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Government of India’s Response to North Eastern Insurgencies

The government response to insurgencies in the Northeast India has four parameters viz. structural changes in administration, development activities, dialogue and negotiations and use of force. Structural Changes...

December 23, 2014

Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF)

Karbi Longri North Cachar Hills Liberation Front (KLNLF) is the youngest of the active insurgencies in Assam. It came into being on May 16, 2004, following the ceasefire signed...

December 23, 2014

Sixth Schedule and the Autonomous Administrative Areas in North East India

The most prominent and important structural change in the administration is the grant of political autonomy and statehood in North East India. This process goes back to the...

December 23, 2014

Defence Ministry identifies four strategic rail lines along Indo-China border

The Defence Ministry has identified 4 strategic rail lines along the Indo-China border. Four strategic rail lines are Arunachal Pradesh: 378 kilometre long Missamari – Tenga -Tawang and...

December 23, 2014

Beji Caid Essebsi elected as President of Tunisia

Beji Caid Essebsi had been elected as President of Tunisia. Thus he is the first democratically elected President in the country after the Arab Spring. In the recent...

December 23, 2014

Drivers of Insurgency in North East States of India

There are several drivers of various conflicts and insurgency in north east region, for example- political mobilization by insurgents, porous international border in north east, availability of arms,...

December 23, 2014

Insurgency in Mizoram

The antecedent causes of the Mizo conflict included dissatisfaction with the Lal (chieftainship) system, the British colonial policy residue of treating Mizo-inhabited areas as ‘excluded areas’, resulting in...

December 23, 2014

The Bodoland Problem

The Bodos are an ethnic and linguistic community centered on the Udalguri and Kokrajhar of Assam. They are largest of the 18 ethnic sub-groups within the Bodo-Kachari group....

December 23, 2014

ULFA and Assam Insurgency

ULFA is the oldest outfit of Assam, founded by Paresh Baruah in April 1979, with the aim of liberating Assam “from the Indian colonial regime” through “armed struggle”...

December 23, 2014

Tripura Insurgency

Tripura became a part of dominion of India after Maharani Regent of Tripura signed the Tripura Merger Agreement on 9 September 1949. First it was made a Part...

December 23, 2014

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