Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

CII award for state health worker : Imphal, May 2: The Confederation of Indian Industry in its effort to promote women's empowerment at the community level has instituted an award known as Women Exemplar for grassroot community women who have excelled in different fields of work thereby making a significant contribution to the development process. Since 2006 the award has been given to women of the country for their outstanding contributions to the society. For the year 2008 the award was given to Manipur Voluntary Health Association`s program director N Nanda for health by the chief minister of Delhi Sheila Dixit on April 29 at the Le Meridien Hotel, New Delhi. 50-yr-old suffers fatal stroke after UG demand: Imphal, May 2: In a bizarre incident a 50-year old headmaster of a primary school died after suffering from a BP stroke on April 30 at Moreh after he was asked to give Rs. 5 lakhs by one of the valley based UG groups, sources said. The victim, Naorem Bisembor, 50, of Tentha K...

Meira Paibis felicitate them: Imphal, Feb 2: The eight women who were rounded up for reportedly protesting on Republic Day in support of the boycott called by underground groups within the jurisdiction of Lamshang police were released on Saturday. They were released unconditionally, said the Meira Paibis who were taking part a public meeting held at Mayang Langjing in connection with the rounding up of the women of the locality. Four cases were registered at four police stations in Imphal West regarding the burning down of the Indian national flag and a copy of the Indian Constitution and carrying out protest by shouting anti-Indian slogans on January 28. The cases were registered as suo-motto cases at Lamshang, Patsoi, Mayang Imphal and Sekmai police stations based on the reports carried in the local newspapers. All the cases were registered under under section 124-A of Indian Penal Code, IPC and 2 of the prevention of insult to national honour Act 1971. One of the cases taken up by t...

Barak Valley Adventure Academy in the offing: Imphal, Dec 29: For the formation of Manipur Levy 2008 to undertake a "historic march of Manipur diaspora", the Barak Valley Adventure Academy will be set up in Bon Tarapur, Cachar in January. The name of Manipur Levy is closely associated with the history of Manipur as it was this same Levy which assembled at Barak Valley under Gambhir and Narsingh and marched on to Manipur to liberate the kingdom from the invading Burmese soldiers at the fag end of Seven Years' Devastation period (1819-26). After about 200 years, the unarmed Manipur Levy 2008 will be constituted together with the Manipuris now settling in Assam and Tripura. The Levy will set out on foot for Kangla from Cachar through Jiribam on December 16 next year. Speaking to reporters on Saturday, chairman of the Bir Tikendrajit Anniversary Celebration Committee and managing trustee of the Tikendrajit Memorial Trust RK Ranendrajit said that after arriving at Kangla, the ...