Ukhrul Churches fast for Naga Peace Accord

Concatenating a batch of supplications towards expediting the ongoing Indo Naga peace process, different Churches across the district on Friday organized solemn prayer and fasting programs with much spiritual fervency under the aegis of the Tangkhul Na…

Concatenating a batch of supplications towards expediting the ongoing Indo Naga peace process, different Churches across the district on Friday organized solemn prayer and fasting programs with much spiritual fervency under the aegis of the Tangkhul Naga Long TNL Source Hueiyen News Service R Lester Makang

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IRCS limbs restore normal mobility

A stern looking CISF guard at Guwahati’s Gopinath Bordoloi international airport was alarmed when he touched a hard object while groping Mutum Tombisana Singh’s left leg for hidden objects this morning Source The Sangai Express

A stern looking CISF guard at Guwahati’s Gopinath Bordoloi international airport was alarmed when he touched a hard object while groping Mutum Tombisana Singh’s left leg for hidden objects this morning Source The Sangai Express

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One day IPCC held in Tamenglong

With an aim to bridge the communication gap between the government and the people, the District Information Office Tamenglong on Friday organized a one Day Inter Personal CommunicationCampaign IPCC and Five Days Photo Exhibition at Shekinuh Inn Tamen…

With an aim to bridge the communication gap between the government and the people, the District Information Office Tamenglong on Friday organized a one Day Inter Personal CommunicationCampaign IPCC and Five Days Photo Exhibition at Shekinuh Inn Tamenglong district headquarters Source Hueiyen News Service Daniel Kamei

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Norway Ambassador

As announced earlier, Norway Ambassador Nils Ragmar Kamsyag accompanied by his wife his wife and second secretary Johaan Loov reached Imphal today by road from Kohima Source The Sangai Express

As announced earlier, Norway Ambassador Nils Ragmar Kamsyag accompanied by his wife his wife and second secretary Johaan Loov reached Imphal today by road from Kohima Source The Sangai Express

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New AMWJU VP takes charge

Following the suspension of All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union AMWJU vice president Ratan Luwangcha from the post of AMWJU vice president and primary membership of the union for a period of two years, Imphal correspondent of the Indian Age Asem B…

Following the suspension of All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union AMWJU vice president Ratan Luwangcha from the post of AMWJU vice president and primary membership of the union for a period of two years, Imphal correspondent of the Indian Age Asem Bhakta has been appointed to the vacant post of AMWJU vice president Source The Sangai Express

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SFs strike it rich with 8 arrest

A combined team of Imphal West district police and 25 Assam Rifles arrested two top leaders and three cadres of Re unification Kuki army RUKA KNA I yesterday Source The Sangai Express

A combined team of Imphal West district police and 25 Assam Rifles arrested two top leaders and three cadres of Re unification Kuki army RUKA KNA I yesterday Source The Sangai Express

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‘Bishnupur Dist has rich tourism potential but still economically underdeveloped’

Bishnupur District with vast tourist potential and rich tradition still continues to be underdeveloped due to the lack of initiatives by the people, said Commerce and Industries minister Govindas Konthoujam on Friday Source Hueiyen News Service

Bishnupur District with vast tourist potential and rich tradition still continues to be underdeveloped due to the lack of initiatives by the people, said Commerce and Industries minister Govindas Konthoujam on Friday Source Hueiyen News Service

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Dr Jitendra Singh announces ‘superspeciality courses’ for NE

As a new initiative for the Northeast, the Union Minister of State Independent Charge for Development of North Eastern Region DoNER , MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday announced …

As a new initiative for the Northeast, the Union Minister of State Independent Charge for Development of North Eastern Region DoNER , MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday announced super specialty courses for doctors from the eight Northeastern States Source Hueiyen News Service PIB

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Manipur lives in the heart of Japanese Tsukamoto

