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Prime Minister Narendra Modi after being presented with Naga traditional attires by Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio during a public rally ahead of the Nagaland Assembly election in Chumukedima, Nagaland

Neiphiu Rio back in Nagaland as NDPP-BJP alliance emerges stronger

High on Rio’s agenda will be the statehood demand in Eastern Nagaland and the stalled peace talks.

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National People’s Party (NPP) chief Conrad Sangma waves at supporters celebrating victory in the Meghalaya Assembly election, on March 2, 2023.

Hung Assembly in Meghalaya leaves Conrad Sangma in pole position to form government

The NPP is ideally placed to return for another term, even as former ally UDP wins 11 seats.

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Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio filing his nomination papers as a candidate for the 11 Northern Angami-II Assembly constituency, on February 6.

Nagaland poised for intense electoral battle in 2023 Assembly election

Triangular contest in 21 constituencies will play a key role in BJP-NDPP bid for a second term.

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Members of the All Tiwa Students Union stage a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on December 14, 2022, demanding reservation for Scheduled Tribes in the three Assembly constituencies of Jagiroad, Morigaon and Raha in Assam.

ECI wades into fault lines of Assam to redraw electoral map

Complexities of readjusting constituency boundaries overshadowed by a need to settle pending issues.

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Veteran journalist and writer M.S. Prabhakara.

Veteran journalist M.S. Prabhakara passes away

He covered the north-eastern region extensively for The Hindu and Frontline between 1983 and 1994.

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Security personnel stand guard near a forest office in West Karbi Anglong on November 23, a day after it was vandalised following violence in Mukroh, a border village that both Assam and Meghalaya claim as their own.

Assam-Meghalaya boundary on the boil after Mukroh firing

The firing incident endangers the March settlement of the border dispute between the States.

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Arunachal Pradesh has five major tribes—Adi, Apatani, Galo, Nyishi, and Tagin—which are all considered the progenies of the same great ancestor “Abo Tani” and who worship Donyi (Sun) and Polo (Moon).

Tribes in Arunachal Pradesh feel push to resist conversions to Christianity

The RSS is simultaneously proclaiming that tribal faiths come under the Sanatana Dharma.

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A madrassa in Bongaigaon district being demolished on August 31 on the grounds that it was carrying out “jehadi” activities. The demolition notice issued said the madrassa was “structurally vulnerable and unsafe for human habitation”.

BJP-ruled Assam orders private madrassas to register on government portal

This comes days after three of them were demolished for various reasons.

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Lunch on the boat on College Road, Silchar, on June 30. Through the last week of June, this boy and his father transported people across the flooded streets of Silchar town.

Assam floods: When the river runs high

After 2004, this year was the worst by all accounts.

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A man in Bethukandi area of Silchar shows the height to which water rose in his house in this photograph taken on June 30.

Silchar submerged: How illegal cutting of embankment led to floods

The illegal cutting of an embankment on the Barak river resulted in a month-long flood.

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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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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