This would beat any yarn churned out in some B or C Grade Hindi flick but this is not a make believe story on celluloid but a real life event, bordering on tragedy, that has been scripted. Where else would one come across the story of a man reported missi..

Nothing is right. The incident occurred on November 20, as per the Makhan Village Authority. The incident came to light or rather came to the knowledge of The Sangai Express and other Imphal based media houses on November 23. On November 24 Chief Minister..

Supposedly the smallest among the 33 recognised tribes of Manipur, but the message the Purum tribe via the Purum Reim Council, Manipur (PRCM) has delivered is profound. A point which many have felt but have never had the conviction to verbalise and the po..

The internet ban continues so does curfew. Call for MLAs to give in their papers also continues while others, in equal measures, have stoutly asserted that the MLAs should continue in office. Major roads in Imphal continue to resemble a clip straight out ..

Obvious that Imphal and Delhi do not know how to deal with the situation and the fact that this should be the reality even after Union Home Minister Amit Shah and External Affairs Minister S Jaishanker had proclaimed that illegal immigration is one of the..

Armed Forces Special Powers Act reimposed in areas that come under 6 police stations and the question doing the round is whether such a move would in any way help the Government in reining in the situation. Can one expect to see a marked improvement in th..

Onion at Rs 120 per Kg and potato at Rs 80/90 per Kg. Difficult to say how accurate are the rates quoted here, but this is what is doing the round on the social media but the meaning central to the prices quoted here should be understood--That is prices o..

The design behind the series of renewed offensives in the last few days should be clear by following the thread from the evening of November 7 when heavily armed Kuki militants attacked Mongbung village in Jiribam district at about 8.30 pm. The Sangai Exp..

Manipur needs to be very, very cautious and this observation is made not without a reason. Ever since Manipur went up in flames in the evening of May 3, 2023, no one seems to know who is calling the shot. The result is chaos and all round confusion  ..

It is not a question of many, but Manipur which should object and strongly so with a sense of conviction. Anyone vaguely familiar with the history of the Tangkhuls in Manipur or Ukhrul, now bifurcated into Kamjong and Ukhrul district, will laugh at the id..

It is not Imphal or the State Government which has decided that the porous Indo-Myanmar border would be fenced, but New Delhi. This much must be clear to everyone and this is all that more important given the fact that a key meeting between Government rep..

If at all Manipur or rather the Meiteis have to learn anything from the over 17 months of conflict, it is this-it makes no sense to step on the toes of anyone, anyone who is not a party in the ongoing conflict. In just a few days time Manipur would have c..

Manipur has never had it so bad in recent memory. No indications that the ongoing ethnic violence would be brought to an end anytime in the near future. All roads in Imphal in shambles that driving for even 100 metres without having to negotiate a pothole..

Think Imphal and the immediate image that comes to mind are the potholed roads  that dot the place all over. This is Imphal and one can imagine how the situation would be like at places which are located a little way off Imphal, a place that doubles ..

The stand of the Eastern Tangkhul Students’ Union (ETSU) and the Southern Tangkhul Students’ Union (STSU) is understood and it rests on the premise that though the Tangkhul people living on either side of the international border interact and ..

This was the first time that the 60 MLAs of Manipur were grouped into Meiteis, Kukis and Nagas and while this would have served the purpose of holding a talk between Meitei MLAs and Kuki MLAs with the Naga MLAs probably thrown in to give it a more rounded..

It would be a gross error on the part of the Government if it understands the restoration of normalcy only in the context of the ongoing conflict between the Meitei and the Kuki-Zo communities. The need to understand normalcy demands a sincere, hard, inwa..

A Separate Administration for the Kuki-Zo community is a prerequisite for any peace dialogue. This is not just some random line for it comes from the statement issued by the Convenor Secretary of the Kuki-Zo MLAs, who seemingly goes by the mononym Chinlun..

The first step has been taken and this is what is needed, for afterall the longer the situation is allowed to fester, the more Manipur stands to lose and everyone knows what this entails. Credit to the Union Home Ministry for breaking the ice and convinci..

11th round and seven years down the line and the United Naga Council has every reason to feel peeved at the failure of the ongoing tripartite talks to break any new ground. The latest round of talk was held at New Delhi just the other day and here again t..

Ultimately October 6 turned out to be just another date on the calendar and ended as a damp squib. The much anticipated ‘fireworks,’ the anticipated ‘future course of action’ after the public convention convened by the Scheduled Tr..

If there is nothing to hide then there is absolutely no reason for the Kuki Chiefs’ Association, Manipur to come out so strongly against the order of the State Government to give detailed accounts of the villages from 1964 to the present. Or is it a..

Four dead. Over forty injured. 20 guns looted. 18 looted guns recovered. This is how the story has panned out so far following the clash between Ukhrul (Hunphun) and Hundung (Hungpung) on October 2. Total madness and even as efforts seem to be on to make ..

Freed after 6 days in captivity but no red carpet welcome. Far from it, it was derision and anger that greeted the two youths who  have been in the captivity of Kuki militants since the evening of September 27. All is well, one may say, but to many t..

Back on December 8, 2016, the then Congress Government dropped a sort of a bombshell in announcing the creation of seven new districts, notably, Kangpokpi, repeat notably Kangpokpi district late in the night. A small recap is in line here. The Sangai Expr..