Editorial
Vote-Buying in Manipur: The Church Cannot Stay Silent Any Longer
"NEWire.in Editorial Board examines the silence of Manipur's major Christian institutions on documented vote-buying in the 2022 assembly elections, linking
NEWire Desk • 9 Aug 2026
Nagaland's Economic Crisis: From Joblessness Certificates, Domestic Migration, to Stalled Peace Process
"NEWire.in editorial on Nagaland's economic crisis: fiscal dependency, factional taxation, unemployment, democratic deficit, and the stalled peace process."A
NEWire Desk • 9 Aug 2026
Manipur Governance Collapse: How Electoral Finance, Bureaucratic Kickbacks, and Militant Levies Broke Public Healthcare
"NEWire.in editorial examines Manipur's machinery of extraction through CAG findings, documenting how public funds are diverted before reaching citizens and
NEWire Desk • 7 Aug 2026
Why Assam's Floods Are a Governance Crisis, Not a Natural Disaster
"NEWire.in editorial argues Assam's annual floods are a governance crisis, not a natural disaster, citing 46 years of ignored expert recommendations and
NEWire Desk • 2 Aug 2026
Assam Floods: Why 75 Years of Failed Policies Keep the State Drowning
"Assam floods every year. Why doesn't the solution, and who is to blame? An investigation into 75 years of institutional failure, unutilised funds, and a
NEWire Desk • 1 Aug 2026
Legislative Powers or Nothing: Why The NTC's Opposition Guts the Very Soul of the FNTA in Nagaland
"NEWire.in editorial on FNTA's demand of legislative powers. Without which, the FNTA is toothless, not a true autonomous authority. The NTC is explicitly and
NEWire Desk • 31 Jul 2026
₹10 Crore for 40,000 Refugees: Why Mizoram's Indigenous Tribes Are at Breaking Point
"NEWire.in's editorial argues that indigenous tribal communities deserve institutional protection, not just hospitality. Six recommendations. One warning. Read
NEWire Desk • 29 Jul 2026
Arunachal's Silent Drug Crisis: Why an Entire Generation may be Slipping Away
A young man in a remote Arunachal Pradesh village slips into opioid dependence. His family, bound by the quiet shame that still surrounds addiction in
NEWire Desk • 28 Jul 2026
Why Many Remote Villages in Tribal Hill Districts of Manipur Still Lacks Road Connectivity
"An editorial analysis of why no institution in Manipur's tribal hill areas possesses a statutory duty to provide intra-village roads, and how the
NEWire Desk • 27 Jul 2026
The Price of the Ballot in Manipur's Hills: The Arithmetic of Impossibility
"NEWire.in editorial examines the collapse of electoral integrity in Manipur's hill constituencies ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections, documenting the gap
NEWire Desk • 27 Jul 2026
The Paradox of Educational Migration: Why Students from Manipur and Nagaland Leave for Shillong Despite Having Quality Teachers at Home
A 2015 study of migrant students in Shillong recorded the experience of a twenty-year-old from Mokokchung sitting in a private hostel in her second year of a
NEWire Desk • 16 Jul 2026
The Mizoram Inheritance Amendment: When Customary Law Meets Constitutional Equality (Part 2)
Under Article 200 of the Constitution the Governor of Mizoram has a duty to consider bills for conformity with the Constitution before giving assent. From the
NEWire Desk • 15 Jul 2026
Meghalaya's Scientific Mining: When Policy Cannot Ban What It Claims to Regulate
"The Government of Meghalaya inaugurated its first "scientific" coal mine in March 2025. Less than a year later, thirty miners died in an illegal rat-hole mine
NEWire Desk • 14 Jul 2026
The Mizoram Inheritance Amendment: When Customary Law Meets Constitutional Equality (Part 1)
"A 2026 amendment to Mizoram's marriage and inheritance law excludes Mizo women married to non-Mizo men from statutory protections while retaining identical
NEWire Desk • 14 Jul 2026
The FNTA Credibility Trap: When Political Promises Outpace Constitutional Feasibility
On February 5, 2026, the Government of India, the Government of Nagaland, and the Eastern Nagaland People's Organisation signed a Memorandum of Agreement to
NEWire Desk • 14 Jul 2026
The NRC in Manipur: Why Naga and Meitei Indigenous Communities Demand a 1951 Cut-Off
"Manipur's NRC debate exposes a demographic fault-line: why Kuki-Zo groups fear a 1951 citizenship audit while Naga and Meitei communities demand it."In
NEWire Desk • 9 Jul 2026
The Apology That Named a Slur, But Not the Accused
"Critics argue that the KZC’s apology was designed specifically to shield SoO militants from accountability. The conspicuous absence of any named militant
NEWire Desk • 25 Jun 2026
This Village Stands Meters From Bangladesh, And India Wants to Build the Fence Behind It
On a June morning in Lyngkhong village, East Khasi Hills, residents gathered with a single demand: halt the border fence until its alignment places their homes
NEWire Desk • 20 Jun 2026
An IAS officer in Nagaland, accused of sexually assaulting two tribal minors. Five years later, he still draws a government salary
In February 2021, two minor girls from the Khiamniungan tribe in eastern Nagaland accused their district's most powerful civil servant of sexual assault at his
NEWire Desk • 20 Jun 2026
The Delimitation Paradox: A Double Blow to the Backward Tribes of Nagaland
In a village on the India-Myanmar border, Konyak elders still speak of the day their young men returned from the trenches of France in 1919. They had gone as
NEWire Desk • 17 Jun 2026
