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Address the deformities in CAPF structure
Fresh officers during a pass-out ceremony at the CRPF Academy at Kedarpur, Gurugram, Haryana. (File photo for representation.) When Parliament passed the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, it did more than legislate...
HAL delivers 4 ALH-Mk3 maritime helicopters to Indian Coast Guard, fleet set to reach 35
Bengaluru: State-owned plane-maker Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) formally handed over four ALH-Mk3 (also spelled as ALH-Mk III) Maritime Role helicopters to the Indian Coast Guard on Thursday, keeping to the delivery schedule under a contract s...
BSF explores reptiles as border guards on Amit Shah’s directive, draws fierce criticism
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)New Delhi: In what is being widely described as one of the most unconventional border-security proposals in the country’s history, the Border Security Force (BSF) is activel...
Are elections compromising our border and national security?
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)India’s elections are celebrated as the great festival of democracy – a spectacle unmatched in scale and spirit anywhere in the world. Yet, beneath the pageantry of ba...
Debunking the myth of IPS superiority over CAPF cadres
CRPF personnel deployed in an anti-Naxalite operation in Chhattisgarh. (File photo) Let me say this plainly, and without apology: the claim that officers of the Indian Police Service are inherently superior to cadre officers of the central armed...
Commanded into Crisis: The systematic wrecking of CAPFs’ moral fabric
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)The central armed police forces – BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP, and SSB – are, in a very real sense, miniature Indias. Drawn from every corner of this huge country, they brin...
RJD MP Sudhakar Singh writes to Amit Shah over CAPF service grievances, slams IPS deputation, NFU delays
Lok Sabha MP from Buxar Sudhakar Singh (Photo: X) New Delhi: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) member of Parliament and Lok Sabha member from Buxar in Bihar Sudhakar Singh wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, raising a battery of longstandi...
When Leadership Lacks Grounding: The real risk in the CAPF-IPS debate
A BSF solder keeping watch over the other side of the international border with Pakistan, somewhere in the western section. (File photo for representation) Let me be direct about something that tends to get buried under bureaucratic language and...
Stagnant Ranks, Broken Morale: The cost of CAPF’s skewed HR policies
CRPF commandos in an anti-Naxalite operations camp in Chhattisgarh. (Photo for representation)A slow-burning crisis is consuming India’s central armed police forces (CAPFs) from within. Not a crisis of courage – the jawans and officers of...
Chanakya’s Warning and India’s Shame: How the state fails its CAPFs
Two commandos of the CRPF’s elite CoBRA special operations unit during jungle-warfare training. (Photo for representation.)“The day the soldier has to demand his dues will be a sad day for Magadha, for then, on that day, you will have los...Results
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