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AMVDFWN decides not to participate in blood donation

All Manipur VDF Welfare Association AMVDFWN has decided to abstain from participating in the Blood Donation programme as per District SP’s order on March 15 Source Hueiyen News Service

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Development, Ethnicity and Geography: Manipur habit – KanglaOnline

Development, Ethnicity and Geography: Manipur habitKanglaOnlineThis is where we are eager to search for an understanding of the prevailing scenario of Manipur, and the direction in which the polity and economy of the province is moving. Is Manipur movi…

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This is where we are eager to search for an understanding of the prevailing scenario of Manipur, and the direction in which the polity and economy of the province is moving. Is Manipur moving towards a direction of peaceful transition to a sustainable …

`Medical sciences advance rapidly, but health care should remain affordable to poor`

IMPHAL March 22: `As we progress towards phenomenal change in the medical science, we should be equally mindful of the affordability of lay people. Patients should not be deprived of

IMPHAL March 22: `As we progress towards phenomenal change in the medical science, we should be equally mindful of the affordability of lay people. Patients should not be deprived of access for unaffordable price of diagnose,`voiced Dr J. Suresh Babu, IAS Principal Secretary (Health&Family Welfare) Government of Manipur while speaking as a Chief Guest at the inaugural function of PATHOCME_2015.

A two days PATHOCME-2015 was organised jointly by NERCIAPM and Manipur Pathologists Forum at Sangai Hall, Imphal Hotel. He stretched on this concern to say, `Half of the costing is undoubtedly the commission, which is not from profit but directly charged from patients. I appeal to the entire medical fraternity to discuss some ethics, instead of partaking competitively in this bad habit. Else it might deprive the common people from accessing the advancement of medical science.

Para clinicians unlike clinicians have to strive for zero error diagnose in interpretation of biopsies and excision specimens. Timely delivery of report adds to the advancement and access of services.

Private sector is definitely assisting the government in providing quality health care in the state.`

PATHOCME-2015 Souvenir was also warmly released by the Chief Guest.

Dr Laishram Rajesh Singh, one of the local organizing member explains the CME objective, `To tap the explosion of recent knowledge and contemporary research in molecular testing, which is increasingly playing an important role. This two days CME has been conceived and designed to provide comprehensive coverage of recent advances in Haematology and Head and Neck Pathology. We hope that the experts will provide a foundation for diagnosed of critical entities on the subjects.`

The ongoing CME has eminent Guest speakers like Dr Anita Borges, Dr Debashish Banerjee and Dr KP Aravindan. The academic exchange is participated by senior doctors and PG students from across the northeastern states.

BJP National President and Union Ministers schedule to visit state

IMPHAL, March 22:Newly appointed National President of BJP after the NDA government come to power at Centre Amit Shah has assured to visit State on April 17, 2015 to discuss

IMPHAL, March 22:Newly appointed National President of BJP after the NDA government come to power at Centre Amit Shah has assured to visit State on April 17, 2015 to discuss the BJP political scenario in the State for the upcoming elections said BJP Official.

The BJP Manipur Pradesh officials said this is a historic landmark for BJP Manipur. They said Amit Shah National President BJP has confirmed he would be in Imphal on April 17 evening.

After reaching the State and being briefed of Manipur`™s chaos, they will also discuss possible solutions.

There will also be threadbare discussions about the strategy of BJP Manipur Pradesh for the upcoming Autonomous District Council election, Municipal Council Election and the Manipur Legislative Assembly election 2017.

The BJP president will be in Manipur for two days and then on the next day he will travel to Nagaland said BJP officials.

On the other hand Thaawar Chand Gehlot, Union Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment, Santosh Gangwar Union Minister of state for Textile and Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Union Minister of state for Agriculture will reach Imphal as per scheduled on their visits of Northeast States as per the desire of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The string of ministerial visits will begin from March 23 and carry on till March 27, they said.

As per the tentative schedules of the Ministers for their Manipur visits, Thawar Chand Gahlot and Santosh Gangwar will reach Imphal airport on Monday and Tuesday while Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan will reach Imphal on March 26. Each will spend days in the State.

According to the BJP officials, the Ministers will be accompanied by high ranking officials from their ministries.

Thaawar Chand Geglot will distribute loans, certificates and wheelchairs to differently able persons at 1st MR ground in the presence of Chief Minister Okram Ibobi.

Santosh Gangwar Union Minister of state for Textile will lay foundation stone for the construction of the State`™s first Apparel and Garment Marking and Power Loom Estate at City Convention Hall, Imphal. Later he will visit Lamboi Khongnangkhong where the Union Minister of State for commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman has already visited to study the feasibility for a trade cum permanent exhibition centre, now under construction.

