Fresh BSF recruits celebrating after their passing-out parade in Srinagar. (File photo for representation.)Morale and motivation are the vital cornerstones of any efficient force, and the CAPFs are no exception. They are intertwined; neglecting one w...
New Delhi: The military secretary’s office has issued a comprehensive promotion policy that will change the way how Indian Army officers of colonel and above ranks are promoted. The new promotion policy will come into effect from January 1, 202...
UNLF cadres during the surrender ceremony. (Photo via special arrangement.) Imphal/Kohima/New Delhi: The United National Liberation Front, Manipur’s oldest insurgent group, has surrendered after a tripartite agreement between the group, th...
The Assam Rifles is a CAPF under the administrative control of the Union home ministry while its operational control is with the defence ministry. (Photo via special arrangement.)India shares land borders with Afghanistan, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan...
The India-Myanmar border. (Map not to scale.)Kirstjen Nielsen, former secretary of the United States’ homeland security once said: “People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it’s very simple: border security...
Women in Imphal hold a candlelight vigil to end the ethnic violence that has gripped the state since early May. (Photo: Twitter)Manipur is a landlocked state that shares a 398-kilometre international border with Myanmar. The international border is h...
A BSF patrol near an international border fencing. (File photo for representation.)“Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing them with purpose, direction, and motivation while you are operating to accomplish a mission and im...
Security forces carrying out a combing operation in a Manipur village. (Photo through special arrangement.) New Delhi: Exactly a month after of the ethnic clash erupted between Meitei and Kuki communities in parts of the state, in a joint operat...
Assam Rifles personnel evacuating Konyak women from Yairipok, Manipur. (Photo by special arrangement)Imphal/Dimapur/New Delhi: Violence in ethnic strife-hit Manipur took a new turn when suspected militants fired upon a Manipur Police patrol contingen...
Assam Riles soldiers pose with suspected NSCN(K-NS) militants. Faces blurred to hide identity. (Photo: Assam Rifles)Kohima: The Assam Rifles and Nagaland Police apprehended three suspected active militants, including a self-styled captain, from the N...