-The Telegraph Several organisations demand special session after the counter-insurgency operation led to the security forces killing 14 civilians at Oting in Mon district last week Guwahati: The nagaland government has decided to hold a daylong special session of the Assembly to discuss the Armed Forces Special Powers Act and the ongoing Naga political talks, stepping up pressure on the Centre to have the “abusive law” repealed. Several organisations, including the Naga Students’...
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Kerala and Tamil Nadu bucked the trend of falling Total Fertility Rate, indicates the latest NFHS data
After the release of the second phase data of the National Family Health Survey Fifth Round (NFHS-5), media commentators and experts have written that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for India has gone down just below the replacement-level fertility. The TFR for the entire nation was 2.2 in 2015-16, which decreased to 2.0 in 2019-21. According to the United Nations, the replacement-level fertility is reached when the TFR of a...
More »‘I only want my husband back’: Nine days before he was killed, this Naga miner had got married -Rokibuz Zaman
-Scroll.in According to the residents of Oting village, joining the army was an ‘honourable job’. Now, they want the army to leave the area. On November 25, Hokup Konyak, a 38-year-old coal miner, married Monglong Konyak. The wedding was held in the hahshahapang, or village square, in Oting in nagaland’s Mon district. Everyone in the village attended. Eleven days later, his funeral was held in the same village square. “He was buried just...
More »NHRC issues notices to Centre, nagaland on civilian killings
-The Hindu The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday issued notices to the Centre and nagaland Government over the killing of civilians by security forces in Mon district on December 4. The NHRC took suo motu cognisance of media reports and issued notices to the Union Defence Secretary, Union Home Secretary, nagaland Chief Secretary and nagaland Director General of Police, calling for a detailed report on the incident within six weeks. “The...
More »After nagaland Army Op, State To Move Against Controversial Act AFSPA -Ratnadip Choudhury
-NDTV.com On Saturday, 14 villagers and a soldier died in nagaland's Mon district after an Army op to track down insurgents went off script. A police FIR has said the Army's 21 Para Special Forces "blankly opened fire". Kohima: Amid outrage over the mistaken killings of 14 civilians in a botched army operation against insurgents, the nagaland government will write to the Centre calling for the repeal of the Armed Forces Special...
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