Black day

IMPHAL, Sept 13: The entire Kuki community in the state observed ‘Balck Day’ by putting black flags at their respective houses today in remembrance of the departed souls who lost… Read more »

IMPHAL, Sept 13: The entire Kuki community in the state observed ‘Balck Day’ by putting black flags at their respective houses today in remembrance of the departed souls who lost their lives while protecting their villages and land in the ethnic clash in early 1990s.

In the meantime, as part of the Black Day for the community today, all forms of normal transportations along the Imphal-Moreh road remain suspended thereby affecting normal trade at Namphalong market in the border town today, added our correspondent from Moreh.

 

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Rs. 90,000 donated

IMPHAL, Sept 14: Ex-president of Inpui Naga Union, Manipur and Nagaland, B Aloh has donated a sum of Rs. 90, 000 to international muaythai player Marempu Kabui, s/o G Thamboujao… Read more »

IMPHAL, Sept 14: Ex-president of Inpui Naga Union, Manipur and Nagaland, B Aloh has donated a sum of Rs. 90, 000 to international muaythai player Marempu Kabui, s/o G Thamboujao and Gita Kabui of Tamphakei Kabui Village who will be representing India in the World Muaythai Championship, 2011 to be held at Tashkent City from September 20 to 27

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Inaugural session

IMPHAL, Sept 15: The inaugural session of technical committee constituted under the aegis of Federation of Regional Indigenous Societies (FREINDS) for the implementation of inner line permit system will be… Read more »

IMPHAL, Sept 15: The inaugural session of technical committee constituted under the aegis of Federation of Regional Indigenous Societies (FREINDS) for the implementation of inner line permit system will be held on September 17 at Imphal Hotel, stated a release.   

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Candidates left unhappy with TET; demand alternative arrangement


IMPHAL, Sept 16: A number of candidates who had come to appear for the Teachers’… more »


IMPHAL, Sept 16: A number of candidates who had come to appear for the Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) today organized by the Board of Secondary Education Manipur under the initiative of the education (s) were deprived of appearing in the test.

Citing incompetency on the part of BOSEM in conducting the test, several candidates numbering around 100 from about 10 centres thronged the BOSEM office at Babupara demanding alternative arrangement for them.

The centres where the candidates were left unhappy include Kongba Meitei Mayek, Tiny Tots, Modern Higher Secondary School, Lamlong Higher Secondary School, Johnstone Higher Secondary, Kingstone Higher Secondary School, Leelasing Khongnangkhong High School.

Talking to media persons a candidate, protesting at the BOSEM office, on conditions of anonymity, disclosed that despite finding their allotted roll numbers in the official advertisement through various local newspapers in the state, the students were unable to find their roll numbers in their allotted exam centres.

“Moreover, it was found that the roll numbers supposed to be for Paper-I was found to be allotted for Paper-II and vice versa creating confusion among the candidates”.

Angered with the confusion, the candidates inquired with the higher authorities of the exam centres, however they were suggested to approach the BOSEM office instead, he said.

The aggrieved candidates later thronged the BOSEM office at around 2:10 pm and gheraoed the office building demanding alternative arrangement for the candidates who were deprived to appear in the test. On receiving the report the commissioner of education (s), Sureshbabu, rushed to the protest site and met the candidates. The commissioner assured the candidates to immediately arrange a separate test as an alternative arrangement for them at Bengali high school at around 3pm.

Following the assurance the protesting candidates agreed to leave the BOSEM office and were soon herded towards Bengali high school by a team of Imphal district West Police.

However, the commissioner stop the arrangement as the question papers of the test has already been distributed to the candidates.

Meanwhile, the All Manipur Students’ Union (AMSU), Democratice Students Alliance of Manipur (DESAM), Manipuri Student’s Federation (MSF) and Kangleipak Student’s Association (KSA), demanded the government to take appropriate action against the commissioner education (s) and fellow officers for being incompetent while discharging their duties citing the imbroglio on TET conducted today.

A press meet was held in this connection at MSF office Sega Road.

