Land of Jewels (Sana Leibak)

Senapati Student bodies flay thrashing: Strongly condemning severe thrashing of three prominent citizens of Senapati district on April 23 night by some persons claiming to be UG activists, the Senapati District Students' Association (SDSA), Maram Students'Union, Mao Students' Union, Poumei Students' Union, Thangal Students' Union and Zeliangrong Students' Union (Senapati) demanded appropriate action by authorities concerned immediately failing which the student bodies would be constrained to take up befitting action. According to an SDSA release, headman of Daili village H Stephen, former village secretary Kh Losii, who is also the secretary of rosary School Managing Board, and Parish Priest of Rosary School were picked from their respective homes at around 7 pm of April 23 and whisked away to a forest area by the unidentified persons. The student's body said, "In Naga customary law and as Christians, the headman and missionary workers are held in high ...

ZYF, Nungba decries Govt. negligence in Tamenglong: Decrying the alleged negligence of the State Government towards development of Tamenglong district, Zeliangrong Youth Front (ZYF), Nungba Zone has urged the Government to do the needful at the earliest possible. In a memorandum submitted to Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh, the youth front said that the people in this part of the State are felling a sense of negligence and discrimination as a result of the State Government's arrangement of posting in-charge officers when the district is in need of regular and competent authorities to speed up the developmental activities of the backward district. At present there is an in-charge Deputy Commissioner, an incharge Superintendent of Police and an in-charge Sub-Divisional Officers both at Tamei and Tousem to run the district administration, the memorandum pointed out. The memorandum further said that the protest against such negligence attitude and indiscriminate treatment of the Governmen...

Four MU deans released after abduction: Four deans of different departments of the Manipur University were reportedly detained by some unidentified persons suspected to be cadres of an underground group early on Thursday and later released unharmed at night. The four officials who were abducted were the Dean of Humanities O Ibochou, Dean of Students Md Islamuddin, Dean of Life Sciences PS Jadav and Dean of History Mangsatabam Jiten. Reports said that they were taken into custody by the miscreants on Thursday around 5.30 am and later released at night at around 7.30 pm. The report of their release, however, could not be immediately confirmed. A highly reliable report said that they were summoned apparently in relation with some matter concerning the administration of the university by an underground group. However, there were no formal complaints to the police regarding the disappearance of the four deans. Source: The Imphal Free Press 8 women arrested for protesting on R-Day: Eight wo...

Tamenglong observes ‘Black Day’: Tamenglong, Jan 31: People in Tamenglong district suspended all work for the day and participated in the observation of "Black Day" of the Zeliangrong Region, GPRN/ NSCN-IM on Thursday. Streets in the district wore a deserted look as all kinds of vehicles including light vehicles went off the roads. Shops, business establishments and other institutions in the district headquarter also remained closed for the day showing solidarity to the observation of the black day of the NSCN (IM). Official reports said that Imphal bound passenger buses due to leave this morning were suspended and no bus from Imphal reached the district headquarter. Churches too held prayers and extended cooperation responding to the appeal of the Zeliangrong Region, GPRN/ NSCN-IM. A memorial stone to commemorate those warriors who selflessly sacrificed their lives for the Naga cause was opened at Nganping Battalion HQs of Naga Army, Buning village in Tamei sub-division of T...

AMWJU GBM on Thursday: An emergency general body meeting of the All Manipur Working Journalists Union, AMWJU, has been convened on Thursday at 10:30 am at Manipur Press Club, Imphal. This is in connection with two statements received at media offices from the KCP (MC) group. As there has been pressure from a quarter to publish one statement and not to publish the other, the meeting has been convened to decide the AMWJU’s stance. All AMWJU members and media editors have been asked to attend the emergency meeting. National Tent Pegging meet begins on Thursday: The National Tent Pegging Championships being held for the first time in Manipur, commences on Thursday at the Imphal Polo ground. The five day long competition is being organised with the theme, ‘Save Manipuri Pony’. Altogether eight teams, plus the hosts, will be participating in the competition, including the ITBP, Haryana; ASC, North Gaya; Assam Rifles, Jorhat; UP police; ASC, Bangalore; West Bengal Police, Kolkata Police and E...

Zeliangrong post-harvest celebration ends: Imphal: The annual post-harvest festival, Chakan Gan-Ngai celebration which was going on since December 5 at Luangrang (Nungnang) Village in Nungba sub-division of Tamenglong district concluded on Sunday. The five-day long celebration of the biggest festival of the Zeliangrong people was marked by cultural events like Mairapmei (igniting of sacred fire), traditional sports, performance of ritual rites, presentation of dances and songs, joint dinners for Khangchu-Luchu/Thel-Khel (members of Boys’ and Girls’ dormitories), reading of future omen and trekking to Long-kumei peak. Video film shooting of the event as documentary feature and research was another highlight of the celebra-tion. The same festival was celebrated at Tousem headquarters in last week of October this year. Posted On: The Sangai Express