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VOL. XVI NO. 338 | PAGES 12 ` 4/- RNI NO. NAGENG/2002/07906 DIMAPUR, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2017 FINANCIAL IRREGULARITIES Curtains come down on Hornbill Festival NPRAAF assures ‘agency’ Chief Minister TR Zeliang expresses desire to stick to 10-day extravaganza-stretch Kohima Bureau world.” Zeliang said the festival has probe by early 2018 Kisama, Dec. 10 (EMN): He was also of the opin- gained popularity despite Despite continuous down- ion of extending at least of the remote location of Dimapur, Dec. 10 rupt issues in the govern- pour in Nagaland's capi- one day of the programme the state and lack of proper (EMN): The Nagaland ment. The issue which tal Kohima town on Sun- of the festival to all the dis- infrastructure. Public Rights Aware- NPRAAF is taking up day, thousands of visitors tricts on different days, so “This has been possible ness and Action Forum is highly sensitive in na- thronged the Naga heritage that all citizens have greater due to our collective effort,” (NPRAAF) has an- ture concerning several village Kisama on the final participation. Zeliang said and thanked nounced that the group’s departments and in this day of the 18th edition of Apok Jamir, in his ad- everyone for making the attempt at persuading an regard solicits strong the Hornbill Festival. dress expressed hope that festival a ‘grand success’. ‘investigating agency’ to support and coopera- For a while there was the ten-day celebration of With regard to the much probe mismanagement tion from the public. At a distinct possibility of the the Hornbill festival has debated issue of reducing of ‘public fund’ by state all cost, NPRAAF will rain playing spoilsport and given the opportunity for the hornbill festival to seven government employees endeavour to bring the detering people from at- tourists to peep into the rich days, the CM said he was would ‘materialise during issues it is taking up to tending the closing cere- cultural heritage and tradi- pleased to see the positive the first quarter of 2018’. logical conclusion,” it as- mony of the festival. It was tions of the sixteen tribes of response of the people. A press release from serted. proved otherwise though at Nagaland. “The state government the NPRAAF on Sunday The NPRAAF in- picturesque Kisama. The fi- EM Images Jamir also appreciated shall take a call on the issue expressed confidence at formed that the depart- nal day attracted more visi- Miss Nagaland Marina Kiho flanked by 1st runner-up Ruopfüzhanuo Whiso (L) and 2nd runner-up the younger generation for in due course of time. How- the prospect of said probe ment of School Education tors compared to the past Pewe-ü Tunyi after lighting a bonfire during the closing ceremony of the Hornbill Festival at Kisama, the taking the responsibilities in ever, I have the preference because of what it stated was distributing sweaters, nine days.' Naga heritage village, on Dec. 10. the celebration. of celebrating the festival was a colossal compilia- socks and tiffin-boxes to The programme had “This shows that the up to the tenth day,” Ze- tion of material evidenc- some schools in Dimapur Governor PB Acharya Hornbill Festival. “People the first citizen of the coun- Northeast. We must take youths are prepared to take liang added. es. “It is collecting more and Kohima since last as the chief guest. Chief from different walks of try, President of India Ram this advantageous position up the mantle of preserving As part of the culmina- material evidences and week – in the aftermath Minister TR Zeliang, par- life from across the world Nath Kovind as the chief to address our unemploy- our rich cultural heritage” tion programme, the bon- meticulously preparing to of the forum’s announce- liamentary secretary for participated in this year's guest on the inaugural day. ment problem. Tourism Jamir said while he urged fire was lit by the Governor nail the faulting depart- ment in the newspapers Tourism C Apok Jamir and Hornbill festival which is Stating that the number can be one of the biggest the tourists and Nagas Acharya, CM Zeliang, Par- ments and some retired on Nov. 20 that the state parliamentary secretary a remarkable achievement of tourists has increased revenue earning depart- to spread the message of liamentary secretary Apok and serving state govern- government had released for Art and Culture Eshak for the Tourism depart- manifold from previous ments,” Acharya remarked peace and unity and further Jamir, newly crowned Miss ment officials involved in INR 14.59 cr. to the de- Konyak were in attendance ment,” Acharya said while years, the governor said it adding “we have to turn to make efforts to protect Nagaland Marina Kiho mismanagement of pub- partment to cover the too. expressing his delight that was a positive sign. “Na- this festival into an interna- and preserve the fragile eco- and 1st and 2nd runners-up lic fund. cost of providing winter Governor Acharya this year’s Hornbill festival galand has the potential to tional market of handloom system. Ruopfüzhanuo Whiso and “NPRAAF members clothes to students of el- lauded everyone for the was attended by a galaxy of become the most populous and handicrafts so that our Delivering the vote of Pewe-ü Tunyi, followed by had in the past received ementary sections in gov- successful conduct of the high dignitaries including eco-tourism spot in the products can go all over the thanks, the chief host TR the ‘unity dance'. threats for taking up cor- ernment schools. Tourism official ‘Non-Naga cadres’ continue to invite flak for NSCN (IM) delighted by increase Airtel to connect 2,100 Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): Sur- the organisation on Sunday. it had posed similar queries when vival Nagaland (SN) has once again Citing the arrest of one Abdul two non-Naga persons claiming to in number of visitors sought explanation from the NSCN Hasim – reported to be a ‘raja peyu’ be NSCN (IM) members were ar- Kohima Bureau uncovered NE villages (IM) following the reported capture in the NSCN (IM) group – by the rested in Nov. Kohima, Dec. 10 (EMN): New Delhi, Dec. 10 (IANS): Telecom the Airtel statement said. of a non-Naga cadre of the group by Assam Rifles recently, it asked the “However, NSCN (IM) instead The 18th edition of the major Airtel on Sunday said it will pro- As the largest operator in the north- the Assam Rifles recently. NSCN (IM) how it could enlist a ‘a of clarifying the ground queries Hornbill Festival which vide mobile connectivity in 2,100 uncov- eastern states, Airtel will set up over “Survival Nagaland is once non-Naga of doubtful origin’ in the asked by SN, which was the ques- concluded on Sunday re- ered villages and national highways in 2,000 mobile towers and sites in uncon- again shocked that another non-Na- Nagas’ fight for freedom. With what tions in the minds of the whole gen- corded an increased number the northeastern states over the coming nected pockets of the region to deliver ga cadre of NSCN (IM) holding the ‘special patriotism does he serve in eral Naga public was only mocked of both domestic and for- 18 months. telecom connectivity in over 2,100 vil- post raja peyu has been arrested by the NSCN (IM),’ it questioned. and the queries still remains pend- eign tourists in comparison This work is to be undertaken under lages over the next 18 months, it said. the Assam Rifles in spite of the hue The group stated that the Naga ing from the part of NSCN (IM),” to the previous edition's. As an agreement with the Department of For executing the project, Airtel and cry, and condemnation by the public had been made aware of the it stated. per information provided by Telecom (DoT), a company release said would receive about Rs 1,610 crore from general Naga public of having such presence of non-Naga persons in the The NSCN (IM), it stated, should Toka E Tuccumi, tourist of- here. the DoT's Universal Service Obligation people in the Naga National move- NSCN (IM) ranks through reports in clarify the doubts ‘in the minds of ficer and statistics in-charge, "Bharti Airtel has signed an agree- Fund to provide telecom services in rural ment,” stated a press release from the newspapers while reminding that the Naga public.’ this year’s festival recorded ment with DoT and the Universal Serv- and remote areas, the statement added. a total of 2,43,214 tourists ice Obligation Fund (USOF) for provi- The telecom giant said the infrastruc- which include 2401 for- sion of mobile services in identified ture set up by it will also enable other eign, 38700 domestic and uncovered villages and national high- service providers to offer services in a 2,02,113 local visitors at ways in the northeastern states of As- region characterised by tough terrain, the Naga Heritage Village, sam, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sik- as well as lower population density and Kisama. The last day of the kim, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh," connectivity. festival recorded 129 foreign tourists, 12055 domestic and 54, 290 local visitors. Talking to Eastern Mir- ror, Tuccumi said there was Boney M rings in Christmas an increase in the number of visitors to this year’s Hornbill Festival. Last year, he said, the inflow was dras- for rain-drenched Kohima tically affected by demon- etisation. However, he ex- pressed delight at the spike in the number of visitors. Last year, the total was 234113 visitors. The inflow of foreign tourists has also shown an increase in com- parison to last year’s figure of 1144.

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EM Images Members of Boney M performing Brown Girl in the Ring in the company of children at the hockey ground of the IG Stadium in Kohima on Sunday.

Kohima Bureau mingling with the crowd prior to the members of Kohima, Dec. 10 (EMN): even as they screamed and Boney M taking stage. The sudden downpour this lunged in their attempts Jacob, a die-hard fan morning–which dragged to shake hands with the of Boney M arrived in on till late evening–failed band's members. Mitchell Kohima all the way from ~ Arien to dampen the enthusi- invited some children on Tripura on Dec. 9 just to Thank you so much. You have asm of Boney M fans who to the stage, who danced see the band perform live the best government in the whole spent the night swaying to and sang along with the on stage. Sharing his expe- wide world. the all-too-familiar tunes band to Brown Girl in the rience, he said: ‘I listened WEATHER of the band’s hit songs at Ring. to their songs during my TEMPERATURE the hockey ground of the During the perform- childhood and it was like IG Stadium in Kohima on ance, Mitchell told the a dream to see them per- Max: Min: Sunday. audience: ‘I owe my talent forming live.’ KOHIMA 21° 8° Fans from children and success to God, with- He was also one lucky DIMAPUR 23° 14° to the older lot clapped, out whom it would not man who happened to be RF: RH: danced and sang along have been possible.” She in the same hotel the band KOHIMA 7mm 70% with Liz Mitchell and her followed it with a message: was and had a chance to DIMAPUR 6m 85% band as they belted out I send my peace, harmony interact with the band face * Rainfall (RF) * Relative humidity (RH) popular hits including Ras- and love; without which to face; he took pictures Temperature in State Capitals putin, Daddy Cool, Rivers of the world will be in serious with them too, he said. Max. Min. Max. Min. Aizawl 21° 17° Itanagar 25° 13° Babylon, Mary’s Boy Child, trouble. The Jamaican-born Agartala 25° 20° Shillong 19° 14° Brown Girl in the Ring etc. Local artistes including singer, Liz Mitchell per- Gangtok 22° 07° Delhi 25° 11° In the middle of the Mengu Suokhrie, Jonath- formed with artistes Tony Guwahati 27° 16° Kolkata 28° 19° song, Liz Mitchell and an Yhome, Moka Koza Ashcroft, Jacinth Mhende Imphal 21° 16° Chennai 31° 23° Tony Ashcroft indulged in and Meyase performed and Paulette Ker. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017 2 STATE th ANGPTA welcomes NEWS IN BRIEF Livingstone at 13 in UT-I directs business community In view of the festive season, the caretaker ‘CAO’ of new service rules the UT-I of the NSCN/GPRN has directed all business Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): schools but middle schools communities to keep their shops open on Sundays within school ranking in India The All Nagaland Govern- and high schools as well. the UT jurisdiction. The order shall remain effective till ment Primary Teachers As- “Thus, dissatisfied with the further notice. The NSCN/GPRN UT-I also appealed schools and 50 pre-schools sociation (ANGPTA), com- system, the P/Ts formed all business establishments to light up and decorate their were shortlisted. In the final prising more than 12,000 an Association way back in shops and surroundings latest by the Dec. 31, to make scrutiny, the LFHSS was teachers, constituting 65% 2014 under the nomencla- the season more brighter, joyous and merry. Further, the ranked as the no.13 school of the School Education ture of All Nagaland Gov- UT-I secretary added that the business communities or in India, no.1 in Nagaland department population, wel- ernment Primary Teachers any individual should not take it otherwise, but respect and no.1 in Dimapur, the comed the new Nagaland Association (ANGPTA). the religion of the land. release stated. The prestig- School Education Service The Association has on sev- ious award was received on rule 2017 and re-structuring eral occasions submitted NPA meeting and advent Christmas behalf of the school by the of the department. representations after repre- The Nagaland Press Association (NPA) will conduct will chairman cum principal of A press release from sentation where the State be holding a general meeting which will be followed by the school, Andrew Ahoto the ANGPTA Media Cell government understood advent Christmas lunch on Dec. 23, 12 noon at Hotel along with his wife Ani Yep- stated that the new service our grievances,” the release Saramati, Dimapur. The NPA has invited all its members thomi, director of the Junior rules and cadre review 2017 added. to attend the meeting and celebration. All press clubs High, LFHSS. is “tailor made” and “is Meanwhile, the associa- and newspapers in Nagaland are also invited along with According to the release, free from any discrepan- tion asked all bonafide mem- their members. the India’s School Merit cies and discrimination.” bers to rededicate themselves Awards 2017 was based on Thus, ANGPTA assured the in their profession and work Purana Bazar ration card holders informed overall jury rating, parent’s School Education depart- hard towards imparting Head GB Purana Bazar Pitu Mech has informed all votes (78,510 votes) and ment that it will fully support quality education. It also PHH ration card holders that there will be distribution the Education Today. Co’s the latter to see that the new requested the members to of rice at Purana Bazar Village Council Hall on Dec. 11. team analysis (perception rules are implemented at the pray for the dedicated of- Model colony-7 to 10 a.m., Jorapukhri -10 to 11 a.m., based). The schools have earliest. ficers who have sacrificed New colony-11 a.m. to 12 noon, Mount view 12 noon been categorised under 10 For the first time in their best for the welfare to 1 p.m., Middle colony-1 to 2 p.m., and High school-2 parameters i.e., academic the history of the depart- of the teachers and who to 3 p.m. reputation, individual atten- ment, i.e. after 52 years, the were earlier discriminated. tion, infrastructure provi- primary teachers who are The members were further sion, innovative leadership also known as foundation requested to be “mentally WEATHER FORECAST IN OTHER DISTRICTS management quality and builders of education are and physically prepared for co-curricular activities, etc. included in the service rules, any unforeseen eventuality Max Min DP RH RF The LFHSS was ad- the ANPTA said. if any.” judged among the top-200 “We were discriminated The ANGPTA also WOKHA 20.2 18.6 12.8 78 NIL Officials of LFHSS receiving the award at Bengaluru on Sun. schools on the basis of its ho- in many ways as we were thanked the Minister of ZBT 16.8 7.3 13.4 86 NIL listic approach towards the never included in the service School Education Tokheho Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): was felicitated with India’s than 1300 survey forms of development of its students rules. We were made to re- Yeptho, former Minister MON 19.6 12 12.5 89 NIL Livingstone Foundation School Merit Award for international, boarding, through co-curricular activi- tire in the same rank where Yitachu, and officials of the TUENSANG 19.2 14 15.1 83 NIL Higher Secondary School 2017 at Bengaluru on Dec. CBSE, ICSE, state, boys ties and academic coordina- we were appointed.” School Education depart- in Dimapur has added yet 9. and girls and pre-schools by tion which was appreciated The release further stat- ment “who worked very MKG 19.2 13.4 12.4 69 NIL another feather to its hat After scrutinizing, the the Education Today. Co at the national educational ed that the primary teachers hard to bring about a change PHEK 17 12.6 16.6 94 NIL of achievements when it LFHSS informed that more Group, a total of 200 top circles. not only teach in the primary in the department.” KIPHIRE 12.4 6 8.4 92 NIL SECHÜ ZUBZA 20 15 16.4 90 1.6 Kohima College set to New market youths urged to play ‘big brother’s role’ LONGLENG - - - - - th Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): vice chairman, NMAP re- TSEMINYU 21.4 30 17.2 91 12 The president of the An- called how the New Market JALUKIE - - - - - kick off 50 college week gami Youth Organiza- colony was one of the fasci- tion (AYO) Neinguvotuo nating colonies in the state MANGKOLEMBA 25 17.2 17.7 67 NIL capital and urged upon the Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): debate, dance and singing Krose has said the New *Dew Point (DP) *Relative Humidity (RH) * Rainfall (RF) Kohima College is all set competitions are highlights Market Youth Organiza- youths to carry forward the to begin its 50th college of the day. tion (NMYO) in Kohima good works. Source: Department of Soil & Water Conservation, Nagaland week from Dec. 11 to the The second day will wit- is one of the oldest youth Short speeches were 15th under the banner ness Naga wrestling, where- organisations in the state’s given by chairman NMAP “Seeking new horizons,” in 46 wrestlers will wrestle capital. Therefore, he urged Kuotsu and former presi- with principal of the col- for the jubilee champ. Presi- them, they should play a dent NMYO Dr. Pudeli lege Dr.Watijungshi Jamir dent of Nagaland Wrestling “big brother role” in help- Rhezhü. SBAK Aizuto youth holds as the chief host and vice Association will be the spe- ing the other colony youth Earlier the function was principal, Thinuokhrienuo cial guest. organisations. chaired by Xavier Rutsa Tseikha as the host. while welcome address triennial conference The third, fourth and Addressing the New Neinguvotuo Krose addressing New Market Youth Organization’s The first day of the fifth day will witness ath- Market Youth Organization foundation day on Sun. was delivered by president event will be marked by letics, football (men), vol- (NMYO) 44 foundation NMYO Vikholie Yiese and literary day where Sarah leyball (men and women), day as chief guest on Sun- wards the AYO activities in Krose also announced special number was present- R Ritse, secretary of the cricket (men) and other day, Krose congratulated the days and years to come. that AYO will be meet- ed by Vithozo and party. School Education will grace indoor games. NMYO and lauded the He also appealed to all the ing all the colonies –youth Invocation prayer and bene- the session as guest speaker. Executive engineer, good works done by them colonies and wards to come organizations of Kohima diction were pronounced by Literary competitions such PWD Roads & Bridges, in various fields. forward in helping the gov- town next year to discuss Neithovi-ü Kuotsu and vote as essay writing, poetry Abija Khing, will grace clos- The president also so- ernment while carrying out various issues. of thanks was proposed by writing, story-telling, ex- ing ceremony of the college licited the support and co- development activities in Giving “in reminis- general sports committee, tempore speech, vernacular, week as guest of honor. operation of NMYO to- their respective areas. cence,” Akruo Nyusou, Abalie Rhezhü.

