13 Jan, 2025 11:59 PM
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) Five Bangladeshi infiltrators, who had been residing at Sonarpur in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district for the last one year since they illegally crossed the border, were arrested on Monday, police said.
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13 Jan, 2025 11:37 PM
Agartala, Jan 13 (IANS) A total of 2,815 Bangladeshi nationals were arrested in Tripura during the past three years for their illegal entry into India and 1,746 of them deported to their country so far, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha told the Assembly on Monday.
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13 Jan, 2025 10:23 PM
Agartala, Jan 13 (IANS) Expressing concern, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha on Monday said that drugs smuggled from Myanmar to his state through neighbouring Assam and cultivation of ganja (marijuana) are creating a parallel economy in the northeastern state.
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12 Jan, 2025 11:54 PM
Aizawl, Jan 12 (IANS) Assam Rifles and Mizoram Police apprehended two Myanmar nationals attempting to smuggle a significant amount of foreign currency, totalling the equivalent of over Rs 1.48 crore in Mizoram’s Siaha District, officials said on Sunday.
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12 Jan, 2025 9:18 PM
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) The India-Nepal Inter-Governmental Committee (IGC) meeting on trade transit and cooperation to combat unauthorised trade in Kathmandu will further fortify the economic and commercial linkages between the two countries, it was announced on Sunday.
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11 Jan, 2025 10:36 PM
New Delhi, Jan 11 (IANS) The future of regional cooperation in South Asia is currently at a pivotal juncture, shaped by its historical context. While initiatives such as the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) have largely failed to achieve the anticipated pan-regional free trade, another important forum, the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), risks facing a similar fate unless significant intervention occurs from its largest member states, namely India and Bangladesh.
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11 Jan, 2025 6:23 PM
Kolkata, Jan 11 (IANS) Bangladeshi smugglers continued their efforts to breach the international border with India in the districts of Malda and Murshidabad in West Bengal, for the second day running, on Saturday, forcing the Border Security Force (BSF) to open fire in self-defence, an official said.
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11 Jan, 2025 1:34 AM
Kolkata, Jan 11 (IANS) The investigating officials of Kolkata Police and other agencies investigating the rackets involved in arranging fake Indian identity documents including fake Indian passports for illegal Bangladeshi infiltrators have come across several hired bank accounts which were used to pay the application money for the fake papers.
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10 Jan, 2025 11:43 PM
Aizawl, Jan 10 (IANS) Around 30 tribals, including 16 children and four women, fled to Mizoram from Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) after an offensive by the military there, officials said here on Friday.
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10 Jan, 2025 10:29 PM
Imphal, Jan 10 (IANS) Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on Friday visited Moreh town, along the India-Myanmar border, and took stock of the overall functioning of the Integrated Check Post (ICP) and ongoing border fencing work.
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