The move by the BSF has not been seen kindly by Yadav's family which alleged that the trooper was being "threatened and tortured mentally".
In one of the deadliest blows to Naxalites in Chhattisgarh, security forces on Sunday gunned down 31 rebels, including 11 women, in a fierce encounter in the state's Bijapur district, police said.
'The watershed moment was June 22, 2024, when the divisional in-charge of Gadchiroli, Giridhar Tumreti, who was their senior-most commander, along with his wife, came forward to surrender before the then deputy chief minister and home minister Devendra Fadnavis.'
The heavy shelling took place in Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts.
Keeping up his tradition of celebrating the festival with soldiers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sir Creek near the Indo-Pak border in Gujarat's Kutch district and offered sweets to jawans.
An army jawan was killed on Tuesday night when Pakistani troops opened fire at Indian forward posts in Balakote sub-sector along the Line of Control in Poonch district in what is stated to be the second ceasefire violation of the day and the eighth in less than a week.
Earlier on Monday, two women Naxalites were killed and one CoBRA jawan was injured in an encounter during the same operation, they said.
Two Border Security Force jawans were injured in firing from Pakistani side as the border guards foiled an infiltration bid by militants along the international border in Jammu and Kashmir's Khour belt.
About 17 per cent of the over 6,000 'friends' in Yadav's accounts are from Pakistan.
Over 100 armed Naxals attacked security forces conducting search operation in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district on Sunday morning, killing five personnel, including three from the Border Security Force, and injuring one, the police said.
A massive anti-Naxal operation involving around 10,000 security personnel along the Chhattisgarh-Telangana border entered its fifth day on Friday, with the Maoists reportedly issuing a statement calling for a halt to the exercise and initiating "peace talks." The statement, circulating on social media, claims that the government is resorting to repression and violence despite the possibility of resolving the issue through dialogue. The operation, considered one of the largest counter-insurgency actions in the Bastar region, involves personnel from various units including the Chhattisgarh police, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), and its elite CoBRA unit. The operation, launched on Monday in the densely forested hills of Karregutta and Durgamgutta along the inter-state border, is aimed at targeting PLGA battalion No. 1, the strongest military formation of the Maoists.
Singh, 26, who was undergoing treatment at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Jammu, died around 11.45 pm, police said.
According to unconfirmed reports, the jawan was in an inebriated state and shot at the BSF officer following an altercation. The incident occurred on the Line of Control in J&K.
Meanwhile, train services, which were suspended after the attack, resumed on Saturday.
He said he was shocked to know about his dismissal after being earlier asked to prepare pension and retirement documents.
Suspected Maoists killed a Border Security Force jawan as the third of the five-phase polling for 11 assembly constituencies registered about 50 to 55 per cent turnout in Jharkhand on Tuesday.
After record rains wreaked havoc in Jammu and Kashmir over the past two days, the death toll in related incidents rose to 41, most of them victims of the landslide on a Vaishno Devi pilgrimage route, while there was some let-up in the showers on Wednesday, allowing relief efforts to pick up pace.
The injured persons were rushed to a private hospital, the officer said, adding that the blast site has been cordoned off.
General Manoj Mukund Naravane's memoir has triggered a controversy by revealing behind-the-scenes decision-making during the 2020 India-China standoff in Ladakh. Its candid account of military and political responses at a critical moment has reignited debate over civil-military relations, accountability, and the limits of disclosure in matters of national security.
This is the third incident of this type, which occurred in Bihar during the past three months.
A jawan of the Border Security Force was injured when Pakistani troops violated the ceasefire again, resorting to unprovoked and heavy firing and rocket attacks on three Indian forward posts along the Line of Control in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting Indian troops to retaliate effectively.
The holed up militants fired on the troops around 0130 IST but there was no report of any casualties, official sources said.
Recalling the operation, Kima's then commanding officer wrote an emotional and an endearing post that was shared with multiple Border Security Force officers over social media platforms.
Maoists have admitted that 28 cadres, including their top leader Basavaraju, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region last week. The Naxals also claimed that some of their cadres had surrendered to police and provided information that led to the operation. Police have recovered a large cache of weapons, including an AK-47 looted by Basavaraju from security forces in a 2010 ambush.
Singh also reviewed the situation on the border and assessed the progress in various infrastructure projects.
Violating the ceasefire yet again, Pakistani troops fired at a forward border outpost along the international border in the wee hours of Sunday drawing retaliation from Border Security Force troops. An IED explosion also took place along the border line.
As the news spread, angry locals took to the streets and blocked the main Gurdaspur-Pathankot road for nearly three hours demanding the arrest of the BSF personnel.
The jawan performed his duty well and did not allow the rioters to loot the police weapons store, security officials said.
Border Security Force has identified one of its personnel involved in the killing of a 16-year-old boy last week that had sparked protests in the Kashmir Valley.
Indian forward posts came under fresh fire from across the border in Pagwal border on Friday morning leading the Border Security Force to retaliate, the second such incident in less than ten hours.
The encounter broke out early on Saturday between a BSF patrol and armed Naxal cadres near the Chhotebethiya-Pakhanjore jungle axis of the Maoist violence-hit district, officials said.
The sources said the Pakistani side, which spoke to the Border Security Force officials in the noon over phone, 'denied any hand' in the killing of Head Constable Narender Singh on September 18.
'As the pigeon is a bird, I don't think an FIR can be registered against it. But we have referred the matter to our legal experts for their opinion', said SSP Dhruv Dahiya
Pakistan on Wednesday summoned Indian Deputy High Commissioner and lodged a protest over the ceasefire violations allegedly by India in which some Pakistan Rangers were killed.
The Border Security Force is deployed along the LoC under the operational command of the Army as part of guarding the front against Pakistan.
Soon after the incident, a senior BSF official said that an alert was issued and a search operation was conducted near Dera Baba Nanak (DBN) check post.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the Border Security Force (BSF) of allowing infiltrators from Bangladesh into India and claimed it's a deliberate attempt to destabilize the state. Banerjee, who alleges a larger conspiracy by the central government, has also accused some district magistrates and SPs of aiding the BSF in their alleged illegal activities. She plans to send a strongly worded letter to the Centre expressing her concerns and has directed the state police to investigate the matter further.
