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Army organizes national integration tour

IMPHAL, Aug 27: A national integration tour was organized by 119 Infantry Battalion of Territorial Army (Assam) under the aegis of Red Shield Division for the students of Dima Hasao… Read more »

IMPHAL, Aug 27: A national integration tour was organized by 119 Infantry Battalion of Territorial Army (Assam) under the aegis of Red Shield Division for the students of Dima Hasao District. Under this the students of class VIth to Xth, belonging to various communities were taken on an organised visit to Guwahai and Kolkata. The aim of the tour was to bring awareness amongst the young generation about the development achieved by our nation and to ignite their minds to set higher goals for themselves and for the upliftment of the region.

The tour was flagged off on 15 Aug 2011 at Haflong by Mr Debojeet Thousan, CEM Dima Hasao Autonomous Council and Brig Ashim Kohli, Commander Haflong Brigade. The itinerary of the tour was planned to expose the children to various facets of modern India. On one hand they were given the exposure to modern and scientific India by taking them to Science city, Planetarium, ride in Metro Rail in Kolkata and shopping experience in modern shopping malls, on the other hand they were also shown the glimpses of rich historical and cultural diversity of our nation by visiting Assam State Museum, Kalakshetra Park at Guwahati and Victoria Memorial, Indian Museum and Fort Willam at Kolkata. They were thrilled to watch a movie in the multiplex at Kolkata. In addition the students also interacted with their counterparts at Kolkata which exposed them to the infrastructure of a modern educational system and the dedication required by modern day students to achieve higher goals in life.

During the tour the children got a unique opportunity to meet HE The Governor of Assam, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam, General Officer Commanding, Bengal Area and Group Commander, Territorial Army. The children interacted with these dignitaries and spoke about their area and tribal values. The tour culminated on 25 Aug 11 at Haflong with a formal reception graced by senior Army Officers of Haflong Brigade and civil administration. At the function the students shared their experience with the locals, families and other students to highlight the importance of peace and tranquillity for the progress and development of the region. They thanked Indian Army for organizing such an informative and entertaining tour for the under privileged students of Dima Hasao district.

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Transfer and posting of IAS and MCS officers

IMPHAL, Aug 30: Transfer and postings and re-allocation of works of the six MCS officers and one IAS officer were made by the state government. In this connection an official… Read more »

IMPHAL, Aug 30: Transfer and postings and re-allocation of works of the six MCS officers and one IAS officer were made by the state government.

In this connection an official order was issued by under secretary (DP), government of Manipur recently, as per the order M Joy Singh MCS. Addl. Secy (MAHUD & Revenue), Director, RD & PR was transferred as Director, RD & PR & e/o Addl. Secy. (MAHUD & Revenue) in addition, Kh Raghumani Singh MCS, Addl. Director (SAT) & EO-Addl. Secy. (Eco & Stats/AR) was transferred as Addl. Secy. (Eco & Stats), Sh Modak Hrisheekesh Arvind, IAS, under secy. (Planning, IT) & Staff Officer to CS in addition as SDO/BDO, Chandel, Sh Ranjan Yumnan, MCS, SDO/BDO Chandel as Dy. Protocol Officer & e/o Under Secy. Home, N Tomba Singh, MSS, under secy. GAD/PHE as under Secy. PHE and Ch Shachi, Jr. MCE, under secy. Home was transferred as under secy DP.

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Devise a Way Out Fast

There are two ways of looking at the way things are developing in Manipur. One is that everybody is taking the law into their own hands. But this leads to… Read more »

There are two ways of looking at the way things are developing in Manipur. One is that everybody is taking the law into their own hands. But this leads to the second conclusion, that the establishment in which hands the law should solely rest has lost its moral legitimacy and with it the authority to make the citizen trust it is there to do them good. And so here is Manipur again under a prolonged siege. Even the thought of the creation of a new district is threatening to turn the state upside down, with one group wanting it at any cost and another threatening to oppose it to any extent. Even as the siege is nearing a month, the government remains clueless as to how to proceed. The only thing it has said is that it would not be coerced into doing anything against its will and that it would execute this will on its own once a study by a high powered committee it has instituted to find out how feasible or desirable this proposed new district would be from the consideration of administrative convenience alone, is completed. But at this moment, neither those demanding nor those opposing are willing to step back an inch from where they were despite the government’s show of intent that it would proceed on the issue solely on its own will and not be dictated by any of the agitations.

