Politics / Northeast

Imphal, May 10 (PTI): The Gauhati High Court today restrained the Centre from shifting the Special Services Bureau from the North East as proposed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs. A Division Bench, comprising Chief Justice RS Mongia and Justice IA Ansari, in an order passed on a public interest litigation fixed the case for further hearing on July 16. The petitioner, Jugal Barua, a social activist of Tezpur, has challenged the move of the Union Home Ministry to shift the SSB units along with personnel based in each State of the North East to Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The...

AIZAWL, May 7 ? Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga is scheduled to leave for Bangkok today to hold talks with the NSCN (I-M) leadership, Chief Minister?s secretariat sources said here, report PTI. This would be Zoramthanga?s second meeting with NSCN (I-M) leaders in the Thai capital. A former rebel leader himself, Zoramthanga was earlier approached by both the Centre and the NSCN to broker peace deal to solve the Naga problems. He was said to be instrumental in breaking a stalemate when both the sides disagreed on extension of ceasefire outside Nagaland. He, however, said that he would not be...

NEW DELHI, April 24 ? The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has ruled out the possibility of students from the North East studying in Delhi being involved with terrorist and drug trafficking activities. The Ministry?s reply was in response to a question tabled by MVVS Murthi and Ram Mohan Gadde who, quoting a news report in the Hindu, wanted to know whether the Government had any intelligence report that some of the students from the North East who come to Delhi are involved in terrorist and drug activities.

There is no evidence or input to suggest that the students from the north-eastern States...

DIMAPUR, April 24 ? The National Socialist Council of Nagaland headed by Isak-Muivah while reacting to the statement made by the RSS chief K S Sudershan during his recent visit to the neighbouring State?s capital Imphal, where he blamed Christians for the upheaval and unrest in Manipur and other parts of the country, has questioned as to why he was trying to sow seeds of hatred among the people. The Convenor of the NSCN (IM)?s Ceasefire Monitoring Cell, Phungthing Shimrang during an informal interaction with the press at its office based at Diphupar village near here asserted that even before...

Imphal, April 23: The underground NSCN (IM) has lambasted the RSS sarshangalachak, KS Sudarshan, for the jingoistic statements he had made during his visit to Imphal recently, charging that Sudarshan has come to Manipur with the intent of sowing seeds of hatred and bloodshed. The proscribed outfit, in a statement axed here, rejected outright Sudarshan?s reported statement that the demand fro Greater Nagaland is a concept promoted by foreign Christian missionaries. It maintained that the Naga struggle is neither a demand for Greater Nagalim nor the concept of Christian missionaries. It...

Imphal, April 18: The lofty concept of Greater Nagaland conjured up by the NSCN (IM) is just a ?hollow dream? and will wither away with the passage of time, announced the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader KS Sudarshan during the Ekatmala Sammelan function held at Thangmeiband Athletic Union (THAU) ground today. Taking a dig at Christian missionaries Sudarshan claimed that before the advent of Christianity in Manipur all communities live together unitedly. Without mincing a word, he declared, ?It is only when the Nagas came into the fold of Christianity, they demanded independence from...

GUWAHATI, April 11 ? Representatives of the Nyishi tribe in Arunachal Pradesh and Bodos in the hill State and Assam today held a meeting in Itanagar to evolve ways to put an end to the clashes and conflicts between the two communities in Arunachal Pradesh. The joint meeting which was held at the Banquet Hall in Itanagar called for restoration of peace and harmony by putting an end to all sorts of unwanted incidents of kidnapping, torture, extortion etc. that had strained the relationship between the two communities and pledged to work unitedly to prevent recurrence of such incidents in inter...

GUWAHATI, March 26 ? Welfare of Plains Tribes & Backward Classes (WPT& BC) Minister Bharat Narah today ruled out possibility of bringing all the tribal councils in the State under the purview of the Sixth Schedule in the line of the proposed Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). In reply to a question of Congress MLA Rajib Lochan Pegu, the Minister informed the House that the villages to be included in Mising Autonomous Council (MAC) were yet to be identified. He said that the government will start discussing the issue of identifying Mising villages to be included in the autonomous council. In...

NEW DELHI, March 24 ? The Union government has asked the state government to urgently submit the modifications to the Sixth Schedule it has sought for protection of the non-Bodos in the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC). Though the tripartite talks involving the Bodo Liberation Tiger (BLT), Assam government and the Central government remained inconclusive here on Saturday, talks were stated to be on tracks. The next round of tripartite talk is scheduled to be held next month, sources informed this newspaper. The BLT delegation was represented by its vice-chairman Kamal Mushahary, while the...

GUWAHATI, March 14?Three premier organisations connected with Buddhist and tribal people of North East India have moved the Centre to ?name and designate? the international flights of Air India on the Guwahati-Bangkok via Kolkata sector as ?Moung Dun Sun Kham? international flights, stated a release. Lauding the Centre for operation of the flights between Guwahati and Bangkok from April this year, the organisations stated that such step would give due importance to medieval relationship between Assam, Myanmar and Siam Thailand. Referring to the Centre?s ?Look Eastward? policy and the flight...