A 19-member delegation of three top civil society organisations in Manipur met with Union Home Ministry officials in Delhi today and discussed a phased and time-bound roadmap for peace in the border state where ethnic clashes broke out in May 2023.

The deputy chief of a Kuki insurgent group which is among the 17 armed groups under the banner of the Kuki National Organisation (KNO) was shot dead in an ambush in Manipur's Churachandpur today, sources said.

After six days of disruption due to landslides, train services between south Assam, Tripura, Manipur and Mizoram, and the rest of the country via Guwahati partially resumed on Sunday.

Former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday said BJP legislators held talks focused on restoring peace and forming a popular government in the state.

A delegation of civil society organisations from Manipur will hold talks with the Ministry of Home Affairs in Delhi on June 30 over the current situation in the ethnic strife-torn state, officials said on Saturday.

The annual 'Kang' festival, Manipur's own version of the Jagannath rath yatra, was celebrated with hundreds of people coming out to see the pulling of the chariot.

Tangkhul Naga civil society organisations in Manipur on Friday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the Kuki tribes, demanding the handing over of those involved in an attack on a passenger vehicle in Ukhrul district.

Security forces have arrested three militants, including a woman, belonging to various proscribed outfits in Manipur, police said on Friday.

Banks in Odisha and Manipur will remain closed on June 27, 2025, due to Rath Yatra celebrations. The RBI has declared a bank holiday in these states.

Former Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh has pointed out a discrepancy between a notification published in the Gazette of India and the state assembly's published rules on governance in Manipur's hill areas.

In an event exemplifying the contributions of Manipur towards the armed forces, the Assam Rifles on Wednesday felicitated nine officers who have been recently commissioned into the Indian Army, Indian Air Force (IAF) and Assam Rifles, officials said.

Manipur Police arrested four members of an inter-state gang of arms dealers and seized arms and ammunition from their possession, an officer said on Wednesday.

Two top civil society organisations of Manipur's Meitei community and the indigenous distinct tribe Thadou have asked the central government to remove 'Any Kuki Tribes' from the list of Scheduled Tribes (ST) in Manipur.

The Defence Ministry has strongly criticised the local media in Manipur for carrying "misinformation" that the army was involved in an "agreement" which led to a Kuki group agreeing to call off an indefinite shutdown in Churachandpur district.

The body of 20-year-old Kongbrailatpam Nganthoi Sharma, a flight attendant from Manipur who was killed in the Air India Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad, was brought to Imphal today.

A woman was killed and a farmer shot at in separate incidents in Manipur's Churachandpur and Bishnupur districts, respectively, on Thursday.

The body of Air India cabin crew Lamnunthem Singson reached her hometown in Manipur's Kangpokpi district on Thursday night, after being flown to Dimapur airport in Nagaland.

Under the aegis of the Kangpokpi Town Committee, a human chain and candlelight vigil stretched for kilometres along both sides of National Highway-2.

Lamnunthem Singson was among the 241 passengers and crew aboard Air India Flight AI 171, which crashed just seconds after takeoff.

An elderly farmer from the Meitei community was shot at by suspected insurgents in Manipur's Bishnupur district today, sources told NDTV. The incident happened at 3 pm in a paddy field in Phubala village, they said.

A top body of the Thadou tribe in Manipur has requested the Justice Gita Mittal (retired) Committee, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla to recognise a third category of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

The body of one of the two flight attendants from Manipur who was killed in the Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner crash in Ahmedabad has been identified from DNA samples, the family has said.

Congress MP Dr A Bimol Akoijam visited a foothill village in the interdistrict border between Manipur's Imphal East and Kangpokpi days after the Meitei community and members of the Kuki tribes faced-off over ploughing paddy fields in the area.

A differently abled man who had been missing for nearly a week was found dead in Manipur's Imphal West district on Tuesday morning, the police said. The incident triggered protests by residents.