Our Correspondent Kangpokpi, Sep. 29 (EMN): A month-long ‘Cleaning of Imphal River Campaign under the River Rejuvenation Programme’ was formally launched at Kangpokpi hill town, 45 km north of Imphal on Thursday. The cleaning of Imphal River campaign is being taken up after the state’s first ever rejuvenation and conservation of the Nambul River in Imphal under the National River Conservation Plan that aimed at preventing pollution of rivers. During the launching session at Kangpokpi DC’s office, the Joint Director Dr. T Brajakumar Singh of Directorate of Environment and Climate Change highlighted the importance of taking up the initiative under the guidance of the state chief minister. He said Imphal River cleaning drive is along the stretch from Kangpokpi to Sekmai for phase-I and the cleaning process has started from Thursday onwards by cleaning the garbage at Khupting bridge, main dumping site of the hill town. At the same time there are also series of programmes including
To control the flood situation in Imphal valley, gate number 2 and 3 of Ithai Barrage were opened. All gates of Imphal Barrage were also opened, official sources said..
Six accused in murder case had been remanded in police custody for further investigation till June 1 after they were produced before the CJM, Thoubal court on Monday
Our Correspondent Imphal, May 18 (EMN): Flash floods and landslides in Manipur worsened on Wednesday as many places including residential areas in Imphal were