The return of NSCN(IM) chief Thuingaleng Muivah to his village in Manipur after having gone away for 50 years is "a moment of deep emotional and historical significance for the people of Manipur," the Meitei Leepun said (ML).

Flight operations were temporarily suspended at the International airport in Imphal in Manipur, on Monday afternoon after a drone was sighted, raising security concerns, officials said.

In a move to restore safe and free movement in Manipur, a trial run of passenger vehicles on the Imphal-Senapati stretch of National Highway 2 started on Saturday.

Security forces have launched a major crackdown on the banned People's Liberation Army (PLA), a Manipur valley-based insurgent group, arresting a total of 15 including two key suspects directly involved in last month's ambush on Assam Rifles.

Postal services in Manipur's Churachandpur resumed on Saturday, two years after it was shut down due to the Meitei-Kuki ethnic violence.

A team of BJP legislators led by former Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh is camping in Delhi seeking the formation of a new government in Manipur.

BJP MLAs and leaders from Manipur including former chief minister N Biren Singh will meet the party's central leaders to discuss the formation of a popular government in the state.

The Manipur Police's attempt to arrest a man whom they called a "suspected drug kingpin" has raised fundamental questions on law enforcement in the border state that is yet to fully recover from ethnic tension.

The political row over the stampede in Tamil Nadu's Karur - at a rally headlined by TVK chief Vijay, and in which 41 people died - escalated Friday after Chief Minister MK Stalin criticised the BJP for sending a delegation of MPs .

India witnessed a sharp 28.7 per cent rise in crimes against members of the Scheduled Tribes (ST) community in 2023, with the northeastern state of Manipur emerging as the most affected, according to the latest data released by NCRB

Manipur reported the highest number of violent crimes and rioting cases in the Northeast in 2023, according to a report published by the NCRB.

Six militants belonging to different banned outfits have been arrested from three Imphal Valley districts of Manipur, police said on Sunday.

BJP MLA Paolienlal Haokip, one of the fiercest critics of former Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh and a key political figure in the demand for a separate administration for the Kuki tribes, has termed the move a bid to silence him.

The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act was on Friday extended for six months in entire Manipur, except the jurisdiction of 13 police stations, in view of the prevailing law and order situation there.

Shitaljit Tongbram, 21, walked to his grandmother's house in Churachandpur carrying two t-shirts on the evening of May 3, 2023, the day Meitei-Kuki ethnic clashes began across Manipur.

Security forces have arrested the prime accused in the September 19 ambush on Assam Rifles personnel in Nambol that left two soldiers dead and five others injured.

Two people were detained from Manipur on Saturday in connection with the ambush on an Assam Rifles convoy earlier this week that killed two soldiers and injured five others.

BJP Rajya Sabha MP Maharaja Sanajaoba Leishemba has filed a police complaint against an X user over what he called a malicious post targeting him following the ambush on an Assam Rifles convoy in Manipur on Friday.

A wreath-laying ceremony was held in Manipur's Imphal to honour the two Assam Rifles soldiers who died in the Friday's ambush in Bishnupur district.

Two jawans of the Assam Rifles were killed in action, and five others have been injured after their truck was ambushed by a group of terrorists on the outskirts of Manipur's Imphal this evening.

Two students of a private university in Assam have been detained after a girl student alleged she was raped, a senior police officer told reporters today.

Patients were evacuated from Manipur's top government hospital, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS), after the flash flood situation worsened in the state.

Former Manipur MP Lorho S Pfoze joined Meghalaya's ruling National People's Party (NPP) on Tuesday.

The Kuki Zo Council (KZC) which recently met the Centre has denied allowing free movement on National Highway-2. The KZC's announcement has created confusion since the Centre had in a statement said the KZC "decided to open National Highway-2".