India to spend $3.7 billion to fence Myanmar border, source says

March 27, 2024

India plans to spend nearly $3.7 billion to fence its 1,610-km (1,000-mile) porous border with Myanmar within about a decade, said a source with direct knowledge of the matter, to prevent smuggling and other illegal activities, Reuters reports. New Delhi said earlier this year it would fence the border and end a decades-old visa-free movement […]Continue Reading

India brings back 35 Somali pirates as part of operations near Red Sea

March 23, 2024

The Indian navy handed over 35 Somali pirates to the police in Mumbai on Saturday, after 100 days of anti-piracy operations east of the Red Sea, where piracy has resurfaced for the first time in nearly a decade, Reuters reports. India, the largest national force in the Gulf of Aden and northern Arabian Sea region, […]Continue Reading

At least 3 killed, 12 injured in unrest in India’s Manipur state

January 2, 2024

At least three people were killed and 12, including seven security personnel, seriously injured in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur in the last two days as sporadic violence continued in the region, officials said, Reuters reports. At least 180 people have died since fierce fighting broke out between members of the majority Meitei and […]Continue Reading

India’s Manipur: Armed militants kill police officer, ambush convoy

October 31, 2023

Armed militants shot dead a senior police officer and wounded two others in separate attacks in India’s Manipur on Tuesday, officials said, the latest episodes of violence in the restive state where ethnic clashes have killed at least 180 people this year, Reuters reports. A police spokesperson said militants opened fire at a sub-divisional police […]Continue Reading

India to install radiation detectors at four border crossings with Bangladesh

October 18, 2023

Radiation Detection Equipment (RDE) will soon be installed at eight land crossing points along India’s borders with Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar and Nepal to check the trafficking of radioactive materials for its possible use in making nuclear devices, officials said, PTI reports. The RDE will be installed at the Integrated Check Posts and land ports of […]Continue Reading

India condemns Hamas ‘terrorist attack’, reiterates backing for independent Palestine

October 13, 2023

India considers the weekend attack by Hamas militants in Israel a “terrorist attack”, a spokesperson for the country’s foreign ministry said Thursday, while reiterating its longstanding position for an independent Palestine. “We see this as a terrorist attack,” the spokesperson said. Israel has vowed to annihilate the Hamas movement that Continue Reading

Top Indian court to hear PIL on release of illegally held Rohingya

October 11, 2023

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a PIL seeking direction to the Centre to release Rohingya refugees who have allegedly been detained illegally and arbitrarily across jails and detention centres in the country and issued notice to the government, Times of India A bench of Justices B R Gavai and Prashant Kumar Mishra […]Continue Reading

Three Rohingya among eight from Bangladesh arrested in Agartala on way to Kolkata

August 12, 2023

NEWS DESK The Railway Protection Force said it detained eight foreign nationals at the Agartala railway station while they were about to board a Kolkata-bound train on Saturday. They were arrested later by the Government Railway Police, The Indian Express reports. Of the eight people, five are Bangladeshi citizens and three are Rohingya who illegally […]Continue Reading

4 Rohingya held in India custody, kin say no riot links

August 12, 2023

Four Rohingya refugees, including two minors aged 14 and 16 years, have been apprehended for their alleged role in communal violence that broke out in Nuh, one of the 22 districts in the Indian state of Haryana, on July 31, Times of India reports. While two adults — 21 and 19 years old — were […]Continue Reading

Manipur: India’s Supreme Court hears plea by women in viral assault video

July 31, 2023

NEWS DESK India’s Supreme Court has questioned the federal government on “systemic” and “unabated” violence in the north-eastern state of Manipur while hearing a petition filed by two women who were seen in a video that sparked outrage, BBC reports. The viral video showed the women being paraded naked and molested by a mob. They were […]Continue Reading