In a significant move, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) on Wednesday partnered with the Uttarakhand government to generate Rs 200 crore in business for more than 50 villages located along the India-China border.
Sailors onboard India's aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya participated in an early morning yoga drill on the occasion of International Yoga Day 2024 on Friday.
The 25 companies include five companies of Central Reserved Police Forces (CRPF), 15 companies of Border Security Force (BSF) and five companies of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), added officials.
The ITBP platoons were deployed at Badrinath and Kedarnath shrines on Sunday as the Centre agreed to the Pushkar Singh Dhami government's demand that better security arrangents were needed in the area during winters.
The gang used to issue fake appointment letters, conduct bogus training programs and provide fabricated government department identity cards to job seekers.
These 87 evacuees were brought to ITBP's 'quarantine facility on August 24 soon after they were airlifted from the war-torn country.
The Indian government has already evacuated the majority of its officials from there, anticipating the Taliban advance into Kabul and also advised all Indian citizens to leave the country at the earliest.
Officers and soldiers of the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) of China had been since the past couple of years celebrating Yoga Day with Indian troops at Chushul and Daulat-Beg-Oldi border personnel meeting points in Ladakh.
Serving the nation in the most difficult and inhospitable terrain in Ladakh, the ITBP personnel are examples of valour, commitment and patriotism.
The paramilitary force said that nine members of its mountaineering wing of Sector headquarter Dehradun climbed the 6,590 metre or 21,615 ft-high Gangotri II peak last month on September 26 -- a record second such ascent in the Covid-19 times.
