IMPHAL, April 27: The French aided Kangchup water supply scheme will be inaugurated on July 9 next, the public health engineering minister, O Joy Singh, announced today. The PHED minister, along with Chief Minister Radhabinod Koijam toured the water supply scheme today to take stock .of the progress of work. The PHED minister, addressing mediapersons, noted that the present water demand for Imphal city was 9.84 million liters per day (mld). He said the installed capacity of the old Kangchup water supply plant was 14.52 mld while the capacity of the new water treatment plant being constructed...

IMPHAL, April 27: The 4-Kshetrigao Assembly byelections scheduled to be held on May 11 next, will now be a straight contest between Vivek Raj Wangkhem, Samata Party candidate, and the Congress nominee Irengbam Sanatomba, with the other two candidates withdrawing their candidatures today. The returning officer for the 4- Kshetrigao Assembly constituency, the SDO Porompat today accepted the withdrawal of candidature of Independent candidates Md Muhamuddin Shah, and Wahengbam Hemanta Singh, official sources said. Today was the last day for withdrawal of nominations. Md Muhamuddin Shah, to a press...

GUWAHATI, April 27: The United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) has hatched a plan to target several prominent Ministers during the poll process, highly placed police sources said. Sources revealed that the Chief Minister, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta and his wife Jayashree Goswami Mahanta, MP have been identified as the prime targets by the militant outfit as the ULFA leadership is of the view that they suffered serious setbacks because of the tough stand taken against them by the Chief Minister. The other Ministers likely to be targeted by the ULFA include the Agriculture Minister Chandra Mohan...

IMPHAL, April 27: Chief Minster Radhabinod Koijam today informed the press that the Home Department has convened a high level meeting tomorrow at 4 pm to discuss the closure of Mission Schools in the valley following monetary demands from a militant group. The Chief Minister said that the meeting will discuss in detail the course of action that may be taken up by the Government. He also expressed confidence that the mater would be sorted out soon and the schools would resume normal classes. Meanwhile the All Manipur Catholic Schools (Valley) Teachers' Association has taken strong exception...

PYRDIWAH, April 26: Union Minister of State for Home, ID Swami today said that India would take all measures to strengthen security of the Indo-Bangla border in the wake of the recent killing of 16 BSF jawans by Bangladesh Rifles, reports PTI. Addressing the villagers here, he said that the Central government had taken the incident very seriously and the people should not have any fear in residing here. The dispute over the land was a long pending one and it might take sometime to resolve it, he said adding that it was under the occupation of India since independence and would remain so until...