Assam Nagaland Violence

One person has been killed and two injured in poll-related clashes in Nagaland's Zunheboto district where voting was underway along with Meghalaya today. The two tribal-Christian-majority north-eastern states have 60 seats and elections are being held for 59 seats. The BJP, which is already in power in Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, hopes to...

Over 2,000 passengers in Assam were stranded as trains headed for Silchar and Guwahati were stopped midway amid an indefinite curfew imposed in the Maibang area of Dima Hasao district after two people were killed in police firing on Thursday.

Kohima: Meet the new calendar girls. Their photo – complete with uniform and guns — adorns the first page of the Assam Rifles 2017 calendar. The 127 women are not only part of the first women’s contingent of Assam Rifles – they also became the first to take part in law enforcement side by side with their male colleagues. The army has women ...

Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today rejected demands for his resignation from protesters, saying that there was "no strong reason" for him to step down. Thousands of people have staged violent protests in capital Kohima and other cities demanding that Mr Zeliang and his entire cabinet step down, after two young Naga tribal men were killed in p...

The presence of Assam Rifles troops on the streets helped keep the peace on Kohima streets but the standoff continued with protesters firm on their demand that Chief Minister TR Zeliang Cabinet step down. But Zeliang has made clear that he will not quit. Governor PB Acharya has reached Kohima and held a crucial meeting with Mr Zeliang to firm up th...

After two weeks of militant violence on the Assam - Nagaland border that left at least 15 people dead and thousands displaced, life in Golaghat, one of Assam's prominent industrial towns on the border, is returning to normalcy.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has announced that the state government will seek a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the recent incidents of violence along the Assam - Nagaland border in the wake of the kidnapping of two young men allegedly by Naga militants on June 26.

Curfew has been re-imposed in Golaghat, the epicentre of the violence that has hit the border villages of Assam and Nagaland over the last few days. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

In the backdrop of several days of violence on the Assam-Nagaland border, the Centre has outlined a road map to find solutions in which both states -- Assam and Nagaland -- have constituted high level inquiries into the matter. Their reports are expected to come out in a fortnight. The two states have also agreed to re-energize border cooperation a...

After talks with the Centre, the chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland have agreed to initiate measures to de-escalate the tension at the border of the two states, where 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

The Centre wants the governments of Assam and Nagaland to begin talks as part of an immediate road map to control the violence that has hit villages on the border of the two states. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

The violence in Golaghat district of Assam bordering Nagaland began as a land dispute between two men, says a central government note, also alleging that the dispute was fanned by local politicians, social activists and insurgent group, the NSCN (Khole Kitovi).

Concerned over the unabated violence along Assam-Nagaland border, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today telephoned chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland and asked them to defuse tension along the borders of the two states.

A two-km stretch of Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat turned into a battlefield today, with Assamese protesters blockading the highway and targeting the police. When batons and tear gas failed to work, the police opened fire. At the end of it, one person was dead -- run over by a truck during the lathicharge -- and 21 people had to be hospitalised.

For almost a decade, some residents of Assam and Nagaland have been fighting over a 25-bigha area - no bigger than 20 football fields - in Golaghat district. The latest chapter of this ongoing violence has killed 15 people.

One person has been killed and two injured in poll-related clashes in Nagaland's Zunheboto district where voting was underway along with Meghalaya today. The two tribal-Christian-majority north-eastern states have 60 seats and elections are being held for 59 seats. The BJP, which is already in power in Assam, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, hopes to...

Over 2,000 passengers in Assam were stranded as trains headed for Silchar and Guwahati were stopped midway amid an indefinite curfew imposed in the Maibang area of Dima Hasao district after two people were killed in police firing on Thursday.

Kohima: Meet the new calendar girls. Their photo – complete with uniform and guns — adorns the first page of the Assam Rifles 2017 calendar. The 127 women are not only part of the first women’s contingent of Assam Rifles – they also became the first to take part in law enforcement side by side with their male colleagues. The army has women ...

Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today rejected demands for his resignation from protesters, saying that there was "no strong reason" for him to step down. Thousands of people have staged violent protests in capital Kohima and other cities demanding that Mr Zeliang and his entire cabinet step down, after two young Naga tribal men were killed in p...

The presence of Assam Rifles troops on the streets helped keep the peace on Kohima streets but the standoff continued with protesters firm on their demand that Chief Minister TR Zeliang Cabinet step down. But Zeliang has made clear that he will not quit. Governor PB Acharya has reached Kohima and held a crucial meeting with Mr Zeliang to firm up th...

After two weeks of militant violence on the Assam - Nagaland border that left at least 15 people dead and thousands displaced, life in Golaghat, one of Assam's prominent industrial towns on the border, is returning to normalcy.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has announced that the state government will seek a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into the recent incidents of violence along the Assam - Nagaland border in the wake of the kidnapping of two young men allegedly by Naga militants on June 26.

Curfew has been re-imposed in Golaghat, the epicentre of the violence that has hit the border villages of Assam and Nagaland over the last few days. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

In the backdrop of several days of violence on the Assam-Nagaland border, the Centre has outlined a road map to find solutions in which both states -- Assam and Nagaland -- have constituted high level inquiries into the matter. Their reports are expected to come out in a fortnight. The two states have also agreed to re-energize border cooperation a...

After talks with the Centre, the chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland have agreed to initiate measures to de-escalate the tension at the border of the two states, where 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

The Centre wants the governments of Assam and Nagaland to begin talks as part of an immediate road map to control the violence that has hit villages on the border of the two states. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

The violence in Golaghat district of Assam bordering Nagaland began as a land dispute between two men, says a central government note, also alleging that the dispute was fanned by local politicians, social activists and insurgent group, the NSCN (Khole Kitovi).

Concerned over the unabated violence along Assam-Nagaland border, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today telephoned chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland and asked them to defuse tension along the borders of the two states.

A two-km stretch of Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat turned into a battlefield today, with Assamese protesters blockading the highway and targeting the police. When batons and tear gas failed to work, the police opened fire. At the end of it, one person was dead -- run over by a truck during the lathicharge -- and 21 people had to be hospitalised.

For almost a decade, some residents of Assam and Nagaland have been fighting over a 25-bigha area - no bigger than 20 football fields - in Golaghat district. The latest chapter of this ongoing violence has killed 15 people.