SKK conference preparations underway KVK Phek observes World Soil Day Picto Shohe exhorting the gathering at Yesholutomi village on Sun. Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): Preparations Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): Village award for their suc- Director I/C ICAR Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): urged upon the people to for the 48th general conference of the Sumi The Krishi Vigyan Kendra cessful implementation of NRC on Mithun Dr. N The 6th triennial conference always let God to be at the Kiphimi Kuqhakulu (SKK) which has been (KVK) of Phek observed bankable projects. Haque, shared about the of the youth department of forefront. scheduled to be held from Dec. 12 to the 14th World Soil Day on Dec. 5 at Wepre, a farmer repre- rich diversity of crops in the Sumi Baptist Akukuhou The legislator also urged at Zutovi village under Dimapur district is the ZAPO court in Zuketsa. sentative appreciated the the Northeast region. He Kuqhakulu (SBAK) Aizuto upon the youth to be torch- underway. Governor PB Acharya will grace A presentation on im- activities of KVK-Phek and urged the farmers to practice was held at Yesholutomi bearers of the society stating the inaugural session on Dec. 13 at 9 a.m. as portance of soil health was other departments for their improved soil management Baptist Church from Dec. 8 that they would be leading the chief guest. The special guests for the con- elaborated by Dr. T. Esther support in the agricultural methodologies for enhanc- to the 10th with the theme the society in the future. ference are secretary and finance of LRD, Y Longkumer, ACTO (Soil developments in the villages ing crop productivity. “Towards a greater height.” “In any society, youth are Kikheto Sema and Commissioner & Secretary Science) KVK-Phek; SDAO and also urged to take up An exhibition of farm- Speaking at the con- the driving force and hope- Himato Zhimomi. Joint Director, Health & of Pfutsero Dr. Imtionen more capacity building pro- er’s friendly technologies ference on Sunday, Par- fully looked upon for bring- Family Welfare Dr. H Hotokhu Chishi will be spoke about organic crop grammes in the villages. was also displayed during liamentary Secretary for ing positive changes in the the main speaker of the conference. production through enrich- Guest of honour, ADC the event. Soil health cards Justice & Law Picto Shohe, society, it is time for young There will be a panel discussion on career ment of soil with organic Pfutsero Zeneikhonuo were also distributed to four spoke about social menace people to pay back to the guidance & livelihood on Dec. 14 at 8 a.m. input. Vimero, appreciated the villages and leaflets were to in Naga society and un- society,” he said. President of Sumi Hoho, NSF President, Branch manager of village councils for their en- the visitors. The Experts also derscored the need for re- The conference was at- Western Sumi Hoho, Phom Students’ Con- NStCB, Mathung Khuvung deavour towards conserva- visited the farmer’s field and placing such elements with tended by youth depart- ference, Ao Students’ Conference, Lotha encouraged the farmers for tion of flora and fauna of the demonstration units. good deeds and positivity. ments from various vil- Students’ Union will also deliver greetings. financial inclusion in agri- region. She encouraged the Altogether 320 farmers “Every bad element lages under SBAK Aizuto, Meanwhile, the organizing committee and culture and allied activities. villagers to practice organic and concern government can be overcome and re- church leaders and social the host have invited all Sumi leaders to be a He congratulated Lasumi farming and other scientific officials participated in the placed by good things in leaders. part of the conference. The monolith for the conference. village for receiving Golden soil conservation measures. event. this world,” he said and Wildlife bureau steps up investigative efforts against wildlife crime Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): MoEF &CC, Government wildlife crime by dissemi- Wildlife Crime Control Bu- of India, appreciated the nation of information and reau (WCCB), a statutory initiatives and efforts of the intelligence. multi-disciplinary body Khonoma Village Council Exemplifying the sce- established by the Govern- in conservation of wildlife. nario of wildlife crime in ment of India under the She expressed her hap- the state, the chief wildlife Ministry of Environment piness in observing the warden, Nagaland said and Forests, to combat wildlife conservation work, people are now coming for- organised wildlife crime in done by the Khonoma vil- ward to protect the indig- the country, has taken steps lage which was supposed enous wildlife and efforts to sensitise famers and offi- to be done by the govern- of the people. The need for cials of the recent trends of ment. creating further awareness wildlife crime in the stated. She appealed the state for other species common Sensitization programme Forest department to rep- in illegal trade was also held at Khonoma licate the wildlife conser- emphasised. A wildlife crime sensitisa- vation work of Khonoma Regional deputy direc- tion programme was joint- village in other villages tor, WCCB, ER presented ly organised by the WCCB, as well. She also said the the scenario of wildlife Ministry of Environment, matter will be taken up crime in North-eastern Forest & Climate Change with the Ministry and will WCCB and Forest department officials with village council members during the sensitisation programme on wildlife crime at Khonoma village in Kohima. states and initiated the dis- (MoEF&CC), Govern- try to extend technical and cussions. Topics for discus- ment of India, and the financial assistance from lage Council chairman, Blyth Tragopan Sanctuary. tailed project proposal for Wildlife Wing of Naga- lice department, SSB, As- sion included important state Forest department at the Government of India Neisamezo Pier, gave a Further, the chairman also declaring Khonoma Blyth land Forest department at sam Rifles, RPF, CISF, routes for smuggling in Khonoma village under in the endeavour. brief background on how shared the destruction of Tragopan Sanctuary as a Forest Conference Hall, SIB, customs and scientists the area and imperatives Kohima district on Dec. 7. Principal Chief Conser- the village stopped hunting crops caused by wildlife in Community Reserve by Dimapur on Dec. 6. from ZSI and BSI. for different enforcement Around 80 offi - vator of Forest (Wildlife) wild animals by impos- the village and requested the state government and T h e m e e t i n g w a s Tilotama Varma, addi- agencies and also strategies cials from the WCCB, and chief wildlife warden, ing fine and also creating the intervention of the For- possible funding by the chaired by Satya Prakesh tional director of Wildlife to combat poaching and MoEF&CC, state For- Satya Prakash Tripathi, awareness among people est department in address- Ministry of Environment, Tripathi, chief wildlife war- Crime Control Bureau, smuggling in the region. est department, NGOs, in his welcomed address, on importance of wildlife ing the issue. Forest & Climate Change den and attended by the Govt. of India, New Delhi, A future road map was village council members gave a brief background and forests for survival. During the interac- (MoEF&CC), Govern- chief wildlife of warden, appraised the gathering agreed to by all the agencies and neighbouring villages of the programme. He also He also informed how the tion between officials and ment of India, New Delhi. Manipur; field director, about the recent trends of present after discussing the participated in the pro- highlighted the constraints village became the green- village council members, Inter-agency coordination Kaziranga Tiger Reserve; wildlife crime in the region. issues threadbare. WCCB gramme. faced by the Forest depart- est and cleanest village in the chief wildlife warden meet and officers from Forest She also emphasised on assured the state govern- The chief guest of the ment in addressing the the state. clarified queries raised by An inter-agency coordina- departments of Nagaland, the need for cooperation ment, Forest departments programme, Tilotma Var- forestry and wildlife issues He also mentioned that the participants. He also tion meeting was joint- Manipur and Assam, along among all the Central and for training of Forest staff ma, additional director of the state. the village has been pro- assured that the Forest de- ly organized by WCCB, with DCP, Dimapur and state government agencies and sensitisation of other and country head, WCCB, Khonoma Vil - tecting and maintaining the partment will prepare de- Government of India and other officers from the Po- to work towards tackling enforcement agencies. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017

C M Y K State 3 Home minister’s ribbon Youth fellowship celebrates golden jubilee destination runs into roadblock Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): A recent connected with any political reason,’ vened by N Longidang Village Council, visit of Nagaland’s Home Minister Y the N Longidang Village Council stated on Dec. 6 the public condemned the Patton to dedicate a foundation stone in its press release. incident. They have urged the law- for a bridge to be constructed in Doy- The statement read: “The project is enforcing agency of Wokha district to ang, in Wokha district, is said to have a fulfilment of a long cherished dream identify the culprits at an earliest pos- met with a roadblock. A press release of the area which should have been ap- sible time, the group stated. from a community organisation in preciated by all. However, the attempt- “The meeting also appealed all the Longidang village of said district stated ed road blockade at KVK-Nyiro road public of the area to support any kind that the event was not connected to any due to which MC Ngullie, the Chief of developmental activities in the area, EM Images ‘political reason.’ Information Commissioner, Nagaland leaving aside our black and white. It The Aongza Youth Choir sing a song during Aongza Youth Fellowship’s golden jubilee in Mokokchung on Dec. 10. ‘The recent visit of Home Minister could not make it to the function was a may be mentioned that the bridge is Shri Y Patton on Dec. 5, was to unveil cheap political drama and an attempt the shortest link between Wokha and Our Correspondent Addressing the cele- to the people, the gathering The pastor encouraged the foundation stone as chief guest to disrupt the developmental activities Zunheboto districts and the main Mokokchung, Dec. 10 brations, the speaker said was told. that congregation not to for the construction of a bridge over in the area.” beneficiaries will be Nyiro range of (EMN): The Aongza Youth that God had showered Asserting that God’s take God’s love for granted Doyang River between N Longidang The organisation stated that it had Wokha district and Saptiqa range of Fellowship (AYF), a fellow- abundant blessing and love love comes without bound- ‘but to live and share the and Shena Old villages and was not conducted an emergency meeting, con- Zunheboto district respectively.” ship of the Mokokchung upon the congregation in ary and is immeasurable, everlasting love of God Town Baptist Church’s Aongza. The church leader the reverend said, ‘If people everywhere they go and (MTBA) youth department, said to have served as a understand Almighty’s love show love to others who- celebrated its 50th anniver- president of the Aongza than they will understand ever comes to them.’ Music Parvej Akhtar, Kehunülü Theyo win Hipfest photo contest sary with Rev. Ponen Long- Fellowship’s youth minis- the power of forgiveness commemorating the jubilee char, pastor of the MTBA, try in his prime days. His and thoughts of vengeance was performed by Aongza as the main speaker of the life justifies the testimony will be cast away from their Youth Choir and Kichutip event on Dec. 10. of God’s blessing and love hearts.’ Youth Fellowship. Cultural extravaganza on the last day of the Hornbill Festival Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): “Culturally is performed after a war victory or in young males and females who dance Yours,” a cultural segment presented honour of a hunter who brought home and sing across the village, feasting on by the department of Art & Culture, a big game. The Garo tribe presented rice beer prepared by the village priest concluded on Dec. 10 at Kisama. 17 to the crowd a folk song, ‘Dim Dim during the month of October. outstanding cultural troupes presented Chong’ which is performed by both A traditional sacrificial ritual, ‘Oü to the visitors a glimpse into the rich girls and boys during Wangala, a post Yok Pe’ was performed by the Konyak culture and traditions of the tribes of harvest festival of the Garos. tribe in which, they sacrifice animals Nagaland. Badey Badey Sow Low-o, a folk and vegetables to please the gods Winners of the Hipfest photo contest and Hipfest Kids contest organised by the department of Information & Public Relations have a photo session On the last day of the festival, the song performed by the Pochury tribe for abundant blessings. This ritual is on Dec. 10 at Kisama. 17 cultural troupes enthralled the crowd is sung during the feast, marking the usually done right after the Aoleang with their performances. The Sangtam happy occasion of cementing rela- festival. The Sumi tribe performed a Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): all the participants who had showing zeal in working 2) Dr. Longri Kichu (Na- tribe presented a folk song ‘The fruit of tionship with neighbouring villages. farewell song, ‘Ashekha Kikini Lejole’ Parvej Akhtar from Kolk- participated in the competi- toward the success of the galand) hard labour is sweet,’ which signifies The Khiamniungan cultural troupe which is sung at the end of any big ata and Kehunülü Theyo tion and thanked them for competition. HIPFEST Kids Contest that the crops bear much grains and performed Jamhang, an indoor dance festival or ceremony; it is a song of from Nagaland won the their contribution to the During the programme, 2017 their fatigue fades away when they sing. which is hosted by a well to do promi- thanksgiving also. Hipfest photo contest and creative event. The competi- he gave away prizes to the 1st - Kehunülü Theyo / The Zeliang tribe performed a farewell nent person from the village who The Ao cultural troupe presented Hipfest Kids contest or- tion would not have been winners of the competition. class 6 / G. Rio School/ dance, ‘Chehin Phinbe Lim’ where, at wants to share his blessings and wealth to the audience a drama, ‘Longmah ganised by the department possible without their par- Results of Hipfest photo Nagaland the culmination of all celebratory activ- with the people during feast of merit. Jenshir Otsu’ which depicts the life of of Information & Public ticipation and contribution, contest 2nd - Abi Mor/ Class 9 / ities, the young and old join in singing Shem Shupu, a ritual, performed by Longmah villagers during an extraordi- Relations (IPR) in col- he said. Nagaland and dancing, reluctant to end the joyful the Phom tribe takes place during nary situation when the village produce laboration with Eastern The official has encour- 1st - Parvej Akhtar (Kolkata) 3rd - Sinlo Seb / Class 4 / G. 2nd - Priyojit Akoijam (Ma- occasion. Shangpila was presented by ‘Lannyang Shem,’ log drum pulling thirty rich men who decide to offer the Art Council on Dec. 10 at aged the participants to Rio School / Nagaland the Chang tribe which is a girls and event, with the people praising the feast of merit. Also, the Rengma cultur- the Naga heritage village come forward with their nipur) Consolation- 3rd Metsungnakba Long- boys song, sung since the olden days. log drum saying ‘’May your echoes al troupe presented Tefu Kejen (Cotton Kisama. photos for the competition 1) Rangala Songduimei / A popular folk dance, ‘Saipi Khupsuh’ be heard to all humanity and may spinning), the Kachari tribe performed Speaking at the culmina- even in the coming years. He char (Nagaland) Class 4 / St. Anthony / Consolation- was performed by the Kuki cultural we all prosper under your echoes.’’ Boi Jabon, the Angami tribe presented tion programme, the director thanked the department’s Manipur troupe; this folk dance originated when ‘Eloe loroe tona khyingroe rumphi Lave-o and the Chakhesang cultural of the IPR, Limawati Ao, officials and organisers from 1) Maong Longkumer (Na- 2) Thungja / Class 5 / Na- galand) forefathers of the Kukis were living in khen,’ performed by the Lotha tribe troupe presented a performance, mark- expressed appreciation to Eastern Art Council for galand Chin Hills in Burma (Myanmar) and is a processional song and dance by ing the Sükrünye festival. Citizens get a look into legal service facilities at Kisama Dimapur, Dec. 10 (EMN): According to the press re- tions General Assembly in 1948, about significance of the day ‘Around 2000 people’ received lease: “One dancer from Mon it commemorates the adoption and short speech was delivered information about legal services said that that most people don’t of the Universal Declaration of by Yanbemo, chairman of Phiro and facilities available to them. know how to read in English Human Rights. Village. According to the state’s legal which is why such translated lit- Pointing out that Human Renbonthung Tsanglao, service, the street publicity was erature will be very advantageous Rights are important in the re- panel lawyer with the WDLSA undertaken by members of the for awareness on legal rights. Do- lationships that exist between spoke about the NALSA Poverty Nagaland State Legal Services mestic tourists also commented individuals and the government, Alleviation Scheme 2015; Mer- Authority with the participation that they were impressed with Zasitsolie Beio said however hu- ibemo Lotha, panel lawyer of the of district legal service authori- legal services rendering legal man rights means that this power WDLSA spoke about the Village ties during the ten-day Hornbill advices besides free distribution is limited and states have to look Council Act of 1978; Shanchobe- Festival at Kisama from Dec. 1 of basic laws for all sections of after the basic needs of the people ni P Lotha, also a panel lawyer to the 10th. people child to senior citizens and protect their freedom. He of the WDLSA spoke about the According to a press release during a festival and they will also spoke on right to equality, Right to Information Act 2005 on Sunday, judges and panel surely encourage their state to right to freedom, Cultural & Edu- and the Right to Education Act. lawyers and paralegal volun- follow suit.” cational rights etc. Mokokchung: The Mokokc- teers from the state and dis- The Nagaland State Legal Dimapur: The Dimapur Dis- hung District Legal Services trict legal services authority of Services Authority stall at the trict Legal Services Authority Authority also observed Inter- Longleng, Kohima, Wokha, Hornbill Festival was inaugu- (DDLSA) in collaboration with national Human Rights Day by Kiphire, Mokokchung, Mon, rated by Michael Zothankhuma, Human Rights Organization setting up billboards at the Law Peren, Dimapur, Tuensang and judge of the Gauhtai High Court and Childline of Dimapur ob- College of Mokokchung and Phek district took part in the on Dec. 1 while a poster cam- served Human Rights Day Tuli town. event. They imparted “legal paign was launched by LS at Imkonglenden Colony in awareness” through counselling Jamir, judge of the Gauhati High School students browse a stall set up by the Nagaland State Legal Services. Phek: Phek District Legal Serv- Dimapur. ices Authority organized legal and speaking on basic laws, dis- Court, Kohima bench on Dec. 4. man rights in India. The resource Highlighting a brief history services authorities to provide Chuba, a panel lawyer with tribution of free legal pamphlets awareness programme at Akhen Human Rights Day person further stressed that hu- about Human Rights Day and a free and competent legal services the DDLSA spoke about the on Dec. 6 and Kanjang Village, about child labour, rights of sen- The district legal services authori- man rights are basic to one’s gist of the legal services author- to the downtrodden and weaker objective of legal services; panel ior citizens, Lok Adalat, legal aid Lephori Village and Matikhru ties of various districts in Naga- existence and dignity in society ity, Nulhuvolu Rhakho, a panel sections of the society and to lawyers Senti and Tiamoa Tzudir village on Dec. 7. etc., and poster campaigns in the land celebrated Human Rights and cannot be o r g a n - spoke about Human Rights; Vi- tribal Morungs, stalls and vicinity One of the resource persons, Day on Dec. 10. compromised. i z e L o k menuo, highlighted the NSLSA’s N. Longshithung Ezung, chair- of the festival. Zunheboto: Zunheboto Dis- A d v e n t DLSAs celebrate Human Rights Day A d a l a t s schemes. Summing up the pro- The publicity was given to man of the PDLSA, explained trict Legal Services Authority Christmas mes- on the ba- gram, Ajongba Imchen, chief the activities of the state legal ‘almost all local attendees at the (ZDLSA) observed International sage was delivered by Nitoi, the lawyer of the KDLSA said that sis of equal opportunity. judicial magistrate of Dimapur festival,’ the updates asserted. services such as like awareness Day of Human Rights besides an chaplain of the district jail while Human Rights Day is celebrated Speaking on the topic Human and the secretary of the DDLSA camps, free legal aid to poor etc. The campaigners also intro- advent Christmas programme a short speech was delivered by annually across the world on Rights Zasitsolie Beio, a panel said ‘Now is the time to know duced legal literature—translated The motor vehicle act and village with the inmates and staff of the assistant jailor, Kumsuto Shohe. Dec. 10 every year. She informed lawyer with the NSLSA said that our rights and fight for it,’ the council act were also part of the into local dialects—for the first district jail of Zunheboto. The jail inmates performed a that the date was chosen to hon- the Universal Declaration of Hu- updates informed. time at the Hornbill festival. discourse. Speaking as the resource per- special song for the programme, our the United Nations General man Rights is a milestone docu- Wokha: Wokha District Legal Various other topics included An Ao dancer who was a par- son at the event, secretary of the which was followed by Bible Assembly adoption and procla- ment that proclaimed the rights ticipant in the Hornbill Festival Services Authority (WDLSA) the importance and functions of ZDLSA Atoka Achumi spoke reading by Kiyezu (under trial mation on Dec. 10 1948 of the which everyone is entitled to as a commemorated Human Rights legal services, NSLSA Scheme, commented that such translated about the significance of Human prisoner). Universal Declaration of Human human being regardless of race, materials would be very helpful Day with the village functionar- the RTI, protection of women, Rights Day and its history. He Kohima: The Kohima District Rights. colour, religion, sex, language, ies of Wozhuro range in Wokha the Domestic Violence Act, and especially for the senior citizen spoke about relevant provisions Nulhuvolu Rhakho, gave political opinion, national origin, and would have faster awareness Legal Services Authority (KDL- at the Wozhuro Community hall. Consumer Protection. All togeth- in the constitution and statutes SA) also observed World Human an outline of the Legal Services property, birth or other status. He Gracy Ezung, a retainer law- er 260 beneficiaries attended the in the community, according to such as the Human Rights Act Authority Act, 1987. He said that said that Human Rights Day was the updates. Rights Day at Sechu Zubza, near yer of the WDLSA delivered awareness programme, updates enacted for the protection of hu- Kohima town. it was enacted to constitute legal proclaimed by the United Na- the keynote address and spoke stated. Clark releases college’s ‘journal of theology’ Mokokchung, Dec. 10 (EMN): The winter issue of the ‘Clark Journal of Theology’ was dedicated and released by Rev Dr Marnungsang, the principal of Clark Theological College during an advent Christmas celebration that was held in the college’s multi-purpose hall on Dec. 10, updates on Sunday informed. The issue was presented with the theme “Witnessing to Christ in a Plu- ralistic World” and carries eight schol- arly articles and a book review, a press release from the institution informed. The articles include: “Mission From the Margins – Implications for Theological Education”; “Political Economy of Martin Luther’s ‘Read the Bible for Yourself’ and its Message EM Images for the Contemporary North East In- Rev Dr Marnungsang (left) and CTJ editor Dr L Imsutoshi Jamir releasing the winter issue of the Clark dian Churches”; “Shrinking Globali- Journal of Theology at the college on Dec. 10. zation and Rising Nationalism: Hu- man Migration Approached Through of Christ in a Pluralistic World”; Society.” an ‘Ethic Of Hospitality’”; “Dialogi- “‘Hornbill Festival’ and ‘Purim’: To- For more information and sub- cal Communication as Witnessing to wards A Homogenization of Naga scription, one may contact the edi- Christ in a Pluralistic Naga Society”; Culture with a Special Reference to the tor of the Clark Journal of Theol- “Cross as Fatal of Reconciliation”; Book of Esther”; “Fundamentalism, ogy of the college in Mokokchung, “The Ministry of Listening: Witness Fanaticism and Conflict in Pluralist or through [email protected]. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017 4 REGION Six axed Trinamool MLAs Six elephants killed by speeding train in Assam Guwahati, Dec. 10 (IANS): At already in the section and it was im- sam where 40 elephants have died least six elephants were killed after possible to stop it,” the official said. unnaturally in the last 100 days,” being hit by a speeding train in Following the incident, the said Bibhab Talukdar of wildlife Assam’s Sonitpur district early on Rangiya division of the NFR has NGO Aaranyak. recognised as BJP legislators Sunday, officials said. imposed a speed restriction of 30 Several wildlife NGOs also de- A g a r t a l a , D e c . 