Hosts Karnataka and Jharkhand entered into the quarter-finals of second Hockey India Senior Men National Championship with emphatic victories in their respective last league matches in Bangalore on Saturday.
India is planning to deploy a contingent of its border guarding troops for strengthening the security of its embassy in Iran.
A source informed that the SSB vehicle came under heavy firing in a thickly forested area about 40 km from Bijni town in Chirang district at around 1145 hours.
Following the encounter of three Khalistan Zindabad Force (KZF) terrorists in Pilibhit, security agencies are intensifying their search for their local helpers in the Terai region.
The new guidelines also mandate that if a woman personnel is married, she should be stationed at the same place where her husband is posted provided he too is a government employee.
Sub-Divisional Police Officer Md Kasim said locals from Batraha village under Kursakant police station went to the SSB's outpost there and complained to authorities that some of its personnel had misbehaved with a local woman on Sunday night.
India will deploy additional 8,000 troops along its borders with Nepal and Bhutan by next month to ensure effective patrolling at these frontiers.
Noor Mohammed and Rehman Ali were arrested from Tatpaua village on a tip-off and were circulating fake currency.
A change from old ways to a people-friendly policing, revamp of elite anti-terror wing special cell and a women-centric approach are high on the agenda of B K Gupta who took over as the new Delhi police commissioner today.
Illegal crossings by militants through the Indo-Nepal border continued as enough check posts have not been set up, Sashastra Seema Bal's director general Himanshu Kumar said.
Preventive measures are in place and the forecast suggests further improvement, said the statutory body responsible for forming air pollution reduction strategies for the region and their implementation.
Admitting that Indo-Nepal and Indo-Bhutan borders are "porus" and till recently activities of infiltration and ex-filtration were common, the Director General of SSB said the deployment of the force has effectively countered it.
The Cabinet has approved the raising of an additional 20 battalions, two sector and one frontier headquarters for the SSB, which guards the border.
A total of 939 service medals, including 189 for gallantry, was announced by the Union government on Tuesday for personnel of various central and state police forces on the eve of Republic Day.
Uttar Pradesh shares a 599.3 km long open border with Nepal touching seven districts - Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Bahraich, Sravasti, Balrampur, Sidhharthnagar and Maharajganj.
Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) Assistant Commandant Lalit Mohan Doval said on Friday that the alert had been sounded on the Sonauli border in the district.
Over 1,000 police personnel have been awarded with different categories of gallantry and service medals on the eve of the 75th Republic Day, a government statement said Thursday. This includes 277 gallantry medals.
A total of 10 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) have been sent to Bihar after violent clashes erupted during Ram Navami celebrations in the state, sources said on Sunday.
The order has been issued by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet that is headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and has home minister Amit Shah as its member.
The ethnic violence between Meitei and Kuki communities in Manipur has claimed 258 lives since May last year, the state government's Security Advisor Kuldiep Singh said on Friday.
Till now, a total of 1,000 companies were earmarked for the conduct of elections in the state that has 294 assembly seats.
The search operation was on to recover more missing persons by the army, the NDRF, the Sashastra Seema Bal and other rescue teams.
R C Tayal is expected to serve as NSG DG till August next year when he is scheduled for superannuation.
When the internal security situation spirals out of the control of the provincial law and order machinery, the CAPFs can be called in, providing a security buffer before the Army is deployed.
Eight suspected Pakistani nationals, with some of them involved in terror activities, were detained by security forces in Maharajgunj when they allegedly tried to cross Indo-Nepal border, official sources said on Sunday.
Sources privy to the meeting told PTI that the top brass and other senior commanders of these forces were asked to keep a strict vigil against any illegal encroachment taking place in their respective areas of operations.
One SSB jawan was killed and another injured in the attack.
The Union Budget 2025-26 on Saturday allocated Rs 2,33,210.68 crore to the Ministry of Home Affairs with the majority of the fund -- Rs 1,60,391.06 crore -- being given to central police forces like Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) which are responsible for internal security, border guarding and security of vital installations.
A maximum of 92,000 personnel of CAPFs are likely to be deployed in politically volatile West Bengal, where elections will be held in seven phases, followed by 63,500 personnel in militancy-hit Jammu and Kashmir, where polling will be held in five phases.
Two sparring partners -- her teammates in Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), a physiotherapist and a masseuse have already been quarantined in the new hostel at the JLN complex.
Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai said the highest death rate has been reported in CISF (0.43 per cent), followed by the Assam Rifles (0.40 per cent) CRPF (0.39 per cent).
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to deploy 125 companies of central forces in West Bengal by February 25 for the ensuing assembly elections, a senior official said on Friday.
Around 25,000 total of all paramilitary paramedics and doctors will be vaccinated in the first phase.
At least 12 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) reached West Bengal on Saturday morning as the state prepares to go to elections, officials said.
The reservation would include a 10 per cent horizontal quota for Agniveers in the posts of constable, mining guard, forest guard, jail warden, and special police officers.
The 43-day Amarnath Yatra 2022 starts on June 30 and concludes on August 11.
Security forces immediately cordoned off the area and launched search operations to track down the militants.
"Based on this consensus, the process of disengagement is almost complete. Our efforts will be to take the matter beyond disengagement; but for that, we will have to wait a little longer," he added.
Constables Anand Oraon and Sunder Singh have been awarded the PMG for thwarting smuggling bids by armed smugglers along the India-Bangladesh international border in West Bengal.
A provision has been made for relaxation in the upper age limit and exemption from the Physical Efficiency Test in the recruitment to the post of constable (general duty) and rifleman in the CAPFs and Assam Rifles for ex-Agniveers, Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai said in response to a written question.
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