The brutal and 'unprecedented' incident that took place in the Ramgarh sector has prompted the security forces to issue a 'high alert' along the IB and the LoC.
September 20, 2018The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which probed Tej Bahadur Yadav, the BSF constable who was dismissed in April 2017 for possible “connection with foreign contacts”, has found nothing of the sort. According to The Indian Express, the NIA looked into Yadav’s social media profiles and call records to see if he was in touch with …
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February 1, 2018A BSF jawan on Tuesday allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle at Bhavanipur, near the Indo-Bangla border in Sipahijala district on Tuesday, police said. Officer-in-charge of Jatrapur police station, Paritosh Das said, Assistant Commandant of BSF 86 battalion, Nadim Khan filed an FIR stating that BSF jawan, Charan Das (53) committed …
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November 7, 2017A Kashmiri Muslim BSF jawan, Rameez Parrey, was shot dead and his three family members seriously wounded when unidentified terrorists on Wednesday evening attacked his house at Hajin in the Bandipura district. According to the police, heavily armed terrorists barged into his house and fired at the inmates killing the BSF jawan on the spot, …
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September 28, 2017The genie cannot be put back in the bottle. The release (eruption?) of long-suppressed grievances in the Services and paramilitary could not have been more inopportune. The new Army Chief would already have had more than enough attention: instead he has had a “baptism of fire” not on the hostile frontier but dealing with internal …
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January 17, 2017