Sub-committee set up to prepare framework for implementing all clauses of Assam AccordAccording to the Assam Accord, signed after a six-year anti-foreigners’ movement, led by AASU, the cut-off date for detecting foreigners in...
04 Oct, 2021, 09.56 AM IST
'Smart fence' along riverine Bangla border in Assam by July 2020: BSF DGBorder Security Force (BSF) Director General (DG) V K Johri said the project got delayed by about six months as the region received heavy r...
29 Dec, 2019, 08.20 PM IST
Pak-sponsored terror, threats posed by social media kept Home Ministry busy in 2018A total of 238 terrorists were eliminated by security forces in 2018.
30 Dec, 2018, 01.08 PM IST
Punjab attacks: Link between the old war on drugs & new war on terrorJust last week Punjab Police arrested a BSF man in Tarn Taran district for allegedly helping cross-border smugglers sneak in heroin from ot...
13 Jul, 2018, 06.20 PM IST
Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal writes to Rajnath Singh, demands joint team for border inspectionPunjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today wrote to Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh seeking setting up of a joint team of officials.
13 Jul, 2018, 06.16 PM IST
Cauvery, Indus Treaty and Brahmaputra: River water proving to be source of potential conflictWhen threats to water security loom large and control over rivers is used to score political points, conflicts are a natural outcome.
02 Oct, 2016, 10.17 AM IST
Pakistan bid to fuel separatism in Kashmir keeps border hot: BSFBSF guards the IB along Pakistan as a fully-independent unit but works under the operational command of the Army at the Line of Control.
30 Apr, 2015, 05.12 PM IST
Infiltration cases reported along borders: GovernmentGovernment today admitted that infiltration along the international borders does take place but ruled out any definite pattern in it.
24 Feb, 2015, 01.06 PM IST
Fencing, posts damaged by floods along India-Pakistan border restored: BSFBSF said that fencing and border posts, which were damaged by recent floods, have been restored along 190 km long Indo-Pak International Bo...
25 Sep, 2014, 05.11 PM IST
Better steps required to curb smuggling: Home Minister Rajnath SinghRajnath Singh said current measures are not enough & better steps are required at international borders to prevent smuggling of narcotics.
05 Aug, 2014, 01.52 PM IST
- UN panel on climate change presents gloomy picture for Asia in its fresh report
Both India and China will have to see "negative impacts on aggregate wheat yields", impacting overall food security in the continent, a UN ...
31 Mar, 2014, 10.19 AM IST
BSF steps up vigil on Indo-Pak borderPositioned eyeball to eyeball with Pakistani soldiers, jawans are keeping a strict vigil on the zeroline round the clock.
08 Jan, 2014, 02.38 PM IST
Sushilkumar Shinde makes aerial survey of International Border, addresses troopsSushilkumar Shinde today visited the sites of recent twin terror strikes and conducted an aerial survey of the area near the International ...
22 Oct, 2013, 06.16 PM IST
'BSF repairing damaged Indo-Pak border fencing on war-footing'The repair work on the border fencing damaged due to flash floods is on at "war footing", Border Security Force (BSF) said today.
11 Oct, 2013, 05.53 PM IST
'Flash floods damage around 700 mtrs of border fencing in Jammu and Kashmir'Flash floods, triggered by heavy rains, have caused damage to 700-800 meters of three-tier border fencing along Indo-Pak border in Jammu an...
26 Aug, 2013, 04.55 PM IST
Home Ministry hunting for technology to manage borders with PakistanSteep rise in infiltration levels from Pakistan this year has prompted home ministry to go hunting for technologies to guard the border.
01 Oct, 2012, 06.10 AM IST