Assam-nagaland Border

Assam and Nagaland Chief Ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Neiphiu Rio have agreed in principle to go ahead with oil exploration in areas along their disputed boundary for the economic benefit of both states.

Nagaland wants an amicable settlement of the long standing inter-state border dispute with Assam and has entrusted its border affairs department to work out modalities for discussions with the government of the neighbouring state, an official said.

A day after he came under heavy gunfire near the Assam-Nagaland border in Jorhat district, Congress MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi today started a hunger strike in the border area in demand of "complete eviction of encroachers from Assam's land".

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has said dialogue and not disengagement should be the answer to end any distrust between the people living along the Assam-Nagaland boundary.

Curfew has been re-imposed in Golaghat, the epicentre of the violence that has hit the border villages of Assam and Nagaland over the last few days. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

In the backdrop of several days of violence on the Assam-Nagaland border, the Centre has outlined a road map to find solutions in which both states -- Assam and Nagaland -- have constituted high level inquiries into the matter. Their reports are expected to come out in a fortnight. The two states have also agreed to re-energize border cooperation a...

The Centre wants the governments of Assam and Nagaland to begin talks as part of an immediate road map to control the violence that has hit villages on the border of the two states. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

With violence at the Assam-Nagaland border worsening, the Army conducted a flag march in Assam's Golaghat district this morning.

The violence in Golaghat district of Assam bordering Nagaland began as a land dispute between two men, says a central government note, also alleging that the dispute was fanned by local politicians, social activists and insurgent group, the NSCN (Khole Kitovi).

Concerned over the unabated violence along Assam-Nagaland border, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today telephoned chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland and asked them to defuse tension along the borders of the two states.

Two people have been killed in fresh clashes between the police and protesters today in Golaghat near the Assam-Nagaland border. The police said a mob of about 4000 adivasis or tribals, carrying bows and arrows and spears, attacked policemen and set fire to a picket.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought a report from the Home Ministry on the Assam-Nagaland border violence.

A two-km stretch of Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat turned into a battlefield today, with Assamese protesters blockading the highway and targeting the police. When batons and tear gas failed to work, the police opened fire. At the end of it, one person was dead -- run over by a truck during the lathicharge -- and 21 people had to be hospitalised.

The death toll in firing and arson along the Assam-Nagaland border by alleged miscreants from Nagaland has increased to 11 with the recovery of nine more bodies from the disturbed Uriamghat area of Assam on Friday even as night curfew continued.

Ethnic clashes between the Karbis and the Rengma Nagas on the Assam-Nagaland border have led to the death of 20 people since the last week of December and also displaced many people from their villages.

Assam and Nagaland Chief Ministers Himanta Biswa Sarma and Neiphiu Rio have agreed in principle to go ahead with oil exploration in areas along their disputed boundary for the economic benefit of both states.

Nagaland wants an amicable settlement of the long standing inter-state border dispute with Assam and has entrusted its border affairs department to work out modalities for discussions with the government of the neighbouring state, an official said.

A day after he came under heavy gunfire near the Assam-Nagaland border in Jorhat district, Congress MLA Rupjyoti Kurmi today started a hunger strike in the border area in demand of "complete eviction of encroachers from Assam's land".

Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal has said dialogue and not disengagement should be the answer to end any distrust between the people living along the Assam-Nagaland boundary.

Curfew has been re-imposed in Golaghat, the epicentre of the violence that has hit the border villages of Assam and Nagaland over the last few days. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

In the backdrop of several days of violence on the Assam-Nagaland border, the Centre has outlined a road map to find solutions in which both states -- Assam and Nagaland -- have constituted high level inquiries into the matter. Their reports are expected to come out in a fortnight. The two states have also agreed to re-energize border cooperation a...

The Centre wants the governments of Assam and Nagaland to begin talks as part of an immediate road map to control the violence that has hit villages on the border of the two states. 15 adivasis or tribals from Assam have died in ethnic clashes with Nagas in the last one week.

With violence at the Assam-Nagaland border worsening, the Army conducted a flag march in Assam's Golaghat district this morning.

The violence in Golaghat district of Assam bordering Nagaland began as a land dispute between two men, says a central government note, also alleging that the dispute was fanned by local politicians, social activists and insurgent group, the NSCN (Khole Kitovi).

Concerned over the unabated violence along Assam-Nagaland border, Home Minister Rajnath Singh today telephoned chief ministers of Assam and Nagaland and asked them to defuse tension along the borders of the two states.

Two people have been killed in fresh clashes between the police and protesters today in Golaghat near the Assam-Nagaland border. The police said a mob of about 4000 adivasis or tribals, carrying bows and arrows and spears, attacked policemen and set fire to a picket.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought a report from the Home Ministry on the Assam-Nagaland border violence.

A two-km stretch of Assam-Nagaland border in Golaghat turned into a battlefield today, with Assamese protesters blockading the highway and targeting the police. When batons and tear gas failed to work, the police opened fire. At the end of it, one person was dead -- run over by a truck during the lathicharge -- and 21 people had to be hospitalised.

The death toll in firing and arson along the Assam-Nagaland border by alleged miscreants from Nagaland has increased to 11 with the recovery of nine more bodies from the disturbed Uriamghat area of Assam on Friday even as night curfew continued.

Ethnic clashes between the Karbis and the Rengma Nagas on the Assam-Nagaland border have led to the death of 20 people since the last week of December and also displaced many people from their villages.