News Papers In India

Poknapham News Paper

Poknapham is the daily Manipuri-language newspaper, which comes from city of Imphal, lying in the state Manipur, India. The meaning of Poknapham is birth place in the state of Manipur. This paper is published and owned by Gurumayum Shantikumari Devi hailing from Keishampat Thiyam Leirak, Imphal and printed at Padma Printers, Imphal by her. Bijoy Kakchingtabam and A Robindro Sharma are Associate Editors and Editor respectively.

It was launched in the year of 1975. The daily is now published from city of Imphal, lying in the state of Manipur and Silchar, Assam.

Its online version was started in the month of June 2008 and it is the first paper of Manipuri language to become online.

This paper has awakened the people from their deep slumber and them familiar with the latest happenings taking place around the country or the world. This paper lays its emphasis on all the issues concerning social, political and traditional. This paper has really proved a boon the citizens of Imphal. Since the language of this paper is Meitei, the local people of this town are very comfortable with this. They can easily read and understand its content written in their native language. Besides, this paper also publishes classifieds for the youth of this town for getting them suitable jobs and matches.