Altogether 1855 militants belonging to nine groups on Tuesday bid a farewell to arms before Union home minister P Chidambaram and received roses for weapons turned in.
A traffic constable in Shillong will have to answer before the Meghalaya assembly for the "offence" of booking an MLA who had allegedly violated road rules.
The outfit's objective, reports based in intelligence inputs say, is to create an autonomous district council out of nine circles in Lohit and Changlang districts of India's easternmost state.
Two Meghalaya traffic police personnel — who were summoned before a legislative assembly panel after they booked a legislator for traffic rule violation — were spared on Tuesday when a senior officer apologised on their behalf.
Economic blockade of the Manipur kind has changed lane to now trouble Arunachal Pradesh, thanks to a marathon anti-dam protest.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi on Sunday said many policemen and other officials in the state were into land grabbing, which had assumed alarming proportions. He proposed a land-use policy to prevent productive farmland from being converted into industrial areas.
In another age, Sehpu Haokip would probably not have been in a Naga party. But politics is known to make strange bedfellows.
HT reports.
Party time
A labourer who had his scalp ripped off by a rampaging leopard over the weekend has spoken of his horrific ordeal, saying he was trying to save the cat when it turned on him.
Leopard fury 
A powerful Naga organisation has ‘restrained’ political parties from contesting in Manipur’s Naga-dominated assembly constituencies. HT reports.
A powerful Naga organisation has ‘restrained’ political parties from contesting in Manipur’s Naga-dominated assembly constituencies.
The zoo, it appears, is no longer an insurance against poaching for feral animals.
More than 3,400 fowls have been culled in Meghalaya following the outbreak of the H1N1 virus or bird flu in East Garo Hills district. The culling, begun last Friday, will continue until this weekend.
Not everybody makes it to the top of Ripley’s Believe It or Not! But the ‘man with the most wives on earth’ would have preferred not to be on the ‘strangest story’ list.
The Paresh Barua faction of the outlawed United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) has threatened to target ‘Indians living in Assam’ if state-sponsored terror against locals do not stop.
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa) claimed today that Assam health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma was one of its members before betraying its cause to align with forces of ‘colonial India’.