What about the common man in the meantime? Does the government think that merely instituting a probe committee and arbitrating the deadlocked issue is enough remedy? For while it is doing this, there are people on the streets put to immense hardships. The poorer sections are the worst hit by the blockade consequent price rise, and if things get any worse, there is no saying they would remain calm as they have been. What then would the government do? Would it hold itself accountable for such an outcome? What it should be doing now is to firmly come clear and make the agitators on both sides understand that they cannot hold the entire state to ransom. This must be precisely by demonstrating the state can bring in provision for everybody and any form of prolonged blockades or strikes that indiscriminately make people, men and women, old and young alike suffer for no fault of theirs, would be broken up. In other words, ensure the highways are open although after convincing the agitators on both sides that justice as defined by the constitutional law of the country would be done. To give the devil its due however, we must also add that we give the benefit of the doubt to the committee looking into the matter that it would do what is just, but it must expedite its mission so that the agony of the state is not prolonged. In the meantime, let the government assure essential commodities do not run out from the markets.

If the government is unable to act on the matter then the available alternative of Presidents Rule must be resorted to. This is not altogether an indictment of the government for failing to act proactively on the matter. Nobody has any doubt in a state so badly fractured by ethnic divisions a decision on the SADAR hills will not be easy. Whichever way the decision goes, it will be cause for much bad blood and further challenges to the state’s authority. In other words the blockade is more than likely to stay inordinately. But this is just one dimension of the problem. The complex nature of the ethnic division in the state being such, darker ethnic motives, imaginary or otherwise, of the trouble being the caused by manipulation by the Valley dwellers would be attributed to whatever decision the government takes. Indications of this are already heard on many cacophonous discussion forums on the internet as well as delirious comments to web editions of newspapers from the state aimed at provoking anger, but more often than not inspire only laughter of ridicule. The limitation of the local government being such, it is not an altogether unreasonable conclusion that if at all it is unable bring an early end to the humanitarian crisis developing in the state, Central rule should fill in. Legitimate force used by the Central rule to ensure goods and passenger movements along the highway would not be interpreted as communally biased as so many would be waiting to jump to the conclusion if the state government did so. Likewise, a Central rule’s decision on whether the SADAR Hills district should be created and on what terms, would not be as prone to be smeared with communal colours by those for who have little other constructive things to do than read between the lines to discover non-existent, imaginary, sinister designs behind every political and economic development in the state. Our appeal is, let the government act immediately to ensure flow of goods into the state and in the longer term to settle the SADAR hills issue conclusively and in a manner satisfactory to all parties concerned.

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Woman cadre arrested

IMPHAL Sept 2: A combined team of Imphal East police commandos and 28 Assam Rifles arrested one KCP woman cadre namely Kshetrimayum Taba Devi(41), d/o Ksh Iboyaima Singh of Singjamei… Read more »

IMPHAL Sept 2: A combined team of Imphal East police commandos and 28 Assam Rifles arrested one KCP woman cadre namely Kshetrimayum Taba Devi(41), d/o Ksh Iboyaima Singh of Singjamei Wangma Bheigyabati Leikai from Singjamei bridge yesterday.

On verification, she disclosed that she joined the KCP organization in the month of April 2011 through one Samson of Kakwa Maibam Leikai and was involved in transportation of arms and ammunition from one place to another.

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SBI renders help

IMPHAL, Sept 5: As a part of Community Services Banking adopted by the State Bank of India, SBI Branch Manager Porompat S Nikunchand Singh, presented one steel Almirah to the… Read more »

IMPHAL, Sept 5: As a part of Community Services Banking adopted by the State Bank of India, SBI Branch Manager Porompat S Nikunchand Singh, presented one steel Almirah to the authority of the Kiyamgei Ideal High school during a simple function held this afternoon at the school premises.

S Nikulchand, branch manager of SBI, Porompat during the function mentioned that, the provision of the steel almirah to the said high school at Kiyamgei was made under the newly introduced schemes Community Services Banking of the SBI.

He further elaborated that, the introduced schemes of the SBI will further extended as per the needs of the general public from time to time.

In the meantime, Kh. Ibohal Singh principal of Kiyamgei Ideal High School, appreciated the choosing of educational institutions as priority by the SBI, and the school will further welcome any initiative of the SBI for providing lacking infrastructures of the education institutions in the future to come as many of the schools are sill running with multiple difficulties due to the lack of infrastructures he added.

