The limitations of guarding the international border with different state police forces became quite apparent after Pakistan’s 1965 military operation in India.
Central armed police forces are facing high suicide rates and soaring attrition. Senior officers say mental health is the main issue, but steps are being taken to support personnel.
The gun battle took place throughout the night of 5 June, the Indian Army said. It also added that two personnel from Assam Rifles were wounded in the firing.
New Delhi: The Army has recovered currency notes amounting to Rs 2.3 crore, foreign currency totalling $15,000, and seven kilograms of narcotics that sources...
Troops fired at the drone that came inside Indian territory on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday in the area of border post 'MW Uttar' in Ferozepur.
Annual 'marginal increase' in budget allocation goes in salaries & allowances, leaving little for development & modernisation, say officers part of forces that make up the CAPF.
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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