Sagaing region -- near the country's second-largest city, Mandalay -- has put up some of the fiercest resistance to the military's rule, with intense fighting raging there for months.
There was huge public outrage and an emerging ‘rightist intellectual’ section appeared highly critical of the current Modi regime for its alleged leniency towards hardened leftist insurgents.
Two rockets were fired the next day at the Jewish state from Gaza, triggering a punitive Israeli air raid on Hamas installations in the Palestinian enclave.
Israel army's statement came after overnight air strikes in Syria hit positions of pro-Iranian forces in eastern Syria, killing 18 fighters, according to a war monitor.
The opposition leader further said that it was not the right approach by the Government to send Indian fighters to deal with issues like terror attacks.
The IAF on February 28 displayed a piece of an AMRAAM missile which landed in an Indian military compound when Pakistan launched an attack along the LoC.
The government sources also downplayed reports of JeM chief Masood Azhar being unwell, saying that 'India takes such reports with a pinch of salt'.
Singh's comment comes two days after BJP president Amit Shah claimed that 'more than 250' terrorists were killed in the IAF strike at Balakot.
The house, the militants took shelter in, was completely destroyed in the gun battle that had started on Monday evening.
The Congress on Monday again demanded that the actual number of terrorists killed in the IAF air strike be revealed while accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of politicising the operation.
