Category: NORTH EAST

• ASSAM
• MANIPUR
• MEGHALAYA
• MIZORAM
• NAGALAND
• ARUNACHAL PRADESH

Sarma said that the state government will spend Rs 5 crore for infrastructure development at the high schools located in the villages of Assam in the next few years. These grants will be disbursed to the respective schools in a phased manner.

“Based on a secret tip-off, a special police team conducted an operation on Sunday night in Howly area of the district and seized brown sugar weighing 939.88 gm, a police official said.

A Village Defence Volunteer was killed and two villagers injured on Monday during armed clashes between two groups in two villages located in Manipur's Imphal West and Kangpokpi districts, officials said.

Rupam Nandi Purkayastha, chief adviser of the students’ organisation - All Cachar Karimganj Hailakandi Student’s Association (ACKHSA), said that police must locate the evading suspects engaged in the rape incidents and punish them through police encounters.

The violence, which broke out after a tribal organisation held a rally on May 3 opposing recognition of Meitei communities as Scheduled Tribe, so far has claimed over 150 lives and injured around 600 people of different communities. 

A police official said that 2,207 additional security personnel would be provided in seven districts and the Superintendents of Police concerned, would deploy security in consultations with the Agricultural Department and the local farmers.

As sporadic incidents of violence continued in Manipur, the state government on July 5 extended the suspension of internet services for the 13th time till July 10, to curb the spread of rumours and videos, photos, and messages, which might deteriorate the law and order situation.

Meanwhile, reports in Imphal said that Manipur Police commando Pukham Ranbir, 39, of Bishnupur district was killed when suspected militants attacked Kwakta Ward No 9 at Moirang Turel Mapan Meetei village but authorities were yet to confirm it.

Accusing Chief Minister N. Biren Singh for the ethnic violence and asking him to quit from his post, the Convention resolved that the need of the hour is to restore peace and normalcy, bridge the unprecedented divide among the ethnic groups and heal the wounds of the people.

A mother-son duo died and two others were injured when a herd of elephants wreaked havoc and attacked them in the Juria area in Assam's Nagaon district, an official of the forest department said on Friday.

The Assam police's Special Task Force (STF) have confiscated a substantial amount of fake Indian currency notes (FICN) close to the ISBT bypass in Guwahati, officials said on Friday.

At least two people were killed and four others injured during a shootout between two armed groups in Manipur's Bishnupur-Churachandpur border areas on Friday, officials said.

The members of five Adivasi extremist groups in Assam along with the factions of three other outfits on Thursday laid down their arms in the presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma during a programme here. 

A legislator of the ruling BJP in Manipur has urged Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia to initiate a probe and take punitive action for the “gross error" of wrongly naming Imphal airport on a few tickets of an Air India flight.

The Congress on Wednesday again targeted Prime MInister Narendra Modi for his silence on violence-hit Manipur and said that the situation is not normal in the northeastern state and it will raise the issue in the Parliament's coming Monsoon Session.

The arrested persons have been identified as Parbina Begum, the primary suspect, Bilal Uddin, Afzal Uddin, Nasir Hussain, BJP leader Abdul Karim, and Ajmal Hussain.

Interacting with mediapersons on the sidelines of a media workshop on 'Nine years of Seva, Sushasan and Garib Kalyan', Sharma said that though Nagaland is apprehensive about the repercussions following the violence in Manipur, the state has remained peaceful so far.

Of these, the highest number of schools at 41 are in Churachandpur district, followed by 17 in Bishnupur; 10 in Kakching; eight each in Kangpokpi and Imphal East; four each in Ukhrul and Tengnoupal; and two each in Imphal West and Thoubal.

Zoramthanga, who is also the President of the ruling Mizo National Front (MNF), said that many lives have been lost, there is bloodshed all over, physical torture and the victims are looking for refuge wherever possible.

A senior police officer said that the arrest occurred in Morigaon district on Monday night and identified the accused as Babul Islam and Rubuluddin, residents of Titatala and Kacharibari areas, respectively.

A day after the blockade on the Imphal-Dimapur National Highway (NH-2) was lifted, Kuki National Organisation (KNO) leader and spokesperson, Seilen Haokip’s house in Manipur’s Churachandpur district was burnt down,

The unified security command in Manipur, in its first meeting chaired by Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, on Monday decided that the bunkers erected by militants anywhere in the state have to be destroyed.

At least one person was killed and two others injured by armed assailants while incidents of firing and arson attacks on houses were reported from different districts of Manipur during the past 24 hours, officials said on Monday.

Mizoram government on Monday said that it is likely to raise funds from the government officials, staff and the public for relief and rehabilitation of people of Manipur who have migrated to the state following outbreak of violence.

The Supreme Court on Monday called for an updated status report from the Manipur government after its claim that the situation was improving in the north-eastern state after clashes broke out between the Kuki and Meitei communities.