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Imphal Times Supplementary issue Page No. 4
Prez Ram Nath Kovind pays tribute to Many Demands to Organize more Awareness
freedom fighters on 78th anniversary of Programme on Cane and Bamboo in the

Quit India Movement Remaining Dist. of Manipur
IT News honour. Cane and Bamboo in the
Imphal, Aug 9: Not only Bamboo, Mao is Remaining District of
By Raju Vernekar the character and method of famous for agricultural Manipur especially in
Mumbai, Aug 9: the movement. An Awareness Programme on products in Manipur. That is Tamenglong, Churachandpur,
The Quit India Movement Cane & Bamboo and its why Chief guest of the Chandel, Noney, Jiri, Ukhrul,
President Ram Nath Kovind was launched by Mahatma Application organized by programme, Dr. R.K. Ranjan Kangpokpi, Pherzawl and
on Sunday, remembered Gandhi on August 8, 1941, Central Agricultural proposed to establish a Kamjong districts.
millions of freedom fighters during the Second World War, University (CAU), Imphal, Slopeland Research Institute Before the programme is
who sacrificed their lives for demanding complete Manipur and Apunba Imagi under the initiative of Central started, both the Members of
India’s independence on the independence of India from Machasing (AIMS), Manipur Agricultural University and Parliament of Manipur, Dr.
78th anniversary of “Quit British Rule. The Quit India with supported from Cane and another Hill University the Lorho S. Pfoze and Dr. R.K.
India Movement”. Movement was an important Bamboo Technology Centre under initiative of Manipur Ranjan visited the land
“On the anniversary of Quit milestone in the Indian (CBTC), Guwahati, Assam University. The president of subsidence sites. The villagers
India Movement, we freedom struggle. It was under North Eastern Council, the programme, Dr. Lorho S. of the area are taking refugees
gratefully remember millions of launched following the failure Ministry of DoNER, Pfoze is also willing to set up to the neighbouring areas due
our freedom fighters who of the ”Cripps Mission”, Government of India. was held the high-altitude research to its vulnerable situation. As
sacrificed their all for our which offered an autonomous at Song Song Village, Senapati institutes under the initiative the preliminary report, the
Independence. Their courage dominion but not full District yesterday . form Central Agricultural land subsidence might be
and patriotism continue to Independence to India. It also MPs of Manipur Dr. R.K. University and Manipur caused due to the aquifer-
inspire us to work for a indicated the partition of Ranjan and Dr. Lorho S. Pfoze University as soon as system hydrocompaction. It
prosperous and ever stronger India, which was not were attended as the Chief possible to decentration of occurs when large amounts of
India. #Saluting Freedom acceptable to the Congress at Guest and President knowledge. Central groundwater have been
Fighters,” the President that time. respectively of the Agricultural University has withdrawn and may lead to
tweeted. fighters of this revolution and was launched from Gowalia Congress leaders struggled to programme. Prof. M. Premjit already agreed on it, he more surface water-
Prime Minister Narendra salute them.’’ Tank on the midnight of coin a slogan for the Singh, Vice Chancellor, Central furthered added. During groundwater interaction and
Modi, while observing the In Mumbai, the Mumbai August 8-9 after a historic movement. One suggestion Agricultural University the programme, apart from excess groundwater
occasion, gave a call for the Congress President Eknath session of the Congress that was ‘Get Out’. But Gandhi (CAU), Lamphelpat, Imphal; the distribution of withdrawal which in turn may
revival of the spirit of the “Quit Gaikwad was joined by party lasted two-and-a-half days. thought it was impolite. C Prof W. Chandbabu Singh, bamboos, coconuts, pollute the aquifer, cause land
India Movement” by coining leaders and workers in paying Gowalia Tank was later Rajagopalachari, whom Registrar, Manipur University; avocado, beehive boxes, subsidence. However, it
a new slogan “karenge aur tributes to the freedom renamed “August Kranti Gandhi called as his Mr. Heni Kaikho, Chairman, piglet, sprayers, Chief needs to study further. During
karake rahenge” in place of fighters on the “Quit India Maidan”. ‘conscience keeper’, Song Song Village and Mr. Minister-gi Hakshelgi the investigation, there are a
Gandhi’s slogan of “karo ya Movement Day” at the After the Quit India resolution suggested ‘Retreat’ or Mayanglambam Khelendro Tengbang (CMHT) cards geologist and seismologist
maro” ( Do or Die). The PM’s historic the Gowalia Tank was passed, veteran leader ‘Withdraw’. Finally, Yusuf Singh, Vice President, The are provided instantly to experts from Manipur
slogan was given to achieve ground( August Kranti late Aruna Asaf Ali hoisted the Meheraly — the Socialist and Apunba Imagi Machasing the villagers. Many University. It will find out the
the goal of building a “New Maidan) in South Mumbai. tricolour at the August Kranti trade unionist who was (AIMS), Manipur were demands to organize more exact cause of subsidence
India” by 2022. Similarly BJP Mumbai Maidan on August 8 midnight imprisoned 8 times during the attended as the guests of Awareness Programme on soon.