Dr Sanjeev Kumar Balyan Union Minister of state for Agriculture will be accompanied by Sushil Kumar Sngla private secretary to MoS Agriculture and Dr JS Sandhu Deputy Director General. The Minister of state will attend the inauguration of Central Agricultural College Guest House and inter-collegiate sports meet at the University on March 26 at 11 am just after reaching Imphal.

Later he will hold a meeting with Chief Minister Okram Ibobi and after which he will conduct a field visit along with interaction with farmers. He will also convene a meeting with Horticulture and Agriculture Minister and officers of Manipur in the evening.

On the next day, he will visit Andro CAU research farm and will inaugurate a farmer`™s fair and will hold a press conference at noon said the source.

Several groups urge State to conduct especial exam for victimised students

IMPHAL, March 22: A joint body of All Manipur Students`™ Union, All Manipur Minority Students`™ Union, All Gorkha Students`™ Union, All India Students Federation, Reachout and Guardian Association of CBSE Victim Students in a press conference jointly held today urged the State Government to conduct a special examination for those students who were made victims by faulty and unrecognised institutions.

The press conference was held at Ima Khunthokhanbi Sanglen, DM College Campus.

Reachout Lead Coordinator Ksh Onil said during the conference there are more than 2000 students from the State who became prey of unrecognised educational institutions. They have been denied CBSE examination admit cards, he said.

He further said that the concerned authority must do something positive for the victimised students, else their future will likely become tarnished and uncertain.

He said that the joint body has also identified six of the faulty institutions which are, Akash Institute of Science & Arts, Kwakeithel Thokchom Leikai; Akash Higher Secondary School, Ghari; Ramkrishna School, Ghari; MM Higher Secondary School, Wangkhei; Little Rose, Canchipur and CIS, Keishamthong.

Onil added that the names of the six mentioned institutions have also been submitted to the DGP for appropriate action but it is yet to see any outcome.

He on behalf of the joint body, he said that they have resolved to plead with the Government for special kind of examination for the victimised students, to pressure the concern authority to take up legal action against those CBSE Regional Office Staffs and to the default principals and to banish these educational institutions.

Priority must to given to conduct a special exam for the victimised students said a member of Guardian Association of CBSE Victim Students Loitongbam Binarani and further said that it was bewildering how the defaulting institutions are given free hand conducting such criminal activities, destroying the future of young generations.

CM inspects the much-delayed Dolaithabi Barrage Project

IMPHAL, March 22 (NNN): Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi inspected the construction works and its development of the Dolaithabi Barrage Project (Dam) on Saturday morning. The project was being constructed over the Iril river at the adjoining area of Imphal East district and Senapati districts.

In the inspection visit, the Chief Minister was accompanied by State Assembly Speaker Lokeshwor, IFCD Minister Ngamthang Haokip, Chief Engineer of the department concerned and representatives of NS Sinha and Company, a firm which is responsible for the construction of the project gate.

O Ibobi was not at all satisfied at the pace and the manner in which the construction works are being taken up, and later strongly instructed the officials concerned to speed up the process.However, the five piers of the dams are completed.

It may be mentioned that the construction of Dollaithabi Barrage Project was approved by the Planning Commission in June, 1992 at the cost of rRs 18.86 crores. However, the project could not see its light of the day so far. Later on, the project went through two revisions by the Planning Commission, one in 2005 and the later in 2009. It is estimated that the project, when completed, will benefit irrigation to land areas of over 7545 hectares.

Public protest held against Md Lukman killing

THOUBAL, March 22: A sit in protest was held at Moijing Edigah ground yesterday against the killing of Md. Lukman, 27 whose dead body was found near Ahallup Bazar under

THOUBAL, March 22: A sit in protest was held at Moijing Edigah ground yesterday against the killing of Md. Lukman, 27 whose dead body was found near Ahallup Bazar under Heingang Police Station on March 17 and the disappointment on the government`™s decision.

The protest was taken part by people of Moijing village and representatives of Muslim Civil organisations and discussed the killing of Md. Lakman. The protestors stated disappointment towards the government`™s decision and also expressed dissatisfaction towards the Heingang Police Station. The protestors also stated not to look down upon the minorities as well.

During the protest, the protestors set up to condemn the CM for taking up the decision, to boycott the CM if the culprits are not brought out by midnight tonight and to impose general strike from 6 am onward from March 22 indefinitely.

