Sachin and his wife, Shweta, had a heated argument after he found two young men from the neighbourhood with her at his home, and strangled her to death.

An eight-year-old boy found himself alone at a hospital as he arranged the postmortem examination of his mother, who died of HIV-related infection, until local police stepped in to help him with legal formalities and the last rites.

Manipur’s Thadou tribe draw attention to what they called “reckless, irresponsible, and inherently dangerous” decision to start the census exercise in the border state without first removing Any Kuki Tribes from the ST list.