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3 days ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy |Greeshma Kuthar
Professor Monirul Hussain, 73, recounted a conversation that he had a few years ago in Guwahati. At the end of an engaging chat with a stranger during a journey, the professor was asked his name. When he gave his name, the stranger exclaimed, “Oh! I thought you were Axomiya.” Perturbed, the professor asked how the man defined “Assamese” and if it included only those who had Hindu-sounding names, but the conversation soon petered off. Prof.
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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Greeshma Kuthar |C.S. Venkiteswaran |Vaishna Roy
At the Koirengei junction in Imphal on June 11, 2025, a few older men stood by, wearing T-shirts that had “Arambai Tenggol GHQ” printed on them. Women began to arrive in packed autos. They sat in groups on the carpet spread out on the left side of the highway, talking in hushed voices. A bandh declared in protest against the arrest of an Arambai Tenggol leader had been called off the previous day.
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Mar 21, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Greeshma Kuthar |Vaishna Roy
The Centre’s continuing unwillingness to effectively mitigate the ethnic violence in Manipur is leading to a crisis. The State, now under President’s Rule, plunged into more violence after an announcement by Home Minister Amit Shah on March 1. One person died and 103 injured, out of which 16 are critical. The reason: a focus on grandstanding instead of addressing people’s needs, even as the State sinks further and further into a humanitarian crisis of its own making.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Greeshma Kuthar |Vaishna Roy
Despite long-standing demands for his ouster amid the State’s turmoil, N. Biren Singh’s resignation as Manipur Chief Minister on February 9 evoked mixed reactions across the State. At Lamlong Bazaar in the capital city of Imphal, for instance, there seemed to be no agreement among the women vendors on the propriety of his decision. Raseshwari Palungbam (74), who identified herself as a BJP supporter, wanted him to return to power.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Greeshma Kuthar |Soni Mishra |Vaishna Roy
Zakia Jafri, who fought an over two-decade-long legal battle to secure justice for the victims of the 2002 Gujarat riots, died at the age of 86 in Ahmedabad on February 1. Her husband, former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri, was among the 69 people who were killed inside Gulberg Society, a Muslim neighbourhood in Ahmedabad, during the riots.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sanjay Hegde |Sushanta Talukdar |Greeshma Kuthar |Saba Naqvi
“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show,” is how Charles Dickens begins his semi-autobiographical novel David Copperfield. Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, who recently retired as the Chief Justice of India (CJI), could not entertain any such doubt and would want to play the hero not only of his own life but in the lives of several others as well.
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Mujibur Rehman |Vaishna Roy |Greeshma Kuthar
Lalrameng Hmar, 51, was unsure of what awaited her at M’s residence. All her nightmares since May 3, 2023, when ethnic violence began to engulf Manipur, had suddenly become a reality. Zairawn, her village, located 7 km from Jiribam market, had come under attack from armed men, who she referred to as the Arambai Tenggol (Meitei militia) and the UNLF (the insurgent group United National Liberation Front).
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Greeshma Kuthar |Soumyajit Saha
CHENNAI/MUMBAI -- Samsung is locked in a stalemate with striking employees near Chennai, after talks between government officials representing its interests and unions failed on Monday. Samsung workers and their representatives are not only protesting over pay and working conditions, but also want the company and the government to recognize their Samsung India Workers' Union. SIWU is backed by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU).
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Greeshma Kuthar
CHENNAI -- Samsung is locked in a stalemate with striking employees near Chennai, after talks between government officials representing its interests and unions failed on Monday. Samsung workers and their representatives are not only protesting over pay and working conditions, but also want the company and the government to recognize their Samsung India Workers' Union. SIWU is backed by the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU).
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Greeshma Kuthar
Hundreds of workers at Samsung Electronics – the world’s top maker of smartphones, TVs and memory chips – have been striking in Tamil Nadu, demanding better working conditions, higher wages and that their labour union be recognised. The majority of workers at Samsung’s home appliances factory in Sriperumbudur, a town near Chennai, have been protesting since September 9, making it one of the biggest strikes in India in recent years.
