{"id":953969,"date":"2026-08-15T04:05:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nenow.in\/?p=528961"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:05:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:05:58","slug":"manipur-24-hour-strike-paralyzes-normal-life-independence-day-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2026\/08\/15\/manipur-24-hour-strike-paralyzes-normal-life-independence-day-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur: 24-hour strike paralyzes normal life, Independence Day celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?fit=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur 24-hour shutdown\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?fit=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<figure><img width=\"768\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?fit=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-rss-image-size size-rss-image-size wp-post-image\" alt=\"Manipur 24-hour shutdown\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?resize=400%2C240&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?resize=150%2C90&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nenow.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Manipur-cease-work.webp?fit=768%2C461&amp;ssl=1&amp;w=370 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Imphal: Normal life across Manipur came to a near-total halt on Saturday as a 24-hour general strike enforced by a coalition of several proscribed underground outfits disrupted Independence Day celebrations and marked a boycott of the 80th Independence Day. The shutdown, which began at midnight on August 14, was spearheaded by the Coordination Committee (CorCom) [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-24-hour-strike-paralyzes-normal-life-independence-day-celebrations.html\">Manipur: 24-hour strike paralyzes normal life, Independence Day celebrations<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/\">NorthEast Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-24-hour-strike-paralyzes-normal-life-independence-day-celebrations.html\">https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/manipur\/manipur-24-hour-strike-paralyzes-normal-life-independence-day-celebrations.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imphal: Normal life across Manipur came to a near-total halt on Saturday as a 24-hour general strike enforced by a coalition of several proscribed underground outfits disrupted Independence Day celebrations and marked a boycott of the 80th Independen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20380],"tags":[34,319,20383,20381,20384,20382],"class_list":["post-953969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nenow","tag-manipur","tag-manipur-news","tag-nenow","tag-northeast-news","tag-northeastnow","tag-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953969"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954019,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953969\/revisions\/954019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}