Secretary of Forerunners Nagaland, Sentimeren Pongen, in the presence of ADC Mon, Pakon Phom, handed over ex gratia to the next of kin of the eight deceased persons who lost their lives in the landslide at Thamnan Ward, Mon Town.

For nearly three decades, Nagaland has been trapped in a damaging contradiction: a state with a constitutional government, yet an economy burdened by multiple unofficial authorities demanding money in the name of taxation. Since the mid-1990s, gover...