Girl raped

Aizawl, Feb 13 NNN: A police personnel had raped a physically challenged girl in Mizoram, according to a delayed report received today. The report said that a police constable posted at Lunglei Police Station identified as K.Lalrova (42), resident of Aizawl raped a physically challenged girl on the night of February 9 near Saikutihall in […]

Aizawl, Feb 13 NNN: A police personnel had raped a physically challenged girl in Mizoram, according to a delayed report received today.
The report said that a police constable posted at Lunglei Police Station identified as K.Lalrova (42), resident of Aizawl raped a physically challenged girl on the night of February 9 near Saikutihall in Lunglei, southern capital city of Mizoram. The police however, did not disclose the details of the victim. On learning about the incident, the accused K.Lalrova had been suspended and sent to Lunglei district jail, according to Lunglei Superintendent of Police (SP), Lallianmawia.
Meanwhile, as per the data available, from 2008 to October 2011, the Mizoram police have registered 639 cases of which 303 are rape cases.
In another incident, Kapmawia, a resident of Thingsul Tlangnuam, 16 kms from Aizawl on Sunday (February 12) stabbed his wife Vanlalthuami (42) to death. The accused had also tried to kill himself by stabbing himself with knife, but was stopped by the police.
Fumed with the incident, angry locality beat the accused black and blue because of which the latter was admitted to the hospital but succumbed to his injury.

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No provision for army, paramilitary personnel to join IPS cadre : Narayanswamy

By N. Ibungochoubi Puducherry, Feb 13 : Putting every speculation to an end regarding the much talked about lateral entry into Indian Police Service (IPS) from para-military and Indian Army, the Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) V Narayanasamy categorically stated that there is no provision for such a thing although many personnel […]

By N. Ibungochoubi
Puducherry, Feb 13 : Putting every speculation to an end regarding the much talked about lateral entry into Indian Police Service (IPS) from para-military and Indian Army, the Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) V Narayanasamy categorically stated that there is no provision for such a thing although many personnel from different services are taken on deputation for various national agencies.
The minister of state of PMO’s Office was replying to a specific question asked by this writer during the Editors’ Conference on Social Sector Issues organised by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) and held at Poducherry last week.
Earlier, there was an alternative policy floated and discussed at different levels to counter the armed political upheaval in Central India by the Maoists. The deployment of the Indian Army being ruled out to manage a vast area spread over 87 districts in five states, an idea was believed to have been mooted to take young officers from different para-military, specially the Indian Army as IPS officers, which also received critical observations from many corners including IPS Officers Association.
The PMO is believed to have even imagined and worked out a modality for a lateral entry policy setting certain criteria. With minimum five years of service and those below the age of thirty-five years and successfully undergone commando courses were among some of the criteria, which were doing the round.
V Narayanasamy also reiterated the highlights of major initiatives taken up by the UPA government. He said, the ministry of personnel, public grievances and pensions brought landmark legislations to check corruption in the last two and half years. Besides the RTI, the Grievances Redressal and Whistleblowers’ Bill would confer right on every citizen to time bound delivery of goods and provision for services and redressal of grievances.
He categorically stated that the performances of bureaucrats will be seriously reviewed at different intervals.

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Proxy voting found galore

Imphal, Feb 13: Proxy voting in the valley districts of Manipur was much higher than that of hill districts in the recent crucial polls to the 10th State assembly on the final photograph comparison session today which has signaled another round of re-poll in various booths of two valley districts. The Election Commission of India […]

Imphal, Feb 13: Proxy voting in the valley districts of Manipur was much higher than that of hill districts in the recent crucial polls to the 10th State assembly on the final photograph comparison session today which has signaled another round of re-poll in various booths of two valley districts.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) will decide whether to hold re-poll in the polling booths where rigged-poll had been detected with the scanning of electors’ photos after the three observers, who have been discharged with the duty of photographs comparison, submit their finding and detection, Joint Chief Election Officer, Praveen told reporters here.
The inquiry process was sealed after taking signatures of the concerned Returning Officers (ROs) and the same will be submitted to the ECI tomorrow, Praveen said while informing that the details of the final photo comparison process was not with the State election office.
The ECI, for the first time in the country, has initiated the step of taking photograph of every voter on the polling day so as to avoid illegal voting, especially impersonation.
Wabagai constituency of Thoubal district turned out with the highest rate of proxy polling while comparing with two other constituencies of Imphal East district Keirao constituency and Andro constituency as shown by the telecast of the photo comparison process conducted at the office of the State election office here.
As many as 177 polling stations under 13 constituencies in six districts of the State engaged in electorate photograph comparison between that affixed on the electoral rolls and the photographs taken on the polling day January 28.
The process was conducted yesterday for Tamei constituency of Tamenglong district, Saikot constituency of Churachandpur district and Tengnoupal constituency of Chandel district and today, Keirao constituency and Andro constituency of Imphal East district, and Wabagai constituency of Thoubal district were under the final scanning. Wabagai constituency was found freely yielded to over 50 per cent proxy voting.
A large-scale rigged-polling had been committed in total violation of the election code of conduct issued by ECI, Chungkhosei Haokip, who contested the polls from Saikot constituency seat on BJP ticket told reporters while witnessing the conduct of photo comparison.
The photograph scanning process would bring a better result, Tourism Minister TN Haokip asserted. Besides Haokip, sitting MLAs T. Manga Vaiphei, Awangbou Newmai, Allauddin also came to witness the process.
Meanwhile, the three special observers of the ECI taking the task of voters’ photographs comparison work left Imphal for Delhi this afternoon, official sources said.

