Kuki join hands with Bodo to demand state

IMPHAL, Aug 23 NNN : Kukis in Manipur have intensified their statehood demand movement by spreading out their programmes to various parts of the North East India region. Apart from participating in the ongoing indefinite hunger strike underway at Kokrajhar in Assam jointly carried out by the Bodos and leaders of the Kuki State Demand […]

IMPHAL, Aug 23 NNN : Kukis in Manipur have intensified their statehood demand movement by spreading out their programmes to various parts of the North East India region.
Apart from participating in the ongoing indefinite hunger strike underway at Kokrajhar in Assam jointly carried out by the Bodos and leaders of the Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) demanding the creations of Bodoland in Assam and Kuki state in Manipur, series of consultative meetings involving Kuki intellectuals, Kuki State Demand Committee (KSDC) leaders, Kuki scholars and student leaders will be organised in Guwahati, Shillong and Churachandpur (south Manipur) in the coming days.
The Kuki State Demand Committee(KSDC) and some social organisations based in Guwahati and Shillong will be organizing a one-day consultative meeting at Guwahati on August 25 and another such programme at Shillong on August 26 with leaders of Kuki Welfare Association.

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Man who bombed CM’s gate nabbed

IMPHAL, August 23 MNS NNN : Manipur police commandos have arrested a cadre of banned People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak-Progressive (PREAPAK-Pro) who was allegeldy involved in the recent explosion at the western gate of the Chief Minister’s bungalow here including the bombing of Route 39 restaurant, Mantripukhri. A large quantity of arms and ammunition has […]

Man who bombed CM’s gate nabbed

Man who bombed CM’s gate nabbed

IMPHAL, August 23 MNS NNN : Manipur police commandos have arrested a cadre of banned People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak-Progressive (PREAPAK-Pro) who was allegeldy involved in the recent explosion at the western gate of the Chief Minister’s bungalow here including the bombing of Route 39 restaurant, Mantripukhri. A large quantity of arms and ammunition has also been recovered from him.
Naoroibam Joyshankar alias Loiyumba, 27, who hails from Khurai Lairikyengbam Makha Leikai in Imphal East district was apprehended by a team of Imphal West police commandos at Lilong Chajing near Lilong Higher Secondary School in Thoubal district around 5:43 pm yesterday, district Superintendent of Police (SP) K Jayanta said during a media briefing at his office here Friday.
The police officer said the arrested belongs to 39th batch (2009) of the PREPAK-Pro and works for the outfit under the command of of Longjam Subash alias Paliba, 57, the outfit’s self-styled chairman hailing from Thangmeiband Polem Leikai, Imphal West.
He said Joyshankar was involved in detonating an IED near the western gate of Chief Minister O Ibobi’s bungalow on August 10 and the bombing of Route 39 restaurant, Mantriphukhri in Imphal East district on August 17 last .
One remote control device, two charge demolitions marked as LOTLOP81B008002 (explosive cakes), two IED cercuits, four battery cells, three electronic detonators, two packets of steel ball bearings, one Yamaha motor cycle FZ, three motor cycle signal lights along with five bulbs, one pair of scissors, one screw driver, one long wire and one switch were seized from his residence, Jayanta said.
Joykishan was assigned to carry two out more blasts and the bomb was packed in a soap.

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Tribal students to lobby in Delhi

New Delhi, Aug 23 NNN: Tribal student leaders from Manipur have arrived here in the national capital last evening seeking audience in connection with the tribal peoples’ cause in Manipur. President of All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) Muan Tombing, its general secretary Vareiyo Shatsang and others are now camping in New Delhi meeting leaders […]

