Insurgency / Manipur

SAIK TAMPAK (Manipur), May 6 : The Army is not ready to take up any Bhutan type operation along the Indo-Myanmar border to flush out insurgents. In the recent past Indian forces had teamed up with their Bhutan counterparts to flush out the United Liberation Front of Assam (ulfa) as well as some other outfits which had camps along the Indo-Bhutan border.

Similarly based on the intelligence inputs, army authorities after identifying the movements of the ultras, recently launched an unnamed flushing out operation since mid-April this year on the ground that many of the banned underground...

Imphal, May 5: The superintendent of Chandel district police, T. Samte, who was accused of raping a minor girl who worked at his quarters as domestic help, has been arrested and sent to judicial custody. Sources said the SP was arrested on Sunday from a ward of Imphal’s Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital, where he had been admitted for treatment.

The next day the police produced the officer before the chief judicial magistrate of Chandel, S. Sohadev, who ordered a 15-day judicial remand, till May 17.

The accused had applied for bail but the chief judicial magistrate rejected the plea as he thought...

IMPHAL, May 4 – Altogether nine persons including seven members of the proscribed underground outfit, Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA), and a civilian were killed in three separate encounters and a bomb explosion in Manipur today. The seven KRA cadres were killed in a four hour-long encounter with personnel of the 19 Assam Rifles in the wee hours today at Molnom village area,over 40 km north east of Imphal under Litan Police Station in Ukhrul district.

Till the filing of this report, the operation was in progress to flush out the other militants hiding nearby, informed the PIB (Defence Wing)...

Imphal, Feb. 27: For the second time in a fortnight, president of the BJP Manipur unit Thounaojam Chaoba Singh sought pardon from the banned Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup (KYKL), which had passed a death sentence on him.

Chaoba Singh issued his first appeal on February 12 after the rebel group set February 15 as the deadline for the BJP to expel him from the party. The KYKL had accused the former Union minister of state for youth affairs and sports of being an agent of the Indian government.

In an advertisement published in all Imphal-based dailies today, the Lok Sabha MP said, ?Once again I would...

Imphal, Feb. 25: The Revolutionary People?s Front (RPF), a banned organisation of Manipur, has rejected the Centre?s offer to rebel groups in the Northeast to hold talks to bring lasting peace in the region. The RPF declared that the offer of peace parleys was nothing but a ploy to crush the region?s struggle.

The RPF, the political wing of the People?s Liberation Army, said in an editorial in the latest issue of its mouthpiece Monthly Collection that Delhi?s offer for talks was meaningless as it has imposed the precondition that there would be no compromise on India?s territorial integrity.

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Imphal, Feb. 23: If there is a place where the term Saturday night fever ever applies, it is Rupmahal Theatre in the heart of Imphal. With the ban on Hindi films by militants fully in force, the theatre has introduced a regular Saturday performance which is drawing packed houses every weekend.

The Rupmahal group, which also runs the theatre, came into existence from the debris of World War II bombing in the state capital. It has the distinction of being the only theatre group in the state that has been staging plays regularly since its inception.

Rupmahal?s first production Ningamdama was...

Imphal, Feb. 19: A banned militant outfit has accused Manipur family welfare minister Bijoy Koijam and his younger brother of swindling money meant for centrally-sponsored schemes and given them a week to return the amount.

The Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) yesterday charged the family welfare minister with pocketing Rs 15 lakh while saying that his younger brother Warjit Singh had taken Rs 4 lakh out of Rs 50 lakh withdrawn for implementing the schemes in the two hill districts.

The amount withdrawn is part of the Rs 1 crore provided by the Union family welfare ministry under the National...

IMPHAL, Feb 16 ? Manipur Food and Civil Supply Minister Ph. Parijat Singh whose house was attacked yesterday by militants, today alleged that separatist United National Liberation Front (UNLF) had demanded Rs 30 lakhs from him. Singh said the UNLF insurgents had given him an extortion demand notice of Rs 30 lakh about a month ago with a warning of dire consequences if the money was not paid, he told PTI here.

Unidentified militants had attacked Singh's residence yesterday with a powerful grenade which did not explode. It was later defused by the experts. Singh said his family members received...

Imphal, Feb. 15: The security ring around the BJP?s Manipur unit president and Lok Sabha MP Thounaojam Chaoba Singh was tightened as the banned Kanglei Yawol Kanna Lup?s (KYKL) deadline for the party to expel him ended today.

Meting out the ?death sentence? against Chaoba Singh for his alleged activities against the KYKL, the militant organisation asked the BJP state unit on January 29 to expel him from the party by February 15.

The outfit has warned that it would target all the BJP leaders if they failed to expel Chaoba Singh within the deadline.

Security for all the four BJP legislators has...

Imphal, Feb. 14: Launching a counterattack on the Opposition, Manipur Speaker T.N. Haokip today accused the Democratic Peoples Alliance of making ?irresponsible statements? to implicate him in the abduction and murder of taxation minister Francis Ngajokpa?s eight-year-old daughter Lungnila Elizabeth.

Breaking his silence since prime suspect James Kuki linked him last month to the murder, the Speaker said the allegations were politically motivated to damage his image.

The suspect had allegedly revealed before the NSCN (Isak-Muivah) that the Speaker, PWD minister Gaikhangam and tribal...