I report on Northeast India and beyond for @reporters_co. Project Lead: @rti404 Bylines: Al Jazeera, Global Press, Mongabay, Fifty Two etc. [email protected]
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A new conflict is tearing through Manipur's hills — this time pitting Nagas against Kuki-Zos.
The BJP govt's response to this? Silence and militarisation — while a proposal for a separate territory carved out of Manipur sits quietly on the table.
@Robinson_Waheng & I spent over a month reporting from Manipur, Nagaland, Delhi and Assam to understand this new phase of the conflict.
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Hear hear, we at @reporters_co and @rti404 have been opposing the DPDP Act and its devastating impact on information that is of public interest.
Perhaps the govt will sit up now that bigger players see it as being damaging to them as well.
Read: rti404.com/privacy-101
We at The Reporters Collective @reporters_co, a tiny non-profit newsroom, stood up to defend journalism against govt attempt to paralyse the profession through a Trojan horse in the Privacy law. We filed a case before the Supreme Court in February 2026 and launched rti404.com, a watchdog project to protect RTI and journalism, both.
Months later the for- profit big media businesses have realised, not just journalism but revenue of their media business would be hurt too by what the govt is doing.
We are glad they have eventually seen value in joining us.
Read Our Statement from February 16, 2026. 👇
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Pratidin Time has reached Gauhati Medical College and Hospital, where one of the victims in the shooting in Guwahati's Bora Service is currently undergoing treatment. According to doctors there, their condition remains critical. Meanwhile, the bodies of the deceased are also arriving at GMCH. So far, at least four people have been reportedly killed in the incident which took place near Hotel Bilas on a lane next to a Kalyan Jewellers outlet in Guwahati's Bora Service.
#Pratidintime #assamnews #assam #guwahati #gmch
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We at The Reporters Collective @reporters_co, a tiny non-profit newsroom, stood up to defend journalism against govt attempt to paralyse the profession through a Trojan horse in the Privacy law. We filed a case before the Supreme Court in February 2026 and launchedwww.rti404.com, a watchdog project to protect RTI and journalism, both.
Months later the for- profit big media businesses have realised, not just journalism but revenue of their media business would be hurt too by what the govt is doing.
Personally, I am glad they have eventually seen value in joining us.
Read Our Statement from February 16, 2026. 👇
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EXCLUSIVE: India’s biggest news publishers including Ambani's Network18, Adani's NDTV, Indian Express, Times Internet & others mount the most high-profile challenge yet to Modi’s privacy law, warning it would “render investigative journalism a benign and neutered recorder of events.”
DNPA (@publishers_news) has taken the law to the Supreme Court. They argue it would trample investigative work and let New Delhi identify journalists’ sources.
The provisions “constitute pre-censorship which is anathema to any democracy worth its name,” the group’s 698-page filing says.
The key concerns:
🔹 Consent: requiring a journalist to notify the subject of an investigation and seek consent “would allow that subject to destroy evidence, intimidate witnesses”
🔹 Erasure: people can withdraw consent and demand their data be erased, which the group says could force publishers to unpublish or heavily redact news reports
🔹 Sources: a “nakedly unguided” power to demand information that “can extend to privileged communications in possession of a reporter or the informant”
In a letter to the government, the group said India “has chosen to grant broad exemptions to the state, while failing to extend any corresponding protection to the press.”
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Indian Express's big HL from today is about NHPC's "PR push" over the proposed Siang dam — a story @Bengiaajum broke nearly a week ago:
shorturl.at/caB24
Good journalism requires we credit — a newspaper giant can afford to, esp. when it's building on work by NE reporters.
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It’s rare to find people like Ebo Mili in Arunachal Pradesh. Absolutely resolute and committed to ensuring that indigenous communities are heard, and that the Indian state cannot bully them, @Ebo_Mili_Linggi is one of a kind. While elected representatives have compromised their positions in the name of national security, Ebo has stood firmly with the state's indigenous people. As the state began militarising the Siang Valley without the people's consent, Ebo has been in Siang Valley. Ebo is currently in the custody of the Arunachal police along with Otul Jerang, following a Gen Z protest in Pasighat that turned violent after police used force to disperse the crowd on Friday evening. Please do listen to his reasons for surrendering to the police.
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Otul Jerang, a youth leader from #Pasighat, #surrendered at the #PasighatPoliceStation this afternoon in connection with the ongoing #GenZmovement against the proposed Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (#SUMP). Upon surrendering, he stated that the protesting youth had no role in the recent mob #violence.
