Meghalaya: The Trouble with Peace

A total of 2,009 cadres of the Dilip Nunisa faction of Dima Halam Daogah (DHD-N) surrendered on March 9, 2013. Those who surrendered include 691 armed cadres (39 of them women) and 1,318 overground workers known as public relations officers. The ...

patricia mukhimIT is easy to parachute into a Maoist-affected area or a turbulent North-east or even a belligerent Kashmir and write paeans about the rights of people to take up arms against the state because: (a) the state has failed to accommodate ...

The recent outburst by the families of victims of terror in Assam should be taken seriously. Militant leaders who have committed heinous crimes cannot be granted amnesty for that would be a grave injustice. It is easy for bleeding heart sympathisers ...

Jagadish Chandra Das, a state government employee, is facing the consequences of keeping an illicit affair after the women with whom he eloped handed him over to kidnappers recently. Police, however, rescued Das from the Majbat area in Udalguri ...

In Maldives, everything government and everyone in Government other than President Nasheed could be effortlessly branded as a 'Gayoom legatee'. Most Nasheed aides, political and otherwise, belong there, too, but their timely cross-over may have ...

It was in July last year an unprecedented spell of communal riots broke out in the Bodoland Territorial Council area in Assam, involving the Bodo tribes and immigrant Muslim settlers. As the rehabilitation of this section of landless Muslim violence-displaced people has remained unresolved for over eight months now, the All BTC Minority Students’ Union on Monday took staged a protest rally in the heart of the city, demanding immediate rehabilitation of minority violence displaced people.

India’s regional policy has fallen between the two stools of pragmatism and principle. It’s time India revisited and rectified its approach. Relations with neighbours deserve nothing less, says Praful Bidwai. India’s neighbourhood is in great turmoil, but New Delhi seems unable to fashion a coherent, balanced, mature and self-confident response to it. In particular, India has dealt with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar and Nepal in confused and indecisive, if not ...