Security forces said the search operation was launched after intelligence suggested armed cadres were operating outside designated camps. Separately, police detained three suspects in the investigation into the July 6 Ukhrul ambush that killed two Assam Rifles personnel.
A fresh wave of violence has once again shaken Manipur, with burning homes and rising tensions threatening months of hard-earned peace. Swift action by security forces prevented a larger communal clash.
The Liangmai Naga Council said families were yet to identify the bodies and had not received official information on where the remains were found.
In the shifting landscape of militancy and ethnic conflict in Manipur, fresh tensions have emerged between Kuki and Naga groups, opening a new front in a state already scarred by three years of violence.
The violence that erupted in Manipur on 3 May 2023 and has now completed three years as of May 2026, did not produce a simple binary confrontation between Kukis-Zomis and Meiteis.
There is no way any formal words can describe what director Lakshmipriya Devi has achieved in her fragile yet ferociously strong narrative about a little boy in Manipur searching for his missing father.
The swearing in of Yumnam Khemchand as the 13th Chief Minister of Manipur on 4 February, heading a BJP-led NDA government in the state, marks neither a return to normalcy nor a substantive democratic renewal.
When a small film from Manipur wins a major international award, it is tempting to read the moment as a feel-good story about recognition finally reaching a neglected corner of India.
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta on Wednesday strongly condemned the alleged racial harassment of women from the Northeast in the national capital and assured strict action against the accused.
Journalists in Manipur staged a sit-in at Keishampat, Imphal, on Friday condemning the brutal assault on senior journalist Khoirom Loyalakpa and demanding immediate action against those responsible for the attack.
