Mizoram shares a 510 km border with neighbouring country. On 8 February, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced decision to scrap Free Movement Regime between India & Myanmar.
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.
RS MP K. Vanlalvena meets Arakan Army rebels, Indian & Myanmar construction companies for Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project that will link Lawngtlai with Sittwe port.
Biren Singh-led Manipur govt has said that it intends to ‘identify & deport’ all those who entered state post-1961 — a proposition MSU believes is meant to target Kuki-Zo settlers.
'Nothing to worry about,' Mizoram CM tells powerful NGO Coordination Committee, which intends to protest against planned fencing of India-Myanmar border.
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'.
Reports from Mizoram’s border district of Lawngtlai say Myanmarese soldiers arrived at Bandukbanga village with arms and ammunition, and were being taken care of by Assam Rifles.
According to Lawngtlai district police, the Assam Rifles have initiated the repatriation process. The surrendered Myanmar army personnel have been taken to Parva.
Resistance groups' sustained attacks on military bases forced civilians to flee to India. Those who stayed, don't know whom to side with, those who left, aren’t sure when they can return.
State Administration Council — the government under Min Aung Hlaing — has already been 'morally defeated' by resistance forces, Chin National Front vice-chairman Sui Khar says
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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