Northeast India
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All Stories for Northeast India
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
Arunachal Pradesh to get three new air routes by October: Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia
•New flight services would begin between Itanagar and New Delhi from Donyi Polo Airport at Hollongi, besides services between Itanagar and Jorhat in Assam and between Ruksin in East Siang district and Itanagar
Threat from Rohingya terror: How Islamist agenda for Indian subcontinent is real and dangerous
Jaideep Saikia •A well-oiled network has been established in the North East by which the Rohingyas fleeing from both Myanmar and Bangladesh were provided with documents that would aid their travel inside India
Why it’s mischievous to give Manipur violence an anti-Christian colour
Utpal Kumar •Colonial, Nehruvian approaches created fake hill-valley, tribal-non-tribal divides in Manipur and the rest of the Northeast that alienated the region as never before
G20 nations urged to invest in Northeast India with 'immense market potential'
Fp Staff •Initiatives like the Prime Minister's Development Initiative for the Northeast showcase the importance being attached to the development of the region, Singh said in his address at a B20 event in Nagaland
IMD predicts heavy rain in North Bengal, North East over next four days
•The weatherman forecast isolated heavy rainfall with thunderstorm, lightning and gusty winds in Gangetic West Bengal over the next few days.
AFSPA now applicable fully only in 31 districts, partially in 12 districts of four Northeast states
•The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958, was completely withdrawn in Meghalaya in 2018, Tripura in 2015 and Mizoram in the 1980s.
Assam, Meghalaya agree to resolve border row in six of twelve disputed areas
•Meghalaya was carved out of Assam as a separate state in 1972. It had challenged the Assam Reorganisation Act, 1971, leading to disputes in 12 locations along the two states' 884.9-km-long border
5.6 magnitude earthquake jolts Mizoram, tremors felt across Northeast
•The epicentre of the earthquake was 58 km southeast of Champhai in Mizoram
If Priyanka Chopra feels a northeastern actor should've played Mary Kom, then Ben Kingsley shouldn't have been Gandhi
Subhash •Where was this gyan when Priyanka Chopra Jonas not only played Mary Kom but also declared herself the perfect fit for the role (which she was, and Mary Kom agrees.)?