NEW DELHI, Jun 6 (NNN-PTI) – An Indian border guard, belonging to the Border Security Force, was killed and two paramilitary troopers of Assam Rifles were wounded today, in a gunfight with militants in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Indian army, a gunfight between government forces and a group of militants broke out in Serou village of Thoubal district, about 69 km south of Imphal, capital of Manipur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Army said, intermittent firing between government forces and a group of militants took place throughout last night, and government forces effectively retaliated to the firing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Indian army, along with paramilitary forces and police, started extensive area domination operations, following the recent crisis in Manipur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last month, large-scale violence broke out in the state, during a tribal protest demonstration over the inclusion of the non-tribal Meiteis community, for a scheduled tribe status. The call for protest was given by the All Tribal Student Union Manipur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scheduled tribes in India are officially designated as disadvantaged socio-economic groups. They are given reservations in education and jobs with the aim of improving their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thousands of people took part in the rally, during which violence broke out between the tribals and non-tribals, causing 98 deaths, according to reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authorities responded by imposing a curfew and deployed over 100 columns of the army and paramilitary forces in the state, to restore peace.– NNN-PTI <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI, Jun 6 (NNN-PTI) – An Indian border guard, belonging to the Border Security Force, was killed and two paramilitary troopers of Assam Rifles were wounded today, in a gunfight with militants in India’s north-eastern state of Manipur, officials said. According to the Indian army, a gunfight between government forces and a group of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,287,286],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224001,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223999\/revisions\/224001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}