
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, on a visit to Manipur, has promised to review some of the stringent provisions of the AFSPA. ...
Imphal: Manipuri activist Irom Sharmila Chanu, who has been on a fast for the past six years to oppose the draconian Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in the northeastern state, completed six years of her protest on Thursday. Official reports on Friday said Sharmila had began her fast on November 2, 2000 after an Assam Rifles personnel shot dead 10 persons in a bus depot at Malom near Imphal airport....