TAPAN BOSE | AFTER the BJP government’s decision to nullify Article 370 and end Jammu and Kashmir’s special status, Lal Thanhawla, five times Chief Minister of Mizoram state tweeted: “RED ALERT to the people of the NE. It has become a threat to states like Mizoram, Nagaland & Arunachal which are protected by the constitution.”…
Read moreLOOKEAST EXCLUSIVE | THOSE who think Mamata Banerjee was in Delhi for two days (18–19th Sept) to push PM Narendra Modi to get a name change for West Bengal are way off the mark. That is the story she sold but that possibly concealed a much bigger development. After weeks of sustained pressure on Mamata…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | BJP national president Amit Shah assured the Assam unit of the party that measures will be taken to ensure that no illegal immigrant finds a place in the National Register of Citizens or NRC. After submitting a memorandum to Shah, who is also the Union Home Minister, at the venue of the…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE law and order situation in Assam is normal on the eve of publication of the final NRC and the Centre has rushed additional 51 companies of paramilitary forces to Assam to maintain law and order in the state, Director General of Police Kuladhar Saikia said on Friday. The state police have…
Read moreLOOKEAST REPORT | THE Myanmar and Bangladesh governments should suspend plans to repatriate Rohingya refugees until returns are safe, voluntary, and dignified, Human Rights Watch said today. With new repatriations set to start on August 22, 2019, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh camps protested that they will face the same violence and oppression in Myanmar that they…
Read moreAFSAN CHOWDHURY | INDIAN Foreign Minister Jaishankar’s visit was not a high rolling dice game but a low shouldered visit meant to preserve continuity of relations. It was one of the first foreign trips by the fresher FM in BJP’s round two cabinet. The biggest priority on Modi’s desk was Kashmir and that’s largely done….
Read moreDHAKA | THE process of documenting and identifying illegal immigrants in Assam is India’s “internal matter”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said as he held wide–ranging talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart A K Abdul Momen here. Jaishankar is in Dhaka on a two–day visit, his first to Bangladesh after taking over the charge of External…
Read moreNEW DELHI | THE friendly relations between Bangladesh and India have grown stronger and reached a newer height under the guidance of Prime Ministers Sheikh Hasina and Narendra Modi. This was stated by Bangladesh envoy to India Syed Muazzem Ali in a speech to the officers taking part in the 59th NDC course at National…
Read moreANTHONY CHAKESANG | A proposed accord with Naga armed groups is expected to be concluded soon, Deputy National Security Adviser RN Ravi has said, just before he was named the next governor of Nagaland. Question is how soon is soon for Mr Ravi, because he had made a similar statement just before the Lok Sabha…
Read moreGUWAHATI | IT is hotter than Prague. It does not have the Czech capital’s cobbled squares or narrow streets but instead tin–roofed houses and paddies hemmed with palms and mango trees. Yet Franz Kafka would have felt quite at home in Assam. Since 2016 this hilly tea–growing state in India’s north–eastern corner has been compiling a…
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