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Friday, November 29, 2024

Cycle of impunity

Crimes and various forms of violence against women and children in the state has sadly become a routine spectacle that have ended up becoming...

Manipur and the 2nd World War

The victory of the Allied forces over the Japanese at Imphal and Kohima in 1944 being voted as ‘Britain’s Greatest Battle’ reported in the...

PPP in the health sector

aSome experiences of the PPP model in the health care sector gives credence to these misgivings. An editorial in the Indian Journal of Medical...

Desire for inspiration

Leader Writer: Wangkheimayum Bhupendra Singh A society and its people need inspiration to grow and cultivate a sense of oneness. The ability to draw inspiration...

Restructuring Women`s Movement

Resolution 1325-adopted in October 2000 by the United Nations Security Council states that it is important to ensure that women`s needs, and therefore their...

The Capital Sentence

Every time there is a crime in the state that gets the public mood to up their ante, the shout ends at “Capital punishment...

The idea of happiness

Everyone in this universe wants to be happy. The pursuit of this elusive state of mind and wellbeing has been the subject of countless...

Social systems and crimes

There is no two ways about it: crimes are on the rise in the state. And while it is common for more crimes targeted...

Rain water and vector borne diseases

Leader Writer: Vedajit Yumnam While the first rainfall of the year was a welcome respite from the hot weather; it has nonetheless brought with it...

The moral clause

There is a strange confusion in Manipur over the purview of morality vis a vis the context of the political, social and cultural layers...

Tracing crimes

There is a simple credo that the perfect crime does not exist today given the amount of digital and electronic footprints that people leave...

Bands and case resolutions

At the outset, the brutal murder of Ningombam Satyabhama, a Junior Research Fellow at the RIMS Pathology Department is a reminder of the fragile...

Intimate enemy and the better half

Leader Writer: Paojel Chaoba It is a sad working hazard to carry stories of atrocities committed against children and women in the papers, yet the...

Fake encounters, real peace

Four months to the day (January 4) when the Supreme Court decided to appoint a 3 member Commission to hold an inquiry into the...