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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
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Topic: Meitei

Two Arambai Tenggol members arrested for ‘abducting, assaulting’ Manipur Police personnel

Crackdown comes a few hours after CM Biren Singh announced that FIR was lodged & necessary action would be taken against those involved in attack that took place Saturday.

‘Women driven by police towards 1,000-strong Meitei mob, paraded naked’ — CBI probe in Manipur gangrape

Chargesheet says accused conspired with group from 'Meitei community' to carry out planned attacks including sexual assaults, murder & women were made to watch murders of male relatives.

In Manipur, Kuki & Meitei groups press for low-key poll season, but some candidates are pushing back

Pressure groups on both sides discouraging campaigning by parties. A section of Meiteis & Kukis feel calls for poll boycott or diktats to not contest are politically calculated moves.

Congress won’t oppose NRC in Manipur if decoupled from CAA, says party’s LS candidate Bimol Akoijam

An associate professor at JNU’s School of Social Sciences, Akoijam said both Kukis & Meiteis must understand as fellow citizens the genuine concerns of each other.

Manipur commandos lay down arms to protest against ‘attacks on police’, ‘not being given free hand’

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.

Senior police officer thrashed, abducted by ‘armed miscreants’ in Imphal, rescued after 2-hr op

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.

Amid Manipur violence, Meitei Alliance calls for scrapping of 2008 SoO agreement with Kuki groups

Suspension of Operations requires insurgent groups to stop operations & stay within designated camps, but Meitei groups claim agreement is being exploited to 'undermine' India’s security.

Imphal on high alert after blast at DM university kills 1, civil society bats for political solution

A hand grenade was thrown at All Manipur Students’ Union office within Dhanamanjuri University campus, it is learnt. The blast, which also injured 1 person, sparked incidents of violence.

Recruitment spikes across insurgent outfits in Manipur, ‘more than when insurgency was at its peak’

Most youngsters who were working or doing businesses are said to have have picked up arms to either become 'village defence volunteers', or joined insurgents to 'protect' community.

After Arambai Tenggol meet, Manipur MLAs & MPs vow NRC tweak, end of pact with Kuki insurgents in 2 wks

Meitei group had asked all MLAs from Imphal Valley to attend Wednesday meeting after which Metei lawmakers gave their word to pursue commitments in 15 days.

On Camera

Who grounded IndiGo flights? They are the culprits, not DGCA

The IndiGo crisis is nothing short of a threat to India’s stability. Could it be an experiment? Can this happen in any other crucial sector like power or railways?

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.