New Delhi, April 25 -- In the first phase of polling for India's national elections on April 19, 2024, Manipur, which sends two members to the Lok Sabha, witnessed violence, arson and gunfire. This wa... Read More
New Delhi, April 22 -- Maldives' pro-China President Mohamed Muizzu ruling People's National Congress (PNC) has won a supermajority in the Maldives Parliament by bagging 60 seats in the parliamentary ... Read More
New Delhi, April 9 -- The mudslinging among Indian political parties over Sri Lanka's Katchtheevu Island was covered in these columns earlier (https://www.southasiamonitor.org/index.php/spotlight/raki... Read More
New Delhi, April 3 -- In the run up to general elections in India, the island of Katchatheevu lying halfway between India and Sri Lanka in the Palk Strait has suddenly popped up in the media like the ... Read More
New Delhi, March 30 -- In the backdrop of 21 rounds of India-China Corps Commander-level talks failing to achieve a breakthrough to the continuing India-China standoff in Eastern Ladakh, the 29th meet... Read More
New Delhi, March 5 -- The Manipur High Court has deleted the recommendation for granting Scheduled Tribe (ST) status to the Meitei community in an important judgment of March 27, 2023, saying the ruli... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 25 -- India and China held the 21st round of Corps Commander-level talks at the Chushl-Moldo meeting point on the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on February 19, 2024. According to the Mi... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 17 -- The spectacle of the radical Arambai Tenggol beating up lawmakers and forcibly administering oath to 37 legislators and two MPs at Kangla Fort in Imphal on January 24 and the kin... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- The recent storming of Imphal by the armed Arambai Tenggol, a radical Meitei organization; administrating oaths to 37 legislators and two MPs at Kangla Fort, their demands (abroga... Read More
New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Two people were killed, five injured and one went missing in fresh incidents of ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki-Zo in Koutruk village situated in the Imphal West district... Read More