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Dalai Lama arrives in Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh

Dalai Lama Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived in Tawang on Sunday in Arunachal Pradesh on a four-day visit.  Aware of the mounting tension between India and China, the Dalai Lama is most unlikely to make any political statement during his weeklong visit. A security blanket has been thrown around the area, strategically located between – China and Myanmar, with the Tawang district... 

Tiananmen Square crackdown anniversary

New Delhi, June 5 (ANI): Indian and foreign activists took out a solidarity march on Thursday to pay homage to those who died during the Tiananmen Square movement in 1989 The march, which was followed by a candlelight vigil, saw the activists condemning the military might of China and Myanmar. “We have come here to show solidarity with the people of China, and also because Burma in 1988 participated... 

Suu Kyi’s lawyers optimistic she won’t be jailed

Yangon (Myanmar), May 29 (ANI): Lawyers for Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi say they are optimistic about their client not being sent to jail for five years for allowing an American to stay illegally inside her house for two days. The case will be heard on Monday. The defence has argued that there is no legal basis for the charge that Suu Kyi, 63, had broken the terms of her house arrest... 

Burmese leader Suu Kyi’s health ‘improving’

London, May 12 (ANI): The health of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has improved after she suffered from dehydration and low blood pressure last week, her party has said.   Dr. Pyone Moe Ei, one of Suu Kyi’s doctors, was allowed to visit her at her lakeside home in Yangon on Monday afternoon. The doctor spent nearly five hours there and administered an intravenous drip,... 

Myanmar junta denies Aung San Suu Kyi doctor visits

Myanmar, May 9 (ANI): The Burmese military government  is not allowing doctors to check out detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who reportedly is suffering from an eating disorder and is surviving on intravenous fluid injections. On Thursday, security personnel arrested Suu Kyi”s primary physician after an American sneaked into her closely guarded home and stayed there for over two... 

Awareness campaign against swine flu near India-Myanmar border

Kamjong (Manipur), May 7 (ANI): Veterinary doctors and other authorities have geared up to combat swine flu outbreak by launching awareness campaign among residents and by organising massive vaccination for pigs in villages near India-Myanmar border in Manipur. Doctors recently organized an awareness campaign in Awongtang Kamjong border village of Ukhrul District, around 120 kilometers away from Imphal. As... 

Manipur on alert against swine flu

Imphal, Apr 30 (ANI): As the cases related to swine flu are on rise in Mexico and other countries, authorities here are taking preventive steps on the border with Myanmar. Manipur’s Veterinary and Animal Husbandry Department has barred import of live pigs and pork meat through the India-Myanmar border. “As far as the husbandry services of the state is concerned, we are under alert and... 
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