The protestors stated not to collect ex-gratia from the government, to provide judicial enquiry on the killing of Lukman, to appeal to all civil societies to join the agitation till any leads on the culprits are found and to condemn the Heingang Ahalluk JAC who accused of Lukman being a thief. Mother of late Lukman also stated that his son was innocent and demanded the crimes committed by him.

The protest was also taken part by United Manipur Muslim Development Organisation, Anjuman Islahemuaashrah, All Manipur Muslim Students Organisation, Pangal Students Organisation, Manipur Muslim Welfare Organisation, ZP members and Pradhans.

Meanwhile, the strike has caused major hold at Thoubal Moijing and areas with majority of Muslims such as Lilong, Sora and Yairipok. During the band, many vehicles were also damaged.

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Ransom kidnapping along IT Road becoming a culture, KSO appeals for safe release of three abducted workers

KANGPOKPI, March 22: A despicable culture of earning easy money through abduction or kidnapping continues to haunt the developmental work undertaken along the Imphal`“Tamenglong Road, putting at risk peaceful co-existence

It seems all existing measures and efforts by various civil society organizations and security forces have not met with any success.

The recent abduction of a worker engaged in the road construction work Imphal-Tamenglong Road near Chawangkining under Kangpokpi PS is still echoing in everyone`™s ear but unfortunately another similar episode has cropped up again on March 18 where three labourers engaged the road construction work have been kidnapped at different locations on the same day by unknown armed miscreants.

A reliable source allegedly reported that one YK. Daniel son of YK. Akeng of Mayangkhang Ningthoupham village in Sadar Hills, Senapati district engaged in bridge construction work along IT.Road had been kidnapped near Thonglang Akutpa village while another aged worker identified as Buddha Meitei (70) of Kyamgei, Imphal East and Samson Meitei (40) of Kongpal, Imphal were abducted on the same day near Chalwa village located about 50 Km West of Kangpokpi PS.

The source further continued to allege that Buddha Meitei and Samson Meitei who worked under contractor Diren Singh were kidnapped for a ransom of Rs.30 lakh and Rs.50 lakh respectively.

Three more workers who were engaged in the road construction work of Imphal-Tamenglong Road had been allegedly kidnapped by unknown armed miscreants for ransom on March 18.

It further continued that Y.K Daniel was abducted near Thonglang Akutpa village while the other two had been kidnapped near Chalwa village on the same day.

In the meantime, the Kuki Students` Organization Sadar Hills has appealed to the responsible group to release the abducted trio without any condition on humanitarian ground as it can create communal unrest.

The public in general and the KSO and family members of the abducted trio in particular shall be very grateful to the responsible group if heeded to the humble appeal said Lamcha Chongloi, General Secretary KSO Sadar Hills while adding that the trio were innocent ordinary labourers living hand to mouth.

No organization has claimed their involvement yet.

It is now critically important on the part of the general public and various CSOs to boldly cooperate with law enforcement agencies to make full stop of such anti-social, anti-development activities for the sake of peace and development in the area.

BJP Central leaders assure launch of National Sangai Project at Keibul Lamjao National Park

IMPHAL, March 22: The BJP Central leaders have assured launching a National Sangai Project at Keibul Lamjao floating National Park with a special livelihood package of people in the Loktak

IMPHAL, March 22: The BJP Central leaders have assured launching a National Sangai Project at Keibul Lamjao floating National Park with a special livelihood package of people in the Loktak Lake area said Mairangthem Asnikumar, General Secretary BJP Manipur Pradesh.

In an interview, Maoirangthem Asnikumar said that the three leaders of BJP Manipur Pradesh led by Th Chaoba President, S Premananda General Secretary Organisation and M Asnikumar General Secretary Administrative have briefed the Centre on the present status of the Manipur in a meeting organised for all Union Territories and North Eastern States including Sikkim on the issue concerning governance and development of the respective states.

He further said the BJP National President Amit Shah chaired the meeting on March 19.

Moiranthem Asnikumar said that in the meeting Ram Madhop (well known as BJP Architect) National General Secretary coordination, who also holds the overall in-charge of NE states, Ramlal (decision maker of BJP) General Secretary Organisation, Jitendra Minister of state DoNER, Department of Personal training (DOPT) & PMO and Home Minsiter Rajnath along with Central leaders attended the meeting at the central hall of the BJP office, New Delhi from 3pm till 9 pm.

The BJP Manipur Pradesh president Th Chaoba submitted a report on the chaos situation in Manipur during the 13 years of Congress rule. The report detailed government failures and governance paralyses and defunct of developmental works in the State, he said.

