Rush Hour podcast: Manipur fact-finding team booked for calling violence ‘state-sponsored’

In today’s edition, heavy rainfall across north India has killed at least 18 persons so far, 696 booths across Bengal held repolling for the panchayat election on Monday, and Imphal Police have booked three members of a fact-finding committee for saying that the violence in Manipur is “state-sponsored”.

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References

• Reporter’s Diary: I crossed ‘no man’s land’ in Manipur
• Three years on, the shadow of Delhi riots looms over children – and their friendships
• Why are rural elections in West Bengal so violent?
• Governors are an undemocratic institution – but the good news is they are slowly losing power

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