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Indecision as Decision

Something is just not right in the manner the blockades on the highways have been allowed to carry on with the government doing precious little. By indicating in the manner… Read more »

Something is just not right in the manner the blockades on the highways have been allowed to carry on with the government doing precious little. By indicating in the manner that it is helpless in dealing with the situation, the government is sending out very wrong messages to the people by and large. To the docile the message is they should resign and hope and pray for the best to come on its own. This is hardly the kind of attitude to be encouraged by any forward thinking government or for matter anybody in the position of guardianship, be it at the family level or else the larger society. To the aggressive, the message would be radically different. It would almost be a license for them to take the law into their own hands at any time they wish and arm-twist the government into submission and thereby concede to whatever they wish to have. This latter reading of the message is a sure recipe for a never ending chain of street politics aimed at coercing the public and by a relayed delivery system the same coercive message would also reach the government.

As a matter of fact, this grotesque cycle of subversion is what has already taken roots in Manipur. By its very inaction, the government has been encouraging practically everybody, including students’ bodies, to develop an unhealthy sense of controlling and possessing State power, disproportionate to what civilised norms envisaged by the democratic polity, as legitimate. Hence, insurgent groups are de facto parallel government, issuing their own decrees, levying their own taxes, raising their own military etc, but even if this phenomenon needs a far more sophisticated response, what is beyond understanding is, what is keeping the government from controlling what it is mandated to control and what is very much within its power to do so? Why cannot it take the law in its own hands and not leave it up to the whim of every so called civil society organisation to dictate terms of how and by what norms the people should be governed. We are not talking about civil society bodies which lobby or resist government policies in the positive belief that the government’s will is not rigid, and provided it is made to see reason to the contrary of how it sees policy matters at any given time it can be made to alter or even drop these policies. We instead have in mind the mutant versions of civil society bodies which have come to believe they are the government and can not only make laws but also enforce them with violence. Should not civil society bodies be actually civil in nature and limit themselves to just challenging the government in civilised norms. What we get to see when this unwritten norm is crossed is what we are seeing today – virtual lawlessness.

The current blockade scenario is increasingly turning out to be another case of this state of lawlessness and the worst part of it is the government is apparently not taking any positive step to resolve the matter. It seems to be saying that indecision is also a conscious decision. Such an interrogation of set ideas would have made fine material for absorbing postmodern coffee house academic discussions, but in matters of the hard and brutal politics of the state, such an attitude is threatening to leave everybody, especially children belonging to below poverty line families, suffer from malnutrition. In the worst case scenario, it could end up accentuating or fomenting communal hostilities. So why is the government not swinging into action. True the situation is not easy and indeed would be akin to a Hobson’s choice as a decision either way would earn the ire of one or the other group advocating or opposing the idea of the creation of a separate SADAR Hills district. But although it is a truism that uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, the chief minister has no other choice but to exercise his own judgment on what the right decision should be and take it. At this moment, the most immediate need is to secure free, open and safe passage on all the national highways that connect the state to the rest of the country. One is reminded of a junior school textbook parable of a farmer and his son who went to the market riding their donkey and in trying to please everybody by doing what they presumed would please each of them, ultimately ended up carrying their donkey instead of riding it. The moot point is, the government must do whatever it needs to do to have the highways opened up totally, be it by reaching a settlement with the agitators or else using the power in the state’s command. If it is abjectly unable to accomplish this legitimate function of the state, it must voluntarily abdicate its position and make way for a spell of President’s Rule in the state to tackle the situation.

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Death anniversary

IMPHAL Sept 14: The 6th death anniversary and 5th memorial lecture of Prof Ch. Dhanachand will be on Septemeber 17 as usual to such observation held every year said a… Read more »

IMPHAL Sept 14: The 6th death anniversary and 5th memorial lecture of Prof Ch. Dhanachand will be on Septemeber 17 as usual to such observation held every year said a press release issued by N. Mohilal Meitei, Associate Professor, Life Sciences Department, MU.

The release said that Dr. R.K. Jain, project Co-ordinator, AICRP (Nematodes), IARI New Delhi and Dr. Ch. Manglem Singh, Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, RIMS will deliver memorial lectures on the topics Plant Parasitic Nematodes and Anaemia in Pregnancy, Hookworm Infection respectively.

