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Guwahati: Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the government will end the free movement of people at the India-Myanmar border, and fence it completely so that it can be protected like the countrys boundary with Bangladesh...
The Narendra Modi government has decided that the India-Myanmar border, which is open, will be protected by barbed fencing..
Four Indian states Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram, share a 1,643-km-long border with Myanmar...
Dozens of Myanmar soldiers stationed near the international border with India also fled to Mizoram following intense gunfights with militia group Peoples Defence Force (PDF) last year..
Congratulating the 2,551 commandos who were inducted into the force at the function, Shah said that the Assam Police has faced challenges such as riots during the Partition, refugee problem, infiltration, the Bangladesh liberation war, insurgency and drug menace...
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