Tag: borders

IAF AOC-in-C reviews operational preparedness on northern borders

Air Marshal Pankaj Mohan Sinha lauded the strong counter-infiltration grid along the Line of Control with a remark that the synergised approach will be the way ahead to address the dynamic requirements of modern day warfare.

February 4, 2023

Securing borders

The Vibrant Villages programme announced by the government in this year’s Union Budget to re-populate border villages and promote reverse migration to them in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and Arunachal Pradesh has been a widely lauded initiative.

June 18, 2022

Aus could face flu epidemic as borders reopen: Expert

The report by Sheena Sullivan from the University of Melbourne, which was published in the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA), showed that strict public health measures targeting Covid-19 have effectively eliminated all local transmission of influenza strains in Australia over the last 19 months.

November 22, 2021

Post BRICS summit India, China agree to hold another meeting on border issue

21st round of India-China border talks, led by Special Representatives (SR) National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his Chinese counterpart and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, were held at Chengdu in China in November last year.

November 15, 2019

India’s two-front conundrum

India is possibly the only nation in the world which has two nuclear-powered adversaries on its borders, both seeking Indian territory. The close relationship between Pakistan and China, dubbed as ‘higher than mountains and deeper than oceans’, always creates a threat of a two-front war, which would be the worst-case scenario for India’s military. While...

September 4, 2018

Security beefed up along Tripura’s inter-state borders

Security along Tripura’s inter-state borders with Assam and Mizoram and international boundaries with Bangladesh has been tightened in view of the publication of a partial draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and ensuing assembly polls, officials said here on Monday. “We have deployed additional security forces along Tripura’s inter-state borders with Assam and...

January 1, 2018

Nirmala Sitharaman begins 2-day J-K visit

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is visiting Jammu and Kashmir on Friday to review the preparedness of the soldiers on borders and security in the hinterland. The two-day visit would be her first since she assumed office as the Defence Minister of the country. Sources in the ministry said Sitharaman will visit forward posts on the...

September 29, 2017

2 killed, 5 wounded in ISIS suicide bombing in Gaza

Two were killed, including a suicide bomber, and five injured early on Thursday in a suicide bombing attack after an Islamic State (ISIS) member carried out on the borders between southern Gaza Strip and Egypt, security officials said. Eyad al-Bozzom said in an official statement emailed to reporters that a security incident happened early on...

August 17, 2017

Terrorism a challenge that has crossed borders: UN

The United Nations has called on Pakistan and Afghanistan to work together to counter the threats and challenges that terrorists crossing borders pose to the countries' security. "We have repeatedly tried to get the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan to work together on dealing with the problems that both countries face. This is a challenge...

February 18, 2017

Terrorism a challenge that has crossed borders: UN

The United Nations has called on Pakistan and Afghanistan to work together to counter the threats and challenges that terrorists crossing borders pose to the countries' security. "We have repeatedly tried to get the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan to work together on dealing with the problems that both countries face. This is a challenge...

February 18, 2017