Briefing media persons Depanjit Ningthoujam, secretary general AMSU, condemned the conduct of the authority concerned.

He urged the authority to declare a separate arrangement for the candidates at the earliest possible who were unable to appear the TET.

Meanwhile, the student bodies have also stated that an alternate test was held for some of the aggrieved candidates at CC higher School starting from 1:30pm to 3 pm. The student representatives have demanded that the test should be declared null and void and a joint test for all aggrieved candidates should be held at the earliest possible.

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CCpur lifts inter-school soccer cup


IMPHAL, Sept 19: Churachandpur became the winner of U-14 state level inter-school football tournament after… more »


IMPHAL, Sept 19: Churachandpur became the winner of U-14 state level inter-school football tournament after defeating Bishnupur by 3-1 in the final match held at Khuman Lampak Main Stadium.

The goals for Churachandpur team were scored by Sulan (one goal) and Mangminthang (two goals) while Keamrun scored the lone goal for Bishnupur.

Meanwhile, Manipur defeated Kerala by 3-2 in U-17 National School Games Football Tournament held at Srinagar today.

Manipur and Kerala were tied in 2-2 draw till the completion of normal time. However, Manipur scored a goal in the extra-time which led to the victory. Rojen scored all important goals for the state.

The final match will be played between Manipur and Orissa tomorrow.

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Sadar Hills District League


IMPHAL, Sept 20: While the first and second match ended with a walked over JSYC… more »


IMPHAL, Sept 20: While the first and second match ended with a walked over JSYC defeated Kangpokpi Youth Union 3-0 in the third match of Sadar Hills  District League played today at Thomas ground Kangpokpi.
Thanggoulen, Thangjahao and Thangcha scored for JSYC and qualified for semi-final. The other semi finalists are Pangjang Youth Club, Muvanlai Athletics and SC.Loagos.

JSYC meet Pangjang Youth Club in the first semi final match on Thursday while Muvanlai Athletics will clash with SC.Loagos in the second match.

The champion of the tournament will directly play in the coming CC Meet tournament while the runner up will play in qualifying tournament for CC Meet or Winner’s Cup.

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AR donates computer

IMPHAL April 3: 27 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector provided two computers and two printers to General English School, Soura, Thoubal district  under the  Assam Rifles Military Civic Action (MCA)… Read more »

IMPHAL April 3: 27 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector provided two computers and two printers to General English School, Soura, Thoubal district  under the  Assam Rifles Military Civic Action (MCA) Project 2010-11.  The computers and printers were handed over to the school in the presence of the Headmaster, teachers and enthusiastic students today. The students of General English School, Soura were eager to have an exposure to the IT and provision of the equipment facilitated the wishes of the students.

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AR dedicated volley ball court and toilet block at Thoubal

IMPHAL, April 5: 27 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under of HQ IGAR(S) constructed a Volley Ball Court in Hiyanglam Village and Toilet Block at Sekmaijin Khunou Village, Thoubal (Manipur)… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 5: 27 Assam Rifles of 9 Sector under of HQ IGAR(S) constructed a Volley Ball Court in Hiyanglam Village and Toilet Block at Sekmaijin Khunou Village, Thoubal (Manipur) under Assam Rifles Military Civic Action (MCA) Project 2010-11.  According to a PRO release, the Volley-ball court was handed over to the Village in presence of enthusiastic residents and the Pradhan of Hiyanglam on Mar 30 while the toilet block was handed over to villagers in the presence of pradhan and other prominent personalities of Sekmaijin Khunou on March 29. it further stated that the provision of such assists will surely help in overall development of these villages.

