GUWAHATI A Meitei organisation has slammed Kuki civil society groups for warning the Meitei community against embarking on their annual pilgrimage to the Thangjing Hill, which lies in a Kuki-dominated district in conflict-scarred Manipur. The Meitei Heritage Welfare Foundation (MHWF) said that preventing the Meiteis from visiting the sacred Thangjing Hill in the Churachandpur district […]
Several protesters and policemen were injured during an agitation against the Waqf (Amendment) Act in Kailashahar, the headquarters of the Unakoti district in north Tripura, on Saturday (April 12, 2025). Central forces were deployed in the area after the incident. Thousands of people took out a march at Kailashahar and Sonamura in Sepahijala district to […]
A team of researchers at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and The Environment (ATREE) had reported rediscovering a long-lost species of the velvet worms (phylum Onychophora), one of the oldest living fossils in the world, after 111 years. Named Typhloperipatus williamsoni, the ancient species — estimated to be around 220 million years old — […]
The Nagaland Police have registered a First Information Report (FIR) and set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations of sexual and mental harassment of several women employees of the Investment and Development Authority of Nagaland (IDAN) by an IAS officer. The police headquarters in a statement on Saturday (April 12, 2025) […]
Six militants were arrested from different parts of Manipur in separate operations, police said on Saturday (April 12, 2025). The arrests were made on Friday (April 11, 2025) from Bishnupur, Imphal East, Imphal West and Kangpokpi districts, they said. A cadre of the Kanglei Yaowl Kanna Lup (KYKL/SOREPA) was arrested from Leimaram Mamang Leikai in […]
Kuki-Zo civil society organisations have “warned” the Meitei community against climbing the Thangjing Hill in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, stating that any attempts “will be opposed tooth and nail.” The Thangjing Hill is considered a sacred site for Meiteis who visit it in April. In a statement, six Kuki-Zo groups said any attempt to climb the […]
A jump in school exam success rate is as concerning as a dip, as contrasting reactions to the results in two northeastern States suggest. Days after the Voice of the People Party (VPP), Meghalaya’s new regional party on the upswing, criticised the State government for pushing guidebooks to register an unprecedented pass percentage of 87.10, […]
The Tripura Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Friday (April 11, 2025) condemned former Chief Minister and Lok Sabha Member Biplab Kumar Deb for making what it called an “irresponsible” statement over the management of donated gold ornaments at the Tripura Sundari Temple, which is revered by the Hindus. Mr. Deb, in his speech during […]
GUWAHATI An influential civil society body in Mizoram resolved to make the State government formulate a comprehensive policy to handle more than 40,000 refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) taking shelter in the State since 2021. Mizoram is currently housing more than 31,000 Chin people who fled the civil war in Myanmar, some 7,000 Kuki-Zo […]
GUWAHATI The body of a Hungarian tourist, missing since March 29 after checking into a hotel in Shillong, was found on a steep slope in Meghalaya’s East Khasi Hills district on April 10. The district’s Superintendent of Police, Vivek Syiem, said a forensic team reached the spot to conduct an on-spot autopsy on the decomposed […]
