The Assam government would order an enquiry into the suicide by
international archer Pratima Boro during the ongoing national team
selection camp in Pune.
A special team of Assam Police would conduct the investigations into
the 22-year-old archer's death. A hopeful for the 2016 Olympics at Rio
de Janerio, 23-year-old Pratima allegedly committed suicide on Friday
by hanging herself from the ceiling fan in her room at the Army Sports
Institute.
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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