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.
Police say tensions escalated after security personnel lobbed teargas shells & used lathicharge to disperse crowd. The 5 Meiteis were allegedly caught posing as police.
Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.
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.
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.
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.
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