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Huge consignment of betel leaves seized at airport

State’s first positve case tests negative

Joykumar takes over Forest, MAHUD

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State Huge consignment of betel leaves seized at airport
State

Huge consignment of betel leaves seized at airport

By Our Staff ReporterIMPHAL, Apr 4:  Police seized a huge quantity of betel leaves which were brought into the State via two different flights at around noon today.According to a reliable source, three different flights of Indigo, Air Asia and Spice Jet landed at Bir Tikendrajit International Airport from different parts of the country at around noon and among them, the Spice Jet and Indigo aircraft were found brining in betel leaves from Kolkata.The source further point-ed out that the flights were hi

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State State’s first positve case tests negative
State

State’s first positve case tests negative

By Our Staff ReporterIMPHAL, Apr 4: The 23-year old woman from Thang- meiband Lourungpurel Leikai who happens to be the State’s first positive case of COVID-19 was tested negative today.The young woman has been studying in the United Kingdom and she

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State Joykumar takes over Forest, MAHUD
State

Joykumar takes over Forest, MAHUD

By Our Staff ReporterIMPHAL, Apr 4: Deputy Chief Minister Y Joykumar  who is in charge of Science & Technology and Economics and Statistics departments have been given additional portfolios of MAHUD and Forest, Environment & Climate Change wi

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State CAF&PD Commissioner's order ‘dismissed’ by Field Inspector
State

CAF&PD Commissioner's order ‘dismissed’ by Field Inspector

By Our Staff ReporterIMPHAL, Apr 4: An order issued by the CAF&PD Commissioner with due approval of the Chief Secre-tary to open four petrol pumps amidst the country-wide lockdown has been dismissed by a Field Inspec-tor of the same department.Accordi

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General Articles
General Articles
General Articles APR. 04, 2020

PM's 9 pm diya deciphered

Free ThinkerOne senior respected  leader of the State rang up and asked me the significance of lighting up a Diya or Candle at 9 in the evening on 5th April at home. I told him, I really don't know but it seems to me that it is to show our united fig

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3 Hr 19 Min ago
General Articles
General Articles APR. 04, 2020

Coronavirus shows the way to clean environment

Debapriya MukherjeeContd from prev issueWe need hope, and trust in each other, to tackle the climate crisis. World political leaders strongly advocate to follow the stipulated actions to prevent coronavirus epidemic but  the same politicians attack s

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3 Hr 20 Min ago
General Articles
General Articles APR. 03, 2020

What is wrong with the world today ?

Dr HH MateWe are living in the 21st Century World. This century is the age of computer age or electronic age or scientific age. Many changes take place in the world in the fields of Politics, economics, social, education, medical, etc. Change, as we know,

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1 Days 1 Hr ago
Sangai Digest
Sangai Digest
Sangai Digest OCT. 12, 2019

86 Bn CRPF dedicates passenger waiting shed at Kangpokpi

86 Bn CRPF dedicated a passenger waiting shed at K Senam, Sehjang, Kangpokpi district under its Civic Action

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176 Days 0 Hr ago
Sangai Digest
Sangai Digest OCT. 12, 2019

State Level Mera Houchongba to begin today

IMPHAL, Oct 11: State level Mera Houchongba will be observed from October 12-13 at Kangla, said the organising

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176 Days 0 Hr ago
Sangai Digest
Sangai Digest OCT. 12, 2019

Nemcha Kipgen attends 1st India International Cooperatives Trade Fair 2019

New Delhi, Oct 11: Minister of Social Welfare and Cooperation Nemcha Kipgen graced the inaugural ceremony of the

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176 Days 0 Hr ago
Editorial
From Nationwide lockdown to what else ? Blackout call on April 5
03Apr

From Nationwide lockdown to what else ? Blackout call on April 5

The writing on the wall should be clear to all. Before the Nationwide lockdown was enforced, the country observed a 14 hour Janata Curfew from 7 am to 9 pm on March 22. To the discerning few the Janata Curfew would be the prologue to the 21 days Nationwid
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Brief News
State

16 suspected cases in hospital

Governor wishes

546 lockdown violators detained

Disinfected

NISA condoles

Diaspora Speak

Listing of Masood Azhar as global terrorist by UN will be ‘properly resolved’: China

