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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh speaks to NDTV in Imphal Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: The Central Reserve Police Force’s (CRPF) timely intervention during a “terror attack” in Manipur’s Jiribam district prevented the loss of several lives, Chief Minister N Biren Singh told NDTV on Thursday. Mr Singh said “10 Kuki terrorists” tried to enter a relief…
Nengboi Doungel and her daughter at a relief camp in Assam Guwahati/New Delhi: Nengboi Doungel, a woman from the Kuki tribes and resident of Pangmol village in Manipur’s Tamenglong district, gave birth to a baby girl in Assam’s Hmarkhawlien relief camp. On the same day, her husband’s mutilated body arrived in Manipur’s Churachandpur district. Ms…
10 Kuki-Zo MLAs from Manipur have condemned the state government’s cabinet resolution New Delhi: Ten Kuki-Zo MLAs from Manipur have asked the Centre and the state government to start a political dialogue for bringing lasting peace in the troubled region, two days after the Manipur cabinet also resolved to do the same. The 10 Kuki-Zo…
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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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…