An eight-member Assam-Nagaland Goodwill Team on Friday called on Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi and conveyed that people of Nagaland wanted an amicable and peaceful solution to the vexed Assam-Nagaland boundary row outside the jurisdiction of the apex court.
One soldier of Assam Rifles was injured in the operation and his condition is stated to be stable, they said. The encounter took place in the jungle between Nginu and Ngissa villages of Longding, officials in Arunachal Pradesh said.
The BJP deputed Shah as observer to Uttar Pradesh, where Yogi Adityanath powered the party to an impressive victory and where there are no hurdles in the way of the priest-politician's second stint in power.
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Though embattled Biren Singh has survived the crisis, media reports suggest that restructuring of the cabinet will not be an easy task for him.
The current spell of the ceasefire will end on July 31.
The 68th round of peace talks between the Centre and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak Muivah leadership, by all indications, are heading for a deadlock, as the both sides are rigid on the issues of sovereignty.
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Swu and Muivah, who are scheduled to reach New Delhi on Sunday night from Amsterdam, are expected to meet Home Minister Shivraj Patil on Monday, official sources said.
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The unrelenting efforts by civil society groups in Nagaland to broker peace between the two warring factions of the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland has reportedly made some headway. Leaders of the two factions of the rebel group -- NSCN-IM and NSCN-K -- have agreed to work out modalities for a possible merger.The NSCN, which was formed in 1980, split in 1988. The two factions have since been engaged in a bloody conflict for geographical and financial control.
Naidu informed the House that he had received letters from Singh and 13 other MPs seeking leave of absence on medical grounds.
...with a principal reason to stop Pakistan's ISI's support to insurgencies in the North-East of India.
This was the largest clash in an ongoing conflict between the two groups since December. Both factions are currently in talks with the Centre and have been observing a ceasefire with government forces. The MHA, alarmed at the escalating conflict, wanted the Assam Rifles and the Army to launch an operation to disarm the NSCN cadres of both the factions but so far the Army has resisted the pressure
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A Manipur Police commando and two police constables were killed while nine others were injured when militants ambushed road-opening parties at two different places in Chandel district of Manipur on Thursday.
Eighteen years ago the government of India signed a truce with the NSCN-IM to facilitate prolonged peace negotiations, which culminated in the August 3 peace accord.
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'We are ready to surrender,' Lieutenant General A A K Niazi said over the phone from Dhaka.
As the Opposition held its first meeting on the Presidential polls and names of Farooq Abdullah and Gopalkrishna Gandhi also cropped up, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party reached out to several parties across the political spectrum to build a consensus choice with senior party leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh speaking to Sharad Pawar, Mallikarjun Kharge (Congress), Mamata Banerjee (Trinamool Congress), Akhilesh Yadav (Samajwadi Party) and Naveen Patnaik (Biju Janata Dal).
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Ravi, shifted from Nagaland, said he saw his new role more as an opportunity than a challenge.
The blockade was imposed by the United Naga Council on November 1 to protest against the creation of seven new districts.
The inquiry will focus on the "intelligence" and the "circumstances" on which Saturday's operation was based on.
Rediff.com gives you a lowdown on the NSCN-K.
he ministry of home affairs said in a notification that the central government is of the opinion that the area comprising the whole of Nagaland is in such a "disturbed and dangerous condition" that the use of armed forces in aid of the civil power is necessary.
The prime minister told the MPs that the northeast is very close to his heart and his love for the region is very natural. Quoting Modi, Rijiju saidthe PM asserted that he doesn't look at the region from the prism of politics.
'We shouldn't allow it to become a rallying point for others in the region against the army.'
A quintessential military commander, Gen Bipin Rawat possessed an uncanny understanding of geopolitical upheavals, calibrated a tri-services military doctrine to make India face myriad security challenges, and is largely credited with bringing down militancy in the Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir.
Social distancing norms were violated openly by the seers when they and their followers descended the steps at Har ki Pairi to wade into the river.
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'We should focus on creating cinema which is entertaining, gives us solace, some message, reduces our tension and makes us think positively.'
