The Latest Breaking News from Manipur

A batch of 11 First Information Reports (FIRs), which the Manipur government is “ready” to transfer to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), includes complaints about the gangrape and murder

Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar said that the demand that only the Prime Minister should respond on Manipur is “constitutionally ill-premised”

Two weeks after the Manipur government’s deadline to remove all bunkers across the State, in both the Kuki-dominated hills and Meitei-dominated valley, The Hindu found that though many bunkers were destroyed in the buffer zones, many others exist and remain functional in both regions.

Solicitor-General Tushar Mehta, appearing for both the Union and Manipur governments, on August 1 told the Supreme Court that “most of the unclaimed bodies are of infiltrators”. His remark came towards the end of a half-day-long hearing on the violence in Manipur, before a Bench headed by Chief Justice of…

There is increased centralisation of power and encouragement of monopoly capitalism under the BJP rule at Centre, says former professor and human rights activist

Among other factors, the ethnic faultlines in Manipur have also been attributed to Chief Minister Biren Singh’s “war on drugs” and the perception that it is just a pretext to target Kukis. But it is not the first time that the chief minister has been accused of a bias in…

Nearly three months into the ethnic violence in Manipur, at least 53 dead bodies – mostly all belonging to the Kuki community – lie unclaimed at two district hospitals in Imphal East and West, sources at the state health department and district administrations told Newslaundry. Officials said three or four…

Adamant on the demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi make a statement in Parliament on the Manipur situation, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Tuesday sought to know when he will discuss the "serious issue". Read further on Dynamite News:

Chief Minister M K Stalin has written to his Manipur counterpart N Biren Singh, requesting the latter government’s concurrence for Tamil Nadu’s proposed humanitarian aid for those living in relief camps in the violence-hit northeastern state. Read further on Dynamite News:

Supreme Court said the Manipur Govt' ’status report on 6,523 FIRs registered point to a “complete breakdown of the constitutional machinery” in the State during the ethnic violence

DCW Chief Swati Maliwal was in Manipur last week to interact with survivors of the ethnic violence that has wreaked the state since May. Read further on Dynamite News: