Front page on 23 September 1992, the day its editor and publisher Chalie Kevichüsa was assassinated | |
Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Publisher | Chalie Kevichüsa Pankaj Sinha |
Editor-in-chief | Chalie Kevichüsa |
Founded | 1975 |
Language | English |
City | Dimapur, Nagaland |
Country | India |
Ura Mail was a weekly English newspaper published from Dimapur. It was the first local English weekly newspaper published from Nagaland, India. [1] [2] [3] [4]
On 23 September 1992, Chalie Kevichüsa, the editor-in-chief of Ura Mail was assassinated while he was dropping his daughter for her tuition class, when armed men from the NSCN-IM opened fire on his vehicle after several days of tracking his movements at Fellowship Colony, Dimapur. Kevichüsa was killed and his daughter was wounded. [5]