Manipur can never be separated from the hearts of the Japanese as the State capital city is the home to mortal remains of many Japanese who sacrificed their lives during the Second World War, said Director General of Fukuoka Prefecture Japan, Asia Japa…

Manipur can never be separated from the hearts of the Japanese as the State capital city is the home to mortal remains of many Japanese who sacrificed their lives during the Second World War, said Director General of Fukuoka Prefecture Japan, Asia Japanese Academy, Tsukamoto Katsumi on Friday Source Hueiyen News Service

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Security beefed up ahead of Sangai Fest

Stringent security measures have been taken up across the State capital for tomorrow’s grand opening of the Manipur Sangai festival even as a militant group has announced a 12 hour bandh the same day Source The Sangai Express

Stringent security measures have been taken up across the State capital for tomorrow’s grand opening of the Manipur Sangai festival even as a militant group has announced a 12 hour bandh the same day Source The Sangai Express

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6 UG cadres held

District Police Imphal East conducted counter insurgency search operation in and around Mantripukhri and arrested three active cadres of KCP on November 18 Source Hueiyen News Service

District Police Imphal East conducted counter insurgency search operation in and around Mantripukhri and arrested three active cadres of KCP on November 18 Source Hueiyen News Service

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Manipur lives in the heart of Japanese: TsukamotoE-Pao.netImphal, November 20 2015 : Manipur can never be separated from the hearts of the Japanese as the State capital city is the home to mortal remains of many Japanese who sacrificed their lives duri…

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Manipur State’s first CM Md. Alimuddin remembered
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Md. Alimuddin, the first Chief Minister of Manipur, after it got statehood, was remembered at the 43rd foundation day of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) PG Centre (now Manipur University) held on November 19 at MIMS Hall at Manipur University, …


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Md. Alimuddin, the first Chief Minister of Manipur, after it got statehood, was remembered at the 43rd foundation day of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) PG Centre (now Manipur University) held on November 19 at MIMS Hall at Manipur University, …

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Manipur State’s first CM Md. Alimuddin remembered
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Md. Alimuddin, the first Chief Minister of Manipur, after it got statehood, was remembered at the 43rd foundation day of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) PG Centre (now Manipur University) held on November 19 at MIMS Hall at Manipur University, …


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Manipur State's first CM Md. Alimuddin remembered
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Md. Alimuddin, the first Chief Minister of Manipur, after it got statehood, was remembered at the 43rd foundation day of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) PG Centre (now Manipur University) held on November 19 at MIMS Hall at Manipur University, …

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One CPMF section deployed in each polling station to ensure free and fair polling: Manipur Chief Secreatary

IMPHAL, November 20: Chief Secretary O Nabakishore who is also the State Chief Electoral Officer said 12 company of the Central Para Military Forces have already arrived and a section

IMPHAL, November 20: Chief Secretary O Nabakishore who is also the State Chief Electoral Officer said 12 company of the Central Para Military Forces have already arrived and a section each of the CPMF will be deployed in every polling stations to ensure free and fair bye-election in 5-Thongju and 9-Thangmeiband constituencies.

The Chief Secretary addressing a press conference at his office chamber today said poll hours for the November 21 bye-election to 5-Thongju and 9-Thangmeiband Assembly Constituencies will be from 7am to 4pm.

He said all electors who have been issued EPIC shall produce the EPIC for their identification at the polling stations before casting their votes.

Those electors who are not able to produce the EPIC shall produce any one of the alternative photo identity documents for establishing their identity.

He said three election observers are also appointed in every polling station.

Meanwhile, in connection with the Sangai Festival which will also begin from November 21, the Chief Secretary said the Bhutan Ambassador is arriving tomorrow and about 35 officials and delegates from Myanmar are also coming for this festival.

Security arrangements in and around the festival venues have been beefed up, he added.

