North East Scare

• Meghalaya minister claims she received threatening texts

  Meghalaya Urban Affairs Minister Ampareen Lyngdoh today said she had received threatening text messages on her cell phone after her goodwill visit to Maharashtra and Karnataka to stem the exodus of north east students in the wake of backlash against Assam violence.

• SMS limit increased from 5 to 20 per day with immediate effect

  The government today increased the SMS limit per day from five to 20 with immediate effect. Mobile users were restricted to sending only 5 SMS-es per day from August 18 to check spread of rumours which fuelled panic among people from the North-East.

• Maharashtra will send planes to bring back North-East students

  Maharashtra government has decided to arrange for chartered flights from Guwahati to bring students from Northeast back to educational institutions in Pune or Mumbai. During a meeting on Tuesday with the a goodwill team from Arunachal Pradesh, led by MP Takan Sanjoy, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said concessional chartered flights ...

• North-East rumours: India may seek US, Saudi Arabia's help

  The government has identified over 250 websites and blogs that participated in the online campaign of hatred against Indians from the North-East. About 125 websites have already been blocked. The rest will be forced offline soon. Law Minister Salman Khurshid promises that the government will not take any irrational step to curb freedom of expressio...

• North-East scare: Department of Telecom's statement on objectionable content still available online

  275 websites and blogs that participated in the online campaign of hatred against Indians from the North-East have been identified by the government. The Department of Telecom has said that objectionable content is still available online and has suggested that social networking and other sites have not responded to requests to urgently delete infla...

• Bangalore restaurants, salons wait for return of North-East workers

  Thousands of people from the North-East gave up their jobs in south Indian cities to head home, feeling that it was the safe thing to do. And while this has disrupted so many individual lives, the departure of so many people has affected the cities in which they lived as well.

• North-East scare: Social networks not doing enough, says government

  The government has identified over 250 websites and blogs that participated in the online campaign of hatred against Indians from the North-East. About 125 websites have already been blocked. Rest will be forced offline in the next few hours. The Department of Telecom has said that objectionable content is still available online and has suggested t...

• Twitter, Facebook accounts blocked for inflammatory content

  The Government has reportedly ordered 80 or more Internet pages and user-accounts on social networking sites including Facebook, Google and Twitter to be banned to avoid panic among people of the North-Eastern region living across India.