by admin | May 25, 2021 | World
Imphal : The Indo-Myanmar border was sealed on Thursday after a major fire broke out late last night just across the international gate in Myanmar.
Police in Moreh in Manipur said that the fire broke out at the Namphalong market around 9 p.m. The market complex has been indefinitely closed down, a district official said.
People rushed out and sprinkled water on their houses and shops fearing the raging inferno might spread over to the Indian side.
Namphalong is the main market for the legalised border trade. It took several hours to douse the flames.
However, no casualty has been reported. Over 30 shops and business establishments were gutted, Namphalong officials said.
The shops mostly stockpile expensive foreign goods brought from China, Japan and some other Southeast Asian countries. The loss was believed to be huge.
The cause of the fire was not yet known.
Business was shifted from Moreh to Namphalong following the legalisation of the border trade in 1995.
—IANS
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Media, News
Imphal : Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Monday inaugurated a two-day India-Myanmar media interaction programme here and said his government is trying to introduce a bus service between the two places to bring the people closer.
Eleven journalists from Myanmar are taking part in the event.
The Chief Minister said such interaction programmes will help bring India and Myanmar closer. “We are doing our best to introduce a bus service for the benefit of Manipur and Myanmar people. One private company is already in touch with the government on the matter. Manipur State Transport buses have been plying between Imphal in Manipur and some cities in Myanmar,” he said.
Biren urged the Myanmarese journalists to do something so that the bus service between the two neighbours becomes operational.
K. Nayar of the Press Council of India and Prakash Dubey of the Editors’ Guild of India were present in the programme.
The programme is sponsored by the Manipur tourism department in collaboration with Information and Public Relations department and the state level committee of the Act East Policy.
The Chief Minister also thanked Minister Counsellor (commercial), Royal Thai Embassy Thangdol Thongruang for bringing players and entrepreneurs to Imphal.
Myanmar had sent one women’s football team to the ongoing Sangai International Festival in Manipur.
—IANS
