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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
TopicKuki-Meitei clash

Topic: Kuki-Meitei clash

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.

Manipur security adviser says man burnt alive in viral video was Kuki, recommends CBI probe

The video, says Kuldiep Singh, was taken the same day as the incident of Kuki women being paraded naked, a video of which had gone viral in July.

Manipur violence won’t go away unless Modi’s ‘vision’ takes a U-turn

Since the outbreak of violence in May, the ball has remained in Modi's court. But it seems he expects the suffering of Manipuris to be drowned out by the cacophony of elections.

‘CBI must find bodies of our children’ — families of 2 missing Manipur students plead for closure

Hijam & Phijam, missing from strife-torn Imphal since July, were identified in viral photos & are believed to have been killed. Kin ask, 'How can we get peace without doing last rites?’

Manipur teen murders: CBI team arrests 4 people in Churachandpur, detains 2 minors

Two men & two women held, says CM Biren Singh. Arrests come days after a CBI team, led by Special Director Ajay Bhatnagar, arrived in the state to probe the case in wake of protests. 

‘Transnational conspiracy’: NIA arrests Manipur man in connection with ethnic violence

Agency claims Myanmar & Bangladesh-based militants conspired with militant leaders in India to indulge violence with intent to divide ethnic groups, wage war against govt of India.

Fresh violence in Manipur over ‘inaction’ in teen murder — BJP office set on fire, police ‘attacked’

Crowd, including students, carried out protests at various locations. Police say as mob turned violent, they had to resort to firing tear gas shells. Curfew imposed again in the valley.

‘They registered FIR & sat on it’ — parents slam Manipur cops after photos of murdered teens surface

In a statement, Manipur govt says case was already handed over to CBI & probe is on. But this action now mean nothing to the parents of the two teenagers.

As Manipur cops struggle to lodge the arrested, govt approves temporary jail in Kuki-dominated hills

Only operational prison in Meitei-dominated Imphal valley — the Manipur Central Jail — remains off-limits to Kukis, effectively granting them immunity from arrest, say police officials.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.