New Delhi, May 19: The Nagaland People’s Front (NPF) today set at rest rumours that it might snap ties with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), with the two Naga members of Parliament asserting that there was no question of supporting the Congress. They also iterated their support to the North East People’s Forum (NEPF), that was showing signs of a rift after the NDA was trounced at the Lok Sabha elections.

Lok Sabha MP W.W. Konyak and his Rajya Sabha counterpart T.R. Zeliang said the party’s alliance with the NDA would continue though the nature of the relationship would depend on the...

Kohima, May 19: Back home after four days in an NSCN (I-M) camp, author Kaka D. Iralu today said he had gone there at the militant group’s “invitation” and was not taken by force, as was being speculated. Iralu, the secretary of the A.Z. Phizo Birth Centenary Celebration Committee, went missing on Thursday and did not return home until Monday.

He was believed to have been abducted by the NSCN (I-M) because of its opposition to the centenary celebrations on May 16, which is observed as “national plebiscite day”.

The militant group said Phizo, who is acknowledged to be the pioneer of Naga...

KOHIMA, May 19 – Naga writer Kaka D Iralu, who was abducted on the eve of celebration of birth centenary of the pioneer of Naga political struggle late Angami Z Phizo, was released without any harm by NSCN(I-M) activists at Dimapur, police said here on Tuesday reports PTI.

Iralu, who was abducted from the capital town on May 14, was released at NSCN (I-M) ceasefire monitoring cell at Diphupar on Monday after holding him captive at the outfit’s headquarters “Hebron” near Dimapur. The writer was the secretary of birth centenary celebration committee which observed Phizo’s anniversary at Kohima...

SIVASAGAR, May 19 – ‘Pro Mising Action’ a bilingual bi-monthly in English and Mising, was released by N N Taye, Support Manager, ONGC, in a function held in Hotel Skychef on May 16. Published by an NGO Institution for Culture and Rural Development (I-Card), Jorhat, distinguished litterateur and linguist Prof. Nahendra Padun is the editor of the magazine. In his speech explained the lexical difference between the terms ‘Miri’ and ‘Mising’.

Speaking on the occasion, Guna Boruah, secretary, Sivasagar District Journalists Association, pointed out the covert designs of some orthodox groups...

GUWAHATI, May 19 – With its military strength gone after the operations carried out by the Royal Bhutan Army in December last year, the leadership of the banned National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) is now on the verge of a split over the question of talks with the Indian government. And NDFB chairman Ranjan Daimary is apparently readying himself for it. Daimary has bought himself a piece of land in Myanmar with the intention of settling down there in the event that his lieutenants corner him.

Knowledgeable sources said here that the NDFB might never really recover from the setback...