Development / Manipur

Imphal, Dec. 31: A secessionist outfit of Manipur today welcomed the ambitious 1,360-km-long trilateral highway project connecting the country with Myanmar and Thailand. The banned Revolutionary People?s Front (RPF) in a statement said the proposed project would benefit Manipur.

Foreign ministers of the three countries, in a meeting in New Delhi on December 23, agreed to take up the $700 million project linking Moreh of Manipur and Maesot of Thailand through Bagan of Myanmar. The foreign ministers decided to launch the first phase of the project, which would cost $252 million, from early next...

IMPHAL, Dec 11?In a significant development, Manipur and Mizoram have set up a joint power commission to study the problems and grievances being faced by the consumers of the two neighbouring states in the north east region. Reports reaching here said that the joint power commission was set up after a meeting between representatives of the two state governments at the office of the Union Power Secretary R V Sahi at New Delhi on Tuesday.

The headquarter of the joint commission will be based at Mizoram, During the first five years the Union government will bear fifty per cent of the cost of...

Imphal, June 6: With more than 15,000 people testing positive for HIV in Manipur so far, an alarmed government has decided to install condom vending machines in three districts. Manipur will be the first state in the Northeast to have such a facility.

State family welfare minister Bijoy Koijam said such a step would promote safer sexual practices and as well as family planning. The condoms will be available free of cost, he said.

The Manipur family welfare department has struck a deal for supply of 12 such machines from the Mumbai-based Hindustan Latex Company.

To be installed at strategic...

Guwahati, May 26: Three states of the Northeast ? identified as one of the most potent breeding grounds of the deadly HIV virus ? today signed the ?Guwahati declaration? for accelerating development of AIDS vaccines and to provide high-quality healthcare to people affected with the disease.

Political leaders of Manipur, Nagaland and Assam pledged their support to research and development of AIDS vaccines, including clinical trials and other prevention technologies as per the needs of the northeastern region.

Manipur, the worst-affected state, accounts for nearly eight per cent of the country?s...

Guwahati, May 23: The agitation against the Tipaimukh dam in Manipur has finally reached the United Nations.

The UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, during its second session, which ended today in New York, discussed the threat posed by the Rs 1,078-crore multipurpose project to local tribals.

Raising the issue in the UN forum, representatives of the Centre for Organisation Research and Education (CORE) told the forum, ?The dam will mean virtually the total destruction of the worlds of the Hmar and Zeliangrong tribes and also have a long-term impact on many other indigenous tribals in...

IMPHAL, May 3: The indigenous Manipuri pony, though small in size, is known for its swiftness, sturdiness and tolerance in the game of polo. But it is on the verge of extinction in Manipur – the birth place of this game (polo). Efforts to develop and preserve the local breed of ponies at the Regional Pony Development Farm at Tingkai Khunou in Manipur’s Bishnupur district suffered a fatal fate, Manipur Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Minister told the Assembly recently. Of the 70 pony breed species introduced initially at the farm under an ambitious project in 1988, a staggering 54 ponies have...

IMPHAL, April 29 – The Central government will be launching a new project for having double lane on the National Highway-53, connecting Imphal with Silchar. The Union Surface and Transport Minister has given an assurance to this effect. India’s National Highways connecting Myanmar (formerly Burma) through the north-eastern states, particularly Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Assam, have been reduced to targets of the lawful and unlawful organisations. The NHs passing through Manipur are the lifelines for the people of this State which borders western Myanmar.All essential commodities are...

IMPHAL, April 18 –The Citizens Concern for Dams and Development(CCDD), a common platform of various bodies belonging to different communities, has strongly reacted to Chief Minister O Ibobi’s statement on the proposed construction of controversial Tipaimukh dam. The convenor of the common body and an eminent Naga women activist Aram Pamei while talking to reporters at the white palace hotel here said that the recent statement of the Chief Minister is “totally against interest of the people”.

Quoting reports Pamei said, ‘‘He should not make such a statement if he really felt the sentiment...

DIMAPUR, April 10— In a step ahead of the Centre’s commitment to extend the Railway network to the nook and corner of the country, with special emphasis to connect all the capitals of the Northeastern states, the Northeast Frontier Railway’s General Manager has disclosed that the survey work of the new Jiribam-Imphal railway line was already completed and the Rs 1000 crore project is in the final stage of getting sanction from the Railway Board.

“General Manager of the NFR, Vipan Nanda while interacting with media persons in Kohima informed that the survey of the proposed Diphu-Karong...

IMPHAL, April 7 – Manipur government’s plan to import good variety of rice from Myanmar through Moreh, India’s gateway to the south east Asian countries is likely to suffer a bit as New Delhi has reportedly asked the state government not to import rice from Myanmar. The Centre’s instructions have reportedly been given to the state authorities in the backdrop of the state’s willingness to import rice to weather through the rice crisis in the state. The Union Commerce ministry has categorically stated that the Centre would provide the rice required by the state. The state had submitted a...