A long term vision. Many of the vexatious issues besieging Manipur right now are matters that could have been avoided or averted or may simply not have risen at all if successive Governments down the years had been guided with a vision, the ability to loo..

Not a regular political heavyweight like in the mould of the late Rishang Keishing, the late Yangmasho Shaiza or any of the other bigwigs who have etched a name for themselves just by winning one election after the other, but the name of RV Mingthing has ..

Acknowledging the reality. Instead of RC, opt for TSH, that is instead of Refugee Camp  open a Temporary Shelter Home. This is the line the State Government has struck now and this is in sync with the growing likelihood that many would have crossed o..

It just does not add up. Or is it a case of the right arm of the Government not knowing what its left arm is doing ? Nearly one year after Imphal followed the call of Delhi and announced a ban on the manufacture, sale and use of single use plastic as well..

Finally, rain is here. After weeks and months of waiting eagerly, a slight shower has started wetting the parched lands. But it is too early to say whether the current spell of rainfall will be enough to tide over the water crisis besieging the State at p..

From the streets of Imphal marching towards the official bungalow of the Chief Minister, to the march and voice raised at the campus of Manipur University to now a dharna staged at Jantar Mantar demanding that an exercise on National Register of Citizens ..

Details are not available and the English edition of The Sangai Express had to give a miss to the report that Chief Minister N Biren Singh had briefed Union Home Minister Amit Shah on the decision of the State Cabinet to withdraw from the Suspension of Op..

Forest Minister Th Biswajit has a solid point. ‘Eviction drives don’t target any specific community’ is the line that he has maintained and why should the eviction of a recently established hamlet inside a protected forest be given a com..

Time to think for the future of the Meiteis. This was Rajya Sabha MP and titular King of Manipur, Leishemba Sanajaoba, a person well placed to understand the state of the Meitei community. The observation of the honourable MP is noted and acknowledged. Ho..

Forest and Environment Minister Thongam Biswajit was bang on target and he couldn’t have been more right than in observing that befitting penalty should be imposed on all poppy growers rather than giving any sort of priority while giving rehabilitat..

God sees the truth but waits. A case of real life coming real close to imitating a fiction written more than a hundred years back by the inimitable Leo Tolstoy and one here is talking about Lungnila Elizabeth, a child who jolted Manipur awake to how ugly ..

Whereas the total irrigated area of the State stands at mere 46,512 hectares, a staggering 1,87,928 hectares of agricultural land or paddy fields are devoid of any irrigation facility. In another word, agricultural activities, specially paddy cultivation ..

The Congress has a solid point and the BJP led Government at Imphal should take the questions raised by the former as an extension of the War on Drugs campaign. This is all that more so as the Congress has already announced that it supports the War on Dru..

An admission and a correction or a clarification is in line. The news item under the heading ‘RS MP notes pitiable road condition of Ukhrul’ which appeared on the February 22 edition of this newspaper should have ideally appeared on page 1 of ..

So it is that the three hour schedule to test how much a child has learnt in the last 12 years of her or his schooling will be decided when the Council of Higher Secondary Education, Manipur (COHSEM) starts its annual Class XII exams from February 23. The..

Where does Manipur expect to see herself four years down the line, that is by the time the next Assembly elections come in 2027 ?  This is a question which the BJP led Government at Imphal should be asking itself now. Short term look, one may say but..

The jinx it seems, continues. Dates and years figure prominently in this tale of ‘jinx’ and it dates back to 2016 the year the exam was held, then 2019 the year the said exam was cancelled and many who were already in service suddenly found th..

Chief Minister N Biren Singh was not off the mark in observing that the Meitei community has sacrificed a lot for the sake of a united Manipur and this is a line which The Sangai Express has been stressing on all these years. Come to think about it, it is..

The War on Drugs has to be taken up on different fronts and this is where the co-operation and vigil of the ‘Green Activists’ become indispensable. It is with a reason why Chief Minister N Biren took to his Facebook page to announce that a cas..

The Noney road mishap that claimed the lives of 7 students, one teacher and one warden while they were out on a study tour on December 21 last year is recent, very recent, if one views the time frame in the backdrop of the human tragedy, but public memory..

Giving a more mysterious twist to the War on Drugs and while the Government seems nowhere near unmasking or pulling up the big fishes-the people with the needed financial and muscle power to operationalise the ‘drug business’, the offensive la..

Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), alleged excesses of security personnel, fake encounters with the Supreme Court of the country having taken note of it, law and order situation (though situation has improved in the last few years), the drug menace ..

If the soul of India lies in her villages, then it may be said that the spirit and soul of Manipur lie in the remote, hilly areas and it is gratifying to note that Governor La Ganesan has taken it upon himself to visit some of the remotest parts of the St..

The Government should take note of the cry of protest that has come forth from Lamlongei, Mantripukhri. If not checked well in time this can snowball into a major issue which would not be in the interests of Manipur and her people. And the term ‘peo..

Started sometime in 2020 and the focus and the target seem to be ‘complete it before the Shirui Lily Festival’, which can be held sometime in April or May this year. This is the assurance given by the National Highway Infrastructure Developmen..