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Manipur cabinet led by Chief Minister N Biren Singh holds a meeting in Imphal Imphal/Guwahati: The Manipur cabinet in a five-hour meeting on Monday took several decisions to rein in targeted ethnic killings in the last two weeks that have claimed nine lives. Ten Kuki militants were also shot dead by the security forces in…
New Delhi: A protester was shot dead during a clash between security forces and a mob in Manipur’s violence-hit Jiribam district, officials said Monday. A police official in Imphal said a young man, identified as K Athouba, was killed in an exchange of gunfire Sunday night. It is unclear who fired the bullet that killed…
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The family of a school teacher of the Hmar tribe killed by suspected Meitei militants Jiribam/New Delhi: One of the worst cycles of the Meitei-Kuki ethnic violence in Manipur since May 2023 began on November 7 in Jiribam district, 220 km from the state capital Imphal, on the interstate border with Assam. At least 19…
Going against the stand of Manipur government, a key Kuki-Zo civil society group has urged the Centre to extend the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) to all 13 remaining police stations in Manipur’s valley districts. The tribal body, the Committee on Tribal Unity (COTU), has urged the withdrawal of AFSPA from the hill districts,…
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Guwahati: Unrest has broken out in Manipur again over the last two days. Violent protests have continued in the valley and the houses of several ministers and MLAs were attacked by mobs. Now tension simmers in the Imphal valley region as civil society groups have given an ultimatum to the Centre and the state government…
Shillong/Imphal: The National People’s Party (NPP) on Sunday withdrew support to the BJP-led government in violence-hit Manipur, claiming that the N Biren Singh dispensation has “completely failed to resolve the crisis and restore normalcy” in the northeastern state. The NPP has 7 MLAs in the 60-member Manipur assembly. In the last few days, the situation…
Home Minister Amit Shah called a conferral of senior officials in Delhi on Sunday, said sources, in the wake of escalating crisis in Manipur – the latest trigger being the recovery of six bodies of people believed to have been kidnapped by insurgents. Mr Shah held the meeting soon after he returned from Maharashtra after…
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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,…
Protesting against the death of six hostages from Jiribam, a mob tried to barge into the personal residence of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Saturday evening, setting off another big escalation between security forces and the protesters in the violence-hit state. The security forces had to fire tear gas shells to disperse the…
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Protesters barged into the homes of at least two Manipur Ministers and three MLAs in Imphal on Saturday, demanding justice for the murder of three persons in Jiribam district, the police said. The mob attacks on legislators’ houses prompted the Imphal West administration to impose prohibitory orders in the district for an indefinite period. The authorities…
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