Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said improved law and order and peace accords with militant outfits led to the partial withdrawal of AFSPA in Assam, and that he was confident it will be revok...

Northern army commander Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi on Friday said that infiltration is drastically down, yet currently there are 200 terrorists staged across border ready to be launched into J...

Although the election results of five states have, once again, demonstrated that the Bharatiya Janata Party continues to hold sway in most of India and that the Congress is in an existential crisis, i...

Activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, once the face of the anti-AFSPA brigade, was a high-profile candidate in the 2017 Manipur Assembly elections, having taken on three-time chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh ...

The ruling BJP on Thursday released its election manifesto for Manipur, a five-year vision for growth, development and peace but the contentious Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 — the wit...

The Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), which heads the Nagaland government of which the BJP is a constituent, has urged the Centre to “revoke and reconsider” the MHA notifica...

The Union home ministry on Thursday extended the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act for another six months in Nagaland by declaring the entire state a “disturbed area”. The decision came i...

The Centre on Thursday declared the entire Nagaland as a "disturbed area" for six more months with effect from December 30 under the AFSPA while terming the state's condition "distu...

Two recent incidents in India’s Northeast have raised serious issues about how security forces conduct counter-insurgency operations. In November, separatist guerrillas ambushed a convoy of the ...

Six mine workers returning to their village were killed in firing by security forces, who mistook them for militants, on December 4 evening near Oting. Seven villagers among a group that had come loo...