08 April 2022

Enrolment in govt schools significantly rose post pandemic: Mizoram education minister

Mizoram State Education Minister Lalchhandama Ralte said in a meeting that enrollment in Mizoram government schools increased significantly after the pandemic.

Mizoram State Education Minister Lalchhandama Ralte said in a meeting that enrollment in Mizoram government schools increased significantly after the pandemic.

Mizoram State Education Minister Lalchhandama Ralte, said on Tuesday, that the student enrollment in state government schools increased ‘significantly’ as educational institutes began reopening after they were shut because of the Covid-19 pandemic for a period of two years. Mizoram schools reopened for all classes.

GOVERNMENT STEPS TO IMPROVE EDUCATION

The State Education Minister said, “The state government has taken several steps to improve the education system and recruit more teachers, which in turn, prompted parents to send their children to government schools.”

RISE IN GOVERNMENT SCHOOL ENROLLMENT

The State Education Minister further said during a meeting at the Sakawrdai village that as per reports received from several schools across the state, the number of student enrollment in government schools has ‘significantly increased’.

The Sakawrdai village lies in the northeastern part of the Mizoram bordering Manipur.

He further said that in certain schools, enrollment has surged by twofold, necessitating the construction of new classrooms or the expansion of existing ones in a few locations.

COMMON UNIFORM FOR GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS

Mizoram Human Resources Development Board had earlier proposed to implement a common uniform for all government schools in Mizoram The was then approved by the State Education Minister Lalchandama Ralte.


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Manipur town bordering Myanmar emerges smuggling hotspot

 By Iboyaima Laithangbam

State has become a conduit for contraband goods including sophisticated weapons

Police commandos led by SP Shrey Vats on Thursday arrested a van driver and seized 18 bars of gold, believed to have been smuggled in from Myanmar. The arrest took place at the Pallel police station in Kakching district. The gold bars weighed 166 gm each.

The driver, identified as Prakash Khetri (23) from Moreh town bordering Myanmar, said he had smuggled the gold bars from his hometown in Tengnoupal district. Khetri and the seized gold bars have been handed over to the customs department for necessary action.

The police said the van coming from the border town was intercepted and searched based on intelligence received on gold smuggling.

Apart from drugs, gold and precious stones are also being smuggled through Manipur which has become a conduit for all kinds of contraband goods including sophisticated weapons.

On Wednesday evening, a combined team of police personnel from the 43 Assam Rifles had made a significant arrest of three drug traffickers from Assam, police sources said. Brown sugar worth ₹1.44 crore in the international market was recovered from them, who were identified as Sahidur Aslam, Alimuddin Khan and Alam Ali. Hailing from Karimganj district of Assam, they are reported to have come to Moreh to buy drugs.

They are said to have confessed to procuring the substance from a tribal drug trafficker and Moreh resident Peter Khambilien who was also nabbed. All of them have been handed over to the Moreh police.

Also on Thursday, the police recovered 684 gm brown sugar packed inside 60 concealed soap cases from a jeep coming from Moreh at the Kondong Lairembi checkpost. The alleged traffickers were travelling from Moreh towards Assam.

Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren SIngh expressed happiness over the seizure of drugs and the arrests in the State in the past few days. Apart from coming down on drug smuggling, the Manipur government has taken measures to destroy poppy plants grown in the hill areas.

Surge in VC Exits At Startups

Venture capital fund exits in Indian startups surged in 2021, says a report. Here’s why.

Venture capital fund exits in Indian startups grew over ten-fold to surge past $14 billion in 2021 over the previous year, a recent report by Bain & Company in collaboration with Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association finds. This was across secondary transactions and initial public offerings (IPOs), with the latter accounting for a significant 40% of the total exit value.

A major share of the exit value was constituted by three exits last year: BillDesk acquisition by PayU, Paytm and Zomato IPOs, a Financial Express report said. Secondary and strategic sales from over 60 deals accounted for the remaining 60% of the overall exit value, equaling $8.7 billion. One of the reasons for this has been the surge in interest from investors globally.

The growth also comes in the light of subdued activity as a result of the pandemic prior to 2021. The value of exits in 2019 and 2020 stood at mere $4.4 billion and $1.4 billion respectively.

Investment in startups in the country has also seen an uptick, with players in consumer tech, fintech and software as a service (SaaS) being particularly dominant. The boom continues this year with 13 startups already turning unicorns so far.

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04 April 2022

Manipur Girl Babysits Brother in Class

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Manipuri girl attends class with little sister in her lap


It's no secret that children are full of empathy and compassion. Sometimes, they are also capable of assuming the role of a babysitter or a caretaker for someone younger than them.

Be it consoling or babysitting, the art of caring comes naturally to some children. Not so long ago, a heartwarming video from Arunachal Pradesh a little girl consoling her emotional classmate, who was crying.

