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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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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…
Women leaders of Meitei community seek release of six kidnapped civilians from Jiribam New Delhi: The women’s wing of the Delhi Meitei Coordinating Committee (DMCC) on Thursday appealed for the safe and immediate release of six people – three women and three children including an infant – kidnapped by suspected Kuki insurgents from Manipur’s Jiribam…
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AFSPA has been reimposed in six police station areas in Manipur Imphal/New Delhi: The Centre has reimposed a law to protect security forces in hostile areas in several new locations in ethnic violence-hit Manipur. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act has been reimposed in six police station areas including Jiribam, where 10 suspected Kuki militants…
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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…