Bill victories and woes
Three Bills, one original and two amendments of existing laws, were passed by the Manipur State Legislative Assembly today. All three await the Governor`™s...
Debating the ILP Bills
At last the three interrelated Bills, meant to check influx of migrants into Manipur will be discussed and their passage sought in the Manipur...
Mingling at Mao Keithel
By Khura Seraton
Disputes over boundaries are not new. It has been part of human history and it will linger as long as we, as...
Accord and discord
Looking at all that have been said of the August 3, `Peace Accord` between the NSCN(IM) leaders and the Government of India representatives, and...
Bishnupriya Question
The Bishnupriya issue is best settled quickly and by mutual rapprochement. There is no point in allowing this issue to remain as an irritant...
Regulating pets needed
What a relief that those of us in the newspaper business can for once, after nearly two months, write without a sense of guilt...
Frontiers to boundaries
It is often said with a touch of sarcasm that when the British inherited Kashmir in 1846 after defeating the Sikhs in the First...
Manipur and Federalism
The entangle over the demand for the introduction of the Inner Line Permit System, ILPS, or an equivalent act in Manipur to control influx...
Present Tense
An informed discourse on what `development` should consist of seems to be what is most essential in the state today. Unfortunately, such a discourse...
Enlightened vested interest
The debate over the harm, or good, the British colonialism did to India, sparked off by former minister, and Congress MP, Shashi Tharoor`™s impassioned...
Governance absence tragedy
As Manipur sinks to one of its lowest moments, what is evidently missing is any semblance of governance. The government it seems has abandoned...
Only shared interests bind
In diplomacy and politics there are only interests and no friends or enemies they day. This time worn dictum of statecraft is what deserves...
Federal future needed
From all that we have seen in the past one month of street agitations, it is obvious the state is on the verge of...
Freedom and license
It is unfortunate that the law and order situation in the valley districts has been allowed to deteriorate to the extent we are witnessing...