NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Monday announced a new initiative aimed at providing essential commodities to the people of strife-torn Manipur at affordable prices. Shah said the Union government will make Kendriya Police Kalyan Bhandars accessible to civilians starting September 17.Taking to X, Shah said, “In line with PM Shri Narendra Modi…
New Delhi: The Centre on Friday put a definite time-limit on proceedings of the Justice Ajai Lamba commission set up in June last year to probe the causes and associated factors of the ethnic violence that broke out in Manipur on May 3, 2023, asking it to submit its report latest by November 20.Amending its…
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…
NEW DELHI: Amid renewed violence in Manipur, Congress Monday said PM Narendra Modi thinks it’s more important to intervene in the Ukraine conflict than to rein in violence in the north-eastern state, as it demanded that CM Biren Singh be sacked and serious steps be taken to restore normalcy. It also said SC-mandated inquiry panel…
GUWAHATI: Hundreds of enraged students clashed with police in Imphal Monday following the killing of a retired havildar and a woman the night before in a resurgence of violence that has claimed 11 lives since Sept 1. The unrest in the state escalated into large-scale protests, shifting the epicentre of violence to Manipur‘s Raj Bhavan…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Monday mounted a fresh attack on PM Modi for not visiting strife-addled Manipur, with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressing concern over the internal security risks.Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged that the PM “has not made any effort to stop” the violence and the subsequent fallout. In a piercing…
GUWAHATI: Manipur CM N Biren Singh led a delegation of about 20 MLAs to Raj Bhavan Sunday and handed governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya a memorandum that purportedly recommends revoking the 2008 tripartite agreement on suspension of operations against tribal militant groups suspected to be behind the resurgence of violence in the state.Late in the evening,…
NEW DELHI: Five people were killed in fresh violence in Manipur‘s Jiribam district on Saturday morning, police said. One person was shot dead while asleep and four armed individuals were killed in an ensuing exchange of gunfire.A police officer reported that militants entered the house of a solitary resident who lived in an isolated location…
GUWAHATI: After back-to-back drone strikes, Manipur was jolted Friday by suspected tribal militants carrying out the first reported rocket attacks in the state, one of which killed a 70-year-old priest and wounded five people in a Bishnupur house belonging to the family of the state’s first CM, Mairembam Koireng Singh.The deceased, RK Rabei of Moirang…
GUWAHATI: After back-to-back drone strikes, Manipur was jolted Friday by suspected tribal militants carrying out the first reported rocket attacks in the state, one of which killed a 70-year-old priest and wounded five people in a Bishnupur house belonging to the family of the state’s first CM, Mairembam Koireng Singh.The deceased, RK Rabei of Moirang…
