BJP rejects CM’s clarification over suprastate body

Rejecting the clarification made by Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh from Delhi over Supra state body proposal, BJP Manipur Pradesh has categorically observed that people of Manipur cannot be fooled by such clarification which has come indirectly like a jo…

Rejecting the clarification made by Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh from Delhi over Supra state body proposal, BJP Manipur Pradesh has categorically observed that people of Manipur cannot be fooled by such clarification which has come indirectly like a joke Source Hueiyen News Service

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BJP blames Govt for fishermen’s plight

BJP has accused the SPF Government of pushing the fishing families of Loktak Lake into a sea of misery by evicting them from their dwelling houses Source The Sangai Express

BJP has accused the SPF Government of pushing the fishing families of Loktak Lake into a sea of misery by evicting them from their dwelling houses Source The Sangai Express

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Speaker Hemochandra accused

Social Upliftment Organisation SUO and Service Recreation and Organisation of Youths SROY has charged Speaker I Hemochandra, who is also the MLA of Singjamei Assembly Constituency with misusing the Local Area Development Fund LADF and has threate…

Social Upliftment Organisation SUO and Service Recreation and Organisation of Youths SROY has charged Speaker I Hemochandra, who is also the MLA of Singjamei Assembly Constituency with misusing the Local Area Development Fund LADF and has threaten to take up legal procedures in the regard Source Hueiyen News Service

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Decks cleared for Sangai Tourism Festival

The elaborate and grand State tourism festival popularly and officially known as Manipur Sangai Festival will be opened tomorrow by Chief Minister Okram Ibobi at Hapta Kangjeibung Source The Sangai Express

The elaborate and grand State tourism festival popularly and officially known as Manipur Sangai Festival will be opened tomorrow by Chief Minister Okram Ibobi at Hapta Kangjeibung Source The Sangai Express

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Blood donation camps held at Wangoi

Under the sponsorship of SBTC MACS, a blood donation camp was organized by Awakening Foundation in collaboration with 18 SIKH and HAPES at Wangoi Higher Secondary School yesterday Source Hueiyen News Service

Under the sponsorship of SBTC MACS, a blood donation camp was organized by Awakening Foundation in collaboration with 18 SIKH and HAPES at Wangoi Higher Secondary School yesterday Source Hueiyen News Service

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SSP turns table on Home Minister

Reacting to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s clarification that the report published by Seven Sisters Post SSP about the Government of India’s offer of Supra State body to NSCN IM, the daily paper based at Guwahati and Dibrugarh has categorically …

Reacting to Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s clarification that the report published by Seven Sisters Post SSP about the Government of India’s offer of Supra State body to NSCN IM, the daily paper based at Guwahati and Dibrugarh has categorically stated that it was the Home Minister who was not telling the truth Source The Sangai Express

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Zilla Parishad’s fund misused

Huge amount of funds allocated to the Thoubal District Zila Parishad for the development programmes to be carried out in its 16 territorial constituencies has been illegally withdrawn and misused by the Adhyaksha and the Chief Executive Officer, allege…

Huge amount of funds allocated to the Thoubal District Zila Parishad for the development programmes to be carried out in its 16 territorial constituencies has been illegally withdrawn and misused by the Adhyaksha and the Chief Executive Officer, alleged Abdul Latif, member, Thoubal District Zila Parishad Source Hueiyen News Service

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PC’s clarification not convincing, asserts BJP Seven Sisters Post sticks by report

Although Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has denied offering Supra State Body for Nagas to NSCN IM and rejected the news report published by the Seven Sisters Post as baseless, BJP has asserted that the Home Minister’s clarification cannot remove the…

Although Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has denied offering Supra State Body for Nagas to NSCN IM and rejected the news report published by the Seven Sisters Post as baseless, BJP has asserted that the Home Minister’s clarification cannot remove the sense of apprehension felt by the people of Manipur Source The Sangai Express

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Manipur Shangai Festival to begin today, foreign exhibitors to take part