Union Home Minister Amit President MLA Mangal after which the senior leaders freedom struggle - came up
Shah also remembered the Prabhat Lodha and others paid of the Congress were arrested. with ‘Quit India’.
“brave fighters of this floral tributes to the freedom Due to the arrests, an action Under the leadership of 4 more COVID death reported in Tripura , 28
revolution”. Taking to the fighters on the ”August plan for the movement was Mahatma Gandhi, people
microblogging site, he said, Kranti Diwas”. made. The relatively young across India united to uproot
“The “Quit India Movement”, However Maharashtra Chief leadership of the Congress imperialism. On this day in fresh positive case in Mizoram
popularly known as the Minister Uddhav Thackeray Socialist Party (CSP) was 1942, Gandhi gave the slogan
August Revolution, did not visit the August Kranti active, but it had to go of “Do or Die” to all Indians IT News tests, 6,164 have found cases were detected while
challenged the British Maidan to pay the tributes. underground. Jayaprakash to drive away Britishers from Imphal, Aug 9: positive for the virus. eight patients were
Government from the smallest The official sources Narayan (JP) wrote two long the country. The movement Currently the state has 1,876 discharged in the last 24 hours.
village in the country to the maintained that the function letters from unknown places which had begun from Four more persons including active cases. According to an official
big cities. Today, on the 78th was not official state to provide guidance and Gawalia Tank in Mumbai, is two jawans from Border The positivity rate stands at statement, the total number of
anniversary of this movement, government function. encouragement to the observed as “August Kranti Security Force (BSF) have lost 3.04 percent, test per million is COVID-19 cases in the state
I remember all the brave The “Quit India Movement” revolutionaries and to explain Day” every year. their lives due to Covid-19 in 49,463 while the recovery rate has gone up to 593. So far 296
the last 48 hours in Tripura.. stands at 69.61 percent and patients have recovered from
the highly infectious disease
International News So far 40 people have lost their mortality rate is 0.67 percent. and 297 patients are
lives due to COVID in the
Meanwhile, in Mizoram, 28
state. Out of 1,97,734 COVID fresh Coronavirus positive undergoing treatment.
Myanmar remembers the popular 8888 uprising
State Govt continues to provide PDS items
Courtesy Mizzima distancing and mask into nationwide strikes and care for her sick mother - was
Yangoon, Aug 9: requirements due to the marches on August 8, 1988. seen as a beacon of hope, DIPR District, beneficiaries of month of July, was
COVID-19 pandemic. But troops rushed in to giving rousing speeches to Imphal, August 9: Uripok AC and Yaiskul AC distributed to the
Myanmar citizens marked Hundreds gathered in the stamp out the movement, adoring crowds and were distributed with beneficiaries of the AC
the 32nd anniversary of the square in front of the Sule shooting protesters and maddening the paranoid State Government continues 2,046.95 quintal of rice under today. The rice which was
’88 Popular Uprising in Pagoda to pay their respects, locking them up en masse. junta. to provide PDS items to the National Food Security Act distributed to Wangkhem AC
downtown Yangon many placing red roses in The number of political She was placed under house Assembly Constituencies (NFSA). Another 1,431.3 today was lifted from
yesterday, remembering those remembrance of those who prisoners in Myanmar’s fetid arrest for a combined total of (ACs) of the State for quintal of rice under Pradhan godown on 7th of this
who died in mass protests for died. Events were also held jails swelled while many fled 15 years before being distribution to the Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna month.
