Drones flying from across border have become a major source of narcotics & ammunition for low-key operatives working with Pakistan-based terrorist groups, say Punjab Police & BSF.
Tunnels were identified as a “lacunae” that may have been used by terror operatives to infiltrate into India. BSF is also deploying scanners on experimental basis to detect such tunnels.
Bangladeshi Awami League leader Ishaque Ali Khan Panna’s semi-decomposed body was found in Meghalaya. Conflicting reports have emerged about how he entered India & how he died.
Large number of troops are withdrawn from their primary task of border guarding for other tasks such as elections. Their utilisation for such duties needs rationalisation and should be restricted.
Force patrolling the Indo-Bangladesh border areas in West Bengal, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, & Mizoram, has been on 'high alert' since Sheikh Hasina stepped down amid the turmoil in Bangladesh.
BSF in regular touch with Border Guard Bangladesh, who are 'cooperating' to contain crowds. Centre constitutes panel to ensure safety of Indian citizens and minorities in Bangladesh.
A BSF official told ThePrint that attempts to enter India illegally were made at three border outposts in BSF’s North Bengal frontier, which shares a border with Bangladesh.
BSF chief Nitin Agarwal has been repatriated to the Kerala cadre and BSF Western Command head Y.B. Khurania to the Odisha cadre with immediate effect after orders from MHA.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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