Manipur was on the boil on Tuesday with eight people dying and 31 injured since Monday night in arson, violence and clashes between mobs and police in Churachandpur district even as curfew continued since last night.
In a startling admission, Thounaojam Herojit Singh, a gallantry award recipient, said that he shot an unarmed 22-year-old Chungkham Sanjit Meitei back in 2009.
The Seismological department said that the quake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale and lasted for about two minutes.
Officials said the EC has directed them to provide security to Sharmila as 'she travels alone almost all the time'.
Congress and RJD are single largest parties in Goa and Bihar respectively.
Shatrughan Sinha won't attend, citing 'important personal engagements.' Will L K Advani be present? M I Khan reports on a swearing-in ceremony the likes of which Patna may not have seen before.
The two parties, however, are in a neck-and-neck race in Manipur and Goa.
The 44-year-old iconic rights activist turned emotional as she licked honey from her palm to end the fast.
In a protests against the decision of Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala to invite BJP to form the government despite falling short of the required numbers, the Congress has been demanding they be called to form the government in Goa and Manipur as it had emerged as the largest party in the 2017 assembly election.
Sharmila said a section of people even wanted her 'martyrdom' during the 16-year old fast against the AFSPA that she decided to end last year.
The woman whose lone fight against the establishment all these long years has only the state machinery to keep her safe from the public whose cause she championed all this while.
'His success confirms that the infirm 132-year-old party can still get to its feet if it allows regional leaders to come to the fore,' argues Amulya Ganguli.
Bomb blasts on Thursday rocked Assam and Manipur during Independence Day functions injuring one person even as chief ministers asked extremists to abjure violence and return to the mainstream.
The church bells don't toll in Churachandpur any more. The hill district in Manipur has been in mourning for more than a year.
Even if they score administratively, state governments ruled by the party suffer from an inability to communicate positively, say observers.
Several states that imposed prohibition in the past lifted it once revenue loss began to pinch
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.
