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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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Headless body of the two-and-half-year old child executed by suspected Kuki militants Guwahati/New Delhi: For Laisharam Herojit, a relief camp inmate from the Meitei community in Manipur’s Jiribam district, the worst fears have come true – his family has been executed. Mr Herojit, in an almost inaudible, slow voice, told NDTV on phone from Jiribam,…
Manipur’s Meitei community holds a candlelight vigil in Imphal seeking safe release of hostages Imphal/New Delhi: The bodies of three women were brought to a morgue in Assam’s Silchar on Friday, amid tension in neighbouring Manipur’s Jiribam district after three women and three children were taken hostage by suspected Kuki militants on Monday. The bodies…
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Manipur’s Meitei community holds a candlelight vigil in Imphal seeking safe release of hostages Imphal/New Delhi: The police have found six bodies five days after three women and three children, including an eight-month-old, from the Meitei community were taken hostage by suspected Kuki insurgents from Manipur’s Jiribam district, neighbouring Assam, top sources in the state…
Screen grab of a purported video showing the attack on a Jiribam village on Thursday New Delhi/Imphal: The autopsy report of a woman who was killed in a night attack by suspected insurgents in Manipur’s restive Jiribam district mentions eight wounds that include broken bones and “burnt and separated” skull. Her body was burnt 99…
Laishram Herojit has appealed for safe release of his family in Manipur Imphal/New Delhi: The father of two children – who went missing along with their mother and three others from Manipur’s Jiribam after an encounter between suspected Kuki insurgents and the security forces – has appealed to the authorities to find them as soon…
11 suspected Kuki militants were shot dead in an encounter with CRPF in Manipur New Delhi/Imphal: At least 11 suspected Kuki insurgents were shot dead in an encounter with the security forces in Manipur’s Jiribam district today, sources said. The situation is fluid and more details are awaited. Some Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldiers…
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: N Biren Singh said the two men were kidnapped by “Kuki militants” Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today called a meeting of all MLAs to discuss the situation in the violence-hit state and the rescue of two men kidnapped by who he claimed were “Kuki militants”. A video has been shared…
Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: The Manipur Security Adviser today said intelligence received from “different quarters” about infiltration by 900 Kuki militants from Myanmar could not be substantiated on the ground, and so “there is no basis currently to believe in any such input.” The statement comes amid a shutdown called by Kuki groups in all Kuki-dominated areas…