The Border Security Force (BSF) and the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) are making concerted efforts to foster stronger ties and ensure peace along the India-Bangladesh border.
A BSF jawan sustained serious injuries after being attacked by smugglers along the Indo-Bangladesh border early this morning. The incident occurred when constable Lalit Rout attempted to apprehend a group of smugglers near the border fence.
Intelligence agencies, both central and state, have been put on high alert in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, especially in the villages close to the international border, following inputs on fresh attempts by Bangladesh-based underground outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HUT) trying to infiltrate.
In a series of joint search operations, the Indian Army and Assam Rifles along with other security forces recovered 50 weapons, a large cache of ammunition and war-like stores from four districts of trouble-torn Manipur, officials said on Friday.
A minor girl from Dhupguri, who was reported missing, was found by the Border Security Force (BSF) in their quarters near Raninagar and handed over to the police on Wednesday morning.
The Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday organised a free cataract eye surgery camp at Tripura Medical College, Agartala under the civic action programme for the year 2023-24. The camp was organised by the 200 Battalion of the BSF, Gokulnagar.
BSF jawans deployed on the border adjacent to Sriganganagar, Sector Shriganganagar, hearing the sound of a drone coming from the Pakistan side, instantly fired on the drone.
Speaking to The Statesman, the station house officer (SHO), Lakhoke Behram police station in Ferozepur, Bachan Singh said the two men, identified as Ratanpal and Harvinder Singh, belong to Jagraon area of Ludhiana.
In the intervening night of 24/25 July, the vigilant BSF troops neutralised the Pakistani smuggler while he was trying to smuggle the drugs through the Ramgarh border area.
Officials said the intruders wanted to move to Siliguri for livelihood.