1 0 me to recognise them as The issue shook the retary General and West Northeast Frontier Railway kmph in the area. manded immediate intervention of (IANS): Four months af- BJP legislators, I sent a house during the last ses- Bengal Education Minister (NFR) officials said that the inci- Two elephants were killed after the Assam government to stop such ter six axed Trinamool 14-day notice to the TMC sion of the Tripura As- Partha Chatterjee said in dent happened at 135 km marker being hit by speeding train near tragedy on tracks and requested the Congress (TMC) MLAs chairperson. As there was sembly on November 14 Kolkata that the party had between Balipara and Dhalaibeel Thakurkuchi railwat station located Assam Forest Department and the joined the Bharatiya Ja- no reply or objection, I gave when Barman accused no relations with the six stations. “The notified elephant close to Guwahati on November 19. NF Railways to light up the tracks nata Party (BJP), the law- them the recognition.” Debnath of giving them Tripura MLAs, who were corridors are at km 131 and km A herd of elephants came out like highways and install warning makers were recognised as Led by Sudip Roy Bar- recognition. close to TMC founder 144. So the accident happened at from the nearby jungle in search systems and enforce speed limits saffron party legislators in man, five lawmakers -- The speaker said that leader Mukul Roy, who is a non-notified area,” an official of food and the incident took place immediately. the Tripura Assembly on Ashish Kumar Saha, Diba he had told the six MLAs now in the BJP. said. when they tried to cross over the They also requested to keep Sunday, Speaker Ramen- Chandra Hrangkhawl, that due to lack of time be- The CPI-M-led Left Locals said that the incident railway tracks in the area. the open areas on both sides of the dra Chandra Debnath has Biswa Bandhu Sen, Pran- fore the two-day assembly Front has 51 members and took place around 1.30 am when The Assam Environmental tracks free of grass so that elephants announced. jit Singh Roy and Dilip session, it was not possible the Congress only three a herd of about 30 elephants tried NGOs Forum has expressed pro- do not come to feed near the tracks. “The six axed TMC Sarkar -- accompanied by to complete the formalities members in the House. to cross a railway track by breaking found grief at the incident and The Forum has also expressed MLAs have given recog- hundreds of former Trina- to officially recognise them After the recognition down the barrier at a level crossing lamented the lack of foresighted- its apprehension that such incidents nition as BJP legislators. mool Congress leaders and as BJP MLAs. of the six legislators as as the Guwahati-Naharlagun Ex- ness while planning development will bring disrepute to Assam and They would not get any workers joined the BJP on Reacting to Debnath’s BJP members, the Tripura press was approaching. activities. its rich natural heritage and tradi- extra facilities or benefits August 7. recognition, Saha said that Assembly got its first BJP “By that time, the train was “It is a shame for a state like As- tions. as BJP lawmakers,” the On Saturday, Assembly the “Speaker deliberately members since the north- speaker told IANS. Secretary Bamdeb Majum- delayed the process of our eastern state got a legisla- “After receiving a letter der issued a common letter due recognition as BJP tive body -- a 32-mem- Meghalaya student’s family wants murder case to be shifted on November 8 signed by to the six MLAs about the MLAs”. ber Territorial Council 60 the six MLAs requesting speaker’s recognition. On July 3, TMC Sec- years ago in 1957. Phagwara, Dec. 10 (PTI): Family plea so that he could fight the case friends, was celebrating the birthday members of a Meghalaya student, in court. of a friend. Ashish, who was killed here on He said that he will meet Punjab Aman Kumar of Dori Ganj, Thursday night, have demanded the Chief Minister Amarinder Singh in Chappra, Bihar, a student of B Tech Incessant rain in Manipur KYO and ULDC observe transfer of the case to their home this connection. (Civil) final year in the same varsity, state so that they could pursue it and He met local SP Parminder was injured in the attack, police bring the culprits to book. Singh Bhandal and Satnampura had said. dampens festive season Human Rights Day in Diphu Shivbi Prasad, father, and Muke- SHO Inspector Sukhpal Singh to Police arrested two brothers, Our Correspondent of the festival including the Our Correspondent sh Prasad, elder brother of the de- get thorough information about the Ashok Kumar and Rahul, in this Imphal, Dec. 10 (EMN): music shows on December Diphu, Dec. 10 (EMN): The Karbi Youth Or- ceased and other relatives reached incident. regard. Incessant rain in Manipur 9 and Orange Queen contest ganisation (KYO) and the United Lumbajong here yesterday and pleaded with He also visited the rented ac- SHO Sukhpal Singh said that since the past two days has on December 10 have been Development Committee (ULDC) jointly authorities to shift the case to Tura, commodation in Shaheed Bhagat the duo were presented yesterday disturbed normal life in the cancelled. organised a seminar on Human Rights at their native city in Meghalaya. Singh Nagar in Satnampura area in a court that remanded them to north eastern border state for The Orange Queen contest Theso Ajur L. P. School, 5 km Lumding Road Talking to newsmen after cre- where Ashish was murdered on police custody till Monday. the second day on Sunday. is tentatively decided to be on Sat. Dec. 10 as part of observing Human mation of the 21-year-old Ashish December 7. The victims were allegedly at- It also ‘washed away’ the held on December 13 pro- Rights Day. at the crematorium on Phagwara- Ashish, a B Tech (mechani- tacked after some persons objected festive mood of the youngsters vided rain does not subside Diphu advocate Robinson Hanse, the speak- Hoshiarpur road yesterday evening, cal) final year student of a private claiming noise was emanating from in the state’s capital besides before this date else, sources er of the program, advocated that one should Shivbi Prasad, who runs a crockery university near here was attacked their accommodation where they that of the individuals who from Tamenglong said. know and understand one’s rights which have shop in Tura, said he made this and killed when he, alongwith his were celebrating the birthday. were engaged in various events The proposed valedictory given every individual to exercise. ‘ including beauty pageants and function of the festival which We should not lose our rights even by other forcing the organisers to post- was planned to be held at the forces. So understanding our rights is very nec- pone the much-awaited Miss open ground of hill town has essary,’ he said. Amid political status controversy, HSDC faction convenes conclave Manipur contest indefinitely. been shifted to indoor stadium The general secretary of the KYO Se-im Our Correspondent litical party our voice are Earlier the Miss Manipur on Sunday wherein the best Teron also gave an outline of Human Rights Diphu, Dec.10 (EMN): not heard. We don’t have organisation had planned to orange growers of the state and said, ‘We have to know our social Human The convenor of the Hill our own MACs, MLAs hold Miss Manipur contest were honoured with cash Rights too, like the government schemes on job State Democratic Coun- and MP and due to this at Bhagyachandra Open Air prizes etc. cards entitled to the people but we are not con- cil (HSDC) and former absence in us, our efforts Theatre in Imphal on Decem- It may be mentioned that scious about our rights.’ minister Holiram Terang have become in vain.” ber 9. the 14th State level orange fes- Emphasising on the government schemes en- has declared that the first The conference saw Similarly the winter rain tival was inaugurated by the titled for citizens, he said that those who have not general conference of the the participation of new also severely affected the state’s Horticulture and Forest obtained the job card should approach their re- council must decide to faces from other fields. five day long 14th edition of Minister Thounaojam Shyam- spective block office and make enquiries about it. have the organisation as There were advocates like state level Orange festival at kumar on December 6 and it Teron imparted information about arrest a political party to ‘bring Robinson Hanse, Jameson Tamenglong district head- was participated by around warrants. He informed the gathering that if the back regionalism’ and car- Bhundu, Bharat Engti, quarters, 150 km west of Im- 120 orange growers displaying police enter their homes without any warrant, ry forward the statehood Bikram Teron and Biswa- phal. The evening programs around 2 lac oranges. they have the right to question the authorities. movement in the two hill jit Enghi participating in districts of Karbi Anglong the conference as special and Dima Hasao. invitees. Terang was address- Dr. Clament Singnar Consultative meet for implementation ing said conference in his and Dr. Drubo Hojai, inaugural speech at the retired director of Health Joysing Doloi auditorium & Services, of the govern- of ILP soon, says Manipur CM Singh on Sun. Dec. 10. ment of Assam, also were party, the Left faction Our Correspondent state government has also taken up Jiribam, 225km west of Imphal,had The programme is a language among them.’ among the other special Imphal, Dec. 10 (EMN): Manipur adequate security measures at all been strengthened and directed to two-day event to conclude convened the conference Through the backing of invitees attending the con- Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren the border areas of the state to check remain alert as illegal migrants tres- tomorrow. The inaugural scheduled for Dec. 7. The corporate houses, the RSS ference. Singh has iterated that a consultative entry of illegal migrants and prevent pass to State’s territory by crossing the function and delegate ses- Right faction convened and the Sangh Parivar Youth leader Premson committee comprising representatives unlawful activities in the wake of temporary bamboo bridges built over sions was held inside the the HSDC’s general con- ‘wanted to have control Bey who, along with 25 of all the communities of the state Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Jiri river, he informed that his gov- ‘Semson Sing Ingti Hall’ ference at Joysing Doloi. over land and resources colleagues, is taking part and a drafting committee would be National Register of Citizens process ernment is considering the proposal as they named the hall for Holiram Terang went of the hill people,’ it was in the conference said: constituted soon in connection with in Assam. for construction of a ‘welcome gate’ the programme. on to say: “We are here asserted during the gath- ‘It is only regionalism the demand for implementation of Informing that a police station and opening of a police check post at It may be mentioned in this conference for the ering. that can safeguard the the Inner Line Permit (ILP) or a simi- would be opened at Behiang in Chu- Jessami in Ukhrul district bordering here that the question cause of safeguarding ‘They are doing this by land, language, culture lar system in the state to protect the rachandpur district bordering My- Nagaland’s Phek district. of having the HSDC as the territory, language, taking into their favour, and identity of the tribes interest of the indigenous population. anmar at the earliest, he said he is Responding to a query regarding a regional registered po- culture and identity of of certain political lead- of respective region.’ ILP is a special pass that is required to planning to visit the interior village the inconvenience faced by the people litical party with the Elec- the indigenous tribes of ers and political parties. Here it is only through enter Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland (located along Indo-Myanmar border) due to checking and frisking for long tion Commission of India Karbi Anglong and Dima Such dominance from the HSDC that the move- and Mizoram. in Churanchandpur district to lay the hours at Khudengthabi post along brought out differences Hasao. outside should be fought ment can strengthen re- Chief Minister Singh said a notice foundation stone of the police station Imphal-Moreh highway, he said that among the group’s lead- We are here to discuss back to retain the land, gionalism in safeguarding to invite imminent persons to join the soon after the finalisation of other all these problems would be eased ers. to carry on the statehood resources, culture and the land and territory of two committees would be issued on process. out once a vehicle scanning machine The Left leaders of the movement for safeguarding language of the tribes,’ Karbi Anglong, the gath- the media within a few days. Singh The state government is planning which had already been procured,is HSDC led by Dr. Jayanta the political rights of the Terang declared. ering was told. was speaking to reporters on the side- to deploy IRB personnel at Kwatha, installed there. Rongpi, Robi Kr. Phang- hill tribes like Karbi, Di- He said: “From this The leaders of the old- lines of the Hill Leaders’ Day that was another interior village in Chandel It may be mentioned that Hill cho and others were not masa, Tiwa, Rengma etc.” conference we need to er generation are ageing held at his secretariat on Sunday. district bordering Myanmar, he added. Leaders’ Day was organised by the in favour of it. The Right Terang explained that have a political party un- and the present generation Singh also conveyed the same Apart from opening an additional chief minister’s office in Imphal to wing leaders of the HSDC the RSS and the Sangh der the name of HSDC. of youths should take the information to a group of editors police post, around 60 armed police meet the hill village leaders and rep- led by Chomang Kro, Ho- Parivar were ‘always at We are regularly tak- forefront, Bey said. and press correspondent during an personnel had been sent to Jiribam resentatives on 10th of every month liram Terang, Jotson Bey work to have dominance ing up agitation pro- A ‘procession’ is also informal meeting at his bungalow in (bordering Assam’s Cachar district) to since May this year. He met around and others wanted it. over the language and grammes on statehood scheduled to be conducted Imphal on Saturday. meet the required security manpower. 500 people during the day’s Hill Lead- With such differences culture of the hill tribes movement, but due to soon, party sources in- Chief Minister also said that the Stating that police stationed at ers’ Day. among the leaders of the by popularising Hindi absence of registered po- formed.

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North American country EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017 BUSINESS 5 India to seek permanent solution Air India seeks Rs. 1,100 cr loan to food stock issue at WTO to modify planes for VVIPs Buenos Aires, Dec. 10 (PTI): Com- veloping countries having common ister said, adding it deals with the popularly called the Peace Clause merce and Industry Minister Suresh objectives and similar concerns. It question of livelihood of farmers. and committed to negotiate an Prabhu has said that a permanent has been at the forefront in taking “The demand by G-33 coun- agreement for permanent solution solution to the public stockholding forward issues affecting food secu- tries for an instrument that has at the 11th ministerial meeting at of food stock is a “must have” at the rity and livelihood of farmers. been available to a select few for Buenos Aires. Under the Peace 11th ministerial conference of the Strongly reiterating the need for over two decades is reasonable and Clause, WTO members agreed to World Trade Organisation (WTO) a concerted action on public stock pragmatic,” Prabhu said, stressing refrain from challenging any breach which begins here today. holding issue, Prabhu said it is an that the grouping represents the col- in prescribe ceiling by a developing The permanent solution, the important instrumentality used lective voice of over two-thirds of nation at the dispute settlement minister said, should also cover in developing countries across the humanity -- overwhelming majority forum of the WTO. the current as well as future pro- globe, where agriculture is mostly of poor and subsistence farmers. This clause will be there till a grammes of all developing member rain-fed, to ensure two square meals Under the global trade norms, permanent solution is found to the countries and LDCs as it concerns a day to millions of poor people. a WTO member country’s food food stockpiling issue. the livelihood of millions of poor Prabhu also pitched for special subsidy bill should not breach the India s stand has been that people. safeguard mechanism (SSM), an limit of 10 per cent of the value of the permanent solution should be “A permanent solution to public instrument which would help the production based on the reference an improvement over the Peace stockholding for food security is a developing countries to deal with price of 1986-88. Clause. must have at WTO MC (Ministerial import surges and price dips as a Apprehending that full imple- An agreement on SSM is impor- Conference) 11 ... Any permanent result of high subsidies provided by mentation of food security pro- tant for India as the applied custom solution on public stockholding for the developed countries to agricul- gramme may result in breach of the duty on some of the agriculture food security should cover the cur- ture products. WTO cap, India has been seeking products is at the bound rate, mean- rent and future programmes of all “Special safeguard mechanism amendments in the formula to cal- ing it can t be raised further. These developing member countries and is important for developing coun- culate the food subsidy cap. include products such as chicken LDCs,” the minister said in a series tries to address import surges and As an interim measure, the legs, apples, olive oils and rice. New Delhi, Dec. 10 (PTI): These planes will un- withholding tax on interest of tweets after attending a meeting price dips from highly subsidised WTO members at the Bali ministe- The SSM, if agreed, would help Disinvestment-bound Air dergo re-configuration. payments will be considered of G33 grouping. imports of agriculture products rial meeting in December 2013 had in dealing with import surges and India is seeking loan worth The proposed loan in financial evaluation of the The G33 is a grouping of 47 de- from developed countries,” the min- agreed to put in place a mechanism price dips. over Rs 1,100 crore for amount will be availed dur- offers to determine the all-in modification of two Boe- ing the period from Janu- cost of your offer,” the docu- ing aircraft scheduled to be ary to April 2018. The first ment said. acquired next month for instalment of USD 135 mil- Last month, Air India ferrying VVIPs, according to lion would be taken next had sought loan to the tune RBI takes to SMSes, missed-call helpline against prize frauds an official document. month, while the remaining of USD 535 million to fi- New Delhi, Dec. 10 (PTI): One such fraudulent awareness against such vides more information on are made by fraudsters who The two Boeing 777- amount will be borrowed nance the acquisition of Taking the fight to the arena SMS asks the recipient to frauds and has also set up steps to be taken in such typically ask the gullible 300 ER aircraft are to be in a quantum of USD 15 three Boeing planes, includ- used by fraudsters promis- deposit Rs 9,500 as “fund a ‘missed call’ helpline cases -- including filing of public to either deposit a delivered in January 2018 million each in February, ing the two aircraft to be ing prize money from the release order fee charges” that provides all necessary complaint with the cyber “small amount with RBI” and the cost for “modifica- March and April, respec- used for ferrying VVIPs. At RBI, the central bank has with a bank account -- information to the callers, cell of the local police and to get a big amount of tion in its (planes) interior tively. that time, the amount was itself launched an SMS which the fraudster presents including about filing of on a specially designed web- money in return in the configuration” is estimated Last month, an Air In- around Rs 3,460 crore. campaign and a ‘missed- as that of the RBI itself -- complaints. site sachet.rbi.org.in. name of some “prize or to be USD 180 million. At dia official had said after Air India has a debt bur- call’ helpline to warn people and provide bank account, “Don’t pay fees or It also clarifies that the lottery”. current exchange rates, the required modifications, the den of more than Rs 50,000 against such scams. Aadhaar and address details charges to get large sums RBI does not open any ac- Another SMS as part of amount will translate to over two planes will join the fleet crore and these loans would Typically, such fraud- for getting an amount of in return. count for individuals and the campaign tells the pub- Rs 1,160 crore. used to carry the President, further increase the debt sters make calls or send over Rs 2 crore (denomi- RBI/RBI Governor/ cautions against getting mis- lic that if they “receive offer These planes will be the Vice President and the level. SMSes and emails to gul- nated in the US dollar and Government never sends guided by calls or SMSes of lottery winnings or cheap used to ferry the President, Prime Minister. In 2006, Air India lible people promising other foreign currencies) such email/SMS/call,” seeking transfer of money funds from RBI or some Vice President and Prime According to the airline, placed orders with Boeing lotteries and prize money as a portion of “funds re- the central bank says in to purported RBI account government body”, they Minister. no commitment fee would for 68 aircraft 27 Dream- from the Reserve Bank -- at covered from the erstwhile one such SMS, while ask- or sharing of personal bank- must complain immediately In a tender document, be paid to the lender for liners, 15 B777-300 ERs, times from the RBI Gover- British rulers”. ing them to give a missed ing details. on the Sachet website. the national carrier said it the USD 180 million loan. eight B777-200 LRs and nor himself -- to trap them While the RBI has call to a phone number The RBI helpline is Some such frauds also would like to avail a bridge “Prepayment/ short clo- 18 B737-800s. Of these, into sharing their banking been regularly issuing cau- (8691960000). aimed at explaining to the promise credit cards di- loan of up to USD 180 mil- sure of the loan should be the state-run carrier has al- account details or paying tion notices against such The missed call to this general public that it never rectly from RBI as also an lion to finance the cost of allowed without any extra ready taken the delivery of some ‘fees or charges’ to get frauds, it has now taken helpline number is returned asks any such details from ‘all-bank balance enquiry’ modification. cost to Air India as the loan 65 planes. At present, the the money. to SMSes to spread public with another call that pro- individuals and such calls app. “Government of In- would be repaid as soon as flagship airline has a fleet dia has indicated that they the funds are made available of 115 aircraft. would issue its guarantee for by Government of India,” The government is in the financing cost of modifi- it added. the process of finalising the cation of the two B777-300 “The Indian Income Tax modalities for the strategic Infosys’ settlement move with SEBI fine — Mohandas Pai ER aircraft for a period of Act imposes withholding tax disinvestment of debt-laden 12 months or less,” the docu- on interest payments to lend- Air India as part of efforts Hyderabad, Dec. 10 (PTI): The In- SEBI’s prerogative,” Pai said. through ordeal of a regulatory ac- door agreement”, and if Infosys is ment issued last week said. ers outside India. The rate of to revive the carrier. fosys’ move to settle with Securities On the whistleblower asking SEBI tion,” he said. allowed to do so, then “no whistle- and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to prosecute the management as well “In capital markets all over the blower in future will take the pain the alleged disclosure lapses involv- as the board, he said, “That should world, companies (do) file for con- to expose any malpractices in the ing a severance pact is “perfectly be ignored. Consent order is fine. sent so they get over any regula- corporate sector”. fine”, the company’s former chief SEBI knows what to do best; leave tory action where there is no fraud, The Bengaluru-headquartered com- Choose right privatisation financial officer, T V Mohandas Pai, it to SEBI.” misrepresentation or criminality,” pany last week filed the application said today. The chairman of Aarin Capital and he said. with SEBI to settle the issues around He disagreed with the whistleblower also Manipal Global Education “So, there is no criminality and de- severance agreement with ex-CFO process for Air India — IATA chief who has reportedly asked the market Services stressed that consent de- liberateness. It’s perfectly fine for the Rajiv Bansal. regulator SEBI to prosecute the IT crees are a very normal part of any company to file consent,” Pai said, The settlement applications for Geneva, Dec. 10 (PTI): Right privatisa- more than Rs 50,000 crore. giant’s management and the Board. capital market. adding that the matter in Infosys’ violation of disclosure norms typi- tion process should be chosen for Air India While noting that there is strong com- “Settlement is a normal process. “It happens all the time in the US. case relates to lack of adequate and cally involve payment of a financial to make it more competitive, IATA chief petition in India, especially for long haul, Anybody can file for settlement It happens in all capital markets proper disclosure. penalty to avoid punishment in case Alexandre de Juniac said as he asserted that the IATA Director General and CEO, said consent decree from SEBI. There are because some things are difficult to The whistleblower has argued that allegations are proved right at a later there is no need for the government to own Air India should have the right weapons to very clear norms. SEBI can do it; it’s prove; companies don’t want to go a settlement was similar to “back- stage. stake in the carrier. compete. Supporting the decision to sell stake in In the context of Air India, de Juniac the debt-laden airline, he said the govern- said the “right process for privatisation” has ment has to find “competitive conditions to to be chosen. RSP registers net profit for three consecutive months give Air India the right weapons to compete “There is no need for government to against others”. have any stake in its airline from my point After Rs 76.5/cylinder Bhubaneswar, Dec. 10 (PTI): Rourkela hot metal cheaper and helped RSP absorb Air India is a member of the Interna- of view,” he said in response to a query on Steel Plant (RSP) has posted a “stellar per- the rise in cost of imported coking coal and tional Air Transport Association (IATA), whether there should be a partial or com- formance” by earning net profit in the last the reduction in the Net Sales Realisation a grouping of more than 275 airlines plete stake sale in Air India. hike, oil cos skip LPG three months and setting new records in (NSR) of the finished goods, the statement worldwide. For financial and other reasons, the key areas. said. “We support privatisation of Air India privatisation process could also be done in “There are several reasons for the stellar During April-November this year, the ... then the company has to be privatised two steps, Juniac noted. price revision performance. There has been an improve- steel plant made record 21,68,505 tonnes of in revised conditions to be able to compete “It is possible. The final target should be New Delhi, Dec. 10 (PTI): After hiking cooking gas ment in inputs to blast furnace namely sinter hot metal, 20,93,761 tonnes of crude steel effectively,” de Juniac told PTI in an inter- complete privatisation even if the process is LPG price by Rs 76.5 in 19 installments in 17 months, and coke, both in terms of quality as well as and 19,22,408 tonnes of saleable steel, which view here. done in one or two steps,” he said. national oil companies skipped the monthly revision in consistency,” the RSP said in a statement. are the best ever production figures since its As part of efforts to revive ailing Air On the issue of overseas entities holding rates this month ahead of elections in Gujarat. As a result, RSP has achieved the lowest inception, the RSP said. An increase in sec- India, the government is working out the stakes in domestic carriers, de Juniac said State-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petro- ever coke rate in blast furnace 4 and 5 and it ondary sales over the last three months has modalities for its strategic disinvestment. that the IATA does not have a particular leum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp is improving continuously. This has made the been another positive aspect, it added. The flagship carrier’s debt burden is position on foreign ownership. Ltd (HPCL) have been since July last year raising price of LPG on 1st of every month with a view to eliminat- ing government subsidies on the fuel by 2018. The oil companies however skipped the hike this Pay hikes may get fatter in 2018 after trimming of jobs in ‘17 month. “Yes it is true that we have not done a revision in New Delhi, Dec. 10 (PTI): India culprit. Several corporates adopt- adoption of new business mod- Services India, a human resources sumer goods of 8-15 per cent; and subsidised LPG price this month,” said a top executive Inc is promising better pay hikes ed a wait and watch approach els and newer technologies like and workforce solutions firm. ITES at 10-15 per cent. at one of the three retailers requesting not to be quoted. of 10-15 per cent for the right and the negative hiring sentiments Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Sectorwise, HR experts believe Some of the recruitment “I am not in a position to specify what promoted this talent in 2018 after a challenging lasted until at least September this robotic process automation that infrastructure, telecom, manufac- trends that corporates are likely (decision). It is a routine management decision.” year for the job market, stunned year. significantly reduces the man- turing and IT will be among the to adopt in the coming year in- Asked if the government had asked the oil compa- by post- demonetisation layoffs in Leading consultancy Man- power requirements especially at industry verticals that will grow clude hiring through social media, nies to skip the monthly revision, the official refused traditional sectors like textiles and power Group’s India Economic the bottom of the pyramid. substantially in the coming year. online assessment, and focus on comments. due to the advent of artificial intel- Outlook showed a dip in the But this has also created a “These segments have the delivering an unparalleled experi- The price of subsidised LPG was last raised by Rs ligence in new-age ones. employers’ hiring intentions in huge demand for specialists in focus of government, besides ence to candidates, experts say. 4.50 per cylinder on November 1 to Rs 495.69, accord- The catch would be ‘right’ the first three quarters of 2017, these emerging technologies. these industries are going to work “With 243.2 million internet ing to a price notification issued by state-owned firms. talent which HR experts broadly before rising again in the October- “Change in business environ- as a framework for the growth of users and 106 million active so- The government last year had asked state-run oil define as those who are able to re- December period. ment is leading to obsoleteness economy and development which cial media users among a total firms to raise prices every month to eliminate all the skill themselves as per the chang- Its surveys showed the per- of existing skills and have created in turn creates job opportunities population of over 1200 million, subsidies by March 2018. Since the implementation ing work profile requirements, centage of employers planning demands for new skills as must- for everyone,” said Sunil Goel, the social media wave is yet to get of the policy of monthly increases from July last year, even as they warn that further to hire dipping to 22 per cent in haves. IT skills are out now, while MD GlobalHunt an executive into the heart of India,” Tham- subsidised LPG rates have gone up by Rs 76.51 per ‘rationalisation’ -- the sugar-coated January-March, further down