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		<title>Lesser Whistling-Duck (Tingi)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By R.K. Birjit Singh
 
The Lesser Whistling Duck Dendrocygna javanica, locally known as “Tingi” is the most abundant waterfowl species in Loktak wetland (IBA) also known as Indian Whistling Duck or Tree Duck. It is a resident, small whistling duck which breeds in South Asia and Southeast Asia. In other classification, it is also known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurgencies in Manipur: politics &amp; ideology</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By M.S. Prabhakara
Source: The Hindu
The people of Manipur had ‘histories’ and ‘memories’ that were longer and deeper than those of most other Indians when India attained independence.
Every time one travels to Manipur, one returns humbled. This has been the case since my first visit in the late 1960s, long before becoming a journalist. Active insurgency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Waterfowl species of Loktak Ramsar in Manipur (IBA)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Waterfowl species of Loktak Ramsar in Manipur (IBA)
Purple Moorhen (Umu) By R.K. Birjit Singh
 
Phubala Tourist Home is some 36 kilometers away from Imphal, the capital city of Manipur in the vicinity of Loktak Lake located at NS – 24.5350; EO – 93.765650 with an elevation of 775 meters above sea level (MSL) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India: Is Manipur Less Important Than Andhra?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Telegana and Manipur]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission
Manipur, a state in the northeast of India is in national news since the past two decades. The state remains in news for all the wrong reasons. Stories from Manipur are not that of the miraculous economic growth the country has been achieving despite the worldwide recession. They have nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Hit the Headlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 03:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity, Ecology and Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Crisis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Water! Water ! everywhere, but not a single drop to drink 
 
 By R.K. Birjit Singh
 
It is said that future war  will be fought over water  and whether it is the sun or the rain, water only hits the headlines under two conditions. Number one, when there is not enough of it and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Last Geese</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By R.K. Birjit Singh 
 
It is a gloomy early morning of the 1st week of November, 2008. A fine drizzle and low cloud cover the countryside. There is no sign of the moon or stars in the sky. Nothing is visible to the eye. Yet regularly, high-pitched sounds pierce the silence of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPSURGING YOUTHS IN THE LAND OF DARKNESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPSURGING YOUTHS IN THE LAND OF DARKNESS
Games and sports as the saving Grace
By P. Milan Khangamcha
Source: Souvenir, published in commemoration of ‘All India Inter University Judo (M/W) Tournament 2008-09’ hosted by Manipur University.
In the light of the ensuing All India Inter-University Judo (MIW) Toumament-2008 &#8211; 2009, to be held during December 25-30, 2009 at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting on grassy floats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By N Kalyani
The Sangai is a unique and rare deer found in one place in the world — in the state of Manipur; in its wetland habitat, the Loktak pat, in the Loktak lake. An approximately 300 sq km waterbody, the lake is the largest fresh water source of the North East that was declared, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When We dead Awaken: Another Masterpiece of Ratan Thiyam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Art & Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By  Meghachandra Kongbam
Well-known theatre director-actor M.K.Raina once remarked, “ Ratan’s plays are strongly rooted in a local context. The classical Manipuri dance and tribal martial arts, accompanied by local costumes, have shown us that if we tap into our local traditions in the right way, the world will listen to us.”
Ratan Thiyam himself strongly believed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IN THE CONFLUENCE OF CULTURES</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lai Haraoba dance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[B.I. Sharma
Source: Northeast Telegraph, Guest Column
Termed by Nehru as a jewel state, Manipur has the rare dignity of being the first to be liberated from British colonialism &#38; a unique cultural amalgamation.
A small community, with their unique and distinctive cultural heritage, living in the remote eastern corner of India, surrounded by hills, is perhaps not [...]]]></description>
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