At least 29 houses were set on fire in separate incidents in Kuki and Tangkhul Naga villages in Manipur near the India-Myanmar border. Four attacks were reported between Wednesday afternoon and early Thursday morning, with Kuki and Naga organisations blaming each other.
The attacks took place in the Kuki villages of Phaimol and Liekot, and in the Tangkhul Naga villages of Shangkhalok and Huimine Thana.
The developments came amid tensions between Kukis and Nagas in Ukhrul that had erupted on February 7 after an alleged assault involving members of the Tangkhul Naga and the Kuki-Zo communities escalated into clashes. At least 25 persons from the two communities have been killed since then. Read on.
India and Japan agreed to boost their partnership in the fields of artificial intelligence, energy resilience and economic security. This came after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi, who is on a three-day visit to New Delhi.
Takaichi’s visit follows Modi’s trip to Tokyo in 2025, during which Japan pledged to more than double its investment in India to more than $61 billion in the next decade. Trade between New Delhi and Tokyo in the financial year 2025-’26 had topped $27 billion.
India and Japan are part of the Quad, or the Quadrilateral Security…
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