democracy in 1988. in other places around the the country into prolonged released in 2010 and leading beneficiaries. The Yojana (PMGKAY) was also Meanwhile in Tamenglong
Students and former country, including exile. her National League for Government had been taking distributed to the beneficiaries District, there was report on
activists marked the 30th Mandalay. During the uprising, Aung Democracy (NLD) party to this initiative to ensure of Sagolband AC. lifting of 484 quintal of
anniversary of the famed After years of economic San Suu Kyi - the daughter victory in the historic 2015 availability of foodgrain to In Thoubal District too, PMGKAY rice, allocated to
1988 pro-democracy uprising decline and a tightening of independence hero elections. its residents during the 1,830.60 quintal of rice, its Tamenglong AC for the
with a low-key ceremony, clampdown on rights, General Aung San who had Myanmar now looks forward to ongoing lockdown allocated to Wangkhem AC month of August, from FCI
dampened by social student-led protests swelled returned from England to the elections in November 2020. Yesterday, in Imphal West under PMGKAY for the godown, Sangaiprou.
‘Everything is gone.’ Flooding in China ruins farmers and risks rising food prices
Courtesy CNN “The rice was nearly ripened were about to collect, but the people, including farmers production. mid July. That would be
Hong Kong, Aug 9: and ready to harvest before scale of the flooding has like Bao, have been affected. flooding in China, If the flooding is contained equivalent to 5% of the rice
meanwhile, could soon get
the flooding. But now made it impossible to The disaster is bad news for worse: Heavy rainfall is by the end of August, that China produces.
By this time of year, the rice everything is gone.” salvage anything from this the world’s second-largest agricultural GDP growth The damage might be even
growing on Bao Wentao’s Surging floodwater burst the year. economy, which is already in expected through much of could fall by nearly a worse, though. Nomura’s
this month, and Chinese
family farm should have banks of Poyang Lake in “The land is still under a fragile state because of the percentage point in the analysis was based on data
been ready to harvest. Jiangxi province last month, water,” Bao said. “That coronavirus pandemic. officials have warned that July-September quarter, about flooded crop fields
Instead, heavy flooding has destroying thousands of means we are not going to Beijing has so far been able the flooding could creep according to analysts at that the Chinese
further north, threatening
engulfed huge swathes of acres of farmland in what’s have any harvest for the to secure food supplies by Nomura — equivalent to more government released in
southern China, known as the “land of fish entire year.” importing vast amounts of the country’s wheat and than $1.7 billion in lost July. Since then, the
including more than 36 acres and rice.” The broader The flooding that walloped produce from other corn harvests. agricultural output. That amount of cropland that
“The flooding is already
of rice fields that 19-year-old Yangtze River basin — Bao’s farm and 13 million countries, and by releasing amount is based on losses has been damaged has
Bao and his father tend to which includes Poyang Lake more acres of cropland — tens of millions of tons from among the worst since 1998, recorded in mid-July in seven roughly doubled,
and could worsen in coming
in their village near Poyang and stretches more than about the size of West strategic reserves. southern provinces that were according to China’s
Lake. 3,900 miles from Shanghai in Virginia — is the worst that But analysts warn that such weeks,” analysts from hit particularly hard. Ministry of Emergency
“The crops have completely the east to the Tibetan that China has experienced measures can only be useful Nomura said in a note late Analysts at the Chinese Response. Damage
last month.
failed,” Bao told CNN border in the west — in years. China’s Ministry of for so long. Tense brokerage firm Shenwan estimates releas ed by
Business in an interview accounts for 70% of the Emergency Management relationships between China Food security Hongyuan, meanwhile, analysts also don’t
over the social media app country’s rice production. pegs the direct economic and much of the Western It’s not entirely clear how recently estimated that China include the potential loss
much of China’s food
WeChat, adding that his For farmers like Bao and his cost of the disaster at $21 world, and the coronavirus could lose 11.2 million tons of wheat, corn or other
family has already lost father, the damage has been billion in destroyed pandemic, may make supply may be at risk, since worth of food compared to crops, which cou ld be
the government hasn’t
roughly 200,000 yuan devastating. Not only did farmland, roads and other importing a lot of food last year, given how much threatened should the
($28,000) worth of produce. the rainfall ruin crops they property. Some 55 million trickier in the future. The released specifics about cropland was damaged by flooding spread.
the current state of
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