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Tuesday, August 5, 2025
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Topic: Insurgency

Carrom, kitchen work, weapons upkeep: A day in the lives of Kuki ‘insurgents’ at an SoO camp in Manipur

Daily routine of inmates, who signed Suspension of Operation pact with state & central govts in 2008, includes duties to maintain the camp with some time carved out for recreation.

‘Ignored & forgotten’ or ‘base of live insurgency’ — inside a Manipur SoO camp for Kuki insurgents

Suspension of Operations camps were set up across the state as part of pact signed in 2008. But despite its commitment to rehabilitating these cadres, no tangible steps have been taken.

Time for Modi to learn from Indira Gandhi. Biren govt is problem, not solution in Manipur

State govt's very continuation is a provocation to both sides. Kukis see it as partisan with a majoritarian agenda, while Meiteis see it as incapable of even protecting them.

Manipur Police recover weapons after forest shootout with Kuki Independent Army insurgents 

Manipur Police have been on lookout for KIA’s self-styled commander-in-chief & his men on charges of looting arms from a ‘Suspension of Operation’ camp on 8 April. 

‘Loot weapons from other insurgents, kidnap village heads’— who are Manipur’s Kuki Independent Army

Cadres of Kuki insurgent group led by self-styled commander Davidson allegedly stormed designated camp in Manipur’s Churachandpur Saturday evening & stole arms and ammunition.

Irengbam Chaoren, chief of Manipur armed rebel group RPF, believed ‘talks can’t win freedom’

RPF has been running a government-in-exile in Bangladesh. Revolutionary People's Front president Irengbam Chaoren died Friday after prolonged battle with terminal brain tumour.

Panic in Mizoram villages as Myanmar junta bombs insurgents — ‘need show of strength from Delhi’

From insurgent camps in Myanmar to villages in Mizoram, Chin communities across the border have deep ties. That’s why Myanmar junta’s air strikes are India’s problem too.

When T.N. Seshan praised me after ‘most difficult election in Independent India’ – Punjab 1992

In An Intent to Serve, IAS officer Tejendra Khanna writes about his career as Delhi LG, and as chief secretary of Punjab during the President’s Rule years.

Religious intolerance main driver of insurgency in Punjab of 1980s. State’s watching it again

The smuggling of arms and narcotics is an indicator that the ISI and the Khalistani terrorist organisations in Pakistan are attempting to revive insurgency.

Ajit Doval is wrong. Civil society not dangerous, we pushed back militants in Meghalaya

Ajit Doval thinks civil society is the new frontier of war. But ‘Shillong We Care’, a small group of citizens, stood up to militants and extortion.

On Camera

How India lost its geopolitical sweet spot in the world

India appears to have gone from occupying a near-perfect geopolitical sweet spot to now inhabiting a geopolitical no-good-option deadlock.

BJP MPs go full throttle against Trump even as govt hails enduring India-US ties amid tariff tension

New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.