The Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM) on Monday demanded that the terms of reference of the expert committee should be to review the 1972 state reservation policy.
The State government on Monday informed that more or less 75 per cent of the stretch of the road between Thadlaskein and Mihmyntdu on the Jowai bypass has been repaired and the remainder of the work is going on.
Vigilante groups have become active in different localities of Manipur after ethnic-violence resulting in distrust between the two communities in the state.
Two persons were reportedly shot dead and other others sustained bullet injury in an incident of firing along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border at Panbari in Dhemaji district on Monday.
The Meghalaya State Volleyball Association (MSVA) took a significant step towards promoting volleyball in the state by meeting with the Meghalaya State Olympic Association (MSOA) on Monday.
Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK), East Garo Hills, joined hands with the Agricultural Management Technology Agency (ATMA) to organize a grand celebration of World Environment Day at the KVK Office in Megagre.
The state BJP president Ernest Mawrie on Monday relieved former GHADC chief Boston Marak as party’s Schedule Tribe (ST) Morcha president after Lokayukta chargesheeted him along with 12 others in an alleged scam related to construction works under the Council.
In significant development, security forces in Manipur have recovered 790 sophisticated and automatic arms along with 10,648 ammunition that were looted from the police during ethnic riots that broke out on May 3.
United Democratic Party (UDP) leader and cabinet minister Paul Lyngdoh has asserted that the state reservation policy is not the most important issues confronting the Khasi indigenous community even as he slammed the Ardent Miller Basaiawmoit-led opposition Voice of the People Party (VPP) for engaging in “political manoeuvring” and trying to incite communal hatred and mayhem in the state.
