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At 60, House honours two who saw beginning – Rishang from Manipur and Resham Lal Jangade from Raipur

Maneesh Chhibber : New Delhi, Thu May 10 2012, 00:50 hrs – Indian Express On… more »

Maneesh Chhibber : New Delhi, Thu May 10 2012, 00:50 hrs – Indian Express

On Sunday, members of both houses of Parliament will get the opportunity to hear views on the state of India’s democracy from two veterans who have literally seen it all — Rishang Keishing and Resham Lal Jangade, the only surviving members of the first Lok Sabha (1952-57).

Keishing, 93, a former chief minister of Manipur, is now a member of Rajya Sabha. Jangade, a close associate of Babu Jagjivan Ram, lives in a small, two-room home near the Raj Bhawan in Raipur. Speaker Meira Kumar visited him during a visit to Chhattisgarh’s capital in January.

President Pratibha Patil will felicitate both veterans at a ceremony to commemorate the 60th anniversary of India’s Parliament.

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Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/05/at-60-house-honours-two-who-saw-beginning-rishang-from-manipur-and-resham-lal-jangade-from-raipur/

Complete NH-53 work before monsoon: Manipur Minister to BRO

TNN | May 9, 2012, 05.51AM IST   IMPHAL: Manipur’s newly-inducted works minister Khumujam Ratankumar… more »

TNN | May 9, 2012, 05.51AM IST

 

IMPHAL: Manipur’s newly-inducted works minister Khumujam Ratankumar has asked the Border Roads Organization (BRO) to complete the development work of the National Highway 53 connecting Imphal and Jiribam sub-division bordering Assam before the onset of monsoon.

After NH 39 (Imphal-Dimapur route), NH 53, which is currently maintained by the BRO, is the second lifeline of Manipur.

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Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/05/complete-nh-53-work-before-monsoon-manipur-minister-to-bro/

India: Irom Sharmila from Manipur fast in Ripley’s Believe It or Not – BBC

An Indian woman who has spent nearly 12 years fasting to protest against a law… more »

NATIONWIDE SHARMILA SATYAGRAH ON THE DAY OF NAMAK SATYAGRAH 6th april

An Indian woman who has spent nearly 12 years fasting to protest against a law that gives special powers to the armed forces has been featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.

Irom Sharmila Chanu, 40, has been on a hunger strike since 2 November 2000 in the north-eastern state of Manipur.

She has been force-fed through a pipe in her nose since November 2000.

Source: BBC

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Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/05/india-irom-sharmila-from-manipur-fast-in-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-bbc/

Thai students to learn English in Manipur

Esha Roy : Imphal, Mon May 07 2012, 00:26 hrs In one of the first… more »

Esha Roy : Imphal, Mon May 07 2012, 00:26 hrs

In one of the first such collaborations between the two very similar cultures, Manipuris and Thais, Manipur University will now teach English to Thai students. More projects are on the agenda as the universities of Manipur and Thailand are set to collaborate on a number of matters.

“On our visit to Thai universities last year, they discussed with us a need for their students to learn English. Despite having such a strong tourism industry, the Thais are very weak in English. Their primary aim is that the students be conversant in English so that they are able to deal with the increasing number of international tourists,” says Prof Amar Yumnam, Dean of Social Studies at Manipur University. He was part of the delegation that visited Thailand.

Prof Yumnam points out that Thai students start learning English, if at all, only after Class XII.

Dean of Students Welfare and English professor in charge of the project, Professor Ratan says the project will begin in this academic session starting in July. Nearly 40-50 students are likely to come for the first certificate course. “We are keeping the number limited since this is just a certificate course. We will look at an expansion only once this course is successful,” says Prof Ratan.

Manipur University signed an MoU with Surindra Rajabhat University in the Surin province of Thailand last year.

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Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/05/thai-students-to-learn-english-in-manipur/

‘The Loitam case was just a trigger’ – Manipur

Sudipto Mondal It rakes up attitudes and discrimination in a supposedly liberal Bangalore Investigation of… more »

Sudipto Mondal

It rakes up attitudes and discrimination in a supposedly liberal Bangalore

Investigation of the mysterious death of Manipuri student Richard Loitam has taken an intriguing turn even as the police continue to probe into the possibility of his death being caused by a road accident.

Based on the nature of wounds the 19-year-old sustained, which include multiple injuries to his forehead, chest, face and thighs, an opinion has emerged among forensic experts that the boy was beaten by more than the two students. A case of murder has been registered but there have been no arrests yet.

While experts are yet to establish the exact cause of the death, the police and the college management agree that Loitam was attacked on the night of his death.

Brawl or racism?

But ever since the teen’s death made national headlines, activists and journalists have agonised over one question — was it an attack on a human being or a crime against humanity?

During the April 29 “Justice for Richard” protest in the city, there were murmurs about racism and hate crime. But protest leaders were quick to dissuade the agitators from making such claims.

“The brazenness of the attack has the classic symptoms of racism,” argues Johnson Rajkumar, Associate Professor of Visual Communication, St. Joseph’s College, who also hails from Manipur.

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Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/05/%E2%80%98the-loitam-case-was-just-a-trigger-manipur/

Delhi: CFSL scientist from Manipur aDelhi: CFSL scientist from Manipur accuses colleagues of racial discrimination

A forensic scientist hailing from the northeast region has accused his colleagues in Delhi’s prestigious… more »

A forensic scientist hailing from the northeast region has accused his colleagues in Delhi’s prestigious Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) of racial discrimination .

Upset by the alleged racial slurs he suffered at work, the senior scientific officer from Manipur — C.P. Singh — has filed a defamation case against his colleagues. The CFSL assistant director has accused 16 of his colleagues of bullying him and openly calling him “Chinky Owl” and “Ching Chong” at work.

The officer, who works at the physics department of FSL and is an expert in voice identification techniques, alleged that these colleagues regularly gang up against him, pour scorn on him and ridicule him in public, frequently using racial slurs to demean him.

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Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/05/delhi-cfsl-scientist-from-manipur-adelhi-cfsl-scientist-from-manipur-accuses-colleagues-of-racial-discriminationracial-discrimination/

Manipuri teen’s death: Arrest of suspects demanded

Bangalore: Amid growing public outcry demanding justice for Manipuri student Loitam Richard, died under suspicious… more »

Bangalore: Amid growing public outcry demanding justice for Manipuri student Loitam Richard, died under suspicious circumstances in his college hostel here last month, a former Minister from that state on Tuesday demanded immediate arrest of those behind the “killing”.

Manipur’s CPI Secretary and former Arts and Culture Minister M Nara Singh, who met Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda here yesterday, said he was happy with Gowda’s assurance to him that the suspects in the killing would be nabbed.

Singh said Gowda would address students from north-eastern in Karnataka in the next couple of days.

 

Source: Zee News

Read more / Original news source: http://kanglaonline.com/2012/05/manipuri-teens-death-arrest-of-suspects-demanded/