As India celebrated the advent of a new year in the cosy comfort of their homes, Border Security Force personnel maintained a strict vigil against the nation's enemies in thick snow in the Kashmir Valley.
The resolution under Rule 169 was tabled in the assembly, proposing to observe Poila Baisakh, as "Bangla Diwas" and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's Banglar Mati, Banglar Jol (Bengal's soil, Bengal's water) as the state song.
As part of a new rotation policy of paramilitary forces' squads at the Republic Day parade, the contingents of two other forces -- the Central Reserve Police Force and Central Industrial Security Force -- have been taken out of the event this time, officials said.
The latest deaths have been recorded in Samastipur district. Earlier, at least 33 people died in Gopalganj and West Champaran districts upon consuming spurious liquor.
A Border Security Force jawan and a woman were injured and two houses damaged on Saturday when Pakistani troops targeted Indian posts and civilian areas along the LoC in Nowshera and Sunderbani sectors of Rajouri district with mortar bombs and small arms fire, prompting the army to give a "befitting response".
In order to plug loopholes in the porous and unfenced borders along Pakistan and Bangladesh, India will soon set up a 'smart fence' mechanism as part of an over Rs 4,500-crore modernisation plan being implemented by the Border Security Force.
Steps to resolve disputes on common areas of concern between India and Bangladesh were discussed at the four-day Border Security Force-BanglaDesh Rifles border coordination meeting in Kolkata.
There was movement of suspected persons along the International Border in Kulian-Suchetpur Border Out Posts in Samba district in the wee hours, police said.
Cores of houses and other structures along the IB in Jammu district are riddled with ammunition from across the border.
The avalanche, the third in a week in Jammu and Kashmir, buried two BSF bunkers housing 19 personnel.
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