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Haley’s remarks on Iran 

escalates confrontation 

India’s Cochin shipyard wins order 

for eight Anti-Submarine Ships 

NDT Special Bureau 

Page 3 

Carol Dweck applies Growth Mindset to 

Issues of Growth Mindset 

Mark Parkinson 

Page 8 

NDT Iran Bureau Page 2 

Protection from Mosquito: Separating 

Facts from Fancy 

Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi 

Page 10 

Do you wish to be jealous or envious? 

Dr. Pramila Srivastava 

Page 9 

No CPEC access through Afghanistan unless 

Pakistan provides Afghanistan-India connect 

Dr. Ankit Srivastava 

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U.S. Muslim leader warns Canadian MPs 

not to use the term ‘Islamophobia’ 

Tarek Fatah 

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Haley’s remarks on Iran escalates 


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he US ambassador to UN Nikki Haley 

demanded in United Nations Security 

Council to punish the Iranian government 

for its ‘outlaw behavior’ across the Middle 

East. American ambassador’s comment has 

further escalated the confrontation with Iran. 

‘The United States will not turn a blind eye 

to these violations,’ UN ambassador Haley 

told a Security Council meeting deliberating 

the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 

Her strident denunciation of Iran was 

a response to international criticism of 

Trump’s hostility to Iran nuclear deal 

and came within a week of Trump’ noncertification 

of the deal. Trump’s decision 

has deeply angered Iran and raised alarms 

among American allies namely, Britain, 

France and Germany who were also parties 

to the agreement. 

European allies have exhorted Congress 

to preserve the deal as it has successfully 

thwarted Iran’s ability to attain a nuclear 

weapon. Any dithering, they warn, will risk 

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Washington’s isolation, loss of credibility 

and increased global insecurity. 

Haley feels that the nuclear agreement was 

an insufficient instrument to measure Iran’s 

relations with the world. She accused Iran 

of having violated at least four Security 

Council resolutions with impunity adding 

that ‘nearly every threat to peace and 

security in the Middle East is connected to 

confrontation 

Iran’s outlaw behaviour.’ 

“Iran hides behind its assertion of technical 

compliance with the nuclear deal while 

it brazenly violates the other limits on its 

behaviour, and we have allowed them to get 

away with it. This must stop” Haley said. 

She demanded the Council action on Iran’s 

‘most threatening act’ i.e. ballistic missile 

launchings. 

The Security Council resolution that put the 

nuclear agreement into effect merely asks 

Iran to refrain from ballistic missile tests but 

does not prohibit them. 

Iran views its missiles as defence to deter 

hostile neighbours, notably Israel and 

Saudi Arabia. Washington lacks support as 

veto-wielding China and Russia, are strong 

supporters of the deal they are part of and 

oppose the Trump administration’s efforts to 

ostracize Teheran. 

European leaders, disarmament advocates 

and diplomats including the European 

Union’s top foreign policy official, Federica 

Mogherini who helped negotiate the nuclear 

agreement have publicly defended the 

agreement, urging American lawmakers to 

preserve it. 

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali 

Khamenei, denounced Trump’s remarks, 

calling it ‘a waste of time to respond to such 

blathering and nonsensical remarks by the 

foul-mouthed U.S. president.’ Iran would 

not renounce the nuclear agreement as long 

as the United States does not. ‘But if it does, 

we will shred it to bits,’ he said. Khamenei’s 

remarks suggested that Iran would interpret 

the re-imposition of sanctions as an 

American withdrawal from the accord. 

Iran insists that no country has done more 

than it in fighting Middle East terrorism, 

most notably the Islamic State. 

If it had hegemonic ambitions, the nuclear 

deal would never have been reached. It 

deplored that Trump’s approach ‘toward 

the deal and Iran run counter to all of these 

efforts and intend to add another crisis to the 

regional issues.’ 

Around 25 former foreign ministers and 

dignitaries from Europe and elsewhere 

have written to congressional leaders 

stating that a unilateral withdrawal from the 

agreement would have far-reaching adverse 

consequences for the security, the credibility 

and standing of the United States in the 

world. 

The United States must live up to its 

commitments as losing credibility could have 

disastrous consequences for Washington and 

its allies. They appreciated Haley’s concerns 

about Iran’s ‘counterproductive and 

dangerous’ activities but regarded deal as a 

good example of multilateral cooperation. 

Haley’s remark sums it up all: “Everything 

would be more serious if they had a nuclear 

weapon. You’re safer if they don’t have 

one.” 

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U.S. Muslim leader warns Canadian MPs not to use the term ‘Islamophobia’ 

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By Tarek Fatah 

Author & Columnist, Canada 

@TarekFatah 

tarek.fatah@gmail.com 

r. Zuhdi Jasser is a former U.S. Navy 

Lt. Cmdr., and since 9/11, one of the 

few obstacles in the path of the international 

Islamism in North America that is led by 

admirers of the radical Muslim Brotherhood 

of the Arab World and the Jamaat-e-Islami in 

the Indian subcontinent. 

On Monday, Dr. Jasser, who heads the 

American Islamic Forum for Democracy 

(AIFD), appeared before the Heritage 

Committee of the House of Commons 

to share his views on the supposed anti- 

Islamophobia Motion 103 tabled by Liberal 

MP Iqra Khalid. 

Jasser told the Canadian MPs, “I am here to 

tell you that by simply even using that term 

and referring to it as ‘Islamophobia’ and 

getting the government into the business of 

monitoring any form of speech will end up 

paradoxically heightening societal divisions. 

“Trying to suppress what can be painful 

speech about Islam at society’s fringes will 

actually paradoxically feed an unintended 

consequence of fomenting non-Muslim 

fears of Islam,” he added. 

He warned that non-Muslim Canadians 

and Americans “who cannot have their real 

fears heard and their speech exercised will 

be stifled from the public sector and push 

resentment underground where it will only 

foment.” 

Jasser requested Canadian politicians and 

opinion leaders “stop engaging [with] 

Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups in 

government and media and recognize their 

misogynist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, and 

anti-American ideological underpinnings.” 

The AIFD chair pressed on Canadian MPs 

to make sure they understood that the advice 

they received “from ideological Islamists 

is compromised by their fealty to [Islamic] 

clerics, and the tribal construct of Islamic 

states from Muslim majority nations.” 

He could have added that leaders of some 

Islamic sects, who live outside Canada, yet 

determine what their followers do or say, 

even in legislatures. 

Most presenters at the hearings get a chance 

to answer questions from MPs on both sides 

of the house. But as I experienced myself, 

along with other Muslim opponents of 

M103, such as columnist Farzana Hassan 

and activist Raheel Raza, the Liberals and 

the NDP use this time to attack us or simply 

refuse to engage with us. 

Jasser’s presentation was no exception. 

Despite taking time out of his schedule and 

speaking from Phoenix, Arizona, he ended 

up being scolded and mocked by Liberal MP 

Arif Virani who used his designated seven 

minutes berating the American guest and 

running out the clock, leaving little time for 

Jasser to respond. 

Committee chair Hedy Fry and Liberal MP 

Arif Virani seem to have a well-coordinated 

plan on how to humiliate Muslims who do 

not fit their stereotype of who we are. 

What happened when I testified was Fry 

allowed Virani to stage an attack on me right 

at the end and then when it came time for 

me to respond, Fry said, “Sorry, time is up.” 

This time David Anderson, a Conservative 

MP from from Saskatchewan, would not 

have it any more. He approached Fry: “I am 

bit concerned and I don’t know if Mr Virani 

is deliberately doing this, but it amounts 

to bullying witnesses by using his time to 

lecture them when they have come here at 

their time and effort.” 

Fry relented and gave Jasser one minute 

to respond, before cutting him off midsentence. 

Monday also saw Balpreet 

Singh, representative of the World Sikh 

Organisation (WSO) claim that “opposition 


to M103 was based on anti-Muslim animus, 

not on logical and principled position” 

Thank you, Mr. Singh, for basically assisting 

in the dirty work of Mullahs who have 

already designated Farzana Hassan, 

Ensaf Haider, Raif Badawi, Raheel 

Raza and, of course, Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and 

myself as apostates to Islam deserving 

of death.

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No CPEC access through Afghanistan unless Pakistan provides 

Afghanistan-India connect 

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By Dr. Ankit Srivastava 

Editor - in - Chief 

@AnkitNDT 

ankits@newdelhitimes.com 

fghan President Ashraf Ghani, while 

addressing the Vivekananda International 

Foundation in New Delhi during his October 

visit to India said that Kabul will not be a 

part of the China-Pakistan Economic 

Corridor (CPEC) unless it is given access 

to Pakistan’s Wagah and Attari border. 

This implies that Afghanistan will restrict 

Pakistan’s access to Central Asia if Pakistan 

refuses Afghan access to India through the 

CPEC project. 

Ghani’s reaction has come a week after the 

quadrilateral meeting on Afghanistan in 

Oman between the representatives of United 

States, Afghanistan, China, and Pakistan 

that discussed the revival of peace talks with 

the Taliban. 

“Sanctuaries are provided, logistics are 

provided, training is provided, ideological 

base is provided [...] Pakistan has come to 

a juncture and it needs to make a choice. 

Our reaction will be determined by its 

[Pakistan’s] choices,” Ghani said of Pak 

complicity. 

The Afghan president also welcomed India’s 

new role in Afghanistan enumerated in the 

new US policy for the region. Ghani hailed 

the Trump administration’s South Asia 

strategy a ‘game-changer’ that ‘recommends 

multi-dimensional condition-based approach 

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for the region.’ Ghani visited India just a 

day after US Secretary of State Tillerson’s 

surprise visit to Afghanistan. 

Unfortunately, South Asia trade has long 

been held hostage to hatred, jealousy, and 

revenge making it the least integrated region 

in the world. Half of Europe’s trade is within 

Europe and half of ASEAN’s (Association 

of Southeast Asian Nations) trade is within 

ASEAN whereas in case of South Asia, 

trade within the region is abysmally low at 

only 5% of the total trade. 

Pakistan refuses to realise that regional 

trade could fetch benefit to all - be it India, 

Pakistan or Afghanistan. All that it needs is 

just to take action against terrorists of all 

hues. 

Afghanistan has access to India, but India 

does not have access to Afghanistan. 

Normally Afghan trucks are allowed to 

bring goods to Indian border and have to 

return back empty. 

High value trade is conducted by air only. 

From October India has started sending 

wheat to Afghanistan via Chabahar port of 

Iran. If Afghanistan blocks CPEC route to 

central Asia, Pakistan has to access CAR 

states only through the alternative route 

Kashgar that will be longer, circuitous and 

mountainous. 

Good intentions have emboldened the leader 

of war torn Afghanistan to take a bold 

decision as compared to terror state Pakistan. 

Kabul’s unequivocal stand undermines both 

China and Pakistan. Islamabad can take 

punitive action in retaliation to adversely 

impact Indo-Afghan trade running into USD 

220 million but Kabul could redirect all 

trade via Chabahar. 

Basically a connectivity project to and from 

China, CPEC will be starved if connectivity 

is cut-off between South and Central Asia. 

Afghan President Ghani has taken a good 

decision to protect Afghan trade interests 

and his is a very fair request. Pakistan has 

literally thrown Kabul into a ditch that India 

is helping to get out of. 

Pakistan needs to take a step back and rethink 

everything. Its exports to Afghanistan 

have already plummeted. Having troubled 

relations with all neighbours including India 

could be costly in the long run. 

Islamabad can’t be solely dependent upon 

China for trade and needs more partners. 

Pakistan must allow both India and 

Afghanistan to use CPEC to earn huge toll 

fee. It must also open the doors of minds 

before opening the borders for trade. 

Leaders of India-Afghanistan-Pakistan region 

need to overcome their animosity and 

get on with trade. Harping on CPEC and 

Chabahar alone may not suffice to meet the 

multifarious interests of countries of the 

region. 

India’s Cochin shipyard wins order for eight Anti - Submarine Ships 

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By NDT Special Bureau 



ndia is emerging as a business market 

for the futuristic companies to invest 

and gain out of the potential of the domestic 

Indian market. The plan in regard to the 

country’s growth is based on providing 

not only foreign investment but also the 

domestic, private and public companies to 

gain out of the new policies in regard to 

business standards. This feature has been 

made possible with the advent of introducing 

new reforms for the investors like FDI etc. 

By providing suitable environment and 

utilization of the resource-rich lands of 

the country both domestic and foreign 

investors are keen on providing their 

investments in the country. This has helped 

in raising the economic standards of the 

nation, employment opportunities, living 

standards of people and per capita income 

have increased. India is attracting not only 

foreign companies but also the domestic 

multinationals are now keen in investing 

with India on large scale. In regard with 

domestic companies like Cochin Shipyard, 

Larsen and Toubro, Reliance Industries etc. 

are also gaining momentum in investments. 

Out of many sectors for investments, most 

of it is seen within the defence sector. 

India’s defence sector is regarded as the 

most beneficial and growing industry within 

India. With the second largest standing army 

in the world, India’s defence is the biggest 

venture for investment. On similar stands, 

defence has been expanding at a global 

rate. It is envisioned that it will be soon to 

be leading purchaser of arms and even the 

strategic market for investment. 

All three tiers of defence air, land and 

water are emerging in a blooming way. 

The domestic multi-nationals are keen 

to invest in the defence sector. With the 

Indian Navy expanding and trying its level 

best to emerge on the top of the world, it 

has issued its demand for multiple antisubmarine 

ships. It had asked for tenders 

from various investors to propose their deals 

to the Indian Navy. Amongst the top bidders 

include, “Larsen and Toubro Ltd, Reliance 

Naval and Engineering Ltd, Garden Reach 

Shipbuilder and Engineering Ltd, Goa 

Shipyard, Hindustan Shipyard and Cochin 

Shipyard Ltd”. 

The lowest bidder was supposed to get the 

deal of providing 8 anti-submarine ships to 

the Indian Navy. The project was estimated 

to be around 5,400 crores. The Cochin 

Shipyard being the lowest bidder has gained 

this tender and is now in a process to build 8 

anti-submarine ships. 

