Sagaing region -- near the country's second-largest city, Mandalay -- has put up some of the fiercest resistance to the military's rule, with intense fighting raging there for months.
There was huge public outrage and an emerging ‘rightist intellectual’ section appeared highly critical of the current Modi regime for its alleged leniency towards hardened leftist insurgents.
Two rockets were fired the next day at the Jewish state from Gaza, triggering a punitive Israeli air raid on Hamas installations in the Palestinian enclave.
Israel army's statement came after overnight air strikes in Syria hit positions of pro-Iranian forces in eastern Syria, killing 18 fighters, according to a war monitor.
The opposition leader further said that it was not the right approach by the Government to send Indian fighters to deal with issues like terror attacks.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi had slammed the Prime Minister earlier on Sunday for accusing the opposition over the delay in the procurement of the Rafale fighter aircraft.
Speaking on MiG-21 Bison, Dhanoa said the aircraft is a capable one and that it has been upgraded, has better radar, air-to-air missiles and advanced weapons system.
The Indian Air Force had last week said there was evidence that its jets had hit their intended targets but that it was premature to assess casualties.
Pakistan-based terror group JeM had claimed responsibility for the February 14 suicide bombing in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama that killed over 44 CRPF personnel.
Tensions escalated on Wednesday as Indian and Pakistani fighter jets engaged in an aerial combat with an Indian MiG-21 aircraft shooting down Pakistan's F-16 before crashing on the other side of the LoC.
