Tag: North-east

  • Assam-Arunachal border dispute likely to be resolved by next year: Union Home Minister Amit Shah

    By PTI

    DEOMALI (ARUNACHAL PRADESH): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said that the inter-state boundary dispute between Arunachal Pradesh and Assam is likely to be resolved by next year. Asserting that efforts are underway to make Northeast insurgency-free, he claimed that 9,000 militants from the region have surrendered during the last eight years of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.

    Addressing the golden jubilee celebrations of Ramakrishna Mission School at Narottam Nagar in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh, Shah said that the Centre is committed to bringing peace and development to the region.

    He said that the governments of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam were working for an amicable and permanent resolution of the inter-state boundary dispute. “Youths of Northeast no longer carry guns and petrol bombs. They are now carrying laptops and are launching startups. This is the path of development that the Centre has envisaged for the region. Manipur, which was earlier known for bandhs and blockades for more than 200 days a year, is now witnessing a sea of change without any bandh during the last five years of BJP rule in the state,” he said.

    Shah said that the insurgency in the Bodoland region of Assam was resolved through the signing of the Bodo Peace Accord. “Surrender of militant groups in Tripura and resolving of the Bru refugee issue was undertaken by the Modi government. The Union Home Ministry has taken initiatives to bring peace to Assam’s Karbi Anglong,” he said.

    The Union home minister said that a three-pronged agenda has been prepared for the development of the Northeast. “Firstly, we would preserve and promote the indigenous cultures and languages of the region. Secondly, we want to end all disputes among the northeastern states and make it free from insurgency and thirdly, we want to make the eight states the most developed in the country,” he added.

  • My Rajya Sabha nomination sends message that TMC reaching North-East, says Sushmita Dev

    By ANI

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) Leader, Sushmita Dev on Wednesday said that her Rajya Sabha nomination sends a message to the country about the party reaching the North-East to expand its footprint outside West Bengal.

    While speaking to ANI, Dev said, “This will give an important message to the entire country that TMC is not just a party of West Bengal but is now also reaching the North-Eastern states.”

    “I am extremely grateful to my leader, Mamata Di that she has given me an opportunity to file my nomination and contest the Rajya Sabha election,” she added.

    Dev, a former Congress MP from Silchar, Assam joined TMC last month.

    The Election Commission had earlier this month announced bypolls for six Rajya Sabha seats across five states. The six Rajya Sabha seats include two in Tamil Nadu and one seat each in West Bengal, Maharashtra, Assam and Madhya Pradesh. Voting for all seats is scheduled for October 4.

  • Under pressure, drug cartels adopt new methods in North-east: Guwahati Police chief Harmeet Singh

    By PTI

    GUWAHATI: Following the crackdown on drug trafficking by the Assam government, narcotic smugglers of the North-eastern states have adopted new methods such as using women as traffickers and ferry the contraband in small vehicles instead of trucks, a senior officer of Guwahati Police said on Monday.

    The city police has arrested at least 126 people in operations against drug menace and seized heroin, cocaine and brown sugar valued at more than Rs 21 crore within just one month, Guwahati Police Commissioner Harmeet Singh who took charge on July 19 said.

    “It is interesting to see that now they (drug cartels) are using lady peddlers or traffickers to escape the eyes of the police, but they can’t hoodwink us. Women are being used because of pressure from us,” he told PTI in an interview.

    A woman who was coming from Mizoram and entered the city from Shillong was arrested recently with 8,500 yaba tablets. The city police also nabbed two local lady peddlers with brown sugar and heroin.

    The top cop of the Guwahati Police said the force hit hard at the drug network, which starts from across the border in Myanmar and then enters India via Mizoram and Manipur, and passes through the city to the rest of the country, and nabbed a number of big suppliers.

    “Just a few days ago, we arrested one heroin supplier from Churachandpur in Manipur and picked up a cocaine supplier from Delhi. The drug network has now changed its strategy to transport drugs. Earlier, they used to ferry drugs in big vehicles, but now carry in smaller ones,” Singh said.

    The Police Commissioner said that the police also strengthened its sources network and are getting near-accurate information of the movement. “For example, the consignment that we caught yesterday started from Moreh (in Manipur) and we could track it from the place of origin,” he said, referring to the biggest drug haul of 1.324 kgs of heroin at the entry-point of Guwahati on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

    “Initially, we were able to catch the trucks and peddlers. Now, we are able to detect and apprehend the forward as well as backward linkages. In our consistent efforts, we could arrest 126 people, of which around 110 are peddlers and rest users, in the last one month,” he added.

    Singh said the police have registered 36 cases across Guwahati and seized over 3 kgs of heroin, 200 gms of brown sugar and 4 gms of cocaine and other items from the arrested people after his joining the force. “The value of the seized contraband items has been estimated to be of more than Rs 21 crore as per international market standards. This is a big achievement in just one month,” he explained.

    The police also recovered 12.5 kg of cannabis or ganja, 14,500 bottles of cough syrup, 76 mobile phones, 21 vehicles from trucks to small cars and Rs 19 lakh in cash from the drug peddlers, Singh said.

    Without sharing details, Singh appreciated the role of the general public as many of the catches were based on the information provided by common citizens and not some police nurtured informants. “We are looking out for everything. We need support from the public as they are our biggest sources. This war on drugs will continue till we make our city and state free from the menace,” he added.

  • Northeast India will always be one: Mizoram CM Zoramthanga

    By PTI
    AIZAWL: Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga said that Northeast India will always be one, amid deadly violence at its border with Assam, which advised its residents to not visit the neighbouring state.

