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Summary The Lok Sabha on August 7, 2025, passed two pivotal bills to ensure Manipur’s administrative and financial continuity during President’s Rule. First, the Manipur Goods and Services Tax (Amendment) Bill, 2025 was approved to replace an interim ordinance and align Manipur’s GST framework with recent GST Council decisions—thereby safeguarding the state’s revenue collection mechanism…
Summary A transformative initiative, Tata STRIVE, was unveiled on August 7, 2025, aiming to equip internally displaced persons (IDPs) and unemployed youth in Manipur with market-driven skills in hospitality. Launched by Tata Community Initiatives Trust under Tata Trusts at the Mini Secretariat Complex in Bishnupur, the program enrolls 18–25-year-olds who have passed Class 10 into…
Summary In a precision-driven anti-insurgency operation on August 6, 2025, the India Reserve Battalion (IRB) swooped into Gothol village under Churachandpur police station, recovering a cache comprising one AK Ghatak rifle with an empty magazine, two improvised mortars (“pumpi”), four improvised rocket bombs, and nineteen mortar rounds. Acting on actionable intelligence, the IRB thwarted militants…
Short Summary of the News Article Manipur traffic police launched a statewide enforcement drive on August 7, 2025, detaining 68 individuals and imposing fines totaling Rs. 1,16,500 for various motor vehicle violations within a 24-hour period. During the operation, 14 vehicles were confiscated for non-compliance—such as driving without a registration certificate or number plates—while tinted…
Summary On August 6, 2025, Manipur’s security forces arrested two active cadres of the banned Kangleipak Communist Party (People’s War Group) – KCP (PWG) – in separate intelligence-led operations in Imphal West and Imphal East districts. The first, 41-year-old Leiphrakpam Herojit Meetei, was detained at his Yurembam Awang Leikai residence for allegedly extorting funds for…
Summary Manipur Police launched a special enforcement drive on August 7, 2025, under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873 (as extended by a 2019 Presidential Order), to clamp down on Inner Line Permit (ILP) violations. Over the past week, authorities verified 2,412 individuals at high-traffic chokepoints—markets, National Highway 102, Maram-Peren and Tadubi-Tolloi roads—and arrested more…
Summary In a dramatic escalation of trade and geopolitical pressure, US President Donald Trump has imposed an additional 25 % tariff on Indian imports—bringing the total duty to 50 %—and warned of further “secondary sanctions” should New Delhi continue purchasing oil from Russia. The executive order, announced on August 7, 2025, is set to take…
SHORT SUMMARY OF THE INCIDENT On August 6, 2025, hundreds of residents of Irengband village in Kakching district, Manipur—led by school and college students—gathered to demand urgent repairs on the 5.2-km Irengband–Kakching–Tekcham Road, left in disrepair for over 16 years despite repeated promises under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). Protesters, holding placards and…
Short Summary Former Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh announced on August 6, 2025, that he “was compelled to step down” amid the state’s protracted crisis and underlined the urgency of reinstating a democratically elected government. Speaking at a public event in Imphal East, the BJP leader lamented the deterioration in governance following the imposition…
SHORT SUMMARY OF THE INCIDENT On August 6, 2025, Sagolsen Sanatomba (55), a patient attendant in the Psychiatric Department at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Imphal, was found dead by suicide in the TB-ward bike shed on campus. His body, discovered hanging from a ceiling fan around 4 AM, was located only after…