The Manipur Shangai Festival which is celebrated every year to boost and promote the tourism of the state will be held this year again, starting from November 21 Source Hueiyen News Service

The Manipur Shangai Festival which is celebrated every year to boost and promote the tourism of the state will be held this year again, starting from November 21 Source Hueiyen News Service

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Clarification on Moreh mishap

Apropos to the news item published under the caption ‘Mishaps kill two’ in the November 20 issue of this paper, it is set on record that no one was killed in the road mishap at Moreh Source The Sangai Express

Apropos to the news item published under the caption ‘Mishaps kill two’ in the November 20 issue of this paper, it is set on record that no one was killed in the road mishap at Moreh Source The Sangai Express

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`Stage all set for Manipur Sangai festival, 2011`

IMPHAL, November 20: The stage is all set for the Manipur Sangai Festival, 2011 (Manipur… more »

IMPHAL, November 20: The stage is all set for the Manipur Sangai Festival, 2011 (Manipur Tourism Festival), which will be inaugurated tomorrow at the Hapta Kangjeibung by the state Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh. The festival is being organized by the state tourism department with the main objective to highlight the potentials of tourism industry in the state, commissioner tourism KK Chhetry said this evening during a press conference called regarding the preparation of the festival.

The tourism commissioner further confirmed the arrival of delegates from seven South-East Asian countries to participate in the festival.

The tourism festival was launched while considering the potential of the state as a tourist hotspot, and the various exotic spots which could lure the national as well as international tourist into the state, he informed the conference.

There are separate committees to look into each and every details of the festival and they will help attract the tourist from the state as well as from outside according to their own specific needs.

The department has further instituted a separate cultural sub-committee which will look into bringing the various aspects of traditional and cultural items of the various communities residing in the state. The department has further instructed all district administrations to send cultural troupes of all communities residing in their districts so that the various cultural forms of all ethnic groups are showcased during the festival, he further informed.

Indigenous games and cultural items will be showcased everyday of the festival at separate venues in the state. Traditional polo, Mukna, Mukna Kangjei, Arambai will be showcased during the festival.

Other main attractions of the ten day long state festival will be X-Games including speed rock climbing competition, traditionalshow, rock show, he further informed.

He further informed that more than 200 bodies have already book to open stall at the main venue of the festival at Hapta Kangjeibung.

He further informed that more than 200 stalls have already been booked for the tourism festival while teams from Thailand and Kenya are on their way.

Our Moreh corresspondent adds: A delegation of 12 members of Myanmar will take in the Manipur Sangai festival which will be held from November 21.

The members are U Hia Maung, president BTCC, U Kokogig, vice president RUBTCC, U Kyaw San Win, auditor RUBTCC, U Than Win member RUBTCC, U Myint Hlay, member RUBTCC, U Aye Ko, secretary. RUBTCC, U Tun Shnu, managing director MIIC Ltd, U Aung Chin, managing director, aung chin co. ltd, U Win Myint Mama, direct shine sisoc co. ltd, Daw Yi, trader yuzuna trading, U Tha Aung, direct nayrinza co. ltd, U Twin Theinoo.

Indo-Myanmar Association and NEFIT provided assistance to the Myanmarese delegates. 

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Embezzlement charges

IMPHAL, Nov 20: Some members of Thoubal Zilla Parishad have alleaged Adhakshya MV Atao Rahman… more »

IMPHAL, Nov 20: Some members of Thoubal Zilla Parishad have alleaged Adhakshya MV Atao Rahman and former chief executive officer A Romita of embezzling Rs. 16,83,282 from the joint account at UBI, Thoubal Branch.

Speaking to media persons today at Manipur Press Club, Zilla Parishad member of Leishangthem, Md Abdul Latif stated the Adhakshya and CEO have embezzled the money from the fund sanctioned by state finance commission (2009-10,2010-11) and 13th finance commission (2011-12). The duo have withdrawn the money from the UBI without prior information to any the Zilla Parishad member.

The members further demanded the authorities concerned to investigate into the matter and take punitive action against the defaulters.

