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Agnipath recruitment scheme: Government must come clean on forcing new policy
An Indian Army patrol in Siachen, the world’s highest battlefield. (Representational photo)Agnipath, the government’s new four-year-recruitment scheme for all personnel of the Indian the armed forces – Army, Navy, and Air Force &nda...
Modernization and reforming our border-guarding forces
A BSF soldier somewhere near the LoC in J&K. (Representational image)The government of India has allocated ₹248.30 crore for the “Modernization Plan IV” for the central armed police forces (CAPFs) in the Budget for the financial...
Recent Maoist attack in Gaya exposes system’s apathy towards CAPFs yet again
CRPF soldiers in an anti-Maoist operation. (Representational photo)The serial improvised explosive device (IED) blasts by left-wing extremists on February 25 in Bihar’s Gaya district targeting Central Reserve Police Force soldiers, which led to...
260 ITBP men awarded with Union Home Minister’s Special Operation Medal for operations in Eastern Ladakh
New Delhi: In recognition of their indomitable courage and devotion to duty, 260 personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have been awarded with the Union Home Minister’s Special Operation Medal on National Unity Day, 2021 for various...
Efficiency of CAPFs suffering from ‘glass ceiling’ effect
CRPF jawans in an anti-Maoist operation in West Bengal.The Indian Express carried an op-ed by Mutha Ashok Jain, on September 9, titled “Practice of reserving cadre posts for certain services is exclusionary, must be reconsidered” made for...
Leadership of security forces is failing nation to control Maoists
CRPF personnel carry the coffin of a fallen fellow soldier in the April 3, 2021 Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh.Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, during his premiership, had once termed the Maoist (or Naxalite) insurgency the “biggest interna...
Lt Gen Raju hands over Chinar Corps Command to Lt Gen DP Pandey
Srinagar: Lt Gen BS Raju handed over command of the strategic Kashmir-based 15 Corps to Lt Gen DP Pandey on Wednesday.The General commanded the Corps in critical phase in 2020 where Kashmir was confronted with the twin challenges of terrorism and COV...
Lightweight border guarding
A BSF jawan stands guard at a border outpost in Jammu.The government of India, after procrastinating for five months, has finally appointed a director general for the Border Security Force. However, this largest border-guarding force of the wor...
Centre orders immediate withdrawal of 10,000 CAPF troops from Jammu & Kashmir
File PicNew Delhi: The government on Wednesday ordered the “immediate” withdrawal of 10,000 paramilitary personnel from the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.After abrogation of Article of 370 from Jammu & Kashmir, this is the bi...
Independence Day 2020: CRPF gets 55 gallantry medals
New Delhi: India’s largest para-military force, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has been awarded with as many as 55 Police Medals for Gallantry on the eve of the 74th Independence Day.With this, the total number of gallantry ...Results
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