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
Nay Pyi Taw, May 28: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today held talks with Myanmar President Thein Sein as India suggested the two countries should work out a joint strategy to tackle terrorism and insurgency along their border and enhance security cooperation. Singh, the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Myanmar in 25 years since Rajiv Gandhi’s trip in December 2007, Read more
New Delhi, May 21: The Government of India is all set to sign a tripartite agreement sometime next month with both the Dima Hasao Daogah factions, it is reliably learnt. The DHD (Nunisa) faction chief Dilip Nunisa alongwith some of his colleagues met the Joint Secretary (North East), MHA, Mr Shambhu Singh on Monday afternoon in the North Block and discussed Read more
If we don’t take all three factions into account, no kind of agreement is going to succeed -Shambhu Singh Even as the government of India has resolved to invite all three NSCN factions— NSCN (I-M), NSCN (K) and GPRN/NSCN, the recent statement made by the NSCN (I-M) expressing dismay over the GPRN/NSCN’s willingness to start a dialogue for “settlement within Read more
Dimapur, May 14 (MExN): The United Naga Council of Manipur (UNC) has issued a statement today directing all Naga peoples and their organizations in the Naga areas in Manipur state not to “entertain” any Manipur government leader and even apparatuses and figures of governance. The UNC issued the statement notifications in reiteration of the organization’s July 1, 2010 declaration of Read more
Gautam Debroy, New Delhi (May 14): The visit of an eight-member European Union (EU) delegation to Nagaland has brought both the Ministry of External and Home Affairs (MEA) in confrontation with each other. Taking a strong note of the three-day-long visit, the MHA on Monday shot off a letter t o the MEA claiming it was not informed of the EU Read more