Stating that Manipur cannot be divided, state home minister Gaikhangam today asked all the communities to term themselves as Manipuris.
Manipur chief minister O Ibobi Singh has urged his Karnataka counterpart DV Sadananda Gowda to expedite investigation into the mysterious death of Manipuri student in a Bangalore college hostel last month, official sources said on Sunday.
A BSF jawan allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at Manipur's Imphal East district, official sources said on Sunday.
"India is not our country," says Haniel Reuben, 72, one of the eldest members of a tiny community that claims to have descended from the Manasseh - one of the biblical "lost tribes" of Israel exiled in 720 BC by Assyrian conquerors.
Four India Reserve Battalion (IRB) personnel were sent to jail on Tuesday for allegedly raping and looting a 40-year-old woman in Manipur's Bishnupur district last week.
Irom Sharmila, who has been on an indefinite fast for the past 11 years, was today re-arrested on the charge of attempt to suicide, only a day after she was released.
Moves are afoot in Manipur to give a green twist to the ubiquitous bicycles by rolling out bamboo cycles for the first time in the country. Bamboo forms the main frame of such cycles instead of aluminum or steel.
Manipur’s anti-AFSPA activist Irom Chanu Sharmila was freed from annual detention on Monday, two days before her 40thbirthday, setting the stage for her re-arrest routine to be played out again.
Fight for survival
Helped by a fragmented opposition, the Congress today swept back to power for the third consecutive time in Manipur with a two-thirds majority in the 60-member assembly.
A post-poll, pre-counting alliance has led to a consolidation of parties opposed to the Congress, which seeks to come to power for the third time in a row in Manipur.
Rahul Karmakar &
Sobhapati Samom report.
Following complaints of bogus voting in some polling stations in Manipur during the Assembly elections, three observers from the Election Commission today arrived in Imphal to verify the photos of voters, officials said.
Two CRPF personnel on poll duty were killed in an ambush by militants even as four powerful bombs planted near polling stations were seized and defused before polling for the Manipur assembly began today morning.
The 11-phase assembly polls in seven states began in Manipur on Saturday with seven deaths and 82% polling. In Manipur hills, seven persons including presiding officer Kh Ibotombi, were killed in a shootout at the Thampi polling station in Chandel constituency.
Sobhapati Samom reports.
Manipur mandate 2012 |
CM casts vote 
Two highways that hog the limelight for all the wrong reasons are the flavour of Manipur's poll season.
Mandate 2012 in Manipur isn't just a fight between the ruling Congress and the rest. It's a clash of ideology between Manipur CM Okram Ibobi Singh and his Nagaland counterpart Neiphiu Rio.