to data science and digital skills are search firm. maiah said. cylinder. A 14.2-kg LPG cylinder was priced at Rs jargon for layoffs that came aplen- 19 per cent in April-June and to in demand,” said Zairus Master, In terms of increments, 2017 Corporates will increasingly 419.18 in June 2016. ty in 2017 including by some large 16 per cent in July- September, CEO of Shine.com a leading on- saw the median rate of pay hike adapt innovative tools like video Every household is entitled to 12 cylinders of 14.2- groups -- cannot be ruled out for but rebounded to 24 per cent in line job portal. dip to sub-10 per cent level at interviewing, asynchronous inter- kg each at subsidised rates in a year. Any requirement the corporate workforces. October-December. The labour landscape in India around 9.2 per cent. This varied viewing and online assessments beyond that is to be purchased at market price. But, the overall hiring senti- Experts hope that the recruit- is changing significantly, and by sector, and most importantly, that not only will increase the Initially, the hike in LPG rate was Rs 2 per month ment of employers in India, as ment landscape recovery will some of the emerging trends in- by job role, while specialised talent efficiency of the hiring process which was raised to Rs 3 from May this year. The No- per major staffing consultancies, continue and companies in mobile clude rise temp staffing (employee and key performers still got well by 50-60 per cent, but at the same vember 1 hike in the LPG price was the sixth since the should continue on the revival manufacturing, fintech and start- is recruited on a temporary basis) rewarded. time help in increasing the quality May 30 order of the oil ministry to raise rates by Rs 4 path that has got underway in the ups, among others, may hire the and flexi workforce and this has In the new year, the median of hire, he added. per cylinder every month. last quarter of 2017 after three most in 2018. led to companies adopting various increment is expected to improve GlobalHunt’s Goel observed According to the Petroleum Planning and Analysis consecutive quarters of down- Even the better good news is models in addition to their full- to above 12 per cent across sectors that overall in 2017 the job mar- Cell (PPAC) of the Oil Ministry, there is a subsidy of trend. expected on pay hikes, which ex- time employees, like freelancers and profiles. ket has gone well wherein a lot Rs 251.31 on every 14.2-kg subsidised LPG cylinder. As per various estimates, just perts are pegging at 10-15 per cent as well as alternate sources of According to GlobalHunt’s of global organisations went on Incidentally, the non-subsidised or market priced about 20 per cent firms have across most sectors -- up from 8-10 workers like retirees, alumni, and Goel, the average hike was 8-10 expanding their base in India and LPG rates were raised by Rs 5 per cylinder to Rs 747 a made workforce additions in per cent mostly in 2017. online talent communities. per cent in 2017 across the sectors, many new companies also came bottle on December 1. Non-subsidised LPG rates have 2017, though a majority of 60 per “2018 is set to swing the pen- “India’s flexi workforce is which should grow to 10- 12 per to set up their base in the country. moved in tandem with their cost since December 2013. cent managed to retain their staff dulum further into the job growth currently 13 lakhs and is expected cent in 2018. TeamLease Serv- This led to the creation of a de- There are as many as 18.11 crore customers of strength unchanged without any zone. Businesses in almost all sec- to grow to 90 lakhs by 2025. Im- ices’ Chakraborty said the figure cent number of job opportunities subsidised LPG in the country. These include over 3 major layoffs. tors -- notably, financial services, portantly, 82 per cent of total flexi should breach 11 per cent in the in sectors like BFSI, technology, crore poor women who were given free connections But the layoffs were huge for retail and ecommerce and media workforce in India is under the new year. e-commerce and also in manu- during the last one year under the Pradhan Mantri some, including in IT, telecom, and entertainment -- are looking to age of 30. Kelly Services’ Thammaiah facturing. Ujjwala Yojna. manufacturing, engineering and hire talent at an even faster pace,” Companies will naturally said employees in IT sector can Moreover, skill development There are 2.66 crore users of non-subsidised cook- banking sectors and quite often said Rituparna Chakraborty, co- evolve to use contract services for expect average appraisal of 8 per initiatives have boosted the capaci- ing gas including those who gave up subsidy on call by demonetisation -- announced in founder of employment services all skill sets that are not needed on cent; e-commerce and start- ups ty of unorganised sector and small Prime Minister Narendra Modi. November 2016 but had a long- provider Teamlease Services. a constant basis,” said Thammai- of 15 per cent; pharma and life industries which used to struggle lasting impact -- was seen as the The year 2017 saw growing ah BN, Managing Director, Kelly sciences as also FMCG and con- for trained resources, he added. 6 Making a Difference: Teenager’s EastErn Mirror Passion Sets an Example in Kashmir DIMAPUR, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2017 “I decided to make a living by chasing my waste either on the lake’s banks or in it. Sheikh Qayoom | IANS passion to preserve the lake on whose banks I “After one takes a pledge not to pollute the was born and brought up,” Bilal told IANS. water body, the second thing is to help remove ilal Ahmad Dar, 18, is ready to start The small, apparently unnoticed effort was the waste that is already there,” he said. Hackneyed Assurances; his daily journey into the Wular lauded by none other than the country’s Prime He says it is not possible to clear everything Lake, said to be Asia’s largest fresh- Minister Narendra Modi, who made a special through an individual effort. water lake, early in the morning on mention of Bilal and his effort in his “Mann Ki “Carcasses of animals can also been seen a bitterly cold December day. Baat” address to the nation. floating on the lake these days. It is the same Yet Hope Still Smoulders BFor the last four years, this teenaged bread- Bilal said, “I did not know about the devel- lake whose water my mother says people could winner of the family has been collecting plastic opment till officials and media people came drink directly in the past without any fear of inally, a settlement to the long drawn Indo-Naga political bottles, metal scrap, empty tetra packs and oth- to our village. It is really encouraging that the getting sick,” he pointed out. issue which had persisted for more than 60 years is now er waste left behind by locals and tourists, who Prime Minister made a mention of my work. The instant recognition of his effort at the imminent. That is what the Naga people are told, and come to visit the lake and end up littering it. “This has created a huge difference in my highest level has made a difference in Bilal’s F Bilal does not go to school like other boys life. I would earn around a hundred rupees dai- life and, more than that, the teenager feels this that is what the Naga people believe and are hopeful of. Lead- of his age. He had to hang up his school bag ly by selling the scrap collected from the lake, would one day make a difference in the en- ers from the national level, the state and NGOs have repeatedly when his father, Muhammad Ramzan, died but that income depended on good weather vironment and ecology of the lake on whose five years ago leaving behind his mother, Mugli, and other factors which are necessary before banks he was born. been talking about an inclusive ‘final settlement’ to the issue. elder sister Kulsuma, younger sister Rakshana one rows his boat into the lake.” “I am now confident everybody, big or The peace process has been going on for more than 20 years and Bilal. Fate forced Bilal to make a living for Prompted by Modi’s mention, the Srinagar small, will contribute to help Wular Lake re- and the 3rd August 2015 ‘peace accord’, more popularly termed his poor family by collecting refuse and trash Municipal Corporation designated Bilal as its gain its lost glory. The least all of us can do is from Wular Lake and selling it to scrap buyers. brand ambassador to attract attention towards to stop polluting the water bodies around us. the ‘framework agreement’, more than two years. We cannot be In the process, this teenager has been do- the deteriorating condition of the Dal Lake in If our rivers and lakes die, how can Kashmir hasty in making decisions for a matter that is of national im- ing what the government failed to do -- clean- Srinagar city and other water bodies here. live?” asked Bilal before starting his daily jour- ing the famous lake, the community’s lifeline The municipality has fixed a monthly hon- ney into the lake. portance, however, the Indo-Naga issue has been stretched for -- which was his passion even as a kid. orarium of Rs 8,000 for Bilal to continue his too long. When we talk about an inclusive solution, an inclu- “Wular Lake is our life. I have always been work. (This feature is part of a special series whose sive political settlement, reconciliation has to be the keyword, pained to see people leaving behind metallic, “The first ‘tankha’ (salary) was credited to purpose is to do uplifting stories of people and plastic and other waste while they come here my account last month. I am now able to live a communities who are making a difference in then come power sharing, security and peace. for sightseeing. Even when my father was alive, better life and pursue my work more effectively. creating a better India or who are seeking to Naga people are placed in two countries- India and My- I used to go to the bank of the lake and try to Other boys and even elderly people have been preserve India’s plurality and secular culture. remove unhealthy waste left there. When my encouraged to do their bit regarding the clean- It is made possible by a collaboration between anmar, and across four states in India- Nagaland, Manipur, father died, I had no option but to give up my ing of the lake. IANS and the Frank Islam Foundation. Sheikh Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. How much of these, will the studies and start earning for myself and my “My first request to everybody living around Qayoom can be contacted at sheikhqayoom@ ‘framework agreement’ cover? Any solution or settlement that family. or coming to visit the lake is not to leave behind gmail.com ) comes, it cannot be conclusive or final if it does not cover all the Nagas. The words that our leaders us about the peace process are Did Koyna Quake Set Trend of Opposing Hydro Projects? almost becoming hackneyed and rhetoric: ‘inclusive, honour- able and acceptable’, unless it includes Nagas from both the th countries. (December 11 is The 50 Anniversary of The Koyna Quake) We are talking about peace, but are we at peace amongst eliminating lubrication as the cause. Compu- object to the construction of any dam, irrigation ourselves? That is one question the Naga people should be ask- Arun Bapat | IANS ter programmes used to find the effective load project, hydro-power project or atomic power of the reservoir water on the rock found it was plant. ing at this juncture. ecember 11 is the 50th anniver- around 3.5 to 4.0 kg per sq foot -- far less than Considering the increased demand of power, There is so much of squabbling within ourselves and we sary of the Koyna earthquake. the load-bearing capacity of the rock. we need more dams and hydroelectric and so- can go on forever swapping accusations and harbouring bit- The tremor claimed 199 lives and In fact, the late Dr K.L. Rao, an eminent en- lar power generators. At present, some Hima- caused minor damage to the Koy- gineer, scholar and a Union Minister, compared layan states such as Sikkim, Uttarakhand and terness but we must take care not to distort the facts, the Naga na dam in Maharashtra and some the Koyna reservoir sitting on Earth to a fly sit- Himachal Pradesh are developing mini, micro, history and the true Naga aspiration. We must strike a balance housesD in its vicinity -- but it is an event that ting on an elephant. The net result was the RIS and medium hydroelectrical projects. In ad- affected science, society and engineering. Till was not accepted by a large number of scien- dition, Bhutan and Nepal are providing India between our past and our future. the Koyna earthquake, peninsular India was tists. Over the years, it was variously renamed a good amount of electricity generated at hy- Talks of a final settlement have been going on, with many considered quake-free and most big civil engi- RAS (Reservoir Associated Seismicity) and droelectric projects. In the Sahyadri mountain leaders saying solution is very near, the President of India join- neering projects were constructed under this as- RTS (Reservoir Triggered Seismicity). The topic region of Konkan in Maharashtra about 2,200 sumption. has now been abandoned. sites have been identified for micro hydel power ing the chorus on Dec. 1 while gracing the inaugural function For the engineering community, the Koyna Apart from the debate it triggered among plants similar to the Himachal Pradesh model. of this year’s edition of the Hornbill Festival in Kisama. How- accelerogram, which had recorded a 0.67g ac- seismologists, the Koyna earthquake had caused The neo-environmentalists are opposing this, celeration, was a boon. This was the first ac- a severe damage to the development of irriga- saying it would have an adverse impact on the ever, no one has given surety on a timeframe so far, and peo- celerogram in India. Prior to this, most dam tion and dam technology. Taking a wrong cue environment. ple continue to prepare for the state assembly election, due in engineers and designers were adopting the Cali- from Koyna, the construction of the Narmada Contemporary history tells us that till 1975 February 2018. fornian accelerogram for design purposes. This project was challenged in various courts, delay- or so, no developmental project was opposed. I has been used for construction of several dams, ing its commissioning by 11 years. The project remember how the Bhakra and Hirakud Dams It is clear that a settlement is looming but things are still un- atomic power plants and refineries in India. was eventually completed. were jubilantly welcomed by everybody when certain and we can only be hopeful for normalcy, for a normal It was hypothesised that construction of the But the Narmada protesters found fresh ter- Jawaharlal Nehru announced these projects as Koyna dam was the main cause and the earth- rain at Tehri and the construction of this dam the new temples of development. But now, op- life post-settlement. With the year coming to an end, we wish quake was induced by the reservoir. A new ac- was also opposed. The main opposition was position to any developmental activity is seen for a fresh curry, and a more consistent House, should solution ronym -- RIS or Reservoir Induced Seismicity it may induce an earthquake. It was said that practically every day -- whether it is construc- to the Indo-Naga issue prolong. -- was also coined. Advocates of this theory whether or not a dam is constructed, the Hima- tion of a flyover in the Malabar Hill area of proposed two possible causes: Water in the layan region would always have some earth- Mumbai, or road widening in a city or build- Let us bury all our blames, accusations, complaints, prob- reservoir trickled down and lubricated the un- quake activity. I remember that I was required ing of an airport or a highway. People oppose it lems and bitterness, and hope for the best. derground fault causing an earthquake; or the to visit several hydro-electric projects in the and fight the legal case up to the Supreme Court weight of water in the reservoir was beyond the country to install seismological instruments in causing delays and cost escalations. load bearing capacity of the rock. and around the dam or project area. I sometimes wonder whether the roots of There were a number of seminars and con- After failures at Narmada and Tehri, the this trend of opposition to such projects can be ferences on RIS in the following years. Some protest was shifted to Subansiri Dam in As- traced back to the Koyna earthquake of 50 years scientists also joined the RIS bandwagon with- sam. Here it took a somewhat dangerous turn ago. out realising that they were batting on a weak bordering on violence. The equipment and ma- DAILY wicket. chinery for the construction of dam were being (Dr. Arun V. Bapat is a seismologist and former Both the causes proposed were negated on hauled by the railways. Protesters sat on the rail- head of Earthquake Engineering Research, a scientific basis. When a lake-tapping experi- way track and blocked the passage of the train. Central Water and Power Research Station, Pune. ment was conducted, it was found that there This has further delayed the construction of the The views expressed are personal. He can be con- PATH was no water or moisture in the rock, thereby project. Now it has become almost a practice to tacted at [email protected] ) It’s All a Gift! Christmas Personality Consultative Meeting s I contemplate different Him, just imagine as a child filled with the personalities of person who Spirit He must have never disobeyed any- of The NNPGs Working claimed to be supernatural one rather everybody must have wished to BEING but out of many, be around Him. without any prejudice my in- At the age of twelve He started to Committee (WC) and Astinct propose any intelligent men who ex- teach, questioned and answered the Laws amines their personalities will accord with to the teachers of the Laws (Lk. 2: 42, Naga Civil Society me and bolster ‘JESUS’ as TRUE BEING. 46), oh my gosh at age 12! Then just pon- As I recapitulate the life of Jesus it will der there would be no chances for Him 1. The meeting expressed deep appreciation to the be coherent why I’m orthodox with this to commit sin, once on His ministry He NNPGs for exhibiting the spirit of oneness and Being (Jesus). Bible is the world best sell- even challenged the teachers of the Laws working under a single platform through Working ing and summarized book assert “In the to stone Him to death if they could con- Committee. Beginning was He” “All things was made vict Him as guilty (John 8:46). How dare through Him and nothing was made with- He was for challenge? What a personal- 2. The meeting also appreciated the GOI, for extend- out Him”. ity, isn’t it? It’s unique not just because ing official invitation to Working Committee of I suppose being omnipotent Person He He does not sin but sin was an alien even Naga National Political groups, in order to solve the BIBLE READ: EPHESIANS 2:1–9 must have been always enthralled by the in His thoughts and desires (Heb. 4:15; prolonged Indo-Naga conflict. heavenly host of angels, I guess twenty- 1John 3:5). THOUGHT FOR TODAY: four seven ‘halleluiah forever to Him’ He came to His own and taught them 3. The meeting acknowledged the agreed position For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is yet He left His dazzling bosom to dwell profoundly and supplemented with signs reached between the GOI and the NNPGs Working not from yourselves, it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8 among His tiny masterpieces and how on and wonders yet their stubborn hearts have Committee on 17.11.17, which clearly states that the earth He was conceived without man’s in- accused the innocent to be criminal. They GOI “Recognises the historical and political rights of ondon’s Café Rendezvous has nice lighting, comfortable couches, and volvement which was contrary to biology trailed Him before the gentiles, flogged the Nagas to self determine their future in consonance the smell of coffee in the air. What it doesn’t have are prices. Originally yet astonishingly born in the stable and ac- Him, mocked Him, spat on His face and with their distinct identity”. Thus the content in the cepted the manger as His first bed which ultimately dragged Him to Calvary to be started as a business by a local church, the café was transformed a agreement reaffirms political legitimacy for the L was another extraordinary. crucified. future. year after it started. The managers felt that God was calling them to do All the scholars crack their heads on I wonder throughout His trails He does something radical—make everything on the menu free. Today you can or- miraculous virgin birth but culminate with- not justify Himself; how dare He keep 4. The meeting resolved to strengthen unity of the Na- der a coffee, cake, or sandwich without cost. There isn’t even a donation jar. out any solutions; I wonder how many of silent? What a personality, isn’t it? It’s gas while extending fullest support and co-operation It’s all a gift. them have seriously comprehend His per- unique not just because of His silence but towards the NNPGs Working Committee in their I asked the manager why they were so generous. “We’re just trying to sonality of being born in a lowly place and He even prayed and dare to forgive their ongoing negotiations with the GOI. It urged all treat people the way God treats us,” he said. “God gives to us whether we have experienced the electrifying beauty of brutal works. concerned to pray for the positive outcome of the His attributes. What a personality, isn’t What a Savior we have! Being a creator thank him or not. He’s generous to us beyond our imaginations.” political dialogue between the two entities. it? It’s unique not just because of what being in the shoe of His creatures and ul- Jesus died to rescue us from our sins and reconcile us with God. He He has done but how much dare He was timately allowed His creatures to trample 5. The house resolved to urge the GOI to suspend the rose from the grave and is alive now. Because of this, every wrong thing to accept what He has done. Him just to JUSTIFY them. He is unique- ensuing Legislative Assembly Elections in Nagaland, we’ve done can be forgiven, and we can have new life today (Eph. 2:1–5). Again the best seller assert ‘accord- the only ultimate destiny of human beings. to allow the negotiators and the Naga people to fo- And one of the most amazing things about this is that it is all free. We can’t ing to the Jewish customary Laws He was As we celebrate this Christmas may we cus solely on delivering a solution that is acceptable, buy the new life Jesus offers. We can’t even donate toward the cost (vv. circumcised on eight day’ (Lk. 2:21) and have a true sense of Christianity and let honourable and enduring to both the GOI and the 8–9). It’s all a gift. when He was around two years old the the personality of Christ fill out hearts as Nagas. Magi from the east visited His home with we strive forward for the transformation of As the folks at Café Rendezvous serve their cakes and coffees, they give the precious treasures existed during those our SOCIETY. people a glimpse of God’s generosity. You and I are offered eternal life for Media Cell time (Mt. 2:11), as He grew and become Working Committee, NNPGs free because Jesus has paid the bill. strong in spirit the grace of God was upon Mr. Katoshe Aye (ACTS South Korea)

Eternal life is a free gift ready to be received. The contents of articles in this page do not necessarily reflect the Editorial view or policy of the paper. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017 7 The Truth Behind The Gujarat Growth Model

Indira Hirway | The Wire sales tax subsidies till 2006-07 (till the Centre growth (7-8%) during this period thanks to less than 2% of its income on education (the massive productive jobs with decent incomes banned it). Forty percent of the revenue from continuous good rainfall for almost nine years, norm is 5-6%) with the result that 45% workers for the youth. The ongoing agitations in hat is the Gujarat model? sales tax – the main source of revenue for state and policies of the government on improved in Gujarat are illiterate or studied up to the Gujarat emanate from this failure. In simple terms, it refers governments – was forgone. seeds (Bt cotton was the main winner), fifth standard with the quality of education Though 40-45% households in Gujarat to a period from 2002-03 Thereafter, the government introduced extension through Krushi Rath, modern very poor. The quality of higher education depend on natural resources for their to 20011-12 during which subsidies on capital, interest, infrastructure as agricultural practices and 24-hour electricity is also resulting in the rising number of livelihoods (farming, animal husbandry, dairy, Gujarat experienced a well as heavy subsidies on land, water supply for farmers. unemployed engineers and science graduates. forestry, fishery etc), the depleted and degraded Wquantum jump in its growth rate. The driving and natural resources. The rates of subsidies However, after 2011-12, droughts and Public expenditure on health is 0.8% of the resources, along with heavy pollution, have force was the then chief minister Narendra were larger for larger investments. For mega water crisis brought down the rate to 3.7% state income, well below the norm of 4-6%. reduced their productively and incomes in these Modi’s innovative interpretation of neoliberal industries, there was no fixed rate and each with high fluctuations. In addition, agriculture Gujarat is decelerating very fast in almost all sectors and raised their vulnerability. The tribal policies. case was assessed separately. For example, is suffering from low minimum support price health indicators. Forty-five percent children population is the worst affected by the growth The growth strategy had three major Tata-Nano got totally Rs 30,000 crores (cost of cultivation is much higher), poor crop in the state are undernourished and the decline despite the fake claims. Thousands of them are components: quantum jump in infrastructure subsidies (like Suzuki, Hyundai etc). Land insurance (even in good areas the coverage is of maternal mortality rate has decelerated, forced to migrate to squat on urban roads or to facilitate inflow of corporate investment; was acquired from common grazing land, 10-12%) and declining public investment in leading to the state’s poor ranking. live in make-shift huts in rural areas without quantum jump in governance to address denotified protected areas, national parks and agriculture. In addition, this growth is neither The state leaders boast of the highest even basic facilities. No wonder the Gujarat the requirements of corporate units; and from irrigated fertile lands. The price started sustainable (ground water, a major source of workforce participation in the state (after high court has told off the state government unprecedented rise in incentives and subsidies from Re 1 per acre, and increased during the irrigation is depleting badly without adequate Haryana); however only 6.8% of the workers frequently, asking it not to forget that they are on investments to the corporate sector to attract last years of the model but still was less than efforts in recharge) nor equitable (marginal are formal (this % is declining as against rising also a part of the state’s population. investments. Infrastructure development the market price. farmers did not receive much benefits) and trend in most other states). Close to 93-94% The net result is 40% population is below focused on roads, airports and power – and What also helped the growth was agricultural wages for the rising number of workers are in informal and traditional sectors the multi-dimensional poverty line. The through reforms, 24-hour availability of power. expanding global markets. Gujarat pushed agricultural labour are almost lowest in the with low incomes and low social security. The growth is elitist, not reaching the masses. Governance focused on quick disposal of up the exports from all major industries: country). wage rates in Gujarat are almost the lowest in Though there are a number of central and state investment proposals with a single window, petrochemicals-chemicals, pharmaceuticals- What was the overall impact of this major states in India, with the rank declining pro-poor programmes, their implementation is easy access to bank credit and if required, drugs, textiles and garments, leather, machine quantum jump in corporate investments and over the past decade or so. The growth very poor. In short, the hype created around other escort services to corporate units and tools and electronics, gems and jewellery, growth on the economy? has been highly capital intensive due to the the Gujarat model is hollow and fake. their core staff. The concerned departments and agricultural crops by setting up a number After the huge incentives to corporate chase for the “state-of-the-art” technology. were aggressive in expediting the procedures of SEZs, industry parks and special export units, the government is left with limited The employment elasticity of growth has (Indira Hirway is Director and Professor of to facilitate investment flows. The incentives promotion measures. funds for education, health, environment and nose-dived for productive sectors. One of the Economics, Centre for Development Alternatives to corporate investment included mainly Gujarat also experienced high agricultural employment for the masses. Gujarat spends greatest challenges for the state is creating (CFDA), Ahmedabad.)

