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Rs 2 lakh each to Manipur women hockey players
Nagaland Post Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh on Monday gave away Rs 2 lakh each to four Manipuri girls who were part of the Indian squad that won a bronze at the ERGO Junior Women World Cup Hockey Championship in Monchengladbach, Germany. |
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Manipur celebrates ‘Patriots Day’ on Tuesday, 13, to commemorate the 1891 Anglo-Manipuri war during which scores of people sacrificed their lives to safeguard the independence of the state.
Militant outfit Kangleipak Communist Party on Tuesday called for a 12-hour “public curfew” from 6 am on August 15 as part of its boycott call of the Independence Day celebrations. Fire services, media, water supply, religious functions and electricity would be exempted from the purview of the “public curfew”, the outfit’s Publicity Secretary Paikhomba Meitei said in a statement.