Jodhpur: A Pakistani boy, who ran away from his home after being beaten by his father for not doing his homework and had inadvertently crossed over to this side of border, was on Sunday handed over by BSF to Pakistani rangers. 13-year-old Nadeem Mehar, a resident of Bahawalnagar in Pakistan, was returned by BSF to their counterparts at the border in Anoopgarh sector.
The BSF's goodwill gesture comes close on the heels of the return of seven-year-old Rajasthani girl Pooja Meghwal, who had accidentally strayed into Pakistan and returned wearing new clothes, shoes given by Pakistani Rangers earlier in April 2013. Mehar had inadvertently crossed over the international border and had entered Indian territory on late Saturday evening after having a tiff with his father.
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12:42 AM, Apr 29, 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
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
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
New Delhi: Border Security Force has identified specific spots along Bangladesh and Pakistan borders used for illegal migration and human trafficking and deployed additional manpower and special surveillance equipment at these places, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Mapping of Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangladesh borders is being carried out to identify the spots vulnerable to crimes like illegal migration, human trafficking and smuggling, Minister of State Home Mullappally Ramachandran said...
05:27 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Bhubaneswar: A Border Security Force (BSF) trooper was killed and another injured on Saturday in a land mine blast triggered by Maoists in Odisha's Koraput district, police said. The incident occurred in a forested area near Palur village, over 600 km from here, during a combing operation by the BSF. While a trooper died on the spot, one of his colleagues sustained injuries in the blast, district Superintendent of Police...
09:14 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Jammu: An infiltration bid from across the border was foiled by security forces in the Akhnoor sector of Jammu district on Monday morning. According to sources, one infiltrator was killed in the firing between the Border Security Force personnel and the Pakistan Rangers. This is the fourteenth time that Pakistan has violated the ceasefire along the international border (IB) and Line of Control (LoC) in the last fortnight. The Pakistani...
10:15 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Jammu: In fifth incident of ceasefire violence within a week, a BSF jawan was on Saturday injured after Pakistani troops opened fire on Indian posts along the Indo-Pak border in Arnia sector of Jammu district. "There was a cross border heavy firing on Indian posts of Pindi and Pital along International Border (IB) in Arnia sector of Jammu district around 1630 hours today," Deputy Inspector General (DIG), BSF, JS Oberoi,...
08:46 AM, Aug 12, 2012
Islamabad: The US would provide an additional aid of $ 110 million to Pakistan for border security, law enforcement, judicial reforms and counter narcotics projects. US Ambassador Cameron Munter and Pakistan's Finance Secretary Waqar Masood signed a "letter of agreement" for the additional aid for 2012. Under the programme, the US will provide support for the 50th Air Wing Squadron and its operating locations to expand law enforcement aviation operations...
05:17 AM, Apr 17, 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
Ranchi: A BSF helicopter on anti-Naxal duty crashed on the outskirts of Ranchi on Wednesday, killing two pilots and a technician on board. The advanced light helicopter (ALH) Dhruv was going to Chaibasa from Ranchi when its engine caught fire and it crashed in Khunti jungle, a senior BSF official said. All three on board the Pawan Hans chopper, Captain Thomas, Captain S P Singh and technician Manoj Kumar Swain,...
11:09 AM, Oct 19, 2011
New Delhi: India lives in the most "troubled neighbourhood" in the world, Home Minister P Chidambaram said on Saturday and asked security forces to raise the vigil along the country's borders. "As I have always said, we live in perhaps the most troubled neighbourhood in the world. "In this troubled neighbourhood there are countries with governments that are extremely fragile and all this increases the level of threat to our...
03:33 PM, May 21, 2011
Jammu: A BSF jawan was killed and two others were injured when a truck in which they were travelling hit a rock on the Jammu-Poonch highway in Rajouri district, police said on Sunday. The incident took place when the BSF truck carrying ration supply, hit the rock after the driver lost control over the vehicle at Kalidhar, 90 kms from Jammu late Saturday night, police said. One head constable of...
07:27 PM, May 15, 2011
Sirohi (Rajasthan): A Pawan Hans helicopter of the Border Security Force crashed in Sirohi district of Rajasthan on Friday killing the pilot and three others. Sirohi District Collector Ram Meena said that the helicopter crashed at 3 pm near Bahadurpura village. A team of officials from Mount Abu reached the crash site and all the bodies, which are badly burnt, have been recovered. According to unconfirmed information received from the...
06:46 PM, May 13, 2011
New Delhi: Asking the Home Ministry to devise an effective mechanism to deal with cases of sexual harassment in paramilitary forces, a Parliamentary panel has expressed "surprise" over the practice of officers' wives judging such complaints lodged by women employees in BSF. "The committee is surprised to note that in some of these forces, especially BSF, wives of officers listen to grievances of women employees which can never be unbiased...
03:56 PM, Dec 03, 2010
Gwalior: The families of Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers who served the nation and some, who died in the call of duty, have been fighting to recover the land allotted to them for 24 long years. Here's a special report. Darshna Devi was widowed in 1998. Her husband Chhatar Singh, who was with the BSF, was killed in action in Kashmir. After her husband's death, Darshna Devi applied for a...
08:32 AM, Nov 28, 2010
Constable under arrest claims officer asked him to shoot schoolboy. ...
10:15 AM, Feb 13, 2010
According to intelligence received, 1,000 to 1,200 terrorists are staged along the border. ...
08:47 AM, Jan 11, 2010
Militant leader and his associate handed over to BSF. ...
07:02 PM, Dec 02, 2009
Out of total 178 girls, 118 are deployed at India-Pakistan border in Punjab. ...
02:51 PM, Sep 11, 2009