His report also highlighted the deeply rooted corruption in the State and the paralysed and defunct State administration in every field.

Chaoba further reported to the Central leaders about the collapse of law and order as evident in the series of bomb blasts in the heart of city witnessed recently, killing many innocent peoples and creating trauma and fear psychosis amongst the people.

The report also pointed out even the CCTV camera installed are substandard and non functional though Rs. 8 crores to Rs. 10 crores have been spent on them.

The report said security of citizens is totally compromised in the State while government officers are getting rich on bribes in recruiting State forces from VDF to police SI posts.

Even the Deputy Chief Minister who also holds the home portfolio has expressed suspicion that security personnel may be involved in various crimes including the bomb blasts etc. The report said till date the State government has not been able to book anyone in these crimes. The department is only interested in the multi crore rupees involved in police modernisation, the report said.

Chaoba has drawn the attention of the Central leaders to look into the matter thoroughly.

M Asnikumar has also urged the leaders to initiate an inquiry into the Rs. 224 crores misuse of Loktak Lake development funds and MGNREGA schemes.

The Clean Indian Mission is physical cleanliness but in our State corruption cleaning is more important right now, Asnikumar said.

Asnikumar said he also urged the Central leaders to explore possibility of making Manipur a herbal hub, and also to look into wetlands preservation strategies.

Development, Ethnicity and Geography: Manipur habit

BY Amar Yumnam The term development has undergone many stages of evolution since it became popular after the Second World War. In the beginning, it was perceived as consisting of

BY Amar Yumnam

The term development has undergone many stages of evolution since it became popular after the Second World War. In the beginning, it was perceived as consisting of only the rise in the quantum of tangible items. But now it encompasses intangible items as well reflecting the significance of social aspects in ensuring a good quality of life and in a way much more than the materialistic components of life. This is where we are eager to search for an understanding of the prevailing scenario of Manipur, and the direction in which the polity and economy of the province is moving. Is Manipur moving towards a direction of peaceful transition to a sustainable development? Is she progressing towards a shared development trajectory? Is the governance alive to the development pre-requisites and requisites of development of the land and people of the province? Is the relationship between governance and development evolving towards a direction of inclusive development here? These and other related questions need urgent and involved discussion in Manipur.

In this context, the latest two editions of the World Bank Legal Review are of immense interest. The 2014 Review (Cisse, Hassane, N. R. Madhava Menon, Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, and Vincent O. Nmehielle, eds. 2014. The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 5: Fostering Development through Opportunity, Inclusion, and Equity, Washington DC) dwells on how to establish an atmosphere for justice for all to fruitfully share the scope and outcomes of development. The 2015 Review (Wouters, Jan, Alberto Ninio, Teresa Doherty, and Hassane Cisse, eds. 2015. The World Bank Legal Review, Volume 6. Improving Delivery in Development: The Role of Voice, Social Contract, and Accountability. Washington, DC: World Bank), which has just come out, dwells on the issues relating to reaching the effects of development the targeted groups.

On page 617 of the 2014 Report, it is asserted that `Traditional thinking has expanded to include intangible deliverables, and there is a growing demand for values such as rule of law and justice, participation and inclusion, equity, good governance, and sustainability over the long term. The current development landscape requires more attention to law and justice, such that efforts must now include or be hinged on these values.` From the development perspective of Manipur, the issues of `participation and inclusion, equity, good governance, and sustainability over the long term` are of critical relevance. While the issue of rule of law and justice is as important as it should be, it has a dependent feature on the quality and character of governance; governance is an independent component determining the characteristics of other determinants of development. There is diversity of ethnicity and geography in Manipur; this is a given datum which cannot be altered by any intervention. This given datum necessitates that development interventions in Manipur should be alive to these differentials such that the outcomes are shared by all and the opportunities are equalised. The differential food systems need differential interventions for transition to higher stages of development. But it is exactly the appreciation of these differential needs of variegated development interventions which has been put to the winds by the governance in Manipur so far. The orientation and effectiveness of governance have been confined to the delivery of tangible outcomes to the pockets of those manning the governance. This being the case, the issue of sustainable development as globally understood has not sunk into the principle of working of governance in Manipur.

