"Further relaxation of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 or AFSPA from many areas of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur is another welcome step by the Modi govt," Sonowal said in a statement here.
Shah said for the first time in India's history, Modi prioritised security, peace and development in the northeast and as a result of it, the region is now rapidly heading on the path of peace and development.
In December 2021, 13 civilians in Nagaland were killed in a botched army operation. Justice is nowhere in sight.
On Saturday, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for further reducing areas under AFSPA, 1958, in Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland.
The three men hailing from Rajouri district of Jammu region - Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrar - were killed in a remote hilly village in Shopian district on July 18, 2020 and labelled as terrorists
As election dates near, political waves in the three states seem to be intensifying. Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to Nagaland on January 6 has reignited political debates in the state which has been an Opposition-less...
In Assam, the AFSPA is now limited to only eight districts as compared to nine last year. In Manipur, now the Centre has removed AFSPA in four police station jurisdictions. In Nagaland, AFSPA has been removed from three...
In the eastern theatre the Army is working on developing villages as model ones to ensure that there is no migration in search of livelihood, he said.
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The Ministry of Home Affairs on March 31 removed the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 from the jurisdiction of 15 police stations in six districts of...
Naga Students Federation (NSF) on Sunday held a solemn ceremony to pay homage to the lives of 14 civilians who were killed by the army at Oting. NSF President...
On December 4 last year, six coal miners returning from work were killed in a botched ambush by the security forces at Oting village, while seven others were...
In order to woo the Seven Sisters, where millions of people are sports crazy, especially football, the Centre is trying to promote a mainland sport like...
The strongly worded press statements of NSCN (IM) affirming its stand for a separate flag and constitution to Th Muivah’s address in Camp Hebron claiming 25...
Not only are fake ‘encounter’ killings by cops rampant across the country, they are wildly cheered by a people who have lost faith in the criminal justice...
Since there is a thin line between exercising the right to self-defence, retaliation and using excessive force, police encounters must always be looked at with...
The secret killings are not the first cases of alleged extrajudicial killings in Assam. Since the 1990s, individual cases of extrajudicial killings have been...
The highest levels of government keep encouraging police, paramilitary and army units to eliminate "undesirables" even as the public cheers the rogue elements...
The pro-Indian government militia, Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen—that targeted Pakistan-backed militants in Kashmir—was launched in 1993 by popular folk...
Across states where insurgencies are rife, women are among the worst victims during security operations as justice elude the victims and errant security...
Only 87 security personnel have lost their lives in the Northeast under the Modi government as against 304 during the Congress rule. The number of civilian...
All graves are stories and all stories have a context, a site and a landscape.
Independent journalists are always in the government’s line of fire in the Northeast state
The Court of Inquiry is being analysed along with the SIT report into the incident in which 14 civilians were killed.
