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A Nudge From Supreme Court: Implement judgment on CAPF cadre officers
The Supreme Court of India. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)Officers of the central armed police forces (CAPFs) are trained and conditioned for combat, unlike Indian Police Service (IPS) officers, who are conditioned for civil law enforcement. Combat and l...
CAPFs need government empathy, not institutional apathy
India Sentinels illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)India asks its central armed police forces (CAPFs) to hold difficult borders, confront internal-security challenges, protect vital infrastructure, restore and rein...
Ministry of Defence seeks 2,715 logistic drones for Indian Army's China, Pakistan border supply chain
ideaForge's advance heavy-lift UAV platform ‘YETI’ (Photo: ideaForge)New Delhi: The Ministry of Defence has floated a request for information (RFI) for 2,715 logistic drones for the Indian Army, in what would be the largest single ord...
Who Should Lead CAPFs? A national security debate beyond cadre politics
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)Few would imagine an air force commanded by commercial airline pilots, a navy led by merchant seafarers, or an army headed by career police officers. Such arrangements would be di...
Illegal Immigration: India’s unfenced fault line on the eastern border
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)I joined the Border Security Force in 1991 as a company commander on the India-Bangladesh border in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district, based at Baghmara – a subdivi...
CRPF suspends DIG BC Patra amid CAPF Act row, retired officers plan protest
Representational image (Photo: X/@AmitShah) New Delhi: The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has suspended a senior officer of deputy inspector general (DIG)-rank and transferred approximately 20 others in what critics are calling a punitive r...
Tadmetla Operation 2010: The supreme sacrifice that demands answers
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)In March 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs (Union home ministry) declared what few had once thought possible: the eradication of decades-old left-wing extremism within the schedu...
When the Border Held: The BSF’s defining hour in Operation Sindoor
The Indian Army chief, Gen Upendra Dwivedi, pinning a medal on a BSF soldier for playing an exceptional role during Operation Sindoor, in May 2025. (File photo)On December 1, 2025, the Border Security Force marked its Diamond Jubilee – 60 years...
Operation Sindoor: Testimony to the BSF’s grit and fighting spirit
Border Security Force soldiers firing a mortar somewhere in the western front. (Photo for representation via X/@BSF_Rajasthan)When the-then prime minister, Indira Gandhi, wrote to KF Rustamji, the director general of the Border Security Force (BSF), ...
CAPFs Act 2026: A law that undermines the very forces it claims to strengthen
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)On April 9, the Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Act, 2026 – notified as Act No. 9 of 2026 – was published in the Gazette of India (Extraordinary) ...Results
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