Showing posts with label Northeast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Northeast. Show all posts
31 March 2022

Modi govt reduces areas under AFSPA in Nagaland, Manipur & Assam

Reduction in areas under AFSPA is a result of ‘improved security situation’, Home Minister Amit Shah says. New Delhi: Several districts across Nagaland, Assam and Manipur have been removed from the list of “disturbed areas” that fall under the controversial Armed Forces (Special...
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13 May 2021

Nagaland Goes For Total Lockdown, More Curbs In Other NE States

Guwahati/Kohima/Agartala:  The Nagaland government has clamped total lockdown across the state for eight days while Assam and the other six northeastern states extended the timings of curfew and imposed other restrictions to curb the alarming spread of Covid, officials said...
13 January 2021

Israel appoints Honorary Consul in Northeast India

The Embassy of Israel in India has appointed Joyshree Das Verma as Honorary Consul in the region with jurisdiction over the States of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Tripura and Sikkim, an Embassy statement said. As part of efforts to increase...
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16 November 2020

Sex Ratio: Arunachal Best, Manipur Worst

Sex ratio at birth is number of females born per thousand males.Arunachal Pradesh recorded 1,084 females born per thousand males, followed by Nagaland (965) Mizoram (964), Kerala (963) and Karnataka (957). The worst was reported in Manipur (757), Lakshadweep (839) and Daman & Diu (877), Punjab (896) and Gujarat (896).Delhi recorded a sex ratio of 929, Haryana 914 and Jammu and Kashmir 952. The...
13 October 2020

Hindu activists oppose serving beef to tigers in Guwahati zoo

 The activists stopped vehicles carrying meat items meant for the big cats housed in the zoo. They blocked the roads leading to the zoo for several hours before allowing authorities to take the food items inside. By Utpal Parashar A white tiger at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati. At present, the zoo has 8 tigers,...
07 March 2016

Sangma's body brought to hometown in Meghalaya

Tura (Meghalaya), Mar 7 :  Thousands of people from different walks of life paid their last respects to former Lok Sabha speaker Purno Agitok Sangma as his body was brought to his hometown here in western part of Meghalaya ahead of his state funeral on Monday. As the casket...
05 November 2015

Thai ‘gunrunner’ Willy Naru who ‘gave arms’ to N-E rebels set to be extradited to India

In September 2010, since the “ground situation in Bangladesh was not favourable to NSCN-IM”, it was decided to postpone the deal. Before his arrest, however, Shimray had allegedly paid Naru US $800,000. By Sagnik Chowdhury Securing Naru’s custody would be a significant breakthrough for the NIA as his interrogation would help establish the chain of Chinese arms supply to North-East...
15 October 2015

Kaladan on fast track

Centre clears NE-Myanmar transit transport project By Nishit Dholabhai New Delhi, Oct 15 : The Union cabinet today gave its nod for fast-tracking the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project that connects Myanmar to the Northeast, giving a fillip to Prime...
13 October 2015

North-eastern fest to enthral Delhiites from October 16

To showcase art, culture and heritage of north-eastern region To make north-eastern art and culture a part of Delhi’s ethos, the Delhi tourism department has collaborated with the Northeast Festival, which is to host its 3rd annual event at IGNCA, Janpath, from October 16 to October 18. Tourism minister Kapil Mishra said, “This year, tourism is the key focus and so in ensuring that, we will...
16 September 2015

Indian troops never crossed into Myanmar; operation took place in Manipur and Nagaland

New Delhi, Sep 16 : The cross-border strike in June to take down insurgent camps never took place in Myanmar, if the gallantry citations of the crack paratroopers who executed the operation are to be believedWhile minister of state for information and broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore openly stated after the June 9 operation that Indian forces crossed into Myanmar and raided two militant camps,...
07 September 2015

Disrupting Landslip on GS Road

Guwahati, Sep 7 : Assam-Meghalaya transport communication has come to a grinding halt following a massive landslide on the Guwahati-Shillong road on Sunday.A huge hillock slipped on the vital road in Umiang area in the morning forcing hundreds of vehicles to remain stranded for hours.Dozens of workers have been deployed by the National Highway Authority of India with ten bulldozers to clear the...
25 August 2015

Northeast TV calls girls in shorts monkeys, sparks controversy

A news clip aired by an Assamese news channel, which went viral on social media, has equated young girls wearing shorts to monkeys, giving rise to a heated debate in civil society in the northeastern state with some saying "nowadays we are more scared of the media than the police". Assam boasts of traditionally empowering women, but the video aired by Pratidin Time opened with a shot of a...

Northeast 'safest' For Women, Kids

Activists question NCRB report By Ananya Sengupta New Delhi, Aug 25 : Militant guns routinely draw blood here. Ceasefires have been called and aborted. But the troubled Northeast is still the safest for two vulnerable sections - women and children. So says the National...

Developing Infrastructure in Northeast a Priority, Says PM Modi

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that developing infrastructure in the north-eastern region is being given top priority by the government. "India will develop only if the northeast develops," Modi said, while speaking at function at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi to celebrate the birth centenary of Rani Gaidinliu, the legendary freedom fighter from...
24 August 2015

Northeast India Flavours Now A Click Away

By Raul Dias At a producer’s food processing unit in Meghalaya. Indigenous temperate fruit jams of The North East Store. King Chili (Ghost Chili) hot sauce of The North East Store.A recent spurt in e-commerce websites offering tough-to-procure ingredients and food items from India’s eight north-eastern States is good news for homesick north-easterners and foodies craving a taste of...
20 August 2015

Tripura, Mizoram Cut Off Due To Landslides

By B B GoswamiSilchar, Aug 21: Tripura, Mizoram, parts of Meghalaya and Manipur and the Barak Valley areas of Assam was cut off from the rest of the region early on Wednesday due to landslides in a number of places in Meghalaya and Assam's Dima Hasao district.Sources said torrential rainfall for the last three days has triggered the landslides. Mud, boulders, trees and debris came rolling down the...
18 August 2015

NSCN(IM) Chief Muivah’s Speech on Sovereignty Matter of Serious Concern, says Assam CM Gogoi

On August 14 during the celebration of 69th Naga Independence Day at NSCN(IM) council headquarters at Hebron in Nagaland, its General Secretary Th Muivah rejected "rumours" that the outfit was backtracking on integration and sovereignty. Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh ,Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Nabam Tuki and Congress leader Randeep Surjewala...
17 August 2015

Demands to Ground Northeast's 'Flying Coffins' Get Louder

By Prasanta MazumdarA crashed Pawan Hans helicopter being airliftedGuwahati, Aug 17 :Three crashes in five years, which claimed 27 lives including that of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, have made the All Arunachal Pradesh Students’ Union (AAPSU) put the heat on the Congress government in the state to ground the ‘flying coffins’ of Pawan Hans Helicopter Ltd (PHHL).The influential...
13 August 2015

How the Naga Accord Will Affect Politics in the Rest of the North-East

By Thangkhanlal Ngaihte The accord, whatever its substance, has further burnished the perception that the BJP-led NDA government is a government that gets things done, particularly in the northeast Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessing the exchange of the peace accord text by the Government of India interlocutor RN Ravi and NSCN(I-M) leader Th. Muivah in New Delhi on August 3, 2015....
11 August 2015

Northeast Sees 40% More Foreign Tourists

New Delhi, Aug 11 : Despite deterrents such as poor connectivity and lack of decent hotels, foreign tourist flows to northeastern states jumped nearly 40 percent in 2014 over the previous year, even as efforts are on to promote the sector there, parliament was informed on Monday.In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Tourism Mahesh Sharma said the number of foreign...
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