PIA, the carrier that connects India with Pakistan, is often referred to, in jest, as the short form of 'please inform Allah' by domestic flyers. ...
08:58 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: India on Monday made it clear that it has no plans to thin out troops from wartime positions in border areas where they were deployed post 26/11. Denying the report published in Pakistani daily Express Tribune, the Defence Ministry said, "There are no such plans (to move troops from their existing locations)." Quoting unnamed military and diplomatic channels, the news report had said that the two countries reached...
10:25 PM, May 14, 2012
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
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
Bangalore: Increasing Talibanisation of Pakistan and shifting of terror focus from Af-Pak region would pose a serious security threat to India in the next two years, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal NAK Browne said in Bangalore on Saturday. "If the American troops and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) withdraw from Afghanistan as planned, 2013-14 are going to be crucial watershed years for India as far as the...
07:59 AM, Apr 29, 2012
Indian Air Force chief NAK Browne said the terror outfit is getting closer to Wagah border in Amritsar. ...
11:40 PM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: J P Dutta's blockbuster of 1997 completes 15 years and thus IBNLive features 'Border' in 'Retro Review' section. Cast: Sunny Deol, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Raakhee, Jackie Shroff, Pooja Bhatt, Sudesh Berry. Director: J.P. Dutta. A soldier has to fight two battles; one on the war front and the other at the personal level. 'Border' primarily ventures into the real battleground with occasionally drifting into the uglier side...
01:53 PM, Apr 25, 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
Attari/Wagah Border: Giving impetus to people-to-people contact and trade ties with Pakistan, India on Friday opened a modern Integrated Check Post (ICP), equipped with a dedicated passenger terminal and sprawling cargo facility, built at cost of Rs 150 crore. The ICP was inaugurated by Home Minister P Chidambaram in the presence of Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal and Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma. Pakistan Commerce Minister Makhdoom Amin...
02:22 AM, Apr 14, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra government has refused to foot the Rs 19.28 crore bill sent by ITBP towards reimbursing expenses for guarding 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab lodged in the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai and wants Centre to waive the amount. Home Minister RR Patil on Wednesday said the state government has requested Centre to waive the Rs.19.28 crore bill sent to it by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a central para...
10:59 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Muktsar: Opening borders of Punjab with Pakistan for trade would provide impetus to economy of the state, and will be a "major boon" for the farmers, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday said. "Punjab being a land locked state had been a victim of the wrong policies of the successive Congress government at the Centre, who have virtually ignored economic development of the state," Badal said. He was talking...
12:11 AM, Apr 09, 2012
Kolkata: An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale rocked parts of West Bengal in the early hours of Wednesday, the MeT Dept said. The tremor, felt at 5.10 am, had its epicentre along the Bihar-Nepal border with 26.1 latitude and 87.8 longitude, according to the seismological centre of the Regional Meteorological Officer. The duration of the quake was negligible, they said. There was no report of injury to anybody...
08:26 AM, Mar 28, 2012
Beijing: China has conducted a massive military exercise in the high altitude Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, close to the disputed borders with India, during which it has for the first time tested the multi-role J-10 fighter jets. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force have conducted ground attack training over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the "first operation of its kind", official media in Beijing reported. According to a report and photos released by...
12:52 AM, Mar 23, 2012
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