According to a local Assamese newspaper published from Guwahati,a professor named Hira Kanta Pegu working in the government college of Diphu has been facing extortion from armed youths in the Karbi Anglong district.The report published yesterday in Amar Asom said that two youths forcefully entered Pegu's official residence while he was away in the college.His wife Gita Pegu was threatened at gun p...
ndia's Maoists have spread north-east, gaining a foothold in the strategically located states bordering China and Burma, officials and analysts say.
The Maoists are filling the void created by dwindling ethnic insurgent groups like the Ulfa, an Institute for Conflict Management (ICM) report says.
One key Assam official told the BBC that boys thought to have gone south for jobs had instead joined...
In Northeast India,there are relatively many peaceful tribes struggling for autonomy in Gandhian way for decades which are never reported in the mainstream national media. Unfortunately,the news of bullets and bombs only get the attention which project further the Northeast as restive land. We can cite the examples of Mising, Rabha, Tiwa tribes although they constitute a considerable percentage of...
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh today said that the Government is thinking of introducing autonomous districts in the NE region to solve the problems of various indigenous communities. This would be a catalyst to solve the problems of the various insurgent groups demanding their own rights over their specific territories without breaking the national integrity.
Talking to mediapersons here, Dr Sin...
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