Imphal: The State’s first plastic industry was launch by two Manipuri engineering graduates, Samson Ningombam and Madonna Akoijam. The project is called PEARLEX Enterprises, the start-up aims to revolutionize the sector and promote self reliance. Akoijam in an interview with newsmen said, “I wanted to do something different like contribute somethingContinue Reading

Imphal: Atom Khuman, a small village of Imphal West, is set to become Manipur’s first solar village and also perhaps the first in the Northeast with an NGO working on rural electrification programme, providing solar energy equipment free of cost. The process of installing the equipment at all the villageContinue Reading

Imphal :  Many people of Lilong Chingjao and Lilong Chingeijing villages in Thoubal district, mostly women and children, have been hospitalized at several health centres in Manipur following outbreak of a mysterious disease. Most of the affected villagers were admitted to health centres in and around Imphal following complaint ofContinue Reading

Aizawl/ Imphal: The Mizoram and Manipur governments will implement the National Food Security Act (NFSA) from February. “Arrangements for making available rice to those excluded from the scheme will be made through the Public Distribution System (PDS),” Mizoram’s Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister John Rotluangliana said in Aizawl.Continue Reading

Imphal — Nearly 24 years after prohibition was imposed in Manipur, the state, for the first time, is planning to lift the ban on the manufacture and sale of liquor, with Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh tabling a proposal for the same in the Assembly. Speaking in the Assembly, theContinue Reading