Imphal: A TV journalist, a policeman and two village volunteers were injured in separate incidents of firing by miscreants in the last 24 hours in strife-torn Manipur, which saw violence erupting since Tuesday after a brief lull and disrupting Christmas celebrations.The local journalist, identified as L Kabichandra, sustained a bullet injury to his left thigh…
GUWAHATI: Fissures in BJP’s Manipur unit over CM N Biren Singh‘s handling of the ongoing strife deepened Tuesday after 19 of 37 saffron party MLAs representing either side of the ethnic divide skipped the previous night’s NDA meeting in which a resolution was passed to go all out against the “Kuki militants” suspected to have…
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday wrote a letter to President Draupadi Murmu and called for her intervention over the ongoing crisis in Manipur.Kharge claimed that the Union government and the state government have completely failed in restoring peace and normalcy in Manipur during the last 18 months“The country has been inflicted with…
GUWAHATI: The ethnic conflict in Manipur has morphed into a “battle of narratives” driven by alleged falsehoods such as drones dropping bombs and 900 militants trained in Myanmar infiltrating the state for targeted attacks, Army chief General Upendra Dwivedi said Tuesday at an event in Delhi.“It all started in May 2023 with a rumour that…
Two Meitei youths who had been missing for two days after attending a recruitment test for central security forces at New Keithelmanbi in Imphal West district of Manipur were allegedly abducted by Kuki militants. CM N Biren Singh posted Sunday on social media that his govt is “focusing on the rescue of the abduction of…
GUWAHATI: Manipur government retracted its intelligence report from 10 days ago about the infiltration of “900 Kuki militants from Myanmar” amid concerns over the leakage of sensitive information as new police inputs surfaced Thursday that “Kuki National Army (KNA) cadres are set to escort arms, ammunition, and drugs from Myanmar”.Ningthoujam Geoffre, secretary to CM N…
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…
