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 […]
An annual traditional event of the Meitei community involving a trek to a hill in a district dominated by the Kuki people has fuelled fresh tension in ethnic conflict-scarred Manipur. Six Kuki tribal organisations, including the Kuki Students’ Organisation, on Wednesday (April 9, 2025) asked the non-tribal Meitei not to cross the ‘buffer zone’ for […]
The Nagaland police have filed a first information report against an IAS officer for alleged sexual assault on several women. This followed a complaint against bureaucrat Reny Wilfred forwarded by the Nagaland State Women’s Commission (NSCW). “The FIR has been registered. Investigation has commenced,” Nagaland’s Director General of Police, Rupin Sharma, told The Hindu on Wednesday (April […]
The Central government has approved the establishment of six additional Eklavya Model Residential Schools (EMRS) in Tripura. This decision aims to address the issue of school dropouts and provide education to indigenous community children. Currently, there are six EMRS in the State and with the addition of these new schools, the total number will reach […]
“Security forces arrested three persons including two militants from Imphal West, Imphal East and Kangpokpi districts for being involved in extortion activities,” police said on Wednesday (April 9, 2025). “One active cadre of the proscribed Kangleipak Communist Party People’s War Group [KCP (PWG)] was arrested from Loitang Khullen area in Imphal West district on Tuesday […]
GUWAHATI China’s proposed 60,000 megawatt hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo, the upstream of the river Brahmaputra in Tibet, will not be a dam but a ‘water bomb’ to be used against India and other lower riparian countries, Arunachal Pradesh MP Tapir Gao said on Tuesday. Also Read | China approves world’s largest, $137-billion dam […]
Security forces with anti-riot equipment have been deployed across the Muslim-dominated Lilong area in Manipur’s Thoubal district in the wake of violent protests against the Waqf Amendment Act, officials said on Tuesday (April 8, 2025). Vigil has also been heightened in parts of Imphal East district ahead of a planned “human chain protest” at Khurai […]
In a breakthrough under the ongoing anti-drug initiative ‘Operation Dawn 2.0’, the Itanagar Police on Monday (April 7, 2025) apprehended a suspected drug supplier from the civil secretariat premises here, leading to the recovery of 44.36 g of heroin, a senior police officer said on Tuesday (April 8, 2025). The man is currently employed as […]
Security forces have arrested two militants belonging to proscribed outfits in Manipur’s Imphal East district, police said on Tuesday (April 8, 2025). A huge cache of arms and ammunition was also recovered during search operations in Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Imphal East on Monday, they said. An active cadre of the banned United Peoples’ Party of […]
GUWAHATI The authorities in Manipur’s Thoubal district imposed an indefinite curfew in areas under the Lilong Assembly constituency on Monday, a day after an incident of arson over the Waqf Amendment Act. Thoubal is in the Meitei-dominated Imphal Valley and Pangals, or Manipuri Muslims, are a majority in Lilong. A. Subhash Singh, Thoubal’s District Magistrate, […]
