Ethnic and immigration issues are deepening the hill-valley divide in Manipur, with protests taken out by different communities seeking protection of respective indigenous rights.
Bala Devi's pinning ceremony Friday was attended by CM N Biren Singh. In her career, she has been named AIFF's Women’s Player of the Year thrice & played for Scottish Club Rangers FC.
Student groups had demanded tabling of draft Autonomous District Councils Amendment Bill, 2021, in assembly. Instead, state govt introduced 2 different bills, causing outcry.
According to district officials, of the eight bodies recovered so far, seven belong to Territorial Army personnel. CM N. Biren Singh visits site to take stock of the situation.
Union ministers Nirmala Sitharaman and Kiren Rijiju, BJP’s central observers for the state, made the decision after discussions with newly elected MLAs.
Australian national Reza Borhani met then CM N. Biren Singh in September 2019 for the purpose. In November, he was arrested in Mumbai for alleged involvement in a drug racket.
The party has incumbent CMs in Manipur and Goa — N. Biren Singh and Pramod Sawant, respectively — and plausible alternatives from second-rung leadership.
The BJP emerged as the single-largest party in Manipur Thursday. It had maintained prior to the polls that its face would be decided after the results are declared.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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