The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act 1958 (AFSPA) has been extended in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland for another six months starting on October 1.
In a letter to the tribal body, the Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF), the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has appealed to postpone the ceremony of the last rites of the mortal remains of those killed in Manipur's ethnic violence to a later date.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that it has transferred the probe into a case related to two women being paraded naked in strife-torn Manipur to the CBI, saying the approach of the government was of “zero tolerance towards any crimes against women”.
The Commission would probe the causes and spread of the violence and riots targeting members of different communities, which took place in Manipur on May 3 and thereafter.
