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BJP creates record in NE, leads in 17 of 25 seats

Guwahati, May 23 (IBNS): Apart from the other parts of the country, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is also going to create a new history in the North East as the saffron party is looking to surpass its last Lok Sabha election tally in the region.

Modi Govt brings peace in NE: Amit Shah

Itanagar, April 5 (UNI) BJP president Amit Shah on Friday iterated that it was the Narendra Modi

High level security review meeting of three NE states held at Dinjan

Guwahati, Mar 27 (IBNS): Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, a high level security review meeting of senior army officials along with representatives from civil administration and central armed Police Forces of Assam, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh was held by the Operations Group at Dinjan in Assam's Tinsukia district on Wednesday.

Arunachal Pradesh: 18 BJP leaders quit ahead of polls

Itanagar, Mar 20 (IBNS): In a setback for the saffron party ahead of national and Arunachal Pradesh Assembly elections, 18 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of the state quit, media reports said.

Amid protests in northeast, government to table Citizenship Bill in Rajya Sabha

New Delhi, Feb 12 (IBNS): Amid protests in the northeast, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government on Tuesday will table the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, in the Rajya Sabha, media reports said.

Assam will be transformed into an Oil and Natural Gas Hub, says PM Modi

Guwahati, Feb 9 (IBNS): PM Narendra Modi visited Guwahati as a part of his visit to Arunachal, Assam and Tripura.

Amid protests over Citizenship bill, PM Modi in northeast today

New Delhi, Feb 9 (IBNS): Amid protests over the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting the northeast on Saturday to inaugurate a number of projects.

Tight security in Guwahati with PM Modi in town

Guwahati, Feb 8 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday evening arrived in Guwahati for his two-day-long visit to Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Tripura.

Allocation for the North Eastern areas is being proposed to be increased by 21% in 2019-20 BE over 2018-19 BE: Goyal

New Delhi, Feb 1 (IBNS): While presenting the Interim Budget 2019-20 in Parliament on Friday the Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, Railways & Coal, Piyush Goyal said that the allocation for the North Eastern Areas is being proposed to be increased by 21% to Rs 58,166 crore in 2019-20 Budget Estimates over 2018-19 BE.

NE is the gate of new India’s development: PM Modi

Imphal, Jan 4  (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that northeast is a new engine of development in the country.

Northeast: A Pale Islamist Shadow

During a span of 11 days, between September 13 and September 23, 2018, Security Forces (SFs) arrested nine Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) cadres, all residents of Assam. The first arrest took place on September 13, when a trained HM cadre, Qamar-uz-Zaman, was arrested from Shivnagar locality in Kanpur District of Uttar Pradesh. Zaman hails from Jamunamukh in Hojai District of Assam. The Uttar Pradesh Police and National Investigation Agency (NIA) subsequently alerted authorities in Assam about the arrest.

Northeast: Negotiated Successes

The Union Government and seven Naga militant groups are, according to an April 25, 2018, news report, said to have finalized the substantive portions of the peace accord, which is likely to be signed before the upcoming monsoon session of Parliament scheduled to begin in July 2018. Unnamed official sources stated that the accord does not change the boundary of States; provides autonomous Naga territorial councils for Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur; a common cultural body for Nagas across States; specific institutions for Nagaland’s development, integration and rehabilitation of Naga militants; and the removal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act-1958 (AFSPA). The Government of India's interlocutor on Naga talks, Joint Intelligence Committee Chairman, R.N. Ravi, was quoted as stating, “Yes, we are pretty close to finalising the (Naga Peace) Accord”.

Northeast: Dying Fires

On April 13, 2018, at least 102 cadres and 12 leaders, including ‘chairman’ H. Zosangbera, of the H. Zosangbera faction of the Hmar Peoples Convention-Democrat (HPC-D-Zosangbera) surrendered in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram. The militants deposited 44 weapons, including four sniper rifles, nine AK assault rifles, one M-16 carbine, 13 double-barrel guns and 2,892 rounds of ammunition, grenade launcher shells and five radio sets. On April 14, the surrendered militants headed for Sakawrda village in Aizawl District, the proposed headquarters of the Sinlung Hills Council (SHC), after which they departed for their respective villages.

BJP storms Northeast with historic Tripura win, bags Nagaland; Cong ahead in Meghalaya

Agartala/Kohima/Shillong, Mar 3 (IBNS): Creating history, the Modi wave dismantled the 25-year-long Left regime in Tripura and surged ahead in Nagaland to firm up its stronghold in the northeast belt  even as Congress managed to emerge as the gainer of highest number of seats in Meghalaya.

President of India to visit three Northeastern states from Nov 19 to 22

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IBNS): PresidentRam Nath Kovind will visit three Northeastern States – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Manipur - from Nov 19 to 22, 2017.