New Delhi: A fire broke out early on Sunday morning at the CRPF headquarters in the CGO complex in New Delhi. The fire was reported around 6:45 am from the ground floor of the four-storeyed building and five fire tenders were rushed. Fire officials said that the fire engulfed the public relations section of the force and a number of books, documents and other material has been destroyed. There were...
09:40 AM, Jun 03, 2012
Sringar: Suspected militants fired at a CRPF patrol group on Wednesday morning, injuring six personnel. The incident took place near Sheeraz cinema in Khanyar. The suspected militants fired indiscriminately at the patrol camp. Two militants riding a motorcycle fired on the CRPF personnel of 82nd Battalion as they were leaving their headquarters at Shiraz Cinema for law and order duty at around 7:15 am, Senior Superintendent of Police, Srinagar, Aashiq...
09:12 AM, May 30, 2012
New Delhi: Parliament House complex will soon be guarded by a special commando-trained squad of CRPF which will be armed with modern weapons and communication gadgets. The elite squad will be called the Parliament Duty Group (PDG) and this is the first time that the historic building will have a system of "uniform armed protection" for itself, a CRPF officer said. The Union Home Ministry had recently approved the creation...
04:39 PM, May 01, 2012
Mumbai: Naxals on Thursday killed two people and abducted 10 others from Marke village in Gadchiroli district. Naxals are demanding that the CRPF should be withdrawn from the area and that Operation Green Hunt should be halted. The incident comes hours after BJD MLA Jhina Hikaka was released on Thursday after 32 days. ...
02:40 PM, Apr 26, 2012
K Vijay Kumar, DG, CRPF said that there should be more coordination among the security agencies to deal with Naxals. ...
10:20 PM, Apr 24, 2012
All anti-Naxal operations in the Bastar region of Chhattisgarh have been suspended as demanded by the rebels. ...
07:40 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir government's plan to gradually remove CRPF bunkers in the valley took a serious hit last week when a policeman was allegedly shot dead by a terrorist. While many say the strike was a message, the state government feels there is no connection between the two. The murder was definitely not a good start to the Omar Abdhullah government's peace programme. According to the plan, 40...
07:30 AM, Apr 23, 2012
New Delhi: Something is cooking in the country's largest paramilitary force CRPF! The proverb amply suits the about 2.5-lakh personnel force as more than 12,000 cooks in the forces' 200 battalions will be sent to train under the chefs of five-star hotels run by the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) to learn to prepare delicious and nutritious food for the jawans and officers of the paramilitary. An exclusive training centre--School...
01:24 PM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: Thirteen people were killed in an encounter between CRPF, police and Naxals in Barwadih in Jharkhand. reports said 10 of those killed were Naxals. Two policemen were injured in the encounter. The gun battle began around 11.30 am and is still on at the spot which falls under Barwadih police station area, the police said. ...
03:01 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Gadchiroli: Two more tribals were killed allegedly by the Naxals in the Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra taking the toll to 44 in the last one year. Just last week, 12 CRPF men died in a Naxal attack in Gadchiroli. The question is whether tribals are increasingly being caught in the crossfire. 25-year-old Sharad Kata was forcibly taken from his home in Maharashtra's 'Naxal capital' Gadchiroli and was later shot dead....
09:59 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: 12 CRPF jawans were killed and 28 injured in a Naxal attack in Maharashtra. The landmine blast took place in the Gadchiroli district after the bus carrying the jawans drove over the landmine. A powerful landmine ripped through the vehicle on Tuesday morning. The battalion was on its way from Karvafa to Gatta tasked with road opening and area domination when the attack took place. Gadchiroli, the hotbed of...
11:51 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Naxals struck again in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra killing at least 12 CRPF men and injuring 28 others by triggering a landmine blast. The death toll is likely to rise as the blast targeted a bus full of CRPF personnel. The blast took place at an area under Dhanora police station near Pushtola killing the personnel belonging to the CRPF's 192 Battalion. The 40 CRPF personnel were a part of...
01:28 PM, Mar 27, 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
New Delhi: A day of violence in Kashmir as a car bomb blast occurred on the national Highway in Bijbhera in Anantnag district on Thursday. Several people are reported to be injured. Reports say the car was parked near a security installation near a hospital. The explosion caused panic among people who fled the area, thinking militants had carried out a suicide attack, they said. The impact of the blast...
07:19 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New Delhi: Ironic it may sound, elite anti-naxal commando squad CoBRA, which was named after one of the most venomous reptiles, is now facing incidence of snake bites among its personnel posted in deep jungles. Ten battalions of the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA) are deployed in the dense jungles of Odisha, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar to undertake intelligence based anti-Maoist operations and provide quality assistance to...
05:57 PM, Feb 24, 2012
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