The Tortuous Road to Naga Peace

Newly recruited young Naga boys with their automatic weapons during the 33rd Republic Day celebration of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) in Nagaland on March 21, 2012. — File Photo: Ritu Raj Konwar The publicity that surrounds the success of India’s ‘cross-border’ strike against rebels in Myanmar cannot hide the fact that the real failure of Indian intelligence...

Nagaland Second Highest Tobacco Consumer in Country After Mizoram

Kohima, Jun 1 : The Mission Director of the National Health Mission (NHM) in Nagaland Sukhato A Sema has informed that the state of Nagaland, with 57 per cent of tobacco users, is the second highest consumer of tobacco in the country.According to an official report on Sunday, Dr Sema was speaking in the observed World No Tobacco Day with a theme Stop Illicit Trade of Tobacco product at the Civil...

Dimapur lynching: Judicial Panel Asks People To Give Written Statements

Syed Sarif Khan, who was arrested following an allegation of rape, was dragged out from the central jail by a mob and lynched. Syed Sarif Khan, who was arrested following an allegation of rape, was dragged out from the central jail by a mob and lynched, following which his body was left hanging in the City Tower on March 5.  By Samudra Gupta Kashyap Guwahati, May 19 :  A...

NSCN Rebels Kill 8 Indian Paramilitary Soldiers

The Assam Rifles personnel also fired back and one underground militant was killed while some others were injured in the ensuing encounter, they added. By Samudra Gupta KashyapGuwahati, May 4 : Eight soldiers, seven of them belonging to the Assam Rifles, were killed when two vehicles of 23 Assam Rifles battalion were ambushed by the NSCN(K) in Mon district in Nagaland on Sunday. While three...

Now fly from Delhi to Dimapur

Nagaland CM TR Zeliang inaugurating the flight at Dimapur Airport in presence of legislator Imtiwapang and IndiGo President Aditya GhoshDimapur, Apr 16 : India's northeastern state of Nagaland, bordering Myanmar, was on Wednesday connected with New Delhi through a daily IndiGo flight via Kolkata.Nagaland Chief Minister T.R. Zeliang inaugurated the flight at Dimapur Airport in presence of legislator...

Internet, SMS Services Remain Blocked in Nagaland

Guwahati, Mar 13 : Though the situation in Dimapur where a rape accused Sayed Sarif Khan was lynched by a mob, has limped back to normal, the internet and SMS services will remain blocked for another 24 hours effective from Thursday even as the district administration in Dimapur has relaxed the prohibitory order under Section 144 CrPC from 6 A.M. till 9 P.M. from Thursday.“Though the SMS service...

Nagaland lynching: MHA fears attacks on people from the Northeast in Bengaluru, Pune, Gurgaon

Members of All Assam Muslim Yuba Parishad (S ) protest against the mob lynching of a rape accused in Dimapur, Nagaland on March 07, 2015. Photo: PTIUnion Home Ministry has issued an advisory to Karnataka, Maharashtra and Haryana governments about possible attacks on the people from Northeast states living there as a backlash of Dimapur lynching incident. In the advisory, MHA has asked these...

HC Directs Centre, Nagaland to Ensure Safety of Prisoners

Dimapur, Mar 11 :The Gauhati High Court has directed the Centre as well as the Nagaland government to ensure adequate security to the prisoners languishing in the jails in Nagaland. The court issued the directive after hearing a PIL filed by a Guwahati-based activist, Rajib Kalita, on Monday in connection with last week’s lynching of a rape accused in Dimapur. Kalita had sought an impartial...

Nagaland Mob Lynching: Curfew Clamped in Dimapur, 22 Arrested

Protesters beating the accused in Dimapur. Curfew was on Sunday clamped in Dimapur town of Nagaland and 22 people were arrested in connection with the lynching of a rape accused, a senior police officer said.Also, Internet and cellphone text message services were suspended across Nagaland as protests spread against the lynching of a rape-accused man. Dimapur, Mar 9 : Additional Director...

Drive To Flush Out Migrants in Nagaland

Kohima, Feb. 12 : The campaign to flush out "illegal Bangladeshi immigrants" from Nagaland has intensified after the Naga Students' Federation (NSF), the apex students' organisation in the state, decided to spearhead the movement.After the NSF's decision, more principal Naga organisations joined the campaign to drive out "illegal Bangladeshi immigrants".The drive against illegal immigrants was first...

