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Topic: Northeast

IAS officer’s Northeast book launch unites Lutyens’ Delhi. They bond over butter chicken

In 'A Resurgent Northeast', Ashish Kundra mentions Mizoram extensively. But at the launch in Taj Mahal Hotel, the non-BJP-ruled state is mentioned once, at the tail end of the session.

Army to follow amended SOPs for counter-insurgency ops in Northeast, says Eastern Command chief

Lt Gen RP Kalita says situation along northern border with China is ‘quite stable’ & Army has ‘increased deployment’ along Indo-Myanmar border.

New-age Northeast scholarship dominating global academic scene. IIT to Harvard, all want in

Fraught histories of insurgency, multiple uprisings and lack of knowledge about the Northeast have prompted not just its exclusion, but also its exoticisation.

How an Assamese engineer quit his job to become a ‘plant doctor’ and help farmers

Ashish Kundra's 'A Resurgent Northeast' looks at the transformations sweeping across the region in the last decade.

‘Personal perspective of an outsider’: New book delves into ‘changing’ story of new Northeast

Published by HarperCollins India, “A Resurgent Northeast: Narratives of Change” by Ashish Kundra will be released on 22 March on ThePrint's Softcover.

With each election win, BJP is bridging the gap between Northeast and rest of India

BJP and its allies' victories in Tripura and Nagaland show how Northeast people’s political aspirations have risen beyond the narrow ideological politics of divisiveness.

Northeast a success story not just for BJP but all of India. It’s all about getting to end of bell curve

People of northeast respond positively to a good outreach from 'Dilli'. Peace, connectivity & India’s booming services economy have furthered feeling of Indianness.

Three rude lessons for BCCI in the Indore defeat

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

SubscriberWrites: Increase in deforestation in Northeast India threaten the region’s pristine biodiversity

Floods and droughts have regularly made the news in recent years and the scale of the crisis behind the headlines is stark, writes Medini Baruah.

This election season in Nagaland, drugs an ‘allurement for voters’

Not suggesting involvement of any political party or politician but drugs are inducement for whom liquor is not substitute, DGP asserts. Voting will take place on 27 February.

On Camera

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?