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Cabinet approves creation of SDPO post and shcedule of IMC election

IMPHAL, April 6: Considering the deteriorating law and order problems in the state specially in the valley districts involving different cadres of insurgent groups operating in the state, state cabinet… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 6: Considering the deteriorating law and order problems in the state specially in the valley districts involving different cadres of insurgent groups operating in the state, state cabinet in its meeting held today approved creation one more police station above 20 police stations which functions in the state.
According to a highly placed official source, state cabinet meeting convened this evening chaired by Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh at his official bungalow and approved for the creation of one more police station ie New Keithelmanbi PS so as to enable the state police department to cover up any incident and cases related to the law and order problems that happen in the respective Jurisdictions of the maintained police stations.
It may be mentioned that, as per the last cabinet decision the number of the police stations have increased to 20 which includes 15 Police Stations covering 15 villages, Yaingangpokpi Police Stations covering 19 villages, Borobekara Police Station at Jiribam covering 38 villages, Nongpok Sekmai Police Station covering 21 villages, Hierok PS covering 14 villages, Khongjom PS covering 13 villages, Hiyanglam PS covering 15 villages, Wangoo PS covering 12 villages, Nongmaikhong PS covering 8 villages, Phougakchao Ikhai village covering 14 villages, Keibul Lamjao PS Covering 10 villages, Khengjoi Ps covering 51 villages, Sangikot PS covering 105 villages, Willong PS Covering 10 villages, Tungjoy PS covering 11 villages, Purul PS covering 17 villages, Pahibung PS covering 22 villages, Dzii PS covering 24 villages, Sanakeithel PS in Ukhrul district covering 10 villages.
The official source also further mentioned that, state cabinet this evening also approved the creation of post of Sub Divisional Officer in Imphal West District to hold the SDPO post for Mayang Imphal Police Station and Patsoi Police Stations and the state cabinet meeting today also approved the liable financial implication for creating SPDO Mayang Imphal amounting Rs.3,91,644 per annum expenditure be made and the same expenditure will be reflected  to the revised estimates, 2011-12 be made under Imphal West District Police.
Later the state cabinet also approved for the framing of rules for the appointment of teachers under RMSA, the official source added.
It also mentioned that the cabinet today approved for the election for the Imphal Municipal councils. In this regard the official instruction will be given to the state election commission for the publication of preliminary electoral on April 11.The last date for the filing claim and objection on electoral roll has been fixed April 15 and the date of the publication of the final electoral rolls is April 25.
The completion of the process will carry out the date of notification of the election on May 4 and followed by the filing of nominations to the said Municipal councils by the candidates will be on May 9. The date of scrutiny is scheduled on May 10 and the election will be conducted on May, 25 this year.
The objectives of all the preparations is to hold the election of the Municipal councils on April 25 and the cabinet meeting also decided all necessary preparation for holding smooth and successful election to the concerned district authorities.

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Admit cards for Women Civil Defence Demonstrators

IMPHAL, April 8: The Directorate of Civil Defence, Government of Manipur has informed that, the admit card for the written examination for the recruitment to the post of Women Civil… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 8: The Directorate of Civil Defence, Government of Manipur has informed that, the admit card for the written examination for the recruitment to the post of Women Civil Defence Demonstrator shall be isuued from April 11 to April 15 this month from Room No. 150, Ministers`™ Block, New Secretariat, Imphal from 10 an till 4 pm.

The official notification issued by the staff officer of state Directorate of Civil Defence, mentioned that, those candidates, who have not yet submitted two passport size photographs attested by a gazetted officer should immediately do so, failing which admit cards shall not be issued to them and the written examination shall be held at Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC) Examination hall, North AOC, Imphal from 10 am till 12 on April 16 this month, the official order added.

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Bravo! Rituporno

By Joshy Joseph At the outset, let me confess that I am not a Bengali and I don`™t understand the inner most nuances of the language. But we Malyalis have… Read more »

By Joshy Joseph
At the outset, let me confess that I am not a Bengali and I don`™t understand the inner most nuances of the language. But we Malyalis have an umbilical cord relationship with Bengal and Bengalis through Cinema, Literature and Politics. I have read the best writers of Bengal in my mother tongue Malayalam. Now for more than a decade through my quest to know how much this cultural osmosis has impacted Bengal from Kerala, I should confess that the graph is not so encouraging.

