Manipur One Year

A year after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, the border state remains tense. Prayer meets and protests kept the security forces on the edge.

Tight security arrangements have been put in place for the first of the two-phased Lok Sabha elections in Manipur, which had been rocked by ethnic violence over the last one year, officials said on Thursday.

Violence-hit Manipur saw a muted Holi, or Yaosang, this year. One of the biggest festivals of the Meitei community, a majority of them Hindus, its scale is such that the Meiteis celebrate Yaosang for five days.

When John Khammuanlal Gwite (46) started cycling two years ago, at the peak of Covid-19 first wave, he was sure of one thing, that fitness cannot leave out mental health, community and well being.

The latest round of elections -- regarded as semi-finals before the 2024 general elections -- are largely going in favour of BJP, a situation the party has attributed to its work over the last five years in four of the states.

The BJP, invited on Tuesday to form government in Manipur, has moved one step closer to its mission of a "Congress-mukt (free) North East." Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is leading that mission to oust Congress governments in the North-East, was in that party less than two years ago. His first big moment in the BJP was delivering Assam last year. Now, h...

The Manipur government has decided to extend the "disturbed area" status to all parts of the state barring the Imphal Municipal areas for one more year, an official said on Tuesday.

Irom Sharmila one of the world's longest political prisoners was released from detention on Monday morning in Imphal, the capital of Manipur in India's North East. Eleven years have passed in solitary confinement but Irom Sharmila Chanu a poet, writer and activist refuses to give up. She had in the year 2000 pledged a fast-unto-death against the Ar...

A year after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, the border state remains tense. Prayer meets and protests kept the security forces on the edge.

Tight security arrangements have been put in place for the first of the two-phased Lok Sabha elections in Manipur, which had been rocked by ethnic violence over the last one year, officials said on Thursday.

Violence-hit Manipur saw a muted Holi, or Yaosang, this year. One of the biggest festivals of the Meitei community, a majority of them Hindus, its scale is such that the Meiteis celebrate Yaosang for five days.

When John Khammuanlal Gwite (46) started cycling two years ago, at the peak of Covid-19 first wave, he was sure of one thing, that fitness cannot leave out mental health, community and well being.

The latest round of elections -- regarded as semi-finals before the 2024 general elections -- are largely going in favour of BJP, a situation the party has attributed to its work over the last five years in four of the states.

The BJP, invited on Tuesday to form government in Manipur, has moved one step closer to its mission of a "Congress-mukt (free) North East." Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is leading that mission to oust Congress governments in the North-East, was in that party less than two years ago. His first big moment in the BJP was delivering Assam last year. Now, h...

The Manipur government has decided to extend the "disturbed area" status to all parts of the state barring the Imphal Municipal areas for one more year, an official said on Tuesday.

Irom Sharmila one of the world's longest political prisoners was released from detention on Monday morning in Imphal, the capital of Manipur in India's North East. Eleven years have passed in solitary confinement but Irom Sharmila Chanu a poet, writer and activist refuses to give up. She had in the year 2000 pledged a fast-unto-death against the Ar...