A long-standing border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia escalated on Thursday, following years of tensions over contested territory.

The long-running border disputes between Thailand and Cambodia dates back over a century, when France, which occupied Cambodia until 1953, first mapped the land border.

Thailand declared martial law in eight of its districts bordering Cambodia on Friday, as the countries traded strikes in a second deadly day of clashes.

When the first salvo of Cambodian artillery screamed across her village, Thai seamstress Pornpan Sooksai's thoughts turned to her five beloved cats: Peng, Kung Fu, Cherry, Taro, and Batman.

In a targeted operation, Assam Rifles recovered 1.97 kg of methamphetamine tablets worth Rs 6.6 crore from the Tuikhuahtlang area of Aizawl, Mizoram, officials said. Three individuals were apprehended during the joint operation.

India on Tuesday extended the ban on Pakistani aircraft from entering the domestic airspace till August 23.

The long-range Russian drones come in swarms each night, buzzing for hours over Ukraine by the hundreds, terrorising the population and attacking targets from the industrial east to areas near its western border with Poland.

An insurgent of a faction of the NSCN was shot dead in a fierce encounter with a joint team of security forces in a thickly forested area in Arunachal Pradesh's Longding district.

The operation -- code named Operation Honeymoon -- to unearth the missing links of the horrific "Honeymoon murder" continues with the Meghalaya police likely to raid more areas outside the state where the digital footprints of the accused are to be f

US troops have made their first detentions inside military areas set up on the US-Mexico border as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, the US Army said.

The Border Security Force (BSF) is training villagers living in border areas in Jammu and Kashmir with self-defence techniques and firearms familiarisation, officials told NDTV.

In a definitive step towards the resolution of longstanding boundary differences between Assam and Meghalaya, the two state governments on Monday decided to erect border pillars in five of the disputed areas by Independence Day.

The Assam government will provide arms licences to indigenous people residing in "vulnerable and remote" areas and those along the border with Bangladesh for instilling a sense of security in them, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said.

After 10 days of ceasefire between India and Pakistan, the Beating Retreat ceremony by the Border Security Force (BSF) is set to resume on Tuesday evening

Flight operations across 32 airports in North and West India are expected to return to normal, as cross-border military action between India and Pakistan came to a halt over the past few days.

Jammu Kashmir Schools Reopen: Various schools will reopen from today in Jammu and Kashmir.

The killing of 31 Maoists at Karregutta Hill on the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border this week - the result of 'India's largest anti-Maoist op' - has been hailed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah as an "historic" achievement.

Jammu and Kashmir administration is actively assessing the damage and expediting relief efforts in border areas affected by recent shelling from across the Line of Control (Loc), the union territory's Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo said.

India and Pakistan, which were involved in intense firing for four days as tensions simmered following a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam last month, agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday evening.

In a security move prompted by escalating tensions with Pakistan, Indian Railways has decided to halt night-time train operations in the border areas of Jammu and Punjab.

The Line of Control is always tense, but lately, cross-border firing from Pakistan has been relentless - shells piercing the calm of villages in Rajouri and Poonch. These border areas have always been on edge, but what I saw now was different.

Pakistan military targeted civilian areas, including medical facilities and a school, as it continued attacks along the western frontier last night, the Indian armed forces said on Saturday.

Several houses were damaged after Pakistan opened unprovoked firing across the Line of Control (LoC) in border areas of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday night.

India Pakistan Tension LIVE Updates: Indian Army said the night remained largely peaceful across Jammu and Kashmir and other areas along the International Border with Pakistan, less than two days after the two neighbours agreed to a ceasefire.