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BJP refers to incident as `murder of democracy`

IMPHAL, November 20: The BJP Manipur has submitted a memorandum to the Union Home Minister, Election Commission of India and the government of Manipur to provide adequate security force for

IMPHAL, November 20: The BJP Manipur has submitted a memorandum to the Union Home Minister, Election Commission of India and the government of Manipur to provide adequate security force for smooth, free and fair polling during November 21 bye-election, said BJP Manipur president Th Chaoba reacting to the firing incident at Thongju Constituency which left a 2-year old injured.

Lamenting the incident, Manipur BJP in charge Prahlad Singh Patel had also said that the Chief Minister should tender apology to the people of the State for encouraging the gun culture.

Meanwhile, in ahurriedly called press conference this evening, Congress candidate Bijoy Koijam also condemned the incident and said he has urged the Home department to investigate in the incident and added that the charges of the rival party are all baseless.

BJP Manipur president Chaoba accompanied by Prahlad Singh Patel among others later visited Shija Hospital where the injured infant is lodged.

Meanwhile, speaking to media persons before the visit, Choaba said the firing incident is an attempt to murder the father of the infant who is a BJP worker.

Following the attempt, the BJP suspect if tomorrow`™s election will be free and fair, though election observers have directed that no outsiders will be allowed to enter the two constituencies during the polling, he said.

He said heavy security cover of para-military forces has also been deployed for the free and fair conduct of the election.

Amidst all these, the firing incident is really unfortunate, he said.

It is the murder of democracy and a clear indication of the failure of law and order under the Congress government, Chaoba claimed.

Meanwhile, during the visit to the hospital, Prahlad Patel said the gun culture witnessed in the State is criminalisation of politics.

He said he will request the ECI to strictly check if para military forces are placed within 100 meters range of all polling stations during the polls tomorrow.

He further demanded the local administration to take the incident seriously.

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Rights and Wrongs

It is time for the human rights debate in Manipur, where the endless string of mayhem for the past many decades has disoriented the people of the finer points of

It is time for the human rights debate in Manipur, where the endless string of mayhem for the past many decades has disoriented the people of the finer points of rights and entitlements, is given a fresh approach. The clash between draconian laws and brutal counter laws, decrees and diktats, has desensitized their finer appreciations of the beauty of even the much hyped idea of freedom. Today, if an ordinary man on the street were to be posed the question as to what he thinks freedom is, the answer in all likelihood would be the rote, superficial, textbook or else indoctrinated definition of it. If he or she understands or believes more than just what it is being advocated to mean, the answer is likely to be a studied silence. A silence induced by fear, whichever side of the fence the belief leans towards amidst the intense conflict over the issue in the place. But an honest answer to the question is important. For one thing, on it will hinge the solution to many of our problems. For another, many other questions of import will necessarily have to be derivatives of it. As for instance, linked to it would be our understandings of rights, justice and a sense of a benign republican polity.

When things get complicated, it is always helpful to refer to the thumb-rule that says begin from the basic. A good way of doing this is as Economics Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen says in his book `Development As Freedom`, to consider the term `unfreedoms` rather than the more ethereal `freedom`. What are the conditions in our individual as well as community life that shackle and weigh down our ability to exercise our freedom of thought, belief and action? Poverty, unemployment, deprivation of political voice, inadequate empowerment to participate and formulate policies that govern our lives, depletion of a sense of purpose in life, shrinking of hope of acquiring the skills and abilities to enhance one`™s own quality of life? What are the `unfreedoms` that are coming in the way of our sense of a more comprehensive `freedom`? We will not presume to know the answer but all we can say is that these are material for honest and intense introspection for all of us at this juncture of our history. This is also the only way we can separate the illusory from the substantial, so vital in our situation.