New Delhi, Aug 23 NNN: Tribal student leaders from Manipur have arrived here in the national capital last evening seeking audience in connection with the tribal peoples’ cause in Manipur.
President of All Tribal Students Union, Manipur (ATSUM) Muan Tombing, its general secretary Vareiyo Shatsang and others are now camping in New Delhi meeting leaders of All India Tribal Students Federation (AITSF), Manipur Tribal Rights
Forum, Delhi and many other civil organisations based in New Delhi.
“Except the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), no welfare laws are working in Manipur,” said ATSUM president Muan Tombing and its general secretary Vareiyo Shatsang in New Delhi while talking to Newmai News Network this evening, adding, “The AFSPA is strictly implemented in Manipur for several decades now inspite of strong opposition from the people both in the hills and the valley.”
“Harping continuously by the successive state governments to safeguard the territorial integrity of Manipur but failed to address the plights of the hill people in Manipur, have angered the tribal people of the state,” expressed the ATSUM leaders, adding, “It is in this kind of political climate that we, on behalf of the tribals of Manipur is taking the movement to the national capital.”

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Strike against killing of Gyanendro affects life

IMPHAL, August 23 MNS NNN: Normal life in Manipur was paralysed due to the dawn to dusk state wide bandh given by the Joint Action Committee for driver Okram Gyanendro killing on Friday with the JAC announcing a further indefinite general strike after the state Government refused to give any response to it in connection […]

IMPHAL, August 23 MNS NNN: Normal life in Manipur was paralysed due to the dawn to dusk state wide bandh given by the Joint Action Committee for driver Okram Gyanendro killing on Friday with the JAC announcing a further indefinite general strike after the state Government refused to give any response to it in connection with the death.
Shortly before the Friday strike was about to end at 6 pm, the JAC, which has been putting pressure on the state Government to bring the culprits to justice, announced another state wide indefinite bandh from 6 pm Friday. The JAC said the Government is not responding to its demands.
It has demanded the Government to nab the culprits involved in the van driver killing.
Meanwhile, the 13-hour strike imposed by the JAC affected normal life in the state. However, the bandh was by and large peaceful.
More than 40 women bandh supporters were detained by City Police after they forced shops in Khwairamband market to close down. However, they were later released.
Inter-district passenger service was halted due to the strike, but the inter-state bus service was normal. Most of the educational institutions were also closed for the day. Government establishments were also recorded low attendance.?
Gyanendra aged 35, was reportedly shot dead inside his own passenger van by unknown persons on August 18 in the Naran Konjin Palli area under Wangoi Police Station in Thoubal district. He was a native of Singjamei Okram Leikai in Imphal West district. He left behind his wife and two children.?
Meanwhile, the JAC said the dead body of driver Gyanendro now lying at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) mortuary, Imphal will be taken tomorrow.

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Presidency college students call off stir

Imphal , Aug 23 UNA : The Students’ Union Presidency College Motbung stir came to and an end after Memorandum of Understanding signed between the student body and the Joint Director, Directorate of Tribal Affairs & Hills, Govt. of Manipur Friday. The Students’ Union PCM Secretary Nemneithem Kipgen said, with the initiative of Joint Director, […]

Imphal , Aug 23 UNA : The Students’ Union Presidency College Motbung stir came to and an end after Memorandum of Understanding signed between the student body and the Joint Director, Directorate of Tribal Affairs & Hills, Govt. of Manipur Friday.
The Students’ Union PCM Secretary Nemneithem Kipgen said, with the initiative of Joint Director, TA&H a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed and subsequently our agitation has been put to an end this morning.
Some of the agitating studentsdismantled one of the College classrooms but we prevent them to causedfurther damage”, added Nemneithem Kipgen.
She continued that, the Directorate of Tribal Affairs and Hills,Manipur intimated us that due to inadequate fund release by theMinistry of Tribal Affairs, Govt. of India all the eligible ST students of inside and outside the state of Manipur from different colleges could be awarded with the Post Matric Scholarship during the year 2012-13.
“They also intimated that the department is currently seized with the same problem and is in the process of detecting actual number of ST students who have been left out during the year 2012-13 for submission of a proposal to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Govt.of India requesting release of funds during the current year 2013-14”, she further added.
“The TA&H Department will seek adequate fund from the Ministry of Tribals, Govt. of India for clearing all backlog ST students of 2012-13 and also of 2011-12 at the earliest”.
TA&H Department shall give priority in clearing the due payment of Post Matric Scholarship of the Presidency College, Motbung and the Student body shall cease all sorts of agitation.
The Memorandum signed between the two parties has been signed by the Joint Director, TA&H, Manipur on the part of the Government while the Students’ Union PCM representatives who signed in the MoU are Nemneithem Kipgen, Lamkam Kipgen and Lhingneihoi Haokip.
The Students’ Union Presidency College, Motbung appeals particularly the TA&H department officials and staffs and the Government to make the MoU accomplish accordingly.
In the meantime, Students’ Union PCM stated that regular class has been made compulsory in the College and the teaching staffs, lecturers attend their duty regularly and faithfully up to the satisfaction of the students as well as parents/guardians

