Nagaland

Normal life hit in parts of Nagaland in shutdown against citizenship law

2:23 pm December 14, 2019

Kohima: Schools and colleges were closed, markets were shut and vehicles remained largely off roads in parts of Nagaland on Saturday amid a six-hour shutdown call given by the Naga Students’ Federation (NSF), protesting against the amended Citizenship Act, officials said. No untoward incident has been reported so far from the Naga inhabited areas where […]

Hornbill festival is the ambassador of Nagaland: Singh

6:48 pm December 7, 2019

Kohima: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said Nagaland has become the ambassador of North East region to the whole of India through the Hornbill Festival. Singh who visited the Hornbill festival ground here congratulated the Nagaland government for successfully hosting the festival for 20 years. The Hornbill festival is held every year from December […]

Oppn plans march to Vijay Chowk in solidarity with suspended RS MPs

CAB set to be tabled in Parliament next week; non-Muslim refugees from Pak, B’desh, Afghanistan to get citizenship

7:14 pm December 6, 2019

New Delhi: Members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who come from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan facing persecution there, will not be treated as illegal immigrants but given Indian citizenship when the proposed amendments to the six-decade-old Citizenship Act come into effect. According to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which was distributed […]

PM Modi to chair meeting of CSIR society on Friday

PM wishes people of Nagaland on statehood day

2:07 pm December 1, 2019

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday wished the people of Nagaland on their statehood day, hoping the state scales new heights in the coming years. The state was carved out of Assam in 1963. “This state is known for its great culture. The people of Nagaland are compassionate and courageous. May Nagaland scale […]

Hectic parleys continued for the second consecutive day on Tuesday to find a lasting solution to the seven-decade-old insurgency problem in Nagaland

Stalemate in Naga talks prevails

9:45 pm October 29, 2019

New Delhi: Hectic parleys continued for the second consecutive day on Tuesday to find a lasting solution to the seven-decade-old insurgency problem in Nagaland with the Centre’s interlocutor and Governor R N Ravi holding separate talks with the NSCN-IM and a conglomerate of seven organisations, officials said. While the dialogue with the Naga National Political […]