The Latest Breaking News from Manipur

The Meitei groups also demanded that the process for drawing up the National Register of Citizens (NRC) had become imperative now more than ever.

The Commission would inquire into the causes and the spread of the violence and riots in Manipur targeting members of different communities, and the sequence of events

This news article by The Hindu reported on an uneasy calm that prevailed in Manipur a day after Home Minister Amit Shah concluded his four-day visit that included a slew of measures to bring back normalcy.

The surrendered weapons included self-loading rifles, carbine, AK and INSAS rifles, light machine guns, pistols, M16 rifles, smoke gun/tear gas, sten gun and grenade launcher.

We have witnessed a fortnight of high drama. The contrasting images – of the prime minister of a secular country walking into a new Parliament building accompanied by saffron-clad Hindu priests even as award-winning women wrestlers literally wrestled with the police to assert their right to protest – were riveting. 

A journalist with India Today has alleged she received “numerous threatening phone calls” with “mob” gathering at her hotel due to her reportage on the Manipur violence.

The Hindu’s Morning Digest brings readers a select list of stories to start the day

The Dimapur-based III Corps of the Indian Army on Thursday put out a statement condemning efforts to publicly out Meitei officers posted for duties in Manipur as the State is in the middle of ethnic conflict between the Scheduled Tribe Kuki-Zomi people and the dominant Meitei people. 

The Manipur government, the MHA and 24 Kuki insurgent groups formalised an SoO pact in 2008.