The situation in violence-hit Kangpokpi district in Manipur remained tense but calm on Sunday (March 9, 2025) morning as the indefinite shutdown called by Kuki-Zo groups against “crackdown by security forces” affected normal life in all areas inhabited by the community in the ethnic strife-torn State. A protester was killed while over 40 others, including […]
The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government in Tripura celebrated the completion of two years in power on Saturday (March 8, 2025). The first BJP-led government took charge in 2018 with Biplab Kumar Deb as Chief Minister, but he resigned after three-and-a-half years, and passed the baton to Manik Saha. Dr. Saha presided over […]
A peace march conducted by a Meitei body was stopped in Manipur’s Imphal West district on Saturday (March 8, 2025) as the programme coincided with the government’s initiative to resume inter-district bus services to ensure free movement of people, police said. Security forces stopped the procession, taken out by the Federation of Civil Society Organisations […]
A bus of the Manipur state transport was attacked in Kangpokpi on Saturday (March 8, 2025) after inter-district bus services resumed from Imphal to hill areas since ethnic strife broke out in the northeastern State two years ago, officials said. In December last year, the State Government’s attempt to resume public bus services from Imphal […]
In a series of operations, security forces have recovered 114 weapons, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), grenades and ammunition across Manipur after the expiry of a two-week period for voluntarily surrendering looted and illegally held arms in the ethnic strife-torn State, an official statement said on Saturday (March 8, 2025). Intelligence-based operations were launched in the […]
Leaders representing the diaspora Meitei community and select leaders of Manipur’s Thadou community on Friday (March 7, 2025) met in New Delhi to arrive at a “community understanding” for peaceful coexistence in the State, besides issuing a joint press statement in this regard at a press conference. While the Thadou community is one of the […]
The Manipur government has announced the resumption of bus and helicopter services on Saturday (March 8, 2025). The resumption of terrestrial and air services, suspended since the ethnic clashes between the Kuki-Zo and Meitei people broke out in May 2023, is timed with Home Minister Amit Shah’s directive on free movement from March 8. The buses […]
GUWAHATI A proposed peace march on Saturday (March 8, 2025), timed to coincide with the Centre’s deadline for the start of ‘free movement’ on the highways, has put Manipur on the boil again. Security has been heightened in the State’s Meitei-dominated Imphal Valley and the surrounding hills inhabited mostly by the tribal Kuki-Zos, ahead of […]
“People handed over to the security forces more than 1,000 arms along with ammunition during the two-week provided to them for voluntarily surrendering looted and illegally held weapons in ethnic strife-torn Manipur,” a police officer said on Friday (March 7, 2025), a day after the deadline ended. This figure, however, is provisional and the actual […]
Manipur Congress MP A. Bimol Akoijam on Thursday visited Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla in Imphal, urging him to work on restoring the legitimacy and strengthening the capacity of Manipur Police. In a public statement, Mr. Akoijam’s office said that he drew the Governor’s attention to the “unfortunate de-facto subversion” of the Manipur Police during the […]