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Making a ‘Sporting’ India

Anurag Jain Sport is an inherent aspect of social and cultural life of a country. Sport is also an integral component of education and human personality development. To make sporting culture as a way of life of people, there is a need for adequate sports infrastructure facilities. Around 770 million population in our country are […]

Anurag Jain
Sport is an inherent aspect of social and cultural life of a country. Sport is also an integral component of education and human personality development. To make sporting culture as a way of life of people, there is a need for adequate sports infrastructure facilities.
Around 770 million population in our country are children, adolescents and youth. Hardly, 50 million of them have access to organized sports facilities that too concentrated in urban areas. Around 75% population, living largely in rural areas, are deprived of rudimentary sports facilities. Severe inadequacy of sports infrastructure and community coaching facilities are the constraints for promotion and development of sports in the country.
As an endeavour to address the issue, Government of India introduced a nation-wide rural sports programme called ‘Panchayat Yuva Krida Aur Khel Abhiyaan’. PYKKA was conceived by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in 2008-09 by creating a network of basic infrastructure and equipment throughout the rural India for promoting excellent sports culture among both boys and girls. The underlying motive behind PYKKA is to universalise the Sports culture across India so that it not only becomes a part of formal curriculum, but also a dominant part of our lifestyle.
Presently, PYKKA covers 20 Sporting disciplines, namely Athletics, Gymnastics, Swimming, Badminton, Table Tennis, Archery, Wushu, Taekwando, Weightlifting, Cycling, Boxing, Judo, Wrestling, Kabaddi, Kho-kho, Hockey, Football, Volleyball, Basketball and Handball. These are the key Sports that have the potential because of their popularity. This potential needs to be tapped so that people start to see sport as something worthy.
PYKKA is being implemented on a Mission Mode with clearly spelt out Mission statement, objectives, implementing agency at Panchayat level, campaign and financing pattern. With this clear demarcation of goals PYKKA has been able to identify the right way to improve the Sports infrastructure across India. PYKKA has on its part been aiming to provide a “level playing field” to all. Since talent knows no bounds, no one should be deprived of participation- and excellence- merely because of lack of resources.
PYKKA has three major components: Infrastructure Component, Competition Component and Capacity-building Component.
Infrastructure component aims at providing basic Sports infrastructure in rural areas so that rural populace, which forms the bulk of our population, does not remain deprived of exposure to sports despite having plentiful talent. Infrastructure component has three elements:
One Time Capital grant, Annual Acquisition Grant and Annual Operational Grant. Under One Time Capital grant, Village Panchayats having a minimum population of 4600 receive Rs. One lac while block level PYKKA centres receive Rs. 5 lacs on 75: 25 percent basis between Central Government and State Government. Special attention is envisaged to give priority to the border areas where rural youths are misguided and weaned away by anti-social and anti-national elements.
Annual Acquisition Grant is provided to each PYKKA centre at Panchayat/Block level for a period of five years to acquire sports equipments, accessories, first aid and other medicinal facilities, and the like. The amount of grant is limited to Rs. 10 thousand and Rs. 20 thousand for Panchayats and Blocks respectively. On completion of five years it will be the responsibility of Sate/UT to provide for heads under this grant.
Annual Operational Grant is also for a period of five years for the purpose of honorarium to Coaches/Staff. The amounts earmarked for Panchayat and Block level are Rs. 12000 and Rs. 24000 respectively.
The second component, i.e. Competition component is concerned with organising PYKKA competitions across country at block, district, state, and national level. Competitions are important in their own right: they motivate others for success besides unleashing individual brilliance. PYKKA has rightly identified the lacunae in exposure to sports at grass-root level thereby organising the three different types of competitions regularly: Rural Competitions, Women’s Championships and Games/ Sports for North-eastern states.
There is the provision of Annual Competition Grant in PYKKA under which grants are released for organising competitions and distributing prizes to the winners.
Moreover competitions are organised based on spatial trends: that is, the sports which are more popular locally out of 20 sports under PYKKA are given priorities. In this way at Block and District levels, events comprising of 5 sports are organised while at the State/UT level 10 sports are included in the competition. At the national level, all 20 sports are included in the competition.
The third component under PYKKA is capacity building. With a view to update knowledge of the Sports administrators, coaches, instructors, et al, who are engaged in the field of sports at the State/ UT level for development of Sports, a two-week programme is being regularly organised under PYKKA to meet the training needs of ‘Master Trainers’ at PYKKA Resource Centre (PRC) set up for this purpose at Laxmibai National University of Physical Education, Gwalior, Madhya Pardesh. These ‘Master Trainers’, in turn, train the ‘Kridashrees’- the trainers who work at the grass-root level. This circulation of skills is important in a vast country like ours where it might not be feasible to hold centralised programmes for everyone.
Only in its fourth year, PYKKA has several achievements to its credit. PYKKA has already extended its reach to all 28 states and 5 UT’s (rest 2 UT’s, i.e. Delhi and Chandigarh, have no Panchayats). As many as 20,000 playing-fields have been constructed under PYKKA at rural level. PYKKA competitions have noted huge levels of participation which run into several thousands. The North- Eastern states’ competitions have started to restore the feelings of integration amongst the people from those regions. The Women’s Competitions are acting as vehicles of self-confidence for women who deserve at least as much spotlight and focus as their male counterparts. Thus, in a way, PYKKA has caused a “paradigm shift” across different strata of society.
Moreover, PYKKA’s ability to integrate with other Government schemes has been immense. For instance, the constructive work under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) may, and has begun to, involve the construction and maintenance of playing fields under PYKKA scheme. Also PYKKA volunteers can, in future, draw people’s attention towards several serious issues such as illiteracy and malnutrition. Thus PYKKA has the potential to become a wave that informs every aspect of society. Maybe, in due course, the Scheme will have instigated a Sporting Revolution of sorts across India, thereby replacing the popular, though specious, notion that “Sport ruins”, by a unanimous conception that “Sport provides a way to well-being.” (PIB Feature).

