Politics / Manipur

Imphal, December 03: Even as the two MLAs of the DRPP have merged with the Congress and its president Khaidem Mani had announced the merger of the DRPP with the Congress party, the other DRPP members who were opposed to the merger move have today announced that the party has joined hands with the Opposition bloc, DPA. Speaking to newsmen today, MPP president and key leader of the DPA O Joy said that the DRPP has joined hands with the DPA and added that since the Congress has stabbed the DRPP, the party (DRPP) must learnt a bitter lesson. O Joy said that the DPA has finalized the process to...

Imphal, Dec. 1: In an unprecedented move, Manipur police have imposed restrictions on the free entry of government officials into the district headquarters of Chandel. The move followed complaints that militant outfits in the district have been ?summoning? government officials and harassing them, a top-ranking police official said today, adding that the step has been taken to check the unhealthy practice of government officials entertaining summons from militants.

Under this special measure, officials coming in government vehicles, private vehicles or even on two-wheelers are required to...

Imphal, December 01: Refuting the statement issued by the KYKL on November 8 after 18 KYKL joined the UNLF, the assistant secretary of Department of Publicity, UNLF today said that the KYKL statement contains some "basic views and policies of the KYKL that betrays their true colour. UNLF feels that an open debate should be initiated so as to determine the correctness or otherwise of the respective stands of the UNLF and KYKL in this and other related issues. We invite the sensible public to participate in this debate?. In a statement issued to the press today, the UNLF said that anybody...

Guwahati, June 15: A Kuki militant organisation has taken up cudgels for Moreh residents who have received extortion notices from outfits of the Manipur valley.

A leader of the Kuki Defence Force (KDF), which professes to represent the aspirations of the state?s Kuki community, said his group would not tolerate attempts by any militant outfit to harass the people of the border town.

Moreh, located on the Indo-Myanmar border, is a predominantly Kuki-inhabited area.

?We have taken serious note of some valley-based and hitherto unknown organisations serving extortion notes on local residents...

SHILLONG, June 15 ? The ?Maran Nagas? of Manipur and ?Reangs? of Tripura are among the 75 Scheduled Tribes in India who have been listed as ?primitive tribal groups? which were recording negative growth rates, according to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs.

The yardsticks adopted to identify those primitives are that their agricultural practices are obsolete; their health conditions and educational levels very poor resulting in a negative population growth rate, Ministry sources divulged here recently.

The highest number of 13 primitive tribes have been listed in Orissa, followed by Andhra...

Imphal, June 14: Manipur power minister Phungzathang Tonsing has denied allegations that he had gifted away a government vehicle and cash to militants, terming the charges as ?false and unfounded?.

The Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA), a militant outfit, has accused the power minister of giving away a Maruti Gypsy allotted to the electricity department and Rs 2.6 lakh to a self-styled ?captain? of the outfit without informing the outfit?s leadership.

Police have confirmed that the vehicle was being used by armed militants in Churchandpur district.

A red alert has been sounded in the district...

Imphal, June 13: A senior Cabinet minister in the Okram Ibobi Singh government has been accused of giving away a government vehicle to an insurgent leader.

This revelation has come in the wake of the Cabinet?s decision to ask the CBI to investigate allegations of involvement of ministers in the abduction and murder of city trader Manoj Kumar Shethi.

The Zomi Revolutionary Army (ZRA) has accused power minister Phungzathang Tonsing of giving away a Maruti Gypsy of the electricity department along with cash to the tune of Rs 2.6 lakh to a self-styled ?Captain? of the outfit without informing the...

GUWAHATI, June 11 ? As many as six North East militant outfits based in Manipur and Tripura has recently approached the Mizoram Chief Minister, Sri Zoramthanga to act as the catalyst in facilitating talks with the Central Government. The Minister for Information and Publicity of Mizoram, F Malsawma informed The Assam Tribune that these militant outfits, all hardcore groups including the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) had shown interest in sitting for talks with the Government of India and approached Sri Zoramthanga, a former Mizo National Front rebel, to facilitate the same.

Sri...

IMPHAL, June 6 ? Manipur government has extended the disturbed area status of the state under Armed Forces Special Powers Act, 1958, for one more year from Sunday, a government notification said, reports PTI. The notification, issued Saturday, said the disturbed area status had been extended under the act to enable the armed forces aid the civil administration in tackling insurgents in the state.

Official sources said Manipur cabinet had on May 24 decided to extend the disturbed area status for one more year in view of increasing insurgency-related violence and incidents. The sources said...

IMPHAL, June 2?The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs will be arriving here on June 10 to look into the prevailing law-and-order situation in the State in the wake of abduction and subsequent killing of a cloth merchant by an underground outfit. The move of the Union Home Minister?s visit to the State was relayed by the vice-president of the BJP Pyarelal Khandelwal to the State unit leaders.

The former Chief Minister and legislature wing leader of the BJP RK Dorendro while briefing the media at the MPP office said, ?The recent abduction and subsequent killing of cloth trader Manoj Kumar...