NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court on Friday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to open an investigation into the alleged extrajudicial killings by the Indian Army, Assam Rifles and police in the insurgency-hit state of Manipur...
On April 20, the army had suggested before the apex court that FIRs could not be registered against it for carrying out operations in India-held Kashmir and insurgency-hit Manipur, while...
The soldiers from Assam Rifles were returning from a landslide disaster site when rebels sprayed their vehicles with bullets in Chandel district, about 120km southwest of Manipur’s state capital Imphal...
NEW DELHI: As anti-government protests intensified in India’s northeastern state of Manipur on Tuesday, another three persons were killed in police firing, including a 10-year old...
The three were killed when police fired on protesters in Manipur’s Churachandpur district taking the overnight toll to eight...
Officials say the protesters cut trees and used boulders to stop movement of trucks, buses and cars Thursday on the highway linking Manipur state with the rest of India, paralyzing normal life in the area...
The violence erupted on Monday after the state legislature approved new legislation defining who can claim to be from Manipur...
The mudslide occurred in Joumol, a village in Manipur state close to India’s border with Myanmar, said police officer Herojit Singh...
NEW DELHI: Despite the Congress party emerging as the single largest party in two small states with hung assemblies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) controversially formed its government in Goa on Tuesday and the governor in Manipur, a former BJP minister, invited its party leader to be sworn in as chief minister in Manipur...
Governor Mridula Sinha administered the oath of office and secrecy to the chief minister and cabinet...
Dissident political leaders from the Indian state of Manipur on Tuesday said they were unilaterally declaring independence from India and forming a government-in-exile in Britain...
Narengbam Samarjit, external affairs minister in the self-declared Manipur State Council, said the exiled government would push for recognition at the United Nations...
The troops were sent to the state of Manipur, along the border with Myanmar, after a protest march by tribal groups turned violent on Wednesday...
“Curfew has been imposed… the situation is tense but is now under control,” Awangbow Newmai, a Manipur government minister, told AFP, confirming the death toll...
Chandrachud is scheduled on Monday (today) to hear a petition filed by a Delhi-based body for Manipur tribal communities seeking the constitution of a special investigation team to probe the attacks and violence which has gripped the Manipur...
More than 50 persons were killed in ethnic violence on Wednesday, which saw assaults on and destruction of dozens of churches, reports say the majority Hindu Meiti community is seeking to be...
Sanatomba picked through the ruins of his sister’s home in the state of Manipur, trying to salvage anything of value, but could only recover a traditional stool...
One person was shot dead and houses were set on fire as fresh ethnic violence erupted in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur, officials said Thursday...
Manipur has been on the boil after an explosion of inter-ethnic violence this month killed at least 70 people and left tens of thousands displaced...
NEW DELHI: Around 40 suspected militants and two police have died in fresh violence in Manipur in northeast India, an official said on Sunday, confirming comments from the state’s chief minister to local media...
Manipur has been on edge after an explosion of inter-ethnic violence this month killed at least 70 people and left tens of thousands displaced...
Home Minister Amit Shah, speaking to reporters on a visit to Manipur’s state capital Imphal, warned of “stringent charges” for those who failed to hand in their weapons before a major police sweep begins on Friday...
Shah, a key aide of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, arrived in Manipur earlier this week to tackle the unrest and also announced a probe into the causes of the violence...
GUWAHATI: Indian security forces stepped up operations to prevent further violence in Manipur state on Wednesday after a seven-year-old boy, his mother and a relative were burnt alive when a crowd set fire to an ambulance ferrying them to a hospital...
The Indian Army on Wednesday said it had launched operations in hill and valley areas across Manipur “to dominate sensitive areas and recover snatched weapons”...
A federal Indian minister’s house was set on fire by a mob in the remote northeastern state of Manipur, which has been hit by clashes between members of rival ethnic groups for over a month, officials said on Friday...
Ranjan Singh’s office confirmed that a mob vandalised and set fire to his house in the Manipur capital Imphal...