This project will be held in close cooperation 

with the Ministry of Defence of India. It is 

country’s long-standing ASW shallow-water 

craft project. There was participation from 

both public and private sector multinationals 

in the bidding process. But the Cochin 

Shipyard being the best out of the deal 

bagged the contract. This contract will 

provide a great boost to the defence and 

even to the Cochin Shipyard. The Navy’s 

project will enhance the submarine capacity 

of the country and will make advancements 

in the core capabilities. 

There has been in the news that Indian 

defence ministry’s Defence Acquisition 

Council approved a tender for nearly 16 

ASW shallow-water ships in December 

2013. The report stated that, the platform 

which would be built will host to a 700-ton 

displacement and a range of 200 n miles. 

Also, the maximum speed which would be 

attained would feature around 25 kt and an 

endurance of 1,800 n miles at 14 kt. This 

calls for a check of the latest developments 

of Navy which are featured in these ships. 

This is a large and multilevel featured 

progress of the Indian Navy. 

The first vessel from the side of Cochin 

Shipyard is deemed to be delivered in next 

42 months. This will be a continuing process 

and after that, the state-owned shipbuilder 

will deliver two vessels every year. The 

shipyard’s order was for INR 3,500 crore 

but before it won the order. The company is 

indulged in building vessels for the Indian 

Navy in the past too. It is building an aircraft 

carrier which is an advanced vessel to carry 

fighter aircraft in the future. 

There has been a great developmental 

increase in the company’s share in the BSE 

and NSE. It has raised INR 1,468 crore after 

listing on stock exchanges of 76.2 times the 

number of shares on offer. It is mentioned 

by top officials of the company that this 

increase would be used for building and 

setting up a new manufacturing unit. This 

offer for the company to build eight vessels 

for the Indian Navy is the first big tender 

in concern with the company getting initial 

public offering in August. The ship which 

would be built by the CSL will feature 

ASW sensors and equipment, including 

hull-mounted sonar, variable-depth sonar, 

and torpedo tubes. This highly modernized 

feature of advance engineering is a great 

deal for the CSL to achieve and Indian Navy 

to utilize it in future missions. 

The Indian Navy had planned for the 212- 

ship fleet as featured in the service’s 15 year 

Maritime Capability Perspective Plan for 

the 2012-27. The new eight ASW will be 

an added feature to this plan of the defence 

ministry in boosting the strength of Indian 

Navy. Under country’s Next Generation 

Corvette programme is assumed to acquire 

seven to ten ships more. This will add to the 

basic demand featured by Navy for carrying 

out the operations in the future. This 120 m 

platform will feature ASW capabilities as it 

is for the multipurpose target achievement. 

The CSL and Indian Navy working in 

cooperation with each other will lead to 

dynamic growth in the defence sector of the 

country. The nation’s long-standing attribute 

of being the best will be achieved by this 

contract. It will not only provide with latest 

and advanced ships but will be a productive 

asset as being the public sector company, 

which would grow eventually by the mean 

of this contract. The contract of providing 

eight ASW will lead to developing Indian 

Navy’s capabilities in global waters. This 

will create a progressive path for both the 

CSL and Indian Navy as both will be 


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Ex-rebel commander Timochenko to run for Colombia presidency 

olombia’s demobilized guerilla movement 

nominated Rodrigo Londono to run 

for president in the South American nation’s 

election next year, keeping the former 

top commander at the helm of the rebels’ 

nascent political party. 

Londono, better known by his alias 

Timochenko, became the leader of the nowdisbanded 

Revolutionary Armed Forces of 

Photo Credit : AP Photo 

Colombia in 2011 and has been a key figure 

in the peace process to end Latin America’s 

longest-running conflict. 

Londono and President Juan Manuel Santos 

signed a peace accord last year in which 

rebels agreed to lay down their arms and 

confess their war crimes in exchange for 

state pledges to improve conditions in 

Colombia’s poor rural communities and 

facilitate the rebel movement’s conversion 

into a political party. “The common people 

and those who dream of a new country 

Iran says supreme leader limiting ballistic missile range 

ran’s supreme leader has restricted the 

range of ballistic missiles manufactured 

in the country to 2,000 kilometers (1,240 

miles), the head of the paramilitary 

Revolutionary Guard said, which limits their 

reach to only regional Mideast targets. 

The comments on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s 

orders appear to be an effort by Iranian 

authorities to contrast their missile program, 

which they often describe as being for 

defensive purposes, against those of 

countries like North Korea, which poses a 

threat to the United States. 

“It is a political decision,” said Michael 

Elleman, the senior fellow for missile 

defense at the International Institute for 

Strategic Studies in Washington. “I think 

with the supreme leader saying it, it takes on 

a little more significance.” 

The range of 2,000 kilometers encompasses 

much of the Middle East, including Israel 

and American military bases in the region. 

That’s a concern for the U.S. and its allies, 

but Iran’s ballistic missile program was not 

included in the 2015 nuclear deal that it 

struck with world powers. 

Speaking on the sidelines of a conference 

in Tehran, Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari 

told journalists that the capability of Iran’s 

ballistic missiles is “enough for now.” 

The Guard runs Iran’s missile program, 

answering only to Khamenei. “Today, the 

range of our missiles, as the policies of Iran’s 

supreme leader dictate, are limited to 2,000 

kilometers, even though we are capable of 

increasing this range,” he said. “Americans, 

their forces and their interests are situated 

will have their representation,” said Ivan 

Marquez, a former rebel leader who served 

as chief negotiator during talks with the 

government. 

The selection of Londono falls in line with 

previous steps the ex-combatants have 

taken in recent months to ensure the group’s 

historical leaders remain at the forefront of 

their political agenda. The former rebels 

have changed their official name but 

preserved the Spanish acronym by 

which they are known, the FARC. 

The party is led by a political council 

that consists almost entirely of leaders 

who have spent decades with the 

organization. 

Polls within Colombia indicate the 

FARC remains deeply unpopular, 

though one recent Gallup survey 

said the ex-combatants have a higher 

approval rating than the nation’s 

traditional political parties. Recent 

corruption scandals and division over 

the peace process have tarnished 

many Colombians’ opinion of their nation’s 

political leaders. Still, Londono and the 

other former rebels vying for political office 

are certain to face an uphill battle. 

FARC leaders are hoping to mobilize longmarginalized 

Colombians living in one 

of the world’s most unequal nations. The 

peace accord guarantees the ex-combatants 

10 seats in Congress, and candidates for 

those posts were also announced. They have 

settled on a political platform that is scarce 

within a 2,000-kilometer radius around us 

and we are able to respond to any possible 

desperate attack by them.” 

However, Jafari said he didn’t believe there 

would be war between Iran and the U.S. 

“They know that if they begin a war 

between Iran and the United States, they 

will definitely be the main losers and their 

victory will by no means be guaranteed,” he 

said. “Therefore, they won’t start a war.” 

While keeping with the anti-American tone 

common in his speeches, Jafari’s comments 

seemed to be timed to calm tensions over 

Iran’s missile program. 

By limiting their range, Iran can contrast 

itself with North Korea, as Pyongyang 

has tested developmental intercontinental 

ballistic missiles that could potentially reach 

the U.S. mainland and conducted its most 

powerful nuclear test to date. Pyongyang 

also flew two powerful new midrange 

missiles over Japan, between threats to fire 

the same weapons toward Guam, a U.S. 

Pacific territory and military hub. 

The Trump administration already 

sanctioned Iran for test-firing a ballistic 

missile in February, with then-National 

Security Adviser Michael Flynn warning 

Tehran that Iran was “on notice.” 

President Donald Trump’s recent refusal 

to re-certify the nuclear accord has sent 

the matter to the U.S. Congress. The U.S. 

House of Representatives voted to put new 

sanctions on Iran for its pursuit of longrange 

ballistic missiles, without derailing 

on details, but will prioritize eliminating 

corruption, promoting social and economic 

equality and eradicating poverty. 

Imelda Daza Cotes, who the FARC is 

nominating for vice president, said the 

party’s idea is not to change the nation’s 

economic model but to improve it. 

“We want a model that is more inclusive,” 

she said. “A model that is more humane.” 

The FARC was formed in the early 1960s 

by guerrillas affiliated with Colombia’s 

Communist Party. At least 250,000 people 

were killed, another 60,000 left missing, and 

millions displaced in more than five decades 

of conflict between rebels, government 

forces and right-wing paramilitaries. 

The first year of the peace accord’s 

implementation has been marked both by 

key milestones, like the rebels’ disarmament, 

and considerable setbacks. Dozens of social 

leaders have been killed, and new illegal 

groups have moved into remote parts of 

Colombia formerly controlled by the FARC. 

The rebels have also complained about dire 

conditions in demobilization camps that 

have made transition to civilian life difficult. 

The launch of the FARC’s political party 

has been met with resistance from leaders 

like former President Alvaro Uribe who 

warn it would turn the nation into another 

Venezuela, the neighboring Andean nation 

whose socialist government has brought the 

country to economic calamity. 

the deal. 

Iran long has insisted its ballistic missiles are 

for defensive purposes. It suffered a barrage 

of Scud missiles fired by Iraq after dictator 

Saddam Hussein launched an eight-year war 

with his neighbor in the 1980s that killed 1 

million people. To build its own program, 

Tehran purchased North Korean missiles 

and technology, providing much-needed 

cash to heavily sanctioned Pyongyang. 

Iran today likely has the capability to 

go beyond 2,000 kilometers with its 


Khorramshahr ballistic missile, though it 

chose to limit its range by putting a heavier 

warhead on it in testing, Elleman said. 

“It will be interesting to see how Iran 

reconciles this Khorramshahr missile with 

the supreme leader’s dictate,” he said. “Iran 

may say, ‘Well, we’re fitting it with this 

big warhead so we’re not exceeding this 

limitation,’ but the modification is very 

simple.” 

The Gulf Arab nations surrounding Iran, 

while hosting American military bases, 

also fly sophisticated U.S. fighter jets that 

Iranian forces can’t match. The ballistic 

missiles provide leverage against them, as 

Uribe blasted the FARC candidates as 

“delinquents” guilty of crimes against 

humanity. 

“We will confront them,” he pledged. 

Many Colombians want rebels banned from 

politics until they go before a special peace 

tribunal. Former rebels are being permitted 

to run for office before they are tried, but if 

the court orders them detained, that sentence 

could prevent them from continuing to 

participate in politics. 

“Political participation is guaranteed in 

the accords,” Rodrigo Rivera, Colombia’s 

peace commissioner said. “But it’s not 

unconditional.” 

Most rebels will be spared of any jail time 

under the agreement’s terms. 

Londono was hospitalized in July following 

a stroke and has largely kept a low profile 

since the peace accord’s signing. 

Adam Isacson of the Washington Office of 

Latin America think tank said the former 

rebel commander is likely the FARC’s best 

candidate for president. He is considered 

less polarizing than other FARC leaders 

and many associate him positively with the 

group’s decision to pursue peace. 

“I guess the old guard feels this is there 

time,” he said. “It’s now or never if they’re 

going to do this.” 

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well as the U.S.-made anti-missile batteries 

their neighbors have bought, according to 

Tytti Erasto, a researcher at the Stockholm 

International Peace Research Institute. 

“Iran’s pattern of missile testing — which 

has sought to address the long-standing 

problem of poor accuracy — is consistent 

with the program’s stated purpose as a 

regional deterrent,” Erasto wrote. “It also 

reinforces the argument that Iran’s missiles 

are designed to be conventional, not 

nuclear.” Still, Iran could use the missiles 

as “a tool of coercion and intimidation,” 

said Behnam Ben Taleblu, the senior Iran 

analyst at the Washington-based Foundation 

for Defense of Democracies, which takes a 

hard line on Tehran and is skeptical of the 

nuclear deal. 

“A secure Islamic Republic that does 

not fear kinetic reprisal is more likely to 

engage in low-level proxy wars and foreign 

adventurism, much like we see today,” he 

said. 

Meanwhile on 31st October, Iran broke 

ground at its Bushehr nuclear power plant 

for two more atomic reactors to generate 

electricity. State television quoted Ali Akbar 

Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy 

Organization of Iran, as saying the first new 

reactor would go online in seven years, 

while a third would be active in nine years. 

Russia will provide assistance in building 

the new reactors as Moscow helped bring 

Bushehr online in 2011. It marks the first 

expansion of Iran’s nuclear power industry 

since the atomic accord. 

Credit : Associated Press (AP)


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World 

Islamic State’s Global Reach Shrinking : Analysts 

he Islamic State terror group is trying 

to sell a transnational image, but its 

future doesn’t lie West of the Middle East, 

according to analysts. 

The group’s claims do not match its 

actual operational capacity, according to 

researchers, but the focus by Western media 

and politicians of IS-inspired or directed 

attacks on civilians in America and Europe 

is obscuring the limits of the terror group’s 

reach. 

According to the Terrorism Research and 

Analysis Consortium, the future of the 

jihadist terror group lies mostly east of 

the Levant and not in Western cities as the 

center of the gravity of its operations shifts 

to the Philippines and Asia. 

In an exhaustive study of attacks claimed 

outside Iraq and Syria from May to 

September for the past three years, TRAC 

found a disparity between IS’s worldwide 

propaganda campaign and actual attacks. 

“IS’s highlighting of terror attacks against 

civilians in Western Europe, and the 

mainstream media’s obsession with those 

attacks, serves to obscure important aspects 

of Islamic State strategy,” said Veryan Khan, 

TRAC’s editorial director. The consortium’s 

assessment “reveals as much about Islamic 

State’s limitations as its aspirations,” she 

said. 

More than half of all IS claimed attacks 

outside the Levant are focused on just three 

countries: the Philippines, Afghanistan and 

Egypt. 

“TRAC contends that these places, which 

receive scant Western attention, represent the 

narrative of IS future territory,” the research 

consortium says in its report “Islamic State - 

Outside the Caliphate by the Numbers.” 

