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The Myanmar Army crossed into the Indian border and set up camps at Haolenphai in Manipur on August 22.

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A rifleman accidentally shot himself dead while cleaning his service rifle at Kairang area in Manipur’s Imphal East district, police sources said on Monday.

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Three persons were injured when a powerful bomb exploded at a road-side hotel in Imphal West district of Manipur, police said on Sunday.

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A powerful bomb exploded a few minutes before the celebrations of Independence day on Thursday in Manipur but no casualty was reported. The bomb, planted by insurgents, went off at around 8.20 am at Moirangkhom petrol pump area, about 400 metres from the 1st Manipur rifles parade ground where the main function of the I-Day celebrations would be held from 9 am with Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh as the chief guest.

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Two Manipur government officials have been released after their kidnapping by suspected Kuki militants on August 8, official sources said on Wednesday.

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Imphal: A powerful bomb exploded close to Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh’s official residence here on Wednesday amid high security deployment on the Independence Day eve but no casualty was reported.

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Manipur celebrates ‘Patriots Day’ on Tuesday, 13, to commemorate the 1891 Anglo-Manipuri war during which scores of people sacrificed their lives to safeguard the independence of the state.

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Militant outfit Kangleipak Communist Party on Tuesday called for a 12-hour “public curfew” from 6 am on August 15 as part of its boycott call of the Independence Day celebrations. Fire services, media, water supply, religious functions and electricity would be exempted from the purview of the “public curfew”, the outfit’s Publicity Secretary Paikhomba Meitei said in a statement.

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A husband chopped off three fingers of his wife when he attacked her with a sword in interior Thoubal district of Manipur, official reports said on Friday.

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Assam Rifles killed six terrorists in an encounter in Senapati district, Manipur.

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A woman was on Friday shot at by her neighbour for driving out a goat which was eating vegetables from her garden at an interior village in Imphal West district of Manipur, police said.

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A police constable shot dead his wife following an argument in Manipur’s interior Senapati district.

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Three months after two teenaged girls went missing in Manipur, they were spotted at a training camp in Myanmar. The two girls – one 14 and another 15 – were being trained by Manipur’s banned rebel outfit Revolutionary People’s Front.

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A powerful bomb exploded near a police station in Ukhrul district of Manipur, officials said on Tuesday.

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Right To Information Activist Kumar Satyajit is on a mission. His only focus is to find answers to the acute electricity problems that stares Manipur on the face. Imphal is perhaps the only Indian city that doesn’t get electricity for more than five hours a day.

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Three days after the mysterious death of a 21-year-old Manipuri girl, students and activist have come out in large numbers demanding a fair probe in the case. The girl was found dead in her rented apartment in Chirag Dilli, she was lying in a pool of blood.

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It has been 55 years since the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was first introduced. The longest demonstration against it has been on in Manipur with Irom Sharmila on a fast for over 12 years now.

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Three youths from Manipur sustained minor injuries after they were allegedly beaten up by their neighbour and his son for “spitting” in front of their house, police said. The incident was reported from south Delhi’s Munirka on Tuesday afternoon where Ronny, 25, Seijan Guite, 23, and Samson, 25, were thrashed by their neighbour Adarsh Kumar, his son Ashish and some others.

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Militants lobbed a powerful grenade at the residence of Manipur Irrigation and Flood control Minister Ngamthang Haokip in the heart of Imphal town but it failed to explode, officials said on Saturday.

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On July 4, 2012, the apex court had agreed to hear a similar plea for probe into alleged extra-judicial killings by BSF in the border area of West Bengal. In that case, petitioner Bangla Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha, a Kolkata-based NGO, had alleged that there are more than 200 cases where BSF personnel indulged in extra-judicial killings and torture in the border area and those cases were never probed by the state police.

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