Editorial
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
The Rat-Hole Economy: Why Meghalaya's Coal Mafia Keeps Winning
On 17 March 2025, Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma inaugurated Meghalaya's first 'scientific' coal mining project at Byndihati in East Jaintia Hills, calling it
NEWire Desk • 17 Jun 2026
The Dimapur Child Rape Case Is Not an Anomaly. It Is a Mirror.
On 25 May 2026, an FIR was registered at the Dimapur Women Police Station against three men accused of aggravated penetrative sexual assault of a minor girl. A
NEWire Desk • 17 Jun 2026
