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Manipur government has reconstituted an anti-narcotic task force. The new task force has 18 members besides police officers and it has experts from Agriculture experts, forensic and cyber-crime experts.

N. Biren Singh on Sunday held a meeting with senior officials of the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) to erect border fencing along the India-Myanmar border in the state. After the meeting, the Chief Minister said that discussions were held to construct an additional 70 km of border fencing along the Indo-Myanmar border. «In view of the rise in illegal immigration and drugs smuggling from the neighbouring country, safeguarding our porous borders has become an urgent necessity,» Biren Singh said on X. Currently works are going on to erect fencing on the 100 km of India-Myanmar border in Manipur, which shares around 400 km border with the neighbouring country. Singh on Saturday said that the state government has requested the Union Home ministry to cancel the free movement regime (FMR) with Myanmar. Singh while talking to media persons in Imphal said, “Our government has requested the Union Home Ministry to cancel the free movement regime.

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National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested Moirangthem Anand Singh in a case related to a transnational conspiracy by Myanmar based leadership of terror outfits to wage a war against the Government of India by exploiting the current ethnic unrest in the State of Manipur. The case was registered suo moto by the NIA at New Delhi. Five arrested people in Manipur who were arrested last Saturday with sophisticated weapons donning security forces uniform were granted bail by special NIA court. Soon after the release of five, one person Anand was re-arrested by NIA and taken to New Delhi.

Manipur government has requested the Centre to extend by a year the process of recording the biometrics of illegal migrants from Myanmar. Already the process is underway. The process of capturing the biometric details of illegal Myanmar immigrants started in Manipur on July 29.

Indian Army contingent, comprising 32 soldiers representing the 14 Rajputana Rifles, departed for Russia to participate in the ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting Plus Expert Working Group on Counter Terrorism, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. The Counter Terrorism Field Training Exercise (FTX) 2023 will be conducted from September 25-30. «Indian Army Contingent consisting of 32 personnel from a Battalion affiliated to the RAJPUTANA RIFLES departed for ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting (ADMM) Plus Expert Working Group (EWG) on Counter Terrorism Field Training Exercise (FTX) 2023 scheduled to be conducted from 25th to 30th September 2023 in Russia,» the Ministry of Defence stated in a press release. A multinational joint military exercise being hosted by Russia as a co-chair of the EWG along with Myanmar, the meeting was preceded by the Table Top Exercise of the ADMM Plus EWG on Counter-Terrorism at Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar from August 2-4. Since 2017, the ADMM Plus meets annually to allow dialogue and cooperation among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Plus countries. The inaugural ADMM Plus was convened in Ha Noi, Vietnam on October 12, 2010. This year ASEAN member states, along with the Plus Group, will be participating in the exercise, the Ministry stated. The exercise will comprise a number of counter-terrorism drills, including the destruction of terrorist groups in a fortified area.

Asian Games football competition here on Tuesday.Giao Tianyi (17th min), Dai Weijun (51st min), Tao Qianglong (72nd and 75th minute) and Hao Fang (90+2) scored for the hosts, while Rahul KP's (45+1 minute) equaliser from an acute angle was possibly the best strike of the match. It was heartening to see a third-string team holding the title contenders on an even keel during the first 45 minutes, which saw Indian custodian Gurmeet Singh Chahal valiantly save a spot-kick taken by rival captain Zhu Chenjie. India now need to beat Bangladesh and Myanmar in their remaining two games to qualify for the second round. Myanmar beat Bangladesh 4-2 in another game in this group. Having reached the Games Village late on Monday evening, the third-string Indian team, with not even four specialist defenders in their ranks, didn't have enough co-ordination amongst themselves. They looked jet-lagged, not rested enough and there was no way that there could have been a miracle.

Indian football team will kick start their Asian Games campaign in the opener match against the host China on Tuesday. The Asian Games is scheduled to start from September 23 but the football event will begin from September 19, as per Olympics.com. The men's football event at the Asian Games starts on September 19 and will run till October 7. Since 2002, the men's football event at the Asian Games has been an under-23 affair, with each team allowed a maximum of three players above 23 years of age. There are 23 teams participating in the men's event, where they have been divided into five groups of four teams each and one group of three teams. The Indian men's football team is in Group A with hosts China, Bangladesh and Myanmar. The top two teams from each group and the four best third-placed teams across all groups will advance to the round of 16. The Republic of Korea are the defending champions and the most successful nation in men's football at the Asian Games with five titles.

