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 […]
GUWAHATI Assam and Meghalaya need to work together to make India’s most polluted town on the border between the two States more breathable, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma has said. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) ranked Byrnihat, an industrial town about 25 k.m. from Guwahati on the highway to Shillong, as the urban […]
GUWAHATI Christians in Arunachal Pradesh demonstrated on Thursday (March 6, 2025) against an anti-conversion law to be implemented in the northeastern State soon. Mobilised by the Arunachal Christian Forum (ACF), believers gathered at a ground in Borum near the State’s capital Itanagar to voice their opposition to the Arunachal Pradesh Freedom of Religion Act (APFRA) […]
A day before the ending of the extended deadline on Thursday (March 5, 2025) for voluntarily surrendering looted and illegally held weapons in strife-torn Manipur, 32 more arms and ammunition were handed over in Churachandpur, Imphal East and Kangpokpi districts, officials said. The arms and ammunition were surrendered at Commando unit, Lamlai, Porompat and Heingang […]
Mizoram MP K. Vanlalvena visited the camp and offices of the Chinland Council, a rebel outfit controlling parts of north-west Myanmar in areas bordering India, last week. He said that he had invited them to join the Union of India, given that there is no official government in Myanmar, and that there is a shared […]
Tipra Motha president and former MLA Bijoy Kumar Hrangkhawl has been admitted to a private hospital in Agartala with multiple health complications. Tripura Chief Minister Dr. Manik Saha on Wednesday (March 5, 2025) visited the veteran leader and inquired about his health. The Chief Minister also took to his social media page to wish him […]
The proposed “march to the hill districts” by an Imphal Valley-based civil society organisation on March 8 has been opposed by Kuki-Zo groups. Manipur, scarred by a conflict between the non-tribal Meiteis and the tribal Kuki-Zos since May 2023, has been under President’s Rule since February 13. Also read |Manipur — the difficult path to […]
Twenty years ago, people like Maong Nungsang Jamir who began Naga Reju in Choolaimedu and Ramayon Keishing, owner of North East Kitchen, lit their stoves to serve Naga and Manipuri food to forlorn students and working professionals from the North-East, desperate for a taste of home. It was a privilege they never had. With their […]
