Morung Express News DIMAPUR, JUNE 6 : Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, who has been in power for nine years and will face the Assembly polls in 2013, has said that his wish is to have a solution soon. “I am ready to vacate my position. For settlement or to have peace in our land, we are ready to sacrifice. Read more
Seven Sisters post PTI, Bhopal (Jun 5): Union home minister P Chidambaram on Tuesday said the problem of left-wing extremism (Naxalism) was affecting some eastern states in the country but most of the insurgent groups in Northeast were now holding talks with the Centre. “The states which are affected by this left-wing extremism are Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and West Bengal to Read more
MUMBAI, JUN 5 Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi has said that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi tried to dismember Northeastern states from the country for vote bank politics. Speaking at an award function in Mumbai, Modi also questioned Gandhi’s credential as a secular leader of the country. “Indira Gandhi had committed a big sin, I will just speak of one Read more
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has ‘frankly’ told leaders of the government of Nagaland that creating a separate State out of Nagaland is not ‘viable’ at all. Instead, the Home minister has advised the State’s government to start undertaking initiatives to develop the eastern areas of Nagaland for which the Planning Commission of India would be more than ‘happy’ to Read more
Dimapur, June 3 (MExN): The Public Action Committee (PAC) of Naga frontal organizations against illegal immigrants questions a number of Sumi organizations for “shouting against” the verification drive to identify illegal immigrants who are turning Dimapur into a “jihadi” hub. The PAC issued a statement today wondering if the burgeoning population of “miya” in Niuland or western Sumi areas has Read more
Kohima, June 3 (PTI): Union Home Minister P Chidambaram will hold discussions with Chief Minister Nephiu Rio in New Delhi on Sunday on the demand for a separate ‘Frontier Nagaland’ comprising four border districts of the state by Eastern Nagaland People’s Organisation (ENPO). Chidambaram has invited the chief minister as well as leaders of ENPO to discuss the separate state Read more
New Delhi, May 29 (PTI): To shore up its ties with India, Myanmar government has ordered Manipur-based militant outfits to shut their camps and training facilities and leave its soil by June 10. Quoting intelligence inputs, official sources said the Myanmar Army’s order was issued on May 24 — three days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh embarked on his visit Read more
New Delhi, May 28 (Hindustan Times): New Delhi has no objections with Myanmar holding separate negotiations with Naga insurgents, said official sources. India has cooperated for many years, including coordinating joint military exercises, against Naga separatists. India would have been “happy” if there had been simultaneous pacts, but understands the Myanmar military plans a three-stage peace process of its own. Read more
New Delhi, May 28: As NSCN (Khaplang) rests over a peace pact with Myanmar, rival NSCN (Isak-Muivah) has extended a friendly advice: Beware, Myanmar is not India. Unwilling to reconcile with its rival, the NSCN (IM) has fought pitched battles with Khaplang’s men for almost 25 years now. But when the NSCN (K) signed an agreement with the Myanmar Government Read more