ZYF condoles death

IMPHAL, Mar 3: The Zeliangrong Youth Front (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland) has expressed shock and… more »

IMPHAL, Mar 3: The Zeliangrong Youth Front (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland) has expressed shock and heartfelt condolence at the sudden and untimely demised of Poujeng Kamei, former president of the Zeliangrong Youth Front (ZYF), who expired on February 29 at RIMS Hospital Imphal.

A statement of the body has stated that (late) Poujeng Kamei was an understanding, friendly and an active social worker who had served as a President for Zeliangrong Youth Front (Assam, Manipur & Nagaland) for two consecutive terms during 2003 to 2010.

His invaluable and selfless service rendered towards the ZYF in particular and Zeliangrong community in general during his short span of life will remained a vacuum which will be hard to fill in the days to come. The ZYF shared the pain, grief and sorrow with the bereaved family members on this moment of torment and pray for his departed soul to rest in peace, the statement added.

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Central Library

IMPHAL, Mar 3: In an effort to re-institute the State Central Library, Imphal which was… more »

IMPHAL, Mar 3: In an effort to re-institute the State Central Library, Imphal which was burn down on April 13, 2005, a function will be organize to present certificate of honour with a momento to the book donors as an act of gratitude for their honest contribution on March 18, 2012 at the Library’s Mini hall at 1 p.m.

The organizing committee has requested the book donors to summit their name and Bio-data before March 16, 2012.

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U-16 State Level Boy`s Football

IMPHAL, Mar 3: KYVO defeated YSC by 3-2, while YOSC draw BMSC, 0-0, in today’s… more »

IMPHAL, Mar 3: KYVO defeated YSC by 3-2, while YOSC draw BMSC, 0-0, in today’s match of the Th. Birachandra Football Academy, U-16 state level boy’s football tournament at BFA ground, Taobungkhok.

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U-14 state level hockey

IMPHAL, Mar 3: SYUC took the third place defeating YCPA by 9-1, while Hockey Union… more »

IMPHAL, Mar 3: SYUC took the third place defeating YCPA by 9-1, while Hockey Union will be playing against YCCIC for the final match on March 4 in the 21st U-14 boy’s and girl’s state level hockey tournament at hockey stadium, Khuman Lampak.

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A 21st Century Strategic Policy for India

by B.G. Verghese Every nation needs a strategic policy – not just a vision. India… more »

by B.G. Verghese
Every nation needs a strategic policy – not just a vision. India lacks one, though it seeks permanent membership of the Security Council. The Nehruvian consensus has long disappeared. There is nothing in the public domain with Parliament having long ceased to debate and formulate national strategy.

It is therefore a welcome initiative on the part of a group of leading thinkers to have put their heads together to produce “Nonalignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty-first Century”. The 63 page document, authored by Sunil Khilnani, Rajiv Kumar, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Lt.Gen, (Retd) Prakash Menon, Nandan Nilekani, Srinath Raghavan, Shyam Saran and Siddharth Varrdarajan, was unveiled in Delhi last week and discussed by Brijesh Mishra and M.K. Narayanan, earlier National Security Advisers, and the current incumbent, Shiv Shankar Menon.  

Any attempt to identify the basic principles of an all-encompassing foreign and security policy can only broadly indicate priorities and guidelines. Not all may agree with the analysis and recommendations, but the document does challenge one to define differences and suggest alternative hypotheses. Hopefully, it will provoke national debate and consensus-building.

The basic theme is that opportunity beckons India to lift itself out of poverty and play its role as an emerging great power not merely by virtue of its growing economic and military muscle but by the power of its democratic and civilizational example, as a balancer between the United States and China in concert with other major players and regional hubs. There is a timely warning against losing the present window of opportunity or of falling into a “middle-income trap” for lack of will, vision and leadership. Choices made now will shape the long-term future. We have much to gain from a globalising world order provided we build the strategic autonomy to shape it. Like a chess grandmaster, we must think many steps ahead and watch all the pieces and spaces as relationships keep constantly changing.   

The Document states that we will require a grand strategy with military power that shifts from a continental to a maritime orientation. This will bestow greater freedom of action to dominate the Indian Ocean than is possible along our contested land borders with China and Pakistan. Even so, we will need to develop instruments and options that enable us to raise the cost of cross-border interventions by both these neighbours. This will require restructuring our higher defence management under a CDS and a Maritime Commission, a leap in technology and defence production, a high rate of economic growth, better governance, administrative reform, and development of a vibrant knowledge society. It will also call for new approaches to deal with discontents in J&K and the Northeast, Left Wing Extremism, ethnic unrest and resentments as a result of exclusion and disparities. Enhanced State capability and state legitimacy must both be assured.

Doing this requires partners, not allies, especially in South Asia, which remains our soft underbelly. The so-called “Gujral doctrine” of not seeking immediate reciprocity from smaller neighbours must be our guide. The US too can be a potent partner on more than a regional basis.