Sarah Scoles | Aeon Milky Way. ‘You’re walking around, bending down, looking down, then looking up,’ he ery few months, the artist Jon says. ‘It’s a sensory experience.’ Lomberg kneels next to a croton Galactic Position System If you stand where the Sun’s earring is plant, removes the cheap earring and survey the fecundity around you, it’s that pierces a speckle on one stars just like Sirius, but much further away. with Galileo’s telescope – in their infancy. the black hole’s event horizon – the point of easy to believe that you actually do live inside of its leaves, and fastens a new As centuries passed, telescopes grew Until extrasensory telescopes augmented our no return – and the only memorial is a burst something larger than your world. Lomberg Vyellow stud into the same hole. This, he says, larger, allowing astronomers to detect fainter anatomy, we couldn’t sense the spiral arms. of photons. In the 10,000 light years right believes this cosmic swaddling – and the pointing to the stud, represents the Sun. objects. Looking deeper into space than ever Scientists didn’t discover them until the 1950s, around the black hole, 10 billion stars bulge accompanying smallness – should be part of He is standing 30ft from the middle of the before, they began to see strange helical clouds. with the first radio surveys of hydrogen gas. in a peanut shape. When astronomers look at our mental toolkit. 100-ft-wide Galaxy Garden in the Captain Thinking that they were just baroque clouds From these simplest atoms, radio waves 21cm the farther-out orbits, such as that of our Sun, While acknowledging that your Cook district of western Hawai’i. The highly of gas within our own galaxy, astronomers long cut through the thick curtain of particles the motions don’t perform as expected. The speckishness in the galaxy can make you manicured garden is an accurate scale model called them ‘spiral nebulae’. After all, if you that stands between us and the other side of speeds depend on distance from the galactic feel trivial, Lomberg insists that the crushing of the Milky Way galaxy, where every step don’t know an object’s true size, it could be the Milky Way. Those particles block the centre and the amount of mass inside the scale doesn’t have to squash your importance. takes you 2,000 light years from where you small and nearby, or distant and huge. And in visible light, but longer-wavelength radiation orbit. Given that we’re in the podunk part of ‘There’s really no such thing as big or small,’ stood before. Here, the speckles on the leaves the late 19th century, the proximate cosmos zips right past them, just as FM transmissions the Milky Way, low-density and far from the he says. ‘There’s only bigger or smaller. In of ‘gold dust’ crotons stand in for stars. The was the whole cosmos. pass right through the walls of your house. middle, our orbit should be slower. But the some contexts, the galaxy is a tiny insignificant plants reach out in spiral arms from the We had long ago learned that Earth is Radio waves and infrared radiation also Milky Way’s farthest-flung suburbs have the thing. So if the galaxy is not significant, then garden’s centre, where a spouting fountain not the hub of the solar system, but it was shed light on how spiral arms move and why same pace as its New York Cities. is anything significant? I think that the answer plays the part of a monster black hole. Along the helical clouds, and an argument known they exist in the first place. Although their Vera Rubin, a researcher at the Carnegie is that either nothing is or everything is.’ the spiral limbs crowd hibiscus, vincas and as the Great Debate, that pushed the Milky shape suggests that they rotate with the galaxy, Institution for Science in Washington DC, If you zoom out of the Milky Way red and black crotons where nebulae, gas and Way off its pedestal. Heber Curtis, director carrying stars along with them, they move at observed the same surprising motions in entirely, you’ll find 26 known dwarf galaxies dust belong. of the Allegheny Observatory in Pittsburgh, their own pace, like terrestrial traffic jams. other galaxies in 1970. Here, dark matter orbiting us. It’s likely that 1,000 more are When Lomberg stands up, his Milky Way suggested in 1920 that the galaxy is just While cars bottleneck, they eventually crawl enters the picture. To generate enough gravity hiding out there, some nearly invisible, and makeover finished, he looks down at our another spiral nebula – simply the one we out the other side. The traffic overdensity to make the Sun orbit so fast, 80 per cent of made mostly of dark matter or cold hydrogen yellow star. The garden’s opposing edge is 70ft happen to inhabit. Each other nebula is an itself, however, persists. And so do spiral the galaxy’s mass must be missing. Black as gas. Beyond them lie the other members of away, the distance filled with other speckled ‘island universe’, a Milky Way beyond the arms, which contain about 10 per cent more space, this dark matter pervades the Milky the Local Group. These galaxies, 54 of which leaves. ‘You put a basketball around where Milky Way. stars and gas than the rest of the galaxy. The Way – including the solar system and maybe are known, travel together through space, and Earth is, and everything you’re going to see On the other side of the debate was Harlow Sun’s slow passage through the Perseus-Orion the space next to you right now – and forms their gravitational centre lies between our in the night sky is in that ball,’ he says, adding Shapley of the Mount Wilson Observatory jam will take some 10 million years in total. a huge halo around the visible galaxy. And galaxy and its nearest large neighbour, the that other stars are too distant and dust- in California. If each nebula is an ‘island After that, our star will be in a limbless space while this invisible cloak might be the most Andromeda galaxy. Around the Milky Way dimmed. ‘When you see the whole garden,’ universe’, he said, the closest – Andromeda for 100 million years. mysterious of the Milky Way’s shrouds, it and Andromeda, 12 other large galaxies form Lomberg continues, ‘without any math, or – would be millions of light years away. We All spiral arms lead to the Milky Way’s is not the only one. A balloon of gas also a protective circle known as the Council of any need for explanation, the scale becomes now know, of course, that Andromeda is centre. There, a bar of stars in long, looping envelops us, extending hundreds of thousands Giants. The gravitational tethers that bind apparent.’ an island universe, and that it houses more orbits forms the tapered shape of a cat’s pupil. of light years beyond the galaxy’s visible these galaxies are strong enough to resist the It is difficult to picture ourselves in the than a trillion suns. So do other galaxies 13 This eye is 27,000 light years across – nearly borders – farther from the galaxy’s edges than dark energy that is pushing everything apart, Milky Way. We have no problem placing million, even 13 billion, light years away. Not as wide as the distance between Earth and the the galaxy itself measures from edge to edge. and getting faster every femtosecond (or one ourselves within, say, California, or the only is the Milky Way not the entirety of the galactic centre – and pokes out of the galaxy’s If you could ball up this hydrogen, you could quadrillionth of a second). United States. Even second-graders can point Universe, it’s not even a remarkable galaxy. plane at a 45º angle. Above and below this create at least 10 billion new stars. The Local Group is part of the Virgo to a spot on a globe and say: ‘I live there.’ And The good news is, this ordinariness is what midsection, nearly 200 spheres, each packed Even more hydrogen streams in from Supercluster, which contains more than by third grade, they can position that globe gives us a chance to describe our ‘building’ with hundreds of thousands of ancient stars, extragalactic space. Clouds of high-velocity 100 galaxy groups and clusters, but even in a neat line of planets, telling you smugly from the outside. orbit. Out of the Milky Way’s plane, these gas come from smaller, nearby galaxies after this structure is cosmically insignificant. that those worlds orbit the Sun, a next-door We can count on the Milky Way to look ‘globular clusters’ live their long lives in the Milky Way’s immense gravity re-routes Just as Earth is one of many planets, the version of the points of light in the night and behave like an average spiral galaxy, isolation from each other and the rest of the them. One known as Smith’s Cloud weighs Sun is an average star, and just as the Milky sky. But beyond that, what? Everything is and the Universe contains tens of billions galaxy. If Earth were inside one of them, our more than a million suns, but it’s spread so Way is a predictable spiral galaxy, the Virgo so distant that we often lump it all into the of those. Wherever we look in the Universe, night sky would beam down thousands of thin that it fills as much sky (or it would, if Supercluster has 10 million massive siblings. ‘out there’ category, so that Pluto and Polaris we see the laws of physics – the strong and stars as bright as Sirius. you had radio-sensing eyes) as the Orion That number hardly means anything might as well be in the same spot. Perhaps weak nuclear forces that make atoms tick; At the very centre of the galaxy, 27,190 constellation. When it arrives 30 million to those of us who are five or six feet tall, that’s why, as Lomberg says, many people the electromagnetics that attract opposites; light years from Earth, sits the Milky Way’s years from now, it will set off a burst of star perhaps travel to a foreign continent once, erroneously use galaxy and solar system as the gravity that orders orbits – moulding gas most significant object. Our fastest spacecraft formation. Snacks such as the Smith Cloud and die when we’re 85 if we’re lucky. But synonyms. into stars, and stars into galaxies. Peering out would take 475 million years to arrive at its will allow the Milky Way to continue making imagine that the Galaxy Garden really is Only in the past few decades have we of our cosmic window, we can survey these boundary, beyond which 4 million suns-worth new stars, even after it has consumed the food the galaxy: the visible Universe would be the become scientifically and technologically structures to learn about our own. If the spiral of mass is squished into a singularity. This on its own plate. size of Earth, and it would be immaculately advanced enough to situate ourselves within nebulae we see have arms and bulges, perhaps supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius The Milky Way sometimes likes to landscaped with hundreds of billions of the 100,000-light-year-wide wilderness we the Milky Way sports them, too. A*, appears to orchestrate galactic motions, steal sustenance from the Large and Small Galaxy Garden clones, all congregating in call home (where one light year is a distance From the side, the Milky Way is a thin making every last atom its satellite, but this Magellanic Clouds, which can be seen clusters and superclusters. Long filaments equivalent to 6 trillion miles). But making disk with a bulge in the middle. From above is an illusion. Everything orbits the centre orbiting our galaxy on dark, clear nights in the of gas and dark matter bridge superclusters, heads or tails of galactic latitude and longitude or below, it resembles a hurricane, with spiral of mass – the point at which the gravitation Southern Hemisphere. But the theft does not connecting them across voids. If you could isn’t easy for anyone, including astronomers. arms where rain bands would be. Four of from all directions is the same. Just as the go unavenged: the Magellanic Clouds might see it from afar, the cosmos would look a lot We were born inside the Milky Way, and them curl from the eye of the storm. The Earth spins on its axis and revolves around have turned the Milky Way into a warped like a brain: a collection of neurons, where (spoiler alert) we will all die inside the Milky Perseus Arm and, interior to it, the Sagittarius the Sun, the whole Milky Way whirls around and vibrating thing. As they move through each supercluster is a bright dendrite, and Way. Imagine being trapped inside a building Arm wrap around our side of the Milky Way, the centre of mass. Even Sagittarius A*, very space-time, they create a wake, just like rocks each filament an axon. and trying to determine what it looks like while the Scutum-Centaurus and Norma- slightly offset from the galaxy’s true centre, skipped across water. The undulations bump Our brains have fewer synapses than the from the outside – its layout, when it was Cygnus arms form a near-mirror-image on does a delicate jig. into our dark matter, bending the galaxy. Its visible Universe, but they’ve enabled us to last painted, tin roof or shingled? You can the other side. The region around the black hole is dense edges flap and wave on timescales we can situate ourselves within it. Lomberg envisions catalogue half baths, peer out of a window and A stream of stars forms a curved lane with dust, which blocks and scatters visible never experience. a world in which every third-grader knows describe awnings. But assembling those pieces between Perseus and Sagittarius. It is on light. Because no optical telescopes could The Berkeley astronomer Leo Blitz where the ‘You are here’ label goes on a into a gestalt is like trying to understand your this 15,000-light-year-long branch, called see to the centre, astronomers did not find theorised the cause of this warp. A renowned galactic map and can give you directions brain using your brain. You’ll never have an the Orion Arm, that our Sun sits. For a long evidence of Sagittarius A*’s existence until galactic researcher, he also is the scientific from there to the Scutum-Centaurus Arm. aerial view. Now imagine you’ve never heard time, astronomers believed the Orion Arm 1974, when radio telescopes became powerful consultant for the Galaxy Garden. Before ‘The Milky Way is as important to your self- of this strange concept of ‘building’. That’s was insubstantial. Last June, however, they enough to nail the precise location of a Lomberg broke ground, he sought out Blitz identification as the fact that you live on planet the situation astronomers found themselves discovered our arm is a major appendage in its strangely compact source of radiation that to ensure the floral Milky Way would be Earth, or you live in the solar system,’ he says. in until the 1920s. The Milky Way has always own right, more like Perseus and Sagittarius coincided with the galactic bull’s-eye. accurate. Each landscaping choice he made ‘We may be insignificant, but we figured streaked our sky, a diffuse stripe spreading than like a minor spur. A disk of swirling material surrounds represents years of graduate students’ lives, out that we’re in a galaxy. For insignificant from horizon to horizon. Its Latin name – a pretty basic discovery to make so late Sagittarius A*. Stripped from stars and gas scientific collaborations spanning continents nothings, that’s pretty good.’ Via Lactea – comes from this fuzzy lane-like in the game. But nearly all knowledge of clouds, these rub against each other as they and decades, and terabytes (and terabytes) of appearance. But it wasn’t until Galileo Galilei galactic limbs comes from invisible parts of move. The friction heats things up, causing archived data. This Hawai’ian garden is the (Sarah Scoles writes about space science for a trained his telescope on it 400 years ago that the light spectrum, studies of which are – the disk to glow with radiation. Sometimes, only place where you can truly feel that you’re variety of publications, including Slate, Popular we knew for sure that it was made of stars – relative to the optical astronomy that began an unfortunate clump of matter falls past in the Milky Way, because here you are in the Science, and Discover. She lives in San Jose.)

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The contents of articles on this page do not necessarily reflect the Editoral view or policy of the paper EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017 8 NATION Delhi Medical Association NEWS IN BRIEF Modi lying through the Bihar minister gets INR 1 lakh wants Max Hospital licence extortion call Patna, Dec. 10 (IANS): A Bihar minister has alleged that a man demanded Rs 1 lakh from him on Sunday teeth, says Rahul restored, warns of strike and threatened to kill him if he did not pay up, police said. Bihar Minority Affairs and Sugarcane Development Deodar (Gujarat), Dec. 10 The Congress Vice Presi- to cheers. the primary responsibility New Delhi, Dec. 10 the DMC which is a statu- Minister Khurshid Alam lodged a complaint at a police (IANS): Congress leader dent asked the people if He said the people had of the government on educa- (IANS): Terming the Delhi tory body has taken cogni- station in West Champaran district against a man named Rahul Gandhi on Sunday they saw anyone “suited seen through it all and would tion and health and to bring government’s decision to zance of the matter and will Mohd Imtiyaz after he got two calls, said a district police came down heavily on Prime and booted” standing in not be waylaid this time. down unemployment.” cancel the license of Max come out with its report in a officer. West Champaran Superintendent of Police Vinay Minister Narendra Modi, as- queues to deposit money Gandhi asserted that Modi Gandhi reiterated that Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, few days. Kumar said Alam informed him about the extortion call. serting that his words had in the wake of last year’s was nervous and afraid of the election was neither “irrational and autocrat- In the cancellation order, “I have ordered local police to arrest the accused,” he ceased to carry weight since demonetization. “Through losing the Gujarat Assembly about him nor Modi but ic” after it erroneously de- which came after a three- said. Alam has also informed state police headquarters he was lying through the the back door, the money of elections and so was chang- about the future of Gujarat clared a newborn dead, the member panel had submit- about the extortion demand and threat to his life, police teeth on the promises made all the thieves in India was ing his narrative every time. and Gujaratis. He also said Delhi Medical Association ted a report to Health Minis- said. to Gujarat and the country. converted into white right “And he devotes the rest that although Modi used (DMA) on Saturday urged ter Jain, the government has Addressing a serious under Modiji’s nose.” of the time of his speech foul language against him, Chief Minister Arvind Ke- stopped the hospital from Foreigners arrested for sex racket of election rallies in North Gandhi also said that to speak about himself,” he he would never resort to jriwal to revoke the order admitting any more new and Central Gujarat, Gan- Modi had promised in his added. “Where has sud- such language. or else threatened to go on patients and put a stop to all in Gurugram dhi recalled how Modi had election speeches of 2014 to denly your tall talk of devel- “The Prime Minister strike. outpatient treatment services Gurugram, Dec. 10 (IANS): Haryana Police on Sunday promised during the 2014 create two crore jobs every opment vanished? You have uses foul language against In the letter marked to and laboratory testing on the said they have arrested six women, including two Lok Sabha election to bring year and to ensure that farm- little to report of the last 22 me but I will never do that Delhi Health Minister Saty- premises with immediate foreigners, and a man for operating a sex racket from a back black money stashed ers get the right returns for years of BJP government because Rahul Gandhi re- endar Jain, the DMA has effect. spa here. After a tip, the police on Saturday night raided abroad and then deposit Rs their produce. in Gujarat. This is why you spects the office of Prime emphasised the government The baby boy -- 22-weeks the Auwa Thai spa centre in the Central Plaza Mall on 15 lakh into each Indian’s “The Prime Minister’s need all this, Modiji,” Gan- Minister. should have waited for the premature -- was declared Golf Course Road in Sector 53. The accused, including bank account. words should carry weight. dhi said. “I am not going to utter report by Delhi Medical dead by Max Hospital on a woman from Thailand and another from Kenya, “Narendra Modi had Modiji’s words no longer Gandhi promised that if a single word against the Council (DMC) into the is- November 30 and handed were booked under the Immoral Traffic Prevention Act said you will get Rs 15 lakh carry any weight because the Congress came to power Prime Minister. This is what sue before taking the stand over to the parents in a plas- and sent to judicial custody for 14 days, police officer in your bank accounts, you he has been lying through in Gujarat, “we would come our party, Mahatma Gandhi against the hospital. tic bag, along with his still- Ravinder Kumar told IANS. Similar rackets have been did not get even 15 paise,” the teeth on every promise out with a policy to exempt and Sardar Patel have taught “We have written the born sister. However, the busted in Gurugram earlier. On June 29, the police busted Gandhi said tauntingly. he made,” Gandhi added farmers’ dues, ensure that us.” letter to the Chief Minister baby started moving while sex rackets operated in shopping malls and arrested 10 and sought revocation of the being taken for burial. The women aged between 20 and 25 and a man. licence cancellation order baby was then admitted of Max Hospital. We also in north Delhi’s Agarwal Prisoner commits suicide in Bihar official under scanner for alleged links with LeT terrorist want the two doctors of the Nursing Home but died on New Delhi/Patna, Dec. 10 (IANS): The NIA official said that secu- He was earlier nabbed by security hospital to be reinstated be- Wednesday. Andhra jail rity agencies stumbled upon a lead to agencies at that time and was under The NIA, which arrested suspected fore the report of the DMC According to the DMA, Vijayawada, Dec. 10 (IANS): An undertrial prisoner Sheikh after a man complained that trial. In August 2014, he managed to LeT operative Abdul Naeem Sheikh comes out. while the investigation has committed suicide in a jail in Andhra Pradesh’s his address was being used by the LeT give the slip to security agencies and from Uttar Pradesh last month, has If no action is taken on against the concerned doc- Prakasam district, jail authorities said on Sunday. The operative for his passport. escaped when he was being taken from summoned a District Transport Officer our demands than we will tors was expected, the deci- incident took place in the toilet of Darsi sub-jail on “He had applied for a passport on Dum Dum Central jail (Kolkata) to (DTO) of Bihar for his alleged links call for a strike of all the sion to shut down the entire Saturday night when K. Ramesh (21) killed himself by with the terrorist, an official said. the address of Sarraj Ahmed, a resident Mumbai to appear in court. He fled resident doctors of private as hospital is too harsh. hanging with his ‘lungi’. He was rushed to a government- The National Investigation Agency of Gopalganj’s Jungalia area in Ward while the train was passing through the well as government hospitals The Indian Medical As- run hospital but was declared brought dead. According to (NIA) arrested Sheikh alias Nomi, 37, No 19.” thick forests of Chhattisgarh. in Delhi,” President Elect of sociation (IMA) termed the jail superintendent Vasant Rao, Ramesh was in judicial on November 28 from Charbagh bus “But before he could get his pass- After fleeing from custody, Sheikh DMA Ashwini Goyal told cancellation of licence “too custody in a case of theft. The reasons for the prisoner’s stand in Lucknow in a joint operation port in hand, Ahmed approached established a new sleeper cell under in- IANS. harsh a step”. It backed extreme step were not known. with the Uttar Pradesh Police’s Anti- police and complained about it,” the struction from his LeT handler Amjad, There was also a protest the hospital and said if all Terrorist Squad (ATS). official said. the official said. outside the hospital by the hospitals start facing such Youth commits suicide after boys The NIA official, on condition of “He got his Pan card and Aad- Security agencies have dubbed patients, who burnt effigies situations where patients anonymity, told IANS they have sum- haar card, which were also made on Sheikh as “David Coleman Head- of Chief Minister Arvind die due to such mistakes try to molest his sister moned a DTO officer, identified as the same address under the name of ley” as he had been following in his Kejriwal. then healthcare will come Diwakar Jha, posted in Bihar’s Buxar Sheikh Sohail Khan,” the official said. footprints and did reconnaissance of New Delhi, Dec. 10 (IANS): An 18-year-old youth In the wake of the in- to a halt. allegedly hanged himself to death here after a group of district, for questioning over his alleged “Sheikh resided in Gopalganj till similar areas. cident, the services of two Meanwhile, terming links with Sheikh. March 2017,” he added. Pakistani-American Headley is boys accused him of stealing and tried to molest his sister doctors -- A.P. Mehta and the Delhi government or- when she intervened, police said on Sunday. Police said According to the NIA official, Jha Sheikh was hiding in Bihar’s serving a 35-year prison sentence in Vishal Gupta -- were ter- der as harsh, Max Hospital had inaugurated Sheikh’s coaching Gopalganj district by changing his the US for his involvement in terror the incident occurred on December 7 evening when a minated by the hospital au- said they were not given hospital in west Delhi alerted them about the death of a centre in Bihar’s Gopalganj district in name after escaping from the custody activities and the 26/11 Mumbai terror thorities. adequate opportunity to put 2015, when he was posted there. of central agencies in August 2014. attacks of 2008. Deepak. “We found that Deepak had committed suicide According to the DMA, forth their side of the story. by hanging from a fan at his residence but no suicide note was