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Alcoholism has affected the health of Manipur’s youth for decades. 

Booze is back in Manipur after three decades, but not everyone is raising a cheer

Will legal liquor boost revenues, or will it drown a fragile State known for drug addiction and alcoholism?
Iboyaima Laithangbam
Manipur police and Assam Rifles personnel destroyed some 80,000 poppy plants in a joint operation at Longpi in Noney district on January 21, 2023.

Drug running continues unabated in Manipur

The State government fired five commandos in a recent case, but most perpetrators go unpunished.
Iboyaima Laithangbam
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh during the foundation stone laying ceremony of various development projects, in Bishnupur on January 6.

Arjuna in Manipur: Amit Shah courts controversy with remarks on Mahabharata connection to State

The Union Home Minister’s mention of Chitrangada episode is a distortion of history, say experts.
Iboyaima Laithangbam
A boy prepares local liquor in Sekmai.

Proposal to lift prohibition in Manipur evokes ire of women activists

They fear that this will undo years of hard work.
Iboyaima Laithangbam
Indian pedestrians walk past a burning police station following violence in the Churachandpur district of the state of Manipur on September 1, 2015. Hundreds of protesters clashed with police in India's restive northeast over a controversial tribal rights laws, leaving at least seven people dead, a senior official said September 1. Violence erupted in Manipur state's Churachandpur district late Monday hours after the local parliament passed three controversial bills relating to the residence rights of indigenous groups. AFP PHOTO / STR

Manipur in ferment

Two months of protests over laws to regulate non-indigenous people’s entry into and activities in Manipur have affected normal life in the State.
IBOYAIMA LAITHANGBAM
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