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Habitual offender

Myanmar side has started playing menacing role at the border areas of Manipur. Having seen the manner in which the controversial fencing walls are erected abandoning a vast portion of Manipur land the Myanmar military cooked up false hope that Manipur land are up for grabbing at any point of time. So far they have […]

Myanmar side has started playing menacing role at the border areas of Manipur. Having seen the manner in which the controversial fencing walls are erected abandoning a vast portion of Manipur land the Myanmar military cooked up false hope that Manipur land are up for grabbing at any point of time. So far they have not faced any kind of resistance from Indian side when they make intrusion in our land. Frankly speaking they have not realised the military might of India of which Manipur is a part. Myanmar side needs to be taught a lesson or two by telling them to move away from where their presence is not required. They have turned out to the habitual offenders shifting the border pillars from one place to another. Manipur showed restraint. If the same act of illegal felling of trees was perpetrated by Manipur citizens they would have landed in the three and half feet tall one and feet wide jail. Neither you can bend nor can you stand erect. Myanmar side is ignorant of the rules of the international boundary. If they wanted to set up military base camp they could have done it in their own land. Their thinking has been shaped by a false notion that Manipur would not be able to influence the higher up at the centre to act against the military chauvinism shown by Myanmar. They depicted their high handedness when they entered Manipur and attempted to set up military base camp. It is amazing Myanmar, which survives with help from neighbouring countries think of making military adventurism even in one of the most powerful countries like India. They have underestimated military might of India. The military adventurism made by Myanmar side cannot go unpunished. They must feel the sting of the mighty force called Indian army. The faulty step made by Myanmar authority must be paid in the same manner they deserve. Use the military might and push away all of them from our soil. Body language of the Myanmar official, when he was talking to the officials of the Government of Manipur, who went to the site where felling of trees was done by Myanmar citizens hired by the military was indicative of the ignorance of the Indian might. He did not tremble when he saw the officials of Manipur. As if he was right and Manipuri officials wrong he spoke with his hands waving from one direction to another. The delay in taking action will send wrong signal.

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Record making biggest mass Bible reading

Mail News Service Imphal, Aug 23 : Its official now! The Gangte tribe of Manipur has created World Records for Biggest Mass Bible Reading. This was approved by Records bodies such as Limca Book of Records, Asia Book of Records & India Book of Records respectively. Determined to set World Records of different kinds, a […]

