Former Director General of BSF E N Rammohan has been asked to conduct the inquiry and submit a report within 15 days to establish the circumstances preceding and the sequence of events leading to the incident of April 6, 2010.
A contingent of about 500 commandos, snipers and VIP security personnel drawn from various Central Armed Police Forces have been stationed in Delhi.
The BSF has launched a massive operation to detect tunnels along the International Border in the Jammu sector.
In a major security breach at the Wagah-Attari border crossing with Pakistan, an NRI crashed his SUV into the security gates at the Attari Joint Check Post in the wee hours of Monday and reached the Zero line at the International Border.
The BSF claimed to have foiled the plans of terrorists to disrupt the Amarnath Yatra.
The firing assault comes in retaliation to ceasefire violations by Pakistani troops in the Keran sector earlier in the day.
At least eight personnel of the Border Security Force were killed and eight others injured in an ambush by the anti-talks faction of the National Democratic Front of Bodoland in Assam's Kokrajhar District on Monday evening. Militants of the Ranjan Daimary-led faction used automatic weapons to ambush the BSF convoy in remote Ultapani Forest area near the India-Bhutan border. The patrol was on its way from Bangladoba in Chirang District of Assam to Ultapani in Kokrajhar.
In the last three years, 340 defence personnel have been killed inside and outside the country, the Lok Sabha was informed on Tuesday. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley said 27 Indian Army troops have been killed in ceasefire violations across the Line of Control in the last 10 years and 523 such violations have taken place in the past three years.
The ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Monday sent a letter to the West Bengal State Election Commission (SEC) seeking details of the need for additional 485 companies of central forces, for which it has sent a requisition, an official said.
About 17 per cent of the over 6,000 'friends' in Yadav's accounts are from Pakistan.
National Investigation Agency has issued sketches of two absconding accomplices of Pakistani terrorist Mohammad Naved Yakub, who was captured after the Udhampur attack, and announced a cash reward of Rs 5 lakh to anyone providing information leading to their arrest.
NSG Director General R S Mooshahary said the NSG commando, who hailed from Pauri Garhwal, could be suffering from 'personal stress'.
The plane crashed into the airport boundary wall and landed in a sewage treatment plant while returning back due to apparent technical problem.
Bangladesh authorities on Monday claimed that an apparently drunk Border Security Force personnel killed three Bangladeshi villagers, after intruding into the northwestern part of its frontier."It was an unfortunate incident, but not a planned attack by BSF," BDR's operations director Colonel Anisur Rahman said in Dhaka.The officer claimed the villagers at frontier Panchagargh district eventually captured the soldier and handed him over to BDR authorities.
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Even as United States warned Pakistan of consequences if a terror attack took place during President Barack Obama's visit to India later this week, the Border Security Force has stepped up security along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, deploying close to 1,200 additional personnel there.
Rajasthan is all set to vote on Saturday to elect members of a new assembly with the Bharatiya Janata Party aiming to unseat the ruling Congress, which is fighting hard to change the trend of alternate governments in the state.
Wielding a broom, the prime minister took part in the drive along with fitness influencer Ankit Baiyanpuriya.
Top commanders of the border guarding forces of India and Bangladesh will meet later this week to thrash out a number of issues including illegal crossing over and migration to Indian side, and smuggling of narcotics along the eastern frontier.
Tej Bahadur through his plea sought direction to allow him to contest the Lok Sabha election from the Varanasi seat.
A total of 901 police personnel drawn from the CAPFs and state forces have been awarded various service medals, including for gallant action, on the occasion of the 74th Republic Day, the Union home ministry said Wednesday.
Playing down the detection of tunnel in Chamliyal-Ramgarh sector in Samba district after the gunning down of three heavily armed terrorist, the BSF on Thursday said it was mere a "rat hole tunnel" used only one time by the terrorists.
Odisha train crash is one of the deadliest such accidents since independence.
Jaish-e-Mohammad, the Pakistan-based terror outfit, has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Counter-terrorism commando force National Security Guard has been deployed at the IAF Srinagar and Jammu stations to provide anti-drone cover to these vital installations, the force's director general M A Ganapathy said on Saturday.
Security forces fired several rounds in the air to disperse the mob, officials said.
Pakistani troops shelled mortars and opened heavy fire on 10 Border Out Posts along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir, leaving two security personnel injured.
At least 16 people have been killed while 15,000 pilgrims, who were stranded near the Amarnath holy cave in Kashmir due to a flash flood triggered by a cloudburst, have been shifted to the lower base camp in Panjtarni, officials said on Saturday.
A Special Investigation Team has demanded custody of senior BSF officer R K Birdi and 13 other personnel of the paramilitary force after a teenager was killed in a firing by them, triggering massive protests in Srinagar.
Five security personnel, including three Border Security Force jawans, were killed and another injured when Naxalites ambushed them in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Sunday morning, the police said
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.
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".
The exchange of fire between the two sides in Noushera sector continued for nearly four hours.
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.
A newly-wed Pakistani couple, facing stiff opposition from locals in their village after their love marriage, crossed over to India near Kutch in Gujarat but was on Thursday deported by security forces after interrogation.
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police on Monday said that ISI agent Kafaitullah Khan was invited to Pakistan by the handler and was told that he would be given assistance by their people at the Pakistan high commission.
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