The Centre and the Manipur government signed a peace agreement with a faction of Manipur’s oldest insurgent outfit, United National Liberation Front (UNLF). This marks the first outfit from Imphal valley to sign a peace agreement in the state’s insurgency history of 59 years.
The Government on Monday banned nine Meitei extremist groups and their associate organisations, which mostly operate in Manipur, for their anti-national activities and launching fatal attacks on security forces.
According to a notification issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the groups