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The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has invited the United Naga Council (UNC), the apex body representing Naga groups in Manipur, for talks in New Delhi on August 26 to discuss rising tensions over the Indo-Myanmar border fencing and the proposed suspension/abrogation of the Free Movement Regime (FMR). The invitation was extended through northeast advisers…
Assam Rifles Director General Lt Gen Vikas Lakhera told an event at Manipur University that authorities have mapped around 42,000 people who crossed into Manipur from Myanmar without valid documents since December 2024. Security forces reportedly captured biometric data, issued identity cards, and say these individuals are kept under close watch at secure locations while…
A 50-year-old Meitei man, Angom Yumjao of Sekmai Makha Leikai (Imphal West), was found stranded near Sapermeina in Kangpokpi district after alighting from a Senapati-bound inter-district bus on August 20. Volunteers of the Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU) and Kangpokpi District Police ensured his safety and facilitated a handover first to Gamnom–Sapermeina Police Station, and…
In a joint operation near Wabagai Lamkhai Thongkha under Kakching Police Station (Kakching district), Manipur’s Narcotics & Affairs of Border (NAB) and local police intercepted a light‑green Bolero, seized 91 “soap cases” packed with suspected heroin (about 1.12 kg, excluding packaging), and arrested three suspects, including a woman. Officers say the consignment was smuggled from…
Forest officials from the Central Forest Division in Imphal East demolished 18 unauthorised structures inside the Heingang Reserve Forest on August 19–20, 2025, as part of an anti-encroachment drive. The operation — led by Range Forest Officers M. Jobid Meitei and S. Robatson Singh with security support from Imphal East Police — aimed to reclaim…
Short summary: Archana Tiwari, a practicing lawyer at the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court and a civil-judge aspirant who went missing on August 7 while travelling by the Narmada Express from Indore to Katni, was traced and found late on August 19 in Lakhimpur Kheri (Uttar Pradesh) near the India–Nepal border. Government…
A 52-year-old woman, identified as Hijam Ongbi Ibecha, died at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal, after being admitted for a knee surgery; her family alleges she was given a wrong injection that triggered cardiac arrest and have staged protests inside the hospital demanding accountability and action against the attending doctors and RIMS…
Short Summary On August 18–19, 2025, Manipur police carried out two coordinated anti-narcotics operations — one in Churachandpur district and another in Imphal West — that resulted in the arrest of three people and the seizure of suspected contraband: about 1.3 kg of brown sugar (packed in soap cases) and 288 bottles of codeine phosphate….
Manipur police, working with central forces, carried out intelligence-led cordon-and-search operations and arrested three alleged cadres of the proscribed Kangleipak Community Party (KCP) on charges including public firing, extortion, arms transportation and abduction for ransom; police seized mobile phones and documents and have registered FIRs for further legal action. The arrest According to the police…
Short summary The Manipur High Court has directed state authorities and educational bodies to issue fresh educational certificates to Dr. Beoncy Laishram — replacing earlier entries that recorded her as male / “Boboi Laishram” with her current identity as female / “Beoncy Laishram”. The single-judge bench gave the respondents one month to comply, noting that…