Naga insurgent group – Zeliangrong United Front (S Kamson) has claimed that its armed wing, the Zeliangrong Tiger Force (ZTF) engaged in a gun battle with Kuki underground outfits while conducting an operation at Kharam Vaiphei village, Sadar Hills in Kangpokpi district today at around 7.40 am. According to a press release of Zeliangrong United…
The Supreme Courtdirected that the full 48-minute audio allegedly involving former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh in the 2023 ethnic violence be sent to the National Forensic Science University (NFSU), Gandhinagar, for forensic examination. The court also instructed that verified voice samples of the former CM be included in the analysis. A bench comprising…
In a significant achievement, Manipur Police have rescued four persons after they were confined in a rented accommodation and set to be recruited into a proscribed militant outfit. Official sources informed that the rescue follows the arrest of an active cadre of Kangleipak Communist Party (MFL), identified as Phamdom Dinesh Singh alias Wangba alias Thembung…
A combined team of Manipur Police, CRPF, Forest Department, and NCB has destroyed 53 acres of poppy cultivation in the hill ranges of Moljol, Tusam, Vaichei-Naphai and surrounding areas under Kangpokpi district. In the operation, seven huts, 11 bags of fertilizers, 23 roundup herbicides, 14 bags of salt, and equipment like spray pumps, pipes, herbicides…
Two women said to be members of a banned insurgent group were arrested in Manipur for allegedly abducting three minor boys with the aim of recruiting them into the outfit. The arrest took place in Thoubal district, police said on Wednesday.According to police, the two accused women belong to the banned People’s Revolutionary Party of…
Security forces have apprehended two women cadres of the banned PREPAK from Khangabok, Thoubal district of Manipur on charges of abducting three minors from Kakching for recruitment to the organization’s accused have been identified as Ningthoujam Roshidiya (24), of Khangabok Khulakpam Leikai, Thoubal district and Lisham Bidya (30) of Thoubal Haokha Maning Leikai, Thoubal district….
BJP legislator and former Rural Development minister, Yumnam Khemchand Singh today said that foreign agencies may try to take advantage of the ongoing Meitei-Kuki conflict to foment trouble in Manipur. Condemning yesterday’s incident where two people were injured in a blast at Saiton Nganukon village in Bishenpur district, he said the blast occurred at a…
Manipur Police said that the overall law-and-order situation in the state during the last 24 hours remained normal. However, two incidents of IED explosions were reported from Bishnupur district on January 5, 2026.According to the information released by the Police Control Room in Imphal, one IED exploded inside an empty house at Nganukon Ward No….
The case relating to the twin IED blasts in Manipur’s Bishnupur district, has been handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for further investigation, state police informed through a statement to the media.An IED had on Monday morning exploded inside a house, which has remained unoccupied for over two years, at Nganukon Ward number…
The Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee has strongly criticised the Central government after a high-level meeting was held in New Delhi to review the situation in the violence-hit state. Congress state president Keisham Meghachandra Singh said the discussions in Delhi had failed to bring any concrete plan for peace or normalcy in Manipur.The meeting in Delhi…
