Category: NORTH EAST

• ASSAM
• MANIPUR
• MEGHALAYA
• MIZORAM
• NAGALAND
• ARUNACHAL PRADESH

The Assam Civil Society, an organisation of intellectuals, has slammed Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma over his silence on the issue of an arms training camp organised by the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal at a school in Mangaldoi town.

Drugs worth Rs 4 crore were seized during a joint operation conducted by the Assam Police and Border Security Forces (BSF) in Karimganj district, officials said on Friday.

Three elephants died in Assam after being electrocuted on Friday, local officials said. The incident took place at the Rani tea estate, located about 20 km from Guwahati.

Disbanded organisation United Liberation Front of Asom – Independent (ULFA-I) in a statement has refuted Assam police's claims that the outfit is planning to carry any blast in the state before the Independence Day celebration.

Amid the differences between the BJP-led NDA government and its ally Mizo National Front (MNF), the ruling party in Mizoram, the opposition Congress has urged all political parties, NGOs and churches to come together to form a united front against the saffron party.

A Manipur Police statement late on Thursday night said that a mob stormed Keirenphabi Police outpost and Thangalawai Police outpost of Manipur Armed Police's 2nd Battalion in Bishnupur and took away a huge cache of arms and ammunition.

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The Imphal-based Central Agriculture University (CAU) has made alternative arrangements for 40 Mizoram students, who are not willing to go to Manipur in view of the prevailing ethnic violence.

Assam NRC coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma has called his predecessor Prateek Hajela a "traitor" for allegedly including names of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the list during the updation exercise of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the northeastern state.

A 12-hour shutdown, called by the Committee on Tribal Unity (CoTU), was observed in tribal-dominated Kangpokpi district on Thursday to mark 90 days of ethnic violence in Manipur.

At least 17 people were injured on Thursday during clashes with security forces in Manipur's Bishnupur and Churachandpur districts ahead of a mass burial of victims killed in the ethnic violence, officials said.

Shiladitya Dev, a former BJP MLA in Assam who often embroils himself in controversy for his inflammatory comments, has stirred a fresh debate by demanding a ban on the recitation of azaan (Muslim call to prayer) in mosques.

To boost industrial growth, the Assam government has decided to sign Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with five companies which will attract an investment around Rs 3,000 crore, state Minister Bimal Bora said.

The long Bodo agitation in Assam had an opposing impact on the state’s Manas National Park and Tiger Reserve. During that time, this National Park was under severe threat, and rhinos were completely wiped out from the park.

The leader of the Coordinating Committee on Manipur Integrity (COCOMI), an umbrella body of the Meitei community, said that the so-called Kuki leaders should not play politics over the dead bodies.

The Manipur government has extended, to September 30, the time for the committee to identify illegal Myanmar immigrants staying in the state’s Chandel and Tengnoupal districts, officials said here on Tuesday.

He told media persons that the in-service government doctors not availing NPA may be allowed to give private consultations and services with prior approval of the competent authority to the needy patients strictly during non-working hours.

As part of the program which will run from October 1 to 15, the Ministers will take stock of the ground situation of the state government’s beneficiary schemes and development work, according to a senior officer.

“To enroll in professional programmes and pursue jobs in a variety of sectors, such as those of doctors, engineers, and public servants, we want to inspire students to aspiration and hard work,” DC Yadav said.

Following widespread outrage over a video that showed some 300 youths being trained to handle arms at a camp organised by the Rashtriya Bajrang Dal in Assam's Mangaldai town, the state DGP has issued a probe into the incident.

Mizoram Students' Union (MSU) on Monday urged the state Governor, Hari Babu Kambhampati, to resolve the issues and problems of state's students studying and seeking admission in Imphal-based Central Agriculture University (CAU).

Thousands of people, mostly women, staged protests in Manipur's Kangpokpi and Churachandpur districts demanding immediate withdrawal of state police forces from Moreh areas in Tengnoupal district, along Myanmar border.

Manipur government on Monday asked people and organisations to desist from spreading, publishing and generating fake news, lies, rumours or misinformation regarding the ongoing situation in the state otherwise stern action would be taken under the laws and it will be treated as sedition.

Despite repeated requests, the Central government yet to provide any funds to Mizoram to provide relief to over 12,600 people, who took shelter in the state after being displaced from Manipur, where ethnic violence still rages unabated, state officials said on Monday.

They also thrashed the man and forced him to kneel and apologise before a crowd for allegedly misbehaving with an Assamese individual. However, this allegation was never proven.