Politics / Nagaland

DIMAPUR, June 26: Nagaland Chief minister SC Jamir said, that by withdrawing the arrest warrants issued against the senior leaders of the NSCN-IM we have cleared all the obstacles to pave the way for their return to India for continuing the ongoing peace talks in the Indian soil.? Jamir said, ?Now the ball is in their court we have cleared all the obstacles as announced earlier.? It may be recalled that Jamir earlier on February 22 in order to create a congenial environment of goodwill and understanding as well to facilitate the ongoing talks between the NSCN-IM and the Centre, while...

SHILLONG, June 25 ? Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura will be the first states in the north eastern region where Electoral Photo-Identity Cards (EPIC) have been made mandatory for the Assembly polls due in February next year. Making the announcement here this evening, Election Commissioner of India, BB Tandon told newsmen ?The Election Commission has taken a policy decision to make the EPIC mandatory for the coming polls to the state Assemblies in the three north eastern states along with Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh.?

Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) will also be used in all the 1569 polling...

DIMAPUR, June 24 ? Accusing Nagaland Chief Minister SC Jamir of being opposed to a final solution to the vexed Indo-Naga political issue the steering committee of the NSCN-IM has said his vehement opposition to the first ceasefire declaration in 1964 itself has proven his efforts to crush the Nagas and their rights. ?Jamir has ignored the facts of the Naga and their proud history,? the NSCN said and charged him of attempting to ?hijack the issue of the Naga nation? at a time when the Nagas ?are trying to find a peaceful and final solution to the Naga issue, the NSCN said adding ?but Jamir is...

NEW DELHI, June 21? In a move which would give a boost to the Naga peace process, the Nagaland Government has ?formally withdrawn? the arrest warrant against NSCN (I-M) general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah, a state government spokesman said here today. This paves the way for Muivah and NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chishi Swu to visit India to hold further rounds of peace talks. The district magistrate of Dimapur on Monday passed an order withdrawing the warrant, which was issued in February 2000 following an ambush on Chief Minister S C Jamir?s convoy in November 1999 in which two security...

DIMAPUR, June 19 ? The National Socialist Council of Nagaland headed by SS Khaplang while accusing the rival faction headed by Isak-Muivah for harassing and killing of its cadres has also warned that unless such crimes are stopped by them, it will not ?cow down? but pay back equally. In a communiqu? issued by its publicity wing, the NSCN regretted that even after offering ceasefire since 1997 in response to the longing demands of the Nagas for ?peace and unity, ? it said that ?these offers were repeatedly meted out with bloody response either against the innocent Nagas or upon the NSCN (K)...

Imphal, June 17: The report in The Imphal Free Press about the selection of four tribes of Manipur in the new list of 43 tribes to be recognized as Scheduled Tribes under the Scheduled Tribe Order, 1950, has met with mixed response from different parties. An organization called the Kuki Tribes Recognition Demand Committee, while welcoming the inclusion of "Any Kuki Tribe" into the four selected for inclusion in the ST list, strongly objected to the list of tribes in the IFP which are reportedly annoyed with their non inclusion in the ST list as independent tribes. A memorandum by the...

DIMAPUR, June 10 ? Former Nagaland Power Minister Kewekhape Therie, dropped earlier from the Council of Ministers headed by Chief Minister SC Jamir on May 15 last, has been expelled from the Nagaland Pradesh Congress for a period of six years with immediate effect. ?The Nagaland Pradesh Congress executive committee, on receiving the PCC disciplinary Action Committee?s report, has unanimously decided to expel Therie, MLA, from the primary membership of the Indian National Congress for committing serious breach of party disciplinary rules of the INC with immediate effect,? said Nuzota Swuro, MLA...

DIMAPUR, June 8: The differences between the stands of the Nagaland government headed by chief minister SC Jamir with that of the Naga Hoho has once again emerged when the Naga Hoho termed the statement made by Jamir on the occasion of the 7th general conference of Nagaland GBs Federation at the Town hall, here on Dimapur, June 5: The differences between the stands of the Nagaland government headed by chief minister SC Jamir with that of the Naga Hoho has once again emerged when the Naga Hoho termed the statement made by Jamir on the occasion of the 7th general conference of Nagaland GBs...

KOHIMA, June 7 ? The Vice-Chancellor of Nagaland University Prof GD Sharma has urged the ?Visitor? of the university and President of India KR Narayanan to relieve him from the post with immediate effect, reports PTI. In a letter to the President, who holds the post of honorary Visitor of the university, Sharma Monday requested him to take note of his last August?s letter relinquishing the post in the wake of mounting pressures from teachers and the student community for his resignation. While requesting the university ?Visitor? to kindly accept his decision ?to relinquish the VC?s post with...

DIMAPUR, May 31 ? In a significant development the Tenyimia legislators,which comprises of Angami, Chakhesang, Zeliangrong and Rengma Naga tribes have registered their dismay at the statement of the Angami Public Organization (APO) issued jointly by APO?s vice president R Iralu and treasurer Vipose Zao, wherein the APO has expressed its resentment against the decision of Nagaland Chief Minister SC Jamir for dropping Therie from his Council of Ministers, alleging that the Chief Minister?s decision ?speaks loudly of a design to marginalize the Tenyimia community within the government.? The...