Jalandhar: The international border with Pakistan in Punjab is slowly emerging as the preferred area for illegal Bangladeshi migrants to cross over into Pakistan as the first step towards finding employment in the Middle-East, Border Security Force officials said in Jalandhar. In the last four-and-a-half years, BDF has apprehended 72 illegal Bangladeshi migrants who had arrived in Punjab looking to cross the border.
"Alert BSF jawans posted at the international border in Punjab have over the past few years foiled several bids by illegal Bangladeshi migrants to cross over into Pakistan," BSF (Punjab Frontier) Inspector General Aditya Mishra told PTI. Two such migrants have been arrested so far this year while trying to cross the border. "Since we have arrested these persons who were looking to cross the border, it has to be assumed that such attempts are being made to use the Punjab route to enter Pakistan," Mishra added.
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03:31 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Jammu: Three BSF jawans were injured when a grenade accidentally exploded at Ballad post along the international border in Ramgarh sector of Samba district on Sunday. "It was an accidental grenade blast," a BSF official said, adding three jawans were injured in the incident. While Head Constable Sant Kumar received injury on his ribs, constable KG Sharma was hit in the right hip, the official said. The third jawan, Khalil...
12:45 AM, Jun 17, 2013
Jammu: The BSF is all geared up and alert to foil any infiltration bid by militants from across the Indo-Pak border, said a senior BSF officer. "We will not allow infiltration to take place...BSF troops are alert to foil it," IG BSF, Jammu Frontier, Rajeev Krishna told reporters at Jammu railway station after flagging-off a special coach for para military forces. "International boundary in Jammu is sensitive...there have been incidents...
01:20 AM, May 19, 2013
Srinagar: Thirty six years ago a young Vinod Sahni, crossed the Line of Control as Agent 22. Even today standing at the Line of Control (LoC) brings back memories. Memories from 36 years ago come rushing back to Sahni at the Suchetgarh border. "I was arrested near the tower as I was returning from Pakistan. I have no memory of what happened next but remember being tortured. I didn't know...
08:58 AM, May 15, 2013
Faridkot: Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh's killing in a Lahore jail has left the family of another prisoner of war in Pakistan, a worried lot. Surjit Singh, a BSF sepoy who is a prisoner of war for the past 42 years in Pakistan, remains untraceable and his wife Angrez Kaur and son Amrik Singh continue to live between hope and despair. About a year back, Amrik sought Pakistan Human Rights activist...
01:19 AM, May 08, 2013
Koraput: Optimistic of bringing the Maoist menace under control to a great extent in Odisha soon, Director General of Police (DGP) Prakash Mishra on Thursday appealed to the president of Naxal outfit Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) Nachika Linga to surrender. "Linga is not going to achieve anything through violence. I appeal to him to surrender and to return to the mainstream society," the DGP said at Koraput after reviewing...
02:44 AM, May 03, 2013
Raipur: A BSF helicopter, involved in lifting commandos conducting anti-Naxal operations, was on Wednesday shot at by Naxalites in the jungles of south Bastar in Chhattisgarh, officials said. The Mi-17 helicopter suffered bullet shots in the cockpit area but landed safely with the last passenger load of 'Greyhound' commandos in Andhra Pradesh's Bhadrachalam in Khammam district, senior officials involved in the operation said. The helicopter was pressed for troop evacuation...
08:59 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Chandigarh: The Border Security Force (BSF) in the past two days has seized heroin worth Rs 250 crore in the international market from the Khemkaran sector near Amritsar. On Tuesday 18 kilogram heroin was seized which was worth Rs 90 crore and on Wednesday another 32 kilogram heroin was seized worth Rs 160 crore. This drug haul comes after the massive one in Mohali in which heroin worth Rs 130...
09:27 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Security has been beefed up across Kashmir Valley, especially in the summer capital of Srinagar, where militants recently carried out two attacks in as many weeks. ...
03:55 PM, Mar 23, 2013
There are rising concerns that militancy seems to be staging a comeback after Afzal Guru's execution in Kashmir. Is this a deliberate strategy to divert attention from security forces who's focus is more on law and order? ...
10:57 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) condemned the militant attack on a BSF convoy on the outskirts of Srinagar, saying Thursday's incident signified a "down turn" in the security scenario in the state. "The armed attack on a paramilitary vehicle which resulted in the death of a trooper signifies a down turn in the security scenario under the present government even as the chief minister is engaging himself in frivolous debates,"...
06:43 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Unidentified terrorists opened fire at a Border Security Force (BSF) convoy in Srinagar on Thursday, killing one BSF personnel and injuring two others. The DIG of Jammu and Kashmir Police said the militants used AK-47s. ...
05:25 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Two BSF personnel have been injured in firing at Chanapora in Srinagar on Thursday. The police said that two BSF vehicles were fired upon by unidentified terrorists. ...
10:03 AM, Mar 21, 2013
Senior officials of India and Bangladesh's border forces on Tuesday held talks on issues like trans-border smuggling, fencing of open patches, and encouraging confidence building measures. ...
03:30 AM, Mar 20, 2013
The body of the Indian prisoner from Jammu who was allegedly beaten to death in a Pakistani jail earlier this year has been handed over to Indian officials. Arrested in Sialkot in 2010 and accused of spying, Chamel Singh was sentenced to five years imprisonment by a Pakistani Court. ...
08:14 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland have been told to tighten security on their international and inter-state borders ahead of the vote count in the three states on Thursday. "Security along the borders will be further tightened in view of the counting of votes," an Election Commission official stated on Monday. ...
11:40 PM, Feb 27, 2013
Battle lines have been drawn for Saturday's poll to the 60-member Meghalaya Assembly in which 345 candidates, including Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and Congress president DD Lapang, are in the fray. ...
10:34 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Border Security Force (BSF) on Thursday arrested 30 Pakistani fishermen and took into custody their boats for illegally entering Indian Martime boundary near Padala creek off Kutch district, BSF officals said. ...
02:03 AM, Feb 22, 2013
A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was arrested on Monday night for allegedly molesting a woman journalist near the busy Shyambazar crossing in Kolkata, police said. ...
12:19 AM, Jan 29, 2013
An Assistant Commandant undergoing training at the Border Security Force (BSF) centre in Gandhinagar was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly abetting his wife's suicide. Jawan Sunil Kumar's wife, Preeti Kumar (26), who was a Sub-Inspector with Delhi police, committed suicide by hanging herself on Saturday after alleged torture by her husband and other family members for dowry, Chiloda Police Inspector (PI) BC Thakkar said. ...
03:20 AM, Jan 16, 2013
