Month: December 2016

Coming out strongly against New Delhi Likely poll impact in Naga areas

The Centre should take due note of the seriousness of the matter. Perhaps this is the first time, after the ceasefire agreement was inked way back in 1999, that the NSCN (IM) has come out strongly against New Delhi and at the core of it all is the crea…

The Centre should take due note of the seriousness of the matter. Perhaps this is the first time, after the ceasefire agreement was inked way back in 1999, that the NSCN (IM) has come out strongly against New Delhi and at the core of it all is the creation of seven new districts by the State Government, the decision of the Centre to send in additional troops to the State to ensure the free flow of goods laden trucks on the National Highways in the face of the ongoing economic blockade imposed by the United Naga Council (UNC) and the assent given by Governor Dr Najma Heptulla to the creation of the seven new districts.

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2016 : A year that isn’t a year

Samarjit Kambam
Only two days are left for the year 2016 to come to an end, counting today. The year of 2016 heralded with a promising start but the ending is comparable to a nightmare. More like watching a movie that has a happy beginning with a tragic ending, only that it is happening in real life. In fact, the promising beginning is having in store a compromising end. Trust deficit and widening of rifts among ethnic groups, rearing up of the ugly head of communalism with intensified degree, things going on communal lines viz-a-viz. Unemployment reaching an all-time high. Drug trafficking climbing up the charts, rapes and molestation remaining a regular affair, pathetic governance, the UNC’s unending economic blockade taking the common people for a ride leaving the state in a state of doldrums with the central government’s demonetization adding to the woes manifold.

Samarjit Kambam
Only two days are left for the year 2016 to come to an end, counting today. The year of 2016 heralded with a promising start but the ending is comparable to a nightmare. More like watching a movie that has a happy beginning with a tragic ending, only that it is happening in real life. In fact, the promising beginning is having in store a compromising end. Trust deficit and widening of rifts among ethnic groups, rearing up of the ugly head of communalism with intensified degree, things going on communal lines viz-a-viz. Unemployment reaching an all-time high. Drug trafficking climbing up the charts, rapes and molestation remaining a regular affair, pathetic governance, the UNC’s unending economic blockade taking the common people for a ride leaving the state in a state of doldrums with the central government’s demonetization adding to the woes manifold.

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Ethnic encapsulation and ethnocentrism : The Manipur experience

Ethnocentrism as Prelude to the Conflict:
Human beings everywhere live in societies. Some hundreds of thousands years ago, all societies are homogeneous in that the members of such societies were alike in race, religion, culture, language and practised the same custom. The emergence of heterogeneous societies, a few thousand years ago, changed all this. Heterogeneous societies came about as a result of migration and conquest through which came the extensive and continuous contact and interaction between the members of different societies. This in time led to the development of larger socio­political units and multi-group societies. There were conquerors and conquered and rulers and ruled.

Ethnocentrism as Prelude to the Conflict:
Human beings everywhere live in societies. Some hundreds of thousands years ago, all societies are homogeneous in that the members of such societies were alike in race, religion, culture, language and practised the same custom. The emergence of heterogeneous societies, a few thousand years ago, changed all this. Heterogeneous societies came about as a result of migration and conquest through which came the extensive and continuous contact and interaction between the members of different societies. This in time led to the development of larger socio­political units and multi-group societies. There were conquerors and conquered and rulers and ruled.

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Thanksgiving ceremony for Kamjong district held Manipur is for everyone, we are one : CM – The Sangai Express


The Sangai Express

Thanksgiving ceremony for Kamjong district held Manipur is for everyone, we are one : CM
The Sangai Express
IMPHAL, Dec 29: “Manipur is for everyone, we all are one and we should have the sense of belongingness”, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi said at the Thanksgiving ceremony for creation of Kamjong district held at the Tribal Research Institute (TRI), …
Manipur for everyone who resides in the state: IbobiEastern Mirror
Unsettled dispute; Uncertain fate of ManipurE-Pao.net
Ibobi inaugurates new districtAssam Tribune

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The Sangai Express

Thanksgiving ceremony for Kamjong district held Manipur is for everyone, we are one : CM
The Sangai Express
IMPHAL, Dec 29: “Manipur is for everyone, we all are one and we should have the sense of belongingness”, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi said at the Thanksgiving ceremony for creation of Kamjong district held at the Tribal Research Institute (TRI), …
Manipur for everyone who resides in the state: IbobiEastern Mirror
Unsettled dispute; Uncertain fate of ManipurE-Pao.net
Ibobi inaugurates new districtAssam Tribune

all 6 news articles »

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Manipur needs a superman – The Sangai Express