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Manipur government has denied allegations made by a fact-finding team of the Editors' Guild of India (EGI) that the state government did not follow due process in declaring parts of hilly areas as «reserved» and «protected» forests. Manipur's principal chief conservator of forests S.S. Chhabra in a seven-page letter to the Manipur government said the allegations against the forest department in the report — published by the three-member EGI team after a recent four-day visit to in the state — are «wrong» and «unverified», and they have «led to misinformation… and tarnished the reputation of the forest department. The EGI report, which was released recently, alleged the state government of branding all Kuki tribals as „illegal immigrants“ after about 4,000 refugees who fled the military coup in neighbouring Myanmar crossed into Manipur.

An official says that one of Myanmar’s biggest and most powerful ethnic minority militias has arrested and repatriated more than 1,200 Chinese nationals allegedly involved in criminal online scam operations

Indonesia’s president has issued a stark warning after wrapping up a summit of Southeast Asian countries that was joined by China, the United States and Russia

Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Thursday said that the North-eastern state has emerged as an island of peace. Addressing the General Conference of the Mizo Students' Union (MSU) here on Thursday, the Chief Minister said that Mizoram has provided relief and shelter to those who have fled their homes in trouble torn Myanmar, Bangladesh and Manipur. Zoramthanga, who is also the President of the ruling Mizo National Front said, “The distressed people from Myanmar, Bangladesh and Manipur took shelter in the state and are now living peacefully with happiness. Mizo society is offering their all out support to those who sought refuge in the state." The militant leader turned politician elaborated it is difficult to describe the comfort he and other erstwhile MNF leaders and cadres felt when they fled to the then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), where according to him, they could live peacefully during the time of the conflict.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, Chinese Premier Li Qiang, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov joined the summit in the Indonesian capital led by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), along with leaders of other partner countries. Tensions have accompanied the talks on issues from trade and technology, to China's increasing assertiveness in the South China Sea, the Myanmar junta's refusal to cooperate with ASEAN on a peace plan, the war in Ukraine, and suspicion that North Korea plans to supply weapons to Russia. Indonesia and other Southeast Asian countries have warned this week of «destructive» rivalries between major powers, a reference to U.S.-China tensions that they say puts them in danger. «We all have a responsibility to not create new conflict, new tension, new war and at the same time we also have a responsibility to reduce tensions,» Widodo, as chair of the 10-member ASEAN bloc this year, said at the beginning of the East Asia Summit. Cooperation and multilateralism risked being replaced by «the rule of the strong». «The world will be destroyed if conflicts and tensions in one place are taken to another place,» he said in closing the summit. On Wednesday, China's Li warned against starting a «new Cold War» and warned countries against taking sides in any conflict. Harris, attending in place of President Joe Biden, reiterated her country's «enduring commitment» to Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific. A White House official said earlier the U.S.

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Narendra Modi will also embark on his visit to Indonesia on Wednesday to attend the summits tomorrow. The forthcoming ASEAN-India Summit will be the first Summit since the elevation of ties between India and the Association of South East Asian Nations bloc of countries to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2022.

Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC), Manipur government has taken steps to depute specialist doctors and other health workers at the Foreigners Detention Centre, Sajiwa (Imphal) where 136 foreigners, mostly Myanmarese, have been lodged. MHRC Chairperson Justice (Retd) Utpalendu Bikas Saha recently visited the place. After the visit to the Superintendent Manipur Central Jail, Sajiwa requested the Director of Manipur Health Services to depute two medical officers, one gynaecologist, two male and two female nurses, a pharmacist and a medical attendant at Foreigners Detention Centre, Sajiwa. The Foreigners Detention Centre, Sajiwa was set up on February 16 this year and presently 136 foreigners, mostly Myanmar nationals, including 24 women and 6 minors are lodged in the Centre. The Central Jail Superintendent in his letter to the Health Director said that recently, the Chairperson of MHRC on his visit to this Detention Centre expressed his dissatisfaction with the health care facilities being provided to the inmates at the Detention Centre, specially unavailability specialist Gynaecologist. Presently, two lady medical officers and one lady staff nurse are posted at the center.

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JF-17 Thunder, supplied to Myanmar by Pakistan were declared unfit and the military junta has sent a «stern message» to Islamabad to answer for the mess, Myanmar-based Narinjara News reported citing sources. Pakistan supplied many JF-17 Thunder combat aircraft to Myanmar between 2019 and 2021 and all have been declared «unfit for operations.» The delivered planes were part of a deal that the Burmese military junta signed in 2016 to purchase JF-17 produced jointly by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and Chengdu Aircraft Industries Corporation of China. But soon after the delivery of the aircraft, the Burmese Air Force was forced to ground the planes as malfunctions and structural flaws were detected. The failure of JF-17 appears to be shimmering tensions between Islamabad and Naypyidaw and somehow compelled China to intervene. A recent visit by Myanmar's Chinese envoy to Naypyidaw is said to have carried a message from the CCP's top leadership to Gen Min Aung Hlaing, as per Narinjara News. According to sources, Pakistan is trying hard to renegotiate the deal with newer versions of the JF-17s.