The Document nevertheless raises many questions. Why the reference to Non-Alignment? This seems an unfortunate throwback and goes beyond having an independent foreign policy that looks at issues case by case, free from inflexible alliance-related responses.  

Next, how does one base policies on geo-political and geo-strategic considerations when India’s school curriculum teaches a very warped Aryavarta-Delhi based “continental” history to the almost complete exclusion of our maritime, littoral and peninsular history and that of our outer marches? Further, geography is all but forgotten after Class 10, maps are taboo and archives remain closed.

The country has not paid heed to Dr Ambedkar’s wise caution that “liberty” and even economic progress might be defeated for lack of Fraternity and Equality. These social contradictions remain entrenched. The Naxal movement basically stems from the repudiation of the social contract promised Tribal India through the Fifth Schedule. Far from being addressed, it is simply not understood.  

The Northeast has many problems. But the administrative apparatus designed to tackle them through a weak North East Council driven from the back seat by Delhi through the Department for Development of the North East Region (DoNER), is misplaced. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act is largely unnecessary but is today applicable in only a small part of Manipur. It is not the prime source of alienation in the Northeast or J&K, despite a certain symbolic significance. Development and opportunity remain the key.

Local and sub-regional nationalism and identity issues can be best resolved through decentralised governance through a further empowered panchayati raj. Non-conventional security issues are by and large well addressed in the Document. Energy security requires less structural dependence on oil, de-nationalisation of coal and intensified efforts to promote clean and renewable energy. The current impasse over fast progressing the Koodankulam and Jaitapur nuclear plants is illustrative of a malaise. Ideological opposition and exaggerated safety fears regarding Fukushima-like dangers even after such issues have been addressed is holding back progress. Tamil Nadu today faces power cuts when Koodankulam-I and II were poised to deliver 2000 MW of energy by now.

Rash interventions such as the Supreme Court’s peremptorily re-ordering the Union Government to implement inter-basin water transfers from “surplus” to “deficit” basins over space and time (unhappily labelled Inter-Linking of Rivers) suggest judicial overreach, especially as we are dealing with trans-boundary rivers. Our co-riparian neighbours need to be immediately assured that nothing is being done or will be done without proper and timely consultation with them. Secondly, fragmented jurisdictions over water, energy and transport must be subject to appropriate mechanisms of overall coordination. Old fashioned Ministries need to be completely overhauled in terms of mandate and personnel if they are to deliver.     

Meanwhile, all new infrastructure projects and innovation is being delayed or negated by nostalgia and neo-Ludditism in the name of the rights of some but at compounded cost to all the people as a result of freezing employment, income generation and the multiplier effect. There is a very high opportunity cost of delay at a time when the country needs to add 10-12 million jobs net per annum to keep pace with the fast growing labour force, apart from coping with current unemployment and under-employment. Around 30 million distress migrants are on the move annually. Agriculture can no longer sustain the numbers crowding farms; yet programmes and investments designed to divert them to productive non-farm rural occupations in local manufacture or services are also challenged. This is creating an explosive situation and constitutes India’s greatest internal security threat.

Finally, reference is made in the Document to “strategic communications”. But India has no communication policy and inadequate instrumentalities for delivering information for empowerment, participation, dialogue and informed decision-making. Disinformation triumphs in the absence of prompt and accurate information. Having truly autonomous public service broadcasting and independent newspapers is imperative when public opinion, national and international, have become hyper-powers. Satyameve Jayate.
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Heavy security deployed to ensure peaceful conduct of re-poll – KanglaOnline

Heavy security deployed to ensure peaceful conduct of re-pollKanglaOnlineIMPHAL, March 3 (Newmai News Network): Manipur will go to another re-poll tomorrow in 67 polling stations spread over nine constituencies of five hill districts of Manipur and for…

Heavy security deployed to ensure peaceful conduct of re-poll
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IMPHAL, March 3 (Newmai News Network): Manipur will go to another re-poll tomorrow in 67 polling stations spread over nine constituencies of five hill districts of Manipur and for this, 5400 security personnel from Central paramilitary force and

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Re-poll in 67 stations in Manipur today – Assam Tribune

Re-poll in 67 stations in Manipur todayAssam TribuneIMPHAL, March 3 – Exactly a month after the February 4 repoll at 34 polling stations, Manipur goes to re-poll at 67 polling stations under 9 Assembly seats across five hills districts – Chandel, C…

Re-poll in 67 stations in Manipur today
Assam Tribune
IMPHAL, March 3 – Exactly a month after the February 4 repoll at 34 polling stations, Manipur goes to re-poll at 67 polling stations under 9 Assembly seats across five hills districts – Chandel, Churachandpur, Senapati, Tamenglong and Ukhrul tomorrow.

