A 29-year-old militant belonging to the Kuki-Chin National Army (KCNA), a Bangladesh-based rebel outfit, was arrested by the Assam Rifles in Mizoram's Lawngtlai district, the paramilitary organisation said in a statement. Faliansang Bawm was allegedly staying at a house at…
As many as 60 boxes of illegal foreign-origin cigarettes worth Rs 90 lakh were recovered at Champhai’s Zokhawthar by the Serchhip Battalion of 23 Sector Assam Rifles under the aegis of Inspector General Assam Rifles (East) on Tuesday. Based on…
In a major crackdown, Assam Rifles recovered at least 70 boxes of illegal foreign-origin cigarettes worth Rs 1.05 crores in Tlangsam, Mizoram's Champhai district. According to reports, they also apprehended an individual related to the incident on March 10. This…
A final-year MBBS student of Zoram Medical College (ZMC) at Falkawn near Aizawl died of suspected severe cardiac arrest on Wednesday evening. The student, Anita Kanwar, hailed from a small village in Rajasthan's Jodhpur district. "She would have completed her…
Mizoram Police seized 17 exotic wildlife species (13 various species of birds and 4 monkeys) from a vehicle smuggled through Myanmar. According to Mizoram police, on Tuesday, the Khawzawl police team while conducting random checking at Tualpui Junction, Khawzawl to…
In a tragic fratricide case on March 5 at around 6:40 pm, Mizoram Armed Police Havildar Bimolkanti Chakma killed two of his fellow policemen by shooting them. As per reports, the accused was said to be very drunk at the…
Acting on specific information, troopers of Assam Rifles and Custom officials seized over 2. 6 grams of heroin worth Rs 13.3 crore in east Mizoram’s Champhai town near the Myanmar border on Sunday, an official of Assam Rifles said. Two…
Over 31,500 refugees from Myanmar and Bangladesh have taken shelter in different parts of Mizoram, an official said. The number of Myanmar nationals taking refuge in the northeastern state was 31,050 as on January 27, and those from Bangladesh were…
The Assam Rifles on February 17 arrested four people and recovered four endangered Burmese pythons and 2 green anacondas from their possession while they were smuggling them in Mizoram Champhai district. The operation was carried out under the aegis of…
A 44-year-old man’s body, with several injury marks on it, was recovered from near the Assam-Mizoram border in Karimganj district on Wednesday. The victim, identified as Fakar Uddin, hailed from Kaliganj and was a rug seller by profession. He had…