Manipur

40-year-old man dies at quarantine centre in Manipur

11:20 pm July 14, 2020

Imphal: A 40-year-old man died at a quarantine centre in Manipur‘s Bishnupur district hours after he arrived from Guwahati, officials said on Tuesday. The man, who was living in Guwahati for the last seven years, had multiple ailments, they said. He died around 11 pm on Monday due to multiple organ failure at the quarantine […]

Medium intensity quake hits northeastern states

8:48 pm June 21, 2020

Shillong: A medium intensity earthquake rocked Mizoram, Meghalaya, Manipur and the other northeastern states on Sunday, the Regional Seismic Centre here said. The 5.1 magnitude quake hit at around 4:15 pm and was tracked at a depth of 35 km from the earth’s surface at a place near Aizawl in Mizoram, an official at the […]

World War II-era mortar shells disposed of in Manipur

8:25 pm June 14, 2020

Imphal: Two World War II-era mortar shells were disposed of in Manipur’s Churachandpur district on Sunday, around three months after they were found, police said. Residents of Monglenphai-Tollen village had found one of the 50 mm mortar shells while digging a grave and the other while cleaning a nearby riverbank, they said. “The discoveries were […]

One new COVID-19 case in Mizoram, tally at 4,428

Three more test positive for COVID-19 in Manipur

11:13 pm May 24, 2020

Imphal: Three persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Manipur, taking the total number of active cases in the state to 28, officials said on Sunday. Of the three new cases, one is an 18-year-old male hailing from Churachandpur district, another is 32-year-old man from Jiribam district and 25-year-old female from Thoubal district, the officials […]

Nearly 15,000 guest workers go home from Tamil Nadu

11:52 pm May 20, 2020

Chennai: Nearly 15,000 guest workers left Tamil Nadu for their home states on Wednesday in ten special trains that originated from different cities as the state stepped up measures for the return of the migrants stranded due to the COVID-19 lockdown. The migrant workers, belonging to Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand,Odisha and Manipur departed from origin […]