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BSF Air Wing aims to soar higher with a mix of defence and civilian regulations

Aircraft Amendment Bill passed by Lok Sabha proposes to take BSF — the only central police force to have an air wing — out of DGCA ambit.

BSF gives Rs 10 lakh to jawan whose house burnt in Delhi riots & pledges to rebuild it

The riots in areas like Jaffrabad, Maujpur, Gokalpuri, Khajuri Khas and Bhajanpur have left over 40 people dead and more than 200 injured.

In a first, Team India of armed police personnel to climb Everest for ‘camaraderie spirit’

A 38-member team of CAPF personnel, eight of them women, will leave from Delhi in the first week of March for the 75-day expedition.

Saved from smugglers, 2,000 cattle heads die of negligence in 7 months at Bangladesh border

Over the past 11 months, the BSF has rescued 36,672 cattle heads as they were being smuggled across the border to Bangladesh.

54 years since formation, BSF’s role has gone far beyond protecting India’s borders

BSF was set up to man India’s border with West and East Pakistan after the 1965 war, but its 2.72 lakh personnel now perform a variety of other tasks.

IPS officers defending hegemony over CAPFs is like British justifying their rule over India

Law and order situation in most Indian states makes people question the abilities of IPS officers to manage CAPFs, as does their many ill-conceived decisions.

CAPF must stop slandering IPS, shows lack of discipline: Ex-BSF chief

Be it defeating terrorism in Punjab, Naxals in Andhra Pradesh or insurgency in Tripura, IPS officers were at the forefront of these operations.

Angry BSF stops joint patrolling as India wants Bangladesh to answer why soldier was killed

India is now having a “rethink” on holding the next round of Director General-level talks between the BSF and the Border Guards Bangladesh.

BSF files FIR against Border Guard Bangladesh for killing head constable Vijay Bhan Singh

According to BSF, a Bangladeshi border guard fired from his AK-47 rifle during a 'flag meeting' along the international boundary in West Bengal Thursday, killing Singh and injuring another.

BSF rejects Bangladesh border troops claim, says it didn’t fire a single bullet

A senior BSF official said the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Thursday opened fire unprovoked, during which one jawan was killed an another critically injured.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.