Naypyidaw/New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) India’s recent engagement with Myanmar has remained cautious shaped by security, strategic and economic concerns and the need to counter-balance China’s growing influence in the region. However, the ground realities present another picture driven by borderland communities and deeply inter-linked local economies, a report said on Saturday.Writing for Myanmar’s Institute for Strategy and Policy, Ophelia Yumlembam of Organisation for Research on China and Asia…
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Aizawl, April 9 (IANS) In a significant operation against the illegal trade of forest resources, the Assam Rifles have seized a consignment of Anchiri (Paris polyphylla), a rare and high-value medicinal plant, worth Rs 36 lakh and arrested three persons in Mizoram’s Lawngtlai district, officials said on Thursday. An Assam Rifles official stated that the consignment of Anchiri (Paris polyphylla), packed in 102 bags, was seized near Zorinpui in Lawngtlai, along the Indo-Myanmar border on Wednesday…
Silchar, April 5 (IANS) In a major anti-narcotics breakthrough, Assam Rifles troops, in coordination with Assam Police, carried out a swift intelligence-based operation in Silchar and seized heroin valued at Rs 2.10 crore, officials said on Saturday.Three drug peddlers, including a woman, were also apprehended in connection with the seizure. Defence spokesman Lt Col Mahendra Rawat said that during the operation in the Meherpur area of Cachar district, suspicious movement was detected.The suspect…
Aizawl, April 1 (IANS) In a series of intensified crackdowns against drug trafficking and illegal activities, Mizoram Police have seized heroin and highly addictive methamphetamine tablets collectively valued at around Rs 25 crore, officials said on Wednesday. In separate operations carried out over the past three days, police arrested seven drug peddlers, including two Myanmar nationals, three individuals from Manipur, and one each from Assam and Mizoram.According to a police official, th…
Aizawl, March 20 (IANS) The Assam Rifles, in coordination with the Mizoram Police, seized highly addictive methamphetamine tablets valued at over Rs 23.72 crore during a joint operation along the India-Myanmar border, officials said on Friday.A defence spokesperson said the operation was conducted near Hmunhmeltha Road in Champhai district, close to the international border with Myanmar.During the operation, security personnel found an abandoned truck in the border area. Upon conducting a thorou…
New Delhi/Aizawl, Feb 5 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered an FIR against three Customs officials, including a retired Superintendent and two serving Inspectors, in connection with an alleged bribery case, the central probe agency sources said on Thursday. The CBI sources said that the case was registered on February 3, based on a complaint from Additional Commissioner, CGST, Guwahati, against three accused — Tuanzakhup, Mohan Singh and Sahil Kumar Sinha, who were e…
Aizawl, Feb 2 (IANS) Authorities in Mizoram have so far registered the biometric details of nearly 90 per cent of about 30,900 Myanmar nationals, including women and children, who have taken shelter in the state after fleeing their country in different phases following the military coup in February 2021, officials said on Monday.Home Department officials said that of around 30,900 Myanmar nationals who have sought refuge across Mizoram’s 11 districts, biometric enrolment has been completed for…
Cachar, Jan 21 (IANS) Highly addictive methamphetamine tablets valued at over Rs 39 crore were seized, and three drug peddlers were arrested by law enforcement agencies in Assam’s Cachar district, officials said on Wednesday. A defence spokesperson said that the Assam Rifles, in a joint operation with the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), launched the operation based on specific inputs regarding drug trafficking in Cachar district in southern Assam.During the operation, the team apprehe…
Aizawl, Jan 19 (IANS) The Assam Rifles have seized highly addictive methamphetamine tablets valued at over Rs 28.17 crore by arresting a drug peddler in Mizoram, officials said on Monday. A defence spokesman said that, acting on credible intelligence inputs related to narcotics trafficking near the India-Myanmar border, Assam Rifles conducted an operation at Ngur areas in the bordering Champhai district on Sunday. During the operation, unusual movement was detected near the suspected location in…
Aizawl, Jan 16 (IANS) Mizoram suffered a financial loss of around Rs 115 crore between March and December 2025 due to the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF), officials said on Friday. An official of Mizoram’s Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department (AHVD) said that ASF killed over 9,710 pigs between March and December 2025, while over 3,620 other pigs were culled during the same period to prevent further spread of the highly infectious disease.Due to the deaths and culling, farmers in th…