Some of our writers like Thakazhi and Basheer are familiar in Bengal through some literary bound marriages between Bengal and Kerala. Consequently, the Malyali bride learning the Bengali language bridging the languages and cultures but never the vice versa. Even when vice versa wedlocks happened very strangely and mysteriously the doors always opened only eastwards. My emphasis on the act of Malayali learning Bengali language should not be confused as southward parochialism.

It comes out from a single fact that we were generally watchful of the happenings in the east. But south was identified as the direction through which ` YAMRAJ`™ appears or from where Rajnikant comes. In cinema the cultural exchanges happened irrespective of any matrimonial connections. It is part of our common city lores like the GURU `“ DISCIPLE relationship of Ritwik Ghatak and John Abraham or mentor `“ follower equation of Satyajit Ray and Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Mrinalda was in anyway left to the left. The International Film Festival of India `“ 2010, at Goa, at least to the Malayali delegates gave a new face for Bengali Cinema `“ RITUPORNO GHOSH. There were three films, `ABOHOMAN`™, `NOUKADUBI`™ and `JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY`™.
The first two were directed by Rituporno and the third one saw him as an actor and creative director. I can`™t speak for the entire Goan delegates. But the Malayali intelligentia was awe-struck. The country bars at Panaji witnessed late night open forum sessions both open-for-Rum and debates. Some months back I had read an interview by ace documentary maker and cameraman Ranjan Palit `“ `I find contemporary Bengali films, whether its Rituporno or Anjan, extremely `Nyaka`™. I can`™t sit through them.

`Nyaka`™ and pretentious is a dangerous combination.` Instantly I could identify with Ranjan Palit although we had certain differences of opinion in the past. Later, in some Kolkata open-for-Rum `adda`™ sessions. Ranjan`™s words were in circulation, I realized. Incidentally, in one of the recent articles in Malayalam, I dubbed Rituporno as `“ `an overrated pulp fiction maker`™. But I was in trouble with myself at Goa. 90% through the film `ABOHOMAN`™ I was feeling artistically safe and comfortable as a viewer in the hands of my chosen director. If the film was not encompassing you at some level, you didn`™t have to sit through fastening your seat belt in Goa.

Just get out and have drought-beer. Vijay Mallya had facilitated for it at half the price of a coffee available in the same venue. Since the overall quality of festival films was average or below average (except the retrospective session) the frequency of walk-outs created seeming beer-bellies around me. But `ABOHOMAN`™ hooked me up to the point where the protagonist senior filmmaker, who is in a delirium asking his son played by Jshu Sengupta `“ `Tumi eto lamba hoye gechho!`™ (You have grown so tall!). I thought the emotional and cinematic graph reached its zenith and was not mentally prepared for a lesser experience there after. Rituporno need not have looked for any walking-sticks in Rabindra Sangeet or otherwise. `ABOHOMAN by then started tremoring with a classic cinematic ecstasy.

Somehow my personal observation is that, it is a typical Indian problem. We run out of creative stamina by the end. The way Marathi filmmaker Umesh Kulkarni realized his film `VIHIR`™, reverberating the celebration of sinple and rustic life with its unpredictable tragedies, transformed me into an open-jawed typical Indian viewer, until the typical Indian phenomenon of running out of stamina towards the end, killed my happiness. I was more or less convinced about this `stamina issue`™, after watching Iranian master Abbas Kirostomi`™s `CERTIFIED COPY` at IFFI, Goa. He started it well. It got thickened through the journey. It paused where it should, by transferring the aftershock from the theatre screen to mine, expanding the running time of the film beyond its physical. I am elevated.