At first glance, IS’s global reach for 

attacks would appear to be expanding. IS 

propagandists claimed 21 attacks in seven 

Japan’s Parliament 

re-elects Shinzo Abe 

as Prime Minister 

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apan’s lower house of parliament 

has re-elected Shinzo Abe as prime 

minister after his party won a resounding 

victory in a snap election last month. 

Abe easily won the race with 312 votes in 

the 465-seat lower house. 

The 63-year-old Abe dissolved the lower 

house in late September to force an election. 

Political analysts saw the move as an 

attempt to win a fresh public mandate and 

re-establish his hold on power after a plunge 

in his approval ratings last summer. 

The Oct. 22 election victory boosted Abe’s 

chances of being re-elected as leader of his 

Liberal Democratic Party next September to 

a fresh three-year term. 

He has been prime minister since December 

2012. 

countries from May 20 to September 

22, 2015. The following year for the 

corresponding four-month period they 

claimed 80 attacks in 21 countries. 

The number of attack claims nearly tripled 

in 2017 with 222 in 21 countries, but 175 of 

them, account for 80 percent, occurred in just 

three countries, the Philippines (99 claims), 

Afghanistan (43 claims), and Egypt (33 

claims). In the case of those three countries, 

just three areas in them accounted for 115 

of the 222 claimed attacks, Marawi city in 

Philippines’ Autonomous Region of Muslim 


Majority, Nangahar province in Afghanistan 

and Egypt’s upper Sinai. 

IS also appears to be unable to maintain 

attacks in several countries. During 2017 the 

group could not claim repeat attacks, either 

directed or inspired in 10 countries that had 

seen attack claims in 2015, Bangladesh went 

from six claims in 2016 to none in 2017; 

Saudi Arabia had three in 2015 but none 

since. 

“The inability to repeat attacks in the same 

location summer after summer highlights 

the Islamic State’s lack of sustainability,” 

the TRAC argues. 

The number-crunching by TRAC provides 

an alternative picture about IS’s likely 

future. Western media coverage focuses 

on claimed attacks in Europe and America, 

understandably as those attacks are occurring 

in their own backyard, but it boosts the IS 

threat and often fails to provide context. 

In 2017, Britain topped the newcomer’s 

list with three high-profile claimed attacks, 

which received more attention in the 

Western media than the siege of Marawi in 

the Philippines, and the nearly 70 claimed 

attacks in the country 

Western intelligence agencies say there 

will be more IS-linked attacks in the West 

for the foreseeable future, despite the 

shrinking of the territory the jihadist group 

controls in the Levant, where it has lost all 

its urban strongholds and is now confined 

to the sparsely-inhabited border territories 

between Iraq and Syria. 

Analysts say the so-called Caliphate was 

useful in the marketing of IS and attracting 

foreign recruits, as well as allowing the 

group to differentiate itself from rival al- 

Qaida, which opposed the setting up of an 

Islamic state and ridiculed the group’s leader 

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s self-appointment as 

caliph. 

Now one of the only ways for the terror group 

to remain relevant and to try to continue to 

outshine its jihadist competitor al-Qaida, say 

French and Belgian intelligence officials, is 

to strike the West as frequently as it can. But 

officials are taking some consolation in the 

fact that most attacks claimed by the group 

in the West have been inspired, rather than 

directed or organized by IS. 

“We may look back at the coordinated 

November 2015 Paris attacks and identify 

them as the high point in the IS threat in the 

West,” a senior British intelligence official 

told VOA. 

He added, “What we have seen since are 

mainly low-tech, opportunistic incidents by 

lone wolves. That may not be any comfort 

to the public, but in an odd way it should 

be. My longer-term concern is what we can 

expect from al-Qaida, which is re-grouping 

and has the patience and depth of operatives 

to pull off spectacular strategic attacks.” 

Credit : Voice of America (VOA) 


Germany marks 

500th anniversary 

of Martin Luther’s 

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challenge 

erman leaders on 31st October marked 

the 500th anniversary since the day 

Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 

theses challenging the Catholic Church 

to a church door, a starting point of the 

Reformation. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and 

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier took part 

in a service in the famous Castle Church in 

Wittenberg, where Luther supposedly posted 

his 95 Theses on Oct. 31, 1517. 

In remembrance of the 500th anniversary, 

Reformation day was a public holiday in 

Germany this year. 

Thousands of people were participating in 

different church services throughout the day 

in the eastern German town of Wittenberg. 

The city also celebrated the anniversary with 

a medieval-style street festival including arts 

and cultural events. 

As Protestantism spread following Luther’s 

revolt against the Catholic Church, religious 

wars erupted, dividing western Christianity 

in a schism that resulted in hundreds of years 

of violence, persecution and discrimination. 

Merkel, in a speech in Wittenberg, stressed 

the importance of tolerance toward the wide 

variety of beliefs. 

“Those who embrace plurality must exercise 

tolerance — that is the historical experience 

of our continent,” she said. “Tolerance is the 

basis for peaceful togetherness in Europe.” 

Both Lutheran and Catholic clergy, who 

participated in different church services and 

celebrations throughout the day, vowed to 

do more for the unity of Christianity and to 

overcome differences. 




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Delhi/NCR News 

One runway at Delhi Airport to be closed 

for maintenance 

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runway on Delhi airport will be closed 

for three days starting from November 

7. The maintenance and repair work are the 

reasons behind the closure of the runway. 

A leading Indian English daily quoted a 

Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) 

spokesperson that “Runway 11-29 of IGI 

airport will remain closed for maintenance 

for three days from 0001hrs on November 7 

to 0700hrs on November 10. 

The scheduled time was chosen after a 

careful evaluation by airport operator in 

close consultation with Airports Authority 

of India (AAI) and the airlines. 

Given the onset of fog season, the time was 

jointly agreed from the perspective of safety 

and operational reliability”. 

The closure of the runway is expected 

to reduce the operational capacity of the 

Delhi airport by 30%. Around 300 flights 

will reportedly be affected by the reduced 

capacity. 

Currently, the airport handles 67 flights 

per hour, but between November 7 and 

November 10, the frequency will be 

restricted to 45 movements in an hour. 

Many airlines such as Indigo and Spicejet 

have cancelled some of their flights. 

An official statement of DIAL mentioned 

that “During the maintenance, the airfield 

capacity will be lowered to 45 air traffic 

movements per hour. 

The airport operator has revised the slot 

allocations in consultation with all the 

airlines”. 

Government Crack Down: Revoke licences 

of Delhi restaurants serving hookah illegally 

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elhi health minister Satyendar Jain has 

asked the police and civic bodies to 

immediately cancel licences of restaurants 

or eateries having hookah bars, either in 

non-smoking or smoking zone. 

“The state tobacco control cell has conducted 

several raids in various parts of Delhi, and 

chemical analyses of samples picked up have 

shown presence of nicotine in significant 

amount in almost all the samples. 

Originally they were claimed to be herbal in 

nature,” Jain said. 

“Recent notification of Government of 

India GSR 500(E) dated 23rd May 2017 

from Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, 

completely prohibits use of Hookah in the 

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smoking zones also. Therefore, Hookah 

Bars in any form are illegal and Delhi Police 

& MCD should cancel the licenses of such 

restaurants, eateries and hotels where such 

illegal Hookah bars are operating,” a Delhi 

government statement said. 

“As per the Section 4 of Cigarettes and Other 

Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), smoking of 

any tobacco product in a non-smoking zone 

is prohibited. 

And a Union government notification in 

May clearly said no services are to be 

provided inside smoking zones, including 

hookahs,” said Dr S.K. Arora, state tobacco 

control officer. 

“The new notification makes serving hookah 

illegal within and even outside smoking 

zones. So the government does not need 

to institute a ban to take action against the 

restaurants,” said Dr Arora. 



India breaks into top 

100 on world bank’s 

ease of doing business 

index 

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ndia has jumped to 100th place in the 

World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 

index, jumping 30 ranks from last year, in 

an endorsement of the string of reforms 

implemented by the Narendra Modi 

government. 

Under the ease of doing business index, 

a higher ranking - a low numerical value - 

means the country’s rules and regulations 

for businesses are favourable and the 

environment is business friendly. 

In its 2017 edition, the World bank ranked 

India at 130th position among the 190 

countries. 

India’s impressive performance was largely 

due to reforms in taxation, insolvency laws 

and access to credit, part of measures Prime 

Minister Modi’s government has pushed 

to boost investment and jobs that would 

help absorb a million people who join the 

workforce every month. 

In Starting a Business, India has reduced the 

time needed to register a new business to 30 

days now, from 127 days 15 years ago. 

However, the number of procedures is still 

cumbersome for local entrepreneurs who 

still need to go through 12 procedures to start 

a business in Mumbai, which is considerably 

more than in OECD high-income economies, 

where it takes five procedures on average. 

“India’s performance is not based on efforts 

of just one year but consistent efforts made 

over the last three years to continuously 

improve the regulatory environment of doing 

business,” Annette Dixon, Vice President 

South Asia, told a press conference. 

India to buy 111 naval choppers, govt clears Rs 

21,738 crore project 

he government’s Defence Acquisition 

Council (DAC), headed by Defence 

Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has approved 

the Rs 21,738-crore programme to replace 

the Navy’s outdated fleet of French-designed 

Chetak choppers. 

With this, India is all set to buy 111 armed 

light utility helicopters, fortifying the Navy 

which at present is struggling to bridge 

capability gaps, and a majority of its 140 

warships are operating without utility 

helicopters. 

The Defence Ministry-Navy combine 

will now issue the formal tender or RFP 

(request for proposal) to original equipment 

manufacturers for the light helicopter 

project, under which the first 16 choppers 

will be imported, with the rest 95 being 

manufactured in India later. 

Such choppers are used for several purposes, 

including search and rescue operations, 

medical evacuation, communication duties, 

anti-piracy and anti-terrorism operations, 

humanitarian assistance, surveillance and 

targeting. 

The Navy had released two requests for 

information (RFIs) for 123 naval multi-role 

helicopters (NMRHs) and 111 NUHs this 

August. 

The multi-billion dollar NMRH programme 

to replace obsolete Westland Sea King 

helicopters is yet to come up for DAC 

approval.


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Delhi/NCR News 


Kejriwal Defamation Case: High court dismisses 

Kejriwal’s plea to summon DDCA documents 




he Delhi High Court dismissed a plea 

of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal 

seeking direction to summon records and 

minutes of meetings of the DDCA conducted 

between 1999 and 2014. 

Kejriwal, along with five other Aam Aadmi 

Party (AAP) leaders, are facing a Rs 10 

crore defamation suit filed by BJP Union 

Minister Arun Jaitley. 

allowed to lead evidence beyond what he 

had pleaded in his application. 

During the hearing earlier, Jaitley had 

opposed Kejriwal’s application saying the 

AAP leader has been trying to delay the 

proceedings by filing “frivolous” pleas, 

including the current one. 

The BJP leader had filed the defamation 

suit against the AAP leaders for allegedly 

levelling “defamatory” charges against him 

in connection with alleged irregularities in 

DDCA while he was its President. 

Joint registrar Pankaj Gupta said it was not 

Kejriwal’s defence that he made the alleged 

defamatory statements based on the records 

he wanted to summon and hence cannot be 

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Besides Kejriwal, the five others named 

in the case are Raghav Chadha, Kumar 

Vishwas, Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and 

Deepak Bajpai. 

Delhi Police foils murder attempt on 

Canadian writer Tarek Fateh; arrests 

Chhota Shakeel’s aide 

he Delhi Police arrested a man quoting 

sources that he was hired by Chhota 

Shakeel to kill Pakistan born writer Tarek 

Fatah. 

Police said Naseem, 28, was on the run 

since June when their Special Cell booked 

him and one Junaid Chaudhary for hatching 

a conspiracy to eliminate Fatah. 

This is not the first time that the Delhi Police 

has arrested a wanted criminal for targeting 

the controversial Pakistani writer. 

Earlier this year, Delhi Police’s Special Cell 

had arrested a man called Junaid for planning 

to eliminate Tarek Fateh, apparently on the 

orders of the Pakistan-based don Chhota 

Shakeel. 

Following his arrest, Naseem reportedly 

told the police that he had two new killing 

assignments, including one from Chhota 

Shakeel, but was caught before he could 

execute either of them. Chotta Shakeel 

wanted him to kill a person living in Dwarka. 

“This person had insulted a religious 

book, the video of which went viral on the 

internet,” said an official. 

Tarek Fateh - a Pakistan-born Canadian 

writer - is known for his critical observations 

about the Islamic Sharia Law. 

Fateh is apparently on fugitive underworld 

don Dawood Ibrahim’s radar for his critical 

remarks against Islam and the Sharia Law. 

Entry tickets for IITF to be sold in advance 

ntry tickets for India International Trade 

Fair, which starts from November 14 at 

Pragati Maidan, will be sold in advance at 

Delhi Metro stations and through the online 

portal of ITPO. 

“For convenience of the public, the sale 

of tickets for general days (November 18- 

27) will be sold four days in advance from 

DMRC stations,” ITPO said in a statement. 

IITF will be held from November 14 to 

November 27. 

AAP government vs. 

Centre: SC maintains 

LG’s primacy in 

Delhi, but says can’t 

sit on files 

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he Supreme Court has observed that 

“prima facie,” Delhi’s Lieutenant 

Governor has primacy in the national capital 

under the Constitution. 

Also adding that Delhi Lieutenant Governor 

can’t “scuttle an executive decision by sitting 

over a file”, as it heard pleas against the L-G 

being the national capital’s administrative 

head. 

The Delhi government had challenged a high 

court verdict that said the L-G had primacy 

over the elected government. 

Justice DY Chandrachud, addressing the 

government complaint that LG was holding 

up files, some for as long as a year, said:”LG 

must give reasons for his decisions, which 

should be taken within reasonable time.” 

The India International Trade Fair, ever 

since its inception in 1980, has evolved as 

a major event for the business community. 

It is a premier event organized by the India 

Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO), 

the nodal trade promotion agency of the 

Government of India. 

