Nagaland PCC lashes out at Rio re-entry bid

Kohima/Dimapur, June 8: The Nagaland Congress has revealed that a delegation of the ruling Democratic Alliance of Nagaland (DAN) government, led by chief minister Neiphiu Rio, met senior AICC leaders in New Delhi last week and expressed their wish to return to the Congress fold. The state unit of the Congress said it would have nothing to do with the DAN under Rio’s leadership. “They have started showing their real colours,” said PCC general secretary Yesonu Veyie in a release.

Describing Rio and his colleagues as “political chameleons”, Veyie accused them of not having “an iota of conviction...

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Meghalaya to pep up tourism

Shillong, June 8: Meghalaya is trying to promote its tourism sector in a big way and plans are afoot to invite big names in the Indian tourism industry to run some of its major projects. The director of Meghalaya Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC), H. Shangpliang, said big names like Oberoi, Welcomgroup, Taj and even Le Meridian could soon be a part of the Crowborough hotel and multiplex project. He said the response from these groups had been “very good” and the state government was keen on privatising some of its key tourism promotion units.

Shangpliang said some other MTDC-run projects...

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Saturday date for downsizing

Shillong, June 8: The Congress-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government will meet on June 12 to discuss the downsizing of the ministry. According to the law enacted by Parliament, Meghalaya must prune its ministry from the existing 41 to 12 ministers. Meghalaya chief minister D.D. Lapang said late last evening that his government, a coalition of five parties, including the Congress, would “sit across the table to openly deliberate on the issue”. Lapang is also the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader.

According to the amended anti-defection bill, which was signed by President A.P...

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70-plus, and still going strong in BSF

Chozuba (Phek), June 8: A sub-inspector in the Border Security Force (BSF)’s Nagaland-based 111 Battalion, Ahoto has five years of service left. But he is already 75, which means he will be 80 by the time he calls it a day. Four of his friends, all of them based at the Satakha battalion headquarters in Zunheboto, are in their seventies and will retire around the same time. These men were members of what the BSF describes as the “Naga Revolutionary Army” and were inducted into the paramilitary force in 1973.

Explaining why such elderly people had been retained, BSF commandant Man Singh said:...

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KNF spells out its goal, objective

Imphal, June 08: While reasserting its goals of establishing a separate State or union territory under the Indian Union the Kuki National Front has warned of stringent action against all concerned found standing in the way of the organisation. Highlighting that the organisation was formed to pursue goal of seperate State or union territory as is legitimate under the Indian Constitution the KNF could not be branded as an outlaw for it does not break any law. The Front took up arms only to defend its people against communal violence and hatred preached by most politicians and public leaders of...

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The Northeast Vigil website ran from 1999 to 2009. It is not operated or maintained anymore. It has been put up here solely for archival sentiments. This site has over 6,000 news items that are of value to academics, researchers and journalists.

Subir Ghosh