Vice Chancellor Prof. H. Nandakumar Sharma, Prof. G. Jitendra Sharma, Dean of Science and Prof. M. Shyamkisho Singh, HOD of the Manipur University will graced the function as the Chief Guest, Guest of Honour and president respectively, the release further added.

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JAC draws attention on terror attacks

IMPHAL Sept 14: The series of attack carried out against ADC purportedly by NSCN (IM) has provoked serious concern to the general public, said a press release issued by the… Read more »

IMPHAL Sept 14: The series of attack carried out against ADC purportedly by NSCN (IM) has provoked serious concern to the general public, said a press release issued by the convener of JAC against Sangakpham Bazaar bomb blast.

Drawing the attention of the Central and state government, the release said that the current security measure taken up by the state government lacks efficiency. The demanded that the security measure should be handed over to the central Investigating Agency under the supervision of central government. Perpetrators responsible for killing innocent civilians should be declare as Terrorist by the authority concerned and exemplary punishments should be awarded.

The release further added that the ADC members and their families who are victims of the terrorists’ acts should be given adequate security arrangements to safeguard the innocent lives.

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Allegations refuted

IMPHAL, Sept 15 (NNN): Refuting strongly to the allegations made by Village Authority Board of Irang Part-1 that chairman of Manedara Irang village Puney Prasad Poudel was assaulted on September… Read more »

According to Thonglang Atongba Youth Club (TAYC) president Dokpipou, there was a mere argument between one Chamlamdin of Thonglang Atongba village and Puney Prasad Poudel on minor matter but there was never a physical assault as alleged by Village Authority Board of Irang Part-1. The TAYC president advised the Village Board of Irang Part-1 not to cook up stories as it may pave room for communal flare up. TAYC president Dokpipou while narrating on the September 10 incident said that actually it was Ch Tabamwi who was pacifying both Puney Prasad and Chamlamdin not to argue on such small matter. Dokpipou then expressed that it was unnecessary for the part of Puney Prasad`s party to have reported such a minor matter to the police and the 10th Dogra Regiment and also to have gone to the media for publication. The Thonglang Atongba Youth Club cautions that if the Village Authority Board of Irang Part-1 is to maintain peace, it should avoid creating a Himalaya out of a small hill.

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Imphal East Soccer

IMHAL, Sept 22: EUSU and SAK ended in goalless draw in today’s match of Imphal… more »

IMHAL, Sept 22: EUSU and SAK ended in goalless draw in today’s match of Imphal East Second Division Football League held at Priya Ground, Khundrakpam.

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Awareness on Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

From KaimuanthangLamka April 5: The launching ceremony of ” Awareness Generation and Education for Prevention of Drug Abuse and Alcoholism” project ,a joint initiative of Nehru Yuva Kendra , NYK, Sangathan and the Minstry of Social Justice & Empowerment government of India was observed at Bijang Vengnuom today.
Ajay Maken, Minister of state YAS government of India who attended the occassion as the chief guest was accompanied by a host of dignitaries like AK Upadhay IAS Secretary YAS government of India , Sailesh Director general NYK government of India to name a few besides others from the central and the state government accompanied the union minister.
The chief guest during his speech stated the programme was not only mean for the ordinary drug users but is for one and all apart for the potential drug users He stated after the first years of experimentation over the success or failure of the programme during which so many villages would be covered in the entire sate of Manipur it may be spread out to other parts of the state The famous actor and singers of the state like Sadanand enetertained the audiences who turned up to the occassion in large numbers.

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Khurai Polo Club triumphs in state level polo tournament

IMPHAL, April 7: Khurai Polo Club beat Singjamei Polo Club 8-7 in a thrilling final of the ongoing 2nd edition of 57 Mountain Division State Level Polo Tournament held at… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 7: Khurai Polo Club beat Singjamei Polo Club 8-7 in a thrilling final of the ongoing 2nd edition of 57 Mountain Division State Level Polo Tournament held at Mapal Kangjeibung Today.

Both teams leveled scores at the end of allotted 4 chukkers and Khurai Polo Club`™s L. Thomson scored the golden goal in the extra chukker to lift the trophy. Earlier in the match, Khurai Polo Club`™s P. Jyotin scored magnificient 6 goals for his side.

