Myanmar Manipur

The demand for an ethnocentric homeland is untenable and obsolete in Manipur, where at least 35 communities co-exist, a group of activists and academics from the violence-hit state bordering Myanmar has said.

The Manipur Security Adviser today said intelligence received from "different quarters" about infiltration by 900 Kuki militants from Myanmar could not be substantiated on the ground, and so "there is no basis currently to believe in any such input."

The Kuki-Zo tribes in Manipur have asked their community to be vigilant between September 26 and 29, days after the Manipur Security Adviser confirmed in a press conference that some "900 Kuki militants" have entered Manipur from Myanmar.

The Security Adviser to the Manipur government today for the first time publicly confirmed they have received an intelligence report that alerted about the entry of "900 Kuki militants" from Myanmar to Manipur.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the government is talking to both the Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur to ensure lasting peace and has begun fencing the country's border with Myanmar to check infiltration.

A nodal agency for social and economic development of the northeast region has withdrawn a key vision document due to a factual error on the migration of the Kukis (Chin) from Myanmar's Chin State.

Three people were killed in a gunfight between a Kuki insurgent group and armed people who were reportedly guarding their village in Manipur's Tengnoupal district, bordering Myanmar, sources said.

The country's top anti-terror agency NIA has filed a chargesheet against a Mizoram resident in a transnational weapons trafficking case linked to Myanmar-based insurgent groups.

Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar has expressed concern about the impact of continuing violence in Myanmar in a meeting with the neighbouring country's foreign minister.

A huge racket of issuing fake Aadhaar and voter identity cards to illegal immigrants in Manipur has been busted, sources in the state government told NDTV.

An influential students' body of the Maring tribe in Manipur's border district Tengnoupal has alleged Myanmar nationals living in six Maring Naga villages have outnumbered the locals.

The Assam Rifles in a statement on Tuesday refuted allegations by a tribal group that said refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been found allegedly building houses in Manipur's Tengnoupal district without informing the state authorities.

Refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been found allegedly building houses in Manipur's Tengnoupal district without informing the state authorities, a Maring tribe group has said. The Assam Rifles in a statement on Tuesday, however, denied it.

Naga civil bodies and organisations in Manipur have asked Home Minister Amit Shah to repatriate illegal Myanmar immigrants to their country, sources said on Saturday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested a key accused from Imphal airport in a case of a transnational conspiracy by insurgents and terrorist groups to exploit the Manipur situation and spread terror in the northeastern state.

The demand for an ethnocentric homeland is untenable and obsolete in Manipur, where at least 35 communities co-exist, a group of activists and academics from the violence-hit state bordering Myanmar has said.

The Manipur Security Adviser today said intelligence received from "different quarters" about infiltration by 900 Kuki militants from Myanmar could not be substantiated on the ground, and so "there is no basis currently to believe in any such input."

The Kuki-Zo tribes in Manipur have asked their community to be vigilant between September 26 and 29, days after the Manipur Security Adviser confirmed in a press conference that some "900 Kuki militants" have entered Manipur from Myanmar.

The Security Adviser to the Manipur government today for the first time publicly confirmed they have received an intelligence report that alerted about the entry of "900 Kuki militants" from Myanmar to Manipur.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the government is talking to both the Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur to ensure lasting peace and has begun fencing the country's border with Myanmar to check infiltration.

A nodal agency for social and economic development of the northeast region has withdrawn a key vision document due to a factual error on the migration of the Kukis (Chin) from Myanmar's Chin State.

Three people were killed in a gunfight between a Kuki insurgent group and armed people who were reportedly guarding their village in Manipur's Tengnoupal district, bordering Myanmar, sources said.

The country's top anti-terror agency NIA has filed a chargesheet against a Mizoram resident in a transnational weapons trafficking case linked to Myanmar-based insurgent groups.

Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar has expressed concern about the impact of continuing violence in Myanmar in a meeting with the neighbouring country's foreign minister.

A huge racket of issuing fake Aadhaar and voter identity cards to illegal immigrants in Manipur has been busted, sources in the state government told NDTV.

An influential students' body of the Maring tribe in Manipur's border district Tengnoupal has alleged Myanmar nationals living in six Maring Naga villages have outnumbered the locals.

The Assam Rifles in a statement on Tuesday refuted allegations by a tribal group that said refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been found allegedly building houses in Manipur's Tengnoupal district without informing the state authorities.

Refugees from war-torn Myanmar have been found allegedly building houses in Manipur's Tengnoupal district without informing the state authorities, a Maring tribe group has said. The Assam Rifles in a statement on Tuesday, however, denied it.

Naga civil bodies and organisations in Manipur have asked Home Minister Amit Shah to repatriate illegal Myanmar immigrants to their country, sources said on Saturday.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested a key accused from Imphal airport in a case of a transnational conspiracy by insurgents and terrorist groups to exploit the Manipur situation and spread terror in the northeastern state.