Birth anniversary

Bishnupur, Jul 10: 104th birth anniversary of freedom fighter Hemam Nilamani Singh was observed at Moirang INA Memorial Hall today, reports our correspondent.
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Bishnupur, Jul 10: 104th birth anniversary of freedom fighter Hemam Nilamani Singh was observed at Moirang INA Memorial Hall today, reports our correspondent.

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Manipur: 1528 ‘fake encounters’ later, a court rules – The Indian Express


The Indian Express

Manipur: 1528 ‘fake encounters’ later, a court rules
The Indian Express
The Supreme Court on Friday held that armed forces cannot use excessive force even in areas that come under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and ruled that over 1,500 cases of alleged fake encounters in Manipur, over the last 20 years, …
In victory for Manipur victims, India top court removes immunity for armed forcesThe National
SC right on AFSPA abuse in ManipurDeccan Chronicle
Army can’t use excessive force in Manipur: SCThe New Indian Express
Chandigarh Tribune –The Arunachal Times
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The Indian Express

Manipur: 1528 'fake encounters' later, a court rules
The Indian Express
The Supreme Court on Friday held that armed forces cannot use excessive force even in areas that come under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) and ruled that over 1,500 cases of alleged fake encounters in Manipur, over the last 20 years, …
In victory for Manipur victims, India top court removes immunity for armed forcesThe National
SC right on AFSPA abuse in ManipurDeccan Chronicle
Army can't use excessive force in Manipur: SCThe New Indian Express
Chandigarh Tribune –The Arunachal Times
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Manipur woman alleges racism at IGI immigration counter – Times of India


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Manipur woman alleges racism at IGI immigration counter
Times of India
NEW DELHI: A woman from Manipur has alleged that she was subjected to racist comments at the immigration check at IGI Airport on Saturday night. Monika Khangembam, who was heading to Seoul, later took to the social media to narrate her encounter …
Manipuri woman alleges racism, harassment at Delhi airport’s immigration deskHindustan Times
Manipur woman Monika Khangembam shares her frustration on Facebook after ‘racist’ questions from IGI immigration …Daily Mail
Manipuri girl representing India at Seoul faces racism in Delhi airportthenortheasttoday.com
Catch News –India.com –Daily News & Analysis
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Manipur woman alleges racism at IGI immigration counter
Times of India
NEW DELHI: A woman from Manipur has alleged that she was subjected to racist comments at the immigration check at IGI Airport on Saturday night. Monika Khangembam, who was heading to Seoul, later took to the social media to narrate her encounter …
Manipuri woman alleges racism, harassment at Delhi airport's immigration deskHindustan Times
Manipur woman Monika Khangembam shares her frustration on Facebook after 'racist' questions from IGI immigration …Daily Mail
Manipuri girl representing India at Seoul faces racism in Delhi airportthenortheasttoday.com
Catch News –India.com –Daily News & Analysis
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In victory for Manipur victims, India top court removes immunity for armed forces – The National


The National

In victory for Manipur victims, India top court removes immunity for armed forces
The National
In the most notable display of opposition, Irom Sharmila, a political activist from Manipur, has been on hunger strike since November 2000, demanding a repeal of the act. Ms Sharmila has been force fed for more than 15 years, through a nasal feeding
Manipur probe: Indefinite AFSPA is failure of Army, Govt, says SCThe Indian Express
SC right on AFSPA abuse in ManipurDeccan Chronicle
Army can’t use excessive force in Manipur: SCThe New Indian Express
Deccan Herald –The Arunachal Times
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The National

In victory for Manipur victims, India top court removes immunity for armed forces
The National
In the most notable display of opposition, Irom Sharmila, a political activist from Manipur, has been on hunger strike since November 2000, demanding a repeal of the act. Ms Sharmila has been force fed for more than 15 years, through a nasal feeding
Manipur probe: Indefinite AFSPA is failure of Army, Govt, says SCThe Indian Express
SC right on AFSPA abuse in ManipurDeccan Chronicle
Army can't use excessive force in Manipur: SCThe New Indian Express
Deccan Herald –The Arunachal Times
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Manipuri woman alleges racism, harassment at Delhi airport’s immigration desk – Hindustan Times


Hindustan Times

Manipuri woman alleges racism, harassment at Delhi airport’s immigration desk
Hindustan Times
A Manipuri woman alleged late on Saturday that an immigration official at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport hurled racist remarks at her when she was on her way to Seoul for a conference. Monika Khangembam wrote on her Facebook wall that when …
Manipuri girl representing India at Seoul faces racism in Delhi airportthenortheasttoday.com
New Delhi airport’s immigration officer accused of racism, harassment against Manipuri womanIndia.com
This Manipuri girl’s encounter with a racist immigration officer will make every Indian feel ashamedDaily News & Analysis

