Kohima Violence

Kohima: Meet the new calendar girls. Their photo – complete with uniform and guns — adorns the first page of the Assam Rifles 2017 calendar. The 127 women are not only part of the first women’s contingent of Assam Rifles – they also became the first to take part in law enforcement side by side with their male colleagues. The army has women ...

Days of protests in Nagaland have now given way to a fragile normalcy. Roadblocks that paralysed the capital, Kohima, and Dimapur have been lifted. But the protesters have not withdrawn yet.

Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today rejected demands for his resignation from protesters, saying that there was "no strong reason" for him to step down. Thousands of people have staged violent protests in capital Kohima and other cities demanding that Mr Zeliang and his entire cabinet step down, after two young Naga tribal men were killed in p...

The presence of Assam Rifles troops on the streets helped keep the peace on Kohima streets but the standoff continued with protesters firm on their demand that Chief Minister TR Zeliang Cabinet step down. But Zeliang has made clear that he will not quit. Governor PB Acharya has reached Kohima and held a crucial meeting with Mr Zeliang to firm up th...

The situation in Nagaland's Kohima seemed to have calmed down after five columns, or 375 soldiers, of paramilitary forces were deployed across the city, which had witnessed arson and vandalism since Thursday afternoon following the government's refusal to postpone the civic body polls.

Over a thousand Naga tribals have set fire to the Kohima Municipal Council office and the office of the district collector to protest against Chief Minister TR Zeliang's refusal to meet their ultimatum: resign by 4 pm. As night fell on Nagaland's capital city, tension was high as mobs went on a rampage, burning and vandalising government property a...

Kohima: Meet the new calendar girls. Their photo – complete with uniform and guns — adorns the first page of the Assam Rifles 2017 calendar. The 127 women are not only part of the first women’s contingent of Assam Rifles – they also became the first to take part in law enforcement side by side with their male colleagues. The army has women ...

Days of protests in Nagaland have now given way to a fragile normalcy. Roadblocks that paralysed the capital, Kohima, and Dimapur have been lifted. But the protesters have not withdrawn yet.

Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang today rejected demands for his resignation from protesters, saying that there was "no strong reason" for him to step down. Thousands of people have staged violent protests in capital Kohima and other cities demanding that Mr Zeliang and his entire cabinet step down, after two young Naga tribal men were killed in p...

The presence of Assam Rifles troops on the streets helped keep the peace on Kohima streets but the standoff continued with protesters firm on their demand that Chief Minister TR Zeliang Cabinet step down. But Zeliang has made clear that he will not quit. Governor PB Acharya has reached Kohima and held a crucial meeting with Mr Zeliang to firm up th...

The situation in Nagaland's Kohima seemed to have calmed down after five columns, or 375 soldiers, of paramilitary forces were deployed across the city, which had witnessed arson and vandalism since Thursday afternoon following the government's refusal to postpone the civic body polls.

Over a thousand Naga tribals have set fire to the Kohima Municipal Council office and the office of the district collector to protest against Chief Minister TR Zeliang's refusal to meet their ultimatum: resign by 4 pm. As night fell on Nagaland's capital city, tension was high as mobs went on a rampage, burning and vandalising government property a...