According to eyewitnesses, gunmen targeted vehicles carrying police commandos that were moving towards a Key Location Point (KLP) from Moreh, and a cop sustained splinter injuries.
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.
Family claims police officer Chingtham Anand Kumar’s body after meeting with CM N. Biren Singh. Kuki and Naga organisations call for shutdowns, blockades over ‘govt apathy’.
Incident took place near Senam village in Tengnoupal around 4 pm. Family of police officer shot dead earlier in the day has refused to accept his body. Joint action committee formed.
Kuki groups ask why 'women & children were arrested from middle of road'. Suspects, whose SIM cards were being tracked, were intercepted & arrested swiftly, it is learnt.
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.
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.
Old Tata 407 trucks 'being converted to resemble those of Assam Rifles' with help of valley-based insurgents to tarnish image of force or for anti-national activities, it says.
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.
News channels were also in two minds about removing stray dogs to the government dog pounds. NDTV took credit for it and CNN-News 18 called ‘controversial order’.
Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.
21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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