In the 2015 Review, it is emphasised on page 5 thus: `In broad terms, delivery may be understood as getting goods and services to people in a way that meets their expectations`¦`¦`¦`¦`”delivery means getting goods and services such as material infrastructure, education, health care, economic development, social protections, and other beneficial social or economic support systems to targeted beneficiaries. Such targeted beneficiaries of development initiatives, whether instituted at the multilateral, national, or subnational level, through formal or informal institutions, or a combination of these entities, are ultimately recipients who require effective and efficient delivery of outcomes if they are to transcend the interlocking social, political, and economic factors that hold them in relative poverty or disadvantage. Such entrenched and interlocking factors operate to prevent beneficiaries from justly and equitably sharing in their nation`™s wider social and economic assets. By extension, if such beneficiaries continually remain unsupported by successful delivery of outcomes, they also remain continually impeded from a fair and equitable enjoyment of the various social and economic benefits wrought by globalization and economic integration in the wider international community`. In this background, what has been happening in Manipur is painful lock, stock and barrel. The delivery in terms of both tangible and intangible components of development intervention do not have the positive social spillover implications. Besides the quantitative drawbacks, there is nothing surety about the qualitative aspects either. This applies to every aspect of governance activity right from the conventional tangible infrastructure components to other non-tangible components like education, health, etc.

In fine, the time is not in favour of Manipur in so far the evolving regional, national and international changes are concerned. It is already rather late for the governance here to transit to a phase of contextualised understanding of the differential development needs of Manipur, to transform from a habit of bluffing the population in this digital age, to appreciate the vastly different development intervention needs in the highly networked world, to self-analyse the policy space of the provincial government. The race in the world today is such that if one runs forever faster and runs along, one survives. In the otherwise case, one would be just left behind and fall into oblivion if not participating in the race. In the case of Manipur, it is as if the governance has already ensured that Manipur is out of the race even before attempting to join. It is absolutely dreadful.

Children in Adult World

The new focus in Manipur on the plight of children in conflict environments is commendable. The intelligence of children and their susceptibility to adverse influences by the social milieu they

The new focus in Manipur on the plight of children in conflict environments is commendable. The intelligence of children and their susceptibility to adverse influences by the social milieu they grow up in had been taken too much for granted for too long. Even if not all have been as unfortunate to lose their parents and dear ones, or suffer personal injuries and other traumas as a direct result of the violence that has engulfed our society, there is no way any one of them can escape from the oppressive tyranny of the situation by and large. Tidings of violence assault their senses just as they do everybody else every morning. Some of these news, they would also be realising, are too close for comfort. Bandhs, strikes and blockades have become part of their vocabulary, and school closures on account of these their routine experience. Not only this, quite outrageously and meaninglessly, they are also made to participate in political protests and agitations, spending long hours in the sun, marching with flags and placards the significance of which they have no inkling, and shouting political slogans from rote. Let us not be too hasty to presume their personalities will not reflect the oppression of this atmosphere when they grow up to be adults.

It is true that whatever its nature, good, bad or ugly, Manipur`™s reality is the world our children will one day have to inherit. It is also true that the turmoil in the land cannot simply vanish, and they have no choice but to get to know and imbibe its essence sometime or the other. But all these do not mean they have to be dragged into the adult world even before they have completed kindergarten. Our society has miserably failed in clearly demarcating between the world of adults and the world of children. Which is also perhaps why children `“ their needs and desires, have been taken so much for granted, presumed as it has always been that they must live in the same world as their parents do, and share the same values and anxieties, and all its myriad other burdens too. By all means they must one day. They must have to ultimately carry forward the legacy and history of the society they were born in, but can this mean they have to be made to sacrifice their childhood and be forcefully baptised into the harsh realities of the adult world before they are ready? Must they have the space to grow up with their skipping ropes and marbles, or join political processions meaningless to them even as they are being introduced to the joy of figuring out the logics of elementary arithmetic? There seem to be many who think the answer is in the affirmative, wanting our children to grow up as street fighting activists. Well there is nothing wrong if they become activists, but let them be given the space to develop their faculties first to decide what they want to be. There is a time for everything: a time for play, a time for books and yes, a time for politics. But all of them cannot be clubbed into one time frame. In any case early baptisms, or call it brainwashing, into political ideologies, cannot serve the purpose of grooming good future citizens, and by that virtue, good pillars of the future.

A little diversion will help drive home this point. The adult world is also where sex and procreativity acquire a meaning. Our children must grow up to learn and imbibe the essence of these gifts of nature at some stage in their lives. Many parents, if not all parents, must have faced uncomfortable questions on this matter from their innocent and curious children. Where do babies come from? How are puppies made? If only females give birth, how are the new puppies the children of our (male) dog? Etc. What are the normal answers parents give to such queries? Surely at such times, all parents presumably would clearly demarcate between the world of adults and children, and without lying outright, would also not reveal everything in the raw. And this censure would be with the sincere belief that it is for good of the innocent minds. Children, it would be deemed here, must have the space to grow and imbibe such knowledge, inevitable as they are, in the right doses and at a pace that would not be detrimental to their overall growth as a person. So it must be with politics and violence.

