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Aussies lift Polo cup
Australia emerged champion of 10th Manipur Polo International, 2016 beating India (Manipur) by nine goals to six today at Imphal pologround.
In the closing ceremony,...
Black scented rice (chahaomubi) – the black gold of Manipur
Prof Ningthoujam Ram Singh
The word Chahaomubi is a combination of three Manipuri words of cha-hao-mubi meaning rice-tasty and black. It is a blackwhole rice...
Blockade is unconstitutional, MHA categorically states
IMPHAL, Nov 29: The Ministry of Home Affairs has categorically stated that the indefinite economic blockade being imposed on National Highways leading to Manipur...
MLA Surchandra likens Modi to Tuqhlaq
IMPHAL, Nov 28: Congress MLA Yengkhom Surchandra has compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Muhammad Bin Tughlaq who ruled in Delhi in the 14th...
Mao Churches urge UNC to give passage
Senapati, Nov 28 : Seeing the stranded trucks in hundreds near Mao Gate, the unfortunate incident of a truck loaded with goods being torched...
Enraged account holders vandalise banks
IMPHAL, Nov 28: Groups of anguished customers today vandalised SBI branches of Canchipur (Manipur University) and Leimakhong. According to information culled from the spot,...
Manipur’s other ‘Iron Lady’
Yambem Laba (Courtesy: The Statesman)
In the 2012 Manipur assembly election,when Chief Minister Ibobi Singh decided to contest from two constituencies — his own Khangabok...
48 hours deadline ends, Gaidon Kamei, Sankhui Stephen still in custody,...
SPT/UKL/CDL/TML, Nov 28 : Even as the 48hrs deadline set by the UNC to release its president Gaidon Kamei and information and publicity secretary...
Manipuri Traditional Musical Performance
Manipuri Traditional Musical Performance by Laihui and Shakuhachi by Motonaga Hiromu of Japan on November 25, 2016 at Laihui Performance Space, Kakwa Laiphrakpam Leikai,...
The Kuki Identity then and now
Tribes belonging to the Chin-Kuki-Mizo or otherwise Zomi have close socio-cultural affinity in terms of their culture, tradition, language, custom and traditional administrative system....
THE ARMED POLITICAL MOVEMENT OF MANIPUR NAGAS TILL THE SIGNING OF...
Introduction
The political movement of the Nagas, as different from the popular form of politics informed by electoral democracy, has traversed a long way. The...
SUSPENSION OF OPERATION WITH CHIKIMZ OUTFITS IN MANIPUR: PART I
“I am totally blind in this matter and more so on the conditions maintained between the concerned underground group and the army.
The above...
Time to look for a 2nd lifeline Cutting off the route...
48 hours deadline set by the UNC to release its president Gaidon Kamei and information secretary Stephen Sangkhui. A Senapati Court on the other...
Naga bodies urge PM to intervene
SENAPATI, Nov 27 : The United Naga Council (UNC), the All Naga Students’ Association, Manipur (ANSAM) and the Naga Women Union (NWU) have sought...