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Tens of thousands displaced by ethnic violence in northeast India suffer squalid conditions in camps

KANGPOKPI, India — Phalneivah Khonsai ran for her life when violence struck her neighborhood in India’s restive northeast, carrying just the bare essentials in the hope that she and her family could return soon. The relief camp is in Kangpokpi, about 50 kilometers from Imphal, the capital of India’s northeastern Manipur state, which has been wracked by ethnic violence since …

Community India Violence Hindu State Live Kangpokpi

6 days, 2 hours ago

Manipur: Security forces recover Starlink linked to Kuki terrorists

Op India

Indian Army, and Assam Rifles, in cooperation with police and other security forces, recovered massive stocks of weapons in a series of successful operations in the violence affected state of Manipur. Acting on specific intelligence, troops of #IndianArmy and #AssamRifles formations under #SpearCorps carried out joint search operations in the hill and valley regions in the districts of Churachandpur, Chandel, …

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2 weeks ago

Weapons and war-like stores recovered in 3 violence-hit Manipur districts

India Today

The Indian Army and security forces have recovered 14 weapons, ammunition and war-like stores in Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Thoubal districts of violence-hit Manipur amid sporadic clashes between Meitei and Kuki communities. Acting on a specific intelligence input of the presence of arms and ammunition in Loiching Ridge in Kangpokpi district, Assam Rifles and Manipur Police launched a joint operation on …

Districts Ammunition Meitei Kangpokpi Manipur Operation Stores

2 weeks ago

Weapons and war-like stores recovered in 3 violence-hit Manipur districts

India Today

The Indian Army and security forces have recovered 14 weapons, ammunition and war-like stores in Churachandpur, Kangpokpi and Thoubal districts of violence-hit Manipur amid sporadic clashes between Meitei and Kuki communities. Acting on a specific intelligence input of the presence of arms and ammunition in Loiching Ridge in Kangpokpi district, Assam Rifles and Manipur Police launched a joint operation on …

Districts Ammunition Meitei Kangpokpi Manipur Operation Stores

2 weeks, 2 days ago

High Court-appointed panel begins probe after man goes missing from Army camp

India Today

A high-level probe panel constituted by the Manipur High Court to investigate the disappearance of a man from the state's Leimakhong Army Camp on Friday reached the spot and started its probe. A two-judge bench of the Manipur High Court, comprising Justices D Krishnakumar and Golmei Gaiphulshillu, on December 3 formed a committee to look into the disappearance of Laishram …

Army Man High Committee Kangpokpi Laishram Kamal

2 weeks, 4 days ago

No takers for Manipur interdistrict buses in state split into Meitei, Kuki zones

Hindustan Times

Two white 15-seater Manipur State Transport buses were parked at a depot in the state capital Imphal on Wednesday morning. “Passengers from the Naga community and a few others are travelling, but not those from the Kuki and Meitei communities,” said a bus driver at the Imphal depot. The government’s latest attempts to resume public transport services met with stiff …

State Bus Meitei Kangpokpi Kuki Security Forces Imphal

3 weeks, 6 days ago

Tensions escalate in Imphal West after Meitei man goes missing near Leimakhong army camp

India TV News

Tension flared in Imphal West on Tuesday following the disappearance of 55-year-old Laishram Kamalbabu Singh, a member of the Meitei community, who worked at the Leimakhong Army Camp in Kangpokpi, was last seen on Monday when he left his village, Loitang Khunou, to report for duty. The police and Army are currently conducting joint search operations in the area adjoining …

Singh Meitei Kuki Leimakhong

1 month, 1 week ago

Afspa back in parts of restive Manipur areas

Hindustan Times

The Union government on Thursday reimposed the Armed Forces Act, or Afspa, in areas under the jurisdiction of six police stations across five Manipur districts, more than a year after it was removed from these places, amid a fresh wave of violence in the state. In an official notification, the ministry of home affairs declared the regions falling under Sekmai …

Security Districts Areas Stations Meitei Kangpokpi Manipur

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Manipur: MP writes to Shah for release of Meitei men

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: Inner Manipur parliamentarian Bimol Akoijam on Wednesday said he has written to Union home minister Amit Shah requesting him to step in and ensure the safe release of the two Meitei men, who have been held hostage by Kuki militants. The Lok Sabha MP further said his fellow Congress leaders in Manipur, including former chief minister O Ibobi …

