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Should the free movement regime between India and Myanmar remain?
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Should the free movement regime between India and Myanmar remain?

In February 2024, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that the Free Movement Regime (FMR) along the Myanmar border would be scrapped but there has neither been any notification by the Ministry of External Affairs in this regard nor any bilateral agreement with Myanmar so far. Former Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh’s insistence is said to have led to the decision following complaints that unregulated movement of people from across the border was fuelling the ethnic conflict in his State. Mizoram and Nagaland opposed this decision, which has not yet been implemented on the ground. The FMR came into existence in 1968 as people on either side of the border have familial and ethnic ties. The territorial limit of free movement then was 40 km, which was reduced to 16 km in 2004, and add...
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Hospitality at the time of adversity
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Hospitality at the time of adversity

Residents visit the ‘Wall of Remembrance’ in Churachandpur erected to honour lives lost during the ongoing conflict in Manipur. File | Photo Credit: PTI Sharad Leishangtham, 46, lost everything — from his home to his livelihood — in the ethnic violence that ravaged Manipur on May 3, 2023. Forced to live at a relief camp in Bishnupur, several kilometres away from his now-flattened home at Churachandpur, Leishangtham sells sugar cane juice by the roadside.More than 250 people have been killed in the violence that erupted between the tribal Kuki Zo and the Meitei people in the north-eastern State in 2023. During a recent visit to Manipur after President’s Rule was imposed on February 13, I met Leishangtham while h...
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Oppn-BJP squabble on missing PM & President’s Rule overshadows Manipur budget discussion in Lok Sabha
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Oppn-BJP squabble on missing PM & President’s Rule overshadows Manipur budget discussion in Lok Sabha

New Delhi: The issue of Prime Minister Narendra Modi not visiting Manipur since the eruption of ethnic violence in the state in May 2023 was triggered a political row in the Lok Sabha Tuesday, with the Opposition questioning his absence from the session, and the Treasury Bench accusing opposition leaders of attacking the prime minister. Initiating the discussion on the Manipur budget for 2025-26, which was taken up along with the second batch of supplementary demands for grants for 2024-25, and excess demand for grants 2021-22, of the Union government, Congress’s Gaurav Gogoi questioned why the prime minister was missing from the House with an important discussion underway. This led Speaker Om Birla to intervene and say that Modi had informed him of his absence on account of his Mauritius ...
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President’s Rule in Manipur nettles both Meiteis & Kukis, civil society organisations harden stand
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President’s Rule in Manipur nettles both Meiteis & Kukis, civil society organisations harden stand

Churachandpur (Manipur): President’s Rule imposed in Manipur last week might have given muscle to the authorities in running the administration smoothly and maintaining law and order, but has increased uncertainty on both sides of the ethnic divide in the state, with the Meitei and Kuki civil society organisations (CSOs) taking differing positions. While the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an umbrella group of Meitei CSOs, has termed it a “deliberate ploy” to “push the state further into turmoil”, the Kuki-Zo Council, apex body of the Kuki-Zo CSOs, and the Zomi Council representing Zomi CSOs, have welcomed the move, but maintained their demand for a separate administration. Ten MLAs representing the Kuki-Zo and Zomi tribes also put out a diplomatic statement Sunday, f...
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How threat of revolt from own MLAs & his precarious position led BJP to drop Biren Singh as Manipur CM
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How threat of revolt from own MLAs & his precarious position led BJP to drop Biren Singh as Manipur CM

New Delhi: A threat from BJP MLAs to back the Opposition Congress’s no-confidence motion in the state assembly—potentially toppling their own government—pushed the BJP central leadership to demand N. Biren Singh’s resignation as Manipur chief minister Sunday, BJP sources told ThePrint. The 7th session of Manipur assembly, which was scheduled to beging Monday, has now been cancelled. Manipur Governor Ajay Bhalla accepted the resignation of Singh along with his council of ministers.  However, Singh will remain in office until “alternative arrangements” are made, according to a release from Bhalla’s office Sunday night. Show Full Article Sambit Patra, BJP’s Northeast coordinator is already in Imphal to hold meetings with party MLAs. BJP sources said it is likely ...
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Biren Singh resignation accepted, but asked to continue as CM ’till alternative arrangements are made’
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Biren Singh resignation accepted, but asked to continue as CM ’till alternative arrangements are made’

New Delhi: About two years after ethnic violence first broke out in Manipur, which the state has since failed to control, Biren Singh resigned from the position of chief minister Sunday. Singh flew to Delhi Saturday evening, just days before the state’s upcoming assembly session, to meet Home Minister Amit Shah, where he was asked to resign after a two hour-long meeting, sources in the government said. The seventh session of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly is scheduled to begin Monday. Show Full Article After flying back to Imphal, around 2 pm Sunday, Singh tendered his resignation to the newly appointed governor, Ajay Kumar Bhalla.“He was called by the home minister and after a two-hour long meeting, he was asked to resign,” a source told ThePrint. “The...
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