The Latest Breaking News from Assam Rifles

The Imphal valley in strife-torn Manipur has been rocked this week by protests by students, clashes with security personnel, stone-pelting at the Raj Bhavan, and tearing down of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s posters. And a curfew and suspension of internet services are in place in several districts.

Students from various schools and colleges have staged massive protests in front of the Chief Minister’s Secretariat and Raj Bhavan in Imphal, expressing their dissatisfaction with the handling of the Manipur crisis.

At least one Assam Rifles personnel was injured after unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle of the security force at Namdang area in Margherita. Read further on Dynamite News:

Encounter between Assam Rifles and suspected militants in Tinsukia district, with Army helicopters and additional forces dispatched.

The Assam Rifles, along with Special Narcotics Police Station, Crime Investigation Department (Crime), Aizawl recovered three soap cases of heroin worth more than Rs 25 lakh in Aizawl's Zuangtui and apprehended one individual. Read further on Dynamite News:

Assam Rifles, along with the Special Narcotics Police Station, CID (crime). Read further on Dynamite News:

It also points to the role of armed groups from the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities in the prolonged violence in India.

The police also apprehended two individuals who were handed over to Champhai Police for further legal proceedings. Read further on Dynamite News:

Tensions between the settlers, who are primarily families of Gurkhas who served in the Army and the Assam Rifles, now live in fear of being ejected as some of them have been asked to show permits to travel elsewhere in Arunachal Pradesh