Morning Digest | Visit to France will provide new impetus to strategic partnership: PM Modi; Manipur Police file case against Meitei Leepun chief Pramot Singh, and more

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Visit to France will provide new impetus to strategic partnership: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday, July 13, 2023, expressed confidence that his visit to France will provide a new impetus to the bilateral strategic partnership and said that he looks forward to holding wide-ranging discussions with President Emmanuel Macron on taking forward this time-tested relationship over the next 25 years.

Manipur Police file case against Meitei Leepun chief Pramot Singh

The Manipur Police have registered a criminal case against Meitei Leepun chief Pramot Singh for allegedly promoting enmity between groups and criminal conspiracy, among other charges .A government source confirmed that the FIR was registered against Mr. Singh on July 8 at the Kangpokpi police station following a complaint by the Kuki Students Organisation (KSO), Sadar Hills, Kangpokpi. The district to north of Imphal is dominated by the Kukis.

Nagaland subdivision bars Aadhaar update for people from Manipur

The authorities of a subdivision in Nagaland’s Chümoukedima district have instructed the common service centre operators not to let the Kuki people displaced from Manipur change their addresses in their Aadhaar cards. The Kukis, recognised as one of 16 tribes of Nagaland, have a larger population in adjoining Manipur. Many of them left Manipur following the ethnic clashes with the majority Meitei people that began on May 3.

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