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‘Zoom’, heroic Army assault dog, critically injured while helping neutralize two militants
Zoom. (Photo credit: Indian Army)New Delhi: A rare story of canine courage has emerged from a counterinsurgency operation in the Kashmir valley. It is about a two-year-old Belgian shepherd from the Indian Army’s 28 Army Dog Unit, which sus...
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...
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...
Pankaj Kumar Singh takes over charge of BSF DG
New Delhi: Pankaj Kumar Singh, IPS took over the charge of Director General of BSF on Tuesday.He is the 29th Director General of Border Security Force, which is the largest Border Guarding Force of the world having strength of more than two lakh sixt...
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...
CRPF gets bike ambulance ‘Rakshita’
Rakshita.New Delhi: Central Reserve Police Force has received “Rakshita” – a bike-based emergency casualty transport vehicle – from the Defence Research Development and Organization in New Delhi.The bike ambulance would help i...
IAF awards gallantry medals to three Balakot operation heroes
IAF’s Mirage 2000s carried out the airstrike on a Jaish camp in Pakistan’s Balakot.Hindon: The Indian Air Force, on Thursday, awarded gallantry medals to its three air warriors who participated in the Balakot operation last year. The awar...
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...Results
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