DIMAPUR, MAY 26 : The NSCN (IM) has resolved to “cease to engage in dialogue” with the ACAUT with immediate effect. This was decided at a joint council meeting held on May 23, 2014 at CHQ, Hebron. According to a press note from its MIP, the NSCN (IM) concluded that the ACAUT has “politicized the taxation issue” with an intent Read more
Kolkata, May 3 : Top leadership of three Naga political groups, currently part of the Naga Reconciliation Process, took part in a five-day reconciliation meeting organized in Kolkata from April 29 to May 3, 2014 with the intent to “engage and explore creative ways to fulfill the Lenten Agreement.” “In pursuit for the realization of the Lenten Agreement, the Forum Read more
IMPHAL: The All Tribal Students’ Union Manipur (ATSUM) submitted a representation to Dr. Rameshwar Oraon, chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, New Delhi, regarding the institution of immediate action against Md. Nasir, Agriculture minister, Government of Manipur as per Scheduled Tribe and Scheduled Caste (prevention of atrocities) Act, 1989 for his alleged racial discrimination and atrocities to a tribal Zonal Read more
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