North East

The recent visit of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to Guwahati with the Japanese Ambassador to review a Japan funded water supply project ushered in yet another sporadic cacophony of Northeast’s centrality to looking east. A…

The National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) has said the Nagas are ready to “fight another war” if their political rights and history are not respected and that the Naga issue will remain India’s Achilles heel if the Centre or…

Backdrop The Northeast Region (NER), which consisted of only one state of Assam and two Union territories of Tripura and Manipur in 1950’s, now comprises of eight states – Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram,…

In an astounding incident, a tribal village of Meghalaya, which is situated near the border of India-Bangladesh, has shown displeasure against the Meghalaya and Central governments and has asked them to merge it with Bangladesh. The…

Civil rights activists who had protested against the arrest of 26 Bangladeshi citizens by Dhubri police officials in Assam on May 20, 2020, now allege that one of them, Bakul Mian  has died  already under mysterious circumstances. They had…

Two people have been killed in the massive fire that broke out at the gas well of Oil India Ltd at Baghjan in Tinsukia district of Assam on Tuesday, 9 June, due to a blowout that has been continuing since 27 May. Their bodies have been…

The people in the Northeast are increasingly facing racism and discrimination in the rest of the country since the outbreak of the coronavirus, says a report by Rights and Risk Analysis Group (RRAG), a New Delhi-based rights group. …

Desperate to complete the ambitious $ 484 million Kaladan Multimodal project and get it operational , India may be getting too closely involved in what essentially is Myanmar's problem -- tackling a invigorated insurgency in the country's…

As Myanmar’s government sues for peace, its autonomous military, the Tatmadaw, faces a new type of insurgency it seems increasingly ill-prepared to counter and combat. Myanmar’s “new” insurgents are highly mobile and, unlike the…