Putting chief minister Tarun Gogoi in fresh trouble as home minister, suspected KPLT militants shot dead SDPO Nityanada Goswami in Karbi Anglong district on Friday. The incident took place at Hamren in the morning where subdivisional police officer was killed in the gruesome attack. DETAILS awaited.
We are deeply concerned about the continuing ethnic violence in Manipur between the Meitei community and the tribal Kuki and Zo communities. We demand an immediate halt to this violence that is causing large scale disruption of lives, livelihoods and properties and unleashing even more terror among people.
The immediate trigger to this violence was an April 2023 Manipur High Court order advising the state government to grant the Meitei community (members of which now have either OBC or in some cases SC status) the status of Scheduled Tribe. Thereby, the Meitei community would have access to land that is currently reserved for tribal communities. Several spates of violence broke...
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