Month: August 2012

Mail News Service
Imphal, Aug 2 : In the past month, Assam Rifles have foiled three large scale infiltration bids of armed cadres of underground into Manipur from across the border. On 30 Jun 12, 9-10 armed militants infiltrated into general area Phaikoh, in Ukhrul district. On receipt of the input, AR columns were mobilized and moved to intercept the UG’s infiltration bid. in the ensuing fire fight, five militants were killed out of which four bodies were recovered. However, balance of militants managed to escape across the border. In another incident on 03 July 2012, one party of AR moving from Kwatha to Satang was fired upon by a group of Armed Insurgents from Satang Ridge in which two soldiers sustained bullet injuries.
On immediate retaliation by the AR personnel the insurgents fled away across the IB, probably after sustaining serious injuries to a few of their cadres. Recently on 28 Jul 12, armed cadres of PLA made an attempt to infiltrate along Taret River. On getting this information, AR troops quickly moved to block the likely infiltration routes and laid ambushes in general area Haikot and Khoibu Centre. Around mid day on 29 Jul 12, contact with the militants was established, at Khoibu Centre.
AR troops exercised maximum caution in view of the presence of civilians in the village, however, militants fired indiscriminately with utter disregard to the locals. As per local inputs, during the fire fight, one civilian was injured and four to five militants suffered injuries of which one was critical. A large cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered during the subsequent search conducted of the area.

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Imphal, August 2 (NNN): Seven cars which were being transported from West Bengal have been allegedly hijacked by NSCN-IM from seven people on the way at Lalmati which is between Dimapur and Kohima.
The seven individuals—five from Imphal and two from Senapati– had bought the seven cars from West Bengal and left that state on May 12 for Imphal when some persons identified themselves to be NSCN-IM militants first intercepted them on their way at Dimapur on May 15 at around 8 a.m., Kh Open, whose car was among the seven cars allegedly hijacked by the rebel NSCN-IM, told reporters at the Manipur Press Club here on Thursday.
The NSCN-M had demanded three vehicles from them but they refused it and instead gave Rs 35,000 to them after having negotiation. Then they left Dimapur the same day. The seven vehicles include two A Star, three Alto and two Maruti 800 cars.
Kh Open, 28, is a resident of Kwakeithel Konjeng Leikai Heino Khongnembi in Imphal West.
He alleged that an unspecified number of persons travelling in a black Alto car which had no number plate again pursued them from behind and halted them as they reached Lalmati, Nagaland in the afternoon of May 15 last. Thereafter, the unidentified persons forcibly carried them to an unknown place along with the vehicles. Later, the hijackers also identified themselves to be NSCN-IM militants.
At about 8:30 .pm. the same day, the NSCN-IM militants later dropped them near the Electricity Department office located close to Naga Hospital, Kohima, telling them the building was a hotel. But, they did not stay there and then reached Senapati by bus along National Highway-2 around 2:30 a.m. the next day.
Surprisingly, one of the hijacked cars was found using by an individual at Senapapti bazaar after over one month when the hijacking incident happened, Open said, adding that the vehicle owner had claimed that he was the owner of the car. After one week, the same car was reportedly seized by NSCN-IM Senapapti town commander and brought back the same car to Dimapur, Open claimed.
The reason for keeping the matter concealed for over two months has been that the victims were hoping that the hijackers would return the cars, acording to Kh Open.

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Imphal,August 2 UNA :The long awaited road of Kasom Khullen work will be started by March 2013, under the project of North East State Road Development Investment Project (NESRDIP) which will be funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Ministry of DoNER.
This was informed by Ram Muivah, Principle secretary (works) in the sideline of the inspection of 47.10km stretch of Thoubal to Kasom Khullen.
The inspection of the road was led by Ram Muivah, Bindiya Rawat consultant ADB and the related officials. The route was approved by ADB since 2007/2008 and included in their map.
The 80 percent project cost will be funded by Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the North East State Road Development Investment Project (NESRIP) under Ministry of DoNER will fund another 20 percent. The probable cost for the project is 277 crores for the tranche of 2 roads, Tupul to Bishnupur 50km and Thoubal to Kasom Khullen 47.10km, for the completion of the road will take around three years.
Mention may be made here that for a decades the public of Kassom Khullen has been appealing and carried out many forms of agitation for the black topping of the road and due to negligence of Government of Manipur over the Kasom Khullen road many public of the areas has suffers in many ways.
Robertson a social worker of the areas said that the state government never look back for the development of the road since it existing, accept time to time maintenance.
We all depend on road, its bring development for any village. If communication is good suffering to the public is also less, appealing to all concern for a full co-operation in the work of maintenance so that it can completed in given duration added Robertson.

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