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File photo of Kuki tribal groups protesting against Manipur violence. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma Various organisations demanded justice for a Kuki woman from Manipur who died recently from illness allegedly linked to the trauma she suffered after being gang-raped during the early phase of the ethnic violence in the State in 2023. The…
Guwahati: A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has accepted evidence submitted by the NIA of a suspected Kuki militant commander saying he and his men attacked the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and set fire to homes in Manipur. The NIA told the court that a viral video on a YouTube channel…
Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today said “sorry” for the unfortunate developments in the northeastern state due to the ethnic clashes that started last year. The Chief Minister, however, said the year ends on an optimistic note and that he hoped that normalcy will return to the state in 2025. “This entire year has…
Proposed site of shelter home at Holenphai village, Tengnoupal, Manipur, on March 26, 2023 Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: Five weeks before the Manipur ethnic clashes began in May 2023, a cabinet subcommittee comprising ministers from the three major communities visited three villages to make an assessment of the situation on “identification of Myanmarese immigrants/refugees”, reports submitted by…
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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh shows an old photo of Congress’s P Chidambaram Imphal/New Delhi: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today blamed “some vested interests” for reigniting a new cycle of violence in the state, after having been relatively peaceful for three-four months, and criticised Congress leader P Chidambaram as someone who “created…
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A screengrab of a video taken from Borobekra police station in Manipur’s Jiribam Imphal/Guwahati: Suspected Kuki insurgents fired at a police station in Manipur’s Jiribam district today, police sources in the district’s Borobekra subdivision said. The suspected Kuki insurgents began firing at 5.30 am at Borobekra police station, some 30 km from the Jiribam district…
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Activists and academics from India-Bangladesh region speak at a side event of the UNHRC Imphal: The demand for an ethnocentric homeland is untenable and obsolete in Manipur, where at least 35 communities co-exist, a group of activists and academics from the violence-hit state bordering Myanmar has said at a side event of the 57th session…
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Manipur is yet to see normalcy over a year since ethnic violence began in May 2023 New Delhi: A civil society group of people from Manipur living in Europe has requested the Indian High Commission in the UK to convey their concerns to leaders back home over the ethnic tensions in the state bordering Myanmar….
US said it has limited ability to provide emergency services to US citizens in India’s rural areas Washington: The US has asked its nationals not to travel to Manipur, Jammu and Kashmir, the India-Pakistan border, and parts of central and eastern parts of the country where Naxalites are active. In a revised travel advisory for…
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The bus was taking the CRPF personnel to the Kangpokpi district commissioner’s office Imphal/Guwahati: Soldiers of a central paramilitary force were told to get down from a bus in which they were travelling and the vehicle was set on fire by a mob in Manipur’s hill district Kangpokpi on Monday night, the police said. A…