Pema Khandu, CM Arunachal Pradesh about anti-dam protestors in Upper Siang — "our people are innocent..being misinformed". [Read as 'they are primitive' and 'the rulers know best']
#WATCH | On the ongoing protests against the proposed 11,200 MW Siang Upper Multipurpose Project (SUMP), Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu says, "I am extending an invitation to the youth wing of the Adi Bané Kébang (ABK) and Youth Association—whose recent media briefing I have noted—to engage in discussions... I plan to visit the Siang region frequently; in fact, I am dedicating this entire month to Siang. I will continue to visit until the PFR (Pre-Feasibility Report) process is completed...As for the general public—the people of Siang, and particularly Upper Siang—they are very innocent, and it appears they have been fed some misinformation. I intend to reach out further to the various associations and units in the Siang area to provide greater clarity regarding this project. At this stage, we are not discussing the construction of a dam; we are only focusing on the PFR. Only after the PFR is completed will it be determined whether or not a dam should be built. Furthermore, if it is to be built, we are legally required to consult with the public in accordance with established legal provisions. The project cannot move forward without such public consultation—a requirement that is also enshrined in the Constitution. Therefore, the current discussions are strictly limited to the PFR. I am very hopeful, given the way the local organizations have responded; my recent meetings with many of them have been quite positive. I intend to visit Siang repeatedly to engage with everyone"
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State will have to take responsibility for the violence that has escalated in Pasighat. You can’t expect people to keep quiet in the face of state oppression for years in the name of national security. Shah, Modi, and Khandu, this is a response to your provocation and your sponsored violence on people who are opposed to Siang Upper hydro project. NHPC office
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Five women are reported injured after police tear-gassed them during the ongoing anti-Siang Upper Multipurpose Project bandh across Siang, Upper Siang, and parts of East Siang. People have scaled up protests against the Siang hydropower plans, and so has the brutality by the state police and the CAPF in an attempt to crush the movement.
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Took this pic at Maza, the last Indian border post near Taksing. The ITBP chief confirmed today that a standoff between the Indian Army and the PLA also took place in the Maza sector.
Finally, the reports filed by us local journalists are being vindicated.
#ITBP #Taksing #PLA
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#Manipur: The Naga Students Union is doing a press conference on the worsening situation and violence.
Don't let the crisis in Manipur fall on your blindside.
Date: Thursday, 22nd October 2026
Time: 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Venue
Press Club of India, 1, Raisina Road, New Delhi
Angana Chakrabarti retweeted
Honestly…watching the RSS centenary celebrations and the march through the streets of Itanagar today was unsettling. We have so many issues in Arunachal Pradesh that need our leaders’ attention, yet seeing them align themselves with the RSS makes me wonder where our own Indigenous identity stands in all of this. What about our land rights, reservation, ILP, customary laws, constitutional safeguards, our languages and belief systems? As Indigenous people we need to ask these questions. Supporting a political party or ideology is a personal choice but we also have every right to question what that alignment means for our communities. Our identity should never come second to political loyalty.
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Three people collecting firewood in a forest were killed allegedly by militants in Manipur on Monday, triggering protests by locals who placed two bodies outside the chief minister’s residence, news agency PTI reported.
Read: indianexpress.com/article/in…
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There are too many tigers in my state…actual tigers, our folklore tigers, our brother tiger, and now, I am hearing about a transported tiger. 🐅🐯🙊
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FactChecked: ECI claimed SIR Was to Catch ‘Infiltrators’. Amit Shah said Rahul Gandhi is protecting infiltrators. But, the commission kept no record of 'foreigners during SIR.
@ayushikar1998 dug ECI's software, filed RTIs to investigate.
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All these questionable characters landing up in our region in various high offices…From Ladakh, Arunachal to Sikkim, it’s one big dumping ground. So pocha
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RTI404 is curating ‘People of RTI’, a directory of any citizen who have/had exercised their Right to Information
We aim to commemorate the work of such seekers of truth, particularly those who have been intimidated or even killed.
Spread the word and help in our documentation
Deployment at the women’s protest in happening outside Nehru Park today.
At least 2 cases of assault on women have taken place in Assam in the last few days. Himanshree Boro also went missing from a train bogey and was found dead near the train tracks in Andhra Pradesh.
Sahil Khan, an SFI member from Assam, was detained as the women’s protest was wrapping up at Nehru Park, Guwahati. He is currently being detained at Panbazar Police Station.
