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‘If things were normal in Myanmar…’ — in Mizoram, Jaishankar says free movement scrapped as precaution

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.

India-Myanmar-Thailand highway — final piece of the puzzle in New Delhi’s Atlantic to Pacific push

India is to construct about 200 km of the trilateral highway. At least 30% of total construction remains in various stages of completion owing to the security situation in Myanmar.

UN Secretary-General calls for protection of civilians, end to violence in Myanmar

The expansion of the conflict in the Rakhine State is having a destabilizing impact on the region and exacerbating existing tensions, the statement said, quoting Guterres.

Situation in Manipur ‘tragic’, open borders with Myanmar an ‘issue’, says Jaishankar

The foreign minister, who is on a four-day visit to South Korea and Japan, also told the diaspora in Seoul about his government’s efforts to make the Northeast a ‘bridge’ to the extended region.

Mizoram MP meets Myanmar militants in push to speed up work on key connectivity project

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.

Myanmar Generals’ nuclear dreams are Asian crime bosses’ hope to defend their last citadel

The case is entwined with the story of centuries-old criminal clans in Southeast Asia, who forged empires in the crucible of the colonial era using drugs, guns, sex, and political power.

Myanmar poachers’ boat hits rock as they were inebriated during journey to Andaman, 2 still missing

Port Blair: A police investigation into the death of six Myanmarese poachers, whose bodies were found in remote Narcondam island in Andaman and Nicobar...

India can’t afford to shut its doors to Myanmar unrest. It’s a threat to Indian security

India always supports a return to civilian rule, but it can’t extend support to the Ethnic Armed Organisations seeking independence.

Myanmar junta makes military service compulsory for young people

As per the mandatory service, men aged 18-35 and women aged 18-27 have to serve up to two years, while doctors up to 45 serve three years.

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.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.