At least five killed as ethnic violence flares in India’s Manipur

September 8, 2024

At least five people, including one civilian, have been killed as violence flared between two warring ethnic communities in the restive northeastern Indian state of Manipur, according to authorities, Al Jazeera reports. Manipur has been rocked by periodic violence for more than a year between the predominantly Hindu-majority Meitei and the mainly Christian Kukis over […]Continue Reading

Delhi Police busts Rohingya trafficking racket

May 4, 2024

Delhi Police has busted a racket engaged in trafficking Rohingyas from Myanmar through Bangladesh to parts of India and other foreign countries. Two men, including an agent from Myanmar’s Rakhine, were arrested from Hyderabad after a Myanmar couple who had flown to Russia on fake Indian passports were sent back to New Delhi. The racket, […]Continue Reading

India urged to stop embracing war criminals in Myanmar

March 27, 2024

India’s air force and state-invested companies are being urged to stop supplying Myanmar’s military with the fuel, equipment and technical assistance it needs to more effectively commit atrocities and war crimes, The Irrawaddy reports. “The Indian government and its PSUs must stop equipping the Myanmar military with weapons and related materials, which enable its Continue Reading

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