Both the chairman of the Hill Areas Committee and the MP from Outer Manipur are constitutionally elected Nagas. They are not outsiders; they are our own. That is why their voice is crucial, their silence is more painful, and their responsibility to do much more is non‑negotiable.
Like in most countries around the world, water bodies in Manipur – lake, marshes, rivers, paddies and ponds – are more or less dominated by introduced fish species such as Asian carps, some of which have since become invasive by nature.
Michael Meiphami Shaiza writes about Naga existential threat, the Manipur catastrophic crisis, and the urgent imperative of NRC, census and constitutional justice.
The Nepal disaster is a potential recipe for neighboring country Bhutan, another of the Himalayan nation state perched precariously amongst fragile mountain landscape that is fast deteriorating from climate change impacts, in particular receding glaciers and increasingly evident glacial lake formation.
Despite the immediate filing of a General Diary entry on the day of the attack, the council claimed that a formal FIR (No. 06(06) 2026 UKL-PS U/S 117/131/3(5) BNS) was not registered until June 7.
Accountability begins at home. It demands that Naga political groups, Indian political parties, and Naga Civil Society Organizations stop using the Naga people as bargaining chips and start serving the Naga people as shepherds.
Around 50 militants—led by Jangboi Kipgen of the Kuki National Front (KNF) and supported by members of the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA)—launched the assault at approximately 7:30 a.m.