North East
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How Amit Shah is leading from the front to bring peace to Northeast
Sagarneel Sinha •Shah’s efforts as a union minister have started to bear fruits with many parts of the Northeast becoming free from the AFSPA. If this happens, it would be a big development highlighting how insurgency has been weakened in the region
In Nagaland, let 'perturbed peace' pave way to 'durable peace'
Jaideep Saikia •The fact that a ceasefire has been allowed to continue for 26 years without resolution is bizarre
Why New Delhi must closely watch Maoists reaching out to insurgents in North East
Jaideep Saikia •Though the North East does not provide a ready fertile ground for the Maoists to thrive, there is little room for complacency
Warlordism and terror finance: North East India and Bangladesh
Jaideep Saikia •The involvement of the ULFA chief of staff in the Chittagong arms haul case is now well known
From Earth, Water to Air: PM Modi delivered North East back to India and Opposition is afraid of it
Siddhartha R •The Union budget for the Northeast region has nearly doubled in the last nine years since the NDA government came to power
Meghalaya Assembly Election 2023: "No restriction in Meghalaya, I eat beef too...", says state BJP Chief
•At a time when BJP-ruled states like Assam had passed a bill to regulate cattle slaughter, transport and sale of beef and Assam Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma has been appealing to the people to restrict beef eating in the Hindu inhabited areas
Demand for separate 'Frontier Nagaland' state picks up ahead of Assembly elections
•Eastern Nagaland, which sends 20 MLAs to the 60-members state Assembly has seen a movement for statehood since 2010
Northeast Frontier Railway thrust on implementing PM Gati Shakti swiftly
•PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan was launched in October 2021 for providing multimodal connectivity infrastructure to various economic zones
HIV/AIDS cases 10 times higher in Mizoram than rest of India
•Over 2.30 per cent of Mizoram's 10.91 lakh population is infected with HIV/AIDS. The disease has so far claimed 3,506 lives in the state since October 1990 when the first HIV-positive case was reported
Kuki-Meitei conflict in Manipur: What ails the ‘Bejewelled Land’?
Jaideep Saikia •Accounting for 47% of the insurgency-related violence in the North East, Manipur is today caught in a cycle of insurgency, ethnic strife and intra-state dissonance