In the first incident of its kind, two women BSF constables shot dead a Pakistani intruder on the India-Pakistan border in Punjab. The incident took place at 1.30 pm on Sunday, April 29, near an observation post at Dera Baba Nanak in Gurdaspur district of Punjab. The women constables Arti Kaur and Rina Kaur belong to the 74 battalion of the Border Security Force posted at Dera Baba Nanak. Constable...
05:20 PM, May 02, 2012
Guwahati: In one of the worst boat tragedies in Assam, 100 people, including women and children, drowned and over 100 went missing when a packed steamer carrying over 300 passengers sank in the Brahmaputra river after being caught in a severe storm midstream in Dhubri district of Assam on Monday. Deputy Commissioner Kumud Chandra Kalita said the bodies of 100 victims were recovered by the BSF and the National Disaster...
11:10 PM, Apr 30, 2012
Chandigarh: A suspected Pakistani intruder was on Sunday shot dead by women constables of BSF near Dera Baba Nanak Sector of Punjab, while he was trying to sneak into the Indian territory. "Two women BSF personnel of 74 Battalion noticed the movement nearby barbed wire on the border and they challenged the intruder to surrender as he was illegally trying to sneak into the Indian territory from the Pakistan side,"...
10:53 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Dhaka: Five-year-old Indian boy Ariful Sheikh, who spent nearly a year in a Bangladesh jail along with his grandparents, was released on Sunday. Ariful was reunited with his parents after the Bangladesh Border Guards handed him along with his grandparents to the BSF at the Gede checkpost on the Indo-Bangladesh border on Sunday morning. Later the BSF handed them over to Murshidabad police, BSF sources said. Ariful, his grandfather Hachimuddin...
02:49 PM, Apr 29, 2012
Opposition CMs Narendra Modi, Naveen Patnaik and Jayalalithaa, in a royal snub to the Centre, held a parallel meet after accusing the Centre of trying to destroy the federal structure. ...
11:58 PM, Apr 16, 2012
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09:39 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Opposition chief ministers Narendra Modi, Naveen Patnaik and Jayalalithaa on Monday, in a royal snub to the Centre, held a parallel meet in New Delhi after accusing the Centre of trying to destroy the federal structure. United by their opposition to the proposed National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC), the RPF Act and the BSF Act, arguing that they meddled with the states' powers, Modi and Patnaik met Jayalalithaa...
06:20 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: Opposing amendments to the BSF Act, some state Chief Ministers on Monday demanded that discussions on the issue should be deferred and taken up along with the National Counter Terrorism Centre on May 5 as it also disturbs the federal structure of the country. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said since the proposed amendments to the BSF Act 1968 were against the laid down principles of a federal...
03:52 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opposing the proposed move of giving sweeping powers to Border Security Force to arrest and search anyone anywhere in India, saying this is an attempt to "create a state within a state". In a strongly-worded letter to the Prime Minister ahead of meeting of chief minister to be held in Delhi on Monday, Modi warned against...
02:30 AM, Apr 15, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh opposing Centre's proposed move of amending Border Security Force Act, 1968 to give wide powers to the paramilitary force to arrest and search anybody in any part of the country. In his letter, Modi objected to the unwarranted move, especially when the chief ministers of different states are meeting in New Delhi on...
07:17 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Guwahati: One BSF man was injured on Friday when suspected ULFA militants ambushed a patrol party at Dudhnoi in Goalpara district of Assam, police said. The patrol party was attacked by the anti-talk faction of ULFA while on the way to the BSF camp, they said. The injured BSF man was shifted to the Goalpara Civil Hospital, they said. The attack comes in the run up to ULFA's Foundation Day...
08:19 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Concerns were expressed in the Rajya Sabha on the plight of jawans of paramilitary forces facing stressful working conditions, with members demanding that the Government initiate steps to improve their poor service conditions. Raising the matter during Zero Hour, SS Ahluwalia (BJP) said as many as 46,000 jawans of paramilitary forces had sought voluntary retirement in the last five years due to poor service conditions. "The main reason...
09:10 PM, Mar 26, 2012
Amritsar: Three Pakistani smugglers were allegedly shot dead by the BSF during an encounter at the Indo-Pak border near Amarkot village here, officials said here. The gunfight broke out between the smugglers and the BSF patrolling party of 45 battalion when the former tried to enter into the Indian side on Sunday night. When asked to surrender, the Pakistani smugglers fired gun shots at the BSF jawans, who retaliated. In...
01:47 PM, Mar 19, 2012
Bhubaneswar: Four BSF officers, including a Commanding Officer, were on Friday killed in an IED blast by suspected Maoists in Malkangiri district of Odisha. The BSF squad was targeted at around 1 pm in the Janbai area of the district, under Chitragonda police station area, 465 kms from here, and its jungles are a Naxal hotbed as it touches the borders of two other states - Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh,...
04:37 PM, Feb 10, 2012
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