Armed men fire at CRPF post near Naranseina village in Bishnupur. No insurgent group has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Investigation on and area has been cordoned off.
Konsam Kheda Singh was on leave when some people barged into his home Friday and bundled him in a vehicle and fled. This is the 4th incident since Manipur conflict began last May.
Outfit is garnering false support from public in garb of protecting them but is engaged in many anti-social activities & criminal acts, police statement adds.
Trigger was abduction of additional SP (operations) from outside his home Tuesday evening. Radical Meitei group Arambai Tenggol is suspected to be behind this episode.
Culprits suspected to be from radical armed Meitei group Arambai Tenggol, who wanted to put pressure on Manipur Police to release some arrested members of outfit.
In view of volatile law-and-order situation in Churachandpur, state govt suspends mobile internet and data services for five days as a ‘preventive and precautionary measure’.
Several buses and trucks used by security forces were burnt by agitators as hundreds of them entered the office rooms and vandalised govt property, the official said.
A fresh wave of violence Tuesday left 2 dead and a junior commissioned officer among others injured in Imphal East district. Manipur has been seeing ethnic violence since May 2023.
CCTV footage matches version of Moreh residents who allege that Manipur Police commandos set fire to homes on 17 January as Assam Rifles personnel played mute spectators.
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.
For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
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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