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North East Region students of Delhi University seen staging a protest against the imposition of Hindi on them, in New Delhi on April 1, 2013.

Centre's aggressive push for Hindi as North-East India's 'link language' threatens to expose ethnic fault lines

The Central government’s efforts to push Hindi as the link language has the potential to expose linguistic fault lines in the north-eastern region whe

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Chief Minister N. Biren Singh after the BJP’s victory in the Assembly election, outside his residence in Imphal on March 10, 2022.

Manipur Assembly election results: Decisive mandate for the BJP

The BJP retains power in the north-eastern State by securing a simple majority, dashing the hopes of kingmaker parties and leaving the Congress in tat

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Chief Minister N. Biren Singh is confident of the BJP’s return to power.

Manipur Assembly election: Territory in focus

Territorial integrity is the dominant election issue in Manipur, but in Naga-majority constituencies, ruling and opposition parties speak of developme

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Squeezing a river dry

The Kulsi river in Assam is a habitat of the endangered Ganges river dolphin, but illegal sand mining and the existence and construction of bridges ar

Text by Sushanta Talukdar ,Photographs by Ritu Raj Konwar

A Ganges river dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica) in the Kulsi river (40 km way from Guwahati), the unique habitat of the species in Kamrup district, Assam.

Threats to the Kulsi river in Assam

The Kulsi river in Assam is a habitat of the endangered Ganges river dolphin, but illegal sand mining and the existence and construction of bridges ar

Text by Sushanta Talukdar ,Photographs by Ritu Raj Konwar

Union Minister and BJP leader Bhupender Yadav, along with party spokesperson Sambit Patra, showing the list of party candidates for the Manipur Assembly election at a press conference at the party headquarters in New Delhi on January 30.

Manipur Assembly election: A battle of wits

The BJP has fielded its candidates in all the 60 seats while the Congress forms a six-party alliance to contest the two-phase Assembly election. The N

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chief Minister N. Biren Singh during the inauguration and foundation stone laying ceremony of 22 development projects for Manipur, in Imphal on January 4.

Manipur Assembly elections: Multi-cornered contest

The Bharatiya Janata Party is trying to come back to power in Manipur on its own steam after a rather turbulent five years of depending on coalition p

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Sanjoy Hazarika.

Sanjoy Hazarika: ‘AFSPA should be revoked’

Interview with Sanjoy Hazarika, political commentator and author.

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At a mass funeral of civilians killed by security forces in Mon district, Nagaland, on December 6.

Between the law and the lawless: Civilian killings in Nagaland provoke outrage, calls to revoke AFSPA intensify

The indiscriminate killing of 13 people in Mon district of Nagaland by the Indian Army sparks popular anger in the State, strengthens the north-easter

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Police personnel during a clash at Assam-Mizoram border at Lailapur in Cachar, district, on July 26.

Fragile peace between Assam and Mizoram in inter-State boundary dispute

Assam and Mizoram agree to keep their forces away from the inter-State boundary even as they harden their positions over the ownership of the Inner Li

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma with Ajanta Neog, Finance Minister, before she tabled the State Budget for 2021-22, on July 16.

Assam moots polarising cattle and population policies

By implementing the two-child norm strictly and seeking to regulate beef consumption through a new Bill, the BJP government in Assam entrenches itself

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The Baghjan oil field engulfed in fire in Tisukia on June 9, 2020. The fire lasted for more than five months.

Report on Baghjan blowout says it may take more than 10 years for even a partial recovery of the destruction caused to the landscape

A report on the impact of the Baghjan blowout in Assam details the all-round loss to people living in the area, and to animal and plant species as a r

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