The banned Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council, involved in a series of blasts in Meghalaya over a year, has announced it is ready for unconditional peace talks.Saiñkupar Nongtraw, the outfit’s general secretary, issued a statement on Tuesday to “give peace a chance once again” less than a week after Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma told HNLC that it should not …
Until the mid-90s, the community in Nongtraw relied on locally produced grains, vegetables and tuber crops, including staples sweet potato, millet and cocoyams for consumption supplemented by plants and animals from the forest. However, with the introduction of the Public Distribution System in the 1980s coupled with increasing incomes and market access, rice became ubiquitous in the diet and is …
After the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland or NSCN, an extremist group in Meghalaya has demanded a separate flag and constitution as part of its peace deal with New Delhi. The Ministry of Home Affairs had on November 18 cited the HNLC’s “increased activities” to extend the ban on the group, whose general secretary Saiñkupar Nongtraw …
