Aizawl, Aug. 18 -- Tensions along the Assam-Mizoram border flared once again as Assam government officials allegedly violated the agreed status quo by damaging a rubber plantation in Mamit district, Mizoram.
This incident comes amidst stalled talks on resolving the long-standing interstate border dispute.
According to village leaders, despite earlier agreements between Mamit district officials and their counterparts in Assam's Cachar district to maintain the status quo before the high-level talks,
Assam officials reportedly entered the rubber plantation area in Saikhawthlir village on Saturday.
Lalthuthlungmawia, the village council president, said that eight policemen and two forest officials from Assam uprooted 240 newly planted rub...