A live grenade lying at the entrance to a women’s college in Manipur‘s capital city of Imphal, barely 100m from Raj Bhavan, sparked panic and protests by students on Monday amid growing insecurity over extortion threats received by several educational institutes in the state and a profusion of bomb hoaxes targeting airlines and hotels elsewhere….
NEW DELHI: A curfew has been imposed on Tuesday in Imphal East, Imphal West, and Thoubal districts of Manipur due to escalating law and order concerns. The district magistrate of Imphal East, in an order dated September 10, canceled a previously issued curfew relaxation and enforced a total curfew from 11:00 am. Essential services including…
Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh on Tuesday strongly denounced the recent bombing in the state that resulted in two deaths and seven injuries. He described the use of drones to drop bombs on civilians and security forces as “an act of terrorism” and condemned these “cowardly attacks” in the strongest possible terms.“Dropping of bombs…
IMPHAL: A father-son pair was among three farmers fatally shot by suspected militants while tilling their fields in a village of Manipur’s Bishnupur around 4.30pm on Thursday, stretching a sequence of violence that started early Wednesday with two police commandos being killed in Moreh and a village defence volunteer later dying in a gunfight in…
GUWAHATI: The Manipur government extend Wednesday the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (Afspa) in the state for another six months, beginning from October 1, reports Prabin Kalita.However, it will not be enforced in areas under the jurisdiction of 19 police stations, maintaining the same status as the previous term that lasted from April to September.The…
