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Imphal/New Delhi: The police chief of Manipur’s Kangpokpi district who was injured in protests by members of the Kuki tribes on Friday had been fighting extortionists and pushing back against a call for a meeting “with all police personnel” by a civil society group, intelligence sources told NDTV. They cited two flash messages sent by…
Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: Protesters from the Kuki tribes clashed with central security forces in Manipur’s Kangpokpi district this evening, days after the protesters tried to stop the security forces from dismantling bunkers on the hills. The protesters had been looking to stop transport as part of their economic blockade enforced to demand the withdrawal of central…
Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has condemned what he called “indiscriminate firing by Kuki militants on two villages in Imphal East district” on Friday. A policeman and another person were injured in the firing that came from the hills, the police said. In a post on X, the chief minister asked the central…
Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has condemned what he called “indiscriminate firing by Kuki militants on two villages in Imphal East district” on Friday. A policeman and another person were injured in the firing that came from the hills, the police said. In a post on X, the chief minister asked the central…
New Delhi: Former Home Secretary Ajay Kumar Bhalla was on Tuesday evening appointed the new Governor of Manipur – where periodic clashes between the Meitei community and the Kuki tribes have simmered for more than a year – replacing Anusuiya Uikey. The President also appointed Governors for four other states. VK Singh, a retired Army…
Manipur is yet to see full normalcy since ethnic violence began in May 2023 Imphal: There is no organisation called “Kuki-Zo Council” and no district by the name “Lamka” in Manipur, the state government said in a statement on Thursday. This group had objected to Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh passing through Kangpokpi district…
The Manipur Police filed 2,351 narcotics-related cases between 2017 and 2023 New Delhi: Kangpokpi district reported the largest area under illegal opium poppy cultivation in Manipur at 17.49 square kilometres (sqkm), or 4,322 acres, in 2023-24, Union Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav said as reported by the state government in a…
N Biren Singh said some agencies are giving wrong information to the Centre Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today alleged “some agencies” have been sending “manipulated” information about the violence-hit state to New Delhi. He said the Centre is aware of the matter and is collecting information from the grassroots. “Misinformation, manipulative…
Proposed site of shelter home at Holenphai village, Tengnoupal, Manipur, on March 26, 2023 Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: Five weeks before the Manipur ethnic clashes began in May 2023, a cabinet subcommittee comprising ministers from the three major communities visited three villages to make an assessment of the situation on “identification of Myanmarese immigrants/refugees”, reports submitted by…
The 10 MLAs, including seven from the BJP, held the sit-in-protest at Jantar Mantar. (Representational) New Delhi: Reiterating their demand for a Union Territory for tribals in Manipur, 10 MLAs from the Kuki-Zo community held a sit-in protest in New Delhi on Tuesday and submitted a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention…