Manipur’s Rajkumari Lanchenbi Chanu has created history by becoming the first Indian athlete to win a medal in Wushu at the Youth Olympic Games, securing bronze in the women’s Changquan combined event in Dakar on November 3. Chanu finished third with a combined score of 18.039 points, marking a significant achievement for Indian Wushu and…
An aspiring political candidate from Manipur’s Phungyar Assembly constituency, Wungnaoshang Kasar, has formally petitioned the Chief Election Commissioner of India seeking an immediate freeze on all ongoing government recruitment processes in the state ahead of the 13th Legislative Assembly elections. In his submission, Kasar alleged that the BJP-led state government has artificially accelerated recruitment drives…
Senior leaders of the Manipur Congress on Monday met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi to discuss the continuing unrest in the state and the party’s preparations for the 2027 Manipur Assembly elections. The meeting was attended by Manipur Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader…
The Central Government has formally kept Manipur out of the scheduled Census 2027 exercise until further notice, amid growing demands from civil society organisations that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) be updated before any population enumeration is conducted in the state. In a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs on October 30…
Manipur Deputy Chief Minister Nemcha Kipgen and the Taphou Kuki Village Authority have expressed deep concern and strongly condemned the abduction of two young men, identified as Paoginlal Hangshing and Tinginlun Chongloi, from Taphou Kuki village in Kangpokpi district. The youths were reportedly kidnapped by unidentified miscreants on October 28 near the 9th MR/Maremei area…
Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh met Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at her office in Kartavya Bhawan, New Delhi, on October 29 and sought enhanced financial assistance from the Centre to help the state address its fiscal challenges. During the meeting, the Chief Minister apprised Sitharaman of the state government’s efforts to maintain fiscal…
A total of seventy-five Border Security Force personnel alongside three civilians were urgently admitted to a government-run medical facility in Manipur on Thursday following a sudden and severe outbreak of suspected food poisoning. The affected individuals began experiencing acute symptoms including persistent vomiting and severe nausea shortly after consuming breakfast, prompting immediate transfer to the…
Normal life across Manipur was severely disrupted on Thursday, October 15, as a 12-hour shutdown called by the Coordination Committee, an umbrella organisation representing several banned insurgent groups observing the day as “National Black Day,” forced shops, commercial markets, private businesses, and educational institutions to remain completely closed while public transport stayed largely off the…
A large number of people gathered outside Congress MP Angomcha Bimol Akoijam’s residence at Keishamthong in Imphal West on Wednesday, protesting the sexual harassment allegations against him and describing them as politically motivated attempts to tarnish his reputation. The protesters staged a sit-in outside the MP’s residence before taking out a rally to the BJP…
Border Security Force (BSF) Director General Praveen Kumar convened a high-level security meeting with Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh at the Secretariat in Babupara to review the state’s deteriorating law and order situation following a deadly surge in ethnic violence. Accompanied by BSF Eastern Command Additional Director General Sumit Sharan and Mizoram and Cachar…