recovered,” Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajneesh Gupta said. Gupta said initially the family Two held at IGI didn’t suspect any foul play. Later it came to be known Kejriwal launches free entrance Restrictions in Srinagar to that he had quarrelled with three or four boys. “The boys airport with charged Deepak with theft and also tried to molest his coaching for SC/ST students sister when she intervened,” he added. A case of assault New Delhi, Dec. 10 (IANS): Delhi Chief Minister gold worth INR prevent protest march and using criminal force against a woman with intent to Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday launched a scheme under outrage her modesty has been registered against the boys, Srinagar, Dec. 10 (IANS): the officer said. which free entrance coaching will be provided for Sched- 14 lakh Restrictions were imposed uled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) students pre- New Delhi, Dec. 10 (IANS): The CISF arrested in many parts of Srinagar paring for civil services, judicial services, banking, engi- on Sunday to prevent a Five-year-old raped in Jharkhand neering, medicine, and other competitive examinations. two persons at the inter- Jamshedpur, Dec. 10 (PTI): A five-year-old girl was national airport here on separatist-called protest Under the “Jai Bhim Mukhyamantri Pratibha Viskas march, police said. allegedly raped by an unidentified person in East Yojana”, the Delhi government will provide free coach- Sunday on the charge of in- Singhbhum district of Jharkhand today. The girl had volvement in smuggling gold The areas under re- ing for SC/ST students through known and established strictions were Khanyar, gone out of her house in the morning to attend nature’s coaching institutions. worth Rs 14 lakh, an official call when she was allegedly raped by the person, the said. Shahnawaz had arrived Nowhatta, Rainawari, The assistance will be started for 100 students and M.R. Gunj, Safa Kadal, police said. The locals found her lying unconscious in extended to 5,000 students. Students whose family from Abu Dhabi about an a field near her house. She also had injury marks on hour before his arrest at the Maisuma and Kralkhud. income is less than Rs 2 lakh will get 100 per cent assist- “Partial restrictions her face, the police said. She was rushed to Telco Main ance, while families with income of Rs 2-6 lakh will get Indira Gandhi International Hospital and later shifted to state-run M G M Hospital. Airport while the second have also been imposed 75 per cent assistance. The government will also provide in Kothibagh and Ram A case has been registered at Govindpur police station. students a monthly stipend of Rs 2,500 apart from the accused was identified as cleaner Rajnish Pal, CISF Munshibagh areas,” the free coaching. police said. CBI books Apollo Pharmacy in Launching the scheme, Kejriwal said the government Assistant Inspector General PTI Hemendra Singh told IANS. The Joint Resistance cheating case is “translating dreams of Baba Saheb into action by Leadership (JRL), a sepa- A secutirty man blocks a road during a curfew imposed to maintain The two were arrested law and order in the view of the strike call and UNO march called by making education accessible and available to poor, SC/ ratist conglomerate, has New Delhi, Dec. 10 (PTI): The CBI has booked Apollo STs, OBCs, minorities and other vulnerable sections of around 3.20 p.m. with four the separatist group on the occasion of World Human Rights Day,at Pharmacy, a unit of Apollo Hospitals, in a case of gold bars weighing 466 gram called the protest march Ghanta Ghar in Srinagar on sunday. the society”. to the headquarters of the cheating and corruption. The investigative agency, in a and concealed in a cigarette recent FIR, has named B R Raghu, pharmacist at BEL He also announced that the government will soon UN Military Observers Jammu and Kashmir leader, Syed Ali Geelani package. “We became sus- Hospital, Bengaluru and Apollo Pharmacy of Apollo launch a scheme to give loans to poor and needy people Group in India and Pa- Liberation Front (JKLF) continues to remain under picious when we saw Pal Hospital Enterprises Limited (represented by its director) for starting their small ventures. Labour Minister Gopal kistan (UNMOGIP) in chairman, Muhammad house arrest for nearly a gesticulating to Shahnawaz, along with unidentified officials of BEL and others. Rai, SC/ST Welfare Minister Rajendar Pal Gautam, Sonawar to highlight hu- Yasin Malik has gone un- year. who was standing inside The agency is tight lipped about the alleged crime, but Deputy Speaker Rakhi Birla, Chief Secretary Anshu man rights violations in derground. Heavy contingents of the smoking room near the it has charged the accused with IPC sections relating to Prakash and others also participated in the event. Kashmir. Authorities have al- police and the Central Re- passenger waiting area. The criminal conspiracy to cheat, forgery for the purpose of The march coincides ready placed Mirwaiz serve Police Force (CRPF) gold was handed over to the cheating and abuse of official position by public servant with the World Human Umer Farooq under house have been deployed in the Custom Department along under the Prevention of Corruption Act. BJP to see impact of with the two accused,” he Rights Day observed annu- arrest while the octoge- areas placed under restric- said. ally on December 10. narian senior separatist tions. ATM broken open; INR 3 lakh demonetisation in cash stolen in TN Coimbatore, Dec. 10 (PTI): An ATM of a private bank Omar seeks punishment for Zaira’s alleged molestor here was today found broken open and about Rs 3 lakh Guj poll — Akhilesh Srinagar, Dec. 10 (IANS): Former tion. None of this ‘he fell at my feet, so gal” star to lodge a police complaint. cash stolen, police said. The theft at the ATM of the Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister I forgive him’ rubbish!”. Vistara Airlines has said it will Lucknow, Dec. 10 (PTI): cies are anti-farmers and IndusInd Bank at Vilankurichi Road came to light when Omar Abdullah on Sunday demanded His statement comes after the investigate. The BJP will see the im- anti-traders. Demonetisa- a truck driver visited it to withdraw cash at around 3.30 punishment for the passenger who 17-year-old National Award winning “We have seen the reports regard- pact of demonetisation tion impacted business am and alerted the police and bank officials. The CCTV allegedly molested Bollywood actress Kashmiri actress complained about ing Zaira Wasim’s experience... We and GST in poll results and almost all the money, camera in the ATM was also found damaged, police said Zaira Wasim on board a Vistara Air- her ordeal, claiming that a middle-aged are carrying out detailed investigation of Gujarat where peo- which was in circulation adding a gas cutter had been used to open the machine. lines Delhi-Mumbai flight. man seated behind her moved his foot and will support Zaira in every way re- ple have “made up their came back in banks,” he The heist was suspected to have been committed between Abdullah tweeted: “The passenger up and down her neck and back. quired. We have zero tolerance for such mind against the party”, said adding that economy 1.30 am, when the last transaction was recorded, and 3.30 should be identified to the police by @ The National Commission for behaviour,” read a post on the Airlines’ Samajwadi Party supre- of the country is seeing a am, police said. airvistara and a case filed for legal ac- Women (NCW) has urged the “Dan- Twitter page. mo Akhilesh Yadav today downward trend. said. Alleging poor law and Charas worth Rs 3.5 cr seized in He said the BJP’s order situation in the state, Bihar, Nepalese held graph was coming down Akhilesh citied crime cases as its policies were “anti- in Mathura, Faizabad and Panama: ED seizes assets Bettiah (Bihar), Dec. 10 (PTI): Sahastra Seema Bal farmer and anti-trader”. Sitapur and assured trad- officials today seized 18 kg of charas, worth around Rs “The decision of de- ers that SP would always 3.5 crore in the international market from a Nepalese monetisation and GST be there to fight for their man who was arrested in West Champaran district. The linked to former IPL chairman Nepalese man was arrested while entering Bhangaha in has impacted traders and interest. New Delhi, Dec. 10 (PTI): The lion for purchase of a 3BHK apart- officially remitted through regular the entire business and “The traders are in- West Champaran district after crossing the Indo-Nepal Enforcement Directorate (ED) to- ment in Campden Hill, UK. banking channels and duly reported border riding a motorbike, SSB deputy commandant, the economy is ruined. In secure in the present re- day said it has seized mutual funds “For purchase of this property to regulatory authorities. We believe Gujarat poll results, the gime”, he charged. 44th Battalion, Ajay Kumar Rajak said. He was carrying valued at INR 10.35 crore under the in the UK, the firm transferred an we are compliant with the regula- packets containing 18 kg of charas worth nearly Rs 3.5 BJP will see its impact as Earlier, addressing the FEMA law of a company “control- amount of USD 2.4 million to its tions in this regard. people have made up their gathering SP leader Ram crore in the international market, he said. The arrested led” by businessman and former subsidiary in Singapore in the form The matter is not yet adjudicated. person and the contraband were handed over to the police. mind to vote against it,” Gopal Yadav claimed that IPL Chairman Chirayu Amin in the of overseas direct investment. However, we are cooperating with Yadav said while address- businessmen were leaving Panama Papers case. “This amount was further trans- the authorities to sort out the mat- ing a traders’ conference the country due to eco- The central probe agency said it ferred to its step-down subsidiaries ter.” Nahargarh Fort death not a murder, at the party headquarters nomic policies of the BJP seized mutual funds of Whitefield in the UAE and British Virgin Island The agency is probing the Indi- says forensic report here. government at the Centre Chemtech Private Limited, “which is from where finally USD 1.6 million ans named in the Panama Papers, Jaipur, Dec. 10 (IANS): The forensic report in the death On the civic poll results and also in UP. controlled by Amin and his family”, was used for purchase of this prop- along with the Income Tax Depart- of a man whose body was found hanging on the ramparts in Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh “They (traders) are say- under section 37A of the Foreign Ex- erty,” the ED said. ment. The Panama Papers, that of Rajasthan’s Nahargarh Fort with anti-’Padmavati’ pointed out at the “poor ing that they will return change Management Act (FEMA). Section 37A of the FEMA stipu- surfaced last year, contained brief scribblings nearby have ruled out murder. Speaking performance” of the BJP when this (BJP) govern- The names of Amin and his fam- lates that if certain foreign exchange, particulars of about 426 people, to IANS, FSL officials confirmed that the final report in small cities and rural ment will go,” he said. ily members, it said in a statement, foreign security or immovable prop- prima facie, Indians or persons of submitted to police confirms that Chetan Saini’s death areas. On Gujarat polls, had figured in the Panama Papers erty is held outside India in violation Indian origin. on November 24 was a suicide and not a murder. They “When results of Ramgopal said, “BJP is case with respect to their stakes/ of this law, the equivalent value of The government had constituted claimed that the FSL conducted a thorough examination municipal corporations losing in Gujarat. And interests in the firm in the British asset can be seized within India. a multi-agency group (MAG) of of the evidence and submitted five separate reports, are being touted as the UP is the only state which Virgin Islands. “Accordingly, equivalent asset investigative agencies in April 2016 which included viscera report, in the final submission. BJP’s victory, the same for could ensure BJP goes During the investigation, the amounting to Rs 10.35 crore in the to probe these instances. The death of Saini had added to the controversy over small cities and rural areas from Centre (in 2019 Lok agency said, it was noticed that form of mutual funds were seized The MAG has so far submitted the protests over Hindi film “Padmavati”, as there were should also be analysed,” Sabha polls) also” and Amin and his family members, under Section 37A of FEMA, 1999,” seven reports to the government. “inflammatory” scribblings, written by charcoal, on he demanded. added “Ram Rajya will through their company Whitefield it said. Amin was chairman of Indian many stones near the body. These scribblings also referred “The graph of the BJP come only when BJP gov- Chemtech Pvt Ltd India, had “in- A spokesperson of the company Premier League (IPL), an annual to the “Padmavati” movie protest. is coming down as its poli- ernment is removed.” vested an amount of USD 1.6 mil- said, “The tax paid amount has been Twenty20 cricket tournament. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017 WORLD 9 New protests flare over Trump’s Jerusalem declaration protested in solidarity with the Palestin- ians, gathering outside the US embassy in the world’s most-populous Muslim Arab ministers demand reversal of country. In Cairo, students and professors demonstrated at the prestigious Al-Azhar Trump’s Jerusalem decision University, a university spokesman said, with pictures on social media showing Cairo, Dec. 10 (PTI/AP): Arab for- told the news conference. ing measures.” several hundred protesters. Dozens of eign ministers today demanded that The resolution said the ministers Both Aboul-Gheit and Al-Maliki students protested at two other Cairo the United States rescind President would meet again within a month said Arab nations remained commit- universities. Donald Trump’s decision to recog- and held out the possibility that an ted to a 2002 Arab peace plan that A protest and clashes also broke out nise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, emergency Arab summit would be provides for recognition of Israel in Al-Arroub refugee camp in the south calling it a “grave” development that held in Jordan to discuss Jerusalem. in exchange for lands occupied by of the occupied West Bank, leaving one puts Washington on the same side as Trump’s December 6 announce- Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinian wounded from rubber bullets, “occupation” and the violation of ment on Jerusalem, and his inten- “That plan is a key reference the Palestinian health ministry said. international law. tion to move the US Embassy in the Middle East peace process,” Separately, the Israeli military said it In a resolution long on rhetoric there, triggered denunciations from Al-Maliki told the news conference. destroyed a Hamas tunnel stretching from but short on concrete actions, the around the world, with even close Trump’s decision, according to the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory -- an ministers also called for the UN allies suggesting he had needlessly the Arab resolution, was “illegal” incident unrelated to the recent unrest, Security Council to adopt a resolu- stirred more conflict in an already and a “dangerous violation” of in- but which threatened to further increase tion condemning Trump’s decision, volatile region. Jerusalem’s status ternational law. tensions. but acknowledged that Washington lies at the core of the Israeli- Pales- “It’s a dangerous development Such tunnels have been used in the would most likely veto it. tinian conflict, and Trump’s move that places the United States at a If the US vetoes the resolution, was widely perceived as siding with position of bias in favor of the oc- AP/PTI past to carry out attacks. Protesters try to enter the U.S. embassy as they are sprayed by riot police using water cannons during Trump’s declaration has been fol- the Arabs would seek a similar reso- Israel. cupation and the violation of inter- a demonstration in Aukar, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017. A few hundred demonstra- lowed by near universal condemnation lution in the UN General Assembly, Even small crises over Jerusa- national law and resolutions.” tors, including Palestinians, pelted security outside the embassy with stones. and diplomatic fallout, with warnings it Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad lem’s status and that of the holy sites Israel occupied and later an- risks setting off a new round of violence Al-Maliki told a pre-dawn news in its ancient Old City have sparked nexed the eastern part of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Dec. 10 (PTI/AFP): New and clashes in the Palestinian territories. in the turbulent Middle East. conference in Cairo. deadly bloodshed in the past. in the 1967 Middle East war, declar- protests flared in the Middle East and Four Palestinians were killed either in US Vice President Mike Pence is due A two-page resolution adopted Arab diplomats said some Arab ing the holy city its eternal capital. elsewhere today over US President clashes or from Israeli air strikes in retali- to visit the region later this month, but by the emergency meeting, which League members had wanted a Palestinians want that part to be the Donald Trump’s declaration of Jeru- ation for rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian officials say president Mah- began last night, did not include any more hard-line resolution, including capital of their future state. salem as Israel’s capital, a move that Tens of thousands have also protested mud Abbas will refuse to meet him. punitive actions against the United punitive measures against countries Trump’s decision, said the reso- has drawn global condemnation and in Muslim and Arab countries, including Egypt’s Coptic Pope Tawadros II States, like a call for a boycott of that follow the U.S. example and rec- lution, also stripped the US of its sparked days of unrest in the Palestinian Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia. cancelled a meeting with Pence as well, American products or suspending or ognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. role as a “sponsor and broker” in the territories. Further protests were held in Leba- saying Trump’s announcement had failed downgrading ties with Washington. That was considered too radi- Mideast peace process, and “under- Turkish President Recep Tayyip non, Indonesia, Egypt and the Palestinian to take into account the “feelings of mil- It also appeared to fall short of cal by moderate Arab nations and mines efforts to bring about peace, Erdogan, who has repeatedly warned territories on Sunday. lions” of Arabs. matching the anger felt by Palestin- eventually dropped, according to the deepens tension and will spark anger of the consequences of Trump’s move, Lebanese security forces fired tear gas Arab League foreign ministers on ians in the Gaza Strip and West diplomats who spoke on condition that will threaten to push the region also lashed out Sunday by calling Israel and water cannons at several hundred Saturday called on the United States to Bank, which have seen three days of anonymity because they were not to the edge of the abyss of violence, a “terrorist state” and “state that kills demonstrators near the US embassy. rescind the move. of violent protests against Trump’s authorized to brief the media. chaos and bloodshed.” children”. Protestors waving Palestinian and Netanyahu’s trip to Europe was long decision. But Al-Maliki, the Palestin- The resolution adopted by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Lebanese flags, and sporting black-and- planned, but the recent crisis is almost “We have taken a political deci- ian Foreign Minister, sought to play ministers reiterated that only the Netanyahu meanwhile visited Europe for white checked keffiyeh scarves, chanted sure to be discussed. sion not meant to reflect (what is go- down differences, saying the meeting creation of an independent Palestin- his first trip abroad since Trump’s decla- slogans against Trump, an AFP corre- Both Macron and EU diplomatic ing on in) the streets. Political work is produced “complete” unity among ian state with east Jerusalem as its ration, with talks planned with French spondent at the protest said. chief Federica Mogherini have criticised responsible work,” said Arab League Arab nations. capital would end the Arab-Israeli President Emmanuel Macron in Paris Several people were injured by rocks, Trump’s decision, and there have been chief Ahmed Aboul-Gheit. “There were differences in as- conflict. It also mandated the Arab and EU foreign ministers in Brussels. tear gas, and rubber bullets, the corre- ongoing tensions between Netanyahu and “Jerusalem has been occupied sessment when we moved to specify- League to launch an “international Trump’s announcement on Wednes- spondent said. European Union officials over Israeli set- for 50 years. This is an extended bat- ing measures,” he said. “But in the media campaign” explaining the day has been followed by days of protests In Jakarta, some 5,000 Indonesians tlement building in the West Bank. tle, a battle that will be escalated,” he end we agreed on gradually escalat- “gravity” of the American decision. Britain plans two-year Maritime blockade would be declaration of war — N Korea Pyongyang, Dec. 10 (IANS): independent state,” an article pub- treaties establish that the economic “uncontrollable” catastrophic launched the Hwasong-15, its most North Korea on Sunday said that lished in the state-owned Rodong blockade of a country in times of phase and to a touch-and-go phase advanced intercontinental ballistic university degree a maritime blockade would be a Sinmun daily said. peace constitutes an illegal act and of a war, Pyongyang said. missile to date, which has put declaration of war, in reference to “The US is trying to openly is considered an invasion, reports The article warned US Presi- Pyongyang closer to being able to London, Dec. 10 (IANS): Britain’s Department one of the new sanctions that the take the measure of sea blockade Efe news. dent Donald Trump that “should target the continental US. for Education (DfE) said on Sunday that it plans to US mentioned it could impose on against North Korea and strangle The new sanctions promoted they show even the slightest move- As a result, Washington has de- introduce accelerated two-year degree courses in uni- Pyongyang after its latest ballistic its economy in peace time. This is by Washington, combined with the ment to put its attempt at sea block- fended imposing new sanctions on versities, reducing the time taken to get a bachelor’s missile launch. part of its scheme to escalate politi- joint air drills with South Korea - ade into practice, it will be followed Pyongyang, which could include degree by a year. “The US moves for sea block- cal and economic blockade against the largest to date - conducted on by an immediate and merciless the total prohibition of maritime Reducing courses by a year would leave students ade can never be tolerated as they North Korea which has lasted for the Korean peninsula last week, counteraction for self-defence from transport to North Korea, accord- around $34,000 better off compared to the traditional constitute a wanton violation of decades.” constitute “hideous war criminal the North Korea”. ing to US Secretary of State, Rex three-year courses, Xinhua news agency reported. the sovereignty and dignity of an The article said international acts” to push the situation to an On November 29, North Korea Tillerson. The proposals were set out in a new government consultation which will run until February when a final decision will be made. “Accelerated degrees offer the same qualifications and are quality-assured in the same way as a standard ISIS still not defeated, Nepal’s left alliance wins 81 seats; heading towards majority degree, but delivered over a shorter, usually two-year Kathmandu, Dec. 10 (PTI): According to results re- portionate voting, which tion from Kathmandu-2 timespan. British PM May warns Iraq Nepal’s Left alliance was leased by the Election Com- was evident from the initial while Prachanda is set to “This means when most students are completing today heading towards a mission, the Communist counting trends. win from Chitawan-3 con- their third year of study, an accelerated degree student London, Dec. 10 (PTI): humanitarian assistance and comfortable majority in the Party of Nepal-Unified Although the two major stituency. will be starting work and getting a salary,” said a Dfe The ISIS may have lost sig- 10 million pounds to support parliamentary elections, Marxist Leninist (CPN- communist parties are set There was a tacit under- spokesman. nificant ground but it has counter-terrorist capacity winning 81 seats so far in UML) has won 59 seats to form the government, it standing among three key The proposals announced on Sunday include 20 not been yet defeated, Brit- building in Iraq,” May said. the historic polls that many while its alliance partner is unlikely that they would leaders of the alliance to per cent saving worth $7,400 for students in total tui- ish Prime Minister Theresa May said she was proud hope will bring the political CPN Maoist- Centre bagged secure two third majority in share the three top posts, reli- tion costs compared to a standard three-year course. May has said, as she warned that the UK, as a leading stability to the country. 22 seats out of the total 165 the election. able sources have claimed. When added to the average salary of $25,000 in the Iraq that the terror group still member of the Global Coa- The CPN-UML led by seats under the first-past-the- A Maoist leader, on the The house of representa- first year after graduating, it means a potential $34,000 poses a threat including from lition, has stood “shoulder- former prime minister K P post election system. condition of anonymity, said tives consists of 275 mem- benefit overall. across the border. to-shoulder” with Iraq to Oli and the CPN-Maoist led The ruling Nepali Con- that though the Left alliance bers, of which 165 would Although the proposals allow institutions to Iraq’s Prime Minister help them open the new by former premier Prachan- gress (NC), which was the is tilted towards the northern be elected directly under the charge up to 20 per cent more each year for acceler- Haider al-Abadi yesterday chapter. da have forged an electoral largest party in the last elec- neighbour (China), the new first-past-the- post system ated degrees, the overall tuition fee cost of the degree declared that the country’s “I saw the effects of this alliance for both the pro- tion, managed to win only government needs to strike while the remaining 110 will to the student is 20 per cent less than the same degree war against ISIS was of- first hand when I visited last vincial and parliamentary 12 seats, according to tallies. a balance between the coun- come through the propor- over three years. ficially over, claiming that week,” she said. elections. As the alliance was Two Madhesi parties, try’s two giant neighbours tional representation system. The new fee arrangements for the two-year degrees the terror group no longer The UK has supported headed for a clear majority Federal Socialist Party Ne- (India and China) while Voting in two-phased are set to be in place by September 2019, subject to occupied significant territory Iraqi security forces, includ- in the 275-member Parlia- pal and Rastriya Janata Par- pursuing its foreign policy. parliamentary and provin- parliamentary approval. in the war-torn country. ing the armed forces and ment, Oli is being projected ty, have so far secured three The two parties are also cial assembly elections were “For too long we have been stuck with a system May congratulated the Peshmerga, in the fight to succeed Prime Minister Parliamentary seats each. considering to merge to form held on November 26 and that has increasingly focused on offering only one Abadi and all Iraqis on the against ISIS and UK aircraft Sher Bahadur Deuba. The Rastriya Prajatantra the largest communist party December 7. In the first way of benefiting from higher education, via the clas- “historic moment”, saying have launched over 1,350 air Oli won from the Party, the Naya Shakti Party in Nepal. If they merge, the phase, polling was held in sic three-year degree programme,” said Universities this signals a new chapter to- strikes in Iraq and trained Jhapa-5 constituency by led by former prime minister post of party president and 32 districts, mostly situated Minister Jo Johnson. wards a more peaceful, pros- over 60,000 members of more than 28,000 votes as Baburam Bhattarai and an the country’s president will in the hilly and mountain- “Many will want to stick with the classic three- perous country but warned the Iraqi security forces, she he defeated Nepali Con- independent candidate have be shared between Maoist ous region, in which 65 per year university experience, but for highly motivated that a lot more needed to said. gress candidate Khagendra secured one seat each. chief Prachanda and top cent of voters had exercised students hungry for a faster pace of learning and a be done. “The UK aid provides Adhikari. The counting of votes UML leader Madhav Ku- their franchise. In the second quicker route into or back into work, at lower overall “We must be clear a vital lifeline to millions of He polled 57,139 votes, in the proportionate voting mar Nepal, according to phase, 67 per cent voter turn- cost, two-year degrees will be well worth considering,” however, that whilst Daesh Iraqis with emergency food, the highest number of votes system was under progress. party insiders. out was registered. A total of he added. (ISIS) is failing, they are not shelter, medical care and so far secured by any candi- The NC is expected to UML leader Nepal has 1,663 candidates contested Professor Les Ebdon, director of Fair Access to yet defeated. They still pose clean water. We are now date in the election. perform better in the pro- won the parliamentary elec- polls for parliamentary seats. Higher Education, said: “Accelerated degrees are an a threat to Iraq, including supporting the Government attractive option for mature students who have missed from over the Syrian bor- of Iraq to lay the founda- out on the chance to go to university as a young per- der,” she said in a statement tions for an economy that son.” yesterday. meets the aspirations of all ICAN to accept Nobel Peace Prize The DfE said universities offering accelerated “This is why, during my Iraqis,” May said. degrees will need to meet exactly the same quality visit, I announced that the Iraq’s announcement Oslo, Dec. 10 (IANS): The Interna- assurance measures as for the standard three-year UK will invest 30 million came two days after the tional Campaign to Abolish Nuclear equivalent degrees. pounds in stabilisation sup- Russian military said it had Weapons (ICAN) is set to accept on port, 20 million pounds in defeated ISIS in Syria. Sunday the highly-coveted 2017 Nobel Peace Prize here for its work in bringing attention to the consequences of the use of nuclear arms and for promoting Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen’s a treaty-based prohibition on nuclear weapons. The ICAN, a collection of 468 markets leave six dead; dozens injured entities and nonprofits in 101 countries founded in 2007, will be represented by Sanaa, Dec. 10 (IANS): were more than 20. Resi- quarters of Yemen’s state has calmed after Houthis its Executive Director, Beatrice Fihn, At least six people were dents said the market was satellite television station in completely controlled the and Setsuko Thurlow, a survivor of the killed and dozens of others very crowded at noon when Sanaa, killing four journal- capital and defeated Saleh’s Hiroshima atomic bombing in 1945 wounded when Saudi-led the airstrikes hit. ists and injuring a body- armed supporters. and has played a very active role in the coalition warplanes sepa- The other targeted guard at the station’s gate. The capital’s residents organisation, Efe news agency report- rately hit two popular mar- market is located in Zabid Residents said part of began gradually to crowd ed. The two will deliver the acceptance kets in Yemen on Saturday, district south of the Red the TV building was de- in the markets, streets, and speech at the ceremony. ICAN will residents and medics said. Sea port city of Hodeidah, stroyed. state employees also went be awarded 9 million Swedish Krona AP/PTI One of the targets, Kha- where one person was killed These are the latest of back to work in the min- ($1.1m). Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize 2017, representatives of the International Campaign to and more than 15 others a series of airstrikes by the istries. Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), with leader of the Nobel committee Berit Reiss-Andersen, lakah market, is located in The ambassadors of the US, Brit- left, Hiroshima Survivor Setsuko Thurlow and leader of ICAN Beatrice Fihn in the City Hall Oslo, Nehm district, about 30 injured, according to a pro- Saudi-led military coalition Saudi-led military coali- ain and France -- three nuclear pow- Norway, Sunday Dec. 10, 2017. km northeast of the rebel- vincial medic there, who fighting dominant Houthi tion intervened in Yemen’s ers -- will not attend the ceremony in controlled capital Sanaa, also said the airstrikes took rebels in a war of more than conflict in 2015 to back protest of the organisation being the ipate in the traditional ceremony with ICAN becomes a Nobel Peace where the airstrikes killed place at noon. two and a half years. President Abd-Rabbu Nobel awardee. ICAN had played a the children from the NGO - Save the laureate organisation one year after Co- at least five people, injur- Many shops were de- The new wave of war Mansour Hadi whom the decisive role in the negotiations that Children - at the Nobel Peace Centre. lombian President Juan Manuel Santos ing dozens of other shop- stroyed in the attacks, the escalation came six days Houthis forced into exile in led to an adoption of the Treaty on the The programme will be concluded was awarded the prize in 2016 for his pers, and burned three cars, medic added. after Houthis killed former Saudi capital Riyadh. Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons that with the torchlight procession organ- efforts in negotiating a peace deal with according to a medic in Earlier in the day, President Ali Abdullah The war has killed over was backed by two-thirds of the UN ised by the Norwegian Peace Council the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Nehm district, Xinhua news Houthi-controlled Saba Saleh who had changed 10,000 people, mostly ci- member states on July 7, but boycotted and a banquet attended by members Colombia (FARC) guerrillas. agency reported. news agency and residents sides and backed the coali- vilians, and displaced 3 by the nuclear powers and allies. of the Norwegian Nobel Committee The Nobel Peace Prize is the only The medic told Xinhua said another two airstrikes tion. million, according to UN Before the ceremony, which is set to and members of the Norwegian royal Nobel Prize not given in the Swedish by phone that the injured overnight targeted the head- The security situation agencies. begin at 1 p.m., the laureates will partic- family. capital Stockholm. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017 Bieber vows to help California wildfires victims Singer Justin Bieber has pledged to help the victims of California wildfires in this hour of need. The 23-year-old singer posted a video on Instagram saying he would do his best to lend help in rehabilitating the affected people in the wake of the disaster. “... Obviously I’m not a fireman but I can use my resources to figure out ways to get some sort of restoration in Mirror certain communities. “Fundraisers or whatever we can do. I’m going to get on that and in the 10 meantime all the families and everyone who are struggling, just know that everything is going to be okay,” Bieber said in the video. The “Sorry” singer’s also shared a post informing his followers where they could donate supplies to the victims, which may include new and used ENTERTAINMENT clothes, blankets, pillows, sheets, feminine hygiene products, baby wipes, baby formula, board games, toys, food items, water, etc. Since December 4, over 141,000 acres of land have burnt in the raging wildfires across multiple counties here, according to ABC News. (PTI) ‘Dangal’ actor Zaira Wasim Hornbill Rock winds up with EDM molested on Delhi-Mumbai flight ctor Zaira Wasim reports regarding @ZairaWasim- has alleged she was mm experience with another molested by a co- customer on board our flight last passenger on board a night. We are carrying out detailed Delhi-Mumbai flight, investigation and will support Zaira Aprompting the Maharashtra State in every way required. We have Commission for Women to seek zero tolerance for such behaviour.” an inquiry into the “shameful” Later, Vistara’s chief strategy incident. and commercial officer Sanjiv The airline also apologised to Kapoor in a statement said, “We Wasim for the incident and said are aware of the incident reported it was carrying out a probe into it, by Zaira Wasim on board our flight while asserting that it has “zero UK981 last night from Delhi to fter witness- International Music Fes- and DJ Teri Miko. The tolerance” for such behaviour. Mumbai. We are carrying out a de- ing nine days tival, the last night of the evening shower and chilly The “Dangal” actor narrated tailed investigation of the incident of music annual event witnessed yet weather did not hold back her ordeal on Instagram via live which apparently involved a male of various another energetic night, the crowd from converging video. passenger on the flight.” genres this time with digital at the Agri Expo to enjoy Wasim said she was on a “We are talking to our crew Aincluding praise music and music, with performances the show. Vistara flight last night from Delhi who were serving Wasim to hard rock at the Hornbill from DJ Lil’Bomb, DJ Ina Eastern Mirror Desk to Mumbai when a co-passenger understand the incident at greater sitting behind her put up his feet on length, and reaching out to fellow her armrest. passengers as well. We will support “So, I was in a flight travelling Wasim in every way required and Rokokhono Nyekha wins Naga Chef season-five from Delhi to Mumbai today and don’t decide to help ourselves. And official has been sent to the hotel also if she decides to report the right behind me one middle-aged this is the worst thing,” she added. in Mumbai where the actor is put matter to the police,” he said. man who made my two-hour Terming the incident as up to record her statement, a senior Kapoor said it appears the crew journey miserable. I tried to record “shameful”, Maharashtra State police official said. only became aware of something it on phone to understand it bet- Commission for Women’s Based on her statement, appro- amiss during final descent when ter because the cabin lights were (MSCW) chairperson Vijaya Ra- priate action will be taken in this they were seated for landing. dimmed, I failed to get it...,” she hatkar said they will seek a detailed connection, the official said, add- Further details will come from said. inquiry into it from the Directo- ing that no case has been registered the investigation which is currently “The lights were dimmed, so rate General of Civil Aviation so far. going on in full force, he said. it was even worse. It continued for (DGCA). The aviation regulator DGCA “We apologise for what she another five to ten minutes and “The commission will direct has sought a report on the incident experienced and we have zero then I was sure of it. He kept nudg- the DGCA to conduct an inquiry from the airline, sources said. tolerance for such behaviour,” ing my shoulder and continued to in the matter and will also inquire Former Jammu and Kashmir Kapoor said. move his foot up and down my into the steps taken by Vistara to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Condemning the incident, back and neck,” the Kashmiri teen, address the complaint,” Rahatkar also demanded action against the Shiv Sena spokesperson Neelam who shot to fame for her stellar said. male passenger. Gorhe said a criminal offence role in Aamir Khan’s blockbuster She demanded that there “The passenger should be should be registered against the “Dangal”, said in the post. should also be an inquiry into why identified to the police by @airvis- male passenger and he should be In the video, which she re- asked to apologise for the indecent the cabin crew did not help the tara & a case filed for legal action. he Naga Chef corded immediately after deboard- behaviour. declared as the winner event. actor. None of this “he fell at my feet so season five ing the flight, Wasim broke down “Those travelling by airlines and won cash prize of Rs Naga Chef is organ- “We have directed the Mumbai I forgive him” rubbish!” Abdullah result was de- several times. usually work on good positions in 3 Lakh while the top three ised by Synergy Group police to look into the matter im- posted on Twittwer. clared on Dec. “This is not done, I am dis- companies. If the owners of such runners up, Khrusatolu Enterprise and supported mediately. It is sad that none of the Earlier in a statement on Twit- 10 during the turbed...Is this how you’re going companies do not take suitable Chuzho, Shiumai Phom by Nagaland Tourism, co-passengers came ahead to help ter, the airline Vistara said it would closingT ceremony of the and Nisi Chase received government of Nagaland. to take care of girls? This is not the action against such employees their Wasim. We are with her, and will look into the complaint, and added Hornbill Festival being way anybody should be made to conduct will never change,” Gorhe Rs. 25,000/- each. The winner of Naga ensure she gets justice,” Rahatkar that it had “zero tolerance for such held at the Naga Heritage feel. This is terrible!” she said. said. The organisers Chef Season five, Naga said. behaviour”. Village, Kisama. congratulated the winner Chef team along with the “No one will help us if we PTI Meanwhile, a woman police “We @airvistara have seen the A press release issued and the finalists, and Parliamentary Secretary, by the organisers men- expressed their sincere Dept. of Tourism, Govt. tions that Rokokhono appreciation at the suc- of Nagaland. Rengma Baptist Church wins Hornbill Choral competition 9th Music Awards Rhutso Nyekha was cess of the two week-long EMN of Nagaland 2017 today Moba Inggang Band he stage is all set for 9th annual TMusic Awards of Nagaland 2017 of the Native Trax Society. Musicians of Naga- land will be honoured in various genres during the awards presentation cer- emony of the 9th Music Awards of Nagaland on Monday Dec. 11, 5:30 pm onwards at Hotel EM Images Acacia Dimapur. The Rengma Baptist Church choir poses for the lens after receiving the award during theth 5 Hornbill Choral Competition that was held at Instituted in 2009 Jotsoma on Sunday. by Native Trax Society, he Rengma Baptist choir, Kohima as second runner-up The hornbill choral competition is Music Awards of Naga- Church (RBC) choir of respectively. presented by Symphony production land seeks to find the best Kohima emerged the In the open competition, the win- and initiated by Music Task force. songs in various genres winner of the 5th Hornbill ner received a cash of INR 100,000, A total number of seven choir each year for original Moba Inggang Band have released its new single Darren on indihut.com. Formed in the year 2013, Darren Choral Competition that while the first runners-up received participated in this year’s edition in- music recorded within is the second original of the band. Twas held at the RCEMPA in Jotsoma INR 60,000 and second with INR cluding a team from Pfutsero and two Nagaland. on Sunday evening. 40,000 respectively. team from Dimapur. The judges were EMN After two rounds of choral com- In special prize category, the audi- Akhrou Koza and Meripeni Ezung. petitions, RBC choir surpassed seven ence choice award was given to RBC The other choir participants were other choir groups to clinch the ulti- choir while the best choir conductor Secheku Children choir, Delhi Public mate title. While Voicestra emerged was adjudged to Vizho of Voicestra School, Dimapur and Baptist Church HILL STAR as first runner-up followed by Mount and best uniform to Minister Hill Kidima choir. Movie Schedule Hermon Higher Secondary School Baptist Junior choir, Kohima. Kohima Bureau TickeT raTes Silver Rs. 80, Gold Rs. 150 Platinum Rs. 320

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5 pm: Baby Driver (eng) 2D K-1492 EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017 SCIENCE AND TECH 11 NASA looks at Artificial Intelligence Space gives a sense of humbleness, to communicate with space spirituality—NASA astronaut Bhubaneswar, Dec. 10 put by a student, Fischer the growth of science and Washington, Dec. 10 (IANS): As the depths of space. By integrat- The Space Communications ground, there is an element of (IANS): National Aeronau- said, “Walking in space technology.” collection of space data increases, ing AI and cognitive radios into and Navigation (SCaN) Testbed unpredictability to space. The tes- tics and Space Administra- gives an amazing and trans- Development Commis- NASA is exploring the infusion our networks, we will increase aboard the International Space tbed provides this environment, a tion (NASA) astronaut Jack fixing experience”. sioner R. Balakrishnan said of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the efficiency, autonomy and reli- Station (ISS) provides engineers setting that requires the resiliency David Fischer on Friday Reacting on the exis- in the year 2009, Jack Fisher space communications networks ability of space communications and researchers with tools to test of technology advancements like said space gives a sense of tence of aliens in space, was selected as a member to meet demand and increase ef- systems,” added Briones. cognitive radio in the space envi- cognitive radio,” explained Dave humbleness and spirituality. Fischer said: “I can not say of the NASA Astronaut ficiency. Chelmins, Project Manager for “Sight of the boundary- that we are the only living Group-20 for his distin- Software-defined radios like the SCaN Testbed and cognitive less Universe with its innu- beings in this boundary-less guished achievements in cognitive radio use AI to employ communications. merable astronomical bod- universe. There might be military service and astro- underutilised portions of the elec- In the future, a NASA cogni- ies and movements make us living beings in other solar nautical space engineering. tromagnetic spectrum without tive radio could even learn to felt how small and insignifi- systems.” He served as a flight human intervention. shut itself down temporarily to cant we are in this endless He also said young engineer for Expedition 51 The Federal Communications mitigate radiation damage during ocean”, said the NASA scientists and students in & 52 that launched to the Commission (FCC) permits a cog- severe space weather events. astronaut at the Odisha Odisha have projected en- International Space Station nitive radio to use the frequency Adaptive radio software could Knowledge Hub Lecture couraging interest in space on April 20, 2017. while unused by its primary user circumvent the harmful effects of series here. research which would be of Fischer returned to the until the user becomes active space weather, increasing science He said thousands of great help in future. Earth with his team mem- again. and exploration data returns. scientists over the years have He added: “Space has bers on September 3, 2017, “Modern space communica- A cognitive radio network made it possible to explore taught us how we the people with an overall space stay tions systems use complex soft- could also suggest alternate data space. from different countries can of 135 days, 18 hours and ware to support science and explo- paths to the ground, said NASA. Responding to a query come together to work for 8 minutes. ration missions. By applying AI The cognitive radio’s AI could and machine learning, satellites also allocate ground station down- control these systems seamlessly, links just hours in advance, as op- making real-time decisions with- posed to weeks, leading to more Skywatchers can see this year’s out awaiting instruction,” Janette efficient scheduling. Additionally, C. Briones, Principal Investigator cognitive radio may make com- at NASA’s Glenn Research Centre munications network operations best meteor shower next week in Cleveland, Ohio, said in a state- more efficient by decreasing the ment on Saturday. For NASA, the space environ- ronment. need for human intervention. The recent development of ment presents unique challenges The testbed houses three soft- An intelligent radio could cognitive technologies is a new that cognitive radio could miti- ware-defined radios in addition to adapt to new electromagnetic thrust in the architecture of com- gate. a variety of antennas and appara- landscapes without human help munications systems. Space weather, electromag- tus that can be configured from and predict common operational “We envision these technolo- netic radiation emitted by the Sun the ground or other spacecraft. settings for different environ- gies will make our communica- and other celestial bodies, fills “The testbed keeps us honest ments, automating time-consum- tions networks more efficient and space with noise that can interrupt about the environment in orbit. ing processes previously handled resilient for missions exploring certain frequencies. While it can be simulated on the by humans. Black holes may have weaker World’s oldest eye discovered magnetic field than thought in 530 mn-year-old fossil New York, Dec. 10 (IANS): Black holes are phen Eikenberry, Professor of Astronomy at London, Dec. 10 (IANS): said Brigitte Schoenemann, known as voracious eaters of stars because the University of Florida in the US. Researchers have unearthed Professor at the University of their intense gravitational pull, but when “Our surprisingly low measurements what they believe to be the of Cologne in Germany. astronomers got a rare opportunity to mea- will force new constraints on theoretical “oldest eye” in a 530-mil- The findings, published sure one such system’s magnetic field, they models that previously focused on strong lion-year-old fossil of an in the journal Proceedings Washington, Dec. 10 seen with the naked eye either a near-Earth asteroid found it weaker than expected. magnetic fields accelerating and directing extinct sea creature. of the National Academy (IANS): The annual Gem- under clear, dark skies over or an extinct comet, some- A 40-mile wide black hole 8,000 light the jet flows. We weren’t expecting this, so The fossil of Schmidtiel- of Sciences, revealed that inid meteor shower has most of the world, though times called a rock comet.” years from Earth named V404 Cygni offered it changes much of what we thought we lus reetae, which includes an Schmidtiellus reetae had a arrived and it will put on the best view is from the As an added bonus this astronomers the rare opportunity to measure knew,” Eikenberry said. early form of the eye seen in primitive form of compound a dazzling show for sky- Northern Hemisphere. year, astronomers will have its magnetic field precisely, according to a The researchers developed the measure- many of modern animals, eye -- an optical organ that watchers when it peaks The shower will peak a chance to study Phaethon study published in the journal Science. ments from data collected in 2015 during a including crabs, bees and consists of arrays of tiny vi- overnight on December overnight on December up close in mid-December, The researchers found the magnetic en- black hole’s rare outburst of jets. dragonflies, was discovered sual cells, called ommatidia, 13-14, NASA has said. 13-14 with rates around when it passes nearest to ergy around the black hole is about 400 times The event was observed through the in Estonia, while the re- similar to those of present- Meteor showers are one per minute under good Earth since its discovery lower than previous crude estimates. lens mirror of the 34-feet Gran Telescopio searchers were examining day bees. named after the location conditions, according to in 1983. The measurements