Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

International Tent Pegging Meet: Ten riders have been selected (nominally) to participate in the International Tent Pegging Championship to be held at the Imphal Pologround from Janaury 10 to 14. The shortlisted players are: HC Jaswinder Singh (BSF); SI Jaswinder Singh, Insp Jagdish Singh, ASI Youngbir Singh, SI Talwinder Singh (Punjab Police); HC Suresh Kumar, HC Sashidharan (ITBP); Maj Vivek Rehni, Sub Omprakash (ASC-N); CHM Jitender Singh (ASC-Bangalore). Police equestrian meet from Friday: The 26th All India Police Equestrian Meet 2008, organised by Manipur Police, will be held at Pologround, Imphal from Friday. Chief Minister Okram Ibobi and Youth Affairs and Sports Minister N Biren will grace the opening function as chief guest and president respectively while Education Minister L Jayantakumar and PDA Chairman Dr Kh Loken will be the guest of honour. 196 men and 106 horse will participate in the meet. The participating teams are: UP Police, ITBP, Assam Rifles, Punjab Police, Bord...

Manipuri student dies in Delhi: A Manipuri student doing his degree course in Delhi University identified as Mesak Sinate (22) s/o Damhau Sinate of Reng-kai, Churachandpur died after falling down from the second floor of a building at Lajpat Nagar, Delhi in the evening of December 25. Five militants nabbed: Five militants, belonging to three separate organizations, were nabbed during the past 24 hours in three different incidents in Manipur. Police said one militant was apprehended by Manipur Police and 39 Assam Rifles (AR) troops and Rs 70,000 was recovered from his possession. Imphal West commandos nabbed three people, suspected to be Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) cadres. In another incident, AR troops nabbed a People’s United Liberation Front (PULF) cadre and handed him over to the police on Wednesday. Source: United News of India (UNI) Another Story: Whip cracked against illegal hoardings: Acting on the instruction of the Union Ministry of Road Transport (Highway), Public Works ...

AMOFA stun Manipur Police: Imphal, Dec 23: AMOFA, Moirang stunned Manipur Police by a solitary goal even as NEROCA (Laipham Khunou), SSU (Singjamei) and YWC (Thambalkhong) defeated their respective opponents, while KFC, Kakching and PYC, Phoudel split points after a 2-2 draw in the 2nd Manipur State League football competition matches played on Sunday. While 51st CC Meet runners-up AMOFA pulled off a major upset defeating formidable MPSC on a 28th minute goal scored by S Stephen at Moirang, recently crowned CC Meet champions NISA, Thangmeiband suffered 0-2 defeat at home turf (Sekmai) to NEROCA with Ksh Malemnganba (15th) and Amarjit (70th) netting the Laipham Khunou side's goals. The day saw SSU record the highest score margin of victory by outclassing visitors ESU, Wangkhei 5-1 at Chajing ground with Kh Ratan (11th), W Dhananjoy (18th), Gaichungam Kamson (43rd) and Nepolian (52nd, 57th) figuring among the hosts' goals. Visitors TRAU were handed a 1-0 defeat by YWC at Thambalk...

Manipur Police, ESU win: Imphal, Dec 20: Manipur Police blanked KRYPSA, Naoremthong, 2-0 as ESU, Wangkhei, edged past NYTHC, Okram Chuthek, 2-1 in Thursday’s matches of the 7th Women Winners’ Cup for BM Singh Trophy football tournament at Khuman Lampak Main Stadium here. While O Bembem netted both the MPSC goals including a 35th minute penalty, ESU owed their win to goals from Y Kamla (28th) and Melody Haokip (47th). L Naobi struck NYTHC’s goal in the 29th minute. Source: The Sangai Express