Death threat issued to DDPVDU president: ACAUT ACAUT Nagaland has alleged that NSCN (K) had recently issued a death threat to Dimapur District Pick-Up Van & Drivers’ Union (DDPVDU) president Akaho Awomi for refusing to pay ‘tax demand’ of Rs, 5000 per vehicle for 2014-15. While strongly condemning the threat, ACAUT Nagaland media cell in a press release said such Read more
Press Trust of India Guwahati, May 2 (PTI): At least 23 persons, including children and women, were killed and 14 seriously injured by heavily armed NDFB(S) militants who unleashed violence in two districts of Assam falling under the Bodoland Territorial Administration Districts area since last night. Curfew has been imposed from 6pm today to 4am tomorrow in Baksa district’s Salbari Read more
NSCN (I-M) CAO, UT has created a new department under an Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to follow strict orders and assignments so as to minimize all forms of “illegal activities” prevailing in and around Dimapur district. In a statement issued by UT secretary Khekuto Jakhalu, NSCN (I-M) UT has asked all NGOs, women’s organizations, Church leaders and village/colony council Read more
“Nagalim Voice” invites serious ideas. The Ministry of Information and Publicity (MIP) run bulletin “Nagalim Voice”, circulated extensively within the ranks and file of NSCN comes a step closer to solicit the ideas of the Naga intellectuals, to take on the table of decision makers. Taking full cognizance of the churning ideas of the youths and the intellectuals in this Read more
Amit Bhattacharyya (Courtesy: The Arrested) The framers of the Constitution of India, who adopted the Constitution in November 1949 after the ‘transfer of power to friendly hands’ in 1947, described India as a “Sovereign Democratic Republic”. On 3 January 1977, during the period of Emergency under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, India became, through an amendment to the Constitution, a “Sovereign Read more
R. Marza Naga’s strive for liberation, a solemn stretch of political mandate to acquire self-rule historically from erstwhile colonial move keeps craving for an ‘indigenous world order’ Nagas had destined since the intrusion of British raid on the Naga soil. The issue was left unsolved with independent India following the transfer of power, and put the Naga movement to confront Read more
Porteus Shimray Research Student, University of Delhi There is a general perception among the young Nagas of present generation that Phizo, the grand leader of yesteryears Naga political movement, may have actually erred when he was not willing to accommodate any form of political arrangements for the Nagas, except absolute sovereignty. However, some old guards may still stand by what Read more
Editorial: Nagalimvoice.com The yearning for peace and reconciliation within the Naga family had necessitated the formation of Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) in 2008, under which many unwanted nature of conflict/confrontation and hostilities has been reduced to an encourage-able level. The efforts Read more
IMPHAL, Apr 10 : Chief Minister O Ibobi Singh has asserted today that though the State Government is not a party in the peace talks between the NSCN-IM and the Centre, his Government will not remain as an onlooker to the violence and crimes perpetrated by the NSCN-IM cadres. O Ibobi was speaking to a section of the media after Read more