Image used for representation A 21-year-old man was arrested in connection with the rape and murder of a girl in Manipur’s Churachandpur district, police said on Sunday (April 13, 2025). The girl’s body was found in a forest in Thanlon sub-division on Friday, they said. “The girl had gone to the forest to collect firewood. … Read more
A mob on Saturday stormed and destroyed a makeshift camp of Assam Rifles in Manipur’s Kamjong district over alleged harassment and restrictions on transportation of timber, officials said. Members of the group that attacked the camp in Hongbei area belonged to Kasom Khullen block of the Naga majority district. Tensions escalated on Saturday when the … Read more
Unidentified gunmen shot dead two migrant labourers from Bihar in the Meitei-dominated Kakching district of Manipur on Saturday, police said. The incident took place in Keirak area at around 5.20 pm on Saturday, and the victims have been identified as Sunalal Kumar (18) and Dasharat Kumar (17), from Bihar’s Gopalganj. According to the police, the … Read more
Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM), a tribal body representing the Kuki people of Manipur, on Wednesday, accused the state government of spreading misinformation about Kuki-Zo communities and urged the Centre to intervene and address the “bias and injustice” against them. In a statement, the KIM also rejected the claims made by the Manipur Security Adviser that … Read more
Image for representational purposes only. Amidst the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur, the COCOMI on June 28 took out a mass rally from Imphal West’s Thau Ground, calling for the integrity of the State to be maintained. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Amidst the ongoing ethnic conflict in Manipur, the Coordinating Committee on Manipur … Read more
People who got displaced due to violence take shelter at a relief camp in Jiribam district of Manipur on June 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI The story so far: Jiribam district, located along National Highway-37 on the Assam and Manipur border, is the latest target of violence in the northeastern State. Manipur has been … 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
The quake struck at around 2.46 a.m. with a depth of 25 km. | Photo Credit: Twitter/@NCS_Earthquake An earthquake of magnitude 3.2 hit the Noney district of Manipur in the early hours of Tuesday, according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS). The quake struck at around 2.46 a.m. with a depth of 25 km. … Read more
In the backdrop of repeated claims by Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren on the “improved” law and order situation in the State, a bomb exploded on Monday night at Kangjabi, on the outskirts of the Imphal city, the police said on Tuesday. There were no casualties, but a few houses suffered damage in the explosion. … Read more
It is all peace and quiet at Sajik Tampak in Manipur’s Chandel district bordering Myanmar, once a hotbed of insurgents It is all peace and quiet at Sajik Tampak in Manipur’s Chandel district bordering Myanmar, once a hotbed of insurgents Ginminlun Zou, headman of Sajik Tampak, sums up the change since 2004 in his village … Read more