The 36th edition of the popular India 

International Trade Fair (IITF) was held 

from November 14–27, 2016 at Pragati 

Maidan, New Delhi. The theme of this fair 

was Digital India. 

A five-judge constitution bench headed 

by Chief Justice Dipak Misra is hearing 

petitions by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind 

Kejriwal’s government against last year’s 

High Court verdict that the LG is the 

administrative head of the national capital. 


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Neighbourhood News 

Hindu Survivors seek to move 

to Buddhist Majority Areas of 

Myanmar 

indus who have fled violence in 

Myanmar since late August and have 

taken refuge in Bangladesh along with the 

Rohingya Muslims, say they are not willing 

to return to their villages in Rakhine state 

because they are scared of facing violence 

again. 

The Hindu refugees in Bangladesh said that 

they want to move to India if the Myanmar 

authorities do not help them resettle in 

Buddhist-majority areas of the country. 

“Our village in Rakhine is not safe for 

the Hindus any more. If [the] Myanmar 

government helps us move to Rangoon we 

are ready to go there,” Lolimohan Sil, 52, 

a barber from Bolibazar, told VOA. “If 

Myanmar cannot help us live in a safe and 

peaceful area of the country we want to 

move to India. India should help us.” 

A month after Rohingya insurgents attacked 

30 police posts and an army camp killing at 

least 12 people, triggering a campaign by the 

army against Rohingya villages, Myanmar 

authorities reported finding the bodies of 45 

Hindu villagers in three mass graves. 

Myanmar officials said it was the Muslim 

Rohingya militants who killed more than 90 

Hindus, including those whose remains were 

recovered from the mass graves. However, 

the insurgent group Arakan Rohingya 

Salvation Army (ARSA) denied killing the 

Hindus, saying it did not target any civilians. 

Since August 25, over 600,000 Rohingya 

Muslims have fled Myanmar and crossed 

over into Bangladesh. About 800 Hindus 

have also fled Myanmar. 

Immediately after arriving in Bangladesh, 

the Hindu refugees told local journalists 

that their loved ones had been killed by the 

Myanmar security forces and armed local 

Rakhine Buddhist men. 

Changing Stories 

But many of the Hindu refugees later 

changed their story. 

Now, none of the Hindu refugees is saying 

that the Myanmar soldiers or locals killed 

any Hindus. Some of the Hindu refugees are 

saying that they could not identify the killers 

because they were masked, while others 

are saying Rohingya militants killed their 

relatives and Hindu neighbors. 

Hindu refugee Niranjan Rudra said he 

would not want to return to his village 

of Chikonchhori in Rakhine because the 

Rohingya militants, who he referred to as 

“Kala Party” or Black Party, were still active 

and they would target the Hindus. 

“Kala Party or Al Yakin men are still a threat 

to us in our village. They killed so many 

Hindus. They will kill us if we go back to our 

village again. There is no police or military 

there. So, we will not go to our village,” said 

Rudra, who has been in Bangladesh since 

the end of August. 

“We will feel safe if we can move to 

Rangoon (Yangon). We will also find peace 

if we go to India.” 

Hindu refugee Milon Sil said the Rohingya 

militants killed the Hindus and they still pose 

a threat to the Hindus and so with his family 

he wants to move to Buddhist-majority areas 

of Myanmar. 

“In Bangladesh we have got good hospitality. 

But, Myanmar is our country. We want to 

go back to Myanmar. But, Al Yakin men 

are hiding in the area where we lived,” he 

said. “If the government helps us move to 

Sittwe or Rangoon, we are ready to return 

to Myanmar.” 

Surprised Reporters 

Some journalists who met Rakhine’s Hindu 

survivors as soon as they arrived Bangladesh 

said they were surprised the way they 

changed their story over the weeks. 

Nurul Islam, Cox’s Bazar correspondent of 

Dhaka-based newspaper New Age, said he 

interviewed Anika Dhar on August 28 when 

she said to him that Myanmar soldiers had 

killed her husband and seven other relatives. 

“Some other journalists too heard the same 

story from Dhar in the last week of August. 

But, when I met her in Cox’s Bazar again 

around the middle of September, she said 

that she could not identify the killers of her 

husband and other relatives because they all 

wore masks,” he said. 

Dhar was among a group of eight Hindu 

women who were later returned to Myanmar 

in a secret military operation. All eight 

women told the Myanmar media in October 

that Rohingya militants killed their relatives 

and Hindu neighbors. 

“I was stunned when I found that Dhar 

had changed her story for the second time 

and blamed the Rohingya militants for the 

killings. The identity of the killers of the 

Hindus in Myanmar remains a mystery,” 

Islam said. 

Allegations 

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh said the 

Hindu survivors are telling lies. 

Monir Ahmed, a Rohingya neighbour of 

Dhar said that when the Myanmar soldiers 

and Rakhine militia members attacked 

the Rohingya and Hindus in his village of 

Fakirabazar on August 27, he managed to 

slip out. 

“Myanmar military, Border Guard Police 

and the Rakhine men killed 30 Rohingya 

Muslims and 40 Hindus in that attack. 

Of course the Hindus were not killed by 

Rohingya (militants). If the Rohingya 

militants killed them those Hindu survivors 

would have never fled to Bangladesh along 

with us,” he said. 

Rohingya refugee Maung Theing Hlaing 

said the Hindu refugees are telling lies 

and putting the blame on the Rohingya 

militants “simply to please the Myanmar 

government.” 

“If the Hindus do not blame the Rohingyas 

for the killings, they will not be able return 

to Myanmar. They know if they can please 

Myanmar government by branding the 

Rohingyas as the killers they can even 

occupy the Rohingya-owned lands in 

Rakhine and live there,” he said. 

Myanmar has denied allegations that its 

army has targeted civilians in Rakhine state. 


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Pakistani cleric jailed until 

hearing on model’s murder 

Pakistani court has ordered a Muslim 

cleric to be jailed until his next 

hearing over possible involvement in the 

2016 murder of a social media model. 

A court official says Judge Mohammad 

Pervez Khan ordered Mufti Abdul Qawi to 

jail until his next hearing Nov. 7. 

The order comes after police completed 

an investigation of the cleric’s possible 

involvement in the murder of model Qandeel 

Baloch. Police could reveal their findings at 

that hearing. 

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur 

Rahman’s 1971 speech receives 

UNESCO recognition 




he historic speech given be 

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman 

on March 7 1971 has been included in the 

Memory of the World International Register, 

a list of world’s important documentary 

heritage maintained by United Nations 

Educational, Scientific and Cultural 

Organization (UNESCO). 

“Ebarer sangram amader muktir sangram, 

ebarer sangram swadhinatar sangram 

[The struggle this time is a struggle for 

emancipation, the struggle this time is 

a struggle for independence]” were the 

famous lines of Sheikh Mukibur Rehman in 

the March 7 1971 speech. 

“Turn every house into a fortress, resist the 

enemy with everything you have ... Having 

mastered the lesson of sacrifice, we shall 

give more blood. God willing [Inshallah], 

Baloch was found strangled in her home in 

the city of Multan after posting racy pictures 

on Facebook of herself with the cleric. 

Baloch’s brother, Mohammed Wasim 

Azeem, has confessed to her murder and is 

facing trial in a Multan court. 

Nearly 1,000 Pakistani women are killed by 

close relatives each year in so-called “honor 

killings.” 



we shall free the people of this land,” 

Bangabandhu also said in his speech. 

The speech set the tone for the Bangladesh 

war of liberation. The decision to include 

the famous address among a list of the 

documentary heritage of the world was 

announced by UNESCO Director-General 

Irina Bokova at the UNESCO Headquarters 

in Paris, according to a statement issued by 

the Bangladesh ministry of foreign affairs. 

“The world will now get to know more 

about our Father of the 

Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh 

Mujibur Rahman and our 

glorious Liberation War,” said 

Foreign Minister Abul Hassan 

Mahmood Ali in a statement. 

“The 7th March speech of 

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur 

Rahman provided inspiration to 

the Bengali people in their quest 

for freedom and emancipation. 

The speech also energised the 

entire nation and prepared the 

people for the forthcoming 

Liberation struggle,” he said. 

“It also served as the ultimate source of 

inspiration for the countless freedom fighters 

who joined the Mukti Bahini. 

Bangabandhu’s speech is played throughout 

the country during the various national 

occasions and continues to reverberate in 

hearts and minds of the Bengali people. 

This speech continues to enthrall our people 

and will continue to inspire succeeding 

generations.” 



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Canada seeks to compensate indigenous taken from families 

olleen Cardinal often wondered why 

her parents turned bright red in the sun 

but she grew dark along with her sisters. The 

puzzle was solved when she was a young 

teen, and the woman she had thought of 

as her mother disclosed that she had been 

picked out of a catalog of native children 

available for adoption. 

Cardinal was one of thousands of indigenous 

children taken from their birth families from 

the 1960s to mid-1980s and sent to live with 

white families, who officials at the time 

insisted could give them better care. Many 

lost touch with their original culture and 

language. 

It echoes the history of residential schools 

in Canada. Some 150,000 First Nations, 

Inuit and Metis children were taken from 

their families over much of the last century 

and put in government schools, where they 

were forced to convert to Christianity and 

not allowed to speak their native languages. 

Many were beaten and verbally abused, and 

up to 6,000 are said to have died. 

The government has since apologized and 

offered compensation for the victims of 

residential schools, and now it’s paying 

compensation for what is known as the 

“Sixties Scoop” in which children were 

essentially scooped up from reservations 

and their native families. But many say the 

settlement is too little, too late. 

Cardinal says it won’t undo what was for 

her a traumatic experience. She was taken 

from her Plains Cree family in Alberta and 

sent to a home about 1,600 miles (2,600 

kilometers) away alongside a lake in rural 

Ontario, where she said her two older sisters 

were sexually abused. 

“We had to flee that home to escape from 

physical and sexual violence. My two older 

sisters were sexually molested,” Cardinal 

said. A few years earlier Cardinal had been 

shocked to find out she was native. “As a 

child you want to hear that you are loved 

and people wanted you,” Cardinal said. 

“What I heard instead was, ‘Well, we picked 

you out of a catalog of native children up for 

adoption.’” 

The only catalog Cardinal knew was 

the Sears catalog — not the lists from 

government or religious organizations that 

included pictures of children available for 

adoption. 

“I was thinking, ‘There was a catalog of 

native kids like me?’ That stayed in my mind 

forever — that I was picked out of a catalog 

of native children,” she said. 

The survivors of the “Sixties Scoop” began 

suing the Canadian government in 2010, 

claiming damages for the loss of their 

language, culture and identity. Ontario 

Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba 

ruled last February that Canada had breached 

its “duty of care” to the children and found 

the government liable. 

A tearful Indigenous Relations Minister 

Carolyn Bennett announced the settlement 

in early October. 

“This policy was based on race,” Bennett 

said in an interview later with The 

Associated Press. “It was unconscionable 

that government thought that would be 

better for the child. 

“We know now that it really isn’t. In terms 

of health, education or economic outcomes, 

it is a disaster to take kids away from their 

language, their culture, their community, 

their extended family.” 

The Sixties Scoop settlement for an 

estimated 20,000 people is aimed at 

resolving numerous related lawsuits. The 

survivors will share 750 million Canadian 

dollars ($586 million), with individual 

amounts to be determined later. Many 

said they expect that to be around 50,000 

Canadian dollars each. Cardinal said she 

Colombia leader thanks Canadians 

for supporting peace effort 

olombia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning 

president has thanked Canadians for 

their support of his country’s peace process. 

Juan Manuel Santos was awarded the 

peace prize last year for his efforts to end 

Colombia’s half century of civil conflict. 

He says Canada along with other nations 

were instrumental in maintaining the 

momentum behind peace talks. 

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said 

after meeting with Santos in his Parliament 

Hill office on 27th October that Canada will 

provide police training and advice to support 

post-conflict policing efforts in Colombia 

Trudeau also left the door open to a possible 

deployment of peacekeepers to Columbia, 

characterizing the policing effort as a 

separate initiative. 

The president added that he wanted to 

strengthen economic ties. 

The two nations signed a free trade 

agreement in 2008. 



might invest the money. 

“Fifty thousand is not very much money,” 

she said. “That’s like one year income for a 

middle class worker.” 

Cardinal, 44, is happy the government has 

set aside an additional 50 million dollars 

for a healing and reconciliation foundation. 

She is the co-founder and coordinator of 

the National Indigenous Survivors of Child 

Welfare Network, which brings together 

survivors to talk and heal. She now lives 

in Ottawa and is teaching her four children 

about their native culture. 

Many remain close to their adoptive 

families, but some, like Cardinal, say they 

were scarred by the experience. She believes 

she was taken from her birth parents to be 

assimilated. Most of her biological family 

has passed away and she wasn’t able to 

connect with them in the way she had 

wanted. 

But her organization has helped others 

reconnect. Brent Mitchell was taken from 

his mother in Manitoba when he was 1 and 

shipped off to New Zealand when he was 5. 

Records indicate there was alcohol abuse 

in his birth home. But he said he endured 

beatings and verbal taunts in the foster 

homes in New Zealand and sexual abuse 

outside it by a predator. He struggled to 

recover, attempting suicide at three different 

points in his life. 

“That was always on the cards,” Mitchell 

said. “They couldn’t give me a pill to take 

away all the pain and hurt.” 

Mitchell is 59 now and speaks with a New 

Zealand accent. He returned to Canada this 

year. “I met one of my brothers and one of 

my sisters for the first time,” he said. “It 

nearly floored me.” 

But the settlement does not cover Métis 

Canadians, people of mixed indigenous and 

non-indigenous heritage like Mitchell. 

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Duane Morrisseau-Beck, a Métis who was 

taken at birth and adopted by a Manitoba 

family, doesn’t understand why. The 

government has said it wants to reach a 

settlement with Métis, too, but Morrisseau- 

Beck said if the first deal is any indication, it 

won’t be good enough. 

