A court has convicted three Rohingya refugees and sentenced them to jail terms in a rare and harsh punishment for cross-border infiltrators in Tripura. The accused have been given two years in jail and imposed a fine. The district and sessions judge in Kailashahar, the district headquarters of Unakoti, convicted the infiltrators from Bangladesh who […]
After the imposition of curfew in Manipur’s Churachandpur district in view of clashes between Hmar and Zomi people, bodies of the two communities have agreed to lift a shutdown there, officials said on Tuesday (March 18, 2025). The Hmar Inpui and Zomi Council, the apex bodies of the respective tribes, also decided to work together […]
Four members of proscribed outfits in Manipur were arrested in the last 24 hours from Imphal West and Bishnupur districts, police said on Tuesday (March 18, 2025). A 50-year-old cadre of the banned Peoples’ Liberation Army was apprehended from Langol Game Village Zone III in Imphal West district, a senior officer said. He has been […]
The Opposition in the Rajya Sabha said the Centre’s claims that “everything is good in Manipur” was an exercise in propaganda; the ground reality in the State was very worrisome; and the promise of a “double engine government” had fallen flat. The Centre faced criticism in the Upper House while discussing the Manipur Budget for […]
The Meghalaya government has initiated legal coal mining more than a decade after the National Green Tribunal banned the hazardous rat-hole method of extracting the fossil fuel. On Monday (April 17, 2025), Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma inaugurated the first ‘scientific’ coal mining block at Saryngkham-A in the Byndihati area of the East Jaintia Hills […]
The Supreme Court on Monday (March 17, 2025) said the trial of the Manipur ethnic violence cases, probed by the CBI, would be conducted in Guwahati, Assam, where it was transferred to earlier. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna also extended till July 31, 2025, the tenure of a committee headed by […]
A day after a leader of the Hmar tribe was assaulted by unknown miscreants in Manipur’s Churachandpur district headquarters town, tensions escalated on Monday (March 17, 2025) as locals demanded the identification of the perpetrators, police said. As a precautionary measure, the additional district magistrate imposed prohibitory orders across the district under Section 163 of […]
Security forces seized firearms and ammunition during a search operation in Manipur’s Bishnupur district, police said on Monday (March 17, 2025). One 5.56 mm Insas rifle, two 9 mm carbine machine guns, one .303 modified sniper with magnifier scope, one SBBL gun, one pistol, four hand grenades, and cartridges were seized from the vicinity of […]
Peace is not paying for Mizoram, its Chief Minister Lalduhoma told the Centre on Sunday (March 16, 2025). After attending a meeting of the Chief Ministers of the northeast with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Guwahati, he said Mizoram was denied security-related expenditures (SRE) unlike the other States as it was the country’s most […]
“A massive consignment of methamphetamine tablets worth ₹88 crore was seized and four members of an international drug cartel were arrested in Imphal and Guwahati zones,” Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday (March 16, 2025.) Mr. Shah also said the drug haul is a testament to the stellar performance of the bottom-to-top and […]
