Monthly Archives: January 2017
Manipur CM Okram Ibobi responsible for economic blockade, says BJP General...
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary in charge of north eastern States, Ram Madhav, has accused Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh of...
Nagaland cops accused of cooking cats and langur in room
The two constables admitted that they intended to cook the dead cat as it was normal in their culture to consume feline meat.
Two Nagaland...
Manipur Crisis Causes Fuel Scarcity in Landlocked Tripura, Mizoram
The hardships caused by the economic blockade on highways leading to Manipur are spilling over to neighbouring states. Landlocked Mizoram and Tripura are facing...
AFSPA in Nagaland extended for six months
The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) has been extended for another six months in Nagaland.
“The Union home ministry, in a notification on December...
Together for terror: Northeast rebels find shared enemy in nationalism
In more than 60 years of insurgency, armed groups in the Northeast hardly stepped into each other’s territories except for use as passages to...
Leave by March 31, northeast rebel groups tell Hindi speakers, Bengalis
Three lesser known northeast rebel outfits mentored by the hostile-again National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) and the Paresh Barua faction of United Liberation...
Rajnath rules out President’s Rule in Manipur
what happened: Union home minister Rajnath Singh rules out President's rule in Manipur amid economic blockade
what it means: The minister said the blockade of...
Last and first working day Looking back at last year
31st December. The last working day in a calendar year and while the last day of the year gone by was like any other...
PM likely to visit State on Jan 13
IMPHAL, Jan 2 : Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit the State on January 13 to lay the foundation stone of National...
Gaidon, Stephen remanded till Jan 11
IMPHAL, Jan 2: Even as the counsel of arrested president of United Naga Council (UNC) president Gaidon Kamei, informed the Court that his client...
Bishwajit spells out BJP’s stand against blockade politics
IMPHAL, Jan 2: BJP Manipur Pradesh general secretary (organisation) and MLA Thongam Bishwajit has categorically stated that the BJP has a concrete stand on...
Ignored by district debates
In the myriad discussions on the controversy of the Manipur Government’s recent creation of seven new districts, there is one deafening silence among those...
Th Muivah: Old traditions must give room to new ones
The sun rises and sets; a generation comes and goes and a kingdom rises and falls, but the word of God stays. Nothing stays;...