North Korea warns of ‘undesired’ outcome if no change in US nuclear stance

US army veteran plots terror attack as revenge for New Zealand shootings, arrested

Islamic State alert sounded in Bangladesh, India

‘Value of vaccination’ – Theme of World Veterinary Day, 2019

World News
World
World APR. 04, 2020

WHO says coronavirus is spread by respiratory droplets, not through air

BEIJING, Apr 3The virus that causes the COVID-19 disease is pri-marily transmitted through "respiratory droplets and close contacts", and does not seem to stay long in the air, a recent WHO publication said.Respiratory infections can be transmitted throug

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1 Days 0 Hr ago
World
World MAR. 24, 2020

Myanmar confirms first two coronavirus cases

YANGON, Mar 24: Myanmar confirmed its first cases of coronavirus late Monday (March 23) after weeks of increasing scepticism over the under-developed South-east Asian Nation's claims to be free of the disease.The country of 54 million people had been the

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11 Days 1 Hr ago
World
World FEB. 23, 2020

With 4 deaths in Iran and more cases in 3 continents.. Fears of coronavirus pandemic rise, spread

HONG KONG, Feb 22An alarming surge of new coronavirus cases outside China, with fears of a major outbreak in Iran, is threa-tening to transform the con- tagion into a global pand-emic, as countries around the Middle East scrambled to close their borders and continents so far largely spared reported big upticks in the illness.In Iran, which had insisted as recently as Tues- day that it had no cases, the virus may now have reach-ed most major cities, in- cluding Tehran, and has killed at least four people, ac

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41 Days 23 Hr ago
National News
India
India APR. 04, 2020

COVID-19: India records highest-single day spike with 601 cases

New Delhi, Apr 4In its biggest daily rise, the number of Covid-19 cases in the country increased by 601 in the last 24 hours. During its daily briefing, the Health Ministry said of the total cases, 30 per cent of the Covid-19 cases (1,023 cases) are linked to the Tablighi Jamaat congregation that took place last month in capital’s Nizamuddin West area.However, according to the State-wise data, six fresh deaths were reported — three from Maharashtra, two from Delhi and one from Gujarat. Thus, Mah

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2 Hr 16 Min ago
India
India APR. 04, 2020

PM Narendra Modi to hold all-party meet on April 8

New Delhi, Apr 4 Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called an all-party meeting on April 8 to discuss the situation arising out of the coronavirus.This is the first meeting of Modi with political parties on the outbreak of the deadly virus and comes days after the country has been put under a preventive lockdown.A letter from Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi said that floor leaders of the parties which has more than five members in Parliament would be invited to participate in the meeting. Keeping

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2 Hr 18 Min ago
India
India APR. 04, 2020

Switch off all lights and light lamps at 9 pm on Apr 5, says PM Modi

NEW DELHI, Apr 3Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, addressing the Nation, said that the Nation is united in the fight against coronavirus. To illustrate this, on April 5 at 9 pm, he asked that the citizens switch off all lights for nine minutes and light up lamps or torch or cellphone flash-lights.However, ensure that you maintain social distancing while lighting up lamps, he added.Last month, the Prime Minister had addressed the Nation twice — on March 19 and March 24.The Prime Minister kicked o

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1 Days 0 Hr ago
State News
State
State APR. 05, 2020

Police bust truckers’ modus operandi of ferrying non-local people

Our CorrespondentSENAPATI, Apr 4: Not-withstanding the widespread concerns and fear of trans-porting non-locals into the State due to the outbreak of coronavirus/COVID-19, some truck drivers have been defying all precautionary measures to ferry outsiders into the State. However, alert Mao police flung into action and apprehended the wrongdoers. Acting on reliable inputs about entry of non-local people into the State illegally after issuance of ILP passes has been already suspended, and all surface entr

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State
State APR. 05, 2020

Huge consignment of betel leaves seized at airport

By Our Staff ReporterIMPHAL, Apr 4:  Police seized a huge quantity of betel leaves which were brought into the State via two different flights at around noon today.According to a reliable source, three different flights of Indigo, Air Asia and Spice Jet landed at Bir Tikendrajit International Airport from different parts of the country at around noon and among them, the Spice Jet and Indigo aircraft were found brining in betel leaves from Kolkata.The source further point-ed out that the flights were hi

