Month: May 2013

Mail News Service
Imphal, May 2 : Six organizations, viz KCP, KYKL, PREPAK, PREPAK  (Pro), RPF & UNLF members Co ordination Committee (CorCom) organized a Joint Military Commission (JMC) of the Chief of the Army Staff and formed “Joint Fighting Force” (JFF) on May 2. Chairman, MM. Ngouba, CAS, PLA, RPF, H. Ibomcha, Chief of the Army Staff, MFL, KCP, K. Nimai, Acting Chief of the Army Staff, MYL, KYKL, Aheiba Angom, CAS, Red Army, PREPAK, N. Rakhesh Asst. Chief of the Army Staff, Red Army, PREPAK (Pro), N. Koireng, VCS, MPA, UNLF and other JMC members took part in the meeting. Task of forming the a United Front has reached its final phases. With the formation of the JFF the movement will make a new turn said a press hand out issued by Coordination Committee, (CorCom).

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Mail News Service
Imphal, May 2 : Wangkhemcha Shyamjai was elected as the President of the All Manipur Working Journalists Union (AMWJU).
The election for the post of the President was held on May 1 at Manipur Press Club. K Shyamjai Chief Editor of Kangleipakki Meira, an evening newspaper was declared elected as the President of AMWJU. He defeated former President A. Mobi with a margin of about 35 votes. The third candidate Salam Jugol got 14 votes.
Seven standing committee members were already declared elected unanimously. The members are B Sanjoy of Eikhoigi Panthung, Th Milan Luwang of Manipur Mail, Th Yaiphaba of Naharolgi Thoudang, Ch Meghabarna of Mannaba, GA Naocha of News X and Th Lakhikanta of Paojel.

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A man stabbed his sister-in-law to death in Bishnupur district of Manipur last night. The victim was identified as Phuritlatpam Neina aged 48, wife of Ph Brajagopal of Yumjao Lairembi in Bishnupur Ward Number-2. Phuritlatpam Brajakeshwor aged 46, son of late Ph Gouramahon stabbed his sister-in-law from the back while she was washing kitchen wares in the house after the night dinner around 9:30 pm Wednesday. The police said prima facie it is believed the cause of the killing was a family feud. Reports said the accused is a drug addict and the Bishnupur District Police has taken him into custody.

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Imphal, May 2 NNN: A group of people numbering about 24 holding guns and other sharp objects like spade and axe allegedly attacked and ransacked the village of Chadong in Ukhrul district of Manipur, destroying several houses and properties, apart from allegedly looting about Rs 10 crore.
According to the Yaomi Kasar, acting headman of Chadong village under Chadong Police Station Litan, 24 persons led by Thanmi Kashung, Huimi Kashung Honnreikhui Kashung, Standhope Kashung, Kahaoshang Mahong attacked and plundered the remote village of Chadong on April 30 around 10:30 pm. Some of the assailants were from villages of Thawan and Reha in the district, Kasar alleged.
He said the state Director General of Police (DGP) has been urged to take necessary legal action against the attackers.
They used licensed gun, spear, spade, axe and iron rod as weapons while attacking and ransacking the village, he added.
Kasar also said the attackers destroyed their houses, properties and allegedly looted Rs 10 crore as they were defenceless.
He said the huge amount of money looted by the plunderers was recently received by the villagers from Manipur Government under RR Scheme for the construction of Mapithel Dam Project.
State Director General of Police (DGP) has also been earnestly requested to arrest the perpetrators and book them as per the law in the larger interest of the villagers of Chadong and also to recover the money looted from them at the earliest, the acting headman of Chadong village added.
Mapithel Dam Multi-purpose Project Displaced Villages Committee (MDMPDVC) Thursday alleged some armed youths of Chadong village in Ukhrul district of Manipur, who are against the dam, loitered around the village on the nights of April 28 and 29 and threatened around 50 families to leave the village by April 30 which led to some villagers, disappeared from the village.
Then another group of people from the villages of Riha Thawai and Ramrei, who are members of MDMPDVC, came to the village of Chadong on the night of April 30 and there, they destroyed houses, properties including granaries, MDMPDVC alleged while condemning the incident.
A statement of the committee said that the villages of Riha, Thawai, Ramrei and Lamlai Mongbung had dishonoured the resolution adopted by the committee at Thawai village and parted from it.
MDMPDVC said these villages had already received their land compensation in 2003 and thereafter, Ramrei and Lamlai Mongbung villages took their compensation and Rehabilitation Package in 2007 and 2009 and then they moved to a new village in the same year.

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