North-east Scare

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.

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 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 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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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 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 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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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".