Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

New Delhi, June 16: Precautionary measures against the Swine Flu virus has been stepped up by authorities in India and Burma along their international boundary, following the positive cases of the disease, which have been detected in India. An official from the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department in Tamu Township of Sagaing Division in northwestern Burma, bordering India’s Manipur State, on Tuesday said, his department and the Health Department had increased vigilance on the Indo-Burma border check gate No (2), after the H1N1/A virus was detected in India. “We put up posters that warned people not to import pigs near border check gate (2)…the Health Department also checked passersby, who went in and out from both countries,” an official from Tamu, which shares the border with Moreh in India, told Mizzima. He said, “We launched a programme to educate the people, distributed pamphlets and checked pig farms and compiled the number of pigs.” However, he assured that there were no re...

Civilians to Combatants: Heirok and Lilong Chajing, are two immediate demonstrations that legitimacy of the establishment, or more pertinently its challengers, cannot be sustained by appeals to nationalism alone, whatever hue that nationalism is of. In the end, the only lasting legitimacy of any establishment or its challengers will rest on the ability to qualify these legitimacy appeals with actual guarantees of quality of life. So if arbitrary executions, detention, intimidations, murders by mistake, etc, are sought to be justified in the name of upholding nationalism, or dismissed as collateral damage in this war, the only casualty ultimately would be the awe with which the same brand of nationalism is held by the public. Interestingly, it is Manipur more than anywhere else, which has seen the public saying no to these “nationalistic” atrocities regardless of which side of the battlefront the atrocities are committed by. In this sense, it would not be very wrong to say that the show...

Found stored in a box at Ukhrul: Imphal, Apr 27: The INA flag which was hoisted for the first time in Indian territory is still existing in good shape.The flag is in the custody of YA Shishak of Shangshak in Ukhrul district, who witnessed the Indo-Japanese war at Shangshak. He also served as a peon in both the Maratha Infantry and Japanese Army in diffetent periods of time. The tricolour flag is made of Khadi and has a tiger printed on it. YA Shishak says the flag was the first INA flag which was hoisted first in Ukhrul by the INA. The INA complex built at Moirang was supposed to be made in Ukhrul but the late ex-chief minister Koireng build it at Moirang, he said. YA Shishak was in Class III when the Indo-Japanese war took place at Shangshak. The Maratha Infantry took him in their ranks as a peon. After some time he was caught by the Japanese Army who again made him work as a peon for them. He was taken to Tokyo twice by the Japanese, he said. YA Shishak is now living near Shangshak w...

Seeks help to solve “Indo-Naga Problem”: Dimapur, Dec 11: After its United States of America leg last month, the NSCN-IM has, in quick succession, landed in England embarking on a global campaign. Steering Committee secretary of the NSCN-IM Rh Raising while highlighting the Naga issue at the House of Parliament, Westminster London on December 10, appealed to the British people to help in solving the vexed “Indo-Naga problem.” Steering Committee is the highest decision making body of the NSCN-IM. Last, month another outfit leader VS Atem was in America for a high level lobby. According to the MIP of the NSCN-IM, delivering a speech at the International Human Rights Day held at the House of Parliament, Westminster London on Monday, Rh Raising had ex pressed his resentment saying that perpetual extension of the terms of ceasefire on the pretext of commitment and assurances is cle arly viewed as a ploy of the government of India to buy time in order to bury the peace process under the wrap...