CLAMPING DOWN on protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the Manipur government on Tuesday imposed curfew in Imphal city and suspended mobile Internet services for five days across the state. Advertising In Imphal West, District Magistrate Naorem Praveen Singh barred local cable news channels from “transmission… of agitation or protest”. In an order on Monday, he invoked powers under Section 19 of the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 to “prohibit transmission or re-transmission of agitation/ protest of any form, inflammatory speech and/ or public discourse that may incite violence, and/ or any programme which may lead to breach of public peace and tranquility in the interest of the general public”. While the other districts have not passed such orders, most of the local cable news channels are headquartered in Imphal West.