Bowing down to the pressure mounted on him by the protestors, TR Zeliang is learnt to have put in papers as Nagaland chief minister on Friday. The huge development took place immediately after Zeliang and governor OB Acharya arrived in New Delhi on Thursday evening. They duo met union home minister Rajnath Singh where they apprised the Centre of the on going impasse following the indefinite shut down call by the civil society organizations in protest against the 33 per cent reservation for women.
Representatives from various indigenous groups and environmental organizations convened in Gangtok, Sikkim, for the North East India Meet on Free Flowing Rivers. The gathering, hosted by the Affected Citizens of Teesta, Centre for Research and Advocacy (Manipur), and the Borok Peoples Human Rights Organization, concluded with a significant resolution aimed at safeguarding the region's rivers and biodiversity.
"We recognize the intrinsic rights of rivers to flow freely and the vital relationship between indigenous communities and their natural resources," emphasized a spokesperson from the conference.
The Teesta Declaration outlined pressing concerns regarding the construction of...
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