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Hindustan Times

Manipuri woman alleges racism, harassment at Delhi airport's immigration desk
Hindustan Times
A Manipuri woman alleged late on Saturday that an immigration official at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport hurled racist remarks at her when she was on her way to Seoul for a conference. Monika Khangembam wrote on her Facebook wall that when …
Manipuri girl representing India at Seoul faces racism in Delhi airportthenortheasttoday.com
New Delhi airport's immigration officer accused of racism, harassment against Manipuri womanIndia.com
This Manipuri girl's encounter with a racist immigration officer will make every Indian feel ashamedDaily News & Analysis

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MP forest dept gets translator from Manipur to quiz foreign poacher – Hindustan Times


Hindustan Times

MP forest dept gets translator from Manipur to quiz foreign poacher
Hindustan Times
The Madhya Pradesh forest department’s special task force (STF), which arrested a foreign woman poacher having links with an international pangolin poaching racket, called in a translator from Manipur who speaks Paite language as they had failed to …


Hindustan Times

MP forest dept gets translator from Manipur to quiz foreign poacher
Hindustan Times
The Madhya Pradesh forest department's special task force (STF), which arrested a foreign woman poacher having links with an international pangolin poaching racket, called in a translator from Manipur who speaks Paite language as they had failed to …

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Landslide blocks NH2 disrupting traffic to and from Manipur – Free Press Journal

Landslide blocks NH2 disrupting traffic to and from Manipur
Free Press Journal
Imphal: Manipur’s road-link with the rest of the country was severely disrupted on Sunday as a landslide blocked National Highway 2 near the Nagaland capital Kohima. “All available personnel and machinery are being used to remove the debris from the …

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Landslide blocks NH2 disrupting traffic to and from Manipur
Free Press Journal
Imphal: Manipur's road-link with the rest of the country was severely disrupted on Sunday as a landslide blocked National Highway 2 near the Nagaland capital Kohima. “All available personnel and machinery are being used to remove the debris from the …

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A virus called AFSPA

(Excerpts from a 2009 report on fake encounters) By Irengbam Arun The Armed Forces Special Powers Act is a direct descendant of the Armed Forces Special Powers Ordinance 1942 that the British rulers promulgated to suppress the Indian Freedom Movement during the Second World War. The later was a temporary measure to tackle an emergency […]

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(Excerpts from a 2009 report on fake encounters) By Irengbam Arun The Armed Forces Special Powers Act is a direct descendant of the Armed Forces Special Powers Ordinance 1942 that the British rulers promulgated to suppress the Indian Freedom Movement during the Second World War. The later was a temporary measure to tackle an emergency […]

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Facing Gender Stereotype

Literally gender equality, also known as sex equality, gender egalitarianism, sexual equality, or equality of the genders, is the view that everyone should receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against based on their gender. This is one of the objectives of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which seeks to create equality […]

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Literally gender equality, also known as sex equality, gender egalitarianism, sexual equality, or equality of the genders, is the view that everyone should receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against based on their gender. This is one of the objectives of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which seeks to create equality […]

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Manipur: Police apprehend 4 militants – thenortheasttoday.com

thenortheasttoday.comManipur: Police apprehend 4 militantsthenortheasttoday.comAs per the statement, on Saturday morning at around 11.30 am, the state police commandos arrested one ultra of the banned PREPAK (PRO). The arrested has been identified as 5…


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Manipur: Police apprehend 4 militants
thenortheasttoday.com
As per the statement, on Saturday morning at around 11.30 am, the state police commandos arrested one ultra of the banned PREPAK (PRO). The arrested has been identified as 52-year-old P Gorobi from North AOC area and nabbed from within the Imphal …
4 militants arrested by Manipur PoliceThe Statesman

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Demand of Manipur Nurses on the Rise in International Arena – NorthEast Today

NorthEast TodayDemand of Manipur Nurses on the Rise in International ArenaNorthEast TodayAfter the Japanese authority reportedly made a proposal to Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh to send 15,000 trained nurses for working in Japanese hospitals…


NorthEast Today

Demand of Manipur Nurses on the Rise in International Arena
NorthEast Today
After the Japanese authority reportedly made a proposal to Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh to send 15,000 trained nurses for working in Japanese hospitals, the Trinidad and Tobago, a Latin American country also requested to send 100 trained …

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Manipur to Bring Another Anti-Migrant Bill – NorthEast Today

NorthEast TodayManipur to Bring Another Anti-Migrant BillNorthEast TodayAn all-party meeting held on Saturday in the office of Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh resolved to pass another anti-migrant bill in the forthcoming session of the Manipur Assembl…


NorthEast Today

Manipur to Bring Another Anti-Migrant Bill
NorthEast Today
An all-party meeting held on Saturday in the office of Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh resolved to pass another anti-migrant bill in the forthcoming session of the Manipur Assembly. On May 11, President Pranab Mukherjee had withheld the Protection of …
Fresh Bill is insulting: CCpur JACThe Sangai Express

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‘Internal disturbance in Manipur, not war-like state’ – Press Trust of India

