Border Dispute

India has told China not to "shift goalposts" and "confuse" managing the border affairs and restoring peace at the frontiers with the larger issue of the resolution of the boundary question, which is dealt with by different designated mechanisms.

Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday sought Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's urgent intervention to hold bilateral talks with neighbouring Odisha for an amicable resolution of the border disputes between the two states.

Nagaland wants an amicable settlement of the long standing inter-state border dispute with Assam and has entrusted its border affairs department to work out modalities for discussions with the government of the neighbouring state, an official said.

Mizoram had in 2018 constituted a core committee to study and assess the state boundary.

Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik has constituted three regional committees, each headed by a cabinet minister, to examine the status of six disputed areas along the state's border with Assam, an official said today.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that India wants a solution to the border dispute with China through dialogue and asserted that the government would never allow the sanctity of borders to be violated.

A month after the fierce clashes between Assam and Mizoram Police over a border dispute, a fresh standoff has been brewing since Thursday at Khulichara, another border area close to the site of last month's violence.

The deputy commissioner of Mizoram's Kolasib district has told his counterpart in Assam's Hailakandi that personnel of the neighbouring state's police, on Friday, took away material meant to build a bridge and this may be construed as "stealing".

The six police personnel who were killed in a bloody clash last month in Cachar district, along the Assam-Mizoram border, will be posthumously awarded the 'Chief Minister's Special Service Medal in a crisis situation'', on the occasion of India's 75

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said that the state has set up 20 new police outposts along the border with Mizoram and recovered at least 200 hectares of land allegedly encroached by the neighboring state following clashes.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention to resolve the state's long pending boundary dispute with neighbouring Karnataka.

Underlining that peace and tranquility have been restored at the border with Mizoram, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said there cannot be an overnight resolution of the decades-old border dispute between the states.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to discuss the Assam-Mizoram border issue and the restoration of peace in the entire north-east.

The trucks carrying essential itmes to Mizoram, stranded in Assam after the July 26 border gunfight between the two states, finally got a move on late Saturday night after appeals to the locals by Assam ministers and with police escorting vehicles.

Days after Assam and Mizoram dialled down tensions over the border dispute, which escalated about two weeks back, Mizoram is still facing an "acute shortage" of medicines being used in treatment of Covid patients, said the state's Health Minister

India has told China not to "shift goalposts" and "confuse" managing the border affairs and restoring peace at the frontiers with the larger issue of the resolution of the boundary question, which is dealt with by different designated mechanisms.

Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday sought Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy's urgent intervention to hold bilateral talks with neighbouring Odisha for an amicable resolution of the border disputes between the two states.

Nagaland wants an amicable settlement of the long standing inter-state border dispute with Assam and has entrusted its border affairs department to work out modalities for discussions with the government of the neighbouring state, an official said.

Mizoram had in 2018 constituted a core committee to study and assess the state boundary.

Meghalaya Governor Satya Pal Malik has constituted three regional committees, each headed by a cabinet minister, to examine the status of six disputed areas along the state's border with Assam, an official said today.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Monday that India wants a solution to the border dispute with China through dialogue and asserted that the government would never allow the sanctity of borders to be violated.

A month after the fierce clashes between Assam and Mizoram Police over a border dispute, a fresh standoff has been brewing since Thursday at Khulichara, another border area close to the site of last month's violence.

The deputy commissioner of Mizoram's Kolasib district has told his counterpart in Assam's Hailakandi that personnel of the neighbouring state's police, on Friday, took away material meant to build a bridge and this may be construed as "stealing".

The six police personnel who were killed in a bloody clash last month in Cachar district, along the Assam-Mizoram border, will be posthumously awarded the 'Chief Minister's Special Service Medal in a crisis situation'', on the occasion of India's 75

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said that the state has set up 20 new police outposts along the border with Mizoram and recovered at least 200 hectares of land allegedly encroached by the neighboring state following clashes.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention to resolve the state's long pending boundary dispute with neighbouring Karnataka.

Underlining that peace and tranquility have been restored at the border with Mizoram, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma today said there cannot be an overnight resolution of the decades-old border dispute between the states.

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to discuss the Assam-Mizoram border issue and the restoration of peace in the entire north-east.

The trucks carrying essential itmes to Mizoram, stranded in Assam after the July 26 border gunfight between the two states, finally got a move on late Saturday night after appeals to the locals by Assam ministers and with police escorting vehicles.

Days after Assam and Mizoram dialled down tensions over the border dispute, which escalated about two weeks back, Mizoram is still facing an "acute shortage" of medicines being used in treatment of Covid patients, said the state's Health Minister