This time, a photo of a 10-year-old Manipuri girl attending school with her younger sister in her lap has drawn the attention of netizens and Manipur Power, Forest, and Environment Minister Th. Biswajit Singh.

The 10-year-old student of class 4, identified as Meiningsinliu Pamei, went to school on the day while babysitting her little sister because her parents were tied up with farming duties.

The moving photo drew the attention of Biswajit Singh, who wrote: "Her dedication for education is what left me amazed! This 10-year-old girl named Meiningsinliu Pamei from Tamenglong, Manipur attends school babysitting her sister, as her parents were out for farming and studies while keeping her younger sister in her lap."

    Her dedication for education is what left me amazed!This 10-year-old girl named Meiningsinliu Pamei from Tamenglo… t.co/CKorcqrk3T
    — ANI (@ANI) Apr 2, 2022

The minister informed that he was able to contact the little girl's family and asked them to bring Meiningsinliu to Imphal.

Singh added that he will take care of Meiningsinliu's education until her graduation.

“As soon I noticed this news on social media, we trace her family & asked them to bring her Imphal. Spoke to her family that I will personally take care of her education till she graduates. Proud of her dedication,” Singh tweeted.

According to reports, Meiningsinliu family resides Tamenglong district in northern Manipur. She studies at Dailong primary school in Tamenglong district of Manipur.

The photo has left a lasting impression on netizens, who lauded the little girl for her dedication to education and her sister.

"Such dedicated children leave us speechless but proud of this nation who keeps giving us such strong children who are the reason of this nations might," a user wrote.

"It is absolutely heartening and her dedication at this tender age is commendable," wrote another.




 




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01 April 2022

Phangnon Konyak is Nagaland's first woman Rajya Sabha MP

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Kohima, Apr 1
: S Phangnon Konyak was on Thursday elected unopposed as the Rajya Sabha member from Nagaland. With the tenure of incumbent Rajya Sabha MP from Nagaland K G Kenye ending on April 2, the election was scheduled to be held on Thursday.

Returning Officer, Biennial Election to the Council of States, Khruohituonuo Rio informed that as there was only one candidate till the last date for filing nominations, no poll was conducted. Therefore, Konyak has been declared duly elected unopposed to fill up the vacancy in the Rajya Sabha for the State of Nagaland, she said. She is the first woman from the state to get a berth in Parliament's Upper House.

Konyak, the president of BJP Nagaland Mahila Morcha, who stood as the consensus candidate of the ruling United Democratic Alliance (UDA), is also the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member from Nagaland to be sent to Parliament.

"S Phangnon Konyak sponsored by the BJP has been declared duly elected uncontested to fill the seat in the Council of States [Rajya Sabha] from Nagaland State, the term of which is due to expire on 2nd April 2022," chief electoral officer V Shashank Shekhar said in a press release. In the 60-member assembly, NDPP has 21 MLAs, NPF 25, BJP 12 and two Independent MLAs, all of whom joined hands in September 2021 to form UDA for facilitating an early solution to the vexed Naga political dialogue.

Congratulating Phangnon Konyak on being elected unopposed, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio expressed confidence that she will represent Nagaland state exceptionally well. Rio also wished her the best for a successful tenure. "It's a great journey for any women of Nagaland… it's historical" said BJP Nagaland president and cabinet minister Temjen Imna Along. Konyak is in Delhi and could not be reached for comments.


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31 March 2022

SPYAIR Vocalist IKE Leaves Band

 

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Japanese pop rock band SPYAIR today announced that their vocalist, IKE, has decided to leave the group, following unsuccessful treatment for his ulcerative colitis. IKE states that the chronic disease was first discovered in summer 2019, and he eventually recovered, but it was found to have relapsed in January this year.

Since SPYAIR's formation in 2005, IKE has made his voice heard on many iconic anime series, including Bleach, Gintama, Haikyu!! and Mobile Suit GUNDAM Iron Blooded Orphans. The remaining members of the group — UZ, MOMIKEN and KENTA — will carry on as SPYAIR, though their upcoming concert dates in May and June have been cancelled.





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Modi govt reduces areas under AFSPA in Nagaland, Manipur & Assam

Reduction in areas under AFSPA is a result of ‘improved security situation’, Home Minister Amit Shah says.

New Delhi: Several districts across Nagaland, Assam and Manipur have been removed from the list of “disturbed areas” that fall under the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) announced Thursday.

Reduction in areas under AFSPA was a result of “improved security situation”, Home Minister Amit Shah said in a statement on Twitter.

The move came three months after 14 civilians were killed in an Army ambush in Nagaland’s Mon district, followed by a spate of protests demanding withdrawal of AFSPA from the state.

In Nagaland, where AFSPA has been in place since 1995, areas under 15 police stations across seven districts will be removed from the disturbed areas list and will no longer fall under AFSPA.