“This fails miserably in terms of the 

compensation that should be awarded,” he 

said. 

Morrisseau-Beck struggled with the trauma 

of being taken from his birth family and 

became an alcoholic in high school and 

contracted HIV. He felt estranged from his 

adoptive family and assumed he would be by 

himself for the rest of his life and would die 

alone. But he reconnected with his culture 

and his birth family just over 20 years ago. 

His mother believes the adoption papers 

were forged or signed under false pretenses. 

“There was always this question of who 

were my parents. Who is my mom and my 

dad,” he said. “It left a very distinct mark 

on my life.” 

Cardinal spent most of her life trying to be 

white so that people would accept her, but 

she now has embraced her indigenous roots. 

“A lot of us were taken out of the country, 

taken out of the province, taken so far away 

from our family and isolated. And a lot of us 

still haven’t come home yet,” Cardinal said. 



Canada to accept 1 million 

more immigrants by 2020 

anada will accept 1 million more 

immigrants in the country by 2020. 

On November 1, Ahmed Hussen, Minister 

of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, 

announced the Government of Canada’s 

historic multi-year immigration levels plan 

that will responsibly grow the number of 

permanent residents Canada welcomes 

annually. 

Beginning with 310,000 new permanent 

residents in 2018, and growing to 330,000 

in 2019 and 340,000 in 2020, this plan sets 

out the most ambitious immigration levels 

in recent history. This measured, gradual 

increase will trend towards one percent of 

the population by 2020, spurring innovation 

and representing a major investment in 

Canada’s prosperity, now and into the future. 

“This historic multi-year immigration levels 

plan will benefit all Canadians because 

immigrants will contribute their talents to 

support our economic growth and innovation, 

helping to keep our country at the forefront 

of the global economy”, said Hussen. 

An official press release states” Supporting 

both Canadian businesses and labour 

market needs, the multi-year immigration 

plan will foster economic growth in the 

face of slowing labour force growth and an 

ageing population. With approximately 60 

percent of the increase, over the three year 

period, in the economic category, this plan 

helps distribute the benefits of immigration 

across Canada, responding to a unanimous 

call by provinces and territories earlier this 

fall. Increased levels will create the space 

needed to reduce backlogs and decrease 

processing times for families sponsoring 

spouses, children, parents, grandparents, 

and caregivers. 

The 2018-2020 multi-year immigration 

levels plan also fulfills our commitment to 

offer protection to those in need. Canada’s 

well-managed immigration system is unique 

in the world. It places great emphasis on 

providing assistance to recently arrived 

newcomers to weather their migration 

transition period, learn English or French, 

find meaningful employment, and establish 

themselves in their communities.” 


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Africa News 

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe says 

he favors resumption of 

executions 

imbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe 

has said that he is in favor of resuming 

executions after more than a decade in 

response to rising murder rates. 

The last execution in the southern African 

nation was in 2005. 

Although he said his cabinet is divided on 

the issue, Mugabe said he favors lifting the 

moratorium on executions. “Let’s restore 

the death penalty,” he said, speaking at the 

burial of a political ally. 

He did not say when it could happen but said 

that “if you hear people are being executed, 

know Mugabe’s thinking has prevailed.” 

Zimbabwe’s law allows for the death 

penalty for people convicted of murder “in 

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Burundian Refugees: It’s Not Safe to Go Home 

olitical unrest and violence prompted 

more than 400,000 people to flee 

Burundi and relocate to nearby countries, 

primarily Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania. 

Despite appeals from Burundi and other 

central African countries to leave their 

camps and repatriate, Burundian political 

refugees say they wouldn’t feel safe going 

back home. 

Refugees who spoke to VOA say they fear 

government persecution if they return to 

Burundi, where President Pierre Nkurunziza 

remains in power after defying both 

domestic and international opposition to 

pursue a third term in 2015. 

One such refugee is Jacqueline Nduwayezu, 

a former secondary school teacher who 

is now living with her six children in the 

Mahama refugee camp in eastern Rwanda. 

“We are here because there is no security 

in our country,” Nduwayezu told a VOA 

Central Africa reporter who recently visited 

the camp. “It was not out of fun that we 

walked for miles and abandoned our homes 

and land. It is because the threat was real. 

People were being killed and are still being 

killed and dumped in mass graves and 

rivers.” 

Eloge Rugemangabo, who heads the refugee 

community in Mahama, says he was beaten 

by the pro-government Imbonerakure milita 

because he was a member of the opposition 

MSD party. 

“I was tortured and discriminated against at 

work. I slept outside for three days for fear 

of being killed,” he said. He says conditions 

must be very different if refugees are to go 

aggravating circumstances.” Women and 

offenders younger than 17 and older than 70 

are exempt from executions. 

Over 90 prisoners are on death row, 

according to official figures. 

The hangman’s job has been vacant in 

Zimbabwe for over a decade, but justice 

ministry permanent secretary Virgina 

Mabhiza has said recent months have seen a 

“flood” of applications in the economically 

struggling nation. She said more than 50 

people had applied. 

Zimbabwe imposed eight death sentences 

last year, according to Amnesty International. 

The human rights group said 97 people were 

known to be facing death sentences in the 

country as of the end of 2016. 


back. 

“We left our parents, houses, brothers and 

sisters, and in order for us to return we must 

be assured of security and protection from 

violence, from being killed and so on,” he 

said. 

Burundi: refugees fled ‘rumors’ 


While visiting the Nakivale refugee camp 

in Uganda early this year, Burundi’s Home 

Affairs minister Pascal Barandagiye called 

on Burundian refugees to come back, adding 

that the country was ready to welcome its 

citizens. 

“We are convincing them to return home and 

come to build their nation. Many are just 

scared or fled rumors,” he said. President 

Nkurunziza made a similar pitch during a 

visit to Tanzania in July. 

“Today I want to tell Tanzanians and 

Burundians that Burundi is now peaceful and 

I am inviting all Burundi refugees to return 

home,” he said. Tanzanian President John 

Magufuli echoed Nkurunziza’s remarks 

saying, “I have been assured, the place 

UN Sounds Alarm on Humanitarian 

Crisis in Congo’s Kasai 

n official from the United Nations’ 

World Food Program has issued a 

warning about the situation in the southwest 

of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 

conflict has left 3.2 million people severely 

hungry. 

In the past year, about 1.4 million residents 

of Congo’s Kasai region have been displaced 

by violence that has killed more than 3,000 

people and destroyed entire villages, 

according to Claude Jibidar, who heads the 

WFP in Congo. 

Jibidar says the situation is comparable 

to well-known crisis zones like Syria and 

Yemen. Congo, the massive central African 

nation, now has the highest burden of 

displaced people in Africa. 

“The number of people displaced during that 

time period is more than Syria, than Yemen, 

than all the other emergencies that you 

know of,” he said. “That just tells you about 

how serious the situation is in the DRC.” 

The WFP is not the only humanitarian 

group calling attention to the Kasai region. 

Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders 

recently warned of widespread malnutrition 

among children, with rates of severe acute 

malnutrition as high as 10 percent in some 

areas. 

Horrific tales 

The violence began last year after the killing 

of a tribal leader who defied longtime 

President Joseph Kabila, whose term 

officially ended in December 2016. Critics 

is now calm.” But Amnesty International 

disagrees. The rights group released a 

report in September which said refugees 

who return home would be at risk of death, 

rape and torture from the security forces 

and the Imbonerakure, who it said continue 

to commit human rights violations against 

perceived opponents of the ruling CNDD- 

FDD coalition. One man told Amnesty, “If 

you are not CNDD-FDD, you are considered 

their enemy.” “Let’s be clear, Burundi 

has not yet returned to normality and the 

government’s attempts to deny the horrific 

abuses still taking place within the country 

should not be given credence,” Amnesty’s 

Burundi researcher, Rachel Nicholson, said 

in the report. 

The United Nations refugee agency 

(UNHCR) warns that political and human 

rights conditions in Burundi continue to 

prompt increasing numbers of refugees to 

flee to neighboring countries in search of 

asylum. 

The reasons for flight by most refugees have 

been the same, says Paul Kenya, head of the 

UNHCR office that oversees the Mahama 

camp. 

“Most of them are fleeing persecution 

because of their perceived political 

opinion,” he said. “Most of them did not 

accept the current president to go for a third 

term. Many of them flee because they were 

in demonstrations and others are following 

family members who already fled.” 

A senior official at the Nakivale camp, John 

Bosco Sentamu, also reports a continuing 

influx. “The number of refugees keep going 

up. We have a lot of walk-ins from Burundi,” 

have accused Kabila of being slow to hold 

fresh elections, in what they say is a bid to 

cling to power. 

The Kasai violence quickly spiraled into 

ethnic clashes, massacres and abuses at the 

hands of armed groups, including Congo’s 

army. Jibidar, who visited the area last 

week, says many residents who had fled into 

the bush to escape violence emerged with 

horrific tales to tell. 

“It is the use of machete; it is the systematical 

use of rape on women; it is really terrible, 

terrible things,” he said. “Kasai has been 

characterized by the beheading of a lot of 

people. 

You have heard about the mass graves; it 

has been a terrible situation. People who 

are coming out, they are just traumatized. 

Traumatized.” 

Without significant increases in funding 

from donor nations, he says, the agency will 

run out of food by mid-November. 

He says the bigger solution to Kasai’s woes 

is beyond the scope of his U.N. agency. 

Jibidar noted the DRC government has 

made progress in restoring peace, along with 

the U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo. 

“It is a question of sustained, long-term 

security and peace,” he said. “That is the 

first thing. Without peace and security 

maintained, now it is calm, it has to remain 

calm. People have to regain confidence and 

they all have to come out of the bush.” 


said Sentamu. 

Tough conditions 

Earlier this year, UNHCR and partner 

agencies launched an urgent $429 million 

appeal to meet the needs of Burundian 

refugees across the region. But of the 

requested amount, only 19 percent has been 

provided, making the Burundians’ situation 

one of the least funded refugee crises in the 

world. 

In camps like Nakivale, refugees live in 

overcrowded shelters and have to endure 

shortages of everything, from food to water 

to healthcare. 

Sentamu says Uganda is generally hospitable 

to the refugees and Nakivale residents are 

given land to grow food. But he adds, “of 

late we were hit by the drought and for three 

seasons the refugees have not cultivated.” 

Felicien Habumugisha, 52, has lived in 

Nakivale for nearly 10 years, after fleeing an 

earlier wave of unrest in Burundi. 

“Food is not sufficient, no education for our 

children, no sponsorship and no resettlement, 

especially for Burundians,” he said. 

But Habumugisha says he is not ready to 

go back to Burundi. The son of politically 

active parents who were killed in Burundi, 

he said he was arrested, released and then 

“hunted” the last time he lived there. 

“The politics of Burundi itself is not stable. 

We don’t feel that Burundi is safe today for 

us to go back,” he told VOA. 

Credit : Voice of America (VOA)


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Editorial 

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By Mark Parkinson 

@Mark_Parkinson 

markp.india@gmail.com 

markparkinson.wordpress.com 


Carol Dweck applies Growth Mindset to Issues 

of Growth Mindset 

m never quite sure if it’s exclusive to 

the education field, or more extreme, 

but there is a very bad habit of latching on 

to ‘the latest new thing,’ demanding that it 

represents a magical simple wand to change 

the profession. 

Then, when simplistic representations of 

the concept or idea don’t deliver instant, 

easy payoff there’s a backlash and attention 

switches to attempts to tear down any 

validity in the idea or concept. 

In recent years we’ve seen this happen with 

differentiation, at times with the emphasis 

on formative assessment, with the concepts 

related to Grit (Angela Duckworth) and very 

strongly in relation to Carol Dweck’s work 

on Growth Mindset. 

So it’s very refreshing to hear this interview 

with carol Dweck, conducted by Times 

Education Supplement; 

TES – Carol Dweck – On Growth Mindset 

Theory 

To my mind, the real value that comes out 

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hina deals with defense sector 

establishments in a very critical and 

planned way. The nation has a strategic 

discourse on what and where to invest. It 

provides its army with best of equipment 

and tries to make it the best in the world. 

The United States of America and other 

western powers like Britain, France etc. 

are also dealing with zeal in the process 

of establishing their defense as one of the 

best. This race of being the best is actually 

a strategic planning especially between US 

and China, to emerge as the superpower. 

Where on one hand, the US after Second 

World War led the world with its capitalistic 

policy of becoming more and more 

of the interview is that Dweck’s work has 

caused masses of teachers to focus on the 

issues of student motivation and its impact 

on learning outcomes to an extent far greater 

than ever before. 

I believe it’s also lead to a far greater level of 

attention to the fact that what has to matter 

more is learning rather than teaching and 

that teaching is nothing if not evaluated 

on the basis of its impact on learning and 

the fulfillment of potential on the part of 

learners. 

As educators, we work with the human 

mind. This is incredibly complex and will 

never lend itself to simplistic prescriptions. 

The nearest comparison is to look for a 

desire that simple formulaic approaches 

to leadership can create highly effective 

organisations. 

The human mind, human motivations and 

the dynamics of human interaction are 

incredibly complex. 

Therefore, it will always require maximum 

flexibility, conscious reflection and ability to 

calibrate responses. 

It is vital to be open and receptive to all 

evidence of what’s working and how and 

dominated, China, on the other hand, was 

a communist regime which was emerging 

with the same pace to be one of its kinds. 

In this continuous struggle, China and 

US, both have spent billions on defense 

establishments. China has been expanding 

at a very rapid speed in building its three 

sectors of defense i.e. land, sea, and air. 

One of the recent explorations in case of 

China’s intent to strengthen its defense 

was building up of a pier at its base in 

Djibouti. The main motive of China behind 

establishing a pier was to provide a base 

for the People’s Liberation Army Navy 

(PLAN) vessels. Opened in 2016, the base 

is the biggest pier for the PLAN vessels. It 

will mark a new tradition in PLA’s Navy 

establishment. It has also been mentioned 

or stated by the Chinese authorities that 

the base is made operationalize to provide 

support to PLAN’s operations in the Gulf of 

ready to continuously build a flexible tool 

kit that offers increasing levels of responses 

and refinements. 

