Guwahati, May 7 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Thursday that India will identify, track and punish every terrorist and their backers, asserting that the country’s military response during “Operation Sindoor” sent a strong message to anti-India forces across the world. In a post on social media platform X marking one year of “Operation Sindoor”, Chief Minister Sarma hailed the Indian armed forces for what he described as a precise and powerful military action against terr…
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Islamabad, April 25 (IANS) Pakistan considers proxy warfare as a cost-effective tool to pressurise India with an aim to inflict sustained, low-intensity damage that would drain India’s resources, unsettle internal stability, and elevate disputes like Kashmir to the global stage. While conventional war carries the risk of escalation and defeat, proxy conflict offers a way to sustain hostilities without triggering the nuclear threshold that emerged after both countries developed nuclear capabiliti…
New Delhi, March 28 (IANS) The gravest mistake one can make about Left Wing Extremism (LWE) in India is to treat it as a permanent social fact. Insurgencies often present themselves as historical inevitabilities. They claim to speak for the neglected, derive legitimacy from grievance, and then convert that grievance into a theory of destiny. For years, CPI (Maoist) attempted precisely that in large parts of central and eastern India. It claimed to be the authentic political voice of deprivation….
Aizawl, March 27 (IANS) Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma on Friday said the state continues to lag behind in development due to two decades of insurgency, particularly in infrastructure, industry, and investment. Inaugurating the Public Works Department (PWD) Road Division at the PWD complex in Thenzawl, Serchhip district, the Chief Minister highlighted the state’s relatively low road density compared to the national average. He noted that while the national average road density in India…
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Ministers of several Northeastern states extended warm greetings to the Assam Rifles on its 191st Raising Day, praising the force for its courage, professionalism, and steadfast commitment to safeguarding the borders and maintaining peace in the region.The Assam Rifles celebrated its 191st Raising Day on Tuesday, marking nearly two centuries of service since its inception in 1835. Known as the ‘Sentinels of the North East’, it is…
New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) The arrest of an American mercenary, Matthew Aaron VanDyke, and six Ukrainian nationals by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has exposed a larger agenda against the northeastern states of India.While the accused persons have confessed that they were training Myanmar-based ethnic armed groups, the NIA is now looking for their local facilitators. Such an operation could not have taken place without local help, an official said.While the agency has arrested seven pe…
Quetta, Feb 15 (IANS) The long-running dispute between Pakistan and Balochistan over the province’s legitimacy has never truly been settled but instead suppressed through decades of military campaigns, political manoeuvring, and what many Baloch describe as colonial-style resource extraction, according to a recent report published in Modern Diplomacy.Covering Pakistan’s southwestern frontier, Balochistan accounts for nearly 44 per cent of the country’s total land area while housing only ab…
Imphal, Feb 8 (IANS) Security forces in Manipur have arrested five hardcore militants belonging to different insurgent outfits and recovered several mortars and two Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) from areas along the India-Myanmar border during the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday.A police official said the mortars and IEDs were recovered from the Yangoubung area along the India-Myanmar border under the jurisdiction of Moreh police station in Tengnoupal district. Later, these explosi…
Islamabad, Jan 30 (IANS) Pakistan’s federal government and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government trading blame on each other for Tirah Valley exposes the divergence on counter-terrorism policy, something that would benefit the anti-state elements and increase the sufferings of the residents who had to migrate from the native areas amid harsh winter season, a report has stated. “That Tirah Valley is a troubled spot in the context of the state writ goes without saying. Credible reports suggest that the Va…
New Delhi, Jan 26 (IANS) As India marked the 77th year of its Republic, an old insurgency that once threatened to fracture the country’s internal security architecture showed unmistakable signs of collapse. Left-Wing Extremism (LWE), rooted in the Maoist insurgency that erupted in Naxalbari in 1967, has for decades tested the endurance of Indian democracy.In 2025, however, a sequence of decisive security operations combined with unprecedented mass surrenders revealed something deeper than batt…