Day: September 23, 2013

Mail News Service
Imphal, Sep 23 : A medical camp was organised by 40 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR(S) at Maha Kabui village of Senapati district. The medical team of 40 Assam Rifles treated about 45 civilians and also provided them with medicines. Brig M K Das, SM**, VSM Commander 9 Sector Assam Rifles graced the occasion as chief guest and interacted with villagers. He also presented chairs and other items to the villagers.
In a similar endeavour, 6 DOGRA under the aegis of HQ 26 Sector Assam Rifles of HQ IGAR(S) organised medical camp at Molcham village in Chandel district on 22 Sep 2013. A total of 155 patients from Molcham and neighbouring villages were given free medication and health counselling. 24 Assam Rifles of 26 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of HQ IGAR (South) also organised a Lecture on Health & Hygiene at Shaibol Village on 22 Sep 2013.

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Imphal Sept.23 UNA : Three persons who went to Senapati yesterday were caught and allegedly beaten severely after they were blind-folded and their hands and legs were tied with a rope by unknown persons suspected to be NSCN-IM yesterday evening.
They were released later late night at around 9:30 pm with the initiatives of Senapati Town Committee near traffic point Senapati bazar just in front of the Senapati Police Station.
Kanggui Town Committee members including its Chairman Chonkam Kipgen and Kanggui Women Welfare Organization members went to pick up them and admitted the three at CHC, Kanggui at around 10:30pm but they were referred to Kanggui Christian Hospital commonly known as Mission hospital at around 12 midnight since they did not show any improvement even after they were administered proper medical treatment.
They were identified as Thangvanglen Misao (22), s/o Thangtinlal Misao, Kanggui Ward No.6, who is a III Semester student of Kanggui College, Ginkhomang Hangshing (27) s/o Thangdou Hangshing of Kanggui Ward No.6, who is a Butcher by profession and Mangminlal Sitlhou (29) s/o Mangchon Sitlhou of Kanggui Ward No.11, who is a Mistry/Jugali by profession.
According to them they went to Senapati yesterday at around 12 noon and have a drink at one liquor vendor at Senapati bazar.
After the drink they met with one Senapati bound passenger bus owner who is known to one person among them and request him to offer more drink they continued. When they got in one bus to return back to Kanggui some unknown persons caught them from behind and asked them to move down of the bus. Later they ordered them to move down the Old Road and when they reached there, they(the unknown persons) blind-folded us and tied our hand and brought them in one house ans started beating them.
There were several tortured mark in most part of their.
In the meantime, Kanggui Town Committee, Kanggui Women Welfare Organization and Kanggui Youth Union jointly condemned the unfortunate incident in the strongest term.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/three-beaten-up-at-senapati/

IMPHAL, Sept 23 MNS/NNN: The Manipur People’s Party today slammed the O Ibobi led Congress Government accusing it of taking Rs 5,08 lakh from the Centre in a deceitful manner to use in the upcoming 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
MPP president N Sovakiran alleged that the Congress Government of Manipur has recently taken Rs 5, 08 lakh from the Centre on the pretext of giving compensations to the villagers of Manipur’s Chandel district affected by Indo-Myanmar Border Fencing.
“But, the ruling Government will use this money in contesting the next Lok Sabha elections,” the MPP leader accused while addressing a joint meeting of non-Congress parties held at the Community Hall, Keishampat Lairembi here.
Contesting election by selling state’s border lands will invite hue and cry from the people and it is better that the Congress stop such a fraudulent move, he said.
The meet once again called upon both the state and Central Governments for an immediate halt to the current erection of fencing on Indo-Myanmar border and to redress the border issue by October next month.
It demanded that the new stilted fencing erected by Myanmar inside Haolenphai village in Manipur’s Chandel district be dismantled immediately.
The joint meeting was attended by leaders of MPP, Pangan Political Forum (PPF), Manipur state units of BJP, JD-U, NCP, CPI, CPI-M, JD-S, All India Forward Block (AIFB), Naga People’s Front (NPF), Naga People’s Party (NPP), Trinamool Congress, Seva Sena and Manipur State Congress Party (MSCP).
NPF general secretary Athon Abonmei said the Congress Governments of both the Centre and state have not taken any concrete step to resolve the three-month-old border issue of the two neighbours, leaving the people in utter dismay and confusion.
He alleged that the state Government is taking more serious on rice and kerosene than border lands and ridiculed the Food Security Act that the Congress Government is preparing to introduce in the state.
MI Khan, spokesman, PPF urged all the NGOs, other social organizations and political parties to visit New Delhi and gherao the Parliament over the border issue.
Saying that the Myanmar has not grabbed the border lands on Manipur side of Indo-Myanmar boundary, but these have been ceded by the state Government to the neighbour because of casualness, alleged Manipur BJP spokesman Y Nilamani.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/opposition-parties-slam-government-on-border-issue/

IMPHAL, Sep 23 NNN : Around 55 students of Manipur Institute of Technology, Takyelpat have taken shelter at a community hall in Tera Yengkhom Leirak here after the Principal in charge of the institute forced them to leave the hostel yesterday.
A total of 145 MIT students, including many from outside the state are now on stir for over a week demanding removal of the institute’s Principal in charge Th Kulachandra.
Yesterday, several students of the institute who were staging a sit-in protest on the demand at the MIT complex were injured when police used tear gas and lathi charged them.
Coordinating Committee for Development of NH-37 and its Surrounding Important Roads and Tera Yengkhom Leirak Development Committee are now looking after the pushed out MIT students since yesterday.
Tera Yengkhom Leirak Committee secretary Monoranjan urged the concerned authorities to take immediate steps to end the standoff so that the students can return to their hostel and resume normal classes.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/mit-students-evicted-taking-shelter-at-hall/

IMPHAL, Sep 23 NNN : Most of the packaged drinking water manufacturing units in Manipur have turned out to be dangerous as they produced hazardous products that could result in fatality.
T Brojendro Khaba, Deputy Food Safety Commissioner, Directorate of Health, told NNN unsafe packaged drinking water could claim life so the higher authority should look into it with seriousness.
Cases of toxic materials found in such bottled water have been continuously appeared in various local dailies since early part of the current year however nobody has ever tried to lodge a complaint in this regard to the Directorate till date.
He appealed to the public to come to the Directorate if any food item or packaged drinking water is found mixed up with poisonous particles, saying the Food Safety authority of Manipur Government has the exclusive right to ban such manufacturers after the state Government sends its proposal to the Directorate to this effect.
Earlier, media reports had revealed about containing of toxic particles in bottled drinking water.
Machineries used by these units are all given ISI recognition by the Bureau of Indian Standards, but it is doubtful that if these units are buying ISIs through bribing, he said.
Khaba also said these units in the state need to follow a long procedure to produce packaged drinking water and it is not known whether they are actually maintaining it.

Read more / Original news source: http://manipur-mail.com/unsafe-packaged-drinking-water/