Manipur

IMPHAL, Apr 17: Imphal-based newspapers will be suspending publication from Wednesday in protest against the arbitrary detention of six senior journalists last night by a faction of the underground KCP and strictures imposed upon the Imphal Free Press. The IFP however has not received any official ban notice from any underground group as yet. Members of the media fraternity will also be staging a...

Imphal, April 17: The journalists community of Manipur today came out strongly against the KCP (City Meetei) for luring five Editors of different newspaper establishments and the News Editor of ISTV to a designated destination and holding them hostage for a night to get its press release published. The Editors were released today morning. Strongly reacting to the incident a joint meeting of all...

A journalist of the Imphal Free Press covering the Miss Manipur pageant Saturday evening was beaten black and blue by a commando of the Imphal East police station detailed for security at the venue when the scribe was trying to exit the venue. ALL BEAUTIES, NO BEAST HERE: Aircel Miss Manipur Contest 2006 under way February 18 at the Bhagyachandra Open Air Theatre (BOAT) in Manipur capital Imphal...

Pressure is mounting on the outlawed Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) to substantiate its charges after the insurgent outfit claimed to have attacked a senior journalist in Manipur for having part of an extortionist gang. QUICK DENIAL: Militant organisations like the Revolutionary People's Front (RPF), United National Liberation Front (UNLF), Peoples Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK)...

Last Thursday, two men shot three bullets into Ratan Luwangcha, the General Secretary of the Manipur journalists’ union and bureau chief of a popular local newspaper, the Poknapham. He is in a critical condition, but at least he is still alive – unlike the three editors of Manipuri dailies who have been shot dead in the past few years. Killing journalists seems to be becoming a bit of a fad...

In the days ahead, in the wake of the despicable life attempt on a well known journalist and the secretary of the All Manipur Working Journalists Union, there is bound to be plenty of dirty linen washing. Sadly for the journalistic profession, some of the mud thrown around is bound to stick and tarnish its image. After all, in today’s Manipur, the conditioning of public sensibility has been such...

The outlawed Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on a senior journalist in Manipur's capital Imphal on January 9. The claim came Sunday evening within the 48-hour deadline set by journalists failing which they said any militant group failing to clarify its role in the attack would be summarily blacked out of the press. UNDER FIRE: Members of All-Manipur...

Newspapers in Manipur have decided to suspend publication from Saturday after unidentified gunmen shot at and critically injured a senior journalist in state capital Imphal Thursday morning. The incident took place at the Uripok Bachaspati Leikai area shortly after 8 am when three armed men came on a two-wheeler and pumped in three bullets on Ratan Luwangcha, bureau chief of Manipuri daily...

Journalists in Manipur have resolved not to yield to threats issued by militants. This (the resolution) came following a meeting between various journalists' organisations and a number of civil society groups of the state in Imphal on Tuesday. The meeting was organised as a follow-up to the recent threat issued by a militant organisation to newspapers to publish their points of view or face...

IMPHAL, OCT 28 (PTI): Newspapers were not published in Manipur today following a decision by editors and managements in protest against frequent interferences by militants in the functioning of media organisations. A joint meeting of editors and senior journalists of different papers was held yesterday and the decision was taken not to bring out editions of the dailies indefinitely, sources said...