Imphal, July 3 (IANS) Manipur Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA and veteran tribal leader Vungzagin Valte’s mortal remains will be laid to rest on Saturday in Churachandpur district, 134 days after he succumbed to injuries sustained during the ethnic violence in the state, the Zomi Council, an apex tribal body, said on Friday. The body of the 62-year-old BJP leader, who belonged to the Zomi tribal community, has been kept at the Churachandpur District Hospital since it was brought from Delhi afte…
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Imphal, June 5 (IANS) Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Director General, Gyanendra Pratap Singh, on Friday separately met the Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla and Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh and apprised them of the prevailing security situation in the state as well as in the Northeastern region, Lok Bhavan officials said. A Lok Bhavan official said that the CRPF Director General, accompanied by senior officers, called on the Governor at Lok Bhavan in Imphal. During the meeting, t…
Imphal, Feb 21 (IANS) BJP MLA from Manipur’s Thanlon constituency, Vungzagin Valte, who had sustained critical injuries in a mob attack during the ethnic violence on May 4, 2023, died at a private hospital in Gurugram on Saturday, officials said. The 62-year-old tribal leader, belonging to the Zomi tribal community, was elected to the Manipur Assembly from the Thanlon constituency in Churachandpur district.The veteran legislator had been residing in the Kuki-Zo-dominated Churachandpur district a…
Imphal, Jan 12 (IANS) Hundreds of violence-hit Internally Displaced People (IDP) on Monday staged a protest rally in Imphal, demanding a positive response from Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on their resettlement.Backed by the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an apex body of the Meitei community, the IDP organised the rally and demanded that displaced families be allowed to return to their original places with adequate security arrangements.The rally started from Kwakeit…