‘Internal disturbance in Manipur, not war-like state’
Press Trust of India
The Centre’s view in opposing any investigation into the alleged extra-judicial killings that a war-like situation was prevailing in Manipur did not go well with a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Uday Umesh Lalit which rejected it saying Attorney

'Internal disturbance in Manipur, not war-like state'
Press Trust of India
The Centre's view in opposing any investigation into the alleged extra-judicial killings that a war-like situation was prevailing in Manipur did not go well with a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Uday Umesh Lalit which rejected it saying Attorney

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More area submerged as Mapithel Dam rises

IMPHAL, July 9: The water of the Mapithel dam has increased in such an alarming rate that it has submerged more human settlements surrounding the dam and further threatens to do so. A team of media persons visited the affected villages wherein it had encountered untold hardship the villagers has been facing due to the […]

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IMPHAL, July 9: The water of the Mapithel dam has increased in such an alarming rate that it has submerged more human settlements surrounding the dam and further threatens to do so. A team of media persons visited the affected villages wherein it had encountered untold hardship the villagers has been facing due to the […]

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Manipur to give Rs 5L ex gratia to kin of police firing victim – Times of India

Times of IndiaManipur to give Rs 5L ex gratia to kin of police firing victimTimes of IndiaImphal: The state cabinet has resolved to pay an ex gratia of Rs5,00,000 to the family of a Muslim youth, who was killed recently by the police while trying to co…


Times of India

Manipur to give Rs 5L ex gratia to kin of police firing victim
Times of India
Imphal: The state cabinet has resolved to pay an ex gratia of Rs5,00,000 to the family of a Muslim youth, who was killed recently by the police while trying to control a clash between neighbouring Meitei and Meeiti Pangal (Meitei Muslim) villagers at

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Ratan’s houses raided, JAC fumes

IMPHAL, Jul 9: The JAC constituted against the de-claration of wanted tag on former JCILPS convenor Khomdram Ratan has announced to stage mass sit-in-protests at different localities of Singjamei from 11 am to 4 pm on July 10 and 11. While speaking at a press conference held at Manipur Press Club, JAC convenor Th Subhashchandra […]

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IMPHAL, Jul 9: The JAC constituted against the de-claration of wanted tag on former JCILPS convenor Khomdram Ratan has announced to stage mass sit-in-protests at different localities of Singjamei from 11 am to 4 pm on July 10 and 11. While speaking at a press conference held at Manipur Press Club, JAC convenor Th Subhashchandra […]

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Railway network and highways in landlocked NE

It is long overdue. Of course, we are talking about improving transport infrastructure and connectivity in the North East region. For too long, the North East region has been isolated not because of its mountainous terrain but on account of geo-political considerations. Policy planners and decision makers sitting in the power corridors of New Delhi […]

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It is long overdue. Of course, we are talking about improving transport infrastructure and connectivity in the North East region. For too long, the North East region has been isolated not because of its mountainous terrain but on account of geo-political considerations. Policy planners and decision makers sitting in the power corridors of New Delhi […]

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MoEF to explore NE biodiversity

New Delhi, Jul 9 :The environment ministry is all set to launch a drive to discover the flora and fauna of some areas in the Northeast part of the country, which so far remain unexplored. A detailed survey of the region, therefore, has been proposed by the ministry over the next few months, that would […]

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New Delhi, Jul 9 :The environment ministry is all set to launch a drive to discover the flora and fauna of some areas in the Northeast part of the country, which so far remain unexplored. A detailed survey of the region, therefore, has been proposed by the ministry over the next few months, that would […]

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Central Govt should uphold SC verdict: AI India

IMPHAL, Jul 9: The Central Government must heed to a Supreme Court ruling on the importance of holding security forces accountable for human rights violations, and repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts which grant soldiers virtual immunity from prosecution in civilian Courts, Amnesty International India said today. The Court is hearing a public interest […]

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IMPHAL, Jul 9: The Central Government must heed to a Supreme Court ruling on the importance of holding security forces accountable for human rights violations, and repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Acts which grant soldiers virtual immunity from prosecution in civilian Courts, Amnesty International India said today. The Court is hearing a public interest […]

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Fresh Bill is insulting: CCpur JAC

IMPHAL, Jul 9: Asserting that the Manipur Govt’s preparation to introduce fresh Bills is an insult to the tribal ‘martyrs’ and the tribal people in Manipur, a public consultation meeting convened today by the JAC against Anti-Tribal Bills at YPA general headquarters hall, Hiangtam Lamka resolved to endorse the JAC to continue to spearhead the […]

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IMPHAL, Jul 9: Asserting that the Manipur Govt’s preparation to introduce fresh Bills is an insult to the tribal ‘martyrs’ and the tribal people in Manipur, a public consultation meeting convened today by the JAC against Anti-Tribal Bills at YPA general headquarters hall, Hiangtam Lamka resolved to endorse the JAC to continue to spearhead the […]

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