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Manipur’s NEET Row Turns Political as BJP, Congress Stage Rival Protests

The nationwide furore over an alleged leak in the NEET-UG medical entrance exam reached Manipur on July 22, as the ruling BJP…

Manipur

KCP(PWG) MC Unification Dismisses Manipur Cadre Surrender Ceremony as ‘Staged’

An underground group active in Manipur, the KCP(PWG) MC Unification, has publicly rejected this week’s surrender ceremony in Imphal, denying that any…

Wheelchair basketball players contest a rebound during a Euroleague match, file photo

Manipur

Manipur’s Ritu Chanu Set for Historic Commonwealth Games Debut in Wheelchair Basketball

A Bishnupur district weaver-turned-athlete is about to become the first person from Manipur to represent India in a disability sport at the…

Dzukou Valley on the Nagaland-Manipur border, a representative image of the Naga hills region

Geopolitics

Myanmar-Based NSCN Faction Declares ‘Provisional Government’, Names Ikato Chishi Swu Chairman

A Myanmar-based splinter of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim has announced the formation of a nine-member “provisional government” and named Ikato…

View of Pohu Garh in Sivasagar district, Assam, the district worst affected by the current floods

Northeast

Assam Flood Toll Rises to 43, Over 80 Missing, as Nagaland Cloudburst Fallout Spreads to 16 Districts

Assam’s flood emergency deepened through Thursday as district officials in the worst-hit stretch of upper Assam put the season’s death toll at…

View of Kolasib town in Mizoram, where the largest of the weeks anti-narcotics seizures was made

Drugs & Narcotics

Mizoram Anti-Narcotics Operations Net Over Rs 34 Crore in Meth, Heroin in a Week

Law enforcement agencies in Mizoram seized methamphetamine and heroin worth more than Rs 34 crore combined in a string of anti-narcotics operations…

Manipur

Suspected IED Blast Destroys Kamjong Bailey Bridge, Cuts Off Over 10 Manipur Villages

A Bailey bridge that served as the only vehicular link between Sahamphung block and the district headquarters in Manipur’s Kamjong district was…

Decorated bamboo "rot" structure and gathering during the Behdeinkhlam festival in the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya

Culture & Heritage

In Meghalaya’s Jaintia Hills, an Ancient Rite Still Drives Away ‘The Plague’

Every July, once the paddy has been sown and the monsoon has settled over the Jaintia Hills, the town of Jowai in…

Manipur

46 KCP-PWG Cadres Surrender in Manipur as Security Forces Report Fresh Arrests, Arms Recoveries

Forty-six cadres of the banned Kangleipak Communist Party-People’s War Group laid down their arms at a Homecoming Ceremony in Imphal East district…

Landscape view in Churachandpur district, Manipur

Drugs & Narcotics

Manipur Police, Assam Rifles, NCB Report String of Drug Seizures Across Districts

Manipur’s security agencies have logged a string of narcotics seizures and arrests over the past three months, spanning Churachandpur, Bishnupur, Thoubal and…