While the electorate in the Meitei-majority constituency, the Inner Manipur seat, would cast their votes on April 19, the tribal-majority Outer Manipur seat witness polling on April 19 and 26.

Chief minister Pema Khandu and four others from the BJP have entered the next assembly even before the state goes to polls on April 19.

While 18 of those companies mentioned in the March 14 disclosure of the EC vanished from the FIU’s subsequent annual list of ‘high risk financial institutions’ after 2018 for violating rules under the PMLA, one company continued to feature in it till 2022.   

The company faced IT raids by the Centre on October 26, 2018. It bought its first tranche of electoral bonds for the BJP worth Rs 30 crore six months later.

The Finance Ministry had said in 2018 that additional documents to comply with the rules of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) had been given by a number of companies taken off the list but some questions about patterns of bonds and fortunes must be asked.

For the first time in 2018, the Ministry of Finance’s Financial Intelligence Unit had published a list of 9,491 “high-risk financial institutions” to alert the enforcement agencies for alleged money laundering. These companies figure in that list.

Kumar and Sandhu are retired IAS batchmates. Kumar has been key to several home ministry projects and also the Ram Temple Trust. Before being sent back to Uttarakhand to take over as the chief secretary in July 2021, Sandhu was the chairman of the NHAI.

This happened hours after the Supreme Court Bar Association president Adish C. Aggarwala wrote a letter to President Droupadi Murmu, urging her to intervene on the top court's judgment on the electoral bonds scheme to protect the corporate houses who have funded political parties

The Modi government’s significant and rapid moves in Goa and Tripura, along with the hints it has dropped on Gorkhaland, betray a desperation to increase its electoral prospects.

It is nearly ten months since violence was sparked off in a sensitive border state of Manipur. How does the continuing state of disturbance there compare with J&K? What about what was left unsaid?

The former governor spoke to The Wire from hospital, where he was when the CBI raided his residence.

The Junta has also issued orders to military-owned garment factories to mass-produce uniforms.

For the first time since ethnic conflict broke out in Manipur, Prime Minister visited the northeastern region (Assam) on February 4 and 5 but remained silent on the raging violence in the neighbouring state.

The fall of Junta-controlled key township into hands of Arakan Army holds significance for India's Look/Act East policy, particularly to the India-funded Kaladan Road Project.

Over the years, Laukkaing has proved to be a curse for a large number of people from China as well as for many from other South and East Asian nations. The fall of the city may also result in the return of hundreds of Indians trapped in that township.

They will be rewarded for courage and ability to call out the BJP’s aim of politicising religion. Lining up behind as Modi as he behaves as 'yajman' won’t win them votes, but will be a mockery of the country as a whole.

The latest agreement is just another addition to a litany of previous 'historic' agreements signed with militant groups in the region. Only time will tell whether this 'historic' accord stands out from others, which turned out to be hollow.  

The Union has promised to follow the CBI Manual while it works on preparing guidelines.

With the Lalduhoma government taking over the state’s administration, Mizoram has remained the only state where the ruling party under Narendra Modi is not part of a northeastern state government.

What has made the ZPM’s victory sweeter is also the party’s candidate Lalthansanga defeating chief minister and MNF supremo Zoramthanga by 2,101 votes in the Aizawl East-1 seat.