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.
Around 1,000 residents who were camping outside Assam Rifles company base & 5 other locations are returning to their homes after assurances of safety, but 'fear' persists.
At one point in the episode, Commander Deosthalee, who is the first Indian woman to command a naval warship, compared the three of them to a trishul—such was their synergy.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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