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Lone govt school in Sandang Shenba Maring village lies in ruins

The Sandang Shenba Maring UJB School located in Sandang Shenba Maring Village under Senapati district has lost the looks of a school and is lying in ruins with no authority to look into the normal day to day functioning of the school Source Hueiyen …

The Sandang Shenba Maring UJB School located in Sandang Shenba Maring Village under Senapati district has lost the looks of a school and is lying in ruins with no authority to look into the normal day to day functioning of the school Source Hueiyen News Service Maisnam Karnajit

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Boy dies in mishap

A 15 year old boy has been killed at Lilong along Imphal Moreh highway in a collision between a Santro car and a Tata Sumo jeep last night Source The Sangai Express

A 15 year old boy has been killed at Lilong along Imphal Moreh highway in a collision between a Santro car and a Tata Sumo jeep last night Source The Sangai Express

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NPF charges Special Observers with siding with Congress

Naga People’s Front NPF has charged the Special Observers deputed by the ECI, with siding with Congress party, asserting that they have entertained complaints from Congress party only and discarded the complaints made from the side of NPF for re poll…

Naga People’s Front NPF has charged the Special Observers deputed by the ECI, with siding with Congress party, asserting that they have entertained complaints from Congress party only and discarded the complaints made from the side of NPF for re poll Source Hueiyen News Service

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CDSU refutes, clarifies

The Churachandpur District Students Union CDSU today refuted that its former president and current Adviser K Doukhum is an overground worker of the KYKL, as reported in some sections of the media Source The Sangai Express S Singlianmang Guite

The Churachandpur District Students Union CDSU today refuted that its former president and current Adviser K Doukhum is an overground worker of the KYKL, as reported in some sections of the media Source The Sangai Express S Singlianmang Guite

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Mother Teresa of Meghalaya expired

‘Mother Teresa of Meghalaya’ Sister Dr Amalia Pereda Ortiz de Zarate, better known as Dr Amelia, of the Missionaries of Christ Jesus, a Catholic Church religious order, who once run Nazareth Hospital, expired on Monday morning, February 13, 2012, he…

‘Mother Teresa of Meghalaya’ Sister Dr Amalia Pereda Ortiz de Zarate, better known as Dr Amelia, of the Missionaries of Christ Jesus, a Catholic Church religious order, who once run Nazareth Hospital, expired on Monday morning, February 13, 2012, here in Shillong Source Hueiyen News Service Newmai News Network

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Physically challenged girl raped in Mizoram

A police personnel had raped a physically challenged girl in Mizoram, according to a delayed report receivd today Source The Sangai Express Newmai News Network

A police personnel had raped a physically challenged girl in Mizoram, according to a delayed report receivd today Source The Sangai Express Newmai News Network

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VDF men beat up Traffic Police officer

Irate mob attacked VDF Post at Narankonjil after an Assistant Sub Inspector ASI of Traffic Police was brutality beaten up by a team of Village Defence Force VDF personnel Source The Sangai Express

Irate mob attacked VDF Post at Narankonjil after an Assistant Sub Inspector ASI of Traffic Police was brutality beaten up by a team of Village Defence Force VDF personnel Source The Sangai Express

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MPSC clarifies

With regard to the news item published under the heading Salaried dentist sits for BDS Exam as published on February 13 issue, Manipur Public Service Commission Registrar Lamkholen Singsit has clarified that the goof up resulted from the ambiguous st…

With regard to the news item published under the heading Salaried dentist sits for BDS Exam as published on February 13 issue, Manipur Public Service Commission Registrar Lamkholen Singsit has clarified that the goof up resulted from the ambiguous statements given by the particular candidate dentist Source The Sangai Express

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‘KRA U joined KRA in Nov’

The Kuki Revolutionary Army Unification KRA U said the outfit joined the Kuki Revolutionary Army KRA in November last year, clarifying a letter dated December 1, 2011 was submitted to the chairman of the Joint Monitoring Group JMG in this regard …

The Kuki Revolutionary Army Unification KRA U said the outfit joined the Kuki Revolutionary Army KRA in November last year, clarifying a letter dated December 1, 2011 was submitted to the chairman of the Joint Monitoring Group JMG in this regard Source The Sangai Express Newmai News Network

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Physically challenged girl raped

A police personnel allegedly raped a physically challenged girl in Mizoram, according to a delayed report received today Source Hueiyen News Service Newmai News Network

A police personnel allegedly raped a physically challenged girl in Mizoram, according to a delayed report received today Source Hueiyen News Service Newmai News Network

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Molested girl left to die Gorkha community decry

Gorkha community of the State today strongly protested the brutality meted out to a young girl who had gone out to herd a flock of sheep to Takramai of Senapati district on February 9 last Source The Sangai Express

Gorkha community of the State today strongly protested the brutality meted out to a young girl who had gone out to herd a flock of sheep to Takramai of Senapati district on February 9 last Source The Sangai Express

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Observers left with photo verification report Complaints for repoll in 177 polling stations received

The three Special Observers, who were deputed by Election Commission of India for verification and comparison of the photographs of the electorates taken during the time of casting their votes with those in the Electoral Rolls as well as to look into t…

The three Special Observers, who were deputed by Election Commission of India for verification and comparison of the photographs of the electorates taken during the time of casting their votes with those in the Electoral Rolls as well as to look into the complaints for re poll from various political parties and candidates, left today along with a report which will be submitting to the ECI Source Hueiyen News Service

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NPF accuses ECI of partisanshipToys with idea of moving Court against ECI

Accusing the Election Commission of India of not entertaining its complaints on malpractices undulged in by the Congress in some polling stations in the hill districts of Manipur, the Naga People’s Front NPF has threatened to move the competent Court…

Accusing the Election Commission of India of not entertaining its complaints on malpractices undulged in by the Congress in some polling stations in the hill districts of Manipur, the Naga People’s Front NPF has threatened to move the competent Court if counting in such booths takes place Source The Sangai Express

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Trial of ‘Only Pedestrian’ zones starts Spill over results in traffic chaos on other major roads of Imphal

With a view to check congestion inside Imphal city, vehicles were barred from entering Thangal Bazar as well as Paona Bazar with effect from today Source The Sangai Express

With a view to check congestion inside Imphal city, vehicles were barred from entering Thangal Bazar as well as Paona Bazar with effect from today Source The Sangai Express

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In the face of damning evidences Candidates concede to proxy voting

Even as the task of comparing voters’ photographs taken on polling day with their EPIC photographs continued today under the supervision of ECI observers, some candidates have conceded to proxy voting Source The Sangai Express

Even as the task of comparing voters’ photographs taken on polling day with their EPIC photographs continued today under the supervision of ECI observers, some candidates have conceded to proxy voting Source The Sangai Express

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