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IMPHAL, June 4: The commerce and industry minister, Y. Irabot Singh stated that the department of handloom and handicraft is likely to introduce modern mechanized system of production in order to meet the growing demand of handloom and handicraft products of the state all over the world.The minister who was attending an award distribution function of outstanding craftpersons and subsidies under the schemes of modernization of handicrafts and assistance to individual artisans held today at the Iboyaima Shumang Leela Shanglen also stated that despite huge demands of quality products of handloom and handicrafts products of the state, the massive global demand could not be met owing to the slow hand woven process.But the department is likely to introduce modern mechanized forms of production to assist the present demand for surplus production, said the minister adding the handloom and handicraft products of the state are in high demand all over the world and that handllom products of the state are regarded as No.1 in the country.Further speaking as the chief guest of the function, he also stated that lack of raw material in abundance is another factor which has is a hindrance to massive production of the handicrafts and handloom products, for which the minister has observed the need of coordination among the different related departments to overcome the bottleneck of getting raw materials, which could be beneficial to the state economy too, the minister added.Further touching upon the silk found in the state, the minister maintained that the state sericulture department, in collaboration with a Japanese firm had implemented various projects in the state to develop the silk production in the state, however due to the law and order situation in the state, the Japanese firm had to leave the project mid-way.He further added that recognizing the importance and quality of the Manipuri silk, the government of India under the Special Plan Assistant (SPA) fund has earmarked a sum of Rs. 61.11 crores to develop the sericulture project including the new variety of silk.He also added that the kind of silk which is golden in colour and which is in high demand around the world is found in the state. However he also added that both the golden colour silk and the local simple silk are both in high demand globally. The minister further added that the government is planning to established a silkyard at Loitang khunou.Sukumar Haobam a senior design consultant, while speaking as guest of honour stressed the need to encourage self employment programme among unemployed youths in the absence of employment opportunities.Further S Birendra Singh, functional manager, Handicrafs, commerce and Industry deft, stated that once a craftsman wins state award, he/she is eligible to implement the scheme of Guru Sishya parampara under office of the dv. Com (H) govt of India.He also stated that As many as 188 numbers of outstanding Crafts persons have won the state Awards in the state while 17 crafts-persons could get the National Awards and 13 Crafts-persons got National Merit Awards till date.The state awards have been implemented in the state since 1979-80, in order to promote and push the morals of the Craftspersons.During the function 10 artisans were awarded as outstanding artisans of 2009-10 while another 10 artisans were awarded as outstanding artisans of 2010-11. the award for the 2009-10 carried a citation and Rs 10,000 each while that of the 2010-11 carried as citation and a sum of Rs. 15, 000 each.

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By A Staff ReporterIMPHAL, June 6:  A high level official team of Ministry of Department of Northeast Region (DoNER)  led by DoNER secretary Jayati Chandra and includes joint secretary PK Patnaik and directors of the ministry Dr. Udal Sankar and PR Mishra besides Dr. MC Mehenathan, director ministry of home affairs (Northeast in-charge), Vandita Kaur, director (PF-1) ministry of finance and SN Bromho Choudhuri, advisor planning commission have arrived state capital this afternoon and conducted official inspections and review development works which have been funded by non-lapsable central pool of resource (NLCPR).
 According to the source, the purpose of the visit of the high level team is to inspect various development works being initiated with funds from NLCPR. The visiting team will visit and inspect work sites of various developmental projects with state officials beginning tomorrow morning. Later at 3 pm on the same day, a high level meeting will be convened at the conference hall of Manipur secretariat here, added the source.The officials from the state will be led by chief secretary DS Poonia in the high level meeting tomorrow.
The official source informed that the visiting dignitaries held a meeting with the state transport department in the afternoon today moments after their arrival.The discussion in the meeting mostly centered on traffic problems and shrinking parking space in Imphal and the possibility of the introduction of the newly acquired and much awaited low floor public transport buses, added the source.

