Manipur

Imphal, Mar 11: The annual ritualistic ‘freedom’ of Irom Sharmila ended within two days on Wednesday night after the Manipur’s Iron Lady was re-arrested as she continued with her fast-unto-death after her release from a government hospital on Monday.

Human rights activist Irom Sharmila, jailed since 2000 for resorting to a hunger strike against alleged rights violations by the security forces in Manipur, was once again arrested by police on charges of attempted suicide. The activist continued her refusal to eat a single morsel of food.

Irom Sharmila continued her refusal to eat a single morsel of food.

A 24-year-old drug peddler from Manipur has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli district with heroin worth Rs.4 crore, supplied from Pakistan, police said Thursday.

Imphal, March 11 : Human rights activist Irom Sharmila, jailed since 2000 for resorting to a hunger strike against alleged rights violations by the security forces in Manipur, was once again arrested by police on charges of attempted suicide.

Lucknow, March 11 : A 24-year-old drug peddler from Manipur has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli district with heroin worth Rupees 4 crore, supplied from Pakistan, police said Thursday.

By L.C.K Singh, Imphal, Mar 10 : For the first time in the Northeast region rearing of poultry Emu birds on commercial basis has been taken up by farmers in Manipur.

Imphal, Mar 10 : The efforts to bring the Kuki National Front (KNF) which signed an agreement for suspension of operations with the Union Government in 2005 to negotiating table have gained momentum following Union Home Secretary G K Pillai's recent visit to the state.

Imphal, Mar 10 : People in Manipur are fed up with abductions, extortion and bomb attacks by militants. They want to get on with their lives and want an end to violence and uncertainty.

Imphal, Mar 10 (PTI) Police have registered a case in the shooting and injuring of Manipur Advocate General N Koteshwar.

IMPHAL: Lawyers, who have been abstaining from the Manipur High Court since Monday demanding an inquiry into Saturday's shooting of Advocate-General Nongmeikappam Koteswor, staged a demonstration in front of the court on Tuesday.

Imphal, Mar 9 (PTI) Cycle rally, painting competition and seminars are being conducted to spread awareness and save the biggest fresh waterbody, Loktak, in the north-eastern region from extinction in Manipur's Bishenpur district.

IMPHAL: All courts in Manipur wore a deserted look on Monday as lawyers stayed away demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation or an inquiry commission, headed by a sitting High Court judge, into Saturday's incident in which Advocate-General Nongmeikappam Koteswor sustained bullet injuries when he was travelling with two ministers in a car.

Two Assam Rifles personnel were killed and another was critically injured in an ambush by insurgents on a convoy in Manipur's Thoubal district today, official sources said.

Imphal, March 8 (PTI) Two Assam Rifles personnel were killed and another was critically injured in an ambush by insurgents on a convoy in Manipur's Thoubal district today, official sources said.

Imphal, Mar 8 (PTI) Non-Manipuri labourers, who have been asked to leave Manipur by the banned Revolutionary People's Front, were being provided sanctuary by the Ibobi Singh government here.

Imphal, Mar 8 : Manipur Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh today presented a budget estimate of Rupees 4934.4 crore for 2010-11.

In a bizzare case of shootout, the Advocate General of Manipur was shot by a Minister travelling with him.

IMPHAL: The banned Revolutionary People's Front (RPF) has asked people who settled in Manipur after 1949 to leave the State by May 31. But it has spared those who visit the State for education, sports and cultural activities.

Manipur Advocate General Nongmeikappam Koteshwar was wounded when the licensed gun of a minister travelling with him went off accidentally, Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh said on Sunday.