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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicIndia-Pakistan border

Topic: India-Pakistan border

Gujarat Dy CM Sanghavi, 30 IPS officers embark on two-day review of villages along Pakistan border

Sanghavi is expected to review a few key areas, including infrastructure, sanitation, healthcare, education, safety, and security during his visit to the bordering areas.

Pakistani Ranger apprehended by BSF from the border in Rajasthan

This comes nearly a fortnight after a BSF jawan was apprehended by the Rangers. Tensions between India & Pakistan have been rising in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack.

Kashmir’s Leepa Valley is on fire. Is a new war brewing on the Line of Control?

While the Pakistan Army will suffer humiliation if the LoC is pushed westward, a war of attrition could well mean an escalation of terrorism within Kashmir.

A tree on India-Pakistan border is a tourist magnet. It’s a Peepal that swallowed a pillar

In ‘Iconic Trees of India’, S Natesh tells the stories of 75 living trees. From the oldest Chinar in Kashmir to the speaking fig tree in the Andaman jail.

BSF shoots down drone from Pakistan in Punjab’s Amritsar, seizes 5.5 kg heroin

This comes a day after the BSF had recovered a Pakistani drone along the international border near Rai village on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.

3 teens, 1 mistake: Pakistani juveniles stuck in India despite orders for release, had strayed over LoC

Khayam Maqsood, Asmad Ali & Ahsan Anwar all accidentally crossed over into India on 3 different days. They are lodged at an observation home in J&K's Poonch.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.