Morung Express The visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi to Imphal, Manipur has only raised more questions about New Delhi’s intent to address not just the Naga political issue but similar problems across the Northeast region. The unfortunate thing is that when you are in Manipur, be sensitive to Meitei sentiment and when in Read more
IMPHAL, Dec 16: While action, if any, from the Central Government is still being awaited on the Government of Manipur’s insistence that the United Naga Council (UNC) be declared as unlawful organisation, the latter’s call for boycott of all rail-line project work for two months from today has reportedly crippled the national project, particularly in Tamenglong district section of the Read more
By SAI ZOM HSENG Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Leaders of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) met on Tuesday with a Burmese government delegation in the Chinese border town of Ruili, Yunnan Province, and demanded that the parties begin a political dialogue with the goal of reaching a political solution to the ongoing conflict in Kachin State. The meeting was attended Read more
New Delhi, Dec 13 : Top NSCN-IM leaders Isak Chishi Swu and Thuingaleng Muivah today met Home Minister P Chidambaram and discussed with him the ongoing peace process to find an amicable solution to the vexed Naga issue. During their 20 minute meeting, NSCN-IM ‘chairman’ Swu and ‘general secretary’ Muivah apprised the home minister various aspects of the peace talks Read more
Dimapur, December 13 (MExN): The Separate Hill Tribal Area Administration Demand Committee (SHTAADC) and the Tribal Peoples’ Organisation of Manipur (TPOM) has proposed to the Government of India for the creation of “Sccutland State” -“state within state”- in Manipur under article244 (A); 275 (i), (ii); 371 (A) and 371 (C) of the Indian Constitution. The organizations charged the government of leaving Read more
IMPHAL, Dec 12 : With Chief Minister O Ibobi high-lighting the threat issued by the United Naga Council that rail works and oil exploration drive at some areas in Tamenglong district would be stopped for two months from December 16 to the Prime Minister and the Union Home Minister, an official team from the Home Ministry is currently in Imphal Read more
GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF NAGALIM Ministry of Information & Publicity Press Release 5th Dec.2011 The statement of Manipur State Chief Minister O. Ibobi Singh that there are neither Nagas nor Kukis in Manipur state but only Manipuris in an insult to the Hills people and such statement can only come out from a person with the most abominable Read more
The Hon’bleChief Minister of Nagaland, Shri Neiphiu Rio and the Hon’ble President of the Naga People’s Front(NPF) Shri Dr. Shurhozelie Liezietsu had created history when they formally launched the NPF Manipur State Unit on 28th May, 2011 at Senapati. The launching of the NPF Unit in Manipur sector can be considered as a significant event mainly for two reasons. First, Read more
K Anurag in Guwahati Ban is the bane of life in the frontier state of Manipur that is plagued by myriad troubles ranging from insurgency, ethnicity to underdevelopment. Till ten days back the state was being crippled by unrelenting economic blockade along the two arterial national highways connecting it to the rest of the country. Another ban of a different Read more