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N Biren Singh said 877 sqkm of forest cover was destroyed primarily to grow opium poppy Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today said 291 encroachers have been evicted from the state’s reserved and protected forests after the BJP came to power in 2017. In a post on X, Mr Singh said the state…
Members of the Meitei community hold a solidarity meet in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar New Delhi: The Meitei community of violence-hit Manipur held a protest demanding justice in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Friday, the day ethnic violence broke out with the Kuki-Zo tribes last year. The community appealed to all the elected representatives of Manipur to…
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Security forces guard a road in Manipur; ethnic clashes broke out on this day last year New Delhi: A year after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, the border state remains tense. Prayer meets and protests kept the security forces on the edge. “Many protests are still going on. People are remembering their near and dear…
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Families of people from the Meitei community who went missing in the Manipur violence New Delhi: Families of 31 missing people from Manipur’s valley areas have once again appealed to the Centre and the state government to help bring closure by tracing them. While some have quietly accepted it, others said they will never accept…
File photo Imphal: A gun battle broke out between village volunteers of the two warring communities in ethnic-strife-torn Manipur’s Imphal West district on Sunday morning, police said. The incident took place as several dozens of armed men opened indiscriminate fire on Koutruk village in the periphery of Imphal Valley from the adjoining hills in Kangpokpi…
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India has said it attaches “no value” to the report. New Delhi: Reacting sharply to a report by the US State Department in which it said there were “significant human rights abuses” in Manipur after violence broke out in the state last year, India has said the document is deeply biased and reflects a poor…
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They were acting on specific intelligence about the presence of arms and ammunition New Delhi: Arms and ammunition were recovered today in a joint operation of the Indian Army and Manipur Police in the violence-hit state’s Imphal East district. Acting on specific intelligence about the presence of arms and ammunition in the general area of…
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Security has been tightened in all the polling stations to avoid any mishaps. Imphal (Manipur): Re-polling began at 11 polling stations in the inner-Manipur Parliamentary constituency of the northeastern state on Monday. After incidents of violence reported from these polling stations in Manipur on April 19, the Election Commission has ordered the repolling. Some miscreants…
New Delhi: Gunshots were fired near a polling booth in Manipur this morning. A 25-second video circulating online shows commotion and people shouting before two shots are heard in quick succession. A third shot is then heard, presumably in response to the first two. After this a volley of gunshots – possibly from an automatic…
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Representational image. Indian voters will vote on April 19, 2024, for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections which will cover 102 constituencies across 17 States and four Union Territories | Photo Credit: ANI India votes from April 19; 102 seats, 16 crore voters in Phase 1 Over 16 crore voters would exercise their…