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Fighting Naxals

Union and state government are not able to chalk out a strategy to solve the Naxal movement which has spread out fast. It has hit hard recently indicated that it means real business. For the last decade or so there has been a campaign within the government to solve it but no concrete steps were [...] Continue reading


AR SS School toppers felicitated

Mail News Service Imphal, June 18 : 40 Assam Rifles of HQ 9 Sector Assam Rifles under HQ IGAR (S) organised a felicitation function at the Assam Rifles Senior Secondary School (ARSS School), Keithelmanbi to felicitate its meritorious students who cleared the Class X and XII CBSE Board examinations with flying colours on 18 Jun2013. [...] Continue reading


Bandh against extortion affects life in Nagaland

DIMAPUR, June 18 NNN: The otherwise noisy and chaotic commercial hub of Nagaland looked deserted today with all the roaring business establishments came to sa grinding halt following the dawn to dusk bandh imposed by Action Committee Against Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) under the aegis of Naga Council, Dimapur. The bandh began at 6 am and [...] Continue reading


Tributes offered to June 18 martyrs

Mail News Service NNN Imphal, June 18 : The 12th Great June Uprising and Unity Day jointly organized by AMUCO and UCM was observed today at Kekrupat Imphal. From the early morning many people came at Kekrupat and offered floral tributes to the 18 martyres who sacrificed their lives for the preservation of boundary of [...] Continue reading


UNC to continue stir

IMPHAL, June 18 NNN: United Naga Council (UNC) has vowed to intensify it stir with a series of agitations soon against Manipur Government . However, the UNC did not spell out the nature of its agitation nor the time to resume. The UNC sponsored 48-hour bandh in ‘Naga areas’ of Manipur will end tonight (June [...] Continue reading


Air Force launches rescue operations

Mail News Service New Delhi, June 18 : On 16 Jun heavy rains wreaked havoc in the hill states of Uttarakhandand HimachalPradesh leaving thousands stranded including pilgrims in transit in various valleys. IAF assistance was sought for rescue operations. HQ Western Air Command(WAC) promptly responded to the requests from various states for providing flood relief. [...] Continue reading


Militants nabbed

Imphal East District Police today said an overground cadre of the banned People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak-Vice Chairman (PREPAK-VC) group was arrested by a combined team of commandos, 27 Assam Rifles and 40 Assam Rifles in the wee hours of yesterday. Thokchom Khaba 40, son of late Th Leibakmacha, belonging to the VC group of [...] Continue reading


Demand for CBI inquiry over cancellation of medical entrance test

Mail News Service Imphal, June 17 : The All India Tribal Students’ Association, (AITSA) Delhi, a branch of the Mongoloid Peoples Forum, Delhi, termed sale of Application form for PMT exam for the session 2013-2014 as “Exposition of Greed and brazenness of the year” by the Directorate of Health Services, Government of Manipur. The “National [...] Continue reading


UNC bandh affects life

IMPHAL, June 17 NNN: Except for Imphal-Churachandpur inter district route, all the vehicular movements plying between the state capital Imphal and the district headquarters have halted on the first day of the 48-hours United Naga Council (UNC) Naga area bandh today. Educational institutions, shops and other business related activities halted today in the district headquarters [...] Continue reading


Demand for CBI inquiry over cancellation of medical entrance test

Mail News Service Imphal, June 17 : The All India Tribal Students’ Association, (AITSA) Delhi, a branch of the Mongoloid Peoples Forum, Delhi, termed sale of Application form for PMT exam for the session 2013-2014 as “Exposition of Greed and brazenness of the year” by the Directorate of Health Services, Government of Manipur. The “National [...] Continue reading


Assembly discusses police, land issues

Mail News Service Imphal, June 17 : Manipur Assembly today discussed and passed demands for grants for police amounting to Rs 941 cr, for vigilance department an amount of Rs 2.61 cr, for fire protection an amount of Rs 9.11 cr, for Jails Rs 15.29 cr for Home guards Rs 10.68 cr and for rehabilitation [...] Continue reading


Bandh called to protest extortion at Dimapur

DIMAPUR, June 17 NNN : Unable to bear any longer on the rampant imposition of ‘taxations’ on the business community and also on the general public, the denizens of Dimapur, the commercial hub of Nagaland are all set to enforce bandh on June 18 from 6 am to 6 pm. The bandh has been called [...] Continue reading


Regulator for the Housing Sector

Ashok Handoo The Cabinet recently approved the real estate regulation and development bill which provides for putting in place a regulator for the housing sector in the country with a view to bringing transparency to the sector. The regulator will oversee the functioning of the sector which unfortunately has been most opaque in its dealings. [...] Continue reading


UPA will get a third term, says Manmohan Singh

New Delhi, June 17 (ANI): Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, on Monday said the Congress-led UPA Government will get a third term. “I have always believed that we will have a third go as U P A and the people will again repose their faith in us,” Dr. Singh said on Twitter. The Prime Minister’s [...] Continue reading


Table tennis coaching camp concludes

Mail News Service Imphal, June 16 : The CM of Manipur Shri O. Ibobi said, to bag medals in Olympics, foreign coaches will be invited to teach in some discipline. The CM was speaking as chief guest at the concluding function of a 21 day residential table tennis coaching camp held at national sports academy’s [...] Continue reading


COPTAM against land survey

IMPHAL, June 16 NNN : The Committee on Protection of Tribal Areas Manipur(COPTAM) is very much concerned about the reported actions of Revenue department officials for conducting a ‘Revenue Survey’ in some hill areas/districts laying adjacent to valley districts. According to COPTAM, the said Revenue survey is conducted in the sly without the knowledge and [...] Continue reading


Nagaland, Assam border tribes at loggerhead

DIMAPUR, June 16 NNN: Nagas and the people confining in the fringes of Assam are engaging in unending feuds for the last few months. The Adivasi-Naga tension that was simmering in the first part of this month had calmed down now but the tension between the Rengma Naga and the Karbi community of Assam is [...] Continue reading


European women band to perform in Imphal

IMPHAL, June 16 NNN: As a campaign to improve the women image and to empower them, a noble way of doing it by all-women band from five European and American countries has reached Imphal today. Seven female artists from Israel, Denmark, Canada, Holland and USA arrived today here and they will be displaying dances, choreography [...] Continue reading


All Manipur entrepreneurs’association feels industry neglected

President AMEA S. Rishikumar said, ‘Manipur, a state with rich natural and human resources can be utilised in a positive way to boost up state economy but due to the negligence in the Industrial sector over last 6 decades, because of this Manipur still remain industrially backward. It is matter of discouragement that only one [...] Continue reading


Water supply scheme inaugurated

Mail News Service Imphal, June 16 : The Heitroipokpi Yairipok improved water supply scheme was inaugurated today. I. Hemochandra minister PHED, K. Meghachandra parliamentary secy. IPR, WL Hanshing IAS principal secy PHED, M. Ibomcha chief engineer PHED, Th. Nokul chairperson Yairipok Nagar Panchayat and A. Subhash Zilla Parisad graced the occasion as chief guest, president [...] Continue reading