The Sittwe Port in Myanmar. The seaport with capacity of 20,000 DWT will drastically reduce transportation cost of cargo from other parts of India to north-east region and open unprecedented avenues ...

Yangon [Myanmar], January 17 (ANI): Indian Ambassador to Myanmar, Abhay Thakur, reviewed the operations of the Kaladan Project at the Sittwe Port in Myanmar's Rakhine province on January 16-17. The ...

Mizoram Assembly Elections: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday announced that a cross-border road, part of the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project (KMTTP), connecting south Mizoram's ...

There is no reliable estimate of Indian nationals present in Rakhine state, where India has had a consulate at Sittwe since 2014 The fall of Paletwa and several key cities in western Myanmar to ...

It was a dream of former Prime Minister (PM) Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who first envisaged opening of an alternate sea route for the north-eastern part of India through Myanmar in 2003. Bangladesh that ...

U Aung Naing Oo said that as part of the project, construction of the road connecting Paletwa in Myanmar to Zorinpui in Mizoram is underway in full swing Aung Naing Oo, Union Minister, Ministry of ...

At a time when ties between India and Bangladesh have hit a low and Bangladesh seems to be closing the doors on the partnership with India in several areas including the Chittagong Port where it says ...

India’s Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project has hit a major roadblock due to the ongoing civil war in Myanmar. Sanctioned in 2008, this project aimed at creating a grid of interconnections — ...

On May 9, Sittwe Port on Myanmar’s Bay of Bengal coast received its first shipment of some 1,000 metric tons of cement that was flagged off from India’s Kolkata port five days earlier. The opening of ...

Inside China’s Rare Earth Empire: The Hidden Costs in Myanmar Come 2015, the people of northeast India will be able to use a seaport in Myanmar for transport and trade. The Sittwe port in the Bay of ...

NEW DELHI: Myanmar rebel group, the Arakan Army, has alleged that the ruling junta, known as the State Administrative Council (SAC), blew up the main bridge at the entrance to Sittwe as well as two ...