Record making biggest mass Bible reading

Record making biggest mass Bible reading

Mail News Service
Imphal, Aug 23 : Its official now! The Gangte tribe of Manipur has created World Records for Biggest Mass Bible Reading. This was approved by Records bodies such as Limca Book of Records, Asia Book of Records & India Book of Records respectively.
Determined to set World Records of different kinds, a record number of 7047 participants took part in Mass Bible Reading as part of the Gangte Gospel Centenary celebration on 16th December, 2012 at Chiengkonpang in Churachandpur District of Manipur. Braving the cold wintry breeze, the participants read the whole Book of Romans in standing position from Chapter 01-16, starting at 1.27pm. The Mass Bible Reading concluded at 2.53pm, taking the duration of 1.27hrs.
The Mass Bible Reading, which was witnessed by Maniram Sharma, Addl DC, Churachandpur and L Mangkhogin Haokip, IPS, Superintendent of Police, Churachandpur was organized with the aim of involving all participants who took part in the Centenary celebration. ‘The main aimed of the Mass Bible Reading was to spread the Gospel throughout the Seven Seas’ Rev K Mawia said.
Addressing media persons at Manipur Press Club today, an elated Elder LS Gangte, Chairman, Gangte Christian Gospel Centenary Committee, Manipur said “The achievement is significant not only for the Gangte community, but also for the whole state of Manipur”. “It is a moment of joy and happiness for us all as the records has been achieved in the soil of Manipur”, he added.
Gangte, belonging to larger Chin-Kuki-Mizo fold is one of the indigenous tribes of Manipur who trace their origin to Khul. History has it that the Gangtes came to Manipur in 16th century from Burma. Today, the Gangtes have settled in all parts of Manipur, mainly concentrating in Churachandpur district with a population of about 20,000. There are altogether 54 Gangte villages in the state, spreading in all districts of Manipur. The Gangtes also settled in sister north-eastern states such as Mizoram, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya.
Christianity came to Gangte Biel (Region) in 1912. The Gospel first set its foot at Saichang village under Henglep Sub-Division in Churachandpur District. Propagated by two pioneering missionaries – Evan Thangvang and Evan Damsuok, it can be said that the whole populace of the tribe have been now converted to Christianity. Accepting Lord’s Almighty as their Savior, twelve persons from Saichang village decided to convert to Christianity, in 1912, becoming the first Christians amongst the Gangte tribe.
For the Gangtes, setting records of sort is not new to them. They have created world records, amongst others for “swimming the thick cloud (mist), blunting the sharp edge of axe with toes, whipping to death elephants by loin clothes and felling of teak trees from its trunk”. These records were, though without documentary evidence, but passed down generations after generations through word of mouth.
However, the records for Mass Bible Reading has been properly documented, both by print medium as well as electronically. The video recordings, media reports, photographs and certificate from observers were sent to record bodies such as Limca Book of Records, Asia Book of Records & India Book of Records. ‘The record bodies accepted our claim based on documentary evidence after much research, survey and cross-checking’, LS Gangte added.
‘A Thanks-Giving program will be organized on 14th December, 2014’, Rev K Mawia, Gen Secy, Gangte Christian Gospel Centenary Committee, Manipur said.

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UCM to organize seminar on border issues

Perturbed at the Indo Myanmar border issues at Moreh with regard to faulty border fencing and land encroachment by Myanmarese Army for construction of a Platoon Base Camp at Haolenphai village, United Committee Manipur UCM is all set to organize a …

Perturbed at the Indo Myanmar border issues at Moreh with regard to faulty border fencing and land encroachment by Myanmarese Army for construction of a Platoon Base Camp at Haolenphai village, United Committee Manipur UCM is all set to organize a public seminar on border issues on September 1 next Source Hueiyen News Service

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Aid provided to flood affected families

Flood affected villagers of Khangabok AC in Thoubal district have drawn the attention of the State Government to extend help and relief to them Source The Sangai Express

Flood affected villagers of Khangabok AC in Thoubal district have drawn the attention of the State Government to extend help and relief to them Source The Sangai Express

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KSDC spreads out its movement

Kukis in Manipur have intensified their statehood demand movement by spreading out their programmes to various parts of the North East India region Source Hueiyen News Service Newmai News Network

Kukis in Manipur have intensified their statehood demand movement by spreading out their programmes to various parts of the North East India region Source Hueiyen News Service Newmai News Network

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State to take up plot controversy with Defence Ministry

Education Minister M Okendro today stated that the State Government would take up the controversies surrounding the ownership of Manipur Public School plot with the Defence Ministry in order to work out a solution Source The Sangai Express

Education Minister M Okendro today stated that the State Government would take up the controversies surrounding the ownership of Manipur Public School plot with the Defence Ministry in order to work out a solution Source The Sangai Express

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Ibobi assures construction Wakf Board office