For any of us whose work involves working 

with other human beings, we can never get 

good enough. 

We have to relish the process of continually 

learning more, refining our skills and adding 

more skills to our ‘toolkit’ in order to give 

us more refined choices for the decisions we 

take when dealing with others. 

I believe Carol Dweck’s work is just such a 

new tool that is thoroughly worth having in 

the toolkit. 


It’s not a panacea, a magic bullet and we 

need to rebuff those who seek to write 

it off because it didn’t deliver instant 

gratification. 

China to build naval dock at Djibouti base 


Aden and the Arabian Sea. In the working 

of its planned structure, the base will 

also help in peacekeeping operations and 

humanitarian missions which are going on 

in Africa. The estimated 50-year lease of the 

base would suffice it to be quite productive 

and target-oriented for the PLAN. 

Djibouti holds a strategic importance for 

the foreign bases. It is a West Virginia size 

nation with the population of less than a 

million. Plus the country’s political setup 

is so stable since 1977 that there has been 

no upheaval of the government since it got 

independence from France. The country 

also holds a geographically beneficial stand 

as it provides easy access to the nearby 

Suez Canal via Strait of Ban-el-Mandeb. It 

is believed that Djibouti and Yemen are the 

only two nations which border with the Red 

Sea and the Gulf of Aden. 

The primary reason why the Chinese are 

so interested in establishing its base in 

Djibouti is that they need a large-scale pier 

which could act as a support to the Chinese 

flotillas which are conducting anti-piracy 

operations in Somali waters. The prepared 

wharf is estimated to hold docking of a 

four-ship flotilla, which will include China’s 

new generation Type 901 supply ship which 

holds a displacement factor of around 40,000 

tonnes. There is special importance given to 

type 901. It is an 800-foot long fast combat 

support ship which had been launched in 

January 2016. The developments are huge 

and it seems that it is even a matter of worry 

for the US and other western powers. China 

doesn’t seem to be stopping at any cost in 

reaching far off with its strategic goals for 

the defence sector. 

On the similar pattern, US have been 

providing an agitated way out for its army 

and navy and air-force to keep a check on 

the Chinese invasions. These two countries 

are so immersed into the war factors that 

they keep war missiles pointed at each 

other’s cities from target points though they 

do not even share borders. 

The US in counter to China’s establishment 

of a pier in Djibouti has been sponsoring the 

debt-ridden Djibouti in order to establish ties 

with the Washington and prove beneficial in 

the long run. 

Overall, the scenario is quite competitive. 

The China’s work on the pier would 

not start until there is the construction 

of accommodation for Chinese military 

personnel. But the Chinese base was opened 

officially on 1 August but PLAN vessel has 

not been given the permission to use it. Even 

the Type 920 hospital ship, Daishandao, 

was docked at a berth in the old port when 

it visited Djibouti. The whole idea behind 

building up a port for Type 901 is that it can 

be used as an aircraft carrier and in future 

China can deploy fast jets in a region where 

it has no air bases. 

Not to be much of its concern but UN must 

interfere in such a strong accumulation 

of arms and ammunition. This activity by 

China though will strengthen the military 

base and will even provide leverage over 

attacking US cities in future if the war 

breaks out. But on the other hand, US are no 

less in implementing its terms and policies 

which will counter Chinese ideas. Thereby 

it is a situation where no would win but both 

have to invest extremely. 


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EU policy makers call for new strategic level “Structured dialogue” 

on defence with US 

s the terrorist attacks are increasing 

all over the world and seem to be no 

end anywhere, the European Union has 

asked the United States to help in countering 

terrorism. This initiative taken by EU is a 

futuristic step in the direction of curbing 

terrorism. Both the US and EU joint effort to 

curb the terrorism on a large scale will bring 

in peace to the world community. 

There is the need felt for a more strategic 

level talks which will encourage the practice 

of discussion and enhance decision-making 

capabilities which both the US and EU are in 

need of. The step taken by EU for strategic 

dialogue with the US will be a path-breaking 

task which will enhance the defense sector’s 

ability. 

The concept of Military Schengen which 

means increasing the defense capabilities 

is European Union’s plan to which it is 

having talks with the US. There will more 

counter-terrorism activities which will be 

a setback for the terrorist organizations 

especially working in Africa. Much more 

of what is expected from this dialogue and 

plan is that there will be seen: cross-border 

deployments of military personnel which is 

to be measured as a joint exercise of the US 

and EU. 

The European Union has been working from 

past many years on the task of ensuring 

safety and security of their citizens. This 

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has now even taken a turn where the US 

has joined the effort. The European External 

Action Service’s second in charge said 

that “they are boosting their dialogue with 

Washington which is to promote partnership 

in countering terrorism and promoting 

defense activities with the US and its allies”. 

It has been observed that though both the US 

and EU are having diplomatic and strategic 

level talks within their domains to keep a 

check on terrorism and promoting defense 

activities but, there still lags behind the most 

basic of all the planning and implementation 

of plans, which EU feels must be taken 

seriously. 

There are two faces of this cooperative 

setup. On the one hand, there is a need felt 

by the EU to reform the defense sector by 

imparting more advanced weapon system 

and advancing the army. The second is 

the G-5 joint military setup where the EU 

wants operational support from the US in 

its missions in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, 

Mauritania, and Niger. The efforts would 

be productive if, as mentioned above, both 

side become able to produce a strategic 

coursework which will help in the long run 

and also in the present scenario where the 

dependency of EU is more upon the US. 

The G-5 is so well designed and planned 

in a manner to get maximum best out of 

it. It is intended to 5,000- well trained and 

strong army personnel who will be deployed 

at headquarter near Mali’s northern town 

of Mopti, with its main aim to combat 

terrorism. It has been recorded that EU has 

spent nearly EUR50 million which is equal 

USD59 million for the transformation and 

advancement of the G-5. There has been even 

additional financing from many European 

countries which are independent such as 

France. The United States of America has 

played a great role in establishing G-5. It 

was in touch and provided qualitative input 

in all G-5 co-ordination meetings with the 

EU. The only motive of these meetings was 

to explore and decide outputs which could 

be taken out of the G-5 summit. Even Adam 

Shub, charge d’affaires at the US mission 

to EU noted that the US is ready to lend 

its support to EU in promoting the bilateral 

ties between the EU and US in defense and 

security consultations. 

The US Africa Command (AFRICOM) and 

the EUMS have been the close tie-up with 

each other in preventing the terrorist attacks 

in Somalia. As mentioned by Shub, they 

are ready with an advanced task force and 

in providing joint effort to fight for Boko 

Haram in West Africa. According to him, 

EU’s support to defense sector in providing 

with finance and military intelligence have 

helped the US to build a stronger and 

productive economic plan for the region. 

He even mentioned about the Military 

Schengen. According to him, it is acting as a 

target for US-EU to strengthen their ties with 

each other and provide military assistantship 

and promote the relationship. 

European Union has a budget of worth 

hundreds of millions to sponsor the roads, 

bridges, railways etc. for the sole purpose of 

letting the US military troops get a smooth 

and easy access to the EU. This will help in 

standardising the procedures to allow troops 

and US assets to move in easily and settle 

for the fight against terrorism in Europe. 

There is a strict need to check whether the 

ties between EU and the US should not 

come on the brink of political discourse. 

This will lead to destabilising the bond and 

will lead to an imperfect set of expectations 

burden on both sides and will eventually 

lead to a breakup. Secondly, the EU and 

the NATO relations are on a brink. The 

EU has been undermining the NATO and 

this has somewhat led to a clash of words 

between both. Whereas EU declines such a 

status and said that it has and will go to be 

complementary to what NATO has and does. 

But it should be kept in mind that, if NATO 

and EU do not cooperate, there is even 

no situation of both conducting Military 

Schengen. This is in favor of both US and 

EU to conduct Military Schengen, as EU- 

NATO relation should not affect EU-US 

ties. In dealing with this both EU and the US 

could jointly work on identifying the crucial 

points of leverages and where the crucial 

bottleneck is that block rapid military 

deployments across Europe. 

Thereby EU could diverge its funding 

towards the issue and US as the biggest 

and largest contributor towards the military 

exercises of EU can even promote the cause. 

In case of Africa, there seem to be more 

and more close relations being developed 

between EU and US. They both could work 

upon strengthening their ties by eventually 

lending each other the support for the 

military they need. 

Declaration of Catalan independence unsettles Spain 

n a dramatic move, Catalonia’s 

parliament voted on October 27 

to declare independence from Spain 

and proclaim a republic as a motion for 

independence was approved with 70 votes 

in favour, 10 against and two abstentions in 

a 135-seat chamber that anti-secession MPs 

had deserted in protest. 

After the vote thousands of independence 

supporters cheered near the Catalan parliament 

and clapped and shouted ‘independence’ 

in Catalan watching the parliamentary 

proceedings on two large screens, singing 

the regional hymn. 

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont called 

on followers to remain peaceful ahead of an 

expected Spanish crackdown. 

‘In the days ahead we must keep to our 

values of pacificism and dignity. It’s in our, 

in your hands to build the republic,’ he said. 

Referring to the referendum held on October 

1 he added, ‘Today the Parliament fulfilled 

the long-desired and fought-for step and 

culminated the mandate of the ballot boxes,’ 

as separatists erupted into the Catalan 

anthem ‘Els Segadors’(The Reapers) and 

chants of ‘Liberty!’ 

Madrid’s response was strong and quick. 

Spanish upper house Senate approved 

a resolution with 214 votes in favour 

and 47 against the Madrid government’s 

unprecedented plans to seize control of the 

autonomous region. Spanish Prime Minister 

Mariano Rajoy tweeted immediately, 

‘The rule of law will restore legality in 

Catalonia. ‘ Spain took drastic measures, 

invoked article 155 of the Spanish constitution, 

dissolved regional parliament bringing 

Catalonia under Madrid’s direct rule, dismantled 

Catalonia’s autonomy and took control of its 

finances, police and government media to 

‘stop the wealthy semi-autonomous region’s 

break away efforts in its tracks. 

Rajoy also called snap Catalan elections 

on December 21 to ‘restore normality’ to a 

region in turmoil. Catalan leaders - President 

Carles Puigdemont and the 12 members of 

the Catalan Cabinet were fired. 

The Catalan police director was also fired 

but promised compliance. Refusal to obey 

will attract charges of usurping with others’ 

functions. 

Spain’s top prosecutor is mulling rebellion 

charges, determining whether to limit to 

the Catalan cabinet, President Puigdemont 

and Vice President Oriol Junqueras only or 

extend to parliament’s governing board and 

lawmakers. 

The punishment could be up to 25 years 

in prison. The 7.5 million-strong Catalan 

region enjoyed considerable autonomy in 

education, healthcare and police and its 

curtailment since Franco’s repressive 1939- 

75 rule angered many. 

Independence supporters have declared to 

resist the temporary measure under Article 

155 of the constitution meant to rein in rebel 

regions.” 

We won’t cave in to Rajoy’s authoritarianism 

nor to 155,” tweeted the far-left CUP 

party, an ally of Puigdemont. More serious 

clashes between national police and proindependence 

activists are feared. The 

European allies and the United States have 


been unwavering in their support to Spain. 

The European Union is extremely wary of 

nationalistic and secessionist sentiment, 

particularly after Brexit. EU President 

Donald Tusk insisted Madrid “remains 

our only interlocutor” in Spain but urged 

restraint, tweeting: ‘I hope the Spanish 

government favours force of argument, not 

argument of force.’


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Think - Tanks 

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By Dr. Pramila Srivastava 

@PramilaBK 

ps.a@iins.org 

ften read behind the back of transporter 

vehicle: “one must be envious rather 

than to be jealous of others success.” How 

easy it would be to just have people around 

you who are happy with your success and 

want to be alike. It may sound difficult 

but it is the easiest method to stay happy 

and charming. On the day you start being 

satisfied and be a part of others happiness, 

is the day you will find a change nurturing 

around you to make you feel proud and 

enlightened. 

Whenever one thinks of other person, be 

it an acquaintance or friend or relative, the 

first image of that person is formed by his 

or her level of success. There is the time we 

make choices between what to be? Either to 

be part of person’s success thereby envy that 

person or just be jealous and crib around. 

Choice is the individual always and every 

moment. The later practice of being envious 

will only land the person in good state of 

mind without any pressure on one’s mind 

setup. 

The only way to one’s rate of peace comes 

from within the person. The moment the 

person is free and thinks for attaining peace; 

same is the time he commits to himself to 

be of freer mind and body. And for attaining 

a free mind and body, one has to go for 


NAM reaffirms that terrorism is a violation of International Law 

◆◆ 

By International Institute 

for Non - Aligned Studies 

@iinsNAM 

iins@iins.org 

on-Aligned Movement has always 

condemned any acts of terrorism in all 

its forms and manifestations. The 17th NAM 

Summit held in 2006 Venezuela condemned 

all forms of incitement to terrorism, under 

whatever guise of justification, resulting in 

the loss of life and the destruction of private 

and public property and emphasized the need 

to combat the violent extremist ideology 

inciting terrorism irrespective of its origin. 

NAM has categorically stated that acts 

of terrorism constitute a violation of 

international law. At the recent United Nations 

Security Council Ministerial open debate 

on “Measures to eliminate international 

terrorism”, held in October 2017 in New 

York, Iran’s Ambassador to the United 

Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo, speaking on 

behalf of NAM stated: “The Non-Aligned 

Movement reaffirms that terrorist acts 

constitute a flagrant violation of international 

law, including international humanitarian 

and human rights law, in particular, the 

right to life, leading to the lack of the full 

enjoyment of human rights and fundamental 

freedoms of peoples. 

Such acts endanger the territorial integrity 

and stability of States as well as national, 

regional and international security, destabilise 

legitimately constituted governments or the 

prevailing constitutional order and political 

unity of States, affect the stability of nations 

and the very basis of societies, create adverse 

consequences on the economic and social 

development and cause the destruction of 

Do you wish to be jealous or envious? 

transformation of not being a complainant. 