Manipur needs a supermanThe Sangai ExpressI was born and brought up in Bishenpur; spent most of my teenage years in the sleepy semi-hilly town, mingling with a host of friends from diverse communities who lived in the town and its neighbouring Chiru, C…

Manipur needs a superman
The Sangai Express
I was born and brought up in Bishenpur; spent most of my teenage years in the sleepy semi-hilly town, mingling with a host of friends from diverse communities who lived in the town and its neighbouring Chiru, Chothe and Kabui villages dotted sparsely …

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Manipur needs a superman – The Sangai Express

Manipur needs a supermanThe Sangai ExpressI was born and brought up in Bishenpur; spent most of my teenage years in the sleepy semi-hilly town, mingling with a host of friends from diverse communities who lived in the town and its neighbouring Chiru, C…

Manipur needs a superman
The Sangai Express
I was born and brought up in Bishenpur; spent most of my teenage years in the sleepy semi-hilly town, mingling with a host of friends from diverse communities who lived in the town and its neighbouring Chiru, Chothe and Kabui villages dotted sparsely …

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Manipur needs a superman

Jyaneswar Laishram
I was born and brought up in Bishenpur; spent most of my teenage years in the sleepy semi-hilly town, mingling with a host of friends from diverse communities who lived in the town and its neighbouring Chiru, Chothe and Kabui villag…

Jyaneswar Laishram
I was born and brought up in Bishenpur; spent most of my teenage years in the sleepy semi-hilly town, mingling with a host of friends from diverse communities who lived in the town and its neighbouring Chiru, Chothe and Kabui villages dotted sparsely on the surrounding low hill slopes. The villages turned into a treasure trove for all kinds of seasonal fruits that I enjoyed plucking and eating with my tribal and non-tribal friends during mid-winter school breaks. Winter time in the villages was always a delight as Christmas and New Year celebrations united all of us, irrespective of the religions or communities or tribes we belong.

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UNC set for longer Manipur agitation – Calcutta Telegraph


Calcutta Telegraph

UNC set for longer Manipur agitation
Calcutta Telegraph
Imphal, Dec. 29: The United Naga Council (UNC) is prepared for a long-drawn-out campaign for the “protection of the Nagas’ ancestral land” as the Okram Ibobi Singh government is not ready to accede to its demands. The UNC and other Naga organisations …
Thanksgiving ceremony for Kamjong district held Manipur is for everyone, we are one : CMThe Sangai Express
Manipur for everyone who resides in the state: IbobiEastern Mirror
Unsettled dispute; Uncertain fate of ManipurE-Pao.net
Assam Tribune
all 8 news articles »

Calcutta Telegraph

UNC set for longer Manipur agitation
Calcutta Telegraph
Imphal, Dec. 29: The United Naga Council (UNC) is prepared for a long-drawn-out campaign for the "protection of the Nagas' ancestral land" as the Okram Ibobi Singh government is not ready to accede to its demands. The UNC and other Naga organisations …
Thanksgiving ceremony for Kamjong district held Manipur is for everyone, we are one : CMThe Sangai Express
Manipur for everyone who resides in the state: IbobiEastern Mirror
Unsettled dispute; Uncertain fate of ManipurE-Pao.net
Assam Tribune
all 8 news articles »

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Peace prayer

The Archbishop of Imphal Dominic Lumon has called on all the Catholics of Manipur to observe January 1 as a day of prayer for peace and harmony and invited all the communities for the peace prayer from 11 am to 12 pm at the Cathedral Church, Mantripuk…

The Archbishop of Imphal Dominic Lumon has called on all the Catholics of Manipur to observe January 1 as a day of prayer for peace and harmony and invited all the communities for the peace prayer from 11 am to 12 pm at the Cathedral Church, Mantripukhri.

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Thanksgiving ceremony for Kamjong district held Manipur is for everyone, we are one : CM

IMPHAL, Dec 29: “Manipur is for everyone, we all are one and we should have the sense of belongingness”, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi said at the Thanksgiving ceremony for creation of Kamjong district held at the Tribal Research Institute (TRI), Chingmeirong, today under the aegis of the District Administration Kamjong.

IMPHAL, Dec 29: “Manipur is for everyone, we all are one and we should have the sense of belongingness”, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi said at the Thanksgiving ceremony for creation of Kamjong district held at the Tribal Research Institute (TRI), Chingmeirong, today under the aegis of the District Administration Kamjong.