I walk past the beer bars drunk without drinking and without a bulging belly or holes in my pocket. Then I watched `JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY`™ directed by Kaushik Ganguly. I had developed a liking for Kaushik Ganguly after assessing his short film as the best one out of six, in `EK MUTHO CHHOBI`™. But I thought his `SUNNO A BUKEY`™ was basically flawed. The sculptor protagonist of this film was agonized about the small breast size of his wife after their first night. First of all, to me, this fellow is a pitiable joker and a poor sculptor who had to undress to see the anatomy of a girl with whom he was roaming around so far! When our film `ONE DAY FROM A HANGMAN`™S LIFE`™ was theatrically released at Nandan, we tried to parody the title of this film in our posters which had later inconvenienced Chief Minister Buddha Babu. We were told that he saw some political underpinnings in our essentially an undergarment take `“ `Kar Bukey a Sunnota?`™ (Whose Bossom is Empty?). I have problems with Kaushik Ganguly`™s film `JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY`™ when it comes to the sepia tone enactments of yester years`™ artist Chapal Bhaduri, who performed female roles in `Yatra`™.

It is a film within film structure. Rituporno as a filmmaker, making a documentary on man-woman overlapping story of Chapal Bhaduri. While Rituporno as a creative director of `JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY`™ blurs the dividing lines between Rituporno on-screen and Rituporno off-screen so naturally and convincingly, I said to myself that Bengali Cinema at last is breaking away from its `Nyaka`™ art film pretentions. It is one thing for any other actor doing the role of a homosexual filmmaker in a Bengali film and a totally different thing while Rituporno himself is doing thatt role, dressing like off-screen Rituporno addressing the unique nature of a sexuality and thereby undressing a `Bhadralok`™ mask staright away. I murmured in Goa `“ Bravo! The Malayali voyeurs in the late night bars wanted to know from me whether I knew Rituporno personally or not. I gave them an expression which could be edited by my friend Amlan into a wedding sequence or a funeral sequence.

Let them interpret the sexuality of that moment till the next film festival. Rituporno stated in an interview `“ `We don`™t realize that it can also be a state of being`¦ that one functions in all areas from this state of being. Homosexuality evokes very strong images of homoeroticism in our minds. The divide between homosexuality and homoeroticism is blurred in us`. In the `Sumang-Lila`™ (Courtyard theatre) performances in Manipur even now the female roles are being performed by male artists. I have met dozens and dozens of Chapal Bhaduris in Manipur. While shooting a film entitled `MAKING THE FACE` with Tom Sharma, a makeup artist in Imphal, I learned a little more about the lives of homosexuals which are tucked down the carpets in Manipur or even in its representations in cinema. It was by default `MAKING THE FACE`™ became a film as it is today. While proposing the film to the public broadcaster, Doordarshan through PSBT, we were metaphor ridden at the proposal stage. I had met Tom Sharma long ago during a marriage function in Imphal as he was making up the bride which took hours. At the end the bride looked like a Raslila dancer ready to enter her stage. I was introduced to Tom. We shook hands. I felt a different touch. We were so nadve to propose a film on a transgender, Tom, as a metaphor as my friend Subhajit Dasbhaumik wrote an even more confusing proposal to PSBT. He wrote `“ `The proposed documentary on Sharma will have to be shot candidly as well as calculatively by following Tom Sharma for a period of 2 months. Liberalization of media (the formats and technical apparatus available in now a days) and its power distribution over enlightened areas will be brought in subjective camera movements. The approach of being an image and the transformation of an image will be marginal dialectical to the film itself.` Finally, we landed up in Imphal for shooting. The very first day of the shooting, I realized that Tom Sharma is not a transgender person but a homosexual. The assignment in hand is on transgender and how do I change his gender identity, now in Imphal? Rituporno says that `the divide between homosexuality and homoeroticism is blurred in us`™. But I had to blur everything, including my original self for this film. There were several objections to several scenes in the film by Doordarshan and Censor Board. When the film was completed I wanted to show it to Tom. It was he who made it possible for the film to enter into the interiors of his life. Tom is a woman caught in a man`™s body. The emotional response while he had to attend to the marriage ceremony of his partner was so fragile. Tom got drunk and puked. While we were shooting the film, Tom Sharma, his ex partner and his wife, all were staying together as business partners. Tom Sharma as a makeup artist for Meitei weddings and Devjit as a photographer. I found that Meitei marriages are so colourful and musical. I could effortlessly foreground Tom and his partner, one making up and the other photographing. The film on a homosexual won the national award as the best family welfare, non-fiction film in 2007. Tom was naturally impatient to see the film. He came to my hotel room and we saw the film together with other common friends. Tom was sitting beside me on the bed. I was nervous. When Tom was uttering candid dialogues like the one that he felt like 50-50 or where he broke down while talking about his partner`™s marriage, on screen. Tom pinched me very dearly. Each pinch conveyed differently each time. Then we went with him to his house where we saw him caring and cajoling his partner`™s new born baby with radiating tenderness. Homosexuality of Tom Sharma was almost asexual. Everything looked natural and normal to me. When Rituporno on-screen, who was obviously upset with the news of pregnancy of his homosexual partner`™s wife and yet sends a pillow from his hotel room to the pregnant lady for padding up while travelling, I felt the tender care of Tom, which very often escapes our macho mindscapes. Rituporno in `ABOHOMAN`™ dealt with such cinematic class the failing wriggle out of a `Bhadralok`™ filmmaker from an extra marital affair within the action `“ reaction pattern located in Bengali upper middle class ethos. Not with contempt but with care. And in `JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY`™ he confronts these structures. I feel I know him little better after watching his iconoclastic avatar in `JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY`™ which should fetch him legitimately a national award as best actor of 2010 with its eloquent pinches. That`™s the punch line.

