“Efforts are underway to retrieve the remaining weapons. Among the arms recovered were 9mm pistols, INSAS rifles and AK-47 rifles,” the police said. File | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement “Sixteen firearms looted by a mob from the Ukhrul police station in Manipur were recovered,” police said on Saturday (October 5, 2024). Addressing a press conference,…
Manipur: N Biren Singh said the two men were kidnapped by “Kuki militants” Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh today called a meeting of all MLAs to discuss the situation in the violence-hit state and the rescue of two men kidnapped by who he claimed were “Kuki militants”. A video has been shared…
Imphal/Guwahati/New Delhi: The Manipur Security Adviser today said intelligence received from “different quarters” about infiltration by 900 Kuki militants from Myanmar could not be substantiated on the ground, and so “there is no basis currently to believe in any such input.” The statement comes amid a shutdown called by Kuki groups in all Kuki-dominated areas…
A video was circulated threatening to kill Manipur’s Thadou tribe leader T Michael Lamjathang Haokip Imphal: The Manipur government has asked the police to hand over the case of attack on the ancestral house of a key Thadou tribe leader and BJP spokesperson to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The state government in a letter…
Representational image of security personnel in Manipur. A search operation is under way to rescue an Army official who was abducted from his home in Thoubal | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR Amid the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur, a serving Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) of the Indian Army was abducted from his home in…
The Manipur government is looking to scrap hereditary chieftainship, similar to what Mizoram did Imphal/New Delhi: The Manipur government will take “appropriate steps” to enforce a law that will end the system of hereditary chieftainship in the hills areas of the state, BJP MLA Rajkumar Imo Singh said in a post on X, formerly Twitter….
The Manipur government has ordered a magisterial probe into the looting of arms from an India Reserve Battalion (IRB) camp at Chingarel in Imphal East district on February 13 to “ascertain the facts and circumstances leading to the incident”. An order issued by the Home Department on Sunday said “an unfortunate incident occurred on February…
IMPHAL: The bullet-riddled body of a man missing along with three others since January 10 in Manipur was found on Saturday in Bishnupur district, reports N Benson Singh.Dara Singh of Akasoi in Bishnupur and the others had gone to collect firewood from a hill in nearby Churachandpur district.The bodies of the other three were recovered…
