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Congress losing supremacy in Manipur
Assembly elections in Manipur are due early next year. The term of the present Assembly ends on March 18, 2017. The Election Commission has...
3.5 magnitude quake hits Myanmar-India border, damage in Manipur
Manipur, November 24: Manipur today was hit by an earthquake of moderate intensity early in the morning. The focus of the earthquake centred around...
Mizoram, the highest tobacco consuming State in the whole world!
AIZAWL, Nov 13 – With 67.2 per cent of the population of a little more than 10 lakh using tobacco, Mizoram holds the dubious...
Nagaland cash mystery solved, Rs 3.5 crore flown in jet handed...
The mystery over the Rs 3.5 crore cash that disappeared from a Nagaland airport after being flown in a chartered aircraft from Hisar on...
People’s Resistance at Yaithibi
Democracy works in ugly ways wherein people have to bleed to live.
Man being a social animal lives in a society. Ours being an agrarian...
Leader as Statesman
When the present is in such a mess, the task of envisioning the future becomes next only to impossible. While this truism must be...
MEELAL demands Meetei Mayek in new currency notes
With the Centre already releasing new Rs 2000 and Rs 500 notes again following the demonetisation of the old Rs 1000 and Rs 500...
NERCORMP 10th exhibition underway, urge farmer to maximize organic farming
The much awaited NERCORMP Ukhrul 10th exhibition cum sales began here today at TNL ground with the melodious and heart rending blowing of traditional...
CM flags off Imphal leg of friendship car rally
Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh flagged off the India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) Friendship Car Rally from Hotel Classic Grande, Imphal this morning.
Wishing the participants of the...
Viewing blockade through the lens of EVMs Not the time for...
Assembly election will be held only in 2017. But it is more than clear that the term ‘election year’ has now come to fit...
Now, call it ‘Messpur’
Yambem Laba (Courtesy – The Statesman)
The more apt term to describe Manipur today would be to call it ‘Messpur’. Earlier I had used the...
JCILPS gears up for renewed campaign
IMPHAL , Nov 23: The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS) has decided to launch a renewed mass campaign against incessant influx...
CM refutes BJP’s claim, sets record straight
IMPHAL, Nov 23: Chief Minister O Ibobi has strongly refuted the claims made by the BJP Manipur Pradesh in some leading newspapers that the...
Sadar Hills Question
To many of us, although cognizant of the hot SADAR Hills issue in the state, the expansion of the acronym SADAR would probably be...