New Delhi: Nearly three weeks have passed since Malem Thongam (26), a transgender activist from Manipur, kicked off her hunger strike in the national capital to draw attention to the ethnic violence raging in the state since May last year. So far, at least 219 people have died in clashes between the Meitei and tribal Kuki … Read more
Home News Manipur: India Deports First Batch Of Illegal Immigrants To Myanmar | VIDEO Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said that as many as 77 illegal immigrants, including 55 women and five children, from Myanmar, where a civil war-like scenario is unfolding, will be deported in the coming week. Screengrab from video shared on … Read more
Home News Manipur Unrest: Army JCO Abducted From Home By ‘Anti-Social Elements’ In Thoubal The abductee, Konsam Kheda Singh, a resident of Charangpat Mamang Leikai in Thoubal district of Manipur, is serving as a JCO in the Indian Army and was on leave The Indian Army and other security agencies have launched a search operation … Read more
New Delhi: With ethnic clashes between Manipur’s tribal Kuki-Zo and dominant Meitei communities showing no signs of abating, a coalition of Meitei civil society groups has called for a 2008 ceasefire pact with Kuki-Zo insurgent groups to be scrapped. A meeting and a panel discussion held Saturday at Delhi’s India International Centre (IIC) saw the … Read more
Home News VIDEO: 1 Dead, Over 2 Dozen Injured As Violent Mob Storms Churachandpur SP Office In Manipur After Kuki Cop Sacked A violent mob torched public property, including a bus, outside the SP office in Churachandpur district of strife-torn Manipur as they tried to storm the police building on Thursday evening. Screengrab from video … Read more
Not only did the legislators attend the meeting, they pledged to fulfil the demands made by the group — updating the base year of the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) for Manipur to 1951, and abrogating the Suspension of Operations (SoO) agreement with Kuki insurgents — in 15 days. The group also reportedly made … Read more
Imphal/Guwahati: Two people were killed and three wounded in an alleged gunfight between “armed miscreants” in Manipur’s Imphal West district adjoining Kangpokpi district, said the state police in a statement Tuesday. Sources in the security establishment identified the groups involved as those from the state’s tribal Kuki and non-tribal Meitei communities, who have been engaged … Read more
Home News Manipur Crisis: Article 355 Imposed? CM Biren Maintains Silence Talking to reporters after the Republic Day event in state capital Imphal, CM Biren Singh kept his silence on the issue when asked about reports of Article 355 being imposed in Manipur. Manipur CM N Biren Singh addresses the Republic Day function at Imphal. … Read more
Imphal: A shopkeeper at a location in Imphal, barely two kilometres away from Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh’s residence in the heart of the state capital, was left perplexed when he returned to the shop five months after having fled at the beginning of the ethnic violence last May. With the outbreak of the … Read more
“Central forces were not called to watch silently what was unfolding in the state,” he said. The CM’s statement came the same day that the Manipur Legislative assembly adopted a resolution, signed by 35 of 39 MLAs from the valley, who went on record to say that if their demands regarding the control of the … Read more