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 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.
Durrani as NSA was a leap for Pakistan. No surprise that he didn’t even last a year in that job. He chafed after 26/11, seeing it as a deliberate Army/ISI betrayal.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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