The problem arising from the Naga blockade has deepened with transporters and bus operators of Manipur refusing to resume service on the highways unless they are recompensed for the losses they have suffered.
A Manipur-based militant outfit on Friday owned responsibility for the killing of a state government officer in Bishenpur district.
The spear of economic blockade appears to have pierced the Manipur government’s defiance more than a week after it was withdrawn, reports HT Correspondent.
Newspapers in Manipur failed to hit the stands today after a militant outfit threatened publishing houses not to bring them out.
Most petrol-driven vehicles will come to a screeching halt in Manipur in 72 hours if fuel supplies continue to be blocked. Diesel run vehicles have some more time before existing stocks run out.
Manipur minister Yumkham Erabot on Saturdayday defied the indefinite economic blockade by Naga students on the National Highway 53 by escorting 290 trucks and tankers loaded with essential supplies to Imphal.
A little more than 2 lakh voters are exercising their franchise to elect 39 representatives to autonomous district councils (ADCs) of Chandel, Churachandpur and Sadar Hills in about 221 polling stations.
Self-styled chairman of the militant outfit People's United Liberation Front (PULF) of Manipur M I Khan who was arrested in Bangalore was brought here. Khan, who was nabbed by Manipur police with the help of Karnataka police at Banglaore on May 23 was brought here by air yesterday.
At least five militants were killed in a fierce encounter with Assam Rifles personnel in Manipur's Chandel district, according to first official reports in Imphal today.
Security forces were keeping vigil at the Mao gate on the Manipur-Nagaland border to prevent the entry of NSCN-IM general secretary T Muivah and the situation was under control.
As part of their pressure on the central government, Manipur youth would send al least 15,000 postcards to President Pratibha Patil demanding the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in the militancy-ravaged northeastern state, youth leaders said here Tuesday.
Just two days after the first such public marriage in Manipur, a gay couple have agreed mutually to part ways following stiff resistance from their parents, police said on Saturday.
In a case of surrender, a militant of banned People's Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK) in Manipur has laid down arms before a senior security official.
Two suspected militants died in a grenade blast at Sekta in Imphal East district of Manipur, the police said today.
A 24-hour bandh in hill districts of Manipur has been called by a local committee from midnight Sunday night in protest against the state government's proposal to hold elections to the autonomous district councils.