Aizawl, June 13 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah has assured Mizoram Chief Minister Lalduhoma that the Central government would provide rice worth Rs 10 crore to the state government for the relief and support of refugees currently sheltered in the Northeastern state, officials said on Saturday. A senior official of the Mizoram Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) said that during a meeting with the Union Home Minister on Friday evening in New Delhi, Lalduhoma informed Shah that nearly 40,000 ref…
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Dhaka, June 13 (IANS) The Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh is slipping into a more dangerous phase, evolving from a large-scale humanitarian emergency into a serious security concern with implications extending from local communities to the broader region. The rise of militancy in and around the Rohingya camps is not merely a law-and-order challenge but reflects a prolonged humanitarian crisis shaped by stalled repatriation, continuing instability in Myanmar, and the absence of viable prosp…
Moscow, June 12 (IANS) The visiting Indian National Defence College (NDC) delegation called on Ambassador of India to Russia on Friday during their ongoing ‘Foreign Country Study Tour’.“Ambassador Vinay Kumar interacted with the delegation of the National Defence College, India who are in Russia on a Foreign Country Study Tour,” the Embassy of India in Russia wrote on X.“During the visit, the delegation had discussions on areas of interest with the officials from the Russian Ministry of De…
Guwahati, June 12 (IANS) A planned and coordinated crackdown by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on the smuggling syndicate in the North-East region has led to confiscation of more than 71 lakh smuggled cigarette sticks, over the past two months. The market price of the seized smuggled cigarette sticks is estimated to be valued around Rs 14 crore. Following the seizure of foreign-origin cigarettes in the months of May and June, the DRI sleuths also captured the suspects behind the s…
Bhubaneswar, June 11 (IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested a security inspector of Mahanadi Coalfields in Odisha for demanding a bribe of Rs 5,000 from a subordinate who wanted changes in his duty roster, an official said on Thursday. Banshi Ram, Security Inspector, Orient Area, MCL, Brajaraja Nagar, Jharsuguda, was arrested following the registration of a case on Thursday based on a complaint from the aggrieved co-worker, said a CBI statement.It was alleged that Banshi Ram d…
Aizawl, June 10 (IANS) Mizoram Police, in two separate operations conducted over the past 24 hours, arrested three drug peddlers, including two residents of Rajasthan, and seized narcotic substances worth an estimated Rs 2.35 crore, officials said on Wednesday. A senior police official said that a vehicle travelling from Manipur towards Aizawl was intercepted by police personnel in Saitual district on the outskirts of Keifang. The vehicle was being driven by Somraj (32). During a thorough inspec…
Yangon, June 10 (IANS) India on Wednesday handed over the second and final consignment of ‘Earthquake Relief Equipment for Detailed Post-Earthquake Building Inspection’ to the Federation of Myanmar Engineering Societies (Fed.MES) in Myanmar’s Yangon city. According to the Indian Embassy in Yangon, the handover reaffirmed the strong and enduring partnership between India and Myanmar in the fields of disaster response, risk reduction, and resilience.Indian Ambassador to Myanmar, Abhay Thakur, ha…
Itanagar, June 10 (IANS) Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Wednesday lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Act East Policy’, saying it has transformed the perception of the state from a remote border region into a strategic gateway to Southeast Asia and a vital civilisational frontier of India. He said the policy has brought Arunachal Pradesh to the centre of India’s connectivity, development and geopolitical vision for the eastern region, an official statement said. The Chief Min…
Agartala/Aizawl, June 9 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted searches at multiple locations in West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram in connection with an ongoing money laundering investigation arising out of a major cross-border drug-trafficking case involving proceeds of crime in excess of Rs 142 crore, the central probe agency said on Tuesday. The ED, Aizawl Sub-Zonal Office, conducted search operations under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, on Monday at four locat…
New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) The CBI arrested two key accused in connection with an ongoing investigation into a human trafficking network that lured Indian job seekers to scam compounds for cyber slavery in Myanmar and Cambodia, an official said on Tuesday. One of the arrested accused worked on behalf of a scam compound operator and played a critical role in arranging logistics for Indian nationals trafficked to Myanmar through Thailand, said the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).The victims we…