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Counseling for graduate teachers under RMSA announced

IMPHAL, November 20: With the conclusion of the ten days induction training programme for newly… more »

IMPHAL, November 20: With the conclusion of the ten days induction training programme for newly recruited graduate teachers under RMSA, counseling for posting teachers will be done on November21 for SGT; on November 22 for AGT and on November 23 for both EGT, MGT and LGT stated a release of the principal secretary, education (S).

It has further added that the counseling will be done at RMSA office, Babupara, Imphal west from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. Only the candidates who attend the counseling will be given an opportunity for selecting the posting of his/her own choice, depending on merit. However, teachers under Additional English will be counseled along with English Teachers, it added.

Following the same pattern of recruiting the graduate teachers based on merit on the past academic and professional performance of the candidates, the process of posting by counseling is also based on merit of candidates. The counseling for posting involves selection of the posting from among the available vacancies based on the merit of candidates in a transparent process, it said.

It has further informed that candidates will be called in order of merit to select their posting. The first candidate will pick up his choice of posting and the next candidate will pick up from the left over vacancies and the process will continue till the end, it stated.

The likely vacant list of schools has been distributed to all the candidates on November 19, so that the candidates are aware of the likely vacant schools and their address. While preparing the likely vacant schools list apart from 67 upgraded schools, thorough analysis was done considering the gaps of teachers in position in class IX & X in all the existing 224 secondary schools and their enrollment. The vacancies are identified on the basis of student enrollment and shortage of teachers and availability of vacancies, it maintained.

The counseling will be done in the presence of all candidates. The whole process will be displayed on Big Screen for information of all the candidates. The progress of allotment of vacancies can be seen by the candidates as it goes on and on completion of the counseling posting order will issued immediately, it ended.

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Leaders` meet

IMPHAL, Nov 20: Khoupum Area Peace Forum organized a consultative leaders’ meeting of various Zeliangrong… more »

IMPHAL, Nov 20: Khoupum Area Peace Forum organized a consultative leaders’ meeting of various Zeliangrong civil organization and social workers at Majorkhul Community Hall on November 19.

A release of the KAPF stated that the meeting deliberated over the prevailing tension arising out of armed confrontation between the cadres of NSCN (IM) and ZUF.

The meeting also decided to intervene into the violent conflict between the two groups. It also appealed to all to shun violence and propagate peace and harmony in Khoupum area.

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Bomb found

IMPHAL, Nov 20: A hand grenade was found this early morning near the residence of… more »

IMPHAL, Nov 20: A hand grenade was found this early morning near the residence of Horticulture director K Asang at Dingku road. The bomb was later picked up by a team of the Lamphel police at around 6 am. It can’t be ascertain as who or why the bomb was left, police informed.

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Members enrollement

IMPHAL, Nov 20: Around four hundred youths were today enrolled to the Indian Youth Congress… more »

IMPHAL, Nov 20: Around four hundred youths were today enrolled to the Indian Youth Congress at Moirangkhom Sougaijam Lampak, Yaiskul. The enrollement process started from 9:30 am and continued to 12:30 pm stated press released of the Yaiskul Youth Congress Committee.

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G Khelchandra Memorial hockey kicks off

IMPHAL, Nov 20: The 5th edition of G Khelchandra Memorial State Level Hockey Tournament commenced… more »

IMPHAL, Nov 20: The 5th edition of G Khelchandra Memorial State Level Hockey Tournament commenced today at Khuman Lampak Main Stadium, Imphal with MLA Th Nandakishore as the chief guest.

In the opening match, YCCIC defeated SYUC by 3-0 in the opening match of the tournament.

Y Chandra scored the first goal for YCCIC in 10th minute of the match. N Sanjoy scored another goal by penalty corner in 48th minute while W Suresh added one more goal in 52nd minute of the match.

MLA Nandakishore and EE L Dhaballo also donated Rs. 10000 and Rs. 5000 respectively to the organizing committee.

