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Alliance Army and the Ta'ang National Liberation Army – who have collectively dubbed themselves the Three Brotherhood Alliance. Fighting continues in several parts of the country and the Three Brotherhood Alliance has also blocked two vital trade routes to China and seized a vital border crossing.

Myanmar soldiers have surrendered to police in the Indian state of Mizoram a day after heavy clashes with anti-junta rebel fighters, an Indian police official said on Tuesday. «Whether they will be pushed back or not, we are waiting for further instructions from the central government,» Mizoram police official Lalmalsawma Hnamte told Reuters.

Myanmar fled into Mizoram's Champhai district on Sunday evening after the Myanmar army clashed with pro-democracy group Chinland Defence Force. Mizoram was on high alert following the refugee influx. State government insiders said that Myanmar jet fighters dropped two bombs on Rihkhawdar village, 4 km away from Mizoram's Zokhawthar village.

Yogi Adityanath on Sunday celebrated Diwali with the forest dwellers here, continuing a practice he started about 15 years ago. The Chief Minister inaugurated or laid the foundation stones of 52 development projects worth Rs 153 crore for different gram panchayats of Gorakhpur district on the occasion, the state government said in a statement. Adityanath on Sunday also visited the Hanumangarhi temple and the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya and offered prayers.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted searches related to human trafficking cases in 10 different states. As reported by ANI, these states include Tripura, Assam, West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Haryana, Puducherry, Rajasthan, and Jammu and Kashmir. Over four dozen locations are being searched by the NIA sleuths in these 10 states to unearth the racket of human traffickers having international links, ANI reported NIA sources as saying.

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Mizoram began at 7 am on Tuesday, amid tight security arrangements, officials said. Polling will continue till 4 pm.

Mizoram and heroin worth Rs 2.06 crore was recovered from him. Assam Rifles sources said that the para-military troopers along with Excise and Narcotics Department officials had conducted a joint operation at Tlangsam area in the Champhai district on Friday night. During the operation, 295.2 gm of heroin grade four was recovered from the possession of Ensawmmanga, resident of Myanmar’s Bulfek region.

Manipur on Friday alleged that several hundred men, women and children out of fear left their villages in Moreh under Tengnoupal District due to the state Police Commandos’ search operation and “unprofessional conducts, atrocities and inhumane excesses” in the areas, bordering Myanmar. The MLA and the tribal organisations urged the Union Home Ministry to intervene into the matter immediately and ensure the withdrawal of all the Manipur Police commandos deployed in Moreh and other Kuki-Zomi-Hmar tribal inhabited areas and replace them with neutral central forces. The ten tribal MLAs and two leading tribal organisations — Kuki Inpi Manipur (KIM) and Indigenous Tribal Leaders' Forum (ITLF) – alleged that the Manipur Police Commandos launched the search operation in the aftermath of the killing of Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) in Moreh Chingtham Anand Kumar by the suspected militants. The ten tribal MLAs in a joint statement on Friday said that on Wednesday Sinam Kuki Village in Tengnoupal district was attacked and houses, properties including vehicles were destroyed by the Manipur Police commandos.

Mizoram faces a huge problem of drug abuse and an influx from Myanmar has made cheap drugs available in the bordering state, which is going to assembly polls on November 7. In 2019, after its win, the Mizo National Front (MNF) government passed the Mizoram Liquor Prohibition Bill, 2019, prohibiting manufacture, sale and consumption of liquor. The MNF had promised to bring back the Mizoram Liquor Total Prohibition Act (MLTP), 1995, which was replaced in 2014 by Congress despite opposition from Church bodies and civil society groups.

Lalsawta, is aggressively trying to unseat Zoramthanga as it sees the heat from Manipur riots — which led to a large number of Kuki-Zo people who have the same ethnicity and Christian religion of the majority Mizo people, crossing over into Mizoram — singe Zoramthanga whose party, the MNF, is an ally of the BJP at the Centre. While the MNF and the Congress are vying for power, a new party, Zoram People's Movement (ZPM), led by a former cop, is being seen as a strong contender.

Meitei and kuki communities in Manipur to sit together and hold “heart-to-heart” conversation to end the trust deficit. Singh while addressing an election rally in Mizoram’s Tipa, area bordering Myanmar, said that violence is no solution to any problem and the two communities in Manipur must talk to each other to improve the situation in the state. “The Northeast region has been peaceful in the last nine years. Insurgency has ended in every state.

Mizoram has seen a two-party rule, with the Congress and the Mizo National Front (MNF) repeating governments, each ruling for two consecutive terms. But this time the poll math has become complex with the MNF falling out with its ally the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a resurgent Congress under a new leader, and the rise of a new party that promises change and might emerge as the dark horse. The MNF, which is allied with the BJP's Northeast Democratic Alliance, won the elections in 2018 elections, bagging 27 seats while the Congress was able to win five and the BJP and the TMC bagged one each.

A U.N.-appointed human rights expert and opponents of Myanmar’s military government have welcomed the latest sanctions imposed by the U.S., U.K. and Canada on companies providing financial resources to the army-installed regime and high-ranking officials

Nitin Gadkari on Monday said a cross-border road under the ambitious Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project (KMTTP) to link south Mizoram's Lawngtlai district with Myanmar's Sittwe port will be completed by November this year. Addressing a rally at West Phaileng in Dampa assembly constituency in west Mizoram's Mamit district bordering Bangladesh, Gadkari said the 26-km road project costs Rs 1,132 crore. «The road under the Kaladan project will be completed by November and it will be helpful to connect Myanmar's Sittwe port,» he said.

Dearness Relief Hike Notification October 2023: The Finance Ministry recently decided to increase the rate of Dearness Relief (DR) for Central Government pensioners and family pensioners from 42% to 46% of the basic pay/family pension.

dearness relief (DR) and how it will be calculated. Earlier this month, the Ministry of Finance hiked the dearness relief (DR) for the central government pensioners from 42% to 46%.

Tens of thousands of people, many of them Chinese, have been caught up in cyber scams based in Southeast Asia

The sea condition off Odisha and West Bengal are expected to be rough to very rough on October 24th and 25th, IMD said.

Narendra Modi when he comes here to campaign for the ensuing assembly elections. Modi is likely to visit Mamit town in the western part of the state on October 30 to campaign for BJP candidates ahead of the November 7 polls. "The people of Mizoram are all Christians.

PTI. Apart from Odisha, IMD has also predicted light to moderate rainfall at many places with isolated heavy rainfall accompanied with thunderstorm, lightning & gusty winds very likely over Kerala on 23rd October. According to the latest IMD forecast, the coastal districts of West Bengal is also likely to receive moderate showers on Tuesday and Wednesday.