Tag: Manipur CM
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Manipur CM to meet PM today
Manipur CM Biren Singh will apprise PM Narendra Modi of the key initiatives that are likely to be taken by the new state government in Manipur in the future.
April 18, 2022 -
Manipur CM apologises publicly, 16 cops suspended over tribal leader’s killing
The Chief Minister said that 16 policemen including some troopers of Manipur Rifles have been suspended as Abonmai was shot dead soon after he was whisked away by gunmen from Tamenglong district headquarters on Wednesday. His bullet-riddled body was found on Thursday evening.
September 24, 2021 -
Manipur University agitation to be suspended from tomorrow
The 75-day long agitation at Manipur University will be temporarily suspended from tomorrow after the stakeholders reached a mutual agreement on Thursday.
August 16, 2018 -
Comprehensive plan, direly needed
After monsoon hit Manipur this year, it rained without break for almost two days straight. Waters of the Imphal River overflowed in Imphal East near the Checkon area. The onrushing waters did not spare both the humble and the mighty, and for the first time since its inception in 1964, All India Radio went off...
June 24, 2018 -
Walking a political tightrope
Manipur is today out of bounds for almost all mainland Indians who wish to visit it overland without identification papers. They are routinely halted at the Mao Check Post on the Manipur-Nagaland border by Manipur Police and made to return. These people are not normal tourists but consist mainly of semi-skilled workers and labourers hailing...
June 10, 2018 -
Vocabulary of integration
It would seem that politicians and gaffes are inseparable going by Manipur chief minister Thongombom Biren Singh’s speech at Madhavpur, near Porbandar in Gujarat. It had the trappings of a neo-convert to the Hindutva-fold paying obeisance to his “messiah” and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For the record, at the end of last month the chief...
April 22, 2018 -
Rs 1,600cr sanctioned for Manipur highway improvement
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Monday announced that the Centre has sanctioned Rs 1,600 crore for the improvement of the National Highway (NH) 2 bordering Myanmar. Singh said the improvement work will begin before the onset of the monsoon season. The 110 km Imphal-Moreh sector of the NH 2 is the only stretch...
April 16, 2018 -
Manipur CM announces cash rewards for lifters Mirabai, Sanjita
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Friday announced a cash reward of Rs 15 lakh each for lifters Mirabai Chanu and Sanjita Chanu, who claimed gold medals at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
April 6, 2018 -
Manipur’s ‘dirty dozen’
On 26 July 2017, the Supreme Court ruled that state assemblies have no powers to enact legislation to appoint parliamentary secretaries. This led to the disqualification of the Delhi government’s 20 MLAs of the Aam Aadmi Party for holding office of profit as parliamentary secretaries, subsequent to the notices served on them by the Election...
February 25, 2018 -
Will go all out to ensure Neroca FC is part of one football league: Manipur CM
Underlining the importance of Manipur as a footballing state, its Chief Minister Nongthombam Biren Singh said he will go all out to ensure Neroca FC, currently second in the I-League, is part of the proposed one league that is expected to take shape by the next season. The country’s premier club competition I-League, and the...
February 11, 2018 -
President Kovind in Manipur amid general strike
President Ram Nath Kovind arrived here on Tuesday amid a shutdown called by insurgents that crippled life across Manipur. Schools, government offices and markets were shut. Very few vehicles plied on the roads. However, all flights operated normally. The Coordinating Committee, the apex body of the six major insurgent groups in Manipur, called the 26-hour...
November 21, 2017 -
Nitish speaks to Manipur CM over attack on Bihari students
Taking serious note of an attack on students at the NIT-Imphal campus, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday spoke to his Manipuri counterpart N. Biren Singh and requested him to ensure the safety and security of students hailing from his state. He also urged Singh to take action against the accused, who had attacked...
November 7, 2017 -
Wisely said
Jetsun Jamphal Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, otherwise known as the 14th Dalai Lama, one of the world’s most respected spiritual leaders, visited the troubled-torn state of Manipur on 17 October. He came calling at the invitation of Manipur assembly speaker, Yumnam Khemchand who had met him in Dharamasala recently. On his arrival at the...
October 30, 2017 -
Dalai Lama arrives in Manipur
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived here on Tuesday on a three-day visit to Manipur. Chief Minister N. Biren Singh and Assembly Speaker Yumnam Khemchand received the Dalai Lama, who has been declared a state guest, at the airport. There was tight security at the airport and the Dalai Lama came out in a...
October 17, 2017 -
Yogi assures Manipur CM of speedy justice in youth’s death
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Tuesday said his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath has assured him of speedy justice in the “mysterious death” of a Manipuri youth earlier this month in Noida. The Chief Ministers met in Uttar Pradesh Bhavan in Delhi shortly after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Executive on Monday night....
September 26, 2017 -
Manipur CM to discuss mysterious death with Adityanath
Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh will meet Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to discuss the mysterious death of a Manipuri youth whose body was cremated by Noida police without informing the family. “I will discuss the demand for a probe into the death of Pravish Chanam and his cremation with Yogi Adityanathji on...
September 24, 2017 -
Manipur CM vows to hunt down militant killers
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Tuesday vowed to hunt down the militants who ambushed and killed two soldiers a day earlier in an area bordering Myanmar. Biren Singh was speaking on the sidelines of a condolence function at the "B" company headquarters of 165 Territorial Army at Koirengei near Imphal. The chief minister laid...
May 9, 2017