MEIRAA will meet UYAC while MPSC will face SYUC in tomorrow’s match of the tournament.

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Kabaddi tournament

IMPHAL, Nov 20: VETO, Laphupat Tera defeated CCYPAC, Lilong by 43-13 in the opening match… more »

IMPHAL, Nov 20: VETO, Laphupat Tera defeated CCYPAC, Lilong by 43-13 in the opening match of 39th state level senior Kabaddi championship held at Uripok.

Meanwhile, DMC will meet LYUC in the opening match of Super Six Women’s League tomorrow.

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Myanmar Opening Up

The inevitable is beginning to happen. Myanmar/Burma is opening up. N reciprocation, the Western world… more »

The inevitable is beginning to happen. Myanmar/Burma is opening up. N reciprocation, the Western world is also beginning to warm up towards it. In a significant development, President of the United States, Barak Obama, has asked his secretary of state Hillary Clinton to make a visit to the country in December and this comes close on the heels of Burma being awarded to host the 2014 ASEAN football championship. The excitement is palpable even across the border. A visit to Moreh and Tamu will bear testimony to this new sense of optimism that a momentous wind of change is approaching. It is evident in the new springs in the steps of even ordinary folks in these backwater neighbouring townships. The new buzz in town is expectedly and dominantly about the new political upheaval that is beginning to enter Myanmar/Burma in a slow but sure way.

This sense of optimism is also there in the new shine the faces of the industrious women vendors from across the border with cheeks covered with chandan paste, selling aromatic brown rice sweetened a little and garnished with shredded coconut flesh, as much as it is there in the faces of those who come to her to sample this Burmese delicacy. The Burmese customs officials at Moreh Gate No. 2, leading to Namphalong Market and beyond to Tamu, have also shed the familiar look of suspicion at everybody who seeks to cross border under the day-permit arrangement agreed between Myanmar and India. Now they are in fact helpful and instead of the unceremonious “no” to permission to take cameras or mobile phones along to their side of the border, they have learned to advice visitors on how to get permission and from where etc. Despite the nearly four-month long blockade in Manipur, Moreh and Namphalong markets remain buoyant. Tamu a little beyond is a lot more laid back, but here too the sense of a once closed space beginning to open up is pronounced. A Tamu veteran football team agreed to play a friendly match with an Imphal veteran football club recently, a gesture unthinkable only a few months ago, for getting such a proposal through would have meant months of negotiating a perpetually suspicious military bureaucracy. Not anymore. It is almost as if a shackle has broken and vanished overnight.

Tamu was once upon a time a sleepy town. It waited for shoppers from Manipur in the mornings and then by early afternoon when the shoppers have returned, shut down. It is still this way to some extent but the new sense is, it is much more prepared to absorb the changes that rapid modernisation can bring about. It is a planned township, with straight streets turning and intersecting at right angle. It has plenty of space, and conspicuous is also the apparent lack of greed for land. Building do not spring up from the street borders but after leaving adequate space for drainages, pedestrian pavements etc. Most of the shops and residences have small but well manicured courtyards in front of them, indicating their owners consider the lifestyle they have been used to as very important, unlike on the Indian side where spaces not converted to shops and other constructions are considered a waste. Perhaps this the difference the Buddhist outlook has made. In the next decade or so, it is quite imaginable even this township would be transformed into one of those neat, orderly and prosperous South East Asian cities, leaving Moreh and perhaps even Imphal far behind in terms of quality of life availed to residents. Already, residents of Moreh visit Tamu in the evening hours to have a sense of the relaxed atmosphere that contrast in a profound way with the tension in their own hometown. The moot point is, should not Manipur also prepare. This preparation is not just about infrastructures but also about the general mindset of the government as well as the public. Indeed, this mindset would even begin to reflect in the way infrastructures are built and maintained. A comparison between Namphalong and Moreh bazaars which literally rub shoulders would give an idea of what we mean by this mindset. Namphalong is not just bigger, but much neater and disciplined. Moreh is beginning to wallow in filth as most bazaars in India do.

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