The United Nations has brought it to the notice of the world and it goes well with the seeming renewed drive against poppy plantation in Manipur. Myanmar Opium Survey 2025 undertaken and issued by the United Nations on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) has highligh..

The focus of the MLAs, particularly the BJP MLAs, must be clear. The focus should and must be on how to take up steps to ensure that the internally displaced persons can return to the place they once called home. It however is not clear whether their eyes..

One point that has emerged prominently in the boycott call of the Sangai Festival is the existence of thousands of people surviving in different relief centres for more than two years now. Lest it is forgotten, the displaced people cut both ways, affectin..

Back in 2024, when the State Assembly was alive and kicking, Phungyar Assembly Constituency MLA Leishiyo Keishing had flagged the problem of large scale intrusion from the across the border and how the number of immigrants had outnumbered the local people..

The message is clear. For the thousands who have been languishing in the different relief centres set up across the length and breadth of Manipur, the only thing they want is to go home. The stand of the Government or the instructions given to the securit..

It is interesting and it may have an impact on the next Assembly elections slated for the early part of 2027. This is all that more so given that the Congress seems to be on the comeback trail, best exemplified by the excellent showing its two candidates..

It is not a question of who will win, for there can be no winner in this case. On the one side is the PR administration hell bent in going ahead with the Sangai Festival and on the other hand are the internally displaced persons who have come out as one t..

The politics of normalcy and this is becoming more and more visibly blatant, even as each day takes Manipur closer to the Sangai Festival. Scheduled to start from November 21 and to go on till November 30, a number of civil society organisations and most..

BL Santosh and Sambit Patra came here, met BJP leaders and office bearers of the saffron party, interacted with the IDPs, visited Senapati and Churachandpur, and are now at Delhi. What can Manipur expect from the visit of the two leaders ? Tough to say, b..

The all important question is, what steps has the PR administration taken up to deal with the outbreak of African Swine Fever,  a non-zoonotic, viral disease that has reportedly infected a large number of pigs at Churachandpur and Kakching. Equally i..

It was a comedy of error, but it is more than clear that it was not the Manipur Public Service Commission (MPSC) which scripted this comic tale, but the Secured Printing Press which was assigned the duty of printing the question papers for the Manipur Civ..

Leaving aside the question of whether the return of a popular Government would make the situation better or not, it is significant to note that this is the first time that an MLA has publicly announced the name of a colleague as the leader to be backed. L..

Meghalaya and Tripura are obviously the two States which will first test the water for the new banner that will come following the ‘merger’ of the NPP and the Tipra Motha. The tie up or merger move has already been announced and the finer deta..

Paying not for free market but State enabled monopoly of suffering. This is the line used in a write up and submitted to The Sangai Express by a concerned and well meaning citizen of Manipur. The said write up came as a response to the news item under the..

In just another 61 days, Manipur, like the rest of the world, will be stepping into a new year and inching more close towards the three year mark of the violence that erupted in all its ugliness in the evening of May 3, 2023. Two years is a long time, mor..

Where does the North East region of the country figure in the consciousness of New Delhi ? Can the change from Look East to Act East Policy be taken to mean that Delhi is not averse to the idea of brushing aside the interests of the North East at the alta..

Just three words but in these three words, Keirao Assembly Constituency MLA Lourem-bam Rameshwar delivered a point which has for long been acutely felt by the more discerning people of the State. Quality leader needed, are the words used by the MLA while..

In the winter of his life and whatever one’s position is on what is dubbed as the ‘Naga issue,’ it stands that Th Muivah has been able to bring the said issue to the level of the Prime Minister and accordingly the ongoing dialogue is hel..

It is thanks to this man that today all eyes are on Ukhrul and Somdal village and whether one agrees with his political vision of a Lim or not, he is the man of the moment. It is 2025 and not 2010. It was the Congress back then and today it is the BJP, de..

The Congress better get its act together if it intends to pose a serious challenge to the BJP when Manipur goes to polls in 2027 or the flicker of hope it has managed to ignite for a grand comeback will die out in no time. Funny it is, but when the fortun..

834 deaths in the last 7 years and this works out to over 100 deaths in a year and this should wake up everyone on the primacy of safety. In giving this statistics, Additional Chief Secretary Anurag Bajpai also spelt out the disturbing figure of 29 percen..

The Sangai Express is not an expert or a master in Engineering but there ought to be a difference between reconstruction and restoration of a structure or building or any standing monument. In short, reconstruction is far removed from the understanding of..

Number 1 fact is, after Manipur came under President’s Rule on February 13, 2025, incidents of violence have come down. But then absence of violence should not be equated to normalcy by any stretch of the imagination. This is fact number 2. Even tod..

The PR administration has been candid. Candid enough to admit that what the Inter-State Bus Terminus needs today is a revival and not some cosmetic changes that may give the idea that it is up on its feet. On October 3, Additional Chief Secretary Anurag B..

It came at that point of time when Manipur was literally reeling under the impact of poppy people-an aphorism neatly summed up by the series of poems that appeared every Sunday in the English edition of The Sangai Express. The Power of Poppy first hit the..