Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) In a major operation, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) apprehended a suspicious fishing boat off the Sundarbans coast in West Bengal on July 22, and recovered a cache of illegal firearms and ammunition. Four Indian crew members were arrested and are being interrogated by several agencies about their plans in the sensitive area.“The operation was based on credible intelligence inputs and the ICG worked in coordination with the West Bengal forest department. The recovery of s…
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Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan on Thursday entered the BSF camp in Baishnabnagar in Malda district and opened fire indiscriminately, killing two fellow jawans. The accused has been arrested following the shocking incident. According to BSF sources, two soldiers lost their lives while another person was seriously injured. Sources said the accused jawan had earlier been accused of firing at his colleagues a year ago and was punished under BSF law. That punishment expir…
New Delhi, July 23 (IANS) Former IPS officer Kiran Bedi on Thursday suggested that civil defence personnel could be the first line of defence to deal with student protests rather than the riot police, thereby avoiding direct confrontations and allegations against the police force.The response comes days after the Delhi Police came under fire for unleashing “brutality” on student protestors during the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led ‘Sansad Chalo’ march on July 20.In a self-made video posted on h…
Aizawl, July 22 (IANS) The Mizoram Police, in a series of coordinated anti‑narcotics operations over the past four days, seized Myanmar‑origin drugs worth an estimated Rs 23.23 crore and arrested 11 drug peddlers, officials said on Wednesday. A senior police official said that a joint team of the CID (Special Branch) and the Kolasib District Executive Force (DEF) conducted a narcotics operation along a stretch of the National Highway at Khamrang village in Kolasib district on Tuesday.During …
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) A police station for the National Investigation Agency (NIA) will be set up in West Bengal soon. A proposal on this count was cleared at a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday. The work for setting up the police station will commence shortly, the State Municipal Affairs and Urban Development Minister Agnimitra Paul, a fashion designer‑turned‑politician, informed media persons at the end of the cabinet meeting.The eastern…
Jammu, July 18 (IANS) The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday recovered heroin worth Rs 25 crore in the international market near the line of control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district. Officials said that it was one of the biggest narcotics recoveries along the Line of Control (LoC) in recent years.The seizure was made during a meticulously planned anti-drug operation in village Kosalyain, a forward village in Haveli tehsil, close to the LoC, they said.The heroin, which had b…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday claimed that what was once a corridor of infiltration under the previous Trinamool Congress regime in the Siliguri Corridor (also known as the Chicken Neck Sector) has started becoming synonymous with a secure border. He made this claim in a social media post after inspecting the surveillance system of the Border Out Post (BOP) of the 19th battalion of the Border Security Force, a strategically located BOP under the North Bengal F…
New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Saturday, will visit the Border Security Force’s (BSF) 18th Battalion Border Outpost (BOP) in Siliguri, near the India-Bangladesh border, as part of his three-day visit to West Bengal.During the visit, scheduled to begin at 11 A.M., HM Shah will interact with BSF personnel, address a ‘Prahari Sammelan’, participate in a plantation drive, and inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for several BSF infrastructure and development projects….
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday claimed that India’s international borders with Bangladesh in West Bengal have started getting more secured lately with the new state government under the leadership of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari ensuring prompt land availability for the Border Security Force (BSF) for erection of barbed fencing at the borders. BJP’s national spokesman Pradeep Bhandari had issued a social media statement detailing the land handover done by …
Jaipur, July 13 (IANS) The Rajasthan High Court has ruled that national security takes precedence over all other considerations, observing that unauthorised religious structures in sensitive border areas cannot be permitted in violation of the law. Delivering the judgment on Monday, a single-judge bench of Justice Sameer Jain dismissed petitions challenging notices issued for the removal of religious structures allegedly built without authorisation near the India-Pakistan international border. T…