Politics / Nagaland

Imphal, June 27: NSCN-IM Home Minister Rh Raising told Newmai News Network today that the Amsterdam peace -talks held between the NSCN-IM leaders and the Government of India concluded in a positive manner. However, the NSCN-IM Home Minister said that there was no discussion on serious agenda this time adding that the talk was just a cordial meeting of the new Congress led UPA Government with the Naga Peace talks as this was the first time for the Congress to interact with the NSCN-IM leaders though the talk had been between the Government of India irrespective of the political party heading...

Imphal, June 26: Prominent social organizations of Nagaland today warned of a collapse of the peace process between the Centre and NSCN factions if the Government did not recognize their demand for unification of all Naga dominated areas in North East as a "non-negotiable issue". "Unification of all Naga areas under a single administration is our birth right and a non-negotiable issue ...the extension of ceasefire between the Centre and NSCN factions could be a problem if this demand is not accepted," Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights (NPMHR) spokesman Neingulo Krome told reporters here...

KOHIMA, June 26 – Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has said his government was for an out-of-court settlement of the prolonged dispute over demarcation of inter-state boundary lines with Assam in a spirit of ‘give and take,’ reports PTI. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi had announced that the issue must be settled by the Supreme Court, but “my government is for resolving the matter amicably in a spirit of give and take outside the court,” Rio told the state Assembly on Saturday. He said the Assam government filed a petition in the apex court in 1988 seeking a settlement to the vexed issue...

KARBI ANGLONG, June 26 –Tension continued in the Dhansiri Reserve Forest area of central Assam's Karbi Anglong district following an attempt to construct houses and a church there by Nagas from across the border, reports PTI.

Official sources here said the people from across Nagaland were setting up houses and a church there on the land they claimed to have been sold by a fake NGO which provided them with false land deeds in the name of the district administration.

Security forces had been deployed in the area and district superintendent visited to ease the tension there and prevent the...

Imphal, June 25: Even as neighboring States like Nagaland and Meghalaya have worked out the model for the impending Ministry downsizing which will come into force from July 7, the Congress led SPF Government is still groping in the dark waiting for a nod at New Delhi from the AICC high command to the model worked out by the Steering Committee of the ruling Front. Chief Minister O Ibobi who left for New Delhi to meet AICC president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get their approval to the model worked out here is yet to be granted an audience by the two most important persons...

Kohima, June 25: Akrutz?, a Chakhesang woman, is learning Ao. E.T. Ngullie’s wife speaks fluent Lotha, but she comes from a different tribe. Blame it on inter-tribe marriages. The Nagas, especially the youth, fumble for words when it comes to displaying their command over their mothertongue. The vocal chords are now more tuned to English and the ubiquitous Nagamese, a corrupt non-script version of Assamese that is serving as the lingua franca of this tiny hilly state for centuries.

The State Council of Educational Research and Training has discovered after a survey on the changing pattern of...

NEW DELHI, June 25 – The UPA Government’s stand on maintaining territorial integrity of North-Eastern States threatens to snowball into a major controversy with the Naga organisations hardening their stand on the issue. A delegation of three prominent Naga bodies including Naga Students’ Federation, Naga Mothers’ Association and Naga Peoples Movement for Human Rights today conveyed to Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh that the issue of unification of Naga areas was non-negotiable.

“Whatever be the outcome of the peace negotiations, integration of all Naga areas will remain non-negotiable as...

DIMAPUR, June 21 – The NNC’s self-styled Federal Government of Nagaland (FGN) has expressed concern over the deplorable situation in the state saying that the common people are living in the grip of terror. The NNC said that the NSCN-IM cadres were freely moving around in several parts of the state creating terror and extorting money from poor villagers. “Our people are unable to stand up to assert their rights but have to suffer as silent lambs with calm resignation in the hands of destructive forces and elements alien to Naga way of life. Today the NSCN-IM portrays that image very clearly...

Kohima, June 19: The Nagaland government’s goodwill gesture to release 56 jailed activists of different militant groups has run into rough weather four months after its initiation. The militants, arrested under the National Security Act and lodged in different jails of the state, were to be released after a cabinet decision by the DAN government in February. The cabinet, subsequently, took the decision to release the rebels, but no executive order has been sent to the prison authorities to set them free.

“We have read in the newspapers about the decision, but have not received any official...

NEW DELHI, June 19 – The Government of India has decided to rush chief interlocutor K Padmanabhaiah to meet NSCN (IM) leaders next week to work out the modalities for extending the ceasefire for another year. The current round of ceasefire expires on July 31. At its first high-level meeting on the Naga issue, chaired by Union Minister of Home Affairs, Shivraj Patil, the UPA Government as expected has decided to carry on with the peace process.

The crucial meeting to review the Naga peace process held at North Block here this afternoon was attended by a host of top officials including National...