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Manipur, Assam on high security alert
Nagaland Post Centre Tuesday sounded a security alert in Manipur and Assam even as separatist rebels announced a boycott of the August 15 Independence Day celebrations. “We have placed security forces on high alert particularly in Assam and Manipur to thwart rebels … |
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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.
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.