In Assam, which has been under AFSPA since 1990, 24 districts (23 completely, and one partially) have been removed from that list. In Manipur, which has been under AFSPA (except Imphal Municipality area) since 2004, areas under 15 police stations across six districts have been removed.

The demands for the repeal of AFSPA, an Act that gives sweeping powers to the armed forces to arrest without warrants and even shoot to kill in certain situations in ‘disturbed areas’, from Nagaland and other north-eastern states has persisted for years and only grew louder following the Mon incident.

After the episode, the Narendra Modi government on 27 December instituted a high-level committee chaired by a secretary-level officer to examine the possibility of withdrawing AFSPA from Nagaland.

According to sources in the MHA, the panel’s recommendations were accepted and it was decided that AFSPA could be lifted from certain areas in a phased manner.

Speaking about the latest move, Shah said the “fast tracked development due to the consistent efforts and several agreements to end insurgency and bring lasting peace in the North East” played a role in the decision.

AFSPA was completely removed from Meghalaya in 2018 and Tripura in 2015. At the time, the Act was in force in three districts of Arunachal Pradesh.

‘Improved security situation, constant engagement’

According to the MHA statement, in 2021 there has been a 74 per cent fall in incidents of militancy in the Northeast in comparison to 2014. The ministry also said that deaths of security personnel too have fallen by 60 per cent and deaths of civilians by 84 per cent, showing “improved security situation” in the states.

“The consistent efforts of the Government and improvement in the security situation in the Northeast led to reduction of the disturbed areas under AFSPA in Nagaland, Assam and Manipur after decades,” the statement said.

Shah has constantly engaged with the states in the Northeast, holding dialogues on a regular basis resulting in most of the extremist groups laying down their arms, it added.

“Today all these persons have become a part of the democratic process and are participating in the  development of the North East. About 7,000 militants have surrendered in the last few years,” the ministry said.

The statement noted that the Government of India has also signed several agreements to end insurgencies and bring peace to the Northeast in the last three years.

These include the Bodo Accord signed in January 2020, which resolved the five decades long Bodo problem of Assam; the Karbi-Anglong Agreement of 4 September 2021, which resolved the long standing dispute over the Karbi region of Assam; the NLFT (SD) agreement signed in August 2019 to bring militants into the mainstream of society in Tripura; and an agreement signed on 16 January 2020 to resolve the 23-year-old Bru-Reang refugee crisis, under which 37,000 internally displaced persons are being resettled in Tripura.

On 29 March, an agreement resolving disputes along boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya was also signed.







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Aizawl To Become 4th State Capital In North East To Have Rail Connectivity Next Year

A new Broad Gauge railway line is currently under construction from Bairabi of Assam’s Hailakandi district to Sairang of Mizoram’s Aizawl district covering 52 km.

In a recent development in the railway sector of the northeastern region, the capital city of Mizoram, Aizawl is all set to get railway connectivity in the upcoming year.

With this major railway project, Aizawl will become the fourth state capital in the northeast to have a rail link that is currently under construction.

Officials informed us about the upcoming railway network in Aizawl as the NFR (National Frontier Railway) is laying BG (Broad Gauge) track up to Sairang town of Mizoram which is about 20 kilometres from Aizawl.

As informed by the officials, this rail project has been proposed with the cost of Rupees 6,547 crore and is expected to be operational from next year.

The construction work will be completed on November 2023 and at present, 70 per cent of work on the BG line from Bairabi- Sairang is already done.
A new Broad Gauge railway line is currently under construction from Bairabi of Assam’s Hailakandi district to Sairang of Mizoram’s Aizawl district covering 52 km. Mizoram: Aizawl To Become 4th State Capital In North East To Have Rail Connectivity Next Year Sentinel Digital DeskBy : Sentinel Digital Desk | 28 March 2022 7:57 PM Follow Us on Google News Aizawl: In a recent development in the railway sector of the northeastern region, the capital city of Mizoram, Aizawl is all set to get railway connectivity in the upcoming year. With this major railway project, Aizawl will become the fourth state capital in the northeast to have a rail link that is currently under construction. On Sunday 27 March officials informed us about the upcoming railway network in Aizawl as the NFR (National Frontier Railway) is laying BG (Broad Gauge) track up to Sairang town of Mizoram which is about 20 kilometres from Aizawl. Also Read - Assam-Mizoram Rail Link Likely By November Next Year The National Frontier Railway officials stated that the Broad Gauge line is being laid in the Bairabi area of the Hailakandi district of Assam to the Aizawl's Sairang area covering a 52-kilometre distance. As informed by the officials, this rail project has been proposed with the cost of Rupees 6,547 crore and is expected to be operational from next year. The construction work will be completed on November 2023 and at present, 70 per cent of work on the BG line from Bairabi- Sairang is already done.






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