Politics / Nagaland

BANGKOK, Feb 4 ? Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga today met NSCN (IM) General Secretary T Muviah and said dialogue would help in strengthening peace talks between the Government of India and the Naga outfit, reports PTI. ?We had very good discussions and I hope that now things (the peace talks) will move in the right direction,? Zoramthanga told PTI after closed door one-on-one talks between the two leaders.

The Mizoram Chief Minister, who described himself as a "facilitator" between the Government and NSCN (IM), flew in here yesterday and is scheduled to leave on Friday. He said he may hold...

KOHIMA Feb 3 (NEPS): Nagaland Home Minister Dr TM Lotha said the approach of the ONGC for the exploration of oil in Nagaland was ?unrealistic because they had not given due recognition to the landowners.

Speaking to NEPS here today, the Home Minister made it clear that the plight of the landowners should be addressed and further added that the ONGC was quite ?insensitive? towards this.?They (ONGC) have not taken care of the interest and wellbeing of the landowners,? the Minister stated. Therefore, the landowners were unhappy with them.

Dr Lotha also flaged the unsystematic style of...

NEW DELHI, Feb 2 ? Asserting that the talks with NSCN (I-M) group were progressing well, Minister of State for Home ID Swami on Friday said the Government was open to hold dialogue with separatist groups including the Naxalites, reports PTI. ?We are committed to strengthen peace moves elsewhere also,? Swami said in Rajya Sabha referring to breakthrough made in talks with Bodo separatists and efforts to hold a dialogue with Hurriyat and other groups in Jammu and Kashmir.

At the same time, the Minister, who was replying to a private member?s resolution demanding special category status for...

Kohima, Jan. 19: The Nagaland People?s Front (NPF), which leads the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN), has decided to go in for consensus on candidates for the forthcoming elections to both Houses of Parliament.

At a marathon meeting held over two days, the party decided to resolve the question on parliamentary elections through parleys within the ruling coalition. ?We have agreed to a consensus,? said NPF leader and finance minister K. Therie. Earlier, the municipal elections in the state had caused bad blood between the NPF and the BJP.

Sources in the BJP had said earlier that...

Kohima, Jan. 14: Pro-insurgent Briton David Patrick Ward, arrested in Nagaland six months ago on charges of assault and arson, will have a high-profile visitor to his prison cell next week in the form of his country?s deputy high commissioner to India, Andrew Hall.

The British high commission had written to the Nagaland government asking for Ward?s deportation to the UK, but the seriousness of the charges against him stalled the process.

Variously described as a ?Robinhood-type character?, a ?tricky person? and a ?fanatical supporter of Naga insurgency?, Ward was booked under the National...

New Delhi, Dec. 25 The two top leaders of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) are planning a second visit to India almost a year after spending a hectic fortnight in New Delhi trying to break the ice with the political leadership.

If all goes well, NSCN (I-M) chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah will be in the capital in February to take the peace process a few steps closer to the goal of ending Naga insurgency. The duo is expected to pack in a trip to Nagaland, their first since July 1999.

Nagaland chief minister Neiphiu Rio said he was certain...

IMPHAL, Dec 21?The National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isasc Muivah) extending moral support to ULFA and other revolutionary organisations which have come under heavy attack from the Bhutanese army in Bhutan for the past few days, has imposed a 24 hour bandh in all Naga areas in the North east.

The bandh began at of 6 am on Sunday 21 and will conclude at 6 am the following day, according to sources here. The outfit which is currently continuing peace talk with the Government of India since August 1997 also stated that they fully endorse the 48 hour bandh called by ULFA, NDFB and KLO.

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New Delhi, Dec. 20: The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) today broke its silence over the Royal Bhutan Army?s operations against militants of the Northeast. Terming the exercise as brutal and cruel, the NSCN (I-M) said the military drive has shocked the people of the region.

?According to reliable sources, almost every arrested person was shot dead, arrested women were raped and even killed mercilessly. Human rights are being grossly violated,? said Thuingaleng Muivah, the outfit?s general secretary, in an email from Oking.

He said it was really sad that a situation has been...

KOHIMA, Dec 17 ? Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio has re-introduced the Naga Integration Bill in the Nagaland Assembly Session Tuesday for resolution. The Naga Integration Bill had been passed thrice by this same Assembly in the past. And the current one, if passed, will be the fourth one.

Moving for resolution of the integration of the Naga contiguous areas on the opening day of the Nagaland Assembly Session, the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland Government, Chief Minister informed the House that the ?aspirations? of the Naga people for the ?integration of the Naga areas adjoining the State...

Kohima, Dec. 16: The Nagaland government today introduced a resolution in the Assembly on integration of Naga areas contiguous to the state. The timing of the resolution is significant. The resolution, tabled by chief minister Neiphiu Rio, iterated ?its earlier stand and urged the Centre to bring together the Naga people living in the state of Nagaland and the contiguous areas by integrating them under one administrative unit?.

Three resolutions were pas-sed by the Assembly earlier, too, on December 12, 1964, August 28, 1970 and September 16, 1994.

Though the adoption of this resolution may...