Category: north-east

The COCOMI said that the conflict can only be inferred to be pre-planned as tension started building up from April 27 after an open gym to be inaugurated by the Manipur Chief Minister was vandalised.

The Supreme Court on Monday said that it will constitute a three-judge committee headed by Justice Gita Mittal, former Chief Justice of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court to look into “humanitarian” issues like relief, rehabilitation, remedial, etc., in the violence-hit Manipur.

Leaders of Manipur's Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) will meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Tuesday to press for its demands, which include a separate state for the trinals.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday lauded the efforts of the Central government for taking the initiative to re-develop 32 railway stations in the state under the 'Amrit Bharat Station' initiative which was launched by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday. 

With two MLAs in the Manipur Assembly, the Kuki People's Alliance (KPA) on Sunday withdrew its support from the BJP-led Manipur government, headed by Chief Minister N. Biren Singh.

Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an umbrella body of the Meitei community, on Sunday announced indefinite social boycott to the Manipur government in protest against state government’s delay in convening the assembly session.

As over three month long ethnic violence continued in Manipur, the Home Ministry has deployed 10 additional companies of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in the northeastern state, an official said here on Sunday. 

Normal life was crippled in five valley districts of Manipur on Saturday as various Meitei organisations called a 24-hour-long shutdown demanding to convene an urgent session of the state Assembly to pass a resolution on the ethnic violence.

"The apprehended persons and the seized cannabis were handed over to Guwahati Police for carrying out investigation by registering a case under proper sections of law," an STF statement said.

Manipur BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh on Saturday claimed that there were huge security lapses in the militant attack in Bishnupur district that killed three people earlier in the day, and demanded action against the paramilitary force personnel for their “negligence in duty”.

In a fresh incident of violence, three people, including an elderly man and his son, were killed in Manipur’s Bishnupur district on Saturday, police said.

At least 91 stations under Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) will be re-developed under a central government initiative called ‘Amrit Bharat Station’ Scheme, officials said on Saturday.

The North East Students Organisation (NESO), an apex body of eight students’ associations of seven northeastern states, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to intervene into the Manipur crisis to prevent a long-term negative impact in the entire region.

The Manipur Police are undertaking a high-level probe into the loot of a large amount of arms and ammunition from two police outposts in Bishnupur district, Director General of Manipur Police Rajiv Singh said on Friday.

The Assam Civil Society, an organisation of intellectuals, has slammed Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his silence on the issue of an arms training camp organised by the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal at a school in Mangaldoi town.

Drugs worth Rs 4 crore were seized during a joint operation conducted by the Assam Police and Border Security Forces (BSF) in Karimganj district, officials said on Friday.

Three elephants died in Assam after being electrocuted on Friday, local officials said. The incident took place at the Rani tea estate, located about 20 km from Guwahati.

Disbanded organisation United Liberation Front of Asom – Independent (ULFA-I) in a statement has refuted Assam police's claims that the outfit is planning to carry any blast in the state before the Independence Day celebration.

Amid the differences between the BJP-led NDA government and its ally Mizo National Front (MNF), the ruling party in Mizoram, the opposition Congress has urged all political parties, NGOs and churches to come together to form a united front against the saffron party.

A Manipur Police statement late on Thursday night said that a mob stormed Keirenphabi Police outpost and Thangalawai Police outpost of Manipur Armed Police's 2nd Battalion in Bishnupur and took away a huge cache of arms and ammunition.

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The Imphal-based Central Agriculture University (CAU) has made alternative arrangements for 40 Mizoram students, who are not willing to go to Manipur in view of the prevailing ethnic violence.

Assam NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has called his predecessor Prateek Hajela a "traitor" for allegedly including names of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the list during the updation exercise of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the northeastern state.

A 12-hour shutdown, called by the Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU), was observed in tribal-dominated Kangpokpi district on Thursday to mark 90 days of ethnic violence in Manipur.

At least 17 people were injured on Thursday during clashes with security forces in Manipur's Bishnupur and Churachandpur districts ahead of a mass burial of victims killed in the ethnic violence, officials said.