News

ISSUE NO 1.18

CONTENTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2000





MUIVAH'S ARREST
Naga leader Muivah held again in Thailand
Muivah gets one-year jail term
Naga talks in jeopardy
NSCN(IM) for dialogue process
Imprisonment of Muivah: Centre fears fresh clashes between factions
Muivah leads Thai police on wild chase
Muivah has links with ISI : Centre
Nagaland peace process: Third round of talks at The Hague likely
Naga peace talks deferred
The arrest and after


POLITICS
Allies sore over govt failure to hold panchayat poll
Tripura minister quits over sex scandal
Tripura ministry expanded
Chaoba may lose ministerial job
Provide Art 370 status for Assam: UPPA
Assam govt files affidavit in SC: Nabin’s bona fide questioned
Rebel AGP workers float new platform
Sinha denies any link with RSS
Chaoba may be asked to quit
BJP wooing tea tribes in upper Assam
Cong leader, PSO held on rape charges
Pulakesh Barua suspended from AGP
Sangma, wife survive `attack' by securitymen
Bid to unite all Bodo groups
Wheat scam probe: CBI faces legal hurdle
MNF wins district council by-poll
UPDS calls bandh in Karbi Anglong
Bijit, Swaroop join BJP


INSURGENCY
Arms dealer arrested
2 tea executives kidnapped
Law & order major problem for postal service in Assam
Manipur JD(U) candidate shot dead
Centre to extend security expenses to Meghalaya, Arunachal
Probe panel report submitted
Plea for security against ultra attacks
Tripura orders judicial probe into mass rape
NSCN terrorising border inhabitants
NLFT ultras disrupt Tripura rly project
Highway robbers creating panic in Garo Hills
Tripura villagers overpower 8 ultras, rescue hostages
Law & order situation affecting NF Rly : Agarwal
SDO shot at in office complex, PSO killed
Army deployed in 4 dists in Manipur
Deputy chief of BAC shot at
11 Armymen killed in Manipur ambush
Terrorism hits Cachar tea gardens
Two jawans from NE killed at Siachen Glacier
Over 200 ULFA cadres enter Assam from Myanmar
Army, Assam Rifles to assist Manipur police in law & order duty
Karimganj has become hotbed of terrorists
BLT no longer a banned ultra outfit: Shenoy
TTAADC member's son abducted
New strategy to tackle terrorism
ISI plot for blasts in Agartala unearthed
New ULFA recruits leave for Bhutan
Barak valley TEs soft targets for ultras
Abducted engineer freed
Plan to raise second line of defence runs into rough weather
Bride among 5 injured in crossfire
ULFA's reign of extortions plucks joy out of tea biz
227 killed during January ’99-January 2000 : Sarkar


DEVELOPMENT
ASEB being bled white
Concern over declining CDR in Northeast states
NE package implementation: PMO seeks ‘activity reports’
Information Technology policy approved
Railway hurdle for GMDA project
CM announces IT policy
Report on Assam power sector reforms
Petrol dearer in Meghalaya
Escort facilities to VIPs: Fund-starved state spending huge sums
NE states’ request to Centre on PDS policy
Disbursement through NCDC suspended
Farm Management Institute facing closure
Drop in smuggling hits tea industry
Petrol to cost more in Tripura
Plan to monitor central funds in hill councils
ONGC strikes gas in Tripura fields
Bogibeel bridge construction to begin in April


SOCIETY
Medum-Me-Phi observed
Homen Borgohain for LN Phookan award
NE worst drug-affected area
‘Sibsagar’ makes way for ‘Sivasagar’
Mohan Bhaira no more
Rs 1 lakh compensation for death in custody
Mishing body asks for ST status
Nagaland minister passes away
Tremor rocks city
Gauhati HC orders compensation for schoolboy’s death
Snowfall in Nagaland areas
Playing host to ‘winged guests’
Forest guard guns down poacher at Nameri
Pasaria turning into a model agri village
NE poetry festival
Task force for Reangs set up
Films from NE charm audiences at MIFF-2000
9 fish species in NE endangered
AHRC’s mission to educate masses
5 Myanmarese nationals arrested
First Indian embryologist keen to help childless couples in NE
Nagaland IAS officer, 4 others arrested for killing animals
Steps taken for uplift of Solungs: Dulom
Myanmarese Army abducted Mizo teacher
They are Indians but depend on Bangla for livelihood
Elephants creating havoc in several areas of Sonitpur
NFI fellowship announced


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