Havildar Chandramohan Singh was cremated with full military honours Ghaziabad: Havildar Chandramohan Singh (49) of the Assam Rifles, who was killed in a militant ambush in Manipur on July 6, was cremated with full military honours at Hindon ghat on Wednesday. Cabinet minister Sunil Sharma, Sadar SDM Arun Dixit and Colonel Naveen Sharma of 56…
IMPHAL: Manipur governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla, chief minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh, home minister Govindas Konthoujam and senior security officials, including DGP Mukesh Singh, paid tributes to two Assam Rifles personnel killed in an ambush in Ukhrul district, at a wreath-laying ceremony held at Imphal airport on Wednesday.The slain personnel were identified as warrant officer Balwant…
Imphal: Two Assam Rifles personnel were killed in a suspected militant ambush in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, predominantly inhabited by Tangkhul Naga, on Monday afternoon.Manipur Police said “suspected militants ambushed a vehicle on NH-202 near Noungshong Kong village, under Ukhrul police station”.Security forces rushed to the site of attack and there was exchange of fire. Further…
Kuki-Zo Council leaders addressing media at Churachandpur on Thursday Guwahati: In a first public expression of remorse in violence-scarred Manipur, where relations among the Meitei, Naga and Kuki-Zo communities remain deeply strained, the Kuki Zo Council (KZC) Thursday apologised for killing six abducted Naga civilians, describing the incident a “grave mistake” driven by emotion.The apology…
Imphal: Three injured Kuki youths, whose admission to the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Imphal had triggered protests, were shifted out of the hospital shortly after midnight on Wednesday under tight security.Sources said they have been transferred to the surgical ward of Churachandpur district hospital.While other Kuki patients have undergone or are undergoing…
Imphal: Two Kuki Baptist Church leaders were killed and two others injured after unidentified armed men attacked a Kuki-inhabited village in Manipur’s Kamjong district in the early hours of Thursday. The killing comes a day after bodies of six Naga civilians were recovered, triggering immediate tension in the roiled state.Police said the attack took place…
Imphal: Several people were injured when Assam Rifles personnel resorted to tear gas shelling, blank firing and lathi charge to disperse protesters objecting to the setting up of an ‘unauthorised’ Assam Rifles outpost in the New Heaven area of Shokvao village in Ukhrul district on Sunday.According to local sources, around 20 people, mostly women, were…
GUWAHATI: Two units of CRPF‘s elite CoBRA commandos, the force credited with clearing Chhattisgarh’s Bastar of Maoists, are being dispatched to Manipur amid a security overdrive triggered by a fresh spell of ethnic unrest, this time also involving Naga community.State home minister Govindas Konthoujam said on Friday, “There will be some development in 2-3 days.”…
Imphal: The All Naga Students’ Association Manipur (ANSAM) on Thursday marched from Ukhrul to Makhan, passing through Litan, for the six missing Nagas. The march broke the barrier along the NH-202, which has remained untrodden for three months.Hundreds of students, youth leaders and civil society representatives in more than 30 vehicles joined the march from…
Imphal: A truck driver from West Bengal was killed and a police constable was injured after armed miscreants opened fire on a convoy carrying essential food supplies in Manipur’s Ukhrul district on Friday morning, police said.The victim was identified as 65-year-old Nitish Das from Hooghly district in West Bengal. He was driving a truck loaded…
