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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicIndia-Myanmar border

Topic: India-Myanmar border

More than 1,300 Myanmar nationals pour into Mizoram to escape clashes across border

Refugees are taking shelter in villages along border in Mizoram's Champhai district, it is learnt. Latest influx follows clashes between rebels & Myanmar army and its allies in Chin State.

47 Myanmar nationals enter Mizoram ‘fearing recruitment by Arakan Army’, take shelter in border village

A least 34,282 Myanmarese refugees taking shelter across the 11 districts of Mizoram, state home department records show. Of them, 13,310 are children from different places in Myanmar.

Mizoram CM slams historical India-Myanmar border demarcation, calls it British ploy to divide people

CM Lalduhoma says ultimate desire is for Mizos in India and in Myanmar's Chin Hills to be placed under one administrative unit, emphasising shared history before British intervention.

After meeting Shah, CM Lalduhoma confident Mizoram sector of India-Myanmar border won’t be fenced

'Nothing to worry about,' Mizoram CM tells powerful NGO Coordination Committee, which intends to protest against planned fencing of India-Myanmar border.

Mizoram NGO Coordination Committee to protest scrapping of ‘vital mechanism’ FMR & border fencing

Protest organised in Aizawl on 21 February. NGOCC says ending Free Movement Regime, fencing Mizoram-Myanmar border will have detrimental effect on 'vital ethnic & cultural connections'.

Bangladesh thanks India for ‘standing by it’, backs country’s decision to fence border with Myanmar

In his first visit to India as Bangladesh foreign minister, Hasan Mahmud stressed that the Sheikh Hasina government had undertaken a zero-tolerance policy on terrorism.

Necessity or trouble in making? What fencing of borders with Myanmar could mean for India

Modi govt has announced it will fence India’s border with Myanmar. Experts remain divided over the move, with some saying that it can make a dent in ‘Act East Policy’.  

Amit Shah announces fencing along Myanmar border, but tribals’ support crucial to end free movement

10-km stretch in border town of Moreh has already been fenced & work for another 20 km approved. Govt also plans to use a hybrid surveillance system to keep an eye on work being done.

India-Myanmar share an imperfect, complex history. Insurgency, drug trade led to permit system

The situation is extremely complicated, and any decision taken by the MHA is bound to be criticised by the party that considers itself ignored.

On Camera

Chinese memes, videos & commentaries say Modi overshadowed other leaders at SCO

On Douyin, many videos highlighted how Modi was all smiles during his China visit. Others focused on his handholding with Putin and Trump’s supposed irritation.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.