Khurai Polo Club`™s P. Jotin scored in the 2:23 min and 6:42 of the 1st chukker, 2:33 min in the 2nd chukker, 4:03 and 6:38 in the 3rd chukker 6:22 in the 4th chukker. Th. Mocha scored in 7:00 min in 1st chukker and Thomson in 6:22 of 4th chukker with the golden goal in the 5th chukker.

Singjamei Polo club`™s P. Ojit scored in 4:45 of 1st chukker, s. Gopimohon in 5:30 of 1st chukker, M. Manihar in 2:30 of 3rd chukker, M. Doren in 3:45 of 3rd chukker, Ch. Ajit in 5:40 and 6:57 of 3rd chukker and M. Manihar in 2:36 of the 4th chukker.

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Seminar

IMPHAL, April 8: The Bharat Sevak Samaj Manipur state branch, Imphal is organizing 2 days seminars programme on Preserving Indian Folk Song and Dance on April 12 this month at… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 8: The Bharat Sevak Samaj Manipur state branch, Imphal is organizing 2 days seminars programme on Preserving Indian Folk Song and Dance on April 12 this month at Mass Hotel Conference hall.

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Condolence

IMPHAL, April 11: The members of the faculty, officers, staff and students of Manipur University in a meeting held today in the committee room of the university has expressed deep… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 11: The members of the faculty, officers, staff and students of Manipur University in a meeting held today in the committee room of the university has expressed deep sorrow over the demise of Prof. Ch Manihar Singh, retd, Department of Manipuri on April 8.
A release of the university has stated that a two minute silence was observed in memory of the departed soul during the meeting.

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U14 Cricket tournament 2011

IMPHAL, April 11: CRAU beat YAC and MCA academy beat PCA in the U14 Cricket Tournament 2011 matches played today. The tournament is organized by Manipur Cricket Association. CRAU beat… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 11: CRAU beat YAC and MCA academy beat PCA in the U14 Cricket Tournament 2011 matches played today. The tournament is organized by Manipur Cricket Association.

CRAU beat YAC by 32 runs in the match played at Khuman Lampak cricket ground. Winning the toss, CRAU elected to bat first were 160 all out after 23.2 overs. Premjit was the highest scorer scoring 31 in just 16 balls. YAC`™s Nikhil took 5 wickets.

YAC`™s Nikhil was declared man of the match scoring 41 runs and taking 5 wickets in the match.

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NISA win in I league tournament

IMPHAL, April 12: NISA beat Shimla Young 3-0 in the ongoing 2nd division I league Football Tournament held at the Nehru stadium, Guwahati. NISA`™s S. Nabachandra scored two goals in… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 12: NISA beat Shimla Young 3-0 in the ongoing 2nd division I league Football Tournament held at the Nehru stadium, Guwahati.

NISA`™s S. Nabachandra scored two goals in the 4th minute and 26th minute of the match. Meikinlung scored another goal in the 39th minute to take NISA`™s lead to 3-0.

NISA now has 9 points from four matches in the tournament losing their last match and winning three. NISA will meet Southern Samiti, Kolkata and a win will keep their hopes alive for the next berth.

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BM Singh trophy for women

IMPHAL, April 13: In today’s league matches of the 1st AMFA Women Football League for BM Singh Trophy at main stadium, Khuman Lampak held today, KRYPSA, Naoremthong beat NYTHC, Okram Chuthek 1-0 in the 1st ground and play between ESU and MPSC was a draw with scores leveled at 1-1.
KRYPSA’s lone goal of the match was scored by Y. Chandrajini in the 49th minute.
In the second ground, M. Mandakini scored in the 2nd minute of the match for ESU but Tababi of MPSC leveled the score scoring in the 15th minute.

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Anna Hazare Wins and Nation Building Suffers: Manipur angle to a country-wide issue

