The 14 freed Kuki hostages Guwahati: Fourteen Kuki individuals, who had been abducted nearly a month ago by Naga groups in Manipur’s Senapati district, were handed over to police and the civil administration following facilitation by the United Naga Council (UNC) and Senapati-based civil society organisations.This compassionate act of the Nagas, which has been widely…
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.”…
Guwahati: Manipur govt on Saturday appointed former Ladakh DGP, Mukesh Singh as the state’s new DGP and head of the force. His appointment comes at a time when the state’s Manipur’s three-year-old ethnic conflict has spread across the Meitei, Kuki and Naga communities, bringing renewed unrest.The state govt also simultaneously carried out a top-level reshuffle,…
The Manipur government will hand over the case relating to the abduction of six Naga villagers by armed militants to the National Investigation Agency (NIA), Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh said on Saturday amid continuing tensions in the hill districts of the state. The announcement came after a six-member delegation of the United Naga Council…
Fresh tensions have erupted in Manipur as the state’s ongoing ethnic conflict expanded to involve Kuki and Naga communities following a deadly ambush and a wave of abductions in the hill districts. The violence began on May 13 when unidentified armed assailants killed three church leaders and a civilian in separate attacks between the Kotzin…
