IMPHAL — Manipur-based United Naga Council (UNC) issued an ultimatum to Union Home Minister Amit Shah for redressal of the pending issues of “arbitrary creation” of seven new districts in Manipur in 2016 and warned of intense agitation if not resolved the issue within 15 days time The UNC demanded the rollback of the “arbitrary creation” of seven new districts and reinstated the status quo. The UNC in a letter to the Home Minister said that there had been social...

IMPHAL — The influential North East Students’ Organisation (NESO) on Thursday urged the Prime Minister and Home Minister to urgently intervene in the Manipur situation. NESO is an apex body of eight students’ organisations representing seven NE states. The organisation claimed that the failure to address the ethnic conflict not only undermines the stability of Manipur but also poses a threat to the broader peace and security of the entire northeast region. Read latest: Manipur health centre torched by unknown...

IMPHAL — A primary health centre in Manipur’s restive Jiribam district was burnt down by unidentified armed attackers and an exchange of fire took place between two groups, police said on Thursday.  A police official in Imphal said that on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, the primary health centre, near the Borobekra police outpost in Jiribam, adjoining southern Assam, was set afire. In another incident in the same district, an exchange of fire took place between two groups...

IMPHAL — The Manipur government, in a revised order on Tuesday, barred mobile internet services in five districts, instead of the whole state as announced earlier, for five days to prevent the spread of fake and concocted posts, photos, and videos and to maintain law and order, officials said. Meanwhile, the Higher and Technical Education Department, in view of the prevailing unrest in the state, has closed all the government, government-aided, and private colleges, till September 12. Home Commissioner N....

Govt sends 2,000 more CRPF personnel to Manipur IMPHAL — Over 40 students were injured on Tuesday following clashes with security forces when they attempted to march towards the Raj Bhavan in Imphal to press for their demands to remove the DGP and security advisor to the state government, police said. Thousands of students and women demonstrators tried to march towards the Raj Bhavan on BT Road here, but were stopped by security forces near the Congress Bhavan, they said....

IMPHAL — Tails of sophisticated rockets have been recovered after recent drone and hi-tech missile attacks in Manipur, a top police officer said on Tuesday. Manipur Police dismissed the claims of Lt. Gen P C Nair, a retired DG of Assam Rifles, in a recent media interview that no drones or rockets have been used in the attacks. He had also labelled Manipur Police as a “Meitei Police”, indicating their alleged partisan role in the ethnic strife. Speaking to reporters,...

IMPHAL — A day after Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh urged the Central government to hand over the charge of ‘Unified Command’ to the state government to enable it to deal with the prevailing situation in the state, an influential tribal body — Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) — on Monday opposed the proposal. KIM’s Information and Publicity Secretary Janghaolun Haokip said it “firmly rejects the recent demand by the Manipur Chief Minister to hand over control of the Unified...

Kharge said the Congress demands that the Manipur CM should be immediately dismissed NEW DELHI — Amid escalation in violence in Manipur, the Congress on Monday demanded that Chief Minister N Biren Singh be immediately dismissed and the Union government take full responsibility of the sensitive security situation. It also said the Supreme Court-mandated Manipur Commission of Inquiry must expedite its probe. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “abject failure” in Manipur is “unforgivable”. Read more...

IMPHAL — Amid a fresh bout of violence in Manipur, Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday appealed to the Centre to take steps to protect territorial integrity of the state, according to an official. Singh also urged the central government not to give in to the demand for a separate administration raised by Kuki Zo groups, said the official on condition of anonymity. The chief minister made these appeals in a memorandum submitted to Governor Lakshman Prasad Acharya when...

IMPHAL/KOLKATA — Five people were killed in fresh violence in Manipur’s Jiribam district on Saturday, police said. According to police, militants entered the house of a person who lived alone at an isolated location around 5 km from the district headquarters and shot him dead in his sleep. After the killing, a heavy exchange of fire took place between people of the warring communities in the hills around 7 km from the district headquarters, leading to the deaths of four...