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IMPHAL, June 7: Security forces have arrested at least three militant cadres from counter insurgency operations conducted at different parts of the state.A statement issued by the SP Thoubal district, the Kakching Police team conducted search operation at Kakching Lamkhai and arrested one cadre PREPAK (VC) at about 10:30 am yesterday.The arrested cadre is identified as one Oinam Charlie alias Myko alias Shidadba Singh, 28, s/o O. Ibotombi Singh of Oinam Mamang Leikai, Bishnupur district.It said that on preliminary investigation the individual disclosed himself as s/s corporal and to have joined the outfit in December, 2003. He was trained at Chalong, Chandel district, and allotted with army number 203578, it further added.In another incident the Porompat police have arrested two cadres of the UPPK yesterday morning around 5 am from Singjamei Bheigyapati Leikai near Singjamei Bridge informed a statement issued by the SP Imphal East district.The individuals have been identified as one Ningombam Ajitkumar alias Sanjit alias Abung Singh, 35, s/o (L) N. Chandramani Singh of Singjamei Khongangpheidekpi and Thokchom Boying alias Boby Singh s/o Th. Chaoba Singh of Ningomthong Kitnapanung.The release further stated that the arrested cadres were active members of the group and that they had disclosed their involvement in various extortion activities from the Horticulture Department, PHED, Veterinary Department, general public etc to raise party fund.Meanwhile, another statement issued by the PRO IGAR (S) has stated that combined forces have arrested six militant cadres in separate incidents.It said that the 23 Assam Rifles has arrested five PREPAK (VC) cadres and recovered arms and ammunitions, yesterday from counter insurgency operations conducted in the general areas of Talau and Chingingkhok of Ukhrul district.The arrested cadres have been identified as one Waribam RL alias Tomba, 36, s/o W. Samu of Talau Mayai Leikai, army No. 06610 (Batch No. 02 s/s pvt.), Sibam Sarat Chandra alias Ngamba alias Thawanjao Meitei, 40, s/o Dhaja Meitei of Talau Maning Leikai, army No.07509 (Batch No.1 s/s pvt), Keisham Saraf alias Koklei, 48, s/o K. Yaima of Chana Mamang Leikai, army No.06509 (Batch No.1), Khongbamtabam Iyatomba alias Athouba, 47, s/o KH. Ibohal Meitei of Sabunkhok Mayai Leikai, army No.03610 (Batch No.02) and Thangjam Binoi, 46, s/o (L) Th. Isotombi of Yaingangpokpi Makha Leikai, army No.01610 (Batch No.02).One Chinese 9mm auto rifle with magazine, 2 Chinese 9 mm auto pistol with magazine, 18 live ammunitions of 9mm and 20 live ammunitions of AK-47 were recovered from the arrested individuals. They have been handed over to the Lamlai Police along with the recovered items, further added the statement.The statement further stated that a combined team of 30 AR, 33 AR along with Manipur police had arrested one UNLF cadre during an operation launched in the general area of Haipak Mapham in the wee hour today at about 1:30 am.The cadre is identified as one s/s lt. Thounajam Sana alias Ratan Singh, 36, s/o Th. Kula, No.503. He was also handed over to Lamlai police station, the release added.

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DIMAPUR, June 12( Newmai News Network): The All Nagaland College Students’ Union (ANCSU) today decided to accept the request of Nagaland University Vice Chancellor Professor K. Kannan for some more time to declare the undergraduate results. The student body has, therefore, relaxed the indefinite agitation which it began on Friday. 

The decision was taken during a meeting of the ANCSU officials held in Kohima today, the second day of the indefinite strike being carried out to protest against the failure of the University authority to declare the undergraduate results even after a lapse of 60 days as per the norms of UGC.

ANCSU officials said following the online declaration of BSc results today and also having received an official letter from the Vice Chancellor requesting extension of some more days for declaration of the BA results, the Union’s executive had a meeting and decided to relax the agitation. They, however, warned that they would resume their agitation and resort to own course of action if the Vice Chancellor fails to declare the results within the dates sought by him.

Meanwhile, a statement issued by ANCSU Assistant General Secretary Metsivikho Meyase informed that the Union had received a letter forwarded by the Governor’s Secretariat, with the wise intervention of the Governor of Nagaland, who is also the Chief Rector of Nagaland University, whereby the Vice Chancellor requested one more week to complete the evaluation of answer scripts and four days to declare the Arts stream results after moderation.

The Union, therefore, decided to relax the indefinite dharna. However, failing to comply in declaring the Arts Stream results within the stipulated time as requested by the Vice Chancellor, the Union shall resume further course of action, the release stated.

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Every profession has its moral codes, some written but most of the time unwritten. Journalism is no exception and indeed this is a question that has continued to haunt the profession since its inception. This is particularly so because journalism’s best practices also are determined by a notion of objectivity that would have the journalist be simple observers and reporters of events and not be their participants. The troubling question is, to what extent can this journalistic definition of objectivity, especially in situations of human tragedies, remain ethical. Two powerful images should put this argument in perspective. One is of a certain freelance photojournalist, Kevin Carter, who won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for photojournalism in 1994 for his photograph of a severely famished, virtually dying, Sudanese girl toddler crawling towards a UN food centre some distance away, during a famine in this conflict torn nation, even as a vulture stalked her as if ready to pounce on her if she drops dead. The picture was first published in the The New York Times and it shocked the entire world, so much so that this prestigious newspaper had to issue an unusual editorial comment in a subsequent edition that the girl did make it alive to the UN food centre and that Carter chased away the vulture before leaving the scene. But the scene, and probably his inadequate response to the human situation apart from his journalistic instinct of making headline news of the event, haunted him so much ever after that he went into a depression he never recovered from. According to his father he was often found crying alone inconsolably. Carter ultimately committed suicide the same year he won the coveted prize.

The second image conveys a totally different picture of journalistic responsibility. Seventy five years after his death near the summit of Mt. Everest, on May 1, 1999, George Leigh Mallory’s body was discovered during another one of numerous search expeditions spanning seven decades to find his, and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine’s, bodies. Bad weather however prevented a closer examination of the body on the day. On May 16, two men in the expedition, Andy Politz and Thom Pollard, carrying with them a tent and some supplies, returned to the spot for a closer look after lasting out a bout of bad weather at the expedition base camp. Pollard, had writing assignments including numerous offers for a book at the time. The two had with them a metal detector to try and locate the camera that Mallory was known to have taken along, and Kodak Company was of the opinion that the exposed film in the camera still could be processed as it would be well preserved by the perennial subzero temperature, and because the film in it was black and white, hence less prone to chemical degeneration. When they came to the body, Pollard’s reaction was in his own words: “The sight of Mallory’s foot protruding from the end of the rocks was the most powerful and humbling site of my life. It brought tears to my eyes.”

Then the two proceeded about trying to detect Mallory’s camera. In the process, Pollard came face to face with Mallory. From Pollard’s description, the likeness of Mallory was well preserved with calm but closed eyes. He had a golf ball size wound in the forehead with two shards of bones protruding out of it confirming he died instantaneously when he fell. Then the thought occurred that Pollard had a camera with him. But on second thought, and in consultation with his expedition partner Andy Politz, they decided it would be wrong to take a picture of Mallory’s face, and so today the only picture of the dead legend’s face, a man who possibly reached the summit of Mt. Everest three decades before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did but could not return to tell his tale, is what Pollard carried back in his memory. Politz did not even want to see the face and be burdened with the responsibility to tell what he saw. Here were two men who overcame the pulls of their careers and professional ambitions even at a moment they found the elixir to reach the pinnacle to keep within what they thought was the demand of human decency. But beyond the instant glory and material endorsements they would surely have received had they been less scrupulous, they earned something else. Respect and gratitude of the sane world, away from the maddening crowd of instant wealth and instant success seekers.

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