One should rather be of the nature of finding 

happiness in each and every moment and 

thing of life. 

According to psychologists, envy is a two 

person situation whereas jealousy is a three 

person situation. In being jealous we always 

fear the loss of something or someone. The 

opposite happens in being envious. In being 

envious, we often declare ourselves part of 

the person’s attribute he is sharing with us. 

We often feel happy in his happiness and 

adore him or her for what he or she is. 

More often we find people who are jealous 

to be of nature of defence against the 

opposite. In other way, we mean that, the 

jealous person is unsatisfied and repulsive of 

the physical and economic infrastructure 

of States”. NAM has reaffirmed its support 

for the provisions contained in General 

Assembly resolution 46/51 of 9 December 

1991 which unequivocally condemns, as 

criminal and unjustifiable, all 

acts, methods and practices of 

terrorism wherever and by 

whomever committed, including 

those which jeopardize the 

friendly relations among States 

and their security and calls 

upon all States to fulfil their 

obligations under international 

law to refrain from organizing, 

instigating, assisting or participating 

in terrorist acts in other 

States, or acquiescing in or 

encouraging activities within 

their territory directed towards 

the commission of such acts. 

At the UNSC Ministerial debate, Mr Khusroo 

also reiterated the position of NAM that 

terrorism cannot and should not be associated 

with any religion, nationality, civilization or 

ethnic group, and these attributions should 

not be used to justify terrorism or counterterrorism 

measures that include, inter alia, 

profiling of terror suspects and intrusion on 

individual privacy. 

NAM has further urged all States, consistent 

with the UN Charter, to fulfil their obligations 

under international law and international 

humanitarian law in combating terrorism, 

including by prosecuting or, where appropriate, 

extraditing the perpetrators of terrorist acts; 

by preventing the organisation, instigation 

or financing of terrorist acts against other 

States from within or outside their territories 

or by organisations based in their territories; 

emotions what he or she is displaying. But in 

case of being envious, be it of any intolerant 

level, one does not becomes repulsive. He 

stays calm and carries on with the emotion 

attached. 

If we really want to reflect on the status 

of human corresponding to jealousy or 

enviousness, we would like to check his 

state of mind. One 

must go through what 

other’s mind setup is 

speaking of. 

by refraining from organising, instigating, 

assisting, financing or participating in 

terrorist acts in the territories of other States; 

by refraining from encouraging activities 

within their territories directed towards 

the commission of such acts; by refraining 

from allowing the use of their territories as 

sanctuaries and safe havens or for planning, 

training or financing for such acts; or by 

refraining from supplying arms or other 

weapons that could be used for terrorist acts 

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It may be at times the 

dark side of human 

which is hiding and 

the person is just not 

reflecting it. But one 

possibility could be 

that, it may be active 

in his subconscious. 

It may not only be 

difficult for that human 

to pursue a healthy life 

Photo Credit : Shutterstock but also will lead him 

or her into a stranded path from where there 

is no return. The basic ideology should be to 

speak up the mind. One who is not jealous 

and feels satisfied will be in a good state of 

mind, whereas on the opposite site if you are 

jealous you cannot be calm and cannot be in 

good state of health. 

The situation of the person being jealous is 

like he or she is being disconnected from 

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the world and is being rejected. It is harmful 

and dangerous. But in case of being envious 

one feel dejected but that it is another factor 

or another side of the same coin. In case 

of envious we are more of likely to be in 

affection. 

Whereas in jealous we may not. In both 

cases one has the power of defence. One 

can protect self from getting affected. But 

it may not be an easy task but yes one can 

perform it in many ways. One of the specific 

methods is by aligning self to a productive 

and regulatory function. 

Lastly if we would really want a happy 

and peaceful life one must align self to a 

delightful version of life. Life must be full 

of treasure of happiness and not the burden 

of being jealous or envious. One must not 

indulge into practices where it may lead to 

pain and suffering. 

Being jealous is a suffering if not sin. 

Whenever we are jealous we killing our 

brain cells to work for others. But this may 

not be true for envious. Whenever we envy 

someone we prove to be delighted by his 

achievement but be cautious, it is the second 

version of your subconscious working to 

make your brain again think of others outlet. 

Thereby, one can easily point out the 

position of brain and regulate it to work in 

order of producing positive vibes out it. This 

will enhance the life and one could easily be 

living a life full of joys. 

Mr Khusroo, speaking on behalf of NAM 

also encouraged all States, which have not 

yet done so, to consider ratifying or acceding 

to the thirteen international instruments 

relating to combating terrorism. 

The Movement also called upon all States 

to observe and implement the provisions 

of all international instruments as well as 

regional and bilateral instruments relating to 

terrorism to which they are party. 

The Movement also reiterated its call for 

an International Summit Conference under 

the auspices of the UN to formulate a joint 

organised response of the international 

community to terrorism in all its forms and 

manifestations including identifying its root 

causes. 

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Technology & Health 


Protection from Mosquito: Separating Facts from Fancy 


◆◆By Smt. Maneka 

Sanjay Gandhi 

@ManekaGandhiBJP 

he most important animal in your 

life, no matter where you are, is the 

mosquito. Therefore, you should know the 

facts about it. Separating fact from fancy can 

help us better protect ourselves. 

All mosquitoes are the same: 

Fact - Mosquitoes of different species are as 

different from each other as a lion is from 

a housecat. They have different behaviour, 

very different preferences of what they want 

to eat and where they might live. Urban 

species don’t do well in the country and some 

species thrive only in one specific region. 

Which mosquitoes like your environment 

can have an effect on the types of diseases 

you’re exposed to. 

All Mosquitoes Carry Disease: 

Fact - There are over 3,000 mosquito species 

worldwide, but only a couple of hundred 

are important medically. Most species of 

mosquito don’t even bite humans -- some 

prefer other animals like amphibians, 

birds, horses and reptiles. Specific species 

carry specific diseases: For example, West 

Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis virus 

come from the genera Culex. Chikungunya, 

dengue and yellow fever are carried by 

Aedes mosquitoes. Zika is spread by Aedes 

agypti or Aedes albopictus mosquito, 

Malaria is transmitted by species of the 

Anopheles genus. 

Droughts mean less mosquitoes: 

Fact - While mosquitoes breed in water, 

droughts are some of the most diseasepromoting. 

The water may be less but 

it is dirtier and therefore appealing to 

mosquitoes. The lack of water sources 

◆◆ 

By Dr. Anveeta Agarwal 

@AnveetaAgarwal 

Toothache: It’s Not Always Cavities 

anveeta@dantah.com 

ome patients have impeccably clean 

mouths and a good oral hygiene with no 

visible sign of tooth decay, but they complain 

of an annoying toothache. These patients 

may visit several dentists and specialists 

and may undergo root canal therapy, 

dental extractions and other procedures 

without any relief. Such patients need to 

be examined carefully for diseases of other 

parts of the body and be treated accordingly. 

This kind of dental pain is usually referred, 

which means the problem lies elsewhere but 

due to the intricate network of nerves which 

connects the tooth to adjoining areas, pain 

travels from the main site of disease to the 

teeth and is called ‘referred dental pain’. 

The pain can be present at all times or can 

be intermittent. It is usually felt in the teeth 

or in the surrounding areas such as the gums 

and bone. Pain can also migrate from one 

tooth to another and even change sides of 

the mouth. The pain may be present for 

weeks to several years. Referred dental pain 

needs to be carefully diagnosed to prevent 

unnecessary dental extractions and dental 

interventions. Many a time, these warn 

the individual of an impending danger and 

means that mosquitoes and birds -- who 

carry many of the mosquito-borne illnesses 

that affect us -- are crowded together to 

share the resource. 

Both male and female mosquitoes bite 

humans 

Fact -Only the females bite as they require 

the protein in our blood to produce their 

eggs. Males feed on other sources, such as 

flower nectar. 

Mosquitoes prefer people with “sweet 

blood”: 

Fact - No. Mosquitoes are not attracted to 

people with more blood sugar. Researchers 

have found that mosquitoes have a love of 

carbon dioxide, lactic acid and certain strains 

of bacteria that some people have in higher 

concentrations. Some people have more 

carbon dioxide. Some sweat more. People 

who do heavy exercise make themselves 

more attractive to mosquitoes due to a potent 

combination of sweat, carbon dioxide, and 

lactic acid a compound found in sweat. This 

means that you’ll be more likely to get bitten 

if you sit outside after a run. Scent can also 

play a role. 

Mosquitoes prefer people with Blood Type 

O: 

Fact - No, the type makes no difference. 

Mosquitoes bite people because they require 

protein for breeding, not sugar. Some facets 

of a human’s genetics, such as skin bacteria, 

may have an effect, but blood type is not one 

of these factors. 

People who have fair skin get bitten more: 

Fact - The bites show up more on fair people, 

but all colours get the same number of bites. 

Mosquitoes bite people regardless of their 

size: 

Fact - Mosquitoes prefer larger people to 

should not be ignored. Some common causes 

of toothache, which stems from causes other 

than the tooth, are discussed below. 

• Temporomandibular jaw and 

surrounding muscles 

Aching muscles with localized tender areas 

can refer pain to other structures in consistent 

patterns. Jaw muscles usually refer pain to 

the teeth, and this can be perceived as dental 

or intraoral pain. The pain can increase with 

overuse of the muscles. The muscles that 

help in chewing food can be under strain due 

to overuse, temporomandibular jaw issues, 

clenching habit etc. These muscles become 

sore and tender and refer pain to the teeth. 

Treatment involves locating the cause of the 

muscle tenderness and unloading the strain 

on the musculature. 

• Neural pain 

The trigeminal nerve is one of the most 

important nerves that provide sensation to 

the face and teeth. In a condition known 

as trigeminal neuralgia, episodes of short 

and extremely severe pain occur in the face 

simply after brushing the teeth, eating or 

touching the cheek. This pain can sometimes 

be felt in a tooth, mimicking a toothache. 

Proper diagnosis requires a neurological 

evaluation and brain imaging. Education, 

smaller ones. Adults will be bitten more than 

children, and men more than women. This is 

probably because larger people emit higher 

quantities of carbon dioxide and body heat, 

and provide more surface area for feasting. 

Pregnant women get bitten more: 

Fact - True. Pregnant women give off more 

heat and carbon dioxide. 

Garlic, Vitamin B supplements or bananas 

will ward off mosquitoes: 

Fact - There is no scientific or anecdotal data 

to suggest that they have any effect. 

Alcohol drinkers attract more mosquitoes: 

Fact - A study in Burkina Faso has found 

that beer consumption increases the human’s 

attractiveness to mosquitoes. 

You are safe if you spend your time indoors, 

especially with airconditioning: 

Fact - Avoiding the outdoors at certain times 

a day, especially early evenings, is one of the 

ways suggested to avoid exposure to bites. 

Staying inside with doors and windows shut, 

will lower your risk. But mosquitoes can be a 

problem inside. Some, especially the Aedes 

aegypti mosquito, live in nooks and crannies 

in homes and gardens. Some mosquitoes 

breed in boiler rooms and potted-plant 

containers. So in high risk areas, even if the 

airconditioning is on, the best thing to do is 

sleep under nets. 

Swamps are dangerous to live near and 

wetlands should be drained to get rid of 

mosquitoes: 

Fact - While mosquitoes like warm and 

marshy swamps and wetlands, removing 

these will not have any effect on mosquito 

populations or mosquito borne diseases. 

Many mosquitoes are much more 

comfortable in human habitats. Aedes 

aegypti live with humans as it is easier to 

anticonvulsant medications and sometimes 

microsurgery are used to treat this condition. 

• Referral headache pain 

Migraines and cluster headaches result 

from changes in the nerves and blood 

vessels of the head. In some cases, through 

referral patterns of the trigeminal nerve, 

these headaches can also be felt in the 

teeth, causing toothaches. The pain can be 

spontaneous, severe and throbbing in nature. 

Treatment involves establishing the cause of 

the headache and medications. 

• Heart Attack and Angina 

Heart problems such as angina pectoris or 

acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), 

refer pain to the shoulder, arm and even 

to the jaw. Sometimes it is associated with 

chest pain but occasionally it is not. Intense 

tooth or jaw pain can signal a heart attack 

when associated with other features like 

shoulder pain, breathlessness, nausea and 

sweating. Medical help should be sought 

immediately if pain of this nature occurs. 

• Sinusitis 

Problems in the maxillary sinuses can refer 

pain to the upper teeth. The pain is usually 

felt in several upper teeth as dull, aching 

or throbbing. Sometimes it is associated 

find blood. Females lay their eggs in artificial 

containers with a bit of standing water - 

flower pots, vases, tires, buckets, planters, 

toys, birdbaths, empty garbage cans, lids. 

That is why it is vital to check your house, 

garden and neighbourhood for these kinds 

of containers. Empty them, turn them over, 

dry them out. Empty and refresh water in 

birdbaths and fountains at least once a week 

to keep mosquitoes from maturing. 

Cold and dry climates keep mosquitoes 

away: 


Fact - Not true anymore. Research shows 

that mosquito populations increase with 

higher spring soil moisture levels—heavy 

snowfall, snowmelt and spring rain all 

provide sufficient standing water to allow 

the breeding of mosquitoes, even in typically 

“dry” areas. 

Bats should be brought in to eat mosquitoes: 

Fact - While bats are extremely useful 

insect eaters, mosquitoes are far too small to 

interest them. They eat them but not in such 

large quantities, as the energy they need to 

catch them outweighs the food benefit. 

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with pressure below the eyes and it can 

increase with lowering the head, putting 

pressure over the sinuses, coughing or 

sneezing. Tests performed on your teeth, 

such as cold, chewing and percussion, can 

increase the pain from sinus origin. A history 

of an upper respiratory infection, nasal 

congestion or sinus problem should lead to 

suspicion of a “sinus toothache.” Treatment 

with antihistaminics, decongestants and 

antibiotics will help alleviate the pain. 