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5 Min ago
State
State APR. 05, 2020

State’s first positve case tests negative

By Our Staff ReporterIMPHAL, Apr 4: The 23-year old woman from Thang- meiband Lourungpurel Leikai who happens to be the State’s first positive case of COVID-19 was tested negative today.The young woman has been studying in the United Kingdom and she

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6 Min ago
State
State APR. 05, 2020

Joykumar takes over Forest, MAHUD

By Our Staff ReporterIMPHAL, Apr 4: Deputy Chief Minister Y Joykumar  who is in charge of Science & Technology and Economics and Statistics departments have been given additional portfolios of MAHUD and Forest, Environment & Climate Change wi

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8 Min ago
Sports News
Only collective effort can defeat COVID-19, says former Warrant Officer Ksh Bhaktakumar Sports

Sports

Only collective effort can defeat COVID-19, says former Warrant Officer Ksh Bhaktakumar

By Our Sports ReporterIMPHAL, Apr 4 : Doing his bit in the fight against COVID-19, former bodybuilder and IAF's Warrant Officer Kshetrimayum Bhaktakumar has maintained that only collective effort will be able to control and overcome the new disease.Ksh Bhaktakumar who was honoured recently with the "Pride of the Nation" award and has 10 Mr India titles in his belt, is also assessing the impact created by the new disease which trace its origin in Wuhan, China. The bodybuilder who was also adjudged "Most Prom

04 Apr, 2020

SAI holds video conference with Hockey India officials Sports

Sports

SAI holds video conference with Hockey India officials

NEW DELHI, Apr 4The Sports Authority of India on Saturday held a meeting with Hockey India officials and national team coaches via a video conference and drew a roadmap for the next 16 months leading up to the Tokyo Olympics.Among other things, the COVID-

04 Apr, 2020

SAI holds video conference with Hockey India officials Sports

Sports

SAI holds video conference with Hockey India officials

NEW DELHI, Apr 4The Sports Authority of India on Saturday held a meeting with Hockey India officials and national team coaches via a video conference and drew a roadmap for the next 16 months leading up to the Tokyo Olympics.Among other things, the COVID-

04 Apr, 2020

AIFF hopeful of organising U-17 Women's World Cup in November Sports

Sports

AIFF hopeful of organising U-17 Women's World Cup in November

NEW DELHI, Mar 31The All India Football Federation (AIFF) remains hopeful of organising the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup in November despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing cancellation and postponement of top sporting events, throwing international sche

01 Apr, 2020

AIFF hopeful of organising U-17 Women's World Cup in November Sports

Sports

AIFF hopeful of organising U-17 Women's World Cup in November

NEW DELHI, Mar 31The All India Football Federation (AIFF) remains hopeful of organising the FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup in November despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing cancellation and postponement of top sporting events, throwing international sche

01 Apr, 2020

COVID-19: Mary Kom donates one-month salary to PM relief fund Sports

Sports

COVID-19: Mary Kom donates one-month salary to PM relief fund

NEW DELHI, Mar 30 Six-time world champion boxer MC Mary Kom on Monday said she will donate her one month's salary as Rajya Sabha MP, amounting to Rs 1 lakh, to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the country."In view of the

30 Mar, 2020

COVID-19: Mary Kom donates one-month salary to PM relief fund Sports

Sports

COVID-19: Mary Kom donates one-month salary to PM relief fund

NEW DELHI, Mar 30 Six-time world champion boxer MC Mary Kom on Monday said she will donate her one month's salary as Rajya Sabha MP, amounting to Rs 1 lakh, to the Prime Minister's Relief Fund to combat the COVID-19 pandemic in the country."In view of the

30 Mar, 2020

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North East
North East

20 from Assam test positive; NE cases rise to 24

13 test positive for COVID-19 in Assam

NPMHR seeks PM's intervention

Mizoram COVID-19 patient “doing well”, family members test negative

Special cargo flights to NE, NFR operates goods trains

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