bring scientists closer Canarias located in Spain’s Canary Islands. the remains of a fossil called Although the species of the radiant, usually a Cooke. Geminids can be “Skywatching is easy. to understanding how black holes’ magne- Smaller jet-producing black holes, like as Trilobite. had poor vision compared star or constellation close seen on nights before and Just get away from bright tism works, deepening our knowledge of the one observed for the study, are the rock Trilobite -- the hard- with many modern animals, to where they appear in the after the December 14 lights and look up in any how matter behaves under the most extreme stars of galaxies. shelled ancestors of spiders it could identify predators night sky. The Geminid ra- peak, although they will direction! Give your eyes conditions -- knowledge that could broaden Their outbursts occur suddenly and are and crabs -- lived in coastal and obstacles in its path. diant is in the constellation appear less frequently. time to adjust to the dark. the limits of nuclear fusion power and GPS short-lived, said study lead author Yigit Dali- waters during the Palaeozoic Its eye consisted of ap- Gemini. The Geminids are Meteors appear all over the systems. lar from the University of Florida. era, between 541-251 million proximately 100 ommatidia, “With August’s Per- active every December, sky,” NASA said. The measurements will also help scien- The 2015 outbursts of V404 Cygni lasted years ago. and did not have a lens, like seids obscured by bright when Earth passes through And if it is cloudy tists solve the half-century-old mystery of only a couple of weeks. The previous time “This may be the earli- the modern compound eyes, moonlight, the Geminids a massive trail of dusty where you are, NASA will how “jets” of particles traveling at nearly the the same black hole had a similar episode est example of an eye that probably because the primi- will be the best shower this debris shed by a weird, broadcast the Geminid speed of light shoot out of black holes’ mag- was in 1989. “To observe it was something it is possible to find. Older tive species lacked parts of year,” said Bill Cooke with rocky object named 3200 shower live via Ustream netic fields, while everything else is sucked that happens once or twice in one’s career,” specimens in sediment lay- the shell needed for lens NASA’s Meteoroid Envi- Phaethon. The dust and starting at sunset on De- into their abysses, said study co-author Ste- Dalilar said. ers below this fossil contain formation. ronment Office. grit burn up when they run cember 13 from the Auto- only traces of the original These compound eyes “The thin, waning cres- into Earth’s atmosphere in mated Lunar and Meteor animals, which were too have changed little over 500 cent Moon won’t spoil the a flurry of “shooting stars.” Observatory at NASA’s soft to be fossilised and have million years, the researcher show,” Cooke said. “Phaethon’s nature is Marshall Space Flight Cen- Self control: Mindful yoga can help disintegrated over time,” said. The Geminids can be debated,” said Cooke. “It’s ter in Huntsville, Alabama. troubled youth reduce risky behaviours Nuts, oily fish may cut kids’ risk of asthma, rhinitis Washington, Dec. 10 iour trap could actually have books, playing sports or en- London, Dec. 10 (IANS): their childhood, either higher blood levels of est to study if children’s asthma or rhinitis at the (PTI): Practising mindful- positive outcomes later in gaged in avoidance coping Including nuts, oily fish due to hereditary or envi- omega 3 at the age of 8 environment and lifestyle age of 8 years, higher ness-based yoga can help life because they chose to behaviours were twice as like salmon, flax seeds, ronmental factors. years were less likely to affect the development of blood levels of arachidon- young people, who are deal- join in prosocial physical ac- likely to avoid risky sexual and soybean oil -- rich in The results show that have developed asthma these diseases,” said Anna ic acid were associated ing with stressful situations tivities, yoga or mindfulness behaviours or substance essential polyunsaturated the presence of an in- or rhinitis by the age of Bergström, researcher at with a higher probability like exposure to violence meditation,” said Dariotis. abuse. fatty acids -- in your chil- creased amount of poly- 16 years. the Karolinska Institutet of being symptom-free at and family disruption, avoid “We took a holistic ap- An example of avoid- dren’s diet may prevent unsaturated fatty acids High levels of an ome- in Sweden. For the study, age 16 years, the research- turning to negative, ance coping behav- their risk of developing such as Omega-3 and an ga-6 fatty acid called ara- published in the Journal ers said. risky behaviours, iours, she says, is allergic diseases, espe- omega-6 fatty acid called chidonic acid were associ- of Allergy and Clinical Previous studies have scientists say. not thinking about cially asthma and rhinitis arachidonic acid in the ated with a reduced risk of Immunology, the team also suggested that Ome- Researchers a bad event that by teenage, a study has blood is associated with asthma and rhinitis at 16. conducted a survey over ga-3 fatty acids helps in from the University had occurred and suggested. a reduced risk of allergic “Since allergies often the blood samples of 940 preventing Alzheimer’s of Cincinnati (UC) instead, thinking Both asthma and rhi- diseases among children. debut during childhood children. and reduces the worsen- in the US looked about what could nitis affects the kids since Children who had it is of particular inter- Among children with ing of liver damages. at the link between be better. stressful life events Dariotis found and an increase in youths who were substance abuse, unable to develop risky sexual be- positive coping Why do some dolphins, whales get stranded along coasts? haviours and de- strategies were linquency in a di- much more likely Washington, Dec. 10 cused on Cape Cod - the Cetaceans are thought verse population of to turn to greater (IANS): Scientists are biggest hot spot in the US to use Earth’s magnetic 18- to 24-year-old risk-taking behav- moving towards unravel- - and sifted through nearly field to navigate. Since youths. iours that included ling why otherwise healthy two decades of strand- intense solar storms can As part of a 10- unprotected sex dolphins, whales and por- ing observations by the disturb the magnetic field, year study, Jacinda or sex for money, poises get stranded along International Fund for the scientists wanted to Dariotis, public substance abuse, coasts worldwide. Animal Welfare, or IFAW, determine whether they health researcher violence and crime. Thanks to a collabora- alongside both ground- could, by extension, actu- at UC, spent 12 Participating tion between NASA scien- and space-based NASA ally interfere with animals’ months focusing in weekly mindful tists and marine biologists, space weather data. internal compasses and on early life stress- yoga intervention the new research suggests Just as weather varies lead them astray. ors as a predictor programmes as that space weather may be on Earth, occasionally The results of their of risky sexual be- part of the study part of a “cocktail of con- bringing thunderstorms analysis led them to con- haviour, substance taught the youths tributing factors” influenc- and gusty winds, the ever- sider that while space abuse and delin- how to take control ing animal beaching. changing Sun sometimes weather is not a primary quency for more of their breathing “Our view is that hurls massive clouds of so- driver of strandings, it than 125 at-risk and their emotions strandings are likely lar material and magnetic could be one factor among youths. and helped them caused by a complex fields into space, called several. Dariotis found develop healthier combination of multiple coronal mass ejections, or “We’ve learned so far a small number of long-term coping environmental factors,” graphic characteristics like “Whales and dolphins CMEs. there is no smoking gun the youths were al- skills. said Antti Pulkkinen of sloping beaches and fine- have always been mythi- The effects of these indicating space weather is ready engaging in “These find- NASA’s Goddard Space grained sediment - factors cal emblems for us,” said eruptions on near-Earth the primary driver,” Pulk- constructive coping ings highlight the Flight Centre in Greenbelt, thought to play a role in Desray Reeb, a marine bi- space are collectively kinen said in a statement behaviours on their own that proach, looking at these importance of implement- Maryland. strandings. ologist at Bureau of Ocean known as space weather. released by NASA. “But will have positive outcomes issues from a social and bio- ing positive coping strategies Mass strandings occur In strandings involving E n e r g y M a n a ge m e n t Coronal mass ejections there is a sense that geo- later in life. The study re- logical perspective,” she said. for at-risk youth particularly around the world and can multiple deaths, autopsies (BOEM) headquarters in can spark powerful geo- magnetic conditions may vealed that in spite of early Testosterone can be in- for reducing illicit drug use affect anywhere from three reveal that the vast major- Sterling, Virginia. magnetic storms if they be part of a cocktail of life stressors, positive coping fluential in dominance and and risky sexual behaviour,” to several hundred animals ity of the deceased animals “They’re intelligent, slam into Earth’s magnetic contributing factors.” behaviours, either learned or aggressive behaviours, but if said Dariotis. during any given event. were healthy before they social and mystical, and field. The scientists are now self-generated, can actually directed through prosocial “Mindfulness-based Although they are beached. present an intriguing chal- The researchers pooled seeking others to join their have a protective effect. behaviours like sports, yoga yoga programs designed to a global phenomenon, Some researchers hy- lenge for us to understand massive data sets to see if search for the factors that “We found that many or healthy competition it can improve the ability to cope scientists have identified pothesise groups strand because they’re so like us, disturbances to the mag- send ocean mammals off of these youths who had have very positive outcomes. are needed at earlier ages in certain hot spots: New when their strong social and yet so different.” netic field around Earth course, in the hopes of endured stressful life events Dariotis found that at- schools to help vulnerable Zealand, Australia and bonds compel them to fol- BOEM is part of the could be what confuses perhaps one day predict- and otherwise would have risk youth who voluntarily youths channel their skills Cape Cod, Massachusetts, low a distressed individual collaboration. these sea creatures, known ing strandings before they fallen into the risky behav- spend their time reading more effectively,” she said. all of which share key geo- into shallow waters. The team initially fo- as cetaceans. happen. EastErn Mirror | Dimapur, Monday, December 11, 2017

C M Y K 12 SPORTS Lanka's 'Lucky 13': Pathetic Chozuba Kings FC lifts Thenyizu football cup India lose by seven wickets Karthik looked all at sea the backfoot right from against moving delivery. the start with Mathews While most of the bats- trapping opener Shikhar men are not Test regulars, Dhawan in front of wicket the performance does raise in the last ball of his first questions about Indian over. The on-field umpire team's ability to counter had given not out before a seam adn swing. review by Sri Lankan team Players of Genius FC K Basa (red) and Kings FC Chozuba seen in action during the final of the 1st Thenyizu It was second time on showed that the ball had hit Cup Winter Football on Sat. the current tour after the him on line. Eden Gardens Test that In- Lakmal produced some D i m a p u r, D e c . 1 0 Defensive error cost GethemGo Sports Inter- dian team's ability was put extra bounce with his away (EMN): Chozuba Kings Genius team as Vebuzo national Sports Facilita- to test and they again came going deliveries and Rohit FC thrashed Genius K. scored the third goal in tor North East, Sports a cropper. ended up poking at the Basa FC 7-0 in the final the 15th minute, followed Coalition of India graced Put into bat, Indian ball to be back to the pavil- to lift the first edition of by Berelhu in the 30th the closing ceremony batsmen looked clueless lion after the third umpire Winter Cup Football tour- minute, Mudovoyi with and also gave away the as Lakmal, Pradeep and overturned another not out nament held at Thenyizu ease scored another goal awards. Mathews with half of the decision. local ground on Saturday. in 40th minute to make it Chozuba Kings FC Indian batting line-up was With India tottering at Medovoyi’s hat-trick 5-0 in the first half. walked home richer with gone for just 16 runs and at 2-2, Karthik joined debu- and Punur uh’s brace With no comeback in a cash prize of INR. one stage. tant Iyer in the middle. Af- made sure Chozuba team the second half from K 30,000 while Genius FC Left tottering at 29 for ter four maiden overs in the win the title in style. Basa side, Mudovoyi took K Basa received a cash seven, Dhoni and Kuldeep first five overs, Iyer finally The three-day tourna- the opportunity to score prize of INR. 15,000. Yadav (19) stitched 41 runs hit the first four and also ment was organised by another goal in the 60th Individual awards in 47 balls for the eighth got off the mark when he Khretho Boys Kohima. minute and completed Player of the tourna- wicket which went a long guided a Mathews delivery In the final match, his hat-trick in the extra ment - Berelhu Shijoh of way in India crossing 100- to the mid-wicket bound- Punuruh opened the ac- time as Genius suffered a Chozuba Kings FC run mark. ary. count in the 10th minute humiliating defeat to end Best goalkeeper - Dhoni clobbered 10 Living dangerously on and added his second goal the tournament. Azuhzo Nienu of Cho- boundaries and two sixes the other end, Karthik was two minutes later. Viposa Kiso, director zuba Kings FC in his crucial knock even as then sent back to the hut by only two other Indian bats- Lakmal as India ended the men -- Hardik Pandya (10) powerplay overs at 11 for 3. and Yadav -- could reach P r a d e e p r e p l a c e d PTI Maradona arrives in 'City Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews (r) and Niroshan Dickwella celebrate their victory over India in the first ODI double-digit figures. Mathews even as Perera cricket match at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamshala on Sunday. He used his 300-plus persisted with Lakmal and ODI experience to counter it worked as the pacer pro- Dharamsala, Dec. 10 team was shot out for 112 was 54 against a formidable the seam movement and duced a superb delivery to of Joy' sans fan-frenzy (PTI): The susceptible tech- in 38.2 overs, a target which Sri Lanka in Sharjah back bounce but didn't get the induce a thick outside edge Kolkata, Dec. 10 (PTI): nique of Indian batsmen in the islanders crossed in 20.4 in 2000. kind of support that was re- off Manish Pandey as India Legendary Diego Mara- seamer-friendly conditions overs. During Sri Lanka's quired from the other end. slumped to 16-4. dona finally kept his date was thoroughly exposed as Suranga Lakmal (4/13), chase, Upul Tharanga With an early start to Two balls later, Pradeep with the football-crazy city Sri Lanka comfortably beat Nuwan Pradeep (2/37) blasted 49 off 46 balls with the match, Lakmal, who uprooted Iyer's stumps for a three-day private trip, India by seven wickets in and Angelo Mathews (1/8) the help of 10 boundaries completed his quota of when the debutant inside- which was originally sched- the first ODI of the three- stifled the hosts with a fine as the visitors overhauled 10 overs in a single spell, edged a delivery onto the uled in September. match series. display of seam and swing the target with 29.2 overs emerged as the wrecker-in- stumps as the hosts lost half Sporting a blue T-shirt The win also enabled bowling in ideal conditions to spare. With Sri Lanka chief for Sri Lanka, return- their side in the 14th over. and a cap, the Argentine Sri Lanka break the igno- as Thisara Perera won a taking a 1-0 lead, India's ing with impressive figures Pandya then hit a couple and his female compan- miny of 12 straight defeats crucial toss. chances of grabbing the No of 10-4-13-4. of boundaries before giving ion landed past 7 pm via in ODIs and also their first Had former skipper Ma- 1 spot in the ICC ODI rank- Such was the domi- an outside edge to Pradeep. Dubai and headed straight win against India in the hendra Singh Dhoni not ings is pretty minimal. nance of the Lankan seam- Bhuvneshwar Kumar to the hotel in New Town, current year after losing stood tall amid ruins with a With regular skipper Vi- ers that India scored 11 for could not stay for long and Rajarhat. all international matches face-saving 65 off 87 balls, rat Kohli taking a break due 3 in the powerplay overs, it was left to Dhoni and Ya- This was the 1986 at home as well as the Test India at one point of time to his impending marriage, the lowest 10-over score dav to avoid the ignominy World Cup winner's second series here. reduced to 29 for 7 and in the Indian top-order did not in an ODI in the last five of being bowled out for visit to the city after De- It was an inauspicious danger of recording their cover itself in glory as the years, and second-lowest their lowest ODI total of 54 cember 2008, when thou- start to Rohit Sharma's In- lowest ever ODI score. likes of Shikhar Dhawan, overall. against the same opponent sands of fans gathered near dia captaincy as the home Their previous lowest Rohit, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Sri Lanka put India on in 2000 at Sharjah. airport and lined up the streets well past midnight Diego Maradona to welcome their football icon. whole new generation of He also has some spon- ISL: FC Pune City hand Jamshedpur FC first defeat of season But with an his latest fans while continuing to sors committments towards trip mired in postpone- spread the overwhelming the evening and will attend Jamshedpur, Dec. 10 their lead. Emiliano Alfaro ments for more than once love that I have for this a gala dinner. (IANS): FC Pune City released Diego Carlos on and an air of uncertainty beautiful game." The much-hyped Dada joined the toppers in the the right who drilled in a till the last minute, it was Originally scheduled versus Diego exhibition in- Indian Super League after low cross across the face of a low-key arrival for Mara- to arrive on September 19, volving Kolkata cricket icon claiming a well deserved the goal. Both Marcelinho dona, as only handful jour- on the day of Mahalaya Sourav Ganguly will now 1-0 victory over Jamshed- and Isaac were in the box nalists and some officials to kickstart the auspicious take place on December 12 pur FC at the JRD Tata but failed to turn the ball were seen at the airport and Durga Puja festival, Mara- on the outskirts of Barasat, Sports Complex here on home. the hotel. dona was to unveil his stat- about 35 kilometres from Sunday. U n a b l e t o b r e a k "It is such an honour ue besides inaugurating a the city. FC Pune City defender through the Pune defence, for me to be able to make north Kolkata pandal. It is however not clear Adil Khan's goal at the Steve Coppell brought on this trip. Kolkata is a very With Durga Puja over, whether Maradona would half hour mark proved to Kervens Belfort to replace special place and I have Maradona's schedule has play the full match as he be the difference between Trindade in the 66th min- good memories from my been altered a bit as he will had undergone a shoulder the two sides as Pune reg- ute but it was Popovic's trip there many years ago, now meet some cancer- surgery a few days back, istered their third win in side that looked likely to the fans were fantastic," afflicted patients in a char- while frequent change of five matches to accumulate pull one more ahead. Maradona said. ity at the same club and will dates would also mean nine points, the same as With just 10 minutes "India is a very passion- also lay foundation stone many celebrities, who were leaders Bengaluru FC, FC left on the clock, Pune's ef- ate football nation, and I of his statue tomorrow af- originally slated to come, Goa and Chennaiyin FC. forts to take all three points look forward to meeting a ternoon. may give it a miss. Lalchhuanmawia Fa- suffered a big blow after nai was sent off for Pune Lalchhuanmawia Fanai but Ranko Popovic's side was given the marching PTI defended resolutely to take Players of Jamshedpur FC and FC Pune City in action during their Indian Super League football match at orders for his foul on Bi- Real Madrid, Valencia win in La Liga all three points and hand the JRD Tata Sports Complex in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand on Sunday. kash Jairu. Jamshedpur FC their first The Pune left-back was loss in the league. Pune a chance to launch reacted well after going a cross from the left was already on a yellow card It took FC Pune City 30 one into the opposition box goal down. The home team turned into a Pune goal when he was adjudged to minutes to break through where Adil Khan convert- immediately put Pune un- by Izu Azuka, but the Ni- have caught Jairu with his the Jamshedpur FC de- ed at the back post. Pune der an extended spell of gerian was flagged offside flailing arm. fence that had kept four won the first header from pressure and in the 44th before he could celebrate. But even with a man consecutive clean sheets in Marcelinho's free-kick and minute, they had the ball in Two minutes into the down, the visitors held on the ISL. Mehtab Hossain's Khan side-footed it home. the opposition net. second half, Pune had a to their lead to secure full foul on Marcelinho gave Steve Coppell's men Matheus Trindade's great chance to double points. HWL Final: India overcome depleted Germany to pocket bronze Germany were deter- mined to bag the equaliser. They earned two more pen- alty corners till the half-time and had 10 shots at goal -- three more than India. They got their deserv- ing equaliser when attack- ing midfielder Mats Gram- busch crossed from the right AP/PTI to the far post where an Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo celebrate with teammates after scoring a goal against Sevilla unmarked Appel put it over during the Spanish La Liga soccer match against Sevilla at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid a sliding Suraj Karkera to on Dec. 9. Ronaldo scored twice in Real Madrid's 5-0 victory. make it 1-1. PTI Germany, however, be- Indian hockey players in a photo session with Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patanaik (C) and Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan after Madrid, Dec. 10 (IANS): scored following a corner through the first half, only wining the bronze medal match against Germany at the Hockey World League at Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Sunday. India won the gan to look tired in the third Real Madrid claimed an after just three minutes. for Iago Aspas to equalise match 2-1. quarter and India kept push- easy 5-0 win at home over Twenty minutes later Ron- a minute after the break. ing them on the backfoot to a decaffeinated Sevilla in aldo doubled the lead off a It looked as if the Bhubaneswar, Dec. 10 (IANS): India Olympics winners. Being short on personnel didn't regain the lead -- which they the La Liga football cham- pass from Marco Asensio. points would be shared toiled hard for a 2-1 win over a depleted Germany had Martin Haner (204 allow them to run and spread the field did in the 53rd minute. pionship while Valencia He then scored a pen- only for Dani Parejo to but resilient German side in the bronze- caps), Christopher Ruhr (108), Marco like they like to do. But with patience After the 50-minute saw off Celta Vigo to put alty, before further goals win the match from the medal playoff of the Hockey World Miltkau (70) and Julius Meyer (32) on and tactical adjustments, they didn't mark, they earned three the pressure on leaders FC from Tony Kroos and penalty spot after Pablo League (HWL) Final at the Kalinga the bench due to illness. Timur Oruz allow India to make most of their nu- back-to-back penalty cor- Barcelona. Achraf Hakimi sealed the Hernandez had handled. Stadium here on Sunday. (53) was also sidelined because of a merical superiority; rotations included. ners and in the final one, Cristiano Ronaldo on win by the 42nd minute. Adrian Lopez celebrat- S.V. Sunil (20th minute) and Har- ligament injury. Till Sunil got India the lead, Ger- Harmanpreet's powerful Saturday showed off the Valencia moved to ed his 100th appearance manpreet Singh (54th, penalty corner) However, the lion-hearted Ger- many had already got two penalty flick got a deflection and Golden Ball trophy he had within two points of for Deportivo la Coruna scored for the hosts who earned their mans played the game on equal terms corners although they didn't materialise went in at the left corner. been awarded during the league leaders FC Barcelo- with the goal which gave second consecutive bronze medal in with India. They played with only 13 fit into goals. Akashdeep Singh's sharp Germany got another week and celebrated with na, thanks to a narrow 2-1 his side a well-deserved the HWL Final. Appel Mark, a goal- players, including the two goalkeepers. backhander was blocked at the left penalty corner in the 56th two goals as Madrid netted win at home over Celta. 1-0 win at home against keeper who played as a striker due to Though it proved tough for them, they near post by Tobias Walter and the ball minute but Benedikt Furk's five in the first half, reports Simone Zaza's 10th Leganes. the absence of five players, scored in remained in contention for the entire rebounded to Sunil, who then rolled it drag-flick was kept away as Xinhua news agency. goal of the season put The game between Ge- the 36th minute for the 2008 and 2012 60 minutes. in for the opening goal. India sealed the 2-1 win. N a c h o Fe r n a n d e z Valencia ahead midway tafe and Eibar ended 0-0.

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