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Chandigarh, March 21 The Punjab Police, in coordination with the Border Security Force (BSF), foiled a major cross-border smuggling attempt by recovering 6.5 kg of heroin near a border outpost in Mahtam Nagar village in Fazilka on Saturday, officials said.DGP Gaurav Yadav said preliminary...

Agartala, March 20 Brigadier Nishant Chandel, DIG of the Assam Rifles, visited the Integrated Check Post at Sabroom in South Tripura on Friday to review operational preparedness, according to an official release.The ICP at Sabroom was about to become operational, but it has remained closed...

New Delhi, March 18 India's Durgeshwar Singh won the silver medal at the 6th Acropolis International Wushu Championship held in Athens, Greece.Singh, a constable with the Border Security Force (BSF), demonstrated remarkable skill and determination against international competitors in the 90 kg...

New Delhi, March 18 A leader from the Trinamool Congress has written to the Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs, Radha Mohan Das Agrawal, highlighting the large, unfenced stretches along key international borders in West Bengal, and raising concerns about the...

Nainital, March 17 The Uttarakhand High Court, while hearing a plea by two senior IPS officers challenging their central deputation to a post lower than their current rank, has directed the Centre and the Uttarakhand government to file affidavits.A division bench, comprising Chief Justice...

Agartala, March 17 The State Election Commission (SEC) announced on Tuesday that the elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) will be held on April 13.State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar said at a press conference here that voting for the 28 seats of the...

Jammu, March 16 A Border Security Force (BSF) soldier allegedly committed suicide inside a camp in the Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir early Monday, officials said.Head Constable Hari Babu, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, was found hanging inside his post at a camp in the Penthi area...

Kolkata, March 15 The Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur has signed an agreement with Malda Dakshin MLA Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury to implement development initiatives in her constituency.An institute spokesperson said on Sunday that the recent signing marked a collaboration between the...

Nainital, March 13 Two senior IPS officers of the Uttarakhand cadre filed a petition in the high court challenging their deputation to posts allegedly lower than their current rank in central forces.A division bench of Chief Justice Manoj Kumar Gupta and Justice Subhash Upadhyay, hearing the...

Jammu, March 13 Security forces recovered a suspicious consignment, allegedly dropped by a Pakistani drone, near the International Border (IB) in the outskirts of Jammu city on Friday, officials said.The yellow, plastic-packed consignment was recovered from an area along the IB in the RS Pura...

Imphal, March 12 Manipur Home Minister Govindas Konthoujam said on Thursday that the Union home ministry intervened to help rescue 21 Tangkhul Naga civilians who had been detained by armed men in the Ukhrul district.Speaking in the Assembly, Konthoujam said the hostages were freed early...

Shillong, March 12 A vehicle belonging to the convoy of a Border Security Force (BSF) DIG was set on fire and some personnel were injured in an attack by a group of people amid the ongoing unrest in the Garo Hills region of Meghalaya, officials said on Thursday.The incident took place on...

Jammu, March 12 Around 2 kg of heroin, worth approximately Rs 12 crore, was recovered near the International Border here after being dropped by a Pakistani drone, officials said on Thursday.The recovery was made by the Jammu Police and the 101st Battalion of the Border Security Force from...

New Delhi, March 12 The 12-year-old daughter of a Border Security Force (BSF) personnel was allegedly kidnapped from outside her residential society in Delhi's Rohini on Thursday, an official said.The girl had left for school in the morning and was returning home when she allegedly went...

Bhubaneswar, March 11 – As many as 10 hardcore Maoists formally surrendered to the Odisha Police on Wednesday at a special event held at the Reserve Police Lines in the state’s Kandhamal district.During the event, the surrendered Maoists, operating under the KKBN...

New Delhi, March 11 The government informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that there are more than 93,000 vacant positions in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifles.In a written reply to a question, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai presented data on vacancies...

Kolkata, March 11 An Afghan national was arrested in West Bengal's Nadia district for allegedly entering India via Bangladesh without valid documents, police said on Wednesday.The man, identified as Aljahi Musafar, a resident of Nimroz province in Afghanistan, was apprehended by the Border...

New Delhi, March 10 An Indian defense manufacturing firm said on Tuesday that it has secured an additional order from paramilitary forces for nearly 10,000 bulletproof jackets.SMPP Limited also said that it is "on track" to complete the existing order for 40,000 bulletproof jackets (BPJs) for...

Jammu, March 10 – Alert troops foiled an infiltration attempt on the Line of Control (LoC) in J&K's Rajouri district on Tuesday, killing one terrorist and launching a search to track down the second.Officials said that the terrorist was killed in an anti-infiltration operation in the Jhangar...

In Jammu and Kashmir, security forces launched a search operation today following reports of suspected Pakistani drone activity along the International Border in the Samba district. An Akashvani Jammu correspondent reports that the movement of a suspected enemy drone was detected in the Daboh...