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Football.....Is Manipur India's Little Brazil?

Even though the Indian U-17 football team’s World Cup campaign ended when the host nation was humiliated 0-4 by Ghana in their last outing in their group, the eight Manipuri boys who were in the spirited Indian team continued to be in the limelight in their home state.

Joining in the series of felicitation programs held in their honour, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh handed over Rs 5 lakhs to each of the eight players as incentive for bringing the glory to the state.

“To win or loss is part of the game but what really counts is the spirit and performance on the field. Your participation in the historic FIFA World Cup brought glory to our state Manipur. I say this on behalf of the entire population of the state, both hill and valley, we’re really proud of you.” said the former footballer Chief Minister to the eight boys before handing over the cheques.

Even the Manipur Governor, Dr Najma Heptulla felicitated the ‘8 heroes’ as they are being called in Manipur and showered them with gifts and reward shawls.

Interacting with the boys and their guardians who were invited to a high tea, the Governor said that she would do her best to find ways to promote football commercially.

The Governor felt proud that the U-17 team has the team Captain and 7 other players from the State. “It is heartening to see that maximum number of players from a state like Manipur, which is known as the powerhouse of Sports” said the governor and congratulated the parents for supporting their children to play the game despite economic hardships.

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This really is happening. The laws of Newton are going to be applicable for the insurgent groups of North Eastern India. It is indeed difficult to believe. But truth certainly is stranger than fiction. 

Natural law always prevails. The natural and fundamental duty of a citizen is to protect the country of his or her birth. But just the contrary happened in North Eastern India following spurt of insurgent outfits that inclined to the “unnatural” aspect of harming the nation of their birth, the nation of their forefather’s birth. Naturally, the “unnatural” works of trigger-happy insurgents waging war against their own country India from a foreign land – Myanmar – is now bouncing back on them allowing Newton’s Laws to operate. 

Let us analyse the separatist wars indulged in by militants in all the seven states of Northast India in the light of Newton’s laws, but in reverse order to make points clearer.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction is Newton’s Third law.

Outlaws of North Eastern India, very newsy it may seem are now facing it in their safe havens dotting mountainous Myanmar. So far, they had been carrying out violent operations against India from Myanmar hideouts. Their actions would now invite reactions in equal and opposite measure from Myanmar.

Exactly 330 years ago when Sir Isaac Newton propounded it, he could never even dream it would fit ditto with the gun totting terrorists of Assam, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram and eastern part of Arunachal Pradesh, working out of their safe havens in Myanmar.

We do not really know if the scientific theories are troubling the unscientifically minded terrorists in other parts of the world or not but the militants of North Eastern India certainly are facing the brunt of all the three theories of Newton.

In the brain game of chess, we know what it means to face a checkmate. Unless the militant mates check themselves, they would certainly be checkmated by Myanmar following the signing in of the 19-Point Yangon Declaration. Myanmar has just officially announced it would not allow the Northeast militants to operate from the safe havens in that country. 

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Meghalaya’s only Abattoir set to open

B. Rijal, the Director of the Animal Husbandry & Veterinary department informed the press that an agreement with the Butchers Association of Meghalaya will be signed in order to functionalise the abattoir at Mawlai Mawroh. According to the agreement the Butchers Association would have to deposit a security of Rs 30 lakh with the state government for the time of ten years in which the government will benefit only 20 percent from its profit. Though the right of profit is purely dictated by the Association yet the property will still be of the government in order to maintain and supervise the slaughters of animals in a humane manner. In the next ten years, after the smoothly function of this newly open abattoir the government is set to set up two more one in Tura and Jowai.

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KHNAM accused PWD (Roads) of biased treatment

The Khun Hynniewtrep National awakening Movement (KHNAM) submitted a memorandum to the chief Engineer PWD (Roads).

In the memorandum the KHNAM accused the Government of Meghalaya especially the department of PWD (roads) of turning blind eye to the roads conditions of the rural areas located at the Khasi hills district, Jaintia Hills district, and the Ri-Bhoi district. It also claimed that more emphasis have been given only to Garo hills.

While speaking to the media person Mr. Thomas Passah stated that tender notified have shown crores of rupees for repair/construction of roads located at Garo hills and very less attention is being paid to the roads located at other regions.

An example can be seen with the Mawthabah­-Wahkaji whereby surprisingly no amount has been allocated for the repair and construction of Wahkaji-Mawthabah roads in South West Khasi Hills.