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Ethics code for media persons

IMPHAL, April 11:  A one day workshop on media ethics organized  by the All Manipur Working Journalists Union has recommended setting up a committee to list a set of conducts… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 11:  A one day workshop on media ethics organized  by the All Manipur Working Journalists Union has recommended setting up a committee to list a set of conducts for the media persons in the state to strictly adhere to media ethics.
The workshop on media ethics held at the Manipur Press Club was sponsored by state directorate of information and public relations and senior journalists of the state put across their views on does and don’ts to be followed by media persons.
In view of the conflict situation in the state, senior journalists of the state felt the need for list of does and donts for media persons in the state and also pressures from both the state and non-state actors on media houses.
Following the threats and pressures, the journalist body already had framed a code of conduct titled local adjustment in the line of the guidelines issued by the Press Council of India.
Following threats from various faction of militants on editors concerning publication of statements issued by the groups or rival groups, daily publications in Manipur often are disrupted sometimes even for days.
Speaking in the workshop, senior journalists of the state expressed their views and stressed the need to update the existing code of conduct  to suit the changing situations to give more strength to the media houses against mounting pressures on media houses.
Senior journalists further expressed concern over growing trend of “paid news” in the state over the years. They expressed that like every professionals in their own field, media persons must honour the ethics.
Addressing the gathering on the theme press council of India (PCI), A. Mobi stated that PCI had suggested over 10,000 guidelines in 1976 and invited feedbacks without any result. Later in 1982, PCI finally realized the need to frame and shape media ethics according to local imperatives.
B. B. Sharma, retired deputy director (news) All India Radio, Imphal stated that Journalists should strive to maintain integrity and honesty and should not do anything that could jeopardise the public confidence on media persons.
Senior journalist and former president of AMWJU AK Sanaton said that media persons have often overlooked ethics and professional code of conduct.
Former AMWJU president N. Tombiraj condemned yellow journalism which has become a common trend and expressed the need to guard ourself against it and maintain the integrity of professional ethics.
The  workshop concluded with two resolutions adopted. One sub committee to survey and analyze backgrounds of media person so that wage related issue may be gathered and  a sub committee to discuss and deliberate ethics of media according to local imperatives.

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Handball tournament

IMPHAL, April 13:The Manipur Handball Association will be orbanising 31st state level junior (boys and girls) under 19 hanball championship. A release by H. Manglem Singh, Hony Gen. secretary stated… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 13:The Manipur Handball Association will be orbanising 31st state level junior (boys and girls) under 19 hanball championship. A release by H. Manglem Singh, Hony Gen. secretary stated that all formalities by clubs should be completed by April 20.