Film on Naga folk music invited to US again

New Delhi, Jan 21  : “Songs of the Blue Hills”, a documentary on contemporary Naga folk music, has been invited to the North Carolina Global Film Festival in the US.Directed by National Award-winning film critic and filmmaker Utpal Borpujari, the 2013 documentary will be screened this weekend at the fest, read a statement.“Songs of the Blue Hills” takes viewers on a journey of contemporary...

Narendra Modi Wants Final Solution To Naga Imbroglio within 18 Months

By Manan Kumar Thuingaleng Muivah and Isak Chishi Swu New Delhi, Nov 21 : With his eyes set to have a peaceful Northeast to help expand trade with South Asia, prime minister Narendra Modi has instructed interlocutor R N Ravi to come out with a proposed settlement that could be a final solution to the simmering Naga issue. Sources said, Ravi, former chairman of the Joint Intelligence...

Smokie To Perform in Kohima

By H. ChishiKohima, Nov 20 : Once again the stage is set for world famous English band Smokie and Amercian guitarist Vinnie Moore to rock Kohima.Smokie — a household name and all-time favourite band — will perform on December 3 at Indira Gandhi Stadium hockey ground and Vinnie Moore of legendary US rock band UFO will perform during the Hornbill International Rock contest on December 4 coinciding...

India’s Last Surviving Headhunters

The largest tribe in Nagaland The remote village of Longwa, with Myanmar’s dense forests on one side and India’s rich agricultural lands on the other, is home to the fierce Konyak Naga tribe. The largest of 16 tribes living in the remote northeastern Indian state of Nagaland, the Konyaks were warriors with brutal pasts, using inter-village fights to accede land and ascertain...

NSCN (IM) Leaders Arrive in Delhi For Resumption of Naga Peace Talks

By Samudra Gupta KashyapGuwahati, Sep 22 : More than ten months after the last round of talks, a high-level delegation of NSCN (IM) leaders have arrived in the national capital at the invitation of the government of India for resumption of the Naga peace talks.The delegation led by its chairman Isak Chisi Swu and general secretary Thuingaleng Muivah will first meet different officials before attending...

Nagaland Police Unearth illegal Tax Network run by NSCN(IM)

By Samudra Gupta KashyapGuwahati, Sep 18 : Three weeks after the newly appointed Governor of Nagaland constituted a high-powered committee to probe illegal taxation in the state, the police have unearthed an organised network, controlled by NSCN(IM) cadre, who were illegally taxing transport and commercial vehicles. The network also involved 17 transport and goods companies.The police action comes...

Nagalim: Mass Rallies to Put Pressure on Indian Government

The United Naga Council is organizing mass rallies to push towards the solution of the Indo–Naga issue, as well as to protest against militarisation of Ukhrul area and the aggressive policies of the Government of Manipur in terms of the ancestral lands of Naga people.  United Naga Council (UNC) has announced its decision of launching mass rallies...

Dimapur’s ‘Illicitly Open’ Liquor Industry

A group of people are seen drinking liquor in one of the many clandestine establishments which sell alcohol in Dimapur. Photo by Caisii Mao   By Imti Longchar   Dimapur, Aug 19 : Amidst zealous and earnest debates flooding newspapers, social networking sites and road side liquor joints on the fallacy that Nagaland Liquor Total Prohibition Act (NLTP) 1989 is or not, a less perturbed...

Wildlife Trust of India team to search origin of star tortoises seized in Nagaland

By Pullock Dutta Star tortoises at Nagaland Zoological Park. Jorhat, Aug 4 : The Wildlife Trust of India has the daunting task of finding the home of 62 star tortoises that were seized at Dimapur railway station last month. A team from the WTI will collect blood and tissue samples of...

Edinburgh Tattoo to Drum up Viewers with TV Deals

By BRIAN FERGUSON Organisers of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo aim to increase the global TV audience of the event to more than a billion – with lucrative new agreements in China and India. Brigadier David Allfrey, chief executive and producer of the event, has unveiled ambitious plans to secure long-running broadcast deals with the two countries. The move – expected to coincide with...