Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

Scribe assaulted: Acting president of All Jiribam Working Journalists Union N Priyobrata was severely assaulted by one Mutum Dilip Singh, son of Babatombi Singh of Babapara, near rail crossing on the night of December 29 last. Blaming that no action has been taken despite a complaint on the incident was lodged to the Jiribam police station, the Union has requested the All Manipur Working Journalists’ Union for necessary action. According to a statement of the AJWJU, Jiribam, its acting president was beaten up on his way home without any reason and suffered severe injuries at left eye, face and other parts of the body. KCP executes ex-cadre: Deputy Commander of KCP (MTF) Capt Kesho has informed that an ex-cadre of the outfit, identified as Santosh Sharma of Tentha Khabam, has been awarded capital punishment at an adjoining place of Mayang Imphal-Uchiwa at around 8.10 pm on Monday for allegedly swindling party fund. Capt Kesho informed that in 2006, Santosh was punished for his involveme...

Villagers forced to flee homes: Imphal, Dec 17: A huge combined force of Imphal West and Imphal East commandos, 1st Bn Manipur Rifles, 32 Assam Rifles, 39 Assam Rifles and 116th Bn BSF were engaged in a heavy gun fight with suspected cadres of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) at Nongmaiching (Baruni Hills) on Monday morning. According to information received from the spot, a combined force of Imphal East, Imphal West commandos and troops of 32 and 39 ARs launched an extensive operation at Heikon, Terakhong and Tuisenphai villages in Nongmaiching area at about 5 am on Monday. The security team conducting operations at Heikon and Terakhong was led by SDPO of Imphal East and the combined team in Tuisenphai was led by Imphal East commando OC. As a team of Imphal East commandos headed towards Nongmaipan village on the right side of the road from Sanjenbam in a Gypsy and a bullet-proof vehicle (407 mini-Tata), suspected UG cadres fired three lathode bombs towards the security team. In the ...