This humanitarian crisis of refugees has become the central theme of the political campaigning in Mizoram with various political parties vying to woo eligible voters on the issue.
The Indian Army and Jammu and Kashmir police gunned down 5 dreaded Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists along the Line of Control in Kupwara district's Machil sector.
The army on Monday killed two terrorists and foiled an infiltration bid along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch…
The police have registered a case under Section 14 Foreigners Act as the five women did not have any valid documents to stay in India.
The infiltration bid in Krishna Ghati Sector was made on the night of June 14-15, confirmed the defence spokesman Lt Colonel Devender Anand.
Alert troops deployed on LOC in Poonch Sector observed a suspicious movement of a group of three individuals. At around midnight the group crossed the LOC and started infiltrating on to the Indian side.
A defence spokesman said that during reconnaissance of the area by Quadcopter, two bodies of infiltrators have been spotted.
As per Union Ministry of Home Affairs data, the total number of infiltration attempts at the Indo-Bangladesh border in 2021, up to 30 June, is 441.
Replying to a query in the Upper House, Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt stated that 11 terrorists were killed along the Line of Control when they were trying to enter Indian territory and 20 were apprehended.
Bodies of all the three terrorists were found by the search parties on Monday morning but could not be retrieved due to close proximity of the enemy posts and the lurking threat of firing during any attempt to recover them.
