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Over to Sidharth Bhatia for today’s Cable

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Snapshot of the day

July 1, 2025

Sidharth Bhatia

Police in Manipur are looking for those who fired bullets at a car in Churachandpur yesterday morning, killing its three passengers – a senior official of the Kuki National Army militant group and his two bodyguards – as well as an elderly woman who happened to be at the scene then. The KNA is one of the Kuki militant groups that had signed a suspension of operations agreement with the Union and Manipur governments in 2008. The United Kuki National Army group has reportedly claimed responsibility for yesterday's shooting.

Officials of the Union home ministry and the Intelligence Bureau yesterday met with representatives from three civil society organisations from Manipur,