Leader Writer: Pradip Phanjoubam

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ZUF claims thrashing NSCN(IM) in gunfight at Khoupum Valley

IMPHAL, March 22: The Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) has said that the fierce arms confrontation occurred on March 19 at Guiteng in Khoupum valley between the Front and NSCN-IM was

IMPHAL, March 22: The Zeliangrong United Front (ZUF) has said that the fierce arms confrontation occurred on March 19 at Guiteng in Khoupum valley between the Front and NSCN-IM was because of NSCN-IM`™s incursion into ZUF operational area.

According to a release of the Front, the NSCN-IM cadres intruded the area and grossly violated the human rights and peaceful environment which is, in fact, against the Naga customary and international human rights norms.

The release said as per the witness of the Front, the cadres of NSCN-IM were dictating and harassing the innocent villagers at their will by ordering to bring their domestic livestock, rice and other essential commodities without payment. The villagers were also asked to carry their items as porters to different places of their destination at gunpoint and made to stand as a watchman in different strategic location and asked to guard their camp in order to shield their lives. In order to thwart out the misery of the villagers, ZUF carried out an operation against them, it said.

It said in the operation, two of its cadres were shot dead on spot and another two were seriously wounded. In the aftermath of the operation, the cadres of ZUF also recovered one AK 47 with large quantities of ammunition and two common bags.

However, the release said the whereabouts of the two deceased cadres is not known so far but the two wounded cadres have been informed to have handed over to Assam Rifles by the Khoupum Village Authority Council.

The Front also stated that the NSCN-IM`™s usual anathema practice of hiding their deceased cadres, by burying in the jungle, without informing the family and public simply to conserve their wrong doers in the eyes of general public is not just a violation of Naga customary laws but all norms of United Nations Human Rights which the NSCN-IM most adored off, it said.

Prior to the shoot-out, there was a fierce confrontation between the two at various places in Zeliangrong areas and particularly in Khoupum Satudai conflict, two cadres of NSCN-IM were killed in an encountered but the deceased were buried in the wood, it added.

The jungle of Zeliangrong is fast turning a burial ground of the slain NSCN IM soldiers, it said.

The ZUF release highlighted that land of Zeliangrong and kin tribes have become the graveyard largely occupied by `non-identified`™ tombs.

The Front appealed to the Zeliangrong Frontal organizations, civil societies, indigenous faiths and churches to look into the matter. In addition, the Front also warned the Zeliangrong`™s NSCN-IM cadres to learn lesson that they were sent to die in the hands of fellow brethren merely to fulfill the undying interest of some vested officers of their own whose motive is to capture more power with mammoth greed, it said.

Big show down between Naga militant outfits imminent in Tamenglong district – Eastern Mirror

Big show down between Naga militant outfits imminent in Tamenglong districtEastern MirrorTension is fast mounting in Tamenglong district of Manipur as Naga underground groups tussle to dominate the district. Sources said that the NSCN-IM with large num…

Big show down between Naga militant outfits imminent in Tamenglong district
Eastern Mirror
Tension is fast mounting in Tamenglong district of Manipur as Naga underground groups tussle to dominate the district. Sources said that the NSCN-IM with large number of re-enforcement is now fast making inroads to the areas dominated by rival outfits …
Army convoy ambushed in Tamenglong disttNagaland Post

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Indefinite Manipur bandh ; bodies boycott CM – Eastern Mirror

Indefinite Manipur bandh ; bodies boycott CMEastern MirrorA public meeting called by the various organisations and representatives of Manipur on Saturday condemned the dead of Muhammad Lukaman. The meeting, which was held at Moijing Idgakh Park of Thou…

Indefinite Manipur bandh ; bodies boycott CM
Eastern Mirror
A public meeting called by the various organisations and representatives of Manipur on Saturday condemned the dead of Muhammad Lukaman. The meeting, which was held at Moijing Idgakh Park of Thoubal district, also condemned the alleged negligence …

Manipur celebrates New Year with gaiety – E-Pao.net

The Sangai ExpressManipur celebrates New Year with gaietyE-Pao.netThe New Year of Manipuri lunar calendar, Sajibu Nongma Panba Cheiraoba, was celebrated with gaiety and fervour in Manipur on Saturday. The celebration, which begins with ritual offerings…

