Manipur Army Attack

For the first time, crisis-hit Manipur saw the use of drones to drop bombs, signalling a major escalation in the state hit by ethnic violence between the Meitei community and the Kuki tribes.

The NIA and CBI officials working here in an ethnically charged environment have been facing the daunting task of completing investigations in various cases, including those related to attacks on Army personnel in 2015, the probe agencies said.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on July 3 a plea by an NGO seeking Army protection for the minority Kuki tribals in Manipur and prosecution of communal groups attacking them.

Fresh violence in Manipur has claimed at least three lives, including of a woman. Two others were injured in the attack, by suspected insurgents in Khoken village on Friday, Army sources said.

An Indian Army Colonel, his wife and son, and four soldiers were killed in an ambush by terrorists near the border with Myanmar in Manipur. The Commanding Officer of 46 Assam Rifles, Colonel Viplav Tripathy, had gone to a forward camp.

A subtle Chinese hand was suspected in the ambush of 18 soldiers in Manipur on June 4. Trying to connect the dots, investigators have now come up with more evidence of Chinese intelligence dabbling with north-eastern rebel groups.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is in favour of reducing the deployment of central security forces in the north-eastern region, in view of the improved security situation. He is in Guwahati to discuss a host of issues relating to security and overall development of the region in a meeting with the Chief Ministers of all the North-eastern states.

Life is yet to return to normalcy for the villages in Chandel, where 18 Indian soldiers were killed in a deadly ambush two weeks ago. At least three villages located a few kilometres near the ambush site are still deserted; villagers fear for their lives and are reluctant to return home.

Niki Sumi, the self-styled military advisor of NSCN-K, is said to be the brain behind the June 4 attack on an Army convoy in Manipur, government officials said.

Early on Tuesday morning, when a team of the elite 21 Para (Special Forces) reached a militant camp in Ponyu, a few kilometres inside Myanmar, they realised it was largely empty, contrary to intelligence inputs, sources have told NDTV.

Opposition parties have criticised the Narendra Modi government over statements made by its ministers on the Indian Army's surgical strike on militant camps in Myanmar. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah of the National Conference said they were an "amazing self goal".

Action within 72 hours - that was what the political leadership had suggested to the Army to liquidate the militant camps across Myanmar. And one of the ways considered to achieve it was the use of Sukhoi and MIG 29 fighter jets, top sources told NDTV.

There are those who have described the Indian Army's operations against cross-border insurgency groups hiding in villages in Myanmar as dramatic and new. There are others who have pointed out that such operations have been conducted before - in Myanmar itself and famously in Bhutan, against the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other milit...

As many as 18 Indian Army soldiers lost their lives in a terrorist attack in Manipur.

The body of Army man Jagvir Singh, who died in the militant attack in Manipur on Thursday, was cremated this afternoon following intervention by the district magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar.

For the first time, crisis-hit Manipur saw the use of drones to drop bombs, signalling a major escalation in the state hit by ethnic violence between the Meitei community and the Kuki tribes.

The NIA and CBI officials working here in an ethnically charged environment have been facing the daunting task of completing investigations in various cases, including those related to attacks on Army personnel in 2015, the probe agencies said.

The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on July 3 a plea by an NGO seeking Army protection for the minority Kuki tribals in Manipur and prosecution of communal groups attacking them.

Fresh violence in Manipur has claimed at least three lives, including of a woman. Two others were injured in the attack, by suspected insurgents in Khoken village on Friday, Army sources said.

An Indian Army Colonel, his wife and son, and four soldiers were killed in an ambush by terrorists near the border with Myanmar in Manipur. The Commanding Officer of 46 Assam Rifles, Colonel Viplav Tripathy, had gone to a forward camp.

A subtle Chinese hand was suspected in the ambush of 18 soldiers in Manipur on June 4. Trying to connect the dots, investigators have now come up with more evidence of Chinese intelligence dabbling with north-eastern rebel groups.

Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is in favour of reducing the deployment of central security forces in the north-eastern region, in view of the improved security situation. He is in Guwahati to discuss a host of issues relating to security and overall development of the region in a meeting with the Chief Ministers of all the North-eastern states.

Life is yet to return to normalcy for the villages in Chandel, where 18 Indian soldiers were killed in a deadly ambush two weeks ago. At least three villages located a few kilometres near the ambush site are still deserted; villagers fear for their lives and are reluctant to return home.

Niki Sumi, the self-styled military advisor of NSCN-K, is said to be the brain behind the June 4 attack on an Army convoy in Manipur, government officials said.

Early on Tuesday morning, when a team of the elite 21 Para (Special Forces) reached a militant camp in Ponyu, a few kilometres inside Myanmar, they realised it was largely empty, contrary to intelligence inputs, sources have told NDTV.

Opposition parties have criticised the Narendra Modi government over statements made by its ministers on the Indian Army's surgical strike on militant camps in Myanmar. Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah of the National Conference said they were an "amazing self goal".

Action within 72 hours - that was what the political leadership had suggested to the Army to liquidate the militant camps across Myanmar. And one of the ways considered to achieve it was the use of Sukhoi and MIG 29 fighter jets, top sources told NDTV.

There are those who have described the Indian Army's operations against cross-border insurgency groups hiding in villages in Myanmar as dramatic and new. There are others who have pointed out that such operations have been conducted before - in Myanmar itself and famously in Bhutan, against the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other milit...

As many as 18 Indian Army soldiers lost their lives in a terrorist attack in Manipur.

The body of Army man Jagvir Singh, who died in the militant attack in Manipur on Thursday, was cremated this afternoon following intervention by the district magistrate of Gautam Budh Nagar.