The five-time world champion boxer has won a bronze medal for India at the London Olympics. ...
11:03 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Imphal: With boxer MC Mary Kom poised to fight for silver medal in the London Olympics Wednesday evening, a large number of people in northeast Indian Manipur state prayed for her success in temples and churches all over the state. Many supporters walked through the streets of the capital and elsewhere with placards in hand and praying for her and another boxer from Manipur, Devendro Singh's success in the 49kg...
03:36 PM, Aug 08, 2012
Imphal: All Manipur Working Journalists' Union (AMWJU) and prominent editors on Tuesday condemned the 'threat' from some militants that their press statement should be published in local dailies without editing. A spokesman of AMWJU said the executive members of the union and prominent editors held an emergency meeting to discuss the militants' threat to scribes and strongly condemned it. He said there were so many militant factions in the state...
10:36 AM, Aug 07, 2012
During the British regime, the Maharaja used to appoint the functionaries of the state of Manipur. After the independence of India, Manipur was merged into the Indian Union on 15th October, 1949 and became a centrally administered area. It was declared as a Union Territory under the States Re-Organisation Act 1956 and Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act 1956. Subsequently, the Territorial status was abolished and Manipur attained statehood on 21st January,...
06:19 PM, Jul 16, 2012
On this episode we bring you stories of real life heroes who inspire others through word and deed. ...
02:23 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Imphal: In Manipur, away from the shadow of the gun there's another reality - a world of cinema, low budget films and gritty film-making. Only 13 films old, Leishangthem Tonthoi is the rising star of Manipuri cinema. This year, Tonthoi received the Rajat Kamal award for Best Supporting Actress at the 59th National Film Awards. "We focus on the aesthetic value. Even I focus on the aesthetic value. We don't...
08:50 AM, Jul 10, 2012
(Answers must be written in Manipuri) Paper I Section A Language General characteristics of Manipuri Language and history of its development; its importance and status among the Tibeto-Burman Languages of North-East India; recent development in the study of Manipuri language; evolution and study of old Manipuri script. Significant features of Manipuri language Phonology: Phoneme-vowels, consonants juncture, tone, consonant cluster and its occurrence, syllable-its structure, pattern and types. Morphology: Word-class, root...
04:31 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Guwahati: A tremor of mild intensity on Sunday shook parts of Assam but there was no report of any casualty or damage. The Indian Meteorological Centre in Shillong is yet to give the exact intensity of the earthquake on the Richter Scale, sources said. The epicentre of the quake was located at Majuli island in upper Assam. Tremors were also felt in parts of lower Assam, officials said. A report...
10:52 AM, Jul 01, 2012
Imphal: Six student bodies in Manipur on Tuesday decided to issue a diktat seeking to prohibit school and college students from wearing 'indecent' dresses. They said girl students should wear the Manipuri ankle length dress, 'Phanek' and under no condition uniforms above the knee would be tolerated. The use of of mobile phone during school or college hours would also not be allowed. This was decided by six students organisations...
04:35 PM, Jun 26, 2012
On this episode, CNN-IBN bring you the stories of the real life heroes who inspire others. ...
05:03 PM, Jun 16, 2012
New Delhi: Meet a soldier who took four bullets in his arm in a pitched battle with insurgents and saved the life of two critically injured children in Manipur. Eighteen years since the incident, Colonel DPK Pillay still shares a close bond with the people of the Manipuri village. Colonel Pillay recalls that fateful day in Longdaipabram village, which is 22 kms from the district Headquarters Tamelong in Manipur. "The...
09:30 AM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: To shore up its ties with India, Myanmar government has ordered Manipur-based militant outfits to shut their camps and training facilities and leave its soil by June 10. Quoting intelligence inputs, official sources said the Myanmar Army's order was issued on May 24 -- three days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarked on his visit to the neighbouring country -- and the move is considered as a goodwill...
04:47 PM, May 30, 2012
Imphal: The Manipuri boy, who topped this year's CBSE class 12 examination, on Tuesday said he wanted to join St Stephen's College in Delhi and try his luck at the civil service examination subsequently. A jubilant 19-year-old Mohammand Ismat, who secured 99.6 per cent marks in CBSE, the results of which were out on Monday, said that he would like to study at St Stephen's after which he would take...
02:59 PM, May 29, 2012
Thoubal: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) class XII results were out on Monday. While Chennai had the highest pass percentage, a pleasant surprise was that a boy from Manipur, Mohammad Ismat, topped the all-India exams with 99 per cent. Ismat topped the exams despite electricity being a problem in his village. "I come from Lilong, it's a remote village here. There are a lot of problems regarding electricity...
10:22 AM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education class XII results were declared on Monday. While among the eight regions, Chennai topped the performance card with a pass percentage of 90.59, Mohammad Ismat, a science student from Imphal, became the all India topper scoring 99 per cent. Meanwhile, girls continued to outperform boys. Over 8 million students appeared for the exam this year, an increase of 5.94 per cent over...
11:34 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Under pressure from its allies, the Opposition and the public over the steep hike in petrol price, the Congress has asked all its state governments to cut taxes on fuel prices. The move comes after the Opposition made it clear that it would launch nation-wide protests over Wednesday's Rs 7.50 hike in petrol price. If the Congress-ruled states follow the diktat, the states that are likely to benefit...
11:55 AM, May 24, 2012
Bangalore: The mysterious death of Manipur student Richard Loitam continues to haunt the Bangalore rural district police as the medical report has said his death was not due to physical injuries. Sources said that the police will drop the murder charges and culpable homicide has been ruled out. Sources also added that the cause of death was undetermined. Richard, a second semester student of the Acharya NRV School of Architecture...
07:31 PM, May 17, 2012
Imphal: The Manipur government on Saturday rejected any idea of division of the state and asked all communities living there to term themselves as Manipuris. "How a state with a geographical area of 22,327 sq km could be divided. It is the homeland of over 32 communities. How can one say it is the land of the Meiteis or the Nagas or the Kukis? Manipur is the homeland of all...
03:34 PM, May 12, 2012
The fact that Irom Chanu Sharmila's fast for repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in Manipur has joined Ripley's odditorium will leave ...
12:56 PM, May 10, 2012
Kolkata: The courageous tale of Irom Chanu Sharmila, the 'Iron Lady of Manipur', who has not eaten a morsel of food since the last eleven years has now been included in the collection of 'Ripley's Believe It or Not'. Under the banner of Just Peace Foundation (JPF), supporters of Irom had written to researchers at the US-based Ripley's franchise requesting them to include her case in their list of unusual...
02:44 AM, May 10, 2012
