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Business Standard
20-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
North East sea-road link via Myanmar back in focus as ties with Dhaka fray
India looks to fast-track a long-pending multimodal corridor to the North East via Myanmar, bypassing Bangladesh, amid rising regional tensions and shifting geopolitical equations Subhomoy Bhattacharjee New Delhi Listen to This Article The Bill for the alternative way out of the North East using roads and a sea link, bypassing Bangladesh, could soar upward of Rs 20,000 crore, a government estimate shows. Even as there has been a lot of buzz about the project this week, this will be the third time in a decade the project will be revived. The project is, however, older and dates back to the term of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA government. A Detailed Project Report for development of this corridor as a sea-cum-road link to the Northeastern states through Myanmar was prepared by project consultancy
New Indian Express
11-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
ABSU offers to send 10,000 Bodo youth to Indo-Pak Border to support national security
GUWAHATI: The All Bodo Students' Union (ABSU) in Assam on Sunday expressed its willingness to send 10,000 Bodo youth to the India-Pakistan border if their services are required to help protect the nation. 'Whenever necessary, ABSU is willing to send 10,000 Bodo youth to the Indo-Pak border as civilian volunteers, following training, to defend the nation in its hour of need,' the student organisation said in a statement. It recalled that during the Kargil War of 1999, the then insurgent group Bodo Liberation Tigers Force and the ABSU leadership had expressed a willingness to join the war effort under the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led government in order to safeguard the country.