In patients with persistent toothache that 

is fleeting and mysterious in nature, a 

comprehensive evaluation and assessment 

should be done by a dental surgeon to help 

identify the problem. Other diagnostic tests, 

such as MRI or CT scans, may be advised 

depending on the symptoms and clinical 

findings. These investigations further assess 

the problem and help to rule out other 

conditions. Consults from other physicians 

like ENT surgeons, neurologists may also 

be advised. Undiagnosed toothache/jaw 

ache should never be ignored and dismissed. 

They might be a warning sign of underlying 

problems and need to be diagnosed and 

treated on time. 

By Dr. Anveeta Agarwal, BDS, MDS, 

Consultant Oral Pathologist, Associate 

Dental Surgeon & a Specialist at 

Dantah


Entertainment & Lifestyle 

Beyonce to play Nala in 

Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ 


Hoffman apologizes 

for alleged harassment 

incident in 1985 

B 

eyonce Knowles-Carter is joining the 

cast of “The Lion King” to voice to 

role of Nala. 

The Walt Disney Studios revealed the main 

cast for its upcoming live-action and CG 

adaptation of its 1994 animated classic and 

confirmed the months old rumor that the pop 

superstar would be lending her voice to the 

project. 

Some had been previously announced for 

the film including Donald Glover as Simba 

and James Earl Jones as Mufasa. 

Forbes: Michael 

Jackson top earning 

dead celebrity with 

M 

$75M 

ichael Jackson died eight years ago, but 

he’s still generating millions of dollars. 

Jackson is atop the Forbes list of top-earning 

dead celebrities for the fifth straight year, 

with $75 million. Forbes says Jackson’s 

earnings are boosted by a new greatest hits 

album, a Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil show 

and a stake in the EMI music publishing 

catalog. 

Two other singers join Jackson in the top 

five. Elvis Presley comes in fourth with $35 

million and Bob Marley ranks fifth with $23 

million. 

Golf legend Arnold Palmer is the secondhighest 

earner. He brought in $40 million in 

part through sales of Arizona lemonade and 

ice tea beverage made in his name. 

Palmer is followed by Charles Schulz. The 

creator of the “Peanuts” franchise made $38 

million. 



Other cast include Chiwetel Ejiofor as 

Scar, Alfre Woodard as Sarabi, Seth Rogen 

as Pumbaa, Billy Eichner as Timon and 

Keegan-Michael Key as a hyena. 

Jon Favreau, who brought Disney’s CG and 

live-action adaptation of “The Jungle Book” 

to life, is set to direct. 

The film is slated for a July 19, 2019 

theatrical release. 


MGM returns to film 

distribution with Annapurna 

partnership 

T 


he storied movie studio MGM is 

getting back into distribution, teaming 

with Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures in 

a joint venture that could have ramifications 

for the next James Bond film. 

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Annapurna on 

announced a partnership to distribute films 

in the United States. The move signals 

growing ambitions for MGM, which was 

once one of Hollywood’s premier brands. 

After financial struggles, the Beverly Hills, 

California-based studio, founded in 1924, 

emerged from bankruptcy protection in 

2000 and has since released its films through 

larger studios. 

“The time has come for MGM to regain 

control of its own destiny and return to U.S. 

theatrical distribution,” Gary Barber, MGM 

chief executive and chairman, said in a 

statement. 

MGM remains the home of James Bond, 

but neither MGM nor Annapurna said if the 

next Bond movie, planned for 2019, is a part 

of their new deal. MGM’s pact with Sony 

Pictures on the franchise expired in 2015. 

Worldwide distribution rights for the 25th 

Bond film, MGM said, would be announced 

“at a later date.” 

MGM and Annapurna said they will together 

release about 15 films a year, including six 

to eight by MGM. Each company retains 

creative control over their individual 

D 

ustin Hoffman is apologizing for the 

alleged sexual harassment of a 17-yearold 

intern in 1985, saying “it is not reflective 

of who I am.” 

Writer Anna Graham Hunter alleges that the 

now 80-year-old actor groped her on the set 

of TV movie “Death of a Salesman” and 

“talked about sex to me and in front of me.” 

She was left in tears, she wrote in a column 

in The Hollywood Reporter. 

projects. Annapurna, which has recently 

begun marketing and distributing its own 

titles, will handle campaigns for all MGM 

titles. 

“We are thrilled to expand our relationship 

with Gary and the entire MGM team,” said 

Ellison. “MGM’s distinguished legacy and 

library of films has made them a pillar in the 

industry and I couldn’t be more proud and 

confident in our team’s ability to collaborate 

on the distribution of their upcoming slate.” 

The first movie MGM will release under the 

agreement will be Eli Roth’s “Death Wish,” 

a remake of the 1974 revenge thriller, in 

March. Also on the docket are a musical 

of 1983′s “Valley Girl,” the Rocky saga 

sequel “Creed 2,” and a female-led remake 

of 1988′s “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” titled 

“Nasty Women.” 

Since its founding in 2012, Annapurna has 

become an Academy Awards regular thanks 

to films like “American Hustle,” ″Zero Dark 

Thirty” and “Her.” 

Its recent forays into distribution, however, 

have been less successful. None of its three 

releases this year — Kathryn Bigelow’s 

“Detroit,” Angela Robinson’s “Professor 

Marston & the Wonder Woman” and Mike 

White’s “Brad’s Status” — have performed 

well at the box office. 


The Oscar-winner replied in a statement: 

“I have the utmost respect for women and 

feel terrible that anything I might have done 

could have put her in an uncomfortable 

situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of 

who I am.” 

Hoffman is the latest Hollywood name 

linked to a deluge of sexual harassment and 

assault allegations. 


Jennifer Lopez and 

Alex Rodriguez 

discuss relationship 

J 

ennifer Lopez says a fire alarm went 

off during her first date with Alex 

Rodriguez, literally. 

Lopez says she met the former baseball star 

for a dinner at a Bel Air, California, hotel 

that was cut short when a fire alarm rang and 

the couple had to evacuate the building. 

The couple has discussed their relationship 

in an interview with Vanity Fair. 

Rodriguez tells the magazine that he and 

Lopez are “very much twins” as Latinos 

from New York. 

For her part, Lopez says: “I understand him 

in a way that I don’t think anyone else could, 

and he understands me in a way that no one 

else could ever.” 

The couple appears on the cover of the 

magazine’s December issue. 




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Sports 

India successfully organises FIFA U- 17 World Cup 

T 





he successful hosting of the FIFA 

Under 17 World Cup in India has not 

only provided a further boost to the game 

of football in the country but has also 

shown that the nation is perfectly capable 

of hosting major world football events. The 

17th edition of the FIFA U-17 World Cup 

held in India was also the most attended in 

the tournament’s history. 

According to figures, 1347143 was the 

total attendance witnessed in the six venues 

across the country, eclipsing the earlier 

attendance record of 1230976 set in the first 

ever edition of the U-17 World Cup held in 

1985 in China. Such crowds in stadium were 

previously unprecedented for sports other 

than cricket in India. 

What was even more impressive to witness 

was the sheer number of school going 

children and youngsters filling up the 

stands in the stadium, not only in matches 

involving the host nation India, but also in 

neutral matches. 

The successful organisation of the FIFA 

U-17 by India has been hailed unanimously. 

FIFA President Gianni Infantino praised 

India for staging a successful tournament 

calling it “ a resounding success”. 

Infantino remarked: “The U-17 World Cup 

has been a resounding success with some 

records that have already been broken. India 

is not only a country but a continent in itself. 

But I have now found out that India is also 

not only a football country but is a football 

continent”. Javier Seppi, Director of the 

FIFA U-17 World Cup India 2017 lauded 

India for improvement on each match-day 

T 

regarding every single aspect of operations 

and appreciated the historic crowds, a 

potential record for a youth tournament, 

despite the fact that this was the first ever 

FIFA tournament hosted by India. 

In a similar vein, Branimir Ujevic, FIFA 

Head of Coaching and Player Development 

hailed the enthusiasm shown by the Indian 

spectators and called the 17th edition of 

FIFA U-17 World Cup as a great event. 

“The football atmosphere has been really 

fantastic. On your way to the stadium you 

could be forgiven for thinking that you’re 

going to Old Trafford or the Bernabeu or a 

place like that,” said Ujevic. 

Dutch legend Marco Van Basten, who now 

serves as the Chief Officer for technical 

development, FIFA said that the U-17 World 

Cup held in India will give a new horizon to 

football in India. Asian Football Confederation 

(AFC) President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim 

Al Khalifa has hailed India for the successful 

organisation of the event and stressed that 

successful tournament has proven not only 

India’s but Asia’s capabilities in hosting 

major world football events. 

FIFA’s head of tournaments Jaime Yarza 

congratulated the local organising committee 

of the FIFA U-17 World Cup for successfully 

conducting the country’s first FIFA event 

smoothly and termed it a “fantastic tournament 

in every sense”. 

Apart from the massive enthusiasm shown 

by the crowds in the stadiums and impressive 

television viewership ratings, the 17th U-17 

FIFA World Cup was also a success in terms 

of sponsorship. One of the positive effects of 

India hosting the event was the development 

of sporting infrastructure. 

For example, 26 training fields equipped 

with the latest facilities have been set up. 

Moreover a significant number of trained 

work-force has been created, the expertise 

of which can be utilised for hosting not only 

FIFA events but also for other major global 

sporting mega events. 

The successful organisation of the FIFA 

U-17 World Cup has thus shown that 

India is capable of hosting the biggest of 

global sporting tournaments, providing the 

requisite infrastructure and organisation, 

and guaranteed spectator attendance. 

As the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi 

tweeted: “FIFAU17WC was a celebration 

of football, witnessing wonderful games. 

India was honoured & delighted to host the 

tournament”. 


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icketkeeper Tim Paine will lead an 

inexperienced Cricket Australia XI 

against England in warmup matches in 

Adelaide and Townsville ahead of the Ashes 

series. 

The 32-year-old Paine, who played four tests 

for Australia in 2010, and paceman Gurinder 

Sandhu, who has played two limited-overs 

internationals, are the only players in the 12- 

man squad with international experience. 

“These guys now have a really exciting 

opportunity in front of them to showcase 

their skills against a world-class England 

side,” Troy Cooley, Australia’s National 

Performance Program coach, said. 

The Cricket Australia XI will play England 

in a pink ball day-night match in Adelaide 

from Nov. 8-11 and then another tour match 

in Townsville, in north Queensland state, 

from Nov. 14-17. 

The test series starts at the Gabba in Brisbane 

on Nov. 23. England arrived in Australia last 

weekend and will open the tour with a twoday 

game against a Western Australian XI 

this weekend. 

England holds the Ashes after a 3-2 series 

win at home in 2015, but was swept 5-0 on 

its last tour to Australia in 2013-14. 

Cricket Australia XI squad: Jake Carder, 

Jackson Coleman, Michael Cormack, 

Daniel Fallins, Ryan Gibson, Nick Larkin, 

Simon Milenko, Tim Paine, Will Pucovski, 

Gurinder Sandhu, Jason Sangha, Matthew 

Short. 


Joshua stops Takam in 10th round, retains heavyweight titles 

hey came to see another explosive 

knockout from Anthony Joshua, the 

flattening of a 36-year-old journeyman 

opponent called up at 12 days’ notice to fight 

heavyweight boxing’s new superstar. 

So when the referee moved in midway 

through the 10th round to stop Joshua 

administering more punishment to the 

game but beaten-up Carlos Takam, the 

78,000-strong crowd made their feelings 

known. 

Jeers rained down from all sides of the 

Principality Stadium after Joshua’s 20th 

straight professional victory was sealed. 

He’d got through an uncomfortable fight 

with a busted nose and his WBA and IBF 

belts intact, but his army of fans wanted 

more. 

“I think people wanted to see Takam 

unconscious on the floor,” Joshua said. 

“My shorts and boots were white at the 

start and now they are pure pink,” he added. 

“It’s the ref’s job to allow the fighter to live 

another day.” 

Fighting for the first time since beating 

Wladimir Klitschko in April, Joshua was 

unexpectedly taken beyond seven rounds 

for only the second time of his pro career 

as Takam — a veteran of 40 fights — lived 

up to his reputation as a tough, durable 

opponent. 

The Frenchman, an injury replacement 

for Kubrat Pulev and giving up nearly 30 

pounds (13 kilograms) to Joshua, took an 

eight count in the fourth round after toppling 

from a left hook and fought on with a cut 

above his right eye that twice required 

treatment. 

He absorbed some big shots and also had a 

cut over his left eye by the time Joshua caught 

him with a hook-uppercut combination in 

the 10th. 

Joshua was moving in to land more blows 

when the referee stopped the fight. Takam 

shook his head in disgust and many in the 

crowd booed the decision. 

“I don’t know why the referee stopped 

the match,” said Takam, whose name was 

cheered after the fight. 

Joshua was fighting at the heaviest weight 

of his professional career — 254.8 pounds 

(115.6 kilograms) — and predicted a grueling 

slog against an experienced opponent that 

gets in close and works the body. It got even 

trickier for Joshua when the fighters clashed 

heads in the second round, leaving the Briton 

with blood streaming from his nose. 

Joshua looked frustrated at times, and even 

showboated in the seventh round by walking 

into Takam’s range with 

his arms out and head 

down, then shaking his 

head as Takam threw a 

punch. 

He was constantly talking 

to Takam, attempting to 

draw him in. 

“I had to keep my cool,” 

Joshua said. 

The win set up Joshua for 

a unification fight in 2018 


with either WBO champion Joseph Parker 

or WBC champion Deontay Wilder, though 

initially he may need to face a mandatory 

challenger for the WBA belt. 

Especially in Britain, Joshua has become 

a phenomenon, easily packing out big 

stadiums — there were 90,000 fans at 

Wembley against Klitschko, and almost as 

many at Cardiff— but fighting in the United 

States, or maybe Africa or the Middle East, 

does interest him. 

“I’ll fight anyone,” Joshua said. 


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