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Manipur celebrates New Year with gaiety
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The New Year of Manipuri lunar calendar, Sajibu Nongma Panba Cheiraoba, was celebrated with gaiety and fervour in Manipur on Saturday. The celebration, which begins with ritual offerings of fruits, vegetables, rice and other uncooked food items to the …
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Gorkha Rifles convoy ambushed in Tamenglong district Manipur – KanglaOnline

Gorkha Rifles convoy ambushed in Tamenglong district Manipur
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Four security men including a JCO (Junior Commission Officer) were Saturday wounded when suspected cadres of NSCN (K) ambushed a convoy 2/5 Gorkha Rifles in Manipur’s Tamenglong district, police said. One of the personnel identified as rifleman …

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Gorkha Rifles convoy ambushed in Tamenglong district Manipur
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Four security men including a JCO (Junior Commission Officer) were Saturday wounded when suspected cadres of NSCN (K) ambushed a convoy 2/5 Gorkha Rifles in Manipur's Tamenglong district, police said. One of the personnel identified as rifleman …

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Gorkha Rifles convoy ambushed in Tamenglong district Manipur

Source: Nagaland Post Four security men including a JCO (Junior Commission Officer) were Saturday wounded when suspected cadres of NSCN (K) ambushed a convoy 2/5 Gorkha Rifles in Manipur’s Tamenglong

Source: Nagaland Post

Four security men including a JCO (Junior Commission Officer) were Saturday wounded when suspected cadres of NSCN (K) ambushed a convoy 2/5 Gorkha Rifles in Manipur’s Tamenglong district, police said. One of the personnel identified as rifleman Mingma Dorjee, was stated to be in critical condition with chest injuries.

Other wounded soldiers– identified as Subedar (JCO) Chitra Bahadur, rifleman Aan Singh and rifleman Gir Bahadur Thapa.

Police said that the ambush took place at Luwang Khunou village under Khoupum police station of Tamenglong district Saturday morning at around 8.15 a.m.

Reports said that a group of well-armed people suspected to be cadres of an underground group first exploded IEDs and then opened fire towards the convoy of the 2/5 Gorkha Rifles. There ensued a brief exchange of fire after the troops retaliated.

Police said that there was no report of any casualty on both the sides. The militants escaped taking advantage of thick forest area, police added.

Later, reinforcement was sent in, and a search operation was launched.

2 GR personnel killed: NSCN/GPRN

Meanwhile, NSCN/GPRN in a statement claimed that “two 8th Gorkha Rifles” personnel were killed and several injured. It said that the “People’s Army of Nagaland, NSCN, waylaid foot patrol of 8th Gorkha Rifles at around 8.30 a.m. between Ghoupum and Khungaron under Ghoupum PS, Manipur and killed two riflemen on the spot and more than a dozen injured”.

NSCN/GPRN said that the encounter which started in the morning continued till late afternoon. During the gun-fight, NSCN/GPRN said Gorkhas were retaliating with cover fire while the military choppers were doing several sorties to lift the injured and killed soldiers.

The press note pointed out that the “Naga inhabited areas of Manipur do not come under the effective coverage of the cease fire between NSCN/GPRN and GoI.”

Nagaland heading for Opposition-less government; not healthy in democratic government

By Oken Jeet Sandham When press people asked Chief Minister TR Zeliang as to when he would fill the vacant Cabinet posts in his Council of Ministers. “Any time after

By Oken Jeet Sandham

When press people asked Chief Minister TR Zeliang as to when he would fill the vacant Cabinet posts in his Council of Ministers. “Any time after the Assembly,” he told the good-tempered journalists who still wanted to know about the Congress’ joining his Ministry. The suave Chief Minister gave his final nod approving the Congress’ joining the DAN government. “It will now be a party-less government in Nagaland,” he said.

Everyone has been nervously watching at every move of TR and things now become crystal clear that the Congress will be a part of his DAN government in Nagaland. In fact, hours after winning the “Confidence Motion” with 59 Members in the House of sixty voting in favor it, TR, while talking to the press at his official residence, only hinted that there would soon be “a party-less government” in Nagaland.

CLP leader Tokheho Yepthomi has already stated that they would now join the DAN government in the state, and according to sources, at least two Cabinet posts will go to the Congress while the rest may be awarded with Parliamentary Secretary posts. The Congress has eight MLAs. The BJP, an important ally of the ruling DAN since its inception in 2003, has four MLAs. There are diametrical political ideologies between these two giant national political parties not only at the Center but also everywhere in the country. Dynamic Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads the current BJP-led NDA government at the Center while the Congress plays main Opposition. In fact, the Congress, which led the 10-year old UPA government at the Center, suffered humiliating defeat at the hands of the BJP in the last 16^th Lok Sabha elections. They had even double humiliations as the strength of the Congress MPs did not qualify them to have “Leader of the Opposition” tag in Parliament, though they still emerged as the largest Opposition party among the Opposition parties.

