Aizawl, March 7 (IANS) A joint team of the Assam Rifles and Police has arrested a Myanmar national and seized 19 air rifles along with 75,000 pellets during an operation in southern Mizoram’s Siaha district, officials said on Saturday. An official said that a Myanmarese was apprehended after security forces seized a large cache of air rifles and ammunition during a vehicle checkup in Siaha district, which shares an unfenced border with Myanmar. According to the official, the operation w…
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Aizawl/Imphal, Jan 21 (IANS) The Assam Rifles and other law-enforcement agencies have seized drugs valued at over Rs 18.33 crore, recovered a large quantity of Myanmar currency and arrested seven drug peddlers in separate operations in Mizoram and Manipur on Wednesday, officials said. With the latest seizures, the law-enforcement agencies have confiscated various drugs worth more than Rs 57.33 crore and arrested ten drug peddlers in Assam, Mizoram and Manipur during the past 24 hours.A defence s…
Aizawl, Jan 20 (IANS) Assam Rifles personnel on Tuesday seized a large quantity of Myanmar currency, tobacco products and foreign cigarettes in Mizoram and arrested a Myanmar national in connection with the smuggling, officials said. A Defence spokesman said that based on specific Intelligence inputs regarding trafficking of foreign currency and the smuggling of tobacco products and foreign cigarettes, Assam Rifles launched an operation on Tuesday.During the operation, a mobile vehicle check pos…
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…