In resolution adopted by assembly & signed by 35 MLAS, legislators demanded 'positive action' to control ongoing violence. MHA has sent team of senior Intelligence Bureau officers, it is learnt.
Cycle of violence 'fuelling insurgency' in Manipur. Rising extortion as well as the growing need for protection has led to a surge in arms licence applications, ThePrint has learnt.
Small-scale operations by police have proven to be inadequate resulting in negligible recoveries, as AKs, INSAS rifles, LMGs, & carbines remain with people even after seven months.
Eight months since ethnic conflict erupted in Manipur, security personnel remain deployed there to maintain order in a state where peace remains fragile.
Denying 'foreign hand' in Moreh gunfights, Kuki groups warn govt against allowing 'Meitei forces' to continue harassing Kuki-Zo tribals, call for 24-hr shutdown in Kuki-Zo areas of Manipur.
19-yr-old Hemanjit Vietimboy & 17-yr-old girl, both from Imphal West, went missing on 6 July. CBI says agency suspects both were ‘taken to undisclosed location and suspectedly killed’.
Tonsing Hangshing, his mom & family friend were killed while on their way to avail treatment in Imphal. SC had ordered Manipur to ensure burial for victims of ethnic violence.
Unable to attend college in Imphal following Kuki-Meitei violence, displaced tribal medical students demand to be allowed to migrate to colleges outside Manipur to continue their education.
Extension of ban comes in the wake of months-long ethnic violence in Manipur between the Meiteis and the Kukis, which has led to dozens of killings and left thousands displaced.
The 5th person travelling with them — a 65-yr-old 'left for dead' — was rescued by security forces in critical state. He's said to be the father of a serving soldier in the Indian Army.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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