The fundamental question arises is can the Congress and the BJP go together in the same boat in any state or for that matter in Nagaland. It is very unlikely but the case in Nagaland becomes rare. And when the press people asked TR as to how two political parties having history of bitter political rivalries in the country would allow their party MLAs to be part of the same government in Nagaland, his reply was more classic saying “National issues are different from local issues.” There should not be any problem having both the Congress and the BJP in his DAN government in Nagaland, he replied.

We all have to remain finger-crossed and watch how TR is going to play his magic wand till such time formal induction of Ministers and Parliamentary Secretaries take place. In all likelihood, there will be some reactions after the induction ceremonies.

It is also understood that TR has to fulfill whatever he had a deal with Congress because the party’s (Congress) crucial role played at the time of “Confidence Motion” changed the entire political equation in the state. The survival theory as TR thought of by taking the support of the main Opposition Congress during his trial time might be politically correct but he cannot overlook the importance of BJP as they are currently at the helms at Delhi.

After taking the Congress to his boat, Nagaland Chief Minister, who is also Minister in-charge of Finance, will not be that lively in re-pleading with the ruling Central BJP leaders to rescue the state from its financial quagmire. He, while presenting the Vote on Account on the Floor of Assembly on March 17, highlighted his passionate pleadings with the Prime Minister and Finance Minister on many occasions to rescue the state from its precarious financial position. So, his magic wand should be watched in what manner the Central BJP leaders will be convinced for taking the Congress into the ruling DAN fold.

Bottom Line:

Actually if there is party-less government in Nagaland, then it should not be the problem. The problem is Opposition-less government which is not healthy in a democratic system of government.

In the last SC Jamir Congress ministry in Nagaland, only one Independent MLA Mavil Khieya was acting all along as the “lone Opposition” in the House of Sixty. Numerically, a single opposition MLA in the House of Sixty sounds funny but Khieya not only kept the 60-Member House a good-humor atmosphere but also could embarrass then Leader of the House Jamir and his Deputy Neiphiu Rio, who was Home Minister. Many legislators, media personnel, state officials and publics appreciated Khieya for his bold role as single Opposition Member in the 60-Member House. Had Khieya not been there as lone Opposition, we would have dormant government then in Nagaland.

But in the present case where TR is going to run a new form of Opposition-less government will not healthy at all. Because, in a democratic form of government such as ours, the role of opposition is a must so that the welfare state does not suffer. In the absence of Opposition, no government can function effectively.

Yepthomi, CLP leader, without doubt, is the most vocal opposition face in the Assembly. He is well-versed with many areas of governmental and administrative loopholes. He did his homework well before coming to any Assembly Sessions. His suggestions on important issues during Assembly Sessions were always taken seriously and even majority Members in the Treasury Bench appreciated his in-depth knowledge in many areas concerning the state. His and other Congress MLAs’ joining the ruling DAN will be the beginning to end the charm of democracy till another real opposition emerges.

Yes, many might have perceived that the legislators belonging to NPF (N) would act as Opposition in the Assembly. But in all likelihood, such thing may not happen because they had categorically stated on the Floor of the House minutes before voting in favor of “Confidence Motion” on February 5that they would not go against their “own government.”

Tantha da Sathek 2015 – I

Exclusive photos from Tantha da Sathek 2015 an event of fashion, music & dance by Cultural Foundation Manipur. Event directed by Robert Leishangthem and Presented by Rina Mayanglambam.

Exclusive photos from Tantha da Sathek 2015 an event of fashion, music & dance by Cultural Foundation Manipur. Event directed by Robert Leishangthem and Presented by Rina Mayanglambam.

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Felicitation of Thaovi V, Gold Medallist World Martial Arts Council Games 2015

A grand felicitation programme was held in appreciation of the four state players including the lone world champion from the district who got gold medal in the World Martial Arts

A grand felicitation programme was held in appreciation of the four state players including the lone world champion from the district who got gold medal in the World Martial Arts Council Games, 2015, an open championship and festival, Bangkok, Thailand that had started since 12 till 22 March.

Hundreds of supporters comprising of public leaders, politicians, students, villagers, well-wishers, friends from Senapati and the valley gathered at Tulihal Airport, Imphal to recieve them.
More than 30 vehicles from Senapati join the victory march from the airport to Senapati headqaurter.

Source: Herald Today