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UP, Goa break voter turnout records – Zee News

Zee NewsUP, Goa break voter turnout recordsZee NewsCounting of votes in the elections in the five states which also included Manipur will be taken up on March 6 as political parties wait with bated breath to know the fall out of rise in voter turnout i…


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UP, Goa break voter turnout records
Zee News
Counting of votes in the elections in the five states which also included Manipur will be taken up on March 6 as political parties wait with bated breath to know the fall out of rise in voter turnout in the polls billed as a mini general election.
More than 62% voting in final phase of UP elections, record 82% in GoaNetIndian
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‘Cong to fare badly in UP, win in U’khand, Manipur’ – Rediff

Rediff'Cong to fare badly in UP, win in U'khand, Manipur'RediffA post-poll survey conducted by CNN-IBN, The Week and CSDS in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur has revealed some interesting results. The Samajwadi Party will win …


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'Cong to fare badly in UP, win in U'khand, Manipur'
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A post-poll survey conducted by CNN-IBN, The Week and CSDS in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur has revealed some interesting results. The Samajwadi Party will win 34 per cent of the total vote share of the UP polls, according to the

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Exit polls predict SP win in UP, BJP ahead of Congress – Times of India

IBNLive.comExit polls predict SP win in UP, BJP ahead of CongressTimes of India… on television channels today projected Samajwadi Party emerging as the single largest party in Uttar Pradesh assembly poll with one of them giving it a clear majority wh…


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Exit polls predict SP win in UP, BJP ahead of Congress
Times of India
on television channels today projected Samajwadi Party emerging as the single largest party in Uttar Pradesh assembly poll with one of them giving it a clear majority while Congress is set to have a clear edge in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Manipur.
Polls predict Mayawati exit in UP,SP is clear leader of the packIndian Express
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Manipur’s first SEZ looks to woo IT biggies – E-Pao.net

Manipur's first SEZ looks to woo IT biggiesE-Pao.netThe trouble-torn state of Manipur is all to get its first Special Economic Zone. The state has earmarked 27 acres of land and has engaged Accenture to prepare a detailed project report. ?part fr…

Manipur's first SEZ looks to woo IT biggies
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The trouble-torn state of Manipur is all to get its first Special Economic Zone. The state has earmarked 27 acres of land and has engaged Accenture to prepare a detailed project report. ?part from IT enabled services the SEZ will be completely

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Close fight in Punjab; Uttarakhand, Manipur to Congress: Exit polls – Times of India

Close fight in Punjab; Uttarakhand, Manipur to Congress: Exit pollsTimes of IndiaManipur also looks set to return the Congress to power yet again. In Uttarakhand, The Congress is projected to win 31-41 seats. The ruling BJP, on the other hand, may end …

Close fight in Punjab; Uttarakhand, Manipur to Congress: Exit polls
Times of India
Manipur also looks set to return the Congress to power yet again. In Uttarakhand, The Congress is projected to win 31-41 seats. The ruling BJP, on the other hand, may end up with 22-32 seats as opposed to 34 in 2007. In Manipur, according to the survey

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Tight finish in Punjab; U’khand, Manipur to Cong – IBNLive.com

IBNLive.comTight finish in Punjab; U'khand, Manipur to CongIBNLive.comThe ruling BJP seems to be on its way out in Uttarakhand with the Congress improving its performance, the survey suggests, while Manipur also looks set to return the Congress to …


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Tight finish in Punjab; U'khand, Manipur to Cong
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The ruling BJP seems to be on its way out in Uttarakhand with the Congress improving its performance, the survey suggests, while Manipur also looks set to return the Congress to power yet again. It is dead heat in Punjab between the incumbent SAD-BJP
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Tight finish in Punjab; U’khand, Manipur to Cong – Moneycontrol.com

Moneycontrol.comTight finish in Punjab; U'khand, Manipur to CongMoneycontrol.comThe ruling BJP seems to be on its way out in Uttarakhand with the Congress improving its performance, the survey suggests, while Manipur also looks set to return the Co…


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Tight finish in Punjab; U'khand, Manipur to Cong
Moneycontrol.com
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Manipur: Congress set for hat-trick – Firstpost

Zee NewsManipur: Congress set for hat-trickFirstpostThe Indian National Congress seems set to return to power in Manipur, despite erosion in the vote share. The party will emerge as the largest party in the state, winning between 24 and 32 seats. The I…


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Manipur: Congress set for hat-trick
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The Indian National Congress seems set to return to power in Manipur, despite erosion in the vote share. The party will emerge as the largest party in the state, winning between 24 and 32 seats. The INC's vote share comes down to 30 percent from 34
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Militants kidnap two supporters of Manipur poll candidate – IBNLive.com

Militants kidnap two supporters of Manipur poll candidateIBNLive.comPTI | 03:03 PM,Mar 03,2012 Imphal, Mar 3 (PTI) Suspected militants kidnapped two supporters of a poll candidate in Manipur's Chandel district bordering with Myanmar, official repor…

Militants kidnap two supporters of Manipur poll candidate
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PTI | 03:03 PM,Mar 03,2012 Imphal, Mar 3 (PTI) Suspected militants kidnapped two supporters of a poll candidate in Manipur's Chandel district bordering with Myanmar, official reports from the district said today. Reports said the militants abducted the

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