Manipur’s crackdown on insurgency: PREPAK cadre arrested, arms seized
Khumbongmayum Abhijit Singh, a suspected PREPAK operative, was apprehended during a late-night raid in the Chumnang area of Kakching district.
Khumbongmayum Abhijit Singh, a suspected PREPAK operative, was apprehended during a late-night raid in the Chumnang area of Kakching district.
The ethnic tensions in Manipur between the Kuki-Zo tribes and the Meitei community have brought the state's governance under intense scrutiny.
Chief Minister of Manipur N Biren Singh has asserted that the state, which has been reeling under ethnic clashes since May 2023, is witnessing signs of improvement.
In a series of coordinated operations, security forces dismantled camps and apprehended members of the banned militant groups in Manipur’s Imphal East and surrounding districts, police reported on Thursday.
Police deployed water cannons on Wednesday to stop Congress protesters from marching to the Raj Bhawan here. The protest was organized to demonstrate against the NDA government's stance on industrialist Gautam Adani and the ongoing violence in Manipur.
At the Churachandpur police station in the district of the same name, a complaint was filed on Thursday against Muan Tombing, the general secretary of the Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF)
Notably, on Tuesday near Kangchup foothills, unknown assailants opened fire on at least nine people, injuring two police officers from Manipur and a woman
In Manipur, unsettling news emerged as two lifeless bodies, one of a woman, were discovered with bullet wounds in the…
Speaking at an election rally in Tipa, a region adjoining Aizwal, capital of Mizoram, Singh noted that the northeast region enjoyed relative peace in the past nine years due to the diminishing or elimination of insurgency.
The commandos were en-route to Moreh, a town near India-Myanmar border, when they were ambushed near Saibol, some 10 km from Tengnoupal.
