A global alliance of Manipur's Meitei community has called for scrapping a controversial ceasefire with over two dozen Kuki-Zo insurgent groups amid the ethnic conflict in Manipur.
A cross has been installed atop a hill near Manipur's Moirang town in an act seen as destabilising in the violence-hit state, as the hill has a sacred site of the residents of this lakeside town under Bishnupur district, 60 km from Imphal.
The appearance of a cross and a community flag atop a hill near Manipur's Moirang district has raised a massive controversy, as the hill has a sacred site of the residents of this lakeside district, 60 km from the state capital Imphal.
The cost of illegal highway 'tax' extorted from truck drivers in Manipur is passed on to consumers in the ethnic violence-hit state, where people in many districts don't get to buy essentials regularly due to supply and logistical problems.