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Feb. 2: The NSCN (I-M) has flayed Nagaland chief minister S.C. Jamir for his recent statement that the outfit?s leaders had virtually accepted Indian citizenship by using Indian passports to travel to the country.

Jamir had reportedly said Swu and Muivah had visited New Delhi as ?good Indian citizens with valid Indian passports?.

?While the visit of the collective leadership to India has proved meaningful in enhancing mutual trust and confidence that is most essential for resolving the Indo-Naga conflict, such a statement is totally irrelevant and nonsense,? a statement by the insurgent group...

Pangsau Pass (Indo-Myanmar border), Feb. 2: A retired soldier of the Myanmarese army has become the vital link between troops deployed on either side of the Indo-Myanmar border.

Fifty-year-old Chettry Kalu, who retired from service a few years back, has been recruited afresh by the Myanmar army for a special assignment that requires his expertise in languages.

Being a Nepali, Chettry is well versed in Hindi while his stint with the army has given him a working knowledge of various Myanmarese dialects. The retired soldier?s proficiency in languages is now being put to use by the Myanmarese army...

Shillong, Feb. 2: The Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement (KHNAM), the political wing of the Khasi Students? Union (KSU), has decided to make influx of Hindus into Meghalaya a poll issue. The party wants to deny legal status to Hindu migrants who entered the state after March 24, 1971.

Party president Paul Lyngdoh released a policy statement, which said: ?Illegal Hindu migrants who have infiltrated after March 24, 1971, should not be granted refugee status?.

The policy statement, entitled ?Meghalaya?s economy and agenda for action?, said it would treat migrants coming after the cut...

Agartala, Feb. 2: The Indigenous Nationalist Party of Tripura (INPT) has changed its candidates for three constituencies because of a revolt by a section of party members, some of whom had laid siege to the residences of president Bijay Kumar Hrangkhawl and general secretary Rabindra Debbarma.

Hrangkhawl today announced that Ranakusum Reang, who was supposed to contest the Shantir Bazar seat of South Tripura, had been replaced by veteran politician Gaurishankar Reang.

The second candidate to be sidelined is Ajit Debbarma, who was to have represented the INPT in Salema constituency of Dhalai...

Imphal, Febuary 02: The Public Monitoring Committee, Tamenglong district, Manipur (PMC) deplored the memorandum of understanding between the Government of Manipur and North Eastern Electrical Power Corporation (NEEPCO) for the construction of 1500 Mega Watt Dam at Tipaimukh which tends to destroy the very fabric of life and co-existence involving Tamenglong district and its adjoining including Tipaimukh of Churachandpur district. Such a high power dam has been universally objectionable with reference to collapse of colossal dam at San Francisco in 1926. Smaller dams and projects are being...