Acknowledging that the present office of Wakf Board is not in a good shape, Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has assured that he would construct a proper building of the board if there is no land dispute at all Source Hueiyen News Service

Acknowledging that the present office of Wakf Board is not in a good shape, Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has assured that he would construct a proper building of the board if there is no land dispute at all Source Hueiyen News Service

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Probe on, yet no clues

The murder case of van driver Okram Gyanendro is being investigated intensively but no clues can be gathered so far, said Imphal West SP Konsam Jayenta Source The Sangai Express

The murder case of van driver Okram Gyanendro is being investigated intensively but no clues can be gathered so far, said Imphal West SP Konsam Jayenta Source The Sangai Express

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Dawn to dusk bandh extended indefinitely

Normal life in Manipur was paralysed due to the dawn to dusk state wide bandh given by the Joint Action Committee for driver Okram Gyanendro killing on Friday with the JAC announcing a further indefinite general strike after the state Government refuse…

Normal life in Manipur was paralysed due to the dawn to dusk state wide bandh given by the Joint Action Committee for driver Okram Gyanendro killing on Friday with the JAC announcing a further indefinite general strike after the state Government refused to give any response to it in connection with the death Source Hueiyen News Service NNN

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Workshop on substance abuse among children ends

Inclusion of life skill programme, counselling and awareness programme on substance abuse in school curricula activities and taking up awareness programme on substance abuse among children from local governance like Panchayati Raj and Autonomous Distri…

Inclusion of life skill programme, counselling and awareness programme on substance abuse in school curricula activities and taking up awareness programme on substance abuse among children from local governance like Panchayati Raj and Autonomous District Councils are Source The Sangai Express

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Repairing work along TamenglongKhongsang road begins, finally

The 83th Battalion Border Road Task Force BRTF on Friday began the actual maintenance work along the deplorable Tamenglong Khongsang road by filling up pot holes Source Hueiyen News Service Daniel Kamei

The 83th Battalion Border Road Task Force BRTF on Friday began the actual maintenance work along the deplorable Tamenglong Khongsang road by filling up pot holes Source Hueiyen News Service Daniel Kamei

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CPI State unit proposes Dr Nara as party candidate for LS Poll

CPI National Headquarters has received a proposal from the CPI Manipur State unit to field Dr Moirangthem Nara as CPI candidate for the Lok Sabha elections in Inner Manipur Parliamentary constituency Source The Sangai Express

CPI National Headquarters has received a proposal from the CPI Manipur State unit to field Dr Moirangthem Nara as CPI candidate for the Lok Sabha elections in Inner Manipur Parliamentary constituency Source The Sangai Express

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Sana Konung Takeover Govt forms committee to pursue talks

Following continuous protests of Sana Konung Semgat Lup against the State Cabinet’s decision to acquire the Sana Konung for development into a historical monument, the State Government has finally formed a high power committee to pursue talks with Sana…

Following continuous protests of Sana Konung Semgat Lup against the State Cabinet’s decision to acquire the Sana Konung for development into a historical monument, the State Government has finally formed a high power committee to pursue talks with Sana Konung Semgat Lup on this palace takeover row Source Hueiyen News Service

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Kuki State demand

Kukis in Manipur have intensified their Statehood demand movement by spreading out their programmes to various parts of the North East India region, reports NNN Source The Sangai Express

Kukis in Manipur have intensified their Statehood demand movement by spreading out their programmes to various parts of the North East India region, reports NNN Source The Sangai Express

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HCV sensitization program held

Manipur Network of Positive People MNP , Delhi Network of Positive People DNP , CARE Ukhrul, Ukhrul Network of Positive People UNP and Network of Positive People Ukhrul NPPU have jointly organised a 2 days HCV sensitization and treatment progr…

Manipur Network of Positive People MNP , Delhi Network of Positive People DNP , CARE Ukhrul, Ukhrul Network of Positive People UNP and Network of Positive People Ukhrul NPPU have jointly organised a 2 days HCV sensitization and treatment program in ukhrul district at the conference hall of TTA Hamleikhong on August 22 and 23 Source The Sangai Express

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