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Imphal, June 16: An unidentified disease is on the prowl in Moreh Township, and has already claimed the life of one Manipur police personnel posted at the Moreh police station. Speaking to IFP over the telephone, officials at the Moreh police station confirmed that several people have fallen sick due to the disease all over Moreh town in the last three days or so, but doctors at the Moreh community health centre have had no success in diagnosing it. While the Moreh CHC has no blood testing facility, the various private clinics at Moreh that do have such facilities have not been able to...

Imphal, June 16: MSCP MLA from Wangkhei Assembly constituency and former Congress leader Y Erabot may replace K Govindas as the legislature wing leader of the party, disclosed a reliable source from within the MSCP today. In another interesting development, difference of opinion has reportedly surfaced between the MSCP legislature group and the MSCP Central Executive Committee (CEC) over the proposal to merge en-bloc with the Congress. The source said a sizeable group of the MSCP members have expressed their opinion the merger proposal with the Congress was taken hastily with some even...

Imphal, June 16: The four tribes from Manipur which were among the 43 new tribes approved by the Union Cabinet for recognition as Scheduled Tribe, are Poumai, Kharam, Tarao and "any Kuki tribe subject to the correction of nomenclature of Vaiphai." The slight confusion over the nomenclature of Vaiphai, is over the spelling - whether it should end with "ei" as is written currently or with "ai" as was written earlier. As for the term "any Kuki tribe," it is not specified which tribes would be categorized in the group, but presumably it would mean any tribe that would use Kuki as a prefix or...

SHILLONG, June 15 ? The Khasi Students? Union (KSU) yesterday formally launched a new regional party saying it needed to wield political power to achieve its avowed objective of protecting and promoting the interests of the ?Hynniewtrep? people which comprise the Khasi and Jaintia tribes. The new outfit entitled Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) will contest all the 36 Assembly seats in the districts of East and West Khasi Hills, Ri-Bhoi and Jaintia Hills, party president and former KSU chief Paul Lyngdoh told newsmen last evening. Explaining the reason for forming the new...

AIZAWL, June 15 ? The establishment of the apex body of the Mizos, Young Mizo Association, was today observed in the whole of Mizoram and other places where ethnic Mizos live, reports PTI. Mizoram Governor Amolak Rattan Kohli, urged all members of the YMA to expose the spirit of ?Tlawmngaihna? or self-sacrifice, the great custom and tradition of the Mizos to the outside world through cultural exchanges and sports. The day was marked by YMA members, young and old, by planting trees, doing community works like cleaning streets and villages and helping the poor and the sick. YMA, then Young...