Shops, markets and business establishments were closed while very thin attendance was reported in government offices due to the 24-hour strike called by the Kuki Students Organisation.
The indefinite economic blockade called by two student bodies to demand that 7000 students be allowed to appear in the Class-X Manipur board exam began from midnight Thursday night along Imphal-Moreh National Highway, affecting movement of vehicles carrying goods.
A top self-styled militant leader of Kuki National Front-President, staying at a 'designated camp' in Manipur's interior Senapati district for holding peace talks with the government, was shot dead from point blank range, the police said on Saturday.
After a lull trouble is once again brewing in Dima Hasao (erstwhile North Cachar Hills) district of Assam with the Indigenous People's Forum (IPF), a banner organisation of non-Dimasa ethnic groups, protesting the Centre's intension to sign a memorandum of understanding with militant Dima Halam Daogah (DHD) without heeding to the IPF's demand for bifurcation of the hill district into two autonomous council instead of the existing one.
One of the two outfits behind the crippling 93-day economic blockade on two national highways in Manipur lifted it at midnight after the state government's assurance to it that district status will be accorded to Sadar Hills.
Senapati district happens to be inhabited largely by different communities of the Kukis, the Nepalis, and the Nagas. Within the district, Sadar Hills is dominated demographically by the Kukis.
Following a Manipuri delegation's appeal Anna Hazare may involve himself in finding a solution to the state's problems, reports A Ganesh Nadar from Pune
Nineteen armed groups belonging to the Kuki National Organisation and the United Peoples' Front mutually agreed to extend Suspension of Operation in their quest of settling their political agendas.
Eleven people, including six suspected United National Liberation Front insurgents, were killed in two separate incidents in the state, officials sources said on Saturday.
The Nagas, who inhabit the hills, feel the Manipur (Hill Area) District Council Act (Third Amendment) 2008, under which the election was to have been held, takes away the powers of the tribal people.
The chief of the outlawed Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA) of Manipur died under mysterious circumstances at his brother's rented house on Monday morning.
Army sources informed that the banned ULFA used to procure sophisticated arms from an assembling unit at Chrachandpur district in Manipur run by Kuki Revolutionary Army.
Blockade is an issue which has seemingly widened the divide between the hills and the plains.
Five more lives have been lost in the on-going bloody conflict between the Naga rebel group National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) and the Kuki Liberation Army based in Manipur.
The groups have sought time to decide the modalities and requested for cessation of operations against them.
Altogether 78 persons were killed and 191 kidnapped by different insurgent outfits in Assam during the last two years when 20 security personnel were also killed, Minister Rockybul Hussain said on Monday in the assembly.
The Kuki Liberation Army have demanded Rs 30 lakh in exchange for Deputy General Manager J Lumkim's release.
The district superintendent of police and other officials were supervising rescue and relief operations, the police added.
The incident took place in Menterang village, sources said.
The abductors have demanded a ransom of Rs30 lakh for the release of J Lumkim, an official said.
Heinrich Wolfgang was in Manipur to inspect the functioning of some NGOs.
The church bells don't toll in Churachandpur any more. The hill district in Manipur has been in mourning for more than a year.
Nine young men killed in police firing last August have become symbols of oppression of the tribals of Manipur.
The Centre is likely to rush additional paramilitary forces to trouble-torn areas along the Assam-Nagaland border to maintain peace and prevent the clashes between Naga and Karbi tribals from spreading.
Days after the suspension of Indian Administrative Service officer Durga Shakti Nagal, an Indian Police Service officer was transferred two days after he reopened the history-sheet of the father of a Congress member of Legislative Assembly in Rajasthan, who had allegedly been involved in smuggling and other anti-social activities.
Manipur needs an integrated politico, military, socio-economic approach, says Sanjeev Nayyar.
5 states that contribute just under a fifth of the Lok Sabha's seats will go to the polls early this year.
The crisis-ridden Rajasthan Royals and its under-fire co-owner Raj Kundra's future hangs in balance as the BCCI's Emergent Working Committee meets in New Delhi on Monday to deliberate on the IPL spot-fixing and betting scam and take action, if required.
'The issue of the larger homeland of Nagalim, the dream of the Nagas to hold sway over swathes of Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, is just that, a dream.' 'The NSCN has been told categorically that the government is not going to concede on this issue.'
Deepti Priya Mehrotra, who documented Irom Sharmila's struggle for peace in Manipur in the book Burning Bright, puts the icon's electoral loss in perspective.
To expect that these past decades of grief, inter-group killings, anxiety and fear will be brushed aside because of the Naga peace accord is being unrealistic. Memories are built on old wounds and they heal slowly. So, it is important to be cautiously optimistic, says Sanjoy Hazarika.
Indians all over the US are going beyond being human and are learning to be humanitarian and expand their philanthropy activities finds Ajailiu Niumai.
