Nagaland

  • Tax collection at Tzutapela gate near Assam border
    Limalenden LongkumerMokokchung | June 23What do you do when five major departments of your government levy and collect unauthorized taxes from trucks carrying your essential commodities? You end up paying highe
  • ‘Zeme Nagas indigenous people of NC Hills’
    Dimapur, June 23 (MExN): The Zeliangrong Baudi of Assam, Manipur and Nagaland on June 19 submitted a representation to the Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram calling for intervention of the Central government i
  • Extortion: DAN has ‘no guts’ to fight it
    ‘About time Nagas realize they’re the victims’Dimapur, June 23 (MExN): The assurance of the Democratic Alliance of Nagaland government in its rhetoric to fight another menace such as extortion cannot be t
  • ‘Naga issue is political’
    Dimapur, June 23 (MExN): The ‘ato kilonser’ of the “GPRN/NSCN” N Kitovi Zhimomi on June 22 is said to have invited and interacted with civil organizations of the Sumi community. A note from the ‘publi
  • DC bans illegal taxation “once again”
    Dimapur, June 23 (MExN): In the backdrop of the truckers’ strike in Assam against illegal taxation and extortion in Nagaland, the Deputy Commissioner of Dimapur today “once again” ordered that collection
  • ENPO expects Nagaland govt to settle border dispute
    Dimapur, June 23 (MExN): The Eastern Nagaland Peoples’ Organization (ENPO) has declared its resolve to urge to the Nagaland government to “urgently” take up the matter of the “so-called border dispute
  • ‘It is every individual’s responsibility to bring about change’
    Mokokchung, June 23 (DIPR): A training on ‘International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law’ for officers of the Nagaland Police, to be conducted for two days, got underway on June 23 at th
  • ‘Intangki can be saved by non-partial eviction’
    Dimapur, June 23 (MExN): The Naga United Village Council (NUVC) has issued a press note pointing out that it will “appreciate the non-partial step taken by the Government of Nagaland to protect the Intangki r
  • Youths set out into business
    Chizokho VeroKohima | June 22Thirty two Naga youths who graduated from a 3-months course on Entrepreneurial Skills Development Training (ESDT) conducted by Entrepreneurs Associates (EA) and supported by the sta
  • Raising, Huray deny allegations
    Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): Senior NSCN leaders Rh. Raising and KP  Huray, whose names were mentioned in the allegation leveled by “NSCN/GPRN” of having farm lands within Intangki National Park, have both
  • “Encroachers will be evicted without any further warning”
    Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): The ‘ministry of information and publicity NSCN/GPRN’ has  drawn the attention of all Nagas  irrespective of tribe or community to the issue of Intanki Forest Reserve that
  • Govt to crackdown on illegal collections
    Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): A high-level meeting chaired by the chief minister and attended by the Home minister, chief secretary and director general of police was held in the office of the chief minister today.
  • Chakka Jam: Protest Intensifies
    Morung Express NewsDimapur | June 22 Even as the strike called by the All Assam Truck Owners, Drivers, Handymen Association entered its third day, more and more grievances about the “tax” culture surfa
  • Nagaland’s tea growers demand funding
    Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): The ‘Kisan & Khet Mazdoor Congress, Kohima,’ has made an appeal to the department of Commerce & Industry, government of Nagaland, for release of subsidy for ‘small tea gro
  • Overseas’ Nagas laud reconciliation pact
    Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): The Overseas Naga Association welcomes the ‘Covenant of Reconciliation’ reached recently among the NSCN and FGN groups. A note from the ONA today lauded the efforts of the three Nag
  • Head GB Kakiho village refute DHO claim
    Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): Head GB of Kakiho village under Dhansiripar Sub-division has refuted the statement of District Horticulture Officer Dimapur stating that the clarification given by the latter was all
  • Tsumang Lake to be utilized for fishery development
    Dimapur, June 22 (MExN): The Landowners of Tsumang Lake in Wokha town have entered into an agreement with the department of fisheries “on the ownership of Tsumang lake”. Tsumang Lake in Wokha town will now
  • Govt. takes over Pfutsero college
    Young people should not be denied access to higher education:” Dr. ShurhozelieChizokho Vero Pfutsero | June 20 In what may be considered the first of its kind, a record, the Nagaland Government has
  • Fighting Extortion: Now Truckers boycott Nagaland
    Price hike, food shortage loomingMorung Express NewsDimapur | June 20 The threat of shortage of essential items and consequently price hike in Nagaland, is looming with transporters in Assam finally callin
  • Govt wakes up to claim ownership
    Dimapur, June 20 (MExN):  Strengthened by resolve offered by a united Naga civil society, the usually docile state government of Nagaland has decided to take “immediate and effective measures” to prote
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