Imphal, June 16: An unidentified disease is on the prowl in Moreh Township, and has already claimed the life of one Manipur police personnel posted at the Moreh police station. Speaking to IFP over the telephone, officials at the Moreh police station confirmed that several people have fallen sick due to the disease all over Moreh town in the last three days or so, but doctors at the Moreh community health centre have had no success in diagnosing it. While the Moreh CHC has no blood testing facility, the various private clinics at Moreh that do have such facilities have not been able to...

Imphal, June 16: MSCP MLA from Wangkhei Assembly constituency and former Congress leader Y Erabot may replace K Govindas as the legislature wing leader of the party, disclosed a reliable source from within the MSCP today. In another interesting development, difference of opinion has reportedly surfaced between the MSCP legislature group and the MSCP Central Executive Committee (CEC) over the proposal to merge en-bloc with the Congress. The source said a sizeable group of the MSCP members have expressed their opinion the merger proposal with the Congress was taken hastily with some even...

Imphal, June 16: The four tribes from Manipur which were among the 43 new tribes approved by the Union Cabinet for recognition as Scheduled Tribe, are Poumai, Kharam, Tarao and "any Kuki tribe subject to the correction of nomenclature of Vaiphai." The slight confusion over the nomenclature of Vaiphai, is over the spelling - whether it should end with "ei" as is written currently or with "ai" as was written earlier. As for the term "any Kuki tribe," it is not specified which tribes would be categorized in the group, but presumably it would mean any tribe that would use Kuki as a prefix or...

MUSSALPUR (Nalbari), June 15 ? The All Assam Students? Union (AASU) and the All Bodo Students? Union (ABSU) the two major students? organisations of the State have decided to work together for the development of the students community besides the all round development of the State. The leaders of both the student organisations recently took an oath to fight against those evil power who are trying to create divisions among the students, in solidarity day function held at Mussalpur in Nalbari district recently. Addressing the meeting the president of AASU Prabin Boro said that to unite the...

GUWAHATI, June 15? The dawn to dusk Assam bandh called by the Bhumi Adhikar Ganamancha: Assam (BAGA) today in protest against the eviction drives conducted by the Forest Department to clear State?s forest areas of eviction, passed off somehow peacefully without any report of major untoward incident from any place. However, the bandh had affected normal life partially. In the city, today being a Saturday, Central Government offices remained closed, while attendance in other offices including the State Government offices was thin. The long distance buses connecting the suburban area with the...