Suddenly the question topmost in the mind of Manipur is whether Chief Minister N Biren would have the opportunity or be granted the opportunity for a one-to-one meet with the Prime Minister during the meeting of Niti Aayog which has been scheduled at New ..

The issue is extraordinary and extraordinary times call for out of the box thinking. This is ideally the way to approach the situation in Manipur, especially after the place went up in flames on May 3, 2023. Over 220 people have lost their lives and thous..

Surviving Manipur. This is life lesson number 1 for majority of the people and this should be understood beyond the ongoing ethnic clash that has claimed over 220 lives, displaced thousands with many others still untraceable. So even as thousands continue..

Yet again, some MLAs with 12 from the BJP, are understood to have sought a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a written intimation seeking the appointment was submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office on July 16. The MLAs from the BJP incl..

Don’t blame the rain, though the heavy downpour that lashed Manipur in the last week of May and then again in the early part of July would have gone a long way in making things worse. It was as recently as March 28 in 2022 that The Sangai Express ha..

At least five Central security personnel have been killed by Kuki militants, after Manipur went up in flames on May 3, 2023. Add the number of State police who have been snipered as well as the number of Meiteis who have been killed and this is where one ..

The ongoing ethnic violence, incessant rainfall leading to flooding in many parts of Imphal in quick succession, twice, in a span of 30 days or so and the rain God and conduct of man have combined ‘beautifully’ to script the devastation that i..

‘I want to die at my own home.’ If this does not jolt the conscience of Delhi and Imphal then perhaps nothing would, coming as it is from the mouth of a bereaved mother, whose son took the extreme step of taking his own life inside a relief ca..

From taking the story of Manipur to the floor of the Lok Sabha, courtesy the ‘extremely relevant’ speech delivered by MP Bimol Akoijam, to now Rahul Gandhi visiting the strife torn State, the third to be precise during the conflict, the oldest..

If this does not jolt the senses of the people and more importantly the Government, then nothing will. Nothing that one can do when the sky opens up and batters a place with incessant rain for days but it should be more than clear that the devastation tha..

Giving substance and meaning to the decision to scrap the Free Movement Regime (FMR) as well as the stand to fence the Indo-Myanmar border and these two points should be understood as the wheel turning around the axis of the call to implement the National Register of Citizens with 1951 as the base year. The Nagas may have expressed their reservation against the decision to do away with FMR but the reality should be kept in mind and this should be all that clearer with the United Naga Council (UNC) ..

The Nagas took note of the political ‘ambitions’ of the Kukis much before the Meiteis did and the Separate Administration call is nothing but the earlier ‘muted’ call for a Kukiland or a Zalengam. If the Meiteis today have risen as..

More than two weeks since the Modi 3.0 Government took oath of office and the biggest and most pertinent question doing the round is when New Delhi would step in and do something concrete to sort out the human tragedy that has come to define Manipur. This..

Fall in line or else...or read this with the words ‘This is Assam, not Manipur’ a line addressed with good effect to the folks from Manipur who have taken shelter at Cachar district of the neighbouring State and in just five words, the IGP (La..

No doubt, disarmament is a fundamental step towards containment of the protracted violence traumatizing the state of Manipur for the last more than 13 months. Disarmament alone may not be able to resolve the crisis but it can definitely open a way forward..

Should it shake the Government ? It should but this is India, where irregularities are taken as something of a par for the course and one wonders whether this would send the think tank of the Government scurrying back to the drawing room or whether it wil..

Just a few days after supremo of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Mohan Bhagwat minced no words in asserting that the Manipur issue must be given priority, right wing publication, the Swarajya has gone on to run a 1500 worded article under the telli..

Keep the place and her people in a state of utter confusion and this is what has been happening to Manipur since the evening of May 3, 2023. Even after more than a year it is not clear whether Article 355 has been enforced in the State or not. Has Chief M..

For over 400 days the focus of The Sangai Express, as with all other major newspapers published from Imphal, has been on the ongoing ethnic clash and the focus should be understood not only within the space dedicated to the clash, but also on the opinion ..

The figures should speak for itself. Over 200 killed. Many still missing. Over 60 thousand still surviving in the different relief centres set up all over Manipur. The statistics spelt out here are from May 3, 2023 to June 11, 2024. Clashes continue. Many..

It should be more than obvious. Everything has gone beyond the control of Imphal, its hands tied with everything that Delhi has been able to whip out of its closet. The confusion over the command structure, the extent of the free hand given to the para-mi..

It is a massive mandate and what makes the victory margin all that more remarkable lies in the fact that it came against all odds. A strong message that elections can be won without buying votes and without resorting to strong arm tactics has been deliver..

Definitely a bad time for Manipur. The ethnic clash continues to be qualified by the term ‘ongoing’ and it has been like this for over 365 days, Cyclone Remal has exacted a heavy toll and the damages caused by the cyclone and the accompanying ..

Just a few days left for the vote count but these are extraordinary times and the focus of the people is not on June 4, but on the landslides, the floods and the devastating impact it has had on the people. The focus is not on June 4, but on the sky liter..

The Gods must be angry. On a more scientific note, this is a wake up call, a call that must have come many times earlier, and people need to be thankful that so far Manipur has not reported many deaths even though the place has been reeling under the impa..