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.

• 'Come home, we are with you,' Bangalore urges North Easterners

  Bangalore has seen a flurry of meetings talking of harmony, peace and the need for mutual understanding. The Karnataka government has been making the best of attempts to lay to rest the rumours that saw thousands of people from the North-East leave the city.

• Twitter promises to cooperate with govt after PMO complains

  Twitter has promised to cooperate with the government after the Prime Minister's Office complained to it about objectionable content on six accounts resembling the PMO's official account.

• 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 ...

• Cyber Cell nabs 4 for circulating malicious SMSes

  Close on the heels of the mass exodus of northeastern people from various states in the country after mails and SMSes did the rounds warning of retaliatory attacks for the ongoing violence in Assam, the Cyber Cell of the Pune police arrested four persons in two separate cases yesterday for their contribution to the panic situation.

• Respect Internet freedom, US tells India

  Voicing its support for full freedom of the internet, US has urged India to maintain respect for fundamental freedoms, while probing rumours that have caused an exodus of northeastern Indians from southern cities.

• Working with government to remove hateful content: Facebook

  Social networking website Facebook on Tuesday said it is working with the government to remove "hateful content" that is widely being perceived as likely to spark communal tension across the country.

• 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...

• North-East scare: Give us proof, we'll investigate, says Pak Interior Minister

  Islamabad wants evidence from India on its assertion that morphed online photos and hate messages which created a scare among the north-eastern community last week originated from Pakistan; Interior Minister Rehman Malik has promised India's Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde an investigation if that proof is provided.

• North-East scare: Massive security arrangements in Bangalore to ensure peaceful Eid

  In a bid to ensure a peaceful Eid-ul-Fitr in Bangalore, the city police have made arrangements to make sure that the security presence is seen and felt.

• North-East scare: Pak will cooperate if India provides evidence, Rehman Malik tells NDTV

  A day after the government said that morphed online photos that created a scare among the North-East community originated from Pakistan, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Sunday raised the issue with his counterpart in Islamabad, Rehman Malik.

• Always said foreign hand in North-East scare: Tarun Gogoi

  Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, on Saturday, said that his suspicion of a foreign hand being involved in the recent violence in the state has been "vindicated".