Kangpokpi District

Families living in a relief camp in Manipur's Kangpokpi district want to return home, provided there is guarantee of their safety, a senior officer of the central paramilitary force CRPF told news agency ANI.

Thousands of people from the Kuki-Zo tribe came out on the streets of Kangpokpi district headquarters today, protesting against the proposed removal of the 9 and 22 Battalions of Assam Rifles Kangpokpi and Churachandpur.

For a second time, Thangjam Basant, 34, had to flee his village, Koutruk, in Manipur's Imphal West district bordering the Kuki tribes-dominated Kangpokpi district.

Intermittent firing began at 5.30 am in an area between Imphal West district's Sekmai and Kangpokpi district's Phailen village today, sources said. The state government has ordered the police chief to conduct combing operations along the foothills.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has indicated the state government will work with all communities and civil society organisations to discuss redrawing district boundaries based on "administrative convenience" and not on "ethnic lines".

A former MLA's wife was killed in a bomb blast in Manipur's Kangpokpi district, officials said on Sunday.

Three members of an insurgent group were arrested after a gunfight in Manipur's Kangpokpi district today, the police said in a statement.

Soldiers of a central paramilitary force were told to get down from a bus in which they were travelling and the vehicle was set on fire by a mob in Manipur's hill district Kangpokpi on Monday night, the police said.

Manipur's Kangpokpi district was completely disconnected from the rest of the country as cyclone Remal led a trail of destruction, disrupting power supply, water, communication, and other services.

A gunfight between two armed groups this morning left one dead and three injured in Manipur's Kangpokpi district, the police said.

Lok Sabha elections: The Kuki National Assembly (KNA) has condemned the killing of two "village defence volunteers" in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on Saturday, allegedly by an armed group from the valley.

Seikhochon Haokip, a 19-year-old student preparing for the Class 12 board examinations, guards his village in the Kuki-Zo dominated Kangpokpi district of Manipur.

After two days of heavy gunfights in Manipur's border town Moreh between suspected insurgents and state forces, Kuki-Zo women in Kangpokpi district have started protests against the non-withdrawal of Manipur Police commandos from Moreh.

A huge row has broken out over the CBSE affiliation of 14 schools in two hill districts of violence-hit Manipur.

Eight months after they were killed in ethnic violence in Manipur, the remains of 19 people belonging to the Kuki Zo community were laid to rest in the state's Kangpokpi district on Friday.

Families living in a relief camp in Manipur's Kangpokpi district want to return home, provided there is guarantee of their safety, a senior officer of the central paramilitary force CRPF told news agency ANI.

Thousands of people from the Kuki-Zo tribe came out on the streets of Kangpokpi district headquarters today, protesting against the proposed removal of the 9 and 22 Battalions of Assam Rifles Kangpokpi and Churachandpur.

For a second time, Thangjam Basant, 34, had to flee his village, Koutruk, in Manipur's Imphal West district bordering the Kuki tribes-dominated Kangpokpi district.

Intermittent firing began at 5.30 am in an area between Imphal West district's Sekmai and Kangpokpi district's Phailen village today, sources said. The state government has ordered the police chief to conduct combing operations along the foothills.

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has indicated the state government will work with all communities and civil society organisations to discuss redrawing district boundaries based on "administrative convenience" and not on "ethnic lines".

A former MLA's wife was killed in a bomb blast in Manipur's Kangpokpi district, officials said on Sunday.

Three members of an insurgent group were arrested after a gunfight in Manipur's Kangpokpi district today, the police said in a statement.

Soldiers of a central paramilitary force were told to get down from a bus in which they were travelling and the vehicle was set on fire by a mob in Manipur's hill district Kangpokpi on Monday night, the police said.

Manipur's Kangpokpi district was completely disconnected from the rest of the country as cyclone Remal led a trail of destruction, disrupting power supply, water, communication, and other services.

A gunfight between two armed groups this morning left one dead and three injured in Manipur's Kangpokpi district, the police said.

Lok Sabha elections: The Kuki National Assembly (KNA) has condemned the killing of two "village defence volunteers" in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on Saturday, allegedly by an armed group from the valley.

Seikhochon Haokip, a 19-year-old student preparing for the Class 12 board examinations, guards his village in the Kuki-Zo dominated Kangpokpi district of Manipur.

After two days of heavy gunfights in Manipur's border town Moreh between suspected insurgents and state forces, Kuki-Zo women in Kangpokpi district have started protests against the non-withdrawal of Manipur Police commandos from Moreh.

A huge row has broken out over the CBSE affiliation of 14 schools in two hill districts of violence-hit Manipur.

Eight months after they were killed in ethnic violence in Manipur, the remains of 19 people belonging to the Kuki Zo community were laid to rest in the state's Kangpokpi district on Friday.