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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) ...
Trampling of Trust: The nightmare of a ‘deshbhakt’
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)The veterans of the central armed police forces (CAPFs) have served this nation in uniform with uncommon elan, dignity, and devotion. Long after they have laid down their uniforms...
Dressed Up, Not Reformed: The truth behind the CAPF Act, 2026
Illustration for representation. (© India Sentinels 2026–27)The Central Armed Police Forces (General Administration) Bill, 2026, has been presented as a groundbreaking move by the government that was overdue for the purpose of making sure ...
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...
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...Results
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