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The blast took place in West District’s Singjamei at around 5:30 pm.

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Manipuri activist Irom Sharmila tells CNN-IBN her expectations from the new government.

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The north eastern state of Manipur have two Lok Sabha seats. The state voted on April 9 and 17, 2014.

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Around 74 per cent of the 874,000 voters cast their ballot on Thursday for the second Lok Sabha seat in Manipur, officials said.

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Human rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, who has been on a fast for 13 years against a special, stringent anti-terror act in Manipur, was on Thursday not allowed to vote in the Lok Sabha polls as per law.

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Campaign for the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Manipur for the second of the two seats in the state, Inner Manipur, ended on Tuesday.

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Strange as it may sound, but sitting Congress MP from Inner Manipur parliamentary constituency Thokchom Meinya grew older by 11 years in the past five years.

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About 40 per cent of 9 lakh voters have already cast their votes in the the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha constituency till midday, electoral officials here said on Wednesday.

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At least 55 per cent votes cast their votes on Wednesday for the two Lok Sabha seats and 49 out of the 60 Assembly seats in Arunachal Pradesh, where the simultaneous polling was held peacefully.

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About 80 per cent of the electorate on Wednesday voted in the elections to the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha seat in the hill districts. Reports from Churachandpur, Ukhrul, Senapati, Chandel and Tamenglong said that polling ended peacefully at 5 pm.

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Mizoram was scheduled to go to polls on April 9 but EC deferred the dates to April 11.

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Seven candidates have so far filed nomination papers for the April-9 Lok Sabha elections in the Outer Manipur Lok Sabha constituency.

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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday promised sports facilities in Manipur if the party came to power. Speaking at a public meeting at Wangjing village in interior Thoubal district, Rahul Gandhi said if his party came to power after the coming Lok Sabha polls, facilities for the improvement for sports would be developed in the state.

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Major political parties have announced their candidates for the two Lok Sabha seats in Manipur with Congress stating on Sunday that the two sitting MPs would be their contestants.

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Gangmumei Kamei and R K Ranjan, former professors of Manipur University, will be the BJP candidates in the coming Lok Sabha elections in the state, party sources said on Thursday.

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The Election Commission announced a two-phase elections for the northeastern state of Manipur on Wednesday.

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In an apparent robbery attempt, the victim was stabbed in the stomach when he was returning from work.

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Attack on the Manipuri boys comes even as people from the Northeast are protesting across the nation demanding security.

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Even after the fallout on Arunachal boy Nido Tania’s death in Delhi, one the largest varsities in India – the Bangalore University has now set up a separate hostel for Northeastern students. The university said that the idea behind it is to protect students from racial discrimination.

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Insurgents exploded a powerful bomb and opened fire at the road opening party of 44th Assam Rifles battalion.

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