"manipur-violence"

RJD MP Jha also demanded "discussion on Union and state government's failure in restoring peace in Manipur."

The three membered committee will be headed by former Jammu and Kashmir High Court Chief Justice Gita Mittal and include Justices (retd) Shalini P Joshi and Asha Menon.

The Supreme Court commenced hearing on a batch of petitions pertaining to ethnic violence in Manipur, with the state government proposing to set up SITs headed by district SPs to probe cases.

In a statement issued by Manipur police ,as many as 1,057 arms were recovered from the valley districts and 138 arms from the hill districts.

The three were gunned down while they were sleeping and their bodies were later slashed with swords at Kwakta in the district by unidentified men, police said on Saturday morning, adding that the assailants came from Churachandpur.

In the early hours of Saturday, the three people, including an elderly man and his son, were killed and a few injured after suspected militants opened indiscriminate fire in Kwakta Lamkhai village

According to a police official, suspected militants conducted a raid on Kwakta Lamkhai village, resulting in the immediate death of three individuals due to indiscriminate firing.

If the clashes had not taken a communal colour, the violence would not have reached the scale we are witnessing today

The AAP MP's request came amid a stalemate in Rajya Sabha over the rule under which a discussion on the Manipur issue should be taken up

In the Upper House, RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha and AAP MP Raghav Chadha tabled suspension of business notices, addressing the situation in the Northeastern state.

The traffic in Bengaluru gets so severe sometimes that vehicles don't even move an inch

The Supreme Court has observed today that there has been a complete breakdown of Constitutional machinery in Manipur since May 3

There was a complete breakdown of law and order machinery of the state," remarked a bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud questioning the delay in registration of FIRs by the Manipur Police

The top court said it may constitute an SIT or a committee comprising former judges to monitor the situation in the strife-torn state subject to hearing the law officers representing the Centre and Manipur on Tuesday.

The West Bengal assembly on Monday passed a motion condemning the violence in Manipur, amid opposition by the BJP.

After a two-day visit to the violence-hit state, MPs of the Opposition's I.N.D.I.A. bloc returned to New Delhi on Sunday.

The viral video of the May 4 incident renewed the national attention on Manipur, where violence broke out nearly three months ago, killing over 160 people since then, and injuring hundreds

The MPs delegation will assess the valley and hill districts and talk to the affected people

Earlier today, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aware that BJP's ideology has set the northeastern state on fire