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.
COCOMI on Sunday announced indefinite social boycott to the Manipur government in protest against state government's delay in convening the assembly session
After the ethnic violence broke out in Manipur on May 3, the Defence Ministry and the Ministry of Home Affairs deployed over 40,000 Army, Assam Rifles and various CAPF personnel
Manipur Police has suspended five police personnel including the station incharge of the area where the incident of two women being stripped had taken place on May 4
Fresh violence was also reported from Imphal East district's Checkon area where a large commercial establishment was torched on Saturday, officials said.
Several reports indicated that at least five suspected militants were killed in the retaliatory fire by state forces and armed village volunteers, but official confirmation is still pending.
Congress has been demanding a statement from the prime minister on the Manipur issue in Parliament followed by a comprehensive discussion on the matter in both Houses
BRS government has succeeded where the previous government had failed. The government had issued podu pattas to as many as 1.5 lakh tribal farmers giving rights over 4.06 lakh acres, said Satyavathi
BRS MLC K Kavitha said the violence was State-sponsored and that both the BJP-led government at the Centre and in Manipur had failed to quell the violence.
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.