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Football selection

IMPHAL, April 15: M. Dayananda Singh, NISA was selected to attend the trial cum coaching programme for the preparation and selection for the state football team which will participate in… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 15: M. Dayananda Singh, NISA was selected to attend the trial cum coaching programme for the preparation and selection for the state football team which will participate in the forthcoming N.E. games in Arunachal Pradesh. This was stated in a memorandum by L Ranjit Roy, Hon. Secretary of All Manipur Football Association stating Dayananda to report to S> Ekendra Singh, AFC `A`™ Licencee alongwith training kits by 11:00 am of April 16 at Khuman Lampak.

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KCP warns

IMPHAL April 16: The Kangleipak Communist Party (Marxist,Leninist and Maoist) in a press statement by the outfit’s publicity secretary W Malemnganba Meitei states that the one W Priyokumar, a hard… Read more »

IMPHAL April 16: The Kangleipak Communist Party (Marxist,Leninist and Maoist) in a press statement by the outfit’s publicity secretary W Malemnganba Meitei states that the one W Priyokumar, a hard core worker of Lamshang MLA Brajabidhu has occupied the community hall at Taothong which was constructed by former MP Thounaojam Chaoba. This shows complete disregard for the former MP and is a show of power by Priyokumar and Brajabidhu.
The outfit warns Priyokumar to shift within three days from today or invite dire consequences from the KCP. Further,the RDO nursing institute will remain closed as dictated and if the students fail to leave, then the outcome will be the sole responsibility of the students. The KCP also commented that the appeal of the students’ unions to lift the ban on RDO will be considered, but alleged that the unions are not acting like students and more like petty gangsters. The outfit also relaxed the imposition on the toll booth at Khagempalli. 

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Spot painting contest

IMPHAL, Apr 19: The North East Institute of Science & Technology (CSIR), substation, Lamphelpat has conducted spot painting and essay competition for school students as a part of the ‘DNA:DBT-TERI… Read more »

IMPHAL, Apr 19: The North East Institute of Science & Technology (CSIR), substation, Lamphelpat has conducted spot painting and essay competition for school students as a part of the ‘DNA:DBT-TERI Mentoring the schools of Northeast’ under the sponsorship of DBT, New delhi today.
The spot painting competition was held on the topic ;Balanced Envitornment’ while the essay writing competition was held on the topic ‘The role of youth and students in biodiversity conservation’.
Irom Shilla Devi of Keishamthong High School won first prize in spot painting while Kh Adonish Singh of Evergreen Flower School won the esssay writing competition.

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Miss Manipur contest

IMPHAL April 20: Miss Manipur 2011 will be held on May 20 at BOAT.The event is organized by FOUR HOPES under the theme `Beauty with compassion and a mission`. Aspirants… Read more »

IMPHAL April 20: Miss Manipur 2011 will be held on May 20 at BOAT.The event is organized by FOUR HOPES under the theme `Beauty with compassion and a mission`. Aspirants can collect forms for the contest from office of the organization located at Churachandpur parking, Keisampat. The contest carries cash award of Rs 1,11,111 for the winner,Rs 70,000 and 50,000 for the subsequent runners up, stated Nishikanta Khoisnam ,convenor of organizing body at a press meet held at Manipur press club today. President Sucheta Wangkem,Queen of Gladrags (Mrs India) on behalf of the committee appealed the public to extend co operation to the event.

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Dismal Water Management

It took a Public Interest Litigation, PIL, to have the government pull up its socks in matters of tightening up its power supply system to control power thefts by numerous… Read more »