More urgently, a similar introspective approach is also called for to refresh our understanding of the `human rights` question. The question as to what is `just` and what is `right`, may be relatively easy to answer from the legal standpoint but not so when it is considered as a moral query. This is a very old doubt of humankind and has appeared in literature and philosophy through the ages, and quite interestingly, in this debate, there have always been a grudging admiration for those who have presented dissenting views to the accepted and dominant reasoning. In John Milton`™s `Paradise Lost`, Milton himself seems at times to tacitly empathise with Satan`™s reason for rebelling against what Satan described as God`™s dictatorship, however benevolent. In the Hindu scripture of Bhagavad Gita too, there are many who see Arjuna`™s initial opposition to Krishna`™s sermon that nothing ultimately matters except doing duty to God even if this means bloodshed. Among these who see the human predicament in Arjuna`™s dilemma, is again Amartya Sen in his `The Artumentative Indian`. While duty to God is important, shouldn`™t a consideration of the consequences of this duty be any less important, Sen ponders.

Closer at home, Ratan Thiyam seems also to agree with Arjuna. In his `Kurukshetragi Pirang` (Tears of Kurukshetra) which considers what might have happened after the Mahabharat War, against the backdrop of wails of war widows and orphans, the director poses the same question that Arjuna posed Krishna. This victory of the good over evil can be pyrrhic and even cynical. One is also reminded of Max Weber`™s notion of the `State` as the sole wielder of `legitimate violence` in the larger interest of the citizenry. The non state players in our conflict situation also presume this right to legitimate violence, aspiring as they do to be States. In the Weberian sense then, the two are very much the different sides of the same coin. The point is, this `legitimate violence` has increasingly been the cause rather than deterrent of violence against the citizens. Can `legitimate violence` then still be morally legitimate?

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Infant injured in firing incident at Thongju, father calls attack politically motivated

IMPHAL, November 20: A 2-year-old boy was hit by a bullet, when miscreants fired gun-shot at the residence of a BJP worker in Thounju Part-II, on the eve of Thongju

IMPHAL, November 20: A 2-year-old boy was hit by a bullet, when miscreants fired gun-shot at the residence of a BJP worker in Thounju Part-II, on the eve of Thongju bye-poll.

The infant has been identified as one Chirom Lanchenba (two years and six months old), son of Chirom Saratbabu (44) of Thongju Part-II Feija Leitong Maibee Lampak.

Lanchenba received a bullet on his back however is said to be recovering slowly in ICU of Shija Hospital.

According to the victim`™s father Ch Saratbabu, the incident occurred just 10 minutes past midnight November 19.

He said he heard a gunshot very close to his residence adding that alarmed by the sound he held his son, who was sleeping with him, close to him.

Saratbabu further revealed that seconds after the first shot was fired he heard few more shots this time further away from his residence.

The family only came to realise that his son was hit by a bullet following his loud cry, he said.

Moreover, he continued that his son`™s breathing was not right while his whole body was getting colder by the mintues.

When he tried to pick his son, he noticed blood on his shirt and found a bullet hole on his back, said Saratbabu.

The boy was immediately rushed to RIMS where he (victim) was later shifted to Shija Hospital. An operation was reportedly conducted on the boy and removed the projectile.

The bullet hit the minor boy after it pierce through the wall (tin) and wooden bed border.

Speaking to media persons, Saratbabu said that he has no enmity with anyone. However, he assumed that the attack could be related with the current bye election.

He disclosed that he earlier was an active worker of the Congress candidate of his constituency but recently joined BJP to support, Thongam Bishwajit.

Implying the attack was carried out by rival party, he termed the attack was a narrow minded politics influenced by uncivilised individual.

Saratbabu urged the perpetrator not to repeat such inhumane incident in the future and further challenged the perpetrator to openly confront him in person if they have any complaints rather than attacking him like a coward.

Meanwhile, the Thongju Feija local women staged a sit in demonstration denouncing the attack at the local ground.

The protester has demanded the authority concerned to book the culprit involved in the attack at the earliest.

Terming the act a heinous and cowardly act, the protestors speculated that the perpetrators could be some from the locality who is known to Saratbabu.

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