The names ‘Lamka’ and ‘Churachandpur’ are both a little over a hundred years old and older demands for change are now making a return with increasing divisions among social groups.
Today there are allegations on the state government for sponsoring the ethnic cleansing of Kuki-Zo minorities and at the same time Meitei community floating narratives like drug business, illegal infiltration etc against the Kuki-Zo.
The National Investigation Agency has taken over the investigation into an explosion in Manipur s Kwakta village, suspected to have been caused by insurgents. The explosion occurred on June 21, damaging a bridge and injuring three boys.
A mob at around 10.40 pm on Friday entered the house of the minister and torched the building, however alert security forces managed to douse the same. The incident of arson has been reported from Ishirou near the Sajiwa Jail where the miscreants even torched a BJP office.