It took a Public Interest Litigation, PIL, to have the government pull up its socks in matters of tightening up its power supply system to control power thefts by numerous consumers in connivance with electricity department officials. So far however, while bill defaulting consumers and those tapping electricity illegally are being penalised, sometimes humiliatingly, what everybody is yet to see is any move to haul up electricity department officials who had allowed these theft all the while, often in collaboration. The principle compromised is the vital understanding in democratic jurisprudence that everybody is equal before the law, and that nobody is above the law. If the government is serious about ensuring this widespread electricity theft racket to end, it must also apply the rod to its own officials responsible either of neglect of duty or complicity in power theft, beginning from petty ground staff to those who these personnel are answerable to. If need be this responsibility fixing must go right up to the very top, including the minister in charge.
On the electricity front it is encouraging that there is some semblance of action and thereby a great deal of consciousness of the issue among the public. This is the kind of atmosphere needed to bring any change for the better. On and off, we have also been hearing how some bill defaulters are complaining this campaign of disconnecting defaulting power subscribers should stop until the government is able provide power supply uninterrupted. This is farcical, but the message should perhaps be read more leniently. Because the government electricity department has not been alert or else neglecting its duty of collecting power taxes, many defaulting subscribers have accumulated huge bills which may not be easy to pay in a single down payment. For these subscribers, the government should offer easy instalment facilities and perhaps a package to write off certain amount if the defaulting subscribers pay up a prescribed percentage within a specified time frame.However, the problem of theft of public utilities and services is not restricted to electricity alone. It is very much happening in the municipal water supply as well with the result that thieves and dishonest consumers who illegally tap government water pipelines not only in manner designed to siphon more water than consumers are allowed to, but also often with no official records hence without tax, get all the benefits, while honest consumers are left with hardly a trickle in their taps. Most of those who would not resort to thieving have no option than to buy water from private water tanker services, a growing enterprise which are now doing brisk businesses in the Imphal area precisely because of the failure of the government to avail them this vital and indispensible commodity. It is time for the government to take a proactive stance and begin the cleaning up act in this vital service too before it is caught on the wrong foot and in extreme embarrassment, and forced to do so by the court as in the case of electricity. Indeed, it is only a matter of days before a PIL comes up on this matter too.
Apart from the failure of the government in not policing well enough to keep these important services from thieves, what is also worrisome is the fact of what seems to be a widespread lack of civic sense amongst the people of the state. The general attitude cannot but remind of the cynical outlook to public psychology which says public property is nobody’s property. This total disregard of the altruistic sense of a progressive society which lays an unwritten moral premium on “the larger common good”, does not reflect civilised behaviour or even a civilised history which so many in Manipur claim at the drop of a hat. Nobody seems to think what he or she unfairly steals from the pool of public services or public properties would deprive a fellow citizen of his or her entitlements. Not only are the putative thieves insensitive, but even the victims of these acts of the thieving consumers have become numb and fail to be outraged at the deprivation of their right. This is to say, it is the duty of those whose entitlement are diminished by these thefts to complain to the authorities, and if the authorities are part and parcel of these thieving ways, to the court or law through mechanisms such as the PIL.

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State team flagged off

IMPHAL, April 22: Altogether 211 players and officials have left Imphal today for Arunachal Pradesh to take part in the 23rd NE Games to be held in Itanagar from April… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 22: Altogether 211 players and officials have left Imphal today for Arunachal Pradesh to take part in the 23rd NE Games to be held in Itanagar from April 30.
The Manipur contingent was flagged off today at Khuman Lampak Sports Complex by director in-charge of YAS Jayenta this morning.
Manipur will compete in all the 12 disciplines in the NE Games. The disciplines are Archery, Athletics, Boxing, Badminton, Taekwondo, Karate-do, Table Tennis, Judo, Weightlifting, Wushu and Football.

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One UG cadre held

IMPHAL, April 23: The troops of 17 Assam Rifles of 10 sector under HG IGAR (S) arrested a cadre of one MNRF at around 2pm on April 22 while conducting… Read more »

IMPHAL, April 23: The troops of 17 Assam Rifles of 10 sector under HG IGAR (S) arrested a cadre of one MNRF at around 2pm on April 22 while conducting an operation in the general area of View Land Ukhrul district.
A release said the      arrested individual has been identified as PS Vareiso, 28, s/o PS Nemi of Chinsao Ukhrul. One country made pistol along with four live rounds of 9mm and a grenade were recovered from the individual. he has been handed over to the Imphal police station along with the recovered items, it said.

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