Men Chief Minister Minister Singh Release Kuki Prisoners Meitei

2 months, 3 weeks ago

48-hour shutdown brings normal life to halt in Manipur

Hindustan Times

The 48-hour shutdown called by various Kuki-Zo groups paralysed normal life in tribal-dominated Churachandpur and Kangpokpi districts in Manipur on Saturday, with markets and other commercial establishments remaining shut while vehicles staying off the roads. The total shutdown was called by Kuki-Zo groups, including the Committee on Tribal Unity, Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum and Kuki Students Organisation, in protest against …

Myanmar Kangpokpi Manipur Kuki

3 months, 1 week ago

Forces take up positions in new Manipur regions

Hindustan Times

Imphal/Kangpokpi The development comes in the backdrop of a significant rise in clashes in the conflict-ridden state this month, with militants turning to modern weaponry like drones and rockets Recovery of several rockets and the increasing number of attacks have forced security personnel deployed in Manipur to spread across various sectors of the northeastern state — from the borders between …

Security State Kangpokpi Manipur Militants Kuki Drones

3 months, 1 week ago

in Manipur, conflict takes a new turn as militants pick up modern weapons

Hindustan Times

At least 23.8 kg in weight, 5cm in thickness and nine feet in length -- these were the dimensions of a rocket fired by Kuki militants on September 6 last week that killed one person, injured five others, and has since become symbolic of the burgeoning security problem confronting the administration in a state roiled by 16 months of near-continuous …

Officer Kangpokpi Manipur Militants Kuki Drones Rockets

3 months, 1 week ago

Manipur students protest renewed violence, pelt stones outside Raj Bhavan

The Hindu

GUWAHATI Scores of students took to the streets of Imphal on Monday to protest the renewed violence in Manipur, resulting in a brief scuffle with security forces as they pelted stones at the heavily guarded Raj Bhavan. The students also demanded that the Centre hand over the charge of the Unified Command to the State government and withdraw the “indifferent” …

Protest State Centre Kangpokpi Manipur Kuki Raj Bhavan

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Manipur CM terms drone attacks as ‘act of terrorism’, vows appropriate response

Hindustan Times

Manipur, which has been roiled by ethnic violence between Meiteis and the tribal Kuki-Zo communities for the past 15 months, witnessed a new phenomenon on Sunday and Monday when drones were used to drop bombs in Imphal Valley, leading to the death of a woman and injuring over a dozen people. It is suspected that Kuki militants were behind the …

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4 months ago

Manipur audio clips establish CM’s complicity, say Kuki-Zo MLAs seeking his prosecution

The Hindu

Manipur’s 10 Kuki-Zo MLAs on Wednesday issued a statement, saying they had taken note of the leaked voice clippings, alleged to be of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh purportedly admitting to his complicity in the ethnic conflict. “The complicity of the Chief Minister in the state- They further claimed that the authenticity of the tapes had been confirmed by one …

Ethnic Minister Singh Mlas Chief Kangpokpi Manipur

5 months, 1 week ago

Normal life hit due to 12-hour ‘total shutdown’ in Manipur’s Kuki-majority areas

The Hindu

Normal life was affected in at least four districts of Manipur due to a 12-hour “total shutdown” called by a major Kuki organisation of the northeastern State to protest against the arrest of five people belonging to the community. The recent arrest of two persons in Jiribam and three others in Kangpokpi “poses a significant security threat” for them, the …

State Singh Kangpokpi Manipur Kuki Churachandpur

5 months, 1 week ago

Apex Kuki tribes body calls for 12-hour shutdown in Manipur

The Hindu

The Kuki Inpi Manipur, apex body of Kuki tribes in Manipur, on July 9 called for a 12-hour shutdown across all Kuki-Zo dominated districts of the State over the arrest of five purported village volunteers from their community by the security forces in the last two days, with some women’s groups of the Kuki-Zo community alleging that personnel of the …

Security Women Volunteers Operations State District Village

6 months ago

Bus carrying CRPF jawans torched in violence-hit Manipur; no one hurt: Police

Hindustan Times

A bus carrying Central Reserve Police Force jawans was torched by unknown miscreants in Kangpokpi district of violence-hit Manipur around on Monday night, police said adding that no one was hurt in the incident. Police said the bus, bearing registration number MN 06B-0463, was coming from the deputy commissioner’s office in Kangpokpi district towards Kangpokpi police station. The recovered items …

Kangpokpi Manipur Kangpokpi District Kangpokpi Bazaar

6 months, 1 week ago

After a fragile two-month peace, how the discovery of a body triggered a fresh bout of violence in Manipur

