Indefinite Eco-Blockade Against Nagaland

Activists of the All Assam Students Union (AASU) staging a demonstration while covered their faces with black cloth, at Santi Udayan, Dighalipukhuri in Guwahati on Saturday, in protest against the atrocities perpetrate by the Nagaland Police personnel on AASU activists at Pholongoni in Golaghat district of Assam on Wednesday. (Photo/Ujjal Deb) Dimapur, Sep 19 : It is now the turn for the students...

Arunachal To Go Ahead With Subansiri Project, Ignore Protests

Guwahati, Sep 19 : The 2,000 MW Lower Subansiri Hydro Power Project in Arunachal Pradesh will be commissioned by 2012 despite strident protests in Assam with environmental concerns over construction of mega dams, project builders said Saturday. 'The construction work of the Lower Subansiri Hydro Power Project is at a very advanced stage and we hope to commission three units in March 2012 and the...

Villagers Lynch 3 Militants in Meghalaya

Shillong, Sep 19 : Three armed militants were killed on Saturday in a clash with villagers of Meghalaya's East Garo Hills district. A group of six Liberation Achik Elite Force (LAEF) militants threatened and fired at the villagers of Menadoba Bazaar, police said. On hearing the gun shots, scores of villagers rushed to the spot and a major scuffle broke out when the militant attacked the civilians....

A Caver's Sojourn

By Shyam G Menon Special Arrangement Brian Dermot Kharpran Daly: Passion for caves. "It's like a spiritual quest," says Brian Dermot Kharpran Daly, founder-secretary of the Meghalaya Adventurers Association, who has been responsible for bringing to light the richness of Meghalaya's caves. His friends having backed off in fear; the boy from Shillong, on a picnic at Cherrapunji, gazed unhappily...

How Tehelka Nailed Manipur Policie’s Lies

Thirteen months after the exposé, the CBI charges nine policemen in the Sanjit fake encounter case By Kunal Majumder   The chargesheet corroborates Tehelka’s findings that Sanjit was made a scapegoat by Manipur Police CHUNGKHAM TARATOMBI Devi’s fight for justice has yielded results. Fourteen months after her son Chungkham Sanjit Singh Meitei was killed in a fake encounter by Manipur Police,...

AASU Threatens Economic Blockade Against Nagaland

Guwahati, Sep 18 : Two days after the Nagaland police fired the All Assam Students Union (AASU), they now threaten to impose economic blockade on NH-39 from Sep 19. They said that unless the police are arrested, they will further extend indefinite blockade on the border highway. AASU said that its members would cover their faces in black mask, hoist black flags and hold demonstrations at the district...

Foreign Infiltrators Held in Mizoram

Aizawl, Sep 18 : In a sweeping crackdown on alleged Myanmarese nationals living in Mizoram without any valid entry permits, the state police hauled up 52 persons from different localities in Aizawl town, where these foreigners have set up colonies. The superintendent of police of Aizawl district, Lalbiakthanga Khiangte, said over telephone that the arrests came following an order issued by the Union...

Naga Council Threatens Blockade

By Sobhapati Samom Imphal, Sep 18 : The United Naga Council of Manipur threatened on Friday to turn its off and on agitation on three highways of the state into an “indefinite blockade” from Saturday morning. “As there is no tangible response by the government of India to our prolonged grievances, the UNC is constrained to intensify its ongoing agitation into indefinite economic blockade,”...