."

‘My daughters don’t want me to marry again,’ reveals Sarah Ferguson

welve years after her divorce from Prince Andrew, Sarah, Duchess of York admits she's unlikely to marry again - because her daughter's don't want her to. Sarah Ferguson, who turned 49 last week, admits she is perfectly content with her life as it is and doesn't see marriage on the horizon. The Duchess enjoys such a close friendship with her daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, they believe it would be ruined if their mother married. Beatrice, 20, and Eugenie, 18, have grown up watching their mother and father, Prince Andrew, enjoy a remarkably good friendship despite their 1996 divorce. Speaking to this week's Hello! magazine, the Duchess admitted when the subject of remarriage had cropped up in conversation with her daughters, they had recoiled in horror. She said: 'They say, "Mum, no way! You’re cool like you are!" 'So often I think that if I could go back to being the bride I was in 1986 with the knowledge I have now… [I was] so happy and so in love, that I’d forgotten I’d also married "the firm" and Great Britain and the world. Had I known, I still would have married, but maybe I would have done some things differently.' Prince Andrew and the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson enjoyed a Chinese

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dinner together at China Taing in the Dorchester Hotel. They reportedly spent about three hours in the restaurant together. When asked if she would consider remarriage, Sarah replied: 'It’s not about marriage. I married the Queen’s best-looking son, [but] I didn’t marry a prince, I married my man. It was the best thing I’ve ever done. He’s a fantastic father and friend and you cannot

put Andrew and I in a box of any description. 'He said I must never say this, but he said, "We are divorced to each other, not from each other." We are the happiest unmarried couple.' Sarah and Prince Andrew separated in January 1992 - six years after their lavish royal wedding at Westminster Abbey and two years after the birth of their youngest daughter Eugenie.

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Indian players return after defeating Australia on the ﬁnal day of the second cricket test match between India and Australia, in Mohali, Tuesday, October 21. Indian paceman Zaheer Khan took three wickets in four balls Tuesday to erase Australia's last, limited chances of forcing a draw and propel India to a comprehensive 320-run victory. (AP Photo)

MOHALI, OCTOBER 21 (AFP): A sizzling performance by Zaheer Khan in the second Test here on Tuesday helped India to a crushing 320-run win against Australia and go 1-0 up in the four-Test series. The left-arm paceman, 30, picked up three wickets, two of them on the trot, on the fifth and final day to wrap up the Australian second innings on 195 with more than two sessions to spare. This was India's biggest Test win by runs ever, bettering the 280-run mark against South Africa in 1996. For Australia, it was only their second defeat in 28 Tests since their 2-1 loss in the 2005 Ashes series against England, and the biggest against India since Melbourne in 1977. "We were outplayed in all departments of the game," Australian skipper Ricky Ponting admitted. "They were terrific right since the first morning. The way they batted in the first session, they took away the momentum from us. After that we were just fighting to get back into the game. "Any team that bats, bowls and also fields so well, you have to match up to that but we were not good in any aspect of the game, be it fast bowling, slow bowling or batting." Zaheer's effort capped an outstanding performance by off-spinner Harbhajan Singh (3-36) and fast bowler Ishant Sharma (2-42) who gave India the crucial break-

throughs on Monday. The Indians also owed the win to their batsmen, who piled up 469 in their first innings before declaring on 314-3 in the second. The retiring Sourav Ganguly struck 102, Sachin Tendulkar a recordbreaking 88 and stand-in skipper Mahendra Dhoni a sparkling 92 to lay the winning platform for the hosts. The Australians struggled with the bat on a surface that Indian batsmen thrived on, the only saving grace being Shane Watson's knock. Their bowlers, led by an off-colour Brett Lee, also looked clueless against the Indian run machine. Dhoni, named man of the match, said the victory was very satisfying as every member of the team made some contribution. "We are relishing this win as it was a result of a great team effort," he said. "It is not every day that you see an Australian side struggling. When they were 22 after 13 overs in the first innings, I asked Rahul (Dravid) to look at the scoreboard. "I told him I don't think we will be able to see Aussies score at just two odd runs an over again. They are the number one side in the world and we expect them to come back strongly in the next Test." Resuming the day on a wobbly 141-5 while chasing an insurmountable target of 516, the Australians tried to delay the inevitable but not for long. Zaheer struck in his very first over of the day, removing overnight bats-

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DIMAPUR, OCTOBER 21 (MExN): The 6th day of the 2nd RN Tamchon Memorial Football Trophy 2008, organized by the Tangkhul Naga Society, Delhi (TNSD) witnessed spectacular performances from various players. The first match of the day was played between Sinlung HSA FC (MHAR) and UNIKAS, Delhi with Sinlung HSA FC defeating UNIKAS (Kakching) with 11 goals to nil. Lalzaryo F Tusing and Emmanuel R scored three goals each for the winner. The second match was held between ASUD (Arunachal) and SSPP (Paite), where SSPP (Paite) beat Arunachal Students’ Union Delhi (ASUD) by 8 goals to nil. Kim Minthang scored two goals for his team. The third match of the day ended up with AIA Delhi scoring 7 goals against DAYA (Garo).

man Brad Haddin (37) with a ball that crashed into the middle and off-stump. The bowler, man of the match in the drawn Bangalore opener for his exploits with the bat and the ball, followed it up with two wickets in two balls in his very next over. Cameron White (one) tried to go for an expansive drive but ended up getting an outside edge which was taken by Dhoni diving to his right behind the stumps. Lee, in the headlines for a reported tiff with Ponting, saw his off-stump uprooted by a searing delivery that nipped

in sharply. Michael Clarke (69), who put on 84 runs for the sixth-wicket stand with Haddin, tried to defy the fired-up Indian attack, reaching his ninth Test halfcentury in process. But he was the last man out when he edged one to Virender Sehwag off debutant legspinner Amit Mishra who finished with seven wickets. The third Test of the Border-Gavaskar series will be played in New Delhi from Oct 29-Nov 2 followed by the fourth and final Test in Nagpur (Nov 6-10).

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