Overview

• Protests reignited in Kohima after the Nagaland government's failure to revoke the April 21 order regularising 147 ad-hoc assistant professors without open competition.
• Demonstrators, including NSF, CTAN, ANCSU, and NNQF members, staged sit-ins and marches to the Directorate of Higher Education under heightened security.
• Tensions escalated when protesters attempted to enter the DHE office, leading to minor confrontations with police officers on-site.
• The state cabinet reduced the reporting timeline of its High Powered Committee from eight to four weeks, but protesters dismissed the committee as a stalling tactic and demanded its dissolution.
• Leaders criticized the government’s move as undermining meritocracy and vowed to continue peaceful demonstrations until their demands for fairness and transparency are met.