India, Myanmar discuss resuming border trade through roadsIndia and Myanmar are exploring ways to resume border trade via roads, as discussed in a recent meeting between Myanmar's Deputy Commerce M...
15 Feb, 2025, 03.53 PM IST
Myanmar's military rulers enact cybersecurity law with wide-ranging censorship provisionsMyanmar's military regime has enacted a new cybersecurity law imposing extensive controls on communications, targeting VPNs and digital pla...
03 Jan, 2025, 09.50 PM IST
India, Myanmar discuss ways to promote trade through local currenciesIndia and Myanmar discussed promoting bilateral trade using local currencies, rupee and kyat, during a meeting between Commerce Minister Pi...
21 Sep, 2024, 08.36 PM IST
With asking price of $142 million, no bidders for home of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu KyiThe second attempt to auction Aung San Suu Kyi’s former home in Yangon saw no bidders due to a high asking price of USD 142 million. The pr...
15 Aug, 2024, 06.53 PM IST
India executes first Rs 1 crore pulses export to Myanmar under Rupee-Kyat trade settlement mechanismThe first transaction of over Rs 1 crore pulses export from India to Myanmar under the Rupee-Kyat trade settlement mechanism was successful...
02 Jul, 2024, 04.50 PM IST
Payment mechanism for traders importing pulses from Myanmar simplified: GovtIndia has simplified the payment mechanism for traders importing pulses from Myanmar, requiring them to use the Rupee/Kyat direct payment s...
13 Apr, 2024, 01.14 PM IST
An ethnic resistance group in northern Myanmar says an entire army battalion surrendered to itAn entire Myanmar army battalion near the Chinese border has surrendered to an ethnic armed group that launched a surprise offensive agains...
15 Nov, 2023, 04.23 PM IST
Myanmar to offer visa on arrival to Indian touristsMyanmar will introduce visa-on-arrival for Indian tourists as part of a one-year trial scheme, according to state media. The start date for...
15 Sep, 2023, 01.00 PM IST
Myanmar wants Rupee-Kyat trade arrangement by June-endMyanmar Commerce Minister U Aung Naing Oo on Monday expressed hope that a Rupee-Kyat trade arrangement between the two nations is finalised...
12 Jun, 2023, 04.43 PM IST
Assam Rifles recovers huge cache of Myanmar-bound tactical and war like stores from MizoramThe recovery includes a satellite phone. An official said that a joint team of Assam Rifles and Mizoram police launched an operation and re...
26 Oct, 2022, 08.29 PM IST
Illegal supply of explosives to Myanmar: NIA conducts searches in MizoramA spokesperson of the NIA said the searches were conducted at two locations in Aizawl in connection with the recovery of 2,400 kg of explos...
13 Sep, 2022, 10.02 PM IST
Myanmar political standoff leaves economy in tattersThe military takeover in Myanmar has set its economy back years, if not decades, as political unrest and violence disrupt banking, trade an...
14 Nov, 2021, 10.06 AM IST
Myanmar's junta powerless as currency drops 60% in four weeks, economy tanksThe increasing economic pressures come amid signs of an upsurge in bloodshed, as armed militias have become bolder in clashes with the army...
29 Sep, 2021, 01.10 PM IST
Dollar loses luster against Asia's top performing currency of 2020In a year that’s upended so many norms, the dollar’s crown has slipped. The world’s reserve currency is trailing its Group-of-10 peers, but...
24 Dec, 2020, 05.54 PM IST
China-linked Myanmar businessman debarred from November Parliamentary pollsIn Myanmar, many mafia kingpins are involved in illicit trades but live in Yangon, Mandalay or Shan and Kachin states along the China-Myanm...
19 Oct, 2020, 11.31 PM IST
Mizoram emerges as major drug trafficking route from MyanmarYaba tablets and other synthetic drugs are smuggled into the northeast from Myanmar and then pushed to other states, besides Bangladesh and...
08 Oct, 2020, 04.30 PM IST
International fake currency racket busted by UP Police; five heldPolice seized fake currency with a face value of Rs 15.13 lakh, half-prepared fake currency notes having a value of Rs 1.07 lakh, Rs 27,000...
01 Oct, 2017, 11.42 AM IST