    Zoramthanga also shared on Twitter a notification issued by his government, stating that there will be no restrictions on the movement of non-residents of Mizoram in Kolasib district, which borders Assam’s Cachar district. “#NorthEast India will always be #One,” the chief minister tweeted on Friday.

    Public Notice to all.#NorthEast India will always be #One @prag_newsAssam @DGPAssamPolice @BarakBulletin @dccachar @cacharpolice @mygovassam @diprassam https://t.co/2sHp2HYlHK
    — Zoramthanga (@ZoramthangaCM) July 30, 2021

    Zoramthanga’s comment came a day after the Assam government issued a travel advisory, asking its residents not to travel to Mizoram and those staying there to exercise utmost caution. Meanwhile, the border row continued to simmer as police forces of the two states registered criminal cases over Monday’s violence that left at least seven people from Assam dead and more than 50 people injured.

  • PM Modi to interact with CMs of north-eastern states on Covid situation Tuesday

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with the chief ministers of eight north-eastern states on Tuesday to discuss the Covid-19 situation amid concerns over the coronavirus numbers in the region.

    Official sources said Modi will interact with the chief ministers of Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram via video conferencing.

    While most parts of the country have seen a steady decline in the Covid numbers, the northeast region has been a cause of concern with the number of cases either rising or not falling in line with the nationwide trend, experts have noted.

  • India, Bangladesh facing new narco-terrorism threat with new drug smuggling routes: Report

    The drug smuggling route from Myanmar now uses Manipur and from there to Silchar and Tripura and finally into Bangladesh.

  • Editorial :- Sonia Boli Hum ? Hai Numbari One…

    The TDP’s no confidence motion has been approved. SP said no, but the government will lie to the lie. Sonia quote: Who says we do not have numbers? Some opposition parties released the whip.

    BJP released Whip, Ananth Kumar said that the government has two-thirds majority.

    Taking law into its own hands can not be said in any way. In the same way cheating the public by becoming a polymorphism can not be said in any way appropriate.

    We are now seeing that many hypocritical monks have remained. Garuda wearing clothes and conspiring against Hindus. Many leaders can also join. They are doing this for vote bank politics but it also creates instability in the country.

    It is being seen that some churches belonging to Christian missionaries have also been wearing garland cloth and promoting them against Hindus, especially the tribal society.

    In addition to the North-East, Jharkhand, Bastar etc. are some of the areas which are tribal plurality. The task of provoking innocent people is trapped in the eyes of missionaries and foreign tactical leaders.

    Swamy Agrush Garuda is a garmentsman. From most people’s point of view, they create anarchy against Hindus. It can not be said, unless it is true.

    Perhaps copying him, the Congress spokesman made Rahul Gandhi a Jnanubeer. In protest against the unfair treatment done by some people by taking the law into the hands of Swami Agrahas, the Youth Congress was fiercely demonstrated in Ranchi.

    We are unable to understand why the secularists, especially the Congress, have two faces?

    There was a debate on issuing fatwa to Nida Khan, who opposed the three divorces. The debate had just escalated that Maulana Ejaz Arshad Qasmi started killing him on a comment by Ambar Zaidi calling him a deceitful woman.

    It was unreasonable to raise hands on Swamy Agrovas. But even more fierce offense is to raise a Muslim lawyer on a woman by a maulana related to Muslim personal law.

    In the case of Swamy Agravas by the Congress, they performed fiercely. Rahul Gandhi also expressed anguish over it but did not say a word on the Muslim lawyer who was beaten and beaten by the Maulvi.

    It is clear that the advocate has gone to the Supreme Court against the woman’s three-divorce, halala etc. and today a court has given a judicial verdict in favor of the triple-divorced woman, and the order of the court will also suit her husband and father-in-law.

    Now I think it is appropriate to discuss the words spoken in the beginning of the editorial.

    Sonia Gandhi’s ego has been released in relation to the motion of no confidence. There are at least fifty members in the Lok Sabha for the opposition party, so the non-commissioned party is saying that she has numbers.

    Congress is not in the majority, then it has grabbed the weakness of democracy and has been governing the party leader with some members as the Prime Minister or the Chief Minister, and has been ruled by the back door and is doing it in Karnataka too.

    Karnataka Chief Minister Kumar Swamy has harassed the Congress in such a way that tears have been published in his eyes so it has been published in the media.

    But Congress is a Muslim party. It has been accepted by Rahul Gandhi himself in an Urdu newspaper. There should be no dispute on this because Sonia Gandhi proved it even after tears at the time of the Batala House Encounter.

    Pandit Nehru also proved that he is a Hindu, otherwise he is a Muslim with education and culture.

    Firoz Khan’s grandson Rahul Gandhi may never have the name of his grandfather, nor has the Nehru-Gandhi family ever offered flowers at his mazar.

    Regardless of this, Sonia Gandhi’s say that she has a number. That means they can support some opposition parties. In Karnataka, the tears of fellow Chief Minister Kumar Swamy surely are reminded of the days when the Congress betrayed Chandrashekhar, Devgowda, Ikkumar Gujral in the notorious opportunistic alliances and insulted respectable Congress leaders like Sita Ram Kesari and Narasimha Rao. It was not that they belong to the Nehru-Gandhi family.

    Every coalition of Congress is a continuous documentary flow of betrayal and deceit by the public.

    It is clear from now that in the Lok Sabha which is a mathematics, there are about 300 NDA members. It is possible that some opposition members also vote against the motion of no confidence. That is, the ego of Congress is that it has number