IMPHAL, May 23 -- Businesses, educational institutions, and markets were shut and public transport remained off the roads in Imphal on Thursday in response to a 48-hour strike call against a directive for the removal of "Manipur" from a state transport bus. Kuldiep Singh, who was named the state's security adviser as part of efforts to tackle the protracted ethnic violence in Manipur, defended the directive saying it was a precautionary measure to avoid incidents like the one in Kangpokpi, where suspected Kuki-Zo militants attacked a bus. The ethnic violence in the state has since May 2023 claimed at least 260 lives and displaced around 60,000. On Wednesday, the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity, a Meitei organisation, called for ...