In an interview with The Wire, RSTOI co-founder Rakesh Mathur underlined that even small interventions could go a long way in creating an eco-friendly tourism industry in India.

Claim made by voice in recording submitted to Manipur Commission of Inquiry indicates violation of UAPA, India’s anti-terror law.

Manipur Tapes: Recording placed before commission of inquiry raises questions about chief minister N. Biren Singh’s degree of cooperation with the National Investigation Agency.

The recording submitted to the Commission of Inquiry on the violence in Manipur raises questions about the Centre shielding the CM when he allegedly took positions which can be seen as unconstitutional.

An explosive recording – which the Manipur government claims is ‘doctored’ – has now been placed before the Judicial Commission investigating the violence in the state. 

In part two of the Manipur tapes, a voice purportedly of chief minister N. Biren Singh can be heard telling a group of persons that they should not be defensive about the viral video of two young Kuki-Zo women that shook the conscience of the nation.‘ We should have taken the credit of saving them, clothing them and sending them home.’

Sources wonder if Biren’s press meet at Imphal on Jammu and Kashmir and the reading down of Article 370 – held by the chief minister on a holiday – will be able to rescue the Manipur chief minister’s fortunes.  

Threats issued in Meiteilon publicly on social media to those Meiteis who have allegedly made tapes public, can be seen in separate posts by the chief minister's brother, Rajendro Nongthingbam, as well as the founder of the Arambai Tenggol, Rajya Sabha MP, L Sanajaoba.

It is a marked shift in NSCN's stance to take 'a stand to guard the interest and safety of Christians in Manipur' giving up on the 'neutrality' it had maintained thus far in the conflict.

The problem of recurring floods is most likely the oldest natural disaster in Assam, but the finance minister hesitated little in equating it with that of the natural crises in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Sikkim where too, she said “assistance” would be provided by the Centre.

For the last several years, the state police, in spite of complaints, had failed to even register an FIR, let alone probe the matter that directly affects the local farmers’ income.

The state chief minister, wary of the political mood in the state which is restless for change after ten years of ‘double-engine’ incumbency of the BJP, is desperate to somehow keep attention on emotive hot-button issues. Never mind the facts.

Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum condemned Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for lauding the police for the killings. The death of the three Hmar youth had hit the headlines on July 18 after a video clip featuring them being brought out of a three-wheeler with a bag by the local police went viral.

Stressing to reporters in Aizawl that his party is not 'anti-Christian,' Kurian has been hard at work in getting voters in the Christian majority state to forget the Assam CM's allegation that 'leaders of a particular faith' had worked against the NDA.

An investigation by The Wire shows that the two other bidders not only have directors in common with ANI Media – the bid winner – but also have postal addresses that are closely linked to each other. 

“Altogether, nearly 200 Myanmar refugees are currently kept in Manipur and Assam jails although they have served their jail term and paid the requited fines,” Salai Dokhar, founder of India for Myanmar, said.

As many as 146 MPs were suspended from both Houses of parliament in December last year in an unprecedented move done at the behest of the ruling party riding on a brute majority. 

Those who are appointed to Modi’s office ensure that the spotlight remains only on the PM, in times of crisis – as the rescuer – and when the going is good.

Morarji Desai was India’s first non-Congress prime minister, but the first one from Gujarat. But neither he, nor any other prime minister prior to Narendra Modi has made his office so heavily tilted towards the state or community he or she hails from.

The Nagaland CM was in Delhi but not in the meeting due to Amit Shah reportedly taking a call that the NDA meeting on June 5 should only be for the NDAW, or those in the NDA who have won (W).