By Amar YumnamIn the light of unprecedented cases of corruption, both in volume and frequency, two recent cartoons are of immediate meaningful relevance and doing rounds in internet circles. One is paraphrasing of a popular detergent brand. Here the Prime Minister is shown with full of scam-stains in his clothing ranging from 3G, Commonwealth Games and what not. The caption reads as: dag achha hai (the stains are good). The other cartoon is the same head of the people being sunk in a glass of water and almost getting drowned. Anna Hazare drinks out the water and the Prime Minister is left high (or is it low) and dry inside the drinking glass. Well these are wonderfully symbolic cartoons depicting the depth to which the country has fallen due to the endemic corruption. No doubt corruption is an issue which the country needed to address earnestly and head on. But the evasiveness of the Prime Minister was itself hindering the process of correction almost to the point of irresponsibility. The condition was ripe for a non-elected but sincere leader to emerge and press home the points. A new Anna Hazare was born. The government of the big country was brought to its knees and made to respond immediately. This is a new dimension of how powerful a non-elected can become in democracy, and ipso facto a demonstration of a new facet of democracy itself that election is just a single facet and not in all. There could be people and forces in a democracy that are more knowledgeable and more committed to the causes of nation. The Method and The Contrast: What has been of greatest interest to social observers is the cool (not cold) response and keen observation of the approach and fall-outs of Anna Hazare’s move by the people of Manipur. In fact, no other group of population might have been hit by corruption as badly as the Manipuris have been. However, they were not joining the bandwagon following Hazare’s attack on administration unlike in the rest of the country.This approach might have been prompted by the recent and live history of Manipur having to carry along with and on the fast of Sharmila for almost a decade and more. Hazare also adopted the same approach of fast unto death as Sharmila has been doing all these years. While the government of India has looked the other way all along in so far as the fast of the young girl is concerned, the response to Hazare’s has been immediate and positive. It is this differential response of the government of India to the same method of urging for policy responses for common good that occupies the mind of the Manipuris post-Anna Hazare fast. This needs critical examination. It is true that corruption is an issue that is country-wide in its incidence. In other words, the harmful effects of corruption are felt throughout the country. On the other hand, the case of a non-democratic and non-sensical piece of legislation, against which Sharmila has been on fast, affects only a miniscule portion of the country’s geography and demography. The legislation has not been experienced by the larger sections of population of the country and to this extent they are least concerned about it. Further, the larger sections of population of the country have very little, if any, knowledge about the demography and geography of the region where the controversial legislation has been put in place for decades together. In the light of the personal experiences of the people of the region affected at home by the legislation and while they move about in the rest of the country, the differential response to the two fasts, one by Hazare and another by Sharmila, has only served to validate and further add fuel to fire the long held opinion of the regional population. One of the most common grievances of the region against the government of India has been that of step-motherly treatment by the latter to the former. It is this which has been validated willy-nilly by the differential response of the government of the country. There indeed is a mass anguish right now running through the veins of the people of Manipur. Avoided: It is a moment in history in nation-making of the country when such feelings should not be generated in any group of population wheresoever they are. A country and nation is something where the whole is larger than the sum of the parts. But a country is very different from a sportsperson. A sportsperson has to concentrate on the sports where she is most competent and build up a programme of exercises specifically relevant to that. A country, on the other hand, cannot afford to do so. A country’s government cannot afford to adopt the behaviour of a sportsperson by selecting any specific geographic portion or person as more important than any other. Besides, no room should be created where any group of population can nurture such a thought. This is particularly so at this age and stage of evolution of the country towards evolution as a nation. Here the slogan of the recent census to the effect that each one of us counts and so should join the count is an apt one to be followed in the polity decision-making in this country. While merit should matter instead of corruption, absolute inclusiveness and equalisation of policy responses irrespective of the geographic location, and size and composition of demography are imperatives that should inform every policy making in this country.

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One woman KCP cadre apprehended

IMPHAL, April 18: A combined team of commandos of Imphal West police and 116 BSF arrested an active woman member of KCP(Nando) group from a house located at the northern… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 18: A combined team of commandos of Imphal West police and 116 BSF arrested an active woman member of KCP(Nando) group from a house located at the northern side of Samusang culvert. Te woman identified as Thingujam Sorojini Devi (39) w/o Th. Subhas Singh, Heirangoithong Maibam Leikai disclosed that she is working under the command of one Drangba @ Halloba of KCP Nando group since 2010. She further disclosed that she was involved in organizing the killing of one Ranbir Singh, Maibam Leikai on January 28 this year at the eastern side of Catholic School, Canchipur.

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BSF arrest tout

IMPHAL April 20: Based on intelligence reports, BSF personnel arrested a person for taking money from SSC candidates. The person identified as one Akham Manihar,51, presently a head lineman of the Electricity department.
Manihar had taken Rs 40,000 from one candidate for his assured selection at the recruitment rally held at Koirengei airfield. The BSF intelligence on hearing the news arrested the culprit on April 18. The arrested person also disclosed on taking money from other candidates, a press release by 2IC (Ops) Nanak Chand states.

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