Hindustan Times

Jiribam district, bordering Assam, is a key commercial hub in Manipur. After receiving information that heavily armed militants were heading towards Jiribam via Halflong, Assam, security personnel including state commandos and village defence volunteers have been put on alert and are maintaining vigil. The Indigenous Tribes Advocacy Committee of Pherzawl and Jiribam district, a local organisation, warned the Manipur police …

Security Violence District Town Kangpokpi Manipur Security Personnel

7 months, 3 weeks ago

One dead in clashes among Manipur village volunteers

Hindustan Times

One person was killed and three others were injured in a gunfight between armed groups in Kangpokpi district of strife-torn Manipur early on Sunday, officials said. Dozens of gunmen attacked Koutruk in Imphal West district on Sunday morning from elevated hilltops of neighbouring Kangpokpi district prompting village volunteers deployed in the fringe village to retaliate, the police said. Koutruk village …

District Village Kangpokpi Manipur Village Volunteers

8 months, 1 week ago

Manipur’s BJP CM inflamed conflict: Assam Rifles report on India violence

Al Jazeera

It also points to the role of armed groups from the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities in the prolonged violence in northeastern India. The presentation put part of the blame on the state government, headed by Chief Minister N Biren Singh, a member of Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, and his “political authoritarianism and ambition”. Additionally, the presentation asserted that …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Manipur police register ‘Zero FIRs’ over killings of two Kuki-Zo men

The Hindu

The Manipur police have now registered two First Information Reports over the killings of two Kuki-Zo village volunteers on Saturday, following which their bodies were allegedly mutilated, as per videos circulating on social media. A police source said Zero FIRs were registered at the Kangpokpi police station on Sunday. The complaints over the incident accused members of Arambai Tenggol for …

Kangpokpi Manipur Firs Churachandpur Mtfd

8 months, 1 week ago

Iran-Israel tensions | Iran says retaliation ‘concluded’, warns Israel not to respond; world urges restraint

The Hindu

Iran on April 14 urged Israel not to retaliate militarily to an attack overnight, which Tehran presented as a justified response to a deadly strike on its consulate building in Damascus. Need a strong government, PM Modi says at BJP manifesto launch Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 14 released the BJP’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls and said …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Two killed in Manipur gunfight as hostilities flare afresh

Hindustan Times

Fragile peace maintained over the past month-and-a-half in strife-torn Manipur was rattled with the death of two people on Saturday as a bloody gunfight erupted between two armed groups in a village bordering Kangpokpi and Imphal East districts, marking the first death in clashes in the northeastern state in at least 46 days. Later in the evening, militants disrupted and …

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Tens of thousands displaced by ethnic violence in northeast India suffer squalid conditions in camps

Manipur: Security forces recover Starlink linked to Kuki terrorists

Weapons and war-like stores recovered in 3 violence-hit Manipur districts

Weapons and war-like stores recovered in 3 violence-hit Manipur districts

High Court-appointed panel begins probe after man goes missing from Army camp

No takers for Manipur interdistrict buses in state split into Meitei, Kuki zones

Tensions escalate in Imphal West after Meitei man goes missing near Leimakhong army camp

Afspa back in parts of restive Manipur areas

Manipur: MP writes to Shah for release of Meitei men

48-hour shutdown brings normal life to halt in Manipur

Forces take up positions in new Manipur regions

in Manipur, conflict takes a new turn as militants pick up modern weapons

Manipur students protest renewed violence, pelt stones outside Raj Bhavan

Manipur CM terms drone attacks as ‘act of terrorism’, vows appropriate response

Manipur audio clips establish CM’s complicity, say Kuki-Zo MLAs seeking his prosecution

Normal life hit due to 12-hour ‘total shutdown’ in Manipur’s Kuki-majority areas

Apex Kuki tribes body calls for 12-hour shutdown in Manipur

Bus carrying CRPF jawans torched in violence-hit Manipur; no one hurt: Police

After a fragile two-month peace, how the discovery of a body triggered a fresh bout of violence in Manipur

One dead in clashes among Manipur village volunteers

Manipur’s BJP CM inflamed conflict: Assam Rifles report on India violence

Manipur police register ‘Zero FIRs’ over killings of two Kuki-Zo men

Iran-Israel tensions | Iran says retaliation ‘concluded’, warns Israel not to respond; world urges restraint

Two killed in Manipur gunfight as hostilities flare afresh