Politics / Manipur

NEW DELHI, January 3: A comprehensive action plan to bring the administration of trouble torn Manipur back on the rails is likely to be finalised at a meeting between the Union home ministry and state government leaders here tomorrow, even as four major parties sought imposition of President's Rule in the state. A meeting to finalise the action plan, prepared by Chief minister W Nipamacha Singh and his ministerial colleagues, slated for today was postponed till tomorrow, home ministry sources said. The sources said the chief minister was likely to meet home minister LK Advani for the purpose...

IMPHAL, January 2: The State chief minister, W Nipamacha Singh, was closely grilled and reprimanded by Union home minister LK Advani during their meeting in New Delhi this morning regarding an 11 point agenda the Union Home ministry had set the state government, primarily regarding counter-insurgency measures, according to sources. The meeting, which began at 9.45 am this morning, lasted for an hour, and was attended by, apart from the chief minister, deputy CM L Chandramani and IFCD minister Ksh Biren. Sources said the discussions were incomplete today, and would be continued tomorrow...

NEW DELHI, August 6: After the Central Government's permission to allow foreigners to visit Nagaland, the Union Home and Tourism Ministries have received demands for lifting restrictions on the foreign tourists in other Northeastern states as well. These states, including Manipur, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh, have made a beeline for the two Ministries, and requested that foreigners should be allowed a free access in order to boost tourism. The government had last month lifted the ban on foreign tourists in certain districts of Nagaland. A decision on the demands of the other Northeast states...

IMPHAL, August 6: The Irabot Memorial Charitable Trust, Manipur will install a life-size statue of Jana Neta Hijam Irabot at his birthplace at Pishum Oinam Leikai. The construction of the statue is now being done on war footing for unveiling it on September 30. The construction committee of the trust has been raising funds to complete the project which is estimated to cost around Rs 3 lakhs. The committee has made an appeal for seeking contributions from the general public. Considering Irabot as a pioneering social worker of Manipur, Lamyanba Irabot Khonggul Liba Lup, Oinam Leikai took its...

IMPHAL, August 4: The All Manipur Students' Union, has expresses deep concern at the publication of a news item in a Shillong based daily, to the effect that the AMSU had pressurised students of the CAU, who hail from outside Manipur, to leave the state. AMSU representatives told media persons at a press meet that the AMSU had never pressurised CAU students from neither outside the state to leave nor for shifting of the CAU from Manipur, and questioned the grounds on which the allegations had been made. Remarking that the situation at CAU remained tense in the aftermath of the attempt by...

IMPHAL, August 4: A one man enquiry committee to be headed by the deputy director general of the Indian Council of Agricultural research, ICAR, SL Mehta, has been instituted to investigate the reasons behind the attempted mass exodus of non local hostellers of the Central Agricultural University, CAU, at Iroishemba, according to a CAU press release. The term of enquiry of the one-man committee would also be to identify responsible person for the attempted flight, if any. Meanwhile, although complete normalcy has still not been brought to the crisis, it definitely seems to be very close by...

IMPHAL, August 4: Following the announcement of an inquiry into the Central Agriculture University (CAU) incidents by the Deputy Chief Minister of the state, Leishangthem Chandramani Singh, the situation in the university campus has totally calmed down. It may be noted that a total of 96 students from Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh,Tripura and Mizoram had tried to run away from the Irishemba Agriculture University hostels packing all their belongings on August 2 morning. The Deputy Chief Minister, who is the Chief Minister-in-charge, said that certain developments had come up regarding the...

IMPHAL, August 3: The state finance minister, H Lokhon Singh, told The Imphal Free Press this evening over the phone from New Delhi that he was presented a proposal for a complete Central government takeover of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, RIMS, to the Union Health and Water resources minister, PK Thakur. Lokhon met the Health minister at his office chamber and informed him of the state government's desire of a Central takeover of the RIMS on the plea that that the state's resources are poor and it is finding it difficult to meet its share of the institute's running cost. The...

IMPHAL, August 3: There is considerable concern among the people and Government of Manipur over the increasing number of Manipuris getting killed in many parts of Nagaland. There have also been scathing comments in some local newspapers and taking to task the Chief Minister and Home Minister W Nipamacha for their failure to ensure that the lives and properties of the people of Manipur, now residing in Nagaland, are protected. Following the recent killings of two Manipuris in Nagaland a number of organisations had pressurised Nipamacha to take some concrete steps. He had announced that he will...

IMPHAL, August 3: In what could be construed as a blow to the academic atmosphere in the entire north-eastern region, all the students of the Central Agriculture University (CAU) at Irsishemba here, barring Manipuri and Sikkim students, have made a vain bid to leave the varsity campus and the state alleging harassment. However, they were intercepted by a strong team of Manipur Police in time and were sent back to their respective hostels with their bag and baggages on Wednesday. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, SS Bhagel, while talking to The Assam Tribune said that he had no idea about...