मणिपुर सरकार ने शनिवार को गृह मंत्रालय को लिखे एक पत्र में राज्य के छह पुलिस स्टेशनों के अधिकार क्षेत्र के तहत सशस्त्र बल (विशेष शक्तियां) अधिनियम (AFSPA), 1958 को हटाने का अनुरोध किया. यह फैसला शुक्रवार को हुई राज्य कैबिनेट की बैठक के बाद आया. कैबिनेट ने केंद्र सरकार से सेमकाई, लमसांग, लमलाई, जिरीबाम, … Read more
The Supreme Court forewarned the ED that it may “consider” granting interim bail to Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy case due to the ongoing Lok Sabha election. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI Hardeep Singh Nijjar killing | Canadian Police arrest members of ‘hit squad’ The Canadian police on May 3 arrested three … Read more
Congress workers protest against Non transparent policy of BJP government for not disclosing names of electoral bonds against SBI Bank in Mumbai on March 7, 2024. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini 33 loss-making firms donated electoral bonds worth ₹582 crore, 75% went to BJP | Data The sources of funds of at least 45 companies … Read more
The Supreme Court on September 6, 2023, agreed to hear a plea of the Editors Guild of India (EGI), whose Manipur fact-finding team is facing the risk of arrest from the State. | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Supreme Court on September 6, 2023, agreed to hear a plea of the Editors Guild of … Read more
Even as eight Naga legislators from Manipur signed a memorandum to the Prime Minister along with 32 of their Meitei colleagues in the Assembly, some terms that the Naga MLAs put their names to have now stirred up a hornet’s nest within the United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body of the 20 Naga tribes … Read more
The Manipur government has sought a compliance report from all departments. File | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar Manipur officials told to quit social media groups Amid reports that bureaucracy and the police are split on ethnic lines in Manipur, the State government has asked officials to quit formal and informal groups on social media … Read more
Women’s wing of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders’ Forum (ITLF) stage a protest near the ‘Wall of Remembrance’ erected to honor lives lost during the ongoing ethnic violence in the State, in Churachandpur, on July 22, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Manipur Police has arrested a sixth person in connection with the May 4 parading of … Read more
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. | Photo Credit: PTI Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on July 22 wrote to President Droupadi Murmu over Manipur violence expressing his anguish over the ongoing spate of violence in the State. In the two-page letter, Mr. Soren said that he is deeply distressed and concerned about the spiralling situation … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi meets security forces personnel in Churachandpur, Manipur, Thursday, June 29, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday, June 30, 2023 visited two relief camps at Moirang in Manipur’s Bishnupur district, party officials said. Mr. Gandhi, who reached Moirang by a chopper from Imphal around 9.30 am, met … Read more
Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw waves as a train passes after train services resumed on the section where the accident happened on Friday, near Bahanaga Bazar railway station in Balasore district on Sunday night, June 4, 2023. | Photo Credit: Twitter/@RailMinIndia via PTI CBI team visits Odisha train accident site, begins probe A 10-member CBI team … Read more