End Gun Culture in Nagaland

Kohima Jan 28: Nagaland Minister for Higher Education & Tribal Affairs, Temjen Imna  on Wednesday called upon the Naga people to end the gun culture in the Naga society and to establish a peaceful atmosphere that would enable the all round development in the Sta...

Northeast Mass Militancy Platform

Samudra Gupta Kashyap looks at the resurgence of groups that have come together on a common platform. In 1990, some of these groups — NSCN-K, ULFA, UNLF and Kuki National Army — had formed Indo-Burma Revolutionary Front, which is now defunct. Several armed rebel groups of the Northeast, having lain low for some time, have become active again after coming together on the newly formed United National...

NSCN-K Gets Ready For Fight To The Finish

The insurgent group has been constructing bunkers at undisclosed locations along the Indo-Myanmar border. This was communicated to Myanmar during a Joint Consultative Commission meeting attended by foreign ministers of the two countries on Thursday in New Delhi. By Abhishek-Bhalla The home ministry has asked the PMO to ban the outfit. Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalan-Khaplang (NSCN-K),...

Manipur Ambush Achitect Niki Sumi back in India

Indian special forces, backed by troops from the Assam Rifles, had attacked Sumi’s base at the village of Ponyo on June 9, the sources said, but the intelligence on his whereabouts was not precise Few details have emerged on the circumstances under which Sumi succeeded in escaping the Ponyo camp, the key target of the raids conducted by the 21 Paracommando regiment on June 9. By Praveen...

NSCN(K) Operative Niki Sumi is Key Man Behind Manipur Massacre

By Namrata Biji Ahuja & Rajnish Sharma Niki Sumi, the self-styled military adviser of NSCN-K, is said to be the brain behind the 4 attack on an Army convoy in Manipur   New Delhi, Jun 17 : The National Investigation Agency has zeroed in on four masterminds of the worst attack on the Indian Army on June 4, that was led by key NSCN(K) operative...

Indian Army in hot pursuit of terrorists behind Manipur ambush, enters Myanmar, kills 20 Northeast insurgents

New Delhi, Jun 10 : In a tough, well coordinated and surgically executed operation a few kilometers inside Myanmar, the Indian Army killed at least 20 terrorists belonging to Northeast insurgent groups who had ambushed a convoy of 6 Dogra Regiment in Chandel district of Manipur on June 4. Sending out the strong message that Army will not hesitate to hot pursuit terrorists who challenge the Indian...

Khaplang, In The Eyes Of An Indian Naga

The NSCN-K’s first ceasefire meeting with the Myanmar authorities, to which Baruah refers in order to glorify S.S. Khaplang and criticise the Indian government, was at Hkamti on April 9, 2012. Nothing can be farther from the truth than equating the NSCN-K with Myanmar in the context of India’s engagement. ...

NSCN Rebels Kill 8 Indian Paramilitary Soldiers

The Assam Rifles personnel also fired back and one underground militant was killed while some others were injured in the ensuing encounter, they added. By Samudra Gupta KashyapGuwahati, May 4 : Eight soldiers, seven of them belonging to the Assam Rifles, were killed when two vehicles of 23 Assam Rifles battalion were ambushed by the NSCN(K) in Mon district in Nagaland on Sunday. While three...

No talks with militant outfits indulging in violence, says Rajnath Singh

Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and Union Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal wave at the crowd during the closing ceremony of the 19th National Youth Festival in Guwahati on Monday. Guwahati, Jan 13 : Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said Monday that there will be no talk with any group involved in violence. Expressing concern over the growing insurgency, Singh...

Manipur Rebel Outfit Pulls Out Of Peace Talks

Imphal, Oct 15 : The United Revolutionary Front (URF) which signed a ceasefire agreement with the Manipur government has pulled out of peace talks. The group which had denounced the state government's current surrender policy now wants back the arms and ammunition it deposited while signing the peace pact. Deputy chief minister Gaikhangam said the state government would discuss the matter...

Militant Camps Still in Bangladesh, Claims Tripura Chief Minister

RAB’s operation on Jun 4, 2014 yielded arms at the seven bunkers atop hillocks inside Satchharhi jungles of Habiganj, about three km from the Indian border in Tripura. Militant camps still exist across the border in Bangladesh, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar alleged on Monday. He said this while addressing a large gathering of the elite Tripura State Rifles (TSR)...

Myanmar To Act Against Northeast Militants

Nay Pyi Taw, Aug 25 : Promising all possible support to India's fight against terrorism, Myanmar has said it will bust training camps of North East militant groups on its soil if India provides specific inputs about their existence.Asserting that his country will never allow any terror outfit to use its soil against India, Myanmar's Information Minister U Ye Htut said his government will cooperate...

ULFA Chief Out Of Myanmar For Treatment

ULFA Commander Paresh Baruah. (Photo: PTI/File) Guwahati, Aug 1 : The security agencies have intensified its vigil on elusive Ulfa chief Paresh Baruah who is suspected to have been in Thailand or Malaysia for the treatment of his prolonged ailment. Disclosing that Ulfa commander was not in Myanmar for past few weeks, security sources said that the rebel group chief was maintaining...

How Militant Leader’s Facebook Addiction Brought Meghalaya Police to Hideout in Bangalore

Rapiush Sangma By Prakruti P K Wannabe-MLA-turned-radical in search of a quick buck was dumb enough to leave a rich e-trail for the law to catch up The city's reputation as the tech capital seems to have got to him. He could have even treated his affliction at the prestigious Nimhans which has started a centre for curing people of tech addiction. But, alas for him, 36-year-old Rapiush...

Assam: Top Cop Killed in Encounter with Militants

By Surabhi Malik Nityanand Goswami killed in encounter with Karbi People's Liberation Tigers (KPLT). Guwahati, Jun...

What Indian Forces Are Up Against

Tura, Jun 6 : Twenty kilometers off Paikan, the tri-junction where the road forks off to Tura, the army camp on National Highway 51 has an improvised operations room — a sort of a summer house within the compound of Kukurkata police station. The small board on the wall next to a large operations map provides figures of the Dogra regiment unit stationed there: kills two; one of Ulfa and...

Bangladesh Seizes 100 Rocket Launchers Near India border

Dhaka, Jun 4 : Police in northeastern Bangladesh recovered a huge cache of illegal arms on Tuesday, including more than 100 rocket launchers, in a forest near the border with an insurgency-hit part of India. A Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) commander in Habiganj district said they found the arms and ammunition at Satchhari forest range two days after launching a search following a tip-off. "So...

Thai court orders extradition of NSCN arms deals ‘broker’

Willy was picked up by Thailand at India’s request last year. In a significant breakthrough, a Bangkok court on Monday issued an order to extradite a Thai national and middlemen Willy Naruenartwanich, accused of brokering arms deals between Chinese suppliers and Northeast insurgent outfits, said officials. It relates to an NIA case in which Anthony Shimray, a top NSCN (IM) operative,...

Anup Chetia could not be extradited to India Now

By Syed Sajjad Ali Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde with his Bangladeshi counterpart Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir during the inauguration of the newly-built Integrated Check Post between India and Bangladesh at Akhaura Border in Agartala on Sunday. First Integrated Check Post on Bangladesh border opened Bangladesh will hand over extremists and criminals wanted in India in keeping...

GNLA Training Camps Thrive in The Jungles of Meghalaya

By Manogya Loiwa   Kolkata, Oct 22 : The guerilla training camps of Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), fighting for a separate state, are thriving in Meghalaya's jungles despite a ban on the outfit.Excusive photos of the camps, accessed by Headlines Today, show how the GNLA is meticulously training more and more militants to its way...