Imphal: Manipur social welfare department has requested the department of health and family welfare department to designate certain institutes as quarantine centres specially meant for the transgenders of Manipur. Social welfare department has come a across some stranded trangenders who have come to the state recently from other states facing some inconvenience when they are…
Imphal: As on Thursday till 6-30 pm 213 individuals were tested at VRDLs of RIMS (103) and JNIMS (110) and all are found COVID-19 negative. The Trunaat machine recently installed at RIMS to augment existing testing capacity is now put in use, Manipur COVID-19 Control Room said. The state government in consultation with stakeholders has…
Imphal (DIPR) : Special train from Hyderabad ferrying stranded residents of Manipur due to the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic reaxhed Jiribam Railway Station at 10.00 am today. 35 passengers including 3 (three) babies from Ukhrul district, 47 passengers from Chandel and Tengnoupal districts, 52 passengers from Senapati and Kangpokpi districts, 86…
Imphal: The State Cabinet in an emergency meeting held on Wednesday evening has decided to shift COVID-19 symptomatic persons directly shifted to hospital and to not allow them to board trains transporting stranded Manipuris from other parts of the country. The meeting was convened as the COVID-19 positive case in the state reach 25 with…
Imphal (DIPR): Art & Culture Minister, L. Jayantakumar announced the list of awardees of the 13th Manipur State Film Awards, 2020 including Lifetime Achievement Award at a press meet held at the office chamber of the Minister at Secretariat South Block, Imphal today. This award is sponsored every year under the aegis of Art &…
Imphal: Special train from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh ferrying stranded residents of Manipur due to the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the COVID-19 pandemic reached Jiribam Railway station at 8:14 am on Wednesday. Twelve passengers from Ukhrul and Noney districts, 28 passengers from Churachandpur and Pherzawl districts including a baby, 14 passengers from Tamenglong district, 20…
Imphal: A team of Imphal East police has on Friday dismantled ‘illegal’ encroachments on the western side of Hatta Golapati along Imphal river bank (from Sanjenthong to Minuthong) which borders the eastern side of Kangla, where people have constructed temporary toilets, garages, worksheds, tea stalls etc. as well as garbage disposal sites. Ward member and…
Imphal: Water resources and youth affairs and sports minister Letpao Haokip on Friday flagged off two buses for evacuation of Manipuris stranded in Guwahati during the Covid-19 lockdown. The buses were flagged of at the minister’s residence at Koirengei. A total of 46 persons belonging to his constituency, comprising of students, working people and those…
Imphal: For the current year the focus for PWD work programme will be on unavoidable work and on priority basis, Manipur works minister Thongam Biswajit Singh said at the Programme Advisory Committee 2020-21 meeting held at the his new secretariat office conference hall. The department will focus on clearing past liabilities and as such there…
Imphal: To contain and control the spread of Covid-19 pandemic in Manipur lockdown will be implemented strictly in letter and spirit, said chief secretary Dr. J. Suresh Babu on Thursday. Talking to reporters held at old secretariat, here Babu said the government has imposed lockdown in the state as per the instructions of ministry of…