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Nagas in Delhi to intensify their agitation

New Delhi, Dec 30 : The Joint Naga Civil Societies, Delhi (CJNCSD) today organized a mass protest rally at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi to further intensify their protest against the arrest of the two United Naga Council (UNC) leaders and the unconstitutional formation of the new seven districts. Hundreds and thousands of Nagas thronged the […]

New Delhi, Dec 30 : The Joint Naga Civil Societies, Delhi (CJNCSD) today organized a mass protest rally at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi to further intensify their protest against the arrest of the two United Naga Council (UNC) leaders and the unconstitutional formation of the new seven districts. Hundreds and thousands of Nagas thronged the […]

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2016/12/nagas-in-delhi-intensify-their-agitation/

Schools inaugurated

Bishnupur: Newly constructed 7 schools were today inaugurated by Parliamentary Secretary M Prithviraj Singh and ZEO, Zone IV Kh Yaima Singh today, reports our correspondent. The schools inaugurated today are Tronglaobi Gurukhana Primary School, Tronglaobi Leimaram Primary School, Kwakta Sandhong Primary School, Kwakta Sevla Primary School, Kwakta Ward No 4 Primary School, Kwakta Ward No […]

Bishnupur: Newly constructed 7 schools were today inaugurated by Parliamentary Secretary M Prithviraj Singh and ZEO, Zone IV Kh Yaima Singh today, reports our correspondent. The schools inaugurated today are Tronglaobi Gurukhana Primary School, Tronglaobi Leimaram Primary School, Kwakta Sandhong Primary School, Kwakta Sevla Primary School, Kwakta Ward No 4 Primary School, Kwakta Ward No […]

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Election committee formed

Bishnupur: Election committee of BJP, Bishnupur was formed during a programme held at BJP, Ningthoukhong Mandal office today, reports our correspondent.

Bishnupur: Election committee of BJP, Bishnupur was formed during a programme held at BJP, Ningthoukhong Mandal office today, reports our correspondent.

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Protest demonstration

Bishnupur: A sit-in protest against UNC’s economic blockade was organised by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Bishnupur Unit was staged today, reports our correspondent.

Bishnupur: A sit-in protest against UNC’s economic blockade was organised by Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Bishnupur Unit was staged today, reports our correspondent.

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DESAM burns effigies of Dy CM

IMPHAL, Dec 29 : Volunteers of the Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) today burnt effigies of Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam at Keishampat and Imphal College gate, demanding publication of the full report of the police enquiry into the O…

IMPHAL, Dec 29 : Volunteers of the Democratic Students Alliance of Manipur (DESAM) today burnt effigies of Deputy Chief Minister Gaikhangam at Keishampat and Imphal College gate, demanding publication of the full report of the police enquiry into the October 29 case wherein 5 student leaders, including DESAM president, were arrested over a scuffle at Manipur University.

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160th birth anniversary of Bir Tikendrajit observed

IMPHAL, Dec 29 : Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee observed the 160th birth anniversary of Bir Tikendrajit at the Congress Bhavan in BT Road.
Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee members led by its president TN Haokip paid floral tributes to the portra…

IMPHAL, Dec 29 : Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee observed the 160th birth anniversary of Bir Tikendrajit at the Congress Bhavan in BT Road.
Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee members led by its president TN Haokip paid floral tributes to the portrait of Bir Tikendrajit in memory and respect of the late leader.

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Nupi Samaj observes 36th Meira Paibi Houdokkhiba Numit

IMPHAL, Dec 29 : The All Manipur Women Social Reformation and Development Samaj (Nupi Samaj), observed the 36th Meira Paibi Houdokhiba Numit at Mayang Langjing community hall today.

IMPHAL, Dec 29 : The All Manipur Women Social Reformation and Development Samaj (Nupi Samaj), observed the 36th Meira Paibi Houdokhiba Numit at Mayang Langjing community hall today.

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One-day free eye-screening & subsidised surgery camp

IMPHAL, Dec 29 : National People’s Party and Shija Eye Care Foundation, Langol, jointly organised a one-day free eye-screening and subsidised surgery camp at Kongba Laishram Leikai Youth Club today.

IMPHAL, Dec 29 : National People’s Party and Shija Eye Care Foundation, Langol, jointly organised a one-day free eye-screening and subsidised surgery camp at Kongba Laishram Leikai Youth Club today.

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Training on Paid News held

IMPHAL, Dec 29 (DIPR) :A training programme on ‘Paid News, complaint monitoring and call centre’ was conducted today at Kombirei Hall, DC Office, Lamphelpat. The training session was organized by the District Election Officer (DEO), Imphal West, as par…

IMPHAL, Dec 29 (DIPR) :A training programme on ‘Paid News, complaint monitoring and call centre’ was conducted today at Kombirei Hall, DC Office, Lamphelpat. The training session was organized by the District Election Officer (DEO), Imphal West, as part of the 2nd round training programme on Election Expenditure Monitoring Mechanism in connection with the ensuing 11th State Legislative Assembly Election, 2017.

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