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
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday urged that courts should be "a little more reluctant" in giving stay orders on recruitment or development process which affect delivery of services to the people. "It has become almost impossible for us today to complete a process of recruitment or a development project without somebody or the other being able to stay almost the entire process on extremely flimsy...
12:10 AM, Jun 17, 2013
New Delhi: Formula 1 team Red Bull's boss Christian Horner has been rewarded for his services to motorsport with the Order of British Empire (OBE). "I'm naturally shocked. It's all a bit unexpected, incredible really," Horner said. "To be in the company of men and women who have achieved such great things for the country is something very, very special. This is right up there with what I have achieved...
03:14 PM, Jun 15, 2013
Darjeeling: Sikkim Chief Minister Pawan Chamling on Saturday said he supports the demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland. "We completely support the Gorkhaland demand. However, it is up to the Centre to decide whether it would accept the demand," Chamling told reporters in Siliguri, where he innaugurated a three-day MCCS Gitanjali Mango festival. Explaining the reason for his support for Gorkhaland, he said he was in favour of small...
12:38 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Gangtok/Darjeeling: Around 600 tourists returning to Gangtok from Chhangu Lake, Baba Mandir and Nathu-la were stranded at 5th Mile, 15km from Gangtok, following a landslide on Jawaharlal Nehru Marg on Saturday evening, official sources said. "Around 5pm, when the tourist vehicles were returning from Chhangu Lake, Baba Mandir and Nathu-la, slush and the debris blocked the road at 5th Mile and 112 vehicles were stuck," said a check post police...
11:19 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Bahraich: Three terror suspects from Pakistan have been detained in the Bahraich district in Uttar Pradesh on the Indo-Nepal border. The three men have admitted to have received terror training in Pakistan but claim they were on their way to Jammu and Kashmir to surrender. The police say the suspects had entered India through Nepal. Acting on a tip-off that three suspected terrorists, who had once worked for Hizbul Mujahideen...
11:31 AM, Jun 06, 2013
Mohammad Gulfam, a Delhi resident, was separated from his wife of thirty years because the two didn't file the proper legal documentation for a transnational marriage. Nuzhat Jahan left her native Pakistan for India three decades ago to marry Gulfam. She's now 48 years old the mother of 3 children, and has lived in purani dilli for more than half of her life. Nuzhat was arrested on 1 May by ...
04:55 PM, Jun 03, 2013
New Delhi: The family of the Delhi girl who succumbed to acid attack injuries at a Mumbai hospital on Sunday threatened to block roads at the Delhi-Haryana border if their demands for a CBI probe wasn't met. The family said it will not cremate the body until their demands were met, which also include cremation with state honours and a government job. They plan to block traffic as part of...
01:27 PM, Jun 03, 2013
Attari (Amritsar): Pakistan Government repatriated Indian prisoner Kuldip Singh in a goodwill gesture on Friday. Singh had crossed over to Pakistan inadvertently around a month ago, and today he was handed over to BSF at joint check post on Attari border land route by the Pakistani Rangers. Pakistan authorities, during the one month period found that Singh was mentally unsound and due to that he could not identify the international...
10:13 PM, May 31, 2013
Raipur: As his father takes on the Naxals in Chhattisgarh, Sopan Khosla has scored his own victory. Son of a senior paramilitary official undertaking anti-Naxal operations in the state, Sopan has topped the CBSE Class 12th exams in the Science stream with 99 per cent marks. The student, whose father is Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Commandant Sandeep Khosla, has secured hundred per cent marks in four subjects namely Mathematics, Physics,...
06:59 PM, May 29, 2013
Beirut: Heavy fighting raged around the strategic Syrian border town of Qusair and the capital Damascus on Monday and further reports surfaced of chemical weapons attacks by President Bashar al-Assad's forces on rebel areas. Intensified government offensives are widely seen as a bid to strengthen Assad's position before a peace conference proposed by the United States and Russia for June 2013. In Brussels, British Foreign Secretary William Hague, who was...
06:26 AM, May 28, 2013
New Delhi: The Chinese have constructed a 5km road through the Line of Actual control but Indian Army sources have dismissed these reports saying the road is well within the Chinese area known as Siri Jap. This comes a month after the face off in the Raki Nulla area between Indian and Chinese troops. The incident took place near Finger-VIII area, also known as Siri Jap, on May 17, two...
07:52 AM, May 27, 2013
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Police have gone on high alert on the borders with Chhattisgarh and Odisha in the wake of Maoist attack on Congress leaders in Chhattisgarh. Director General of Police V Dinesh Reddy said the police force was on alert in Andhra Odisha Border (AOB) area. He told reporters in Nizamabad on Sunday that police had no information about Maoists belonging to Andhra Pradesh participating in Saturday's ambush, which...
05:17 AM, May 27, 2013
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who is on a three-day tour to India, said that the two countries have far more common interests than differences. ...
01:50 PM, May 21, 2013
Beijing: Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India will contribute to regional economic development and integration, a Chinese daily said on Tuesday. An editorial in China Daily noted that Li's ongoing visit to India will create a new chapter in Sino-Indian relations. "That Li chose New Delhi as the first leg of his first overseas trip as China's head of government is a strong signal to the outside world that Beijing...
12:15 PM, May 21, 2013
New Delhi: Pledged to build trust with India, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday said that the two countries have far more common interests than differences. Li Keqiang spelling out his vision for India-China ties said that he wants the two nations to be the engines of global growth. Keqiang said India and China have the "wisdom" to find mutually acceptable solution to the boundary problem and the two countries...
11:17 AM, May 21, 2013
India and China on Monday signed eight agreements during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India. Premier Li held talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and issues along the Indo-China border were also discussed. ...
11:57 PM, May 20, 2013
New Delhi: India and China on Monday signed eight agreements during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India. Premier Li held talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and issues along the Indo-China border were also discussed. Addressing a joint press conference with Premier Li, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that the two sides agreed to maintaining stability and prosperity in the border region. "We have had candid discussions since Sunday...
01:40 PM, May 20, 2013
"Tensions along the Line of Actual Control don't give leverage unless you stay there," said a senior diplomat with long experience of China. And China didn't stay on at Raki Nulla in eastern Ladakh during the face off last month, raising the question as to why it happened in the first place. "I don't buy the theory of discord between the civil and military establishment. That's a Western argument," said...
11:50 AM, May 20, 2013
